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Would you like your smile to be a bit brighter than it is right now? We can make it happen at Smiles Dental Care, with professional tooth whitening for brighter natural looking teeth. Dr. William Wolski's Roselle, IL area office can effectively lighten your stained or discolored tooth enamel. Whiter teeth not only look great, they improve your self-confidence.
Dr. William Wolski at his Roselle area dental implants practice offers extensive experience restoring your dental implant crown.
Our dedicated team uses state-of-the-art materials and techniques for stability and longevity. You'll enjoy the comfort and confidence of natural-looking teeth.
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We accept most insurance carriers. Please check with us prior to your appointment, but it's safe to say we likely accept the type of insurance you carry.
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Whether it's due to accident or decay, tooth loss can be a pretty traumatic event. But it's not irreplaceable. If you lose a tooth, you might be surprised at the options modern dentistry can offer to replace that missing tooth.
If it's a sudden, accidental injury and you lose the entire tooth, roots and all, it may even be possible to replace the tooth in its socket. But time is of the essence, the tooth replacement must occur within an hour of the accident.
A more realistic alternative is a tooth implant. Teeth implants are the next best thing to having natural teeth restored to your mouth. That's because, instead of being a removable device inside the mouth, like dentures, implants are permanently anchored into the jaw itself.
The key to a successful dental implant procedure is called osseointegration, or the meshing together of implant and bone. Good candidates for dental implants need jawbone ridges that are in good shape and healthy oral tissues. Then, when the implant device is inserted, a chemical and mechanical bond is formed. The jawbone actually grows into the dental implant.
The thing to remember is... if you lose a tooth, it's not the end of the world. Tooth implants are only one of your options. Regardless of the cause of your tooth loss, there's something you can do to recreate a healthy, natural-looking smile. Contact your dentist today to get more tooth implant information.
What is used to get across a gap -- a bridge of course! A dental bridge spans the gap between one or more missing teeth giving you a better smile.
Your teeth not only help you chew and speak correctly, but also contribute substantially to your smile and overall appearance (your teeth give form to your face and without them, your facial features can be significantly affected.) If lost teeth are not restored, other teeth often shift, causing crooked teeth, leading to cavities and gum disease. Dental bridges restore potentially compromised oral health to full function.
A bridge is a special dental appliance used to restore missing teeth. There are several types of bridges used to span the space. The three most common types include:
An assortment of materials are available depending on the function and appearance. Porcelain, tooth-colored acrylics, gold alloys, and alloys made from non-precious metals all provide important restorative qualities along with making your smile the way you want it.
Normally at least two visits are needed for preparing the teeth, custom-designing the bridge, and making adjustments for proper fit and comfort.
With bridges, extra care must be given to your gums and teeth. Bridges add more stress to existing teeth and must be supported by healthy gums. Otherwise, these key teeth are susceptible to decay and affect the bridges.
Brushing twice a day and flossing daily along with regular dental visits are essential to good oral hygiene. Flossing is often easier by using floss threaders that help to remove cavity-causing bacteria between the dental bridge and adjacent teeth.
Because bridges are intricate and sometimes difficult to clean, your dentist might suggest a special instrument that helps in caring for your teeth. Similar in design to professional dental cleaning instruments, it's made of tiny filaments that rotate to "swoosh" into the crevices between the teeth and below the gum line. Ask your dentist about this special cleaning device.
With good oral hygiene, a fixed dental bridge can last eight to ten years or more and provide years of service enhancing your smile and appearance and your oral health.
By Danine M. Fresch, DDS


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Milwaukee brewery hosts mac and cheese contest
MILWAUKEE (AP) — Do you make a really great macaroni and cheese?
Lakefront Brewery in Milwaukee is looking for home cooks to participate in the Mac and Cheese Takedown on Sept. 29.
The contest is part of a nationwide series of cooking competitions put on by The Takedown.
The mac and cheese contest is co-sponsored by the Wisconsin Milk Marketing Board.
Tickets for those wishing to taste the mac and cheese entries also are available.
To register, go to http://thetakedowns.com/.


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Editors: Alessandro Pingitore and Giorgio Iervasi, Institute of Clinical Physiology, National Research Council (CNR), Pisa, Italy
Heart failure: a scenario of altered systemic homeostasis
Submission deadline: 1 July 2015
Anticipated publication in BMDJ vol.1, no.3: September 2015
Chronic heart failure starts as organ disease, in which the prime mover is heart contractile dysfunction, and becomes a systemic disease in its evolution. Systemic derangement characterized by continuous neuroendocrine and inflammatory activation has relevant phatophysiological, clinical and prognostic implications. Importantly, the activation of these systems is adaptive initially in response to hemodynamic changes and fluid overload induced by cardiac insufficiency. Thereafter the continuous activation becomes maladaptive and dangerous for the heart and peripheral organs, as documented by the induction of calcium overload and apoptosis and stimulation of myocardial fibrosis, all factors participating to the progression of the disease. For this reason, in the pathophysiology of chronic stress stimuli, heart failure can be seen in a unique scenario of altered systemic homeostasis, in which heart dysfunction, peripheral organ dysfunction and derangement of the neuroendocrine and immune systems represent chronic stress stimuli, with continuous activation of the stress response. This, in turn, predisposes to allostatic load, that is the price the body pays for being continuously forced to adapt to adverse physical and pathophysiological conditions.
To reflect on these developments, the BMDJ Editorial Board announces this call for data papers and datasets on HEart FAilure and STress Response (HEFAST).
The HEFAST special issue will cover datasets on:
- Patients with chronic ischemic and non-ischemic heart failure
- Patients with isolated diastolic heart failure
- Patients with reversible cardiac dysfunction
- Experimental in vivo and ex vivo models of heart failure.
Of particular interest are original works on:
- New markers of stress response activation in heart failure
- Integrated evaluation of stress response activation in heart failure: 1) Caotic and fractal analysis, as integrated response of stress stimuli in heartfailure; 2) Clinical and prognostic implication of the stress response activation.
- Multifactorial analysis to assess in an integrated way clinical and prognostic impact of different cardiac, biohumoral and peripheral organ function/dysfunction
- Pharmacological and non-pharmacological modulation of the stress response activation
- Molecular, epigenetic, genetic and metabolic factors associated with stress response stimuli.
Interested contributors are invited to submit their datasets and manuscripts, prepared according to BMDJ Submission Guidance. For further details, please visit the BMDJ website at http://www.biomed-data.eu.
Once accepted and prepared in its final camera ready version, your paper will be openly accessible in the 'Preview' section of the website, thus providing for a quick impact and recognition of the authors.
Anticipated publication ofthe full issue: December 2014


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Before any ballots were counted in Minneapolis, questions -- and voices -- were raised.
In a northeast Minneapolis warehouse, the ballots were just being sorted, a first step in what would turn out to be a laborious process in the state's largest city. Bill Starr, an attorney for Democratic Senate candidate Al Franken, demanded to know when ballots could begin to be challenged. Starr's challenge brought a countering challenge from Republican Norm Coleman representative Pat Shortridge, who questioned whether Starr should be speaking to election officials at the table at all, pointing out that Starr was behind a taped line designating only a non-official viewing area.
"You are in the peanut gallery, sir, you cannot challenge," Shortridge pointed out.
The issue forced a quick scrum with Minneapolis elections director Cindy Reichert and attorneys from both sides. Afterward, the sorting was begun anew.
The recount in Minneapolis began with precise instructions by Reichert.
"It takes a lot longer to go back and recount a stack than if you do it right the first time," Reichert told the group.
Nearby stood one lawyer and 17 volunteers for Coleman, and 17 volunteers and four attorneys for Franken.
The first-day setup at a Minneapolis warehouse was six tables with two election officials at each table and at least one (and usually two) from each campaign looking on. The counters will review all votes in Minneapolis' 131 precincts, plus Fort Snelling.
At midmorning, more confusion developed. At one table, a Franken representative challenged a vote for Coleman, prompting the Coleman representative to ask why. An argument ensued about whether a challenge could be challenged. It was finally ruled that a challenger had to state a reason. Some ballots were no-brainer challenges. One was marked with an X, but it was between the candidates' names.
"It would be nice to have a rule, that if you vote you have to be able to make a circle inside a box," joked a Coleman operative.
By 3 p.m., five precincts had been counted with 19 challenges.
Election judge Willy Lee said he wanted to be involved to show that the election process is beyond reproach. Throughout the day, Lee was scrupulous about engaging representatives from both campaigns, even as he studiously counted out stacks of 25 ballots each, making sure all who wanted could count along with him and demonstrating the skills of a Las Vegas blackjack dealer.
"Maybe that's my next profession," he joked as he walked out the door for the day.
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New ITV game show is looking for the country's worst singers
Change Your Tune has been commissioned by ITV, and will challenge five terrible singers to master the perfect vibrato in front of a live studio audience.
Each contestant will show how bad their singing is, before they given the chance to take on weeks of training and compete to try and win the show.
The studio audience will score each performance and the level of improvement.
Each week the winning contestant will walk away with a cash prize.
The show will be hosted by Irish radio and television personality Baz Ashmawy.
He said: 'I'm so excited to be looking for, not the very best singers in the country, but the very worst.
'This is a completely unique take on the singing show genre - it's a feel good and celebratory show that'll have everyone at home cheering on their favourite; it's going to be great fun and I honestly, can't wait to get started.'
The series will consist of six hour-long episodes.
Andrew Mackenzie, chief creative officer of producers Twofour Group said; 'Everyone would love to be able to sing and seeing the truly awful transformed into the truly awesome is an incredibly heart-warming and entertaining moment.'
Instructions on how to apply for the show will be released in due course.
Are you the worst singer in Lancashire - or do you know who is? Send us a short video of them singing on Facebook or email address@ and we'll feature the best (or worst!) ones.


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Garbage collection is a widely used technique that frees the programmer from having to know the life-times of heap objects, making software easier to produce and maintain. Many programming languages rely on garbage collection for automatic memory management. There are two primary forms of garbage collection: conservative and accurate.
Conservative garbage collection often does not require any special support from either the language or the compiler: it can handle non-type-safe programming languages (such as C/C++) and does not require any special information from the compiler. The [LINK] Boehm collector is an example of a state-of-the-art conservative collector.
Accurate garbage collection requires the ability to identify all pointers in the program at run-time (which requires that the source-language be type-safe in most cases). Identifying pointers at run-time requires compiler support to locate all places that hold live pointer variables at run-time, including the processor stack and registers.
Conservative garbage collection is attractive because it does not require any special compiler support, but it does have problems. In particular, because the conservative garbage collector cannot know that a particular word in the machine is a pointer, it cannot move live objects in the heap (preventing the use of compacting and generational GC algorithms) and it can occasionally suffer from memory leaks due to integer values that happen to point to objects in the program. In addition, some aggressive compiler transformations can break conservative garbage collectors (though these seem rare in practice).
Accurate garbage collectors do not suffer from any of these problems, but they can suffer from degraded scalar optimization of the program. In particular, because the runtime must be able to identify and update all pointers active in the program, some optimizations are less effective. In practice, however, the locality and performance benefits of using aggressive garbage allocation techniques dominates any low-level losses.
This document describes the mechanisms and interfaces provided by LLVM to support accurate garbage collection.
LLVM provides support for a broad class of garbage collection algorithms, including compacting semi-space collectors, mark-sweep collectors, generational collectors, and even reference counting implementations. It includes support for read and write barriers, and associating meta-data with stack objects (used for tagless garbage collection). All LLVM code generators support garbage collection, including the C backend.
We hope that the primitive support built into LLVM is sufficient to support a broad class of garbage collected languages, including Scheme, ML, scripting languages, Java, C#, etc. That said, the implemented garbage collectors may need to be extended to support language-specific features such as finalization, weak references, or other features. As these needs are identified and implemented, they should be added to this specification.
LLVM does not currently support garbage collection of multi-threaded programs or GC-safe points other than function calls, but these will be added in the future as there is interest.
This section describes the interfaces provided by LLVM and by the garbage collector run-time that should be used by user programs. As such, this is the interface that front-end authors should generate code for.
The llvm.gcroot intrinsic is used to inform LLVM of a pointer variable on the stack. The first argument contains the address of the variable on the stack, and the second contains a pointer to metadata that should be associated with the pointer (which must be a constant or global value address). At runtime, the llvm.gcroot intrinsic stores a null pointer into the specified location to initialize the pointer.
Consider the following fragment of Java code:
{ Object X; // A null-initialized reference to an object ... }
This block (which may be located in the middle of a function or in a loop nest), could be compiled to this LLVM code:
Entry: ;; In the entry block for the function, allocate the ;; stack space for X, which is an LLVM pointer. %X = alloca %Object* ... ;; "CodeBlock" is the block corresponding to the start ;; of the scope above. CodeBlock: ;; Initialize the object, telling LLVM that it is now live. ;; Java has type-tags on objects, so it doesn't need any ;; metadata. call void %llvm.gcroot(%Object** %X, sbyte* null) ... ;; As the pointer goes out of scope, store a null value into ;; it, to indicate that the value is no longer live. store %Object* null, %Object** %X ...
The llvm_gc_allocate function is a global function defined by the garbage collector implementation to allocate memory. It returns a zeroed-out block of memory of the appropriate size.
Several of the more interesting garbage collectors (e.g., generational collectors) need to be informed when the mutator (the program that needs garbage collection) reads or writes object references into the heap. In the case of a generational collector, it needs to keep track of which "old" generation objects have references stored into them. The amount of code that typically needs to be executed is usually quite small (and not on the critical path of any computation), so the overall performance impact of the inserted code is tolerable.
To support garbage collectors that use read or write barriers, LLVM provides the llvm.gcread and llvm.gcwrite intrinsics. The first intrinsic has exactly the same semantics as a non-volatile LLVM load and the second has the same semantics as a non-volatile LLVM store, with the additions that they also take a pointer to the start of the memory object as an argument. At code generation time, these intrinsics are replaced with calls into the garbage collector (llvm_gc_read and llvm_gc_write respectively), which are then inlined into the code.
If you are writing a front-end for a garbage collected language, every load or store of a reference from or to the heap should use these intrinsics instead of normal LLVM loads/stores.
The llvm_gc_initialize function should be called once before any other garbage collection functions are called. This gives the garbage collector the chance to initialize itself and allocate the heap spaces. The initial heap size to allocate should be specified as an argument.
The llvm_gc_collect function is exported by the garbage collector implementations to provide a full collection, even when the heap is not exhausted. This can be used by end-user code as a hint, and may be ignored by the garbage collector.
Implementing a garbage collector for LLVM is fairly straight-forward. The LLVM garbage collectors are provided in a form that makes them easy to link into the language-specific runtime that a language front-end would use. They require functionality from the language-specific runtime to get information about where pointers are located in heap objects.
The implementation must include the llvm_gc_allocate and llvm_gc_collect functions, and it must implement the read/write barrier functions as well. To do this, it will probably have to trace through the roots from the stack and understand the GC descriptors for heap objects. Luckily, there are some example implementations available.
These functions must be implemented in every garbage collector, even if they do not need read/write barriers. In this case, just load or store the pointer, then return.
If an actual read or write barrier is needed, it should be straight-forward to implement it.
Garbage collector implementations make use of call-back functions that are implemented by other parts of the LLVM system.
The llvm_cg_walk_gcroots function is a function provided by the code generator that iterates through all of the GC roots on the stack, calling the specified function pointer with each record. For each GC root, the address of the pointer and the meta-data (from the llvm.gcroot intrinsic) are provided.
The three most common ways to keep track of where pointers live in heap objects are (listed in order of space overhead required):
The LLVM garbage collectors are capable of supporting all of these styles of language, including ones that mix various implementations. To do this, it allows the source-language to associate meta-data with the stack roots, and the heap tracing routines can propagate the information. In addition, LLVM allows the front-end to extract GC information from in any form from a specific object pointer (this supports situations #1 and #3).
Making this efficient
To make this more concrete, the currently implemented LLVM garbage collectors all live in the llvm/runtime/GC/* directories in the LLVM source-base. If you are interested in implementing an algorithm, there are many interesting possibilities (mark/sweep, a generational collector, a reference counting collector, etc), or you could choose to improve one of the existing algorithms.
SemiSpace is a very simple copying collector. When it starts up, it allocates two blocks of memory for the heap. It uses a simple bump-pointer allocator to allocate memory from the first block until it runs out of space. When it runs out of space, it traces through all of the roots of the program, copying blocks to the other half of the memory space.
If a collection cycle happens and the heap is not compacted very much (say less than 25% of the allocated memory was freed), the memory regions should be doubled in size.
[Appel89] Runtime Tags Aren't Necessary. Andrew W. Appel. Lisp and Symbolic Computation 19(7):703-705, July 1989.
[Goldberg91] Tag-free garbage collection for strongly typed programming languages. Benjamin Goldberg. ACM SIGPLAN PLDI'91.
[Tolmach94] Tag-free garbage collection using explicit type parameters. Andrew Tolmach. Proceedings of the 1994 ACM conference on LISP and functional programming.


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HONOLULU RAPID TRANSIT & LAND COMPANY, Appt., v. TERRITORY OF HAWAII, by Charles R. Hemenway, Attorney General of the Territory of Hawaii.
29 S.Ct. 55
53 L.Ed. 186
HONOLULU RAPID TRANSIT & LAND COMPANY, Appt.,
TERRITORY OF HAWAII, by Charles R. Hemenway, Attorney General of the Territory of Hawaii.
No. 412.
Argued and submitted November 6, 1908.
Decided November 30, 1908.
Messrs. David L. Withington, A. B. Browne, Alex. Britton, W. R. Castle, and A. Perry for appellant.
[Argument of Counsel from pages 282-284 intentionally omitted]
Messrs. Charles R. Hemenway for appellee.
[Argument of Counsel from pages 284-286 intentionally omitted]
Mr. Justice Moody delivered the opinion of the court:
The appellant, hereafter called the transit company, was incorporated by a law of the territory of Hawaii. Revised Laws of Hawaii, chap. 66, §§ 835 to 871.The corporation was granted the right to construct and operate a street railway for a term of thirty years in the district of Honolulu. The character of the construction was, in part, expressly prescribed by the statute, and, in some details, left to be determined by the transit company, subject to the approval of the superintendent of public works. Section 841 enacted that——
'The said association . . . shall at all time maintain a sufficient number of cars to be used upon said railway for the carriage of passengers as public convenience may require, and such other cars designed for the carriage of mails, parcels, and goods as they may deem necessary.'
It was provided that, after paying from the income certain charges, including a dividend of 8 per cent on the stock, the excess of the income should be divided equally between the territory and the stockholders, and that 'the entire plant, operation, books, and accounts . . . shall, from time to time, be subject to the inspection of the superintendent of public works.' Section 868. In certain parts of the field of operation a maximum rate of fare was established by the statute, and in certain other parts it was left to the transit company to fix, subject to the approval of the governor. It was provided by § 843, paragraph 4, that——
'The said association . . . shall make reasonable and just regulations with the consent and approval of the governor regarding the maintenance and operation of said railway on and through said streets and roads; and the said association . . . failing to make such rules and regulations, the superintendent of public works, with the approval of the governor, may make them. All rules and regulations may be changed from time to time as the public interests may demand, at the discretion of the governor.'
The railway was constructed and its operation was in progress. On certain streets of its line the transit company had been running cars at intervals of ten minutes. It proposed to discontinue this schedule and established one with somewhat longer intervals, and had applied to the superintendent of public works for permission to lay the switches necessary to put the proposed schedule into convenient operation. Thereupon the territory, on the relation of its attorney general, brought, in one of the circuit courts of the territory, a suit in equity, in which an injunction was sought to prevent the company from running the cars in question at less frequent intervals than ten minutes. In the bill it was alleged that the convenience of the public required that the ten-minute schedule should be maintained and continued. The respondent answered, issue was joined by replication, evidence was taken, and the court found as a fact that the public convenience required the maintenance of the ten-munute schedule. An injunction against the change was accordingly granted. Upon appeal to the supreme court of the territory, the judgment of the lower court was affirmed, and findings of fact made, including the finding that the public convenience required the continuance of the ten-minute schedule. The transit company then appealed here, upon the ground, which is well taken, that the amount in controversy was more than $5,000.
The dispute between the parties is whether the courts of the territory had jurisdiction in equity to issue the injunction. The transit company contends that no such jurisdiction existed, and, in the alternative, that, if there was jurisdiction in the courts over the subject, it could only be exercised by mandamus. We think it unnecessary to consider the latter proposition, and confine ourselves to a consideration of the broad question whether the court had power, by any form of proceedings, thus to regulate and control the operations of the company. The courts below based the right to issue the injunction upon § 841, correctly interpreting that section as imposing the general duty upon the transit company to operate as well as to maintain such cars as the public convenience requires. The section, however is not a specific direction to keep in force on the streets covered by the order of the court a defined schedule, with cars running at named intervals, and the right of a court to enforce by injunction or mandamus such a schedule need not be considered. But the action of the court below went much farther than this, and farther than is warranted by any decision which has been called to our attention. In the absence of a more specific and well-defined duty than that of running a sufficient number of cars to meet the public convenience, the court, in this case, inquired and determined, as matter of fact, what schedule the public convenience demanded on particular streets, and then, in substance and effect, compelled a compliance with that schedule. And this was done, though, as will be shown, the full power to regulate the management of the railway in this respect was vested by the statute in the executive authorities. In form the order of the court was a mere prohibition against a change of an existing schedule; but its substantial effect was to direct the transit company to operate its cars upon a schedule found to be required by the public convenience. The effect of the order is not changed by the fact that the schedule enforced by the order of the court is that upon which the transit company was then running its cars. The order of the court was not founded upon the consideration that the schedule was the one existing, although that was taken into account; but upon the fact that it was the one which the public convenience required. The question to be determined is whether a court, not invested with special statutory authority, nor having the property in its control by receivership, may, solely, by virtue of its general judicial powers, control to such an extent and in such detail the business of a transportation corporation. The question can be resolved by well-settled principles applicable to the subject. At the threshold the distinction between the case at bar and those cases where there is an enforcement of a specific and clearly-defined legal duty must be observed. This distinction was drawn and acted upon in the case of Northern P. R. Co. v. Washington Territory, 142 U. S. 492, 35 L. ed. 1092, 12 Sup. Ct. Rep. 283. In that case it appeared that the railroad company was incorporated by an act of Congress, with power to construct and operate a railroad from Lake Superior to Puget sound, with a branch to Portland. The charter directed that the railroad should be constructed 'with all the necessary . . . stations.' The territory of Washington filed in the territorial court a petition for mandamus to compel the railroad company to erect and maintain a station at Yakima city, and to stop its trains at that point. The petition alleged, and the jury found, facts which warranted the inference that a station at Yakima city was desirable and necessary for the proper accommodation of traffic. Thereupon a writ of mandamus issued as prayed for, and, upon appeal, the judgment was affirmed by the supreme court of the territory. Upon writ of error this court reversed the judgment. In the opinion of the court, delivered by Mr. Justice Gray, it was said: 'A writ of mandamus to compel a railroad corporation to do a particular act in constructing its road or buildings, or in running its trains, can be issued only when there is a specific legal duty on its part to do that act, and clear proof of a breach of that duty.' And the charter direction, that the railroad should construct all necessary stations, was described as 'but a general expression of what would be otherwise implied by law,' and as not to 'be construed as imposing any specific duty or as controlling the discretion in these respects of a corporation intrusted with such large discretionary powers upon the more important questions of the course and the termini of its road.' (P. 500.) Accordingly it was held that the determination of the directors with regard to the number, place, and size of the station, having regard to the public convenience as well as the pecuniary interests of the corporation, could not be controlled by the courts by writ of mandamus. And see People ex rel. Linton v. Brooklyn Heights R. Co. 172 N. Y. 90, 64 N. E. 788.
The business conducted by the transit company is not purely private. It is of that class so affected by a public interest that it is subject, within constitutional limits, to the governmental power of regulation. This power of regulation may be exercised to control, among other things, the time of the running of cars. It is a power legislative in its character, and may be exercised directly by the legislature itself. But the legislature may delegate to an administrative body the execution in detail of the legislative power of regulation. Reagan v. Farmers' Loan & T. Co. 154 U. S. 362, 393, 394, 38 L. ed. 1014, 1022, 4 Inters. Com. Rep. 560, 14 Sup. Ct. Rep. 1047; Interstate Commerce Commission v. Cincinnati, N. O. & T. P. R. Co. 167 U. S. 479, 494, 42 L. ed. 243, 251, 17 Sup. Ct. Rep. 896. We need not consider whether that legislative power may be conferred upon the courts of the territory, as it may be upon the courts of a state, so far as the Federal Constitution is concerned. Prentis v. Atlantic Coast Line Co., 211 U. S. 210, 53 L. ed. ——, 29 Sup. Ct. Rep. 67. In this case the legislative power of regulation was not intrusted to the courts. On the contrary, it was clearly vested, by § 843, in the governor and the superintendent of public works. By that section the transit company was itself given authority, in the first instance, with the approval of the governor, to make reasonable and just regulations regarding the maintenance and operation of the railway through the streets. The operation of a railway consists very largely in the running of cars, and the right of the transit company, to regulate, in the first instance, the operation of its railway, clearly includes the power to decide upon time schedules. But the company cannot finally determine, as it chooses, the manner of operating its road in respect of the time, speed, and frequency of its cars. Its primary duty is to operate a sufficient number of cars to meet the public convenience. This duty would rest upon the company, even if it were not expressed, as it is, in § 841. If the company itself complies with its duty by just and reasonable regulations of its own, it is enough. If the company fails in the performance of the duty, its performance is secured in the manner pointed out in the latter part of § 843. The superintendent of public works may make, with the approval of the governor, just and reasonable regulations, and they may be changed from time to time, as the public interest may demand, at the discretion of the governor. Moreover, by an amendment of the charter (act 78, Session Laws 1905), the superintendent of public works may prescribe the speed of cars. The precise function, therefore, which was exercised by the courts below, is, by the statute, confided primarily to the transit company, and ultimately to the discretion of the governor and superintendent of public works. The courts have no right to intrude upon this function, and subject the company to a species of regulation which the statute does not contemplate. If the courts were held to have the powers which were assumed in this case it would lead to great embarrassment in the operation of the railway, and perhaps to distressing conflict. Can it be that the courts can dictate the frequency of the running of the cars, and the superintendent of public works their speed? If so, the lot of the company is indeed a hard one. The two incidents of operation are not only related, but inseparable. The authority which controls the one must control the other, or operation becomes impossible. Suppose, again, that the courts, upon hearing evidence, should be of opinion that one schedule is required for the public convenience, and the governor and superintendent of public works should be of opinion that another schedule would better subserve that convenience, which order must the company obey? Must it choose between the liability to punishment for contempt for disobeying the order of the court, and the liability to forfeiture of its franchise for failing to obey the order of the governor and superintendent of public works? These and other like situations, which easily might
Sec. 870. "Whenever the said association or any corporation which may have been duly organized under the laws of this territory for the purposes of constructing, operating, and maintaining the lines of railway mentioned in this chapter, and as by this chapter provided, refuses to do or fails to do or perform or carry out or comply with any act, matter, or thing requisite or required to be done under the provisions of this chapter, and shall continue so to refuse or fail to do or perform or carry out or comply therewith, after due notice by the superintendent of public works to comply therewith, the superintendent of public works shall, with the consent of the governor, cause proceedings to be instituted before the proper tribunal to have the franchise granted by this chapter and all rights and privileges granted hereunder, forfeited and declared null and void." be imagined, are signal illustrations of the importance of observing the boundaries between the judicial and legislative field, and of the confusion and injury which would follow from the failure to respect those boundaries. Nothing is decided as to the power of the courts to review the action of the superintendent or governor.
In our opinion, the injunction which was issued in this case, constituting in substance a regulation of the operation of the railway, was, in the first place, not within the limits of the judicial power, and, in the second place, totally inconsistent with the power of regulation vested unmistakably by the legislature in the executive authorities.
Decree reversed.
The CHIEF JUSTICE dissents.
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For Olly Rourke, War Town's opening day is a joyous occasion. He is one of a thousand people selected to be the first players in the world's largest paintball arena. But as he soon finds out, the game he enters into is far more sinister. Two equal teams, locked in the massive arena together, and presented with an armory of real ammunition and a time bomb powerful enough to kill them all. The only way out is to eliminate the other team, by any means necessary.
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Exclusive: Raid yields trove of data
The assault force of Navy SEALs snatched a trove of computer drives and disks during their weekend raid on Osama bin Laden's compound, yielding what a U.S. official called "the mother lode of intelligence."
The special operations forces grabbed personal computers, thumb drives and electronic equipment during the lightning raid that killed bin Laden, officials told POLITICO.
"They cleaned it out," one official said. "Can you imagine what's on Osama bin Laden's hard drive?"
U.S. officials are about to find out. The material is being examined at a secret location in Afghanistan.
"Hundreds of people are going through it now," an official said, adding that intelligence operatives back in Washington are very excited to find out what they have.
"It's going to be great even if only 10 percent of it is actionable," the official said.
Savoring the military and intelligence triumph, officials late Monday described new details about how the mission unfolded:
The SEALs took fire on their way to the compound's third floor, where bin Laden had been sleeping, officials said. The encounter with bin Laden lasted only seconds, and ended with a kill shot to his face.
The team's photos of bin Laden are gruesome, complicating officials' deliberations about whether to release them.
Officials also have images of bin Laden in a white shroud before his burial at sea.
The raid was not supposed to last more than 30 minutes. The forces finished in 38 minutes, even though they lost one of their choppers and had to go to a back-up plan.
Four helicopters were used in the raid. Two went in, and two were in reserve.
Hovering above the compound on the way in, one of the choppers developed a mechanical problem that caused it to lose lift, officials said. The pilot made a controlled landing, according to the officials. When he couldn't get the bird airborne again, the SEALs blew it up and left in one of the reserves.
Officials described the reaction of the special operators when they were told a number of weeks ago that they had been chosen to train for the mission.
"They were told, 'We think we found Osama bin Laden, and your job is to kill him,'" an official recalled.
The SEALs started to cheer.
Radioing a commander on Sunday, the team reported the capture with a pre-arranged signal: "Geronimo!"


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NEW YORK -- The September trade that sent Trent Richardson from Cleveland to Indianapolis for a 2014 first-round draft pick was supposed to serve as a final piece of the puzzle for a young Colts team bursting with promise.
But instead of giving Indy's offense a punishing foundation back, T-Rich churned out just 458 rushing yards at a troubling 2.9 yards per clip. Two seasons into his career, Richardson barely resembles the decisive, hammer-dropping back who pummeled defenses at Alabama, but Colts tight end Coby Fleener says it's too early to write his teammate off.
"I still think it was a great trade for us," Fleener told Around The League on Friday. "Our front office has done an awesome job putting together teams from Day One. I think that acquisition is going to be huge for us and pay dividends in the future."
Richardson, for brief moments, flashed strength and raw power last season, but too often he was painfully hesitant in the backfield. The runner rarely broke into open space, but Fleener quickly dismissed the idea that Richardson's play was a disappointment.
"Let me stop you right there," the pass-catcher told ATL. "I think part of it is you're coming into an offense that's probably one of the most complex in the NFL. And so for him to play a week after being there was impressive because it took me a year and a half to learn the offense. I think this camp will do him a lot of good, and then you guys can judge him after that."
The T-Rich swap, today, feels expensive and dicey -- and many have written him off as a looming bust -- but Fleener is correct: It's too early to make that call.


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Prolific NASA Mars orbiter passes big data milestone
NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, which has overhauled understanding of the Red Planet since 2006, has passed 200 terabits in the amount of science data returned. The data returned by the mission alone is more than three times the total data returned via NASA's Deep Space Network for all the other missions managed by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif., over the past 10 years.
While the 200 terabits number includes all the data this orbiter has relayed to Earth from robots on the surface of Mars, about 99.9 percent of the volume has come from the six science instruments aboard Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. The 200 terabits are equivalent to the data volume in three nonstop months of high-definition video. The number does not include the engineering data that specialists operating the orbiter from JPL and Lockheed Martin Space Systems, Denver, use for monitoring its health and performance.
The spacecraft pours data Earthward using a dish antenna 10 feet (3 meters) across and a transmitter powered by 215 square feet (20 square meters) of solar cells. Multiple sessions each day with giant dish antennas of the Deep Space Network in California, Spain and Australia enable Earth to receive such a torrent of data from the orbiter.
"The sheer volume is impressive, but of course what's most important is what we are learning about our neighboring planet," said JPL's Rich Zurek, the project scientist for the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter.
The orbiter's instruments have examined Mars from subsurface to atmosphere in unprecedented detail. One instrument has provided images revealing features as small as a desk in surface areas equivalent to one-third of the United States (1.92 percent of Mars' surface). Another has covered areas equivalent to about 82 percent of Earth's land area (83.6 percent of Mars' surface), with resolution showing features smaller than a tennis court. These cameras have viewed many areas repeatedly, providing three-dimensional information from stereo and revealing several types of landscape changes over time. Other instruments identify surface minerals, probe underground layers, examine cross-sections of the atmosphere and track weather globally.
"The mission has taught us about three very different periods of Mars history," Zurek said.
Its observations of the heavily cratered terrains of Mars, the oldest on the planet, show that different types of ancient watery environments formed water-related minerals. Some of these would have been more favorable for life than others. In more recent times, water appears to have cycled as a gas between polar ice deposits and lower-latitude deposits of ice and snow. Extensive layering in ice or rock probably took hundreds of thousands to millions of years to form. The present climate is also dynamic, with volatile carbon dioxide and, possibly, flows of briny water forming dark streaks that are observed to appear in the warmest seasons and places and fade in colder weather.
"Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has shown that Mars is still an active planet, with changes such as new craters, avalanches and dust storms," Zurek said. "Mars is a partially frozen world, but not frozen in time."
Each of the 200 trillion bits of science data from the orbiter has followed a complex path, aided by sophisticated software to make it feasible for a small team to handle tens of billions of new bits daily and get the data products to the appropriate scientists.
Data gathered by the orbiter's instruments and relayed from rovers are recorded onto the orbiter's central memory. Each orbit around Mars takes the spacecraft about two hours. For part of each orbit, Mars itself usually blocks the communication path to Earth. When Earth is in view, a Deep Space Network antenna on whichever part of Earth is turned toward Mars at that hour can be listening. Complex preparations coordinate scheduling the use of the network's antennas by all deep-space missions — 32 of them this month. Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter typically gets several sessions every day.
"The Deep Space Network collects the incoming data into 30-minute chunks," said Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter software engineer Bryan Allen, of JPL. "At that point, it doesn't matter which products are in it — just a big pile of bits."
The chunks of mixed data from the antenna stations in California, Spain and Australia come to JPL, where software sorts it into specific products, such as an image from a camera, measurements from a scan of the atmosphere, radar readings from the subsurface sounder, or data from a rover. Another process at JPL determines which products to send where — such as to a mineral-mapping team in Maryland, a camera team in Arizona, a radar team in Italy. On a typical recent day, the system sorted 58 billion bits from Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter into 303 data products.
The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter mission met all its science goals in a two-year primary science phase ending in 2008. Three extensions, the latest beginning in 2012, have added to the science returns. The longevity of this mission and of NASA's even longer-lived Mars Odyssey orbiter, which has been studying Mars since 2002, have given researchers tools to study seasonal and longer-term changes on the Red Planet.
JPL, a division of the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, manages the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter and Mars Odyssey projects for NASA's Science Mission Directorate, Washington. Lockheed Martin Space Systems built both orbiters and collaborates with JPL to operate them. JPL operates the Deep Space Network for NASA's Human Exploration and Operations Mission Directorate, Washington. For more information about the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, visit http://www.nasa.gov/mro and http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/mro/.
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DUBAI, United Arab Emirates – The United Arab Emirates says it has barred a British scholar from entering the country because of his views on the uprising against fellow Gulf rulers in Bahrain.
Kristian Coates Ulrichsen, co-director of the Kuwait program at the London School of Economics, was due to speak Sunday at an Arab Spring conference co-hosted by the University of Sharjah.
He was turned back at Dubai's airport on Friday and organizers called off the event, citing restrictions on free speech.
The UAE's Foreign Ministry on Monday described Ulrichsen's work as critical of Bahrain's monarchy, which is closely backed by Gulf Arab states. It says "non-constructive" views on Bahrain are unwelcome amid talks seeking to ease the two-year-old unrest.
Bahrain's majority Shiites are seeking a greater political voice in the Sunni-ruled kingdom.


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- Publisher: The Dial Press (August 7, 2012)
From the co-author of the two-million copy mega-bestseller The Rule of Four comes a riveting thriller with a brilliant premise based on the 2012 apocalypse phenomenon—perfect for readers of Steve Berry, Preston and Child, and Dan Brown.
For decades, December 21, 2012, has been a touchstone for doomsayers worldwide. It is the date, they claim, when the ancient Maya calendar predicts the world will end.
In Los Angeles, two weeks before, all is calm. Dr. Gabriel Stanton takes his usual morning bike ride, drops off the dog with his ex-wife, and heads to the lab where he studies incurable prion diseases for the CDC. His first phone call is from a hospital resident who has an urgent case she thinks he needs to see. Meanwhile, Chel Manu, a Guatemalan American researcher at the Getty Museum, is interrupted by a desperate, unwelcome visitor from the black market antiquities trade who thrusts a duffel bag into her hands.
By the end of the day, Stanton, the foremost expert on some of the rarest infections in the world, is grappling with a patient whose every symptom confounds and terrifies him. And Chel, the brightest young star in the field of Maya studies, has possession of an illegal artifact that has miraculously survived the centuries intact: a priceless codex from a lost city of her ancestors. This extraordinary record, written in secret by a royal scribe, seems to hold the answer to her life's work and to one of history's great riddles: why the Maya kingdoms vanished overnight. Suddenly it seems that our own civilization might suffer this same fate.
With only days remaining until December 21, 2012, Stanton and Chel must join forces before time runs out.
"The most exciting novel of its kind since the days of Michael Crichton, 12.21 takes us from the frontiers of modern neuroscience to the riddles of ancient Maya texts, with nothing less than the future of our civilization at stake."—Vince Flynn
"A fast-moving tale . . . Thomason displays an impressive depth of knowledge of both science and the ancient Mayan way of life. Along the way, he skillfully ramps up the action, one notch at a time. A winning book."—Kirkus Reviews
"Fascinating, terrifying for its potential realism. I loved how tightly everything fit together. I had to keep reading."—Taylor Stevens, New York Times bestselling author of The Informationist
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Avi Networks, a network startup formed by ex-Cisco executives and backed by $33 million in venture capital, came out of stealth Wednesday with the announcement of a system designed to boost the performance of enterprise applications accessed via the cloud and mobile devices.
Unlike traditionally structured application delivery controllers (ADC), which are proprietary, specialized pieces of hardware, Avi's Cloud Application Delivery Platform is essentially an ADC that runs on commodity silicon. The idea is to bring sophisticated optimization technology to businesses that couldn't otherwise afford the sorts of things that Google, Facebook, Amazon and others provide for themselves in-house. (Avi's announcement goes out of its way to liken the company's technology to that of those giants, in fact.)
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CADP, Avi said, is more or less the software-defined networking (SDN) concept applied to application delivery, rather than the network as a whole. The basic framework is provided by the Hyperscale Distributed Resources Architecture, or HYDRA. It allows users to manage core application development services like load balancing and SSL termination, as well as extensive analytics information from a single system.
It's a sea-change of no small scale, according to CEO Umesh Mahajan, who previously was vice president and general manager of a $2 billion data center switching unit at Cisco, and before that led the software team at Cisco SAN spin-in Andiamo. "In today's mobile cloud era, the traditional appliance-centric, monolithic application delivery approach doesn't work anymore," he said in the statement.
(Mahajan's co-founders also come from Cisco and Andiamo, and others on the management team hail from vendors such as Juniper Networks and F5. That probably goes a long way toward explaining how they got substantial funding from big name venture firms, including Greylock Partners, Lightspeed Venture Partners and Menlo Ventures.)
The product also features built-in integration with OpenStack, VMware and Cisco SDN fabrics. In terms of pricing, Avi offers both a bandwidth-based model and a "price by application scale/instance" scheme.
Sky not falling
According to IDC analyst Brad Casemore, the sky isn't falling for traditional ADC vendors like Citrix and F5 (the latter of which Avi's pitchwoman said the startup is looking to "take down"). At least, not yet.
"I don't think established vendors will panic, but they will have to continue to architect and deliver their products in a manner that is consistent with and responds to the requirements of hybrid cloud and mobility," he said.
It's worth noting, also, that both F5 and Citrix already offer virtual editions of their ADC products. But Casemore said that it's not a question of either hardware or software, but how a vendor can appeal to many models at the same time.
"Many enterprises will be looking for hybrid-cloud models where some application workloads are run in the public cloud, while others will run in a private cloud," he said. "What Avi is trying to do is bring hyperscale-style load balancing and application delivery to enterprises who do not have the resources of a Google, Facebook, or an AWS."


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Brazil's World Cup preparation endured some heavy criticism leading up to the games. Stadiums were still under construction, Internet connections were sketchy and transportation faced major challenges. A week into the tournament, NPR's Russell Lewis has traveled to three airports and three cities so far. He talks to Melissa Block about what has worked and what remains a challenge.
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MRS. BUSH: Thank you very much, Dr. Rice. Thank you all. Thanks so much. Thank you, Dr. Rice, for that very kind introduction. And I want to say a special welcome to Mrs. Ban. Thank you so much for welcoming all of us here for the United Nations General Assembly, along with your husband, the Secretary General. And, of course, welcome to the First Ladies, and one First Gentleman -- brave First Gentleman, I might add -- (laughter) -- who have come from around the world. The First Ladies are wearing a little pin that looks like a book, so as you look around your table, you can see who the First Ladies are at your table, or First Gentleman, and have a chance to talk to them about their countries.
Members of the diplomatic corps, administration officials, business executives, leaders of NGOs, philanthropists, distinguished guests -- thank you all very much for coming.
I want to acknowledge our guests from the countries devastated by the recent flooding in Africa. Already, international organizations, along with the U.S. and other countries, are working with those local governments to help. Our prayers are with the people who have been affected by this major disaster.
Every September, world leaders gather in New York for the opening of the United Nations General Assembly. They come to advance the United Nations' historic mission. It's a mission that an American First Lady, Eleanor Roosevelt, helped to shape. Mrs. Roosevelt was an author of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, crafted in the aftermath of World War II. The Declaration enshrined the rights that belong to every human being, regardless of gender, religion, race or class. Among those fundamental rights is one that's important to every person in this room. "Everyone," the Declaration states, "has the right to education."
Fifty-nine years later, the challenges facing our world have changed, but the importance of education has not. Research shows that educated women raise better-nourished, healthier families. Citizens who can read can follow the instructions on a medicine bottle. They understand warning signs. People who can read are more likely to know how HIV and malaria are transmitted, so they can make informed decisions that will keep them and their families safe.
Many nations, and the private sector, are forming strong partnerships to promote global literacy and health. I've seen the benefit of these partnerships. The President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief and the President's Malaria Initiative include programs that educate people how to prevent the transmission of HIV/AIDS and malaria -- while these programs save lives. Last year, representatives from 67 countries, 39 education ministers, and 30 first ladies -- including many who are here today -- attended the White House Conference on Global Literacy.
That conference has generated regional literacy conferences, organized by UNESCO. Already, there have been regional conference in Qatar; Bamako, Mali; and seems like there's been one more, I can't remember -- Beijing, of course. There are going to be more conferences coming up in India, in Azerbaijan, and in Costa Rica. And I want to thank all of the people here who have been involved in producing these conferences, especially the people with UNESCO, but all the other people from governments that have produced these conferences around the world.
In Qatar, Sheikha Mozah launched three new literacy partnerships with Mauritania, Mali, and Sudan. In Beijing, Madame Liu convened experts on literacy's role in rural development. At the UNESCO Conference in Bamako, President and Mrs. Tour brought together 27 education ministers and 11 first ladies.
That conference in Mali reunited two presenters from our White House Conference: Dr. Perri Klass and Maria Keita. Dr. Klass is the medical director of the Reach Out and Read program. Reach Out and Read works with pediatricians and nurses to give young children books during their medical visits. Maria Keita leads Mali's Institute of Popular Education.
When they met again in Bamako, Dr. Klass gave Maria books for her pupils. And Maria told Dr. Klass that she had trained 15 students to bring Reach Out and Read to Mali's rural villages. As the 15 facilitators distribute books, they'll immunize children and teach basic hygiene to mothers. Because of the partnership between Maria and Perri, young children in Mali will enjoy better education and improved health. Dr. Perri Klass is here in the audience. (Applause.)
In Afghanistan -- where infant mortality rates are among the world's highest -- I visited the Women's Teacher Training Institute in Kabul. The Institute is a joint initiative of the Afghan and U.S. governments. It receives private-sector support through the United States-Afghan Women's Council.
At the Institute, women from the provinces have a safe dorm to stay in while they're trained to be teachers. So far, the Institute has trained nearly 400 women to be community literacy instructors. These teachers then return home and train more teachers in a cascading effect. The goal is to open and staff as many schools in Afghanistan as fast as possible.
Over the last five years, Afghanistan's primary-school enrollment rate has increased by more than 500 percent. At the same time, Afghanistan's infant and child mortality rate has dropped nearly 20 percent. Just a few years of increased school enrollment have produced these promising advances in children's health. I'd like to recognize the wife of the Afghan Ambassador to the U.S., Shamim Jawad, and all the members of the United States-Afghan Women's Council in the audience. Would you all please stand? (Applause.)
In Senegal, Madame Wade and I saw the benefits of the Africa Education Initiative. The Initiative was launched in 2002 to provide scholarships to girls across Africa and to train 900,000 teachers by the end of the decade. Through the Initiative, six American universities have partnered with six African countries to produce and print primary-school textbooks. These textbooks are tailored to each African nation's culture, curriculum and language.
Some of these books are going to Dakar's Grand Medine Primary School. At Grand Medine, the new texts are improving educational opportunities for children, and their families' health. As children learn from their books, they teach their parents how mosquitoes transmit malaria. They pass along lessons about basic first aid. They show their families hygiene practices that halt the spread of cholera. Mrs. Wade and I met Grand Medine's Vice Principal, Mrs. Ba, who explains: "The books are benefiting the whole community." Mrs. Wade. (Applause.)
In Zambia, more than a million people are infected with HIV. More than 700,000 children are AIDS orphans. The First Lady of Zambia, Mrs. Mwanawasa, is fighting this epidemic as President of the Organization of African First Ladies Against AIDS.
This organization has brought together 40 First Ladies to defeat HIV in their countries. The U.S. government is joining their efforts with a $200,000 contribution from PEPFAR. These resources will support the African First Ladies as they educate adults across the continent about their responsibility to protect themselves, and their children, from HIV and AIDS. Mrs. Mwanawasa. (Applause.)
The lack of education in my country is also an obstacle to good health, especially for women. Many women in the United States don't know that heart disease is the leading cause of death among American women. Through the "Heart Truth" campaign, the U.S. government, media organizations and the fashion industry have joined to raise public awareness of this disease.
Nothing draws attention like a red dress -- (laughter) -- so this is the "Heart Truth's" symbol. Over the last five years, women have come to recognize that little red dress. They're reminded to pay attention to the symptoms of heart disease. If they feel any of these symptoms, they go to the hospital in time to save their own lives. Be sure to pick up your red dress pin after lunch, so you can join the campaign to tell the "Heart Truth." And I want to recognize Dr. Elizabeth Nabel, the Director of the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, and one of the founders of the "Heart Truth" campaign. Dr. Nabel. (Applause.)
Another major threat to the health of women in my country, and around the world, is breast cancer. To raise women's awareness, my friend, Nancy Brinker, established the Susan G. Komen Foundation in honor of her sister Susan, who died of breast cancer. In the United States, women were once too embarrassed to talk about breast cancer. Twenty-five years ago, they didn't know to go get mammograms. They didn't go for regular screenings. Because Nancy had the courage to speak out, women everywhere across our country now recognize the pink ribbon. They benefit from early breast-cancer detection, which is the closest thing we have to a cure.
Two partnerships between the Komen Foundation, the U.S. State Department and American cancer hospitals and regional experts are raising global awareness about breast cancer. The Partnership for Breast Cancer Awareness and Research of the Americas will reach women in Brazil, Mexico, and Costa Rica. In these countries, many breast-cancer cases result in death -- because the cancer is discovered too late. This partnership will educate Latin American women about regular screenings, so they can detect breast cancer in its earlier stages.
The U.S.-Middle East Partnership for Breast Cancer Awareness and Research will educate women in the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, and Jordan. Through the partnership, women in these three countries will learn about the importance of early detection. I'll visit the Middle East in October, during Breast Cancer Awareness month. And I look forward to talking with women there about this important issue. I'd like to recognize our new Ambassador, Chief of Protocol, Nancy Brinker, and the founder of the Susan G. Komen Foundation. (Applause.)
Last May, President Bush announced a new international education program: the Basic Education Initiative. Through this Initiative, the American people will partner with six nations: Ethiopia, Liberia, Honduras, Ghana, Mali, and Yemen.
These six nations have ambitious education plans, approved by the Education for All - Fast Track program. Fast Track education plans work. In the first ten Fast Track countries, the number of trained teachers increased by about 30 percent. In the Fast Track country of Niger, school enrollment has increased by 84 percent.
In the six countries we're announcing today, the Basic Education Initiative will support Fast Track plans to improve literacy and increase school enrollment. The Initiative's goal is to reach 4 million children over the next five years.
A new position in the government has been established to oversee the work of the Basic Education Initiative and to organize our international education efforts. I'm so glad that the new Coordinator of the President's International Education Initiative is here today. Ladies and gentlemen, Dr. Thomas Corts. (Applause.)
Dr. Corts has had a distinguished education career in the United States. He brings to his new job extraordinary compassion and skill. Congratulations, and thank you very much, Dr. Corts.
And thanks to each one of you. Through your governments, foundations, businesses, and faith congregations, you've improving education and health for millions of people. Your individual energy and compassion are touching millions of lives -- including Alice Mwale.
Mrs. Mwanwasa and I met Alice at Zambia's Regiment Basic School. Alice, who is 15, was orphaned by AIDS at the age of seven. Today, she lives with her brother, who sells charcoal on the local market. Her sister braids hair to make money for the family. With a scholarship from the African Education Initiative, Alice can go to school. This AIDS orphan plans to become a doctor, so she can care for Zambians who are infected with HIV. Someday, she hopes to find a cure for AIDS. With her education, Alice said, "I want to save my people."
Alice reminds us that education is vital in every time and place -- from Lusaka to La Paz, from the United Arab Emirates to the United States of America. By improving education, we can advance goals that unite people in every country: healthy lives today, and a more hopeful world for our children.
Thank you all very much. (Applause.)


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Google Search's learning curve is an odd one. You use it every day, but still all you know is how to search. But the search engine has plenty of tricks up its sleeve.
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U.S., Japan Agree on Okinawa Troop Relocation
By Karen Parrish
American Forces Press Service
WASHINGTON, April 27, 2012 – U.S. and Japanese officials announced yesterday the two nations have agreed on a plan to relocate U.S. Marines from Okinawa to Guam.
The joint statement of the U.S.-Japan Security Consultative Committee spells out unit moves, land and facilities on Okinawa the United States will return to the Japanese government, and the costs each government will pay for the relocation.
The joint statement is the latest result of negotiations between the two countries dating to the 2006 Realignment Roadmap and the 2009 Guam International Agreement. The two nations issued a joint defense posture statement in February that "delinked" the two agreements so parts of the relocation plan could move forward more quickly.
"I am very pleased that, after many years, we have reached this important agreement and plan of action," Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta said in a statement yesterday. He praised Japanese Defense Minister Naoki Tanaka for "spearheading discussions" leading to the joint statement.
"We will work closely with our partners in the Japanese Self Defense Force to implement these decisions and to further improve this vital alliance of ours," the secretary added.
Panetta said he looks forward to strengthening the two nations' partnership "as, together, we address security challenges in the region."
During a Pentagon background briefing to reporters yesterday, senior State and Defense Department officials outlined the agreement.
About 9,000 Marines will relocate from Okinawa, with about 5,000 moving to Guam and the rest transferring to other locations in the Pacific such as Hawaii and Australia, the defense official said.
The Marines will be organized in air-ground task forces, which combine command, ground, air and logistics elements that can deploy and operate as a unit.
"This new posture that we've created results in a more operationally effective presence across the region," the defense official said.
"In the end, we are sustaining the same presence in the Western Pacific that we've intended for some time," the official added.
About 10,000 Marines will remain on Okinawa when the relocation is complete, the official said.
The agreement also sets Japan's funding for the move to Guam at $3.1 billion of the overall $8.6 billion estimated cost, the defense official added.
"We're particularly appreciative of this commitment in the context of Japan's fiscal challenges, which we fully recognize," the official added.
One element of the agreement involves possible development of joint training ranges in Guam and the commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands as shared-use facilities for U.S. and Japanese forces, the official said.
The State Department official said the plan will result in a stronger, more sustainable and more flexible alliance.
"This is really a key component of our strategic rebalancing toward the Asia-Pacific region," the official said. "As you know, one of the key aspects of that is strengthening partnerships with regional allies, and of course Japan is a very important alliance partner."
The official said the agreement reaffirms both nations' commitment to relocate Marine Corps Air Station Futenma, now in the center of Okinawa's Ginowan City, to a more remote area of the island. Until the Futenma relocation happens, both governments will share the cost of maintaining the existing facility, the official added.
The Japanese government will determine the timeline for the Futenma move, the State Department official said, noting the U.S. focus for Okinawa is sustaining an operationally effective Marine Corps presence there.
The defense official said U.S. representatives are "delighted" at the agreement.
"We think it's a significant achievement that demonstrates that the U.S.-Japan alliance is still capable of big things," the official said.
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The Boston Herald went to sleep proud of itself for landing the scoop that Theo Epstein is on his way to Chicago. They woke up to the Globe's comprehensive hit on the hard-partying 2011 Red Sox that's the only topic in town.
We don't know if this is an attempt to take sides in Boston's ongoing management vs. players battle, or something more innocuous, but today the Herald scrubbed from existence a piece that might have caused more waves. Running in Inside Track, the Herald's gossip section, it had eyewitnesses putting Kevin Youklis (last seen "[growing] more detached and short-tempered") snuggling with Nancy Brady, sister of Tom, at Sunday's Patriots game.
Headlined "Youk, Brady's sis spark rumors," the story no longer exists. It was automatically sent out at 8 this morning by the Inside Track Twitter account, but that Tweet has disappeared as well. No cache exists, and it's not yet to be found in Nexis, but luckily one Boston blog caught some of it in the brief time it was up. As quoted by The Boston Jam:
Kevin Youkilis denies that there's a romance, but our spies in the skyboxes say the Red Sox slugger and Tom Brady [stats]'s sis, Nancy, were looking veeeeery cozy as they watched 12 and the Pats cool the Jets at Gillette Stadium on Sunday.
"They were mugging it up in the box," said Someone Who Was There.
Obviously, the story is much less interesting than the story of why it was sent down the memory hole. We've reached out to the appropriate parties for comment and will update when we hear back.
UPDATE Feb. 10, 2012: It seems the Herald fucked up, and had the wrong Brady sister.


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