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The Oklahoma City Thunder will be in search of their fourth straight win Sunday versus the Cleveland Cavaliers at Chesapeake Energy Arena.
After losing two of three to start the new season, the Thunder have ripped off wins over Toronto, Chicago and Detroit. In Friday's 105-94 victory versus the Pistons, Serge Ibaka set a new career high in points with 25 and pulled down seven rebounds.
"It feels good," Ibaka said of his performance. "First of all I've got to thank my teammates. They did a great job of finding me and they knew I was hot which gave me confidence. They did a great job passing me the ball."
Kevin Durant recorded a double-double with 25 points and 13 boards for Oklahoma City, which made 53.5 percent of its shots. Durant has four double- doubles in six games this season. Kevin Martin had 16 points and Russell Westbrook notched 10 and six assists.
Durant, Martin and Westbrook scored in double figures for the sixth time in six games this season.
Oklahoma City held its opponent under 42 percent shooting for the fourth time this season and for the third straight game.
Cleveland will resume its six-game road trip Sunday and is 1-3 so far on the current sojourn.
The Cavaliers fell to 2-4 on the season following Friday's 107-105 loss at Phoenix, as rookie Dion Waiters paced the team with 23 points and Kyrie Irving added 17 and eight assists. Daniel Gibson scored a season-best 19 points off the bench.
"The story doesn't change, it's on the defensive end; 12 good minutes. It's as simple as that," Cavs coach Byron Scott said. "Obviously we have to get more out of our bench then what we're getting these first six games."
Cleveland had a 37-16 advantage after the opening quarter. Even though Irving posted 17 points against the Suns, he has tallied 20 or more points in four of the Cavs' six games. Cleveland will close the trek Tuesday at Brooklyn.
Anderson Varejao had 14 points and 10 rebounds in the recent loss and is one steal shy of 400 in his career. He has recorded three straight double-doubles.
The Cavs won the only showdown with Oklahoma City last season and have prevailed in six of the last nine meetings between the teams.


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Following are instructions for building your own metal welding table. All of the items, with the exception of the metal plates needed for the shelves, can be found readily available at your local home improvement store. The steel plates can be purchased from a local steel supplier easily found in your local yellow pages. Expect to complete this project in less than four hours.
VentilationIt is important to use enough ventilation to keep the fumes and gases from your breathing zone. For occasional welding in a large room with good cross-ventilation, natural ventilation may be adequate if you keep your head out of the welding fumes. However, be aware that strong drafts directed at the welding arc may blow away the shielding gas and affect the quality of your weld. In planning your workshop ventilation, it is preferable to use ventilation that pulls fume from the work area rather than blows necessary shielding gas away.
Electric ShockRemember, elecrtric shock can kill. Wear dry, hole-free leather gloves when you weld. Never touch the electrode or work with bare hands when the welder is on. Be sure you are properly insulated from live electrical parts, such as the electrode and the welding table when the work clamp is attached. Be sure you and your work area stay dry; never weld when you or your clothing is wet. Be sure your welding equipment is turned off when not in use. Note that Lincoln wire feed / welders have a relatively low open circuit voltage and include an internal contactor that keeps the welding electrode electrically 'cold' until the gun trigger is pressed. These important safety features reduces your risk of electric shock during any welding project.
Arc RaysIt is essential that your eyes are protected from the welding arc. Infrared radiation has been known to cause retinal burning. Even brief unprotected exposure can cause eye burn known as welder's flash. Normally, welder's flash is temporary, but it can cause extreme discomfort. Prolonged exposure can lead to permanent injury.
Workspace - Protection from SparksBefore you get started on any welding project, it is important that you make sure your work area is free of trash, sawdust, paint, aerosol cans and any other flammable materials. A minimum five-foot radius around the arc, free of flammable liquids or other materials, is recommended. Extra care should be taken in workshops that are primarily used for woodworking as sawdust can collect inside machines and in other hard to clean spaces. If a spark finds its way into one of these sawdust crannies, the results could be disastrous. If your shop area is too small to allow for a safe radius, please use an alternate area like a garage or driveway.
Gas CylindersCylinders can explode if damaged. Always keep your shielding gas cylinder upright and secured. Never allow the welding electrode to touch the cylinder.
Safety EquipmentIt is also imperative to make sure you have all the necessary safety equipment and that you're wearing welding friendly clothes. You should wear:
Welding gloves - dry and in good condition Safety glasses with side shields Protective welding shield with a dark lens shade appropriate for the type of welding you do Head protection - like a fire retardant cotton or leather cap Long-sleeve cotton shirt Long cotton pants Leather work boots
A fire extinguisher should also be on hand during any welding.
Also, make certain no children are in the area when you are welding. They may watch the arc and can experience retinal damage from its intense light. There is also a risk of a child getting burned by welding spatter.
Finally, see the instruction manual for your welder for added safety information.
Make sure you have the following items on hand before you begin this project:
Required Tools Lincoln Electric Easy-MIG™ 140 or other similar MIG welders available at a retailer near you. The Easy-MIG™ 140 is powered by 120 volt househld current Lincoln Electric .025-inch SuperArc® L-56® solid wire Gas regulator and hose Shielding gas with a 75% argon, 25% carbon dioxide mixture Wire cutters Tape measure Square Speed square C-clamps (3) Reciprocating saw with metal-cutting blade or chop saw with metal cutting disc with miter capability Cleaning solvent - Can be flammable. Keep away from your work area while you weld Rust resistant spray paint - Can be flammable. Keep away from your work area while you weld
Required Materials 1/8" standard steel angle iron (sizes chosen to accommodate 4-foot lengths angle iron is available in): Four 1/8" x 1" x 1" - 18" in length mitered at 45 degrees Four 1/8" x 1" x 1" - 30" in length mitered at 45 degrees Four 1/8" x 1-1/4" x 1-1/4" - 36" in length (legs) Two 1/8" thick mild steel plates measuring 17-1/2" x 29-1/2" Four casters with threaded shafts and matching nuts Four coupler nuts used to fasten threaded rod together Four lock washers to fit caster shafts One steel tubing 3" in length, 1-1/4" inside diameter
1. Check your materialsLay out the materials in your work area and check to make sure you have everything required to complete the project. Don't forget your safety equipment and fire extinguisher. If you haven't already, cut your angle iron using your speed square to mark miters. Check the reference chart on the inside of the door of the welder to ensure you are using the right settings for the thickness of steel you are about to weld (standard on most Lincoln Electric compact wire feed welders). Test your settings by welding on a piece of scrap before you start.
2. Welding the two frames for the table top and shelfUsing the square on the outer edge, place one piece of 30-inch angle iron and one piece of 18-inch angle iron together, mitered side down, making sure they are perfectly square. Attach your work clamp to one of the pieces of metal. With your welding face shield in place, tack weld the corners on the inside edges. The rest of the weld will be completed later.
Using another piece of 30-inch angle iron and another piece of 18-inch angle iron, repeat this step to create the opposite corner of your frame. It is important to weld the opposite corners first to ensure right angles and a perfect fit.
Now bring the two sections of your rectangular frame together and tack weld the remaining corners.
3. Welding the tabletop to the framePosition your frame flat side up. Place one of the pieces of steel plating on top of the frame and center it. Attach the work clamp to a piece of scrap steel and lay it on top of the table (see photo). Tack weld around the plate. Do not make full welds at this point to minimize distortion caused by heat. Tack the corners and one or two tacks per side. When all tacks are complete, weld over each tack weld placing a weld with a finished length approximately 3/4-inch long. Finish welding the corners from underneath. Both shelves should be assembled the same way.
4. Squaring the shelves and attaching the first legStand up one of the shelves on the long edge. Using the square to make sure it is at a 90-degree angle to the ground, attach one of the legs to the shelf with a C-clamp to hold it upright, like a kickstand on a bicycle (See photos). Position the second shelf parallel to the first and attach another one of the legs in the same manner (see photo). The shelves on our welding table are 28-inches apart. You can adjust that distance to accommodate your specific needs.
Place one of the legs on the bottom shelf corner and place the top of the leg in the inside corner of the table's top. Tack weld it in place. Next, weld both edges of the leg to the to and shelf. Each of these welds will be approximately 1-inch long. Be sure to weld each side.
5. Attach the remaining legsRepeat the instructions on attaching the leg in step 5. Check to make sure you completed all welds on both sides of each leg before standing the table on its own weight.
Note: The distance between each leg is larger at the bottom of the leg than at the top.
6. Attaching the caster coupler nuts and castersPlace a coupler nut in the inside corner of the angle iron, flush to the bottom of the leg. Make a 3/4-inch weld on each side of the nut. Repeat this step on each leg. Let cool. Place a standard nut onto each caster stem as far as it will go. Place one lock washer on each caster stem and thread the stem into the coupler nut attached to the table leg. Adjust the height of the casters to level the table. Then, tighten the nuts to lock the casters vertically in place.
7. Attach the welding gun holderWith a clamp, attach the 3-inch length of steel tubing to the right front corner of the top shelf of the table (if right-handed; be sure to switch to the left side if you are left-handed). Attach it at approximately a 45-degree angle with the front facing up to accommodate holding a welding gun (see photo). Tack weld the tube and remove the clamp. Make a 1-inch finish weld on the top side of the tube.
8. Stand back, admire your handiwork and start on your next welding projectYou may want to paint the welding table with a rust-resistant paint, but DO NOT PAINT THE TOP OF THE TABLE. You will want this to remain bare steel so metal parts placed on the table top for welding are in contact with the work. Before painting, clean the entire table with a cleaning solvent to remove machining oils. Mask off the top with masking tape and newspaper. Paint.

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EPA eased herbicide regulations following Monsanto research, records show
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The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) lessened protections for crops and wildlife habitats after Monsanto supplied research that presented lower estimates of how far the weed killer dicamba can drift, according to a review of federal documents.
In its final report approving the usage of dicamba on soybeans, the agency expressed confidence that dicamba, new versions of which are made by Monsanto and German chemical company BASF, would not leave the field. The registration covered both herbicides, an EPA spokesperson said.
"The EPA expects that exposure will remain confined to the dicamba (DGA) treated field," the agency wrote in the final registration approving the use of dicamba in November 2016.
However, drift from dicamba damaged more than 3.6 million acres of soybeans in 2017, according to data from Kevin Bradley, a professor at the University of Missouri.
The drift also allegedly damaged oak trees, wildlife habitats and other crops, such as vineyards, across the Midwest and South, according to news reports, environmental groups and complaints filed with state agencies.
Monsanto submitted its research after the U.S. EPA proposed in March 2016 an all-directional buffer zone for dicamba to help protect other crops and wildlife habitats for endangered species. After considering the information, the agency decided to reduce the buffer zone to only a downwind buffer zone, meaning spraying limitations only applied to the downwind edge of a field.
When asked questions by email about Monsanto research on the drift, Monsanto spokeswoman Charla Lord replied in an email: "Thanks for reaching out. You can find information about Monsanto at www.monsanto.com."
An agency spokesperson said it was "standard practice" to provide a proposed regulation to the public for comment and then follow it with a final decision that incorporated new information received during the comment period.
"EPA received new information that altered the final decision," said Robert Daguillard, a spokesman for the agency.
After reports of widespread damage last year, however, the U.S. EPA increased regulations on dicamba in October, naming it a restricted use pesticide and limiting the conditions in which it could be sprayed. The buffer zone was not changed. Many states have issued additional restrictions.
In its March 2016 registration, the agency proposed a buffer zone to provide protection for "sensitive areas," which are areas that host species that are protected under the Endangered Species Act.
The proposal had a 100-foot all-direction buffer, meaning that applicators could not spray dicamba within 100 feet of the edge of a field. If dicamba is sprayed at higher concentrations, the buffer would be increased to 220 feet.
The agency found that the buffer zone was necessary because of "past experience with other dicamba formulations and associated spray drift incident reporting," according to the proposed registration.
In the EPA's final registration, which was published on November 9, 2016, the agency changed the all-directional buffer to a 110-foot downwind buffer, meaning that applicators could not spray dicamba within 110 feet of the downwind edge of the field.
Between the two registrations, Monsanto submitted studies conducted in Georgia and Texas, which were states that received zero complaints about dicamba in 2017. Those studies found that drift and volatilization was minimal. Based on those studies, the EPA found "the 110-foot omnidirectional buffer for volatilization is no longer warranted."
Daguillard, the EPA spokesman, pointed out that the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act, which regulates pesticides, requires companies to perform safety studies.
"Thus, the pesticide companies, rather than the taxpayers, shoulder the cost of performing the safety studies on pesticides required by EPA," he said. "EPA, however, has extensive requirements in place to ensure that the data generated by pesticide companies are scientifically sound and provide sufficient information to assess the potential risks of a pesticide."
He said that EPA scientists rely on more than just these studies, including "other governments, academia, and published scientific literature."
"EPA maintains a transparent, public process for assessing potential risks to human health and the environment when evaluating pesticide products," he said.
However, research conducted in 2017 at the University of Arkansas found that dicamba drifts up to 220 feet, more than double the EPA buffer zone.
Pesticide applicators, the Illinois Department of Agriculture, BASF, Monsanto and the U.S. EPA were all aware of the risks that dicamba posed to sensitive areas that are home to wildlife habitat for endangered species, according to a February 23, 2017, email written by Jean Payne, president of the Illinois Fertilizer and Chemical Association. The association includes pesticide applicators and chemical companies.
"Roadside ditches, grass field borders, treelines or shrubs/bushes in field borders, etc. ARE sensitive areas," Payne wrote, saying she had confirmed that information with Dan Kenney, branch chief of the herbicides division of the U.S. EPA. "He said they had to do this to meet Endangered Species demands (from lawsuits) put upon them with regard to the issuance of these new labels."
This story was republished from The Midwest Center for Investigative Reporting, a nonprofit, online newsroom offering investigative and enterprise coverage of agribusiness.


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Researchers at The University of Leicester have explored what an individual's taste in music says about their lifestyle.
Among the perhaps obvious findings is the news that fans of hip-hop and dance music are among the biggest drug takers of the 2,500 people surveyed. Fans of hip-hop were also the most likely to have attended a fee-paying school, and also had the most sexual partners over the past five years.
Those with a penchant for the blues were the most likely to have received a driving penalty, while fans of musicals were found to be the most mild-mannered of those questioned. They hardly got drunk, and comprised the group most likely to undertake charity work.
The university's findings are published in the scientific journal Psychology of Music. Results showed that fans of every type of music available for selection had tried drugs at some time or other, with over 25 per cent of those preferring classical music having smoked cannabis. They were also the richest group, though, so we guess they could afford the habit.
Dr Adrian North, who was in charge of the research, said:
"It comes out in the study that fans (of hip-hop and dance) score worse in various behaviours, such as criminality, sexual promiscuity and drug use. It was shown that this had nothing to do with their ethnic backgrounds. The behaviour was linked purely to musical taste in its own right."


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We've got some exciting news to share. Web and interaction design studio.zeldman is moving, from our digs at 148 Madison Avenue to a new location on Fifth Avenue. As of June 1, we'll be designing, creating, and consulting out of our beautiful new studio space at The Yard: Flatiron North.
Closing our co-working design studio
This means we're closing A Space Apart, the Madison Avenue co-working design studio we opened in January, 2012. A Space Apart was a fun experiment, and we loved learning from the design studios, product companies, publications and startups with whom we shared it. Companies like Font Bureau, Monkey Do, Shopify Partners, Danilo Black, Been (RIP), Promedia, Byte Dept, Nick Sherman, Fred Gates Design, Wayward Wild and The Great Discontent and have all shared our water cooler at one time or another during the whirligig of the past five years. Creatively, it's been amazing.
But we're tired of playing landlord. Instead of debugging the internet router, tending to the recycling, hiring HVAC repair people, and seeking suitable replacement studio mates when a company moves out, we'd rather spend our time solving our clients' design problems and making cool stuff like A List Apart, A Book Apart, The Big Web Show, and An Event Apart. And The Yard's the perfect place for us to ply our trade and make our goods. (Plus we still get to rub shoulders with other creative business folk.)
We can't take it with us: furnish your office with our stuff!
Running a co-working studio space meant buying a lot of furniture and equipment. Beautiful stuff, still in great condition. Elegant stuff, because we're designers. Stuff we won't need any more, now that we're moving to new digs where somebody else does landlord duty. So we're selling it, for a lot less than we paid. And that's where (maybe) you come in.
Most everything must go, including our famous Eero Aarnio (style) ball chair (if its red cushions could talk!), custom Bo Concept shelving, Eames Desk Units from Design Within Reach, Herman Miller Aeron chairs (ditto), midcentury tulip table and side chairs, black glass desks, Nespresso espresso maker, file cabinets, icemaker, microwave oven, see-through glass mini-fridge, and more. These are beautiful things that inspire good design, and they deserve good homes.
View all our goods and prices—and even order the ones you want!—via this lovely WebVR Walk-through prepared by our own Roland Dubois. (If you're not into the whole WebVR thing, you can also just browse our store at Apartment Therapy. The VR experience also links directly to the store items, so you're good either way.)
We leave May 31, and these goods are first-come, first-served, so don't wait too long. Grab your piece of web and interaction design history today.


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MILWAUKEE, Sept. 13, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Whether you're still planning for retirement or knocking on its door, there's one certainty: unlike previous generations, you are responsible for creating your own paychecks in retirement. In that vein, Northwestern Mutual is hosting "Receive a Lifelong Paycheck: Guaranteed Income in Retirement," a webcast designed to help navigate the new reality of funding retirement with the responsibility for creating a personal paycheck.
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As part of the webcast, Northwestern Mutual's Don Armstrong, CLU®, ChFC®, CFP®, MSFS, CASL, AEP, and Michael Soyka, CLU®, CFP®, Regional Director - Planning & Sales, will discuss how a retirement income strategy that includes a steady stream of guaranteed income can help individuals achieve their retirement goals. It is taking place at 12 PM CT on Tuesday, September 17, and is open to the public and free of change. Individuals may register at: http://u.nm.com/Webcast4
"Saving for retirement is only half the challenge," said Armstrong. "Just as you needed a strategy to accumulate the funds for retirement, you need a strategy to make your money last through retirement."
"You need to determine all the possible sources of income you can draw from," added Soyka. "You have your pre-retirement savings, such as your 401(k), but equally important are guaranteed income streams, such as social security and annuities,* which can help sustain the retirement lifestyle you envisioned."
Following the event, the recorded webcast and other resources will be available on: www.northwesternmutual.com/webcasts. The webcast is the fourth in Northwestern Mutual's "Planning for Success" series. Past webcasts --focusing on retirement myths, estate planning, and financial security in uncertain times – are available on-demand at northwesternmutual.com/webcasts.
For individuals unable to join, Northwestern Mutual will be tweeting during this webcast using #PlanningForSuccess. Follow @NM_News for more information and news of future webcasts.
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Chris Horne of the Wellington Botanical Society recently sent me a fern frond they collected on one of their trips. Although the frond is small and lacking the diagnostic reproductive characters, I think it is the introduced holly fern (Cyrtomium falcatum). It looks like the shining spleenwort (Asplenium oblongifolium), but theRead more


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MONDAY, July 23 (HealthDay News) -- High blood pressure is a growing problem in teens, partly due to the rising number of obese teens, and federal guidelines suggest specific tests be done to diagnose the effects of the condition.
However, fewer than one in four teens with high blood pressure receives the tests recommended by U.S. National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute guidelines, a new study finds. On the other hand, about half of those in the study received electrocardiograms (EKGs), which are not recommended to help with diagnosis in children with high blood pressure.
"We found that the most common test used for adolescents was the EKG, a non-recommended test, and that the recommended tests were both infrequently used," said researcher Dr. Esther Yoon, assistant professor of pediatrics at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.
"High blood pressure in teens should not be taken lightly," Yoon said. It increases the risk for heart disease and other problems.
The study was published online July 23 in the Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine.
Yoon and her colleagues evaluated claims data from 951 Michigan teens, aged 12 to 18, with high blood pressure who were Medicaid patients between 2003 and 2008.
Of these, 24 percent, had an echocardiogram. This test uses sound waves to examine the heart and is recommended to help doctors decide if medication is needed to treat the high blood pressure.
Just 22 percent, about one in five, got a kidney ultrasound to determine if the high blood pressure was affecting the kidneys. This test is also recommended in teens with high blood pressure.
However, half got an EKG, although the guidelines put out by the U.S. National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) don't recommend this test in evaluating teens with high blood pressure. An EKG is a noninvasive test that records electrical activity in the heart.
To determine if a child has high blood pressure, a doctor compares his or her blood pressure numbers to average numbers for the child's age, gender and height, according to the NHLBI.
"There is a lot of hesitation," Yoon said. Both doctors and parents, she noted, may explain away a high blood pressure reading in teens, reasoning that they are nervous about seeing the doctor or worried temporarily about something.
The findings call for more research, she added. But they suggest that doctors may not be aware of the guidelines, which Yoon said have been in place since 2004 and updated since then.
"Better education and training of doctors [is needed] to understand how best to use these diagnostic tests for kids with high blood pressure," she said.
Doctors may be using their clinical judgment in deciding which recommended tests to do, said Dr. Sarah de Ferranti, director of the preventive cardiology clinic at Boston Children's Hospital. She co-wrote an editorial accompanying the study.
The study looked only at claims data, she said. For that reason, the study is missing doctors' reasons for not doing certain tests. For instance, the teen may have had mild high blood pressure and the doctor decided to try lifestyle changes first.
Even so, Yoon and de Ferranti said parents can do much to be sure their child, if diagnosed with high blood pressure, gets the best care possible.
If your pediatrician or teen medicine doctor tells you your child has high blood pressure, ask if there is a cause that can be found, de Ferranti said. Obesity increases the risk of high blood pressure. Sometimes, an underlying medical condition, such as a kidney problem, can be causing it.
In many other cases, however, it is what doctors call ''essential hypertension," meaning no cause can be found.
Get instructions about lifestyle changes, de Ferranti said. Your pediatrician may suggest you help your teen start an exercise program, lower salt in the diet or try to lose weight.
If your teen's blood pressure is abnormally high at a doctor's visit, Yoon said, be sure to follow up. Ask the doctor what to do next. This is especially important, she said, if there is a family history of high blood pressure.
The study was funded by the U.S. National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute.
More information
To learn more about teens and high blood pressure, visit the Nemours Foundation.


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Mandy will risk everything to protect her guests and her ranch. Her faith, and God's protection, lead her to find out the secret to the Red Gold before it destroys everything.
Abandoning his life as a temple guard and becoming an indentured servant was the only way Ari could protect young Joash, the true King of Judah, from the child's evil grandmother, Queen Athaliah. However, Ari never thought he'd fall in love with Mira, his master's daughter, and now he must choose between his heart and his sacred duty to God and the nation he has vowed to serve.


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SEATTLE – Dec. 6, 2012 – After a national search, Garnet Anderson, Ph.D., a biostatistician and lead researcher in the Women's Health Initiative, has been selected to become the new senior vice president and director of the Public Health Sciences Division at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center. She will assume the role on Jan. 1, 2013, when Ross Prentice, Ph.D., the current division director, steps down after 25 years.
Anderson, principal investigator of the WHI Clinical Coordinating Center, which is based at Fred Hutch, has been on the Public Health Sciences faculty since 1989 and is a member of the division's Cancer Prevention Research and Biostatistics/Biomathematics programs.
Among the WHI's many contributions to women's health, the most prominent was its JAMA report in 2002 that combined estrogen-plus-progestin hormone-replacement therapy increases a woman's risk of breast cancer, stroke, and heart disease. This finding quickly decreased the use of hormone therapy nationwide by about 50 percent, which led to a significant, sustained decline in breast cancer rates starting in approximately 2003.
"Through the WHI, Anderson, and colleagues have made a major impact on our understanding and prevention of breast cancer and other major diseases," said Larry Corey, M.D., Fred Hutch president and director. "The WHI trials led to sweeping changes in clinical practice – changes that have led to about 15,000 fewer women developing invasive breast cancer each year in the U.S." Worldwide, the decreased use of hormone therapy has resulted in additional reductions in breast cancer incidence by tens of thousands of cases per year.
One of the largest U.S. prevention studies of its kind, the WHI was launched in 1991 as a $625 million national program sponsored by the National Institutes of Health to address the most frequent causes of death, disability and poor quality of life in older women. It involved more than 161,000 postmenopausal women in a set of clinical trials and an observational study designed to test the effects of hormone therapy, diet, and calcium and vitamin D supplementation on heart disease, fractures, and breast and colorectal cancer. While those studies ended in 2002 and 2005, more than 93,000 WHI participants continue to provide health information that is being used to investigate a variety of key women's health questions. Last year Anderson and colleagues at Fred Hutch received $54.5 million from the NIH for continued coordination of the study through 2015.
Anderson has been central figure in the WHI at Fred Hutch since the launch of the study in the early '90s. She has played a major role in clinical trial design and in overseeing implementation of data management and quality-control activities for this immense and complex undertaking. She became co-principal investigator of the WHI Clinical Coordinating Center, with Prentice, in 2008 and the sole principal investigator in 2011.
She is also associate director for Cancer Control and Prevention of the Southwest Oncology Group Statistical Center and an affiliate professor in the Department of Biostatistics at the University of Washington.
Anderson, who received her Ph.D. in biostatistics from UW, will be the third PHS division director in the 37-year history of Fred Hutch. Biostatistician Prentice served in that capacity from 1983, when the division was established, until 2002 and again from 2007 until the present. Cancer epidemiologist John Potter, M.D., Ph.D., led the division from 2002 until 2007.
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At Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, home to three Nobel laureates, interdisciplinary teams of world-renowned scientists seek new and innovative ways to prevent, diagnose and treat cancer, HIV/AIDS, and other life-threatening diseases. The Hutchinson Center's pioneering work in bone marrow transplantation led to the development of immunotherapy, which harnesses the power of the immune system to treat cancer with minimal side effects. An independent, nonprofit research institute based in Seattle, the Hutchinson Center houses the nation's first and largest cancer prevention research program, as well as the clinical coordinating center of the Women's Health Initiative and the international headquarters of the HIV Vaccine Trials Network. Private contributions are essential for enabling Hutchinson Center scientists to explore novel research opportunities that lead to important medical breakthroughs. For more information visit www.fhcrc.org or follow the Hutchinson Center on Facebook, Twitter, or YouTube.
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THE PRESIDENT: Hello, Boston! (Applause.) It is great to be back in Boston. (Applause.) Good to be back in Massachusetts. (Applause.) And, most of all, it is great to be here with the next senator from Massachusetts -- Ed Markey. (Applause.)
First of all, I want to thank Ed for that great introduction. (Applause.) Because I am here with my great friends from Boston, because I'm here to campaign on behalf of somebody who will be an outstanding member of the United States Senate, I am not going to talk trash about the hockey game. (Laughter.) I'm not going to say anything about the outstanding qualities of the Chicago Blackhawks. (Laughter.)
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THE PRESIDENT: I'm not going to say anything. I'm not going to do it. (Laughter.) Because I don't want to make you all feel bad. (Laughter.) I want you to feel good.
Part of the reason you should feel good is not only do you have an outstanding congressional delegation, you also have a great Governor -- my good friend, Deval Patrick. (Applause.) You've got one of the finest mayors in the United States of America -- we love Tom Menino. (Applause.) I was just backstage talking to Tom, and he doesn't just inspire Boston and make it a better place, he inspires the country. And we're grateful for his lifetime of service.
The last time I saw Tom, the last time I saw a lot of you was for the memorial service honoring the victims of the Marathon bombing. So this morning, before I came here, I wanted to spend some time with some Bostonians, so we stopped by Charlie's Sandwich Shop -- (applause) -- and I got a burger and fries. And we were saying hi to everybody and hugging folks, and Ed was with me. And one of the people I met in the shop just by happenstance was a young man whose family had been injured by the bombing. And he was with a nurse who had been at Mass General the day those folks got brought in. And she was on her day off. But I gave her a big hug and I reminded her of how much what she did had meant to so many people all throughout the city and she was an example of the spirit of Boston during a very difficult time.
And I asked people, how is the city doing? And they said, you know, we're bouncing back. Boylston Street may be open again. Life may be back to normal in a lot of ways. But we know there's still too many middle-class families that aren't seeing their hard work rewarded, too many young people who are looking for work and can't find it, too many Americans who feel like the rungs on the ladder of opportunity have grown farther and farther apart. And that's why Ed and I are focused on building the true engine of long-term economic growth -- and that is a rising, thriving middle class. (Applause.)
And every day I wake up, I ask three questions: How do I make America a magnet for good jobs? How do we make sure our workers earn the skills and education they need for those jobs? How do we make sure those jobs are paying a decent living? And the answer to that is, government can't do it by itself. Obviously, the private sector is the driver of our economy. It's the engine of our growth.
But when people say the whole problem is government, they don't understand government can help by establishing smart priorities, by making smart choices, by investing in American manufacturing so we're bringing more of our jobs back from overseas -- (applause) -- investing in our roads and our bridges and our ports to make sure that we are staying competitive all around the world; educating our children from the earliest years, keeping them safe from gun violence; rethinking our high schools, making college more affordable -- (applause) -- making sure we stay at the cutting edge in science and technology; securing our energy future; addressing climate change. There are some things that government can do that will help middle-class families, and that's what Ed Markey is committed to doing. (Applause.)
We can do all this. We have all the plans. We have all the policies. We have solutions to our challenges. We have all the ingredients for success. This is not only the greatest nation on Earth in the past, this is going to be the greatest nation on Earth for the foreseeable future. There's no country on Earth that would not gladly trade places with the United States. But what's holding us back right now is inaction in Washington, gridlock in Washington -- too many folks in Washington who are putting the next election ahead of the next generation. (Applause.)
Now, Boston, I want you to know I've run my last campaign. Michelle is very happy about that. (Laughter.) So my only concern is making sure that we advance the interests of the broadest number of Americans and we leave our children a stronger, safer, more prosperous country than the one we inherited. That's all I care about. (Applause.) And that means I'm willing to work with anybody -- I'll work with Republicans, Democrats, independents -- anybody who wants to make progress. I'm ready to get going. I want to work with them. (Applause.)
So, for example, right now on immigration, we've got a good bipartisan bill moving through the Senate that strengthens our borders and reforms the system so that everybody is playing by the same rules -- reform that will allow us to continue to attract talent from all around the world, the best and the brightest. And whenever Republicans are ready to work with me, I'm ready to work with them. (Applause.) I want to govern not just politic. (Applause.)
And I notice on gun violence, there are a lot of Republicans out there who recognize that we need some common-sense gun safety measures. Some Republicans may be rethinking the stances that they took in the past. That's the good news. We want to encourage that. But the fact of the matter is that a whole bunch of Republicans out there are not interested in getting things done. They think compromise is a dirty word. They think the problem we've got is just working people who join unions -- that that's what holding us back. They think environmental regulations are what's holding us back. They think that we're spending, I guess, too much money on science and research and technology.
And because of those attitudes, we've got to have some Democrats like Ed Markey, who will stand up and do the right thing. That's what we need. (Applause.)
Ed mentioned that the idea of being a Democrat -- look, I don't believe that any single party has a monopoly on wisdom. My favorite President is a guy from Illinois who founded the Republican Party, effectively -- Abraham Lincoln, our first Republican President. (Applause.) But what does make me a Democrat is the basic idea that in this country, no matter what you look like, no matter where you come from, no matter who you love, you should be able to get ahead if you're willing to work hard and act responsibly. (Applause.)
You should be able to buy a home and send your kids to college, and save a little bit for retirement, make sure your kids get a good education, not go bankrupt when you get sick. Most Americans aren't asking for a lot. They know they've got to take care of themselves. They just want to make sure that if they're working hard, they can get ahead. That's the essence of what it means to be a Democrat.
And that's why we've got to have folks like Ed Markey, who are going to help keep weapons of war off the streets and out of our schools; make it harder for criminals to get a gun in their hands.
That's why we've got to have a Democrat who is going to make sure that we implement the Affordable Care Act -- because in a nation this wealthy, nobody should have to go without affordable, accessible health care. They don't have to do it in Massachusetts. They shouldn't have to do it anywhere else. (Applause.) It's the right thing to do, and we need Ed Markey to make sure that it gets implemented. (Applause.)
We're fighting to make sure that when it comes to women's health, no employer or insurance company or politician gets to decide your health care. Women should make decisions about their health care, not some politician in Washington. (Applause.)
We need somebody who is going to be supportive of the Consumer Financial Protection Board that Elizabeth Warren and I started talking about even before I was elected President and that we've now implemented to make sure you're not getting cheated by unscrupulous financial practices. We need somebody who is going to support that robustly. That's what Ed is going to do.
We don't need politicians who are going to roll back these rights. We need somebody like Ed Markey who is going to fight to secure them, no matter how many times the Republicans in Washington want to refight the old battles.
Do you know that the House Republicans have held nearly 40 votes to repeal Obamacare? They did another one just two weeks ago because they figured that they were a couple new representatives that hadn't had a chance to vote against Obamacare. That's not a productive thing to do, people.
This law is going to mean big things for the economic security of middle-class families. We should be spending time figuring out how to spread the word that if you don't have health insurance, you can now get it.
We need a senator from Massachusetts who will help me, work with me, to deal with climate change in an honest, realistic way. (Applause.) Ed has been fighting this battle for decades. If we want our children and our grandchildren to live in the same beautiful planet, the same abundance and natural glory that we have enjoyed in our lives, we've got to double down on our investment in science and basic research. We can't just develop the energy sources of the past. We've got to develop the energy sources of the future.
We've got the tools and the capabilities to make huge strides. We've already doubled the production of clean energy. We've already doubled fuel-efficiency standards on cars. We've got to keep on going forward, not backwards. And that's what Ed Markey is going to help us do. (Applause.)
We've ended a war in Iraq; we're winding down the war in Afghanistan responsibly. Now we're going to have to take care of our veterans and keep Americans safe. And I will keep working with the other side of the aisle on these issues. But I want somebody like Ed Markey who every single day is going to be fighting on behalf of our veterans, going to be fighting on behalf of our first responders.
These budget battles we have in Washington, they have implications for whether or not we're helping cities and states fund their firefighters, fund their police officers. And everybody here in Boston knows how much those first responders mean to us when a crisis has hit. (Applause.) And we've got to make sure we're there for them. (Applause.)
So, look, here's the bottom line. We've gone through some tough times over these last few years and so many of you put your faith in me in 2008 and 2012 -- (applause) -- the folks here in Massachusetts were very kind to me back in 2004, when nobody could pronounce my name. (Laughter.)
And every single day, I think about all of you. I look out on the faces in this crowd -- some of you I know, some of you have knocked on doors for me, some of you poured your heart and soul into our efforts.
But here's the thing that I think all of us understand -- the job of rebuilding America, the job of making sure our kids have a great education, the job of making sure everybody has health care, the job of making sure that financial institutions treat everybody fairly, the job of making sure our veterans have the care that they need, the job of making sure we have a bright energy future, the job of preserving our environment, the job of making sure we stay on the cutting-edge when it comes to innovation -- that job is not mine alone. I can't do it by myself. I've got to have folks with me who care as passionately about these things as I do. (Applause.) I've got to have folks in the United States Senate who are willing to stand up for working people just like I have. I need folks in the United States Senate who, every day, are waking up thinking about the people who sent them there, and trying to figure out how do I make sure that they are getting a brighter future.
That's who Ed Markey is. I need Ed Markey in the United States Senate. (Applause.)
So this election is going to come down to turnout. We've got a whole lot of Democrats in this state and a whole lot of Obama voters, but you can't just turnout during a presidential election. You've got to turn out in this election. You can't think, oh, I did my work in 2012. You've got some work to do right now in 2013. (Applause.) You can't just pat your back and say, well, I knocked on some doors back in November. I need you knocking on some doors right now in June. (Applause.)
And if you work with the same focus and the same passion -- if you are knocking on some doors and making some phone calls, if you're talking to your friends and you're talking to your neighbors -- if you're talking to cousin Jimmy who doesn't always vote unless you give him a phone call -- if you are making sure that people know Ed Markey's remarkable record in Congress, then I guarantee you he will be the next United States senator from Massachusetts. (Applause.) He'll join Elizabeth Warren. He'll carry on the legacy of Ted Kennedy and John Kerry. He will be my partner, and we will continue the march forward on behalf of not just this generation, but future generations.
Thank you. Let's get to work. God bless you.


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Stem cells are are cells that can transform itself into a higher biological component such as muscle, tissue or an organ. There are different type of stem cells that are exclusive to a biological system. Brain stem cells are responsible for the brain, blood stem cells for the blood, and heart stem cells for the heart. There are also pluripotent stem cells that can change into any type of cell or tissue in the body.
Their research show that cell membranes called exosomes are an important factor in promoting the growth of new heart tissue and also develops healthy blood vessels.
Although the study is still in its early stages, it is a promising discovery that can aid millions of heart patients towards a better quality of life.
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Investigators at the Cedars-Sinai Heart Institute – whose previous research showed that cardiac stem cell therapy reduces scarring and regenerates healthy tissue after a heart attack in humans – have identified components of those stem cells responsible for the beneficial effects.
In a series of laboratory and lab animal studies, Heart Institute researchers found that exosomes, tiny membrane-enclosed "bubbles" involved in cell-to-cell communication, convey messages that reduce cell death, promote growth of new heart muscle cells and encourage the development of healthy blood vessels.
"Exosomes were first described in the mid-1980s, but we only now are beginning to appreciate their potential as therapeutic agents. We have found that exosomes and the cargo they contain are crucial mediators of stem cell-based heart regeneration, and we believe this might lead to an even more refined therapy using the 'active ingredient' instead of the entire stem cell," said Eduardo Marbán, MD, PhD, director of the Cedars-Sinai Heart Institute and a pioneer in developing investigational cardiac stem cell treatments.
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"The concept of exosome therapy is interesting because it could potentially shift our strategy from living-cell transplantation to the use of a non-living agent," he added. "Stem cells must be carefully preserved to keep them alive and functioning until the time of transplant, and there are some risks involved in cell transplantation. In contrast, exosome therapy may be safer and simpler and based on a product with a longer shelf life."
In lab experiments, the researchers isolated exosomes from specialized human cardiac stem cells and found that exosomes alone had the same beneficial effects as stem cells. Exosomes also produced the same post-heart attack benefits in mice, decreasing scar size, increasing healthy heart tissue and reducing levels of chemicals that lead to inflammation. Even when exosomes were injected in mice after heart attack scars were well-established, and traditionally viewed as "irreversible," they brought about multiple structural and functional benefits.
Exosomes transport small pieces of genetic material, called microRNAs, that enable cells to communicate with neighboring cells to change their behavior. The researchers pinpointed one such microRNA – one that is especially plentiful in cardiac stem cell exosomes – as responsible for some of the benefits. It is likely, they believe, that this and other microRNAs in the exosomes work together to produce the regenerative effects.
"The exosomes appear to contain the signaling information needed to regenerate healthy heart tissue, they are naturally able to permeate cells, and they have a coating that protects their payloads from degradation as they shuttle from cell to cell," said Marbán, senior author of an article in the May 6, 2014 Stem Cell Reports. "Injecting exosomes derived from specialized cardiac stem cells may be an attractive alternative to the transplantation of living cells."
Marbán and his clinical and research teams in 2009 performed the first procedure in which a heart attack patient's heart tissue was used to grow specialized stem cells that were injected back into the heart. In 2012, they reported results of a clinical trial that found significant reduction in the size of heart attack-caused scars in patients who underwent the experimental stem cell procedure, compared to others who did not.
They also published findings from an animal study showing that the effect of stem cell therapy following heart attack is indirect – the stem cells themselves do not survive long after being placed in the heart, but they cause enduring effects by stimulating the rapid growth of surviving heart tissue and attracting stem cells already in the heart, which mature into functional heart cells.
The new study sheds light on the underlying mechanisms, crediting stem cell exosomes and the communications cargo they carry for orchestrating regeneration to repair heart attack damage.
The process to grow cardiac-derived stem cells was developed earlier by Marbán when he was on the faculty of Johns Hopkins University. The university has filed for a patent on that intellectual property and has licensed it to Capricor Inc., a biotechnology company in which Marbán is a founder and equity holder. Cedars-Sinai has filed for a patent for the exosome discovery and has licensed it to Capricor. The company provided no funding for this study.
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This year's 2012 International CES was the largest in the event's 44-year history, with a record numbers of attendees, exhibitors and show floor space, according to its owner and producer, the Consumer Electronics Association.
Initially the figures are projected at 153,000, including more than 34,000 international visitors, according to CEA, which conducts an independent audit of attendance at the International CES.
CEA estimated that more than 20,000 new products were launched at the 2012 CES, which also featured top executives participating in keynote sessions, including those from Mercedes, Wal-Mart, Intel, Ford, Verizon, Ford, eBay, GE, Google and Facebook.


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Sengekontacket Pond has been closed to shellfishing due to high levels of dangerous bacteria found in tests last week.
Water quality testing showed fecal coliform bacteria at levels well above the safe level for shellfish consumption at eight of nine testing stations on the pond. The contamination level at the ninth testing station was right on the upper limit of safety.
The samples were taken on June 5 and the pond was closed Friday, immediately after the results came back. It is likely to remain closed for another couple of weeks at a minimum while further tests are conducted and analyzed.
The closure does not affect boaters and swimmers.
Mike Syslo, senior marine fisheries biologist with the local office of the Massachusetts Division of Marine Fisheries, said while the readings were unusually high, they were not surprising, given a general deterioration in water quality in the pond over recent years.
"Frankly, for a lot of us who work on the pond, none of us are terrifically surprised at this," Mr. Syslo said.
"If you know the pond, there's a lot of birds on the perimeter and on the pond. Cormorants, seagulls, geese and other forms of ducks. This all contributes to that total count of fecal coliform.
"Our lab does not differentiate between human and animal. In the eyes of the federal and state public health institutions, they don't really care. A fecal is a fecal is a fecal.
"Either way it can make you sick."
Test readings were extremely high.
The maximum allowed level of fecal coliform is 28 bacterial colonies per 100 milliliters of water. Readings at eight stations in Sengekontacket Pond were greater than 51, the highest concentration the testing system registers.
"It doesn't get any higher than that," Mr. Syslo said. "We can't get a reading any greater. It could be 52, it could be 5,200, we don't know. Anything greater than 28 colonies is considered a violation."
The reading at the ninth station was 28.
Edgartown shellfish constable Paul Bagnall blamed the problem on recent weather conditions.
"We had extreme tides, we had a lot of rainfall, it's not really surprising that it was over," Mr. Bagnall said.
The shoreline and small islands in the pond were littered with large amounts of bird droppings that in some areas, like Sarson's Island, were several inches thick.
"So when you get the tide coming up, flooding more area, plus the rain sloshing out what isn't underwater, it's like taking a dump truck and dumping a load of manure in there," Mr. Bagnall said.
The paved surface of Beach Road added to the runoff problem.
While both Mr. Syslo and Mr. Bagnall said they were hopeful the pond would flush itself relatively quickly, they said the time is at hand when longer-term issues with Sengekontacket's water quality must be addressed.
"It would be nice - and we're talking about this now - to use some more sophisticated methods of sampling, that are quite expensive, but would ultimately allow us to differentiate between possible sources of the fecal coliforms," Mr. Syslo said, adding:
"It might be helpful to look at that to get a better plan of attack to clean the pond up, but I think most of us are convinced it's largely due to waterfowl. It's a shallow body of water, with a lot of waterfowl and not a lot of flushing. And the higher water temperatures as we move towards summer only cooks the process even faster, which is why you usually see the higher counts in the summer months."
Mr. Bagnall said he was cautiously optimistic about reopening much of the pond, but not all of it.
"We had been able to get some areas open through the winter," he said, adding: "Prior to this all of Trapp's Pond was closed and still is. An area right by the Bend in the Road, at Crab Creek, had been close, but we were able to get that area open. And there was an area that remained closed in Major's Cove. So when the pond's reopened I'm assuming those will remain closed."
Mr. Bagnall said the town had planned to open one area where shellfish stock had been reintroduced on July 1, but that's on hold now.
"Sengie was closed as a result of one test because it had high averages the previous three years. They get concerned when there's a number of stations off the chart," Mr. Bagnall said.
Although the closure would immediately affect only a couple of commercial quahaugers and probably several dozen people who like to family fish there, Mr. Bagnall said, the day could be coming when the pond was regularly closed for longer periods.
"It wouldn't surprise me if eventually Sengekontacket was open either only seasonally, or, as with a lot of towns off-Island, subject to rainfall closures. That is, if you receive a certain amount of rainfall within 24 hours, the pond is automatically closed for a period of say four to six days."
Mr. Bagnall said the pond would be tested again on June 18 or 19.
"And we'll see where we go from there," he said.


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The British position in Palestine at the end of World War II was becoming increasingly untenable. Hundreds of thousands of Jewish Holocaust survivors temporarily housed in displaced persons camps in Europe were clamoring to be settled in Palestine. The fate of these refugees aroused international public opinion against British policy. Moreover, the administration of President Harry S Truman, feeling morally bound to help the Jewish refugees and exhorted by a large and vocal Jewish community, pressured Britain to change its course in Palestine. Postwar Britain depended on American economic aid to reconstruct its war-torn economy. Furthermore, Britain's staying power in its old colonial holdings was waning; in 1947 British rule in India came to an end and Britain informed Washington that London could no longer carry the military burden of strengthening Greece and Turkey against communist encroachment.
In May 1946, the Anglo-American Committee of Inquiry unanimously declared its opposition to the White Paper of 1939 and proposed, among other recommendations, that the immigration to Palestine of 100,000 European Jews be authorized at once. The British Mandate Authority rejected the proposal, stating that such immigration was impossible while armed organizations in Palestine-- both Arab and Jewish--were fighting the authority and disrupting public order.
Despite American, Jewish, and international pressure and the recommendations of the Anglo-American Committee of Inquiry, the new Labour Party government of Prime Minister Clement Atlee and his foreign minister, Ernest Bevin, continued to enforce the policy articulated in the White Paper. British adamancy on immigration radicalized the Yishuv. Under Ben-Gurion's direction, the Jewish Agency decided in October 1945 to unite with Jewish dissident groups in a combined rebellion against the British administration in Palestine. The combined Jewish resistance movement organized illegal immigration and kidnapping of British officials in Palestine and sabotaged the British infrastructure in Palestine. In response Bevin ordered a crackdown on the Haganah and arrested many of its leaders. While the British concentrated their efforts on the Haganah, the Irgun and Lehi carried out terrorist attacks against British forces, the most spectacular of which was the bombing of the King David Hotel in Jerusalem in July 1946. The latter event led Ben-Gurion to sever his relationship with the Irgun and Lehi.
By 1947 Palestine was a major trouble spot in the British Empire, requiring some 100,000 troops and a huge maintenance budget. On February 18, 1947, Bevin informed the House of Commons of the government's decision to present the Palestine problem to the United Nations (UN). On May 15, 1947, a special session of the UN General Assembly established the United Nations Special Committee on Palestine (UNSCOP), consisting of eleven members. The UNSCOP reported on August 31 that a majority of its members supported a geographically complex system of partition into separate Arab and Jewish states, a special international status for Jerusalem, and an economic union linking the three members. Backed by both the United States and the Soviet Union, the plan was adopted after two months of intense deliberations as the UN General Assembly Resolution of November 29, 1947. Although considering the plan defective in terms of their expectations from the League of Nations Mandate twenty-five years earlier, the Zionist General Council stated willingness in principle to accept partition. The League of Arab States (Arab League) Council, meeting in December 1947, said it would take whatever measures were required to prevent implementation of the resolution.
Despite the passage of the UN partition plan, the situation in Palestine in early 1948 did not look auspicious for the Yishuv. When the AHC rejected the plan immediately after its passage and called for a general strike, violence between Arabs and Jews mounted. Many Jewish centers, including Jerusalem, were besieged by the Arabs. In January 1948, President Truman, warned by the United States Department of State that a Jewish state was not viable, reversed himself on the issue of Palestine, agreeing to postpone partition and to transfer the Mandate to a trusteeship council. Moreover, the British forces in Palestine sided with the Arabs and attempted to thwart the Yishuv's attempts to arm itself.
In mid-March the Yishuv's military prospects changed dramatically after receiving the first clandestine shipment of heavy arms from Czechoslovakia. The Haganah went on the offensive and, in a series of operations carried out from early April until mid-May, successfully consolidated and created communications links with those Jewish settlements designated by the UN to become the Jewish state. In the meantime, Weizmann convinced Truman to reverse himself and pledge his support for the proposed Jewish state. In April 1948, the Palestinian Arab community panicked after Begin's Irgun killed 250 Arab civilians at the village of Dayr Yasin near Jerusalem. The news of Dayr Yasin precipitated a flight of the Arab population from areas with large Jewish populations.
On May 14, 1948, Ben-Gurion and his associates proclaimed the establishment of the State of Israel. On the following day Britain relinquished the Mandate at 6:00 P.M. and the United States announced de facto recognition of Israel. Soviet recognition was accorded on May 18; by April 1949, fifty-three nations, including Britain, had extended recognition. In May 1949, the UN General Assembly, on recommendation of the Security Council, admitted Israel to the UN.
Meanwhile, Arab military forces began their invasion of Israel on May 15. Initially these forces consisted of approximately 8,000 to 10,000 Egyptians, 2,000 to 4,000 Iraqis, 4,000 to 5,000 Transjordanians, 3,000 to 4,000 Syrians, 1,000 to 2,000 Lebanese, and smaller numbers of Saudi Arabian and Yemeni troops, about 25,000 in all. Israeli forces composed of the Haganah, such irregular units as the Irgun and the Stern Gang, and women's auxiliaries numbered 35,000 or more. By October 14, Arab forces deployed in the war zones had increased to about 55,000, including not more than 5,000 irregulars of Hajj Amin al Husayni's Palestine Liberation Force. The Israeli military forces had increased to approximately 100,000. Except for the British-trained Arab Legion of Transjordan, Arab units were largely ill-trained and inexperienced. Israeli forces, usually operating with interior lines of communication, included an estimated 20,000 to 25,000 European World War II veterans.
By January 1949, Jewish forces held the area that was to define Israel's territory until June 1967, an area that was significantly larger than the area designated by the UN partition plan. The part of Palestine remaining in Arab hands was limited to that held by the Arab Legion of Transjordan and the Gaza area held by Egypt at the cessation of hostilities. The area held by the Arab Legion was subsequently annexed by Jordan and is commonly referred to as the West Bank. Jerusalem was divided. The Old City, the Western Wall and the site of Solomon's Temple, upon which stands the Muslim mosque called the Dome of the Rock, remained in Jordanian hands; the New City lay on the Israeli side of the line. Although the West Bank remained under Jordanian suzerainty until 1967, only two countries--Britain and Pakistan--granted de jure recognition of the annexation.
Early in the conflict, on May 29, 1948, the UN Security Council established the Truce Commission headed by a UN mediator, Swedish diplomat Folke Bernadotte, who was assassinated in Jerusalem on September 17, 1948. He was succeeded by Ralph Bunche, an American, as acting mediator. The commission, which later evolved into the United Nations Truce Supervision Organization-Palestine (UNSTOP), attempted to devise new settlement plans and arranged the truces of June 11-July 8 and July 19-October 14, 1948. Armistice talks were initiated with Egypt in January 1949, and an armistice agreement was concluded with Egypt on February 24, with Lebanon on March 23, with Transjordan on April 3, and with Syria on July 20. Iraq did not enter into an armistice agreement but withdrew its forces after turning over its positions to Transjordanian units.
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More than two dozen authors and publishers have filed an objection to a proposed settlement that would allow Google to digitize and sell millions of books, saying that the agreement ignores important privacy rights of readers and writers.
Without stronger privacy safeguards, Google employees, third parties or the U.S. government could obtain lists of the books people have purchased and read, the authors and publishers said in a court filing. The settlement has no limitations on Google's collection and use of reader information and no privacy standards for data retention, deletion and sharing of that data with third parties, said the court document filed Tuesday by the Electronic Frontier Foundation, the American Civil Liberties Union and other groups.
"If there is no privacy of thought—which includes implicitly the right to read what one wants, without the approval, consent or knowledge of others— then there is no privacy, period," Pulitzer Prize-winning author Michael Chabon said in the court document.
Among the authors objecting to the settlement are Bruce Schneier, author of "Applied Cryptography" and "Secrets & Lies: Digital Security in a Networked World"; Cory Doctorow, author of "Eastern Standard Tribe" and "Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom"; Ayelet Waldman, author of "Bad Mother: A Chronicle of Maternal Crimes; Minor Calamities and Occasional Moments of Grace" and the Mommy-Track Mysteries series; and romance author Lisa Hendrix.
Authors and publishers whose subject matter has included erotica, sexuality and medical marijuana also are part of the group objecting to the books settlement, which was negotiated between Google and book publishers and authors.
Google can reportedly track how much time an individual reader spends on one page of a book, the authors said in their court filing. "This granular tracking will create a chilling effect on readers, especially readers seeking, browsing or buying books on controversial or sensitive subjects such as politics, religion, sexuality and health," the document said.
"I believe that the fear of tracking will create a chilling effect on readers, reduce my readership and therefore my revenue from these books," Schneier said in the document. "Moreover, I write these books in order to participate in the public debate on issues. Reduced readership negatively impacts my expressive interests as an author."
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|(3) Volcano:
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|(4) Current Color Code:
|(5) Previous Color Code:
|(6) Source:
|Alaska Volcano Observatory
|(7) Notice Number:
|(8) Volcano Location:
|N 60 deg 29 min W 152 deg 44 min
|(9) Area:
|Cook Inlet-South Central
|(10) Summit Elevation:
|10197 ft (3108 m)
|(11) Volcanic Activity Summary:
|Current activity at Redoubt volcano suggests that a significant explosive event is likely, though not certain, in the coming days. This event could occur at any time with little or no warning. Since about May 2 shallow earthquake activity beneath the actively growing lava dome of Redoubt volcano has been slowly increasing. The growing lava dome is becoming increasingly unstable.
Should a significant explosion occur, the event will likely produce high altitude (>30,000 ft ASL) ash plumes, trace to minor ash fall in parts of south-central Alaska, lahars in the Drift River Valley, and pyroclastic flows in the immediate vicinity of the volcano.
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Nike Softball
At Nike Softball Camps every facet of the game is covered - hitting, fielding, base running, team play and more. Our goal is to stimulate a love for the game by immersing you in the sport and giving you the kind of focused, intensive training essential for your improvement. We provide players of all ability levels the opportunity to improve their game, work hard, make new friends and have a lot of fun.


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Hill outpitches Arrieta; Dodgers defeat Cubs 6-0 for NLCS lead
LOS ANGELES (AP / FOX 11) - Rich Hill outpitched reigning Cy Young Award winner Jake Arrieta, Yasmani Grandal hit a two-run homer in the fourth inning and the Los Angeles Dodgers defeated the Chicago Cubs 6-0 Tuesday night to take a 2-1 NL Championship Series lead.
After winning a big league high 103 games during the regular season and sparking belief they could win the World Series for the first time since 1908, the Cubs have been shut out in consecutive games for the first time this year, managing just six hits -- five of them singles.
Hill, 14 months removed from independent league ball on Long Island, allowed two hits in six innings, struck out six and walked two. Joe Blanton, Grant Dayton and Kenley Jansen finished, giving the Dodgers consecutive postseason shutouts for the first time.
Jose Urias starts Game 4 for the Dodgers on Wednesday and at 20 years, 68 days will become the youngest starting pitcher in postseason history John Lackey starts for the Cubs.


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Brajkovic wins Dauphiné as Boasson Hagen takes final stage
Janez Brajkovic (Team RadioShack) crosses with the bunch to win the Criterium du Dauphiné Libéré as Norwegian Edvald Boasson Hagen (Team Sky) solos to victory in the final stage.
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Janez Brajkovic (Team RadioShack) finished with the bunch to win the Criterium du Dauphiné Libéré on Sunday as Norwegian Edvald Boasson Hagen (Team Sky) soloed to victory in the final stage.
Boasson Hagen leaped away from a small lead group on the last of five trips up the 2.9km Domancy climb to win the 148km stage between Allevard-les-Bains and Sallanches.
Arkaitz Duran Daroca (Footon-Servetto) took second on the day with Egor Silin (Katusha) third.
When the times were tallied, Brajkovic had clinched the overall victory by 1:41 over two-time Tour de France champion Alberto Contador (Astana) with American Tejay Van Garderen (HTC-Columbia) third at 2:41.
The race was missing a number of top names who will be competing at the Tour de France come July, but for Brajkovic the presence of Contador was enough to make his victory a special one.
"Actually, I don't care (who is here)," said the Slovenian, who is only beginning to display the kind of potential he showed when he won the world under-23 time trial title in 2004.
"This is the Dauphiné and whether there's the world's top 20 riders here or not makes no difference. To have raced against Contador and won is enough. He's the best rider in the world, and although he is not on top form right now he can win just about any race he wants to."
Indeed, Contador won the prologue last Sunday and held the race lead until stage 3 on Wednesday, when Brajkovic triumphed in a 49km race against the clock to take the race lead and leave the Spaniard 1:45 in his wake.
Brajkovic went on to defend his lead over four days in the mountains, notably resisting a series of attacks by Contador on Saturday's sixth stage, which took in the Col du Glandon and finished on the summit of L'Alpe d'Huez.
Shortly after the start of Sunday's final stage, it became clear that Contador would not challenge the 26-year-old Slovenian.
An eight-man breakaway formed as soon as Frenchman Samuel Dumoulin (Cofidis) attacked at the 1km mark and went on to build a lead of three and a half minutes inside the first 20km.
But with several teams not represented at the front, Boasson Hagen's Sky team drove the chasing peloton hard and as the leaders reached the 50km mark to begin the 11.2km climb over the Category 2 Cote des Rafforts their lead had evaporated to just 40 seconds.
The climb took its toll, with five riders, including Dumoulin, dropping off the front just as a counter-attack launched from the peloton.
It left 13 in front, including Boasson Hagen, and just after they crested the summit with a 35-second lead on the peloton they were joined by a further four riders, including Garmin's David Millar.
A tiring Dumoulin soon quit the race as the 17-man lead group went on to build a two-minute lead.
They came into Sallanches with a margin of just over 1:30 but with the steep 2.4km Domancy climb to negotiate five times on a wet and slippery circuit they were far from safety.
An acceleration by Millar with 39km remaining only served to prompt Boasson Hagen to counter, and when the Norwegian flew past it was game over for the big Scot.
Despite being joined by four other riders from his escape group further on, the Norwegian sensation, who claimed 13 professional victories as a 21-year-old last season, was not to be denied.
Boasson Hagen simply upped the pace at the foot of the Domancy, kept a fast cadence despite the climb's 9.2 percent average gradient and left everyone in his wake.
For Boasson Hagen the win was confirmation that his troubles with an injured Achilles tendon were at last behind him.
"It's really great to be back after my injury problems," he said. "We had a plan this morning and that was to try and win the stage and the team worked really hard in bringing back the breakaway. I had to work really hard and when I attacked for the last time on the climb I was going full gas, and then some.
"It was all worth it. It's really nice to come back to racing and get a win this week."
Complete results
Quick results
- 1. Edvald Boasson Hagen, Team Sky, 3:39:43
- 2. Arkaitz Duran Aroca, Footon-Servetto, at 0:27
- 3. Egor Silin, Katusha, at 0:32
- 4. Christophe Le Mevel, Française des Jeux, at 0:34
- 5. Tejay Van Garderen, HTC-Columbia, at 0:40
- 1. Janez Brajkovic, Team RadioShack, 28:06:28
- 2. Alberto Contador, Astana, at 1:41
- 3. Tejay Van Garderen, HTC-Columbia, at 2:41
- 4. Jurgen Van Den Broeck, Omega Pharma-Lotto, at 3:46
- 5. Jérôme Coppel, Saur-Sojasun, at 4:17


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Columnist Charles Blow joined in on Twitter: "The American government is in DC, not the Vatican."
Rosenthal wrote, in part:
This really is a health issue, as opposed
to a purely political matter. About half of all pregnancies in the
United States are unplanned, and expanding access to birth control could
lower the abortion rate. The Institute of Medicine, an independent
group of doctors and researchers, has called birth control a medical
necessity (not a mere convenience) "to ensure women's health and
well-being." I understand that the Catholic Church in particular
feels strongly about birth control, but this isn't a theocracy.
Religious doctrine cannot dictate public policy. (That's actually a conservative position, in the true meaning of the word.)
Columnist Charles Blow made the same arguments, taking to his Twitter feed early Wednesday afternoon to issue these gems:
Ppl use birth control in
America...A LOT. Even Catholics. And thank God for it!!! #HHS If I had
my druthers, they'd pass it out in church.
The American government is in DC, not the Vatican. I'm sorry. But, this has really gotten under my skin...


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St. John Ambulance Australian sexual abuse cover-up on Facebook.com email, 10 May 2009
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St. John Ambulance (Victoria) members engaged in a number of discussions on the organization's private "Facebook.com" group. These discussions surrounded the cover-up of sexual abuse within St. John's that was recently reported in the Australian media. In response an email was sent by management saying "Just don't say anything" with a threat of termination if compliance was not met.
The email was distributed amidst the publication of news articles on the 10th of May 2009 regarding the sexual abuse of cadet (child) members that occurred in the organisation. It was uncovered that over $60,000 was paid to abuse victims in 2008 as part of a confidentiality agreement that would effectively gag them from speaking out about what occurred.
Links to news articles: Editorial: Herald Sun, 10th May 2009, http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,21985,25453651-24218,00.html
Story: Daily Telegraph, 10th May 2009, http://www.news.com.au/dailytelegraph/story/0,22049,25456682-5005941,00.html
The email was distributed to Eastern region members of the Victorian branch of St John Ambulance Australia. Requests for comment can be made to state, regional, and divisional superindendents. Alternatively, head office may be contacted.
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