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Tweaking a protein expressed by most liver cancer cells has helped researchers to make a vaccine that is exceedingly effective at preventing the disease in mice.
Alpha-Fetoprotein, or AFP - normally expressed during development and by liver cancer cells as well - has escaped attack in previous vaccine iterations because the body recognizes it as "self," said Dr. Yukai He, immunologist at the Medical College of Georgia and Georgia Regents University Cancer Center.
Liver cancer is among the fastest-growing and deadliest cancers in the United States with a 17 percent three-year survival rate. Vaccines help direct the immune system to attack invaders by showing it a representative substance, called an antigen, that the body will recognize as foreign, in this case, AFP for liver cancer.
AFP is expressed by about 80 percent of most common liver cancer cells but not typically by healthy adults. For cancer to flourish, cells must revert to an immature state, called dedifferentiation, which is why liver cancer cells express a protein during development and why the immune system can recognize AFP as "self."
He's modified AFP was delivered in a vehicle with a proven record for getting into cells. The lentivector is the backbone of the human immunodeficiency virus, or HIV, minus most of its genes. It is particularly good at targeting dendritic cells, whose job is to show the immune system antigens then activate T cells to attack.
In a proven model where mice are exposed to chemicals known to induce liver cancer, the vaccine blocked cancer about 90 percent of the time. Mice receiving the vaccine had more T cells generally and more that targeted AFP, which could keep an eye out for re-emerging liver cancer.
Recurring tumor cells is an unfortunately realistic scenario for liver cancer patients, who have a 70 percent recurrence rate in five years, He said. Patients typically have surgery to remove the diseased portion of the liver, but there are currently no effective adjuvant therapies, such as chemotherapy, to reduce recurrence, He said.
Ideally, some version of his vaccine will one day provide that key missing piece and dramatically improve patient survival, He said. Similarly, the approach might also work to prevent the disease in high-risk populations. He has not yet looked at whether the vaccine could be a first-line treatment.
He recently received a $1.6 million grant from the National Cancer Institute that will continue to move the mouse studies toward human application. "Now that we know it works in mice, we have to make sure it works in people," He said, noting that many promising cancer vaccines have not worked well in humans.
The new studies include taking the blood of healthy individuals and removing monocytes, which are plentiful white blood cells that can become dendritic cells. They'll coax dendritic cells to develop, give them the vaccine, then give the armed dendritic cells back to mice to see if they will produce AFP-focused T cells.
Next steps also include developing a virus-like particle, which retains the efficiency of lentivector without the safety concerns of the HIV-derived delivery system and can be easily reproduced in a factory. These protein-based delivery systems are utilized by a number of vaccines already used in humans. He and his team also are working on a receptor ligand that would cause AFP to draw even more attention from dendritic cells.
He is betting that a safer delivery vehicle and ligand packaged with his antigen in a so-called "tripartite" vaccine will be a powerful package.
Carcinogen- and hepatitis B-induced liver cancer models are being used for the studies.
While hepatitis vaccines have reduced liver cancer rates in most other countries, unprecedented rates of obesity and diabetes are accelerating rates in this country, He said. Much like chronic hepatitis infections and carcinogens, diabetes and obesity both produce chronic inflammation, a major risk for liver cancer. Both conditions also dramatically increase the workload of the large organ, which has a big role in metabolism, by generating more fat and glucose that needs handling.
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CHARLESTON, SC – How did Noah get breeding pairs of all the Earth's animals into a single boat? Where did manna come from? How did Jesus feed 5,000 people with five loaves of bread and two fishes? How did Christ walk on water? And what really happened to Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden?
These great Bible mysteries, which have baffled Christians for over 2,000 years, have finally been solved by Bible experts who concluded after a five-year study that "God's ways, though often mysterious, are sometimes crystal clear.
"And in the cases of these Bible miracles, there is no mystery at all. All we have to do is open our eyes. The solutions really are there for everyone to see."
Dr. James Rhodes, Bernadette Carter, Phillip Gaylord, Dr. Margaret Creed and Dr. Robert Stephenson headed up the panel of Bible scholars, theologians and clergymen who examined the mysteries in light of the historical record and current scientific thinking and provided a solution for each of them.
"Our conclusions will seem controversial to some, but they are in no way meant to diminish God's power and supremacy over everything that was, is and will be," explained Mrs. Carter.
Here are the experts' explanations for five great Bible mysteries:
1. How Noah got breeding pairs of every animal on Earth in a single boat.
The solution, say the experts, is simple if you look beyond artists' conceptions of the event that we have all seen over the years.
"Noah filled the ark mostly with babies and eggs that took up less space and required less food than adult animals," said Dr. Rhodes.
"It is also safe to assume that the Great Flood, though extensive, didn't cover the entire Earth as many people believe.
"In the Aramaic that the Bible was originally written in, the story of Noah describes the Flood as covering 'the world,' which, when accurately translated, simply means the Middle East.
"So in point of fact, Noah only loaded local animals onto the ark – not every animal on the planet.
2. Where manna came from.
While searching for the Promised Land, Moses and his followers faced great trials and tribulations – including the threat of starvation.
They survived the worst of times eating manna from Heaven – a sugary, bread-like substance that "fell from Heaven."
In fact, as the experts point out, manna is produced by plants indigenous to the region the group was exiled in. The miracle, of course, is that the plants produced ENOUGH manna to feed thousands of people.
"Outside of a single miraculous incident, this is unheard of," say Galord. "It truly is a miracle of the first magnitude."
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CHARLESTON, SC – How did Noah get breeding pairs of all the Earth's animals into a single boat? Where did manna come from? How did Jesus feed 5,000 people with five loaves of bread and two fishes? How did Christ walk on water? And what really happened to Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden?

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Bauman, Alexander (1893-1983)
Alexander "Alex" Bauman: teacher, community leader, and farmer; was born 30 June 1893 in Alexandrodar, Kuban Mennonite Settlement, Russia, to Jacob Bauman (1866, Russia - 29 December 1910, Kuban, South Russia) and Emelie (Liesch) Bauman (15 June 1866, Halbstadt, Molotschna, South Russia - 28 December 1944, Chilliwack, British Columbia, Canada). On 27 August 1916 Alexander married Lena Siemens (7 April 1892 - July 1917). He married Elizabeth Quiring (9 July 1896, Mountain Lake, Minnesota, USA - 10 November 1980, Abbotsford, British Columbia), daughter of Johann P. Quiring (1862-1931) and Elisabeth (Willems) Quiring (1862-1927) on 3 May 1918 in Dalmeny, Saskatchewan. Their marriage was blessed with five children: Alice, Clarence, Edward, Mathilda and Alma. Alex passed away on 9 June 1983 in Abbotsford, British Columbia.
Alexander received a Christian upbringing and at the age of 14 he accepted Christ, was baptized, and joined the Mennonite Brethren (MB) Church in his community. He studied at the Zentralschule and Kommerzschule in Halbstadt, Ukraine, and then obtained a position as a teacher in Marienfeld.
In 1913 Bauman immigrated to Canada and settled in Altona, Manitoba. He attended the Mennonite high school there, and upon graduation taught in a number of schools in Manitoba and Saskatchewan. After his marriage to Elizabeth, the couple purchased a farm in Dalmeny. It was hard to make a living during the depression years, so they moved to British Columbia in 1932. They lived for a short while in Yarrow and Agassiz, before settling on a 20-acre bush lot in Abbotsford, BC in 1938.
Alex and Elizabeth were among the pioneers of Abbotsford. They spent 20 years clearing their land, building the farm buildings, and doing mixed farming. They were also very active in the South Abbotsford Mennonite Brethren (MB) Church and in the Abbotsford community. Alex was on the church board, taught Sunday School and served as youth leader. He loved music, and formed an orchestra which played in the South Abbotsford MB Church on Sunday evenings, and also in the Menno and Tabor Homes for the aged. He offered private music lessons to many young people.
Alex Bauman was instrumental in forming a cooperative called the Farmer's Land Clearing Association. This coop purchased a bulldozer and hired a driver to clear off the stumps from the pioneer farms. This was a great help to the early farmers who had only horses to till their land.
Alex Bauman spoke three languages fluently, was an avid reader, and placed a high value on Christian education. He was instrumental in establishing the Bible school in the South Abbotsford MB church in the early 1940's. This school has flourished over the years and is now Columbia Bible College. Alex Bauman was also instrumental in establishing the Mennonite Educational Institute (MEI). In 1944 he traveled to Victoria to seek the permission of the Deputy Minister of Education for the establishment of the MEI. He served on the board of both institutions for many years.
GRANDMA (The Genealogical Registry and Database of Mennonite Ancestry) Database, 7.02 ed. Fresno, CA: California Mennonite Historical Society, 2013: #133964.
|Edward Bauman
|Date Published
|December 2004
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By Chris Harding, The Open Group
IT costs were always a worry, but only an occasional one. Cloud computing has changed that.
Here's how it used to be. The New System was proposed. Costs were estimated, more or less accurately, for computing resources, staff increases, maintenance contracts, consultants and outsourcing. The battle was fought, the New System was approved, the checks were signed, and everyone could forget about costs for a while and concentrate on other issues, such as making the New System actually work.
One of the essential characteristics of cloud computing is "measured service." Resource usage is measured by the byte transmitted, the byte stored, and the millisecond of processing time. Charges are broken down by the hour, and billed by the month. This can change the way people take decisions.
"The New System is really popular. It's being used much more than expected."
"Hey, that's great!"
Then, you might then have heard,
"But this means we are running out of capacity. Performance is degrading. Users are starting to complain."
"There's no budget for an upgrade. The users will have to lump it."
Now the conversation goes down a slightly different path.
"Our monthly compute costs are twice what we budgeted."
"We can't afford that. You must do something!"
And something will be done, either to tune the running of the system, or to pass the costs on to the users. Cloud computing is making professional day-to-day cost control of IT resource use both possible and necessary.
This starts at the planning stage. For a new cloud system, estimates should include models of how costs and revenue relate to usage. Approval is then based on an understanding of the returns on investment in likely usage scenarios. And the models form the basis of day-to-day cost control during the system's life.
Last year's Open Group "State of the Industry" cloud survey found that 55% of respondents thought that cloud ROI addressing business requirements in their organizations would be easy to evaluate and justify, but only 35% of respondents' organizations had mechanisms in place to do this. Clearly, the need for cost control based on an understanding of the return was not widely appreciated in the industry at that time.
We are repeating the survey this year. It will be very interesting to see whether the picture has changed.
Participation in the survey is open until August 15. To add your experience and help improve industry understanding of the use of cloud computing, visit: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/TheOpenGroup_2012CloudROI
Dr. Chris Harding is Director for Interoperability and SOA at The Open Group. He has been with The Open Group for more than ten years, and is currently responsible for managing and supporting its work on interoperability, including SOA and interoperability aspects of Cloud Computing. He is a member of the BCS, the IEEE and the AEA, and is a certified TOGAF practitioner.


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Thursday, December 16, 2010
Michaels has the Scotch ATG Adhesive Dispenser on SALE TODAY ONLY!
My favorite adhesive at a fantastic price at Michaels today only - don't miss out!!
Also, check back later today to see projects with the new Cricut cartridges! This is the best release of the year, in my opinion. I hope you'll agree!
Subscribe to Obsessed with Scrapbooking to learn more about ways to use the Cricut in your scrapbooking!
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I am hopping they have lots in stock, but I will try to be there when they open. ;0) Heading to get my 2 kids up now. LOLReplyDelete
I love this tool use if for everything...even to stick plastic dishes together to make an impromptu cake stand!!!ReplyDelete
Already got mine and this is a great price!ReplyDelete
What a great price to pick up a spare atg or to replace the one of mine that just broke...ReplyDelete
- nicole mDecember 16, 2010 at 10:25 AM
hmmm, wonder if it's on sale in canada too! I put it on my hubby's list ;)ReplyDelete
Saw these yesterday at Michaels and thought . . . Hmmm, pricey! Guess I'm going back! LOVE the sales, thanx for the heads-up!ReplyDelete
Great price and can't for you to show us the new carts.ReplyDelete
Dude!! Great price! But I'm bummed, because I already bought myself one (for my husband to give to me for Christmas), and I paid way more than that!ReplyDelete
I went and bought one and I already own one. I bought the red ATG gun from Framing Supplies last year, but I love, love, love it. I buy the tape rolls a dozen at a time from Framing Supplies. Now that I have two, I can put acid free tape in one for scrapbooking because it so expensive, and put the regular tape in the other for card making.... yea... tfs.ReplyDelete
- MichelleDecember 16, 2010 at 12:30 PM
Are the refills on sale too? My nearest Michaels is a 35 minute drive away...ReplyDelete
I'm hoping to be able to work Ms into my schedule today...at this price, I really want to give this tool a try. Can't wait to see the Hello Thursday projects....I think this is probably my fav bunch of releases of all time too!!! I hope Santa will still be able to get them under the tree for me...I've been very, very good this year so he should definitely bring them all to me ;) !!ReplyDelete
Well darn it...I was just in there yesterday. Anyway I found a way to "cheat" with hello Thursday....you can see the carts. being released on cricuts site under the products. I'm in love with two of them already without seeing detailed info. I'm going to be in debt because of cricut...lol.ReplyDelete
- peacefulgardensDecember 16, 2010 at 12:55 PM
I just came home from Michael's and I bought myself one at that price. I've been wanting one and this was the right time and price.ReplyDelete
OMG, I cant' wait for the new releases (2 in particular)!! Do we have a definite release date yet? ...lol...ReplyDelete
Can't wait to see your projects!!
I really wish I lived near a Michaels!!!ReplyDelete
To bad I just bought mine on Tuesday. I did have a 40% off coupon though. Good thing I live over an hour away or I might be more upset.ReplyDelete
Thanks for sharing. I got mine and I love it. I can't believe it was only $21.54 including tax. :)ReplyDelete
Thanks so much for this info...I called and had them put one up for me at customer service, and right over to pick it up after work! I've wanted to try an ATG for years!ReplyDelete
I know I already posted this on your FB page, but agian, THANK YOU so much posting this!! :) I went out right after finishing my coffee and got one! (I've been wanting it forever but couldn't justify spending $40 on it, so thanks again! :) I'm sure I speak for many when I say we sure do appreciate these coupons! :)ReplyDelete
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The winners for the 2013 Chesley Awards, celebrating science fiction and fantasy art, have been announced. The Chesleys are given by the Association of Science Fiction and Fantasy Artists each year. This year's ceremony took place at the 71st World Science Fiction convention, LoneStarCon 3, in San Antonio, TX, August 29th–September 2nd. Congratulations to all the nominees and winners!
Winners in each category are listed in bold:
Best Cover Illustration: Paperback Book
- Winner: John Picacio: The Creative Fire by Brenda Cooper, Pyr, November 2012
- Dehong He: Lance of Earth and Sky by Erin Hoffman, Pyr, April 2012
- Todd Lockwood: The Dusk Watchman by Tom Lloyd, Pyr, August 2012
- John Jude Palencar: The Palencar Project edited by David G. Hartwell, Tor ebook, February 2012
- Elena Vizerskaya: Flying in the Heart of the Lafayette Escadrille by James Van Pelt, Fairwood Press, November 2012
Best Cover Illustration: Hardback Book
- Winner: Todd Lockwood: The Wild Road by Jennifer Roberson, DAW, September 2012
- J.K. Drummond: Deadhouse Gates by Steven Erikson, Subterranean Press, March 2012
- Bob Eggleton: Gods of Opar by Philip José Farmer & Christopher Paul Carey, Subterranean Press, June 2012
- Donato Giancola: Range of Ghosts by Elizabeth Bear, Tor, March 2012
- John Picacio: Hyperion by Dan Simmons, Subterranean Press, April 2012
- Sam Weber: Quantum Coin by E. C. Myers, Pyr, October 2012
Best Cover Illustration: Magazine
- Winner: Ken Barthelmey: Clarkesworld #74 November 2012
- Julie Dillon: Clarkesworld #73 October 2012
- Bob Eggleton: Famous Masters of Filmland #262 July/August 2012
- Martin Faragasso: Clarkesworld #71 August 2012
- David Palumbo: Creepy #9 Dark Horse, July 2012
- Craig J. Spearing: Dragon #418 December 2012
Best Interior Illustration
- Winner: Sam Burley: "Brother. Prince. Snake." by Cecil Castellucci, Tor.com, July 2012
- Brom: Krampus by Brom Harper, Voyager, Oct. 2012
- J. K. Drummond: Deadhouse Gates by Steven Erikson, Subterranean Press, Mar. 2012
- Bob Eggleton: Tarzan of the Apes by Edgar Rice Burroughs, MBI/Easton Press, Dec. 2012
- William O'Connor: Dracopedia The Great Dragons: An Artist's Field Guide and Drawing Journal by William O'Connor, Impact, June 2012
Best Monochrome: Unpublished
- Winner: Raoul Vitale: "Last of His Kind," pencil
- Larry Elmore: "By the River," oil
- Travis Lewis: "Deep," oil & mixed media
- Jo?o Ruas "Sides," graphite
- Allen Williams: "Fawn," graphite
Best Color Work: Unpublished
- Winner: Julie Bell: "A Passion for the Future," oil
- Donato Giancola: "Joan of Arc," oil
- Lucas Graciano: "Guardianship," oil
- Michael C. Hayes: "Procession," oil
- Mark Poole: "Waiting on a Memory," oil
- Soutchay Sougpradith: "Peacock Prophecy," oil
- Raoul Vitale: "Safe," oil
Best Three-Dimensional Art
- Winner: James Shoop: "Ramautar," bronze
- Dan Chudzinski: "Gus Gets a Jetpack," mixed
- Michael Defeo: "Octopus," resin
- David Meng: "Sashimi," mixed
- Michael Parkes: "Startled Sky Nymph," half life-size bronze
- Vincent Villafranca: "Spaceman on the Verge," bronze
- Cindy Wynn: "Alien Chair," steel
Best Gaming-Related Illustration
- Winner: David Palumbo: "Ereshkigal, Death Mistress" ("Legend of the Cryptids") Applibot Inc., April 2012
- Lucas Graciano: "Dragon Swarm" (Pathfinder Campaign Setting: Artifacts & Legends) Paizo, October 2012
- D. Alexander Gregory: "Chandra the Firebrand" (2013 Core Set Magic card) WotC, July 2012
- James Ryman: "Princess of the Underworld," ("Legend of the Cryptids") Applibot Inc., April 2012
- Sverlin Velinov: "Thundermaw Hellkite" (2013 Core Set Magic card) Wizards of the Coast, July 2012
Best Product Illustration
- Winner: John Picacio: La Sirena Loteria card 2012
- Jim Burns: "The Wanderers" (IlluXCon 5 promotional art) Munchkin Press, November 2012
- Dan Dos Santos: "The Dragon Empress" (Dragon*Con promotional poster) August, 2012
- John Harris: "The Search" (Illuxcon 5 promotional art) Munchkin Press, Nov. 2012
- Iain McCaig: Concept and character design for John Carter, Disney, March 2012
Best Art Director
- Winner: Irene Gallo for Tor
- Lou Anders for Pyr Books
- Lauren Panepinto for Orbit Books
- William Schafer for Subterranean Press
- Jon Schindehette for Wizards of the Coast
Award for Lifetime Artistic Achievement
- Winner: Brom
- Larry Elmore
- David Hardy
- John Harris
- Gary Lippincott


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Deploy and activate Adobe Muse in an enterprise
Adobe Muse is no longer adding new features and will discontinue support on March 26, 2020. For detailed information and assistance, see Adobe Muse end-of-service FAQ.
Package, deploy, and activate Adobe Muse
Adobe Muse is available as part of the Creative Cloud Team, as well as Creative Cloud for Enterprise (CCE and EEA) offerings. You can deploy Adobe Muse in a managed environment easily using the Creative Cloud Packager.
With the introduction of Creative Cloud Packager version 1.5, the packaging and deployment workflow of Adobe Muse for Team and Enterprise users has been further streamlined. It does not require the provisioning workflow anymore.
Please see the Creating or editing packages article for help with creating a package for deployment using the Creative Cloud Enterprise serial number.
Muse for Enterprise users no longer requires a separate serial number and is serialized using the Creative Cloud Enterprise serial number following the above process.
Launch Adobe Muse after activation
Once the commands above have completed successfully, activate Adobe Muse with the Adobe Muse serial number and launch it as a subscribed version using any and all valid Adobe IDs (with or without subscription associated with the same). Follow the below steps to launch and use Adobe Muse after activation:
- Launch Adobe Muse.
- At the Welcome Screen, choose the first option Sign In to An Existing subscription.
- Enter any existing valid Adobe ID and its associated password. Or, create an Adobe ID and sign in.
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Muse requires a valid Adobe ID in order to link to the Adobe Fonts and Business Catalyst services, which are tightly integrated with Muse. It does not use the Adobe ID to validate subscription or ownership of license, but it checks the Adobe servers to verify that the Adobe ID entered exists and can be safely linked to Adobe Fonts and Business Catalyst services.
Optionally, signing into the Creative Cloud grants access to publishing a trial site under the Business Catalyst hosting platform.
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Accounting and Financial Reporting for Pensions
Background and Core PrinciplesStatement No. 68, Accounting and Financial Reporting for Pensions, revises and establishes new financial reporting requirements for most state and local governments that provide their employees with pension benefits.
Statement 68 replaces the requirements of Statement No. 27, Accounting for Pensions by State and Local Governmental Employers and Statement No. 50, Pension Disclosures, as they relate to governments that provide pensions through pension plans administered as trusts or similar arrangements that meet certain criteria.
Statement 68 requires governments providing defined benefit pensions to recognize their long-term obligation for pension benefits as a liability for the first time, and to more comprehensively and comparably measure the annual costs of pension benefits.
The Statement also enhances accountability and transparency through revised and new note disclosures and required supplementary information (RSI).


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By Naveed Ahmad
July 18, 2017, the CACI Analyst
The Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) summit admitted India and Pakistan as full members on June 9; and now represents 40 percent of the human population and 20 percent of the global GDP. Russia and China have traditionally used the forum to promote a collective approach to countering NATO policies and advances. Though originally instituted to address separatism, terrorism and drug trafficking, the admission of India and Pakistan may drastically change the character of the grouping. China and Pakistan differ with India on key issues that the SCO aims to achieve. The trio has bitter geographical disputes while differing over the definition of terrorism. Against this backdrop, what kind of challenge can the SCO pose to NATO?
By Sudha Ramachandran
February 9, 2017, the CACI Analyst
Pakistan's government has set March 31 as the deadline for all Afghan refugees living on its soil to leave the country or face deportation. Although it is not a signatory to the 1951 Refugee Convention or the 1967 Protocol, Pakistan has been a generous host to Afghan refugees, hosting up to 5 million Afghans at a time. Neither did Pakistan force them in the past to return to Afghanistan. This seems to have changed. For many refugees, returning to Afghanistan will not be a happy homecoming as the security and economic situation in the country remain dire.
By Franz J. Marty
February 3, 2017, the CACI Analyst
Overwhelming evidence – photographs, an eyewitness account and several confirming statements of diplomats and observers, among them a Chinese official familiar with the matter – leaves virtually no doubt that Chinese troops have undertaken joint patrols with their Afghan (and possibly also Tajik) counterparts on Afghan soil in the Little Pamir, a high plateau near the Afghan-Chinese border. While the Chinese source insists that such joint border patrols were based on an agreement, and therefore legal, the Afghan government steadfastly denies the existence of such patrols.
By Stephen Blank
January 16th, 2017, The CACI Analyst
Recent evidence shows a gradual increase in Chinese military activity in Central Asia, particularly with Tajikistan, Afghanistan, and Pakistan, although China has for years denied any military interest in the region. In October, PLA and Tajik forces jointly participated in counterterrorism exercises in Tajikistan near the border with Afghanistan, following earlier activity in 2016. Whereas Tajikistan was then silent, this time it publicized the exercises, which aroused a visible anxiety in the Russian media although the Russian government has hitherto been unwilling to comment on this issue. China's initiative could imply a major new development in Chinese policy and in Central Asia's overall security, with lasting implications for the region.
By Sudha Ramachandran
December 15th, 2016, The CACI Analyst
India-Afghanistan relations have warmed considerably in recent months. During Afghan President Ashraf Ghani's visit to Delhi in mid-September, the two countries deepened their defense and security co-operation and signed an extradition treaty. India also pledged US$ 1 billion towards capacity building in Afghanistan. A few days later, when the Lashkar-e-Taiba, a terrorist group with close links to Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), attacked an Indian Army base at Uri in Jammu and Kashmir, Afghanistan came out strongly in support of India. The renewed Delhi-Kabul bonding is likely to have stirred Islamabad's anxieties. ISI and its terrorist protégés could step up attacks in Afghanistan and India in the coming months.
The Central Asia-Caucasus Analyst is a biweekly publication of the Central Asia-Caucasus Institute & Silk Road Studies Program, a Joint Transatlantic Research and Policy Center affiliated with the American Foreign Policy Council, Washington DC., and the Institute for Security and Development Policy, Stockholm. For 15 years, the Analyst has brought cutting edge analysis of the region geared toward a practitioner audience.


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Focus - Biomass Conservation
In terms of biomass protection and conservation, it will be crucial to guarantee and increase current production yields. This can be achieved, for example, by protecting the plants from stress factors. At the same time, the agricultural impacts on ecosystem stability have to be evaluated and effects of genetically modified organisms on the environment have to be minimized to an acceptable level through biological safety evaluations. The Biology Department with its existing expertises will concentrate on protection of biomass yields under stress conditions and minimization of effects on ecosystems. Many of the topics will be approached within institutional cooperations with external research partners (e.g. within the Bioeconomy Science Center) to cover the entire breath of this research field.
Research Topics and Research Groups:
Biotic and Abiotic Stresses
Environmental risk assessment / Minimizing ecosystem impact


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April 26 Photo Brief: 27th anniversary of Chernobyl disaster, anger on streets of Bangladesh, U.S.-South Korea military exercise
The 27th anniversary of the Chernobyl disaster, anger on the streets of Bangladesh after building collapse, U.S.-South Korea military exercise and more in today's daily brief.
Anger on streets as Bangladesh building toll passes 300
Ruma Paul and Serajul Quadir | Reuters
8:45 a.m. EDT, April 26, 2013
DHAKA (Reuters) – Bangladesh textile workers vented their anger on Friday, burning cars and clashing with police, as the death toll passed 300 following the collapse of a building housing factories that made low-cost garments for Western brands.
Miraculously rescuers were still pulling people alive from the rubble – 72 since daybreak following 41 found in the same room overnight – two days after the eight-storey building collapsed on the outskirts of the capital, Dhaka.
But there were fears that hundreds of people were still trapped in the wreckage of the building, which officials said had been built illegally without the correct building permits.
"Some people are still alive under the rubble and we are hoping to rescue them," said deputy fire services director Mizanur Rahman.
A spokesman for Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina said she had ordered the arrest of the owners of the building and of the five factories that occupied it.
Army spokesman Shahinur Islam said the death toll had reached 304 and H. T. Imam, an adviser to the prime minister, said it could exceed 350.
Anger over the working conditions of Bangladesh's 3.6 million garment workers, the overwhelming majority of them women, has grown steadily since the disaster, with thousands taking to the streets to protest on Friday.
About 2,350 people have been rescued, at least half of them injured, from the remains of the building in the commercial suburb of Savar, about 30 km (20 miles) from Dhaka.
An industry official has said 3,122 people, most of them female garment workers, had been in the Rana Plaza building despite warnings that it was structurally unsafe.
Emdadul Islam, chief engineer of state run Capital Development Authority (CDA), said that the owner of the building had not received the proper building consent, obtaining a permit for a five-storey building from the local municipality, which did not have the authority to grant it.
"Only CDA can give such approval," he said. "We are trying to get the original design from the municipality, but since the concerned official is in hiding we cannot get it readily."
Furthermore, another three storeys had been added illegally, he said. "Savar is not an industrial zone, and for that no factory can be housed in Rana Plaza," Islam told Reuters.
Bangladesh is the second-largest exporter of garments in the world but many factories remained closed for a second day on Friday, with garment workers protesting against poor conditions and demanding the owners of the building and the factories it housed face harsh punishment.
Police and witnesses said protesters set fire to a number of vehicles and damaged other garment factories.
Dhaka District police chief Habibur Rahman identified the owner of the Rana Plaza building as Mohammed Sohel Rana, a leader of the ruling Awami League's youth front.
Imam, the prime minister's adviser, said Rana had "vanished into thin air".
"People are asking for his head, which is quite natural. This time we are not going to spare anybody," Imam said.
Wednesday's collapse was the third major industrial incident in five months in Bangladesh. In November, a fire at the Tazreen Fashion factory on the outskirts of Dhaka killed 112 people.
"This incident is devastating for us as we haven't recovered from the shock of Tazreen fire yet," said Finance Minister Abul Maal Abdul Muhith, who visited the site on Friday.
Such incidents have raised serious questions about worker safety and low wages in Bangladesh and could taint the poor South Asian country's reputation as a producer of low-cost products and services.
North American and European chains, including British retailer Primark and Canada's Loblaw, said they were supplied by factories in the Rana Plaza building.
Mohammad Atiqul Islam, president of the Bangladesh Garment Manufacturers and Exporters Association (BGMEA), said the proprietors of the five factories inside the building had ignored the association's warning not to open on Wednesday after cracks had been seen in the building the day before.
"We asked not to open the factories and told them we will send our engineer, and until you get the green signal don't open the factories," Islam told Reuters.
"But, unfortunately, they violated our instructions," he said. A bank in the building did close on Wednesday after the warning.
Savar residents and rescuers dropped bottled water and food on Thursday night to people who called out from between floors. Nearby, relatives identified their dead among dozens of corpses wrapped in cloth on the veranda of a school.
Special prayers were offered for the dead, injured and missing at mosques, temples and pagodas across Bangladesh on Friday.
Ten labor groups called for a strike on Sunday by workers at garment factories across the country.
Sixty percent of Bangladesh's garment exports go to Europe. The United States takes 23 percent and Canada takes 5 percent.
Primark and Loblaw, as well as PWT, a Danish company whose Texman brand clothes were also made in factories at Rana Plaza, operate under codes of conduct aimed at ensuring products are made in good working conditions.
The largest factory, New Wave Style, which listed many European and North American retailers as its customers, occupied the sixth and seventh floors, documents seen by Reuters showed.
(Additional reporting by Anis Ahmed in Dhaka, John Chalmers in New Delhi, Jessica Wohl and Nivedita Bhattacharjee in Chicago, Solarina Ho in Toronto, Robert Hertz in Madrid and Mette Kronholm Fraende in Copenhagen; Writing by Paul Tait; Editing by Alex Richardson)


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Sunday, November 4, 2012
Greetings From Sandy
Thanks so much! Hope to be back online by next weekend. xoxo
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Sending lots of prayers, good wishes and good vibes, too. Tucking in some love as well. Be of good courage.ReplyDelete
Take care, my heart and prayers are with you. Hope to see you on line soon, Hugs MaryReplyDelete
Glad you are ok. Hope you get your generator running soon. The pictures showing the destruction from Sandy are awful. We were without power for 13 days after Wilma hit us in 2005. We really appreciated the power companies from different states who came to get our power back on. May you soon be hooked back up to the main grid.ReplyDelete
Love, hugs and prayers for you ~ FlowerLady
oh, don't you spend 1 tiny second thinking about us! you just stay safe, dry & warm!!! so, glad you didn't get the worst of it! the Air Force flew about 300 so. cal. edison workers & equipment in to help and the L.A. dept. of water & power is having them drive their trucks & equipment all the way there...hope some of that helps you out VERY soon!!! hang in there!ReplyDelete
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So happy to know you are safe and sound. Hang in there; I know for sure that Louisiana has sent trucks and supplies your way, and I know other states have as well. Godspeed!ReplyDelete
Goodness! Thinking of you all over there from across the pond! Take good care of yourselves and each other! Big love xxxxReplyDelete
Don't even think about posting this week. Take care of yourself. My heart goes out to those that have lost so much. I just can't imagine - I get upset just watching the news.ReplyDelete
What a terrible storm! I am so sorry for all of you who suffered and lost so much. Thinking of you all and sending my best wishes!ReplyDelete
So inspiring to hear that you are counting your blessings and will soon have power, Mary. My dear home state has been devastated and it's so sad to see on the news.ReplyDelete
I have been praying for everyone but I will be specific in my prayers for you and your family. Bless you, my friend. Hugs, DianeReplyDelete
Mary, sending my thought and prayers to all the victims of Hurricane Sandy! I am glad you are Ok and hopefully will be back to normal soon.ReplyDelete
I'm joining my prayers with the 11 other precious ladies in the Land of Blog on your behalf!!! Praise God that you are safe...now let's get things back to where they need to be...on your behalf!!!May your week be blessed with returning power and water!!!
Sending you prayers, Mary. I wondered how you were doing. We were luckier up here in upstate NY. Here's to power, energy, light and warmth. Stay safe.ReplyDelete
I'm sorry to hear that you were affected by Sandy. Several of my family members lost everything in the Alabama tornado April 2011. My brother-in-law also lived in New Orleans during Katrina. It was devastating to see the destruction in Tuscaloosa, so I can imagine what you all are experiencing right now. The suffering is weighing heavy on my heart. Hopefully you all will have power soon.ReplyDelete
You've got my thoughts and prayers!...:)JPReplyDelete
You are in my prayers!
Prayers for your family and all those afflicted by Sandy.Hope you get your power soon.ReplyDelete
Take care,
Wishing you good luck with clean up & repair!ReplyDelete
Mary, hop over to see the post I did today about Sandy, and be sure to read Francine's comment. Sending love & lots of help from the Texas coast, where we completely understand and relate.ReplyDelete
Sending good thoughts your way!ReplyDelete
Praying for all of you who were in (and still in) harms way...ReplyDelete
We are all with you and pray for well being.ReplyDelete
I hope you are safe and well. I too am sending my thoughts and prayers to you and everyone who was in Sandy's path.ReplyDelete
I hope your home hasn't been too badly devastated. I can't even begin to imagine what it must be like. Take care and stay safe, and I hope all is restored very soon.
Praying for all of you The devastation is unbelieveable. It is so hard not having power. I hope the generator gets to working for you. I know they don't do alot but just some heat and a little electric would seem like heaven. (((((HUGS))))))ReplyDelete
Keeping you and all in Sandy's wake in my thoughts and prayers!!!! CathyReplyDelete
Best wishes from northern NY.. we're thinking of you all..ReplyDelete
Thinking of you, hoping you will have power restored soon.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousNovember 4, 2012 at 8:32 PM
You have my prayers and thoughts, too. It is unbelievable, the devastation.ReplyDelete
OMG, so glad you were able to post something!! So worried about you all week! Prayers and best wishes headed your way, hang in there!!ReplyDelete
We have been worried about you in NJ...so glad you and yours are ok.ReplyDelete
You have been often in my thoughts Mary. I'm glad your little house is still intact but I can't imagine how devastating this is for your state. Sending prayers and thoughts your way...ReplyDelete
- AnonymousNovember 4, 2012 at 9:10 PM
Oh, Mary! You and your family and community are in my prayers! Keep safe and we'll all be here when things are better.ReplyDelete
Shelia ;)
I'm glad you're safe and only lacking Internet. Hope to see you back here soon!ReplyDelete
Glad to hear you are ok! We in coastal Maryland feel so fortunate to have been spared by much of Sandy's wrath. I hope things can slowly get back to normal for you and all those affected.ReplyDelete
I am thinking of you and all my family in my home state. Take care! KitReplyDelete
Sending lots of prayers Mary. My heart goes out to all of those who have the painful destruction of Sandy.ReplyDelete
Hello MaryReplyDelete
All New Zealanders have sent love and prayers to everyone effected by Hurricane Sandy.
My goodness, I can't imagine how frightening and devastating it must be.
We live in a temperate climate so don't suffer from extremes as you do.
However, we are on the earthquake line and have had some terrible devastation over the past two years in Christchurch our third largest city.
I was linking my blog post to your Mosaic Monday and Judith from Lavender Cottage very kindly told me it was cancelled this week.
Take care Mary
thinking of you all and I hope power is restored soon.
Encouraging hugs
Shane - far, far away in New Zealand on the other side of the world!!!!!!!
Prayers are headed your way, my dear friend!ReplyDelete
Dear MaryReplyDelete
Sending all best wishes from Normandy. I hope that your power supply is back up & running soon so that you and your family are safe and warm once more.
My heart goes out to the many thousands of families affected by this horrendous event.
All my best wishes and prayers ... Greetings from Germany.ReplyDelete
Hope your power is on soon. Best wishes and prayers to you ...ReplyDelete
Hopefully everything will be alright soon Mary.My best wishesReplyDelete
I am thankful you are OK, Mary. Lots of prayers for you, your family and neighbors. Stay safe and hope all goes well. Lots of HUGS!!!ReplyDelete
Lots of prayers for you, your family and neighbors. best wishes en lots of hugsReplyDelete
I am so happy to hear that you are safe and sound...hope you have power soon:)ReplyDelete
Glad to hear you all are safe, prayers for continued recovery to all those so deeply effected.ReplyDelete
Big hugs from Romania! I am really glad that you are ok.ReplyDelete
So glad to know your safe Mary!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousNovember 11, 2012 at 6:37 PM
I do hope things are getting better for you!ReplyDelete
Still praying, Mary...ReplyDelete
Mary, I feel so bad...I just came to check to see if you all are up and running and the comment that I left last week, is not on here. I have wondered in the past, if you receive my comments and now, I am most concerned. I leave them every week. My prayers are that you all are doing so much better and that your state is improving on gaining your way back. So very tragic all of the newsfeed we have been hearing. My blessings to you~ReplyDelete
Doesn't it make you feel wonderful when others care? it does wonders for me!!!...:)JPReplyDelete


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"Lighthouses don't go running all over an island looking for boats to save; they just stand there shining." - Anne Lamott
Lighthouses have been a source of fascination for people for many years, and we here in Virginia are lucky to have some of these beautiful structures decorate our coasts. They stand with silent strength, with few frills or ornamentation, and yet the light that shines from them cannot go unnoticed. For many years, these lighthouses kept ships from crashing to shore, ensuring safety to the crew aboard the vessels. Now these structures are sources of history and, as always, symbolic representations of hope and guidance. And, of course, they are a wonderful destination for those on a Virginia vacation.
The lighthouses of Virginia include the Old Cape Henry Lighthouse, built in 1792, the Assateague Lighthouse, built in 1833, the Old Point Comfort Lighthouse, built in 1802, and the New Point Comfort Lighthouse, commissioned by Thomas Jefferson in 1804. As you can imagine, each of these lighthouses possesses a deep history, having survived battles and skirmishes and years of being weathered by ocean waves.
If you're planning to visit one of these lighthouses, be sure to check out their schedules. Some allow tours during most of the years, but others have set times that the outside public is allowed to see the inside. (Also, toughen up those leg muscles if you plan to climb up the inside of the lighthouse. Those stairs give you a good workout!) Be sure to check out our list of bed and breakfasts to find the perfect inn for you to relax at during your trip to visit the lighthouses.[caption id="attachment_380" align="aligncenter" width="300"] © 2011 http://www.virginia.org/lighthouses/[/caption] [caption id="attachment_381" align="aligncenter" width="197"] © 2011 http://www.virginia.org/lighthouses/[/caption] [caption id="attachment_382" align="aligncenter" width="300"] © 2011 http://www.virginia.org/lighthouses/[/caption]
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Control of Heart Risks May Vary Among Outpatient Practices
Comparison of 18 offices finds wide range of success in tackling smoking, cholesterol, blood pressure
Friday, May 17, 2013
Researchers found that among 18 primary care and cardiology practices studied, the percentage of patients screened for smoking and counseled on how to quit ranged from about 54 percent to 86 percent. The study authors suggested outpatient practices can learn from one another and improve the prevention and management of disease.
"It's eye-opening for practices to see how much better or worse they're doing than their peers on nationally derived measures of quality. They can learn to improve in collaboration with others instead of alone," the study's lead author, Dr. Zubin Eapen, an assistant professor of medicine at Duke University in Durham, N.C., said in an American Heart Association news release.
In conducting the study, the researchers analyzed and compared the medical records of nearly 116,000 patients. The outpatient practices included in the study were involved in a collaboration of the American Cancer Society, American Diabetes Association and American Heart Association, known as The Guideline Advantage.
The study also revealed that the percentage of people whose high blood pressure was under control ranged from just under 59 percent to 75 percent among the practices. In addition, the percentage of patients with diabetes who had their "bad" (LDL) cholesterol under control ranged from nearly 54 percent to 100 percent.
"Previously, we've focused on improving the quality of inpatient hospital care and haven't explored enough how to improve outpatient care," Eapen concluded. "This baseline snapshot lets us see just how much progress could be made in preventing or managing diseases."
The study findings were scheduled for presentation Friday at the American Heart Association meeting in Baltimore. The data and conclusions of research presented at medical meetings should be viewed as preliminary until published in a peer-reviewed journal.
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Professor Ellen Tuchman's addition to the cross-disciplinary team ensures that social work students will be formally trained in the field of clinical substance abuse research.
NYU Silver School of Social Work Associate Professor Ellen Tuchman has joined New York University's Substance Abuse Research Education and Training (SARET) program, a 10-year, $2.8-million education project funded by the National Institute on Drug Abuse of the National Institutes of Health.
Based at NYU's School of Medicine, Professor Marc Gourevitch, chairman of the medical school's Department of Health, is the project's principal investigator, and Tuchman will join in the role of co-investigator as SARET now enters its sixth year.
An interdisciplinary collaboration that also includes the NYU College of Nursing and NYU College of Dentistry, SARET educates health professional students about addiction and the fundamentals of clinical research. The program exposes graduate students to the field of substance abuse early in their education in an effort to encourage and prepare them for careers in clinically oriented substance abuse research. Tuchman's addition to the team will ensure that social work students will be formally trained in the field of clinical substance abuse research.
In the sixth year of the NIDA/NIH grant, the SARET team will work to expand the program to social work students and create a pilot program that disseminates the curriculum to other health professional schools across the country. The program uses learner-directed, web-based learning modules hosted by NYU faculty. A subset of students participates in a summer-long program centered on an intensive substance abuse-related research experience paired with faculty mentors engaged in this area of research.
"Social work has been deeply involved in the clinical care of substance abusers and their families; however, substance abuse-related research conducted by and for social workers is limited in quantity and impact," said Tuchman. "The NIH Roadmap emphasizes the need to train an interdisciplinary workforce, drawn from the fields that treat people dealing with substance abuse. The Silver School of Social Work is now taking up this research training challenge."
Tuchman's program of NIH-funded research is focused on two interrelated areas: 1) the feasibility of expanded access to methadone treatment through existing primary care health settings and 2) the health, mental health, and HIV risk-taking behavior of opiate dependent women in methadone treatment and other harm reduction programs. Her current research focuses on women's self- vs. partner-injecting drug practices and HIV risk. Tuchman's long-term goal is to develop effective integrated health, mental health, and HIV risk reduction interventions for intravenous drug injecting women. Additional research interests include gender differences in substance abuse treatment, intervention research, and evidence-based mental health practice.


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HealthCare.gov Is Secure, Says CMS Official Who Voiced Early Concerns
The Obamacare marketplace underwent end-to-end security testing in mid-December
A top information security officer at the Health and Human Services Department who expressed concern about HealthCare.gov before its Oct. 1 launch told lawmakers on Thursday she's now convinced the site meets all government security requirements.
That endorsement is based on end-to-end security testing the Obama administration's online health insurance marketplace underwent in mid-December, Teresa Fryer, chief information security officer at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, told members of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee.
Fryer wrote but never sent one of the key documents in the case made by Oversight Chairman Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., that HealthCare.gov contained security gaps upon launch that may still remain and could allow hackers to access the personal information of health insurance seekers.
Fryer never completed or sent that memo for two reasons, she told lawmakers on Thursday. First, she felt consumer data was less vulnerable after a series of mitigation strategies for a possible hack were introduced. Also, the responsibility for signing HealthCare.gov'
If asked to sign an ATO for HealthCare.gov now, Fryer said, she could confidently do so.
Despite Fryer's testimony, Issa maintained that the lack of end-to-end testing before HealthCare.gov launched may have left security vulnerabilities that endangered site visitors. He says the administration should have delayed the launch date.
That lack of testing and the drive to launch the site on schedule have been cited as factors in the website's early dismal performance, which prevented most users from enrolling in insurance plans for the first several weeks and frustrated users through the end of November.
"For many Americans, myself included, it seems to defy common sense that a website plagued with functional problems was in fact perfectly secure by design," Issa said.
HHS officials have maintained that, despite early performance problems, HealthCare.gov meets the government's information security requirements. There have been no successful breaches of the site by malicious third parties, officials testified on Thursday, but they acknowledged at least 13 early instances in which the site accidentally made citizens' personal information available to other citizens.
Following HealthCare.gov's troubled launch, Issa subpoenaed documents from contractors on the project, which he says demonstrate security vulnerabilities were not adequately addressed.
Oversight's ranking member Rep. Elijah Cummings, D-Md., who has also reviewed the documents, says those charges are overblown. He accused Issa on Thursday of "cherry picking" sentences from the documents to "promote a political narrative that's inaccurate."
Cummings and other Democrats have charged that Issa's true aim is to depress enrollment in Obamacare so that the program is more likely to fail.
The White House hopes to have 7 million people enrolled in new insurance plans through HealthCare.gov and state-based marketplaces by the end of March, a goal that was hurt by two months of low enrollment while HealthCare.gov was plagued by glitches and undergoing repairs. If the White House falls well beneath its enrollment goal that could raise the level of risk in insurance pools, bringing buyers' premiums up to unaffordable levels.
Democrats have also charged that by consulting with non-government experts on the subpoenaed HealthCare.gov documents, Issa could raise the risk those documents will fall into hackers' hands and give them a roadmap into the site. Issa shot back at those charges on Thursday, saying his staff has handled the documents securely at all times.
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Online Museum
Loan Policy and how to visit
Collection Rules (available in both NL or FR)
Management of the collections
When loaned collections are returned or when new ones are added, the specimens undergo treatment (eg. low temperature freezing). "Orphaned collections" are examined and assigned to a collection manager and are given a place in the collection.


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With Steamworks' new CEG technology preparing to make DRM obsolete, Stardock has unveiled their own three-letter acronym answer to digital rights management: Goo.
What is Goo? Goo stands for Game Object Obfuscation. What it does is allow game publishers to encapsulate their game's executable file together with Stardock's Impulse Reactor virtual platform in a single encrypted file. When the player starts the game for the first time they enter their email address and serial number and that's it. The game is tied to that person, as opposed to being locked to any one piece of hardware.
How does this help?
For one, it allows players to validate their game on any service that supports that particular title. It also allows players to resell their PC games, as they'll be able to voluntarily deassign the game, allowing someone else to sign up with their email and the serial number. In effect, you actually have a product with real value outside of your computer.
"One of our primary goals for Impulse Reactor is to create a solution that will appeal to game developers while adhering to the Gamers Bill of Rights," said Brad Wardell, president & CEO of Stardock. "Publishers want to be able to sell their games in as many channels as possible but don't want to have to implement a half-dozen 'copy protection' schemes. Game Object Obfuscation lets the developer have a single game build that can be distributed everywhere while letting gamers potentially be able to re-download their game later from any digital service. Plus, it finally makes possible a way for gamers and publishers to transfer game licenses to players in a secure and reliable fashion."
Stardock will launch Goo on April 7th as part of the phase 3 release of their Impulse digital delivery platform. They expect to announce publishers taking advantage of the Goo technology next month.


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Beware The Weekend Binge
A week's worth of progress toward a body weight goal can easily be reversed over the weekend.
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Dieters often dread the Monday weigh-in. On any other day they look forward to stepping on the bathroom scale in the morning. But Mondays are different. All too typically, Monday's number is larger than Friday's. A week's worth of progress toward their body weight goal has been reversed over the weekend.
Studies confirm what dieters experience. A 2008 study by researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis found that men and women on a one-year weight-loss program lost weight during the workweek but not on weekends because they binged. While they succeeded in losing 8 percent of their body weight on average by the end of the year, it was estimated they would have lost almost twice as much weight if they had eaten consistently seven days a week.
The problem is not that we tend to eat more of the same foods on the weekends. Rather, we indulge in foods and drinks that we don't consume during the week: buttered popcorn at the movie theater, a couple of cocktails with a heavy restaurant dinner, and so forth.
What makes triathletes different from dieters is that triathletes do a lot of exercise, and typically do the most exercise on Saturday and Sunday. Because they burn the most calories on the weekend, triathletes often assume it's OK for them to relax their normal dietary standards and eat whatever they feel like having. The catch is that it's all too easy to overcompensate.
Suppose you normally work out for 45 minutes on Wednesdays and 75 minutes on Saturdays. Those extra 30 minutes of swimming, cycling or running will burn an extra 400 calories, or thereabouts. Now suppose you reward yourself with a bowl of ice cream after lunch and two glasses of wine with dinner. Those indulges will add about 600 calories to your normal intake. Not good.
How can you avoid letting weekends sabotage your effort to attain your optimal racing weight? Two ways.
Be Aware
Weight management is a numbers game. To lose weight, you need to take in fewer calories than your body burns each day. And to do that, it's helpful to know how many calories you're consuming and burning. Next weekend, use online food calorie resources such as Calorieking.com and online calorie burn calculators such as Caloriesperhour.com to determine if you are in fact taking in more calories than you're burning over the weekend. If you are, make some adjusts to your food choices to put the totals in a more favorable balance.
Spread Out Your Treats
It's not that you can't have the occasional treat such as a bowl of ice cream or a glass of wine. You just need to avoid packing them all into two days of the week. Research shows that the most successful weight managers eat most consistently throughout the week. To improve your dietary consistency, follow the one-in-10 rule: Allow one of every 10 foods or beverages you consume to be whatever you want, whether it's Wednesday or Saturday.
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ESPN Sports Connection gir deg muligheten til å spille fotball, tennis, golf og andre sporter!
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ESPN Sports Connection™ is a fun new way to connect with family and friends and play the most popular sports from a new perspective. ESPN Sports Connection is being developed specifically for Nintendo's Wii™ U™ system to take full advantage of Nintendo's New Controller. Play solo, team up in co-op to experience new gameplay possibilities, or compete in multiplayer to take full advantage of Nintendo's New Controller.
- Play six of the most popular sports: soccer, football, baseball, tennis, golf, and karting.
- Touch controls. Use the New Controller to control a blitz in football to sack the quarterback or score a curled free kick in soccer!
- Play with Wii MotionPlus using real sports gestures! Swing with precision in golf or hit a home run in baseball.
- Play both on your TV and New Controller. Drive your kart to victory competing with up to five players (four split screens on your TV + the New Controller), or play solo switching anytime between the New Controller and TV!
- Get inside the action. Use the New Controller as a frame to scan and analyze the field to give insightful advice as a caddie in golf.
- Play fun mini-games. Try the Serving Machine Challenge in tennis and hit balls quickly as you challenge your friends.
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Chapter 26
"Well, Kapitonitch?" said Seryozha, coming back rosy and good- humored from his walk the day before his birthday, and giving his overcoat to the tall old hall porter, who smiled down at the little person from the height of his long figure. "Well, has the bandaged clerk been here today? Did papa see him?"
"He saw him. The minute the chief secretary came out, I announced him," said the hall porter with a good-humored wink. "Here, I'll take it off."
"Seryozha!" said the tutor, stopping in the doorway leading to the inner rooms. "Take it off yourself." But Seryozha, though he heard his tutor's feeble voice, did not pay attention to it. He stood keeping hold of the hall porter's belt, and gazing into his face.
"Well, and did papa do what he wanted for him?"
The hall porter nodded his head affirmatively. The clerk with his face tied up, who had already been seven times to ask some favor of Alexey Alexandrovitch, interested both Seryozha and the hall porter. Seryozha had come upon him in the hall, and had heard him plaintively beg the hall porter to announce him, saying that he and his children had death staring them in the face.
Since then Seryozha, having met him a second time in the hall, took great interest in him.
"Well, was he very glad?" he asked.
"Glad? I should think so! Almost dancing as he walked away."
"And has anything been left?" asked Seryozha, after a pause.
"Come, sir," said the hall-porter; then with a shake of his head he whispered, "Something from the countess."
Seryozha understood at once that what the hall porter was speaking of was a present from Countess Lidia Ivanovna for his birthday.
"What do you say? Where?"
"Korney took it to your papa. A fine plaything it must be too!"
"How big? Like this?"
"Rather small, but a fine thing."
"A book."
"No, a thing. Run along, run along, Vassily Lukitch is calling you," said the porter, hearing the tutor's steps approaching, and carefully taking away from his belt the little hand in the glove half pulled off, he signed with his head towards the tutor.
"Vassily Lukitch, in a tiny minute!" answered Seryozha with that gay and loving smile which always won over the conscientious Vassily Lukitch.
Seryozha was too happy, everything was too delightful for him to be able to help sharing with his friend the porter the family good fortune of which he had heard during his walk in the public gardens from Lidia Ivanovna's niece. This piece of good news seemed to him particularly important from its coming at the same time with the gladness of the bandaged clerk and his own gladness at toys having come for him. It seemed to Seryozha that this was a day on which everyone ought to be glad and happy.
"You know papa's received the Alexander Nevsky today?"
"To be sure I do! People have been already to congratulate him."
"And is he glad?"
"Glad at the Tsar's gracious favor! I should think so! It's a proof he's deserved it," said the porter severely and seriously.
Seryozha fell to dreaming, gazing up at the face of the porter, which he had thoroughly studied in every detail, especially the chin that hung down between the gray whiskers, never seen by anyone but Seryozha, who saw him only from below.
"Well, and has your daughter been to see you lately?"
The porter's daughter was a ballet dancer.
"When is she to come on week-days? They've their lessons to learn too. And you've your lesson, sir; run along."
On coming into the room, Seryozha, instead of sitting down to his lessons, told his tutor of his supposition that what had been brought him must be a machine. "What do you think?" he inquired.
But Vassily Lukitch was thinking of nothing but the necessity of learning the grammar lesson for the teacher, who was coming at two.
"No, do just tell me, Vassily Lukitch," he asked suddenly, when he was seated at their work table with the book in his hands, "what is greater than the Alexander Nevsky? You know papa's received the Alexander Nevsky?"
Vassily Lukitch replied that the Vladimir was greater than the Alexander Nevsky.
"And higher still?"
"Well, highest of all is the Andrey Pervozvanny."
"And higher than the Andrey?"
"I don't know."
"What, you don't know?" and Seryozha, leaning on his elbows, sank into deep meditation.
His meditations were of the most complex and diverse character. He imagined his father's having suddenly been presented with both the Vladimir and the Andrey today, and in consequence being much better tempered at his lesson, and dreamed how, when he was grown up, he would himself receive all the orders, and what they might invent higher than the Andrey. Directly any higher order were invented, he would win it. They would make a higher one still, and he would immediately win that too.
The time passed in such meditations, and when the teacher came, the lesson about the adverbs of place and time and manner of action was not ready, and the teacher was not only displeased, but hurt. This touched Seryozha. He felt he was not to blame for not having learned the lesson; however much he tried, he was utterly unable to do that. As long as the teacher was explaining to him, he believed him and seemed to comprehend, but as soon as he was left alone, he was positively unable to recollect and to understand that the short and familiar word "suddenly" is an adverb of manner of action. Still he was sorry that he had disappointed the teacher.
He chose a moment when the teacher was looking in silence at the book.
"Mihail Ivanitch, when is your birthday?" he asked all, of a sudden.
"You'd much better be thinking about your work. Birthdays are of no importance to a rational being. It's a day like any other on which one has to do one's work."
Seryozha looked intently at the teacher, at his scanty beard, at his spectacles, which had slipped down below the ridge on his nose, and fell into so deep a reverie that he heard nothing of what the teacher was explaining to him. He knew that the teacher did not think what he said; he felt it from the tone in which it was said. "But why have they all agreed to speak just in the same manner always the dreariest and most useless stuff? Why does he keep me off; why doesn't he love me?" he asked himself mournfully, and could not think of an answer.
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AUTOMOTIVE INSIGHT: Ford's Focus is the Little Car that Could
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Despite what the critics predicted, the new Focus is turning out to be a big hit for Ford.
Everybody I've talked to in the design community absolutely hates the look of the new Ford Focus—including people on the Ford design staff. I've also heard all kinds of enthusiasts criticize Ford for not bringing the European version of the Focus over here.
But it's a good thing that Ford didn't listen to the critics. Sales of the new Focus are off to a great start. In fact, it's even outselling the new Chevrolet Malibu despite all the accolades that it's getting.
I think there are several things going in the Focus's favor. It's a well-recognized name, it has fresh styling (even if the critics don't like it), and the Microsoft Sync system has given it a cool factor that is bringing 'em into the showrooms.
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Julian Assange's next court appearance, on Wednesday, has nothing to do with sex or U.S. diplomatic cables or even with WikiLeaks. But it may make an important contribution to European law. The United Kingdom Supreme Court will be considering the point I raised on his behalf when a Swedish prosecutor claimed to be a "judicial authority" empowered to issue a warrant to have him extradited from Britain to prison in Stockholm. My written argument began quite bluntly: "The notion that a prosecutor is a 'judicial authority' is a contradiction in terms."
The principle is simple, at least in Anglo-American law. Judges must, as their defining quality, be independent of government. Police and prosecutors employed and promoted by the state obviously cannot be perceived as impartial if they are permitted to decide issues on the liberty of individuals. They are expected to be zealous in working up evidence against a suspect, so they are the last people who can be trusted to weigh up impartially the evidence they themselves have drummed up. That is a matter for a court.
So how comes it that in Sweden and 11 other continental countries, prosecutors and even policemen are allowed to issue a European Arrest Warrant (EAW), which has the draconian effect of requiring the arrest of people in another country and dragging them off for trial in the state that has issued the warrant?
The answer partly derives from the lack of principle in the historical development of criminal law in Europe, where for centuries prosecutors and ministers of justice have exercised powers that in the U.K. and U.S. would need judicial approval. That Napoleonic figure, the "investigating magistrate"—a judicial official who conducts a pretrial investigation—has helped to muddy the distinction between law-enforcement agencies and judges.
So when all the major European countries got together 12 years ago to devise a fast track extradition process and decided that EAWs requiring the arrest and surrender of individuals could be issued by "judicial authorities," there was some confusion about what that term meant, and whether police and prosecutors might qualify. Sweden and some other European countries thought they did, and so one of their prosecutors—not one of their courts—issued the warrant.
It will be inconvenient if Assange's appeal succeeds, because 12 European countries will have to change their extradition procedures if they want to get their hands on suspects from the U.K. But the argument from inconvenience is the classic way for civil liberties to be lost.
The principle of judicial independence is especially important in the Assange case, where an allegation of what Swedes describe as "minor rape"—another contradiction in terms—was dismissed by a very experienced Stockholm prosecutor. It was later revived, in an unfair process from which Mr. Assange was excluded, by another prosecutor with a gender agenda who was given to issuing self-promoting press statements and withholding exculpatory evidence. Hence the argument that she was an inappropriate personage to take what should have been an impartial decision about whether an EAW should issue against her quarry, in order to interrogate him in Sweden, or whether he should simply be interviewed, as he offered, by video link from London.
The Supreme Court could reject his appeal on the ground that "judicial authority" has a wider meaning in European than in English law. Even a ruling in Assange's favor would not prevent Sweden from extraditing him eventually, but it would have to change its procedures and then have his EAW issued by a court. The current position, that anyone in the U.K. can be arrested, deported, denied bail, and then tried in secret—the procedure for dealing with sex-crime charges in Sweden—all on the say-so of a prejudiced foreign prosecutor, could strike some judges as oppressive.


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LONDON — Starbucks bowed to mounting pressure over its tax affairs in Britain and revealed Thursday that it would pay about $16 million in each of the next two years.
Having been slammed by the country's lawmakers of "immorally" avoiding tax, Starbucks' U.K. managing director Kris Engskov said the firm had agreed to pay more than required by law.
"With the backdrop of these difficult times, in the area of tax, our customers clearly expect us to do more," he told the London Chamber of Commerce.
The Seattle-based coffee company has 700 British outlets, but has paid just $13.8 million in corporation tax in 14 years. Starbucks Corp. says this is due to a process involving paying royalties to its European headquarters in the Netherlands.
The company hasn't done anything illegal. Companies operating in Europe can base themselves in any of the 27 European Union nations, allowing them to take advantage of a particular country's low tax rates.
Earlier this week, Parliament's Public Accounts Committee criticized multinationals such as Starbucks, Amazon and Google for "using the letter of tax laws both nationally and internationally to immorally minimize their tax obligations."
Starbucks, which also has been the target of demonstrations by the protest group U.K. Uncut, announced this week that it was reviewing its tax approach.
Engskov said the company was proposing "to pay a significant amount of corporation tax during 2013 and 2014 regardless of whether our company is profitable during these years."
He estimated that would amount to "somewhere in the range of 10 million pounds in each of the next two years."
Labour lawmaker Margaret Hodge, who chaired the parliamentary committee, said Starbucks' change of heart was proof that "people power works."
Earlier this week, U.K. Treasury chief George Osborne earmarked an $124 million to clamp down on "offshore evasion and avoidance by wealthy individuals and by multinationals."
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Angels lose 6-2 at Texas for season-ending sweep
When Josh Hamilton went to the plate for the final time in his first season with the Los Angeles Angels, the slugger was serenaded by the fans of his former team that still has a chance to get in the playoffs.
There were repeated chants of ''Baseball Town!,'' a reference to comments the slugger made after leaving the Texas Rangers about the Dallas-Fort Worth market being a football town. As he got close to the dugout after he flew out in the ninth inning of the Angels' season-ending 6-2 loss Sunday, Hamilton tipped his helmet to the crowd.
''That was just to let them know no matter how bad they boo me or bring up things from my past, I still love them,'' Hamilton said. ''There was nothing sarcastic about it.''
Hamilton had a tying RBI single for the Angels in the sixth, but the Rangers regained the lead for good on Geovany Soto's two-out RBI double in the bottom half of the inning off Jason Vargas (9-8) and won their seventh straight.
Texas (91-71), which began September with the AL West lead before a 5-15 slide, added game No. 163 to the regular season. The Rangers will host Tampa Bay on Monday night in baseball's first wild-card tiebreaker since 2007. The winner plays two days later at wild-card leader Cleveland for a berth against Boston in the division series.
The Angels (78-84) finished with a losing record for only the second time in 10 seasons after being swept in a four-game series at Texas for the first time since June 1978.
''You have to tip your cap to those guys. They played well and stayed alive. Our guys played as well as they could. It would have been nice to come in here and get some wins,'' manager Mike Scioscia said. ''I'm disappointed, but there's nothing to be ashamed about the way we went after them. Those guys brought their game up a notch, and we're going home.''
When the Rangers started their game, Tampa Bay already led 7-0 at Toronto. Then Mike Trout homered to put the Angels up 1-0.
Trout's 27th homer was his 190th hit, making the 22-year-old only the third major leaguer since 1900 with 190 hits, 100 walks and 30 stolen bases in the same season. The others are Ty Cobb in 1915 and Lenny Dykstra in 1993.
Major league strikeout leader Yu Darvish struck out eight in 5 2-3 innings. But for the sixth time this season, and second game in a row, Darvish immediately gave up the lead a half-inning after the Rangers went ahead.
The right-hander from Japan finished with a majors-leading 277 strikeouts, the most since Randy Johnson had 290 for Arizona in 2004. The last AL pitcher with more was Pedro Martinez with 284 for Boston in 2000.
A.J. Pierzynski had a leadoff double in the fifth and Soto walked before an errant pickoff throw by Vargas moved them both up a base. They scored on the single up the middle by Craig Gentry for a 2-1 lead about the same time Tampa Bay wrapped up its 7-6 win at Toronto.
Los Angeles quickly tied the game in the sixth against Darvish, even after a reverse double play.
J.B. Shuck hit a grounder to second baseman Ian Kinsler, who ran back Andrew Romine before throwing to first baseman Mitch Moreland, who had to make a quick throw to shortstop Elvis Andrus to tag out Romine. But Darvish then gave up a single to Erick Aybar and walked Trout on four pitches.
Neal Cotts (8-3), the left-hander whose 1.13 ERA is the lowest ever for a Texas reliever, gave up the tying RBI single to Hamilton, who finished with a 14-game hitting streak - his longest in his Angels debut after the previous five years with the Rangers. Howie Kendrick then struck out with runners at first and third.
Hamilton's finishing .250 batting average was the peak in the first season of a $125 million, five-year deal.
''Where I was a month and a half ago, that is something to be proud of,'' Hamilton said. ''Obviously, I would have wanted to win. We talked about finishing strong.''
The Angels won 23 of their last 36 games, and their 16 wins in September matched their most in any month this season. But it ended with four more losses to Texas, which won the season series 15-4.
''It is disappointing,'' Hamilton said. ''They had something to play for, and we wanted to try to help them stumble.''
NOTES: Vargas allowed four runs (three earned) with four strikeouts and two walks in 6 1-3 innings. ... Robbie Ross, Tanner Scheppers and Joe Nathan each pitched a scoreless inning of relief for Texas. ... Rangers slugger Nelson Cruz completed his 50-game suspension and will be activated Monday.


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How to make money while at home is well documented, but what about literally using your home to make money? You may not have considered it in the past, but there are some great ways to use your home, and even your car, to boost your income. Here are 5 tips for making your assets work for you:
1. Rent Out Your Spare Room
If there is a bedroom in your house that isn't being occupied, why not think about renting it out to earn some extra cash? There are several options here, including taking in a full-time lodger, offering a room to foreign exchange students who are in the area, taking in a lodger during the week, and taking in temporary guests who might stay for a maximum of a few nights. The latter two options can work extremely well if you happen to live near an airport or train station because you can take advantage of travelers who need a place to stay.
How to do it: If your preference is to take in guests on a short-term basis, you can list on iStopOver, which is marketed towards short-term business travelers. Listing is free, but they take a 3% admin fee is someone books your room. For any of the above lodging ideas, you can also use Craigslist. Be wary of anyone that seems suspicious, and meet the potential guest before committing.
Potential downsides: Taking in a lodger can cramp your space, so it's best to set out ground rules on things like sharing space, rent, and chores as soon as possible. Get this in writing to avoid misunderstandings. For foreign exchange students, you'll usually have to provide meals.
2. Rent Out Your Parking Space
If you have a parking space that you're not using, why not rent it out? In areas where parking charges are on the steeper side or in short supply, this can help you earn some quality passive income. While this can be a long-term arrangement, you can also just hire out your parking space on specific days if you live near a popular sporting or concert venue.
How to do it: Join a site like ParkatmyHouse to advertise your parking space. It's free to register, but they do take a 15% fee once you've rented out your parking space and made some money from the service. To avoid these type of fees, putting up an advertisement on Craigslist or in your local paper is another option. You can also use a service like Craigslist to see what other people are charging for similar rental spaces in the area.
Potential downsides: Some people might take the opportunity to park free of charge once they know about your spare parking slot, so keep an eye on your spot to make sure no one is freeloading. Also, make sure to collect money upfront so that people don't "park and ditch."
3. Pimp Your Car
Some companies will pay you to display advertising on your car (known as "wrapping" your car). It's not the most subtle option, but it's something to consider as long as you don't mind having the exterior of your car emblazoned with advertising. If you live in an urban area with a lot of traffic coming and going, you're more likely to be accepted as an advertiser, but a lot depends on the type of demographic that the advertiser is trying to reach.
How to do it: Sign up at Free Car Media to find out if your profile matches the criteria that's being sought by advertisers. If you pass the test, you'll be contacted. DrivenMedia offers similar services. If you fit the bill and you're successful, you can earn hundreds of extra dollars for simply driving around like you would normally!
Potential downsides: Some forms of on-car advertising can be very obtrusive and obvious. You're not just a regular driver once you agree to the advertising – you're representing the brand.
4. Rent Out Your Home Office
Got a home office or study that you're not using during the day? Hire it out to a freelancer who needs a calm environment to work in. Good office space that doesn't break the bank is often hard to come by, so you might get more takers than you think, especially with people who are just starting a business and don't yet have their own office space.
How to do it: Ask around and see if anyone in your circle knows someone who is looking for office space, or put up an advertisement in your local paper or on Craigslist.
Potential downsides: Your new office resident will be using your electricity, so account for this in your monthly rent. Also, be sure to set the ground rules for other areas of the house where this person is allowed.
5. Offer Up Your Storage Space
Is there any spare room in your garage that you wouldn't mind giving up? Make use of it by storing other people's excess belongings and you could earn some nice side income.
How to do it: Do you know anyone with more belongings than they have space for? Let them know that you'd be happy to hire out your spare storage space for an affordable rate. Or, as usual, you can easily put up an advertisement in your local paper or on Craigslist.
Potential downsides: You have someone else's stuff to keep an eye on and therefore have an obligation to make sure that it doesn't get damaged or affected by things like water.
Last Word
Your home and car can be making you a lot more money than you may have previously realized. But before you take the plunge, make sure you understand the tax implications of these side income opportunities. Once you've decided which options will work best for you, spread the word as much as possible. And be sure to take advantage of free advertising by having your friends and family pass along the message and using services like Craigslist. You can also take out some inexpensive advertisements in your local paper.
Have you used your home or car to increase your income? Was it successful? If you have any tips that weren't mentioned in this post, I'd love to hear them!
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visual1sound0505: 'Skitter Flutter,' a sound installation by Robbie Lynn Hunsinger, opens May 10 at SeedSpace Gallery.
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At last falls Sound Crawl festival, Robbie Lynn Hunsinger premiered a composition she called Arduino and Sax duet for robotic drummer. The hauntingly beautiful music involved Hunsinger playing soprano saxophone to the accompaniment of a snare drum played by an Arduino microcontroller. (If you missed it, you can see a video on Hunsingers website.)
That piece along with the sounds of crickets and birds informs her latest work, Skitter Flutter, a sound sculpture at Seed Space Gallery. An opening reception takes place 6 to 8 p.m. Friday, May 10.
Skitter Flutter was constructed with local fabricators Patrick Becker and Steve Ghertner who, like Hunsinger, are members of the Middle Tennessee Robotic Arts Society and uses microcontrollers, motors and sensors to create a reactive sound experience.
The idea, according to Hunsinger, is to explore things that are seen rather than heard; to pull viewers in with sound which then dissipates as people get closer much as crickets grow quiet as we approach, she said in an email.
Skitter Flutter remains on view through June 24 at Seed Space, located at 427 Chestnut St. Hours are 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Monday and Wednesday; there is no admission fee. For information, call 615-310-6533 or go to http://seedspace.org.
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Cemeteries are important because they provide information on the customs, tastes and traditions of earlier times.
Jamaica has a number of public and private cemeteries islandwide. These include special cemeteries such as the Jewish, Chinese, Naval and Military.
- Bedward's Tomb - The Bedward's Tomb is located in Bedward Cemetery, August Town
- Jewish Cemetery - The old Jewish Cemetery at 1 Hunt's Bay in St. Andrew, is an important landmark
- Lacovia Tombstones - A tale is told that a party was in progress at a nearby tavern when a disagreement
- Carmel Moravian Cemetery - The earliest Moravian Mission began its work in Jamaica in 1754.


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Pima County Sheriff Clarence Dupnik took time from gathering the facts about the Tucson, Ariz., shooting to denounce the "vitriolic rhetoric" that he claims played a role in the carnage. He insisted, without any evidence, that Democratic Rep. Gabrielle Giffords' support for ObamaCare helped trigger the shooter's wrath, resulting in six dead and 13 wounded, including Rep. Giffords, who was shot point-blank in the head.
"I think it's time as a country," said Dupnik, "that we ... do a little soul-searching, because I think it's the vitriolic rhetoric that we hear day in and day out from people in the radio business and some people in the TV business, and what we see on TV and how our youngsters are being raised, that this has not become the nice United States of America that most of us grew up in, and I think it's time that we do the soul-searching."
Would the "vitriolic rhetoric" requiring "soul-searching" include Dupnik's pronouncements that the popular Arizona immigration law is "stupid" and "disgusting" and "racist"?
Would the "vitriolic rhetoric" include former President Jimmy Carter's ugly assertion that "an overwhelming portion of the intensely demonstrated animosity toward President Barack Obama is based on the fact that he is a black man, that he's African-American"?
Would it include former Democratic National Chairman Howard Dean's description of the contest between Democrats and Republicans as "a struggle between good and evil -- and we're the good"?
Would it include Democratic Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid's characterization of then-President George W. Bush as "a loser and a liar"?
Would it include Democratic Sen. Debbie Stabenow's denunciation of President Bush as "dangerously incompetent"?
Would it include the late Democratic Sen. Ted Kennedy's assertion that the Bush administration fabricated a case for war in Iraq, or, as Kennedy put it, "week after week after week, we were told lie after lie after lie"?
Would the "vitriolic rhetoric" include Democratic Rep. Charlie Rangel's referring to Bush as "our Bull Connor," the infamous Southern lawman who, in the 1960s, turned police dogs and water hoses on black civil rights protesters?
Would it include the declaration by Comedy Central's Jon Stewart -- a man astonishingly described as a modern Edward R. Murrow -- that former President Harry Truman was "a war criminal"?
Would it include then-presidential candidate Barack Obama's declaration made at a fundraiser that "if they bring a knife to the fight, we bring a gun"?
Would it include the false accusation that the N-word was yelled at black congressmen as they walked across the Capitol grounds, a still unproven charge stated as fact numerous times by the "mainstream" media?
Would it include Hillary Clinton's telling a black audience that the then-Republican majority Congress was "run like a plantation"?
Would it include Democratic Sen. John Kerry's demonstrably false claim that he lost the 2004 presidential election because Ohio was "stolen"?
Would it include the Rev. Al Sharpton, who, long before meeting with the FCC and demanding broadcasting decency standards, called the then mayor of New York a "nigger whore"?
Would it include the chairwoman of the California chapter of NOW who, after the female Republican gubernatorial candidate was called a "whore," said that yes, "Meg Whitman could be described as 'a political whore'"?
Would it include then-Rep. Diane Watson, D-Calif., who attacked a black political opponent: "He's married to a white woman. He wants to be white. He wants a colorless society. He has no ethnic pride. He doesn't want to be black. I said that"?
Would it include the way then-President Bill Clinton, according to aide Dick Morris, described his 1996 Republican opponent: "Bob Dole is not a nice man. Bob Dole is evil. The things he wants to do to children are evil. The things he wants to do to poor people and old people and sick people are evil. Let's get that straight"?
Would it include the editor of Bartlett's Familiar Quotations who, in explaining why Ronald Reagan had so few entries, said, "I'm not going to disguise the fact that I despise Ronald Reagan"?
Would it include the British director who made an assassination-of-President-Bush "documentary" called "Death of a President"? Or the British columnist who reviewed it and said, "You will never, ever be able to overestimate the degree to which the British people loathe George Bush. It will be a free round of drinks in every pub for the person who plays the assassin"?
Would it include the unhinged MSNBC host Ed Schultz, who, days before the Tucson shooting, said: "This is an ideological war. ... I will fight these bastards every night at 6 o'clock because I know what they're up against. I know what they want to do. They want to take down American workers. ... They want to destroy the American dream, concentrate the wealth to the top and control minorities"?
Would the "vitriolic rhetoric" include ... oh, never mind.