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Elizabeth Armstrong had her first book translation entitled, The Crimson Thread of Abandon, published in September 2014 (MerwinAsia).
The book is a collection of 20 "tales for adults", surreal stories with unconventional and enticing premises. The title of the book in Japanese is rendered literally as "tales sewn together with red thread", and indeed, these stories are joined together thematically by the metaphorical twisting together of unrequited love, abandonment, irremediable separation, and disappointment.
The stories are populated with characters who face the vagaries of fortune which keep happiness just out of reach. Each tale brings the reader into Terayama's private world, which is sometimes disturbing, melancholy, and poignant in turn. Although renown in Japanese literary circles, Terayama is largely unknown internationally; thus Armstrong, a long-time aficionado of Terayama, is delighted to have been able to bring this part of his considerable oeuvre to an English-speaking readership.


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William Mahone to Governor John Letcher, January 2, 1861, Executive Papers of Governor John Letcher, Acc. 36787, State Government Records Collection, Record Group 3, Library of Virginia.
On January 2, 1861, railroad president William Mahone, a graduate of Virginia Military Institute, offered his services to Governor John Letcher in the event that "the honor of Virginia is likely to call her Sons to arms." Mahone wrote from Norfolk, "I am not anxious to engage in any Conflict of arms," but " I shall be ready at your summons." Two days later the governor noted on the back of the letter, "Return Mahone thanks for his tender of service." Mahone was the founder of what later became the Norfolk and Western Railroad and served as a brigadier general during the Civil War.

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Manchester High School closes pool, suspends swim classes in response to student's drowning
MANCHESTER -- Manchester High School has shut its swimming pool and suspended swim classes indefinitely after a 14-year-old student drowned.
Principal Matt Geary said on the school's website Monday that officials have little information as the investigation continues.
Malvrick Donkor was in a class overseen by a teacher last Wednesday and was found under water.
The Journal Inquirer reports that lawyer Carlton Hume has been hired by Donkor's family, which is originally from Ghana. Hume said a lawsuit is probable.
Interim Schools Superintendent Richard Kisiel said Monday he has not been contacted by Hume.
Hume also represents the mother of an East Hartford High School student, also from Ghana, who drowned in a pool at the school in January. Hume did not immediately return a call Monday seeking more information.


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Wisconsin students traveling to Boston science conference safe
Teacher, students hope to still attend conference
The Boston lockdown comes as dozens of high school students from the Milwaukee area are there for a science conference, which has been abbreviated.
Just hours after the FBI identified their suspects in the Boston Marathon explosions, the city was plunged into a manhunt drama that's still playing out. And dozens of Wisconsin high school students taking part in a science conference through the Milwaukee School of Engineering found themselves in the middle of it.
Among them, four students from Brookfield Academy and their teacher, Robbyn Tuinstra, were forced to deal with the lockdown in place because of all the police activity that limited them to just a few sites around their downtown hotel.
"We just have to commend the people of Boston and the policemen and everybody here. They're the most friendly, gracious people. They have been just so nice and helping us any way they can," said Tuinstra.
Tuinstra said she and the students were scheduled to visit MIT, but it didn't happen after a campus officer was shot dead. The lockdown that had been in place all day was just lifted and they remain hopeful they'll still get the conference in.
"We're hoping to still attend, because we could actually walk to the conference from here, so we're hoping we can go to the rest of the conference starting tomorrow," said Tuinstra.
Some of the MSOE contingent is from Greenfield High School and Cedarburg High School, where Principal Jeff Nelson tweeted Friday morning, "Our SMART team is in the Boston area right now, but we want everyone to know that they are safe."
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Bisons install new field, drainage at Coca-Cola Field
In a commitment to maintain Coca-Cola Field's standing as one of the marquee ballparks in all of minor league baseball, the Buffalo Bisons today announced the installation of a completely new drainage system and field for the ballpark.
The existing native soil playing field at Coca Cola Field is being replaced with a state-of-the-art, vertically drained, sand-based playing field commensurate with those found at the highest levels of professional baseball. The new field will consist of an under drainage network capable of draining up to 10″ of rainwater per hour. The under drainage network will consist of a series of perforated pipes placed in gravel filled trenches. The new field will also be outfitted with an automated irrigation system. The natural turf will be a Kentucky Bluegrass blend grown specifically for use on a professional baseball field.
"It is absolutely vital that we update our drainage system that is over two decades old to ensure that we always have the best possible playing conditions for our team," said Mike Buczkowski, Vice President/General Manager of the Bisons. "This new system will allow us to provide the highest level of baseball and entertainment that our great fans have come to expect with the Bisons baseball experience."
This project is just one of a number of updates Coca-Cola Field has received over the past 23 seasons. Since the ballpark's opening, the Bisons have invested over $20 million in various improvements. Coca-Cola Field is currently the oldest ballpark in the International League.
The Bisons have engaged Sports Construction Group of Brecksville, OH for the job. SCG most recently installed the drainage systems of Yankee Stadium and PNC Field, home of the Scranton/Wilkes-Barre Yankees. With more than 50 years in the business, SCG's client list includes one-fourth of the National Football League and one-fifth of all Major League Baseball teams.
The Bisons have also worked hand-in-hand with Populous (former H.O.K. Design, the architects of Coca-Cola Field) in the design of the new drainage system.
Digging has already begun for the project that should take close to two months to complete. SCG will dig at least 18 inches below grass level and haul out over 600 truckloads of dirt before installing the new drainage system.
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Sports Construction Group is a sports field specialty contractor that handles all phases of natural turf and synthetic turf jobs, from excavation and sub base through installation, replacement and maintenance. SCG has more than 50 years of construction experience, including more than 20 years of expertise building high-performance sports fields.
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Featured here are 7 beautiful and unique pooja room designs by Indian interior architects and interior designers at homify. Pooja or prayer rooms are designed to create a sacred space where we send our prayer vibrations to the Gods we adore. It is a place where we conduct rituals to show honour and reverence for our creators. We adorn our shrines with gold, glitter and fragrant flowers; we light up lamps and incenses, creating an island of calm where we join our hands in prayer to the divine beings in which our faith lies.
This platform for prayer is designed to be integrated into the main living area or dining area. Pooja rooms are auspicious, and send positive vibes throughout the home, hence it is not surprising that many people choose to make it the sacred center of their home.
The main altar is supported by a wooden platform which is atypical of Hindu shrines, making it unique. While the wooden platform on the floor creates a niche space where one can sit on the floor to pray or kneel in worship. In essence, the use of wood in the pooja room design seems to speak about staying grounded in spirituality, and is humble yet elegant.
This simple pooja room design is highlighted by an elegant background panel and soft lighting. The overall design and lighting give this pooja room a spiritual glow that resonates with the vibrations which created this world.This pooja room radiates with serenity, calm, and will put you into a deep meditative trance.
This unique pooja room is awe-inspiring, and cultivates fiery devotion. The fiery lights highlight the stained glass on the ceiling. The stained glass depicts the sun, the source of life, casting a spectrum of pure light throughout the cosmos. If there is such a thing as a materialisation of a spiritual awakening, this must be it.
This modern pooja room is very minimalist, and creates a space and mind that is clear of clutter and ideal for spiritual reflection.The mirror in the background reflects the natural light shining through the window and creates a spacious room. A soft limelight envelops the idols creating a peaceful ambiance. Imagine listening to devotional songs and meditative chants in this tranquil space.
Given that this altar is rather small and may not have the space to hold all the precious collections of idols and deities a religious collector might have, creating showcase shelves in the pooja room might be a good idea.
This elegantly designed prayer corner is ideal for houses with space constraints.Tucked away cosily in a corner of the living room, a wooden panel with organic patterns divides the hall from this oasis of calm. A niche space for prayer can easily be designed to fit your home no matter how small it may be.
For those of us who prefer to keep our our religious beliefs more private, this prayer cabinet keeps our faith in the mysterious a mystery. The golden motifs on the cabinet aptly express the precious beliefs that are materialised inside.
This traditional pooja room designs almost seems like a replica of a quaint little temple in the village. Like many temples, it is designed with tiling around the door frame, and has a bright doorway that guides us to the right path.The dark tiles contrasted with the bright interior is intriguing. While the window placed right above the deity allows natural light to illuminate the room, and also provides good ventilation for all the smoky rituals that are due to take place.
As for the gods of interior design and architecture, you can find them on homify.
The single glowing brass statue placed against a pure tiled marble backdrop on a pedestal is enough to invoke feelings of sancity, adoration and love for the almighty. Here the deity of worship to millions of devotees is asking his followers to bow down in prayer, so he can bless the family with peace, joy and good health.


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The 100 Moments of TSU Athletics presented by Taco Bell® series continues by remembering a group of individuals from one team that left the school and became professionals.
In 1974, six men left TSU and entered the National Football League. Ed "Too Tall" Jones, Waymond Bryant, John Holland, Greg Kindle, Carl Wafer, and Ed Gatewood were a part of the 1973 Black College National Championship team that went finished the season 10-0 and was coached by the late John Merritt. They also finished their career's winning the last 17 games that they played and 28 of their last 29.
Ed Jones earned his iconic nickname "Too Tall" due to his pants not fitting, because he was too tall. Jones originally came to TSU to play basketball, but after two seasons he decided to play football instead. He became a two time All-American defensive lineman during his time at TSU. Jones was drafted number one overall by the Dallas Cowboys and played for 15 seasons, accumulating 106 sacks and 19 fumble recoveries. He was also a three-time All-Pro selection, as well as helping Dallas win Super Bowl XII.
Linebacker Waymond Bryant was drafted fourth overall to the Chicago Bears. Bryant played with Chicago for four seasons, starting 25 of the 53 games he played. He also intercepted four passes during his career to go along with nine fumble recoveries.
Wide Receiver John Holland was selected with the 29th pick, third overall in the second round, by the Minnesota Vikings. Holland only played one season with the Vikings, who lost to the Pittsburgh Steelers in that year's Super Bowl, before playing three seasons with the Buffalo Bills. He finished his career his 35 catches for 634 yards and three touchdowns.
Offensive lineman Greg Kindle was selected by the St. Louis Cardinals, just four picks after Holland. The Houston native played in 35 games during his four year career, two with the Cardinals and two with the Atlanta Falcons.
Defensive end Carl Wafer was the fifth Tiger picked in the first two rounds as he went to the Denver Broncos with the 42nd overall pick. Wafer played two games with the Green Bay Packers and one game for the New York Giants during the 1974 season, his only NFL season.
Linebacker Ed Gatewood was drafted in the 13th round by the Buffalo Bills becoming the sixth Tigers drafted in 1974 and the 13th TSU player selected in the last two drafts.
The 100 Moments of TSU Athletics presented by Taco Bell® highlights some of the greatest moments in honor of Tennessee State's centennial celebration. A new moment will be released each weekday for a total of 100. These moments were chosen by the TSU 100 Moments committee, which consists of alums from various departments. TSU has so many great moments, not all can be represented in these 100.
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Synchronization is of paramount importance to exploit thread-level parallelism on many-core CMPs. In these architectures, synchronization mechanisms usually rely on shared variables to coordinate multithreaded access to shared data structures thus avoiding data dependency con?icts. Lock synchronization is known to be a key limitation to performance and scalability. On the one hand, lock acquisition through busy waiting on shared variables generates additional coherence activity which interferes with applications. On the other hand, lock contention causes serialization which results in performance degradation. This paper proposes and evaluates GLocks, a hardware-supported implementation for highly-contended locks in the context of many-core CMPs. GLocks use a token-based message-passing protocol over a dedicated network built on state-of-the-art technology. This approach skips the memory hierarchy to provide a non-intrusive, extremely ef?cient and fair lock implementation with negligible impact on energy consumption or die area. A comprehensive comparison against the most ef?cient shared-memory-based lock implementation for a set of microbenchmarks and real applications quanti?es the goodness of GLocks. Performance results show an average reduction of 42% and 14% in execution time, an average reduction of 76% and 23% in network traf?c, and also an average reduction of 78% and 28% in energy-delay^2 product (ED^2P) metric for the full CMP for the microbenchmarks and the real applications, respectively. In light of our performance results, we can conclude that GLocks satisfy our initial working hypothesis. GLocks minimize cache-coherence network traf?c due to lock synchronization which translates into reduced power consumption and execution time.
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DENVER - Seventy-two executives, staff members and volunteers from 32 state beef councils gathered to launch the 2013 beef checkoff plan of work during the Partnerships in Action Conference (PIA), Oct. 16-18, in Denver. SBC representatives provided input on nationally-conducted checkoff programs and learned strategies to extend programs in their own states, using resources and staff expertise available to them as part of the Federation state-national partnership.
Jason Carter, executive director of the Virginia Beef Industry Council, was one of four new beef council executives attending his first checkoff launch. Carter said the meeting, along with the creative cross-country camaraderie, was one reason Virginia invested in the Federation of State Beef Councils in FY 2013.
"As a Federation member, Virginia will have better access to program staff and resources, especially through kickoff meetings like this one," Carter said. "I've had the opportunity to make contacts with other beef council execs, talk about what's worked or not worked for them and find resources that will benefit us throughout the year."
The PIA meeting, along with an orientation for new state beef council directors and staff (March 5-7, 2013), are two annual meetings supported by the checkoff through the Federation of State Beef Councils.
"Bright Idea" Awardees: A panel of independent judges honored state beef councils for marketing savvy and creativity in state-based beef promotions, public relations and special events. The first-ever "Bright Idea" awards were presented at the Partnerships in Action Conference Oct. 16-18, in Denver.
Representing winning states are: (1st row, L to R) Erin Beasley, Ala.; Jean O'Toole, N.Y.; George Quackenbush, Mich.; Kaiti George, Neb. (2nd row, L to R) Carol Gillis, N.Y., Stephen Russell, Kan.; Jennifer Matison, Texas; Audrey Monroe, Kan.; Sharla Huseman, Kan.; Kristin Wilkins, Pa. (red); Deena Robinson, Kan.; Heather Buckmaster, Okla.; Adam Wegner, Neb. Earning the "Best of Bright Ideas" honors was the Michigan Beef Industry Commission.


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How White Liberals Used Civil Rights to Create More Prisons
In their quest to wipe out extra-legal racial violence, white liberals created a system that continues to kill black people—legally.
From The Nation
Neither liberals nor conservatives are chomping at the bit to discuss the historical roots of the modern gun-rights movement. If asked to describe it, liberals will gesture vaguely at the eighties and nineties, blaming survivalists, school shootings, "cold, dead hands" and the National Rifle Association. Conservatives, on the other hand, will jump the historical mark by some distance, talking about the founding fathers, the Second Amendment and the right to an armed militia. Neither side wants to admit that the first modern anti-carry law was passed by California Governor Ronald Reagan in 1967. Nor would they want to mention that Reagan passed the law to disarm the twentieth century's greatest gun-rights militia: the Black Panther Party. Political genealogies in America are more mixed than the 24/7 news cycle will allow.
In her first book, The First Civil Right: How Liberals Built Prison in America, historian Naomi Murakawa demonstrates how the American prison state emerged not out of race-baiting states'-rights advocates nor tough-on-crime drug warriors but rather from federal legislation written by liberals working to guarantee racial equality under the law. The prison industry, and its associated police forces, spy agencies and kangaroo courts, is perhaps the most horrific piece of a fundamentally racist and unequal American civil society. More people are under correctional supervision in the United States than were in the Gulag archipelago at the height of the Great Terror; there are more black men in prison, jail or parole than were enslaved in 1850. How did this happen?
The common-sense answer is that launching the war on drugs during the backlash against civil-rights struggles encouraged agents of the criminal-justice system to lock up black people for minor infractions. This isn't wrong, or not exactly. Ronald Reagan's infamous Sentencing Reform Act of 1984, which established federal minimums (a k a sentencing "guidelines") and abolished parole in the federal prison systems, did lead to an explosion in the number of federal prisoners, particularly drug offenders. It was one of the pivotal moments in the production of the prison-industrial complex (PIC)—the overlapping sphere of government and industrial activity that employs hundreds of thousands of guards, cops, judges, lawyers, bail-bondsmen, administrators and service employees and which sees millions of prisoners performing barely paid production labor to generate profit. But, as Murakawa painstakingly demonstrates, the Sentencing Reform Act has a "liberal core," and is built on the technical and administrative logic of racial fairness that structures all federal civil-rights legislation. (more…)


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God created the world for the people to live in. The beautiful nature it has will never been changed of anything else. The environment should be given importance, for example, its usefulness, especially, for man, and animals. Environment provides food and shelter which man and animals need to survive.


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Topic: Relay domain
There is already a similar thread in the normal forum (http://www.iredmail.org/forum/topic836-transports.html) - but I think this topic is more related to the pro version.
We want to relay whole domains to external smtp servers (relay setting in admin tool e.g. smtp:[10.0.0.1]:25
But this does not work.. see also my posting there..
Any ideas how to fix this without manual ldap entries?


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The decline of news
The Chronicle's announcement earlier this month that 100 newsroom jobs will be slashed in the coming weeks in the face of mounting financial woes represents just the latest chapter in a tragic story of traditional journalism's decline.
Reportedly losing an estimated $1 million a week, the paper's owner, the Hearst Corp., concluded it had no recourse but to trim costs by laying off reporters, editors and other skilled professionals, or offering buyouts to the most seasoned journalists in order to induce them to leave. The cuts reportedly will amount to a quarter of The Chronicle's editorial staff.
In the age of "new" media, this rollback in "old" media may be among the most drastic in recent memory, but it is nothing new to the public.
Indeed, across the country newspapers have suffered enormous financial losses over the past decade, with far fewer professionals today covering the news locally, nationally and internationally as a result of the industry's contraction.
The factors behind this shrinkage are sadly familiar: The rise of the Internet has produced sharp declines in traditional advertising revenues in the printed press. Free online advertising competitors such as Craigslist.com have sharply undermined classified advertising as a traditional source of revenue. While many newspapers have attempted mightily to forge a presence on the Web -- including The Chronicle, whose terrific sfgate.com is among the top 10 most trafficked news sites in America -- revenue from online advertising is paltry compared to that from traditional print sources. As a result, newspapers such as The Chronicle must make staff cuts to survive -- and increasingly it is highly skilled professional journalists committed to seeking the truth and reporting it, independently and without fear or favor, who must go.
The average citizen may not realize how severely the public's access to important news, gathered according to high standards, may be threatened by these bottom line trade-offs.
When journalists' jobs are eliminated, especially as many as The Chronicle intends, the product is inevitably less than it was. The fact is there will be nothing on YouTube, or in the blogosphere, or anywhere else on the Web to effectively replace the valuable work of those professionals.
Fewer resources will be available to investigate stories as nationally significant as the BALCO scandal, for example; fewer professionals to doggedly uncover shady financial practices at the University of California, forcing top officials to publicly acknowledge their mistakes and work to fix them; fewer journalists to cover local city halls, courts and schools, reporting community news that the public often takes for granted -- and which other media, including local television and radio outlets, rely upon to set their own news priorities.
There certainly won't be any less news or fewer scandals to report, mind you: Only fewer trained watchdogs on hand to do the hard work of hunting, finding and reporting it.
Idolaters of Web-based news and information sites, "citizen"-produced journalism, and the blogosphere of individual self-publishers, often argue that old mainstays such as The Chronicle are, in fact, getting only what they deserve.
If "old" media cannot successfully adjust to the digital age, too bad, these critics argue. The corporate media were never that good in the first place, they say, and have failed us miserably in the past. There are plenty of alternatives on the Web to take traditional journalism's place, including the millions of bloggers opining about the news, not to mention powerful news aggregators such as Google and Yahoo whose computerized search robots harvest riches of news and other content provided by others -- and generate billions of dollars in annual profits for their owners.
As a teacher of journalism, I see the situation differently. I see a world where the craft of reporting the news fairly and independently is very much endangered; and with it a society increasingly fractured, less informed by fact and more susceptible to political and marketing propaganda, cant and bias.
I see a world in which the pursuit of truth in service of the public interest is declining as a cultural value in our society amid this technological tumult; a world where professional journalism, practiced according to widely accepted ethical values, is a rapidly diminishing feature in our expanding news and information systems, as we escape to the Web to experience the latest "new" thing.
I see a world where corporations such as Google and Yahoo continue to enrich themselves with little returning to journalistic enterprises, all this ultimately at the expense of legions of professional reporters across America, now out of work because their employers in "old" media could not afford to pay them.
Not long ago, billionaire real estate executive Sam Zell, who earlier this year purchased the Tribune Co. family of newspapers, including the Los Angeles Times, made this point quite bluntly. He likened Google and Yahoo to modern- day pirates ripping off treasure produced by others. According to the Washington Post, Zell told a gathering at Stanford University in April, "If all the newspapers in America did not allow Google to steal their content, how profitable would Google be? Not very."
For their part, Google executives maintain that the travails of the American newspaper industry today are hardly their fault. They argue that their informational enterprises simply help the public find whatever it is looking for. They insist that the problems of newspapers are the result of market forces, driven by the continuing technological revolution.
Indeed last week, at a conference on the state of American newspapers at Stanford, Google Vice President Marissa Mayer reportedly made this argument quite clearly. She said simply: "We are computer scientists, not journalists."
While that may be true, the time has come for corporations such as Google to accept more responsibility for the future of American journalism, in recognition of the threat "computer science" poses to journalism's place in a democratic society.
It is no longer acceptable for Google corporate executives to say that they don't practice journalism, they only work to provide links to "content providers." Journalism is not just a matter of jobs, and dollars and cents lost. It is a public trust vital to a free society. It stands to reason that Google and corporations like it, who indirectly benefit so enormously from the expensive labor of journalists, should begin to take on greater civic responsibility for journalism's plight. Is it possible for Google to somehow engage and support the traditional news industry and important local newspapers more fully, for example, to become a vital part of possible solutions to this crisis instead of a part of the problem?
Is it not possible for Google and other information corporations to offer more direct support to schools of journalism to help ensure that this craft's values and skills are passed on to the next generation?
Is it not possible for these flourishing corporations to assist and identify more closely with the work of venerable organizations, such as the Society of Professional Journalists, in support of their mission and to preserve this important calling? I like to think such things are possible. Meantime, I can't help but fear a future, increasingly barren of skilled journalists, in which Google "news" searches turn up not news, but the latest snarky rants from basement bloggers, fake news reports from government officials and PR cleverly peddled in the guise of journalism by advertisers wishing only to sell, sell, sell.


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Hello everyone. Thank all of you for reading my question.
I use UVNC on many of my machines, but I ran into a unique problem today.
Clean install (not upgrade) of latest released UVNC build on site. OS Win7/64. Installed as usual. UAC & Firewall are both off.
The server service says 'not listening'. Every time I open Admin Properties, Accept Socket Connects is unchecked, but all my other info is still there. I recheck the box to Accept, click apply, click ok... The server is still not listening. I go back into options and it is unchecked again.
The install was ran as admin, logged on user is admin.
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The Loch Ness monster might have celebrity status, but England has its own lake monster that's a real up-and-comer. Denizens of Bowness-on-Windermere in Cumbria's Lake District claim they've spotted the beast, whom they've dubbed "Bownessie."
Reporters from the BBC's Inside Out went to Bowness to investigate these monstrous claims. It sounds like many experts suspect that the object photographed in the lake is an actual animal, although it may be less the dinosaur-like sea serpent so often depicted in Loch Ness than an unusually large fish.
So is Bownessie real? Simply a big fish in a large lake? Or just a ploy to lure those Loch Ness tourists away?
'Bownessie': the mysterious water 'monster' of Bowness [BBC via Cryptomundo]


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Establishment myth that Paul is not electable debunked yet again
Paul Joseph Watson
Tuesday, January 17, 2012
A new CNN poll once again debunks the myth that Ron Paul is not electable, showing the Congressman tied with Mitt Romney in a hypothetical head to head contest against Barack Obama.
"The poll also indicates Paul statistically tied with Obama, with the president at 48% and the longtime congressman at 46%," reports CNN. "But according to the poll, the president is doing better against two other Republican presidential candidates. If Rick Santorum were the GOP nominee, Obama would hold a 51%-45% advantage over the former senator from Pennsylvania. And if Newt Gingrich faced off against the president, Obama would lead the former House speaker 52%-43%."
Paul's performance against Obama has improved compared to previous CNN polls taken over the course of the last year, illustrating his momentum.
The results are similar to a CBS poll last week which found that Paul was just one percentage point behind Obama in terms of a head to head run off. Aside from Mitt Romney, the poll showed that all the other Republican candidates would be beaten by Obama.
Numerous establishment Republicans have regurgitated the hoax that Paul is not electable in an effort to undermine his campaign, flagrantly ignoring polls which illustrate the exact opposite to be true.
The corporate media has also been instrumental in manufacturing doubts about Paul's electability, dismissing him as "the buffer between Mitt Romney and the other candidates," a claim Paul has soundly rejected.
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"I've been electable," Paul told CBS News last week. "I've won 12 elections already, and we're doing quite well now. It's amazing that I do so much better than those other candidates that are all electable. They're all in fourth, fifth and sixth place, but they're all electable, but I come in second or third, and all of the sudden people say, 'Oh, he's not electable.' I don't know how that adds up."
As Mark R. Crovelli highlights, when Republicans decided to pick a "moderate" four years ago in the belief that such a choice would secure the White House, it didn't end too well.
"Here's a novel idea for Republicans: Vote based upon principle, not based upon whatever the bobble-headed morons in the media establishment say is strategically expedient," he writes. "Your strategic pragmatism got you nowhere four years ago. Young people and independents in this country are not any more impressed with bland flip-floppers from Massachusetts than they are impressed with nut-job moderates from Arizona. These guys don't even impress Republicans themselves. If they want a "moderate" who stands for war and socialized medicine, they might as well stick with the moderate, warmongering socialist they already have."
Paul Joseph Watson is the editor and writer for Prison Planet.com. He is the author of Order Out Of Chaos. Watson is also a regular fill-in host for The Alex Jones Show and Infowars Nightly News.
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Weekly Review Rumble #191!
sunkissedJess is this week's - Weekly Review Rumble Winner for her review, The Ferris Wheel of Tongues! - Congratulations on a review well done!
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Kathleen "Cathy" Demor is an actress who appeared as a regular background performer on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine and in at least one episode of Star Trek: Voyager. She received no on-screen credit for her appearances. Her costume as a female Klingon was sold off on the It's A Wrap! sale and auction on eBay. [1] Parts of this costume were reused and also worn by Spice Williams-Crosby, Thelma Lee, Marlene Sosebee, and Sandra Nelson. Another costume worn by Demor and by background actress L. James in "Caretaker" was also sold off. [2]
Demor worked as a set costumer on the short film 9mm of Love in 2000. This film was produced, written, and directed by Robert Duncan McNeill and starred Ethan Phillips and Star Trek: The Next Generation guest actress Liz Vassey. Among those involved in this production are second assistant director David Trotti, gun wrangler Alan Sims, make-up artists Suzanne Diaz and Scott Wheeler, background coordinator Pablo Soriano, stunt coordinators Dennis Madalone and Tom Morga, and stunt performers Patricia Tallman, Leslie Hoffman, Boni Yanagisawa, Chester E. Tripp III, John Lendale Bennett, Brian J. Williams, and Gary Ray Stearns.
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Women's Group is a safe place for women with a learning disability to meet up and talk about the things that are important to them. The group meet at 215 Northdown Road on the first Monday of every month, from 1pm to 3pm.
Recent projects include working with the domestic abuse charity, Oasis, to produce some easy read information about domestic abuse, and meeting with a local dietitian to plan a healthy living group so women with a learning disability can support each other to eat well and get fit.
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There is perhaps nothing better than a budding romance. Not only do you get to feel those butterflies in your stomach every time your new beau smiles at you, but you also get to enjoy getting dolled up to look and feel great around your guy.
In this day and age, less is certainly more when it comes to makeup trends, so the key in looking fresh is selecting one or two trends to try in order to avoid going overboard. The lovely Emma Stone has been known for looking fab for all events, and her recent style – rocking a high bun hairstyle with bold lipstick – is a date-night win.
Glamour magazine reports Stone has been seen with the style on multiple occasions, once wearing a bright bubblegum pink lipstick and another time opting for a sassy tangerine-toned pout. If you're fair like the pretty actress, you could try to rock either of these hues to shine in front of your new guy. However, if you have a darker complexion, it might be nice to opt for either a darker, fuchsia pink lipstick or even a copper-based lip product.
Since the lips are meant to be the focus, keep the rest of your makeup minimal. A touch of eyeliner and mascara on your peepers and a warm sun-kissed bronzer on your cheeks may be just enough.


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Mellow Yellow: The choice of name alone speaks volumes about this brand founded by Parisian Bruno Van Gaver. Referring to the light-hearted song of the same name from the 60s, Mellow Yellow evokes the gentle charm and humour that is the brand's signature. Mellow Yellow shoes were an instant hit when introduced to fashion professionals in 2003. Their cutting-edge design fits in easily with life's everyday pleasures, and the super-trendy styling is instantly wearable and accessible. In the same year, Mellow Yellow opened up a boutique in the heart of one of Paris's most fashionable quarters. Low boots, shoe boots, pumps, heels and sandals all in the colours of the moment, muted or bright, flowing or more structured, casual or the ultimate in chic... Mellow Yellow has a definite place in our ideal style file!
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Here are a few upcoming events in NYC, for your cycling pleasure.
Kim Burgas isn't afraid of a little cold. She's put on a group ride/ice skating event back in December. Now her gang is at it again with a gallery hop.
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Re: Cool Trailers
Huh...that actually looks pretty freakin cool.
Although if you had asked me who I would cast as the new Sarah Connor, I would not have said Emilia Clarke. And...as much as I love her...she's really not right for this. She looks like she's about 16 and never seen a fight in her life. Unless they're REALLY fucking with the timeline, and she is actually super young (Although judging by the dialogue we did get it sounds like this is supposed to take place after T1, possibly even T2), I don't think she'll pull it off.


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Vuelta All-Mountain MTB and Team V MTB wheelset
Review, photos and videos by Lee Lau
Vuelta wheelsets show that sometimes, the bike industry can produce good components at a reasonable price.
In my opinion, wheelsets should be assessed on – (i) weight; (ii) stiffness; (iii) build/materials quality; and (iv) engagement. The wheelsets were more than adequate on the first three criteria and only fell short on the latter – and really only because I had to find something to nit-pick. In brief, there was much for this reviewer to like about Vuelta's wheelsets and not much to dislike.
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A mysterious, and potentially explosive, foam sometimes forms on manure stored beneath hog confinement buildings. It's being blamed for flash fires and explosions. Both farmers and scientists are trying to understand how to keep the foam under control.
Howard Hill pulls his red Chevy pick-up truck up to a barn near Union, Iowa, that houses 1,000 of his hogs. In the truck's bed is a 55-pound bag of Rumensin 90, a common antibacterial ingredient in cattle feed that helps reduce bloating. Pigs don't eat it. Hill brought it here to dump into the manure pit under the hogs.
Hill is among the many Midwestern pork producers who use deep pits under their barns to accumulate manure throughout the year. In the fall, after fields are harvested, the nutrient-rich slurry gets pumped out of the pits and injected into the cropland.
At this time of year, the manure is nearing its deepest levels and many farmers are weary of an ongoing pit problem: a mysterious foam that sometimes forms on the manure. No one quite understands why methane gas gets trapped in the pits, but the foam it creates presents the threat of explosion.
Outside of the barn, Hill, who owns the hogs, and Kent Reinert, the site manager who owns the barn, remove a fan to gain access to the eight-foot-deep pit. It extends under the barn's slatted floor, capturing a lot of pig poop. The men peer down at a gurgling brown mass.
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Kent Reinert watches as Howard Hill gently mixes a powdery pit additive into the foaming manure pit.
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Foam in manure pits has been blamed for flash fires and explosions at hog barns in the upper Midwest.
Hill brought the bag of powder to calm the gas. This is his first time dealing with foam-- a vexing problem that has become a persistent issue in the upper Midwest since 2008. Several flash fires have killed hogs and injured workers -- in one barn 1,500 hogs perished. And still scientists haven't found the cause. Iowa State University professor Steven Hoff is leading a million dollar, three-state research project funded by the Pork Checkoff.
"What we're finding is that roughly 25 percent of the producers that we're surveying are experiencing some sort of foaming," Hoff said.
Gene Gilman is among them. He's a hog farmer in Garden City, Minn., who confronted pit foam last year. Like Hill, he turned to the cattle feed ingredient.
"And three weeks later, after Rumensin, there was no foam," he said.
Gilman has been carefully monitoring this year and has not had the problem. He doesn't know why. He thinks weather may be a factor—last summer was much hotter than this year. And Hoff, the researcher, says that's one of the variables scientists are investigating. Another is the bacterial community in pits with and without foam.
"We're looking very extensively at the chemistry of manure," Hoff said, "as well as the microbial population shifts that we might have in a foaming manure pit."
Foaming incidents seemed to take off around the time an ethanol by-product called dried distiller's grains became a common ingredient in swine feed.
"It's a very high fiber feed and, in some cases, combined with a higher fat content," Hoff said. "So those two components are issues, or at least avenues, that we're pursuing in the research business."
But Hoff says they haven't been able to make a conclusive connection between the distiller's grains and foam. Among swine fed the same feed on the same farm, some pits will have foam and others will have none.
Until a cause is isolated, farmers are at a loss for preventing the problem. So they're stuck with the Band-Aid of applying a product once the foam is present in order to reduce it and prevent explosions.
On the farm, Hill pours some of the additive onto the bubbling brown "milkshake" and uses a long stick to gently mix it in. Reinert watches with anticipation.
"Will you be able to see it do something?" Reinert asked, hoping perhaps for the foam's sudden, dramatic disappearance. But alas, there is no immediate impact.
After two weeks, though, Hill reported improvement. The foam was not completely gone, but it had become consistently lower.
Hill has quieted the milkshake this time. But he and others remain eager for a more permanent fix. And Iowa State's Hoff promises one will come.
"We're nine months into a 3-year study," he said in July, "And one way or the other we're going to solve this issue."


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ACCEPT have also recently announced news of their upcoming album "Blind Rage" which is due for worldwide release on July 18th.
"Blind Rage" just like its two predecessors has been produced, mixed and mastered by Andy Sneap. "The cover artwork done by Daniel Goldsworthy shows the beast coming over us – in blind rage – all over the planet. Wherever we go, whenever you turn on the TV – there is blind rage in the works – either natural catastrophes or man-made madness", the axe man of ACCEPT states.


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Extreme weather patterns across much of the U.S. have lead to increasing grain prices throughout July. Farmers have been busy scouting for aphids in their soybean fields and timing the spraying of herbicides and fungicides in their crops in July, but a very severe heat wave left many crops in the Midwest damaged in mid-July.
Temperatures in the Midwest were very high with dangerously high humidity levels. Champaign, Illinois had a seven-day span of temperatures in excess of 90°, while nine of ten days were over 90° in Waterloo, Iowa. Mitchell, South Dakota experienced a four-day span of temperatures over 99° with a high of 103° on July 19.
Grain Prices
Corn prices increased by 5.79% this month and closed at $6.65 per bushel during a month of a general upswing in prices. September corn was trading as high as $7.23 by July 19th due to the latest WASDE Report which revealed an increase in demand which will continue to trump increased production estimates. Chinese import estimates for 2011/12 were increased by four times to 2.0 million tonnes, compared to June, which sent corn prices immediately higher.
The corn crop condition is also continuing to deteriorate with each passing weekly USDA Crop Progress Report as extreme heat and humidity spanned across the entire Midwest in late mid-July. 14% of the U.S. corn crop was classified as in poor or very poor condition as of the last week in July compared to 2010's 9% during the same week.
Soybean prices increased by 3.69% in July to $13.54 per bushel due to harsh growing conditions throughout the month. Prices have also paralleled rising corn prices during July. The July WASDE estimated lower export expectations from Argentina and Brazil which should help competition for U.S. soybeans in the global market.
Wheat prices increased this month to $6.72 per bushel, a 15.14% increase due to the poor conditions of the wheat crop in top producing states, Texas and Oklahoma. The southern plains experienced prolonged drought conditions throughout the growing season leading to the poor yields. The month's WASDE drastically lowered Canadian wheat production to 21.5 million tonnes. World production of high quality wheat was estimated to decrease 15% year-over-year.
The USDA updated the U.S. and World balance sheet estimates for major agricultural commodities in the World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates (WASDE) report in mid-July. WASDE reports in the summer are a barometer of overall world demand, forecasted production, and inventory adjustments. In July, U.S. ending stocks for 2011/12 were revised higher for corn, but decreased for soybeans and wheat.
Mixed news for the U.S. corn market continues after the surprise USDA June 30th Acreage and Grain Stocks report, as the 2011/12 U.S. projections for beginning stocks, production, usage, and ending stocks were all increased from their June estimates.
The USDA raised beginning stocks 150 million bushels reflecting changes made to the 2010/11 usage projections. After the surprising June 30th Acreage report, an additional 1.7 million harvested acres were added in the July estimates. Yield estimates remained flat from June, causing the 2011/12 production estimate to be increased by 270 million bushels to 13,470 million bushels.
We will pay attention to crop conditions during pollination and grain fill, end-user demand, and weather patterns as the summer progresses. As grain prices could regain a tailwind and continue their historical climb higher.
Farmland prices remained above growth neutral for the 18th straight month, but the farmland index continued to slip to 59.4 from June's 62.0, according to the Creighton University Rural Mainstreet Survey. "Even though this is the 18th straight month the index was above growth neutral, we are tracking consistent slippage in farmland price growth as the index has declined for three straight months. Consistent with the decline in farmland price growth, the farm equipment sales index sank for the fourth consecutive month to 53.7 from 63.1 in June," said Professor Ernie Goss.
Roughly 68% of bankers supported the removal of blenders' tax credit for ethanol as a part of the U.S. debt reduction and 35% supported phasing out agriculture support payments over five years. Dan Coup, of First National noted though, "If the government wants to continue with a cheap food policy, payment support needs to remain. Subsidy on crop insurance premiums is a must."
The macro outlook of agriculture has been continuing to build strength throughout this summer and the headlines of China importing four times the amount of corn than previously estimated for the 2011/12 season should support elevated grain prices moving forward. A recent report from Macquarie estimates the Chinese to import 3.5mt compared to the latest USDA estimate of 2.0 million tonnes in 2011/12. Since the mid-1990s, when China transitioned to being a net importer of soybeans, soybean imports have grown at a torrid pace. We have been foreseeing the same adjustments in corn, which has started to take shape this month. We estimate that the global demand for U.S. grain will continue to increase and thus continue to support increasing farmland values.
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The OVC Digital Network is the exclusive home for live web streamed athletic contests involving OVC schools. This marks the seventh year the OVC has streamed live events, but the first time the events will be offered free of charge and in an HD format and will feature improved quality thanks to an investment in new equipment conference-wide.
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This is an introductory course relevant for students who plan to practice business law (particularly in technology-related areas) or general litigation, as well as for those who intend to practice patent law. We will cover patentable subject matter, utility, novelty, non-obviousness, disclosure doctrines related to section 112 of the patent code, infringement, and remedies. Most of these topics are also covered in Intro to IP, but we cover them in much greater detail. This course primarily covers substantive law and patent policy as developed through patent litigation, with only a minor focus on litigation procedure or patent office procedure. This is not a course in patent prosecution. Comparative law issues will be raised throughout the course; however, only U.S. doctrine and cases will be studied. You may be aware that U.S. patent law recently underwent significant substantive changes with the passage of the America Invents Act (AIA). We cover both the AIA and pre-AIA law, because many existing patents will be litigated under the Pre-AIA rules and because a great deal of existing case law will be relevant to litigation under the AIA. You may take this course pass/fail, and you may take it for either three or four credits. If you take it for three credits, you will have fewer required in–class hours and a slightly shorter final exam.


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'A Lament in Three Voices'
A Treatise on Poetry
Milosz's ABC's
At times, a poem is so powerful that it bursts the bounds in which it was written—the bounds of language, geography, epoch. The notorious modern case is The Waste Land—an untranslatable poem, one might have thought, except that it has been universally translated, universally read, and universally—strange though it may seem—understood. Coming upon a poem of that degree of power is a revelatory experience. Thanks to Czeslaw Milosz, born in 1911, and his translator, the poet Robert Hass, another such poem, Milosz's Treatise on Poetry—written in 1955–1956—is appearing in English for the first time.
English-speaking readers of Milosz have been tantalized since 1988, when Milosz's Collected Poems was published, by its brief five-page excerpt from a long poem called A Treatise on Poetry. Somewhere in Polish, we realized, there nestled a hidden store of thoughts on poetry by one of the great writers of the twentieth century. What did such a treatise say of the pre-war twentieth century of Milosz's youth? Of poetry, in Poland and in the world? Of the war that Milosz saw at first hand in Nazi-occupied Warsaw? Of art in general? Of the obligations of the artist? Of the connection between political matter and aesthetic form? We knew, from other poems, and from his essays and interviews, that Milosz was concerned with all these ques-tions—but we still could not read in English the dryly named poem that might embody his most intense verse reflections.
Now we have the whole Treatise, translated by Robert Hass, and accompanied by Milosz's incisive historical and ideological notes (first published in the recent Polish reissue of the Treatise). To enter the current of this poem is to hurtle downstream through history on a flood of eloquent and passionate language that is in turn philosophic, satiric, tender, angry, ironic, sensuous, and, above all, elegiac. While writing the Treatise, Milosz, at forty-four, was living a life of extreme uncertainty, financial insecurity, and emotional strain. He had burned his bridges with his native country four years before, when, as the first secretary at the embassy of the People's Republic of Poland in Paris, he had asked for political asylum in France. This was a catastrophic act for a poet, since a poet's self is inseparable from his language; and Milosz did not fit easily into Polish nationalist émigré society in Paris, where he was regarded with suspicion as a former diplomat of the Communist regime. It was in this time of dislocation and desolation that Milosz turned to a fierce questioning of his own past and that of literary Poland, writing the Treatise at the height of his poetic powers.
I quote from Robert Hass's brief outline, in his "Translator's Note," of the four cantos of the Treatise:
The first section of the poem, "Beautiful Times," describes Kraków and Polish culture at the turn of the nineteenth century [Milosz's subtitle is Kraków, 1900–1914]. The second…
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The best diagnostic test methodology in the world is useless if patients reject it or can't afford it. Also this week: tPA may not need to bust blood clots to protect against stroke damage.
Diagnostic Test Access May Trump Accuracy
A modestly accurate diagnostic test for Alzheimer's disease that patients can and will use would be better for public health than one that's difficult to obtain but has superior technical specs, a computer simulation suggested.
The most accurate tests for Alzheimer's disease developed so far rely either on lumbar punctures or expensive PET scans. When tests are painfully invasive or unaffordable, patients will tend to avoid them. In the case of Alzheimer's disease, that would typically mean that patients would then go untreated.
Researchers from Bristol-Myers Squibb and Yale University ran computer models to estimate the effect on Alzheimer's treatment given various assumptions about the uptake and diagnostic accuracy of hypothetical tests.
The results, presented in a poster at the Alzheimer's Association International Conference this week, indicated that more patients would receive proper treatment with a test of medium accuracy and low access problems, compared with a highly accurate test that fewer patients actually receive.
"A test that is highly sensitive and specific, yet has significant barriers to patient access, will not facilitate identifying the 'right' patients for treatment and may become a significant obstacle to appropriate care," the researchers concluded.
-- John Gever
Defanged tPA May Still Protect the Brain
Tissue plasminogen activator (tPA) may protect against the ravages of stroke through mechanisms separate from its clot-dissolving abilities, a study in the Journal of Neuroscience showed.
Manuel Yepes, MD, of Emory University in Atlanta, and colleagues explored the other functions of the drug in cultured neurons from the cerebral cortex. They showed that even when the drug was modified so it no longer converted plasminogen to plasmin, it protected cultured neurons from the stroke-related loss of oxygen and glucose by activating a pathway that helps cells withstand the insult.
When the researchers gave a form of tPA that did not have clot-busting abilities to mice with an induced stroke, they found that the drug still reduced the infarct size.
The experiments also showed that the protective effect could be achieved at lower doses than given in cases of acute stroke, which could have implications for designing a new therapy that does not carry an increased risk of bleeding.
"The risk of bleeding creates a lot of anxiety, and it has resulted in the regrettable fact that only a small number of stroke patients currently benefit from treatment with tPA," Yepes said in a statement.
-- Todd Neale
Axon Protein May Be Key in Fighting Neurodegeneration
The multifunctional protein spectraplakin -- which helps stabilize axon grown -- may be a focus of future research on brain disorders, according to another report in The Journal of Neuroscience.
The researchers studied how actin and microtubule proteins combine to form a cell's cytoskeleton in fruit flies, and what role spectraplakins play in the cytoskeletal development. They were able to replicate their findings in mouse studies, suggesting possible clinical application in humans.
The team found that spectraplakins link the actin and microtubules and that, absent the bond, the microtubules will not arrange properly, leading to hindered axon growth.
"Understanding cytoskeletal machinery at the cell level is a holy grail of current cell research that will have powerful clinical applications. Thus, cytoskeleton is crucially involved in virtually all aspects of a cell's life," said study co-author Andreas Prokop, PhD, of the University of Manchester in England.
He added,"Deciphering the principles of cytoskeletal machinery during the fundamental process of axon growth will essentially help research into the causes of a broad spectrum of diseases."
-- Cole Petrochko
Stress Paves the Way for Bone Metastasis
For women with breast cancer, stress and depression may boost their risk of metastasis to bone, a mouse study suggested.
Activation of the sympathetic nervous system -- "one of many pathophysiological consequences of severe stress and depression" -- primed the bone microenvironment for colonization by breast cancer cells, researchers reported in PLoS Biology.
Mice given a drug that mimics sympathetic nervous system activation developed more cancer lesions in bone, as did mice stressed out by being put in restraints. But treating the mice with the blood pressure-lowering drug propranolol had the opposite effect, blocking bone metastasis.
"If something as simple as a beta-blocker could prevent cancer metastasis to bone, this would impact the treatment of millions of patients worldwide," lead author Florent Elefteriou, PhD, of Vanderbilt University in Nashville, noted in a press release.
The research also showed that the process depends on RANK ligand signaling, which plays a role in bone breakdown as well as cell migration.
That suggests that drugs interfering with this signaling, like denosumab (Xgeva), "could increase patient survival if used as adjuvant therapy to inhibit both the early colonization of bone by metastatic breast cancer cells and the initiation of the 'vicious cycle' of bone destruction induced by these cells," the group concluded.
-- Crystal Phend
Oxidative Stress Impairs Immune Function
As cells age, they spit out more reactive oxygen species – aka free radicals – while producing fewer enzymes that can remove these potentially harmful compounds, leading to a chronic state of oxidative stress.
Now, researchers at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in Bronx, N.Y., have directly observed that process in immune cells – potentially explaining why older patients have reduced immunity.
Laura Santambrogio, MD, PhD, and colleagues looked specifically at dendritic cells, the immune system's front-line defenders, in aging mice and found that oxidatively modified proteins had accumulated in those cells.
This particularly hampered the function of endosomes, providing evidence that age-related oxidative stress interferes with the ability to mount an immune response.
Indeed, when the researchers gave mice an antioxidant every day for two weeks, some of the effects of oxidative stress were reversed, they reported in Cell.
"Many elderly people respond very poorly to vaccination, so perhaps a cycle of therapy with antioxidants before vaccination might improve their immune response to vaccines," Santambrogio said in a statement.
-- Kristina Fiore
HIV Protein Linked to Dementia
People with HIV-associated dementia have higher levels of a protein than destroys neurons than either healthy people or HIV-positive people without dementia, according to researchers led by Italo Mocchetti, PhD, of Georgetown University Medical Center in Washington, D.C. And a series of in vitro experiments suggests that is because HIV itself helps maintain high levels of pro–brain-derived neurotrophic factor (or proBDNF), which is toxic to neurons.
In culture, the HIV surface protein gp120 produces accumulation of proBDNF and a decrease in the mature protein BDNF, which promotes neuronal growth, Mocchetti and colleagues reported in the Journal of Neuroscience. Analysis suggested that gp120 decreases the intracellular level of furin, which cleaves proBDNF to make the mature protein.
The finding could lead to new therapies for HIV-associated dementia that would increase levels of mature BDNF, the researchers argued.
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DWTS Season 19: Who Are Pro Dancers Keoikantse Motsepe And Allison Holker?
Most of you might know Allison Holker. She is most famous for her work on "So You Think You Can Dance". She was a dance contestant in Season 2 and an all-star in Seasons 7 through 11. She started her dance training at only 4 years of age at "The Dance Club" studio in Orem, Utah (the same city where Derek began his dance and ballroom training). She began teaching at the same studio when she was 16. In other accomplishments, she's performed with Earth, Wind, and Fire at the opening and closing ceremonies at the 2002 Olympic Games in 2002. She also starred in 'High School Musical' and 'High School Musical 2'. Last year, she was nominated for "Outstanding Choreography" in the 2013 Emmy Awards (Heidi's Note: She was nominated WITH Derek). You might remember the dances below when she danced on Dancing With The Stars in the past and the 2013 Emmy Awards last year. More on Allison at Wikipedia.
As for Keoikantse Motsepe, he was an undefeated South African Latin American Champion in every age category for 8 years. His formal dance training includes Latin American, Ballroom, and Contemporary. He has also performed on South African Idol and in the highly acclaimed dance show "Burn The Floor". You can read more on Keoikantse at Afridiziak. Videos below. Fascinating and good luck to Read more..


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