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Is your medical privacy being protected while providing 24/7 access to your vital medical records whenever and wherever you may need them? SMARTMETRIC, INC. (OTCQB: SMME) today announces the release of an electronic medical records storage product that will allow for the capture and storage of a person's complete medical history and files giving medical care givers instant access to a patient's vital medical history. The President and CEO of SmartMetric, Inc. M/s Chaya Hendrick, speaking from the company's manufacturing center in Buenos Aires, Argentina, said today that the SmartMetric medical history storage product is a plug and play device that will allow Doctors to gain valuable medical information so prompt and often life saving treatment can be started immediately when a patient arrives at an emergency room or clinic.
If the patient is unconscious then the device has an emergency on off button that will display on the device the person's medical condition, medication the patient is taking and quantities. Also included is the patient's blood type, allergies if any and any other important medical information that would assist any Doctor in providing immediate life saving treatment. After the patient has been stabilized then he or she is able to swipe their fingerprint on the medical keyring fingerprint sensor and hand it over to the attending Doctor. The Doctor then simply takes the portable electronic medical records device to any computer, say at the nurses' station, and plug it into the computer USB port and up on the screen will pop up access to the patients complete medical history.
The Company President & CEO, M's Chaya Hendrick said today the wonderful thing about this portable device is that it is designed to plug and play on a PC. It does not need special software to be installed on the hospital's computer nor does it need special training as the user interface is intuitive allowing for easy to follow menus that will provide rapid access to the patient's complete medical files.
No matter where in the World the patient may travel they will have the security of knowing that if anything happens they will be secure in knowing that their full medical history is with them. And also secure in knowing that this information is held on their own computer storage system that no one else can access or get use of. Access is only granted after the owner of his or her medical information swipes their fingerprint over the SmartMetric, Inc. Fingerprint sensor.
The SmartMetric Keyring Medical Records system gives the user absolute portability while not exposing sensitive patient record information to hackers or others who would like to get a hold of a person's private medical history.
The SmartMetric fingerprint activated Health Insurance Card with complete medical history stored inside the card and is only accessible after patient swipes their finger over the fingerprint sensor and a positive fingerprint match is made.
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The SmartMetric, Biometric Card Computer provides powerful computing with large memory capacity in a revolutionary size that has taken more than 10 years of research and development. Using the latest in sub micro technology electronics, the company has achieved a level of miniaturization that allows it to release a solution of portable computing power that, combined with SmartMetric's biometric fingerprint in-card scanning technology, is so revolutionary it will change the way business is done and information is handled across a broad range of industries. For further information please go to the SmartMetric website: www.smartmetric.com
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It's not-quite-common knowledge that the best time to get cheap airfare is during January and February, as the post-holiday traffic settles down and not as many people are flying; thus, they drop the rates to get more people interested. Be warned, though. If you happen to get on a plane in late February and you see that Liam Neeson is on board, things could get hairy pretty quickly.
Neeson's next feature, Universal's Non-Stop, will be flying into theaters on February 21, according to Box Office Mojo. Anything released outside of January usually means it has a shot of attracting critics as well as audiences. There's a good chance this date was chosen because the only opposition at this point is the Michael Bay-produced micro-indie science fiction flick Almanac, with Paul W. S. Anderson's Pompeii releasing the next week. (I think it's just wishful thinking guiding my pessimistic view on Anderson's box office pull.)
Nearly all of Non-Stop, Neeson's second film with director Jaume Collet-Serra (Unknown), will take place in a plane flying from New York to London. Neeson will play a U.S. Air Marshal who receives a bunch of text messages demanding $150 million, or else passengers on the plane will be killed. And now Liam Neeson is the only person that Liam Neeson can trust. We're used to this kind of thing by now, after the actor's action film renaissance. The film also stars Julianne Moore as his seatmate, as well as Scoot McNairy, Michelle Dockery, Corey Stoll and Nate Parker.

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Yes I realize that aweber, mailchimp and other popular email autoresponders have all the bells and whistles and all the fancy smancy extras people are impressed by when dealing with autoresponders. However, the truth is, you really don't need all that extra stuff unless you are already doing well in your business and can afford to blow extra money.
I can tell you from personal experience of being an x aweber member that their prices are outrageous. They start out giving you some incredible discount like 1 cent for the first month, but once your list starts to build, you will be paying $200 a month in no time.
When you are first starting out as an entrepreneur online, it is imperative that you keep your overhead down. Every little thing adds up quickly. Not only do you have to pay for your autoresponders, you also have to pay for your domain names, your web hosting, your trust seals, your online registration or contact forms, your advertising, your email sending software and the list goes on.. So the wise thing to do is try and keep all these costs down while building your business. Hey if you're making $10,000 a month then go ahead and spend the extra $200+ a month on an autoresponder. But even then, I personally would not ever go back to aweber when I could use TrafficWave for 1/10th of the cost.
Trafficwave has all the important tools that you need including uploading leads, sending out mass emails, creating unlimited campaigns, creating a newsletter, adding personalizations in your email, using tracking and more… Trafficwave even includes your own tracking links which is one of my favorite things about them and it comes with it 100% free.
Most services charge upwards of $27 per month for this tool alone that trafficwave automatically includes free with your monthly subscription. The tool can be used to track how many hits a specific campaign or link is getting. It's an excellent tool to use when you are advertising. It will let you know that your advertising is working and how well it is doing.
Trafficwave offers a one month free trial offer and when they say free they mean FREE. You do not need any type of credit card information. You just sign up and begin using their system fully. Then if you don't like it you've lost nothing. You can go back on your search for autoresponders.
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Believe it or not, there are actually some free autoresponders out there that are truly 100% no cost and a few years ago a friend of mine was stoked to find this out. She actually told me she found a free autoresponder on the web and she used it for about 6 months until she found out why they were free. The catch was, what they were doing is taking her leads and advertising to them with their own products. So EVERYTIME someone signed up for her newsletter, the first thing they would see is that companies own ads. This is very confusing to a customer and they often think whatever the offer is, that it is coming from you and will want to buy it. This caused her quite a few losses in sales and that's when she realized just why it was free. So, if I were you I would avoid "Free" autoresponders at all costs. It's worth paying for, but you don't have to go broke just to get a good autoresponder service.
This is a common statement made by many entrepreneurs or "affiliates" about using alternatives to aweber or mailchimp. They say that using a less expensive autoresponder will result in a lot of bounced emails. This is absolutely not true. I have used both Aweber and Trafficwave and as a matter of fact it was at the same time, because I wanted to do a comparison and what I found was there was no remarkable difference in the amount of sign ups with trafficwave as there was with Aweber. This may be true with some other cheaper autoresponders out there, but trafficwave is a quality service that I would recommend to anyone. Whether you are an affiliate marketer or a business owner or even just own an informational website, this is an excellent tool to have that is affordable. Hey, if you're dead set on something a little more impressive that has more of the "Bells and Whistles" you want then just use trafficwave in the meantime until you have made enough money to where you can afford an extra $150 to $200+ per month.
It only took me 6 months to hit the $200 mark with aweber and the cost keeps rising as your email list does. I actually switched over from Aweber to Trafficwave a few times in the past because my list was growing so fast that my bill was growing as well to the point where I could no longer afford it. At the time I was just like most people thinking aweber was going to get me better results in sign ups, so I really wanted to use them. It's kind of like the difference from buying a Toyota vs a porsche. The Toyota is great and reliable and gets you where you need to go but who doesn't want to drive a porsche. You just have to do what your pocket will allow.
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In hotel rooms, it's all by design
Leave it to my very inquisitive husband to perfectly articulate what I'd never said out loud: What is with those white duvets in practically every hotel room these days?
This question occurred to him after a particularly restless night of sleep on a business trip in a generic Middle America hotel. I knew what he meant. I'd struggled with these white whales myself -- too warm with them, too cold without them. And sharing one when we travel together? My spouse's habit of stealing -- ahem, cocooning in -- the covers just adds insult to injury when we can't even start by getting the temperature control right.
So we had to wonder: Does anyone ever try these things out?
Well, yes, actually, someone does.
And some of the research is quite democratic. Marriott, for example, tests new shower heads in the company gym. It sends pillows and remote controls home with employees to try out. Paul Cahill, senior vice president for global brand management at Marriott Hotels & Resorts/JW Marriott Hotels, says that he's currently putting a hair dryer through the ringer.
And that ubiquitous white duvet? There's a reason for it.
"When you see a white bed, you know if it's clean or not," explains Larry Traxler, senior vice president of design for Hilton Worldwide. "It's pretty hard to hide that."
We travelers are a germ-averse bunch. Hence the quick, fingertips-on-the-corner toss of the decorative throws and pillows onto that armchair or, worse, the floor.
Hotels know this, because they've studied us. A lot.
Cahill has the numbers to prove it. He probably knows you better than you know yourself.
Standing in the very hotel lobby-esque Marriott cafeteria, Cahill quizzes me about my hotel room habits, knowing full well what the answers will be before I utter them: Do I unpack? (No.) Where do I work? (On the bed.) Why do I remove decorative bed accessories? (Who knows where they've been?!)
Marriott takes an anthropological approach to hotel room design, observing the traveler species in its natural habitat. The company has partnered with IDEO, a design consulting firm, to get inside guests' rooms -- and heads. "We're designing for behaviors," says Beth Viner, associate partner for IDEO New York.
Those behaviors are influenced in part by the literal and figurative baggage that travelers bring with them into their temporary abodes.
On the literal side, IDEO's work shadowing guests is how Cahill is able to guess that I -- like two-thirds of travelers -- don't unpack. And when we do, only about four items come out of the suitcase.
To show how this might influence the hotel room of the future, Cahill takes me to Marriott's still-under-construction innovation lab in the lowest level of the company headquarters in Bethesda, Md. The all-white space contains prototypes of two hotel rooms, complete with walls, beds and more, all on wheels.
There's no closet in the rooms. Instead, they have open shelves and a space big enough to slide in a suitcase for the non-unpackers and a rod for hanging clothes for the unpackers. The openness speaks to another traveler concern that Cahill knows about: the fear of leaving something behind. We may soon start seeing drawer-free nightstands, too.
The other kind of baggage takes a little more probing. IDEO talks to guests about their needs and expectations from a hotel room, as well as what kinds of habits they bring from home.
"Everyone's kind of leading these double and triple lives when they're on the road," Viner says. So there's the work element, the need to stay connected with folks back home, the daily grooming routine and, if we're lucky, a little "me" time.
That's a lot to ask of one room.
To understand how guests use their quarters, think of the rooms in terms of zones. These might include the "drop zone," which is wherever travelers put their belongings, says Peter Antonelli, the IDEO project leader for the Marriott guest room initiative. There's also the sleeping zone and the work zone.
These days, though, the lines tend to blur. I cuddle with my laptop on the bed. Suddenly the work zone has collided with the sleeping zone, and the original work zone, a.k.a. the desk, is moot. I throw my coat there. It's now a drop zone.
The bed-cum-business center is resulting in at least one significant upgrade -- more electrical outlets near the bed. (That's also important because many more of us are sleeping next to our phones, Cahill says. We don't trust wake-up calls.)
Cahill says that hotels have to ask themselves whether there should even be a desk these days. Maybe it should be smaller. Maybe it should face the TV. Perhaps it will be turned into a mobile office and put on wheels, as Stephani Robson, a senior lecturer at Cornell University's School of Hotel Administration, has begun to see in smaller auxiliary desks that roll out from the larger piece.
And then there's the "grooming zone." You and I typically call this the bathroom. "How the guests use the bathroom has changed over the past decade," Hilton's Traxler explains. Now we want to be able to use our gadgets there, too, or at least see or hear them while we groom.
One of the demo rooms in the Marriott innovation lab blows up the traditional hotel bathroom, splitting it into a series of spaces that separate the toilet from everything else.
Robson says that checking out the bathroom is one of the best ways to gauge the age of a building. Even so, gutting and reimagining it is complicated, a "huge commitment," she adds.
The same can be argued for the rest of the room. "In the case of most hotel brands, they don't own the buildings," Robson says. Owners must be convinced that any renovation will pay off.
All the more reason to ground these big ideas in "rethinking spaces based on consumer needs," as Cahill puts it. "It's not disruption for the sake of disruption."
Of course, when many of us think about hotel or any interior design, our minds wander to what Robson calls the "soft goods." These include items such as the bed linens, the carpet and the curtains. Their expected lifespan ranges from about five to seven years, and changing them is one of the easiest ways for a hotel to freshen up its appearance.
Then there are the case goods -- i.e., furniture. This may get replaced every second or third soft-goods cycle.
But Traxler prefers to think about "ergonomic, intelligent design," function over fashion. Rooms should be like a good Armani suit, he says. "We can change the accouterments," but classic, thoughtful design is timeless.
Big ideas are great. Realizing them is another story. That's one reason for Marriott's innovation lab. The company plans to bring members of its -- and its competitors' -- loyalty programs through the white rooms. (Hilton has a similar "white box" space at its McLean, Va., headquarters.) The idea is to get overall impressions: How would it feel if this wall were moved out six inches? Or moved in six inches? Is the furniture too high? Customer reactions will be recorded by a series of webcams ("Real World: Hotels"). Marriott employees worldwide will also use the cameras to peek in and provide their input.
Around the corner, off an identity-crisis-plagued hallway, sit sample rooms for most of Marriott's various brands. The rooms are uncannily realistic, from the breakfast card and nightstand Bible to the sunlight-imitating lights beamed in through the "windows" in the subterranean space. This is where Marriott can refine room details -- fabrics, pillow placement, etc.
After the demos have been picked over and perfected, it's time for some genuine testing. Hilton owns 40 hotels in North America across its brands, according to Traxler, making initial experimentation a bit easier before the changes are rolled out to franchise properties. Marriott's testing starts in a smaller group of hotels, too.
And if all goes well, the designs will ripple through thousands of properties, both the companies' own brands and the imitators that will inevitably follow. "As soon as you do something innovative," Traxler says, "we become copied quite quickly."
"It's just so easy for other brands, other hotels to emulate," Robson says.
And so the next white duvet is born.


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Besides, one does not commit suicide alone.
No one was ever born alone.
Nor had anyone died alone.
But, in the case of suicide, a whole army of evil beings is needed to force the body to perform the unnatural act of depriving itself of its own life.
And I believe that there is always someone else, at the extreme moment of death, to strip us of our own life.
Antonin Artaud, Van Gogh: The Man Suicided by Society
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Lucky Him: The Life of Kingsley Amis
Peter Owen, 2001 - Biography & Autobiography - 432 pages
Kingsley Amis always claimed that his fiction was not based on his life, and he worked hard and quite successfully at obscuring the autobiographical threads that run through his novels. But they exist, and Richard Bradford traces the channels between Amis's experiences, his states of mind, and his fictionalized versions of both. Bradford's biography shows that it is impossible to offer a comprehensive picture of Amis the man as husband, philanderer, friend, father, jester, son, boozer, agnostic, pseudo-socialist, and club-land Tory without also considering how each dimension of his life tested and extended his literary skills. Sometimes he remodeled the present, particularly during the 1950s when his books reflected his double life as family man and prolific libertine. He revisited the past in novels such as The Riverside Villas Murder, a detective story that tells us much about his early relationship with his father. Less frequently he took revenge, notably with his cruel parody of his second wife Elizabeth Jane Howard in Stanley and the Women. Readers of Amis's books often feel as if they have had a personal encounter with a shadowy presence behind the words, and Bradford's biography embodies this shadow.
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A local hero
I know for a fact that many of my readers hold a deep interest in the Civil War, and involvement in that event by people from our own area is especially interesting.
For several weeks, I have been holding onto a locally written history of one of our heroes during the Civil War, and this week, I'd like to tell you all about it. The full title is "William B. Cushing in the Far East: A Civil War Naval Hero Abroad, 1865-1869." The author is Julian R. McQuiston, retired chairman of the history department at the State University of New York at Fredonia.
In many ways, Cushing's life was so short, it reads like a condensation. Born in Wisconsin, the future hero spent most of his childhood in Fredonia. The Civil War broke out before he was 20 years old. He won honors and was noted for a rather reckless courage in several naval battles before achieving his most famous victory at the tender age of 22, for which he was voted the formal gratitude of the U.S. Congress.
A principal part of the Union's attempt to defeat the southern states was to blockade their coastline, so they couldn't get money from selling their products – especially cotton – to foreign countries, and they couldn't obtain arms, ammunition and other manufactured goods by sea from other countries. The Confederates had a ship called the Albemarle, which they kept in the Roanoke River, in eastern North Carolina. The Albemarle had ventured out often and staged attacks on the blockading Union ships, which punched temporary holes in the defense.
Cushing developed a plan in which he commanded a small craft up the Roanoke by night, and blew up the Albemarle, along with his own craft, with the result that his entire crew was either killed or captured. He took off his uniform and swam to shore, and eventually was rescued by Union craft. That combination of extreme bravery and resourcefulness, with carelessness with the lives of others, recurs several times in his later history.
McQuiston's book focuses on the period of his life after the end of the war, when he was stationed aboard the small steamship U.S.S. Maumee as captain. The ship was sent from the East Coast halfway around the world, to patrol as a gunboat along the coast of China and to protect American interests in Japan, which had only recently been forced to allow foreign ships to enter its ports.
During a shore leave, before departing for his four-year stationing in the far east, Cushing was in Fredonia, where he attended his sister's wedding. There, he was smitten by the beauty of one of her very young bridesmaids: Katherine Forbes, to whom he made a hasty and passionate proposal of marriage. The vast majority of the book is a summarizing of the dozens and dozens of letters which he wrote to his Kate during his Asian wanderings. Sadly, if he ever preserved her letters in reply – and the book suggests that her frequency of response was significantly less substantial than his – they appear in this book only when he quotes them or refers to them in his writing. We never really hear Kate's voice.
His writing ranges back and forth between beautiful descriptions of the realities of exotic locations, as seen through the eyes of a young and impetuous man with little experience of the world, and pleadings with Kate to honor their engagement, and to resist the attentions of young gallants who seem to have offered many invitations to picnics and games of croquet.
In his writings, it is easy to detect his plans to continue to rise through the ranks of the Navy, and to feel his hand at work, trying to shape his future bride into a proper Navy wife, who will assist in his planned ascent. Even today, there are extensive rules regarding who must entertain whom when a naval officer arrives at a new posting, who must call upon whom, and the appropriate means of dress, table service, and more. In the late 1800s, the rules were far more rigid and extensive.
From his letters to Kate, it is clear that Cushing went so far as to initiate a correspondence with her music teacher regarding what seems to him to be her failure to develop sufficient skill at playing the piano, for example.
The author has done a good job of avoiding what must have been a great temptation to comment upon and explain his sometimes charming and sometimes horrifying hero. He does remind us that some of Cushing's harsh descriptions of people of other races would be common during his lifetime, rather than having the shocking effect it tends to have on contemporary readers. Other than that, we are free to admire him or be shocked by him, as we interpret his own words.
Cushing's disdain for the rural qualities of Fredonia is a bit extreme, as is his sincere characterization of anyone voting for any candidate except his worshipped Ulysses S. Grant as a traitor. His frequent taking of souvenirs, from pulling loose a brick from the Great Wall of China to pocketing a small statue of a deity from a Chinese temple, makes a modern reader uncomfortable.
When guards at a garden which he wishes to visit refuse his bribes to allow him to enter, and tell him they will be beheaded if they allow foreigners inside, he finds a way over the wall, then comes back to the opposite side of the gate he was trying to enter, to jibe at the men whose deaths he might be causing, because he wants to see a garden. This was not a nice guy.
Cushing's descriptions of Asian cities is rich in detail, and usually extremely interesting. The situation is always comfortably explained by McQuiston, filling us in on events such as the Opium Wars in China, the civil war in Japan between the emperor and the Shogun, etc., to appreciate the situations in which the young ship's captain is involved.
The book ends with the 1870 wedding in Fredonia's Trinity Episcopal Church, between Cushing and his Kate. It doesn't go on to describe the birth of their two daughters, nor his period as Commander of the Washington (D.C.) Navy Yard, nor his early death, at age 34, possibly from cancer or tuberculosis of the bone.
Although Cushing and his wife are buried on the grounds of the Naval Academy at Annapolis, there is a giant monument to him and his family in Fredonia's Forest Hill Cemetery.
"William B. Cushing in the Far East" gives us a fascinating view, both of our own area, and areas all across the planet, in the last half of the 19th century. I enjoyed reading it, and I recommend it to you.
The book was published in 2013 by McFarland Publishers. The book has 206 pages, in paperbound edition, and is available for sale on a popular computer bookseller's site for $24.
Find it with ISBN number 978-0-7864-7055-6.
Good news for anyone who reads for entertainment. Author Anne Rice, who has sold approximately 100 million books to date, has found her way back to Gothic novels. Between 1976, when she published "The Vampire Lestat," until "Blood Canticle" in 2005, anyone who wanted to venture through fantasy and tales of vampires, witches and the like, could find her books on sale at any bookseller.
They made perfect reading for long plane trips, hospital waiting rooms, and situations where we needed to sit quietly, but could allow our minds to wander around the world, and beyond, especially in the blessed days before people began installing televisions in public places, which spouted nonsense at us when we were defenseless. She herself seemed to revel in her fame and fortune, often performing outrageous stunts like having herself delivered to a book signing by a hearse, from which she emerged from a coffin to greet her fans.
In 2005, though, following the death by cancer of her husband of more than 40 years, she announced that she was through with the fantasies, and would use her writing to explore her personal religious faith. Born a Roman Catholic, she had renounced her religion in her late teens, yet her writings made clear that she retained strong elements of her faith. After 2005, she published two novels which she believes illuminate elements of the life of Christ, and two dealing with the nature of angels. In modern years, she has proclaimed her faith in Christ, yet her dissatisfaction with organized religion, in interviews and essays.
In 2012, she returned to the supernatural, publishing her novel "The Wolf Gift," which changes her focus slightly from vampires and witches to werewolves, and her choice of locations from New Orleans to the redwood forests of Northern California.
Some themes from her many books remain constant. Her characters, both male and female, remain wealthy beyond one's wildest imaginings, and physically beautiful. They become caught up in the supernatural through no fault of their own, but once they become part of another reality, they are indestructible and capable of living for thousands of years. They have strong social consciences and never harm the innocent, although they feel completely entitled to judge others and to savagely kill those from whom they get a smell of evil.
Her hero, this time, is Reuben Golding, a handsome and physically imposing young journalist, in his mid 20s. Reuben is sent to Northern California by his newspaper to cover the sale of a vast mansion by the woman "of a certain age," who has inherited it when her uncle failed to return from a trip to Africa. Marchent – which is the woman's name – is delighted by the young man's earnest nature, his sharp mind and his passionate interest in her house's history.
They spend a night of passionate abandon, but she leaves their bed and drifts away to her office, off the kitchen of the giant house. Reuben is awakened by screams and runs to their locale, where he sees Marchent dead, and what appear to be her two attackers being torn limb from limb by what appears to be a huge wolf. He rushes into the conflict, and suffers bites from the creature. By now you're figuring out what happens next.
Rice's imagination is so vivid, and her choices of words is so delicious that it's difficult to put the book down. Reuben learns that in her short stay in her office, Marchent has made a new will, leaving her house entirely to him, and he has no trouble tapping two of his trust funds to pay her estate hundreds of thousands of dollars to purchase the contents. Then he is assigned to write a feature story about his attack for his employer, along with a long series of features about the Man Wolf who was seen by witnesses before he was attacked.
Amazingly, his writings are filled with examinations of the moral lapses of a society, in which people are soon wearing shirts emblazoned with verbal celebrations of the Man Wolf and there soon are jokes, catch phrases and advertising slogans cashing in on the creature.
It's exciting. It lifts the reader immediately out of his surroundings and takes him to exotic locations. It offers some moral musings which aren't as minor as some critics have imagined.
In short, if you liked the early novels, you'll love this one. Author Rice has already completed a second werewolf/California novel, scheduled for publication in 2013. The title is "The Wolves of Mid-Winter."
"The Wolf Gift" has 502 pages in paperbound edition, plus it includes 18 pages from the second wolf novel. It was published by Anchor Books, and is marked for sale at $15. Search for it with ISBN number 978-0-307-74210-0.
We, who live in an age when politics are usually accompanied by deep hatred and extreme methodology between political rivals, are often drawn to the previous century, when political rivals often formed deep personal friendships and a spirit of compromise and accommodation, even in situations of deep political differences.
One such friendship occurred between David Lloyd George, Prime Minister of England during the First World War, and Winston Churchill, Prime Minister during the Second War.
Historian Robert Lloyd George, great-grandson of the prime minister, has utilized a huge quantity of family archives as well as the unusual access granted to a family member, to papers and objects held by museums, libraries and other institutions, to give a very personal history of the personal relationship between the two politicians.
In some ways, the two men could not have been more different. Lloyd George was Welsh, a minority not always respected by the English, and prided himself on his humble roots and on his understanding of and unity with the working man.
Churchill was a descendant of the Dukes of Marlborough, owners of Blenheim Palace, one of the most elaborate and elegant private homes in the world. Indeed, he was born there. His ancestors were famed generals, and known since well before the American Revolution as rich, noble and powerful.
Also, Lloyd George was a Liberal and Churchill was a Conservative. Unlike American politics where those terms are thrown around like curses, they are the actual names of the political parties in Great Britain.
Both, on the other hand, were outsiders, who were often plotted against by the central authority of their own separate political parties. Neither of them went to a university. Both were willing to include the people they considered the most talented from the rival party in high offices in their governments. They enjoyed each other's company and they respected each other's thinking.
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Fashion designer and filmmaker Tom Ford was once left red-faced after unexpectedly running into legendary Vogue editor Anna Wintour during a walk on a nudist beach.
The style guru opened up about the mortifying meeting during a speech at the CFDA/Vogue Fashion Fund Awards in New York City on Monday, revealing he was caught naked by a fully clothed Wintour on a nudist beach in Caribbean hotspot St. Barts.
He said, "It was like one of those dreams in high school when everyone has clothes on except you."
Ford also dished out advise to young designers hoping to make it big in the fashion world in front of a crowd, which included Wintour.
Julianne Moore, who starred in Ford's directorial debut "A Single Man," introduced Ford to the stage, revealing how he made her feel at ease when they first met in the 1990s just months after she had given birth.
She said, "He was handsome, charming, gracious and absolutely took my breath away. And he assured me that, if I didn't feel comfortable in his dress, that it was fine. He said, 'Wear it, don't wear it – it's just a dress. Don't worry about it.'"


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Safe and inexpensive diagnosis by skin level measurements may be superior to present imaging techniques which give limited information. An instrument is needed that can be expected to do this reliably and effectively (1), a role that is filled by the EDSD. Its acceptance will not come easily and requires adequate research evidence.
The EDST, is a testing process in which measurements are taken with the EDSD. Together they form the EDSS, a general term that stands for all the components. The device, the test procedure and the system are integrally related and cannot be separated. They must be understood together.
The EDSS is theoretically based upon bioenergy (chi) and traditional meridians which represent the paths of flow of this energy. The obvious way to prove that such energy exists is by using a device which measures it. This is what the EDSD can do. This article reviews the history, methodology and the current state of modern research in this field of investigation.
Biological energy, known as "chi" in traditional Chinese medicine, is generated in internal organs and flows through channels near the skin surface, known as meridians. Acupuncture points, generally located on meridians, are where the flow of the energy can be manipulated. The stimulation at these points by various means affects the energy circulation, thus producing secondary effects in connected organs and systems (2).
The use of the word "systems" as used hereon refers to the source areas of bio-energy in body organs and systems. It is not to be confused with the "meridian system" which refers to the complete network of meridians. A meridian, which includes the structure of the system of origin, the function of that system, the electromagnetic pathway and its emotional-vibrational interaction, can be conceived individually or as part of an intricate network. The synergistic totality of the meridian system is fundamental.
Although various mechanisms to explain acupuncture are offered, the electromagnetic model fits best. Analogically the systems can be compared with energy fields connected by wiring. A small "dose" of electromagnetic energy introduced through an acupuncture point flows to the connected system and affects it. Anything that alters system function or structure changes the energy flow through the "wiring" and the EDSD measures the resistance and polarization at the affected acupuncture points. It thus provides a picture of the balance of related systems that are interconnected through the "wiring."
Voll (3) was an early investigator who applied low voltage currents to acupuncture points in humans. His device was called the Diatherapuncteur, but the Dermatron (Pitterling Electronics, Munich) has replaced it. Voll's original goal was therapeutic electroacupuncture but he noted that the low voltage emitted by his device caused a response at the acupuncture point which reflected the condition of the associated system. Thus, it could be used in diagnosis and monitoring of a patient's health status and became known as electroacupuncture according to Voll (EAV). This was the revolutionary aspect of EAV which has led to development of EDST.
Most written material on EAV is devoted to location of measuring points and how measurements are made and interpreted (3-12). They generally lack appropriate referencing and are difficult to locate. Voll used EAV in conjunction with homeopathy, thus increasing the scientific credibility gap. We are perfectly well aware of such shortcomings and intend to address them. Voll was also well aware that research was needed (13).
The Device and Method
All EDSDs share the same basic design and functional use. The core is an ohm meter which delivers 10-12 microamperes of direct current at 1-1.25 volts. Since the ionization potential of hydrogen atoms is 1.36 volts, this is perfectly safe. In most devices the meter is calibrated to read from 0 to 100 so that the standard skin resistance of 100 kilo-ohms reads 50. Zero represents infinite resistance and 100 indicates zero resistance at this electrical potential. Some devices read from 0 to 200 and 100 indicates normal skin resistance (14,15).
The testing probe is an insulated body with a tip of brass or silver connected to the positive side of the circuit. This, held by the operator, is pressed firmly on the patient's skin at the measurement point. A brass hand electrode is held by the patient and connected to the negative side of the circuit. A metal plate, for medicine testing, is inserted between the EDSD and the patient's hand electrode (Figure 1).
Training in the use of the probe is essential (3). Point location must be accurate, and the probe must be applied at the correct angle. Appropriate pressure must be applied during measurement which may take as long as 60 seconds. This pressure can be from 600 to 2000 PSI depending on tip design and may create a temporary dimple. It may be slightly uncomfortable but should not be painful. Moistening the probe tip and the hand electrode ensures good electrical contact. Repeated measurements, the time taken for each and the time between them affects readings (16) (Figures 2 and 3).
Measuring involves two components, the initial reading, which is generally the highest, and what is known as the indicator drop (ID), a gradual fall in the original reading. An initial reading of aproximately 50, followed by little or no ID is considered to be "balanced." Initial readings over 60 may indicate inflammation of the connected system. Readings below 45 may indicate degeneration. When an ID is present it is considered to provide the most important information as an indi-cator of system disease. Using "medicine testing," the ID can be used to define the cause of imbalance (Figure 4).
There are 850 measurement points (4) on the body, but most mea-surements use points along 40 meridians on the hands and feet, gen-erally located between the diaphysis and capitulum of the phalanx, metacarpal or metatarsal bones (Figure 5).
Voll discovered new meridians, new measuring points and new functions of existing points, although his understanding and use of meridians was generally in agreement with Chinese tradition. His "new" meridians relate to joints, skin, fibrous and fatty tissues, se-rous membranes, pyramidal and autonomic nervous systems, lymph system, capillary circulation and allergic reactions.
Branch points, many of which were discovered by Voll, help in pin-pointing the exact location of abnormal function. For example, the branch points on the two heart meridians, one on each hand, include all the heart valves, the conduction system and coronary arteries. By combining readings from different points, a more exact definition of the affected tissue is possible.
The EDST begins with examination of whole-body energy levels
represented in 4 quadrants, hand-to-hand, foot-to-foot, right hand-to-foot and left hand-to-foot, using brass tube hand and brass plate foot electrodes. The probe is then used at the control measurement points (CMP) to determine the general condition of a meridian. Branch points are checked if there is a positive reading at the CMP or if symptoms suggest it, regardless of CMP readings. When an ID oc-curs, various reagents can be tested by placing them one by one on the test plate in the circuit in an effort to restore balance by abolish-ing the ID. Each reagent sample is sealed in a glass container.
Selection of test reagents is based on medical knowledge and experience and may require a combination. Reagents that abolish the ID may be found to be appropriate as a medication or as a nutritional supplement. No change suggests ineffective choice, while an increased ID suggests that the choice would be harmful. For example, in a diabetic, a proper dose of insulin would improve or abolish the ID, whereas refined sugar would increase it.
Medicine testing is controversial but may be the most promising aspect of the EDSS (12,13,17). Voll, who discovered the phenomenon, used it in conjunction with homeopathy and its effectiveness in testing homeopathic remedies has been published (16,18). They are particularly useful reagents since they are prepared in various dilutions which increases the likelihood of finding an appropriate "resonance," to be discussed below.
This kind of procedure has been shown to be effective in testing herbal and allopathic drugs (18,19) and is successful in testing for allergy (20,21), the presence of environmental xenobiotics like insecticides (22) and the effect of biologically active substances.
Theoretical Basis and Holistic Approach
The EDSS is based on electromagnetic physics and quantum mechanics and this is well documented (23-25). Bio-energy, bio-information and harmonic resonance represent the biophysical foundation of its use. All living creatures generate energy containing biological information which flows in specific tracks throughout the organism. The cell mass in a given organ creates informational energy when the organ functions, giving rise to resonance. There is therefore a direct relationship between quality of organ function and the energy generated.
The initial reading in the EDST measures the energy generated by the connected system. The form and time elapsed in the ID and its manipulation through medicine testing represent the information contained. If system function is normal there will be electrical equilibrium between the EDSD generated voltage and the system. There will be no ID. On the other hand, if the system cannot maintain equilibrium, resistance will increase and there will be an ID. During medicine testing, it is the informational energy in the reagent that causes equilibrium to be established, thus abolishing the ID.
Bio-energy and its relationship with acupuncture points and meridians has been confirmed (26-28). Areas of increased electrical conductivity on the skin are known to correspond with them
(29-32) and scintillation scanning of radioactive tracers injected at acupuncture points reveals patterns of energy flow separate from blood and lymph circulation (33). A definite relationship has been shown to exist between a meridian and its associated system and other bio-energetic relationships have been found to exist between the exterior and interior of the body (34-38).
Bio-information research is new, but all matter has its own unique vibratory signal (39). It is possible to record the vibrational information of a given substance in water and use the water for treatment (40,41), information which can also be carried by photon and electron beams (42). Storage and transport of this information is almost certainly biophysical rather than biochemical, though its exact nature is still uncertain. Theories include L-fields (43) and biophoton emission (44). A plausible mechanism for medicine testing has been suggested (45) based upon quasi phase matching, or resonance, between the test system and the reagent. Chen (personal communication) has suggested that all biological systems communicate through similar quantum-mechanical processes.


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Please take the publication date into consideration for any date references. ] [ Media Contact: TPWD News, email@example.com, 512-389-8030 ] [ Additional Contacts: Shawn Gray 432-837-2051, firstname.lastname@example.com ] Sept. 25, 2012 TPWD Gearing Up for CWD Response during Deer Season Public hearings to include workshops for hunters, landowners AUSTIN - Wildlife officials are asking mule deer hunters and landowners in far West Texas to familiarize themselves with new protocols developed as part of Texas Parks and Wildlife Department's (TPWD) Chronic Wasting Disease response plan. The plan includes mandatory check stations for harvested mule deer taken inside the CWD Containment Zone, which covers portions of Hudspeth and El Paso counties. See map of CWD zones at http://tpwd.texas.gov/cwd. The response plan is being implemented after tissue samples from two mule deer in far West Texas this past summer tested positive for CWD. These are the first cases of CWD detected in Texas deer. CWD workshops will be held in conjunction with upcoming public hearings to inform landowners, hunters, and outfitters about CWD, care of meat, appropriate management actions, and check station requirements. TPWD will present proposed amendments to deer movement rules, answer questions and take public comment during the public hearing segment of the meetings. Meetings are set for Oct. 2 in Fort Stockton at the Pecos County Civic Center; Oct. 3 in Alpine at the Alpine Independent School District Auditorium; and Oct. 4 in Van Horn at the Van Horn Convention Center. The workshops will start at 6 p.m. and the public hearing will begin at 7:30 p.m. CWD is a member of the group of diseases called transmissible spongiform encephalopathies (TSEs). Other diseases in this group include scrapie in sheep, bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE or mad cow disease) in cattle, and Cruetzfeldt-Jakob disease in humans. CWD among cervids is a progressive, fatal disease that commonly results in altered behavior as a result of microscopic changes made to the brain of affected animals. An animal may carry the disease for years without outward indication, but in the latter stages, signs may include listlessness, lowering of the head, weight loss, repetitive walking in set patterns, and a lack of responsiveness. CWD is not known to affect humans. There is no vaccine or cure for CWD, but steps have been taken to minimize the risk of the disease spreading from beyond the area where it currently exists. For example, within the CWD Containment Zone, human-induced movements of wild or captive deer, elk, or other susceptible species will be restricted and mandatory hunter check stations will be established. Hunters taking mule deer inside the Containment Zone during the general season, Nov. 23 - Dec. 9, are required to submit their harvest (unfrozen head) for CWD sampling at mandatory check stations within 24 hours of harvest. "We recommend hunters in the Containment Zone and High Risk Zone quarter deer in the field and leave all but the quarters, backstraps and head at the site of harvest if it is not possible to bury the inedible carcass parts at least 6 feet deep on the ranch or take them to a landfill," said Shawn Gray, mule deer program leader for TPWD. Hunters that harvest deer in the Containment Zone during the archery-only season or outside the general season under the authority of MLDP (Managed Lands Deer Permits) will need to call TPWD at (512) 221-8491 the day the deer is harvested to make arrangements to have the deer sampled for CWD. Mandatory check stations will be open from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. Nov. 23 - Dec. 10. Stations will be located in Cornudas at May's Café (on US 62-180) and in Van Horn at Van Horn Convention Center (1801 West Broadway). In addition to protocols within the Containment Zone, TPWD has created a High Risk Zone for voluntary CWD sampling during the hunting season. Biologists have been collecting voluntary mule deer harvest data in the region since 1980 and this year CWD sampling will be offered in addition to age and weight measurements. Voluntary check stations will be set up at the following locations during the first three weekends of the general season, Saturday through Monday (Nov. 24-26, Dec. 1-3 and Dec. 8-10), from 9 a.m. - 5 p.m. Saturday and Sunday and 9 a.m. - 1 p.m. Monday: Midland at Naturally Fresh (Deer Processor) (1501 Elwyn) Bakersfield at Chevron Station (south of I10; Exit 294) Sanderson at Slim's Auto Repair (823 West Oak; Intersection of US 90 and 285) Alpine at Hip-O Taxidermy (east side of town on US 90, across from Dairy Queen) "All deer brought to the check stations this season will be aged as part of our CWD surveillance," said Gray. "We also intend to collect other biological information such as antler measurements and field dressed weights as time allows." Although wildlife officials cannot say how long the disease has been present in Texas or if it occurs in other areas of the state, they have had an active CWD surveillance program for more than a decade. "We have tested more than 26,500 wild deer in Texas since 2002, and the captive-deer industry has submitted more than 7,400 CWD test results as well," said Mitch Lockwood, Big Game Program Director with TPWD. "But that part of West Texas is the toughest place to conduct an adequate CWD surveillance program because so few deer are harvested out there each hunting season. Thanks to the cooperation and active participation of several landowners, we were able to begin getting an idea of the prevalence and geographic distribution of the disease without needing to remove many deer." More information on CWD can be found on TPWD's website, http://tpwd.texas.gov/cwd or at the Chronic Wasting Disease Alliance website, http://www.cwd-info.org -30- [ Note: This item is more than six years old. Please take the publication date into consideration for any date references. ] [ Media Contact: TPWD News, firstname.lastname@example.com, 512-389-8030 ] Sept. 25, 2012 Operation Game Thief Tips Can Now Be Sent by Text AUSTIN - Just in time for fall hunting season, the Operation Game Thief wildlife crimestoppers program has a new tool expected to increase the number of tips received as well as game law violation convictions. Effective immediately, in addition to calling the OGT 24-hour tip hotline at 800-792-4263 (GAME), anyone wishing to report a possible game law violation will be able to provide information via texting that could still qualify for a possible cash reward. Called Tip411, the new program will give the public the option to text information directly to Texas Parks and Wildlife Department communication operators. This is how the new system works: --From your cell phone enter 847411 in the TO: box --Then enter tpwd (not case specific) in the message box, followed by a space --Type a message and send --The dispatcher will then be able to communicate with the complainant if further information is needed All standard text message charges still apply. OGT will be keeping records and monitoring how well this new technology works for improving public reporting. The new application has been tested with several different devices, including iPhones, Blackberries, and regular cell phones with texting capabilities and is now up and running. OGT averages 1,500 calls a year, many resulting in the filing of game law violation cases and some of them leading to arrests for felony crimes. This new technology is expected to increase the number of citizen calls received. Begun in 1981 as a result of laws passed by the 67th Legislature to help curtail poaching, the OGT program offers rewards of up to $1,000 for information leading to the arrest and conviction for a wildlife crime. OGT is a function of the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department's Law Enforcement division and has been responsible for the payment of over $200,000 in rewards and the assessment of well over $1 million in assessed fines. Privately funded, the program is dependent on financial support from the public through the purchase of OGT merchandise and memberships, donations, sponsorships, and gifts. The program also hosts annual fundraising events, including the Permain Basin Claystoppers Shootout set for Oct. 5 at Jake's Clays in Midland and the Clay Stoppers Shootout on Oct. 12 at the National Shooting Complex in San Antonio. For more information on OGT and these upcoming events, visit the program's website at www.ogttx.com -30-


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Belfast is the capital of Northern Ireland, a region that has seen more than its share of unrest almost since its creation in 1921. The Roman Catholic and Protestant populations have a history of being at odds over whether Northern Ireland should be part of Ireland or part of Great Britain. The sides are called "nationalist" and "unionist" respectively. Most recently, the conflict took the shape of what's called the Troubles, the period of time ranging from the late 1960s to the late 1990s. Since the Good Friday Agreement of 1998, however, the violence has decreased substantially and Belfast (and Northern Ireland as a whole) is seeing a dramatic increase in tourism.
What to do
To get an up close and personal look at what's left of the political conflicts in Belfast, don't miss out on a Black Taxi Tour - you can book them through all hostels and hotels, and you'll be getting a private guided tour of the more important points in the history of the fighting. One of the things you'll likely see plenty of on your tour are the political murals around the city - they're a signature of Belfast, and an indication that despite today's peace, the sentiments behind the previous violence still exist.
Ulster Museum has a large section devoted to the history of the conflicts in Northern Ireland, but it's closed for a major redevelopment until 2009. Among the more odd things to do and see in Belfast is the Titanic Boat Tour - the doomed ship was built in Belfast - and the Botanical Gardens, including its collection of carnivorous plants.
Above all, don't forget to enjoy a pint of Guinness in what some say is Northern Ireland's most beautiful pub, the Crown Liquor Saloon on Great Victoria St. Even if you don't imbibe, you'll have plenty of atmosphere to drink in!
Getting there
You can book a flight into Belfast International Airport (code: BFS), which is about 20 miles outside the city. If you'll be traveling by train, be sure to check out a BritRail Pass before you go.
Where to stay
As Belfast is becoming more popular with visitors, accommodations are booking up faster and earlier. Don't get left in the cold - book your Belfast hostel or Belfast hotel early.


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Datsyuk returns, but Red Wings fall to Panthersby Alain Poupart
SUNRISE, Fla. -- Pavel Datsyuk was impressive in his return to the lineup Tuesday night, but it wasn't enough to prevent the Florida Panthers from beating the Detroit Red Wings for the second time in four nights.
After rallying from a 2-0 deficit in the third period, Aleksander Barkov and Brad Boyes scored in the shootout to lead the Panthers to a 3-2 win at BB&T Center.
"Beating them twice in a short period is pretty nice," said Panthers center Nick Bjugstad, who tied the game with 5:32 left in regulation with a spectacular individual move. "They've got a lot of good players, a lot of experienced players. So I think it says a lot about the guys in the locker room. We've got some good leadership going on right now. Hopefully we can keep that going."
Boyes ended the game in the second half of the third round with a wrist shot through Jimmy Howard's legs. Tomas Tatar scored for Detroit in the shootout.
Boyes leads all active players with 35 career shootout goals and is 4-for-5 this season.
"It's good to contribute, whichever way I can," said Boyes, whose last shift ended with 7:37 left in the third period. "If the shootout is the way to do it, I'm happy with that."
The Panthers improved to 3-4 in shootouts this season; Detroit is winless in five.
The Red Wings have scored twice in 15 shootout attempts this season; their goalies have allowed seven goals on 13 attempts.
Detroit defenseman Niklas Kronwall hit the post with a slap shot from the point midway through the overtime period.
"You want to leave here with two points and feel good about yourself," Red Wings coach Mike Babcock said. "You win the shootout, you feel good about yourself. You don't win in the shootout, I have to answer questions you guys [reporters] are asking."
Sean Bergenheim also scored in regulation for the Panthers, who have won three of four overall.
The new Atlantic Division rivals met for the first time Saturday in Detroit, with the Panthers winning 2-1. They will meet three more times, with the next game scheduled for Dec. 28 at BB&T Center.
Tim Thomas, making his 15th start in 16 games for the Panthers, finished with 24 saves.
"That was a big win," Thomas said. "Down 2-0 going into the third period, to come back like that, it's a great thing."
Back after missing seven games because of a concussion, Datsyuk had a goal and an assist for the Red Wings, who have lost six times (9-3-3) this season when leading after two periods, more than any team in the NHL.
"You're up two goals on the road, you're in a good situation, and being up two after two, we would have taken that," Howard said. "But we've got to either find a way to score the next one or have the ability to shut them down."
Todd Bertuzzi scored for the Red Wings, who came in with an NHL-best 10-3-1 record on the road. Johan Franzen added two assists, giving him seven goals and 10 assists in 14 games since coming back from an upper-body injury.
Howard made 25 saves for Detroit. He came into the game with a 1-4-4 record with a 2.92 GAA in his previous nine starts. Jonas Gustavsson started back-to-back games against the New Jersey Devils and Panthers. The loss against Florida on Saturday was Gustavsson's first in regulation this season after an 8-0-1 start.
Babcock indicated that Gustavsson would start Thursday night against the Tampa Bay Lightning.
"I thought Jimmy played good," Babcock said. "When you get to the shootout, I don't worry about the goaltender stuff. I thought Jimmy played well; I thought their goalie did too."
Detroit led 2-0 going into the third period before Bergenheim and Bjugstad tied the game.
Bergenheim made it 2-1 at 5:00 when he deflected Dmitry Kulikov's wrist shot from the point.
Bjugstad then tied the game at 14:38 with a spectacular individual effort that began when he beat Datsyuk along the boards. Bjugstad eventually skated to the side of the net before beating Howard with a high shot to the short side.
"It felt pretty good," Bjugstad said. "I knew he was kind of on my side. I put forth an extra effort because I know he's a good player. He's strong on the puck, he's good defensively obviously. It was nice, a little confidence-builder there to be able to do that. I watched him growing up quite a bit, watched a lot of highlights on YouTube of him."
Datsyuk is a three-time winner of the Selke Trophy, awarded to the best defensive forward in the NHL and has been a finalist six times, which made Bjugstad's goal even more impressive.
"That's a world-class goal," Panthers interim coach Peter Horachek said. "He comes out of the corner with Datsyuk and comes and takes it to the net. He's one of the best players in the League for a reason. That's a big-time play for Bjugstad. He should get that framed."
Datsyuk, who had been out since being injured by an elbow from Ottawa Senators defenseman Jared Cowen on Nov. 23, scored his team-leading 13th goal at 6:47 of the second period when he stood to the left of the net and redirected a nifty pass from the right point from defenseman Jonathan Ericsson.
The goal was Datsyuk's sixth in 11 career games against Florida to go along with 11 assists.
Datsyuk had another great scoring chance later in the second period after a Florida turnover in the defensive zone, but his backhand from close range went wide.
Datsyuk picked up an assist when Bertuzzi opened the scoring with a power-play goal 10:26 into the game. Datsyuk stood in front of the net when he deflected Franzen's wrist shot from the top of the left circle. Thomas made the save, but Bertuzzi was standing alone in front of him and easily was able to put home the rebound.
The Red Wings appeared to have taken a 1-0 lead two minutes earlier, but Ericsson's goal on a shot from the point was immediately waved off when it was ruled that Daniel Cleary had interfered with Thomas.
"We started out pretty good the first two periods and then in the third I don't know what happened," Ericsson said. "I have no explanation except we were terrible out there. We made it hard on ourselves and easy on them. [We] just invited them into the game again.
"We didn't execute and they took advantage of that and got some nice shootout goals."
Detroit center Stephen Weiss, the Panthers' all-time leader in games played and assists, played his first game at BB&T Center since leaving Florida last summer. He was kept off the score sheet for a second consecutive game against his former team, although he did have a great
scoring chance on a third-period power play that was denied by a blocker save.
Highlights of Weiss' career with the Panthers were shown on the center-ice scoreboard in the first period.


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This slab of neon green slime is meant to be pressed firmly into the orifices of your gadgets, gaming devices and electronics to suck up dirt, dust and, as our own Luke Plunkett so disturbingly puts it, "mustache flakes."
I tested it out on a few things and found that its ability to attract scum was not as great as its ability to get wedged into tiny gaps and break free of the mother slime ball. I used it on my keyboard, controller and DS XL and it sort of cleaned them. But when I tried it on a remote control and pulled it away from the buttons, I discovered a tiny snotling still wedged under the number two button. It took a good minute to pull the sucker free and smack it back into the glob.
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Occurrence of Stalking Victimization Among Female and Male Undergraduate Students." Journal of College Student Development. 2016;57(2):213-18."
Adverse Childhood Experiences: Expanding the Concept of Adversity." Am J Prev Med. 2015;49(3):354-61."
Relationship Violence Among Female and Male College Undergraduate Students." Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med. 2008;162(7):634-41."


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Q. I am considering using layaway for some of my Christmas shopping. I noticed many large stores now offer this service. I was wondering what happens if I change my mind and don't finish paying. Legally, how much money may the store keep?
A. As you have noticed, more and more stores are now offering layaway as a means of buying now and paying later. Under a layaway plan, you pick out what you want and the store holds it while you make payments, usually once a week. When you finish paying, the item is yours. For many people, this is an attractive alternative to using cash or paying with a credit card. Layaway, however, is not free. Most stores charge a small service fee to open the account and keep a percentage of the payments if you change your mind and stop paying before you have paid in full. These fees and penalties vary in amount and can be significant. Texas does not have a special law regulating how much a store charges for its layaway plan. Therefore, it is very important that you read the agreement carefully to see what it will cost before you sign. You might want to shop around to find the best deal for the item you want to purchase.
Q. My daughter had a baby and is living with the baby's father. Are they married? He says they are not. What rights does she have if he leaves? He is taking care of her and the baby but is threatening to leave her.
A. Under the law, she has the right to receive support for the child from the father. She is entitled to child support regardless of whether they are married. You seem to believe, however, that because they are living together with a child that they are married. That is not the law. For them to have a common law marriage based on living together, they must agree to be married and hold themselves out as married. If they are just "living together" and have not agreed to be married or held themselves out as married, they are not married. In my opinion, if he says they are not married, they probably are not married.
Q. Can my wages be garnished for child support imposed by another state?
A. Yes. Most states have agreements with Texas making it very easy to enforce a child support obligation from another state.
Q. Can I be arrested for not paying my credit card bill? A debt collector told me he was going to file a complaint with the sheriff and have a warrant issued for my arrest.
A. No, there is no debtor's prison in Texas. If you don't pay money you owe, you may be sued, but you cannot be put in jail. In fact, the threat to throw you in jail for not paying your bills probably violates both federal and state debt collection law. For more information about what may happen if you don't pay your bills, look at the debt collection section on my Web site below.
Q. I have heard that in Texas you cannot be appointed as executor in someone's will if you have ever been convicted of a felony. Is this true? What if the family member wants you to be the executor?
A. As a general rule, almost anyone can serve as an executor to a will. There are, however, a few exceptions. For example, minors, people who are incompetent, and people convicted of a felony cannot serve as an executor. What you heard is true.
Q. I am owed $16,000 from an unpaid loan. I know the limit in small claims court has been raised to $10,000. Can I just sue for $10,000 so I can file in small claims court?A. As you know, the limit in small claims court is now $10,000. The limit, however, is based on the amount of your dispute, not how much you request. You cannot ask for less than you are actually owed to get within the court's jurisdiction.
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A. Under federal law, you are entitled to a free copy of your credit report from each of the three major credit bureaus once a year. I suggest you stagger your requests, and get one every four months. This way you will always get current information.
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ACN: Mali beat Ghana 3-1 to finish third
Mali enjoyed a second successive third-place play-off win over Ghana as they triumphed 3-1 at the Africa Cup of Nations.
Last Updated: 09/02/13 8:46pm
Goals from Mahamadou Samassa and Seydou Keita gave Mali control but they had to hold on thereafter.
Mubarak Wakaso blazed a 56th-minute penalty over before Kwadwo Asamoah's speculative strike with eight minutes left eluded a diving Mali goalkeeper Soumaila Diakite.
But Ghana failed to force an equaliser and substitute Sigamary Diarra ensured Mali would again take a podium place, after beating Ghana 2-0 in this game last year.
Ghana made a promising start with Asamoah Gyan volleying over from 25 yards while Christian Atsu forced Diakite into action for the first time on 15 minutes.
Despite that it was Mali who grabbed the opening goal through Samassa after 21 minutes.
Adama Tamboura delivered a cross from the left side of the penalty area that the Chievo striker nodded home.
Samassa almost had a second just before half-time but his 18-yard effort struck a post and bounced to safety.
Mali did go 2-0 ahead three minutes after the break when their former Barcelona midfielder Keita timed his run perfectly to score.
Ousmane Coulibaly rolled a low pass across the face of goal and, while there were defenders stationed on the line, Keita's was best placed as he made a late run from midfield to stab home.
Ghana should have drawn level from the penalty spot, although the award was contentious.
Salif Coulibaly was ruled to have handled a cross from the right although replays suggested he had used his chest to control the ball.
It mattered not as Wakaso, who had converted his three penalties in the tournament so far, sliced his shot high over the crossbar.
Keita then correctly had a goal disallowed for offside before Diakite inexplicably missed Asamoah's long-range strike.
The goalkeeper over-reacted to his shot, diving full length to his left when he needed only stand still, to allow a well-hit shot drift inside him and into the net.
Solomon Asante was booked for diving trying to win a penalty in injury time before Sigamary Diarra sealed the win, lashing in a first-time shot after the Ghana defence failed to clear a long punt forward.


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According to a LinkedIn blog post, Twitter is dropping a two-and-a-half-year-old partnership with LinkedIn that allowed users of the professional social network to publish tweets to their LinkedIn profiles.
Twitter consumer product chief Michael Sippey wrote in a post on Twitter's developer blog that the changes were part of a move to deliver a "core Twitter consumption experience through a consistent set of products and tools."
Twitter has been gradually moving to push out partners who display tweets on their websites, but those efforts have been primarily focused on mobile clients, where Twitter's been emphasizing its own offerings.
Users will still be able to post updates on LinkedIn and broadcast those updates to Twitter, but content-sharing won't go the other way.
That matches Twitter's general strategy of late: It is happy to have others send content into Twitter, but not so happy to have others use tweets as content elsewhere.
What's bizarre, though, is that Twitter just upgraded its own Facebook app, which crossposts tweets to users' Facebook profiles—exactly what LinkedIn has been doing, with Twitter's blessing, since 2009.
Twitter has long struggled with enforcing a consistent set of rules and practices for partners like LinkedIn. Developers who created apps for viewing tweets, for example, have found themselves placed at a disadvantage by changes to Twitter's rules and Twitter's efforts to develop its own mobile clients.


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Here's your home auto repair horror story of the day: An elderly woman in Oregon had to have her hand amputated after her arm got stuck under the hood of her truck, leaving her trapped for 18 hours in 30-degree weather and snow.
TV station KGW reports that Clackamas County resident Joan Zuber, in her 70s, was working on her truck last week when the hood came crashing down on her arm. That left her stuck overnight in frosty weather without food or water. She wasn't freed until the next morning when neighbors on horseback heard her cries for help.
Sadly, this meant Zuber's hand had to be amputated. But amazingly, she seems to be taking it all in stride, according to her daughter:
"That she's doing great and not that big of a deal. She said that it really wasn't that bad so doesn't surprise me. She's doing good and her spirits are really up," she said.
That's a real tough lady right there.
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How HIV Cripples Immune Cells
Disease Mechanism in HIV Infection Decoded; Heidelberg Virologists Publish in Cell Host & Microbe
In order to be able to ward off disease pathogens, immune cells must be mobile and be able to establish contact with each other. The working group around Professor Dr. Oliver Fackler in the Virology Department of the Hygiene Institute of the Heidelberg University Hospital has discovered a mechanism in an animal model revealing how HIV, the AIDS pathogen, cripples immune cells: Cell mobility is inhibited by the HIV Nef protein. The study was published in the highly respected journal "Cell Host & Microbe". This discovery may have pointed the way towards a new treatment approach.
Over 30 million persons worldwide are infected with HIV. Typically, after the initial infection accompanied by acute symptoms, there is a latency period of several years before the acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) manifests. The human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) has developed numerous strategies for eluding the body's defenses and the medications administered. The prerequisite for efficient reproduction of the virus in the patient's body is the virus's own Nef protein. Without Nef, the development of AIDS is significantly slowed or even stopped completely. The underlying mechanism of this observation was a complete mystery up to now, however.
HIV modifies the cell structure system of the host cells
Viruses alter the support structures of affected cells, enabling them to enter the cells more easily. The cell structure element actin, which also gives muscles their mobility, aids in the motility of immune cells. This is necessary for immune cells to be able to establish contact with each other and combat the virus. After each movement, actin must be returned to its original state in order to be available once again. HIV especially attacks immune cells of the T-helper type. These cells support not only direct "defense against the enemy", but are also necessary for building sufficient antibodies against the invader. For this, they must rely on their mobility.
Short-circuiting of two different signal paths in the cell by Nef
The researchers examined the movement of cells in living zebra fish embryos and were able to show that cell mobility is inhibited by the HIV Nef protein. As they continued their experiments on cell cultures, they were able to explain the underlying mechanism: Nef causes an enzyme that normally has nothing to do with cell mobility to deactivate a regulator for actin regeneration. Nef therefore causes a short-circuit of two cellular mechanisms, thus inhibiting the reorganization of the cell structure element actin and the cell's ability to move. Thus, the affected immune cells can no longer fulfill their function.
"We speculate that the negative effect of Nef on the mobility of T-helper cells has far reaching consequences for the efficient formation of antibodies by B-lymphocytes in the patient. The mechanism we have described could be involved in the increasingly observed malfunction of B-lymphocytes in AIDS patients", explains Professor Fackler. Up to now, Nef has not been a target of antiviral therapy. Since one of the first molecular mechanisms has now been decoded, however, and the importance of Nef for the disease has become clearer, this could change in the future.


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The new iPhone 3.0 software was released a little under an hour ago. The upgrade was trivial. I clicked the Check For Update a few minutes after the release, and it downloaded the new OS in around 3 minutes! I recently switched ISPs so I have really good bandwidth now - but I had expected a lot of traffic on Apple's servers to slow things down.
The update looks really good. I tested a few of the things I have been looking forward to -- I personally don't care about the feature highlights listed on most sites, such as MMS, Copy and Paste, etc.
The first feature I've been waiting for is the ability in the browser to open a link in another window. With tabbed browsing I'm used to just ctrl-clicking on links such that pages load in the background, and when I'm done with the current page I go read the other tabs which by then are fully loaded. On the iPhone on the other hand I haven't been able to do this, since there hasn't been a way to open a link without throwing away the page you're on. But in 3.0, it's there - just click and hold a link and you get the option to open the link in a new page. It's not as good as tabbed browsing - it instantly jumps to the new, not yet loaded page, but it's trivial to jump back and keep reading while the new page is loading.
The second feature I've been waiting for is improved iPod controls. The primary usage for my iPhone is as an iPod - while running, doing chores or driving - and I listen to a lot of podcasts. With 3.0, the scrubbing feature is improved - it's now a lot easier to jump to arbitrary points in the podcast. I like to listen to This Week in Technology for example, but I'm getting really, REALLY sick of the 5+ minutes of Audible commercials in each and every episode. This is the DVR generation -- if a commercial is longer than 30 seconds I'm going to start resenting you. In 2.0 it was difficult to either fast forward (too slow, then too fast) or jump to arbitrary points in the podcast. With 3.0 it works really well - I just place my thumb on the scrollbar and lean it to the right then left to tweak the final endpoint.
Another iPod improvement is the ability to play podcasts at a faster rate. For the Java Posse some volunteers (thank you!) set up a server which would download our podcasts, apply audio processing to speed up the podcast, and then release these as faster versions of our episodes - called the Tempo Posse. This is no longer necessary with 3.0 - there's a button you can click to cycle between half speed, full speed and double speed playback:
I don't think this will run the Tempo Posse out of "business", because I looked at our download stats the other day and nearly half of all episodes are downloaded outside of iTunes! Are there really that many Zune users? ;-)


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A couple of weeks ago I finally accepted that I needed to reorganize my nail polish stash. I use 2 Melmers and a DIY nail polish rack to store my polish and it is a wonderful system…if I actually use it! I made the terrible mistake of reorganizing my stash by brand (instead of color). Since then I've had a hard time finding what I was looking for and nail polish ended up everywhere. There were bottles on my desk, on my nightstand, on top of my lightbox, in my bathroom, on my vanity, on top of my dresser. Even in my car and in my purse! Quite frankly the situation was out of control and nail polish was taking over my life.
It has been a slow process but I'm getting close to having all my polishes entered in my new nail polish spreadsheet. Currently my sewing machine is covered with nail polish bottles as I'm waiting to have everything archived before I reorganize my Melmers by color.
This was all a very long winded way of explaining why I've been doing some research on how to properly store nail polish. My collection is far too large for most of my polishes to get any kind of regular use. So I want them to last me a long time.
Below the jump are some tips on how to store nail polish so it lasts (and why you shouldn't store nail polish in the refrigerator!)
If you have any storage tips please let me know! I'm always looking for better ways to store my beloved polishes 🙂
I've gone through several nail polish storage methods. The first being plain old plastic containers. The second was a Melmer that lived on my vanity. Then I expanded to 2 Melmers and moved them into the linen closet in my bathroom. Turns out….these were all really bad ways to store nail polish!
The best place to store nail polish is in a cool, dry, dark place where the bottles can stand upright.
Unfortunately, this eliminates many of the most common places to store nail polish. Clear plastic containers expose polish to light and don't allow for polishes to easily stay upright. Storing polish anywhere in the bathroom exposes the polishes to humidity.
What's a girl to do? I definitely will not be ditching my nail polish rack, but I will turn it into a non permanent means of storage. It will be a place for polishes I plan to wear soon and then they will move on to my Melmers.
Luckily, my Melmers (as long as I keep them out of the bathroom and direct sunlight…) are a great place to store polish. But, there are other places that would work too. The bottom drawer of a dresser, desk or vanity. At the bottom of a closet (preferably with no outside walls) in just a shoe box would also work well.
So you're probably thinking right now that the fridge sounds like a fabulous place to store polish. It's cool. It's dry. It's dark. But it also exposes the polishes to extreme temperature changes. Nail polish needs to be at room temperature to actually use (otherwise the formula will not apply smoothly). The polish going back and forth between very cool and room temperature causes more harm to the polish formulation than any good that comes from storing polish in the fridge. (Plus really…who wants to store polish next to the butter? Ew!)
I'm glad to know that I'm giving my polish its best chance to last a very long time. I hope this was somewhat helpful and hopefully in the next couple weeks I'll be sharing my new storage and organization method with y'all.