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AbstractDESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The aim of this program is to develop and bring to commercialization a new ultrasound Doppler device to be used to monitor the flow in dialysis access grafts. By detecting falling flow before the graft thromboses, this instrument can significantly reduce the $1 billion and thousands of days of hospitalization now caused by these graft failures. In a small group of dialysis patients, a research version of this device has been shown to be accurate while quickly measuring graft flow, and, because of its unique automatic operation, has been used by non-specialists. Because of its low cost, ease-of-use, and speed, weekly measurements of graft flow are practical, rather than the monthly intervals that other systems have required. Additionally, because the ultrasound Doppler instrument is used before the patient is connected to the dialysis machine, it is not affected by the hemodynamic changes caused by hemodialysis, nor does it interrupt the dialysis procedure, unlike other systems that have been used up to now. In this Fast Track Proposal, Phase I will validate the instrument's sensitivity and specificity in a statistically significant sized group, and test the operator-independence of the measurement. If the instrument meets the goals set in Phase I, Phase II will establish a randomized, controlled clinical trial, comparing a control group having usual care with a matched experimental group being monitored weekly with the new device. Total medical costs and hospitalization associated with the two groups will be captured and compared, with the hypothesis being tested that the monitored group will show significantly reduced access-related costs and improved quality of life, as measured by hospitalization. During Phase I and II, the research instrument will be redesigned as a small, portable unit with a PDA as the interface to the user. Production prototypes will be ready by the end of Phase II so that commercialization will be able to proceed quickly.
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US official says Saddam provides ''useful information'' as Wolfowitz pays visit to Iraq
US officials have received "useful information" from direct interrogation of captive leader Saddam Hussein, a top military official said Sunday.
The official would not specify what the information was, but said it allowed interrogators to confirm some suspicions and reject other data.
Speaking to reporters on condition of anonymity, the official said both documents and the results of questioning of Saddam have allowed the military to hunt for some people involved in attacks on US troops.
He added military officials believe there are 14 cells of Saddam sympathizers in the Baghdad area and that many of them had already lost their leaders in US raids.
The official commented shortly after Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz flew to Iraq to visit troops that he says were "justified" in ousting Saddam because the former president violated US resolutions ordering him to disarm.
The Pentagon's second-in-command arrived in the Iraqi capital from Germany where he said flawed intelligence about Iraq's weapons of mass destruction should be investigated, but that the inability of inspectors to find such weapons did not mean the war was unnecessary.
"It's exciting to be back," he said after landing near Baghdad. He complimented both military and civilian men and women working to stabilize the country. "They're making the world safer for our children," Wolfowitz said, according to The AP.
He added he looks forward to meeting with commanders and troops in the field and is especially interested in assessing how a massive rotation of military forces is going. (Albawaba.com)
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We're looking to ditch our existing solution and go with a simpler (much cheaper) SFTP server to allow file exchanges with clients. Our network consists of a Trusted and DMZ networks. The current product has this covered by hosting a server on both sides and taking care of the bridging itself. We're looking to switch to WinSSHD, but not sure regarding the placement of the server, DMZ vs. Trusted. We're in the financial space and looking for guidance on best practices, or perhaps good alternatives to meet our requirements.
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I just completed hard mode for the first time, and I can say that completing it alone is probably worth an imp. A badge for 8,000,000+ would probably just be frustrating. It would suck to take an hour or more to complete hard mode just to find that you don't have 8 million, and so have to replay the full length of hard mode. I didn't have any breaks or go afk at any point in that run, and you know I've played normal mode in Wii's tourney.
EDIT: On a kind of different subject, I think that an impossible for completing hard mode might be a bit easy for an impossible, but for reasons stated above, I don't think hard mode score would be a good requirement. One reason for me thinking hard mode completion should be an impossible is relative difficulty. The normal mode complete badge is just a bit too difficult for a medium, and hard mode is a huge jump in difficulty from normal. Even without the relative difficulty issue, it's difficult enough to warrant a (kind of) low-level impossible imo.


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Gonzalez-Viloria added to Golovkin-Lemieux HBO PPV card
Flyweight champ Roman Gonzalez will face respected veteran Brian Viloria in the co-feature to the Golovkin-Lemieux showdown on Oct. 17 in New York City.
Flyweight champ Roman Gonzalez will face respected veteran Brian Viloria in the co-feature to the Golovkin-Lemieux showdown on Oct. 17 in New York City.
Despite Brian Viloria's continued rise in the flyweight rankings, he's not yet considered a candidate to face RING champion Roman Gonzalez.
Former two-weight world titleholder Brian Viloria had an easy time dispatching Omar Soto on Saturday night but now looks to challenge the very best.
Sergey Kovalev delivers another brutal knockout against Nadjib Mohammedi on Saturday in Las Vegas and has us wanting more.
Former two-division titleholder Brian Viloria put Omar Soto on the canvas three times to stop him at 2:02 of the first round in Hollywood, California.
Weigh-in photos for Top Rank's UniMas-televised card featuring the return of Brian Viloria vs. Omar Soto in Hollywood, California.
Brian Viloria, who has been a pro for 14 years and has owned world titles in two divisions, will fight this Saturday in Hollywood, California.
While waiting for his next title opportunity, former two-division titlist Brian Viloria will stay busy against Danny Flores on July 25.
Jose Felix stopped game opponent Luis Solis in the third round of a scheduled eight-round bout at the Civic Auditorium in Glendale, California on Saturday. Two-division titleholder scored a fourth-round stoppage of Armando Vasquez on the undercard.
Former junior flyweight/flyweight titleholder Brian Viloria stays busy on Saturday with an UniMas-televised bout against Armando Vazquez in Glendale, California. The 34-year-old veteran says he wants a rematch with Juan Estrada or a showdown with Roman Gonzalez in 2015.
Junior welterweight contender Anton Novikov and junior lightweight standout Jose Felix have been added to an UniMas-televised card headlined by Brian Viloria on Dec. 6 at the Auditorium in Glendale, California.
Veteran manager Gary Gittelsohn appreciates the little guys of boxing on many levels. In Lem Satterfield's latest notebook, we get the details.
Juan Francisco Estrada scored a dominant 11th-round technical knockout over former junior flyweight champion Giovani Segura at the Arena Ciudad de Mexico in Mexico City on Saturday night. The time of stoppage was 1:33.
Former junior flyweight champ Giovani Segura, a veteran slugger who is no stranger to the ups and downs of pro boxing, will get another shot at a title run when he faces WBA/WBO flyweight titleholder Juan Francisco Estrada on Saturday at Mexico City Arena in Mexico.
Zou Shiming faced his most experienced professional opponent to date in Luis De la Rosa on Saturday in Macau and the Chinese star scored a 10-round decision. RING junior featherweight champ Guillermo Rigondeaux and former flyweight titleholder Brian Viloria scored KO victories on the undercard.
Photos from Macau, China, of Zou Shiming, Guillermo Rigondeaux, Brian Viloria, Gilberto Ramirez and others before tomorrow's "Champions of Gold" card at Cotai Arena.
Brian Viloria, the smallest and most successful member of the 2000 U.S. Olympic squad, is back in the world title hunt and will face what could be a tougher-than-meets-the-eye opponent in Jose Zuniga on July 19 in Macau.
What ever happened to Brian Viloria, you ask? He's training at the Wild Card for his July 19 fight against Jose Zuniga, which will take place in Macau on the Guillermo Rigondeaux-Sod Kokietgym undercard. Photos by Mikey Williams/Top Rank.
Former two-division titleholder Brian Viloria made his first ring appearance in nearly a year on Saturday, winning a unanimous decision over Puerto Rican journeyman Juan Herrera in Las Vegas.
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Orlando definitely needs the win, i think its gonna boil down to jameer nelson's play,he needs to score and he needs to move the ball. If he scores about 18 and gets at least 6 assists, orlando will walk away with this one.
I was pretty close with my prediction, jameer got 24 points and 5 assists, an assist less than i thought they would need, but he made up for it with points and they walked away with it, they are gonna take game six as well, and might even make history and take game 7
You're right, Orlando won with 113-92, 2-3 now! D. Howard 21 points, 10 rebounds, 5 blocks, really aweswome!
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A crewmember on the 48-foot fishing vessel called the Coast Gaurd early Saturday evening to report that the boat was on fire and that the crew was preparing to abandon ship, officials said.
Coast Guard crews from Freeport were launched, contained the fire and transferred the eight people including seven adults and one child onto a rescue boat.
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Mao Zedong and the Famine of 1959–1960: A Study in Wilfulness 1
In late autumn 1958, Mao Zedong strongly condemned widespread practices of the Great Leap Forward (GLF) such as subjecting peasants to exhausting labour without adequate food and rest, which had resulted in epidemics, starvation and deaths. At that time Mao explicitly recognized that anti-rightist pressures on officialdom were a major cause of "production at the expense of livelihood." While he was not willing to acknowledge that only abandonment of the GLF could solve these problems, he did strongly demand that they be addressed. After the July 1959 clash at Lushan with Peng Dehuai, Mao revived the GLF in the context of a new, extremely harsh anti-rightist campaign, which he relentlessly promoted into the spring of 1960 together with the radical policies that he previously condemned. Not until spring 1960 did Mao again express concern about abnormal deaths and other abuses, but he failed to apply the pressure needed to stop them. Given what he had already learned about the costs to the peasants of GLF extremism, the Chairman should have known that the revival of GLF radicalism would exact a similar or even bigger price. Instead, he wilfully ignored the lessons of the first radical phase for the sake of achieving extreme ideological and developmental goals.(Published Online July 5 2006)
1 I would like to thank Steven M. Goldstein, Roderick MacFarquhar, Frederick C. Teiwes and Dorothy J. Solinger for helpful comments, and Nancy Hearst of the Fairbank Center Library for materials. This article draws on but does not duplicate the author's article, "Stalinism, famine, and Chinese peasants: grain procurements during the Great Leap Forward," Theory and Society, Vol. 13, No. 3 (1984), pp. 339–377.


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With only three games this weekend, our Big East body of knowledge increased just slightly. But here's what we learned from Week 7:
1. Cincinnati needs Tony Pike back. No offense to Chazz Anderson, who did yeoman's work in going 2-0 as the Bearcats' third starting quarterback this season. But Cincinnati needs more experience and a stronger downfield threat under center against the better teams in the league, as evidenced by its 13-10 slugfest over Rutgers on Saturday. Pike, who broke his non-throwing arm at Akron last month, should be ready to play against Connecticut after the bye week.
2. Rutgers is just bad enough to be awful. Once again, the Scarlet Knights were in the game until the end and in a position to win. But an opponent's end zone is the safest place in the world to be when Rutgers has the ball with two minutes left. Three straight games now the Scarlet Knights have had a chance to drive the field for a winning touchdown, and they haven't come close to mounting a threat. The defense is playing well enough to win, but the offense isn't pulling its fair share. Now at 1-5 and 0-2 in the Big East, Rutgers might well be advised to start getting young players ready for next year.
3. West Virginia is still a mystery. It's hard to judge the Mountaineers on a performance without Pat White. That would be like trying to evaluate "Entourage" without Jeremy Piven. Still, West Virginia has too much offensive talent to wheeze by Syracuse like it did on Saturday. Even with White, the Mountaineers were having trouble scoring points. Maybe that's just who they are now. "Not many people think we're very good," coach Bill Stewart said. "But we keep winning." The Oct. 23 game against Auburn doesn't look nearly as exciting now as it did this summer.
4. Louisville can win without a big offensive night. It was only Memphis, and Louisville gave up 481 yards on defense. But by scoring twice on special teams, where they had been horrible most of the year, and once on a turnover, the Cardinals showed they can overcome an off night offensively. They still need a lot more consistency and fewer mistakes in order to be a legitimate Big East contender.
5. The Big East is going to be even more unpredictable than we thought. If the league's two worst teams, Rutgers and Syracuse, can hang with two of the supposedly better ones (Cincinnati and West Virginia) on the road, there's even less separation between the haves and the have-nots than previously imagined. We'll give league coaches a one-year pass on the "anybody can beat anybody" cliché, because that sure appears to be true this season.


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Last Flag Down: The Epic Journey of the Last Confederate Warshipby John Baldwin, Ron Powers
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As the Confederacy felt itself slipping beneath the Union juggernaut in late 1864, the South launched a desperate counteroffensive to shatter the U.S. economy and force a standoff. Its secret weapon? A state-of-the-art raiding ship whose mission was to prowl the world's oceans and sink the U.S. merchant fleet. The raider's name was Shenandoah, and her executive officer was Conway Whittle, a twenty-four-year-old warrior who might have stepped from the pages of Arthurian legend. Whittle would share command with a dark and brooding veteran of the seas, Capt. James Waddell, and together with a crew of strays, misfits, and strangers, they would spend nearly a year sailing two-thirds of the way around the globe, destroying dozens of Union ships and taking more than a thousand prisoners, all while continually dodging the enemy.Then, in August of 1865, a British ship revealed the shocking truth to the men of Shenandoah: The war had been over for months, and they were now being hunted as pirates. What ensued was an incredible 15,000-mile journey to the one place the crew hoped to find sanctuary, only to discover that their fate would depend on how they answered a single question. Wondrously evocative and filled with drama and poignancy, Last Flag Down is a riveting story of courage, nobility, and rare comradeship forged in the quest to achieve the impossible.
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The Noble Cause bleeding to death, starving to death. The Northern aggressors with their dirty heels in the sacred ground of Louisiana, Georgia, Virginia; his generation largely in its graves, or soon to be. And here he was watching the empty horizon from a coal-laden merchant steamer off the coast of West Africa. Three decks below him, his crew bent to dismal duty, the drudgework of the high seas. They were securing the ship's bunker coal—her fuel supply—and preparing her cargo, of yet more coal, for heavy weather. The description given to those sweating wretches who had to carry it out said it all: "coal heavers."
A mundane cargo for this fine fast ship running now in front of the wind, racing for her life, almost due south, and almost diametrically away from the Confederate States of America. Within her, a cargo weighing almost as much as the ship itself and a valuable cargo indeed: 800 long tons of almost smokeless Welsh coal. A cargo so expensive its owners had sent a man on the voyage to look after it, to see it wasn't pilfered for fuel, to see it was delivered as planned. A cargo almost as mundane as the young "coal agent's" undercover alias: "George Brown."
To be hauling coal, not Enfields, at this moment of the Confederacy's most parlous plight: Atlanta, proud citadel of the Confederacy, lost to Sherman; Lee in the trenches at Richmond since June; Sheridan's cavalry chasing Jubal Early's ragged men up the Shenandoah Valley, burning the fields and barns and mills behind them.
Norfolk, Virginia, or those remnants that had not been burned, was now under martial law; indeed, the homes of "Brown's" family, the Whittles, the Sinclairs, the Pages, those still standing, were occupied by Federal troops. The South that the young man had known as a glittering nation unto itself, a kingdom of honor and deep traditions, where family names reached back in time until they seemed to merge with the land itself—this Old South was now a scorched, bleeding thing, its armies ground up by the cold advancing Union machine. The war was in its brutal, inexorable end-game.
Sea King, since leaving London days ago, seemingly irrelevant to it all, had plodded toward the southern seas with a consignment of coal. Simply a modern merchantman going peacefully about its business.
Or so the slim boyish "George Brown—coal agent" had hoped any dangerous adversary in the vicinity of the London docks would believe— falsely. When he left the Thames on Sea King, he had staked his life, the life of a Confederate spy, on that risk. Any hostile interception, any "search and seizure" of that vessel and her stores, would have guaranteed his imprisonment, even death. But Sea King was gone now, reported lost, in reality sold to the Confederacy, renamed and reflagged.
"George Brown" had, for the first eleven days, risked only his own life, but now there were others, a new crew, and soon he would be risking these men's lives as well. Any hostile interception of this once-peaceful vessel now would be an act of war.
And war was his profession.
He was in fact an experienced and dangerous warrior of the sea: Lt. William Conway Whittle, CSN. And this risk was only the first in a Homeric voyage that promised more, and ever more terrible, risks.
What a busy day these twenty-four hours have been. Thank God we have a fine set of men and officers, and, although we have an immense deal to contend with, we are industrious and alive to the emergency.
Just the sort of mild pleasantries (aside from that "emergency") one might expect from the mind of a slightly built twenty-four-year-old with narrow, sloping shoulders; a high, almost scholarly forehead crowned by a severely combed pompadour; narrow-set, vaguely disapproving eyes; and a small mouth that gave no hint of the eloquent mind inside. He could have been a schoolmaster or an assistant bank clerk. But on this day—October 26, 1864—young Lieutenant Whittle commenced the log of an odyssey that would take its place among the most evocative testimonials produced by the Civil War.
Sea King's cargo of coal had been a ruse. The emergency was real. The coal had been the final camouflage in a desperate, nonesuch skein of conspiracy conceived and carried out over many months by Whittle and senior agents of the Confederacy working discreetly in London and Paris late in the Civil War: a scheme to obtain this speedster of a ship—this Sea King—from the English merchant navy with the quiet consent of Queen Victoria herself; load up a cargo of the black, fumy stuff; and, keeping her disguised as a harmless freighter, ease her out of the harbor at London, down the Thames into the English Channel, and from there toward her destiny as a killer of Yankee vessels. She would be met by her Rebel crew and her supply of armaments somewhere on the open ocean, far from the prying eyes of Yankee spies. Sea King's cover story was virtually airtight. There was only one tie to the Confederacy when she finally left England, in fact there was only one Rebel on board at all, and he was undercover: Lt. William Conway Whittle, CSN, also known as "Mr. Brown."
Conway Whittle was an ideal figure for this mission. But for his youth and paucity of experience as a commanding officer, he might well have been tapped to command the raider. As it was, he'd been personally selected by top Confederate operatives in Europe to be the ship's executive officer, second in rank only to the captain. On the heels of his dashing exploits as a blockade runner, Whittle had been secretly summoned to Paris in September 1864. There he met with Commodore Samuel Barron, a lifelong friend of Whittle's father, Commodore W. C. Whittle, and one of young Lieutenant Whittle's primary mentors. Commodore Barron was also one of the key figures in the Confederacy's hopes to patch together a navy from a European base. Barron handed young Whittle a letter that contained his instructions. He was to make his way via Liverpool to London and check into the fashionable Wood's Hotel under the "Brown" alias. On the Friday morning of October 7, carrying a newspaper and dressed in unobtrusive business attire, the young man was to take a seat in the hotel dining room, pull the corner of his napkin through a buttonhole in his jacket, and await a stranger who would ask him, "Is this Mr. Brown?"
This figure would be Richard Wright, an elderly Liverpool businessman who'd become wealthy through his investments in Southern cotton. It was Wright who had discreetly purchased the ship then known as Sea King and was in London to arrange its transfer to the Confederate Navy. After the Wood's Hotel rendezvous, Wright took "Brown" toward the East India Dock, so that the younger man could get a covert glimpse of the exquisitely built black, three-masted extreme clipper he would board before dawn the next day. Then, in his final act as the ship's owner, Wright took Whittle to a safe house where he introduced him to Capt. Peter S. Corbett, Sea King's interim captain, and formally gave Corbett power of attorney to sell the ship at any time, to any suitable offer. As all three knew, it was an offer already accepted.
At 3:00 a.m. on Sunday, October 8, "Brown" performed the final act in the elaborate ruse concocted for him. He checked out of the hotel and headed for the waterfront, stumbling and reeling like a drunken man. At the dock, he gazed upward at Sea King's bowsprit, then pretended to steady himself for what would appear to be any old besotted sailor's last-minute return on board after a night of AWOL pub- crawling. No one moved to stop him. Still, rather than risk the conspicuous gangway, he crawled over Sea King's low-slung hull near the forerigging. Within moments the ship cast off and began to idle her way down the Thames—the first small leg of a voyage that would take her around the world.
Sea King's slow passage toward the Atlantic was excruciatingly hazardous, a gauntlet that could doom her at any moment. Both Yankee and Rebel spies (and counterspies) prowled the docks at London and Liverpool, the eyes and ears of both the embattled governments across the sea. From the first days of secession, the officially neutral Great Britain had been frantically courted by American diplomats from both the North and the South. Even at this late stage, her two great shipyards held the potential to turn the war one way or the other. Thus, hardly any ship moved in and out of either port city without scrutiny and rapidly relayed comment.
The Confederacy needed Britain far more than the Union did. Southern strategists dreamed of giant ironclads and took steps to have them built at Liverpool; ironclads that could steam west across the Atlantic, smash the Union blockade, reestablish the cotton trade with Britain, and even perhaps move up the Atlantic coast and the inland waterways, shelling Northern cities as cannonballs bounced helplessly off their plated sides. British merchants, long since grown fat on the slave-harvested Dixie cotton spun into textiles in their mills, heavily favored an economic/military alliance with the South.
The industrial Union, by contrast, competed with England for the South's raw materials, had little to offer England in the way of lucrative trade, and in fact suffered British ill will that still lingered from the unpleasantness involving General Cornwallis, Yorktown, and the Declaration of Independence. And then of course the War of 1812. Lord Palmerston, the head of the British government, could hardly hear the words "American democracy" without harrumphing.
Thus a British-Confederate alliance, in the war's early weeks and months, seemed to need just the formalizing strokes of a few pens. The inevitability was delayed only by American diplomacy and American intelligence.
But what diplomacy! And what intelligence! Holding the fabric of British neutrality together virtually with their bare hands were a determined duo of American diplomats as brilliant, tough, resourceful, and utterly inexhaustible as they were different from each other. They arrived separately in Great Britain in 1861, each appointed by Abraham Lincoln. One of them, a bearded, jug-eared Quaker from New Jersey, set up a vast and intricate network of information agents from his Liverpool office as American consul. He fed the results—munitions transactions, secret and illicit shipbuilding agreements, blockade-running plans—to his "odd-couple" colleague at the Court of St. James in London: a cold, aloof patrician from America's most distinguished family who held the lofty ambassadorial title Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary. The ambassador in turn used this information to forestall the dreaded alliance: he mounted eloquent arguments to Parliament that Britain was violating its own legal standards of neutrality, and demanded that Her Majesty's government uphold its sacred ideals.
Their names were Thomas H. Dudley and Charles Francis Adams. It was their combined power—the power of the United States itself, in the end —that young Lt. William Conway Whittle would soon find himself matched against in a desperate cat-and-mouse game that would span the globe.
In fact, Thomas Dudley had already got wind of Sea King. Before she was moved to London, the United States consul in Liverpool had received a tip from a detective regarding a suspiciously sleek- looking craft docked on the Mersey. Dudley took a look for himself, and notified Charles Adams in London that he was keeping an eye on a likely privateer. But Dudley was lulled by subterfuge, and waited too long to act. The ship's operatives, wary of just such attention, allowed Sea King to saunter in and out of various ports on the English coast, like a merchantman searching for a cargo, until the consul's suspicion waned. None of the crew had an inkling of the ship's true purpose; they were professional British sailors who had signed on to what they'd been told was a straightforward commercial voyage: London to Bombay and back, a fine payday on a fine new ship. And so even though Sea King had left London without interference, she had not sailed with indifference.
Enemy spyglasses had followed her as she made her way along the Thames in the early-morning sunlight, sweeping her sides and decks for any sign of armaments. They saw none. But Adams, still not convinced Sea King was neutral, and despite the fact that she had left her dock, wanted a closer look. He called in the U.S. Navy. Adams alerted two warships, USS Niagara, one of the navy's fastest and most heavily armed steam frigates, and USS Sacramento, another steam-powered warship, both on patrol in the English Channel.
Niagara and Sacramento were lethal predators. Only a few days after Sea King's nerve-racking creep down the Thames, these two sprang at a peaceful Spanish steamer, overwhelming the merchant ship, holding her in custody and searching her for two days, all in British waters. It was Adams himself who ordered her released.
Official Britain's deference to the U.S. Navy's interests infuriated the Confederacy, especially given the country's long history as an enthusiastic buyer of Southern cotton. "The British Government will scarcely give our public ships common shelter," complained one Southern naval man to another, and we can not send an unarmed vessel in the direction of North America without embarrassing and annoying enquiries from the customs and board of trade officials. Yet United States ships of war are permitted to lie in English ports and watch British ships, as in the case of the Georgia, previously reported, and are allowed to cruise and make captures of neutral ships off the largest port of the kingdom and in waters which were once considered exclusively British.
It was sheer luck—augmented by careful planning—that enabled Sea King to slip past these watchdogs and not find her adventure over before it began. By nightfall the nascent Rebel cruiser had raced out of the Channel and entered the Atlantic. Yet the hunt for her was not over. It had scarcely begun. But by now, some eighteen days later, she sailed alone far out in the open Atlantic, with the docks of London nearly three thousand miles astern. The coal had been mostly shifted, making way for the new, more pertinent cargo. An awe-inspiring vessel was emerging: a tiny, diehard crew, working a dramatic transformation under Whittle's eye and guidance, was creating a warship, even as she raced south ahead of the wind.
Sea King had transmuted into Shenandoah. She had joined that small, scattered cadre of fast, light cruisers bent on a quest that seemed wildly impossible, if not deluded, on its face: to reverse the course of the Civil War.
Never in the history of armed national conflict, not even at Agincourt, had the investment of hope in a handful of gallant and daring individuals seemed so utterly pointless, so drastically out of scale. Their goals were manifold, and breathtaking: to rip a hole in the skin of the Federal blockade and thus open up channels of desperately needed arms and goods flowing from England to Dixie; to cripple Yankee shipping, along with the economically vital Yankee whaling fleet; to end Britain's official neutrality and ignite the rapid construction of a Confederate navy in British shipyards; and, in sum, to shock and disable Abraham Lincoln's war machine as traumatically as Stonewall Jackson's infantry had shocked it at Bull Run and Chancellorsville.
From the Hardcover edition.
Meet the Author
John Baldwin, a relative of Conway Whittle, is a magazine writer, lecturer, and the author of two novels. At seventeen, Baldwin was apprenticed to the ship's carpenter on a merchant vessel sailing the ports of Africa.
Ron Powers, a Pulitzer Prize winner, is the author or coauthor of twelve previous books, among them the number one bestseller Flags of Our Fathers and the acclaimed biography Mark Twain, a finalist for the 2005 National Book Critics Circle Award.
From the Hardcover edition.
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Imagine being at sea in the latter half of the 19th century. The Civil War had just broken out. Families were fighting families. What most Americans know about the Civil War,thanks to modern education, and old movies, is that the Civil War only took place in the Eastern half of North America. But now, however, thanks to works such as 'Blood and Thunder' and Last Flag Down, increasing numbers of readers are discovering for the first time that the Civil War went well beyond the boundaries of North America. In Last Flag Down, co-authors Ron Powers and John Baldwin write about one of the least known stories of the Civil War. The story in question, is of the last confederate warship, the C.S.S. Shenandoah. The 15,000 mile journey made by the Shenandoah and her crew, it turns out, was only to get to the Pacific so as to disrupt Union Whalers. The belief around this journey was that by disrupting the Union's whaling industry, the Confederates could put a financial beating on the Unionists. The issue at hand here, was that it took Powers and Baldwin to reveal this to their readers. If this had been revealed earlier on, it may have made the journey with the men of the Shenandoah more bearable. But as was revealed through this slow, plodding story, the journey may not have been worth the destination, as the crew of the Shenandoah ultimately became criminals due to simple lack of communication. The lack of communication was a result of the times. There was no such thing as radio, or other electrical communication at that time. So as a result, the men on board the Shenandoah had to find out after the fact that their mission had ended well before they had even reached the shores of California. The story itself was very slow, and plodding, as noted. But perhaps the reason it was written in such fashion was because the journey of the men was that slow. As Powers and Baldwin noted throughout this piece, the men sometimes felt as if it had been ages since they had seen land. Long stints at sea more than likely have such effecton sailors, even to this day. So, while the story was extremely slow, in defense of the story's authors, that was only a result of just how long the journey itself was. It can become difficult at times to want to read through this piece, but if only for historical purposes, it is worth the read.
This could have been a great adventure story and would possibly make a very interesting movie. Very boring and slow reading. Would love to see this in print again , written by someone else.
I began this book with high hopes, as it was co-authored by the reputable Ron Powers. However, I found that the story was told in a slow, lackluster fashion. For instance, as a reader, I would assume that on a 15,000 mile journey, a ship's crew would experience some loneliness, harsh weather, hunger, sickness, and subordinate behavior. However, we are constantly made privy to each and every minor detail of such instances, which made the story lag. It seemed that nearly every other page was dedicated to Whittle's despair over his beloved Pattie, or of a crewman's tricing for a minor infraction.I feel that the story would have been much better served to include more of the Union point of view, rather than these mundane, repetitive details. How active was the Union in locating the Shenandoah? What was the reaction of Union agents to the capture of a number of their ships? Who were the men in charge of locating the Shenandoah? Overall, an interesting story. I just wasn't thrilled with the way it was told.
While there are numerous historically accurate books available about the Shenandoah, this book is NOT one of them. There are so many errors of fact that it should only be classified as a novel. The Shenandoah has a wonderful story and deserves to be told as fact, as fact is, in this case, better than fiction. The commander of the CSS Alabama was Raphael not Ralph Semmes. Dabney Minor Scales was not with the CSS Atlanta at the battle for New Orleans, as it was not completed as an ironclad until July of 1862. Scales was also not at Ft. Warren prison with Whittle. These are only 2 examples. There are many others too numerous to mention. If you want a real history book about the Shenandoah published recently, pick up The Officers of the Shenandoah.


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On level 1 of chapter 3 the principle takes away your wepaons. When you meet up with him again a second time you will have to sneak past him and his monster goons to get to the room on the right of the wepaon machine. There will be times that you will say to yourself I can't make it right there but most likely you will be able to. Use the statue next to the principle and the door to the left next to the monster in the very back corner.
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I did a backup of my laptop with Samsung Recovery Backup solution and installed Windows 7. Because I needed the space that was ocupied by all files I copied them to my external drive.
What I want now is to be able to read all information from that backup. I have got pictures of my wedding and honeymoon there. If I don't find a solution I'll lose them.


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I hope this isn't an abuse of everyone's helpfulness but can anyone work out if my 5-year-old Sony Vaio can cope with this new monitor I want to buy (to use as a second monitor). My laptop is a VGN-FJ3S. It has a VGA output.
Here are screen shots of what I think are the graphics card outputs (one for the built in monitor, one for the output):
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1Cooperate on a matter of mutual concern: she will liaise with teachers across the country
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Its in scraps because it was up for a day with 4 views. I figured no one liked it so I scrapped it.
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United Synagogue president Stephen Pack wants more regional Orthodox congregations to follow Sheffield and join the London-based organisation.
He revealed this week that discussions had been taking place between the US and a number of congregations across the country over the past year or so. "I don't think all of them are going to come in but one or two might," he said.
After last week's announcement of Sheffield's decision, "I wasn't surprised that the phone began to ring and people suggested they might want to come and talk".
While Peterborough and Luton are US members, Sheffield is the first northern congregation to opt to come on board. Its entry to the US has to be ratified by the US council but that is likely to be a formality.
"We are not being at all acquisitive and trying to chase everybody," Mr Pack stressed.
"I have decided the right way is to be gentle and responsive to approaches rather than do anything that seems to be too aggressive."
Communities that had approached the US commonly needed help. "Some may have premises that are not fit for purpose and they do not have the wherewithal to manage that kind of project.
"But help is not necessarily financial. They might want advice on health and safety or other infrastructure issues.
"The quid pro quo is that if at some stage they decide they have to downsize or close, we can take the assets which are available and recycle them to places where their children or grandchildren are davening."


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The medieval Avranches Tower (late 12th Century, c. 1185 -1190) is a very early example of a purpose built crossbow tower and was probably built by King Henry II's architect, Maurice the Engineer (see below).
The eastern side of Dover's 12th Century Norman Castle is very much the "wild side" with exterior close-ups of structures on the Eastern Outer Curtain Wall being few and far between.
This view of Avaranche's Tower, for example, taken at 6.59 am on Wednesday, 25th of May, 2011, first required an "interesting" climb up the steep side of the Horseshoe Bastion (a huge earthwork added to the north-western defences of the castle by Colonel William Twiss of the Royal Engineers sometime during the Napoleonic Wars with France).
On the way down, however, "interesting" turned into "hair-raising".
Anyway, I survived - and so to business:
A 180-yard stretch of the Eastern Outer Curtain Wall reaches the right-hand side of Avranches Tower from the Norfolk Towers and St John`s Tower via the Fitzwilliam Gate, North Watchtower, and South Watchtower. It then changes direction for 30 yards (the "Avranches Flank" on the left of the photo) before resuming its previous course at the point where Pencester Tower once stood, just out-of-shot to the left.
The Eastern Outer Curtain Wall terminates at the White Cliffs of Dover above East Cliff. Northfall Meadow, now a wood containing the Louis Bleriot memorial, is behind the viewer.
Avranches Top Level
The top, or roof level of Avranches Tower was "lowered" (removed) in 1755-1756 by the military engineer, John Peter Desmaretz (J P Desmaretz, c. 1686-1768) as part of an earlier attempt to strengthen the northern defences.
Desmaretz remodelled the Eastern Outer Curtain Wall all the way from Avranches Tower to the Norfolk Towers in order to give clear fields of fire to the two artillery positions of Four Gun Battery (near the Saxon church of St Mary-in-Castro and the Roman Pharos) and Bell Battery (between the Inner Curtain Wall and where Pencester Tower one stood).
The remaining height of the parapet on the roof of Avranches Tower is a fraction of what it once was.
Middle Level
In the photo, the middle level of the tower has three vertical slits (embrasures, or windows) on the centre panel, or face.
This is a triple-loop windows, however, and providing you're not looking at too small a version of this photo, you should be able to make out a small square of blue sky through the bottom of the centre slit, but nothing through the slits on either side: the flanking slits are angled and converge on the inside wall of the tower to a firing position manned by a single crossbowman.
Bottom Level
From inside the castle, the tower appears to have only two levels (see: Avranches Crossbow Tower) because the bottom level of triple-loop windows is underground.
At the moment, I have two usable photos from inside this bottom level - one of which has a very unusual feature - which I'll upload if I can't get any better ones. This text will be changed, or links will appear in a later "comment", once the new photos are available.
Avranches Tower and the Iron Age Fort
The Outer Curtain Wall of Dover Castle is built above the ditches (moats) of a much earlier Iron Age hillfort. The left-hand face of Avranches Tower in the above photo faces the point where the main entrance to the hill fort was believed to be - see The Avranches Gap, Entrance to the Iron Age Hill Fort of Dover Castle.
Standard Information (varies from photo to photo)
A crossbow is a weapon consisting of a bow mounted on a stock that shoots projectiles, often called bolts or quarrels. The medieval crossbow was called by many names, most of which derived from the word ballista, a torsion engine resembling a crossbow in appearance.
Abridged extract from a Historic Fortifications Network webpage (1):
Avranches Tower was probably built between 1185 and 1190 by Maurice the Engineer (or mason; Latin: Ingeniator), the architect of the Keep, or Great Tower (night view), on the possible site of the gateway to the Iron Age hillfort. It is a very early example of a purpose built crossbow tower. (NB Henry II Curtmantle was king at this time).
Abridged extract from Medieval fortifications (2):
Dover Castle has produced a thirteenth-century example of a crossbow bolt, and in this connection it is interesting to note that the castle has the earliest example of a tower (the late twelfth-century Avranches Tower) built with slits specifically designed for use by crossbowmen (Renn, 1969).
Abridged extract from The medieval castle in England and Wales (3):
Castle defence was assisted from the later years of the 12th century by the introduction of the crossbow. The traditional English bow was the short-bow, with a range of no more than 200 metres. The medieval crossbow derived from the classic ballista (_balista). It was a more accurate weapon, with a longer range, and the quarrel which it fired was in all respects more deadly than a simple arrow. It had been condemned by the Papacy in 1139 at the Second Council of the Lateran, held by Pope Innocent II (Gregorio Papereschi), but never ceased to be used. It was adopted in England in the later years of the 12th century. Richard I Coeur de Lion (The Lionheart) favoured it, and from the time of King John (John Lackland) small bands of balistarii, or crossbowmen, were stationed in the more important castles.
They clearly ranked high among the mercenaries of the king. Their wage was from 4 to 6 pence a day, greatly in excess of that of ordinary serving soldiers. They were mentioned in writs sent to constables, and a half-dozen made a useful garrison. Sixty crossbowmen were sent to Dover Castle in 1242, and small companies were despatched from castle to castle as need arose.
The records distinguish between 'one-foot' and 'two-foot' crossbows, according to whether or not both feet were used to hold the bow when drawing back the cord.
Abridged extract from The History of the Castle, Town and Port of Dover (4):
Averanche Tower was placed in the angle of this curtain (ie the outer curtain wall above the moat/ditch surrounding Dover castle) and "...its foundations were laid below the bottom of the deep ditch on the one side, and the wall was carried up, about ten feet thick, to a level with the inner vallum_ (vallum was a type of palisade, originally used as part of the Roman defensive fortification system). _In this wall they built a gallery on each of the five sides of the tower. At every angle there were several slope steps, leading from one platform to another..."
William de Averanche seems to have acted as Constable of Dover Castle until 1227. He was a descendant of the William de Albrincis (Averanche) to whom William I (also see William the Conqueror) granted lands for the defense of the Castle, and it is more than probable that Averanche's Tower is named after him.
Abridged extract from Dover Castle (5):
...Furthermore, attention has recently been drawn to the sophisticated design and concentrated fire-power of that section of the curtain (ie Eastern Outer Curtain Wall) which is undoubtedly Henry's from the Fitzwilliam Gateway (alt. Fitzwilliam Gate, Fitzwilliam Tower) to Avranches Tower, again reminiscent of Edwardian work a century later at, say, the Tower of London (Mint Street) or Caernarvon. The Avranches Tower itself, which blocks and guards the potentially dangerous re-entrant and entrance of the former Iron Age earthworks, is polygonal to the field (five sides of a pentagon, and cf. the near-contemporary Bell Tower of c. 1190 at the Tower of London), and on each face has two tiers of triple loops evidently designed for the crossbow (6) (see "The English Castle)".
(1) Accessed via Historic Fortifications Network (under, "Walking the Walls - Dover")
(2) From Medieval fortifications by John R. Kenyon
(3) From The medieval castle in England and Wales: a social and political history by Norman John Greville Pounds
(4) From The History of the Castle, Town and Port of Dover by Reverend S. P. H. Statham, Rector of St Mary-in-the-Castle (ie St Mary-in-Castro) (Longmans, Green, and Co., 1899)
(5) From Dover Castle by R. Allen Brown (Her Majesty's Stationery Office, HMSO 1974)
(6) The crossbow reference appears to originate (or at least is discussed) in Renn, D.F., The Avranches Traverse at Dover Castle, Archaeologia Cantiana v.84 (1969), p. 79-92. If anyone can email me a copy then I would be very grateful!: jorolat AT gmail.com
Alternative names: Avranche's Tower, Averanches Tower, Averenches Tower, Averanche's Tower, Averenche's Tower, and Maunsell's Tower.
A Dover Middle Ages photo.
Click to see all photos of Dover Castle, a Dover English Heritage site and a Grade I Dover Listed Building.
Dover Castle appears in the video, "Dover in World War Two: 1942", a ten minute British Ministry of Information film, released by the US Office of War Information, and narrated by the American journalist, Edward R. Murrow].
John Latter / Jorolat
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Oh my god!! Two of my cupcake photos have been featured in a nationwide danish newspaper called Berlingske Tidende with reference to my blog. The article was about the cupcake. Cupcakes are not well known in Denmark, compared to fx. UK and US, but … [read more...]
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Noreen Sperl, 47, of Granite Falls, died Thursday morning at her home. A memorial service was held Wednesday at Granite Falls Lutheran Church. Arrangements were with the Wing-Bain Funeral Home of Granite Falls.
Noreen Ann Sperl was born August 31, 1964 in Comfrey, the daughter of Robert and JoAnn (Guetter) Sperl. She passed away Thursday August 16, 2012 at her home in Granite Falls.
She was baptized into the Catholic faith in Comfrey and confirmed at St. John's Catholic Church in Morton. Noreen grew up and attended school in Morton and graduated from Renville High School. Noreen continued her education at Southwest Minnesota State in Marshall receiving her degree in accounting.
She worked as a surveyor with a road construction company, and most recently she was the bar manager at Jakes Pizza in Granite Falls.
In 2000 she was united in marriage to Chris Steenson in Watertown, S.D., to this union one son Johnathon was born.
Noreen was a huge Chicago Bears fan and also cheered for the Minnesota Wild. She enjoyed growing flowers, especially Tiger Lilly's, jigsaw puzzles and music.
She was very artistic and painted colorful murals on the walls of her home.
She was able to take her son Johnny to the Wisconsin Dells in July for a family vacation and liked riding on the "duck boats."
Noreen is survived by her son: Johnathon Steenson of Granite Falls; daughter: Amanda Mahoney of Minneapolis; parents: Robert and JoAnn Sperl of Redwood Falls; siblings: Doug (Patti) Sperl of Savage; Nancy Sperl of Plymouth; John (Denise) of Redwood Falls; Koleen Sperl of Granite Falls; Joyce (Dan) Smith of Redwood Falls; Sandra Sperl of Denver, Colo.; good friends: Chris (Lori Nelson) Steenson of Granite Falls; Kay and Herb Steenson of Granite Falls; Kari (David) Hastad of Lakeville; numerous nieces and nephews and other extended family.
She was preceded in death by her maternal and paternal grandparents.
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PETA Offers a Plan to Remodel 'Tiny Zoo'
PETA loves gaming as much as anyone, but Tiny Zoo, which glorifies keeping animals in cages, doesn't make us LOL. Although no actual animals in Tiny Zoo suffer as a result of being bought, bred, and sold, some players may get the idea that captivity is cool, and that's far from reality.
We've suggested a better version: Big Sanctuary, in which players would become heroes by rescuing animals from bad situations, relocating them to a sanctuary, and overseeing their rehabilitation.
PETA has already scored for pit bulls in the popular Mafia Wars Facebook game, and we schooled Cooking Mama on the wonders of vegan cooking and Super Meat Boy on why tofu always wins out.
Please e-mail the makers of Tiny Zoo and tell them that Big Sanctuary is one game that you'd be eager to score.
Written by Jennifer O'Connor
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You are joking me? It's a game not a real zoo.
If you're going to pick nits, you might notice that the fences in TinyZoo are minuscule compared to the scale of the animals. Just about any of the animals available could step over in a heartbeat and have the whole space to themselves, perhaps even wreak havoc on the hapless visitors – it just takes an ounce of imagination. Then again, it is just a iphone game. I s'pose Angry Birds is alright to play though, or does that advocate putting birds into slingshots and killing pigs?
that would be a way better game,bot fun wise & animal wise.
Zoos are nothing but prisons for animals. Please consider making the next version "Big Sanctuary." I think your players would really love this opportunity, and it would garner a lot of positive press to further popularize your company, its games, and image. Thanks for thinking it through!


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Today a perfect example of a review on all of the above, MSI took an Radeon HD 6970 GPU ... and just that. Then they designed a PCB around it, applied eighteen power phases, made a military class selection in components, upgraded the memory, added a lot of extra features, armed it with the new Twin Frozr III cooler and factory overclocked the product for you.
The end result surprised even us, a totally silent high-end product with a lot of overclocking headroom that has the looks to kill and the means to show of some pure muscle power.
Today as such, we'll review the R6970 Lightning, the most high-end, single GPU based product in the enthusiast lightning series. Pre-clocked at 940 MHz, you can actually take the product towards 1 GHz fairly easy with the help from MSI's AfterBurner software that allows the full spectrum of voltage tweaking on GPU and memory. The end result as stated, surprised even us. This is just a really nice card with a lot of features, extras and it just oozes with build quality.
Let's have a peek and then head onwards into the review.
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It's always a hoot when a porn producer shoots a young girl movie and then has the performers engage in little setups to emphasize their youth.
Witness in Teen Idol 4, for example, some of the bike riding, skipping and other "innocent" activities the female stars engage in before getting down to the sexual business.
Knowing that most girls in the porn business are worldly beyond their years just makes these pursuits seem a bit contrived. And that, friends and neighbors, is pure comedy gold and definitely worth the price of admission.
The girls here are all top-shelf cute, and the sex, while not super-hard, is still enough to engage one's attention.
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does anyone knowns a way to destroy those AT-ST's??
Hello everyone!!!!
does anyone knowns how l can easily destroy those AT-ST's walkers becoz l'm stuck:mad::mad::¬::¬::(:(:confused::confused: on the Astrus final level and my objective is to keep those prisoners alive but when l make some shots at the AT-ST the prisoners are all dead and l fail the mission please does anyone knowns how l can destroy those AT-ST's!!!!!!!
P.s l'm only a beginer now at jko
l known that l must try to use the detonators but still not enof
I think there are some emplaced guns around somewhere. Use those, they make it easier.
I thought it was indeed a sentry gun/turret you needed to man to destroy the walkers, double checked our walkthrough and that's the solution. (**Warning: Link Contains Spoilers**)
In any other situation, say, multiplayer, you may not have such a luxury, and will be forced to use other tactics, like lightsaber to the legs (while circle strafing to avoid being stomped and crushed!), rockets or other heavy weapons, td's thrown with care, and even the DEMP gun. Force push can be used to send rockets back at the vehicle, and the saber may be able to block some of its shots.
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But at this point(the part of the game where battle111 was when he created the thread)the DEMP isn't available yet...unless it doesn't get by cheat.
Saber throw to the legs also does some damage from a safer distance. But ordinary hand blasters (including the disruptor rifle) have no effect.
I seem to recall there was a bug in the unpatched version of the game where it might be unwinnable sometimes without cheating.
Yes, blaster shots do bounce off the surface. Disruptor just hits and does not damage, no stun or knockback either. You need impact, explosion or lightsaber to damage it.
Force lightning works too, if memory serves.
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"There's an old saying on Wall Street about insider buying: there are many possible reasons to sell a stock, but only one reason to buy. Back on December 19, Exelixis Inc's Director, Vincent T. Marchesi, invested $28,327.35 into 6,000 shares of EXEL, for a cost per share of $4.72. Bargain hunters tend to pay particular attention to insider buys like this one, because presumably the only reason an insider would take their hard-earned cash and use it to buy stock of their company in the open market, is that they expect to make money."
And why would that be? Because they KNOW its UNDERVALUED. Sound familiar???
Sentiment: Strong Buy
Stock heading higher.
Sentiment: Buy
Please (rolling my eyes): This is not serious insider buying! You can flip this whole insider premise bantored about and ask why ALL insiders at this company are not buying at these prices----all of them! The answer is easy--until you get prostate data this is a cycling under the screen average everyday bio with focus on one spot---CABO---the rest is in stasis or #$%$! it used to be a multi-compound play!
Look at the CEO of OPK---he is buying so many sheres in his company it appears he is trying to take it private---thats insider buying--not this piddly baloney with associated hyped up article!!
interestingly enough the two bios PPS are about the same! Right now Idon;t own either! but that will change eventually!
IMO,that is not a real confidence booster for me. 28 grand is not that much money.
zjitters, goofball. MS. Schwab bought 25K at $4.39 2 weeks ago, she's an office as well


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Yoghurt and Mango Mousse
Total Time
Prep 5 mins
Cook 3 hrs
From The Australian Women's Weekly July issue Diabetic Special Guilt-free Sweets. Have not made this yet myself, so times are estimates. Have allowed for the 20 minutes and 2 hours setting times as part of the cooking time. Per serve:- 650kg, 6g protein, 0.5g total fat (0g saturated fat), 32g carbohydrate, 3g fibre, 120mg sodium and low GI.
Ingredients Nutrition
- 85 g jelly crystals (jello mango flavour)
- 1 cup water (boiling - 250ml)
- 400 g low-fat yogurt
- 1 banana (medium - 200 grams, sliced)
- 1 kiwi fruit (medium - 85 grams, sliced thinly)
- 1⁄2 cup blueberries (75 grams)
- 1⁄4 cup passion fruit pulp (60ml)
- Stir jelly (jello) crystals with the boiling water in a small heatproof bowl until dissolved.
- Refrigerate for about 20 minutes or until cold (DO NOT allow to set).
- Whisk the yogurt and jelly until smooth.
- Divide yogurt mixture among six 1 cup (250ml) serving glasses/dishes; cover and refrigerate for about 2 hours or until set.
- Just before serving, top each jelly with equal amounts of banana, kiwifruit, blueberries and passionfruit pulp.
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Great for summer this desert is not too sweet and light, served with the fresh fruit. I made lime jello as well as mango jello and layered the two and served it with fresh mango and kiwifruit to keep it light. My grandkids and my big kid DH gobbled this up. Will definitely be making this again as it is so quick and easy to make as long as you keep the setting time in mind. Made for recipe swap #22
Very good - my kind of dessert. This is also very adaptable to whatever fruits or jello you have on hand. I used strawberry jello and the fruit listed except for the passion fruit. Also instead of putting it in individual serving dishes, we mixed the jello and yogurt in a large bowl and let it sit in the fridge - about 2 hours later I stirred in the fruit - and easy and different way to have jello. Thanks for sharing this keeper.