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Aaron Shield
Assistant Professor, Speech Pathology and Audiology, Miami University in Ohio
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Geoff Bird
Senior Lecturer, King's College London
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Michael Lewis
University Distinguished Professor of Pediatrics and Psychiatry, Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School
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Pronouns, like selfhood, are imprecise
Aaron Shield is a linguist and is assistant professor of speech pathology and audiology at Miami University in Ohio.
Social imitation may reveal something important about sense
Geoff Bird studies emotional processing at King's College London in the U.K., where he is senior lecturer in cognitive neuroscience.
The reported misuse of pronouns, whether spoken or gestural, in individuals with autism is fascinating. Whether it reveals a difference in a sense of self or just in the way individuals with autism use language to refer to the self is harder to determine.
These observations are interesting in light of findings regarding imitation and mirror neurons, which help us to copy others' actions. Although old theories suggest that the mirror system might be impaired in autism, we now know this is not the case.
Many individuals with autism have problems inhibiting imitation rather than with imitation itself. Interestingly, difficulties ininhibiting imitation have also been linked to an impaired ability to differentiate between 'self' and 'other' in autism. In turn, these difficulties have been linked to problems with adopting a perspective different from one's own. All of these results point to the representation of the self, and of others, as atypical in autism. The inhibition of imitation — and presumably of mirror neurons — may be important for an intact sense of self versus other.
Aside from exploring imitation, my colleagues and I have been trying to disentangle the effects of autism and alexithymia. Alexithymia is a condition in which individuals are unsure which emotion they are feeling. They may be unable to tell whether they are angry, afraid or sad. One can imagine how distressing this can be. Individuals with alexithymia often have an uncomfortable degree of emotional arousal that they can't reduce because they are not sure whether to yell at someone, run from them or hug them for comfort.
Alexithymia is much more prevalent in people with autism, hovering around 50 percent, than in the general population, where the prevalence is about 10 percent. Interestingly, equally high rates of alexithymia characterize a number of other clinical conditions, including eating disorders and substance abuse.
Alexithymia may lead to an impaired sense of self. It makes intuitive sense that an individual who cannot determine what they are feeling may be worse at understanding and predicting their own behavior. That failure may, in turn, impair their ability to determine who they are and to get a sense of their own personality.
Unpublished work from my lab this year suggests that there may indeed be a link between alexithymia and self-processing. Preliminary data also point to a correlation between alexithymia and the inability to inhibit imitation. We found that people who rated themselves as more alexithymic had difficulty in controlling their automatic tendency to copy other people's actions.
I think the presence or absence of alexithymia is going to be really important in characterizing autism, and in accounting for some of the huge heterogeneity in the abilities of individuals with autism. Only time will tell how crucial it will be to understanding their sense of self.
Self-reflection is necessary for emotional development
Michael Lewis is university distinguished professor of pediatrics and psychiatry at Rutgers University in New Jersey, where he directs theInstitute for the Study of Child Development.
An absence of or delay in personal pronoun use, either in speech or signing, reflects one of many failures in self-representation found in children with autism. For more than 40 years, I have been studying the development of self-reflection in both typically developing children and children with autism.
My laboratory and others have examined self-reflection through the use of mirrors, personal pronoun usage and pretend play. I refer to these measures of 'consciousness,' or what others have called 'explicit consciousness,' in my book "The Rise of Consciousness and the Development of Emotional Life."
Our work indicates that children typically recognize themselves in a mirror, use personal pronouns and engage in pretend play by age 2. Yet only about half of children with autism show these abilities by age 5.
Without self-reflection, emotional and social development are arrested because self-reflection is necessary for these abilities.In particular, the self-conscious emotions of embarrassment, shame, pride and guilt require the ability to reflect on one's own behavior vis-à-vis culturally determined standards, rules and goals.
Without the ability to reflect upon the self, mature emotional life is difficult to achieve. In addition, social behaviors such as empathy and envy are unlikely to emerge, making friendships and sharing difficult. Lack of personal pronouns such as 'me' and 'mine' seem to be an indication of serious difficulties for children with autism.
Although children with autism are now classified in a single category, not all children with autism experience the same difficulties or to the same extent. The use of these self-reflection measures may aid in articulating a theory of individual differences in children on the spectrum.


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Joint News Release of Mendel Biotechnology, Inc. and SweTree Technologies AB
Mendel Biotechnology and SweTree Technologies extend their collaboration to jointly exploit the value of more than 100 genes in forestry.
STT and Mendel announced today that they will jointly exploit the value of over 100 selected transcription factor (TF) genes to be used within the $750 billion forestry field. The collaboration includes a research effort to validate Mendel TF genes for the forestry field as well as a commercial effort to advance identified products. 'As an industry leader in applying pathway biology to improve performance of commercial plants, this extended collaboration is another important step for Mendel to commercialize our lead biomass and stress tolerance genes in the forestry field. We are very happy with the results from our first collaboration with SweTree which identified significant, beneficial traits in Poplar trees for the tested genes from Mendel.' Neal Gutterson, President & Chief Executive Officer, Mendel Biotechnology. 'We anticipate that our carefully selected genes for the second step in our collaboration will provide additional valuable traits including improved wood quality and improved productivity.'
Mendel has demonstrated that many transcription factor genes improve growth rate and stress tolerance in commercial plants in the agriculture field. The parties have entered into this new, expanded collaboration to identify those genes that are effective in tree species and to commercialise the resulting varieties.
'The results from our first collaboration step have been very encouraging both scientifically and commercially. The forest industry has already shown interest in certain genes from the project,' said Mats Johnson, CEO of SweTree Technologies AB. 'We expect this second collaboration step to be of large importance for the commercial development of forest biotechnology.'
SweTree Technologies (STT) is a forest biotechnology company that develops new products for the forest industry and some of its larger customer groups. The company focuses on developing trees with higher survival rate, growth and wood quality as well as new technologies for fibre modification of cellulose. STT develops its own products and takes value shares in our collaboration partner's and customer's products where our technology is used. The company was founded in 1999 by a joint initiative between the Foundation of Technology Transfer (Innovationsbron) in Umeå and the company Woodheads AB, which now represents 45 senior academic researchers in the forest biotechnology field in Sweden. In 2002 the JC Kempe Foundations became owner and the main financial sponsor. In 2005 three large forest owners in Sweden, Sveaskog AB, Bergvik Skog AB and Holmen AB became additional owners. The company has its centre in Umeå, Sweden as well as offices and a research laboratory in Uppsala, Sweden.
Founded in 1997, Mendel Biotechnology, Inc. was a pioneer in the application of functional genomics to the study of plant genes. Mendel has functionally characterized essentially the complete complement of plant transcription factors using Arabidopsis thaliana. Mendel has important technology partnerships with Monsanto Company and other multi-national ag-products companies, for the development of products based on Mendel's technologies. Mendel is now applying its technologies to the development of superior biofeedstock crops.
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My children and have come and gone back to their business. We had the best few days together. On their last day at home we spent few silly moments taking our annual family photograph. Always so much fun to fit everyone in the frame. Thank goodness for that boy on the left who has long arms!
I even managed to sew a bit while they were here. This quilt is still in progress but I will post the pictures of finished quilt soon.
My first day of 2015 began with a sweet email from a blogger friend who had just received her copy of my book. From there on, my time decided to flow in completely different direction than what I had planned for. Did I say life is fluid? I ended up going to one of the local quilt shop to buy wool batting and found this instead!
Imagine my joy! This is the first time I saw my book on a shelf of a quilt shop! Something fun had to happen today. After all, it is the first of the year! On my way back I also stopped at my local Barnes and Noble to see if my books had made it on their shelves...
Yes it did! What a great feeling! Life keeps changing for better or for worse with time but something stays constant no matter how it flows.
Hope your day was filled with something bright too.
Happy 2015!!!


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When mice chew through the insulation that protects a house's wires, an electrician can repair the wires. People with multiple sclerosis, whose immune systems malfunction and attack the insulation of their own neural wires, don't have that option. Helping them could be a very big deal in MS care.
Swiss drug giant Roche, tapping into an unorthodox business model created by a San Francisco venture group, wants to find treatments to help. Roche and Versant Ventures have created the oddly named Inception 5—we'll explain the name later—to house a promising new way to look for multiple sclerosis drugs, a high-throughput screen developed at the University of California, San Francisco.
Roche will contribute its vast libraries of compounds to test in the UCSF assay, and a seasoned team of drug discovery scientists in the employ of Versant's Inception group will also try to design new compounds.
Repairing the neural insulation is called remyelination. Myelin is the substance that makes up the sheaths, and it's also what the immune system mistakes for a pathogen. The attack leaves holes in the myelin, and like a house with faulty wiring, the patient's nervous system starts to short-circuit, leading to a wide and unpredictable range of neurological symptoms.
While drug makers have produced improvements with drugs that tamp down the immune system's attack, nothing is available to reverse the actual myelin damage. (Two monoclonal antibody therapies, one from Biogen Idec (NASDAQ: BIIB) of Cambridge, MA, and another from Acorda Therapeutics (NASDAQ: ACOR) of Ardsley, NY, are in the clinic.)
The UCSF assay, created by neurology professor Jonah Chan (pictured above), is an innovative way to get at a thorny problem: It's really hard to build tests that demonstrate remyelination. Neurons, the cells that need to be remyelinated, are finicky to grow in the lab. Also a problem: oligodendrocytes, the cells that produce myelin, don't wrap their myelin around the axons of neurons in an easily measurable way. (Axons are the branching arms of neurons that transmit electrical signals.)
There are other reasons, too, but Chan created a work-around: Build tiny silica cones that encourage oligodendrocytes to wrap their myelin cleanly. In other words, he built axons from pure glass. And when those silica cones (which Chan calls "micropillars") are lined up in a testing plate, their cone shape allows measurement of the myelin thickness as it wraps around. Imagine reading the myelin as if it were the rings in the cross-section of a tree.
"Jonah's done a great job," said Jay Tung, chief research officer of the Myelin Repair Foundation in Saratoga, CA, which has worked with Chan in the past. "We are ecstatic about pharma, academics, startups, anyone moving the field forward. This is exactly what we want to see."
"My view is that the missing link for finding candidate therapies for myelin repair has been the lack of a platform for efficient high-throughput screening of agents," said Timothy Coetzee, chief research officer at the National Multiple Sclerosis Society in New York. The nonprofit funded much of Chan's work that went into the micropillars. "The complexities of co-culture systems just don't lend themselves to HTS. Jonah's technology fills that critical gap."
With the screening platform, researchers can test how thousands of drugs spur oligodendrocytes to produce myelin. That's exactly what Inception 5 plans to do.
The group is part of a Versant initiative to keep its own drug-discovery team in-house at a company called Inception Sciences, led by a group of scientists who, at the Merck-Frosst labs in Montreal, had a string of successes including the painkiller rofecoxib (Vioxx)—later withdrawn from the market for safety concerns—and the asthma drug montekulast (Singulair). One of those scientists, Peppi Prasit, and Versant teamed up to create Amira Pharmaceuticals, which they sold in 2011 for $475 million.
Prasit and Versant managing director Brad Bolzon (right) immediately pivoted to launch Inception Sciences, which describes itself as a "small-molecule pharmaceutical incubator." It is wholly owned by Versant and has two labs, one in San Diego, another in Vancouver. A third is about to open as well.
Instead of turning Inception Sciences into a sprawling biopharma, Versant uses a few million dollars at a time to fund Inception spin-offs that it partners with outside drug companies. (Hence the Inception 5 name; there are four other spinoffs, with more soon to be announced, according to Bolzon.) With Inception 5, Roche is paying for the research and has the option to buy the company outright once the Inception team files an IND, which is industry shorthand for asking the Food and Drug Administration permission to test a drug in humans.
Chan told Xconomy his work had drawn a lot of industry interest, but meeting the Inception scientists at their San Diego facility last year "hooked him." Two people in particular, the medicinal chemist Brian Stearns and the biologist Daniel Lorrain, were "very impressive," said Chan. "They're so focused on developing products and new drugs. It made perfect sense."
Chan also liked the idea of a third party like Inception between his work and Roche, which previously had asked him directly to screen their compounds in his lab. "That wasn't appealing," he said. "I didn't want to be a service provider for companies."
Instead, Chan and his students can get back to basic research and leave the screening work to others. "I'm just a lab rat," he said. "It's up to the drug hunters to take the next steps."
Chan and his fellow UCSF neurology professor Ari Green, also an MD who treats multiple sclerosis patients, are among Inception 5's founders and have an undisclosed equity stake. (Versant is the main owner, and Inception's employees also take equity in each spinout.)
Even as the micropillar screen goes over to Inception 5, Green is overseeing a 50-person trial at UCSF with a drug he and Chan found with the screen. Like much of the work surrounding myelin repair, Green is taking a creative tack to measure the drug's effect. The trial measures the speed at which light shone in a patient's eye is converted into a signal in the brain. Myelin damage to the optic nerve slows that conversion. Patients whose speed improves during the trial might be experiencing myelin repair.
Data could be ready by the end of the year, but the trial isn't meant to get a new drug on the market. They're testing an off-patent, over-the-counter antihistamine, and its drowsy effect on patients rule out its potential as an MS drug. "Fatigue is the number-one issue for MS patients," said Green. "But if this trial goes well, we'll pursue funding for a large scale clinical trial, because even if it doesn't lead to development of a therapeutic, it'll help advance the field."
It's a field full of unknowns. As promising as Chan's micropillars are, they're synthetic. They only approximate how myelin would wrap around real axons, and they lack the complicating factor of inflammation in the micro-environment. Tung of the MRF says his group has an "intense focus" to move toward a high-throughput screen without using a synthetic material. Inception 5 will work on next-generation assays, too, says Green.
If Roche pulls the trigger and buys Inception 5, it will take the micropillar screen with it, which doesn't sit well with Tim Coetzee of the NMSS. "If this platform technology got walled off from rest of the world, I'd be worried," said Coetzee. "This is about MS, but we're also starting to see defects in myelin in Alzheimer's, ALS, and other diseases. It's not as profound right now as MS, but there are other places this technology could have relevance."
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Another example of big pharma sucking people dry. In their ignorance and self centered attitude or just plain "It's the money" they can't or won't lobby the gov't for research on cannabis, but their money grubbing and research is over! because we already know, cannabis helps repair the Myelin … and you can take that, to the bank!
NO MS drug ever cured MS and never ever will.To many pharmas make profits out of MSers even ones who have died. Too many promote the MS drugs one even had furniture polish added to it.Highly paid professionals involve din MS al make profits, shares and commissions on every MS drug its full of GREED AND CORRUPTIONS to the core
Can a mathematical model be built to support this research, based on the silica axon and the behavior observed from the oligodendrocytes? This model could be used to test hypotheses prior to the bench. A computational challenge could be established and pushed out to mathematics and CS departments.
Also, materials engineers are doing amazing work looking at scaffolding in biology, in order to do similar work as myelin sheath repair. This is another avenue to improve the silica axon application.


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Wellness is good for your body, mind and soul! Give your sweetheart the gift of love this Valentines Day. We have selected our top 5 residences that will boost your well-being in romantic surroundings:
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Luxury combined with a top location. Enjoy a 360 degree view from your top floor terrace all year round. Plenty of sport and leisure attractions in this well known region of Flims-Falera.
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Apartment: CH1961.423.1 Nendaz, Switzerland
So much space in this extremely comfortable residence. Fantastic spa area which includes a thermal pool.
(NB. residence is closed in March!)
Apartment: US3415.150.11 Miami Beach, USA
Listen to the waves on the beach in the sunshine State of Florida. Luxurious residence in Miami Beach with sauna, sun beds, Jacuzzi and fitness centre.
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Direct access to the beach, indoor pool, sauna, jacuzzi and fitness room. The South of England is beckoning to you!
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Rice flour-crusted oyster po'boy with sriracha mayo.Huxtabook, by Daniel Wilson, is available in stores nationally from March. Published by Hardie Grant Books, RRP $49.95. This is an edited extract.Rice flour-crusted oyster po'boy with sriracha mayo
As I did my formal chef training in the United States, I'm well versed in the many different sandwiches they make there. These were one of the first po' boys to appear on a Melbourne menu, and they have now popped up in lots of places around town. I find them especially good when nursing a hangover.
4 small Vietnamese bread rolls
125g (1/2 cup) Japanese mayonnaise (Kewpie)
3 tsp Sriracha chilli sauce (see note)
vegetable oil, for deep-frying
12 oysters, shucked and washed in salted water to remove any shell
rice flour, for dusting
1/2 iceberg lettuce, finely sliced
1. Slice the bread rolls in half, leaving one side intact, and warm them in a moderate oven.
2. Mix the Kewpie with the chilli sauce.
3. Heat about five centimetres of oil in a large saucepan to 180C. Test by dipping a wooden chopstick into the oil: the chopstick will sizzle when the oil is ready.
4. Dust the oysters in the rice flour and lower them into the hot oil. Deep-fry for one minute, or until just cooked through and crisp. Remove from the oil using a slotted spoon and drain immediately on paper towel.
5. Toss the lettuce through the kewpie chilli dressing and place inside the warm buns. Top each bun with three oysters and enjoy!
Serves 4
Note: Sriracha chilli sauce is a Thai sauce made from chillies, vinegar, garlic, sugar and salt. Most Asian grocers stock it.
Jalapeno and cheddar croquettes
These little guys have been probably the most popular bite at Huxtable. They're inspired by an American bar snack called the jalapeno popper (a whole jalapeno chilli stuffed with cheese, then crumbed and fried). Ours are creamy in texture and do really scream for beer! One is never enough.
250ml (1 cup) milk
35g butter, diced
65g plain (all-purpose) flour
1½ tbsp cornflour (cornstarch)
40g (1/3 cup) chopped pickled jalapeno chillies
50g grated cheddar
Vegetable oil, for deep-frying
Crumbing mixture
2 eggs
250ml (1 cup) milk
160g (2 cups) fresh breadcrumbs
Plain (all-purpose) flour, for dusting
For the croquettes
1. Combine the milk, butter, flour and cornflour in a saucepan. Cook over medium heat, stirring constantly, for about 15 minutes, until the sauce is very thick and the floury taste has cooked out. Make sure the sauce is very thick, otherwise you won't be able to roll and crumb the croquettes.
2. Spoon the mixture into a bowl. Add the jalapenos and cheese and season with sea salt and ground black pepper. Refrigerate for at least four hours, until firm.
To crumb the croquettes
1. Whisk together the egg and milk. Place the breadcrumbs in a bowl.
2. Roll the cold cheese mixture into 12 balls. Dust the balls with the flour, then coat in the egg wash, then the breadcrumbs. Put the croquettes back into the egg wash, then back into the breadcrumbs, to double-crumb them.
3. Place on a tray lined with plastic wrap, then refrigerate for about an hour to set the crumbs.
To serve
1. Heat about five centimetres of vegetable oil in a large saucepan to 180C. Test by dipping a wooden chopstick into the oil – the chopstick will sizzle when the oil is ready.
2. Working in batches, deep-fry the croquettes for 1-2 minutes, or until golden. Remove from the oil using a slotted spoon and drain immediately on paper towel.
3. Season with sea salt and enjoy hot, with a frosty beer.
Serves 12Ice-cream and fudge sandwich
I have fond memories of being over at my neighbours, who always had ice-cream slices and pink wafers that fit to make a sandwich. This is my pimped version, which has the centre cut out to allow for chocolate fudge to be piped in. We have had this on the menu since day one and change the flavour with every batch of ice-cream made. The possibilities are endless — just start with the vanilla base and add whatever you like. We usually use dark chocolate fudge, but change it to white chocolate sometimes to complement the ice-cream flavour.
Note: The anglaise recipe must be prepared at least one day in advance of serving the ice-cream sandwich.
For the shortbread
155g sugar
300g plain (all-purpose) flour
pinch of sea salt
210g cold butter, diced
For vanilla Anglaise (ice-cream base)
500ml unhomogenised milk
500ml pouring (single/light) cream
200g sugar
1 vanilla bean, split lengthways and seeds scraped
15 egg yolks
1 heaped tablespoon liquid glucose
For dark chocolate fudge
105ml milk
90ml pouring (single/light) cream
90ml liquid glucose
1 tablespoon water
200g dark chocolate, chopped
For white chocolate fudge
50ml pouring (single/light) cream
35ml milk
75ml liquid glucose
2 teaspoons water
175g white chocolate, chopped
For the shortbread
1. Combine the sugar, flour and salt. Place the butter in a food processor with half the flour mixture. Pulse until just combined, scraping down the side as needed.
2. Add the remaining flour mixture and pulse until it resembles breadcrumbs.
3. Tip the mixture into a bowl and lightly knead to form a dough. Divide into two portions, cover with plastic wrap and rest in the fridge for at least 3 hours.
4. Remove the dough from the fridge 30 minutes before you want to use it. Roll the dough out to about 5mm between two sheets of baking paper, then place back in the fridge, still between the paper, to rest for at least 30 minutes.
5. Preheat the oven to 160C and line a baking tray with baking paper. Peel the top paper layer from the dough, then use a 10cm ring cutter to cut out 10 discs.
6. Place on the baking tray and prick each with a fork a few times. Bake for 10–12 minutes, or until just cooked and very lightly golden.
7. Leave on the trays to cool, then remove once set. Store in an airtight container in a cool dark place; the shortbread will keep for several days.
Makes 10
For the vanilla anglaise
1. Scald the milk, cream, sugar, vanilla pod and vanilla seeds in a saucepan over medium heat. Meanwhile, combine the egg yolks and glucose in a large bowl.
2. Slowly pour the scalded milk into the egg yolk mixture, whisking constantly.
Strain the mixture back into the saucepan. Cook over low heat, stirring constantly, until the anglaise becomes thick enough to coat the back of the spoon. Strain immediately into a bowl set over an iced water bath, then stir frequently until cool. Cover and refrigerate overnight.
3. The next day, churn the mixture in an ice-cream machine according to the manufacturer's instructions. Once churned, spread out on a tray so the mixture is about 1.5cm thick. Freeze overnight.
4. The next day, cut out a disc of ice-cream, using a 10cm ring cutter. Now cut the middle from that ring, using a 3cm cutter. Place the larger outside ring on a tray lined with baking paper and place back in the freezer. Repeat until you have four discs with the centre cut out. (You can save the centre discs for topping other desserts.)
For the dark chocolate or white chocolate fudge (can be made several days ahead)
Make either the dark or white chocolate fudge, using the following method.
1. Combine all the ingredients, except the chocolate, in a saucepan and heat until simmering.
2. Place the chocolate in a food processor. Slowly add the hot liquid, while blitzing to combine. Once combined, scrape down the side and blitz for 1 minute more.
3. Pour the fudge mixture into a disposable piping (icing) bag. Leave to cool at room temperature, then refrigerate until ready to use. The fudge can be made several days ahead, left in the fridge.
Note: Before cutting the end off the piping bag, squish the bag in your hands a little to burst the air bubbles and smooth the fudge.
To serve
Look through your shortbread discs and reserve the four best-looking ones to use as tops. Place the other four on separate plates, with the tray side facing upwards. Place an ice-cream disc on each one, then pipe the fudge into the hole in the middle of the ice-cream. Place the other shortbreads on top. If the ice-cream is really firm (depending how cold your freezer is), you may want to wait for 5 minutes or so before serving.
Most people use a fork and spoon to eat this dessert, but I think the best way to enjoy it is to pick it up!
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Auburn planning commission sends Airbnb ordinance to City Council
Auburn's Planning Commission this week unanimously approved an ordinance that seeks to regulate home sharing operations like Airbnb.
Under the rules, homeowners who rent out spare rooms to travelers through Airbnb or its competitors would be required to obtain a license with the city. If the ordinance is approved by the City Council on Nov. 10, Auburn would become the first jurisdiction in the Sacramento region to attempt oversight of this budding industry.
Auburn Mayor Bridget Powers said Thursday she hasn't decided whether to support the measure. But in an earlier interview, the mayor warned that "too much regulation is not good."
Airbnb, a 6-year-old San Francisco startup, has upended the highly regulated hotel business, essentially allowing anyone with an Internet connection and a spare bedroom to become a hotelier.
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New flood maps published yesterday by the Environment Agency show that an additional 300,000 homes in England and Wales are at risk of flooding and could attract higher insurance premiums.
Although 100,000 fewer properties now fall within the highest category of risk as a result of the on-line maps, the total number at some kind of risk has risen to 2.2 million.
A report by the agency said the devastating flash flood that caused millions of pounds of damage in the Cornish coastal village of Boscastle on Aug 16 was among the most extreme ever recorded in Britain.
Interim work now being carried out would reduce the risk of flooding but would "inevitably be overwhelmed" by extreme conditions such as the Aug 16 event, said the report.
A 10ft wall of water ripped through the lower part of the village in a four-hour period, sweeping away scores of cars and wrecking buildings.
At its peak, 100 tons of water a second was pouring through the village.
The steep streets were turned into rivers by torrential rain, which tore up road surfaces, swept away gardens and dumped tons of mud inside houses.
The publication of the agency's updated flood risk maps quickly hit problems, with some users claiming that the interactive maps did not work properly and had included many areas that do not flood.
In theory, they enable home owners and businesses in flood plains to see for the first time whether their area is at "low," "moderate," or "significant" risk of flooding.
However, when The Daily Telegraph clicked in differently-shaded areas of flooding, intended to range from a risk of one in 1,000 to a one in 75 chance of flooding each year, all the areas came up as being at the highest risk.
The agency says the inclusion of low-risk areas will enable local authorities to prevent inappropriate development in flood plains and to make people in these areas aware that there could be a risk, however remote.
The maps show for the first time the effects of flooding by smaller streams that were not included before and the protection afforded by flood defences. The maps will be updated every three months.
However, the failure of the website to show the level of flood risk as intended led to fears that many people who have not suffered flood damage could find their insurance premiums going up.
The Association of British Insurers welcomed the new maps but said they would make little difference to premiums as insurers already used a wide range of flooding maps and other forms of risk assessment.
Malcolm Tarling, an ABI spokesman, said: "Insurers will provide flood cover if the homes are protected to the Government's minimum standard - a one in 75-year risk of flooding or where defences are planned by 2007."
He said that while some 200,000 homes at a high risk of flooding would be insured only on a case-by-case basis, there was "only a handful" of homes where owners could not obtain insurance.
Gilly Bolton lives on Ham Island in the Thames at Old Windsor, and is part of a community support group of people affected by flooding. She said: "There are areas which have never flooded which have been included.
"There are areas included as blue which are on the M25 and 25ft above the flood plain."
She said the area the agency claimed to have protected by building the £110 million Jubilee River scheme to bypass Windsor, was not shown as protected by flood defences on the maps.
The agency was last night unable to provide an explanation as to why on its interactive maps some areas came up as being at high risk, even when they were not marked that way.


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Back at camp, Frampton has been the Hi-Up counselor for the past 2 years. She also teaches a painting & drawing, and Keeping-in-Touch (stationery-making). She loves to "get the party started" and has been known to sing quite loudly in the dining hall. Frampton just returned from studying abroad in India, where she took classes for her anthropology major. She hopes to work for a non-profit that focuses on women's issues.


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Health: Beware of wonder cures2011/09/12
Herbal supplements are not always beneficial to health. KASMIAH MUSTAPHA looks into the safety aspects of their use
WHEN it comes to herbal supplements, people are known to rely on hearsay rather than scientific proof of their efficacy. For instance, they believe that products with Tongkat Ali can increase the male libido, ginkgo will improve memory and black cohosh relieve menopausal symptoms.
Cashing in on these beliefs, some companies manufacture products which supposedly contain these herbs — such as Tongkat Ali coffee, juice and water.
In most cases, however, the products do not contain the herbal ingredients but drugs or other types of stimulants instead. While the consumer may not experience drastic reactions to the products immediately, in the long run, they can cause serious health problems.
The Health Ministry recently raided a company that was producing coffee mixed with the controlled drug tadalafil. The manufacturer claims the coffee contains herbal and organic extracts which boosts men's sexual functions.
Tadalafil is an oral drug used to treat impotence. However, there are serious side effects if patients take it for long periods of time, without a doctor's prescription. They may suffer from sudden loss of vision, chest pain spreading to the arm or shoulder, nausea, irregular heartbeat, swelling in hands, ankles, or feet, shortness of breath and seizures (convulsions).
Universiti Sains Malaysia School Of Medical Sciences deputy dean Assoc Prof Dr Shaiful Bahari Ismail says consumers have to make sure that the herbal supplements they are taking are genuine, backed by scientific evidence. "The study should show the products are safe and efficacious. They also must not contain any other unknown ingredient. It is best to talk to your doctor before taking any herbal supplement," he advises.
Dr Shaiful, who is also a family physician, also advises patients to check the scientific background of the products and ensure the active ingredient is not combined with other potentially harmful ingredients.
"We have heard stories of herbal products combined with dangerous ingredients, such as sex stimulants. This can cause side effects and at times, death. So if a patient wants to take coffee that is said to contain Tongkat Ali or other herbs, I will ask the patient if there is a study done on the product. If there is none, I will tell him not to take it.
"Some of the products contain probably only 0.001 per cent of the herbal extract and the rest are drugs. Some contain a high dosage of drugs which can cause problems. Those with a good appetite and who take a balanced diet with good amounts of carbohydrate, proteins and minerals need not take any supplement, including herbals."
Dr Shaiful and a team from Universiti Sains Malaysia conducted a study on the use of Tongkat Ali as a herbal supplement for the improvement of men's sexual well-being. The study was sponsored by Biotropics Malaysia Bhd, manufacturer of Nu Prep, a herbal supplement with a Tongkat Ali water soluble extract.
The 109 men in the study were given the product and a placebo. The study found that there was improvement in sexual well-being, energy and physical functioning after being on the product for 12 weeks.
"I cannot claim that there has been no scientific study on Tongkat Ali before but the study that I conducted using water extract Tongkat Ali is among the first in the country that looks at men's quality of life and sexual well-being.
"Based on the 12-week period, we can say that it is safe to use the product for a short term, but we cannot be certain of the same effect if people use it for longer than that."
Tongkat Ali or Eurycoma longifolia is a plant famous for its male aphrodisiac properties. However, it is also used for treatment of aches, persistent fever, malaria, dysentery, glandular swelling, bleeding (as a coagulant), edema, hypertension, syphilitic sores, and ulcers.
Biotropics director of business development, sales and marketing Siti Nooruhani Ibrahim says the study was commissioned mainly to confirm and ensure the product is safe.
"We need scientific proof that Nu Prep is safe and effective. We cannot just tell consumers without having the proof to support our claims. We know for centuries that people have been using Tongkat Ali because of its health propensities. So we wanted to put the science in the traditional practice.
"Our products are manufactured using the latest technology to ensure they are safe and follow standards. We will continue to do scientific studies on our products to back our claims of their effects. This will keep us ahead of our competitors."
She says Nu Prep, which has been in the market for five years, is also distributed to United States and Hong Kong. Nu Prep Tongkat Ali freeze-dried extract is powdered and encapsulated to ensure the biologically active components' therapeutic values are maintained. The company also produces other herbal products including Nu Femme Kacip Fatimah.
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Recipe: One Pot Lemon Orzo Shrimp
- 1 pound medium shrimp, peeled and deveined
- Kosher salt and freshly ground black pepper, to taste
- olive oil in your Evo Oil Sprayer
- 3 cloves garlic, minced
- 1 onion, diced
- 1/2 teaspoon dried oregano
- 8 ounces orzo pasta
- 2 cups chicken broth
- 1 (14.5-ounce) can diced tomatoes, drained
- 1/2 cup frozen peas
- Juice of 1 lemon
- 1/4 cup grated Parmesan cheese
- Preheat oven to 400 degrees F.
- Season shrimp with salt and pepper, to taste; set aside.
- Spritz olive oil in a large oven-proof skillet to coat and heat over medium high heat. Add garlic, onion and oregano, and cook, stirring often, until onions have become translucent, about 3-4 minutes. Stir in orzo until lightly browned, about 1-2 minutes.
- Stir in chicken broth and 1/2 cup water. Bring to a boil; cover, reduce heat and simmer until pasta is cooked through, about 10-12 minutes. Stir in tomatoes, peas, lemon juice and shrimp. Sprinkle with Parmesan.
- Place into oven and bake until shrimp are cooked through, about 12-14 minutes.
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Cash flow. These two words strike fear into the heart of many business owners, but it doesn't have to be this way. Allison Maslan explains:
"First and foremost, you must believe that everything will come together with your business. There will be down periods, but they won't stay that way as long as you remain focused on your big picture vision. The cash flow will funnel in if you follow one or more of these eight tips."
1. Open a line of credit: At first this may seem counter-intuitive, but borrow money when you don't need it. It's a lot easier to get a loan when you're not in a desperate situation. Having the cash to draw from during a slow period takes off a ton of pressure. You'll pay it back once you are busy again. Debt is not a bad thing when you're using it to grow.
2. Tap your existing customer base: On average, existing clients account for 41% of small business income. They are apt to spend five times more than new clients because the relationship already exists. They trust you and know what you can do. Many customers love the idea of a "one-stop shop" where they can have all of their needs provided by one vendor. Wherever possible, upsell additional products to your customer base and become that one-stop shop.
3. Use the Product Pyramid: The Product Pyramid is a multi-tiered approach to bringing in customers at every level. Presently, you may be hitting on only one or two levels, but you have the potential to establish relationships with customers in every single one of them. For example, if you manufacture run-of-the-mill coffee makers for $79, you could also produce machines at every tier for every level of connoisseur — all the way up to the garish $2,999 model.
4. Try licensing: A great way to expand a business without stretching yourself too thin is through licensing. Some business owners feel that licensing their brands, products, or services is the equivalent of giving away their children — but it's not. If anything, it's a less taxing way to make more children (i.e., products, services, etc.) without having to do any of the work. Once an agreement is done, licensing becomes a bookkeeping function that brings in regular income.
5. Establish retainers: Retainers are an excellent way to generate recurring revenue. Think about what you might be able to provide to your clients on a regular (i.e., monthly) basis. Rather than getting paid per project or by the hour, you are receiving a standard payment every month ($2,500, $5,000, etc.). It could be in the form of a marketing retainer, a public relations retainer, a consulting retainer, etc.
6. Start franchising: Once you have your business model down, you can sell your concept, systems, and marketing to others to create franchises. All you need to do in this case is develop a "business-in-a-box" that franchisees can step into and run and then help them find prime locations.
7. Offer certification programs: Perhaps your business lends itself to creating a certification program. If you and your team have expertise in an area, you can build a program that trains others to become experts as well. This is a terrific way to scale because you are getting people to sign up for a number of sessions so they may fulfill the certification obligation, which means consistent cash flow with people paying up front.
8. Consider raising prices: While I'm an advocate of promotional discounts and other marketing incentives, I am opposed to pricing models that undervalue your products and services. Some business owners are afraid that customers won't buy from them unless they are priced lower than their competitors. The truth is, you may get a customer through a lower price offering — but you won't keep a customer this way. You want to attract customers who truly value what you offer. If you drop your prices too low, you are projecting to the marketplace that you don't believe that your product is worth that much.
"While scaling your business," Allison says, "always monitor cash flow and prepare for 'inclement weather,' but never allow low ebbs in cash flow to dictate decisions that will impact your long-term success."
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A new deal has been struck between Marvel and Sony Pictures that will introduce a new web-slinger.
So, I wake up this morning, and find some major news that I've been waiting for, as well as many other Marvel and Spider-man fans. Spider-man can now join the other Marvel superheroes in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU).
In an announcement from Marvel, they say that under a new deal between them and Sony it means Spider-Man will first be appearing in a Marvel movie from the MCU. Following that first appearance Spidey will then appear in his own standalone instalment on 28th July 2017 in a movie co-produced by Kevin Feige and Amy Pascal.
Kevin Feige has produced all of those Marvel movies you've seen (and probably loved), from Iron Man, Thor, Captain America: The First Avenger, The Avengers, and the list goes on. Amy Pascal first help launched the MCU 13 years ago.
Sony isn't giving up the rights to Spider-Man however, they've basically just struck a deal to allow the web-slinger to appear in Marvel movies, and will continue to finance, distribute, own and have final creative control of the standalone Spider-Man films.
Marvel and Sony are said to also be looking at opportunities for other MCU characters to appear in future Spider-Man movies.
There is no word on who will be playing Spider-Man as part of this new MCU integration, as Marvel do refer to him as "the new Spider-Man", so it appears Andrew Garfield who plays the superhero in the latest movies won't return. However, we think this now means we can start to speculate, which is always a fun part of upcoming movie castings.
We also would hazard a guess that the new Spider-Man may show up in Captain America: Civil War, which is due for release in May 2016, so there is plenty of time to find the new web-head until then.
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Charting the future of data centers and cloud computing.
OAuth is an emerging Web standard for authorizing limited access to applications and data. It is designed so that users can grant restricted access to resources they own�such as pictures residing on a site like Flickr or SmugMug�to a third-party client like a photo printing site. In the past, it was common to ask the user to share their username and password with the client, a deceptively simple request masking unacceptable security risk. In contrast to this, OAuth promotes a least privilege model, allowing a user to grant limited access to their applications and data by issuing a token with limited capability.


text: Chronicler of WASP Life Louis Auchincloss Dies at 92 Lawyer-turned-novelist succumbs to stroke By Will McCahill, Newser Staff Posted Jan 27, 2010 10:00 PM CST 5 comments Louis Auchincloss is seen in a 1994 photo. (AP Photo) (Newser) – Louis Auchincloss, who chronicled the life of powerful, white, Anglo-Saxon Protestants into which he was born, died yesterday of a stroke at age 92. The Yale-educated Auchincloss left a prominent conservative New York law firm to write, and is best known for the 1960s novels The Rector of Justin and The Embezzler. "By the time of his death, with an African American family occupying the White House and citizens of every ethnicity and creed holding positions of power all across the country, Mr. Auchincloss's oeuvre had taken on a patina of yesteryear," Dennis Drabelle writes for the Washington Post. "One of the pleasures of reading him is to glimpse the sometimes bewildering mores of a bygone subculture." (Read more Louis Auchincloss stories.) My Take on This Story Report a story error Show results | 11% Annoying 11% Hilarious 0% Intriguing 22% Depressing 44% Brilliant 11% Scary


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In 1931 Mr. 0. J. Baker, B.A., B.L.S., M.L.S., was appointed Head Librarian; served a total of 37 years, over two separate terms, from 1931 to 1966, and again from 1968 to 1970. In 1931, the library collection was approximately 10,000 volumes and 3,000 unbound periodicals.
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Final Dinner - tickets available now!/
It is that time of year again! the season is coming to a close, we're getting excited about winning grand finals and we can't wait to celebrate them with our fellow UWAHC club mates at the annual Final Dinner! We are once again inviting all partners of UWAHC members to join us, the more the merrier! This year we will be celebrating our amazingness at the Nedlands Yacht Club. As always, we will be having a delicious 3 course meal, unlimited drinks, hilarious speeches, impressive awards and attractive dancing. There will also be a bus to a secret location after we finish. Tickets are $120* and are available now at the bar or by transferring your money to:
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*Please note students are permitted to pay in 2 instalments of $60
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We are looking forward to another memorable (or less memorable) evening!!!!


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Zunino, scout dad share love of the game
SEATTLE -- Mike Zunino loves baseball. The feeling likely started when he would go to work with his dad, Greg Zunino, a scout for the Marlins from 1992-98.
Mike often tagged along with Greg, watching games for five or six innings at a time.
SEATTLE -- Mike Zunino loves baseball. The feeling likely started when he would go to work with his dad, Greg Zunino, a scout for the Marlins from 1992-98.
Mike often tagged along with Greg, watching games for five or six innings at a time.
"We used to sit up in the stands, and he'd hold the radar gun," Greg said. "[Mike] would go for awhile and then he would get bored when he was younger. His mother would take him out and he'd have to go throw the ball against the wall."
If it involved a baseball or a bat, it didn't take much to keep Mike occupied while growing up in Cape Coral, Fla.
"He'd always be out in the backyard -- we had a bucket of balls, a tee and a net -- and he'd go out there and hit 100 balls every day," Greg said. "If you've ever been down to Florida in the summer, it's a little warm to do that."
Greg now works for the Reds as an area scout based in Florida.
Meanwhile, Mike is enjoying his first full year in the Major Leagues. He finished April with a .274 batting average, but it steadily fell through May, and it's been hovering near .225 so far in June. But the 23-year-old has been able to compartmentalize his woes at the plate to emerge as one of the best defensive catchers in the American League.
On Sunday at Tropicana Field, Zunino made a key block on a Felix Hernandez changeup with a man on third and the Mariners and Rays both scoreless in the seventh inning. Seattle went on to win, 5-0.
"Today my catcher was outstanding and probably saved the game for us," Mariners manager Lloyd McClendon said. "He did a tremendous job for us. Sometimes that goes unnoticed."
Ask Greg, and he'll say Mike's always been able to separate offense from defense and one pitch from the next. He's always been able to maintain a high energy level. Seeing him discouraged is as rare as a Honus Wagner rookie card, though there was one time in high school when Mike seemingly had had enough.
"It wasn't his best game," Greg recalled. "And they'd have to do the field after. I'm sitting in my chair, and he walks in and he says, 'God I hate this game.' He just walked right by and went in his room."
The next day, Mike got three hits.
"This game's pretty good!" he said after walking through the door.
Baseball ran deep in the Zunino household.
Greg played at University of California, Berkeley, before the Yankees selected him in the 31st round of 1981 Draft. He spent two seasons in the Minor Leagues, then went on to play professionally in Italy, where he met his wife Paola, a catcher for the Italian national softball team. His brother, Gary Zunino, played three seasons (1979-81) in the Minor Leagues, too.
Greg's baseball experience extends back decades -- he's worked for the Expos, Marlins and Reds -- but he took a hands-off approach while Mike tore through the ranks, earning All-State honors in 2009 during his senior year at Mariner High School in Cape Coral.
"I never really was the scout where I'd try to show him a lot," Greg said. "When he came to me and asked, 'What do you think of this swing?' or things like this, I'd help him. Until he really came to me, I'd sort of let him do his thing."
But Greg noticed the cerebral way Mike played the game and the way he asked about how to approach certain situations. When Greg helped coach his wood bat team during the fall, he let Mike call his own pitches -- something he wasn't allowed to do in high school.
"He always told me to go out there, play, have fun and trust yourself," Mike said. "That was probably the best advice he gave me."
Mike didn't sign with the Athletics in 2009 after they took him in the 29th round of the MLB First-Year Player Draft. Instead, he went to the University of Florida, where he led the Gators to the College World Series three years in a row. In 2012, Mike won the Golden Spikes Award, Johnny Bench Award and Dick Howser Trophy.
That June, the Reds, for whom Greg worked, had the 14th pick in the first round of the Draft, but there was no way Mike was slipping that far. Greg said he was thankful that the organization didn't ask him to evaluate his son, but they were going to take him if he was still available.
"Not that it would be a really low report, but we probably had the lowest grade on him, because we know where all the little flaws are," Greg said. "I'd grade him a little bit lower on the hitting. I think that's why they didn't have me do it -- because it either goes that way or the other way and you're so high on him."
When the Mariners selected Mike with the third overall pick, they knew they were getting a player who grew up around baseball. Tom McNamara, the Mariners' director of amateur scouting, had known Greg for years, and he knew Greg had passed down to his son an authentic love of the game.
"I think Mike is a sponge. You can tell by the way he plays," said McNamara. "He likes being out there. He likes to learn and he's always playing. I think he got that from his mom and dad."
Adam Lewis is an associate reporter for MLB.com.


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RFA Wave Ruler (A390)
RFA Wave Ruler is a Wave-class tanker fast fleet tanker of the Royal Fleet Auxiliary (RFA) of the United Kingdom tasked with providing fuel, food, fresh water, ammunition and other supplies to Royal Navy vessels around the world.
Wave Ruler underway with a United States Coast Guard Eurocopter HH-65 Dolphin helicopter embarked
|United Kingdom
|RFA Wave Ruler
|Royal Fleet Auxiliary
|12 March 1997
|9 February 2001
|27 April 2003
|Laid up 18/04/2018[citation needed]
|General characteristics [1][2][3]
|Class and type:
|Wave-class tanker
|31,500 tonnes approx
|196.5 metres
|28.25 metres
|9.97 metres
|18 knots (33 km/h)
|10,000 nautical miles (20,000 km) at 15 knots (28 km/h)
|80 Royal Fleet Auxiliary personnel with provision for 22 Royal Navy personnel for helicopter and weapons systems operations
|Sensors and
processing systems:
|Aircraft carried:
|1 × Merlin helicopter with full hangar facilities
Wave Ruler was built by Kvaerner Govan (after 1999, BAE Systems Marine) and launched in 2001. She was accepted into service in 2003 and is the 2nd ship to bear this name in RFA service. Wave Ruler and her sister Wave Knight, were designed to replace Olna and Olwen, two Ol-class tanker 36,000 ton fast fleet tankers which were built at Swan Hunter and Hawthorn Leslie in the 1960s.[4]
Wave Ruler was the last tanker commissioned into the RFA until RFA Tidespring became operational in late 2017.
Wave Ruler has a standard crew of 80 Royal Fleet Auxiliary personnel with provision for a further 22 Royal Navy personnel to conduct helicopter and weapons systems operations.[3] She carries a full medical team and sick bay and is capable of distributing 2,000 emergency relief packages in times of crisis.[5]
The ship has the capability to supply fuel and other liquid cargo to vessels using replenishment rigs on port and starboard beams and through a Hudson reel-type stern rig. When providing support for amphibious operations, Wave Ruler is also able to deliver fuel to dracones positioned alongside. In addition to fuel, the ship carries ammunition and other stores which can be transferred while underway. She can operate a Merlin HM1 helicopter, or other helicopters of similar size, from a hangar and flight deck at the stern.[3]
Operational historyEdit
September 2004 saw Wave Ruler deployed to the Caribbean to provide hurricane relief operations.[3]
In 2006 the ship carried out three major cocaine seizures at sea. In September it recovered £64m of cocaine from an estimated cargo of £500m, after the crew of the fishing boat carrying the drugs set it on fire. On 2 November the ship and its accompanying Royal Marines captured 3 tonnes of cocaine worth £300m. On 29 November it seized a further 2.9 tonnes, again from a fishing boat. All the raids took place in the Caribbean.[6][7]
On 31 August 2008 Wave Ruler was dispatched with HMS Iron Duke to assist relief efforts in the Caribbean for the Atlantic Hurricane Gustav. The vessels distributed food, water and first aid supplies to victims of the disaster as well as providing support restoring local infrastructure.[8]
On 3 October 2008 the ship docked in Havana, Cuba. This was only the second time since the country's revolution 50 years earlier that a Royal Navy ship had visited the country. The five-day stay was part of an ongoing anti-drugs operation in the Caribbean, which saw the ship spend much of 2005-2008 in the region, confiscating over 13 tonnes of cocaine in total.[9]
On 8 November 2008 the ship was sent to the Cayman Islands to provide humanitarian relief assistance in the wake of Hurricane Paloma.[10]
In June 2009, she took part in exercise Bersama Shield with HMS Ocean and HMS Somerset off the Malay Peninsula.[11]
During February 2010, Wave Ruler and the destroyer HMS York were deployed to the Falkland Islands during a period of increased tension between the United Kingdom and Argentina over the former's plans to begin drilling for oil in the seas surrounding the islands. While in the South Atlantic, Wave Ruler took part in the rescue of an I-Kiribati sailor who was taken seriously ill, refuelling an RAF 1564 Search and Rescue Flight Sea King helicopter while in flight.[12] The deployment also saw the ships visit Southern Thule in the Southern Sandwich Islands, the first British warships to visit the islands for nearly 10 years.[13][14]
November 2010 saw the vessel back in the Caribbean, where she distributed 160 tonnes of fresh water and 32,000 water purification tablets in St. Lucia after the effects of Hurricane Tomas. The deployment also saw the vessel visit Antigua and the British Overseas Territory of Grand Cayman.[15]
Wave Ruler spent the summer and autumn of 2011 again in the Caribbean deployed as Britain's Atlantic Patrol Ship (North). She embarked a Mk 8 Lynx helicopter from 815 Naval Air Squadron for the duration.[5]
In October 2012, Wave Ruler transited the Suez Canal and took over from RFA Fort Victoria as Gulf Readiness Tanker. The Gulf Readiness Tanker operates in support of UKMCC Bahrain.[16]
In January 2013, Wave Ruler was relieved by RFA Fort Victoria.[17]
In the autumn of 2014, Wave Ruler deployed as part of the Cougar 14 Task Group, along with HM Ships Bulwark & Northumberland, RFA Lyme Bay and French Ship Courbet for exercises in the Mediterranean and Gulf.[18] Wave Ruler remained East of Suez, operating with RFA Fort Austin until both ships were relieved by Fort Victoria in June 2015.[19]
Wave Ruler spent the latter part of 2016 and early 2017 operating in Scottish waters and the English Channel in support of Flag Officer Sea Training (FOST).[20]
In June 2018 it was reported by the Brazilian press that the UK MoD had offered to sell one or both of the Wave-class tankers to Brazil.[21] As early as 2010, BAE Systems had proposed providing Brazil with a variant of the Wave-class, tailored to meet the specific aviation, stores and personnel requirements of the Brazilian Navy.[22]
- ^ Jane's Fighting Ships, 2004-2005. Jane's Information Group Limited. p. 817. ISBN 0-7106-2623-1.
- ^ Wave Class Fast Fleet Tankers at the Royal Navy homepage
- ^ http://rfaaplymouth.org/gallery2/main.php?g2_itemId=128 Archived 27 July 2011 at the Wayback Machine O Class Fleet Replenishment Tankers
- ^ BBC News
- ^ The Mirror
- ^ "Navy ships help after hurricane". BBC News. 31 August 2008.
- ^ Cuba welcomes RN anti-drug ship
- ^ "5am update: Storm causes damage, slams Sister Islands". Caymanian Compass. 8 November 2008. Archived from the original on 12 November 2008. Retrieved 8 November 2008.
- ^ http://www.navynews.co.uk/news/445-task-force-raises-its-shield.aspx[permanent dead link]
- ^ http://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/20101001110155/http://www.royalnavy.mod.uk/operations-and-support/royal-fleet-auxiliary/rfa-flotilla/fast-fleet-tankers/rfa-wave-ruler/news/naval-rescue-in-the-south-atlantic
- ^ Gordon Brown says UK is prepared in Falkland Islands
- ^ http://www.navynews.co.uk/news/783-hms-york-at-worlds-end.aspx
- ^ http://www.royalnavy.mod.uk/operations-and-support/royal-fleet-auxiliary/rfa-flotilla/fast-fleet-tankers/rfa-wave-ruler/news/rfa_wave_ruler_visit.htm
- ^ http://www.royalnavy.mod.uk/News-and-Events/Latest-News/2012/October/09/121009-Wave-Ruler-readiness
- ^ http://www.royalnavy.mod.uk/news-and-latest-activity/news/2013/january/11/130111-fort-vic-gulf
- ^ http://www.royalnavy.mod.uk/news-and-latest-activity/news/2014/october/01/141001-royal-navy-task-group-rendezvous-with-french-allies
- ^ http://www.royalnavy.mod.uk/news-and-latest-activity/news/2015/july/02/150702-rfa-wave-ruler-hands-over-to-rfa-fort-victoria
- ^ http://www.royalnavy.mod.uk/news-and-latest-activity/news/2017/february/14/170214-wave-ruler-continues-fost-support
- ^ http://www.naval.com.br/blog/2018/06/01/exclusivo-ingleses-sondam-interesse-da-mb-em-um-navio-tanque-classe-wave/
- ^ http://www.defense-aerospace.com/article-view/release/119452/bae-offers-brazil-11_warship-package-with-tech-transfer%2C-partnership.html
External linksEdit
- Official Wave Ruler page at the Royal Navy's website
- RFA Wave Ruler on Operation Taurus returning from Singapore to the UK (Video)
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