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Amazing new song by my mate Allman Brown with a very talented singer/songwriter Liz Lawrence. This will chill you to the core. Listen and whilst you're at it check out the rest of his songs on Bandcamp… I'm off to celebrate Phoria – Red being at No. 2 on Hype Machine. Long live good music!
Akira's Song of the Day: Allman Brown – Sons and Daughters (with Liz Lawrence)
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It has been a wild year on the field for San Mateo (Calif.) Serra defensive lineman Will Powers but things are starting to become more clear off of it. Not too long ago, Powers cut his list to a workable five and now, three schools look like they're beginning to separate themselves.
Powers, 6-4, 225 pounds is one of the nation's top rush end prospects. He has good speed coming off the edge, is well coached and plays with a non-stop motor. His Serra team started the season 6-0 before dropping two in a row, both losses as painful as can be.
"We lost to St. Francis, our league rival who we haven't beaten in like 20 some years. That was devastating because for some reason, we just didn't come to play. Then we had to play Valley Christian who was undefeated and won the championship last year with Jeff Schweiger.
"With 12 second left we scored a touchdown to do up four points. They returned the kickoff to their 30 and with just four seconds left, I'm thinking this game is over. So their quarterback throws a Hail Mary, two of our defensive backs collide, another one misjudges the ball and their receiver catches it, in stride, and runs for a touchdown and we end up losing. That was just brutal way to lose a game."
Powers recently narrowed his list to Cal, Stanford, Arizona State, Oregon and Nebraska but due to a hectic schedule, will likely only have time to take three trips.
"Once football is over, I go right in to basketball so I really don't think I'll be able to take more than just three visits," Powers said. "Those three will be to Cal, Stanford and ASU. The others aren't necessarily out of it since I have seen them before, but the three schools that I'm visiting do have an advantage right now.
"If I can fit in a fourth visit, it will be to Nebraska, I still like them a lot but I just don't see how I'll be able to do that. I still haven't set up any of my trip dates yet but will be doing that real soon. I'm hoping to make my decision fairly quickly after my last visit so I can get the whole recruiting thing out of the way."

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American Ninja Warrior has finally made its way to network television, and last night I enjoyed watching one of my favorite TV shows of all time on NBC. I miss my college days when I could watch Ninja Warrior for hours on end on G4. Now I don't even have G4. That's depressing.
While watching, it reminded me of the American Kitten Warrior that G4 did on Attack Of The Show. Hahaha oh kittens. While putting innocent kittens through an impossible obstacle course was hilarious and cute, this parkour cat is no joke. Check it out.
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Peter of Aragon was born on an unknown date to Peter I of Aragon and Navarre (c1068-1104) and Agnes of Aquitaine (?-1097) and died 1103 of unspecified causes. He married Maria Díaz de Vivar (1080-1105) . Notable ancestors include Hugh Capet (c940-996), Charlemagne (747-814). Ancestors are from France, Germany, Belgium.
Peter died young and childless.
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I'm starting to feel negligent - the only time Little H eats his lunch is when it's peanut butter . He'll eat all the other stuff too - yogurt, fruit, crackers, juice - but the only allowable sandwich is PB - he doesn't even want the jelly anymore.
I know his teachers aren't keeping score of what he brings each day - but I get the feeling that there's got to be a LIMIT on the number of times I can send him to school with peanut butter sandwiches.
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The Farmers Branch Aquatics Center's Margaret Young Natatorium presents a Dive In Movie. Enjoy a family friendly movie in the heated water with games and activities! Food and beverage available for purchase . Pre-Register by January 2, 2018.To register online check out FarmersBranchLiving.com
You're invited to the Special Olympics Texas Annual Polar Plunge! Recruit your friends, grab a costume and come out to support our athletes in the Greater Dallas area. Raise a minimum of $60 in donations ($30 if under 18) from friends, family and co-workers in exchange for plunging at the Aquatics Center. Thank you for your support! Together we promote dignity, equality and opportunity for all people. For more information and online registration please visit www.sotx.org/polarplunge
Grab your swimsuit and get ready for a "splashing" good time during this unique egg hunt. Covered eggs will float and sink to the bottom of the pool. Collected eggs can be exchanged for candy and toys! Enjoy games before the hunt. The hunt will be divided into age groups. Pre-Register by March 22.2:00 pm Ages 9-11 years (no parents)2:45 pm Ages 7-8 years (no parents)3:30 pm Ages 6 years with parent4:15 pm Ages 4-5 years with parentTo register online check out FarmersBranchLiving.com
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NEWCASTLE Knights members will today begin legal moves to seize $10 million from troubled coal magnate Nathan Tinkler and end his ownership of the club.
Mr Tinkler failed to meet an ultimatum by the members to put in place a new bank guarantee by 5pm yesterday to shore up his ownership for another 12 months.
Knights Members Club chairman Nick Dan said late yesterday he would contact Mr Tinkler's bankers at Westpac this morning to ensure the members are legally able to take over a cash account holding $10.3 million.
He said Knights chairman Paul Harragon, acting on behalf of Mr Tinkler, called him late yesterday to "reopen the lines of communication" and a meeting may be organised soon.
"But we do need to start the process with the bank and remain very vigilant to ensure our interests are safeguarded,'' Mr Dan said.
The members must satisfy the bank that they are the beneficiaries of the cash under a deal they struck with Mr Tinkler's Hunter Sports Group when the group took over control of the Knights.
With the bank's approval, the members will be able to access the cash and buy the Knights for $1 if Mr Tinkler fails to meet a bank deadline on Monday to roll over the guarantee for another 12 months.
Mr Tinkler's team insisted last night the bank deadline would be met by Monday, extending the coal magnate's ownership.
"The guarantee will remain in place,'' the spokesman said.
Mr Tinkler has lost the confidence of many Newcastle fans since promising to turn the Knights into a financial powerhouse when he took over the club in 2011 on the back of his rapid corporate ascent.
As Australia's youngest billionaire, Tinkler was seen by fans as their white knight.
But after he bankrolled super coach Wayne Bennett into the club, the splintering of his coal empire has brought the club continued financial uncertainty.
His other corporate toys have already gone, including his private jet and the ambitious Hunter Valley horse-breeding operation.
Some key influential and high-profile Knights supporters fear the club will not be able to bring stability and secure new sponsors until Mr Tinkler exits the scene.
The NRL said yesterday it was "monitoring the situation".
"We note the Knights made a statement last week that said all players' superannuation continues to be paid on an ongoing basis,'' the NRL said.
The latest wave of speculation comes after Westpac pulled the plug on two of his companies last week.
The true extent of arrears at Hunter Sports Club will not be known until ownership is handed back to the members.
But the club's immediate future will not be in peril if it obtains Tinkler's $10.3 million, combined with about $7 million a year from the NRL.
Potential new sponsors had already made contact and long-serving Knights supporter The Wests Group has pledged to help keep the club afloat.
But Wests Group chief executive Philip Gardner said last week he hopes the Knights, who use Wests Mayfield as their administrative and training headquarters, continued to operate under Tinkler's ownership.
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One of the international most demanded professional choirs – the State Choir Latvija invites to the International Sacred music festival. 2017 is a special year not only for the State Choir Latvija, which celebrated 75th anniversary, but also for the 20th anniversary of the International Sacred Music Festival. Festival has been both an artstic director Māris Sirmais and festival general manager Māris Ošlejs most creative coorporation fruit.
At the year of its anniversary festival will be musically rich with an artistically diverse program that will take place not only ir Riga from August 18 to September 7. This year as traditions continue the Latvian National Symphony Orchestra and Liepāja Symphony Orchestra will participate in festival as well. An unchanching festival tradition is new composition ordering form Latvian composers, the invitation of the world-known composers as a guest of honor and the production of ambitious vocal symphonic performances within the framework of the music festival.
The beginning of the Sacred Music Festival dates back to 1998, when the State Choir Latvija organized the festival for the first time. The aim was to enrich the cultural life in Riga and to restore the spiritual level in the society. The Sacred Music Festival introduced genre diversity in the festival movement in Latvia, focusing on vocal and instrumental performances and a cappella music.
The 20th International Festival of Sacred Music will begin with celebration of the 500th anniversary of the Reformation with Šiauliai Choir on August 18 at the Riga St. Peter's Churchat at 19:00, playing the music of Johan Sebastien Bach and his contemporaries.
Bach is considered to be one of the most remarkable German composers. He was a man who loved God and music with all his heart, soul and mind: so Bach is described by one of his biographers. Historian Ville Durant, in turn, adds Bach to loyal followers of the Reformation, saying: Bach's work is a reformation that is worn in music.
This year, in Latvia and around the world, it is 500 years since Martins Luther, as the legend says, in 1517 nailed 95 thesis on the door of the Church of Wittenberg. This event is traditionally considered to be the beginning of the Reformation, a major change in the church and society in general, which took over Europe, including the territory of Latvia.
On August 22 in the Old St. Gertrude`s Church at 19:00 there will be the world premiere of new productions of Latvian composers that has become a tradition. The State Choir Latvija together with conductor Māris Sirmais will perform works composed by Juris Ķeniņš, Renate Stivriņa, Edgars Mākens, Irīna Rebhūna and Gabriēls Džeksons which are devoted to the 100th anniversary of Latvia.
On August 24, at the Great Hall of the University of Latvia, Riga at 19.00 State Choir Latvija in co-operation with the Liepaja Symphony Orchestra and the festival's artistic director Maris Sirmais will perform Messiah by Sven David Sandström, which was first performed in 2009. The piece is an age-old link where George Friedrich Handel faces the spirituality of the 21st century and the master of the baroque stylization, Sven David's Sandström, in the Messiah, which is considered one of the most significant solemn sacred compositions of our time. The composer himself called it a photo slideshow, looking back in the past. In the year of Hendel's anniversary, in 2009, a German conductor, Bach music specialist, initiator of countless new productions and founder of the International Bach Academy, Helmut Rillings, ordered Sandström a new opus based on the libretum which was used also by Hendel.
The world-known Scandinavian composer Sven David Sandström is one of the most prominent composers of the XX Century choir music. His complete work catalog includes 300 compositions that not only demonstrate his productivity, but also cover a very diverse spectrum - from grand operas and oratories to intimate cormusic and chamber music works. Sandström creates his own compositions with resilient creativity and diligence. Since 2000 the composer focuses on spiritual music.
Like every year, this festival also has a classic masterpiece. On August 26, within the framework of the festival, the State Choir Latvija together with the Liepāja Symphony Orchestra in Riga St. Peter's Church at 19:00 will perform Johan Sebastian Bachs Chakon and Felix Mendelssohn Symphony No.2 Lobgesang under the conductor Andres Mustonen (Estonia). Lobgesang is one of the most ambitious works of the composer. Selected texts from the Bible in the work lead in the ascending path of the world of worldly sins in light and joy of God. In essence, the Medelson Symphony No.2 Lobgesang is a cantata. As Mendelssohn in his life did not name any of his symphonies with a serial number two (composer wrote four symphonies), publishers named the Lobgesang to Symphony No.2 after the death of the composer.
On August 31 in Riga St. Peter's Church at 19:00 State Choir will collaborate with conductor from the USA, Eugene Rogers, to create an unprecedented afro-american a cappella program. Eugene Rogers is an acknowledged American conductor, educator, lecturer and professor at Michigan Music, Theater and Dance University. He has performed throughout the United States, as well as Canada, China, Singapore, England, Portugal, Mexico, Spain, Italy and Luxembourg. Roger participated as a chorus master in Darius Milhaud opera L'Orestie d'Eschyle which was recorded and released in 2014 by NAXOS Records and won the GRAMMY nomination Best Performance of the Opera.
On September 2 the State Choir Latvija will perform a concert of Latvian Sacred Music that will take place at the at Dagda Holy Trinity Roman Catholic Church at 18:00.
The closing concert of the festival will be played on September 7 at the Riga Dome Cathedral at 20:00 where the State Choir Latvija in co-operation with the Latvian National Symphony Orchestra under the direction of the conductor and festival artistic director Māris Sirmais will perform the oratorio A Child of our Time by Michael Tippett.
Michael Tippett, along with Benjamin Britten, is one of the most prominent English composers of the 20th century. He was very honored also by Britten. Michael Tippett was a pacifist with power-provoking political views, which led him to three months in prison. He experienced a great deal of internal conflict with his homosexuality, began to seriously focus on Jung's psychoanalysis and its dichotomy about the shadow of personality and light, which subsequently appeared in his music as an essential point of reference. Tippett music was closely linked with his age, political events and deep awareness of their tragedy, but as an artist he remained faithful to an optimistic message of humanism.
His tunes have broadly breathable melodic lines and a great ability to handle the rhythm as an original expression. The quintessence of a Tippetts early creativity is reflected in the closing chorus of the oratorio A Child of Our Time: I will recognize my shadow and my light, and then I will finally be able to be one.
A Child of Our Time by Michael Tippett is an oratory with mundane content. The orthography of the oratorio, written at the beginning of the Second World War, unfolds in two cleverly linked levels: one of Tipet's serious and Timothy Elliot poetry-like meditation for the mid-century crisis, and the other - salvation passages from the James Weldon Johnson book of African American spiritual music. Despite the fact that more than 75 years have passed, the oratorio message of the power of evil (in this case, Fascism) and the search for light and the salvation in nowadays sounds like a warning call.
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ARC Thoughts and a Give Away
My words have found paper, found edges and a spine. They are a thing you can lift up and flick through. They have started to feel less like a series of question marks and more like something fixed. And, weirdly, something separate.
Holding my book, with it's banner of UNCORRECTED PROOF dashed across the top, is surreal. I can tell you the cover feels nice, the stock is smooth and shiny, and the edges are square. It's fat too, fatter than I thought it'd be, it's sixty-five thousand words, two hundred and eighty-seven pages fat. One of my strange fears, there are many, was it'd be too skinny–that I hadn't written enough. Well, my baby is fat.
I can tell you the copyright information made me emotional, seeing my name there felt more official than the cover. Copyright © Text, Trinity Doyle 2015. I made this. My publisher's logo had a similar affect–they have my back, they believe in these words I strung together.
One of my other fears I mentioned above: the question marks. Here is this thing I wrote; do you believe it? This is what happened; is it? Writing is so much trying to find and pull out the story inside you, something that thins and spreads and then builds and suddenly you can glimpse it before it disappears again. Here is this thing I made up. And you fill it up with words, too many words, is that right? No. Pull it back, chuck them out (never delete), more words, new words, better words. No. Move that here, switch those paragraphs, cut that character. Is this the thing inside me? Maybe.
Here are my words in a book shape. Not even the final draft. Oh no. There's some more line editing and proofing to go. And yet this shape has settled them. The questions, so loud when typing and hi-lighting, are quiet. Now my words tell the story.
So here I am holding my ARC.
Would you like to hold one too?
The wonderful folk of Allen and Unwin have gifted me with a spare ARC (Advanced Reader Copy) of PIECES OF SKY to give away. Open worldwide! I might even sign it too–which would mean my first ever signed anything! See details below to enter.


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Keith Sanders, PT MHS SCS CSCS
Head of Sports Performance
Keith has drawn upon his experience working as a Physical Therapist and Strength and Conditioning Coach, most notable for the St. Louis Cardinals and St. Louis Ambush, to guide the development of the programs at The Athlete's Edge. He continues to work extensively with professional athletes from the MLB, NFL, NBA, NHL and professional soccer leagues as well as numerous high school and collegiate athletes.
Clinton Tanner, MEd USATF
Sports Performance Director- O'Fallon
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Clinton brings over 15 years experience coaching athletes of all ages in speed, agility, strength and conditioning programs. He is a specialist in functional training techniques that incorporate core stability with correct movement patterns. Clinton has worked with athletes from the MLB, NFL, Division I, Division II college football, baseball and soccer. Some of his clients include former St. Louis Cardinal Kyle McClellan, NFL player Neal Rackers, professional runner Serena Burla, Neal Lamark Brown of Kansas State, and Ryan Ward of Southern University.
Clinton's journey into the fitness world started back in college. He was a decathlete on the track team and used every tool that was at his disposal to help improve physically. Clinton has taken that knowledge and applied it to teaching Physical Education and coaching high school athletes. He then started a personal training company focused on helping athletes reach their full potential.
Education/Training: USA Track and Field Certified Coach CPR Certified Certified in Speed Dynamics Certified Personal Trainer Masters in Education Bachelors in Physical Education
Colby Hughes
Sports Performance Director- Crestwood
Colby Hughes brings his knowledge and experience of sport-specific training to The Athlete's Edge. A graduate of the University of Missouri-St. Louis with a bachelor's degree in exercise science, Hughes is a certified personal trainer through the National Academy of Sports Medicine and has advanced certification in the area of speed and agility. Originally drafted by the Colorado Rockies in 2001, Hughes pursued collegiate baseball, playing one year at St. Louis Community College-Meramec and three years at the University of Missouri-St. Louis. He also played one year of collegiate basketball at UMSL and two seasons as quarterback for the Springfield WolfPack, an arena football team. He is a leader in program development at The Athlete's Edge and has contributed extensively in our Testing Protocols used to evaluate and individual athletes' programs. He also uses his extensive knowledge as adjunct instructor in fitness at Missouri College.
Education/Training: BS, Exercise Science Personal Trainer Certification Speed Agility Quickness (SAQ) Certification
Damon Burkhart
Sports Enhancement Specialist
Damon grew up in the St. Louis area and was a three-sport athlete throughout high school. He continued on to Missouri Baptist University, where he was an All-American baseball player and held the school record for stolen bases until recently. He served as an assistant coach and strength/conditioning coach for the baseball team for three years. He played professionally for four years in the Frontier League, where he was an All-Star second baseman in 2002. Burkhart earned a bachelor's degree in kinesiology, an educational master's degree, and an educational specialist degree from MBU. He also is a certified strength and conditioning specialist.
Education/Training: BS, Kinesiology M. Ed. Ed. S. Certified Strength and Conditioning Specialist (CSCS)
Marc Tiernan
Sports Enhancement Specialist
Marc Tiernan brings a wide variety of athletics experience to The Athlete's Edge. He was a three-sport athlete in high school, competing in football, wrestling, and track and field. Tiernan attended the University of Central Missouri on a football scholarship and lettered for four seasons with the Mules. He went on to play three seasons of professional indoor football for the Mid-Missouri Outlaws (APFL/CPIFL), earning All-League Honors each season. Tiernan earned his bachelor's degree in physical education from the University of Central Missouri, graduating with honors. He then earned a master's degree in sport and athletic business administration from the University of Central Missouri. Tiernan is a physical education teacher and high school track and football coach and brings a variety of experience related to fitness training having taught college weight training courses, group fitness classes, team athletic development, and personal training sessions.
Education/Training: BS, Physical Education MS, Physical Education Sport and Athletic Business Administration Missouri Physical Education Certificate Missouri Health Education Certificate CPR Certificate


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After college Josh struggled to find work in his major of international relations, it was then that he decided to point his career towards his passion for video post production.
Over the next 4 years Josh went from unemployed dreamer, to company employee, to independent freelancer, to the leader of a team of freelancers, to now the founder of Senior Post, a digital post production house located in Dumbo Brooklyn with clients such as Vevo, Levi's, and Nike.
You'll hear Josh discuss how he used his passion to drive his career, the motivating effects of fear, and that success is not a one man band.
"Complacency is the fastest way to lose." – Josh Senior
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President Bush has welcomed Philippine President Gloria Arroyo to the White House, with ceremonial honors reserved for the most important of U-S allies.
Mrs. Arroyo and her husband are on a week-long visit to the United States. After arriving by limousine at the White House, the Philippine president was greeted by Mr. Bush, who escorted her to the South Lawn for a welcoming ceremony.
Later the two held talks in the president's Oval Office.
Afterwards, Mr. Bush said the United States will designate the Philippines as a major non-Nato ally. He said the designation will mean expanded military ties between the two countries in the fields of research and development, and will allow Manila greater access to American defense equipment and supplies.
Earlier, at the welcoming ceremony, Mrs. Arroyo mentioned the resolve of both countries to fight terrorism. She said terrorism will not be contained without a comprehensive approach for defeating it.
This is just the third state visit and White House banquet of Mr. Bush's presidency. The Philippine president has been one of the Bush administration's staunchest allies in the war on terrorism and the war in Iraq. She was one of the first world leaders to call Mr. Bush and express condolences after the September 11th, 2001, attacks on the United States.
Her visit comes just days after Ms. Arroyo ordered a military campaign against a Muslim separatist group, the Moro Islamic Liberation Front, whose attacks have killed 200 people this year. The Philippine government has given the group two weeks to end hostilities or risk being classified as a terrorist organization.
Last year, the Philippine military waged a campaign against another Muslim rebel group, the Abu Sayyaf, during a six-month joint exercise with U-S Special Forces. U-S officials say more exercises are planned this year.


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Meet The VSCO Cam App, A Solution for the Real Mobile Photographer
August 15th, 2013 by Rod
Even though Instagram pretty much has the photo app game on lock, there are many users who crave for more control other than just using pretty filters. Android's various camera interfaces are cool while iOS takes the super-minimalist approach. Even on the beta version of iOS 7 doesn't add anything for exposure, white balance, etc.
Introducing the VSCO Cam App
Here's where the VSCO Cam App comes into play. VSCO stands for Visual Supply Company BTW. Dubbing itself the new standard for mobile photography. The app offers a separate focus + exposure rings, tint, temperature, vignette, contrast, grain, sharpness, highlights, saturation, and white balance lock for real sense of flexibility in your creativity. It displays image data like what preset was used, location, & date of the photo. And of course they offer filters too. But they call them presets. You can purchase additional presets within their in-app store.
The app is available now for Apple iOS for free and as I just mentioned additional editing bundles can be added within the app. For interested Android users, you are good just so as long as you are running v4.0 or higher and using either: the Galaxy S III, the Galaxy S 4, or the HTC One. However it isn't out yet for Android but you can sign up for beta access right now.
I have been using it since this past weekend and I am definitely enjoying it thus far. Any mobile photographers out there should give it a spin.


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At Sydney Motorsport Park recently Men's Style had the very exciting privilege of driving the new Audi R8, a car that amply demonstrates the mantra, "Born on the track, built for the road" more than any other in the Audi range.
We're pleased to say we kept all four wheels on the track and returned this beautiful machine to the pits in one piece despite the palpable power of its V10 mid-mounted engine delivering 0-100km/h in 3.2 seconds and a top speed of 330km/h. That may have something to do with the new quattro all-wheel drivetrain, which ensures both stability and high performance.
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Eindhoven, Netherlands (PressExposure) May 08, 2009 -- Vista Photo Gallery Turn your photo collection into an AJAX-powered web gallery in a few clicks!
Vista Photo Gallery is a photo album builder, that allows you to create and publish rich, interactive web photo galleries for your website.
Vista Photo Gallery is the first software that creates AJAX-powered online image galleries without the need for server-side setup. It means you just upload files generated by the software to your server and it will run immediately, even if it's a free web host without a PHP, ASP, MYSQL support.
Galleries made with Vista Photo Gallery are high-end web applications that look and behave exactly like desktop apps. You and your web site visitors won't feel the difference! All operations, such as selecting a photo, filtering by tag and date, changing the preview mode, scrolling, performs immediately. No more need to wait for page reloading after every click!
Features: Easy to Use. Just drag and drop your photos or folders with photos and press "Publish" to get your web photo gallery ready!
All Formats. Vista Photo Gallery supports numerous of image formats: JPG, GIF, BMP, PNG, PSD, TIFF, ICO, EPS, PIC, PSP, RGB, TGA, PCX ... Don't worry about compatibility of your images.
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Women's Department
Navigating Swimwear's New Wave
Makers are floating chlorine-resistant suits -- and evening-wear bikinis
For Laura Beckman, the biggest problem with her bikini isn't the style or skimpiness -- it's that her top keeps moving around when she's swimming laps. After logging many hours in the pool, her suit is losing its shape. "I thought I was going to flash these guys," says Ms. Beckman, a 37-year-old Houston lawyer, who says durability is now her top concern when buying a suit.
Having persuaded women to pay $150 or more for bathing suits not much bigger than dish towels, this spring many swimwear makers are taking aim...


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Sky Chase Act 1 is the first part of two-act subgame in Sonic Adventure with Tails flying up to the Egg Carrier in the Tornado (and Sonic riding on the back.) Use the analog stick to dodge and either the attack button or the jump button to fire a short burst of bullets. Hold down either of these two buttons and move the crosshairs over a target to lock on. Release the button to fire. The more targets destroyed, the better percentage rating at the end.
The Tornado circles the Egg Carrier a couple of times before the Egg Carrier's main gun shoots it down.
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B&B Description:Installed with Pascale and children since 2002 Durfort Cevennes farmhouse in the seventeenth century to the middle of the vineyards, we wanted to make our home an open and friendly place where everyone can enjoy the relaxed lifestyle of the Cévennes and share with us the wonders of our region ...
La Bruguiere, all the charm of a bed and breakfast or a cottage in a unique setting. Between scrubland and the Cevennes, in the midst of vineyards, this is an invitation to discover this beautiful region. Guests can enjoy an enchanting place, surrounded by guests who you will enjoy all the flavors of the South of France. Four completely renovated in the traditions and colors of our country units: three suites and a cottage, all with independent access, A private terrace and a personalized decoration in southern colors await you:
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To make your stay more enjoyableWe provide linens and towels and there is also a washing machine (dryer on request).
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text: husband has been snoring like crazy again. I'm sleeping sporadically. If I can get to sleep before he does, it's better, but there is no way I can get to sleep with him sawing logs. He's had his deviated septum corrected twice, his soft palate removed, and still he snores. He's had three sleep studies and he does not have sleep apnea. When I do get to sleep, between him snoring and my sweating I sleep about 30 - 45 minutes then I am up. Once I wake up I start to sweat and it's the blanket battle. Throw off the blankets and let the sweat cool off, move to a dry cool spot on the bed if I can find one, the pull the blankets back on because I'm wet and cold. Because of my clotting disorder I can't take hormones. I have been telling him multiple times a week for over a month to make an appointment with a doctor about the snoring. Mind you, he's still 30 pounds overweight. I've lost another 10 pounds on his diet, but somehow he can't seem to lose the weight. Could it be to do with his never being able to make a healthy lunch for himself and having to eat out? (No I absolutely will not make him lunch, too!) No appointment yet. He was supposed to start riding his bike 2 miles to the light rail in December. I was totally cool with him working up to doing it both ways and to most days of the week. I was willing to overlook the poor diet choices if he would get some exercise. But if he does go to the doctor about the snoring, we all know that he will be told to get some exercise and lose some weight. Meanwhile, I have to go pick him up at the train because he can't make it back up the hill. Because he has only actually done it 8 times. In February he announced that his seat was tilted to the front and his fenders were hitting the sides of the wheels. Adjust it, right? That got done two weeks ago and he rode to work once. I finally told him that he could have sex as often as he rides his bike to the train. Guess I'm actually going to have to hold him to that. Great. We both get to lose out because of his stubbornness. He has decided to open up credit card account and buy more stuff for World of Warcraft. We have 5 WoW keyboards, and 3 WoW mouses. I have no clue what they are for. But the one that takes the cake is the 24" lcd screen he bought for his home desk that he has added to his 17" screen in a way that whatever is on the screen is split between the two screens. IOW, it's three feet wide. Supposedly it's for working at home. Do I really seem that stupid? by the way, he's got a tell when he's lying. Just sayin'. Anyhoo, he opens up these credit card accounts and says that he is going to take less of an allowance. No he's not! He has a checking account of his own, he can put his allowance in it and make payments from it! Of course, this means that he has to take extra money out of our checking account because he doesn't have money for lunch. Or he just buys lunch on the debit card. So, since he has this new stuff, he comes into the house after work and sits at his computer. He feeds the dogs. If I cook which is most every night, he does the dishes but won't put anything on the counters away, and won't wipe off the counters. This is a man who opens the sliding glass door with his foot because of the possibility of germs. I have gone so far as to wipe off the counter with paper towels and windex and leave them on top of the counter and left the filthy paper towels spread out dirt side up on the counter to show him the dirt he is leaving. Nope. Doesn't matter. After dinner he is at the computer until 11:00 or so until I tell him it is time to go to bed. Meanwhile I do the bills, the laundry, the shopping, the cooking, the cleaning, the general upkeep around the house. And there is never any water in the dog bowls. Don't even get me started on the filth in and around the dog bowls. Yes, I do ask him to do things, but all that does is create a list of things I have asked him to do that he hasn't done. And I work. We pay a neighbor kid to walk the dogs because he won't anymore. We pay a neighbor kid to mow the lawn because he won't anymore. We pay a lady to clean the house twice a month because he won't sweep or mop or do the bathrooms. I do all of the tidying & dusting myself before she comes so that things will get put away and she doesn't just clean around it. The dogs all sleep in our room on their own beds. Bubba is 13 years old and really on his last legs. His arthritis is bad, and the medications the doctor gave to him for it makes him vomit if he takes it for any length of time. He likes to eat and sleep, and occasionally to get loves. But he has a hard time getting down the 6" step off of the deck to the back yard, so he doesn't really like to go potty anymore. In the afternoon, or when I come home from work, I let the dogs out and have to walk Bubba out to the yard and make him go potty. Sometimes I have to do it twice because he thinks he should get a treat then he goes pooh on the deck (if you're not watching) or in the house. There are french doors in our bedroom out to the back yard. husband is supposed to be at work at 8 AM. He won't set an alarm because the dogs wake him up around 6 AM. Handy, right? So, the dogs wake up, get him up, he goes all the way into the living room to let them out, then feeds them, then goes potty. For a week or so, sometimes while he is going potty, sometimes while he is eating his cereal, Bubba has pooped in the house. OK - why can't husband let the dogs out the french doors, go to the bathroom, then let them in the living room doors to eat? Then he can take Bubba back out to pooh. I mean, when I come home from work where the bathroom is absolutely disgusting, I often have not gone pee for 7 hours. I go outside and make the dogs go potty first so that there will be no accidents. I know that I can hold it. More often than not, while Bubba is pooping around the house, and husband isn't always finding all of it even though it's right in the middle of the floor and the first thing you see when you walk into the room, husband is sitting in front of his computer "reading his web pages and news". He can't get out of the house until 8 or 8:30 or even later. If he works late, he goes in so late the next day that instead of coming home early and helping out he has to stay late to make up the 8 hour day. This morning everyone is up at 6, and I lay awake in bed even though I was up until 3 with his snoring. At 6:40 I come out and husband is in front of his computer with his empty cereal bowl. I ask him if Bubba pooped. Yes. In the house after he ate while husband was going pee. I told him this morning that he has to start going out on the deck after Bubba eats with Bubba and making sure that Bubba goes poop in the yard. He'll do it if you are out there with him and he's already eaten but it is up to US to make the effort. It's been weeks now that Bubba either poops on the deck or in the house in the morning, and it's what he thinks is ok now. I told husband that if it keeps happening I'm going to put Bubba down and it will be his fault for not taking the extra two minutes in the morning to make sure Bubba goes in the yard. How hard can it be to let the dogs out the bedroom door, go pee, let them in the living room door, feed them, and take Bubba to pooh - rather than let the dogs out the living room door, feed them, go pee, then pick up Bubba's pooh off of the floor and clean it up? So, it's 9:15, and in 2 and a half hours I have done 4 loads of laundry and folded and put them away, cleaned up the dog bowls, run a load of dishes and put them away, and balanced the checkbook. I also emptied all of husband's tools out of various drawers in the kitchen, living room, and bathroom plus the closets which were put there because he "might need them later" and filled a banker's box with them. I'd put them away where they belong but I can't get at the work bench for all the crud that's all over it and the floor around it. Not to mention that there's two empty toolboxes and I can't get the workbench drawers open because he just shoves crud in there. And would it really kill him to flush the toilet? I've been trying to get to the store for 3 days now, but my boss is helpless. He needs me to come in and work on proposals and invoices for industrial fan repair (WT H do I know about industrial fan repair?) while he spends hours having difficulty and needing my help to download MP3's for his church band and somehow can't manage to earn enough money to make payroll without taking out a loan. MEN!


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Yes, this was a bit of a filler episode--but there's nothing wrong with filler episodes. Other people have said that the premise was silly and contrived, but I didn't find it that way. Aren't all fictional plots contrived premises? So there's a food shortage and the only way to fix things is through treacherous territory. We, as scifi fans have swallowed worse things than that.
I'll have to say that Kat has never been my favorite character. Unlike Starbuck, I have a hard time seeing Kat as a tough-as-nails combat fighter pilot. Maybe it was the voice, I don't know. But if a semi-regular character has to die off, Kat was probably the best choice. I like the fact that when she knew her secret was going to get out--and she would probably lose her place as a fighter pilot--she chose to go out as a hero.
It was really interesting to see how Starbuck dealt with Kat when she figured out her little secret. Boy, Starbuck is really quick to lower the boom on anyone else that doesn't measure up to her standards. I think that shows us that there is still a lot of unresolved issues in Starbuck. Maybe she will finally get humbled a bit and apologize to Lee for what she did. The little scene at the very end when Lee is looking at her seems to indicate that a resolution between the two is still coming. I'm glad, because the little "I missed you" in the boxing ring was not sufficient.
Gata was boring a hole in Tigh with his eyes when Tigh came back to CIC. I sure didn't feel like clapping for his return to CIC. Are we supposed to just forget about the stuff he did back on New Caprica? (human suicide bombers) In my mind, he needs to redeem himself a bit before I accept him back with open arms.
Now, the Admiral did seem a bit out of character when he came and sat next to Kat and said he would stay with her. He just told everyone last week that he didn't want to be their friend anymore. Stoicly coming in and saying what he needed to say would have been in line with his attitude last week, not this soft side that we saw. That would be consistent. But my personal opinion is that I liked the Admiral when he had close relationships with the crew.
Overall, I give it pretty decent marks. The best episode this season? Not by a long shot. But certainly not the worst.


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Greyhound Vermont.-to-Mass. service returns to 2 towns
BRATTLEBORO, Vt. (AP) -- Greyhound says it is bringing back its non-stop bus route from Brattleboro, Vt., to Boston two days a week and will use grant money to continue using Bellows Falls as a stop on a route between Springfield, Mass., and White River Junction.
The service is part of a new BusPlus program in conjunction with the Massachusetts Department of Transportation aimed at increasing intercity and commuter transportation options available across New England.
The Brattleboro Reformer reports Gary Fox, the managing director of Destination Bellows Falls, says Greyhound expects to start its nonstop Brattleboro-to-Boston trips on Friday. He said the company will run the service on Fridays and Sundays.
Similar services will be provided between the Massachusetts capital and Keene and Nashua, N.H.
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Now that I've completed the Spring issue of Prometheus, after a couple of delays caused by what my optician called a "corneal ulcer" in my right eye that made any bright light unbearable and migrane inducing, I have a little time for my irregular blogging. I'm getting ready to read through all the finalists for this year's Prometheus Awards. I read F. Paul Wilson's Harbingers when it appeared as the limited edition from Gauntlet Press, and am awaiting his latest Repairman Jack novel due out from that publisher next month. While I'm an FPW fan and like the RJ story and books, I don't see any libertarianism in Harbingers. I enjoyed Vernor Vinge's Rainbows End but not nearly as much as his two previous sf novels. Certain ideas and trends raised by Vinge are sobering, and I see his "You Gotta Believe Me" meme cropping up in another book, Justina Robson's excellent Mappa Mundi (not one of the finalists, but the US edition appeared in 2006, while the original UK edition was ahead of Vinge, in 2001). So maybe it's not Vinge's meme after all…
I have not yet read the other three books, but Charles Stross' Glasshouse is next on the list. I like Stross' work, and have read all his other novels published to date save the latest Clan Corporate novel. I haven't read anything from Orson Scott Card in many years, and nothing by John Scalzi, so those books will be interesting.
Sometimes I'm right there on the edge of new sf, but sometimes I'm way behind the times, staring over the fence at non-sf books. Currently I'm trying to finish Mark Shorer's biography, Sinclair Lewis: An American Life. I started the book last November, but set it aside to read a dozen sf books and review most of them. I'm also in the middle of The Complete Short Stories of Ambrose Bierce, Varlam Shamlov's Kolyma Tales (one of the many frightening results of Stalin's gulags), Nora May French's Poems, and Brian Doherty's Radicals for Capitalism (which, for some reason, I feel as if I've already read, since I followed almost the same path 20 years ago when reading as much as I could about the history of libertarianism). I am compiling a list of fiction and non-fiction written under totalitarianism, especially the Soviet Union, possibly towards a long essay on the subject. Lest they are forgotten, writers are imprisoned and exiled for their work even now, in such countries as Vietnam, China, Cuba, Turkey and elsewhere.
Best book I've read so far this year: Adam Roberts' Gradisil. I have to inquire about the current Prometheus Award rules, since the UK edition appeared in 2006, but if the 2007 US edition is eligible, I'd say at this point that Roberts' novel is a shoo-in for the 2008 Prometheus Award. No freakin' contest.


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- Logistic Regression - Calculates maximum likelihood estimates (MLE) of regression coefficients in a logistic regression analysis
- Maximum Likelihood estimation - Calculates maximum likelihood estimates (MLE) for the parameters of univariable and multivariable distributions
- Moving Average - Calculates the moving average of a series of data
- Niche Overlap - Calculates the (dis)similarity between two populations
- Survival Analysis - Performing survival analysis using proportional hazards, accelerated failure times etc.
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Diagnostic and prognostic meta-analysis - This R-package is hosted on the Comprehensive R Archive Network (CRAN) and provides functions for frequentist and Bayesian diagnostic and prognostic meta-analyses. It estimates univariate, bivariate and multivariate models, and allows the aggregation of previously published prediction models with new data. Requires the R Project for Statistical Computing.


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The Young Nadeshiko meet Germany in the FIFA Under-20 Women's World Cup semi-final on 4 September, and the current holders of the Under-20 title and 2011 European Under-19 championship will pose the sternest challenge yet of Japan's title credentials. Ahead of would should be an enthralling contest, here are five areas which could prove crucial in deciding which side advances to the final:
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London 2012 Group D Preview: Spain
If the scale of the task facing Japan in their opening encounter at London 2012 could be made any more daunting, the list of honours and accompanying statistics achieved by Spain as a side and their Olympic squad's individuals serves to underline just how fraught Thursday's contest could be. They are the reigning 2011 UEFA European Under-21 champions, who lost just once in fifteen matches from the qualification stage through to taking the title. They have six wins in six matches to date in attempting to progress to the finals of the 2013 competition, scoring 21 goals in the process while conceding only two. The squad contains a 2011-12 UEFA Champions League winner, three Euro 2012 winners including two who were starters for the senior side in Poland and Ukraine, two of the summer's most coveted players in Athletic Bilbao's Javi Martínez and Iker Muniain, the former available for the not-insignificant sum of €40 million, and possess a forward who has scored two hat-tricks in his last three competitive matches. Eleven of the team which won the 2011 Under-21 title are included in the eighteen, and of the three over-age players, none exceeds 24 in a squad with an average age of 21.6.
London 2012 Group D Preview: Honduras
The Bicolor Olimpica come into Group D and London 2012 confident and with the Honduran public anticipating a good showing, expectations heightened by three consecutive victories in their final three warm-up matches, and by a team which in the calendar year has lost only to Mexico, who are widely predicted to mount a strong challenge for a medal. With Spain favourites to top the group and together with Brazil most tipped to win gold, the final fixture between Japan and Honduras on 1 August will likely prove pivotal in deciding which side goes on to feature in the knockout stage.
J.League Division 1: Matchday Eighteen Fixtures and Preview
Urawa Red Diamonds take their eight game unbeaten streak to Niigata in search of a result against an Albirex team whose plummeting attendance figures are just one of Masaaki Yanagishita's worries. Having netted a meager four goals at the Tohoku Denryoku Big Swan Stadium, underlining why home supporters have only been treated to one win in eight matches, Albi lie in sixteenth place, but their past three matches provide hopeful signs as they took maximum points against Shimizu S-Pulse and Consadole Sapporo and battled to a draw with Kashima Antlers. The Reds are likely to prove too strong, however, Mihailo Petrović leading his team to third place in the table during a period in which he presided over one of only two shut-outs for Vegalta Sendai in the 2012 campaign to date.
J.League Division 1: Matchday Fifteen Preview and Fixtures
Gamba Osaka travel to the Sapporo Dome for what could prove a critical contest in what is quickly becoming a fight to avoid relegation for the first time in their history. The Suita side, who have only finished outside the top three in J.League Division 1 on one occasion since the change to a standard league championship format in 2005, have already lost more matches at this stage of the 2012 campaign than in four of their past seven full seasons, and manager Masanobu Matsunami is yet to steady a defence which has yielded nineteen goals in their past nine matches, garnering only one clean sheet in that time. Yet to win away from The Osaka Expo '70 Stadium, Matsunami will be hoping to take all three points against the division's bottom side, Consadole currently eleven points away from even relative safety and wielding the J.League's worst defence in an injury-blighted year.
J.League Division 1: Matchday Fourteen Preview and Fixtures
Consadole Sapporo, whose ominous lack of form is predicted to result in a final tally of between ten and eleven points at the completion of the 2012 campaign, and subsequently end in their relegation by Matchday 27 should there be no improvement, have no respite from their battle against the drop as they travel to the Yurtec Stadium to meet league leaders Vegalta Sendai in Saturday's early kick-off. Consa have failed to take a single point outside Hokkaido in Division 1, and their predicament is likely to worsen significantly as they take the poorest defence in the league to the home of a Vegalta side that has netted fifteen times in six matches.
J.League Division 1: MD Thirteen and J.League Division 2: MD Sixteen Preview and Fixtures
(In a fan video, Jungo Fujimoto sets Nagoya Grampus on their way with a 24th minute free-kick against Cerezo Osaka, a match they would go on to win 3-1 on Matchday Thirty-One of the 2011 season. Cerezo have won just once in Nagoya in a decade, and they visit Grampus in the 2012 campaign on Friday)
In the final round of matches before the national team takes to the stage with three consecutive 2014 FIFA World Cup qualification matches in June, the first sees Sagan Tosu, smarting from Kazuma Watanabe's thirteen minute hat-trick which denied them their first away victory of the season, travelling to the Osaka Expo '70 Stadium to take on a Gamba Osaka side without a win in a month, and wallowing in sixteenth position in the table.
The Suita side's change in manager from Jose Carlos Serrao to Masanobu Matsunami has paid few dividends in absolute terms thus far, with an average of little more than one point per game in the J.League and four defeats in the AFC Champions League, but the playing style is a significant improvement and marks a return to the "football with movement" club President Kikuo Kanamori was so eager to see. Three points for Gamba won't allow them to steer clear of the relegation places, but holding a game in hand they will be able to put pressure on Kashima Antlers, Cerezo Osaka and Kashiwa Reysol above them if they can take all three points. Join me from 10:30 on Friday 25 May when I'll be live-blogging all the action.
Friday's second game has Nagoya Grampus welcoming Cerezo Osaka to the Yamaha Stadium. After such a promising start to the season, Cerezo have fallen away of late, taking a single point from their last four J.League matches, and are set to lose star midfielder Hiroshi Kiyotake from 1 July when he completes his transfer to Bundesliga club 1. FC Nuremberg. Now a mere five points above sixteenth place, this has proven a particularly uncomfortable fixture for Cerezo, a single win in their fateful 2005 season accounting for the only points they have taken in a decade.
Grampus, meanwhile, will want to put the 4-0 defeat at the hands of Vegalta Sendai behind them, an impressive first period denuded by an inability to finish chances and eventually overcome by a supremely clinical Vegalta side. Three points would allow Grampus to climb as high as seventh in the table with a game still to play.
On Saturday Consadole will be hoping that the Sapporo Atsubetsu Park Stadium provides them with some good fortune, the scene of their only league victory in 2012 on Matchday Nine, but the odds are stacked against them as second-placed Sanfrecce Hiroshima make the trip to Hokkaido. While six sides possess better defensive records than Hajime Moriyasu's collective, only two have netted on more occasions and a Consa team which has conceded a staggering 25 goals in twelve matches suggests there will be little resistance to the visitors.
Vegalta Sendai journey south down the coast to Kanagawa Prefecture and a meeting with Kawasaki Frontale. The league leaders remain unbeaten on the road, but Frontale are seemingly rejuvenated under new manager Yahiro Kazama, winning three of four matches in May and consequently rising to seventh in the table. What may count against Frontale is their worrying capacity to ship goals at the Todoroki Athletics Stadium, conceding eleven in six matches at home, against a team who have proven ruthless in exploting the slightest weakness in an opposition's defence.
After their setback on Matchday Twelve against Urawa Red Diamonds, Shimizu S-Pulse take on Yokohama F-Marinos in a fascinating match-up at the Outsourcing Stadium Nihondaira. After slow beginnings under Yasuhiro Higuchi and amid growing rumours that he was likely to be sacked, Marinos are now unbeaten since 21 April, taking thirteen points from a possible fifteen in that time. While neither side has been prolific in front of goal, S-Pulse and Marinos scoring fifteen and fourteen times respectively, S-Pa's home form comprises a large part of why they currently sit in third place, ten goals, no losses and thirteen points making the Nihondaira one of the more intimidating stadiums for an away team in the J.League.
The division's top scorers host Omiya Ardija at the Yamaha Stadium, and if the Squirrels are to see any increase on their sole victory away from the NACK5 Stadium they will need to tighten up a defence which has allowed an average of two goals per game, to counter Masaaki Yanagishita's men, who have four wins from five in Shizuoka. Jubilo Iwata boast multiple attacking threats, Hiroki Yamada, Ryoichi Maeda and Kosuke Yamamoto all counting in the division's ten highest goalscorers, while South Korean central defender Cho Byung-Kuk, signed from Vegalta Sendai at the end of the 2011 season, has chipped in with three goals in twelve appearances.
My second live blog of Matchday Thirteen has Vissel Kobe playing Kashima Antlers at the HOME'S Stadium. Vissel are the J.League's current model of inconsistency, three wins counterbalanced by three defeats in Kobe. The Antlers have struggled for any form outside the confines of the Kashima Soccer Stadium, fifteen goals in their last four matches in Kashima separated by a failure to score at all away from home, and reflected by just one victory on their journeys around Japan. Join me at Football Japan from 08:30 BST/16:30 JST for team news and full coverage.
Albirex Niigata, rudderless in seventeenth position and in search of a permanent managerial appointment after Hisashi Kurosaki resigned on Matchday Twelve, travel to the Hitachi Kashiwa Soccer Stadium in the hope that temporary boss Nobuhiro Ueno can galvanise a squad which has won twice all season. A crumb of comfort for Albi is that the Sun Kings have only won once in front of their home support, and manager Nelsinho continues to prove incapable of coaxing any reliability from his talented but surprisingly fragile players.
Saturday's final encounter is at the Ajinomoto Stadium, and the pick of the weekend's fixtures gives FC Tokyo and Urawa Red Diamonds the chance to burnish their J.League title and AFC Champions League qualification credentials. The two teams are separated only by goal difference on 21 points, though the Gas do have a game in hand owing to their ongoing Champions League participation. Victory for either side could take them into second place in the league at the end of Matchday Thirteen.
|J.League 1, 25 May
|Kick-off (JST)
|Gamba Osaka
|Sagan Tosu
|Osaka Expo '70 Stadium
|Nagoya Grampus
|Cerezo Osaka
|Toyota Stadium
|J.League 1, 26 May
|Kick-off (JST)
|Consadole Sapporo
|Sanfrecce Hiroshima
|Sapporo Atsubetsu Park Stadium
|Kawasaki Frontale
|Vegalta Sendai
|Todoroki Athletics Stadium
|Shimizu S-Pulse
|Yokohama F-Marinos
|Outsourcing Stadium Nihondaira
|Jubilo Iwata
|Omiya Ardija
|Yamaha Stadium
|Vissel Kobe
|Kashima Antlers
|HOME'S Stadium Kobe
|Kashiwa Reysol
|Albirex Niigata
|Hitachi Kashiwa Soccer Stadium
|FC Tokyo
|Urawa Red Diamonds
|Ajinomoto Stadium
|J.League 2, 26 May
|Kick-off (JST)
|Kyoto Sanga
|Giravanz Kitakyushu
|Nishikyogoku Athletic Stadium
|J.League 2, 27 May
|Kick-off (JST)
|Thespa Kusatsu
|Matsumoto Yamaga
|Shoda Shoyu Stadium Gunma
|Gainare Tottori
|Yokohama FC
|Tottori Bank Bird Stadium
|Avispa Fukuoka
|Fagiano Okayama
|Level-5 Stadium
|Oita Trinita
|JEF United Chiba
|Oita Bank Stadium
|Tochigi SC
|Tokyo Verdy
|Tochigi Green Stadium
|FC Machida Zelvia
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Things are apparently unfolding at breakneck speed. It was just last month that we were glued to the news about the release of a huge LG phone or what is now known to be a phablet and yet we get this latest report about this new gadget, the LG Optimus Vu 2. It is obviously a move to challenge Samsung Galaxy Note II.
It all started with a report yesterday on the key features and specs of the Optimus Vu successor which have been "leaked" in an article on Bad IT Tong, a Korean tech blog. This turned out to be just the prelude to the eventual announcement by LG about the LG Optimus Vu 2. There is no official confirmation yet from LG on the release date of the Optimus Vu successor. It comes as a bit strange that we are now looking at what could well be a replacement for the original Optimus Vu which, according to market and industry experts, is making quite an impressive showing even while it still has to establish its foothold on certain markets.
For consumers who have not bought the original Optimus Vu, which is tagged on Verizon as LG Intuition or haven't decided yet on buying the Galaxy Note II, this latest news on Optimus Vu 2 might as well convince them to reconsider their choices.
According to the latest report on the new Optimus Vu edition, it is billed to be a gadget that is packed with powerful features and specs. The LG pahblet is expected to be bumped up with a 1.5GHz dual-core processor with LTE support and will come with twice the RAM of the original Optimus Vu at 2 GB. There is also an indication that the screen size for the Optimus Vu 2 will not increase and will still come out of the box with the same 5-inch LCD display with a 1024 x 768-pixel resolution.
This upcoming Optimus phablet will roll out with Google Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich – a bit of a damper for some consumers, as the release of the Android 4.1 Jelly Bean is just around the corner. Nonetheless, some observers see this as a solid confirmation that it will hit the market sooner than we think. Additionally, this LG gadget will have a 16GB internal storage and expandable to 32GB external memory on its microSD.
The report also confirms that this imminent Optimus edition will have a rear-facing 8MP camera with an LED flash and a BSI sensor for that perfect shot under low-light conditions and this is matched by a 1.3MP front-facing camera with power LED. Other interesting features include Bluetooth 4.0, NFC, MHL and the LG gadget is expected to support Wi-Fi direct, DLNA and USB 2.0.
With all these advance information on the key specs and features of the Optimus Vu 2, it is quite clear that it will definitely be at loggerheads with Samsung Galaxy Note 2 for pole position in the phablet segment. LG has not confirmed anything yet about the schedule of its release and on when it is going to be shipped. Nonetheless, observers expect that it will be priced roughly at $865.


text: a bit made about diving in the nrl this week, jamie lyons been made a scapegoat for years of discretions it seems. While i am not a fan , clearly if you cant beat them then you must join them. Sterlo in particular has taken some pot shots at players charector which i think is wrong The problem here firstly is that it is a behaviour that is rewarded by the nrl. This is the only reason why players do this. And recent changes to the vidiot have to ensure a player is cited before they can intervene, too little too late. The horse had bolted and the culture had long been set . More on the run policy , wothout thought that has scarred the game. Secondly, the penalty. Again this is now worth way more than it had ever been, with players desperate to attract one at all costs. The stats dont lie. They lead to tries and tiredness. The game has evolved into such a predictable , boring bash and barge , through constant rule changes that the penalty is now the holy grail, and teams are prepared to chew through there grannies arse to secure one. So much so players are now seen leaving the field at half time licking there lips and wiping away the arse You simply can not blame the players for getting on board. I hate it, it sucks but its part of the game. You cant penalise the offender, its too subjective. Its time the nrl went back to the old ways, if its missed ,let the match review system put the player on report. Let the club docs look after the players and let the game run. They can not use duty of care when it suits them and then stack clubs with 5 day turnarounds as a bulk purchase, to appease the almighty dollar Just another example of a common sense approach, that was avoided for the sake of media pressure. Bring back the 5 m rule. It was the beginning of the end


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Imagine a world without geopolitical borders. No customs or immigration officers to clear you into a country. No fences or checkpoints to prevent coming and going. That is the state of affairs in 2088. With the end of government also came the end of arbitrary lines drawn on a map. Conquest is measured in market share, not square mileage. Power is measured in profit, not military might. Everything in this world is centered around worker productivity, profit, and commerce. Business is the meaning of life.
The map above shows the spheres of influence as they exist in 2088. Like political maps prior the collapse, the influence one corporation or another has had over a particular geographic area has changed considerably. Although considerable stabilization in territorial allegiance has occurred over the past decade, there is still some flux around the spheres edges of less powerful corporations.
In fact, most border areas identify with two or more corporations and others with none at all. These regions are often referred to as the '"wild west" after the lawlessness of the American west during the expansion in the 1800s. These regions are often fiercely divided, have limited infrastructure support, and can be violent. Notable regions of friction are between America incorporated and Latin America in what was once northern Mexico, the edges of the South American, Brazil, and Patagonia companies, India and Persia, and most of Africa.
Towns and villages with access to transportation, natural resources, or manpower are more contested than ones without any strategic business value. Additionally, corporations with smaller numbers of employees are more prone to increase the size of their sphere of influence in an effort to draw more potential employees into the fold. No rules exist to restrict competition over these areas, nor does Intercorpex interfere with corporations seeking to expand their influence so long as there are no hostile actions or instances of sabotage involved in these areas.


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So as I roll around in my bed last night at 1:28am, I decided that I was going to go outside for some fresh air. All of a sudden sirens are yelling down every street. 4 coming down Shaw, 3 coming from the west side of King and 3 from the east side of king. I didn't really get to see what was going on King st, but I did notice that there were more and more pedestrians stopping at 1:30am in the morning to watch as the police officers dashed out of their cruisers in front of the Electra building.
Finally, I concluded that I probably wasn't going to be witnessing any sort of drastic take down and heading back to rolling in bed.


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Once upon a time, there was a learned Vedic Astrologer, well versed in reading the cosmic placements and interpreting their meanings. Celebrated and illustrious, his name and fame rose throughout the land and soon caught the attention of a mighty and curious Muslim king. Having heard the stories of his accurate predictions, the king ordered his presence in the royal court.
Dubious and skeptical, the king asked, "Do you think you know more than God?"
"No, Your Majesty. I do not know more than God and may never will. I just study the stars", replied the humble and humane Astrologer.
"What do your stars have to say for today, do you have any idea what is going to happen to you?" asked the king.
"Yes, Your Majesty", said the Astrologer with a sense of certainty in his tone.
Annoyed with his conviction, the king laughed a mocking laugh and ordered his men to blindfold him, and make him fall from the top of his palace to bite the dust and die. The Astrologer did not resist nor said a single word in defense. He did indeed bite the dust as he fell on the haystack and gently kissed the ground, safe and sound!
It was all in the cards for that is what the diary he left in the court said, "You may fall today but would survive". The king was speechless and surprised, all at the same time. The Astrologer had let the fate take its course, but he had the faith that he will live to tell the tale!


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A local Atlanta pest control company, Bulwark Exterminating, is featured in today's Wall Street Journal – Natural Pest Control – Death by Mint Oil. Real cute, "pests die of more natural causes." WSJ wanted to know about Bulwark's green pest control service. Bulwark was one of the first to step out into a green low impact environmentally conscience service featuring the EcoSmart line of pest control products. Bulwark has offered a greener service for over ten years now. EcoSmart provides EPA exempt products made of all natural ingredients, such as tree oils and other botanicals. Above and beyond just offering a green pest control service, Bulwark offers an all natural pest control solution here in Atlanta.
Here is what a Bulwark customer told Wall Street Journal about Bulwark's all natural service:
"I've seen no excess insects since switching," 39-year-old Ms. Kidd says, "and I've got bugs in the yard around my chicken coop, but not on my patio or in my house."
Bulwark has always offered a green pest control service. Bulwark now offers an all natural pest control service.
To get more of the story on the Green Pest Control report done by the Wall Street Journal "The All Natural pest control" click here.


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When asked how Aaron Rogers prepares for the biggest game of his life, he responded, "I think the key is to be able to focus on your preparation. You can't let the other distractions and the magnitude of the game take you away from what you need to do next. You need to show up prepared to play, expect the unexpected, and know exactly what you are going to do," said Rodgers.
This is great advice and a tip I encourage my students to adhere to. You want to stay committed to your preparation and not get lost in the hoopla before the game. It's easy to get sidetracked when you have a full two weeks between games. And media week before the big game can take potential distractions to a new level.
"Expect the unexpected" is another mental strategy I talk about in sports psychology. You want to prepare yourself mentally for anything that can happen during competition–so you don't lose your composure. The idea is that you want to anticipate what might "rattles your cage" and have a strategy for coping with setbacks. When you are mentally prepared and have a backup plan, it's easier to cope when you throw an interception, for example.
One method you can use to mentally prepare for competition and expect the unexpected is by using mental imagery. Mental imagery is the ability to create clear, detailed and accurate images in your mind of plays you want to rehearse. In football, for example, quarterbacks use visual triggers to help them recognize which defensive play to anticipate. A quarterback can mentally rehearse his response to various defenses he might see and practice calling an audible if necessary.
How do you anticipate setbacks and is this just negative thinking?
Some people might think that anticipating setbacks is not a very positive way to mentally prepare for competition. But I would argue that nothing ever goes according to the plan and you have to make adjustments in your game plan and be able to roll with the punches. Sports is not always about playing in the zone, according to Dr. Ken Ravizza, professor at CSUF you have to learn to make adjustments on the fly because athletes rarely perform in the zone.
Step one is to anticipate setbacks, distractions, or emotional triggers for you personally. You start by thinking about the ones that have caused challenges in the past.
When anticipating setbacks or challenges, you can ponder the following questions:
1. What are five typical situations in which you become distracted?
2. When are you most likely to become upset and frustrated during a competition? List five and the belief associated with each frustrating situation.
3. When do you become most anxious or stressed during competition?
4. What would cause you to get distracted if something were not to go as planned prior to a game, during warm-up, or during the performance?
5. What challenging events can you anticipate that may disrupt your game such as forgetting a piece of equipment you need?
The second step is to develop a coping reaction for each challenge and how you will cope with the specific challenge. This might be a simple refocusing strategy to help you move on, for example. This gives you the mental edge knowing you have prepared a positive reaction when distracted or if unexpected challenges rock you. Things happen all the time in sports that are often out of your control. Take a tip from the pros, and prepare for the unexpected by having a strategy to overcome setbacks and cope with distractions.


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and im not talking about Rihanna. Dondria has FINALLY released her debut video!! i am so geeked about this!! i remember watching her youtube vids before she was discovered by JD...back when she was always eating somethin or drinking some kool aid. always admired her effortless talent. patience is EVERYTHING and i think hers is def gonna pay off.
the visuals in this vid are def stunning. when black and white is done properly...it ALWAYS works.
p.s. speaking of artists with PATIENCE...shout out to Teyana Taylor. i seriously feel like when her time comes she is gonna b a BEAST! i dig her!


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On his death in 1896 the estate was auctioned. Much of it was eventually purchased by the local authority, London County Council. Some land was let out for farming or other private usage, and Avery Hill Park was opened to the public in 1903/04 and includes remains of the gardens close to the house. Some old hedgerows may be around.600 years old. To the far west, behind Holy Trinity Church/off Southend Crescent, is a medieval brick conduit which controlled the supply of water to the moat at Eltham Palace, and was later used to provide water to the Palace.
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text: News Day in Photos: May 31 Share this:Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)Click to share on Reddit (Opens in new window)Click to email this to a friend (Opens in new window)Click to print (Opens in new window)Dancers perform during the "Karneval der Kulturen" (Carnival of the Cultures) in Berlin, Germany,.Una Baker is greeted by a well wisher before she enters the water for the paddle out honoring her late husband and surfwear pioneer, Dick Baker at Doheny State Beach Sunday. Baker's two sons, Jack Baker, left and Ryan Baker, right , are behind their mother.Salesman Brooks Bundy rubs his eyes as he waits for customers at the Brown &Woods Pontiac Buick GMC Cadillac auto dealership in Greenville, North Carolina. General Motors Corp. (GM) is selling a majority stake in Opel, including the Vauxhall brand in the U.K., as part of a global reorganization before a U.S. government-imposed June 1 deadline to restructure.Nancy Nolan, of San Clemente, talks to visitors at the San Clemente pier as part of a bed-in. Nolan is using the bed-in, reminiscent of John Lennon and Yoko Ono in 1969, to draw awareness to the World March for Peace and Nonviolence. The march is Oct. 2, 2009 to Jan 2, 2010. It will cover 90 countries in 90 days.A fish-like acrobat entertains diners while she dangles from the ceiling at the Pacific Symphony's gala, "A Pacific Fantasea" for the symphony's 30th anniversary season at the Hyatt Regency Hotel in Irvine.Children wearing skeleton masks participate in an awareness rally on World No Tobacco Day, in Calcutta, India.Bikers perform jumps in front of the Serbia's parliament building during the Red Bull X-Fighters International Freestyle Motocross 2009 Exhibition Tour in Belgrade, SerbiaA Palestinian police officer examines the damage to a house following a shootout between Palestinian policemen and Hamas gunmen in the West Bank town of Qalqilya. Top Hamas fugitives lobbed grenades and fired automatic weapons Sunday to push back Palestinian security forces storming their hideout, leaving six dead in the bloodiest clash since Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas launched a crackdown on Hamas in the West Bank two years ago.A Palestinian supporter of the Islamic Hamas movement participates a rally in Gaza City. Palestinian forces stormed a Hamas hideout in the northern West Bank, setting off a fierce battle that left six dead .Spain's Carlos Sastre rides past the Colosseum during the final stage of the Giro d'Italia, Tour of Italy cycling race, an individual time trial in Rome, Italy.Belarus' Victoria Azarenka jubilates after winning a point against Serbia's Ana Ivanovic during their fourth round match of the French Open tennis tournament at the Roland Garros stadium in Paris.Werder Bremen's midfielder Diego, center, and teammate Naldo, left, celebrate with the German Soccer trophy on the balcony of the townhall in Bremen, Germany. Thousands of supporters welcomed the team, which defeated Bayer Leverkusen in Germany's soccer final yesterday in Berlin.A driver quenches his thirst during an off road vehicle driving event, the annual Somogybabod International Off Road Festival in Somogybabod, 102 miles southwest of Budapest, Hungary. Environmentalists call to ban the annual off road event, saying that the hundreds of 4X4 vehicles destroy the forest area close to the Lake Balaton, Hungary's largest water and tourist resorts, but the participants seem to enjoy the event.A BFD 3 locomotive from 1913 which was originally used to cover the Furka-Oberalp line, crosses the viaduct of the Baye de Clarens during the traditional Festival of Pentecost organized by the Blonay-Chamby railway museum in Blonay, Switzerland.Halle Berry reacts as she is presented with the Decade of Hotness Award at the Spike TV "Guys Choice" awards in Culver City, Calif.Giant sea turtles crawl to the sea after being released on Kuta beach, Bali, Indonesia. Bali police seized the illegally-captured sea turtles from poachers.Leading reformist candidate in upcoming Iranian presidential elections, Mir Hossein Mousavi, right, and his wife Zahra Rahnavard greet their supporters during a election campaign in Tehran. Mousavi, is a former Prime Minister, and a main challenger of the hard-line President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad for June 12 presidential elections.A four-day-old Giant Panda cub sits in the hand of a veterinarian at Chiang Mai zoo in Chiang Mai province, northern Thailand. The healthy female panda cub whose birth surprised Thai zoo officials last week has joined the United States and Japan as the only countries outside of China to breed a Giant Panda in captivity.Show Caption of ExpandBy Orange County RegisterMay 31, 2009 at 3:00 amdip


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Blogs on faith and culture: Web reading
We Know More Than Our Pastors
Tim Bednar offers an overview of church-related blogging.
If you're looking for links to blogs on particular subjects, this is a good place to start. It sorts blogs into eight categories.
Perspective: Bloggers and Mainstream Journalism
Reflections on how traditional and new forms of media influence and are influenced by faith and culture.
The Matthew's House Project
Explores the "intersection of faith and culture," with special interest in literature and the arts.
Roster of Blogging Pastors
Presbyterian pastor Mark Roberts hosts a list of blogging pastors. Already a blogger? Add your own site to the list!
One House: An Exploration of the Contemplative Life
Well-organized musings on books, hospitality, work, Benedictine spirituality, gardening and many other aspects of daily life and faith. The site is easy to navigate and the writing style is friendly and engaging.
Seattle pastor Karen Ward of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America is interested in "blogs, movies, travel, monasticism, daily office prayer, thinking." Her casual and helpful writings on missional work within and outside of denominational gatherings are accompanied by a strong list of links to like-minded bloggers.
Open Source Theology
Andrew Perriman has "combined theological research and writing with an ad hoc, haphazard, unconventional, opportunistic pastoral and missionary function" on multiple continents. The articles, book reviews, discussion forums and links provide an excellent overview of the Emergent church.
Attorney and Lutheran layperson David Truland created this blog to "encourage people of faith to follow God's command to do justice, love kindness and walk humbly."


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|Yamada, Tomohiro: 2 articles (01/2014 - 03/2006)
|Selmin, Ornella I: 2 articles (10/2012 - 09/2010)
|Romagnolo, Donato F: 2 articles (10/2012 - 09/2010)
|Papoutsis, Andreas J: 2 articles (10/2012 - 09/2010)
|Holladay, S D: 2 articles (02/2002 - 12/2000)
|Gogal, R M: 2 articles (02/2002 - 12/2000)
|Mandavia, Chirag: 1 article (03/2015)
|Shi, Bing: 1 article (12/2014)
|Lu, Shengjun: 1 article (12/2014)
|He, Wei: 1 article (12/2014)
|Neoplasms (Cancer)
07/01/2010 - "International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) has classified 2,3,7,8 tetrachlorodibenzo-p-dioxin (TCDD) as human multisite carcinogen though not associated to specific tumours. "
01/01/2000 - "Oxidative stress induced by 2,3,7,8-tetrachlorodibenzo-p-dioxin: an application of oxidative stress markers to cancer risk assessment of dioxins."
02/01/1993 - "Dioxin (2,3,7,8-tetrachlorodibenzo-p-dioxin; TCDD), a widespread polychlorinated aromatic hydrocarbon, caused tumors in the liver and other sites when administered chronically to rats at doses as low as 0.01 microgram/kg/day. "
10/01/2012 - "AhR-ligands include the dioxin-like and tumor promoter 2,3,7,8 tetrachlorodibenzo-p-dioxin (TCDD). "
02/01/1991 - "This study was undertaken to investigate the influence of dietary vitamin A deficiency and type of diet on tetrachlorodibenzo-p-dioxin (TCDD)- and phenobarbital-induced liver tumor promotion in rats. "
|Cleft Palate (Palate, Cleft)
12/01/2014 - "[Tetrachlorodibenzo-p-dioxin-induced cleft palate because of partial loss of cell polarity to interfere with apoptosis during early developmental stage]."
11/01/2011 - "[Mechanism of cleft palate in mice induced by 2, 3, 7, 8-tetrachlorodibenzo-p-dioxin]."
01/01/2014 - "2,3,7,8-tetrachlorodibenzo-p-dioxin; TCDD) cause cleft palate at a high rate. "
02/01/1985 - "Toxic interaction of specific polychlorinated biphenyls and 2,3,7,8-tetrachlorodibenzo-p-dioxin: increased incidence of cleft palate in mice."
12/01/2014 - "In this study, folic acid (FA) was tested for antiteratogenic effects on Tetrachlorodibenzo-p-dioxin (TCDD)-induced cleft palate in fetal mice. "
|Body Weight (Weight, Body)
07/01/2001 - "1. [UL-7,8-ring 14C]-1,2,7,8-tetrachlorodibenzo-p-dioxin (1278-TCDD) was administered orally to a ruminating Holstein bull calf (43.6 kg; 1.2 mg kg(-1) body weight). "
11/14/1996 - "Animals received a single subcutaneous dose of 1.6 nmol tetrachlorodibenzo-p-dioxin or tetrabromodibenzo-p-dioxin/kg body weight. "
03/01/1991 - "There was a small, but significant, negative regression of plasma calcium concentration, yolk-free body weight, tibia length, wet, dry, and ash weight, beak length, and kidney and stomach weight of the hatched chicks on the tetrachlorodibenzo-p-dioxin (TCDD) level of the paired eggs. "
06/01/1985 - "TCDD (2,3,7,8-Tetrachlorodibenzo-p-dioxin, 10 micrograms/kg body weight, p.o.) was given to male Sprague-Dawley rats 4 d before the oral administration of a physiological dose of [11,12-3H]retinyl acetate (RA). "
11/01/1992 - "In order to study this possible mechanistic relationship 5-week-old, germfree, female WAG/Rij-rats were exposed to a single oral dose of either 1 microgram 2,3,7,8-tetrachlorodibenzo-p-dioxin/kg body weight (TCDD) or 30 mg 2,2',4,4',5,5'-hexachlorobiphenyl/kg body weight (HxCB), representing cytochrome P-450 1A (3-methylcholanthrene type) and 2B (phenobarbital type) inducers. "
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|Glioma (Gliomas)
09/01/2006 - "Although all the Glioma cell lines exhibited mitogenic proliferative response in dose response assay with the potent Cyp1A1 inducers 3-MC, 2,3,7,8- tetrachlorodibenzo-p-dioxin (TCDD) and benzo [k] fluoranthene, BKF, only the recombinant cell line designated - 75SPT1-GFP, which was transfected with a mutant deletion of SPT1, retained its proliferative capacity at the highest PAH doses used in this study. "
|Tetrachlorodibenzodioxin (TCDD)
|Phenobarbital (Luminal)
|Cytochrome P-450 CYP1A1 (CYP1A1)
|Folic Acid (Vitamin M)
|Cytochrome P-450 Enzyme System (Cytochrome P450)
|Aryl Hydrocarbon Receptors (Aryl Hydrocarbon Receptor)
|Estrogen Receptor alpha
|Valproic Acid (Valproate, Semisodium)
|Oral Administration