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Pazham Pori also called Ethakkappam (Plantain Fritters), is a very popular snack in Kerala made using ripe plantains. ( This is what Keralites call Nenthrappazham/Kerala banana)
Here's how I made it.
3 ripe plantains (Halve each plantain and make 3-4 slices from each half)
Oil for deep frying
For the batter:
1 cup all-purpose flour
½ cup rice flour
Sugar (add depending on sweetness of the plantain)
½ tsp baking soda
A pinch or two of cardamom powder
Salt to taste
Mix everything in water to form a thick batter that coats each slice really well.
Heat the oil for frying.
Drain off the excess oil on paper towels.
Serve hot with tea.
This is being sent to Mandira of
This is also my entry for "What's your favorite snack?" - an event being hosted by Hima of SnackORama.
Onion Bhajjis(fritters)
I had some batter left over after making the plantain fritters, so I went ahead and made some onion bhajjis too.
I just peeled and halved an onion and used a mandoline to get thin slices from each half, mixed it into the batter and fried it till golden brown.
Note: I would normally use chickpea flour (besan) to make the batter for this kind of pakoda, and spice it up with some green chillies or chilli powder.


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House Speaker Paul Ryan defended his decision to support Donald Trump, noting that he was still a better choice over Hillary Clinton even though Ryan disagreed with the candidate on many issues, NBC News reported.
"It's a binary choice," Ryan told a skeptical voter at a CNN town hall Tuesday. "It is either Donald Trump or Hillary Clinton — you don't get a third option. It's one or the other and I know where I want to go."
Ryan has spoken out against Trump before, including disavowing his proposed temporary ban on Muslims entering the United States and Trump's attack on a federal judge with "Mexican heritage" presiding over a lawsuit against Trump University.


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#drawing #hyperrealism #landscapes #rain #water
Rainscapes: Hyperrealistic Rainy Windshield Drawings by Elizabeth Patterson
Fascinated by the texture and color of water artist Elizabeth Patterson challenged herself to recreate the absurdly complex formation of water droplets on rain-streaked windshields. Her ongoing series titled Rainscapes blends drawing, hyperrealism, and traditional landscape techniques resulting in images that can be seen as both real and abstract.
Patterson begins with her own photography and often utilizes several images for a single drawing, finding the details and patterns that feel right for each composition. Interestingly, the precise nature of the sharpened pencils results in drawings that are more detailed than her source material. You can see more of her work on her website as well as Louis Stern Fine Arts. (thnx, choon)


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Senior (2013-14)
Appeared in a total of 27 matches ... went 3-5 in singles holding a 1-1 mark against conference opponents ... was 1-0 at No. 5 singles and 2-5 at No. 6 singles ... had a 8-11 record in doubles playing all 19 matches with Kayla Gammie ... posted a 5-4 record against league foes ... had a solid 8-9 record at No. 1 doubles.
Sophomore (2011-12)
Played in a total of 59 matches … Southern Conference Honor Roll … received SoCon Academic All-Conference honors … went 16-9 overall in singles play with a 4-2 mark in SoCon play … went 3-0 playing at No. 5 singles … finished the season on a five match win streak… finished 24-8 overall in doubles play with a 15-2 mark playing with teammate Alex Whitehead … the duo went 9-1 in SoCon doubles competition … ended the season with a four match win streak in doubles action.
Freshman (2010-11)
Went 6-4 in singles play with a 1-1 dual mark … won her lone Southern Conference match, at No. 6 … was 15-10 in doubles, including a 7-8 dual mark, mostly at No. 3 … was 5-2 in SoCon play, all at No. 3 ... was an ITA Scholar Athlete… member of the SoCon Honor Roll.
High school
Was a three-time all-region player at Clover High School… played No. 1 for the Blue Eagles for two years …went 20-1 in singles as a sophomore, earning all-region honors… named The (Rock Hill, S.C.) Herald's All-Area GirlsTennis Co-Player of the Year that year … the lone loss camein the state singles tournament … region player of the yearin 2007 … team MVP in 2006 and 2007 … named to the Charlotte Observer's All-Area team in 2006 … member of the Charlotte Tennis Academy's Hall of Fame … was a Junior Marshall and member of Clover's National Honor Society.
Devon Brooke Sutherland ... born July 9, 1992, in Toronto,Ontario, Canada ... daughter of Allan and Sheri Sutherland ... has three older siblings, Mackenzie, Colin and Braydon … majoring in pre-nursing.


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Sewing for a baby is one of the easiest things. Make a set of burp cloths, a simple receiving blanket, embellish a onesie.
It took me a while to realize, you don't have to settle for what you see in the store. You can make almost anything. And this was one of those "duh" moments when I discovered (after both kids had graduated from a crib) that you can make your own crib sheets! At least Owen's still in a Toddler bed so he can reap the rewards.
The concept is simple. To make this tutorial, I just cut up an old crib sheet and went from there.
Here are the details, so that you can make your own…….
Crib sheets don't need to be plain and white.
And if they're for a boy, you don't have to settle for teddy bears and baby rattle prints. Think outside of the box!
Make your baby crib or toddler bed more exciting by creating your own sheets! This is a great project for any level of sewer, especially a beginner.
Okay, let's get started!
If you prefer, check out our VIDEO Version of the project by clicking Play below:
Or follow along with us below…
You'll need:
* 2 yards of fabric
* 80 inches (204 cm) of skinny 1/4 inch elastic
* Cut out a rectangle that's: 45 x 67 inches (114.5 x 171 cm)
* Fold that into fourths (fold it in half and in half) and cut an 8 x 8 in (20.5 x 20.5 cm) square out of the corners, so that your fabric looks like this:
Another way to do this (if you're making multiple sheets), is to cut out a pattern piece that's 1/4 the size of your sheet. It looks like this (or the state of Utah):
Then before cutting anything out, you can fold your fabric into fourths, lay that on top, and easily cut it out.
Okay, with your fabric cut, let's start sewing.
* Take the two sides of one corner and bring right sides together. Pin them and sew down the side. This is creating a "pocket" of sorts, to go around the corners of the mattress. Do this to all four corners of the sheet:
* Serge the seams, zigzag or leave the seams raw.
* Serge around the entire outside of the sheet. This makes is easy to create a casing for the elastic. If you don't have a serger, just iron your fabric over 1/4 inch all the way around and then continue to the next step….
* Iron under the entire edge of the sheet. You are creating a casing, to string very skinny elastic through.
* Sew down the casing. You don't need to pin around the entire sheet before you sew (that takes too long) but DO pin a start and stop point so that you leave an opening to get the elastic In and Out. Start sewing from the START point, all the way around the STOP point:
* Insert the elastic. Taking your 1/4 inch wide elastic, attach a safety pin to one end, and pin the other end to the sheet. Start stringing it through the casing, all the way around till it comes out the other side:
* Overlap the ends and sew them together a few times with a zigzag stitch:
* Then sew your casing closed.
And you're done!
Try it on!
And then make them in all sorts of colors:
Because even boys like options, right?
Sleep tight, little babe.


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Four days after Paul Ryan's selection as Mitt Romney's running mate, Kentucky Senator Rand Paul has broken his silence on his party's vice presidential candidate.
In a statement emailed to Business Insider, Sen. Paul — whose father, Ron Paul, is technically still running for President — had muted praise for Romney's V.P. pick, noting that Ryan's addition to the ticket shows the party's commitment to tackling debt issues.
"The pick of Paul Ryan solidifies the Republican ticket's commitment to taking on the pressing issues like the deficit, entitlement reform and tax reform," Sen. Paul said. "Congressman Ryan's values and commitment to fixing our fiscal mess stands in stark contrast to Vice President Biden - and presents a clear choice to the American people."
The statement underscores the conflict that Ryan's V.P. run presents for Paul World, and for libertarian-minded Republicans at large. Although Ryan and the Pauls share similar concerns about the federal deficit — and a mutual love for Ayn Rand and Austrian economics — both Sen. Paul and his father have been outspoken critics of Ryan's budget, which they argue does not substantively reduce the federal deficit or go far enough to cut defense spending.
Ron Paul, who is still fighting to get his delegates seated at the Republican National Convention, has yet to comment on Ryan's selection as V.P. His congressional office referred requests for comment to his campaign, which did not return repeated calls for comment.
In the meantime, this floor speech should give you a sense of how the elder Paul feels about Ryan and his budget:
Mr. Speaker, listening to the claims of the opponents of this budget, one would think it represented a full-frontal assault on the welfare state and the entitlements system. However, in fact—with all respect to Shakespeare—the sound and fury over this budget ultimately signifies nothing. Under this budget, the federal government will spend $3.5 trillion next year, while under President Obama's budget the federal government will spend $3.8 trillion. The small difference between the congressional budget and the President's hardly seem to justify the over-heated rhetoric we hear emanating from both sides of the aisle.
Even under the most optimistic scenario, this supposedly radical plan does not balance the federal budget until my one-year old great-granddaughter will be in college. Under less optimistic assumptions, my great granddaughter will be almost 30 before she sees a balanced federal budget. This assumes that Congress will adhere to this year's budget in future years, a dubious assumption since we cannot bind future Congresses to abide by our spending plans.
*This post was updated at 3:35 p.m.


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There's a new villain—and a new hero—in town.
Ben Affleck stopped by "Jimmy Kimmel Live!" Wednesday to premiere a new trailer for "Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice." Affleck plays Bruce Wayne/Batman, while Henry Cavill reprises his role as Kal-El/Clark Kent/Superman and Amy Adams returns as Lois Lane. Newcomers include Jesse Eisenberg as Lex Luthor and Gal Gadot as Diana Prince/Wonder Woman.
The trailer shows Wayne and Kent meeting for the first time, and neither checks his ego at the door. After debating the pros and cons of Batman and Superman, Bruce tells Clark he's not a fan of the Man of Steel. "Maybe it's the Gotham City in me. We just have a bad history with freaks dressed like clowns." Enter Lex, a businessman who is determined to defeat Superman. "Boys! Bruce Wayne meets Clark Kent. Ha! I love it," he says. "I love bringing people together."
As Batman and Superman's rivalry intensifies, Lex promises their battle will be "the greatest gladiator match in the history of the world." Wonder Woman makes a surprise appearance at the end of the trailer moments after new villain Doomsday slides down the side of a skyscraper and wreaks havoc on Gotham City. "Is she with you?" Superman asks. Batman replies, "I thought she was with you." Together the trio takes on Doomsday, who is responsible for Superman's "death" in the comics.
Zack Snyder is the director of "Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice."
Other cast members include Laurence Fishburne as Perry White, Holly Hunter as Finch, Jeremy Irons as Alfred Pennyworth and Diane Lane as Martha Kent. Ray Fisher and Jason Momoa will also make minor appearances as Victor Stone/Cyborg and Arthur Curry/Aquaman, respectively.
"Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice" is in theaters March 25.
VIDEO: Why Zack Snyder cast Henry Cavill as Superman
NEWS: Ben Affleck responds to Batman casting backlash
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Thursday, October 24
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Join Eric Robinson as he gives an overview on how talent management will lead to company success and enable performance.
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2017 has been the year of "impossible" projects for me. After a book about a comet that had to look mostly the same from page to page and do nothing but fly, next came this one about "daffodils"… Read More
2017 has been the year of "impossible" projects for me. After a book about a comet that had to look mostly the same from page to page and do nothing but fly, next came this one about "daffodils"… Read More
Posted on December 11, 2017 by Alcaminhante
Although it´s mainly an illustration blog to complement my professional work, the idea is also to post reviews about stuff that I like, comment on things that inspire me to create my artwork and answer the old question every illustrator gets all the time: - "Where do you get your inspiration ?!"
So you can count to find all kinds of stuff here; ranging from thumbnail sketches, rough paintings, color tests and old drawings to painting tutorials or generic sketches.
I´ll also be posting lots of drawings and comics from when I was a kid so be prepared.
You might see good art in this blog, but lots of unused bad one too; articles on illustration, drawing lessons and of course tips on how to get started if you want to become a miserable starving freelance artist too.
Don´t be surprised to also read here just plain ordinary movie reviews, books / audio-books sugestions, music stuff, etc, etc and etc.
In short, things that inspire me will be posted here.
Hope you enjoy all that is to come and thanks for stopping by too !.
If you are looking for a freelance artist or illustrator to work on your project don´t forget to continue to visit this www.icreateworlds.net here and use the top menu on the right to navigate the rest of this website, view my illustration portfolio and all my stuff; including my hiking photos if you enjoy coastlines and seascapes as I have my personal "Big Blue" around where I live too.
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This should make me happy, I guess:
EAST LANSING, Mich. — New research led by a Michigan State University scholar refutes commonly held stereotypes that overweight workers are lazier, more emotionally unstable and harder to get along with than their "normal weight" colleagues.
With the findings, employers are urged to guard against the use of weight-based stereotypes when it comes to hiring, promoting or firing.
Mark Roehling, associate professor of human resource management, and two colleagues studied the relationship between body weight and personality traits for nearly 3,500 adults. Contrary to widely held stereotypes, overweight and obese adults were not found to be significantly less conscientious, less agreeable, less extraverted or less emotionally stable.
Instead, possibly because I am really stressed lately and have been particularly tense today, it just pisses me off that this study was even done (and funded) in the first place. It's like doing a fucking study on whether Jews are obsessed with money. What the fuck is the point of this? Proving that negative stereotypes aren't based in fact? Are you kidding? Why would you legitimize them enough to consider them a valid object of study?
I know I'm being a little unreasonable, because after all I welcome studies that show that fat people don't eat more than thin people on average, or aren't sicker than thin people on average, or don't cost more to the health system. But these are situations in which people are basing their misconceptions on existing flawed science; the addition of new science is valuable for refuting that. Actually bothering to do the social science research to refute nasty stereotypes backed only by bigotry and anecdata… well, it's as appalling to me as an extensive study on stereotypes surrounding any other group. Fat people aren't mean? That's your study? Are you fucking KIDDING me?
And get this part:
Roehling, who's also a lawyer, said the practical implication of the research is that employers should take steps to prevent managers from using weight as a predicator of personality traits when it comes to hiring, promoting or firing.
Oh wow, thank goodness this study was done, then. Because if negative assumptions do turn out to be true on average, that means you should totally judge people's personalities based on their looks, since there's no such thing as common cause and things that are true of a group on average are true of every member of that group. If black men are imprisoned at a higher rate than white men, that can only be because black men are criminals and you should never hire one! If there are fewer women than men in the sciences, that can only be because women are dumb at thinking and you shouldn't give them high-level jobs! WHAT THE HELL IS THIS BULLSHIT, I EXPECT THIS FROM EVERYONE ELSE, BUT ACADEMIA, YOU ARE MOTHERFUCKING DISAPPOINTING ME


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Dance is offered as part of the Performing Arts programme at all levels, becoming a full option subject in Year 9 through to NCEA and International Baccalaureate Dance at Year 13. Co-curricular dance activities span the three schools and ensure the continued development of the subject. Dance, both in its academic, and practical contexts, plays a vibrant and highly significant role in the greater life of Kristin culture.
Detailed information on the Dance curriculum is contained in each School's Curriculum Handbook. These can be viewed via the Junior, Middle and Senior School curriculum pages.
Registrations are completed online via our performing arts registration forms.
View our list of current registration forms >>
Performance Opportunities
Dance in the Dove
An annual showcase of Dance at Kristin, Dance in the Dove features all of the School's official dance groups as well as Dance students. It is held over two nights, usually in Term 3.
Dance - Middle School Boyz Crew
Open to all boys in the Middle School (Year 7-10). No audition required.
Dance Group - Year 7-8
Open to all Year 7-8 Middle School students (boys and girls). No audition required.
Dance Group - Year 9-10
All Year 9-10 Middle School students (boys and girls) are welcome to register for auditions.
Dance Group - Year 11-13
All Year 11-13 Senior School students (boys and girls) are welcome to register for auditions.
Major Productions
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Romulo Yanes
Similar to monkey bread, this is a great choice for brunch. Letting the dough rest overnight allows its flavor to develop into something wonderful.
- Yield
- Makes 6 to 8 servings
- Active Time
- 1 hr
- Total Time
- 20 hr (includes chilling overnight)
- For starter
- 1 teaspoon sugar
- 1/4 cup warm milk or water (105-115°F)
- 2 1/4 teaspoons active dry yeast (from a 1/4-oz package)
- 1/2 cup sifted all-purpose flour (sift before measuring)
- For dough
- 3 tablespoons sugar
- 3/4 teaspoon salt
- 1 tablespoon hot milk or water
- 3 large eggs
- 1 1/2 cups sifted all-purpose flour (sift before measuring) plus additional for dusting
- 1 1/2 sticks (3/4 cup) unsalted butter, cut into 12 tablespoon pieces, at room temperature, plus additional for brushing
- For pudding
- Rounded 1/2 cup thick jam or marmalade
- 1 tablespoon unsalted butter, melted
- 1/4 cup pecans (1 oz), finely chopped
- Special Equipment
- a heavy-duty stand mixer with whisk attachment and dough hook; an 8 1/2-inch aluminum ring mold* (6-cup capacity; 2 3/4 inches high); a 2-inch round cookie cutter
- Make starter:
- Stir together sugar and warm milk in a bowl. Stir in yeast and let stand until foamy, about 10 minutes. (If mixture doesn't foam, discard and start over with new yeast.)
- Stir flour into yeast mixture, forming a soft dough. Cut a deep X in top with sharp kitchen shears. Cover bowl with plastic wrap and let rise in a draft-free place at warm room temperature 1 hour.
- Make dough:
- Stir together sugar, salt, and hot milk in a small bowl until combined well. Fit mixer with whisk attachment and beat 2 eggs at medium-low speed until foamy. Add sugar-milk mixture and beat until combined well. With motor running, add (in order) 1/2 cup flour, remaining egg, 1/2 cup flour, 3 tablespoons butter, and remaining 1/2 cup flour, beating well after each addition. Continue to beat 1 minute.
- Switch to dough hook. Scrape starter onto dough with a rubber spatula and beat at medium-high speed until dough is smooth and elastic, about 6 minutes. Add 9 tablespoons butter and beat until incorporated, about 1 minute.
- Lightly butter a large bowl and scrape dough into bowl with rubber spatula (dough will be very sticky). Lightly dust dough with flour to prevent a crust from forming. Cover bowl with plastic wrap and let dough rise in a draft-free place at warm room temperature until doubled in bulk, 2 to 3 hours.
- Stir down dough with rubber spatula and lightly dust with flour (dough will still be very sticky). Cover bowl with plastic wrap and refrigerate dough, stirring it again after the first hour, at least 12 hours.
- Make pudding:
- Generously brush softened butter over bottom and up sides of ring mold.
- Using rubber spatula, scrape dough onto a well-floured surface and dust dough with flour. Roll out dough into a 10 1/2-inch disk (about 1/2 inch thick) with a well-floured rolling pin. Cut out 20 rounds (as close together as possible) with floured cutter. Gather scraps and knead once or twice, then roll out into a 5 1/2-inch disk (1/2 inch thick) and chill disk, wrapped in plastic wrap.
- Flatten 2 (2-inch) rounds of dough to 2 1/2 inches wide with floured fingertips.
- Make an indentation in center of 1 flattened round with your thumb, and place 1 level teaspoon jam in indentation, keeping edge of round clean. Cover with remaining flattened round and gently pinch edges using floured fingers to seal completely. Gently roll between floured palms to smooth seams and form a round pouch. Repeat with remaining rounds. (If rounds become too soft to work with, chill on a plate, covered.) Cut out 8 more rounds from chilled disk and make 4 more pouches in same manner for a total of 14 filled pouches.
- Brush tops of pouches with some melted butter. With floured fingers, carefully invert 7 pouches (buttered side down) into bottom of ring mold, evenly spaced and barely touching. Brush pouches with more butter and sprinkle pecans evenly on top. Make another layer with remaining 7 pouches, placing each pouch over an area where edges of pouches underneath meet (covering gaps). Brush with remaining melted butter. Loosely cover with plastic wrap and let rise in a draft-free place at warm room temperature until pouches double in bulk, 1 to 2 hours (they will rise slightly above edge of ring mold).
- Put oven rack in middle position and preheat oven to 375°F.
- Carefully remove plastic wrap and put ring mold on a baking sheet, then bake until top is golden brown, about 30 minutes. Invert onto a rack and remove ring mold. Cool to warm, 20 to 30 minutes, or room temperature. Turn right side up just before serving. Pull off pouches to serve (do not cut like a cake).
- *Available at fantes.com.
Cooks' notes:
· Use your favorite jam or marmalade, but be sure to cut any large pieces of fruit into small pieces. · Dough can be chilled up to 3 days. Stir down with rubber spatula once a day. · Pudding can be made ahead and cooled completely (on rack), then returned to ring mold and frozen, wrapped well in plastic wrap, up to 1 week. Reheat, top covered with foil, in a 350°F oven until heated through, 20 to 30 minutes.
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Nutritional Info
- Calories408
- Carbohydrates41 g(14%)
- Fat25 g(38%)
- Protein7 g(14%)
- Saturated Fat13 g(65%)
- Sodium273 mg(11%)
- Polyunsaturated Fat2 g
- Fiber2 g(7%)
- Monounsaturated Fat7 g
- Cholesterol120 mg(40%)


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Recently in Malawi we had our sister society meeting whereby our theme was career Woman Of Impact. I enjoyed a presentation from our Guest Speaker Maureen Masamba, who said, "Women we should not give ourselves limits, we should always focus on our future, identify our strengths and core competencies, build and nurturing our self-esteem; brain storm. If we fail to achieve something we should always search our souls, know what we are, have confidence, change strategy and try something different"


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Feature: Keeping time – circadian clocks
Today, of course, the Earth is host to an immense diversity of life: researchers estimate there are around 8.7 million different species on Earth, most of them insects. One thing nearly every plant, animal and microbe here today has in common is an internal biological clock that ensures all the activities of our cells and organs follow a 24-hour cycle.
That 'circadian' (Latin for 'daily') clock dictates what time of the day or night we feed, when we metabolise food into energy, and when we are active and when we rest. It's responsible for the surge of cortisol that forces us up in the morning, the surge of melatonin that gets us ready for bed at night, and the cycles of hunger, thirst and energy we experience throughout the day.
Although it is intimately tied to the cycle of day and night, our body clock doesn't need external cues to operate. Those cellular activities would follow the same rhythm even if we were stranded at the North Pole in the middle of June or December and exposed to 24 hours of constant light or darkness.
Why we developed those clocks and why, even in the smallest microorganism, they are so intimately connected to the rotation of our planet are questions that have long baffled evolutionary biologists. Their precise mechanism has also been an elusive 'black box' for science.
We do know that disrupting our body clocks – perhaps through shift work or jet lag – throws our cellular rhythms out, putting stress on our bodies over time. Our metabolism gets confused, so we produce less insulin and our blood sugar levels go up, predisposing us to diabetes and obesity. In the brain, our bewildered pineal gland stops producing its usual levels of melatonin, increasing the risk of cancer because melatonin suppresses harmful free radicals and tumours in addition to helping us sleep.
Black box
The crucial part biological rhythms play in our health has made circadian clocks an important field of research. If we can locate their cogs and wheels and understand how they work, we can at least attempt to fix them when they go wrong.
"People have known that there's a biological oscillator keeping 24-hour time all by itself without any external environmental cues since the 1960s," says Dr John O'Neill at Cambridge University. "The big question has always been, how does it work? That's been a black box for science."
For several decades, we've known that humans and other mammals with brain damage to their hypothalamus lose rhythms in behaviour and physiology. This led researchers to conclude that the circadian rhythms of the cells throughout our bodies are co-ordinated by a 'master clock' located in our hypothalamus. They dubbed this master clock the 'suprachiasmatic nuclei'.
But exactly how that clock worked – how its own neurons operated, how they influenced cellular activities (including genetic transcription and translation) in other parts of the body, and whether the mechanism was the same in simpler animals and other organisms – remained secrets of the black box.
By the early 1980s, genetics had given us a clue; researchers started to identify and test the first 'clock' genes in flies, fungi and finally, towards the late 1990s, in mice. Deleting (knocking out) those genes from the genome or mutating them changed the duration of that organism's circadian cycles (reducing them from 24 to 21 hours, for example).
Gene switch
These findings led researchers to develop a genetic model of 24-hour circadian timekeeping based on a negative feedback loop. The idea was that a clock gene is switched on around dawn. Once activated, the gene starts churning out mRNA (molecules containing a chemical 'blueprint' for making specific proteins) in a process known as 'transcription'. The mRNA then leaves the nucleus and travels to a cellular factory (ribosome) in the cytoplasm, where the protein specified in the blueprint is assembled in the second part of the protein-making sequence, known as 'translation'.
Levels of the protein in the cell build up and peak around dusk. Then, in one of those jaw-dropping instances of biological ingenuity, the proteins go into the nucleus and neatly turn their own genes off for the night, ready for the cycle to begin again at dawn.
It looked as though the various clock genes people had identified – including PERIOD, CRYPTOCHROME and CLOCK – were all components of this 24-hour transcription-translational programme. Although the genes varied in structure between different organisms, they all seemed to behave in a similar way, switching themselves on and off at specific times of the day. The level of coordination required throughout the body again seemed to support the idea of a master clock; in mammals, at least, the suprachiasmatic nuclei in the hypothalamus was likely to be the timer governing the on-off switch in all the body's cells.
It was a model of biological timekeeping that successfully accounted for a large body of experimental evidence. There were, however, some inconsistencies. One of these was a 1960s paper describing research on a long, single-celled alga called Acetabularia. The researchers noted that the movement of chloroplasts up and down its stem was circadian regulated. "Even in constant light, even though the alga didn't know at all what time of day it was outside, you still had approximately 24-hour movements of the chloroplasts," says O'Neill.
The really fascinating finding came when they removed its nucleus, which in Acetabularia is contained in a discrete structure, the rhizoid, similar to the root of a plant. Chopping off the rhizoid put a stop to all genetic activity – yet the researchers could still see the same circadian rhythms in chloroplast migration up and down the alga's stem.
The discovery was brushed under the carpet for want of an explanation. "We hadn't found the clock genes then, but once we did, no one wanted to revisit the Acetabularia problem because it didn't fit with the transcriptional-translation explanation for timekeeping, which requires daily changes in gene activity," says O'Neill.
Out-of-body clock
Four decades later, two studies published in 2005 underscored discrepancies so glaring it was no longer possible to ignore them.
Several groups had demonstrated the cyclical, 24-hour nature of gene activity by inserting the gene that makes luciferase – the protein that causes fireflies to flash at night – into a mouse genome. By fusing LUCIFERASE to a 'clock' gene, they got it to switch on and off at the same time as the clock gene did. LUCIFERASE acted as a 'reporter' for the clock gene, visibly lighting up the cells to indicate when it was switched on and dimming again when it was switched off, over the daily cycle.
Excitingly, in 2004, using LUCIFERASE as a reporter, researchers at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute found evidence of circadian rhythms of gene activity in cultured mouse cells. Since these cells were outside the body and had no way of communicating with the mouse 'master clock' in the brain, it looked as if another circadian mechanism was at work within the cells themselves.
Could that also be the case for humans? Combining the two findings – and taking them one step further – Steve Brown, a young postdoctoral student in Geneva, created a virus system that could insert clock-gene-LUCIFERASE 'reporters' into the genome of human cells. He and his colleagues then went on to measure the circadian rhythm in isolated human skin cells kept in either constant darkness or constant light.
To their excitement, they saw circadian rhythms continuing in the skin cells – despite the fact that, like the mouse cells, they were completely cut off from the master clock in their donor's brain. The 24-hour cycles of activity continued in the test-tube cells without any external environmental cues to tell the cells what time of day it was. Intriguingly, the rhythms very closely matched circadian rhythms in the living body of the person who had donated the cells; rhythms varied more between different people than they did between the skin cells and whole body of each individual.
The research in mouse and human cells turned the master-clock theory on its head. If individual cells can keep time outside the body, they must have some kind of intrinsic timekeeping mechanism, which doesn't necessarily need to be regulated by the suprachiasmatic nuclei.
Subsequent research has shown that, in fact, the suprachiasmatic nuclei do play an important part in synchronising all our individual cellular clocks, although they don't depend on it to function. It acts like a biological Greenwich Meridian, keeping all of our cellular clocks in what O'Neill calls a 'stable phase-relationship' with each other. "That's why we get jet lag, because the SCN can't immediately adapt to the new lighting environment. In the three to four days it takes you to re-entrain, all of the different cellular clocks in your different organs – whether your guts or liver or lungs – aren't getting have any coherent information from the SCN, so they just free run. That's why you feel hungry and wake up at odd times."
Back in 2005, O'Neill was fascinated by the Geneva group's finding – the idea that you could take a cell from any part of the body and put it in a dish, and it would still have an intrinsic idea of external time even if it couldn't see the sun.
He began to think that circadian clock research had conflated two separate questions: how does timekeeping work at the whole-organism level of physiology and behaviour, and how does it work at the cellular level? He became convinced that to understand the mechanism underlying circadian rhythms, it was essential to look at what happens in individual cells rather than the whole body.
Other researchers shared his doubts, fuelled in part by the fact that the transcription-translation model of timekeeping had grown up over time by correlation and had never been directly shown to be essential at the cellular level. "It's a very hard model to test, because if you shut down transcription in any cell, the cell will die – and dead cells don't have circadian rhythms," he points out with unassailable logic.
Clock without genes
Research by a group led by Professor Takeo Kondo in Japan and published in 'Science' the same year sent even bigger shockwaves through the field.
The group had been looking at Synechococcus elongatus, a species of photosynthetic cyanobacteria. S. elongatus is a prokaryote (meaning it doesn't have a nucleus), which split from our own eukaryotic line of evolution around 3 billion years ago (humans are eukaryotes, meaning the DNA in our cells is contained in a nucleus). Some years previously, Kondo's group had shown that despite not having a nucleus, this particular cyanobacterium had circadian timekeeping in transcription, photosynthesis and other metabolic processes.
Although they don't have a nucleus, cyanobacteria do still have a DNA genome, but it is found in the cytoplasm. Kondo and team identified three clock genes – KaiA, KaiB and KaiC – in the bacterial genome, which appeared to have a similar function to the clock genes found in mammals: deleting or mutating them disrupted rhythms in gene expression.
The really dramatic finding came when they purified the proteins these genes made and put them in a test tube with adenosine triphosphate (the universal currency of cellular energy). The proteins continued to alter their function as they would in a cyanobacterium by adding or removing phosphate groups from ATP onto KaiC (phosphorylation). And, just like in a cyanobacterial cell, they did so in a 24-hour circadian rhythm – despite the absence of any genetic (transcriptional-translational) activity.
"That was unbelievable – it completely blew everybody away because it opened the doors for completely non-transcriptional mechanisms of timekeeping," says O'Neill. "A lot of people assumed that it couldn't possibly be the case in more complicated organisms like humans or mice. But a few of us thought that if it were true in a cyanobacterium, it could be true in any organism."
In light of the Japanese study – and the fact that there was no strong, direct evidence indicating that transcription-translation loops were essential to timekeeping – he began to seriously consider the possibility that the cellular timekeeping mechanism might be biochemical rather than genetic.
Could a 'transcriptional-translational' model of timekeeping really allow for enough complexity to enable a single cell to keep 24-hour time on its own? Perhaps the transcriptional-translational components were an output of the clock – extremely important for facilitating rhythmic physiology but not necessarily the clock itself. "I didn't think the existing data were wrong, just that things might be more complicated."
Red blood cells
Previous work he had done at the University of Edinburgh, with Professor Andrew Millar, on another single-celled green alga, Ostreococcus tauri, supported the idea. The alga goes into hibernation when kept in the dark and stops transcribing and translating genes into proteins. Yet O'Neill and colleagues still found evidence (albeit indirect evidence) of a circadian metabolic oscillation persisting even in the absence of genetic activity.
In 2009, with Wellcome Trust funding, he moved to Cambridge to hunt for biochemical non-transcriptional timekeeping mechanisms with Wellcome Trust Clinician Scientist, Dr Akhilesh Reddy. "We hit on the idea of using human red blood cells to look for direct evidence of timekeeping in the absence of transcription," he says. Red blood cells are the only living human cells that don't contain any DNA; they lack a nucleus and other organelles. "They don't die if you inhibit transcription because they don't need to transcribe to survive, so evolution basically handed us a perfect system in which to test whether non-transcriptional mechanisms are sufficient to keep 24-hour rhythms."
First, they had to identify a molecule that could act as a 'reporter' of cellular rhythms in the absence of transcription. Fortuitously, they quickly realised they already had what they needed, courtesy of their work on a previous screen for mouse liver proteins. That screen had revealed that a set of very common enzymes called peroxiredoxins, which are found in every living organism, were modified after they had been 'assembled' (i.e. after translation).
Peroxiredoxins help control the level of harmful reactive oxygen species such as hydrogen peroxide that are generated by cellular respiration, and they become oxidised themselves in the process. The oxidation changes their structure (the modification O'Neill and colleagues noted) in ways that can be easily detected by Western blot, an analytic technique that uses antibodies to identify specific proteins. Follow-up work revealed that the peroxiredoxins were oxidised and reduced again in a 24-hour circadian cycle.
Armed with their biomarker, the researchers measured oxidation in human red blood cells cultured in test tubes and kept in constant darkness. Western blot analyses revealed that although the peroxiredoxin proteins themselves remained at a constant level (as expected, because there were no genes to make new ones), they still continued to be oxidised and reduced in a 24-hour rhythm. That study provided the first direct proof – and in a human system – that a non-transcriptional timekeeping mechanism must exist.
To follow up, O'Neill and Reddy deleted (knocked out) a clock gene (CRYPTOCHROME) from mouse cells and examined the peroxiredoxin oxidation and reduction within those cells. "When the clock gene was knocked out, we still saw peroxiredoxin oxidation and reduction rhythms, but they weren't completely normal," says O'Neill. "That suggests that if the transcriptional-translational feedback loop is intact, then it must couple very tightly with this metabolic oscillation. But if the transcriptional oscillation is absent, then the metabolic oscillation still persists."
A billion years old
O'Neill returned to his old friend Ostreococcus tauri – the algae that hibernates in the dark – and used the same antibody, in the same Western blot test, to measure peroxiredoxin oxidation and reduction in the algae. Lo and behold, even in the dark, with all genetic activity disabled, they found peroxiredoxin was oxidised and reduced in a circadian cycle.
"That was an unbelievable moment when we found that out," O'Neill recalls, "because Ostreococcus tauri split from the human line of evolution more than a billion years ago. Yet, amazingly, the same antibody works in both systems, and we could see the same oxidation cycle in both." Now they had direct evidence for timekeeping, in two very different systems (the human red blood cell and algae), in the absence of transcription. The findings were published in two 'Nature' papers in 2011.
The startling conservation of peroxiredoxin proteins in humans and algae, across a billion years, prompted them to look for it in a range of different organisms – including Archaea, cyanobacteria, fungi, flies, plants and mice – known to have circadian rhythms. In all of them, metabolic oscillations persisted even when the clock gene circuitry was turned off, suggesting peroxiredoxin oxidation rhythms may be a universal feature of circadian timekeeping.
There are, says O'Neill, a couple of caveats. He and Reddy don't believe that peroxiredoxin itself is the timekeeping mechanism, because interfering with it produces only very subtle effects. "Peroxiredoxin may not be a core regulator driving the 24-hour rhythms of the cell; it may just be the hands of the clock, not the cogs." They have yet to identify the biochemical timekeeping mechanism, although O'Neill believes it is likely to have its basis in hydrogen peroxide synthesis.
The next step will be to unpick that mechanism and try to understand how it couples with transcriptional control – and how varying oxidation rhythms in our red blood cells affect our health. "Clearly, there will be consequences if the level of oxidative stress faced by your red blood cells varies over circadian time. And there may well be significant consequences for understanding oxygen-carrying capacity in the blood and how that varies over time."
The great oxidation event
The ubiquity of peroxiredoxins across plants, microorganisms and animals – and the fact that they undergo 24-hour cycles of oxidation-reduction in every species – may also shed light on a question that has baffled evolutionary biologists: how did circadian rhythms evolve originally? To date, no one has proposed a particularly convincing argument to explain the molecular origins of cellular rhythms, and the (contrasting) differences in clock genes between different species have further muddied the picture.
O'Neill and Reddy were struck by the fact that peroxiredoxin proteins are known to have evolved about 2.5 billion years ago – coinciding with the 'great oxidation event' we know took place at about that time.
Until then, almost every organism was anaerobic, meaning it did not use oxygen to convert food into energy. Then, 2.5 billion years ago, some bacteria (probably cyanobacteria) evolved the capacity to photosynthesise in water, creating oxygen as a waste product. That led to a rapid increase in the levels of oxygen in the Earth's atmosphere: they rose from 0.1 per cent of atmospheric content to present-day levels of 21 per cent in only a few million years.
Oxygen was toxic to anaerobic life, which underwent a catastrophic decline. Today, anaerobic microorganisms can only survive in extreme environments such as the sulphur-smoking fissures of the ocean floor or the harsh waters of the Dead Sea at the lowest point of the world.
Organisms that survived the great oxidation event had to develop the ability to live in the presence of oxygen, use it in cellular respiration, and disable the reactive oxygen species generated as a by-product – the principal cellular role of peroxiredoxins. Peroxiredoxin proteins may have evolved to enable these organisms to anticipate and cope with daily fluctuating cycles of oxidative stress.
Thus, as O'Neill and colleagues suggest in a 2012 'Nature' paper, metabolic timekeeping in the early aerobes (organisms using oxygen to metabolise food) may have evolved as a direct result of the great oxidation event, not merely alongside it.
Twenty-four-hour peroxiredoxin oxidation and reduction may have been the very first timekeeping mechanism – explaining why it's so well conserved across so many different species. Other cellular timekeeping mechanisms, such as the clock genes and transcription factors, would have been bolted on later, after species diverged from one another, explaining why different plants and animals have different clock genes.
"We couldn't prove it without a time machine, but it at least provides a coherent framework – a possibly unifying idea – for understanding why circadian rhythms and metabolism are so well conserved across nearly all the different organisms you see on this planet," says O'Neill.
It's a breath-taking idea. That all of our lives – that of every person, plant, animal and microbe on this planet that uses oxygen to survive – are governed by the same ancient clockwork mechanism. That almost every cell in our bodies is still silently ticking away to the same 4.5-billion-year-old metronome, keeping time with Earth as it rolls towards the sun, morning after morning after morning.
Top image: The clock tower of the Houses of Parliament. The tower contains the bell Big Ben, which strikes on the hour. Credit: Wellcome Library, London.
lisalday111711 permalink14 Nov, 2012 1:50 am
This is absolutely fascinating. I am so glad to see that there are scientists out there not willing to let things slide when they don't fit in a mold that has been adopted. This my friends is what science is all about.
30 Nov, 2012 6:30 pm
I completely agree with you. As Richard Feynman said, its our capacity to doubt that will determine the future of civilization.


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DOHA, Qatar, Jan. 1 (UPI) -- Top-seeded David Ferrer of Spain and No. 2 Richard Gasquet of France began their 2013 seasons with first-round wins Tuesday at the Qatar Open.
Ferrer, the world No. 5, overcame some rustiness and managed to post a 5-7, 6-3, 6-2 victory over German qualifier Dustin Brown.
He'll next play Germany's Tobias Kamke, who whipped Spaniard Ruben Ramirez Hidalgo 6-1, 6-2 in another first-round match.
World No 10, Gasquet, meanwhile, dispatched Czech qualifier Jan Hernych in straight sets 6-3, 6-4 at the Khalifa International Tennis Complex.
He now goes on to face Slovenia's Grega Zemlja, who earlier doused Italy's Fabio Fognini 6-2, 3-6, 6-4.
Also Tuesday, fourth-seeded Russian Mikhail Youzhny pulled out his 400th ATP Tour match win with a 4-6, 7-6 (7-3), 6-1 triumph over Germany's Benjamin Becker, while Frenchman Gael Monfils -- last year's runner-up -- bested Qatari wild card Mousa Shanan Zayed 6-0, 6-3.
Not doing as well was fifth-seeded Frenchman Jeremy Chardy, who was bounced by German qualifier Daniel Brands 6-4, 6-4.
Another mild upset came when eighth-seeded Spaniard Pablo Andujar was done in by Czech Lukas Rosol 6-2, 7-6 (7-2).
Slovak Lukas Lacko and Egyptian Mohamed Safwat also posted first-round wins on Day 2.


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These lamb meatballs are easy, smell wonderful, and taste delicious. I baked them but you can boil them in stock or water instead. You won't get the crisp outer edge that way.
Ingredients 2 lbs ground lamb 1 tsp cinnamon 2 tsp cumin 2 tsp allspice 2 tsp real salt 1 egg
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BALTIMORE – The UMBC outdoor track and field team will divide themselves once again this weekend and travel north and south for their respective meets. A small number of distance runners will travel to Bucknell University to partake in the Bison Open while the larger portion of the team will travel to the Sea Ray Relays taking place at the University of Tennessee.
Still dominating the on track, freshmen Mercedes Jackson (Huntington, Md./Huntington) took the gold in the 200m and bronze in the 100m against at last week's Duke Invite. She also teamed with Ebonique Jones (New Castle, Del./William Penn), Briana Young (Bowie, Md./Elizabeth Seton), Imani Colbert(Upper Marlboro, Md./C.H. Flowers)to break the school record in the 4x100 relay in a time of 47.07.
Teammate Paulette Fogle (Washington, D.C./Bishop McNamara) is No.2 all-time in UMBC history the 400m hurdles with her time of 1:03.12 on the Durham track.
Distance runner Cody Mezebish (Westminster, Md./South Carroll) also shined last weekend and her 800m time of 2:16.34 has her ranked No.4 all-time.
Field performer Chrissy Robinson (Lusby, Md./Patuxent) continued her strong senior campaign and now has the No.3 all-time mark in the discus with a toss of 41.16m (135'0"). Classmate Laura Walker (Eldersburg, Md./Liberty) still holds the school record in pole vault after bettering her own mark by clearing 3.35m (10'11.75") at the Liberty Collegiate Invitational.
For the men, distance runners TJ Cowing (Severna Park, Md./Severna Park) and Tommy Eldridge (Rocky River, Ohio/Rocky River) now hold the No.2 and No.5 spots on the 10k leader board respectively with their performances last weekend.
On the field, senior Aaron Brooks (Upper Marlboro, Md./Dematha) finished third in the shot and fourth in the discus at the Liberty Invite last weekend. Teammate Cameron McDearmon (Owings Mills, Md./Franklin) performed in the hammer throw earning a personal-best (52.01m, 170'8") to bring him to No.3 on the all-time list. Ray Stinsman III (Mt. Laurel, N.J./Lenape) also performed well (48.91m, 160'5") garnering the No.7 position on the school leader board.
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Electrocity: Game Your Way to Green
When New Zealand energy company Genesis Energy wanted to educate its customers and the public about how difficult it is to manage the electricity demands of a growing population without destroying the environmental health of the community, it decided that a Web game might be the best way to go about it. Electrocity, a Sim City-style game that puts you in charge of a small but growing city on the coast, gives you the opportunity to make hard decisions about the environmental growth and health of your community. You can slash and burn forests and drop mines and refineries along your coastline, angering your citizens and polluting the water and air, or you can build wind farms in the hills and invest in hydro-electric power to keep your environmental impact down. Either way, it's a lot of fun.
When I sat down to play, I decided to look at the instructions. If you believe them, the game seems incredibly intricate and complicated. Don't be overwhelmed--it's actually a lot of fun and easy to play. You get 150 turns (don't worry, many of them go by without you doing anything at all), and during the game, events such as scientific discoveries of clean energy options and resources under the foothills outside your town take place. What you do with those discoveries and resources, however, is up to you.
You start off with a little town and a few thousand people. Your taxes are relatively low, the balance between energy demand and supply is healthy, and your town has a green reputation for clean air and water that anyone would envy. As your town gets more and more popular, your electricity demands go up, and you'll need to find a way to power the homes and businesses. You can build more wind farms and power plants, stop the city from growing altogether, or invest in new technologies that will provide power. You'll be able to choose between coal mines and wind farms, nuclear power and hydro-electric; it's all up to you. As the turns progress, you collect money from your citizens in taxes, and you can increase the tax rate to collect more money for energy projects. Be careful though: The higher taxes go, the unhappier your citizens become, and they'll start protesting you and slowing down your construction projects.
Electrocity is a game about balance. Your tenure as mayor will be judged on four important factors: energy management, population, environment, and popularity. A stellar score in one area doesn't mean you'll do well in another. In my sleepy little city of Wintopia, I managed to keep the town green and clean, and manage my resources very responsibly, but the only way I did that was to keep the population down. I preferred a smaller, greener community, but if I built farms and other projects that attract population, I would have had to make harder choices about their energy needs. You can see below that some cities grow very large, but can still be kept in balance.
As you play the game, you learn more about the energy demands of a growing community. You can champion energy-efficiency projects in your community, like mini wind-turbines on your city rooftops and solar panels to offset energy needs and keep taxes down, or spend money helping your citizens weatherproof their homes to save on energy costs. You'll have a chance to build offshore natural gas collectors using expensive, environmentally friendly technology or cheaper, more destructive technology that will cost money to clean up when all the gas is gone. When your term as mayor is up, you're given your grade (I got an 85!) and the breakdown of your score.
You can save your city, share it with friends, even enter it into competition with the other cities at Electrocity to see how you compared with other players. Since the site is designed to teach about energy efficiency, sustainability, and environmental responsibility, it offers plenty of teacher resources too. Schools that enter teams of students can compete against one another for the largest but most balanced cities, and the winning schools are eligible for up to $10,000 in technology equipment from HP. Currently the contest is only available to New Zealand schools. Nonetheless, Electrocity is a great teaching tool and a good way to learn a little about environmental responsibility.
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Mark Udall's close-knit family hopes for the best as search for brother continues
When news broke that U.S. Sen. Mark Udall's brother Randy was missing after a solo backpacking trek in Wyoming, I remarked to my colleagues that the two were close.
Having covered Udall's first Senate race in 2008, I learned a lot about the Udall family and remembered that Mark and his elder siblings — there were six kids in all — were born in what was the style then: one right after another. Mark arrived in 1950, Randy followed in 1951, then their sister Dodie in 1952, well, you get the idea.
(By the way, Dodie got her nickname at an early age. Her parents named her Judith and planned to call her Jodi, but her elder brothers pronounced it "Dodie.")
As young adults, Mark, Randy and Dodie lived together in Crested Butte for a while. Randy now lives in Carbondale; Mark and Dodie in Boulder County.
"Randy is very experienced and knows the area well," Dodie said in an e-mail. "We are hoping for the best. He is a wonderful father and husband and well loved by all who know him."


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SUPPLIES: Cardstock: (Vintage Cream) Papertrey Ink Patterned paper: (London, Venice from Boarding Pass collection) October Afternoon Clear stamps: (thanks, mom from Tiny Tags set) Papertrey Ink Dye ink: (Rhubarb Stalk) Tsukineko Chalk ink: (Creamy Brown) Clearsnap Accents: (red button) Jenni Bowlin Studio; (clear trinket pin) Maya Road; (yellow flower button) Papertrey Ink; (red pearl) Queen & Co. Sticker: (label) October Afternoon Fibers: (natural twine) May Arts; (cream ribbon) Offray; (yellow lace, white eyelet trim) Die: (flower tag) Papertrey Ink Tools: (border punch) Martha Stewart Crafts; (circle punch) EK Success Finished size: 4 1/4" x 5 1/2"
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4 Die-cut flower tag from cardstock. Stamp thanks and mom, ink edges, and adhere with foam tape. Adhere pearl.
5 Affix label sticker. Punch four circles from patterned paper, fold each in half twice, and adhere to create flower. Adhere to card and adhere button.
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Gentleman Jay Mariotti knows a raw deal when he sees one and something about that Matt Cassel to Kansas City trade does not smell right to him.
In case you hadn't heard, the Patriots sent their "franchise" quarterback—who has fifteen non-high school starts—to the Chiefs, along with crafty veteran Mike Vrabel, and all they got in return was a single second-round pick. So wait ... that's why everyone was making such a big fuss about Cassel during the offseason? The Patriots were really going to throw out Tom Brady for a guy who wasn't worth half a second-rounder?
Or could it be that Cassel was simply a parting gift to former Patriots executive and new Chiefs GM Scott Pioli? Jay sure thinks so and he wants Roger Goodell to lay the smackdown on someone.
What better way to thank Pioli, who tag-teamed with Belichick to mold three Super Bowl-champion teams, than by setting him up with a dramatic personnel boost in his first winter? Problem is, it smacks of an integrity issue when Belichick earmarks business with a pal and doesn't maximize his return in a big trade. You think other teams aren't irked today at The Gray Hoodie's unusual graciousness? Complicating the story was a Saturday night report on ESPN.com that the Denver Broncos had pursued a three-way trade that would have reunited Cassel with new Broncos coach Josh McDaniels and sent Jay Cutler to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, who would have compensated the Patriots. The talks fell through for whatever reason — all of which is said to rightfully anger Cutler, an accomplished Pro Bowl quarterback who reportedly wants to be traded now — and it prompts more questions about the Belichick-Pioli perfecta winning out.
There's more, of course, and Mariotti does sound a bit paranoid ... but that doesn't mean people aren't out to get him. Cassel is almost certainly being overrated, but one lousy second-rounder for a guy that other much dumber teams would have gladly overpaid for? Plus another player to fill a roster spot thrown in? It does seem rather generous, especially for New England. Could Jay actually be the voice of reason here? Fascinating, if true.
Kansas City's Sweetheart Deal for Cassel Warrants NFL Probe [Fanhouse]
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New York, February 15, 2011--The Committee to Protect Journalists condemns the sentencing of blogger Tal al-Mallohi on Monday to five years in prison on state security charges and calls on Syrian authorities to release her immediately. Al-Mallohi, 20, was detained in 2009 and held in extrajudicial detention for close to a year, according to news reports and local press freedom groups.
The High State Security Court in Damascus, a special court established in accordance with Syria's Emergency Law, sentenced al-Mallohi in a closed-door trial to five years in prison for "disclosing information to a foreign country that must remain a secret for national safety," according to news reports. The Emergency Law has been in place since 1963 and suspends many political and civil rights, and grants the government sweeping powers that allow it to detain individuals for extended periods and to try them in military courts.
Al-Mallohi was detained in December 2009 after she was summoned for questioning by the state security apparatus. Two days later, security forces searched her home and confiscated her computer, according to news reports. On her blog she wrote poems and articles about Palestinian rights and the aftermath of 2008 Israeli military operations in Gaza. It was not clear whether al-Mallohi's arrest was connected to the blog, according to The Associated Press.
The BBC reported that lawyers allowed into the closed court session said the judge "did not give evidence or details as to why she was convicted." When she was charged, according to the BBC, an official claimed that "her spying led to an attack against a Syrian army officer."
"We call on the Syrian authorities to release Tal al-Mallohi immediately," Mohamed Abdel Dayem, CPJ's Middle East and North Africa program coordinator said. "It is inconceivable that the Syrian government should hold this young blogger for close to a year without charge, only to finally charge her with disclosing state secrets without even bothering to present evidence to support this implausible claim."
U.S. State Department spokesman P.J. Crowley condemned the trial on Saturday in a statement, rejecting what he said were "baseless allegations of American connections that have resulted in a spurious accusation of espionage."
CPJ sent a letter
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Climber who died at Longs Peak in Rocky Mountain National Park identified
ROCKY MOUNTAIN NATIONAL PARK — The man who died while climbing on Aug. 15 on Longs Peak has been identified as Paul Nahon from Springfield, Mo.
The 20-year-old man fell 150 to his death while climbing Longs Peak in Rocky Mountain National Park. The park received the 911 call around 8 a.m. on Thursday, Aug. 15.
According to Park officials, the man was climbing The Narrows section of the Key Hole Route on Longs Peak, the only fourteener in the park, which rises 14,259 feet above sea level.
An off-duty park ranger and the man's climbing partners reached the man, who survived the fall, but later died from "multiple traumatic injuries," according to Park statements released late afternoon on Thursday.
The press release states ice was present along several locations along the Keyhole Route at the time the accident took place.
Park rangers began efforts to recover the man's body utilizing a helicopter, but were unable to recover the body due to high winds. Recovery efforts are expected to take place on Friday, Aug. 16, weather permitting, according to the press release.
The man is reported to be from Springfield, Mo., though park officials have not released the man's name pending notification to family members.
This story will be updated as more information becomes available.
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The $5 million Mo Ibrahim Prize, named for the Sudanese telecommunications billionaire who funds it, is awarded to a democratically elected African leader who serves his or her term and then steps down in accordance with the country's constitution. (As an added inducement, the prize winner gets another $200,000 annually for life.) One person definitely not in the running this year is Laurent Gbagbo of Cote d'Ivoire. He lost his race for reelection on November 28 but refuses to go. He and Alassane Ouattara, the recognized winner, have both sworn themselves into office and appointed cabinets, sparking yet another political crisis.
The stalemate in Cote d'Ivoire is a story that we have heard far too many times in Africa: an entrenched leader clinging to power after tainted elections. To name just two recent examples, Kenya descended into conflict after President Mwai Kibaki refused to cede office following a fishy reelection in 2007, and President Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe bullied his way to a new term the next year in a campaign marred by widespread violence.
One silver lining of the Cote d'Ivoire crisis is the unified stand of African leaders and outside powers against the stubborn incumbent. The African Union (AU), the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), the United States, the European Union, and the UN have backed Ouattara as president and called on Gbagbo to step down. The international effort includes both carrots and sticks. The U.S. government has suggested it might allow Gbagbo to retire in the United States, and ECOWAS has raised the prospect of using "legitimate force" to dislodge him.
African leaders' firm stand against one of their own marks a welcome break from the past. But good governance remains the continent's Achilles heel. According to the latest Freedom House rankings, only 9 of sub-Saharan Africa's 48 countries can be considered "free." Another 23 countries are "partly free," leaving a third of countries in the most repressive category. These totals are nearly identical to the rankings from 10 years ago. Another indication of the continent's political stagnation is the sorry fact that the Mo Ibrahim Prize has not been awarded since 2008; no suitable recipient could be found in the last two years.
Lack of good governance in Africa is galling because it condemns millions to poverty and fails to unleash the continent's great potential. A 2010 McKinsey Global Institute report offers some eye-catching findings on Africa's economic promise. Between 2000 and 2008, it was the world's third fastest-growing region, with real GDP expanding by more than 46 percent. Its economy is also broad-based, with natural resources accounting for less than a quarter of the continent's growth during that time.
McKinsey projects that by 2020, consumer spending in Africa will total $1.4 trillion, up from $860 billion in 2008. By 2040, the continent will likely have the largest working-age population in the world. Africa's full potential will not be realized, however, without substantial improvements in governance across the continent. Expanding the rule of law, fighting corruption, providing basic services and efficient administration, and ensuring orderly transitions of power -- all are necessary if countries are to provide the kind of secure climate that will attract investment and allow citizens to thrive.
Not all of these things will happen at once, and not all are needed for strong growth to begin. Indeed, many fast-growing countries in Africa and elsewhere struggle with ongoing governance challenges as they develop. But as long as governance continues to lag, Africa's development will remain uneven and will continue to leave millions of its people behind. Indeed, although the UN's Human Development Index shows many African countries making strong progress since 1970, it also shows that the only three countries with lower human development in 2010 than in 1970 are African.
How can good governance in Africa be promoted? Some have proposed heavy-handed approaches. The Oxford economist Paul Collier has called for long-term international peacekeeping missions and assistance for post-conflict countries. He also suggests a deal in which international powers would protect a government from coups--reinstating elected leaders by force if needed -- if the government agreed to international charters on democracy and transparent budgeting. Collier insists that the world has so much at stake in stabilizing post-conflict countries that we should not worry about infringing on sovereignty.
Another controversial idea comes from Stanford economist Paul Romer, who proposes that poor and struggling countries establish "charter cities" to be run by developed foreign powers. These powers would establish all the hallmarks of modern governance, attracting workers and investors and, in the process, building a shining example of progress to inspire the host country.
A third approach is to encourage countries to use their natural resources wisely by putting revenues into an international trust. The World Bank did just this in Chad. In exchange for help from the Bank in extracting and exporting its oil, Chad's government agreed to place most of the earnings in escrow and spend them on reducing poverty, promoting development, and saving for the future. However, Chad later reneged on these commitments and the World Bank ended the arrangement in 2008. A Bank evaluation cites several causes of the program's collapse, but lays most of the blame on the Chadian government.
Such neo-colonial solutions may be enticing in theory, but they face daunting obstacles. Few countries today would eagerly volunteer for long nation-building interventions. Charter cities raise a host of legal, logistical, and other questions. And as for international arrangements to manage public funds, the Chadian example shows that at the end of the day, resources belong to governments, who can do with them what they please.
This does not mean that outsiders cannot help promote and secure good governance -- especially at turning points such as today's crisis in Cote d'Ivoire. The African leaders pushing Laurent Gbagbo to cede power deserve credit, and sanctions imposed by the United States, the European Union, and others may also help. But when leaders like Gbagbo refuse to budge, the choice for international players comes down to a difficult and costly military intervention or a sheepish retreat. For better or worse, responsibility for good governance ultimately rests with a nation's leaders and people themselves.


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DALLAS – Junior shortstop Tanner Funk (Kearney, Mo.) of the Georgia College baseball team was named to the National Collegiate Baseball Writers Association (NCBWA) Division II All-America teams, the organization announced recently. Funk picked up a spot on the first team, the only Peach Belt Conference (PBC) player to do so.
In his first year with the Bobcats, Funk was second on the team in hitting at .393 with two home runs and 54 RBI. He also led the Peach Belt Conference (PBC) in doubles with 20. He slugged .520 and scored 45 runs. He becomes the first shortstop to take NCBWA All-America honors for GC.
All-time, GC student-athletes have now earned four All-America honors through the NCBWA organization.
Founded in 1962, the NCBWA is dedicated to the advancement of college baseball. Membership is open to writers, broadcasters and publicists of the sport. For more information about the NCBWA, visit the association's official Web site, www.ncbwa.com.
The Bobcat baseball team went 35-17 in 2011, a season that saw them hold down the No. 1 spot in the country for two weeks. The Bobcats finished second in the PBC West, honoring three all-region players, and a pair of All-Americans in Funk and outfielder Shawn Ward (2010-11).
The Georgia College Department of Athletics, two-time winners of the PBC Commissioner's Cup, sponsors 10 varsity athletic programs at the NCAA Division II level. As a Division II program, Bobcat Athletics prides itself on balancing the life of the student-athlete, evidenced by the teams' multiple appearances in post-season competition as well as documented academic success and community-service involvement. Sign up at www.twitter.com/BobcatSports and www.facebook.com/gcbobcats for up-to-the-minute reports, and visit www.GCBobcats.com for more information, and to nominate your favorite former Bobcats and Colonials to the GC Athletics Hall of Fame.


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The Paliani Monastery is located 20 km away from Heraklion. It is one of the most ancient monasteries of Crete and dates back to the First Byzantine period. Its first reference as Palaia dates back to 668 A.D. At first, it was a stravropegic monastery and was affiliated with the Patriarchate of Constantinople, but was occupied by the Latin archbishop of Crete in 1304, probably due to its great wealth. The Monastery was burnt by the Turks in 1821 and 1866. According to the oral tradition, the icon of Panaghia Myrtidiotissa was found at the roots of a great myrtle tree located at the southeastern end of the island. A fair in honour of Panaghia Myrtidiotissa, which you should not miss if you are around, is organised on September 24th.
The Monastery of Aghios Georgios Gorgolainis, 22 km away from Herakleion, is situated about 1 km W of Kato Asites village. The exact date of construction is still unknown, but it is considered to have been built at the end of the Venetian occupation in Crete, as in the precinct there is a Venetian lion bearing the inscription "MDCXVII" (1617). During the Turkish occupation, the monastery was destroyed three times by way of reprisal for the rebellions against the Turkish occupation. It was rebuilt each time. The two-aisled church of the monastery is dedicated to Aghios Georgios Gorgoeleimonas and Aghios Nikolaos. Finally, in the courtyard you will find the grave of fighter Fragkios Mastrachas, who was killed there during the 1866 rebellion.
The Odigitria Monastery is located 65 km away from Herakleio, after the valley of Messara, on the west slope of Asterousia mountain range. It is a stavropegic monastery, where you can find remarkable icons and canonicals. In 1862, the Holy fathers Parthenios and Evmenios took their monastic vows here and reconstructed the Koudouma Monastery.
The Karas or Kardiotissa Monastery is located 50 km away from Heraklion. It is a Stavropegic monastery and its first written reference dates back to 1333. In Kardiotissa there was a miraculous icon of Virgin Mary (Panaghia). In 1415 Florentine priest Cristoforo Buontelmonti writes about the monastery: "We arrived at Panaghia Kardiotissa Monastery that performs innumerous miracles for the believers".
However, the icon was stolen in 1498 and ended up in Saint Alfonso church in Rome. The one that can be seen today in the Monastery is considered as much miraculous as the other one and dates back to 1735.
The male Monastery of Agkarathou is built on a rocky hill, probably in the place of an older monastery, between the villages of Sgourokefali and Sampas located 23 km SE of Heraklion. It dates back to the 15th century, when it belonged to the Kallergis family. The construction of fortifications which began in the middle of the 16th century transformed it to a fortress. Remains of these fortifications have survived up to date.
It is believed that the name of the monastery derives from "agkarathia", a common bush of the Cretan countryside, as according to the tradition the icon of Panaghia, to whom the church of the monastery is dedicated, was found at that location under a bush of that kind. The Agkarathou monastery was a major cultural center of Crete during the Venetian rule. Scientists of that time studied there, while some documents dating back to 1559 and nowadays exhibited at the British History Museum prove that it housed an extremely remarkable library. Patriarchs Kyrillos Loukaris and Meletios Pigas went to school there. During the Turkish occupation it experienced decline, as the Turks imposed heavy taxes and prohibited its reconstruction.
At that time the most important heirlooms of the monastery including the icon of Panaghia were transferred at Kythira, homeland of several abbots and many monks of the monastery. They remained there until 1970, when the authorities of Kythira handed back to the monastery the heirlooms that had been preserved including the icon of Panaghia, known as Panaghia Orfani while it was far from the monastery. Nowadays, this icon decorates the sanctum of the church, which is dedicated to it.
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As if UCLA football needed more selling points.
The program is already in the midst of a renaissance, sparked by coach Jim Mora's arrival two seasons ago. Since then, the Bruins have won the Pacific-12 Conference's South Division, beaten USC twice, and notched their first 10-win season since 2005.
Having three players chosen in the NFL draft Saturday established another milestone. UCLA finished the 2014 draft with five selections, the most since six Bruins went in 2002. Coupled with the four that were picked in 2013, it marked the school's highest two-year total since 1993 and 1994.
Defensive end Cassius Marsh and receiver Shaq Evans started off the fourth round Saturday for UCLA, going 108th and 115th overall, respectively, to the Seattle Seahawks and the New York Jets. Over an hour later, the Pittsburgh Steelers picked linebacker Jordan Zumwalt in the sixth round, 192nd overall.
A pair of All-Americans had left the board the previous two days: linebacker Anthony Barr to the Minnesota Vikings at ninth overall, and offensive guard Xavier Su'a-Filo to the Houston Texans at 33rd.
Mora, who headed the Seahawks in 2009, likely played a role in Marsh's selection. The longtime NFL coach hasn't been shy about promoting his Bruins, and remains friends with Seattle defensive coordinator Dan Quinn.
Beyond any direct pitches, however, Mora also managed to tap into talent that his predecessor Rick Neuheisel recruited but could never develop.
"Coach Mora, he's a great coach and he brought in great coaches with him," Marsh said on a conference call. "He brought an NFL pedigree, and guys who were going to teach me how to be a professional, how to do things at the next level. He just changed the whole culture at UCLA. I love Coach Mora and everything he's done for the program, and everything he's done for me."
UCLA's draft total also put the program near the top of the Pac-12, trailing only Stanford's six picks. Oregon was next with four, while crosstown rival USC had three.
"It certainly gives us exposure and opens people's eyes to what's happening around here," Mora said earlier this month. "We just have to continue to make sure we're bringing athletes into this program and helping them as students and as people. Helping them realize their dreams, whether it's on the field or off the field.
"We've been lucky the past couple of years of having guys come through here and go to the NFL and that trend will continue."
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The Onslow County Sheriff�s Office is taking steps to remember its fallen.
The Onslow County Sheriff�s Office is taking steps to remember its fallen.
During its recent organizational meeting, the department added two streamers to its flag in honor of Deputy Jerry Van Barber, who was killed on Nov. 6, 1976, after being struck by a truck during a drunk driving stop, and Deputy Steven C. Boehm, who was killed June 14, 2008, when he was struck by a truck while attempting to control traffic in heavy smoke and fog.
Boehm�s widow, Kim Lawrence, attended the meeting.
�Steven Christopher Boehm is a name I hope you never forget,� she told the deputies, detention officers and sheriff�s department staff gathered in The Bible Church on Anne Street for the meeting.
Brown said that the streamers were ordered from a flag company in Wilmington as a way to continue honoring the department�s fallen.
�We�re probably the only sheriff�s office in the state that has the flag with the streamer,� he said.
Lawrence also shared a five-minute video her children made in honor of Boehm with the department�s staff after noting that she saw many new faces in the crowd and she wanted them to recognize her husband�s face. She said that this year would have been his 16th year at the department.
�Steven wanted to come home that night, and he died wearing the very uniform some of you are wearing now,� she said, reminding the deputies and detention officers to kiss their spouses and children before going to work each day.
During the meeting, the department also:
Recognized Michael Zalenski, Wendell Williams, Jeffrey West, Woodrow Thompson, Linwood Straughn, Joey Strange, Cedric Spearmon, Timothy Schwartz, Paul Rogers, Christopher Robinson, David Richards, Gerald Potter, Daniel Perez, Bradley Myers, Oliver Murray, Amanda McKinney, Phillip Marshburn, Thomas Joyce, Frederick Jefferies, Danny Henderson, Angela Hardesty, Paul Greene, Juan Gomez Sosa, Paul Deshotel, Jeremy Crawford, Graiggory Collins, Ruben Carreras, John Bojack, Michael Barron, Shannon Ayers and David Tompkins for receiving their basic detention officer certificates.
Recognized Walter Zabicki, Tim Vincent, Eduardo Torres, Daniel Tollefsrud, Jon Thomas, Robert Spade, Edwin Roman, Jared Meyer, Zach McGee, Todd McAllister, Chris Malidore, Jonathan Lincoln, Daryl Lawrence, Bradley Lanier, Raylon Lane, Adam Hostinsky, Matthew Hipple, Aaron Hernandez, Lucinda Hernandez, Rodney A. Henriquez, Michael Hardison, Jesse Gober, Kerry Gibson, Michael Fierce, Matthew Ennis, Zaire Duckett, Craig Culpepper, Randall Butler and Steven Brown for receiving their basic law enforcement certificates.
Recognized Thomas P. Joyce and Timothy Schwartz for five years of service.
Recognized Thomas Blanchard for receiving his intermediate detention certificate.
Recognized Bruce Dixon, John Dubois, Robert Ides, Tom Garcia and Jon Lewis for receiving their intermediate law enforcement certificates.
Recognized Ancil Julien, Dwane Wade, Scott Rowe, David South, Jon Lewis, Patrick Garvey, Jeffrey Latham, Mark Leggins, David Bagby, Tom Robinson, Larry Nobles and Shawn George for receiving the intermediate service award.
Recognized Jeff Sanders, Jerry Morse, Tom Robinson, Randall Jolman, Mark Scott, John Dubois and Mark Leggins for receiving advanced law enforcement certificates.
Recognized David South, Michael Washington, Linwood Darden, Lew Zimmerman, Jeff Eason, Jeff Sanders, Jerry Morse and Rick Baumgarner for receiving advanced service awards.
Recognized Mitch Gordon and David Evans for completing forensic science 101 through the American Institute of Applied Science.
Recognized several deputies for promotions: David South was promoted to captain; Scott Rowe was promoted to lieutenant; Ken Plume and Jose Campos were promoted to first sergeant; Randall Butler, Timothy Vincent, Timothy Parker, William Clifton, David Evans, Adrian Barrera, Artis Gladden and Larry Johnson Jr. were promoted to sergeant.
Amanda Hickey is the government reporter at The Daily News. She can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com.


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Larry Barnes's compositions have been featured on contemporary music programs in Brussels, Barcelona, Darmstadt, New York City, Atlanta, Los Angeles, Cleveland, St. Louis, and several other cities.
Larry Barnes and his compositions have been all over the map.
His "Morning Gigue" was recorded by the Slovak Radio Symphony and released on compact disc in 1998 and released digitally by PARMA records on iTunes, Rhapsody, eClassical, and Amazon in 2012.
In 2010 he served as the Kentucky/Ecuador Partners Musician of the year, performing his original music and presenting lectures on American popular music in four Ecuadorean cities. In 1992 Barnes traveled in Ireland as an Al Smith Fellowship recipient. And over the last decade he has toured China, Costa Rica, and Senegal as part of his work in world music.
Barnes's most recent commissions are solo piano works entitled Preludes from Pangaea, composed for and premiered by Louisville pianist Denine LeBlanc. The Preludes, "Vocalise for an Orchid Moon," "The Devil's Gamelan," and "Hibernia," all explore elements of music cultures outside the Euro-centric tradition, an outgrowth of Barnes's pedagogical work.
Barnes is a prolific composer. He has completed commissions for bassist Bertram Turetzky, organist Marilyn Mason, the Krefting Piano Company of Cincinnati, the Lexington Chamber Chorale, and the Jefferson Duo and Quadrant Ensemble.
Barnes's composition "Toccata: Act of War" for piano was selected for a 2007 commercial recording by the Society of Composers on Capstone Records and for a 2011 webcast by Princeton Public Radio in honor of the tenth anniversary of the 9/11 attacks. It is also featured on colleague Gregory Partain's 2007 CD release Piano Works, Volume II.
In 2008 Barnes provided a complete original score for Euphoria, which took the Gold Award for Documentary at the Houston Film Festival. The film, shown at The Kentucky Theatre in downtown Lexington first in 2009, was shown there again in 2012 during Transylvania's inaugural August term for first-year students, whose theme was "Making Sense."
In addition to his commitment to composition, Barnes maintains a strong performance career. He joined the Eastman Wind Ensemble for a performance of music by Hanson, Schwantner, and Copland at Lincoln Center and for a subsequent recording on the Phillips label. He has performed solo recitals in Cleveland, at the Luzerne Music Center in Lake Luzerne, N.Y., in San Antonio, and in Lexington and has performed chamber music with members of the Philadelphia Orchestra, Albany Symphony, San Antonio Symphony, and Lexington Philharmonic.
Barnes even manages to tie composing to other personal interests. He is an avid practitioner of Tai Chi and earned a black belt from Grandmaster Sin The in September 2012. It should come as no surprise, then, that Barnes has created environmental music for the performance of the Tai Chi Chuan 24 and 64 movement sequences. He describes the long form music as "perfect for tuning out the noise of the outside world, or entering a rainforest of sound as you move through the form."
When your interests lie all around the world and your creativity is boundless, Barnes proves there is simply no limit to the original work you can produce.


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DOVER – The Greater Dover Chamber of Commerce will hold its monthly Local Experts Speaker Lunch Series event on Thursday, March 28 from noon to 1:30 p.m. am at the Dover Chamber.
Join us for our monthly lunch event featuring Local Expert Wes Tator, NH Real Estate, present "Energy, the Hidden Profit Center." How to find savings in your energy programs.
The presentation will present basic information on why the attention on energy is growing, what the opportunities are for economizing on energy are, and how companies are taking advantage of these opportunities. The presentation will occur in dialogue with attendees encouraged to share their company's accomplishments and challenges. Come learn about ways to contribute to the bottom line by saving energy!
Join us to learn more about this valuable community program. Call the Greater Dover Chamber of Commerce at 603-742-2218 to make a reservation. You can register for this event at www.dovernh.org/business calendar. The charge for attending this event is $10.00 for Chamber members and $15 for non-Chamber members.
The Greater Dover Chamber of Commerce is a not-for-profit association of businesses, professionals, individuals, and organizations working together to advance the economic well-being of its members and the community.


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Sohu (SOHU)'s search engine Sogou has been a rumored acquisition target this summer, but the presumptive acquirer was always Qihoo 360 (QIHU), the second largest search engine in China after Baidu (BIDU).
It turned out Sohu sold part of Sogou to China's largest Internet company Tencent Holdings (TCTZF) instead, probably at a better price.
Qihoo has turned bitter and revengeful, observes Wedge Partner analyst Juan Lin. This is the entertaining bit:
On September 21st, Sogou CEO Wang Xiaochuan commented on his Weibo post, and Sogou posted an official statement on various internet portals, that since September 19th (3 days after the announcement that Tencent is investing in Sogou), the company has received a large number of user complaints that their default browser setting was changed from Sogou's browser to IE or 360 browser without any notification. The company claimed to have discovered that such changes are related to Qihoo's anti-virus software and requested that Qihoo stop such inappropriate behavior.
Several hours after Sogou's statement, Qihoo also put out an official notice stating that the company's anti-virus software has detected that Sogou's Chinese input software has misled users to install Sogou's browser by providing false upgrade alarms or bundling the installation of the Sogou browser to the upgrade of Chinese input software. Qihoo's 360 anti-virus software has successfully recovered the browser setting for users with permission.
On the front page of Qihoo's video search site v.360.cn, the 'Today's most popular video' session provides 15 short video clips. Previously as many as 12 videos were from Sohu video, but right now the number is reduced to 8-9.
Here is how Qihoo can hurt Sohu:
A significant share of Sogou's search traffic is through traffic acquisition (around 40%) and directed by the Sogou browser. Since Qihoo's PC anti-virus software has penetrated into over 90% of Chinese internet users, we think it may create difficulties for Sogou to further develop its search engine and browser. [Barron's: Qihoo started as an anti-virus software maker before entering search and now mobile app store.]
Although we cannot directly relate the reduced number of videos from Sohu on v.360.cn front page to Tencent's investment into Sogou, we think that there is a risk that Qihoo will reduce the traffic it directs to Sohu video. Currently around 10% of Sohu video traffic comes from Qihoo, and the share has been increasing rapidly.
Sohu's growth driver these days is the video site, so the revenge could hurt.
Plus, the partnership between Tencent and Sogou sounds good in theory, but may not be good in practice:
Although we think that Tencent's huge user base and various media resources may benefit Sogou, we think it is early to be too positive about Sogou's future development based on the assumption of Tencent's support. We understand that Tencent's own search engine Soso.com has never been able to grow to over 5% market share, even with Tencent's user base and massive investment. Since Sogou is invested but not owned by Tencent, we think that it is unlikely for Sogou to receive more support from Tencent than Soso.
In all, the analyst is not feeling positive towards Sohu. It has a Neutralon Sohu with $71 target price, where this stock is trading right now.