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Int. J. Mol. Sci. 2012, 13(11), 13881-13893; https://doi.org/10.3390/ijms131113881
The Role of Forkhead Box Q1 Transcription Factor in Ovarian Epithelial Carcinomas
Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Qilu Hospital, Shandong University, 107 W. Wenhua Road, Jinan 250012, China
Departments of Pathology, Gynecology/Obstetrics, and Oncology, Program in Pathobiology, Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, Baltimore, MD 21231, USA
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Received: 27 September 2012 / Accepted: 18 October 2012 / Published: 26 October 2012
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Genes and Pathways in the Pathogenesis of Ovarian Cancer)
AbstractThe role of the forkhead box Q1 (FOXQ1) transcription factor in cancer pathogenesis has recently emerged. Overexpression of FOXQ1 has been found in a variety of human cancers, and its upregulation has been associated with poor prognosis in colorectal, breast, and non-small cell lung carcinomas. However, the molecular mechanism underlying how FOXQ1 contributes to ovarian epithelial carcinomas remains unclear. To this end, we analyzed gene expression levels in ovarian cancer tissues and cell lines and demonstrated a higher expression level of FOXQ1 in epithelial ovarian cancer cells than that in normal epithelial cells. We then used a human ovarian cancer cell line, SKOV3, which expressed a higher level of FOXQ1, as a cell model to investigate the biological effects of FOXQ1 by using RNA interference. Silencing of FOXQ1 expression using a shRNA knockdown approach affected the expression of several cell cycle regulators, leading to suppressed cell proliferation, reduced cell motility/invasion, and upregulation of epithelial cell markers and the downregulation of mesenchymal cell markers. Taken together, these results suggest that FOXQ1 expression is essential to maintain cell proliferation, motility/invasion, and epithelial-mesenchymal transition phenotypes in ovarian cancer cells. View Full-Text
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PARIS is expensive. Good walking shoes are relatively inexpensive. So unless it's pouring, why not walk and let the wonders of the great architectural and cultural heart of France scroll by in slow motion? Money saved can go toward adding an ambrosial extra course to that fixed-price meal or upgrading to a nicer hotel room.
Your interests - art, history, shopping, architecture, fashion, food - will determine your plans. A few hours spent jotting notes from a guidebook (Michelin is sober, precise, and historically detailed; Fodor is more popularized) well in advance of your trip will save many missteps.
Here are a few favorite walking tours, to which you can append your own specialized additions. If it's your first trip to Paris, I'd suggest a pleasant orientation cruise on the Seine before you set out on foot. At a leisurely pace with no traffic worries, you can see and understand the locations of the Hotel de Ville (city hall), Notre Dame, the Louvre, Ecole Nationale des Beaux Arts, Musee d'Orsay, the Tuileries gardens, the National Assembly, Les Invalides, Museum of Modern Art, Eiffel Tower, and, as the touts say, ``muchmuchmore.''
Now you're oriented. If there's no long line snaking around I.M. Pei's glass pyramid entry at the Louvre, you may want to start with a stroll through its endless corridors, which Art Buchwald once lampooned in a column about the record-breaking four-minute Louvre (Mona Lisa, Winged Victory of Samothrace, and Venus de Milo in 3:59). Then stroll through the Tuileries and look at the Orangerie.
A somewhat less-touristy (and definitely longer) walk starts in the Marais (old city) district, wends all the way uphill to Sacre Coeur for a view of the city, and returns downhill to the opera, La Madeleine, Place Vendome, and back to your hotel via lots of fancy shops in the most fashionable area of the city.
This long walk (wear sneakers or walking shoes) also gives you the option to stop at the Picasso Museum or the Centre Pompidou as you leave the Marais. If you're an ambitious walker you could swing over to the Place de la Bastille and the modern opera house on this tour. Or you could incorporate them into a Seine islands circuit.
Another option is to reverse direction to and from Sacre Coeur and plan to have dinner at one of the many small restaurants in and around the Marais. There are lively ghettos of Moroccan, Jewish, Algerian, and Tunisian fare, as well as classic and cuisine minceur French restaurants.
IF the weather is poor or your feet tire, try a short island tour. Walk along the Seine and cross the bridge to the Ile St.-Louis. Stroll down the middle of the island looking in antique shops. Or have lunch at one of the informal bistros. Or lick an ice cream cone from one of several ice cream (and pungent-flavored fruit ice) shops. One has sidewalk tables looking out toward Notre Dame. From there cross a short bridge to the Ile de la Cite.
You can make the island stroll relatively short and return to your hotel, or extend it into a longer walk through the Left Bank. That might include some aimless wandering through galleries, shops, sidewalk cafes, literary sites, the Pantheon, foreign ministry, and more. You ought to include a visit to the Musee d'Orsay, a brilliant conversion of a defunct railway station into a very accessible and lively museum. The Luxembourg Gardens offer pleasant relief from motor-scooter exhaust and mobs of lens-bedecked tourists.
Although it's also touristy, you ought to wander down the Champs-Elysees to the Arc de Triomphe, perhaps sit at a sidewalk cafe and have a Perrier or (I prefer) Badois eau minerale, and watch the world go by. Next you might go to the Musee d'Art Moderne (which, unlike its New York namesake, tends to be refreshingly underpopulated), and thence down river to the Palais de Chaillot and across the bridge to the Eiffel Tower. (It's up to you and the weather whether you want to ascend and view the city.)
One last word for first-timers: Don't worry! All of the above can be accomplished while having an exuberant good time with no more missteps than you might make in a strange city in your own country.
If you happen to turn right instead of left, enjoy the adventure, find an offbeat bistro, try a French phrase or two on a passerby (in August, you may find she's an equally lost Spaniard or Swede), and re-check your map.

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In this post I'll mention the refactoring updates I applied today on GeneriX solution. This post is directly related to previous post (GeneriX for SharePoint) and can be considered as an extension of it.
If you remember, we used copy-paste approach to duplicate some class definitions (action and handler classes) in step-1 and step-3 of previous post. Actually, by doing so we kinda implemented new action and handler classes for our new custom action: check-out items.
Simply copy-paste introduces duplicate code, which actually needs to be written only once, if proper refactoring is applied.
In our case, custom actions and custom handlers were repeating some common rendering and init functions. So I introduced two new base classes for those: CustomActionBase and CustomHandlerBase.
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As seen, both classes are declared abstract. Also keyword virtual used for methods which can be overridden in derived classes.
Hopefully this comparison (Virtual vs. Abstract Classes) helps to understand why ProcessItem and SetUIDetails methods are declared as abstract. Because those methods MUST be implemented by deriving classes.
Actually implementation of ProcessItem will be our custom logic that we'd like to apply on each selected item. e.g. delete, check out …etc.
Similarly, implementation of SetUIDetails will determine UI behaviour of our custom Actions Menu item, such as title, icon, description.
Now, let's see how simplified our action and handler classes are after refactoring applied.
For instance, below you can see handler and action classes for custom action: Delete. In our handler class, we have no unnecessary code, simply we have just the code we need to process a selected item, which is deleting in this case. Since, ProcessItem method was declared as abstract in base class, we implement it here in deriving class. If you don't, you get a compilation error during build.
In derived action class, all we need to provide is UI details for our actions menu item. For delete operation, providing details below, assigns necessary values for our delete menu item control.
In summary, it's a good practice to apply Refactoring on your code where possible. Not only it reduces amount of code you write, but also it improves code execution performance. Also, your code becomes more modular and easy to read and understand by others.
GeneriX Wsp: Zieglers.SharePoint.Generic.20100325.wsp
GeneriX Source Code: GeneriX.zip
(Don't forget to remove .doc extension Rename downloaded files exactly as seen above)
Let me know if you have questions regarding refactoring, virtual-abstract classes, source code, deployment issues … etc.


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Ruins : Pathfinder Series, Book 2. / Orson Scott Card.
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A complex fate. A deadly path. Book two in the New York Times bestselling series Publishers Weekly calls "an epic in the best sense."When Rigg and his friends crossed the Wall between the only world they knew and a world they could not imagine, he hoped he was leading them to safety. But the dangers in this new wallfold are more difficult to see. Rigg, Umbo, and Param know that they cannot trust the expendable, Vadesh--a machine shaped like a human, created to deceive--but they are no longer certain that they can even trust one another. But they will have little choice. Because although Rigg can decipher the paths of the past, he can't yet see the horror that lies ahead: A destructive force with deadly intentions is hurtling toward Garden. If Rigg, Umbo, and Param can't work together to alter the past, there will be no future. The adventure, suspense, and time travel continue in this second installment in the critically acclaimed New York...
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LARAMIE, Wyo. — The Cowboys were playing at home on a recent Saturday, which meant a big crowd, which meant
Fans in brown and gold strode up to the state's senior U.S. senator to slap him on the back, offer an arm-pumping handshake or make small talk about farming, kids' soccer and his recent radio interview on the Middle East.
At 69, Michael B. Enzi is the epitome of unassuming, a figure widely known and liked at home but scarcely seen or heard outside Wyoming or beyond Capitol Hill, even after more than 16 years in the
After spending the last several decades away — working in the George W. Bush administration, helping write her father's memoir, delivering commentary on Fox News — Liz Cheney bought a log home with a view of the Tetons, enrolled her four youngest children in public schools and picked a fight that few here, save vastly outnumbered Democrats, are happy to see.
In just 2 1/2 months as a declared candidate, Cheney has generated more controversy and national headlines — about a tardy tax bill, a family divide over same-sex marriage, a fishing license scandal, an attack on the newspaper industry — than Enzi has managed in a 40-year career, going back to his days as mayor of Gillette.
There is little substantive difference between the two candidates. Both are deeply conservative and virtually certain to keep the seat in Republican hands, regardless of who wins the August 2014 primary. So their contest has become a test of celebrity versus familiarity, of brashness versus understatement and, as Washington lurches from one partisan showdown to the next, the question of when compromise equals capitulation.
Voters "expect results out of Washington," Enzi said, pausing between handshakes at the football stadium, "not just a bunch of poking a finger in the chest of the other person and out-shouting them." Cheney calls that "going along to get along."
Enzi seemed genuinely startled when Cheney, 47, announced her candidacy in July, just half an hour after he declared his plans to seek a fourth term. "I thought we were friends," Enzi lamented to reporters. (The senator has fly-fished with the former vice president.)
But Cheney's ambition, if not her timing, was no secret. Even before she bought a home last year in the posh Jackson Hole area, she was making the rounds of Rotary Club meetings, Republican fundraising dinners and Wyoming
She speaks in near-apocalyptic terms about the direction of the country under President Obama — the most radical man, she says, ever to sit in the White House — and suggests Enzi has been insufficiently resolute in fighting back. She cites, as a case in point, the months the senator spent in bipartisan talks on healthcare legislation before voting against the finished product.
"A nice man," she said dismissively during a recent radio interview on Casper's KTWO. "I think it's just, frankly, time to say we need a new approach."
For all her pugnacity, however, Cheney has spent much of the early campaign on the defensive.
She was late on her property tax bill because, she said, of a misunderstanding about the terms of the sale. She sparked a family squabble by declaring her opposition to same-sex marriage. "I love my sister," responded Mary Cheney, who is gay and married to a longtime partner. "But she is dead wrong."
Perhaps most significantly, it was revealed that Liz Cheney received a state fishing license 72 days after closing on her Wyoming home, a violation of the law requiring residents to live in the state 365 consecutive days. Cheney blamed a clerical error and slammed the newspaper editor who reported that she paid a $220 fine.
"Newspapers are dying, and that's not a bad thing," she told a tea party gathering. "We're not depending on the Jackson Hole News & Guide to get the news out. We're depending on ourselves. We're going over their heads."
Small as it may seem, the matter of an illegitimate fishing license played into a larger, far more troublesome issue facing Cheney: the notion that she parachuted into Wyoming for the sole purpose of seeking elected office.
Although she attended elementary and junior high school in Casper and calls herself "a fourth-generation Wyomingite" — citing family who settled in the state in 1907 — Cheney graduated from high school in northern Virginia, college in Colorado and law school in Chicago. Until moving back, she and her family lived in the Washington, D.C., suburbs.
Cheney, whose campaign did not respond to multiple phone calls and emails, dismisses the residency issue as a diversion. But it came up repeatedly, unprompted, in conversations with voters.
"She's been here a year and she's running for the Senate?" said Paul Suchor, his voice edged with sarcasm. The 56-year-old construction worker first met Enzi and his wife in the 1970s, back when the couple sold shoes from the family store in downtown Gillette.
"How can she know what's right and wrong for the state if she hasn't lived here the last 20 years?" Suchor said. "I really think she's running off her father's name."
Laurie Wagner, 59, whose husband runs one of the TV stations in Cheyenne, said Cheney touting her family's Wyoming roots was "all well and good," adding, "I understand that. But she hasn't been here in a while."
Like many, Wagner has met Enzi several times. It's not hard in a state with fewer than 600,000 residents. One teacher in Casper said she and the senator had spoken about education on numerous occasions. An oil industry worker from Evanston remembered Enzi showing up 10 years ago for a scholarship dinner for his son, and the three of them discussing the Harry Potter books.
"I'm kind of favorable to him because he was at that celebration and we got to talk a little bit," said Dennis Anderson, 63, a draftsman and document manager for Chevron.
In modern times, no senator from Wyoming has completed more than three terms, making Enzi's try for four something of a reach. Still, with no great agitation for change, the burden is on Cheney to explain why the incumbent deserves to be kicked out of office.
"That's hard to do when people feel they know Enzi," said James King, who teaches political science at the university in Laramie. "And they like Enzi."
"That's hard to do when people feel they know Enzi," said James King, who teaches political science at the university in Laramie. "And they like Enzi."


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Elton John will never get Ukrainian child
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The mother of the Ukrainian toddler Sir Elton John and husband David Furnish wanted to adopt has spoken out about her refusal to hand 15-month-old Lev over to the celebrity couple
The mother of the Ukrainian child Sir Elton John wants to adopt has vowed to never give him up.
The HIV positive woman - known only as Marina - has revealed she will never give 15-month-old Lev over to the pop superstar and his husband David Furnish because she wants to get her life together and raise him herself.
The 25 year old - who never relinquished her parental rights - said: "I will not give my baby to Elton John for any money."
Elton, 62, spoke out last month of his plans to adopt the toddler who "stole his heart" when he met him at an orphanage in Makeyevka.
However, Marina - who had her two children taken from her by social services because of her problems with alcohol - is determined to look after the little boy on her own.
She told Britain's The Sun newspaper: "I understand Elton's feelings. Lev is a very sunny and cheerful boy. It's impossible not to love him.
"But I'm going to overcome my problems. I so much want my babies back."
Under Ukrainian law, adoptive parents must be no more than 45 years older than an adopted child - Elton is more than 60 years older than Lev.
Same-sex couples are also forbidden from adopting because homosexual marriages are not recognised in the Eastern European country.


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Admissions offices at schools and universities can often be the most hectic place in the entire campus. Handling, processing and distributing a huge volume of documents is a necessary part of any admissions officer's job description. Hundreds of important documents, such as transcripts and confidential recommendation forms, can come streaming in on a single day, and document workflow management is of utmost importance. However, administrative work at educational institutions like the admissions process are often governed by very strict budgets and therefore may not have sophisticated systems to store, organize and make documents accessible for a prolonged period of time.
That is why Samsung Printing Solutions may be the perfect fit for your institution's admissions office. With a hypothetical example of Mr. Draudt, a registrar at a state university, we will walk you through how Samsung can alleviate unnecessary budgetary concerns, streamline work flows and keep everything organized by providing a centralized and integrated document management system.
Enhance efficiency by automating document workflow
It is the admissions period again, and Mr. Draudt and his colleagues at the admissions office are overwhelmed with applications and related documents pouring in on a daily basis. They find, however, this round of application period to be much less stressful than the previous one, thanks to Samsung's automated workflow solutions they implemented few months ago. Previously, the hard copy documents were required to be digitized to soft copies and manually be saved to appropriate database and folders for future reference. With Samsung, most of these once time-consuming tasks are now automated, thus ensuring accuracy and saving valuable time and resources.
For example, Samsung's Business CoreTM Printing Solutions (BCPS) SmarThruTM Workflow Lite supports optical character recognition (OCR), which allows your scanner to convert printed characters into digital text and thereby eliminating the need for manually typing in information.
In addition, the One Touch Scanning feature helps streamline work processes, such as automatically distributing scanned documents to predetermined destinations, including a database, another admissions officer's email or a folder for a particular applicant. These time-saving features ensure that no important documents get lost in the shuffle, which could seriously jeopardize a potential candidate's chances for getting into their dream school.
Ensure document confidentiality and reduce waste with secure pull printing
Mr. Draudt is also highly satisfied with the security functions that Samsung printers offer. One of his concerns while handling admissions related documents is to prevent leakage of confidential information such as social security numbers and final grades to unauthorized people. He is now less worried about such an issue arising from unclaimed documents remaining in the printer tray, as BCPS' Secure Login Manager does not only support user identification with ID and password, but also allows access card and PIN number authentication once Card Reader* is installed. This Pull Printing feature brings greater convenience and enhanced security, and also encourages better printing practices, like reducing waste. The Pull Printing feature is activated when the user identifies the needed document at the printing terminal. Even when numerous documents are printed by different persons at the same time on the same device, the security and Pull Printing features help them to land in the right hands.
* Card Reader is an option and needs to be purchased separately.
Bring printing costs under control with Usage Tracker
BCPS has also helped Mr. Draudt to bring printing costs under control. As an employee at a public educational institution, Mr. he feels an even greater pressure to keep costs down than businesses do. That is to say, his office has an even greater need to find the right partner for supporting more efficient work processes and finding places to reduce waste.
One such solution that Samsung printers provide is monitoring and auditing, which allows Mr. Draudt to keep track of exactly what is being printed, by whom and how often. Samsung's Usage Tracker offers him the ability to quickly clamp down on inefficient or wasteful printing practice. For example, the staffs are now encouraged to use double-sided printing when printing documents for internal use, as he was able to see that unnecessary single-sided printing was common. Also, since Samsung's printing solutions do not require an additional server, IT maintenance costs are not another concern.
Advances in technology have allowed businesses and industries to take advantage of digitized document management. It is high time that our centers of education also show their commitment to finding the right partners, the right devices and the right attitude to saving time and money for printing. During the application seasons, admissions officers and the administration office like Mr. Draudt won't be the only ones to thank you for using the right tools – students and faculty will notice the Samsung difference as well.
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NightlifeeBook - 2006
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A good airport read, this thriller by Perry concerns a spree-killer who may or may not be on the run from a determined homicide detective. Easy to read but still engaging, it is a good time-killer that won't really strain your thought processes too much.
Just finished listening to the downloadable audiobook from VPL online. Not certain what kept me listening with interest, right to the finish. Perhaps a combination of fairly clean writing and top quality narration of the audiobook.
From other reading about psychopaths, I don't really buy into Thomas Perry's presentation of his main character and what made her what she is. That's the main drawback in the book for me, a clichéd variation on the theme of bad mothers breeding monsters among us. There are other unlikelihoods in here, about on a par with this genre overall. Still, he did a good job of delivering his fictional bad actor, and Nightlife could be labelled a good read for crime thriller devotees.
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Pakistani Model Alizey Nasir Profile and New Fashion Shoot
There are many out there who are struggling to enter the limelight. Some succeed, while others have to wait till their stars turn lucky for them. Among those who are climbing up the ladder of success rapidly, Alizey Nasir, with her killing looks stands out.
Her career as a fashion model was no less of a surprise for her.
Alizey Nasir has adopted modeling as a full time career, yet she seeks to learn more in everything she adopts or plans to adopt in future.
Alizey NAsir has been on and off seen on ramps, yet she has appeared more in commercials, which according to herself, is where she enjoys being more. With Alizey busy with acquiring project after project, her education has sort of taken a back seat.
Alizey Nasir is still in the primary years of her career where choosing the best offer can take her to heights and a wrong step can destroy it all. Good luck to her.
Have a look of Alizey Nasir new photoshoot done by Photographer Hassan Vohra.


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Uscoutfor started as a talent platform for the community. Upload your goals, saves or great moves with our Uscoutfor app and get noticed by fans, scouts or teams.
Now it is time for the next step by adding unique technology that will record matches automatically and uses behavioral analysis to detect goals and analyze matches. By offering a low cost camera system we offer clubs at any level the following:
- Live broadcasting of matches for fans and sponsors
- Automatically detect goals and capture the highlights
- Use push notification to distribute the highlights for social sharing
- Offer technical staff complete match analysis after the match
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During Wednesday night's final presidential debate, Republican nominee Donald Trump did not say whether he would accept the results of the 2016 Election if he lost. In fact, echoing his sentiments in recent weeks, Trump said, "I will look at it at the time," adding "I will keep you in suspense."
Even Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton suggested his response was "horrifying."
Following the debate, CNN anchor Jake Tapper spoke to the dangers of not accepting the election results. Tapper called it, "one of the most stunning things I've ever heard in a presidential debate ever."
Trump's dangerous narrative that the election is rigged, that there is widespread voter fraud, and that the media is "rigged," is both reckless and problematic. He is essentially setting up his loss as one that has the potential to cause serious damage to the Democratic process.
Tapper said, "To suggest that he might not accept the results of the election that we're about to hold in fewer than three weeks was staggering." The issue of whether Trump would accept the results of this election is one on the minds of many across the country.
Tapper continued, "Yes, [Trump] had some good moments, especially when it came to criticisms of [Clinton] and her policies and President Obama's policies. But to suggest that he is not going to necessarily accept the results of the nomination, that was a disastrous answer."
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- Scott Frankenberger decorative porcelain pitcher from Interior Objects for my mother who collects his pieces
- A clay baking dish from the Artists' Own Gallery for my Aunt Sally, the baker of the family
- Purdue t-shirt for my brother, a Purdue Grad, at University Spirit
- Candy Canes for everyone's stockings from McCord Candies
A lovely scarf for my mother in law at Gretel's
- Hodson's Bay Company has so many bicycle gift ideas, but I picked a light rack for my Dad to add to his bike for his bicycle excursions
- A case of Root Beer from Triple XXX for my Great Uncle Harry
- A guitar case for my brother in-law at Klaverenga Guitar and Piano Studio, Inc.
- A photo bead charm bracelet being created at L.E. Originals
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Throwback Thursday: The timeless, eccentric, wonderful film adaptations of Roald Dahl's books
13 September 2016 marked Roald Dahl's 100 birthday.
The man who wrote characters like the eccentric Willy Wonka, the brilliant Matilda, and the cunning Mr Fox is one of the most iconic writers of our time, so it is no surprise that there have been numerous adaptations of his books on film. Here are the five most memorable films inspired by Dahl's books.
Fantastic Mr Fox (2009)
Wes Anderson gives his personal touch to this 1970 Roald Dahl book about the clever Mr Fox who steals from three wicked and selfish farmers named Boggis, Bunce and Bean. Starring the voice talents of George Clooney, Meryl Streep, Bill Murray and Wes Anderson himself, the film is one of the highest critically rated Anderson films. Because of his films like the Royal Tenenbaums (2001), Anderson is a natural fit for Dahl's whimsical stories. The director's signature cinematic style of bright colours and direct camera angles also serves well in taking Dahl's story from print to screen.
James & the Giant Peach (1996)
Henry Selick's mixed-media adaptation of one of Dahl's most beloved novels is a delight to watch. The book was released in 1961 and in 1992, Walt Disney Pictures acquired its film rights from the Dahl estate. The film was well-received by critics and made roughly $29 million at the box office on an estimated $38 million budget.
Sam Mendes, director of James Bond's Skyfall is all set to bring you the live-action version of the film, but no release date has been set yet.
The BFG (1989)
This was before the 2016 magnum opus directed by Steven Spielberg. This 1989 animated version has the giant's jumbled utterances going from tolerably quirky to downright grating. Dahl, who loathed most film versions of his work, apparently loved this one, and it's harmless enough, but not as awe-inspiring as Spielberg's version.
Danny, the champion of the world (1989)
This is based on Dahl's 1975 novel about a father and his son who poach an evil businessman's prized pheasants when he refuses to stop harassing them. With no giants or witches, eccentric geniuses or flying fruit, the made-for-TV version of Dahl's 1975 book is the odd adaptation that suffers in comparison to the book. Jeremy Irons acts opposite his real-life son Samuel and although the two of them share an easy chemistry (naturally enough), the pacing is off and the story plods along.
Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory (1971)
Based on arguably the most popular Dahl novel, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, the film adaptation entitled Willy Wonka and The Chocolate Factory was released in 1971 starring the late and oh-so-great Gene Wilder as Wonka. Dahl stated he did not approve of the film version because there was more emphasis on Wonka and Charlie and would have preferred Spike Milligan to have portrayed Wonka instead.
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Prisons, prevention and policy
By Robert K. Ax, PhD
Congratulations to Dr. Femina Varghese for creating the Criminal Justice Section Newsletter, "The Gavel," which marks an important step in the ongoing development of the Criminal Justice Section. I also want to thank her for inviting me to write a piece for the launch issue. In this space, I'd like to offer a slightly different perspective on our specialty, and something of a challenge.
Why do we lock so many people up here in the United States? Obviously, it's partly because we can. Despite our huge national debt, America's GDP is the world's largest, and for the past 40 years, we've spent liberally on prisons and jails. Now we have the highest incarceration rates in the world for both adults and juveniles. For all the scholarly literature, the intercession of correctional psychologists and other health care professionals, and the handwringing of policy wonks and do-gooders during those decades, the prison population didn't plateau until the federal government hit a cash flow problem about four years ago.
According to the latest available figures (Glaze & Parks, 2012), the total census is declining slightly, but we've seen this trend before. Between 1960 and 1970, the national incarceration rate (sentenced prisoners, state and federal institutions) fell from 117 to 96 per 100,000, and corresponding populations decreased from 212,953 to 196,441 (Minor-Harper, Marbrook, Baldea, & Stanford, 1986), only to begin ticking up again as increasingly harsh laws – largely having to do with street drugs – were passed at the state and federal level. When the economy recovers, perhaps the national desire to incarcerate will be reinvigorated. Initiatives to legalize marijuana possession (as occurred in Washington and Colorado this past election; note that it remains illegal under federal law) and modifications of three-strikes laws (as took place in California in November) may prove to be grudging and temporary concessions to economic realities, not sincere reappraisals of the nation's criminalizing impulse.
Neither am I sure that the future of prison policy will mean a more rational and humane disposition of persons with serious mental illness, who are more likely to be arrested and confined for the same or similar, often minor, offenses than those not SMI-challenged (Teplin, 1984; Valdisseri, Carroll, & Hartl, 1986). It is similarly uncertain whether racial disparities in incarceration will be addressed. The incarceration rate for Black non-Hispanic males is more than 6 times that of White non-Hispanic males (West & Sabol, 2009). There is now an entirely separate federal prison system: the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention centers. ICE facilities have an aggregate daily census of over 30,000 persons (Government Accountability Office, 2008), and over half of their residents are from Mexico and other Central American nations (Kerwin & Yi-Ying Lin, 2009). In addition to housing violent offenders who present a genuine risk to the community, prisons and jails have become America's default repositories for inconvenient people.
Mostly, though not entirely, correctional psychologists are in the rehabilitation business. Maybe incarceration is the component of the criminal justice system where most of the jobs are and most of the available research grant money is for those who think of themselves as correctional psychologists. That is to some extent our own doing. It's the professional space we've created for ourselves. However, in an increasingly cost-conscious health care environment, putting most of our chips on rehabilitation is a long-shot bet.
We're already fighting a steep state-dependent learning gradient, that is, teaching inmate-patients life skills, habits, and attitudes we hope will transfer from total institutional settings to the community. Hoping to achieve high rates of rehabilitation with individuals already in prison, particularly in light of the obstacles to their productive reintegration into society, is analogous to expecting high cure rates among medical patients in intensive care units. Too often, prisoners, especially juveniles, are people who have been failed by other societal institutions – family, educational, religious, and health/mental health. Once arrested, they're usually branded with a criminal record, a further impediment to turning their lives around. Psychologists can appreciate that raising the response cost of pro-social living to unrealistic levels is one way to design a system that will fail – or to design a system to fail, if one takes the cynic's viewpoint that the intention is to keep as many offenders confined as possible.
Therefore, how few people can we incarcerate in the first place?
In the popular media, discussions of prison and criminal justice reform easily veer in the direction of keeping violent criminals in prison. Granted that real thugs need to be confined, but let's look at the other end of the spectrum, at individuals who are going to prison and being burdened for life with felony convictions for non-violent and often – I use the term cautiously here – victimless crimes. Beyond that, let's think about adolescents, and children, and infants, and their parents, and what we – you and me, people with advanced degrees and specialized knowledge and authority – can do on their behalf. Preventing involvement in the criminal justice system and its attendant iatrogenic effects is where considerably greater return on investment can occur in both human and economic terms.
Notwithstanding the likelihood that most of us will continue to focus on incarcerated populations, let's also examine points of intervention further back in the pipeline that leads people to prison. To do this, an enhanced and expanded definition of the field of correctional psychology is in order, one that encompasses and permits collaborations with those involved in community psychology, educational psychology, child and family psychology, and their counterparts in other health care fields, particularly reproductive health. Ensuring as much as possible that every child is wanted, properly cared for, and adequately educated is good public health policy – and good criminal justice policy. Further, alliances with interested advocacy groups such as the National Alliance for the Mentally Ill, Families against Mandatory Minimums, the NAACP, the John Howard Society and the Elizabeth Fry Society should be considered as a means of promoting more informed laws and policies.
The rehabilitation of incarcerated persons, generally speaking, constitutes tertiary prevention. Interventions like drug and mental health courts, focused on individuals at intermediate points in the arrest-trial-incarceration pipeline, may be considered secondary prevention. Primary prevention efforts – potentially the most cost-effective – are those that help at-risk individuals avoid arrest and incarceration altogether. The Washington State Institute for Public Policy (2006) has a list of empirically-supported, prevention-oriented (primary, secondary, and tertiary) criminal justice programs. Unfortunately, funding for prevention efforts is particularly vulnerable during economic downturns. Notably, reproductive health services providers such as Planned Parenthood have recently been targeted for budget cuts or elimination.
You as a correctional psychologist could advocate for better access to reproductive health services, just as the American Academy of Pediatrics does. In fact, a recent policy statement (American Academy of Pediatrics, 2012) audaciously supported the proactive prescription of "emergency contraception" medications for adolescent girls younger than 17 (those 17 and older can obtain them without prescriptions) to ensure its availability in the event of unplanned, unprotected sexual intercourse. Further, the statement stipulated, "At the policy level, pediatricians should advocate for increased nonprescription access to emergency contraception for teenagers regardless of age and for insurance coverage of emergency contraception to reduce cost barriers" (p. 1179). This is primary prevention in terms of both criminal justice and public health policy.
If this seems too far beyond your professional frame of reference, closer to home might be advocacy on behalf of improved gun control. For example, reinstituting the assault weapons ban as a means of preventing atrocities such as the massacre of 26 persons, 20 of them small children, in Newtown, Connecticut, in December of last year is prevention of crime and incarceration. Conversations about these increasingly common events often focus on the alleged mental problems of the perpetrators, unfortunately to the relative exclusion of considering issues of access to the weapons involved. Of course, as a correctional psychologist, you could also raise your voice on behalf of rebuilding the mental health service system in this country, which has been gutted over the past half century. Doing so could, among other things, prevent the incarceration of many persons with mental illness.
All of this said, tertiary prevention remains a worthy goal, and innovation is still possible within the traditional rehabilitation framework. Since 1994, federal law has blocked prison inmates from applying for Pell Grants. Correctional psychologists could advocate for a reversal of this policy. With the advent of massive open online courses (MOOCS; Lewin, 2012) that offer the advantage of a wide variety of education and training at greatly discounted rates, inmates supported by Pell Grants would have the opportunity to learn marketable skills and get certified for jobs that pay a living wage. Utilizing technology in this way might enable many to break the cycle of crime and incarceration. In the spirit of collaboration with your colleagues in correctional education, how about writing to your elected representatives and requesting that they support modification of the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994 to permit, once again, prison inmates to be eligible for Pell Grants? Using your psychological expertise, explain the beneficial effects of education as they relate to community readjustment (Gaes, 2008; Lockwood, Nally, Ho, & Knutson, 2012).
To put all this in terms of self-interest, developing, implementing and/or advocating for effective prevention efforts may help correctional psychologists, as health care providers, survive and perhaps even thrive in the 21st century health care marketplace. Doing good and doing well are not mutually exclusive. There is, of course, a certain risk: trying to keep marginalized people out of prisons is still a politically tenuous proposition for legislators (and possibly for you). However, we may be reaching a crisis point here in the United States, one where economic constraints combine with demographic trends to compel a sincere reconsideration of the rush to incarcerate. I'm not optimistic, but I'm hopeful. Correctional psychologists can and should help inform research, practice and policy at all points within and beyond the criminal justice system, not just inside the walls.
Finally, I'd like to call readers' attention to the North American Correctional and Criminal Justice Psychology Conference, which will have its third iteration in 2015. Division 18 co-sponsored this event in 2007 and 2011. Both were extremely successful, and I would like to suggest – or advocate – that readers begin thinking now about attending and especially about submitting program proposals for N3 on themes of prevention and policy. Policy, after all, is what largely determines the nature and function of your job in a correctional facility or a university, including whether or not you have a job at all.
Collaborate, advocate, innovate. Prevent.
Suggested Further Reading
Giglan, A., Flay, B. R., Embry, D. D., & Sandler, I. N. (2012). The critical role of nurturing environments for promoting human well-being. American Psychologist, 67, 257-271. A macro-view of the individual and societal benefits of preventing emotional, mental and behavioral disorders.
Wojcik, E. (2012, October). Innovative education. Monitor on Psychology, 43(9), 66. A counseling program with an advocacy component.
American Academy of Pediatrics. (2012, December 1). Emergency contraception: Policy statement. Pediatrics, 130, 1174-1182. Retrieved December 9, 2012, from http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/130/6/1174.full.pdf+html
Gaes, G. (2008, February 18). The impact of post-release education programs on post-release outcomes. Paper presented at the Reentry Roundtable on Education, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, New York (March 31 and April 1, 2008). Retrieved December 10, 2012, from http://www.jjay.cuny.edu/centersInstitutes/pri/pdfs/GaesTheEffectivenessofPrisonEducationPrograms.pdf
Glaze, L. E., & Parks, E. (2012, November). Correctional populations in the United States, 2011 (Bureau of Justice Statistics Special Report, NCJRS 239972). Retrieved November 29, 2012, from http://bjs.ojp.usdoj.gov/content/pub/pdf/cpus11.pdf
Government Accountability Office. (2008, June 4). Alien detention standards: Observations on the adherence to ICE's medical standards in detention facilities (GAO Report #GAO-08-869T; accessible text file). Retrieved June 13, 2009, from http://www.gao.gov/htext/d08869t.html
Kerwin, D., & Yi-Ying Lin, S. (2009, September). Can ICE meet its legal imperatives and case management responsibilities? Migration Policy Institute. Retrieved December 16, 2012, from http://www.migrationpolicy.org/pubs/detentionreportSept1009.pdf
Lewin, T. (2012, November 20). College of future could be come one, come all. New York Times, A1, A14.
Lockwood, S., Nally, J. M., Ho, T., & Knutson, K. (2012). The effect of correctional education on postrelease employment and recidivism: A 5-year follow-up study in the State of Indiana. Crime & Delinquency, 58, 380-386.
Minor-Harper, S., Marbrook, M., Baldea, M., & Stanford, J. (1986, October). State and federal prisoners, 1925-1985. (Bureau of Justice Statistics Special Report, NCJ 102494). Washington, DC: US Department of Justice.
Teplin, L. (1984). Criminalizing mental disorder: The comparative arrest rate of the mentally ill. American Psychologist, 39, 794-803.
Valdisseri, E. V., Carroll, K. R., & Hartl, A. J. (1986). A study of offenses committed by psychotic inmates in a county jail. Hospital and Community Psychiatry, 37, 163-165.
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Babydolls, Nightgowns and Camisoles | Sleep Time Lingerie For Men
What better time of day to enjoy lingerie than at night, when the world has gone to bed, the land is cloaked in darkness and the realm of dreams takes over, for a few short hours to become reality. If you're not yet enjoying lingerie as part of your nighttime routine, you can be in very short order.
Nylon nightgowns are a popular choice for many men who enjoy the sensation of being enfolded in their favorite fabric. Then there's also the fact that a gown is one of the most feminine types of attire a man can wear, which makes for double the fun.
If a nightgown is going too far, how about a babydoll?
Babydolls are popular pieces of short nightwear, they're designed to fall to the upper thigh and to flare out slightly when worn, which makes them very cute and feminine. Some babydolls spilt open underneath the cleavage, exposing the stomach, however traditional babydolls do not split. Whilst a split looks vaguely alluring, it is not of much use to a man who likes the sensation of wearing a nice piece of lingerie. Most babydolls tend to be low cut, so a shaved chest is a perfect accompaniment to a sweet nylon or satin lace trimmed babydoll. The pictured piece is from Betsey Johnson, and is a pleated chiffon babydoll.
Of course, you don't have to wear a gown or dress type piece of lingerie at all. There's no reason why you can't simply wear a nice pair of panties to bed, perhaps teamed with a nice light camisole. Plenty of women choose to sleep in panty / cami combos, they tend to be light, comfortable and there's still plenty of lingerie fabric to enjoy in the night.
Nylon camisoles are an excellent investment for a man who likes panties and would like to enjoy the soft embrace of nylon and satin, and if you don't own one as yet, then you're in for a world of enjoyment. Olga camisoles are an excellent brand, and though most of them are now termed as being vintage pieces for reasons best known to Olga, I'd recommend purchasing one if you happen to be lucky enough to find one. Like Olga panties, they are well made, comfortable and trimmed to feminine perfection.
What do you sleep in at the moment? What's your favorite piece of nighttime lingerie? Share it with us in the comments!
I wear panties bras breast forms bloomers stockings & garter belt a skirt& blouse or dress and they feel so good on me that I hate to take them off . I even have heels even wigs and feel more comfortable in feminine clothing then in any men's clothing.
I agree all the way. I have a lovely lingerie collection and perfume for bedtime adventure. The sensations are out of this world. Lingerie is definitely for men. Enjoy all the choices guys and pamper yourself, you deserve it!
Satin sleepshirt, chemise, nylon slip, Miss Elaine gown, or sometimes just a tee shirt--but ALWAYS, underneath, my Lace Nouveau or Ravissant panties from VF.
I sleep in full length satin nightgowns of 52" or more. With those lengths, they ride up far less than the shorter lengths. I have 7 such gowns in various styles and I will never go back to male pajamas ever again. Nightgowns are far more comfortable for sleeping. Every once in a while though, I will wear a teddy for a change.
The brand of nightgown that I prefer is Amoureuse and they are sold by Roaman's, Woman Within, and other Lane Bryant companies. They specialize in plus size lingerie (as well as other types of clothing) that is every bit as attractive as lingerie for more petite figures.
I wear the Exofficio string bikini panties as my regular underwear. I hike and am active, so they are made mainly for that, but they are incredibly comfortable as my regular underwear. I haven't worn men's underwear in years.
I wear panties to bed every night. i wold never wear anything else. i've worn panties much longer than i have worn conventional men's underwear. I have also bought some cami's that are very nice. lingerie is definitely fun to wear
I wear Miss Elaine night gowns and Sears VIP panties
to bed nightly. Feels so good.
My chemises and camis are great to sleep in but I also have the ride-up problem others have mentioned. I like silk or modal and some lace too. Thanks for the post, Hope.
I stumbled across your hub while surfing the internet. My fantasy with nightgowns is totally on the sly. Didn't realize there were so many other "regular" guys that enjoy them too. My favorites are the long flowing gowns that have a super wide sweep. I prefer no lace. Hard to find. I have occasionally had an opportunity to sleep in a nightgown but on the sly. Was awesome. Wish I could enjoy it more often.
Almost every night I wear either a silk or satin nightdress to bed and it feels lovely. I also usually have satin sheets as well - it's a wonderful feeling sliding in and turning over. It's so cold at the moment that I have been wearing a pair of silky knickers under two full length slips - a shiny white under one and a more lacey black one. Problem is it's hard to get up but it'sSunday tomorrow and a nice lie in.
Love my nylon gowns. I do have a couple of Olga's but mostly sleep in Miss Elaine's made from 100% Antron Nylon, they feel heavenly. Sometimes I sleep in a satin sleep shirt just to be different. Shadow Line is also nice, but sadly the company has gone out of business. Hope some one picks up the line.
I have several nylon gowns and a couple of cotton ones. Most of my nightgowns are from shadowline.
The nylon makes me feel very feminine. I don't know if I could sleep in anything but a nightgown or a teddy.
I wear a long nylon nightgown to bed every night. Two brands that I really like are Shadowline and Miss Eileen. They are so soft, silky and feminiine. A perfect end to the day. . .and a great way to wake up each morning!
For me it's cotton. I like soft pajama-style nightshirts, flowery, not a lot of buttons or ties. Anything longer tangles up around me.
Nylon, silk, and lace are fun for showing off, but not for sleeping in.
I love to sleep in night gowns! Camisoles are fun to wear under male clothes, you feel so femme wearing them.
i can't sleep without a nylon nightie. and threw out my t-shirts for camisoles. my favorites have lace and ribbon straps like vintage nylon full slips
short,long,nylon,satin,silk,cotton,doesn't matter,its the feeling of being covered while asleep,waking up in it,knowing you been safely wrapped all night,and sorry to the others my girlfriend chooses what i wear,and right now sitting in a long satin burgandy nightie with matching gown which she bought me
Well, since you asked - I wear a nice pair of women's pajamas to bed. Cut fairly slim but made of stretchy fabric. And with some lace at the neckline and bottom of the pants. I must move around a lot at night, because I find the one gown I do have tends to end up bunched above my knees when I wake. Even the pajama legs end up rolled up to just below my knees.
Now camisoles, like the one in the picture, get worn in the daytime under a top that can be arranged to show just a hint of lace. :) I usually wear a longer necklace/pendant with mine.
Oh my, what a pretty baby doll. I'm such a sucker for pleats.
I have eleven sets of satin panty and cami combos. I don't think I could sleep in any thing else. My wife bought me my first few sets with matching sets for her. We have been married 37 years, but when we go to bed dressed alike we make love like we did in our 20's
I like to wear a babydoll and panties to bed. The soft sensation is wonderful!
Once again Hope has hit the nail on the head.
I wear nylon nightgowns to bed all the time. I love the feeling on the legs, too, so I prefer a long nighty.
There is a problem in that when you toss and turn the nighty will ride up and end up around your waist, and I've not found a solution to that as yet.
I mostly try to find nighties that have a lace bodice and no cups since I have nothing to put in them.
And yes, for winter nights I even have a couple of lovely flannel Granny nighties.
Thanks again Hope!


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The only thing uglier than Chuck Liddell's first round TKO by Mauricio "Shogun" Rua was his Steel Panther performance at the Key Club last night with Boston Red Sox's Brad Penny and Washington Redskin Chris Cooley. Just don't tell Chuck we said that…
That being said — the ladies seemed to enjoy it.
That being said — the ladies seemed to enjoy it.
Such is the power of Chuck. He can give a horribly tone-deaf performance of "Don't Stop Believin'" and still manage to draw a line of hot girls waiting to blow him backstage, as if he were the lead singer of Steel Panther. You can take away his livelihood, but don't you dare take away his right to sing karaoke and bang groupies.
Semi-related buzzkill: MMA Junkie's medical columnist Dr. Johnny Benjamin thinks that if Liddell continues fighting, he could end up like this. (Skip to the 1:29 mark for the sadness.)


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WASHINGTON — The Bush administration had to strive mightily to win congressional approval of a $700 billion rescue package for the financial system. Now, with no muss and no fuss, the Federal Reserve has announced an even bigger program totaling $800 billion.
WASHINGTON — The Bush administration had to strive mightily to win congressional approval of a $700 billion rescue package for the financial system. Now, with no muss and no fuss, the Federal Reserve has announced an even bigger program totaling $800 billion.
What gives Ben Bernanke and his colleagues such power — and what are the consequences of the Fed's actions?
Here is a look at the Fed's powers and how they are being used to deal with the most serious financial crisis in more than seven decades.
Q: What did the Fed do this week?
A: In the latest in a series of bold moves, the central bank announced on Tuesday that it would purchase up to $600 billion in mortgages and mortgage-backed securities — investments, in other words — that are either owned or guaranteed by financial giants Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac and Ginnie Mae, and the Federal Home Loan Banks.
The Fed said it also would create a new program to make up to $200 billion in loans to institutions where the collateral is various types of consumer loans ranging from credit card debt to auto loans and student loans.
Both moves were made in an effort to lower mortgage rates and other consumer loan rates and make those loans more available, in an effort to deal with a prolonged credit crisis that is threatening to pull the country into a severe recession.
Q: What's unusual about the Fed's actions?
A: The Fed normally is not in the business of buying mortgage-backed securities or making loans to boost the market for securities backed by such assets credit card debt and auto loans. In the current crisis, the central bank is using powers it last used extensively during the Great Depression.
Q: How did the Fed suddenly come up with $800 billion to fund these two programs, when the Bush administration had to engage in extensive negotiations with Congress to get legislation for a $700 billion program to help the nation's banks?
A: The short answer is that the Fed used the power it has to print money. It doesn't actually crank up printing presses, but it can create all the money it needs through a few computer key strokes.
Q: That's pretty impressive. How did it get that kind of power?
A: Congress gave the Federal Reserve that power when it created the Fed in 1913 as the nation's central bank, responsible for controlling the nation's money supply. The Fed's goal is to create enough money to keep the economy growing at a steady rate while guarding against creating so much money that it triggers inflation.
Q: How much extra money has it created during the current crisis?
A: Right before the credit crisis first struck with force in August 2007, the Fed's balance sheet stood at $850 billion. As of last week, that figure totaled $2.2 trillion — nearly a threefold increase.
Q: What is the Fed doing with all of that money?
A: It is essentially pumping it into the financial system, mainly by making loans to banks, giving them added resources with the hope that they will turn around and make more loans to businesses and consumers.
Q: Isn't there a danger that creating all that extra money will fuel inflation?
A: Analysts say that the threat of inflation is not the biggest risk facing the country at the moment. They compare the current economy to a person who has just suffered a serious heart attack. The immediate need is to use a defibrillator to shock the person's heart back to life — or, in the case of the economy, to supply massive amounts of money to get the credit markets working properly again. Once that is done, the Fed can worry down the road about withdrawing all the extra money it has supplied to make sure that inflation doesn't become a problem.
Q: How difficult is it for a central bank to withdraw the extra money it injected into the economy before inflation gets out of hand?
A: Throughout history, there are plenty of examples of countries that let inflation get out of control. The last bout of high inflation in this country occurred in the 1970s and early 1980s when a series of oil price shocks sent the country into a period of stagflation — stagnant growth together with persistently high inflation.
Analysts think that scenario is possible with the current downturn, but they note that the Fed has caught a break, in the form of a 60 percent drop in oil prices since crude hit a record at $147 per barrel in mid-July. The fall in oil prices, along with the severe economic slowdown, should dampen inflation pressures.


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Space Exploration is an important and crucial part of continuing the human race. Although we do need to focus on preserving the Earth for as long as possible, eventually we will run out of necessities unless there is another alternative space is the future of mankind. If we fund more space exploration we have chances of survival and increasing our abilities.
Without going into space and exploring it more, we aren't going to find other forms of life, we won't be able to find a new planet for us if this one fails, and we won't be able to see past our own reflection in the wall of satellites that is forming around the globe. We need to escape this choking prison of a home before we completely destroy it and kill everyone on the planet.
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As you may or may not know, millions of money has already been put into space race, in the discovery to find 'Earth like planets'. The positive effects are endless just like the far reaches of intricate space. As we know space has already bought some amazing discoveries. Could there be more to find?
So, what does lie for us once we begin to explore deep space, and, could we find intelligent life? Well, before all of that we have to first think of the positive effects it has already had, to start, we have over 3000 satellites orbiting Earth, many of which are used for government operations but they are also connecting us to the rest of the world, millions at least receive text messages every day. And that would not be possible if these satellites were put into space, but that is not all satellites have done. They have also improved our mapping skills, we occasionally use Google maps to get directions and even look at what your house looks like from space. It doesn't end there cars are beginning to use them as a safety feature to locate where you are in case you have been in an accident. Also, what else lies out there element-wise? We have made some amazing discoveries such as carbon/graphite, which has made amazing inventions such as carbon fibre, one of the strongest and lightest materials made, it is being used in cars, bikes, sports equipment, planes and space craft and musical instruments. What else could lie out the we have already discovered what we can on Earth and space exploration could lead us to something amazing, it could find us our next source of energy. This would not only make a difference to a country or content but the whole of mankind. The vast amount of knowledge we could obtain would extraordinary. The technology which would be into our everyday things such as our phones and cameras, Imagine these being able to last weeks or evens months with only one charge. Imagine being able to speak to someone for anywhere on Earth from Antarctica to the far reaches of Greenland. But more importantly we are destroying this planet day by day, and eventually we will have to leave and set home for a different planet and what if mankind was destroyed because of our silly little ways? We are Earth's disease and we are dying because of it and the only way forward as I said it space exploration to find another home.
First off I believe if we put our effort into space exploration the potential discoveries we can make could benefit not just our nation but mankind. I find it amazing how man can be at constant war with each over territory, resources etc. when we have no idea what really is out their. We are merely a speck in existence. Think of the resources we could find, because earth isn't going to last forever. Think of the knowledge we could obtain. We don't know everything there is to know about science to judge what is possible. Think of the moment of when an astronaut takes their first step on a planet occupied by life other than our own. Televised for the world to watch and share that moment. The possibilities are endless.
We know there are other planets out there that are nearly Earth-like in every way. There should be more effort into developing the technology required to travel longer distances with space craft to enhance our knowledge of these planets, what I hope for in the long run, is that we do eventually have contact with an Alien species, be it a small insect, or a species that is just like us.
The human race needs something more than just another social networking site, more than just another like on our page. We need a common goal that is amazingly rewarding. A goal that brings us together, to celebrate our achievements as a whole and not individually. To have a better understanding of ourselves and not fight, lie. Cheat or kill over the things we don't even understand.
The human race needs something more than just another social networking site, more than just another like on our page. We need a common goal that is amazingly rewarding. A goal that brings us together, to celebrate our achievements as a whole and not individually. To have a better understanding of ourselves and not fight, lie. Cheat or kill over the things we don't even understand.
i think we shouldnt fund space exploration because there is no need for exploring space if we dont live there so i dont think we shoud fundd it all. its taking away are money for exploring somewhere we dont even live. theres nothing out there but planets because there is no sign of life up there so we really shoudnt be funding it. it is taking are hard earned money.
We have problems here to deal with, like trying to live sustainable lives. What will going to space do for us? Absolutely nothing! Our origins? We were born on this planet, which is where we belong, how will going to space do anything for us? And what if the earth is destroyed? Then well all die, we had a good run and the universe will continue to expand with or without us, were not important to the universe! Why do people want to make sure humans last forever? All things come to an end and some day we will too, and there's nothing to be done about it so there's no reason to worry, people need to learn to live in the moment and appreciate the fact that they are even alive.
Space exploration is extremely expensive. And, considering the fact that many Americans are without health care, our tax dollars can be better spent on immediate concerns. Additionally, in the U.S., our infrastructure is at risk due to neglect, which occurred while space exploration was a higher priority.
Apart from funding programs to monitor asteroid activity, I think the space program is largely unnecessary. The government should be concerned with economic recovery and national security. Poverty and terrorism are actual dangers. Figuring out weather or not there is life on Mars is relatively trivial at this time in history.
How can anyone justify putting money into space education when most people on earth can't afford to pay their bills. There are jobs being cut everyday, the country is broke. Not to mention the fact that there are things in our oceans that we know nothing about!
Space exploration has no real benefits, especially if the focus is searching for alien life forms. We waste countless billions of dollars annually to collect meaningless data that results in no tangible benefits. It is a pure waste of taxpayer money and resources.
I totally disagree that we need to put more focus on providing funding for space exploration because I believe that there is so much left in the earth to be done rather than spending in the space exploration. There are so many social problems in the world like poverty, unemployment, medical diseases, sanitation, food and safe drinking water which is yet to be solved. So it is suggested that the people should utilize this amount for eliminating this social problem rather than funding for space exploration.
Space exploration is extremely expensive and many of the pursuits of space exploration do not provide a very beneficial use of the money. Searching for signs of life, signs of water, and other types of exploration and space travel intended to boost national pride are not beneficial uses of the vast amounts of money used to fund this these space trips. The money would be much better used doing research and for the development of projects on earth that directly benefit people.
The money just isn't there. Our space program has fallen off a sharp cliff and I would love to make us #1 again but as of now, as off right now anyway every national, state, county and city budget is drowning in an ocean of red ink. Lets right the ship of state first b4 building more space ships. But lets do it. Because I do want to go back to the stars b4 I'm 90.
I totally disagree with the funding of space exploration whilst millions of people are starving and there are so many disease that science can't even cure yet. What are we going to do in Mars? There is no fertile planet like our beautiful earth within our reach. We have earth beneath our feet. Let's take care of it and repair the damage we have done by growing more greens and stop adding pollution. Let's wipe the religious divide and treat each other the same regardless of their heritage and religion. God would want that I am sure.


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The weather is finally beginning to look up! It has been such a nice day today surprisingly! So I thought I'd make a fruity smoothie to go with the gorgeous weather!
To make 2 smoothies you will need:
4 Blackberries
4 Raspberries
4 Strawberries
A glass of milk
2 scoops of ice cream
All you need to do is place the ingredients into the smoothie maker, give it a whizz until you have a smooth mixture and enjoy!
Mmm, look at all that fruity goodness!


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Add a touch of sweet summer sunshine to your cheese platter – mango and passionfruit bring out all that is best in a perfectly ripe brie. Or spread with cream as a filling for a light as air sponge for a sweet treat.
100% natural, made with real fruit
Low in sodium
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i love the colors of this palette, been thinking of purchasing it soon!!!!!!!
i seen alot of cool youtube videos over this pallette, hopefully i win this one
and dont have to buy it!! LOL this giveaway is open til Aug, 20th.. good luck everybody!!!!
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2011 Mazda 2 Touring: Shift Tower
December 14, 2010
The shift lever looks a little funny, since it seems to jut right out of the instrument panel. Seems like it should come out of the floor, like a shift lever should.
But after driving around an old Porsche 911 recently, it's pretty clear to me that Porsche has something to learn from this cheap and cheerful Mazda. All you have to do is take a look at the proximity of the Mazda 2's shift knob to the rim of the steering wheel.
After driving around recently in a Porsche 911SC -- a car of the early 1980s, when the Porsche 911 still carried the DNA of the Volkswagen Beetle -- it made me wonder how anyone could drive those early 911s very quickly. You practically have to reach all the way under the dash to find the shift lever, which is about two inches too low and two inches too far forward. It makes you feel like you're driving some ancient tractor, pretty much the opposite of what you'd expect from a sports car. No wonder there's still a thriving trade in aftermarket shift linkages for early 911s that moves the lever back between the front seats where you can reach it (and never mind the comfort of the front seat passenger).
The Mazda 2 addresses the same issue of limited space between the front seats by making the shift linkage do the old rally car thing and come out from the dash -- it's one of the advantages of having the engine in front of you instead of behind. There's no fumbling beneath the dash for the shift lever; just move your hand a few inches and there it is. A crisp, sure shift action in the Mazda style with light-effort throws, strong spring loading into the shift gates and firm gear engagement does the rest.
When you've got an engine that needs an active hand with the gears to get the best from it, everything has to be right. From ergonomics to the mechanical bits, the Mazda 2 is a good lesson in how to do it right. Now, if we could just do something about action of the clutch pedal, eh?
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Here's a big thank-you to the thirteen wonderful people who sponsored me to run a marathon via the San Francisco AIDS Foundation. Your generosity inspired me to keep running throughout six long months of training. You are my friends, my family members, and in some cases, friends once or twice removed! That is incredible. Thank you!
The foundation raised a total of $939,878 in the global fight against the AIDS pandemic. Now you can count yourself among those who make a difference.
My personal fundraising goal of $1,700 was almost met, so if you wanted to contribute but haven't yet you still have time. Wouldn't you like to join the ranks of these kind, generous, karma-rich people?
Minta Emir, Meredith Dodge, Bill and Penny Trunnell, Tom Churchill, Maureen Morem, Roger Wolfert, Satya Peri, Mary Ann Neves, Anna Lois Reeves, Tina Burke, George Saj, and Wella Abaigar.