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The U.S. and other world powers have agreed on a plan with Iran to start rolling back parts of the Iranian nuclear program in exchange for some sanctions relief. Secretary of State John Kerry says the deal goes into effect later this month.
SECRETARY JOHN KERRY: As of that day - Jan. 20th - for the first time in almost a decade, Iran's nuclear program will not be able to advance. In fact, parts of it will be rolled back while we start negotiating a comprehensive agreement to address the international community's concerns about Iran's nuclear program.
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MICHELE KELEMEN, BYLINE: Jan Egeland describes Syria as the challenge for our generation, and that's something coming from a man who used to oversee U.N. aid operations around the globe.
JAN EGELAND: Since the turn of the millennium, we have not had such a massive displacement of people. Nine million - and counting - people have lost their homes. It is beyond anybody's imagination.
KELEMEN: Egeland, now secretary general of the Norwegian Refugee Council, says the international community is failing the people of Syria. But he's hopeful that in all the meetings this week - in Paris, and at a donors conference in Kuwait - countries will push Syria to give aid groups the access they need.
EGELAND: And there should be consequences for those who break these humanitarian principles. And we haven't seen that, so far. So now, humanitarians are struggling alone, uphill. We are completely overwhelmed especially inside of Syria; where the aid operation is too weak, and the problems are too great.
KELEMEN: Secretary Kerry says 160,000 people are trapped, without aid, in a suburb of Damascus. He says there's an urgent need to focus on this, and to get a long-delayed peace conference off the ground.
KERRY: There is no other alternative to ending this violence and saving the state of Syria than to find a negotiated, peaceful outcome.
KELEMEN: Kerry is urging the fractious opposition to attend next week's conference in Switzerland, and he calls this a test of everyone's credibility. The president of the Syrian opposition council, Ahmad al-Jarba, isn't making any promises to attend just yet. But in Paris, standing alongside Kerry and other foreign ministers of countries that have been supporting him, the opposition leader said the goal must be a Syria without Bashar al-Assad. Jarba spoke through an interpreter.
AHMAD AL-JARBA: (Through interpreter) The most important aspect of today's meeting is that we all agree to say that al-Assad has no future in Syria. The al-Assad family has no future in Syria.
KELEMEN: And Jarba says there can be no ambiguity about that. Turkey's foreign minister, Ahmet Davutoglu, says he's hopeful Jarba will now decide to attend the conference; though he acknowledges it's a difficult decision as rebels fight extremists among their ranks, and as Syria continues to bombard cities.
AHMET DAVUTOGLU: The regime continue to attack in Aleppo, by barrel bombs; continue to punish Syrian people, by starvations. Therefore, there is - they have some concerns about this. We will be doing everything possible to stop these massacres and crimes against humanity.
KELEMEN: It's not clear yet whether those assurances - heard many times before - will convince the Syrian opposition to attend peace talks, or if negotiations can really succeed. Secretary Kerry is urging observers not to be too cynical, and give these talks some time.
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A new study of 1,763 heterosexual couples in which one partner had HIV and the other didn't found that patients are 96% less likely to pass on the virus if they start taking antiretroviral drugs immediately. In half of the couples, the infected partner started taking the drugs right away, and the rest started taking the drug later in the disease. All were instructed on preventing transmission and given free condoms. In the group that waited, 27 partners were infected, all before the HIV patient started taking the drugs. In the other group only one partner was infected.
The results were so convincing that an independent review panel decided to release the results four years before the end of the study. After reviewing the research, Salim Abdool Karim, an AIDS researcher and professor at South Africa's University of KwaZulu-Natal, said, "I was bowled over... If we can implement this, we have a real chance to turn the tide on the HIV epidemic."

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Bear baiting is the inhumane "sport" that pits dogs against defenseless bears for the purpose of training and spectator amusement. This practice, which is only legal in South Carolina and Pakistan, is inhumane and cruel and must be outlawed. Please sign this petition and stop this state-sanctioned wildlife abuse.
In order to keep the bears from hurting the dogs, they are de-clawed, de-toothed, and chained. Often seen as a spectator sport, audiences assemble to watch any number of dogs continually attack the defenseless bear. In an investigation by The Humane Society of the United States (HSUS), they documented an "event" that drew hundreds of spectators for a four-hour show, where nearly 300 dogs attacked one bear in quick succession. Black bears are favored for baiting because of their shy nature and instinct to flee when threatened. According to the HSUS, "There are currently 26 captive black bears in South Carolina, many likely used for bear baiting."
Bear baiting events are hosted by breed clubs associated with the American Kennel Club and the United Kennel Club. The South Carolina Department of Natural Resources issues permits for the possession of the bears, but has not inspected bear baiting events or come to rescue of the bears. It is absolutely necessary that these permits be rescinded and South Carolina join the rest of the nation in outlawing this cruel and disgusting "sport".
Please sign this petition and force Governor Haley to outlaw bear baiting and find sanctuary for the remaining permitted bears.
There have been plenty of petitions that have been started for this cause, and I have YET to see any of them make a change! I WILL get this disgusting sport stopped in our state of South Carolina! So please support in any way that you can and PLEASE sign this petition!
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INTRODUCTION ============ This module implements a Perl interface to the Gnome libxml2 library which provides interfaces for parsing and manipulating XML files. This module allows Perl programmers to make use of its highly capable validating XML parser and its high performance DOM implementation. IMPORTANT NOTES =============== XML::LibXML was almost entirely reimplemented between version 1.40 to version 1.49. This may cause problems on some production machines. With version 1.50 a lot of compatibility fixes were applied, so programs written for XML::LibXML 1.40 or less should run with version 1.50 again. In 1.59, a new callback API was introduced. This new API is not compatible with the previous one. See XML::LibXML::InputCallback manual page for details. In 1.61 the XML::LibXML::XPathContext module, previously distributed separately, was merged in. An experimental support for Perl threads introduced in 1.66 has been replaced in 1.67. DEPENDENCIES ============ Prior to installation you MUST have installed the libxml2 library. You can get the latest libxml2 version from http://xmlsoft.org/ Without libxml2 installed this module will neither build nor run. Also XML::LibXML requires the following packages: o XML::SAX - base class for SAX parsers o XML::NamespaceSupport - namespace support for SAX parsers These packages are required. If one is missing some tests will fail. Again, libxml2 is required to make XML::LibXML work. The library is not just required to build XML::LibXML, it has to be accessible during run-time as well. Because of this you need to make sure libxml2 is installed properly. To test this, run the xmllint program on your system. xmllint is shipped with libxml2 and therefore should be available. For building the module you will also need the header file for libxml2, which in binary (.rpm,.deb) etc. distributions usually dwell in a package named libxml2-devel or similar. INSTALLATION ============ (These instructions are for UNIX and GNU/Linux systems. For MSWin32, See Notes for Microsoft Windows below.) To install XML::LibXML just follow the standard installation routine for Perl modules: 1 perl Makefile.PL 2 make 3 make test 4 make install # as superuser Note that XML::LibXML is an XS based Perl extension and you need a C compiler to build it. Note also that you should rebuild XML::LibXML if you upgrade libxml2 in order to avoid problems with possible binary incompatibilities between releases of the library. Notes on libxml2 versions ========================= XML::LibXML requires at least libxml2 2.6.16 to compile and pass all tests and at least 2.6.21 is required for XML::LibXML::Reader. For some older OS versions this means that an update of the pre-built packages is required. Although libxml2 claims binary compatibility between its patch levels, it is a good idea to recompile XML::LibXML and run its tests after an upgrade of libxml2. If your libxml2 installation is not within your $PATH, you can pass the XMLPREFIX=$YOURLIBXMLPREFIX parameter to Makefile.PL determining the correct libxml2 version in use. e.g. > perl Makefile.PL XMLPREFIX=/usr/brand-new will ask '/usr/brand-new/bin/xml2-config' about your real libxml2 configuration. Try to avoid setting INC and LIBS directly on the command-line, for if used, Makefile.PL does not check the libxml2 version for compatibility with XML::LibXML. Which version of libxml2 should be used? ======================================== XML::LibXML is tested against a couple versions of libxml2 before it is released. Thus there are versions of libxml2 that are known not to work properly with XML::LibXML. The Makefile.PL keeps a blacklist of the incompatible libxml2 versions using Alien::Libxml2. The blacklist itself is kept inside its "alienfile" file. If Makefile.PL detects one of the incompatible versions, it notifies the user. It may still happen that XML::LibXML builds and pass its tests with such a version, but that does not mean everything is OK. There will be no support at all for blacklisted versions! As of XML::LibXML 1.61, only versions 2.6.16 and higher are supported. XML::LibXML will probably not compile with earlier libxml2 versions than 2.5.6. Versions prior to 2.6.8 are known to be broken for various reasons, versions prior to 2.1.16 exhibit problems with namespaced attributes and do not therefore pass XML::LibXML regression tests. It may happen that an unsupported version of libxml2 passes all tests under certain conditions. This is no reason to assume that it shall work without problems. If Makefile.PL marks a version of libxml2 as incompatible or broken it is done for a good reason. Full linking information for libxml2 can be obtained by invoking "xml2-config --libs". Notes for Microsoft Windows =========================== Thanks to Randy Kobes there is a pre-compiled PPM package available on http://theoryx5.uwinnipeg.ca/ppmpackages/ Usually it takes a little time to build the package for the latest release. If you want to build XML::LibXML on Windows from source, you can use the following instructions contributed by Christopher J. Madsen: These instructions assume that you already have your system set up to compile modules that use C components. First, get the libxml2 binaries from http://xmlsoft.org/sources/win32/ (currently also available at http://www.zlatkovic.com/pub/libxml/). You need: > iconv-VERSION.win32.zip > libxml2-VERSION.win32.zip > zlib-VERSION.win32.zip Download the latest version of each. (Each package will probably have a different version.) When you extract them, you'll get directories named iconv-VERSION.win32, libxml2-VERSION.win32, and zlib-VERSION.win32, each containing bin, lib, and include directories. Combine all the bin, include, and lib directories under c:\Prog\LibXML. (You can use any directory you prefer; just adjust the instructions accordingly.) Get the latest version of XML-LibXML from CPAN. Extract it. Issue these commands in the XML-LibXML-VERSION directory: > perl Makefile.PL INC=-Ic:\Prog\LibXML\include LIBS=-Lc:\Prog\LibXML\lib > nmake > copy c:\Prog\LibXML\bin\*.dll blib\arch\auto\XML\LibXML > nmake test > nmake install (Note: Some systems use dmake instead of nmake.) By copying the libxml2 DLLs to the arch directory, you help avoid conflicts with other programs you may have installed that use other (possibly incompatible) versions of those DLLs. Notes for Mac OS X ================== Due to a refactoring of the module, XML::LibXML will not run with some earlier versions of Mac OS X. It appears that this is related to special linker options for that OS prior to version 10.2.2. Since the developers do not have full access to this OS, help/ patches from OS X gurus are highly appreciated. It is confirmed that XML::LibXML builds and runs without problems since Mac OS X 10.2.6. Notes for HPUX ============== XML::LibXML requires libxml2 2.6.16 or later. There may not exist a usable binary libxml2 package for HPUX and XML::LibXML. If HPUX cc does not compile libxml2 correctly, you will be forced to recompile perl with gcc (unless you have already done that). Additionally I received the following Note from Rozi Kovesdi: > Here is my report if someone else runs into the same problem: > > Finally I am done with installing all the libraries and XML Perl > modules > > The combination that worked best for me was: > gcc > GNU make > > Most importantly - before trying to install Perl modules that depend on > libxml2: > > must set SHLIB_PATH to include the path to libxml2 shared library > > assuming that you used the default: > > export SHLIB=/usr/local/lib > > also, make sure that the config files have execute permission: > > /usr/local/bin/xml2-config > /usr/local/bin/xslt-config > > they did not have +x after they were installed by 'make install' > and it took me a while to realize that this was my problem > > or one can use: > > perl Makefile.PL LIBS='-L/path/to/lib' INC='-I/path/to/include' CONTACT ======= For bug reports, please use the issue tracker at https://github.com/shlomif/perl-XML-LibXML/issues . 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Don't say you weren't warned. HBO's 24/7 Penguins/Capitals premiered last night, and we were promised profanity. Either we got it, or they accidentally put Deadwood back on the air.
The Capitals have been playing like crap recently, so of course they were going to be the more fascinating team to follow. But heading to the locker room after two periods, down 1-0 to the woeful Florida Panthers, Caps coach Bruce Boudreau snapped.
Is that snapping? It's hard to tell, because the man's so soft-spoken and looks like the lovechild of Mickey Rooney and John Wayne Gacy. But by SBNation's count, he lets 15 f-bombs fly in a little more than a minute's speech.
Motivating professional athletes is a funny thing. What can you say to men whose jobs, whose lives have only ever been about being the best? How do you inspire folks who are going to pocket hundreds of thousands of dollars, win or lose? Boudreau's rant is as emphatic as his message is unoriginal: work harder.
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Appeal against 3-day wait for SD abortion dropped
(AP)—Planned Parenthood has announced that it plans to drop its appeal of a legal provision that requires women seeking abortions in South Dakota to wait three days.
Women in South Dakota have to wait 72 hours before they are allowed to end a pregnancy under a 2011 law—the longest waiting period in the country.
Sarah Stoesz (stayc) is the president of Planned Parenthood of Minnesota, South Dakota and North Dakota. She says the decision to drop the appeal was not an easy one to make, but that the organization thinks it's best to focus on fighting another provision from the 2011 law.
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"Online Staffing Platform," Elance, Reports Continuing High Growth in 2012
Elance has published its Global Online Employment Report indicating strong ongoing adoption in the online staffing segment and strong growth for the company, as businesses and workers continue to embrace this model for getting certain kinds of work done.
The company reported that topline revenues for 2012 crossed the $200M mark, with 2012 freelancer earnings on the platform coming in at $200M, or 40% over the 2011 level (freelancer earnings represents what is paid to freelancers and does not include Elance mark-up or any other revenue sources). Additionally, 345,000 new hiring businesses joined the platform in 2012 (growth of 54% over 2011), and 799,000 new freelancers registered with the platform in 2012 to find work (growth of 44% over 2011). There are now more than 1.25M hiring businesses and over 2.2M freelancers registered with the Elance platform.
The number of jobs posted on Elance continued to climb in 2012 with an average run rate of about 80,000 jobs a month. Well over 800K jobs were posted on Elance in 2012.
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In the largest Elance work categories, skilled "knowledge workers" (especially IT and Creative), aggregate freelance earnings continued to grow at very high rates in 2012, in many sub-segments like mobile app developers and web designers growing at rates over 100 or even 200% (2012 over 2011).
According the Elance report, "the top 10 GDP countries increased their online hiring by an average of 67%" in 2012.
A very interesting characteristic of supply and demand on the Elance platform is that the United States remains the #1 country for both freelancer demand as well as freelancer supply based on aggregate spend/earnings (with 2012 year-over-year growth rates on both the demand and supply sides of the platform being between 25 and 50%). This may suggest that Elance's platform and market growth strategy and business model may not conform to the "conventional wisdom" that online staffing platforms are simply vehicles for using low-cost labor in less developed countries.


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A year or so ago, Mark Deuze (Media Work) and I edited a special issue of the journal, Convergence, which explored some of the issues around "Convergence Culture." One of the best essays we received in our open paper call came from Daren C. Brabham, a Ph.D candidate at the University of Utah, who was doing his dissertation on "crowdsourcing." I've remained in touch with Brabham ever since and recently encouraged him to share some of his own recent thinking about how the crowdsource model can and is being adapted from the commercial arena to address issues of social welfare and public policy. I am happy to share Brabham's insights with the readers of this blog. Crowdsourcing and Governance
by Daren C. Brabham
It's been three years since Jeff Howe coined the term "crowdsourcing" in his Wired article "The Rise of Crowdsourcing." The term, which describes an online, distributed problem solving and production model, is most famously represented in the business operations of companies like Threadless and InnoCentive and in contests like the Goldcorp Challenge and the Doritos Crash the Super Bowl Contest.
In each of these cases, the company has a problem it needs solved or a product it needs designed. The company broadcasts this challenge on its Web site to an online community--a crowd--and the crowd submits designs and solutions in response. Next--and this is a key component of crowdsourcing--the crowd vets the submissions of its peers, critiquing and ranking submissions until winners emerge. Though winners are often rewarded for their ideas, prizes are often small relative to industry standards for the same kind of professional work and rewards sometimes only consist of public recognition.
Crowdsourcing is a killer business model, effectively stitching the market research process into the very design of products, minimizing overhead costs, and speeding up the creative phase of problem solving and design. Theories of collective intelligence and crowd wisdom help to explain why crowdsourcing works: broadcasting a challenge online taps far-flung genius in the network and aggregating that talent can, for some types of problems, be just as effective as solving the problem in-house.
What I have argued for a few years now, and what I am trying to make clear in my dissertation, is that crowdsourcing has the potential to work outside of for-profit settings. In fact, it may be a suitable model for solving government problems, supplementing traditional forms of public participation to help government make better decisions with more citizen input.
Though you'd be hard pressed to see them ever use the word "crowdsourcing," one such example of crowdsourcing in governance is Peer-to-Patent. Begun in June 2007, Peer-to-Patent is a project developed by New York Law School's Institute for Information Law and Policy, in cooperation with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO). The pilot project engages an online community in the examination of pending patent applications, tasking the crowd with identifying prior art and annotating applications to be forwarded on to the USPTO. The project helps to streamline the typical patent review process, adding many more sets of eyes to a typical examination process.
Another attempt to use crowdsourcing in public decision-making is Next Stop Design, a project with which I am involved that asks the crowd to design a bus stop for Salt Lake City, Utah. With Thomas W. Sanchez and a team of researchers from the University of Utah, we're working in cooperation with the Utah Transit Authority (UTA) and funded by a grant from the U.S. Federal Transit Administration. On the Next Stop Design Web site, you can register for free, submit your own bus stop designs and ideas, and rate and comment on the designs of others. Launched on June 5, 2009, the project runs through September 25, 2009, and the highest rated designs will be considered for actual construction at a major bus transfer stop in Salt Lake City. Winning designs will be publicly acknowledged and included on a plaque affixed to the built bus stop.
Traditional public participation methods, such as town hall meetings and design charrettes, often involve relatively few voices in the decision-making process. The goal with Next Stop Design--as with all crowdsourced governing projects--is to draw in more voices by taking the process online. And though the realities of the so-called "digital divide" persist with any online process, crowdsourcing may still bring in a more diverse set of viewpoints than typically exists at town hall meetings. Finally, broadcasting the process online may attract innovative ideas from everyday Web users that might not have ever appeared in local face-to-face processes or among even large panels of experts.
There is much potential for crowdsourcing in government, certainly as one of an array of social media methods quickly being embraced by all levels of government. President Obama has made his intentions with technology and transparency in government clear. His appointment of Beth Noveck, the New York Law School professor who launched Peer-to-Patent, as Deputy Chief Technology Officer for Open Government, makes his intentions very clear. I predict over the next two years we'll see in the U.S. a rapid proliferation of government by the crowd, for the crowd. Get ready to participate.
Daren C. Brabham is a Ph.D. candidate and graduate teaching fellow in the Department of Communication at the University of Utah. His article, "Crowdsourcing as a Model for Problem Solving," appearing in a special issue of Convergence edited by Mark Deuze and Henry Jenkins, was among the first research articles published on the crowdsourcing model. Directed by Professor Joy Pierce, his dissertation makes the case for crowdsourcing in public problem solving contexts.


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Michael R necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 77 diseños de 27 diseñadores freelance.
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Physics games are like National Geographic maps. I could stare at them for hours and feel like I learned something even if I couldn't articulate what I had been doing all this time.
This is Ball Droppings, which, despite its unfortunate name, is a good way to kill time before dinner if you're bored with surfing the web and don't feel like firing up your console for just 20 minutes. The premise - balls drop from a point on the screen, and you create boundaries off which they rebound. When they do, depending on the ball's speed, it creates a tone. It's an experimental game/application for Google's chrome browser but it works in most anything.
You can mess with the gravity and the drop rate to create some spooky-sounding tone patterns. Once I replicate the Close Encounters of the Third Kind signal, I'll move on to something else.
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After the first presidential debate, Big Bird has become a big deal.
Early in the debate, Governor Mitt Romney apologized to moderator Jim Lehrer when asked about government cuts.
"I'm sorry Jim, I'm going to stop the subsidy to PBS. I like PBS. I actually love Big Bird. I like you too, but I'm not going to keep on spending money on things to borrow more money from China to pay for," answered Romney.
The moment quickly became one of the most talked about moments of the night. On Twitter, jokes involving Sesame Street and the oversized yellow fowl took off, hitting 17,000 tweets per minute for "Big Bird." Twitter confirmed it was the most tweeted about political event in the social networking platform's history.
Thanks to the viral nature of the conversation, Romney and Big Bird-themed outfits are hitting the market just in time for Halloween.
Cafe Press, a website where artists can create their own wares and sell them online, saw a number of bumper stickers, shirts, and hoodies pop up around the theme. Shirt sayings include "Save Big Bird" with a yellow feather, "Obama Big Bird 2012" in bumper sticker style, and "Romney Gets the Bird" with a yellow webbed foot, shaped similarly to a raised middle finger. Wear any of these for a low-maintenance costume with a message.
Walmart offers classic, unaltered Big Bird costumes for both men and women, which all include a yellow shirt, and a hat or headpiece featuring Big Bird's face. The pre-packaged costumes work well on their own, or can provide a solid base for a more creative Halloween outfit.
Go the horror route and purchase a fake knife and blood, attaching it near the heart, or slip on a tied noose for effect. Just don't wear these costumes around the kids!
For a paired costume, one person can go as Big Bird and the other can go as Mitt Romney. Since the Republican candidate was already a popular costume thanks to the election, Mitt Romney masks can be found at most Halloween stores. The person playing Romney can either hold a knife or scissors "to cut" Big Bird with, or wear a sandwich board saying, "I love Big Bird, but…" A couple can also go the opposite route and hold hands through the night, illustrating Romney's love for the feathered friend.
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Johnny Goodman necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
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The 64GB Samsung Galaxy S3 has been made available for pre-order in the UK with the high storage capacity handset to land with a hefty £600 price tag.
With the 16GB and 32GB capacity Samsung Galaxy S3 handsets hitting the UK earlier this year, the large 64GB handset has yet to make it to British shores with online retailer Clove now offering 64GB Samsung Galaxy S3 pre-orders ahead of an as yet unconfirmed release date.
Despite taking pre-orders for the 64GB Samsung Galaxy S3, Clove has warned those eager to snap up the large storage Android device might not be able to get their hands on the HTC One X rival anytime soon with the retailer to readdress orders in two weeks time before deciding whether or not to stock the device.
"In two weeks time we will decide whether or not to take stock of the handset based on the number of pre-orders that we have received for the handset," and official Clove spokesperson has announced via the company's official blog. "At this stage we will provide an updated ETA for the arrival of stock. Do be aware that from this point onwards there is likely to be a 5-6 week lead time."
Set to become one of the priciest handsets on the market, the £600 64GB Samsung Galaxy S3 is still £99 cheaper than the similar capacity iPhone 5. Despite its lofty price tag, it is expected that the latest addition to the Samsung Galaxy S3 offering will be eclipsed in price when the 64GB Samsung Galaxy Note 2 finally lands.
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Other than its increased storage capacity, the 64GB Samsung Galaxy S3 features no additional bells and whistles over its 16GB and 32GB siblings.
Playing host to a 1.4GHz quad-core processor, the Samsung Galaxy S3 boasts 1GB of RAM alongside an 8-megapixel rear-mounted camera with 1080p Full HD video recording capabilities. Whilst a second 1.9-megapixel camera lines up on the handset's fore, the Samsung Galaxy S3 has ample space with the 8.6mm thick handset hosting an expansive 4.8-inch 1280 x 720p display.
Running Google's Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich OS from the box, the Samsung Galaxy S3 Android 4.1 Jelly Bean update is now available.
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Following the 9/11 attacks and subsequent anthrax-mail campaign in 2001, the federal government began to invest more in facilities that could support research on and analysis of bacteria, viruses, and other biological substances that could be deployed as weapons. Naturally occurring, highly infectious diseases, such as ebola, SARS, and avian flu, spurred further need for such facilities because it became apparent that outbreaks could increase in frequency and severity. Facilities that handle bioweapons and highly-infectious diseases are classifed as Biosafety Level 4 (BSL-4) facilities and extremely rare. Only 10 countries have such facilities. Since 1998, the United States has built three facilities (in Atlanta, Galveston,Texas, and San Antonio, Texas.) and is in the process of building another four (in Boston, Fort Collins, Colo., Hamilton, Mont., and another in Galveston).
BSL-4 construction is a highly intricate and expensive process. Of the fiscal-year-2003 $1.2 billion in federal funding in this area, $521 million was earmarked for facilities under construction. This increase in construction of BSL-4 facilities has some communities worried about potential exposure to harmful contaminants as a result of accidential releases or infection from BSL-4 staff. However, the science of designing, constructing, and operating buildings to contain and combat lethal organisms has been developed to a high art over the last 50 years in a select group of sites. The Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta, the Army's lab in Fort Detrick, Md.; and the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in Bethesda, Md. are among these sites.
This article will discuss the safety measures and systems developed at these facilities, which are being applied to the newer buildings.
Generally speaking, the name of the game is containment. There are two basic types of BSL-4 laboratories: cabinet and suit.
Cabinet BSL-4 labs have customized glove boxes connected in long lines. In suit labs, scientists wear positively pressurized spacesuit-type garments with breathing air hoses.
This article will concentrate on the higher-hazard type of BSL-4 building, the suit lab.
High-containment labs have been described as "a submarine inside a bank vault." More commonly, this is described as a "box within a box," whereby the BSL-4 lab is a self-contained box wrapped on all sides by its support building. The lowest floor houses support equipment, such as breathing air compressors and liquid-effluent-treatment systems. The actual BSL-4 labs are on the middle floor. The upper floor houses ducts, fans, and HEPA filters to provide easy access for maintenance.
BSL-4 labs are protected with primary, secondary, and tertiary barriers. Primary barriers include suits and gloves scientists wear and the biosafety cabinet. The biosafety cabinets have an integral HEPA filter in addition to two HEPA filters in the exhaust. Biosafety cabinets become another layer of protection and a place to capture organisms before they escape. Secondary barriers include air locks, chemical showers, doors, walls, kill tanks, and sterilizers. Tertiary barriers include fences around complexes and security guards.
All of these safety measures add up in terms of construction costs. A BSL-4 suit lab requires 6,460 sq ft of support space for every 1,000 sq ft of BSL-4 space. This compares with only 1,890 sq ft of support space for a 1,000 sq ft BSL-2 biological lab. The cost per gross square foot for a BSL-4 lab is in the range of $700 to $1,200.
The sidebar summarizes the increasing risks and safety measures in four levels from BSL-1 to BSL-4. BSL-1 does not deal with infectious organisms and does not need advanced ventilation features. All labs from BSL-2 to BSL-4 deal with infectious diseases and need negative-pressurization control to provide directional airflow. This ensures that clean non-infectious air from the corridor flows into the laboratory helping to stop disease organisms from escaping.
The following are special systems of interest to mechanical engineers who provide BSL-4 labs with the additional protections.
Pressure-driven-airflow control
One of the primary safety measures is the use of depressurization (negative pressure) to route air from safe zones to hazardous zones. By keeping a BSL-4 lab at a negative pressure, any leak that develops will draw clean air into the lab without letting contaminated air escape. Depressurization is achieved by deliberately exhausting more air than is being supplied.
Some engineers specify a bladder valve as the ventilation VAV box. A bladder valve is an industrial-quality product that has been available since the early 1960s. Bladder valves are linear in operation and very reliable. Also, very accurate flow sensors, such as vortex shedding sensors, are used to achieve a 2-percent flow accuracy at minimum flow through the VAV box.
An example of this design is the Canadian Science Centre (CSC) for Human and Animal Health in Winnipeg, Manitoba. This 7-year-old facility cost more than $140 million (Canadian) when new and is the only facility in the world that works with both human and large-animal specimens in the same building at high biosafety levels.
Envelope integrity is a critical factor in controlling indoor/outdoor pressure differential, and controlling the source of air. Air should enter and leave through designated systems, not leaks in the envelope.
Design teams have tightened the architectural envelope of BSL-4 labs and improved commissioning practices so that a 6-Pascal (0.002-in.-wg) pressure differential can maintain safety. However, a considerable safety margin is added by bringing the range of pressure difference up to 25 to 50 Pascals (0.10 to 0.20 in. wg).
Within envelopes and between interior spaces, undercut doors or transfer grilles route airflow from the safest spaces to the most hazardous. The direction of the airflow is monitored by pressure sensors networked to local and centralized alarms. This enables fast response to any loss of negative pressure.
Bioseal doors and dampers
Two types of specialized "bioseal" doors are used at entrances to BSL-4 facilities. One type is the submarine door, which has a turning wheel and lugs to mechanically clamp the door shut. The second type of door has a pressurized bladder that seals the door when it is closed. The bladder deflates when the door handle is unlatched and re-inflates when the door is closed.
Bubble-tight duct dampers, called bioseal dampers, isolate ducts at the point at which they exit through a BSL-4 lab structure. These dampers automatically seal off the lab if the sensors indicate a loss in negative pressure control. These dampers also can aid in the isolation of the HEPA filters when it is time to decontaminate them prior to changeover. Pressure sensors in each of the BSL-4 rooms and the airlocks and anterooms verify that negative pressurization is being controlled. Outside air building pressure sensors also are used.
Building-pressure sensors
Just as race cars test technologies that end up on family minivans, high-technology buildings test and implement technologies that later will be used in all types of buildings. One of the key technologies for protecting buildings from bioterrorism and for constructing biocontainment labs is the measurement of pressure outside buildings. The outside-air building pressure provides a common pressure reference point for use when controlling negative-pressurization levels in labs or any other building to be protected. The standard technology involves one or more wind-shielded sensors on top of a 20-ft-tall pole located on a building's roof. A new technology shows promise for improvement in accuracy: A sensor is placed at each floor level on each exterior-wall exposure (i.e., north, south, east, and west orientations). High-speed direct-digital controllers enable the sensors to make real time measurements with greater accuracy than ever before.
Ventilation and filtration
BSL-4 spaces are supplied with 100-percent outside air with no return air. All air exhausted from the BSL-4 area is doubly HEPA-filtered. The filters are arranged in series. If there is a leak in the first HEPA filter, the air will be filtered by the second HEPA filter. Supply air is passed through a single HEPA filter. HEPA filters are located at barriers to BSL-4 spaces to minimize the length of potentially contaminated ductwork. The HEPA filters are located on the maintenance floors above BSL-4 labs to allow easy maintenance access. HEPA-filter housings should allow for in-place decontamination and replacement without endangering maintenance personnel.
Welded ducts
In the BSL-4 area, supply and exhaust ducts are made of welded Type 304 stainless steel to prevent leaks. A standard for construction coming from the nuclear-power industry is used in duct construction. Upon commissioning and every year thereafter, BSL-4 ducts must pass a test to show there is no significant leakage. In this pressure decay test, the ducts are held at 2-in. wg (500 Pa) and must not leak more than 0.1 percent of the duct volume per minute. After HEPA filters serving as boundaries of BSL-4 spaces, ducts become galvanized. BSL-4 labs usually deal only with limited quantities of corrosive chemicals.
Breathing suits
Researchers in BSL-4 areas wear containment gear called breathing suits. These are impervious suits that cover every square inch of their body and include a transparent faceplate. The suits weigh about 10 lbs and add about 6 in. of overall height to the scientist wearing them. Breathing air is supplied through a hose attached to their suit (Photo A).
Chemical showers
When researchers enter and leave a high-containment area, the outside of their breathing suits are sprayed with decontamination liquids while still being worn. This decontamination shower serves as an air lock between the BSL-4 facility and the rest of the building. The shower has double interlocking doors with inflatable gaskets sealing them. Controls prevent both doors from being open simultaneously. The deflation of each door's sealing gasket is controlled by the door handle.
Plumbing safeguards
All plumbing systems must be filtered or isolated as they leave or enter a BSL-4 space. This includes HEPA filters on plumbing vents. All liquid wastes go to the kill tanks. Solid waste goes to sterilizers or incinerators.
Emergency power
Emergency power must be provided to all BSL-4 areas for exhaust fans and life-support equipment, including breathing-air compressors, monitoring and alarm systems, lighting, entry and exit controls, communication systems, and biosafety cabinets.
Passage of materials
A dunk tank, fumigation chamber, and/or ventilated airlock is needed to pass materials and equipment into and out of high-containment spaces.
Liquid-effluent-treatment system
A kill tank using steam sterilizes all liquid waste before it leaves a BSL-4 building. Usually, doubly redundant tanks are used so that there is 100-percent backup. Liquid wastes are sterilized and pH-balanced before they are released to sanitary sewers. Because kill tanks are not located within BSL-4 facilities, pipes leading to kill tanks are usually double-walled to contain leaks.
The minimum redundancy for a BSL-4 facility is N+1, which means that the failure of a single key device always is backed up by having a spare device ready to go. In some cases, designers increase this N+1 redundancy to 100-percent redundancy with as much spare capacity as in-use capacity. Some designers plan for up to two simultaneous failures. With two simultaneous failures, designers have to anticipate all the possible combinations of two failures. What if a chilled-water pipe is cut at the same time an electrical conduit is severed? What if site water fails at the same time power fails? This type of thinking leads to serving a site with water from two separate water mains located at different points, with power from two different electrical substations with plenty of redundancy in piping, wiring, transformers, fans, pumps, etc. Also, equipment such as fans or pumps usually are divided into two locations so a fire or other dislocation at one physical location does not take out all of the fans or pumps in any particular part of the building. Such designs often include a million-gallon water tank to provide backup for fire sprinklers in case a water main breaks and to serve as backup for cooling towers.
Emergency strobes and alarms
In addition to central-system monitoring and alarms, a number of local alarms are present to warn scientists inside a BSL-4 space when they need to respond to fire, loss of negative pressurization, or other possible hazards.
An on-site medical-infectious-waste incinerator is required for a two-stage incineration processes having a minimum 4-hr burn time at 1,800 F.
All surfaces are hard-sealed and resistant to chemical decontamination and washdown. All surfaces and furniture must be free of crevices and cracks and have access for decontamination and washdown.
The biggest concern with BSL-4 buildings is preventing human and animal infection and release of dangerous organisms into the outside environment. In general, however, the world's biosafety facilities have had a very good safety record. No civilians living beside one of the U.S. facilities has ever lost their lives or even been infected by an accidental release or by exposure to people working in biocontainment lab.
Detailed statistics on BSL-4 safety in the United States can be found in a recent report.1 The NIH has had 634,500 personnel hours in BSL-3 facilities with only 11 people (staff) exposed to three treatable infections.
From the same report, the 30-year safety record of the Army's BSL-4 facility at Fort Detrick also is excellent. Inside the lab, over 340,000 working hours, only two workers were exposed. One event occurred in November 1979, when a worker's finger was pricked by a syringe. The second event occurred in December 1982, when a monkey-bone fragment punctured a researcher's finger. Neither case resulted in a worker becoming infected, and there were no releases or exposures outside the facility.
Wind-tunnel studies help quantify exposure risks from accidental airborne releases from ventilation systems. The models factor in exhaust volume, wind direction, speed, building geometry, and terrain. Studies use a 10-min timespan for release, but the building-control system actually could shut down and isolate the ventilation system much more quickly.
Scale models of facilities, such as the one shown in Photo B, are studied in 12-ft-diameter wind tunnels to get an accurate picture of possible infection scenarios.
The authors wish to thank the following for sharing their knowledge and expertise: Harry G. Wiber, P.Eng., Hemisphere Engineering; Jon Crane, AIA, CUH2A; Patrick Fex; Tom Checksfield, Tek-Air Systems; Charles D. Kieffer, PE, University of Texas System; Everett Milotte, CSC; Ron Petersen, PhD, CPP; Julie Collins, Southwest Foundation for Biomedical Research; and Glenn Schuyler, P.Eng., RWDI.
October 2003 Report in the Final Environmental Impact Statement of the Integrated Research Facility of the Rocky Mountain Laboratories, April 2004, co-authored by Karl M. Johnson, MD.
Victor A. Neuman, PE, specializes in research-building pressurization control for the San Diego office of US Air-conditioning Distributors. A recipient of ASHRAE's Distinguished Service Award, and he can be reached at [email protected]. Under a different employer, his clients have included Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta and the National Institutes of Health. John P. Martin, PE, who is a vice president of Syska Hennessy Group, has more than 30 years of experience as a mechanical engineer and is the author of the section, "General Ventilation and Control" in the 2001 edition of Handbook of Chemical Health and Safety, published by the American Chemical Society.
For HPAC Engineering feature articles dating back to January 1992, visit www.hpac.com.
What are Biosafety Levels?
The requirements for BSL-1, 2, 3, and -4 facilities are set out in a publication developed by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the NIH titled, Biosafety in Microbiological and Biomedical Laboratories (BMBL). Similar standards for animal diseases are called ABSL and are published by the U.S. Deptartment of Agriculture. Figure 1 shows a diagram of the differences among biosafety levels in buildings.
Biosafety Level 1 (BSL-1) is for organisms that do not cause disease in healthy adult humans. Researchers can work with on open laboratory benchtops similar to undergraduate biology laboratories.
Biosafety Level 2 (BSL-2) is for organisms with moderate hazard to humans, such as influenza and legionella. Facilities and engineering safeguards should resemble a medical diagnostic laboratory.
Biosafety Level 3 (BSL-3) is for disease-causing organisms that can cause death in humans. Examples include tuberculosis and West Nile virus. Such organisms should be worked with in a specialized containment laboratory building.
Biosafety Level 4 (BSL-4) is for diseases that are dangerous and highly contagious and for which no known vaccine or cure exists. Examples include ebola hemorrhagic fever and Marburg fever (a viral infection transmitted by green monkeys). At this level of hazard, diseases must be studied in one of fewer than 30 buildings worldwide.


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For ridden classes, plaiting is optional. Hogging is also permitted in ridden classes if it is suitable for the type of animal. Prizes won qualify for the Society's Points Championship Schemes.
Colour awards in In-hand classes. As of 2018 all affiliated inhand classes are judged on Conformation, Movement and Correctness to type. Colour will be judged and awarded separately. In each affiliated inhand class there will be gold,silver and bronze placings judged solely on colour quality. The winners of colour awards qualify for the Golden Trail Colour championship held during the evening performance at the Nationals.
NEW FOR 2019 - Palomino of the Year! Affiliated class winners to qualify for the Palomino of the Year title at the BPS Autumn show.
Judge: TBC
Closing Date: 31st May 2018
Venue: Salesbury Hall, PR3 1XU


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Discovery predicts patient sensitivity to important drug target in deadly brain cancer
A recent discovery by Van Andel Research Institute (VARI) scientists enables the prediction of patient sensitivity to proposed drug therapies for glioblastoma the most common and most aggressive malignant brain tumor in humans.
The study, published in January in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, investigated glioblastoma models characterized by cell signaling activation and gene amplification for their susceptibility to inhibitors of both the human MET oncogene and the epidermal growth factor receptor (EFGR).
An oncogene is a gene with the potential to cause cancer. In tumor cells, they are often mutated or expressed at high levels. High MET levels often occur in human tumors, and cells with inappropriate MET signaling produce activity that potently affects the spread of cancer. This signaling is implicated in most types of human cancers and high MET expression often correlates with poor prognosis. Mutations affecting EGFR expression or activity are also linked to cancer.
"Because oncogene MET and EGFR inhibitors are in clinical development against several types of cancer, including glioblastoma, it is important to identify predictive markers that indicate patient subgroups suitable for such therapies," said VARI Research Scientist Qian Xie, Ph.D., lead author of the study.
"Studies have shown that targeting MET signaling can have potent antitumor effects," said Co-Author George F. Vande Woude, Ph.D., Head of the VARI Laboratory of Molecular Oncology. "Therefore, it is important to understand the mechanisms leading to HGF/MET sensitivity and to identify the patient subgroups most likely to benefit from MET-targeted therapeutics."
Dr. Vande Woude's career can be characterized by the uniquely broad scope of his work with MET and its molecular partner hepatocyte growth factor (HGF) from the original cloning and characterization of the gene, through explaining the role of the HGF/ MET signaling pathway in human cancers, and then to applying that knowledge toward the identification of inhibitors of this important cancer pathway. Because MET and HGF play such an integral role in the process of cell survival, growth, blood vessel formation, and metastasis, they are a significant target in the development of anti-cancer drugs.
Dr. Vande Woude is also the co-author of an article published last week in Nature Reviews Cancer entitled "Targeting MET in cancer: rationale and progress," which updates the progress of MET and HGF as targets in the development of anti-cancer drugs.
"Progress in understanding this vital process has led to the successful development of blocking antibodies and a large number of small-molecule MET kinase inhibitors," said Vande Woude. "Results from recent clinical studies demonstrate that inhibiting MET signaling in several types of solid human tumors has major therapeutic value."


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|4:35 PM PT5:35 PM MT6:35 PM CT7:35 PM ET19:35 ET23:35 GMT7:35 4:35 PM MST6:35 PM EST7:05 PM VEN3:35 UAE (+1)6:35 PM CT, July 11, 2018
SunTrust Park, Atlanta, Georgia Attendance: 27,839
Blue Jays go for sweep of Braves
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ATLANTA -- One of Mike Foltynewicz's better starts this season came in an interleague matchup and the Atlanta Braves right-hander gets another shot at the American League on Wednesday night.
Foltynewicz, picked for his first All-Star Game, will face the Toronto Blue Jays in the finale of a two-game series at SunTrust Park nearly two months after a 7-1 victory over the Red Sox in Boston on May 17.
The 27-year-old former Houston Astros first-round draft choice allowed just three hits over seven scoreless innings against the Red Sox while striking out seven and walking three.
Foltynewicz (6-5) is fourth in the National League among qualified starters with a 2.37 ERA and has struck out 114 in 95 innings.
"It's taken the steps that we had hoped he would," Braves manager Brian Snitker said. "He had a period last year where he got on a good roll and then fell off a little bit. This year since spring training, it's been from the get-go."
Right-hander Sam Gaviglio (2-2, 3.81 ERA) will get the start for Toronto opposite Foltynewicz as the Blue Jays (42-48) go for a sweep after winning 6-2 on Tuesday night to knock the Braves (50-40) out of a tie for first place with Philadelphia in the National League East.
Foltynewicz hasn't faced Toronto this season and is 1-0 with a 4.05 ERA in one start and one relief appearance against the Blue Jays in his career. He is 6-3 with a 4.14 ERA in 12 career interleague games.
Foltynewicz has made three starts since a stint on the disabled list and has pitched just a combined 16 innings while allowing eight hits and six runs. He has struck out 20 and walked seven in the three outings.
Foltynewicz will join first baseman Freddie Freeman, right fielder Nick Markakis and second baseman Ozzie Albies in Washington next week for the All-Star game.
Snitker informed the players prior to Sunday's game in Milwaukee.
"My name was the last one to be called off," Foltynewicz, who lost to the Brewers on Friday. "Especially how I ended the last game, you just never know, but my heart was in my stomach and throat at the same time."
Snitker had mentioned the possibility of giving Foltynewicz an extra day of rest thanks to Monday's day off, but that would have pushed three other starters back prior to the All-Star break because of another off day on Thursday.
"He's right on time and that'll give the rest of our guys their start before the break," Snitker said.
Gaviglio was acquired from Kansas City during spring training and has made nine starts for the Blue Jays after beginning the season with Triple-A Buffalo.
The 27-year-old former Seattle draft choice lasted just 4 1/3 innings against the New York Yankees in his most recent outing on Friday, but he has three quality starts.
Gaviglio made 13 starts and pitched in 16 games last season as a rookie with Seattle and Kansas City, going 4-5 with a 4.36 ERA.
Gaviglio has never faced the Braves, but he is 2-1 with a 4.91 ERA in four interleague starts and one relief appearance.
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LA JOLLA, CA--(Marketwire - Dec 18, 2012) - After successfully launching a Small Business Administration "SBA" Division earlier this year, and then being named a Preferred Lender Program (PLP) lender by the SBA, San Diego Private Bank has been presented the 2012 SBA Special Achievement Award by the San Diego District Office of the SBA. The bank earned the prestigious Special Achievement Award for "attaining PLP status in the shortest timeframe of any lender in the history of SBA's San Diego District Office." In the presentation of the award, the SBA made note of the bank's "highly experienced expert SBA department and their approval of high quality loans." The SBA further noted, "San Diego Private Bank became a SBA participating lender in March 2012; they launched an independent SBA Department in April and their first loan was approved in May. In the following four months, ending September 30, 2012, they approved a total of six high quality loans totaling $6.3 million."
The SBA guarantees a portion of bank loans made to qualified borrowers for up to $5 million at attractive rates and on attractive terms in order to add jobs and stimulate economic growth. PLP status allows SDPB delegated authority to guarantee loans on behalf of the SBA thereby accelerating loan funding.
Michael T. Valenti, Senior Vice President and SBA Division Manager of San Diego Private Bank, accepted the award at the annual San Diego District SBA Awards Luncheon held on December 5th in San Diego, CA.
San Diego Private Bank was recently recognized as being the 6th largest SBA lender in the San Diego district by dollar volume as of September 30, 2012 (as published in the November 12, 2012 San Diego Business Journal).
San Diego Private Bank is a client centric bank providing superior customized financial solutions and unparalleled service through access to experienced Private Bankers 24/7. While San Diego Private Bank operates a full-service office in La Jolla, CA and an SBA loan production office in San Marcos, CA, it is the convenience of bankers meeting clients at their homes and businesses to conduct transactions that results in truly long-term, respectful and appreciative banker-client relationships. Confidentiality, creativity and convenience are cornerstones of a Distinctly Different service model.
This press release may include forward-looking statements that involve inherent risks and uncertainties. San Diego Private Bank cautions readers that a number of important factors could cause actual results to differ materially from those in the forward-looking statements. These factors include economic conditions and competition in the geographic and business areas in which San Diego Private Bank operates, inflation, fluctuations in interest rates, legislation and government regulation. You should not place undue reliance on forward-looking statements and we undertake no obligation to update those statements whether as a result of changes in underlying factors, new information, future events or otherwise.
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"She has been advocating on core issues that matter to families her entire career. She is going to be an outstanding senator from Massachusetts."
-President Barack Obama
Elizabeth supports President Obama's jobs bills to improve job training, help small businesses and small-business hiring, and secure funding for youth summer jobs programs. She supports federal funding to rebuild our crumbling infrastructure, which will put thousands of people to work in construction and related jobs, and she believes in a strong unemployment insurance system.
We need a housing policy that helps people stay in their homes, prevents foreclosures, and helps those with underwater mortgages. Elizabeth's "all of the above" approach includes: principal write-downs, refinancing options for homes that are underwater, cash for keys, and short sales.
Health Care
Elizabeth will fight against attempts to repeal these historic gains. However, the cost of health care remains too high. Massachusetts has been a leader in developing innovative ways to improve health outcomes – including preventive care to reduce chronic diseases like hypertension, diabetes, and asthma, and efforts to prevent and treat HIV/AIDS – while reducing costs and rooting out fraud, waste, and abuse.
Elizabeth started her career teaching special-needs kids in a public elementary school. She believes the achievement gap can be closed only by improving and supporting education from pre-K to college. She will fight to preserve Head Start and school lunch programs, work with teachers and parents to improve schools, encourage elementary and middle school mentoring programs, prioritize advanced technical training programs, support high school-to-community-college pipelines, and work to make college more affordable.
Crime and Public Safety
Elizabeth will support our first responders, the enforcement of tough gun laws to keep weapons out of the hands of criminals, and anti-trafficking efforts. Elizabeth supports community policing, anti-gang, and safe neighborhood initiatives because she knows that good public safety happens when police, community leaders, clergy, district service providers, prosecutors and sheriffs work together. She supports substance abuse treatment programs that reduce recidivism and help people get jobs.
Elizabeth believes in common-sense, comprehensive immigration reform. She fully supports President Obama's decision to implement a visa program for children of undocumented immigrants immediately and she will fight to pass the remaining provisions of the bipartisan DREAM Act.
Predatory Lending
Elizabeth fought against predatory lenders and financial tricks and traps when she was setting up the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, a watchdog agency to help make sure consumers are treated fairly by financial institutions. As a Senator, Elizabeth will fight to ensure that discrimination on financial products — which we know for a fact disproportionately affects minority communities — cannot happen again.
Voting Rights
Elizabeth knows that efforts to suppress and intimidate voters are alive and well in 2012. Elizabeth believes it is the responsibility of the courts and government officials to uphold voting rights secured by the Constitution and laws.


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Have you washed your face with an exfoliating scrub today? Brushed your teeth with 'whitening' toothpaste, used a facial cleanser, makeup? or, had a shave with shaving gel? Chances are you have unknowingly smothered your body with plastic particles before washing them down the plug hole to pollute our oceans and contaminate marine life. We know you have done this unwittingly, and that's a big part of the problem, you see so many leading brands contain plastic particles called microbeads and they can still be sold, legally, before the UK ban comes into force in 2018.
On the 1st January 2018, the UK introduced 'the strongest' ban on microbeads anywhere in the world. Michael Gove, the Environment Secretary, said there was a "serious threat" to wildlife and pledged to "explore new methods of reducing the amount of plastic – in particular, plastic bottles – entering our seas".
Billions of minute pieces of plastic are building up on our oceans floors, in our lakes and estuaries, harming all marine and freshwater life and entering into our food chain.
Facial and body scrubs, shower gels, soaps, toothpastes and cosmetics all carry microbeads. We don't need them. Microplastic has spread all over the planet, with one estimate suggesting there are 300 billion pieces in the Artic Ocean alone.
A major study found humans have produced a staggering 8.3 billion metric tons of plastic since 1950, creating 6.3 billion tons of waste. Nearly 80 per cent of that waste has been dumped in landfill sites or simply thrown away into the environment.
We are destroying our oceans. Research shows that that tiny microbeads, gritty cleansers that scrub off dead skin cells, have been damaging water supplies, marine life and the ecological balance of the planet because they contain microbeads. Marine species are unable to distinguish between food and microbeads. Over 663 different species were negatively impacted by marine debris with approximately 11% of reported cases specifically related to the ingestion of microplastics.
Microbeads can act like tiny sponges, absorbing pesticides and flame retardants. Marine animals consume these poisons. So why are they not banned. It's estimated that one single care product contains 360,000 microbeads in a single package. Unilever, Proctor & Gamble, Johnson & Johnson, The Body Shop, and L'Oreal agreed to phase them out but that could take years so legislation is needed to ban them now.
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Fiji Surf Co is a local Nadi based Company Pioneering Fijian Surfing Since 1995, Fiji Surf Co has explored most of Fiji and assisted in the opening of our world class waves to the public 7/7/10. Surf Shop, Surf School, Surf Tours, Surf Travel and the Fijian Water Patrol make up Fiji Surf Co.Fiji Surf Co was born in the back yard of a small Nadi House in 1995 by local visionaries. We are pioneers of Fijian Surfing to what it is today - exploring, development, manufactiuring of clothing / surfboards / equipment, the liberation of our world class waves to all, safety/lifeguarding and leading by example in and out of the water by " Sharing the Bula Spirit"
Fiji Surf Co has Five main departments:
1/ Fiji Surf Shop - Selling of geniuine local flavored Fijian Surf Wear, equipment, surfboards, information and rental of surfboards.
2/ Fiji Surf Tours - Half day trips to world class breaks around Tavarua / Namotu and down the coral coast. Also liveaboard surf tours around the Fiji group with professional guides and lifeguards. Surf Photographers are an option on both tours as well renting of boards.
3/ Fiji Surf School - teaching of kite and surf lessons at one of the sexiest beaches in the world - Natadola. We have experienced instructors and soft longboards for a memorable experience - Go Pro camera's as well to capture those unforgettable moments.
4/ Fiji Surf Travel - For clients to book surf and accommodation packages in various hotels and resorts depending on their budgets, skill level and special requests.
5/Fijian Water Patrol - this is the lifeguard arm and is used to train local lifeguards to look after our own guests as well the greater community. Fijian Water Patrol is available as a service for local/international events, competitions or charitable gatherings.
Fijians Were Once SurfersFijians Were Once Surfers - Our ancestors were seen surfing by sailors and traders that visited or shores in the late 1800's. Surfing back then was documented and known as VakaVodo-ua whereby mostly women and children enjoyed this sport. Surfng died out through outside intervention but today Fiji Surf Co / Viti Surf Legend is reviving this lost art of our ancestors keeping the spirit of "Vodo Ua" alive.
ContactFIji Surf Shop - Crown Investment Building , first floor in Nadi Town - on the corner of the main street and one way market road coming out back onto the main street.
Fiji Surf Tours / Surf School is based at Sonaisali Resort - 10 minutes out of Nadi town going towards Suva.
Soon to be based down at Natadola Beach where a surf shop to sell merchandise, rent boards and conduct surf schools will be established.
P.O. Box 9792, Nadi Airport, Fiji Nadi Ba


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|Property at 244 No. Main St., ca 1970
Late last fall, we had another one of those visits. Mike Spencer and his wife Jodi from Upstate NY were passing through, and came to the door late in the afternoon. Mike's uncle had owned the house when he was a child, and he remembered helping to lay our iconic brick floor back in the early 1970's when he was ten years old. His family, as it turned out, was responsible for many of the changes we have marvelled at hearing about. A few weeks later, Mike and Jodi sent us a wonderful Christmas surprise: a packet of snapshots taken during the renovation. They couldn't know how much it means to Chris and me to have access to such history. I plan to share some of these discoveries over the next few weeks, in hopes that others find it as fascinating as we do.
We are blessed to have -- as a baseline, if you will -- information on the house's origins provided by our next door neighbor, Glena Jagger, whose grandfather built the house in 1860. Glena still lives on the balance of the original Jagger property just north of us. Her ancestors were early settlers in Southampton, originally tanners, later farmers, and she has ledgers dating back 350 years detailing accounts of their trade. It will make a neat addition to the Southampton Historical Museum's archives some day.
One thing we learned from Glena is that at one stage ours was a three-family home. Visible in the top picture is where a second front entrance once existed, entering into what is now our dining room. The second photo shows work in progress, where the door has been removed and the outside wall shingled. Also, the dark line above the front door is evidence of the removal of an original covered porch. Note the brick stairs into our house are not yet there.
|A Butler's Manor today
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Welcome To SmileyRose Ramblings Hi I'm Frances Rose Agnes Napper AKA SmileyRose. This blog is about me and some of my adventures. It includes photos/places I've visited and some events I've enjoyed (past & present). My posts are a varied selection. :)*Note - ALL photos are taken by me unless of course they feature me in them (I sometimes use a tripod). If I use any other photographs, I'll link it back to the site or i'll acknowledge the sender :)
- Frances R. A. Napper
- My name is Frances Rose Agnes Napper aka SmileyRose. I am a friendly and fun loving individual. I like meeting new/old friends. Although I love being with friends, I also enjoy my own space from time to time. I have a number of hobbies. I enjoy taking photographs, going to the theatre, travel (visiting new and exciting places), reading, films and listening to music. I enjoy spending time with my family and friends. I particularly enjoy it when we all get together. I was a full-time mother for both of my daughters and I did not go back to work until they both reached primary school age. The UK has a lot to offer because there are so many picturesque places to visit. I particularly enjoy the British countryside. My home town was in Stamford, Lincolnshire although I am currently living in Peterborough. My Father was a serving member of the RAF. I'd consider myself well travelled from a very early age (6 months old). Divorced - for 10yrs. Currently single. I am interested in meeting nice folk only. :) Star sign - Leo the Lion. Birthday -July 29th. That's me in a nutshell. :)