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Biologists have created baker's yeast capable of living to 800 in yeast years without apparent side effects.
The basic but important discovery, achieved through a combination of dietary and genetic changes, brings science closer to controlling the survival and health of the unit of all living systems: the cell.
"We're setting the foundation for reprogramming healthy life," said study leader Valter Longo of the University of Southern California.
The study is scheduled to appear in the Jan. 25 issue of the journal PLoS Genetics. A companion study, showing that the same genetic changes in yeast reverse the course of an accelerated aging syndrome, appears in the Jan. 14 issue of the Journal of Cell Biology.
Longo's group put baker's yeast on a calorie-restricted diet and knocked out two genes, RAS2 and SCH9, that promote aging in yeast and cancer in humans.
"We got a 10-fold life span extension that is, I think, the longest one that has ever been achieved in any organism," Longo said. In 2005, the same research group reported a five-fold life span extension in the journal Cell. Normal yeast organisms live about a week.
"I would say 10-fold is pretty significant," said Anna McCormick, chief of the genetics and cell biology branch at the National Institute on Aging and Longo's program officer.
The NIA funds such research in the hope of extending healthy life span in humans through the development of drugs that mimic the life-prolonging techniques used by Longo and others, McCormick added.
Baker's yeast is one of the most studied and best understood organisms at the molecular and genetic level. Remarkably in light of its simplicity, yeast has led to the discovery of some of the most important genes and pathways regulating aging and disease in mice and other mammals.
A study recently published in Cell (Issue 130, pages 247-258, 2007) reported that a mouse with a gene mutation first identified by Longo's group lived 30 percent longer than normal and also was protected against heart and bone diseases without apparent side effects.
Longo's group next plans to further investigate life span extension in mice, and also is studying a human population in Ecuador with mutations analogous to those described in yeast.
"People with two copies of the mutations have very small stature and other defects," he said. "We are now identifying the relatives with only one copy of the mutation, who are apparently normal. We hope that they will show a reduced incidence of diseases and an extended life span."
Longo cautioned that, as in the Ecuador case, longevity mutations tend to come with severe growth deficits and other health problems. Finding drugs to extend the human life span without side effects will not be easy, he said.
An easier goal, Longo added, would be to use the knowledge gained about life span "in a fairly limited way, to reprogram disease prevention."
In the study appearing in the Jan. 14 Journal of Cell Biology, Longo's group developed a yeast model for human Werner/Bloom syndromes, incurable diseases that prematurely age, increase cancer incidence and eventually kill their victims.
The same mutations that play a central role in the 10-fold life span extension reversed the premature aging process, the researchers found.
Longo suggested that although a very simple system was used in his studies, existing drugs targeting analogous anti-aging pathways in humans -- specifically the pathway involving Insulin Growth Factor, or IGF-1 -- should be considered for testing on Werner/Bloom patients.
"Maybe it will do nothing, but having nothing else, I think it's certainly a good thing to try," Longo said.
In the PLOS Genetics study, Longo's group identified a major overlap between the genes previously implicated in life span regulation for yeast and mammals and those involved in life span extension under calorie restriction.
"We identified three transcription factors ... that are very important for the effect of calorie restriction, but at the same time, we also showed that it's not enough because even without these transcription factors, calorie restriction can still extend life span a little bit," Longo said.
"So that means that we've identified a lot of the key players in the calorie restriction effect but not all of them."
Calorie restriction -- in practice, controlled starvation -- has long been shown to reduce disease and extend life span in species from yeast to mice.
Scientists believe that a nutrient shortage kicks organisms into a maintenance mode, enabling them to re-direct energy from growth and reproduction into anti-aging systems until the time they can feed and breed again.
Calorie restriction is now being tested by other researchers on primates and even humans, Longo said.
Longo has been studying aging at the cellular level for 15 years and has published articles in the nation's leading scientific journals. His laboratory developed a simple and inexpensive method for measuring the true chronological life span of yeast. Previously, scientists used the number of a yeast cell's offspring as a proxy for its age.
The so-called replicative life span technique remains in use, and the NIA's McCormick said that Longo's method was controversial at first. However, she said, the scientific community now appears to accept its usefulness. She said Longo's "stationary phase" method is particularly applicable to studies of cells that do not divide for most of their life, such as those in the brain or in muscle.
"Stationary phase I think of as normal cell survival," McCormick said. She added that NIA funds both stationary phase and replicative life span research.
The studies were funded by NIA (part of the National Institutes on Health) and the American Federation for Aging Research.
USC graduate students Min Wei and Paola Fabrizio were first authors on the PLoS Genetics paper. USC graduate students Federica Madia and Cristina Gattazzo were first authors on the Journal of Cell Biology paper. The other members of Longo's group were USC graduate students Abdoulaye Galbani, Jesse Smith, Christopher Nguyen, Selina Huey, Lucio Comai, Jia Hu, Huanying Ge and Chao Cheng, USC computational biologist Lei Li, and William Burhans and Martin Weinberger of the Roswell Park Cancer Institute in Buffalo, N.Y.
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More delay likely in Waters case
The House Ethics Committee is moving toward extending the contract for Billy Martin, the outside counsel overseeing the case against Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.), for another six months, according to several sources close to the situation.
The extension is expected to cost an additional $500,000, although it is not clear if Martin will need the entire six-month period to complete the Waters case. Martin is aiming to finish the probe by the end of this year, sources said.
The further delay in resolving the case against her could present a major challenge for Waters, a 12-term lawmaker. Waters is lobbying to take over the ranking member spot on the House Financial Services Committee — and potentially chairman if Democrats win the House — in the next Congress. With her ethics case still hanging out there, Waters could face problems convincing her leadership or colleagues to back her bid.
However, if Ethics hands down a decision in the long-running probe that does not include major sanctions against the California Democrat, that could strengthen her hand in seeking the Financial Services post.
Martin's extension will have to be formally approved by the House Administration Committee, which oversees contracts with outside counsels. His current contract expired on Tuesday.
A spokeswoman for the Administration Committee confirmed that the panel had received a request from the Ethics Committee for Martin's contract extension, but it has not been voted on by the Administration panel yet.
Martin was initially retained in July 2011 on a six-month contract after the Ethics Committee bogged down over the Waters investigation, with bitter partisan infighting and the attempted firing by then Chairwoman Zoe Lofgren (D-Calif.) of several professional staffers running the probe.
The partisan battle led to the extraordinary decision by all five Republicans on the Ethics Committee — as well as Rep. Linda Sanchez, the top Democrat on the panel — to recuse themselves from the case.
When Martin was initially retained, Sanchez and Rep. Jo Bonner (R-Ala.), the chairman of the Ethics Committee, said in a July 20, 2011, statement that his appointment "will allow for an independent review and a faster resolution than if the Committee staff were to handle it alone."
But a resolution has not been quick, as Martin has since needed two extensions and the Waters case still has not been resolved.
Martin also left his old law firm and started his own firm during this period, leading to some grumbling from Democrats.
In a report issued in June, Martin found no wrongdoing inside the secretive panel over the Waters matters, despite the 18-month delay in the case following Lofgren's attempt to fire the two committee staffers.
Waters is alleged to have improperly intervened on behalf of a minority-owned bank in which her husband owned $350,000 in stock during the 2008 U.S. financial crisis. Waters has denied the allegations, but the Ethics Committee was prepared to move forward with a "trial" for the California Democrat in Nov. 2010 before the proceedings were postponed.
While the Ethics Committee claimed new information related to Waters had just come to light, it was clear there was a behind-the-scenes battle over the case that had little to do with her guilt or innocence.


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Posted October 5, 2012
Experts have some new weight-loss advice that's sure to be welcome news: Sleep can be just as important to a successful diet as healthful eating and exercise.
"Chronic sleep restriction is pervasive in modern societies, and there is robust evidence supporting the role of reduced sleep as contributing to the current obesity epidemic," write a pair of obesity experts in the new edition of the Canadian Medical Association Journal.
That evidence includes findings that overtired brains prompt people to eat more, and that some hormones that regulate appetite and metabolism don't work properly in people who don't get enough sleep.
The authors of the CMAJ commentary cite an experiment reported in Annals of Internal Medicine in 2010. Two groups of overweight adults were put on a diet that forced them to cut 680 calories per day. In addition, one group slept for 8.5 hours per night and the other slept only 5.5 hours per night. After two weeks, study volunteers in the sleep-deprived group had lost 55 percent less body fat than their well-rested counterparts. They had also lost 60 percent more lean body mass. The researchers concluded that when the body is tired, holding on to fat becomes a priority.
The commentary authors conducted their own investigation with 123 dieting adults. After 17 weeks, sleep habits were able to predict the amount of fat loss, they wrote.


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I've been on and off from here many times. First as "Liberal9188", then as "NathanG", "JonathanG", and now "JonG".
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IBM is working on both super-fast and super-dense storage media that should reach enterprises before the end of this decade, and demand in some industries looks likely to keep pace with the advances.
The amount of data that enterprises have to deal with is growing so fast that they are coming up against power and space limits and grappling with how to manage the information, according to analysts, users and IBM officials at a press event that the company hosted in San Francisco on Wednesday.
IBM highlighted two futuristic technologies that researchers are exploring now to address separate challenges: how to make primary data available faster and how to pack archived information into a smaller space. For the former, the company is developing so-called "racetrack" storage, in which data is stored in different magnetic regions that travel over short, nano-scale wires when accessed. It may come on sale in five to seven years, according to Bruce Hillsberg, IBM's director of storage systems research. For the latter, researchers are using an unspecified magnetic technology that could store a petabyte of data in a standard 1U rack unit. Expect that in three years, Hillsberg said.
Storage Class Memory
IBM thinks "racetrack" technology will pave the way for Storage Class Memory, which will be nearly as fast as today's memory but be able to scale up to enterprise storage capacity. It's so dense that it could allow a portable music player to hold 500,000 songs.
With Storage Class Memory, the amount of space and power required to store large enterprise data sets could shrink dramatically by 2020. What would take 1,250 racks of hard disk drives today could be stored in one rack, with less than one-third the energy, Hillsberg said. The medium will also last longer than the flash SSDs (solid-state drives) now used for fast storage, he said.
A Petabyte in a Rack Unit
The other device IBM is working on, which it called simply the "petabyte storage device," would be designed to store data for as long as 50 years without the need for migration to another medium, Hillsberg said. Moving content from one device to a newer generation of hardware costs money and time and can introduce record-keeping errors, he said.
Without giving more details about the device, Hillsberg said it would have some moving parts but not as many as a tape library, the typical solution for long-term archiving today. He envisions it being used not as a replacement for tape but in conjunction with it, possibly to provide access to archived data over a cloud infrastructure.
Hollywood's Storage Woes
The movie industry is now grappling with dramatically larger data sets on the scale that the petabyte device is designed to address, according to Peter Ward, a digital entertainment consultant and former senior vice president of Sony Pictures Entertainment. As filmmakers gradually swap reels of film for SSDs, a day of shooting can generate hundreds of terabytes of data, Ward said. The 2011 Facebook drama "The Social Network" is one recent film that was shot digitally, he said.
That data has to be stored and secured on location and sent each day to post-production facilities, which is done by transferring it to tape and physically shipping it, because networks aren't fast enough, Ward said. The footage and associated metadata is used throughout the editing of the movie, and is then compressed into formats for use in theaters and homes. But studios want to keep all the original footage, just as they used to keep the uncut film, to use years later for sequels and other projects, he said. A 3-D movie may take up 1 petabyte of capacity, and the industry is still working on how to handle that.
"There isn't a digital archival media that meets the archivists' standards," Ward said.
Health-care Data Demand
The health-care industry is facing the prospect of even more data than the entertainment business, according to Paul Markham, vice president of global strategy and marketing at TeraMedica. On Thursday, his company is introducing a medical archiving system based on IBM hardware and software. The medical records of a patient in the U.S. represent on average about 1 terabyte of data today, and one 300-bed hospital may generate 30T bytes of data per year, Markham said. Those figures will only grow with higher-resolution medical imaging, he said.
"It's such a tsunami of data, they just don't know what to do with it," Markham said. He believes the future technologies IBM envisions will be necessary to keep up.
Speed Is a Lower Priority
IBM's proposed long-term storage device may be more crucial for enterprises than will Storage Class Memory, said Forrester Research analyst Andrew Reichman. Many IT departments have more speed than they need, because they want to make sure storage access doesn't slow down applications. The bigger problem is how to deal with the data they need to keep for a long time, he said. That involves sunk costs in real estate and energy, as well as management.
"Being able to store a petabyte in 1U is going to be massively valuable," Reichman said.
However, the biggest challenge of the moment for most enterprises is knowing what data to put in what form of storage, for the benefit of application users, he said. Application and storage managers need to communicate better to make that possible.
"There's always going to be a faster bucket. … But what will never change is that it's hard to organize your stuff," Reichman said.


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Guess I'll start fresh tomorrow.
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Guess I'll start fresh tomorrow.
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Oh, no!!! No way to recover??ReplyDelete
Oh Thelma, it is so sick making when this happens. I look forward to your new posts though! Susie xReplyDelete
I'm not sure it helps Thelma, but here is a cyber hug all the same... (((((((((((((((((((((((((HUG)))))))))))))))))))))))))
Are you kidding me? That's tragic!ReplyDelete
Yikes! Good thing I've been reading them all along.ReplyDelete
Are you sure they can't be recovered? Nothing is ever really gone from computers. . . I hope your next entry tells us you got them back. Good luck!!ReplyDelete
I feel for you!ReplyDelete
Oh no, Thelma. One time I was playing with mine, trying the updated version instead of the basic template. No Worries, blogspot boasted, if you don't like it you click on revert to last blog and your original blog will be reinstated. Nope, no way could I get my original blog back. I had to remake it all. At least I was able to keep my posts. Have a great day, Thelma.ReplyDelete
How DREADFUL! Oh, I feel your pain. Have you tried looking in the recyle file. One time I was able to get a post back in that manner. Best of Luck.ReplyDelete
Oh NO Thelma! That's terrible! Maybe there is a way to get them back???ReplyDelete
Oh dear!!! I'm so sorry...for you most of all...but also for the rest of us. I LOVE, love, love your blog inspiration. I wish I knew how to help.ReplyDelete
AW DANG!!! And I haven't read a few of them yet. That just sucks! I'm sorry Thelma!ReplyDelete
Wwwwwhhhhhhhaaaaaaat??? Oh crap! Darn. I wish I could retrieve them for you! I do love your FINISHED French Vintage though:) xxooReplyDelete
Let me know if you want a copy of my RSS feed for your blog.ReplyDelete
The posts don't delete from the feed so if you are a follower via a blog reader you can grab the feed posts to redo your items. You can even post with the back date.
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They are still visible in Google Reader. Maybe you could copy them from there.ReplyDelete
Oh,no! I love going back and looking at your quilts and how you progress on them. Hope there is a way to get them back!ReplyDelete
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Zorba the Greek (1964)
Directed by Michael Cacoyannis
Genres - Drama, Romance | Sub-Genres - Buddy Film, Odd Couple Film | Release Date - Dec 17, 1964 (USA) | Run Time - 142 min. | Countries - United Kingdom, Greece, United States | MPAA Rating - NR
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If ever there was a role that Anthony Quinn was born to play, it was the lusty, life-affirming title character in Zorba the Greek. The scene is the isle of Crete, where English writer Alan Bates arrives in the hopes of realigning his own values and outlook on life. He is "adopted" by the flamboyant Zorba, who determines to educate Bates in the ways of the world-or, to be more precise, Zorba's world. Along the way, Bates is introduced to widow Irene Papas, the unrequited love object of everyone on the island, who comes to a tragic end when she is accused of adultery. The writer is also a spectator to the equally benighted romance between Zorba and venerable courtesan Lila Kedrova. Other disasters follow, but Zorba is able to convince Bates that failure is an inescapable part of life, and that only by constantly tasting defeat can one truly enjoy life's victories. Based on the novel by Nikos Kazantzakis, Zorba the Greek earned Oscars for actress Lila Kedrova, cinematographer Walter Lassally and art director Vassilis Fotopoulos.
crisis, cross-cultural-relations, culture-clash, friendship, jealousy, life-changes, love, romance, village, widow/widower, writing


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FOXBOROUGH, Mass. – It was the offensive outbreak that many had been waiting for all season out of the youthful New England Revolution offense, which scored early and often en route to a 5-0 victory that snapped the Seattle Sounders (7-3-1) five-game win streak.
Diego Fagundez led the way for the Revolution's impressive win, scoring his first two goals of the season in a first half that saw New England jump out to an emphatic 4-0 lead Patrick Mullins, Teal Bunbury and an own goal from Chad Marshall comprised the other goals for the hosts.
The result improved the Revolution to 5-3-2 and tied them for first place in the Eastern Conference, and dropped the Western Conference-leading Sounders to 7-3-1.
Initially all eyes were on Seattle's Clint Dempsey, who was making his first MLS start in Foxborough since 2006 when he played for the Revolution. But the focus shifted when Mullins scored in the 14th minute, casheing in on a rebound on the Sounders doorstep for his second career goal.
Fagundez, who led New England with 13 goals last season, scored his first of the 2014 campaign in the 29th minute, burying home a lead pass from Chris Tierney from the top left side of the box. Fagundez added his second in the 41st minute, bringing down a beautiful ball from Bunbury before firing it perfectly just inside of the far post.
Bunbury scored five minutes prior to setting up Fagundez, giving the Revolution their first three-goal lead of the season. Bunbury netted when he followed up his initial shot against Stefan Frei, rifling the ball into the back of the net from a tough angle.
On the other end of the pitch, despite allowing two direct shots on goal in the first five minutes, New England's defense and goalkeeper Bobby Shuttleworth continued to make their fortress impenetrable, posting their fourth clean sheet in as many games at Gillette Stadium this season.
Lamar Neagle and Obafemi Martins had those early opportunities for the Sounders, but failed to put them away in a pair of chances that could have ultimately changed the dynamic of the game.
Seattle would not get another shot on Shuttleworth until the 54th minute of the match, but again the netminder was up to the task. Shuttleworth stopped a close-ranger header from Marshall, who deflected a shot into his own net a minute into the second half, to help keep the Revs undefeated (3-0-1) and unscored upon at home.
The Sounders next return home for a Saturday date with the San Jose Earthquakes. New England, meanwhile, make their second trip of the season to PPL Park to face the Philadelphia Union, who defeated the Revs, 1-0, back on March 15.


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One of the most painted panoramas on Prince Edward Island, the tine fishing village of French River exudes the rural charm and timeless beauty so desired by many of our Island`s guests.
The surrounding hills provide a breath-taking view of New London Bay while the secluded beach is one of the Island`s most delightful locations.
The nearby Cape Tryon Lighthouse, perched on the tip of spectacular sandstone cliffs, offers a mesmerizing seascape and accompanying view of the rolling farmlands that dominates the surrounding landscape.
Home to a newly opened golf course, French River provides peace and quiet for guests and Islanders alike.


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Category ArchiveBack Pain
Back Pain 17 Jun 2009 04:26 pm
Massage Therapy and Back Pain Relief
I've had several readers write to me over the years and ask my opinion on massage therapy and whether or not I thought it was effective for back pain relief.
Unfortunately, at the time I was unable to answer their questions as completely as I would have liked.
You see the problem with giving an opinion — or being able to recommend a therapy — is that there is quite often a lack of reliable information on the subject. Up until now, we've only had anecdotal evidence to suggest that massage therapy helped to reduce pain. And as you know, anecdotal evidence leaves plenty of room for doubt.
However, I recently ran across a study published in the Annals of Internal Medicine that finally lends some credibility to this very popular treatment method.
The study involved 380 adults with advanced cancer who were experiencing moderate-to-severe pain. The participants were divided into two groups. One group received six 30-minute massage treatments over two weeks from certified massage therapists, while the control group received an equal number of treatments utilizing simple touch performed by untrained individuals.
The Results
The good news is that both groups experienced immediate pain relief according to the report:
"Primary outcomes were immediate … and sustained … change in pain. Secondary outcomes were immediate change in mood …
Both groups demonstrated immediate improvement in pain and mood …
Massage was superior for both immediate pain and mood … " [1]
Now, while this is good news, it should be noted that patients did not experience total pain relief from the treatments. Their pain was only reduced between 1 to 2 points on a 0 – 10 scale. This represents a significant improvement, but not total relief.
Also, this was not a blind study as noted here…
"Limitations: The immediate outcome measures were obtained by unblinded study therapists, possibly leading to reporting bias and the overestimation of a beneficial effect. The generalizability to all patients with advanced cancer is uncertain. The differential beneficial effect of massage therapy over simple touch is not conclusive without a usual care control group." [1]
The report went on to conclude…
"Massage may have immediately beneficial effects on pain and mood among patients with advanced cancer. Given the lack of sustained effects and the observed improvements in both study groups, the potential benefits of attention and simple touch should also be considered in this patient population." [1]
Herein Lies the Rub
Now perhaps you noticed that this study did not directly involve treatment for back pain. This is something that I happen to consider a plus rather than a negative.
After all, what's significant about this study is that it was conducted on advanced cancer patients. These were people with real pain. There was little or no chance that their pain was psychosomatic in nature.
The same cannot be said about back pain or migraine headaches or any other form of pain where emotions or stress can influence the results. After all, the brain can play tricks on us.
And while one study is not enough to establish proof, and it was not a double-blind situation, and the patients did not receive total pain relief, the fact remains that the results were immediate and sustained for the short term.
Overall, I feel the positive outcomes from this study are encouraging.
Until next time,
1. Kutner, JS. et all. Massage Therapy versus Simple Touch to Improve Pain and Mood in Patients with Advanced Cancer, A Randomized Trial. Annals of Internal Medicine. 16 September 2008 | Volume 149 Issue 6 | Pages 369-379


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Hostel 44 is a brand new facility, recently opened for business, located in the heart of Sofia. It is just 47 meters/140 feet (exactly measured) away from the most popular pedestrian area in the city – The central sreet. It's close to all the best attractions and hot spots the city has to offer during the sunny days and sleepless nights. The lively area is full of pubs, restaurants and bars for the ones who are interested in the night life happening in the capital. Those who prefer seeing the sights Sofia has to offer, will be pleased to know that our excellent location provides easy access to all the famous historical sights - they're not any further than a 10 minute walk away ! Except Vitosha mountain…(for obvious reasons). Since we're the latest hostel opened in the city, all "the nicely mannered and multinigual personnel" has already been hired. Bearing this fact in mind, we only have a few half-brains left. Albeit their lack of skills, they're quite friendly, helpful and know the sights in the city like the palm of their hand.
The hostel itself is brand new and located in a three-story house. In terms of accomodation, we have got 3 mixed dormitories - for 6 people each. One female dormitory - for 6 women (we know it's quite risky to put six unacquainted women in one room, but we're quite adventurous and like to live on the edge).
We also have a fully equipped kitchen and a small, but cozy common room with a big flat screen TV and a computer for you to use. However, if you decide to bring your own laptop/tablet/smartphone, don't worry - we have free Wi-Fi.
The house is divided into common areas such as the kitchen/dining room and the living room. During the day you can also sit outside the house, drinking first morning tea or coffee or just to relax after a long day filled with sightseeing. We have positioned chairs and tables, where you can enjoy the silence, while being in the heart of the city. What is more, our common room is at another floor, so that people that want to chat don't bother the ones that want to sleep.
When staying in Hostel 44, you'll actually feel at home as we have included:
delicious fresh made breakfast and hot tea/coffee
towels and linens
(as already mentioned) free Wi fi
a common area
fully equipped kitchen where we like to experiment with spices, textures and taste
a computer for you to use anytime you want
"rent a bike" service for the sporty ones
TV/DVD set
board games
book exchange (leave a book in our library and choose one for yourself!)
no curfew
We're centrally located in a newly painted and rebuilt three-floor building, only a stone's throw from major tourist and cultural points of interest in Sofia. We're also close to bars, clubs, restaurants, shops and supermarkets. We have oun bar too. Also we have excellent public transport connections to all parts of the city. Everything you need is right here and your great stay in Sofia can start. In just a few minutes time, you can get to the main attractions of Sofia - The Presidency, the Sv. Nedelya church, the largo of Sofia, the Central Halls, the shopping street Vitosha, plenty of bars, coffees and restaurants. In same time we are located in a small and very quiet street. You feel like you are in the heart of the vibrant and crowded capital, but without its unpleasant noises.
Our address is Iskar 37 str., two minutes away from the Courthouse of Sofia and some of the most renowned streets in the city. We also provide a pick-up service so you won't have to waste your time waiting and explaining things to taxi drivers. The latter is not free, but it's cheaper than travelling with a taxi. You can either pre-order by submitting your arrival details or you can just give us a call when you're at the airport or train/bus station.


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DAVIS, Calif. – Will Davis II scored 18 points, grabbed 12 rebounds and UC Irvine erased a 19-point halftime deficit to defeat UC Davis 88-85 on Saturday night.
The Aggies took a commanding 47-28 lead at halftime but a Michael Wilder three-point play with 2:35 to go gave UC Irvine (18-14, 11-7 Big West) a 76-74 lead, its first of the night, and never looked back.
Wilder finished with 18 points and nine rebounds. Chris McNealy scored 15 points, Daman Starring had 12 and Alex Young chipped in with 11.
Corey Hawkins had 21 points for UC Davis (14-16, 9-9) and J.T. Adenrele added 18.
UC Irvine claims the No. 4 seed in the Big West Conference tournament and will play fifth-seeded Hawaii on Thursday in Anaheim. UC Davis falls to the six seed and will play No. 3 Cal Poly.
The Anteaters have won six of their last seven games heading into the conference tournament.


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ParaView/Users Guide/Annotation
In ParaView, there are several ways to annotate the data to better understand or explain it. Several of the annotations can be interactively placed in the 3D scene. The parameters of the annotations are controlled using traditional user interface elements. Some types of annotation are discussed in other parts of this book. See the section on Selection for information about labeling selected points or cells in a data set.
Scalar Bar
The most straightforward way to display a scalar bar (or color legend) in the active 3D view is to use the Color Legend Visibility button on the Active Variables Control toolbar. When the data set selected in the Pipeline Browser is being colored by a variable (i.e., something other than Solid Color is selected in the Color by menu on the Display tab), this button is active. Clicking it toggles the visibility (in the selected 3D view) of a scalar bar showing the mapping from data values to colors for that variable.
Clicking the Edit Color Map button to the right of the Color Legend button brings up the Color Scale Editor dialog. As described in the Displaying Data chapter, you have precise control over the mapping between data values and visible colors on the Color Scale tab of that dialog.
On the Color Legend tab, there are several different parameters that allow you to control the appearance of the color legend itself. First is the Show Color Legend check box which toggles the visibility of the scalar bar (color legend) in the 3D view. This has the same effect as using the color legend visibility button. Below the Show Color Legend check button are the controls for displaying the title and labels on the scalar bar. In the Title section, the Text entry box specifies the label that appears above the scalar bar. It defaults to the name of the array used for coloring the data set. If the current data set is being colored by a vector array, the value of the second entry box defaults to specifying how the color is determined from the vector (i.e.,X, Y, Z, or Magnitude). The entry box labeled Labels contains formatting text specifying the form of the scalar bar labels (numbers). The format specification used is the same as that used by the print function in C++.
Below each of the Title and Labels entry boxes are controls for determining how the title and labels will be drawn in the display area. The leftmost control is a menu for choosing the font; the available fonts are Arial (the default), Courier, and Times. Next are three formatting attribute buttons controlling whether the text is boldfaced, italicized, or shadowed. The next interface control is a spin box for controlling the text's opacity. It ranges from 0 (transparent) to 1 (opaque).
At the bottom of this tab is a Number of Labels spin box. This determines how many scalar-value labels will be shown alongside the scalar bar. To the right of that is an Aspect Ratio spin box which allows you to make the scalar bar relatively thinner or thicker.
When the scalar bar is displayed in the 3D scene, it can be positioned and resized interactively, similar to interacting with 3D widgets. Clicking and dragging the scalar bar with the left mouse button repositions it in the display area. If the scalar bar begins to move beyond the left-or-right side of the display area, it is reoriented vertically. If it is moving off-screen at the top or bottom of the display area then it is reoriented in a horizontal direction. The scalar bar can be resized by left-clicking and dragging any of its sides or corners.
Orientation Axes
When interacting with data in ParaView, it can be difficult to determine how the data set is oriented in 3D. To remedy this problem, a marker showing labeled 3D axes (i.e., orientation axes) can be displayed. The orientation of the axes matches that of the data, and the axes reorient themselves as the camera is rotated about the 3D scene.
The user interface controls for the orientation axes are located in the Annotation' section of the View Settings dialog (Edit menu, View Settings) for the 3D view. The check box beside the Orientation Axes label toggles the visibility of the orientation axes. The Interactive check box controls whether the orientation axes can be repositioned and resized through mouse interaction, similar to interacting with 3D widgets. Left-clicking and dragging the orientation axes repositions them in the 3D view. When the orientation axes are in interactive mode, a bounding rectangle (outline) is displayed around the axes when the mouse moves over them. Left-clicking and dragging on the edges of this outline resizes the orientation axes. From the Set Outline Color button (enabled when Interactive is checked), you can change the color used for displaying the bounding rectangle. This is useful for making the outline more visible if its current color is similar to the color of the background or any object behind the outline (if the orientation axes are placed in front of a data set). The orientation axes are always drawn in front of any data set occupying the same portion of the 3D view. The Axis Label Color button allows you to change the color of the labels for the three axes. The reasons for changing the color of the axis labels are similar to those for changing the outline color.
Center of Rotation
On the same dialog box you also have control over whether or not the center of rotation should be annotated. This annotation demarcates the location in space about which the camera rotates. ParaView uses the center of the initial data set loaded into the pipeline as the default value. You can control this placement and display of the center of rotation display via the Center Axes Control toolbar' (View menu, Toolbars, Center Axes Control'). If you need to specify an exact coordinate you may do so via the Adjust Camera dialog exposed by the righmost button on the left set of buttons above the 3D view.
Text Display
Often users want to display additional text in the 3D view (e.g., when generating a still image or an animation). In ParaView, there are a variety of ways to do this, all through the use of sources and filters. The Text source displays 2D text in the 3D scene, the 3D Text source does the same for 3D text, and the Annotate Time filter shows the current time using a text annotation in the 3D view.
Text Source
The Text source allows you display arbitrary 2D text on top of a 3D view. It is available from the Sources menu. On its Properties tab, enter whatever text you wish to be displayed in the Text entry area, and press the Apply button.
Once the text has been added to the 3D view, you can reposition it within the view by left-clicking and dragging the text. (A bounding box will be displayed around the text.) By default, the text is displayed in the lower left corner of the 3D view.
The Display tab in the Object Inspector for the Text source is different than for most other sources and filters displayed in the 3D view. Specific controls are given for positioning the text and setting various font properties.
The first check box, Show Text, toggles the visibility of the text in the 3D view. This corresponds to the eye icon in the Pipeline Browser for this source. The Interactive check box below it determines whether the text may be interactively repositioned by clicking and dragging in the 3D view.
The Text Property section of the Display tab allows you to specify various parameters relating to the font used for displaying the text. The Font Size spin box determines how large the letters in the text will be. The Font menu determines which font type will be used: Ariel, Courier, or Times. The three buttons beside this menu indicate whether the text will be drawn boldfaced, italicized, and/or using shadows. The Align menu specifies whether the text will be left-, center-, or right-aligned within its bounds box. The Opacity spin box determines how opaque the text appears. An opacity value of 0 corresponds to completely transparent text, while an opacity value of 1 means completely opaque text. The Color button beside the Opacity spin box allows you to choose a color for the text.
The Text Position of the Display tab is used for specifying exactly where in the 3D view the text appears. If Use Window Location is unchecked, then the Lower Left Corner section is active. The two spin boxes provided determine the X and Y coordinates of the lower left corner of the bounding box of the text, specified in normalized coordinates (starting from the lower left corner of the view).
If Use Window Location is checked, then the six buttons in that section of the interface become available. They allow you to choose various locations within the view for anchoring the text. Using the top row of buttons, you may place the text in the upper left corner, in the top center of the view, or in the upper right corner, respectively. The bottom row of button behaves similarly for the bottom portion of the 3D view.
3D Text Source
Whereas the Text source (described above) positions text in 2D, overlaying the 3D scene, the 3D Text source places text in the 3D scene. The text is affected by rotation, panning, and zooming as is any other object in the 3D scene.
You can control the placement of the 3D Text in two ways. First, the Display tab for all sources and filters shown in a 3D view have controls to position, translate, rotate and scale the object via textual controls. It is often easier however to use a the Transform filter for the same purpose. The transform filter allows you to drag, rotate and scale the object via either the 3D widget in the scene or via the text controls on its Properties tab.
Annotate Time
The Annotate Time source and filter are useful for labeling a time-varying data set or animation with ParaView's current time in a 3D view. The distinction between the two is somewhat abstract. VTK's temporal support works by have the pipeline request data for a particular time. The text source displays exactly this. VTK's sources and filters are allowed to produce data at different (usually nearby producing data that changes over a step function in time) time. The annotate time filter shows the data produces by an given filter.
In either case, the annotated time value is drawn as a 2D label, similar to the output of the Text source. The Properties tab for this filter provides a single text box labeled Format. From this text box, you may specify a format string (printf style) indicating how the label will appear in the scene. As with the output of the Text source, this label may be interactively repositioned in the scene. The Display tab for this source is the same as the one for the Text source; it is described earlier in this section.
Other sources as Annotations
Most of the other items in the Sources menu can also be used for annotation of the 3D scene. Placement of these is similar to placement of the 3D Text source. In particular the 2D Glyph, Ruler and Outline sources are frequently used for annotation.
The ruler as the name applies allows for some quantitative measurement of the data. The ruler produces a Line widget in the 3D scene. It is most effective to use the 'P' key to place the two ends of the line in the 3D scene in turn. When placed the Properties tab for the ruler lists the length of the line you've placed in space. In Figure 9 A ruler is being used to measure the distance between the cows horns.
Cube Axes
Finally in the Annotation area of the Display tab of any object shown in a 3D view you can toggle the display of a Cube Axes Display. Like the ruler source, the cube axes allows you to inspect to world space extent of objects in the scene. When this display is enabled, a gridded, labelled bounding box is drawn around the object that lets you quickly determine the world space extent in each dimension of the object.
Pressing the Edit button next to the enable checkbox brings up a dialog that lets you customize the presentation of the axes display. You have one tab on this dialog for each of the three axes. Use the Title entry to specify a label. Use the Show Axes checkbox to enable or disable the given axes. Show Ticks and Show Minor Ticks let you customize the division markers along the axis. Show Grid Lines extends the major tick marks so that they completely surround the object. The Custom Bounds entry allows you to specify your own extent for that axis label.
At the bottom of the dialog box are controls over all three axes. The Fly Mode dropdown controls the way the axes are drawn on different axes dependent on the camera orientation. Outer Edges draws opposing edges so as to space the annotation as widely as possible. Closest Triad and Furthest Triad draw the nearest and furthest corners respectively. The two static options lock the choice of edges to draw so that they do now change as the camera moves. Tick Location draws the tick marks inward toward the center of the object, outward away from the center, or in both directions simultaneously. Corner Offset puts some space between the actual bounds and the displayed axes, which is again useful for minimizing visual clutter. Finally you have control over the color of the axes through the Set Axes Color... popup color selector.


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From DETROPIA's website, by Caroline Libresco:
Detroit's story has encapsulated the iconic narrative of America over the last century— the Great Migration of African Americans escaping Jim Crow; the rise of manufacturing and the middle class; the love affair with automobiles; the flowering of the American dream; and now . . . the collapse of the economy and the fading American mythos. With its vivid, painterly palette and haunting score, DETROPIA sculpts a dreamlike collage of a grand city teetering on the brink of dissolution. These soulful pragmatists and stalwart philosophers strive to make ends meet and make sense of it all, refusing to abandon hope or resistance. Their grit and pluck embody the spirit of the Motor City as it struggles to survive postindustrial America and begins to envision a radically different future.
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SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California's prison mental health system has been spending far more on anti-psychotic drugs than other states with large prison systems, raising questions about whether patients are receiving proper treatment.
While the amount has been decreasing in recent years, anti-psychotics still account for nearly $1 of every $5 spent on pharmaceuticals purchased for the state prison system, according to figures compiled by The Associated Press.
Questions about the spending have been raised by the state budget analyst and by the court-appointed authority in charge of buying prison pharmaceuticals, who concluded that California's inmate mental health professionals appear to overmedicate their patients. Even a former top prison mental health administrator acknowledged that fear of lawsuits often drove the decisions about inmates' treatment.
Nearly 20 percent of the $144.5 million California spent on all prison pharmaceuticals last year went for anti-psychotic drugs, according to the AP's figures, which were obtained through requests under the state Public Records Act.
"Why are all these people on meds? A lot of it, I think, we overprescribe on mental health. Anybody who comes in on mental health (referrals), we put on a psychotropic," said J. Clark Kelso, the federal court-appointed receiver who controls prison medical care.
His office buys psychiatric drugs for the prison system, but he is not in charge of prison mental health care and thus has no say over how often the pharmaceuticals are used.
A separate court-appointed authority, Rhode Island attorney Matthew Lopes Jr., oversees the treatment of mentally ill inmates. He did not return repeated telephone messages for this story.
Kelso, the medical receiver, raised an alarm with prison mental health officials internally three years ago when he identified what he thought was an extraordinary use of anti-psychotics, which in 2008 accounted for 34 percent of all prison pharmaceuticals spending. Spending on anti-psychotics has since fallen from about 26 percent of all prescription spending in 2009-2011 to 19 percent last year.
When he raised concerns, Kelso said he was told that "we have a substantial reliance on drug treatment programs, more so than in other states around the country."
The comparatively high use of the drugs in California is feeding a debate between doctors and the attorneys representing inmates over whether mentally ill prisoners receive too much medication or not enough. California's poor treatment of inmates with mental health problems prompted a federal court takeover of that operation and persuaded federal judges to order the prison population sharply reduced to improve prisoner care.
Gov. Jerry Brown's administration faces a Thursday deadline to tell the court what steps it will take to further ease prison overcrowding by year's end.
A federal judge recently decided to maintain court oversight of the mental health system, finding that the state continues to violate constitutional standards. More than 32,000 of California's nearly 133,000 inmates are receiving mental health treatment.
Psychotropic drugs include anti-psychotics, as well as sedatives, antidepressants, stimulants and tranquillizers. Anti-psychotics are generally used to treat schizophrenia and bipolar disorder.
California's use of the anti-psychotic medications stands out among the nation's large prison systems, according to comparison figures compiled by the AP.
New York's prison department spent about 17 percent of its prescription drug budget on all drugs within the psychotropic category at the same time California was spending 26 percent of its budget on anti-psychotics alone.
Texas, which has a unique method of buying low-cost drugs, spent 6 percent of its prison pharmaceutical budget on psychotropic drugs, including anti-psychotics last year, while just 3 percent of Florida prisons' prescription drug spending is going for psychotropics this fiscal year.
In a report published last year, the independent Legislative Analyst's Office said California spent about $1,500 annually on psychiatric drugs for each inmate in a mental health program, compared to an average $610 a year per inmate in Florida, Georgia, New Jersey, Ohio and Pennsylvania.
Budget analyst Aaron Edwards, who compiled the report, said his figures included spending on mentally ill inmates by all state agencies and private contractors so the state-by-state spending comparisons would be as direct as possible.
California corrections officials said they have no reason to believe that anti-psychotics are over-prescribed to inmates.
Yet Sharon Aungst, formerly the chief deputy secretary for the department's Division of Health Care Services, said the treatments given inmates are largely driven by lawsuits, federal court orders and the court-appointed special master overseeing a long-running legal settlement that governs virtually every aspect of inmate mental health care.
Aungst said there was a tendency for prison health care workers to practice "defensive medicine" for fear of triggering a lawsuit or violating federal court orders.
"One of the concerns that our staff always have, if we take someone off the caseload because we don't think they ought to be on there anymore, and anything goes wrong, then we get clobbered," Aungst said shortly before she left the department in 2011, at a time when anti-psychotics accounted for one quarter of prison pharmaceutical spending. "So we are playing defensive medicine quite a bit, and so it's much safer for our staff, because they're risk-averse, to keep them on the caseload and continue to treat even if we're not so sure that that's absolutely necessary."
She spoke at the time on behalf of the department, with the department's chief psychiatrist, assistant chief legal counsel and a department spokesman sitting in on the interview.
Dr. Karen Higgins, the chief psychiatrist for the state corrections department, said about 64 percent of inmates diagnosed with serious mental illness are prescribed some form of psychotropic medication, a class that includes anti-psychotics.
"While we do not have data to support the assertion of over-prescribing as an indication of defensive medicine, it is a possibility that we must guard against with appropriate checks and balances," Higgins said in an emailed response to questions.
She said the department has set up drug-use guidelines and a list of preferred drugs that doctors and mental health workers can prescribe, as well as a computer program to help providers choose the right medication.
The department also tracks doctors' prescribing practices and requires them to justify their reasons for using more expensive medications that are not on the preferred list. A bill signed into law in 2011 requires that state prison inmates not be given psychotropic medications without their informed consent.
That same year, attorney Ken Karan won a court order prohibiting the department from forcing one of his inmate clients from taking psychotropic medication against his will.
"My feeling is it's being used as a disciplinary measure, as a way to control people who are not institutional type of people," said Karan, who is based in the San Diego County community of Carlsbad. "One way to make them comply is to pump them up with dangerous drugs."
He said he had not seen evidence of that for inmates other than his client because the scope of his lawsuit was narrow.
In another case, the family of Joseph Sullivan won a lawsuit and a $475,000 settlement against the state corrections department in 2009, three years after Sullivan was found hanging by a bed sheet in Chuckawalla Valley State Prison, located in the Southern California desert along the Arizona border.
Experts who reviewed his case as part of the family's investigation said the 26-year-old was a victim of mind-altering drugs he didn't need but that were still prescribed by a prison doctor. Sullivan had been prescribed the anti-psychotic drug olanzapine, which goes by the trade name, Zyprexa.
"Joseph was put on psychotropic drugs for no good reason," said David Springfield, one of the Sullivan family's attorneys.
An autopsy showed Sullivan had nearly double the maximum therapeutic amount of Zyprexa in his system. The combination of the drug and the isolation and high temperatures within the prison cell likely drove him "to hopelessness and despair," the autopsy said.
Fellow inmates and a medical expert hired by the family said he had not demonstrated signs of being suicidal before he started taking the drug.
His father, Daniel Sullivan, said a letter from his son arrived a day after his death, in which the younger man said he was looking forward to being transferred to a prison closer to home. In the letter, the son promised, "We're going to have a new life together. I want to pick up and go forward."
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December 28, 2007: New On e23: Dungeon FantasyIn the beginning, an adventure consisted of meeting an old wizard in a tavern, and following the dusty map he gave you and your friends. Inevitably, you were lead to a complex series of rooms, usually underground, filled with monsters and their treasure. You slew the monsters, took the treasure, and returned to the tavern to celebrate (or heal your wounds).
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The Newspaper Comment That Could Take Down a Congressman
Georgia Rep. Paul Broun is in trouble after it was revealed that the first question at a town hall event he hosted this week was, 'Who's going to shoot Obama?' The crowd laughed at this hilarious joke and so, reportedly, did Rep. Broun. A great scoop—and one broken by a random newspaper commenter.
In the comments section of the boring Athens Banner-Herald write-up of the meeting, commenter Mark Farmer (whose avatar is, suitably, the Justice League) dropped this bombshell:
I was there last evening. The honor of the first question asked was given to a man who had traveled 75 miles to attend.
"Who's gonna shoot Obama?" he asked.
Nearly everyone in the room, including U.S. Congressman Broun laughed.
Since when is a threat against the life of the President, even one made to score political points, a laughing matter?
This sparked further reporting by the Banner-Herald and a confirmation from Broun's camp about the account and a (very) belated condemnation of the incident by Broun.
Commenters are usually treated like the whipping boys of the Internet, but here is a true hero among nitpickers. We salute you, Mark Farmer. Are comments eligible for Pulitzers?


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Air India flew Dreamliners after grounding order: official
Air India flew some of its Boeing Co 787 Dreamliner aircraft even after U.S. regulators grounded the global fleet last month due to undiagnosed battery problems.
Dreamliners operated by India's national carrier were flown to Mumbai for maintenance reasons, Arun Mishra, the head of India's civil aviation regulator, said on Monday. A spokesman for state-run Air India declined to comment.
"When the Dreamliners were grounded, they had come to Delhi from Frankfurt and Paris. Air India asked us for permission to take them to Mumbai because they have their maintenance facility there and also they were paying very high parking charges in Delhi," Mishra, director general of civil aviation, told Reuters. "We gave them permission with strict orders that no passenger will be allowed."
The 50 technologically advanced Dreamliners in global service have been grounded since mid-January as officials in the United States, Japan and France investigate a battery fire and a battery failure on two separate planes last month.
U.S. officials said this week they were making progress in their investigations into the battery issues.
India grounded Air India's six Dreamliner jets on January 17 in line with the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration's advisory to ground the aircraft. The national carrier said last month that Boeing would be liable for compensation.
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Charlie LeDuff visited the studios of HBO's 'Real Time With Bill Maher' to discuss his new book, "Detroit: An American Autopsy." Below is my favorite quote from the interview, which you can watch HERE.
Bill Maher: "Are you hopeful about Detroit?"
Charlie LeDuff: "Yeah."
Maher: "Really?"
Charlie LeDuff: "Yeah, we're going to be there."
Maher: "It's going to go up again?"
Charlie LeDuff: "The Roman Empire fell and Italians are walking around with nice shoes on, man. We're going to be fine."
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This climate climate zone covers from about 44�N to 50�N latitude mostly east of the 100th meridian in North America. However, it can be found as far north as 54�N, and further west in the Canadian Prairie Provinces and below 40�N in the high Appalachians. In Europe this subtype reaches its most northerly latitude at nearly 61� N. Areas featuring this subtype of the continental climate have an average temperature in the warmest month below 22�C (22�F). Summer high temperatures in this zone typically average between 21-28�C (70-82�F) during the daytime and the average temperatures in the coldest month are generally far below the -3 �C (27�F) mark.
The K�ppen Climate Classification subtype for this climate is "Dfb". (Warm Summer Continental Climate).
The average temperature for the year in Del Bonita is 40.6°F (4.8°C). The warmest month, on average, is July with an average temperature of 62.4°F (16.9°C). The coolest month on average is January, with an average temperature of 18.3°F (-7.6°C).
The highest recorded temperature in Del Bonita is 100.0°F (37.8°C), which was recorded in August. The lowest recorded temperature in Del Bonita is -48.0°F (-44.4°C), which was recorded in December.
The average amount of precipitation for the year in Del Bonita is 14.2" (360.7 mm). The month with the most precipitation on average is June with 3.4" (86.4 mm) of precipitation. The month with the least precipitation on average is February with an average of 0.3" (7.6 mm). There are an average of 69.0 days of precipitation, with the most precipitation occurring in June with 9.0 days and the least precipitation occurring in January with 4.0 days.
In Del Bonita, there's an average of 55.6" of snow (0 cm). The month with the most snow is April, with 9.3" of snow (23.6 cm).


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Story highlights
LCC announces it is breaking with the Syrian National Council
Of the thousands arriving in Turkey, dozens are injured
Syrian government forces and rebels fought near Turkish border
United Nations says more than 11,000 Syrians have fled into Turkey, Jordan
The Syrian National Council, a prominent opposition group, elected its spokesman, George Sabra, as president at a meeting Friday in Doha, Qatar.
A foreign policy spokesman for the group, Radwan Ziadeh, said Sabra – the group's third president – replaces Abdulbaset Sieda, who is now a member of the executive office.
In all, 11 members – men of various religious and ethnic backgrounds – were elected to the executive office. "We hope the refreshment in leadership will reflect on the work of the SNC in the future," Ziadeh said. "No women were elected to the executive council but there is a seat for a woman that remains empty," he said, adding that no woman had run for the position.
After the election, a new push on Syria
The news came on the same day that a group that organizes and documents anti-government actions announced it was breaking with the Syrian National Council.
"Several attempts have been made by the Local Coordination Committees in Syria to push the Syrian National Council and its leadership to adopt a serious and effective general reform plan so that the SNC can assume its role as a political representative of the great people of Syria," the LCC said in a written statement.
"It is clear to us now that the Syrian National Council is not fit to assume such (a) role, especially after the disappointing results (of) its restructure attempts."
But Najib al-Adel, a member of the Idlib Revolutionary Movement, told CNN from Doha that some members of the LCC were sticking with the SNC. In addition, other opposition groups remained in Doha and were prepared to continue the talks, he said.
The moves in Qatar came as rebels inside Syria claimed victory at a key border town after fighting drove thousands of civilians into Turkey.
The battles between Syrian government forces and rebels raged in Ras Al Ain, across the border from Turkey.
The fighting has pushed thousands more refugees out of Syria. By Friday, more than 11,000 Syrians had escaped into Jordan and Turkey and more than 400,000 had been registered or were awaiting registration as refugees, said Ron Redmond, the spokesman for U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees.
Across Syria, 126 people were reported dead on Friday, the LCC said. Among them were nine childen and six women, it said.
Read more: 'Children's bodies were maimed and burnt,' witness says
Syrian rebels reported key strides in their nearly 20-month battle against the Syrian regime, said Amer al-Hasakawi, a Free Syrian Army spokesman in Hasaka. He said several rebel brigades had been slugging it out with government security forces since Thursday morning.
Fighters killed dozens of people and arrested others, he said. They seized government buildings, gained control of a border crossing with Turkey and took over border outposts. He said dozens of soldiers in those outposts defected.
Clashes continued Friday with military forces shelling Ras Al Ain with artillery and firing rockets.
Abu Ahmed, a rebel commander, reported major displacement of civilians because of the fighting and fears that government warplanes will bombard rebel-held neighborhoods. He said rebels were helping move some residents into Turkey and others have fled to nearby Syrian cities.
"Thanks to God, none of the FSA fighters are martyred," said Sgt. Muahyman al-Taee, a rebel brigade commander. "We've killed big numbers from the regime's dogs. Soon we will announce the complete liberation of the city."
Read more: Young Syrian amputee makes dangerous journey to find help
The Ras Al Ain fighting could be heard from over the Turkish border in the town of Ceylanpinar.
The violence in Syria had Turkey's military on high alert. TV footage showed Turkish soldiers, wearing combat gear, taking cover along berms. It also showed Turkish soldiers picking refugees up from the border and organizing their border crossing.
"The Syrians came right across the border wire," said Mehmet Saitavci, the mayor of a neighborhood in Ceylanpinar.
Schools in the Turkish town were closed because of the fighting.
"People here have a lot of relatives on the other side, and they are coming up to the border and the Turkish military takes them and brings them into Turkey," Saitavci said. "We were told we can have our relatives be our guests for a few days."
Of the thousands of refugees, 71 were injured, the Turkish Foreign Ministry official said. Two died of their wounds. Most of the Syrians were sent to a Turkish camp in the town of Akcakale.
The Turkish Anadolu news agency reported Friday that 26 Syrian military officers and 71 of their relatives had fled to the Turkish province of Hatay. But Turkey's Foreign Ministry denied the report.
Read more: Who is arming the Syrian conflict?
Before the new arrivals, the Turkish government had said it was hosting more than 111,000 Syrian refugees.
As violence continued in border towns, battles between the forces of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and opposition fighters raged elsewhere.
The Syrian conflict has left more than 35,000 people dead and widespread displacement.
The United States announced more than $34 million in humanitarian assistance for Syrians on Friday, bringing the amount of humanitarian aid it has allocated to more than $165 million.
U.S. Deputy Assistant Secretary Kelly T. Clements made the announcement Friday at the Syrian Humanitarian Forum in Geneva, Switzerland.
The money will be used for several purposes, including the purchase of blankets, heating of stoves and other goods for refugees in Jordan, Turkey and Lebanon during the winter months. The aid also will target health care, including an immunization campaign for up to 1 million children in Syria to protect them from measles and other diseases.
It will also be used to help wounded Syrians at the Lebanon-Syrian border get medical care.
CNN's Raja Razek, Salma Abdelaziz, Gul Tuysuz, Hamdi Alkhshali and Joe Sterling contributed to this report.


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Much like the Spider-Man films needed a transfusion of fresh blood to revitalize the franchise, Activision's Spider-Man games were ready for a renewal. After a couple of stiflingly linear (and thoroughly average) adventures, The Amazing Spider-Man (based off the movie of the same name) should have been Spidey's triumphant homecoming – the first Spider-Man game in years to feature an open-world version of New York City. Instead, it's a repetitive adventure that's barely saved from mediocrity by a couple of interesting concepts.
Taking place in the same world as the new film, the game is set a few weeks after the movie ends. (WARNING: See the movie first or else this game will spoil much of the film for you.) Thanks to Oscorp and some accidental help from Spider-Man, there's an outbreak of of animal men and a cross-species virus that's transforming the residents of New York into strange creatures. With the help of Curt Connors, Spidey has to save the city's denizens, including his girlfriend Gwen Stacy.
Having the game occur after the film is a plus, since we'd rather not repeat Spider-Man's origin all over again. But since the main problems of the film's plot have been solved, we're stuck fighting a loser squad instead of A-listers like the Lizard. That means we're resigned to trading punches with personality-free versions of villains like Scorpion and Rhino or battling even more bland robots. Seriously, has there ever been a more overused enemy in comic book games than the generic robot? At least the writing is helped by Spidey's mildly witty quips along with some clever cameos by Bruce Campbell and others.
The core gameplay of a Spider-Man game is hard to get wrong, especially with a developer like Beenox on the job. Amazing is the team's third Spidey game in as many years – and like Shattered Dimensions and Edge of Time, they stick closely to what Neversoft had pioneered in games like Spider-Man 2 and Ultimate Spider-Man. Spider-Man moves in all the ways we expected, swinging freely through the city, webbing up crooks and henchmen, sticking to walls, and generally doing whatever a spider can. His nimble movements are an amalgam of a dozen different approaches to Spidey – which is fine, just not all that new.
At least the combat changes things up compared with past titles, although it seems to crib from another very famous (non-Spidey) game. The flow of combat, with Spidey chaining punches and combos while dodging and countering with his Spider Sense, borrows very heavily from Batman's Arkham games. When standing in the very heavy shadow of the Bat, Spidey's fighting style can't help appearing the lesser of the two, even with quirky lucha libre moves to make Parker's more unique. It's imprecise compared to Arkham's genius approach to combat – and that complaint goes double for Amazing's stealth tactics, which tries hard to be like Batman and fails, lacking the precision to pull off little more than simply sticking an unsuspecting enemy to the ceiling. There's much Spidey can learn from Batman's stellar titles, but this poorly implemented and half-baked adoption ignores what makes Spidey great while trying to paste on a style that doesn't quite fit.


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Vegas Locals Casino Market Showing Signs of Economic Rebound
The locals gaming market has suffered enough.
Gaming revenues produced by casinos in North Las Vegas, along the Boulder Strip, in Henderson and throughout unincorporated Clark County are down a collective 2.6 percent through April.
By comparison, during the first four months of 2013, gaming revenues have climbed 4.7 percent on the Strip and 1.8 percent statewide.
It long has been predicted that neighborhood casinos would be the last to recover as the Southern Nevada economy slowly ascends after bottoming out in 2010.
Amid all the doom and gloom, however, two analysts in the past week said they sense a rebound could take hold in the locals gaming market in the second half of the year.


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The Kraft Heinz Company (NASDAQ:KHC) shares traded higher over the last trading session, gaining 0.81% on 06/21/21. The shares fell to a low of $40.3312 before closing at $40.83. Intraday shares traded counted 4.86 million, which was 13.81% higher than its 30-day average trading volume of 5.64M. KHC's previous close was $40.50 while the outstanding shares total 1.22B. The firm stock's Relative Strength Index (RSI) is 31.96, with weekly volatility at 1.79% and ATR at 0.69. The KHC stock's 52-week price range has touched low of $28.56 and a $44.95 high.
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Investors have identified the Packaged Foods company The Kraft Heinz Company as an interesting stock but before investments are made there, an in-depth look at its trading activities will have to be conducted. The share is trading with a market value of around $50.96 billion, the company now has both obstacles and catalysts that affect them and they came from their mode of operations. With the company affected by events currently, it is a perfect time to analyze the numbers behind the firm in order to come up with a rather realistic picture of what this stock is.
The Kraft Heinz Company (KHC) Fundamentals that are to be considered.
When analyzing a stock, the first fundamental thing to take into account is the balance sheet. How healthy the balance sheet of a company is will determine if the company will be able to carry out all its financial and non-financial obligations and also keep the faith of its investors. For KHC, the company has in raw cash 2.36 billion on their books with 132.0 million currently as liabilities. How the trend is over time is what investors should be concerned about. The company has a healthy balance sheet as their debt profile has been on a decline. In terms of their assets, the company currently has 13.14 billion total, with 7.57 billion as their total liabilities.
KHC were able to record 583.0 million as free cash flow during the 08/05/2021 quarter of the year, this saw their quarterly net cash flow reduce by -1.06 billion. In cash movements, the company had a total of 810.0 million as operating cash flow.
Potential earnings growth for The Kraft Heinz Company (KHC)
In order to determine the future investment potential for this stock, we will have to analyze key trends that affect it. During the 08/05/2021 quarter of the year, The Kraft Heinz Company recorded a total of 6.39 billion in revenue. This figure implies that they witnessed a quarterly year/year change in their earnings with 3.71% coming in sequential stages and their sales for the 08/05/2021 quarter reducing by -8.52%.
What matters though is how it ends. When the core data for the company is broken down, then the stock sounds interesting. The company spent 4.19 billion trying to sell their products during the last quarter, with the result yielding a gross income of 2.2 billion. This allows shareholders to hold on to 1.22B with the recently reported earning now reading 0.46 cents per share. This is a figure that compared to analyst's prediction for their 08/05/2021 (0.72 cents a share).
Having a look at the company's valuation, the company is expected to record 2.61 total earnings per share during the next fiscal year. It is very important though to remember that the importance of trend far outweighs that of outlook. This analysis has been great and getting further updates on KHC sounds very interesting.
Is the stock of KHC attractive?
In related news, Canada Zone President, Keller Bruno sold 19,725 shares of the company's stock in a transaction that recorded on May 10. The sale was performed at an average price of 43.53, for a total value of 858,629. As the sale deal closes, the Director, CAHILL JOHN T now sold 209,488 shares of the company's stock, valued at 8,856,943. Also, Director, Sceti Elio Leoni bought 90,000 shares of the company's stock in a deal that was recorded on Dec 02. The shares were price at an average price of 33.22 per share, with a total market value of 2,989,630. Following this completion of acquisition, the International Zone President, OLIVEIRA RAFAEL now holds 16 shares of the company's stock, valued at 529. In the last 6 months, insiders have changed their ownership in shares of company stock by 0.60%.
4 out of 21 analysts covering the stock have rated it a Buy, while 15 have maintained a Hold recommendation on The Kraft Heinz Company. 2 analysts has assigned a Sell rating on the KHC stock. The 12-month mean consensus price target for the company's shares has been set at $42.39.


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Armed Forces Journal (AFJ) recently held their annual Shoot-Out at Blackwater USA. The AFJ Shoot-Out at Blackwater has become a real big deal annual event among small arms experts and military defense/tactical industry people. At this year's Shoot-Out (2004), Armed Forces Journal editor John Roos and his merry band of shooters/evaluators put a plethora of tactical small arms through their proverbial paces, including the ubiquitous Milkor MGL Mk-1S, which is currently the world's premier 40mm multiple grenade launcher, and an extremely effective force multiplier for military Special Opertions (SPECOPS) units, counterinsurgency forces, and private military company (PMC) security teams.
Coincidentally, I wrote and published a short article on the Milkor MGL Mk-1S 40mm mulitple grenade launcher last month, titled "New and Improved Milkor MGL Mk-1S Multiple 40mm Grenade Launcher for SPECOPS", in July.
Anyway, you can read all about the Armed Forces Journal (AFJ) Shoot-Out at Blackwater 2004 by clicking on the link below:…
Definitely worth reading. The article was written by Armed Forces Journal (AFJ) editor-in-chief, John G. Roos.
Included with the AFJ piece on Blackwater Shoot-Out 2004 is an article on the Heckler & Koch (HK) XM8 infantry rifle/carbine, titled "1 killer weapon:
8 things you'll love about the XM8". John Roos wrote this article article as well.
Included in the Armed Forces Journal (AFJ) XM8 piece are videos which, again coincidentally, DefenseReview highlighted in our article "ATK/HK XM8 Carbine Demonstration Videos from SHOT Show 2004", which we published back in June.
DefenseReview looks forward to the AFJ Shoot-Out at Blackwater every year, since we're fans of both Armed Forces Journal and the excellent Blackwater Training Center.
If you'd like to subscribe to Armed Forces Journal (AFJ), which DefRev highly recommends, by the way, you can do so by clicking on this link, and then clicking on the link to their subscription page.
You can reach Defense News Media Group, which publishes Armed Forces Journal (AFJ), at 703-750-9000, or via email at [email protected].
The Blackwater Training Center can be contacted at 252-435-2488, or via email at [email protected].
Blackwater Security Consulting can be reached at 252-435-2050.
Blackwater is also known for making high end target systems. You can contact Blackwater Target Systems at 252-435-2488, or via email at [email protected].
Click here to read an informative article about the ATK/HK XM8 infantry rifle/carbine at Military.com.


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As if getting your ass handed to you while playing video games wasn't annoying enough, [furrtek] decided that the best way to help improve his skills was by inflicting physical pain each time his on-screen character died.
While perusing the Internet looking for something to break through the doldrums of the day, he came upon a video in which someone decided to try on a dog shock collar just for kicks. This sparked [furrtek's] imagination, and he started to think that it would be pretty cool to use the same sort of device to make dying in a video game that much more unpleasant.
After ordering a set of collars online, he tore them apart to see how they functioned, and to measure just how big of a jolt they were able to deliver. [furrtek] then modified two Genesis controllers with a pair of ATtiny 25s, which let him send the fire signal to the collars. Unfortunately, stock Genesis games don't allow you to send signals to the controllers, so [furrtek] had to spend some time hacking ROM images to trigger events when players are injured or lose a life.
We think the project is pretty slick, and if you don't mind fiddling with your old controllers, you too can have a merciless trainer strapped around your neck. For those slightly more averse to pain, you can watch [furrtek] and his friend [Dyak] suffer the consequences of poor gameplay for your amusement.


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Yokohama Club Network - Chandraprabha Tyres, is located in Rahata, Ahmed Nagar. It is not just a regular tyre shop but a one-stop shop for all your tyre related needs & services like complete range of Yokohama Tyres, wheel balancing, wheel alignment etc. Available with trained technicians, Latest tools & Machinery. YCN is a specialized network based on Yokohamaglobal philosophy to develop Point Of Sales to provide a world-class tyre buying experience. Yokohama India currently has Yokohama Club Network outlets (YCN) across the length and breadth of India. Yokohama India Pvt. Ltd. is a 100% subsidiary of The Yokohama Rubber Co., Ltd which has already completed the 100th year of its establishment in 2017 and decided to foray into the Indian market in 2007. Yokohama India started its 1st manufacturing plant in November 2014 and achieved the milestone figure of 1 millionth Tyre production in the year 2016.
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For Immediate Release
Office of the Press Secretary
February 10, 2005
Personnel Announcement
President George W. Bush today announced his intention to name Roland W. Betts as a member of the New York Committee on the Olympic Games Board of Directors.
The International Olympic Committee will be making their final selection on the host city for the 2012 Olympic Games this summer. Mr. Betts will serve on the NYCOG Board of Directors if New York City is selected to host the 2012 Olympic Games by the IOC.
Mr. Betts is Founder and Chairman of Chelsea Piers, L.P., which developed and operates the Chelsea Piers Sports and Entertainment complex in New York City. In addition, he is Founder and President of Silver Screen Management, Inc. Mr. Betts is also a Director of the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation, which is charged with rebuilding Lower Manhattan. Earlier in his career, Mr. Betts was lead owner of the Texas Rangers Baseball Club. He received his bachelor's degree from Yale University and his J.D. from Columbia Law School.
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