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Depending upon whose opinion you solicit, plans to export natural gas in liquefied form from the United States are either a coming bonanza or an impending catastrophe. I tend to lean in the former direction. I'll endeavor here to tell you why and to indicate a couple of ways that you can benefit from a movement to the sale of LNG overseas.
First, as you undoubtedly realize, LNG occurs as a result of dropping the temperature of natural gas to a minus 260 degrees Fahrenheit, at which point it converts to liquid form and takes up approximately 1/600th the volume of its gaseous form and can be loaded aboard ships bound for locations to which pipeline transportation is impossible. During the liquefaction process -- and before the gas is lowered to approximately the same temperature that my spouse maintains in our house in winter -- a number of components and contaminants are removed from natural gas. The result is essentially 100% liquefied methane.
One and only plant
At this time, while we in the U.S. are able to receive natural gas into a number of terminals, our only processing plant for export is operated by ConocoPhillips (NYSE: COP) and lies about 60 miles from Anchorage, Alaska. The nearly 45-year-old facility liquefies gas produced in the state's North Cook Inlet for transport to Japan.
Until recently, exporting natural gas from the "lower 48" was beyond consideration, given the widespread expectation that the availability of the clean-burning hydrocarbon was dwindling in our country. With the still recent benefits from the retrieval of natural gas (and oil) from shale formations through fracking, much has changed. Given our newfound gas surplus, Cheniere Energy (NYSE: LNG) is in the process of constructing an LNG processing plant at Sabine Pass, a Gulf of Mexico inlet on the border between Texas and Louisiana. The company's plan is to begin operations at the plant -- which will have an initial processing capacity of about 1.2 billion cubic feet per day -- in 2015.
Looking further ahead, Cheniere has filed an application to build yet another LNG export facility at Corpus Christi, Texas. And in August, ExxonMobil (NYSE: XOM) , the largest producer of natural gas in the U.S., and Qatar Petroleum, its joint venture partner in Golden Pass Products LLC, requested permission from federal authorities to add LNG processing capabilities to an existing import terminal near Port Arthur, Texas. Should the partners receive a go-ahead, they'll spend about $10 billion on the conversion process.
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Further, both Royal Dutch Shell (NYSE: RDS-B) and Texas-based Excelerate Energy LP, are moving toward the development of offshore LNG processing facilities. In Shell's case, the floating plant, which is being built in South Korea, will be the world's biggest vessel, with a weight six times that of the largest aircraft carrier. The craft will be used off Australia's northwest coast.
Its operation will shield Shell from the rapidly escalating costs of onshore facilities in Australia. The huge Gorgon project, for instance, is now packing a price tag of $45 billion for its partners. Excelerate's Floating Liquefaction Storage Offloading vessel will be the first facility of its kind in the U.S. and will be located at Port Lovaca, on the Texas coast between Galveston and Corpus Christi.
Before export shipments of natural gas can occur from the United States, they'll need the blessing of the Department of Energy. Those who favor such regular shipments base their feelings in part on a belief that they can yield a number of geostrategic benefits to the U.S., especially from those with an Asia-Pacific destination.
I'm voting in the affirmative
Opponents contend that LNG exports could lead to an OPEC-like international natural gas cartel, which would consist of the likes of Russia, Iran, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates and would be formed to compete with the U.S. They also believe that LNG exports would cause U.S. gas prices to move closer to the $15-$16 range that currently prevails in Japan.
I'm inclined to believe that a natural gas OPEC would have no more control over gas prices than the existing cartel now does for oil. Of equal importance, while U.S. prices likely would rise somewhat through a sort of arbitrage effect, the total volumes permitted for export from the U.S. could be maintained at a low enough level to moderate the arbitrage. At the same time, keeping a lid on volumes would permit a maintenance of the benefits that chemicals companies like Dow Chemical (NYSE: DOW) are currently realizing from the increased availability of low-priced gas feedstocks.
The Foolish bottom line
Given ConocoPhillips' longtime successful LNG operation, along with the permit that Cheniere Energy has received for its Sabine Pass processing plant, it's unlikely that ExxonMobil and its partner won't receive a similar thumbs-up for their proposed Port Arthur facility. I'm therefore inclined to tout both Cheniere and Exxon to Fools with a thirst for energy investments. At the very least, I'd urge you to add both companies to My Watchlist.
Another oil and gas company worth watching is SandRidge Energy. Investors were startled after SandRidge plummeted when natural gas prices reached 10-year lows, but with the company halfway through its ambitious three-year plan to profitability the future looks bright. If you are unsure about the future of this emerging oil and gas junior, and are looking to find out more about its strengths and weaknesses, you should view this brand new premium report detailing SandRidge's game plan and what to expect from the company going forward. To get started--click here!


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I've read Gordon's blog pages and used the instructions on http://rasp.io/duino/ on the way to setting up my own Raspberry Pi and ATmega328 board but I've run into a problem that I have yet to see a solution to.
Fuses are programmed on the ATmega328 and Arduino IDE launched. The 'Serial Port' menu option is greyed out. The pi user is a member of the tty group.
Several forum posts talk about creating a symlink from /dev/ttyUSB0 to /dev/ttyAMA0 (which exists). I tried this and although it resulted in the menu option being enabled, attempts to use the Arduino Serial Monitor resulted in the following error...
java.io.Exception: Inappropriate ioctl for device in nativeavailable
at gnu.io.RXTXPort.nativeavailable(Native Method)
I checked the file /boot/cmdline.txt and it still contains 'console' settings but no tty/AMA0 params...
dwc_otg.lpm_enable=0 console=serial0,115200 root=/dev/mmcblk0p7 rootfstype=ext4 elevator=deadline fsck.repair=yes rootwait
Perhaps I should remove the 'console=serial0' part but I'm not certain. /etc/inittab is empty but "inappropriate ioctl" suggests to me that ttyAMA0 and ttyUSB0 are somehow incompatible. Suggestions gratefully accepted.


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Living the same life as us, but in a different way
by Dani Kaslow
For most people, starting one's career as a Deaf education teacher, obtaining a master's degree in counseling followed by a doctorate in higher and adult education before ultimately settling into writing and acting would seem like an unusual path. For Arlene Malinowski, writer and performer of the autobiographical solo show Aiming for Sainthood, it was a logical progression. "Everything I've done career-wise has fed into the next thing," she said in a recent telephone interview. First and foremost, Malinowski sees herself as an educator. "Writing and sharing my story and my family's story are just educating in a different way."
Malinowski's parents are Deaf, with a capital D. In Deaf culture, a "Deaf" person is someone with a hearing loss who is part of the Deaf community and uses American Sign Language. A "deaf" person is someone who has a significant hearing loss, but who is not culturally Deaf. Although she is hearing, Malinowski grew up in the Deaf community, straddling (and often bridging) the worlds of mainstream American culture and Deaf culture.
The role of hearing children in Deaf families often involves taking on adult responsibilities at a young age as the children are called on to interpret the conversations and the cultural differences of the adults around them. Aiming for Sainthood is the second in Malinowski's trilogy of full-length solo shows about her experiences as a CODA (Child of Deaf Adults). When asked if she, like many other CODA's, ever went through a period of rebelling against her role in the family and its responsibilities, Malinowski laughed and said, "it's all in my first show, What Does the Sun Sound Like. That show is about growing up CODA and coming to the realization of 'that's my tribe.'" Although some of her duties were unique, Malinowski thinks she was similar to most other teenagers. "I think every kid goes through some kind of rebellion. Mine manifested itself as 'do I have to?' (interpret or whatever), but I think every kid goes through it in some way or other. I got wild, but I wasn't a bad child."
Aiming for Sainthood is billed as "a solo play for Deaf and hearing audiences," and is told in sign language and voice. Director Richard Perez does not know American Sign Language, but Malinowski doesn't see Perez's inability to sign as negatively impacting the process. "It is different, in that it is solo work, especially autobiographical solo work, so the [actor-director] relationship is much more collaborative," said Malinowski. She also praised Perez's efforts to learn about Deaf culture. "He's been great trying to learn about Deaf culture. It's opened a great world for him to start understanding what Deaf culture is. He's been just great."
It isn't only her director who has earned Malinowski's respect in this area. "I am humbled by hearing people who have stepped across their comfort line to communicate [with Deaf individuals]. I am grateful for every hearing person who has tried to sign, or gesture, or write a note, because I know it's hard. I know it is. I am awed by their ability to be kind and to make contact."
Malinowski challenges audiences to learn about Deaf culture while they're being entertained. Though a Deaf family is beyond the experience of most audience members, she has been surprised to find how many people could relate to her story. She has been approached by several people whose first exposure to Deaf culture was through her work who say, "that's my story!"
Malinowski has found that the struggles of children of first generation immigrants can especially reflect similar experiences she went through. Linguistic and cultural differences within a single family are themes common to immigrant and Deaf/hearing families. Malinowski can relate to the need to find an identity within a culture that some immigrants feel. "My first show is primarily about finding identity, in my case as a CODA."
Malinowski said initially people were shocked that "my family life is so normal," but she was pleasantly surprised to find how quickly audiences seemed to understand that. "Aside from the flashing lights for the doorbell and the waving of the hands," family life in Malinowski's house growing up was "like anybody else's."
The universality of human experience, while the details may differ, seems to be part of Malinowski's larger message. "I would want people to know that everyone does have a story, but we have stopped listening to each other. Hopefully, through my work, people will start listening to each other. In the Deaf community, because storytelling is such a high art, their stories are passed from hand to hand to hand and the Deaf community embraces that storytelling. Deaf culture has done that right. They've passed their culture and their history from hand to hand. Really, in the end, we all live the same lives, just in many different ways."
Malinowski has acting credits in theater, television, and film. In addition to the trilogy of which Aiming for Sainthood is a part, Malinowski has written and starred in three solo one-act plays which she has performed in multiple venues. For now, Chronic, the third show in Malinowski's trilogy, is in the conceptual stages. She continues to educate, and not only through her solo shows. Malinowski has taught at colleges throughout the country and currently teaches solo intensives in her studio in addition to teaching at Chicago Dramatists, where she is Resident Playwright.
Theatergoers will have the opportunity to see Aiming for Sainthood this weekend at Millennium Park as part of the In the Works series. Aiming for Sainthood will be produced later this season at Victory Gardens Theater's new Studio Theater in Chicago.
Aiming For Sainthood
A Solo Play For Deaf And Hearing Audiences Written/performed by Arlene Malinowski
Directed by Associate AD Richard Perez
About the Play
When her Deaf mother gets cancer, a middle-aged daughter moves back into her childhood room with two questions: "Where is God?" and "Who took my Springsteen poster?"
The hearing daughter of devout Deaf parents must navigate through the cross-cultural maze of the medical world, the Deaf world, and the world beyond. This story is about parents and children, Deaf and hearing, love and forgiveness, faith and tolerance, and finding yourself amid the clash of cultures we call America.
Through this autobiographical, one-woman play, Ms. Malinowski shares her heritage. It is told through both sign language and voice, using both Deaf and hearing storytelling techniques. It challenges audiences to share a world beyond their experiences: the culture of Deafness – a community of people defined not by their disability but by their shared language, perspective and values – a community which believes, "We aren't broke – so don't try to fix us."
Thursday, March 25, Friday, March 26 and Saturday, March 27. All shows at 7:30pm.
TICKET PRICES: All Tickets are $10
To purchase tickets, call 312.742.TIXS (8497) or buy online here of at http://millenniumpark.org/
NOTE: With the In the Works series, audiences have a chance to sit on the stage of the Jay Pritzker Pavilion, experiencing works in development by local theater artists or companies. The series is supported by a grant from Boeing Charitable Trust.
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BOSTON, Mass. - On May 4th, the Harvard Golf Program celebrated the 2008-2009 season at the Harvard Faculty Club. Thank you to the Friends of Harvard Golf who make this annual banquet possible and to our Friends and parents who were in attendance.
The evening served as an opportunity to recognize the achievements of our team members; especially our seniors who have each made an indelible and positive mark on our program. Graduating seniors include: Mike Shore, John Christensen, Ali Bode, Emily Balmert and Jenny Brine. We will miss each of our seniors and are grateful for all that they did for Harvard Golf. We wish each of the seniors great success and hope that they will stay close to the program.
At the banquet we present two awards to each team and announce the results of the captain election for each team. Following are the results:
Men's Team Awards:
Rob Erickson '01 Team Player Award: "Rob Erickson was a three year golf letterman and member of the class of '01 who passed away on January 20, 2005. His friends and teammates knew Rob as a strong advocate for his school, his friends, and the values he shared with his parents. While every Harvard student remembers how it felt to open their acceptance letter, Rob seemed to carry that feeling with him every day throughout college. As a Harvard student-athlete, Rob saw it as his responsibility to help younger players feel welcome at Harvard. When recruits visited campus, Rob was the first to meet them and always offered to house them during their stay. Those who eventually came to Harvard knew they already had one good friend on the team.
In recognition of Rob's contributions to Harvard and the golf program, the golf team has created a Team Player award to be given to the golfer who best follows Rob's example in his commitment to team and community – the Rob Erickson '01 Team Player Award."
Past Winners:
'05 – Tom Hegge '07
'06 – James Cleary '06
'07 – Tom Hegge '07
'08 – Mike Shore '09
The 2009 winner of the Rob Erickson '01 Team Player Award is John Christensen '09.
Alex Vik '78 MVP: As a freshman in 1975, Alex won the inaugural Ivy League Championship individually and led the team to their only team Ivy League Championship the same year. The following year he won the individual trophy again and followed up with two more All Ivy performances. Alex has continued to be a valuable member of the Harvard Golf program as a Co-Chair of the Friends of Harvard Board and the father of women's team member Caroline Vik. This award is given annually to the team member who is most responsible for moving the program toward its vision of becoming the best program in the Northeast".
Past Winners:
'05 – Chris Wu '05
'06 – David (DJ) Hynes '06
'07 – Greg Shuman '10
'08 – Not awarded.
The 2009 winner of the Alex Vik '78 MVP Award is Greg Shuman '10.
Captain: Prior to the banquet, the team voted for their new captain. Succeeding outgoing senior Mike Shore '09 as captain for the 2009-2010 season is Danny Mayer '10.
Women's Team Awards:
The Short Game Award: Most of our competition is competent from tee to green. Since over 50% of strokes take place within 50 yards of the hole, scoring at all levels comes from the short game – getting the ball in the hole from around the green. This requires practice, strategy, imagination, touch . . . and more practice. As a first step towards improvement, we measure our results. The Short Game Award goes to the player with the most effective short game as measured by our statistical program.
Past winners:
'02 – Merry Chiampa '04
'03 – Kathryn Kuchefski
'04 – Merry Chiampa '04
'05 – Jeen-Joo Kang '05
'06 – Jessica Hazlett, '08
'07 – Emily Balmert '09
'08 – Emily Balmert '09
The 2009 winner of The Short Game Award is Christine Cho '12. Christine was also awarded the inaugural Ivy League Rookie of the Year award.
The Warren Smith Sportsmanship Award: "Warren Smith started the Harvard Women's Golf program in 1993. For most people who knew Warren, he was the nicest man they knew. A true gentleman. A good man who always had a kind and helpful thing to say. He was a father and a grandfather away from home for many Harvard students and a role model for all. In difficult times and good times; through personal adversity Warren always exhibited Sportsmanship, Dedication, Etiquette, and Kindness. Harvard Women's Golf awards the Warren Smith Sportsmanship Award each year to the team member who best exemplifies the ideals established by Coach Smith."
Past Winners:
'02 – Elisa Schaar '04
'03 – Jennifer Cronan '06
'04 – Jacquie Rooney '07
'05 – Carrie Baizer '05
'06 – Caitlin Hicks '06
'07 – Jacquie Rooney '07
'08 – Debbi Amanti '08
The 2009 winner of the Warren Smith Sportsmanship Award is Claire Sheldon '10. Claire also earned All Ivy for the second straight year.
Captain: Prior to the banquet, the team elected Claire Sheldon '10 as their new captain succeeding outgoing senior Ali Bode '09.
Emily Balmert '09 was recognized for her outstanding accomplishment of earning All Ivy all four years. Emily, Harvard's first individual Ivy League Champion, was the first Harvard Women' golfer and only the second Harvard golfer to earn All Ivy four times.


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I don't often want to get out of bed at 5am and spend five hours on my bike, but, ultimately, I've set a goal, and with that comes a commitment to do whatever it takes.
The goal, to cycle the Giro d'Italia, Tour de France and Vuelta a Espana, totals close to 11,000km. The routes wind up and over Europe's most unforgiving mountains and are revered for their difficulty, so much so that in the history of the sport, only thirty-nine professional cyclists have ever completed all three in the same year.
We all have a will to succeed, it's human nature, yet how many of us have the will to do whatever it takes to achieve such success? The difference between success and failure is often our willingness to go the extra mile, to sacrifice now so that we can enjoy the achievements of the future. Easier said than done when there are no spectators cheering you along, but it's the only path that leads to lasting success in life and in our businesses.
Getting up at 5am every morning is not always easy, but it's a sacrifice that I make because I know that it enables me to perform. The same is true with our Forever businesses. We are recognised at Success Express and Global Rally for our constant dedication, but all we are doing is what's necessary to achieve our goals.
Our sense of purpose is our driving force, it invigorates and motivates us and acts as a compass to guide us. For me that comes in consistently doing all that I can to be the best that I can be, and knowing that the life I lead is the legacy that I will one day be remembered by; it's the example that my little boy will look up to and aspire to emulate.
To be successful means, at times, acting not out of choice, but out of necessity. We might not always want to go to a Business Presentation, call a prospect, or give up time at the weekend for training, but we do it because it's necessary for our future success.
Our success comes not from the bosom of luck, but from the trail of sparks created from the grindstone of constant hard work and unflinching dedication to our goals. How many of us are willing to harness the power to endure, to hold on in the face of adversity, to encounter repeated defeat without giving up? That's MARCUS LEACH 9 the mark of a true champion; that's the mark of success.
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The first shipments of wine under the name Port were recorded in 1678. In 1756 the Port wine vineyards of the Douro Valley in northern Portugal, became the first vineyard area in the world to be legally demarcated. Here, indigenous varieties of grapes, including the Touriga Franca, Tinta Roriz, Tinta Barroca, Touriga Nacional, Tinto Cão and Tinta Amarela are grown on the steep rocky hillsides bordering the Douro River. Many of the oldest vineyards, now classified as World Heritage, are planted on narrow terraces supported by hundreds of hand built dry stone walls.
Although the wine is produced inland in the vineyards of the upper Douro Valley, it takes its name from the coastal city of Oporto from which it is traditionally exported. Until well into the 20th century, the wine was carried down the river Douro from the vineyards in special boats known as barcos rabelos. The wine was then unloaded into the 'lodges' of the Port houses which line the narrow lanes of Vila Nova de Gaia opposite the old city centre of Oporto, to be aged, blended, bottled and finally shipped.
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This is a watercolor miniature landscape, which I had painted carefully on torchon paper.
It is framed in black cardboard. The frame has a stand, so you can choose if you would like to put the miniature on a shelf or hang it. Also you can detach the frame (I used invisible rubber glue, so there is no problem detaching it) and use your own frame.
The size the picture is around 10x10cm or less. With the frame it is approximately the length of your hand.
This piece can be sent as a unique small gift. You can send it with a note on a paper placed behind the stand as a postcard.
I would recommend placing it on a shelf (or a table) in an office or as a gift to a colleague. From my experience, it really gets a lot of attention from people passing by. Not many people own a small unique work of art these days.
Please note that I'll be able to dispatch the work for shipping in two weeks. If you need it really fast, please contact me via message on Artfinder and I'll see if I can speed it up.
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Watercolor miniature (2015)
Watercolor by Daniil Belov
- Watercolor on Paper
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- Size: 5.12 x 7.09 x 0.08 in (framed) / 3.94 x 3.94 x 0.08 in (unframed) / 3.94 x 3.94 in (actual image size)
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- Style: Photorealistic
- Subject: Landscapes, sea and sky
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As Sunni rebels from an al Qaeda splinter group drive Iraq deeper into chaos, calls for American intervention are growing louder amid fears the trouble could spread beyond the nation's borders.
"This is a really bad situation strategically. The American people are tired of two wars. I am, too, but you can't just let this thing go into free fall," said retired U.S. Army Gen. Montgomery C. Meigs.
Iraq has asked the U.S. for air assistance in tempering the militant uprising. President Barack Obama said Thursday he is looking at all options in confronting the Iraq insurgency, but he did not specify what type of help he would be willing to provide.
"I do not rule out anything, because we do have a stake in making sure these jihadists are not getting a permanent foothold in either Iraq or Syria," he said, adding that "what we've seen over the last couple of days indicates the degree to which Iraq is going to need more help."
Iraq Unravels: Extremists Threaten to March to BaghdadJune 12, 201405:02
The militants from the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant, also called ISIL or ISIS, chased government forces out of Tikrit on Wednesday and then closed in on Iraq's biggest oil refinery at Baiji, furthering their rapid gains against the Shiite-led government.
A day earlier, the al Qaeda affiliate overran Mosul, Iraq's second-largest city, and on Thursday, an audio recording purported to be from the spokesman of ISIS urged fighters to take over Baghdad next.
The developments have prompted leading Republicans to call for immediate action. Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., voiced security concerns, urging U.S. involvement as militants turned sights on the capital.
"I have never been more worried about another 9/11 than I am right now," Graham said.
Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., echoed that worry, calling this "the gravest threat to our national security since the end of the Cold War."
A 'likely outcome'
The Sunni fighters are trying to establish an Islamic emirate that would stretch across the border of Iraq and Syria, prompting fears of a sectarian bloodbath and a regionwide conflict.
Meigs and other experts say that while the chaos ensuing in Iraq now wasn't necessarily an inevitable effect of the U.S. troop withdrawal in 2011 after eight years of occupation, it was "a danger, a relatively likely outcome."
Calls are growing on U.S. officials to respond — at the minimum, to put pressure on Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki. When the U.S. withdrew forces, it lost any leverage it had over al-Maliki, said Stephen Biddle, a George Washington University professor and adjunct senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations.
White House Weighs Military Options as Militants Invade IraqJune 12, 201404:24
"In Iraq, everybody left all of a sudden at the end of 2011. And the result has been kind of what you'd expect in situations like this," he said. "The sectarian populations that are still scared to death of each other have continued to have their fingers on the triggers, on the constant lookout for slights or violence or indications of hostile intent from the other."
Al-Maliki is accused of stripping Sunnis of power in Iraq and oppressing them, one of the main drivers for stunningly quick military action from the Sunni ISIS rebels. In neighboring Syria, ISIS, which broke from al Qaeda's international leader, Ayman al-Zawahri, has also clashed with al Qaeda fighters.
"There's no doubt that al-Maliki has alienated Sunnis in Iraq," terrorism analyst Evan Kohlmann said Thursday on MSNBC. "It's scary to see this, but let's remember this all occurred because they are losing in Syria. They are suffering defeats in Syria. That's what's causing this."
And as frightened Sunnis in Iraq came to view al-Maliki's government less as politicians and more as a Shiite militia, ISIS was able to gradually build up strength, picking up Sunnis who wanted to maintain control over their communities, said Biddle.
The problem, he said, could have been avoided had the U.S. kept peacekeepers in Iraq instead of withdrawing entirely — similar to what it did in the Balkan crisis of the 1990s.
"What stabilized the Balkans was an extended presence by foreign peacekeepers who were able to dampen these escalatory spirals, reassure everybody that the local other wasn't trying to slaughter them, and keep the temperature down while the gradual experience of living together without getting slaughtered enabled slow re-emergence of co-existence," he said.
No choice but to intervene?
While it's too late for that, the U.S. can still dangle the offer of military support over al-Maliki.
"If he decides that the United States military is his own route to survival, then we might suddenly have some leverage over him by either offering military support if he agrees to clean up his act politically and accommodate Sunnis, or denying him that support if he won't," Biddle said.
Obama referred to the politics inside Iraq on Thursday, saying, "This should be a wake-up call to the Iraqi government that there has to be a political component to this ... and that requires concessions on part of Shi'a and Sunni we haven't seen so far."
The threat of violence expanding was enough for politicians and analysts to call for U.S. airstrikes in Iraq on Thursday.
"There is no scenario where we can stop the bleeding in Iraq without American air power," Graham said.
Kohlmann, the terrorism analyst, said the U.S. had no choice but to get involved, through airstrikes or some other method.
"This is now a question of U.S. national security," he said.
Obama 'Taking a Nap' As Militants Raid Iraq, Says BoehnerJune 12, 201400:26
Quelling the violence is considered central to protecting the broader Middle East, where Persian Gulf oil exporters could face serious problems if the region falls into conflict.
"If the situation in Iraq gets really fouled up and the worst case scenario emerges, you could have a problem much bigger than Iraq and much bigger than Syria," Biddle said. "It could end up sucking in the entire energy export system of the Middle East, with important consequences for the global economy and U.S. national security."


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A historical achievement enfeebled by poor film-making! Airlift is mediocre. Period.
Yes, we had a great plot in our baggage. A true story intended to pan out a biopic that could have turned heads, made some noise about the plight of 170000 stuck Indians in a warzone. An immaculate rescue operation that was so colossal that it lodged its name in the Guinness Book of World Records for being one of the largest evacuations of all times.
But what does Menon do with it? He changes facts, people, creates sheer fiction, rules out details, comes with a hand-woven shoddy script to replace the truth, places his own fake characters to enrich melodrama, throws in some songs in there to deliberately connect with the Indian audience, enforces unrealistic patriotism for emphasis, and squeezes in pointless unwanted tantrums to say the least.
The movie begins by depicting the lavish life of the protagonist whilst noisily pointing out how little Katyal, a big fish in the Kuwait business suburbs, thought of his homeland. He had turned, as suggested by a brayed intentional laugh of his friends, more Kuwaitian than a Kuwaitian himself. These bits again seemed forced rather than appear natural so as to benefit the script.
Chaos depicted by some pathetic CGI bombing, tanks and helicopters raids manifest how little we have progressed in movie making. Third grade young actors chosen here try to scare you with guns and a foreign accent. They fail terribly at it. Their acts were excruciatingly unpromising as they try to kick someone lethargically on the butt, shoot people to nail in absent fear, make advances at young girls, or occasionally stop people for intimidating enquiry. Amidst all the mayhem Akshay Kumar cries which somehow doesn't blend in with the unconvincing setup. Also, when he runs home to not discover his wife and child, whilst looking unperturbed by the snot lazily hanging from his nose (which seemed a very forceful shot by Menon BTW), really squeezed out acting from him, which pretty soon disappeared in its next impending frames. Menon tries to shoehorn drama in there which seemed more enacted to have ever reached a gut-wrenching point.
What was however quite endearing to watch was how the movie unfurls into better horizons from there as the protagonist starts taking effective measures to get the job done. The way the story oscillates with the 'how' is the crux of the flick. It however also tries to milk a character called George, played by Prakash Belawadi, depictive of a head that doesn't work well with the mass. What it failed to cash on was its moniker. The fact that Air India flew over 488 air planes in a war-hit zone was humongous, but it was vaguely mentioned in a daft line by Akshay. True heroics get overshadowed right there.
After watching this you will miss Neeraj Pandey big time, or even hope the likes of Anurag Kashyap, Dibakar Banerjee or even the newcomer Neeraj Ghaywan to have picked this up. Airlift failed to engage and rivet us. The music couldn't captivate us and there was hardly an adrenaline moment to keep our jaws wide open for long. To say that it even came close to the likes of Argo would be downright foolish.
Alas! the damage has been done. What you have is mediocre served on your platter! What could have turned into something phenomenal ends up being an average Indian mainstream movie. It is quite unfortunate that the Indian mass loves this kind of stuff. I would call it nothing but an average crowd entertainer.
Go with lesser expectations and you might enjoy it.
- Good plunge in history
- Story brings the biggest evacuation ever to the front page
- Makes an attempt at aggrandizing patriotism
- Shoddy direction
- Chaning of facts and events
- Airlift story hasn't been presented well
- Unwanted average melodrama
- Added Masala for Indian public viewing


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Lauren has held the rank of Principal since 2008 and joined the Company in 2002. For Alice's Adventures in Wonderland Christopher Wheeldon created the role of Alice on Lauren, and a performance of the work was was captured on DVD. In the coming Season she's due to perform in Chroma, The Human Seasons, The Nutcracker, Jewels, Giselle, and The Sleeping Beauty. Off-stage, she's the patron of London Children's Ballet and National Youth Ballet as well as being a keen tweeter.
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USDA researchers, university scientists, consultants and others met in Indiana Aug. 21 to share their findings and practical insights about two lesser-understood nutrients, calcium and sulfur. More than 150 people were on hand to learn more about gypsum, a mineral that delivers both calcium and sulfur, at the Midwest Soil Improvement Symposium (MSIS), held at the Rulon family farm in Arcadia, Ind. The event was sponsored by Rulon Enterprises, Gypsoil and the Conservation Technology Information Center.
Gypsum is a soft mineral that is composed of calcium sulfate dehydrate, which breaks down into calcium and sulfur over time. Farmers around the world have used it for centuries (Benjamin Franklin was a proponent in colonial times, for example), but gypsum has largely evaded modern research. The researchers presenting at MSIS have championed the efforts to learn more about gypsum, even when it was not popular to do so.
"People used to tell me I was wasting my time," says Warren Dick, professor at The Ohio State University's school of environment and natural resources. "But now there's all sorts of interest in gypsum."
Dick wrote the book on gypsum – literally. He is the co-author of a leading publication on the topic, Gypsum as an Agricultural Amendment. Dick and other researchers have studied gypsum's benefits not only to crops like corn and soybeans, but also to the soil itself. Retired USDA soil scientist Darrell Norton, for example, spent several decades studying evaluating how gypsum affected soil and water quality, particularly as a runoff management tool.
Ongoing research confirms that gypsum can improve crusting and erosion by allowing the soil structure to filtrate water better. Recent USDA studies showed adding gypsum could reduce the rate of contaminate phosphorous in water runoff by as much as 34%.
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The greatest PC games of all time
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Tagged with Battle of Britain 2: Wings of Victory, Bestest Bests, Combat Mission: Barbarossa To Berlin, crimson skies, Day of the Tentacle, else Heart Break, Falcon 4.0, feature, Google Doodles, Inkle Studios, NEO Scavenger, Panzer Elite, Red Baron, Silent Hunter 3, Stick Shift, Supreme Commander: Forged Alliance, The Blackwell Legacy, 80 Days, American Truck Simulator, Bernband, BioShock, Burnout Paradise, Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, Cradle, Crusader Kings II, Crypt of the NecroDancer, Dark Souls, Dark Souls: Prepare To Die Edition, Day Of The Tentacle Remastered, Deadly Premonition, Deus Ex, Devil Daggers, Divinity: Original Sin 2, Doom, Dota 2, Dragon Age: Origins, Dune II: The Battle for Arrakis, Dungeon Keeper, Dwarf Fortress, EVE Online, Fallout: New Vegas, Final Fantasy VII, Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, Half-Life, Halo, Hexcells, Hitman, Invisible Inc, League of Legends, Legend of Grimrock, Microsoft Flight Simulator X: Steam Edition, Minecraft, Nidhogg, No Man's Sky, OMSI, Oxenfree, Papers Please, Planescape: Torment, Portal 2, Proteus, Quake, S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl, Secret Habitat, Sid Meier's Civilization IV, Sid Meier's Gettysburg, Spelunky, Star Wars: Knights of The Old Republic, The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth, The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind, The Last Express, The Longest Journey, The Sims 2, The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, Thief II: The Metal Age, Thief: The Dark Project, Thirty Flights of Loving, Ultima VII, What Remains of Edith Finch, World of Warcraft, X-COM: UFO Defense.


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Italy's central bank on Saturday gave its approval to a request by scandal-hit bank Monte dei Paschi di Siena for 3.9 billion euros (US$5.3 billion) of state loans, the latest step in the battle to revive the ailing bank.
The Bank of Italy's backing was the final stage required to free up the financial help for Italy's third-biggest lender, which last week revealed loss-making derivatives trades that could cost it about 720 million euros.
After a meeting that lasted most of Saturday, the central bank issued a brief statement to say its board had given "a favorable opinion" on the bailout. It gave no further details.
The scandal surrounding Italy's oldest bank has hit its share price and prompted questions about how the risky deals could have been hidden from regulators.
The issue has shot to the center of the campaign for a Feb. 24 to Feb. 25 national election and politicians have blamed the Bank of Italy, led by European Central Bank President Mario Draghi at the time of the deals, for failing to spot them.
At Saturday's meeting the central bank's four-member board, chaired by Bank of Italy Governor Ignazio Visco, had to judge whether the bank's current and future capital adequacy and stability were sufficient to receive the loans.
The Tuscan bank was forced to seek state aid last year for the second time since 2009 after becoming one of just four European lenders that failed to meet tougher capital requirements set by regulators.
Under the loan scheme, the bank will issue 3.9 billion euros of bonds to the Italian Treasury, with just under half of these replacing 1.9 billion euros of existing state help.
The lender's new management, appointed last year to turn it around, said on Friday the situation was "completely under control."
The bank will pay a hefty 9 percent coupon on the bonds, which are worth more than its current market capitalization of 3 billion euros. The coupon will increase by half a percentage point every two years up to a maximum of 15 percent.
At a stormy meeting at Monte Paschi's Siena headquarters on Friday, shareholders approved two capital increases for 6.5 billion euros to be carried out if needed in the next five years, which are a condition of the state bailout.
That raises the prospect of possible nationalization, because if the bank cannot repay the state bonds or the coupons attached to them, it will have to issue shares to the Treasury.
Italian Prime Minister Mario Monti said late on Friday he considered nationalization a "remote hypothesis."
Monti, bidding for a second term in the election, defended his government's decision to rescue it with taxpayers' money.
"It's a loan, with a high interest rate," he said.
At the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, on Friday, Visco sought to deflect accusations the central bank had not done its job properly.
"It is wrong to insinuate that there was a lack of supervision by the Bank of Italy," he said, adding that it would cooperate with prosecutors investigating the lender.
Draghi, also in Davos, took no questions from reporters.
Visco's task was made more difficult by a report in the Corriere della Sera which included excerpts of a document drafted by six central bank inspectors expressing concerns over the two main trades under scrutiny as long ago as 2010.
That document would have been sent to the Bank of Italy's head of bank supervision at the time, Anna Maria Tarantola, who has since left the bank to become president of state broadcaster RAI.


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I thought I would write about something other than online sources for a change. This list of books is not designed to be an all inclusive list of everything out there on the topic, however, these should are a few that I have found useful and/or very interesting.
Genealogy Specific Books
These books I find myself using these books quite often (some more than others).
- Finding Your Hispanic Roots by George R. Ryskamp - Some of the chapters are out of date (for example the IGI and Family History Library Catalog), but the chapters on record types are invaluable. Dr. Ryskamp's insights and explanations on parish, civil registration, military, and notarial records are the best ones out there. A must buy for anyone doing Hispanic genealogy.
- Finding Your Mexican Ancestors by George R. Ryskamp - Published by Ancestry this year, this book is a great resource for anyone doing genealogy/family history in Mexico. The book contains valuable websites, archive addresses, and great suggestions for finding those hard to find Mexican ancestors.
- Hispanic Surnames and Family History by Lyman D. Platt - This book is an interesting and quite helpful. It lists common Hispanic surnames in North America and Hispanic surnames in general. Dr. Platt has also compiled a bibliography of helpful publications/periodicals and a quite comprehensive list of Hispanic family biographies.
- Census Records for Latin America and the Hispanic United States by Lyman D. Platt - Like his other book this is one of a kind. The book does a good job of listing a lot of census records, but it does not list all of them. It's a good starting point, but a more thorough search should be done to determine whether census records exist for the area you are researching in.
- Sephardic Genealogy: Discovering Your Sephardic Ancestors and Their World by Jeffrey S. Malka - I have not read all of this book. Sephardic genealogy is not my main focus, but for anyone doing Hispanic genealogy should be aware of it, and the possibility of some ancestors being Jewish. From what I have read in this book it seems thorough, and provides good recommendations for tracking down your Sephardic roots.
- Mexican-American Genealogical Research: following the paper trail to Mexico by John Schmal and Donna Morales - I have not read this book, but I plan on reading it in the near future. It is an interesting niche in research. Many people that I speak with struggle with connecting to their ancestral country. This book sounds helpful for bridging that gap.
I could probably list hundreds of helpful books, and several country specific history books. I enjoy reading history books, because they help me understand the political and social situations for the different places where I am researching. Here are a few interesting books for Hispanic Southwest United States/northern Mexico (depending on the time period).
- Remnants of Crypto-Jews Among Hispanic Americans by Gloria Golden "We were told that our Spanish was archaic, Ladino." This book opened my eyes to the Jewish influence of many of the colonists of the early southwestern United States. I'll let you find out what a Crypto-Jew is if you don't already know.
- The Mexican Frontier 1821-1846 by David J. Weber - I'm currently reading this unique book. Weber seems to be one of only a few historians that recognize that this time period of Mexican independence was important in shaping Mexico. For me it is interesting to learn what was going on politically during this time period, and how the Mexican government interacted with the northern territories.
- Soldiers, Scoundrels, Poets, and Priests by David J. McLaughlin - A compilation of short biographies of some of the most important players in early California.
There are hundreds of history books out there, and I know that there are people out there that have there favorites. If you know of a book or books that you would like to share with others please add them to the comments section of this post.


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|The whole story regarding the destruction of Romulus is nonsense from a scientific point of view. First off, it's virtually impossible that a single supernova could threaten the whole galaxy. Destroy the planets in one system, yes. Be potentially dangerous to life in nearby systems, yes. But nothing significant beyond that. It's about like saying that a stick of dynamite could explode and destroy America! Then, it's shown that the supernova destroys Romulus. Spock subsequently sucks it up with his black hole, AFTER it's exploded. The supernova explosion would be expanding at the speed of light; if Spock got there even a few hours late he'd have to create a black hole of truly stunning size to suck this up - the event horizon would have to encompass most of a solar system. To give you a sense of scale, the average black hole produced by a supernova is something like 50 kilometres across. Spock would have to make something in the region of tens of millions of times larger than this, at the very least.
In the original series Delta Vega is a planet on the edge of the galaxy. The location of the planet should not really be something that changes in an alternate universe, and yet now Spock can apparently SEE Vulcan being destroyed from the surface of Delta Vega. Hell, simply diverting there to drop him off should have been a pretty major undertaking for Nero. One claim that's thrown around for this is that Delta Vega is a moon of Vulcan, which is therefore close enough for Spock to see the planet. However, Kirk is dumped on Delta Vega after the Enterprise has already been at warp for some time. Any Vulcan moons should be left far behind by now. So Delta Vega has to be in some other star system, and yet not the one we saw in TOS.
The travel times seem really strange in this movie. When the Enterprise heads to Vulcan Kirk gets a shot from McCoy that knocks him out. We then cut to Sulu saying the ship has reached maximum warp. Pike orders Chekov to announce the ship's mission to the crew which he does... and caps it off by saying they will be at Vulcan in three minutes. So how long was Kirk asleep from a "mild sedative"? A time short enough that the ship didn't even reach maximum warp - surely a matter of minutes, no more than an hour or so even being generous. Meaning the Enterprise reached Vulcan in an hour or so! We might claim that the ship takes days to accelerate to top speed... but when Kirk warns Pike about the attack on Vulcan Uhura confirms that she picked up the distress call from the Klingons "last night". There is no way to avoid it; this trip does NOT take days, it takes hours at the very most and most likely less than an hour. And this is not something special to the Enterprise, as half a dozen other Starships leave shortly before the Enterprise does and arrive shortly before she does.
When he takes command, Kirk informs the crew that Spock has resigned his commission. This would mean that Spock quit Starfleet. He resigned his COMMAND, not his commission.
When the captain of the Kelvin goes to the shuttle bay, we see an exterior view of the lift descending to the hangar bay floor. However, look at the Kelvin exteriors - the hangar is the topmost part of the ship, well above the saucer section where the bridge is. The lift should have been going up, not down.
It's obvious from the visuals that Nero's drill head stops miles above the surface of Vulcan - how far we can't say for sure, but Kirk and Sulu fall for more than a minute when the drill begins to retract, and on Earth that would translate to something in the region of two miles, or 10,000 feet. On Vulcan, with higher gravity, it should be comfortably more than this. In TOS "Amok Time", Vulcan's atmosphere was so thin that Kirk had great trouble fighting Spock in it. Here he is a good ten thousand feet higher up at an absolute minimum, yet both Kirk and Sulu whip off their helmets and battle away without any problems whatever.
When Kirk, Sulu and Redshirt guy make their parachute jump, we see a scene on the bridge that shows a tactical display with Red in front, then Kirk, and then Sulu. An instant later it cuts to show the actual guys and Kirk is in front, followed by Sulu and Red at the rear.
Nero spends much of the movie with scars on his head and the tip of one ear missing. However, the missing ear point switches from right to left in some shots.
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|Have to give it to the actors who played the original cast. It is an intimidating job for an actor to play an iconic role made hugely famous by somebody else, but they pull it off superbly. Most especially Karl Urban does the most amazing job imaginable as Leonard McCoy. There are moments you literally forget that you aren't watching DeForest Kelly. Chris Pine just owns Kirk, without really copying Shatner at all he just takes the role and makes it his. And what can you say about Zachary Quinto? He not only played an iconic character made famous by another actor, but he played against that same actor playing that same character in the same scene! To even attempt this is remarkable.
Loved Kirk's offer to assist Nero at the end there. For all the youth and cockiness that he showed through the film, this was a moment when you saw a glimpse of the man that he would become. And I had to laugh at Spock's "Not really, no. Not this time."
Lots of little moments. The origin of Kirk's name : Tiberius is his paternal grandfather's name. James is his maternal grandfather's name. The origin of "Bones" - McCoy comments that his ex-wife took the whole planet from him in the divorce, leaving him only his bones. Chekov having trouble with the computer not understanding his accent.
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|The USS Kelvin's captain is killed by Nero. George Kirk dies when the Kelvin rams the Narada; at least one other crewmember is killed in that battle. The crews of 47 Klingon ships are killed off screen, as are the crews of seven Starfleet ships at Vulcan. The large majority of Vulcan's 6 billion population are killed, including Spock's mother and two others we see directly. One redshirt dies attacking the drill head, along with two Romulans. Several more Romulans are killed on the Narada - ultimately her entire crew s killed. The destruction of Romulus is seen in flashback, presumably with billions more killed. This is the highest body count of any piece of Star Trek that I am aware of.
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|Although the first name Nyota has been used for Uhura in many sources, this movie marks the first time it has ever been used on screen.
Her role as the computer voice in this movie was the last role Majel Barrett filmed before her death.
The gun battle on the mining ship was scripted as a fist fight; it was changed on the day it was filmed.
When we first meet Scotty, look at the cage he has on his desk - there's a Tribble in it.
The original plan was to have both Shatner and Nimoy come back in time to meet their younger selves. But it was felt that it would be wrong to bring Kirk back from the dead for this film.
If you look carefully at the various platforms Spock passes when he is stealing the older Spock's ship from the mining vessel, you can see a Vulcan lander from the movie First Contact parked on one of them.
Up until now the character of Kirk has only ever been played by two people. With this movie that rises to five - Chris Pine, Jimmy Bennett, and whomever played Kirk as a baby!
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With built-in GPS, Apple Watch Series 2 can record precise distance, speed, and pace while you're walking, running, or cycling outdoors. It picks up a signal right away, so you don't have to wait to get moving. And when you're done, you can check your iPhone to see a map of your route and where you ran your fastest.
Water resistant. Splash. Surf. Swim.
Apple Watch Series 2 is rated water resistant to 50 meters,1 so you can leave it on when you're in the pool or ocean. Since a speaker can't be sealed because it needs air to produce sound, we reinvented ours — it lets water in, then uses sound vibrations to force it back out.
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The custom sensor on the back of Apple Watch Series 2 measures your heart rate throughout the day. And the data is sent to your iPhone, where you can track your heart rate patterns over time in the Health app.
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Smart notifications help you close your Stand, Move, and Exercise rings every day. Apple Watch Series 2 gives you regular progress updates and uses your success to motivate you to pursue new goals.
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Russell Wilson will still report to Rangers' training camp, agent says
A few hours after leading the Seahawks to a win in Super Bowl XLVIII, quarterback Russell Wilson probably had plenty of requests for appearances.
He still plans to honor one he made earlier this season, his baseball agent said on Monday.
WIlson, a former dual-sport athlete, plans to appear at the Texas Rangers' spring training camp in Surprise, Ariz., ostensibly to talk to some of the minor leaguers about his experiences.
The former second baseman was drafted by the Colorado Rockies in 2010 and then picked up by the Rangers in the Rule 5 Draft this past December.
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text: Numerous studies show that non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) reduce the risk of colon cancer. However, animal studies testing the NSAID naproxen or its derivative, NO-naproxen, have focused primarily on chemically-induced tumor formation. Now, researchers at Fox Chase Cancer Center find that naproxen and NO-naproxen reduce tumor formation in a strain of mutant mice that spontaneously develop colon tumors. The data also suggest that naproxen blocks a gatekeeper step that initiates tumor formation. Margie Clapper, PhD, Co-Leader of the Cancer Prevention and Control Program at Fox Chase, presented the data in a late-breaking abstract session at the AACR 102nd Annual Meeting 2011 on Wednesday, April 6. "There is a major effect on the very small lesions, about a 90% reduction in the mutant mice treated with naproxen compared with control animals," says Clapper. "That tells us this drug may be very appropriate for intervening early in people, far in advance of the development of large tumors. We might be able to have a significant impact on the very early and small lesions, thus reducing the morbidity associated with the disease." Scientists have shown previously that both naproxen and NO-naproxen kill colon cancer cells in culture, with NO-naproxen appearing to be more powerful than naproxen. In the current study, the team fed mice genetically predisposed to spontaneously develop colon tumors either regular food or food supplemented with high- or low-dose naproxen or high- or low-dose NO-naproxen. After 45 days, they found that mice fed low-dose naproxen had 70.3% fewer small tumors than the control animals and mice fed low-dose NO-naproxen had 64.0% fewer tumors than control animals. Moreover, a 89.3% reduction in very small tumors, known as microadenomas, was observed when mice were fed high-dose naproxen. Although Clapper and first author Wen-Chi Chang, PhD, Assistant Research Professor at Fox Chase, had expected that NO-naproxen would be a more powerful chemopreventive agent based on cell culture data, the current study indicates this is not the case in animals. Clapper says their results, which favor naproxen, fit well with a recent decision by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). Scientists had developed NO-naproxen with the goal of reducing gastrointestinal toxicity associated with regular use of NSAIDs. The FDA, however, declined to approve NO-naproxen saying there was not enough evidence that it was less toxic than the older drug. "Our data are highly supportive of using what is already on the market, and FDA approved for arthritis, for the prevention of cancer," Clapper says. Chang says a key aspect of the new data is naproxen's ability to block a very early step in colon cancer formation. "If we can identify the exact mechanism that naproxen uses to block tumor formation, then, in the future, we can work with chemists to design a compound that hits that pathway, without the broad spectrum of effects - and side effects - seen with NSAIDs," Chang says. Notes: Co-authors on the study include Christina M. Ferrara, Harry S. Cooper, Stacy L. Mosier, and Esther Kaunga from Fox Chase, Clinton J. Grubbs from the University of Alabama, Birmingham, and Ronald A. Lubet from the National Cancer Institute in Bethesda, Maryland. Source: Diana Quattrone Fox Chase Cancer Center


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Now on ComixologyFebruary 13th, 2014 | by Adam J Monetta
Long time. First order of business, the first issue of Lucky Dawg is available on ComiXology (http://www.comixology.com/Lucky-Dawg/comics-series/11917).
Now, finally, an explanation of what happened. There was a few reasons why I stopped Lucky Dawg, but the main reason was budget. Doing multiple titles, at the time, built up a decent amount of debt. I had to choose one comic to do and I chose Fighting Stranger. I did this for two reasons. Fighting Stranger has an end to the story, where I could keep LD going forever. And my primary artist, Pow Rodrix, was going on to higher profile books.
So for some good news. The entire Lucky Dawg collection will be on ComiXology soon(-ish, there's a ton of books that go through the Submit program). I'm hoping to get some more interest in Lucky. I'm looking to do a quick original one-shot or two-parter before diving back into the series. My old debt is under control now, so I'm hoping to start that in the summer. I'll probably debut that on ComiXology first, before bringing it here.
That's the plan. Wish me luck. And I hope you can support Lucky's return on ComiXology.


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- 1995: High Inquisitor Dolores Umbridge inspects fifth-year Transfiguration and Care of Magical Creatures classes. Harry Potter has detention with Umbridge. Hermione Granger suggests that Harry begin teaching Defence Against the Dark Arts. This idea later became Dumbledore's Army.
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- 1958: Chris Columbus, film director, writer and producer who directed the first two Harry Potter films Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone and Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets and became one of the producers of the third film Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, is born.
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