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Appalachian Ink ~ Home of Anna Wess (and Granny)
We are a peculiar breed. Our roots grow deeper than the cedars, and yet we don't know precisely where or who it is that we grew from. We are a mystery as old as these hills themselves, and it doesn't take much figuring to know that we are enigmas of intentional design and destiny.
God knows our names.
We are not Northerners — damn Yankees, the men folks' Confederate influence called them — and this we know without a doubt. I myself was always preened into believing I was a Southern child, born out of notions of gallantry and romance, but the fact is, I ain't a low country belle and I've never picked a shred of cotton or been to a debutante ball.
We are not peaches.
And these mountain women before us were not delicate flowers or distressed coquettes. In these old heirloom hills, the women are…
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Metal Fabricator
Model Maker
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Firms provide onsite, job-related training to upgrade the skills of technicians, production workers, and engineers. Classes teaching computer skills and blueprint reading are common.
Production workers may start as laborers or in other unskilled jobs and, with experience and training, advance into better paying positions that require greater skills or have greater responsibility.
Workers with different levels of education find employment opportunities in the computer and electronic product manufacturing industry. Although assembly workers generally need only a high school diploma, assemblers in the computer and electronic product manufacturing industry may need more specialized training or experience than do workers in other manufacturing industries.
Most production jobs in food manufacturing require little formal education or training. Graduation from high school is preferred, but not always required.
The composition of the machinery manufacturing labor force continues to evolve as labor intensive tasks are automated, increasing the proportion of production work that requires additional skills.
Standards for new hires are higher now than in the past. Employers increasingly require at least a high school diploma as the number of unskilled jobs declines, and most motor vehicle manufacturers administer lengthy examinations when hiring assemblers.
Training requirements for jobs in the pharmaceutical and medicine manufacturing industry range from a few hours of on-the-job training to years of formal education plus job experience. For production occupations, manufacturers usually hire inexperienced workers and train them on the job; high school graduates generally are preferred. Beginners in production jobs assist experienced workers and learn to operate processing equipment. With experience, employees may advance to more skilled jobs in their departments.
Workers enter the printing industry with various educational backgrounds. In general, job applicants must be high school graduates with mathematical, verbal, and written communication skills, and be computer literate.
Many jobs in steel manufacturing require only a high school diploma. However, machinery continues to become more complex, and growing numbers of operating and maintenance positions are highly skilled, so employers increasingly prefer to hire graduates from formal postsecondary technical and trade schools.
What you'll be doing all day:
Basically, you'll be making things with metal. Lathes, milling machines, shapers, and grinders will all be part of your daily work. You'll run computer-controlled machining tools that are accurate down to a few micrometers. And you'll work with finish tools to perfect each piece you've made.
When you're working with this much metal, you'll become familiar with different types of material. And you'll be in charge of metalworking projects from planning and fabrication through assembly, inspection, and testing, using knowledge of machine functions, metal properties and mathematics.
What someone with a little experience makes (roughly):
What type of education you'll need: On the Job Training
What you'll be doing all day: Remember how you never thought you'd use trigonometry after high school? Here's where you're proven wrong. Take some trig, a vast knowledge of metal, and some good old hands-on work, and the next thing you know, you're fabricating and assembling structural metal products.
Cutting, hammering, welding, bending, shearing, pressing-if you can do it to metal, you will. Of course this job is more than power tools and brute force. In addition to the previously mentioned trig, you'll need to be able to read and draw up blueprints, test specifications, and more.
What someone with a little experience makes (roughly): $28,600
What you'll be doing all day: Remember building scale models and carving stuff out of clay when you were a kid? Well, now you'll get paid to do it for real. No joke. Does this sound like a great job or what?
Maybe you'll be sculpting a full-scale model of a futuristic car. Or maybe something smaller-like the next superhero action figure? You'll be making molds for anything from candles and bobbleheads to silverware and candy bars. Artistic talent and en eye for detail are a must with this job.
What someone with a little experience makes (roughly): $24,700
What type of education you'll need: On the Job Training, Apprenticeship


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Castletown, Omagh, Co. Tyrone, Northern Ireland
Just outside the town of Omagh is the Ulster-American Folk Park, one of the best open-air museams of its kind. The Folk Park grew up around the restored boyhood home of judge Thomas Mellon (founder of the Pittsburgh banking dynasty). The Park's permanent
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Inmate Allergic to Execution Drug: Dies from Lethal Injection
April 20, 2010
Inmate argued allergies to lethal injection drug might cause him to die before he's killed
Daryl Durr, a convicted serial rapist and murderer, was put to death today. Last week, Durr's attorneys said that according to Durr's prison medical record, he was allergic to anesthesia. Due to these allergies, they argued he could not be executed by lethal injection because Ohio uses a large dose of anesthesia to execute inmates. They added that if injected, Durr might have a violent allergic reaction causing his blood pressure to drop to dangerous levels, and suffer obstructed breathing causing him to die.
The State's response was that there was no proof that Durr would have an allergic reaction and die before he was already dead. The worst that could happen would be that he'd die from low blood pressure and impaired breathing before the execution drug killed him. Durr's appeal was denied, and was injected with the execution drug and suffered no apparent complications or any noticeable adverse reaction other than death.


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Germany has received scathing criticism from many experts for its approach to resolving the euro crisis.Germany has been trying to: limit/reduce government budget deficits and promote large-scale structural reform (e.g., improved international competitiveness in the European periphery, create a central authority to manage Europe-wide finances with real enforcement powers against national governments, etc).
A common and vehement criticism is that, to avoid a 1930s-scale economic collapse, Germany and the core euro countries (e.g., Finland, Netherlands, etc.) must shift from an austerity approach to aggressive pro-growth policies. They're urged to: recapitalize weak European banks, create a European bank deposit insurance system, promote fiscal stimulus in place of austerity (implying a mechanism for periphery countries to borrow with a German guarantee), weaken the euro against foreign currencies, and accept some euro inflation. Structural reform (which the Germans view as a top priority) is considered of secondary importance by Germany's critics, to be addressed only after the current crisis is averted.
The hour is late. Unemployment in some euro countries is at Depression levels (in Greece and Spain, unemployment now exceeds 20 per cent). The collapse of the euro and the European common market — which would be economic catastrophes — are being openly discussed. Further, a 1930s-style Depression could also lead to political disasters. The 1930s weren't just an economic disaster — they set the stage for WWII.
However, the harsh criticism of Germany's approach misses the extent to which corruption, demagoguery and governmental incompetence in Europe's periphery are significant barriers to: resuming growth, resolving this crisis, and continued European integration. Greece is my example, but the issues described below exist in varying degrees across Europe's periphery.
Greece has been in an economic crisis for several years, but its government still hasn't reduced public sector corruption. The elites that benefit continue to resist change. For example, paying bribes (to Greek hospitals to obtain treatment and to tax inspectors to evade taxes) reportedly remains a common practice. The public has very little belief in the honesty of the public sector — "six Greeks in 10 expect public officials to abuse their position for personal gain."
Well into the crisis, the Greek parliament retained all sorts of perks for itself (e.g., free Mercedes) while demanding sacrifices from common citizens. In Greece and other countries of the euro's periphery, violent ultra-nationalist political parties gain in popularity, and rumours connect them with the old corrupt elites.
These aren't just anecdotal reports in the press. In Transparency International's 2011 annual ranking of public sector corruption, New Zealand ranked 1st (the least corrupt country in the world), Germany ranked 14th, and Greece ranked 80th (tied with countries such as El Salvador and Morocco).
Consider another metric: In the most recent World Bank Ease of Doing Business Survey, the easiest country for doing business is Singapore (ranked 1st), with Germany ranked 19th. Greece is ranked 100th (just ahead of Papua New Guinea). Apparently, it's easier to do business in the Republic of Yemen (ranked 99th), than in Greece. As one simple point of comparison: In Greece, it takes 77 days (and probably a few bribes) for a business to turn on electric service; in Germany, it takes 17 days.
A free press is key in fighting public sector corruption. But across the euro's periphery, freedom of the press is weak and often under attack. For example, Greece ranks 70th on the most recent Press Freedom Index, behind Bhutan and ahead of Nicaragua. As a benchmark, Finland ranks 1st with the world's freest press; Germany ranks 18th.
I have huge sympathy for the Greek public (and the other peoples in the Euro's periphery) who suffer from this corruption, are disgusted and want change: "Only one Greek in 10 says they see enough corruption prosecutions or strong enough punishments for offences". However, Greece's governing elites – rather than tackle popular reforms such as fighting corruption (that might adversely impact themselves) – have focused instead on unpopular moves, such as pension fund reform.
This wasn't supposed to happen. Countries on the periphery were supposed to converge to euro core standards. However, the periphery's ruling groups resisted fixing corruption problems during the pre-crisis boom, and resist fixing them now despite the crisis engulfing their people.
Germany/the core, as a consequence, prefers to tightly control bailout terms — to continually pressure the periphery to reform. Otherwise, emergency loans will become gifts, temporary subsidies become permanent annual transfers, and structural reforms will again be postponed indefinitely. Aside from the risk to the German taxpayers, a failure to come out of this crisis with real reforms sets the stage for an even bigger debacle at a later date.
The Germans deserve commendation for their commitment to a united Europe. It's amazing that Germany continues its efforts to achieve a greater fiscal, regulatory and political union with strong non-corrupt transparent institutions. However, it's also amazing that, several years after this crisis began, the countries in the euro's periphery can continue to resist real reforms.
The Germans are correct — structural reform cannot be put off any longer.
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A massive, 570-pixel camera that can peer back seven billion years ago is on its way to Chile where it will be used to study to study a mysterious force in the universe known as dark energy.
The camera, which has multiple lenses including one three feet in diameter, is being shipped from Illinois to the Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory where it will survey faint galaxies in the distant universe
Dark energy, only discovered in 1998, is present throughout the universe. Scientists know little about it except that it seems to be speeding the expansion of the universe.
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"There's enough data that people know what we don't understand, but there's not enough data to explain it yet," Brenna Flaugher, a physicist at Fermilab near Chicago, which assembled the Dark Energy Camera, told NPR. "There's too much room for the theorists to come up with crazy ideas right now. And so there's lots of crazy ideas. And we need data."
Dark energy was discovered when researchers studied light coming to Earth from exploding stars. The light's path showed the stars were farther away than they should have been, which implied that something was acting against gravity. Scientists have since confirmed that as galaxies move apart, they speed up, increasing their distance at a faster and faster pace. Hence, the universe is expanding at an ever-more rapid clip.
According to the Department of Energy, the camera will be able to photograph galaxies from the time the universe was only a few billion years old, tracing the history of the expanding universe roughly three-quarters of the way back to the time of the Big Bang.


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Perhaps it's a bit self indulgent, but I really feel like I need to devote a whole picks post to ribbons and trim. From twill to lace, printed designs to pleated – and everywhere in between – ribbons and trims were everywhere on the show floor. Here are my picks from CHA-winter:
Everyone was talking about Pink Paislee's pleated ribbon. I am definitely seeing great possibilities with this unique ribbon product, but I'm even more excited about the Artisan tapes. The patterns are great and I love the feel of them.
Making Memories released a travel line, and I especially love the airplane trim.
Tissue tape. That's right, Tim Holtz has come up with a tape that's super sturdy but is made from tissue so it's partially translucent too. Each roll has 16 yards and there are several different styles. Imagine the inking, layering, painting, and other possibilities!
Webster's Pages booth was filled with noteworthy trims, beautiful papers, and trinkets. I loved every item in the booth. They've really outdone themselves with this release and I'm going to share two examples – their trim card and new fabric ribbon. They also have amazing bulk trims for stores to purchase.
The fabric ribbon from Webster's Pages is very lightweight and thin but sturdy. I love how intricate the designs are on it.
JIllibean Soup has the cutest little packages of trim. I love all of the colors and designs and how well they will match up to their collections.
My Minds Eye released a collection called Lush and the jewels, brads, and of course ribbons are great accessories not just for this line but others as well. The single color ribbon cards will be very useful.
American Crafts released so many must-haves, and as usual they really hit the mark with their ribbons from all of the lines. The ribbons below coordinate with the "I Do" line. The "Botanique" and "Dear Lizzy" lines have exquisite offerings as well.
Wouldn't it be fun if somebody took crepe paper and added printed designs? Tattered Angels and Heidi Swapp did just that in their latest offering with these mist-able crepe paper ribbons.
Maya Road released a number of vintage inspired lovely delicate trims. In soft colors and sweet designs, these little treats will be brightening my studio soon I hope.
Queen & Co. released a number of new designs in their signature felt adhesive backed trims that I liked, but these were my favorites. The loops are just too cute!


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London wedding dresses
It seemed how a wedding dress differs from evening and ball gowns? Why is he given particular importance? It is all about symbolism. A london wedding dresses gives such a rather uninteresting with its official events, such as registration in the registry office, solemnity, and festivity. As for the wedding, then the london wedding dresses is a part of the sacred ritual, without which the atmosphere of majesty and spirituality is disturbed.
It is very important to feel your london wedding dresses
Wedding dress has always played a very special role in the wedding. It is the third main participant of this celebration. A london wedding dresses always attracts the eyes of guests. It is him, in addition to the groom and the bride herself, that the guests are certainly discussing. And it is the london wedding dresses that emphasizes the special status of the bride. Every girl has always dreamed of becoming a princess for a moment. Little girls often imagine themselves as fairy princesses. A london wedding dresses and gives just one unique chance to feel at a fabulous ball, in which the bride is the queen.
Many popular signs and superstitions are connected with the london wedding dresses of the bride. In fact, the wedding dress is the symbol of the bride. No wonder the girls so carefully choose their outfit, so that on this almost the most important day in their lives look perfect.


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ASHEVILLE, N.C. (AP) Jeremy Atkinson scored 16 points with nine rebounds as UNC Asheville held off Coastal Carolina 63-60 Wednesday night in Big South Conference action.
After 10 ties and nine lead changes, the Bulldogs (10-10, 4-2) led 63-56 on Keith Hornsby's jumper with 3:54 left. Anthony Raffa answered with a 3-pointer and Warren Gillis hit a free throw with 2:09 to go to get the Chanticleers within 63-60.
Neither team could score the rest of the way. Coastal Carolina missed three field goal attempts, including Kierre Greenwood's 3-point try with 3 seconds to go, and UNC Asheville missed a layup, a tip-in and a free throw.
Hornsby added 13 points, Will Weeks 12 and Trent Meyer 10 for the Bulldogs, who were 17 of 24 from the line compared to 6 of 8 for the Chanticleers.
Raffa scored 20 of his 27 points in the first half for Coastal Carolina (8-9, 3-3).


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American Ginseng - What is it & How to use
Natural Medicines Comprehensive Database rates effectiveness based on scientific evidence according to the following scale: Effective, Likely Effective, Possibly Effective, Possibly Ineffective, Likely Ineffective, Ineffective, and Insufficient Evidence to Rate.
The effectiveness ratings for AMERICAN GINSENG are as follows:
Possibly effective for…
- Diabetes. Taking 3 grams of American ginseng by mouth, up to two hours before a meal, can lower blood sugar after a meal in patients with type 2 diabetes. However, larger doses do not seem to have a greater effect. Taking 100-200 mg of American ginseng by mouth for 8 weeks might also help lower pre-meal blood sugar levels in patients with type 2 diabetes. Different American ginseng products may have different effects. Researchers think that is because they contain different amounts of the active chemicals called ginsenosides.
- Respiratory tract infections. Some research suggests that taking a specific American ginseng extract called CVT-E002 (Cold-FX, Afexa Life Sciences, Canada) 200-400 mg twice daily for 3-6 months during flu season might prevent cold or flu symptoms in adults between the ages of 18 and 65. People older than 65 seem to need a flu shot at month 2 along with this treatment in order to decrease their risk of getting the flu or colds. This extract also seems to help make symptoms milder and last a shorter length of time when infections do occur. Some evidence suggests that the extract might not reduce the chance of getting the first cold of a season, but it seems to reduce the risk of getting repeat colds in a season. However, it might not help prevent cold or flu-like symptoms in patients with weakened immune systems.
Possibly ineffective for…
- Athletic performance. Taking 1600 mg of American ginseng by mouth for 4 weeks does not seem to improve athletic performance. But it might decrease muscle damage during exercise.
Insufficient evidence to rate effectiveness for…
- Insulin resistance caused by HIV treatment. Early research shows that taking capsules containing 1 gram of American ginseng root three times daily for 14 days while receiving the drug indinavir, which is a type of HIV therapy, does not reduce insulin resistance caused by indinavir in healthy people.
- Attention deficit-hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). There is early evidence that a specific product (AD-fX, Afexa Life Sciences, Canada) containing American ginseng extract in combination with ginkgo leaf extract might help improve ADHD symptoms such as anxiety, hyperactivity, and impulsiveness in children aged 3-17 years.
- Breast cancer. Some studies conducted in China suggest that breast cancer patients treated with any form of ginseng (American or Panax) do better and feel better. However, this may not be a result of taking the ginseng, because the patients in the study were also more likely to be treated with the prescription cancer drug tamoxifen. It is difficult to know how much of the benefit to attribute to ginseng.
- Cancer-related fatigue. Research on the effects of American ginseng in people with fatigue related to cancer is not consistent. One study shows that taking 700-2000 mg of American ginseng daily for 8 weeks does not reduce fatigue in people with cancer. However, other research shows that taking 2000 mg of American ginseng in two doses daily for 8 weeks reduces fatigue by 51%. The conflicting results might be due to the different methods used to measure fatigue in the studies.
- Mental performance. Some research suggests that taking one 100-400 mg dose of American ginseng (Cereboost, Naturex) 1-6 hours before mental tests improves short-term memory and reaction time in healthy people.
- High blood pressure. Evidence on the effects of American ginseng in people with high blood pressure is not consistent. Some research shows that taking 1500 mg of American ginseng twice daily for 12 weeks does not reduce blood pressure. But other research shows that taking 1000 mg of American ginseng extract three times daily for 12 weeks lowers blood pressure in people with diabetes and high blood pressure. The differences in the research might be related to the amount of ginsenosides, the active chemical in American ginseng, that is contained in the products used.
- Menopausal symptoms. Early research suggests that taking a product containing American ginseng, black cohosh, dong quai, milk thistle, red clover, and vitex agnus-castus (Phyto-Female Complex, SupHerb, Netanya, Israel) twice daily for 3 months reduces menopausal symptoms, including hot flashes, night sweats, and sleep quality. However, it is not clear if these effects are caused by American ginseng or the other ingredients in the product.
- Schizophrenia. Early research shows that American ginseng might improve some mental symptoms associated with schizophrenia. Taking 100 mg of a specific American ginseng extract called HT1001 (Afexa Life Sciences, Canada) twice daily for 4 weeks improves the patient's ability to hold visual information in the mind short-term. This treatment might also reduce some physical side effects of antipsychotic drugs. However, it does not improve other mental symptoms.
- Aging.
- Anemia.
- Bleeding disorders.
- Digestive disorders.
- Dizziness.
- Fever.
- Fibromyalgia.
- Gastritis.
- Hangover symptoms.
- Headaches.
- Impotence.
- Insomnia.
- Memory loss.
- Nerve pain.
- Pregnancy and childbirth complications.
- Rheumatoid arthritis.
- Stress.
- Swine flu.
- Other conditions.
More evidence is needed to rate American ginseng for these uses.
- For reducing blood sugar in people with type 2 diabetes: 3 grams up to 2 hours before a meal. American ginseng should be taken within 2 hours of a meal. If it is taken too long before eating, the blood sugar might become too low.100-200 mg of American ginseng have been taken daily for up to 8 weeks.
- For preventing upper respiratory tract infections such as the common cold or flu: a specific American ginseng extract called CVT-E002 (Cold-FX, Afexa Life Sciences, Canada) 200-400 mg twice daily for 3-6 months has been used.
Safety Concerns
When taken by mouth, American ginseng can cause some side effects including diarrhea, itching, trouble sleeping (insomnia), headache, and nervousness. In some people, American ginseng might also cause rapid heartbeat, increased blood pressure or decreased blood pressure, breast tenderness, vaginal bleeding in women, and other side effects. Uncommon side effects that have been reported include a severe rash called Stevens-Johnson syndrome, liver damage, and severe allergic reaction.
Special precautions & warnings:
Children: American ginseng is POSSIBLY SAFE for children when taken by mouth appropriately, short-term. A specific American ginseng extract called CVT-E002 (Cold-FX, Afexa Life Sciences, Canada) has been used in doses of 4.5-26 mg/kg daily for 3 days in children 3-12 years-old.
Pregnancy and breast-feeding: American ginseng is POSSIBLY UNSAFE in pregnancy. One of the chemicals in Panax ginseng, a plant related to American ginseng, has been linked to possible birth defects. Do not take American ginseng if you are pregnant.
There is not enough reliable information about the safety of taking American ginseng if you are breast feeding. Stay on the safe side and avoid use.
Diabetes: American ginseng might lower blood sugar. In people with diabetes who are taking medications to lower blood sugar, adding American ginseng might lower it too much. Monitor your blood sugar closely if you have diabetes and use American ginseng.
Hormone-sensitive conditions such as breast cancer, uterine cancer, ovarian cancer, endometriosis, or uterine fibroids: American ginseng preparations that contain chemicals called ginsenosides might act like estrogen. If you have any condition that might be made worse by exposure to estrogen, don't use American ginseng that contains ginsenosides. However, some American ginseng extracts have had the ginsenosides removed (Cold-FX, Afexa Life Sciences, Canada). American ginseng extracts such as these that contain no ginsenosides or contain only a low concentration of ginsenosides do not appear to act like estrogen.
Trouble sleeping (insomnia): High doses of American ginseng have been linked with insomnia. If you have trouble sleeping, use American ginseng with caution.
Schizophrenia (a mental disorder): High doses of American ginseng have been linked with sleep problems and agitation in people with schizophrenia . Be careful when using American ginseng if you have schizophrenia.
Surgery: American ginseng might affect blood sugar levels and might interfere with blood sugar control during and after surgery. Stop taking American ginseng at least 2 weeks before a scheduled surgery.
Interaction with medication
- Warfarin (Coumadin)
- Warfarin (Coumadin) is used to slow blood clotting. American ginseng has been reported to decrease the effectiveness of warfarin (Coumadin). Decreasing the effectiveness of warfarin (Coumadin) might increase the risk of clotting. It is unclear why this interaction might occur. To avoid this interaction, do not take American ginseng if you take warfarin (Coumadin).
- Medications for depression (MAOIs)
- American ginseng might stimulate the body. Some medications used for depression can also stimulate the body. Taking American ginseng along with these medications used for depression might cause side effects such as anxiousness, headache, restlessness, and insomnia.
Some of these medications used for depression include phenelzine (Nardil), tranylcypromine (Parnate), and others.
- Medications for diabetes (Antidiabetes drugs)
- American ginseng might decrease blood sugar. Diabetes medications are also used to lower blood sugar. Taking American ginseng along with diabetes medications might cause your blood sugar to go too low. Monitor your blood sugar closely. The dose of your diabetes medication might need to be changed.
Some medications used for diabetes include glimepiride (Amaryl), glyburide (DiaBeta, Glynase PresTab, Micronase), insulin, pioglitazone (Actos), rosiglitazone (Avandia), chlorpropamide (Diabinese), glipizide (Glucotrol), tolbutamide (Orinase), and others.
- Medications that decrease the immune system (Immunosuppressants)
- American ginseng can increase the immune system. Taking American ginseng along with some medications that decrease the immune system might decrease the effectiveness of these medications.
Some medications that decrease the immune system include azathioprine (Imuran), basiliximab (Simulect), cyclosporine (Neoral, Sandimmune), daclizumab (Zenapax), muromonab-CD3 (OKT3, Orthoclone OKT3), mycophenolate (CellCept), tacrolimus (FK506, Prograf), sirolimus (Rapamune), prednisone (Deltasone, Orasone), and other corticosteroids (glucocorticoids).


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The 2010 National Interagency Community Reinvestment Conference
Sunday, March 14 - Thursday, March 18, 2010
New Orleans, Louisiana
Over 730 representatives from financial institutions, regulatory agencies, government agencies and nonprofits gathered in New Orleans from March 14 – 18 for the 2010 National Interagency Community Reinvestment Conference. Participants had with the opportunity to deepen their knowledge of the regulations underpinning the Community Reinvestment Act, as well as to share emerging challenges and best practices in community development with colleagues from across the country. This year's conference included interactive panels and informative plenary sessions featuring four keynote speakers: Mitch Landrieu, Mayor-Elect of New Orleans; Angela Glover Blackwell, Founder and CEO of PolicyLink; Donna Gambrell, Director of the CDFI Fund; and Dr. Eldar Shafir, Professor of Psychology and Public Affairs at Princeton University. In addition, conference participants got a first-hand look at the rebuilding and revitalization of New Orleans through community tour and volunteer opportunities.
If you missed the conference, or would like a copy of a speaker's presentation, feel free to browse through the conference materials.
We hope to see you at the next conference in 2012!
Lots of Feet on the Street: Communities, Culture and the Rebuilding of New Orleans
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The Institute of Certified Bankers (ICB) is dedicated to promoting the highest standards of performance and ethics within the financial services industry. The 2010 National Interagency Community Reinvestment Conference has been approved for 20.00 CLBB, 13.50 CRCM credits. This statement should not be viewed as an endorsement of this program or its sponsor.
To report these credits, ICB members should submit their credits electronically.


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Leveson report: Newspapers reject press regulation plans
The newspaper industry has rejected a plan for press regulation agreed by the three main political parties in the wake of the Leveson Inquiry.
The newspapers opposed the idea of a regulator backed by a royal charter, and have revealed an alternative plan.
It is closely based on the draft charter agreed after the Leveson report into press standards - but without "state-sponsored regulation".
Campaigners said it showed the industry had "learned nothing" from Leveson.
The Guardian and the Independent are the only two titles out of 11 national newspapers that have not signed up.
The government's royal charter, published on 18 March, has "no support within the press" and has been condemned by media freedom organisations, said a statement released by the Newspaper Society, on behalf of a number of national and local newspapers.
The newspapers also argue that they had no say in the final discussions.
Prime Minister David Cameron said there was all-party agreement around the published charter but he was "always very happy to look at other proposals".
However, BBC political correspondent Norman Smith said government sources are saying their plans "will not be dropped" in favour of the newspaper industry package.
'Widespread backing'
The industry's proposal is closely based on the draft royal charter published on 12 February following negotiations with national and local newspapers and magazines.
Industry sources told BBC political correspondent Ross Hawkins the industry-backed press regulator would not apply for formal recognition under the government's royal charter plans and it will not apply to be the official regulator.
This throws open the post-Leveson debate as politicians cannot force the papers to engage with their plan, our correspondent said.
The risk for politicians is the newspapers' plan could see the press regulating itself once more, under a rulebook it designed - and this is unlikely to appease the public or victims, he said.
The newspapers' proposals are different from the government-backed scheme for England and Wales in that they:
- Remove Parliament's power to block or approve future changes to regulation. Instead the regulator, trade bodies and a newly-created "recognition panel" would have to agree to changes
- Would see the chair and members of the panel selected by an appointments committee chaired by a retired Supreme Court judge, and include one representative of the industry's interests, one member representing the public interest and one public appointments assessor nominated by the Commissioner for Public Appointments for England and Wales
- Remove a ban on former editors sitting on the panel
- Give newspaper and magazine readers a say on the industry's proposals
- Make it more difficult to bring group complaints
- Change the power of the regulator to "direct" the nature, extent and placement of corrections and apologies, saying it should "require", not "direct"
The industry described it as "a workable, practical way to swiftly deliver the Leveson recommendations... without any form of state-sponsored regulation that would endanger freedom of speech".
Editors have lined up to back the proposals.
Tony Gallagher, of the Daily Telegraph, tweeted: "Can anyone possibly be surprised we have rejected Lab-Lib-Hacked Off stitch up[?]"
In a statement on News International's website, Sun editor Dominic Mohan said it was "a workable solution which should command public confidence".
Acting editor of the Times John Witherow described the proposals for self-regulation as robust but said they would not affect press freedom.
Peter Wright, editor emeritus of Associated Newspapers, told BBC Radio 4's The World at One: "We recognise that the most important thing we have to do is to get an effective new regulator up and running, and we need to have the support of political parties in this.
"The clear preference is for a royal charter... that is in line with Leveson regulations."
Neil Wallis, a former executive editor of the News of the World, said the press was honouring the spirit of the Leveson report but wanted to prevent politicians having a say in regulation.
Meanwhile, the chairman of the Commons culture committee chairman, John Whittingdale, said the plans were a "constructive development".
The Conservative MP said he hoped neither side would stick "rigidly" to their plans and there was now the possibility of producing a "charter which everyone can support".
'Desperate move'
But campaign group Hacked Off said in a statement: "This desperate move by editors and proprietors… is only the latest proof that most of the industry has learned no lessons from the Leveson experience.
"They are not sorry for the abuses exposed at the inquiry... and they do not accept the need for real change."
The industry statement said the charter would deliver:
- Tough sanctions - with the new regulator able to impose fines of up to £1m for systematic wrongdoing
- Full and prominent correction of inaccuracies
- Strong investigative powers enabling the new regulator to investigate wrong-doing and call editors to account
- Genuine independence from the industry and from politicians, with all the bodies making up the new regulator having a majority of independent members appointed openly and transparently
- Public involvement in the framing of the code of practice which binds national and local newspapers and magazines
Lawyers representing the papers said they had formally petitioned the Privy Council, which meets next month, to consider the issue.
A spokesman for the Department of Culture, Media and Sport said: "We want to see a tough independent self-regulator implemented swiftly.
"The royal charter published on the 18 March, followed 21 weeks of discussion and has cross-party agreement."
Labour deputy leader Harriet Harman said: "The important thing is that we get on with implementation."
But London Mayor Boris Johnson tweeted: "Press proposing alternative royal charter on regulation - keeps best of Leveson but free from political interference."


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It's time for Japan's big annual photographic industry event, CIPA+, which is held in late winter each year in Yokohama. So it's no surprise that Japan's largest independent lens maker, Sigma, has used the occasion this year to launch four new lenses. There are three new high-end Art lenses, inluding an f/!.8 14mm ultra wide angle, and a Comtemporary line 100-400mm tele zoom.
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The definitive large-diameter standard zoom lens for any shoot
What photographers demand from the 24-70mm F2.8 specification is much more than outstanding image quality. They want all the features that make this a go-to lens for a wide range of photographic opportunities, including optical design ideal for the latest ultra-high-megapixel digital cameras, HSM (Hyper-Sonic Motor) for high-speed autofocus, OS (Optical Stabilizer) with powerful stabilization effect, dust- and splash-proof mount with rubber sealing, and a metal barrel for a stable, rigid feel. This all-new 24-70mm F2.8 lens from SIGMA delivers the performance and functionality that help pros succeed in news, nature, and many other fields of photography.
【Key features】
- The large-diameter standard zoom ideal for today's ultra-high-megapixel digital cameras
- Outstanding optical performance
Three SLD (Special Low Dispersion) glass lens elements and four aspherical lens elements help minimize optical aberrations. To ensure outstanding image quality from the center to the edges of the photograph, the optical system minimizes coma, which causes points of light to streak, and transverse chromatic aberration, which cannot be corrected via aperture control, The optical system also minimizes distortion, which can be particularly evident in wide-angle shots, resulting in excellent optical performance throughout the zoom range.
- 24-70mm F2.8 lens that meets the high standards of the Art line
SIGMA has continuously pioneered 24-70mm F2.8 lenses that are a step ahead of the times. The first model of this specification, SIGMA 24-70mm F2.8 EX DG ASPHERICAL DF, launched in 2001. Representing the fourth generation of the family, the new SIGMA 24-70mm F2.8 DG OS HSM | Art accomplishes a challenging feat in optical design: incorporating optical stabilizer functionality in a large-diameter standard zoom. By leveraging all of its design and manufacturing expertise, SIGMA has ensured that this new lens fulfills the uncompromising requirements of the Art line for image and build quality.
- Bokeh that is a cut above
At wide-open aperture, this lens offers outstanding photographic expression. The area in focus is extremely sharp, while the background exhibits a beautiful bokeh effect with only slight spherical aberration. Since large-diameter zoom lenses are often used at wide-open aperture, SIGMA has paid close attention to the shape of the bokeh, aiming for perfect circularity.
- Incorporating advanced aspherical lens processing technology
Aspherical lenses necessitate refined expertise in the design and manufacturing of advanced, high-performance lenses. SIGMA's representative products to feature this technology were the SIGMA 12-24mm F4 DG HSM | Art and SIGMA 14mm F1.8 DG HSM | Art, which both incorporated a large ⌀80mm aspherical lens as their front lens element. Building on the success of these predecessors, the SIGMA 24-70mm F2.8 DG OS HSM | Art incorporates an aspherical lens element that helps achieve extremely high resolution. This element is much thicker at the center than the edges, and forming its unusual shape is a feat of manufacturing technology. Moreover, SIGMA processes the surface of this aspherical lens element with ultra-precise tolerances that are measured in hundredths of a micrometer. This extremely fine surface allows the SIGMA 24-70mm F2.8 DG OS HSM | Art to deliver a very natural and smooth bokeh effect, without the visible concentric rings that afflict typical aspherical lens elements.
- OS functionality and newly designed HSM for success on any shoot
Designed for advanced utility in a wide variety of situations, the optical stabilizer OS (Optical Stabilizer) offers a powerful stabilization effect. The newly designed large hypersonic motor HSM(Hyper-Sonic Motor) offers 1.3 times the torque of its predecessor and exceptionally stable performance even at lower speeds.
- Lens barrel designed for high rigidity
Since large-diameter standard zoom lenses tend to serve as a go-to lens and see frequent use, the SIGMA 24-70mm F2.8 DG OS HSM | Art is designed to stand up to the challenging shooting environments that pros encounter. To this end, the lens barrel contains a large amount of metal, while the external moving parts feature TSC (Thermally Stable Composite), which is resistant to thermal expansion and contraction. This structure contributes not only to the outstanding optical performance of the lens but also to its high rigidity and confidence-inspiring build quality.
- Other features
- Mount with dust- and splash-proof design
Since the area of the lens most vulnerable to dust and other foreign bodies is the mount, rubber sealing * helps provide peace of mind. In addition, the front lens element features a water- and oil-repellent coating that helps the lens perform well in the rain, near water, and in other challenging conditions.
*Except for the SIGMA mount.
- Nikon electromagnetic diaphragm mechanism included
The Nikon mount version of this lens includes an electromagnetic diaphragm mechanism that allows it to receive the appropriate signals from the camera body. This feature ensures precision diaphragm control and stable Auto Exposure (AE) performance during continuous shooting.
Note: Functionality may be limited on some camera bodies.
- Fast AF with full-time manual focus
- Designed to minimize flare and ghosting
- High-precision, durable brass bayonet mount
- Rounded diaphragm
- Evaluation with SIGMA's own MTF measuring system "A1"
- Made in Japan
With outstanding craftsmanship
- The lens barrel is engraved with the year of release
- Compatible with Mount Converter MC-11
- Available SIGMA USB DOCK
Makes customization and flexible adjustment possible
- Available Mount Conversion Service
Allows use with another camera body
For more information about the SIGMA GLOBAL VISION lineup of fine products, please visit the official SIGMA global website:
SIGMA GLOBAL VISION: http://www.sigma-global.com
Lens Construction: 19 elements in 14 groups | Angle of view (35mm): 84.1-34.3° | Number of diaphragm blades: 9 (rounded diaphragm) | Minimum aperture: F22 | Minimum focusing distance: 37cm./15in. | Maximum magnification ratio: 1:4.8 | Dimensions (diameter x length): φ88mm×107.6mm /3.5in. x 4.2in. | Weight: TBD


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Online voting is coming! Imagine a time when you can enjoy the convenience of voting in the privacy of your own home, using your own personal computer, getting the job done quickly and securely without having to drive to a polling place and stand in line.
Enacted 1986, the Uniformed and Overseas Citizens Absentee Voting Act protects service members' voting rights in federal elections. UOCAVA expanded in 2009 to include the Military and Overseas Voter Empowerment Act, then requiring "...electronic methods for transmission of registration forms and ballots [by] 2010."
In 2012, the intent of this legislation has yet to be fully realized. What must be done to make this objective a reality for citizens everywhere? Unfortunately, several online voting systems have been tested recently, but they were successfully hacked.
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In order to fully achieve the objective of UOCAVA/MOVE, we need to learn from these types of experiences and understand what is required for secure Internet voting.
Traditionally, in-person voting has posed problems for certain categories of voters, including the home-bound and disabled, those whose work schedules preclude participating during scheduled precinct hours, citizens living and/or working in other countries, and those serving overseas in the military. To date, the only option has been to allow them to file an absentee ballot. Although that's a viable option, clearly the opportunity to participate in the voting process in a more timely way by having the ability to submit ballots online via the Internet has great appeal.
Technology-enabled capabilities such as online banking, stock trading and retail purchasing have successfully preceded online voting but differ greatly in the way transactions are handled. Consider that commercial transactions must be traceable and documented, and parties must be authenticated with non-repudiation (so neither party can falsely deny transactions). However, online voting does not exactly parallel these applications in that there is always a feedback trigger for the consumer that acts as an alert in case of errors, omissions or failure to deliver a purchase.
In the case of voting, it is critical for every voter to know that his/her vote was registered correctly and counted. This guarantee speaks to the essence of our democracy: one person, one vote. Confirmation of accuracy is a must, especially in the case of a very close election where the outcome is dependent on only a few votes. Imagine how pleased an adversary of the United States would be if they could find a way to control the election of the president of the United States. Unlike the e-commerce transactions listed above, this target would be well worth the energy and resources a country or enterprise would invest. The biggest threat to full deployment of Internet voting today is a very robust hacker community. Even something like a denial-of-service attack would be enough to prevent some voters from accessing the system, which would undermine the process — notwithstanding the potential impact of a more sophisticated attack that could hijack or even change votes internally.
Also, for legitimate users of the system, issues of privacy, accuracy and transparency are tantamount to its success in terms of building trust and acceptance by the public. Transparency includes the ability to independently examine every component of the system and voting process.
Current voting systems address these concerns by implementing physical security procedures and paper-based artifacts visible to the voter. Voting machines are self-contained and not connected to the Internet, and paper-based confirmation documents are presented to the user for signature. A credible audit capability is essential to effectively addressing contested elections. Although these traditional systems have their drawbacks, perception is truth, and most voters are "comfortable" with these systems.
The core technology that must be employed in any Internet-based online system does exist. It is a system based on the use of public-key cryptography that employs the use of public and private keys for voting transactions.
End-to-end voting systems, in addition to employing sophisticated cryptographic techniques, must also include a set of valid assumptions and procedures. Cryptographic keys must be managed and properly secured, as failure in any of these areas will result in a compromised system. For instance, if we have citizens voting from home, can we certify that the home environment is in compliance with established requirements? This includes use of home PCs, handheld devices, tablets or other devices.
Couple this with the public's lack of knowledge surrounding cryptography in general and one can see why there is a huge education effort required in order to gain full acceptance of online voting. The transparency issue is complicated by the introduction of cryptographic technology because the sophisticated mathematical underpinnings are beyond the comprehension of the average voter.
However, the future generation of voters is very technology savvy and has grown up using the most advanced technology. They fully expect to use the Internet for everything and embrace all of the advantages it has to offer. It is probably safe to say that Internet voting will be achieved with this generation of voters.
No voting system is perfect. Internet voting systems are very attractive targets to would-be attackers who are even more emboldened by the ability to act anonymously. Unless we are willing to compromise our entire democratic process for the sake of convenience, we must effectively address the identified threats. No doubt, the day when we can vote in our pajamas is coming…but not quite yet.
John R. Rossi of the (ISC)2 U.S. Government Advisory Board Executive Writers Bureau was the lead author of this peer-reviewed article.
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Third Le Mans victory and WEC title offer double incentive for Allan McNish
"I gave one of the Toyota boys a little kick the other day at the Le Mans test weekend. Turned out it was my old number two mechanic from the F1 days."
Those whose motorsport memories stretch back to the late '90s and early 2000's might remember when Allan McNish joined Toyota in 1999, the year after the first of his two Le Mans victories. His association with the Japanese marque continued with its Formula 1 programme and left the Scot with some happy memories. But sentiment in racing is for the past not the present.
"Now I want to beat them, not help them win," the Audi man told Autoblog as he looked forward to his 10th Le Mans with the manufacturer that has dominated the race for the past decade or more.
McNish returns to the famous Circuit de la Sarthe this weekend (16/17 June) as one-twelfth of Audi's biggest assault yet on the 24 Hours with no less than four cars on the grid backed by a small army of support staff.
"There were 180 Audi people at the pre-test," he says, "and that's before all the marketing and admin guys joined us."
Allan McNish meets the fans at scrutineering ahead of the 2012 24 Hours of Le Mans
With such investment and resources behind them, it's perhaps not surprising that Audi have won 10 times at Le Mans since 2000, the second most successful manufacturer; and after Peugeot pulled out at the beginning of 2012 to throw the inaugural FIA World Endurance Championship into disarray, the favourites tag won't be going anywhere soon, even with Toyota's return. But, McNish refuses to discount their new rivals' potential even though the Toyota TS030 HYBRID has yet to turn a wheel in race anger.
"What's important is the factory element," he says, referring to the backing the team has as it renews its attempt to claim the one trophy sorely missing from its cabinet.
"The test weekend will have been positive from their point of view. They were reliable and had a high top speed. They were five or six seconds quicker than us.
"The battle will be with Toyota. It's fantastic to have them here. When Peugeot pulled out, it was a huge disappointment."
Although McNish is racing a new car at Le Mans, the R18 e-tron quattro which like the Toyota has yet to race over 24 hours, he insists the pressure to succeed rests with Audi rather than their new rivals.
McNish is confident of the Audi's performance after the Le Mans test day in early June
"Audi is in a different position. We have won Le Mans a few times before. If we don't win it, questions will be asked why not."
The winning culture is something that runs throughout the team from drivers to backroom staff, so where does that motivation come from?
"Much of it comes from [Audi Motorsport boss] Dr Ulrich. He's instilled it in the rest of the team.
"It's an engineering-led company. Many of the guys at the top are doctors of engineering and that whole engineering battle gives them a bit of a kick. Whilst most execs might be thinking about share prices, they're thinking 'we're at Le Mans, how are we going to win this race.' They're living it with you.
"Last year after two of our cars crashed [McNish and team-mate Mike Rockenfeller both had huge accidents], they didn't pack up and go and have a beer, they gave their support to the remaining car. And we won.
"Mind you, they expect you to win!"
Watch highlights from the 2012 Six Hours of Spa below
That victory was one of the closest in Le Mans history with just 13 seconds separating the second place Peugeot and the winning R18 of Andre Lotterer, Benoit Treluyer and Marcel Fassler. This year the trio join McNish, Tom Kristensen and Rinaldo Capello in the new diesel hybrid while the other two driver line-ups stick with the more conventional turbodiesels, the R18 ultra. After one race in the e-tron quattro at Spa, where he finished fourth, how does McNish see events playing out at Le Mans?
"Reliability will be key. We've got a complex piece of technology that has to be race proven over 24 hours. The car has to be adaptable, for example set-up for the first 20 minutes might be different to the last 20 minutes.
"If it rains, that might help. We found at Spa the car was very quick in the wet, so we know we can put the power down."
Final preparations for the race came at test weekend, where McNish set the fastest lap times of all the runners.
"Yes, quickest was nice. That's more of an ego thing but I came home pretty happy. It's an improved car from last year, a big step forward. As for the quattro aspect, we have to adapt to its requirements and understand that, but it's a pretty good base."
McNish thought the e-tron quattro performed well in the wet of Spa
This year's twice-around-the-clock race is the third round of the WEC. Victory at the Sebring 12 Hours and fourth place at Spa left McNish trailing his Audi team-mates Romain Dumas and Loïc Duval by just two points after two races.
With 50 points on offer to the Le Mans winning drivers, McNish has the double incentive of a boost in the eight-race WEC which concludes in China in November as well as a third Le Mans win. As a triple winner of the American Le Mans Series, once the leading sportscar series in the world, the chance of a world title is a real motivator.
"I found it odd there was no drivers championship when we had the Intercontinental Le Mans Cup," McNish says, adding: "A drivers championship is what we need.
When you have a chance to be world champion, you give it everything you've got."


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Even after drug users kick the habit, there's still the risk of relapse. And a big reason for this is fact that the person can still remember the pleasurable side of drug use. The solution might be to actually change the nature of those memories.
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That's the idea behind new research coming out of China's Peking University. While we're not quite at the point where we can wholesale implant — or, in the parlance of our times, incept — new memories that would make a person not want to do drugs, the researchers have come up with a subtler way to help drug users avoid a relapse in the very situation where they are most likely to be threatened: when they are surrounded by drug paraphernalia like needles, cigarettes, or whatever else.
The key idea is that drug users will have formed a positive association between the paraphernalia and the drug abuse, making them cues for drug use. Ideally, you'd want to completely flip what the drug cue means to the addict in question, so that seeing the cue would make them actively not want to use drugs — sort of like the therapy in Clockwork Orange only, you know, less horrific.
But inducing such total memory extinction is tricky, since it involves placing two contradictory, well-established memories in direct competition with each other. Instead, the researchers have figured out a rather elegant way to undermine the original memory. The technique relies on the fact that our brains have to "reactivate" our memories in order to access them, which basically means that for a short period after it is first recalled, the memory is actually flexible enough to be permanently altered. After that, the memory starts to harden again, locking in any changes that might have been made.
To illustrate this, the researchers gathered twenty-two recovering heroin addicts who had all been clean an average of eleven years. Before their actual drug therapy began, they were shown a video intended to remind them of their former drug use, which activated their memories linking together the drug cues with the pleasant side of their heroin use ("pleasant" may not be exactly the right word, admittedly).
Ten minutes later, they began working on the more traditional forms of memory extinction described above. Meanwhile, another group of addicts had only been shown a video of some idyllic countryside vistas, which one would hope was not able to reactivate their memories of drug abuse. They then underwent similar therapy.
At first glance, you might think that being confronted with vivid memories of their past life would make the former group more likely to experience cravings and potentially relapse. But when tested six months later, the first group actually reported significantly fewer and less severe cravings than their counterparts. Opening up the "memory window" before their drug therapy allowed them to reconstruct and reconsolidate their original memory, rather than simply contradict it. The researchers effectively tapped into a whole different process of memory creation and storage, one that hasn't previously been used in treating addiction.
It's early days yet, and obviously we'll need more extensive clinical trials than just 22 experimental subjects to know that this will definitely work. But the early results are encouraging, and similar trials on rats have helped confirm the researchers are on the right track.
Different sets of rats were made to retrieve drug-associated memories at different times before their own memory extinction sessions - either 10 minutes, an hour, or six hours ahead of time - and it was only in the first two cases where the retrieval sessions had any effect. That would indeed suggest that the memory window is what's crucial here, as its offers a brief period in which memories are flexible enough to, if not completely be rewritten, then certainly tampered with strategically.
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CARSON, Calif. -- The month of May is already proving to be far kinder to the Houston Dynamo than April was.
After stumbling through the previous month by grabbing only two points from five matches, the Dynamo dissected the Chivas USA defense Saturday night for a dominant 4-1 victory at StubHub Center, their first on the road this year.
The misery was well spread heading into the meeting -- the clubs had gone a combined 13 straight games without a win. Houston got two goals on the night from Giles Barnes, and one apiece from Brad Davis and Will Bruin to snap their streak, while Chivas USA saw their winless drought extend to eight games.
The Dynamo were clinical in the first half, scoring more goals in those 48 minutes than they had the entire month of April. Davis got on the score sheet first, maneuvering past Eric Avila and Bobby Burling to tie the score in the 12th minute, before Barnes had the go-ahead score with a scintillating shot in the 32nd minute, making the most of space in front of him following a long pass from Boniek García.
Bruin netted his team-leading fifth goal of the year two minutes into first-half stoppage time, boxing out defender Carlos Bocanegra and easily beating Tim Melia, who was starting in place of Dan Kennedy (red card suspension), for the 3-1 lead at halftime. Bruin was at it again in the 67th minute, earning a penalty kick, sending Melia to the locker room early and paving the way for Barnes' second of the night.
The lone bright spot for Chivas USA came in the seventh minute when they grabbed a quick lead. Erick "Cubo" Torres cashed in a penalty kick after Davis brought down Carlos Alvarez inside the box, scoring his seventh goal of the season and fourth from the penalty spot. The Rojiblancos struggled to generate any offense without attacking midfielder Mauro Rosales, who missed the game and sat out training all week with a right adductor strain.
Saturday marked the clubs' only regular-season meeting this year. The Dynamo (3-4-2) continued their dominance in the series, taking their 12th victory in 19 all-time games. Chivas USA (1-5-3) dropped their third consecutive game.
The Dynamo return home for a midweek matchup with the Columbus Crew, while Chivas USA hit the road to face the Colorado Rapids on May 11.


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I'm a children's book writer, and I'm pretty happy with the stories I create. But every once in a while, I stumble across a story that makes me say, "Wow, I wish I had written that!"
One Special Day: A Story for Big Brothers and Sisters by Lola M. Schaefer, is one of those. It's the story of Spencer, the most adventurous, the most rambunctious, the most boyish boy you'll ever want to meet. Spencer is a free spirit; he's tough when he needs to be, brave when he wants to be, and loud as heck when the mood hits him. In fact, he's everything a hyperactive little boy should be…until the day his parents bring a new baby home. When they do, Spencer quickly gains one more boyish quality–and perhaps the best quality of all: He becomes a gentle, doting big brother.
One Special Day is just a lovely book. Schaefer uses short, simple prose to deftly capture the thoughts, feelings and hyperactive joys of young Spencer, and all the pre-kindergarteners out there who are sure to identify with him. This prose is complemented by the artistic talents of illustrator Jessica Meserve, under whose skilled and generous fingers we see every cartwheel, every rowdy stomp, and every tender smile on the faces of Spencer, his parents and his imaginary animal-friends. We see the quiet strength of a happy home; we see deep green grass, uncut and perfect for an imaginary jungle; and climb-able trees loaded down with hardy foliage. Full is what they are; full, the way Spencer's happy life is full of love.
Yes, I love every one of Meserve's illustrations. But if I had to choose, I'd choose the very first picture, in which an unassuming Spencer waves goodbye to his parents (who are heading for the hospital) just before he turns a series of flips to celebrate being a boy; and the last two, in which Spencer exchanges his rowdy behavior for quiet time on a picnic blanket with his parents and the newest member of the family.
Looking for the perfect "boy" book? You found it. Looking for a book about becoming a big brother? This is it. Looking for a book that celebrates the family and feeds the eyes with the best in picture book illustrations? This is the one.
Get your own copy of One Special Day and everyday you read it will be the best day ever.
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Deck album info, new GZA & Armel discs
- 2003-05-06 15:51:23
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- 2003-05-06
Inspectah Deck
's upcoming album The Movement will now be officially released on June 10th on I.N.S. Productions/Koch Entertainment/In The Paint. After his debut album Uncontrolled Substance he'll deliver once again. The Movement is going to be 18 tracks deep. Most of these tracks were produced by former
(also known as
Phantom Of The Beats
, he did Apollo Kids on
Ghostface Killah
's Supreme Clientele) and longtime QB producer
. The Movement is chock full of rugged inspiration.
"This is where y'all gonna see me take a stand," explains Deck. "I'm gonna be on the front line taking shots like a Huey Newton Black panther type dude." As a child of the '70's Inspectah Deck is known to merge both the deep soul and righteous posturing of the decade's urban legend seamlessly with today's current events.
With the soulful Blaxpotation sounding "Stereotype," the funkdified Inspectah morphs into his latest alias, Manny Festo and commands respect through the weight of his character, not his bankroll. On the hard edged "U Wanna Be," Deck truly rocks the mic with a flagrant flow that perfectly compliments Phantom's up to the minute sonic stylings. Through lines like, "All the killers I know are either 6ft below or lost in the system doin' years in the hole" Deck shakes down the rap games mass produced studio thugs while informing the youngsters about the fundamental importance of paying dues.
Unlike Inspectah Deck's previous work with the Clan, The Movement allows the versatile MC to truly flex his skills. "When you're doing a Wu-Tang Album there's so many creative minds clashing that sometimes the best thought may not get acknowledged," relays Deck. "With my album, I'm behind the wheel of my own car. It's much easier for me to see where I'm going when I'm in control rather than having somebody else steering your life or your career for you."
Taking his independence one step further, Inspectah Deck has terminated his relationship with the now defunct Loud Records. Despite his former record company's inability to properly market and promote his '99 debut, Uncontrolled Substance, Deck still managed to go Gold and receive both critical and national acclaim. This time around he's taking his destiny into his own hands and releasing The Movement through his own company, I.N.S. Productions.
By challenging both conventional big business standards and popular hip-hop principals Inspectah Deck is poised to enrich the rap game with one his most thought provoking and lyrically cohesive works to date. The Movement is sure to give starving fans everywhere the substantial rap fill they've been looking for.
"This album is not anti-establishment, it's not anti-White man, it's anti-anything," confirms Deck. "I'm not trying to save the world; I'm just trying to save the music. The music I grew up with educated you. I'm trying to take it back to when you got respected on the weight of your thoughts and character and not your material possessions."
If you want to get a taste of what's coming to you then you should consider listening to the first two singles right here.
The Movement (first single)
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One of our visitors, Kane, went to one of the first shows on the
tour (See: [nburl=http://www.w00t.nl/index.php?p=news&id=234]GZA Tour & CD[/nburl]) in the United Kingdom.
Masta Killa
Ancient Coins
) and
Dreddy Kruger
were also there. Kane was fortunate to hang out with Dreddy and Armel after the show. Apparently Dreddy said that the
Royal Fam
album should be out next year and Armel confirmed that the Ancient Coins album should also come out next year. However, first one to drop is GZA's son
with his debut album. All of this will be released on GZA's Liquid Swords Entertainment. Armel will be releasing his first single, I'm It, soon on Liquid Swords Entertainment/MCA Records. Like we reported a week ago, they are selling mix cd's on tour. Here's more information on them. The mix tapes are professionally printed, similar like the
Armel - Exclusive
ft. Sunz Of Man & Timbo King
01 : Freestyle @ BB Kings (Live GZA Tour)
02 : Freestyle (Tony Touch Cypher)
03 : I'm It
04 : Destroy The Scenery Pt. 2
05 : Sunz Of Man (Skit)
06 : Say what U want
07 : Don't You Know
08 : Don't Forget It
09 : High Price / Road To Riches
10 : She Like It
11 : Whatever She Said
12 : Come Through
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00 : Crowd Intro
01 : Reunited
02 : Publicity
03 : 4th Chamber
04 : Duel Of The Iron Mic
05 : Bring Da Ruckus
06 : Clan In Da Front
07 : Dreddy Kruger (Freestyle)
08 : Prodigal Sunn (Freestyle)
09 : Labels
10 : Liquid Swords
11 : Livin In The World Today
12 : Cold world
13 : Beneath The Surface
14 : Mic Trippin'
15 : String Play
16 : Hip Hop Fury
17 : Crash Ya Crew (Dedicated to
Ol' Dirty Bastard
18 : Breaker, Breaker
19 : Triumph
20 : Older Gods
21 : GZA (Freestyle)
22 : Gold
23 : Killah Hills 10304
24 : Breaker, Breaker (Remix) / Outro
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So my mom and I have been working the same waitress job for 5-6 years now. She had been waitressing years before, but this is recently. Anyway, about… 15 minutes ago this guy she waited on left and told her to take care. Just that. Prior to this she had talked to him about Italy. Her people are from Florence, this and that, and she said she's never been. She's got 8 years of art education and she's working a waitress job. It's pretty… Sad and disappointing, I guess. Her and my father divorced 6 years ago and she hasn't had a real job ever. Just been stuck in a small town she's not from. This man who we have never seen before tipped her 1000 dollars for a trip to Italy. Walked out, not another word.
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Easy to set up. Intuitive menus. Cross-platform Mac and PC file transfer and synchronization.
Lacks Mac to Mac file transfer and synchronization. USB connectivity requires the use of the Type-A Male to Type-A Male cable. Lacks mobile access.
Bottom Line
For a wallet-friendly price of $19.97, Laplink's PCsync 6 utility that can benefit everyone who's looking to make vital files accessible from any of their computers, or to migrate data from one system to another.
Working and playing across multiple computers can leave your important data scattered. Laplink aims to centralize your digital life with PCsync 6 ($19.97 Direct), the latest version of its file migration and synchronization software. PCsync 6 lets users quickly and easily synchronize files and folders between PCs using a network, wireless network, or USB connection. The only drawback? While you can transfer files between a PC and a Mac, the software currently doesn't support Mac-to-Mac connections.
The buzz these days around file-synchronization is all centered around cloud-based services these daysPCSync is unusual in its local approach. Dropbox and SugarSync, for example, are highly capable apps and their reach is global. Still, there's something to be said for a local approach, in terms of privacy, security, and data integrity. Certainly there are individuals who will never trust their data to the cloudour own Crankiest Geek John Dvorak is famously cloud skeptical, for example. And businesses had better be sure that they're not breaking any government-mandated compliance regulations before they sign up for a cloud-based service. PC Sync may be a bit old-fashioned in its approach, but that's not necessarily a bad thing.
Easy Set Up
Setting up PC Sync 6 was as simple as installing the software onto a Windows 7 desktop (it's also compatible with any PC running Windows XP or later, or any Intel-based Mac running OS X 10.4 or later), filling in the registration information, entering a serial number, and deciding if a remote computer should require authentication to connect. After launching the program, I was greeted with a screen that displayed the methods for connection (Local PC, Ethernet, Cable, Network, or USB), with a pane showing synchronization jobs (empty, on first viewing, of course). PCsync can be installed onto three computers at once.
I then connected a Windows 7 laptop to the desktop using an Ethernet cable, and then clicked the "New" button under PCsync 6's "Connection" header, then "Automatically detect from network", and entered the user name and password of the primary machine. When I connected to the host from a remote PC, I was prompted to log in with the host computer's user name and password. Once I finished setup, I was greeted by a PC Sync home screen split down the middle to show both systems' files structures. Anyone familiar with Windows Explorer will instantly recognize the tree structure and be able to navigate with ease. I also successfully connected using USB, but I had to dig up a Type-A Male to Type-A Male cable, which are less likely to be lying in your cable drawer than a typical Type-A to Type-B (Laplink sells a non-bundled Laplink-branded USB 2.0 cable for $39.99), and wirelessly, once I input the remote system's IP address.
File Transfer and Synchronization
To copy between computers, simply dragand-drop files or folders from one side of the window to the other. A freshly created 5MB folder containing a batch of photos taken with a typical point and shoot digital camera synced to the host PC in under 10 seconds via USB. You can also move the information to the target computer while simultaneously deleting it from the source computer by holding the Shift key while dragging. It's that simple.
PCsync 6 can also automatically synchronize the content of two folders located on the same or different computers (the former is handy if you're working on a project and like to duplicate the content for a friend or colleague). By selecting New under the Synchronization Jobs header, you select a folder on the host and remote machine, click Next, and set the synchronization options. The latter allows you to set up a two-way sync, a sync from the host computer to the remote computer, or a sync from the remote computer to the host. You can also select the method for resolving file name conflicts: you can choose skipping (bypasses the sync), overwriting (replaces a file with a new one of the same name), or a handful of other methods. PCsync 6 is far more streamlined than the cumbersome SugarSync ($4.99 - $49.00 Direct, ), a cloud-based file synchronization program available for Mac OS X and Windows that starts at $2.49 per month for 10GB of storage. However, PCsync lacks SugarSync's file versioning, which can restore an older version of a file. PCsync users can get around this by running backup software with built-in file versioning.
PCsync 6 automatically synchronizes any file or folder placed within its structure, which bests SugarSync (it only automatically synchronizes files dropped into its "Magic Briefcase" folder). Besides automatic synchronization, you can schedule the process to occur on a daily, weekly, or monthly basis, should you not want to sync to occur right away, but at specific times. You can even filter the type of files you want to sync by image, video, audio, text file, or Microsoft Office file. On the "New Sync Job Summary" screen, you can name the sync job and opt to include sub folders, hidden folder, and read-only, system, previously skipped, and hidden files. Once that's all set up, returning to the "Synchronization Jobs" screen, highlighting the job that you've created, and clicking "Run" begins the process. Clicking "Edit" lets you tweak your parameters.
Mac Compatibility
After installing PCsync 6 on a Mac, and then connecting that machine to a PC, the Migration Wizard lets you set up the initial file transfer from Windows to OS X (or vice versa if your host machine is a Mac). The app presents two choices: Standard and Advanced. Standard lets you select the Windows folders that you want transferred to the Mac; Advanced enables you to change the location of transferred files, and schedule migration times. I found it remarkably easy to move files; Selecting "My Documents" and then "run the Synchronization software" caused a Windows 7 folder (and sub-folders) to appear within the Mac's new "Windows PC" folder, which lives in "Documents." Curiously, there's no way to transfer and sync files from Mac to Mac. SugarSync doesn't possess such a migration tool, either.
Priced at a wallet-friendly $19.97, Laplink's PCsync 6 can benefit everyone who's looking to make vital files accessible from any of their computers or to migrate files from one system to another. I wish the software included Mac to Mac compatibility, and mobile access (the hallmarks of cloud storage services such as Dropbox ($4.99 - $49.00 Direct, ) or SugarSync) would be required for me to declare this app a must-buy, but even so it's still a solid, flexible data-organization program.
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The Atmosphere-Ocean Dynamics Group is a research group located within the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics (DAMTP) at the University of Cambridge. Together with the Atmospheric Chemistry group in the Department of Chemistry, it constitutes the Centre for Atmospheric Science.
Research in this group focuses on the fluid dynamical problems involved in understanding our chemical-climatic environment. For more details of what we do, please take a look at our research page.
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We welcome new PhD students. Potential supervisors in our group include Prof. Peter Haynes, Prof. Michael McIntyre and Dr. John Taylor. Students interested in doing a PhD in our group should take a look at the Research Opportunities page.


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Pyknic Clothing just unleashed upon the world their Winter 2009 line and my oh my what a release it is. Over 25 new products for both men and women. They've got standard tees, totes, v-necks, sweaters and baseball tees. It also looks like they are focusing a bit more on branding now, with a bunch of their shirts featuring just the forks and basket logo ala Johnny Cupcakes crossbones and cupcakes logo tees. The one thing that they are doing differently from Mr. Cupcakes is that they have been invading the malls for teen consumption – Pyknic Clothing is available at Pacsun stores nationwide.
The tees are available now from the Pyknic Online Store and start from $26.98. My favorite from the bunch? It's got to be the simple Feed The Hungry tee.


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- Preheat oven to 425˚F.
- Fill a large pot 2/3 of the way full with water. Boil turkey until tender, about 15-20 minutes. Let cool and shred by hand or with a fork.
- In a large bowl, gently combine turkey, artichokes, spinach, garlic, salt, pepper, and mozzarella.
- Unroll dough into a rectangle onto a baking sheet sprinkled with cornmeal. Spread filling across half of the dough, leaving a 1-inch border along the edges. Fold over the empty half of the dough and press edges together to seal. Bake for about 18 minutes, until golden. Slice into 6 pieces and serve with marinara sauce.