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The Commonwealth of Embrea is a geographically-small, demographically-midsized country located in south-central Wallasea and bordering Quiberon, Flamaguay and Haghia as well as the Arentian Sea. It is a founding member of the Reims Agreement.
Constitutionally, the Embrean Commonwealth is a unitary constitutional monarchy with the King (or Queen) as head of state and the Chancellor as head of government, appointed by the unicameral Vergadering (National Assembly). However, following a contested election in 1986 and subsequent civil unrest, the Vergadering was prorogued pending fresh elections; these have yet to take place. In consequence, the Commonwealth has been ruled for three decades as essentially an absolute monarchy.
A coup has recently been launched by elements of the military headed by Field Marshal Martin Vandenberg, Chief of Staff of the Embrean Security Forces; at present, its motives and ideologies are unknown.
Conventional long form: The Commonwealth of Embrea
Capital: Amberg
Administrative divisions: 38 provinces + chartered city of Amberg
Citizenship: Jus sanguinis; at least one citizen parent.
Suffrage: Universal at 17 years of age*
National symbols: falcon, crimson gold and silver/gray, coat of arms
National anthem: Het Wilhelmus (The Song of William)
I. Government
Head of state: King Alexander II**
Chancellor: vacant
Legislature: Unicameral (Vergadering - normally rendered in English as National Assembly in daily parlance)*
Voting: Party list
II. Law
Embrean law dates to the high middle ages and was based largely on customary law enshrined through stare decisis - in modernity, the law has been largely codified. Jury trials are available to certain criminal and civil matters.
Constitution: Codified.
Highest court: In theory the Crown as fount of justice serves as the court of last resort; in actuality this function has been subsumed by the High Court of Justice. While the Crown may still exercise the right to hear a matter on appeal personally, it has not done so since 1818.
Jury trials: Available for criminal matters subject to imprisonment >1yr upon conviction, and civil matters with stakes >Th.10,000
Double jeopardy: Protection against retrial for convictions and acquittals; a case resulting in acquittal in criminal matter may be tried civilly (e.g. wrongful death). Mistrial may be retried in cases of hung jury (must be retried within 90 days) but if a conviction is not forthcoming on retrial the case may not be tried a third time.
Law enforcement: Ministry of Justice and National Gendarme + city-level policing in major areas.
Mixed-market with high rate of government spending (~40% of GDP) focused on infrastructure and social-welfare programming. Tertiary economy based on service and information technology industries with some light industry/manufacturing. Natural resources include timber, iron/steel, coal, staple grains/cereals, cattle. Government-directed economic growth (dirigism) aims for 4.5% GDP growth per annum and <3% unemployment.
GDP: $2.4 trillion
GDP growth rate: ~4%/annum (avg. 2005-2015)
Debt as % of GDP: 97%
Unemployment: 4.9%
Gini: 0.36
Currency: Embrean Thaler
Embrean society can be thought of as collectivist in nature though not to the extent of Galla; social values generally promote national interest, involvement in one's community, concern for the poor and underprivileged, tolerance, and cohesiveness. Egalitarianism and natural rights are common themes of Embrean culture and government. Historically, the Commonwealth has been bilingual and had a sizable minority of native Quiberonnais speakers in the border provinces; these regions have to some extent developed a separate ethno-national identity which is distinct from that of Embrean speaking Embrea and from Quiberon proper. Since the 1950s-60s immigration from Flamaguay, Haghia and eastern portions of Wallasea has become increasingly common, leading to ethnic enclaves of these populations in major cities. On the whole, though, they tend to be well-assimilated owing to proactive government initiatives in that regard.
Ethnicity(-ies): Embrean, Quiberonnais, Flamaguayan, Haghian
Language(s): Embrean, Quiberonnais
Religion(s): Protestantism (Presbyterian, Lutheran), Catholicism; ~40% profess no religious preference (per 2015 census)
Urbanization: ~75%
Major urban areas: Amberg, Groningen, Mauberge, Chimay, Haarlingen
Education: Universal public w/ some private/parochial
Healthcare: Universal single-payer for all GP, Dental, A&E; private for certain specialized disciplines
Life expectancy: 73 years (avg)
The Embrean Security Forces are the military force of the Commonwealth and tasked primarily with its defense; Embrea does not have a strong military culture and, as a noninterventionist state, has rarely had cause for a large military.
Conscription: Not in use - emergency roll maintained
Divisions: 6 active, 4 reserve
Aircraft carriers: none


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Wilson makes his pitch in Big Apple
NEW YORK -- C.J. Wilson has won his past three starts against the Yankees, and in six of their seven most recent meetings he has held them to two or fewer earned runs. But going into his next start, in the series opener on Friday at Yankee Stadium, the Angels' left-hander has a new game plan.
One look at the 2014 version of the team in pinstripes is all it takes to see why. Between player turnover and injuries, Wilson will see very few holdovers in the Yankees order.
NEW YORK -- C.J. Wilson has won his past three starts against the Yankees, and in six of their seven most recent meetings he has held them to two or fewer earned runs. But going into his next start, in the series opener on Friday at Yankee Stadium, the Angels' left-hander has a new game plan.
One look at the 2014 version of the team in pinstripes is all it takes to see why. Between player turnover and injuries, Wilson will see very few holdovers in the Yankees order.
"It's a different team," Wilson said during his off-day Thursday. "You're bringing in a guy I've really never faced before in [Brian] McCann. [Carlos] Beltran I faced a couple times, and [Jacoby] Ellsbury obviously was in Boston last year. So all those guys coming into the lineup, it's a very big turnover.
"The Yankees are a team that is always good, they always play well at home, their fans are always into it, and for a Friday night game or a weeknight game, against a good team, they're always going to show up and be loud and get in your face. So when you're warming up, you're going to hear a lot of ... stuff from the fans. But it's pretty funny.
"I like playing in stadiums like Yankee Stadium with high energy. It's a historic town for baseball, and it's one of the best sports franchises in the history of Earth, so it's a big challenge every time you go out there and try to beat them. But at the same time, if you do beat them, it's a great feeling."
After shopping for a new pair of John Varvatos boots just around the corner, Wilson was at the MLB Fan Cave to promote his continued association with Head & Shoulders -- and specifically the second year of the "Season of the #Whiff" campaign on MLB.com and social media.
He talked about the benefits of a "hair deal," his next outing, the first month of the season so far for himself and his team, where to find good paella and sushi in New York, married life, what it's been like to watch Albert Pujols lately, and the learning curve he still sees players such as Matt Harvey finding in a Twitter world in which he was the first Major Leaguer.
"Season of the #Whiff is in version No. 2, so every strikeout in the Major Leagues this year, we're going with a contribution to the RBI program, which is great," Wilson said of MLB's Reviving Baseball in Inner Cities program. "A lot of Major Leaguers played through RBI growing up. We're [encouraging fans] to tweet the team handle and also to tweet the hashtag #whiff [after a strikeout] to raise that money. Last year it was $140,000, and this year it will be about $260,000 that's going to be out there for grabs for the local RBI programs, so everybody has a chance to help their local team."
Wilson was married in December to Brazilian supermodel Lisalla Montenegro, and when asked how married life is treating him, he said with typical wry humor: "We have a dog now. That's the only difference." For the record, the Wilsons rescued a Great Pyrenees/Labrador mix named Osow, in case you aren't already following @Whiteosow on Instagram.
Wilson will be making his fifth start of the season, and he is scheduled to make his sixth on the last day of the month at home against Cleveland if he stays on his usual rotation. With 25 2/3 innings in the books so far, he is 2-2 with a 4.21 ERA. So far, he is well on his way to what he hopes will be a fifth consecutive season of at least 200 innings and 33 or 34 starts.
"Being consistent is one of the best things you can do as a starter for your team," Wilson said, "because the manager is going to count on you to throw six or seven innings on average, and on the nights you don't have your best stuff you've got to get through five or six, and on the nights you do have your best stuff, you're trying to go eight or nine.
"The best thing about being a starter is you have time to prepare, physically and mentally, so you can go over the guys you've got to face. Physically, you can be in your best shape, because your whole routine is based on the workout. You're working out so much that you can build your body up to be very strong. So you can last and recover in between starts, for those 200-plus. Hopefully 225 -- that's my goal this year. That would be my all-time high."
The Angels, coming into New York with a 10-11 record, will try again to reach .500 when Wilson takes the mound.
"It definitely has a better feeling to it than the last couple of years," Wilson said. "We got off to such awful starts the last couple of years, it was a really difficult hole for us, psychologically and statistically, to crawl out of. ... When we get Josh Hamilton back from his injury, and Kole Calhoun back from his injury, we feel like we should be off to the races."
Wilson said it is doubly satisfying to see what Pujols, who hit his 500th career home run this week, is doing, considering that they both signed with the Angels as top free agents before last season.
"It's been great. He's been carrying himself a lot more proudly since Spring Training started because he's just in better shape," Wilson said. "He's always so stoic up there at the plate, but he has that little smirk like he knows he's about to get a hit. It's so cool.
"Knowing that he's still got so much more good baseball in him, and seeing him swing the way he has lately, it's so inspirational. I feel like since he and I came here in the same year, we're kind of linked that way, and I just want to do everything I can to play hard and play well my whole time in Anaheim and I know Albert feels the same way. It's possible he could hit 30 or 40 home runs again this year, and that's really exciting, because if he does that, it's a huge lift for our offense."
What makes New York such a favorite road stop for Wilson is also what makes it challenging.
"One of the worst things about coming to New York is the conundrum at the end of the game -- if you eat the awesome food that's in the clubhouse, because it's the best food in the league, or if you go to one of the best restaurants in the country, which are here in New York.
"It's a city that's constantly changing and revealing itself to you in new ways, and this is my ninth year coming to New York, and I always look forward to it. I like to go to Blue Ribbon a lot. Blue Ribbon is one of my favorite restaurants, they stay open 'til 4 in the morning, they always have paella on the menu, which is one of my favorite dishes. I like to go there, I like to go to Bond Street Sushi. There's a lot of really, really good restaurants. So I'm not going to spoil anything else for any other locals, but it's usually talk to your friends and find good local dining."
Having a hair deal means pressure to have good hair, he said, but the benefit was clear Thursday during his grooming.
"That's the other benefit, you just send a text message and someone shows up to cut your hair, groom your hair, make you look nice," Wilson said. "The whole idea is to take pressure off you so you don't feel like you have anything to worry about when you take your hat off."
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|Basic succotash is a side dish made using baby lima beans and corn. Pictured here with sliced fresh Creole tomatoes and pan-fried pork chops.
SuccotashSuccotash is a dish built around corn and some kind of bean. Here in the Deep South, that is generally baby lima beans, though there are many regional variations across the country. It's a dish that's been around a long time, being taught to the colonists by Native Americans - though they would have originally used a bean other than lima beans, since limas came to us from South America a bit later. The term "succotash" is generally thought to mean boiled corn kernels and originating from the word msickquatash used by the Narragansett Indians of Rhode Island.
This side dish takes on many forms, often utilizing what's fresh and in-season during the summer months especially, but this one, made very simply with baby lima beans and corn, is the basic backbone of them all.
I don't know what it is about this combination of veggies that is so endearing, but it certainly is. Not much out there that could be more simple either. Absolutely best with freshly shelled beans and corn just stripped from the cob, but it's pretty darned good when made with frozen too.
Try seasoning with bacon, or flavoring the cooking water with a bit of salt pork, onion and garlic before adding the beans for a nice boost, add some heavy cream toward the end, or make it a triple succotash by including tomato in some form. No matter how you take it, it'll be good. Here's how to make it.
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Recipe: Succotash©From the Kitchen of Deep South Dish
Prep time: 5 min |Cook time: 30 min | Yield: About 4 to 6 servings
- 3 cups of water
- 2 cups of fresh or frozen baby lima beans
- 1-1/2 cups of corn cut from the cob, about 2 average ears
- 2 tablespoons of butter, melted
- Kosher salt and freshly cracked black pepper, to taste
- Hot pepper sauce, for the table
Bring water to a boil, add beans and return to a boil; reduce heat to medium, cover and cook for 25 minutes for fresh, 10 minutes for frozen. Add the corn and continue cooking for another 5 minutes or until beans and corn are fork tender. Drain; toss with butter and season with salt and pepper. Serve with hot pepper sauce at the table.
Variations: Season the boiling water with salt pork, chopped onion and minced garlic before adding the beans. For triple succotash, add in a 15-ounce can of stewed, diced or 10-ounce Rotel diced tomatoes. For a creamy version, drain but retain the cooking water. Return the beans and corn to the pot, add 1/2 cup of heavy cream, and enough of the reserved cooking water back to the pot to completely cover the beans. Cover and simmer for an additional 10 to 15 minutes. Add bacon for extra flavor.
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Counseling, Health, and Wellness Services is dedicated to assisting you in sustaining good emotional and physical health, and to providing care, guidance, and resources when needed. Our services are available to assist you with whatever psychological obstacles or physical ailments arise while you are at Western. We can provide information and assistance about ways to care about your own health and to maintain your overall well-being so that you may achieve your personal, academic, and career goals. We invite you to take advantage of our services.
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Things to do in Tokyo
- Get out of the city and head to Mount Fuji for a beautiful hike.
- Remain completely anonymous, no matter your race, ethnicity, or height as you stroll through the crowded streets of one of the world's most populous cities.
- Just wander around or pull up a seat on a bench and people watch. Tokyo is a great place to observe a multitude of cultures blending together.
- Do what the Japanese do - eat sushi, sing karaoke, take in a baseball game, and go see a Sumo match.
- If you're not digging the area you're exploring, then get on the train and head to the next stop - it's sure to be completely different than where you just were.
- Instead of spending all that money to get a view of the city from the Tokyo Tower, head to the Tokyo Metropolitan Government Building in Shinjuku instead. The twin towers have viewing platforms that don't cost anything.
- You like to shop? What do you want to buy? Chances are you can find whatever your heart desires in Tokyo.
Why you should add Tokyo to your RTW travel list
- Visit Tokyo for an attack on the senses
- Your gateway to Japan
- Neon, traffic, hi-tech, sushi – Think you can handle Tokyo?
- Just wait until you see the shopping in Ginza
- Where else in the world can you ride bullet trains, shop for kimonos, and watch sumo?
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| Austrolebias nigripinnis (Regan, 1912)
Austrolebias Costa is a genus of annual fish inhabiting temporary wetlands in the Chaco-Pampasic region of southern Brazil, Uruguay, Paraguay, Bolivia and Argentina (Costa, 2006, Nielsen & Pillet, 2015, Alonso et al., 2016). Currently, about 45 species of Austrolebias are known (Costa, 2006, Volcan et al., 2014, Nielsen & Pillet, 2015), and of these, 24 occur in Rio Grande do Sul, the southernmost state of Brazil, distributed across the Rio Uruguay basin and the Patos-Mirim lagoon system and adjacent coastal areas (Volcan et al., 2015).
Keywords: Pisces, Cyprinodontiformes, Cynolebiidae
Matheus V. Volcan, Ândrio C. Gonçalves and Luis E. K. Lanés. 2017. First Record of Blackfin Pearlfish Austrolebias nigripinnis (Regan, 1912) (Cyprinodontiformes, Cynolebiidae) from Brazil. Zootaxa. 4254(3): 387–390. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4254.3.9


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Mobsters -- real and fictional -- captivate public
What's with the fascination with mobsters?
This week, we've been served up a trifecta of oldie-but-goodie Mob memories that continue to dominate cable news, the Internet, late night comedy shows and social media.
Near Detroit, the legacy of Jimmy Hoffa resurfaced (but the body didn't) when the FBI, acting on a tip, spent several days digging up a Michigan field to find the remains of the former Teamsters boss with Mafia ties. Hoffa, declared legally dead in 1982, was last seen in 1975. Yet the tantalizingly popular "Where's Jimmy?" game lives on.
In South Boston, the racketeering trial of 83-year-old crime boss James "Whitey" Bulger continues to draw intense interest and media coverage, mostly on the testimony of hitman John Martorano, aka "the Executioner." The former Bulger associate — paroled after serving 12 years for 20 murders — has provided riveting testimony detailing Bulger's alleged involvement in sordid murders and other crimes. Bulger, the inspiration for 2006 mobster film The Departed, was arrested in 2011 after being on the lam for 16 years.
Mobster mania came to a head Wednesday night, following the untimely death of James Gandolfini, most memorable for his role as New Jersey Mob boss Tony Soprano on HBO's The Sopranos. Six years after the series wrapped — HBO continues to air repeats — mourners are paying homage outside the Jersey Satin Dolls strip club that served as the show's infamous Bada Bing and the suburban mansion where the fictional Sopranos lived.
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The collective grief seems almost as big over the finality of Tony the TV mobster as it is to Gandolfini, the previously under-the-radar, 51-year-old character actor who won fame and three Emmys portraying him. "Tony Soprano made the Mob relevant, mainstream and — dare I say — acceptable,'' says Lance Fensterman of pop culture and marketing firm ReedPop.
The public's perception between actor and their characters can be blurry. Gandolfini's bearish, volatile Tony Soprano was nothing like the sensitive, nice guy that friends and associates knew. "(The public) knows the character; they don't know the actor,'' Fensterman says. "And they feel a sense of ownership. It's the blurring of the lines between what's reality and what's fiction."
Moreover, "Americans often have a hard time separating the character from the actor," says Kathy Newman, a professor of popular culture at Carnegie Mellon University.
That may be especially true regarding mobster types. Syndicated columnist April Masini says real or fictional, mobsters hold wide appeal because they're "the ultimate bad boys."
"Nice guys finish last. Yes, it's a cliche, but it comes from real-life experience we all have where we see bad boys and mobsters doing all right for themselves and doing it in style. And that makes people want them — on their televisions screens, in their movie theaters, and even in their real lives," Masini says.
As news events, gangsters — real and imaginary — are prime TV fodder.
"If you can connect a news story with a particular movie or a movie genre, it goes a long way," says Andrew Tyndall of ADT Research, which analyzes newscasts. Producers are "always looking for a good visual to illustrate a story," he says. The use of gangster-movie clips with Hollywood production values provides a "very easy shorthand" that may lead them to devote more airtime to the subject than a more mundane trial or other event, Tyndall says.
The collective interest in Mob Week, for want of a better term, began in the 1920s.
Richard Mangan, a 25-year veteran with the Drug Enforcement Administration who teaches courses on organized crime at Florida Atlantic University, says the fascination with mobsters was launched with media coverage of gangsters such as Al Capone. Popular journalists such as Walter Winchell frequently reported on the underworld in syndicated columns and on radio.
"Many people fantasize life as a gangster, regardless of whether it is the American Mafia or other organized crime groups,'' Mangan says. "Much of the fantasy, of course, is inaccurate and intentionally portrayed as glamorous in movies and television. But folks who believe that gangsters are rich, drive fancy cars, have beautiful women around them, never wait in line at a great restaurant and appear to be above the law will often aspire to live that life, knowing in reality, that event will never happen."
The early box office success of Mob-themed films was fueled by over-the-top performances such as James Cagney's grapefruit-in-your-face gangster in 1931's The Public Enemy. The Godfather, regarded by many film critics as one of the greatest films ever, endures 40 years after its release. Cable channel AMC acquired exclusive basic-cable rights to the film three years ago. It's a centerpiece of AMC's annual August Mob Week of gangster-themed films.
"They've done consistently well with our core audience,'' says AMC President Charlie Collier. AMC aired Mob-themed Goodfellas as a lead-in to the first-season premiere of Mad Men. AMC series Breaking Bad — which returnsAug. 11 — centers on a mild mannered chemistry teacher-turned-drug kingpin. Series creator Vince Gilligan pitched the series as "Mr. Chips turns into Scarface," Collier says.
HBO's current gang-theme series, the Prohibition-era Boardwalk Empire, may lack the long-term enduring popularity of The Sopranos and Mob-themed films, but it does feature one of the broadest demographic arrays of mobsters to date, with prominent backstories of African-American, Jewish, Irish and Italian gangsters.
Past or present mobsters "give the average person a chance to feel, even through fiction, that they are associated with something strong, powerful and connected," notes Scott Foulkrod, a law and forensics professor at Pennsylvania's Harrisburg University of Science and Technology. The Mafia "has the draw of high-power business yet the allure of being in the shadows."
The outpouring of shock over Gandolfini's death is an example of what's known as "media grief," said Paul Levinson, a professor of media studies at Fordham University. "Media grief is where we grieve over the deaths of people that we don't know personally but who we've come to know through the media," he said.
What makes Gandolfini's death even more significant is the the series' infamous finale, says Levinson, who organized the first academic conference about The Sopranos in 2008.
"In the finale you see this incredible ending where it just cuts to black. It's an enormously ambiguous ending; you could decide whether he died or not. That made such an indelible mark. And now when the actor dies it feeds into all the previous concern and feelings we had when that aired," Levinson said.
Gandolfini's death also killed any possibility of The Sopranos' return to film or TV. "There's always hope whenever there's an ambiguous ending. It cries out for more," Levinson says.
Show creator David Chase recently said he was contemplating a potential movie. With Gandolfini's death, "it can never happen," Levinson says.
Contributing: Gary Levin in New York, G. Jeffrey MacDonald in Boston


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Kevin Christian
Theme: It's a Doggy Dog World — Theme answers are all types of dogs clued without relation to their dogginess.
Theme answers:
- 9A: *Jake LaMotta, e.g. (BOXER).
- 17A: *Mexican neighbor of New Mexico (CHIHUAHUA).
- 24A: *Skiers' patron (SAINT BERNARD).
- 41A: *Like Hammett's falcon (MALTESE).
- 43A: *Piece of advice (POINTER).
- 54A: *Labrador was added to its provincial name in 2001 (NEWFOUNDLAND).
- 67A: *Beijing dialect (PEKINGESE).
- 58D: Steadfast belief (and parent of each answer to a starred clue?) (DOGMA).
- 51A: Brand for a 58-Down (ALPO).
- 73A: Greetings from the answers to starred clues (BARKS).
I've never heard of "DE DE Dinah" (39D: "__ Dinah": 1958 Frankie Avalon hit) and once I found it on YouTube, I can kinda see why. EGGAR was another one I needed a lot of crosses for (12D: Samantha of "Doctor Dolittle"), although it does sound vaguely familiar now that I know it. I'm pretty sure [5D: Philly's signature sandwich] is a CHEESESTEAK, not a HOAGIE. Maybe Barry Silk is around and can enlighten us.
Other than that, my most amusing misstep was trying OOZILY where OOZING was supposed to go (20A: Like lava flows). I was reading "flows" as a verb in the clue, but I guess it's a noun. Me (as I was writing in OOZILY): "Wow. That's a terrible word." HAha! Nobody to blame but myself!
Crosswordese 101 Round-up:
- 15A: Fall birthstone (OPAL).
- 19A: Feature of "butte" but not "but" (LONG U).
- 70A: Upright (ON END).
- 4D: Classic grape sodas (NEHIS).
- 10D: Yellow metal, in Mexico (ORO).
- 40D: La Salle of "ER" (ERIQ).
- 55D: 2010 Supreme Court appointee Kagan (ELENA).
- 63D: Bygone U.S. gas (ESSO).
- 68D: Inbound flight posting at 28-Across (ETA).
Everything Else — 1A: Word after boom or Bean (TOWN); 5A: Dickens's Uriah (HEEP); 14A: Aleve target (ACHE); 16A: "All systems __" (ARE GO); 21A: Austin-to-Dallas dir. (NNE); 23A: British golfer Poulter (IAN); 28A: NYC hub (JFK); 31A: Tolerate (BEAR); 33A: Sans serif typeface (ARIAL); 35A: Expansive (VAST); 37A: Ye __ Tea Shoppe (OLDE); 45A: Information storage unit (BYTE); 46A: Choice word (ELSE); 48A: __-wip: dessert topping (REDDI); 53A: Follow-up film: Abbr. (SEQ.); 59A: Pie __ mode (ALA); 60A: Suffix for glob (-ULE); 61A: Home builder's subcontractor (ROOFER); 65A: Get started (BEGIN); 70A: Upright (ON END); 71A: "They're __ again!" (AT IT); 72A: Desert tableland (MESA); 74A: Lord's partner (LADY); 75A: Tiny power source (ATOM); 3D: Ace (WHIZ); 6D: N.T. book after Galatians (EPH.); 7D: Seine contents (EAU); 8D: Backup strategy (PLAN B); 9D: Agricultural cubists? (BALERS); 11D: Seat of Greene County, Ohio (XENIA); 13D: Set of drinks for the table (ROUND); 18D: Lacking capacity (UNABLE); 22D: "Cool!" ("NEATO!"); 25D: Umbilical terminus (NAVEL); 26D: __ la la (TRA); 27D: Not a soul (NO ONE); 28D: Doorframe part (JAMB); 29D: Start to unravel (FRAY); 30D: Scot's skirt (KILT); 34D: Dined on, biblically (ATE OF); 36D: Witch's incantation (SPELL); 38D: Old Ford models (LTD'S); 42D: Asian Olympics city of 1988 (SEOUL); 44D: Like some patches (IRON-ON); 47D: Blue (SAD); 50D: Squeaks and creaks (SOUNDS); 52D: Equivalence (PARITY); 54D: Big wheel (NABOB); 56D: Staked amount (WAGER); 57D: Himalayan country (NEPAL); 62D: Acre's 43,560 square units (FEET); 64D: 500 sheets (REAM); 66D: Octopus's defense (INK); 69D: Joke around with (KID).


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Interviews with Nutritional Experts: Vitamins, Immune Response and Safety
Interview with Dr. Adrianne Bendich
as interviewed by Richard A. Passwater PhD
I keep a very close watch on vitamin safety issues and I occasionally write and lecture on the subject of vitamin safety. Readers may remember my ten-part series on the safety of vitamins published in this column in from October 1985 through December 1986. I have discussed vitamin safety in my books and have often included chapters devoted entirely to this important subject. I have also spoken on vitamin safety at national and regional NNFA meetings. However, I never consider my research complete until I double-check with Dr. Adrianne Bendich. Through the years, I have found her to be my most knowledgeable and up-to-date reference resource on the subject.
Dr. Adrianne Bendich is Clinical Research Scientist in Human Nutrition Research at Hoffmann-La Roche, Inc. She is an Associate editor of the
Journal of Nutritional Immunity
and was on the editorial board of the
Journal of Nutrition
. She is the coeditor of three books entitled "Micronutrients and Immune Functions," "Vitamin Intake and Health," and "Micronutrients in Health and in Disease Prevention,." as well as two Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences and chapters in other technical books. Dr. Bendich has chaired or co-chaired several scientific conferences and she has published more than 75 scientific articles on vitamin biochemistry and safety.
One of my most vivid memories of Dr. Bendich stems from the Dykstra hearing held at the National Institutes of Health in 1991. One of the FDA committee members was making a mountain out of a molehill which brought Dr. Bendich to the microphone to tell the FDA that they had more important health questions to address instead of being on a witch hunt about supplements. She suggested that they worry more about health problems such as smoking, excess alcohol consumption and over-the-counter drugs such as aspirin and acetaminophen.
Dr. Bendich has done much to further the health of people of all ages, and she is a protector of the scientific truth. Perhaps, this is why she won the Roche Award in 1992. Her travel schedule is heavy because she attends many scientific conferences, but recently I was able to chat with her at length concerning the latest safety issues and vitamin safety and public health issues..
: Dr. Bendich, why did you become interested in nutrition, and especially vitamins and immune function? Why did you become interested in vitamin safety, especially vitamin A and beta-carotene?
: My first experiments to examine the immunological effects of nutrients involved vitamin E. Dr. Lawrence Machlin asked me to collaborate on a study of the overall effects of vitamin E deficiency in a laboratory animal model. Dr. Myron Brin, the head of Roche's vitamin research at the time, in the early 1980's, was convinced that essential micronutrients, such as vitamin E and vitamin C, were critical for mounting optimal immune responses.
The objective of our first experiments was to see whether recommended intakes were sufficient to give the best immune responses in young, healthy, unifected laboratory animals.
: Now that is a start with two very prestigious vitamin researchers. Our readers may remember my "beyond deficiencies" chat with Dr. Machlin in the July 1992 issue. What did your experiments show?
: We found that diets low in vitamin E could protect against certain signs of frank vitamin E deficiency, such as weight loss and testes degeneration, but the low levels of vitamin E were not sufficient to give the best immune responses. We were the first to show that you needed three-to-five times the recommended dietary levels to see the optimal immune responses. Following these initial experiments, I was asked to join the Vitamin Research Department and we continued examining the effects of vitamin E, then vitamin C and vitamin E, and finally, beta-carotene, on immune responses. I was very fortunate to be the first to document the importance of beta-carotene as an immunoenhancer separate from its role as a source of vitamin A.
The most satisfying part of this research was our ability to move the research from laboratory animal studies to humans. Dr. Jeffery Blumberg was crucial in our beginning the studies at the U.S.D.A. Center of Nutrition and Aging at Tufts which showed that high dose vitamin E supplements safely enhanced immune responses in healthy elderly. Dr. Simin Meydani, who was the primary investigator in these studies, has continued this research and expanded it further. She has recently also shown that beta-carotene supplements enhance certain immune functions in healthy older men. In addition, to our collaboration with the Tufts group, we encouraged Dr. John Bogden at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey to examine the effects of a multivitamin-mineral supplement on immune responses in healthy elderly, and last year, he clearly showed that this simple, inexpensive, and safe supplement, taken daily for one year, also enhanced immunity.
I am very fortunate to be at the center of much of the research involving essential vitamins and carotenoids and immune function, and I am really excited that the early studies in laboratory animals have resulted in improving the health of the elderly. We are expanding the area of research and continue to support WHO-sponsored studies of vitamin A and reduction in childhood disease morbidity and mortality, and new research areas involving the role of micronutrients in HIV progression. Another new area which has our support is the importance of essential fatty acids in reducing autoimmune disease progression.
: I understand your satisfaction in helping both children and the elderly. But, how did you get from immune function to safety?
: My involvement in vitamin safety issues seems to be a natural progression which followed our research in humans. The first vitamin E/immunity studies at Tufts University used 800 IU of vitamin E daily. It was important to document the safety of this level of vitamin E for obtaining Institutional Review Board approval of the study protocol. Similar information was needed for beta-carotene, vitamin A, vitamin C, and vitamin B-6. The review papers that I have written on the safety of each of these micronutrients have involved very careful analysis of the published literature, going back 50 or more years. The conclusions about the safety of each micronutrient are based upon a prioritization of the source of the data. The highest priority is given to information published in peer-reviewed journals from placebo-controlled, double-blind studies. Next in priority are studies which did not include a placebo, then individual case studies, and finally anecdotal reports.
Following such an in-depth analysis, it is remarkable to find that almost all of the "safety" issues often mentioned are not based on solid data
: You have co-chaired conferences bringing together scientists from around the world studying vitamins and health. Do you see growing awareness of vitamins in health beyond deficiency diseases? Is the information getting to the medical profession?
: I have been privileged to be involved in the organization of two New York Academy of Sciences Conferences. The first on micronutrients and immune functions, co-chaired by Dr. Ranjit Chandra, was a very important meeting because it crystallized the importance of micronutrients in human immunity.
All of the major researchers from around the world attended and the take-home message was that well before signs of vitamin deficiency are obvious, immune system reactions have been significantly decreased. Thus, the immune system appears to have higher micronutrient requirements than other organs or tissues of the body.
For instance, before vitamin A levels are so low that vitamin A-related blindness occurs in children, their ability to fight infections has already been severely compromised.
Thus, marginal deficiencies can really decrease infectious disease resistance, especially in children.
The second conference on "Maternal Nutrition and Pregnancy Outcome," I co-chaired with Dr. C. Keen and Dr. C. Whillhite. This conference also was critical in changing human health practices. We were able to assemble virtually all of the researchers involved in finding that folic acid supplementation significantly reduced the risk of neural tube birth defects. In addition, Dr. Czeizel reported that
not only were neural tube birth defects reduced in the women who took a folic acid-containing prenatal multivitamin during the preconception period, but the total number of all types of birth defects were halved. Following this meeting, the FDA finally allowed the health claim for folic acid and neural tube birth defect prevention.
Both of these conferences highlighted the growing importance of micronutrients beyond preventing nutrient deficiency diseases. I think the medical profession is beginning to hear this message with regard to some issues, but there is still a lot of education that must be undertaken in medical schools and through continuing education.
: Every now and then a preliminary paper or even a letter-to-the-editor will be published that calls attention to a safety concern or possible problem with taking supplements. That original question gets plenty of publicity, but when researchers look into the concern and find that there was no problem in the first place, the media makes no mention of this. It is non-news and doesn't sell papers or make a sound-bite to hold viewers to the evening TV news.
Let's discuss some of these concerns and what further research has found. Does beta-carotene interfere with vitamin absorption or transport?
: Beta-carotene has many functions including its provitamin A activity, antioxidant and singlet oxygen quenching capacities. In the 1980's, the National Cancer Institute initiated several intervention studies with beta-carotene to determine whether the supplementation could lower cancer risk.
Certain questions arose from laboratory animal studies with very high doses of beta-carotene. Very high levels of beta-carotene had to be added to these diets because rats are very poor absorbers of beta-carotene. The animal studies showed massive levels of beta carotene lowered vitamin E levels in the rats. It was therefore of interest to determine whether relatively small supplements of beta carotene in humans could lower blood vitamin E or other nutrient levels. The data collected from over a dozen papers since the 1980's clearly show that in humans, beta-carotene supplements of even 50 milligrams each day for five years did
effect serum (the clear fluid of blood) vitamin E levels at all. There are, however, two papers from small uncontrolled studies where researchers found that beta-carotene supplements reduced vitamin E serum levels. But, again, the major well-controlled studies did not find this effect. In fact, in most of the well-controlled studies, the serum vitamin E levels either remain the same or even increase when beta-carotene supplements are taken.
: Most of our readers are aware that vitamin A is "fat-soluble" and stored in fatty tissues and the liver. Since vitamin A can be readily stored, it can accumulate in the tissues. However, few readers understand just how excess vitamin A can actually cause liver damage. What do we know about the toxic mechanism?
: Excess retinol (vitamin A) causes changes in biological membranes, an effect believed to be due to retinol's surface-active properties. Retinol, however, does not show surface-active effects when it is bound to retinol-binding protein (RBP). (RBP is a specific transport protein for vitamin A that the liver manufactures and secretes to complex with vitamin A to deliver vitamin A to the tissues.) Therefore, toxicity appears to occur only when the amount of vitamin A (retinol) exceeds the capacity of RBP to bind to it. Vitamin A that is not bound to RBP binds to lipoproteins, and it is in this form it may have toxic effects when it comes in contact with membranes and body cells. In other words, in vitamin A toxicity, plasma RBP levels are normal, but concentrations of vitamin A not bound to the specific RBP are increased.
Vitamin A is stored in the liver. Excess vitamin A may result in increases in liver enzyme levels in the blood, which is used as an indicator of potential liver damage. Usually elevated serum liver enzyme levels are reversed when high doses of vitamin A are stopped.
: Your review of vitamin A published in 1989 concludes that incidences of chronic vitamin A toxicity are rare and have averaged fewer than ten cases per year from 1976 to 1987. You did not find confirmed cases of vitamin A toxicity below 36,000 IU. In December 1994, physicians at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine led by Dr. Thomas Kowalski reported that in the last three years they have seen 21 cases of liver disease resulting from high doses of vitamin A. In the paper, they described a 45-year old woman suffering from multiple medical problems that had liver damage -- reportedly from taking 25,000 IU of vitamin A daily for at least six years. She reportedly died from this liver failure within months of diagnoses. The physicians claim that this is the second well-documented case in which liver damage has resulted from a vitamin A dose as low as 25,000 IU.
: The case reported by Dr. Kowalski's group describes a woman who had high blood pressure, diabetes, an enlarged heart and hypothyroidism. She was also taking several medications. The cause of death was actually not described in the article. Nevertheless, it is possible that a level of vitamin A which does not appear to cause adverse effects in the healthy population, may have unexpected effects in individuals taking multiple drugs which can cause liver damage, as in this case report.
: Once it was believed that all water-soluble vitamins were without adverse effects at all levels of intake because being water-soluble, they are not appreciably retained in the body and are "washed away" in the urine. Niacin has been used in high doses -- one may say pharmacologically -- to lower cholesterol. This is not a nutritional use and it has been prescribed for this purpose by physicians. Is there a dosage above which niacin can have adverse effects?
: Niacin is a generic term that includes niacinamide and nicotinic acid...
: Excuse me, Dr. Bendich, but perhaps I should interrupt to explain a little about niacin nomenclature to our readers. The Health Food industry has always followed the older system of nomenclature that was used in the United States in the 1940's. The scientific community uses the terminology that you just described. The Health Food Industry uses the term "niacin" specifically to mean "nicotinic acid," while the amide is known as "niacinamide." According to Dr. D. A. Bender of London University, "the name `niacin' was coined in the late 1940's when the role of deficiency in the etiology of pellagra was realized, and it was decided that dietary staples should be fortified with the vitamin. It was felt that `nicotinic acid' was not a suitable name for a substance that was to be added to foods, both because of its phonetic (and chemical) relationship to nicotine, and because it is an acid."
The pioneers in our industry followed the same reasoning and thus even today, our labels generally specify "niacin" for "nicotinic acid," and niacinamide for the amide form as you mentioned (but also called nicotinamide). The two forms collectively, but incorrectly, are called "vitamin B-3." For the convenience of our readers, I will show the chemical structures of the vitamers in figure 1 with the scientific nomenclature, and in figure 2 with the nomenclature generally used in the Health Food industry.
It is incorrect to call niacin "vitamin B-3." Nicotinic acid was so named in 1867 when it was isolated as an oxidation product of nicotine. In the 1930's, there was suggestion that pellagra, the classic "4D" deficiency disease having symptoms of dermatitis, diarrhea. Dementia and death, could be a protein deficiency disease or even an unknown water-soluble vitamin deficiency disease. In 1938, Dr. Spies and his colleagues showed that nicotinic acid would cure pellagra, but because its chemistry was already known, it was not assigned a number among the B-vitamins. Although various researchers placed this vitamin between B-2 and B-6 before its identity was known, it is still incorrect to call niacin vitamin B-3, because that was once assigned to pantothenic acid (which is sometimes incorrectly referred to as vitamin B-5)
Pardon my interruption, but I felt that it was important to clarify the various nomenclature preferences for our readers. Please continue.
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An anvil sits outside the blacksmith shop at the Stanley Fairgrounds on Wednesday. The tool is a reminder of the things technology can't make up or change too much.
Horses influence the folk art at the nearly-month-long hunter-jumper festival at the fairgrounds.
A blind dog and his sighted companion protect the blacksmith shop at the Stanley Fairgrounds on Wednesday.
A collection of jumping uprights signals the winding down of the hunter-jumper festival.
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Emily Fraser, 13, of Greenwood Village rides China's Rebal over a jump on Wednesday. The youngster was competing in the low and low trainer competitions.
Aven Sowder, 3, of Castlerock, Colo., rides her little horse, Gumdrop, at the Stanley Fairgrounds on Wednesday. The pair were at the hunter-jumper show for fun, not as competitors, yet.


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Lew pressed on tax reform
It's one of the standard clichés on tax reform: Doing it requires presidential leadership.
Members of the Senate Finance committee are making it clear they expect Jack Lew to help make that happen.
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As Lew, President Barack Obama's nominee for treasury secretary, testified before the committee Wednesday, Chairman Max Baucus (D-Mont.) stressed that he intends to move forward on plans to overhaul the Tax Code, and said he wants Lew to be an active part of that process.
"We're serious about this," Baucus told Lew. "Our Tax Code has not caught up and is now acting as a drag on America's economy. This is not some academic exercise. Tax reform is a real opportunity to spark the economy and create more jobs."
Lew signaled that he is willing to accept the challenge — but gave few details.
"I think it's something that there is a bipartisan consensus that we need to do, but there is an understanding of how hard it is," he said. "I would pledge to work with the committee to get it done."
He was reluctant to dive into specifics on just how the administration will write the overhaul. But Lew made clear that he supports plans to lower corporate tax rates, broaden the tax base and simplify the entire Tax Code.
Baucus said a committee vote on Lew's nomination won't come until the week after the Presidents Day recess.
Lew is no rookie when it comes to budget battles with Congress, a fact that was clear as he ducked jabs over his time on Wall Street and reiterated a well-practiced pitch for an Obama-style deficit-reduction plan that balances spending cuts with revenue increases.
Even his toughest critics, like Sen. Orrin Hatch, the top Republican on the committee, used the hearing mainly to press Lew to take ownership of Obama administration policies.
"Frankly, I think you've done really well today, and I have a great deal of respect for you," Hatch said near the end of the hearing. "But some of these questions we do need to ask to make sure the record is clear."
Lew is already well-known by many of the members of the committee. He has been a staple of budget policy for Democrats since he first took the reins of the Office of Management and Budget under President Bill Clinton in 1998.
Lew said his vision for reform includes lowering the statutory tax rate for corporations, ending loopholes and deductions for individuals and businesses and setting a minimum worldwide corporate tax rate for all businesses.
"Once we're doing tax reform, we should do it right, we should do both," he said.
A similar plan was proposed by the White House along with Obama's State of the Union address Tuesday night. Republicans used the hearing as an opportunity to press Lew for more answers on what the White House has planned.
Lew offered a somewhat more specific vision for how he views corporate taxes and the international code than the White House has given in the past.


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2016 W Motors Fenyr SuperSport Finally Revealed
Dubai-based supercar maker W Motors has revealed its second production hypercar—the Fenyr SuperSport—after wowing the world in 2012 with its Lykan Hypersport.
The first production car of the brand was a foundation of some sorts. It got the 770-horsepower, flat six engine that was built by RUF. It also got a radical design and has a top speed of 245 mph. It might be because it costs an astounding $3.4 million, but W Motors only produced five units of the Lykan Hypersport that, among others, come with titanium, diamonds, and sapphires integrated into its fancy headlamps.
The W Motors Fenyr SuperSport has an even more radical styling and more powerful engine. It was developed with Magna Steyr and RUF Automobile just like the Lykan.
The Fenyr SuperSport has a full carbon-fiber body and a lightweight aluminum chassis that makes it only 1,200 kg. It comes packed with a flat 6-cylinder 4.0-liter twin turbo, mid-rear engine that was engineered in Germany by RUF. The performance of this supercar will be boosted by a seven-speed double clutch gearbox that is complemented by 900 horsepower and 1,200 Newton-Metre torque.
Because of such powerful engine, it can go 0-to-100 mph in less than 2.7 seconds. It also has a top speed of 400 km/h.
On the exterior, you can find a supercar with an armored vehicle design. It also has an aggressive front fascia with LED headlamps and massive air intakes, a ventilated hood, and protruding side skirts.
W Motors has yet to release information about the interiors for the Fenyr, but it will definitely be similar to the Hypersport, except for the removal of the gold stitching and the Virtual Holographic Display.
The Fenyr SuperSport will most likely make its debut at the 2016 Beijing Auto Show in China. Production won't be as limited as the Lykan Hypersport, and it will be cheaper than its predecessor, although it would still be a multimillion car. Production is set to begin by 2017.


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Gender-based violence (GBV) is a fundamental violation of human rights. It is one of the worst manifestations of gender-based discrimination, disproportionately affecting girls and women. GBV is a global phenomenon that knows no geographical, cultural, social, economic, ethnic, or other boundaries. It occurs across all societies, and is a major obstacle to the achievement of gender equality.
In the region, GBV is often tolerated and sustained by social institutions, including the school the very place where children are expected to be safe, protected and empowered. SRGBV remains not fully examined in the region, and is perhaps even overlooked in many educational environments.
SRGBV continues to affect children in the Asia-Pacific region each year, and boys, girls, transgender and intersex children can be targets. In Asia and the Pacific as elsewhere SRGBV is a critical barrier to the right to education, not only because of its serious physical and psychological health implications, but also because it may lead to the deterioration of the learning environment as a whole. The experience or even the threat of SRGBV often results in irregular attendance, dropout, truancy, poor school performance, and low self-esteem, which may follow into their adult lives. Importantly, SRGBV is often aggravated in conflict-affected countries and during emergencies. Witnessing or experiencing violence in schools may have irreversible consequences for students in perpetrating or further experiencing violence in adult lives.
By specifically looking at SRGBV in the Asia-Pacific region, this review hopes to close the analytical gap in what we know about the causes, nature, manifestation, scale and the consequences of SRGBV in the region. This analytical gap results from many causes, including that: a) gender-based violence literature often overlooks children, b) violence against children research often does not focus adequately on gender, and c) SRGBV research generally has not been widespread in the Asia-Pacific region, but more in sub-Saharan Africa.


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The scientists of the museum focus on the diversity of life on earth, the interactions between the organisms , between the species, and their position and functioning in the ecosystem. For this assessment a precise knowledge of the species is crucial. Therefore, the scientists collect organisms and study them morphologically in order to accurately distinguish an determine the species. Specimen are preserved in the museum collection for future generations and document the occurrence of a species in space and time in terms of a biological archive. Experts from around the world use these museum collections for their scientific questions.The focus of the scientists is on the Palaearctic, ie Europe, North Africa and North Asia, south to the Himalayas.There are three research departments: soil zoology, botany and zoology, which are divided into several sections, each.
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Today's Dare
What is one of the greatest needs in your spouse's life right now? Is there a need you could lift from their shoulders today by a daring act of sacrifice on your part? Whether the need is big or small, purpose to do what you can to meet the need.


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Excited doesn't begin to express how we feel about introducing LastPass 3.0. Our new release features an updated, clean design across the LastPass browser addons, the iOS and Android mobile apps, and our website itself. We've worked hard to make LastPass easier to use and less intrusive.
Highlights from LastPass 3.0 include:
- Revamped user experience and user interface
- Field icon menus for easy access to logins and LastPass tools
- A Shared Family Folder for up to 5 users
- Expanded Shared Folder features for LastPass Enterprise
- A revamped LastPass for Applications
- Secure Note history, to track changes to your notes
- Windows 8.1 support
- and more
New Design, New Experience
In LastPass 3.0, we've changed the way LastPass notifies and interacts with you. LastPass focuses more on the website's fields, so there are less steps to get what you need. We're also phasing out the notification bars at the top of the browser.
A clickable icon now appears on the website's fields. The LastPass field icon is dynamic, showing you options that match what you would want to do with that field. If it's a login form, you'll see your matching logins for that site.
If you don't have any logins stored for that site, LastPass will ask if you want to save it:
If it's a "create password" field, you'll see the Password Generator:
If it's a shopping form, you'll see your Profiles:
The field icon menu expands so you can quickly access all the main LastPass features:
Improved Mobile Experience
The Premium mobile apps for Android and iOS now have a "browser-forward experience", meaning the browser is integrated with the vault for easy site searching and launching. The vault on both platforms is easily searchable, where you can add, edit, and update your passwords at a moment's notice.
The LastPass browser now has quicker access to your logins and Profiles. You can add sites easily, generate new passwords quickly, and enjoy a more seamless mobile experience overall.
LastPass Shared Family Folder
We've streamlined sharing for our users. LastPass Premium users can now use a Shared Family Folder with up to 5 family members to manage and access joint accounts. Each LastPass user can be added to the Shared Family Folder, and the logins or notes can then be dragged-and-dropped into the Shared Folder.
Updates are then kept in sync across all users sharing the folder. See our full article in the user manual for how to get started; only the user creating the folder needs to have LastPass Premium.
Updates for LastPass Enterprise
LastPass Enterprise administrators can now give Shared Folder access to non-Enterprise LastPass users. Up to 3, non-Enterprise users can be given access to any Enterprise Shared Folder. The new functionality is particularly useful for those who may need to give contractors or part-time employees temporary access to sites. LastPass for Applications has also received a number of improvements.
We're Thrilled to Reach Another Milestone!
We are so thrilled to share LastPass 3.0 with our community. We hope you enjoy the clean design and less intrusive experience. As always, we owe a big "thank you" to our community for your continued support. We're committed to the ongoing improvement of our service, and strive to provide a great experience for our users. Let us know what you think in the comments below!
The LastPass Team
How do I disable the "ticker" in the icon?
From the LastPass Icon > Preferences > Notifications, uncheck the "Show Matching Sites Count in Toolbar" option.
How do I move my matching sites list back to the main icon menu?
In the LastPass Icon > Preferences > Advanced, select the Show matching sites in top level menu" option.
Can I go back to the old notification bars?
First, be sure that you're clicking the icons that now appear in your username and password fields to try to enter your data. If you've tested it and you don't like clicking the field icons, you can enable the old notification bars in the LastPass Icon > Preferences > Notifications, and disable the field icons from there. We'd appreciate specific feedback so we can keep fine-tuning our new release.


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John Newland, the senior pastor at Fall Creek Baptist Church in Indianapolis, received the "cease-and-desist" letter from the NFL that led to many churches canceling Super Bowl outreach events in 2007. The NFL has announced it will allow church viewings.
How did you feel when the NFL reversed its call?
We were gratified because common sense prevailed. The NFL flagged us because our website asked members to donate money for food for the event. They were not prohibiting us from sharing our faith; they were prohibiting us from showing their product in the way we wanted to show it. So we met in homes in smaller groups.
We learned two things. One, God clarified for our country an event that churches all across the country were doing and what the purpose of it was. And two, our church was challenged to be more aware of copyright law.
What are you doing this year?
Our Super Sunday outreach event will have a lot of free food, giveaways, and games, and will have a gospel presentation and personal testimony at halftime. We have scrutinized the NFL's policy change and will make sure we are in full compliance. For example, the NFL has taken away the restriction on the size of the screen, but it has to be in your normal place of worship.
What makes the Super Bowl a better outreach event than, say, the season premiere of Lost?
It crosses so many lines of community and brings us together in a way that has mass appeal. We try to take advantage of things that draw people's attention across socioeconomic, political, and cultural lines — the things that divide us in this country.
Any advice for other churches hosting Super Bowl outreaches?
First, define your purpose. Second, find out what's legal and what's not legal. Free is the key. And be ...1


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Portland considers making High, State streets two-way
Streets are currently one way
Members of the Portland City Council will discuss a feasibility study that would look into converting High Street and State Street into two-way streets.
The idea is just in the beginning stages.
The council's transportation, sustainability and energy committee is expected to address all transportation-related issues, including vehicular, mass transit, bicycle and pedestrian related, including parking and traffic control.
"As the city evolves more mixed use -- housing, retail, commercial -- we need to be prepared for what that looks like and the impact on our transportation system," Director of Public Services Mike Bobinski said.
Both streets were two-way decades ago, but it was changed to help traffic flow quicker.
Bobinski said that times have changed and the city needs to change with it.
"The opportunity to go from one-way to two-way has the ability to, I think, enhance the safety; look at speed, rather than motorists just using the corridor as a thru-corridor to go through our city," he said.
As the study progresses, there will be multiple meetings allowing for the public's input and involvement, public forums, municipal officials' meetings.
Also, data will be collected and research performed to determine the most efficient way to make the changes if the idea goes through.
The research to determine the best course of action will cost $150,000.
Several residents said it was a price they were not willing to pay.
"It doesn't really need to be changed at all; its fine the way it is," Frank Frisoli said.
"It works just fine, shouldn't try to change it," Nike Ledere said.
"Honestly, I don't really see the point. It's Portland. Its so close together, I don't really see a point of it becoming a two-way," Brian Doody said.
The plan still has to be approved by the City Council and worked into the budget for 2014.
Several public forums on the issue will be held should the plan be approved and worked into the budget, Bobinski said.


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Santa's Secret Workshop
Stop in to Santa's Secret Workshop
Children three years and up will have the opportunity to Christmas shop for their family members with the help of Santa's helpers. Children need to bring their list and money. All items will be wrapped and are reasonably priced.
Cash only, please.
Santa's Secret Workshop is sponsored by the New Cumberland Federal Credit Union with proceeds benefitting the New Cumberland Public Library.
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Heidi Klum Costume Holiday Party 2012 Pictures
Heidi Klum Makes Her Annual Costume Party a Holiday Bonanza
Heidi Klum was forced to postpone her annual Halloween bash in the wake of the Hurricane Sandy devastation, but she didn't let her elaborate Cleopatra costume go to waste. Heidi hosted a "Haunted Holiday Party" along with Smartwater and Svedka Vodka to benefit the American Red Cross at Finale nightclub in New York City on Saturday evening. Heidi posed on Santa's lap on the red carpet and partied with her celebrity attendees. One familiar face missing from Heidi's side at the event was her boyfriend, Martin Kirsten. Heidi and Martin are still going strong, however, since he was spotted with her arriving at JFK earlier in the weekend.


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Deleting a suffix removes its entire branch from the DIT.
When you delete a suffix, you permanently remove all of its data entries from the directory. You also remove all suffix configuration information, including its replication configuration.
You cannot delete a parent suffix and keep its sub-suffixes in the DIT as new root suffixes. If you want to delete an entire branch that contains sub-suffixes, you must also delete the sub-suffixes of the deleted parent and their possible sub-suffixes.
You can use DSCC to perform this task. For information, see Directory Service Control Center Interface and the DSCC online help.


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Everyone has been wondering what exactly Speaker John Boehner said that made First Lady Michelle Obama roll her eyes at the inauguration luncheon yesterday, but we may now know.
Larry Wenig, a professional lip reading expert, claims that Speaker John Boehner asked the President if he had a cigarette before the luncheon, Judy Kurtz at The Hill reports.
The Speaker joked, "Somebody won't let you do it," referring to the First Lady.
The President is said to have painstakingly quit smoking prior to entering the White House, while Boehner still smokes. After the joke, FLOTUS (Michelle Obama, First Lady Of The United States) rolled her eyes.
Boehner spokesman Michael Steel told the paper that the report was "not true."
Here's the video via CNN:


text: Col. Joseph H. Alexander, USMC served in the Corps for 29 years as an assault amphibian officer. He has written six books, including Utmost Savagery and Edson's Raiders. He was the Naval Institute Author of the Year in 1996 and Naval History Author of the Year in 2010. He was the principal historian and writer on the exhibit design team throughout the construction of the National Museum of the Marine Corps. He lived in Asheville, North Carolina. Col. Alexander passed away on 28 September 2014. He was 76 years old.


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Selecting the Right Venue for Your Individual Ad
One of the very first things to consider is what venue you'd like to use for your individual ad.
Do you want to write a individual ad and postbode it on a webstek such spil Craigslist.com? You could do that for free but be sure to understand that anyone can postbode or react on Craigslist without much "filtering" of the ads, so please be cautious.
There are slew of online dating sites to choose from. Many do charge a toverfee to join but a loterijlot of them offerande free trials spil well.
Maybe you'd like to place a individual ad ter your tópico newspaper ter an attempt to meet someone who lives close to you and avoid wasting time meeting people that live long distance.
Keep ter mind that print ads typically have a much shorter "shelf life" than those created online. Ter addition, the space allotment for a newspaper ad will usually be much smaller than the information you can provide with an online ad.
Whatever venue you choose, be sure to do your homework to make sure that it is safe, reputable, and you are not wasting your time or money.
So, have you . . .
everzwijn placed a individual ad for yourself before?
Marketing Yourself through a Individual Profile
Relationships of every possible type have begun by placing a private ad ter print publications or online websites. Writing a private ad is a way for you to market yourself. It is your chance to let others know what you are all about.
With online dating sites, many will give you a template where you reaction questions that will be converted into your private ad. Others may ask you to accomplish a survey. Thesis instruments will make writing your individual ad much lighter.
What are you looking for?
Individual ads are often violated down into categories that specify what you are looking for, such spil:
- Women seeking boys
- Dudes seeking women
- Women seeking women
- Fellows seeking studs
- Just friends
Acronyms Used ter Individual Ads / Dating Profiles
Many people use acronyms (abbreviations) when writing or responding to individual ads. You may be astonished at some you've never heard of.
Main Things To Include When Writing Your Private Ad or Profile
- Tell your age or at least include something like "30-ish," or "late 40's"
some descriptor that gives the reader a close idea of your age.
- Knowing the wedren of the person is significant to many people. By adding this, you may eliminate wasting time on those who may not be interested.
Height, Weight and Figure Type
- Be fair with your height. It's not like you can hide it if you meet ter person.
- You also cannot hide your weight if you meet te person albeit I think fudging the truth here just a little bit is okay. But earnestly, do not say that you weigh 185 when you indeed weigh 310.
- When it comes to figure type, it is not necessary to include this information albeit it does show up that this is a major divisor for some people. If you do not include it, you may get asked the question straks.
Of course, include your hair and eye color.
This is a private preference. If it matters to you that someone knows your religion or that you find someone who practices the same religion, then certainly mention it.
Others like to know what you do for a living or that you are presently ter collegium.
This is another private preference. If you truly want others to know you worked hard and obtained a specific degree, then mention it.
On the other mitt, if you did not graduate from high schoolgebouw or maybe you have a G.E.D. but never pursued a higher education, you might consider just leaving this part out for now.
If you do not smoke and/or you specifically do not want to meet others that smoke, certainly mention this. If you do smoke and/or do not mind that others smoke, mention this spil well.
Humor vs. Sarcasm
Using humor within your individual ad can be funny, charming and attractive if not overdone. But be sure to not cross the line overheen to sarcasm or just plain stupidity.
Wording that is negative or depreciates you, or anyone for that matter, will likely turn the reader away.
Keyword SEO
When placing an online individual ad, be aware that search engines will find you via the keywords that you use. Therefore, a longer profile is more search friendly.
Write Enough Extra Information to Pique Their Rente
It's significant that you give your ad a little individual touch. Consider answering the following questions to include te your individual ad to pique the reader's rente.
- What are your hobbies?
- What activities to you love?
- Do you like to travel?
- Do you like to cook?
- What type of music do you love?
- Do you have a nickname?
- Do you have any major pet peeves?
- What are you hoping to obtain by posting this private ad?
- Do you have children or want to have children?
- What are you looking for te the person reading your ad?
- Do you love going out to movies?
- Do you love staying huis?
- Do you have pets?
- What are your future goals?


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Little Sprout One-Size Pants™ Golden Dot – Stretch
To avoid shrinkage, hang to dry.
Made with double brushed poly jersey knit fabric that is soft to the touch, and stretchy.
Little Sprout Pants™ grow with your baby and are cloth diaper approved!
One pair of Little Sprout Pants™ replaces up to 7 pair of traditional sized pants.
Made in Canada with designer fabrics, each pair of one size pants features a folding waist, and ankle cuffs allowing you to adjust the rise on both the tummy and legs as your little sprout grows.
Mini – 0-24 months
Little – 6-36 months
Toddler – 3T-5T
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"I cannot express how much I love this company. They go above and beyond for their customers and I truly felt appreciated as a consumer. Their customer service is absolutely amazing."
"Easy peasies has easily become my favourite diapers. I have tried so many brands over the last two years, I stumbled upon these in the fall and ordered one. Then another. And another. Then their subscription box. They're quickly replacing my other ruffled canadian brand. The colours are vibrant. PUL stretchy. Fleece doesnt get pilly. The fit is amazing. From my 7lb.newborn, to her currently at17lbs /5m and also fits her chunky 38lb 2yr old brother wonderfully!"
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"I found this website through a Facebook Ad and clicked on it our of boredom. I am so glad I did. We now own 15 pairs of little sprout pants because they fit my 9 month old crawler and my 2 year old toddler both perfectly. What a genius idea!"


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Welcome to Casa D'Angelo.
Casa D'Angelo is located in Macedonia, Ohio, close to freeways and half way between Cleveland and Akron.
At Casa D'Angelo, our family philosophy for 25 years has been to treat each and every customer as if you were an honored guest in our home. We use only the finest and freshest ingredients possible and we will never compromise on food portions or food quality. Our staff will endeavor to meet your every need. All of our food is prepared fresh-and made to your exact specifications.
We cater to our customers needs by providing classic Italian recipes along with low fat and vegetarian meal selections. Your server will be happy to assist you with a delicious choice!
Our goal is that all of our customers leave our restaurant satisfied. Thank you for allowing our staff the honor of serving you please come to Casa D'Angelo often – be a part of our family!
Monday – Thursday:
11:00 am to 4:00 pm (lunch)
4:00 pm to 9:00 pm (dinner)
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Children's Book Highlights God-Given Gifts in Adolescents
Liberty University Press recently released a children's book, "Every Child is Gifted," by Joy Gorham Hervey.
Using poetry, Hervey emphasizes that all youth have talents they can use to assist others. She encourages everyone to appreciate the unique gifts and potential that children have, rather than look at their upbringing or temporary circumstances.
"Every Child is Gifted" is now available online through Amazon and Barnes & Noble.
About the Author:
Joy Gorham Hervey was born and raised in Baltimore, Md. As a child, she loved to read and write.
"I remember losing myself in books," she said, "and I love to see children get excited about reading." Joy graduated early from high school and attended Harvard University, where she met her husband, Eurmon.
Following in her mother's footsteps, Joy pursued her calling as an educator, working as a teacher, principal, consultant, professor, and leader of community programs. Later, she earned a doctorate in education from Columbia Teachers College. During her research in Ghana, she met a young man who talked about how he spent his childhood taking things apart and putting them back together. This boy makes an appearance in her book, along with the author's children, Emmanuel and Trinity. Joy lives with her family in Jacksonville, Fla. In addition to reading and writing, she enjoys music and bargain hunting.
About Liberty University:
Liberty University, located in Lynchburg, Va., is the world's largest Christian university. Nearly 100,000 students attend classes on its 6,800-acre residential campus and study in its thriving online education program.
About Liberty University Press:
Liberty University Press remains at the forefront of helping more Christian authors than ever achieve their personal publishing goals. For more news and information on Liberty University Press, visit http://www.Liberty.edu/LibertyUniversityPress.


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Educational Programs
Pacific Aids Education and Training Center
The Ostrow School of Dentistry partners with the Pacific AETC—a non-profit organization dedicated to educating health professionals about HIV/AIDS—to provide training for oral health professionals in California, Nevada, Arizona, and Hawaii. The training program teaches health care providers—including dentists, dental hygienists, nurses, and dental assistants—to recognize early signs of HIV infection and oral conditions that may herald the onset of AIDS, as well as manage oral health care regardless of the patient's stage of HIV infection.
Please contact Irene Reyna at firstname.lastname@example.com for more information or about contributing volunteer hours.
More on the Web:
Pacific AIDS Education Training Center
Teeny Teeth Program – Young and Healthy
Through a partnership between the Ostrow School of Dentistry and Young and Healthy — a Pasadena-based health care program that provides free medical, dental, psychological and case-management services to low-income, uninsured children—the First Smiles curriculum is utilized to provide oral health training to school nurses. The curriculum provides an understanding of the science behind the caries process, the importance of dental care/screening for children, the extent of the dental epidemic, risk assessment and anticipatory guidance for children, and knowledge of how to provide a dental screening for children.
Additionally, screening exams and educational programs are held for children and their mothers at various sites affiliated with Young and Healthy.
Please contact Irene Reyna at email@example.com for more information or about contributing volunteer hours.
More on the Web:
Young and Healthy Pasadena
Ella Fitzgerald Charitable Foundation
Efforts to improve the oral health of underserved children served by the Ostrow School of Dentistry are enhanced by the Ella Fitzgerald Charitable Foundation through their reading program, 'A Book Just For Me'. The foundation provides free books to children who complete their dental treatment with the hope of fostering in them a love for literature. The Ella Fitzgerald Charitable Foundation gives over 2,500 books away annually through Ostrow School of Dentistry clinics. The foundation also provides monetary support to many Ostrow School of Dentistry community health programs including Give Kids A Smile Day.
Please contact Irene Reyna at firstname.lastname@example.com for more information or about contributing volunteer hours.
More on the Web:
Ella Fitzgerald Charitable Foundation


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Cosi Fan Tutte
Kde Royal Opera House
The opera Cosi Fan Tutte by Mozart and Da Ponte plays in London. Book your opera tickets for Cosi Fan Tutte in London Coliseum here!
Così Fan Tutte – 'women are all, and always, so' – is Mozart and Da Ponte's final comic masterpiece. Two young men are persuaded by a friend to test the virtue of their fiancées by means of a cruel deceit: they disguise themselves and then each attempts to seduce the others' girlfriend. When the women succumb, virtue is crossed – perhaps even double-crossed. Love, lust and desire are played out in a world in which the boundaries between what is real and what is make-believe are blurred.
Against the erotic pulse of Mozart's sublime music, the characters in Così fan tutte act out a game of love which entangles them far more deeply than they could have thought, or perhaps would be willing to admit. Once the deceit is unmasked, can their lives really go on as before?
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3 hours 15 minutes
(3 mins) The Royal Opera House is off Covent Garden piazza, which is visible from the tube station exit. There is a revolving door entrance at the piazza.


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On I Hear the Wind in the Wires actor/vocalist Jim Byrnes teams up with guitar/producer Steve Dawson in a baker's dozen of classic country songs.
Byrne's warm, easy voice against a backdrop of Dawson's many guitars and acoustic ensemble pays tribute to Hank Snow, Howard Harlan, Dolly Parton, Buck Owens, Marty Robbins and Hank Williams, in addition to Tom Waits and Gordon Lightfoot, among others.
You don't have to be a fan of country music to enjoy I Hear the Wind in the Wires. The album reminds us good performances are built on good songs.


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National Gallery Archive
The National Gallery Archive contains records of the Gallery's activities from its foundation in 1824 to the present day. The archive holds public records generated by the Gallery itself, and private papers relating to individuals or activities closely associated with the Gallery.
The records document the history of pictures in the Gallery's collection. They also record the history and development of the Gallery as an institution.
The records are wide in scope and include:
- Minutes of the Board of Trustees meetings
- Annual reports
- Administrative correspondence
- Internal memoranda and reports
- Publications by and about the Gallery
- Exhibition records
- Photographs
- Press cuttings
- Architectural plans
- Publicity material.
Search the Archive
It is possible to search the Archive online.
Or, please contact the Research Centre about making an appointment to consult archive material.


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Court says "no" to no-bid database
The state Supreme Court on Monday didn't just reject Amendment 54 rules barring some types of political contributions, it also hit the "delete" button on a public database of high-dollar, no-bid government contracts.
Amendment 54 largely sought to ban no-bid contract recipients from giving to political candidates. But tucked away in its paragraphs was a requirement that the state compile a list of any no-bid state or local contract greater than $100,000.
The Department of Personnel and Administration had already started the project – spending at least $10,000 and nearly six weeks worth of hours – when the courtroom battle put the breaks on it.
Now, its fate remains unclear.
Jon Caldara, head of the free-market thinktank The Independence Institute, urged state lawmakers to take up the baton and pass legislation this session to require the database.
The amendment "was overly broad, but the idea of having a database to provide some transparency about sole-source contractors, that's not a bad thing," Caldara said. "I want to see more competition for contracts. The people of Colorado want something done about pay-to-play."


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03 April 2011
Gundam Unicorn: Then and Now
The original designs (left) are from the novel, followed by the adaptation designs (right).
The drawings give off a feeling of vintage and retro-ness that is rarely found in today's character designs. Maybe its just me, but I've come to appreciate how they retained that UC era feel ^^
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I dont really follow Gundam UC so I dont know sorry but the last girl design was kind of similiar to today design I think? Not to mention looks like they change a lot?
and also the first girl? I kinda like the Then design than Now, new one looks like she is having a constipation =x=
- April 4, 2011 at 4:46 PM
- Yoshii-kun said...
@Anonymous Quite true. Perhaps its the shadow play on the character's side that gives them at darker/retro look, since today's characters look so round with their eyes taking up 40-50% of the facial area lol. Tho some characters have undergone a complete change....
And some girls are supposed to stay grumpy throughout the series :3
But I can see where you're going. Try out the OVAs when you've the time, since we're only halfway of the releases.
- April 4, 2011 at 4:53 PM
The novel design is very nice imo but the redesign isn't bad either, they did a good transition on them, the co-captain woman with her appearance changed somehow still retains the same feel on the other hand the last girl... a completely different person lol
- April 4, 2011 at 5:58 PM
- Yoshii-kun said...
@K' Haha. Have to agreed with you theres. And I haven't the slightest clue as to who is that last girl is ^^
- April 4, 2011 at 6:37 PM
agree with K'. not to mention the execution of the story is nice too. i dunno about the last girl too though..
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My 3rd great-grandmother Serena Jane Brown died at age 99 1/2 in San Saba, Texas. She had moved there with her parents in the 1850's and was actually the first child baptized at the newly created Baptist Church in 1857. When she died in 1942, she held the record for the longest continuous church membership in Texas. In short, Serena was a "big-wig", a prominent citizen of San Saba.
So when her 99th birthday arrived, naturally it made the front page of the local newspaper.
This article (click on the image for larger view), from the 25 Dec 1941 edition of the San Saba News, contains the usual bio details, and it also contains names and locations of relatives. A lot of names of relatives: kids, grandkids, great-grandkids, even a half-sister! And also many long-time friends and neighbors who could also be of genealogical value.
I found this newspaper article at the Library of Congress Chronicling America website:
Search America's historic newspapers pages from 1836-1922 or use the U.S. Newspaper Directory to find information about American newspapers published between 1690-present. Chronicling America is sponsored jointly by the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Library of Congress.