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UH-bound high school seniors encouraged to apply for Hawaii B Plus Scholarship program
Priority deadline to apply for 2006-2007 scholarship is March 15University of Hawaiʻi
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HONOLULU — Hawaiʻi public high school seniors planning to further their education at any of the University of Hawaiʻi's 10 campuses this fall have the opportunity to receive assistance from a newly established scholarship program. The State of Hawaiʻi B Plus Scholarship, funded by the State Legislature and approved by the UH Board of Regents last year, will distribute at least $500,000 for the 2006-2007 academic year. The program was designed to increase access to higher education and provide the state with a more educated workforce. At the same time, the program intends to bridge the gap between the cost of UH tuition and the resources available to low-income families. The UH financial aid offices will distribute the awards to students. The statewide GEAR UP program (Gaining Early Awareness and Readiness for Undergraduate Program) and the university's Office of Student Equity, Excellence, and Diversity (SEED) are working closely with the public schools to recruit applicants.Students wishing to apply for the 2006-2007 scholarship must meet the following criteria:
· Be a Hawaiʻi resident;
· Have financial need;
· Be graduating from a Hawaiʻi public high school this spring
· Have a minimum 3.0 GPA;
· and plan to enroll this fall at any of the 10 UH campuses.
The priority deadline to receive applications for the B Plus Scholarship is on March 15, 2006. The final deadline is July 15, 2006. For more information, to apply online or to download an application, visit http://www.hawaii.edu/diversity/scholarships/b-plus.htm.About GEAR UP
GEAR UP is a federal program whose mission is to significantly increase the number of low-income students who are prepared to enter and succeed in postsecondary education. The State of Hawai'i GEAR UP program is a consortium of partners that include the State of Hawaiʻi Department of Education, the University of Hawaiʻi's ten-campus system and many other community partners.About SEED
The Office of Student Equity, Excellence and Diversity (SEED) works to recruit and retain students from groups underrepresented in higher education. SEED also provides administrative support to committees addressing diversity issues at Manoa and system wide. For further information, call Dr. Amefil Agbayani at 956-9317 or go to www.hawaii.edu/diversity.
For more information, visit: http://www.hawaii.edu/diversity/scholarships/b-plus.htm


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Tosca is an opera for a diva about a diva. No wonder this perennial Puccini favourite is, to many sopranos, the ultimate prize of the repertoire. Floria Tosca is an opera singer trapped between the artist she loves and the dictator who lusts after her, and in the Royal Opera's latest revival, the spotlight falls on two fast-rising stars who take on the role in turn.
I remember speaking to Angela Gheorghiu about Tosca once: she declared that in this role she was simply playing herself. So does a soprano have to be a diva - in every sense - to be a great Tosca?
Amanda Echalaz, 36, thinks not. She shot to prominence in this same work at Opera Holland Park in 2008, since when it has become her "signature" role (audiences may also have spotted her in the Cardiff Singer of the World 2005 in which she represented her native South Africa). More recently she has performed Tosca at ENO and, crucially, stepped in at Covent Garden about three years ago when Angela Gheorghiu dropped out - since when she has been hailed as this star's successor in the role. "I never get tired of singing it," she says.
For her, she adds, "Tosca is a very human figure: she's full of wonderful qualities and like most people she has her flaws, which makes her very likeable. I'm drawn to the passionate, fiery side of her: she has a real zest for life. Her diva characteristics are obvious, but it's more interesting to try to find the real woman behind that, especially the real woman in love." Echalaz herself, unlike Tosca, seems serene and relatively down to earth. She identifies with Tosca's vitality and passion for music – but there, she insists, the resemblance ends. "Playing someone so extreme can be liberating, but I'm a little calmer in real life."
But the Latvian soprano Kristine Opolais, 33, whose 2011 Royal Opera House debut in Puccini's Madama Butterfly took her audience by storm, declares simply: "Tosca is like me! She's an opera singer and she's very jealous.
"You can find everything in this very colourful and powerful woman. She's strong, emotional and impulsive, and what happens to her is a great tragedy as she gives everything she is capable of giving for love. I feel very at home when I sing this role."
Opolais, who is married to the conductor Andris Nelsons and has recently had her first child, adds with a laugh that she thinks "divas" are inherently "not normal". "Who would want to do this job? You're nervous, you go on stage and all the time you are afraid whether the audience will love you or not. Even if you are stable, you are always afraid. So I think Tosca is already a little bit crazy – as every big diva has to be."

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Older Americans are easy victims for scam artists. But a Consumer Reports' investigation has found increasingly it's trusted family and friends who are abusing the elderly by draining bank accounts, selling valuables, or even taking over their real estate. And those crimes can often be very difficult to spot.
Caregivers, family members, and neighbors can use all kinds of tactics to raid their assets. They can be as obvious as forging signatures on checks, begging for loans that are never paid back, or abusing power of attorney.
When you give power of attorney to someone, it can give him unfettered access to your accounts. Someone who misuses those powers can do real damage. And that's a real problem for the elderly.
Consumer Reports says to help prevent elder abuse:
- Have bank and investment statements sent to a person you trust to monitor accounts.
- Arrange for direct deposit and automatic bill pay.
- Consult a reputable elder law attorney for advice on wills and limiting power of attorney.
Consumer Reports says there are good places to get help if you or an elderly relative is concerned about financial abuse, including the National Center on Elder Abuse, which has links to help and hotlines. That website is ncea.aoa.gov.
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Whereas the other thread is just for generalized discussion on the Sengoku-Jidai period, I figured I'd make this one for Sengoku fans just to discuss the different characters of the era, and list whatever ones are their favorite. For me...
1.) Otani Yoshitsugu: Was a leper, gradually began to lose his vision (but never completely lost it), and suffered from all sorts of maladies. Despite this, he was one of the best commanders at Sekigahara on the Western side, and even had predicted Kobayakawa Hideaki's betrayal in advance.
2.) Ishida Mitsunari: I have a soft spot for him, because I like his scheming nature and think that he was a good commander, despite what other texts say. His loss at Sekigahara was caused by the inactivity of many Western army units; the way he positioned the generals at Sekigahara was actually brilliant, and the Western Army could have won the battle had many officers not defected/did more to help the main core of the Western Army in the fighting.
3.) Date Masamune: Brilliant daimyo with an interesting personality. He also severed his eye, and was a pretty good commander. I also like how he was a patron of the arts and funded the Date Maru expedition.
4.) Uesugi Kenshin: Also an interesting man. He definitely was unique for his times. He didn't have any kids, was dedicated to living a somewhat monkish life, and increased his power effectively through both military campaigns and domestic affairs. If he had lived longer, the Uesugi would have put up a better fight against the Oda [because they would have been more united].
5.) Ryuuzoji Takanobu: Don't know why I like him, but I do. I guess I just love to conjure an image up of a fat man in a bear suit terrorizing the people of Kyushu (he was called the Bear of HIzen). In all seriousness though, I think he was a decent general, and think that the loss he suffered at Okitanawate wasn't so much his fault as it was the fault of nature and the senility he had developed with time.


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Katie Holmes Draws Applause as Dead Accounts Previews on Broadway
The actress handles the spotlight, and a faulty prop, with aplomb in Dead Accounts
Katie Holmes brought star power, and a touch of improvisation, in her return to the Broadway stage on Monday, as the new family comedy Dead Accounts opened for previews.
Holmes, 33, drew applause on several occasions – notably, when a telephone she was using in one scene broke, and she deftly fixed it without skipping a beat, even punctuating her dialogue by slapping the broken piece back into place.
She also earned cheers for a defiant speech about Wall Street greed – a recurring theme of the play, in which Holmes plays a Cincinnati woman whose brother returns home with a load of new money and a missing wife.
After the final curtain, Holmes was applauded during her solo bow, though the standing ovations started only when the full cast took their final bow together.
Holmes – who made her Broadway debut in 2008 in a revival of Arthur Miller's All My Sons – left the Music Box Theatre, just off Times Square, looking sleek in black pants, a black blazer, a cream top, hair pulled back into a bun, and sunglasses.
Asked what it was like to work with Holmes, one of her costars, Josh Hamilton, remarked: "Are you kidding me? She's a sweetheart."
Dead Accounts, written by Theresa Rebeck and also starring Judy Greer, Jayne Houdyshell and two-time Tony Award winner Norbert Leo Butz, officially opens Nov. 29.
• Reporting by SHAKTHI JOTHIANANDAN


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In 1969, fans were hungry for something different. The cultural movements had become dominated by musical heroes. It was time for a rock villain. Beginning with Alice Cooper, then KISS, & their descendants in the "Motleypocalypse Generation", the rise of Shock Rock in Metal would have a huge impact, into the future & beyond.
Hosted by Greg Davies from Blendover, the Heavy Metal Historian Podcast delivers to you snippets of tales from years gone by in the world of Metal, one episode at a time.
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DAVE MUSTAINE On His Mother-In-Law's Disappearance: 'My Wife Is Very, Very Upset'
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- "Under My Wheels" by Alice Cooper from the album Killer
- "God of Thunder" by KISS from the album Destroyer
- "Deuce" by KISS from the album KISS Alive!
- "Shout at the Devil" by Mötley Crüe from the album Shout at the Devil
- "Animal (Fuck Like A Beast)" by W.A.S.P. from the album W.A.S.P.
- "Year Zero" by Ghost from the album Infestissumam
- "Horror Business" by Misfits from the album Collection
- "Raining Blood" by Slayer from the album Reign in Blood
- "Slaves Shall Serve" by Behemoth from the album Abyssus Abyssum Invocat
- "Kabangin' All Night" by Genitorturers from the album Blackheart Revolution
- "Outlaw Scumfuc" by GG Allin from the album GG Allin & Antiseen: Murder Junkies
- "Quote / Unquote" by Mr. Bungle from the album Mr. Bungle
- "Welcome to my Nightmare" by Alice Cooper from Welcome to my Nightmare
- "The Ballad of Dwight Fry" by Alice Cooper from the album Love it to Death
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The Goblin Hexer's Vexing Cloud is a standard action with a zone:
Area burst 3 within 10; automatic hit; all enemies within the zone take a -2 penalty to attack rolls. The zone grants concealment to the goblin hexer and its allies. The goblin hexer can sustain the zone as a minor action, moving it up to 5 squares.
If the Hexer centers the blast on himself and it grants him concealment, do melee attackers then take an additional -2 to hit because of the effects of the cloud.
To break this down, assuming that concealment grants the Hexer +2 bonus to defense, and the cloud make its attacker take a -2 to attack.
Does that mean that the attack modifier from the cloud is -4? (-2 concealment + -2 cloud effect)


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not sure why exposed hammers would be "safer" I have a hammerless stoger coach gun it goes on safe when you open the barrels, its not my hd gun but an ok little gun. If i could change one thing about it it would be to change the extractors to ejectors
"What country can preserve its liberties if its rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance?" -Thomas Jefferson-
"Our rights come from our humanity and may not be legislated away -- not by a vote of Congress, not by the consensus of our neighbors, not even by agreement of all Americans but one." Judge Andrew P. Napolitano
They still have a place for people who are not "into" guns and do not take the time to practice or familiarize themselves with how they work. Almost anyone can figure out and remember a break open design, while pump guns and autos have a manual of arms that must be learned.
I have really come to enjoy my 500 here recently.
Well built, easy to maintain, and a joy to shoot.
My 18" win 97 doesn't kick that bad and six shots with my poor eyes is good. Next a pistol grip. It will still be over 26 inches.
hmmmm in hunter safety they teach that guns with a hammer or less safe as many people will let the hammer slip while cocking it an kaboom.
judging from the number of people who did this in my kids class on a unloaded 30-30 while learning to handel the gun I see there point . the instructor was very adamant about how a lever action was a poor choice for a beginner .
I have put a zillion rounds through a lot of different over under guns shooting trap an never had a issue . I have seen one discharge at the line that might have been a gun closing on cocking .
id be more concerned about a hammer catching on some thing an then droping on a round to be honest. I have heard of this happening on revolvers with one iover the barrel as well as autos were it was not half cocked .
Unloading a 30-30 with frozen hands can get ugly. I think that's where most of the accidents happen.
I do have a couple of pump action shotguns, and, one of them is my bedside companion. But, I guess it's caused by all the old western movies I used to watch; I like the coach gun. But, as reported earlier on this thread, the recoil might be more than I care to deal with.
Coach gun? What are trying to do, rob a stagecoach?
No, you use them to protect stage coaches. Do you have a stage coach? Me, neither!


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The GAPDH (glyceraldehyde 3-phosphate dehydrogenase) gene is an abundant and ubiquitously expressed "housekeeping" gene that can be manipulated and measured providing two-fold utility for siRNA optimization experiments in cultured cells. First GAPDH gene expression can be readily knocked down in many cell types by delivery of the validated Silencer® GAPDH siRNA. The efficiency of siRNA delivery can be easily monitored by measuring the reduction in GAPDH protein levels in cells transfected with GAPDH siRNA relative to cells transfected with negative control siRNA. Second, GAPDH expression can serve as a marker for identifying cellular toxicity resulting from transfection.
Easy Transfection Optimization
Rapid Measurment of Silencing and Cell Viability
Figure 1 indicates that while GAPDH knockdown was observed for all transfection conditions tested, the best knockdown was observed using 0.6 µl siPORT NeoFX per well. These protein knockdown results mirrored those for mRNA knockdown obtained using real-time qRT-PCR (best knockdown observed for 0.6 µl siPORT NeoFX conditions, data not shown). Since cytotoxicity was a problem at the very highest amount of transfection agent (1.2 µl/well), the best optimal transfection conditions were determined to be 4,000 cells and 0.6 µl siPORT NeoFX per well.
Figure 1. Fast Transfection Optimization Using the Silencer® CellReady™ Transfection Optimization Kit and the KDalert™ GAPDH Assay Kit. 4,000 and 8,000 HepG2 cells were transfected with either Silencer® GAPDH or Negative Control #1 siRNA using a Silencer CellReady siRNA Transfection Optimization plate and varying amounts of siPORT™ NeoFX™ Transfection Agent. Silencing of GAPDH expression for each transfection condition was measured using the KDalert assay. Residual GAPDH activity was determined from the ratio of GAPDH activity in samples transfected with GAPDH siRNA divided by the GAPDH activity in corresponding samples transfected with Negative Control #1 siRNA. Transfection associated cytotoxicity for each of the transfection conditions was also measured using the KDalert GAPDH Assay Kit by comparing GAPDH activity of negative control siRNA transfected samples to that of untreated samples. Identified optimal transfection conditions are highlighted in pink.
Optimized Transfection Conditions Can be Used with Confidence
Figure 2. KDalert™ Optimized Transfection Conditions Silence Five Different Genes. HepG2 cells were transfected with Silencer® Pre-designed siRNAs targeting five different genes in 96 well microplates using the optimized conditions determined in Figure 1 (4,000 cells/well, 0.6 µl siPORT™ NeoFX™/well). Two days after transfection, the mRNA levels in each of the transfected cultures were compared to cultures transfected with Negative Control #1 siRNA using real-time qRT-PCR.
Ambion's Complete Solution for siRNA Transfection
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Luis Foncerrada, Kevin Kelnar • Ambion, Inc.


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COLLEGE PARK, Md. – Sophomore Alyssa Thomas of the Maryland women's basketball team is one of five players named to the Associated Press All-America First Team announced Tuesday.
Thomas, the 2012 ACC Player of the Year, is joined on the First Team by Baylor's Brittney Griner, Notre Dame's Skylar Diggins, Stanford's Nneka Ogwumike and Delaware's Elena Delle Donne.
Thomas is the Terrapins' fourth AP All-American. Crystal Langhorne (2006, 2007, 2008),Kristi Toliver (2008, 2009) and Marissa Coleman (2009) all earned the honor at least once in their respective careers. Langhorne was also honored as a sophomore when she was named to the Second Team in 2006.
Thomas leads the ACC in scoring with 17.2 points per game and is among the best in the league with 8.0 rebounds per game, assists (3.2), free throw percentage (80.1) and defensive rebounds (5.5).
Thomas is just the second underclassman ever to be named ACC Player of the Year. She scored a career-high 29 points in the ACC title game to lead Maryland to its 10th league championship. She was named Tournament MVP and is only the seventh player, and first underclassman, to be named league Player of the Year and Tournament MVP in the same season.
The Second Team honorees are Chiney Ogwumike, Stanford; Odyssey Sims, Baylor; Shenise Johnson, Miami; Samantha Prahalis, Ohio State; and Julie Wojta of Green Bay. Connecticut's Tiffany Hayes, Kentucky's A'dia Mathies, Duke's Elizabeth Williams, Tennessee's Shekinna Stricklen and Miami's Riquna Williams all made the Third Team.
Behind two comebacks and a 21-4 run to end the game, Maryland rallied past Texas A&M 81-74 on Sunday in the Regional Semifinals. The Terps advanced to their fourth Elite Eight under head coach Brenda Frese.
Laurin Mincy had 21 points and for her career-high 12 rebounds for her first career double-double. Thomas added 21 points and nine rebounds for the second-seeded Terrapins. They trailed by 18 points in the first half and by 12 in the second half, but Maryland fought its way back and held the defending national champion Aggies to just one basket in the final 10 minutes.
The Terrapins had won 10 straight and 13 of 14 since Jan. 26. The Terrapins are 31-18 (.633) all-time in NCAA Tournament games. Frese owns an NCAA Tournament record of 20-7 (.741) and 19-6 (.760) at Maryland. Frese has led the Terps to eight NCAA Tournament appearances, four Elite Eights and the 2006 national championship.