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A honey bee worker (top left corner) feeds four others simultaneously. Honey bee social feeding was long thought to involve the exchange of communicative substances, in addition to food. The report in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences is the first discovery of a primer pheromone produced by adult worker honey bees that is thought to be transferred via food exchange. (Photo courtesy of Zachary Huang.) Hi-res jpg |
MSU entomologist Zachary Huang.
Huang's home page: http://www.msu.edu/~bees/ To learn more about honey bees and honey bee research: http://cyberbee.msu.edu/ |
EAST LANSING, Mich. – A recent discovery unveils the chemical secret that gives old bees the authority to keep young bees home babysitting instead of going out on the town.
A hard-to-detect pheromone explains a phenomenon Michigan State University entomologist Zachary Huang published 12 years ago – that somehow older forager bees exert influence over the younger nurse bees in a hive, keeping them grounded until they are more mature, and thus more ready to handle the demands of buzzing about.
The work that identifies the chemical, "Regulation of Behavioral Maturation in Honey Bees by a New Primer Pheromone" is publishing in Proceedings of the National Academy of Science Biological Sciences, Population Biology, Early Edition the week of Nov. 29.
"If the older ones don't keep them in check, the young ones can mature too quickly," Huang said. "It's kind of the same thing as with people, you need the elders to check on the young, even if the young are physically able to go out on their own, it's not the best situation for anybody and now we know how it works."
Huang worked with a team that spanned from the United States , France and Canada to explain how the bees kept an exquisitely consistent balance between the ones that go out to collect nectar and pollen and defend the hive, and those that stay home and nurture the larvae. Huang had documented that this balance is controlled by the elder bees, those that typically spend the final one to three weeks of their five-week lifespan out in the field.
Experiments showed that if a significant number of forager bees didn't come home, the young nurse bees would mature ahead of schedule and head out to become foragers themselves. If the older bees were kept inside more than usual – as in an extended rain shower – fewer young bees would mature, but instead stick to brood care.
But the question was always, why? Pheromones are a chemical signal emitted by animals, insects and humans. Some, called releaser pheromones, are like a quick conversation that changes behavior, such as those that inspire sexual attraction.
Since releasers change behaviors immediately, they historically have been easier to identify. Hundreds of releaser pheromones have been chemically identified, whereas only four (including this new one) have been identified as primer pheromones. Primer pheromones are more difficult to work with because they imparts behavioral changes in a much longer time scale, taking days or sometimes weeks to see an effect.
Huang and his associates spent years futilely searching for a primer pheromone. After many dead ends, the group came upon a crucial difference between forager bees and nurse bees: Forager bees carry a mother load of a chemical called ethyl oleate in the abdominal reservoir in which they store nectar.
That, Huang said, led them to identify ethyl oleate as another kind of pheromone – called primer pheromone.
Forager bees load up on ethyl oleate when they're buzzing about gathering food, but don't digest it. The forager bees feed the chemical to the worker bees, and the ethyl oleate keeps them in a teenage state, sort of like being grounded to watch the younger siblings.
As the old bees die off, the chemical no longer is fed to nurse bees. Eliminate ethyl oleate and the bees mature into foragers.
"This provides clear insight into how a bee colony works," said Gene Robinson, G. William Arends professor of integrative biology and director of the neuroscience program at the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana. "What's most impressive about a honey bee colony is it is able to respond to changing conditions and alter its division of labor. When you think of that type of flexibility and adaptability, you immediately think, 'who's in charge'? People from many scientific and engineering endeavors are fascinated by localized decentralized decision making."
Huang said the system makes sense for the health of the hive. Young bees – those in the first two to three weeks of life – are biologically better suited for brood care, thanks to some boosted blood protein. Bees forced out too early aren't great navigators, and since foraging is dangerous, they risk dying before their time.
"Our idea has never been disproved, but the lack of mechanism drove me crazy," said Huang. "Now we know the specific chemical that controls the behavior of honey bees for the good of the whole population."
In addition to Huang and Robinson, the paper's authors are Isabelle Leoncini, Yves Le Conte, Didier Crauser, Guy Costagliola and Jean-Marc Bécard, of the National Institute of Agricultural Research in Avignon, France; Mianwei Wang, Erika Plettner and Keith Slessor of Simon Fraser University in Burnaby, Canada; and Amy Toth of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
The research was funded by the National Institute of Health. Huang's research also is supported by the Michigan Agricultural Experiment Station.

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Dojo Danger from Kihon is the kind of game you can't wait to be good at. One part strategy and one part arcade physics, the setup is a bit reminiscent of the SQUIDS series, putting you in control of a group of heroes who can be shot around the screen in order to defeat the bad guys. This time around, though, you get to play as a band of ninjas ridding the world of a zombie invasion by smacking into them and knocking them into spike traps!
The simple aim and fling gameplay of Dojo Danger means you'll be able to pick it up and start having fun right away. Your team of ninjas take turns making their moves before the enemy team makes their own moves. Tap and drag an active member to set direction and velocity, then release and watch them fly. It's a bit like a hands-on version of a billiards game, though instead of colored balls and safe little pockets it's just killer ninjas and dead zombies left and right.
Spicing things up beyond the normal fling-based gameplay, Dojo Danger features a massive variety of power-ups ( called boosters) you can unlock or purchase via the in-game store. Everything from healing powers to force fields and sniper-like laser aiming can be equipped and used during battle, and learning when to unleash these items is key to scoring victory and completing some of the more difficult mission challenges.
Analysis: Dojo Danger doesn't mess around when it comes to content. The game features over 100 levels, 30 unique characters to unlock, local multiplayer with a set of dedicated maps, 20 different power-ups, and plenty of things to buy in the shop. You even get to play as the zombies in the second campaign, exacting a bit of revenge on those do-gooding ninja folk.
Strategy is a big part of the Dojo experience, making the game much more than a blind arcade romp with gigantic eyeballs bouncing around. You have to think about how to attack, where to move, which power-ups to use, which parts of the environment to break and which to use as shielding. It's surprisingly difficult, but just the sort of difficulty that encourages you to keep playing until you get good at it.
The interface in Dojo Danger leaves a bit to be desired, as most of the menu screens and inventory areas feel like a clustered mess of icons and information. It's overwhelming at first, but once you get into the finer details of the game, you'll actually put some of these extras to use. Don't be frightened by scary mystery icons!
A nice premise with balanced gameplay that walks the line between crazy action and thoughtful tactics. Dojo Danger is filled with content and has a lot of replay value, making it an easy escape from the humdrum of your average workday.
NOTE: This game was played and reviewed on the iPad 3. Game was available in the North American market at the time of publication, but may not be available in other territories. Please see individual app market pages for purchasing info.


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On July 25, Najibullah Zazi, a lanky man in his mid-twenties, walked into the Beauty Supply Warehouse in Aurora, Colorado, a suburb of Denver. The visit was captured on a store video camera. Wearing a baseball cap and pushing a shopping cart, Zazi appeared to be just another suburban guy.
Of course, not many suburban guys buy six bottles of Clairoxide hair bleach, as Zazi did on this shopping trip--or return a month later to buy a dozen bottles of "Ms. K Liquid," a peroxide-based product. Aware that these were hardly the typical purchases of a heavily bearded, dark-haired young man, Zazi--who was born in Afghanistan and spent part of his childhood in Pakistan before moving to the United States at the age of 14--kibitzed easily with the counter staff, joking that he had to buy such large quantities of hair products because he "had a lot of girlfriends."
In fact, the government believes that Zazi, a onetime coffee-cart operator on Wall Street and shuttle-van driver at the Denver airport, was planning what could have been the deadliest terrorist attack in the United States since September 11. Prior to his arrest last month, the FBI discovered pages of handwritten notes on his laptop detailing how to turn common, store-bought chemicals into bombs. If proven guilty, Zazi would be the first genuine Al Qaeda recruit discovered in the United States in the past few years.
The novel details of the case were sobering. Few Americans, after all, were expecting to be terrorized by an Al Qaeda agent wielding hair dye. But it was perhaps the least surprising fact about Zazi that was arguably the most consequential: where he is said to have trained.
In August 2008, prosecutors allege, Zazi traveled to Pakistan's tribal regions and studied explosives with Al Qaeda members. If that story sounds familiar, it should: Nearly every major jihadist plot against Western targets in the last two decades somehow leads back to Afghanistan or Pakistan. The first World Trade Center bombing in 1993 was masterminded by Ramzi Yousef, who had trained in an Al Qaeda camp on the Afghanistan-Pakistan border. Ahmed Ressam, who plotted to blow up LAX airport in 1999, was trained in Al Qaeda's Khaldan camp in Afghanistan. Key operatives in the suicide attacks on two U.S. embassies in Africa in 1998 and the USS Cole in 2000 trained in Afghanistan; so did all 19 September 11 hijackers. The leader of the 2002 Bali attack that killed more than 200 people, mostly Western tourists, was a veteran of the Afghan camps. The ringleader of the 2005 London subway bombing was trained by Al Qaeda in Pakistan. The British plotters who planned to blow up passenger planes leaving Heathrow in the summer of 2006 were taking direction from Pakistan; a July 25, 2006, e-mail from their Al Qaeda handler in that country, Rashid Rauf, urged them to "get a move on." If that attack had succeeded, as many as 1,500 would have died. The three men who, in 2007, were planning to attack Ramstein Air Base, a U.S. facility in Germany, had trained in Pakistan's tribal regions.
And yet, as President Obama weighs whether to send more troops to Afghanistan, the connection between the region and Al Qaeda has suddenly become a matter of hot dispute in Washington. We are told that September 11 was as much a product of plotting in Hamburg as in Afghanistan; that Al Qaeda and the Taliban are quite distinct groups, and that we can therefore defeat the former while tolerating the latter; that flushing jihadists out of one failing state will merely cause them to pop up in another anarchic corner of the globe; that, in the age of the Internet, denying terrorists a physical safe haven isn't all it's cracked up to be.
These arguments point toward one conclusion: The effort to secure Afghanistan is not a matter of vital U.S. interest. But those who make this case could not be more mistaken. Afghanistan and the areas of Pakistan that border it have always been the epicenter of the war on jihadist terrorism--and, at least for the foreseeable future, they will continue to be. Though it may be tempting to think otherwise, we cannot defeat Al Qaeda without securing Afghanistan.
A young Osama bin Laden first arrived in the region around 1980 to wage jihad against the Soviets; he would spend most of his adult life in Afghanistan and Pakistan. Al Qaeda leaders have, since the '80s, developed deep relationships with key Taliban commanders based along the Afghanistan-Pakistan border, such as Gulbuddin Hekmatyar and members of the Haqqani family. Bin Laden's deputy, Ayman Al Zawahiri, has even married into a local tribe.
It is true that, before September 11, some Taliban leaders opposed bin Laden's presence in Afghanistan on the grounds that it was interfering with their quest for international recognition. And it is also true that Taliban foot soldiers today are fighting for any number of reasons--ranging from cash payments, to tribal opposition to the government, to a hatred of foreigners.
But, in recent years, Taliban leaders have drawn especially close to Al Qaeda. (There are basically two branches of the Taliban--Pakistani and Afghan--but both are currently headquartered in Pakistan, and they are quite a bit more interwoven than is commonly thought.) Today, at the leadership level, the Taliban and Al Qaeda function more or less as a single entity. The signs of this are everywhere. For instance, IED attacks in Afghanistan have increased dramatically since 2004. What happened? As a Taliban member told Sami Yousafzai and Ron Moreau of Newsweek, "The Arabs taught us how to make an IED by mixing nitrate fertilizer and diesel fuel and how to pack plastic explosives and to connect them to detonators and remote-control devices like mobile phones. We learned how to do this blindfolded so we could safely plant IEDs in the dark." Another explained that "Arab and Iraqi mujahedin began visiting us, transferring the latest IED technology and suicide-bomber tactics they had learned in the Iraqi resistance." Small numbers of Al Qaeda instructors embedded with much larger Taliban units have functioned something like U.S. Special Forces do--as trainers and force multipliers.
Meanwhile, the Taliban, like Al Qaeda, has tried to attack the West. According to Spanish prosecutors, the late and unlamented leader of the Pakistani Taliban, Baitullah Mehsud, dispatched suicide bombers on a botched mission to Barcelona in January 2008. Pakistani Taliban spokesman Maulvi Omar confirmed this in August during a videotaped interview in which he said that those bombers "were under pledge to Baitullah Mehsud." The point is not that the Taliban is going to mount a widespread campaign of terrorism in the West--it isn't--but simply that the Taliban's approach to combat has increasingly merged with Al Qaeda's.
The Taliban has borrowed more than just violent techniques from bin Laden's group. The Pakistani Taliban has an active video-propaganda operation that mimics Al Qaeda's video wing. In fact, the output of the two is often interchangeable--indicating that Taliban and Al Qaeda operations are conducted jointly. Ben Venzke of IntelCenter, a government contractor that closely monitors jihadist propaganda, reports that "a growing number of Pakistani Taliban people are showing up in Al Qaeda productions."
One of the key leaders of the Afghan Taliban as it surged in strength in 2006 was Mullah Dadullah, a thuggish but effective commander who was quite upfront about his close links to Al Qaeda. "Osama bin Laden, thank God, is alive and in good health," he told CBS in December 2006. "We are in contact with his top aides and sharing plans and operations with each other." Dadullah would later claim that bin Laden himself had supervised a Taliban suicide operation targeting Dick Cheney during his visit to Afghanistan in February 2007.
This summer, Mustafa Abu Al Yazid, one of Al Qaeda's founders and a current member of its leadership council, described his group's rapport with the Taliban during an interview with Al Jazeera in Afghanistan. "We are on a good and strong relationship with them," he explained, "and we frequently meet them." He also said that his organization continues to regard Mullah Omar as the "Commander of the Faithful"--in effect acknowledging that the Taliban leader is Al Qaeda's religious guide, a position he has enjoyed for the past decade.
The admiration is apparently mutual. For around a year now, the Saudis have been facilitating backdoor negotiations between the Afghan government and more moderate elements of the Taliban. A senior Saudi official privy to those negotiations told me that Mullah Omar has never rejected Al Qaeda.
But wouldn't the Taliban change its tune if it returned to power? Wouldn't Mullah Omar and his allies become deterrable in the same way that leaders of most other states are deterrable--and realize it is in their interest to drop Al Qaeda? This idea has been advanced by, among others, Harvard professor Stephen Walt, who wrote in August: "While it is true that Mullah Omar gave Osama bin Laden a sanctuary both before and after 9/11, it is by no means clear that they would give him free rein to attack the United States again. … [I]f they were lucky enough to regain power, it is hard to believe they would give us a reason to come back in force."
It's impossible to know for sure. But the last time the Taliban controlled a state, it was not so interested in realpolitik; after September 11, the group made clear that it was prepared to lose everything (and it did) rather than betray bin Laden. Since then, the Taliban's leadership has grown more closely aligned with Al Qaeda's worldwide goals--not less. Today, the Taliban seems to view itself as the vanguard of a global movement that is waging God-sanctioned holy war against the infidels. Foreign policy realists want to gamble that this group, once back in power, will suddenly transform into an ultra-rational clique of Henry Kissingers. Anything could happen, I guess. But, given everything we know about the Taliban, is that really a wise wager to make?
Another common critique of the U.S. mission in Afghanistan is that there are numerous potential safe havens in the world; if Al Qaeda were facing defeat in Afghanistan, wouldn't it simply relocate to a more permissive venue? Those who raise this point are essentially talking about two things: on the one hand, the prospect of Al Qaeda moving somewhere far away like Somalia or Yemen; on the other hand, the reality that, no matter what we do to stabilize Afghanistan, its neighbor Pakistan will always be off-limits to American invasion and therefore available as a haven for Al Qaeda.
The point about Somalia and Yemen is unconvincing. Jihadists based there have shown no ability to hit targets anywhere but in their immediate neighborhoods. Many years after September 11, there is scant evidence that any senior Al Qaeda leaders have relocated to either place. For its part, Somalia is probably too anarchic, and possibly too African as well, for the largely middle-class Arab membership of Al Qaeda. In theory, of course, it's always possible that Al Qaeda could pick up and move elsewhere. But, with the exception of a few years in the 1990s, Al Qaeda has now been based in Afghanistan and Pakistan for a generation. This is the region where its leaders feel comfortable, where they have put down roots. If they didn't leave even after the United States conquered Afghanistan in late 2001, it seems unlikely that they will in the future.
The point about Pakistan serving as a safe haven is a bit more complicated. After all, what good does it do to secure Afghanistan when Al Qaeda and the Taliban are headquartered in Pakistan? Actually, plenty. "Defending Afghanistan will not eradicate a terror network in Pakistan," explains Georgetown professor Bruce Hoffman. "But failing to defend Afghanistan will almost certainly give Al Qaeda new momentum and the greater freedom of action that an expanded geographical ambit will facilitate."
There is historical precedent for Hoffman's warning. Al Qaeda was founded in Pakistan in 1988, and many of the Taliban's leaders and foot soldiers emerged out of Pakistani madrassas and refugee camps. The political vacuum in Afghanistan during the 1990s allowed these militants to expand into the country. The result, clearly, was a much stronger Al Qaeda.
The final argument against the centrality of Afghanistan has to do with the Internet. Former Army captain Andrew Exum asserted a few months ago (in a TNR Online article) that current U.S. strategy "betrays an obsession with physical space at the expense of virtual space." It is certainly true that terrorists have used the Web to communicate and, quite adeptly, for propaganda. But there is no evidence that any terrorist attack anywhere has been successfully operationalized or coordinated mainly through the Internet. I can say this with some degree of certainty because I have asked scores of counterterrorism analysts at the FBI and CIA whether a terrorist attack has ever been coordinated over the Internet--and all have drawn a blank. It is also worth recalling that the most lethal terrorist attack in history was directed from Afghanistan under the Taliban, a country with--forget the Internet--almost no phone system and little electricity.
The Web, it turns out, is of limited use for training terrorists. Take hydrogen-peroxide-based bombs, which have become something of a signature for Al Qaeda in recent years--figuring prominently in the 2005 London subway bombings, the thwarted plot to bring down seven passenger planes in 2006, the failed plan to bomb Ramstein Air Base a year later, and, now, the Zazi case. Two years ago, I spent a day at an abandoned rock quarry in the placid English county of Somerset filming a documentary about homemade bombs. My host was Dr. Sidney Alford, a leading explosives engineer with the air of the "Q" character from James Bond movies. He was conducting a demonstration to show just how effective peroxide-based bombs are--and also how difficult they are to construct correctly.
Alford concentrated some hair bleach to a high strength, combining it with an organic material--in this case, black pepper, just as the London subway bombers had done. It was a difficult process, not something that could be picked up from just sitting down in front of a computer screen. "The real skill is getting the peroxide mixture or hair bleach to the right strength," Alford explained, a process that took hours of careful preparation to ensure the proper ratios. Indeed, when amateurs try to use similar techniques, it can end messily. In 2006 in Texas City, Matthew Rugo and his roommate Curtis Jetton, both 21, were making this type of explosive when it blew up, killing Rugo, injuring Jetton, and gutting the apartment in which they were experimenting.
But the benefits of a physical safe haven go well beyond the ability to properly train bomb-makers. A flavor of life in an Al Qaeda training camp is provided by Shadi Abdallah, a Jordanian who attended the group's Al Farouq camp in Afghanistan before being arrested in Germany in 2002. Here was the account he gave to German interrogators:
After the basic training it was possible to receive special training in an area of special talent and/or interest. … Possible areas included: tactical training in mountain, urban or desert warfare; anti-aircraft combat on rocket grenade launchers; fighting against armored targets, i.e. tanks; terrorist attacks and assassinations. … The first subject in which we were trained was the use of firearms. The second subject included correct behavior in outside terrain: camouflage, forms of movement, deception. In the third subject they taught us how to orient ourselves outside. The fourth and last subject was the use of explosives. The arms training lasted three weeks; all other subjects involved a week of training each.
The trainees who emerge from these camps forge bonds of deep trust through communal living and shared privation. The idea that this can be replicated over the Internet is absurd. Just as the U.S. military does not train its soldiers over the Internet, nor do effective terrorist groups.
Al Qaeda's leaders are themselves keenly aware of the importance of maintaining a safe haven. The very words Al Qaeda mean "the base" in Arabic; and, as bin Laden explained in an interview with Al Jazeera in 2001, the name is not a reference to some kind of abstract foundation but, rather, to a physical spot for training: "Abu Ubaidah Al Banjshiri [an early military commander of Al Qaeda] created a military base to train the young men to fight. … So this place was called 'The Base,' as in a training base, and the name grew from this."
But it isn't just a safe haven that Al Qaeda wants; it is a state. As Zawahiri explained shortly after September 11 in his autobiographical Knights Under the Prophet's Banner, "Confronting the enemies of Islam, and launching jihad against them require a Muslim authority, established on a Muslim land that raises the banner of jihad and rallies the Muslims around it. Without achieving this goal our actions will mean nothing." No wonder Al Qaeda remains so committed to Afghanistan--and so deeply invested in helping the Taliban succeed.
Of course, the centrality of Afghanistan to the war on terrorism is separate from the matter of whether we can actually secure the country. But, while Afghanistan will not be transformed into a stable country easily or quickly, we should take heart from the fact that the Afghan people want us to try. Most polls since the fall of the Taliban have found that a majority of Afghans hold a favorable view of the international presence in their country. Nationwide surveys conducted earlier this year showed that 62 percent of Afghans view the United States favorably and 63 percent support the U.S. military. By contrast, the Taliban's favorable ratings are consistently below 10 percent. In counterinsurgency theory, the center of gravity of the conflict is the population. The fact that the Afghan people remain both overwhelmingly opposed to the Taliban and also quite supportive of us--even after all of the mistakes we have made over the past eight years--should tell us that securing the country is not an impossible task.
The flawed election of Hamid Karzai and the pervasive corruption of his government, to be sure, raise a serious question connected to another key aspect of counterinsurgency doctrine: Is there a legitimate government to support? But Afghans, who have not had much functional government in their lives, actually want something much simpler than that: They want security. That is why many of them at first embraced the Taliban in the mid-1990s--because it at least delivered this paramount public good. In the short term, it is probably impossible to significantly reform the Afghan government. But security is something that international forces can provide. And, once there is security, perhaps over the long term there will be openings for political change as well.
For years, we in the United States have known about Afghanistan only in the context of war. And so, it has become difficult for us to believe that things there could ever be any other way. But not so long ago, during the mid-twentieth century, Afghanistan was a country at peace with itself and its neighbors. It can be a peaceful nation again. And, if America is to keep Al Qaeda at bay, it must be.
Peter Bergen is a senior fellow at the New America Foundation and the author of The Osama bin Laden I Know.


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Morning comments from Kings defenseman Drew Doughty…
Additional notes and quotes from the 2013 Western Conference Final can be found at the links below. We'll also have morning comments from the LA Kings up in the next hour.
Game 5 morning skate – comments from Darryl Sutter
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Friday quotes – Kings looking ahead to Game 5 tomorrow
Post-Game 4 – Dustin Brown isn't talking like a guy who thinks it's over
Sutter talks Kings 3-2 loss in Game 4 vs Chicago
Comments from Blackhawks' locker room after Game 4 win
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CCC's origins go back to 1952 when three talented young entrepreneurs, the late Kamel Abdul-Rahman, the late Hasib Sabbagh, and the late Said Khoury, joined forces to create one of the first Arab construction companies.
After decades of growth, CCC continues to practice the same style of management incorporated at its founding, a style based on mutual trust with clients, ease of communication, and smooth collaboration across locations and departments. Since the company's humble beginnings, the CCC Group has expanded to include several subsidiaries, augmenting CCC's regional and international status. Today, CCC leads the industry in the adoption of new technology to improve construction efficiency and enhance project controls.
To learn more about CCC, please browse a more detailed company Introduction, meet our Key Personnel, explore our Offices & Projects around the world, learn some Company Facts & Statistics, find our Group members, and see our many Partners with whom we have successfully collaborated during the past half-century in the construction industry.
We are a leading diversified company carrying out construction, engineering, procurement, development and investment activities internationally. We are committed to providing reliable, amicable, and professional service to our valuable clients, and to be supportive of local businesses and social activities, being friendly to the environment as well as being proactive in the socio-economic environments within which we operate. Our appreciation of our client's interests, evidenced by meeting their requirements and ensuring high-quality work, is the prime directive of our management.
Our growth and profitability are maintained through innovation, technical enhancement, and adaptability to all our markets. Our profitability is directed towards sustaining growth and providing satisfactory returns to our shareholders. Our commitment to growth is firmly linked to our commitment to our employees' continuous development and rewarding careers. We are also devoted to our employee's safety and health, job security, and welfare. Our strength emanates from our distinct culture, strong and close relationships with our clients, employees' competence and loyalty, entrepreneurial and flexible management, capability, dynamism, focus on quality and safety, and commercial acumen.


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Sometimes you need to find login information. Looking at just the logins on an instance will not allow you to find how a user is connecting. A login maybe nested in an Active Directory group or a login locally to the instance.
SQL server has various commands to provide "HELP". They can be used to look up or find characteristics of all sorts things like information about users, databases, indexing and much more. This post will look at sys.xp_logininfo and sys.helplogins. SQL 2014 and SQL 2016 have new procedure sys.sp_helpntgroup to further examine rights.
A good practice is to create specific AD groups and add and remove logins from those groups. You standardize the login's security and access. It also makes it easier to remove access.
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text: The Blair Garner Show BLAIR GARNER _The Blair Garner Show (Monday – Friday 12:00am-5:00am) Discovered by a local radio executive in his hometown of Canyon, Texas, Blair Garner has been on the radio waves since age 17. Working on local radio stations all through college, Garner quickly climbed the ranks as his voice caught the ear of program directors from many major markets. He quickly found himself working for legendary stations in Washington, D.C., New York City, Houston and Los Angeles. It was in the early 1990's, though, that Garner found his niche – late-night radio. He found that the demand for third-shift disc jockeys was high across the country and set out to fix that problem. Garner planned for two long years before After MidNite ever hit the airwaves. It quickly became a fast-growing syndicated country radio show with over 100 affiliates picking it up in the first year. After waking up America as part of America's Morning Show for three years, Blair is back to his niche – late-night radio with the Blair Garner Show.Garner credits his drive and success to the unwavering support from his parents growing up. "Every day they would tell me to 'work hard and be kind,'" says Garner. "and even today, when I tuck my kids in at night, I say the same to them. That's how important I think it is." With over 30 years in the business Blair has definitely done those two things. As proof, he has been hailed three times from the Academy of Country Music as their "National Radio Personality of the Year." He's also been nominated for the prestigious Marconi Award in broadcasting and not to mention the invaluable adoration of country music's biggest stars. In 2013, he was inducted to the National Radio Hall of Fame.Follow The Blair Garner Show on Facebook.


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If you were to come across some of Tea Makipaa's work without realising it was art, it might well give you a shock. Sinking houses and burning cars are just some of the ways in which the Finnish-born artist confronts the prospect of impending ecological disaster.
Working across installation, photography, video, and sculpture, Makipaa tackles everything from global consumer culture, to the relationship between nature and technology. "Spending my childhood in Finland in the 1970s and 1980s, we were introduced to these problems through education and public discussion," she says.
Atlantis (created along with Halldor Ulfarsson), which sees a small cabin tilted precariously to one side, and placed in the middle of a lake or river at European destinations such as Budapest and Reykjavik, is a particularly arresting sight. It is usually anchored in one place and kept afloat with the help of pontoons. As well as making out the soft light coming from the windows, passers-by would also be able to distinguish the sounds of a normal family life being emitted from the house, the "occupants" seemingly unaware of their fate.
So, has anyone ever raised the alarm after seeing one of her pieces out of context? "My method is that I try to compress reality," she insists. "Therefore confusion is welcome."
Taken from "Finnish-born artist Tea Makipaa confronts the prospect of ecological disaster" by Gillian Orr, The Independent, Friday, 30 May 2014


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Wing Commander 4 DVD Patch Updated
gulikoza's program to allow Wing Commander 4 DVD to run without the dxr hardware addon board has been updated. Parts of the patch have been completely rewritten with DirectShow fixes, support for specific system configurations and different compatibility levels. You can grab the 43 k pack here. Unzip the files to your WC4 DVD installation directory and run the configuration link if necessary. Don't forget to turn on Windows 98 compatibility mode in the Properties tab of the WC4 executable. If you have Windows 2000 or encounter other problems, additional optional patches may be necessary from gulikoza's website.I'm really excited about the new dxmci version, I almost rewrote the whole thing. There's a new configuration dialog that allows you to set how DShow is treated in case you have problems. There are 5 levels - lower level means there will be a shorter delay when loading videos (but that of course will depend on your computer speed). The configuration is stored inside the dll itself, so there's no ini files or messing with the registry therefore no uninstall required. Configuration dialog can be found by clicking on the link file also in the archive or alternatively you can type 'rundll32 dxmci.dll,configuration' to get to it.


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Following a strong opening weekend for Texas Chainsaw 3D, Millennium Films has made plans to develop another sequel, Texas Chainsaw 4. Deadline says the project will shoot later this year in Louisiana.
Texas Chainsaw 3D, which hit theaters January 4, continues the story of Tobe Hooper's 1974 original. Directed by John Luessenhop, the film has already grossed more than $22 million.
The title Texas Chainsaw 4 is a bit perplexing, however, as the project would represent the eighth film in the overall franchise and, theoretically, only the third film to follow the "continuity" of Texas Chainsaw 3D.
Carl Mazzocone will produce with Hooper, Mark Burg, Avi Lerner, Trevor Short, John Thompson, Danny Dimbort, Lati Grobman and Christa Campbell executive producing.
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Sweet & Sassy Anthology: Hidden Identities Readers will be delighted with nine sweet, contemporary romance novelettes in Sweet & Sassy: Hidden Identities. In this charming anthology, you will fall in love again and again. THE BEST OF ME by Paige Timothy Becky is a cancer survivor who has been blogging about her journey. She's shocked to find that Josh, her one-time love and now-famous oncologist, is the main speaker at the symposium she's been asked to attend. Has fate given them a second chance at a future together, or just a shot at miserably ever after? SECOND-HAND HEARTS by Jo Noelle When Elena sees Chase for the first time, his turquoise eyes and tousled blond hair convince her that she might believe in insta-love. Just in time, her brain takes over, reminding her that her business is in trouble, making the future uncertain—not a good time for love. But being with Chase is as easy as following her heart, until she finds he has a secret big enough to break it. FIRST LOVE, SECOND CHOICE by Lindzee Armstrong When wedding planner Keslee gets asked on a date by her long-lost high school crush, Bryce, everything should be perfect. But Bryce mistakes Keslee for her deceased twin sister, Jadyn. And she doesn't correct him. Now they're unexpectedly working together. Keslee knows the charade can't last much longer, and fears she'll lose Bryce forever when she tells him the truth. HACKED by Stephanie Connelley Worlton NSA data analyst Samantha Perry never being an introverted computer geek could get dangerous until she digs a little too deep into a greedy blackhat's business, forcing her to change her identity and relocate. As She risks everything to try to close the case, but may end up putting a nail in her own casket. And if she doesn't, Seth, her hot new neighbor, just might. TO LOVE AND PROTECT by Ruth Roberts First Son Daxon Hayward has refused a secret service detail since the day his father was elected President. This time the threat against Daxon is very real, and his father plants an undercover agent to protect him, Lorelei Davis who is capable and beautiful. She's received her assignment: Protect the First Son, don't let him know she is an agent, and don't fall in love. CLOSING TIME by Candice N. Toone Chef Will Morrison can't help himself after watching Kelsey sit alone at a table waiting for a blind date. When he steps in to save her from being stood up, he expects to exchange dull first-date pleasantries, but finds himself drawn in by her quick wit and spunk. Will hears himself confirming plans for a second date only to realize that she still believes he's someone else. SINK OR SWIM by Laura D. Bastian Shelly can't believe she's fallen for another cheater. The last few weeks at the gym swimming next to Brandon had almost convinced her she could date again. Brandon's excited to be back home with a career that can finally hold a candle to his twin brother's success. When Shelly suddenly turns cold, Brandon can't help wondering if it has something to do with his brother. WRITE AND WRONG by Kaye P. Clark Jon Patterson is burned out. After publishing a series of blockbuster novels under his pen name, he's hit a brick wall. He escapes to a rural town in Idaho where he meets Abby, the local librarian. She ignites his imagination and quickens his heart. Without the pressure of his pen name, Jon is free to be himself. But will he lose Abby when she learns his secret? UNDERCOVER LOVER by James C. Duckett Agent Johnny Anderson is struggling with an investigation that could make or break his career. However, it's love at first sight when beautiful and witty Hannah moves into the neighborhood. Will Johnny lose Hannah when she finds out his cover story is a façade? As things get hotter between them, his love for her might endanger her life.
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Remember When Sugarland Performed With Bon Jovi?
Sugarland singer Jennifer Nettles and Bon Jovi collaborated on a No. 1 hit, but the two groups also performed a whole set of songs together during a TV taping in 2005.
The pop-country duo and the classic rock band got together at New York's Hammerstein Ballroom in August of 2005 to film an episode of CMT Crossroads for the show's fourth season. At that time Sugarland were one of the fastest-rising acts in country music after the runaway success of their debut album, Twice the Speed of Life.
They joined with the New Jersey rock legends for a performance that included Sugarland hits "Baby Girl," "Something More" and "Just Might (Make Me Believe)," as well as Bon Jovi classics "Livin' on a Prayer," "Wanted Dead or Alive," "It's My Life" and "Have a Nice Day."
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The episode, which premiered on CMT on Sept. 16, 2005, also featured the live debut of a song titled "Who Says You Can't Go Home," which Bon Jovi later released to country radio as a duet featuring Nettles. The song was the second single from the group's 2006 album Have a Nice Day, reaching No. 1 on Billboard's Hot Country Songs chart and No. 23 on the mainstream Billboard Hot 100.
The success of the song helped set Sugarland up for a wildly successful sophomore album, 2006's Enjoy the Ride, which scored No. 1 hits with "Settlin'" and "Want To," while "Stay" reached No. 2 and won Grammy awards for Best Country Performance by a Duo or Group With Vocal and Best Country Song.
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In 2010, American voters foolishly aided and abetted the Republicans by giving them control of Congress.
We now enter a very dangerous period in the lead up to the 2012 presidential election.
If Obama is not re-elected, and people don't work towards returning workable majorities in the House and the Senate to the Democrats, then the country only continues its decline, and all will be lost.
It may be the end of a two century great social experiment unequaled in human history.
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Included in the cuts is a 61% reduction in the proposed $1.2 billion in new drug war funding, a 50% reduction in the $150 million proposed for new Federal prisons, a 50% reduction in the $100 million proposed to militarize the border, a 50% reduction in the $50 million proposed to snoop on your Internet activities.
Not all spending is progressive. Most of the proposed cuts are awful, but some of them we could and should get behind.
And how much other spending on very anti-progressive initiatives wasn't touched by the haphazard Collins-Nelson back-of-the-napkin spending reduction strategy?
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Here's what Scott Pelley of "60 Minutes" didn't tell you: there's a promising local effort to help the people of Wilmington -- and there are a few things you can do to help their plan become a reality without getting up from your computer.
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The transcript is here. Did any of you watch it? I just saw a clip on the local news and his face was so shiny. I guess the first thing he discontinued after the election is his makeup artist. He needs powder.
As for content, he proposed a new economic stimulus plan. A new report is out that the U.S. lost 240,000 jobs in October and unemployment is at 6.5%, its highest since 1994.
More than 10 million people are now jobless, actively seeking work but unable to find it, a number that has spiked by 2.8 million over the past year.
President Bush also had a statement today, telling people to be patient, relief will take time.
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Stocks fell again today as recession fear set in.
The Dow Jones industrial average fell more than 700 points, giving back nearly all its record gain from Monday.
The Dow closed down 7.9 percent, or 733 points, at 8,578. That follows a loss of 77 points yesterday, which nearly wipes out Monday's 936-point gain. The Standard & Poor's 500-stock index was off 9 percent, with a 90-point decline, and the tech-heavy Nasdaq was down 8.5 percent, losing 151 points.
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Accelerating Innovation Through Integration: Rackspace Partners with MuleSoft
Organizations rely on hundreds of cloud and on-premise applications, tools and databases — and not surprisingly, integrating them is complex and time consuming, making it one of the biggest business and technology challenges they face today. Yet how a company integrates its applications and data to deliver superior customer experiences, business agility and business results can represent one of their key differentiators. In order to meet the growing need for secure and reliable integration services, integration platforms that can be delivered as a service are proliferating, as they allow users to develop integration flows that connect applications in the cloud or on-premises and deploy them without installing or managing any hardware or middleware. That's why Rackspace is thrilled to announce our new partnership with MuleSoft, an industry leader in enterprise integration platform-as-a-service (iPaaS). Together, we can help customers accelerate application and data integration connected through APIs, on-premises or in the cloud. Deploying the Mulesoft Anypoint Platform as a managed service helps organizations build integrated, efficient application networks while removing the operational burden from their IT teams. Anypoint Platform serves as the connective tissue that enables disparate technologies to work efficiently together, allowing for the transformation necessary to stay ahead of the competition in today's digital world. Application networks speed up app launch and modification cycles, making it easier to secure and manage access, and ultimately enable companies to do more — and faster — with less. Combining this technology with the deep implementation expertise of RelationEdge, a Rackspace company, and Rackspace's broad portfolio of as-a-service offerings means we can build exactly the technology stack you need to unlock new revenue channels, improve customer experiences, drive innovation and deliver stronger business results. "With the explosion of disparate technologies today, connecting them all quickly and efficiently is the key to gaining a competitive edge. Through its partnership with MuleSoft, Rackspace is enabling its customers to create a dynamic application network to achieve their goals and accelerate their pace of business," said Brent Hayward, senior vice president of global channels and alliances, MuleSoft. "We're pleased to welcome Rackspace into MuleSoft's partner ecosystem and look forward to working together to deliver significant business impact to our mutual customers." "As companies embrace a multi-cloud application environment, integration platform-as-a-service solutions will be needed to deliver the great customer experiences people are demanding," said Matt Stoyka, Vice President of Professional Services and Applications at Rackspace. "Together with MuleSoft, Rackspace will be able to better serve our customers, providing them with a long-term, dynamic and scalable integration strategy built for the future."
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Exgay and Orientation ChangeMinistries
This page is for those parents and friends who want to take a deeper look at orientation change ministries. Before I discuss this further I want to say up front that I understand there are people who are honestly working out their feelings in this area. Many gay folks pass through a period of time where they really do not want to face the fact that they have same gender attractions. This may be due to personal shame, the attitudes of the church toward them, negative attitudes of some in the world, and / or some other reasons. If you're loved one is not happy with having same gender attractions I pray that they will find peace through counseling, prayer, and/or the teachings of their church. I also pray that you will be a support to them and avoid some of the pitfalls I discuss below. Its important for your loved one to know that they are not a bad person for having these feelings even though they may think they are.
So let me further clarify some of the issues and concerns I have with exgay and orientation change ideologies here.
First of all, there can be a bit of confusion over what the term 'homosexual' means.
Homosexual describes those who are attracted romantically and sexually to the same gender. Some situations that look like homosexuality are actually what I might call 'pseudo-homosexuality'. In other words it is possible for there to be same gender closeness or intimacy that is not orientation driven. For example "situational homosexuality" can be found in same sex prisons where intense loneliness and the need for companionship may lead to same gender relationships between some folks who typically identify as straight. This is not the same as a same sex orientation. Additionally there may be some folks who have experienced sexual trauma that .. as a result .. have a real aversion to the opposite sex. In these types of circumstances some people may seek out intimacy from a same sex individual since a relationship with the opposite sex brings bad memories, distrust, and traumatic distress. This is not the same as a same sex orientation either. (If you have experienced this kind of trauma I hope you will seek counsel for it by a trained professional). There are also those who .. through lust / the desire for pleasure .. are experimenting sexually and crossing orientation lines. This also would not be the same sex orientation.
Again, homosexual describes those, who by their very nature, are attracted to the same sex, romantically and sexually. This would be a true, orientation based, same sex attraction.
Now before you get all comfortable with this lets take it a step further:
- There are folks in same sex prisons who are in same gender relationships because they are gay.
- There are folks that have experienced sexual trauma who are pursuing same gender relationships because they are gay.
- And there are folks experimenting with sexuality that are having same gender relationships / same gender sex because they are gay.
So it really is not possible for us to make assumptions about a person just because we hear some snippet of information. We need to accept what people say about themselves unless they say otherwise. We have no basis to decide that because there was sexual trauma in their life, or experimentation, or whatever, that they are not truly gay. Gay people go through these kinds of circumstances and they are still gay. Straight people go through these kinds of circumstances and they are still straight. Despite what you may have heard no one knows why people are gay.
Now if someone is unsure of their sexual identity and wants to seek counsel, I have no problem with that. Psychological counsel can be good and is nothing to be ashamed of. But it needs to be professional unbiased counsel. It cannot be shame based counsel where, depending on one's conclusion, the person is condemned or looked down on by a particular ideology or faith tradition.
Secondly, most exgay ministries start with the assumption that having same gender attractions is sinful in and of itself.
For example, here is a quote by Alan Chambers, the head of the group 'Exodus', an exgay ministry that closed its doors in the summer of 2013...
"So, yes, repentance for the homosexual person and anyone else for that matter is repenting of who they are: behaviors, identity and all. This is why I believe it is important to clarify that just living a celibate gay life is just as sinful as living a sexually promiscuous one. The sin is in identifying with anything that is contrary to Christ, which homosexuality clearly is."
This quote is from Alan's book: God's Grace and the Homosexual Next Door (pages 217-218) and clearly shows an agenda and attitude typical of exgay ministries. The only answer they give is to repent of a homosexual identity. Failure to do so is identified as sinful. Such a position creates an attitude of shame and fear in the person being counseled and gives no room for exploration of one's identity or feelings. It is not even good enough to identify as gay and then live a life of celibacy (the Side B approach). No, there is only one solution given. But how can any honesty exist in counseling such as this when one of the conclusions a person might come to is viewed as sinful, something to be ashamed of, and perhaps even condemned for? I will note that I see some indications that Alan may have changed his position on this since this book was published. But, if this is the case, he will need to make corrections or retractions to what he has written.
Let's substitute a different issue here. Let's say we were talking about someone who is depressed, bipolar, left handed, an extrovert or an introvert. How would it feel for that person if identifying as any of these things was instantly viewed as something that was deemed sinful or something to be ashamed of as a Christian? There is a real need in counseling for the person being counseled to be able to rest in the grace of God, knowing that God loves them whether they are depressed, bipolar, left handed, extrovert, introvert, or any other descriptor. I am not comparing homosexuality to a mental health condition here. But I am making the point that this kind of (exgay) belief system in counseling is not going to be helpful for an individual who is trying to sort out who they are and how they think and feel in terms of orientation. Surely, it is not a coincidence that many gay and lesbian people who have gone through this type of counseling have suffered from it. Their stories can be heard here and here. Regardless of how you interpret the bible in terms of Side A or Side B there is a real need for people to be able to rest in the grace of God, knowing that He loves them regardless of whether they identify as gay or straight, But exgay ministries do not give that assurance. It is either their way or the highway.
Thirdly (as already partly covered above) most exgay ministries do not even allow a person to identify as gay.
The complaint raised is that by identifying as gay a person is somehow putting Christ second. The problem with this ideology is that the description of gay is merely a way for a person to describe themselves. It does not put Christ second anymore then identifying as white, male, female, and/or a particular nationality. Strangely .. we never hear this concern with regards to these or the hundreds of other descriptors / identifiers that people use everyday. And .. unfortunately .. the motivation for this may be shame-based which is not helpful.
Fourthly, it is quite common for exgay ministries to blur the line between a person's identity or attractions and their actions.
Many who are exgay define their life before their (alleged orientation) change as being full of sex addiction, orgies, and the like. Now for them, perhaps this was true. And if so we can certainly rejoice that they are no longer doing these types of things. But what is often not acknowledged by these same ministries is the fact that there are many gay and lesbian people out there who do not engage in these kinds of activities or addictions. So on top of shame for a person's identity, a stereotype is added that is derogatory. This is obviously not helpful.
And finally is common for exgay ministries to make the claim that "The opposite of homosexuality is holiness."
Now what in the world does that mean? Again, if we apply this phrase to the other things we mentioned we come up with this as the result … the opposite of depression is holiness... the opposite of bipolar is holiness; the opposite of being left handed is holiness or the opposite of being an introvert or an extrovert is holiness... and so forth. This obviously does not make any sense. It implies that folks that describe themselves in any of these ways cannot be holy. But holiness is not dependent on orientation or feelings or different states of mind or personality attributes. Holiness comes as a result of our complete submission to God. Ultimately, God is the one who makes us holy (Lev 20:7-8). So the stigma that folks who are gay cannot be holy is not biblical. Many gay and lesbian people that I talk with (Side A or Side B) have a much greater depth of Christ-like character and faith than exgay ministries would ever admit. In fact, many have a depth of faith equivalent to or greater than some straight Christian folks I know. (See this link for more on holiness)
I realize that there are some who claim success through the counseling of exgay ministries... Perhaps some of those who claim success were working through sexual trauma or addictions or some other issue listed above under pseudo-homosexuality. Or perhaps they have simply decided to call their same sex attractions something else. But many who at one time claimed to have been changed have reversed their position in later years having come to the place where they can no longer hide who they are (see link). They were living a life of denial and fear which was hardly freeing at all and hardly the life the Jesus would want them to live. Again, this is the fruit of shame based / fear based counseling that does not allow the person the grace and security in Christ to discover who they are. Professional organizations also strongly disagree with orientation change counseling. I review their position(s) on this page.
How much easier it could have been for these folks if they could have skipped the years of self-denial and self condemnation. How much better it could have been to have come to terms with who they are early on, accept themselves as God had already accepted them, and be able to honestly move on in the life God was calling them to. If this had occurred, much heartache and sadness could have been avoided.
As Christians we walk by faith and perfect love casts out fear (I John 4:17-19) We can approach God's throne with confidence and boldness knowing that there is nothing about us that is hidden from His sight (Heb 4:16). How delightful and peaceful to be able to be completely at rest in Him. This is something that many of us who are straight experience with ease. What a shame that these ministries have adopted a philosophy that deprives gay and lesbian people of this peace that passes understanding. We need to dispense with cookie cutter Christianity which tries to fit everyone into the same mold and instead let God be the potter, crafting each of us uniquely after His own perfect will.
How much easier it could have been for these folks if they could have skipped the years of self-denial and self condemnation. How much better it could have been to have come to terms with who they are early on, accept themselves as God had already accepted them, and be able to honestly move on in the life God was calling them to. If this had occurred, much heartache and sadness could have been avoided.
As Christians we walk by faith and perfect love casts out fear (I John 4:17-19) We can approach God's throne with confidence and boldness knowing that there is nothing about us that is hidden from His sight (Heb 4:16). How delightful and peaceful to be able to be completely at rest in Him. This is something that many of us who are straight experience with ease. What a shame that these ministries have adopted a philosophy that deprives gay and lesbian people of this peace that passes understanding. We need to dispense with cookie cutter Christianity which tries to fit everyone into the same mold and instead let God be the potter, crafting each of us uniquely after His own perfect will.


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An Issaquah woman has entered a modified guilty plea to 3 felony counts of using false claims or proof in an insurance claim.
Linda Ann Rose, 67, is scheduled for sentencing in King Couny Superior Court November 19th.
On Nov. 13, 2004, Rose was involved in a parking lot collision. An SUV backed out of a parking stall and struck Rose's rented Ford Mustang. Photos of both vehicles show minimal damage, but Rose claimed that she suffered severe back injuries as a result of the collision. In 2007, her attorney demanded $656,874 from the SUV owner's insurer, and subsequently filed a personal injury lawsuit in the case.
Investigators from the Washington Insurance Commissioner Mike Kreidler's Special Investigations Unit subsequently concluded that Rose knowingly provided altered medical records to her attorney, and that she had had an injured back "well before" the accident.


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The operational career of the F-111 came to an end on 3 December 2010 at RAAF Amberley, as a crew in an F-111C (serial number A8-125) of the Royal Australian Air Force touched down for the aircraft's last landing. The RAAF had operated the F-111 since 1973. A8-125 was the first F-111C to land at Amberley that year.
Two months shy of twenty-seven years since it was first flown, the F-117 was retired in ceremonies on 21 April 2008 at Holloman AFB, New Mexico, where it had been operated by the 49th Fighter Wing since 1992, and then on 22 April in Palmdale, California, for the people who had designed and built it at the then-Lockheed facilities there.
Many of the photos in this collection were taken specifically for a special cockpit issue of Code One that was published as the No. 1 issue in 2007.
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Boyd's theories are now used as a yardstick for measuring and comparing the maneuvering capability of all modern fighters. He planted the seeds for the Lightweight Fighter, cultivated those seeds, and helped harvest them in 1972 while playing a major role in defining the requirements that were put into the request for proposal for the Lightweight Fighter. The proposal led directly to the YF-16 and YF-17 technology demonstration prototypes. His influences can be seen in world-class fighters such as the F-15, F-16, and F/A-18.
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This week I finished my final freshman orientation. It's a wonderful two hours of pretending like you don't hate everyone you meet. It usually involves me pointing to a picture of me with my platinum blonde hair saying, "I'm the one who looks like a nice lesbian." The last one was particularly awful. None of the incoming freshman are prettier then me, so that's a relief. But, everyone kept complimenting the president of my organization. She looked amazing. The hair. The dress. The make up. But, I was there????????? They were telling her she was pretty, before they even said a word to me. I was the after thought. ME. |
I was telling one girl about my problems and she said to me, "Now you know what it's like for me. People always compliment you first." And, I said to her, "Yes, but your used to it." Anyway, I'm really upset. I'm old. I need to lose three pounds and my entire life is falling apart and school isn't even starting for another week. |


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While playing Borderlands I have noticed that whenever there is a boss mission you generally have to go through an entire Sahara desert to reach him in his hideout. Along the way you have to kill everyone present. This is insane. The problem:
1) There is no option to buy more ammo once you are near the boss, so either you have to switch to a different gun or come back to start all the way to buy the ammo. Using a different gun isn't an efficient method because I'll be wasting the proficiency gain which I could use on my preferred weapon.
2) When I tried coming back all the way to the beginning, the game respawns all the monsters, so I had to kill them ALL while coming back. The reward chests, however, do not respawn.
3) I purchased ammo and started running towards the boss again but to my surprise the stupid monsters had respawned yet again.
4) This time I kept rushing forward but just near the boss I was surrounded and died. I went back to the starting point again.
I'm finding this extremely frustrating. How do I proceed in this area without resorting to cheats? The mission is Sledge: Battle For Badlands.
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Staying Well with Chiropractic Care
Bottom Line: Back pain, neck pain, and headaches. Maybe that's how you discovered chiropractic care. The research supporting chiropractic adjustments as the top choice to reduce pain and increase function for those body signals is overwhelming. But, what's even more exciting is the research showcasing how chiropractic adjustments may be able to do much more. Emerging research has begun to show that chiropractic care can impact your immune system, helping it function at a higher level. In other words, chiropractic care may not only be able to help you get well, but it also may be able to help you stay well!
Why it Matters: Recent research has shown that chiropractic adjustments can reduce the production of inflammatory mediators. With less inflammatory mediators you feel better, with less pain. Why does it matter? Well, inflammation, and the creation of inflammatory mediators is part of your immune system. The autonomic nervous system is made up of two divisions- the parasympathetic and sympathetic nervous systems. The parasympathetic nervous system is in charge of rest and recovery. Your sympathetic nervous system is responsible for the fight or flight response. When your sympathetic nervous system is activated, your immune system isn't able to rest and recover very well. Recently, new research indicated that chiropractic adjustments can reduce sympathetic nerve activity. When your stress response is lowered, your immune system can better fight off sickness.
- Adjustments can reduce inflammatory mediators, which can provide pain relief
- Research has shown adjustments to decrease our sympathetic nerve activity
- Relaxation of neck tension after an adjustment is common, helping you feel better
Next Steps: Many people start chiropractic care to get their life back from pain. But, preliminary research has shown that adjustments may have an impact on your immune function as well. Patients frequently tell us that since the start of their chiropractic care they get sick less often, and it looks as though the research is starting to prove it. If you have a friend or loved one who seems to get sick quite often, take this study and share it with them. It may be their first step towards a healthier immune system!
Stay Healthy,
Dr. Kim
Don't miss our next Workshop: Boost Your Immune System in 21 Days! Tuesday, February 27th from 6:30-7:30 PM at our office! RSVP on Eventbrite now to save your seat ~ Hurry, it's filling up!
Science Source:
Enhanced phagocytic cell respiratory burst induced by spinal manipulation: potential role of substance P. Journal of Manipulative and Physiological Therapeutics. September 1991
Spinal Manipulative Therapy Reduces Inflammatory Cytokines but Not Substance P Production in Normal Subjects. January 2006
Interleukin 2-regulated in vitro antibody production following a single spinal manipulative treatment in normal subjects. Chiropractic & Osteopathy. September 2010
Glucose Metabolic Changes in the Brain and Muscles of Patients with Nonspecific Neck Pain Treated by Spinal Manipulation Therapy. Evidence-Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine. 2017


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2012 was not a kind year for photographers. It opened with the death of Eve Arnold, Magnum's first woman photographer, whose work, as Robert Capa had remarked, was sandwiched between "Marlene Dietrich's legs and the bitter lives of migratory potato pickers". She captured secret worlds of women: private lives of the world's most famous women, lesbian weddings, nunneries, reproductive clinics in South Africa, and harems in Dubai and the Arab Emirates in a major series on Muslim women.
Elsewhere, Magnum lost another of its great female photographers; Martine Franck was perhaps better remembered as the wife of the late Henri Cartier-Bresson, whose legacy she kept alive through retrospectives, books, and interviews. She herself was an accomplished photojournalist, working for Life, Vu, and other weeklies. All in all, 2012 was not a great year for female photographers. Fashion lost Lilian Bassman; post-modernism lost Jan Groover. Counterculture protests lost Bettye Lane.
Three giants of Indian photography passed away this year. Sunil Janah alerted the world to the Bengal famine in the 1940s with his photos, while Homai Vyarawalla, India's first and the most famous female photojournalist, documented the throes of the subcontinent's independence a few years later. On the other hand, Prabuddha Dasgupta symbolized the face of modern India with his fashion photography.
Other departed talents were prodigious too. Antony Barrington-Brown took the iconic pictures of Watson and Crick with their DNA double helix model. The Argentine photojournalist Horacio Coppola was best known for his photos that accompanied Borges' autobiography. Photos Sergio Larrain took in Paris, which revealed scenes of a couple only upon processing, became the basis for Julio Cortázar's story, "Las Babas del Diablo", inspiration behind Michelangelo Antonioni's Blowup. Mary Beith snuck into a animal testing lab.
Harry W. Randall, Jr. and Erazm Ciołek, respectively the chief photographers of the International Brigade during the Spanish Civil War and of the Solidarity movement in Poland, died in 2012. Elsewhere in Poland died Wilhelm Brasse, the POW who became the 'Portraitist' of Auschwitz, who took about 40,000 to 50,000 "identity pictures" there from 1940 until 1945.
As we mark a bloody war in Syria that saw the deaths of Marie Colvin and photojournalist Remi Ochlik, we remember the passing of three great photographers who saw the 60s unfold and then unravel. Stan Sterns took an iconic photo at John Kennedy's funeral. Malcolm Browne saw a pivotal moment that same year a hemisphere away as a Buddhist monk immolated himself in Vietnam. AP's famed Saigon team thinned out in 2012, with the deaths of Browne, the great Horst Faas, George Esper (correspondent), Roy Essoyan (writer), and finally its bureau chief Edwin Q. White in November.
There will be no more photos from Jim McCrary, who created over 300 album covers, including Tapestry, where barefoot Carole King posed with her cat; Ken Regan, the private photojournalist of rock 'n' roll stars; Chris Marker, the French photographer better-known for La jetée; Alf Kumalo, a chronicler of South African apartheid; Jack E. Boucher, the Chief Photographer for the Historic American Buildings Survey; Sir Simon Marsden, the tireless lensman of allegedly haunted houses in Europe; and Robert R McElroy who documented the Happenings art movement in New York. They are all gone, as was Beverley Goodway, the grand old photographer behind Page 3s.
Also gone are Geoffrey Shakerley, Billie Love, Andrew MacNaughtan, Yasuhiro Ishimoto, Masahisa Fukase, Leta Peer, Enzo Sellerio, Cris Alexander, Lee Balterman, Eric Watson, Neville Coleman, Charles G. Hall, Hans Arvid Hammarskiöld, Walt Zeboski, Frank Barsotti, Pedro E. Guerrero, Cornel Lucas, and Arnaud Maggs.
And finally, there were two standouts. Death came to Neil Armstrong, who took photographs that were literally out of this world; and to Lucky Diamond, the Maltese who holds the current Guinness Record for most photographed dog with celebrities. Together they told the stories large and little of photography.


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