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SIRIUS Satellite Radio Calls Notes
Company to Redeem All of its 15% Senior Secured Discount Notes due 2007 and 14-1/2% Senior Secured Notes due 2009
NEW YORK, Aug 08, 2005 /PRNewswire-FirstCall via COMTEX/ -- SIRIUS Satellite Radio (Nasdaq: SIRI) today announced that it has called for redemption all of its outstanding 15% Senior Secured Discount Notes due 2007 and 14-1/2% Senior Secured Notes due 2009. The notes will be redeemed on September 8, 2005. The 15% Notes will be redeemed at a price of 107.5% of the principal amount outstanding plus interest to the redemption date. The 14-1/2% Notes will be redeemed at a price of 104.833% of the principal amount outstanding plus interest to the redemption date.
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Notice of the redemption is expected to be mailed to holder of the notes by The Bank of New York, the trustee for the notes. This redemption is in accordance with the terms of the indentures under which the notes were issued.
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SIRIUS delivers more than 120 channels of the best commercial-free music, compelling talk shows, news and information, and the most exciting sports programming to listeners across the country in digital quality sound. SIRIUS offers 65 channels of 100% commercial-free music, and features over 55 channels of sports, news, talk, entertainment, traffic and weather for a monthly subscription fee of only $12.95. SIRIUS also broadcasts live play-by- play games of the NFL and NBA, and is the Official Satellite Radio partner of the NFL.
SIRIUS radios for the car, truck, home, RV and boat are manufactured by Alpine, Audiovox, Blaupunkt, Clarion, Delphi, Jensen, JVC, Kenwood, Pioneer, Sanyo and XACT Communications. Available in more than 25,000 retail locations, SIRIUS radios can be purchased at major retailers including Best Buy, Circuit City, Crutchfield, Costco, Office Depot, Sears, Target, Wal-Mart and RadioShack. SIRIUS is also available at heavy truck dealers and truck stops nationwide.
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Favorite thing: During the sixties i Sassi were still occupied by poor people .Hard sanitary conditions,sharing living room with donkies and hens..it was a sort of shame for the Italy of the economic boom.Today the houses are totally free and abandoned.It's amusing to go insides to discover what's up how is it,to guess how people use to live there.Sad to say there is often a bit of rubbish or ,in a darck corner,the track of someone who needed urgently of a bathroom....
Favorite thing: In front of the city,on the opposit hill there are acient churches dug.The monks came here after the city was born,they found out this kind of living in an hard nature,under an hard cover of stones more satisfacting for their spiritual life....who knows what the old inhabitants thought about this?
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Story Hour with Peter Pan
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April 13 - April 20, 2013
Become reenergized with the magic of Peter Pan and his adventures through an interactive reading of Flying to Neverland with Peter Pan, led by Citi Performing Arts Center's City Spotlights Artist Fellow, Toni Bee. Each session will run approximately 60 minutes and will include a reading of Flying to Neverland with Peter Pan with audience participation!
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Date of Stay: May, 2015
Park has very few perks, but is convenient and quiet. Sites are a challenge to level but can be done. Used to be PPA but not affiliated anymore. Great overnight stay.
Date of Stay: July, 2010
Many upgrades, friendly staff. Call ahead for directions from I-26 that are shorter than GPS. Road into CG is narrow but OK. Will come back again. Close to Spartanburg.
Date of Stay: July, 2009
Nice park. Lots of snowbirds. Close to Boone and other attractions in the area. Very friendly owners. Will be back again.
Date of Stay: July, 2009
Nice quiet park. All sites are paved but most are not level. Roads are good but tight. Sites are very big. Bath house is A+++. Dump station is difficult to access but OK. Only about 15 sites are available to RV's. Call ahead for reservations. Very convenient shopping nearby. Plenty of hiking trails and exhibits.
Date of Stay: February, 2009
Nice quiet park with lots of history. Bike/hiking trails and peaceful. Lots of trees near the roads limit large rig access to some sites. Staff helpful and friendly. Well maintained park. We would go back.
Date of Stay: June, 2008
Very convenient over night location. New owners are friendly and have made many improvements over our past experiences. Passport America discount makes this a very reasonable and nice CG
Date of Stay: January, 2005
Park management very rude and unfriendly. We were accosted at the gate and told that our dogs were to big. 20 lb limit. Nothing was mentioned at reservation time. Not adequate space to walk pets. We left after one night after being verbally abused by the manager several times.


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Oklahoma City planners see future retail tied to neighborhoods
"We must overcome previously held perceptions about our community. One area of town can affect other parts of Oklahoma City. And re-engaging means rebuilding trust," Lyons said. "I-240 is a critical corridor between Will Rogers (World Airport) and Tinker (Air Force Base). It is important to all Oklahoma City, not just South Oklahoma City. And Envision 240 must excite and engage external audiences to attract residents and businesses and retail to move back into our community."
I-240 is not the only part of the city that could use a new shine.
Claus noted some of planOKC's policy guidelines:
• Reaffirmation for high-performing retail centers such as Quail Springs Mall.
• Revitalization for areas such as around Northpark Mall.
• Revision for areas such as Penn Square Mall, which is healthy but surrounded by areas that need retail improvement, and Northwest Expressway, where challenges to commercial-neighborhood relations include stores with deep setbacks from the street and stores disconnected from other stores.
Meeting housing demand over the next 20 years, he said, will require different kinds of building. He said 90 percent of housing being built now is designed for families with children, but that demographic represents just 34 percent of the population and is in decline.
More condos will be needed, Claus said. A city survey showed 9 percent of respondents wanting to live in a condo or town house, but those kind of homes make up less than 1 percent of the housing supply in Oklahoma City.
Another survey statistic sounds like Envision 240's vision: Claus said 70 percent of respondents said they would pay up to $200 more per month to be able to live, work, shop and play in one neighborhood.


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Quilt opening for faeries and other good folks
It feels like the space was made for Sharri Phillip's magical quilts. In her third show at the Emporium, Phillips once again transforms the cafe's lounge area with her warm, colorful — and definitively enchanting — fiber arts.
YSHS to host several last nights of 'Ballyhoo'
This weekend Yellow Springs High School opens its fall play, 'The Last Night of Ballyhoo.'
Community music steps up
Three is the magic number for an upcoming collaborative concert of three ensembles. The local Chamber Orchestra and Community Chorus and a visiting piano trio, appropriately named Triple Helix, will perform three works over an evening.
Closing events for Sims art exhibit
A closing symposium for "Rhythm of Structure: Mathematics, Art and Poetic Reflection Bowery and Beyond," an art exhibit curated by alum John Sims, will take place Nov. 4 to Nov. 6 at the Herndon Gallery at Antioch College.
Beethoven brings amateur and professional musicians to the stage this weekend
The community orchestra and chorus provide accompaniment to a performance
Tickets for WYSO auction on sale now
WYSO, the local public radio station, will hold its annual silent auction on Feb. 11, 2012, at the Hollenbeck Bayley Creative Arts Center in Springfield.
What, are you yellow? Village celebrates the good scare
The scarecrows lining village streets portend a dark time ahead; Yelloween is coming, and the town is set to both attract tourists and to repulse them.
A painter seeks to lift spirits
It would be hard to find someone with a more unique story than that of Elizabeth (Beth) Hertz, a painter well known in the Dayton area for more than four decades.
UPDATE: WYSO will go off the air Saturday
WYSO will go off air briefly on Saturday, Oct. 22.
Their art bristles with intent
The JafaGirls have come to see themselves as community artists who, through public installations, bring people together and help them reframe their assumptions and see things in new ways.


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So you thought you made it into 2014 without being touched by the Oct. 1-16 federal government shutdown?
Think again. If you are one of those people who rush to file their tax returns to collect a speedy refund, you'll find you have to wait a little longer this year. Ten days longer to be exact.
It doesn't constitute a hardship, but certainly qualifies as an inconvenience.
The Internal Revenue Service recently announced that the 2014 tax filing season for 2013 taxes will open on Jan. 31 rather than Jan. 21. The government's fall closure got in the way of the annual IRS system updates.
"Our teams have been working hard throughout the fall to prepare for the upcoming tax season," IRS Acting Commissioner Danny Werfel said in a news release. "The late January opening gives us enough time to get things right with our programming, testing and systems validation. It's a complex process, and our bottom-line goal is to provide a smooth filing and refunds process for the nation's taxpayers."
Each year IRS systems, applications and databases have to be updated for changes to tax laws, business processing changes and programming updates in time for the start of filing season.
Unfortunately, the October government shutdown came during the prime time when that work is traditionally carried out. According to the IRS, programming, testing and deployment of more than 50 IRS systems is needed to handle nearly 150 million tax returns. It is a complex, year-round process that congressional politics shut down ... along with most everything else at the federal level.
And the fallout just continues to float downhill to the state level. Louisiana taxpayers who also like to get a jump on filing their state income tax returns - which are normally due May 15, a month after the federal filing deadline - to claim refunds will also be waiting thanks to the IRS systems update delay. The earliest state filers seeking refunds can expect them is sometime in mid-February and that's only if they file electronically.
According to Byron Henderson, spokesman for the Louisiana Department of Revenue, state forms generally mirror those at the federal level so any delay will hold up state filing as well.
Whether filing state or federal taxes, both the IRS and the state Department of Revenue recommend filing electronically to receive the fastest response in regards to refunds.
However, in addition to speeding that refund process up, e-filing also has other benefits such as improving accuracy and preventing the introduction of errors that can happen when physically processing paper forms.
And remember to use the direct deposit option for refunds - at both the federal and state level, it is the fastest way to get any refund that is due.
The good news in all this? For those of you who routinely wait until the last minute to file, you won't notice a thing.


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"5th Quarter" a Success at Hoggetown Middle School
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It's called the "summer slide." But students in one program who gave up their summer break, gained something much more valuable.
An experimental program at Hoggetown Middle School in Gainesville made a major impact for 12 special students.
The school also offers a second shift option, where children can attend class from 2 to 7 PM.
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Jun 18, 2016 RC-Moon Pie Festival and 10 MILE Run Bell Buckle, TN Bell Buckle RC-Moon Pie Festival and 10 Mile Run. Family fun for the entire family, stage full of activities. learn more
Jun 25, 2016 FreedomFest 2015 Alcoa, TN The 38th annual City of Alcoa FreedomFest is a free public event held the last Saturday in June. The event is held at the City of Alcoa Duck Pond on Springbrook Road. Held this year on Saturday, June 25, 2016 from 6:00 p.m. until 11:00 p.m., attendees can enjoy a variety of food vendors, military exhibitions, live entertainment and 20-minute choreographed fireworks display beginning at approximately 9:40 p.m learn more
Jul 3, 2016 Rock the Dock Independence Day Celebration Allons, TN Rock the Dock Independence Day Celebration & Fireworks: This will be a full day with corn hole tournaments, beach volleyball tournaments, live music, games for the kids, bumper boats, and a new and improved fireworks show! This will be our biggest event of the year! learn more
Jul 16, 2016 - Jul 17, 2016 Christmas in July Allons, TN Santa knows where summer fun is - Mitchell Creek Marina. Join us as we welcome the big guy to the dock with a boat show and dock decorating contest. During the day join us for live music, food and photos with Santa. When the sun goes down Mitchell Creek will light the night with dock displays and we will be joined by boats from all over Dale Hollow for our annual "Parade of Lights". Help kids in need - Bring a donation of blankets, household items, cleaning supplies or any other item for Mustard Seed Ranch and give it to Santa and receive a 10% OFF coupon to the Resort Store. Enter the ornament contest! Embrace your inner elf by making your own Christmas Ornament. Enter your ornament, and we'll have them on display all day for the public to judge. Winner gets a basket of goodies! learn more
Sep 9, 2016 - Sep 11, 2016 Battle at Bristol - Book Now - Hotel Stay ONLY Morristown, TN Book Now for a hotel room at Hampton Inn Morristown during the Biggest Ever College Football Game between University of Tennessee and Virginia Tech. learn more
Aug 29, 2020 The Jackson Symphony PRESENTS Starlight Symphony Jackson, TN The Jackson Symphony presents: Starlight Symphony Come out and enjoy this family picnic-style concert. You will want to hear highlights of the upcoming season as well as the live canons during the 1812 Overture. For further information, please contact the Offices of The Jackson Symphony at (731) 427-6440 or visit us on –line at www.thejacksonsymphony.org. learn more
Sep 25 - Oct 10 OLIVER! Clarksville, TN Oliver Twist, Fagin, the Artful Dodger, Nancy and Bill Sikes create the perfect mix of comedy, song and dance. Based on Charles Dickens' "Oliver Twist" and complemented by Lionel Bart's timeless score, this musical has touched the hearts of millions. "Food, Glorious Food," "Consider Yourself," "Pick a Pocket or Two," "Who Will Buy?" and "As Long As He Needs Me" are just a few of the memorable numbers in this show perfect for the entire family. learn more
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Welcome to Prospect Villa Guest House Offering friendly, comfortable accommodation in the North Somerset countryside, ideally located halfway between Bath and Bristol, Prospect Villa Guest House is ideal for both leisure and business travellers. Located in the traditional English village of Saltford, Prospect Villa Guest House is set in a large Victorian House offering comfortable accommodation, including twin, double and family rooms, some of which are en-suite. We offer a breakfast service 7 days a week, where you can enjoy a wide range of freshly prepared foods using locally sourced produce.
Prospect Villa Guest House can be found just 3 miles from Bath on the A4 to Bristol. The City of Bristol with its Historic sights is only 6 miles away and makes an interesting day out, whether on business or pleasure. There are two bus stops outside the Bed and Breakfast on the A4 with regular services in and out of Bath and Bristol. Tess & Brian Ahearne extend a warm and friendly welcome to all our Guests. We look forward to welcoming you to Prospect Villa and hope you enjoy your stay with us.
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Hello ACDA-PA!
Now is the time to register for the ACDA-PA Summer Conference, set for August 5 and 6 at Elizabethtown College. Regular rates remain in effect until next Friday, August 25. After that, the rates go up, but you can still register online until August 1 or when you arrive at the conference. To register, just visit acdapa.org.
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Does the RT3 accelerometer spell the end of pen-and-paper questionnaires/
Here is a great thoughtthe arduous task of filling out boring questionnaires may soon be obsolete! Well, at least for people with multiple sclerosis (MS) whose activity levels must be monitored by doctors. Thanks to the RT3 accelerometer, MS patients can discreetly monitor their activity without the hassle of keeping a journal or completing activity questionnaires. The RT3 is a small triaxial monitor that measures the amount of exercise its wearer performs in a given amount of time. Put simply, the RT3 is a pedometer that measures acceleration along three anatomical axes; not only does it measure the amount of exercise, but it also measures the intensity of movement. The RT3 is touted as being the most accurate of its kind, but, how accurate is it really" Also curious, researchers at the Centre for Physiotherapy Research at the University of Otago in New Zealand conducted a pilot study to investigate the test-retest reliability of the RT3. The study, which used 10 participants with a definite diagnosis of MS and 10 nondisabled adults as the control group, concluded that, despite some possible measurement errors, the RT3 consistently measures walking. Good-bye pens and paperFor more information about this study, read Reliability of RT3 accelerometer for measuring mobility in people with multiple sclerosis: Pilot study in this months JRRD at www.rehab.research.va.gov/jour/07/44/4/pdf/hale.pdf.
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You have seen advertisements for exercise machines, countless sneaker sales, and probably have a few gym membership coupons lying around. But, how much exercise are Americans really getting" Only 15 percent of Americans are estimated to achieve the recommended level of physical activity. And according to a University of Pittsburgh study, people with disabil
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For the first time, the five UC Medical Centers have come together to unite California women, physicians, and researchers to better personalize breast cancer prevention, screening, and treatment through the Athena Breast Health Network. Athena is designed to revolutionize breast cancer care by more efficiently merging technology, financing, health care delivery, and research in a way that reduces the time needed to translate research findings into patient care.
The goal of the UCLA Athena project is to follow patients from screening, to diagnosis, treatment, and ultimately survivorship, and to provide innovative and individualized treatment across the board. Our goal is to deliver personalized care to all patients presenting for their mammogram by feeding back information on their risk, initiating faster preventative care, and providing direct resources for cancer interventions to each woman.
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Erica has a broad background in genetics and the biological sciences. She has a Bachelor's degree in Cell and Molecular Biology from California State University, Northridge and a Master's degree in Genetic Counseling from University of Pittsburgh. During her genetic counseling training, she worked with women at high-risk for developing breast cancer to help facilitate genetic testing, surgical and treatment decisions, as well as providing valuable information to the patient and other family members. Erica was drawn to this position because of her interest in personalizing medicine for each woman. Her goal is to provide women the information needed to make informed decisions about their healthcare.
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A debate has raged for the past few months about what to call President Obama's Asian strategy. To be honest, it really doesn't matter whether you call the shift toward Asia a pivot, a refocus or a rebalancing. What does matter is that it's a relatively hollow move which belies something of much greater concern: The administration is effectively jeopardizing American national security interests by promoting a foreign policy approach far too reliant on soft-power diplomacy.
Although coined by Joseph Nye, the practice of soft-power diplomacy is of course nothing new. It has always played some role in American foreign policy — even in the days of gunboat diplomacy. However, it has never before served as the central tenant of American foreign policy strategy because previous administrations always recognized that soft-power diplomacy does not work in the absence of hard-power leverage. That is why we have continuously invested in the world's most dominant military.
As Americans, we must be realistic about our future. There is no guarantee that the balance of power in Asia will remain in America's favor. Sending a few thousand Marines to Australia or convening meetings with regional partners might serve as nice data points at news conferences. But, they are not enough to ensure that the United States remains dominant in the Western Pacific. We need to do something far more substantive than what the Obama administration has done to date.
The problem with the administration's current approach is the unwillingness to make hard decisions when it comes to reorienting the U.S. military's force structure in the Pacific. Obama officials are not willing to commit to developing new platforms and weapons systems required to counter emerging threats emanating from Asia. Instead, they promote public diplomacy and strategic communications that do little more than send mixed signals to potential strategic competitors.
The South China Sea is a great example. When the United States closed its bases in the Philippines, America lost its hard-power leverage in the region. A power vacuum was created when the Association of Southeast Asian Nations could not match the strategic influence of the U.S. forward presence. This, in effect, provided China with an opportunity to challenge the regional order and redraw the borders in its favor. What did China do? It pounced at this opportunity — exactly as realists would expect.
The point here is that the United States cannot rely on soft-power diplomacy alone to promote our interests in Asia. We need to establish a strong forward presence in the region that sends the right signal to potential regional competitors that the U.S. is not going to allow others to challenge peace and stability in the region through coercive actions. This is not about containing others but it is about maintaining primacy. We should not shy away from saying that is our objective.
In the end, the United States cannot continue to be caught empty-handed in Asia. We need the Obama administration to be far more decisive in implementing the change required to ensure our primacy in the region. Politics aside, we cannot afford to see our Asia pivot devolve into another Russian re-set fiasco — the stakes are just too high. That's why we need the Obama administration to reconsider its approach in Asia even though it's an election year, when domestic issues predominate.
Eddie Walsh is an Asia-Pacific foreign-policy specialist.


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Recent cuts to Environment Canada's operating budget have left the department a shadow of its former self and unable to enforce what little environmental laws are left. The Harper Government has burned enough environmental legislation to keep the Minister warm for an entire winter in her home in chilly Gjoa Haven. Nero fiddles while Rome burns.
Canada's environment appears to be taking the brunt of NAFTA-enabled corporate attacks. And when NAFTA environmental-protection provisions do kick in, the government often rejects them. According to a study by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, more than 70 per cent of NAFTA claims since 2005 have been against Canada, with nine active cases totalling $6 billion outstanding.
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We have found that 86 per cent of species considered to be at risk of extinction in Canada are either deteriorating or failing to recover. Despite the fact that many of these species should be receiving protection, the government has largely failed to identify the critical habitat necessary for the species to recover, and as a result this habitat may be going unprotected. This is bad news for biodiversity.
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Some might describe it as the genius of capitalism; the ability to adapt on the fly according to the circumstances. Hence the drive to technological fixes in alternative energy generation, storage, and distribution. While the existential threat to the species is a clear and present danger, capitalism's ability to adjust is subject only to the limitations of the human mind.
With more and more attention focused on global environment and climate change, stakeholders (citizenry at large) are hungry for actionable solutions and real commitments. As companies start to more and more define their supply chains with sustainability as a core value, transparency and accountability in these efforts will be increasingly critical.
Politicians are free to ignore the science, safety and history of hydraulic fracturing. But if the incoming New Brunswick government sticks with its election promise, it will outlaw (temporarily, at least) one of the more innovative ways to extract oil and gas in the 21st century. The science and risk-reward ratio are both on the side of hydraulic fracturing. The potential for a more dynamic economy is staring New Brunswick politicians in the face.
While it will be a huge task, people in different countries must form some sort of power base that can challenge corporate power and also influence the signing of a world climate agreement. For our part in North America, it's unfortunate that the NGO environmental sector is so seriously split that it can't be called a movement.
This is a wake up call for Canadians to realize that our water supply is not infinite, that there are people right here in Canada who lack access to it, and that what little we do have is going towards digging holes in the ground or exporting meat to France. It's a wake up call for Canadians to ask ourselves are we willing to give up one of the basic necessities of life to make a quick buck?
So long as all of that good work in the U.S. can be undone by backward Canadian decision-making, we'll never make true progress. That's exactly why it is so critical for Americans, Canadians, First Nations and Tribes to come together to stop fossil fuel exports from the west coast of North America -- particularly through the waters of Puget Sound, the Strait of Georgia and the Strait of Juan de Fuca, collectively known as the Salish Sea.
Frankly I think it's at least partially our fault as an environmental movement that this framing has stuck. We haven't focused enough on specific solutions over the years. We have opposed bad ideas like pipelines with vague notions of carbon taxes or non-specific alternative energy projects. We have rarely proposed or even broadly supported specific alternative projects.


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"In a key scene in Frank Capra's 1939 film 'Mr. Smith Goes to Washington,' appointed senator (and unwitting pawn in a corruption scheme) Jefferson Smith, played by Jimmy Stewart, suggests to a colleague that perhaps it would be a good idea to read bills before voting on them," John Fund writes at OpinionJournal.com.
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"Never has art so closely mirrored life as with the mammoth 2,100-page health care bill passed by the Senate. 'The result makes no sense whatsoever - not to conservatives, not to liberals, not to anyone,' accurately concludes the Weekly Standard. 'Rather than reform a system that everyone agrees is a failure, it will subsidize that system and compel participation in it.'
"Many who have long touted health care reform are turning up their noses at the final product," Mr. Fund said. "Michael Bloomberg, New York's independent mayor, told 'Meet the Press' over the weekend: 'I have asked congressperson after congressperson. Not one can explain to me what's in the bill, even in the House version. Certainly not in the other version. And so for them to vote on a bill that they don't understand whatsoever, really, you've got to question how - what kind of government we have.'
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"It's getting to the point where the twin news stories more or less write themselves," Christopher Hitchens writes at Slate.com.
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"So that's now more or less the routine for the guilty. (I am not making any presumption of innocence concerning Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab.) But flick your eye across the page, or down it, and you will instantly see a different imperative for the innocent. 'New Restrictions Quickly Added for Travelers,' reads the inevitable headline just below the report on the notoriety of Abdulmutallab, whose own father had been sufficiently alarmed to report his son to the U.S. Embassy in Abuja, Nigeria, some time ago. (By the way, I make a safe prediction: Nobody in that embassy or anywhere else in our national security system will lose his or her job as a consequence of this most recent disgrace.) …
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Today's post is written by Dr. Greg Bradsher. In reviewing some text that we plan on adding to the International Research Portal for Records Related to Nazi-Era Cultural Property in conjunction with albums containing photographs depicting looted art work, Robin Waldman had a comment after she looked at the following: [Colonel Robert Storey, an American prosecutor at […]
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Today's post is written by Dr. Greg Bradsher and is a continuation of yesterday's post. On October 31, 1984, Leonard retired from the National Archives and the next day began turning over to Jim Hutson copies of all the documents he had collected. For the next fifteen months, in his 1952 DeSoto, Leonard traveled the same ground he […]
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Authorities are cracking down on rowdy racegoers going to this weekend's Bathurst 1000, which is reportedly the biggest auto race in all of Australia. From now on, racing fans are limited to bringing one case of beer per person. Supposedly this "restriction" will allow fans to be merely "hammered" during the race rather than "epically-blitzed."
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Police say they're tired of drunk patrons firebombing port-a-potties, burning couches, and destroying ice-cream vans. Which leads to our next question: why are there a bunch of couches at a race track?
Fans aren't taking any of this lying (face) down. Rumor has it that some who are distraught over the new rule might have sneaked onto the race grounds at night and buried extra cases in the ground. More lunacy after the jump.
The "motoring editor" of the SYDNEY MORNING HERALD, Joshua Dowling, has the complete story, which includes the exasperated reaction of an alcohol-abuse spokesman:
Paul Dillon, from Drug and Alcohol Research and Training Australia, says a carton a day is not a restriction at all.
"This so-called restriction is almost laughable," he said.
"A carton of beer in one day is hardly a limit. If it was restricted over the weekend it might have made a difference." He said a carton of beer a day is "high-level problematic drinking".
The Australian Minister of Duhhhhhhhh had these thoughts about keeping bathroom explosions to a minimum:
"When someone blows up a toilet block, people in the camping area don't have a toilet to use, and that's not fair on everyone. In the past it had been getting out of control but now we have zero tolerance for antisocial behaviour."
As for the buried-beer rumors, police says that other than some pretty strong direct evidence of people burying things, there's no evidence that anyone has been burying anything:
…people have been seen wandering camp grounds with shovels, and there are pockets of disturbed soil.
Oh well, you might not be able to drink as much as you used to, but at least you can still get some ice cream. What? Awww, man!
The toilet blocks and fast food caravans were unscathed last year after police dogs were widely used to sniff out explosives, but fans were disappointed yesterday that the ice-cream van, destroyed two years ago, had not returned.
I am never going to an Australian NASCAR race.


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Wound healing response to peptide is specific for collagen. Normal human mammary epithelial (16N) as well as breast (T47D) and ovarian (OVCAR3) tumor cell monolayers, grown on 30 µg/ml fibronectin-coated glass chamber slides, were scratched and the size of the gap remaining at 4 (16N) or 24 (T47D, OVCAR3) hours was measured using SlideBook software. The size of the gap was compared between non-treated cells (white bars) and cells treated with 400 µM mimic peptide. Mean ± s.e.m., n=4 wells for each treatment (20 measurements taken for each well) *p < 0.05 vs. non-treated.
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A heartier appetite is linked to more rapid infant growth and to genetic predisposition to obesity, according to two papers published in JAMA Pediatrics today (Monday).
The studies investigated how weight gain is linked to two key aspects of appetite, namely lower satiety responsiveness (a reduced urge to eat in response to internal 'fullness' signals) and higher food responsiveness (an increased urge to eat in response to the sight or smell of nice food).
The first paper reveals that infants with a heartier appetite grew more rapidly up to age 15 months, potentially putting them at increased risk for obesity.
The authors used data from non-identical, same-sex twins born in the UK in 2007. Twin pairs were selected that differed in measures of satiety responsiveness (SR) and food responsiveness (FR) at 3 months, and their growth up to age 15 months was compared. Within pairs, the infant who was more food responsive or less satiety responsive grew faster than their co-twin.
The more food responsive twin was 654g heavier (1.4lbs) than their co-twin at six months and 991g heavier (2.1lbs) at 15 months. The less satiety responsive twin was 637g heavier (1.4lbs) than their co-twin at six months and 918g heavier (2lbs) at 15 months.
"Obesity is a major issue in child health" says Professor Jane Wardle, lead author of the study from the UCL Health Behaviour Research Centre. "Identifying factors that promote or protect against weight gain could help identify targets for obesity intervention and prevention in future. These findings are extremely powerful because we were comparing children of the same age and same sex growing up in the same family in order to reveal the role that appetite plays in infant growth.
"It might make life easy to have a baby with a hearty appetite, but as she grows up, parents may need to be alert for tendencies to be somewhat over-responsive to food cues in the environment, or somewhat unresponsive to fullness.
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BEIJING, April 24, 2013 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- China Biologic Products, Inc. (NASDAQ: CBPO, "China Biologic" or the "Company"), a leading fully integrated plasma-based biopharmaceutical company in China, today announced that it has donated 500 bottles of human albumin and 1000 bottles of Tetanus immunoglobulin through its Shandong Taibang subsidiary for those injured in the devastating earthquake that struck Lushan County, Ya'an City located in China's Sichuan province on April 21, 2013. The donation will be delivered immediately through the Shandong Provincial Health Bureau to the ravaged area.
Mr. David (Xiaoying) Gao , Chairman & Chief Executive Officer of China Biologic, commented, "As a leading plasma-based biopharmaceutical company in China, it is part of our corporate social responsibility policy to help Chinese citizens, particularly during times of extreme need. We extend our condolences and thoughts to any families who have suffered through this tragedy and wish for a prompt recovery for the people in this quake-hit region."
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(October 15, 2011: Ozark, MO 65721) In Saturday's non-league contest, the Fayetteville Bulldogs (Fayetteville, AR) volleyball squad nudged the host Ozark Tigers (Ozark, MO), by a count of 2-1.
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World Sight Day 2008 focuses on the need to protect the eyesight of older people
NEW YORK, Oct. 9 /PRNewswire/ -- Of the 45 million people worldwide who are blind, 80 percent are over age 50, and three-quarters of them could have avoided their blindness if they had been properly diagnosed or treated.
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Alcon, the world's leader in eye care products and equipment, is partnering with nonprofit ORBIS International to remedy that situation through advocacy and skills-exchange programs essential to delivering quality eye care services. Today on World Sight Day, a global observance to stimulate greater public awareness of eye health issues, ORBIS and Alcon will continue their collaborative efforts to focus attention across the United States on the need to eliminate avoidable blindness in developing countries.
"While 71 percent of the world's elderly live in low-income countries, the risk of vision-impairing conditions increases significantly with increasing age -- whether here or abroad," said Hunter Cherwek, M.D., ORBIS International medical director. "Understanding the threat they face as they age and the steps they can take to protect their eyesight is key to preventing vision loss."
Serving the elderly population of low-income countries comes with specific challenges, such as the cost of eye care and related expenses, including transportation and support of caretakers, an ability to communicate with an older population about how to address treatable eye conditions, and a fear of eye surgery where high-tech equipment is used.
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Hollywood does justice to Patrick O'Brian's naval saga.
Nov 24, 2003, Vol. 9, No. 11 • By JONATHAN FOREMAN
DEVOTEES OF PATRICK O'BRIAN'S celebrated series of historical novels are likely to be not just relieved but delighted by Peter Weir's beautiful film "Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World."
They had reason to be worried at the prospect of a Hollywood version of the beloved Aubrey-Maturin novels. The twenty-volume series, set during the Napoleonic wars, mostly aboard British naval vessels on the high seas, is too literary and language driven, its humor too subtle and dry, to be promising movie material (although you can just about imagine a "Masterpiece Theater"-style miniseries). Worse, the stories form a fairly tight chronological sequence, and the title of Weir's film combines the titles of O'Brian's first and tenth books in a worrisome way.
All of which means that Weir's "Master and Commander" is a small miracle: a genuine achievement in literary adaptation. For all its beauty and excitement, there isn't a movie-ish moment in the movie. Every scene demonstrates a restraint and intelligence that accord with the spirit of O'Brian's work.
Perhaps the most important thing to point out to non-initiates is the Aubrey-Maturin books are not precisely "genre fiction," the pejorative term of literary snobbery used to damn even the best detective, science-fiction, western, and romance novels. They are not maritime adventures (in England there are whole sections of bookshops devoted to the genre) like the Hornblower stories of C.S. Forester (although these are underrated and inspired a very good British television series), Dudley Pope, and Alexander Kent. Rather, as Richard Snow wrote in the New York Times essay that introduced O'Brian to a wider public, these novels are arguably "the best historical fiction ever written."
The maritime setting is extremely important, and the books are full of authentic technical detail comprehensible only to the most educated sailor (O'Brian was steeped in eighteenth-century maritime lore and literature). But they are also works of brilliant imagination. (O'Brian's imagination was so rich, it flowed into his accounts of his own life.) The books are really about the unlikely friendship of two men: a bluff English sea captain named Jack Aubrey, and Dr. Stephen Maturin, a half-Irish, half-Catalan ship's surgeon who is also a brilliant naturalist, a laudanum addict, and a secret agent for the British admiralty. Three things unite this pair: a love of music, a devotion to the war against Bonaparte, and a mutual admiration. The books are considerably less accessible and more learned than most historical fiction. But soon after Norton reissued the series in 1990--to be championed by such writers as Snow, Mark Horowitz, and John Bayley--they began to win a remarkably large audience.
O'Brian writes in an invented language that sounds like eighteenth-century English--although, as you can tell if you compare it with the language of Smollet and Fielding, it's really a brilliant pastiche composed of slightly archaic vocabulary and syntax interspersed with genuine expressions of the era. One of O'Brian's signature techniques is his eccentric, elastic sense of time, accelerating and slowing down in sometimes unpredictable ways. A teasing charm of the books is the way O'Brian takes the reader in great detail to the beginning of a battle--and then cuts to its aftermath, so that you discover how it all worked out in casual remarks at a gunroom dinner.
Perhaps of necessity, this style of storytelling is not mirrored by the film. Nevertheless, that a major movie studio--one every bit as guilty of crassness, greed, and cynicism as its brethren--would risk more than a hundred million dollars on a film like this, with little concession to mass taste or political correctness, is astonishing. Hollywood hasn't seen as high-minded a gamble in thirty years.
THE SUCCESS OF PETER WEIR'S ADAPTATION (he cowrote the screenplay with John Collee) is all the more remarkable given that it is built on enormous excisions, not the least its marvelous dry humor and love of language. Huge aspects of the Aubrey-Maturin series are missing. The Maturin character in particular is simplified and shrunk by the movie: He occupies much less screen time than Aubrey and he is made to seem almost a quasi-pacifist as well as a landsman troubled by the harshness of naval discipline. As a skeptical man of the Enlightenment, the literary Maturin is supposed to represent modern sensibility in the novels, but there are important ways in which O'Brian intends him as very much a man of his time. What modern physician would admit that he cannot wait to feel bone under his saw or has taken part in some thirty duels? (British actor Paul Bettany, the real casting gamble in the movie, turns out to make a surprisingly fine Dr. Maturin--although he is certainly not "small, dark, and ill-favored," and the film makes him a secondary character rather than co-equal of Jack.)


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Latehar storm after Maoist lull
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Over the last 14 months, Maoist violence had declined partly because they had lost a number of their top cadres (see box) to encounters and road accidents, illness and even snakebite and partly because security forces had made significant advances in several regions hitherto considered "liberated". Rather than confront advancing forces, guerrillas preferred to retreat; CRPF men were lulled into a sense of security by the near-zero confrontation during their 10-day Abujhmaad march last year.
It now turns out the Maoists had been regrouping while recovering from those setbacks. Then home minister P Chidambaram had been cautious during his last visit to Chhattisgarh: "It can be considered that Naxal violence is going down, but it could also mean that security forces and Naxals are not engaging with each other." On the other hand, several top officers of the police and security agencies, including Chhattisgarh DGP Ramniwas, had asserted the morale of the Maoists was down and the battle was in its last phase.
The Maoists themselves stress 2012 was a good year for them. "The various tactical counteroffensive campaigns and military actions by the People's Liberation Guerilla Army (PLGA) in the past one year in various guerilla zones had a good political impact," Deoji of the Central Military Commission of CPI (Maoist) said in a yearend statement to cadres. He listed a series of major ambushes in 2012, including the one on the elite CoBRA force in Gadchiroli that left 12 personnel dead. Deoji said 114 cops were killed last year, several of them in audacious attacks.
The PLGA had been formed in 2000. The last two years have shown a drop in incidents involving Maoists from 2,213 in 2010 to 1,760 in 2011 and 1,365 in 2012 after the preceding few years had shown a successive increase from 1,565 in 2007 to 1,591 in 2008 and 2,258 in 2009.
The regrouping phase saw Maoists devising new strategies, the planting of IEDs inside corpses being the latest. They have cited the Latehar attack as their response to the Saranda Development Plan, launched by Rural Development Minister Jairam Ramesh after advancing CRPF troops had cleared these forests in West Singhbhum district. Maoists describe the Sananda project as a plan to hand over mining resources to private companies. "The central government is trying to gain control over natural resources through such tactics. Our killings are in response to their designs," Toofan, spokesperson for the Bihar-Jharkhand-North Chhattisgarh special area unit of the CPI (Maoist), said in an audio statement sent to The Indian Express.
He said the explosives they had stitched in was their response to similar tactics by the CRPF in the area. "The CRPF laid booby traps in the form of rocket launchers and grenades across Latehar and Palamu districts. They are also using children and villagers as human shields. We regret the deaths of innocent villagers in the incident."
The CRPF refused to comment on "such madness". "Only saner comments and actions can be responded to," said Jharkhand IG CRPF MV Pradhan. And Pankaj Kumar Singh, CRPF IG (Ops), said, "They are acting in desperation, trying to salvage whatever they can. We should continue with greater force."
Maoist losses
An estimated 70 died during 2012, one reason for the relative lull. Some key deaths:
Harak alias Srikanth, 48: Died of illness on February 26. A Dandakaranya special zonal committee member, he worked among Chhattisgarh activists and youths and was active culturally he was an editorial board member in Prabhat, the outfit's mouthpiece in the zone. Joined Dandankaranya's Gadchiroli division in 1998, was elected into the special zonal committee in 2005.
Gundeti Sankar alias Seshanna, 47: Died of snakebite on March 18. The North Telangana special zonal committee member was working to revive the North Telangana movement. In a 30-year career, he rose from a squad member to a state-level leader. He wrote literary pieces, worked in political and military wings, and engaged in propaganda work.
Mangu Paddam alias Sukku: Killed in an encounter in Raigarh on January 27. A divisional committee member working for expansion of the movement in central India as part of Chhattisgarh-Orissa border state area group. Worked in north Bastar and PLGA for a long time.
Vijay Madkam, 45: Died in a tractor accident on July 15. A member of the south regional committee and secretary of South Bastar division of Dandankaranya. Born in Sukma, he joined the movement in 1988 and played a crucial role in developing Janatana Sarkars to counter Salwa Judum forces. In divisional committee from 2000, in regional committee since 2009.
Siddharth Buragohain: Killed in a May encounter in Assam along with three other Maoists. Was a member of the Asom leading committee. "These losses are severe for us due to the strategic significance of the revolutionary movement of the Northeast...," said a Maoist release.
Ajay Ganju: Killed in Kunda forests of Chhatra, Jharkhand. Was a Bihar-Jharkhand-North Chhattisgarh special area leader, involved in over 50 attacks on security forces.
Swaroopa alias Sunita: Died of breast cancer in March 2012. She served in the technical field under the AP state committee and the central committee for nearly three decades years and also as a tailor in Dandankaranya in her last years.
Sameera: Killed in police encounter in Mainpur division on May 31. Worked in Chhattisgarh-Orissa border area. Born in Andhra Pradesh, she worked in the protection platoon of the state committee. Became part of the Dandankaranya movement in 2009 and worked among women in East Bastar, later worked in Gobra in Mainpur and became an area committee secretary.
Ameela, Aruna: Died in the encounter in which Sameera was killed. Ameela (left) was a performing artiste who helped organise cultural troops.
Other leaders: Pramod, killed by the bodyguard of an assassination target, was West Bastar action team commander. Mitu, killed in an encounter, was area committee member in Orissa organising committee Ungal, killed in an accidental mine blast, was in central regional company.
...and cadres: Nearly 30 lower cadres of Bihar-Jharkhand-North Chhattisgarh special area. Those killed include Yogendra Oraon, Pancham Paswan and Gulach Munda.


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