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SAN DIEGO (CBS 8) - A San Diego breeding center is celebrating the birth of four Mexican gray wolves.
The Mexican gray wolf is considered one of the rarest land mammals in the world. Starting in 1976, the animals were listed on the endangered species list.
In April, four pups were born at the California Wolf Center, and may be released into the wild.
"Every time pups are born they're valuable to the program, but these pups in particular have rare genes to contribute to the population," Erin Hunt of the California Wolf Center said.
The wolves are being released into the wild in Arizona and New Mexico, with about 50 living in the wild today.
The California Wolf Center, located in the back country town of Julian in San Diego County, is the third-largest breeding and hosting facility for Mexican gray wolves in the United States.


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After months of dodging mosquitoes, Barry and Linda Hoffer were strolling peacefully along the shores of White Rock Lake on a recent morning in celebration of his 66th birthday.
Such outings had been avoided in the summer for fear of exposure to West Nile, a bird virus being passed by mosquitoes to humans.
"We were leery of being outside," recalled Linda Hoffer, who religiously dosed herself with insect repellent before venturing out.
The Hoffers still shouldn't let their guard down.
Though it has been almost a month since Dallas County reported the last person to suffer a severe infection from West Nile, health officials seem reluctant to announce the end of the worst mosquito-borne disease outbreak since the virus showed up here in 2002.
"We continue to have passive surveillance for human cases year-round, and we may still get some straggler reports trickling in through the next few weeks," said Dr. Wendy Chung, the county's chief epidemiologist.
A normal West Nile season would end without fanfare in early November, as it has in the past two years when the virus was barely detectable.
But nothing about this year's outbreak has been normal, starting with the detection of infected mosquito pools in early June to the first human cases confirmed by the end of the month to the first reported death in mid-July.
"We're still in the process of collecting information," Chung said. "It's a painstaking process," including lengthy interviews with people hospitalized with encephalitis and meningitis, typically caused by West Nile.
Health officials also are looking at what role water sources may play in an outbreak.
Slow water
A Houston study, published in January, suggested that people living near slow-moving water might be more likely to be infected during a West Nile outbreak than those living farther away.
The most recent West Nile case in Dallas County was reported in late October, pushing the outbreak to more than 390 mild to severe infections. The county death toll remains at 18.
Other North Texas counties have suffered similar outbreaks this year, including Tarrant County with 277 infections and 11 deaths; Collin with 76 cases and four deaths and Denton with 184 cases and two deaths.
Nationally, more than 5,100 cases of West Nile virus have been reported as of Nov. 14, including 229 deaths, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The highest number of West Nile deaths, 284, was reported in 2002.
Based on the early Texas outbreak, federal officials had predicted this would be the worst year for West Nile since the virus was first detected in dead birds in New York City in 1999.
No one had anticipated a West Nile outbreak of this magnitude this summer, until it began to unfold.
In August, the CDC sent two teams of West Nile experts to Texas to oversee massive abatement efforts. Dallas County would spend about $390,000 for mosquito control, but it took an infusion of $2.7 million in state and federal government funds to finish the job.
The funding boost covered the cost of intense ground spraying of insecticides and the first aerial spraying in Dallas County since the 1960s. The disease being fought back then was St. Louis encephalitis, also spread by mosquitoes.
"You have to err on the side of caution," said Dr. Christopher Perkins, who helped guide the response as the new medical director of Dallas County Health and Human Services.
Questions linger
No one can say for certain why West Nile reappeared so strongly in North Texas this summer. It had been six years since the local West Nile record was set at 104 infections and four deaths.
Nor can anyone explain why the virus again pummeled the northeast quadrant of Dallas County, a densely populated area that includes White Rock Lake and some of the most upscale neighborhoods that also were hit in 2006.
The Hoffers' stroll placed them in one of the hardest-hit ZIP codes for West Nile — 75214.
"We've all been trying to figure out why this happened again and, especially, to explain where it happened," said Scott Sawlis, the county's entomologist who oversees mosquito-abatement efforts.
Water sources are getting some of the attention. Those include deep rain puddles that provide temporary breeding places for West Nile-infected mosquitoes.
"In Houston, the problem was with the bayous that had vegetation growing along their sides," said Melissa S. Nolan, an author of the study, which appeared in the Journal of Biomedicine and Biotechnology.
Faster-moving water, such as in lakes or streams, was not as problematic, given that mosquitoes prefer stagnant water.
Sawlis said more studies were needed to define areas that might be prone to repeated mosquito breeding that leads to West Nile infections.
"There's definite environmental and ecological factors involved in these outbreaks," he said. "We're hoping the CDC will help us figure this out."
The role played by creeks and streams that flow through northeast Dallas also must be assessed along with the overwatering of lawns and gardens that can cause puddles or plug storm drains.
"Even in a drought, you can end up with a constant supply of stagnant water," Sawlis warned.
"But what is it about the water, the geography, the land elevation and the micro habitat they create together that allows mosquitoes to thrive and infect people with West Nile?
"We don't know those answers — yet."
WHAT'S NEXT: Areas of concentration
Collecting information about the infections including lengthy interviews with people hospitalized with encephalitis and meningitis.
Defining areas that might be prone to repeated mosquito breeding.
Determining the role played by creeks and streams and the overwatering of lawns and gardens.

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Friday, July 27, 2012
JLA Classified: Cold Steel #2 (2006)
The JLA mechs briefly engaged the Voruk warships in outer space, before flying down to Penumbra, where the Voruk lacked shielding to follow. Only armed scouts could handle the "Infinity Coil," so they were sent in, while Mhak-Lord Gordoruk ordered the creation of "our beloved God-of-Storms."
Aquaman's shields had been damaged, so his ship fell to Penumbra in a heap. Superman struggled to fly "a bloody skyscraper, here." Everyone managed. Maiko deployed from Batman's ship in a probe to repair Aquaman's shielding. Green Lantern discovered his "power ring's gone all funny," not functioning effectively. Flash noticed flying "black snakey things" floating amongst the still world. In space, the Voruk's many warships were sacrificed to create one massive craft, but not without sorrow and salutations.
J'Onn J'Onzz was concerned about the snakes. "I can't touch them telepathically. It's like there's nothing out there." They were "spooked" by fire from the Voruk scouts. Tsaru ordered the Ghoji to fall back, even their outcasts, but Maiko refused. "I won't run away, Tsaru Kar. I am not-- not afraid." She chastised, "Death without Shai-Tar's blessing? You compound your crime!" Superman protected them with his four arms and twin blades. Wonder Woman noted Maiko's bravery. Batman observed, "He's got nothing left to lose." Aquaman's shields and consciousness were brought back online.
Martian Manhunter took a hit, terrifying his young co-pilot, Gaida. Light emanated from her eyes and mouth, until her mind exploded. J'Onn melted into near nothingness before struggling to collect herself. "She went off like a bomb. I've never felt such a powerful mental attack... If I had been slower erecting a defense--" It was Wonder Woman who checked in on J'Onn, and quizzed Tsaru Kar on what had happened. "She was just a child... Her noble heart would not be restrained."
The Ghoji had long tried to telepathically probe Voruk ships, but "protective scarring" had foiled them. Using her magic lasso as a conduit and a psychic pulse from the Martian Manhunter, an "oscillation pattern" was broadcast that saw the Voruk probes rain down limply from the sky. This afforded Wonder Woman time to press the resistant Tsaru about Gaida's death.
The God-of-Storms arrived, providing plentiful distraction. Batman managed to blind it, while Aquaman penetrated the craft. Wonder Woman used her lasso to draw information from the organic behemoth to feed Aquaman. The Sea King exited his mech to swim within. Between the snakes and the behemoth, Batman, Superman and the Flash were wrecked. The Martian Manhunter soon joined Aquaman inside the God-of-Storms, investigating a hunch. "It began to dawn on me, when Gaida died, what the Ghoji's Shai-Tar really was. Not a god, but a psychic weapon. Gaida harnessed the energy of her own body to fuel a violent psychic attack. The ultimate vengeance for a powerless people." Hearing this psychic projection, Wonder Woman realized "Not so powerless, evidently. The Ghoji sacrificed themselves in the thousands, during the invasion. That's what you told us, isn't it Tsaru? And those Voruk who survived infected others of their kind." The Voruk who suffered from Shai-Tar either killed themselves or spread their painful psychic illness to their families, whom they would likely kill to save them from the agony.
Tsaru argued that the Voruk were slavers guilty of every crime she had attributed to them, and deserving of their endless torment. Aquaman and Martian Manhunter began healing the race, which Tsaru saw as unchaining a beast from the glorious bounds of her goddess. "One more mention of Shai-Tar, or the barbarism of the outsiders, and I swear to you, Tsaru-Kar-- I'll wind you in Hestia's cord, and show you what you really are. It wouldn't match the agony you inflict on your victims, but I warrant it would be enough to drive you mad... Trust me. Not one more word."
The Infinity Coil collapsed, and all hell broke loose. It was revealed that it had been a gate, but instead of connecting two points in space, it looped one back on itself, causing a compression in time. Too long destabilized, it was now rending reality. The snakes were shadow anomalies, and the best hope was to redirect the gate. It would require "a stardrive of massive proportions," and Aquaman pointed out, "We're swimming in it." The God-of-Storms had existed in some form for nearly nine hundred years, so Tsaru Kar had to telepathically convince it to sacrifice itself, against Wonder Woman's protestations. "Shai-Tar is the only way. The Ghoji god and the Voruk god. Together they will cast down the shadows." Mhak-Lord Gordoruk refused to abandon ship, and would pilot the God-of-Storms to its death alongside Tsaru Kar.
The mechs still standing looked on as the deaths of gods ended the threat of annihilation. Wonder Woman ripped open her hatch. Martian Manhunter passed through his. Heroes and survivors looked out at the new dawn, while a bird sang.
"Chapter Two: The Sleeping World" was by writer/painter Chris Moeller
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Sakura Sushi Express is my favourite sushi place since college years. It is located on Hardware Lane, right below Taylors College so it was pretty convenient for me back then.
I would come down and take-away two rolls of 'karaage roll' then head back up to finish my homework. Even during my university years, I would walk all the way back to Sakura just to have my fix of karaage roll.
Apparently, it is a tad bit sourish, but he couldn't care less to find out what it is and just poured everything in. (T_T)" Well, he said it tasted alright, so good on him.
I can't seem to find the link to Urbanspoon, neither do I know the address. But it is located at the corner of Londales and Hardware Lane. :)


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For how long
How long do we need to wait?
For our heart of stone to become flesh
How long do we need to be in this theater?
With our hearts opened wide for surgery
For too long
But the folks outside look at us and smile
As naïve as they were, they call us blessed
Oh, Look at His beautiful wife and His beautiful kids
Her husband flies first class;
his house is the dream of all girls
I wish they were us, so they could wish for something else
Never thanking God for what they have
But only looking at the greener grass on the other side of life!
They never knew
This was a cosmetic surgery
And we hide behind the foundations, pancakes, & mascaraed brows
Though we smile as though all is well
Deep inside we know that these hearts are rotting
And if these doctors do not get us out of this theater
We may just die
Or become a couple without a heart
For how long?
How long do we need to walk down the aisle?
Yet each time we come out we continue to mourn
Not moan
Our heart is a combination of many failed marriages
We have removed the bed and now we sleep on the boxing ring
With our children knocking and crying behind the closed doors
Saying daddy-mummy please open the doors!
But so many times after we've opened these doors
Pretending that daddy and mummy were just playing
In the bedroom
We've opened the hearts of these little ones
To violence in marriage
Not just in marriage but in their relationships
The boys learns to punch and beat their girlfriends
Because they know that daddies should be stronger
And if a woman does not take the biddings of a man
He beats her
Till the woman knows that a man is the head of the house
And the neck must always turn wherever the head wants to go
But the baby girls are no fools
They begin to learn the ways and the trickeries
Of the many ways to make a man do their biddings
And if a man will not fall for their trickeries
They either kill him
In their hearts, or at night without sex;
or with extra-marital affairs
They may even train the kids to love and trust their mother
At the expense of their father
Because unlike the woman; the man is not always there
And in the future, I doubt if he will ever be
For how long
How long do we need to carry this cosmetic surgery?
Pretending to the outside world
That all is well
When all is hell
Deep within we know our hearts were never right
But then we lie
We are just fine
So we hold hands in public gatherings
At Christmas parties and family meetings
We want men to see us as good
But in our hearts we were never cool
Kissing and hugging may be the movie we show to the world
While the tears we shed still hides under our skin
Our hearts bleed
But friends do not feel the trouble we see
By remaining on this same spot
In ages; not wanting changes
The ears we tell may for once hear us and forget
But our soul may never forgive the pains we inflict on ourselves
not the ones our partners caused
But the ones we dwelt with
And refused to change
Till this marriage
Becomes the rubbles
Left behind
After this matrimonial war ended
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text: Message-ID: <4FD6422BE942D111908D00805F3158DF0A757936@RED-MSG-52> From: Chris Kaler <firstname.lastname@example.com> To: "'Geoffrey M. Clemm'" <firstname.lastname@example.com>, Date: Mon, 30 Nov 1998 11:46:58 -0800 Subject: RE: versioned collections: a proposal I haven't read through all of this (I will), but here are some quick comments. I agree that versioned collections are difficult. For that reason I added the properties to discover what level of collection versioning a resource supported. I think it is reasonable to make this generally optional. I don't think that collections have references is viable. First, the client should have to do anything different if it is working on a versioned collection that if it is working on a non-versioned collection. This is hard, but not impossible using references. However, I think the namespace shouldn't differ at all. That is, I should be able to take a Web site that isn't versioned, and enable versioning on it without requiring the structure of the Web site to be changed. Chris -----Original Message----- From: Geoffrey M. Clemm [mailto:firstname.lastname@example.com] Sent: Monday, November 09, 1998 4:14 AM To: email@example.com Subject: versioned collections: a proposal * Versioned Collection Challenges As has been pointed out in several messages, versioned collections present a couple of challenging use cases. First, when a versioned resource is "deleted" from a versioned resource collection, the resource itself cannot actually be deleted, since it still must be visible in the earlier revisions of that versioned resource collection. Second, when a new revision is to be selected from a versioned resource that is the leaf of a nested set of versioned collections, the appropriate versions of the containing collections must exist and be selected in order for that new leaf revision to be visible. In order to relieve simple versioning systems from having to address these problems, I propose that we only support versioned collections as part of DAV:configurations and not part of DAV:basicversioning. I also propose that the following constructs replace the corresponding constructs of section 5 ("Configurations") of draft-webdav-versioning-00. * Repositories, Configurations, and Workspaces To support versioned collections, I propose that the members of a revision of a versioned collection should be *references* to other *versioned resources* (not the versioned resource itself, nor a references to particular revisions). I further propose that the versioned resources referenced by collection revisions be members of a special non-versioned collection called a "repository". Having collection revision members be references solves the first versioned collection problem (what is deleted is a reference to the versioned resource, not the versioned resource itself). To solve the second problem, I propose that we introduce a special XML element called a "configuration" to provide an extensible mechanism for defining version selection, and that we introduce the concept of a "workspace" resource as a mechanism for combining a versioned collection with a configuration, to "instantiate" the collection revisions (i.e. to produce collections whose members are the revisions selected by the configuration from the versioned resources that are the members of the collection revision). In addition, just as repositories provide the collections that contain the versioned resources, workspaces will provide the collections that contain the working resources. * Definitions "Repository" - a non-versioned collection resource that contains versioned resources. "Configuration" - an XML element that defines a version selection rule, i.e. a configuration can be used to select a specific revision of a given versioned resource. "Workspace" - a non-versioned resource that contains "instances" (or is an "instance") of a revision of a versioned resource. An instance of a non-collection revision is either a reference to the revision, or is a working resource created by checking out the revision. An instance of a collection revision is a non-versioned collection, each of whose members is an instance of a revision of a member of the collection revision being instantiated. (Note: a workspace can be seen as a generalization of the "VPortal" concept from Jim Whitehead's original Versioning protocol proposal. * Predefined Configuration Elements Although a configuration is intended to be an extensible concept, a few common configuration elements will be pre-defined. - LABEL-CONFIG element: the XML element specifies the name of a label. This will select the revision of a versioned resource with that label. - BRANCH-CONFIG element: the XML element specifies the name of a branch. This will select the latest revision of that versioned resource on that branch. - DATED-BRANCH-CONFIG element: the XML element specifies both the name of a branch and a date. This will select the latest revision of that versioned resource on that branch on or before the specified date. * Version Selection Conflicts If multiple configuration elements are specified in a configuration, a "conflict" can result if the configuration elements select incompatible revisions (e.g. two revisions on different branches of the versioned resource). * Workspace Properties The WORKSPACE-ROOT property of a workspace specifies the versioned resource of which the workspace is an instance. If the WORKSPACE-ROOT is a collection, then a revision of each of the members of that collection is instantiated in that workspace as well. The WORKSPACE-CONFIGURATION property of a workspace specifies the rules for selecting which revisions are instantiated in the workspace. The WORKSPACE-CONFLICTS property contains an XML element describing all conflicts produced when the WORKSPACE-CONFIGURATION is instantiated on the WORKSPACE-ROOT. * Working Resources Properties When a working resource is created following a checkout, the working resource will be "from a specific revision", "on a specific branch", and "in a specific workspace". This information is stored in the WR-REVISION, WR-BRANCH, and WR-WORKSPACE properties of the working resource. * An Example For this example, I will assume that the repository is implemented as just a directory containing a set of RCS files, and a workspace is implemented as a directory tree containing copies of the appropriate revisions. For a more sophisticated configuration management system, one or more databases would normally be used to supplement (or replace) the set of files containing the revisions of a versioned resource, and various file caches used to share revisions between multiple workspaces. I will further assume that a versioned collection will be represented as a special RCS file with a ".dir,v" extension, where each revision of a versioned collection consists of a list of member id's with the URI of the appropriate versioned resource. The example repository would have then have a URI such as: http://www.rational.com/web-dav/repo/test/ and would have members such as: http://www.rational.com/web-dav/repo/test/src.dir,v http://www.rational.com/web-dav/repo/test/inc.dir,v http://www.rational.com/web-dav/repo/test/hello.c,v http://www.rational.com/web-dav/repo/test/msg.h,v http://www.rational.com/web-dav/repo/test/print.c,v Using my earlier proposal that versioned resources be collections, the revisions of "hello.c,v" would have the URI's such as: http://www.rational.com/web-dav/repo/test/hello.c,v/r1.0 http://www.rational.com/web-dav/repo/test/hello.c,v/r1.1 http://www.rational.com/web-dav/repo/test/hello.c,v/r18.104.22.168 http://www.rational.com/web-dav/repo/test/hello.c,v/r2.1 http://www.rational.com/web-dav/repo/test/hello.c,v/r184.108.40.206 The contents of: http://www.rational.com/web-dav/repo/test/src.dir,v/r2.1 would then be lines of text such as: hello.c <http://www.rational.com/web-dav/repo/test/hello.c,v> print.c <http://www.rational.com/web-dav/repo/test/print.c,v> inc <http://www.rational.com/web-dav/repo/test/inc.dir,v> Then there could be a few workspaces with URI's: http://www.rational.com/home/gclemm/ws/dev/ http://www.rational.com/home/gclemm/ws/integ/ http://www.intersolv.com/home/sarge/ws/dev/ where the properties of: http://www.rational.com/home/gclemm/ws/dev/ could be: <D:prop> <D:workspace-root> http://www.rational.com/web-dav/repo/test/src.dir,v </D:workspace-root> <D:workspace-configuration> <D:label-config> stable </D:label-config> </D:workspace-configuration> </D:prop> Assume that "print.c" is checked-out in "gclemm/ws/dev". Also assume that the following revisions: http://www.rational.com/web-dav/repo/test/src.dir,v/r2.1 http://www.rational.com/web-dav/repo/test/inc.dir,v/r1.0 http://www.rational.com/web-dav/repo/test/hello.c,v/r1.5 http://www.rational.com/web-dav/repo/test/print.c,v/r1.2 http://www.rational.com/web-dav/repo/test/msg.h,v/r1.3 each have the property: <D:prop> <D:label> stable </D:label> </D:prop> Then a recursive listing of the workspace "gclemm/ws/dev" would be: http://www.rational.com/home/gclemm/ws/dev/ http://www.rational.com/home/gclemm/ws/dev/src/ http://www.rational.com/home/gclemm/ws/dev/src/hello.c http://www.rational.com/home/gclemm/ws/dev/src/print.c http://www.rational.com/home/gclemm/ws/dev/inc/ http://www.rational.com/home/gclemm/ws/dev/inc/msg.h where "hello.c" is a reference to: http://www.rational.com/web-dav/repo/test/hello.c,v/r1.5 where "msg.h" is a reference to: http://www.rational.com/web-dav/repo/test/msg.h,v/r1.3 and where print.c is a working resource.


text: On Mon, Jun 25, 2007 at 04:16:04PM -0700, ron minnich wrote: > Right, I did this arch/lib.h thing in response to a request; people > did not like arch/x86/lib.h in includes. I personally like it, as > it reduces "magic". We shouldn't need "magic" - just some simple logic. Ie. 1:1 rules for what files go together - clear relationships between include/ and all that used to be in src/. > I would rather NOT have the arch directory, and i would rather NOT > have duplicate names like lib.h. include/lib.h currently has: log2, {u,m,}delay, beep_{short,long}, smbus_read_byte, ram_failure and ram_initialize. Shouldn't they just go into separate .h files? Or shouldn't all of the other files go into lib.h? I'm sorry if I've forgotten what we thought about all of this. > So, quick, somebody, make a suggestion. Where do we put > cpu-dependent library functions? cpu.h? Sounds good. In fact, include/arch/x86/cpu.h already has some (all?) of the code in the lx patch. //Peter


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It was a dizzying round-up of Seattle's life sciences research and biotech scene, from designer proteins to the looming threat of the Zika virus.
Xconomy's annual Seattle life sciences forum kicked off Monday afternoon with a nod by organizer and Xconomy national biotech editor Alex Lash to the region's breadth and depth of medical and biology research and technology.
"What's happening in Seattle? What I always find interesting is the intersections. It's a small town compared to some of the other biotech centers," said Lash, who chose the speakers for the event, held for three years running at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center. "You have global health meeting life science start-ups, you have big data meeting clinical research, all these different connections."
This year's forum was titled "Life Sciences Disruptors," though Lash and the other speakers didn't focus on the technology buzzword theme, but if there was one common thread to the afternoon's whirlwind tour of Seattle's public and private life sciences work it was the new and unexpected — and a look to the future of healthcare.
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Fred Hutch vice president of business development and industry relations Dr. Niki Robinson introduced the forum.
"This is a perfect backdrop for things that you're going to hear about today because, for those of you who may know the Hutch, we're big and bold here," Robinson said.
A taste of immunotherapy
While in years past, immunotherapy was a key focus of the forums, Monday's presentations and panels touched on this research area as well as many others.
Biotech Celgene's chief scientific officer Dr. Rob Hershberg, Fred Hutch immunotherapy researcher Dr. Cameron Turtle and Seattle Children's gene therapy expert Dr. Andrew Scharenberg gave short presentations on immunotherapy. The therapeutic area encompasses a wide range of approaches that harness the body's own immune system to battle disease — it's typically referred to in the context of cancer treatment, but not all Monday's speakers focused exclusively on cancer.
- Turtle gave an overview of the Fred Hutch T-cell therapy trial that he leads along with immunotherapy researcher Dr. David Maloney and which is showing promising early results for patients with a certain type of leukemia — 93 percent of patients with advanced B-cell acute lymphocytic leukemia treated on the trial went into complete remission after receiving an infusion of T cells engineered to recognize and attack their cancers. "It's still going to take a long time to find out exactly where this is going to fit into other therapies and whether this will be a stand-alone therapy, but it really has been very, very effective in these patients," Turtle said.
- Scharenberg described a different type of T-cell therapy for medical scenarios he called "the yang to cancer's yin" — conditions like organ transplants and auto-immune disorders where the body's immune system can attack healthy organs. Currently, organ transplant recipients take immune-suppressing drugs that allow them to receive the donor organ but which can have significant side effects if taken for long periods, Scharenberg said. His team hopes to genetically engineer T cells to "restore balance in tolerance for these patients," he said.
- Hershberg helped launch Celgene's Seattle site, which focuses on immuno-oncology (immunotherapy focused on cancer treatment). Their goal is translation to the clinic. "With 500 ongoing trials in immuno-oncology, if you don't know how to translate your scientific discoveries into defined clinical trials, you will rapidly lose," Hershberg said. He also predicted that the immunotherapy field will increasingly need to consider the "tumor microenvironment," the specific non-cancerous cells and molecules surrounding each patient's tumors and which heavily influence whether a given immunotherapy will work for that patient or not. Researchers are working to make that environment more favorable for emerging immunotherapies, he said.
The best of the rest
In the rest of the forum, Xconomy's Lash and other organizers moderated panel discussions of researchers and tech executives from different life sciences organizations. Some of the highlights of the panels included:
Hope for AIDS and Zika vaccines: Vaccine experts including HIV vaccine researcher Dr. Larry Corey, Infectious Disease Research Institute vaccine expert Dr. Rhea Coler and Just Biotherapeutics' CEO Dr. Jim Thomas spoke on a panel titled "From AIDS to Zika."
Both Coler and Corey expressed hope that a Zika vaccine should be within our reach. Coler's team is developing a vaccine for the mosquito-borne West Nile virus and said that because the two viruses are related, they may be able to apply what they know to a Zika vaccine. Viruses like Zika are very different from lifelong infections like HIV, Corey said. Because our bodies know how to mount an immune response — people don't get infected with Zika twice — that means a working vaccine is an attainable goal, he said.
"It's less a science issue than how do you muster the resources to make a vaccine. That's more of a development structure issue. We have a really broken system in the area of creating vaccines," Corey said. With HIV, the challenge is both scientific and industrial, he said.
Corey also briefly described the HIV Vaccine Trials Network's latest foray into HIV prevention, a clinical trial across three continents called the AMP study that aims to test whether weekly infusions of broadly neutralizing antibodies can protect against HIV infection.
Transforming data sharing: Also featured was a conversation about data sharing for medical sciences with Sage Bionetworks scientist Brian Bot and Fred Hutch CIO Matthew Trunnell. Both big data experts agreed that researchers aren't yet at the point where genetic data is transforming precision medicine decisions on a large scale, but they have hope for the path ahead.
"There's so much enthusiasm about taking genomics into the clinic. Yet we're still really struggling with some of the basics of understanding the data the way we're generating these data now," Trunnell said. "I think we're at a relatively early stage but I honestly think it goes quickly from this point."
Engineering proteins to protect: University of Washington's Dr. David Baker and his colleagues gave an overview of the future of protein engineering. Baker leads the UW's Institute for Protein Design and has had a hand in a number of different protein design and engineering projects. Researchers from Baker's team who spoke included Dr. Ingrid Swanson Pultz, who's developing a special enzyme called KumaMax that works to dissolve gluten in the stomach as a therapy for people with celiac disease, and Dr. Aaron Chevalier, who is working on a designed antibody to protect against a broad range of flu viruses.
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Maybe it's due to the week I spent drinking my way through Ireland, but it seems like Jameson is one of the few liquor brands successfully finding a way to reinforce a stale brand image.
It's par for the course for more established brands to lean on their 'history' when battling new competitive upstarts, but only Jameson does it with such a high level of wit, humor and blockbuster-caliber cinematography.
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64GB Samsung Galaxy S3 Gets Mind-Blowing Price Tag
One retailer in Canada is said to have posted a listing for the 64GB Samsung Galaxy S3 at CAD$1,167, which is about $1,100 US dollars reports PopHerald. The 32GB version of the handset currently costs $650 to $700 without contract and unlocked.
64GB Samsung Galaxy S3 gets exorbitant price tag
A Canadian blog said that Basatne had put the quad core 64GB Pebble blue version of the handset with 24 to 48 hour shipping online for CAD $1,167, but this should be taken with a pinch of salt as it is overpriced. An online retailer said that the device would not be launched by Samsung until the end of September and that the price is expected to be in the region of $800 to $900 US dollars. Samsung refused to comment and only said that they would announce the suggested official retail price for the 64GB in the coming weeks.
In the UK and Asia the 16GB version costs $600, while the 32GB comes in at $700. It is thought that if Samsung launch the 64GB it is likely to be in the $900 so as to drag customers away from Apple's iPhone 4S which comes at a cost of $849 for the unlocked version.
In the US the Samsung Galaxy S3 is available on AT&T, Sprint, Verizon and T-Mobile, among others and comes with the Snapdragon S4 dual core processor. It has 2GB of RAM and is packed with features including a 4.8 inch display, 8 megapixel camera and Nature UX interface, which is a toned down TouchWiz interface. It is available for $199.99 for the 16GB version on contract and $249 if you want the 32GB version of the handset. The device runs ICS but there will be an update to Jelly Bean by the end of the year.


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Get this HP Pre 3 deal @ Palm Eurostore
After a six-month wait, the HP Pre 3 is finally here, and it carries an attractive price tag right off the bat. You can grab an HP Pre 3 direct from Palm's Eurostore for the entirely reasonable price of £299.
The HP Pre 3 has a landscape sliding QWERTY, 3.58in display, 1.4GHz single-core processor, 5MP camera and 8GB internal storage.
Delivery is by DHL courier at £7.99, making the total price £306.99.
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The Microsoft Malware Protection Center (MMPC) is committed to helping Microsoft customers keep their computers secure. By continuously gathering and analyzing data, and by working with organizations inside and outside Microsoft, the MMPC stays agile to combat evolving threats.
The MMPC's mission is to help protect customers and computers, quickly respond to malware outbreaks, advise customers, and engage in valuable partnerships.
Microsoft Virus Information Alliance Member
The Virus Information Alliance (VIA) is an antimalware collaboration program for security software providers, security service providers, antimalware testing organizations, and other organizations involved in fighting cybercrime.
Members of the VIA program collaborate by exchanging technical information on malicious software with Microsoft, with the goal of improving protection for Microsoft customers.
Microsoft Virus Initiative Member
The Microsoft Virus Initiative (MVI) helps organizations to get their products working and integrated with Windows.
Like the Virus Information Alliance (VIA) and the Coordinated Malware Eradication (CME) program, MVI aims to share information about the threat landscape that can help your organization protect its customers.
MVI members will receive access to Windows APIs (such as those used by Action Center and Internet Explorer IOAV), malware telemetry and samples, and invitations to events such as Microsoft Security Response Alliance (MSRA) conferences.
MVI adds to VIA by requiring members to develop and own antimalware technology, and to be present in the antimalware industry community.
Better World Network Partner
Founded by a team of Microsoft cybersecurity veterans, AppEsteem certifies software and related services.
ShieldApps has met all 125 AppEsteem Certification Requirements (ACRs) required for AppEsteem's software certification and qualified as a member of AppEsteem's Better World Network.
ShieldApps' flagship products; Shield Antivirus, Ransomware Defender, PC Privacy Shield and Webcam Blocker – have all passed AppEsteem's rigorous certification process and are to be followed by the entire ShieldApps' portfolio.
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Coordinated Malware Eradication (CME) aims to bring organizations in cybersecurity and in other industries together to change the game against malware.
While the cybersecurity industry today is effective at disrupting malware families through individual efforts, those disruptions rarely eradicate malware families, since malware authors quickly adopt their tactics to survive.
CME calls for organizations to pool their tools, information and actions to drive coordinated campaigns against malware. The ultimate goal is to drive efficient and long lasting results for better protection of our collective communities, customers, and businesses.
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Certification and program membership are conditioned in industry-leading technological attributes, high end product quality and innovative detection and threat blocking algorithms maintenance.
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The European Institute for Computer Anti-Virus Research (EICAR) has been founded in 1991 and is representing an independent and impartial platform for IT-Security experts in the field of science, research, development, implementation and management.
The EICAR is supporting all kinds of initiatives in terms of technical solutions or preventive measures against writing and proliferation of malicious code like computer viruses or Trojan Horses, and against computer crime, fraud and the misuse of computers or networks, inclusive malicious exploitation of personal data.
The National Cyber Security Alliance Participant
The National Cyber Security Alliance (NCSA), a 501c non-profit founded in 2001, is a public private partnership, working with the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), private sector sponsors (founding sponsors included Symantec, Cisco Systems, Microsoft, SAIC, EMC, McAfee), and nonprofit collaborators to promote cyber security awareness for home users, small and medium size businesses, and primary and secondary education.
The NCSA's mission is to empower and support digital citizens to use the Internet securely and safely, protecting themselves and the cyber infrastructure.
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The ancient town of Londinium was founded around the year AD 43. The settlement was built next to the River Thames, on the site we currently know as the City of London. Much has changed since then, but some remarkable remnants of London's Roman history still remain. The Roman Amphitheatre, hidden six metres below ground underneath Guildhall Art Gallery, is one such reminder of our city's ancient past and absolutely worth a visit.
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A Whole New World Of Happiness
Joint family is the combination of parents child and their grandparents having a bond of relation .Very rarely ,seen joint families now-a-days ,mostly in other American countries more .The complete family responsibility has to be taken by the earner of the family or else it could shared by two earners.
Benefits of Joint Family:
• The primary responsibility of the joint family was women should be taken the complete holder of kitchen, house hold and child responsibility.
• In joint family the most benefited was children who get love, support and affection from all the members in the family, and there is chance of child get more pampered.
• The growth of child takes place more from the family modelling.
Characteristics of Joint Family as we follows:
• In the joint family, we could see many common features as possible like common residence were all live together, common kitchen all the cook at the same place, common worship and common properties.
• Self sufficiency is needed in matter of educational, economic entertainment other family members needs.
• They mutually share all the feelings of joy and sorrow at all together and celebrate the occasions.
• Some of the happiness we cannot share personally and lead the self life individually with freedom.
• The growth of child will get different because all the members of the have right to towards the child and take part of the child life.
• Comparatively the earning has more difference in the joint family when compared to small family.


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After the build up, the let down. Scotland extended their dismal record in West London with their worst display under departing coach Vern Cotter in his three-year tenure… by a margin. After what had gone before it was desperately disappointing for anyone in blue.
This Scotland squad is young and inexperienced and they displayed both of those traits in spades in a calamitous opening quarter in which everything that could possibly go wrong did. It set the tone for the entire match.
England were efficient and occasionally inspired but the Scots played a huge role in their own downfall, their fingerprints all over the gun that shot them in the foot. They compounded mistakes, got on the wrong side of the referee and the penalty count and for long stretches of this match they appeared unable to do the basics of the game, hold on to the ball, make their tackles and offer even a modicum of resistance to an England side that were imperious.
From the off, this was less of a contest and more a finger in the dyke, rearguard action. The result means England have won the Six Nations Championship and equalled the world record of 18 consecutive Test victories, a mark they now share with New Zealand, but they deserved stiffer opposition than Scotland offered yesterday.
Jonathan Joseph celebrated his return to England's starting XV with a hat-trick of tries, two of which arrived in the opening 30 minutes. Scotland hit back with Gordon Reid barrelling over in the first half and Huw Jones striking twice after the break, but this match was lost almost before it had started. The hosts raced into a 30-7 lead at half-time and finished the match with a total of seven tries, every one of them expertly converted by Farrell who was 11 from 12 off the tee.
The mood music was set in the opening exchanges when hooker Fraser Brown was carded with the clock stopped at 1.47 minutes for an ugly tip tackle on Elliot Daly who was forced to leave the field. The England winger returned briefly before leaving for good. Brown was lucky to see yellow rather than red with the referee saying that Daly landed on "the top of his back", otherwise known as the neck.
When play resumed, England kicked the resulting penalty to touch, won the lineout and Joseph skipped past Alex Dunbar in the middle of the field to score a wonderful solo score with the clock showing 2.21. Worse was to follow as Farrell, news of whose demise was greatly exaggerated, slotted the first of his four penalties. England were ten points to the good by the time Brown returned to the action only for the hooker to overcook his first lineout and minutes later Farrell nudged England 13-0 into the lead.
Just when you imagined that nothing else could go wrong for the visitors Stuart Hogg left the field for an head injury assessment never to return and his replacement, Mark Bennett, lasted exactly four minutes before leaving on a stretcher.
Scotland were forced to shuffle their deck. Henry Pyrgos played nine off the bench, Tommy Seymour filled in at the back and Ali Price was a makeshift winger on the right flank where the little scrum-half found himself out-jumped by Anthony Watson and Maro Itoje in quick succession.
Scotland got one try back from Reid just before the half hour mark, the prop rumbling over from short range, but that effort was bookended by two English scores. Joseph grabbed his second, again finding acres of space up the middle of the field, before the classy centre made yet another clean break and sent replacement Watson over the line five minutes before the break.
Goodness knows what Cotter said at half-time but it had little effect because this was turning into the Lord Mayor's procession. Only a timely interception from Russell prevented Ben Youngs from sending Jack Nowell over the Scotland line but nothing could prevent Joseph from grabbing his hat-trick try two minutes into the second half after picking a canny, out-to-in angle.
Scotland's dire straits were exacerbated when Seymour left the field on 44 minutes to be replaced by stand-off Duncan Weir. The crowd raised the roof for their own super-sub Billy Vunipola and Scotland kept the big man try-less for a full five minutes before he rumbled over from an attacking lineout.
Jones, the one bright spot for Scotland, bagged a brace of well taken-tries in the final quarter to lend an sheen of credibility to the final score and the same man also tackled Watson into touch to save another score. Appropriately enough, the final say went to England, replacement Danny Care scoring twice in the dying minutes.
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As a GM employee, what are my options?
As a General Motors Employee you are eligible to purchase up to 6 vehicles per model year. This includes 2 company owned (PEP/GMU) vehicles, and 4 GMO (factory orders) or GMS (in stock) vehicles. Refer to the section on "Eligible Participants" or contact Mike Boggia "PEP KING" at (330) 726-2277 or (800) 686-6141.
Who can purchase?
Under provisions of the GM New Vehicle Purchase Program (GMO, GMS) the following persons are "eligible purchasers" and may receive program assistance from GM: GM Employee, retiree, surviving spouse of decease employee/retiree
Under provisions of the GM New Vehicle Purchase Program (GMO, GMS) the following persons may be sponsored by an "eligible purchaser" to receive program assistance from GM:
What about financing?
GMAC Financial services are offered.
What is the warranty on my car?
G.M. Vehicle Protection Plans may be purchased to suit your needs. Most General Motors vehicles come with a 3 year/36,000 mile bumper to bumper warranty. If you find you need better protection, contact the GM Employees Purchasing Department.
How soon can I get my new vehicle?
GMO purchases - factory orders usually take 6 to 10 weeks. GMS purchases - in stock; or, company owned vehicles (PEP/GMU) can usually be obtained in 2 to 3 months, but may take longer.
Can I get after market options?
Yes. All after market options and accessories are available for you. Certain after market add ons may be residualized in a lease.
Who may buy from The PEP KING?
Vehicles in use by GM company units under the GMU/Product Evaluation Program (PEP) must be tagged by eligible participants by calling (800)815-3812, and following the automated system. Vehicles are sold at a price established by GM with accumulated mileage. The sale contract for the vehicle is assigned to an eligible dealer of the participant's choice who is willing to handle the transaction. The dealer picks up the vehicle at the end of the duty cycle, arranges for payment as necessary, inspects the vehicle, and delivers it to the purchaser. The participant is to be furnished a copy of the dealer invoice displaying the price and documentation of any and all incentives applicable to the vehicle. Such allowances are passed to the purchaser as a specific reduction in purchase price.
Note: Participants who elect to tag a vehicle outside of their local area must make arrangements through a dealer to pick up the vehicle or pay for its transportation from the point at which it comes out of company vehicle service to the dealer's area.
PEP Vehicles - We will sell to employees at the PEP price designated by the Car Division. There is no additional dealer mark up. We will perform a lube, oil change and filter at no charge.
The participant agrees to purchase the vehicle from GENERAL MOTORS at the special price in effect at the time the order is received by the vehicle division. The sale contract for the vehicle is assigned to an eligible dealer of the participant's choice who is willing to handle the transaction. The dealer orders the vehicle, arranges for payment as necessary, inspects the vehicle, and delivers it to the purchaser. The participant is to be furnished a copy of the dealer invoice displaying the price and documentation of any and all incentives that are included on the vehicle. Such allowances are passed to the purchaser as a specific reduction in purchase price.
The participant locates a vehicle in dealer stock at a set price from GM.
Additional fees, either to the participant or GM, for handling these transactions are contrary to the intent of the program. The vehicle under GMO or Company-Owned Vehicle Program is purchased from GM by an eligible participant by way of assignment of the contract for sale through an authorized dealer. The price to the participant is the applicable discounted price established by GM, less any applicable incentives that may be in effect at the time of sale. There will be NO assessment of additional fees (such as "documentary fees" or "handling fees").
The solicitation or acceptance of money or items of value from a dealer in connection with the purchase of an GMO or Company-Owned vehicle under the GM Employee Purchase Program is a violation of GM company policy and this program. Violations can result in disciplinary action including termination of employment of the employee/sponsor. These situations are governed by the chairman's Letter on Gift Policy which pertains to all GM employees.
To offer or provide money or items of value to GM employees or eligible participants in connection with vehicle purchases under the GM Employee Vehicle Purchase Program is strictly prohibited. Dealer participation in such activities will result in chargeback for the applicable employee purchase allowance(s) and may include recision of dealer privileges to participate in this Program.
GMAC Smartlease Programs are available to participants (except GMAC Capital Corporation employees) under these programs. The selected dealer can supply details and handle applications to GMAC. No other lease arrangements are available to participants under these programs. A Chevrolet or GMC Truck chassis on which a recreational vehicle (Class A or C motor home) is mounted may NOT be leased under Smartlease by GMAC. A Smartlease will count toward the maximum number of vehicles per year and must be retained a minimum of twelve months after entering the lease.
THE GM Protection Plan will be sold to participants at a special price when a vehicle is purchased under the GMO, GMS, or Company-Owned Vehicle Purchase Program. Application can be made at the dealership, or by calling the GM Protection Plan directly at 1-800-723-4677.
Vehicles purchased under the GM New Vehicle Purchase Program or the GM Company-Owned Vehicle Program must be for the personal use of the purchaser. It is contrary to the intent and rules of the program to purchase/register a vehicle to an eligible participant but then surrender said vehicle to an ineligible person for part or all of the required retention period. Vehicles purchased under the Program must be registered, licensed, titled, insured and owned by only persons eligible under the Program (except such vehicle may be jointly registered in the name of an eligible participant and their spouse), and financial ownership and participation must be limited to these parties for the required period. Co-titling with a business entity or an ineligible person is not allowed, nor is co-signing of the financing with an ineligible person, except with a spouse as noted above. It is the sponsor's responsibility to provide these program rules to the eligible family member to whom the purchase certificate is being transferred. Violations of Program rules will result in sanctions against the sponsor. Any attempt to mask ineligible ownership of a vehicle will result in immediate disqualification from the Program for the employee/sponsor/dealer.
Eligible purchasers (defined in paragraph 5.2.2*) are entitled to purchase or sponsor a maximum of six vehicles (four GMO of GMS, and two GMU/PEP) per model year. Vehicles purchased under these programs must be retained by the eligible participant for at least six months after the date of purchase.
Retiree is defined as a GM employee retired under the provisions of the GM Pension Plan or Salaried Retirement Program.
A laid off employee may participate in the Program during the first twelve (12) months of layoff (24 months if the employee has 10 or more years of service or seniority at the time of layoff).
An employee on an approved disability leave of absence may participate during the entire period of the disability leave. However, an employee on an approved leave of absence for other reasons may only participate during the first twelve (12) months of such a leave.
A GM Scholar and a College Intern may purchase a vehicle during the period of employment.
Former employees who are entitled to deferred vested pension benefits, and temporary contract employees are NOT eligible.
An employee who quits or is separated (including contractual terminations) may NOT participate in the program, even if the vehicle had been ordered prior to the effective date of separation.
*Refers to General Motors Dealership Policies & Procedures Manual.
Financing or Lease Rates will be calculated at retention for GMAC employees.
The GM Protection Plan may be purchased at GM employee cost. We will furnish GMPP price list upon request.
After deciding on a vehicle, what do employees need to do?
What do employees need to do at the time of the sale?
What do GM employees do at Lease Maturity?
Specific vehicles may be excluded from participation in the GM Employee Purchase Programs.
Vehicles in use by GM company units under the GMU/Product Evaluation Program (PEP) must be tagged by eligible participants for purchase at the end of the duty cycle. Vehicles are sold as "Used" and on an "as is" basis, and the vehicle warranty is limited to the remainder of the GM New Vehicle Warranty, with the start date being the date the vehicle was first put into service. Used company vehicles purchased by dealer at auction or through other channels are not eligible.
Tagged units will be transferred to a designated Dealer franchised for the vehicle line and model at the end of company use. If the vehicle is refused by the participant who tagged it, the vehicle is to be returned immediately to the GM facility where it was in service. This vehicle is NO LONGER available for sale to a GM employee, and is NOT eligible for rebates/incentives.
Eligible participants may purchase new and unused GM passenger cars and light duty trucks (including vans and van conversions) under GMO. These vehicles are sold by GM Divisions or subsidiaries to their AUTHORIZED dealers. Vehicles will be sold through dealers franchised to sell the vehicle, and the vehicle, as equipped, must be eligible for purchase in the country where the participant resides.
A GMC Truck chassis on which a recreational vehicle (Class A or C motor home) is mounted is eligible under GMO or GMS; however ONLY the base vehicle is eligible under these programs, and the participant must be the original purchase of the vehicle as evidenced by the vehicle registration.
Under GMS, a participant may purchase new and unused units, dealer demonstrators, driver training vehicles, and GM special event vehicles. Other used units such as PEP/GMU vehicles sold directly to dealers are NOT eligible.
The General Motors Employee Vehicle Purchase Programs provide eligible participants the opportunity to purchase GM vehicles under either two programs, the GM New Vehicle Purchase Program and the GM Company-Owned Vehicle Purchase Program. The following provides a summary of the program parameters.
A vehicle is located in the GM Dealer stock by eligible participant. At a set price from GM.
A vehicle is tagged while in use at a GM unit by an eligible participant. This vehicle is assigned to a GM Dealer who accepts the assignment, receives the vehicle at the end of the service period, and prepares and delivers it to the eligible participant through the dealer.
A certificate of identification and eligibility assists dealers in administration of the GM Employee Vehicle Purchase Programs. This certificate is applied for by the eligible purchaser (defined in paragraph 5.2.2*) by phone with GM Vehicle Purchase Center (this number is only for GMS) 1-800-235-4646, and a hard copy GENERAL MOTORS VEHICLE PURCHASE CERTIFICATE is mailed to the participant's home address. Each certificate has an identifying authorization number which is used by the dealership to report the transaction, and is keyed to the participant's vehicle purchase file. (Illustration i.7.)
The certificate authorization number must be supplied to the dealer when an vehicle is ordered, and the number must be supplied to the GM Vehicle Coordinator when a PEP/GMU unit is tagged for purchase. The participant must surrender the completed and signed certificate to the dealer at the time of delivery with any GMO, GMS or PEP/GMU purchase. If the vehicle is being purchased by a sponsored purchaser (defined in paragraph 5.2.2*), the name of the purchaser must be entered on the certificate, and the relationship to the eligible purchasee (defined in paragraph 5.2.2*) must be noted prior to the time that the certificate is released to that person.
It is the dealer's responsibility to know the purchaser, and relationship to the employee, retiree, or surviving spouse. If a dealer delivers a vehicle to a person known to be not eligible under the GM Employee Vehicle Purchase Programs, the sale will become an ineligible delivery and handling allowance and incentives will be charged back to the dealer by GM. The Dealer is supplied a worksheet that can be reproduced and used with each deal. Prior to delivery of the vehicle the dealer will contact the GM Vehicle Purchase Center, using 1-800-235-4646, to verify the continued eligibility of the purchaser/sponsor. The certificate will be retained in the "deal file" with the rest of the sale and transfer documents.
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We are delighted to announce that we have been shortlisted as a FINALIST for the FAMILY BUSINESS OF THE YEAR at the Nottingham Post Business Awards 2019! We are absolutely over the moon and we can't quite believe that we are in the final three!Read More
As our Sales & Marketing Manager, Lucie creates all of Chameleon's Marketing Material, manages all of our Social Media Channels, our website and manages all of our clothing, print and embroidery sales. Find out more about what Lucie does on a day to day basis...Read More
As our Director, Mike works closely with all of our staff and customers on an extensive range of projects. Mike is frequently out and about where he catches up with customers on forthcoming projects but we managed to find 5 minutes to ask him a few questions! Find out below how Mike joined the Print Trade (many years ago!) ...Read More
On 14th February 2006, Chameleon was created by Mike Tipping at his Dining Room Table. His vision was to create a company that could handle any type of creative project from start to finish whether that be big or small, simple or complex...Read More
As our Head of Graphic Design, Kelli works closely with our customers right from the beginning. Kelli makes sure that the process is smooth right from the initial concept through to the Final Printed Product. We caught up with Kelli to see how she became a graphic designer and what made her want to join such a creative industry...Read More
We were honoured to be asked to design the Poster for the upcoming 100th Anniversary event for the Battle of Cambrai that's taking place later this month in Flesquieres, France. The poster will be displayed around the surrounding villages in France to symbolise the event...Read More
It's that time of year again!
Every two years, we design and build the exhibition stand for British Lion Egg at the British Pig and Poultry Fair at Stoneleigh Park, Warwickshire. We do everything from the risk assessments and electrics right through to designing the graphics and building the stand.Read More
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With the rise of Social Media (Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, etc.) one of the many questions that we hear on the grapevine is 'Is Print Dead?'. The answer is most definitely not. While many businesses have stepped away from using Printed Matter as a Marketing tool, it still is one of the most powerful tools you can use to promote your business or products.Read More


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Financial System Development Supports to improve the regulatory environment for microfinance and the performance of selected microfinance banks, assess possibilities to support financial institutions to increase their MSME lending activities, facilitate the introduction of microinsurance products, as well as activities to foster financial literacy and consumer protection in the financial sector.
The Financial Sector (FS) Reform Component supports a broad range of public and private stakeholders in their efforts to improve the access to appropriate financial services (credit, savings, money transfers, and insurance) for the so far underserved parts of the population. The focus of these efforts is to improve the regulatory, supervisory and policy environment in the financial sector as well as capacity building for selected stakeholders on federal, state and local level.
At the federal level, SEDIN supports the Federal Government`s Financial Systems Strategy (FSS 2020) which aims at building strong and sustainable financial institutions by strengthening regulation and supervision as well as at deepening and improving the functionality of financial markets. The collaboration with the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) is central to SEDIN's objective to further strengthen the microfinance sector. In addition, SEDIN supports the Microfinance Certification Programme.
As another important partner, SEDIN cooperates with the National Insurance Commission (NAICOM), regulator of the insurance sector, in strengthening their efforts to formulate conducive supervisory and regulatory policies for the sector.
In the insurance sector, a private sector partner of importance is the National Insurers Association of Nigeria (NIA). Jointly with this umbrella institution, SEDIN assesses the needs and demand of private insurance companies to diversify their product range to specifically serve the small entrepreneurs and their employees with appropriate insurance products.
From the private sector, SEDIN supports the federal secretariat of the National Association of Microfinance Banks (NAMB) as well as its state chapters in our partner states to become a reputable and reliable representative and service provider for their member institutions. Additionally, SEDIN collaborates with various service providers to facilitate the development of a capacity building environment able to cater to training needs of micro finance banking sector.
On the local level, SEDIN works directly with selected Microfinance Banks in the three partner states to improve their governance and managerial, financial as well as technical capacity, and enable them to better fulfil their social mandate, such as reaching out to the unbanked target population and providing adequate, sustainable and responsible financial services to the local communities and micro-entrepreneurs.
SEDIN acknowledges the importance of a systematic but field-based development approach; due to this, SEDIN aims to match and align interventions on different levels by sharing our experiences from the field and through this, contribute to the development of a conducive Microfinance Policy and Regulatory Framework.
To increase public awareness of financial services SEDIN, in cooperation with the CBN, will initiate a dialogue process to bring all relevant stakeholders together to discuss the next steps towards an aligned national strategy for financial literacy.
Finally, in order to make sure that synergy effects are used and the coordination and cooperation with other donor agencies in Nigeria is fostered, GIZ seconded one expert to the World Bank in Nigeria and two experts to EFInA (Enhancing Financial Innovation & Access), financed by UKaid/DfID.


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Her training helps her appreciate how a healthy eating pattern can fuel the body, help it function right, and nourish our trillions of cells that constantly need to be maintained and replaced. This training gave her experience with a diverse population from pediatric patients to high-risk adults. It has also helped her to understand how nutrition can help at any stage of disease for a wide spectrum of diseases and conditions.
Her friends and family often hear her say "A healthy person is no accident." This is because she has seen it takes effort to achieve a healthy lifestyle. That is why her aim is to meet you where you are now and find the best plan tailored to your unique needs, goals, and lifestyle. She is here to share sound, science-based (and, in some cases, even personally-tested) advice and principles about nutrition and healthy eating. Her approach is to be as practical as possible and to help each client prepare for and succeed in overcoming the many challenges that appear along the way.
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The race continues tonight in the Amazing Race! The seven remaining teams will be traveling from Vietnam going to Botswana. Things will get more intense tonight, not just because of the challenges, but because of a confrontation as well. But whatever happens, one team could be eliminated tonight. Who do you think will it be?
In tonight's episode, in the breath taking country of Botswana, teams will go on the hunt with Kalahari bushmen and make the bushmen's best friend. They will go on an amazing race safari in Africa and join the local tribe. It's the strangest road trip yet. Expect racers to panic as they come face to face with scorpions in African while a team will confront another team for u-turning them.
Titled "Scorpion King Hunter", Chuck and Wynona will confront team Youtube for u-turning them. How will this team deal with them?
Anyway, the road block for tonight is to search for a scorpion in the Kalahari desert while the detour is either "fire" or "fowl". The fire task involves starting a campfire while the fowl task involves constructing and setting a snare to catch a guinea fowl. Which team will choose which detour and who will do the roadblock?
They say one of the Botswana episodes is a non-elimination leg. If this is so, that means, next week is a continuation of tonight's episode.
Again, updates will be provided. Follow us on Twitter, add us on Google Plus or join us on Facebook the results. The next team who gets kicked off, eliminated on Amazing Race 3/24/13's results will be posted.
Update: No one was eliminated. Max & Katie arrived last at the pit stop but it was a non-elimination leg so they were safe.
ROAD BLOCK – dig a poisonous scorpion out of the ground.
Those who did it are – Bates, Caroline, Joey, Max, Beth, Wynona and Pam
DETOUR – fire or fow. In fire, teams must make fire using two sticks, zebra manure and grass. In fowl, teams must build, set and trigger a guinea fowl trap.
Fire – Bates & Anthony
Fowl – Pam & Winnie, Chuck & Wynona, Caroline & Jennifer, Joey & Meghan, Mona & Beth, Max & Katie. Only Pam & Winnie and Chuck & Wynona didn't switch from the fire task. Other teams who did fowl did the fire task first.
PIT STOP – Meno a Kwena Safari Camp.
1st – Bates & Anthony – they win a trip to Thailand
2nd – Pam & Winnie
3rd – Chuck & Wynona
4th – Joey & Meghan
5th – Caroline & Jennifer
6th – Mona & Beth
7th – Max & Katie


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- Snapshots of modern mathematics
- Diderot Mathematical Forum 2013: "Mathematics of Planet Earth"
- Pierre de Fermat and Andrew Wiles in Czech Republic stamps
- Stefan Banach (March 30, 1892 – August 8, 1945)
- Diderot Mathematical Forums
- Guessing the Numbers
- What is mathematics for Ehrhard Behrends
- What is mathematics for Krzysztof Ciesielski
- The Three Ducks Trick
- What is mathematics for Franka Brueckler
The four ducks trick
The described trick is a "ducky" version of the trick known as Yates' Four-Divination, which is described in Martin Gardner's book "Mathematics, Magic and Mistery" (Dover Publ., New York, 1956).
by Franka Miriam Brueckler
Move the ducks!
There are four different rubber ducks on the table:
The participator is to select the one in his favourite colour and name it. Then the mathemagician turns his back to the table and gives the following instruction: "Make five switches of two ducks. In every switch your chosen duck must be involved and it may only be switched with a duck adjacent to it. Tell me when you have done the five switches."
Say the participator selected the pink duck. He could perform the five switches as follows:
Switch pink and blue duck:
Switch pink and yellow duck:
Switch pink and yellow duck again:
Switch pink and blue duck:
Switch pink and green duck:
After the participator announces that he hase done the five switches, the mathemagician – still with his back turned to the table – asks him to remove a duck at one of the two ends. The mathemagician gives a precise instruction: "Please remove the duck at your left." (or right, depending on which duck was chosen in the beginning). In our example the mathemagician would instruct the participator to remove the duck that is on the left of the picture. This would leave the participator with the three non-yellow ducks:
In the last part of the trick, the mathemagician gives the following instructions (and the participator follows them): "Now, please make one more switch of your duck with an adjacent one."In our case, this would mean switching the pink and green duck:
"Now please remove the duck on the left (or right) end." In our example, the removal of the left would be asked and this leaves us without the blue duck:
"And finally, please remove the… right (or left) duck. This should leave you with your chosen duck!". In our example the mathemagician would ask to remove the right (green) duck and the chosen pink duck is left all alone on the table:
The "4 Ducks" manual
There are two principal questions to think about when trying to explain and learn the trick: How does the mathemagician know how to instruct the participator in the removal of the ducks? And what about using other numbers of switches besides 5?
In fact, consideration of the second question leads to the answer to the first one. If you would like to work it out yourself, try what happens if 1, 2, 3, 4, … switches are required. Think about possible final configurations of the ducks in each of the cases. As a hint we give you the following: number the starting positions of the ducks with 1, 2, 3 and 4. Now, if you do not want the trick disclosed to you before you have tried to find out about it on your own, please do not read further. All other readers will find the explanation in the following paragraphs.
If the starting positions are numbered 1 to 4 (say, 1 for the starting position of the yellow duck in the first of the pictures above), then if the chosen duck started from an even position, after 5 switches it will end up in an odd position and vice versa. In our example the chosen pink duck started from position 3, so after 5 switches it must end up in position 2 or 4. This enables the performer to eliminate one of the two ducks at the ends. If the starting position was odd, like in our example, the performer can be sure that the duck is now not on position 1 and can give the instruction to remove the duck at the corresponding end.
After this, the chosen duck is sure not to be in the middle of the three ducks left on a table, and consequently another switch with an (in fact, the) adjacent duck brings it to the middle position. Now it is easy to instruct the participator to remove the flank ducks and end up with the chosen duck.
Finally, note that the performance would be exactly the same if instead of 5 any other odd number of switches was used. If one uses an even number of switches, then the chosen duck will end in a position of same parity as its starting position (even if starting from an even one, and odd if starting from an odd one) and it is easy to adapt the performance to this case.
There is more maths behind the trick than meets the eye…
Although the trick can be explained on a pure logical basis like above, the explanation can be connected to a relatively advanced mathematical notion of odd and even permutations. A permutation is a rearrangement of a number of things (in our example: every rearrangement of the four ducks is one permutation of the ducks). It relates to the relative positions of the things, and not to the things itself (any rearrangement of the numbers 1, 2, 3 and 4 can be related to a rearrangement of the four ducks, or any other four items, if we number their starting positions; e.g. the permutation 2,4,1,3 would in the "duck"-context meant that the duck that was on position 2 in the beginning is now on position 1, the one who started from position 4 is now on position 2, the one who started from position 1 is now on position 3 and the one who started from position 3 is now on position 4). For those who are interested: A formal definition of a permutation of a permutation of a (usually finite) set is that it is a bijection of the set onto itself.
Permutations can be classified as even and odd. By definition, an even/odd permutation is one that is obtainable by an even/odd number of transpositions. A transposition is a permutation that interchanges two objects and does not move the others, so each of our duck-switches is a transposition on our set of ducks. Consequently, if the participator is asked to switch the ducks 5 times he is asked to perform an odd permutation. There is however a condition on the transpositions performed: one is allowed only to interchange neighbouring ducks. Since two adjacent positions are obviously of different parity, it is almost obvious that an even permutation composed of transpositions of neighboring objects does not change the parity of the position of the chosen object, and an odd one always changes it.
Permutations are studied both in combinatorics and abstract algebra, and parity is one of the properties helping in their study. Parity really provides a classification of permutations: although the same permutation (final distribution of objects) can be achieved by different sequences of transpositions (try to find another sequence of switches that rearranges the ducks from the starting configuration to the last one before removing any ducks), in all possible sequences there will always be involved an odd number or always an even number of transpositions. In other words, if a permutation is obtained by an odd number of transpositions it can never be obtained by any sequence of an even number of transpositions (nor vice versa). In our example this means that no even number of duck switches (not even if we allow switching ducks that are not adjacent) will transform the starting configuration to the last one before removing any ducks. This is known as the parity theorem for permutations. One of the best-known applications of using this classification is the solution to the famous Sam Loyd's 15 puzzle.


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1- Wear it with attitude:
The double denim look is not for those looking to blend in the crowd or the shy and subtle fashionistas, therefore the success of this look will depend on the level on confidence and attitude you will bring out.
2- Look for a comfortable fit:
Comfort is everything and if you're not comfortable in your jeans it will definitely show. For a double denim look, I suggest that us curvy women stay away from the low rise jeans or the skin-tight top and simply go for stretchy pieces that will hug you in the right places.
3- Don't forget to accessorize:
Pick accessories that will complement your outfit and not simply blend so please stay away from the blue accessories because it might just turn a bit tacky.
4- Invest in quality pieces:
Denim is a fabric known for its durability, but I had my fair share of poorly made jeans giving up on me at the wrong time and place to say that investing a little more in quality pieces is worth it.
5- Don't be afraid to mix and match:
Feel free to incorporate different tones of jeans to your double denim look. In general, you easily get a great overall look by pairing a light-blue denim with a slightly darker one.
Photo Credit: Mariel Rosenblüth
Denim top: c (courtesy of Addition-Elle)
Denim bottom: DKNY Jeans (courtesy of Addition-Elle)
Accessories: (courtesy of Addition-Elle)
Shoes: Iron Fist
Denim on denim: never or best trend ever? I would love to know what you think!


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Hi Andy, I am satisfied with this resolution provided that "Advice on canonical datetime values" is added to the wish list for consideration in the next version: http://www.w3.org/2009/sparql/wiki/Future_Work_Items It certainly is possible to convert, but one important point of standardization is to reduce the amount of conversion that is needed when transferring data from one system to another. Thanks, David On Tue, 2012-07-31 at 09:05 +0100, Andy Seaborne wrote: > David, > > Thank you for your comment on serializing datetime values. > > As noted in the response to your comment on "Serializing xsd:decimal, > xsd:float, xsd:double", SPARQL reuses the body of work for XSD and > XQuery/XPath functions and operators. The rules for operations on > datetimes derive from that work and this includes comparing datetime > values. Support is also now to be found in many programming languages. > > An implementation is free to provide custom function that converts > between timezones; XQuery/XPath does not itself provide such a function. > > The working group is not planning to make any changes in this area. > > I would be grateful if you reply to this message to confirm that the > working group has responded to your comment. > > Yours, on behalf of the SPARQL Working Group, > > Andy > > On 20/07/12 16:21, David Booth wrote: > > I have also noticed that it is a hassle trying to compare datetime > > values from two different SPARQL servers, because the same datetime may > > be written with different timezone offsets. This is less vexing than > > xsd:decimal serializations, because at least timezone offsets are > > information preserving, but still it makes comparisons more difficult > > than they otherwise need to be. > > > > I think the WG should consider defining a default datetime format (such > > as UTC or zero timezone offset) that SHOULD be use, while allowing > > servers to make this a configurable option. > > > > I assume it is too late in the WG process to consider this for SPARQL > > 1.1, so please add this to the wish list for the next version. > > > > Thanks! > > > > -- David Booth, Ph.D. http://dbooth.org/ Opinions expressed herein are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect those of his employer.Received on Tuesday, 31 July 2012 16:07:29 UTC
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