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One of Kosrae's crowning jewels is her stunning fringing reef. The abundance of marine life and pristine hard corals make this a prime destination for divers throughout the world. Many of our best dive sites have mild currents and are great for photographers. Just remember, to keep our pristine corals healthy, you'll need to have good buoyancy skills. This coral reef is unique in that it offers a rich and exciting diving experience for even the most experienced divers we never tire of it ourselves and the safety of an easy dive for beginners. This reef proves that diving doesn'tt have to be hard to be thrilling.
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Washington • President Barack Obama sent Congress a $3.9 trillion budget Tuesday that would funnel money into road building, education and other economy-bolstering programs, handing Democrats a playbook for their election-year themes of creating jobs and narrowing the income gap between rich and poor.
The blueprint for fiscal 2015, which begins Oct. 1, is laden with populist proposals designed to fortify those goals. It includes new spending for pre-school education and job training, expanded tax credits for 13.5 million low-income workers without children and more than $1 trillion in higher taxes over the next decade, mostly for the wealthiest Americans and corporations.
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"As a country, we've got to make a decision if we're going to protect tax breaks for the wealthiest Americans or if we're going to make smart investments necessary to create jobs and grow our economy and expand opportunity for every American," Obama told students at an elementary school in the nation's capital.
With an eye in part on job creation, $302 billion would be spent to upgrade roads, railroads and mass transit, with more money aimed at improvements at Veterans Affairs hospitals and national parks. Additional funds would be aimed at clean energy research, creating 45 public-private manufacturing institutes for spurring innovation and training workers whose companies have closed or moved.
To help pay for those initiatives and others and trim federal deficits as well, Obama relies in part on higher revenue.
He would raise $651 billion by limiting tax deductions for the nation's highest earners and with a "Buffett tax" — named for billionaire Warren Buffett — slapping minimum levies on the highest-earning people. Taxes would also be raised on large estates, financial institutions, tobacco products, airline passengers and managers of private investment funds.
Congress has ignored those revenue proposals and many of Obama's spending ideas before. With the entire House and one-third of the Senate facing re-election in November, campaign-year pressures and gridlock between the Democratic-led Senate and Republican dominated House all but ensure that few of the president's initiatives will go far.
"The president has offered perhaps his most irresponsible budget yet," said House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, who has participated in two failed rounds of deficit-reduction talks with Obama since 2011. "American families looking for jobs and opportunity will find only more government in this plan."
"It's disappointing that the president produced a campaign document instead of putting forth a serious budget blueprint that makes the tough choices necessary to get our fiscal house in order," said Alabama Sen. Jeff Sessions, top Republican on the Senate Budget Committee.
Obama's budget claims to obey overall agency spending limits that were enacted in December after a bipartisan compromise was reached between Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis., and Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash., the heads of the House and Senate budget committees.
Yet Obama was proposing an additional package of $55 billion in spending priorities, half for defense and half for domestic programs.
Without that extra money, Pentagon spending be $496 billion, the same as this year. The Pentagon plans to shrink the Army from 490,000 active-duty soldiers to as few as 440,000 over the coming five years — the smallest since just before World War II.
The extra funds would allow steps like buying additional aircraft and enhancing training.
Budget cutters have had the upper hand over defense hawks in recent years. But this year's debate over military spending will have an added element as Obama encounters Republican demands for a tough U.S. stance following Russia's intervention in Ukraine's Crimea peninsula.
On the domestic side, Obama would use the additional money for grants to states for preschools, new research financed by the National Institutes of Health and modernization of aviation safety systems.
That extra spending would be paid for by cutting federal crop insurance, raising airline passenger fees and capping retirement account tax benefits for wealthy savers — all of which would face an uphill climb in Congress.
The White House released fewer budget documents than normal on Tuesday, making it hard to determine exact costs and details of some of those additional spending proposals and others, such as the 2015 price tag for Obama's health care overhaul.
However, Obama's plan to expand the earned income tax credit to childless, low-income workers would cost $116 billion over 10 years. It would increase the current $500 maximum those recipients can receive to $1,000.
The budget projects a 2015 deficit of $564 billion and a shortfall this year of $649 billion. If those come true, it would mark three straight years of annual red ink under $1 trillion, following four previous years when deficits exceeded that mark every time.
The president's spending plan also takes credit for reducing potential accumulated deficits over coming decade by $2.2 trillion, though the red ink would grow by $4.9 trillion over that period. The nation still faces long-term deficit problems as baby boomers retire and government health care costs continue to grow.
Nearly one-third of Obama's savings come from claimed savings from the end of the U.S. war in Iraq and the gradual withdrawal of forces from Afghanistan. Critics argue that those savings are fictional because with the ending of U.S. involvement in those conflicts, no one had been expecting that money to be spent on combat.Next Page >
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Prosciutto-Wrapped Melon Bites
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Yield: Makes 8 appetizer servings (serving size: 2 bites)
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- Half of 1 small cantaloupe or honeydew
- 1 1/2 cups loosely packed arugula
- 1 (1-oz.) package fresh basil
- 4 very thin prosciutto or country ham slices
- 1/4 teaspoon coarsely ground pepper
- 1. Cut melon into 1/4- to 1/2-inch slices (about 16). Place 1 melon slice on top of 3 arugula leaves and 1 to 2 basil leaves.
- 2. Cut each prosciutto slice lengthwise into 4 strips. Wrap center of each melon bundle with 1 prosciutto strip. Arrange on a serving platter, and sprinkle with pepper.
- Note: To make ahead, prepare recipe as directed. Cover bites with damp paper towels, and chill 30 minutes.
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At the beginning of the Fall, Spring and Summer Terms Student Financial Services gives students that meet specific criteria the ability to use their Financial Aid to pay for books at the FGCU Bookstore and purchase meal plans through Eagle Dining.
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- Login to Gulfline using your UIN and PIN
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This service typically starts a few days before the start of classes and ends on the last day of drop/add. Once the specific dates are finalized, an All Student email is sent out.
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All the necessary information is stored on your Eagle ID card. The FGCU Bookstore and/or the Meal Plan Office will swipe your Eagle ID card and your Financial Aid will be reduced (the available balance varies depending on the amount and type of Financial Aid you are awarded). When you log onto Gulfline you will see a charge on your account for your purchases. When your Financial Aid is disbursed it will be applied toward this charge. You must have an Eagle ID in order to take advantage of this service.
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This service allows you to use your excess Financial Aid to purchase books through the FGCU Bookstore and/or to purchase a meal plan through Eagle Dining. It is up to you on how you want to split your purchases. For example: If you have $1,000.00 in excess Financial Aid you have the option to use the entire amount at the bookstore, or the entire amount to purchase a meal plan, or you could choose to use a portion of your aid at both places.
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1989 After 1989: Memory in Transition in Central and Eastern Europe
March 14, 2013 // 12:00pm — 1:00pm
Global Europe Program
The eastern European revolutions of 1989 were a watershed in global history. Despite this, in the two decades since, their meaning has become a source of debate. While they have been promoted as a founding myth for a newly unified Europe, eastern Europeans have repeatedly represented them as a moment of betrayal, martyrdom, liberation, victory, disappointment, loss, colonization, or nostalgia.
Twenty Years of Independence: Reflections on Freedom and Democracy
November 16, 2012 // 12:00pm — 1:00pm
Global Europe Program
This Director's Forum will feature Martin Bútora, Honorary President of the Institute for Public Affairs in Bratislava and former Ambassador of the Slovak Republic to the United States (1999-2003). Ambassador Bútora will deliver the keynote address at the 13th annual Czech and Slovak Freedom Lecture.
The Gorilla in the Room: the 2012 Parliamentary Elections in Slovakia
March 21, 2012 // 12:00pm — 1:00pm
Global Europe Program
Early parliamentary elections were called in Slovakia following the collapse of the center-right government led by Iveta Radicova. Although the fall of the government was precipitated by disagreements in the coalition over the euro bailout, the campaign has been dominated by accusations of corruption and shady links between leading politicians and businessmen in the so-called "Gorilla file". Not only have the allegations in the Gorilla file provoked mass demonstrations across the country, but have led to the popularity of some of Slovakia's most prominent parties to slump and have fuelled support for new parties and groupings. Haughton's presentation will seek to explain the results of the elections. It will argue that these elections are illustrative of broader trends and developments across Central and Eastern Europe, particularly the emergence of new parties and the increasing salience of corruption in political parties' appeals in the region.
Why There Is (Almost) No Post-Communist Christian Democracy
March 23, 2011 // 12:00pm — 1:00pm
Global Europe Program
Compared to their West European cousins, post-communist Christian Democratic parties are notable for their lack of success.
Freedom, Democracy and Prosperity in Central Europe: Story of Transformation and Integration of Slovakia
November 10, 2010 // 11:00am — 12:00pm
Global Europe Program
Slovakia has made much progress in its transition from part of a socialist, pro-Soviet republic to an independent, democratic nation, but there remains much hard work ahead; that was the theme of remarks by Prime Minister Iveta Radicová at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars on November 10, 2010.
Annual Czech and Slovak Freedom Lecture--Strengthening US-Slovak Cooperation and the Transatlantic Partnership: Opportunities and Challenges in Today's World
November 21, 2008 // 9:00am — 10:00am
Global Europe Program
A Director's Forum with His Excellency Jan Kubis, Foreign Minister of the Slovak Republic
Transnational Networks, Domestic Democratic Activists and Defeat of Dictators: Slovakia, Croatia and Serbia, from 1998 to 2000
November 05, 2008 // 11:00am — 12:00pm
Global Europe Program
Valerie Bunce, Aaron Binenkorb Professor of International Studies and Professor of Government, Cornell University; Sharon L. Wolchik, Professor of Political Science and International Affairs, George Washington University and Reagan-Fascell Fellow at the National Endowment for Democracy
Talk of the Nation: Language and Conflict in Romania and Slovakia
October 08, 2008 // 12:00pm — 1:00pm
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Zsuzsa Csergo, Assistant Professor of Political Studies, Queen's University
7th Annual Czech and Slovak Freedom Lecture: The Political Economy of Reforms in the Slovak Experience: Do Reformers Have to Lose?
November 13, 2006 // 1:00pm — 2:00pm
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Ivan Miklos, Former Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance of the Slovak Republic
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DeKalb County police have made an arrest in the murder of former NFL Player David McMillan III.
McMillan III, 31, was shot and killed in Decatur on Saturday on Pine Hill Drive in DeKalb County.
McMillan played for the Cleveland Browns from 2005 to 2007 and was currently employed with UPS.
According to witnesses, the McMillan was with Antonio Faust, 19, when they both quickly exited the victim's car.
Police said a brief struggle ensued and Faust shot McMillan.
On May 21, Faust surrendered himself to DeKalb County police and confessed to the murder. Information Faust provided confirmed his statements.
Police said Faust told them he had never met McMillan before that evening. He had gotten a ride from McMillan and attempted to rob McMillian at gunpoint. McMillan fought with Faust and was shot.
Faust is being held in the DeKalb County Jail, charged with felony murder.
The viewing for McMillan will be held Friday from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. at Kinsey and Walton Funeral Home Peach Orchard Road in Augusta. The funeral will be held Saturday at noon at Tabernacle Baptist Church, also in Augusta.
McMillan will be laid to rest after the service at Hillcrest Memorial Park next to his sister.
His mother is also setting up a fund his name to make a donation to charity. That information is still pending.
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A Greenville neighborhood files a lawsuit against the city. The people who live there are fighting an ordinance they say discriminates against them.
John M. Martin of Ward and Smith is representing the plaintiffs. "The two ordinances that we are challenging are arbitrary and capricious in their nature."
The ordinances, number 45 and 46; combined, they allow for 4 unrelated people to live under one roof. The previous law that was around since the early 80's, only allowed 3.
Martin says a major reason for their suit is that the ordinance is discriminatory.
"If my neighbor can have 4 unrelated, why shouldn't I be allowed to have 4 unrelated occupants?" Martin posed as a question.
9 On Your Side reached out to the city attorney for comment and did not return our calls. We did speak to council members and they had plenty to say.
"It's all a part of the process. I mean citizens have a right to do that. I certainly encourage them if they feel that's the route to go." Councilman Dennis Mitchell said.
"I am absolutely in support, of the people of my district who have opposed this policy from the start." Council woman Marion Blackburn said.
In 2012, this issue was heavily debated by the city council and many voiced their concerns. Some members said it would lower crime and improve the community's appearance and raise property values. But looking back, the citizens say none of those claims were substantiated to their satisfaction.
"Our clients feel like this was more like special interest." Martin said.
The city has less than 60 days to respond to the suit. At this time, no one knows for sure if or when this case will make it to the courtroom---especially with a looming election.
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What is heart failure?
Heart failure is a condition in which the heart weakens and cannot pump enough blood throughout the body. It affects about five million people in the United States and contributes to 300,000 deaths each year.
It's important to recognize the warning signs of heart failure. Each sign or symptom by itself may not be cause for worry, but if you have more than one of the symptoms, you should consider seeing your doctor.
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The pastimes of Sri Damodara4,185 Views / EMail This Post / Print This Post / Home » The pastimes of Sri Damodara
Payonidhi das:
There is a wonderful pastime of Krsna staling butter from Garga Samhita from the 1
canto chapter 17 of this book ,I like to share it as this is the month we meditate
on Krsna as the butterthief:
Chapter Seventeen
Description of the Yogurt Theft
Text 1
Sri Närada said: With Their pastimes the two handsome fair and dark boys, Krsna
and Balaräma, made Nanda\'s palace beautiful.
Text 2
O king of Mithilä, They crawled on Their hands and knees and soon They were
speaking sweet words in Vraja.
Text 3
Yasodä and Rohini fed, fondled and caressed the two boys. When did the boys
leave their laps? To whose lap did They go?
Text 4
Tinkling Their anklets and small bells, They enchanted the three worlds as They
went here and there. By the influence of Their Yogamäyä potency They manifested the
forms of two small boys.
Text 5
When her son\'s limbs were dark, anointed with dust by playing in the courtyard
with the boys of Vraja, Yasodä took Him and bathed Him with great care.
Text 6
On His hands and knees crawling first to the courtyard and then to His mother\'s
lap, Krsna was like a lion cub splendidly playing in Vraja.
Text 7
Gazing at her son dressed in yellow garments decorated with gold and splendid
with a crown of jewels, Yasodä became happy.
Text 8
Forgetting their homes, leaving them behind and coming to King Nanda\'s cowherd
village, all the gopis gazed at the charming and playful child Mukunda and became
very happy.
Text 9
When infant Krsna saw the statue of a lion at the entrance to King Nanda\'s home,
He became frightened and began to cry. The gopis took Him inside and compassionately
spoke to Yasodä.
Text 10
The gopis said: O beautiful one, don\'t take this restless and playful boy
decorated with crows\' feathers and the milk still in His mouth out of the courtyard
to play.
Text 11
O Yasodä, your son\'s two front teeth have now appeared. Now his maternal uncle
should perform a ceremony to ward off inauspiciousness, but your son has no maternal
Text 12
.Therefore, to destroy all obstacles you should give charity, chant Vedic
prayers, and worship the cows, brähmanas, demigods, and saintly devotees.
Text 13
Then, to bring auspiciousness to their sons, Yasodä and Rohini regularly gave
garments, jewels, and new grains in charity.
Text 14
. Now walking on their two feet among the gopas\'s homes, and their glances like
those of a lion\'s cub, Krsna and Balaräma grew in the village of Vraja.
Text 15
With the boys of Vraja, Their friends headed by Sridämä and Subala, They played
on the Yamunä\'s sandy shore.
Text 16
In the Yamunä\'s forests opulent with kadamba groves and sturdy black tamäla
trees, Krsna and Balaräma walked.
Text 17
.Delighting the gopas and gopés with His childhood pastimes, with His friends
Lord Hari stole butter and ghee.
Text 18
One day Prabhävati-gopi, who was Upananda\'s wife, came to Nanda\'s palace and
spoke to Yasodä.
Text 19
.Sri Prabhävati said: O Yasodä, for the two of us there is no separate property
in butter, ghee, milk, yogurt, and buttermilk. By your kindness yours is also
Text 20
I don\'t say you taught Him to steal. You didn\'t teach Him. Your son steals
butter on His own.
Text 21
When I try to give Him good instruction, Your arrogant son gives me bad words
and runs from my courtyard.
Text 22
He is the son of Vraja\'s king. He should not steal. O Yasodä, there are some
other things also that, out of respect for you, I have not told.
Text 23
Sri Närada said: After hearing Prabhävati\'s words, Yasodä, the wife of Nanda,
rebuked her son, and with great love gently spoke to Prabhävati.
Text 24
Sri Yasodä said: I have ten million cows. There is so much yogurt in the house I
cannot move. I do not know why my little boy never drinks any of the yogurt
Text 25
Bring this yogurt-thief to me. O Prabhävati, there is no difference between your
son and my son.
Text 26
You bring that boy here with butter in His mouth and I will give Him a lesson. I
will scold Him and tie Him up.
Text 27
Sri Närada Muni said: Hearing these words, the gopi became happy and went home.
Then one day Krsna went to her home to steal yogurt.
Text 28
Grasping it with one hand after another, Krsna and His boy friends gradually
scaled the outer wall and entered the courtyard.
Text 29
Seeing the yogurt was in a jug hanging on ropes beyond His hand\'s reach, by
arranging a footstool, a grinding mortar, and the gopa boys, Lord Hari climbed up to
Text 30
When even from that height the yogurt-jar hanging from ropes could not be
reached, Sridama and Subala hit the jar with sticks.
Text 31
As all the beautiful yogurt flowed from the broken jug to the ground, Krsna,
Subala, the boys, and some monkeys, all ate it.
Text 32
Hearing the sound of the jug breaking, the gopi Prabhävati came. As the boys
fled, she grabbed Lord Hari\'s beautiful hand.
note; Krsna is allowing Prabhavati to catch him
Text 33
As frightened Krsna shed false tears, she brought Him to Nanda\'s palace. Seeing
Nanda standing there, she covered Krsna\'s face with the edge of His garment.
Text 34
Lord Hari thought, \"My mother will hit Me with a stick.\" The Supreme
Personality of Godhead, who can do whatever He likes, then manifested the form of
Prabhävati\'s son.
Text 35
Yasodä quickly came. The angry gopi said, \"He broke a jug and stole all the
yogurt in it.\"
Text 36
Seeing Her son, Yasodä smiled and said to the gopi, "O gopi, take the edge of
the garment from His face and tell the mischief He has done.
note:seeing Prabhavatis own son instead of Krsna , Mother Yasoda is getting
Text 37
\"When it may be said my son has done mischief you may throw Him out of my
house. Your son did the theft you say my son did.\"
Text 38
Ashamed of what people might think, she took the cloth from His face. Seeing her
own son, she was surprised at heart and said:
Text 39
\"How did you come here without walking? I have the treasure of Vraja in my
hand!\" Saying this, and taking him with her, she left Nanda\'s palace.
note :Prabhavati Gopi is obviously confused how her own son was there ,when she
had actually brought Krsna with her.
Text 40
Yasodä, Rohini, Nanda, Balaräma, and the gopas and gopis laughed, saying, \"Today
we saw a great injustice in Vraja.\"
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On the path outside again becoming Nanda\'s son, the Supreme Personality of
Godhead, smiling, confident, and His eyes restless, spoke to the gopi
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The Supreme Personality of Godhead said: O gopi, if you capture Me again, I will
take the form of your husband. There is no doubt of it.
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O king of Mithilä, when she heard this, the astonished gopi went home. From then
on, in every home, impelled by fear of embarrassment, the gopis would not capture
note: Prabhavati Gopi must have spread the news of Krsna\'s trick to other
elderly Gopis thus from that point on no one would restrict His sweet lilas of
stealing butter.
Srila Prabhupada mentions in the Krsna book how full the boys are even critiquing
the butter and yogurt (being completely full of eating freshly churned butter and
youghurt.):\" This butter and yogurt is so useless see even the monkeys do not like
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Posted 09 February 2012 - 03:13 PM
The Twins claimed speedy outfielder Darin Mastroianni off of waivers from the Toronto Blue Jays (who made room on their 40 man roster for Francisco Cordero). The Twins previous were at 40 on their roster, so someone will need to be DFAd to make room for Mastroianni. There are certainly several options. The 26 year old went 0-2 with a sacrifice bunt in his one game with the Blue Jays in 2011. He was a 16th round pick of the Jays in 2007 out of the University of Southern Indiana, a Division II school. He had spent the 2005 season at Winthrop where he was a teammate of former Twins pitcher Kevin Slowey. Because he has options, Mastroianni likely will play in Rochester in 2012.
Posted 09 February 2012 - 04:51 PM
The Twins designated RHP Esmerling Vazquez from the 40 man roster to make room for Mastroianni. The Twins had claimed Vazquez off of waivers from the Diamondbacks the second-to-last day of the 2011 season.
Posted 09 February 2012 - 06:25 PM
Not that Vasquez was anything special, but dedicating a 40-man spot to Mastroianni? Eh... Also, do we think he was irreparably harmed as a player and human being from playing on the same team as Slowey in college?
Posted 09 February 2012 - 10:26 PM
Souhan does. I didn't have ver high hopes for Vasquez, so this doesn't bother me. I gotta think that maybe Mastroianni has a shots the 4th OFer in a Repko kind of way. Do we know if he has options? If Hughes can't go, I could see Mastroianni joining Nishi, Plouffe & Butera as the bench. Ill also point out that he could be the other half of a platoon w Revere.
Posted 10 February 2012 - 07:52 AM
The fact that he'll be 27 in August makes his stats a lot less intriguing. That's just about 3 years older than Ben Revere. He could be AAA roster filler, or he could be a backup for the Twins. It looks like he's pretty good defensively in center field and can at least draw a walk without striking out a ton. Factoring in defense, does he really look like a worse option than Plouffe or Tosoni?
Posted 10 February 2012 - 01:19 PM
Definitely worse than Plouffe, who actually has a chance to hit. I'm not big on Tosoni, but I'd probably take my chances on him over Mastroianni given that he's a year younger and has a more big-league friendly offensive skill set.
Factoring in defense, does he really look like a worse option than Plouffe or Tosoni?
Posted 10 February 2012 - 01:36 PM
Anybody know his defenisive rep? I notice he had quite a bit of time in LF, not CF, in 2010.
Posted 10 February 2012 - 04:32 PM
I think that they will want Benson and Tosoni to play every day. If there were an OF need early in the year, I think Mastrioanni would be the guy called up so Benson and Tosoni can play. Mastrioanni looks like the Repko replacement to me. He could potentially push Plouffe as 4th OF. Just seems like good depth with good OBP.
Posted 13 February 2012 - 08:29 PM
Vazquez cleared waivers and was outrighted to Rochester. 66 players in camp!
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Description: Cassette systems for creating intergeneric hybrid ATCases were constructed. An MluI restriction enzyme site was introduced at the carbamoylphosphate binding site within the pyrB genes of both Pseudomonas putida and Escherichia coli. Two hybrids, E. coli pyrB polar domain fused with P. putida pyrB equatorial domain and P. putida pyrB polar domain fused with E. coli pyrB equatorial domain, are possible. The intergeneric E. coli-P. putida hybrid pyrB gene was constructed and found to encode an active ATCase which complemented an E. coli Pyr- strain. These hybrids are useful for kinetic and expression studies of ATCase in E. coli.
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Subcloning and Nucleotide Sequence of the xylO/PUWCMA Region from the Pseudomonas putida TOL Plasmid pDK1
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Creator: Local, Andrea
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For some, Cuban President Raúl Castro's Sunday announcement that he would retire in 2018, making way for a much younger replacement, was a sea change for an island that the Castro brothers have presided over for more than five decades. But others both inside Cuba and out viewed the transition as meaningless window dressing.
And for those who have spent a lifetime battling against the Castros, the peaceful transition to more socialism that Raúl Castro envisions when he steps down and passes leadership to a new generation was a bit baffling and somewhat anticlimactic.
"If this is really the end of a battle with Castro, who won and who lost?" asked José Basulto, who took part in the 1961 Bay of Pigs invasion and in the early 1990s founded the Brothers to the Rescue, a group of pilots that helped track rafters fleeing Cuba. "I would say the Cuban exile community won; we escaped and thrived here, but Fidel got to stay in power for all those years, so he can say he won. But the real, real losers? It was the Cuban people."
Miguel Diaz-Canel, 52, was tapped as Cuba's new first vice president of the ruling Council of State, making him heir apparent when 81-year-old Raúl Castro steps down. It was the first time that position has been held by someone who didn't fight alongside Fidel and Raúl Castro in the Cuban Revolution.
And Cuban analysts viewed that generational shift as significant.
"It doesn't mean he's being chosen to succeed Raúl, but it does mean they're leaving the gerontocracy and opening up the aperture to younger leaders," said Alex Crowther, a former U.S. Army colonel and Cuba specialist whose published commentaries on bilateral relations include a 2009 essay calling for an end to the embargo.
"It is true that other would-be successors appeared from time to time, but none was anointed, and none had a formal designation as the successor," said Jorge Dominguez, a Latin American specialist at Harvard University. "Sure, there will be political fights in the future. Theirs is a political party, after all, and politicians will jockey for power and position. But Diaz-Canel is now the front-runner."
"We'll see in five years, but I don't like anyone that Castro appoints," said Bertha Soler, leader of the dissident Ladies in White, referring to Diaz-Canel.
Castro's announcement during the installation of new delegates to Cuba's parliament, the National Assembly of People's Power, was viewed by some as the beginning of the post-Castro era.
But most analysts agree it will take far more than Fidel and Raúl Castro moving out of the Cuban power structure to improve Cuba-U.S. relations, which have been in a deep freeze since shortly after the revolution.
For starters, U.S. law, specifically the Helms-Burton Act, requires both Fidel and Raúl Castro to be out of power before the U.S. government can certify that a transition regime is in place in Cuba and the U.S. embargo can be lifted. But Helms-Burton, which was approved by the U.S. Congress in 1996, goes far beyond that.
"The most important conditions in Helms-Burton are the legalization of opposition parties, independent media, the dismantling of the State Security apparatus and free and fair elections," said Mauricio Claver-Carone, director of the pro-sanctions U.S. Cuba Democracy lobby. "And hopefully they can happen well before 2018."
Among other conditions that must be met under Helms Burton are: legalization of all political activity; release of all political prisoners, international inspections of Cuban prisons, and the abolition of the Ministry of Interior, its State Security branch and the Committees for the Defense of the Revolution as well as the requirement that Cuba must hold free, fair and internationally supervised elections within 18 months after the transition government assumes power.
A State Department spokesman said Monday that Raúl Castro's promise to step down was not "a fundamental change" because the Cubans have not outlined concrete measures that would lead to democratic rule.
"We remain hopeful for the day that the Cuban people get democracy, when they can have the opportunity to freely pick their own leaders in an open democratic process and enjoy the freedoms of speech and association without fear of reprisal," said State Department spokesman Patrick Ventrell. Still, Brian Latell, a retired CIA analyst, called Castro's announcements "the most significant political developments" since Fidel Castro withdrew from power in 2006 and the move "will enhance the regime's prestige abroad, and most likely also on the island. With a long-term succession plan now in place, potential foreign investors will be more interested and pressure could build in the U.S. against the embargo."
Phil Peters, a Cuba expert at the Lexington Institute in Washington, said the projected transition from Raúl Castro to Diaz-Canel means the U.S. government should stop waiting for the Cuban regime to collapse and instead "engage it critically."
"What this change does is to provide a path to transition and the opportunity for a smooth succession to the next generation of leadership. There may be other changes in this direction too,'' he said.
But others were skeptical of any changes during Castro's rule over the next five years or even that he would retire as promised and Diaz-Canel would take over.
Carmelo Mesa-Largo, regarded as the dean of Cuban economists in the United States, and Oscar Espinosa Chepe, a Havana dissident and economist, said Diaz-Canel seems to have no power base other than Castro's backing.
"This is just a formula to say that we're giving an opportunity to young people," Espinosa Chepe said. "The problem is not to appoint young people. The problem is to appoint people with an open mind who can fix a broken system."
And while an orderly transition to continuing socialism might not be the scenario that many exiles dreamed of, Juan Clark, a professor emeritus at Miami Dade College and a Bay of Pigs veteran, said the future of Cuba is very fluid.
There could be an unanticipated move by the Cuban military, Cuba could discover commercially viable oil deposits, or a successor to Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez could cut off subsidized oil.
"Who knows? We may see things in Cuba we didn't consider possible,'' Clark said.
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The case for cloud-seeding
It is quite evident that most states in the world now conduct cloud seeding.
Cloud seeding is not all that new, in my youth it was common in the apple growing districts to shoot skyrockets above possible hail formations to disrupt the coalsecence of hail stones and reduce their impact on the crops. I believe the active chemical used was silver nitrate.
The more common chemical seen in modern cloud seeding is silver iodide. This nucleates rain drops which then gather electrostatically into cloud.
You will recognise them for their whispy-feathery appearance, which may or may not form into rain clouds - depending on the ambient humidity.
The presence of cloud seeding was first noticed by conspiracy theorists as "chemtrails", agianst which no official refutation was poffered - because no public agreement was sought for the practice.
I can think of some good reasons for cloud seeding - wildfire mittigation, cachement optimisation (water-supply dams) or even mittigation of global warming.
We don't know the justifications because we were not consulted. And the debate was never undertaken.
Let's have the debate now.
To kick it off, i will opose the practice and state as my opening arguement that: cloud seeding is vandalism of the sky.
Please state and argue your case:
For and against.
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Nov 23 2012: as lincoln allegedly said: three can keep a secret if two are dead. the government often claims to do something when it in fact does not. it rarely accomplishes something in secret.
here, a local government uses cloud-seeding to protect grape plantations from hailstorms. in china, they increase precipitation in otherwise dry areas. these might be dangerous practices, but this is civilization. we tweak the environment for our benefit.
Nov 24 2012: i don't care about your intent, i'm not a mind reader. i replied to your statements. i see not a single word about any pros and cons there. next time you try to talk about what you want to talk about. but if you set your attitude aside, you might realize that i listed two cons, and presented a reasoning about possible dangers. so please try again
Nov 24 2012: There's a great deal of difference between tweaking the environment on a local scale and tweaking it globally.
Mitch's debate is about cloud seeding. Cloud seeding in my opinion is a dangerous form of global 'environmental tweaking'. Siver Iodide is known to be toxic to humans, fish and animals. Also, seeding clouds in one area is bound to cause precipitation deficits downwind in other countries who may also be reliant on that rainfall.
I'm therefore against cloud seeding for this, and many other reasons.
What would be your reasons for being in favour?
Nov 24 2012: agriculture is hardly "local scale" anymore. it also has its serious effects on nature. but we need to eat, so... same thing for cloud seeding. one needs to scientifically analyze the possible harms. silver might be a toxin, but one needs to examine whether it accumulates at certain locations to cause actual harm to animals or humans. you can not just dismiss it because it is toxic. we got our brains for a reason. we ought to use it to our advantage the best we can, including altering our environment, with care of course.
Nov 24 2012: The toxicity of silver iodide, coupled to the indiscriminate nature of the rainfall that occurs as a result of cloud seeding, means that distribution of toxic rainfall might also be as indiscriminate, and do environmental harm.
Therefore, anything toxic to life needs appropriate containment and control, and must not be attached to anything as randomised as rainfall.
Nov 24 2012: Might = a word used where there is doubt.
I was talking about the indiscriminate nature of rainfall, which as you know, is driven by the vagaries of global weather systems (hence 'might'). Such rainfall might or might not fall on environments sensitive to the toxins it contains. I am 100% against taking such risks.
By the way, you said silver iodide 'might' be a toxin.
Would you like to change that to IS a toxin?
Nov 25 2012: my "might" was a grammatical construct, i did not question the toxicity of silver compounds. my point is that this is not enough, there are many factors to take into consideration. this is the same debate as mercury in vaccines. surely, mercury is a poison. but in that amount, it does no harm. certainly, i would avoid using mercury if i have an alternative. but we need to be realistic.
Nov 25 2012: Ok I take your point about the grammatical construct. My point is that I'm reluctant to accept the wisdom of blundering into something that runs the risk of causing irreversible damage to human life and ecosystems.
The mercury preservative in Thimerosal may not do immediate harm, but mercury is cumulative in the body and can only be removed by chelating compounds.
Heavy metals (like silver) also are cumulative in the bodies of other animals including those we consume, and clearly it would be impossible to chelate such toxins out of the bodies of fish, for instance, before we eat them.
In summary, it is the cumulative effects of these metals that causes me concern. Cloud seeding with silver may not be a problem now, but in significant accumulations in the future, it will be.
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