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Hundreds of thousands of Wal-Mart employees now have an extra reason to consider pursuing a college degree. Through a partnership with the online American Public University (APU), they can qualify for free college credits that are awarded for the knowledge and skills they've gained in certain job categories. By 2012, 70 percent of the giant company's US staff will be in jobs that are eligible for free credits.
The partnership is emblematic of changes in the college landscape. Many adults are going back to school to upgrade their career prospects – a move that could be essential for today's difficult job market. In addition, President Obama has said that by 2020, the United States should lead the world in the rate of college degrees earned.
It is against this backdrop that demand is growing for more credits for learning accomplished outside the classroom – in the military, the workplace, or even volunteer activities.
Rather than simply requiring traditional "seat time,... everyone is looking [for how to] get more people through higher-ed programs faster and in a more flexible way," says Richard Kazis, senior vice president of Jobs for the Future, a research and policy organization in Boston.
But is working in a job, say, as a cashier really worthy of college credit?
If a student can show how the experience translates into knowledge and skills that others might learn in a college class, then yes, higher-education experts say.
"It's not what you did, but what you know," says Pamela Tate, president of the Council for Adult & Experiential Learning (CAEL) in Chicago, which helps colleges assess the educational value of on-the-job and other life experiences.
About 8 in 10 colleges offer some credit for "prior learning" in the military or as demonstrated in exams in a variety of fields, a CAEL survey found. Sixty-six percent review portfolios that students put together to show other types of college-level learning, according to the survey.
Different colleges set different standards for such credits, however, so to what extent Wal-Mart employees will be able to transfer them to other institutions is an open question.
"Giving college credit for working at [a place like] Wal-Mart is not something that's typically been done," says Janet Poley, president of the American Distance Education Consortium in Lincoln, Neb.
It depends on how the Wal-Mart program is implemented, but, Ms. Poley says, "I don't think there's going to be a high respect, nor, if you move to another institution, [a high level of] acceptance of credit, for at least some of the [job categories] they're talking about."
General resistance to experiential-learning credits was strong in the 1970s but has largely faded, Ms. Tate says. "There are still pockets of faculty who say, 'If you didn't learn it here on this campus ... I don't support [giving you credit].' ... But if the Wal-Mart program really is a good one, it could help to spread the practice of [prior learning] assessment throughout the corporate world and help a lot of working people get credentials."
College students who start off with such credits are more likely to complete an associate's or bachelor's degree, according to a recent CAEL study of 48 postsecondary institutions.
For Brian Gentile, starting college wasn't a problem. But after taking classes on and off for 20 years, he decided it was time to get his bachelor's degree in computer and information science.
Through the University of Maryland University College, which caters to working adults, he earned 15 credits – the equivalent of five classes – for learning he's accomplished in his IT jobs. They cost one-third of what is charged for regular class credits. Better yet, he says, "it basically saved me a year.... It made me think, 'OK, I can actually finish this degree finally.' "
But those 15 credits weren't just handed over. He had to take a semester-long class to put together a portfolio documenting what he'd mastered. Trained faculty evaluate portfolios before granting credits. "It was a ton of work," he says.
Mr. Gentile's credits were for courses such as "Windows Network Infrastructure" – a subject he says was better learned "in real life," where he ran into snags and people issues that usually don't happen in class.
As for Wal-Mart's Lifelong Learning Program, APU, which is based in Charles Town, W.Va., is rigorously evaluating the types of learning involved in the company's jobs, says Karan Powell, senior vice president and academic dean. From there, it will match up equivalent course credits. Cashiers, for instance, can receive six free credits toward courses such as customer relations.
With some free credits and a 15 percent discount, Wal-Mart employees can save a considerable amount on tuition. Some observers, however, have raised questions about the affordability factor for low-wage workers. Over the next three years, Wal-Mart has promised to contribute $50 million to help employees pursue college courses.
Since the 1970s, private companies have paid the American Council on Education, a Washington higher-education association, to evaluate their training for potential credits. The Wal-Mart announcement in June has prompted more corporate calls to ACE about how to have training evaluated, says Jim Selbe, ACE's assistant vice president for lifelong learning.


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Definition: Bitchin' Sauce (nerb—noun + verb) is a bitchin' (for lack of a better word) sauce sold at the San Diego farmers market. It comes in 3 varieties—original bitchin' sauce, chipotle, and pesto. It's both vegan and gluten-free. And the taste? It's oh-em-gee out of this world! (Coming from a girl who used to turn her nose up at all things vegan. Mark my word—this bitchin' sauce made me a believer.) Almonds give the sauce its creamy base. While lemons provide a lovely kick at the end. Its only downfall—you can't get it in Chicago. Hence my friend Amy's question:
Amy: Can you help me recreate a sauce?
Me: Sure [said with hesitation]. I can try.
Amy: It's vegan.
Me: Oh never mind, vegan is way out of my league. You'll have to ask Genesis.
Amy: I already did. She told me to ask you.
Me: Shoot. No promises though [said with confidence].
The Verdict is in on Bitchin' Sauce
Next thing you know, we're sitting around Amy's kitchen table. Pinkies lifted high. A
chip cracker in hand. Palettes cleansed. Let the Bitchin' Sauce tasting begin. Dip, taste, dip, taste, ponder. Dip, taste, pretend you know what you're doing, write. And repeat.
100 chips later and the dip/taste sequence came to a close. We had a list of ingredients. And yes, we cheated by writing down the ingredients from the label. However, if the word "spices" had been a bit more specific, we could have saved those chips for another time. Travesty.
After the list was secured, we reconvened at Genesis' house. Wrote up a rough recipe. And turned the VitaMix to high. A couple tweaks later. And Houston, we have Bitchin' Sauce! Or darn close to it.
How would you eat Bitchin' Sauce?
Eat it on a chip. Or even on a vegetable. Or stay tuned to how I've been eating it everyday for the past 2 weeks. San Diego peeps—how do you eat your Bitchin' Sauce?
- 3/4 c. + 2 tbsp. water
- 1/2 c. + 2 tbsp. grapeseed oil
- 1/2 c. raw almonds
- 1/4 c. + 2 tbsp. lemon juice, fresh
- 3 tbsp. nutritional yeast
- 2 cloves garlic
- 2 tsp. bragg liquid aminos
- 1/2 tsp. salt
- 1/2 tsp. cumin
- 1/2 tsp. chili powder
- 1/4 tsp. coriander
- 1/4 tsp. paprika
- Place all ingredients in a high-powdered blender (such as a VitaMix). Slowly blend for one minute. Turn the dial up to high, and continue to blend for 1-2 minutes or until smooth and creamy.
- Store in the refrigerator. Sauce may separate. Stir and it's as good as new.
• 2 tablespoons = 1/8 cup (If you happen to have one of those laying around.)
• Although I haven't tried it, I think a food processor will work to make this sauce.
• This sauce doesn't last long enough in my fridge to figure out its shelf life.
• If you're stopping through San Diego, you must give the real deal a try. It just might revolutionize your life. Word on the street—they may start shipping soon.
• If doing Whole30, coconut aminos can be substituted for bragg aminos.
Try the chipotle version!

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We live blogged all the action in the stock market on Monday. You can get before-the-open news in Indications and — shortly after the open — a compact rundown in Market Snapshot.
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- 9:35 am
- Lower open
- by Victor Reklaitis
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Good morning.
Stocks are starting off in the red.
That's after suffering their biggest weekly loss in two months last week.
Dow -0.3%
Nasdaq -0.2%
Russell 2000 -0.1%
- 9:41 am
- Lots of M&A news
- by Victor Reklaitis
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There's been a burst of deal news today, and such headlines generally give stocks a lift.
Medtronic /quotes/zigman/233680/delayed /quotes/nls/mdt MDT said it's buying a fellow medical devices maker, Covidien /quotes/zigman/4475320/delayed /quotes/nls/cov COV , over the weekend.
Level 3 /quotes/zigman/7013898/delayed /quotes/nls/lvlt LVLT said it's planning to buy TW Telecom /quotes/zigman/110786/delayed /quotes/nls/twtc TWTC .
International Game Technology /quotes/zigman/230150/delayed /quotes/nls/igt IGT is considering selling itself, and an Italian firm, Gtech, is among the potential bidders.
SanDisk /quotes/zigman/54370/delayed /quotes/nls/sndk SNDK also said it expects to buy Fusion IO /quotes/zigman/5375401/delayed /quotes/nls/fio FIO .
Read more in the Movers & Shakers column.
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- 9:45 am
- S&P 500 turns positive
- by Victor Reklaitis
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The main indexes have turned mostly positive after all opening in the red.
Dow -0.1%
Nasdaq +0.2%
Russell 2000 +0.1%
- 9:49 am
- 2 economic reports beat
- by Victor Reklaitis
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Beyond the M&A news, two U.S. economic reports out this morning could be boosting sentiment.
The latest figures for industrial production and the Empire State index were better than expected.
Another report still to come today is about a housing-market index, and that's expected in about 10 minutes.
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- 10:00 am
- Iraq, Ukraine worries
- by Victor Reklaitis
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There are plenty of negative headlines today, helping to keep gains in check.
For starters, there is more increased violence in Iraq and further tension in Ukraine.
For example, Sunni-led Islamist militants in Iraq have gained control of the northwest city of Tal Afar.
Ukraine will have to send prepayments to Russia for natural gas.
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- 10:02 am
- Housing report tops forecasts
- by Victor Reklaitis
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The latest figure for that housing-market index came out at 10 a.m. Eastern, and it exceeded expectations.
MarketWatch's Ruth Mantell reports:
Home builders' confidence rose four points to 49 in June — the highest level in five months — but respondents were still a bit pessimistic, according to the National Association of Home Builders/Wells Fargo housing-market index released Monday. Economists polled by MarketWatch had expected a June reading of 47, compared with 45 in May.
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- 10:06 am
- Fresh session highs
- by Victor Reklaitis
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So that's three U.S. economic reports that have topped expectations.
Stocks are now rising to fresh session highs.
The Dow has even turned positive, joining the other indexes that already were in the green.
Dow +0.02%
Nasdaq +0.3%
Russell 2000 +0.3%
- 10:12 am
- Not all sunshine
- by Victor Reklaitis
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It's worth noting that there's been one report on the U.S. economy that hasn't been that great today.
The IMF cut its growth estimate for the U.S. to 2% for 2014, down from the 2.8% it projected in April, reports MarketWatch's Steve Goldstein.
The IMF, in the Article IV consultation which it conducts with every member country annually, also forecasts weaker potential growth of "around 2%" for the next several years due to the effects of population aging and more modest prospects for productivity growth, says his short story.
Read more here.
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- 10:37 am
- Galleon update
- by Sital Patel
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Remember convicted hedge-fund founder Raj Rajaratnam?
The former Galleon boss lost his appeal to have his 2011 insider trading conviction overturned. The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to consider a challenge of his conviction of 14 counts of securities fraud and conspiracy for trading on sensitive inside information of several companies, including Goldman Sachs Group Inc. /quotes/zigman/188479/delayed /quotes/nls/gs GS .
Rajaratnam is currently serving 11 years in prison.
His younger brother Rengan's insider trading trial starts Tuesday.
- 10:40 am
- Yahoo slips
- by Victor Reklaitis
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Yahoo /quotes/zigman/59898/delayed /quotes/nls/yhoo YHOO is the second-worst performer in the S&P 500 and the Nasdaq 100, sliding 4.3%.
The move comes after a filing from Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba, which is part owned by Yahoo. One thing revealed in the filing, according to various media reports, is a revenue slowdown.
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- 10:59 am
- Sideways trade with a downward bias - analyst
- by Anora Mahmudova
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Terry Sandven, chief equity strategist at U.S. Bank Wealth Management, said that given the recent gains on the S&P 500, stocks are in a pause mode.
"From the technicals standpoint, markets are slightly extended and until the earnings season we expect stocks to trade sideways with the downward bias," Sandven said.
- 11:16 am
- Stocks turn negative
- by Anora Mahmudova
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Stocks seem unable to hang on to early-morning gains. All three benchmarks are now in the red.
S&P 500 -2 points
Dow -26 points
Nasdaq -7 points
- 11:27 am
- Pound rises to nearly five-year high
- by Saumya Vaishampayan
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The pound is trading at its highest level since August 2009. The pound has taken a run on the $1.70 level, topping it briefly earlier Monday, after Bank of England Gov. Mark Carney said the first interest-rate hike could come sooner than the markets expect. Of course, investors had already been bidding up the pound against the dollar in 2014 as data confirmed a continued U.K. economic recovery. The pound has gained 2.6% against the dollar in 2014 to date.
- 11:30 am
- Blinder: Fex exit debate may hurt stocks
- by Anora Mahmudova
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While today's data was upbeat, investors are focusing on the FOMC meeting which starts on Tuesday.
On Wednesday at 2pm, the Fed will issue a statement about the monetary policy, which is not expected to be much different from the previous statement.
Alan Blinder, professor of economics at Princeton University and the former vice chairman of the Federal Reserve, thinks that the looming Fed exit debate may hurt stocks.
Via Greg Robb:
A fight is brewing over when to raise short-term interest rates and how fast to exit the massive stimulus program and this "loud and vociferous" debate will definitely roil fixed-income markets and the volatility could spread to equity markets.
- 11:31 am
- M&A volume up, number of deals down
- by William Watts
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Merger Monday seems to be a regular calendar event and excitement about prospective deals is running high. But while M&A is accelerating in volume terms, the number of deals seen so far this year is lower than a year ago, according to analyst Jason Goldberg at Barclays.
Citing numbers from Thomson Reuters, announced M&A totaled $756 billion in the first quarter. Activity has since acclerated,with April the strongest month since the financial crisis. Goldberg notes. And as of June 9, deal volume for the second quarter had already topped the Q1 total and was up 33% from the second quarter of 2013. If the torrid pace continues, Goldberg notes, M&A will be on track to rise almost 75% year-over-year in 2014.
At the same time, just over 8,200 worldwide deals were announced during the first quarter, that's down 10% from a year earlier and the lowest opening period for M&S since 2004. Year-to-date, the number of transactions is still running 6% below 2013, Barclays noted.
- 11:53 am
- Risk-off
- by Anora Mahmudova
- Add a Comment
On the S&P 500, financials, materials and industrials sector stocks are leading the losses, while utilities and consumer staples are trading higher. Looks very much like a risk-off trade.
On the Dow Jones Industrial Average, 23 of 30 components are in the red, with J.P.Morgan as a biggest decliner.
- 12:00 pm
- Wall Street not impressed with upbeat data
- by Anora Mahmudova
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Stocks and Treasury yields moving lower in the face of 4 stronger than expected economic indicators this morning.
— Bespoke (@bespokeinvest) June 16, 2014
- 12:04 pm
- what is knows as 'markets are extended'
- by Anora Mahmudova
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Making history here every day in the $SPX. 393 days and counting above the 200-day MA. http://t.co/TpffYuMAZV pic.twitter.com/BOoI60tNuN
— Charlie Bilello, CMT (@MktOutperform) June 16, 2014
- 12:17 pm
- IMF to U.S. - raise minimum wage
- by Anora Mahmudova
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The International Monetary Fund on Monday called on the U.S. to raise its minimum wage, but refrained from naming a specific level, saying that's up to Congress.
In its annual review of the U.S. economy, the IMF said increasing the minimum wage and expanding the Earned Income Tax Credit would help raise the incomes of millions of poor, working Americans. Read the IMF's review.
IMF also cut its growth estimate for the U.S. to 2% for 2014, down from 2.8% it projected in April. The fund still expects growth of 3% next year. It said the weak 2014 estimate was largely due to a first quarter hit by a severe winter.
- 12:20 pm
- SunPower Corp rallies
- by Anora Mahmudova
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SunPower Corp., the second largest U.S. solar-panel maker, saw its shares rally 5.8% Monday after the company said it closed on a $200 million loan program to fund residential solar projects over the next two years.
For more, read the full story: SunPower shares rise on residential-solar loan deal
- 12:31 pm
- Michaels Co file IPO plan
- by Anora Mahmudova
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Arts and crafts chain Michaels Cos., taken private by Bain Capital and Blackstone Group in 2006, said in a filing on Monday that it plans to return to the public market and sell 27.8 million shares for $17 to $19 a share.
The 1,263-store chain didn't give a date for the stock's debut, but indicated that it would be some time this year. Michaels had $4.6 billion in sales last year.
- 12:39 pm
- S&P may downgrade Medtronic on Covidien deal
- by Sue Chang
- Add a Comment
Standard & Poor's Ratings Services on Monday placed Medtronic Inc.'s /quotes/zigman/233680/delayed /quotes/nls/mdt MDT AA- rating on review for a possible downgrade after the company announced it will buy rival Covidien PLC /quotes/zigman/4475320/delayed /quotes/nls/cov COV for $42.9 billion.
"We estimate a substantial increase in Medtronic's adjusted net leverage, based on the impact of cash used, incremental debt, and assumption of Covidien debt," said S&P in a statement.
Shares of Medtronic is down 3.2% while Covidien surged 19%.
- 12:53 pm
- Iraq and the Fed to dominate financial markets this week
- by Sue Chang
- Add a Comment
Tensions in Iraq are likely to continue to impact oil prices while the Federal Reserve is expected to loom large in the financial markets with the Federal Open Market Committee meeting this week, according to Bill Stone, chief investment strategist at PNC Asset Management Group.
"No changes are expected to be made to key interest rates. However, the Fed is expected to announce another $10 billion taper to its monthly bond purchases," said Stone in his research note.
- 1:13 pm
- Why Iraq matters
- by Sue Chang
- Add a Comment
The strife in Iraq may not immediately affect the country's daily oil output but could have a lasting impact on production going forward which in turn could derail predictions of Brent crude dropping below $100 a barrel in the future.
"Any long-term forecast that says oil prices will be $90 or even sub-$100 needs Iraq to produce at 6 million to 8 million barrels a day, if not higher," Amrita Sen, chief oil analyst at Energy Aspects.
Read about why oil traders are worried about Iraq even if its key southern oil facilities are not affected by the violence.
- 1:32 pm
- Stocks are up, again
- by Anora Mahmudova
- Add a Comment
Stocks are back in positive territory, but gains are really modest. Energy and utilities sectors are leading the gains.
Dow +0.10%
Nasdaq +0.20%
- 1:34 pm
- Senate hearing on HFTs
- by Sital S. Patel
- Add a Comment
The Senate turns its focus this week to conflicts of interest and loss of investor confidence in the U.S. markets.
The Permanent Subcommittee on Investigation, led by Senator Carl Levin (D-Mich.) will hold a hearing on Tuesday based on the recent debate on whether high-frequency trading hurts the markets.
The debate on high-frequency trading erupted after the release of Michael Lewis's book "Flash Boys" back in March, which claimed that markets were rigged against the little guy.
The main protagonist in the book, Bradley Katsuyama, President & CEO of IEX Group, Inc., will be a star witness at the hearing, which will start at 9:30 a.m. Eastern.
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- 1:55 pm
- Tesla power charging collaboration
- by Anora Mahmudova
- Add a Comment
Shares in Tesla jumped 6% on news that Marcus(R) Hotels and Resorts will install power charging stations for Tesla cars at the majority of its owned and managed properties across the United States.
With the travel season upon us, that's good news for Tesla drivers. Seems like investors like it too.
- 2:13 pm
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Sssshhhhh…We are now on @Snapchat ! Username: Nasdaqomx
— NASDAQ OMX (@NASDAQOMX) June 16, 2014
- 2:28 pm
- Cody Willard's column
- by Anora Mahmudova
- Add a Comment
Sell stocks when you can, not when you have to, writes columnist Cody Willard.
It's been historic how steady this market has been as this part of the economic cycle upswing has built upon itself since the bottom in 2008. And we don't even get temporary panicky sell-offs over geopolitical crises like we did in the last few years. The escalation of war and terror in Iraq itself is sickening and my prayers go out to everybody there. And as a market observer and trader, it's rather surprising that the stock markets have hardly hiccuped as the violence and uprisings and potential for more anarchy and destruction in Iraq and its surrounding countries escalates.
- 2:42 pm
- Central banks becoming major investors in stock markets
- by Anora Mahmudova
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Some leading central banks have become major players on world equity markets in a development that could potentially contribute to overheated asset prices, writes David Marsh.
The buildup of central-banking interest in equities is one of the unexpected consequences of the last few years' fall in interest rates, which has depressed the returns on central banks' foreign exchange reserves and driven them to find alternative investment targets.
In the years since the financial crisis, central banks have leapt to the forefront of public policy making. They have taken responsibility for lowering interest rates, for maintaining stability of financial institutions, and for buying up government debt to help economies recover from recession.
Now it seems that they have become important in another area, too, in starting to build up holdings of equities.
- 2:47 pm
- Argentina's stocks slide
- by Anora Mahmudova
- Add a Comment
Slightly off topic – but worth mentioning: Argentina's stock market tumbled on Monday after the U.S. Supreme Court dealt the country a huge setback in its decade-long fight with holdout creditors, writes Michelle Coffey.
The Argentina Merval Index slid 8% to 7,377.59. The Buenos Aires Stock Exchange index was down 7% to 22,267.73.
Argentina was appealing a lower-court ruling ordering it to pay billions to hedge funds who had earlier spurned restructured debt offerings. The creditors include billionaire Paul Singer's NML Capital. The justices declined to hear the appeal and also ruled 7-1 that creditors may view banking information tied to Argentina's assets overseas.
- 2:53 pm
- Nuance Communications jumps
- by Anora Mahmudova
- Add a Comment
Shares in speech-recognition software maker Nuance Communications Inc. /quotes/zigman/98548/delayed /quotes/nls/nuan NUAN jumped 8.7% after news reports that it has held discussions with potential suitors regarding a sale of the company.
The full story: Nuance Communications exploring possible sale
- 2:58 pm
- Bitcoin company attracts star power
- by Saumya Vaishampayan
- Add a Comment
Bitcoin security platform BitGo on Wednesday said it raised $12 million in Series A funding, attracting an investment from actor Ashton Kutcher's A-Grade Investments. The round was led by Menlo Park, Calif.-based Redpoint Ventures and also included funding from Peter Thiel's Founders Fund.
Kutcher, who recently played the titular role in the movie "Jobs," has made a name of himself in the investing world. A-Grade Investments has backed Spotify, Uber Technologies and Airbnb.
- 3:10 pm
- On dollar, yuan and Treasuries
- by Anora Mahmudova
- Add a Comment
Those wacky market moves? Here's why China is to blame: http://t.co/cQ8SGYRzlK pic.twitter.com/4MczYtFivv
— MarketWatch (@MarketWatch) June 16, 2014
- 3:29 pm
- Market update
- by Anora Mahmudova
- Add a Comment
About half an hour before the closing bell, stocks are almost unchanged from Friday's levels.
S&P 500 down less than a point, Dow is down 10 points and Nasdaq up 5 points.
- 3:43 pm
- Oil ends flat
- by Anora Mahmudova
- Add a Comment
Oil futures held steady but near nine-month highs Monday, erasing or trimming earlier gains on expectations Iraq's main oil-producing areas will remain insulated from the sectarian violence sweeping the north of the country as Sunni militants battle the Iraqi government.
Read the full column: Oil flat as imminent Iraq supply threat fades
- 3:46 pm
- Gold settles higher
- by Anora Mahmudova
- Add a Comment
Gold futures settled slightly higher Monday after a round of better-than-expected U.S. economic data dampened earlier gains sparked by escalating violence in Iraq.
Read the full column: Gold inches up as investors mull strong data, Iraq
- 3:55 pm
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Twitter up for 6th day in a row. Longest streak as public company. Back above 50-DMA to highest level since pre-lockup expiry on 5/6. $TWTR
— Bespoke (@bespokeinvest) June 16, 2014
- 4:02 pm
- The close!
- by Victor Reklaitis
- Add a Comment
Dow +0.03%
Nasdaq +0.2%
Russell 2000 +0.4%
That's all according to preliminary FactSet data
- 4:07 pm
- Up for 2 days in a row
- by Victor Reklaitis
- Add a Comment
So the main indexes managed to close higher on Monday, and they're now all up for two days in a row.
It was a choppy session, with stocks switching between gains and losses before finally ending in the green.
There were plenty of drivers, from M&A activity and upbeat U.S. economic reports on housing and industrial production to — on the downside — worries about Iraq and Ukraine, plus the IMF downgrading its forecast for the U.S economy.
That's a wrap for today's live blog. Thanks for checking it out.


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We offer majors and minors in communication, multimedia journalism, and strategic communication. Our undergraduate communication program has emphases in interpersonal, intercultural, environmental, organizational, public, and media studies. Our journalism program is the only nationally accredited program in the state. Our graduate program for M.A. and Ph.D degrees has a distinctive focus on the role of culture and change in communication.
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My first thought: wait, they made a Dark/Demon's Souls version of this?
That sounds like the Ar Tonelico Dualithnode crystal thing taken to a rather offputting level.
LoL- I totally thought the same thing.... What is it with the japanese and bathing? It seems there is always a bath scene in everything.... if not a bath-house completely featured in some respect....


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James scores 25 as Heat hold off Cavs, 114-107
MIAMI (AP) — LeBron James scored 25 points against his former team, leading the Miami Heat to a 114-107 victory over the Cleveland Cavaliers on Saturday night.
Dwyane Wade added 24 points and Chris Bosh had 22 for the Heat, who squandered a 19-point third-quarter lead and rallied from a two-point deficit with eight unanswered points late in the fourth quarter.
Ray Allen's two free throws with 2:16 remaining capped the run and put the Heat ahead 106-100. Mario Chalmers' corner 3-pointer with 1:36 left increased the lead to 109-101.
Kyrie Irving scored 19 points for the Cavaliers, who played the second half without coach Mike Brown. He was ejected late in the second quarter after he stormed onto the court looking for a foul on Shane Battier's block of Alonzo Gee's layup. Referee Sean Wright gave Brown two technicals, resulting in an ejection with 3:14 remaining in the period.
Bosh had a season-high 12 rebounds and James was one rebound and assist short of a triple-double.
The Cavaliers erased a 19-point deficit early in the third quarter and outscored the Heat 28-16 in the period.
Jarret Jack's jump shot with 8:03 remaining in the fourth gave the Cavaliers a 93-91 lead and their first advantage since midway through the first quarter. Cleveland increased the margin to four on Dion Waiters' layup with 7:24 remaining.
The Cavaliers began their comeback with a 19-7 third-quarter spurt and got to 78-73 on Irving's two free throws with 3:51 remaining in the period. Jack's jumper with 1:48 left narrowed Miami's lead to 81-78.
Miami built a six-point first-quarter lead and had its first double-digit advantage, 52-42, on Bosh's dunk with 5:15 remaining in the second period. The Heat had an 18-3 run in the quarter and led 68-52 after Wade scored 20 points in the first half.
Bosh scored 13 in the quarter and his layup with 2:11 remaining gave the Heat their largest lead of the half at 62-45.
Irving hit two early 3-pointers as the Cavaliers went 4 of 4 from behind the arc in the first 3:15 of the game. His second 3 with 8:15 remaining in the quarter put Cleveland ahead 15-14.
NOTES: Allen's first of two 3-pointers in the third quarter gave him 24,000 career points. … Heat reserve forward Michael Beasley missed his fourth straight game because of a strained left hamstring. … Cleveland's bench scored 53 points following Friday night's 60-point performance in Orlando.


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20.4.: Gastvortrag: AT/GC compositional genome evolution in lower versus higher vertebrates
Radka Symonova hält am 20. April 2018 um 14:00 Uhr im Hörsaal 421 der NW-Fakultät einen Gastvortrag zum Thema "AT/GC compositional genome evolution in lower versus higher vertebrates". Der Fachbereich Biowissenschaften lädt herzlich dazu ein!
Radka SYMONOVA ist Leiterin der Eco-Evo Cytogenomics Group, Faculty of Science, University of Hradec Kralove.
Mammalian and avian genomes are extremely complex with finely coordinated functions. Surprisingly, myteam disclosed the mammalian way of genome base (A, T, G, C) organization in an archaic fish lineage gars. Garspossess GC- and AT-rich regions altering on their chromosomes and in DNA sequence as mammals do. Other fishes,amphibians and most reptiles have a homogenous AT/GC genomic distribution. This sheds new light on vertebrategenome evolution. Hitherto, the AT/GC heterogeneity was considered an adaptation to increased body temperature ofamniotes stabilizing gene-rich (GC-rich) regions. However, gars are anamniotes and their body temperature dependson the environment as in other fishes and amphibians. Interestingly, bowfin, the closest relative of gars, possess thetypical AT/GC homogenous organisation. Genomic base organization is driven by numerous factors: recombinationrate, mutations, DNA methylation, environmental conditions, karyotype, metabolic rate, life history, physicalchemicalproperties of DNA determining DNA bendability, nucleosome formation potential, chromatin structure andtranscription activity. The exact interplay of these factors remains unclear and in anamniotes only a limited number ofspecies was tested for a few of these factors. The proposed and so far tested hypotheses did not involve gars and theirGC heterogeneity. One possible explanation might be convergent evolution between gars and mammals. Based on therobust fossil evidence, gars and early tetrapods could have faced similar selective pressures and converged on similarsolutions. However, there are several other levels of this extremely complex issue that have to be taken into account tostart understanding the origin of the AT/GC heterogeneity in the almost extinct lineage of gars and in vertebratesgenerally.


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Hearing Assistive Technology, or HAT as it is commonly referred to, is technology that can help in various listening situations.
Often, a hearing aid or an implant is not enough in certain situations. In such cases, there are technologies that are designed to help people with hearing loss. These are designed to enhance telephone communication, TV reception, ensure an effective smoke alarm, or listening in various kinds of public venues. Your hearing professional should evaluate your need for one or more of these devices and direct you to the appropriate vender.
Here is some basic information along with a brochure on hearing assistive devices.
If you want to learn more about hearing assistive technology and want to be the "go-to" person in your community, consider participating in HLAA's Network of Consumer Hearing Assistive Technology Trainers.
As a matter of policy HLAA does not endorse one technology over another. We provide information about all types of technology to our members and anyone with hearing loss looking for help.
Have you ever had difficulty hearing or understanding:
- in meetings?
- in places of worship?
- in theaters or movies?
- in restaurants?
- with shopping transactions like at a pharmacy or bank?
- in public places such as airports or in municipal buildings?
In those situations, an assistive listening device can help.
Hearing assistive technology such as audio loops (or hearing loop), FM, and infrared systems are like binoculars for the ears and work with or without hearing aids. These are assistive listening devices that help get past the obstacles to hearing.
The audio or hearing loop is a wire that circles a room and is connected to the sound system. The loop transmits the sound electromagnetically. The electromagnetic signal is then picked up by the telecoil in the hearing aid or cochlear implant. To use a hearing loop, one easily flips the telecoil switch on the hearing aid or cochlear implant. No additional receiver or equipment is needed. Using a telecoil and hearing loop together is seamless, cost-effective, unobtrusive, and you don't have to seek out and obtain special extra equipment.
An infrared system uses invisible light beams to carry sound from the source to a personal receiver. (The sound source must be in the line of sight.) Different types of attachments may be connected to the personal receiver such as a neckloop or a behind-the-ear silhouette inductor. The telecoil then picks up sound from the receiver via the attachment.
An FM system works similarly, but sound is conveyed though radio waves to a personal receiver.
These devices help us to hear and understand better in many situations where acoustics are poor, background noise is bothersome, and there is a long distance from the speaker.
In public places such as theaters, listening systems are required under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) to make programs and services accessible. But, you must ask for the accommodation.


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We offer Melges 24 shrouds in 5mm Dyform wire with T-ball fittings on the mast end and allow you to use Open Body Turnbuckles.
Not sold as a pair ヨ 1 shroud only.
To produce a new pair of upper or lower shrouds, we would ask you to provide us the length of your existing shrouds at their normal sailing setting (medium air) from bearing surface of the T-ball to the bearing surface of the toggle plate at the bottom of the turnbuckle.
This can be done in two ways:
- You can ship us your existing shrouds for our rigging department to duplicate
- You can measure your own rigging and we will work from the measurements that you provide us.
Please visit our page on How To Measure Standing Rigging before placing your order.
Note: If you have an older Melges 24 and your spreaders are captive on the shrouds then you will have to ship us your spreaders and shrouds for duplication. Please contact us at 1(800)729-9767 to speak with our Customer Service Crew; they'll be happy to set you up.


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Where are hunter education courses offered?The LDWF web site provides a listing of both standard and home study courses. Follow the links shown below.
Replacement Hunter & Bowhunter Education Card
If you have lost your hunter or bowhunter education certification card, you can print a temporary card and/or request a duplicate card to be sent by mail.
Temporary Hunter Education Card
Temporary Bowhunter Education Card
Why Hunter Education?Hunter Education provides a foundation for safe and responsible hunting. Due to hunter education, hunting accidents have dropped significantly. Each year some 18,000 individuals graduate from a hunter education course in Louisiana. The major objectives of the hunter education program are:Reduce hunting accidentsImprove the image of hunting through ethical and responsible conductPromote the shooting sports
What Is Taught In A Hunter Education Course?Major subjects covered are:Ethics and responsibility, wildlife management and conservation, understanding firearms and ammunition, safe firearms handling and personal safety in the outdoors. Students are also required to participate in a live fire exercise and successfully complete a written exam.
Who Is Required To Take The Hunter Education Course?Act 149 of the 1984 Louisiana Legislature enacted a mandatory education requirement for anyone born on or after September 1, 1969. All hunters born on or after this date must successfully complete the course in order to hunt in the State of Louisiana. Some exemptions apply, see below.
Who Can Participate?Anyone can participate in the basic student course, but only those persons 10 years of age or older are eligible for certification. Upon successful completion of the course, students receive a Louisiana Hunter Education Certification Card that is recognized by all states and provinces that require hunter education.
How Much Does The Course Cost?There is no charge to attend a standard or field day hunter education course. There is a $15.00 fee to use the on-line version of the home study course.
How Do I Take A Hunter Education Course?There are two ways to take a hunter education course:CLASSROOM COURSE - This method requires a student to attend 10 hours of instructions provided by a certified hunter education instructor.
HOME STUDY - This method allows a student to take a hunter education course by studying the course material either on the internet or by CD-ROM at the students convenience. To complete the process students are required to attend a FIELD DAY taught by a certified instructor.
Who teaches hunter education courses?Courses are taught by Hunter Education staff and volunteer instructors. The majority of courses are taught by volunteers recruited from schools, law enforcement agencies, sporting groups, and many other conservation-minded organizations.
Do I Need Bowhunter Education?Bowhunter Education courses are offered through the LDWF. Although not mandatory in the State of Louisiana this course does provide a bowhunter with knowledge such as shot placement, shot selection, animal recovery and other important details that will make you a more competent bowhunter. In addition, some states do require bowhunter education before bowhunting in that state. Check regulations before you hunt.
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Sheriff Crook County, Oregon
The patrol division of the Crook County Sheriff's Office provides initial law enforcement response to all crimes within 2,991 square miles of Crook County, 24 hours a day. The patrol division provides a high level of service with only 7 deputies and 3 sergeants assigned to the patrol division. The patrol division, while small in numbers responds to more than 8,000 incidents each year within Crook County.
Deputies are able to handle the high call volume through technology upgrades that include computers in patrol cars that enable deputies to complete virtually any office work from the field. Deputies dictate all reports into a digital file, freeing up time that enables them to remain in the field (providing more prompt service).
The patrol division also works close with other agencies throughout Crook County, such as the Prineville Police Department, Oregon State Police, United States Forest Service, BLM, Crook County Fire and Rescue, Crook County Road Department, Oregon Department of Transportation, Oregon State Parks and Recreation, Bureau of Reclamation, and Rager Ambulance.
Deputies with the Crook County Sheriff's Office are required to maintain a high level of professionalism and training in the performance of their duties.
Each shift is staffed with at least one or two deputies and a sergeant. The division is also commanded by the Undersheriff.
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Wilbur Wright Fish & Wildlife Area is 1,070 acres of river valleys and associated uplands. The Big Blue River is the western boundary and the dark, organic soil floodplain occupies approximately one third of the property. The remainder of the property is the adjacent uplands and the Little Blue River valley. The property has areas of mature woods, fallow cropland, prairie grasses and forbs, and other areas of early to mid-successional habitat. The property also has areas of annual and perennial wildlife food plots. There is a small wetland near the Big Blue River. There is an ADA accessible hunting area on the property (mix of upland and woodland).
Wilbur Wright was surplus state lands transferred from the Indiana Department of Mental Health (New Castle State Hospital) to the Department of Natural Resources' Division of State Parks in 1972. The acreage was then transferred to the Division of Fish & Wildlife in 1974, when wildlife management began. Tree plantings were made and food plots planted throughout the property.
Most revenues used in land acquisition, development, operation and maintenance of Wilbur Wright Fish & Wildlife Area are derived from the sales of hunting, fishing and trapping license licenses. Funds are also received from the federal Pittman-Robertson and Dingell-Johnson programs to aid fish and wildlife restoration. These funds are derived from taxes levied on sport hunting and fishing equipment. Indiana hunters and fisherman are proud to provide this property for the enjoyment of all people.
Wildlife Watching
Neighboring Land
Additional Opportunities
NO Camping and NO Swimming Allowed.
Please Read and Obey All Signs.
In addition to state fish and wildlife laws, this property is governed by posted regulations affecting the public use of lands and facilities owned, leased or licensed by the Department of Natural Resources. Pursuant to the Authority of Chapter 60, Acts of 1919, Chapter 120 and Chapter 353, Acts of 1945, Chapter 221, Acts of 1957, Chapter 406 and Chapter 441, Acts of 1965; and the Indiana Code of 1971, 14-3-3.
Posted Areas
Safety zones, refuges, waterfowl resting and other restricted areas are marked with appropriate signs. PLEASE READ AND OBEY ALL SIGNS.
Violation of any law, rule or regulation governing this property may be cause for forfeiting your hunting, fishing, or visiting privileges on this area.
The Division of Fish & Wildlife, Department of Natural Resources, will not be held responsible for any accidents or deaths occurring from the use of these facilities.
In addition to a hunting and/or fishing license the following permits are required:
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deviantART actually has FAQs about html but I still wanted to do this because they look a bit unorganized, in my opinion. Also, why would you want to look for those FAQs when you can just open this news article where you have everything in one place?
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What's Wrong With Vitamin E Supplements?May 2002
By Karin Granstrom Jordan, M.D.
If you asked a group of scientists to name an antioxidant, most would point to vitamin E as the classic example of a compound that inhibits dangerous free radicals.
While numerous studies show that vitamin E suppresses free radicals, there is evidence that commercial vitamin E supplements do not provide adequate antioxidant protection.
Most vitamin E supplements consist primarily of alpha tocopherol. Recent studies indicate that a lot more than alpha tocopherol is needed to protect against degenerative disease.
To obtain optimal health benefits from vitamin E, a mixture of tocopherols (alpha, beta, delta, and gamma) and tocotrienols (alpha, beta, delta, and gamma) are required. Some of the functions of these vitamin E fractions are similar while others are completely different. When taken together, these various forms of vitamin E work synergistically as a team to provide maximum benefits.
In this article, we discuss scientific findings supporting the value of the full spectrum of vitamin E that includes the tocopherols and tocotrienols.
In 1995, Life Extension added a small amount of tocotrienols to a Coenzyme Q10 supplement used by most Life Extension Foundation members. Evidence at that time showed that tocotrienols could help protect against free radical-induced disease.
More recent research shows that tocotrienols may be the most important members of the vitamin E family. In an animal model of aging, tocotrienols extended lifespan by 19% while reducing protein carbonylation, a particularly toxic oxidation process indicative of aging.1 Not only have tocotrienols demonstrated a superior antioxidant effect compared to alpha tocopherol (40-60 times more effective), but in a clinical study they have been shown to reverse carotid stenosis (narrowing of the carotid artery due to atherosclerosis), thus reducing the risk of stroke.
Tocotrienols have also been shown to reduce the level of LDL (the "bad" form of cholesterol) and apolipoprotein B, both of which are important risk factors for atherosclerosis and cardiovascular disease. Furthermore, tocotrienols have been shown to inhibit the growth of cancer cells. While tocotrienols are found in high concentration in palm oil and rice bran, palm-derived tocotrienols are better supported by research.
The difference in effect between tocopherols and tocotrienols is believed to be caused by a subtle difference in molecular structure. Tocotrienols have an isoprenoid instead of a phytyl side chain. Double bonds in the isoprenoid side chain allow tocotrienols to move freely and more efficiently within cell membranes than tocopherols, giving tocotrienols greater ability to catch and fight free radicals. This greater mobility also allows tocotrienols to recycle more quickly than alpha-tocopherol.
Alpha versus gamma tocopherol
Several large studies have shown great benefits of vitamin E intake in reducing cardiovascular disease and death from heart attacks, while others have failed to show similar results.2-8 This discrepancy may well be due to the fact that only alpha-tocopherol was studied in isolation, while gamma-tocopherol and tocotrienols were not considered.
This may also explain why vitamin E as found in food is more effective than alpha-tocopherol supplements in reducing death from cardiovascular disease.9-10 Food provides a broader spectrum of the vitamin E family than conventional supplements. For example, vitamin E in the typical American diet contains considerably more gamma-tocopherol than alpha-tocopherol11 in contrast to supplements that generally contain only alpha-tocopherol, or insignificant amounts of gamma-tocopherol, tocotrienols and other members of the vitamin E family.
Moreover, studies indicate that high dose alpha-tocopherol supplementation considerably decreases the absorption of gamma-tocopherol and reduces the effects of tocotrienols. One group of scientists observed that when human volunteers (age 30-60) were given 1,200 IU of synthetic alpha-tocopherol daily for 8 weeks, plasma gamma-tocopherol decreased in all subjects to 30-50% of initial values.12 This is another indication of the importance of a balanced vitamin E intake.
A Swedish study found that patients with coronary heart disease had lower levels of gamma tocopherol and a higher alpha-to-gamma ratio than healthy age-matched subjects.13
While alpha-tocopherol has long been known as an important antioxidant, research has now shown that the complete vitamin E team is much more effective. The different vitamin E forms have complementary effects as free radical scavengers. Together they can fight a wider spectrum of free radicals than alpha-tocopherol alone.
One research group found that gamma-tocopherol is significantly more effective than alpha-tocopherol in inhibiting the powerful and harmful oxidizing agent peroxynitrite.14 While alpha-tocopherol can to some extent inhibit free radical generation, gamma-tocopherol is able to trap and remove existing free radicals as well as highly toxic compounds such as peroxynitrite.15 Gamma tocopherol can, therefore, protect cells against the mutagenic and carcinogenic effects of the very damaging reactive nitrogen species (See the antioxidant section).
Tocotrienols and life span extension
Recent experimental research confirms the connection between tocotrienols, reduced oxidative damage, and increased life span. Palm-derived tocotrienols were chosen for a study of the aging process at the Life Science Research Center in Japan.16 The study was conducted on a model organism commonly used in anti-aging research, the nematode known as C. elegans (Caenorhabditis elegans). This species of worm is widely used in basic life science research due to the fact that is has genetic sequences similar to humans.
The study demonstrated that tocotrienols, but not alpha-tocopherol, significantly extended the average life span of the organisms. Nematodes exposed to a tocotrienol enriched (80ug/ml) growth medium lived 19% longer than the control group. A lower concentration (8ug/ml) of tocotrienols extended their average lifespan by 9%. When alpha-tocopherol was tested instead of tocotrienols it had no effect on lifespan. The study also examined carbonylated proteins, which are destructive products of protein oxidation that accumulate during aging in both nematodes and humans. In humans about a third of proteins become carbonylated in the latter third of life, leading to serious degenerative changes in the structures and regulatory systems of the body, including for example the wrinkling of skin. (For further discussion of protein carbonylation, see Carnosine article in the January 2001 issue of Life Extension® Magazine).
Protein carbonyl accumulation in the nematodes was a mirror image of their survival curve, increasing from 1.1nmol/mg protein in young animals to 2.8nmol/mg in "old age" (15 days). In the nematodes treated with tocotrienols protein carbonyls rose about half as much during the course of aging, to only 1.9nmol/mg at age 15 days.
Ultraviolet (UV B) irradiation of the nematodes shortened their average life span by 12%. However, when tocotrienols were added to the medium prior to irradiation, the irradiated nematodes lived as long as the non-irradiated control group. Interestingly, their lifespan increased even more when tocotrienols were added soon after irradiation, and exceeded that of the non-irradiated group, indicating that tocotrienols are more than chain-breaking antioxidants, and are, in fact, capable of repairing damage that has already occurred. Alpha-tocopherol did not lend significant protection from irradiation.
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One of the most striking discoveries in tocotrienol research is their ability to clear atherosclerotic blockage (stenosis) in the carotid artery, giving them the potential to significantly reduce the risk of stroke. Stroke often occurs when atherosclerotic deposits travel upstream and cut off the blood supply to part of the brain.
Tocotrienols show promise as a natural and safe alternative to risky surgery for this condition because of their ability to reverse carotid stenosis, not merely stop its progression. This was demonstrated in a clinical trial testing the effect of tocotrienols on carotid atherosclerosis.17 The results of this 18-month trial were remarkable.
Fifty patients with carotid stenosis were randomly assigned to receive either 160 mg daily of palm tocotrienols (gamma and alpha forms) with 64 mg of alpha-tocopherol in palm oil, or palm oil only as a placebo. After 6 months the dosage in the treatment group was increased to 240 mg of tocotrienols with 96 mg of alpha-tocopherol.
At the end of the study, ultrasound scans of the carotid artery demonstrated that none of the patients in the control group had improved during the trial, while ten showed a worsening of their condition (increased stenosis). In the tocotrienol group, however, atherosclerosis was reduced and blood flow to the brain improved in 7 of 25 patients, while the condition had worsened in only two patients. No adverse side effects were reported in either group.
Tocotrienols and statin drugs such as lovastatin both lower cholesterol by suppressing the activity of the enzyme HMG-CoA reductase, although through different mechanisms. The statins are thought to affect the enzyme through competitive inhibition, while the tocotrienols accelerate enzyme degradation and decrease the efficiency of mRNA translation of the enzyme.18 This difference in mechanism is believed to be a reason for the absence of adverse side effects with tocotrienols, contrary to the common side effects of the statin drugs.
HMG-CoA reductase is the enzyme that permits the body to synthesize its own cholesterol from a precursor called mevalonate. The mevalonate pathway is also of great importance in regulating cell growth and proliferation. The ability of tocotrienols to inhibit this pathway, therefore, enables them to inhibit cancer growth (see more in the cancer section).
Some studies have demonstrated a significant reduction of both total and LDL cholesterol with tocotrienols administered to patients with high serum lipids. In a double blind, crossover study on 25 patients with high cholesterol levels, the patients in the treatment group were given 4 capsules daily of 50 mg tocotrienols mixed with palm oil, while the control group received only corn oil. At the end of the 8-week trial period, total cholesterol and LDL cholesterol had decreased significantly (15% and 8%) in the 15 subjects given the palm tocotrienols. There was no change in the control group.19
Total cholesterol and LDL-cholesterol were reduced even more (17 % and 24 % respectively) when tocotrienols were added to a low fat, low cholesterol diet and alcohol-free regimen in another double-blind, longer-lasting trial (12 weeks).20 Other important cardiovascular risk factors were reduced by tocotrienols. Apoli-poprotein B and lipoprotein(a), strong predictors of cardiovascular disease21-23, as well as thromboxane B2 and platelet factor 4 were all significantly lowered in the tocotrienol-treated group (15%, 17%, 31% and 14% respectively).
Thromboxane B2 contributes to cardiovascular disease through proinflammatory activities and platelet aggregation. It is formed from pro-inflammatory prostaglandins through the function of the enzyme cyclooxygenase (COX-2), which is known to be involved in the development of both inflammatory and neoplastic (cancerous) disease. The significant reduction (31%) of thromboxane B2 in this tocotrienol study is interesting, suggesting possible similarities with gamma-tocopherol,which is known to be a COX-2 inhibitor.24
While both alpha and gamma-tocopherol have been shown to reduce platelet aggregation and delay thrombus formation, gamma-tocopherol was shown to be significantly more potent in a study on rats.25
Tocotrienols were studied in combination with the statin drug lovastatin in another study. The 28 patients with elevated cholesterol levels in this double blind, cross-over clinical trial were placed on the American Heart Association Step-1 diet before beginning the treatment. After 35 days on the diet, they were given low doses of lovastatin, tocotrienols and alpha-tocopherol (and combinations of these agents) in stages of 35 days each, while staying on the diet. The combination of lovastatin (10mg) and palm tocotrienols (50mg) had a lipid-lowering effect of 20-25%, while tocotrienols or lovastatin alone in the same dosages reduced LDL-cholesterol 18% and 15% respectively. No side effects were reported during the study. It is important to note that dosages of cholesterol-lowering drugs should not be reduced on the basis of this preliminary study.26
Supplementation with gamma-tocotrienol alone, or in combination with alpha-tocopherol, to rats fed a diet rich in fat for 6 weeks, showed a significant reduction in total and LDL cholesterol, triglycerides and reactive oxidation products, particularly hydroperoxides.27 The powerful antioxidant effects of tocotrienols will be discussed later in this article.


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One this page, we describe support for comparing Word documents using Eclipse. The purpose of this page is two-fold. First, we will described the motivation behind the design of the Word Document compare support. After that, we will dig a bit into how we integrated the Word comparison with the Eclipse Compare framework
Obtaining the Word Comparison Plug-in
The current plan is to ship this bundle with Eclipse 3.5. However, the code is compatible with 3.3. You can download the bundle from here and put it in the plugins directory of you Eclipse install.
Comparing Word Documents
In this section, we describe what our goals for the Word document merge viewer were. We then described the features of the viewer and show some screen shots of what the result looks like.
Goals and Features
When we started implementing the Word merge viewer, we had the following goals in mind:
- Compare changes using the revision support that is provided by the Word application
- Offer the user flexibility in whether they want to edit in-place (i.e. embedded in Eclipse) or in a separate Word Application window
- Provide a means to save changes back to the Eclipse workspace.
To that end, we implemented a merge viewer with the following features:
- The merge viewer is associated with the "doc" file extension and a "Word Document" content type. The use of a content type will allow the user to associate other file extensions with the merge viewer.
- The merge viewer opens the Word based comparison in-place by default but there is a toggle in the toolbar that allows the document to be opened in a separate window.
- The word application is opened on a temporary file containing the results of the comparison of the two files or file states being compared. Saving the compare editor (or clicking on the Save button in the compare viewer toolbar) will save any edits that have been made to the temporary file and then copy the contents of the temporary file into the Eclipse workspace files
What it Looks Like
The following screen shot shows the word comparison in-place. You can edit the text and save in the compare editor which will save the result to the 'important.doc' file that is being compared.
This next screen shot shows the compare viewer in "external" mode where the word document is open in a separate window.
We don't have a screen shot of the window since it is simply a full blown word application. Notice that the "In-place" toggle button in the above screen shot has been changed from the previous screen shot. Also notice that the editor is now dirty and the save action in the toolbar is enabled. The editor is dirty because we have made changes using the Word application. Even thought the document is shown in a separate window, we are still keeping a link to the document so we know when it has been modified. Saving in the compare editor will still work (as indicated by the text that appears in the compare viewer).
A limitation of the viewer is that it doesn't offer the ability to save if neither or both sides of the comparison are editable. For the "both editable" case, we didn't feel we could adequately present the save options in the UI. The workaround is to open the comparison in a separate window and you can then save any changes to any location on disk.


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The 360 Photo with the great view of the Mont Blanc (Gruppo del Monte Bianco) is taken from the roof terrasse of the arrival station of the aerial tramway from Courmayeur and "Punta Helbronner" (3462 m), the second highest aerial tramway in Europe. This aerial tramway was built without the help of helicopters around the middle of 20th century and in summer is connected to the French Aiguille du Midi crossing the vast glaciers. It is considered one of the Wonders of the World. The 360 Photo opens to the Mont Blanc and the picture below shows the names of different "Aiguilles" and mountains. The on-sight crane is in place for the construction of the new Rifugio Torino (3355 m)
The name "Italy" is shrouded in mystery; some etymologists trace it to a Greek word meaning "the land of young cattle."Italy was fond of Jupiter and Mars from the very start, Jupiter for fatherly good luck and Mars for war!But it all began with Rome. Rome was founded by Romulus and Remus who were sons of Rhea and Mars.The twins were abandoned at birth out of a fear that they would grow up and later overthrow Amelius, usurper of their grandfather's rightful throne.Wrongful mis-doings most foul! Treachery and sabotage!! HOW would these two blessed infants make their way in such a world?As it turns out, the twins didn't have to make their way very far, because one of them killed the other one and then they weren't twins anymore. But that happens later.First they got rescued by a she-wolf who suckled them with her milk and raised them as her own until they were discovered by the shepherd Faustulus.Faustulus fed them meat and bread and also raised them as his own until they were old enough to return to Amelius and hack him up as planned. They reinstated the grandfather Numitor to his rightful throne and went off to celebrate by starting a town of their own.They chose a hilly area where the mama wolf had saved them from certain death in the barren wilderness and began scouting locations.Romulus liked one hill. Remus liked another. The circle of crows like Romulus' hill, so Romulus killed Remus and named the town after himself. Thus Rome was born and Italy with it.Text by Steve Smith.


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After gripping Britain, 'Broadchurch' to hit US
BEVERLY HILLS, California (AP) — Another popular British TV series is getting exported to the U.S. to hopefully grip American viewers.
"Broadchurch" is a murder mystery drama centered on the killing of a young boy in a small town.
Cast members Olivia Colman, Jodie Whittaker and David Bradley promoted the show at Thursday's BBC America presentation as part of the annual Television Critics Association summer press tour. "Broadchurch" also stars David Tennant of "Dr. Who" fame.
The actors shot most of the series' eight episodes not knowing who the killer was, or if any of them would end up as the perpetrator.
"We had bets going on all the way through. In our makeup van we had everybody's photograph up and you put a sticker on who you thought it was," said Colman who plays a detective. "I only got one and I was disappointed," she joked.
The series also explores the events leading up to why the murder took place and each character has an arc. Whittaker says the show could make parents think about how much they really know about their kids.
"You don't know everything that's going on in your child's life and I think that's highlighted. Even children have secrets and have friendships or arguments with people you don't know (about)."
Because there are only eight episodes in the first season on "Broadchurch," the cast says that was the appropriate amount of time to tell the story.
"It has a conclusion which is shocking" said Bradley. (Anything more) It's too long for them to wait as an audience."
"If we at the BBC and the UK said we'd like to do it over 13 hours you can imagine the response. It's too much money at the start. (Creator) Chris (Chibnall) wanted to reward the people that were committed and came with us on this journey. Eight hours felt the perfect amount. I think he did it correctly."
UK network ITV has already picked up a second season of "Broadchurch" and once again, the cast doesn't know what will happen.
"Broadchurch" premieres August 7 on BBC America at 10 p.m. EDT/PDT.
Alicia Rancilio covers entertainment for The Associated Press. Follow her online at http://www.twitter.com/aliciar


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Before I begin, I must share the first time I fell in love with spoken word.
While up late watching TV one weekend as a teenager, a handsome Larenz Tate charmed an effortlessly beautiful Nia Long with a poem he performed in the 1997 film Love Jones — "A Blues for Nina."
"Ooo, is that a smile me put on your face child," Tate's character, Darius Lovehall, cooed over a sweet bass and saxophone accompaniment. "Wide as a field of jasmine and glover."
I hung on to Tate's every word and dreamed of being in an audience like that one day.
Now, as an adult, I get to do just that every Tuesday night at Respect the Mic, an open mic poetry, live...


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Happy New Year! This has been an absolutely amazing year for me. It's been a year of transformations both mental and physical. There have been a number of very distinct visible changes in my life this year. Most of which are centered around the quality of my life. I'm getting healthier and going out socializing more. In general, it's made me a happier person.
It's no secret that I'm heavily into gaming. I find them mentally stimulating. My favorite form of gaming is table top gaming. For the most part this has always meant pencil and paper role playing games such as D&D or collectible card games like Magic the Gathering. Then back in 2008 I attended my first gaming convention and that exposed me to a whole new plethora of gaming possibilities.
This year I started volunteering for the GameStorm Convention as a social network liaison. This basically means I run their Twitter and Facebook feeds. Through my new friends in the gaming community, I found out about a bunch of other conventions local to me as well. I found myself at ConQuest, OryCon, numerous GameStorm Game Days, and even a couple smaller special events. Many of these I already have on the calendar for attending again next year.
I also discovered board gaming in a way I never have before. I used to think of board gaming as Monopoly, Sorry, or even Mouse Trap. If that's your idea of board gaming, do yourself a favor and look up Fantasy Flight Games, Steve Jackson Games, or Days of Wonder just to name a few. These companies take gaming to a whole new level.
The best part of exploring these games has been getting to know the gamers I get to sit down and play them with. The gamer community is filled with creative and brilliant individuals with a common love of gaming. Every game I've sat down to play has been a absolute joy.
My personal game library has also grown significantly as a result. I play many of these new games with the family but on occasion I gather a few up and head over to friends houses to game with them too.
I've made a few changes to my Electra Glide this year. Most significant change was a nice set of pipes. She's got a good strong rumble now. I've also made the tour pack detachable so when I'm not traveling I can take it off making her lighter and more fun to ride.
We also went for a few rides this year including an over night trip up the Washington coast line with our friends Mike and Amy. We really enjoy that ride and look forward to riding with them again next year when the weather improves.
There were plans to hit a rally or two as well but those didn't pan out. I'm finding I prefer riding in smaller groups with close friends that the big club rides I've tried in the past.
Back in July I started noticing the runners in my neighborhood. I noticed how it didn't matter whether it was raining or shining, day or night, hot or cold. The runners would be out putting one foot in front of the other and they always looked happy. It was as if they all shared some big secret together that I wasn't in on.
I was walking quite a bit at this point for exercise and was using Endomondo on my phone to track my miles along with Daily Mile for an exercise log. I was trying to find a way to improve my fitness so I decided to give running a try. It started out pretty well but I got over zealous and over did it. I was out of commission for most of September.
I was determined to become a runner though. Once I could hobble down the bock I slowly started back into the running. I spent my down time wisely and learned as much as I could about running. I picked up the book Running for Mortals and it became my running coach. I also started getting more involved with the Daily Mile community who were a significant source of encouragement and advice.
On December 5th I ran my first 5k at the Jingle Bell Run/Walk in Portland, OR. The whole process was new and exciting. I found myself wanting to raise the bar almost immediately. I'm currently working on improving my distance and pace. I also have a hand full of races already scheduled for 2011 and have joined the NW Running League.
Weight Loss
A not so unexpected side affect of the running has been weight loss. You just can't eat junk and expect your body to perform. On top of that you burn a lot of calories during a regular training routine. When I started running I was not trying to lose weight but the results are spectacular.
I was 260 lbs. when I started running and on New Years Eve I officially weigh 214 lbs. I can definitely see a difference when I look in the mirror. I'm not done losing weight and I've got a ways to go before I'm concerned about loosing too much. Boy is my doctor going to be surprised at my next visit though.
The whole family has been getting in on the gig too. For the Jingle Bell Run, my son and nephew also ran in it while my wife and daughter walked it. Since then everyone has gotten the running bug.
My son also goes to many of the gaming events with me. We also both play in a semi-regular Savage Worlds game with friends. It's been an excellent social opportunity for him and a real treat for me to be able to share the hobby.
My sister in law is also currently in the process of moving closer to us. We're really looking forward to being able to spend more time with them. There is talk about having a regular family game night together once they get moved.
2011 and Beyond
The new year should be really exiting. There are so many cool things going on. I have half a dozen races scheduled out including the Oregon Warrior Dash is September. There are a hand full of gaming conventions I'm already signed up to attend. And there is no shortage of fascinating and challenging games I want to try.
Those that know me know I have difficulty with uncharted social situations. This year is bound to take me way outside of my comfort zone. In addition to all of the large public events such as the races and conventions I'm attending, I also plan to run some games at some of the upcoming conventions too.
It is also my wish to start working on getting the house suitable for company so I can host a game night here. Having attended a few similar events, I'm exited about the prospect.
So here's to 2011. May the new year bring you all you dream of.


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Milo Hamilton, the longtime Astros broadcaster and recipient of the Ford Frick Award from the Baseball Hall of Fame, discusses his 50-plus years in radio with Comcast SportsNet Houston's Kevin Eschenfelder on "A Conversation With … Milo Hamilton," which debuts at 6:30 p.m. Sunday on CSN Houston.
The program re-airs at 11:30 p.m. and will be repeated throughout September. Topics include his upbringing in Iowa, his years broadcasting the Astros and other major league teams and his famous disagreements with the late broadcaster Harry Caray.
Hamilton retired last year after 28 seasons with the Astros but continues to make occasional appearances at home games. He also called games for the Browns, Cardinals, White Sox, Braves, Cubs and Pirates.
The series on CSN Houston, which is owned by the Rockets, Astros and NBC Sports Group, continues in October with a interview featuring former Rockets coach Bill Fitch.


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Posted: April 15, 2017 11:03 PM PDT
Updated: April 15, 2019 11:09 PM PDT
2014: The MV Sewol ferry carrying 476 people capsizes near Jindo Island off South Korea, ultimately leaving 304 passengers and crew dead. The captain and other crew members were later convicted of murder and abandoning ship, while ferry company owner Yoo Byung-eun, who had been the subject of an intense manhunt, was found dead in a field in July 2014. [ + - ]
2013: Pat Summerall, the football player turned legendary play-by-play announcer, dies of cardiac arrest at the age of 82 in Dallas, Texas. He was best known as a broadcaster for teaming with former NFL coach John Madden for 22 years. Summerall became the voice of the NFL in the 1970s and 1980s, calling most of the league's signature games, and worked more than 10 Super Bowls. As a player, he was a placekicker and played 10 seasons for the Chicago Cardinals and New York Giants from 1952 to 1961, scoring more than 500 points as an NFL player. [ + - ]
2010: Daryl Gates, the former Los Angeles police chief credited with creating the anti-drug D.A.R.E. program, dies of bladder cancer at the age of 83 in Dana Point, California. Gates, also considered the father of SWAT teams, resigned from the Los Angeles Police Department in 1992 following the Rodney King beating and the riots afterward. [ + - ]
2007: In the deadliest shooting incident by a single gunman in American history, Virginia Tech senior Seung-Hui Cho kills 32 and injures 17 at the Blacksburg, Virginia, university before fatally shooting himself. Six more people were injured when they jumped from second-story windows to escape. [ + - ]
2003: Michael Jordan plays his last NBA game as his Washington Wizards end their season with a loss to the Philadelphia 76ers. The five-time NBA MVP and 10-time NBA scoring champion won six NBA titles with the Chicago Bulls in the 1990s before finishing out his last two seasons with the Wizards. [ + - ]
2002: Actor Robert Urich, best known for the television series "Vega$," "S.W.A.T." and "Spenser: For Hire," dies of synovial cell sarcoma, a rare form of cancer, at the age of 55 in Thousand Oaks, California. In addition to his work in television, he also starred in several movies, most notably "Magnum Force," "The Ice Pirates" and "Turk 182." [ + - ]
1994: American author Ralph Ellison, best known for his National Book Award-winning novel "Invisible Man," dies of pancreatic cancer at the age of 80 in New York City. [ + - ]
1993: Chance the Rapper is born Chancelor Jonathan Bennett in Chicago. [ + - ]
1991: Film director, editor and screenwriter David Lean, best known for big-screen epics such as "The Bridge on the River Kwai," "Lawrence of Arabia," "Doctor Zhivago" and "A Passage to India," dies of throat cancer at the age of 83 in London, England. Lean earned 11 Academy Award nominations in his career, winning Best Director for "The Bridge on the River Kwai" in 1958 and for "Lawrence of Arabia" in 1963. [ + - ]
1984: Actress Claire Foy, best known for portraying Queen Elizabeth II in the Netflix drama "The Crown," is born in Stockport, England. [ + - ]
1982: Mixed martial arts fighter and actress Gina Carano is born in Dallas County, Texas. Carano, once the third-best 145-pound female mixed martial arts fighter in the world, according to the Unified Women's MMA Rankings, has gone on to star in movies like "Haywire," "Fast & Furious 6" and "Deadpool." [ + - ]
1976: Actor Lukas Haas, best known for movies such as "Mars Attacks!" and "Witness," is born in West Hollywood, California. [ + - ]
1972: Apollo 16 is launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida. The mission was the fifth and penultimate mission of the Apollo program to land on the moon and the first to land in the lunar highlands. [ + - ]
1971: Actor Peter Billingsley, best known for his role as Ralphie in the 1983 movie "A Christmas Story," is born in New York City. [ + - ]
1971: Singer-songwriter Selena Quintanilla, who was known simply as Selena and was called "The Queen of Tejano music," is born in Lake Jackson, Texas. Selena (seen here in a poster held by a fan) was murdered by her fan club president at the age of 23 in 1995. [ + - ]
1965: Actor Jon Cryer, best known for the movie "Pretty in Pink" and the sitcom "Two and a Half Men," is born in New York City. [ + - ]
1965: Actor and comedian Martin Lawrence, best known for movies such as "Bad Boys," "Blue Streak" and "Big Momma's House," and his own sitcom, "Martin," is born in Frankfurt, Germany. [ + - ]
1964: The Rolling Stones' self-titled debut album is released in the United Kingdom. The album's tracks reflected the band's love for R&B, including covers of songs by Chuck Berry and Willie Dixon, and featured only one Mick Jagger and Keith Richards original composition, "Tell Me (You're Coming Back)." The American edition of the album, with a slightly different track list, would be released on May 30, 1964, with the added title "England's Newest Hit Makers." [ + - ]
1963: Martin Luther King Jr. pens his "Letter from Birmingham Jail" while incarcerated in Birmingham, Alabama, for protesting against racial segregation by Birmingham's city government and downtown retailers. [ + - ]
1962: Walter Cronkite takes over as the lead news anchor of the "CBS Evening News." He would remain as anchor until 1981, during which time he would become known as "the most trusted man in America." [ + - ]
1956: Buddy Holly releases the song "Love Me" as his first single. It was backed with the B-side "Blue Days, Black Nights." [ + - ]
1954: Actress Ellen Barkin, best known for movies such as "The Big Easy," "Sea of Love" and "Switch," is born in The Bronx, New York. She's seen here in 2007's "Ocean's Thirteen." [ + - ]
1952: Football coach Bill Belichick, who has coached the NFL's New England Patriots to eight Super Bowl appearances, including victories in Super Bowls XXXVI, XXXVIII, XXXIX, XLIX and LI, is born in Nashville, Tennessee. [ + - ]
1947: The French ship Grandcamp, containing ammonium nitrate fertilizer, explodes while in port in Texas City, Texas, causing much of the city to catch fire, killing almost 600 and injuring another 5,000. The incident is generally considered the worst industrial accident in U.S. history. Pictured is the SS Wilson B. Keene, a nearby ship destroyed when the cargo ship High Flyer, also carrying ammonium nitrate fertilizer, caught fire after the initial explosion and also exploded. The large piece of debris in the foreground is likely a piece of the Grandcamp. [ + - ]
1947: During a speech in South Carolina, financier and presidential advisor Bernard Baruch coins the term "Cold War" to describe the relationship between the United States and the Soviet Union. [ + - ]
1947: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, the NBA's all-time points leader and a six-time NBA champion, is born Ferdinand Lewis Alcindor Jr. in New York City. Abdul-Jabbar, who also won three NCAA titles for John Wooden's UCLA Bruins, won his first NBA championship with the Milwaukee Bucks in 1971 and won five more between 1980 and 1988 with the Los Angeles Lakers. He is a member of both the College Basketball Hall of Fame and the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame. [ + - ]
1945: The Red Army begins the final assault on German forces around Berlin, with nearly one million Soviet soldiers fighting 110,000 entrenched German soldiers in the Battle of the Seelow Heights. At the end of the battle on April 19, the road to Berlin, less than 60 miles to the west, lay open. By April 23, Berlin was fully encircled and the Battle of Berlin entered its last stage. [ + - ]
1943: The hallucinogenic effect of the drug LSD, lysergic acid diethylamide, is first observed. Swiss chemist Albert Hofmann (seen here in 1993), who had synthesized the drug five years earlier in hopes of treating respiratory problems, accidentally absorbed some of the drug through his skin from touching its container. The drug affected his nervous system and he became dizzy with hallucinations. Three days later, he intentionally ingested 250 micrograms of LSD, becoming the first intentional acid trip. [ + - ]
1940: Bob Feller of the Cleveland Indians throws the only Opening Day no-hitter in the history of Major League Baseball, beating the Chicago White Sox 1-0. It was the first of three no-hitters he would pitch in his Hall of Fame career. [ + - ]
1939: Pop singer Dusty Springfield, who scored six top 20 singles on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 chart from 1963 to 1989, is born Mary Isobel Catherine Bernadette O'Brien in London, England. Her best known songs include the hits "I Only Want to Be with You," "Wishin' and Hopin'," "I Just Don't Know What to Do with Myself," "You Don't Have to Say You Love Me" and "Son of a Preacher Man." She died of breast cancer at age 59 on March 2, 1999, and was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame two weeks after her death. [ + - ]
1937: Professional wrestler William James Myers, better known by his ring name of George "The Animal" Steele, is born in Detroit, Michigan. Steele's career with the WWF lasted from 1967 until 1989, though he made occasional wrestling appearances into the 1990s and 2000s, and he portrayed Swedish wrestler/actor Tor Johnson in Tim Burton's movie "Ed Wood." He died of kidney failure at age 79 on Feb. 16, 2017. [ + - ]
1935: Pop singer Bobby Vinton, best known for his cover of the song "Blue Velvet," which hit No. 1 for him in 1963, is born in Canonsburg, Pennsylvania. He also scored No. 1 hits with the songs "Roses Are Red (My Love)" and "Mr. Lonely" and saw success with the songs "There! I've Said It Again," "I Love How You Love Me" and "My Melody of Love." [ + - ]
1927: Pope Benedict XVI, who served as pope from 2005 to 2013, is born Joseph Aloisius Ratzinger in Marktl, Germany. Benedict resigned due to health issues on Feb. 28, 2013, becoming the first pope to resign since Pope Gregory XII in 1415, and is now pope emeritus of the Catholic Church. [ + - ]
1924: Composer Henry Mancini, best known for his film and television scores, including the themes to "The Pink Panther" film series and the "Peter Gunn" TV series, is born in Cleveland, Ohio. Mancini, who died of pancreatic cancer on June 14, 1994, was nominated for an unprecedented 72 Grammys, winning 20. He also won four Academy Awards out of 18 nominations, including Oscars for Best Original Song for "Moon River" from "Breakfast at Tiffany's" and "Days of Wine and Roses" from the movie of the same title, both shared with Johnny Mercer. His other two Oscars were for the scores for "Breakfast at Tiffany's" and "Victor Victoria." [ + - ]
1921: Actor Peter Ustinov, best known for movies such as "Quo Vadis," "Spartacus," "Billy Budd," "Topkapi" and "Death on the Nile," is born in London, England. Ustinov, seen here in 1986, was also a renowned filmmaker, theater and opera director, stage designer, author, screenwriter, comedian, humorist, newspaper and magazine columnist, radio broadcaster, and television presenter, winning Oscars, Emmys, Golden Globes, BAFTA Awards and a Grammy during his career. He died of heart failure at age 82 on March 28, 2004. [ + - ]
1889: Actor and film director Charlie Chaplin, the silent film star who became one of the world's biggest celebrities before World War I, is born in London, England. He became a worldwide icon through his screen persona "The Tramp" and is considered one of the most important figures of the film industry. Chaplin, who wrote, directed, produced, edited, scored and starred in most of his films, also co-founded the distribution company United Artists with Douglas Fairbanks, D.W. Griffiths and Mary Pickford, giving him complete control over his films. [ + - ]
1867: Wilbur Wright, who with his brother Orville is credited with inventing the world's first successful airplane and making the first controlled, powered and sustained heavier-than-air human flight, is born in Millville, Indiana. [ + - ]
1862: The Confederate Congress and President Jefferson Davis approve a conscription act for white males between 18 and 35. The act was the first of its kind in America. [ + - ]
1859: French historian Alexis de Tocqueville dies of tuberculosis at the age of 53 in Cannes, France. His two-volume "Democracy in America," published in 1835 and 1840 after his travels in the United States, is today considered an early work of sociology and political science. [ + - ]
1850: French-English artist Marie Tussaud, who founded the Madame Tussauds Wax Museum in London, England, during the 1830s, dies in her sleep at the age of 88 in London. [ + - ]
1828: Spanish painter and printmaker Francisco Goya, regarded both as the last of the Old Masters and the first of the moderns, dies of a stroke at the age of 82 in Bordeaux, France. Known for paintings such as "The Third of May 1808," Goya provided a model for the work of later generations of artists, notably Manet, Picasso and Francis Bacon. [ + - ]


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LinuxInstall.net Episode 110 – Browseing the Web in a Term…No really it works./
Click here to go to the Audio Podcast
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1) Introduction
Brian - Is still in 8-bit mode - Passed his CISSP Exam - Learning Flask
Walt - Going old school with Lynx Webbrowser
2) What we are up to with Linux?
CoreOS, Docker hits 1.0
Fresh install Xubuntu, magic of /home on different partition.
3) Conclusion
- Follow us on Twitter @linuxinstall
- Google + Community
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- Walt Jevack - Jevack.com
- Brian Wagner - devopsmastery.com


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35395, Children's Songbook, The Savior, I Think When I Read That Sweet Story, 56
1. I think when I read that sweet story of old,
When Jesus was here among men,
How he called little children like lambs to his fold;
I should like to have been with him then.
2. I wish that his hands had been placed on my head,
That his arms had been thrown around me,
That I might have seen his kind look when he said,
"Let the little ones come unto me."
Words: Jemima Luke, 1813-1906
Music: Leah Ashton Lloyd, 1894-1965
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All the Dusty Miller plants I first got in 2009 died but I have a replacement to keep the name going in the front ornamental section.
Certainly grown a bit.
Im assuming that all the original plants died off as I cant see any. They were all part of the first planting session 3 years ago or so. However, just to keep the species alive in the garden I planted some more in the front ornamental section. Just a small $1 pot.
The main problem was that they were swamped by the weeds. I couldnt see them, they had vanished and so they didnt get any light. However, they seem to have struggled on.
In the photos you can see the challenge they have from weeds. The weeds are just too virulent, although I am planning on putting down some weed killer, its more of a grass fertiliser with weed killer and seeing as 95% of the garden is weed it might have a dramatic effect!!!.
If you look closely at the bottom left photo you can just make out a Dusty Miller plant poking out its silver head, but the others are submerged.
Apparently it can grow up to 2 feet tall.