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text: SenSage, which makes security information and event management (SIEM) products, is opening up its platform to share data it gathers with business intelligence tools so they can be used to make better decisions.SenSage is upgrading its software to support a variety of APIs including Open Database Connectivity and Java Database Connectivity as well as open APIs like SNMP. It also supports some proprietary APIs including Check Point Software's LEA.PRODUCT ROUNDUP: Hot products at RSA Conference 2011ANALYSIS: SIEM Do's and Don'tsAt the RSA Conference this week, the company is also launching an online community portal called Open Security Intelligence for security practitioners to share best practices. The goal is to help prevent successful exploits from spreading and to block similar exploits that come along later.Read more about wide area network in Network World's Wide Area Network section.

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Unlike other DVD backup software that has succumbed to movie industry pressures, RealNetworks' RealDVD gives you a new way to copy DVDs to your computer caked with so much DRM that you'll question why you went through the trouble in the first place. (But maybe that's the point.) Fully approved by the DVD CCA, RealDVD rips DVDs to your hard drive complete with CSS encryption...before they're layered with an extra topping for RealNetworks' DRM.For $50, or $30 for a limited time, RealDVD allows you to rip standard DVDs in perfect quality to your hard drive (no Blu-ray), complete with bonus features, menus and such. The process takes anywhere from 10 to 40 minutes and requires 4-8GB of space. The catch is that these video files can only play in Real's player and cannot be converted for use by your other devices, like iPods or phones. RealNetworks' solution is that you can buy four additional licenses for $20 apiece to view your content on other PCs. And it's not a very good one. Then again, it's important to note that this is the DVD copying solution that the industry has allowed. And even with the strict limitations in place, it's surprising that you don't need to have the actual DVD in the drive to play the ripped files. [RealDVD]
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When I first began researching in the mid 1980s the most technological bit of kit was a telephone! and a fiche and microfilm reader. Now more than 20 years on I have an online presence; this blog, Face Book, Twitter and a family tree loaded to Genes Reunited. All of which are available via computer and even mobile phones.
I have connected to cousins using Face Book, but most of my online success has been through either Genes Reunited or from posts to mailing lists. Mailing lists are less popular than they once were, but it is important to retain or use an email address that is going to be accessible at some time in the future.
In the early days we probably all made the mistake of using the email address provided by the ISP. As we became more confident with the internet we possibly changed ISPs in search of better access or a bargain, or upgraded to broadband and more than likely the email address changed. Facilities such as Google and Gmail have helped us be able to maintain our email address, along with perhaps purchasing a domain name in which we can set to divert email and web addresses to anywhere we choose.
Over the years my tree on Gene's Reunited has been updated and as a consequence of that I have made a quite a few connections.
Some of those are researchers with whom we share data and perhaps keep in contact with for amendments and questions, others do not reply at all or are slow at responding because life gets in the way or there have been those who have shared data reciprocally and then keep in contact with the trivial data of life and have become good on line friends.
Indeed, I have a friend with whom I first received a letter as a result of listing my genealogical interests in a Family History Magazine. The letter provided some genealogical details, but the question was did we have a connection? Actually we didn't, but more than 20 years on, we are, despite the 10,000 miles between us still in contact. More regular than we once were thanks to Face Book.
I recently was contacted via Gene Reunited. We knew from the data that we were connected then an oddity was noticed. Had I made an error? Further research shows that I had in fact made the error, as have the 10 other people who have accessed my tree and not checked the information. That particular line had been on the back burner for a while. I would have eventually revisited that particular line and would have noticed the error I made. More importantly, the error does not replace a whole line of ancestors, that would have been a disaster. The error was simply that I had misread something and not noticed!


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text: Hope and Michael are a married couple in their thirties, living in Philadelphia, and struggling with everyday adult angst. Michael runs an ad agency with his friend Elliot, whose marriage to Nancy is beginning to show the cracks of age, as is the friendship between Hope and her best friend Ellyn. Michael's best friend, Gary, on the other hand, is trying to get on with his womanising life, and get over the mutually-destructive affair he had with Michael's cousin, Melissa. It all sounds like just another soap, but is given a unique atmosphere by the production team (the Bedford Falls company, also responsible for 'My So Called Life') whose intelligent scripts, believable characters and frequent dips into the slightly surreal world of the character's minds places the series as one of the highlights of the late 1980s.


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I. What every physician needs to know.
Syphilis, caused by the bacterium Treponema pallidum, is primarily transmitted through sexual contact and is often known as "the great imitator" because it can manifest itself in so many different ways. It is important to accurately classify this disease into early (within first year after acquisition of infection) or late (more than a year after transmission) syphilis as it impacts risk of transmission and duration of treatment. Stages of this disease are primary, secondary, latent and tertiary. Syphilis is a reportable disease. In 2008, health officials reported over 117,000 cases of syphilis; almost 19,999 cases of primary and secondary syphilis have been documented in 2014. Over half of these cases were reported from only 70 counties in the United States and occurred predominantly in men who have sex with men, between 20 and 29 years of age. The incidence of syphilis has increased among women also, which is of particular concern as that heralds a rise in congenital syphilis. Between 2013-2014, the number of syphilis cases increased by 15.1%.
T. pallidum is transmitted by contact of infectious lesions with small breaks in the skin. Incubation period is about 10-60 days.
II. Diagnostic Confirmation: Are you sure your patient has syphilis?
The diagnosis of syphilis depends on clinical findings, examination of lesions for treponemes and/or serologic tests. Dark field microscopy is the main diagnostic method for diagnosing primary syphilis.
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A. History Part I: Pattern Recognition:
- Primary syphilis – painless chancre develops at the site of infection about 1-3 weeks after exposure to T. Pallidum. Chancre heals spontaneously in 3-6 weeks, even without treatment.
- Secondary syphilis – results from blood borne spread of T. pallidum and can have numerous manifestations. Common features include rash, fever, lymphadenopathy, condyloma latum. Secondary syphilis, despite its name, is still considered an early stage of the disease.
- Latent syphilis – normal physical exam with positive serology.
- Tertiary syphilis – develops years after the initial infection and can involve any organ system: gummas, cardiovascular or CNS.
B. History Part 2: Prevalence:
Syphilis had been considered a historic disease with peak incidence in the 1940s. After the penicillin era, it had all but vanished until the late 1980s, early 1990s when there was a peak in incidence that correlated with recognition of HIV as a risk factor. Increased incidence since 2001 has primarily been attributed to increased cases among men with ratio of male to female of more than 11:1. Men who have sex with men (MSM) account for over 60% of all cases of primary and secondary syphilis in the United States.
C. History Part 3: Competing diagnoses that can mimic syphilis.
The differential diagnosis of primary syphilis is that of genital ulcers and includes herpes simplex virus (HSV), chancroid, traumatic injury, drug eruptions, and granuloma inguinale.
Secondary syphilis involves diffuse mucocutaneous lesions, systemic symptoms, and generalized nontender lymphadenopathy. Presentations include hepatitis, nephropathy, uveitis, and other gastrointestinal (GI) disturbance. Often syphilis is considered when typical treatments are non-responsive.
D. Physical Examination Findings.
Primary syphilis
- Painless, indurated, and nonpurulent chancre with regional lymphadenopathy
Secondary syphilis
- Macular, papular, papulosquamous, or pustular (never vesicular) rash involving the trunk, limbs and often the palms and soles
- In intertriginous areas, the papules can enlarge to form pink or gray-white infectious lesions known as condyloma lata
- Mucous patches can also involve the oral or genital mucosa
- Lymphadenopathy, alopecia, meningitis, ocular abnormalities such as uveitis
Latent syphilis
- No physical exam findings of syphilis
Tertiary syphilis
- Argyll Robertson pupil
- Paresthesia, ataxia, pain, changes in sensation
- Gummas
- Aortic regurgitation
E. What diagnostic tests should be performed?
Other STD screening including HIV testing is recommended.
1. What laboratory studies (if any) should be ordered to help establish the diagnosis? How should the results be interpreted?
T. pallidum cannot be cultured; detection or serologic methods are used for diagnosis. Dark field microscopy and direct fluorescent antibody testing are used for the microscopic examination of specimen from the lesion looking for spirochete. Serologic testing can be divided into non-treponemal and treponemal tests.
Non-treponemal tests, rapid plasma reagin (RPR) and Venereal Disease Research Laboratory (VDRL), check for antibodies to cardiolipin-lecithin-cholesterol antigen. These tests are often used for screening because they are easy to perform; however, there is a higher risk of false positive because they can be falsely positive in the setting of other infections, immunization, or autoimmune disease. A reactive non-treponemal test must be confirmed with a treponemal test. RPR and VDRL are particularly useful as titers can be followed to determine responsiveness to treatment.
Treponemal tests, fluorescent treponemal antibody absorption (FTA-ABS), microhemagglutination assay for treponema pallidum (MHA-TP), treponema pallidum particle agglutination assay (TPPA), and treponema pallidum enzyme immunoassay (TP-EIA), are typically reserved for confirmation because they are more difficult to perform. These are antibodies directed against treponemal antigens, are qualitative only, and can often remain positive even after years of successful treatment.
In 2008, the Center for Disease Control (CDC) looked at labs that reversed the order of testing (i.e. did treponemal tests first and performed non-treponemal tests for confirmation). For high volume laboratories, the reversal of the tests can be an economic advantage. Because there is not a lot of data on how to interpret these reversed results, CDC concluded that individuals positive to both tests should be interpreted as they have an untreated infection and treatment should be offered. If a person is positive to a treponemal test but then negative to a non-treponemal test, a second treponemal test should be considered. If negative, then treatment could be deferred.
In neurosyphilis, a lumbar puncture should be performed; typical findings are pleocytosis, elevated protein, and VDRL positivity.
2. What imaging studies (if any) should be ordered to help establish the diagnosis? How should the results be interpreted?
Other than direct microscopy, there is no imaging for syphilis.
F. Over-utilized or "wasted" diagnostic tests associated with this diagnosis.
Beginning the work-up with non-treponemal tests seems to be more cost-effective than a treponemal-test first algorithm.
III. Default Management.
- The recommended regimen for adults is Benzathine penicillin G 2.4 million units IM in a single dose for primary, secondary, and early latent syphilis.
- In non-pregnant adults with penicillin allergy, regimens of doxycycline 100 mg PO BID for 14 days, tetracycline 500 mg PO q6H for 14 days, or azithromycin 2 grams PO x1 may be effective. Local resistance pattern of syphilis to macrolide should be considered prior to prescribing azithromycin.
- For late latent syphilis, latent syphilis of unknown duration, or non-central nervous system (CNS) tertiary syphilis, the recommendation is Benzathine penicillin G 7.2 million units administered as three dose of 2.4 million units IM each at 1 week intervals. In non-pregnant individuals with an allergy to penicillin, doxycycline 100 mg PO BID or tetracycline 500 mg PO q6H for 28 days may be considered in conjunction with close serologic and clinical follow-up. Cardiovascular syphilis can be treated with ceftriaxone 1 gram IV or IM daily for 10-14 days in patients with mild penicillin allergy.
- In patients who have neurosyphilis or syphilitic eye disease, the recommended regimen is aqueous crystalline penicillin G 18-24 million units per day administered as 3-4 million units IV every 4 hours for 10-14 days. An alternative regimen is procaine penicillin 2.4 million units IM once daily with probenicid 500 mg PO q6H for 10-14 days. For those with mild penicillin allergy, ceftriaxone 2 grams IV or IM for 10-14 days is an option.
- Penicillin is the only recommended treatment for pregnant patients with all stages of syphilis and those who are allergic should undergo desensitization.
- Treatment of HIV infected persons will be discussed below.
A. Immediate management.
There are no treatments that need to be initiated within hours; it is acceptable to wait for confirmatory testing.
C. Laboratory Tests to Monitor Response To, and Adjustments in, Management.
- Patients should be re-examined clinically and serologically 6 months and 12 months after treatment.
- Failure of nontreponemal test titers to decline four-fold within 6 months after therapy for primary or secondary syphilis may indicate treatment failure and patients should be re-evaluated for HIV and cerebral spinal fluid should be tested to rule out neurosyphilis.
- In patients with neurosyphilis, CSF parameters should be monitored every 6 months. If the pleocytosis does not improve by 6 months, or the CSF profile has not normalized within 2 years, a second course of therapy for neurosyphilis should be administered.
D. Long-term management.
In general, syphilis is treated with a one time dose of penicillin. Tertiary syphilis or neurosyphilis should be followed by infectious disease providers and possibly neurology or ophthalmology depending on symptoms.
E. Common Pitfalls and Side-Effects of Management
Patients should be informed of Jarisch-Herxheimer reaction, an acute febrile reaction frequently accompanied by headache, myalgia and other symptoms that usually occur within the first 24 hours after therapy for early syphilis.
IV. Management with Co-Morbidities
A. Renal Insufficiency.
No change in management
B. Liver Insufficiency.
Doxycycline and tetracycline should be avoided in patients with liver insufficiency.
C. Systolic and Diastolic Heart Failure
No change in management.
D. Coronary Artery Disease or Peripheral Vascular Disease
No change in management.
E. Diabetes or other Endocrine issues
No change in management.
F. Malignancy
No change in management.
G. Immunosuppression (HIV, chronic steroids, etc).
Compared with HIV-negative patients, HIV-positive patients with early syphilis may be at increased risk for developing neurosyphilis and some studies have suggested evaluation with lumbar puncture in that population in the presence of serum RPR ≥ 1:32 or a CD4 count <350 cells/mm3. No treatment regimen for syphilis has been demonstrated as being more effective. HIV-infected persons should be evaluated clinically and serologically for treatment failure at 3, 6, 9, 12, and 24 months after therapy and lumbar puncture should be performed in case of treatment failure.
H. Primary Lung Disease (COPD, Asthma, ILD)
No change in management.
I. Gastrointestinal or Nutrition Issues
No change in management.
J. Hematologic or Coagulation Issues
No change in management.
K. Dementia or Psychiatric Illness/Treatment
No change in management.
V. Transitions of Care
A. Sign-out considerations While Hospitalized.
Not applicable.
B. Anticipated Length of Stay.
Once diagnosed, therapy and follow-up can be achieved as an outpatient.
D. Arranging for Clinic Follow-up
1. When should clinic follow up be arranged and with whom.
- It is best to have this condition followed by an infectious disease specialist. Follow-up should be arranged at completion of antibiotics.
- If there are ophthalmologic symptoms or neurologic symptoms then follow-up with these specialities is recommended.
- If the patient is to be on long-term penicillin then follow-up with either a general medicine doctor or infectious disease specialist is recommended for lab monitoring.
2. What tests should be conducted prior to discharge to enable best clinic first visit.
Baseline complete blood count (CBC) with differential and renal function if the patient will be discharged on penicillin.
3. What tests should be ordered as an outpatient prior to, or on the day of, the clinic visit.
For long-term administration of penicillin, CBC and renal function should be followed.
E. Placement Considerations.
Patients can typically go home with outpatient administration of subsequent doses.
F. Prognosis and Patient Counseling.
Patients should be counseled on safe sex practices as well as signs and symptoms of partially treated/latent infection.
VI. Patient Safety and Quality Measures
A. Core Indicator Standards and Documentation.
Syphilis is a reportable disease.
What's the evidence?
"Centers for Disease Control and Prevention: Syphilis Fact Sheet".
Singh, AE, Romanowski, B. "Syphilis: review with emphasis on clinical, epidemiologic, and some biologic features". Clin Microbiol Rev. vol. 12. 1999. pp. 187-209.
"Centers for Disease Control and Prevention: Syphilis Figures".
"Centers for Disease Control and Prevention: Primary and secondary syphilis–United States, 2005-2013". MMWR Morb Mortality Wkly Rep. vol. 63. 2014. pp. 402-406.
"Centers for Disease Control and Prevention: Syphilis".
Larsen, SA, Steiner, BM, Rudolph, AH. "Laboratory diagnosis and interpretation of tests for syphilis". Clin Microbiol Rev. vol. 8. 1995. pp. 1-21.
"Centers for Disease Control and Prevention: Syphilis testing algorithms using treponemal tests for initial screening–four laboratories, New York City, 2005-2006". MMWR Morb Mortality Wkly Rep. vol. 57. 2008. pp. 872-875.
Owusu-Edusei, K, Koski, KA, Ballard, RC. "The tale of two serologic tests to screen for syphilis–treponemal and nontreponemal: does the order matter". Sex Transm Dis. vol. 38. 2011. pp. 448-456.
"Center for Disease Control and Prevention. STD Surveillance case definitions".
"Center for Disease Control and Prevention: Syphilis – 2015 STD Treatment Guidelines".
Larsen, SA. "Syphilis". . vol. 9. 1989. pp. 545
Workowski, KA, Bolan, GA. "Sexually transmitted diseases treatment guidelines, 2015". . vol. 64. 2015. pp. 1
Brown, ST, Saidi, A, Larsen, SA, Reynolds, GH. "Serological response to syphilis treatment. A new analysis of old data". . vol. 253. 1985. pp. 1296
Marra, CM, Maxwell, CL, Smith, SL. "Cerebrospinal fluid abnormalities in patients with syphilis: association with clinical and laboratory features". . vol. 189. 2004. pp. 369
Ghanem, KG, Moore, RD, Rompalo, AM. "Lumbar puncture in HIV-infected patients with syphilis and no neurologic symptoms". . vol. 48. 2009. pp. 816
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- Syphilis
- I. What every physician needs to know.
- II. Diagnostic Confirmation: Are you sure your patient has syphilis?
- A. History Part I: Pattern Recognition:
- B. History Part 2: Prevalence:
- C. History Part 3: Competing diagnoses that can mimic syphilis.
- D. Physical Examination Findings.
- E. What diagnostic tests should be performed?
- 1. What laboratory studies (if any) should be ordered to help establish the diagnosis? How should the results be interpreted?
- 2. What imaging studies (if any) should be ordered to help establish the diagnosis? How should the results be interpreted?
- F. Over-utilized or "wasted" diagnostic tests associated with this diagnosis.
- III. Default Management.
- A. Immediate management.
- C. Laboratory Tests to Monitor Response To, and Adjustments in, Management.
- D. Long-term management.
- E. Common Pitfalls and Side-Effects of Management
- IV. Management with Co-Morbidities
- A. Renal Insufficiency.
- B. Liver Insufficiency.
- C. Systolic and Diastolic Heart Failure
- D. Coronary Artery Disease or Peripheral Vascular Disease
- E. Diabetes or other Endocrine issues
- F. Malignancy
- G. Immunosuppression (HIV, chronic steroids, etc).
- H. Primary Lung Disease (COPD, Asthma, ILD)
- I. Gastrointestinal or Nutrition Issues
- J. Hematologic or Coagulation Issues
- K. Dementia or Psychiatric Illness/Treatment
- V. Transitions of Care
- A. Sign-out considerations While Hospitalized.
- B. Anticipated Length of Stay.
- D. Arranging for Clinic Follow-up
- 1. When should clinic follow up be arranged and with whom.
- 2. What tests should be conducted prior to discharge to enable best clinic first visit.
- 3. What tests should be ordered as an outpatient prior to, or on the day of, the clinic visit.
- E. Placement Considerations.
- F. Prognosis and Patient Counseling.
- VI. Patient Safety and Quality Measures
- A. Core Indicator Standards and Documentation.


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Courtney Senini knew something was amiss when aides started dashing in and out of the classroom, passing messages to the admirals and generals who taught her leadership seminar at the U.S. Naval Academy.
Finally, one of the aides stood before the room of seniors and in a big, puffy voice, said the words that would change their lives: "Ladies and gentlemen, the United States is under attack."
The room fell silent.
An attack on American soil seemed inconceivable when Senini and her classmates entered the academy in 1998. It was a time of relative peace and prosperity, and U.S. pre-eminence felt unassailable, almost permanent. Many of the midshipmen expected to "five-and-dive," meaning they would serve the required five years in the Navy and then use the prestige of their academy degrees to land lucrative jobs on Wall Street or at major corporations.
But on that morning of Sept. 11, 2001, as airplanes felled skyscrapers in New York and others slammed into the Pentagon and crashed into a Pennsylvania field, the stakes changed for the Class of 2002.
"If there's one day in my entire life that sticks out, that's it," Senini says. "It shaped what I did in the military and who I wanted to be afterward. It was absolutely the pivotal thing that shaped us."
Maybe the realization didn't set in right away, but it didn't take long for the midshipmen to grasp that in eight months, they would graduate into a more dangerous, uncertain world.
"There was a lot of emotion," Senini recalls 10 years later. "I compare it to Pearl Harbor, but this wasn't an island in the Pacific; it was our nation's capital and New York. It was painful and daunting and frightening to all of us. But at the same time, we were fricking excited to be a small part of going up against the people who attacked us."
In the years since, Senini and her classmates have fought wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. They have survived roadside bombs in Fallujah, briefed members of Congress on counterterrorism strategies and forged intimate bonds with Afghan civilians. They have seen inky night skies illuminated only by Tomahawk missiles and gorgeous green valleys where danger lurked behind every rock. Three have been killed in training and one in action. Another lost both of his legs in battle. Another won a Silver Star for valor in combat.
All of it began on that strange September morning when they learned that enemies wanted to kill them on their home ground.
Class President Josh Welle has collected essays from dozens of 2002 graduates describing where naval service took them. He hopes that, combined into a book, the essays will offer a glimpse of how a generation grappled with its sternest test.
"My generation didn't have a compass or a reference point," Welle says. "We had 'Top Gun.' But after 9/11, we found something, a purpose. It's this idea of the long war. We're not trying to be Tom Brokaw's greatest generation. But my classmates have sacrificed their youth, just trying to be this selfless generation that stands the watch during the long war."
The prospect of any war, much less a long one, was an abstraction for members of the Class of 2002 when they showed up in Annapolis as plebes. Many were like Travis Bode, the son of an oral surgeon who grew up in a posh section of Phoenix, Ariz. Weaned on "Top Gun" and "The Hunt for Red October," Bode saw the academy as a springboard to adventure and success.
"There was no war on the horizon," he remembers. "It was, 'Hey, this is a great school. You spend a couple of years doing something fun, you make great connections and then you go into business.' There was no thought to war at all."
Bode had a rare chance to sleep in on Sept. 11. He was on his way to the bathroom about 9:30 a.m. when he saw classmates in the lounge watching television as the World Trade Center collapsed. Within hours, Marines had set up a defensive perimeter around the academy, which seemed a potential target. A battle cruiser appeared offshore.
"It was like, 'Whoa, this is getting serious real quickly,'" Bode says. "It was a total mind shift."
Seth Lynn, a Marine from Westchester, N.Y., remembers sitting around a table with classmates that evening, saying, "Our lives have just profoundly changed. This is what we're going to be doing with our careers."
Welle recalls how locked-down the academy felt, with outside calisthenics canceled and guard watches doubled and tripled. Senior year was supposed to be a time to breathe out. The "firsties" could finally park their cars on campus and hit the town on weeknights. But any looseness vanished overnight.
Workouts became opportunities to harden the body for combat. Class sessions turned into practical discussions of how to respond proportionately to the attacks.
"It went from a good education at a reputable school to: 'We're going to war so we need to train the most we can and learn the most we can right now,'" Bode says.
Even at football games, a moment of silence sobered the brigade. "We had to grow up," Welle says.
Though it was natural to think of how impending war would affect them, they don't remember any urge to flee from the new reality.
"Everyone was single, everyone was between 18 and 24 years old," Bode says. "So it's a lot easier in that context to be gung-ho about it than if you're talking about guys with families. I don't remember anyone saying, 'I'm going to quit because of this.'"
In fact, the number of midshipmen who applied to become Marines, the service most likely to see combat, doubled from the previous year's class. Lynn, whose father was on his way to Lower Manhattan on the morning of the attacks, was among those who wanted to fight.
"For me, being from New York, I felt the attacks very intimately," he says. "I was angry. I felt like I needed to go and prevent this from happening again."
Within a year of graduation, many members of the Class of 2002 were deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan. In March 2003, Senini met her first ship in the Persian Gulf. She watched from the deck as U.S. forces fired a first wave of Tomahawk missiles at Iraq, each one lighting the darkness enough that she could briefly make out the hulls of surrounding ships.
Bode and Welle also served on ships just off the Iraqi coast, transporting Marines to and from combat and providing staging areas for SEAL raids of offshore oil platforms.
As war continued on multiple fronts, the 2002 graduates found themselves dispersed to increasingly varied roles.
Lynn was deployed to Okinawa after graduation and feared he was missing the fight he had been so eager to join. But he was sent to Iraq in 2005, where his unit helped to secure several towns along the Syrian border that had been held by al-Qaida in Iraq.
He was there when Marines retook Al Qa-im, the place where one of his academy mentors, Maj. Richard Gannon, was killed in 2004. "For me, that really brought the whole thing full circle," says Lynn, who now runs a nonprofit at George Washington University that teaches veterans how to run for office.
Lynn remembers the disconnect between observing the war from the ground and watching the television coverage beamed back to the United States. Despite occasional suicide attacks and bursts of machine gun fire, life settled into a comfortable rhythm for him and his men. They felt order returning to the town they occupied. But on television, every new report of U.S. casualties seemed to suggest a war slipping out of control.
"The longer I was there, the more confused I got," he says. "People don't appreciate the complexity of the war. I was able to leave something in a much better state than when I came to it."
In 2006, Bode advised Iraqi sailors as they attempted to rebuild their navy so it could patrol the rivers for smugglers. He observed the simmering ethnic tensions that always threatened to boil over. One time, he heard screaming in Arabic over his patrol boat's radio. The Kuwaiti coast guard was threatening to fire on a merchant ship that failed to fly the Kuwaiti flag on a certain stretch of river. The Iraqis went to intercede.
"All I have is a sidearm," Bode recalls. "There's nothing I can do."
The standoff abated without violence, but Bode took a lesson from it. "We insert ourselves into situations that are more complex than we probably realize," he says from Florida, where he now works as an intelligence officer. "Getting the Iraqis and Kuwaitis to work together, that'll probably take generations."
In 2007, Senini learned that she had drawn the short straw in a lottery and would be involuntarily deployed to Afghanistan. "I was devastated," she says. "I thought, "This is it. I'm going to die in Afghanistan.'"
Senini served as a humanitarian adviser to an Afghan garrison, stationed east of Kabul. The Montana native spent weeks observing the Afghans, asking questions about their families, drinking cup after cup of hot tea despite the wilting heat outside.
Gradually, the walls of mistrust dissolved. She learned to be on alert without fearing every child who approached to request a bite of candy. She came to admire the beauty of a landscape that most of her friends would never see, the fortitude of Afghan women who were reclaiming their roles in a post-Taliban society.
Though the hairs on her neck stood up plenty of times, Senini's luck held out. She always seemed to leave a given place the day before trouble erupted.
"It was the greatest adventure of my life," she says of her year in Afghanistan. "I miss the country, the people."
The transition back home was not easy. She had become hyper-vigilant to changes in body language and tone of voice that might hint at a threat. So simple trips to the mall or the airport were painful. Back in Montana, where she's studying to be a physician's assistant, she hears classmates carp about everyday problems and thinks how grateful they ought to be for running water and easily accessible medicine.
"There's this frustration with people who don't understand how life is in the rest of the world," she says, two years after leaving the Navy.
She looks to her father and uncle, both of whom commanded Marines in combat. Her generation, like theirs, has been shaped in ways that are hard to understand for those who have never been to war.
And it all began on a Tuesday morning in September.
Courtney Senini knew something was amiss when aides started dashing in and out of the classroom, passing messages to the admirals and generals who taught her leadership seminar at the U.S. Naval Academy.


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Researchers at the McKusick-Nathans Institute of Genetic Medicine (IGM) at Johns Hopkins will join other national and international scientists in the 1000 Genomes Project, an ambitious effort that will involve sequencing the genomes of numerous people from around the world to create the most detailed and medically useful picture to date of human genetic variation.
We have made considerable headway in creating a map of common DNA variation in humans, the HapMap Project, and applied it with great success toward understanding many common diseases, says Aravinda Chakravarti, Ph.D., professor of medicine, pediatrics and molecular biology and genetics at Hopkins and a member of the IGM. It is apparent that more detailed maps will speed up disease gene discovery for the many illnesses we still fail to understand. Its crucial to complete the catalog of common variation in DNA, the small fraction of genetic material that varies among people and leads to differences in susceptibility to disease, drug response or reaction to environmental factors, and the 1000 Genomes project will home in on these differences.
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The new map will give researchers important clues to which genetic variants might be causal, including more precise information on where to search for causal variants.
This new project will increase the sensitivity of disease discovery efforts across the genome fivefold and within gene regions at least tenfold, said Francis S. Collins, M.D., Ph.D., director of the National Human Genome Research Institute. By harnessing the power of new sequencing technologies and novel computational methods, we hope to give biomedical researchers a genome-wide map of variation down to the 1 percent level. This will change the way we carry out studies of genetic disease.
Most common diseases, such as diabetes and heart disease, are influenced by many common genetic variants, each with a weak effect but cumulatively a strong effect on risk, says Chakravarti. The new catalog of gene variants will follow up our genome-wide disease hunts so that we can read off almost all the variants in that region and pursue functional studies to nail down the direct contributors to disease.
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Acetaminophen, found in drugs such as Tylenol, is one of the most commonly used drugs in the United States.
The panel, assembled by the Food and Drug Administration, voted 20 to 17 to advise the FDA to remove such prescription combination drugs from the market.
The group recommended that the FDA "send a clear message that there's a high likelihood of overdose from prescription narcotics and acetaminophen products," Dr. Sandra L. Kweder of the FDA's Office of New Drugs said at a news conference after Tuesday's meeting.
The panel was meeting for the second day to vote on recommendations to reduce the risk of serious liver injury associated with acetaminophen, which is found not only in prescription drugs, but also in over-the-counter medications such as Tylenol and NyQuil.
It also advised the FDA to lower the maximum daily dose of acetaminophen in over-the-counter and prescription medications, and to address the formulations and dosing recommendations for children.
Kweder said the FDA is already "well on the road" to addressing the pediatric concerns.
The FDA is not required to follow the recommendations of its advisory committees, although the agency typically does.
If the agency does not choose to eliminate prescription combination drugs, the panel said the FDA should lower the amount of acetaminophen in the drugs and also take some action to ensure that subscribers and patients are aware of potential liver damage posed by taking these products, Kweder said.
In another vote, the panel had voted to advise the FDA to put a boxed warning on the prescription combination drugs.
Although acetaminophen is one of the most commonly used drugs in the United States for treating pain and fever, overdoses of acetaminophen have been linked to 56,000 emergency room visits, 26,000 hospitalizations and 458 deaths during the 1990s, according to the FDA, citing one study.
The agency cited another study, a 2007 Centers for Disease Control and Prevention population-based report, that estimated acetaminophen was the likely cause of most of the estimated 1,600 acute liver failures each year.
The advisory panel could have voted to recommend pulling over-the-counter drugs that use acetaminophen in combination with other ingredients -- such as NyQuil, Pamprin and Allerest -- but it chose not to.
Some panelists cited data that suggests that combination over-the-counter drugs account for less than 10 percent of acetaminophen overdoses.
Kweder said families should carefully read medicine labels to know what is in the medicine and how much should be taken.
Abbott Laboratories, which makes the brand-name Vicodin, which has also been available as a generic since the mid-1980s, said in a statement that "today's discussion is an important continuation of the dialog around balancing patient safety with the need for treatment options for patients in pain."
It said, "Pain affects 75 million Americans, more than diabetes, cancer and heart disease combined" and added that it would follow the FDA's final determination.
Endo Pharmaceuticals, which makes the brand-name Percocet, did not immediately return a phone call seeking comment. Percocet is also available as a generic.
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Last week I had an article published in the Wall Street Journal about expat depression – and in particular about how it affects accompanying spouses. I was extremely grateful to the four women in the article, who agreed not only to be interviewed for the article about their struggle with depression but to do so openly, using their own names. Each of them did so with the hope of helping others in the same situation as there are or were in.
Ms. Pogir has lived in South Africa for eight years and due to family circumstances sees her time in the country as indefinite. This feeling of being trapped just adds to her sadness. She said she looks around and sees a wonderful house and garden, a good life—but said: "I feel my happiness is the price we have to pay for all of this."
This is such an important subject and I am so happy that it is getting the attention it deserves by being featured on such a well-read media outlet. I have had lots of visits to this blog on the back of the article, as well as seen it shared over and over on Facebook with – so far – not a single negative comment (pretty rare these days, I have been finding!).
If you are affected by this issue then please read the article, look at my other blog posts on the subject, and get help if necessary (one of my posts gives details of some places you can start to look for this help). And if you know someone you think might be suffering from depression, consider sharing the post with them as a way to help them take the first step towards getting help.
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NEW YORK – The MTV reality show is headed for the big screen.
Snooki, JWoww, The Situation and the rest of the gang from "Jersey Shore" are slated to appear in a full-length film based on the
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METAL SLUG DEFENSE Review
When we think Metal Slug, our minds turn to classic arcade side-scroller action. What we don't think of is the tower defense genre. However, that is precisely the catagory which SNK Playmore's new free-to-play title Metal Slug Defense falls into. That's not to say that there isn't some crossover between the classic games and this new enterprise. Creating a 2D side-scrolling tower defense title has allowed the developer to lift art straight from previous Metal Slug games. Th…Watch The Video Review
Theme park management game RollerCoaster Tycoon 4 Mobile is out now
Atari's new mobile entry in the RollerCoaster Tycoon franchise, RollerCoaster Tycoon 4 Mobile, has just come screaming onto the App Store. Keeping the franchise's core theme, RollerCoaster Tycoon 4 Mobile has you building your own theme park and thrilling roller coasters in order to attract digital punters. The new touch interface is intended to make this easier than ever, letting you place your snack stands and haunted houses exactly where you want them in the game's isometric landscape. The mobile game comes with 20 pre-designed coasters, but also offers you the chance to design your own. Unlocking new materials will let you build taller, longer, and faster coasters…
Fairway Solitaire Blast Review
The original Fairway Solitaire's blend of golf and cards was superb. Its simple take on solitaire was fun and immediate, while the golf elements encouraged you to minimise moves to come in under par. Fairway Solitaire Blast retains the original's slick solitaire gameplay. Once again, your enjoyment of this will be dependent on your appreciation of solitaire. However, Blast's streamlined gameplay kept us entertained as we attempted to clear each board as efficiently as possi…Watch The Video Review
Kumo Lumo Review
The humble cloud is not often considered a harbinger of war or an avatar of suffering, but in the land of Kumo Lumo you play the almost perpetually smiling angel of death. Wait? No one else got that vibe? You mean it's just a cutesy light-action title with lots of grinding? No matter how you play it, Chillingo and Blitz Games' latest certainly has an interesting concept. The basic gameplay goes a little like this: The world below Kumo can be scrolled along with a swipe. Kumo himself c…Watch The Video Review
GHOST TRICK: Phantom Detective Review
CAPCOM's tenure on the iOS platform has been very hit or miss, with some games failing to live up to the grandeur of the original, while others almost outshine them. GHOST TRICK: Phantom Detective was arguably the unsung hero of 2011 for the Nintendo DS and thanks to a top-notch adaption, the iOS release also has an opportunity to shine. Sharing the same creative mind that developed the Ace Attorney series, Phantom Detective is no less madcap and outlandish. You play as Sissel,…Watch The Video Review
Pocket League Story Review
Here we are again - a new month rolls by and iOS gamers have themselves a new Kairosoft game to obssess over. This time around the management game specialist has taken aim at the world of sports, following up on their excellent racer Grand Prix Story with a football based title, Pocket League Story. Those interested in the world of football will immediately point out that such a title is neither new, nor exactly lacking in variety, with fans being able to play games that either focus…Watch The Video Review
One Man Army™ Review
So, you now own an iOS device and after all of that saving up what's the first thing you're going to buy? Something meaty, something elegant, or maybe something you can slowly plug away at? Don't kid yourself, the idea of playing a tower-defense game on the go was also in the back of your mind too wasn't it? How about a shooter? How about both? One Man Army by Chillingo and Tickled Pink Games tries to mesh the castle and tower defense genres by placing a weapon in your hands, allowing…Watch The Video Review
Pocket Academy Review
Ask and ye shall receive - it wasn't all that long ago that Japanese iOS gamers had their hands on the latest release from Kairosoft, Pocket Academy, but now English speaking audiences can try their hands at running a high-school. Much like the other titles in the 'Story' series your job is to manage a company (or in this case an institution) in order to keep it growing and providing the best services in the country. First things first though; 'Game Dev'…Watch The Video Review
Max Damage Review
Max likes to blow things up. Some would say this makes him a social time-bomb, but then again others would gladly place a cannon in his hands to see what happens. Max Damage by Digital Goldfish sets aside the worrying idea that people have left a weapon along with their expensive goods in the vicinity of such a disturbed child and goes with the flow. Instead of having specific objects that need to be destroyed (say like pigs), you need to aim for the most amount of destruction, target…Watch The Video Review
Fast Five the Movie: Official Game Review
Recently The Onion did a small skit about the latest car-porn film Fast & Furious 5, taking the usual pot-shot at the action extravaganza by claiming the script was written by a small child obsessed with explosions. However no one truly expects to see an action film like this for high-art; it's all about the mindless over-the-top antics, scantily clad women and tight-shirt wearing men as they defy physics for 90 minutes. So it's no surprise that Fast Five by Gameloft is an unashame…Watch The Video Review
Atari's Greatest Hits Review
Some may not be old enough or may have missed one of those golden periods of video games where consoles had access to the magical '99-in-1' (or similar) cartridges that were jam-packed with games. Not necessarily great games, but when it came to value it was hard to beat, though some carts were obviously a bit dubious in their origins. Modern gaming has long since jumped on board the 'retro game collection' bandwagon, though the limited amount of games can be a tease especially for the…Watch The Video Review
Garage Inc. Review
Sure you may have powdered a few noses, treated a few people to spas and served them tasty food in the past, but have you pulled up your sleeves to repair some vintage vehicles? Garage Inc. by Breakthrough Entertainment is a management style title with a classic twist and you'll have to work heard to break out of your debt with the local mobsters. After taking a loan from his cousin, Angelo Marito opens up a garage in Chicago and shortly thereafter is told about where that money came…Watch The Video Review
Smurfs' Village Review
I guess it was only a matter of time before someone realized that the Smurfs lived in a village, 'And hey! What a great idea it'd be if you could manage that little town?!'. So, lo and behold, Capcom have created the official Smurfs' Village and all your usual Farmville-ish obsessions can now be dedicated to defending the Smurfs from their ever present nemesis, Gargamel. Much like other freemium farm/town management style titles, you'll need to earn levels through experience earned fr…Watch The Video Review
Wheel of Fortune Platinum Review
Are you tired of screaming at the television when you know the answer to a phrase in Wheel of Fortune? Then fret no more as Wheel of Fortune Platinum gives you the chance to pit yourself against thousands of puzzles while competing for a virtual jackpot. Very little has been missed in converting this long-running TV game-show to the iPhone, with each segment and bonus feature being packed in. After taking the time to set up your virtual avatar, players can jump straight in, spinning t…Watch The Video Review
Star Wars: Battle for Hoth Review
Star Wars: Battle for Hoth by THQ is almost a perfect storm of nerdy ideas. Lets run the list: Star Wars? Check. Tower Defense? Check. Situated on Hoth? Check. I mean, just how can this go wrong? Those familiar with tower defense titles won't be too surprised by the basic controls and gameplay of Battle for Hoth, with units slowly being added to your roster as you progress through the main campaign to highlight their use and importance in your arsenal. In a small twist, these 'towers'…Watch The Video Review


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$71.92 $95.90
This listing is for only ONE beautiful White and Pink rose bouquet. It is made from dried and preserved flowers. This Bouquet is perfect for a Wedding, a present for a loved one, or for your own home!
6 White Roses in the bouquet.
Includes the following flowers:
~ White Roses
~ Pink Ranunculus
~ White Ruscus
~ White Bunny Tails
~ Tan Mini Gyp
If you would like for us to add or take out a flower let us know and we will work with you.
If you are not satisfied with your order please message us and we will be glad to make it right.
Please keep in mind that the color might be slightly different since all screens may vary.
2-3 weeks
Buyers are responsible for any customs and import taxes that may apply. I'm not responsible for delays due to customs.
Just contact me within: 7 days of delivery
Ship items back to me within: 21 days of delivery
Buyers are responsible for return shipping costs. If the item is not returned in its original condition, the buyer is responsible for any loss in value.
Please contact me if you have any problems with your order.
The shipping costs will not be refunded.
All return orders over $200 will be charged a 15% restocking fee.
Custom items do take a little extra time to create. The way that we work with custom orders is you would send us your colors, flowers, and any inspirational photos. After we receive your order we create the item and then send you pictures for approval, once we have your approval we create the rest of your order.
We recommend keeping the dried flowers in a cool dry area, away from direct sunlight. Put the bouquet in a vase or hang it upside down so it does not get flat sides.
We recommend keeping the dried flowers and accessories in a cool dry area, away from direct sunlight. You can simply keep the items in the box that you receive them in until you need them.
If you need to receive your order by a certain date please contact us and we will let you know if that is possible. We understand that life is difficult and sometimes you need it faster so we try our best to have your order delivered in time.
Dried flowers usually last for 1-3 years, after that flowers will start to fade. Keeping them in a dry cool area, away from direct sunlight will prolong their life.
Dried flowers are for indoor use only but you can use them for an outside party.
The only difference is in color. Grade A would be a brighter color than grade B.
We recommend ordering approximately 2 months before the wedding. You can also place an order and request to have it delivered at your desired time.


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|Elzen, Patti
|Baxter, James
|Eischen, Frank
|Wilson, William
Submitted to: American Bee Journal
Publication Type: Popular Publication
Publication Acceptance Date: 1/14/1999
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Interpretive Summary: An Interpretive Summary is not required for a Popular Article.
Technical Abstract: There has been quite a bit of discussion over the reasons some U.S. beekeepers have seen varroa in their operations become resistant to Apistan. Resistance has been defined by Graves as "the ability in insect and mite strains to withstand exposure to dosages that exceed that of a normal susceptible population - such ability being inherited by subsequent generations of the strain". Questions dealing with why resistance developed, how quickly it developed, and which management tactics may have contributed to increasing resistance are currently being debated. Resistance in a pest can come about by increased detoxification activity within the pest, e.g., more or better enzymes that break down the pesticide to a harmless form. Resistance can also come about by changes in the nerve target sight within the pest, e.g., the site on the nerve where the pesticide is supposed to fit to cause death is altered in such a way as to prevent pesticide from acting. In this article we will attempt to explain the reasons behind resistance management texts, and offer some practical strategies to manage resistance.


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Solid Axle Conversion for Honda VTX 1300 / 1800 Motorcycles
Motor Trike, Inc. launched their custom line of trike conversions almost twenty years ago and has quickly become one of the nation's leading trike conversion manufacturers. All of Motor Trike's products are developed in-house by an exceptional team of engineers with vast knowledge and experience. This gives Motor Trike a level of expertise unmatched by anyone else in the industry and paved the way to the development of a remarkable trike line. No detail was left unturned. The outstanding patented air ride suspension, fit, finish, and ride quality of their conversions are all prime examples of the quality and professional touch that Motor Trike incorporates into everything they do.
Price, if shown and unless otherwise noted, represents the Manufacturer's Suggested Retail Price (MSRP) or dealer unit price and does not include government fees, taxes, dealer vehicle freight/preparation, dealer document preparation charges, labor, installation, or any finance charges (if applicable). MSRP and/or final sales price will vary depending on options or accessories selected; contact dealer for more details.
Images, where available, are presented as reasonable facsimiles of the offered unit and/or manufacturer stock images. Non-standard options or features may be represented. No guarantee of availability or inclusion of displayed options should be inferred; contact dealer for more details.


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Recommend Material for Library Purchase: Knight Campus
The CCRI Library encourages its students, faculty, and staff to recommend material for the library. Recommendations are subject to the selection criteria in the library's Collection Development Policy and adequate funding. Your recommendation will be forwarded to Lisa Penta, Librarian at the Knight Campus.
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26 October 2012
Romanov – Outstanding Figures of Epochs
The ruler portrait as a genre first arose thousands of years ago together with a national identity formation in Mesopotamia and the Nile Valley.
The portraits of this genre emphasized the human dignity, majesty, solemnity, and of course the similarity, but there was not any psychological content in the painting.
There are many historical researches and biographical novels devoted to the rulers, but portraits also can say a lot about the personality of the ruler.
Estonia was ruled by the Russian Tsars up to the year 1917. Therefore there are very many portraits of the members of the Royal Family in the Estonian museums.
And the most important thing is that they have survived to the present day. May be there are even more portraits of the Romanov Family in the Estonian museums than in the Russian museums.
Johann Köhler – a kind of phenomenon – was the first Estonian professional painter, who created about 30 portraits of Alexander II, Alexander III and Nicholas II, their wives and other attendants.
Nowadays the portraits of the Romanov Family members have been exhibited again...


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ASHEBORO, N.C. — A North Carolina textile entrepreneur locked in a too-close-to-call Democratic Party primary with former "American Idol" singer Clay Aiken has died.
The president of the company founded by 71-year-old Keith Crisco says Crisco died at home on Monday after an accident. AEC Narrow Fabrics President Robert Lawson says Crisco's son notified company employees of the death.
There were less than 400 votes separating Crisco and Aiken after Tuesday's Democratic primary contest in the Republican-leaning 2nd Congressional District. Aiken had been in the lead. The winner faces Republican incumbent Renee Ellmers in November.
Crisco had been North Carolina's top business recruiter for four years under former Gov. Beverly Perdue, who left office in 2013.
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2008 Honda OSM
22 JULY, 2008 – Honda's low-emission sportscar study model has been revealed at the British International Motor Show, at ExCeL, London.
The lightweight roadster design study displays one of Honda's core engineering principles – to design stylish and exciting cars that are also environmentally responsible.
Named the OSM (for Open Study Model), the two-seater joins the confirmed-for-production CR-Z sports hybrid and FCX Clarity hydrogen fuel cell car on the Honda stand at the show.
"We're trying to show that low emission cars can be attractive," says Andreas Sittel, Project Leader for OSM. "There is no reason why a car that's more environmentally friendly can't look great too – and be sporty and fun to drive."
The concept for the project was 'Clean and Dynamic' – and this direction was followed for both the exterior and interior design, ensuring a joined-up, consistent 'language' between the two. One example of this can be seen at the rear of the car, where the body actually extends into the cabin between the seats.
The exterior design is a balance of smooth, rounded curves and sharp lines to provide definition in key areas. The headlights are cleverly integrated into the front end, stretching from the nose to the top of the wheel arches to look more like a part of the original body.
Inside, this uninterrupted, fluid approach is continued, with long sweeping curves extending from both door panels to form a frame for the instrument display. The concept for the dashboard was to avoid creating the traditional block of 'heavy' colour and material in front of the driver; in keeping with the clean and lightweight theme. For that reason, the dash is broken into sections, with the most important instruments in direct line-of-sight of the driver.
Key information is displayed in a rounded, enclosed central binnacle, with levels and figures in bright blue on a black background. This matches the trim inside the car, with the seats and door furniture trimmed in a new, gloss-effect blue leather, accompanied by white leather sections, in line with the exterior body colour, a one-off paint called Mystic Pearl.
The driver's main controls and functions are distributed in an intuitive layout, close at hand on a panel that curves downwards to the right of the driver. A centrally-mounted semi-sequential gear-shift points towards a fun-to-drive transmission, along with paddle shifts either side of the steering wheel. Integrated into the gearshifter itself is a red ignition 'start' button, which reinforces the sporty direction of the car.
The Honda OSM was designed by Honda's R&D facility in Offenbach, Germany. It's the latest example of the young talent being developed within Honda's design studios in Europe – following the Honda Small Hybrid Sports Concept (Geneva 2007) and the Accord Tourer Concept (Frankfurt 2007).
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Everyone is welcome to join Shawndra at her bountiful table. There will be stuffing, cranberry chutney, sweet potatoes, pumpkin pie, and, of course, turkey! Shawndra is so proud, she even cooked the turkey. Here she is in her very first cooking show.
Join her in Orgrimmar for her special feast. The food is out of this world, and she'd love the company!


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Our dear readers, contributors, correspondents, and all Orthodox Russian folk [_narod_]... It is with all our soul, from a sincere Russian heart, that we greet all of you during these bright and glorious days of Christ's Pascha.
We wish for you all: joy, happiness, health, salvation, successes.... But, we know that the thoughts and concerns of many of you do not touch upon your personal joy and happiness, but rather the unfortunate lot [_nyedolya_] and calamity of the great Russian Nation [_narod_]: so many sacrifices has it made in the course of the last war [World War I], so many millions of lives of its best sons, both from subjugated [Rus'] and from regnant [_derzhavnaya_] Rus'! The whole of the Carpathians, the cemeteries of Talerhof, of Graz, of all the fortresses, prisons, and camps of the former Austrian and German empires, are sown with their graves and with their bones. The entirety of the great Russian land, from the Tisa and Poprad to China, and to the Great Arctic Ocean, is watered with their blood.
Such great sacrifices, and such a burdensome and bitter fate! The regnant Russian Nation, numbering in the millions, is enslaved by the communists and the third international. Russian sanctuaries and holy things [_svyatyni_] are looted and defiled. A great and prosperous nation is devastated and laid waste. Fertile Russian lands are being sold off to Jews. The Russian intelligentsia is exiled, and up to two million of them are knocking about in foreign parts. And whatever tiny remnants of the Russian people have remained free of bolshevik bondage, these have found themselves to be a poor, unenlightened, unorganized minority in the midst of other nations, powerless not only in acquiring new rights, but even in making use of such as have already been granted. Cast out by "freedom" into the world-arena of national contentions, we have turned out to be the weakest, the poorest, and the most-unfortunate, in the midst of the contending nations.
Such great sacrifices and such a burdensome, bitter misfortune! And we had hoped...
We had pinned many hopes upon the ending of the world war, upon the liberties announced to the enslaved nations, upon the formation of fraternal Slavic domains [_derzhavy_] and upon much else, -- but our Russian hopes were not realized in action and they perished. And we had hoped so ardently, before...
Such are the thoughts and the feelings of many Russians.
We believe in the sincerity and profoundness of these thoughts and feelings, -- even more than that, -- we ourselves are still filled with the bitterness of these experiences. But, children and friends of Holy Rus, in our thoughts of her, and in our grief for her, are we not like unto those unenlightened disciples of Christ who, going to Emmaus, disputed amongst themselves and were sorely grieved. They could not, in any way, reconcile their crude hopes and expectations for an earthly Messianic kingdom with the condemnations, mockery, torments and death of Christ -- and, again, these last events, with the incredible news of the appearance of angels and the resurrection of Christ, which the Myrrh-bearing Women had brought from the tomb.
For this reason did they respond so heatedly, so nervously, to the question put to them by Christ, Whom they had not recognized: "Can it be that Thou art a stranger in these parts, and knowest not what hath transpired here?!" -- and, in their grief, they informed the Unknown One of the passion and death of Christ.
Peruse this evangelical report, our dear grieving friends, and You will sense, and be convinced of, how close are Your thoughts and feelings to those of the wayfarers to Emmaus (Luke 24, 13-32), being almost identical with them.
They believed in their Teacher and loved Him. In the simplicity of their hearts, not suspecting the error of their views, they sincerely hoped for the coming of an earthly, sensibly-tangible Messianic kingdom. They grieved deeply and were saddened after the death of the Lord Christ: their Teacher had died; He had left them forever; all their hopes had perished and been buried; life, the whole world, had become pointless and devoid of meaning for them... "And we had hoped that He was to be the One Who would deliver Israel"... But faith, and a love for Him, still remained in their hearts. Hence, when He began to converse with them from the Scriptures concerning the fact that it was meet for Him first to suffer thus, and later to enter into His glory, -- their hearts began to burn with joy and exaltation. They cast off their grief, fear, and despair; they comprehended the true sense of Christ's suffering. They were transformed into completely different men. Filled full of faith and energy, mantled with power from above, they strove for the Kingdom of Christ, fully unto death, and saw it come in power, even during their lifetimes.
Faithful children and friends of the Russian Nation, grieving at the sight of its great, unrewarded sacrifices and burdensome misfortune! -- it is neither the parallels nor the historical correspondences that we bring to mind for You; rather, we want to point out to You the true and immutable law of existence and of life, in accordance with which history is made and nations develop.
Hence, let those of us who still have remaining in our hearts at least a spark of love toward Holy Rus', at least a drop of pity to our people [_narod_] and faith in Divine Righteousness, let such of us take our stance at the Life-bearing Tomb with our grief and our difficulties [_tuga_], and let our understanding be enlightened, viewing the bright future through the sorrowful present. Let our grieving hearts also blaze with joy.
And the first thing that we must perceive and grasp as an immutable and irrevocable law of life is the words of the Risen Saviour; it is meet first to suffer and then to enter into one's glory. Let us not despair and allow our hands fall [helplessly] at our sides upon seeing the calamities and tribulations that have befallen our common Mother and the Russian people, so precious to us, -- on to glory by way of _podvig_ [extreme travailing effort], on to life by way of torments!
And the second thing that becomes manifestly clear to us at the Life-bearing Tomb is the meaning of death and of self-sacrifice for the sake of others: _"Amen, amen, I say unto you: if a grain of wheat falling on the earth doth not die, then it abideth alone; but if it die, it will yield a great harvest"_ (John 12, 24). No, not a single life laid down for one's friend is lost; not a single self-denying _podvig_ will be fruitless -- those are all thy spiritual sowings, O Russian Nation. It is sung thus of Christ, as well, that He, like a quickened [(?): _zhizneraslennoye_] seed, was implanted into the sides of the earth, and Joseph [of Arimathaea], burying Him, did rejoice. In like manner, let us Russians, also, foreseeing the future flowering and harvest of these sowings, rejoice and be inspired upon seeing, through our tears, these innumerable sacrifices of property and of life.
Finally -- the third thing. It is true that Russians now have become impoverished, and dishonoured; and are scattered like dry bones upon the face of the earth. Truly, we can complain in the words of the prophet [Ezekiel]: our bones are become dry from grief, our hope hath perished, we are altogether slain... But here is what is revealed at the Life-bearing Tomb. The Lord brought the prophet down upon an infinitely-wide plain, -- upon the Russian Plain, as it were, -- and the prophet saw that that plain was full of bones, exceedingly dry and dead. But, at the word of the Lord, the prophet prophesied over the bones. And, lo! the bones began to come together, bone to bone, each to its joint, and they were covered-over with flesh and skin, and the spirit entered into them and they came to life, and they stood up upon their feet -- an exceedingly great multitude... It is here, O children of Holy Rus', that we are shown the way from above, and the method for the resurrecting of our Mother [Rus'] who bore us. -- Wheresoever ye might be, O Russian folk: be it in the Carpathians, or in far-distant America, in Poland, Rumania or the Baltic regions, or in the Balkans, the Far East, or the Diaspora (in emigration), [always] feel and sense that ye are flesh of flesh and bone of bone of Mother Rus'. Come together -- joint to joint; combine; invest yourselves, as though it were into flesh and skin, into the Russian _byt_ [hereditary manner of life] and mores; let the Russian spirit burn bright within your hearts... Just imagine what a great multitude that would be -- up to 15,000,000 Russian souls [This was originally written in 1928; think of the far-greater number (up to 100,000,000 Russian souls) that would comprise said multitude today! -- Translator] Were we all to join together into a single whole, we would have the power not only to improve our own lot, but even to raise up our Mother, Rus', even from out of her very grave itself.
So, it is with such thoughts, inspired by the Risen Christ Himself, with such an enlightened Christian view, that we greet you, O ye sorrowing children of suffering Rus': Christ is Risen, and hath entered into His glory through [His] passion and [His] death, in order that we might not be affrighted upon seeing the onerously burdensome suffering of our Mother Rus'; but that we might, rather, know firmly, and hope unwaveringly that, adorned with the martyric crowns of her sons, she is going on to a glory yet greater than before -- by way of Golgotha, to Resurrection.
Christ is Risen, as doth a sown seed [rise up] in springtime, coming forth from the tomb that we might not doubt that not a single drop of blood, not a single self-denying _podvig_ in Christ's name, and for the sake of our brethren, will be lost or will remain fruitless. In order that we might become aware of the fact, and know it, that in comparison with other nations we have a most-outstanding spiritual heritage and a most-fortunate futurity; and it is so precisely because of, and on account of, that which, through our nearsightedness, we consider to be an irreparable misfortune and a frightful calamity.
Christ is Risen! Let us also all join together into one, and let us rise up as a mighty, inspired Russian host.
Christ is Risen! Be filled with joy, hope, courage, energy, oneness of spirit, brotherly love, O ye grieving children of greatly-suffering Rus'.
Christ is Risen! And may Holy, beauteous, glorious, mighty, Orthodox Rus' truly arise within us, united and putting forth our goodly Christian will!
(_"Pravoslavnaya Karpatskaya Rus'"_ ["Orthodox Carpathian Rus'"], No. 2,
Translated into English by G. Spruksts, from the Russian text appearing in
_"Pravoslavnaya Rus'"_ ["Orthodox Rus'"], No. 6 (1603), 15/28 March 1998,
pp. 3-4, 15. English-language translation copyright (c) 1998 by The St.
Stefan Of Perm' Guild, The Russian Cultural Heritage Society, and the
Translator. All rights reserved.
Translated into English by G. Spruksts, from the Russian text appearing in _"Pravoslavnaya Rus'"_ ["Orthodox Rus'"], No. 6 (1603), 15/28 March 1998, pp. 3-4, 15. English-language translation copyright (c) 1998 by The St. Stefan Of Perm' Guild, The Russian Cultural Heritage Society, and the Translator. All rights reserved.
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