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AbbVie drug in regimen against difficult type of breast cancer shows promise
AbbVie drug in regmin against difficult type of breast cancer shows promise
Triple-negative breast cancer patients who received treatment containing an experimental AbbVie drug prior to surgery may have a significantly better response, compared to those who get a standard chemotherapy regimen, according to data from a clinical trial.
Patients with so-called triple negative breast cancer, who tend to be younger and have a very poor prognosis, appeared to have double the response rate to the regimen containing AbbVie's veliparib in a new type of study that exploits advances in molecular understanding of the disease, researchers found.
The trial dubbed I-SPY 2 is another step toward developing more personalized treatments. Its design allows researchers to continuously monitor how patients respond as the trial progresses and move patients into arms of the study testing drugs from which they are more likely to gain benefit.
This type of trial should help companies select the right group of patients to enroll into larger, more traditional late stage clinical trials, potentially cutting the cost of bringing new medicines to market.
Drugmakers are under increasing pressure to cut the cost of new medicines that put a huge burden on healthcare systems. One way to do that would be through more efficient, alternative testing methods that lead to fewer trial failures.
"It's a very nimble trial design that allows you to enroll a fairly small number of patients and come to a fairly high certainty of success (in later larger trials) in a specific subset of patients," explained Dr. Hope Rugo, who presented the data at the San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium on Friday.
If a drug combination starts to look like it is working better on patients with one type of breast cancer, the trial design allows for more patients with that type of cancer to move into that arm of the study, said Rugo, director of breast oncology and clinical trials education at the UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center in San Francisco.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration, which signed off on the trial design, has said that if a study drug helps cure significantly more cancers, it could be given a provisional type of accelerated approval.
"If we can get a better idea of who benefits early, it's going to be an enormous change in the way we test new agents, and not just for breast cancer but for other malignancies as well," Rugo said.
"You could avoid doing a 3,500 patient trial in a group of patients who you thought might benefit but don't," she said. "We'll be able to get the drugs to the patients who need them much more quickly and at reduced cost."
The I-SPY program is testing a variety of experimental medicines from several drugmakers in the neoadjuvant, or pre-surgery, setting in high-risk patients. Rugo was presenting the portion of the trial that involved the AbbVie drug.
In that arm of the study involving 71 high risk patients, the researchers were testing to see whether the treatment, given before surgery, could eliminate any evidence of invasive cancer in breast tissue and lymph nodes removed during subsequent surgery - a measurement known as pathologic complete response (PCR).
They found an estimated PCR in 52 percent of women who were treated with AbbVie's veliparib plus the chemotherapies carboplatin and paclitaxel. That compared with a 26 percent PCR rate in those who just got standard paclitaxel. Both groups also received anthracycline-based chemotherapy prior to surgery.
"If we can increase the number of patients who have no invasive cancer, we expect that this will translate into better survival," Rugo said.
Most breast cancer tumors are estrogen-receptor positive, fueled by the hormone estrogen. About 20 percent are HER2-positive, meaning a protein called HER2 is prevalent. A third type is driven by the hormone progesterone. All of these have potentially effective treatment options even after recurrence.
Triple-negative tumors - about 15 percent of breast cancers - lack estrogen, progesterone or HER2 receptors needed for most drugs to work. If the tumor does not respond to chemotherapy, there are currently no alternatives and the typical survival rate after recurrence is less than two years.
More women treated with veliparib and carboplatin dropped out of the study due to side effects, whereas discontinuations in the control arm were primarily due to disease progression.
Rugo said she looked forward to further study of the AbbVie drug, noting that the trial design did not separate which effects were due to veliparib and which to carboplatin.
However, she said, the doubling of response rates was "very encouraging to us and suggests that veliparib is playing an important role in the enhanced response that we're seeing."
Source: Reuters: http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/12/13/us-abbvie-breastcancer-idUSBRE9BC0HG20131213


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Messrs. Harvey D. Goulder and Frank S. Masten for appellants.[ Richardson v. Harmon 222 U.S. 96 (1911) ]
[222 U.S. 96, 98] Messrs. George L. Canfield and Frank H. Canfield for appellee.
Mr. Justice Lurton delivered the opinion of the court:
The steam barge 'Crete,' while proceeding up the Maumee river from Lake Erie, collided with the abutment [222 U.S. 96, 100] of a railway drawbridge, resulting in great damage to both barge and bridge. For the damage sustained by the bridge an action was brought against two of the owners of the barge in a common-law court of the state at Toledo, Ohio. Thereupon the owners of the barge, three in number, filed their petition and libel in the district court of the United States at Cleveland, Ohio, where two of them resided and where the 'Crete' was lying, for a limitation of liability under 4283-4285, Revised Statutes (U. S. Comp. Stat. 1901, pp. 2943, 2944), and 18 of the act of June 26, 1884 [ 23 Stat. at L. 57, chap. 121, U. S. Comp. Stat. 1901, p. 2945].
This petition duly averred that the said collision was without fault upon the part of the 'Crete;' but, if there was any, it was without the privity or knowledge of the owners, or either of them. It stated that the damages claimed in the pending action at law were $35,000, and that they apprehended other actions of like kind, and if liable as claimed, the aggregate would greatly exceed the value of the interests of the owners in the vessel and her freight. Therefore, the petition sought the benefit of the limited-liability act of Congress and the right to defend against any liability, as provided by general law and admiralty rule 56 of the Supreme Court.
Under this petition an appraisement was made of the value of the 'Crete' on the termination of her voyage, and the value of each separate one-third interest of each owner in the vessel and her pending freight was appraised at $4,171.50, for which value bond was made to stand in the room and place of the boat and her freight. Monition issued in usual form, requiring everyone claiming any loss or damage 'by reason of the premises,' to appear and make proof of their respective claims.
The appellees were also enjoined from proceeding with the action pending in the said common-law court, and they, together with all the world, were admonished to bring no other or further actions, and to file their claims against the 'Crete,' or her owners, in the court below, that they [222 U.S. 96, 101] might share in the distribution of the appraised value of the said vessel and her pending freight.
The appellee, Judson Harmon, as receiver of the Toledo Terminal & Railway Company, owner of the bridge damaged by the collision mentioned, appeared and excepted to the jurisdiction of the court. This exception was sustained and the injunction dissolved, the court holding that the cause of action asserted in the common-law court of Ohio by said receiver against the owners of the colliding barge was for a nonmaritime tort, not cognizable in a court of admiralty, and that the limited-liability act of Congress did not extend to any such right of action.
Prior to the 18th section of the act of June 26, 1884 (23 Stat. at L. pp. 53, 57, chap. 121, U. S. Comp. Stat. 1901, pp. 2804, 2945), it had been the settled law that the district court, sitting as a court of admiralty, had no jurisdiction to try an action for damages against a shipowner, arising from a fire on land, communicated by the ship, or from a collision between the ship and a structure on land, such as a bridge or pier. The tort in both cases would have been a nonmaritime tort, and, as such, not within the cognizance of an admiralty court. The Plymouth (Hough v. Western Transp. Co.) 3 Wall. 20, 18 L. ed. 125; The Troy (Duluth & S. Bridge Co. v. The Troy) 208 U.S. 321 , 52 L. ed. 512, 28 Sup. Ct. Rep. 416.
Inasmuch as the owner's liability was not limited by the statutes providing for a limited liability, the pendency of a petition to obtain the benefits of the limitation did not operate to draw into such a proceeding action for a liability which could in no wise be affected by it. Ex parte Phenix Ins. Co. 118 U.S. 610 , 30 L. ed. 274, 7 Sup. Ct. Rep. 25. Such was the law, and so it still is unless changed by the 18th section of the act of June 26, 1884. That section is found in a chapter, the title of which is, 'An Act to Remove Certain Burdens on the American Merchant Marine, and Encourage the American Foreign Carrying Trade, and for Other Purposes.' The 18th section reads as follows:
That the provision is not as definite as desirable may be conceded. The contention, upon the one hand, is that the limitation is extended only to obligations ex contractu; while, upon the other, that every kind of liability which might fall upon an owner on account of the ship, incurred without his knowledge or privity, is given the benefit of the provision. That it was intended to limit the owner's liability in respect of debts contracted on account of the ship is plain. But if that was the only purpose, why add the significant words, 'and liabilities?' The limited- liability act, as it stood, did not include the owner's individual liability for obligations ex contractu incurred without his knowledge or privity. Neither did it extend to his individual liability for nonmaritime torts by the master or crew. Was it the purpose of Congress to exclude this kind of an individual responsibility from the benefits of the limited- liability statute, while including every other class and kind of individual liability, except seamen's wages? Is no significance to be attached to the fact that the provision does not stop by adding to the former kind of claims against an owner 'any and all debts,' but terminates the clause by inserting, 'and liabilities,'-a perfectly unnecessary statement, if it was only meant to extend the limitation to obligations ex contractu? The meager debate which occurred upon this section of the act,- an act which included many other matters concerning the shipping interests of the country,-if competent [222 U.S. 96, 103] at all, throws little or no light as to the meaning which was supposed to be attached to liabilities, as distinguished from claims arising out of contract. There does appear, however, a broad general purpose to put a shipowner in the status of one whose risk on account of obligations arising from the conduct of the master and crew is confined to his proportionate interest in the ship and her freight. No purpose to repeal or qualify any of the terms of the existing liability law is declared, nor is this section declared, in words, to be an amendment of that law. But neither fact is of any marked importance. If the necessary effect be to repeal any part of the former law because of repugnance, that consequence must be declared. So, too, if it be in effect an amendment of the law as it stood, by extending that law to cases not before within it, that effect must be given to it, without any unnecessary disturbance of the qualifications or procedure under the former law.
The legislation is in pari materia with the act of 1851 [9 Stat. at L. 635, chap. 43, 3], as carried into the Revised Statutes as 4283 et seq. (U. S. Comp. Stat. 1901, p. 2943), and must be read in connection with that law; and so read, should be given such an effect not incongruous with that law, so far as consistent with the terms of the later legislation. The former law embraced liabilities for maritime torts, but excluded both debts and liabilities for nonmaritime torts. The section under consideration includes debts, save wages of seamen and liabilities of an owner incurred prior to the passage of the law. The avowed purpose of the original act was to encourage American investments in ships. This was accomplished by confining the owner's individual liability, when not the result of his own fault, in the instances enumerated, to his share in the ship. The same public policy is declared to be the motive of the act of which this section is a part. True, a liability may arise out of a contract as well as from a tort. But a liability ex contractu is included ex vi termini, and the addition of the words 'and liabilities' [222 U.S. 96, 104] would be tautology unless meant to embrace liabilities not arising from 'debts.'
In view of the manifest policy of Congress to further encourage the shipowning industry, and the very broad terms employed in this last legislation, we can but infer that the policy of the government was to confine the risk of an owner not personally at fault to his interest in the ship. To say that Congress meant no more by extending the limitation to any and all debts and liabilities than to include obligations arising ex contractu would be to utterly ignore the fact that such a construction would leave an owner subject to a large class of obligations arising from nonmaritime torts, and leave nothing to which the words, 'any and all . . . liabilities' could apply. In Butler v. Boston & S. S. S. Co. 130 U.S. 527, 549 , 553 S., 32 L. ed. 1017, 1022, 1023, 9 Sup. Ct. Rep. 612, the words 'the liability of the owner . . . shall in no case exceed,' etc., were construed as extending to any liability 'for any act, matter, or loss, damage or forfeiture, done or incurred;' and as therefore providing that the 'owner shall not be liable beyond his interest in the ship and freight for the acts of the master or crew, done without his privity or knowledge.' Upon this interpretation of 4283, it was held that liabilities of the owner for injuries to persons were included in the limitation, as well as injuries to goods. Referring to the 18th section of the act of 1884, which did not apply in that case, because the injury occurred before its passage, the court said it 'seems to have been intended as explanatory of the intent of Congress in this class of legislation. It declares that the individual liability of a shipowner shall be limited to the proportion of any or all debts and liabilities that his individual share of the vessel bears to the whole; and the aggregate liabilities of all the owners of a vessel on account of the same shall not exceed the value of such vessel and freight pending. The language is somewhat vague, it is true; but it is possible that it was [222 U.S. 96, 105] intended to remove all doubts of the application of the limited-liability law to all cases of loss and injury caused without the privity or knowledge of the owner. But it is unnecessary to decide this point in the present case. The pendency of the proceedings in the limited-liability cause was a sufficient answer to the libel of the appellants.'
Touching the wide purpose of Congress, as indicated by the various provisions limiting the shipowner's liability, the court, in the same case, said:
Neither is it necessary to conclude that the section in question is a repealing act as to any of the qualifications of the preceding limitations found in 4283 et seq., of the Revised Statutes. To so hold would be to attribute to Congress a wider purpose than we have any reason to suppose,- that of extending the benefits of 4283 et seq., regardless of the owner's knowledge or privity.
That would be to throw the section out of correspondence with the existing limitations.
We therefore conclude that the section in question was intended to add to the enumerated claims of the old law 'any and all debts and liabilities' not therefore included. This is the interpretation suggested in Butler v. Boston & S. S. S. Co. supra. That the section operates as such an amendment of the existing law, and not as a repeal of [222 U.S. 96, 106] the qualifications found in that law, is the view adopted by three circuit courts of appeal, in the cases of The Republic, 9 C. C. A. 386, 20 U. S. App. 561, 61 Fed. 109, in the second circuit, The Annie Faxon, 21 C. C. A. 366, 44 U. S. App. 591, 75 Fed. 312, in the ninth circuit, and in Great Lakes Towing Co. v. Mill Transp. Co. 22 L.R.A.(N.S.) 769, 83 C. C. A. 607, 155 Fed. 11, in the sixth circuit, as well as by a number of district courts, among them being the case of The Amos D. Carver, 35 Fed. 665, and Re Meyer, 74 Fed. 881.
Thus construed, the section harmonizes with the policy of limiting the owner's risk to his interest in the ship in respect of all claims arising out of the conduct of the master and crew, whether the liability be strictly maritime or from a tort non-maritime but leaves him liable for his own fault, neglect, and contracts.
If thus the owner's liability for a tort permitted or incurred through the master or crew, although nonmaritime, because due to a collision between the ship and a structure upon land, be one in respect to which his liability is limited, and he applies for the benefit of such limitation to the proper district court of the United States, 'all proceedings,' by the express terms of 4285, Revised Statutes, 'against the owner, shall cease.' The procedure in any such case is prescribed by the 54th and 55th rules in admiralty, where it is said that the court shall, 'on application of the said owner or owners, make an order to restrain the further prosecution of all and any suit or suits against said owner or owners in respect of any such claim or claims.' Providence & N. Y. S. S. Co. v. Hill Mfg. Co. 109 U.S. 578 , 27 L. ed. 1038, 3 Sup. Ct. Rep. 379, 617; Butler v. Boston & S. S. S. Co. 130 U.S. 527, 549 , 32 S. L. ed. 1017, 1022, 9 Sup. Ct. Rep. 612.
The case of Ex parte Phenix Ins. Co. 118 U.S. 610 , 30 L. ed. 274, 7 Sup. Ct. Rep. 25, which was a petition for the benefits of the limited- liability act and to stay suits at common law against the owner for liability by fire carried to buildings on land, communicated from the ship, has been cited as holding that the limited-liability statute did not apply to such a claim, and that a [222 U.S. 96, 107] court of admiralty could not draw to itself jurisdiction over any such claim. But that liability was incurred on September 20, 1880, a date antecedent to the act of 1884, which act expressly excluded liabilities which arose before its passage. That the decision by this court was not made until November, 1886, and that the opinion makes no reference to the act of 1884, is of no importance, since the act had no application.
The decree is reversed, and remanded for further proceedings in accordance with this opinion.
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Generally you do need to use the same compiler to build CPAN modules as was used to build Perl.
Upto version 6 of MSVC++ you can probably get away with using different versions: linking against msvcrt.lib always produced binaries depending on msvcrt.dll, which ships with the OS.
However, from version 7 onwards (and the free toolkit is version 7) linking against msvcrt.lib now produces binaries depending on msvcr71.dll (or whatever the latest version is).
ActivePerl is built using MSVC6, so if you build a module using the free tollkit then perl.exe will load msvcrt.dll and the module's DLL will load msvcr71.dll. If any CRT resources (e.g. file descriptors) are passed between the two then you'll have problems.
I recently discovered this with one of my CPAN modules (Win32-UTCFileTime-1.32). I was able to fix it (in 1.33) by falling back to an OS-level filehandle if the passing of the CRT file descriptor failed. However, another of my modules (Win32-SharedFileOpen) definitely does not work with ActivePerl if built using the free toolkit -- it does much more passing around of CRT resources and can't be fixed as easily. The solution is either to build it with MSVC6, or rebuild Perl using the same compiler as is being used to build the module.
Microsoft have a brief note about the perils of loading two different CRT DLL's at this URL (at the time of writing!): http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/vclib/html/_crt_c_run.2d.time_libraries.asp
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Baseboard Heating 101
Requiring no ductwork, baseboard heating can be an easy-to-install and affordable solution for many homeowners. Is it right for you? Find out more here.
Baseboard heating can be an effective and affordable solution, either for the whole house or as a supplement in rooms underserved by the main heating system.
Types of Baseboard Heating Systems
Electric Baseboard Heating
Technically speaking, electricity plays a role in all baseboard heating systems, but there are some that run exclusively on electricity. You can put these in every room of the house if you want, but it's far more customary for an electric baseboard to provide supplemental heat for individual rooms on an as-needed basis. One common usage is for baseboard heat to run in a bedroom overnight, while the whole-house heating system can be put on a budget-friendly low setting.
Did you ever wonder why baseboard units typically appear beneath windows? In a word, the answer is: science. Baseboard heating works through convection. As cold air falls from the window, it enters the baseboard unit through a vent. Within the baseboard, the air is warmed by a series of metal fins that have been heated through electricity. The warm air then rises from the baseboard, and the pattern repeats itself, creating a circular flow known as a convection current.
Plug-in portable baseboard heaters exist, but the best baseboards are hardwired into the circuity of a home (with 120-volt or 240-volt supplies, either of which calls for the installation services of an electrician). Some electric baseboard heating units feature an integrated thermostat; others are set by an in-wall controller.
Though inexpensive to purchase, electric baseboards are somewhat infamously inefficient, meaning they can be costly to run for any prolonged period of time. It's for this reason more than any other that homeowners typically choose not to rely on electric baseboard heating units as full-time solutions for the whole house.
Hydronic Baseboard Heating
In a hydronic baseboard unit, the mechanics are similar but slightly different. Electricity still generates the system's heat, but it does so indirectly. First, the electrical current warms up an enclosed fluid, either oil or water, and then that fluid radiates heat into the room where the unit has been installed.
Hydronic baseboard heating systems operate more efficiently than do electric units, because once the fluid has been warmed, it takes longer to cool down (the metal fins in an electrical baseboard, by comparison, cool down very quickly). That's why if you come across a home in which baseboard heating is the one and only system of delivering heat, chances are high that it's a cheaper-to-run hydronic system.
What are the cons? In a whole-house hydronic system reliant on water circulated from the water heater, the lines can be disturbed by an intrusion of air. Fortunately, there's an easy fix: bleeding the pipes. Another drawback is that compared with electric baseboards, hydronic units take longer to heat up. For many homeowners, however, the efficiency of hydronic baseboards amply makes up for their slow start.
Baseboard Heating vs. Forced-Air Heating
Baseboard heating offers several advantages over the average forced-air system. For one thing, baseboards operate almost silently, in contrast to the noisy blowers of forced-air heating. Another advantage of baseboard heating is that it requires no ductwork. That means two things: One, it's relatively easy to install, particularly in older homes, where adding ducts can be so problematic. Two, whereas forced-air heating ducts should be serviced regularly, there's little ongoing maintenance to do with baseboard heating. Last but not least is a matter of preference: Many homeowners like how baseboard heat comes out evenly, not in intermittent blasts.
The bottom line is if you only need to heat your house for a fraction of the calendar year, or if on occasion you want to make one or two rooms more comfortable, electric or hydronic baseboard heat may be the solution you've been seeking.


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This flavorful dish is a meal-in-one; any leftovers are great in a whole wheat pita.
2 cups whole wheat couscous
4 cups boiling water
1 large onion, cut in half and sliced thin
2 cloves of garlic, minced
2 tablespoons water, wine, or sherry
1 16 oz. can of tomatoes, chopped coarsely with liquid included
3 large carrots, cut in 1/2 inch lengths
2 large stalks celery, cut into 1-inch lengths
1 medium turnip, cut into 1/2 inch cubes
1/2 teaspoon cinammon
1/2 teaspoon fennel seeds (optional)
1 teaspoon ground cumin
1/4 teaspoon turmeric
1 teaspoon paprika
2 teaspoons dark corn syrup
1/8 teaspoon cayenne or to taste
1/2 pound zucchini, cut into 1/2 inch slices
1/2 cup sweet red pepper chopped
1/4 cup raisins
1/4 cup chopped dried apricots
1 can chickpeas, rinsed and drained
1/4 cup chopped fresh mint or parsley
In a large bowl, put 2 cups of whole wheat couscous, pour 4 cups boiling water over it and let sit at least 15 minutes. Fluff with a fork and keep warm.
Saute onion and garlic in water, wine, or sherry until limp. Add tomatoes and their liquid, carrots, celery, turnip, spices, and corn syrup. Bring to a boil, reduce the heat and simmer for about 20 minutes. Then add zucchini, red pepper, raisins, apricots, and chickpeas. Simmer for an additional 15 minutes. Place couscous in individual soup bowls and top with the vegetable stew. Garnish with chopped mint or parsley. Serves 6 to 8.
Per serving: 294 calories; 36 grams protein; .65 grams fat; 238 grams carbohydrate; 175 milligrams sodium; 2 percent calories from fat.


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6:00 am EDT is not suitable to schedule meetings
When planning a call between Eastern Daylight Time and Pacific Standard Time, you need to consider time difference between these time zones. EDT is 4 hours ahead of PST.
It is currently 6:00 am in EDT, which is not a suitable time to arrange a call or meeting with someone in PST, since it is 2:00 am there, which not within the optimal time span between 7:00 am and 11:00 pm.
You could, however, schedule a call between 11:00 am and 3:00 am your time. This time span will be between 7:00 am and 11:00 pm in PST.


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Monday, January 10, 2011
Disney isn't the only one
Now the United States Postal Service is also eliminating cigarettes from historical artifacts.
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5 comments:
- Jonathan said...
Nor is it just the U.S.
Tati loses his pipe in advertising row.
- January 10, 2011 11:19 PM
- Floyd Norman said...
They'll soon be removing drinks from the hands of adults, and all bars in movies will become soda fountains.
I know it's well intended, but society is getting sillier and sillier.
- January 11, 2011 11:40 AM
- Hans Perk said...
Next thing, men and women will become generic "persons..." You know it can be done in CG...
- January 12, 2011 3:25 PM
- Tim said...
Sad thing is, that's one of the only two known photographs of Robert Johnson. He's not smoking in the other, why didn't they use that one?
- January 14, 2011 1:29 PM
- Eric Noble said...
The world is losing its collective mind. Smoking is a part of American history, in fact world history. Why block it out when we can learn from it.
- January 20, 2011 8:30 PM
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Title: The Fawn
Author: Susan Griscom
Genre: New Adult
Publisher: Amber Glow Books
Release date: Winter/Spring 2014
Note: Contains strong language and violence.
After a not-so-wonderful young adulthood—shuffled from one foster home to another—Lena Benton had hoped marriage would be her ticket to happiness. Wedded a year after high school graduation, Lena was certain she'd found her knight. But when Troy Harington's true colors surface shortly after their glorious day of elopement, things aren't quite as rosy as Lena had envisioned. When an unforeseen event turns ugly, all she can do is ... run!
But does she run far enough?
Jackson Beaumont prides himself on being a nature-loving, guitar-strumming carefree sort of guy, known for his eagerness to help injured animals find their way back into the wild. When Lena Benton walks into his bar, he's once again swept off his feet with concern and desire to help the wounded. Will he risk having his heart torn apart again when the memory of the fawn he rescued as a child resurfaces?
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I grew up in a small town in Pennsylvania, spending most of my time daydreaming or playing around in the mud. I grew out of the mud play, well, most of the time, a good soak in the mud is always fun. I still daydream often and sometimes my daydreams interrupt my daydreams. So, I write to remember them. If I didn't write, I think my mind would explode from an overload of fantasy and weirdness. To the annoyance of my friends and family, my characters sometimes become a part of my world. During my childhood, I would frequently get in trouble in school for daydreaming. Eventually, my vivid imagination paid off and I had the privilege of writing and co-directing my sixth-grade class play--a dreadful disaster, though not from my writing, of course. I'm pretty sure it was the acting.
I enjoy writing about characters living in small quaint towns and sometimes they tend to lean toward the unusual and edgy.
My paranormal playing field delves into a different milieu, abandoning vampires and werewolves, but not discounting them. Someday I might like to write a novel about vamps and those furry creatures. But for now I like the bizarre mixed with romance. A strong hero or heroine confronted with extraordinary forces of nature, powers and capabilities gets my blood running hot as does a steamy contemporary romantic suspense.
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Two utility boxes in downtown Berkeley, decorated by artists as part of the city's Streets Alive initiative, were vandalized over the weekend.
One of the boxes, on Allston and Shattuck, whose artwork was unveiled a year ago this month, had two sides almost completely ripped off. The letters "FLIGO" were also inscribed at the top of the box, on the east-facing side, according to Christina Monzer, Restorations Project Associate at Streets Alive. The design, titled "Redwood," is by artist Ryan Kerrigan who is known for his rock poster art. It is sponsored by the Earth Island Institute.
The other vandalized box was recently installed at Kittredge and Shattuck outside of Peet's coffee shop, which sponsored the artwork. Two panels were removed from the box. The artwork, titled "Cup to Cup," was created by Amelia McCrea, Jamine Hain, Alaytra Johnson, and Lilian Zakki Manahl of Berkeley's YMCA-PG&E Teen Center, and unveiled on Oct. 2.
"We've had a good streak with virtually no vandalism happening in recent months, and it is very unfortunate that this happened over the weekend," Monzer said. "We are working to get them repaired."
Streets Alive, a collaboration between the Earth Island Institute and Berkeley's Civic Arts Commission has so far helped to transform 17 of 60 selected boxes, which are owned either by the city or by PG&E. The project pairs patrons with artists who paint the boxes or make a design that can be transferred to large, polymer stickers and be affixed to them.
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We all want our dream job, or to run our own companies. In reality its a lot easier said then done. In reality we need a job that pays the bills and cant wait out the search for the perfect situation. Which leads to the question, what kind of job should you settle for when you cant or dont have the job you want ?
Not everyones situation is going to be the same, but for the recent graduate, the answer is pretty straightforward, at least I thought it was when I graduated. You continue your education.
Go back to school ? No. Get your MBA ? No.
For most recent college grads, you just spent the last 4 or so years paying tuition to get an education. Now that you have graduated, its your chance to get paid to learn.
When I graduated from Indiana, I certainly didnt dream of working for a bank. I wanted a job where I could learn more about computers. So I took a job working for Mellon Bank in Pittsburgh. Ihelped on systems conversions. Taking old manual systems atsmall banks and helping them convert to automated systems.I wasnt that good at it. The job was fun for the first couple months because I worked with a lot of fun people. But as the months wore on, I liked it less and less, and I had to tell myself more and more,exactly why I was there.I was getting paid to learn about how computers work, how big companies work, how middle managers work and that wasa whole lotbetter than paying tuition to get a business education.
Ilasted all of 9 months at that job. I lasted about 8 months at my next job,working for a company called Tronics 2000. At Tronics 2000, our mission was to try franchise the TV repair industry. Thecompany was supposed to be entrepreneurial. It was supposed to be looking at expanding intofranchsing into the computer repair business.(They had me write an analysis of the opportunity in myoff time). As it turns out, it basically was none of the above. But I got paid my 18k per year and I learned a whole lot.
The company sold a total1 franchises. That I sold . Again, I was far from a great employee. I spent too much time having fun at the expense of doing my job to the best of my ability. Going to work hungover once a week isnt a good career move. So in some respects I cheated them. No excuses on my part.
The job was also frustrating. Calling and calling and calling on TV repair shops trying to explain the value of franchising wasnt an easy cold call. But l learned how to cold call.I learned not to be afraid of picking up a Yellow Pages book andmaking calls.
I alsogo totalk to an old industry veteranLarryMenaugh. Larrywrote the very first service contracts in the electronics industry. He was a wise old vet. Wedidnt talk much about the company or the industry, but after meetings we would sit in, we would talk about how to get the job done. He would give me honest critiques of things I was doing, and coming from Larry, Iknew they were right. I wish I could go back and thank him.
I lasted in that job about 9 months as well, and from there took off to Dallas, Tx in search of fun, sun, money and women.
I was 23. I hadno money. The 77 FIAT i was driving drank oil faster than I could drink beer and had a huge hole in the floor. I was going to stay on the floor of some friends who had moved from IU to a huge apartment complex in Dallas.
I had no idea what the future would bring, but I knew I had taken a few classes in real world business and got paid for it instead of paying tuition and I had every intention of continuing to do the same thing until things worked out.


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Time Warner Cable has pulled the plug on CBS.
The cable provider blacked out CBS stations in a number of cities on Friday after the two companies failed to resolve their disagreement over transmission fees by the 5 p.m. deadline they had set. CBS said it was the first time in its history that it had been dropped from a cable system over a business dispute.
The roughly 3 million customers affected are in New York, Los Angeles, Dallas, Boston, Chicago, Denver, Detroit and Pittsburgh. Those are the cities where CBS (CBS) owns the affiliates that carry the network. In other markets, CBS is carried on stations with different owners.
Time Warner Cable customers nationwide have also lost access to the premium cable networks Showtime, The Movie Channel and The Smithsonian Channel, which are also owned by CBS.
The negotiation deadline had been extended on a number of previous occasions since the former contract expired on June 30. But on Friday, Time Warner Cable (TWC) said CBS "has refused to have a productive discussion."
"It's become clear that no matter how much time we give them, they're not willing to come to reasonable terms," TWC spokesman Eric Mangan said in a statement. "We thank our customers for their patience and support as we continue to fight hard to keep their prices down."
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CBS (CBS) said Time Warner Cable "has conducted negotiations in a combative and non-productive spirit, indulging in pointless brinksmanship and distorted public positioning."
"What CBS seeks, and what we always have sought from the beginning, is fair compensation for the most-watched television network with the most popular content in the world," the company said. "We hope and believe this period of darkness will be short and that we can all get back to the business of providing the best entertainment, news and sports to the Time Warner Cable customers we both serve."
Mangan said Friday evening that negotiations are "ongoing."
Time Warner Cable has claimed that CBS is demanding too high a rate -- 600% more than what the cable provider has to pay for the network's programming in other parts of the country. In those areas, Time Warner Cable negotiates with local CBS affiliates that are not owned outright by the network.
CBS says the 600% figure is inaccurate, but has declined to provide more specifics. It said its requests "are far more reasonable and well in line with what the industry is paying for content."
The two sides are very likely to reach a deal at some point, especially if the dispute threatens NFL broadcasts scheduled to air on CBS later this year.
"In the end, of course, an agreement will be reached," CBS said earlier this week.
CNNMoney's Charles Riley and Melanie Hicken contributed reporting.


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I am having a problem which should not exist. I am reading what I believe to be an important paper by a person - let me call him/her $A$ - whom I believe to be a serious and talented mathematician. A lemma in this paper is proven by means of an argument which, if correct, is a highly elegant piece of mental acrobatics in the spirit of Grothendieck, where a complicated situation is reduced to a simple one by embedding the objects of study in much larger (but ultimately better) object. Unfortunately, the beauty of this argument is - for me - marred by a doubt about its correctness. In my eyes, the argument rests upon a confusion of two objects which are not equal and should not be, but have the same name by force of an abuse of notation going awry. A dozen of emails exchanged with $A$ did not clear up the situation, and I start feeling that this is unlikely to improve; what is likely is that after a few more mails the correspondence will degenerate into a flamewar (as any prolonged arguments with my participation seem to do, for some reasons unknown). The fact that $A$ is not a native English speaker adds to the difficulty.
At this point, I can think of several ways to proceed:
Let go. There is a number of reasons for me not to choose this option; first of all, I really want to know whether the proof of the lemma is correct or not (even though there seems to be a different proof in literature, although not of that beauty), but this has also become, for me, a matter of idealism and an exercise in tenacity (in its cheapest manifestation - it's not like writing emails is hard work...).
Construct a counterexample. This is complicated by the fact that I am attacking the proof, not the theorem (which seems to be correct). Yet I think I have done so, and $A$ failed to really address the counterexample. But given the frequent misunderstandings between us (not least because of the language barrier) I am not sure whether $A$ has realized that I am talking counterexamples at all - and whether there is a way to tell this without switching to what will be probably understood as an aggressive tone.
Request $A$ to break down the argument into simple steps, eschewing abuse of notations. This means, in the particular case I am talking about, requesting $A$ to write two pages in his/her free time and respond to some irritating criticism of these pages with the prospect of seeing them destroyed by a counterexample. I am not sure this counts as courteous. Besides, the paper is about 10 years old - most authors do not even bother answering questions on their work of such age.
Go public (by asking on MO or similarly). This is something I really want to avoid as long as there is no other way. Neither criticizing $A$ as a person/scientist, nor devaluing the paper (which consists of far more than the lemma in question...) is among my goals; besides I cannot rule out as improbable that the error is on my side (and my experience shows that even in cases when I could rule this out, it still often was on my side).
Have a break and return to the question in a month or so. I am expecting to hear this (seems to be a popular answer to lots of questions...) yet I am not sure how this can be of any use.
These ideas are all I could come up with and none of them sounds like a good plan. What am I missing? Is my problem a common one, and if yes, does it have a time-tested solution? Can it be answered on this general scale? Is it a real problem or an artefact of my perception?
PS. This is being posted anonymously in order to preserve genericity (of the author and, more importantly, of $A$).


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An increasing number of blacks appear to finally be getting angry with Obama. It's just too bad it took four years and voting for Obama a second time for blacks to realize the president doesn't care about their interests. Immigration and the president's determination to get legislation passed granting amnesty to an estimated 11-20 million illegal aliens seems to be the straw that broke black liberals' backs.
Recently some Black Americans have been calling into black talk radio shows like "Keeping it Real with Al Sharpton, complaining immigration is not an important issue to them. This is despite Al Sharpton's plea to a caller that amnesty isn't just a Latino issue. But according to a 2009 Migration Institute report, blacks only accounted for 9% of US immigrants.
With black unemployment at 13.8% almost twice the national rate of 7.9%, granting amnesty to more than 11 million illegal immigrant threatens to make jobs even more scare for blacks. As black radio host Earl Ingram noted his "listenership is anti-immigration" because they are angry illegals are here taking jobs from them because they are willing to work for less than minimum wage. A Pew Hispanic poll found during the height of the economic downturn 2009-2011 Hispanic employment grew by 6.5% while black employment grew by a minuscule 1%.
After giving Obama over 95% of their vote twice, blacks want to know when the first black president will focus on issues impacting blacks like: rising poverty, unemployment and incarceration rates, growing education gap and economic decline the breakdown of the black family?
When I tweeted about this lack of love blacks are feeling for their blind support of Obama a second time around, a black person replied: "Obama has always made it clear that he is the POTUS not the President of Black America."
Indeed Obama is "president of all Americans" but Obama has made gay marriage a priority and less than 5% of the population is gay. He's also made illegal immigration a priority because 71% of Hispanics voted for him but only make up 14% of the population. These two groups don't look like the face of "All Americans." But Obama won't even give blacks a crumb. He has yet to name one black person to fill a cabinet position in his second term.
It may be too late for blacks to influence Obama because he doesn't have an election hanging over his head. But blacks should take a hard look at the gang of "Blacktivists" like Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson and organizations like NAACP, Congressional Black Caucus purporting to fight for what's good for blacks and ask them what have they done for blacks?
Blacks also need to question the Congressional Black Caucus about its agenda. In its press release outlining its plan for the 113th Congress, the CBC states "For more than four decades, the Congressional Black Caucus policy agenda has promoted and advocated for legislation that supports social and economic progress . . . for African Americans."
If this is true, why is it blacks have been on an economic and family decline since 1971 when the caucus was formed? Today more black babies are born out of wedlock, 73%, than to married homes compared to 30% of white babies. And the above mentioned statistics show government policies pushed by the Democrat CBC haven't helped improve the plight of the black man.
Why is immigration reform a key item in the CBC's agenda? "Advancing legislation and policies that lead to comprehensive immigration reform" will do nothing to improve the economic situation for blacks. Allowing a flood of illegals into the country will only exacerbate the unemployment situation for blacks.
Blacks also need to demand their "black groups" and so called "black spokespersons" reject comparisons to criminals crossing into our country to the civil rights movement or slavery. Blacks were brought to America in 1619 against their will, treated like property, worked like animals and violated sexually. The least America could do in 1964 was to grant blacks equal rights to whites. Illegal immigrants chose to voluntarily break laws to enter, work and remain in the US illegally. America owes them an enforcement of our laws along with the employers who illegally employ them.
If black liberals are really angry at the lack of attention Obama is giving them, perhaps they should use this as a lesson. Instead of voting for candidates based on race or party, perhaps black Americans should try giving candidates a thorough vetting before going to the polls and hold politicians accountable to records in exchange for votes. Maybe then blacks would start getting something in return other than the status quo.


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SEATTLE — Steve Sarkisian wasn't taking any of the bait on Monday afternoon.
Apple Cup jokes?
No, he hasn't really heard any.
Washington State's struggles in the first year under head coach Mike Leach?
"They're in a transition year," the University of Washington football coach said with a shrug. "I understand that."
Well, what about the obvious discrepancy in the way these two teams are playing heading into Friday's Apple Cup game in Pullman?
"The records don't matter," Sarkisian said. "This is Washington versus Washington State. Records haven't mattered — they won't next year, the year after and the year after."
Ah, yes. Rivalry week. When the only thing higher than emotions is the cliche quotient.
It's an easy fallback this week, when the high-flying Huskies, winners of four consecutive games and on their way to a bowl game for the third year in a row, face a struggling WSU program that's just trying to get through the season without providing the national media with any more fodder.
The Cougars (2-9 overall, 0-8 in the Pacific-12 Conference) have fallen short of expectations again while reaching new lows — things that seem to have become annual rites for WSU football. Controversy has followed Leach from his previous stop at Texas Tech. Things got so bad two weeks ago that the team's best player, receiver Marquess Wilson, accused Leach and his assistants of physical and emotional abuse after he quit the team.
As the rivalry-week cliches will remind us all, none of that matters this week.
"We're all pretty intense about beating the Huskies," WSU defensive back Deonne Bucannon said during a Sunday press conference in Pullman.
The Huskies are also motivated, as they always are against their cross-state rivals. Despite a 3-0 record against WSU in his three seasons at UW, and the Cougars' obvious struggles this season, Sarkisian expects a competitive game Friday.
And he can't wait to be standing in Martin Stadium for the nationally-televised game.
"As you guys (in the media) well know, I love the pageantry of college football, the excitement that surrounds college football," he said. "And any time you get these in-state rivalry games at the end of the year, that's what college football is all about. So to be part of my fourth Apple Cup and for our guys is an honor."
WSU's Leach will be making his Apple Cup debut. He said during a Sunday press conference that he's excited about the rivalry game.
"I'm kind of looking forward to it," he said. "I've seen it on TV for years. It's a really impressive rivalry, and it has been for decades."
Sarkisian said "it probably won't take long" for Leach to realize just how big this rivalry is in the state of Washington.
"It didn't take me long (to learn) that this is a big game," said Sarkisian, who came to UW from USC before the 2009 season. "It's a big game for a lot of reasons. Coach Leach has been in a lot of big games before — rivalry games at Texas Tech, when he was (an assistant) at Oklahoma and things of that nature. So I think he already knows."
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With his knee stitched shut and his ligaments back intact, Adrian Peterson remained in a deep sleep as the anesthesia kept the Minnesota Vikings running back in a rare state of sedation.
His doctor, the doctor, esteemed orthopedic surgeon James Andrews, wasn't about to wait for Peterson to wake up before informing Peterson's parents about one of the most phenomenal knees he'd ever seen.
So Andrews found the parents, who had just watched the surgery from an observation room in Andrews' medical center in Birmingham, Ala., and provided an explanation that perhaps foreshadowed the miraculous recovery ahead.
"I can't believe it," Andrews told them, in a conversation recalled by Peterson's father, Nelson, during a phone interview with NFL.com. "For this guy to have played as much football as he's played his whole life, and not to have hardly any wear and tear, it's incredible. I've never seen a football player, especially one who runs and cuts as much as he does, with a knee in that condition. It's like a newborn baby."
Less than 11 months later, those first four words from Andrews' lips can be used to sum up how the entire sports world has reacted to Peterson's incredible journey back to the top spot among the NFL's rushing leaders: Can anyone believe this?
As we digest what brought about this reality -- whether it was genetics or work ethic or improved rehabilitation methods -- we can ask a similar question about several other rapidly recovering players around the NFL, like Kansas City Chiefs running back Jamaal Charles. After suffering serious knee injuries, Peterson and Charles seem to be returning to form at a point when the rest of us would just be ditching the crutches.
Survival instinct
As Peterson continues on a career-best pace that currently has him leading the NFL in rushing, he said he's heard more questions about his recovery with each gained yard.
"People keep asking if I'm surprised by this," Peterson said during a phone interview. "No, I'm not. At all. A lot of people are surprised because they don't have the same mindset as me, the same belief process, the same faith.
"But it doesn't surprise me."
To truly grasp Peterson's mindset, consider what happened just hours after he awoke from surgery, six days after he'd torn the anterior cruciate ligament and medial collateral ligament in his left knee. His doctors entered his room to see how he was doing. They told him he had the option of staying in bed or, if he really wanted, attempting to stand up with the help of crutches.
"Most guys stay in bed -- they want some time to rest," said Peterson's father, who was also in the room.
"They'll wait until the next morning before they take that option. Adrian says, 'Sure, I'll try it.' Right there, hours after surgery, he stands up and puts his foot to the ground."
When players talk about their injuries, many say the same thing: Their recovery begins with the fear that they'll never get to play football again. It eats at them, they say. Then, it fuels their efforts to make unorthodox and unprecedented recoveries.
The fear was initially crippling for Charles, the Chiefs' star running back who tore the ACL in his left knee in the second week of the 2011 season. As he rode on the back of a medical cart toward the underbelly of Ford Field in Detroit with his dreadlocked head buried in his hands, he literally thought he might have seen his last down.
"I just wondered if I was going to get the chance to play football again -- if I was ever going to come back," Charles said during a phone interview this week. "When something happens like that, you don't know what it is. But you know something is wrong. It's really a heartbreaking feeling.
"You're doing something that you really love and you can't do it anymore."
Not long after, Charles found himself consumed by his recovery. He was spending three hours every morning -- then three more hours in the afternoon -- dedicated to nothing but his surgically repaired knee.
Peterson said he was the same way. After his injury, doctors suggested he wait for the swelling in his knee to subside before undergoing surgery. But that would take too much time, and Peterson didn't want to waste any of it. So he purchased an ice therapy machine to expedite the process -- and he was being operated on just days later.
"There were times when I didn't want to do a lot of stuff," Peterson said. "I just wanted to rest because I was sore, but I would just get up and push through it. My mother always taught me, 'When you leave to go home at the end of the day, you need to feel like you accomplished something.' So I would fight through it."
Something special
It would be narrow-minded to suggest that work ethic is the only factor at play here. After all, plenty of players in NFL history have fallen victim to knee injuries despite possessing a strong work ethic.
Former Denver Broncos running back Terrell Davis tore his ACL and MCL in 1999, then played two more unproductive and incomplete seasons before retiring. Atlanta Falcons running back Jamal Anderson went to a Pro Bowl in 1998, but a torn ACL ended his career three years later. There are many other players who were never the same after suffering a knee injury.
Simply returning to action in a full calendar year is still considered an impressive feat. So how is it that, after getting back on the field in less time than that, Charles and Peterson are both among the 10 most productive runners of the 2012 season?
"Give credit to the doctor -- he did a great job going into my knee and doing what he does," Peterson said. "But I just feel like I'm different -- my family and my genetics. Just how my body is built."
It's certainly possible we could simply be dealing with a freak example when it comes to Peterson's greatness. The doctor compared his knee to that of a newborn, after all, a pretty incredible analogy in itself.
"Except," as Peterson detailed, "a newborn doesn't have a knee cap. I guess that was the only difference."
So perhaps, then, Peterson's exceptional play -- which has clearly surpassed even Charles' performance -- can indeed be credited to his superhuman muscular composition. But both players have also benefited from improved rehabilitation programs and advances in technology.
"I think I took care of my leg more than I ever did before," Charles said. "Since then, I take care of both of my legs better than I ever have. I do everything right. I eat the right food, do the proper stretches, use the proper equipment. I just try to take care of my body much better now."
The best is yet to come?
When Peterson was making a run against the Seattle Seahawks earlier this month, he felt something crack in his knee. He knew he hadn't aggravated last season's injury, but he still wondered about it. So he asked his physicians.
As he learned, it was nothing more than scar tissue breaking up in his knee. It has happened on a few other occasions -- proving that Peterson's road to recovery is actually still taking a toll on his body.
"I've felt myself getting stronger and better each time some of that tissue around the patella breaks up," Peterson said. "I've noticed a little soreness after it happens, but once I've recovered, it's felt more flexible and just looser in that area."
So is Peterson fully back to his old form?
"There are some small things I can notice that nobody else would ever notice," Peterson said. "The strength of my left leg isn't as strong as I'd want it right now. I want to be more explosive and quicker. Those are the things I look forward to achieving."
As this magical season continues for Peterson -- and as Charles' own recovery helps validate the advancements made in knee surgeries
-- it's hard to imagine how much better he could possibly get during a season in which he has already defied so much logic.
Then again, on the very day Peterson came out of surgery, his surgeon made it clear he couldn't fathom what he was seeing then, either. Maybe it's time we all grew accustomed to these freakish accomplishments. After all, if Peterson can believe it, why shouldn't we?
"This is something that I had planned out months ago," Peterson said. "I knew I wanted to come into this season and have an impact. I wanted to help my team. I'm not surprised by what I've done. I expected it the whole time, and I think that's the reason it's happening."


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Within the space of a mere two days or so, the trees have suddenly exploded with fresh buds, green leaves unfurling right before your eyes. As if waiting for the month of May, it finally feels as though we've turned the corner, and we can at last put the bone-chilling torture of winter behind us. Fresh produce is arriving at the markets once more, making every trip a joyful reunion with old friends. Each day brings something new to get excited about, be it the changing of a restaurant's menu to reflect the season, or the delight of taking a stroll in the fading sunlight at 7:30 pm, without needing to bundle up. Just yesterday, as the coffee began percolating and I bumbled about with sleep still in my eyes, I looked out the kitchen window and discovered something absolutely wonderful out in the yard; Violets.
Tiny little flowers in varying hues of purple, blue, and white, they speckled the lawn so thoroughly that it appeared as if confetti had been strewn about after a party. You could scarcely take a step without the danger of squashing a handful… But this abundance is nothing to take advantage of. Blink once, and every last little blossom will vanish, as if they never existed to begin with. With a window of availability spanning barely a week, it's no wonder that these edible flowers are so highly prized, not to mention expensive, just about any time of the year.
Bare feet racing across the damp, dew-covered grass, I quickly began gathering flowers, plucking as many as I could carry. No way would these violet beauties pass me by this time! But what to do with them, besides just garnish a plate?
Well, how about making violet extract, for starters? Building upon the same idea as making vanilla extract, this is an experiment in progress. Filling a few jars with washed (and 100% pesticide-free!) violets and topping them off with vodka, only time will tell if this method works for more than just vanilla beans. Here's hoping that in 1 – 3 weeks, this rare flower essence will make a cameo in some fantastic dessert! Of course, I'll keep you posted on the results, but I didn't want to wait until all the violets were gone before sharing. If you happen to have these lovely little blossoms in your yard, get out there and start picking, while you still can!


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Germany and France represented by Christian Lindner, Federal Minister of Finance, Robert Habeck, Federal Minister for Economic Affairs and Climate Action, Bruno Le Maire, Minister for the Economy, Finance and the Recovery, and Cédric O, Minister of State for the Digital Transition and Electronic Communication, have signed, together with Denmark, Estonia, Greece, Spain, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, …
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In this hotel in the centre of Paris, a meeting room is available for your appointments and other business meetings. It is fully equipped and has natural light.
The location of the hotel in the center of Paris Mayfair is exceptional: in the heart of Paris, between Place de la Concorde, the rue de Rivoli and the Place Vendôme. The hotel is ideally located to visit the French capital. A few steps, and you will find the Jardin des Tuileries and the Louvre. At a few metro stations, the Opera Garnier, the Grand Palace or the Eiffel Tower are within your reach!


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She said yes! Elle Macpherson has accepted billionaire Jeffrey Soffer's marriage proposal, a source tells Us Weekly. The couple's happy news was first reported by Access Hollywood.
The former Fashion Star host, 49, the hotel heir, 43, dated for two years before splitting in March 2012. Though Macpherson briefly dated financier Roger Jenkins post-split, she and Soffer reportedly rekindled their romance after the real estate developer injured his vertebrae in a November helicopter crash.
This will be the second marriage for Macpherson, who was married to fashion photographer Gilles Bensimon from 1986 to 1989. The Australian supermodel has two sons with ex-boyfriend Arpad Busson: Arpad Flynn, 15, and Aurelius Cy, 10.
Macpherson, who is the host and executive producer of Britain and Ireland's Top Model, has yet to comment on her engagement via Twitter. Calls to her rep were not immediately returned.


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Ah beautiful cherry blossoms, kites and love is in the Spring air. It's that time again for the National Cherry Blossom Festival in Washington, D.C. It would be a great time to see DC since there is also a Blossom Kite Festival, previously called the Smithsonian Kite Festival. An estimated 1 million people will come to witness the events while the cherry blossoms are blooming. With the cost of gas astronomical, here are 44 fantastic photos, a tour for those of you who won't be able to attend the Cherry Blossom Festival and Blossom Kite Festival this weekend. [44 Photos]


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NASA Spacecraft's Data Reveal Magma Ocean Under Jupiter Moon
The finding heralds the first direct confirmation of this kind of magma layer at Io and explains why the moon is the most volcanic object known in the solar system. The research was conducted by scientists at the University of California, Los Angeles, the University of California, Santa Cruz, and the University of Michigan. The study is published this week in the journal Science.
"Scientists are excited we finally understand where Io's magma is coming from and have an explanation for some of the mysterious signatures we saw in some of the Galileo's magnetic field data," said Krishan Khurana, lead author of the study and former co-investigator on Galileo's magnetometer team at UCLA. "It turns out Io was continually giving off a 'sounding signal' in Jupiter's rotating magnetic field that matched what would be expected from molten or partially molten rocks deep beneath the surface."
Io produces about 100 times more lava each year than all the volcanoes on Earth. While Earth's volcanoes occur in localized hotspots like the "Ring of Fire" around the Pacific Ocean, Io's volcanoes are distributed all over its surface. A global magma ocean about 20 to 30 miles (30 to 50 kilometers) beneath Io's crust helps explain the moon's activity.
"It has been suggested that both the Earth and its moon may have had similar magma oceans billions of years ago at the time of their formation, but they have long since cooled," said Torrence Johnson, a former Galileo project scientist based at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, Calif. He was not directly involved in the study. "Io's volcanism informs us how volcanoes work and provides a window in time to styles of volcanic activity that may have occurred on the Earth and moon during their earliest history."
NASA's Voyager spacecraft discovered Io's volcanoes in 1979, making that moon the only body in the solar system other than Earth known to have active magma volcanoes. The energy for the volcanic activity comes from the squeezing and stretching of the moon by Jupiter's gravity as Io orbits the largest planet in the solar system.
Galileo was launched in 1989 and began orbiting Jupiter in 1995. Unexplained signatures appeared in magnetic field data from Galileo flybys of Io in October 1999 and February 2000. After a successful mission, the spacecraft intentionally was sent into Jupiter's atmosphere in 2003.
"During the final phase of the Galileo mission, models of the interaction between Io and Jupiter's immense magnetic field, which bathes the moon in charged particles, were not yet sophisticated enough for us to understand what was going on in Io's interior," said Xianzhe Jia, a co-author of the study at the University of Michigan.
Recent work in mineral physics showed that a group of rocks known as "ultramafic" rocks become capable of carrying substantial electrical current when melted. Ultramafic rocks are igneous in origin, or form through the cooling of magma. On Earth, they are believed to originate from the mantle. The finding led Khurana and colleagues to test the hypothesis that the strange signature was produced by current flowing in a molten or partially molten layer of this kind of rock.
Tests showed that the signatures detected by Galileo were consistent with a rock such as lherzolite, an igneous rock rich in silicates of magnesium and iron found in Spitzbergen, Sweden. The magma ocean layer on Io appears to be more than 30 miles (50 kilometers) thick, making up at least 10 percent of the moon's mantle by volume. The blistering temperature of the magma ocean probably exceeds 2,200 degrees Fahrenheit (1,200 degrees Celsius).
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DeWALT DWP849X vs Makita 9227C Rotary Buffers
DeWALT DWP849X vs Makita 9227C Rotary Buffers
First both tools are exceptionally well built, strong performers for their class which is Full Size Rotary Buffers. This article is just to give you a close-up look at each tool with high resolution pictures, resized for easy viewing on any computer monitor. The goal of this article is to simply let you see up close, what each tool looks like and offers in the way of design, fit and finish.
If you attend any of my automotive or marine detailing classes you are always strongly encouraged to take both of these tools as well as all the tools we carry for a test drive and see for yourself, which tools fits you best.
Left: DeWALT DWP849X Right: Makita 9227C Rotary Buffers
The DeWALT comes with a soft rubber cap over the head of the polisher. This serves two function,
1. It makes gripping and holding onto the head comfortable and secure.
Soft Rubber Tool Rest
There is as soft rubber horizontal tool rest across the top of the DeWALT at both the front and the back. This keeps the tool from sliding off a smooth surface or even scratching it should you lay the polisher down when not in use.
Below you can see the rear soft rubber tool rest and also note the speed selector is recessed to help prevent accidental changes in speed while using the tool.
Recessed Lock Button
The drive gear lock button is also recessed to prevent you from accidentally pressing the button when gripping the head of the unit while running the buffer.
Wool Ingestion Shields
The fresh air intake has a wire mesh shield to help prevent wool fibers and other debris from being sucked into the motor and body cavity.
The Makita 9227C
Powder Coated Head
The head unit of the Makita Rotary Buffer comes with a powder coating that is corrosion resistant.
Metal Tool Stands
Their are two raised metal tool stands at the head of the polisher stable when placed upside down and not in use.
At the end of the tool there is a hard plastic tool stand and the variable speed dial is exposed.
Semi-Recessed Lock Button
The locking button for the drive gears is semi-recessed with a raised ring surrounding the button to help prevent accidental engagement while operating the buffer.
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Re: DeWALT DWP849X vs Makita 9227C Rotary Buffers
lots of good info there mike. is one unit any heavier than the other ? i got the makita and was surprised at how heavy it was compared to my griot's da.
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As soon as the financial crisis erupted, the finger-pointing began. Should the blame fall on Wall Street, Main Street, or Pennsylvania Avenue? On greedy traders, misguided regulators, sleazy subprime companies, cowardly legislators, or clueless home buyers?
According to Bethany McLean and Joe Nocera, two of America's most acclaimed business journalists, the real answer is all of the above-and more. Many devils helped bring hell to the economy. And the full story, in all of its complexity and detail, is like the legend of the blind men and the elephant. Almost everyone has missed the big picture. Almost no one has put all the pieces together.
All the Devils Are Here goes back several decades to weave the hidden history of the financial crisis in a way no previous book has done. It explores the motivations of everyone from famous CEOs, cabinet secretaries, and politicians to anonymous lenders, borrowers, analysts, and Wall Street traders. It delves into the powerful American mythology of homeownership. And it proves that the crisis ultimately wasn't about finance at all; it was about human nature.
Published Date: January 1, 2011
Publisher: Penguin Books
Language: English
Page Count: 389
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Piping Plovers depend on mudflats, like the ones pictured here, for foraging. They search through these "mini tide pools" for small marine worms and crustaceans. Their survival depends on undisturbed sea-wall and turf grass-free stretches of beach along the Atlantic coast. Piping Plovers, once common, nearly became extinct in the 19th century. Populations have recovered relatively well in some areas, and there are estimated to be about 16, 0002 nesting pairs along the Atlantic Seaboard. They escape the cold and harsh conditions of the New England winter by leaving once fall sets in and their young have fledged to spend the rest of the year in the tropics (mainly the Bahamas and the West Indies). Like most populous coastal counties in Florida, over ninety-eight percent of coastal Pinellas is no longer suitable for a host of other rare species. Shorebirds such as the Wilson's Plover, Black Skimmer, and the Least Tern are also in jeopardy. Losing critical resting and refueling areas in Florida have made the trip much longer for many types of migrating shorebirds and songbirds bound for the tropics—thus the necessity for concrete-free stretches of the beach throughout Florida.
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Greetings from the Ocean State! To be more specific, hello from Barrington, a town of about 16,000 people, south of Providence.
I used Google My Maps to show some of our early favorite places. Here's a link to the interactive map, and here's a link to a PDF of My Barrington.
The kids might disagree with my including their schools among the favorites. I hope that they like the schools, since the school system is one of the things that brought us to Barrington in particular when we decided to move to Rhode Island. Anyway, school starts on Monday (August 28).
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Clinton: 'I am more optimistic today'
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said goodbye to the nation's diplomatic corps and aid workers on her last day on the job, and said she was more upbeat about the fate of the world than she had been at the start of her tenure.
( PHOTOS: Hillary Clinton's world tour, 2009-2012)
"I know that the world we are trying to help bring into being in the 21st century will have many difficult days," Clinton said Friday, speaking to a packed State Department lobby. "But I am more optimistic today than I was when I stood here four years ago because I have seen day after day the many contributions that our diplomats and development experts are making to help ensure that this century provides the kind of peace, progress and prosperity, that not just the United States but the entire world, especially young people, so richly deserve."
She added later that she would miss her coworkers, joking "I will probably be dialing ops just to talk."
( PHOTOS: Hillary Clinton's life, career)
Clinton submitted her formal resignation to President Barack Obama earlier Friday. Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.) will start as the nation's top diplomat on Monday.
Clinton thanked the nation's 69,000 State Department employees.
( DOCUMENT: Hillary Clinton's resignation letter)
"I cannot fully express how grateful I am to those with whom I have spent many hours here in Washington, around the world, and in airplanes," the nation's 67th Secretary of State said. "But I'm proud of the work we have done to elevate diplomacy and development, to serve the nation we all love."
The former first lady and presidential candidate also addressed the suicide bombing of the U.S. embassy in Ankara, Turkey. A Turkish security guard died in the attack.
"Of course, we live in very complex and even dangerous times as we saw again just today at our embassy in Ankara, where we were attacked and lost one of our foreign service nationals and others injured," Clinton said. "But I spoke with the Ambassador and the team there. I spoke with my Turkish counterpart, and I told them how much we valued their commitment and their sacrifice."


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Buena Vista, the only surviving mobile-home park in Palo Alto, could soon be history, according to city officials.
Residents in the 117-unit park located at 3980 El Camino Real received a letter from property owner/manager Joe Jisser last week informing them that his family is exploring redevelopment options.
The family has owned Buena Vista, located near Los Robles Avenue behind a strip mall, since 1986, Jisser said on Monday. They are working with Prometheus Real Estate Group in San Mateo.
Prometheus specializes in the acquisition, development and management of residential and commercial properties and builds apartments, according to its website. It also focuses on transit-oriented development in areas that are close to corporate campuses, such as Apple in Cupertino and Google in Mountain View.
Jon Moss, Prometheus executive vice president and partner, said Wednesday the company is considering buying the property from the Jissers and building up to 187 one- and two-bedroom apartments that are between 750 square feet and 1,050 square feet. The property is being considered because it fits into the Grand Boulevard Initiative for El Camino Real, which envisions higher-density housing with access to transit, schools and retail.
Prometheus would likely seek to have the 4 ½-acres rezoned from 15 units per acre to 40 units per acre, said Amy French, Palo Alto's chief planning official. The property borders single-family homes in the Barron Park neighborhood and is currently home to 104 mobile homes, 12 studio apartments or cabins and a single-family residence. The redevelopment could rise from two stories closest to the homes behind the park and to three or four stories closer to El Camino Real.
No application has been submitted, however, and no city commission has reviewed the plans, officials said.
Moss said Prometheus could file a prescreening application this week for review by the City Council. He expects the project would come up for initial study in November.
Redevelopment of Buena Vista, which gradually became established as a trailer park after World War II, has been rumored for years, with the Jissers repeatedly denying they had such plans. But Jisser said that 12 years ago the city noted the park had a 10-year life span before its infrastructure, including water and electrical facilities, would need upgrading.
"We're at 12 years now. We're starting to get a feel that the infrastructure won't hold up too much longer. We figure the utilities might last another two to five years," he said.
"If you do upgrade, the cost would be enormous,' he said.
Many of the pre-1950s mobile homes would also require improvements to accommodate the new utilities, including increased electrical power, he said.
A majority of Buena Vista Mobile Home Park's residents are very low and low income, seniors or disabled, according to the City of Palo Alto.
Upgrading the park to comply with state codes would mean the legal spacing between units would change.
"That means a large reduction in the number of homes. You would almost have to start building a new mobile home park from the ground up," Jisser said.
French said the proposed redevelopment is in keeping with the city's Comprehensive Plan, which encourages multi-family residences.
The city has no position on the redevelopment, said Curtis Williams, the city's planning director. But "we need to explore if there are ways to retain the mobile-home park or to ensure there is an affordable component to the redevelopment," he added.
In 2000 the city and the Jissers developed an agreement after rent increases threatened some Buena Vista residents with eviction.
The City Council, which called Buena Vista "an essential source of affordable housing in Palo Alto," subsequently adopted a mobile-home ordinance, No. 4696. That ordinance guarantees Buena Vista residents help with the costs of relocating.
California's Mobilehome Residency Law also requires that mobile-home residents be compensated prior to the conversion of a property.
Buena Vista residents pay about $800 to $1,300 per month for their spaces. Although the city can't require any of the proposed apartments be reserved for low-income residents, the city would have to have some serious discussions on how to retain or replace the lost affordable housing, Curtis said.
On Wednesday afternoon, children chased each other around Buena Vista's laundry room, and dogs barked at passersby. Jose, 9, and his 6-year-old brother, Jovani, played with Bumblebee, their Chihuahua, in front of their prefab home.
Moving "will be really hard on my mom and my grandma. My mom is trying to make a house for my grandma in Mexico. We aren't buying things. Both of my parents are working. My dad can barely buy the rent here," Jose said. He also does not want to leave his school, he said.
Noemi Atayde grew up in Buena Vista and still lives in a home surrounded by trees, shrubs and flowers that her mother has carefully cultivated. Atayde lives with her parents, her 2-year-old daughter, Ellie, her sister and her nephew. The 3-year-old boy has autism and is just starting to get help from the Palo Alto Unified School District. Moving to another affordable place could mean having to switch school districts, which concerns the family.
The move doesn't come as a surprise, however, she said.
"They have mentioned it for many years, and there have been rumors," she said. "Everybody is saying they have to move, and nobody can do anything about it. People are saying that everyone should be looking for another place to go now and not wait until the last minute when they can't find anything."
One person is looking for a house in East Palo Alto, and Atayde's parents want to find a house or another trailer, she said. Many people are concerned they will have to leave their mobile homes behind. Some residents are waiting to move, so they will receive some compensation for their investments, she said.
Moss said that Prometheus "would absolutely" follow the city's mobile-home ordinance.
Company representatives have started meeting with neighbors in adjacent apartment buildings and single-family homes, he said.
But some Barron Park residents are organizing to support Buena Vista residents who want to stay. Winter Dellenbach said she is starting the Friends of Buena Vista Mobile Home Park and has 12 people who are ready to speak out against the conversion.
"It's an issue of economic diversity. ... Here's one of the greatest resources in the city," she said.
"We don't want everybody to think there is a NIMBY thing going on here. They are our neighbors; we are one neighborhood. I have not received one comment about, 'Oh, good. Let's get rid of 115 units of housing and cabins.' This place is interwoven into the fabric of the neighborhood. It's not just a possession of one person who can decide the fate of a whole community of people," she said.
Dellenbach said she could not imagine the outcry if any other comparably sized part of the neighborhood was abolished. And she thinks the city should do an impact study. If the developers want a zoning change, the city would have leverage to retain affordable housing units, she said.
The Jissers also own the retail strip at 3990 El Camino and Los Robles Avenue that fronts the mobile-home park. The lessees include a Jamba Juice, Baja Fresh, and C2 education center. A spa is scheduled to move into the former Blockbuster video store. They also own property under an adjacent Valero gas station and a quarter-acre behind it, but those properties are not part of the redevelopment, Jisser said.
Planning for the retail strip will follow a different track from redevelopment of Buena Vista because the leases still have years before expiration, he said.