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We've got a few new monstrous faces and FX creatures for you to consume this holiday weekend. Plus, a first look at the ultra-slick Russian scifi film Target.
The Pack (La Meute)
Way back in 2009, we showed you these freaky stills from the beastly French film The Pack by Franck Richard. Naturally, the no-eyed beasts stuck with us for some time, but we never got the chance to see it on the festival circuit. Fortunately for us, the movie is being released on DVD on July 4. And with that announcement comes a first ever trailer (for us) and a brand new poster by the legendary Graham Humphreys (above). Now behold the new trailer and synopsis for the demented human-flesh-munching-monster movie.
In the middle of a snowy no man's land, Charlotte picks up Max, a hitchhiker; they stop in a truck-stop restaurant, and when Max doesn't come back from the bathroom, Charlotte starts looking for him in vain. She decides to return during the night but gets kidnapped by the bartender, La Spack, who turns out to be Max's mother and needs to feed her kids, 'The pack', a bunch of blood lusting ghouls. Charlotte now faces a terrifying reality: these ghouls are already dead... and hungry. Alone and in the middle of nowhere, she quickly realizes... she's next on the menu!
Priority One
Check out this little secret-ops-of-the-future short Priority One. Sure, it's got some silly clichéd military back-and-forths, but there's some quality FX in here, especially the toothy frog-faced aliens ripe for some green blood throat ripping! It's a good little indie short from Wayside Creations.
"Crashing hostile planet, two mercenaries must escort a scientist to a
military drop point before the time runs out. The future of a war
depends on their success."
And just because I love you guys (and it's a three-day-weekend), here's ANOTHER throat-rip scene from Demons. I challenge you to find a better throat-rip scene (because puzzles are fun). Put your answer in the comments.
Quiet Earth pointed out Edo Tagliavini's freaky flick Bloodline. It's been a long time since we've seen some quality Italian horror, and this trailer has enough blood in it to perk our interest.
Searches for eternal youth always end in horror. This latest Russian scifi movie Target follows a group of friends (and their maddening descent into no good) after they all stay over in a futuristic ghost town that allegedly will make your dreams come true. Thanks to Twitch for the information and trailer (click on the box to view the video).
Russia, 2020.
A group of friends set off to the mountains in Asia in search of an abandoned astrophysical secret facility, where space particles were once studied and collected. It is believed that spending some time in its gigantic mirror-aerial could lead to various positive changes in a person, such as the reversal of the aging process, return of youth and all it is associated with - the sharpness of perception, desires and ambitions... The friends find the abandoned site and spend one night inside it. Indeed, on the return to Moscow, they start to feel some changes. They are getting younger, and their dreams start coming true. However, there is a price to pay for this. The protagonists lose control over themselves and their existence, and fast and unexpected changes engulf their lives.
Now, on a much less throat-ripping note, here is Rabbitkadabra about a little girl and a magical rabbit. It's a sweet tale with a lot of great CG work, it's worth a look.
Little Emily wanders into a hidden part of town and stumbles upon a failing magic shop, where she is given a magical mechanical stuffed Rabbit. She brings him to life, expecting a magic show, but gets more than she bargains for....


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Name: ali
Age: 25
Location: canada
my girlfriend dont waana get maried to me beacuse she is afraid of sex , she hates sex because she think its a disguesting thing like sucking fingering n etc what am i suppose to do i love her how i satisfy her dat we have to marry???
Why would you want to marry a chick that doesn't like sex as much as you do? That just seems crazy to me. If you think you're gonna win her over and change her mind about sex by marrying her, that's even crazier. Loving someone is not enough to overcome this kind of sex aversion. If she's unwilling to see a therapist to help her through her distaste of sex, then I'd say it was time for you to find another potential bride.
Name: Randy
Age: 24
Location: Florida
Is it possible that anal sex can result in increased flatulence?
Ahhh yeah! Think of your ass as a cylinder and your partner's cock as a piston. All this slamming in and out forces air up your bum. And what happens to that trapped air after (and sometimes even during) the fuck fest? You got it…farts for days. It's no big thing, all bottoms get fuck-farts. The same is true for women — her pussy is the cylinder and her partner's cock is the piston. All this slamming in and out forces air into her cooch, producing the very familiar pussy-fart.
Name: Jonathan
Gender: Male
Location: UK
Hello, please could you tell me if there is a way to increase the size of my testicles permanently, I do shoot a good amount of cum but they are small in the hand and look small in underwear and swim trunks, have you any advice on what I could try,
Hold on there, big fella. What are you tellin' me? Do you want to increase the size of your balls (testicles), or the size of your sack (scrotum)? You can do the later, but not the former. If you are past puberty, your balls are the size they are gonna be, there's no increasing them. Your sack, on the other hand can be stretched to increase its size. Will that satisfy you? If so, read this: …don't let me get too deep. If not, you're out of luck, darlin'!
Oh, and by the way, the "good amount of cum" you mention, most of that, 70% of it, is not sperm, the reproductive cells produced in your balls. Most of your semen is a mixture of fluids produced in your seminal vesicles, prostate, and bulbourethral glands.
Good luck.

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Extraordinary Efforts – Voting edition
So Jon Hamm spoke at an Obama rally on the weekend. He really pulled out all the stops, which I can't fault in someone who is trying hard to bring people around to his way of seeing things by sheer virtue of being a celebrity.
He brought something for everyone, you know? I'm sure he was a stirring speaker, bringing the spirit of Don Draper at his most persuasive to the crisp clean fall air that must have seemed so hopeful.
For those who love the devoted boyfriend angle of Hamm, he brought Jennifer Westfeldt, who looks so proud of him and whose cheeks, whatever else you might say about them, are pink with pride.
For those who love other things about Jon Hamm, he brought that too. Do you think he turns up like this on the set of 30 Rock? What would Tina Fey say about this? Like wouldn't she shame him like a toddler until he went to put on some underwear?
Meanwhile, as Hamm spoke for Obama, Bradley Cooper is apparently speaking against Romney. An upcoming Harvey Weinstein film called Hindsight investigates Mitt Romney, who he is and what he stands for. Here's what's weird about this – doesn't it seem like it's a film that only matters…if Romney is elected? If it was meant to influence voters, shouldn't it have come out months ago? Did Bradley Cooper even know he was doing voiceover for this movie? Because it kind of sounds like he read some lines into an answering machine, right? Is this a favour for Harvey so Cooper will get the Oscar campaign he wants?
Hindsight Trailer from Bear Brook Productions on Vimeo.
Finally, sometimes the best way to say how you feel is to say nothing at all. Here's what Jesse Tyler Ferguson of Modern Family had to say when asked about his voting choice today:
Jesse Tyler Ferguson @jessetyler
"@juaxl: @jessetyler Obama or Romney?" Um.
Is everyone having as much fun with voting day as I am?
Also attached -- Hamm and Westfeldt out for dinner last night.


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It is 1974. The body of an 8-year-old girl who has been sexually assaulted has been found in a wooded area next to the park. The girl was last seen alive earlier that morning, leaving her house for school.
Fast forward to 2008. The case file and evidence sit in storage at a local police department. The case — never solved — continues to take a back seat to more recent cases. The family of the little girl waits and wonders if there will ever be resolution.
Every day across the U.S., investigations slow or stop completely, and cases go "cold." Police agencies often lack the manpower, equipment and funding to support units dedicated to investigating and analyzing these cold cases. Homicide and sexual assault units are backlogged with active cases. Consequently, cold cases rarely get the attention they deserve.
See "What Is a Cold Case?"
The National Institute of Justice's (NIJ) Solving Cold Cases with DNA grant program[1] helps states and local governments identify, review, investigate and analyze violent crime cold cases — homicides and rapes — that have the potential to be solved through DNA analysis. Since NIJ issued its first solicitation for the cold case grant program in July 2004, the Institute has received more than 200 requests for funding, many from agencies trying to get cold case units started. Others have been looking for support to enhance established units — and in some cases, even to keep them in existence.
The goal of NIJ's cold case grant program is to analyze or reanalyze evidence using modern DNA technology. In 2005, NIJ awarded a total of $14.2 million to 38 state and local agencies; in 2007, the Institute awarded more than $8 million to 21 state and local agencies. Funds have been used for personnel, including overtime; equipment and supplies (both investigative and laboratory); investigative travel; training related to cold case investigation or DNA analysis; and outsourcing samples to private DNA laboratories when necessary.
The program has given agencies the opportunity to put resources toward solving homicides, sexual assaults and other violent offenses that may never have been reviewed or reinvestigated. Crime scene samples from these cases — thought to be unsuitable for testing several years ago — have yielded DNA profiles. And samples that previously generated inconclusive DNA results have been reanalyzed using newer methods.
Although complete data are still being compiled, as this issue of the
NIJ Journal goes to press, more than 30 cases have been solved with DNA hits in the FBI's Combined DNA Index System (CODIS), which operates local, state and national databases of DNA profiles from convicted offenders, unsolved crime scene evidence, missing persons and arrestees (if state law permits the collection of arrestee samples). In addition, hundreds of probative DNA profiles — profiles that do not match the victim or any known people in the case — have been entered into CODIS, and thousands of cases have been reviewed under the program. Here are just a few stories from the field.
The Palm Beach County (Fla.) Sheriff's Department, understanding the importance of having detectives dedicated to investigating cold cases, has eight full-time cold case personnel. With funding from NIJ, the unit has identified 225 cold cases to date, 89 of which have the potential to move forward for investigation or analysis because of possible biological evidence.
The department has screened nearly 700 items for biological evidence and more than 1,300 stains. More than 870 of these stains have been analyzed for DNA, and 34 probative DNA profiles have been entered into CODIS. One of these profiles allowed officials to close the case of 5-year-old Kizzy Brooms, who was raped and murdered in West Palm Beach in 1985. Three hairs found on Kizzy's sweatshirt and chest were tested with newer DNA technology in 2007. The profile generated from these hairs was entered into CODIS and matched the DNA profile of a convicted offender, who had been arrested for Kizzy's murder in 1996 but was later set free after complications with evidence. When the investigator told Kizzy's mother, "It's over," she broke down and wept.
"Having two full-time detectives and one victim advocate [in the department's cold case unit] has given us the time and energy we need to successfully review cold cases and to identify evidence that can be submitted for [DNA] testing," said Lt. Donald Gross of the Fresno (Calif.) Police Department.
The victim advocate plays an important role in Fresno's cold case unit. She offers emotional support for victims and families when they first learn their case is being reopened as well as throughout the investigation and trial. She is available to answer any questions victims and families may have, and can offer them information on financial and medical services.
To date, Fresno's cold case unit has:
As of December 2007, Fresno has 27 cases in CODIS waiting for matches and 51 cases waiting for DNA analysis. In addition, 131 homicides have been reviewed, and 43 either have been sent out or are waiting to be sent out for DNA testing. The unit has had three CODIS hits, one of which led to the arrest of Eddie Nealy for the murder of a 14-year-old girl who was found floating in a canal in 1985.
The Sacramento (Calif.) Police Department is also having success with funding from the NIJ grant program. In 2003, an unknown male offered a woman a ride home, sexually assaulted her and held her captive for hours. Evidence in the case was recently reexamined, and DNA was found. A DNA profile entered into the state DNA databank matched the profile of Timothy Foy, who was subsequently arrested for the crime and convicted in August 2007. He received 65 years to life.
But like many agencies, the Sacramento Police Department continues to face challenges, particularly on cases in which the murder victim's identity is unknown. Detectives are currently investigating two homicides with unidentified victims. Both have DNA profiles, but there are no matches in any of the databases. Detectives have conducted interviews, searched missing persons reports and worked with the local media to obtain publicity. As potential family members are located, officials will collect DNA for comparison, hoping to one day identify the murder victims.[2]
In 1992, Stacy McCall disappeared in Missouri along with two other women, Susie Streeter and Sherill Levitt. Stacy's mother, Janice McCall, is co-founder of One Missing Link, a not-for-profit service organization dedicated to reuniting the missing and their families. Having a missing loved one is "devastating," she said.
Speaking at an NIJ cold case regional training in San Diego (see related story,
"Cold Cases: Strategies Explored at NIJ Regional Trainings"), McCall urged police agencies to recognize the importance of having dedicated cold case units. Borrowing officers from other units does not give cases the attention they need and, in some cases, creates shortages in other investigations, she said.
There is never "closure" for families, McCall explained, there is simply "resolution." Knowing that there is a mechanism to help fund cold case analysis can help provide some relief to families. When asked about her greatest fear, McCall responded, "There are actually two — that we will find Stacy or her remains and that we won't find Stacy or her remains." Stacy, Susie and Sherill have yet to be heard from or found.
NIJ Journal No. 260, July 2008NCJ 222903
Charles (Chuck) Heurich is a program manager with the Office of Science and Technology (Investigative and Forensic Sciences Division) at the National Institute of Justice. He oversees the Solving Cold Cases With DNA grants program and the training component of the President's DNA Initiative. His career in forensic science spans more than 15 years. Heurich has also worked as a crime laboratory technician for the Baltimore City Police Department and as a forensic scientist for the Montgomery County (Md.) Crime Laboratory.
Back to the top.
Go to Cold Cases: Strategies Explored at NIJ Regional Trainings.
[note 1] Although the grant program is called Solving Cold Cases with DNA, cold "hits" — the ultimate goal — are not the only measure of success. The identification of probative DNA profiles for entry into the Combined DNA Index System (CODIS) can also be considered a major goal. Once a profile is entered into CODIS, the hit might not come for weeks, months or even years; therefore, getting a profile into CODIS (which probably would not happen without the grant program) is a win for everyone involved.
[note 2] For more information on NIJ's work on helping to identify unidentified human remains, see
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The Food and Drug Administration released long-awaited documents Dec. 21 on genetically modified salmon: an assessment of the fish's potential environmental effects and a preliminary "finding of no significant impact" of the fish on the environment. This brings AquAdvantage salmon -- Atlantic salmon that has been modified with a growth hormone gene from chinook salmon so that it reaches maturity faster -- a significant step closer to FDA approval.
Astute readers will notice that the recently released documents are dated May 4. So why were they just released Dec. 21 -- seven months later?
In a Dec. 21 email, a spokesperson for the FDA explained it this way: "Yes there was a delay. As you are aware, we've been working on this for a while, and it was an oversight in our [quality control] process. We are working to address it now."
The report did get passed around a variety of government agencies, and that does take time. But an investigation by Jon Entine published Dec. 19 by Slate.com and the nonprofit Genetic Literacy Project reported that all internal regulatory hurdles had been passed back in April but that the White House put a hold on release of the documents.


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"Hate crimes are despicable and appalling to me and to all Lincoln residents," said Mayor Chris Beutler. "Lincoln strives to be a community that embraces tolerance and equality. We stand united with our gay and lesbian citizens in denouncing violence directed at any group. The City of Lincoln and the Lincoln Police Department will do everything in our power to ensure that justice is done."


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Howie Nunn (76) -Reliever for the '61 pennant winners. Looks just like Wally Cox in his BaseballReference pic.
George Hendrick (62) -Didn't get great press as a player; he wasn't really that bad a guy, he just didn't like talking to reporters. A fashion pioneer- he was the first player to wear his pants really long, the way everyone does now. Currently a coach for the Rays.
Willie Horton (69) -Kind of a hero; during the riots in 1967 he stood on top of a car in his uniform pleading for calm. Honored with a statue outside Comerica Park.
Andy Carey (80) -Yankee 3B of the late '50s; made a hit-saving play in the eighth inning of Don Larsen's perfect game. Married a Hollywood starlet.
Candy Cummings -Credited with inventing the curve ball in 1867; said he got the idea from throwing seashells.


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Getting the {Vintage Christmas Glitter} Houses Ready
It's Christmas crunch-time, right? I have been late in finishing up my holiday decor, but the house seemed a bit unfinished without setting up some of my vintage Christmas glitter (or Putz) houses.
So, here I am... getting out the boxes, and falling in love with these tiny bits of cardboard and glitter that will become a little holiday village.
Check back, the completed project will come soon!


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Mitochondria are flexible, oblong shaped organelles that are located in the cytoplasm of every eukaryotic cell. They occur in varying numbers, depending on the cell and its function, but are particularly abundant in animal cells. A single liver cell, for instance, may contain as many as 2,000 of the important organelles, which convert oxygen and nutrients into adenosine triphosphate (ATP), the stable storage form of energy that can be utilized to power the cell's metabolic activities. Each mitochondrion in a cell is comprised of an outer, smooth membrane and an inner membrane that is heavily folded into cristae. Mitochondria are distinct from other organelles due to the fact that they possess their own DNA and reproduce independently of the cell in which they are housed. Mitochondrial DNA has been utilized in a broad array of inheritance studies, and has been of particular interest to evolutionary scientists since it is believed to change at a slower rate than nuclear DNA. Mitochondrial DNA has also been implicated in a number of genetic diseases, including Alzheimer's disease and diabetes.
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Slow Loris wrote:it is necessary to keep up with the traffic
No it isn't. You have no obligation to keep up with traffic (and it wouldn't even be an option were it not on a downhill stretch). Go at the speed you judge to be safe - and if this is slower than the driver behind would choose then so be it.


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As America celebrates President's Day Monday, Mayor Don Wesely and Parks and Recreation Director Jim Morgan remind Lincoln residents that a program has been established to provide miniature flags for young people participating in Fourth of July parades and programs.
"Many neighborhood associations in Lincoln plan great activities for kids for the Fourth of July in the city's neighborhood parks," Wesely said. "This is a way we can recognize their work and add to the celebrations."
"Our goal is to have each child participating in a holiday activity carrying a flag this Independence Day," Morgan said. Less than ten organizations have made requests since the program was announced in December. The deadline for flag requests is May 26, 2000, and the flags will be delivered at the end of June to event organizers.
The city's Neighborhood Self-Help Program is providing the funding to purchase the miniature flags, which will be distributed through the Parks and Recreation Department. Morgan said that as the program grows, the department hopes local businesses and civic groups will help with purchasing and distributing the flags.
Those wishing to make a donation to the flag program or to receive an application form, can call Parks and Recreation at 441-7847.


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All Chicago: Sale in lead, Rizzo passes Morneau
There's a new leader in the National League Final Vote. Late Wednesday, Cubs first baseman Anthony Rizzo passed Rockies veteran Justin Morneau for the top spot, while White Sox left-hander Chris Sale continued to maintain a slight advantage two-thirds of the way through the All-Star Game Final Vote Sponsored by Experian.
Sale, the winning pitcher of last year's All-Star Game, was still holding on to his early lead in the American League. He was trailed by Angels right-hander Garrett Richards, Tigers right-hander Rick Porcello, Indians right-hander Corey Kluber and Astros left-hander Dallas Keuchel.
There's a new leader in the National League Final Vote. Late Wednesday, Cubs first baseman Anthony Rizzo passed Rockies veteran Justin Morneau for the top spot, while White Sox left-hander Chris Sale continued to maintain a slight advantage two-thirds of the way through the All-Star Game Final Vote Sponsored by Experian.
Sale, the winning pitcher of last year's All-Star Game, was still holding on to his early lead in the American League. He was trailed by Angels right-hander Garrett Richards, Tigers right-hander Rick Porcello, Indians right-hander Corey Kluber and Astros left-hander Dallas Keuchel.
Morneau, who scored the winning run for the AL in the 15th inning of the 2008 Midsummer Classic, is hoping for what would be an emotional return to Target Field when the 85th All-Star Game is played there on Tuesday. But the former Twin fell behind Rizzo and he's just ahead of Braves left fielder Justin Upton, as all three players have tallied more than 3 million votes. Nationals second baseman Anthony Rendon and Marlins third baseman Casey McGehee are fourth and fifth, respectively.
Balloting began Sunday night with the presentation of five nominees per league by All-Star managers John Farrell of the AL and Mike Matheny of the NL to decide the 34th and final roster spots in each league, and the close of voting is at 4 p.m. ET today with winners announced soon thereafter on MLB.com. Twitter support over the last six hours of balloting will count toward candidate totals. From 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. ET today, tweet with designated player hashtags and follow @MLB.
Here is a closer look at this year's choices (statistics are through Tuesday's games):
AL nominees
Chris Sale: #TargetSale (A5) -- Sale was 8-1 with a 2.16 ERA over 13 starts entering his start at Boston. He has a WHIP of 0.870, having allowed 60 hits and 16 walks over 87 1/3 innings, while striking out 96. The White Sox are trying to become the first team to have four winners, following successful campaigns for Scott Podsednik, A.J. Pierzynski and Paul Konerko.
"Great guy," Konerko said of Sale. "But his numbers speak for themselves. The game matters, and if the American League wants to win it, I think Chris Sale should be there."
Garrett Richards: #VoteGRich (A4) -- In his first full season as a starter, Richards has held batters to a league-low .196 batting average while posting a 2.71 ERA and 119 strikeouts. Richards is trying to improve the Angels' 0-for-5 record in Final Vote competition, and his team has gotten behind him in a big way.
"I think it's one indication that our guys are tight in there," manager Mike Scioscia said. "They support each other. They understand the great honor it is to play in an All-Star Game. I think that they truly have a feeling of being part of it if somebody on our team goes. They'll experience that with Mike [Trout] and hopefully get a chance to experience it with Garrett."
Rick Porcello: #PickRick (A3) -- The Tigers are 49-37 and entered Wednesday with a 4 1/2-game lead in the AL Central. Only Masahiro Tanaka, who has 12 wins, has won more games in the Majors than Porcello, who has 11. That considered, Tigers outfielder Torii Hunter may have put his campaign case in the best perspective:
"If not for him, we might not be in first place," Hunter said. "Rick has done a lot for this ballclub. He's still deserving to go to the All-Star Game."
Corey Kluber: #VoteKluber (A2) -- The Indians were planning to hand out #VoteKluber K cards to fans entering their game Wednesday at Progressive Field, keeping their idle starter fully in view between starts. He ranks fourth in the AL in strikeouts (137) and eighth in ERA (2.86), to go along with an 8-6 record for the Tribe.
"This is no lie. I started [voting] at 10:30 a.m.," Indians manager Terry Francona said Tuesday afternoon. "I just quit a little bit ago. I voted my [rear] off."
Dallas Keuchel: #VoteKeuchel (A1) -- Alhough Keuchel was in the back of the ballot pack, the lefty is certainly deserving of his first All-Star nod, having gone 8-5 with a 3.06 ERA in 16 starts, including three complete games. He flourished and had a chance to make another big statement in his showdown opposite 2012 AL Final Vote winner Yu Darvish on Wednesday.
"It's nice to see the support I've been getting," Keuchel said. "Regardless of what happens, I appreciate everything that everybody's been doing for me."
NL nominees
Anthony Rizzo: #VoteRizzo (N4) -- The Cubs' first baseman is putting up arguably the best Final Vote run of any candidate in the event's history. He hit his third straight homer in as many days during the balloting on Wednesday, a solo shot in Cincinnati. That puts him right behind only Giancarlo Stanton with 20 homers in the NL, so we're no longer talking about just NL first-basemen comparisons, but top league power hitters.
"Whatever happens this week is on the fans," Rizzo said. "Our team winning will get us in the highlights more."
Justin Morneau: #VoteMorneau (N2) -- Talk about widespread support. Not only does Morneau have alliance backers in Cleveland and in his native Canada (including hockey players), but also huge support in Minnesota, where he was a Twin from 2003-13 and was selected to four straight All-Star Games from 2007-10 (scoring the winning run in 2008). Morneau was 0-for-3 with a walk in Tuesday's 2-1 victory over the Padres. He has been as consistent as they come in 2014, batting .313 with 13 homers while turning in 30 multi-hit performances, and he leads the Rockies in both doubles (20) and RBIs (59).
"I'm not much of a self-promoter," Morneau said. "At this point I feel I've played well enough to be there. Obviously, you hope that's what comes out in the end. But there are other guys that are having great seasons, too. ... It's a tough ride but I feel like to this point it would really be an honor to be on that third-base line and get introduced in that stadium in Minnesota, and be a part of that team."
Justin Upton: #VoteJUp (N5) -- After his second straight two-hit performance during this voting period, Upton's line is .277/.350/.533 and his .854 OPS is still sixth among all NL outfielders. His 17 homers tie for fourth in the NL.
"It will be interesting to see how Braves Country reacts to me," Upton said. "But I'm hoping it's the same way and I'm hoping I can get there."
Anthony Rendon: #VoteRendon (N3) -- When the Nationals' game on Tuesday against Baltimore was postponed by rain and rescheduled for Aug. 4, it meant a little less on-field campaigning. But Rendon still has plenty of evidence to show. The versatile infielder hit a game-tying two-run homer in the sixth inning on Monday, and he's among the team leaders in RBIs and runs scored. Matheny could use him at second or third base at any point in the All-Star Game.
"He has the ability to stay the same in any situation," teammate Adam LaRoche said. "To be as consistent as he has been, you just don't see that in young guys. It's something that takes a few years to pick up on. He just has that mindset. It's not just done on the surface. That's his personality. He is very level-headed along with being competitive. He wants to be the best at what he does. I love the kid."
Casey McGehee: #VoteHitsMcGehee (N1) -- The NL hits leader saw his career-best 14-game hitting streak end with an 0-for-4 collar on Tuesday. He said he is content with whatever comes of the voting.
"I'm kind of at peace with the fact that this whole All-Star thing -- that it is what it is," he said. "It's going to play out the way it's going to play out, and that's OK. But I'm not going to let that change how I approach [the game]."
History shows that all is not always lost for players who don't win a Final Vote. Of the 96 previous players who fell short during the first 12 years, 18 were subsequently added as All-Star replacements -- 19 percent, or nearly one in five of all non-winners. However, there was no such All-Star honor for any of the eight who finished behind Steve Delabar of Toronto and Freddie Freeman of Atlanta last year, so the surest route is to win this competition.
In each of the past seven years, clubs have formed alliances to lend their collective support for their respective candidates. This year's alliances are Indians-Rockies (#ClevelandRox), Astros-Marlins (#GoBeardorGoHome), White Sox-Nationals, Braves-Angels and Cubs-Tigers.
You can also vote on the mobile web at MLB.com/vote or via text message. To receive the Final Vote ballot, text the word "VOTE" to 89269. To vote for a specific player, text your choice to 89269. For example: Text "A3" to vote for AL Player 3 or "N3" to vote for NL Player 3. Standard message and data rates may apply. Text "STOP" to end and "HELP" for information. Mobile voting in Canada also is available and fans should text their choices to 101010.
In addition, MLB.com is providing a unique analysis of how a specific region in the United States is voting for the 10 candidates. Scroll over any county to see a color-coded display showing the online vote share for each player. Click here or visit MLB.com to access the data visualization map.
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Against Nogales, Pleasanton scored two runs in the first inning and one run in each of the next four innings to improve to 2-0 in the tournament.
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The 43-year-old Montclair resident is vice president of a private union that represents 7,000 health care and nursing home workers.
The all-female ticket is a first for New Jersey.
Buono and Silva are challenging Gov. Chris Christie and Lt. Gov. Kim Guadagno, who are seeking a second term.
Christie campaign spokesman Kevin Roberts says Buono chose someone who is wholly unqualified to be governor, which is the job's only requirement.
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'Poems are like sentences that have taken their clothes off.' Marlene Dumas' poetic and sensual refrain accompanies her figurative watercolours on view in Possibilities for a Non-Alienated Life, the fourth edition of the Kochi-Muziris Biennale (KMB) in the southern state of Kerala, India (12 December 2018–29 March 2019).Dumas' new series...
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It's pre-election time in France. Next year, we will renew regional councils – the rough equivalent of State assemblies albeit with far less power – and, of course, all political parties are busy negotiating and jockeying for places and positions. A lot of people's jobs are at stake, and not only the councilors – they have assistants and advisers, remember, and a significant part of any party's resources come from its elected officials' wages. No matter what papers and politicians say, strategic considerations play more part in deciding who will ally whom than ideology. Yet, the old left-right divide stays surprisingly effective. It is particularly telling that we dismissed out of hand an alliance proposal from another home rule party because it was on the other side of this age-old fence, a decision I supported. This may sound absurd, as the policies right and left parties disagree upon are pathetically irrelevant to the predicament of industrial society. It reveals, however, older, deeper divisions, and asks a question all peak-oil activists should reflect upon : how can one be a progressive, without progress.
The modern concept of left and right emerged out of the French Revolution. Even their very names come from it. The first "leftists" were those who, refusing to grant Louis XVI the power to veto legislation, sat on the left at the first French constitutional assembly. The matter became quickly irrelevant as the head of state lost his own but the name stuck and the world "left" became associated with the followers of the various ideologies born from the enlightenment ideas while their opponent – a rather diverse bunch, by the way – coalesced under the "right wing" banner.
History of ideas is a very complex thing but on the long run, and despite temporary setbacks, the left won, which led to surprising results. As the partisans of the old absolutist or feudal order became more and more marginalized, conservative came to embrace the ideology of progress, reluctantly at first, then more and more heartily as the old aristocracy faded out of power. The left, on the other hand won more and more things to conserve.
The end result is that in modern European democracies, it is the right, which pushes for reforms, while the left opposes them without proposing much, except radical changes aimed a building paradise on Earth, which amounts very much to the same. Both have the same goal : building a future shinier than the present. Even the Greens do it, tellingthat by building windmills and solar panel all over the country they will enable us to perpetuate the upper middle class lifestyle most of their leaders follow.
Of course, this goal is utterly at odd with the reality of the coming energy peak. What we face is a long decline toward a more sustainable, but also far poorer, future and no amount of progress worshiping is going to save us from it. What we need is to focus upon the institutions which will enable us to survive the coming decline and save what can still be saved : local communities, neighborhoods and families. That most policies associated with the left, and indeed its very main goal, are obsolete, does not mean, however, that the core value underlying them are.
A number of thinkers on the fringes of the radical right have remained, or become again quite skeptical of progress. Americans will think of the Southern Agrarians or of modern paleoconservatives. Being an European, I will rather speak of the so-called New Right and of its leader : Alain de Benoist. While the New Right was born from an attempt of the far right to break with the string of defeats it experienced since the fall of the Petain regime de Benoist himself can hardly be called a fascist or even a traditionalist. He claims not to be a racist, and I have no reason not to believe him – a politician can lie about his opinions for electoral gain, not an intellectual whose only aim is to found a philosophical school. What de Benoist advocates is a world of local communities based upon non-mercantile values and with a renewed relationship with nature. Each one of those would have an inalienable right to its own culture and local, concrete, liberties inside the general framework of a loose European federation. He has recently written a book to support the idea of degrowth, which shows he understands, somewhat, the predicament of industrial society, even if his support for large-scale geopolitical constructs proves that he does not yet understands all its consequences.
The question is, of course, why do I fee so ill at ease reading him ?
I am hardly the only one in this situation. Supporters of degrowth were horrified by de Benoist's endorsement of their ideas, but for bad reasons. One can hardly blame de Benoist when he refuses to follow the degrowthers when they claim that by implementing their pet political project, they will get the perfect, classless, society two centuries of leftist revolutions consistently refused to give them. The fact is that degrowth is very bit as infused with progress mythology as the growth ideology of the old, traditional, left. They just differ on what is should be measured by.
The problem is elsewhere.
The ideology of de Benoist and his ilk may not be racist – at least in its pure form, most of its supporters are – it is definitely anti-egalitarian. We tend to assume that anti-egalitarianism is necessarily racist, because it is how it manifested itself during the last century. It is a mistake, however. You can base your anti- egalitarianism on virtually anything and de Benoist bases his own upon the idea of an intellectual elite, whose supposedly innate superiority would have its root in genetics. This means, of course, that he refuses democracy, since democracy is based upon the idea that every man is, at least in theory, able to formulate an informed opinion about the way public affairs are run.
It is also a celebration of closed society. Every society, must have some kind of closure, lest it dissolves away and it is likely that post-peak societies will be more closed than our own. There won't be any large state apparatus to hold them together, so they will have to rely upon organically enforced shared values for cohesion. There is however a difference between accepting this as a lesser evil and turning every culture into a kind of ethnic island where any departure from tradition would be ruthlessly punished.
De Benoist's utopia, is in fact Sparta reborn, with its insular economy and culture, its heroic, freedom-loving, armed citizenry... and its helots.
Most peak-oil activists, even those who consider themselves conservative, would find De Benoist's project abhorrent, and that is where lies the possibility of progressivism without progress. In a world of scarce resources, it is no longer possible to dream of the shining futures of the last century. It would even probably be dangerous to do so. This does not mean, however, that must renounce the ideal of a common human dignity beyond and above cultural, religious and political boundaries. By this, I do not mean the false universalism and real ethnocentrism the West imposed upon the world, and which is still popular down here, just this very simple idea : every man should be respected as such, no matter his condition.
This is this idea which lies under the failed utopias of the left and no matter how bad the coming decline turns to be, it is still worth defending


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After ten hours of deliberations they took their first vote. Maddie, crushed, voted not guilty, along with another juror who'd initially wanted to convict. Two more continued to hold out for conviction, but Maddie knew it was hopeless. [p. 19]
My first vote was second degree murder. [4:40]I was the juror that was gonna give them the hung jury. Oh, I was. I fought to the end. [5:20]
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Can Dimon Hold Onto His Dual JPM Titles?
J.P. Morgan Chase has yet to persuade three of its largest shareholders to reject a proposal that would strip Chairman and Chief Executive James Dimon of the chairman title, a sign of the battle still to come as the May 21 vote looms. Dan Fitzpatrick reports. Photo: Getty Images.
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... Mr. over JPMorgan's and voting ... has already begun on proxy season JPMorgan ... is here the big stories will Jamie diming added that with two jobs ... Dan Fitzpatrick here to talk about this one ... so some of the proxy votes are already coming in rates and bond we all it's it's ... you said this to me off yet it's still too early to tap were twenty percent of votes are in thus far rail minimally have a sense yet of ... where those goals are following them on ... what we do know is that a lot the really big shareholders have yet to cast their votes at BlackRock Bangor modality ... and these are the funds that will make or break ... this so that all of these funds supported management last year voted against this ... split is Elan Share ... ALM so the fact that they're undecided still certain reasons some suspense as to how this might play around the time of it ... and I mean you have seen a lot of the big proxy advisory firm to come out the tube it was very ISS and Glass Steagall and it commented that that the chairman CEO job should be split up for ... I how much influence does that ... well a lot of funds due votes according to how ISS and Glass Lewis recommended ... so there's gonna be a big chunk of ... yes votes from this point that will result from what we saw today was classless police on Friday with ISS ... now that the big fund is the really big funds the top ten holders don't typically just rubber stamp whatever these advisory firm suggests ... so I'm not sure we're ... beyond the fact that we know ISS and Glass Lewis ... are recommending ... for this one doesn't SLE mean that that's corny carried the day right ... now you can with great about this long talked ... about alot Jamie Dynan is a huge figure on Wall Street what happens with him ... obviously a lot of interest I would say that the jobs are split right to bring in new chairman Jamie stay CEO ... it is that alone ... is the cosmetic changes that have significant in what what's the real impact of a change like a chicken more ... I guess it all comes down to who that person is friends with that with that chairman there is an ... odd JPM could take from one of its existing directors and ... others attending the Raymond who is the presiding director to certain from ... another term the company's key is to ... Bumi director in the top independent Oppenheimer a person that ... we remain a seventy four years old and he's to run ExxonMobil uni surveyed tough as nails sort of of fellow right and on some of the company argued that we ... could be a chapter on ... Jamie Eon and management because he's so tough but he also is been a director at the company for ... decades ... so he is as much a part of that position is made even more so than than than Jamie Innes ... so there ... is is it all comes down to the person and down I think you could probably serve arguing ... either way writes the matter with that person is right now when will we know the results of that ... on the twenty first century first two weeks from today and so were down this is crunch time here and were entering certain that the hand to hand combat during Reagan's JPM still hasn't met with some of these big shareholders ... the they're they're trying to make this argument let's keep structure the way it is ... ALM so this is gonna go down to to the wire yet ... and they're into cities of the shareholders they will be meeting with these young biggest under the disguise that the ... Oval to swim block Ruckus number one yet Star state's trees Number two of Vanguard and Fidelity are also in the top five yet um Wellington is is is another one so they mean the most firms ... the Nikkei it's ... exactly what now are you can actually see the eyes of the banking team of these are all of this is this a very quiet period are really should be hearing a lot of news leaking out about this ... well ... they are taking for it yet I mean there's so much attention on this for now ... of ... this pressure from the media and so I think you can probably count on many more stories between now and made twenty firms as for sure right


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- Courtney said...
Aw, YAY! Love this on you! Good for Piff for pushing you out of your comfort zone! ;-)
Rach from stuff i (s)watched and I did a stash swap a few months ago where we tried two polishes out of our comfort zone (cremes for me, shimmers for her) and then one polish in our comfort zone. It was SUPER fun, though strange for both of us.
I hope you get to do it again, and I can't wait to see the other ones you tried!
- November 25, 2011 at 7:41 AM
- Jacqui said...
This looks amazing on you!! Sometimes stepping out of our comfort zones has a good effect, especially when it comes to nail polish =)
- November 25, 2011 at 8:55 AM
- Lady-Pa said...
such a nice colour!
- November 25, 2011 at 9:10 AM
- Rach said...
Whoaaaaaaa. I don't know if you know, but this looks pretty damn elegant on you. :) Sounds like you and Piff had a great time! Can't wait to see what else she made you try.
(And yup, Courtney and I did a mini stash swap! -- it proved to be lots of fun, and a kind of learning experience worth having.)
- November 25, 2011 at 10:06 AM
- Melissa said...
This is such a gorgeous color. It looks great on you!
- November 25, 2011 at 10:57 AM
- Lucy said...
I'm glad you left your comfort zone of polish. This looks fabulous on you. Keep up the wearing of "comfort zone" polishes. Next you'll have to have a full on glitter manicure.
- November 25, 2011 at 11:34 AM
- Eileenie said...
LOVE IT! I'm a dark nail polish girl haha. :P
- November 25, 2011 at 4:33 PM
- mqs said...
I was actually looking for a wearable blue polish! :-)
I'm seeing DL ATU in my future!
- November 25, 2011 at 5:06 PM
- flinty said...
Ah, she was smart in giving you a Lippmann glitter mani as a gateway drug. ;) It's the beginning of the end...
- November 25, 2011 at 5:32 PM
- ilexica said...
Well that looks fab on you ;) hope you both had fun!
- November 26, 2011 at 2:10 AM
- Sia said...
Love!! XOXO
- November 26, 2011 at 4:48 AM
- Sarah said...
I think this experiment turned out great, but then I love this polish already. Good for you for trying something different.
- November 26, 2011 at 6:38 PM
- Carmen said...
Across the Universe is awesome! I only own Essence Blue Addicted which is a perfect dupe!
- November 28, 2011 at 9:15 AM


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What occurs in less than one-tenth of one percent of the population, yet is found in one form or another in almost every family in the world?
A rare genetic disease.
According to the Orphan Drug Act of 1983, a rare disease is defined as a disorder that occurs in less than 200,000 people in the United States, but many rare genetic diseases are substantially less common than this. For instance, National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) Clinical Director William A. Gahl, M.D., Ph.D., has seen only five people with Chediak-Higashi disease over the course of his entire career. That's still more Chediak-Higashi patients than anyone else in the United States is currently treating.
Why does Dr. Gahl work with these patients? Couldn't his time be better spent on disorders that affect far more people or have a chance of being cured?
"The study of rare genetic diseases is very important," Dr. Gahl said. "Rare diseases usually occur when two people who don't know they carry mutations in the same gene have children. There's no practical way to find out who has such mutations beforehand. People with rare genetic diseases are often overlooked or forgotten, but we gain a great deal from studying their disorders. Their contributions to medical science are pure gold."
Dr. Gahl explained that, even though the human genome sequence was completed a few years ago, the function of most of our genes is still unknown.
"One way to find out what a gene does is to create an animal, such as a mouse, that doesn't have the gene and look at what the mouse can and can't do. These animals are called 'knockouts,'" said Dr. Gahl, who is also a senior investigator in the Medical Genetics Branch of NHGRI's Division of Intramural Research. "Many people who have rare genetic diseases are, in essence, complete or partial human knockouts. They have missing genes or mutated genes that don't function or function incorrectly. By studying them, we can discover the role our genes play in normal cellular metabolism."
For instance, Chediak-Higashi disease is helping Dr. Gahl and his colleagues in their efforts to better understand how the body fights infection and to determine which cellular triggers launch bone marrow disorders, such as leukemia, multiple myeloma and aplastic anemia.
The genetic mutation responsible for Chediak-Higashi disease leads to the alteration of tiny organelles, called lysosomes, that are responsible for destroying foreign bacteria inside white blood cells. Lysosomes are supposed to be lean and mean, but Chediak-Higashi disease turns them into bloated 'couch potatoes' - huge, flabby and incapable of killing anything.
Most children born with Chediak-Higashi disease die of infections soon after birth. Those who survive the infections can go into the disease's accelerated phase, which resembles a bone marrow disorder. Blood cells are designed to live only so long. They originate in the bone marrow, are released into the bloodstream, go through their natural lifecycle, and then die. During the accelerated phase of Chediak-Higashi disease, a type of white blood cell called a lymphocyte somehow disables its normal death mechanism (called 'apoptosis') and ends up living far longer than it should, building up in tissues and destroying them.
Bone marrow transplants can relieve the problems these lymphocyte build-ups cause, and people with Chediak-Higashi disease who receive successful transplants often live into their 20s and 30s, but then other difficulties develop. Older people with Chediak-Higashi disease may end up in wheelchairs because of poor balance, lack of muscle strength and numbness in their hands and feet. They also lose some of their ability to think. Research is just beginning on treatments for this stage of the disorder.
Another lysosomal disorder that Dr. Gahl studies is called cystinosis. One of the things lysosomes do in addition to fighting infection is to break down unneeded proteins so their constituent amino acids can be salvaged for future use. In cystinosis, the transporter protein that carries one of these salvaged amino acids, called cystine, out of the lysosome and into the cell cytoplasm is either defective or missing. This causes cystine to build up in the lysosome and form crystals, which end up destroying both the lysosome and the cell around it.
One structure that is ruined early in cystinosis is the proximal tubule of the kidney, which salvages nutrients the body needs from fluid before it is turned into urine and eliminated. The damaged proximal tubules of people with cystinosis cannot do this, so small molecules, such as glucose, amino acids and phosphates spill out of the body and are lost.
Children with the disorder do not grow and have weak, painful bones. If they don't receive treatment, they go into kidney failure and die before age 10. A kidney transplant can prolong life, but the disease can continue to damage other organs, including the eyes, muscles, pancreas and brain.
Dr. Gahl was instrumental in establishing a drug called cysteamine as the treatment of choice for cystinosis. Cysteamine breaks down cystine and keeps it from building up in the tissues, thereby delaying or averting kidney failure, improving growth of children with cystinosis and possibly helping to prevent late complications of the disease. Since coming to the NIH in 1981, Dr. Gahl and his colleagues have seen more than 200 people with cystinosis, and some of his patients who are taking cysteamine are now 40 to 50 years old.
"Cysteamine treatment has changed the course of the disease so dramatically that cystinosis no longer demands the bulk of our efforts," said Dr. Gahl. "It's a very good feeling."
Studying cystinosis has helped the scientific community understand more about kidney function. Other diseases that Dr. Gahl's group explores include: autosomal recessive polycystic kidney disease, which is teaching researchers how kidney and liver cysts form; alkaptonuria, which provides insights about how connective tissue can be destroyed by amino acid breakdowns; hereditary inclusion body myopathy, an enzyme defect that interferes with the maintenance of good muscle tissue; and Hermansky-Pudlak syndrome (HPS), another disorder of the organelles inside cells.
There are eight different types of HPS, each caused by a different genetic defect. People with HPS have albinism because they lack organelles called melanosomes that produce pigment in the hair, eyes and skin. Since melanosome-containing cells nourish the rods and cones in the eyes, people with HPS also have poor vision. A lack of dense bodies in their platelets interferes with blood clotting so they develop bleeding problems, and they have episodes of inflammation in their lungs that cause a build-up of scar tissue called pulmonary fibrosis. For two of the eight types of HPS, the lung disease is fatal. HPS therapy focuses on controlling the bleeding problems and lung damage, and the solutions that are found might be able to help people whose lungs have been scarred by other diseases.
Dr. Gahl emphasizes that researchers, patients and society as a whole are partners in the ongoing challenge of developing new and improved therapies for rare disorders, noting that the impact of such diseases should not be measured by numbers alone. "The test of a society is how it treats its most helpless and disadvantaged members," he said. "People with rare genetic diseases give humanity so much, scientifically and spiritually, that we owe them a huge debt of gratitude. In fact, they make us more human."
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John Armstrong assisted a slave named Ann Clarke, owned by G. W. Clarke, to escape into Iowa. He described the event in detail, including how she escaped, was captured, and escaped again. He also described slaves owned by a Mr. Bowen who lived on Washington Creek in Douglas. Armstrong lived on Washington Creek and later in Topeka. This item is from information collected by Miss Zu Adams in 1895. She was researching the topic of slaves in Kansas and contacted a number of early Kansas settlers requesting information about slaves brought to Kansas Territory. While all of the information she collected was based on reminiscences, it still provides useful information that is difficult, if not impossible, to find elsewhere. Miss Adams and her father F. G. Adams were employees of the Kansas State Historical Society and the information received was donated to that institution.
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Item Number: 102345 Number of images: 5
Keywords: African Americans; Armstrong, John; Douglas County, Kansas Territory; Slaveholders; Slavery; Slaves; Slaves in Kansas Territory; Underground railroad
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