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Sure, it's technically only spring and there may still be snow on the ground (okay, there is for sure still snow on the ground), but our thoughts have turned dreamily to the hazy days of summer. Inspired by our favorite parts of the season, this poster is hand illustrated and letterpress printed with three inks. Printed on Mohawk Options 130# cover (a 100% post consumer waste sheet), the poster measures out to final size of 13" x 20." It's available for purchase in our
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"More than a musical offering, Seymour is a study in boundless passion, plus a wellspring of wisdom about art and life from a man who sees no dividing line between the one and the other." Joe Morgenstern, Wall Street Journal. Pianist Seymour Bernstein, who gave up performing for teaching, discusses his passion for music and his philosophy of life in this documentary directorial debut from actor Ethan Hawke.
84 minutes; PG
Magnolia at the Modern is an ongoing series featuring critically acclaimed films. Tickets are $9; $7 for Modern members; $6 for Reel People. The Sunday noon show time is half price. Advance sales begin two hours prior to each show.

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Geiger Edelemetalle is continuing a tradition of silver refining that dates back almost 800 years!
These bars have a unique look, and are a little chunkier looking than other similar sized bars. All of the bars have ribbed edges, similar to a coin to provide you with extra confidence.
The image on the reverse is of the Baroque Castle Guldengossa, the company's headquarters near Leipzig, Germany. The obverse is stamped with the weight and purity of the bar.
In multiples of 30 these bars will ship in a plastic tray.
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I put my PowerMac at work to sleep so that I can use Wake-on-LAN to do remote work on it. However the office cleaner often touches the keyboard or the mouse button unintentionally. So the question is:
How to disable mouse and keyboard wake up; to just use the power button and wake-on-LAN to wake/sleep instead?
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Event Number 2654
Friday, September 21st, 2012
- Physics Department Colloquium
- Julian Mack Lecture
- Space Security and Missile Defense: What is at Stake?
- Time: 3:30 pm
- Place: 2241 Chamberlin Hall (coffee at 4:30 pm)
- Speaker: Laura Grego, Global Security Program, Union of Concerned Scientists
- Abstract: In February, 2008, the United States launched a missile from an Aegis sea-based missile defense cruiser to destroy a failed intelligence satellite. While framed as a public safety measure, aEurooeOperation Burnt FrostaEuro was the first time the United States had intentionally destroyed a satellite since 1985, and announced in a very visible way the intersection of missile defense and space security. It also marked another point in recent escalation of tensions over space weapons and military uses of space.
Interest in new military uses of space has been building in the past decade, driven in part by the important role satellites have played in recent conflicts. New uses of space being considered include basing weapons in space to attack targets on the ground and in space, and developing weapons to attack satellites. This has led to a vigorous international debate about how space should be used and whether such activities are dangerous and should be limited.
The year after Operation Burnt Frost, the U.S. announced ambitious new plans for missile defense, which would rely on and substantially expand and improve the system used in Operation Burnt Frost. This would also expand antisatellite capability to an unprecedented level and raise the stakes in space. However, the new missile defense system, like previous ones, would provide little or no defensive capability, even in principle, but would incur large security, political, and monetary costs.
In this talk, I will detail the technical arguments behind these judgments as well as discuss why the space security and missile defense debates are of increasing importance.
- Host: Meghan McGarry Unks
- Poster: http://www.physics.wisc.edu/twap/posters/2012/2654.pdf
- Video: https://vod.physics.wisc.edu/media/2012_09_21.m4v
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May as well have been PETA officially
It's pointless, meaningless, insulting, foolish, and an obvious grab for headlines -- everything, in fact, that I've learned to associate with PETA activities.
Supporters of the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) organisation may have embraced new measures in the fight for animal rights, allegedly releasing a malware-infected version of a dog-fighting app PETA wants banned. Virus spotter Symantec says it found an infected pre-release version of Dog Wars on warez sites …
Agree with you there mate - I've long maintained that PETA should be listed as a terrorist organisation and its members rounded up and arrested. These self-righteous bigots are as bad as any nutjob religion for forcing their way of life on everyone else. One of these days they'll piss off some politician and find themselves on the international terrorist register - at which point I'll throw a street party!
Would you find it ok if someone released a game called "Nigger Lynching" or "Gas them Kikes"? Or perhaps found someone playing one of those games?
Would you find that repulsive and racially inflammatory?
If the former then you are a bigger twunt than I first thought, if the latter then you are a hypocrite.
I don't agree with PETA and would send animals anywhere other than PETA, however in this case anyone playing this so called "game" has some serious psychiatric issues and those who defend their "rights" to do so are just as guilty. Bear in mind those who abuse animals through making them fight, torturing or otherwise mistreating animals are very likely to proceed onto murder, torture and other deviant and repugnant behaviour towards humans also and studies have shown animal abusers demonstrate sociopathic and psychopathic tendencies.
By the way I am a proud dog owner and my dog is a member of the family and put it this way I would do whatever it takes to protect my family and I abhor those who abuse animals, either mentally or physically (yes most animals do actually have feelings, sadly many dogs display strong signs of fear, terror, pain etc due to their moronic "owners" who listen to "cesar" and other outmoded idiots endorsing abusive behaviour and methods that used on a child would be classed as torture and land you in a cell or cannot fit a collar properly so the dog is getting choked constantly or in the case of head collars blinded as the head collar is chafing their eyeball due to the poor fitment)
Then again this probably won't sink in as it doesn't comply with your Voltaire inspired world view where people can say and do as they please with no consequences.
Have you taken the time to check with black people or Jews, or for that matter children, about putting them on the same level with dogs? I think you might find you are not quite as simon-pure as you believe yourself to be!
"I don't agree with PETA"
Your argument here, quite aside from bearing every sign of unthinking hysteria, is but one step away from "a rat is a pig is a dog is a boy" -- and it's a rather short step, at that, so short in fact that I can't even see it and credit you with its existence only because I'm just that nice a guy. I therefore find your quoted protest somewhat less than wholly persuasive; you may claim not to think very highly of PETA but you are criticizing them from the left, if at all.
To answer your question, so you can't use my failure to do so as a cheap excuse for ignoring everything I've said: yes, I'd find those games repulsive; no, I wouldn't likely care for someone who played them -- and, no, I don't find them racially inflammatory, because I'm not idiot enough to mix them up with someone actually carrying out lynchings or trying to bring back Bergen-Belsen, and I don't equate this piss-ant nonsense little cellphone game with actual animal abuse for the same simple reason.
That reason being, of course, because I have enough sense of the difference between fantasy and reality to understand that things people do in video games don't actually happen in the real world, and I am no longer so bound up in the progressive concept of sin that I fail to realize the attitudes which would lead someone to enjoy a dog-fighting video game -- or, for that matter, a black-lynching or Jew-gassing one -- do not, by any means, necessarily translate into attitudes which would lead someone to enjoy a dogfight, or an auto-da-fe, or a gas chamber. Is the dogfighting game every bit as tasteless as, say, Postal 2? Oh, at least. Does it make people more likely to actually go pay to see a dogfight, or does Postal 2 make people more likely to go out and shove the muzzle of a firearm up a cat's asshole? Hell no.
But, hey, go on calling me a sociopath and a psychopath like you know what you're talking about. I'm sure that will convince anyone who doesn't already agree with you.
I am genuinely curious to know what kind of emotionally stunted, screwed-up freak in this day an age, enjoys watching other like minded twats force two animals to tear each other to shreds? Even virtually, you've to got be pretty loose in the noggin to find it entertaining, surely? I bet if I offered these people something just as sickening like a child-raping simulation, they'd have me down the cop-shop so fast my feet wouldn't touch! Oh no sorry, it's just a bunch of dumb animals fighting each other and they love it, animals haven't got feelings.
If this is how some people get their yah-yahs then humanity is not just stagnating but actually going backwards.
..it's ok to shoot people then?
Or race cars around city streets?
How about build cities and then wipe them out?
Or about a little man that goes around eating ghosts?
Or jumping on crocidiles and turtles backs to cross a river?
Or shooting creatues from another world?
Feel free not to buy it if your don't want it...you can save the money for the Daily Mail.
As a pest controller, i love killing small animals....Wasps, rats, mice, pigeons,rabbits, squirrels, the lot...
If it moves and is considered a pest, them im up for kiiling it...
Hows that PETA!!!!
Cos its cretins like you lot, crying out to save the "little fluffy animals" that will be the first on the phone to me when you get a rat in the house spreading diseases everywhere. You wont mind me killing it then will you. Bunch of fucking hypocrites....
Deaths the name, killings the game.
just because we have apposable thumbs we have the right to kill anything we damn well fancy, including each other.
I would guess that you don't train rats to tear each other apart?
Seriously though, pest control by humane methods is in some cases a necessity, but to torture animals for amusement is something entirely different. However I do find it a little disturbing that you "love killing small animals".
Many might find a game like this distasteful but so what? It's a video game, I am curious as to how dogs manage to use it for training purposes though.
PETA's point is that if you become desensalized to violence against small animals you might accidentally kill a child one day. If a small child fell into a trap you had set for foxes and then you'd be like "oh we didnt consider children would get that small" and people would shake their heads and PETA would be there to say thanks a lot cornz1 for proving our point.
And when bears learn to hold and fire automatic weapons and decide that you are a pest and need to be removed from what was once their forest? The people that call you are pussies that can't deal with their own problems, haven't you learned that yet?
Oh, and the machines will one day decide that all of humanity is a pest. Their reasoning will include that we take no care for other life.
Thank you for causing Judgement Day.
im not defending PETA here but I can see there point about the dnagers of a game where dogs fight other dogs cuz I think it will encourage the kids to fight with dogs and I know its just a game but wolfenstein 3d was just a game too but see world war II actually happened so sometimes the lines between reality and fact get blurred if we arent careful.
I've just upvoted this post.
I think it's a work of art, and must be a very carefully crafted troll. Observe the lack of punctuation, capitalisation and grammar. Look at words like dnagers and cuz. The long run on sentence. But above all else, the implication that world war 2 was caused by a computer game.
This is a work of art, and should be recognised as such. I applaud you, NomNomNom!
I know nothing about PETA and am not a Greenpeace or any other animal charity supporter.
But anyone who thinks that dog fighting, real or virtual, is funny should be forcibly re-educated, preferably by being ripped to pieces by wild animals somewhere in the deep wilderness. Then see how they like it.
You realise, of course, that that is life - it just is. You think hungry wolves would bat an eyelid at chewing up babies? Seriously, humans are nothing special, we're just chimps that learnt how to burn and kill things much more effectively - or to train other animals to do it for us.
While I personally wouldn't get any kicks from dog fighting (or any other form of fighting really - smoke and chill brah), real or virtual, I don't for a minute separate the human species from any other violent predatory animal in terms of expected behaviour.
As per title, what is the game dev/publisher doing? As I'm pretty sure they the actions of the 'infacted' version are illegal & will be affecting the reputation of the dev/publisher, so they would have cause for a legal complaint.
Not to mention the fact that as I recall making & then releasing into the wild virii or malware is illegal in pretty much every country across the world
So why exactly isnt 'peta' in the dock over this already??
How about a game where you go around and try to rape as many people as you can? In this game, while you have the 14yo on the pinball table, you can actually PLAY the pinball game and get the special "Multi-task-that-ass" bonus! Then, after the raping, you can go and beat the hell out of as many people who are racially different (Set during character creation) as you can! Hey, no problem here, right? It's JUST A GAME!!! I know, you can add magic to the game to make it even MORE of a game. Sweet!
Oh, and the difference between people killing people and people killings animals is that animals can't call the police.
Woah, now you expect PETA to have some sense?
On the other hand, if I play a viideo game, it's to have fun. I can have fun playing Mario, I can even have fun shooting aliens in Gears of War... but dog fighting? How can a game like that be fun? Mind you, it's a simulation game, some people find Football Manager entertaining, and I never understood that either (but then I don't like football).
Also, some people find "My Little Pony" entertaining, so I guess to each his own. Speaking of little pony, isn't painting a pony green, dying it's hair yellow and tatooing some stars on it a violation of ponies rights? PETA should seriously look into that, I find it appaling.
Sure Dog Fighting is wrong to the nth degree, but how on earth can this app be used to train dogs how to fight? Is it really that detailed that it teaches you actual dog fighting trainers techniques.
This is where PETA cocked up. i do actually have half a mind to download it just to see if they have a point.
Another issue with the way the virus works is, what about land line numbers in your phone book. Imagine your phone rining and a robotic voice telling you I take pleasure in hurting small animals. How scary would that be
On a side note, the service is called rabbies and stopping it could cause the dog app to fail. Surely stopping rabbies is only a good thing for Dogs So I would have stopped the service. JJ.
PETA is a bunch of commie/hippy loops who have delusions of reality; I've often thought if releasing snakes and rabid wolves in their offices would make them feel closer to nature. Dog fighters deserve to be smeared in pig blood, tied down in the pits, and have hungry fighting dogs let loose. (The things I've seen working with canine rescue groups would sicken you.)
If these two groups wipe each other out, I'm for it.
"PETA are entirely unreasonable! See how ridiculous they look? They're so dumb that WE SHOULD RIP THEIR THROATS OUT AND SHOOT THEM IN THE NOSTRIL FIFTY TIMES WITH AN M16! KILL THEIR FAMILIES AND FEED THEM PUPPY HEADS! WABRRHRHHRHRHRHH!!! I HATE EXTREMISM!!!!!"
I mean, really - I harbor an extreme distaste for PETA's methods (not to mention their antisemitism) and am somewhat dismayed at their existence, since having sane animal rights beliefs ("Training animals to torture each other - bad") becomes associated with wackjobs.
But at least they're consistent - unlike those who claim to dislike PETA's hyperbole and self-righteous fury... and then proceed to unleash (See what I did there?) precisely the same fury on PETA.


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BARTOW | The unraveling began in late May, when the Polk County School District sent home a letter to parents.
BARTOW | The unraveling began in late May, when the Polk County School District sent home a letter to parents. A new pilot program, it explained, will track bus riders using a feature unique to every child — their irises.
Parents could opt out, but by the time they learned about it, a company named Stanley Convergent Security Solutions had already captured images of about 750 children's eyes.
When parents began to complain, the district halted the pilot, chalking up its failure to inform parents to a clerical error. Rob Davis, a district administrator whose division includes transportation and school security departments, said his secretary belatedly emailed the letter to principals, who would have sent it to parents.
But a look at emails sent among district staff members, along with interviews with administrators, show the late letter was only one of multiple behind-the-scenes mistakes that left parents and some top school administrators in the dark, allowing a company to collect children's biometric information without the parents' knowledge.
The records show:
* The pilot program would have operated without cost to the district for 60 days but still required a contract. District staff members, however, allowed Stanley Convergent onto three East Polk campuses to scan children's eyes before a contract was finalized.
* John Stewart, interim school superintendent at the time, should have had final approval over the contract. As the company prepared to take the iris scans, Davis directed staff members to send the contract to Stewart. Despite his request, it apparently never made it, meaning Polk's top school official didn't learn about the program until the scans had already taken place.
* District staff members also failed to discuss the program with Stewart in person. That apparently includes Lum Thornhill, the assistant director of operations, and Ann Marshall, a safe schools specialist who is also assigned to the superintendent's office to handle public records requests. According to emails, Marshall played a key role in organizing a schedule for the iris scans and facilitating communication between the company and district.
"It's just a busy place," Marshall said this week. "And unless you have an appointment to move something ahead, it's not like you have an opportunity to chitchat. It's not that anyone didn't want to tell him (Stewart)."
Had the contract made it beyond Davis and his staff, the program would likely have been halted until the district thoroughly vetted the idea with parents, said Wes Bridges, School Board attorney.
"It was almost a comedy of errors," Bridges said.
Davis, who acknowledges the errors, said the district has instituted changes to ensure nothing like this happens again.
Meanwhile, Stanley Convergent, which declined to comment for this story, told the district it deleted the information gathered from students. In a statement released after parents learned about the system, the company tried to reassure parents the technology is a safety tool and added that it's up to schools and parents to "select the appropriate security solution."
Some parents, however, aren't appeased. They cite an Internet age maxim: Nothing can be deleted completely.
Connie Turlington, upset that her 11-year-old son was scanned at Davenport School of the Arts, said the mistakes appeared to be no coincidence.
"It sounds like a simple case of it's better to ask forgiveness than permission," Turlington said.
April Serrano, whose 8-year-old son had his eyes scanned at Bethune Academy as part of the pilot, said she doubts the reasons the district gave for the system. The district says parents of bus riders call daily asking where their children are, causing officials to frantically track down when and where the child departed the bus.
"They have no concept of what they've done here," Serrano said. "I feel like my son's civil rights were violated."
The district has tried other systems to track students on buses, and they have failed.
In 2009, it pursued a system that would have tracked bus riders using fingerprint scanners. When that never materialized, it opted for a radio-frequency transmitter system that relied on students to carry a special card onto the bus.
That free pilot program fizzled last year when students began losing or forgetting their cards.
Stanley Convergent, which the district says monitors some of its campus alarm systems, came into the picture sometime this spring. Marshall said she noticed an iris-scanning device advertised among the company's promotional material. "Because you're a customer," she said, "you get — for lack of a better word — sales propaganda."
Davis seems unsure exactly how the pilot program materialized at the end of this school year. He was under the impression it would begin in the 2013-2014 school year, he said, when the School District could orient parents to the technology's relatively new application. He learned in May that his staff had already scheduled the company to begin registering students this year by scanning their eyes.
"At meetings that were held with other staff members, (district workers) agreed to do that," Davis said. "It was under my division, and I don't want to put the blame on any other shoulder because I didn't do the checks and balances."
Marshall emailed principals with Davenport School of the Arts, Bethune Academy and Daniel Jenkins Academy on May 14 announcing the pilot program and asking for dates when company representatives could visit to enroll students.
"We will be able to track the students with a blink of the eye using iris biometric identity," she wrote.
"This is exciting!" Brian Kier, principal of Davenport School of the Arts, responded to Marshall. "Will you be contacting parents about this?"
Marshall wrote back, telling him the company would be at his school the next week, apparently never addressing his question about parents.
The district scrambled to send a letter home to parents, giving them the option to keep their students out of the program. "Please notify your principal if you prefer that your child not participate in the program," it read.
Serrano said she received her letter May 24. By then, the scans had already taken place.
As Stanley Convergent prepared to visit schools, emails show Stephanie Hebel, a representative with the company, began asking the district to complete a contract.
Assistant operations director Thornhill emailed Davis on May 21 that a paralegal with the district needed to make changes to the contract. Thornhill also said the contract had to be approved by the superintendent. Davis responded that day, asking him to send it to the superintendent.
But there was a problem, Thornhill noted in one of his May 21 emails. Stanley Convergent had flown employees in to take iris scans, and they were scheduled to start the next morning. However, he wrote, a representative with the company said it could "do the registration and keep the files on a computer until we get the clearance."
In an interview, Davis said he misunderstood the email, saying he thought Thornhill had been advised by a paralegal reviewing the contract that the iris scans could be taken before the superintendent had approved the paperwork.
"Sounds good," Davis wrote Thornhill.
Amid the May 21 back and forth between Davis and Thornhill, safe schools specialist Marshall wrote her coworkers, "Do we need to halt?"
No one responded.
Why didn't the contract ever make it to the superintendent? Davis said he thinks his staff never received a version of the contract from the legal department. Thornhill did not return a message left at his office.
But once complaints started arriving, school attorney Bridges wrote staff members that the superintendent had ordered the pilot stopped. In an email, Bridges seemed to grasp its implications immediately.
"The ACLU is one phone call away," he wrote, "and then it becomes a much larger conversation."
Bridges readily acknowledges the mistakes the district made but defends the intentions of the program.
"They had an honorable goal," he said.
"But, unfortunately, we dropped the ball in processing the document."
As a result of the parents' opposition to the pilot program, Davis said the district is no longer considering using biometric devices on school buses.
In the future, any similar programs would be based on parents opting in, rather than opting out. Davis said he has also instituted a system of checklists to ensure contracts are routed through the proper channels.
"We learned a valuable lesson here, to say the least," he said. "It was truly not to fast track or invade anyone's privacy. It was trying to give parents an opportunity to have an extra layer of security if they chose that."
Some parents might have been more open to the idea had the district handled communication better, said Doug Hackworth, president of Davenport School of the Arts' parent-teacher group.
"I'm all for being able to find out where my child is during the school day," he said. "But I want that under my control and to know exactly how it works and who has control of it."
Weeks later, April Serrano said she is still rattled when she remembers her son's experience at Bethune Academy. He told her he was asked to stare into a blue light until it changed color. To him, she said, it seemed like a game.
"Just repeating that story makes my skin crawl," Serrano said.
[ Matthew Pleasant can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com or 863-802-7590. ]


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Some Braggin, AKA Press
February 28, 2011
These are neat people who try our kits and write about them- I finally got around to gathering some links. I will add more as I find time :).
Food Lover's Guide to Portland- a book!
HGTV- Home and Garden Television
Pacific Northwest Cheese Project
The Kitchn by Apartment Therapy
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Experience Kym's Structural Viniyoga Therapy offered in a group setting. (Viniyoga is a Sanskrit word for adapt or apply yogic practices to the individual, group and/or situation). Address conditions of the upper back, neck and shoulders as well as the low back, sacrum and hips and their relationship to each other. Explore therapeutic Viniyoga practices, (See Therapeutic Yoga Class Description), integrated with western functional biomechanics. Learn about YOUR anatomy and condition. Learn therapeutic practices that create balance. Increase strength, flexibility, stability, range of motion, circulation and promote healing. This class is appropriate for all levels. Individual adaptations are offered.
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The following report is proof positive that when we stay in our lanes and do our best work and respect others who are on different pages in the same book, leaders get bolder and are more willing to approach all or nothing based on successful advances.
Kansas State Representative Steve Brunk said Friday after the passage of the omnibus pro-life bill, "There are a growing number of legislators who want to explore the practicality of moving toward fetal heartbeat as opposed to the incremental approach." House Judiciary Chairman Lance Kinzer, a pro-life leader in the legislature, added, "We're at a point of re-evaluation. We're now looking at a different agenda because so much of what we wanted to be accomplished, will be accomplished."
Analysis: Kan. abortion foes' wins create dilemma
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas has enacted a wave of stricter abortion laws in the two-plus years Republican Gov. Sam Brownback has been in office, but those successes have led abortion opponents to discuss changing their tactics, unsure about what initiatives they'll pursue next.
Thirty-two Kansas House members are sponsoring a proposed ban on most abortions as soon as a fetal heartbeat can be detected, which can occur as early as the sixth week of pregnancy, and the idea has the backing of the anti-abortion group Operation Rescue. Nine of those House members also were sponsors of a previous "personhood" amendment to the state constitution aimed at banning all abortions, declaring that the constitution protects the rights of individual starting at fertilization.
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I would like specific information on: immunoproliferative small intestinal disease. I am a practicing Medical Oncologist, and would be grateful if I could get the latest on the disease.
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Lymphoma may involve the gastrointestinal tract either primarily or as a component of metastatic disease. Immunoproliferative small intestinal disease is one of five clinical types of primary small intestinal lymphoma. The other four are:
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Sugar Rush: Banana Whip at the Bent Spoon in Princeton, New Jersey
Your daily dose of something sweet.
Princeton, New Jersey, has been blessed with three stellar ice cream shops. Thomas Sweet caters to the all-American sweet tooth, while Halo Pub churns out rich creamery classics as old-school as Princeton itself. But The Bent Spoon is the clear foodie favorite. (And once one of Ed's Top 10 bites of the year.)
With a rotating roster of Jersey-inspired flavors, The Bent Spoon is always scooping something new, surprising, and absurdly creative--Terhune Orchard apple sorbet during the harvest, sweet potato ice cream by Thanksgiving, Triumph Brewery Stout ice cream around St. Paddy's, and Mint Julep ice cream for the Derby. House classics like lavender mascarpone, cardamom ginger, and dark chocolate habanero are equally worth a try. And the mini-cupcakes, comfortably predating the New York cupcake mania, are pretty irresistible.
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There Could Be A New Way To Get Pregnant!
Scientists say their early experiments suggest it may be possible to make babies without using eggs.
They have succeeded in creating healthy baby mice by tricking sperm into believing they were fertilising normal eggs.
The findings have been published in Nature Communications and it could mean in the future, that woman can be removed from the baby-making process.
The experiment worked as University of Bath scientists started with unfertilised eggs.
By using a chemical, they tricked the egg into becoming pseudo-embryo, which means it's effectively fake.
Although fake, it contains a lot in common with ordinary cells and can control how it divides and controls DNA.
The researchers then injected sperm into the embryo and produced healthy babies and they believe it will be possible to achieve a similar result with humans.
Dr Tony perry, one of the researchers told the BBC ''his is the first time that anyone has been able to show that anything other than an egg can combine with a sperm in this way to give rise to offspring.
"It overturns nearly 200 years of thinking."
Those baby mice were healthy, had a normal life expectancy and had healthy pups of their own.


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Driver blamed bad brakes but no problems found on Sound Transit bus involved in fatal crash
A Sound Transit bus driver who caused a fatal accident in May blamed the crash on faulty brakes, but a recently-completed Washington State Patrol investigation found nothing wrong with the bus.
The bus driver told police "nothing happened" when he hit the brakes on Interstate 405 in Kirkland on the night of May 6, but inspectors weren't able to find any evidence to back up that claim.
Robert and Elizabeth Rotta were killed when the bus slammed into their SUV. Their son Ken, who was driving the SUV, survived.
"There was a big square bus, and I didn't even have time to look at it. I saw it, boom!" Ken said after the crash.
Since then the State Patrol has been investigating the incident, trying to determine if the bus driver's statement about the brakes failing was true.
Witnesses said the bus went through a red light just before the crash, and the bus finally came to a stop 3,000 feet after the crash site.
A mechanical evaluation of the bus included tests of braking, acceleration and steering systems and showed no mechanical issues, according to WSP.
A routine inspection several weeks before the crash showed the bus pulling to the right, but during a test drive the second mechanic found no problem.
Witnesses at the time of the crash weren't sure what could have caused it.
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Detectives are now using what's called a human, vehicle, environmental model to determine the cause of the crash. Troopers say that could take several months to complete.
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SAMJ: South African Medical Journal
versão On-line ISSN 2078-5135
versão impressa ISSN 0256-9574
SAMJ, S. Afr. med. j. vol.102 no.8 Cape Town Ago. 2012
Substance use and abuse in South Africa: insights from brain and Behavioural Sciences
George F R Ellis, Dan J Stein, Kevin G F Thomas, Ernesta M Meintjies, editors. UCT Press. 2012. ISBN: 978-1-91989-529-1.
The book is an edited collection written by experienced scholars as well as practitioners which makes it especially useful in providing an evidence-based approach to understanding substance use and abuse. The fields of expertise range from psychiatry, clinical and neuro-psychology, and human genetics to economics and mathematics. As such, it represents an active cohort of researchers and practitioners working in the area of substance use and abuse in South Africa. The volume is divided into three sections, Epidemiology and Symptomatology, Neuroscience and Psychology and Intervention and Policy, focusing on the most salient issues related to substance use and abuse. The introductory chapter provides a very good overview of what each chapter deals with and therefore helps the reader navigate to the chapters that are of immediate interest. The book is very useful in bringing together strands of research distributed over many sources. It therefore serves not only as an overview of the most pertinent issues related to substance use and abuse in South Africa, but as a helpful reference for the most relevant scientific work to emerge on this issue over the last 20 years. For example, while chapter 1 deals with prevalence issues, chapter 2 is focused on the clinical presentation of substance-related disorders, and in relation to mental disorders. Overall, most of the chapters are written in an accessible way and tend to avoid the practice of writing chapters densely packed with information in which the reader may have little interest.
Given that substance use is characterised as a public health issue in broad terms, it would have been useful to provide an overview of the best approaches to dealing with the problem of substance use as encountered in the practice of general medicine and not only in relation to evaluated school-based interventions (chapter 14). For example, the utility of screening brief intervention and referral (SBIRT) would have been a useful addition to the chapters under the section dealing with intervention and policy, even though the South African evidence for such interventions is only recently under way.
Nevertheless, no single volume is able to cover the vast range of issues and approaches to the problem of substance use and abuse on its own, and this is a valuable contribution to the field and practice of substance use and abuse in South Africa. It is strongly recommended to a broad readership.
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Penguin Village
Located on the water front 3 minutes walk south of Dahab's centre, it overlooks one of the best snorkeling reefs in the world.
Our hostel has a no smoking policy.
The rooms we offer here it's all the back view , for the sea side with balconies on the Water front please visit www.penguindahab.com.
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Penguin Village is located on the sea side of Mashraba St the Center of Dahab.
If you are coming to Dahab with the East Delta bus , we are only 5 Minutes driving from where is the bus stop in Dahab city, and we offer free pick up for our guest on request from the bus station.
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All paths lead to Dahab! There is nothing simpler than to get here as all possible means of transport can be used on the way. Whether it is by land, by sea or by air you may surely reach Dahab faster and more comfortably than you imagine. In the Penguin village we arrange for you transfers from any spot throughout Egypt directly into our hotel. We may also give you a hand in moving around easily, fast, safely.
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By private minibus: Send us an e-mail at email@example.com and we'll make arrangements to pick you up in our own 16 -seat, air-conditioned minibus. The trip takes about 6 hours and 110 euro (per trip, not per person).
Compare to public bus: East Delta bus leaves from the Abasseiya station. There are several buses leaving throughout the day. Buy your tickets in advance, as it's not possible to reserve tickets on the phone. Ticket prices vary from 60 to 80 LE (one way). After an 8-9 hour ride, the Dahab bus station is 5 min. away from the Penguin Village. Let us know when you arrive and we will pick you up.
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Please, contact Emad (e-mailing at email@example.com) for help and assistance in heading toward Dahab from nearly any place in the world.