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Earth Solutions
Earth Solutions founder Dr David Epstein, D.O., a practicing holistic osteopathic physician, began with environmental product, distributing a natural oxygenating solution for soil conditioning. Influenced by his interest in natural remedies, the nutrient rich oxygenating solution was formulated into DermAlive, the predecessor to Cell Food which was developed after the supplier sold the company.
The ScentBall and CarScenter aromatherapy diffusers were developed by Earth Solutions in collaboration with Hubmar in 1995 and 1997. Earth Solutions were the pioneers that offered a natural plant-derived aroma alternative to an industry of artificial fragrances. On the heels of that and with the creative genius of folk artist Eric Legge, Earth Solutions took on a new look. The collection of five Scent Inhalers grew to twenty and became a best, all-time and ongoing product. The convenience and concept of affirmations associated with scents in a pocket-sized inhaler was a hit.
Earth Solutions launched the Jeffrey David 1999 when Jeff Boast brought his talent in computer aided jewelry design to help create a unique line of aromatherapy jewelry. Since then, the line expanded to over 500 jewelry designs. Collections range from aromatherapy to music, flower of life, new age, sports and many custom designs in pendants, earrings and charms.
With a passion for aquaponics and help from friend Dav Frayne, Dr. Dave designed the Farm in a Box. This first-commercially-available aquarium aquaponic garden mounts onto a standard glass fish tank became a media sensation. Articles appeared in the Wall Street Journal, New York Times and featured the Farm in a Box on Good Morning America for the 4th of July garden special in 2010.
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By turns humorous and heart wrenching, the documentary Buck is far more than it first appears. Sure, it's about horses and how to treat them, but it's also about people and facing adversity and being the best person you can, no matter what you've faced in the past.
Buck Brannaman (who was the inspiration for and consultant to the movie The Horse Whisperer and even worked as Robert Redford's stunt double) travels across the country giving workshops on "Natural Horsemanship", a method of training horses that rejects cruelty and "breaking", and instead teaches understanding and finding mutual benefits for both horse and rider. People often bring "problem" horses to Buck, horses that refuse to be saddled or follow commands; invariably Buck has the horse calm and obedient within minutes, all done with gentle, persistent direction. Buck points out that most of the time the problem lies with the rider; he doesn't treat people with horse problems, he treats horses with people problems.
What's most riveting about Buck though is Buck Brannaman himself. Raised by a tyrannical father that regularly beat and abused him and his brother, Buck has actively chosen to leave that legacy in the past. He has an empathy for horses – and people – that only someone that has known what it's like to be afraid and helpless can have. He's found that the way that he's learned to treat horses – by giving them a chance – bleeds into your life and how you treat your fellow humans. Buck is exactly the kind of person you'd like to invite over for barbeque and a beer – funny and smart and thoughtful, a true modern cowboy. This documentary is beautifully photographed and edited. Buck's story informs the film, but doesn't overwhelm it. And despite the past suffering, what you'll remember and feel is hope for the future.

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Recent Letters To The Editor – May 30, 2012
Postal erosion
I recently rented a box at the Arcata Post Office. One of the selling points was the 24/7 access. Therefore, I just about went postal when I got a notice in my new box telling me that the lobby now will be closed nights and Sundays due to ongoing vandalism.
I spoke with Gary Scott, the USPS officer-in-charge, who convinced me that they really had no alternative. He showed me urine stains on the carpet and fire scars on a door. He told me stories of having to clean up human feces and replace new carpets and of finding people passed out in their own piss. Portions of the lobby smell like a public bathroom. The people doing this are too wasted or too mentally ill to give a damn about security cameras. They return within minutes of being evicted. It seems the only other solution would be to post a guard at the door during off hours, but the USPS is hardly in a position to finance that.
So here we are once again: The law-abiding, responsible majority is being punished for the actions of a few. The easiest – and sometimes the only – way to prevent lawlessness is to take the opportunity for it away from everyone. Little by little, bit by bit, our rights, privileges, and liberties are eroded or rescinded. We live in a world of locks, passwords, alarms, speed bumps, and countless other safeguards against the unscrupulous. I'm all for societal compassion towards the less privileged, but where's the compassion for the rest of us? It feels as if we just don't matter anymore.
The post office situation points to the need for stiffer law enforcement; a better safety net for the homeless and mentally ill; and, perhaps more attainable, a public restroom in downtown Arcata and zero tolerance of anyone who abuses it.
Ken Burton
no fixed residence, Arcata
CHP vs. ducklings
On the afternoon of Wednesday, May 23 at about 3:15 p.m., after picking my son up from Union Street Charter school, I saw a mother duck lead her ducklings through the grass and head toward Samoa Blvd. to cross just west of the roundabout. I pulled over to watch and see that they made it across safely. I was not the only one who was so enchanted by the spectacle that I had to stop and watch.
The ducks made it safely across the west bound side of Samoa. Traffic started to slow, and those headed west bound were waving to alert the east bound drivers to the situation. By now, there was quite a hold up in both directions, but no one was in a hurry – except for one CHP officer who was at the end of the line of eastbound traffic.
We continued to watch, and although I couldn't see them for the cars, I was pretty sure the ducks had made it across the east bound lane of Samoa. As the cars started to clear, I stayed to catch one more glimpse of the creatures. They had only the access road to the CHP station to cross at this point, so I assumed they were pretty safe.
But they had one more danger looming – the impatient officer. He turned down the access road and bore down on the ducklings without slowing. For one horrible moment, I thought he had hit some of them. But after he passed, I was pretty sure there were no dead ducks on the road, so no harm done – to the ducks at least.
However, I watched all this with my eight-year old son. He was ready to go into the CHP office and start yelling at the officer. At his insistence, we went back to the head of the access road to make sure there were no dead ducklings and indeed, there were none.
Thankfully, the ducks were alright, but the reputation of the California Highway Patrol is tarnished in the eyes of an impressionable youth (not to mention his mother). Whoever that officer was, he did not represent his agency well that afternoon.
Katherine Almy and Slate Taylor
Note: We received the following response from Humboldt Area Commander Harry Linschoten: "The CHP is in the process of identifying the officer that may be responsible and will determine what action, if any, will be taken based on the facts of the incident." – Ed.
Cheese mill alternative
I just read the Cypress Grove article in the Eye. Although I felt it had a disparaging attitude towards those against the Cypress Grove Cheese Factory expansion, the article did show the complex nature of the situation.
I don't think anyone at the Planning Commission's meeting was unsupportive of the Cypress Grove Cheese Factory.
What most people did not support was the elimination of Agriculture in the name of "Agriculture." The proposal is to triple the size of the existing 13,000 sq. feet cheese factory to 37,000 sq. feet. This will put more than .5 of an acre of fertile, self-watering Arcata bottomland under compacted crushed rock and rebar reinforced concrete.
This isn't a four-inch slab of barn concrete, it is industrial code gravel, rebar, and concrete. If our WPA sidewalks are any indication, it will seal off the soil from food growing for more than a century.
This project was justified because it is "Agriculture." Here our laws fail us. A better statement of Agriculture would be: The use of sun, soil, and water to produce food (vegetables, grains, milk, meat). What Cypress Grove is doing is "food transformation." They are taking a basic Agriculture food (goat milk) and transforming it into a different product (goat cheese). The question we all need to ask is: Does "food transformation" have priority over "food production?"
Could the Emmi Corporation find an already impacted Arcata site for a second cheese factory? I suspect they could, if they had the Will to do it. The Arcata Flakeboard site was suggested, as it is large and has excellent truck access. Emmi discounted it because of the hygiene requirements of cheese making. But did they even try to explore this possibility with Arcata City?
The owners of the Flakeboard site, Hambro, owes Arcata $2.2 million. Seems like a deal could be struck, the building razed, and, there you have it; a concrete slab, ready for a hygienic building!
With the human population increasing exponentially (seven-plus billion) and millions of acres of fertile farmland disappearing under "Development" (42,000,000-plus acres since 1982 in USA), our great grandchildren will be hard pressed to feed humanity. New Cypress Grove concrete on Arcata's fertile farmland will only add to that problem.
Craig Knox
Ag requires buildings
I note Craig Knox's letter in the May 9th issue in which he is critical of of the Cypress Grove Cheese Factory expansion and suggests that perhaps a disparaging attitude exists about the long-term critics of the entire project as chronicled in these pages. I suggest that perhaps what irks folks about much of the opposition, and what Mr. Hoover was talking about in his open letter to himself, is the appearance of extreme mental contortions to rationalize and camouflage what is essentially just a NIMBY issue. Nobody wants to admit that they are simply exercising their Constitutional rights to just hate it and be agin' it no matter what some hippies on the City Council once said about conserving and using prime ag land.
Now Mr. Knox has proposed a finely nuanced, hair-splitting, Rube Goldberg mental construction which opposes the physical construction of of a half-acre concrete slab which will expand the capacity of the CHEESE factory which it was clearly billed as from the beginning as Mr. Knox seems to acknowledge. Now, suddenly, after all these months we have the proposition that cheese is not actually an agricultural product (!?!) but is "transformed" from raw goat milk by Cypress Grove operatives. This is bad!?!?
For at least the last thousand years or so, in order to produce food, it has been necessary on farms to devote some of the surface area to a driveway, service roads, barns, storage and, oh, yeah, a home for the farming family. The Romans had excellent concrete and the Appian Way lasted for centuries. It's simply impossible for humans to live without some impact and some percentage of any given producing acreage will be paved over or built on, no matter how groovy and organic the managers may be.
Mr. Knox wrote: "The question we all need to ask is: Does 'food transformation' have priority over 'food production?'" I don't know. Does exhalation have priority over inhalation? Does bread have priority over flour? Does pudding have priority over rice? Does yogurt have priority over milk? Does beer have priority over barley, hops, yeast and water? If the California Olive Ranch presses its own olives on their property, have they now "transformed" the ag. olives into non-ag. olive oil? Have they violated some ethical standard? No.
Cheese-making has been a boon for humanity since at least Neolithic times because it allowed for the concentration and preservation of nutritious milk. Does anyone honestly think that the neighbors in the Q Street imbroglio or the current controversy really gave a damn about feeding the masses? Come on. When seven billion starving people show up like a cloud of locusts, they might get to plant something, but not 'til then.
The rest of the letter may have merit, I don't know. The dubious introduction puts the entire letter in a bad light. It would seem much more sincere and authentic if the first paragraph was just NIMBY, NIMBY, NIMBY for four or five lines and then on to the Emmi Corp. and Arcata Flakeboard, etc.
I once cared for goats and they are not my favorite animals. I also hate goat cheese, but if others like it, I'm glad they have a state-of-the-art production and dispensary resource.
Well, I thought they did. Why is everybody's dispensary being hassled?
Timothy Crlenjak
New Writer of the Purple Rage
Livid in the USA
Kind, thoughtful PG&E
To Humboldt State University Administration, Arcata Main Street and Arcata Chamber of Commerce:
It was recently brought to my attention that PG&E had planned a large construction project for all day tomorrow at Seventh and H streets that involved trenching, clearing out and replacing a large gas transmission line, blocking a traffic lane, operating heavy equipment, etc. While the project did not involve cutting gas service to businesses, it nevertheless would cause a large and unsightly hole in the street, traffic congestion and possible gas odors.
Since this is Commencement weekend for Humboldt State University and one of the busiest weekends of the year for Farmers' Market, our Downtown businesses, and the University, I asked PG&E to consider changing their plans to perform the work on another weekend. I argued it would be in extreme bad form to have such a construction project in our Downtown district during a time when our city and the University is working hard to look as welcoming as possible to thousands of out of town visitors.
I am very pleased to report that PG&E has agreed to change their plans and will schedule the work for another less busy weekend in the future.
Please join me in extending our sincere gratitude to PG&E for their kind and thoughtful support on this very important weekend. Special thanks to PG&E representative Alison Talbot for her incredible responsiveness on this issue!
Randy Mendosa, city manager
City of Arcata California
St. Mary's School closing
Following the completion of the current School Year on June 15, 2012, St. Mary School in Arcata will close. This closure is for reasons of very low enrollment and escalating costs. The enrollment is currently 26 students.
The decision to close the School comes after a lengthy evaluation process which involved the Finance Council of St. Mary Church, the Superintendent of Catholic Schools of the Diocese of Santa Rosa, and Bishop Robert Vasa, head of the Diocese of Santa Rosa. All are in agreement with the decision to close the school.
I ask all persons to receive this news as best they can. Kindly know of my prayers for the current School families and the School personnel who are directly affected by this decision. Know as well of my gratitude to all who have given support to the School—whether time, talent, or treasure. For over 50 years, St. Mary's School has been forming students for responsible lives as members of the Church and as citizens of our global society. We are thankful for what has been achieved and the closing of the School does not alter this wonderful record.
Reverend Gerard Gormley, pastor
St. Mary Church, Arcata
Lust for quality
Many thanks to Erik Lust, City of Arcata water/wastewater superintendent, and his staff. They quickly responded to an issue of water coming from a new tank above Diamond Drive and California Avenue. Thanks to them, the situation we have has been completely explained.
When asked why our water tasted bad, had a horrible odor, was oily and brown, he wrote a detailed paper about the entire specific items the City was doing to alleviate the problem. Then, above and beyond, Erik walked the neighborhood to deliver the letter to each home.
This is a great response to a difficult situation that shows the City of Arcata really cares about the quality of life of its residents.
Alicia Abell
Excellent police work
Over the last nine months, three different Coast Central Credit Union locations were robbed. All three suspects have been identified, apprehended and are behind bars. Fortunately, no harm came to any of our staff members.
On behalf of our members and staff, we wish to sincerely thank all the law enforcement officers of the Arcata Police Department, Eureka Police Department, Fortuna Police Department and officers from the Humboldt County Sheriff's Office who were involved in the investigations that brought these criminals to justice.
With the assistance of our digital on-location cameras and members of our community, the law enforcement agencies were able to identify these criminals and bring them to justice. Hopefully, this will act as a deterrent to any potential acts in the future.
Dennis Hunter, vice president
Marketing & Member Communications
Coast Central Credit Union
A huge deal, for a Song
I am Ma Song Lile.Be my partner in this huge deal worth $19.5M.
Mr.Song Lile
The Internet
Goodbye, Tom and Kathy
My wife and I are unoccupying Arcata next month and are moving to Capay in Glenn county.
We wish to thank the Arcata community for helping us raise our children. All three progressed through the Arcata School District and received degrees from HSU without student loans or police records. The group of parents involved with the Arcata youth sports then mentored a generation together.
Kathy and I enjoyed being part of it in our decades of coaching and volunteering. Earlier in our lives Kathy worked for the City of Eureka and Al Capone's, and Tom toiled a decade at the Times Standard.
Between us, we have lived in Arcata for 99 years with three generations born here. Add those friends to our gardnening service clients and we have too many goodbyes to manage. Please stop by the Arcata Little League fields Sunday, June 3 from 1 to 4 p.m. to say yours. Sincerely,
Tom Hoffman/Kathy JantzHoffman
NALC Food Drive thanks
The city and rural carriers of Humboldt County's Branch 348 would like to thank our customers and partners for the success of our 20th-annual May food drive, the largest one-day food drive in the U.S.
Our caring customers set out donations of non-perishable food next to their mailbox on Saturday, May 12. Letter carriers picked up and delivered over 20,000 lbs. of food in our effort to Stamp Out Hunger, the slogan for this year's drive. And all those donations stay right here in the county, replenishing our local pantries.
We'd like to give a special shout-out of appreciation and thanks to several of our partners, including KIEM News Channel 3, Lost Coast Communications (KSLG, KHUM, KXGO, The Point), and the Eureka Television Group for their support and generous donations of air time; Campbell Soup Co. for printing our fliers and postcards; and finally, Food For People, Humboldt County's food bank and community resource center, who do so much to see to the needs of our county's poorest.
Thank you for your support, everyone. We could not have done it without you!
In solidarity,
Suzanne "Bones" Courteau
City Carrier, Branch 348, Arcata


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A conducive geopolitical environment for Israeli-Palestinian peace
Due to unfolding regional events, the shifting geopolitical dynamics within the Arab states, the changing nature of the bilateral relations between Israel and the Palestinians, and the strong Western desire to bring an end to the conflict, the conditions are ripe to reach a comprehensive Arab-Israeli peace.
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By Dr. Alon Ben-Meir
The upheaval sweeping the Middle East suggests that it will be extraordinarily difficult if not impossible to resume the Israeli-Palestinian negotiations and reach a successful outcome. On the contrary, because of the prevailing political conditions and the continuing rise of extremism in both communities, the resumption of peace talks is as timely as it has ever been and these conditions may, in fact, lend even more urgency in the search for a peace agreement. Moreover, waiting for these raging conflicts to settle down before resuming the peace negotiations is not an option. Many of these violent conflicts will last for years and may well get much worse before they presumably create a more conducive environment to restart the talks in earnest.
There are six fundamental reasons that explain why the present geopolitical environment is conducive for the resumption of peace negotiations and why outside constructive intervention has become sine qua non to reaching an equitable peace with security.
First, the regional turmoil: Contrary to common wisdom, the turmoil sweeping the Middle East, the convergence of multiple conflicts, and future uncertainties have created new compelling circumstances that support the resumption of peace talks. Whereas the regional conflicts – particularly in Iraq, Syria, and Yemen – distract attention from the currently less violent Israeli-Palestinian conflict, the relative low level of violent clashes is deceiving and cannot be taken for granted. As the Palestinians' frustration continues to grow, so does the risk of an even greater violent flare-up, which can be avoided. Recent violent disturbances in Jerusalem and several Israeli cities only attest to this eventuality.
Although the Netanyahu government denies any connection between the occupation and the violent frenzy sweeping the region, most Israelis and moderate Palestinians are alarmed about the possibility that ISIS will find, if it hasn't already, fertile ground among radical Palestinians who detest the Israeli occupation and their own leaders more than they loathe ISIS.
It is true that this has not manifested itself in any significant way as of yet, but it is only a question of time (even if defeated in Iraq and Syria) when ISIS will establish active cells to act against both Israelis and moderate Palestinians.
Opening Israeli-Palestinian negotiating channels would prevent such an outbreak and would allow the Arab states to focus on the present danger posed by ISIS and the Sunni-Shiite proxy war (led by Iran and Saudi Arabia) over regional hegemony.
Second, the Arab States' eagerness to end the conflict: The Arab states have for more than two decades been calling for an end to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict based on a two-state solution, which was formalized by the introduction of the Arab Peace Initiative in 2002.
With the exception of Egypt and Jordan (who forged their own peace agreements with Israel in 1979 and 1994, respectively), the rest remain tied to their position not to normalize relations with Israel before the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is settled.
Interestingly, many of the Arab states in the Gulf and North Africa have developed clandestine relations (including exchanging intelligence) with Israel over the past ten years, and they no longer view Israel as an enemy but instead as a potential ally against their common enemies—Iran and ISIS. As they see it, once peace with Israel is established, they can create a crescent from the Gulf to the Mediterranean that will be a formidable bloc against the Iranian crescent, which includes Iraq, Syria, and Lebanon.
Third, the Arab Peace Initiative (API): The API is still on the table and can provide an overall umbrella for the negotiations, which would allow the Arab states to lend significant psychological and practical support to the Palestinians and the peace process. Furthermore, since Israel is particularly keen on ending the Arab-Israeli conflict, the API provides a clear road map to peace between Israel and the Palestinians in the context of a comprehensive Arab-Israeli peace. The US and the EU can use their leverage on the Israeli government to also embrace the API, particularly since the majority of Israelis, including former top security officials, strongly advocate for the adoption of the API.
Fourth, Hamas's new disposition: The Arab states, especially Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and Egypt, are in a position to exert political and material pressure on Hamas to formally adopt the API, which will provide common denominators with Israel about the principle idea of a two-state solution. Consistent with the API, on more than one occasion Hamas has clearly stated that it is willing to negotiate a peace agreement with Israel based on the 1967 borders. This is not to suggest that Hamas is ready and willing to make the necessary compromises to achieve peace, but it does suggest that Hamas also understands that Israel is there to stay and is now looking for ways to accommodate the Israelis in return for easing the blockade and eventually lifting it altogether, bringing an end to the occupation.
Fifth, the US position: President Obama may well be more inclined at this particular juncture in his presidency to breathe new life into the peace process. However, he realizes that any resumption of Israeli-Palestinian negotiations fashioned along the line of previous negotiations with US mediation will fail, not only because of political factionalism in Israel and among the Palestinians, but also because he is domestically constrained to pressure Israel unilaterally, especially during presidential elections.
That said, Obama stated in March 2015 that the US is reassessing the situation and is considering a different approach to tackle the conflict. Given that the US has a moral and material stake in Israel's well-being and is committed to its preservation, it is in a position to shape and influence any international initiative to achieve that very objective.
Notwithstanding the fact that Israel has enjoyed tremendous political support from both Congress and the American people, there is a definite shift among the public and leading politicians toward putting the blame on Israel for the continuation of the conflict. By demonstrating tough love, the US can fulfill its moral obligation to best serve Israel's national security and preserve it as an independent Jewish and democratic state, which for nearly all Israelis is their most cherished dream.
Sixth, the EU's growing stakes in peace: Given the increasing turmoil in the Middle East, the EU is more eager than ever before to play a larger role in settling the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, which they view as another flash point that adds more fuel to the regional fire. Europe is suffering from domestic Islamic radicalization and considers the resolution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict as one of the central components to significantly reducing radicalization at home while protecting its extensive interests in the region.
Moreover, the European community has come to the conclusion that Israel's intransigence is behind the stalemate and that by not acting now, they will in fact render serious disservice to Israel which they view as an important strategic ally, especially from a security perspective.
In spite of the growing Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement throughout Europe, they prefer to avoid taking such punitive action against Israel without the support of the US. That said, they appear to be determined to formulate a joint action plan led by France in an effort to end this debilitating seven decades-old conflict, which is bound to explode to their and their regional allies' detriment.
A careful review of the above suggests that due to unfolding regional events, the shifting geopolitical dynamics within the Arab states, the changing nature of the bilateral relations between Israel and the Palestinians, and the strong Western desire to bring an end to the conflict, the conditions are ripe to reach a comprehensive Arab-Israeli peace.
That said, neither Prime Minister Netanyahu nor, to a lesser extent, President Abbas will come forth with a framework for peace where critically important compromises must be made.
A change of leadership will be necessary to bring this about, but that can happen only under intense US and EU pressure.
Dr. Alon Ben-Meir is a professor of international relations at the Center for Global Affairs at NYU. He teaches courses on international negotiation and Middle Eastern studies.
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Zakk Wylde Pontificates On Man Thongs, Justin Bieber, Sex Change Operations + More
The legendary Zakk Wylde was the guest this past weekend on the 'Loudwire Reloaded' radio show hosted by Sandman. If you missed the show, we have the full interview with the Black Label Society frontman posted below. Tune in to 'Loudwire Reloaded' each weekend on select rock stations across the country. In the meantime, check out the Q&A with Wylde here:
Got a very special guest on Loudwire Reloaded this week. He is the lead vocalist and guitarist of Black Label Society; it is Mr. Zakk Wylde. How you doing, brother?
Hey there, Mikey! How you doing, brother? Just hanging out here on the Black Label Canadian…the winter Man Thong Tour of Doom, right now.
Oh, wow. The Man Thong Tour of Doom. That's got to be a little cold on the nads, perhaps.
Yeah, but the man thong definitely works up here because it's heated. It works because, obviously, it goes with my Black Label fishnets I just got done shaping my legs for before I got on the phone.
[Laughs] You've got the new Black Label Society album 'Catacombs of the Black Vatican' set to drop on April 8. Man, I'll tell you what, that first single, 'My Dying Time,' great song and seems like, to me, one of the more radio friendly songs that the band has released in a couple of years.
Well, if you think that's radio friendly, wait until you get a load of the rest of the album. I've ripped off every Lady Gaga and Justin Bieber song I could possibly pick up. Basically, I tell the fellas in the band, "We're heading to the top." The top of what mountain? I have no idea. But we're heading there.
At least you didn't rip off Avenged Sevenfold.
[Laughs] Right? Hey, listen, man, whatever's working, we're stealing. We'll deal with the lawsuits later on.
So, you guys are on tour now. Tell me about the future plans for tour dates and are you guys playing some of the summertime and radio festivals this year?
Oh, yeah. Without a doubt. Yeah, we're getting ready to do…We're out here doing the Canadian "Book Tour of Doom." We did a short run of this on the East Coast and the West Coast. We got asked when the book came out in paperback, the 'Bringing Metal to the Children,' the sacred parchment ... the whole thing's ridiculous and true about the music business. You don't have to make these stories up, they will just happen. But, I mean, the whole thing, when it came out in paperback I said, "Well, instead of just going out and doing a little book tour," I said, "just book some gigs and we'll go out and play." And it basically turned into a Black Label family gathering of Uncle Zakk sitting around and it turns into a George Carlin gig, as well.
So, we definitely have a blast doing it because, like I said, we're Black Label, we don't have fans we have fam, so it's one gigantic family. So, the whole thing is, we all go out and hang out and see everybody and have good time. So, I definitely enjoy doing this. And it's me and Dario, our guitarist in the band. So, it's definitely different from when we had the walls and doing them up with all the Marshalls and the full band blasting at them like that. It's even different than the "Unblackened" thing because that's the whole band, as well. So, it's just me and Dario. It's kind of like Black Label Story Tellers Gone Visibly Wrong.
I love it!
Yeah, so, we get done knocking this out, I go straight from this to Rock and Roll Fantasy Camp; which I always have a blast seeing the gang down there. A bunch of cool people. Then, after that I've got four days off to clean the dog run. Then come home and win another Nobel Peace Prize, come home with the answer for world hunger, and then hopefully get Led Zeppelin back together for a summer tour ... That's before brunch ... Then after that we get ready for the Hendrix Experience Tour, which, I am really looking forward to. So, that will be way cool. I'm doing The Metal Masters over in Europe, after that then I come back home and then, once again, I'll see if I can clean the dog run before lunch this time. Then we get ready to fire up the Black Label Armada for the Revolver Golden Gods Tour. We're going to have our good buddies Down out there and a whole bunch of other friends come out with us.
So, not a lot going on, in other words. Right?
No, not at all. So, it's like, between the sex change operations and everything else, my talent is pretty booked.
[Laughs] Well, you've got the hair for it, anyway. Beautiful hair!
[Laughs] Yeah. I mean, I've got the beard, but if you want to see the ass hair, that is completely out of control!
Try some conditioner!
It's a madhouse down there!
You could braid it into cornrows or something like that.
[Laughs] I'll always have trouble sitting down on it though.
Well, let's check out this song, man. Let's play it. Zakk Wylde, thank you so much for being on Loudwire Reloaded this week.
Take care of yourself, man. I'll talk to you in a bit, buddy.
Thank you, buddy. Appreciate it!
Thanks to Zakk Wylde for appearing on the Loudwire Reloaded radio show. Fans can pick up the upcoming Black Label Society album, 'Catacombs of the Black Vatican,' (due April 8) at iTunes.
Listen to Black Label Society's 'My Dying Time'


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NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks remained in a holding pattern Thursday. Major indexes edged lower after a report that showed the jobs market is maintaining a slow, but steady, recovery failed to inspire investors.
The Dow Jones industrial average fell 35 points to 13,951 as of 9:53 a.m. The Standard and Poor's 500 fell one point to 1,511 and the Nasdaq composite dropped three points to 3,166.
Fewer Americans sought unemployment benefits last week, a sign that layoffs are easing. Applications for unemployment benefits fell 5,000 to 366,000. Worker productivity also shrank in the final three months of 2012, although the decline was caused by temporary factors.
News Corp. fell 61 cents to $27.62 after the media conglomerate cut its forecast for annual earnings. The company said weakness at several businesses, including its Fox broadcast network, would offset a gain in earnings in the most recent quarter. Auto parts retailer O'Reilly Automotive surged $8.78 to $101.30 after it reported earnings late Wednesday that beat analysts' forecasts.
Stocks are little changed since the start of the week, suggesting that the recent rally, which pushed both the Dow and the S&P 500 close to record levels, may have stalled. The Dow is up 6.5 percent since the start of the year, and the broader S&P 500 is 6 percent higher.
While stocks have gained, U.S. government bonds have declined as investors move money into riskier assets. The yield on the 10-year Treasury note, which moves inversely to its price, rose 1 basis point Thursday to 1.97 percent, keeping it close to a 10-year high.
Among other stocks making big moves;
— Akamai Technologies Inc., which helps websites deliver online content, plunged $7.57 to $34.01, after reporting earnings late Wednesday. Net income rose, but revenue missed forecasts.


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Atami B'Cuzz Bloom Stimulator (0-0-0.7), Quart
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Because a plant's blooming phase may be the most important in its growth cycle, Atami has developed the B'Cuzz Bloom Stimulator. B'Cuzz Bloom Stimulator encourages flower cell production and increases the manufacture and transport of sugar molecules in the flower development. This will lead to big, dense flowers and great taste. In this way, quantity as well as quality will increase on the final product. This bloom additive will help push your plants into bloom and keep them there.
B'Cuzz Bloom Stimulator helps stop stresses such as interrupted light cycles, temperature variations that come with cold mornings, and inevitable power outages in their tracks. Continual use of these bloom additives will ensure your plants will stay on the right course.


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On his long march for voting rights Dr. Martin Luther King said, "the arc of the moral universe is long. But, it bends toward justice." Years later, justice hovers along that bend; but, beyond the reach of too many African-Americans.
Witnessing gay activists celebrate their legal victory was bittersweet for African-Americans left stunned by the Supreme Court's two civil rights decisions. I struggled through the crowded Supreme Court plaza as the Gay Men's Chorus of Washington D.C. sang "America," couples made wedding plans, and television reporters interviewed a joyful Edith Windsor.
Perhaps it is selfish to ask gay rights leaders to acknowledge a civil rights defeat even while celebrating their well-earned victory. But, throughout their case, gay rights activists had argued that their right to marry was like Loving v. Virginia, the inter-racial marriage case. Their second-class treatment was like Plessy v. Ferguson, the racial segregation case. Their attorney, Ted Olson, was heralded as another Thurgood Marshall.
Now, civil rights activists were left assessing damage and developing strategies. Within 48 hours, the U.S. Supreme Court had gutted the Voting Rights Act of 1965 and rejected affirmative action as discriminatory to White applicants. Colleges must now find a race-neutral solution to the race-based problem of diversity in education. Although re-authorize by overwhelming numbers, Congress' pre-clearance formula, Section 4 of the Voting Rights Act, was unconstitutional.
Disappointed civil rights groups had hoped Justice Anthony Kennedy would support legal protections for African-Americans as well as gay marriage. Appointed by President Ronald Reagan, Justice Kennedy is known for his ability to swing between conservative and progressive issues. He explained how the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) deprived gays of Federal benefits by illegally defining marriage as only between a man and a woman.
Justice Kennedy, a California lawyer and judge during the high mark of gay activism, may have less personal experience with racial justice struggles. He probably knew of gay rights activist Harvey Milk who began by fighting injustices in Greenwich Village, NYC, before moving to San Francisco.
Milk was elected to the San Francisco Board of Supervisors becoming one of America's first openly gay politicians. In 1978, the nation was shocked when Harvey Milk was assassinated, along with Mayor George Moscone, by Dan White, a conservative. Dan White claimed Twinkie cupcakes and junk food caused temporary insanity.
Judge Kennedy must have witnessed the San Francisco riots following White's mere six year sentence for killing both Milk and Moscone. He witnessed the inequality suffered by gays in California. Defeating DOMA meant Justice Kennedy could right that wrong. He had written the opinion in Lawrence v. Texas outlawing gay sex.
But, then, as a long-standing professor at McGeorge Law School, Justice Kennedy should also know the difficulties in achieving classroom diversity without affirmative action. He should know that White women have advanced using affirmative action. But, students of color are the targets of opponents.
Although Justice Clarence Thomas, the only African-American on the Court, and a direct recipient of affirmative action, would end the program altogether, Justice Kennedy had not appeared to be as conservative. It was Justice Antonin Scalia who called these legal rights and protections a "perpetuation of racial entitlement."
Blood was shed to gain voting rights. When the Court rejected the formula by which States had to prove their voting laws were fair, it wiped away that bloodline. Gone is the memory of voting rights volunteer Viola Liuzzo killed in Alabama; three college students killed in Mississippi. Gone is the sacrifices of Harry and Harriette Moore killed in their Florida home on Christmas Day.
Gone is the memory of four little Black girls killed in their Alabama Church. Voting rights advocate Medgar Evers killed in front of his wife and children. Gone is the image of Vivian Malone defying George Wallace's tirade of "segregation now, segregation forever" when she integrated the University of Alabama.
Much has changed for both African-Americans and gays since 1996 when DOMA first defined marriage. There are now three female justices including a Latina on the Court. An African-American Attorney General, Eric Holder, is married to the sister of Vivian Malone. Openly gay politicians, academics, journalists, actors join gay members of Wall Street and Main Street.
But, America is no racial utopia, given her racially motivated murders, voter suppression tactics, stop and frisk abuses, and discriminatory lending cases. I wrote about the unsolved murder of Marco McMillian, the first openly gay and Black politician in Mississippi. Mark Carson, openly gay, was killed in Greenwich Village in May.
Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg, 80, deceivingly frail, quoted Dr. King at that end of her Voting Rights dissent. She said, 'the arc of the moral universe bends toward justice" then she added –'if there is a steadfast commitment to see the task through to completion. That commitment has been disserved by today's decision."
That arc of the moral universe still bends toward justice – for all; but, not today.
Gloria J. Browne-Marshall, a writer covering the U.S. Supreme Court, is an Associate Professor of Constitutional Law at John Jay College in NYC, and author of "Race, Law, and American Society: 1607 to Present."


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Joe Flacco will have a huge contract to go along with his Super Bowl ring.
The Baltimore Ravens reached a tentative agreement Friday on a new deal that would make the Super Bowl MVP the highest-paid player in NFL history.
If the deal is finalized, the veteran quarterback would receive in excess of $120 million over six years, according to a person close to the negotiations who spoke on condition of anonymity because the contract has not yet been signed. Flacco would earn more than the $20 million average salary Drew Brees receives with the New Orleans Saints.
Reaching agreement with Flacco before Monday's 4 p.m. franchise deadline meant the Ravens are assured of retaining their starting quarterback and don't have to take a salary cap hit of approximately $19.5 million.
Flacco played out his rookie contract last season for $6.76 million and led Baltimore to the NFL championship.
Ravens general manager Ozzie Newsome said the sides have settled on the parameters of the deal, but still have some language and details to work out.
Fox Sports first reported the new deal.
On Feb. 7, Newsome said, "If we are able to get a deal done, it will allow us to participate more in the (free agent) market, if we so choose."
With Flacco's contract essentially settled, Newsome can turn his attention toward re-signing free agents Ed Reed, Paul Kruger and Bryant McKinnie.
The 28-year-old Flacco is the only quarterback to win a postseason game in each of his first five pro seasons. He had a spectacular playoffs and Super Bowl this year, throwing for 11 touchdowns with no interceptions.
He also holds the record for playoff road wins with six.
Before the Super Bowl, Ravens owner Steve Bisciotti expressed confidence that Flacco would be the Ravens' quarterback of the future.
"We've never lost a great, great franchise player from the beginning," Bisciotti said. "I'm just very comfortable that it will get done."
On Friday, it did.
Flacco was a first-round draft pick in 2008 out of Delaware and one of the most consistent postseason winners in NFL history.
Flacco said after the Super Bowl victory over San Francisco that he expected to be back in Baltimore. He made sure of that Friday, coincidentally hours after the franchise tag figures for 2013 became known. Had Flacco been franchised, he would have earned at least $14.896 million this season.
AP Sports Writer David Ginsburg in Baltimore contributed to this report.


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The one thing that kind of bugged me about Tina Fey's Bossypants was that she used the word "grim" a lot. Situations were grim. Lighting was grim. People were grim. She loves the word.
But maybe she finds that "g-r" construction evocative, because in this clip from last night's Inaugural Gala for the Center for Reproductive Rights in New York, she makes the best use of "grey-faced" I've ever heard. I didn't know how much I appreciated the term until now:
F-cking YES. She is so goddamn smart. And is lending her smarts not to some vague, bland "Campaign For A Better Tomorrow" or "The More You Know" but is instead doing what only Tina Fey can do, using a fun, totally accessible joke about gymnasts or Mad Men to soften her straight-up rage at the way white male politicians are talking about rape – something none of them will ever personally, individually, have to worry about.
Do you know what a skill this is? To be able to take what is undoubtedly a fervent belief that the people she is talking about are misogynistic idiots, and then to harness that anger and massage it until you're not just making jokes with it but also convincing people to come together to do something about it?
American politics can often be like so much theatre for the rest of us who aren't directly affected. It's ironic that a comedic actress getting serious is part of what makes it seem more real. Like, if she's paying attention to how bad it's getting down there, we're not imagining the political climate to be worse than it is just for our own entertainment.
There were others there, of course – Stanley Tucci and Janeane Garofalo, among others -- but this Tina Fey clip is the one people will comment on and forward and dare to send to their mothers, because of that unique skill. Angry as hell, yet still able to make the original speakers sound like junior-high school idiots. That detachment is something Oprah, for all her skill, never achieved.
I can already hear some of you gearing up the keyboards to call me a fangirl, but you know what? I will save my shame for some other time, when the object of my admiration isn't spending her time saying something really important at an event that could use the attention.


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|FreeBSD System Calls Manual
NAMEdup, dup2 — duplicate an existing file descriptor
LIBRARYStandard C Library (libc, -lc)
SYNOPSIS#include < unistd.h>
dup( int oldd);
dup2( int oldd, int newd);
DESCRIPTIONThe dup() system call duplicates an existing object descriptor and returns its value to the calling process ( newd = dup( oldd)). The argument oldd is a small non-negative integer index in the per-process descriptor table. The new descriptor returned by the call is the lowest numbered descriptor currently not in use by the process.
The object referenced by the descriptor does not distinguish between oldd and newd in any way. Thus if newd and oldd are duplicate references to an open file, read(2), write(2) and lseek(2) calls all move a single pointer into the file, and append mode, non-blocking I/O and asynchronous I/O options are shared between the references. If a separate pointer into the file is desired, a different object reference to the file must be obtained by issuing an additional open(2) system call. The close-on-exec flag on the new file descriptor is unset.
In dup2(), the value of the new descriptor newd is specified. If this descriptor is already in use and oldd ≠ newd, the descriptor is first deallocated as if the close(2) system call had been used. If oldd is not a valid descriptor, then newd is not closed. If oldd == newd and oldd is a valid descriptor, then dup2() is successful, and does nothing.
RETURN VALUESThese calls return the new file descriptor if successful; otherwise the value -1 is returned and the external variable errno is set to indicate the cause of the error.
ERRORSThe dup() system call fails if:
- The oldd argument is not a valid active descriptor
- Too many descriptors are active.
The dup2() system call fails if:
- The oldd argument is not a valid active descriptor or the newd argument is negative or exceeds the maximum allowable descriptor number
SEE ALSOaccept(2), close(2), fcntl(2), getdtablesize(2), open(2), pipe(2), socket(2), socketpair(2), dup3(3)
STANDARDSThe dup() and dup2() system calls are expected to conform to IEEE Std 1003.1-1990 ("POSIX.1").
HISTORYThe dup() and dup2() functions appeared in Version 7 AT&T UNIX.
|June 1, 2013


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www.nlbcitycollege.org.in Merit List 2023 NLB City College Admission : The नंदलाल बोरगोहेन सिटी कॉलेज has released the 11st 2nd 3rd 4th, Provisional/ final Merit List 2023 pdf for UG Programmes at the end of the month. The students who wait for the एनएलबी सिटी कॉलेज मेरिट सूची 2023 & Merit List PDF can now check the result through the official website of NLB City College Link@ nlbcitycollege.org.in.
The UG Merit/Cut off List 2023 for the admissions to Part 1 B.A, B.Com, B.Sc, BCA, BBA contain details about the Deptt./College Name, Category, Board, Course Name, Eligibility & Seats, Documents Received Status etc. All students who applied can check Percentage, Cut off Marks required for the seat allotment merit name wise, form number wise, General, OBC, SC, ST Category wise.
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Nandalal Borgohain City College Admission Merit List 2023 – Overview
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NLB City College 1st Merit List 2023 Date UG Admission BA/BSc/BCom Nandalal Borgohain City College Part 1 Selection Result 2nd 3rd Cut Off Marks nlbcitycollege.org.in. NLB City College UG Merit List 2023 for Part First Admission Result Session 2023 -23 is declared on Today. Now NLB City College First merit List 2023 Part 1 Admission 2nd 3rd Round Results will be going to be announced shortly.
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All the candidates who are waiting for NLB City College Part 1 Admission Selection List 1st 2nd 3rd merit List 2023 of NLB City College Result Kab Aayega will get it now online. Candidates of Under Graduate courses need to check the schedule before if they are planning to get in for the admission. Nandalal Borgohain City College Admission Online 2023 is open for UG courses Part One.
If any of the candidates want admission in BA BSc BCom Honours then they can get it easily. Now, candidates who are waiting for NLB City College first Merit List 2023 Date, nlbcitycollege.org.in Second Cut Off Marks UG Admission 2023 Third Round Result Kab tak jaari Hoga needs to check more for the official website. The reason behind this is that you will get the schedule of the same. So, check below more about NLB City College Admission Merit list 2023 and UG Part 1 Selection list, Cut Off Marks Kese Dekhe for all colleges.
|HS Admission Merit List 2023
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|TDC Admission Merit List 2023
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NLB City College UG Merit List 2023 BA BSc BCom
Nandalal Borgohain City College is commonly known as NLB City College . This university's name is kept on the name of the famous freedom fighter Tilka Manjhi. Now here is the point that you must be waiting for NLB City College Admission Merit List Date 2023 Part 1, so here is the table. Candidates need to check the information given below carefully:
|Admission Events
|Scheduled Dates
|Online submission of Admission form – Start Date
|7th September 2023
|Online submission of Admission form – End Date
|21st September 2023
|Document Verification & preparation of Merit List
|22nd to 25th September 2023
|Display of 1st Merit List
|1st October 2023
|Submission of fee
|1st to 5th October 2023
|Display of 2nd Merit List
|8th October 2023
|Submission of Fee
|8th to 12th October 2023
|Commencement of Classes
|13th October 2023
|Open Counselling
|18th October 2023
The above dates are taken from the official website of the NLB City College UG Merit List 2023 Part 1 Admission. Hence all the candidates can rely on the data taken out from the website. More information on Bhagalpur Admission Cut off and Counselling needs to check here. The NLB City College and its affiliated college UG Part 1 Admission BA/ BSc/ BCom are based on nlbcitycollege.org.in Merit List round 1, 2, 3 is declare.
NLB City College Selection List 2023 UG Part 1 Admission Cut Off Marks
NLB City College Admission cut off 2023 will be available to all candidates as NLB City College Merit List PDF. The cutoff marks are the scores set by the authorities on the basis of the number of candidates appeared in the examination as well as the availability of seat. NLB City College UG Cut off marks details will be updated soon. Here is the table which is as follows:
Steps To Check NLB City College Merit List 2023
- Visit the official site @https://nlbcitycollege.org.in/
- NLB City College 's home page will be opened.
- Then on the top of the home page Admissions section will be provided.
- Check for the Admission link and search for the NLB City College Merit List 2023 .
- Click on the Merit List link according to UG, PG Courses.
- Then click on the course wise link.
- Download and keep safe the Merit List for future use.
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|HS Admission Notice
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|TDC Admission Notice
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|Online Admission Link
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|College Prospectus
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Cranberry and Walnut Baked Brie with Cinnamon Herb Crostini
Creamy, warm Brie with fall flair. This recipe does not disappoint.
Chef Gerardo Tona of the former Intermezzo in Peterborough suggests this variation on warm brie. Filling can be made a day ahead and reheated.
14 ounce wheel of brie cheese
1/4 cup of walnuts, chopped
1/4 cup of dried cranberries
1/2 cup of brandy
1 tablespoon of brown sugar
1/2 teaspoon of cinnamon
1/2 teaspoon of nutmeg
pinch of salt and pepper
For crostini:
1 French baguette
3 tablespoons of extra virgin olive oil
1 teaspoon of ground cinnamon
1/2 teaspoon of granulated sugar
pinch salt and pepper
Preheat oven to 375 degrees.
Make sure the brie cheese is nice and cool before peeling off the wax rind. Cut in half horizontally with a chef's knife and set aside.
In a small pot combine brandy, dried cranberries and brown sugar, cinnamon and nutmeg. Cook until cranberries hydrate. Pour mixture over one half of the brie cheese (save excess liquid) and spread evenly like a filling. Place the other half of brie on top and place in a pie dish. Sprinkle the walnuts, salt and pepper on top and pour excess liquid over it.
Bake for 20 minutes in oven at 375 degrees.
For the crostini:
Cut the french baguette on a angle into thin slices. Put slices on a sheet pan and drizzle with extra virgin olive oil. Sprinkle on dry ingredients. Bake for approx- imately 4 minutes in oven at 375 degrees until lightly toasted.


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You'll hear me talk about it all the time. Well, you won't likely hear me at all, but read me write about it just doesn't sound right. 😉 If you want to succeed at your personal finance goals and your personal life goals, you need to continually work towards them. (Make some if you haven't already)
And working towards your goals sometimes doesn't get the required dedication that it deserves. If you've set goals for your personal finance, but have never met one on time, you probably suffer from a low level of PF dedication. If, however, you always meet your goals on time or early, you not only likely have a high level of PF dedication, you also need to set higher goals! 😉
In the course of my day to day life (and yours, I'd bet) I'm constantly tempted with things that I would like to have or places I would like to go. And to get those things or go to those places costs money. Money that might not be in the budget. The temptation can sometimes be strong to put aside a budget item for this month so that you can have that "want" now. Time for a self check.
It's at times like that, that I try to remind myself of the goals that I have set. That $50 gadget could be a $50 payment towards the next debt item in the debt snowball/avalanche/snowflake. It could go towards retirement, or towards college savings, or towards down payment savings, or… You get the idea. Often, that little reminder is enough to keep me on track.
But it's only because I've decided to have a very high level of dedication to my personal finance goals that it works. If I had a much lower PF dedication level, it might not be so easy to turn down that gadget. And I'd be that many more months behind schedule on paying off my debt.
What is your PF dedication level? Do an inventory of the goals that you have set and decide now how much dedication you want to have towards those goals. I'll let you in on a little secret. If you set a goal, you want it to be a 100% dedication item. Maybe you don't realize that, but (consciously, or sub-consciously) you created that goal with the intention of giving it 100% dedication. And if you aren't giving it the dedication that you intended for it, you're letting yourself down. And maybe it's time to rethink your goals and set new ones.
Whatever the case may be, your dedication level to your goals is the deciding factor in meeting those goals.
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I've heard there are 3 types of database linksrivate, public, and global. Who can tell me what global db link is?
A database link that links each database in a network to all other databases. This enables any user of any database in the network to specify a global object name in a SQL statement or object definition. An Oracle Names server can store global database links.
A global database link that is the same as the global database name is automatically registered with the Oracle Names server.
For example, if the global database name is sales.us.acme.com, a global link with the same name is registered with the Oracle Names server. You verify a global database link is working correctly by performing a SELECT statement on a table, for example:
SQL> SELECT * from email@example.com
Unless you want to specify user name and password credentials for a global database link, no additional configuration is required to use the global database link.
To define a user name and password for a global database link, use either Net8 Assistant or the NAMESCTL control utility. Because the NAMESCTL utility is limited in global database link registration functionality, Oracle Corporation recommends you use Net8 Assistant.
What is Oracle Names Server?
When CLient connects to service_name saying @xyz it should be resolved to get connect to a database to which the service_name has been registered.
You have couple of methods for names resolution:
tnasnames.ora where you describe what service_name connecting to what database on a server. When you make a connection to the client it will search tnsnames.ora nad resolve what database is supposed to connect.... in simple we call its local names resolution method.
You can have very weel name server where there are entries for all these names stored in a network. this is called names resolution using names server.
Have a read on Net8 Naming documents.
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Japan security firm to offer private drone
A Japanese security company plans to rent out a private drone that takes off when intruder alarms are tripped and records footage of break-ins as they happen, a spokeswoman said on Thursday.
The helicopter-like device is equipped with a small surveillance camera that can transmit live pictures of a crime taking place.
"The flying robot could take off if our online security systems detect any unauthorised entry," Asuka Saito, a spokeswoman for Secom, said.
"It would enable us to quickly check out what's actually happening on the spot," she said.
The machine with four sets of rotors is based on a model provided by Germany's Ascending Technologies and equipped with Secom-developed software, camera and other devices, Saito said.
The company says the world's first autonomous private drone for security use measures 60 centimetres (24 inches) wide and weighs 1.6 kilogrammes (3.5 pounds) and will allow factory managers to monitor areas left uncovered by static cameras.
Firms in Japan will be able to rent the drone as part of Secom's online security system for around 5,000 yen ($58) a month some time after April 2014, Saito said, adding the company would also like to offer the service in other countries.
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Why are audiences swooning over Iron Man's shiny suit but not over Speed Racer's sleek car? I mean, what the hell is going on when people have already spent nearly $200 million on watching lameass Iron Man get revenge in Afghanistan, but only about $20 million watching the awesome Speed zoom with sparkly CGI pizzazz across all those finish lines? Analysts have speculated that Speed Racer's death by box office might have been caused by a boring and confusing plot, or early negative reviews. But I know the real reason. Speed Racer is freaking people out because it's just too gay. Here are ten reasons why.
10. Most of the colors in Speed Racer are sparkly pastels, not the hard reds and butch "gold titanium alloy" of Iron Man. What is this? Queer Eye for the action hero?
9. Speed Racer dresses in a shiny purple suit at one point, and in a scarf at another. He wears a lot of white, and is just as pretty as Trixie, his girlfriend who drives a helicopter and repairs engines in the shop. Gender bending in an action movie not directed by Ridley "G.I. Jane" Scott? Not allowed.
8. Monkeys are gay.
7. When there's a ninja fight, Racer X pulls the ninja's pants off and we see that he's wearing big white boxers with a cute pattern on them. What kind of counter-ninja pulls off the ninja's pants? And what kind of ninja wears big white boxers?
6. One of the semi-good guys, Taejo (Rain), dresses up like a woman as part of an elaborate scheme for revenge. And he looks seriously hot in lady clothes.
5. Which reminds me of director Larry Wachowski, long rumored to be fond of lady clothes himself — or perhaps even on the road to becoming a woman. I can't believe how many people writing about Speed Racer have mentioned Larry's gender. Who the fuck cares about whether Larry is a he or a she or a bug person? Unless you are worried that this movie is too GAY for you.
4. One of the bad guys wears fake snakeskin and yells "ooohhhh!" a lot.
3. Several other bad guys are giant hairy men dressed in furs and Viking helmets. I think some of them might even have been centerfolds in Bear magazine.
2. Trixie's outfit matches her helicopter.
1. Speed loves his mother and is super-nice to his girlfriend. Obviously a homo! A true straight dude would be like Iron Man, obsessing over his dead dad and abusing every woman in his life.


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Sapphire and Trapezoid Diamond Ring
By Gee Woods
Created in the designer's signature style, this sapphire and diamond ring has a modern Deco feel, and features a large 1.86ct blue sapphire with a pair of white trapezoid cut diamonds.
Rings Details
With strong, clean silhouettes and a rainbow of beautiful gemstones, Gee Woods is an exciting jewellery designer breathing new life into classic designs. From modern halo rings using hexagonal cut sapphires, Deco-inspired geometric designs, and a line in killer solitaires, this British brand is going from strength to strength creating bespoke and limited edition engagement ring styles for the modern bride.
Most commonly found in shades of blue, sapphires are also available in pretty much every other colour you can think of, with pink, yellow, peach and green being the most popular after blue. Sapphires are also very hard, with their rating on the Moh's Scale falling just under diamonds, so they make great gemstones for daily wear on the hand.
The quality and therefore price of sapphires is based on their colour, cut and clarity, and large stones can be GIA certified as diamonds are.
The colour of the sapphire is by far the most important of all these. The shade, the tone and the depth of colour, as well as the uniformity of the colour - how well the shade is spread over the stone evenly - make a huge difference to price. Deep, dark coloured tend to hide the sparkle of the stone, so become less desirable, and sapphires that show a pure, even colour and brightness will be more expensive.
You may see sapphires where there are two different shades of colour in the stone. This is called a bi-colour sapphire, and is very common. Pure coloured sapphires with a rich, even tone in a single hue are the most conventionally desirable varieties, and therefore the most expensive. Common 'cheaper' sapphire rings found online will often feature lesser quality gemstones and the images may have been digitally altered, so make sure you always see a coloured gemstone in real life before buying.
Depending on the size requirements sapphires make a beautiful alternative to coloured diamonds. Yellow sapphires, white diamonds and yellow gold are currently a popular choice, but our favourite sapphire shade is a murky olive green.
Sapphires are traditionally the birthstone of September. See all Sapphire rings here.
The octagonal cut is extremely similar to an emerald cut, and often very hard to tell the two apart. The main difference is that octagonal cut stones often have eight equal sides, rather than the emerald cut having a predominantly rectangular shape with short 'corners' making up eight sides.
Jewellery designers favour an octagonal cut gemstone for being a less common choice, as they have a geometric but classic shape. With a large table (the top, flat part of a gemstone when looking from above) this cut favours clear, coloured gemstones of high quality with few imperfections.
Gold is a naturally occurring metal with a warm, glowing finish when polished, and remains the most popular choice for engagement rings due to its natural beauty and hard-wearing strength.
Pure 24k gold is naturally a soft material, and considered too soft to create jewellery with, so it is mixed with small amounts of other metals to create an alloy.
As well as increasing the durability of the gold, adding alloys can also change the colour of the gold to produce rose or white gold, for example.
18k yellow gold is made up of 75% pure gold, and 25% alloy, which would usually include silver and copper.
18k rose gold is made up of 75% pure gold, 22.2% copper, and 9.2% silver.
18k white gold is made up of 75% pure gold and 25% palladium or platinum.


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Friday, March 30, 2012
Clarifying details about E17 and Compositing
First - there are currently two different compositing engines for Enlightenment. One of these is "Ecomorph" and it is the most commonly referenced when talking about compositing and E17. Ecomorph is not housed in the official E SVN and is not installed in Bodhi by default (you can find details on getting the Ecomorph source code here). Ecomorph is a slightly rough port of the famous "compiz fusion" for Enlightenment. It does not provide a consistent experience across a variety of hardware and it is no longer under active development - thus it is not recommended for usage.
For those who want a pleasant compositing experience with Enlightenment the E team has been developing their own compositing manager from scratch. E's compositing manager functions either via a software engine or with OpenGL support. This compositing engine is not based on, nor does it have any ties to Compiz. This is also the compositing engine you will find in use on the "Compositing" profile Bodhi ships with. This engine is not as feature rich as Compiz as of yet, but slowly it is gaining more and more advanced features.
If you have any questions or if anything is still unclear feel free to drop a comment below.
~Jeff Hoogland
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- AnonymousMarch 30, 2012 at 10:30 AM
I think E's compositing manager works great; I miss the wobbling effect I had on ecomorph though.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousMarch 30, 2012 at 11:48 AM
When I turn on the composting or sometimes turn it off, half of the screen gets black. I have nvidia geforce 7050/nforce 610i and the latest nvidia driver is installed. Then I have to delete .e direcotry to get rid of it.ReplyDelete
What may be the reason for this half black screen?Replies
It is a configuration issue with the engage launcher/dock bar at the bottom of the screen. Once you load compositing you need to keep it loaded or reset your configuration.Delete
- AnonymousMarch 30, 2012 at 2:23 PM
Reset configuration? By deleting .e or something else?Delete
E17 compositing is great but I just wish they could add wobbly windows and magic lamp effect.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousApril 8, 2012 at 7:10 PM
I remember when the E17 team completely rejected (this was around 2006) the notion that they would leverage any kind of Xorg Compositing at all!ReplyDelete
- Jon
Your 'Scale Windows' Pager in the picture (shown above) seems to be capable to show the given background image of the different desktops. How would you achieve that?ReplyDelete
I only get the background image of the current desktop, for all the desktops of the pager.


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Last week, I attended a book signing at the African American Museum in Philadelphia. While there I checked out (again) the exhibit, "Audacious Freedom: African Americans in Philadelphia 1776-1876."
The video projections feature ten freedom fighters. Robert Purvis recounted his role in fighting a state constitutional amendment that stripped free blacks of the right to vote.
In 1838, Purvis drafted the "Appeal of Forty Thousand Citizens Threatened with Disfranchisement":
Fellow Citizens:—We appeal to you from the decision of the "Reform Convention," which has stripped us of a right peaceably enjoyed during forty-seven years under the Constitution of this commonwealth. We honor Pennsylvania and her noble institutions too much to part with our birthright, as her free citizens, without a struggle. To all her citizens the right of suffrage is valuable in proportion as she is free; but surely there are none who can so ill afford to spare it as ourselves.
Fast forward to today, the ACLU of Pennsylvania is fighting to overturn the voter ID law that Gov. Tom Corbett signed in March. The voting change makes it harder for hundreds of thousands of citizens to exercise a fundamental right of our democracy.
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February 1, 2007
By Henry Makow Ph.D.
Feminism is an excellent example of how the Rockefeller mega cartel uses the awesome power of the mass media (i.e. propaganda.) to control society.
In 40 short years, many women have lost touch with their natural loving instincts. Consequently, the family is in disarray, sexual depravity is rampant and birth rates have plummeted.
I will expand on the Rockefeller's role, but first we need to remember that for a woman, love is an instinctive act of self-sacrifice.
She gives herself to her husband and children and is fulfilled by seeing them thrive and receiving their love, respect and gratitude.
A woman makes this supreme sacrifice to only one man who will cherish her and provide for his family. Men instinctively want to fulfill this responsibility. This is the essence of the heterosexual contract (i.e. marriage): female power in exchange for male power expressed as love. Sex is the symbol of this exclusive bond. Marriage and family may not be for everyone but it is the natural path for most.
Feminism has trained women to reject this model as "an old fashioned, oppressive stereotype" even though it reflects their natural instincts.
On Thursday a British writer reported overhearing two young women:
"All men are useless these days," one said. "Yeah," said the other. "The trouble is that they haven't risen to the challenge of feminism. They don't understand that we need them to be more masculine, and instead they have just copped out."
That's their logic? If women are less feminine, men will be more masculine? Men aren't designed to fight with women. They need to be affirmed by a woman's acquiescence and faith. When women constantly challenge them, men will "cop out" of marriage and family.
Now that love and marriage have been "discredited," women have nothing left to exchange for love but sex. Thus, many are unnaturally obsessed with appearance and pathetically give their bodies to all and sundry.
Permanent love is not based on a woman's sex appeal, or personality or achievements. Ultimately, it is based on self-sacrifice. We love the people who love us.
People do not realize that feminism is mass indoctrination because they cannot identify the perpetrator, the means or the motive.
Recently Aaron Russo, the producer of Bette Midler's movies and "America: From Freedom to Fascism" identified all three confirming what I have been saying.
While trying to recruit Russo for the CFR, Nicholas Rockefeller told him that his family foundation created women's liberation using mass media control as part of a long-term plan to enslave humanity. He admitted they want to "chip us." Google "Rockefeller Foundation" and "Women's Studies" and you'll get a half million citations.
The hidden goal of feminism is to destroy the family, which interferes with state brainwashing of the young. Side benefits include depopulation and widening the tax base. Displacing men in the role of providers also destabilizes the family.
A drastic paradigm shift is required to make sense of the world. The Rockefellers are part of the private world central banking cartel that also controls media, defence, pharmaceutical and other cartels. To protect their monopoly of credit and wealth, they are instituting a world police state ("world government") using the bogus 9-11 attack and endless war as a pretext. Rockefeller told Russo about this plan a year before 9-11.
The poet Charles Peguy said, "Everything begins in faith and ends in politics." The banking cartel needs a philosophy to justify enchaining mankind. That philosophy is Satanism. The cartel controls the world through a network of occult societies linked to Freemasonry, Communism, the Vatican and organized Jewry (Bnai Brith, ADL, AJC, Zionism.) The highest occult rank is known as the Illuminati.
Modern Western culture is Masonic. Based on Luciferianism, Freemasonry teaches that man and not God determines reality. (Naturally, they need to overrule natural and spiritual laws in order to assert their own control.) They have noticed that people are diffident malleable creatures who prefer to believe what they are told than trust their own reason or perception. Thus, for example, the media successfully promotes homosexual values that conflict with our natural instincts.
Every facet of the mass media (movies, TV, magazines, music, commercials, news) is used for indoctrination and social control with the ultimate goal of enslavement. There is a connection between what happened in Communist Russia and what is happening in America today. In both cases the central banking cartel is asserting its totalitarian control.
The mass media's function is to distract us from this, and the imminent Iran war and North American Union. Currently they are using the global warming fracas for diversion.
In order to destroy the family, the media convinced women that they could not rely on the heterosexual contract.
Myrna Blyth was the editor in chief of Ladies Home Journal from 1981 to 2002. In her book "Spin Sisters" (2004) she says the media sold women "a career in exactly the same drum banging way that the Happy Homemaker had been ..sold to their mothers." (38)
The Illuminati undermined women's natural loving instincts using the following mantras:
1. Men can no longer be trusted. Using the Lifetime Network as an example, Blyth concluded "all men are 1) unfaithful rats 2) abusive monsters 3) dishonest scumbags, or 4) all of the above. Women on the other hand were...flinty achievers who triumph despite the cavemen who...want to keep them in their place." (62-63)
2. Women are victims by virtue of their sex. Blyth says the media sends "one message loud and clear. Because we are women, we remain victims in our private lives, at work, in society as a whole." (156) Thus women must have a sense of grievance, entitlement and rebellion. The same tactic was used to manipulate Jews, Blacks, workers and gays. (See my "Victim as Moral Zombie" )
3. Women should be selfish. "Liberation and narcissism have merged," Blyth says. Leisure now means, "time for yourself, spent alone, or perhaps with one's girlfriends but definitely without spouse and kids...Endless articles preached the new feminist gospel, that indulging yourself is an important part of being a healthy, well adjusted woman." (65)
4. Sex is not reserved for love and marriage. Magazines like Glamour and Cosmopolitan urge young women to "put out on their first date,"ogle men openly" and be an athlete in bed. There is no discussion of marriage or family. (160) Such women can't trust a man enough to surrender themselves in love.
5. Self-fulfillment lies in career success and not husband and family. "The social rewards of holding down a job are critical to one's sense of dignity and self worth," Betty Friedan pontificated. In fact, "most work is deeply ordinary," Blyth observes (35-36.) (I'm not saying women can't have jobs, only they shouldn't be tricked out of having families if they want them.)
Thus many women are schizophrenic as they attempt to reconcile their natural instincts with constant exhortations to do the opposite. The wreckage -- broken families and dysfunctional people -- is strewn everywhere.
At the same time, Playboy Magazine etc. aimed a similar message at men. You don't need to get married to have sex. Marriage and children are a bore.
This consistent media drumbeat is organized brainwashing. Society has been totally subverted by the central banking cartel, using a Satanic cult, Freemasonry as its primary instrument. Most masons are unaware of the truth but the owners of the mass media certainly are.
We used to say, "as American as motherhood and apple pie." Only satanists would trash motherhood. Far from empowering women, feminism has unsexed many. It has deprived them of a secure and honored role and reduced them to sex objects and replaceable workers.
Luciferians promote rebellion because they are defying what is natural and conducive to happiness. Like their symbol, Lucifer, they wish to play God.
God's love can be seen in a woman's dedication to her husband and children. Thus the bankers must destroy it.


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FOSTER, SEWELL (Stephen Sewell), physician, medical officer, and politician; b. 22 Nov. 1792 at Oakham, Mass., son of Samuel Foster and Patty Wilkings; d. 29 Dec. 1868 in Knowlton, Que.
On 7 Feb. 1813 young Sewell Foster married Sally Belknap of Dummerston, Vt. Two years later he was licensed by the Vermont Medical Society, and then practised in Newfane, Windham County, Vt., until 1822. In that year the Fosters and their four children joined a group of young pioneers who needed a doctor to accompany them as they followed such Newfane emigrants as the Knowltons [see Paul Holland Knowlton] and Robinsons into the Lower Canadian wilderness of the future Shefford and Brome counties. Foster settled for a year at the pioneer settlement of Frost Village in Shefford County, moved to Waterloo, in the same county, then returned to Frost Village to live on his farm.
After attending medical lectures in Quebec City and obtaining his provincial licence on 15 Feb. 1830, Foster began an extensive practice; he was one of the few doctors in the huge area from Yamaska Mountain to Missisquoi Bay, Stanstead, Sherbrooke, and Melbourne. He was appointed by Governor Dalhousie [Ramsay*] as surgeon to Colonel John Jones' Battalion, and from 18 May 1859 until his death he served, with Dr John Brown Chamberlin, as joint coroner for the Bedford District. Dr Foster also attended lectures at McGill College's new medical faculty and by his diligent studying and practical experience won, professional acclaim and honorary degrees from universities in England and Scotland. After the profession was organized provincially under the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Lower Canada in 1847, Foster sat as a governor until ill health forced his resignation in 1866. His widespread professional contacts notwithstanding, Foster devoted himself above all to his private practice. His kindness to his patients, his unflagging courage and energy in reaching them, whether by canoe or through uncleared forest on foot or horseback, working night after night, made him a folk hero to the people of the townships.
Foster was more than his community's physician. He was a justice of the peace and commissioner for small causes in Shefford County, and a founder, officer, and active supporter of the Frost Village Academy. A Congregationalist in Vermont, Foster became an enthusiastic supporter of the Church of England, whose bishops, Charles James Stewart* and George Jehoshaphat Mountain, were his personal friends.
His position as a community leader and his support of the local Conservative party leader, Paul Holland Knowlton, led Foster temporarily into politics. He was defeated in the general elections of 1834 in Shefford County. When in 1841 Knowlton was appointed to the Legislative Council, Foster easily took over as member for Shefford in the Legislative Assembly, campaigning as a Unionist candidate against Alphonso Wells; in 1844 he defeated Reformer John Easton Mills. In the assembly he seldom participated in debates, and when in 1847–48 Reformer Lewis Thomas Drummond* defeated him, Foster gladly returned to medicine.
In the autumn of 1857 Foster moved from Frost Village to Knowlton. There "the old Doctor" continued his practice and his support of education, temperance, and other social reforms, until he died on 29 Dec. 1868. He left his widow, five daughters (one adopted), and seven sons including Shefford registrar Hiram Sewell, Senator Asa Belknap*, Dr William Hershall (Herschel), and Judge Samuel Willard. Among the hardy pioneers of the Eastern Townships, Sewell Foster stood out as a lion. He threw himself into his community's social, judicial, religious, and political life, and his considerable achievements, his charismatic personality and selflessness, made him one of its outstanding pioneers.
BCHS Arch., Stephen Sewell Foster papers. Debates of the Legislative Assembly of United Canada, I–VI (the author has also consulted the ms debates for 1848). Waterloo Advertiser (Waterloo, Que.), 7 Jan. 1869. Canadian biographical dictionary, II, 266–67. F. C. Pierce, Foster genealogy; being the record of posterity of Reginald Foster, an early inhabitant of Ipswich, in New England . . . (Chicago, 1899). Cornell, Alignment of political groups, 5, 16, 24. C. M. Day, History of the Eastern Townships, province of Quebec, dominion of Canada, civil and descriptive, etc. (Montreal, 1869); Pioneers of the Eastern Townships: a work containing official and reliable information respecting the formation of settlements; with incidents in their early history; and details of adventures, perils and deliverances (Montreal, 1863). J. P. Noyes, Sketches of some early Shefford pioneers ([Montreal], 1905), 101–3. E. M. Taylor, History of Brome County, Quebec, from the date of grants of land therein to the present time; with records of some early families (2v., Montreal, 1908–37), I, 192–95.
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Huntington's disease is a devastating, incurable disorder that results from the death of certain neurons in the brain. Its symptoms show as progressive changes in behavior and movements.
The neurodegenerative disease is caused by a defect in the huntingtin gene (Htt) that causes an abnormal expansion in a part of DNA, called a CAG codon or triplet that codes for the amino acid glutamine. A healthy version of the Htt gene has between 20 and 23 CAG triplets. The mutational expansion in Htt can lead to long repeats of the CAG triplet, resulting in the mutant protein having a long sequence of several glutamine residues called a polyglutamine tract. This CAG triplet expansion in unrelated genes is the root of at least nine neurodegenerative disorders, including Huntington's disease.
Rohit Pappu, PhD, professor of biomedical engineering at Washington University in St. Louis, and his colleagues in the School of Engineering & Applied Science and in the School of Medicine, are working to understand how expanded polyglutamine tracts form the types of supramolecular structures that are presumed to be toxic to neurons — a feature that polyglutamine expansions share with proteins associated with Alzheimer's disease and Parkinson's disease.
In recent work, Pappu and his research team showed that the amino acid sequences on either side of the polyglutamine tract within Htt can act as natural gatekeepers because they control the fundamental ability of polyglutamine tracts to form structures that are implicated in cellular toxicity. The results were published in PNAS Early Edition Nov. 25.
"These are progressive onset disorders," Pappu said. "The longer the polyglutamine tract gets, the more severe the disease, and the symptoms worsen with age. Our results are exciting because it means that any success we have in mimicking the effects of naturally occurring gatekeepers would be a significant step forward. And mechanistic studies are important in this regard because they enable us to learn from nature's own strategies.
"Previous studies from other labs showed that the toxic effects of polyglutamine expansions are tempered by the sequence contexts of polyglutamine tracts in Htt, not just the lengths of the polyglutamine tracts," Pappu said.
He and his research team focused on understanding the effects of sequence stretches that lie on either side of the polyglutamine tract in Htt. The results show that the N-terminal stretch accelerates the formation of ordered structures that are presumed to be benign to cells, whereas the C-terminal stretch slows the overall transition into structures that are expected to create trouble for cells, suggesting that these naturally occurring sequences behave as gatekeepers.
"It appears that where polyglutamine stretches are of functional importance, nature has ensured that they are flanked by gatekeeping sequences," Pappu said.
Pappu and his team are now working to find ways to mimic the effects of the N- and C-terminal flanking sequences from Htt. His team is working closely with Marc Diamond, MD, the David Clayson Professor of Neurology at the School of Medicine, to understand how naturally occurring proteins interact with flanking sequences and see if they can co-opt them to ameliorate the toxic functions in the polyglutamine expansions.
Crick SL, Ruff KM, Garai K, Frieden C, Pappu RV. "Unmasking the roles of N- and C-terminal flanking sequences from exon 1 of huntingtin as modulators of polyglutamine aggregation." PNAS Early Edition, published online Nov. 25, 2013.
This research was supported by funding from the National Institutes of Health (5R01NS056114).


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Magellanic Cloud, either of two satellite galaxies of the Milky Way Galaxy, the vast star system of which Earth is a minor component. These companion galaxies were named for the Portuguese navigator Ferdinand Magellan, whose crew discovered them during the first voyage around the world (1519–22). The Magellanic Clouds were recognized early in the 20th century as companion objects to the Milky Way Galaxy. When American astronomer Edwin Hubble established the extragalactic nature of what are now called galaxies, it became plain that the Magellanic Clouds had to be separate systems.
The Magellanic Clouds are irregular galaxies that share a gaseous envelope and lie about 22° apart in the sky near the south celestial pole. One of them, the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), is a luminous patch about 5° in diameter, and the other, the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC), measures less than 2° across. The Magellanic Clouds are visible to the unaided eye in the Southern Hemisphere, but they cannot be observed from most northern latitudes. The LMC is about 160,000 light-years from Earth, and the SMC lies 190,000 light-years away. The LMC and SMC are 14,000 and 7,000 light-years in diameter, respectively—smaller than the Milky Way Galaxy, which is about 140,000 light-years across.
The Magellanic Clouds were formed at about the same time as the Milky Way Galaxy, approximately 13 billion years ago. They are presently captured in orbits around the Milky Way Galaxy and have experienced several tidal encounters with each other and with the Galaxy. They contain numerous young stars and star clusters, as well as some much older stars. One of these star clusters contains R136a1, the most massive star known, with a mass 265 times that of the Sun.
The Magellanic Clouds serve as excellent laboratories for the study of very active stellar formation and evolution. For example, the Tarantula Nebula (also called 30 Doradus) is an immense ionized-hydrogen region that contains many young, hot stars. The total mass of 30 Doradus is about one million solar masses, and its diameter is 550 light-years, making it the largest region of ionized gas in the entire Local Group of galaxies. With the Hubble Space Telescope it is possible for astronomers to study the kinds of stars, star clusters, and nebulae that previously could be observed in great detail only in the Milky Way Galaxy.