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Generic name:
Doxycycline - oral
Brand name(s)
Acticlate , Monodox , Vibramycin , Vibra-Tabs
Generic name:
Doxycycline - oral
Brand name(s)
Acticlate , Monodox , Vibramycin , Vibra-Tabs
This medication is used to treat a wide variety of bacterial infections, including those that cause acne. This medication is also used to prevent malaria. This medication is known as a tetracycline antibiotic. It works by stopping the growth of bacteria.
This antibiotic treats only bacterial infections. It will not work for viral infections (such as common cold, flu). Using any antibiotic when it is not needed can cause it to not work for future infections.
This section contains uses of this drug that are not listed in the approved professional labeling for the drug but that may be prescribed by your health care professional. Use this drug for a condition that is listed in this section only if it has been so prescribed by your health care professional.
This drug may also be used for a certain skin condition (rosacea).
Read the Patient Information Leaflet if available from your pharmacist before you start taking doxycycline and each time you get a refill. If you have any questions, ask your doctor or pharmacist.
This medication is best taken by mouth on an empty stomach, at least 1 hour before or 2 hours after a meal, usually 1 or 2 times daily or as directed by your doctor. Take this medication with a full glass of water (8 ounces/240 milliliters) unless directed otherwise. If stomach upset occurs, taking it with food or milk may help. However, doxycycline may not work as well if you take it with food or milk (or anything high in calcium - more details below ), so ask your doctor or pharmacist if you may take it that way. Do not lie down for at least 10 minutes after taking this medication.
Take this medication 2 to 3 hours before or after taking any products containing aluminum, calcium, iron, magnesium, zinc, or bismuth subsalicylate. Some examples include antacids, didanosine solution, quinapril, vitamins/minerals, dairy products (such as milk, yogurt), and calcium-enriched juice. These products bind with doxycycline, preventing your body from fully absorbing the drug.
When using to prevent malaria, this medication is usually taken once daily. Take the first dose of this medication 1 to 2 days before travel or as directed by your doctor. Continue to take this medication daily while in the malarious area. Upon returning home, you should keep taking this medication for 4 more weeks. If you are unable to finish this course of doxycycline, contact your doctor.
If you are using the liquid form of this medication, shake the bottle well before each dose. Carefully measure the dose using a special measuring device/spoon. Do not use a household spoon because you may not get the correct dose.
The dosage is based on your medical condition and response to treatment. For children, the dosage may also be based on weight.
For the best effect, take this antibiotic at evenly spaced times. To help you remember, take this medication at the same time(s) every day.
Continue to take this medication until the full prescribed amount is finished, even if symptoms disappear after a few days. Stopping the medication too early may allow bacteria to continue to grow, which may result in a return of the infection.
Tell your doctor if your condition persists or worsens.
Stomach upset, diarrhea, nausea, or vomiting may occur. If any of these effects persist or worsen, tell your doctor or pharmacist promptly.
Remember that your doctor has prescribed this medication because he or she has judged that the benefit to you is greater than the risk of side effects. Many people using this medication do not have serious side effects.
Tell your doctor right away if you have any serious side effects, including:
Tetracycline drugs such as doxycycline may rarely cause a serious increase in pressure inside the skull (intracranial hypertension-IH). The risk of this side effect is greater for women of childbearing age who are overweight or who have had IH in the past. If IH develops, it usually goes away after doxycycline is stopped; however, there is a chance of permanent vision loss or blindness. Get medical help right away if you have:
This medication may rarely cause a severe intestinal condition (Clostridium difficile-associated diarrhea) due to a type of resistant bacteria. This condition may occur during treatment or weeks to months after treatment has stopped. Do not use anti-diarrhea or opioid medications if you have any of the following symptoms because these products may make them worse. Tell your doctor right away if you develop:
Use of this medication for prolonged or repeated periods may result in oral thrush or a new vaginal yeast infection. Contact your doctor if you notice white patches in your mouth, a change in vaginal discharge, or other new symptoms.
A very serious allergic reaction to this drug is rare. However, get medical help right away if you notice any symptoms of a serious allergic reaction, including:
This is not a complete list of possible side effects. If you notice other effects not listed above, contact your doctor or pharmacist.
In the US -
Call your doctor for medical advice about side effects. You may report side effects to FDA at 1-800-FDA-1088 or at www.fda.gov/medwatch.
In Canada - Call your doctor for medical advice about side effects. You may report side effects to Health Canada at 1-866-234-2345.
See also Side Effects section.
Before taking doxycycline, tell your doctor or pharmacist if you are allergic to it; or to other tetracyclines (such as minocycline); or if you have any other allergies. This product may contain inactive ingredients (such as sulfites, soy found in some brands), which can cause allergic reactions or other problems. Talk to your pharmacist for more details.
Before using this medication, tell your doctor or pharmacist your medical history, especially of:
Doxycycline may cause live bacterial vaccines (such as typhoid vaccine) to not work as well. Do not have any immunizations/vaccinations while using this medication unless your doctor tells you to.
Before having surgery, tell your doctor or dentist that you are taking this medication.
This medication may make you more sensitive to the sun. Limit your time in the sun. Avoid tanning booths and sunlamps. Use sunscreen and wear protective clothing when outdoors. Tell your doctor right away if you get sunburned or have skin blisters/redness.
Children younger than 8 years may be more sensitive to the side effects of doxycycline, especially tooth discoloration. Tooth discoloration has also occurred in older children and young adults. Discuss the risks and benefits of this medication with the doctor.
Tell your doctor if you are pregnant or plan to become pregnant. You should not become pregnant while using doxycycline. Doxycycline may harm an unborn baby. If you become pregnant, talk to your doctor right away about the risks and benefits of this medication.
This medication passes into breast milk. Consult your doctor before breast-feeding.
See also How to Use section.
Drug interactions may change how your medications work or increase your risk for serious side effects. This document does not contain all possible drug interactions. Keep a list of all the products you use (including prescription/nonprescription drugs and herbal products) and share it with your doctor and pharmacist. Do not start, stop, or change the dosage of any medicines without your doctor's approval.
Some products that may interact with this drug include:
This medication may interfere with certain laboratory tests (including urine catecholamine levels), possibly causing false test results. Make sure laboratory personnel and all your doctors know you use this drug.
If someone has overdosed and has serious symptoms such as passing out or trouble breathing, call 911. Otherwise, call a poison control center right away. US residents can call their local poison control center at 1-800-222-1222. Canada residents can call a provincial poison control center.
Do not share this medication with others.
If this medication is being used to prevent malaria, it is important to understand that it is still possible to get the disease even if you have used this medication. Avoid being bitten by mosquitoes when trying to prevent malaria. Avoid contact with mosquitoes, especially from dusk to dawn, by staying in well-screened areas, wearing protective clothing, and using insect repellent and bed nets.
This medication has been prescribed for your current condition only. Do not use it later for another infection unless your doctor tells you to.
Laboratory and/or medical tests (such as complete blood count, liver/kidney function) may be performed periodically to monitor your progress or check for side effects. Consult your doctor for more details.
If you miss a dose, take it as soon as you remember. If it is near the time of the next dose, skip the missed dose. Take your next dose at the regular time. Do not double the dose to catch up.
Store at room temperature away from light and moisture. Different brands of this medication have different storage needs. Check the product package for instructions on how to store your brand, or ask your pharmacist. Do not store in the bathroom. Keep all medications away from children and pets.
Do not flush medications down the toilet or pour them into a drain unless instructed to do so. Properly discard this product when it is expired or no longer needed. Taking outdated tetracycline-related drugs can result in serious illness. Consult your pharmacist or local waste disposal company.
HOW TO USE THIS INFORMATION: This is a summary and does NOT have all possible information about this product. This information does not assure that this product is safe, effective, or appropriate for you. This information is not individual medical advice and does not substitute for the advice of your health care professional. Always ask your health care professional for complete information about this product and your specific health needs.
Information last revised January 2020.
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Selected from NATIONAL DRUG DATA FILE (NDDF) data included with permission and copyrighted by First Databank, Inc., 2019. This copyrighted material has been downloaded from a licensed data provider.
The above information is intended to supplement, not substitute for, the expertise and judgment of your health care professional. You should consult your health care professional before taking any drug, changing your diet, or commencing or discontinuing any course of treatment.


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Hi Joe,
short answer: No chance...
1. I would ask the editor for a translation. I think the people in Canade can talk both languages.
2. You have to search for a tool, that export the text, mtext etc. as a *.txt file -> import the text in a translation software -> reimport the text into ACAD. Be carefull, because the language softwares are very bad sometimes...
Try Trans.
I didn't test it by myself.

subset: commoncrawl


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Why lie? When the trailer for "Dear John" first broke on the internet, we couldn't get through it without getting a little choked up. Come on! From the guy who wrote the ultimate tear-jerker, "The Notebook," comes another gloriously syrupy tale of young love torn asunder. Throw in 9-11 theme and a few glamour shots of wet, half-naked Channing Tatum and Amanda Seyfried, and we were sold. Sadly, the "Dear John" trailer is much better than the actual film.
The pre-Valentine's Day date flick offering is the story of John Tyree (Tatum), a Special Forces solider, who meets and falls for Savannah Curtis (Seyfried) while on leave at home in North Carolina. After just two weeks together, the pair is madly, desperately, in love, a romance that plays out through a series of Dear John letters as John returns to combat duty.
Adapted from Nicholas Sparks' novel of the same name, it has all the signature Sparks elements audiences have gobbled up in the past, making the author one of the biggest franchises in Hollywood. There's a summer love story set in a small town in North Carolina, the couple has a catch phrase ("I'll be seeing you" is "See you soon then" this time around), and the romantic heroes make out in the rain. It's a formula that's worked before. But not this time.
U.S. & World
Part of the blame lands squarely on Sparks' shoulders. It's difficult to be invested in a romance when the main characters spend most of the film apart, making the love story untethered and unsatisfying.
Bigger fault lies in Lasse Hallstrom's direction, whose previous work runs the gamut from profoundly brilliant ("What's Eating Gilbert Grape," "My Life as a Dog") to the legendarily campy (26 of ABBAs best known music videos, including "Dancing Queen").
"Dear John" is neither. Lost somewhere in a no man's land of sad sack melodrama and thwarted romance, the film is like a child first learning to play the saxophone: while some notes land on their mark, most are cringingly off key.
Despite other flaws, the one surprising constant in the film is good acting. Tatum turns in an unexpectedly layered, emotionally revealing performance, while Seyfried imbues her role with an interesting quirkiness. Richard Jenkins is stellar, as always, as John's distant father, a relationship which provides the most deeply touching scene in the film. Henry Thomas, of "E.T" fame, has a small but pivotal role that is mostly notable because, well, it's Henry frickin' Thomas ("Ehhh-lee-ot").
Neither a great film nor a terrible film, this is the kind of movie that makes men roll their eyes as Valentine's Day nears, when their girlfriends say, "Oh honey, we have to go see that!"


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Sharyn McCrumb's novel King's Mountain is out now. I was hoping to pick up a copy yesterday, but the nearest bookstore didn't have it in yet. I don't read much fiction, but it's not often somebody writes a novel about your favorite historical subject, so I'm really interested in this one. You can read an excerpt at Appalachian History.
The main characters in the excerpt are two women who share the same nickname, Virginia Sal and Virginia Paul (or Poll), both of whom reportedly accompanied Ferguson on the campaign and were present during the battle. Quite a few books dealing with King's Mountain refer to them, and they also appear in the film shown at the battleground's visitor center.
When it comes to documenting their presence in Ferguson's camp, things get as little tricky. As with so much of what we know about the battle, the tale of the two Virginias owes as much to later oral tradition as it does to firsthand source material. I'm about to discuss these two women in some detail, so if you're unfamiliar with their story and you're planning to read McCrumb's novel, you might want to skip this post until you finish the book.
The fate of the two Virginias is one of the more colorful aspects of King's Mountain lore. The red-headed Virginia Sal reportedly caught a fatal bullet and was buried on the battlefield, either next to Ferguson himself or in a common grave with some of the dead Tories. Virginia Paul is variously said to have been captured in the action and later released by Col. William Campbell, to have traveled with the Whigs back to North Carolina before going off to join Cornwallis, and to have pointed Fergsuon out to the attacking Whigs.Of course, women frequently accompanied Revolutionary War armies into the field as camp followers in order to cook, haul water, provide laundry and nursing services, and so on. But many accounts of King's Mountain have the Virginias providing Ferguson with services of a less respectable character, claiming that the officer was keeping a mistress or two in camp.
In his 1881 book on the battle, Lyman Draper claimed that this tradition had been circulating in the Carolinas for fifty years. His inquiries about Ferguson's women yielded reports from about half a dozen correspondents in the region. These letters date from about a century after the battle, but they do provide some tantalizing details. W.D. Glenn claimed that Ferguson had dual mistresses with him at King's Mountain, based on reports from "two old citizens near me" who got the information from veterans. Wallace Reinhardt told Draper that Ferguson's woman was named "Featherstone," while J.R. Logan mentioned a string of beads taken from Virginia Sal's body after her death. Always fascinated by a good anecdote, Draper included the tale of the two Virginias in his book, and the story of Ferguson's dual mistresses has become an inextricable part of the story of the battle as a whole. Some early writers took it as proof that the Scotsman lacked any scruples. For example, in his 1920 history of southwestern Virginia, William C. Pendleton wrote, "That Ferguson had no regard for morality and decency was evidenced by the fact that he had two mistresses with him when he was killed."
If the "mistress" angle is correct, Ferguson wouldn't have been the only British officer to do so while on campaign in America. But since female camp followers performed a number of legitimate services for troops in the field, the fact that two women were reportedly with Ferguson at King's Mountain doesn't necessarily mean that he was sleeping with either of them. To modern ears, the notion that Ferguson was keeping a buxom red-headed lover in his camp, that she died during his famous last stand, and that they were both buried on the battleground sounds like the sort of romanticized, unsubstantiated baloney that would appeal to a credulous nineteenth-century antiquarian. Yet as tempting as it might be to dismiss the tale of the two Virginias as nothing more than a backwoods Carolina legend, there are actually a couple of sources that lend some confirmation to the story.
The first is this statement in the pension application of King's Mountain veteran John McQueen:
That there was a woman who Ferguson had been keeping who had left the British army and had come with news to Capt. Lewis [presumably Capt. Joel Lewis] and she told him that Ferguson could be known by him using his sword in his left hand as he had been wounded previously in the right and Capt. Lewis communicated this to Col Cleveland and after the battle commenced, he pointed out Ferguson and selected 8 or 9 of his best riflemen and told them he had to fall, and there was 6 or 7 bullet holes through him after the battle….
This may reveal a kernel of truth to the story that Virginia Paul identified Ferguson, but McQueen's claim that the woman "had left the British army" indicates that she had already departed from the camp before the battle started and then encountered the Whigs later at some point on their approach to King's Mountain. That seems to contradict the story that she was among the Tories taken on the field, as well as Draper's statement that when the battle ended she "was seen to ride around the camp as unconcerned as though nothing of unusual moment had happened." Still, it's significant that a veteran of the battle believed Ferguson had taken up with a woman who was accompanying the army.
The other source isn't on paper. It's on the battlefield itself—or rather underneath it. In his book on Tories in the American Revolution, North Callahan reports that in 1845 Dr. J.W. Tracy of the town of King's Mountain, NC found two sets of remains in Ferguson's grave and identified one of them as female. And in his guidebook to the battleground and collection of eyewitness accounts, NPS ranger Robert Dunkerly notes that ground penetrating radar confirms the presence of a second body. So just because some historical anecdote sounds too dramatic and juicy to be true, that doesn't necessarily mean it's bunk.


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BERLIN – The Berlin Mayor and Council considered a variety of street- and water-related items at the Dec. 8 Berlin Mayor and Council meeting. They are summarized below.
— Berlin will pursue promised street repairs on Vine and Grice streets and Graham Avenue this year with work planned for spring 2009.
"We definitely did budget money to upgrade these streets this year," said Mayor Gee Williams.
Plans call for staff and engineering consultants to visit those streets and begin making plans for improvements in mid-December.
"That's the first step in the process," said Williams.
The town has over $200,000 set aside for professional services related to the street repairs.
"It was in fact budgeted," said acting town administrator Mary Bohlen.
Berlin could go to the bond market for the remainder of the street project funds as it does roughly once a decade.
After the preliminary engineering, bids will be solicited in early spring.
Williams said that should be an ideal time for the town to seek competitive bids, given the lack of construction business in the region due to the recession.
Plans also call for major work on Harrison Avenue, which connects Main and Broad streets, but going forward on the project will be complicated by ownership and configuration issues.
The town does not own the entire street, and the road has an unusual curve at its junction with Broad Street, which will be a challenge, Williams said.
— While Berlin will pursue major road improvement projects, the council decided against running an irrigation line under a local street to the veterans' memorial garden to save $1,800 plus labor costs.
"We all want water there, but do we need it?" Councilwoman Lisa Hall asked.
Under present economic conditions, Hall does not see the point of paying for the extension.
Hall, who works in property management, said that in her experience, installing a public water source is asking for trouble.
"It's just something else to take care of because they will not leave it alone…I'm not against the vets or anything like that. I just don't think we need it," she said.
Water and Wastewater Director Jane Kreiter said there have been issues in the past with this practice.
"We have had situations in the past where we had hydrants and water fountains in the parks and they were vandalized," said Kreiter.
The public has asked for a water spigot at the veterans' memorial for years, she said. Watering the memorial garden now requires running hoses from the Calvin B. Taylor House museum or nearby homes.
Hall suggested that public works could spray the garden from a vehicle-based water tank.
Williams instructed Public Works Superintendent Mike Gibbons to make the memorial garden watering part of the town's maintenance routine in summer.
The town should be taking care of the garden itself, not depending on private citizens to do it, Williams said.
— Some private citizens are asking for less water service, Kreiter reported this week, requesting that their irrigation meters be removed to save the $12.50 per month fee.
"I felt it was a reasonable request especially in today's [economic] environment," said Kreiter.
Once removed, the property owner may not ask for reinstallation for three years or until the property changes hands, to prevent people from asking for seasonal removals and reinstallations. Under the new policy, reinstallation would cost $175.


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Barnes' novel is a fictionalization of an episode in the life of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. In 1906, Doyle was petitioned by a George Edalji, a Staffordshire lawyer, who had been convicted of mutilating a horse and sending threatening letters to himself. Although the evidence against Edalji was slight, and there was every indication that the local police had settled on him as a suspect because of his non-white lineage (Edalji's father, the Reverend Shapurji Edalji, was converted to Christianity in his youth, married a Scottish woman, and at the time of the trial had served his congregation for several decades), and although the mutilations continued while Edalji was remanded and awaiting trial, he was found guilty and sentenced to seven years in prison. A letter-writing campaign resulted in his release after three years, but with no explanation. With a criminal conviction on his record, Edalji couldn't practice law, and he turned to Doyle for help in obtaining a pardon and compensation from the Home Office (although significantly altered, the Edalji case was obviously an inspiration for a sub-plot in Michael Chabon's novella The Final Solution).
The book's title, and even its cover design, which depicts two men standing together in silent camaraderie, suggests that Barnes' focus is the relationship between Arthur and George. In truth, the two don't even meet until more than halfway through the novel, and spend very little time together after that initial meeting. George never plays Watson to Arthur's Holmes (and frankly, if there's a Holmes between the two it is the dispassionate, observant George), and the interactions between them are never more than polite. Barnes is far more concerned with describing the two men as individuals--George, brought up in quiet asceticism, an unimaginative and asocial man; Arthur, driven by notions of honor and chivalry, given to grand gestures and elaborate demonstrations of affection.
Barnes' prose throughout the novel, although by no means unlovely or underperforming--as I've already said, the novel effortlessly evokes its period--is dry and utilitarian. His purpose is to describe locations, characters and events, but at no point do his descriptions elicit emotion. Instead of forcing his readers to feel as he wants them to feel, Barnes politely invites them to sympathize, not empathize, with his characters. Even his descriptions of high emotion have a clinical, detached quality.
And then his capacity for calm professional analysis ran out. He felt immensely tired and yet also over-excited. His sequential thoughts lost their steady pace; they lurched, they plunged ahead, they followed emotional gravity. It was suddenly borne in upon him that until minutes ago only a few people--mostly policemen, and perhaps some foolishly ignorant members of the public, the sort who would beat on the doors of a passing cab--had actually assumed him guilty. But now--and shame broke over him at the realization--now almost everyone would think him so.The emotion that Arthur & George does elicit is borrowed from its readers, and from history itself. Barnes is relying on us to react with outrage and horror at the indignities that George Edalji and his family experience. For years, the family received abusive letters and threatening messages (the same letters which George was accused and convicted of writing). Barnes describes this harassment in chilly, matter-of-fact terms, and leaves it to us to imagine the stifling horror of this relentless assault. Similarly, there is very little editorializing in his descriptions of George's patently unjustified and unfair trial and conviction--Barnes obviously assumes that we can be relied on to be horrified by this miscarriage of justice*.
This analytical, emotionless approach to character exploration invariably succeeds with George, but fails with Arthur. Arthur's problems aren't as grand and as affecting as George's. It's easy to get worked up over the thought of a blameless and decent man being convicted of a crime he didn't commit, but how exercised are we supposed to get over Arthur's marital difficulties, especially when juxtaposed with George's problems? In almost every respect, Arthur & George is a stronger novel when dealing with the latter character. When introducing his two protagonists, Barnes coyly avoids acknowledging their respective idiosyncrasies--that Arthur is the famous novelist and creator of Sherlock Holmes; that George is a middle-class Englishman of Indian descent in the 19th century (which, I suspect, means that readers who approached the novel without any prior knowledge of either the characters or the affair that brought them together had a reading experience that was quite different from mine). But the revelation that George is not white has a bite--it comes when a brutish police sergeant forces George to spell his unusual last name--whereas the discovery of Arthur's true identity smacks of playfulness: "Arthur had initially called his detective Sheridan Hope. But the name felt unsatisfactory, and in the writing Sheridan Hope had changed first into Sherringford Holmes and then--inevitably as it seemed thereafter--into Sherlock Holmes."
Most importantly, Arthur is a much less interesting character than George. There's no question which of the two would make for a more interesting dinner companion--Arthur would be able to talk about the great men of day, recount amusing stories from his past, and just in general be jovial and entertaining, whereas George's greatest contribution to the world of letters seems to have been a pamphlet about railroad law. But as a literary character, Arthur is very nearly one-note. Barnes sums him up in a few sentences--he is a man desperate to believe in chivalry and to act according to a personal code, who inevitably finds that conviction challenged by the realities of his life. Once this fairly mundane crisis is established, there is very little that the novel can tell us about Arthur that we haven't already worked out for ourselves. George, in contrast, is constantly confounding our expectations. This is due in part to Barnes stacking the deck--in the earlier segments of the novel, George's lack of appreciation for the finer nuances of social interaction is very nearly autistic ("How d'you do, my name's George" he says to the schoolyard bully, and when the above-mentioned sergeant asks for it, the sixteen year old George responds that he knows his own name). We are surprised, therefore, when we meet George as an adult and discover an observant, thoughtful individual, full of appreciation for the quirks of human behavior--even the kind he doesn't participate in himself. Once the initial surprise wears off, however, we continue to be impressed by George's ability to observe people, and to make unprejudiced and compassionate observations about them. George is also capable of turning that keen insight on himself, and of not taking himself very seriously. Ultimately, George is a thoroughly likable person, a mensch, whose quiet civility puts Arthur's blustering sentimentality to shame.
Sight, and observation, are a recurrent theme in Arthur & George, which seems only appropriate for a novel over which the ghost of the Great Detective must inevitably hover. Once again history seems to be on Barnes' side--Doyle trained as an opthamologist, and Edalji suffered from a severe myopia which, according to Doyle, was his first indication that the mild-mannered lawyer was incapable of traipsing across unfamiliar fields in the dead of night to slaughter livestock. Barnes himself seems to engage in a great deal of dispassionate observation--it is at the core of his approach to the entire novel, and primarily to the characters--and his characters attempt, with varying degrees of success, to do the same. But of greater interest to Barnes is the failure of this attempt at unprejudiced observation. Some of his characters see what they want to see--which in certain cases might be called faith, and in others self-delusion, and in others yet racism. Others refuse to see what is right in front of them, such as George's insistence that the persecution of his family and his own conviction were not motivated by racial prejudice. And then of course there are those who are obsessed with believing that which can never be seen. Doyle was famously a proponent of spiritualism, a patron of psychics and mediums, and Barnes concentrates on Arthur's relentless quest to prove--empirically, with visible evidence--that these men and women were truly contacting the world beyond.
Ultimately, however, Arthur's belief in the afterlife is not a question of evidence but of faith, and Barnes obviously expects us to consider the difference between the kind of knowledge that is supported by observation and evidence and the kind that doesn't require either. Here, unfortunately, is where history, which had previously buoyed the novel up, begins to box it in. The 19th century medium has become synonymous, in our culture, with the charlatan and the snake-oil salesman**. We can't respect Arthur's faith in the survival of the spirit because the terms in which it is couched are, to us, emblematic of self-delusion. The question is answered before it can even be asked, and the entire sub-plot--which might, I suspect, have been the point of the novel--collapses in upon itself. What's left is the historical recreation.
I read Truman Capote's In Cold Blood a few months ago, and was particularly struck by the book's first segment, which follows Herbert Clutter and his family on the last day of their lives. Capote describes the Clutters as decent, hardworking, generous people, whose lives were as charmed as it is likely that any human life could be--riddled with niggling inconveniences and not-inconsiderable sorrows, but ultimately happy and productive. I couldn't help but wonder how accurate Capote's image of the Clutters was--whether he, or their grief-struck neighbors, had smoothed over the rough edges. I had no such doubts when I read Arthur & George--I believe whole-heartedly that Barnes has captured the essence of both Doyle and Edalji's personalities, and the truth of the events that brought them together. As a recreation of a moment in history, a fictionalization of real-life events, Arthur & George is unquestionably a success. It is a nearly-journalistic account, and a very readable and fascinating one at that, but I honestly don't think that it can be called a novel.
* The one instance in which this approach fails is in the descriptions of George's life in prison. George is a solitary, stoic individual, used to a very simple life and not given to complaining, which explains his ability to withstand his incarceration as well as he does. Ultimately, however, this resilience makes George's prison term seem less like a grave injustice and more like a dull, overlong holiday, on which he has the opportunity to read the great classic novels. It's interesting to compare Barnes' descriptions of prison life with Sarah Waters' similar recreation in her novel, Affinity. I found the novel quite tedious, but there's no question that Waters manages to bring across the horror of prison life.
** Which, if I may be allowed to segue again to Waters' Affinity, is one of the reasons I didn't care for the book--it never occurred to me that the medium character was anything but a fraud.


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It was pretty much the perfect story: The Senate introduced a bill that would let the President take over the entire internet during a crisis. Our online Weimar Republic is crumbling beneath the digital Führer! Minor catch: It wasn't true.
Credit to Nicholas Thompson over at Epicenter, who spent some quality time with the bill:
[I]n its original form, did have some seriously bad ideas in it. For example, in an emergency, the president could "order the limitation or shutdown of Internet traffic to and from any compromised Federal Government or United States critical infrastructure information system or network."
And then, Senate procedure happened. The softened, pared-down language of the current bill would only entitle the President to, "In the event of an immediate threat to strategic national interests involving compromised Federal Government or United States critical infrastructure information system or network" help to "direct the national response" to a crisis, "in coordination with relevant industry sectors." As Thompson notes, nothing scary is granted here, and the President definitely hasn't been authorized to take over private networks, for malign ends, for fun, or otherwise.
In reality, the bill might actually aid transparency, oddly enough: Thompson highlights a theory that, by ensuring the government's digital emergency management powers are kept out of the less accountable hands of the NSA and in the public view, abuses are less likely. So there's that! [Wired Epicenter]


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It's not just Mac users who can now release the shackles of Apple's grip on their iPhone 4S and iPad 2 – Windows users can now grab GreenPoins0n Absinthe and jailbreak their A5-packing iDevice.
If you are an obsessive user interface jerk like me, you may have noticed the slight design changes in iOS 5. They are almost invisible but they are there, from two-pixel position adjustments to transparency changes in the badges' shadows.
Siri has the ability to address you any way you wish—Master, Tater Salad, whatever. Siri also has the ability, according to Fury.com, to save that nickname to your personal contact info and distribute it with every vCard you send.
Cloud is a magic tech word today. "i" has been a golden prefix in tech for over a decade. iCloud, the holiest union of the two, could be the future of computing. For now? It's super convenient! But that's it.
I like Newsstand but some people don't! And if you're like them, it's pretty annoying how you can't hide the Newsstand away in a Folder in iOS 5. But wait! You can. All you need is some super fast fingers. Here's how.
Remember life before cellphones? It's hard, because they are so ubiquitous and essential. iCloud marks a similar turning point, a transition from an old way of doing things. It makes computers easy for everyone, by making computing disappear.
In full compliance with Apple's "never use your computer for anything ever again" initiative, you can now buy ringtones and alert tones directly from your iPhone. REJOICE. [TheNextWeb]
It's here. iOS 5 — with iCloud, a revamped notifications system, iMessage, Newsstand and 200 more features—is finally available for download. It works with the iPhone 4, iPhone 3GS, iPad 2, iPad and iPod touch (3rd and 4th generation). Get it by connecting your device to iTunes.
iCloud isn't totally off the ground yet, but the new Find My Friends app is already available in the iTunes Store.
With iOS 5 coming out next Wednesday, Apple just opened the flood gates to the general market seed on their developer site. This release will probably have all the goodies you can expect for the final version. We'll let you know what's changed. [BGR]
The new iOS 5 will go live October 12. It brings revamped notifications and more than 200 new features for your iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch. These are the top ten, and then some more.
One of the features I'm most looking forward to in iOS 5 is Newsstand, I can't wait to have my news and magazines automagically download to my phone every morning. But what else is there to know about Newsstand?
Tomorrow you will see Assistant working on iOS 5 and, presumably, the iPhone 4S. Assistant is an artificial technology that interprets what you are saying, like the Enterprise computer. It's like, magic, they say. This video mockup shows how it works.


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I can get the ShellObj for "My Pictures"-Folder with that call:
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Since Windows 7 introduced shell "libraries" and there is the default library called "pictures" I'd like to reference that. There is no predefined TSpecialFolder for that. On my machine the library has this path "::{031E4825-7B94-4DC3-B131-E946B44C8DD5}\::{A5A3563A-5755-4A6F-854E-AFA3230B199F}". I could use this string constant (if there wouldn't be another problem, see my other post), but is it the same on all computers? Is there a better way to get the library path?


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Peer pressure when you are 30++
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This post was featured on 'freshly Pressed' on 12 Novenber 2010 It really doesn't matter what age you are as there will always be peer pressure. Whether it is incited by societal or cultural norms or the media etc. it is still the same as when we were all in the playground and it doesn't get … Continue reading →
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MILLBROOK, N.Y., June 24 (UPI) -- A decline in foxes, not an increase in the deer population, may be responsible for the explosion of Lyme disease in parts of the United States, researchers say.
Normally, small mammals get infected by the bacteria and ticks get infected by feeding on the mammals. The infected ticks then lay their eggs on deer. Foxes disrupt the chain by feeding on the small mammals, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reported Sunday.
"It was thought that deer were the only game in town for ticks," Taal Levi, lead author of the new study and a research fellow at the Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies in New York, was quoted as saying.
Foxes will kill many small mammals at once, stashing the kill for later, while coyotes are not as efficient predators of small mammals. As the coyote population has expanded, they've interfered with the suppression of Lyme disease rodent hosts.
Researchers, who tracked the number of deer, coyotes and foxes in Wisconsin, Minnesota, Pennsylvania and Virginia, found decreasing numbers of foxes over a 30-year period. Deer abundance and Lyme cases were not related in Wisconsin and other states, the study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences said.
One area in western New York with a high fox population was notably devoid of Lyme, the researchers said.


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Caribbean Greens
From a window seat at 10,000 feet, the islands of the Caribbean appear as jewels afloat on an aquamarine sea. The sugary sand beaches, the verdant landscape, the mysterious mountains and the clear blue-green waters are all the things you expect of the Caribbean, and, indeed, of paradise.
Now, golf has begun to join the roster of pleasures to be found throughout this tropical paradise. Where once only a few of the region's resorts offered golf, and fewer still offered high-quality golf, the bird's-eye view tells you that the green fingers of the game are wrapping themselves around coastlines, spreading through old sugar-cane fields and caressing the sides of mountains. Barbados, the Bahamas, Puerto Rico, the Dominican Republic and Jamaica have seen an explosion of dramatically beautiful new courses.
Jorge L. Diaz shows off his piece of paradise from a more intimate level, hovering at around 500 feet. He lifts his A-Star helicopter from the newly paved parking lot of the Coco Beach Golf & Country Club in Puerto Rico, and swoops above the facility's 36 holes. Diaz is executive vice president of a large family construction company in Puerto Rico that owns a large plot of northeastern coastal land, about 40 minutes from San Juan. In his helicopter, Diaz is tour guide and pilot, and as the craft flies gracefully above his land, he speaks with obvious passion. "We have had this land in our family for 43 years and we are finally doing something that I feel makes us very proud," says Diaz. "We are doing something here that is very good for Puerto Rico."
What Diaz and his company felt was needed was another golf facility for Puerto Rico, an island already blessed with many fine golf venues. But Diaz's realization has spread all across the Caribbean. In the last 10 years, particularly the last five, golf courses have been popping up across the islands, growing faster than the banana trees and the sugar-cane fields they are replacing.
Tom Fazio has built 36 holes at Sandy Lane in Barbados. Pete Dye has added a new course, known as Dye Fore, to his beloved Casa de Campo resort in the Dominican Republic, and his son P. B. has designed the course at the Punta Cana Resort and Club. Robert von Hagge has built the White Witch Golf Club in Jamaica and overhauled the Rose Hall course nearby, known now as Cinnamon Hill. Greg Norman constructed the River Course at the Westin Rio Mar in Puerto Rico and the Emerald Bay course on the Exuma islands in the Bahamas. Tom Weiskopf oversaw the Ocean Club course on Paradise Island in the Bahamas. Jack Nicklaus has several projects under way, in the Dominican Republic, St. Lucia, Tortola and Anguilla. Chi Chi Rodriguez, the greatest player in the history of Caribbean golf, has built a course on his home island of Puerto Rico.
Breaking through the clouds on the approach to Grantley International Airport in Bridgetown, the coastline of Barbados and its roster of excellent courses beckon. There's the Royal Westmoreland course constructed in the mid-'90s by Robert Trent Jones Jr. There's the recently renovated Barbados Golf Club, a public course. But the new gems are spectacular courses at the Sandy Lane Resort, Barbados' most elegant and pricey piece of paradise. Sandy Lane has Fazio's Country Club course and the newly opened Green Monkey. It also kept nine holes of its original course that plays through the estate. This is a big-time investment, and as you would expect, it has been rendered beautifully by Fazio, with a stunning modern cut-limestone and marble clubhouse at its heart.
While The Country Club and The Green Monkey have different playing characteristics, the adjacent 18-hole courses do share exceptional views of both the Caribbean and Bajan green monkeys. You can occasionally find yourself with a gallery of Barbados' most famous primate. The island has between 5,000 and 7,000 of these monkeys, originally brought to Barbados from West Africa about 350 years ago. A gorge that runs through The Green Monkey course acts as a highway for these playful creatures. On any early morning or late afternoon, you're likely to find a dozen of them frolicking in the trees along the fairways.
The Green Monkey is the more dramatic of the two courses, playing around and into a limestone quarry. Fazio did some quarrying work of his own to bring the limestone into view and into play on other holes. Like The Country Club course, The Green Monkey is broad-shouldered. The fairways are wide to accommodate shots played in the occasional strong trade winds, and the greens are large for the same reason. There's plenty of room to play the game, though a duck hook or a snap slice can find a limestone wall or two.
The back nine at The Green Monkey can play monstrously long from the back tees, known as the Masters tees. It's 3,914 yards from the tips. The 226-yard 16th hole, the shortest of the three par 3s on the back, plays down into the quarry floor where a large reservoir has been created. The longest of the par 3s is 270 yards all the way back, but it's downhill and downwind. The most challenging back tee is on the 17th, a par 4 that plays a modest 388 yards from the blue tees. Walking off the 16th green, the blues are immediately obvious. But your scorecard tells you that from the back tee the hole is 523 yards—as a par 4! Where could that tee be? Your well-trained Bajan caddie will then point out that it sits across the reservoir at the base of the enormous quarry wall, nearly 150 yards in back of the blue tee. Up for it? If you play 17 at 523 yards, the shortest of the three par 4s on the back nine is the 472-yard 18th hole.
"I remember when we opened that tee on 17 I had to give it a go," says Michael Davern, a fine Irish lad from Tipperary who's the director of golf for Sandy Lane. "There was a lot of wind swirling around down here. I couldn't carry the reservoir. I finally managed to hit one at the front tee boxes. You better be pretty strong if you are going to play that hole back there." If you decide to play from all the back tees, be prepared for a rigorous 7,389-yard challenge. Fortunately, the course has five sets of tees; it's manageable for good players from the blues at 6,855 yards and more manageable still from the middle tees at 6,399 yards. The Green Monkey tests without being testy. There are few forced carries, few potential penalty strokes. It's a big course that's right in front of you and takes its rightful place near the top of the Caribbean golf hierarchy.
The Country Club course, while somewhat easier, is by no means a slouch. The bunkering here presents a stark contrast to The Green Monkey's, a difference seen vividly from the air. The Green Monkey fairway bunkers are large and flat, though they may contain a chunk of limestone here and there. The Country Club bunkers are small and deep. The Country Club fairways are wide—just don't stray too far. Those fairway bunkers are penal, and you may not be able to advance the ball more than wedge distance, and sometimes you may only be able to play out sideways.
The Country Club has an appropriately benign start, with no par 4s longer than the 395-yard first. That is, until you get to the 500-yard par-4 seventh, which forces you to sit up and take notice. Like The Green Monkey, the back nine of The Country Club comes in trios of par 3s, 4s and 5s. The shortest of the 4s is 453 yards. The finish is a 195-yard par 3 across water into the wind. The Country Club, with many fairways lined with mahogany trees, is a treat that has a bit of trick to it.
Don't pass up playing Sandy Lane's Old Nine. This original course, built in 1961, isn't a pitch-and-putt, as it plays at more than 3,300 yards. It has old Bermuda grass greens and fairways that can be spotty and rough. It's a good course to play if you have a significant amount of rust on your swing, though you can shake that off at the large practice ground at The Country Club.
A caddie is mandatory with every tee time at The Country Club and Green Monkey. If there is a knock on golf at Sandy Lane, it's that with greens fees as high as $210 there are no oceanfront holes. Then again, with room rates in high season pushing $1,000 a night and up, those greens fees seem like tip money.
Puerto Rico
Puerto Rico has been at the center of golf course building in the Caribbean over the past five years. Six course projects in various stages of development are under way here. In addition, the four Robert Trent Jones courses at Dorado Beach and Cerromar Beach have undergone recent renovations and boast new clubhouses. The venerable Dorado East remains one of the region's premier courses, east year hosting the Montecristo Cup, which is co-sponsored by Cigar Aficionado and Altadis U.S.A. Inc. Puerto Rico also was slated to host the men's and women's World Amateur Team Championships at the Rio Mar Country Club in October. With nearly 5,000 members in the Puerto Rican Golf Association, golf on the island is not driven solely by the tourist trade, and that leads to a pleasing variety in the nature of golf development.
Willowbend Development, an offshoot of the Reebok shoe company, has a heavy interest in Puerto Rican golf. It runs the golf operation at the Westin Rio Mar, and designed, built and operates the new Costa Caribe Golf & Country Club in Ponce. The company also designed (in conjunction with Tom Kite), built and operates the 36-hole Coco Beach Golf & Country Club.
Costa Caribe, on a windswept plain overlooking the sea, is the first course in Ponce, the second largest city in Puerto Rico. Designed by Willowbend's Bruce Besse, Costa Caribe is a 27-hole membership course that is open to public play. It's planted entirely in Salem Seashore Paspalum grass, a strain developed for hot climates that is increasingly being used in place of Bermuda grass strains. It doesn't have the pronounced grain of Bermuda grass and every lie in the fairway is perfect.
To the east of Costa Caribe, near the southern town of Guayama, is Chi Chi Rodriguez's new facility, El Legado Golf Resort. This is Puerto Rican horse country and a working stable borders the east side of the course. Rodriguez has molded a 7,217-yard course from this relatively flat land, creating an island green for the par-5 finishing hole, which happens to be the 19th. Rodriguez is superstitious, so once you play the 12th hole, the next hole on the scorecard, and the course, is the 14th. "We think of it like a hotel, you know, the elevator," says his brother Jesus, who is running the place. "Chi Chi is superstitious about the number 13." A number of condominiums already dot the property, and a hotel is in the plans. While it calls itself a resort, El Legado has an appealing non-resort feel to it right now, a country course that is a real getaway.
Diaz's Coco Beach Country Club is a very well-rendered 36 holes with significant input from Champions Tour player and former U.S. Open winner Tom Kite. The holes here—be they inland, along a lagoon, in the marshlands or up into the hills—are thoughtfully detailed. The holes in the hilly country are clever and afford some lovely views of the ocean and the El Yunque rain forest. This fall, 18 holes are open, though the order will change once all 36 holes are complete. The current layout creates some awkward routing, but the holes are worthwhile. There really isn't a weak one in the bunch. Kite has made the course playable for everyone, yet there are difficult pin positions on every green that will test the best players. "Tom was very dedicated about getting all the details right," says Diaz. "I think we have done a job which can make us very proud and fulfill the dream of my father for this land."
Coco Beach is a massive development. A new all-inclusive hotel sits on the site, with another hotel to come. Time-share condominiums and more than 1,200 villas are planned. Diaz sees the day when Coco Beach will be open only to members, hotel guests and villa owners. But that day is probably far in the future. For now, tourists staying in San Juan have a fairly easy trek to Coco Beach.
The fate of two more new course projects is undetermined. A course in Caguas, an interior city south of San Juan, was built but has not been opened. A proposed Intercontinental resort called Cayo Largo on the east coast was built, then ran into a ton of legal issues and has not opened, either. That's a shame, since the Ron Garl-designed track there would clearly be considered one of the best in Puerto Rico. Even without these courses, Puerto Rico offers the most golf of any Caribbean island. And with so many Puerto Ricans playing, the game takes on a true island feel.
Dominican Republic
The Dominican Republic is just a short hop west of Puerto Rico, and the Casa de Campo Resort courses at La Romana, designed by Pete Dye, have long been considered the Caribbean's true golfing mecca. Dye's Teeth of the Dog course is the Caribbean's No. 1 tract and he so loves the place that he has a home there. His latest offering at Casa de Campo is the burliest course in the Caribbean, called Dye Fore. It's a 7,770-yarder that plays on the ridge tops overlooking the Chavon River, occasionally running right down to it. "Everything about this course is big, big, big," says Gilles Gagnon, director of golf at Casa de Campo. "We get some pretty big wind up on the hill, so the fairways and greens are big. It's 7,700 yards, but nobody plays it there. I don't. It's plenty long enough from the shorter tees."
Two holes that catch everyone's attention are the par 3s, 12 and 15. From the back tee, 12 is 245 yards with a big gully in front of the green and the river to the left. It normally plays into the wind. "I've never played from the back tee," Gagnon says with a chuckle. "I can't hit my driver that far." The par-3 15th, at a more humane 210 yards, has a very deep bunker on the left and the river on the right.
Dye has also done some renovation work on the Dog now that the airport doesn't run through it. The runway for La Romana's old airport crossed some holes on the Teeth, and Dye has been itching to get that big concrete strip out of there for nearly two decades. Now that La Romana has a shiny new airport off the resort property, Dye has shined up the Dog with some new bunkers, new fairway mowing patterns and a new irrigation system.
Golfers just keep coming back to Casa de Campo, playing a whopping 110,000 rounds a year, 60 percent of which Gagnon figures is repeat business. For his Casa de Campo Open, held in September, it's about 90 percent for nearly 400 players. Greens fees here are quite reasonable, and Gagnon offers what he calls "memberships" instead of "packages" for golf that can reduce the fees to around $100 per round.
North and East of La Romana is the burgeoning resort area of Punta Cana. At the Punta Cana Resort and Club, a high-end hotel and residential development, Pete Dye's son P. B. has designed the La Cana Golf Club with four holes that play along the Caribbean. The par-5 18th has been lifted almost directly from Pebble Beach, but here you can swim off the 18th green. Try doing that in the frigid rocky waters of the Pacific by Pebble Beach.
The Punta Cana area is where Jack Nicklaus has begun work on a large project at Cap Cana. Three courses are planned, one of which, Punta Espada, is under construction. And near Santo Domingo, Gary Player designed the Guavaberry Golf and Country Club, which opened in 2002.
It doesn't stop with those three islands.
Everywhere you turn, you'll find more golf. The White Witch Golf Club at the Ritz Carlton Resort near Montego Bay, Jamaica, is a hugely fun roller-coaster ride. The nearby Cinnamon Hill course has a wonderful back nine in the mountains and a front nine that reaches the Caribbean on two holes.
At the One&Only Ocean Club resort on Paradise Island, Bahamas, Tom Weiskopf was essentially handed the keys to the old, poorly maintained course there and told to completely renovate it, which he did in 2000. By grabbing up a defunct landing strip, Weiskopf fashioned a 7,159-yard test befitting a resort of this caliber. The short par-4 17th plays along a cove and is drivable, but not for the faint of heart.
Whether you're looking for a formidable challenge or just want to take in the breathtaking scenery, golf in the Caribbean is now more than just a flight of fancy. What is so beguiling from the skies is equally beguiling on the ground. Much imagination and money have gone into making parts of this precious landscape into some of the finest courses in the world. Finally, for the avid golfer, nothing is lacking in the Caribbean paradise.
Jeff Williams is a sportswriter for Newsday on Long Island.


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A federal grand jury indictment that was filed Thursday accuses an Ohio man who claimed to be a missing child from Illinois of lying to federal agents and of identity theft.
Sears Holdings Corp. is suing its former chairman and largest shareholder Eddie Lampert, alleging the billionaire stripped the once iconic company of more than $2 billion in assets.
The grounding of its Boeing 737 Max jets is causing United Airlines to trim growth plans for this year, and the carrier expects to discuss potential compensation with Boeing.
Last year, much of Hawaii was shocked to learn a Chicago restaurant chain owner had trademarked the name "Aloha Poke" and wrote to cubed fish shops around the country demanding that they stop using the Hawaiian language moniker for their own eateries.
Texts raise questions about Cook County State's Attorney Kim Foxx's involvement in the Jussie Smollett case. The final aldermanic votes have been tallied. And a lawsuit seeks to stop the Lincoln Yards project.
Paris Schutz and guests discuss Chicago's connections to the Mueller report, including the confirmation that the Illinois State Board of Elections was compromised in the 2016 election.


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Grzech Piotrowski writes about the "One World":
"This is a record of my musical path through the world. One World is the alter ego World Orchestra, the opposite pole. Focus on the smallest possible form – sax solo. I prepared two years for this to be able to play a solo concert. Neither jazz, or folk. Just the music from inside the soul. Sometimes I joined guests, my friends known in Scandinavia, Asia, Africa, Europe, the Middle East expanding to form a quintet. "One World" is a focus on detail and implement my vision of creative music without looking at it, what are the trends and expectations from the outside. Peace, silence, meditation, reflection, simplicity, minimalismin the end triggering emotions. Exposes the color, the sound of my instrument to its limits, creating all the spaces saxophone. Sound I paint pictures, arrange musical background and plans. Murmurs, whispers, imitate the sounds of nature, animals, nature. My wonderful guests leave on tape forever captured trace their soul in the music full of magic and reflection … "


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Miami-Dade Police said Monday that its departmental policies were violated when an officer escorted Miami Heat superstar LeBron James to Sun Life Stadium for the Justin Timberlake and Jay Z concert Friday night.
Situations requiring police escorts are usually planned in advance. But Miami-Dade Police spokesman Det. Alvaro Zabaleta insisted that the motorcycle escort for James was impromptu, involving an officer working for the stadium.
"We're still not finished looking into it. There's a lot of people we need to talk to," Zabaleta said. "And if in fact it merits disciplinary action, than that's what the officer's going to have to face."
Shout Out on 6: Should the Officer Who Escorted James to Friday Night's Concert Be Punished?
Police said in a statement that they were aware that an Instagram video posted by James shows him being escorted onto the property of the stadium.
"Upon further investigation, it has been confirmed that the Miami-Dade Police Department did (facilitate) Mr. James from one intersection to another in the adjacent area of the stadium," police said. "This was not a scheduled escort and although all safety precautions were taken, the department has identified these actions as a violation of departmental policies."
On his Instagram account, James posted a video of the vehicle he was in being escorted.
"Light police escort on the wrong side of the street. Headed to the big homey concert. JT. Holler," he said in the video.
Zabaleta said of the violation, "The department states that at no point in time are we going to allow anybody to go against traffic."
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James wrote, "They treat us so well! Needed it cause traffic was nuts!"
Zabaleta said safety was never compromised. Two intersections were blocked along Northwest 27th Avenue to accommodate James.
"They were able to stop the traffic – we're talking two intersections," he said. "This is as far as they went – from 191 Street to 199 Street – eight blocks."
The cars seen in the video passing James' vehicle pulled out of the parking lots of neighboring businesses, according to police.
The officer was one of many working the concert Friday night. Police said they do not know who gave the order for the escort but continue to investigate.


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Unit: Organ systems
Foundational Concept 3: Complex systems of tissues and organs sense the internal and external environments of multicellular organisms, and through integrated functioning, maintain a stable internal environment within an ever-changing external environment.
3A: The very fact that you are able to understand this sentence means that neurons in your brain (85 billion in total) are talking to each other. Neurons are the living substance of the nervous system, which extends beyond the brain to the spinal cord and peripherally, allows you to think and process, make decisions, stand up straight, maintain your heart rate, rest and digest. You will come to appreciate the structure and function of the nervous system as we delve into its anatomy and physiology, from the gray and white matter to the cerebellum to the neurons.
3A: Neurons transmit information to one another through electrochemical signals. They make up the motor nerves that allow you to type an essay, the sensory nerves that let you feel a fluffy dog, and your brain, allowing to remember the content of this module. They have a number of helper cells, ranging from astrocytes, to microglia, to ependymal cells as well. You will come to appreciate the structure and function of neurons and the comrade cells which help to maintain the optimal function of the nervous system.
3A: As you visually process this webpage, countless action potentials are taking place across the neurons in the occipital lobe of your brain. An action potential is an extremely quick change in the membrane potential of the neuron that can propagate toward other neurons. It's like one neuron is telling another neuron "Hey, wake up! We have work to do!" You will soon gain an appreciation for the mechanism of the action potential, which allows for communication between neurons of all flavors in your body- from those responsible for the maintenance of memory to those functioning in sensation.
3A: Synapses are the means by which neurons, just like other cells of the body, communicate with each other as well as other cells, like muscles and glands. They are the equivalent of neural telephone lines allowing for the transmission of a neurotransmitter, that is, the message. Thus, you are able to tell a dog from a cat. and a ball from a rock. Without all this cross-talk, you might look at an object without truly seeing or hear a sound without actually listening.
3A: The human body is composed of about 100 trillion cells (this is not counting your bacterial buddies, who actually outnumber your cells 10 to 1!) Your cells must speak to each other to coordinate this massive symphony of life. In this tutorial, you will learn about the molecular basis of cellular signaling that makes this vast network speedy and efficient.
3A: Glands are special organs that secrete chemical messages called hormones, which seep into the blood - it's like putting a tea bag in hot water. As the heart pumps, this blood carries these chemical messages throughout the body, allowing the hormones to interact with specific target cells and organs. Endocrine glands help us to maintain our appetites, grow up, metabolize molecules, concentrate urine,- and oh, so much more! We will examine how these variegated hormones play a role in homeostasis as the body responds to a changing environment.
3B: With every beat, the heart pumps blood throughout the body through an intricate system of blood vessels to provide oxygenation to tissues - from about 4 weeks after conception until the day you die. Over your lifetime, it will pump about 175 million liters of blood (that's only the amount of water that falls over the Niagara in a few minutes). This little pump in the middle of your chest is only the size of a clenched fist (if you're an adult), and yet it does so much.
3B: Roughly 5 L of blood fill your arteries, veins, capillaries, and venules. What's it good for you ask? It carries oxygen to help your cells carry out respiration in addition to a number of other substances like lipids and hormones throughout the body. In cases of blood loss, such as trauma situations, the physician must be wary of the different blood types. We will explore the intricacies of the hematologic system here.
3B: If you place your hand on your ribs and take a deep breath, you'll notice that your chest expands and your back straightens. As this occurs, air is rushing through your windpipe and branches off to either your left or right lung. After about 20-30 more branch points, oxygen in the air ends up in the alveoli where it diffuses into the surrounding liquid, slipping into the blood. This rapid microscopic gas exchange allows oxygen to be taken up during inhalation as carbon dioxide leaves during exhalation.
3B: Your heart pumps roughly 20 L of blood throughout the day to your tissues. The plasma component of blood (not containing blood cells) leaks out through capillaries (the tiniest of blood vessels) and is mostly reabsorbed. However, about 3L of the plasma is left behind in fluid surrounding tissues, and it is the job of the hard-working lymphatic system to bring back this fluid to the circulatory system. The lymphatic system moves fluid in one direction, but without the force of a pump like the heart.
3B: Chances are , you've had a fever or a cough at least once in your life (unless you live in a bubble, in which case you should probably go out more!) Have you ever wondered why your body reacts this way? Your body has a deadly arsenal of weapons against microbial invaders, ranging from bacteria and viruses to protozoans and fungi. We have specialized cells that destroy foreign bodies through mechanisms such as consumption, expulsion, and degradation. You will become acquainted with the interplay of the numerous soldiers in your body's army and how they keep you healthy!
3B: If you want to learn more about the renal system, then urine the right place! (Pun aside, the kidneys are about more than just making urine). Every thirty minutes, your kidneys filter the entire blood supply in your body. Imagine a dirty pool filled with algae. Placing a filter in this pool will cause the algae to be flushed out, and after a time you'll have a clean, crisp blue pool to enjoy. Just like the filter for a pool, our kidneys filter the blood and remove toxic wastes. These paired organs are key to maintaining electrolyte and water homeostasis in your body.
3B: In addition to fluid and electrolyte balance, the kidneys play an essential role in regulating blood pressure. When the nephron, the functional unit of the kidney, senses that it is not receiving much blood flow, it knows something is up. So begins a cascade which allows the nephron to reabsorb more fluid from the urine, in attempt to fill up the perceived dip in blood volume. Here you will learn the mechanism of ADH and the renin-angiotensin-aldosterone system in sustaining this homeostasis.
3B: You begin with mechanical digestion in your mouth, where starches are also broken down. The bolus of food travels down your esophagus into the stomach, where it sits and churns, further allowing for breakdown of biomolecules like fat and protein.The contents of the stomach then enter the small intestine, which is where the bulk of digestion and absorption of nutrients occurs through the work of shear mechanical (peristalsis) and chemical (digestive enzymes) force. Then our food commutes through the large intestine (AKA the colon), where most of the fluid absorption in the GI tract occurs. Phew! Eating sure is a lot of work! By Raja Narayan.
3B: Muscles never sleep (literally). If you have ever taken a breath, you have benefited from the work of the diaphragm, which contracts to create an area of low pressure within your thoracic cavity, allowing air in. How exactly are some weightlifters able to support 717 lbs without breaking anything more than a little sweat? Fun fact: the largest muscle in your body is the gluteus maximus (that's your butt) while the smallest skeletal muscle is the stapedius (it stabilizes the smallest bone, the stapes, which is in your middle ear). By Raja Narayan.
3B: Were it not for your skeleton, you and I would be a mere sack of flesh. You will come to appreciate that the bones, together with muscles, are a scaffolding for your body. We will also explore their endocrine function, especially with regards to calcium and phosphate homeostasis. Fun fact: the bone most broken is the clavicle (AKA collar bone).
3B: There is really more than meets the eye with skin. Yes, it does make us look nicer than a bag of bones, muscles, and organs. But it also serves other important purposes which range from guarding the body against infection to sensation to allowing for metabolism of vitamin D. We will explore the structure and function of skin from the macroscopic to the microscopic level in this tutorial.
Starting with sexual reproduction and then the development of a baby, we're going to take a journey that starts with our own microscopic beginning, and ends with a fully formed baby entering the world.


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Orphan Technologies to develop CU treatment for life-threatening metabolic disorder
The University of Colorado has signed exclusive, worldwide licensing and collaboration agreements with rare-disease research-and-development firm Orphan Technologies Ltd. to develop an enzyme replacement therapy for Cystathionine Beta-Synthase (CBS) -deficient homocystinuria, a rare, inherited metabolic disease that is often fatal at a young age. The collaboration was initiated in 2010 and includes sponsored-research funding by OT to continue development of the treatment approach pioneered by Jan P. Kraus, a professor of pediatrics at the CU School of Medicine. Orphan Technologies plans to begin first-in-human trials in 2014.
CBS-deficient homocystinuria is a rare genetic disorder caused by low levels of active CBS enzyme. Individuals with this disease are unable to fully metabolize the amino acid methionine, which is found in nearly all foods. That leads to the accumulation of toxic levels of related metabolites (molecules that are the product of metabolism), and deficits in others.
Patients with homocystinuria suffer major multi-systemic disorder, including mental retardation, dislocation of the lens of the eye (leading to blindness if not treated), seizures, osteoporosis and stroke. Taken together, these lead to a significantly shorter life expectancy; almost one fourth of untreated patients die before the age of 30.
About 40 percent of patients with homocystinuria benefit from vitamin B6 supplementation. But for the rest, treatment is limited to a methionine-restricted (low protein) diet and supplementation with cystine, folate, and betaine (Cystadane) which partially restore metabolic balance; however, these treatment approaches do not repair the broken methionine metabolic cycle and don't resolve all metabolic abnormalities, so patients still suffer from severe, life-threating symptoms.
Professor Kraus has devised an enzyme replacement therapy to correct the underlying cause of the disease. This approach has the potential to restore the normal metabolism of methionine, which could avoid the accumulation of toxic levels of metabolites, prevent the appearance or worsening of symptoms, normalize life expectancy, and eliminate the need for diet restrictions.
"Today the therapy for homocystinuria concentrates on lowering the concentration of a single metabolite, homocysteine, while metabolites further downstream are unaffected by the available treatment," said Professor Kraus. "However, these downstream metabolites may be of considerable clinical significance, and our approach has the potential to restore all the affected metabolites to their normal level, and as such reduce or prevent symptoms and enable a return to a normal diet."
CBS-deficient homocystinuria impacts at least 1 in 300,000 people worldwide (though prevalence may be higher due to under-diagnosis). It is designated by the U.S. Office of Rare Diseases Research (part of the National Institutes of Health) as a rare disease. Because of the smaller market, drugs to treat these 'orphan diseases' are eligible for special financial and clinical trial incentives (including fast-tracked FDA approval) and extended exclusivity periods in the U.S, Europe and other countries.
"We are excited to partner with CU and Professor Jan Kraus, a pioneer in the field of homocystinuria, in order to advance the development of a potential therapy for this tragic disease," said Josef Rosenberg, Director of Orphan Technologies. "Our collaboration is intended to accelerate the translation of fundamental advances in enzyme biochemistry at CU into the introduction of a new clinical therapy. Our alliance with CU constitutes another important step towards the reinforcement of Orphan's presence in the field of rare diseases worldwide."
David Poticha, a senior licensing manager at CU's technology transfer office, said, "We are encouraged by the preclinical data for this technology and believe that it could bring hope for a patient population desperately in need of clinical alternatives. We are very pleased to be working with Orphan to develop this technology for those patients."


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- Topic » Dealing with no-shows ♦ Nann Blaine Hilyard in Zion, Illinois seeks help dealing with library sponsored classes / workshops where people who are signed up fail to attend. What policies can help deal with this?
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Overall: [52-25] Last week: [5-1]
It's been leaked by some pretty reliable sources this will be Tedford's last game. I wish this game was at home so we could give him the proper sendoff he deserves. It's only fitting his last game would be against the Beavers who have been the perennial thorns on our butts.
Washington 48 – Colorado 27: So why did we invite Colorado into the conference to begin with?
Washington State 22 – Arizona State 45: ASU is my sleeper team for next year.
USC 38- UCLA 21: I really want to pick UCLA, but I think USC finds a way to pull it out again this year.
Stanford 25 – Oregon 45: Andrew Luck couldn't win here and neither will a backup QB.
Arizona 31 – Utah 35: Utah hasn't looked good of late, but SLC is a pretty tough place to play.
California 28 – Oregon State 31: The score of probably the most painful game I've ever attended in my life.


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All roles are volunteer positions - BeatSarcoma is run entirely by volunteers which allows it to keep very low overhead costs. You may combine roles if you are so inclined and have enough time to devote to it. Training is available for most positions - so do not hesitate to pick a role that you like, even if you do not have any experience with it.We ask for a commitment of 1 to 3 years, renewable.If you are interested in any of these roles, contact
Social Media Manager - This person will oversee all aspects of the BeatSarcoma Facebook and Twitter pages, as well as blog (stories.beatsarcoma.org) and moderate our Guest Book. This consists in publishing important information in a timely manner. The type of information that we publish may be related to news about the sarcoma community at large, sarcoma research progress, donations BeatSarcoma may make, events it runs...or job postings! Some other members may contribute content and work with you to create a post. Email and Internet access are required. Each post will take a very small amount of time in the order of minutes, and responsiveness is key to success! Business Development Director - A lot of companies have developed programs to assist charities with their fundraising. GiveRead is an example of the online ones. Supermarkets, around the world that donate part of each sales to charities ('contribute to XYZ' at the checkout counter) would be another one. There might also be opportunities we can create. Researching these opportunities and incorporating BeatSarcoma into their activities can bring a tremendous amount of funds in a very scalable way. There is enough work to build a team and grow the effort. An average time commitment would be about 1 to 2 hours/week. This work is independent of any event.Director of Marketing - you can help BeatSarcoma scale tremendously by supporting outreach campaigns, cross-promotion efforts, PR and online marketing (AdWords for instance) to encourage people to donate through the BeatSarcoma website. An average time commitment would be about 1 to 2 hours/week. This work is independent of any eventLegal Counsel - as BeatSarcoma scales and work with many more volunteers throughout the State, the country and perhaps beyond, understanding liability and responsibilities issues become critical to success. You may not have experience in this particular area of the law but you can help BeatSarcoma navigate this information and set up successful scalable fundraising programs.
Fun Run Sponsorship Director - active January-April - this role is a seasonal role. Member of the Fun Run Core Team, you are responsible for sourcing and negotiating sponsorship donations. Our goal with an event is to have 100% of the cost of the event covered so this is a key position. We typically need to raise at least $5,000. You have great selling skills and are passionate about helping the cause!Fun Run Event Director - active January - April - you are project managing the event, from volunteer coordination, shopping, participants enrollment through to marketing and fundraising. You will help recruit volunteers to run the events, pre - during and post event (writeups, cleanups, etc...)Fun Run Marketing Director - you like aggressive goals! BeatSarcoma would like to significantly increase the number of participants at the Fun Run. You will develop marketing and communication channels, incentives and messaging to encourage people to sign up.Sarcoma Cup Sponsorship Director - active January-August intermittently - this role is a seasonal role. Member of the Sarcoma Cup Core Team, you are responsible for sourcing and negotiating sponsorship donations. Our goal with an event is to have 100% of the cost of the event covered so this is a key position. We typically need to raise at least $20,000 through sponsorship. You have great selling and partner management skills and are passionate about helping the cause!
Bookkeeper - you assist the CFO with bookkeeping and general accounting and can work with BeatSarcoma CPA during tax time (BeatSarcoma's fiscal year is from April 1st to March 31st). You develop processes around bookkeeping that can scale to several event and program teams and you help consolidate their input. Typical time required is about 1 hr/week. Each event team will use your process to document their events (so that BeatSarcoma can scale)Office Manager - you man the BeatSarcoma office 15 hours/week to enable BeatSarcoma to qualify for key federal fundraising programs. You do not have to do any BeatSarcoma work during that time unless someone calls or knocks at the door. You can use this time as you see fit! Office hours can be tailored to match your schedule - they can also be in the evening, or at weekends. BeatSarcoma does not operate on National Holidays and between Christmas and the New Year.
Our EIN is 26-0852086. You can access information about BeatSarcoma at https://businessfilings.sos.ca.gov/


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These petite & pretty tartlettes are simply sweet pastry dough baked off, then filled with lemon curd, and topped with a sweetened whipped cream "kiss". They are perfect as part of a dessert buffet, or as an offering on the sweets tray for an afternoon tea.
If available make the curd with Meyer lemons, the flavor is milder and a little more "fruity". But don't worry if Meyer's are not in season, I've filled them with regular lemon curd and the plate is always cleared.
No last minute rushing to serve these as you can make the lemon curd a day or two in advance, ready to fill the pastry "flowers". On the day you want to serve, simply prepare and bake the pastry shells, allow them to cool and fill with the lemon curd, refrigerate until serving time.
Being from the temperate SF Bay Area, I took homegrown citrus for granted until I moved to this colder climate.
Never fear! If you don't mind overwintering the pot indoors, you can grow Meyer lemons from your own tree as I do, even if your winter temperatures are less than ideal for growing citrus.
Use your favorite Lemon Curd recipe for the filling; here is one of mine:
Lemon Curd
Makes 1 1/2 cups
3 large egg yolks
zest of 1/2 lemon
1/4 cup freshly squeezed lemon juice, (2 or 3 lemons)
6 tablespoons sugar
4 tablespoons unsalted butter, cold and cut into pieces
Combine yolks, lemon zest, lemon juice, and sugar in a small saucepan. Whisk to combine. Set over medium heat, and stir constantly with a wooden spoon, making sure to stir sides and bottom of pan. Cook until mixture is thick enough to coat back of wooden spoon, 5 to 7 minutes.
Remove saucepan from heat. Add the butter, one piece at a time, stirring with the wooden spoon until consistency is smooth.
Transfer mixture to a medium bowl. Lay a sheet of plastic wrap directly on the surface of the curd to avoid a skin from forming; wrap tightly.
Let cool; refrigerate until firm and chilled, at least 1 hour. Store, refrigerated in an airtight container.
Of course you can fill any shape baked pastry with the lemon curd, but if you want to make the flowers, choose a "daisy" shaped cookie cutter similar to this one:
I baked mine off in a "tart plaque", a specialty pan with very shallow indentations. Prick the dough with a fork before baking to prevent it from puffing up. Also before baking I brushed the surface of the dough with an egg wash for extra sheen. (Not necessary though.)
If you don't have such a pan simply invert a mini-muffin pan and gently shape each dough cut-out over the bottoms of the mini-muffin cups, and bake (with the dough on top of the inverted pan.) You may want to allow space between each piece of dough to avoid crowding, so cover every-other muffin cup with the raw dough.
Just use your favorite pie crust dough recipe, adding a teaspoon of sugar with the flour when mixing, if desired. Cut into flowers or circles, bake off then cool completely before filling with the cold lemon curd.
After filling cover loosely and keep refrigerated until serving time. Top with a bit of slightly sweetened whipped cream just before serving.