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Hale Aina Happenings, Fish Ponds and Farms
Events with New Zealand's most awarded winery, MAO's annual fundraiser, and more.
Heeia fishpond's ongoing wall restoration.
Photo: Olivier Koning
Paepae o Heeia, the nonprofit group that cares for Heeia's ancient Hawaiian fishpond, will hold its annual fundraiser at Hula Grill in Waikiki on Kamehameha Day. Visit the seven stations dishing out food and enter a raffle to win edible goodies such as inamona, dried fish, dried he'e (octopus) and Samoan crab.
$40, 12:30 p.m. on June 11 at Hula Grill. Buy tickets online at paapohaku.eventbrite.com
Join master sommelier Patrick Okubo and chef Marc Anthony Freiberg at Mariposa for Wine Culture, an event featuring Champagne, Burgundy, foie gras, fresh oysters and cheeses. Among the wines poured: Ayala Blanc de Blanc 2005, Laroche Vaudevey 1er cru Chablis 2009 and Louis Jadot, Vosne Romanee, 2011.
$45, 5:30 p.m. on June 4 at Mariposa. 951-3420 for reservations.
Long before Lord of the Rings, New Zealand was known for its sauvignon blanc wines. Taste one of them from New Zealand's most awarded winery, Villa Maria, at a winemaker dinner at Tiki's Grill and Bar. The five-course menu pairs Villa Maria's 2011 Sauvignon Blanc with a Hokkaido scallops gratin and a 2010 Pinot Noir with olive oil poached venison and foie gras. And, of course, what's a New Zealand dinner without New Zealand lamb? It's served with mint chutney and a cambozola apple turnover. Villa Maria viticulturist Oliver Powrie will be in attendance.
$79, 5:30 p.m. on June 16 at Tiki's Bar and Grill. Buy tickets online at WineDinnerTikis.eventbrite.com
Town Ma MAO (translation: Town to MAO), MAO Organic Farms' annual fundraiser to help fund youth education on the farm, will be on June 28. Tour the farm and enjoy dinner by Town restaurant, which works closely with MA'O year-round. There will be an imu, but don't expect your usual luau fare.
$125 for CSA members/$150 for non-members. 5 p.m. on June 28 at MAO Organic Farms in Waianae. Buy tickets online here.


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Miklas argues that the research has practical implications for health care. "With this discovery we can reduce costs on the health care system by creating more accurate drug screening."
"One of the greatest challenges of transplanting these patches is getting the cells to survive," says Nunes, who is both a cardiac and a vascularization specialist, "and for that they need the blood vessels. Our next challenge is to put the vascularization together with cardiac cells."
Mimicking the conditions that occur naturally in cardiac biological development — in essence, simulating the way fetal heart rates escalates prior to birth, the team ramped up the rate at which the cells were being stimulated, from zero to 180 and 360 beats per minute.
"The question is: if you want to test drugs or treat adult patients, do you want to use cells and look like and function like fetal cardiomyocytes?" asks Radisic, who was named a "Top Innovator Under 35″ by MIT Technology Review and more recently was awarded the Order of Ontario and the Young Engineers of Canada 2012 Achievement Award. "Can we mature these cells to become more like adult cells?"
"In 2006 science saw the first derivation of induced pluripotent stem cells from mice," she explains. "Now we can turn stem cells into cardiac cells and make relatively mature tissue from human samples, without ethical concerns."
June 24, 2013 ? A new method of maturing human heart cells that simulates the natural growth environment of heart cells while applying electrical pulses to mimic the heart rate of fetal humans has led researchers at the University of Toronto to an electrifying step forward for cardiac research.
In response to the challenge, Radisic and her team, which includes graduate student Jason Miklas and Dr. Sara Nunes, a scientist at the University Health Network (UHN) in Toronto, created a 'biowire'. Stem-cells derived human cardiomyocytes are seeded along a silk suture typical to medical applications. The suture allows the cells to grow along its length, close to their natural growth pattern.
But the key to successfully and rapidly maturing the cells turns out to be the way the pulses are applied.
According to Nunes, the development takes cardiac research just one step closer to viable cardiac patches.
Like a scene lifted from Frankenstein, the cells are then treated to cycles of electric pulses, like a mild version of a pacemaker, which have been show to stimulate the cells to increase in size, connect and beat like a real heart tissue.
Radisic, who calls the new method a "game changer," points out just how far the field has come in a very short time.
"You cannot obtain human cardiomyocytes (heart cells) from human patients," explains Milica Radisic, Canada Research Chair in Functional Cardiovascular Tissue Engineering and Associate Professor at the Institute of Biomaterials & Biomedical Engineering (IBBME) and the Department of Chemical Engineering. Because human heart cells — integral for studying the efficacy of cardiac drugs, for instance — do not naturally proliferate in large numbers, to date researchers have been using heart cells derived from reprogrammed human induced pluripotent stem cells (hiPSC's), which tend to be too immature to use effectively in research or transplantation.
The discovery, announced this week in the scientific journal Nature Methods, offers cardiac researchers a fast and reliable method of creating mature human cardiac patches in a range of sizes.
Grown on sutures that can be sewn directly into a patient, the biowires are designed to be fully transplantable. The use of biodegradable sutures, important in surgical patches that will remain in the body, is also a viable option.
"We found that pushing the cells to their limits over the course of a week derived the best effect," reports Radisic.

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Bringing the Hack into HRMS
I've not blogged or written much other than email for a while. As an analyst I used to write a lot, so it has been good to have a break, but it is time to get writing again. No promises on the regularity of posting appearance. I'm not a comet, I'm a product manager. Most of posts will appear in some form on my personal blog.
Deliberate, consistent customer engagement drives most product enhancements. There is a profound skill in listening to a specific customer need, and turning it into a design that solves not only that customer's need, but that of other customers too. This is why product managers should spend lots of time talking with and listening to customers and prospects. This is partly why I'm on first name terms with most of Lufthansa.
However, it is important to remember customers are not the only source of ideas. Listening to your own engineers is fundamental too. In the rush to be customer centric, it is easy to ignore the innovative ideas from your engineers.
I'm looking forward to SAP d-code (I checked with the spelling supervisor, it is d-code, not D-Code).
We need to celebrate the maker, as my mate James Governor puts it. That is in essence what the d-code event will be all about. I'll be attending the German event, at the sport arena, and then on campus. There are other events across the world. (Bangalore, Shanghai, Palo Alto…)
At FKOM in Barcelona a couple of weeks ago, I renewed my respect for the scale of the SAP sales machine, but engineering is what makes SAP what it is.
Some of the engineers I work with will be demoing stuff they are proud of to a massive audience of their peers. While over the years I have grown comfortable and vaguely competent at talking to a large audience, I know it takes a lot of courage for those not used to it, often in a second or third language, to get up and present. Chapeau.
Having played a bit with a PI Raspberry over the holidays, I saw the moment of magic when my kids actually figured out how a computer really works. That instant when the command line becomes a gateway to something special. Code is cool.
While d-code is about the broader SAP engineering community, I think it is also important to foster innovation and experimentation on a smaller scale. SuccessFactors has a strong tradition of internal Hack days and demo jams in our San Francisco office, and we are doing the same in a couple of weeks time in Heidelberg. We are bringing together the engineers from the cloud team and the on-prem team. I'm really looking forward to see what comes out of this. We are taking this seriously, as we have roped in the best demo jam MC in the world, Craig Cmehil, and are making use of the the new ultra-hip Apphaus in Heidelberg (I sense there is a subtle homage to Walter Gropius in the Apphaus name, but I'll explore that another day).
I hope to see many of my engineering colleagues at the event. It will be a lot of fun, and I fully expect that the ideas that emerge will be finding their way to customers soon.


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Hey! Have you seen the new issue of Twist Collective? I'm so happy to have my cardigan, Kingscot, included in this gorgeous, innovative, on-line magazine. Don't be afraid of all those bobbles. I did them all without turning. I guess I'd call them "i-cord" bobbles.
Be sure to check out Eloise Narrigan's charming illustrations in the same issue! I met Eloise last summer and fell in love with her work on the spot.


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In his debate with Ryan, the vice president was merely a jerk.
Interrupting while someone is trying to make a point is an old debate tactic intended to throw your opponent off-balance and distract observers from what is being said. By some counts, Biden interrupted Ryan more than 80 times and moderator Martha Raddatz broke in at least 50 times, mostly interrupting Ryan. At first I wanted Raddatz to tell Biden to stop behaving like a bully, but the longer the debate went on Biden revealed something about his character, which is, or ought to be, at the center of any campaign for high office.
On split screen, Biden's smirks, chuckles and head shaking revealed a man who was rude and disrespectful toward Ryan. He displayed an attitude that said, "Hey, I'm the one entitled to this office, buster. You are just an interloper who doesn't deserve it."
There was also a mighty generational gap. Biden, 69, represents an era and philosophy forged in the administration of Franklin D. Roosevelt. That was a time when the notion of entitlement and government programs designed to "help" people began to replace living within one's means and personal responsibility. Before then, if your neighbor had a need, you helped him, Washington didn't.
This notion of the government being our keeper and a first resource, instead of a last resort, has created a culture of dependency, not only for those who receive the largesse, but for a country which is now in hock to China, a nation that bears America no good will and steals our military secrets and scientific knowledge.
At 42, Ryan represents a generation that must pay for all of these "entitlements." His generation will decide whether America continues on as we have without a day of reckoning and without ever having to live within our means. It's the old vs. the new.
During their debate, the gap in generations and the ability to pay for ever-growing, more controlling and costlier government was most pronounced. Biden focused on programs; Ryan emphasized economic growth and personal responsibility. Here was Ryan: "We want everybody to succeed. We want to get people out of poverty, in the middle class, onto a life of self-sufficiency. We believe in opportunity and upward mobility. That's what we're going to push for in a Romney administration."
Many of us have had a "we can't go on like this" moment at some point in our lives. For the biblical Prodigal Son, his moment came after he had wasted his inheritance and wound up in a hog pen eating pig food. The account says he "came to his senses" and returned to his father who welcomed him.
America needs to come to its senses and realize there is more power in an individual life than in the entire federal government. We know what works. We didn't just crawl out of a cave. The age gap and the philosophical chasm between Biden and Ryan and the two courses they represent for America's future could not be more divergent.
The question is whether most Americans are willing to "come to our senses" because we can't continue behaving and spending as if there is no tomorrow. If we do, there won't be. Our tomorrows will be owned by China. And that's nothing to chuckle about.


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The U.S. Postal Service (USPS) officially announced at the National Postal Forum in Orlando, Fla., the pilot program of its gopost parcel delivery and drop-off lockers, which the USPS began implementing in Northern Virginia late last year, said Susan McGowan, senior manager of public relations at the USPS.
The current pilot phase has seven existing lockers throughout Northern Virginia with plans to expand throughout the Washington, D.C., area, McGowan added.
While customers typically have packages delivered either to their homes or their work addresses, gopost, situated in areas with heavy foot traffic, provides a third option. Customers sign up for the service online, decide which gopost location they want to pick up their package, and are given a keycard and PIN to open the locker when the package is delivered. Customers are notified of the package's delivery through text or email.
McGowan added that eBay, the recipient of the USPS' Partnership for Progress award, was particularly excited about the gopost program.
Though an analogous solution exists in Europe, American consumers behave differently, said Paul Vogel, president and CMO at the USPS. The current pilot program, Vogel added, is designed to test American behaviors and measure foot traffic and rotational time to determine the success of the gopost lockers. The USPS is also working on ensuring customers do not simply use the lockers as a storage area.
The technology used by gopost to communicate with customers about the status of their packages is more robust than its European analog, Vogel said, alluding to the recent updates of the USPS site. "It took three years to update and link all of our different services together," he said.


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Dr. Robert Katzman, pioneering Alzheimer's disease expert, dies
Robert Katzman, M.D., Professor Emeritus of Neurosciences, former chair of the Department of Neurosciences and founding director of the Shiley-Marcos Alzheimer's Disease Research Center (ADRC) at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine died on Tuesday, Sept. 16, at his home in La Jolla after a long illness. He was 82 years old.
An internationally known leader in Alzheimer's research, Katzman was instrumental in establishing the ADRC at UC San Diego in 1984, one of the original five Alzheimer's Disease Research Centers of its kind in the country funded by the National Institute on Aging. He held the Florence Riford Chair for Research in Alzheimer's Disease at UC San Diego from 1984 until his retirement in 1995. Katzman was also a founder of the national Alzheimer's Association, an achievement he once remarked was the one of which he was most proud.
"His work helped bring UC San Diego to the forefront of medical research into Alzheimer's disease," said Doris Trauner, M.D., professor and interim chair of the Department of Neurosciences. "He was instrumental in attracting world-renowned neuroscientists to the program, in addition to having a tremendous impact on the understanding of Alzheimer's disease."
His landmark 1976 editorial in the American Medical Association's "Archives of Neurology" was the first to state the prevalence and severity of Alzheimer's disease, calling it a "major killer." He was a strong advocate for increased funding for research in the disease and, in part due to Katzman's influence, federal funding in Alzheimer's research grew from $5 million in 1980 to over $300 million by 1996.
"Bob Katzman was a very committed mentor to both junior and senior colleagues," said Fred H. Gage, Ph.D., professor in the Laboratory of Genetics at the Salk Institute of Biological Studies and adjunct professor of neurosciences at UC San Diego. "He raised the world's awareness to the magnitude of Alzheimer's disease and was responsible for building a world-class clinical and experimental research program for Alzheimer's here in San Diego. Bob was a deep thinker with broad interests beyond his own research, and he provided support, advice and guidance to many colleagues and organizations worldwide. We will greatly miss him, but his legacy is great and will be long lasting."
"His pioneering and really, revolutionary, work in Alzheimer's disease for more than three decades paved the way for clinical trials of potential treatments to delay the onset or progression of the disease being done today," said David Salmon, Ph.D., professor of neurosciences at UC San Diego and a long-time colleague. "His research and influence will continue to have a profound impact on the search for a cure or treatment for this devastating disease."
Robert Katzman was born in Denver, Colorado on November 29, 1925, where he grew up. After serving in the Navy in the Pacific theater during World War II, he was an undergraduate at the University of Chicago, then attended Harvard Medical School, graduating cum laude in 1953.
He finished his clinical training as an intern on the Harvard Service at Boston City Hospital and as a resident in neurology at the Neurological Institute at Columbia-Presbyterian Hospital. Katzman's career as an investigator-teacher-clinician was developed at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in the Bronx, New York. He was chair of neurology there from 1964 until 1984, when he moved to UC San Diego.
His research career began at Harvard Medical School where he studied the movement of potassium ions from blood to brain and was a co-recipient of the Borden Undergraduate Research Award in 1953. At Einstein, he continued working on the movement of ions and amino acids across the blood-brain barrier, on brain swelling or edema that occurs in response to toxins and tumors, and on the formation of the cerebral-spinal fluid.
He received the 1960 S. Weir Mitchell Award from the American Academy of Neurology, and was a co-editor of the first neurochemistry text Basic Neurochemistry (1972), a book now in its seventh edition. His work on brain electrolytes was summarized in a book written with Dr. Hanna Pappius and published in 1972 entitled Brain Electrolytes and Fluid Metabolism.
Katzman's research direction changed dramatically in the early 1970s. When he was in training to be a neurologist, Alzheimer's disease was defined as a "presenile dementia" – onset before age 65 – and considered to be an interesting but rare disorder.
In the 1960s, a form of dementia in patients with very large cerebral ventricles was described, and Katzman started clinical and pathological studies of these patients. It turned out that the majority of these patients actually had Alzheimer's disease.
It also became apparent that the disease affected older persons, not only those under age 65, and that it was a major public health problem. While at Einstein, he met Robert Terry, M.D., a neuropathologist who had begun working on Alzheimer's disease in 1960.
Their labs were down the hall from each other. As they spent more and more time together, Katzman's interest in the disease grew. Katzman and Terry became life-long friends and moved to UC San Diego together in 1984.
Katzman became an Alzheimer's disease activist, redefining Alzheimer's disease as the most frequent progressive dementia during aging. David A. Drachman, M.D., Professor of Neurology at the University of Massachusetts commented, "His key goal was that everyone must have heard of Alzheimer's disease, if we were to understand and defeat it. It was not that any one individual researcher could be expected to find the cure, or the underlying cause; but like a pyramid, in order to raise the peak of it by a foot, you would have to build a huge infrastructure - and Bob proceeded to do just that."
Katzman served on the Advisory Council of the National Institute of Aging from 1982 to 1985; and was President of the American Neurological Association in 1985–1986. Among his many honors and awards are election to the Institute of Medicine (1983), the Henderson Memorial Award from the American Geriatric Association (1986), the George W. Jacoby Award from the American Neurological Association (1989), the Potamkin Prize for Research in Pick's, Alzheimer's and Related Diseases from the American Academy of Neurology (1992), the Crystal Tower Award as Pioneer in Alzheimer's Disease Research from the Alzheimer's Association (1998), and the Luigi Amaducci Memorial Award, International Psychogeriatric Association, (2003).
Katzman is survived by his wife, Nancy, of La Jolla, sons David and his wife Antoinette Byam, of Brooklyn and grandson, Jesse Byam-Katzman, a freshman at Lawrence University in Appleton, Wisconsin, and Daniel of Clayton, California. Plans for a memorial service at UC San Diego are pending.
Friends and colleagues may send contributions in lieu of flowers to the Shiley-Marcos Alzheimer's Disease Research Center at UC San Diego (
https://adrc.ucsd.edu/giving.htmlor phone (858) 822-1030) or to the American Academy of Neurology "Giants of Neurology" foundation (


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Monday, July 11, 2011
Fun Birthday Celebration
30 travelers' comments:
- Chubskulit Rose said...
I'll be visiting you guys tonight, I have to pick up my two Burritos here in a little bit. They are attending vacation bible school at St. Joe's. Thanks for coming by and for leaving your trail through your sweet comments.
- July 11, 2011 at 8:32 AM
- Kim, USA said...
Happy birthday to Rye!! I like your face paint ^_^
Ruby Tuesday
- July 11, 2011 at 10:07 AM
- Liz said...
Belated Happy Birthday Rylie. I can see you had so much fun.
Moms...Check Nyo
- July 11, 2011 at 1:27 PM
- LadyD Piano said...
what a fun time. The face painting is so cool! Thanks for stopping by.
- July 11, 2011 at 4:04 PM
- Ralph said...
Even though our kids are really big (at 22 and 20), we have a soft spot for the family birthday parties when they were little. I think the grown=ups enjoyed these times as much as the little ones. As parents, it was so joyful to see the surprise and glee the birthday girl/boy opening their presents. Ah, remember they grow so quickly, so do not miss a thing!
- July 11, 2011 at 5:41 PM
- Pat @ Mille Fiori Favoriti said...
Happy birthday to your sweet little girl! Visiting from Mellow Yellow Monday!
- July 11, 2011 at 6:31 PM
- Mellodee said...
Happy Birthday to your Little One! Tho maybe at 6, she's ready to be a "Big Girl" now!
- July 11, 2011 at 6:59 PM
- Mika said...
Lovely photos! Looks everyone is having a good time :)
- July 11, 2011 at 7:56 PM
Awww. Cute photos. Happy Birthday to your little one.
- July 11, 2011 at 8:24 PM
- BrendaC said...
Best wishes to the birthday girl. I am doing some blog hopping and decided to follow you via gfc. Hope you will swing by and check out my blog at kittycrochettwo.blogspot.com. Have a fantastic week!
- July 11, 2011 at 8:36 PM
- Life Moto said...
HAPPY BLESSED BIRTHDAY! miss burrito!
May you have many greetings to come.
and blog to post.
Life Moto -Have a Nice Day!
- July 11, 2011 at 8:50 PM
- Mia Dela Cruz-Soriano said...
Happy birthday pretty Rylie! Always stay sweet and loving! May God bless you always!
Be well!
Mama Mia
- July 11, 2011 at 8:53 PM
- forgetmenot said...
Children's birthday parties are such fun--looks like yours was a big success. Six is such a great age--enjoy every moment of this next year with your daughter. Mickie :)
- July 11, 2011 at 10:24 PM
- GagayMD said...
cute face paint!!!
dropping by from Orange Tuesday..see you at my Orange Fishes, Orange Keypad, Orange Plate and Orange Google Doodle. Have a great Tuesday!
- July 12, 2011 at 12:05 AM
- Dinah said...
Happy birthday! Looks like everbody had a great time ;-)
- July 12, 2011 at 12:55 AM
- Eden said...
Belated Happy Birthday, Rylie! Wish all your dreams come true.
- July 12, 2011 at 1:32 AM
- Lina Gustina said...
Cute kitty face :)
Wonderful birthday celebration indeed...
Thanks for dropping by
- July 12, 2011 at 2:41 AM
- Lina Gustina said...
Was here again. Father in Indonesia language is bapak or ayah...
- July 12, 2011 at 2:48 AM
- aspiritofsimplicity said...
It looks like you had a wonderful time.
- July 12, 2011 at 4:13 AM
- Ann, Chen Jie Xue 陈洁雪 said...
in my sunday stills meme, I posted about face painting too.
- July 12, 2011 at 4:19 AM
- JunieRose2005 said...
This is a happy place to visit! :)
Thanks for your visit to my blog!
- July 12, 2011 at 5:20 AM
- MC said...
What a happy celebration! It never fail to comfort me, seeing joy in a child's eyes is always..PRICELESS :)
lovely blog! And a lot at that too Hihi Hope you could drop by and follow mine too!
- July 12, 2011 at 5:41 PM
- Shobha said...
I saw Ms Burrito's B'day pics too...you guys had fun..TC
- July 12, 2011 at 7:24 PM
- anne said...
ang saya saya ng birthday ng baby mo, hehehe send my greetings to her. BTW here's my entry for My Little Home, thanks for the comment you left in my MYM entry.
- July 12, 2011 at 7:25 PM
- Cildemer said...
Wonderful family shots and lovely people! Happy birthday to miss burrito!
Thanks for sharing;o)
Happy day****
- July 13, 2011 at 3:32 AM
- Lainy said...
ANG GAnda- ganda ni Rye, Rose! Di na mapigilan ang paglaki ng dalaga mo, hehe!
- July 13, 2011 at 3:36 PM
- Dhemz said...
so pretty! saya-saya naman nang birthday bash ni Rye...I love her cake...bonggacious!
- July 13, 2011 at 10:04 PM
- nuts said...
what a pretty kitty celebrating her birthday!
- July 14, 2011 at 1:49 AM
- Mel Alarilla said...
It looks like the birthday party of Rylie was very successful. Everyone enjoyed the food and the activities. The kids had a grand time too. Thanks for the post. God bless you all always.
- July 15, 2011 at 2:31 AM
- Shengkay said...
belated happy birthday Rylie..
thanks for joining mommy..
- August 3, 2011 at 3:00 AM
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CARBONDALE, Ill. – Barry Hinson joked that to bust Southern Illinois' slump he might need a bit of "David Copperfield" magic. He certainly won't be sad to see Doug McDermott advance to the next level.
McDermott had 21 points and 10 rebounds and No. 17 Creighton shot 63 percent, bouncing back from a pair of road losses with an easy 81-51 victory over the struggling Salukis on Sunday night.
Hinson, the Salukis' first-year coach, took solace in a boisterous crowd that stuck around and kept cheering, saying he was "absolutely blown away."
"We've won one league game and I'm not going to apologize for thanking people. I'm not going to apologize for thanking our fans for coming out to watch us play," Hinson said. "I told our players 'If you give great effort, they'll come back.'"
Desmar Jackson scored Southern Illinois' first 10 points then later on went 21 minutes without scoring before finishing with 16 for the Salukis (8-12, 1-8). Southern Illinois has lost nine of 10.
"Sooner or later we'll find a way that we can measure some type of success," Hinson said. "We're in desperate need of a win."Gregory Echenique added 12 points and 11 rebounds and the Bluejays (18-3, 7-2 MVC) were 12 for 20 from 3-point range with Ethan Wragge hitting his first four attempts and Jahenns Manigat going 4 for 4. Creighton also dominated on the boards with a 39-19 cushion and has won 10 straight in the series while shaking off setbacks at Wichita State and Drake.
McDermott was 9 for 13, Echenique was 5 for 6 and Grant Gibbs and Manigat were a combined 9 for 9 for the Bluejays.
The 30-point margin of defeat was the third-largest at SIU Arena, which opened in 1964, and the largest since a 33-point loss to Saint Louis in 1989. Hinson said containing Doug McDermott, the coach's son and the second-leading scorer in the nation with a 23.8-point average, was a "pick your poison" proposition.
"I don't mind telling you, I find a lot of happiness in his son's success," Hinson said. "And I'll find a lot more happiness when his son declares for the NBA draft.
"I have called every NBA team and told them he's the next Larry Bird," he added.
Creighton shot 74 percent in the first half while taking an 18-point lead, reminiscent of last season's matchup at Southern Illinois in which the Bluejays shot a Missouri Valley-record 77.5 percent. McDermott, the second-leading scorer in the nation with a 23.8-point average, was 7 for 8 with a pair of 3-pointers and had 16 points in 14 minutes.
Echenique scored in double figures for the first time in six games and earned his fifth double double of the season. Wragge had been a combined 5 for 18 his previous four games and totaled nine points the last two games.
The Salukis trailed 11-10 thanks to the hot start by Jackson, who hit his first four shots with a pair of 3-pointers. But Jackson missed five of his last six in the half and Southern Illinois had no one to pick up the slack.
Southern Illinois guard Jeff Early served a one-game suspension for a flagrant foul with intent to injure at Northern Iowa.
"We missed him, I don't think it would have made that big a difference," Hinson said. "First of all, we've still got to go back to Omaha. The difference it made to me is he let our team down by his actions.
"We don't condone that, I've been very apologetic for it and hopefully he'll play better on Wednesday night (against Drake)," he said.


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Genesis 6
The Corruption of Mankind
1Now it came about, when men began to multiply on the face of the land, and daughters were born to them, 2that the sons of God saw that the daughters of men were beautiful; and they took wives for themselves, whomever they chose. 3Then the Lord said, "My Spirit shall not strive with man forever, because he also is flesh; nevertheless his days shall be one hundred and twenty years." 4The Nephilim were on the earth in those days, and also afterward, when the sons of God came in to the daughters of men, and they bore children to them. Those were the mighty men who were of old, men of renown.
5Then the Lord saw that the wickedness of man was great on the earth, and that every intent of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually. 6The Lord was sorry that He had made man on the earth, and He was grieved in His heart. 7The Lord said, "I will blot out man whom I have created from the face of the land, from man to animals to creeping things and to birds of the sky; for I am sorry that I have made them." 8But Noah found favor in the eyes of the Lord.
9These are the records of the generations of Noah. Noah was a righteous man, blameless in his time; Noah walked with God. 10Noah became the father of three sons: Shem, Ham, and Japheth.
11Now the earth was corrupt in the sight of God, and the earth was filled with violence. 12God looked on the earth, and behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted their way upon the earth.
13Then God said to Noah, "The end of all flesh has come before Me; for the earth is filled with violence because of them; and behold, I am about to destroy them with the earth. 14Make for yourself an ark of gopher wood; you shall make the ark with rooms, and shall cover it inside and out with pitch. 15This is how you shall make it: the length of the ark three hundred #I.e. One cubit equals approx 18 in.cubits, its breadth fifty cubits, and its height thirty cubits. 16You shall make a window for the ark, and finish it to a cubit from the top; and set the door of the ark in the side of it; you shall make it with lower, second, and third decks. 17Behold, I, even I am bringing the flood of water upon the earth, to destroy all flesh in which is the breath of life, from under heaven; everything that is on the earth shall perish. 18But I will establish My covenant with you; and you shall enter the ark—you and your sons and your wife, and your sons' wives with you. 19And of every living thing of all flesh, you shall bring two of every kind into the ark, to keep them alive with you; they shall be male and female. 20Of the birds after their kind, and of the animals after their kind, of every creeping thing of the ground after its kind, two of every kind will come to you to keep them alive. 21As for you, take for yourself some of all food which is edible, and gather it to yourself; and it shall be for food for you and for them." 22Thus Noah did; according to all that God had commanded him, so he did.
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Moore v. Regents of the University of California (1990)
On 9 July 1990, in Moore v. Regents of the University of California, the Supreme Court of California ruled in a four-to-three decision that individuals do not have rights to a share in profits earned from research performed on their bodily materials. In its decision, the Supreme Court of California ruled that cancer patient John L. Moore did not have personal property rights to samples or fluids that his physicians took from his body for research purposes.
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Countdown to Life: The Extraordinary Making of You (2015), by the British Broadcasting Corporation and The Open University
In 2015, the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) partnered with The Open University to produce the three-part documentary series, Countdown to Life: The Extraordinary Making of You. Michael Mosley, a British television producer and journalist, hosts the documentary. Along with narrating animated scenes of a growing fetus in the womb, Mosley meets with individuals around the world who experienced mutations that can arise in the womb. Introduced over the course of the three episodes, several people share their personal stories of how their bodies did not develop correctly prior to birth.
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Washington University in St. Louis
Washington University in St. Louis served as the backdrop for many scientific discoveries, including that of nerve growth factor (NGF). Many of the accomplishments in embryology at Washington University can be attributed to the influence of Viktor Hamburger. He served as chair of the zoology department for twenty-five years. One of the few Nobel Prizes given for embryological research was awarded to faculty members Hamburger hired; Rita Levi-Montalcini and Stanley Cohen won for their role in the discovery of nerve growth factor.
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United States v. University Hospital (1984)
The US 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals' 1984 decision United States v. University Hospital, State University Hospital of New York at Stony Brook set a significant precedent for affirming parental privilege to make medical decisions for handicapped newborns, while limiting the ability of the federal government to intervene. The ruling stemmed from the 1983 case involving an infant born with severe physical and mental congenital defects; the infant was only identified as Baby Jane Doe.
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Free Hospital for Women Scrapbook by Harvard University Library
This scrapbook is part of the Harvard University Library's collection on "Working Women, 1800-1930," which is itself part of the Open Collections Program. The print version is located at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine. It contains information about the hospital, including articles from newspapers, magazines, and other publications; photographs of the hospital, employees, and special events; lecture announcements; letters and other forms of correspondence; ration cards; tickets; forms; certificates; posters; programs; and playbills.
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Arizona State University Embryo Project Photograph Collections
In the 1970s Stanford University Embryologist Harold Heath sent a box of photographs to Frederick B. Churchill, who was a Professor in the History and Philosophy of Science Department at Indiana University. Heath was born in Indiana, he knew that Churchill was the leading historian of embryology, and he wanted his photographs to be used and therefore wanted them to be housed somewhere with an interest in the history of biology. Heath made it clear that he was donating the photographs for use by scholars and the public.
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Brian K. Hall (1941- )
Brian Hall is the son of Doris Garrad and Harry Hall, and was born in Port Kembla, NSW Australia, on 28 October 1941. He attended the University of New England in Armidale NSW, graduating in 1963 with a BSc in zoology, in 1965 with a BSc (Honors) in zoology, and in 1968 with a PhD in zoology. His PhD thesis, undertaken under the supervision of Patrick D. F. Murray, FAA was on the differentiation of bone and secondary cartilage in chicken embryos.
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Amanda Sims Memorial Fund (1930–1935)
In 1930, physician Joseph Colt Bloodgood founded the Amanda Sims Memorial Fund, or the ASMF, a United States cancer awareness organization that focused on spreading information about ways to detect and prevent cervical cancer in women, in Baltimore, Maryland. In partnership with nurse Florence Serpell Deakins Becker, Bloodgood promoted awareness of the early symptoms of cervical cancer among women and advocated for regular pelvic exams. The ASMF partnered with numerous women's organizations throughout the United States, providing educational information to women of varying backgrounds.
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"Part-Human Chimeras: Worrying the Facts, Probing the Ethics" (2007), by Françoise Baylis and Jason Scott Robert
In 2007, Françoise Baylis and Jason Scott Robert published "Part-Human Chimeras: Worrying the Facts, Probing the Ethics" in The American Journal of Bioethics. Within their article, hereafter "Part-Human Chimeras," the authors offer corrections on "Thinking About the Human Neuron Mouse," a report published in The American Journal of Bioethics in 2007 by Henry Greely, Mildred K. Cho, Linda F. Hogle, and Debra M. Satz, which discussed the debate on the ethics of creating part-human chimeras. Chimeras are organisms that contain two or more genetically distinct cell lines.
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Pearl Luella Kendrick (1890–1980)
Pearl Luella Kendrick researched prevention for pertussis, commonly known as whooping cough, in Grand Rapids, Michigan, during the mid-1900s. Pertussis is a respiratory disease that mainly affects infants and young children. During the 1920s, pertussis was responsible for more deaths in children in the United States than any other disease. In the 1930s, Kendrick created one of the first pertussis vaccines that underwent large-scale clinical trials.
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Using Digital PCR to Detect Fetal Chromosomal Aneuploidy in Maternal Blood (2007)
In 2007, Dennis Lo and his colleagues used digital polymerase chain reaction or PCR to detect trisomy 21 in maternal blood, validating the method as a means to detect fetal chromosomal aneuploidies, or an abnormal number of chromosomes in a cell. The team conducted their research at the Chinese University of Hong Kong in Hong Kong, Hong Kong, and at the Boston University in Boston, Massachusetts.
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Neural Crest
Early in the process of development, vertebrate embryos develop a fold on the neural plate where the neural and epidermal ectoderms meet, called the neural crest. The neural crest produces neural crest cells (NCCs), which become multiple different cell types and contribute to tissues and organs as an embryo develops. A few of the organs and tissues include peripheral and enteric (gastrointestinal) neurons and glia, pigment cells, cartilage and bone of the cranium and face, and smooth muscle.
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"On the Origin of Mitosing Cells" (1967), by Lynn Sagan
On the Origin of Mitosing Cells by Lynn Sagan appeared in the March 1967 edition of the Journal of Theoretical Biology. At the time the article was published, Lynn Sagan had divorced astronomer Carl Sagan, but kept his last name. Later, she remarried and changed her name to Lynn Margulis, and will be referred to as such throughout this article. In her 1967 article, Margulis develops a theory for the origin of complex cells that have enclosed nuclei, called eukaryotic cells.
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Hedgehog Signaling Pathway
The hedgehog signaling pathway is a mechanism that directs the development of embryonic cells in animals, from invertebrates to vertebrates. The hedgehog signaling pathway is a system of genes and gene products, mostly proteins, that convert one kind of signal into another, called transduction. In 1980, Christiane Nusslein-Volhard and Eric F. Wieschaus, at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory in Heidelberg, Germany, identified several fruit fly (Drosophila melanogaster) genes.
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"Kangaroo Care Is Effective in Diminishing Pain Response in Preterm Neonates" (2003), by Celeste Johnston, Bonnie Stevens, Janet Pinelli, Sharyn Gibbins, Francoise Filion, Anne Jack, Susan Steele, Kristina Boyer, and Annie Veilleux
In the 2003 article "Kangaroo Care Is Effective in Diminishing Pain Response in Preterm Neonates", Celeste Johnston, Bonnie Stevens, Janet Pinelli, and their colleagues evaluate the effectiveness of the Kangaroo Mother Care position in decreasing the pain response of preterm infants who undergo a heel lance procedure for blood collection. Kangaroo Mother Care is a method of treatment for premature and low birth weight infants that involves exclusive breastfeeding and skin-to-skin contact between a mother and her infant in what is called the kangaroo position.
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"Mothers' Anxiety During Pregnancy Is Associated with Asthma in Their Children" (2009), by Hannah Cookson, Raquel Granell, Carol Joinson, Yoav Ben-Shlomo, and A. John Henderson
In 2009, A. John Henderson and colleagues published "Mothers' Anxiety During Pregnancy Is Associated with Asthma in Their Children," hereafter, "Mothers' Anxiety," in The Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology. Previous studies had shown that maternal stress during pregnancy affects children's health during childhood. The researchers explored the association of asthma in children with maternal anxiety during pregnancy. The cause of asthma is often unknown.
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"Presence of Fetal DNA in Maternal Plasma and Serum" (1997), by Dennis Lo, et al.
In the late 1990s researchers Yuk Ming Dennis Lo and his colleagues isolated fetal DNA extracted from pregnant woman's blood. The technique enabled for more efficient and less invasive diagnoses of genetic abnormalities in fetuses, such as having too many copies of chromosomes.
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Hermann Joseph Muller (1890-1967)
Hermann Joseph Muller studied the effects of x-ray radiation on genetic material in the US during the twentieth century. At that time, scientists had yet to determine the dangers that x-rays presented. In 1927, Muller demonstrated that x-rays, a form of high-energy radiation, can mutate the structure of genetic material. Muller warned others of the dangers of radiation, advising radiologists to protect themselves and their patients from radiation. He also opposed the indiscriminate use of radiation in medical and industrial fields.
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Hermann Joseph Muller's Study of X-rays as a Mutagen, (1926-1927)
Hermann Joseph Muller conducted three experiments in 1926 and 1927 that demonstrated that exposure to x-rays, a form of high-energy radiation, can cause genetic mutations, changes to an organism's genome, particularly in egg and sperm cells. In his experiments, Muller exposed fruit flies (Drosophila) to x-rays, mated the flies, and observed the number of mutations in the offspring. In 1927, Muller described the results of his experiments in "Artificial Transmutation of the Gene" and "The Problem of Genic Modification".
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"The Emergence of Developmental Psychopathology" (1984), by Dante Cicchetti
In 1984, Dante Cicchetti published "The Emergence of Developmental Psychopathology," an article in which he argued that the previously amorphous study of developmental psychopathology was emerging as a unified discipline. According to Cicchetti, developmental psychopathology describes an interdisciplinary field that studies abnormalities in psychological function that can arise during human development.
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José Pedro Balmaceda (1948- )
José Pedro Balmaceda was born 22 August 1948 in Santiago, Chile. His mother Juanita owned a women's boutique in the city and his father José was a successful owner of several timber mills. He grew up with five sisters who remained in Santiago all their lives. Balmaceda attended the college preparatory school San Ignatius where he met Sergio Stone, his future partner at the Center for Reproductive Health fertility clinic in the University of California Irvine Medical Center.
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Gregory Goodwin Pincus (1903-1967)
Gregory Goodwin Pincus, one of the original researchers responsible for the development of the first oral contraceptive pill, was born in Woodbine, New Jersey, on 19 April 1903 to Russian Jewish parents. In 1924 Pincus received his BS degree from Cornell University, and in 1927 he received his MS and PhD from Harvard University, having studied under William Ernest Castle and William John Crozier.
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Alejandro Sánchez Alvarado (1964- )
Alejandro Sánchez Alvarado is a Professor of Neurobiology and Anatomy at the University of Utah School of Medicine and is also a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator. Born in Caracas, Venezuela, 24 February 1964, Sánchez Alvarado left his home to pursue education in the United States, where he received a Bachelor of Science in molecular biology and chemistry from Vanderbilt University in 1986 and a Doctorate in pharmacology and cell biophysics at the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine in 1992.
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Ernst Gräfenberg (1881–1957)
Ernst Gräfenberg was a physician and researcher who studied sexology, the study of human sexuality, in both Germany and the United States during the first half of the twentieth century. Gräfenberg researched the use of intrauterine devices as a form of contraception, and he developed the Gräfenberg ring. The Gräfenberg ring was one of the first intrauterine devices that effectively prevented pregnancy without causing infection, and it became the forerunner of all modern intrauterine devices, or IUDs. Gräfenberg also studied the role of the urethra in female orgasm.
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"The Role of Urethra in Female Orgasm" (1950), by Ernst Gräfenberg
In 1950, physician and researcher Ernst Gräfenberg published "The Role of Urethra in Female Orgasm," in the International Journal of Sexology. The article was one of the first to mention the area in the anterior, or front, vaginal wall colloquially called the G-spot. In the article, Gräfenberg acknowledges that many females experience problems related to sexual satisfaction, and he argues that researchers and physicians of the time did not know enough information about the anatomical mechanisms and localization of the female orgasm to help them.
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I know that it has been a long time since you saw a new post in here and some of you even wondered about my whereabouts. So to cut the story short I might say that 2012 was a bad year for me or should I use the word awful instead of bad. Despite all odds brought by 2012, the only good news is that the Mayan apocalypse failed big time: I am writing these lines after 21st of December! Now we all can take a deep breathe and expect the new year to bring all the goodness and joy of life for everyone.
For those who want to celebrate the ending of 2012 like me, these are the last few days to complete the preparations. If you are planning to throw a new year party at home or better to attend a party at someone else's home to save the first day of 2013 -otherwise you'll spend it to clean up the mess at your place- you need to get faster, and roll out your plans.
My assumption is that you made a smart choice to attend another one's party and you are not going to make a celebration outside at a restaurant or a club which will cost you four times more than it would cost on any one of the remaining 364 days of the year. By the way, paying more does not guarantee the level of service and quality of food, on the contrary everything would be worse than regular.
So, what to do? First of all you need to make a list of your friends who own a large apartment and are quite hospitable to accommodate people at their place. Step two: try to engage in conversations about their plans for that night and let drop the fact that you don't have anything in mind but quite open for suggestions. My second assumption is that you are such a fun person to be with-if you are not, do your best for a week or two- so that your name will be among the ones he/she will invite for the party.
As a nice and thoughtful person, you can not attend the party as if you got a ticket for the show. You need to bring something to eat or drink according to your choice. At that point you have a chance to attract the party crowd with the stuff you prepared. And here comes my turn: the recipe of chestnut-rum cream roulade that I am going to share below will be a real thrill for palates of the people at the party. This will also guarantee your place on the next year's list in every potential home-party organizers mind!
If you could not succeed in finding a party to attend or may be just not in the mood, just bake the roulade for your very own pleasure and expect the new year to be at least as sweet as this cake. Happy new year! (As my annual tradition, you can find this year's greeting card at the end of the post. Feel free to use it while spreading the joy!)
Ingredients (For 12 servings)
(adapted from Martha Stewart)
- 1/2 cup plus 1 tablespoon all-purpose flour
- 1 1/4 teaspoons baking powder
- 1/2 cup unsweetened cocoa powder, plus more for dusting
- 1/2 teaspoon plus a pinch of salt
- 6 large eggs, separated, at room temperature
- 2 cups sugar
- 1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
- 1 3/4 cups chestnut puree at room temperature
- 3/4 cup heavy cream
- 2 tablespoons rum
- 2 tablespoons maple syrup
- Hazelnut oil for coating baking sheets
For chestnut puree
- 325 g.(11,5 ounce) roasted chestnuts
- 1 ¾ cup whole milk
- ½ vanilla bean, halved lengthwise
For chestnut Puree:
Combine milk and chestnuts in a saucepan. Using the tip of a paring knife, scrape seeds from vanilla bean into pan, and toss in pod. Bring to a simmer, and cook, partially covered, until chestnuts are very soft and about 1/2 cup of the liquid has been absorbed, about 25 minutes.
Pour mixture through a fine-mesh sieve into a bowl, reserving chestnuts and cooking liquid separately and discarding vanilla pod. Process chestnuts in a food processor until very smooth, adding reserved cooking liquid (and additional milk if needed), 1 tablespoon at a time, until mixture is the consistency of a thick spread. Cover with plastic wrap.
For the whole cake:
For the whole cake:
Preheat oven to 350 F (175 C). Line two 30cm by 37,5 cm (12-by-15-inch) rimmed baking sheets with parchment paper; generously coat with hazelnut oil. Sift flour, baking powder, cocoa, and 1/2 teaspoon salt together into a small bowl; set aside.
Beat yolks and 3/4 cup sugar in the bowl of a mixer fitted with the whisk until pale yellow and thick. Beat in vanilla; set aside.
Beat egg whites in the clean bowl of a mixer fitted with the whisk until soft peaks form. Slowly add 3/4 cup sugar; beat until stiff peaks form. Fold egg-white mixture into yolk mixture in 3 additions, folding in flour mixture with the last addition of whites. Divide batter among sheets; smooth tops with an offset spatula. Bake, rotating sheets halfway through, until cakes are springy to the touch, 15 to 20 minutes.
Meanwhile, lay 2 clean kitchen towels on work surface; sift cocoa over towels to lightly coat. Immediately run a knife around edges of cakes; invert onto cocoa-dusted towels, and carefully remove parchment. Starting with a long side, gently roll each cake in a towel (as if towel were the filling). Keep cakes rolled cakes to cool completely
Put chestnut puree, remaining 1/2 cup sugar, rum, maple syrup and pinch of salt in the bowl of a mixer fitted with the paddle; mix on medium speed until smooth, about 3 minutes. In a separate bowl, whip cream until soft peaks form; fold into chestnut mixture. Unroll cooled cakes; spread 1 ½ cups chestnut mousse in an even layer on top of each. Carefully re-roll cakes, using towels to help bring cake up at each turn (do not roll towels into filling). Remove towels; wrap cakes well in plastic wrap. Freeze until mousse is firm, at least 1 hour.
You may spread remaining mousse over cakes; to serve, trim ends with a serrated knife, and cut each log into 6 pieces.


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text: Microsoft has cited new European data protection rules in support of its claim that the U.S. government should use inter-governmental agreements rather than a warrant to force the technology company to provide emails stored in Ireland that are required for an investigation.The General Data Protection Regulation was adopted last week by the European Parliament with an aim to provide an unified data protection regime across member states. It was earlier adopted by the Council of the EU, and is to come into effect in a little over two years after its publication in the EU Official Journal. The legislation will replace the EU Data Protection Directive, which dates back to 1995.In a filing in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, Microsoft's lawyer E. Joshua Rosenkranz referred to Article 48 of the regulation, which states that any \u201cjudgment of a court or tribunal and any decision of an administrative authority of a third country requiring a controller or processor to transfer or disclose personal data may only be recognised or enforceable in any manner if based on an international agreement, such as a mutual legal assistance treaty.....\u201dThis rule sits well with Microsoft\u2019s own position in the dispute. It has favored an inter-governmental resolution to the U.S. demand for access to the emails in Ireland, through the use of "mutual legal assistance treaties" the U.S. has with other countries including Ireland. The government has argued that the procedure is time-consuming.Although the government has a warrant for access to emails held by Microsoft of a person involved in an investigation, the company has argued that nowhere did the U.S. Congress say that the Electronics Communications Privacy Act "should reach private emails stored on provider's computers in foreign countries." Microsoft provided non-content information held on its U.S. servers in response to the search warrant, but tried to quash the warrant when it concluded that the account and the content of the mails were hosted in Dublin.U.S. Magistrate Judge James C. Francis IV of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York had earlier ruled that the warrant under the Stored Communications Act, a part of the ECPA, was "a hybrid: part search warrant and part subpoena." It is executed like a subpoena in that it is served on the Internet service provider, which is required to provide the information from its servers wherever located, but does not involve government officials entering the premises, Judge Francis ruled. Microsoft holds that Congress should be asked for a decision on whether warrants under the ECPA can be executed abroad.Under the new EU regulation, fines can be levied for infringement of certain provisions such as Article 48 of up to 4 percent of the total worldwide annual turnover of an undertaking in the preceding financial year.\u201cArticle 48\u2019s enactment confirms that, absent a clear statement from Congress, the Stored Communications Act should not be read to extend to data stored abroad,\u201d Rosenkranz wrote in a letter to the clerk of the court. \u201cThe presumption against extraterritoriality serves to guard against precisely the sort of international tension and intrusion on foreign sovereignty that the Government\u2019s reading of the Act would engender.\u201dThe proceedings in this high-profile lawsuit playing out in the appeals court have been rather slow in the last few months, with a decision by the court eagerly awaited because of its wide implications.


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Moore Tornado Damage Revealed in Google Maps Image
A satellite image available via Google Maps shows the path that a deadly tornado took as it tore through Moore, Okla., on Monday (May 20) and the scar it etched into the suburban landscape.
In the Google Maps image, you can also click on tabs to see local reports of damage — purple tabs indicate the most severe damage.
At its most intense, the twister was a rare EF5, the most devastating type of tornado. Its winds likely exceeded 200 mph (322 km/h) when it barreled through Moore.
The tornado cleared a path up to 1.3 miles (2 kilometers) wide along a 17-mile-long (27 km) stretch of central Oklahoma, according to the National Weather Service. The twister touched down 4.4 miles (7.1 km) west of Newcastle at 2:45 p.m. CDT and ended 4.8 miles (7.7 km) east of Moore, a southern suburb of Oklahoma City, at 3:35 p.m. CDT.
At first, the tornado caused little damage on the ground. But it ramped up quickly, intensifying to EF4 levels in about 10 minutes, the NWS said. The twister produced widespread EF4 scale damage, as can be seen in the image in the center of its path.
At least 24 people were killed by the tornado, and more than 300 were injured, according to local officials. The precise amount of damage will take several days to fully evaluate, but as this and other images of the Moore tornadoshow, it was severe.
EF5 tornadoes are strong enough to blow away big houses and collapse tall buildings. EF4 tornadoes can level sturdy homes and send cars and other large objects flying.
"The debris ball from the tornado, as seen on Doppler radar, expanded to over 2 miles in diameter, and debris was carried over 100 miles [160 km] from Moore," Jeff Masters of Weather Underground wrote on his WunderBlog.
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Photoshop Tips – retouching for portraits
When retouching portrait photographs, I have a certain look that I (currently) like – a slightly 'polished' look, but still natural. Definitely not 'plastic'. With a few steps in Photoshop, and a few steps that I may or may not add, I can easily get to the styling in post-processing that I want. Some of the steps are specific, but others are added depending on taste or 'feel'. Some of the steps involve Photoshop plug-ins which are essential for me …
The photo above is of Oktavia, taken during part of this photo session. Instead of off-camera flash in a softbox, I used bounce flash for clean open light on her. The out of focus background is a piece of artwork – a pointillist Mickey Mouse. I thought it might be a cute idea to place her in front of it, and have the ears barely discernible. Mickey's face then creates a kind of halo around her. There is some ambient light coming in from camera-right.
Retouching layer
Pulling the JPG into Photoshop, the actual first step is to create a duplicate layer. This initial duplicate layer is the one that I retouch any skin blemishes on. I use the Clone and Healing Brush in Photoshop for this. (The person who designed the Healing Brush should be nominated for a Nobel Prize.)
When I am done retouching the image on this layer, I create a duplicate layer of it.
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I rename the layers as I progress, so that I always have a clear idea of which layer is which, in case I need to back-track and delete a layer. Or duplicate it.
Shine Off is a truly astonishing plug-in. It will save you a lot of time and effort in removing most of the sheen on someone's skin where it appears. It just works! I use it with the default settings, but usually pulled down to about 60%
I create a duplicate layer of this one, ready for a next step.
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I do run it at 100% on the defaults, but we'll change the opacity later on … and still add a twist to the proceedings.
We'll keep it at 100% for now, and create a duplicate layer again of the Portraiture layer.
Topaz Adjust – Detailed
Now here's the twist. The previous layer was over-smoothed, but with this layer, we over-enhance the local contrast by running the 'Detailed' action in Topaz Adjust.
The photograph will look quite heinous at this point, but we're going to use it as a 'Soft Light' layer, and then pull the opacity down to 10% or 20% or somewhere around there. It depends on taste.
This just punches up the contrast and saturation a bit. This step in a way returns some of the nuances we might have lost with the Portraiture step. The photograph should look pretty good right now.
Now we pull the opacity of the previous layer (Portraiture) down to taste. I usually settle for around 50% but you can see what you like. Perhaps more, perhaps less.
Further adjustments
For this photograph, I removed a blue-ish tint I saw around her eyes.
Then as a final step, I added a black-and-white version of the photograph as another layer, and blended it as an Overlay layer at reduced opacity. It changes the contrast in a way that I like. However, I brought back some of the detail in the darker areas of her hair, by brushing it in with the layer mask.
This is obviously not something you'd do in a high-volume workflow, but it does work well with individual portrait images. And of course, all this is a matter of personal taste. I leave steps out, and change opacities as I please. It's all wide open to interpretation.
Finally, the comparison between the first retouching step, and the final image.
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A commonly held belief among designers is that quality ideas come from having a large quantity of ideas, because generating wild and diverse ideas can spark creativity and innovation. This design ideation is often accomplished through activities such as brainstorming, sketching, and storytelling, all of which tend to be driven by designers. However, as technology becomes increasingly personal, ideation conducted by designers in isolation can lead to faulty assumptions that can adversely impact the user experience.
By ideating with users, designers can create new technologies that embody the needs and values of their users. Unfortunately, engaging users early in the product development cycle requires significant planning and expense beyond the capabilities of design teams on tight budgets and timelines.
The DesignLibs Method
To help address the need to easily engage with users early on to generate novel ideas quickly and at large scale, we developed a new method called DesignLibs. In a nutshell, the method requires a designer to create a scenario for a new technology, remove keywords from the scenario, and then have potential users fill in the missing keywords.
In addition to this standard DesignLibs method that allows users to see the scenario while filling in the blanks, we developed two other formats: Q&A and MadLibs (see Figure 1). The Q&A format asks users to answer specific questions without revealing the scenario. The designer then inserts their answers into the scenario she created and reflects on it for inspiration. The MadLibs format is similar to Q&A, but instead of answering questions, users are asked to provide words of a certain type. This format works just like the children's game of Mad Libs® (www.madlibs.com).
Evaluating DesignLibs
To understand how DesignLibs performs as an ideation tool, we conducted a study scenario for an application that detects and responds to the user's mood. More than two hundred participants completed a web-based survey. Each participant was presented with one of the three DesignLibs formats, which resulted in eighty completions per format. A team of six designers who were not involved in any other part of the project commented on the resulting scenarios and rated them for feasibility, usefulness, and creativity. Table 1 shows some of the scenarios produced by the three conditions and the feedback we received from the designers who evaluated the scenarios.
|DesignLibs Format
|Designer Feedback
|Fill in the blanks
|"When the device senses that he/she is stressed, it responds by signal."
|"I wouldn't want to wear a head laser, but I kind of like the simplicity here: if you're stressed, the device lets you know."
|"When the device senses that he/she is gloomy, it responds by heating slightly."
|"Really like this idea; not sure if it'd necessarily produce the desired effect."
|"When the device senses that he/she is calm, it responds by humming."
|"Interesting ambient-ish feedback that seems like a sympathetic computerized response."
|"When the device senses that he/she is upset, it responds by joking."
|"Telling a joke in response to something that someone is upset is a simple and possibly effective approach."
|"When the device senses that he/she is angry, it responds by cooling."
|Changing temperature in response to moods is interesting! What else can you do with that?"
|"When the device senses that he/she is good, it responds by play."
|"While technologically ill-specified, this is the only scenario so far talking about babies as users, and suggests the idea of instigating play when the baby feels good and shouting (perhaps to alert caregivers?) when he/she feels bad. Not useful as specified but opens up other interesting ideas."
|"…When the device senses that he/she is joy, it responds by standing."
|"It makes me think of building just an avatar that responds to emotions relatively passively through body language (for example, standing up and looking alert when the user is happy)…"
|"When the device senses that he/she is sleepy, it responds by kick."
|"The opposite of this, whatever that is, might be a good solution."
|"When the device senses that he/she is glum, it responds by cook."
|"Having something cook when you're glum would be lovely!"
According to the designers' ratings, the fill-in-the-blanks method produced more feasible and useful scenarios than the Q&A or MadLibs formats. This finding wasn't unexpected since neither Q&A nor MadLibs allow users to see how the words they provide will be used. Consequently, the results can be absurd without users ever realizing it.
What was surprising is that the Q&A method produced scenarios that the designers rated as more feasible and useful than the MadLibs scenarios, despite the fact that in both cases users couldn't see the context. The Q&A method must have helped users decontextualize their experiences and reflect on their behavior without being biased by expectations for how a technology should work.
While it may seem that the MadLibs condition was an inferior format, designers still found the scenarios it produced useful. Sometimes even outlandish scenarios can be thought-provoking.
Before You Put It into Practice
The responses from the designers who participated in our study, combined with our own reflection on the scenarios, led us to conclude that each of the DesignLibs formats works best at generating certain types of scenarios (see Table 2).
|DesignLibs Format
|When to Use
|Fill in the blanks
|When exploring a new design topic
|When trying to encourage personally relevant responses
|When needing inspiration after having worked on the same design topic for a while
The fill-in-the-blanks method is best for producing a large number of feasible and useful ideas and should be used when designers are exploring a large design space that's relatively new to them. The MadLibs condition, in contrast, seems to be most suitable for generating divergent ideas, most valuable after you have worked in a space for some time. Finally, the Q&A method may be better suited to situations in which designers would like users to provide feasible ideas that aren't biased by expectations of how technology should be used.
As technologies play a more significant role in users' personal lives, it becomes essential to include users early on in the product development process. By being quick and easy to develop and deploy, DesignLibs is a great tool for accomplishing this goal. We envision DesignLibs as a useful part of a designer's toolbox and hope you'll consider experimenting with the tool as a means to generate ideas. If you do use DesignLibs in your work, please let us know how it went!
Figure 1 text
There are three versions of a form where a user can fill in the blanks to build a story.
Version 1: Fill in the blanks
[name] is a a [age]-year old [occupation] who has been struggling with a lot of job-related stress. He/she decided to try a new application to relieve stress, which runs on a/an [computing device[ to help improve his/her mood.
The application senses his/her mood through a device he/she wears on his/her [body part].
When the device senses that he/she is [mood word], it respond by [action word].
Version 2: Q&A
1. The first name of someone you know well is [ ].
2. He/she is [ ] years old.
3. His/her occupation is [ ].
4. he/she would like to own a computing device such as [ ].
5. He/she might be comfortable wearing a small computing device on his/her [ ].
6. When he/she is in a/an [ mood ], you would like to [ ] for him/her.
Version 3: MadLibs
1. A person's name: [ ]
2. An age: [ ]
3. An occupation: [ ]
4. A computing device: [ ]
5. A body part: [ ]
6. A mood word: [ ]
7. An action word: [ ]
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There are more than 80 amateur adult baseball leagues with more than 700 teams scattered across New England. Leagues offer a broad range of competitiveness, from weekend warrior to aspiring professional. Some leagues have short and condensed schedules over the summer, while others are spread from spring to fall. Some consist of young men just starting out life on their own, while others cater to the seasoned gentleman with families of their own. The one thing they all have in common is that they are filled with athletes continuing to live the dream of playing baseball as long as they can. Provided are your 2012 league champions from Massachusetts. For the full New England listing, please grab the November issue of New England Baseball Journal.
Take me to: Connecticut | Maine | Massachusetts | New Hampshire | Rhode Island | Vermont | 2011 Champions


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I wouldn't blame you if you were tired of seeing Christmas splashed all over blogs. We've been enjoying the decorations for weeks now. I have to say though, this isn't your normal tour. I'm not a decorating blog, I don't claim any amazing design skills or fancy pants ideas to make you run right out and copy, not that there is time for that now. Most of you have been visiting for years. We are old friends. Do you know I've been writing this blog coming up on 10 years?
Yes, I think you know what to expect by now. This is just real life. Well, cleaned up real life with all the junk stashed in the room you won't see, just like it would be if you came for coffee. ;)
So grab a cup and take the tour. we'll visit like the old friends we are. And if we are new friends, welcome! I don't put on any airs, grab a mug and lets take a look at Christmas here in the cottage.


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Jesus (Joshua) of Navi
September 1
Jesus (Joshua) of Navi was born of the tribe of Ephraim in Egypt, in the seventeenth century before Christ. When he was eighty-five years of age, he became Moses' successor. He restrained the River Jordan's flow and allowed the Israelites to cross on foot. He caused the sun to stop in its course when he was waging war against the Amorites. He divided the Promised Land among the Twelve Tribes of Israel and governed them for twenty-five years. He wrote the Old Testament book that bears his name, and having lived 110 years in all, he reposed in the sixteenth century before Christ. His name means "God saves."
Apolytikion of Jesus of Navi
Second Tone
As we celebrate the memory of Thy Prophet Joshua, O Lord, through him we beseech Thee to save our souls.
Kontakion of Jesus of Navi
Fourth Tone
At thy prayer, the sun stood still, O righteous Jesus; for thou rightly wast adorned both with the likeness and the name of Him at Whose death the sun grew dark. Ever entreat Him to save us who honour thee.
Blessed Feast Day
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The World Heritage Committee,
1. Having examined Document WHC-08/32.COM/7A,
2. Recalling Decisions 29 COM 7B.a, 30 COM 7.1 and 31 COM 7.1, adopted at its 29th (Durban, 2005), 30th (Vilnius, 2006) and 31st (Christchurch, 2007) sessions respectively,
3. Also recalling Resolution 16 GA 10, adopted by the General Assembly of States Parties to the World Heritage Convention at its 16th session (UNESCO, 2007),
4. Noting the real danger from climate change faced by many World Heritage properties,
5. Decides to adopt the criteria proposed for assessing properties which are most threatened by climate change for inclusion on the List of World Heritage in Danger, noting that the emphasis of the corrective measures to be recommended should be on "adaptation" rather than on "mitigation";
6. Approves the following amendments to the Operational Guidelines:
a) Amendment to Paragraph 179 (b) (vi):
threatening impacts of climatic, geological or other environmental factors. gradual changes due to geological, climatic or other environmental factors.
b) New Paragraph : Paragraph 180 (b)(v):
threatening impacts of climatic, geological or other environmental factors.
c) Amendment to Paragraph 181:
In addition, the factor or factors which are threatening threats and/or their deleterious impacts on the integrity of the property must be those which are amenable to correction by human action. In the case of cultural properties, both natural factors and man-made factors may be threatening, while in the case of natural properties, most threats will be man-made and only very rarely a natural factor (such as an epidemic disease) will threaten the integrity of the property. In some cases, the factor or factors which are threatening threats and/or their deleterious impacts on the integrity of the property may be corrected by administrative or legislative action, such as the cancelling of a major public works project or the improvement of legal status.


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MAMA's Post-Partum Family Planning Messages for Mothers across the World
Kirsten Gagnaire, Global Director of MAMA from FHI 360 on Vimeo.
Mothers shape the lives of children, impact communities, and sustain nations through their nurturing and work, serving as a lifeline for future generations to come. When a mother dies, her absence is felt throughout the world. Her children have a difficult time surviving and her family suffers, leaving a community more vulnerable to health and economic disparities. Unfortunately, this loss is felt the hardest in low-resource communities across developing countries.
More needs to be done immediately to prevent these tragic deaths.
Everyday 800 women do not survive childbirth or pregnancy in the world. Their babies are up to 10 times more likely to die within two years of their mothers' death. These staggering statistics are even more heartbreaking knowing that 3.1 million newborns die every year.
With the help of family planning, these tragedies can be averted. More than 1 million deaths of children under five could be prevented by healthier birth spacing of mothers delay conceiving until 36 months after giving birth. In addition, approximately 1.1 million fewer newborn and infant deaths can be prevented through improved access to family planning.
In response to the overwhelming need for family planning resources in the developing world, the Mobile Alliance for Maternal Action (MAMA) is pleased to announce a new set of content created by BabyCenter, in collaboration with global experts, including FHI 360's Mobile for Reproductive Health (m4RH) team: post-partum family planning messages. The new post-partum family planning messages are an addition to MAMA's suite of content that includes breastfeeding, immunization, prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV messages as well as messages for husbands and mothers-in-law.
Mothers – "mamas" of the world – will have a new set of tools: post-partum family planning messages in the palm of their hands. These messages will be delivered in a discreet, timely, and culturally sensitive way in the form of text and voice messages via their mobiles.
Today, we released more than 300 post-partum family planning messages accessible through MAMA's website, www.mobilemamaalliance.org. Here are some sample messages developed by our global experts informed by mothers:
- "Enjoy the baby you have – she'll only be a baby for a short while. Spacing your family gives you time to help each baby develop and learn."
- "You have the right to choose a family planning method that suits you. Find a clinic that offers many choices of family planning methods."
These messages educate, empower, and engage mothers around the importance of family planning and help them make informed health decisions for themselves and their babies.
As a mother of two children and Global Director of MAMA, I have renewed hope that harnessing the power of mobile phones to deliver post-partum family planning messages to mothers can help prevent senseless deaths across the world. I am proud to add this set of messages to our growing suite of tools and resources.
In honor of mothers around the world, I encourage everyone who reads this post to share MAMA's new post-partum family planning messages, so that together, we can put the power of health in every mama's hand.


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Holy Saturday: Let the Memory Live Again
Holy Saturday, the day that Jesus lay in the tomb, is one of the most overlooked days in the Christian liturgical calendar. There is no liturgy for the day and very little spirituality or theology about it. We tend to move right from Good Friday to Easter Sunday, moving from crucifixion to new life, from sadness and pain to joy and exultation. What happens in between?
That question can be asked in another way: What does it take to move from death to new life? We have all experienced that phenomenon in our lives: the time after something terrible happens and we think we will never be able to continue and the time before we experience a new outlook and renewed joy in living. This in-between time can be a struggle.
When God offers us the opportunity for new life, we have the choice to accept or reject God's grace. We can't resurrect ourselves; we can only choose to accept or reject the grace of resurrection that God offers when we are ready for it. To make the choice for life requires a conscious effort on our part to decide to act differently. We must recall how we were before, choose not to exist in this "dead" state, remember how God's love operates in our lives, and elect to start life anew.
I can't help but imagine that Jesus, while lying in the tomb, went through a similar process. While, of course, He was dead, my imagination can't help but wonder what His thoughts might have been if He had them. I believe that, just as we have to do, Jesus had to choose to resurrect.
For me, this experience of being "dead" and needing to choose to live a new life is best described in the lyrics of the popular song, "Memory," from the musical, Cats, by Andrew Lloyd Weber. I like to think of them as the "thoughts" that Jesus had while lying in the tomb. Here are the lyrics, followed by my interpretation of them in light of Holy Saturday:
1. Daylight
See the dew on the sunflower
And a rose that is fading
Roses whither away
Like the sunflower
I yearn to turn my face to the dawn
I am waiting for the day . . .
2. Midnight
Not a sound from the pavement
Has the moon lost her memory?
She is smiling alone
In the lamplight
The withered leaves collect at my feet
And the wind begins to moan
3. Memory
All alone in the moonlight
I can smile at the old days
I was beautiful then
I remember the time I knew what happiness was
Let the memory live again
4. Every streetlamp
Seems to beat a fatalistic warning
Someone mutters
And the streetlamp gutters
And soon it will be morning
5. Daylight
I must wait for the sunrise
I must think of a new life
And I mustn't give in
When the dawn comes
Tonight will be a memory too
And a new day will begin
6. Burnt out ends of smoky days
The stale cold smell of morning
The streetlamp dies, another night is over
Another day is dawning
7. Touch me
It's so easy to leave me
All alone with the memory
Of my days in the sun
If you touch me
You'll understand what happiness is
8. Look
A new day has begun
The first verse describes the waiting that we go through. The second verse describes the experience of emptiness we feel when dead. The third verse offers the remembrance of how our lives used to be. The fourth verse tells of the hope that we have during this period.
The turning point happens in the fifth verse, which reminds us that we can experience temptation to remain dead, to remain frozen in our current condition, rather than resurrecting. In this fifth verse, we are reminded of the determination that we need to experience resurrection, that it is our choice whether to do so or not.
The sixth verse lets us know that, though it seems we are trapped by this death experience, we will soon experience new life. The seventh verse describes how easy it can be to stay in the past, rather than opening ourselves to a new experience of life. The eighth verse simply states that we are now at the dawn of a new experience, better than we have tasted before and unencumbered by both the joys and tragedies of the past: a true resurrection.
May we all choose to resurrect to new life from the pain and tragedy of the past.
–Francis DeBernardo, New Ways Ministry


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Te Papa's curator of terrestrial vertebrates Dr Colin Miskelly is researching the life and work of the Canterbury naturalist Edgar Stead (1881-1949). This includes re-taking Stead's photos from the same photo-point, taking other images to illustrate his diaries, and describing how the ecology and wildlife of each of 10 islands has changed since Stead's visits.
The second muttonbird island that Edgar Stead and companions stayed on was Solomon Island (Rerewhakaupoko), just north of Big South Cape Island (Taukihepa), off the south-west coast of Stewart Island. Stead landed on Solomon Island for a few hours the day after leaving Kundy Island in December 1929, discovering saddlebacks and bush wrens to be present, among other wildlife treasures. He resolved to return to make more detailed studies.
After making enquiries through John Morrison of Bluff, Stead was granted permission by William Leader to stay in his muttonbirding hut at Bats Cave landing on the south coast of Solomon Island. Stead and his companions Major Robert Wilson and Sir John Hanham arrived on the island on 10 November 1931; Stead & Wilson stayed until 14 December, with Hanham replaced by Eb Hay for the last 10 days.
The main bird species studied by Stead and his companions on Solomon Island were South Island saddleback, bush wren (which Stead described as a new subspecies in 1936), Stewart Island robin and Stewart Island fernbird. All these species were extirpated by ship rats that invaded Solomon, Big South Cape and Pukeweka Islands in 1964. The robin and fernbird survived on other muttonbird islands (as well as at a few places on Stewart Island itself). Wildlife Service personnel succeeded in rescuing South Island saddlebacks by translocating them from Big South Cape Island to other rat-free islands. An attempt to rescue the bush wren failed, and it is now extinct.
From 1964 to 2006, Solomon Island was an avian desert, with voracious ship rats preventing successful breeding or recolonisation by many bird species. The rats were eradicated in 2006, leading to a remarkable recovery in bird life. Tui, bellbirds, tomtits and yellow-crowned parakeets are now abundant there. Robins recolonised within a year of rat eradication, and are now as abundant and tame as in Stead's time.
South Island saddlebacks were reintroduced to Solomon Island on 20 March 2012 in a joint Rakiura Titi Committee / Department of Conservation translocation, when 8 birds were moved from Pohowaitai Island. Stead's 1931 saddleback studies were focussed on confirming that the brown-plumaged 'jackbird' was the juvenile plumage of the strikingly-patterned South Island saddleback. In contrast, the otherwise similar North Island saddleback does not have a distinct juvenile plumage, a fact that Stead confirmed on a visit to Hen Island (Taranga) 2 years later.
My visit to Rerewhakaupoko in March 2012 was supported by the Rakiura Titi Committee, the Heaslip whanau and the Austin whanau, and I was generously hosted by the Heaslips. It was a great privilege to see adult saddlebacks and jackbirds back on Solomon Island 80 years after Stead had seen the same, and to share this magical experience with my hosts.
One of the other bird species that Stead encountered on Solomon Island was the broad-billed prion (parara). This species suffered enormous mortality in a severe storm in July 2011, with hundreds of thousands of birds killed. Numbers were much reduced on Solomon Island in 2012 compared to previous years, according to my hosts. I saw seven parara, and was able to collect feather samples from five birds to allow genetic comparisons with birds washed up on North Island beaches, and held by Te Papa.
Other blogs in this series:
Taranga / Hen Island – 1933 and 2010 – In the footsteps of Edgar Stead (Part 1)
Nukuwaiata / Inner Chetwode Island – 1936 and 2011 – In the footsteps of Edgar Stead (Part 2)
Kundy Island – 1929 and 2011 – In the footsteps of Edgar Stead (Part 3)
Whenua Hou / Codfish Island – 1934 and 2011 – In the footsteps of Edgar Stead (Part 4)
Taukihepa / Big South Cape Island – 1931 and 2012 – In the footsteps of Edgar Stead (Part 6)
Pukeokaoka / Jacky Lee Island – 1932 and 2012 – In the footsteps of Edgar Stead (Part 7)
Green Island – 1941 and 2012 – In the footsteps of Edgar Stead (Part 8)
Ruapuke Island – 1941 and 2012 – In the footsteps of Edgar Stead (Part 9)
Western Chain, Snares Islands – 1929 and 2012 – In the footsteps of Edgar Stead (Part 10)
Snares Islands –1947 and 2013 – In the footsteps of Edgar Stead (Part 11)
Hautere/Solander Island – 1933 and 2016 – In the footsteps of Edgar Stead (Part 12)
Related topics:
Riders of the storm – thousands of seabirds perish on New Zealand shores
Riders of the storm – the severely depleted next generation
Are muttonbirds radio-active?


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We open our eyes, cold and broken, our minds a maelstrom of painful hazy, half-remembered thoughts. We reach up to check for eyelids - we remember opening our eyes but all we can see is a brainwashing fusion of flashing primary colours and we collectively scream.
Is this the aftermath of one of the most horrendous drinking sessions ever? No. Just the result of blinking while playing Atari Anthology.
This game should not be released. Simple as that. Playing through its repetitive selection of mono-feature games, all we can picture is that poor, confused middle aged man in the games shop, torn between a copy of that 'Hello 2' game all the kids are talking about, and the game that conjures up happy memories of his childhood.
So, when we say Atari Anthology should not be released, we mean it - if for no other reason than every one of its 80+ games are rancid, two button affairs which involve either no skill or a misjudged difficulty level that makes you sick. Its target audience can only be those with fond memories of the games, yet all this experience can possibly do for them is shatter them.
It's not that we're trying to disrespect these old games for existing. They need to be celebrated as a wonderful reminder of just how far the industry has come in so little time. But their place is on a coveted museum shelf, not on a disc countless generations down the line, trying to earn a few more quid like some kind of haggard prostitute.
One day we'll look at Burnout 3, for instance, and remember it for what it is - just a very fun step on the long road to the day when games reach that mythical graphical pinnacle and can finally start being celebrated alongside other entertainment mediums as equals. What we won't do is force it on a new generation, deluding ourselves that the next-gen offerings aren't better. Increased technical prowess is the key to unlocking the true visions of artists and their ideas - the remakes of games like Doom are evidence enough of this. The way forward is to embrace the future, and let the games of old contained on this disc finally Rest In Peace.
Atari Anthology is out now for Xbox and will be out for PS2 on 4 February


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Radiotherapy for cancer involves exposing the patient or their tumor more directly to ionizing radiation, such as gamma rays or X-rays. The radiation damages the cancer cells irreparably. Unfortunately, such radiation is also harmful to healthy tissue, particularly the skin over the site of the tumor, which is then at risk of hair loss, dermatological problems and even skin cancer. As such finding ways to protect the overlying skin are keenly sought.
Writing in the International Journal of Low Radiation, Faruck Lukmanul Hakkim of the University of Nizwa, Oman and Nagasaki University, Nagasaki, Japan, and colleagues there and at Macquarie University, New South Wales, Australia, Bharathiar University, India and Konkuk University, South Korea, explain how three ubiquitous and well-studied natural products derived from plants can protect the skin against gamma radiation during radiotherapy.
Hakkim and colleagues discuss the benefits of the organic, antioxidant compounds caffeic acid (CA), rosmarinic acid (RA) and trans-cinnamic acid (TCA) used at non-toxic concentrations. They tested the radio protective effect of these compounds against gamma-radiation in terms of reducing levels of reactive oxygen species generated in skin cells by clinical relevance dose of gamma ray in the laboratory and in terms of the damage to the genetic material DNA, specifically double strand breaks in laboratory samples of human skin cells (keratinocytes). They found that treating the human skin cells with CA, RA and TCA can protected the cells by 40, 20 and 15 percent respectively from gamma ray toxicity. They suggest that the protective effect arises because the compounds mop up the reactive oxygen species and chemically deactivate them as well as enhancing the body's natural DNA repair mechanisms.
The team suggests that these compounds might best be used as skin protectants during combination chemotherapy and radiotherapy. Further work is under way to investigate the clinical potential of mixtures of the three natural products.


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