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Camp Autry - Shelbyville, Tennessee
Saturday April 4th, 1863
Dearest Sallie, as I promised to write every week, I must write this evening or the week will be gone. It has been about ten days since I wrote my other letter. I have very little news to write and I feel so very bad today that I can hardly write a letter. I was on guard around the brigade all day yesterday and last night and it was so cold and windy that I almost froze and I didn't sleep more than an hour or two all night and that was a little before daylight till after sunrise. I thought a great deal about you and our sweet little babes lying covered up in a good warm bed, while I was walking my post back and forth for two long hours at a time suffering more or less all the time with the abdominal neuralgia, for my bowels have been running off ever since I came here and we have had only one days rations of beef since I came, but I think it is the corn bread. We have had only one day's rations of flour since I came. The soldiers here are getting very little cake these days - they say they have drawn flour only two or three times since the battle of Murf reesboro - we get very good this year's bacon -very nice meat.
Editors Note: Lieut. Col. James L. Autry, who commanded the Twenty-seventh Mississippi Infantry Regiment at the Battle of Stones River Murfreesboro, TN, was killed during the battle. More than likely this camp was dedicated to this gallant officer as both the 27th and 30th shared much of the same field of battle during the engagement.


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Swamp Thing #59: "Reunion"
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There are several things both notable and fascinating about this issue of the Swamp Thing. First and foremost, this story is unbelievably fucked up. Modern comics deliver sick, twisted, graphic gore and horror but seldom dig into emotional turmoil this deep.
Part 1: Abby's Past Tragedies
Abby Cable is already a tormented soul. She and her husband Matt lost two of their closest friends (Alec and Linda Holland) in an explosion and were then forced to hide from the killers for some time. After this trauma Matt and Abby's marriage begins to fall apart as they try to piece together the death of Alec and discover this being the Swamp Thing.
One night while Abby is out in the swamps with Swamp Thing, Matt is severely injured in a car wreck leaving him brain-dead and his body possessed by the soul of Abby's uncle Arcane. Calmly engorged in the corpse of the Husband, Arcane begins the torment of his own niece by dazzling and bedding her. His torments increase and eventually leave her dead in hell. Only the bravery of Swamp Thing (with help from Deadman, Phantom Stranger, and Etrigan) pulls Abby back from eternal torment.
With Matt Cable a "vegetable" from his car accident, Abby begins a romance with the swamp monster. Alan Moore's bit of parallelism here was not lost on me: Abby trades her metaphorical vegetable-husband for an actual vegetable.
Their lives would be happy but for John Constantine who continually lures Swamp Thing off on new adventures saving the world, universes, and eventually the spiritual realm itself.
At this point in the series, photos of Abby and Swamp Thing are published in the local newspaper and Abby is charged with crimes against nature, a charge normally reserved for beastiality. Fearing imprisonment, Abby flees to Gotham City where the Swamp Thing wages a war on the city to recover her from Gotham's justice system.
At last reunited, Abby's dreams are shattered forever when the agency that created the Swamp Thing finds a way to kill its monster and does so. Swamp Thing is dead. Abby's last vegetable has been burned to the ground.
After so much tragedy in one character, Stephen Bissette takes a last oportunity to twist the knife.
Part 2: Issue #59: "Reunion".
The story begins in hell, where a large demon is tormenting Arcane for his sins on earth. We notice that one of Arcane's eyes has been squished and the socket is filled with maggots. He complains that he cannot feel his eye. This is the perspective from which our story is told. Though Arcane is the main character and provides the perspective of this narrative, the story is actually about Abby Cable as she pieces her life back together. Arcane is forced to watch three stories unfolding simultaneously.
- He sees Abby as she tries to live her life. She's in a convalescent home working with the aged who's families have abandoned them. She struggles to cope with this. An orderly is stealing from the residents once they die and it's a bit of a scandal that Abby uncovers. This narrative expands on Abby's character and furthers the main arc of our story by showing how she lives her life in the absence of the Swamp Thing.
- We see some unknown creature, and read its inner thoughts as it struggles to find someone. We see parallelism between this creature and Arcane as it also complains about its eye. This narrative is rife with intrigue but is opaque, confusing until the end of the issue.
- We see the past when Abigail's father – a single parent – lives with his only daughter in some small European village still peppered with land mines left over from WWII. Here we learn that Abby's father stepped on one of these landmines while she was a little girl, dying in front of her eyes. This is how Abby was orphaned and came to live in the United States at a young age. Throughout most of this story Abby's father is reading Mary Shelley's "Frankenstein" to his daughter.
These three stories are interwoven and evolve before Arcane's eye (and the readers'). The final death scene of Abby's father is followed with the unknown creature in narrative 2 finding Abby at the convalescent home. It sees her, is ashamed, and runs into the swamps. Abby, recognizing something in the creature, chases it and the two are reunited. Here we learn that Arcane rebuilt the corpse of his dead brother (Abby's father) after Abby had left for America. All these years the reanimated corpse has struggled to find its lost daughter, and now some decades later he is literally falling apart, ashamed of his own wretchedness, and ashamed for his lost life, his life as an Arcane.
Abigail Cable, emotionally devastated after losing Swamp Thing, is reunited with her long dead father to discover that he has been turned into a "Frankenstein" and is now disintigrating before her very eyes. After some time spent in a tearful embrace the monster flees his daughter. She chases him further into the swamp, but she can only find the scattered limbs of the man she once called father. This is the second time that Abigail has watched her father die.
Abby is found the next morning next to a torso. Limbs are scattered about her.
She says, "I can't find his head."
Back in hell, an impressed demon remarks to Arcane that he is still causing pain on earth after so many years, and that he may be turned into a demon once his sins are paid off.
Hot damn. This issue was fucked up and demostrated the stength of Bissette's story-craft as he seamlessly wove together four narratives into one issue. Told from the perspective of a dead man being tormented in hell, we are shown new depths of Abby's past and present while still managing to progress the main story that has been evolving over the past few issues (Swamp Thing's death and eventual return to earth). The parallels are numerous. We see Abby's childhood fascination with Mary Shelley's "Frankenstein" which provides insight into her adult romance with the Swamp Thing. We see her father actually become a Frankenstein monster in a sick play on the old notion that women marry men like their father. And Bissette ties Arcane to his brother by demonstrating that they are both ashamed of the family name (one for his sins, the other for his own wretchednes), both are monsters, and both have deteriorating eyes that cause them pain.
This issue is tremendous and is followed by another gem in issue #60, "Loving the Alien" which proved to be another gorgeous issue in the Saga of the Swamp Thing. Though the issues compiled in book 6 of Alan Moore's run on Swamp Thing are considered by many to be weak and inferior to his previous work, and are a bit overshadowed by the other story he wrote that year (Watchmen), I would argue that these issues rank easily among the best stand-alone issues of the whole series. Their depth, craft, and creativity are simply unparalleled.
Happy readings,
– Jonny
(PS, sorry for two Swamp Thing posts in a row. It's what I've been reading.)

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Yep. This is why the best drivers could probably race parts of some tracks with their eyes closed. It's all muscle memory, really.
When you're driving a car, you're typically focused on what's called "visual range". That is, your brain is predicting (using visual cues) what will happen when your car reaches a certain point, two seconds from now. And it's the ability to accurately predict that, that makes a good racing driver. And this rang true for my simulation because, I could have the graphics update running at around 15Hz, looking absolutely terrible, but people were still able to play the game very well.
Why? Because the human brain is great at filling in gaps. Especially gaps that are a constant delta time...as long as the error in what they see remains constant, a person can make very good judgement on near-future events. Essentially...it showed that reactions weren't the key factor in being able to drive a car at speed.
I still maintain that reaction time is handy when in combat with another racer, though.


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What's News: The Dow closes at an all-time high, Ron Johnson faces scrutiny from J.C. Penney's board and China criticizes Google's Android.
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I've spent many hours trying to find a solution to this problem, but all in vain.
Here's the deal:
I have a ZipInputStream, which I've even managed to get a ZipEntry from.
I can get the size or the name of this entry. The entry itself is an XML file which I need to get access to,
but how can I do that without a ZipFile instance?
Here's my code so far:
I need to extract the entry as InputStream or java.io.File to pass it to a DocumentBuilder and parse the XML.ByteArrayInputStream bais = new ByteArrayInputStream(zipBytes); ZipInputStream zis = new ZipInputStream(bais); ZipEntry ze = zis.getNextEntry();
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How to Make a Valentine from an Onioncomments (60) January 25th, 2013
The quotations I used on the cards pictured above were the following:
"If someone you love hurts you, cry a river, build a bridge, and get over it." -Unknown
"Life is an onion and one peels it crying." -French Proverb
"To weep is to make less the depth of grief." -William Shakespeare
"I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love." -Mother Teresa
"Go ahead and cry" -Jeffery Rudell
"Statistically speaking, happiness accounts for 21% of all tears." -Dr. William Frey, Director, The Dry Eye and Tear Research Center, MN
"Crying is the refuge of plain women but the ruin of pretty ones." -Oscar Wilde
"Jesus wept." -John, 11:35 (So, you're in good company.)
"The cure for anything is salt water-sweat, tears, or the sea." -Isak Dinesen
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It's perfect for projects like this were you want adhesion over a large, uniform, area. There is no oozing glue to worry about and no chance of inadvertently getting adhesive on the outer face of your project.
It is available at New York Central Art Supply (62 Third Avenue, @ 11th Street, New York, NY, 10003, 212-473-7705. As for the "basement" when calling -- such items are sold from the department on the lower level). It is also available (or similar products) at better art supply stores.
I hope this helps. Good luck. And thank you for reading.
Posted: 12:48 pm on January 31st
Love the idea of sending myself one. Good way to get my parents worrying!
Posted: 1:52 pm on January 26th
here's template for a pretty box http://www.paperscrapz.screentastic.ca/box%20templates/stationary%20box%20pattern.pdf
I love the idea of celebrating one's love for oneself.I intend to do so from hereon in!
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I know what she means. She's going to be in luck this evening, when I get back from work.
Posted: 5:13 am on January 17th
I've been looking through sales on crafting accessories-die machines, fancy electronic apparatus and yet feel that they stand nowhere near a great idea and simple resources.
I'm so glad I found you and your work on the world wide web. God Bless, and continue making magic.
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can do for any box decorations~
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I haunt the CraftStylish posts hoping you will be posting currently. Alas, though I can always enjoy some vintage beauty from you, I see little that is new. Where are you and how are you keeping busy? We all miss you and hope you are keeping yourself busy and happy and creative. thank you, once again, for being an inspiration, an impetus to create, an example of how a sense of playfulness and a touch of ingenuity can yield beauty. You're wonderful!
Posted: 5:23 pm on February 8th
I am having a problem downloading your project, so i'll have it handy.
Any suggestions?
Posted: 12:01 am on January 30th
You have been making Valentines for yourself for 17 years? Would love to see those designs as well! I do like the idea of handcrafted Valentines & greeting cards in general. They are so much more meaningful & unique.
The idea of sending a greeting to oneself is fantastic. The notion that everyone must be a part of a couple is overrated. We all need to love ourselves first before we are ready to commit to a relationship.
Happy Valentines Day!
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Love is like an onion,
You taste it with delight;
Afterward you wonder
Whatever made you bite.
Phillipa Court
I make valentines for all my friends. Most common response is "This is the only valentine I got!" I always ask, "Gee, how many did you send?"
I tell them that getting a valentine gives me a few minutes of pleasure but making valentines gives me hours of smiles and loving thoughts.
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Telling yourself that you love you is a tremendously powerful gift to you and to people who live with you. They don't have the burden of validating you and you are more fun, I think and better in a relationship, too.
I loved your quotes, too. This has been a horrible day for me, but having this one to read was like having a lifeboat pull up when it was handiest to have one.
"If someone you love hurts you, cry a river, build a bridge, and get over it." —Unknown
Thank you. I miss your stuff.
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The only thing I've used onion skins for is dying eggs - I was so disappointed the one year I used the yellow skins for their gorgeous color - and my eggs just looked like brown eggs when I was done.
This box is fabulous - and your photos of the onions so lucious.
I have always loved Valentine's Day - from the time I was in first grade and we decorated the box to receive the class valentines with crepe paper. I loved the cookies my mom would make with raspberry jam between them and icing on top. I loved picking out valentines for each of my classmates - trying to match each to the person. So while I'm grateful for my dear husband, even when I was single, I loved the day. I still like to send valentines to my friends - it's another opportunity to tell them how I love them.
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As usual, your imagination and ingenuity amaze me. Thanks so much for such a great idea. You have inspired me to rummage throughout the entire house for materials.
When are you going to write a book?
Posted: 1:15 pm on February 12th
I spent many years being lonely on Valentine's Day - even though I never got a present (not even a teddy bear) I used to wrap up and send a card and gift to a guy as his mystery admirer, but he died in an accident the day after high school grad.
I am going to start sending myself a gift...It will definitely boost my morale (will suggest it to everyone I know too!).
I saw a hexagonal box today and felt the urge to do something, and going online, I found ur onions project.
Thanks for sharing - there is a basket of onions in my kitchen and am going to start the second I get home!
As for the adhesive, I am sure I have to find an alternative, so wish me luck. I will post the picture for you when I am through!
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Thanks for sharing! Where do you get the paper for this project, or can you use any kind of adhesive paper?
Keep up the great work!
Pattie in Cambridge, MD
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As alternatives you might wish to consider other brand name adhesive sheets (double-sided being the most convenience since you can adhered the onion skins to one side and then adhere the the other side to your project -- in my case a Valentine box) or white liquid adhesive suitable for paper. With liquid glues you will have to wait for it to dry fully after gluing your onion skins in place. If you are comfortable with spray adhesives, that might offer another solution.
If you would prefer to use Twin-Tak as specified, you can order it by calling New York Central Art Supply at 212-473-7705 or 800-950-6111.
Thank you to everyone for their very supportive comments on this post. Good luck and Happy Valentine's Day to you all.
Posted: 3:42 pm on January 31st
went into the how to do it. What is twin tak and where do I
get it? Michaels or Joanne fabrics and craft? Thanks.
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Terri, Heron Moon Designworks
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I would like to join your many admirers in recognizing your amazing talent! I enjoy your creations very much.
My first attempt was the thank-you card. Of course my finished product was not the equal of yours but the learning experience was fun. I had not worked with paper for ages and this gave me a new perspective.
Thank you for sharing with all of us!
Posted: 7:58 am on January 31st
Thanks again.
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I wish this was available about 7 years ago. This would have been the perfect gift to give to my best friend, Joe. On Feb 14th, he and I were both "dateless" so instead of spending Valentine's alone, we decided to make the best of it and do a night out on the town in the fabulous New York City.
We went out to and spend a fortune on a pricey dinner, gave each other a single rose, shared a bag of Hersey's chocolate kisses and than went to see Art Garfunkel in Carnegie Hall (without Paul Simon).
We were both unfamiliar and slightly bored with Garfunkel's solo work but towards the end of the show, Garfunkel sang the popular "Bridge Over Trouble Water" and half way into the song, he chocked and started coughing up a storm. He could barely finish the song or the show. The audience was mortified, we were no longer bored and sat on the edge of our seats as the drama unfolded. We felt bad for the Garfunkel, but not as bad as we felt for each other for being alone on this lover's holiday.
Although my friend and I had a great night out, we were both went home feeling the pressures of not having that special someone in our lives. I know this would have been the PERFECT Valentine GIFT to give him, it would have been the icing on the cake to an almost perfect dateless Valentine Day.
Thanks for continuing the amazing work you do, great job like always!
Posted: 12:35 pm on January 30th
This is a beautiful project, and I loved the framing of your story, and your practice of sending yourself a note on Valentine's Day. This is one of my favorite posts of yours ever.
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South Africa 2 for 255 v Australia
Scorecard and ball-by-ball details
A nation keen to spend Saturday on the couch had to find other things to do as day two of the first Test between Australia and South Africa was washed out in Brisbane.
Play was formally called off at 4pm local time after a final inspection by the umpires Billy Bowden and Asad Rauf took place with drizzle still falling at the Gabba.
Having lost the services of JP Duminy due to a freak Achilles injury during a warm-down exercise on the first evening, South Africa have now lost a day on which they had hoped to press home the advantage won by reaching 2 for 255 on the opening day.
It is the first time a full day's play has been lost to rain in a Brisbane Test since the final day of the 1983 Test between Australia and Pakistan was washed out. The last day's play in a Test match to be completely washed out in Australia was Boxing Day in 1998, when Australia and England met at the MCG.
The rain arrived on Friday evening and barely abated throughout Saturday, leaving the Australian players to sign autographs for those fans who still ventured to the ground.
South Africa's squad returned to their hotel soon after an early lunch was taken, and were ultimately to remain there.


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Great tutorial ... because who doesn't want to make a flutter / swarm / rabble / kaleidoscope of wind-up Monarchs??
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Opinion: The Palestine Problem
Columnist Bret Stephens on the Gaza ceasefire and Palestinian Authority president Mahmoud Abbas's trip to the UN this week. Photos: Associated Press
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... I ... welcome back opinion Journal Live on Dan Henninger with our four affairs columnist Bret Stephens ... so Brett mom ... it's a mix of different now where Egypt is going obviously when ... Mohammad Morsi did I do think on a lot of people by surprise ... do you think that were seen here he is the gradual disintegration of the IPO underlying the Arab Spring which was more ... public participation citizen participation ... in the governing of a pecan than a dozen Middle Eastern country like Egypt was a was I was a contradiction demand at the heart of the Arab Spring ... which is to say that ... the ... party ... that ... could garner the most votes in most Arab countries such as parties affiliated ... with the Muslim Brotherhood most popular parties where all in one way or another opposed to the very idea ... underlying the Liberal Democratic quarter ... so you can either have a populace and the yield is the kind of dictatorship ... or ... some sort of dictatorship that might yield a more liberal public square and that's when you have been tricky for a while ... it's in a sense we also had a new Egypt under Hosni Mubarak ... I mean we're not talking about Swiss democracy or Canadian democracy but that's ... that was the choice that was that was really there on offer ... there was this idea out there that ... aam the Liberals were going to dominate or the Muslim Brotherhood was going to become a responsible stakeholder in the democratic order ... those ideas were fantasies to anyone who spent ... more than a minute ... in Egypt and Saudi was gone ... in the US does go off for DISH running on screen there were significant demonstrations in Egypt or the weekend and it is leasing Justin been a lot of this point or non Islamic parties ... who had come together and and sorting coalesced around one idea which was opposition ... to what President Morsi had gone ... of both the public and private press ... has announced that the judiciary has announced it ... is there any possibility that you would see the emergence of ... a real opposition to the Islamic Brotherhood in Egypt as a result of this ... well maybe but the truth is that this opposition first of all I would wager is smaller than the Brotherhood ... you know tomorrow they're going to be or are expected to be rival demonstrations ... in Cairo one by the opposition to the regime ... given by the Brotherhood typically the Brotherhood brings out ... hundreds of thousands of people maybe thousands up up by the author of gone up by the opposition ... yet the prom is that that opposition is a hopelessly splintered ... group of people there are holdouts from the old regime ... there Coptic Christians ... there is a quilt liberal of block although a liberal it is is open to ... question ... and and those internal fissures of town ... ultimately the Muslim Brotherhood is capable of acting as a block ... and the Muslim Brotherhood holds the reins of power Nicas the tremendous advantages ... let me try relate this to last week's ... issue which was the Hamas in Gaza Strip the Israelis ... and Hamas obviously expected to get more support for Egypt I think and then they got ... clearly Mohammad Morsi is not preoccupied with his domestic problems where does that leave the issue of the Palestinians in the in the Israelis right now ... well it's the same limbo that they've been announced for many many years and that really has something to do ... with the failure of a within the Palestinian community to reconcile or come up with agree on some kind of government you've got ... one Palestine in the West Bank so very different Palestine ... in ... the Gaza Strip ... more deeply the problem the Palestinians have is that they have never really been able to decide whether they are a movement structure for the defeat and destruction of ... Israel ... or they actually want of something resembling a nation state with the institutions and you know everything that nation states ... do ... right now the forces of among within the Palestinian community that are winning Hamas ... are really interested in using their territory is just a staging ground for attacks on Israel ... for that I mean I don't see Mohamed Morsi supporting that precisely for the reasons that you say ... he has his own fish to fry ... in Cairo all right thanks very much ...


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Aortic dissection & aortic aneurysm information support group
Aortic dissection, aortic aneurysm - The aorta - Life after an aortic dissection
Public release date: 19-Jun-2013
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Every year, more than 16,000 Americans die as a result of what's known as an "aortic dissection" — a catastrophic rupture of the aorta, the body's largest artery. Once thought to be a simple structural failure, aortic dissection is now understood to be caused by an inflammatory process that weakens the artery's walls.
University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston researchers have been at the forefront of understanding this process. In earlier studies they linked the blood-pressure-regulating molecule, angiotensin II, to the immune signaling protein IL6, which they determined played a major role in producing aortic dissections. Exactly how IL6 generated the inflammation leading to aortic dissection remained unknown, however.
Now the UTMB researchers have found what they believe is the missing piece of the puzzle in a group of cells called Th17 lymphocytes. Part of the body's adaptive immune system, these cells normally serve a protective function; they generate a protein called IL17 to bring other cells to support immune defenses. But in laboratory mouse experiments, the scientists found that locally produced vascular IL6 promotes Th17 formation and accumulation in the vessel wall. There, Th17 lymphocytes instigate a misguided immune attack on the aorta.
"In our study, we compared the effects of angiotensin II on normal mice and mice deficient in Th17 cells, either genetically or by blocking its action," said UTMB professor Allan Brasier, senior author of a paper on the discovery now online in the journal Arteriosclerosis, Thrombosis, and Vascular Biology. "The results showed us that interfering with the Th17 lymphocyte significantly reduces dissections. These data suggest that Th17 lymphocyte is the master coordinator of cellular inflammation in the vessel wall."
To establish the clinical relevance of their findings, the scientists examined tissue samples from patients with a genetic mutation that predisposed them to aortic dissections. The samples, which were derived from a bank maintained by University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston professor and paper author Dianna Milewicz, showed clear signs of Th17 cell accumulation.
"The idea here is that the immune system has evolved to protect us against viruses and bacteria, these sorts of things," Brasier said. "But under certain pathological conditions, the immune system can actually produce disease through chronic inflammation."
Other authors of the paper include graduate students Xiaoxi Ju and Talha Ijaz, research associates Hong Sun, Chang Lee and Wanda Lejeune, assistant professors Sutapa Ray and Adrian Recinos and professor Ronald Tilton, as well as UTHSC-Houston's Dong-Chuan Guo.
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Very interesting, thank you for that. Perhaps it may be able to be avoided in the future. Best wishes everyone. Julia Holley.
Breakthrough, indeed... noq, what about a genetic test for the mutation and a Th17 blocker, or at least reducer?
good lck, all,
Dek Messecar
Very interesting Graeme, allays my fears that practising karate years ago my have contributed to my AD.
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Opinion: Whole Foods will raise all boats in Frisco
Seeing the big picture on Whole Foods
I would like to address some positive aspects of Whole Foods coming to Frisco.
In Denver, I have seen a good deal of growth in areas in which Whole Foods Market is an anchor store. Declining Denver neighborhoods, such as Streets of Southglenn, Tiffany Plaza and Belmont have experienced tremendous growth spurts, increased revenue and an influx of high quality stores and restaurants when Whole Foods opened as an anchor.
Whole Foods Market has been one of the 100 Best Companies to work for (Forbes) every year since 1998. Whole Foods team members generally are hired from local communities, contributing to the local employment rates and economy.
Some comments have addressed negative progress and setbacks due to additional development. I view this project as extremely positive with regards to what it will contribute to the community. My husband and I have been homeowners in Frisco since 1990, and we have seen some less than positive changes. In 1990, the city ordinances did not allow construction of any buildings above 3 or 4 stories. Now, disappointingly, there are numerous structures which block the view of Lake Dillon and condo projects in the city that block the view of Mt. Royal and surrounding beautiful backdrops.
Whole Foods gives more than 5% of its net profit to communities. It supports local produce and products. Buying local means buying products that travel less than a day (7 or fewer hours). This means green, friendly and fresh products.
WFM was the first major retailer to offset 100% of its energy use with wind energy credits. Frisco is also supported by wind energy.
Whole Foods offers free Value Tours, excellent tools for consumers to learn to shop specials, to use the bulk bins and to look for store brands (the 365 and Whole Foods brands).
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I can't see the word Aesop without thinking of Aesop's Fables (of course) and I think it's a pretty cool name for a skincare brand!
Aesop's products have a real apothecary feel to it, they come in vintage looking bottles.
My perception was that the range was huge and daunting but looking on the site, there's actually quite a specific variety of products (ie. foaming facial washes, cream cleanser, cleansing oil etc). The Aesop Parsley Seed Facial Cleanser is their first ever gel cleanser which contains lactic acid and jojoba oil. It is supposed to be gentle and exfoliate at the same time:
This is suitable for all skin types, ideally patchy or combination skin. I love the look of this so much; it's unisex and elegant. On the downside, the glass bottle isn't squeezable, and the screw on lid will make it tricky to use with say, wet hands!
This gel cleanser is liquid like washing up liquid rather than a jelly, and it produces a very small amount of foam, which I prefer (I hate standing there for ages trying to wash the lather off).
It has a strong smell, it smells very masculine, of parsley, or gardens and men! There's a peppery edge to it; it is quite strong but I like it although it's not for you if you don't like super strong smells in your products.
As expected, it's a bit of a pain unscrewing the lid and pouring the product out if you are in a rush to wash your face and get to bed!
Water (Aqua), Sodium Laureth Sulfate, Olive Oil PEG 7 Esters, Sodium PEG-7 Olive Oil Carboxylate, Coco-Betaine, Potassium Lactate, PEG-120 Methyl Glucose Dioleate, Sodium Citrate, Lactic Acid, Lavandula Angustifolia (Lavender) Oil, Glycerin, Simmondsia Chinensis (Jojoba) Seed Oil, Ribes Nigrum (Blackcurrant) Seed Oil, Ormenis Multicaulis Oil, Sea Salt (Maris sal), Chamomilla Recutita (Matricaria) Flower Oil, Glycyrrhiza Glabra (Liquorice) Root Extract, Carum Petroselinum (Parsley) Seed Oil, Methylchloroisothiazolinone, Methylisothiazolinone.
I am not keen on Sodium Laureth Sulfate in my face cleansing products though!
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Topic: Two issues with fresh Debian Install and 0.6.0
Hi all,
yesterday I installed 0.6.0 on a fresh Debian Lenny (its a VPS with a "minimal" Image). I already fixed them for me, but you may consider fixing it in the installer.
Cron <root@gonzo> perl /usr/lib/cgi-bin/awstats.pl -config=mail -update >/dev/null
Can't open perl script "/usr/lib/cgi-bin/awstats.pl": No such file or directory
The expected awstats.pl is istead found in /usr/lib/cgi-bin/awstats/awstats.pl, I made a softlink to the desired location.
error: syslog-ng:65 duplicate log entry for /var/log/mail.log
run-parts: /etc/cron.daily/logrotate exited with return code 1
The installer creates a daily logrotate entry for mail.log, whereas syslog-ng rotates all mail related logfiles weekly. I commented the entry for mail.log and left the other mail.* unchanged.
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Nathanael John Broadbent was born at 5:49am on Friday 20 June 2008. It was a full moon.
We celebrated the full moon the night before with our traditional family ceremony. Our oldest son Benjamin had laid out the Balinese Kris (a ceremonial dagger) and some other ceremonial pieces on John's sarong – candles, crystals, feathers, an Amazonian head-dress, a Shamanic eagle and emu feather stick from Uluru, and we lit all the beautiful coloured candles left over from Benjamin's naming ceremony - the first time they'd been lit since 6 weeks after Benjamin's birth on 25 June 2002.
We each lit a candle and invited our baby into our family, placing our candles in a circle on the sarong as a sign of lighting his way in. We played a CD of beautifully serene flute music and enjoyed the sacredness of the moment as three was soon to become four.
From 2.35pm (precisely!) that afternoon I'd been having mild contractions every 15 minutes. They were regular and different to the cramps and Braxton Hicks I'd been getting on and off for the previous 10 days. I was excited now and could feel the difference in these signs, as I watched the clock out of the corner of my eye for the rest of the day, loving their regularity.
At the end of the afternoon I felt there was still something unfinished, and so called one of our support people. I needed to ensure she was ok with the possibility that I might not need her to come over and take care of Benjamin, which she was, and to let her know that Benjamin might just stay with me and John but I'd ring her if I needed to. I felt a huge sense of relief at having made the call, whatever happened next was now entirely up to me and I was positive now that there were no expectations from anyone and because of that there was much more space for me to focus on what I needed to do.
I had a very strong nesting urge at about 5.30pm and got very frustrated as I went about cleaning up, as Benjamin seemed be making more and more mess and doing the opposite of what I needed! We talked about it that night and I realised he could sense our time as the three of us was in its dusk and my relationship with him was about to change dramatically. Benjamin and I then had our nightly bath together and the contractions stopped. I was a bit disappointed but not surprised as I'd heard of that happening in warm water.
John and I enjoyed the quiet of the house after Benjamin had gone to bed, and went to bed ourselves about 9.30pm. For the past 10 days I'd been going to bed with the excitement I'd felt as a child going to bed on Christmas Eve with all the anticipation and excitement of what lay ahead, and tonight was no exception, except this time I felt more magic in the air. I slipped into sleep. I had restless dreams and was dreaming about Benjamin and other close friends being our baby's Godparents when I woke up. I instantly knew my waters had broken. Relief! It wasn't going to happen in the frozen peas section of the supermarket after all. This was it! Could it really be? Yes! It was 1.20am. I got up and went to the loo, and then went back to bed. A sneeze and I felt more, a cough a few minutes later and more again, to dispel any possible doubt in my mind about the fact that this was it, it was really happening! I woke John up saying "Darling, I think my waters just broke!" and he got up with me. I remember looking at him and seeing a most peaceful expression on his face. I wondered how he could look so calm and awake when minutes earlier he'd been fast asleep. Contractions started again very gently just after the first sensation of my waters breaking, and they were gentle enough for me to get dressed into a sarong and loose top, with my dressing gown on top to keep me warm.
I didn't quite know what to do first, but instantly felt grateful it was the middle of the night so there was peace and quiet in the house, and I didn't have to worry about who was going to take care of Benjamin as he was sleeping deeply and restfully. The question of who was going to take care of him had been one of my major concerns as it meant inviting others into my birthing space, and now that we were in that space I simply wanted to be alone with John and Benjamin. At Benjamin's birth I'd had our two wonderful midwives Robyn Dempsey and Jane Palmer, and 3 other people at the side of the pool supporting me and John, as well as several people in the lounge room and two people in the kitchen. Although that was what I'd wanted then, this time I wanted to be alone with my family. I got out Jane Hardwicke Collings' book 'Ten Moons' and took it down to our lounge room to have another look through as I knew there'd be something in there for me which would help me in labour. I felt very safe having some of her knowledge there with me, as I could feel her strength, wisdom and essence through her printed words. I'd reconnected with my own wisdom and strength after being on one of her awesome Pregnancy Workshops a month earlier, and wanted to stay in that powerful space in myself where I knew what to do and how to birth my baby. With a reminder to go into the feeling of each contraction and to sing 'Om' during contractions I was ready.
The contractions started to intensify, still manageable though, enough so that I was able to send a text to friends who had been at my Blessingway, and also my sister, to let them know our baby was on his way. It was a funny thing, being practical took my mind off the waves of pain, yet to John walking into the room he just shook his head in disbelief that I would even be entertaining the thought of using my mobile at a time like this! I wanted my friends to know that their thoughts and the beads on the bracelet they'd made with their blessings were helping me and that now was the time to light their candle, if they were awake (which I doubted as it was 2am, but you never know!).
As the contractions intensified and got closer together, John asked me if I wanted him to call Robyn yet. It was 3am. I was a bit hesitant as I didn't want to wake her too early, however I knew she could make that decision for herself based on what information John gave her. I was kneeling on our South American rug I'd laboured on with Benjamin's birth, leaning over the sofa near our full moon ceremony circle and by the light of the candle altar. It was a very beautiful and sacred space. As the contractions came, I saw in my mind an eddy of energy in a whirl of water, and the way to get through them was for me to focus on the very centre of the energy, to go with the flow of its swirl and to swim with the energy rather than observe and be overtaken by its strength. I wondered whether this was what Jane meant about going into the pain, and I tried as much as I could to simply focus and surrender.
The pain intensified even more and the image changed in my mind – what I kept seeing was the end of a didgeridoo, its circle and sound was my cervix, and in the centre of it was a flame. John had changed the music by this stage to music from Uluru and there was a deep, earthy resonance of the didgeridoo which seemed to fill the house, it was a very grounding and comforting sound. Focusing on the image of the candle and the shape of the opening was very comforting, it helped me to focus on opening my cervix, allowing me to open naturally to birth my baby. I was vaguely aware of the front door opening and when the contraction subsided I looked around to see Robyn quietly coming into the house. I felt such reassurance that she was there, and much as I wanted to birth this baby myself, I was happier because of her presence knowing she was right there for me if I needed her. She eased into my birthing space and I was aware a little while later of her putting her hands on my back and stroking the pain away. At another stage where she put her hands right in the middle of my back it was as if she had got right to the centre of the pain, of that eddy of energy where it was all coming from. Oh, the relief in that moment of those wonderful Reiki hands!
A little while later I heard the door open again and looked up to see Jane coming in. I was very reassured by her solidity and knew that meant that we were serious now, there really was a baby coming!
I handed Nathanael to John and birthed the placenta in the pool after a couple of contractions. We wanted to have a Lotus birth after getting the message very clearly about one month before Nathanael's due date that this is what he wanted. I'd sewn a beautiful deep red corduroy bag lined with soft white felt for the placenta and the umbilical cord, and had bought bags of salt and some lavender oil in preparation.
More waves came and I started to feel nauseous, which took me by surprise as I hadn't expected that. At the peak of another contraction I had the thought of I now knew why women choose caesarean births, as the pain was so intense. Jane was upstairs with John filling the pool, while Robyn found a large bowl in the kitchen and brought it over. I didn't need it in the end, as I started to see the image of the warm filled pool, reassuring myself that I could get into it soon. When I said I wanted to get into it Robyn told me it would be good if I could hold off a little while longer. Suddenly the image of it was overwhelming and my need to get into it much stronger, and so it was time. After a contraction I got up and moved to the bottom of the stairs, looking up them feeling as if I was a climber looking up at Mount Everest. I wondered how I would ever make it, yet I did, all in one go. I stripped off, I was so very hot, and got in to the pool though to my surprise the water felt too hot for me. I stood for a while until it cooled a little, then got in. Instant heaven, such relief from the intensity of the pain and pressure on my knees as I could squat and lean on the side of the pool. I looked down and saw someone had placed a mirror underneath me. Shortly afterwards I was aware of Benjamin sitting on the futon, gorgeous and sleepy-eyed in his Spiderman dressing gown, who'd come into the room and was looking at me in wonder and curiosity. We'd often talked about this moment but nothing could really give him what it was like without actually being in the experience, and I felt so proud of him and that he was handling it so well. A little while later he disappeared, putting himself into our bed as he said he was "Tired of hearing Mama going 'Oooooh' "! There was a lot of torchlight shining behind me and a different sort of pain now. This was the most difficult part, and it was almost more than I could bear. I couldn't understand why this pain continued to feel like it wasn't getting us anywhere, why I couldn't yet feel my baby's head with my hand and why it was so agonising, and then I remembered I could ask for help. I prayed to my angels and guides and asked them to help me with this part as I felt I couldn't do it on my own. Suddenly the pain decreased (Jane thought that there might have been a final bit of lip of my cervix in the way), and with this something within me seemed to click. I felt much less uncomfortable, less stuck and the urge to push was much stronger.
Gripping John's hand with all my might I felt we were so very close now. Jane got Benjamin out of bed and brought him through, as with a massive push I felt our baby's head crown. I was aware of Robyn using the Doppler on my tummy a few times and had been reassured that all was well, and at this point to finally feel the top of his head felt like a major victory. I remembered the image Jane H-C had given me of the 100 candles on the birthday cake and blew them out one by one with short tiny breaths. With my hand on baby's head I saw an image of an erupting volcano, the intensity of the burning pain taking me by surprise. I said "I need a bit of help", and so with Robyn encouraging me to take "A really big push now" and Jane's hand with mine, I felt myself gather every ounce of strength of every woman I had ever been in the past, and of all my female ancestors who had ever birthed, and with this gave an almighty push. Out came baby, and as Jane and I lifted him onto my chest I finally saw him for the first time. What a beautiful head of hair, I thought! A towel appeared to cover him up and I was aware of Benjamin looking at us in awe. It was 5:49am and here was our new baby!
We had decided not to see straight away whether baby was a boy or girl and so took a few moments in that blissful space to simply be with our baby. A strong contraction came and I held onto him for a moment, then decided it was time to look. The moment that I discovered he was a boy, I instantly heard the name "Nathanael". It took me by surprise that we had a boy because almost everyone had told me they felt the baby was a girl and so I had almost begun to believe it for myself. We'd had a girl's name in mind but no boy's name (other than the Leonardo or Raphael names Benjamin had suggested, after the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles!), and so hearing his name was totally out of the blue, we didn't know anyone with this name nor had we ever discussed it. I said to Benjamin "Guess what – you have a baby brother!" and he was ecstatic. He gave a mock victory movement with his arm and said "Yessss, I always wanted a baby brother" – which made my heart sing even more! Our baby had told us his name.
I handed Nathanael to John and birthed the placenta in the pool after a couple of contractions. We wanted to have a Lotus birth after getting the message very clearly about one month before Nathanael's due date that this is what he wanted. I'd sewn a beautiful deep red corduroy bag lined with soft white felt for the placenta and the umbilical cord, and had bought bags of salt and some lavender oil in preparation. A big bowl came into the pool and we placed the placenta into it, staying there for a while in the birth water, simply gazing at Nathanael and enjoying the sacredness and newness of that moment.
I got out and had a bath with Nathanael to wash off the blood of the birthing water, after which I walked down the corridor to our bedroom. Someone with a practical mind had lain out some towels on the carpet which lead into the bedroom, so with careful tread I made my way into our bed. Jane and Robyn measured and weighed Nathanael and filled out their paperwork, then went downstairs for a cup of tea as we connected with Nathanael. He was a little cold as we'd slightly overstayed our time in the pool and bath, and so needed some oxygen waved just under his nose to try and calm his slightly-too-fast breathing. As she left us to our new family of 4 on her way to get a well earned cuppa, Robyn suggested we talk to Nathanael and invite him in, which we did and which seemed to help with his breathing. All the while he rested next to his placenta and attached to me in his first attempts at breastfeeding, with his daddy and big brother looking on. His breathing was still quite fast however he seemed to be more present after a while and when Jane and Robyn came back in they checked on him again, with the eyes of the utmost caring professionals and beautiful women and mothers they both are. They left us to enjoy our babymoon together as we started heralding the birth of Nathanael, truly our "Gift from God".
As discovered also from Jane H.C. there was a placenta remedy we could make which would be a great help constitutionally for Nathanael and so I asked Robyn if she could make it up for us. She let Nathanael know what she was doing and spoke to him as I took a tiny thumb-nail size piece from his placenta which John and I had chosen as the piece to take. Robyn told Nathanael that she would be bringing it back and he seemed to totally understand. He had a grizzle when I took the placenta piece out and calmed when hearing it would be returning.
We'd decided before Nathanael's birth that John would be the one to take care of the placenta, and so that night he carefully wrapped it in a cloth nappy which had lavender oil sprinkled on it, and placed it inside the placenta bag. I was very careful to keep it next to Nathanael as close as I could and spoke to him to reassure him that I was taking good care of it. I'd been pre-warned that it could be very difficult to see the Lotus birth through to the end, because it could become cumbersome and mentally very challenging when dealing with it and all the needs of a newborn. This warning was the best thing that could have happened as I was prepared for a difficult time. Our journey was not to be like that though. Nathanael stayed attached to his placenta for three days, and on the third day I had a strong sense that it was transition day. I used some Bush Flower Transition Essence on myself and Nathanael, and went into the bathroom to get something. When I came out I noticed that Nathanael seemed ever so much more present, his eyes were wide open and he seemed very chirpy. I looked down to see the umbilical cord between his toes and realised that he had pulled it out and separated from his placenta. Nathanael's birth process was complete. He was most decidedly present and ready for life.


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Nutty Chicken Curry
Serves 4
1 large red chilli, deseeded
1/2 finger-length piece ginger, roughly chopped
1 fat garlic clove
small bunch of coriander, stalks roughly chopped
1 tbsp sunflower oil (I used olive oil)
4 skinless chicken breasts, cut into chunks
5 tbsp peanut butter
150ml chicken stock (I added more stock, 350ml)
cooked rice, to serve
Finely slice a quarter of the chilli, then put the rest in a food processor with the ginger, garlic, coriander stalks and one-third of the leaves. Whizz to a rough paste with a splash of water, if needed.
Heat the oil in a frying pan, then quickly brown the chicken for 1 min. Stir in the paste for 1 min more, then add the peanut butter, stock and yogurt. When the sauce is gently bubbling, cook for 10 mins until the chicken is just cooked through and the sauce has thickened. Stir in most of the remaining coriander, then scatter the rest on top with the chilli. Serve with rice.


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It's an exciting day today for the staff of Club Industry's Fitness Business Pro. Okay, so it's probably most exciting for Jennipher Shaver, our senior associate editor. After all, it's her wedding day! But the rest of the staff is excited for her, and we're anticipating a great wedding/reception/dance this evening.
We'll be leaving the office a little early today to make it to the wedding, but not as early as Jennipher, who hasn't been in since Tuesday. She's taken the last few days to finish up the last-minute details associated with weddings.
Today is also a special day for Stuart Goldman, our managing editor. He celebrates his birthday today. We brought in plenty of donuts and fruit to help him celebrate, but I know he's mostly looking forward to the wedding/birthday cake he'll get this evening at the reception.
In the meantime, we're finishing some exciting stories for the November issue related to express clubs, corporate fitness, locker room design and retention programs as well as news items on the California fires and earnings for various companies in the industry (Life Time Fitness, Nautilus, Cybex and Town Sports International). Should be a great issue! - Pam


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SANAA, Yemen - A suicide car bomb killed two soldiers Friday at a checkpoint in Yemen's south, officials say, as the country's leader makes public his request to the U.S. for drone technology to boost local efforts against militants.
The security official said six soldiers were also wounded in the attack, with the bomber blowing up his explosives-rigged car after he was stopped at a checkpoint at the entrance to the city of Shibam, in Hadramawt province. The official spoke on condition of anonymity following official guidelines.
The attack had all the hallmarks of al-Qaida's Yemeni branch, but there was no immediate claim of responsibility. Washington considers the branch one of the world's most dangerous terrorist groups.
President Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi told police cadets on Thursday that the U.S. drones have been carrying out attacks in Yemen in accordance with an agreement to combat terrorism signed by the United States and former Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh after the Sept. 11 attacks.
"Cooperation (with the U.S.) in the field of combating terrorism is not a secret as we take part in the operation room in Djibouti and we have officers in Bahrain's operation room with other world countries," he said.
The president said the U.S. drone attacks "have widely curtailed al-Qaida activities."
Hadi said he asked Washington during his trip there earlier this month to provide his country with drones.
"Yemenis are smart. They will learn fast," he said, in a speech aired on state TV.
There has been a spike since late July in drone strikes in the country targeting al-Qaida.
While the U.S. acknowledges its drone program in Yemen, it does not usually talk about individual strikes. The program is run by the Pentagon's Joint Special Operations Command and the CIA, with the military flying its drones out of Djibouti, and the CIA out of a base in Saudi Arabia.
Two drone attacks killed six suspected militants of al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula, as the Yemeni branch is known, in Hadramawt earlier this month.
Hadi also said news about civilians killed in drone attacks were exaggerated, while referring to an air strike in 2009 in Abyan province that killed many civilians. Hadi said it was caused by a cruise missile and not a drone but did not elaborate.
He said the recent airstrikes and military operations killed at least 40 terrorists from al-Qaida, including several senior members. He said Yemeni security have also foiled car bomb attacks including ones involving two cars each laden with seven tons of explosives.
There has been a spike since late July in drone strikes in the country targeting al-Qaida.
Accelerated use of drone strikes in Yemen under President Barack Obama and a U.S.-backed offensive last year drove militants from territory they had seized a year earlier, during Yemen's political turmoil amid the Arab Spring.


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September 3, 2013
Just minutes after 35 jihadists crashed through the U.S. diplomatic compound in Benghazi, Libya, nearly one year ago, the facility got word to the State Department, FBI and Pentagon that terrorists were attacking, according to a forthcoming book that provides the fullest review of the assault to date.
In "Under Fire, the Untold Story of the Attack in Benghazi," it is revealed that an unidentified security official in the Benghazi compound protecting Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens messaged the U.S. embassy in Tripoli: "Benghazi under fire, terrorist attack." Stevens and three others died that night.
Twenty-five minutes after it began, the operation center at State received an electronic cable announcing the attack, according to authors Fred Burton, a former State Diplomatic Security agent and Samuel Katz, an author and expert on international special operations and counterterrorism.
Their findings in "Under Fire," based on exclusive interviews of those in the battle, refute days of claims by the administration that the attack was sparked by Muslim anger at a U.S.-made anti-Muslim film, and raise new questions as President Obama eyes military action in Syria that U.S. diplomatic posts in the region are properly protected.
The authors note that at the time of the attack in Benghazi there were riots against U.S. embassies in Cairo, Tunis and elsewhere related to the film, "Innocence of Muslims." That could have been the cause of initial confusion about the attackers, but the eyewitness accounts by State and CIA agents in the battle — backed by live video feeds from drones — should have erased any doubt.
"Benghazi was a malignant symptom," they wrote, "of a weakened and crippled al Qaeda seeking new battlefields." They added that the September 11, 2012 attack, exactly 11 years after after al Qaeda's assault on America, was "to be an opening salvo of a new jihad on the African continent."
Also revealed for the first time: On her last day as secretary of State, Hillary Clinton summoned four of the five Diplomatic Security agents involved in the Benghazi attack to present them with State's "Award for Heroism."
Under Fire, while an unbiased timeline about the heroism of the Diplomatic Security agents, is sure to stoke more criticism of the administration's handling of the politically-embarrassing attack. It provides a wealth of information that paints a night-long war at the poorly secured consulate and CIA annex that could not be mistaken for anything but a planned terrorist attack by men in vehicles displaying "the black flag of the jihad" and armed with AK-47s and rocket launchers.
It gives details of what drones controlled far from Benghazi flown over the two installations saw — armed attackers, not movie protesters. Sources told Katz and Burton that Images of mortar fire from a Predator drone left operators that night believing that the attackers were "Libyan military veterans of veterans of the jihadist campaigns in Iraq, Afghanistan, Yemen or Derna."
It also gives the harrowing story of the firefight faced by those who escaped the compound and the two terrorist attacks that night on the CIA's annex in Benghazi a mile from the diplomatic compound. "Their advance and assault were methodical," the authors wrote of the terrorists.
The book reveals that none of America's allies in the city provided any help. Many in the neighborhood watched the U.S. facility burn, some filming it on their cellular phones. Italy's top diplomat "allegedly watched the attack unfold from his vantage point, a reserved table at the Venezia Cafe."
It concludes: "So much about the night just didn't make sense, but one question everyone was asking was, 'Where were the good guys?' Two and a half hours of war had been waged in the city of Benghazi and everyone in the know — and many who weren't — were aware that the U.S. presence in the city was under full-scale attack. There were no cavalry charge of men in white hats eager to save the day and rescue the besieged American positions. None of the militias — not even the one on the State Department payroll — had mobilized their forces to mount a large-scale and deterring show of force."
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Student group to take on School Board over MLK holiday
The NAACP Youth Council is taking on the Des Moines school board after about a dozen students they're being forced to go to school on one of the country's most important holidays.
The Des Moines schools calendar committee decided Dr. Martin Luther King's birthday would be a holiday this year, unless there were snow days that needed to be made up. Since the December blizzard created two missed days, Des Moines students will be in class next Monday.
"It's more than just a day off because he is more than just a man," Des Moines NAACP Youth Council membership chair Avery Jackson said.
Jackson and more than a dozen members of the council said they had big plans for next Monday.
"To have school scheduled on this day, it makes me question where our values are at. I can't fathom the idea of why we would even schedule school on this day," Jackson said.
Des Moines schools spokesman Phil Roeder said the calendar committee decided to use the MLK holiday as a snow make up day because it didn't want to stretch the school year to June. After hearing complaints, the school came up with a plan to educate students about Dr. King and his legacy.
"It really is potentially the best commemoration that the district has ever had of MLK day. We will talk about what community service means, how you get started, how you sustain it. We actually view this as a positive opportunity in a situation that maybe not everybody is happy about - in that we are going to have 32,000 people in school that day and they're going to come away with how they can give back to their community," Roeder said.
"Their alternative sounds great. It sounds like a plan that many kids would learn many great things. But as much as people say some things it doesn't always happen that way," Jackson said.
Jackson and his friends plan to fight the decision in front of the school board Tuesday night.
"We want to make sure that students and the school board understand the importance of this day, of this man, of this issue. Because it's overlooked too often," Jackson said.
Members of the NAACP Youth Council will present hundreds of signatures they said are from students, parents and teachers opposed to going to school next Monday. But Roeder said the decision is probably not going to change.
The calendar committee presented the 2013 calendar and every board member voted in favor of it before it was implemented. It is planned like this for the 2013-2014 school year as well.


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This is one of the coolest buildings I've seen in a long time: a structure designed to turn everyone into Spider-man by allowing people to climb all over its interior and exterior. It kind of feels like a glitch in the Matrix: a computer-generated mountain that needs more polygons and some textures.
And that seems to be the objective, according to Archdaily:
Within the "boulder-like walls," which were inspired by the geological process of the large-scale movements of the earth's crust and its tectonic forces [...] The exterior is clad in white fiber cement panels, which simultaneously allows the building to blend into its snowy context while offering climbers outdoor routes.
Designed by New Wave Architecture, the futuristic 48,437-square-foot (4,500-square-meter) structure is a rock gym inside and out. It will be built in Polur, Iran, an area that—apparently—is becoming very popular among rock climbers worldwide.


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Election Highlights a Stark Political Divide
There is good reason Washington remains a deeply divided place: The nation beyond the people's representatives remains just as deeply divided. Jerry Seib has details on The News Hub. Photo: Bloomberg.
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... the ... fiscal cliff coverage continues in a ... straight line I'm Simon Constable ... why does Washington remain so divided maybe it's your fault that's according to Wall Street Journal Washington Bureau Chief Jerry side he joins us now from the euro in Washington ... I am Jerry ... so why Paul ... them ... the division in progress right ... to some yes there there's a lot of division ... so there's a lot of divisions in Congress ... you know that the reality is that if you step back ... and try to figure out why is Washington so partisan ... and so divided along partisan lines ... and you look at the lessons of that that the results of the twenty twelve election you have to come that close to a Washington is divided along partisan lines because the country is in ... you look at House races for example ... items two hundred and thirty four Republican House members will be in the new Congress ... only fifteen of those members ... came from districts that present Obama character few that are decided yet ... but basically that's it ... and only nine Democrats come from districts that Mitt Romney carry ... so you have about six percent of the new house will come from districts won ... by the other party's presidential candidate well that just tells you ... read the House District are very red blue houses that are very blue ... and is not in a swing district Last ... said similar situation prevails in the Senate ... and in the presidential race we saw blue states being resolutely blue and red states being resolute in red ... and only about nine states in the middle so there's a lot of partisan division in the country and a reflex that is reflected in the the ... the political situation overall so and the forward and told him of the fiscal cliff I'm I'm I'm sure we will continue to talk about this is as if you promise made ... aam ... that that's all for coming to ... a resolution outbound on taxes tax and spending problems ... yet no that's the point I mean it is the question in the backdrop of the fiscal cliff negotiations is ... wilted which a lot of people have ... why can't these guys just compromise in the middle somewhere well because ... if you come from a very red house to search for a very blue house is that the new one the district with seventy percent of those and that's true for a quarter of the members of the house overall ... you come to Washington you think ... I'm the one who is the mandate here my mandate is to do what I promise that my voters know do not to compromise ... the problem is that very few members come from swing districts with a half to reach out to the other side are they have to talk to voters in the middle ... by the way the same thing was true in the presidential action ... Brock Obama won with by winning only six percent of the Republican votes ... the Romney got only seven percent of the Democratic votes ... and by contrast if you go back to nineteen eighty Ronald Reagan won that election ... while getting twenty seven percent of the Democratic ... so ... there just aren't very many people in the middle of the system ... nor they're very many voters in the middle right now and that's a big part of a problem ... now and that is a big problem and and the big problem in fact it does represent a Swan a helpless I can out of this mess ... they were left with it that thank you very much Jerry side with a Wall Street on the read mall man on the vs day don't call boy in the paper ...


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Director William Gazecki's charmingly rough 2006 documentary Future by Design (if you haven't seen it yet, watch it here) never lacks for interesting ideas, and that's all due to its fascinating subject, Jacque Fresco, and his influences — especially, Fritz Lang's Metropolis.
Metropolis has loomed large in the imaginations of designers and future-enthusiasts for almost 90 years now. Its monolithic art deco cityscapes have shown up in sci-fi films and literature often enough to render it cliché by now, but one aspect is oft forgotten: the dreary, slavish existences of the city's inhabitants. It doesn't matter how gorgeous the skyline if the citizens are miserable.
Fresco looked at Metropolis' mixed signals and accepted only the most optimistic ones before embarking on a career of industrial design and architectural innovation. Since it's never clear that his particular brand of futurism is feasible, Future by Design isn't so much a blueprint as a 90-minute conversation with a particularly cool and accomplished grandfather.
So how did you feel about Jacque Fresco's career as featured in Future By Design? Let's talk about this thing!
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1. Can you think of a modern building or city plan that accurately depicts futurism done right?
2. Is futurism blind to humanity's need for recognizable aesthetics? (Consider fake cobblestone or the "Thomas Kinkade influence" on many planned communities.)
3. Is it hard to respect a futurism that didn't anticipate computers? (See also: much of science fiction literature.)
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People with learning disabilities often have poorer physical and mental health than other people. This doesn't need to be the case.
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People with learning disabilities often have difficulty in recognising illness, communicating their needs and using health services. Research shows that regular health checks for people with learning disabilities often uncover treatable health conditions. Most of these are simple to treat and make the person feel better, while sometimes serious illnesses such as cancer are found at an early stage when they can be treated.
The Annual Health Check is also a chance for the person to get used to going to their GP practice, which reduces their fear of going at other times.
Adults and young people aged 14 or above with learning disabilities who are known to their local authority social services, and who are registered with a GP who knows their medical history, should be invited by us to come for an Annual Health Check.
The Annual Health Check lets the person with learning disabilities go to their GP practice and have aspects of their health checked. It also allows them to talk about anything that is worrying them.
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If the person's learning disability has a specific cause, the GP or practice nurse will often do extra tests for particular health risks. For people with Down's syndrome, for example, they may do a test to see whether their thyroid is working properly.
The Annual Health Check may also be a good opportunity to review any transitional arrangements that takes place when the patient turns 18.
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In 2013-14, 44.2% of eligible adults with a learning disability had a GP health check. This means that more than half of people who could have one are missing out.
The learning disabilities programme Improving Health and Lives, part of Public Health England, has more information on the Annual Health Check programme and its take-up.
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China's manufacturing grows in November in latest sign of possible economic recovery
BEIJING – China's manufacturing grew in November in the latest sign the world's second-largest economy is recovering from its deepest slump since the 2008 global crisis, a survey showed Saturday.
The state-sanctioned China Federation of Logistics & Purchasing's monthly purchasing managers' index improved to 50.6 on a 100-point scale on which numbers above 50 indicate activity is expanding. That was up 0.4 points from October's numbers.
The PMI index measures overall manufacturing activity by surveying numerous indicators including orders, employment and actual production.
The Chinese numbers are rare good news for the world economy, which has slowed as Europe's chronic debt crisis worsened and the American economy stagnated.
The data shows that "economic activity is back, and growth has bottomed out," IHS Global Insight economists Xianfang Ren and Alistair Thornton wrote in a comment. They said, however, that "we remain cautious about the sustainability of the recent improvement, worrying that much fragility persists."
Growth in China slowed to a three-year low of 7.4 percent in the three months ending in September.
Chinese leaders have cut interest rates twice since early June and are pumping money into the economy through higher spending by state companies and on building airports and other public works. They have avoided a larger stimulus after their multibillion-dollar spending in response to the 2008 global crisis fueled inflation and a wasteful building boom.
The November data indicated "economic growth will keep rising in the future by a small margin and in a mild way," Zhang Liqun, an analyst with the Development Research Center of the State Council, a government think-tank, said in the report.
The logistics federation said new orders rose 0.8 points from the previous month to 51.2 while export orders increased 0.9 points to 50.2. Such data pointed to a further expansion in the coming months, Zhang said.
Analysts have cautioned that a Chinese recovery is likely to be "L-shaped," meaning the decline might have stopped but improvements in growth should be gradual. That would be a setback for exporters of commodities and other goods that are counting on China to help drive a rebound in global demand.
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"Red Dog Howls," the new play by Alexander Dinelaris at New York Theater Workshop about the generational aftereffects of unspeakable tragedy, is unflinching, thought-provoking, and harrowing. Central to the affair is the astonishing performance of Kathleen Chalfant, as an aged survivor who has spent seventy years living with the gruesome secret at the heart of the play. Chalfant has previously given unforgettable performances in the original New York productions of "Angels in America" and "Wit." Add "Red Dog Howls" to that list.
The play opens with Michael (Alfredo Narciso) — a third-generation Armenian-American — talking of sins so terrible that they cannot be absolved. The burden of these passes on to following generations, even when they are unaware of the immobilizing secrets that shadow their parents or grandparents.
Much of the action centers on his relationship with the 91-year-old Rose (Chalfant), whom he meets during his investigation into family history courtesy of an enigmatic letter he finds among his deceased father's possessions. The result is a mystery that takes a horrifying turn when Rose reveals the events surrounding her escape from extermination during the Armenian Genocide in 1915.
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Dinelaris' script is sprinkled only sparsely with ominous hints, and there's a worrying lack of drama in the early sections of the play. But viewers who stick with it will be rewarded in the final third, when the filters come off; as Chalfant relates the central event of the story, the inhumanity is horrific and all too plainly real.
Give Chalfant a good monologue and she can hold you rapt. Although she drifts through the early stages of the play like a specter, it's Rose herself who is haunted as the actress masterfully lays the emotional groundwork for the explosion that will ultimately occur. When it does, Chalfant renders the horror and pain of the past with startling authenticity, easily persuading viewers to forgive minor flaws in the writing at the top of the show.
Alfredo Narciso is sturdy as the storyteller caught up in an old family tragedy, with Florencia Lozano plays the smaller role of Michael's very pregnant wife.
Director Ken Rus Schmoll (Will Eno's "Middletown") keeps things moving, with nothing to distract from the power of the text and of the central performance. The physical production is simple, with three playing areas spread out across the wide NYTW stage. Schmoll makes continued use of a melancholy violin in the distance for transitions.
Dinelaris isn't a well-known name in New York, with local credits including "Still Life," seen in 2009 at Off Broadway's MCC Theater as well as additional music and lyrics for the 2003 spoof musical "Zanna, Don't!" With "Red Dog Howls" and the libretto for the upcoming West End musicalization of the Whitney Houston film "The Bodyguard," we can anticipate hearing more from him.


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In my program I have put these in a arrayList:
String string1 = start + "-" + end;
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