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A356 Aluminum Casting with T6 Heat Treatment
We Are Very Experienced in A356 Aluminum Casting
ForceBeyond is very experienced in manufacturing superior quality A356 aluminum casting parts and components. We're capable of A356 aluminum casting jobs from a few of dozens to thousands of pieces, weights between ounces to more than 200 pounds. We cast parts and components for a wide range of industries including automotive, food dairy, machinery, medical, plumbing, watering, mining, petrochemical, electrical, energy, aerospace, submarine and others.
What Is A356 Aluminum Casting Alloy?
A356 aluminum casting alloy is a 7% Si, 0.3% Mg alloy with 0.2 Fe (max) and 0.10 Zn (max). A356 aluminum casting alloy has very good casting and machining characteristics. A356 aluminum casting alloy is used for aircraft parts, pump housings, impellers, high velocity blowers and structural castings where high strength is required. A356 aluminum casting alloy can also be used as a substitute for aluminum alloy 6061. It is typically used in the heat-treated condition of T5 and T6 hardness properties.
A356 aluminum casting alloy has good castability, this makes it a logical choice for intricate and complex castings where lightweight, pressure tightness and excellent mechanical properties are needed.
A356 Aluminum Casting T6 Heat Treatment Process
T6 heat treatment process is a 2 step process. The A356 aluminum castings are first allowed to cool naturally and are then heated at an elevated temperature in high temperature ovens. After a set period of time the A356 aluminum castings are quickly quenched and then are moved to low temperature ovens for the second step of the process.
T6 heat treatment of A356 aluminum castings offers increase in hardness and other mechanical properties, which is often required for many applications.
Advantages of A356 Aluminum Casting
- Excellent in corrosion resistance
- Very good weldability characteristics
- Mechanical properties are rated excellent particularly if given a solution and aging treatment (T5, T6)
A356 Aluminum Casting Alloy Chemical Composition
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A356 Aluminum Casting Mechanical Properties
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Applications of A356 Aluminum Casting with T6 Heat Treatment
- Flywheel castings
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- High strength air-frame and space frame structural parts
- High strength machine parts, truck chassis parts
- High velocity blowers and impellers
Secondary Operations of A356 Aluminum Casting with T6 Heat Treatment
- High precision CNC machining, milling, drilling, tapping, e-coating, anodizing
- Painting, sanding, shot blasting, powder coating, chrome plating
A356 Aluminum Casting Parts
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Come discover Downtown San Diego's newest urban neighborhood - East Village! This new vacation condo offers two bedrooms, two bathrooms and an optimal split-floor plan allowing for maximum privacy. The master bedroom features a unique step out balcony, queen bed and en suite bathroom. Contemporary furnishings, beautiful hardwood floors, upgraded carpeting, a spacious balcony, granite countertops throughout, and multiple plasma TVs give this new condominium everything you will need for a pleasant business or vacation stay in Downtown San Diego. Includes wireless internet, phone, DVD player, cable, utilities, full size washer/dryer, two assigned gated parking spaces and more! Experience the fun of urban living with the convenience a Trolley stop at the building's entrance. Or visit the various eateries and shops located on the ground floor and just steps away! Located blocks from Petco Park brings you closer to the game and to all of San Diego's finest dining and shopping! Walking distance to the Gaslamp Quarter, San Diego Bay, Nightlife, Fine Dining, Theaters, PETCO Park, Horton Plaza, Seaport Village, Convention Center and more! Minutes from San Diego Zoo, SeaWorld, Balboa Park, and the San Diego International Airport.
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Wonderful, large stoneware mug for all moon lovers!
This Celestial mug features iridescent highlights inspired by the hues of the night sky, and twinkles of galaxy gold on the body of the mug, as well as the handle. Plus, the quote 'stay wild moon child' on the front and back.
Height 11 cm.
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The interest of an accumulation contract is still little known to the general public. Some wealth management advisors are also unaware of its existence. However the subscription to the capitalisation contract has many advantages especially for many patrimonial objectives. It should be noted that it does not resemble a life insurance contract.
Transmission of wealth
With the capitalisation contract, the transfer of assets can be made during the lifetime of the policyholder to a close relative. To do so, it is then done within the framework of a donation. This type of contract is also different from life insurance because it does not unwind on the death of the policyholder. With a gift tax (if the policyholder is still alive) or inheritance tax (if the policyholder is deceased), the heir is allowed to recover the policy in its original state. He then keeps all the capitalized advantages such as the savings in state, tax precedence, etc.. This means that the capitalisation contract is not only reserved for the wealthiest savers.
The capitalisation contract goes beyond a simple savings contract.
All individuals who have already taken advantage of the privileges of life insurance will see the value of an accumulation contract. It allows them to optimize the transmission of their financial assets. We can then say that the contract is also a tool that is more than interesting in terms of savings. Technical, financial and fiscal advantages, it shares these same advantages with life insurance during their lifetime.
For a better financial investment
By taking out an accumulation contract, you make an excellent financial investment, just like life insurance, during your lifetime:
– The same fees: no fees on payments, affordable management fees;
– The same financial offers: euro funds to guarantee the security and the valorization of the savings. Units of account to diversify and boost savings (depending on the investor's profile and the direction he or she chooses);
– Savings that can be recovered at any time;
– Free management for a contractor who wants to manage his contract alone. To do this, he pays or withdraws money as he wishes. He can arbitrate the available funds as he wishes;
– Managed management or under mandate: the insured can diversify his savings without taking over the management. To do so, he assigns this task to an institution specialising in this field. There are three types of management to choose from: balanced, dynamic and prudent.


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"The month of Ramadan in which was revealed the Qur'an, guidance for mankind, and clear Proofs of the guidance, and the Criterion (of right and wrong).(2:183)"
I am glad to felicitate my heartiest greetings on this auspicious and blessed month of Ramadan, as we are invited to be the guests of Allah swt; He has invited us to a Divine feast and gives us glad tidings of blessings and forgiveness. It is a special season to get closer to Him and to seek His blessings and bounties. He has asked us to seek Him so that we can be among His friends. In this month, Allah opens the gates of Paradise and closes the gates of Hell, and chains up the devils. Such a noble and generous invitation must be accepted with loads of enthusiasm and excitement.
Let us reflect on this verse which depicts the core philosophy of fasting:
"O you who believe! Fasting is prescribed for you as it was prescribed for those before you, that you may observe self-restraint (al-Taqwa)." [2:183]
Fasting is a means of attaining piety. It is one of the greatest means of helping a person to fulfil the commands of Islam. Fasting is more than remaining hungry and thirsty for the sake of Allah swt but every part of the body must restrain. The tongue must restrain from backbiting. The eyes must restrain themselves from looking at unlawful things. In such a way, every part of the body observes the fast. Therefore, fasting is not merely physical, but is rather the total commitment of the person's body and soul to the spirit of the fast.
Apart from spiritual aspects of fasting, I urge to ponder upon the following socio-economic aspects of it:
Quran: We believe that Quran was revealed in this Holy month. So while we have the practice of the recitation of the entire Quran at least once in this month, simultaneously we look at Quranic values for our personal development and at a larger stage to implement in our community.
Unity: This Holy month is a month of coming closer to each other. Let us leave the difference and pave the path of al Sirat al Mustaqim together. This unity should start from the concept of Silah Rahim in families. After the entire month, we are going to recite in dua of Qunut of Namaz e Eid that Allah (swt) has created Eid for the entire Muslim world. Let us keep that spirit of brotherhood for all the Muslims.
- Relief and Humanitarian Aid: Through fasting, a Muslim also experiences hunger and thirst, and sympathizes with those in the world who have little to eat every day. Through increased devotion, Muslims feel closer to their Creator, and recognize that everything we have in this life is a blessing from Him. So he will hasten to do acts of kindness to them and show compassion towards them. So plan not to attend sumptuous grand Iftar parties but to feel sympathy and pain for humanity who suffers from hunger by having simple Iftar whereas sharing the bread with others in poor countries.
This year as in the past and with generous contributions from donors, The World Federation has increased its allocation for Mahe Ramadhan Relief Fund to more than US $ 1,000,000, providing relief across 25 countries through various local partners. We have to especially look at the situation in the world's most troubled areas and where due to the current turmoil thousands of people have been displaced form their homes and therefore are in need of maximum support. The situation in IRAQ is one of the biggest concerns where there is a war between ignorance and knowledge. Let us share our prayers and breads with the fellow brothers and sisters in Iraq.
I conclude with the supplication of Imam Sajjad (as) in which he names this Holy month as the month of fasting, the month of submission, the month of purity, the month of putting to test, the month of standing in prayer (Sahifah al Sajjadiyah Dau No. 44)
May Allah accept our fasting, forgive our sins, and guide us all to the Straight Path. May Allah bless us all during Ramadan, and throughout the year, with His forgiveness, mercy, and peace, and bring us all closer to Him and to each other.
Dr. Asgar Moledina
President, The World Federation of KSIMC


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Kameel and Zenab are two Syrian peasants living under Israeli occupation in the occupied Golan Heights. The two are torn between the echoes of the constant shelling in Syria, and decades old Israeli forced occupation.
Producers Aida Kaadan, Amir Fakhreddin
Production company Amir Fakhreddin Films
Language Arabic and English subtitles


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Earlier I wrote about adopting Katalon Studio for UI Tests, and as my journey with Katalon continues, they continue to improve the desktop application. Katalon Studio 6.3.0 features two nice enhancements when the Beta was released on July 3, 2019. The release is presently downloadable in beta format via GitHub (click prerelease to download). This beta release has several bug fixes, but let's get down to brass tax – this release includes two really nice features that anyone who uses Katalon will love:
Feature 1: Dark Theme
To enable Dark Theme go to Themes and select Dark.
Once you select a new theme, the app asks for permission to restart. After the restart, dark theme in all of it's glory appears.
Feature Two: Improved Profile Management
One of the pain points for me was managing Profiles – the only way to rearrange information in profiles has been to do so in the script view, which is quite tedious when managing multiple profiles with tens of variables. Beginning in v6.3.0, Katalon makes this easier.
Now you can highlight the variable and select move up or move down and organize your profiles in a way that makes finding profiles names simple, instead of searching through an unorganized set of variables, I'll alphabetize my list for quick searching:
The old view when adding values:
The new and improved view, while imperfect, makes it easier to view – and, if you're editing in script mode, you can begin typing url_ and it will start to autocomplete. This alone makes the organization worth it (as opposed to guessing what the url could be since before the naming convention might have been something like portal_user_admin_with_some_caveat.
Final Words on Katalon Studio 6.3 Features
I'm really satisfied with these two Katalon Studio 6.3.0 Features enhancements. This free tool is already a really good test automation tool that every tester should have in their tool box. I encountered one issue – when I renamed the profile variables, the variables didn't get updated in all of the tests, resulting in a slew of failing tests. However, it's important enough to me to go ahead and get these variables in a sorted order that I'm going to take time to fix this – perhaps in the next release the team at Katalon will resolve this issue too.


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Sewing a Mini-Messenger
My husband and I decided last week that it was time for Lauren to start earning an allowance. We sat down as a family and made an allowance chart. It's a weekly layout, with both mandatory items, and 'bonus' points, (as well as negative points for bad behaviour). It's on a point system, where you make each point a set value, and then the number of points at the end of the week determines the allowance amount. We decided 20 cents per point was fair, and Lauren was beyond motivated to get every possible point. She had an amazing week, and yesterday, she earned her very first allowance! She was super excited, but then realized that a piggy-bank was not a practical way to take her allowance out shopping! I gave her an old wallet of mine, but she said it needed a strap... "That's what a purse is for." I said. Next thing I know, I'm sewing my little critter a purse to hold her wallet. It turned out super-cute, so I thought I would share. I am now inspired to make my own larger version, and make it my new work bag!
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Scholars of the highest class, when they hear about the Tao,
earnestly carry it into practice. Scholars of the middle class, when
they have heard about it, seem now to keep it and now to lose it.
Scholars of the lowest class, when they have heard about it, laugh
greatly at it. If it were not (thus) laughed at, it would not be fit
to be the Tao.
Therefore the sentence-makers have thus expressed themselves:--
'The Tao, when brightest seen, seems light to lack;
Who progress in it makes, seems drawing back;
Its even way is like a rugged track.
Its highest virtue from the vale doth rise;
Its greatest beauty seems to offend the eyes;
And he has most whose lot the least supplies.
Its firmest virtue seems but poor and low;
Its solid truth seems change to undergo;
Its largest square doth yet no corner show
A vessel great, it is the slowest made;
Loud is its sound, but never word it said;
A semblance great, the shadow of a shade.'
The Tao is hidden, and has no name; but it is the Tao which is
skilful at imparting (to all things what they need) and making them
The Tao produced One; One produced Two; Two produced Three;
Three produced All things. All things leave behind them the Obscurity
(out of which they have come), and go forward to embrace the
Brightness (into which they have emerged), while they are harmonised
by the Breath of Vacancy.
What men dislike is to be orphans, to have little virtue, to be as
carriages without naves; and yet these are the designations which
kings and princes use for themselves. So it is that some things are
increased by being diminished, and others are diminished by being
What other men (thus) teach, I also teach. The violent and strong
do not die their natural death. I will make this the basis of my
The softest thing in the world dashes against and overcomes the
hardest; that which has no (substantial) existence enters where there
is no crevice. I know hereby what advantage belongs to doing nothing
(with a purpose).
There are few in the world who attain to the teaching without
words, and the advantage arising from non-action.
Or fame or life,
Which do you hold more dear?
Or life or wealth,
To which would you adhere?
Keep life and lose those other things;
Keep them and lose your life:--which brings
Sorrow and pain more near?
Thus we may see,
Who cleaves to fame
Rejects what is more great;
Who loves large stores
Gives up the richer state.
Who is content
Needs fear no shame.
Who knows to stop
Incurs no blame.
From danger free
Long live shall he.
Who thinks his great achievements poor
Shall find his vigour long endure.
Of greatest fulness, deemed a void,
Exhaustion ne'er shall stem the tide.
Do thou what's straight still crooked deem;
Thy greatest art still stupid seem,
And eloquence a stammering scream.
Constant action overcomes cold; being still overcomes heat. Purity
and stillness give the correct law to all under heaven.
When the Tao prevails in the world, they send back their swift
horses to (draw) the dung-carts. When the Tao is disregarded in the
world, the war-horses breed in the border lands.
There is no guilt greater than to sanction ambition; no calamity
greater than to be discontented with one's lot; no fault greater than
the wish to be getting. Therefore the sufficiency of contentment is
an enduring and unchanging sufficiency.
Without going outside his door, one understands (all that takes
place) under the sky; without looking out from his window, one sees
the Tao of Heaven. The farther that one goes out (from himself), the
less he knows.
Therefore the sages got their knowledge without travelling; gave
their (right) names to things without seeing them; and accomplished
their ends without any purpose of doing so.
He who devotes himself to learning (seeks) from day to day to
increase (his knowledge); he who devotes himself to the Tao (seeks)
from day to day to diminish (his doing).
He diminishes it and again diminishes it, till he arrives at doing
nothing (on purpose). Having arrived at this point of non-action,
there is nothing which he does not do.
He who gets as his own all under heaven does so by giving himself
no trouble (with that end). If one take trouble (with that end), he
is not equal to getting as his own all under heaven.
The sage has no invariable mind of his own; he makes the mind
of the people his mind.
To those who are good (to me), I am good; and to those who are not
good (to me), I am also good;--and thus (all) get to be good. To
those who are sincere (with me), I am sincere; and to those who are
not sincere (with me), I am also sincere;--and thus (all) get to be
The sage has in the world an appearance of indecision, and keeps
his mind in a state of indifference to all. The people all keep their
eyes and ears directed to him, and he deals with them all as his
Men come forth and live; they enter (again) and die.
Of every ten three are ministers of life (to themselves); and three
are ministers of death.
There are also three in every ten whose aim is to live, but whose
movements tend to the land (or place) of death. And for what reason?
Because of their excessive endeavours to perpetuate life.
But I have heard that he who is skilful in managing the life
entrusted to him for a time travels on the land without having to shun
rhinoceros or tiger, and enters a host without having to avoid buff
coat or sharp weapon. The rhinoceros finds no place in him into which
to thrust its horn, nor the tiger a place in which to fix its claws,
nor the weapon a place to admit its point. And for what reason?
Because there is in him no place of death.
All things are produced by the Tao, and nourished by its
outflowing operation. They receive their forms according to the
nature of each, and are completed according to the circumstances of
their condition. Therefore all things without exception honour the
Tao, and exalt its outflowing operation.
This honouring of the Tao and exalting of its operation is not the
result of any ordination, but always a spontaneous tribute.
Thus it is that the Tao produces (all things), nourishes them,
brings them to their full growth, nurses them, completes them, matures
them, maintains them, and overspreads them.
It produces them and makes no claim to the possession of them; it
carries them through their processes and does not vaunt its ability in
doing so; it brings them to maturity and exercises no control over
them;--this is called its mysterious operation.
(The Tao) which originated all under the sky is to be
considered as the mother of them all.
When the mother is found, we know what her children should be.
When one knows that he is his mother's child, and proceeds to guard
(the qualities of) the mother that belong to him, to the end of his
life he will be free from all peril.
Let him keep his mouth closed, and shut up the portals (of his
nostrils), and all his life he will be exempt from laborious exertion.
Let him keep his mouth open, and (spend his breath) in the promotion
of his affairs, and all his life there will be no safety for him.
The perception of what is small is (the secret of clear-
sightedness; the guarding of what is soft and tender is (the secret
of) strength.
Who uses well his light,
Reverting to its (source so) bright,
Will from his body ward all blight,
And hides the unchanging from men's sight.
If I were suddenly to become known, and (put into a position
to) conduct (a government) according to the Great Tao, what I should
be most afraid of would be a boastful display.
The great Tao (or way) is very level and easy; but people love the
Their court(-yards and buildings) shall be well kept, but their
fields shall be ill-cultivated, and their granaries very empty. They
shall wear elegant and ornamented robes, carry a sharp sword at their
girdle, pamper themselves in eating and drinking, and have a
superabundance of property and wealth;--such (princes) may be called
robbers and boasters. This is contrary to the Tao surely!
What (Tao's) skilful planter plants
Can never be uptorn;
What his skilful arms enfold,
From him can ne'er be borne.
Sons shall bring in lengthening line,
Sacrifices to his shrine.
Tao when nursed within one's self,
His vigour will make true;
And where the family it rules
What riches will accrue!
The neighbourhood where it prevails
In thriving will abound;
And when 'tis seen throughout the state,
Good fortune will be found.
Employ it the kingdom o'er,
And men thrive all around.
In this way the effect will be seen in the person, by the
observation of different cases; in the family; in the neighbourhood;
in the state; and in the kingdom.
How do I know that this effect is sure to hold thus all under the
sky? By this (method of observation).
He who has in himself abundantly the attributes (of the Tao) is
like an infant. Poisonous insects will not sting him; fierce beasts
will not seize him; birds of prey will not strike him.
(The infant's) bones are weak and its sinews soft, but yet its
grasp is firm. It knows not yet the union of male and female, and yet
its virile member may be excited;--showing the perfection of its
physical essence. All day long it will cry without its throat
becoming hoarse;--showing the harmony (in its constitution).
To him by whom this harmony is known,
(The secret of) the unchanging (Tao) is shown,
And in the knowledge wisdom finds its throne.
All life-increasing arts to evil turn;
Where the mind makes the vital breath to burn,
(False) is the strength, (and o'er it we should mourn.)
When things have become strong, they (then) become old, which may
be said to be contrary to the Tao. Whatever is contrary to the Tao
soon ends.
He who knows (the Tao) does not (care to) speak (about it); he
who is (ever ready to) speak about it does not know it.
He (who knows it) will keep his mouth shut and close the portals
(of his nostrils). He will blunt his sharp points and unravel the
complications of things; he will attemper his brightness, and bring
himself into agreement with the obscurity (of others). This is called
'the Mysterious Agreement.'
(Such an one) cannot be treated familiarly or distantly; he is
beyond all consideration of profit or injury; of nobility or
meanness:--he is the noblest man under heaven.
A state may be ruled by (measures of) correction; weapons of
war may be used with crafty dexterity; (but) the kingdom is made one's
own (only) by freedom from action and purpose.
How do I know that it is so? By these facts:--In the kingdom the
multiplication of prohibitive enactments increases the poverty of the
people; the more implements to add to their profit that the people
have, the greater disorder is there in the state and clan; the more
acts of crafty dexterity that men possess, the more do strange
contrivances appear; the more display there is of legislation, the
more thieves and robbers there are.
Therefore a sage has said, 'I will do nothing (of purpose), and the
people will be transformed of themselves; I will be fond of keeping
still, and the people will of themselves become correct. I will take
no trouble about it, and the people will of themselves become rich; I
will manifest no ambition, and the people will of themselves attain to
the primitive simplicity.'
The government that seems the most unwise,
Oft goodness to the people best supplies;
That which is meddling, touching everything,
Will work but ill, and disappointment bring.
Misery!--happiness is to be found by its side! Happiness!--misery
lurks beneath it! Who knows what either will come to in the end?
Shall we then dispense with correction? The (method of) correction
shall by a turn become distortion, and the good in it shall by a turn
become evil. The delusion of the people (on this point) has indeed
subsisted for a long time.
Therefore the sage is (like) a square which cuts no one (with its
angles); (like) a corner which injures no one (with its sharpness).
He is straightforward, but allows himself no license; he is bright,
but does not dazzle.
For regulating the human (in our constitution) and rendering
the (proper) service to the heavenly, there is nothing like
It is only by this moderation that there is effected an early
return (to man's normal state). That early return is what I call the
repeated accumulation of the attributes (of the Tao). With that
repeated accumulation of those attributes, there comes the subjugation
(of every obstacle to such return). Of this subjugation we know not
what shall be the limit; and when one knows not what the limit shall
be, he may be the ruler of a state.
He who possesses the mother of the state may continue long. His
case is like that (of the plant) of which we say that its roots are
deep and its flower stalks firm:--this is the way to secure that its
enduring life shall long be seen.
Governing a great state is like cooking small fish.
Let the kingdom be governed according to the Tao, and the manes of
the departed will not manifest their spiritual energy. It is not that
those manes have not that spiritual energy, but it will not be
employed to hurt men. It is not that it could not hurt men, but
neither does the ruling sage hurt them.
When these two do not injuriously affect each other, their good
influences converge in the virtue (of the Tao).


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Pacing swiftly on the path of global technology dominance, China now aims to improve the lives of its citizens. Working towards this goal, Chinese e-commerce genie Alibaba has been taking data from video feeds, traffic information and social media of Hangzhou city for past 12 months. The project is called the City Brain project. The idea is to let artificial intelligence process and use this data in order to control certain aspects of urban life.
This use of AI for the citizens of Hangzhou has proven effective. Traffic congestion is now very low in the city since the system is able to predict traffic flow, with 90 percent accuracy, 10 minutes ahead of time. Criminals and outlaws can also be tracked throughout the city, aiding the city police. The system is also able to send text messages to people, helping them plan different routes.
People's less concern with privacy in China has allowed the system to work faster. The idea is a success since the company is now exporting the system to other parts of China and to the whole world eventually.
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Markers of metastasis
Scientists have discovered a chemical signature that indicates when a bowel cancer has spread.
Fifty percent of colon cancers relapse within 5 years of diagnosis and treatment, but picking up when this has happened is very difficult, meaning that it is hard to provide patients with accurate prognostic information.
Now, a paper in the Journal of Proteome Research by Zhejiang University, China, researcher Hua Xue and colleagues describes two proteins that can be used like a chemical fingerprint to look for signs that the disease has spread.
The scientists used two cultures of cancer cells which both came from the same patient. One group of cells were from a primary bowel cancer in the patient, the other group of cells were from a metastatis (spread) to a lymph node.
Reasoning that the differences could be used to distinguish the metastatic from primary tumours, the researchers compared the levels of the different proteins secreted by the two groups of cells. Those that were expressed at very different levels were picked out and the team were able to home in on 6 with the best test prospects.
Two of these were then measured in 300 patient samples, half with disseminated bowel cancers and half healthy.
The proteins were significantly correlated with the presence of metastatic cancer and could pick up disease with a sensitivity of 78% and a specificity (meaning that a negative result is a true negative) of 99.4%.
This promising result shows that, with modern techniques, the discovery of novel cancer biomarkers is feasible and has significant therapeutic potential.


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Good morning, everyone, my name is Jason, and welcome to your Sunday morning chronicling of America's political chit-chat. We begin this, with a question, to America, and specifically a question to the Americans who read this, whether out of passion, frustration, or self-immolation. This week, we liveblogged that time in our lives that Stephen Colbert came to Washington to talk about immigration and the AgJobs bill. And for that liveblog, we used our super-neat liveblogging tool. On that occasion, it made the liveblog look like this, (scroll down a tetch).
So, the question is: would you like this liveblog to stick to its old format, or instead change to the new one? I can't speak too fully on the pros and cons. Mostly, it would change the look and feel of it rather substantially, with the oldest parts sinking to the bottom and the latest bits topping it out. It is much easier to update, and I think a little easier to come back in after the fact and make fixes to misspellings and what have you. But it's probably better suited to people reading it as close to live as possible, and not to those who swing by in the afternoon or evening.
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This week, the GOP released their super new PDF file, The Pledge To America, which is like MOCKINGJAY to the good people at FOX NEWS SUNDAY, who stayed up all night in their footie pajamas reading it to each other and not listening to Christine O'Donnell's most well-known admonitions. (About, casting spells, guys! Jesus, your mind is in the gutter!) So what's his name...the McCarthy one?...Andrew McCarthy?...I forget. The "Young Gun" with the gray hair and the yearly prostate exam? He's here to talk about it. Plus "Boehner and Hoyer" -- which sounds like a TNT series about forensic accountants.
So, okay! Pledge for America. They are going to basically be the years 2002-2006 over again. At least that's what the President says. But Boehner says that the document rejects spending! Except for the four trillion they'll spend to extend the Bush tax cuts. Erick Erickson, of RedState, he hates it, because of brussels sprouts, WHICH I GUESS NOT EVERYONE LIKES but I do, especially those cooked by my Huffington Post BFF Alex Leo -- who has got like a million ways to cook them, bring it back, double your brussels sprouts and make a stack.
McCarthy says, well, the National Review REALLY LOVED it! And that's because they got together with the National Review in advance and helped them write an editorial attesting to its awesomeness, and now, frankly, they look pretty dumb because there's actually a lot of discontent over this thing on the right.
McCarthy says that this is not a party platform, but a bunch of legislation that could be enacted right now and make everything better. Why no earmark reform? Boehner says that this is "about now" and there's a earmark moratorium, until March. But Wallace doesn't think that makes sense. He asks Boehner to pledge to eliminate earmarks, and he won't: he'll only say, "it will not be business as usual" and "I have never taken an earmark." This basically means there will be earmarks, like crazy. (And for what it's worth, eliminating earmarks is not a serious spending cut.)
Wallace is pretty skeptical that they can cut $100 billion in cuts. McCarthy finds a way to cut one billion. Wallace says, yeah, big whoop, where's the other $99 billion. McCarthy doesn't know and he won't say, but he promises to go back to "pre-bailout" numbers: "We can live on that." But that was really, really, crazy spending!
Boehner wants to have an adult conversation with the American people, maybe someday? Wallace says, "Why not now?" Boehner says that it leads to problems -- like not getting elected as hard as you think you are getting elected.
McCarthy says that the Democrats have failed to lead on what to do with the Bush tax cuts, and on that, he and I agree, though for different reasons. Boehner, for his part, wants them extended in such a way that it costs us four trillion dollars. But he wants a "fair and open debate" -- and why not? His Senate colleagues will filibuster anything they don't like.
Boehner and McCarthy are doing a good job framing this as Democrat-bred uncertainty that will cloud voters' minds during the election. They are also pretty mad that Stephen Colbert came to Washington, to make jokes and shame everyone with a very good elocution of Christian charity.
What would Boehner do to "shake up Washington?" He will make it a fair and open process, where every member will have the opportunity to represent his constituents. So, he'll shake it up by asking everyone to be members of the House of Representatives. Wallace is doing his best to ask virtually the same question over and over again without releasing the arched sigh he so clearly wants to.
Here's Steny Hoyer, to yammer about Steny Hoyer stuff. Wallace asks: "Why have you ruined everything?" Hoyer says that they've actually improved upon what they got from the Bush years. But what about the deficits? Hoyer calls them a "terrific problem," and then explains in words what this graph says:
The teevee camera is a visible learner, so people should be more prepared to bust out case-making visuals. I'd load up my iPad and hit these shows with charts and graphs, just like that Postal Service song, "Nothing Better." Of course, I'd have to get an iPad first.
Hoyer points out that they managed to pass a small biz bill this week, and tried to put a dent in outsourcing, which the GOP blocked.
Hoyer says the pledge to America is basically to insubstantial to get upset about. It's spendy and stupid and the Club for Growth thinks it is "milquetoast."
Will the House hold a vote on tax cut extension this week? Hoyer says no, and it's because of the Senate. But he says that the "Republican plan to raise taxes on the middle class" will not happen, they will fight it, after the election, I guess? Wallace points out that the Dems have huge majorities now, isn't it a failure? Hoyer says no, it's all about GOP obstruction. He says that if the House took up the bill and passed it while the Senate is punting, it would be a "specious act." But the House, then, has committed all sorts of specious acts this year!
You House Dems are vulnerable! You should probably take a stand on this issue, and nuts to your Senate colleagues, who are straight up getting you guys killed, this election year. The Senate could very well stay in Democratic hands, owing to the fact that all the looney-tune candidates are Senate candidates. House Dems! Protect yo' neck!
Hoyer says that the leadership has made it clear where they stand on the matter. In 2006, they made it clear that they wanted to end the Iraq War, too!
Hoyer insists that the ethics process is working, but it's not looking like it will result in hearings for Rangel and Waters before the election.
Wallace asks Hoyer if Stephen Colbert was terrible and Hoyer says he was an embarrassment and he should not have been called, and what he said was terrible.
Okay! For the record, let's say it! Steny Hoyer finds this to be inappropriate and embarrassing:
"Maybe we can offer more visas to the immigrants who, lets face it, will probably be doing those jobs anyway. And this improved legal status, might allow immigrants recourse if they are abused. And it just stands to reason to me that if your co-worker can't be exploited, you're less likely to be exploited yourself, and that itself might improve pay and working conditions on these farms, so that eventually, Americans may consider taking these jobs again."
Steny Hoyer says Congress is not the place for this kind of rhetoric:
"I like talking about people who don't have any power. And this seems like some of the least powerful people in the United States are migrant workers who come and do our work but don't have any rights as a result. And yet we still invite them to come here, and at the same time ask them to leave. And, you know, whatsoever you do for the least of my brothers, these seem like the least of our brothers, right now. And I know that a lot of people are the least of my brothers because the economy is so hard, and I don't want to take anyone's hardship away from them or diminish it or anything like that, but migrant workers suffer, and they have no rights."
I've said it before: I think that there's a lot of space available to some political party who will advocate on behalf of lower and middle class Americans. Someone should maybe think about starting one!
Panel time, with the standard Fox panel of Hume and Liasson and Kristol and Williams!
Ahmadinejad thinks 9/11 was an inside job, so why would we still pursue diplomacy with Iran? Hume says it's sad that Obama doesn't see that Ahmadinejad isn't terrible. I think it's sad that people think that the Iranian people aren't worth engaging or that Ahmadinejad is the guy who needs to get negotiated with (I thought that the president of Iran doesn't play a role in those talks, anyway, that it goes through the theocratic leadership...let me know if I'm wrong or it that's changed, please).
Kristol is "open to the notion that a year from now, Obama will use force against Iran," but that it seems like we will not be bombing the country, anytime soon, and that makes him very sad. After all, the bodies of Iranians aren't going to become twisted, burnt-up crisps by themselves, will they?
Now, Hume says that Obama should have done more to intercede heavy-handedly on behalf of the Iranian people, which would have instantly de-legitimized their nascent protest movement.
Liasson says that Bob Woodward's book depicted Obama as ambivalent toward getting into a long war in Afghanistan, but ultimately thoughtful in his decision-making process. Kristol says he doesn't "begrudge" Obama his ambivalence, but he should have committed more troops and not have end dates for wars that he feels have tremendous potential to succeed.
What does Juan Williams think about the Pledge To America? He says the the GOP pledge is "Everyone have lollipops for breakfast!" Meaning it's not serious.
Is the Pledge bold? "It's a step on the way to boldness," Kristol says. Wow, why didn't they just call it "A PLEDGE TO TAKE A STEP ON THE WAY TO BOLDNESS?"
Kristol also says that Paul Ryan is going to get the budget clicking. Let's remember: this is the Ryan Plan.
STEP ONE: Raise your taxes, unless you are rich as Croesus:
STEP TWO: Don't curb the deficit, ever.
Wallace asks if the Pledge is serious about cutting deficits (IT ISN'T) at a time when the American people are really concerned about the deficits (THEY AREN'T). Hume says it isn't (THIS IS TRUE) but it needs to be addressed because it could bring the economy to its knees (THE ECONOMY IS ALREADY ON IT'S KNEES BECAUSE ALL THE TOO BIG TO FAIL BANKS WENT KABLOOEY AND SENT MONEY AND JOBS TO MONEY AND JOBS HEAVEN.)
Williams dings Obama for not "responding with energy" to Velma Hart, and her "legitimate" concerns. Hume says that the agenda was wrong, because the stimulus was ineffective and promiscuous and health care reform was "no one's priority." (Uhm, voters in 2008 would beg to differ! Also, doing something about the stratospheric long term health care costs is most definitely "doing something about the economy!")
Hey, I forgot! The recession is over, apparently! WHOO RECOVERY SUMMER (ON THE PAPERS THAT ECONOMISTS PUSH AROUND THE TABLE TO EACH OTHER)!
But David Axelrod is here, to talk about the Middle East Peace Process, or MEPP. Can a compromise be reached on the settlement moratorium (SM) that could help the MEPP. Axelrod says that the parties in the MEPP are in serious discussions at the table (SD@TT) to work a compromise on the SM. He doesn't want to prejudge oru predict what could result at the SD@TT that may or may not prevent the abrogation of the SM and derail the MEPP. But the King of Jordan worries that there could be war if the SM expires. Axelrod says everyone understands that the SD@TT are critical and that they are trying to move forward on the MEPP. TARFU, OK?
What about Velma Hart? How will David Axelrod "jazz your electorate," asks Amanpour. Axelrod says he understands that the middle class has been battered since 2001, but the "key" is to keep moving forward and make things better. BUT WHAT ABOUT THE JAZZ? IS THIS A FAILURE OF THE JAZZ? Axelrod says, that the economy is and was terrible and it will take time to deal with the remnants of the terribleness.
The Pledge for America: what does Axelrod think, and what does Axelrod think of Bill Clinton's suggestion, that they just admit that what needs to be done couldn't get done in 21 months, could we have two more years, please, to try to fix things, and if we can't, you can vote all of us out. Axelrod basically says, UHM, WELL, BILL CLINTON IS GREAT AND ALL...but we're seriously not going to suggest that people put us on the hook like that. He called the Pledge, "a prescription for surrender."
He goes on to say that the GOP are presently "holding middle class tax cuts hostage." He imagines that GOP candidates will have to answer for this to their constituents in the coming weeks. We'll see if that happens! (And why won't Democrats have to answer for punting on the matter, until a lame duck session where it's likely they'll have a harder slog in the Senate, getting what they want enacted?)
On to the Bob Woodward book! Does the White House really not know who they are "fucking with," when they are "fucking with" David Petraeus? Axelrod says that Petraeus has "always been so impressive on teevee that I just assumed he meant that as a compliment." I'm not sure what that even means. (I would have answered, "No, we were all very cognizant of who we were fucking with, we strive at all times to do the most informed job of fucking with people we can. In fact, Christiane, I'm sort of fucking with you, right now."
Will there be a confrontation between the White House and Petraeus over the 2011 Drawdown? Axelrod says that everyone's on board with the drawdown, so there shouldn't be a conflict. (In the end, there is probably something to this. Let's remember: the "end of the Iraq War" means "50,000 troops remain in Iraq." So, actual words have enormous elasticity, don't they?)
Will Rahm leave before the midterms to run for Mayor of Chicago? (Actually, he had better. His competition would have a month headstart on campaigning, otherwise -- and the election for Mayor would be in March, I believe.) Axelrod says that he's "still working through it." He says that he "loves the city of Chicago and thinks that job is the best job there is," but there are family considerations to work through. So, as soon as he confronts his family in the shower while naked and works all that out, we'll know more.
Oh my, it is Mitch McConnell! What does he think about the $4 trillion he's going to add to the debt? McConnell says that you just don't raise taxes in a recession. (Isn't the recession over? But nevermind, I forget, this is MITCH MCCONNELL, and so you also don't raise taxes in a not-recession. I want to point out however, that the Democrat's plan -- were they to not be punting on it and thus making their plan something else, that is -- would be a net tax cut.)
Will he hold the middle-class tax cuts hostage? McConnell points out, rightly, that he hasn't really had the chance to hold anything hostage because the Democrats punted on it.
But what about the $4 trillion McConnell wants to add to the deficit. Will McConnell do, as Howard Gleckman suggested he must, in order to balance the budget by 2020, "abolish" the entirety of government. DON'T TEMPT HIM, GLECKMAN!
McConnell says you reduce the deficit by "getting spending down" and "getting the economy going." Of course, coming out of the recession, the economy wasn't going because no one was spending. McCain proposed a pro-cyclical spending freeze. Obama proposed a counter-cyclical stimulus package. The American people very sensibly opted for the counter-cyclical proposal. Unfortunately, everything ended up heading into the Nexus Of Suck where the Ben Nelsons and Susan Collinses of the world gambol and play in plushie costumes, limiting the effectiveness of bills. And voila, here we are, with McConnell pledging to simultaneously freeze spending and add $4 trillion to the deficit.
Amanpour points out that Erick Erickson hates the Pledge, and McConnell laughs. But how will he satisfy the Tea Party base? McConnell says, whatever, we have so much energy, and it's going to be awesome!
"We know that none of [the Tea Party movement] are going to go out and vote Democrat on November 2nd," McConnell says. That is very true. But it's amazing to me that once again, we have a leadership member of a political party, he's got a group of constituents with heat, they are going to vote in a bloc, and all he can say is, "Well, ha. They've got nowhere else to go." McConnell sees the Tea Party as another captive constituency. It's amazing how often you see leaders, of both political parties, shrink their arguments to "Where else are you going to go?" Today, McConnell has put the Tea Party pretty squarely on the path to disillusionment, and all I can say is, "I feel for y'all. Join me in the Loser's Lounge, we'll drink some Old Overholt and talk about it."
Amanpour is really going at McConnell with the Tea Party stuff, playing him the clip of Tom Ross saying that Mike Castle really should have won that race in Delaware. McConnell has an uneasy perch with these insurgent voters, since he's really not of the DeMint school. McConnell says that he's got favorable races set up on twelve Senate races, and that's all the matters to him. The O'Donnell candidacy, he says, is interesting, and he thinks she has a good chance of winning. He says people like O'Donnell and Angle are "qualified" because they won primaries.
Amanpour tries to draw out McConnell on some of Angle's most extreme statements, but he begs off and turns the conversation to generalities. "I don't think the people of Nevada should be attacked" because of their choices. He says "the candidate" is running even with "the majority leader," so the voters "must think she's a good candidate." That's about all McConnell is likely to say about the Nevada race. He and Harry Reid are actually really close friends and have agreed to not campaign against one another. Note he doesn't use their names.
Now here's Queen Rania Al-Abdullah of Jordan, to talk about the MEPP and the SM and the SD@TT. Rania says that the MEPP is critical, and that the parties involved should stay at it, and that the difficulty shouldn't be a discouragement, because "if it were easy it would have been done by now."
RANIA: "I'm not saying that the Middle East problem, the Israeli-Palestinian issue is the one that created religious extremism. Religious extremism would have existed anyway. But extremists have done a damn good job of using this cause to amplify their message, to try to reach the masses. And we need to realize that when there is a population that is living under occupation where there's no justice, where they can't send their children to school, where mothers have to deliver on checkpoints, and on the other side where Israelis feel they have to build a bubble and have to build a wall in order to exist safely because they live in such a hostile environment, that is an explosive situation that has repercussions not only in our region, but in our entire world."
She says we all have a "high stake" and a "vested interest" in the MEPP and the SD@TT continuing.
What about the downtick in Obama's popularity in the Islamic world, and in places like Jordan. Rania says, "Let's check his popularity after the peace talks" are over.
How does she assess the Islamophobia that's on the increase in the United States, and the Park51 issue? It just really surprised me how enflamed this issue became. What really should be driving this debate is what is the road to reconciliation? At the end of the day, this is a center that is about religious harmony. It's about tolerance," she says, adding that the center is not something that "plays into the hands" of the "bin Ladens of the world," but rather "undermines" radical terrorists. My position is and will always be that America is the best place to worship in the world, and we should be proud of that, and that we should recognize that it's actually a needle in the eye of every radical cultist mullah in the world.
But not everyone agrees with me obviously! Some people prefer to get some reality teevee time by burning a book, like grown-ups.
How can the Muslim world allay fears? Rania says that moderate Muslims need to "speak up more." "And also when they speak, there needs to be people listening on the other side. Because this is the debate that effects how the future generations think and feel."
Okay, Panel Time. Today it's George Will and Donna Brazile and Matt Dowd and Ron Brownstein.
Pledge To America! THE GOP IS COMING TO DUST YOUR FURNITURE.
Will says it's all about "spending." But is it more than talking about spending? Dowd says the Pledge is not going to affect the election at all, and the larger problem is that the country doesn't trust either party on spending, with good reason. People will get kicked out in 2010, like they got kicked out in 2006 and 2008. Brownstein says that trust has cratered! The Obama administration, Congress, corporations, everyone! No one trusts anybody. How will we learn to love each other.
Donna Brazile says that the Pledge is "recycled ideas" and it includes a LOT of spending. (But recycled is good, right? It's green? It hits LEED standards?)
Dowd and Brownstein essentially boils all of the Dems woes down to the fact that voters do not perceive that things have gotten better. And Brownstein says that what's coming to the Senate, is some Alabama Hi-Test Tea Party Cray-Cray. (This is good news, for the writers of Sunday liveblogs, actually, but some of you may feel differently.)
Brazile says that there's still a "internal civil war" going on with the GOP, but, well, we'll see. I think that there's been a cease-fire. When you've thrown Karl Rove under the bus for taking the perfectly reasonable position that Mike Castle is more electable than Christine O'Donnell, where is the civil war? Ron Brownstein says he's got Ken Buck quoted in his article, saying that he won't be following along with the GOp leadership, but brother, Ken Buck hasn't got here yet. When he gets to Washington and sees all the dollar bills dancing in front of him and the hand-jobs available from lobbyists, his desire to make internal war is going to go right the hell away. The people who resist that are really, really rare.
George Will says that Woodward's book sort of ignored the fact that Afghanistan's in a stink-swamp of government corruption, but just as the convo is getting good, Amanpour's got to toss it to the green room.
Nation, I shall face you. And today, I shall face you in the form of the aforementioned Ken Buck and Marco Rubio -- who is here depicted as a "tea party" type even though he's been running away from them for some time now.
Bobby Sheef is talkin' Tea Party stuff, today, but we'll start it off light and sweet with Marco Rubio, who when asked if he thinks of himself as a Tea Party candidate, says that one cannot call oneself that, because of a very illogical set of maxims and rules that essentially allows Rubio the option of not signing on to a movement of eliminationist extremists, if he could, please. (Because far from not being able to appropriate the label for oneself, most "tea party" candidates do it every five minutes.)
What have the Republicans done wrong? Rubio says that when they were in the majority, they didn't keep promises like balancing budgets and term limits. Term limits? Or, Marco, sweetie, you can't seriously be thinking you are going to lead a movement to impose term limits!
What about privatizing Social Security? Rubio says it should not be privatized and it should be saved, GOT THAT ALL YOU OLDS, LAYING UP IN THE CUT IN BOCA RATON? From there, it gets confusing. No changes in benefits to the people now receiving them, but maybe changes to younger workers. Of course, its the younger workers who are paying for those receiving the benefit. But maybe we'll change the way it's indexed or raise the retirement age, Rubio says (while strangely implying that we're always tweaking the retirement age).
What about the Arizona immigration law? Does Rubio want that or not? Rubio contends that the law was changed to prohibit ethnic profiling (what it did was strand law enforcement on a weird legal island where they had to pursue the law in a way that didn't evidence any ethnic profiling, while simultaneously demanding results that can't be achieved through any other means). He also says that states like Arizona are in a "unique situation," in that they border Mexico, and hey, who's trying to cross a border into Florida, ha ha! Does Florida even have a border? Ha ha. What are these footprints on the beaches of Sanibel Island? HEAR ME, TRADITIONAL FLORIDA GOP CONSTITUENTS?
So, the Arizona law should not be a model, but a "wake up call." (As in, WAKE UP, Arizona is kind of crazy.)
Rubio has two homes, bought with a mortgage, so he is well-short of "the full McCain."
Ken Buck is here, now. And he says he is not an extremist. He's going to be the non-extremist, who controls spending, with a Constitutional balanced-budget amendment.
What about the tax cuts for the wealthy, then, that will add $4 trillion to the deficit. Buck doesn't really have an answer for that! Because he wants to give the rich that money. So Buck says that "he does not see" cutting taxes for the rich "as tax cuts." Interesting! How does he see it? He sees it as a means by which "families" don't have to "give up" things. We're talking about families of millionaires, mind you. He wants to extend all the tax cuts, and blow up the budget deficit.
Buck said he wouldn't vote to confirm anyone who supported abortion to any government office, what does he say now? Something hilarious, actually! "I won't use abortion as a litmus test, but if someone is pro-abortion, not just pro-choice, not just believing that abortion should be rare and limited, but if someone is promoting abortion, I think that goes beyond the pale, outside the boundaries of normal politics, and I will not support a candidate who is pro-abortion.
I guess for the zero Americans who are blocking off maternity wards and obstetrics clinics with posters, trying to convince women to terminate their pregnancies, because, what -- babyproofing one's house is a real drag? -- this is terrible news!
Scheiffer points out that this is a litmus test. Buck says that he wouldn't apply a litmus test to someone who is pro-choice, but would apply it to an activist. So, what about pro-choice activists? Because pro-abortion activists? I've never met one! In fact, I once considered forming a joke, "pro-abortion" organization to demonstrate this point, but didn't because I thought it was rather obvious. And along comes Ken Buck, a magical brand of stupidity, that I am facing in this nation!
Will he privatize veteran's hospitals? He says that if the quality of veteran's care could be augmented by outsourcing, he'd be in favor of it, but that the government should cover the cost, so that's not really outsourcing? It's so hard to tell if Buck is trying to temporarily moderate his positions for the benefit of the FACE THE NATION audience, or if he is actually, genuinely this misinformed about public policy.
Now we'll talk to Sal Russo, who is some sort of Tea Party strategist. (This is more like an episode of FACE THE CARRY NATION, today. I am getting HATCHETATED!)
Anyway, Sal Russo is out in Sacto, California, cold raisin' scrilla for the Tea Party candidates. He's given money to people like Sharron Angle, who are probably TP4LIFE, and guys like Scott Brown, who abandoned the Tea Party just as quickly as he could. "We're the purest form of democracy in the Tea Party movement," he says, because he can only help people as much as the people want to help them.
What about Bill Clinton, who criticized the Tea Party from being bankrolled by rich donors? Russo says that his organization doesn't have rich donors, and he resents being called astroturfers.
What about the fact that the Tea Party is helping Democrats by getting hard-to-elect candidates nominated to office? Russo basically points out that the political system has been turned on its head and has been a boost for conservatives, if not Republicans. He doesn't see them as helping Democrats at all. Rather, his candidates are "independent cusses." He sees this as a repeat of the Reagan revolution. He offers no prediction on whether the GOP will take either the House or the Senate, instead saying that there will be more people on hand to vote for conservative fiscal policies.
Bob Schieffer signs off by saying that he was recently staring at a sad lady in an airport lounge who had a flag from a military funeral, and it moved him to wonder about the mothers of soldiers who aren't coming home from our wars. "The real cost of war is not what we pay in dollars and cents," Schieffer says, "the real cost is what we take from a mother who is just left with a memory in the form of a neatly folded flag in a clear plastic case."
Oh, Schieffer! There you go, classing things up with your touching, eminently sensible reminders of the way that decisions made in Washington have an impact on actual people that doesn't show up in the news often enough!
Okay, well, I have received many an email from people with STRONG FEELINGS (as well as some people who have just got normal-sized feelings) and the going desire is to keep this liveblog in standard top-to-bottom chronological order, so that's where we'll leave things for the time being. Thanks for letting me know! I'll keep reading those emails from those of you who send them on later today, though, so don't consider the "polls closed" or anything! Have a great Sunday, and a fantastic week (which I sure hope actually has some autumnal temperatures).


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Drama and Citizenship - Devised Drama for Education
Purpose: In this article I will give an example of a linguistic program I have been doing with sixth form college students from Finland and the Netherland and link this action research to the meaning of drama education, and of the potential of devised drama as a part of civic Education.
Method: I will explain the theory of devised drama, then I will highlight the research and finally, I will conclude the research findings. The analytical framework used in this article is well-suited for drama education with youth. I would like to characterize drama education dramaturgy not as Aristotelian nor Brechtian, but as an 'open or joint - making together - dramaturgy'.
Findings: The term 'drama' is often used to describe the process of making work that does not necessarily demand an outside audience, and 'theatre' to identify work, that is focused on performing to an outside audience. 'Devised drama' relies both on process and product. Leaning how to make devised drama is an important as learning about its processes and start thinking: 'why we came up with these ideas of us and fictional drama world?'
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SQL Server 2005 introduced some new features that left "traditional" SQL folks puzzled. What's the hidden use for SQLCLR? Or the XML data type? Or Service Broker? Besides being available to you as a programmer, these are all used internally.
I once had a conversation with a database person (not SQL Server) who, when asked about the viability of certain features in his database product for the general database developer, responded that "although there are only a handful of users using feature X, we use it internally in the product." So its always interesting to observe the SQL Server team using its own features to implement other features. Here's a couple of examples from SQL Server 2008.
SQL Server 2008 includes PowerShell integration and a PowerShell provider for SQL Server that allows you to navigate the database and policy object models using a file paradigm. Where else are they using PowerShell in the product?
A glance at the BOL reveals that there are a few new SMO (SQL Server Management Object) libraries, with names ending in DMF (e.g. Microsoft.SqlServer.Management.Dmf). These are used to setup and manage policy. According to this Policy-Based Management webcast, the libraries are used both internally (via SQLCLR) and externally (hosted by PowerShell) to define and check policy. Remember DMF stands for declarative management framework, the original name for the feature now known as Policy-Based Management.
Another use of PowerShell in SQL Server 2008 is as a subystem for SQL Agent jobs. In addition to the SQL Server 2005 Agent subsystems, you can use the PowerShell subsystem with jobs. Create a new job and jobstep to see PowerShell as a choice.
These (PowerShell and Policy) are also used together when you use an "on-schedule" policy execution mode. Choosing this mode schedules a SQL Agent job that uses a job step hosted by PowerShell that invokes a PowerShell cmdlet named Evaluate-Policy. The help file for this cmdlet says it "supports the SQL Server 2008 infrastructure". By the way, "On change – log only" policy execution mode uses Service Broker for its implementation.
Another example of synergy between new features involves the extended event feature. Extended events are implemented via an event engine built into SQL Server. Individual events are lightweight to fire and the infrastructure is amazingly flexible. Events can be associated with actions that pick up addition info, filtered via predicates, and dispatched synchronously or asynchronously to a variety of event targets.
Besides the events,actions,target, etc used for diagnosis, Extended Events are also used to implement to new SQL Server 2008 Auditing feature. Auditing has its own package of events,actions,data types, and targets which are used when you define an AUDIT in DDL, but because they are just "ordinary" Extended Event objects, you can also use them in conjunction with any of the other Extended Event facilities.
That's just a couple of examples of "feature synergy" in SQL Server 2008. I've blogged about others in SQL Server 2008 (e.g. SQLCLR UDTs for Spatial data types and hierarchyID) and I'll blog about more examples as I come across them.


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1909 Argentine Mauser 7.65 x 53 - Will no close on GO gauge
Hello. I purchased an 1909 7.65 x 53 Argentine Mauser a while back. It is all numbers matching and in really nice shape. I went ahead and purchased a set of headspace gauges to make sure it was safe before shooting. I tried the NO GO and the bolt will not close then the GO gauge. That did not close either. Took it to a gun smith (who has been taking a long time with my rifle) and he said he will do a chmber cast to make sure it is the right caliber. Well it was so the other option he suggested would be to replace the barrel. I am no gunsmith, but cannot the chamber possibly be reamed out a bit? Also I have read that there is a place that won't even make these gauges due to the difference of the headspace dimensions of military rifles manufactured early in the century. What would be the best course of action to get this rifle up to spec?
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This betta cloudy eye guide is going to teach you everything you need to know about cloudy eye. You'll be pleased to know that cloudy eye is easily treatable and preventable. But, don't take it too lightly. If your betta is suffering from cloudy eye and you do nothing, then he could end up dying.
The Complete Betta Cloudy Eye Guide
This guide will be broken down into a number of sections. Such as what cloudy eye is, why it happens, how to treat it, and how to prevent it. It's important to know all of the information surrounding cloudy eye. Even if you're reading this article for fun, you will still learn some new information that is going to help you keep your betta healthy! So first of all…
What Is Cloudy Eye?
Cloudy eye is a disease which causes the lens of your bettas eye to become cloudy and opaque. However, there can be a wide range of causes to cloudy eye so it's important to diagnose cloudy eye correctly for the best treatment.
What Causes Cloudy Eye?
Cloudy eye can be caused in a lot of different ways, but it normally has one route source. Poor water quality. The only exception to the rule is if your betta has cataracts. You can often confuse cataracts with cloudy eye because of how similar they look. The biggest tell-tale sign that its cataracts is if your betta is old.
However, if your betta is still young and it's suffering from cloudy eye then it may be being caused by internal parasites. If this is the case then there may be other symptoms as well as cloudy eyes (Such as in the case with Popeye).
Another common cause of cloudy eye is a bacterial infection. If you think your betta is suffering from a bacterial infection, then the treatment will be similar to internal parasite treatment.
And in some cases, it can be a dietary deficiency, which is often caused by malnutrition and not feeding your betta a healthy amount of food.
But the most important thing to remember is that poor water quality will be the underlying reason for the vast majority of these problems.
The Symptoms Of Cloudy Eye In Bettas
There is only one massively noticeable symptom caused by cloudy eye. And that's a grey or opaque film covering your bettas eye. You are also likely to see mucus building up as its body tries to fight whatever infection it has.
Because of this, you'll notice his vision will be impaired and he'll have a hard time swimming and finding food.
If you notice any other symptoms along with cloudy eye then it could be another disease. For example, cloudy eyes are often a symptom of Popeye. If you notice your bettas eyes bulging out then you shouldn't treat him for cloudy eye at all. (If you think that your fish is suffering from Popeye then you can read about everything you need to know!)
(Or if you don't notice these symptoms in your betta, then they may be suffering from something else! Check out this article on all the diseases and illnesses your betta can end up suffering from.)
How To Treat Betta Cloudy Eye
Cloudy eye is one of the more treatable diseases. If you notice it and act fast your betta will make a full recovery in no time. Here are the steps you should follow.
- If your betta is in a community tank, then if possible move him to a quarantine tank. (If you don't know how to set up a quarantine tank then now's the perfect time to learn.)
- Set up your quarantine tank as you normally would and add conditioned water. (Remember to leave it for 24 hours before adding your betta.)
- After 24 hours, slowly introduce your betta to the quarantine tank. Make sure you float him on the surface in a bag for 20 minutes before adding him in.
- Once your betta has been added to the tank you should add some aquarium salt. 1 tablespoon per 5 gallons is enough. Before adding the aquarium salt you should stir it in a small amount of your aquarium water until it's diluted.
- As well as using aquarium salt you can also add some API stress coat. This is going to help reduce your bettas stress and build up his slime coat.
- Remember to only add more aquarium salt and API stress coat when you're changing the tanks water.
- While you're doing this you should also be performing water changes on your main tank. If your tank is 5 gallons you should perform a 50% water change every 3-4 days. If it's 10 gallons you can do a 25% water change every 3 or 4 days. And as the tank gets bigger you can change less water in longer amounts of time.
- Because poor water quality is the biggest cause of cloudy eye you should be testing your main tank. Your tank should have 0ppm ammonia, 0ppm nitrite and no more than 20ppm nitrate. If you notice more than this you should keep performing water changes until the water reaches that level.
Cloudy Eye Caused By Malnutrition
If you think that your bettas cloudy eye is being caused by malnutrition then you should still follow the steps above. But on top of that, you should also make sure that you're feeding him lots of vitamins and nutrient-rich food. Live food is always a great choice. So try adding bloodworms, daphnia and mosquito larvae to your tank once a week.
On top of this, you should make sure you're buying high-quality pellets for your betta as well. I use Aqueon Betta Food Pellets because they have all the nutrients bettas need in them,
How To Prevent Cloudy Eye In Bettas
The best way you can stop your betta suffering from cloudy eye it to make sure the water quality in your tank is good. The key to improving water quality is to make sure that the ammonia and nitrite are at 0ppm and nitrates are below 20ppm. Here are a few ways you can do that:
- Perform regular water changes in your tank. If you have a smaller tank you'll need to perform larger water changes more often. Whereas in a larger tank you'll only need to change 25% of the water every week.
- Make sure you're cleaning your tank as well. You should use a gravel vacuum to get any rotten food and feces out of your gravel.
- Every once in a while remove all ornaments and give them a clean, this includes plastic or silk plants.
- Make sure you have a good filtering system that can adequately clean your tank. A filter should be mechanical, chemical and biological. The mechanical removes debris, the chemical removes chemicals from the water and the biological will get rid of any biological waste.
- As well as this you should change the filter cartridges when necessary.
- You should test your bettas water regularly to make sure the ammonia and pH are good.
- Make sure you're not overstocking your tank. You should have a maximum of 1 inch of fish per gallon. However, this is a general rule of thumb. Bigger fish will need more room to swim.
- Don't put your betta in a tank smaller than 5 gallons. While they will be able to survive in smaller, it's not going to be good for his health.
How To Prevent Other Causes
- Make sure you are feeding your betta regularly and a variety of healthy food. Bettas are predominantly meat eaters so make sure you're feeding them live food with their betta pellets.
- If you think other fish are stressing your betta out then remove them from the tank. Stress is going to weaken your bettas immune system and make him more prone to disease.
Is Cloudy Eye Contagious?
A betta with cloudy eye will not be able to pass it onto other fish, so in that sense, it's not contagious. However, the conditions which cause cloudy eye are likely to cause it in other fish as well. If you see it multiple fish in your tank then you're going to have to take rapid action to fix the quality of water in your tank.
And remember cloudy eye can also be caused by malnutrition or could be a symptom of other more dangerous illnesses.
Is Cloudy Eye Fatal To Bettas?
If left unchecked any illness a betta gets can become fatal. However, luckily cloudy eye on it's own is less likely to become fatal. As long as you treat your betta and adjust the water he should make a speedy recovery in no time. If you notice the symptoms are getting worse or more symptoms however this can be a different story. You should go to your local aquatic center to get a diagnosis if this is the case.
So while cloudy eye on it's own is unlikely to be fatal if it's the symptom of something worse it could be.
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So the good news is that betta cloudy eye is relatively easy to treat and unlikely to become fatal. If your betta does have cloudy eye here are the main points to remember:
- Cloudy eye is most likely going to be caused by poor water quality. However, it can sometimes be caused by a nutrition deficiency, or if your betta is old, cataracts.
- The only symptom of cloudy eye is eyes that have become grey or opaque. If you notice other symptoms such as eyes bulging out it is a different illness. (Popeye)
- To treat cloudy eye you should use aquarium salts and stress coat additive. Also, make sure you're changing the water in your main tank.
- You'll need to make sure the ammonia and nitrite levels are 0 ppm and the nitrate levels are below 20 ppm.
- To prevent cloudy eye you should make sure the quality of your water is good. Performing regular water changes and cleaning the tank often are the best ways.
- Also, make sure you're feeding your betta a mixture of live food and high-quality pellets.
- Cloudy eye isn't contagious, but if the water quality in your tank is poor then your fish are more susceptible to a whole range of illnesses.
- Cloudy eye isn't fatal but it can cause vision loss. If water quality doesn't improve however your betta is likely to get a deadly illness.
If you have any more questions you can ask them below! Otherwise here are some related articles on diseases bettas can get:
- Fin Rot & Body Rot – Fin rot and body rot are common in bettas with weak immune systems. While your betta can recover from fin rot, it's a lot harder for body rot. If you notice your bettas fins looking frayed and damaged then you should read this article to find out what you can do!
- Dropsy – Dropsy is the most dreaded illness your betta can get. If you don't catch it extremely early the chances of survival are slim. This article will show you how to spot it, and what to do if your betta is in the late stages of dropsy.
- Popeye – In its early stages popeye can often be mistaken for cloudy eye. However, Popeye is a lot more dangerous. If you're not sure whether your betta is suffering from Popeye or cloudy eye then this article will help you figure it out!
- Velvet – Velvet is a common infection that can be caused by parasites and bacteria. If you notice your betta has velvet then you're going to need to start treating it immediately before it kills your fish.
- Ich – Ich is another common disease that can affect all sorts of fish including your betta. If you notice your betta has ich then don't panic too much. Follow the steps in this article and watch your betta have a speedy recovery!


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Dropped pupils, irregularly shaped, maybe slight microphthalmia.
Dropped pupil in right eye (it's hard to see in the picture, but his pupils are perfectly round - the irregular coloration is just pigment)
Microphthalmic with starburst/irregular pupils.
Microphthalmia in both eyes.
Slightly irregular pupils (see close-up on is profile page).
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Carlos Guillen is being pretty cool about his impending free agency. He's not establishing an ultimatum for Dave Dombrowski. He's not complaining about his $5MM salary this year even though he might be worth four times that (so says PECOTA). He's not demanding to play shortstop now or in any future contract. Basically, he's the model contract year guy.
I would like to see a modified PECOTA as a means of determining Guillen's worth over for the 2008-11 seasons assuming some time spent at 1B. The projection system values him at $70MM over those four seasons, though it has him playing 100+ games at short each year. PECOTA calls for below average defense for the last three years of the contract, but still values him very highly.
Given the massive difference between his production coming from shortstop and first base, his future employer might want to keep him at short even as his defense slips further. Maybe the Tigers could compensate by signing Orlando Hudson after the 2008 season.


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Hundreds of transgender troops may continue serving in the military, but will face obstacles unless they serve "in their biological sex" now that the Supreme Court has allowed President Donald Trump's policy to go into effect while a legal fight unfolds.
In a 5-4 decision Tuesday, the court's five conservative justices cleared a path for the Defense Department to enforce the Trump Administration's policy banning most transgender Americans from serving in the military.
The unsigned order is not a final decision on the policy, but it suggests the justices are likely to uphold the policy when one of the ongoing cases reaches the Supreme Court through appeal, a process that could take years. In the meantime, the ruling is a win for the Administration, which had argued that military readiness and effectiveness were in question.
Lt. Col. Carla M. Gleason, a Defense Department spokeswoman, said Pentagon leadership was "pleased" that the Supreme Court had cleared the way for Trump's policy to go into effect. She added that the Pentagon will continue to work with the Department of Justice regarding next steps in the pending lawsuits.
"As always, we treat all transgender persons with respect and dignity," she said in a statement. "DoD's proposed policy is NOT a ban on service by transgender persons. It is critical that DoD be permitted to implement personnel policies that it determines are necessary to ensure the most lethal and combat effective fighting force in the world."
Federal judges in the lower courts in California; Maryland; Washington, D.C.; and Washington state had previously issued orders blocking the ban, saying the policy appeared to be unconstitutional discrimination. The Pentagon did not stand in the way of those rulings.
The Administration sought to fast-track the arguments by asking the Supreme Court to directly decide whether trial judges were correct to stop the policy from taking effect. The request to bypass the federal appeals court was needed, according to U.S. Solicitor General Noel Francisco, out of an "imperative public importance." However, the justices denied those petitions and instead decided to let the litigation play out in lower courts.
GLAD's Jennifer Levi, a lead co-counsel in case in U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, said the Supreme Court "saw through the Administration's contrived efforts to gin up a national crisis," but she noted that today's decision will have lasting repercussions.
"Unfortunately, the court's stay of the lower courts' preliminary orders means that courageous transgender service members will face discharges while challenges to the ban go forward," she said in a statement. "The Trump Administration's cruel obsession with ridding our military of dedicated and capable service members because they happen to be transgender defies reason and cannot survive legal review."
Before he left office in 2016, President Barack Obama aimed to make the armed forces more inclusive by allowing transgender men and women to serve openly in the military for the first time, and to seek sex reassignment surgery, hormone therapy and other treatments at military hospitals. The Department of Defense said 937 transgender individuals came out, being open about identities they had long hidden for fear of being discharged, and the military started preparing to enlist openly transgender people.
A year later, Trump moved to undo the changes Obama instigated. In three Twitter posts in July 2017, Trump said the Pentagon "will not accept or allow" transgender people to serve "in any capacity" in the military. The announcement caught Pentagon leadership flat-footed because many of the military's top generals and admirals had embraced the transgender policy. All five military chiefs of staff have publicly testified that the transgender policy did not cause readiness issues.
Gen. Joseph Dunford, the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, wrote a memo the following day to commanders and senior enlisted leaders of the Army, Navy, Air Force and Marines that the military policy on transgender troops would not change until the White House has issued Trump's directive to then-Defense Secretary James Mattis through formal channels — and not on Twitter.
A month later, Trump wrote a presidential memorandum that said allowing transgender people to serve could "hinter military effectiveness," "disrupt unit cohesion" and "tax military resources." Some Republicans have objected to taxpayer funds going toward transition-related medical care, such as gender reassignment surgery. And Trump suggested that additional study was required to make sure the implementation of the new policy would not have "negative effects."
Many transgender troops who had made their identities public were left wondering if they'd accidentally put their jobs at risk. Meanwhile, active-duty service members scrambled for legal protection to block the policy shift.
In March 2018, the Pentagon implemented a restrictive policy that stopped short of Trump's initial sweeping declaration that banned all transgender men and women. The new policy required transgender troops to serve "in their biological sex," while those who would undergo a transition "would be presumptively disqualified from service."
On Jan. 4, a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit sided with this newly defined policy, saying that the Pentagon's rules did not qualify as a "blanket ban" on transgender troops. "The government took substantial steps to cure the procedural deficiencies the court identified in the enjoined 2017 presidential memorandum," the panel said.
The RAND Corporation issued a report finding that the number of openly transgender people serving in the military would likely "be a small fraction of the total force and have minimal impact on readiness and health care costs." There is no definite figure for how many transgender people are currently on active duty, but estimates vary widely from about 2,500 to 15,500 in an active-duty force of about 1.3 million.
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Which way's the wind blowing for construction finance? It's hard to say with potential top-of-the-cycle headwinds, pro-business regulatory tailwinds, plenty of unknowns and unpredictable ripple effects, all while the lessons of the recession are still fresh in the minds of many. So what's an institution to do when there's so much uncertainty? How does one chart a course? For one, proceed with caution, which is what we are seeing with many lenders hesitant to issue construction loans. But beyond staying in safe harbors, there's nothing like counsel and conversation with your peers and a healthy discussion of construction risks from all angles, which is exactly what the construction finance community is about to do next week.
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A preeminent critic maps the frontier of contemporary poetry.
In this book, Jerome McGann argues that contemporary language-oriented writing implies a marked change in the way we think about our poetic tradition on one hand and in the future of criticism on the other. He focuses on Walter Benjamin and Gertrude Stein as important intellectual resources because both see the history of poetry as a crisis of the present rather than as a legacy of the past. The crisis appears as a poetic deficit in contemporary culture, where values of politics and morality are judged prima facie more important than aesthetic values. McGann argues for the fundamental relevance of the aesthetic dimension and the contemporary relevance of cultural works of the past.
McGann moves through several broad categories in his examination of contemporary poetry, including the ways in which poetry must be abstract, change, and give pleasure. The author draws on sources ranging from the poetry of Bruce Andrews and Robert Duncan to Looney Tunes cartoons. The experimental move in contemporary poetry, McGann contends, is an emergency signal for readers and critics as much as it is for writers and poets, a signal that calls us to rethink the aesthetics of criticism. The interpretation of literary works has been dominated by enlightenment models—the expository essay and monograph—for almost two hundred years. With the emergence of new media, especially digital culture, the limitations of those models have grown increasingly apparent.
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