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Nancy's Notions has these directions for the dresses for Africa...you can also mail them there to be sent off to Africa
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Nancy's Notions has these directions for the dresses for Africa...you can also mail them there to be sent off to Africa
I have made a couple for a mission trip. They are very simple to do. There are numerous instructions on the net.
I sure wish I knew about these when my two girls were growing up. They would have had a ton of them for summer.
I saw at WalMart last Friday they carry fabric with elastic on it for sundresses. Those would be alot nicer for good wear. I didn't look at the price, Great Granddaughters could wear something like that but, Mommy likes expensive clothes for them.
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This life is the only one you get - enjoy it before you lose it.
I've made many with my sister's church group. Using the Nancy's Notions pattern I make a wider casing in the top front and back to use 1/2" elastic instead of 1/4", so I make the armholes 1/2" longer to allow for the wider casing fold down. Some pillowcases can be too sheer so I have been using stash to make the hot dog pillowcases, then turning them into dresses. A simple pocket is very useful. I also make dresses for girls/women with larger waists or hips by using 2 larger rectangles of fabric seamed together rather than the regular width of fabric pattern. Nice sheets and curtains can also be used to to make the dresses. The dresses are fun and very easy to make. We sent them to Little Dresses for Africa. There's a similar group- Dress a Girl Around the World. Both organizations send dresses here and abroad- wherever they are needed. Google "Pillowcase Dress" and you'll find many patterns, video tutes, and lots of inspiration. Have fun!
VickiW- Those dresses are beautiful!
Sorry- I meant aorlflood's dresses. I wasn't careful when I scrolled up to see the pictures!
I have made them. I use fabrics with boarder prints on them. Very easy to do. Little Dresses for Africa, good cause.
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Little dresses for Africa also wants boys shorts from any pattern. We are doing this at the next guild meeting. I didn't like the idea of elastic in the front and back of the dress. I thought the shoulder ties should go thru the front and back casing and they could shir it on as tight as they wanted it. I like the idea of a bottom ruffle. What if the elastic stretches out? Providing they last that long.
Blessed are the quilters, for they are the piecemakers.
http://www.about.com/how to sew a pillow case dress.
Sorry i tried to link it but it did not go. I had saved this to my favorites just yesterday.
They had some goo d hints on there especially if you don't have the little one there to measure.
I make dozens a month for our group at church. We do them for dressagirlaroundtheworld.org and send them out to missionaries via people hand carrying them when they travel or whenever a church is sending out a group to do some missionary work. This past summer a priest who has 5 churches in Africa asked us to send him 300 dresses and at least 100 britches ( these are made from t-shirts). The instructions for both the dresses and britches can be found on their web site. I guess this is why I don't do as much quilting as I like. They are easy to make along with being fun too!


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Arthur Dove: A Retrospective 1998-April 12, 1998.
Arthur Dove broods over New York this winter. In addition to the admirable retrospective show, extensive but not exhausting, at the Whitney, there are: from February to June, a smaller, mezzanine exhibit at the Metropolitan, entitled "Arthur Dove/Helen Torr: Land and Water" and displaying twenty-one works by Dove with four by his second wife, Helen Torr; shows of his small works on paper at the Terry Dintenfass and Tibor de Nagy galleries; and an array of Helen Torr's works at the Graham Gallery.
Dove in his lifetime (1880- 1946) enjoyed some renown and patronage but never enough for comfort's sake; his existence was an edgy, financially distressed one, lived in such marginal accommodations as an old farmhouse in Geneva, New York, without electricity or running water, a small former store and post office on stilts in Centerport Harbor on Long Island, and, for seven years, a forty-two-foot yawl that he shuffled about Long Island Sound. His privations took a toll on his health and, with his intermittent career as an illustrator and farmer, on his practice of art. His father was a rich brick manufacturer and contractor in Geneva, New York, who disinherited Arthur after the young man not only declined to become a lawyer but gave up commercial illustration for pure painting. In his photographs the artist, even when he is clowning with a frame around his head, looks serious and a bit harried—a well-combed, white-shirted, scarcely smiling refugee from the upper middle class.
To him belongs the honor of being (after Navajo blanket-weavers and Amish quilt-makers and the like) the first American abstract artist; he suddenly lit out, in 1910, for the nonfigurative territory implicit in the painting of Cézanne and Picasso and in the relativistic readjustments of space and time proposed by Bergson and Einstein. To the end of Dove's life he thought about the issues of abstraction, and in his last, ailing years, embraced its larger, more colorful possibilities, having begun in the brown aura of Cubism. A lover and student of outdoor nature from his upstate boyhood, he held back from the unbridled egotism and anthropocentricity of action painting, and kept almost always in his work a kernel of representation, however well hidden—the sun, clouds, the blue horizontal of sea or pond, phallic bioforms and vaginal archways.
Georgia O'Keeffe, whose fame has for long eclipsed his, was as early as 1914 an admirer of Dove, calling him "the only American painter who is of the earth." Both found in Alfred Stieglitz something more than artistic sponsorship; O'Keeffe found a lover and, after 1918, an open consort, and Dove a surrogate father, to replace the brickmaker who had disowned him. Dove early became a key member of the Stieglitz circle. Stieglitz provided him exhibition space at his three successive Manhattan galleries—291 on Fifth Avenue, the Intimate Gallery on Park, An American Place on Madison—and gave Dove, in his bucolic rootlessness, a continuous connection with New York and its art world. The two men died the same…
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The Keystone Pipeline project is projected to create over 20,000 jobs for middleclass Americans to construct the pipeline and over 118,000 spin-off jobs to communities desperately in need. The United Association and Pipefitters Local 537 is very much in favor of this project and hope you contact your representatives in Washington D.C. to show your support. The middle class members of labor have been amongst the hardest hit during this recession, largely due to the unfair tax break incentives available to companies and manufacturing plants moving overseas. The Keystone Pipeline has been examined and re-examined by every government agency which has jurisdiction and has been found to be the exact type of project this country needs to put Americans back to work. Our qualified and licensed labor force across the country, is starving for employment opportunities. On behalf of Pipefitters Local 537, I implore you all to push for approval of the Keystone XL Pipeline project. Put this country and the men and women of Labor back to work. In our quest for project approval, we cannot stress enough, the importance of legislation dedicated to protecting the men and women of the Labor Unions. Please help ensure the pipeline be constructed with licensed and certified Union members desperately in need of work in order to support their self funded healthcare and pension plans, keeping hundreds of thousands of people off of the already strained U.S. Government funded programs. Congress also has the opportunity to write amendments to insure that American MADE pipe and steel would be solely used on this project which would revitalize those industries and create even more employment opportunities for starving Americans. We understand and recognize environmental concerns. The pipeline has been designed using state of the art safety procedures and construction practices in order to reduce environmental concerns. The pipeline should be safe guarded to be constructed with qualified and licensed Union pipefitters and welders to ensure it is built to exact design specifications. Minimal environmental concerns should not be the reason our government elects NOT to put suffering Americans back to work. Please join Business Manager Leo J Fahey's lead and send a letter or fax to each and every Senator, Congressman and Congresswoman, showing your support of the Keystone XL Pipeline project.
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1. The Badman's Daughter by Terry James 2. The Boot Hill Breed by Ned Oaks 3. The Magnificent Mendozas by Ross Morton 4. Dead Man's Trail by Chuck Tyrell 5. Bodie Meets Brand: Two Guns North by Neil Hunter 6. Laramie Davis:High Valley Manhunt by B.S.Dunn 7. Comes The Reaper by B.J.Holmes 8. Return To Silver Creek by Chuck Tyrell 7. Redemption Road by J.C.Hulsey 8. Bodie 1: Trackdown by Neil Hunter 9. Iron Eyes by Rory Black I don't seem to have read many westerns over the course of the year. Must do better as my Kindle is loaded with a load of tales that have yet to see the light of day. The mix come from both Piccadilly Publishing who have picked up the Neil Hunter series Bodie. The original series lasted for six books but, fortunately,Neil Hunter has brought Bodie back as well as teaming him up with his other creation Jason Brand. Piccadilly Publishing has established itself as the home of the series western.
Friday, 1 July 2011
FFB: KICK A TIN CAN by Dianne Doubtfire
The opening line to this 1964 novel rings so true to me.
'Wilfred Kittering's desk was in the back row, which made it easy for him to read Lolita during Religious Instruction.' In my case it was 'Lady Chatterley's Lover'.
Wilfred is a fifteen year old living with his widowed mother who runs a sweetshop in London's East End.
Every weekend, before he died, father and son would go for walks in the countryside. It is something that Wilfred misses. Until the day he decides to catch the Green Line bus and venture out on his own.
He walks along the river where he meets public schoolboy Andrew Rose-Pearson. They form a friendship and end up falling in the water. He accompanies Andrew home where he meets his mother, Carol, who is thirty four and very attentive to Wilfred who returns home wearing some of Carol's husband's clothes.
Back in the East End Wilfred begins a new relationship with a girl his own age, Jill Dennison. A doomed relationship when he returns the clothes to Carol.
Dianne Doubtfire pushes boundaries in this novel. Growing pains are there and Carol latches on to the fact that Wilfred yearns to become a writer. She indulges him by giving him a place to write and buys him a typewriter.
Carol is a well drawn picture of the deperate housewife. No husband and a son who only comes home in the holidays. Wilfred alleviates her boredom and fills her loneliness. On the other hand Wilfred comes of age too quickly for his own good and finds it difficult to understand when Carol finds someone her own age.
A brilliant novel - though a subject that is rather taboo in this new Victorian era.
Sunday, 26 June 2011
FELIXSTOWE MOTORCYCLE SHOW - 26th June 2011 - Images
Just a fistful of photos that we took today.
We think that between us we took about 300 photos altogether.
The event was jam packed with stalls for Royal Enfield, Harley Davidson, Triumph, Aprilla and Victory motorcycles. Great support for the Air Ambulance and other emergency services.
Thursday, 23 June 2011
SIEGE AT MA-KOUIE by Derrick Wright
First published 1959 by Robert Hale Ltd
Corgi edition published 1961
The orders were simple - the road past the fort at Ma-Kouie must be denied to the enemy artillery for five days. Time is essential for planes to bring in reinforcements urgently needed at Dien Bien Phu otherwise all Laos falls to the Viet-Minh.
The problem is that by the time these orders arrive at Captain Renoir's HQ he has just eighteen men left alive. But these men of the French Foreign Legion are a tough bunch and prepared to carry out their orders. After all there is very little choice though the mission is totally suicidal.
The plan is simple.
First destroy the bridge over the Ma-Kouie River.
Second hold the fort for twenty four hours after the enemy arrive.
Third pull back to a grassy knoll where Renoir will place mortar positions.
The fort is placed under the command of Sergeant Steve Brent, a tough uncompromising 'Limey'. With him is the American Corporal Bud Galland who loves hard as he fights; Johnny Hellwig, a young German deserter who becomes a man. Others are memorable like Me'n Fou with a fly tattooed on the end of his nose and Mohaffy the Irish American with a grudge against the sergeant. Then there is the big built Marie with a hatred for the Viet-Nimh who killed her husband and son - a woman determined to go down fighting. And Ly-Lin, a prostitute hopelessly devoted to Bud Galland who stands by his side through thick and thin.
Derrick Wright has written a character driven book about men and war that still stands up today. The reader gets involved with the story and as the numbers begin to dwindle you feel the loss. The battle scenes are well described - in such a way that you can see it happen as though it was a movie.
This was one of those books that went around my class at school and I still have it.
Monday, 20 June 2011
COASTERS SCOOTER CLUB and FELIXSTOWE MOTORCYCLE SHOW
What a weekend coming up.
Saturday sees the scooters coming down to the beach followed, on Sunday, by the motorbikes. A touch of deja vu here but Brighton it is not.
Friday and Saturday the 24th and 25th June sees the Coasters Scooter Club celebrate it's 50th Anniversary at Trimley social club. Money raised goes to the Air Ambulance.
Formed back in 1961 as the Felixstowe and District Scooter Club they can be found holding court every Wednesday at The Steam Boat Tavern in Ipswich, Suffolk.
Live bands and DJs will supply entertainment and there will be a ride out to Felixstowe on the Saturday morning.
Then on Sunday 26th June Hamilton Road in Felixstowe plays host to the second Motorcycle Show. There will be a ride in from Stonham Barns near Stowmarket to raise money for St.Elizabeth Hospice.
Both events will have stalls and autojumble.
Friday, 17 June 2011
FFB: THE DOLLY DOLLY SPY by Adam Diment
In 1967 Adam Diment was about to rewrite spy fiction.
There had been many contenders for Ian Fleming's and James Bond's throne. 'Boysie' Oakes in John Gardner's 'The Liquidator' (Gardner would take over the Bond franchise) and Doctor Jason Love in 'Passport To Oblivion' (filmed as 'Where The Spies Are'). Add to the list John Sanders with Nicholas Pym, the 'James Bond' of Oliver Cromwell's Secret Service.
So, enter Philip McAlpine. Tall, good looking and a love of fast cars, fast living, pot, sex and all manner of things mod. Truly a sixties child.
Suddenly his creator, Adam Diment, was the 'big thing'. Both he and his creation were hailed as the true successors to Fleming and Bond.
'The Dolly Dolly Spy' is told in the first person and appears to be a slow starter. McAlpine is coerced into working for British Intelligence department 6(NC/NAC) by the head Rupert Quine who is nothing like M. Quine is camp and prone to calling people 'luv' but this is just window dressing for a man who has a nasty, sadistic streak and can resort to blackmail with a smile on his face.
Recruited McAlpine is sent to work for the International Charter Inc a company that British Intelligence are interested in. On the surface the company runs package holidays for tourists to the Mediterranean island of Dathos. Underneath there is gunrunning and other clandestine activities going on. As a perk for this McAlpine is well paid and has the privelege of having his girlfriend, Veronica, live with him.
But the easy living comes to an end when he has to start earning his money and has to kidnap a former member of the Waffen SS. The only trouble is that the Americans want him too and McAlpine is not a subscriber to any 'special relationships'.
What makes 'The Dolly Dolly Spy' stand out from the crowd is Adam Diment's delivery. His hero says exactly what he thinks and that goes all the way to make McAlpine real - like you were reading an autobiography.
There were three more books 'The Great Spy Race', 'The Bang Bang Birds' and 'Think,Inc' the latter in 1971 after a gap of three years. But that was the end as Adam Diment just disappeared from the scene.
There was talk of a movie with David Hemmings but it came to nothing. Though, I do wonder if the McAlpine novels insired Austin Powers though that character does not compare.
If you liked Bond, then you will like McAlpine.
Monday, 13 June 2011
This is something of a first - being able to review a CD before it's commercial release.
It has been eight years since the release of 'The Curse Of Blondie' and still Blondie moves on with a kind of re-invention. The Blondie style is always there flipping through trends and styles and mixing it all up.
The opening track 'D-Day' is all that. Not the usual toe-tapping, pop arty single type opener but something dark and brooding that creeps up on you.
And anyone could mistake 'What I Heard' as the next in line as the sure fire hit single.
'Mother' was the actual single release. On the surface it is about a club the Debbie Harry frequented called Mother. Dig a little deeper into the lyrics and it turns into what you want it to be.
As I have said all the Blondie styles are there including a touch of Reggae - 'Girlie Girlie' for example.
Although this is a CD of new material there are some tracks that have been around for a while as part of Blondie's live gigs.
All in all I enjoyed the 'Panic Of Girls' CD - but then I am biased as I like Blondie and Debbie Harry (er - singing solo - I mean).
Blondie's 'Panic Of Girls' is released on the 4th July next.
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- 04-16-2011 09:57 AM - permalinklildonkey8Jess is it okay if I give Rock and Ride your email? She wants it but told me to ask you first...PM me kk?
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You don't want to pay $4.69 for gas, no problem, I have the perfect vehicle for you. Needs no gas, no oil, or even a battery, just a little grass and water will do these animals fine.
1. Trail Horse - Your average run around town animal. Has the energy to get where you are going, the brain to find the best way to go, big enough to carry the normal sized American.
2. The Arabian - perfect for those who travel long distances in a day and try to multi task while driving. Although the Arabian may not go to your home or office with out specific instruction, it WILL go somewhere.
all models are available in base colors. Special order colors are available and for an additional fee, custom paint jobs are also available. - 01-28-2011 06:51 PM - permalinkCheyennes momokay I'll check it out thanks!
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Odd Question About Loping I'm not sure if there's another thread about this and I figured it would be odd to try to search for it, so if there is one already, please post it here and save everyone the trouble. :D Anyhoo, my question: Is it possible to make a lope more comfortable? Abby has a lovely, floaty trot that is very easy to ride, but her lope is the exact opposite: it throws me completely off balance and I don't even know how to describe it other than it is extremely awkward and uncomfortable for me to try to ride. Would getting her to collect help? I considered that and found that on Chris Irwin's video archive that's part of Stateline has a huge section on it. 50 videos. The thing is though..I have a really hard time watching him. He knows what he's talking about, but I just don't like him that much and I hate trying to watch a video, then try to do what the video said hours or days later. I would have to be watching it on horseback and try doing it at the same time for me to figure it out. And I've heard that horses with long backs have a harder time collecting. Abby's is longgg. Ooor is it just the way she is? I'd be a tad disappointed if it was, but we can prance around on her fancy trot if it is. I might also have to try to lope out in a field where I have room to let her go farther than a 100ft arena length, which I think might also be the problem, as she feels the need to run towards the door often and if we're trotting around the edge of the arena, she will stop dead by the door and just stand there stupidly and it's a small fight to get her to move. I don't know. Sorry for kind of talking to myself. Opinions are obviously welcome and I send my thanks in advance. |
You can also check to make sure the saddle isn't creating any pressure points. If the horse is uncomfortable, they may not move as freely. Also make sure you are sitting back. I almost think it feels like I'm moving left and right instead of forwards and back with the horse's gait. You can always ask someone to come and watch you ride as well :) They may be able to see something from the ground that you can't see while riding! I'm not sure that collecting would help, as I believe it shorts their stride and may make it bumpier. I haven't worked much with collection, though. I hope some of this helps :) |
She might just have a bad lope. Some horses have it, others don't. You can help her by helping her collect, doing hill work and lots of transitions. Try different speeds on her too. My Heart Horse had a wonderful, easy going lope. Any slower and he felt like riding a dirt bike over big bumps. Any faster and he felt like he was going to leap out from under me. |
A lot of roughness can be taken out of a horses lope just by getting them balanced and helping them to learn some cruise control so they aren't just careening around the arena hell bent for leather. I have the most success with this by alternating loping out on the flat across a pasture and loping circles. When the horse is unbalanced, it seems to try to overcompensate for the rider and that makes the whole experience that much worse LOL. On the other hand, some horses are just naturally horrid to ride at a particular gait. I rode this one mare for a while that loped like a deer, it was all up and down with very little of the rocking motion normally associated with a lope. And then there are horses like Nester, who throws you off to one side (I can't remember which side) regardless of what lead he's on or what direction you are turning. Of course, I haven't ridden him enough to see if it can be fixed, but it's there. |
Thanks guys. Part of me is thinking it's a bad lope while part of me is thinking it's just because it's such an enclosed area. I loped with her at the old barn across the road with my BO's daughter. Hugeee open field and it was smooth then. I'll have to wait for it to dry up and figure out which fields are which. Or just wait until the end of May when she's at camp. There's some hills there and the north pasture is massiveee. There are absolutely none where she's at now, so that's out. Actually..(I'm having a tired moment and kind of typing out my thought processes, so excuse me), couldn't it be from her lack of muscling? She dropped 100lbs within the last couple months from a ton of stress and lack of use. A lot of it was muscle loss, especially in her hindquarters. But I would be accepting of her lope if it is always like this. Poseidon's the opposite: Her trot is huge and bouncy and I have to post or I'd probably just fall off to the side. Her lope is smooth as butter. |
That could be a big part of it as well. It's so funny how some horses are like that. John is like Poseidon, huge trot and his lope is smooth as glass. |
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I had my first experience with H & H Madeira last night. After a glass of the exquisite Pierre-Henri Ginlinger Muscat 2004 with my wife Lauren's excellent aromatic carrot soup (recipe in a post to follow) we moved on to our main course of steak alongside a Sordo Barolo 1997 that I had purchased some years ago. This turned out to be much better than the last bottle I had and well worth the €25 paid at the time.
After dinner, we moved on to the H & H 10 Year Malmsey Madeira. This proved to be an absolutely delicious drink that I had yet to experience. With my experience of Madeira being quite limited, I really looked forward to drinking this one and it did not disappoint. It was rich and full and had a lovely nutty flavour. On the finish that went on seemingly forever, I got almost a menthol feeling. When tried with 81% dark chocolate, the pairing was not good at all. With a mature crottin chavignol, it made a delicious duo.
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Now that "The Newsroom" is open again, it's business as usual … meaning relatively little is usual business.
The point was reinforced abundantly by creator Aaron Sorkin's script (from a story he devised with Ian Reichbach) for "First Thing We Do, Let's Kill All the Lawyers," Sunday's (July 14) Season 2 premiere of the HBO drama. Though set a year after Season 1, it still was about two years behind real time, being August 2011 on the "Newsroom" calendar.
One of those lawyers is destined to stick around, and new cast member Marcia Gay Harden was evident right from the first new scene as an attorney for Atlantis Cable News, deposing staff members about the network's report alleging the U.S. government used nerve gas during a black-ops mission code-named "Genoa."
Her work was cut out for her from the get-go, since her first interviewee was ever-obstinate ACN senior anchor Will McAvoy (Jeff Daniels, who starred opposite Harden in her Tony Award-winning "God of Carnage" performance). And it barely took one minute for her to throw up her hands in frustration and shout an expletive across the room.
Frustration with "The Newsroom" may be felt elsewhere this season, but the rules remain as basic as they are with any Sorkin piece: You always have to look, and you always have to listen. The fast-moving dialogue, sometimes reaching back to last season's first moments, demands it.
A special Season 2-starting shout-out goes to a scene reminiscent of one in the 1987 movie "Broadcast News," in which a story was revised seconds before it hit the air. Executive producer Mackenzie "Mac" McHale (Emily Mortimer) oversaw the frantic redubbing, by a reporter nowhere close to headquarters, of a critical line of an inaccurate report … which was followed by a technical meltdown that Will, singing to himself in the studio, was blissfully unaware of.
Not that Will stayed that amiable, especially when he was removed from 10th-anniversary coverage of 9/11 to avoid an outcry that news chief Charlie Skinner (Sam Waterston) knew would come otherwise, thanks to the build-up over Will's outspokenness. Especially his much-cited "American Taliban" remark about the Tea Party.
"You'll get the flu around the 9th or 10th," Charlie explained. A clearly disappointed Will appeared to accept that as "the price of business," though he later sat silent during an on-air debate on the deployment of drones, despite Mac's urging him in his earpiece to "get in." Among the results were the forceful push she gave him into a wall, and his later dissection of "You Better You Bet," the Who song used over the episode's closing credits.
Also back on "Newsroom" duty: financial expert Sloan Sabbith (Olivia Munn), who gleefully — and accurately — reminded Charlie, "I make nerds look good"; and blogger Neal Sampat (Dev Patel), who was granted his request to probe the roots of the Occupy Wall Street movement.
Someone else was eager to bolt from the newsroom, for reasons as personal as professional, if not more. Producer Jim Harper (John Gallagher Jr.) demanded that Mac dispatch him to cover Mitt Romney's presidential campaign in New Hampshire. Or, he told her, "Fire me."
Apart from any journalistic interests, he wanted to get away from Maggie Jordan (Alison Pill), the associate producer for whom he has feelings … and who has been living with another ACN producer, Don Keefer (Thomas Sadoski), whom Sloan still has designs on. Maggie was doing her best to stay friends with Jim, but it was evident he can't handle it. At least not now.
Back home, problems surfaced for Maggie, stirred by a YouTube video Don saw of her in-the-street, yelling-at-strangers meltdown last year — in which she professed her affection for Jim. "Take it easy, Maggie" was Don's apparent coda to their relationship as he left their apartment to stay in a hotel.
Clearly, there's more to come on all of these "Newsroom" developments, and also on the subplot ultimately leading to the lawyer's presence. Jim's temporary replacement, Jerry Dantana (Hamish Linklater), was presented the chance to act on what Will fretted was his "go-getter initiative" when a source promised the sort of tip that "makes careers and ends presidencies." Cue the Genoa inquiry.
"If 17 different things hadn't conspired in just the right order," said Will, "we wouldn't be sitting here." But there is much to keep viewers seated in front of — and intrigued by — "The Newsroom" for the rest of the summer.


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Floyd Mayweather vs. Saul 'Canelo' Alvarez live blog
LAS VEGAS -- Welcome inside the MGM Grand Garden Arena, where Floyd Mayweather easily defeated Saul "Canelo" Alvarez in perhaps the biggest fight in boxing since Mayweather fought Oscar De La Hoya in 2007. The live gate set a Nevada record ($20 million), more than 25,000 closed circuit seats were sold, and several industry sources say this fight has a chance to eclipse the 2.5 million pay-per-view buys Mayweather-De La Hoya did.
At SI.com, we set you up all week, with stories on Canelo, Mayweather, Lucas Matthysse, who will fight on the undercard in a giddily anticipated showdown with Danny Garcia, and a one-stop guide to everything you need to know about the show.
Read below to see our round-by-round live blog of the two main bouts.
12:10 a.m. EST -- With all the undercard bouts complete, it's nearing show time for Mayweather-Alvarez. Golden Boy CEO Richard Schaefer just stood on the ring apron and asked how many reporters picked Garcia. No one. And then he asked, "How many of you picked Canelo?" Still none. Let's see if Alvarez can pull an upset too.
12:18 a.m.-- With Tupac's "California Love" blaring in the background, the big screen shows Mayweather and Canelo in the dressing room. Loud boos for Mayweather. Huge cheers for Canelo.
12:25 a.m. -- Here comes the undefeated Canelo Alvarez. Big roar from the crowd. Clearly the fan favorite. The MGM Grand has been jumping since Tuesday. The weigh-in is purported to be the largest (more than 12,000) in history. And most of the fans have come out to support Canelo.
Here's what I wrote earlier this week in predicting the outcome: The hype surrounding this fight simply doesn't match the competitiveness of it. Alvarez has a bright future, but he lacks the experience and polish necessary to beat a fighter of Mayweather's caliber. Alvarez may have his moments and he may even be able to buckle Mayweather with a right hand or two. But Mayweather's ability to put opponents in a deep hole will ultimately force Alvarez out of his game plan and push Mayweather to a comfortable decision win.
12:29 a.m. -- And here comes Floyd Mayweather, marching to the ring with his own personal rapper. And of course, Justin Bieber. It's actually rapper Lil Wayne, performing a special-for-this-ringwalk original. The ubiquitous Sam Watson -- often confused with Al Haymon (he works for Haymon) has an arm draped over Bieber's shoulder. Bieber looks truly uncomfortable.
Round 1: Both fighters bounding on their toes early. Mayweather jabs, comes forward. Hooks to the head and body. Canelo blocks. Floyd loves that early body jab. Canelo the much bigger fighter. Weighed in at 165 pounds today, Mayweather 150. Good jab by Canelo. Canelo misses with a big right hand. Floyd snaps a jab off Canelo's head. Those jabs from Mayweather did no damage, but they may have won him the round. 10-9 Mayweather.
Round 2: Floyd still going downstairs with the jab. Canelo swings at air. Canelo pumps two jabs out. Floyd tags Canelo with a good right hand in close. And another. That Mayweather jab is sharp. Crowd roaring but Canelo's shots are either missing or being blocked. There's a good jab by Canelo. Close again, but another round for Mayweather, 10-9.
Round 3: Floyd taps Canelo with two counter jabs. Another pinpoint jab snaps Canelo's head back. Left hand by Vanelo connects, albeit glancing. Two hard right hands by Mayweather. Canelo nods, acknowledging them. Floyd drops his hands, inviting Canelo in. Good left hand by Canelo when Floyd ducked. Mayweather back to the jab. Quick left and right at the end of the round. Easy round to score. 10-9 Mayweather.
Round 4: Big smile from Floyd at the start of the round. Canelo starting to charge in now. Floyd countering brilliantly. Tags Canelo with a big right hand. And Canelo tags Floyd with a low punch. Referee warns him. Floyd sticks his glove out, Canelo refuses to tap it. Frustration building with Canelo. Floyd grinning at Canelo. Peppers him with three jabs. Then two right hands. Canelo counters with a right of his own. Mayweather pot shots Alvarez to the head. Alvarez looks tired. 10-9 Mayweather.
Round 5: Hard right hand by Mayweather. Canelo just can't move out of the way fast enough, and all of his punches are being parried. There was a wicked right hand by Floyd. Canelo felt that. Solid left fom Canelo appeared to connect, but Floyd rebounded with the jab. Very nice right hand by Canelo lands. Floyd smiles. They trade punches. Good 1-2 by Mayweather. Canelo starting to jab a little more. But another round for Floyd. 10-9 Mayweather.
Round 6: This is easy work for Mayweather. He is respecting Canelo's power but standing and trading with him. Good flurry by both fighters but Mayweather gets the best of it. Nice counter left by Maywearther. Floyd is standing int he center of the ring, ready to fight. Great action that round, but ANOTHER for Mayweather. It's a shutout. 10-9 Mayweather.
Round 7: It's a very frustrated Canelo in the ring now. Floyd stalks him, pushes him to the corner. Mayweather rips a combination off Canelo's skull. Floyd's jab is getting through at will. Here comes Floyd. Power punching. Canelo looks hurt. Mayweather may be looking to close it. Canelo rallies, throws a right that connects. Canelo fighting with his hands down. Bad idea. 10-9 Mayweather.
Round 8: Canelo pushes Floyd to the ropes, throws a combination that glances off his arms and gloves. Floyd is so good at blocking shots. Canelo lands a good right hand on the ropes. Floyd less active this round. But Canelo is still fighting with his hands down. He pushes Mayweather to the ropes again, but Mayweather counters with a brutal right hand. I don't know how Canelo is taking some of these shots. He has a very good chin. This was a close round, but I'm giving it to Mayweather. 10-9 Mayweather.
Round 9: Good right hand snaps Canelo's head back. This is a clinic. Nice uppercit from Mayweather. Canelo fires off a right hand. A hard right buckles Canelo. He recovers. Canelo really has to learn how to block a jab. With his head doesn't count. That is landing all day. Guess what: Another round to Mayweather. 10-9 Mayweather.
Round 10: Canelo badly needs a knockout, and he knows it. But he is just too slow. And he looks tired in the ring. Floyd barely looks like he is sweating. Floyd pressuring Canelo on the ropes and Canelo isn't moving. He's flat-footed, slow and tired. A flurry by Canelo pushes Mayweather to the ropes, but Floyd doesn't appear bothered by it. More jabs to the head. If Floyd just threw the jab, he would still be way up on points. 10-9 Mayweather.
Round 11: Floyd yapping at Canelo to keep his punches up. Savage right hand by Floyd. More jabs. Canelo just a punching bag now. No gas in the tank for Canelo. Mayweather looks like he could go another 12 rounds. Canelo connects with a right as Floyd moves away. Canelo whiffs with a left and Floyd looks at the photographers to see if they were hurt by Canelo's whiff! More jabs, more pinpoint rights. More of the same. 10-9 Mayweather.
Round 12: Fighters touch gloves as scores of fans head to the exits. This one is in the books. A U-S-A chant rings from the rafters. Floyd moving around the ring. Jabs again. Tags Canelo with a right hand as Canelo charges in. Canelo still throwing. Crowd boos a little. Mayweather dancing on his toes. There is the final bell, and one more round for Mayweather. I have this a complete shutout. 10-9 Mayweather.
Result: And we go to the judges...114-114. 116-112, 117-111 for Mayweather. Judge CJ Ross scored the fight 114-114. All week people were nervous about her because she was the same judge who scored Manny Pacquiao-Tim Bradley. Just another horrible scorecard. Thankfully, it didn't matter.
10:58 p.m. -- We are minutes away from WBA/WBC junior welterweight titleholder Danny Garcia's defense against Lucas Matthysse, with Mayweather-Canelo at least an hour away.
Brief update on the undercard, Pablo Cesar Cano took a split decision (it should have been unanimous) over Mayweather Promotions fighter Ashley Theophane, and the often robbed Carlos Molina won his first world title, outpointing Ishe Smith in a borderline unwatchable fight.
Quick odds update, per the MGM Grand: Matthysse minus-250, Garcia plus 210. Blog favorite and official prognosticator Cheapo Tony (@CheapoTony) has also weighed in, via text message: "Take the guy with two ss's." Well said, Cheapo.
11:03 p.m. -- Garcia's father/trainer, Angel, has been on a roll this week. Always brash, Angel has been ripping into fans and press for making Matthysse a favorite in this fight. He has disparaged Matthysse's opponents, his style and, for good measure, his country. His best line of the week: "Vegas don't know s---, you [the media] don't know s---, I know everything!"
11:08 p.m. -- Matthysse is headed to the ring. Interesting guy, Matthysse. Very quiet, almost shy outside of the ring. But inside he has proven to be a pure killer. One note: I went to the gym for a run late Thursday night and saw Matthysse, dressed in a windbreaker, getting in a hard workout. A little unusual. He made weight on the first try, but it may not have been easy. Could be a factor.
11:09 -- Here comes Danny Garcia. It pained me to pick against him. Garcia has been consistently underestimated, consistently picked against, but he keeps winning. But as one longtime boxing observer told me today, Matthysse is the toughest out in boxing.
11:12 -- Jimmy Lennon Jr. introducing the referee (Tony Weeks) and judges. Weeks is a good ref for this fight. He's a let 'em fight kind of guy, doesn't usually get involved. Judges? They aren't going to matter.
Round 1 -- Matthysse comes forward. Taps Garcia with a looping left hand. Both fighters trying to find their range. Both appear to respect the others power. Danny takes a hard right hand from Matthysse. He felt that. Matthysse has blurring speed with his power shots. Pacquiao-like. Garcia is fighting backing up most of the round. There's the bell, give it to Matthysse 10-9.
Round 2 -- Matthysse looks like the bigger fighter. Garcia still backing up, not throwing anything with any power yet. Garcia holding this round. Hard right hand by Matthysse. Garcia looking for that left hook. Matthysse charging towards Garcia. Low blow by Garcia. Matthysse finding his range. Another round for Matthysse, 10-9.
Round 3 -- Matthysse looks very comfortable now. Tags Garcia with a hard left hand. Garcia timid with the jab. Matthysse has bad intentions on every one of his punches. Tags Garcia with another left. Good head movement by Matthysse, too. Garcia touching Matthysse with the jab now. Little closer, but give this one to Matthysse, too. 10-9 Matthysse.
Round 4 -- Garcia flipping a soft jab out there. Nice combination scores to Matthysse's body. Good right hand by Garcia. Looks much more comfortable this round. Good body shot by Garcia. Hard right hand by Garcia. Matthysse walks through it. Best round of the night for Garcia. 10-9 Garcia.
Round 5 -- Matthysse comes out swinging. Garcia tags Matthysse with a low blow. He's done that a few times tonight. Lot of fighting in close. Garcia digs to the body, Matthysse responds with two shots to the head. Clubbing left hand by Matthysse. Another low blow by Garcia. Referee warns Garcia. Close round, Matthysse may steal it with a flurry at the end. 10-9 Matthysse.
Round 6 -- Matthysse slaps Garcia with a combination. Matthysse is conistently scoring with the jab and straight right hands. Garcia just not throwing enough punches. Matthysse misses with a wild right hand. They trade hooks. Matthysse drills Garcia with a straight right in close. Good round for Matthysse. 10-9 Matthysse.
Round 7 -- Matthysse continues to throw a high volume of punches. Still coming forward, still throwing. Good straight right by Garcia. Hard left hand by Matthysse. Flurry by Matthysse. Garcia holds. Not a lot of muscle on that jab by Garcia. But there is a mouse under Matthysse's right eye. That's bad. That could be bad news for his vision. Hard combination by Garcia! Matthysse's eye is a wreck now. Garcia stole that round in the last minute! 10-9 Garcia.
Round 8 -- Garcia targeting that right eye of Matthysse, which is closed. That's right in the path of his left hook. Boom, there's the left hook. Lands cleanly. Matthysse more tentative. Garcia goes to the body. Matthysse doing everything he can to protect that eye. Not throwing the right hand. Round ends, give it to Garcia. 10-9 Garcia.
Round 9 -- Matthysse still the aggressor but Garcia looks very comfortable now. He knows that eye is an issue. He's throwing combinations more freely. Matthysse flicking his jab. Hard right by Garcia! Matthysse has a very good chin. Matthysse goes to the body. Garcia counters to Matthysse's head. Credit Garcia's defense. Matthysse has not landed that savage shot that has stopped so many opponents. Another round for Garcia. 10-9 Garcia.
Round 10 -- Little more urgency in Matthysse. Garcia smacks him to the body. Matthysse reaches with the left. Matthysse throws a chopping right that connects. Another right hand by Matthysse. Pushes Garcia into the ropes. Hits Garcia with a straight righ hand that appeared to hurt Garcia. Nice rally round by Matthysse. 10-9 Matthysse.
Round 11 -- Here comes Matthysse. Blasts Garcia, sending his mouthpiece fluing. Matthysse very aggressive now. Winging shots at Garcia's head. Good head-body combination by Matthysse. Garcia counters and drops Matthysse! First knockdown of the fight. Matthysse looks OK. He's fighting back hard but Garcia is countering beautifully. 10-8 Garcia.
Round 12 -- Matthysse swinging, Garcia blocks. Lot of holding now. Garcia throws the left hook, Matthysse blocks. Nice right hand by Matthysse. Hard right by Garcia. He looks up at the clock. Four punch combination for Garcia. And Garcia drops Matthysse with ANOTHER low blow. The referee takes a point. Have to say it's a deserved one. Garcia has been throwing low all night. Hard right by Matthysse. A frantic flurry! Both men trying to close the show! This was Garcia's round, but the point off makes it even. 9-9.
Result: It's a unanimous decision for Danny Garcia. Still the unified champion. 115-111 and 114-112 (twice).
In the postfight interview, Garcia says "I'm the champion of the world. I'm not afraid of anybody... I'm a Philadelphia fighter."
Wow. Just tabulated my scores from Garcia-Matthysse and I had Matthysse 114-113. Gave Matthysse four of the first five rounds and six total. Five for Garcia. Garcia was in control most of the second half of the fight, but those early rounds piled up.


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Miami loves foreign kickers. Garo Yepremian. Olindo Mare. And one Uwe von Schamann, the former Oklahoma kicker who cut his teeth with a clutch kick to beat Ohio State and who kicked in the famous 41-38 overtime loss to San Diego in the 1981 playoffs. Mark Henderson never gave him the same professional courtesy he gave John Smith on a snowy day at Foxborough in 1982. von Schamann booms one out of the end zone, and the field he kicked on had nary a snowflake.
If Gary Coleman had no problems with his pituitary gland, when full grown he would have looked like Jacksonville's Byron Leftwich.
The NFL Today crew is united in their belief that if they had one game to win, their quarterback would be Peyton Manning. The other choices were Brett Favre, Donovan McNabb, and a guy who is 2-0 in Super Bowls and 7-0 in overtime games in his career.
Enough snickering, Patriot Nation. Remember, we love this sort of thing.
Said 2-0 in Super Bowls quarterback is in this commercial with John Madden about satellite radio. David Givens has this speaking line: "I thought I was his favorite receiver!â€
With Deion Branch out, you are, David.
Feast or famine: In the AFC East, two teams are undefeated, and two teams are winless.
We're wondering what took the San Francisco fans so long to decide that they'd seen enough and head for Fisherman's Wharf.
By the way, Monster.com Stadium? That's the fourth name of what used to be Candlestick Park. This time, the stadium was named with the visiting team in mind instead of the home team.
All you can say to Jacksonville is this: Nice try.
Most folks think that David Carr turned an important leadership corner this week. But it was a haircut which did it? Interesting.
Geek of the week: Bill Parcells for his most recent 60 Minutes gig, telling Mike Wallace that he gets beaten up now and then by players, and that "the end is always nearâ€, already greasing the skids for the inevitable skipping town before he's done with his work.
Huh? The last head coach to beat Bill Belichick was Steve Spurrier?
Brentson Buckner accused the NFL of coddling Michael Vick, saying that "he's the face of the NFLâ€. No, he's the face of the undefeated Falcons, the biggest one-man team this side of Wilt Chamberlain.
The Patriots-Bills game was so physical, even referee Johnny Grier was knocked out of the game due to injury (well, it was actually a muscle pull on a long bomb from Drew Bledsoe to Lee Evans, but it's still a neat sidebar to the game).
Is this why Emmitt Smith is still playing? He wanted to throw for a score? Okay, he can quit now, we guess.
Miami offered the wrong job to Dan Marino in the offseason. The correct one would have been "quarterbackâ€.
As if he could do any better, but it may be worth a try.
Don't tell us that Ben Roethlisberger is going to make that Patriots-Steelers tilt later on tougher than we thought.
Even more astonishing in New York than Kurt Warner's success is the fact that Tiki Barber has not yet fumbled this season. And this is a big deal, folks.
You saw Jacksonville lineman John Henderson get slapped upside the head by his trainer, and found yourself wanting him to say "Thank you sir, may I have another?â€
Why does Pittsburgh still have Jerome Bettis but no longer has Amos Zereoue?
This is more about Duce Staley, but Zereoue was someone Pittsburgh might have wanted to hold on to.
Back to school: Why is it that small cities like Ann Arbor, Knoxville and Baton Rouge can fill monstrous stadia with regularity on Saturdays, yet NFL stadiums won't approach the 100,000 seating capacity? (Hint: something to do with "luxury boxesâ€)
How things change. Takeo Spikes and Sam Adams, two vital cogs in last year's shutout, were largely invisible on Sunday. With Adams, the emphasis is on "largelyâ€.
With Lawyer Milloy, the emphasis is on "invisibleâ€. And that's counting all that towel waving.
Now we know that a concussion will not cause Brett Favre to want to come out of a game.
Too bad his coach, Mike Sherman, blew that one. When in doubt, keep him out, coach.
Buffalo is counting the days until the beginning of the J.P. Losman era.
With Drew Brees ordered to play well enough to avoid getting traded, a win against Tennessee is a nice opening salvo.
Jon Gruden is suffering one of the biggest coaching meltdowns in recent memory.
Good grief. Let Jake Plummer wear a number 40 on his helmet.
Rams' punter Sean Landeta is amazing. He is one of the few remaining active players who can say they played in the old USFL. Doug Flutie is another.
Yo, Chiefs: Run Priest Holmes until someone shows they can stop him.
Yo, Ravens: Run Jamal Lewis until someone shows they can stop him.
And that includes Lewis himself. Either he'll get gassed, or he'll get thrown in the hoosegow, one of the two.
Matt Light extended? Now what in the Sam Hill took so long?
Remember him: Let's see how well you know Dolphins history. Dave Wannstedt is head coach number four. Jimmy Johnson is three, Don Shula is two. Yes, two. Who is the other top Fishhead in history? The Dolphins came into the league in 1966, and were coached for their first four years by George Wilson. He was the last Dolphin head coach to preside over an 0-4 start until Wannstedt this year. Just a little perspective on how bad things are right now in Hurricane Alley.
Ugh, Boston and New York. Right around the same time, it could be Sox-Yankees and Patriots-Jets. Remember, the Patriots and Jets have zero combined losses right now.
Bledsoe on a bootleg? Remember, what Buffalo head coach Mike Mularkey knows is more than what you know. Was that Ralph Wilson and Tom Donahoe over in the corner, shuddering?
In Michelle Tafoya, ABC finally found a beauty with a brain, as well as someone who actually knows the job she has to do.
Ask Kyle Boller to win the game for you, and Baltimore is in trouble.
The Dolphins are 4-0. Really. Just ask Bill Belichick. Then ask his players.


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The growth of humanitarian feeling during the Age of Enlightenment in the 18th cent., the spread of the ideas of Jean Jacques Rousseau and others, and the increase of democratic sentiment led to a growing attack on the slave trade. The French Revolution had a great effect not only in the spread of agitation for human rights but more directly in the uprisings in Saint-Domingue and the establishment of Haitian independence. The movement for the abolition of slavery progressed slowly in the United States during the 18th and the first half of the 19th cent. Each of the Northern states gradually abolished the practice, but the prohibition of foreign slave trade promised in the Constitution (ratified in 1789) was not realized until 1808.
In Great BritainBritish humanitarians who had incorporated the abolition of slavery into their conception of Christianity labored successfully to outlaw (1807) the British slave trade. These same men, especially William Wilberforce, Thomas Clarkson, Zachary Macaulay, and Lord Brougham (Henry Peter Brougham), continued to work for the abolition of slavery throughout the British Empire, which was finally effected with the Abolition Act of 1833. However, according to some writers, the British, in abolishing slavery, were primarily motivated by economic, not humanitarian, interests. These critics argued that, while the institution produced great wealth under the mercantilist system, it became unprofitable with the rise of industrial capitalism, which displaced mercantilism early in the 19th cent. At any rate, the abolition legislation of 1833 was followed by the gradual abolition of slavery in all lands under British control, principally by the device of invalidating the legality of slavery and removing its legal safeguards, usually by recompensing the owners.
Slavery proved unprofitable in the Northern states and by the early 19th cent. had disappeared. Its abolition had been hastened by the work of the Quakers, who, as in Great Britain, were staunchly opposed to the institution. In the South, however, where African slaves arrived in the tens of thousands from the late 17th through the early 18th cent., slavery came to be an integral part of the plantation system (especially after the introduction of the cotton gin in 1793). From the late 18th cent. to the eve of the Civil War, more than a million slaves were moved from the Eastern Seaboard to the Deep South, where many labored in the sugar and cotton fields. This vast internal slave trade, which often tore slave families apart, was the South's second largest enterprise; only the plantation system itself surpassed it in size.
In the Northern United States, humanitarian principles led to the appearance of the abolitionists. They knew little of the actual conditions in the South and were fighting not for economic reform but for idealistic principles. The abolitionists in general tended to regard slavery as an unmitigated evil. The small Northern farmer also feared slavery as a system of cheap labor against which it was difficult to compete.
The South, eager to conserve the status quo, developed a bellicose defense of the system, which was hardened by such factors as the slave uprising led by Nat Turner, the troubles over fugitive slaves, and the very active propaganda against the South. The question, involving the very existence of Southern society as then organized, was the dominant one in U.S. history from 1830 to 1860. The political expression of the struggle was largely an attempt on the part of the South to maintain legislative guarantees of the system against the efforts of the abolitionists.
The chief question concerned the right of extension of slavery in the Western territories. This first became important in 1820 with the Missouri Compromise. Many leading statesmen of the time sought an answer: Henry Clay, the great compromiser; Daniel Webster; John C. Calhoun; Stephen A. Douglas, who proposed popular sovereignty as means to decide the free or slave status of territories; and the uncompromising antislavery men, such as Charles Sumner and William H. Seward. The great compromises—the Missouri Compromise, the Compromise of 1850, and the Kansas-Nebraska Act—were ultimately ineffective.
Sectional opposition, which involved even broader questions than slavery, including the constitutional issue of states' rights, grew more passionate as the two sections became more and more hostile. The Ostend Manifesto and the proposed annexation of Cuba, the fugitive slave laws, the operations of the Underground Railroad, the furor caused by the Dred Scott Case, the Wilmot Proviso—all heightened the tension. Sporadic armed conflict erupted in Kansas and in the Harpers Ferry raid of John Brown. The struggle became more clearly defined as the Republican party was formed with a definite antislavery platform.
In the victory of the Republican presidential candidate, Abraham Lincoln (1860), the South saw a threat to Southern institutions, and the Southern states in an effort to secure those institutions resorted to secession and formed the Confederacy. The Civil War followed, and the victory of the North brought an end to slavery in the United States. Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation (issued in 1863, it declared all slaves in the Southern secessionist states free) was followed by other legislation, especially the Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution.
The end of the Civil War did not result in the integration of the former slaves into American life. Although there were gains toward this under Reconstruction, these were subsequently reversed by the Jim Crow laws. Generally easily identified by the color of their skin, African Americans were subjected to segregation and other forms of discrimination practiced by most white Americans and legislated in many jurisdictions. This situation did not begin to be ameliorated until the civil-rights struggles of the 20th cent. (see civil rights; integration).
In the late 20th cent. the idea of compensating American blacks for their enslavement through some form of reparations won widespread support from African-American organizations and greater notice, although little support, from the broader society. The reparations movement was spurred in part by payments to Holocaust victims, to Japanese Americans interned during World War II, and to some Native American tribes. Unlike these groups, however, reparations for slavery would be paid to individuals who are descendants by several generations of the victims, instead of to the victims or to a tribal people. Supporters of reparations, however, argue that contemporary African Americans continue to suffer from the vestiges of slavery and the discrimination that followed emancipation.
In other countries emancipation of slaves was also a serious problem, but never to such an extent as in the United States, chiefly perhaps because the question of race prejudice was nowhere else so important. As the South American nations gained independence, they broadened their democratic principles to include absolute prohibition of slavery (Chile in 1823, Central America in 1824, Mexico in 1829, and Bolivia in 1831) or gradual emanicpation (Argentina in 1813, Colombia in 1814, and Venezuela in 1821). In Brazil the opposition of the planters to abolishing slavery was strong, and it was only after a series of rather ineffective measures that the slaves were emancipated in 1888. Opposition to that action helped to launch the revolution of 1889.
In later years the slave trade was conducted on the east coast of Africa, the market being in Muslim lands. Most antislavery efforts during the 19th cent. were directed against slave trading. Great Britain had passed antislave-trade laws in 1807 and 1811; the British attempted to enlist other nations in an effort to stop the slave trade, and several treaties for such a purpose were signed in the 1840s. However, the first important international agreement was not reached until the Berlin Conference in 1885, which bound the more important Muslim potentates to act against the slave traffic. This was supplemented by the even more significant Brussels Act of 1890, to which 18 states were signatory.
The emperor of Abyssinia (Ethiopia) was unable to prevent traffic from that land to Arabia, and a brisk trade went on over the Red Sea. International scandals occurred from time to time with regard to forced labor; three notable ones concerned the Congo, Liberia, and the Putumayo region of Peru in the 1930s (Native American servitude). The League of Nations adopted the resolutions of the International Slavery Convention of 1926, which was considered an advance over the Brussels Act of 1890; its main weakness was in not providing a permanent commission to oversee the total abolition of slavery. Slavery continued to exist in parts of Asia, the Middle East, and, despite increasingly successful efforts to abolish it, in various parts of Africa.
The United Nations has continued the efforts of the League of Nations to achieve worldwide abolition of slavery. The Declaration of Human Rights, adopted by the General Assembly in 1948, contained a provision prohibiting slavery or trading in slaves. The Security Council in 1954 condemned systems of forced labor, particularly those employed as a means of political coercion. In 1956 a UN conference of plenipotentiaries adopted a convention on the abolition of slavery; an important aspect of the convention was the inclusion of other institutions similar to slavery as practices to be abolished. However, a report prepared for the United Nations in 1966 charged that slavery still existed in parts of Africa and Asia. Although efforts to end involuntary servitude continued throughout the last half of the 20th cent., by the beginning of the 21st cent. forms of slavery, forced, or bonded labor still persisted in a number of Third World countries, e.g., Sudan, Mauritania, Niger, Myanmar, Pakistan, and the Amazon region of Brazil. More isolated instances have been occasionally revealed elsewhere, e.g., involving Asian immigrants in the United States.
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Thursday, October 18th, 2012
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- Blue Straggler Formation in the Old Open Cluster NGC188
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- Speaker: Aaron Geller, Northwestern University
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Open clusters occupy a compelling regime for blue straggler formation. Their moderate stellar densities permit blue straggler formation through all of the known mechanisms, namely collisions, mergers and mass transfer. Furthermore, the accessibility of open clusters to both detailed observations and sophisticated N-body simulations provides unique opportunities to investigate the origins of blue stragglers in great detail. Perhaps the most well-studied blue straggler population in an open cluster is that of NGC 188. This ~7 Gyr open cluster hosts 21 blue stragglers, 16 of which are known to have binary companions, as revealed by our multi-epoch WIYN/Hydra radial-velocity survey. The majority of these blue stragglers have ~0.5 Msun companions that orbit with periods of order 1000 days and have modest eccentricities. Comparisons with predictions from N-body simulations of NGC 188 show that collisions and mergers cannot create such blue stragglers. (Although these mechanisms may account for some or all of the other blue stragglers in the cluster.) Instead the dominant formation mechanism for the blue stragglers in NGC 188 is most likely mass transfer processes.

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Women are active in show business like never before, but will they surpass the status Bollywood heroes enjoy? Never, says Bipasha Basu, who feels there is minimum opportunity for female actors in the Hindi film industry
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Researchers identified two proteins that can be blocked to prevent the "launch" of sperm cells from the testes during ejaculation.
Knocking out the proteins in genetically engineered mice resulted in male animals that were completely infertile, though they continued to mate normally.
A similar goal could theoretically be achieved by suppressing the proteins with drugs, say the scientists. In fact, medicines for prostate enlargement and high blood pressure already exist that block one of them.
"This concept is indeed a feasible mechanism of producing male contraception," the Australian and British researchers wrote in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
A male contraceptive pill has been the Holy Grail of fertility scientists, but one that has proved frustratingly elusive.
Compared with developing a female Pill, designing a male version is a far more difficult process.
Most approaches have relied on hormonal targets or rendering sperm dysfunctional. One major problem is ensuring that every one of the millions of sperm cells produced by a man is stopped from carrying out its job of fertilising the female egg.
It only takes one sperm to produce a baby. One form of IVF treatment, intra-cytoplasmic sperm injection (Icsi) involves injecting a single sperm into the egg.
Tampering with sperm must also present no risk of altering an offspring's genetics. In addition, a male oral contraceptive should ideally be readily reversible, and leave sexual function unaffected.
The new approach appears to tick all these boxes, raising the prospect of a Pill for men that is 100% reliable and can be taken when needed.
The two proteins, alpha1A-adrenoceptor and P2X1-purinoceptor are both "receptor" molecules on which other agents act to trigger biological processes.
Together they enable sperm cells to be transported from the testes to the penis through a muscular tube called the Vas Deferens, which contracts during ejaculation.
Deleting genes for the proteins produced male mice that were 100% infertile, wrote the researchers led by Dr Sabatino Ventura, from Monash University in Victoria, Australia.
Importantly, complete loss of fertility in the "knock out" mice did not affect their sex drive or normal sexual activity.
"This bypasses perhaps the greatest stumbling block in the quest for a socially acceptable male contraceptive," the scientists wrote.
The mice appeared normal and did not suffer any side effects that would make such a treatment unthinkable for humans. They were also able to father normal offspring, after having sperm extracted from their testes and injected into female eggs via Icsi.
Adrenoceptor-blocking drugs are already in widespread use as treatments for benign prostate hyperplasia (BPH) - non-cancerous prostate enlargement - and high blood pressure, the researchers pointed out.
"Development of only a suitable P2X1-purinoceptor antagonist (blocker) is required before this pharmacological strategy for male contraception can be trialled," they added.
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Which is exactly what Troy did, because he's addicted to running, and not in a good way. Troy is just one of four people struggling with dangerous – and, in a couple cases – weird and sad addictions (shopping, tanning, eating chalk) who were profiled on last night's episode of My Strange Addiction on the Discovery Channel. Oh, Troy's girlfriend couldn't take his running obsession anymore and finally broke up with him.
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Sequences matching input query are shown below. Original reference, patient identifier, isolate name, partial treatment histories and accession number are indicated. Complete treatment histories, when available, can be accessed by clicking the isolate name. Sequences may additionally be downloaded in the fasta format, or viewed as individual or composite alignments using the options above. If the user wishes to view individual alignments of isolates for which there are multiple clones, the user can choose to view either an alignment of consensus sequences derived from the clones or an alignment of each clone as well as a consensus sequence. |
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Weidle (2001) | PW_UG465 | PW_UG465a | AZT, 3TC | None | M184V, N348I | V35T, K49R, V60I, D123E, D177E, I178M, G196E, Q207E, R211K, V245K, D250E, L282C, L283I, T286A, I293V, P294A, E297K, A304E, K323R, Q334E, G335D, P345Q, F346Y, R356K, M357S, R358K, A360T, E370A, I375V, T377Q, S379C, K390R, A400T | D | ||
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Gibb (2002) | DMG81 | 81_w56 | ABC, 3TC | None | M184V, N348I | V35T, E36A, T39D, V60I, K102Q, K122E, I135T, D177E, I178M, T200A, Q207E, R211K, V245M, D250E, A272P, T286A, E297K, Q334N, G335D, R356K, M357T, I375V, T377L, S379A, T386I, K390R | D |


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Honda's New LMP2 V-6
In preparation for next month's 12 hours of Sebring (and upcoming prototype seasons in both the U.S. and Europe), Honda in the process of testing its new twin-turbo 2.8-liter V-6 built by Honda Performance Development. In reliability tests with Highcroft Racing drivers Marino Franchitti and Simon Pagenaud at Motor Sports Ranch-Houston and Caroliona Motorsports Park, the new engine logged 2,163 miles.
Last year was a good one for Honda, with championships for its HPD V-8 in both the ALMS and the European Le Mans Series, plus a victory in the LMP2 class at the 24 Hours of Le Mans and multiple race wins in both ALMS and LMS competition. For 2011, however, the Automobile Club de l'Ouest (ACO), rule-making body for sports-prototype competition, requires production-based engines for LMP2, which are to be sold or leased under a series-mandated price cap. That requirement led to development of the HR28TT, a 2.8-liter twin-turbo V-6 that's based on Honda's global V-6 as found in the Accord and Odyssey. For the record, the racing version of this engine is a joint effort between HPD and Honda R&D Americas in Ohio, the teams working together to create a powerful racing engine that meets the ACO's lower price targets for LMP2.
Said Pagenaud: "I've been part of this engine's evolution since the first test. Not only does it cover miles and miles, but HPD engineers have found more torque and power at each test. This definitely is going to be a serious weapon in LMP2."
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