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SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. and Hong Kong (January 29, 2013) – Portola Pharmaceuticals, Inc. and Lee's Pharmaceutical (HK) Ltd. (0950 of the Main Board of the Stock Exchange of Hong Kong Limited) today announced an agreement to jointly expand the Phase 3 APEX study of betrixaban into China, with an option for Lee's to negotiate for the commercial rights to the drug in China. The APEX Study is evaluating betrixaban, a novel, oral, once-daily Factor Xa inhibitor, for extended duration venous thromboembolism (VTE) prophylaxis for superiority compared with the current standard of care in acute medically ill patients. If successful, betrixaban will be the first novel oral anticoagulant approved for use in this indication and the first anticoagulant approved for extended duration VTE prophylaxis in the acute medically ill patient population.
Under the agreement, Lee's will provide Portola with upfront and continuing payments to support the expansion of the APEX Study into China and work with Portola to identify leading clinicians and clinical sites to participate in the study. Lee's also will lead regulatory interactions with China's State Food and Drug Administration (SFDA). Following completion of the study, Lee's will have an exclusive period in which to negotiate the commercial rights to betrixaban in China.
"China represents an important opportunity for betrixaban because of the country's increasing incidence of cardiovascular disease and its emerging market for branded novel anticoagulants," said William Lis, chief executive officer of Portola. "We are excited to work with Lee's Pharmaceutical to expand the clinical development of betrixaban into China with the goal of commercializing it there. Lee's is an ideal partner because it has an established network of clinical trial sites with leading academic cardiologists and commercialization experience with antithrombotics, including Livaracine, its proprietary low molecular weight heparin."
"Each year more than 12 million acute medical patients in China are at elevated risk of thrombosis. We believe that betrixaban is a differentiated novel oral anticoagulant that has the potential to reduce this risk both in-hospital and after discharge," said Dr. Benjamin Li, chief executive officer of Lee's Pharmaceutical. "We are excited to be part of this global Phase 3 pivotal trial that addresses an area of significant unmet medical need and look forward to providing Portola with the resources to enroll patients in the APEX Study in China and help the company navigate the regulatory path with the SFDA. If both are successful, we hope to eventually negotiate the exclusive rights from Portola to sell betrixaban in China."
About Betrixaban and the APEX Study
Betrixaban is a novel, oral small molecule that directly inhibits the activity of Factor Xa, an important validated target in the blood coagulation pathway. A once-daily, oral Factor Xa inhibitor anticoagulant, betrixaban has unique properties compared with other agents in the Factor Xa class. These include a long half-life for once-daily dosing, a low level of clearance through the kidney (less than 8% of total oral administered dose), and lack of metabolism through the CYP3A4 pathway
Portola independently initiated the global, pivotal Phase 3 APEX (Acute Medically Ill VTE Prevention with Extended Duration Betrixaban) Study. This randomized, double-blind, active-controlled, multicenter, multinational trial is comparing extended-duration betrixaban (for up to 35 days) with standard of care enoxaparin, a low molecular weight heparin. The trial is expected to enroll approximately 6,850 patients at more than 400 sites worldwide. The APEX Study is designed to evaluate the superiority of extended-duration anticoagulation with betrixaban over standard of care enoxaparin.
About Portola Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
Portola Pharmaceuticals is a biopharmaceutical company focused on developing and commercializing novel therapeutics in the areas of thrombosis, other hematologic disorders and inflammation for patients that currently have limited or no approved treatments. In thrombosis, Portola is developing betrixaban, a novel, oral, once-daily inhibitor of Factor Xa in development for extended duration prophylaxis of venous thromboembolism (VTE) in acute medically ill patients. Portola also is developing PRT4445, a recombinant protein designed as a universal antidote for Factor Xa inhibitors. Portola has a clinical collaboration agreement with Bristol-Myers Squibb and Pfizer for the initial Phase 2 proof-of-concept study of PRT4445 in combination with ELIQUIS® (apixaban). Portola retains full commercial rights for PRT4445.
Portola's two other product candidates are orally available kinase inhibitors with unique pharmacologic properties targeting hematologic cancers and inflammatory disorders: PRT2070, which inhibits both spleen tyrosine kinase (Syk) and Janus kinases (JAK) enzymes, which regulate important signaling pathways; and PRT2607, which selectively inhibits Syk. PRT2070 has completed preclinical testing and, subject to regulatory approval, will enter the clinic in 2013. Portola has a collaboration agreement with Biogen Idec to develop specific inhibitors of Syk, including PRT2607, for which Biogen Idec is leading development for the treatment of allergic asthma. For more information, visit http://www.portola.com
About Lee's Pharmaceutical Holdings Limited
Lee's Pharmaceutical Holdings Limited is a research-based Hong Kong biopharmaceutical company with over 19 years operation in China's pharmaceutical industry. It is fully integrated with strong infrastructures in drug development, manufacturing, sales and marketing. It has established extensive partnership with over 20 international companies and currently has 14 products in the market place. Lee's focuses on several key disease areas such as cardiovascular, oncology, gynecology, dermatology and ophthalmology. Lee's development program is lauded with 30 products stemming from both internal R&D efforts and collaborations with US, European and Japanese companies and aspiring to combat diseases such as liver cancer and pulmonary hypertension. The mission of Lee's is to become a successful biopharmaceutical group in Asia providing innovative products to fight diseases and improve health and quality of life. Additional information about Lee's Pharmaceutical is available at http://www.leespharm.com
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The performance and the results of operation of Lee's during the past years are historical in nature and past performance can be no guarantee of future results of the Lee's. This news release may contain forward-looking statements and opinions that involve risks and uncertainties. Actual results may differ materially from expectations discussed in such forward-looking statements and opinions. Neither Lee's nor the Directors, employees or agents of Lee's assume (a) any obligation to correct or update the forward-looking statements or opinions contained in this news release; and (b) any liability in the event that any of the forward-looking statements or opinions does not materialise or turns out to be incorrect.


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Simplicity is a virtue, and this project is designed with that kind of goodness in mind. It's made of just 12 wood parts and most of them are of the same material, red-oak plywood. You don't need more than a handful of tools: a circular saw, a router, a pocket-screw jig and a drill driver. You've probably got these already. All that remains is a free weekend. Frankly, you won't even need all of that time to knock out this cabinet. Here's how to build it.
Rolling Wood Cabinet Plans (PDF, 1MB, requires Adobe Reader)
Step 1: Ripping the Shelves
Begin by ripping and crosscutting the shelves, the sides, the bottom and the top panel from red-oak plywood with a 40-tooth thin-kerf blade in a circular saw. Guide the saw with a straight piece of wood clamped across the panel, or use a clamping fence.
Step 2: Cut the Rabbets
Clamp a straight piece of scrap to the panel's edge to give the router a wide base to ride on. Cut a rabbet along the back edge of each side panel using a router and a ball-bearing rabbet bit.
Step 3: Iron the Veneer
With the sides ripped and rabbeted, iron on the veneer tape along their front edges. Let the veneer overhang the ends, and trim it to length using heavy-duty scissors or sheet-metal snips. The heat-activated glue on this veneer is very strong, but you still need to ensure the tape is properly bonded. To do this, burnish the tape using a block of wood.
Step 4: Cut Away Excess
Finally, shave the veneer to width using a file. Tip the file at a shallow 5- to 10-degree angle, and push it so its edge (not its face) cuts away excess veneer. Veneer the shelves and the case bottom in the same manner.
Step 5: Build Up Thickness
Build up the thickness of the top panel by gluing and nailing pine blocks along its edges. Crosscut the pine pieces and place them carefully so that the top can drop neatly over the case sides. Then fasten them using glue and 3d finishing nails. Apply 2-inch-wide red-oak veneer tape to the ends first, and then tape the front edge. Iron the tape on, burnish it, and trim it just as you handled the sides.
Step 6: Bore Pocket-Screw Holes
We used a Kreg jig to bore pocket-screw holes into the underside of each shelf and of the bottom panel. Simply clamp the parts in the jig and bore the holes.
Step 7: Assemble the Components
Next, drive coarse-thread pocket screws through these parts and into the case sides. Begin by attaching the case bottom, and then move on to the shelves. Next, crosscut the cleats to fit between the sides, and attach the cleats by driving screws through the case sides. There's no need to conceal these screws since the top will cover them.
Rip and crosscut the plywood back to fit the space between the rabbets and match the case length. Apply a coat of satin polyurethane to the front of the plywood back. Make small pencil marks on both case sides to indicate the center of each shelf, the bottom and the cleat. Place the back in the case, and draw lines across its back to indicate these centers. Nail along these lines to fasten the back to the sides, bottom and cleat.
Step 8: Adding the Top
Finally, lightly hand-sand all parts with 120-grit abrasive paper, wipe off the dust, and apply a coat of satin polyurethane to the shelves and to the inside and outside of the side panels. When the coating is dry, lightly sand these parts with 220-grit abrasive paper. Wipe off the sanding dust and apply a second coat. Apply a coat of ebony stain to the top. When the stain is dry, apply two coats of polyurethane to the top using the same method you used on the case. When the top is completed, drop it over the cleats and drive screws through the cleats into the top.
Step 9: Attach the Casters
We used rugged, solid-aluminum casters on this project. Screw the flange to the case bottom.

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1886: Carl-Friedrich Benz builds and patents the first petrol car, a three-wheeled vehicle with an internal combustion engine and electric ignition.
1887: Completely independently of Carl Benz, Gottlieb Daimler from Stuttgart builds a car and founds the motor company Daimler-Motoren-Gesellschaft.
1888: Bertha Benz and her sons carry out what is probably the world's most successful marketing stunt. They undertook the first 'long-distance drive' (from Mannheim to Pforzheim, a distance of about 90 kilometres) to demonstrate that the 'horseless carriage' was suitable for everyday use.
1897: The first International Motor Show (IAA) takes place at the Hotel Bristol in Berlin with eight motor cars on display.
1916: Aircraft manufacturer Bayerische Flugzeug-Werke (BFW) is established in Bavaria. Six years later, the site was taken over by BMW.
1926: Daimler-Motoren-Gesellschaft and Benz & Cie. merge to form Daimler-Benz AG.
1945: The first VW Beetle rolls off the production line in Wolfsburg. Until production was halted in 2002, the Beetle was the world's biggest selling car.
1950: Series production of the Type 2 T1 Volkswagen bus (camper van) begins. Demand was so great that a dedicated plant was opened in Hannover just six years later.
1950s: Affordable, 'bubble cars' such as the BMW Isetta became very popular in the post-war era.
1957: The state-owned car plant in Zwickau, formerly the Audi factory, produces the first Trabant. This East German compact car had an outer shell made of plastic, earning it the nickname the 'cardboard racer'.
1963: The Porsche 911, probably Germany's best known sports car, goes into production.
1991: German reunification marks the end of an era for East German cars, and on 30 April the last 'Trabi' rolls off the production line, straight into the museum. April direkt vom Fließband ins Museum.
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Genocide on Trial: War Crimes Trials and the Formation of Holocaust History and Memory
Donald Bloxham
Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2001, ISBN: 9780198208723; 300pp.; Price: £57.00
University College Worcester
Date accessed: 9 July, 2020
Throughout the Second World War Britons and Americans had contemplated the post-war future of Germany. There was consensus on only one point; that it had to be changed. They discussed a variety of alternatives ranging from punitive and vengeful policies, to those which were educational and advocated reform. The War Crimes Trials have conventionally been viewed as part of the first category. Thus it is refreshing to see the trials being regarded as part of the broad re-educative effort, rather than the usual perception of a purely retaliatory exercise motivated by a desire for punishment. Bloxham asserts 'the trials were the chief means by which Nazism was examined in depth; they were the scalpel to the bludgeon of the larger occupation and re-education policy, the foil to generalities.' (p. 80)
This examination of British and American war crimes policy stands as a contribution to the growing field of literature that considers the importance of memory and specifically Holocaust memory. The interesting facet of this book is that it considers the 'memory' promulgated by the British and Americans at the War Crimes Trials. The importance of both 'judicial' and 'collective' memory is stressed. It is within the 'collective' sphere that the prosecutors at Nuremberg failed. The trials can thus be seen to be as much about Allied understanding of, and attitude toward, Nazi crimes, as they are a legal representation of Nazi criminality. Bloxham's contention is an engaging and valid one. There is a general omission in the historiography of the occupation of Germany regarding the relationship between victors and vanquished. Studies have tended to see the process of change in a one-sided way, ignoring the fact that British and U.S. perceptions and attitudes towards the former enemy countries also developed and changed as a result of interaction between them. These trials had an important function not only in Germany, but also for the society that tried them. As a former American Occupationaire states, evaluation of the 'German and Japanese occupation experiences will tell us something not only about our impact on post-war German and Japanese history, but particularly our own.'(1) This study also aims to correct a failing in 'Nuremberg historiography'.
The book begins with an excellent introduction to the fundamental conception of and means of evaluation used in this study. It includes an explanation of the problems associated with the study of this topic and the essential problems faced in 1945. It is then divided into three parts. The first part is concerned with the implementation of the punitive aspects of the trials; and with British and American reaction to the immediate past. Trial policy thus stands as an example of Vergangenheitsbewältigung (the mastery of the past) in the wake of the Second World War. The second part concerns the representation of the past through the trials. It stresses their refractory nature, using the main metaphor of the courtroom as a prism. The third part considers the connections between the 'courtroom and posterity'. The major actors, such as American representative Justice Jackson, were acutely aware of their historical responsibility. They were under no illusions that what they were about to do was 'history'. Bloxham quotes Jackson thus: 'the documents make dull publicity, but they [seem] to me to make the sounder foundation for the case, particularly when the record is examined by the historian.' (p. 61)
The trials are placed in their legal and historical context. The expansion of the rule of international law provided the precedent for further international courts and tribunals and had a distinctly American flavour. American domination of the trials is reflected in the sometimes seemingly one-sided comparative aspects of this book. The British are shown to be less committed to the trials. This can be explained by the fact that Britain was labouring under great economic duress, in contrast to the United States. Thus the overriding influence of personnel and financial problems is shown to be particularly acute for the British. The proceedings are seen as an attempt at understanding Nazism and specifically Nazi criminality. 'The idea of legal redress for state crimes was novel and contentious.' (p. vii) This idea was also 'novel' because it concerned a country in which neither Britain nor America had a direct national interest. The historical context is the close of the Second World War and the abiding relevance of study of this immediate post-war period, despite the prolific amount of representations that have followed it, is correctly asserted.
This examination is an attempt to recontextualise the trials after the historiography has largely removed them from their contemporary context. The trials, as well as the occupation of Germany as a whole, have to be placed within the context of the burgeoning Cold War. Bloxham shows that the impact of the Cold War on the objectives of the trials was entirely negative. The effects of realignment were detrimental to the successful prosecution of Nazi crimes and pragmatic nation-state interests began to override foreign policy ideals. For example, the image of the Wehrmacht was cleansed by the impact of the Cold War. In addition, Bloxham argues that 'the Allies did not prepare the ground for acceptance of the true breadth of German guilt'. (p. 132) The fundamental problem faced by all of the occupation policies is that the Germans were primarily concerned with staying alive. The devastation, hunger and disease were not sound bases for the moral regeneration of German society. As Brecht put it, 'Erst kommt das Fressen, dann kommt die Moral.' ('First grub, then morality': quoted p. 137)
This re-contextualisation also involves the notion of the use of the trials as a re-educational tool. The idea of using a legal trial served a re-educative function, as a fair trial exemplified the democratic system. 'The educational intent of the IMT project was established, but it does not appear that the teachers were particularly well informed about their subject matter.' (p. 63) This is attributed to ambiguities within British and American responses to the Holocaust, as its true nature unfolded. For example, the British were concerned only with crimes that related directly to British citizens, while the Americans feared the use of any 'atrocity' stories.
Nazi criminality was frequently discussed during the War and the idea that the Nazi party represented an organized form of gangsterism was prevalent, certainly within the U.S. The image of the gangster was a repeated one in the popular press and film. The impression that the Nazi party was a criminal organization was an enduring stereotype. It was rife even at the highest levels. For example, in an address of August 1943 Franklin D. Roosevelt stated 'we have been forced to call out … the Sheriff's posse … that Gangsterism may be eliminated in the community of nations.(2) The decision to punish Nazi war criminals had been made early on in the war. Roosevelt announced his plan to try Nazi war criminals on 7 October 1942.(3) The trials were also concerned with the causes of Nazi criminality. This was the disease that had to be rooted out. Part of the cure was re-education.
During the prosecution of the trials, the Americans placed great emphasis on the idea of 'conspiracy'. The purpose of the War Crimes Trials was to prove this conspiracy theory. As a result, the Holocaust becomes merely a 'by-product of a monolithic German-Nazi conspiracy for European domination through war.' (p. 12) Bloxham asserts that this preoccupation accounts for the 'intentionalist' school and 'many of the blind alleys into which Holocaust scholarship has wandered.' (p. 12)
Bloxham's major criticism of the trials is that, although they were successful in 'establishing a record of Nazi criminality and aggression' (p. vii), there was a failure to present the fate of the Jews as unique amongst Nazism's other victims. In fact their fate was downplayed. Despite being seen as an end in itself, their extermination was tied to Nazi attempts at world conquest. The Allies were 'authors of subtle re-writings of the Nazi extermination projects.' (p. ix) Attention was focused away from the victims. Presentation of Nazi atrocities and specifically the Holocaust were used in a peculiar way as part of the punishment and re-education process.
There is a dichotomy between the guilt-evocation campaign and policies that seemed unwilling to deal with Nazi murder. For example, the showing of the film Todesmühlen ('The Mills of Death', a montage of images of death in various Nazi institutions), the display of posters showing victims at Dachau declaring 'Das ist Eure Schuld' ('This is Your Fault') and the forced viewing of recently-liberated camps by local populations, is at odds with the reluctance, during the war particularly, to use this type of atrocity story as propaganda, and with the separation of Germans from their Nazi leaders when considering responsibility for atrocities.
These contradictions are tied to the general ambiguities of American and British policy regarding possibilities for Germany's future. Is she a country that is capable of being re-educated, or is she a nation complicit in the crimes of the Nazis? Is there an 'other' Germany? Bloxham acknowledges the contradictory nature of assessments of culpability and efforts to differentiate between 'Nazis' and 'Germans'. Jackson would distinguish between Nazis and Germans in his opening speech of the trials; however, a question mark remained in general policy-making.
The question of German guilt or collective guilt (Kollektivschuld) is central to any discussion of the War Crimes trials as, of course, criminal proceedings are by their very nature based upon a premise of guilt and innocence. Attempts to prove the criminal nature of the regime seemed to declare all Germans equally culpable. Yet this is in direct contrast to wartime proclamations, such as 'we bring no charge against the German race, as such, for we cannot believe that God has eternally condemned any race of humanity.'(4)The trials themselves limited the guilt to a few individuals, thus implicitly exonerating the wider population. In this reviewer's opinion, however, war guilt is only part of the concept of re-education and Bloxham's study is not clear about a definition beyond the assertion that 'introspection … was the key aim of this 're-education.' (p. 132)
Bloxham here is in agreement with contemporary commentators, who argued that the moral renewal of Germany had to be attained by individual introspection and self-examination.(5) The idea of collective German guilt was often viewed as the first step toward re-education. Contemporary critics, however, pointed out that the guilt-evocation campaign could not be this 'first step', 'because it skips over the prior need to start reversing the process of the demoralization of the Germans.'(6)The usefulness of the trials of Nazis as a re-educational tool was usually related to the prominence of the accused. The singling out of 'major' Nazi criminals is of interest, as it appears contrary to the policy of implicating the German people. This action exemplifies the ambivalent nature of postwar policy conclusions regarding the treatment of Germany and the Germans.
The discussion of German guilt began with the liberation of the concentration camps and ended in the Spring/Summer of 1947, with the announcements of the Truman doctrine and the Marshall Plan, which changed Germany's role in the international system. The Germans were now separated from the crimes of the Third Reich, as they were now viewed as a trustworthy ally. As Bloxham acknowledges, this was pure political pragmatism. Finally on the question of guilt, he raises an interesting hypothesis that the 'supposed innocence of the German soldier was transposed to the whole of the German population.' (p. 12)
The trials are seen as falling short for a number of reasons. Bloxham shows that the British and American attempts to come to terms with Nazism failed and that this failure is exemplified perfectly by their inability to understand the Holocaust. The trial medium was also unsuccessful in capturing anybody's imagination and later the western powers came up with sophisticated justifications for the release of war criminals. The primary reason for this seems to have been that the issue had become embarrassing. In addition, throughout the trial proceedings emphasis was permanently placed on the perpetrators of the crimes rather than the victims. Victimhood was not associated with the actual victims of the Nazi regime, as they were given little, to no, attention. By the 1950s, with Cold War alignments firmly established, the victims had become the German people as a whole. They were victims of a terrifying, all-seeing, all-knowing and brutal regime. The trials also failed, as their organisation meant that certain defendants were not tried. If a defendant's profile did not fit a case, then it was possible for him to remain untried, despite the gravity of his crimes. Finally, the Allies were not concerned with motivations for these crimes. They contented themselves only with their causes. This can be seen as a serious omission.
Bloxham argues 'that the racial murders committed by the Third Reich were expressions of the essential quality of the regime, understanding those crimes was and is fundamental to understanding Nazism.' (p. viii) Through cataloguing British and American shortcomings in understanding these crimes, Bloxham thus demonstrates their failure to understand Nazism. The trials were also political trials, with proceedings affected by political biases, which in turn affected the representation of the past: 'Even in the courtroom the means and purposes of examining the past varied in accordance with the different political agendas of the period.' (p. ix)
In a further omission, the proceedings failed to distinguish between the camp systems according to function, leading to the longstanding confusion of concentration camps with extermination camps. The 'camp was the pre-eminent symbol of Nazi atrocity' (p. 11), but it was not properly defined. This explains the proliferation of the term 'concentration camp' as a generic term for Nazi atrocity. The Dachau trial was of particular importance in this sense, especially to American thinking. However, this exemplifies again the effect of these trials. An individual camp is taken out of context by not being located appropriately within the full system of genocide.
True understanding of the Holocaust was further hampered by Jackson's belief in the documentary approach to evidence. This meant that journalistic interest was often not sustained and this contributed to the public's lacklustre enthusiasm for the trials. In addition, the Tribunal maintained a continual suspicion of eyewitness testimony, despite the fact that stories were often corroborated by documentary evidence. Therefore while some exaggerations originating with the trials have remained in the historical record, so have the omissions. (Bloxham gives the example of the murderous activities of some of the lesser-known police organizations.)
The trials' failure to assess the influence of certain groups -- for example, the Order Police -- meant that these groups were for many years excluded from historical accounts. As Bloxham observes, 'The scale of Nazi criminality ultimately made every trial programme a selective venture.' (p. 54) Legal strictures, such as limiting considerations to the period after American entry into the war, also had a particular effect in relation to deliberations on the fate of the Jews; for example, this specific decision excluded discussion of the development of the camp system prior to 1942. Concern regarding the Holocaust was not apparent and cases that could have highlighted it were not brought to the fore. This meant that the Shoah was not fully understood.
The concentration camp became the symbol of atrocity, but again the Jewish factor was downplayed or avoided, with prosecutors preferring to place emphasis on political prisoners. The murder of the Jews is given a diminished role in the dominant interpretation of Nazism, since 'the British and the American occupiers chose to build their re-educational edifices on the foundation-stone of 'Aryan' suffering.' (p. 80) Selective reporting of the trials cemented misrepresentations of the camps. Often reports made conditions seem worse than they were, while the actual worst examples were ignored. The trials were also tinged by preconceptions. For example, the trials perceived Nazism as an ideologically-driven monolithic system. This again prevented a true grasp of its crimes.
It seems that prosecutors were almost bored with the issue of the relationship between the Nazis and the Jews. There was a prevailing mood that this had already been dealt with 'exhaustively'. However, three of the four extermination camps (Belzec, Sobibor and Treblinka) were completely excluded from the proceedings. The problem was not one of lack of information. Instead it points to dysfuntional processing and analysis of this material. Important details were overlooked in the small number of eyewitness testimonies that were used. Research gathered seems to have been remarkably accurate but ineffectually exploited. It is only the number of victims that appears to have been largely overestimated and the exact murder methods slightly confused. The emphasis placed on gassing shows the 'persistent and peculiar misconceptions regarding the methods of killing.' (p. 117)
This monograph is clearly the product of a well-researched project and one of great interest. To see mention of the important idea of re-education is excellent. Bloxham asserts that the trials can be seen as 'a microcosm of the whole 're-education' process' (p. 225); yet this conclusion is open to debate. If the trials are seen as a failure, does this mean that re-education was a failure also? This is a question not addressed by Bloxham. It would perhaps also have been illuminating to include discussion of the representations of leading Nazis and Nazism during the Second World War, if only as background. The important stereotype of gangsterism, for example, is not discussed.(7) He does, however, deal skilfully and thoroughly with the trials' impact on history and particularly the history of the Holocaust. Bloxham's treatment of 'memory' is especially interesting, as despite the trials' contemporary failings to come to terms with the recent past, the Shoah has now taken centre stage in the popular memory of Nazi crimes -- perhaps even to the detriment of the other crimes committed by the Nazis. Overall, this study is a significant addition to our understanding of the preconceptions and purposes of the War Crimes Trials; but perhaps even more importantly, it addresses the origins of our understanding of the history of the Holocaust.
- Robert Wolfe, ed., Americans as Proconsuls - United States Military Government in Germany and Japan, 1944-1952 (Southern Illinois Press; Carbondale & Edwardsville, 1984), pp. xv-xvi.Back to (1)
- Address at Ottawa, Canada, August 25, 1943, in Samuel I. Rosenman, ed., The Public Papers and Addresses of Franklin D. Roosevelt: 1943 – The Tide Turns (Harper & Bros.; New York, 1950), p. 365.Back to (2)
- Samuel I. Rosenman, ed., The Public Papers and Addresses of Franklin D. Roosevelt: 1942 – Humanity on the Defensive (Harper & Bros.; New York, 1950), p. 410. This was a repeated aim. See also 'The President asks that frontiers be opened to victims of Nazi oppression and declares that war criminals will be tried and punished, March 24, 1944', in Samuel I. Rosenman, ed., The Public Papers and Addresses of Franklin D. Roosevelt: 1944-45 – Victory and the Threshold of Peace, (Harper & Bros.; New York, 1950), p. 103.Back to (3)
- Samuel I. Rosenman (ed.) The Public Papers and Addresses of Franklin D. Roosevelt: 1944-45 – Victory and the Threshold of Peace, pp. 352-3.Back to (4)
- Karl Jaspers, The Question of German Guilt (Dial Press; New York, 1947).Back to (5)
- Percy Winner, 'The German road back: an inquiry into guilt, punishment and expiation', The New Republic (4 June 1945), p. 779.Back to (6)
- In an American training film, [Here Is Germany, War Department Orientation Film, O.F.-11, 1944] for example, the filmmakers did not miss the opportunity to present Hitler and his gang visually and verbally as an assortment of 'dope addicts, perverts, bullies and cranks'."Back to (7)


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Chris Brown has exited the rehab facility he entered late last month just days after being arrested for assault, People reports.
"Chris is continuing his rehab program as an outpatient and is also completing his community service in the Los Angeles area. He appreciates all of your encouragement and support," his rep tells the magazine.
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Brown, 24, was arrested on Oct. 27 and held in custody for more than a day after he and his bodyguard were allegedly involved in an altercation with a third man, Parker Isaac Adams, outside the W Hotel around 4:25 a.m. Although Adams claimed that both Brown and his bodyguard punched him, Brown alleged that he was on his tour bus when his bodyguard, Chris Hollosy, fought with Adams.
Although Brown was initially charged with a felony, that was later reduced to a misdemeanor.
Brown is currently on probation stemming from his 2009 assault on his then-girlfriend Rihanna. If convicted of violating his probation, he could face a maximum of four years in prison. He is due back in court on Nov. 20.


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If your calendar is like mine, we're both missing out. Did you know that you can celebrate a different holiday every day during the month of October? Check out the list of special holidays, guaranteed to be thought-provoking, or just make you laugh and scratch your head!
October 1st-World Vegetarian Day, a day when all are urged to partake in meatless menus, and for those already living the vegetarian lifestyle to celebrate the choice that safeguard their own health, protects the earth.
October 2nd-Name Your Car Day, a day set aside to choose a name for your car that suits its character. Let's just hope your car doesn't have a personality like the one in Stephen King's book Christine!
October 3rd-Income Tax Day. I'm not sure why anyone would want to actually celebrate the day that the Government takes more and more of our hard earned money away. It has been around since, 1913.
October 4th-Visit Your Cousin in Prison Day. Just don't forget the cake with the file in it. The old saying "blood is thicker than water" rings true on this day.
October 5th-National Diversity Day. A day to celebrate and strive to understand and accept the races, religions, nationalities, disabilities, sexual orientations, ages and genders that make up our world population.
October 6th-World Smile Day. Give everyone you meet a big cheesy smile! Harvey Ball, who created the smiley face back in 1963, also had the idea for World Smile Day. Mr. Ball was concerned that his smiley face had become too commercialized, and decided everyone should set aside one day each year to spread smiles and random act of kindness all over the world.
October 7th-Bathtub Day. This day celebrates the initial British appearance in 1828 of the bathtub as a part of our everyday life.
October 8th-Tube Top Day. Commemorating the first appearance of the tube top, a wardrobe staple of all every woman and well built girl in the 80's. Come to think of it that's probably the last time I've seen someone wear one of those. I think every red blooded guy would like to see more tube tops worn these days.
October 9th-Meet A Friend for Lunch Day. Take time out of your busy work day to schmooze with your best friend.
October 10th-Tuxedo Day. Celebrating the American debut of the tux in 1886 in New York City.
October 11th-You Go, Girl Day. A day for celebrating courageous women who go out into the world and accomplish their goals by never giving up.
October 12th-World Egg Day. Yes, the humble egg, staple food of the masses. Especially after the bad eggs that hit the market in the past few months.
October 13th-U.S. Navy Day. Back in the 1970's it was discovered that the birthday of the Continental Navy was October 13th, 1775, and this date was chosen as the official holiday.
October 14th-Monarch Day. Nature lovers in California anticipate this day when millions of monarch butterflies return to Santa Cruz, Fremont, Malibu, Big Sur, and other coastal California cities.
October 15th-National Grouch Day. Celebrate your favorite grouch on this day. Buy him or her a laxative or some other gift to help with their digestion. Show them that you care!
October 16th-World Food Day. First celebrated world wide in 1945, this day fosters awareness and understanding of world hunger.
October 17th-Brain Cell Reduction Day. Must be for all the pot smokers and all other recreational drug takers.
October 18th-Long Distance Day. A holiday to commemorate the first long-distance phone line that was established between New York City and Chicago in 1892.
October 19th-Dress Like a Total Dork Day. How does one dress for this day? Call one of your buddies that you met on Brain Cell Reduction Day.
October 20th-Shampoo Day. Conceived to celebrate the history of shampoo. So the next time you're in the shower, raise a bottle of shampoo in memory of this day.
October 21st-Can Can Day. Commemorated the first performance of the popular dance in 1858 in Paris, France.
October 22nd-Used Car Day. The first used car dealership was opened in 1897 in London, England. This day has been set aside to recognize the beginning of what is now a time honored way of buying a vehicle (lemon).
October 23rd-Do It Yourself Day. Be motivated to choose a challenge, then go out and succeed.
October 24th-Match Day. This holiday commemorates the day Alonzo Philips in 1836, first patented the invention of the household match.
October 25th-Picasso Day. The birthday of the modern artist Pablo Picasso, born in 1881.
October 26th-Mule Day. Remembering the first mules who ever arrived in the U.S. in 1785.
October 27th-Boxer Shorts Day. These undershorts first appeared in 1901.
October 28th-Statue of Liberty Day. In 1886, the Statue of Liberty was dedicated in New York harbor, and this day celebrated Lady Liberty, symbol of freedom.
October 29th-The Internets Birthday. It all started back in 1979, when two college students linked computers at Duke University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. On this day, let's all email a birthday card to our dear friend the Internet!!
October 30th-Bodybuilders Day. This holiday is celebrated on the birthday of Charles Atlas,the famous bodybuilder, who was born on this day in 1893. So everyone on this day, go outside and strike a "where's the beach" pose.
October 31st-Halloween Day and National Magic Day. This day honors the memory of the great magician, Harry Houdini, who died on this date in 1926. So when you go to door to door on Halloween and get your treats, do a couple of extra tricks for good measure!!


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Little Bit got sick on Tuesday. She spent the day with my in-law's while The Hero and I were at work. My MIL said she'd been sleeping all day in between feedings. She was fine when I got there, but took a quick turn for the worse. She threw up all of her formula. She threw up mucus. She vomited until there was nothing left. She went limp for a minute or two which scared us to death. She was extremely lethargic and unresponsive. Thankfully, she never stopped breathing. I think she was simply exhuasted from throwing up.
We took off to Lebonheur, the local children's hospital. We arrived at 8:00. The waiting room was full. There had to have been close to fifty sick children. I expected a long wait, but had no idea what the night had in store for us. Little Bit was triaged an hour after arriving. Since her vitals were fine, they sent us back to the waiting room. We were eventually put in a room at 10:00. I say room, but a curtain separated us from the other families. We sat there for thirty minutes before a nurse came in. She asked us what was wrong, hooked her up to the monitors and told us the doctor would be in shortly.
Five hours went by without a single person checking on us. With each hour, my baby was getting more dehydrated. (They told me I couldn't feed her until she was seen by the doctor.) When a nurse finally came into our room, she said we were next in line. She'd been calling the doctor and didn't know what the holdup was. Another hour went by. I went to the nurse's station. I firmly stated that I no longer cared what the holdup was because my 3-month-old baby hadn't eaten in nine hours. She'd only had one wet diaper in the last seven. She pointed to the doctor and promised she'd be seeing us next. I couldn't believe my eyes. It was the doctor I'd seen walk by us all night long. It no longer made sense that she'd been calling the doctor to see what the holdup was. The doctor, for whatever reason, had been overlooking us. At this point, I started to cry. I was furious.
When the doctor finally came in, she offered a completely different explanation than the one the nurse gave. She said our name wasn't written on some board. She didn't even know we were there. Might I quickly mention that our curtain was open so every passing person could see us, including the ignorant doctor. She was the only doctor seeing patients. How is it possible that she didn't realize we were there? She told me Little Bit would need bloodwork, a catheter and x-rays. The fluids would have to wait until after the x-rays. She got her blood drawn and a catheter put in so she could have her urine tested. After another thirty to forty-five minutes, we were told that her x-rays came back negative. They were checking to make sure she didn't have any kind of blockage in her throat or stomach. My baby was finally given an IV and some Pedialite at 3:00 in the morning. Her last bottle, before she got sick, was at 4:30 the previous afternoon.
We spent a total of eleven and a half hours at the hospital. Thankfully, she's fine now. It was probably a 24-hour-bug. This was, without a doubt, the worst experience of my life. The doctor was a flake. The nurses weren't doing their job. My child went almost twelve hours without fluids. What I've told here isn't even the entire story, but I'm afraid my blood pressure will skyrocket if I think about it any longer. My daughter's health is what's most important. After an entire day of Pedialite, she's back to normal. Thank God.
Considering the awful day she had, Little Bit was a trooper. I think she gets it from her Mommy.


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Enhancing Efficiency
Nitrogen influences turf health and quality more than any other nutrient. For this reason, nitrogen efficiency is a key component of every turf management program — and a top concern among turf professionals.
Various forms of nitrogen are used in fertilizers. Water-soluble nitrogen fertilizers, such as ammonium nitrate, ammonium sulfate and urea, supply a form of nitrogen that is immediately available for the plant to use. The turf's response is a quick greening.
This form of nitrogen is generally used for small areas where frequent applications are possible or even desirable when used in combination with control products or growth regulators. However, quick release nitrogen has its drawbacks. It readily leaches, it can cause lush growth and its response length is limited. It also has a high potential to burn the turf if applied in hot or dry conditions.
The consequences of quick release nitrogen can be avoided, and the benefits of nitrogen prolonged, with an enhanced efficiency fertilizer. Most turf professionals, especially those responsible for large areas like golf courses and corporate grounds, are familiar with fertilizer products commonly referred to as "slow" or "controlled" release. But did you know that there is another category of enhanced efficiency fertilizer?
In 1994, the Association of American Plant Food Control Officials (AAPFCO) and The Fertilizer Institute established the Slow Release Fertilizer Task Force. The committee, composed of industry professionals and fertilizer regulatory control officials, was formed to develop a standard set of guidelines that the industry could use to manufacture — and control officials could use to regulate — slow-release fertilizers. In addition to clarifying the slow-release category, the task force acknowledged a similar, but separate, category of enhanced efficiency nitrogen: stabilized nitrogen.
"The committee recognized that while stabilized nitrogen and slow-release nitrogen are similar, they function in very different ways," says Wilbur Frye, professor emeritus of agronomy at the University of Kentucky and former chairman of the Slow Release Fertilizer Task Force.
Stabilized nitrogen is a urea product that performs much like comparable slow-release nitrogen sources. The difference between the two categories is a matter of process. Under normal circumstances, nitrogen is released while it undergoes hydrolysis and nitrification as part of the soil nitrogen cycle. Stabilized nitrogen suspends the two transformations, minimizing potential loss from volatility, denitrification and leaching.
The term "slow release" is used to describe fertilizer products that release, or convert to a plant-available form, their plant nutrients at a slower rate than soluble nitrogen does. These nitrogen sources include polymer- or sulfur-coated urea; synthetic organic nitrogen sources like isobutylidene diurea, methylene urea and urea-formaldehyde; and natural organic sources like sewage sludge and animal by-products.
Examples of slow-release products are water insoluble, slowly available water soluble and coated or occluded to control the release of soluble nutrients. (Refer to the cover story in the April 2002 issue of Grounds Maintenance for detailed descriptions of the various types of slow-release nitrogen fertilizers.)
While a number of slow-release fertilizer materials exist, they all typically work through a slow breakdown of the nitrogen source or the coating material. Temperature, humidity and moisture impact the timing and duration of this process. Unless the nitrogen is coated, its form and the bacterial activity in the soil determine the length of its response after entering the soil.
AAPFCO defines stabilized nitrogen products as those that have been amended with an additive to reduce the rate of transformation of fertilizer compounds. As a result, the ammonium-nitrogen is available in the soil for an extended period of time. Stabilized nitrogen fertilizer is not a coated product, nor is it a slow-release product. Rather, its additives are incorporated during the production of urea.
Examples of stabilizing amendments are urease inhibitors, such as N-(butyl) thiophosphoric triamide (NBPT), and nitrification inhibitors, such as Dicyandiamide. NBPT slows the rate of urea hydrolysis, the process by which urea nitrogen is converted into ammonia and carbon dioxide, two products of the reaction that can be quickly lost into the atmosphere. Dicyandiamide slows the nitrification process, or the conversion of ammonium-nitrogen to nitrate-nitrogen in the soil.
"The result is a longer lasting urea product that improves nitrogen efficiency and environmental performance," says John Street, associate professor of horticulture and crop science at Ohio State University.
Both nitrate and ammonium are readily taken up by plants and are beneficial for plant growth. However, there are major benefits related to keeping nitrogen in its ammonium form for a longer period of time.
Once nitrogen is released into its nitrate form, it is subject to leaching by water moving through the soil profile. However, Dicyandiamide holds nitrogen in its stable and immobile ammonium form longer. For example, the ammoniacal residual lasts up to 16 weeks with stabilized fertilizer products.
Unlike nitrate, ammonium is a cation that can be held in soil on negatively charged exchange sites. Because stabilized nitrogen spends more time as ammonium, it has less opportunity to leach. As ammonium, not only is nitrogen more usable for the plant, less nitrogen is released into the ground to potentially contaminate groundwater.
Research shows that on average, 30 percent of ammonium nitrogen can be lost within 72 hours of application through volatilization, unless it is moved into the soil. The NBPT in stabilized nitrogen minimizes the loss of nitrogen to the atmosphere, while allowing sufficient time for rainfall or irrigation to move stabilized nitrogen into the soil.
By enhancing the efficiency of nitrogen, the turf gets more of the nutrients it needs and responds accordingly. The results of field trials conducted at the University of Wisconsin (Madison) indicate that products with a stabilized fertilizer, in comparison to urea, result in more robust turfgrass root growth, depending on the turfgrass and site.
Additionally, the high level of performance is complemented by a lower cost per use. "Slow-release and stabilized nitrogen have similar advantages, but stabilized nitrogen has the added advantage of being cost effective," says Wayne Kussow, professor of soil science at the University of Wisconsin.
Stabilized nitrogen uses urea, an economical but relatively short-lived nitrogen source. The inhibitors in stabilized nitrogen extend the life of urea nitrogen, which means fewer applications are necessary.
Stabilized nitrogen is available at a lower cost per unit than leading organic, coated and complex chain products. The cost of incorporating additives into the production process of stabilized nitrogen is typically less than that of standard slow release fertilizers.
Your nitrogen investment also is better protected as stabilized nitrogen. For one thing, there is less potential nitrogen waste or loss with stabilized nitrogen. According to the field research conducted by Kussow, stabilized nitrogen achieved 42 percent greater nitrogen recovery than sulfur-coated urea. And with stabilized nitrogen, you don't have to worry about handling, mowing or moisture damaging an expensive coating.
Another attribute of stabilized nitrogen is its versatility. Stabilized nitrogen is equally effective as a component in dry granular fertilizer blends or as a soluble nitrogen source for liquid application.
Nitrogen efficiency, value and versatility are all qualities of stabilized nitrogen that superintendents and turf professionals can appreciate. "My course handles 70,000 rounds of golf a year, sometimes 250 to 300 a day," says Jason Harsh, superintendent of Memorial Park in Houston, Texas. He adds that stabilized fertilizer offers the versatility he needs for optimal results with minimal applications.
More information on stabilized nitrogen is available at www.stabilizednitrogen.com.
Alan Nees is vice president of AGROTAIN International (Mequon, Wis.).
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Rhino poaching worldwide is poised to hit a 15-year-high driven by Asian demand for horns, according to new research.
Poachers in Africa and Asia are killing an ever increasing number of rhinos—an estimated two to three a week in some areas—to meet a growing demand for horns believed in some countries to have medicinal value, according to a briefing to a key international wildlife trade body by WWF, IUCN and their affiliated wildlife trade monitoring network TRAFFIC.
An estimated three rhinos were illegally killed each month in all of Africa from 2000-05, out of a population of around 18,000. In contrast, 12 rhinoceroses now are being poached each month in South Africa and Zimbabwe alone, the three groups told the 58th Standing Committee meeting of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species Standing Committee, meeting this week in Geneva.
"Rhino populations in both Africa and Asia are being seriously threatened by poaching and illegal trade," says Dr Jane Smart, Director of IUCN's Biodiversity Conservation Group. "IUCN and its African and Asian Rhino Specialist Groups are working hard to gather data and information on rhinos so that CITES parties can make informed decisions and ensure that rhinos are still here for generations to come."
"Illegal rhino horn trade to destinations in Asia is driving the killing, with growing evidence of involvement of Vietnamese, Chinese and Thai nationals in the illegal procurement and transport of rhino horn out of Africa," the briefing states.
Meanwhile, rhino poaching is also problematic in Asia. About 10 rhinos have been poached in India and at least seven in Nepal since January alone—out of a combined population of only 2,400 endangered rhinos.
"Rhinos are in a desperate situation," says Dr. Susan Lieberman, Director of the Species Programme, WWF-International. "This is the worst rhino poaching we have seen in many years and it is critical for governments to stand up and take action to stop this deadly threat to rhinos worldwide. It is time to crack down on organized criminal elements responsible for this trade, and to vastly increase assistance to range countries in their enforcement efforts."
Almost all rhino species are listed in CITES (the Convention on Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora) in Appendix I, which means that any international trade of any rhino parts for commercial purposes is illegal.
"Increased demand for rhino horn, alongside a lack of law enforcement, a low level of prosecutions for poachers who are actually arrested and increasingly daring attempts by poachers and thieves to obtain the horn is proving to be too much for rhinos and some populations are seriously declining," says Steven Broad, Executive Director of TRAFFIC.
The situation is particularly dire in Zimbabwe where such problems are threatening the success of more than a decade's work of bringing rhino populations back to healthy levels.
For example, earlier this week a park ranger arrested with overwhelming evidence against him for having killed three rhinos in the Chipinge Safari Area, was acquitted without any satisfactory explanation for the verdict. Similarly, in September 2008, a gang of four Zimbabwean poachers who admitted to killing 18 rhinos were also freed in a failed judiciary process.
The briefing concludes that governments need "an accurate and up-to-date picture of the status, conservation and trade in African and Asian rhinoceroses, as well as the factors driving the consumption of rhinoceros horn, so that firm international action can be taken to arrest this immediate threat to rhinoceros populations worldwide."
The 58th meeting of the CITES Standing Committee is being held in Geneva from 6 -10 July. This issue will be further discussed at the 15th meeting of the Conference of the Parties to CITES, which will be held in Doha, Qatar March 13-25, 2010.
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Health insurer AmeriHealth New Jersey is entering the "defined contribution" health plan market, where employers give their workers a set amount of money — a defined contribution — that employees then use to shop for their own health coverage on AmeriHealth's new private exchange, MyAHNJ.
The employer selects a package of AmeriHealth plans, and the workers go online to MyAHNJ to choose the one that fits their needs. The employee's share of the premium will vary, depending on how rich a menu of benefits the employee selects.
AmeriHealth is offering MyAHNJ to employers of all sizes. In July, Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey launched a private exchange for employers with more than 50 workers.
Ryan Petrizzi, director of sales operations and small markets for AmeriHealth NJ, said the MyAHNJ online portal was created with Liazon, which operates private benefits exchanges for business throughout the United States.
Petrizzi said employees will go online "and answer questions that relate to their specific (health care) needs. MyAHNJ will then show them options that might make sense. The key here is that as a member (employee), you actually have more control over choosing your health plan, rather than what the employer is just giving to you."
The benefit for the employer is "you are giving your employees options, with a set amount of money for each of them, and you are letting them pick and choose what makes the most sense for them. And if they want to buy up to a richer plan, they have the ability to do so. But you're actually giving them the choice."
Asked what impact this might have on the employee's health care costs, Petrizzi said it depends on the situation. Under traditional employer-sponsored health coverage, the employer may offer a base plan and give the employees the option to "buy up" for a plan with richer benefits. But with MyAHNJ, "I will go in with a certain dollar amount and pick one of a multitude of plans," he said. "I could end up making out better in some cases, because I don't want to pay for some of the extra things that maybe my employer had been paying for before. Or I may decide to put a little extra out of my pocket and pick a richer benefit plan based on my needs."
AmeriHealth NJ has 225,000 members in New Jersey. The company is participating in the new online marketplace that the federal government will launch Oct. 1 so health insurers can sell government-subsidized health plans to small businesses and individuals under the Affordable Care Act. Petrizzi said MyAHNJ is another alternative for employers seeking to cover their workers outside the new government-run exchange.
He said the defined contribution plans are gaining in popularity, and "we wanted to offer our existing customers, as well as new customers, the option to take part in the defined contribution" concept.
He said "I think that our defined contribution portal will be very attractive to employers who want to give their employee a multitude of choice and access to health plan that meet their needs."
With MyAHNJ, employees will be provided with a link to an online portal created specifically for their company. MyAHNJ then walks the employee through a questionnaire in order to recommend the right health plan for them and their families. Employees can compare health plans side-by-side, view plan costs by pay period and evaluate different choices using an analysis of projected costs.
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In last night's State of the State address, Gov. Paul LePage ended by saying: "I have two very simple requests. Let's not raise taxes right now. Let's pay our bills."
You might read that statement as saying he won't raise taxes. But read it carefully, and then watch him say it by clicking below:
What strikes me is his inclusion and emphasis on "right now." He could have easily said "Let's not raise taxes" and left it at that. But he didn't.
And not only did he not leave "right now" out, he actually emphasized it. It struck me the moment he said it, and in watching the video I am more convinced.
Perhaps I am reading too much into it, but that sure sounds like an opening to Democrats that he would be willing to consider revenues in the long term. Perhaps in exchange for tax cuts today. Perhaps in exchange for a program he believes in like charter schools. Perhaps it is a signal that he'll go there after the 2014 re-election when he doesn't have to worry about another term.
Or maybe it was simply an accidental slip of the tongue. Interestingly, it was not in his originally prepared remarks. But if it was an accident, we all know what Freud would say: "There aren't any…"
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Squadron of stunt pilots will be operating its full tour schedule this year, Navy announces.
The Navy announced that the Blue Angels, its touring squadron of stunt pilots, will be operating along its full tour schedule this year, after missing out on the 2013 season from federal budget cuts due to sequestration.
According to Rear Adm. John Kirby on the Navy's official blog, the reduction in funding in 2013 caused the Navy to cancel approximately 2,800 community outreach events. This year, he wrote:
We will be able to provide Americans around our nation with special events to explain and show what their Navy does. These events include full schedules for Navy's Flight Demonstration Squadron (Blue Angels) and Parachute Teams (Leap Frogs); five Fleet Weeks; six Navy Weeks; Navy and regional band performances; and 10 port visits to U.S. cities.
Regarding the news that the team would be performing a full tour schedule, Cmdr. Thomas Frosch, the team's lead pilot, told the Pensacola News Journal that, "I think everybody was just excited to finally hear it. It's just been a long six months … It's a great feeling, that's all I can tell you." While grounded, the group performed other community outreach.


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Sketch comedy writers interested in joining Philly Improv Theater's third Sketch House Team as a part of the writing staff can submit packets from now until the deadline of Monday, May 27 to email@example.com. To be considered for a spot writers should submit a packet consisting of:
- A brief cover letter (1-page maximum – single spaced, size 10 font) explaining what you will bring to the writing team.
- Three (3) different original sketches you've written without a writing partner. Please arrange these sketches in order with what you feel is your strongest sketch first.
- Three (3) additional 1-2 sentence pitches of other sketch ideas you have.
More on the team from PHIT's website:
PHIT will once again be producing an all-new sketch revue show for the 2013 FringeArts Festival. Working together during the summer months under the supervision of a Head Writer and Director a group of writers and performers will put together a 40-45 minute sketch show of entirely original material that will debut Thursday, September 5th, 2013 and run nightly through September 8th. Writers and performers will not necessarily overlap, so if you only want to create sketches and don't want to appear on stage you'll be able to do that. PHIT seeks only writers at this time (auditions for performers will occur later, during the summer) and encourages all submissions regardless of race, ethnic or national origin, sex, sexual preference, religion, disability or age. Depending on the success of the FringeArts Festival show, the team may be given the opportunity to continue mounting further shows with support from PHIT.
More information is available on PHIT's website.


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text: The video above made by New York artist Dennis Palazzolo and written by Timothy Furstnau has been floating around for some time now (since 2000 in fact) and is still one of my favourites. It's sometimes mistaken for a work made by legendary performance artist Vito Acconci, who provided the film's voice-over in the guise of the MGM lion. Acconci is an interesting choice of narrator, given his penchant for found poetry, in which the arrangement of words supercedes their meaning. Here, Palazzolo's text is key and the message is strong – love life, because one day you're going to die.


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Liver (Hepatocellular) Cancer Prevention (PDQ®)NCI PDQ Summaries for Patients
What is prevention?
General Information About Liver (Hepatocellular) Cancer
Liver (Hepatocellular) Cancer Prevention
About This PDQ Summary
What is prevention?
Cancer prevention is action taken to lower the chance of getting cancer. By preventing cancer, the number of new cases of cancer in a group or population is lowered. Hopefully, this will lower the number of deaths caused by cancer.
To prevent new cancers from starting, scientists look at risk factors and protective factors. Anything that increases your chance of developing cancer is called a cancer risk factor; anything that decreases your chance of developing cancer is called a cancer protective factor.
Some risk factors for cancer can be avoided, but many cannot. For example, both smoking and inheriting certain genes are risk factors for some types of cancer, but only smoking can be avoided. Regular exercise and a healthy diet may be protective factors for some types of cancer. Avoiding risk factors and increasing protective factors may lower your risk, but it does not mean that you will not get cancer.
Different ways to prevent cancer are being studied, including:
- Changing lifestyle or eating habits.
- Avoiding things known to cause cancer.
- Taking medicines to treat a precancerous condition or to keep cancer from starting.
General Information About Liver (Hepatocellular) Cancer
Liver cancer is a disease in which malignant (cancer) cells form in the tissues of the liver.
The liver is one of the largest organs in the body. It has four lobes and fills the upper right side of the abdomen inside the rib cage. Three of the many important functions of the liver are:
- To filter harmful substances from the blood so they can be passed from the body in stools and urine.
- To make bile to help digest fats from food.
- To store glycogen (sugar), which the body uses for energy.
See the following PDQ summaries for more information about liver (hepatocellular) cancer:
- Liver (Hepatocellular) Cancer Screening
- Adult Primary Liver Cancer Treatment
- Childhood Liver Cancer Treatment
Liver cancer is not common in the United States.
Liver cancer is the fourth most common cancer and the third leading cause of cancer death in the world. In the United States, men, especially Asian/Pacific Islander men, have an increased risk of liver cancer. The number of new cases of liver cancer and the number of deaths from liver cancer continue to increase, especially among middle-aged black, Hispanic, and white men. People are usually older than 40 years when they develop this cancer.
Finding and treating liver cancer early may prevent death from liver cancer.
Being infected with certain types of the hepatitis virus can cause hepatitis and increase the risk of liver cancer.
Hepatitis is most commonly caused by the hepatitis virus. Hepatitis is a disease that causes inflammation (swelling) of the liver. Damage to the liver from hepatitis that lasts a long time can increase the risk of liver cancer.
There are six types of the hepatitis virus. Hepatitis A (HAV), hepatitis B (HBV), and hepatitis C (HCV) are the three most common types. These three viruses cause similar symptoms, but the ways they spread and affect the liver are different.
The Hepatitis A vaccine and the hepatitis B vaccine prevent infection with hepatitis A and hepatitis B. There is no vaccine to prevent infection with hepatitis C. If a person has had one type of hepatitis in the past, it is still possible to get the other types.
Hepatitis viruses include:
Hepatitis A
Hepatitis A is caused by eating food or drinking water infected with hepatitis A virus. It does not lead to chronic disease. People with hepatitis A usually get better without treatment.
Hepatitis B
Hepatitis B is caused by contact with the blood, semen, or other body fluid of a person infected with hepatitis B virus. It is a serious infection that may become chronic and cause scarring of the liver (cirrhosis). This may lead to liver cancer. Blood banks test all donated blood for hepatitis B, which greatly lowers the risk of getting the virus from blood transfusions.
Hepatitis C
Hepatitis C is caused by contact with the blood of a person infected with hepatitis C virus. Hepatitis C may range from a mild illness that lasts a few weeks to a serious, lifelong illness. Most people who have hepatitis C develop a chronic infection that may cause scarring of the liver (cirrhosis). This may lead to liver cancer. Blood banks test all donated blood for hepatitis C, which greatly lowers the risk of getting the virus from blood transfusions.
Hepatitis D
Hepatitis D develops in people already infected with hepatitis B. It is caused by hepatitis D virus (HDV) and is spread through contact with infected blood or dirty needles, or by having unprotected sex with a person infected with HDV. Hepatitis D causes acute hepatitis.
Hepatitis E
Hepatitis E is caused by hepatitis E virus (HEV). Hepatitis E can be spread through oral-anal contact or by drinking infected water. Hepatitis E is rare in the United States.
Hepatitis G
Being infected with hepatitis G virus (HGV) has not been shown to cause liver cancer.
Liver (Hepatocellular) Cancer Prevention
Avoiding risk factors and increasing protective factors may help prevent cancer.
Avoiding cancer risk factors may help prevent certain cancers. Risk factors include smoking, being overweight, and not getting enough exercise. Increasing protective factors such as quitting smoking and exercising may also help prevent some cancers. Talk to your doctor or other health care professional about how you might lower your risk of cancer.
The following risk factors may increase the risk of liver cancer:
Hepatitis B and C
Having chronic hepatitis B or chronic hepatitis C increases the risk of developing liver cancer. The risk is even greater for people with both hepatitis B and C. Also, the longer the hepatitis infection lasts (especially hepatitis C), the greater the risk.
In a study of patients with chronic hepatitis C, those who were treated to lower their iron levels by having blood drawn and eating a low-iron diet were less likely to develop liver cancer than those who did not have this treatment.
The risk of developing liver cancer is increased for people who have cirrhosis, a disease in which healthy liver tissue is replaced by scar tissue. The scar tissue blocks the flow of blood through the liver and keeps it from working as it should. Chronic alcoholism and chronic hepatitis C are the most common causes of cirrhosis.
The risk of developing liver cancer may be increased by eating foods that contain aflatoxin (poison from a fungus that can grow on foods, such as grains and nuts, that have not been stored properly).
The following protective factor may decrease the risk of liver cancer:
Hepatitis B vaccine
Preventing hepatitis B infection (by being vaccinated for hepatitis B) has been shown to lower the risk of liver cancer in children. It is not yet known if it lowers the risk in adults.
Cancer prevention clinical trials are used to study ways to prevent cancer.
Cancer prevention clinical trials are used to study ways to lower the risk of developing certain types of cancer. Some cancer prevention trials are conducted with healthy people who have not had cancer but who have an increased risk for cancer. Other prevention trials are conducted with people who have had cancer and are trying to prevent another cancer of the same type or to lower their chance of developing a new type of cancer. Other trials are done with healthy volunteers who are not known to have any risk factors for cancer.
The purpose of some cancer prevention clinical trials is to find out whether actions people take can prevent cancer. These may include eating fruits and vegetables, exercising, quitting smoking, or taking certain medicines, vitamins, minerals, or food supplements.
New ways to prevent liver cancer are being studied in clinical trials.
Clinical trials are taking place in many parts of the country. Information about clinical trials can be found in the Clinical Trials section of the NCI website. Check NCI's list of cancer clinical trials for liver cancer prevention trials that are now accepting patients.
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About PDQ
Physician Data Query (PDQ) is the National Cancer Institute's (NCI's) comprehensive cancer information database. The PDQ database contains summaries of the latest published information on cancer prevention, detection, genetics, treatment, supportive care, and complementary and alternative medicine. Most summaries come in two versions. The health professional versions have detailed information written in technical language. The patient versions are written in easy-to-understand, nontechnical language. Both versions have cancer information that is accurate and up to date and most versions are also available in Spanish.
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The information in this patient summary was taken from the health professional version, which is reviewed regularly and updated as needed, by the PDQ Screening and Prevention Editorial Board.
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A clinical trial is a study to answer a scientific question, such as whether one treatment is better than another. Trials are based on past studies and what has been learned in the laboratory. Each trial answers certain scientific questions in order to find new and better ways to help cancer patients. During treatment clinical trials, information is collected about the effects of a new treatment and how well it works. If a clinical trial shows that a new treatment is better than one currently being used, the new treatment may become "standard." Patients may want to think about taking part in a clinical trial. Some clinical trials are open only to patients who have not started treatment.
Clinical trials are listed in PDQ and can be found online at NCI's website. Many cancer doctors who take part in clinical trials are also listed in PDQ. For more information, call the Cancer Information Service 1-800-4-CANCER (1-800-422-6237).
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Planck will study the CMB more sharply and sensitively than ever before.
Thanks to its accuracy, Planck will extract all the information that the fluctuations of the CMB hold. It will obtain far more information about the early phases of the Universe than any previous space mission.
It will study all of the Universe's constituents with unprecedented accuracy. For example, it will determine the total amount of normal and dark matter in the Universe, and it will investigate the nature of dark energy.
It will study the evolution of the Universe in cosmic timescales, determining for example, when the first stars formed.
As an additional benefit, it will conduct the most sophisticated astrophysical survey in its range of wavelengths: as it works to obtain a clean CMB signal, Planck will gather data on other celestial objects with unprecedented accuracy.
- Planck will chart the best all-sky maps in its range of wavelengths.
Unanticipated discoveries are the best part of such a ground-breaking mission —and this one is expected to revolutionise our understanding of the birth, evolution and ultimate fate of our Universe.


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In 1985, following extensive research, Old Holland presented a revolutionary range of 168 oil paints, each with the highest degree of lightfastness. Traditional, non-lightfast pigments were replaced with modern lightfast pigments with the same colour characteristics as the traditional ones. Thanks to the highest possible concentration of pigment in each colour, the paint has an unprecedented colour strength. Within the unique range of 168 colours, there is a wide range of opaque and transparent colours, each with the highest possible brilliance (intense) and clarity (clean) characteristics. The only medium used for these oil paints is cold-pressed extra virgin linseed oil, to obtain an optimum oxidisation (drying) of the paint. This increases durability and brushstroke spread. Together, these characteristics result in an oil paint of unequalled quality.
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My work is related to a set of housewife's rules found in Housekeeping Monthly, 1955. These rules, placed on women by women, are my way of representing the impossibility of perfection and, through humour, deconstructing our futile struggle to achieve it. My photographs, taken using a self timer while I immersed myself in the situations found in these rules, show how impossibly difficult it would have been for anyone to be so perfect. I wanted to express women's issues, as well as document the difficulties of the time in a humorous manner.
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Florida Sen. Marco Rubio sought to put a softer face on Republicans' small-government agenda, accusing President Barack Obama of spreading blame for his own administration's shortcomings.
Rubio used the official Republican response to Obama's State of the Union address Tuesday to advance the friendlier tone the GOP has sought to project after two straight drubbings in presidential elections.
Related: Obama challenges GOP, presses big agenda at State of the Union
A 41-year-old Cuban-American, Rubio referenced his own experience on matters such as immigration and entitlements. But he also used the spotlight to showcase well-known Republican positions: for a balanced budget amendment, for instance, and against stricter gun control that Obama wants.
"Mr. President, I don't oppose your plans because I want to protect the rich," Rubio said, in a line representative of Republicans' effort to shirk their caricature of a party favoring the wealthy. "I oppose your plans because I want to protect my neighbors."
In his rebuttal to President Obama, Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., rejected the president's call for tax increases on the rich, advocated for a balanced budget amendment and said he wouldn't support changes to Medicare that would hurt seniors.
A rising star within the Republican Party who is regarded as a top contender for the Republican presidential nomination in 2016, Rubio used much of his speech to lay into Obama with familiar criticisms. He accused the president of demonizing the GOP for its resistance to the administration's agenda.
"There are valid reasons to be concerned about the president's plan to grow our government. But any time anyone opposes the president's agenda, he and his allies usually respond by falsely attacking their motives," Rubio said.
Rubio's moment in the spotlight was eagerly awaited by many Republicans, but at one point the spotlight seemed to affect him: Rubio ducked to his left, and almost out of camera range, to pick up a small bottle of water and take a gulp.
The unusual break in the speech was quickly mocked on Twitter. Within minutes of the speech, Poland Spring — the brand that Rubio reached for — was a trending topic.
The Florida senator was part of a bipartisan so-called Gang of Eight who last month presented a framework for immigration reform. It called for securing the U.S.-Mexican border before dealing with the nation's 11 million undocumented immigrants.
He sounded those themes again Tuesday and said: "First, we must follow through on the broken promises of the past to secure our borders and enforce our laws."
Rubio devoted a sizable portion of his address to attacking Obama's proposals on the federal budget. He said that he hoped the president would "abandon his obsession with raising taxes" and instead focus on economic growth.
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The senator, who said that he himself had only just paid off $100,000 in student loans, accused Obama of blaming President George W. Bush for a rising federal debt when Obama "created more debt in four years than his predecessor did in eight."
Rubio's speech sets the stage for this spring's fight over Democratic and Republican proposals to resolve the so-called sequester — automatic spending cuts to government programs set to take effect March 1.
The Obama administration has said that the cuts would hamper economic growth and harm national security.
Rubio accused Obama of seeking "devastating" cuts to the military and said that the answer to the nation's fiscal problems in stronger economic growth and creating "new taxpayers, not new taxes."
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"I would never support any changes to Medicare that would hurt seniors like my mother," he said. "But anyone who is in favor of leaving Medicare exactly the way it is right now, is in favor of bankrupting it."
Republican Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky, giving a separate response address to a tea party group, suggested that not only should the automatic spending cuts standing — they should be greater.
"Washington acts in a way that your family never could," he said, according to prepared remarks. "They spend money they do not have, they borrow from future generations, and then they blame each other for never fixing the problem."
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Study Finds Organic
Food Is Safer for Children
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Children who eat a diet of organic food show a level of pesticides in their body that is six times lower than children who eat a diet of conventionally produced food, according to a new study published in the March 2003 issue of Environmental Health Perspectives. The study, Organophosphorus Pesticide Exposure of Urban and Suburban Preschool Children with Organic and Conventional Diets, written by University of Washington researchers Cynthia Curl, Richard Fenske and Kal Elgethun, used biological monitoring to examine the effects of food eaten by preschool children in the Seattle, Washington area. Eighteen of the children examined were fed organic diets, and 21 were fed conventional diets. A diet was considered organic based on food labels. Parents kept a diary of their child's diet for three days, after which 24-hour urine samples were taken to look for metabolites of organophosphate (OP) pesticides. Significantly higher concentrations of OP metabolites (dimethyl alkylphosphate metabolites) were found in the children with conventional diets. According to the authors, "The dose estimates suggest that consumption of organic fruits, vegetables, and juice can reduce children's exposure levels from above to below the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's current guidelines, thereby shifting exposures from a range of uncertain risk to a range of negligible risk."
Studies in animals show that even a single, low-level exposure to certain OP pesticides during particular times of early brain development can cause permanent changes in brain chemistry, as well as changes in behavior, such as hyperactivity. This may mean that early childhood exposure to such chemicals can lead to lasting effects on learning, attention, and behavior, just like the environmental neurotoxin lead.
The researchers state, "Our finding that children who consume primarily organic produce exhibit lower pesticide metabolite levels in their urine than children who consume conventional produce is consistent with known agricultural practice, because organic foods are grown without pesticides. Consumption of organic produce appears to provide a relatively simple way for parents to reduce their children's exposure to OP pesticides."
For more information, see Beyond Pesticides' Organic Food program page. To decrease exposure to pesticides from your food, look for the USDA Organic label that says "100% organic" when you are food shopping. Read about Beyond Pesticides' explanation of the label here.
The study, Organophosphorus Pesticide Exposure of Urban and Suburban Preschool Children with Organic and Conventional Diets, can be found in Environmental Health Perspectives, Volume 111, Number 3, March 2003.


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CHARLOTTE — Compass Group USA plans to add 200 jobs here within four years, making it eligible for up to $1.7 million in state incentives. The food-services company, part of London-based Compass Group, employs more than 1,000 in the Queen City, the subsidiary's headquarters.
CHARLOTTE — Kevin Scott resigned as CEO and president of Electrolux's North American unit. The Sweden-based parent company, which makes appliances, said the departure was planned but would not elaborate. Jack Truong, who over 22 years held numerous positions at 3M, will replace Scott.
CONCORD — City officials agreed to pay Speedway Motorsports, which owns Charlotte Motor Speedway, $2.8 million during the next three years to settle a lawsuit over incentives. Owner Bruton Smith sued the city, contending that it had reneged on a promise to pay for improvements to keep the track in Concord.
MOUNT HOLLY — Buckeye Technologies, which makes specialty fiber for baby wipes, napkins and other products, plans to close its plant in Canada and move production here. The Memphis, Tenn.-based company didn't say whether it will add to its local workforce of more than 100.
CHARLOTTE — Jetion Solar (US), part of Jetion Solar China, plans to begin production of solar panels at its North American headquarters here by year's end. The factory, which will employ as many as 36, will be the company's first outside its home country.
Daimler Trucks North Americawill add nearly 700 jobs at its Freightliner plants in Gaston County by the end of the year, according to the company and the United Auto Workers union. The Mount Holly plant will add 570 workers by mid-September, giving it nearly 1,450, while the Gastonia plant will add 124 in October, increasing employment there to about 1,125. Some of the hires will be workers recalled from layoffs by the truck maker.


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