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Title: Welcome to Forever
Series: Hero's Welcome #1
Author: Annie Rains
Publisher: Loveswept
Genre: Contemporary Romance
Release Date: December 1, 2015
If you love Kristan Higgins, Susan Mallery, or Jill Shalvis, you won't want to miss the Hero's Welcome military romance series! Welcome to Forever introduces a small coastal town where America's best and brightest risk everything for love.
In Seaside, North Carolina, there are two kinds of people: Marines, and kids of Marines. Then there's Kat Chandler. Recently hired as the principal of Seaside Elementary, Kat makes it her mission to turn the school into a place of peace and calm. That's not going to be easy with hard-liner parents like Micah Peterson storming in, telling her how to do her job—and then kissing her with those gorgeous lips of his and turning her brain into mush.
As a Marine Sergeant and a single dad, Micah Peterson has just two priorities: doing his job better than anyone else, and getting the absolute best for his son, Ben. But when he meets Ben's beautiful new principal, a different yearning shifts into focus. He wants her, sure, but he's also moved by the connection Kat forges with her students. So after learning that she refuses to date Marines, Micah sets two more objectives: convincing Kat to give him a chance . . . and then holding on to her forever.
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Annie Rains is a contemporary romance author who writes small town love stories set in fictional towns on the coast of North Carolina. Raised in one of America's largest military communities, Annie often features heroes who fight for their countries, while also fighting for a place to call home and a good woman to love. When Annie isn't writing, she's spending time with her husband and three children, or reading a book by one of her favorite authors.
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Today is Sunday. I read that a local tourist company offers flights with hangliders or something like an ultra light airplane. I though this would be a nice way of exploring the city with a bird's eye and so I initially planned to do so today. However, I called these folks and they told me it would not be possible today. But next weekend. So I decided to see the notorious 'killing fields', which are located about 15 kilometers outside Phnom Penh.
I decided to take the moto. After only about 2 kilometers the very urban surrounding of the center (where I life) faded. The rather small urban area appears to be surrounded be a (slim) belt of industrial plants and a likewise slim belt of urban slums. The landscape outside this very restricted urban (metropolitan?) region has a very rural touch to it and appears to be dominated by rice fields. I saw a few people, particularly women, laboring hard in the heat of the noon with very simple tools and instruments. Some children follow their cows along the street. Many children where playing under the roofs of simple shacks. Others where lying sluggishly in hammocks. Much of what happens in the private sphere back home happens here on the street and it is fascinating to observe the rather laid back activity of these rural folks.
The quality of the road and the bad shape of the shock absorbers made me feel the difference between urban and rural very direct. Whereas the urban area has a number of modern streets (used in a rather chaotic and seemingly inefficient way, I may be wrong), the part of the countryside I was passing does not. It is a very dusty type of an unpaved road with deep holes in it. It has not been raining the last three days and I wonder how this 'road' looks like after a heavy shiver of monsoon-like rain.
Despite their name, the killing fields appear to be a very peace- and beautiful place not only at the first glance.
A tall tower with a colorful roof is located in the middle of a generous area covered with fertile vegetation and surrounded by rice fields. Some dogs sleep in the shadow of some bushes and some chickens scrape in the ground and cows graze close by. There are some holes in the grounds and signs tell that this hole and that hole is a mass grave. However, it is covered with grass and does not look too horrible.
There are many kids around who ask for money in a rather aggressive way. I gave some of them a reasonable amount, but constantly new kids emerged on the scene. Some of them, not older than 8, told me they would go only after I gave them 2 dollar. I felt very blackmailed and refused.
The group of children on the following photo was less militant. Maybe because the girls dominated this group. They asked for 100 Riel and I gave them 500, because they were five. However, they tried to persuade me that they are eight. But I insisted that they are five. I did not manage to convince the girl to the right, who is still doing calculations.
The content of this aesthetic tower offers a strong contrast to the surrounding peaceful scenery: carefully sorted along the age of the victims, thousands of sculls are presented in a monstrous cupboard which rises up to the roof of the building.
Tour guides stressed that these people where killed mostly with axes, sticks and swords, because the murders did not want to waste bullets.
Although it was Sunday, the place really was not very busy. I thought this is really horrible and it would be a good act to bury this stuff to symbol some reconciliation with this bloody past.
I spent about two hours and left again with the moto. I wanted to the Olympic Stadium, but surprisingly it was closed. So I went home and had some lunch at a restaurant in my street, which is run by Tamils from Sri Lanka. We engaged in a interesting discussion. One of them was has a French citizenship and his family lives in Germany. He was the first guy I met in this country who spoke fluently German. A Tamil from Sri Lanka who lives in Paris.
It was five when I left and I decided to read some literature, write some emails and these lines.
Continue reading The Killing Fields

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A few weeks ago, based upon a tip from a reader I posted about an item in the Denver Police Department Operation Manual which essentially instructed officers not to arrest state legislators for drunk driving. See Legislators Vote Themselves Exempt From DUI Arrrest.
205.07. Violations by Colorado Legislators.
(4) In the absence of felony violations, should an officer have reason to believe a legislator is driving under the influence, the officer may cite for a violation which caused an accident or was the reason for a traffic stop. For the safety and welfare of the public and the legislator, the officer will arrange for other transportation for the legislator and his/her vehicle will be parked and locked
This was based upon a little-known provision of the state constitution which gave limited immunity from arrest for misdemeanors to legislators.
Apparently, someone read the post. In yesterday's news:
DUI Loophole: State Legislators Exempt
Denver, CO. May 4 — It's a case of preferential treatment embedded in both the Colorado Constitution and the Denver Police Department Operations Manual: Colorado legislators are immune from being arrested for Driving Under the Influence.
A CBS4 investigation found the unusual law and DPD regulation, codes that took the state director for Mothers Against Drunk Driving by surprise.
"So I don't see why we should treat legislators different than normal people," said spokeswoman Emily Tompkins. "So it's time to clean that up. It absolutely sends the wrong message that those writing the laws we have to stand by are exempt from them."
Section 205.07 of the Denver Police Operations Manual guides officers on "Violations by Colorado Legislators." It says that if a lawmaker is driving under the influence and there is an accident with serious injuries or a fatality, the legislator should be arrested and processed for felony DUI.
In other words, the officer can cite the legislator for whatever led to the stop, but not for an actual DUI, and the legislator should then be given a ride.
"But no one should be driving impaired and no one should be exempt from the laws that are there to protect the public," Tompkins said.
Eric Brown, a spokesman for Mayor John Hickenlooper's office, told CBS4 that at the request of the Denver Police Department, the City Attorney's Office recently reviewed this section of the police operations manual but recommended the thrust of the section not be changed…
"Who will guard the guardians?"
The post Legislator Immunity From DUI Challenged appeared first on Law Offices of Taylor and Taylor - DUI Central.


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The D-Day legacy of 'Hobo', the wizard of tank warfare
Written by The Minstry of Defence
General Hobart, known affectionately as 'Hobo', is still regarded as one of greatest armoured strategists and trainers of his time.
He was famous in his day for providing the Allies with the weird and wonderful variants of military vehicles that would prove vital for those forces landing in occupied France on D-Day. But it nearly didn't happen. Hobart had enjoyed a long military career and was a veteran of the First World War; but the greatest fight of his career was with his military seniors who had differing opinions on the true potential of tank warfare.
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Hide AdWhen Hobart first joined the British Army in 1902 the tank was still a weapon of the future. It wouldn't see combat until 1916. After the First World War Hobart transferred from the Royal Engineers to the Royal Tank Corps. It was in this role that he began to realise the devastating potential the tank could have in future land battles. After proving his ability in establishing new manoeuvres and putting theory into practice, in 1934 he took command of the first permanent Tank Brigade in the British Army.
However, Hobart would have to fight for resources for his Brigade, and to ensure his voice was heard above those orthodox military minds who had reservations over his concepts.
Despite the continued scepticism in other parts of the military Hobart carried on developing the concepts and capabilities of armoured vehicles in fighting at night, exploiting the introduction of radio and co-operating with air power.
Major General Sir Percy Hobart, commander of 79th Armoured Division.© IWM
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Hide AdBy the late 1930s Hobart, who never suffered fools gladly, found himself isolated and after a series of disagreements with fellow officers he was sacked by his commander in the Middle East and forced to leave the Army in 1939. Following the German success in 1940, Hobart was subject of an article entitled "We Have Wasted Brains!".
The piece penned by the renowned military expert, Basil Liddell-Hart, was critical of Britain's military high command for not making the most of Hobart, a man who had predicted the devastating effects of the German's armoured warfare tactics known as Blitzkrieg and had long sought to pioneer them in the British Army.
Churchill, alarmed by the article, was determined Hobart should be taken back into the Army immediately and given command of one of the new armoured divisions who would protect Britain from the German forces gathering on the French coast.
With Hobart back in the Army and the war slowly turning in the Allies favour, high command began to plan for the invasion of occupied Europe; a gigantic undertaking that would require innovative military minds more than ever. In early 1943 Hobart was asked to train a specialised armoured unit that would become the 79th (Experimental) Armoured Division, and at its height Hobart would have nearly 2000 vehicles under his command.
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Hide AdThe Nazis had heavily reinforced Europe's coastline and a variety of new tanks and armoured vehicles were needed to negotiate obstacles and clear defences. Pillboxes, mine fields, embankments, rivers and ditches would need to be overcome and Hobart was tasked to develop the equipment and tactics to perform these tasks. To do so he improved on existing designs and created entirely new vehicles.
Sherman Crab Mark II minesweeping flail tank, one of Hobart's 'funnies', used to clear already identified minefields. © IWM (H 38079)
He was happy to take advice from anyone who could help, from a Corporal to the best scientific brains in the country. The odd look of many of the resulting vehicles used by the 79th Armoured Division led them to be known as 'Hobart's Funnies'. These peculiar looking vehicles proved their worth in supporting ground troops in heavily defended territory and helped the invasion become a resounding success.
By the end of the Second World War Hobart had gained the respect he was due, was knighted and awarded the Legion of Merit. He died in 1957, aged 71 with his legacy intact. Today tanks and their supporting variants remain an integral part of the modern battlefield. Sixty years on from Hobart's death Salisbury Plain, the area where his experimental 1st Tank Brigade once exercised, often plays host to the Army's foremost tactical innovators.
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Well, yesterday, I had a slight misunderstanding with my friends and ended going to the correct show on the wrong day. Around 6:00 PM I started heading down to the mouse house for my first encounter with Static-x since ALL of the members left the band, for presumably greener pastures. Well at least Tony Campos has since he is the primary bassist for both Prong, Ministry, and Soulfly while retaining his rightful spot as the lead singer of Asesino.
I had seen several pictures of the opening bands and I was really unsure of how much or if I would like to listen to any of them. The opening bands were Davey Suicide, Gemini Syndrome, and 9 Electric. I think Prong was originally slated to be on the show, but they ended up not being a part of the lineup.
I don't really have too much to say on the opening bands so I'll just go through it pretty quick. Davey Suicide was the first on the list of the night. They weren't too bad. They kind of look and sound like a modern day Dope. They were fairly entertaining, but they didn't work the crowd over too well. Gemini Syndrom was up next. Their lead singer definitely had a distinct look. Kind of like an albino with a huge beard and a poofy shirt. These guys were a tad on the boring side, for me at least. Snoozer!! You can't please everybody though.
9 Electric turned out to be a pretty damn good band. Wayne always has a knack for picking great opening bands. These guys really remind me of Static-X circa 1999, though I didn't see them live until 2001. They worked the crowd very well. Their songs were incredibly catchy and they had some interesting images projected onto the backdrop behind them. I would definitely pay some bucks to see these guys headline.
And now for the Main Event. Static-X with the Static and minus the X. To say that I didn't enjoy myself would be a lie. I was singing along to all my old favorites. He even opened the show up with a song I haven't seen them do for several years, Wisconsin Death Trip. The song lineup was fairly similar to how it was most every time I'd seen them. Here is a rough estimate of the songs they did play, in no particular order:
- Wisconsin Death Trip
- Bled For Days
- Push It
- Dirt House
- The Only
- This is Not
- I'm With Stupid
- Love Dump
- Get to the Gone
- Black and White
- Cold
- Cannibal
- Just in Case
- Destroyer
- Stingwray
- Assassins of Youth
Wow. I guess I was able to find the names of all the songs that were played. Now on to more of the critical issues I had. As some of my friends know, I've been staunchly against this type of reform and pretty much against Wayne Static in general. It seems to me that he pushed everybody else out and when He couldn't do the job on his own, he decided to use the name as a bit of leverage. I've seen them EASILY sell out the House of Blues in Anaheim, Hollywood, and Vegas, as well as the Key Club and the Roxy in Hollywood and The Observatory/The Galaxy Theater in Santa Ana. This wasn't the case as I had plenty of arm room and nobody standing behind me on the upper level at the House of Blues Anaheim.
About the performance, Wayne was spot on like he usually is. His quality was never in question. They had a new guy on bass and backup vocals that was doing an OK job at simulating Tony. Tony just can't be replicated though. The guy on lead guitar was not too bad either. The problem I had was with How they interacted together. It didn't really seem like they had any chemistry together like the old guys did. And it didn't seem like their heart was all in it. Its very understandable though because they didn't write any of the music or didn't have a hand in the creative process at all. So I really can't blame these guys for looking like glamourized session workers. Other than that and the fact that Terra was on stage wayyy too often, it was a fairly good show. And I think I'll go see them on the next run.
I have some pictures that I'll try to add as soon as I can find a way of getting them off my phone. And check out some of the concerts that are in your neck of the woods on the concert calendar page Here.


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Fri, Mar 01
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Michelle's Birthday Paint Party
This party is for Michelle and her friends to celebrate her big day!
Time & Location
Mar 01, 2019, 6:00 PM – 9:00 PM
Hyde Graphics, 1575 OH-511, Ashland, OH 44805, USA
About The Event
Yay! It is time celebrate Michelle's 30th birthday!!!!!
This is how it works, everyone gets to pick their own design and style of their board.
The possibilities are endless, you can say, can I get this wording in this style font,
you can send a phrase and say "help me", send a screenshot of something you found, anything!
You do not have to find a picture of exactly what you want, you can say, I like this font but I want it to say this.
Price List
12x24 Smooth Board $35+tax
12x24 w/Frame $40+tax
18x24 Smooth Board $45+tax
18x24 Pallet Style $45+tax
18x24 w/Frame $52+tax
12x36 Smooth Board $45+tax
12x36 w/Frame $52+tax
***Custom sizes are no problem, just message me before you fill out the registration.
Not creative? No problem, I have lots of samples to choose from, I suggest scrolling through pictures from previous parties and that might give you inspiration! I will send you back a screenshot of your stencil before I make it to make sure that it is exactly what you want. Please have your ideas to me by February 26th so I can get your stencil ready!
You will pick paint colors when you get here so you have time to think about that!
The parties tend to take 2 1/2-3 hours, you are more than welcome to bring drinks and snacks. BYOB if you'd like.
The parties have been so much fun, I aim to please so don't hesitate to get ahold of me if you have questions or need any help. The quickest way to get a response is PM Hyde Graphics on Facebook, call me (419)651-7110, or email me at firstname.lastname@example.com
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You will need:
1 (3 ounce) package lemon Jell-O
1 cup boiling water
8 ounces cream cheese, light
1 cup granulated sugar
4 Tablespoons lemon juice ( less if you don't want to much lemon)
1 can Carnation Evaporated milk, well chilled
Graham crackers, crushed
How to make it :
Dissolve Jell-O in boiling water. Cool until slightly thickened.
Beat cream cheese, sugar and lemon juice with mixer until smooth. Add thickened Jell-O and beat well.
In a separate bowl, beat the Carnation milk until fluffy. Add cream cheese/Jell-O mixture and beat well with mixer.
ine bottom of 9 x 13-pan with crushed Graham crackers.
Spread filling over and top with more crushed Graham crackers. Chill.
Serves : 8 (10SP)


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City Journal is a publication of the Manhattan Institute for Policy Research (MI), a leading think tank. Its readership spans from coast to coast, with leading outlets and public officials looking to the magazine as a regular source of policy guidance.
Since urban policy encompasses almost all domestic policy questions, as well as the largest issues of our culture and society, the magazine views its canvas as very broad indeed.
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Glazed tiles are coated with a liquid glass, which is then baked into the surface of the clay. The glaze provides an unlimited array of colors and designs as well as protects the tile from staining. A glazed tile is already stain proof, so there is no purpose to putting on a sealer. However, the grout joint between the tiles is usually very porous and generally made of a cement-based material. Therefore, grout joints typically will need to be sealed and maintained properly to prevent stains and discoloration. Impregnating sealers such as All-Purpose Grout Sealer go into the grout joint and protect against water and oil-based stains. Most industry professionals recognize that grout is best protected with a fluorochemical-based sealer, such as Impregnator Pro or All-Purpose Grout Sealer. If the grout joint is epoxy, a sealer is not necessary.
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Permanent Multimedia Exhibition of the life and work of Arnold Schönbergs
2000 –2006
The exhibition provides reproductions of documents, photographs, music and text manuscripts from Schönberg's archive by means of twelve stations. An audio-guide (available in 7 languages) is enhanced by musical examples, historical recordings of Arnold Schönberg's voice, and detailed explanations of the major themes of his life and work. Schönberg's complete musical œuvre can be heard by means of a CD-Jukebox, and display cases with facsimiles of autographs, as well as computer stations, give insight into the multi-faceted legacy of Arnold Schönberg.
The audio-guide is available in: German, English, French, Italian, Japanese, Spanish, Portuguese, and Serbo-Croatian.


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The scientific proof comes in the form of a recent study1 from University of the Sunshine Coast, Australia. The study followed a group of older exercisers committed to two BODYFLOW™ new yoga classes per week, and a control group that continued their usual levels of physical activity. At the end of 12 weeks those who regularly got their zen on saw significant improvements in balance and gait speed.
'' Gait speed is a great indicator of vitality as we age as it involves the coordination of many of the body's systems. ''
-Bryce Hastings, Les Mills Head of Research
The vitality-boosting benefits are not the only perk of BODYFLOW. A further study from the United Kingdom's Roehampton University proved that this combination of yoga, tai chi and Pilates can help reduce body fat, increase back strength, improve flexibility and ease anxiety2.
This highlights what yogis have known for decades – if you want youthful energy and vitality, bending and stretching is a great way to get it.
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Downward Dog Yoga Pose
The shape you ultimately want to achieve when you do the downward dog is an A-frame structure. Your wrists and your heels should be the lowest point, and your tailbone should be the highest point. Start with your feet as wide as the mat, or roughly hip-width apart. Your hands should be shoulder distance apart and your head should be between your arms. Push your hips up and back. Spread your fingers to create a nice long line from the fingertips up the arms, along the spine and down the legs. Breathe in to lift hips up and exhale as you ground heels down – hold the pose for 5 to 10 deep breaths.
Warrior 2 Yoga Pose
Take your feet wide so your wrists are stacked over your ankles. Turn your toes on your left foot to the left wall. Your right foot should face the front and your aim is to square your hips to the front. Bend your right knee and make sure it is stacked over your ankle, keeping your left leg straight. Raise your arms parallel to the floor and reach them actively out to the sides, shoulder blades wide, and palms down. Suck your belly in tightly and tuck your tailbone under. Turn the head to the left and look out over your fingers. Inhale as you bend your front knee and exhale, bringing even weight into both legs. Hold the pose for 5 to 10 breaths.
Modified Half Lotus Yoga Pose
From a seated position pick up one foot and cross it over the other placing the foot on the shin with a flexed foot to protect the ankle and knee. Make sure both hips are grounded in this pose. Take arms wide and draw your belly in towards the spine. Hinge from the hip and tip forward until you feel the stretch in the hip joints and glutes. Inhale to extend spine and exhale to come forward. Hold the pose for 5 to10 breaths.
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Double degree
Is one study programme not challenging enough, or are you having trouble choosing between two programmes? If so, a double study programme might be the solution.
Some faculties offer a special double Bachelor's programme, which takes into account the extra courses and exams you'll be facing.
Of course you can also choose to follow two separate Bachelor's programmes at the same time. But be aware that coordinating the two programmes is your own responsibility. Always check in advance which programmes can realistically be combined and draw up a clear plan of how you will successfully complete both programmes.


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In 2017, the rapper Logic named a song after a phone number.
LOGIC: (Singing) I've been on the low. I've been taking my time. I feel like I'm out of my mind. I feel like my life ain't mine. Who can relate?
SHAPIRO: That number was 1-800-273-8255, the digits for the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline. The song's narrator is talking to an operator on the hotline. The song hit No. 3 on the Billboard Hot 100. NPR Music's Stephen Thompson remembers it vividly.
STEPHEN THOMPSON, BYLINE: This song came out with this very blunt, very earnest message about suicide, and particularly preventing suicide - not just giving voice to suicidal ideation but providing something of a call to action around suicide.
JOHN DRAPER: The day of its release, we heard the song and saw the lyrics, and we thought this is amazing.
SHAPIRO: That's John Draper, executive director of the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline. After the song came out, he noticed more calls to the hotline. Researchers who study suicide and mental health also took notice, and Draper helped them analyze the call data for a study just published in the British Medical Journal.
DRAPER: Overall, we saw about a 26 to 27% increase in calls that year. Those surges were featured as, you know, being contributors. But the overall water level, so to speak, the overall volume, had risen, and largely due, we believe, to the song.
SHAPIRO: Surges in calls came after the song's release, and also after Logic performed at the 2017 MTV Video Music Awards and the 2018 Grammy Awards. This is an example of what's called the Papageno effect, when a piece of media changes a person's decision to die by suicide. The song's title functions as a PSA, and NPR's Stephen Thompson thinks it's an effective one.
THOMPSON: There's a difference between depicting suicide and depicting suicide prevention. It's not necessarily marinating in the mechanics of suicide so much as it is providing a thought process leading out of suicide.
LOGIC: (Singing) I finally want to be alive. I finally want to be alive. I don't want to die today.
THOMPSON: And then the call to action in the song is right there in its title.
SHAPIRO: That number, once again, is 1-800-273-8255. And if Logic releases a follow up to the song, it might have a much shorter title. Next July, the hotline changes to just 988.
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The most heated part of the fight between the Obama administration and religious groups over new rules that require most health plans to cover contraception actually has nothing to do with birth control. It has to do with abortion.
Specifically, do emergency contraceptives interfere with a fertilized egg and cause what some consider to be abortion?
"The Health and Human Services preventive services mandate forces businesses to provide the morning-after and the week-after pills in our health insurance plans," said David Green, founder and CEO of the arts and crafts chain Hobby Lobby, one of the firms suing over the requirements. "These abortion-causing drugs go against our faiths."
The morning-after pill he's referring to is sold under the brand name Plan B. The week-after pill, which actually only works for five days after unprotected sex, is called ella.
Both are classified by the Food and Drug Administration as contraceptives. Neither is the same as the abortion drug RU486, or Mifeprex. That pill isn't considered a contraceptive and isn't covered by the new insurance requirements.
The constant references to Plan B and ella as abortion-causing pills frustrates Susan Wood, a professor of health policy at George Washington University and a former assistant commissioner for women's health at the FDA.
"It is not only factually incorrect, it is downright misleading. These products are not abortifacients," she says. "And their only connection to abortion is that they can prevent the need for one."
That's not a universal medical opinion, however.
"It would be my preference that none of these products had any potential to cause abortion or post-fertilization effects — that would be my preference — but we don't know that," says Gene Rudd, senior vice president of the Christian Medical and Dental Associations and a practicing OB-GYN in Bristol, Tenn.
That's not really the case anymore.
For years, scientists knew the pills, particularly Plan B, were highly effective in preventing pregnancy after unprotected sex but weren't exactly sure how they managed that. "It wasn't really clear whether it worked before ovulation or after ovulation," says Wood.
Scientists did know the drug worked primarily by preventing ovulation. It stops an egg from being released from a woman's ovary and thus prevents any chance of fertilization and pregnancy. But they also thought the drug might make it more difficult for a fertilized egg to implant in a woman's uterus.
Technically, that's not an abortion, says Wood.
"We know that about half of fertilized eggs never stick around. They just pass out of the woman's body," she says. "An abortifacient is something that interrupts an established pregnancy."
But people like Rudd worry that even if what the drugs do is not technically abortion, it's still objectionable if it happens after fertilization.
But it turns out, at least when it comes to Plan B, there is now fairly definitive research that shows the only way it works is by preventing ovulation, and therefore, fertilization.
"We've learned a lot about how these drugs work," says Diana Blithe, a biochemist and contraceptive researcher at the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development. "I think it's time to revise our speculations about how things might work in view of data that show how things do work."
For example, says Blithe, a study published just last year led the International Federation of Gynecology and Obstetrics to declare that Plan B does not inhibit implantation. And some abortion opponents in the medical community are beginning to accept that conclusion.
"Up until recently I would not prescribe the Plan B product because we didn't have enough science to say it doesn't have a post-fertilization effect," says Rudd. "Now, I'm becoming — sitting on the fence with that."
Less, however, is known about ella, the other widely available emergency contraceptive. And that's where the controversy continues to rage.
"It kills embryos. And it kills embryos before they implant, and it kills embryos after they implant," says Donna Harrison, director of research and public policy for the American Association of Pro-Life Obstetricians and Gynecologists.
Harrison says the biggest problem with ella is that it's a chemical cousin of the abortion pill RU-486. "So at an equal dose of ella and RU-486, they cause equal actions," she says.
But NIH's Blithe, who worked to bring ella to market, says that's wrong. First of all, she says, a woman would never take ella and RU-486 in similar doses "unless they were trying to harm themselves."
But more importantly, while the drugs may be related, ella works much differently. "It's chemically similar [to RU-486], but it was designed to have stronger effects on the ovary and less effect on the endometrium," she says. RU-486 works in part by changing the lining of the uterus — the endometrium — to make it impossible for an early pregnancy to be sustained.
Blithe says studies have also shown that ella, like Plan B, doesn't prevent pregnancy if a woman has already ovulated. Women who took the drug after ovulation got pregnant at the same rate as those who took nothing at all. She says that strongly suggests it does not have any effect on blocking implantation.
Ella opponents aren't convinced. "To be as successful as they say it is, it would have to have post-fertilization effects," says Rudd.
But opposition seems to be waning in Europe.
Ella is now available in heavily Roman Catholic Italy, for example. And on Thursday, Germany's conference of bishops said both drugs are acceptable to give to rape victims in Catholic hospitals.
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An industrial installation, celebrating the classic trench coat.
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The Year I Left by Christine Brae
Christine Brae
Published by: Vesuvian Books
Publication date: August 20th 2019
Genres: Adult, Contemporary, Romance, Women's Fiction
"A thousand half loves must be forsaken to take one whole heart home."
Carin Frost doesn't understand what's happening to her. A confident businesswoman, wife, and mother, she begins to resent everything about her life. Nothing makes sense. Nothing makes her feel. Maybe it's the recent loss of her mother in a tragic accident. Or maybe she's just losing her mind.
Enter Matias Torres. As their new business partnership thrives, so does their friendship—and his interest in her. Carin is determined to keep her distance, until a work assignment sends them to Southeast Asia where a storm is brewing on the island. In the midst of the chaos, Matias asks her to do something unimaginable, exhilarating, BOLD. Carin knows the consequences could be dire, but it may be the only way to save herself.
An honest look at love and marriage and the frailties of the human heart, this is a story of a woman's loss of self and purpose and the journey she takes to find her way back.
Sometime in the late summer when the air began to tingle and the leaves started to fall, I opened my eyes one morning and my view of the world had changed.
Just like that. I can still see it in my head. The way I let it all unfold. It was a train wreck waiting to happen, and I let it.
I left for a business trip that morning with my house in total disarray. I had no good reason for refusing to take Charlie to his school bus, and despite having some time to change our dog's water bowl, I chose not to do it. There it lay, next to the unwashed food dish, crusted with the remains of last night's dinner. I figured Jack would get home from the gym and handle it all.
Piles of paper gathering dust on the floor and debit card receipts busting out of a little white box screamed for my attention. I ignored them. My home office, the place where I used to hide all day, was like a war zone.
And it wasn't like we had money issues. Paying our bills was the least of my worries. Jack had made a killing when his startup was bought out, and I was the head of client services at a global real-estate company.
I just stopped giving a damn. Nothing interested me. I was beset by indifference. I just couldn't keep up anymore. The sleepless nights, the exhaustion, the constant streaming in my head. Everything seemed so insignificant, so mundane. My successes, my accomplishments, they had lost all meaning.
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Christine Brae is a senior executive with a full time career, who thought she could write a book about her life and then run away as far as possible from it. She never imagined that her words would touch the hearts of so many women with the same story to tell. Christine has written six books since her first release in 2013. She is the author of The Light in the Wound and His Wounded Light (2013), Insipid (2014), In This Life (2016) and Eight Goodbyes (2018).
Her latest book, The Year I Left is scheduled for release in August, 2019.
When not listening to the voices in her head or spending late nights at the office, Christine can be seen shopping for shoes and purses, running a half marathon or spending time with her husband and three children in Chicago.
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YouTube founder Chad Hurley confirmed to the BBC that his team was working on a revenue-sharing mechanism that would "reward creativity".
The system would be rolled out in a couple of months, he said, and use a mixture of adverts, including short clips shown ahead of the actual film.
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"Dogs have a way of finding the people who need them, and filling an emptiness we didn't ever know we had." – Thom Jones
For many of us, our home is just a house unless there is something with four legs and a tail sharing the space with us. Our pets are not only cuddly and cute, they give us unconditional love. But it turns out our pets actually offer us more than "just" unconditional love; they seem to also have the ability to help our physical and mental well-being.
Research has found that the bond we share with our animals can do everything from improve our cardiovascular health to lower our cholesterol and decrease our blood pressure. Beyond these physical health benefits, our animal companions can help our mental and emotional life as well. Here are some ways your pet is better than medication.
Our Pets Teach Us Mindfulness
Have you ever just watched your dog or cat find a swath of sun as it streams into your house in the afternoon? They seem to luxuriate in the warmth and energy of the sun in those moments. Nothing else matters to them but enjoying the feeling of the sun on their body. Our pets can teach us how to be more mindful and enjoy every moment of our life if we let them. Studies have shown that mindful meditation, which simply means to be fully in the present moment, helps alleviate stress and anxiety.
Let your pets be an example and try and spend more time just "being" instead of "doing" so much.
Pets Relieve Stress
Let's face it, each of us faces our fair share of stress in life. But research has shown that our dogs and cats act as de-stressors. This is why a growing number of companies such as Atlantic Health System, Mars Inc., Amazon, and Etsy, to name a few, are allowing employees to bring their dog to work.
College students are a segment of the population that also feels a lot of stress. When the University of British Columbia brought therapy dogs on campus, allowing a group of 246 students to pet and cuddle them, the students reported their stress levels decreased significantly after the interaction.
Pets Offer Empathy
There are numerous accounts of war veterans who, when they experience pain and agitation, are comforted by their service dog who will run into the room, somehow sensing their need for empathy. Recent findings from the University of Vienna suggest that dogs can sense emotions and even differentiate between good and bad ones. There are numerous reports of cats living in nursing homes, sensing when someone is about to pass and going to lie on their bed.
The long and short of it is, when we are feeling tired, scared, sad and alone, our pets are there to remind us that we are not alone and that they love us very much. For those of you who have pets, hold them tight and show them your appreciation. For those of you that don't have pets, it may be time to take a trip to the local shelter.


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Children exposed to air pollution, such as wildfire smoke and car exhaust, for as little as one day may be doomed to higher rates of heart disease and other ailments in adulthood, according to a new Stanford-led study. The analysis, published in Nature Scientific Reports, is the first of its kind to investigate air pollution's effects at the single cell level and to simultaneously focus on both the cardiovascular and immune systems in children. It confirms previous research that bad air can alter gene regulation in a way that may impact long-term health – a finding that could change the way medical experts and parents think about the air children breathe, and inform clinical interventions for those exposed to chronic elevated air pollution.
"I think this is compelling enough for a pediatrician to say that we have evidence air pollution causes changes in the immune and cardiovascular system associated not only with asthma and respiratory diseases, as has been shown before," said study lead author Mary Prunicki, director of air pollution and health research at Stanford's Sean N. Parker Center for Allergy & Asthma Research. "It looks like even brief air pollution exposure can actually change the regulation and expression of children's genes and perhaps alter blood pressure, potentially laying the foundation for increased risk of disease later in life."
The researchers studied a predominantly Hispanic group of children ages 6-8 in Fresno, California, a city beset with some of the country's highest air pollution levels due to industrial agriculture and wildfires, among other sources. Using a combination of continuous daily pollutant concentrations measured at central air monitoring stations in Fresno, daily concentrations from periodic spatial sampling and meteorological and geophysical data, the study team estimated average air pollution exposures for 1 day, 1 week and 1, 3, 6 and 12 months prior to each participant visit. When combined with health and demographics questionnaires, blood pressure readings and blood samples, the data began to paint a troubling picture.
The researchers used a form of mass spectrometry to analyze immune system cells for the first time in a pollution study. The approach allowed for more sensitive measurements of up to 40 cell markers simultaneously, providing a more in-depth analysis of pollution exposure impacts than previously possible.
Among their findings: Exposure to fine particulate known as PM2.5, carbon monoxide and ozone over time is linked to increased methylation, an alteration of DNA molecules that can change their activity without changing their sequence. This change in gene expression may be passed down to future generations. The researchers also found that air pollution exposure correlates with an increase in monocytes, white blood cells that play a key role in the buildup of plaques in arteries, and could possibly predispose children to heart disease in adulthood. Future studies are needed to verify the long-term implications.
Hispanic children bear an unequal burden of health ailments, especially in California, where they are exposed to higher traffic-related pollution levels than non-Hispanic children. Among Hispanic adults, prevalence for uncontrolled hypertension is greater compared with other races and ethnicities in the U.S., making it all the more important to determine how air pollution will affect long-term health risks for Hispanic children.
Overall, respiratory diseases are killing more Americans each year, and rank as the second most common cause of deaths globally.
"This is everyone's problem," said study senior author Kari Nadeau, director of the Parker Center. "Nearly half of Americans and the vast majority of people around the world live in places with unhealthy air. Understanding and mitigating the impacts could save a lot of lives."
Nadeau is also the Naddisy Foundation Professor in Pediatric Food Allergy, Immunology, and Asthma, professor of medicine and of pediatrics and, by courtesy, of otolaryngology at the Stanford School of Medicine, and a senior fellow at the Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment. Co-authors of the study include Justin Lee, a graduate student in epidemiology and population health; Xiaoying Zhou, a research scientist at the Parker Center; Hesam Movassagh, a postdoctoral research fellow at the Parker Center during the research; Manisha Desai, a professor of biomedical informatics research and biomedical data science; and Joseph Wu, director of the Stanford Cardiovascular Institute and the Simon H. Stertzer, MD, Professor of Medicine and Radiology; and researchers from the University of Leuven; the University of California, Berkeley; the University of California, San Francisco; and Sonoma Technology.
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It may be time to change the benchmark for discussion of public health problems in the U.S.
For quite a while, the annual number of fatalities from auto accidents has been a kind of shorthand for health issues that are big and important.
Starting in 2009, though, suicides surpassed deaths from crashes. In 2010, there were about 38,000 suicides compared with about 35,000 deaths from motor vehicle crashes.
In a new analysis, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention zeroed in on suicide data for middle-aged people, 35-64, because that's where the increase in suicides has been the most dramatic. (Among younger and older people the rates didn't change much.)
The suicide rate for people 35-64 rose to 17.6 per 100,000 people in 2010 from 13.7 per 100,000 in 1999. That's an increase of 28 percent.
Why are the rates up so much?
The CDC researchers say that possible factors include the recent economic downturn, an increase in drug overdoses and a so-called cohort effect for baby boomers. As teens, baby boomers were more likely to commit suicide than teens of previous generations. It may be that the tendency followed them as they aged.
How people commit suicide has changed, too. Use of firearms and poison rose, but the biggest increase was for suffocation, mostly due to hanging.
"This increasing trend is particularly troubling because a large proportion of suicide attempts by suffocation result in death, suggesting a need for increased public awareness of suicide risk factors and research of potential suicide prevention strategies to reduce suffocation deaths," the CDC researchers wrote.
The findings appear in the latest issue of Morbidity & Mortality Weekly Report.
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Earlier this year at our Build conference, we previewed Microsoft Azure Quickstart Center designed to help you quickly start your projects in Azure with step-by-step guidance. Today at Ignite, we're excited to share enhancements to the Azure Quickstart Center experience helping you set up your Azure environment with best practices and guidance from Azure.
Let's take a look:
You can access Quickstart Center either from the All services menu under the General category, or simply by typing Quickstart in the global search.
Launching Quickstart Center from the global search box
Azure Quickstart Center offers you two options to get started:
- Create an Azure Service – You can learn as you build new workloads in Azure and quickly identify which service is best for your project.
- Set up your environment – You can configure your cloud services with recommended best practices to secure, monitor and control your Azure environment.
Start a new project
Microsoft Azure Quickstart Center helps you quickly identify which service is best to get started for your specific scenario. For instance, if you'd like to build a web application in Azure but don't know how to start or which services to choose from, Azure Quickstart Center helps you understand the options available for web apps, gives you a high-level architecture overview, explains any prerequisites and even provides the costs associated with these services.
You can get started with the following five most common scenarios:
- Web apps – Pick from simple web applications to container-based apps, or a DevOps projects with a CI/CD pipeline.
- Virtual Machines – Deploy your virtual machine (Linux or Windows), or start a migration from an on-premises virtual machine.
- Storage – Create file shares for hot or cold storage, backup a file server, or configure a disaster recovery strategy in Azure.
- Database – Host a database from a selection of database options (structured or non-structured) for transactional or analytical scenarios.
- Big data analytics – Build a big data analytics and AI project and enrich your app with cloud-powered cognitive services.
When you pick one of the options from these scenarios, it explains why you should use this option, what are the prerequisites, and even its cost. From here, you can simply click the Create button and Azure Quickstart Center will bring you to the create resource page.
Understand the options, prerequisites and cost
For this scenario, we picked a simple web app hosted on Azure. Note that the web apps may require other components as part of the project, such as a database. In that case, Azure Quickstart Center will offer you the option to create a database as well.
Azure Quickstart Center recommends related services
How to set up your Azure environment
After you've created your Azure services, it's a good idea to understand how to stay in control of your new environment. Azure Quickstart Center guides you through configuring governance for your Azure environment following Microsoft guidelines by covering the following governance topics:
- Managing access – Learn how to assign who gets access to what resources. Understand how to use role-based access control in Azure (RBAC) to provide fine-grained access management to your resources.
- Organizing resources – Understand best practices to manage resources by grouping and tagging them so you can easily identify which resource belongs to which project.
- Securing and enforcing compliance – Understand how to apply policies to enforce corporate standards, and how to use Azure Security Center to not only protect your environment from external attacks, but also apply security recommendations.
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ChunkVNC consists of three parts, InstantSupport, Repeater and Viewer.
UltraVNC SC is a mini (166k) UltraVNC Server that can be customized and preconfigured for download by a Customer. UltraVNC SC does not require installation and does not make use of the registry. The customer only have to download the little executable and Click to make a connection. The connection is initiated by the server, to allow easy access thru customers firewall.


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Un, duex, trois, quatre!
It's not secret that I love the band Phoenix, (they're the best) nor the fantastic paris based music blog La Blogotheque and their signature Les Concerts A Emporter, or Take-Away Shows. If you are not familiar, the basic premise is always the same, where French filmmaker Vincent Moon asks a band to play a short set, often consisting of just 2-3 songs, at an impromptu and outdoor location, usually accoutically, while he films the moment.
The Take-Away Shows are often really lovely and intimate, almost always with small surprises and little treats that can only happen with the unplanned & gentle collision of a band suddenly playing live in public spaces not typically made for such moments.
A perfect case in point are the most recent 4 songs on La Blogotheque featuring the French band Phoenix, (who sing just about exclusively in English), and are perhaps better known outside of their home country than withing their native France.
In this heart melting set of 4 songs for Take-Away Shows (or more rightly Les Concerts A Emporter), quite possibly my favorite band Phoenix performs 1901 at Trocedero Square, close to the Eiffel Tower, with lots of passersby simply stopping to get an ear and eyeful of the band. There's even a freshly married couple among the gathering crowd, and it simply couldn't be more romantic.
Phoenix then moves onto a crowded Parisian tour bus, taking seats at the back of the open upper deck and play 2 songs (Lisztomania & One Time Too Many) while the bus and it's happily surprised tourists take a ride through Paris streets. The final show is Long Distance Call, played beautifully under a stone bridge along the Seine, complete with a sweet echos from the pigeon encrusted columns of the bridge. My favorite band + my favorite city = I'm done for.
Basically, it's all awesome and you should watch 'em all. Click the images above or here to watch & listen as well as read a bit more about each performance. Phoenix!


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SAM JOHNSON VIETNAM ARCHIVE (FORMERLY THE TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY – THE VIETNAM CENTER AND ARCHIVE) Southwest Collections/Special Collections Library Monday-Friday 8:00 AM – 5:00 PM 2805 15th Street (15th Street
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Created in 1989, The Vietnam Center and Archive is home to the largest collection of Vietnam related material outside the U.S. National Archives. The Vietnam Center and Archive collects and preserves the documentary record of the Vietnam War, and supports and encourages research and education regarding all aspects of the American Vietnam Experience.
About the Vietnam Center
In May 1989, a group of Vietnam veterans from West Texas gathered at Texas Tech University to discuss what they might do, in a positive way, about their experiences in Vietnam. That group's immediate decision was to form a Vietnam Archive and begin collecting and preserving materials relating to the American Vietnam experience.
In November 1989, the Board of Regents of Texas Tech University established the Vietnam Center, with the dual missions of funding and guiding the development of the Vietnam Archive and encouraging continuing study of all aspects of the American Vietnam experience.
The group of veterans who first met in May 1989 were invited to form a board to provide guidance and support for the Vietnam Center. Since then, the Vietnam Center Advisory Board has met regularly to provide advice as the Vietnam Center and Archive at Texas Tech has evolved. Many of the veterans who attended the first meeting in May 1989 continue to advise the Vietnam Center today. In this way, the Vietnam Center remains very closely connected to America's Vietnam Veteran community.
The mission of the Vietnam Center at Texas Tech University is to support and encourage research and education regarding all aspects of the American Vietnam experience; promoting a greater understanding of this experience and the peoples and cultures of Southeast Asia. Its functions are threefold: support for the Vietnam Archive and the collection and preservation of pertinent historical source material; promotion of education through exhibits, classroom instruction, educational programs, and publications; and encouragement of related scholarship through organizing and hosting conferences and symposia, academic, educational, and cultural exchanges, and the publishing of scholarly research.
Ogden Williams Collection
The Vietnam Center seeks to provide a forum for all points of view and for all topics relating to Indochina, particularly – but not limited to – the American military involvement there. At our conferences and symposia, we encourage the presentation of papers by veterans and others who directly participated in and supported wartime events as well as by individuals who opposed the war. We encourage participation by our former allies in South Vietnam but also offer the same participation to those who supported the government in Hanoi.
Similarly, we place equal importance upon preserving records relating to all aspects of the Vietnam War. It is as important to us to preserve the records of US veterans, military and civilian, who served in Southeast Asia as well as civilians active on the homefront to include the antiwar movement. We want to preserve a complete history of the war. To do otherwise would be a disservice to history.
In addition to the Vietnam Archive and its component projects, the Vietnam Center administers a number of special projects and events, including scholarships, outreach programs, and Conferences and Symposiums, as well as numerous publications, including the Friends of the Vietnam Center newsletter and the Modern Southeast Asia series in association with the Texas Tech University Press.
The Vietnam Center is also raising money for a new state-of-the-art facility that will house The Vietnam Center, Archive, and Museum. If you are interested in supporting this endeavor, please visit The Vietnam Center Building Site. If you are interested in supporting the Vietnam Center and Archive in other ways, you can contribute to our scholarships or you can donate artifacts and materials to The Vietnam Archive.
About the Archive
The Vietnam Archive mission is to collect and preserve the documentary record of the Vietnam War. The first collection received by the Archive – a package of letters from a Navy hospital corpsman to his family while serving in Vietnam – symbolizes our commitment to preserve the record of individuals and provide greater understanding of their experiences. While the Vietnam Archive continues this commitment as its primary objective, it has expanded its collection policy to include records of veterans' organizations and scholars of the period as well as other individuals and organizations who share experiences from the war in Vietnam.
A hamlet elder uses a wood cane to feel his way along one of the walk ways at Binh Hung. The rainy season floods the hamlet and surrounding land, turning it into a sea of mud. But life goes on as usual.
A hamlet elder uses a wood cane to feel his way along one of the walk ways at Binh Hung. The rainy season floods the hamlet and surrounding land, turning it into a sea of mud. But, life goes on as usual.
Douglas Pike Collection: Other Manuscripts – American Friends of Vietnam
The Vietnam Archive has collected millions of pages of material and tens of thousands of photographs, slides, maps, periodicals, audio, moving images, and books related to the Vietnam War, Indochina, and the impact of the war on the United States and Southeast Asia.
The preservation of historical records provides the principal means for future generations to fully understand the past. Monuments call to mind significant events, but only records provide the basis for historical narratives, insight and understanding. In this way, the Vietnam Archive stands as a living memorial to all those who played some part in the nation's "Vietnam experience." Using the Archive, all those who are interested can study and better understand the people, places and events of this critical time in history.
The Archive accepts donations as small as a single item or as large as hundreds of boxes. Donations do not have to be organized and do not have to pertain to a famous person, event or organization. We accept papers, books, films, audio, moving images, and artifacts. If you are interested in donating to the Vietnam Archive, look for more information in our Information for Donors section.
There are two ways to conduct research using Vietnam Archive materials: in person and online, using the information provided in the Information for Researchers section and, more importantly, through the Virtual Vietnam Archive.
Contact information for all of the elements of the Vietnam Center and Archive is available. If you are having trouble finding what you are looking for on this website, try our help page or site map.
Over the past few years, the Vietnam Archive has made a concerted effort to record the histories of veteran's organizations and their members. The Veterans' Association section of this website provides more information about our efforts in this area.
Created in 2008, the Vietnamese American Heritage Project (VAHP) supports the Vietnam Archive's mission to document the war from all perspectives by providing documentation of the post-war social and political history of Vietnamese Americans who immigrated to the United States during and after the Vietnam conflict. A component of the archive, the VAHP is comprised of a full time Vietnamese American Heritage Archivist and one part time student assistant who collect, preserve, and make accessible to the public materials that document the experiences and contributions of Vietnamese Americans in American society. The VAHP aims to enhance the study of the Vietnamese immigration and resettlement experience by providing reference services to researchers and increasing Vietnamese American participation in the archive's Oral History Project, conducting outreach activities, and developing cooperative relationships with other institutions dedicated to preserving Vietnamese American's rich heritage.
The goal of the Teachers Resource Web is to aid educators and students who teach and take classes on the Vietnam War. The site is intended to assist teachers and students at all levels – from primary school to college. Site materials are designed to accommodate a range of teaching and learning situations from a single 50-minute lecture that is part of a general US history class to a semester or quarter-long dedicated course focusing exclusively on the Vietnam War.
Richard H. MacKinnon Collection [VA066112]
The Vietnam Graffiti Project is dedicated to preserving and providing access to a remarkable array of historical material from various ships that supported United States military forces in Southeast Asia during the Vietnam War. The materials you will find here include bunk canvases, ships logs, nautical charts, and other artifacts and documents. The collection provides insight into life onboard these ships, especially troop transports.
The Combined Document Exploitation Center (CDEC) Microfilm Collection consists of 954 reels of documents captured from North Vietnamese and Vietcong forces during the Vietnam War. Materials from this collection are being added to the Virtual Vietnam Archive daily, and plans are underway to make the entire collection available online, including original metadata collected when the materials were filmed.
In addition to its mission of collecting materials concerning Vietnam, the Vietnam War, and Southeast Asia, the Vietnam Archive currently administers two projects, the Oral History Project and the Virtual Vietnam Archive.
The Oral History Project
In 1999 the Vietnam Center and Archive initiated the Oral History Project (OHP). The history of the wars in Southeast Asia is not complete without the inclusion of the voices of those who were in some way involved. To that end, the mission of the OHP is to create and preserve a more complete record of the wars in Southeast Asia by preserving, through recorded interviews, the recollections and experiences of all who were involved in those wars. There is no political agenda in the development of the Archive or the Oral History Project. Anyone can participate, whether an American veteran, a former ally or enemy of the U.S., an anti-war protester, a government employee, a family member of a veteran, etc. The more breadth and depth the OHP has in its participants, the better and more authentic the collection and preservation of the history of the wars will be.
The Virtual Vietnam Archive
Earl R. Rhine Collection [VAN018343]
The Virtual Vietnam Archive enables scholars, students and all others interested in this remarkable period in our world history to conduct research directly from universities, schools, libraries, and homes. Of equal importance, it will enable Vietnam veterans – those who actually served – to access records that might be of importance to them in their continuing efforts to understand their own experiences. It will facilitate the research and writing of participants' memoirs and will give high school and college students an important and authoritative source of information as they seek to understand the complexities of the Vietnam War.
When the Virtual Vietnam Archive project is complete, it will include a record for every item in the Vietnam Archive. All non-copyrighted items are available online, free of charge. The Virtual Archive currently includes finding aids for all Vietnam Archive collections, and over 4 million pages of materials online, including documents, photographs, slides, negatives, audio and moving image recordings, artifacts, and oral histories. New items are being added daily.
The Virtual Vietnam Archive employees a number of full-time employees, and numerous part-time student workers, both graduate students and undergrads. Materials are digitized using a variety of equipment, including HP flatbed scanners, Fujitsu high-speed and flatbed scanners, an EPSON large bed scanner, Nikon slide scanner, HP large format scanner/plotter, Otari reel-to-reel and cassette digitization system, an Elmo 16mm film digitizer, and an 8mm film digitizer. Digitized materials are stored on three Dell servers, with backup copies stored onsite in a cold storage vault. The Virtual Vietnam Archive utilizes a relational database system (Cuadra Star) produced by Cuadra Associates.
Michael Ray Goode Collection
Institute of Museum and Library Services Primary funding for the Virtual Vietnam Archive has been provided by the Institute of Museum and Library Services. For more information about the people and organizations who have made the Virtual Vietnam Archive possible.
Digital copies of materials in the Virtual Archive are available. See our pricing list and guidelines for more information.
For questions concerning the Virtual Vietnam Archive, contact us at 806-742-9010 or [email protected]
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Larry Ellison
Lawrence Joseph (Larry) Ellison (Born: 1944, Chicago) is president and CEO of Oracle Corporation.
Larry is the Oracle worlds hero, and he should be. Oracle Corporation, the company he founded with Robert N. (Bob) Miner and Edward A. (Ed) Oates back in 1977, has emerged as the world's largest vendor of software that helps large corporations and governments better manage their information.
Check out the book: What's the difference between God and Larry Ellison. It's really a great book, and is pretty even handed with who Larry Ellison is with lots of interesting stories from the early days of Oracle. The name of the book came from a funny e-mail message that went around the company. The answer to the question is: "God doesn't think he's Larry..."
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Some of Larry's famous quotes:
- "Who'd buy a version 1.0 from four guys in California?" (Oracle OpenWorld keynote - 11 Nov 2007)
- "When you innovate, you've got to be prepared for everyone telling you you're nuts."
- "I have had all of the disadvantages required for success."
- "I do not give fashionable answers to questions"
- "Client Servers were a tremendous mistake. And we are sorry that we sold it to you. Instead of applications running on the desktop and data sitting on the server, everything will be Internet based." (June 1999)
- "If the Internet turns out not to be the future of computing, we're toast. But if it is, we're golden."
- "Bill Gates is the pope of the personal computer industry. He decides who's going to build."
- "It's Microsoft versus mankind, with Microsoft having only a slight lead."
- "If an innovative piece of software comes along, Microsoft copies it and makes it part of Windows, ... This is not innovation. This is the end of innovation."
- "Microsoft is already the most powerful company on earth, but you ain't seen nothing yet"
- "It is absolutely true that we set out to expose Microsoft's covert activities"


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COLLEGE PARK, MARYLAND, April 29, 2009 — In a recent issue of The Journal of Chemical Physics, published by the American Institute of Physics (AIP), a group of researchers at the University of California, Berkeley and Los Alamos National Laboratory describe the first comprehensive, molecular-level numerical study of gene therapy. Their work should help scientists design new experimental gene therapies and possibly solve some of the problems associated with this promising technique.
"There are several barriers to gene delivery," says Nikolaos Voulgarakis of Berkeley, the lead author on the paper. "The genetic material must be protected during transit to a cell, it must pass into a cell, it must survive the cell's defense mechanisms, and it must enter into the cell's guarded nucleus."
If all of these barriers can be overcome, gene therapy would be a valuable technique with profound clinical implications. It has the potential to correct a number of human diseases that result from specific genes in a person's DNA makeup not functioning properly — or at all. Gene therapy would provide a mechanism to replace these specific genes, swapping out the bad for the good. If doctors could safely do this, they could treat or even cure diseases like cystic fibrosis, certain types of cancer, sickle cell anemia, and a number of rare genetic disorders.
Safety is a primary concern when working with gene therapy. Some of the first attempts at gene therapy used viruses to insert DNA into cells — something that viruses naturally do anyway. Viruses can be dangerously toxic, however, and this fact was tragically demonstrated a decade ago when an 18-year-old boy enrolled in a gene therapy study had a massive immune reaction to the viruses used. He died just a few days into the treatment from multiple organ failure, precipitating an immediate halt to the trial.
Since then, many alternatives to viruses have emerged for use in gene therapy, including synthetic molecules like "dendrimers," a word that derives from the Greek word for "tree." Similar to trees, dendrimers are branching molecules that are slightly positively charged. This allows them to be loaded with DNA (which is slightly negative charged) for insertion into a cell.
Dendrimers seem to offer many advantages over viruses. They may be much less toxic, and they may offer other advantages in terms of cost, ease of production, and the ability to transport very long genes. If they can be designed to efficiently — and safely — shuttle genes into human cells, then they may be a more practical solution to gene therapy than viruses.
So far, laboratory experiments with different types of dendrimers have shown that they can insert genes into cells, but only with very low efficiency. Hoping to discover the key to improving this efficiency, Voulgarakis and his colleagues simulated the detailed, atomic-level physical process of dendrimers entering cells. They varied parameters like the dendrimer size and the length of the DNA they carry. Modeling these parameters on a computer is a fast, inexpensive approach for testing different ideas and optimizing the delivery vehicle.
What they uncovered were the key factors that determine the success of dendrimers as gene delivery vehicles — things like the charges of the dendrimers and their target cell membranes, the length of DNA, and the concentration of surrounding salt. Their work has illuminated some of the molecular-level details that should help clinicians design the most appropriate gene vectors.
"Our study indicates that, over a broad range of biological conditions, the dendrimer/nucleic acid package will be stable enough to remain on the surface of the cell until translocation," says Voulgarakis.
Dendrimers are also used clinically for delivering cancer drugs to tumors, and for helping to image the human body. In the future, Voulgarakis and his colleagues plan to study the possibility of using dendrimers as drug delivery vehicles.


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We believe that the needs of the investor should always come first. As an investor, you have important rights, including the right to high quality products and services from us. We govern our activities with a detailed Code of Ethics.
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