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BY foxsports • November 17, 2012
Derek Thompson scored 17 points and Glenn Bryant added 11 to lead Eastern Michigan to a 60-47 victory against IPFW in an ''Ice Man'' Classic game on Saturday night.
Daylen Harrison added eight points and eight rebounds for the Eagles (3-1).
Frank Gaines had 17 points and Luis Jacobo 10 for the Mastodons (2-2).
Pierre Bland's fast-break layup with 3:02 remaining got IPFW within 49-45, but that was its last successful shot from the floor. The Mastodons missed their last six attempts, with Da'Shonte Riley blocking two shots and Jamell Harris one for Eastern Michigan down the stretch.
Riley, who had four blocks for the game, gave the Eagles insurance points with a dunk and two free throws in the final 1:30.
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Well here's an interesting coincidence.
The image on the left is a monster from a 2002 Dungeons & Dragons Monster Manual called the Nightmare Beast, drawn by artist Wayne Reynolds.
The image on the right is the August edition of talk show host Rush Limbaugh's newsletter, the Limbaugh Letter.
The similarities are uncanny. So uncanny, in fact, that when alerted to Limbaugh's letter, Reynolds himself said the legal team of Dungeons & Dragons license-holder Wizards of the Coast might be interested in this story.
The Limbaugh Letter credits designer Christopher Hiers for the image. It does not seem to credit Reynolds, Wizards of the Coast, or any other party involved with Dungeons & Dragons.
I've reached out to Hiers to ask if he took this illustration from D&D. I'll update if he responds.
(Thanks, Paul!)

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Effectively doing for backyard swimming pools and tap water what Psycho did for showers and Jaws did for oceans, The Bay is a genuinely terrifying eco-horror tale in which you aren't what you eat, but rather what eats you. From the combined creative forces of producer Oren Peli (Paranormal Activity) and Oscar-winning director Barry Levinson (Rain Man, Wag the Dog), The Bay uses an ingenious assemblage of news reports, surveillance video, home movies and other purportedly user-generated video to expose the never-before-told story of what really happened in the idyllic small town of Claridge, Maryland over the July 4 weekend, 2009, when an infestation of parasitic 'isopods' made its way into the groundwater supply.
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Are You a Baby Boomer Yearning for the Christmas Spirit? Try the Big Apple!
Are you ready for a different way to spend your Christmas vacation? Perhaps you don't celebrate Christmas, perhaps you don't spend time with family during the holidays, or perhaps you are looking for a way to rekindle a remembered spirit of Christmas in your heart. Then book a December trip to the Big Apple.
As a Baby Boomer, I love New York City nearly as much as I adore my grandchildren. Okay, I lied. Sometimes, I love this quirky bustling city even more. New York City can become an addiction, a craving so intense, that like some desperate junkie, I search the Internet for cheap airfares just to get back there; three weeks away can cause serious withdrawal.
Since falling in love with the Big Apple, I determined to re-visit her in every month of the year. So far, I have been there in October, December, January, March, August and September. And my conclusion, having seen this wondrous eclectic city under so many seasonal skies, there is no "best" time of year to visit New York City; any time is good. But Christmastime is not to be missed. Especially if you are a Baby Boomer.
Christmas in New York City will touch the child within you, sparking a joy akin to the anticipation of Christmas mornings way back in the 50s, when everything was shiny and new and oh–so exciting.
Treats abound for all the senses: Giant dancing snowflakes set to classical music displayed on the Saks' department store wall; jaw-dropping line-ups of jostling Christmas shoppers outside Macy's store; the huge farmers market in Union Square with its crafts, local wines and fragrant spruce boughs; the tacky tinsel decorations of crowded Little Italy; the sharp scent of roasted chestnuts, sold by street vendors, in little paper cones; the ice skaters and creamy sweet hot chocolate in Bryant Park; the spectacular light display in the Bronx Zoo; the clop-clopping of horses drawing their hansom carriages, bedecked with faded plastic flowers and tinsel garland, around Central Park; the magical display of twinkled trees in the Winter Garden Room near the World Trade Center site (don't call this place Ground Zero; this is taboo among resident New Yorkers); Grand Central Station's laser light show; De Beers mantle of dripping diamonds; the peal of church bells on Christmas morning.
New York City is much more thanTimes Square and Broadway theatres, especially at Christmastime. Go at other times of the year, certainly, but visit at Christmastime, at least once. A visit to the Big Apple during the Yuletide season will sate the yearning of the long-forgotten 5-year old in your soul, that secret part of you just aching for one more Christmas morning of innocence and wide-eyed delight.
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The duties of the Criminal Court Clerk are numerous and varied but basically break down to the keeper of the records for the Criminal Courts of Hamilton County. There are three departments or divisions of Criminal Court Clerk's Office: the criminal division of General Sessions Courts, the Delinquent Collection division, and the Criminal Courts. There are 58 persons currently employed as Deputy Clerks by the Criminal Court Clerk as staff for these three divisions.
The Criminal Division of the General Sessions Court clerks' offices are open twenty-four (24) hours a day, seven (7) days a week. One office is located at the Hamilton County Jail as a convenience to arresting law enforcement officers and the other office is located in Room 108 of the Courts Building. General Sessions Court clerks deal with all the paperwork involved with an arrest, state traffic violations, misdemeanor court hearings, and felony preliminary court hearings. The Criminal Division of General Sessions Court handles over 50,000 cases each year.
The Delinquent Collections division is open Monday through Friday from 8:00 a.m. until 4:00 p.m.. Here the deputy clerks deal with the collection of court fines and court costs which are over six (6) months past due. These clerks utilize many techniques in order to collect the money owed by defendants who have been ordered to pay fines and/or court costs by either General Sessions Courts or Criminal Courts. They perform skip-tracing searches in an effort to locate the defendants and garnish bank accounts, payrolls and commissary accounts. All efforts are made to work with each individual defendant in setting up reasonable and realistic payment schedules while at the same time ensuring that the monies ordered by the courts are paid in the shortest length of time.
The Criminal Courts division of the Office is open Monday through Friday from 8:00 a.m. until 4:00 p.m., and is located in Room 102 of the Courts Building. The clerks in the Criminal Court division handle the record keeping for all criminal cases bound over to the Grand Jury, or appealed from Sessions Court and all local municipal courts. This division also handles cases appealed from the Sessions Courts and local municipal courts. The Criminal Court division handles approximately 6,000 new cases each year.
I invite all citizens to visit our office here in the Courts Building and become familiar with this division of the judicial branch of our government.
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Founded in Copenhagen in 2008 by Jonas Bjerre-Poulsen and Kasper Rønn, Norm Architects specialise in residential architecture, commercial interiors, industrial design, photography and art direction. The name, Norm Architects, reflects the group's emphasis on the importance of drawing inspiration from norms and traditions within architecture and design – particularly the Scandinavian design principles of timeless aesthetics and natural materials, and the modernist values of restraint and refinement. Guided by these principles, Norm Architects produce a design that unites materials and craftsmanship, while embodying beauty, history and, most importantly, timeless simplicity, where there is nothing more to add or take away. Today, the group regularly collaborates with MENU, helping to drive the evolution of the brand and its product offerings —imbued with the same intrinsic quality as Norms creative direction: a simplicity that carries bigger ideas. Lead by the body and mind rather than by trends or technology, their projects explore ideas that not only look good but that also feel good: architecture becomes thoughtful, minimalism acquires softness and visual matter assumes haptic qualities.
Situated in one of the oldest streets of Copenhagen, Denmark, they respect their context and build on the traditions of Modernist principles of restraint and refinement. Through exploring what it is that heightens the human senses regardless of personal preference, our projects strip spaces, objects, ideas and images back to their simplest form. "Our expertise lies in finding the balance—when there's nothing more to either add or take away."
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text: Ephemeral Expressions is about capturing the beauty of small, fleeting moments in our lives. When we slow down and become aware of the present reality, we can discover a gentle, ephemeral world of colour, feeling, and aliveness. In my collection of work on display here, I focus on themes from nature, such as the beach and sand. These soft and gentle works will certainly appeal to a range of audiences for their serene sensibility and muted colour palette.I am also showcasing my "Experiments in Colour" collection, which may appeal to those with bold and bright tastes. Enjoy viewing. And Thank you!As an Arts Therapist, I view artistic creation as an act of healthy expression. The energy from our moods, feelings, desires and fears can all be re-directed and expressed through a variety of art forms and media. In my paintings, I practise what I advise others to do, which is to use creativity as an outlet for your innermost impulses, and the canvas as a safe container on which to project it.Interested in learning more about Art Therapy and my practise? Please go to my website, www.artforchange.ca and connect with me!


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BOSTON (AP) — Clay Buchholz didn't allow a hit until Kelly Johnson's broken-bat single leading off the eighth inning, and the Boston Red Sox beat the Tampa Bay Rays 5-0 on Sunday.
Buchholz, who threw a no-hitter in just his second career start in 2007, allowed two hits and four walks in eight innings and struck out a career-high 11.
Johnson singled with an 0-1 count on Buchholz's 101st pitch, sending the ball over first baseman Mike Napoli while the top part of the bat landed near the front edge of the infield between first and second.
Buchholz (3-0) lowered his ERA to 0.41, allowing one earned run in 22 innings He left after 109 pitches, and Andrew Miller finished with a one-hit ninth.
Alex Cobb (1-1) allowed four runs — three earned — and seven hits in 6 2-3 innings, and Tampa Bay lost for the fifth time in six games. The Rays have eight runs in their last six games.
OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — Austin Jackson had four hits, homered and drove in three runs, Torii Hunter added two doubles and a triple, and the Tigers routed the Athletics.
Miguel Cabrera drove in two runs for the Tigers, who had 14 hits and won for the third time in four games. The first eight batters in the Tigers batting order had at least one hit, and seven players drove in runs.
Anibal Sanchez (2-0) overcame a sluggish start to pitch seven innings, winning his second straight outing and giving Detroit's bullpen a needed rest. He allowed one run, three hits and four walks, matching his season-high of eight strikeouts.
Jarrod Parker (0-2), who lost to Detroit in Games 1 and 5 of last year's AL division series, gave up a career-high eight runs and nine hits in 3 1-3 innings.
CLEVELAND (AP) — Jake Peavy struck out 11 in seven innings, Paul Konerko homered and the Chicago White Sox broke a five-game losing streak.
The White Sox went into the game as the majors' only winless team on the road. Chicago was swept three games in Washington before dropping the first two against the Indians.
Peavy (2-1) gave up a home run to Michael Bourn on his first pitch of the game but held the Indians to five hits overall and didn't walk a batter.
Addison Reed pitched the ninth for his fourth save, retiring Jason Giambi with a runner on to end the game.
Konerko's two-run homer ruined a solid effort from Brett Myers (0-2), who took a shutout into the sixth.
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Alex Gordon drove home Chris Getz with a single in the ninth inning, and the Royals beat the Blue Jays to avoid a series sweep.
The Royals played from behind nearly the entire way, but broke through when Getz doubled off Blue Jays reliever Darren Oliver (0-1) with one out in the ninth. Gordon swatted the first pitch he saw from Oliver into the outfield, and Getz slid home easily ahead of the tag.
Kelvin Herrera (1-0) pitched a perfect eighth for the Royals, who got eight strong innings from Ervin Santana.
Edwin Encarnacion homered and drove in both runs for the Blue Jays.
ANAHEIM, Calif. (AP) — Mike Trout hit his first home run of the season and Josh Hamilton also connected, leading C.J. Wilson and the Angels over Houston.
Trout put the Angels ahead for good with his solo homer in the third inning. He also doubled and scored three times.
Hamilton tripled and singled before hitting his second homer of the year, a two-run drive in the eighth.
Wilson (1-0) allowed one run and five hits in six innings. He struck out three and walked four.
Philip Humber (0-3) allowed two runs and seven hits in seven innings and struck out four.
SEATTLE (AP) — Dustin Ackley snapped a sixth-inning tie with a single for his first RBI this season, and rookie Brandon Maurer (1-2) rebounded from a horrible start to allow three runs — two earned — and five hits in six innings.
Raul Ibanez added a solo homer as Seattle split the four-game series, and Tom Wilhelmsen pitched the ninth for his fifth save.
Nick Tepesch (1-1) made his second big league start and gave up four runs and nine hits in 5 2-3 innings.
NEW YORK (AP) — Hiroki Kuroda (2-1) pitched a five-hitter for his fifth major league shutout and Brett Gardner hit his first home run off a left-handed pitcher since July 2010.
Orioles starter Wei-Yin Chen (0-2) matched Kuroda until the fifth. Brennan Boesch led off with a single and scored on Jayson Nix's sacrifice fly, and Gardner hit a drive high off the right-field foul pole. Gardner had gone 178 at-bats without a home run off a lefty — 198 including the postseason — since connecting off Toronto's Ricky Romero on July 3, 2010.
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New Dining Guide Program Provides Guests with Access to Beloved Local Restaurants
MIAMI, May X, 2015 – Forget the tourist traps and overcrowded "hotspots!" Azamara®, the up-market boutique cruise line that brings guests to the most desirable and remote destinations worldwide, announced today a new dining program designed to please the finickiest of pallets. Now, guests can participate in Azamara's new Cruise Global, Taste Local program boasting meals at a deliciously curated selection of local restaurants affording guests to eat where locals love to eat.
"Azamara offers guests true destination immersion through our Azamara Shore Excursions, AzAmazing Evenings, Nights & Cool Places and Cruise Global, Meet Local programs," says Larry Pimentel, President and CEO of Azamara. "Through Cruise Global, Taste Local, we are yet again taking our destination expertise to the next level by bringing guests to the best and most authentic local restaurants while in ports of call across the globe. Guests are always asking our Concierges where to dine once in port and where the locals like to eat. This program is the answer!"
Cruise Global, Taste Local is kicking off in Europe this summer including 35 restaurant recommendations across 27 European ports including La Gomera, Canary Islands; Split, Croatia; Santorini, Greece; Sorrento, Italy; Barcelona, Spain and Marseille, France. Each destination offers an authentic local dining experience that will satisfy the most discerning of palates and provide an inside taste of the local culture.
There are three ways to enjoy this destination experience with Azamara:
- Pair lunch with a tour — Following select half-day excursions, coaches journey to the selected Cruise Global, Taste Local restaurant for the ultimate in destination immersion dining experience.
- Take a private car — Azamara will arrange private transportation to and from the restaurant.
- Go independently — Azamara will help the guest select a restaurant to enjoy. Restaurants are within proximity of the ship.
For more information, travelers can call their travel professional, dial 1-877-999-9553, or visit www.AzamaraClubCruises.com. Connect with Azamara on Facebook at www.facebook.com/AzamaraClubCruises, on Twitter @AzamaraVoyages or follow President and CEO @LarryPimentel. Travel agent professionals can access more information and make reservations at www.CruisingPower.com.
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Azamara is a brand of Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd. (NYSE/OSX: RCL), a global cruise vacation company that also owns Royal Caribbean International, Celebrity Cruises, Pullmantur, and CDF Croisières de France, as well as TUI Cruises through a 50 percent joint venture. Together, the six brands operate a combined total of 41 ships with four under construction. They operate diverse itineraries around the world that call on approximately 460 destinations on all seven continents. 1Transportaion following half-day excursion to Cruise Global, Taste Local restaurant only available on select excursions. Transportation to restaurant from ship may be required.


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The Underground Round Up (マルマインだいばくは!? Electrode's Tremendous Blast!?) is the 34th episode of Pokémon: Adventures in the Orange Islands.
After saying goodbye to Lapras, Ash and co. arrive on Hamlin Island, which has a ferry line that goes straight back to Pallet Town. Unfortunately, the town is deserted because of the many Electrode inhabiting the city. Lucky for our heroes they meet a man named Poncho who specialized in Electrode Rangling. Soon Team Rocket appears to capture the Electrode by any means necessary, by order of the mayor. Will Team Rocket have their way or will Poncho save the day?
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The heroes are on Hamlin Island, where they'll take a boat to Pallet Town. Ash already imagines mom's specialties, while Tracey meeting Prof. Oak and Misty beinging the GS Ball. The heroes are about to cross the bridge to the ferry, but see a sign saying it is too dangerous to cross it. The gang is about to cross the bridge anyway, but seeing an explosion on the bridge they change their minds. Instead, they take a small boat and paddle to the island. They go through the town, but see and hear nobody. They enter a building and Misty leaves her Togepi for a while. Tracey sees the ferry and Ash attempts to open the door, but it is locked. Togepi comes out of the building and sees a Voltorb, then follows it.
Misty sees Togepi is missing. The heroes search for it and find it playing with the Voltorb. Ash checks it via Pokédex and learn Voltorb may explode without warning. Misty goes to get Togepi, but Togepi does not want to leave Voltorb. Ash and Tracey tell Misty they feel they are not alone. Soon, they see Electrode coming out. Ash tells Misty not to sneeze or breathe, but Misty gets angered as she has to breathe. She tells Togepi it can play by the ferry, so the heroes move quietly, not disturbing the nearby Electrode. A signboard falls down, causing the Electrode to be disturbed. The heroes run as the Electrode explode. The heroes soon find themselves surrounded by the Electrode.
However, a man appears, telling them not to move, sending Diglett. The Diglett dig holes beneath the Electrode, causing them to fall down and they explode in the holes. Later, the gang asks the man why are there so many Electrode and so little people. The man tells that due to an experiment to generate power, the Voltorb escaped one night and multiplied. The island was filled with them and they evolved into Electrode. The island began to be too little for all of them and they started exploding. The people left the island. Ash asks what of the ferry, but learns that it does not function anymore. Tracey asks the man why is he here if the island is dangerous. Ash thinks he is a thief trying to steal what he can, but Misty tells Ash to apologize for that statement. The man introduces himself as Poncho, a Diglett Rancher who has been hired by the mayor.
He tells that he trained his Diglett to dig under the island to a field at the next island, where they roam freely and do not explode. He thinks his way is better than let them explode. Ash thinks the Electrode think that, too. Poncho hears that people tell his way costs too much and is too long. The phone rings and Misty gets it, then passes it to Poncho. Poncho is disappointed, as he heard the people hired someone else to complete the job, as he should've been given few more days to get the Electrode away. Misty wonders who'd that be. Poncho knows these people will be fast, but the Electrode will blow up once caught. Suddenly, they feel a vehicle arriving and arrive in front of it, only to see Team Rocket emerging from it.
Team Rocket tell them the mayor hired them to complete the work. Ash doubts them, but Poncho sees the contract they hold has the mayor's seal on it, making them legit. Misty wonders why would they capture the Electrode, but is told they will use them for their own needs. They touch the Electrode and they explode. Poncho knows they want to tire out the Electrode so they can capture them with no resistance. The heroes are frustrated, as they cannot do but watch as Team Rocket takes the Electrode. This causes the Electrode to surround Team Rocket's vehicle. While Jessie and James are scared, Meowth tells it is where they wanted to have them. Poncho feels the Electrode are very angry and will explode. The Voltorb that played with Togepi comes in front of the vehicle. Jessie is annoyed by this one, but James and Meowth feel generous and want to catch it.
Togepi moves its arms and uses Metronome, causing it to jump. Misty feels it wants to attack, but Tracey thinks it is too young for that. Voltorb evades the robo arms, so Togepi and Pikachu go to help it. Pikachu uses Thunderbolt, but it does not do any damage, as Meowth knows they had to deal with shocking Pokémon and have an electric-proof vehicle. Team Rocket are about to attack, so Poncho, disgraced by Team Rocket, sends Dugtrio. Dugtrio digs out a tunnel, causing Team Rocket to fall in the tunnel. While Poncho is glad Team Rocket are out of the way, the work is not yet finished and sends Diglett, who dig tunnels to get the Electrode away from the island. Team Rocket are very disappointed their plan did not work and get swept away by the Electrode, who move through the tunnel.
The heroes see from the balloon the Electrode enjoy this field as their new home. Voltorb comes out of the balloon and Togepi follows it. Togepi sees Voltorb wants to stay and cries. Misty tells it friends have to say goodbye, but they are still friends in their hearts. Next day, the people moved back in. Poncho admits the mayor gave him a bonus and the key to the city. Misty remembers his line "those three are a disgrace" and compares a movie hero'd say that. Poncho blushes, telling he is no movie hero. Ash tells he is their hero and invites him to come to Pallet Town. Poncho thanks him, but tells he has to take care of Electrode. The heroes wave goodbye to Poncho, while behind them Jigglypuff appears.
- "Those three are a disgrace to the Electrode Rangling profession." - Poncho about Team Rocket
- Poncho is based off Clint Eastwood.
- Poncho in the end of the episode says he's not a movie hero, another reference to Clint Eastwood.
- The "Who's that Pokémon?" in this episode is Kingler.
- Second appearance of Diglett. First was in TB031: Dig Those Diglett!, and the third would be in the Johto episode GS102: Plant It Now... Diglett Later.
At the end of the episode, as Togepi is saying goodbye to Voltorb, the vocal effect added to Voltorb's voice is missing.
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Mat Latos pitched shutout ball into the eighth inning and chipped in with a hit as the Cincinnati Reds opened a seven-game homestand with an 8-3 win over the Cleveland Indians on Wednesday night.
Danny Salazar handled the top of Cincinnati's batting order. It was the bottom that caught up with him.
Zack Cozart hit a three-run homer off the left-field foul pole, Kristopher Negron added a two-run shot and the Cleveland Indians opened a five-game road trip with an 8-3 loss to the Reds on Wednesday night.
Mat Latos pitched shutout ball into the eighth inning and chipped in with a hit as the Reds picked up their third win in four games.
The top four batters in Cincinnati's order were a combined 0 for 8 against Salazar (4-3), who gave up the homers to Cincinnati's seventh- and eighth-place hitters.
"Overall, he was better than his line score," manager Terry Francona said. "He made two costly mistakes to the bottom of the order."
Latos (4-3), making his 10th start since opening the season on the disabled list and being activated on June 14, allowed just one runner past second base before Yan Gomes led off Cleveland's three-run eighth with his 16th homer.
"He leverages the ball downhill and gets strike one," Francona said about Latos. "Once he can do that, he can use both halves of the plate."
Ryan Raburn chased Latos with a pinch-hit, two-run double.
Latos gave up six hits and three runs with two walks and five strikeouts in 7 2-3 innings.
Cozart, who hadn't homered since June 1 at Arizona, connected off Salazar with two outs in the second. Cozart's third homer of the season was the first allowed by Salazar in five starts since May 15 at Toronto.
"I didn't throw too many pitches today," Salazar said, assessing his outing. "I left a couple of balls a little high. I was trying to throw a slider down-and-away (to Cozart). I just missed my spot."
Negron made it 5-0 with a two-out drive in the fourth. The homer was his third of the season, all since being called up from Triple-A Louisville on July 10.
Salazar lasted four innings and his winning streak was snapped at a career-high three. He allowed five hits and five runs with five strikeouts.
The Reds broke open the game with a three-run seventh that started with Negron's double for his first career three-hit game. Cozart hit an RBI single, Latos followed with a single and Todd Frazier added a two-run double.
Salazar was optioned to Triple-A Columbus following the game. Right-handed pitcher C.C. Lee was recalled from Columbus.
Bryan Pena extended his hitting streak to 11 games with two singles. He is one game short of his career high.
Indians: Center fielder Michael Bourn went 0 for 3 with one strikeout in five innings for Double-A Akron in the first game of his rehab assignment on Tuesday. He has been out since July 6 with a left hamstring strain.
Reds: Right-handed reliever Logan Ondrusek threw his first long toss and bullpen session since he went on the disabled list on July 22 because of a strained right shoulder. He will throw another bullpen on Friday or Saturday and be reassessed, manager Bryan Price said.
Indians: Left-hander T.J. House will become the second straight Cleveland pitcher to face Cincinnati for the first time in his career. The Indians have lost two straight after a four-game winning streak.
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Those urging the U.S. to intervene in Syria are certain of one thing: If we had intervened sooner, things would be better in that war-torn country. Had the Obama Administration gotten involved earlier, there would be less instability and fewer killings. We would not be seeing, in John McCain's words of April 28, "atrocities that are on a scale that we have not seen in a long, long time."
In fact, we have seen atrocities much worse than those in Syria very recently, in Iraq under U.S. occupation only few years ago. From 2003 to 2012, despite there being as many as 180,000 American and allied troops in Iraq, somewhere between 150,000 and 300,000 Iraqi civilians died and about 1.5 million fled the country. Jihadi groups flourished in Iraq, and al-Qaeda had a huge presence there. The U.S. was about as actively engaged in Iraq as is possible, and yet more terrible things happened there than in Syria. Why?
The point here is not to make comparisons among atrocities. The situation in Syria is much like that in Iraq--and bears little resemblance to that in Libya--so we can learn a lot from our experience there. Joshua Landis, the leading scholar on Syria, points out that it is the last of the three countries of the Levant where minority regimes have been challenged by the majority. In Lebanon, the Christian elite were displaced through a bloody civil war that started in the 1970s and lasted 15 years. In Iraq in 2003, the U.S. military quickly displaced the Sunni elite, handing the country over to the Shi'ites--but the Sunnis have fought back ferociously for almost a decade. Sectarian killings persist in Iraq to this day.
Syria is following a similar pattern. the country has a Sunni majority. The regime is Alawite, a Shi'ite subsect that makes up 12% of the population, but it also draws some support from other minorities--Druze, Armenians and others--who worry about their fate in a majoritarian Syria. These fears might be justified. Consider what has happened to the Christians of Iraq. There were as many as 1.4 million of them before the Iraq war. There are now about 500,000, and many of their churches have been destroyed. Christian life in Iraq, which has survived since the days of the Bible, is in real danger of being extinguished by the current regime in Baghdad.
All the features of Syria's civil war that are supposedly the result of U.S. nonintervention also appeared in Iraq despite America's massive intervention there. In Iraq under U.S. occupation, many Sunni groups banded together with jihadi forces from the outside; some even broke bread with al-Qaeda. Shi'ite militias got support from Iran. Both sides employed tactics that were brutal beyond belief--putting electric drills through people's heads, burning others alive and dumping still breathing victims into mass graves.
These struggles get vicious for a reason: the stakes are very high. The minority regime fights to the end because it fears for its life once out of power. The Sunnis of Iraq fought--even against the mighty American military--because they knew that life under the Shi'ites would be ugly, as it has proved to be. The Alawites in Syria will fight even harder because they are a smaller minority and have further to fall.


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This is a great concept from a chocolate store in Denmark. The Anthon Berg Generous Store has introduced a new way to buy your chocolate gifts without the need for any cash, you simply pay with the promise of a good deed toward a person you care for.
This pop-up chocolate store, in the center of Copenhagen, opened last month to encourage people to gift their loved ones with chocolate. The chocolate boxes had a range of different 'price' options so that people could pick a box according to the good deed they were willing to do. Including 'Serve breakfast in bed to your loved one' and 'A week where you don't lie to your father'.
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(AP) -- It's not just about taxes. There's another big obstacle to overcome as Congress and President Barack Obama work to skirt the fiscal cliff: deep divisions among Senate Democrats over whether to consider cuts to popular benefit programs like Medicare and Medicaid.
Much of the focus during negotiations seeking an alternative to $671 billion in automatic tax increases and spending cuts beginning in January has centered on whether Republicans would agree to raising taxes on the wealthy. Obama insists that tax increases on the wealthy must be part of any deal, even as White House officials concede that government benefit programs will have to be in the package too.
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"We cannot come up with the solution for Medicare in the next two or three weeks," said Sen. Dick Durbin of Illinois, the No. 2 Democrat in the Senate. "It's too important, it's too serious, when it comes to this fiscal cliff debate."
Durbin has long said Democrats must be willing to discuss cuts to benefit programs in exchange for tax increases on the wealthy. But, he said Wednesday, the issue is too complicated to address in a short postelection session of Congress.
Republicans complain that Democrats are taking issues off the table, even as more GOP lawmakers are reluctantly considering tax increases.
"Democrats like to pretend as though they're the great protectors of Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid," said Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky. "They make solemn pledges all the time about how they won't even entertain a discussion about reform. What they don't say is that ignoring these programs is the surest way to guarantee their collapse."
There's a growing consensus among Senate Democrats and the White House that Social Security should be exempt from any deficit-reduction package. But some centrist Democrats in the Senate argue that fellow Democrats must be willing to consider cuts to Medicare and Medicaid in order to get concessions from Republicans on taxes.
"It has to be both -- a significant revenue increase as well as spending cuts," said Sen. Max Baucus, D-Mont., chairman of the Senate Finance Committee.
Sen. Kent Conrad, D-N.D., who is retiring as chairman of the Senate Budget Committee, said rising health care costs in Medicare and Medicaid are helping to drive future spending, making them an essential part of a long-term deficit-reduction package.
"I've been part of every bipartisan group here. We've always put everything on the table," Conrad said. "If you're going to solve this problem, you're going to have to deal with where the spending is and the revenue can be raised."
But senators like Baucus and Conrad increasingly are being drowned out by other Democrats emboldened by the recent election results to fight against benefit cuts.
"I think the election spoke very strongly about the fact that the vast majority of American people don't want to cut these programs," said Sen. Tom Harkin, D-Iowa.
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Further complicating the issue, some Democrats say they are willing to look for savings in programs like Medicare and Medicaid, as long as cuts don't lead to higher costs for beneficiaries. Obama's new health care law, for example, assumes more than $700 billion in Medicare savings over the next decade.
"I'm willing to look at ways of making the programs work better," Harkin said.
Congress and the White House are devoting the next three weeks to finding at least a bridge over the fiscal cliff by reducing the sudden jolt of higher taxes and spending cuts in January while laying a framework for addressing the nation's long-term financial problems next year.
Obama wants to let tax rates rise for wealthy families while sparing middle- and low-income taxpayers. Some Republican leaders, including House Speaker John Boehner of Ohio, have said they were willing to consider making the wealthy pay more by reducing their tax breaks. But most Republicans in Congress adamantly oppose raising anyone's tax rates.
Negotiations are going slowly as each side waits for the other to make concessions.
Democrats already have tried to take Social Security off the table. White House press secretary Jay Carney said this week that changes to the massive retirement and disability program should be done separately from any plan to reduce the deficit. That's the same position taken by 28 Democratic senators and independent Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont in a letter to fellow senators in September.
"We will oppose including Social Security cuts for future or current beneficiaries in any deficit-reduction package," said the letter, which was signed by many top Democrats, including Majority Leader Harry Reid of Nevada. In the House, Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi has taken the same position, not only on Social Security, but also on Medicare and Medicaid.
"There hasn't been the slightest suggestion about what they're going to do about the real problems, and that's entitlements," said Sen. Orrin Hatch of Utah, the top Republican on the Senate Finance Committee. "There's a certain cockiness that I've seen that is really astounding to me since we're basically in the same position we were before" the election.
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13 de fevereiro de 2020
Bentley teases the Mulliner Bacalar
Bentley teaser a new Grand Tourer that is inspired by the EXP 100 GT concept. Unfortunately, we only see the overall shape of the car and the wheels.
8 de novembro de 2014
Audi teases new A9 Concept
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At the end of the month we'll have another edition of the Los Angeles auto show, and Audi will introduce a new concept that will serve as basis for the new A9. For anyone in doubt, think of it as a three-door version of the A8.
11 de dezembro de 2013
Volvo teases the XC Coupe Concept [Video]
Back in August, Volvo revealed the Coupé Concept and promised this car is the first with the brand's new design philosophy. Today, the Swedish company revealed the second concept (of three) that possibly previews the next-generation Volvo XC60 or XC90. The XC90 is sold since 2002 so it is due to have a replacement introduced soon.
16 de setembro de 2013
We found out a little more about the Honda Civic Type R [Video]
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Honda did not reveal the long awaited Civic Type R, but did reveal a little more about this car that is to be on the market from 2015. Manabu Nishimae, President, Honda Motor Europe revealed this hot hatchback will be powered by a turbocharged 2- liter engine that generates at least 280PS (206kW or 276bhp).
10 de setembro de 2013
Official: BMW revealed the revolutionary i8 [Video]
BMW finally revealed this sports car for which we waited anxiously. It combines sports performance with a lightweight construction and high efficiency. This 2+2 vehicle is the first plug-in hybrid produced by the German car manufacturer and the second model from new brand BMW i.
8 de setembro de 2013
Official: Audi reveals the cabriolet version of the A3 [Video]
With the A3 Cabriolet, Audi revealed the last member of the A3 family. This compact four-seater has the same look as the rest of the A3 family and a soft cloth top which is actuated through a lightweight kinematic mechanism made of magnesium-steel, and opens or closes in less than 18 seconds at speeds up to 50km/h (31mph).
26 de agosto de 2013
Seems the mystery concept was created by Volvo [Video]
At the time, i was undecided whether this concept was made by Citroen/DS or Volvo, but today, Volvo, showed a video with the Head of Design Volvo Car Group, Thomas Ingenlath, that enlightens us. In this video he explains that he wants to transform the design of the Swedish brand, but the interesting parts appears on the 11-second mark, where we can see a new concept, called C Coupe, that will be unveiled soon.
21 de agosto de 2013
Official: Meet the facelifted Audi A8 and S8 [Video]
This small redesign greatly improved the appearance of the top of the range Audi. The front now features a squarer grille, a new hood, a redesigned bumper, and the innovative Matrix LED headlight technology that was heavily promoted over the past weeks. At the back, Audi changed the bumper that now includes two rhomboid tailpipes (except S8), and the LED tail lights have become flatter.
15 de agosto de 2013
Honda teases the upcoming Civic Type R [Video]
The new Honda Civic Type R has been caught testing several times in the last days. That information, together with this video teaser tell me we should soon see the official presentation of his long-awaited hot hatchback. A good chance is that Honda is bringing it to the Frankfurt Motor Show, but we will have to wait and see.
13 de agosto de 2013
Mercedes starts teasing the new GLA [Video]
Yesterday, Mercedes showed for the first time the new GLA, and today the German car manufacturer revealed a video teaser that actually shows a lot of the car. In it we get a decent look at the new GLA 250, possibly with the AMG Sport Package, and at the regular GLA which looks like the sketches shown yesterday.
12 de agosto de 2013
Audi teases the new A8. Again [Video]
Categories: A8, Audi, Frankfurt Motor Show, Teaser, Video
Last week, Audi released a video teaser showing two cars covered with a white cloth. In it they showed the wheel of one of the cars, and at the time i thought it would be the new A8. Seems it is true. In this second video teaser, Audi still has the cars covered, but they have confirmed they are going to show the 2014 A8 and S8.
11 de agosto de 2013
Honda gives us a "glimpse" of the new Civic Tourer [Video]
Categories: Civic, Civic Tourer, Frankfurt Motor Show, Honda, Official, Video
Honda decided to give us the first look of the new Civic Tourer on a Saturday night, which is a bit odd. But who cares, what matters is that you have here what look to be the production version of the new Civic station wagon. Much is said about the aesthetics of this truck, how it is sleek and sporty, but it is up to you to say what you think.
4 de agosto de 2013
Audi teases something. What cars are they going to show? [Video]
Categories: Audi, Frankfurt Motor Show, Teaser, Video
Last week, Audi teased a car that will be revealed the Frankfurt Motor Show in September, showing the left rim and left ceramic brake disc. In the video we can see two cars covered with a white cloth, from that i can see the cars are long, indicating they might be in the top part of the German brand car range.
31 de julho de 2013
Suzuki teases the iV-4 Compact SUV concept. Will bring it to Frankfurt [Video]
Suzuki is well known for making small and cheap SUVs, but their lineup needs an update. This concept will gives us a hint on how future cars from Suzuki will look like, but for now it will only generate a new model, and what better place to show it than the Frankfurt Motor Show.
29 de julho de 2013
Mercedes-Benz creates its own song [Video]
This was not a good idea. Mercedes-Benz builds great vehicles, but songwriting... not so much. The German company wanted to draw attention to their "Service" division. They are responsible for fixing your car when something isn't perfect, so the men and women in this department are important and deserve some recognition, but not like this...
25 de julho de 2013
Mini uses the Vision concept to show what the net model will look like. We already saw it [Video]
That is right, the next-generation Mini was already seen during a photo shoot, so it is somewhat surprising that BMW (the owners of Mini) unveiled a new concept called Mini Vision. The small car was shown at today's MINI Design@Home event and, of course, serves to show many design solutions that the production model will adopt.
24 de julho de 2013
Honda teases the Civic Tourer. Will show it at the Frankfurt Motor Show [Video]
Categories: Civic, Civic Tourer, Frankfurt Motor Show, Honda, Video
This is unusual. Honda is announcing a new damper system that will have its premiere on the Civic Tourer, so they took this opportunity to show a little more of this new model. The only problem is that Honda decided to show it with camouflage, meaning they ended up showing almost nothing. I just hope is looks like the concept.
15 de julho de 2013
The return of Datsun culminates with the presentation of the GO [Video]
I was expecting a little more from the return of this iconic brand but it seems Nissan didn't want to put a lot of effort to it, so they pretty much added a few new parts to the Nissan Micra/March and called it a brand new model with a name inspired "by the first Datsun, the DAT-GO, launched almost a century ago in Japan".
10 de julho de 2013
Jaguar will also bring a special car to the Goodwood Festival of Speed. Meet the Project 7 [Video]
Categories: F-Type, Goodwood Festival of Speed, Jaguar, Project 7, Video
This special Jaguar F-Type has the name Project 7 as a way to pay homage to Jaguar's seven Le Mans wins, while its blue paintwork is reminiscent of the victorious D-types of 1956/1957. It is a single-seater one-off design created by the team led by Director of Design, Ian Callum, and could serve to preview the upcoming R version of the F-Type.
8 de julho de 2013
Here's the Opel Monza Concept. Will be revealed in Frankfurt [Video]
The Opel Monza, which was the coupe version of the Senator, was built in the 70 and 80s, and achieved a large success. Today, Opel teased for the first time the Opel Monza concept, a car that shows us the evolution of the German brand design philosophy, and still has a few similarities between them, such as their large, glazed surfaces and low belt-line.
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COLUMBIA - A new tower has popped up on the University of Missouri's campus, part of the campus's Climate Action Plan to use less fossil fuel energy.. The 100-foot wind turbine is located next to the Hearnes Center near Stadium Boulevard.
The University spent $360,000 to build the wind turbine.
The turbine will provide electricity to the Beef Barn, a campus facilities building located right next to it.
"The primary reason for the wind turbine is to create a learning experience for the students and professors. So, they can come over and monitor the wind turbine for research purposes," said Campus Facilities Communications Manager Karlan Seville.
Columbia Water and Light is skeptical that the turbine can even produce enough wind energy to power the building. "We've studied the wind speeds and realized that they weren't strong enough to put them in mid-Missouri, let alone a city," said Columbia Water and Light Utility Service Specialist Connie Kacprowicz.
The highest wind speeds found in the state of Missouri are in the northwest corner of the state. Columbia Water and Light recommends utilizing solar energy for smaller projects for going green at home.
"The winter is the windiest part of the year, so there may be enough energy produced to generate a whole building. But the sun's power is so much more powerful and able to reliably provide power whenever it's needed," said Kacprowicz.
University officials said they located the turbine on a hill to get the best wind speeds in the city.
"It's elevated on a hill so that we can fully utilize all the wind energy, even the little we get in a city," said Seville.
"In a city, you can have a lot of variations. You can travel throughout town and not feel like there's any wind and then travel through part of Columbia and the wind hasn't stopped. There are different places up on hills that's windier and different pockets where the wind speeds are higher depending on the topography of the land," said Kacprowicz.
As part of its Climate Action Plan, MU is also working on a bio-mass boiler and solar photo-voltaic panels at the power plant.


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Many Lowriders find their love for the culture from destiny rather than choice. Such is the case for Harry Nieves, who was born into a Lowriding family in Hayward, CA, in 1977. His father, Hector, and his Godfather, John Cerros, were the founders of the original Rebirth Car Club. The pair established the club in1974, to spread their love for the sport that defined their lifestyle. As Harry was growing up, he saw his uncle and cousins driving Lowriders, and he couldn't wait to someday get one of his own. He didn't have to wait long, in fact, he only had to wait until his 12th birthday, when his uncle surprised him with the perfect gift. That's right, at the tender age of 12, Harry received his first Lowrider, a 1963 Impala, under one condition; he had to stay out of trouble. Harry did just that, as his love for cars and the lowriding lifestyle kept him busy and off the streets, away from the negative direction in which many of the neighborhood kids around him were heading over the years, he learned how to install hydraulics and perform body work, and by the time he was 22, Harry had become well versed in the timeless art of building Lowriders. To support his passion, Harry found himself a good union job, which paid him enough money to help him make his dreams come true. Harry, along with a few of his car-building friends, pooled their money together and invested in an auto shop, which would allow them to have a place of their own to build cars. Soon after forming the shop, the crew brought Rebirth Car Club back to life, almost 20 years after its inception, which was something that Harry had always wanted to do. Style was very important to the club, and they made sure that the cars they were building stayed true to the way they were previously built; following the classic Lowrider blueprint from the late '70's and early '80's.
Harry really wanted to choose a car that not everybody else had, so he decided on a 1970 Buick Riviera, and began his search for the perfect project car. When he found out that one of his co-workers had one for sale which was already in the process of being rebuilt, he couldn't pass up the opportunity. He bought it right away, and was delighted to find out how much work had already been done to the car. It was already painted, the vinyl top was done, the engine compartment was painted and the engine was rebuilt too, giving Harry a nice jump-start on building the perfect Rivi. The rest of the car was in pieces, but an excited Harry was ready to sink his teeth into the project full-force.
Rebuilding a Buick proved to be quite the challenge for Harry and his club members, as they were only used to previously building Chevys. To assist them with the build, Harry was able to find a complete parts car which showed them how to put the Riviera back together.
The whole project took about 6 months to finish, with the club members completing all but the interior on their own. They began with the modification of a 1977 Cadillac disk brake rear end, making it possible to fit 13×7 wire wheels between the quarter panels and skirts – something they were told could not be done. The ambitious group also had the drive shaft customized to hook up a modified rear end, while also putting disk brakes in the front. After this step was completed, Harry was able to go to work on his own, doing what he likes to do best; install the hydraulics. He built the battery rack, had his cousin paint the floor, and put in a two-pump chrome Showtime set up, powered by 4 Group 31 batteries.
After the exhaust was finished, it was off to the upholstery shop to give the Rivi a luxurious interior. He was hoping to find something that was custom, but still looked original. He decided on having the stock pattern stitched in with a sandstone-colored velour, accented by ivory tweed inserts. Happy with the overall outcome, Harry readied his "Rivi King" to represent Rebirth on the show circuit, as well as in the streets.
In the future, Harry hopes to keep making improvements to the Riviera, while furthering the interests and membership of the Rebirth Car Club. He would like to see Rebirth grow to become one of the best clubs in Northern California. He gives his heartfelt thanks and love to his parents, Hector and Darlene Nieves, for raising him and bringing him into the Lowrider lifestyle, and sends the same love and thanks to his Uncle Darren and Auntie Syndie for giving him his first car- the 1963 Impala, where it all began. He also extends a special thanks to the Rebirth Car Club, for all their help and support along the way.
Rivi King
Owner: Harry Nieves
Vehicle: 1970 Buick Riviera
City/State: Hayward, CA
Club: Rebirth Car Club
Engine: The Buick 455 Big Block was rebuilt and detailed. An Elderbrock intake and carburetor was added for more horsepower. Freddy Pea of Pea Auto Parts painted the engine parts and the engine compartment. OG pinstriper Ray Martin gold leafed and striped the engine bay.
Interior: Able's Upholstery of Hayward, CA stitched up the stock design and gave it a twist.
Paint: Lolo at Custom Mike's got the body straight and laid down a House of Color Pearl Lamborghini Orange.
System: Harry installed 4 pioneer 6×9's, 400 watt Rockford Fosgate amp with an Earthquake EQ all ran by an IPOD
Setup: Harry installed a two pump chrome Showtime set up with four Group 31 batteries with 8 switches mounted in the instrument cluster to control the Rivi King.
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Frederick S. Kaplan
Isaac and Rose Nassau Professor of Orthopaedic Molecular Medicine in Orthopaedic Surgery
Department: Orthopaedic Surgery
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Department of Orthopaedic Surgery
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Johns Hopkins University, 1972.
Johns Hopkins University, 1976.
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Description of Other ExpertiseFrederick S. Kaplan, M.D. is The Isaac & Rose Nassau Professor of Orthopaedic Molecular Medicine and Chief of the Division of Molecular Orthopaedic Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine. He is an alumnus of The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine (1976), and was Chief Resident in Orthopaedic Surgery at The Hospital of The University of Pennsylvania and The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia from 1980 to 1981.
Kaplan was a Hartford Foundation Research Fellow in human genetics and molecular biology from 1989 to 1991 in the laboratory of his mentor and friend Dr. Michael Zasloff. This experience led to his exploration of the mechanisms for heterotopic bone formation and skeletal metamorphosis in several disabling childhood diseases.
In 1989, Kaplan, an orthopaedic surgeon, met a child with fibrodysplasia ossificans progressiva (FOP), a rare and disabling disorder in which the body forms a second skeleton of heterotopic bone. Motivated to know and do more, Kaplan began a pioneering second career on the molecular genetics of heterotopic ossification, work that led to the discovery of the FOP gene, to the description of the molecular pathophysiology of skeletal metamorphosis in humans, to the discovery of progressive osseous heteroplasia (another disorder of heterotopic ossification) and its causative gene and pathophysiology.
Along with his colleague Dr. Eileen Shore, Kaplan co-directs the only center in the world devoted entirely to this work, has organized the medical and scientific communities worldwide on these two rare conditions, and is recognized as the world's leading expert on genetic disorders of heterotopic ossification and skeletal metamorphosis. In 1997, Kaplan was awarded the first endowed chair in the nation for orthopaedic molecular medicine.
The late Victor McKusick, the father of clinical genetics, described Kaplan as "one of the really outstanding orthopaedic researchers of his generation. His work with FOP and POH has been extraordinary and extends all the way from the patients to the bench and back again. The devotion of the families and the patients to him is testimony to the kind of human being he is." Cited in 2006, as one of the15 people who make America great, Newsweek noted "the disease was so rare, nobody wanted to deal with it until he came along."
Selected PublicationsZhang W, Zhang K, Song L, Pang J, Ma H, Shore EM, Kaplan FS, Wang P.: The phenotype and genotype of fibrodysplasia ossificans progressiva in China: A report of 72 cases Bone 57: 386-391, 2013.
Regard JB, Malhotra D, Gvozdanovic-Jeremic J, Josey M, Chen M, Weinstein LS, Lu J, Shore EM, Kaplan FS, Yang Y.: Activation of hedgehog signaling by loss of GNAS causes heterotopic ossification. Nat Med 19: 1505-1512, 2013.
Cairns DM, Pignolo RJ, Uchimura T, Brennan TA, Lindborg CM, Xu M. *Kaplan FS, Shore EM, *Zeng L.(*co-senior authors).: Somitic disruption of GNAS in chick embryos mimics progressive osseous heteroplasia. , 2013. J Clin Invest 123: 3624-3633, 2013.
Kaplan FS.: The skeleton in the closet. Gene 528:: 7-11, 2013.
Pignolo RJ, Shore EM, Kaplan FS.: Fibrodysplasia ossificans progressiva: diagnosis, management, and therapeutic horizons. Emerging Concepts in Pediatric Bone Disease. Pediatric Endocrinology Reviews. 10(S-2):: 437-448, 2013.
La Sala LF, Pozzi LM, McAloose D, Kaplan FS, Shore EM, Kompanje EJ, Sidor IF, Musmeci L, Uhart MM. : Severe soft tissue ossification in a southern right whale Eubalanea australis Dis Aquat Organ 102: 149-156, 2012.
Mohler ER, Kaplan FS, Pignolo RJ.: Boning-up on aortic valve calcification. J Am Coll Cardiol 60: 1954-1955, 2012.
Liu JJ, Russell E, Zhang D, Kaplan FS, Pignolo RJ, Shore EM.: Paternally-inherited Gs-alpha mutation impairs adipogenesis and potentiates a lean phenotype in vivo. Stem Cells 30:: 1477-1485, 2012.
Hammond P, Suttie M, Hennekam RC, Allanson J, Shore EM, Kaplan FS.: The face signature of fibrodysplasia ossificans progressiva. Am J Med Genet 158A:: 1368-1380, 2012.
Chakkalakal SA, Zhang D, Culbert AL, Convente MR, Caron RJ, Wright AC, Maidment AD, Kaplan FS, Shore EM. : An Acvr1 Knock-in mouse has fibrodysplasia ossificans progressiva. J Bone Miner Res 27:: 746-1756, 2012.
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A Texas House committee has begun hearing testimony on a bill that would put greater restrictions on abortions.
The House State Affairs Committee met Tuesday afternoon with hundreds of people in the Capitol both supporting and opposing House Bill 2.
Republican Chairman Byron Cook of Corsicana says he will cut testimony off at midnight. More than 1,000 people filled the Capitol corridors to express their views.
The latest news from around North Texas.
A hearing 10 days ago began a series of protests by abortion-rights supporters. A filibuster and protest killed the bill on the last day of the first special session.
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Based on the January 4th, 2013 Premium Update. Visit our archives for more gold & silver analysis.
This week we've seen a decent rally in gold, silver and other precious metals and precious metals mining stocks, sparked off probably by the fiscal cliff deal. We have mentioned such a course of events many times and it turned out to be true. As is the case with any strong rally, there always comes a correction (or at least a consolidation) afterwards. The one that took place on Thursday was indeed of significant size but did not – in most cases – invalidate the rally. There were even cases that did not experience any correction at all, such as platinum that held remarkably well. Gold stopped at 200-day moving average, correcting around 72% of the rally.
There was some turmoil in today's pre-market phase – gold and silver plunged dramatically, probably over the surprising information coming from the Fed about the possibility of ending the monetary stimulus. We doubt that this will really be the case, but it seems that this piece of information will manage to make those less convinced about the gold story to sell their holdings and this is what we've seen today before the market opened.
But it seems that this was taken as a good opportunity to either enter the market or add to their positions by gold and silver investors – in the pre-market phase gold went below $1,630 and silver declined below $29.30 and at the moment of writing these words they are both significantly higher – at around $1,648 and $29.8, respectively – lower than yesterday's close but much higher than they were just a couple of hours ago. This only confirms the bullish outlook and could be viewed as a sign that the market doesn't believe that the Fed will actually stop pumping money into the economy.
There is one more interesting thing that should be taken into consideration when analyzing such universal commodities as precious metals, traded on many exchanges and in many currencies, namely their price and behavior from other perspectives than the U.S. dollar's. This is why in today's essay we will try to address the title and figure out what the price of gold in the upcoming weeks will be, accommodating all the information we can get from the charts of gold priced not only in USD but in other important currencies. We'll see that the picture can change significantly with the change of the currency. Let us then jump straight into the technical part – we'll start with the long-term chart of gold priced in U.S. dollars and then move on to other currencies (charts courtesy by http://stockcharts.com.)
In gold's very long-term chart, we do not see bullish implications this week. Gold's price is no longer above the 60-week or 300-day moving average, so the situation has deteriorated this week. The situation remains bullish for the medium term, however, in spite of these developments. This is based on similarities with 2009 and late 2006-early 2007. Gold consolidated after breaking out above triangle patterns in both cases.
Let us now see how the recent developments looked like from the British Pound perspective.
Thursday's declines did not change a thing as far as critical support lines are concerned (based on Thursday's closing prices). Breakdowns were invalidated in all cases and key support lines were not reached. In today's chart of gold from the perspective of the British pound, the previous statements hold true as they do for many other currencies this week. Gold's price here is exactly where it was one week ago.
Let us now move on to the Canadian Dollar perspective.
In this chart, the statements made in the previous section hold true as well here (again, based on Thursday's closing prices). Gold priced in Canadian dollars declined by less than 1% (twelve cents) in the past week and the recent breakdown was invalidated.
Now, we'll move on to the Japanese Yen perspective, where the situation is even more interesting.
The situation is definitely not the same here. Gold rallied nearly to the level of its 2011 high. This was about 2.5 % above last Thursday's close and gold priced in yen is now about 1.5% higher than a week ago.
To finish off, let's have a glance at a chart that synthesizes the "non-USD" perspective, as it features gold price relative to an index of many foreign currencies.
Here we see that the breakout above the medium-term declining resistance line has been confirmed and the breakdown invalidated. The medium-term trend remains bullish. More importantly, we see that this important ratio has some space before it moves to the declining support line, so perhaps it will not move below it today and the overall non-USD picture will remain bullish.
Summing up, the situation has deteriorated a bit for gold from the USD perspective on Thursday, and the situation became mixed based on Friday's pre-market price moves. Even though the most part of these declines has been invalidated, the market is still lower than where it closed yesterday. The situation seen from the non-USD perspective remains favorable and this, plus the reversal seen just before markets opened today, makes the overall medium-term picture bullish.
Thank you for reading. Have a great weekend and profitable week!
Przemyslaw Radomski, CFA
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The NeuroScholar Project is the flagship project for the Biomedical Knowledge Engineering Research Group at the Information Sciences Institute in Marina Del Rey. We are a group specializing in computational approaches (based on Natural Language Processing and Knowledge Engineering) to computing with information drawn from the scientific literature.
The literature is the natural repository for scientific knowledge, our mission is therefore to find ways to make that information readily available to non-computational biomedical scientists and help them organize their understanding of their systems of interest.
We have generated two downloadable working systems at present:
We are developing NLP architecture for Information Extraction of data from large bodies of text. We will also soon be moving websites (watch this space!).
The subject of neuroscience is complex, broad and deep. It uses data from many disciplines: anatomy, physiology, chemistry, physics, molecular biology, cognitive science and ethology to name a few. It traverses many temporal and spatial scales; from milliseconds to generations, and angstroms to meters. The brain itself has been called 'the most complex object in the known universe' (by Nobel-Prize winner James Watson) and the number of individual cells, and connections between cells is (literally) astronomical. The biggest challenge to understanding the large-scale organization of the brain across systems, modalities and scales is therefore complexity of our own data. We contend that knowledge management systems could be built that address this challenge.
The NeuroScholar project provides knowledge engineering software for use by the neuroscience community. The basic framework of our approach is illustrated in the Figure shown below. Shown here is a typical scenario facing neuroscientists: the information required is scattered throughout a number of knowledge sources (in the literature, on the web, in local data files in the lab). NeuroScholar permits users to capture 'fragments' from the knowledge sources, which then can be used to define knowledge representation items within the primary system.The NeuroScholar system permits users to isolate fragments of data from those sources and then bring them together to form facts which may then be incorporated with interpretations and relations to build representations of knowledge within NeuroScholar that may then be used.
Rather than having to remember or keep physical notes about the thousands of individual facts, assumptions and interpretations that underlie a theoretical perspective, scientists can use NeuroScholar to store, retrieve, evaluate and communicate what they think and the reasoning that defines why they think it.
The NeuroScholar system is the flagship application of this project but we have developed other tools to be used in conjunction with the system. These deliver specialized functionality to a neuroscience knowledge user such as the 'Electronic Laboratory Notebook' (ELN), support for schematic diagrams (Diagrammar) and neuroanatomical mapping functions (NeuARt II). The NAWS system is a method for using NeuroScholar to be able to run analyses on it's contents as a remote webservice, and the Sangam project is concerned with intergrating information between different web services (of which NeuroScholar could be one). We have also built software engineering tools to assist with the construction of NeuroScholar-like knowledge bases. This subsystem is called the 'View-Primitive Data Model framework' (VPDMf').
We currently work in close collaboration with the laboratories of Larry Swanson and Alan Watts at USC, to provide knowledge engineering support for their work concerning detailed neuroanatomical circuitry of the hypothalamus and the effects of glucoprivation as a metabolic form of stress.
We provide the full source code for all aspects of the system (available from Sourceforge. We distribute this code under a license that is very similar in form to the LGPL (put together by the legal department at USC).
The NeuroScholar system is having some impact in the biological community. We typically announce new releases to four mailing lists: the '[email protected]' and '[email protected]' lists; our own announcement list: '[email protected]' and a local list for neuroscience graduate students at USC ('[email protected]'). Announcements of this kind usually cause a significant spike in the number of downloads of our software from the SourceForge website. Click here to be taken to the NeuroScholar downloads statistics page. These statistics are the primary way that we monitor our level of impact within the community.
Research Agenda
The mission of this project is to answer large-scale questions about the organization of the whole brain, across modalities, scales and systems. We strive to accomplish this by the development and delivery of stable open-source software in direct collaboration with neuroscientists so that they can use in their everyday research. We strive to make our software reliable and general enough to be genuinely useful to the overall community of neuroscientist as well as our immediate collaborators.
Our strategy can be broken down into the following three general approaches:
Build high-throughput tools for knowledge acquisition and management of neuroscience data.
Build computational knowledge representations that capture the logicical structure of neuroscience experiments
Build modeling/theoretical frameworks for performing computational analysis on our representations.
Build working, releasable software! (see our SourceForge project-site for downloads)
The specific aims of our current work may be paraphrased as follows:
Developing an ontological framework for neuroscientific experiments in general.
To build a knowledge-management system for a laboratory that effectively captures all the knowledge of that laboratory.
Using Natural Language Processing (NLP) techniques to extract information efficiently from the current literature thereby making the process of data entry into the Neuroscholar suite as straightforward as possible.
To instantiate these systems in the Watts and Swanson laboratories in a way that empowers and accelerates the work that they are doing.
Our strategy can be broken down into the following three general approaches:
The specific aims of our current work may be paraphrased as follows:


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R&B singer Ne-Yo has stunned fans by revealing he was once married to his teenage sweetheart.
The singer, who declined to give the name of his ex-wife, tied the knot 11 years ago, but the marriage was doomed because his partner didn't support his musical dreams.
When confronted by a TMZ.com photographer, who randomly asked Ne-Yo whether he had ever been married, he said, "Wait, actually yeah, when I was, like, 19. It was only for, like, a year; we got an annulment."
He added, "I wanted to do this (be a singer), and she didn't want me to do this, and this is honestly the only thing I've ever loved, so I choose this over her and now I'm here and I don't know where she is."
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A while back, I came across an interesting article stating that in twenty years, chocolate will become a rare delicacy. Considering America's tendency to over-consume, this is hardly surprising. What WON'T be a rare delicacy in twenty years?? But just in case this is to happen, or you just love chocolate as much as I do, be sure to stop by K Chocolatier to stock up on your favorite array.
In all honesty, I try to avoid the spot as much as possible (for both my waistline and bank account's sake), but with one of my best girlfriends heir to the Diane Kron empire, how can I not indulge every once in a while? Alex spoils me rotten with their bears, pecans, kranberries, pomegranates and truffles every time I see her.
I stopped by the shop before leaving for NYC to check out their latest and pick up some goodies for my flight. The little boutique (across the street from Sprinkles in Beverly Hills) is currently outfitted with spring decor galore and packing for father's day treats. Absolutely adorable.
Of all the flavors I've sampled here, the K Pomegranates remain my absolute favorite! The flavor is such an unexpected turn from your usual chocolate covered fruit/nut – both sour and sweet and the perfect ratio of chocolate to fruit. These are a MUST every time I'm within a 3-mile radius of the place. Unfortunately I ate the entire bag before pictures could be taken… Go. Indulge. Tell Alex I sent you and thank me
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On the western edge of the Odenwald mountain range, we hike 120 kilometres from Darmstadt to Heidelberg. We see forests, walk through vineyards and take a look around the many castles.
Our tour along the Castle Trail also takes us through the Hessische Bergstraße wine region. The powerful Riesling grape is the main variety grown here. We travel through many wine-growing areas and sample excellent regional varieties by Bensheimer Wolfsmagen (Bensheim Wolf's Stomach) and Heppenheimer Schlossberg (Heppenheim Castle Hill).
The wine gives us the strength for the Castle Trail. It is a tough route, and we need to climb a total of 3,650 metres. But we get our reward once we reach the top of the Odenwald: views extending from the Upper Rhine Plain to the mountain ranges in the Palatinate.
The way-markers featuring a blue castle on a white background guide us to 30 marvellous castles, palaces and iconic sites along the route – a sheer abundance of attractions. On average, we come across a historic site every four kilometres.
Manuel Andrack, editor, presenter, author and hiking blogger:
"Frankenstein Castle is situated to the south of Darmstadt on the Castle Trail. Rumour has it that the infamous Dr Frankenstein created his monster here in this castle. A horrifying hiking highlight!"
At a glance: Castle Trail
Starts: Eberstadt, Darmstadt
Ends: Heidelberg
Length: 120 km
Number of stages: 9
Altitude variation: lowest point 105 m, highest point 420 m
Terrain: 37% unmade, 17% asphalt, 36% other, e.g. farm tracks
Certified quality hiking trail
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