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Paraplegic man stands, steps with assistance and moves his legs voluntarily
A team of scientists at the University of Louisville, UCLA and the California Institute of Technology has achieved a significant breakthrough in its initial work with a paralyzed male volunteer at Louisville's Frazier Rehab Institute — the result of 30 years of research to find potential clinical therapies for paralysis.
The study is published today in the British medical journal The Lancet.
The man, Rob Summers, 25, was completely paralyzed below the chest after being struck by a vehicle in a hit-and-run accident in July 2006. Today, he is able to reach a standing position, supplying the muscular push himself. He can remain standing, and bearing weight, for up to four minutes at a time (up to an hour with periodic assistance when he weakens). Aided by a harness support and some therapist assistance, he can make repeated stepping motions on a treadmill. He can also voluntarily move his toes, ankles, knees and hips on command.
These unprecedented results were achieved through continual direct "epidural electrical stimulation" of the subject's lower spinal cord, mimicking signals the brain normally transmits to initiate movement. Once that signal is given, the research shows, the spinal cord's own neural network, combined with the sensory input derived from the legs to the spinal cord, is able to direct the muscle and joint movements required to stand and step with assistance on a treadmill.
The other crucial component of the research was an extensive regime of locomotor training while the spinal cord was being stimulated and the man suspended over the treadmill. Assisted by rehabilitation specialists, the man's spinal cord neural networks were retrained to produce the muscle movements necessary to stand and to take assisted steps.
Leading researchers on the 11-member team are two prominent neuroscientists: Susan Harkema, of the University of Louisville's Department of Neurosurgery, Kentucky Spinal Cord Research Center and Frazier Rehab Institute, a service of Jewish Hospital and St. Mary's HealthCare in Louisville; and V. Reggie Edgerton, of UCLA's Division of Life Sciences and the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA.
Joel W. Burdick, a professor of mechanical engineering and bioengineering at Caltech, developed new electromechanical technologies and computer algorithms to aid in locomotion recovery in spinal cord injury patients.
The research was funded by the Christopher and Dana Reeve Foundation and the National Institutes of Health. Harkema is director of the Reeve Foundation's NeuroRecovery Network, which translates scientific advances into activity-based rehabilitation treatments. Edgerton is a member of the Reeve Foundation's Science Advisory Council and its International Research Consortium on Spinal Cord Injury.
Harkema, Edgerton and their colleagues envision a day when at least some individuals with complete spinal cord injuries will be able to use a portable stimulation unit and, with the assistance of a walker, stand independently, maintain balance and execute some effective stepping.
Relief from secondary complications of complete spinal cord injury — including impairment or loss of bladder control, sphincter control and sexual response — could prove to be even more significant.
"The spinal cord is smart," said Edgerton, distinguished professor of integrative biology and physiology and of neurobiology at UCLA. "The neural networks in the lumbosacral spinal cord are capable of initiating full weight-bearing and relatively coordinated stepping without any input from the brain. This is possible, in part, due to information that is sent back from the legs directly to the spinal cord."
This sensory feedback from the feet and legs to the spinal cord facilitates the individual's potential to balance and step over a range of speeds, directions and levels of weight-bearing. The spinal cord can independently interpret these data and send movement instructions back to the legs — all without cortical involvement.
Harkema, a professor of neurological surgery at the University of Louisville, oversees the human research program there. She began her career as a postgraduate student in Edgerton's UCLA laboratory, where Edgerton pioneered the field of locomotion with extensive animal studies. The two have been close collaborators ever since.
"This is a breakthrough. It opens up a huge opportunity to improve the daily functioning of these individuals," said Harkema, lead author of today's Lancet article. "But we have a long road ahead."
"While these results are obviously encouraging," Edgerton concurred, "we need to be cautious. There is much work to be done."
To begin with, only one subject has been studied, and he was an athlete in extraordinary physical condition before his injury. (Five human subjects have been authorized by the Food and Drug Administration to be enrolled in the study.)
Additionally, the first subject, while completely paralyzed below the chest (C7/T1 vertebra spinal section), was rated "B" on the American Spinal Injury Association's classification system, since he did retain some feeling below the level of injury. It is not known how these interventions will work with "A"-level patients (no cognition of sensation below the injury). Another issue is the stimulation equipment itself. To date, researchers have had access to only standard off-the-shelf stimulation units designed for pain relief.
In earlier published animal studies, drug interventions further heightened the sensitivity and functioning of the spinal cord's neural network. The compounds used in animals, however, are not approved for human use; it is likely that a large investment in further pharmacological research will be required to bring such compounds to market.
More than 5 million Americans live with some form of paralysis, defined as a central nervous system disorder resulting in difficulty or inability to move the upper or lower extremities. Roughly 1.3 million are spinal cord injured, and of those, many are completely paralyzed in the lower extremities.
Epidural stimulation, in the context of paralysis of the lower extremities, is the application of continuous electrical current, at varying frequencies and intensities, to specific locations on the lumbosacral spinal cord corresponding to the dense neural bundles that largely control movement of the hips, knees, ankles and toes. The electrodes required for this stimulation were implanted at University of Louisville Hospital by Dr. Jonathan Hodes, chairman of the department of neurosurgery at the University of Louisville.
"Today's announcement clearly demonstrates proof-of-concept," said Susan Howley, executive vice president for research at the Christopher and Dana Reeve Foundation, which, in addition to supporting this particular work, has underwritten basic research in the field for some three decades. "It's an exciting development. Where it leads to from here is fundamentally a matter of time and money."
"This procedure has completely changed my life," said Rob Summers, the research volunteer. "For someone who for four years was unable to even move a toe, to have the freedom and ability to stand on my own is the most amazing feeling. To be able to pick up my foot and step down again was unbelievable, but beyond all of that, my sense of well-being has changed. My physique and muscle tone has improved greatly, so much that most people don't even believe I am paralyzed. I believe that epidural stimulation will get me out of this chair."
For a more in-depth discussion of the research behind the breakthrough, watch this interview with Edgerton.
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Conservatives are sick and tired of being taken for granted, misrepresented, and talked down to by the same "elite" Republicans in Washington who hopelessly screwed everything up during the Bush years.
Everybody knows exactly whom we're talking about here. The same snobby, elitist, stuffed shirt, squishy, poll-obsessed Country Club Republicans who went to D.C., forgot who put them there, wasted the incredible opportunity they had to change this country for the better, and are now pointing the finger at everyone except themselves for their mistakes.
Here are five messages for those people:
We're not going back to the Bush years: Conservatives are sick and tired of hearing Republicans talk about conservatism to get our support and then watching them immediately move to the center once they get elected.
Stop making promises to us that you don't intend to keep. Don't tell us how fiscally conservative you are and then vote for the TARP Program. Don't talk about limited government and then support big government programs. Don't tell us you care about the rule of law and then support amnesty.
We expect you to govern the way you campaign when you need our support. If you don't do it, we're going to make sure you catch hell for it.
This country can't survive if you're as childish as the Democrats: For the last few decades, we've had an "adult" party that deals in the real world and a "children's party" that promises everyone everything for nothing. Unfortunately, the "adult party" has been acting a little too much like a 40 year old going through a mid-life crisis for the last few years. Newsflash: This country cannot remain a super power or even a great nation if the Republican Party doesn't start acting like an adult party again.
Yes, the Democrats' "something for nothing" election promises may seem appealing at times, but the country can't thrive with two parties like that — and what good does it do anyone to be elected king of the crap pile? We don't expect the Republican Party to be ideologically perfect or to please conservatives in every way on every issue. That's not the real world. But, if the Republican Party isn't willing to draw a line in the sand over the things that have made this a great country, then the party just isn't worth a flat damn. There have to be SOME lines that can't be crossed without paying a terrible price.
Stop sabotaging our candidates: It is absolutely infuriating that Republican Party organizations talk incessantly about conservative principles, rely on conservatives for the overwhelming majority of their funding, and then turn around and sabotage conservative candidates like Doug Hoffman and Marco Rubio. Who the hell do you think you are?
We're not telling the Republican Party to endorse conservative candidates over moderate candidates or demanding that middle-of-the-road candidates be tossed from the party. What we are saying is, "Don't take our money, use it against us, and then take a haughty 'we know best' attitude." If you do, we're going to take you to the woodshed and show you why it's a bad idea.
"There will be no elite in a bankrupt America." — Jonathan Hunter: If fiscal conservatism doesn't work any more, then America doesn't work any more because we can't live like this long term. If even the Republicans look at government as just another way to distribute as much borrowed money as they can get by with to their supporters, then this country is going to look like Argentina after the crash in twenty years. This is do or die for the future of this country and Republicans, including Republican members of Congress from blue states, need to understand that.
You're not as smart as you think you are: It must be grand to be a Congressman or senator. Your fellow citizens elect you to office. Then you go to D.C. where your staff spends all day fretting over you and telling you how wonderful you are. Everywhere you go, all you hear from consultants, your fellow members of Congress, and all the people who want things from you is that you can do no wrong. If only people understood how SMART you really are. It's like being five years old all over again except everyone shares your mother's opinion of what a brilliant genius her little man is going to turn out to be.
Meanwhile, back in the real world, Republicans just spent two straight elections getting splattered like bugs on a windshield. That happened despite the fact that their constituents were screaming at the top of their lungs about the oncoming danger. Yes, that's right; the political novices in NoWhereville, South Dakota were more accurately predicting the problems ahead than the Republican politicians and political consultants in D.C. How in the world we got to a place where so many politicians have such a shallow understanding of politics, I don't know, but Republicans in D.C. need to wake up and smell the coffee. YOU GUYS blew it in 2006 and 2008, not us.

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SPARTANBURG, S.C. (Feb. 19, 2009) -- Struggling through its toughest stretch of the season and desperate to right the ship, the ETSU men's basketball team takes to the road Thursday evening to take on USC Upstate in Atlantic Sun Conference action at the G.B. Hodges Center. Tip is set for 7 p.m.
The Bucs (17-9, 11-5 A-Sun) are losers of three in a row, but are still just one game back in the race for the A-Sun championship, trailing both Belmont and Jacksonville. With four games remaining, ETSU still has the potential to capture a regular season title and No. 1 seed in the postseason tournament, but a win against the Spartans is necessary to keep those hopes alive.
For more on Thursday night's game, click on the game notes link above or read the game notes below:
The series against USC Upstate
This will be just the fourth meeting between the Bucs and Spartans, as USC Upstate moved up to Division I last season ... ETSU leads the all-time series 3-0, having beaten the Spartans 82-72 back on Jan. 26.
Last time against USC Upstate
JOHNSON CITY, Tenn. (Jan. 26, 2009) - Facing a four-point halftime deficit, the ETSU men's basketball team picked up the pace in the second half and forced the issue against Atlantic Sun Conference foe USC Upstate, ultimately outscoring the Spartans 50-36 in the final 20 minutes to take an 82-72 win at Memorial Center ... The Bucs' fullcourt defense forced 17 turnovers and ETSU hit on 31-of-35 free throws (89 percent) to pick up the victory and move to 15-5 overall, 9-1 in A-Sun action. With the win, the Bucs set up a crucial first-place showdown with Jacksonville Friday night in Florida, as the Dolphins also stand 9-1 in the league. The game will air on CSS at 7 p.m ... The "Big Three" of seniors Kevin Tiggs (Flint, Mich.) and Courtney Pigram (Memphis), and junior guard Mike Smith (Vandalia, Mo.) were certainly strong again for the Bucs. Smith and Pigram each finished with a game-high 22 points, while Tiggs pitched in 18. In addition, Hamlin ended the night with his second double-double in three games with 11 points and 12 rebounds, to go along with four assists, four blocks and two steals. Pigram was an impressive 13-of-14 at the charity stripe ... Along with shooting 89 percent and scoring 31 points at the foul line, ETSU held USC Upstate to just 42 percent shooting in the second half after giving up a 52 percent clip in the first half. The Bucs' defense also produced 10 steals ... In the first half, Upstate used the size of 7-foot-3 Nick Schneiders to perfection, pounding the ball inside while also using the big man to find open 3-point shooters on the perimeter. The result was a strong showing by the Spartans on the Bucs' home floor in the first 20 minutes and a 36-32 lead at the break ... However, ultimately the Bucs used their fullcourt press defense and transition game to open the second half on a 24-6 offensive run and make it 54-42 with 10:18 left. While the Spartans were able to cut the lead back to just nine at 75-66 with 1:22 left, there was just not enough time to continue a comeback ... For USC Upstate, Bobby Davis led the way with 18 points, Schneiders added 16 and Josh Chavis pitched in 15. The Spartans won the battle of the glass 33-32, and shot 35 percent from beyond the arc.
Last time out
NASHVILLE (Feb. 16, 2009) - In a game full of technical fouls, rough play and wild momentum swings, the Lipscomb Bisons built an 18-point first half lead and finally put an end to ETSU's seven-game win streak in the series with a 96-91 victory in Atlantic Sun Conference play Monday evening inside Allen Arena ... The Bisons (12-13 overall, 8-8 A-Sun) won for the fourth straight contest, while the Buccaneers (17-10, 11-5) dropped their third straight. Even with the loss, the Bucs still remain one game out of first place in the A-Sun, as Jacksonville was upset by Campbell earlier in the evening ... The first half was eerily similar to the first meeting earlier this season at Memorial Center, when Lipscomb hit on seven 3-pointers and held a 45-30 advantage at the break. In this game, the Bisons again hit on seven long-range shots in the first half, connected on 57 percent of their field goal attempts and out-rebounded the Bucs 21-14 on their way to a 47-32 edge at the break ... With the game tied at 17-17, Lipscomb then went on a 22-4 run to make it 39-21 and in the midst of that surge Tiggs picked up his third foul of the game with 8:02 left in the half. While the senior forward sat on the bench things only got worse, but his return to the lineup with under four minutes left in the half resulted in seven straight points and at least helped the Bucs to a manageable deficit at the break ... In the second half, the Bucs roared back with their patented full court defense and wild transition game. Those efforts led to ETSU making it 72-70 when senior Courtney Pigram (Memphis) nailed a 3-pointer from the right wing with 5:31 remaining. However, from there a technical foul on Kevin Tiggs (Flint, Mich.) and another technical on Bartow moments later allowed Lipscomb to pull back out to a 79-70 advantage with 3:34 left ... The Bucs tried again to rally and even with the score 92-79 with 36 seconds left, the Bucs went on a 12-2 run to cut it to 94-91 with 2.2 seconds left. In the end, Lipscomb's Jimmy Oden hit two foul shots to ice the game ... For the Bucs, Tiggs scored a game-high 26 points and actually eclipsed 1,000 points for his career with a layup at the 2:08 mark of the first half. Along with Tiggs, junior guard Mike Smith (Vandalia, Mo.) posted his sixth career double-double with 20 points and 11 rebounds. In addition, freshman guard Jarvis Jones (Memphis) had 10 points, and sophomore guard Tommy Hubbard (Boston) returned from injury to post eight rebounds and go 8-of-8 from the line ... Lipscomb was led by Oden with 19 points, while five other Bisons reached double figures, with Michael Lusk posting 16, Brian Wright had 15, Adnan Hodzic netted 12, and both Thomas Pfaff and Josh Slater picked up 10 apiece ... The Bisons hit on 53 percent from the field, while also shooting 54 percent from 3-point range. The Bucs were just 42 percent from the field and 30 percent from beyond the arc ... The Bucs will return to action Thursday night at USC Upstate, with tip scheduled for 7 p.m.
February troubles continue four-year trend for Bucs
Over the last four season since joining the Atlantic Sun Conference, the ETSU men's basketball team has either been tied or held sole possession of first place at some point in the month of February ... However, that's when the story turns bleak ... With the exception of the 2007-08 season, when the Bucs went 6-1 in February and ultimately won the league regular season title, the Bucs are are combined 11-10 in league play during the month of February and have relinquished first-place in three of those four seasons ... In fact, a year ago the Bucs dropped from first place on Feb. 8 to a fourth seed by the end of the season. Below is a complete breakdown:
Season February Record
2005-06 3-4
2006-07 6-1
2007-08 6-3
2008-09 2-3 (currently)
Tiggs eclipses 1,000 points; Bucs to have three
1,000-point scoreres on the same team?
With a put back at the 2:08 mark of the first half Monday at Lipscomb, ETSU senior forward Kevin Tiggs (Flint, Mich.) eclipsed the 1,000-point mark for his career ... While it is not rare to have multiple players on the same team that "eventually" become 1,000-point scorers, having multiple players on the same team that have already eclipsed 1,000-points is rare ... And now, the Bucs have both Tiggs and senior guard Courntey Pigram (Memphis) that have reached that milestone ... The team is now only waiting for junior guard Mike Smith (Vandalia, Mo.) to also reach that career milestone, and he is just 17 points shy of the mark ... The only two times in ETSU history that the Bucs have had three or more 1,000 point scorers on the floor at the same time was in 1990-91 and 2003-04 ... In 1990-91, four 1,000-point scorers were on the floor together at the same time, Keith "Mister" Jennings, Calvin Talford, Major Geer and Alvin West were on the floor together ... The other season this occurred was in 2003-04, when Jerald Fields, Zakee Wadood and Tim Smith all reached 1,000 points.
ETSU the "only" A-Sun team picked among nation's best "Prestige" programs
JOHNSON CITY, Tenn. (July 22, 2008) - Since the beginning of the modern era for NCAA Division I-A basketball - marked by the expansion of the NCAA Tournament field to 64 teams in 1984-85 - the ETSU men's basketball program ranks in the Top 30 percent of the 300 programs that were eligible for the postseason at that time, this according to a new "Prestige" ranking released by ESPN.com ... The Buccaneers, who have enjoyed six NCAA Tournament trips, one NIT berth, seven 20-win seasons, and a slew of conference regular season and tournament championships since 1984-85, ranked tied for 82nd out of 300 teams, meaning they were in the Top 27 percent of schools making the list. ETSU was ranked ahead of every current Atlantic Sun Conference team, as well as former Southern Conference rivals Appalachian State, Western Carolina, Georgia Southern and UNC Greensboro. The Bucs also were placed ahead of every current member of the Colonial Athletic Association with the exception of Old Dominion ... In addition, the Bucs ranked ahead of SEC schools such as Tennessee, Vanderbilt, South Carolina, Mississippi State, Georgia, Mississippi and Auburn, as well as other major programs such as Virginia Tech, Notre Dame, DePaul, Bradley, Clemson, California and Florida State.
"Big Three" making their mark in A-Sun this year
Watching the ETSU men's basketball team this season has shown that there is power in the number three ... With seniors Kevin Tiggs (Flint, Mich.) and Courtney Pigram (Memphis), along with junior Mike Smith (Vandalia, Mo.), the Bucs put three of the best players in league play on the floor at the same time. Currently, Tiggs and Pigram and No. 1 and No. 3 in the league in scoring, while Smith ranks No. 9 on that list ... Meanwhile, at least one of the three rank in the Top 10 of at least seven other major statistical categories, such as field goal percentage, rebounding, 3-point field goal percentage, steals, assists, assist/turnover ratio, defensive rebounds and minutes played.
Pigram moves to No. 4 on the all-time scoring list
With his 27-point effort against Florida Gulf Coast (Feb. 7), ETSU senior guard Courtney Pigram (Memphis) moved to No. 4 on the all-time scoring list ... Pigram now stands at 1,914 points passed former ETSU great Calvin Talford (1988-1992), who collected 1,872 points in his career ... Here are the Top 5 scorers in ETSU history:
1. Tim Smith (2002-2006) 2,300 points
2. Greg Dennis (1987-1992) 2,204 points
3. Keith "Mister" Jennings (1987-1991) 1,988 points
4. Courtney Pigram (2005-2009) 1,914 points *
5. Calvin Talford (1988-92) 1,872 points
* at present time
Pigram, Tiggs impressive on offensive end in 2008-09
Seniors Courtney Pigram (Memphis) and Kevin Tiggs (Flint, Mich.) have enjoyed impressive offensive performances this season, and the two rank among the nation's best when it comes to offensive production ... As of Feb. 16, Tiggs leads the Atlantic Sun Conference and ranks 17th nationally with a 21.2 points per game average (as of Feb. 15), while Pigram ranks third in the A-Sun with 18.0 points a game (as of Feb. 2) ... Pigram is one of just four active players nationally with more than 1,500 points, 350 assists and 200 steals in their careers.
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Playing at Richie Knucklez in Flemington, N.J., Leutz had rolled up a reported 16.8 million points, about halfway short of the 33,273,520 set in 1983 by Canada's Rob Gerhardt. Leutz was looking strong to take down the record, getting a note of encouragement from Warren Davis, the designer and programmer of the arcade classic. "I'm in his corner all the way," Davis told Arcade Game Examiner. "Thanks, George, for keeping the spirit of Q*bert alive!"
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STERLING, ALICE JANE (Johnson), social reformer; b. 13 Dec. 1839 in Newport, N.S., daughter of John Sterling; m. before 1862 Richard Johnson*, presumably in Nova Scotia, and they had two daughters and two sons; d. 2 Feb. 1921 in Charlottetown.
Little is known of Alice Jane Sterling's life prior to her marriage. Her father, a native of England, had settled in the Windsor area of Nova Scotia, where he is purported to have been a man of some importance. No record remains of when or where Alice received her schooling, but, from an examination of her later involvement in various organizations, she seems to have been well educated. She likely met her future husband in 1860, when he became a Methodist minister in Windsor. Their first child was born in 1862. Richard Johnson had originally studied medicine at Harvard University; he returned to complete his degree in 1864 and graduated the following year. The family then relocated to Charlottetown, where Richard established a practice and a dispensary.
Like many women of her social class, Alice Johnson took an active interest in the welfare of her fellow citizens. She was a founder and first president of the Ladies' Hospital Aid Society, established shortly after the incorporation of the Prince Edward Island Hospital in 1884. The society collected voluntary subscriptions, the sole support for the hospital during its early years, made weekly visits to patients, and arranged lectures, concerts, musical evenings, and skating parties to raise funds for equipment and supplies. By 1897–98 Alice no longer held the presidency.
Although her involvement reflects her support for her husband's work – he was one of the hospital's incorporators and physicians – she also assumed an independent role in other bodies, particularly the Woman's Christian Temperance Union. The first Canadian WCTU had been established in Ontario in 1874 [see Letitia Creighton*] and unions had been formed in Saint John in 1877 and in Halifax about 1878. Prince Edward Island women, however, did not organize until 1890. At that time several locals formed and affiliated themselves with the Maritime WCTU. Alice was instrumental in the organization of locals in both Charlottetown and Summerside, but it was the Charlottetown union that occupied her attention. She was its founding president and continued in the position until at least 1895. Partly on account of her efforts and those of the WCTU, public opinion turned in favour of temperance. In 1900 the legislature passed the Prohibition Act and the Island thus became the first province to ban the sale of alcohol.
Alice's involvement at the regional level had begun when the Island locals joined the Maritime WCTU. At its annual conference in 1890 in Halifax, where she was a delegate for Charlottetown, she was elected vice-president for Prince Edward Island, and was appointed to the committee on resolutions, along with three other women, and as the Island's delegate to the dominion convention to be held in 1891 in Saint John. Re-elected vice-president that year at the Maritime convention in Summerside, she was made a delegate to attend the convention of the World's WCTU in Boston later in 1891. Within three years, in addition to serving as vice-president, she had become superintendent of the Maritime WCTU's department of purity in literature, art, and fashion and recording secretary of its literature committee. Her participation in the Maritime union came to an end in 1895 when a motion was passed at its annual convention to dissolve and allow the three provincial unions to function independently within the dominion union.
Sometime before 1889 Alice Johnson's son William Arthur Sterling had entered his father's drug business in the family home on Kent Street. He was joined in 1893 by his brother, Richard McKay, a graduate pharmacist. A year later Richard Johnson built a modern new house on Prince Street, and Alice lived there after his death in 1903. During the last two decades of her life, she evidently focused her energies on First Methodist Church, of which she was a member. She taught Sunday school from 1902 to 1920, was a vice-president of the Woman's Missionary Society for much of the period from 1901 to 1911, and was president of the Dorcas Society from 1901 to 1917, with breaks in 1908–11 and 1915. When her health began to fail, she assumed a less demanding role; in 1918 she became honorary president of the Dorcas Society. After a two-year illness, she died in the Prince Edward Island Hospital in February 1921 at age 81. She was survived by her son Arthur, then living in Alabama.
Throughout her life, Alice Johnson had demonstrated a moral outlook and commitment to charitable works that were typical of upper-middle-class Protestant women of the era. Until the time of her death, the Charlottetown Guardian noted, she "retained the keen interest of charity and Christian effort to which she had devoted the years of her youth and strength," and she was remembered as "an active worker for every cause that had for its aim the betterment of the community and of the world."
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Peregrine Financial's Ex-CEO Faces Jan. 31 Sentencing
Peregrine Financial Group's former chief executive, who pleaded guilty to embezzling more than $100 million from customers of his futures brokerage, will be sentenced on Jan. 31, according to court documents filed on Monday.
Russell Wasendorf Sr., 64, who founded the now-defunct firm,
faces a potential maximum sentence of 50 years in prison after pleading guilty in September to mail fraud, lying to regulators and embezzling customer money.
Wasendorf has been awaiting sentencing in a jail in Iowa, where Peregrine Financial was based. The Jan. 31 hearing is in U.S. District Court in Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
Wasendorf's life unraveled in July when he attempted to kill himself and confessed in a suicide note to bilking customers over nearly 20 years.
Peregrine Financial, known as PFGBest, quickly collapsed and thousands of former customers are still missing money.
Meanwhile, bills from lawyers and accountants working to help a court-appointed bankruptcy trustee figure out what remains at the failed brokerage are rolling in.
PricewaterhouseCoopers, one of the world's largest accounting firms, submitted a bill for $1.6 million for about 4,239 hours of work between July 22 and Oct. 31, according to a filing in Peregrine's bankruptcy case on Monday.
PwC continues to provide financial advisory services in the case, documents said.
On Friday, Shaw Fishman Glantz & Towbin, the law firm representing Trustee Ira Bodenstein, submitted a bill for $671,417 for 1,508 hours of work between July 10 and Oct. 31, according to court documents.
Copyright 2010 by Reuters. All rights reserved.


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In 1942, sixteen fresh B-25 aircraft and 80 eager crew members carried out one of the most daring missions of World War II: the Doolittle Raid. It was a massive effort including months of training, and the coordination of both the Army and Navy, all in complete secrecy against virtually impossible odds. The result of their commitment and triumph rewarded a nation with an incalculable level of inspiration.
The E-flite® UMX™ B-25 Mitchell is an ultra micro tribute to their heroic spirit in a model that can be flown just about anywhere. Its realistic outline boasts the muscular appearance of twin radial engines that turn three-blade propellers while critical details such as simulated gun positions and an authentic color scheme mark this model as a fitting tribute to the Doolittle Raiders. You can make your UMX B-25 even more special with the provided decals that allow you to replicate the markings of any Doolittle Raider. Proportional four-channel control includes the twin-rudders on the distinctive H-tail. The nose gear is steerable for outstanding ground handling. You can unplug all the wheels and simulate flight with the landing gear retracted. But no matter how you fly, innovative AS3X® technology makes this warbird perform as if you're at the controls of a giant scale machine that's been expertly tuned.
Advanced AS3X® Technology
The AS3X system built into the Spektrum™ 6-channel ultra micro receiver is what helps give the E-flite® UMX™ B-25 Mitchell an incredibly smooth feel in the air. By combining 3-axis sensing with exclusively tuned flight control software, the effects of wind and turbulence are countered so that your workload to fly smoothly is significantly reduced leaving you with natural feeling control that's precise.
Honor Your Favorite Raider
A decal sheet is provided that allows you to decorate your model so that it can replicate any of the sixteen B-25 aircraft used to carry out the Doolittle Raid.
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The UMX B-25 comes out of the box fully assembled with incredible detail such as scale guns, three-blade propellers and authentic colors.
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The B-25 is a fully-proportional RC airplane featuring standard controls that include operational dual rudders and a steerable nose wheel.
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You can unplug all the wheels and simulate flight with the landing gear retracted.
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Please note: Not compatible with 2S (7.4) Li-po batteries and modification may be needed for non-E-flite battteries.
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|Llewellyn's 2019 Daily Planetary Guide
|Yoga for the Creative Soul
|The Pure Heart of Yoga
Know thyself. That good advice goes back all the way to the days of Plato and Socrates, and the ancient Greek inscription at the Temple of Delphi. But sometimes, knowing yourself is a lot harder than it should be, especially if you are out of touch with what is going on at the subconscious level.
Even though our conscious, rational mind determines what choices we make in life, the hidden part of ourselves, our subconscious mind, is equally important. If these two halves of your mind are out of sync, you may find that everything becomes more difficult. Illnesses, accidents, anxieties, and fears are some ways the subconscious tries to get our attention. If your subconscious doesn't agree with what you'd like to do, making changes becomes nearly impossible.
Dowsing is the perfect tool to talk to the subconscious mind and find out what's going on beneath the surface. In many ways, it's like the old-timer walking a field with a forked stick, trying to find water. In this case, you will use a pendulum to explore the subconscious and try to strike those deep veins of truth that are flowing beneath.
A pendulum can be anything that can dangle in a balanced way on a chain or string. Hold your pendulum in your dominant hand and tell yourself, "Show me a yes." You are programming yourself to recognize a positive answer. My yes response is a clockwise circle, but yours may move counter clockwise or back and forth. Once you've established your yes, ask for a no. It may take some time to get your pendulum moving with just your thoughts, but you'll eventually find that it gets easier with practice. For more help in learning to dowse, see my book, Intuition in an Instant.
Once you become comfortable with dowsing, you will have a valuable tool to help you explore your hidden motivations, much like a therapist might in a counseling session. You will want to get in the habit of talking to your subconscious on a regular basis. To do so, take a few moments to center yourself. Close your eyes, and take a few deep breaths. Once you are in a relaxed state, hold your pendulum and ask if you can connect with your subconscious mind. Then ask yourself for the name of your subconscious. This will help you access your subconscious more easily. Once you have a name, use your pendulum to confirm that this is what your subconscious wants to be called. In general, you may find it best to talk to your subconscious as if you were talking to a child. Be gentle with yourself and offer thanks for all the hard work it has been doing on your behalf. Then be quiet and ask what it is feeling. Something might come to mind quickly, an emotion or a thought. If you are having problems with a particular project or goal, you might want to check in with your subconscious and use your dowsing skills to explore what's going on. Deep-rooted blocks, false assumptions, and self-limiting attitudes can be buried deep in the subconscious. First you have to identify these blocks, and then you can begin to release them with the help of your pendulum. For instance, if you determine that the phrase, "I don't deserve," is rooted in your subconscious, you can do a clearing to help erase that from your mind.
Get settled in your favorite dowsing place. Take a few moments to center yourself and take a few deep, complete breaths. Calling upon your higher self to assist you, say out loud or to yourself, "I ask my higher self to examine my subconscious mind and remove the blocks that are related to ______ (the negative statement). Fill the space that is created with love and whatever I need most at this time."
Dowse again to check and see if the block remains. If it does, you can talk with your subconscious and present reasons why that statement is false. Someone who deep down feels she doesn't deserve all the success she has experienced might say to her subconscious, "We do deserve all the good we have in our life. We have worked hard to achieve our goals. We are a good person and we always try our best." Then dowse to see if the subconscious is now ready for a clearing, and repeat the process.
Another way to use dowsing to interact with your subconscious is when you want to make a major change in your life. If you are calling on willpower to lose twenty pounds, or quit smoking, or tackle a big project, check to make sure your subconscious is in agreement. If your subconscious doesn't want the change to happen, most likely it won't. That is worth repeating: you will not be successful in reaching your goals unless your subconscious is open to the idea.
Anytime you call upon willpower to make some sort of change, you are using your logical, rational, conscious mind to set it in motion. You will spend a lot of time thinking about your goal, perhaps drawing up a detailed plan that you can put into action. You tell yourself, "I can do this. I will put these steps into action and I will succeed." But there are many times when that's not enough. Is it lack of willpower, or is it a tug of war between the conscious and subconscious mind?
As a dowser, you have a distinct advantage. You can get in touch with the underlying motivations and beliefs of your subconscious simply by asking questions and using your pendulum.
Start by asking, "Are there subconscious blocks to this goal I would like to achieve?" If you get a positive response, you can follow with other questions to understand what exactly it is, and then clear it. Call upon your higher self to assist you with removing whatever obstacles the subconscious has placed upon this goal.
Understanding what is going on inside the subconscious mind is a good place to start dowsing, because the process helps to remove obstacles—both to the goals we want achieve and to the intuition we want flowing in our lives. The clearer we are, the more accurate our dowsing will be. That journey starts by "knowing thyself."


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Describing Jewish homes in Jerusalem, one of the world's oldest cities, a city that all three religions in the region associate with Jews and Jewish history, as "settlements" is a triumph of distorted language that Orwell would have to tip his hat to. How does one have "settlements" in a city older than London or Washington D.C.? To understand that, you would have to ask London and Washington D.C. where the diplomats insist that one more round of Israeli compromises will bring peace.
They say that there are three religions in Jerusalem, but there are actually four. The fourth religion is the true Religion of Peace, the one that insists that there will be peace when the Jews have been expelled from Judea and Samaria, driven out of their homes in Jerusalem, and made into wanderers and beggars once again. Oddly enough, this religion's name isn't even Islam-- it's diplomacy.
Diplomacy says that the 1948 borders set by Arab countries invading Israel should be the final borders and that, when Israel reunified a sundered city in 1967, it was an act of aggression, while, when seven Arab armies invaded Israel in 1948, it was a legitimate way to set permanent boundaries. When Jordan ethnically cleansed East Jerusalem, it set a standard that Israelis are obligated to follow to this day by staying out of East Jerusalem. To violate that ethnic cleansing endangers peace.
Vice President Biden was so upset that the Jerusalem municipality had partially approved some buildings in the city during his visit that he threw a legendary hissy fit. Hillary Clinton stopped by MSNBC to tell Andrea Mitchell that, "It was insulting. And it was insulting not just to the Vice President who didn't deserve that." David Axelrod browsed through his thesaurus and emerged on the morning shows calling it an "affront" and an "insult." Two for the price of one.
Editorials in newspapers denounced the Israeli government for this grave insult to the Obama Administration."Israel's Provocation", the Chicago Tribune shrieked in bold type, describing it as a "diplomatic bomb" that went off in Biden's face. The Atlantic, eager to get in on the action metaphors, described Israel slapping Biden in the face. A horde of other columnists jumped in to depict the Israelis kicking and bashing the poor Vice-President, while holding his head in the toilet.
Whether Joe Biden was the victim of the Jews or the Jews were the victims of Joe Biden is all a matter of perspective. The Hitler Administration was quite upset to find that Jewish athletes would be competing in the 1936 Munich Olympics. When you ethnically cleanse people, they are supposed to stay ethnically cleansed. It's in poor taste for them to show up and win gold medals at the Olympics or rebuild their demolished synagogues. It's insulting to the ethnic cleansers and their accomplices.
That sounds like a harsh accusation, but it's completely and undeniably true.
The entire Peace Process is really a prolonged solution to the latest phase of the Jewish Problem. The problem, as stated by so many diplomats, is that there are Jews living in places that Muslims want. There were Jews living in Gaza before 1948, but they were driven out, they came back, and then they were driven out again by their own government in compliance with international demands. Now only Hamas lives in Gaza and it's as peaceful and pleasant without the Jews as Nazi Germany.
But there are still Jews in the West Bank and they have to be gotten rid of. Once enough Jews have been expelled, there will be peace. That's not a paragraph from Mein Kampf, it's not some lunatic sermon from Palestinian Authority television-- it is the consensus of the international community. This consensus states that the only reason there still isn't peace is because enough Jews haven't been expelled from their homes. The ethnic cleansing for peace hasn't gone far enough.
There will be peace when all the Jews are gone. That much is certainly undeniable. Just look at Gaza or Egypt or Iraq or Afghanistan, which has a grand total of two Jews, both of them in their seventies. Or Pakistan, Saudi Arabia and Syria where peace reigns now that the Jews are gone. Some might say that violence seems to increase proportionally with the number of Muslims, but we all know that would be a racist thing to say. On the other hand suggesting that violence increases with the number of Jews living on land that Muslims want, that's just diplomacy. A common sense fact that everyone who is anyone in foreign policy knows to be true.
How will we know when the Muslims have gotten all the land that they want? When the violence stops. Everyone knows that agreements mean nothing. No matter how many pieces of paper are signed, the bombs and rockets still keep bursting; real ones that kill people, not fake ones that upset Vice Presidents. The only way to reach an agreement is by groping blindly in the dark, handing over parcel after parcel of land, until the explosions stop or the Muslims fulfill their original goal of pushing the Jews into the sea.
That's the wonderful thing about diplomacy if you're a diplomat and the terrible thing about it if you are anyone else without a secure way out of the country when diplomacy fails. And diplomacy in the region always fails. Camp David and every single agreement Israel has signed with Muslim countries aren't worth the paper they're written on. The only peace treaty that counts is the one made by tanks and rifles. It's the one made by Israeli planes in Egyptian skies and Israeli soldiers walking the border. It's the one made by Jewish farmers and ranchers, tending their sheep and their fields, with rifles strung over their backs. The only peace that's worth anything is the peace of the soldiers and settlers.
In 1966, Jerusalem was a city sundered in two, divided by barbed wire and the bullets of Muslim snipers. Diplomacy did not reunite it. Israel pursued diplomacy nearly to its bitter end until it understood that it had no choice at all but to fight. Israel did not swoop into the fight, its leaders did their best to avoid the conflict, asking the international community to intervene and stop Egypt from going to war. Read back the headlines for the last five years on Israel and Iran, and you will get a sense of the courage and determination of the Israeli leaders of the day.
When Israel went to war, its leaders did not want to liberate Jerusalem, they wanted Jordan to stay out of the war. Even when Jordan entered the war, they did not want to liberate the city. Divine Providence and Muslim hostility forced them to liberate Jerusalem and forced them to keep it. Now some of them would like to give it back, another sacrifice to the bloody deity of diplomacy whose altar flows with blood and burnt sacrifices.
As we remember Yom Yerushalayim, Jerusalem Day, it is important to remember that the city is united and free because diplomacy failed. The greatest triumph of the modern state happened only because diplomacy proved hopeless and useless in deterring Muslim genocidal ambitions. Had Israel succumbed to international pressure and had Nasser been as subtle as Sadat, then the Six-Day War would have looked like the Yom Kippur War fought with 1948 borders-- and Israel very likely would not exist today.
As long as Jews allow themselves to be defined as the problem, there will be plenty of those offering solutions. And the solutions invariably involve doing something about the Jews. It only stands to reason that if Jews are the problem, then moving them or getting rid of them is the solution. There is less friction in defining Jews as the problem, than in defining Muslims as the problem. The numbers alone mean that is so.
Jerusalem Day is a reminder of what the real problem is and what the real solution is. Muslim occupation of Israel is the problem. The Islamization of Jerusalem is the problem. Muslim violence in support of the Muslim occupation of Israel and of everywhere else is the problem. Israel is the solution. Only when we liberate ourselves from the lies, when we stop believing that we are the problem and recognize that we are the solution. Only then will the liberation that began in 1967 be complete.
Only then will we have liberated our Jerusalem. The Jerusalem of the soul. It is incumbent on all of us to liberate that little Jerusalem within. The holy city that lives in all of us. To clean the dross off its golden gates, wash the filth from its stones and expel the invaders gnawing away at our hearts until we look proudly upon a shining city. Then to help others liberate their own Jerusalems. Only then will we truly be free.


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Denyse continues to explore linear themes in The Straight and Narrow, her second quilt collection at Ralph Pucci. Lines, stripes, direction and space converge and coalesce to create a meditative study in simplicity. Inspired by and utilizing vintage-inspired ticking stripe linens and cottons, Denyse juxtaposes the varying stripes against parchment and charcoal backgrounds. The (mis)aligning of the horizontal and vertical compositions unexpectedly directs the eye and mind. Fragments of memories – a glimpse inside a suitcase, a cottage bedroom at season's end – are evoked by these deceptively simple quilts. The quilts are machine-quilted, in a hand-rendered variation of the figure eight pattern Denyse uses exclusively for her Works Collection quilts.
The exhibition will be on view through May 2012 in the Penthouse Gallery. The show features furniture by Chris Lehrecke, photographs and art installation by Manuel Geerinck.


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Our last episode left off with Ash and Harrison facing each other in a quarterfinal match, down to the last round. Charizard and Blaziken have just been trying to out Flamethrow each other. Eventually, they blow so hard, that the whole field gets shaded by smoke, and when the smoke clears, they stand, glaring at each other! Charizard goes for another Flamethrower, but Blaziken easily avoids it by jumping. However, Charizard quickly turns towards Blaziken, and releases a Dragon Rage! However, Blaziken lands, avoiding it. Then, Blaziken goes for a Flamethrower, which Charizard easily avoids by flying in the air. Then, they get into another Flamethrower battle… and eventually Blaziken just stops, and quickly moves out of the way, using Quick Attack on Charizard, and Fire Punching him in the face! However, Charizard doesn't give up, as he uses another Flamethrower, which gives Blaziken a bit more damage. Then, as Blaziken goes for another Quick Attack… Charizard quickly grabs him by the back, lifts him up, and goes for a Seismic Toss! As Charizard drops Blaziken, he hits the ground hard, unable to get up. The ref gets ready to declare Charizard the winner…
…Never mind. Blaziken easily gets up! As Ash is surprised, Brock thinks a bit deeply, and points out that Blaziken used a Flamethrower just before he hit the ground, which somehow caused him to avoid the hit. Apparently he was just playing dead. However, Blaziken may be still up, but he's got lots of damage, and he's nearly out of breath. Charizard is also nearly out of breath himself… Anyways, Blaziken goes for another Quick Attack… but Charizard counters with Flamethrower, hitting Blaziken. Charizard then tries going for a Seismic toss again… but Blaziken jumps up, avoiding it… and "Blaze Kick"s Charizard right in the face! Apparently, this was a hard kick… and Charizard has trouble getting up. …Charizard finally gets up, and just as Blaziken attacks again with Flamethrower, Charizard lets out a Dragon Rage. There's a huge explosion between the two… and when the smoke clears, they seem to have both fainted!
…Or have they. Ash and Harrison yell desperately to get up, but they seem to have both fainted. This match is a— Wait! Charizard begins to stir… and Blaziken moves a muscle as well. After a load of struggling and suspense from the audience, they both manage to get up… and with all their might, they toast each other with the Flamethrowers of fate… and again, they both seem to have fainted— However, Blaziken and Charizard both manage to move a bit… but suddenly, Blaziken gets up on his feet. Charizard, however, seems to be out cold… no wait, he's moving…
Yes… Charizard is finally back up… …Collapsing again. This match goes to Blaziken. Everyone applauds, Harrison bows, and Ash… well, actually, he takes the whole thing calmly, shakes Harrison's hand, and congratulates him on winning . Misty and Pikachu are a little depressed, but they congratulate Ash on his good skills. Some of the other spectators applaud to that as well, and Ash bows.
So, Ash has finally finished the Johto league, and he decides to let Squirtle train a bit more with Jenny. Oak and Ash's mom say they'll be going home soon, Ash is surprised, but it seems that Mr. Mime was left to take care of the housework, and the herbs in the garden, and Oak also needs to get home to take care of the lab, which he'd left Tracey in charge of. Then, Ash asks Oak what he thinks of Charizard's condition. Apparently, it may have to stay in the local Pokemon center overnight, but it will be returning to Liza tomorrow. Ash thanks Oak, as him and Delia head back to Pallet Town.
Meanwhile, today is the day the "badges" Team Rocket sold are "supposed" to be in. A bunch of people come to the front of the building to pick it up… but apparently, the badges being sold are not the ones they ordered! Everyone starts to sigh and boo…^^;.
The next day, Harrison faces Toshiya from St. Cherry Town in the semifinals, and as Ash watches, he loses (Houndoom VS. Rhyhorn I think). However, Ash notices that Harrison didn';t use Blaziken the whole battle… but Brock, being smart, points out that from yesterday's battle, Blaziken needs to recover at the Pokemon Center. Later that night, Ash and co. happen to be walking by the nearby pond, and they notice Harrison relaxing there. Harrison seems to be worrying about Blaziken at the Pokemon center, and then he notices Ash and Misty. They comfort him a little, hoping that Blaziken is recovering well. Then, Harrison goes on to another subject, and asks Ash if he really knows Oak personally. Ash, surprised, answers and asks why. Harrison then explains that he heard lots of rumors about Oak from Professor Odamaki, that he's a famous Pokemon researcher, and that he also knows many battle strategies depending on the field, so he figured that was probably him. Harrison then finds out to his surprise that Ash has actually met Oak, been to his lab, taken his hand, and even got that Pikachu from him! Harrison then explains to Ash about how he left Mishiro Town to participate in the Johto league, and how Odamaki has explained to him that in different worlds they can meet different Pokemon, with a flashback showing Odamaki with 5 different new kinds of Pokémon. Then, Harrison explains how during his trip, he came across many different experiences, and states that meeting Ash was one of his important experiences. Then, Ash explains that he hasn't been to Houen yet, and Harrison immediately recommends that he go. He also says that he should meet Professor Odamaki, the one who gave Harrison his Blaziken. Also, it would be nice to meet lots of new Pokemon! Ash then raises his fist in triumph, ready to set out… but suddenly, they hear a woman scream! They jump, and decide to go after the scream.
A bit later, Ash and co follow the screams, and find a bunch of people screaming by a hotel. Ash asks whats wrong, and one of the women points to three transparent white ghostly objects floating about! Ash then takes out Noctowl, and has him use a Foresight to see what's causing this illusion. He does so, and it reveals a Misdreavus! Ash seems surprised, wondering what a Misdreavus would be doing there… but then, Gary approaches, also surprised to see the Misdreavus… and he can immediately tell that it's looking for something. Wondering what it's looking for, they all decide to follow it as it goes into the woods… Eventually, the Misdreavus leads him to a tree… which has another Misdreavus wedged under there, and stuck! They decide to try to help its friend. The push on the tree… harder… and harder… until, SNAP! The tree breaks, and Misdreavus is saved… or is it. It seems to be in a lot of pain! They all crowd around it… then, Gary puts his arms around the injured Misdreavus… and waits for a while… and then, Misdreavus opens his eyes, happy to see Gary saved him, and glad he's safe himself. Then, Misdreavus goes back with its friend, and they disappear into the forest.
Misty wonders what just happened, and why wild Misdreavus would come to the Silver Convention, but Gary then explains that the Misdreavus have a habitat at the foot of Mt. Silver! Ash complements Gary on his knowledge, and tells him of the wonderful things he saw on his journey, such as a Magikarp evolving into a Gyarados, and a Remoraid evolving into an Octillery… Gary agrees that this is one of the many wonders of Pokemon… and then, Gary mentions that he plans on giving training a rest, and planning to become a great Pokemon researcher! Ash wishes him best of luck, and Gary thanks him and congratulates him on making it far, as they shake hands again. Misty and Brock point out how interesting it was that they started out as enemies…
Later, during the Silver Convention final, just as the battle ends, it's Rapidash VS Rhyhorn (Rhyhorn belonging to Toshiya of St. Cherry Town), Rhyhorn wins, and Charles Goodshow, the chairman, awards Toshiya the Silver Convention trophy! He thanks him, and sets off. The Silver Convention is over now, and it's a silent moment at the arena…
…But meanwhile, Team Rocket are inside the building cooking up an evil plan with the money. Suddenly, from the window, Team Rocket notice a mob coming… and they're glad to see they have more "customers". However, then they realize they are their old customers, coming to collect their debt from the scam! James is worried that they're caught, and closes the shutter… but then, Jessie says "There's no such thing as 'no way out'!" as she pushes a button… Suddenly, their whole building turns into a ROBOT, which walks away, escaping…!
Meanwhile, Ash and co, Gary, and Harrison, are getting ready to part. Harrison says he's planning on battling in the Indigo league, Gary says he's gonna take the cut through Mt. Silver back to Pallet Town, and Ash is gonna take the path through Viridian City back to Pallet Town, together with Misty and Brock. Ash and Harrison shake hands, promising to meet again... when suddenly, Team Rocket's building-robot approaches, ready to take Pikachu! They shoot a missile, which separates Ash and Pikachu, as they grab him with one of the hands! Quickly, Gary takes out Blastoise, uses Hydro Pump, which sogs up the net, letting Pikachu escape! As Team Rocket are surprised, Harrison takes out Blaziken, and burns the robot! As it heats up, Ash has Pikachu use a Thunderbolt, blowing up the robot and sending them blasting off.
Afterwards, Ash, Harrison, and Gary exchange handshakes, wish each other luck on their goals, as Harrison sets off (Gary still has to go with them part of the way)! A bit later, when they get to the path where Ash and co. separate from Gary, they shake hands, and Ash wishes him luck on his Pokemon studies. Gary then wishes Ash luck on becoming a Pokemon master, and they wave to each other… until Gary disappears in the distance. Ash then sets off on his way back to Pallet Town.
Thanks to Spinazak for writing This for us
274: Johto Photo Finish
274: To the End of the Full Battle! Each One's Way!!
Professor Oak
Delia Ketchum
Ash loses his battle with Harrison
Ash sends Squirtle back to the Squirtle Squad
Ash sends Charizard back to the Valley
Harrison loses in the Semi-finals
Harrison tells Ash that he should go to Houen
Seedot makes it's first anime appearence
Lotad makes it's first anime appearence
Zigzagoon makes it's first anime appearence
Shroomish makes it's first anime appearence
Wailmer makes it's first anime appearence
Sharpedo makes it's first anime appearence
Ash, Harrison and Gary head their seperate ways
Harrison heads to the Indigo League
Gary heads back to Pallet Town
Ash, Misty and Brock head back to Pallet Town


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Google will start a public test of a new Gmail feature that will automatically label certain types of mass and automated e-mail so that users can more easily recognize and assign proper priority to them.
The idea is to make the Gmail inbox more organized and help users more quickly distinguish these types of messages from other more personal ones that are sent to them exclusively and that may be more important.
The feature is called Smart Labels and needs to be activated from the Labs tab on the Gmail Settings section of the account. When it's on, Smart Labels creates three labels called Bulk, Forums and Notifications, Google announced on Wednesday.
It then automatically applies the Bulk label to mass mailings users subscribe to, like newsletters, and also filters these e-mails out of the inbox. They can be called up by clicking on the Bulk label.
Likewise, messages from discussion forums to which users belong to get labeled Forums, while the Notifications label is applied to automated messages that are nonetheless sent only to the user, like account statements and receipts.
Users can also modify the configuration and filter settings of these pre-built labels. For example, they can adjust the Bulk settings if they don't want those messages automatically routed out of the inbox view.
Smart Labels is designed for automated messages that users have agreed to receive by signing up for them. From the beginning, Gmail has had a separate feature to detect and route out of the inbox spam e-mail.
Smart Labels is the latest attempt by Google to provide its Gmail users with automated features and tools to deal with e-mail overload, a problem that by all accounts is worsening across the board for e-mail users in general.
In August of last year, Google rolled out a feature called Priority Inbox which automatically sorts messages in the Gmail inbox so that the most important and pressing ones appear at the top.


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Tips from remote workersPosted: - Modified: | ibm, tips, work
I attended a networking event for IBM Other Than Traditional Office employees (OTTO, for short) – people who work from home, client sites, mobility centers, and other places. It was held in Second Life Enterprise to take advantage of the Center for Advanced Learning's speed-networking tools: a system for assigning conversational groups, sound-isolated tables so that you could talk without interfering with other tables, and a screen for information.
Here's what I learned from the eight people I got to talk to:
- It's not even the new normal, it's the old normal. Many people have been telecommuting for a long time (like 15 years!). I was talking to someone who'd worked on the Selectric typewriter. He said that when he first went remote, people were initially hesitant about whether he'd be available enough. Now it's generally accepted, and his manager has even told him that he's easier to contact than people who work in the office. Another person I talked to told me that she'd been encouraged to work from home after she was getting too many interruptions at work. I told them how people compare virtual conversations with watercooler chats and how my norm isn't the watercooler, it's online. We live in a pocket of the future – isn't that amazing?
- We're mobile almost by default. Most people I talked to worked from home because they were working with a global team, although some started as the only remote person for an otherwise co-located team. When your team is all over the world, there's no need to go in to a particular office.
- Invest in tools. People told me how their wireless keyboards and mice helped them minimize the tangle of cables on their desk. They told me about having a separate business line, with phones that had good features. I shared how much I liked having a headset for my phone – I use a wired headset with a wireless phone (Panasonic KX TGA740). We talked about having second monitors and big monitors, and I shared how useful I find a second laptop.
- Invest in practices. Lots of people told me about the need for discipline because working at home makes it easier for work to take over other parts of your life. One person suggested blocking off time for exercise on your calendar, a tip he picked up while shadowing an executive. Another told me about the schedule he keeps: an early start at 7 or 8 to get his main work in before the rest of his team interrupted him through instant messaging, with an early end to the day as well. Other people told me about early and late teleconference calls to accommodate different timezones, and how they made sure to set aside time during the day to take care of personal tasks.
- Diversity is awesome. One of the people I talked to casually mentioned that this was her second career, which she entered after her kids grew up. I was talking to another person about tools and practices for remote workers (headsets!), and he mentioned he'd gotten a wireless one that works really well, which helps because he's in a wheelchair. I talked to people who really appreciated the ability to flexibly manage their schedule around taking kids to school. IBM rocks.
- Thinking about the platform: A minor hack to make it easier to limit chats to an area: use channels to message a bot that repeats the message only to people within the same group? Also, I really like the system they've built for assigning people into groups that maximize the number of new people you meet. A straightforward improvement would be to build a teleporting tool that uses that information to send you directly to the table for your group, although it might take a little finagling to figure out which chairs haven't yet been occupied. You could then embed that script into a "kiosk"-type object in the main area as well as the individual timers in the discussion pods. When moving to a new group, then, people could click on the timer to be moved to the right position. (What if the previous round of people are still sitting in the pods?) Perhaps people can be teleported near the pod. The current system of standing up and walking to the right pod works fine, though, so this is really only if you've got a lot of avatars – which is unlikely given the load on each grid segment. So it would be cool to have these tweaks, but it's not necessary at this scale.
All the questions in the post-networking group chat were about the platform. I've been to a number of IBM events in SecondLife, and I think it can be a great way to connect. Looking forward to seeing other groups take advantage of this!
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text: Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks are getting bigger, but their duration are getting shorter, according to an analysis released this week by Arbor Networks.During the first six months of 2013, the average size of DDoS attacks remained solidly over the 2Gbps, Arbor reported -- something the company has never seen before.Although the average may have been skewed during the period by the massive attack on Spamhaus in March, which reached 300Gbps at its zenith, large attacks in general have been going up too, Arbor found. From January to June this year, it said attacks exceeding 20Gbps more than doubled over 2012.Several security experts agreed with Arbor's analysis. Michael Smith, CSIRT director for Akamai Technologies, cited two factors affecting DDoS numbers during the period. "It's just easier to do these days," he said in an interview. "You can rent a botnet for $20."He added that a hacktivist group known as the Izz ad-Dim al-Qassam Cyber Fighters (QCF) has adopted a strategy that is also driving up the raw number of attacks and depressing their duration. "They attack multiple targets during the course of a day," Smith explained.Not only do they attack multiple sites, but they don't prolong an attack if they don't see immediate results. "They'll move from target to target after 10 or 20 minutes until they find one they can cause an immediate impact on," Smith noted.Attacks are becoming bigger because hackers have more resources to mount attacks than ever before, said Marc Gaffan, founder of Incapsula. "There's more ammunition for hackers in the wild which is why attacks have grown in size," he said.New techniques have also contributed to the size of the attacks. For example, in the Spamhaus attack, hackers exploited openings in DNS servers to amplify the magnitude of their attacks on the website.\u00a0[Also see:\u00a0Spam levels plummet as industry takes aim at botnets]\u00a0They do that by sending a request to a server with an open DNS resolver. In the request, they spoof the address of their target so when the server answers the request, it sends its answer to the target."When the resolver sends back the answer, which is larger than the question, it's amplifying the attacker's request," Gaffan said."Sometimes the answer can be as much as 50 times larger than the request," he continued. "So an attack can be 50 times the original firepower used for the request."In addition to improving their techniques, hackers have also increased their efficiencies by shortening their attacks. They will hit a site long enough to bring it down, disappear into the ether, then return to take it down again just as it's recovering from the initial attack."When a website goes down, it takes time to bring it back up," Gaffan said. "There's no point continuing to fire at that target when it's down. You want to conserve your ammunition and fly under the radar, because the more you fire the greater the chances of someone identifying you as the source of the fire."The technique also allows the attackers to get better mileage from their resources. "They could hit multiple targets with a single piece of infrastructure as opposed to hitting one target for an hour," Gaffan said.Part of the reason attackers are sharpening their skills of deception is that defenders are getting better at blunting DDoS attacks. "The Internet as a whole is getting better at responding to these attacks," said Cisco Technical Leader for Threat Research, Craig Williams."We've seen DNS amplification shoot through the roof, but I suspect that's going to start dropping with the addition of RPZs that can mitigate queries and people getting better at closing down open resolvers," Williams told CSOonline.


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In an article written by Peter W. Crownfield, he has pointed out several reasons why chiropractic care and other Complementary and Alternative Medicine through a study conducted on 12,000 individuals aging from 17 and above. In the same study it was found out that individuals using chiropractic care together with other CAM treatments. The study found out that these users save $424 annually on medical costs and $796 on overall annual medical costs versus those who do not employ the same treatments. For the benefit of our readers below is the full article written by Peter W. Crownfield.
While health care conversations increasingly mention chiropractic care as a viable option for back and neck pain – and research increasingly supports its utility from a clinical standpoint – a recent nationwide study of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM)-related health care expenditures by 12,000-plus adults (ages 17 and older) with spinal conditions lends support to the suggestion that CAM in general, and chiropractic specifically, is also a cost-effective alternative to traditional medical care.
Although CAM users had "significantly better self-reported health, education and comorbidity compared with non-CAM users" – variables critics have relied on in previous studies to explain why CAM users have lower health care expenditures" – the current study revealed that even when controlling for these variables, CAM users had lower annual medical costs ($424 lower) for spine-related conditions and lower total health care costs ($796 lower) than non-CAM users.
According to Brooks, et al., whose findings appear in the December 2012 issue of Medical Care, these cost savings were "primarily due to lower inpatient expenditures among CAM users." However, after controlling for inpatient costs, CAM / chiropractic utilization did not increase spine-specific or overall medical costs above those by non-CAM / chiropractic users. Christine Goertz, DC, PhD, vice chancellor of research and health policy at the Palmer Center for Chiropractic Research and study co-investigator, further illuminated the importance of their findings:
"The extent to which CAM / chiropractic care may or may not increase costs within a health care delivery system is a hotly debated topic. Doctors of chiropractic argue that chiropractic is a substitution for more expensive medical care and thus results in cost savings. Others argue that it adds substantial cost to the system. The small collection of studies that exist to date generally support the argument that chiropractic, at a minimum, does not add cost.
"However, there are significant weaknesses associated with those studies. For example, many used claims data that was not intended for research purposes and others were restricted to a single delivery system that may not be widely generalizable. Perhaps most importantly is the concern of 'selection bias' (i.e., chiropractic patients tend to be younger, healthier, and have a higher socioeconomic status) setting the groundwork for a legitimate 'chicken or egg' debate. Are chiropractic patients healthier because they went to a DC, or do they go to a DC because they are healthier?
"The Brooks, et al., study is important because 1) it is the first study that evaluates data from a nationally representative sample of over 12,000 patients with spine-related conditions; 2) investigators were able to control for important socioeconomic and health-related variables; and 3) additional analysis were conducted using a sophisticated statistical technique called propensity scoring, which further addresses the selection bias issue. Thus, I would consider this paper to be the most definitive work to date on expenditures for patients who seek chiropractic care for back and next problems."
The study examined data from the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS), 2002-2008, relying on ICD-9-CM codes to identify patients with back and neck problems. Included were patients with codes for scoliosis, spondylolisthesis, stenosis, herniated disk (with or without myelopathy), degeneration and spinal strains / sprains. Excluded from consideration were patients with nondegenerative spinal pathologies including spinal fracture, vertebral dislocation, spinal-cord injury, inflammatory spondylopathy, myelopathy, osteoporosis, neurological impairment, osteomylitis or postoperative spinal care. Other exclusionary conditions / scenarios included cancer, trauma, fractures, drug abuse, HIV or immune deficiencies, or pregnancy. All inpatient, outpatient, emergency and prescription events relative to their condition were then identified.
Visits to chiropractic / CAM providers were determined by reviewing the MEPS, which "introduced a new variable to describe 16 types of medical providers" as of 2002. CAM users were patients who had made at least one visit to a doctor of chiropractic, massage therapist, homeopathic practitioner, acupuncturist or "other CAM provider." Non-CAM users were patients who had made at least one visit to a conventional medical practitioner during the same time period. Comprehensive expenditures by patient type (CAM user / non-CAM user) were calculated by reviewing all payment sources for each visit, including private insurance, Medicare / Medicaid, patient out-of-pocket costs and any other recorded payment sources. All cost-generating services performed during outpatient visits, inpatient hospital stays, and ER visits, as well as medication prescriptions, were included in the expenditure total. (OTC medications, services provided by free-standing radiology clinics, medical supplies / equipment, and dental services were not included.)
Of note, the study authors evaluated not only expenditure differences between CAM and non-CAM users, but also between CAM and non-CAM users of chiropractic care exclusively, "excluding those who used other types of CAM (whether it was in addition to chiropractic care or not), because chiropractic care constituted approximately 75% of all CAM use." Similar utilization and expenditure patterns emerged when patients who did / did not use chiropractic care were considered in isolation from use of other CAM types.
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Norilsk Nickel received first prize in the Global Ecology category for its «Integrated Project to Close the Nickel Plant in Norilsk». The competition was established by the v. I. Vernadsky Nongovernmental Ecological Foundation.More Topics Norilsk Nickel
Norilsk Nickel has won first place in terms of charity work among the Russian and foreign companies - participants of the project «Leaders in Corporate Philanthropy» set up by the Donors Forum. The company showed an absolute record - 7 billion rubles in 2015. This is a 2.5 fold increase in spending compared to 2014.More Topics Norilsk Nickel
This major UN initiative in the area of corporate social responsibility and sustainable development unites entities committed to responsible business and good industry practice worldwide.More Topics Norilsk Nickel
The Agency aims to transform the urban landscape and create a favorable investment climate, help create jobs and self-employment opportunities, and launch programs in support of small and mid-size businesses. The Agency has plans to develop tourism around natural and industrial sites in the region. It will help promote local brands and entrepreneurship by organizing training events, among others.More Topics Norilsk Nickel
On the 27th of June, 2016, the smelting and roasting shops of the Nickel Plant were stopped. Nickel Plant Closure Project is one of the step of large-scale environment-oriented program of Norilsk Nickel production facilities reconfiguration.More Topics Norilsk Nickel


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Forget the Mayans and their silly 2012 doomsday scenario. The real end of the world will happen because of that most venerable of operating systems: UNIX.
That's because next Friday, UNIX time will read 1234567890. Scary! And, it just so happens that this event will coincide with one of the more superstitious days on our calendar, Friday the 13th. Scarier!
Well-known UNIX and Linux personality John Maddog Hall plans on celebrating the event in style:
While our friends at Bell Labs (er, ah, Lucent....O.K. "Alcatel-Lucent") strive to understand this phenomenon, I will be doing my civic duty by drinking fine beer, and maybe an Islay scotch. This is hard to do while you are holding your breath, but I will suffer through. Who knows, perhaps the U.S. government will give us a "bailout" to study this issue.
To see when this takes place in your time zone, run this little Perl script, which I promise won't end the world before next Friday:
perl -e 'print scalar localtime(1234567890),"\n";'
Shit just got real, folks. Say good-bye to loved ones. Make sure you start with your Windows machines, because UNIX is probably going to take them out first. Part of an agreement with Linux and Linus Torvalds, I've heard. [Linux Pro Magazine via Slashdot]


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GARCIA, XAVIER: Radiorama
A highly coherent radio piece that uses as source material 50 years of French radio archive recordings, here subjected to re-arrangement, layering, the virtual scissors, electronic and concrete music procedures, and the addition of performed Voice (Lucia Recio) and Electric Guitar (Alexandre Mayer). What is especially interesting is Garcia's willingness to use all possible types of musical thinking - all the way to a rock aesthetic, alongside more expected techniques. This is a fresh, focussed, complex, measured, economical and constantly surprising CD.
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The world's oceans and seas have already absorbed an enormous amount of excess heat in our climate system, according to a new UN report. And the risks of dire consequences for marine and coastal life will get significantly worse if carbon emissions don't change. William Brangham learns more from study co-author Michael Oppenheimer of Princeton University.
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Manathakkali keerai thanni saru
Manathakkali Keerai – has lot of vitamins in it. It is good for mouth & stomach ulcers.
Medium sized bunch of manatha thakkali keerai
10 small onions chopped
1 tomato chopped
2 green chillies
1/2 tsp cumin seeds
1 tsp oil
2 tbsp grated coconut
1/2 tsp fenugreek seeds
Wash the keerai and drain the water.Grind the grated coconut with fenugreek seeds in mixie into a fine paste by adding enough water.Heat the oil in a kadai,add the cumin seeds.Once it cracks, add the small onion ,tomato and green chilli,fry them for a while.Add the keerai ,salt,coconut paste,a cup of water at this stage and cook it for 5 mins.Once the keerai cooked very soft,transfer it into a serving bowl.The saru is almost watery like rasam,but very tasty.We can have it with hot rice.


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Commerce City, CO – The Philadelphia Union will be seeking their first win of 2013 when the club battles the Colorado Rapids on Saturday at Dick's Sporting Goods Park.
The Union got off to a flying start in their season-opener against Sporting Kansas City after Sebastien Le Toux scored in the 17th minute to give the Union the lead.
But it was a tale of two halves as Sporting equalized late in the first half and then scored a pair of goals in the second 45 minutes to claim a 3-1 victory at PPL Park.
After the loss, Philadelphia head coach John Hackworth was less than pleased with the outcome.
"I can't think of any way to feel good about anything that just happened," Hackworth said. "I am glad Sebastien is here I am glad he scored a goal in his first game back, but this is a team sport and from our perspective it's unacceptable to play at PPL Park and lose the way we did."
Philadelphia forward Conor Casey will have the opportunity to play against his former club for the first time. Casey spent six seasons in Colorado, where he led the Rapids to the 2010 MLS Cup title.
Casey had his contract declined by Colorado after last season and was selected by the Union in the second stage of the MLS re-entry draft.
The Union will also be looking for their first win against Colorado in franchise history.
Since joining MLS in 2010, Philadelphia is 0-3-2 in five meetings with Colorado. Last time the clubs met on March 18, 2012, Jaime Castrillon and Tony Cascio scored second-half goals to give the Rapids a 2-1 victory.
The Rapids will also be on the hunt for their first win of the season after suffering a 1-0 loss to FC Dallas last week.
Colorado had the better of the play for much of the match, but goalkeeper Steward Ceus's error allowed Jackson to tap home the only goal of the contest.
"I thought we were the best team on the field from the first minute to 90 full minutes. But we made a mistake and we paid for it," Rapids head coach Oscar Pareja said.
Rapids forward Danny Mwanga, who arrived in a trade from Portland last week, could start against Philadelphia -- the club that drafted him first overall in 2010.
"It's going to be huge," Mwanga said of facing Philadelphia. "I was part of that team and I know some of the guys on that team, so it can be an advantage. But at the same time they can try to make it hard for me. I'm ready for it. Once they come here I'll be looking forward to stepping in and hopefully I'll be on the side winning the game."
Forward Edson Buddle will miss his second straight game for Colorado with knee troubles, while Martin Rivero and Castrillon will also miss the contest.
Weather could also be a factor on Saturday as significant snowfall is expected in Commerce City.