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Saturday's Syria (and Beyond) Live Coverage: Back to the War of Attrition
2055 GMT: Turkey. Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan ruled out a general amnesty for Kurdish insurgents on Sunday but said Turkey official would continue to talk to the detained leader of the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), Abdullah Ocalan.
Erdogan's chief adviser said last week that the officials had been discussing disarmament with Ocalan, after decades of armed struggle for Kurdish independence, and on Thursday two Kurdish lawmakers paid a rare visit to the PKK leader in his island prison.
Erdogan said Turkey was taking a two-pronged approach, with the State intelligence agency meeting Ocalan: "Talks with Ocalan is not a new process....I have said before that we will negotiate with (Kurdish) politicians and struggle against terrorism."
The Prime Minister said, "General amnesty for those who have been involved in terrorist activities is out of the question. House confinement for (Ocalan) is also out of the question."
2035 GMT: Syria. The Local Coordination Committees report 91 people killed today, including 27 in Damascus and its suburbs, 15 in Aleppo Province, 14 in Daraa Province, and 12 in Homs Province.
2025 GMT: Palestine. West Bank Prime Minister Salam Fayyad has warned that the Government is in "extreme jeopardy" because of the unprecedented financial crisis, with Israel withholding tax revenues and Arab countries failing to send hundreds of millions of dollars in promised aid.
Fayyad said the Palestinian Authority has reached the point of not being able to pay the salaries of about 150,000 Government employees, Fayyad said. He added that the number of Palestinian poor will double to 50% of the population of roughly 4 million if the crisis continues.
"The status quo is not sustainable," Fayyad declared, with the Authority on the "verge of being completely incapacitated".
Fayyad said he managed to pay half the November salaries by getting another bank loan, using as collateral Arab League promises of future support. He said he cannot pay the rest of the November salaries, let alone start thinking about December wages.
The Palestinian Authority already owes local banks more than $1.3 billion and cannot get more loans. It also owes hundreds of millions of dollars to private businesses, including suppliers to hospitals, some of whom have stopped doing business with the Government.
1925 GMT: Syria. Tim Marshall of Sky News reports on the disappearance --- probably into detention --- of Zaidoun al-Zoabi, a dean at the European College in Damascus.
1915 GMT: Egypt. Back from a Sunday to find the Central Bank reporting that foreign currency reserves stand at $15.014 billion, enough to cover just three months' worth of imports.
The Bank said last month that current reserve levels represent a "critical minimum". Reserves were down slightly --- by $26 million --- from November.
Reserves have fallen by more than 50% from $36 billion before the January 2011 uprising. Causes include significant cuts in foreign investments and tourism.
On Sunday, 10 new ministers were introduced in a Cabinet shake-up aimed at improving the Government's handling of the struggling economy and the rush on dollars by worried Egyptians.
1445 GMT: Israel. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, speaking before today's Cabinet meeting, said a new, fortified barrier along Israel's border with Egypt is nearly complete, and "we intend to stretch an identical fence, with some necessary changes due to the different conditions, along the Golan Heights", the area of Syria occupied by Israel since 1967.
Netanyahu continued, "We know that on the other side of our border with Syria today, the Syrian army has backed off, and global jihad operatives have taken its place. We must therefore protect this border from infiltrations and terror, as we have successfully been doing along the Sinai border."
1434 GMT: Syria. The opposition National Coalition immediately rejected the President's speech, with spokesman Walid Bunni saying, "Assad simply wanted, with the initiative he proposed, to cut the road to reaching a political solution that may result from the forthcoming American-Russian meeting with [United Nations envoy Lakhdar) Brahimi, which the opposition would not accept unless he and his regime leave."
Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu was also dismissive:
His remarks are just repetitions of what he's said all along. They are the same promises he made to us. As Assad no longer has the representative authority over the Syrian people, his words have lost persuasiveness....A transition period needs to be completed swiftly through talks with representatives of the Syrian nation.
British Foreign Secretary William Hague offered his reaction on Twitter: "Assad Speech beyond hypocritical. Deaths, violence and oppression engulfing Syria are his own making, empty promises of reform fool no one."
1414 GMT: Egypt. The trial of steel tycoon Ahmed Ezz and six officials, including former Minister of Industry Ibrahem Mohamadein, has been adjourned to 6 March.
The defendants face charges of profiteering and gross squandering of public funds. Prosecutors allege that Mohamedein illegaly exempted Ezz from dues of more than $100 million on his acquisition of majority shares at the formerly State-owned Ezz Dekheila Steel Company.
Ezz is also accused of making illicit gains of about $750 million while in political office from 2001 to 2011, selling EZDK's products to other companies he owns at lower-than-cost price.
In October 2012, Ezz was sentenced to seven years in prison and fined LE19.3 billion ($3.1 billion) after being found guilty of money laundering. Earlier in the year, he was sentenced to 10 years and fined on graft charges, but the sentence was overturned on appeal in December.
Meanwhile, a criminal court revoked the Illicit Gains Authority (IGA's) decision to freeze the assets of tycoon and Mubarak crony Ibrahim Kamel.
Kamel was detained in October on charges of illegal profiteering and unlawfully amassing large fortunes. He posted bail in November.
Kamel is the chairman of the KATO investment conglomerate, one of the largest privately-owned corporations in Egypt. It functions primarily as a holding company with activities in construction, tourism, and real estate development.
1409 GMT: Syria. Wounded being helped after a mortar hit a minibus in Sekkari in Aleppo:
1359 GMT: Syria. State news agency SANA has published a English-language transcript of President Assad's speech under the headline, "Out of Womb of Pain, Hope Should Be Begotten; From Suffering, Important Solutions Rise."
1129 GMT: Syria. Reuters emphasises that Assad's offer for dialogue and a "reconciliation conference" extends only to the limited range of opposition groups inside Syria acknowledged by the regime --- it excludes the internationally-recognised opposition National Coalition, placing it with "those who have betrayed Syria".
1056 GMT: Syria. Assad concludes and is immediately mobbed by supporters.
1055 GMT: Syria. Assad seems to be moving to a conclusion, " We will be stronger. We will not give up our rights We will defend ourselves internally."
He adds references to the Golan Heights --- occupied by Israel since 1967 --- and Palestine: "We will support resistance."
1049 GMT: Syria. An interesting claim from Assad --- he pays tribute to the "brave men" of Ras al-Ain, a town on the Turkish border which reportedly fell to insurgents in the autumn.
Assad indicates, to the contrary, that the town held out against Turkish-supported terrorists.
Assad salutes the army and halts, as the audience gives a loud chant of support. The same act is repeated for the security forces.
1045 GMT: Syria. Assad is repeating theme of "national reconcilation" without further detail. Instead, he declares, "Syria accepts advice but not ultimata" from outside.
Another pause for chants from the audience.
1035 GMT: Syria. Assad announces plans for a "referendum", without details, and an "expanded Government" to implement a National Charter. He says there will be agreement on an election law, measures for civil rights, and reconciliation with an amnesty, albeit not for those who have committed violence against the State.
Assad then returns to the theme of fighting terrorism, to loud acclamation from the crowd in the Opera House: "A country that is thousands of years old cannot be defeated".
1032 GMT: Syria. Assad declares, "We are always stretching our hand for dialogue" with anyone who approaches with "patriotism and principles".
1025 GMT: Syria. Nothing new in the last 10 minutes of the speech, with Assad --- or at least the translator --- rambling about the necessity of the "security option" versus "terrorism", as he looks for a "partner for national dialogue".
1015 GMT: Syria. President Assad is now making his television speech, warning of the crisis threatening the country and the region.
He opens --- unlike in speeches earlier in the 23-month conflict --- with recognition of the misery and a "black cloud of sadness": " "I look at the eyes of the Syrian children and I do not see innocent faces....Pain and suffering is spread all over Syria."
Assad swings at the insurgency; "Is this a revolution of the people? These are a bunch of criminals," soon escalating to "terrorists who carry the ideology of al Qaeda, servants who know nothing but language of slaughter".
Then he blames foreign enemies "trying to weaken Syria with money and arms" who "have written history with the blood of Arab people", declaring that Syrians will stand firm against them: "We are stronger than them, and we will teach them a lesson."
Assad continues with emphasis on Syria's sovereignty, thanking China, Russia, and Iran for supporting Syrian "self-determination".
1010 GMT: Turkey. Thousands of books banned over decades have been taken off the restricted list.
In July, the parliament adopted a bill stipulating that any decision taken before 2012 to block the sale and distribution of published work would be voided if no court chose to confirm the ruling within six months. The deadline came and went Saturday and no such judicial decisions were recorded.
Among the books are works such as the "Communist Manifesto" by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels and the writings of Joseph Stalin and Vladimir Lenin, a comic book, an atlas, a report on the state of human rights in Turkey, and an essay on the Kurds.
0950 GMT: Kuwait. An opposition youth has been sentenced to two years in jail for messages on Twitter deemed offensive to the Emir.
Rashed al-Enezi was immediately arrested by police and taken to jail, said Mohammad al-Humaidi of the Kuwait Society for Human Rights.
Dozens of Tweeters, activists and former opposition lawmakers wface similar charges amid protests and a regime clampdown before and after December elections.
0815 GMT: Egypt. Farouk Hosni, Minister of Culture in the Mubarak reigme, has been acquitted of embezzlement LE9 million (about $1.4 million).
Hosni said, "Only weak souls make illicit gains," and argued that he could have embezzled far more, as he oversaw more than 40 museums.
0800 GMT: Libya. The head of the General National Conference, Mohamed Magarief,says that he survived an assassination attempt on Saturday during a visit to the southern city of Sabha.
Magarief told State TV that gunmen attacked the hotel where he was staying. The ensuring battle between Magarief's bodyguards and the attackers lasted for three hours and left three of his guards wounded.
He said an investigation had begun but there had been yet because of the "tribal culture" of the region.
0630 GMT: Syria. President Assad will address the nation this morning on television about "latest developments in Syria and the region".
State media gave no further details about Assad's first speech in months, but I am expecting no surprises, such as a detailed plan for transition or a change in the line about the civil war. Instead, the President will repeat standard formulas about the need to protect the Syrian people against foreign-backed terrorists and his defence of the State against efforts to break it up. There may be some token references to a reform process, with nominal elections.
As the regime continued bombardment of Damascus suburbs, the Local Coordination Committees reported 79 deaths on Saturday, including six children and 10 women. Of the deaths, 35 were in Damascus and its suburbs and 18 in Daraa Province.


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March 7, 2014 - IAS faculty member and Associate Vice Chancellor for Undergraduate Learning Gray Kochhar-Lindgren published a new book, Kant in Hong Kong: Walking, Thinking, and the City. The book takes its inspiration from the famously regular walks of the German philosopher Immanuel Kant in his hometown of Königsberg, then moves quickly to a meditation on the everyday urban experience of twenty-first century Hong Kong.
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It had escaped our notice until today, but government has gone to You Tube in a big way. Virginia alone has 25 agencies using the do-it-yourself video website. Even Roanoke County has its own You Tube site.
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Hastings' laboratory studies mechanisms that regulate lung cancer progression, particularly involving parathyroid hormone-related protein (PTHrP). PTHrP is a paraneoplastic protein that is expressed in roughly two-thirds of all non-small lung carcinomas (NSCLC). The receptor for PTHrP is frequently present in lung cancers and is also made in pulmonary endothelial cells and other cells derived from normal lung. PTHrP exerts effects on cell growth, apoptosis and invasiveness. For example, Dr. Hastings has found that PTHrP modifies the sensitivity of lung cancer cells to apoptotic stimuli through a protein kinase A-dependent mechanism. Animal and patient studies in Dr. Hastings' laboratory indicate that PTHrP inhibits lung cancer growth and shortens patient survival. In patients with non-small cell lung carcinoma, tumor PTHrP expression is associated with longer survival consistent with an inhibitory effect of PTHrP on cancer. Interestingly, the protective effect of PTHrP occurs only in women, not in men. Ongoing work suggests that androgens inhibit lung cancer PTHrP expression through the Akt/MTOR pathway.
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I finally decided on The Grand Palladium resort for my April 9th, 2010 wedding. Were are having the ceremony on the beach at 3:00pm and the reception on La Barcaza Restaurante wedding boat afterward.
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Congrats! Check out this thread for more info about the GPB.
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Posted 04 July 2009 - 06:15 PM
Congratulations.....that's so exciting!!!
Posted 04 July 2009 - 09:58 PM
Congrats!! We have just confirmed our wedding at The Grand Palladium Punta Cana for April 13th 2010!! Happy planning
Posted 17 December 2009 - 10:44 PM
Congrats!!!!!! I am sure you are getting more and more excited each day. I am about to book this resort and I will be relieved once it's all decided!! We are getting a good deal (I think) - hopefully April is too!
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Posted 18 December 2009 - 04:54 AM
Congratulations! Such a great feeling to have that all set!
Posted 18 December 2009 - 10:48 PM
I just got back form my wedding there, Best experience ever!!!! You have made a great choice
Posted 10 January 2010 - 12:52 PM
My fiance and I are getting married there on April 14th... no time confirmed yet. It is coming up so quickly now
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I'm Getting Married Grand Palladium Place Punta Cana April 22, 2010!!!
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"Namale Creations"
Company:Phoenix The Creative Studio
Designer(s): Phoenix The Creative Studio, Canada
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Namale, n. 1. From the Fijian language, meaning Unique
Jewel. 2. Second largest island in the Fiji archipelago,
Vitu Levu.
Since her early age, Feda has had a passion for the
creation of jewelry. As a child she liked to watch the
family jeweler do its work in the city of Aleppo in Syria.
When she arrived in Canada, she brought with her a
passion that has never left her since. A couple of years
ago, she decided to create her own jewelry brand,
Namale Creations, making a childhood dream come true.
Namale is a word that comes fromthe Fijian language
and means "Unique Jewel", it perfectly represents her
products which are all handmade and crafted with the
finest materials available.
But what did we do exactly?
Identity / Web design / Web development / Stationary /
Posters / Strategy / Photography
About the Designer/Company
You can look at what we do in a couple of ways.
Some describe us as a human-scale studio whose artisans design interactions to generate emotions and connect with brands.
Others believe we create the alchemy of inspiration from mixing the blood of a design team with the ashes of the phoenix.
Flip a coin and see which one you get.
It landed on the edge, didn't it...
Technology, specifically the internet and its digital derivatives, have been accepted and adopted globally. Yet somehow, people and businesses still underestimate its power and ROI. Furthermore, they have trouble keeping up with consumersâ new expectations and fast-changing markets.
This is where we come into play.
By merging interaction and emotion, Phoenix The Creative Studio creates brand experiences that engage people. How? By reinventing them for the new interactive age, breaking with industry standards, and keeping them relevant and enjoyable so people connect through them.
Because when you connect with people, people let their guards down.
The fact is that our creative audacity and technical prowess have already won more than 70 major awards and over 300 international mentions for the work we've done on behalf of our clients.
Winning is an addictive habit. So talk to us. Before you know it, you'll be addicted too.


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Twenty-one years ago, when I was a stat-devouring pre-teen baseball fan, the San Francisco Giants made it to the World Series for the first time in my life. And then the earth shook at 5:04 p.m., on October 17, 1989.
The exact time is burned in my mind, pixelled and orange, like ballpark clocks still are, because I was there in Candlestick Park, a few dozen rows behind home plate, while my Giants warmed up to play their American League alter-egos, the Oakland A's, in the appropriately billed Bay Bridge Series. As a 12-year-old kid whose dad had taken him out of school early to make it in time for batting practice, I distinctly remember looking at the skyboxes that afternoon, and seeing their windows vibrate just above the clock.
"Why are they shaking?" I asked my dad, looking up at him. He followed my gaze, kinda shrugged, and said, "I don't know...."
Seconds later, we all knew why, as the ground swayed and rolled for a good bit. Though just a seventh grader from East San Jose, I was plenty used to a temblor now and again. Like most of the Bay Area crowd, my dad and I laughed it off, and turned our heads back to the field, waiting for the game to start. But rather than tossing and stretching, the field was consumed by people the families of players, we'd later learn, who'd been beckoned to the grass when they heard reports that Candlestick's stone walls were cracking. The power also seemed to be out, so as the skies darkened, people began flicking their lighters and holding up mini-flashlights, shouting "Play Ball!"
We joined them with the shouts, but then portable radios scattered amongst the fans broadcast the news: the Bay Bridge had fallen into the ocean; San Francisco was on fire; freeways were collapsing; chaos everywhere. Like a cruel game of telephone, the facts were amplified, the already tragic realities exaggerated into even mightier cataclysms. Suddenly, the calls for baseball fell silent and turned into the scurry of 40,000 or so pairs of feet heading to their cars.
Worried about running the inner-city gauntlet of Hunter's Point outside of the 'Stick, my dad started talking about "looters," a word I'd never heard before, and still failed to comprehend when he explained that they were people who took your stuff during disasters. Since we were driving a cheap Mazda pick-up, I doubt they'd want much from us, but I get the feeling my dad was more worried about my welfare.
Luckily, even Hunter's Point's feared looters were apparently in shock with the rest of the Bay they were nowhere in sight, even as traffic grinded ever so slowly toward 101. After reaching the freeway and finding it a slow-moving parking lot, we pulled off the road to eat our sandwiches, which, for some reason, I remember were ham on soft rolls with mustard, rolled up in aluminum foil. I couldn't eat though, too sick with concern about my mom and brother and grandparents and rest of my South Bay family those were the days before cell phones, so there was no checking in from afar. The radio reports didn't help: so the Bay Bridge didn't exactly fall into the ocean, but parts did collapse; not all of San Francisco was on fire, but the Marina district was; some freeways did fall; the epicenter was closer to San Jose; downtown Santa Cruz was in rubble. We eventually made it home, and everyone was fine save for the chimney of my aunt and uncle's house in Cupertino, which had tumbled.
Still, the aftershocks rattled me so much that I would turn bright white whenever I felt any movement below. I soon learned that bridges in shopping malls and seats in movie theaters were extremely sensitive to any subtle shaking. It took me until I was nearly 20 to shift those sensations back to the not-an-earthquake part of my brain.
I don't really remember the make-up game, which happened in Oakland a week or so later. My poor Giants, you may recall, were swept, but the whole series at that point seemed an afterthought.
Today, the Giants are once again battling for baseball domination in the World Series, this time taking on the rascally Rangers of Texas. Not since the shaking days of '89 do I remember caring so much about the boys in black and orange but this time, Giants, let's do it with a few more victories and a little less disaster.


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I'm trying to get some use out of my Canon 7D, and I really need to learn more about the different settings and functions on it, and a lot more about light….and everything really.
So, as well as returning to the local photography club (which I intend doing next week), I decided to embark on some photography lessons too.
Last night was spent taking photos like this.
And then, this morning I had some fun editing this photo in Photoshop to produce this.
I like the end result, although it's a completely different end result from the photo I saw on Facebook to promote the photography lesson. I can fully appreciate that everyone has different views on something like this. When I showed Ally this image she didn't know what it was, so in a way I wonder have I pushed the editing process too far.
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A new initiative aims to use music to help those feeling blue this winter.
Stirling singer Chrissy Wilson is planning to start a choir group for those affected by seasonal affective disorder (SAD).
The disorder is a form of depression that people experience at a certain time of year or during a particular season, often winter, and can have a significant effect on sufferers and worsen any existing mental health conditions.
Top of the Town boy Chrissy, who is lead singer of popular Americana band Rail Fan, came up with the idea after meeting several people who struggle during the winter months.
"I think this is the first choir that is aimed at helping people with seasonal depression," he told the Stirling Observer. "Over a significant period of time, I have been chatting with friends who say they feel down in the winter. I think it is a condition that is often misunderstood, and sometimes not treated seriously.
"Hearing about SAD propelled me into doing something that hopefully will make people feel a bit better about themselves at this time of year."
The Blue and White Light Band will meet for several sessions over the winter, with those who feel down being invited to come along and sing or even just watch the group rehearse.
Participants - who must be aged over 18 - will be learning songs from the film Muscle Shoals, a documentary film about FAME Studios and Muscle Shoals Sound Studio in Alabama, which features songs from soul legends such as Aretha Franklin and Otis Redding.
Chrissy, 36, hopes that the band will then be able to perform next year. "My intentions are to orchestrate this choir over the darker months, into March," he said. "Hopefully we can learn a few songs and then come back next year with the aim of doing some sort of Christmas show.
"The absolute dream would be to perform somewhere like the Albert Hall in London, we'd like to do something where the choir can stand up and show themselves in a good light, and enjoy performing."
Having performed at venues across the UK and Europe, Chrissy wants to pass on the experience he has gained and allow participants to feel like they should not be ashamed of suffering from SAD.
"A lot of people who have got it don't want to speak about it," he said. "I think it is in case they are judged in any way, as a lot of people who have mental health issues often are. This project is something where people can come in, play an instrument, or sing, listen, be heard, or even just share their problems."
The Blue and White Light Band will meet on December 6 and 20, January 10 and 25, February 7 and 21, and March 7 and 21 at Mediterranea in Stirling between 7pm and 9pm. See www.facebook.com/theblueandwhitelightband


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Do dams on rivers cause changes in fish assemblages? Does acid mine drainage cause degradation of stream macroinvertebrate assemblages?
Do invading species cause the loss of local biodiversity? In an ideal world the answers to such questions would be self-evident and entirely indisputable. In the real world today, it can sometimes depend who you ask....
"(Many) questions of importance are being asked of environmental sciences today... yet how much confidence can we have in answering them? Although we may see statistical associations between apparent stressors and indicators of environmental degradation, reaching a conclusion with an acceptable level of confidence that one thing actually causes another is challenging in environmental research." (Norris et al. submitted).
Take a finding of differences between fish assemblages upstream and downstream of a dam. These could be because of the dam itself, or they could be the result of a host of other factors. If no data is available on the pre-development state of the area, if other confounding environmental factors are present or if it proves difficult to allocate control locations, water managers may struggle to positively identify a cause.
Ecological restoration and ecological assessment is thus complicated by the extreme difficulty of drawing firm cause and effect conclusions from environmental investigations.
In some cases, scarcity of data, or the difficulty of drawing unambiguous cause—effect relationships from environmental investigations has been to blame. Studies providing solid results for one region are unlikely to give much confidence to those working elsewhere on different systems, for instance.
In other cases the sheer weight of available scientific literature has hampered decision-making and opened the way to confirmation bias - the very human tendency to favour information that confirms preconceptions or hypotheses and to ignore that which confronts them.
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What the world urgently needs, a growing body of scientists believe, is both an open, accessible international database for storing and sharing ecological evidence from the literature, and methods and software capable of analysing that evidence.
Now an international group of scientists and water managers is actively working to devise both of these.
The team is in broad agreement that better sharing of evidence is needed. For instance, ecologists have been slow to embrace data sharing, in spite of opportunities for improved knowledge through the synthesis of data from many studies. Concerns include a lack of accreditation systems, and the fear of having novel conclusions 'scooped' by other researchers.
However evidence comprises statements based on data, but is not itself primary data.
It is possible the sharing of existing evidence extracted from published literature will cause far less angst than sharing of primary data (Zeigler and Webb). In part that's because evidence is drawn from previously published sources, and conclusions highlighted in database entries can't be misappropriated, with users having to cite the original publication when using such evidence. Thus an ecological evidence database may be a step towards greater acceptance of data sharing by ecologists.
Even the largest database, however, is of little use if it isn't widely accessible and its evidence universally comprehensible. What's needed is a common lingo to allow researchers, water managers and scientists around the globe to share and adopt that evidence. Standards setting out terms, definitions and interactions are a globally accepted way of ensuring consistency of nomenclature and relationships of terms and can therefore help to establish a common language.
A partnership of scientists and managers from North America, Europe and Australia is working to establish such a Global Evidence Exchange, and to address issues such as the need to develop suitable content governance, set standards for interoperability between databases and create web technology for sharing evidence. The team also agree on the need to develop a not-for-profit, yet sustainable, business model to ensure that the benefits of a global evidence exchange endure.
Better use of evidence: Causal Criteria and Eco Evidence
The Global Evidence Exchange will not by itself improve the use of evidence in environmental decision making. Equally essential are methods and tools that draw on evidence to support decision making.
In particular there is need for a clear and well-defined method for synthesising the evidence to understand causal relationships between stressors and ecological response. This could have many uses:
Pioneering the field, Professor Richard Norris and eWater colleagues from the universities of Canberra and Melbourne are urging the adoption of 'causal criteria'. Causal criteria were first adopted in a landmark 1964 report prepared by an advisory committee to the US Surgeon General on the health effects of smoking (USDHEW 1964). In that report, the committee recognised that experimental design issues, such as those described above, mean that statistical methods alone are often insufficient for proving causal relationships, which instead were a matter of judgement. The causal criteria are a series of logical devices designed to aid such judgment.
eWater researchers have developed new software — called Eco Evidence —to help users apply causal criteria in environmental investigations. It allows the analysis of existing evidence in a well-documented, transparent, repeatable and rigorous manner. Eco Evidence can also be used to store evidence from a particular analysis, or 'published' to its on-line database by forward-thinking research and management organisations, so it can be re-used or shared with other users.
New habits required
The combination of the Global Evidence Exchange and new decision support tools like Eco Evidence can support evidence-based decision-making for environmental management. However the last step is up to decision makers themselves, to embrace the principle of evidence-based decision making, discard old habits and form new ones based on the novel methods and technology.
Further reading
Greet J, Webb JA and Cousens RD (2011), The importance of seasonal flow timing for riparian vegetation dynamics: a systematic review using causal criteria analysis. Freshwater Biology:doi:10.1111/j.1365-2427.2011.02564.x
Nichols S, Webb A, Norris R, and Stewardson M (2011) Eco Evidence Analysis methods manual: a systematic approach to evaluate causality in environmental science: ISBN 978-1-921543-43-2 eWater Cooperative Research Centre, Canberra.
Norris RH, Webb JA, Nichols SJ, Stewardson MJ and Harrison ET (submitted 24/03/2011). Analyzing cause and effect in environmental assessments: using weighted evidence from the literature. The Journal of the North American Benthological Society
Wealands SR, Webb JA, and Stewardson MJ (2009) Evidence-based model structure: The role of causal analysis in hydro-ecological modelling. In R. S. Anderssen, R. D. Braddock and L. T. H. Newham (Eds.). 18th World IMACS Congress and MODSIM09 International Congress on Modelling and Simulation, pp. 2465-2471. Modelling and Simulation Society of Australia and New Zealand and International Association for Mathematics and Computers in Simulation, Cairns, Australia. Available at: http://tinyurl.com/ybcb3we.
WISER (2010) The Causal Analysis/Diagnosis Decision Information System. WISER Project Newsletter. Waterbodies in Europe: Integrative Systems to Assess Ecological Status and Recovery, pp 2-3. Available at: http://www.wiser.eu/download/WISER_newsletter_issue_04.pdf.


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Boston University Student Government slate BetterBU won the executive board elections Monday with about 1,100 undergraduates, or about 7 percent, of the undergraduate population voting for each candidate, Student Elections Commission, officials said.
The candidates of BetterBU will become SG's executive board for the spring 2013 semester.
Aditya Rudra, SG executive vice president and School of Management junior, won the position of president for the spring of 2013 with 1,134 votes. About 215 students voted for write-in candidates.
Lauren LaVelle, an SMG junior, won executive vice president with 1,174 votes, while 164 students voted for write-in candidates. Justin Jones, an SMG junior, won vice president of finance with 1,162 votes, while 159 votes went to write-ins. College of Arts and Sciences freshman Jasmine Miller won vice president of internal affairs with 1,192 votes, while 156 votes went to write-ins.
BetterBU ran unopposed, making this the second unopposed SG election. The current SG e-board won an unopposed election in April.
Each candidate in last spring's winning slate, Be Unleashed, won about 1,300 votes, less than 10 percent of the 2011-12 undergraduate population, according to an April 25 Daily Free Press article.
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Paris has the Champs Elysees, London has Oxford Street and New York has Fifth Avenue. But while life in Amman may not be as fast-paced as the world's major metropolises, the Jordanian capital has Rainbow Street, one of the most colourful and multi-ethnic streets in the Middle East.
Mike MacEacheran from BBC Travel explores the Jordanian capital.
While Middle Eastern cities often replicate European and North American trends, Rainbow Street is a world away from the new-money glamour and in-your-face glitz of Beirut or Dubai. Not only is it the spearhead of the city and country, the street is becoming a focal point for some of the most cutting edge trends and cultural initiatives in the region.
Located in the cosmopolitan hilltop hub of Jabal Amman, the mile-long cobbled strip of real estate is where you will find the most exciting coffee shops, book stores, boutiques and late night bars. The side streets that fan out from it are home to a number of cultural and environmental agencies, including the Royal Film Commission and Wild Jordan — and in this blossoming street network you get a sense of a new creative national identity sprouting up. It is where urban European cool mixes with a renewed sense of Arab pride, due in part to Jordan's largely absent role from the Spring Revolutions that engulfed its neighbours Egypt and Syria.
Start at the First Circle roundabout, a hub of taxis and fast food joints, from where Rainbow Street tumbles down the hill towards downtown Amman and the historic Roman Forum. You will know you are in the right place when you see an outpost of the garish Buffalo Wings and Rings restaurant. Though Amman has absorbed plenty of influences from its large US-educated population, this American fast food chain is the antithesis to the street's other locally-owned shops – set up by Palestinians, Lebanese and Jordanians.
If you dream of starting everyday with the finest Italian coffee, then continue past the Saudi Arabian Embassy for a couple of minutes to Café Strada, just off Rainbow Street on Mohammad Rashid Ridha Street. One of the newer start-ups in the city, its Jordanian owners are proud of their former life in Italy and coffee-making credentials (they get their roasted beans from outside Bologna). If tea is your preferred choice, then make the short walk to the Turtle Green Tea Café, across the road from the historic Rainbow Cinema; its iced jasmine tea is the perfect morning thirst-quencher. For something more local, try a cup of Southern Sweet, a zesty concoction that mixes black tea with lemon and home grown mint.
Thanks to its hilltop location, Rainbow Street is spoilt with panoramic views across the city, glimpsed from between the neighbourhood's 1920s houses. Past the Turtle Green Tea Café and a short walk from the graffiti-covered walls of the British Council building is the best of these. The small, tiered, picnic-perfect Viewpoint Park has jaw-dropping views of the ancient Roman citadel, located on the opposite side of the city atop Jabal Al-Qala'a, a historic fort that could not be further removed from Rainbow Street's modernity. Budding photographers should visit in the late afternoon to make the most of the red sunsets that coat the downtown rooftops in a rosy glow.
Come Friday during summer, this stretch of Rainbow Street is also the focal point for the Souk Jara market. Like a mini-carnival, it is a popular place for local artists and craftsmen to sell the latest paintings, wood carvings and jewellery from their makeshift stalls. You are advised to come hungry as there are plenty of homemade snacks to choose from.
While Jordanian cuisine is being rediscovered by Generation Y – spearheaded by new start-ups like Jordanian cookery school Beit Sitti – falafel is still king on Rainbow Street, mostly thanks to Falafel Al Quds which has been serving crisp-fresh fried chickpea sandwiches and wraps since 1966. Do not be put off by the queues outside of the tiny takeaway joint, hidden behind vintage wooden décor – it is definitely worth the wait and Al Quds falafels are widely-regarded as being the best in the country.
Further along the street, you will pass more coffee and cake shops – of particular note is Café des Artistes, with fantastic Californian-style cheesecakes and local artwork — before you come to Sufra, a unique Jordanian eatery. One of King Abdullah and Queen Rania's favourites, Sufra is a new concept that brings classic Jordanian dishes like mansaf (lamb cooked in a sauce of fermented dried yogurt) to the fore. The royal seal of approval means that it pays to book in advance for one of its terrace tables – you may find yourself competing for elbow space with some of the Jordanian royal family.
But it's not just during the day when Rainbow Street impresses itself upon you. Cantaloupe is the country's first gastropub; Amigos bar (Al-Imama Malek Street; +962-6-463-3001)has pool tables and the city's best happy hour; and La Calle (Rainbow Street; +962-461-7-216) is an Italian restaurant with wraparound windows that ensure diners and drinkers linger for hours to people watch. All of these are populated by an easy-going mix of Jordanian, Lebanese, Egyptian and Palestinian twenty-something's looking for a good time.
Before checking out the street's most popular nightspots, however, pop into art gallery Jacaranda Images. While owner Barbara Rowell hails from down under, you are likely to unearth photographic prints or paintings from local up-and-coming artists like Tariq Dajani and Mike V Derderian.
Next door is Books@Cafe, a two-storey house with a vast bookshop-cum-late-night-bar. It regularly hosts events and concerts and has a vast terrace that overlooks the white-washed rooftops of downtown. Ask any long-term Amman resident and they will tell you that you have not really been to Rainbow Street unless you have sat under a star-filled, inky-black sky at Books@Cafe and shared a fruit-flavoured hookah or drank an ice-cold beer.


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What other niche fetishes can you draw into your web? How about "Hot Babes in Ferret Costumes"?
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I found it out using the magic of SiteMeter, of course.
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Knoxville (WVLT) - A Union County man has been indicted by a Knox County Grand Jury in a 13-year-old murder.
According to Knoxville Police, 39-year-old Ronald E. Green was arrested on March 4th in Union County on a burglary charged.
KPD says when Green was arrested he told Union County jailers that he wanted to talk about a murder he had committed in 1994. That murder was the beating death of a 46-year-old homeless man, Richard Allen Sweat, who was found underneath the Woodland Avenue Viaduct.
Police say Green described how he beat Sweat because he was flirting with Green's girlfriend and drank too much of the alcohol Green had bought. Knoxville Police Sergeant Tim Snodderly of the Major Crimes Unit was able to confirm Green's story through forensic evidence collected at the time.
Green remains in Union County, he will be transferred to Knox County for arraignment on second degree murder charges.
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Think of "Human Combat Chess" as a show for theatergoers looking to get their nerd on.
"Our biggest audience is nerds," says performer Skot Rieffer, who includes his own Dungeons and Dragons-playing self in that number. Rieffer describes "Human Combat Chess" as akin to "World Wrestling Entertainment, but with less spandex and more broadswords."
The show, which opens Friday in Minneapolis, begins much like a regular game of chess, writ large. The audience is arrayed around an enormous chessboard, on which human performers play the pawns, rooks and others. Their moves are ordered by opposing kings (a large video screen also displays each move). The "combat" part comes into play when one piece tries to take a square occupied by another piece, resulting in a duel with swords, fists, rapiers or several other weapons that nerds like.
There is, however, some debate as to what constitutes a nerd, and as to whether Human Combat Chess participants qualify.
"We've had discussions about what defines a nerd," says Steffi O'Brien, who is a queen in the game and not sure where she falls on the nerd scale. "If loving books and classical music defines me as a nerd, then yes."
" … and also loving to swing swords at people's heads," Rieffer chides.
Rieffer, a technical director and social media coordinator of the production as well as a queen's pawn, has been involved with Six Elements Theatre's "Human Combat Chess" for three years, ever since he heard about it from a friend and agreed to fill in on two days' notice. Although the performers hope to create the illusion that everything is happening spontaneously, it actually was mapped out months ago by writers who scripted the show, as well as elaborate backstories for the teams and combatants.
"Most of our writers are avid chess players," says Rieffer, noting that, in addition to the script, writers create profiles for the teams (this year, it's Team Dragons against Team Phoenix) and their members. "Some of the teams, their reputation will be that they are really good chess players who know how to play the board. But other teams don't care about that; they have brute players who don't worry about the strategy of the game because they win all their fights."
The fights, too, are scripted and performed with an eye toward the safety of the actors, many of who are vets of Minnesota Renaissance Festival. But Rieffer, 26, says accidents happen.
"I left rehearsals two weeks ago with a bruise on my hip because I landed wrong. That was on me. We've never had anybody hugely injured so that they weren't able to continue, but we have bumps and scrapes and bruises and what-not."
Those are the kinds of injuries a sports participant expects, not an actor, and Rieffer acknowledges that there is a sporting dimension to "Human Combat Chess."
"I don't like sports. There's no other sport that I enjoy watching, but I love this," says Rieffer, whose day job is creating sculptural museum pieces for Blue Rhino Studio. "I love the amount of trust you build up with the other person. Last year I had a fight with a guy named Noah Stein, my only fight in the show. We had very little in common, really, but after 12 weeks of rehearsal, I tell you right now I'd trust him with my life."
O'Brien, 25, is a lifelong athlete. She says she has responded to swords since, as a 3-year-old, her parents took her to a renaissance festival. O'Brien only heard about Human Combat Chess last fall but she has embraced it quickly. In the intervening months, she has taken classes and passed proficiency exams in the use of three different weapons — and, as a queen, she figures prominently in this year's chess game, which includes at least one extremely unorthodox chess move.
"I adore it," O'Brien enthuses. "The people here are really welcoming. And it's swords. Who doesn't like swords?"
Rieffer says about half of this year's combatants are, like O'Brien, newbies, and she is great evidence that interest can turn into participation very quickly.
Folks come to "Human Combat Chess" through friends of friends, by hearing about it from the group's podcasts (sixelementscompany.org/boards-and-swords-2014), their wiki (combatchess.wikia.com/wiki/Human_Combat_Chess) or through their twice-monthly open gyms. Anyone interested in learning more can get details on all of those at the Human Combat Chess 2014 page on Facebook.
Or you can just go to their performances, which are in a beautiful, wood-paneled space at the 19th-century Historic Wesley Center, the graceful balcony of which looks like the perfect place from which to denounce someone as a witch. According to Johanna Gorman-Baer, who is the production manager, a combatant and Rieffer's girlfriend, it can get loud.
"The crowd really gets into it," Gorman-Baer says. "You'll see people yelling at each other, yelling at the refs, 'Get your head in the game!' It's fun."
But is it theater? A sport? Rieffer says they're not exactly sure how to categorize it.
"It is an odd marketing thing. It's not really a sporting event, since it's scripted. It is a theatrical show but we don't really want to call it that because somebody who is interested in Shakespeare might not 100 percent dig this," Rieffer says.
Who will 100 percent dig it? Fans of intense stage combat, for sure. Fans of the Renaissance Festival, perhaps. And, really, anybody who hears Rieffer say this phrase — "We actually have someone in the company who is skilled in all seven forms of Jedi combat" — and thinks, "That sounds awesome!"
Chris Hewitt can be reached at 651-228-5552. Follow him on twitter.com/ChrisHMovie.
What: "Human Combat Chess"
When: Through July 19
Where: Historic Wesley Center, 101 E. Grant St., Minneapolis
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Retrieve from DB and display in JSP
Need to retrieve the data from database table(say "details" table) and display it in a jsp page(say table.jsp).
In table.jsp i have fields s.no,name,dob,sex,address...and from the "details" table i got to take all the data and display it in jsp to the respective fields..
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Thanks for what exactly? You're not asking a question, you're just dumping some requirements. What are you stuck at?"Syntactic sugar causes cancer of the semicolon." -- Alan Perlis
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Hi, follow the below steps:
In Servlet:
1. Get all the details from table: details(s.no, name, dob, sex, address...) for particular record using JDBC concept.
2. Store the details(which are retrieved from resultSet object) in collection object like ArrayList and add this to request object.
In Jsp:
1. Retrieve the arraylist using iterator concept and add these values to the corresponding fields.
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As many as 14 million families living in rural areas of the European Union do not enjoy high-speed internet access, also known as broadband. One reason for this is because the technology involved is usually too costly to extend to these small and remote communities.
But as broadband becomes more deeply established in urban areas, the EU's 'digital divide' has widened. In the information age, this has serious social implications. It is also an obstacle to Europe's quest to become the world's leading knowledge-based society. Aware of this issue, the Union has launched several initiatives to close the chasm, including eEurope 2005 which aims to extend broadband access to all European schools, universities and businesses.
Rural Wings, a new EU-backed project, aims to complement these initiatives by bringing high-speed connectivity to some of the remotest rural communities, not just in Europe, but also in Africa and Canada. Funded through 'Aeronautics and space' thematic priority of the Sixth Framework Programme for Research (FP6), the project aims to promote digital literacy in rural communities.
"Rural Wings will promote 'broadband for all'," explains Menelaos Sotiriou of QPlan, a Greek partner in the project. "It will use a satellite communication systems to connect rural areas in several countries with one another."
He notes that Greece already has a similar project in place to reach distant mountain areas but using older technological infrastructure. ZEUS (the satellite network of rural schools) employs advanced communication channels for the provision of support to hard-to-reach schools in Greece, particularly for teacher training.
Orbiting the World Wide Web
Space research is often seen as a tool for helping us to lift the veil of mystery off that 'final frontier'. But space technology can have useful applications closer to Earth. Satellite communications, for instance, offer the prospect of extending high-speed internet communication – known as broadband – to remote rural communities.
"The optimum solution to quickly start closing the digital divide is clearly a broadband fixed wireless access, as wireless solutions have the ability to be both transitory and permanent technologies at the same time," the project's 29 partners observe.
Cost was once a major hurdle in using satellite technology to connect to the web. But rapid technological advances in recent years have brought prices right down. In fact, when it comes to remote areas of the countryside, it is more cost-effective than the fixed-line based ADSL system favoured in urban areas.
Commercially available satellite dishes now also allow for two-way broadband access. Earlier technology only enabled dishes to receive but not to transmit information – a major handicap when it comes to the internet.
The system's architecture is built around 'learning hubs' in which the satellite dish is placed. Surrounding schools, known as the 'learning community', use wireless technology to communicate with the hub.
There will be dozens of pilot hubs in 21 European and African countries, as well as Canada, in a bid to promote "a new culture in rural communities promoting digital literacy and reducing resistance to the use of new technologies".
EU and external sources
Research Contacts page
More information:
eEurope 2005 – an information society for all
FP6's 'Aeronautics and space' thematic priority


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Cause it's entertaining and makes you look cool, I guess...
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Manga is a lot better than the anime in most cases
In some cases the anime is incomplete while the Manga goes on
And in some cases the manga is more complete
[Excuzzes me~]
im pretty sure no one reads manga publicly in the US. Japan maybe but thats more stereotypical
Guest passes!! <3
Manga is actually on the decline. It's still pretty popular, but comic books are what's coming back (sadly).
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for manga the story line is much better
in anime's sometimes they take out some important parts
and just skip those scenes
"No matter how fast it flies, a paper airplane cannot break through a brick wall
For me, manga is so important because, simply put, it's cheaper than anime. I don't just mean that in terms of cost of a book vs. cost of a DVD, mind you. I'm a quick reader, so manga is less of a TIME investment-I can read in between classes, or while on a long car trip, situations where I may not be able to watch anime. Also, manga's cheaper to make. Thus, in Japan, MORE manga is made than anime. There's a series that could cover just any topic under the sun, anything you wanna read about, any character you'd like to read about. There is undoubtedly a manga for you. Also, there's the whole realm of doujinshi, or fan-made manga not attached to a big publisher. CLAMP actually started here IIRC So there's just SO much material in the realm of manga, I love being able to have so many choices at my fingertips. :] Also, I think there's a wider variety of styles in manga.
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i watched anime but i have only read one manga - i like anime alot cos it moves - so y is manga awesome and all? just want to no since pplz say it's cool.
why is anime so popular?
taka_hakase wrote:
usually the book is better
Love Hina (and lately Sailor Moon) is perfect proof of that for me.
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Well, it may due with the fact that a lot of anime's suck. And, you can read a full manga in less then 10 minutes and learn if it sucks but with a anime.. man, you got to sit there and watch it.
When naruto started to suck, i gave up on it. When i went back to, i went back to the manga only because.. the manga's are usually much better!
Thats the other thing that's true I guess, manga's don't usually have fillers.
Yup. Its kind of annoying to be dedicated to an anime to suddenly find out that for a couple months, all we're going to be seeing is stuff not related to the real story. With Bleach, it was overly annoying.
Manga is both singular and plural, so it can't be used as manga's. The same with anime, it is both singular and plural, so it can't be used as anime's either.
Ex.: I have finished watching 3 anime this month and have quite enjoyed them. I used to read 5 manga series at once.
This is how they are to be used, so please use them correctly.
Lost :'(
Manga isn't as censored and it doesn't have many limits. Looking at Gantz and Dorohedoro. I think only a few manga make it into the public as anime. But there are so many more manga out there. So many possibilities. Different worlds to experience.
Finishing up LoGH
no more membership ;_; RIP 2015 (jk 2016, i have mem again)
it seems like, manga has become more popular, because usually it shows more then what the animation shows, also it is sad to say, some people prefer reading manga than watching anime, because it is not as censored as anime is, also manga is much further than animes. the episodes stretch more, people that watch anime want to know what happens next, so they get onto the manga and then they just keep wanting to know whats going to happen, then afterwords no one is really watching much anime but reading the manga form of it.
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That's like saying why are book and comics so popular. It's because it has a story inside them and people want to read them. Why else?
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For those of you who've been listening to my morning radio program, you're all-too-familiar with the "Leviticus 19:36" principle. In this sometimes dry book of the Old Testament we find God's warning against using dishonest measurements for grain and liquid. While that may sound like an irrelevant concept to those of us living in the twenty first century, it is more applicable to our current condition than you may think. It's all about reading the passage in the context of its times.
Most economies at the time of the writing of Leviticus were agrarian based. As such, God's warning about using honest liquid and dry measures were directed toward their trade practices. Most economic transactions were completed by the barter system which, quite often, included the transfer of milk, grain and the sort. As such, God's warning to use honest measurements would be the equivalent of His telling us in our time to avoid currency manipulation.
As it turns out, Seth Lipsky recently addressed this very topic in an edition of Imprimis, a publication of Hillsdale College. Lipsky held forth on the concept of a fiat (effectively unsecured) currency, such as the dollar, and the danger inherent in allowing it to float without any point of reference. Since the removal of the American Dollar from the gold standard, the dollar's value has inflated and deflated rather wildly, which poses a very real threat to the property rights of all Americans. Think about it: if you hold a CD account worth $400,000, you'd prefer the value of those dollars to remain constant. Consistent inflation will leave you with a devalued retirement fund, a diminished college account and real properties that don't generate a real return on your investment.
Truth is the foundation for the future. I've oft discussed the importance of absolutes as they pertain to marriage, education, and the defense of the preborn. Now, I'm as convinced that Truth must be the foundation of our economic policy. I've frequently stated, in defense of traditional marriage, that "if marriage is defined as everything, it truly means nothing." The same is true with the value of our currency: if its value is absolutely relative, it is absolutely worthless.
I believe it's time for Americans to demand accountability from their government. We must work to reduce the deficit, balance the budget and set American currency on a consistent standard that precludes constant cycles of inflation and deflation. The property rights and freedom of the American People are contingent upon it.


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Study concludes anti-vaccine brains are wired differently
A recent study has shown that there is a significant and measurable difference in the brain structures of those who believe in scientific evidence and medicine and those who are "anti-vaccine". The study looked at over 200 MRI brain scans; the researchers studied 103 MRI scans of people who self-identified as "anti-vaccine" and 108 MRI's of the brains of a control group, who did not identify as anti-vaccine.
"The results were very surprising" said Dr. John Snow, lead researcher and presumed Pharma Shill. "The anti-vaccine group's brains showed significant underdevelopment in the portion of the brain responsible for reason, logic and math."
So what exactly does this mean? "It means that no matter how much evidence, reason, logic, etc. you show to an anti-vaxxer, they will never change their position. They believe they "know" they are right, even without any evidence."
The researchers are hoping to expand the study to include all manner of conspiracy theorists, 9/11 truthers, Reiki masters, etc.
Although the researches claim they had no funding from pharmaceutical companies or vaccine manufacturers, it is presumed that anti-vaxxers will go ahead and claim they did anyway.


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By LARRY GOFFINET
Sports Editor
TELL CITY—Both teams had several big hitters but it was Perry Central's passing that made the difference in the Commodores' 25-19, 23-25, 25-19, 25-20 volleyball win over Tell City Thursday.
By MIKE SPRAGUE
Sports Correspondent
TELL CITY—Tell City's defense forced two turnovers that helped the Marksmen defeat Pike Central 20-6 in PAC football Friday.
The Marksmen started fast, scoring on their first possession.
They started it on their 49-yard line. Reese Miller carried the ball on four of the six plays of the drive, gaining 16, 5, 16 and 8 yards, with the last carry good for a touchdown with 7:55 left in the first quarter.
Tell City's extra-point-kick attempt was blocked.
CAMPBELLSBURG—Perry Central amassed only 184 yards of total offense but used some big plays on defense and special teams to beat West Washington 27-6 in PLAC football Friday and Saturday.
The Commodores had only two plays longer than 10 yards and both came on their first drive--a 13-yard pass from Dacota Schaad to Ryan Aders and an 18-yard touchdown run by Austin LeClere.
Former Dale basketball coach Del Harris was in Spencer County last week to visit relatives and old friends and to promote his new book.
TELL CITY—Tell City swept singles play and won No. 2 doubles to beat Heritage Hills 4-1 in PAC boys tennis Tuesday.
Anjan Kashyab beat Dugan Kippenbrock 6-0, 6-1 in No. 1 singles, Jake Swihart beat Tyler Waggoner 6-0, 6-1 in No. 2, and Jeff Yeung edged Spencer Graham 7-5, 6-4 in No. 3.
Tyler Groves and Kevin Yeung outlasted Willie McElhaney and Matt Waggoner 7-5, 3-6, 6-3 in No. 2 doubles.
Heritage Hills' Derek Kippenbrock and Seth Hancock beat Will Roberts and Austin Paulin 6-1, 6-4 in No. 1 doubles.
LINCOLN CITY—McKenzie Hayes had 24 kills, 11 digs, eight assists, eight points and four blocks as Tell City beat Heritage Hills 26-24, 25-20, 25-21 in a battle for first place in PAC volleyball Tuesday.
Tell City, ranked fourth in the state in Class 2A this week, improved to 10-0 overall and 3-0 in the PAC. Heritage Hills, ranked 12th in Class 3A, slipped to 9-2 overall and 2-1 in the conference.
"We played extremely well," said Tell City Coach Dalonda Hayes. "Everybody was on tonight. We made the fewest errors we have all season.
MONTGOMERY—Most think Tell City and Mater Dei are the teams Perry Central will have to knock off to win this year's Class 2A volleyball sectional.
The Commodores will see how they match up with Tell City when they visit the Marksmen tonight at 5:30. And they beat Mater Dei 25-16, 25-20 with strong passing and a balanced hitting attack in the first match of Barr-Reeve's tourney Saturday.
"We served well and passed well," said Perry Central Coach Becky Genet. "We started out slow but took charge."
CANNELTON—Cannelton played probably its best all-around volleyball match of the season, but 15 bad serves eventually caught up to the Bulldogs in a 25-22, 16-25, 25-19, 16-25, 15-13 loss to Hancock County Tuesday.
"We talked and moved the best we ever did and set up the ball the most and got the most spikes," said Cannelton Coach Felicia Myers.
Cannelton made four bad serves in the fourth game but still dominated it overall to tie the match.
LINCOLN CITY—Sam Scherry had a goal and an assist as Heritage Hills defeated Tell City 4-2 in PAC boys soccer Thursday.
Scherry assisted on Seth Bolin's goal and then scored one of his own as the Patriots took a 2-0 first-half lead.
Tell City scored the first goal of the second half but Heritage Hills scored the next two, by Yomar Cital and Miguel Lara, to take control.
Matthew Cole and Reed Goffinet scored Tell City's goals.
TELL CITY—Mason Stephens scored the game's only touchdown in the fourth quarter as Perry Central edged Tell City 6-0 in eighth grade football Thursday.
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Daniel Richard Baines died Saturday, April 6, 2002, at the Red Dog Mine near Kotzebue. He was 47.
A funeral service will be held Sunday in Seldovia, where his wife, Della, is buried.
Mr. Baines was born Dec. 29, 1954, in Ketchikan and grew up in Sitka. He graduated from Sitka High School in 1973. He worked on the trans-Alaska oil pipeline, at the Sitka pulp mill and in various commercial fishing positions throughout Alaska. He was employed as a truck driver at the Red Dog Mine at the time of his death. He also held a U.S. Coast Guard captain's license.
Mr. Baines loved to hunt and fish with his father and brothers, do outdoor activities with his two sons, bring his kids traveling to see new places and have lots of fun.
"Danny is greatly remembered for his quiet strength and passion for life, and for a great love for his family; he dedicated his life to serving his family. In the hearts of all who knew him, his memory lives, his love endures. Danny will be missed, always be loved, and certainly remembered for the many years of happiness he brought to his family.
"Some say that you can judge a man by how many people call him their friend. If that's the case, then Danny was a very big man. He was known and loved by many who were able to celebrate life right along with him -- in sports, in business and with family," his family said.
Mr. Baines was preceded in death by his wife, Della Baines; father, Conrad Baines Sr.; and his brother, Conrad Baines Jr.
He is survived by his two sons, Dustin and Darin of Seldovia; his mother, Velma Baines of Sitka; brothers, Ronald Baines of Seattle, Frank Baines of Anchorage, Terry Baines of Juneau, Michael Baines of Sitka, and Robert Baines of Sitka; sisters, Betty Baines and Barbara Baines of Sitka; mother- and father-in-law, Rod and Sunni Hilts of Seldovia; and numerous nephews, cousins, aunts and uncles.
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Three blondes died and found themselves standing before St. Peter. He told them before they could enter Heaven, they had to tell him what Easter was.
The first blonde said, "Easter is a holiday where they have a big feast and we give thanks and eat turkey."
St. Peter said, "Noooooo," and he banished her to hell.
The second blonde said, "Easter is when we celebrate Jesus' birth and exchange gifts."
St. Peter said, "Noooooo," and he banished her to hell.
The third blonde said, she knew what Easter is, and St. Peter said,"So, tell me."
She said, "Easter is a Christian holiday that coincides with the Jewish festival of Passover. Jesus was having Passover feast with His disciples when he was betrayed by Judas, and the Romans arrested him. The Romans hung Him on the cross and eventually He died. Then they buried Him in a tomb behind a very large boulder....
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Research Foundation exec spending abuse topped $130K
The state comptroller's office has released its audit of the SUNY Research Foundation, documenting violations by a former official who spent more than $130,000 on foreign trips, a birthday party for his wife and Buffalo Sabres tickets.
The report cited Edgar Turkle III, who was fired in February of this year from his job as Operations Manager and Vice President for Research Administration and Economic Development.
Auditors reviewed 424 of Turkle's credit card transactions from November 2007 through November 2011, and found 348 purchases totaling $130,887 were not adequately supported as being business-related. Turkle traveled to foreign countries in 29 out of the 48 months, incurring $125,342 for foreign travel, primarily to Asia. He acknowledged traveling with Buffalo State faculty members on trips to China and Thailand.
"I am the guy. No other way to put it," Turkle is quoted as saying in the report.
He also charged the Research Foundation $22,225 for Buffalo Sabres tickets, which he admitted were his personal season tickets, and other items such as a birthday celebration for his wife, an Apple laptop computer, an iPad, iPhones, Godiva chocolates, and groceries. The comptroller's report noted the purchases clearly benefited only Turkle and may be taxable under the Internal Revenue Code. Turkle did reimburse the Research Foundation $10,674 for personal charges on his credit card.
The comptroller's office has also made its finding known to the Albany County District Attorney.
In addition, the 31-page audit examined three contracts totaling $95,574 at Buffalo State College that were procured without required written or verbal bids. One of these procurements went to a professor who was awarded a $30,000 contract to work as a consultant on a project to improve the quality of service that the Research Foundation provides to its constituents. The other two contracts, which totaled $30,389 and $35,185, respectively, were to rebuild a piano and to pay for a research microscope system.
Also, the State University of New York chancellor's account was charged $27,968 for questionable items, including $13,172 for beverages — mostly alcohol — and $9,822 for the initiation fee and dues for the chancellor's membership in a private club.
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What is it?
Myeloma, also known as multiple myeloma, is a cancer of plasma cells. Plasma cells are mature lymphocytes, a type of white blood cell, that help fight infection by producing special proteins called antibodies or immunoglobulins. In myeloma, large numbers of abnormal plasma cells called myeloma cells are made in the bone marrow. These myeloma cells multiply abnormally, without any proper order, forming collections known as tumors that accumulate in different parts of the body, especially in the bone marrow and on the surfaces of different bones in the body. These tumours secrete chemicals that stimulate other bone marrow cells (osteoclasts) to remove calcium from the bone. As a result bones can become weaker, more brittle and prone to breakage. They also collect in the bone marrow preventing it from making normal red cells, white cells and platelets. Over time people with myeloma can become anaemic, more susceptible to infections and to bleeding and bruising more easily.
Myeloma cells typically produce an abnormal type of immunoglobulin called paraprotein or M protein, which can be detected in the blood and urine. Excessive amounts of paraprotein can cause problems in the body, such as kidney damage.
How common is it?
Each year in Australia around 1700 people are diagnosed with myeloma - the equivalent of four people every day.
Who gets it?
The risk of developing myeloma increases with age. Around 75% of all new cases are diagnosed in people aged 60 years or over. Myeloma is uncommon in people under 40. It occurs more frequently in men than in women.
What causes myeloma?
The cause of myeloma remains unknown but it may result from damage to one or more of the genes that normally control blood cell development. In a small number of cases, exposure to high doses of radiation and ongoing exposure to certain industrial or environmental chemicals may increase the risk of myeloma. Some people with monoclonal gammopathy of undetermined significance (MGUS), a non-malignant (non-cancerous) condition, will eventually go on to develop myeloma.
What are the symptoms?
The most common symptom of myeloma is bone pain. This is usually felt in the back or ribs and may be made worse by movement. Other symptoms are caused by a lack of normal blood cells and include:
- anaemia, due to a lack of red cells; causing persistent tiredness, dizziness, paleness, or shortness of breath when physically active,
- frequent or repeated infections and slow healing, due to a lack of normal white blood cells, especially neutrophils,
- increased or unexplained bleeding or bruising due to a very low platelet count.
How is it diagnosed?
Myeloma is diagnosed using information gathered from a number of different tests. These include a physical examination, blood and urine tests, a bone marrow biopsy, x-rays and other more specialised bone imaging tests.
How is it treated?
The treatment for myeloma depends on a number of factors including the stage of your disease, your general health and your age. Although there is currently no cure for myeloma, treatment can be successful in controlling the disease, sometimes for several years.
People diagnosed with early stage disease, smouldering myeloma, don't have any symptoms and don't need treatment straight away. Treatment may be given at a later stage, when the disease progresses after some months or years. In these cases the doctor may recommend regular checkups, including blood and urine tests, to carefully monitor their health.
Chemotherapy, usually in combination with cortico-steroids, may be given to control the growth of myeloma. Treatment is given until the myeloma reaches a stable or plateau stage, where the amount of myeloma in the body is reduced to as low a level as possible. Once the myeloma is controlled more treatment is needed to prolong the remission for as long as possible. There are several treatments used, including cortico-steroids (prednisone / prednisolone), interferon and thalidomide. Thalidomide may also be used in the initial treatment of myeloma and to control myeloma that has come back (relapsed).
There are several options for treating relapsed myeloma. These include more chemotherapy, thalidomide and bortezomib (Velcade®).
Drugs called bisphosphonates are commonly used to prevent and treat complications due to bone damage. These drugs can help to re-strengthen the bone and reduce risk of fractures, therefore protecting them from the damaging effects of myeloma. By preventing bone destruction, these drugs also help to reduce bone pain, and hypercalcaemia (excess calcium in the blood), which can result from bone breakdown.
High dose chemotherapy followed by stem cell transplantation is used to treat some people with myeloma, who have no other serious illnesses. Promising new and experimental treatments are being developed all the time. Some of these treatments are currently being used in clinical trials in Australia and other parts of the world. Your doctor will be able to discuss with you all of the treatment options suitable for you.
Side-effects of treatment
All treatments can cause side-effects. The type and severity however will vary between individuals, depending on the type of treatment used and how an individual responds to it. In general, more intensive treatment is associated with more severe side-effects. It is important to report any symptoms you are having to your doctor or nurse. In most cases they can be treated and are reversible.
Your doctor and nurse will discuss with you the possible side-effects of any treatments you need and how they can be managed.
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