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Could our attention to the counsel and the teaching of the Brethren be more active, searching, and responsive?
Of course we love President Thomas S. Monson, the two counselors in the First Presidency, and the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles. But in acknowledging our love and our loyalty, I would ask, could our attention to the counsel and the teaching of these Brethren be more active, searching, and responsive?
Four Questions to Ask
Think how you would respond to the following questions:
- Could you tell me the names of the three members of the First Presidency and the names of each of those who belong to the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles? These are the 15 men you and I sustain as prophets, seers, and revelators.
- If we were to hold up a picture of these Brethren, would you recognize each of them? We rarely pay close attention to someone we do not recognize or know.
- Could you share with me the counsel given by the First Presidency and the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles from the last general conference? And could you identify the concerns of President Monson, President Eyring, and President Uchtdorf in the First Presidency Messages of the Liahona this year?
- Perhaps more importantly, could you share with me a recent decision where you changed something in your life because of counsel received from one of these 15 men?
The Lord's Pattern
The reasons our answers to these questions are so important rest in the calling and responsibility of the First Presidency and the Twelve Apostles. Whenever the Lord's Church has been established, the Lord has called prophets and apostles. The Savior said, "Ye have not chosen me, but I have chosen you, and ordained you" (John 15:16). To these men, that ordination brings a spiritual power and a solemn responsibility—a power to know and to testify and a responsibility to teach and to bless. It also brings a responsibility and a promise to us all. We have the responsibility to listen and to follow, and we have a promise that blessings will come as we believe and act on their words.
We have the responsibility to listen and to follow, and we have a promise that blessings will come as we believe and act on their words.
When the Lord called twelve disciples in the Americas after His Resurrection, He taught the people: "Blessed are ye if ye shall give heed unto the words of these twelve whom I have chosen from among you to minister unto you, and to be your servants" (3 Nephi 12:1). In our day, in a very difficult time, the Lord promised the Saints, "If my people will hearken unto my voice, and unto the voice of my servants whom I have appointed to lead my people, behold, verily I say unto you, they shall not be moved out of their place" (D&C 124:45).
This is the Lord's pattern. He calls 15 men from "the ordinary pursuits of life" and endows them with the keys and power to guide and direct us. We are not forced to obey; there is no compulsion. But if we will be attentive to their words, if we will be responsive and willing to change our behavior as the Holy Ghost confirms their counsel, we will not be moved out of our place—meaning we will hold fast to the iron rod and will forever remain safely on the path leading to the tree of life.
A Constant Stream of Revelation
"We have the Bible, the Book of Mormon and the Book of Doctrine and Covenants; but all these books, without the living oracles and a constant stream of revelation from the Lord, would not lead any people into the Celestial Kingdom of God. Of course, these records are all of infinite value. They cannot be too highly prized, nor can they be too closely studied. But in and of themselves, with all the light that they give, they are insufficient to guide the children of men and to lead them into the presence of God. To be thus led requires a living Priesthood and constant revelation from God to the people according to the circumstances in which they may be placed" (President George Q. Cannon 1827–1901), First Counselor in the First Presidency, Gospel Truth: Discourses and Writings of George Q. Cannon, comp. Jerreld L. Newquist (1987), 252.
What have you changed in your life because of counsel you received from the prophets and apostles? Share your experience below.
Find Out More about the Prophets and Apostles
President Thomas S. Monson
President Henry B. Eyring
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President Boyd K. Packer
Elder L. Tom Perry
Elder Russell M. Nelson
Elder Dallin H. Oaks
Elder M. Russell Ballard
Elder Richard G. Scott
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Normally, I leave the new website postings to other genealogy bloggers who specialize in news of that sort. But today I received an e-mail inviting me to check out this new site, which appears to be a replacement for the now-defunct Random Acts of Genealogical Kindness site.
The web address is http://www.gengathering.com/ (link will open in a new window). It's clearly a site for offering your services or requesting same from others, in the vein of the old RAOGK site, people helping other people just for the sake of helping.
Take a look and see if you need the service, or can provide some of your own!
This and all other articles on this blog are © copyright 2013 by Daniel G. Dillman

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I searched through the internet but didn't find any discussion on it. I know how to write code to access a specific GRID file, but not through a file browser.
Can anyone help? Thanks a lot.
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The Newport Beach Sunrise Rotary Club recently installed new officers for 2013-14.
Serving as president is Jeff Heileson, replacing termed-out Philip Reynolds. Serving with Heileson are Tammy McKennon, secretary; Rudy Baron, treasurer; Kimberly McKinney, president-elect and international service; and Steve Bender, John Hedlund and McKennon, directors.
Committee assignments are as follows: Caroline Babott continues as club bulletin editor; Will Longyear, club administration; Lisa Goodlad, fellowship; Jerry Barrone and Hedlund, finemaster; Bill Robbins, programs; Herb Norman, seargant-at-arms; Patricia Bintliff, community service; Max Alavia, youth service; Tim Brown, vocational service; Jackie Birdsong, environmental service; Brian Green, membership; Gil Thweatt, membership retention; Bob White, Rotary International Foundation; Laura Dietz, military service; and Lisa Hayes, club photographer.
The Newport Beach Sunrise Rotary Club meets for breakfast at 7:30 a.m. Tuesdays at Five Crowns Restaurant, 3801 E. Coast Hwy., Corona del Mar. Steve Harrington, 11-99 Foundation executive director, and Commander Elizabeth Barkley, of the California Highway Patrol, will speak at the next meeting. On Sept. 10, the program will feature Craft Talks. For more information, visit newportbeachsunriserotary.org.
Kiwanis — We Serve
"Our clubs consist of 40 men and women," said Charles Markel, past president of the Kiwanis Club of Costa Mesa. Twenty are working professionals, and 20 are retired.
Kiwanis is an Indian word for "we serve," and the club has made young children Priority 1. The club meets for lunch at noon Thursdays on the second floor of the Costa Mesa Country Club. After lunch, a speaker discusses a topical issue.
The club averages one service project a month. It has worked through Kelly's Closet to supply needy youngsters with a full change of new school clothes and supplies. This is done at South Coast Plaza's Sears store. After the shopping, everyone jumps on the bus and returns to the Boys Club for lunch and games.
Another service project is picture day at Costa Mesa High School in cooperation with American Youth Soccer Organization. AYSO sells the tickets, while Kiwanis provides a delicious pancake breakfast for more than 2,500 people.
The Kiwanis club supports local high school athletes by recognizing a male and female athlete from Mesa and Estancia High School each month. Kiwanis also supports the two high schools with a program called Eagle and Mesa Prides. And we are involved with the annual Community Run at Fairview Park.
Kiwanis teams up with the Lion's Club to help with the annual fish fry. It sponsors two Key Clubs, one at Costa Mesa High and one at Estancia High, and the award winning Circle K Club at Orange Coast College.
This year the Kiwanis club started OCYP (Orange County Young Professionals) for young professionals who have limited time for service projects and limited resources for full participation in Kiwanis.
The local club helps the international organization by assisting with the Eliminate Project, which aims to raise $110 million to eliminate neonatal tetanus throughout the world. On a district level, the young professionals support the annual Special Olympics track meet at Orange Coast College.
They also socialize during activities such as boat rides, dinners and special events. If you are interested in joining the Kiwanis Club of Costa Mesa, call Markel at (949) 642-6438.
Noon: The 15-member Exchange Club of Corona del Mar meets at the Bahia Corinthian Yacht Club, 1601 Bayside Drive, Corona del Mar.
7 a.m.: The 20-member Costa Mesa Orange Coast Lions Club meets at Mimi's Café, 1835 Newport Blvd., Costa Mesa.
Noon: The 45-member Kiwanis Club of Newport Beach-Corona del Mar meets at the Bahia Corinthian Yacht Club. For more information, visit sites.google.com/site/kiwanisofnewportbeach.
The 75-member Exchange Club of Newport Harbor meets at the Bahia Corinthian Yacht Club for a program by Dr. Dennis Jordanides on the Affordable Care Act. For more information, visit https://www.nhexchange.org.
The 55-member Newport-Irvine Rotary Club meets at the University Club, 801 E. Peltason Drive, Irvine.
6 p.m.: The 57-member Rotary Club of Newport-Balboa meets at the Bahia Corinthian Yacht Club for a program by Robert Kost. Kost will share how his family volunteered to take newborn lions, tigers and bears into the home to help raise them alongside children and family pets. For more information, visit https://www.newportbalboa.org.
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In early October, Gurdon and Yamanaka were awarded the 2012 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for their discoveries. Now, thanks to some careful detective work by a team of scientists led by Kenneth Zaret, PhD, at the Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, researchers can better understand just how iPS cells form – and why the Yamanaka process is so inefficient, an important step to work out for regenerative medicine. Zaret is associate director of the Penn Institute for Regenerative Medicine and professor of Cell and Developmental Biology.
The findings, which appear in the Nov. 22 issue of the journal Cell, uncover cellular impediments to iPS cell development that, if overcome, could dramatically improve the efficiency and speed of iPS cell generation.
"These studies provide detailed insights into how reprogramming factors interact with the chromatin of differentiated cells and start them down the path toward becoming stem cells," said Susan Haynes, PhD, National Institute of General Medical Sciences, which partially funded the work. "Dr. Zaret's work also identified a major structural roadblock in the chromatin that the factors must overcome in order to bind DNA. This knowledge will help improve the efficiency of reprogramming, which is important for any future therapeutic applications."
Human iPS cells are generated by expressing four DNA-binding proteins – Oct4, Sox2, Klf4, and c-Myc (O, S, K, and M) – in human non-reproductive, or somatic cells, such as skin cells. These factors have generated intense interest in the stem cell and medical communities, not least because they offer the promise of embryonic stem cells with none of the messy ethical and moral dilemmas. Just as significantly, patient-specific iPS cells from individuals with genetic disorders can be used to study disease origin and to develop drugs for a range of conditions such as Huntington's and Parkinson's diseases.
Yet, the process of generating iPS cells is highly inefficient. It can take a month to fully reprogram somatic cells into iPS cells, and as few as one in 10,000 cells that take up the four factors will successfully convert. What's more, some studies indicate that, for all their plasticity, iPS cells are not precisely equivalent to embryonic stem cells. Zaret, with Penn postdoctoral fellow Abdenous Soufi, PhD, and bioinformatician Greg Donahue, PhD, decided to find out why.
Destination Determination
The team analyzed the destination in the human genome of the four reprogramming factors 48 hours after the initiation of iPS cell reprogramming and compared those locations to four cell types: the starting cell population; the fully reprogrammed iPS cells; cells nearing the end of the reprogramming process (pre-iPS); and embryonic stem cells.
They found that at 48 hours the factors tended to bind gene regulatory elements called enhancers, far removed from the genes they regulate, rather than the target genes themselves. That suggests that O, S, and K serve as "pioneer factors" that open closed chromatin structures on the DNA itself, facilitating the reprogramming process by making target sections of the genome available to be read by messenger RNA.
The team also found large regions of the genome that were "refractory" to the binding of reprogramming factors at 48 hours, but which were eventually activated in, and are in fact required, for the formation of iPS cells.
"Basically, large chunks of the human genome were physically resisting these factors from entering," Zaret explained. "That provided some understanding that you've got to overcome the binding impediment to get these factors to their final destination."
These refractory sequences tended to be chemically marked with a histone modification called H3K9me3. When the team blocked the enzymes that create that modification, they "significantly accelerated" the reprogramming process.
According to Zaret, these findings reveal genetic roadblocks that slow and impede the iPS cell reprogramming process, as well as factors that may underlie the subtle differences between iPS and embryonic stem cells. They also suggest a potential workaround to these issues, by adding inhibitors of H3K9me3.
But the findings also reveal a normal cellular mechanism that cells may be using to repress genes that are contrary to the cell's biology, Zaret said. "We went into this thinking we were going to learn something about the mechanism of conversion to pluripotency, but at the end of the day we ended up discovering new ways that cells control gene expression by shutting down parts of their genome."
The study was supported by the NIGMS (Grants R37GM36477 and P01GM099134).
Penn Medicine is one of the world's leading academic medical centers, dedicated to the related missions of medical education, biomedical research, and excellence in patient care. Penn Medicine consists of the Raymond and Ruth Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania (founded in 1765 as the nation's first medical school) and the University of Pennsylvania Health System, which together form a $4.3 billion enterprise.
The Perelman School of Medicine is currently ranked #2 in U.S. News & World Report's survey of research-oriented medical schools. The School is consistently among the nation's top recipients of funding from the National Institutes of Health, with $479.3 million awarded in the 2011 fiscal year.
The University of Pennsylvania Health System's patient care facilities include: The Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania — recognized as one of the nation's top "Honor Roll" hospitals by U.S. News & World Report; Penn Presbyterian Medical Center; and Pennsylvania Hospital — the nation's first hospital, founded in 1751. Penn Medicine also includes additional patient care facilities and services throughout the Philadelphia region.
Penn Medicine is committed to improving lives and health through a variety of community-based programs and activities. In fiscal year 2011, Penn Medicine provided $854 million to benefit our community.


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Taper. Taper. Taper. Taper.
It's the Wall Street buzzword for the gradual reduction of the Federal Reserve's quantitative easing (QE) plan: the monthly purchases of $40 billion worth of mortgage-backed securities and $45 billion worth of Treasury securities. QE is intended to keep liquidity high and interest rates low in the credit markets.
The prospect of a taper is arguably causing interest rates to rise.
However, no one knows for sure when the taper will begin.
But they all have guesses.
Laszlo Birinyi compiled Wall Street's predictions. Here they are:


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I think we can safely assume that this blog is A Mind-boggling Blog without telling you everything of what people have shared with me.
Linking people with their past and with their memories using pictures I have collected since 2007.
Honoré Sauvé with his wife Julie Leroux
Looking at old pictures through new eyes…
Looking at this picture of my great-great-grandparents back in 2007 was enough to get me addicted to genealogy.
This picture of the Binette family is enough to keep my new found 3rd cousin's addiction going for a long long time as she tries to piece together all of her childhood memories.
Every picture tells a story, sometimes happy, and sometimes sad…
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The Day the Earth Wouldn't Stand Still
Yesterday the United States of America suffered one of its darkest hours, in what is already being called "The Great Richmond Earthquake Of 2011." During the crisis, literally billions of unsuspecting East Coast citizens were mercilessly and violently wiggled for an agonizing duration of nearly 25 seconds.
Already, hospitals have admitted hundreds of thousands of injured office workers complaining of whiplash. Said one local executive assistant, "That's covered under worker's comp, right? OW! My KNEE! I mean... MY NECK!!"
Damage reports are still coming in, but since this is America, preliminary estimates are topping 7 trillion dollars.
Hardest hit, however, were our nation's bakeries.
In addition, many areas had entire bottles of sprinkles tip over, crushing everything below in a rainbow hued shower of stale crunchiness.
But amidst all this tragedy, a few shining rays of light emerge.
Heroically, some wreckerators refused to seek shelter, choosing instead to continue their work:
This kind of sacrifice might be called selfless. Valiant, even.
We caught up with one anonymous hero in the Richmond, Virginia Shop-A-Lot to ask how she did it.
An attitude worthy of a local hero.
Thanks to field wreckporters Seanna B., Rachel O., Kelsey, Yello, Carissa B., Lara A., and Kristi M. for their in-depth coverage today.
[Editor's note: Upon further investigation it appears all of today's "earthquake cakes" were in fact made last week, and the baker quoted was asleep on her lunch break during the quake. CW regrets the error.]


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Erick Erickson - a typical 1940s/1950s Racer
It was a different time and a different place. No back-up car, no expensive hauler, no driver to get the race car to the track, no crew, no major sponsors, no racing tires, no fan clubs, and of course, no money. The stock car racing period of the late 1940s and early 1950s was a totally different animal than it is today, but it was just that Stock… Car… Racing.
Racers of the day hung on by their fingernails, and one of them, Erick Erickson, was the epitome of that stereotype, having an outstanding career against overwhelming odds. One has to wonder how skilled drivers like him would have faired with better equipment in today's day and age.
Erick's son, Fred, remembers those days during his youth and is still amazed at how his late father did what he did. "I grew up at the racetrack," he recalled. "My dad drove a totally-stock race car with license plates and functioning headlights. Heck, he would tape over the lights and the rear side windows and go racing." And get this! "The race car was driven to the track, and afterwards was driven back home with the family. Then, during the week, it performed household duties like going to the grocery store."
Can you imagine the attention it must have received sitting in the parking lot adorned with the scratches and bumps from the previous race? Erick's racing career started in the late 1930s driving coupes which many times could be purchased from the paltry sum of $20. Hard to imagine but 20 bucks could buy you a car; after that, it came down to setup ability and driving skills to be competitive. Erickson was a master of both. During the post-war period, he decided that a 103-horse 1941 Pontiac straight-eight vehicle would provide the best potential to succeed at a higher level. "Driver safety wasn't a high priority during this periodùno rollcages and only aircraft lap belts," son Fred explained.
Also, only Second and Third gear were used during the period. It was necessary for drivers to select a single gear for different sized tracks. "Dad used Second gear for quarter-milers, and high gear for the bigger tracks. The stock 4.10 rearend was used by my dad and most drivers."
The Pontiac proved to be a good choice as he won the 1949 and 1950 West Coast Stock Car Championships. But that wasn't enough and he decided to give NASCAR Grand National racing a shot. By then, the old '41 was showing its age, so Erickson made a step up to a '48 Pontiac and ran in the first two NASCAR races west of the Mississippi River. His surprising results were a Fifth at Carrell (CA) Speedway and an amazing Second to superstar Marshall Teague who was driving a factory-supported Hudson Hornet in a race at Phoenix, Arizona. That performance caught the eye of Bill France Sr. (NASCAR President) who invited him to come east and test the competition there.
Erickson did what any racer would do and loaded up the race car with parts and tools. However, he drove it across country to the East Coast. He competed at Darlington, Trenton (NJ), Canfield (OH), and West Memphis (TN). His trek to Darlington proved to be a bit of an eye opener as his son explains, "Because of the rpms he had to turn at Darlington, he burned holes in the number 1 and 8 pistons. The motor ran too lean," Fred said. That 1951 season saw Erickson run 12 NASCAR races finishing with three Top 5s and six Top 10s, delivering an 18th place finish in the national points standings. Incrediblely, he raced just 13 times out of 41 races. Finances kept him down to just 13 more races from 1954-1956 where he had one Top 5, four Top 10s, and seven Top 15s.
Erickson didn't just race Pontiacs during those years. Erick Erickson was definitely his own man wheeling other brands of cars that few others raced, including Buicks, Oldsmobiles, a Mercury, and even a Kaiser. He set up his cars and raced them where he wanted. During the formative years of stock car racing, his story is one that is played out over and over again at tracks all across the country. Erickson's career culimnated in his induction into the West Coast Stock Car Hall of Fame in 2003, an honor certainly well-deserved.


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Remember how we all loved the game "Telephone" in kindergarten? Well, add in a cake, and the fun never stops!
This order was for a "black high heel":
(It's a hill, people. Get it?)
Specifying punctuation is always tricky:
Although I suppose if Aunt flashed Mom that would liven up the party, and it's certainly preferable to Aunt slashing Mom.
(Ok, this one is tricky, I know: the order was for Aunt/Mom - a slash, in other words.)
Here we have a beautifully done blue horse. Unfortunately, it was supposed to be a blue house.
If your message is "Philip...Woohoo!", and you actually have to say the words "dot dot dot", be prepared for just about anything.
And of course these never get old:
Although interestingly enough, I think that icing IS light pink. I guess the decorator was covering all her bases.
Which brings me to our new category: "Literal LOLs". These are some of my favorite kinds of Wrecks, so keep an eye out, Wreckporters!
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Republicans just can't help reminding blacks why they should not consider voting for them, at least not seriously. In a Fox News interview, former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld compared President Barack Obama to a "trained ape" for his failure to sign an agreement with Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai on the number of US troops allowed to remain in Afghanistan after 2014 to help with security.
"A trained ape could get a status of forces agreement. It does not take a genius. And we have so mismanaged that relationship," said Rumsfeld.
While I agree Obama's retreat from the world stage has virtually neutered America's influence globally in conflicts like Syria, Iran, and Crimea, comparing the first black president to a trained ape is just in the poorest of taste. Since slavery, racists have compared blacks to monkeys, gorillas, apes and called blacks derogatory names like nigger, coon, and darkies. After Obama's election, more than a few Republican politicians have compared him, his family, and other blacks to animals.
I don't think the intention of Rumsfeld's remarks was racist but he may as well have compared the president to a "trained darkie" because his comments sounded racist. A white conservative friend of mine observed, "It just sounds racist. That's probably not what Rumsfeld meant but the president is black."
"United States diplomacy has been so bad—so embarrassingly bad," Rumsfeld said. That's accurate and Rumsfeld comments on Obama's foreign policy in Afghanistan should have been more in line with this tone. Instead he just said spoke without thinking about the implications of comparing a black president to an ape.
That's the fundamental problem with many carrying the banner in today's Republican Party. They are so dismissive of and out of touch with the race culturally, that people like Rumsfeld don't understand why blacks would find such a remark offensive. Even if he didn't mean it as racist.
Fresh off the heels of the Republican National Committee's one-year anniversary of its Growth & Opportunity Project to attract more minority voters, Rumsfeld's comment is more proof the GOP isn't serious about inclusion or winning future presidential elections. Comments like his are just the distraction the media loves to report on instead of Obama's failed leadership at home and abroad.
If Republicans and the RNC are serious about winning more black votes and future elections, here's some advice. First, hire more people of color at every level across all aspects of conservative politics Congress, campaigns, think tanks, and political organizations. If conservative politicians worked with more blacks, I suspect they would be less inclined to say stupid things that offend blacks in speeches or other forms of communications because the blacks working with them would tell them "you can't say that because it sounds racist."
Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas wrote in his autobiography My Grandfather's Son, he recommended President George H. W. Bush appoint "blacks to positions of responsibility than the race-related ones they'd traditionally held."
Second, if Republicans want to earn more of the black vote, the RNC and other groups should follow Senator Rand Paul's lead and take the conservative message to places Republicans aren't used to going like historically black colleges and universities. Paul has spoken Howard University and Simpson College. The RNC also needs to be talking to groups like the National Urban League, the NAACP and other "so called" black advocacy groups.
The RNC won't win over votes in one speech, but it can begin to build and sustain a conversation with black voters. If blacks don't hear from the GOP how voting Republican will improve their lives, then they will continue to vote over 90% Democrat, especially when our spokespeople make offensive and racist remarks.
Democrats won four of the past six presidential elections and they look poised for another victory in 2016 unless the GOP can stop putting its foot in its mouth and start doing some outreach.


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About patronanejo
Let me ask you a simple question: Did you get permission to use the image on your site? No?You are indescribably stupid. Not every published item qualifies for copyright protection. Those that do not qualify default to the public domain--end of argument.
Are you sure of the copyright holder? You are not.You cannot open the argument by dismissing the question of specific ownership. If no human being meets the legal criteria of creative contribution, the image cannot be copyrighted. In such a case, the work is legally in the public domain by design. It is a carefully-considered balance between the public good and the rights of the creator--not some sort of loophole imagined by paranoid corporate zombies.
Are all images copyright at the time of creation?Decidedly not. As comprehensively demonstrated in the article--which you have clearly failed to read--these particular works do not qualify for copyright protection. Had David Slater claimed to have shot them, the photos would have been eligible for copyright protection. Unfortunately for him (and Caters), the value of this set of images rests in its entirety upon having been created through non-human agency.
I would say that while there may be some margin merit to your arguments, it doesn't make your use of the image any more correct.The decision to publish these photos is consistent with years of consideration by philosophical minds much more capable than yours. You don't get to interpret law in a way that is expedient to your particular view on a particular case. By any legitimate-, consistent-, systematic measure, Tech Dirt's interpretation is correct. It cannot be made "any more correct"--correctness, like pregnancy, is absolute: either you is or you ain't.
...Caters appears to believe that our fair use efforts violate some totally unstated right that the Daily Mail holds on these images.
While the monkey may have pushed the button to trigger the camera, it is clear that the setup is all from the human. After all, without the camera in place, secured, etc, the money would have no image to be taken.
You terrific fool--Tim Berners-Lee OM KBE created the World Wide Web, not the Internet.


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Number of items: 40.
Barnes, Clifford, McKerr, George, Soto, A. M., Downes, Stephen, Howard, Vyvyan and Saetzler, Kurt (2014) From Single Cells to Tissues: Interactions between the Matrix and Human Breast Cells in Real Time. PLOS ONE, 9 (4). pp. 1-12. [Journal article]
Van Hoecke, K., De Schamphelaere, K. A. C., Ali, Z., Zhang, F., Elsaesser, A., Rivera-Gil, P., Parak, W. J., Smagghe, G., Howard, Vyvyan and Janssen, C. R. (2013) Ecotoxicity and uptake of polymer coated gold nanoparticles. Nanotoxicology, 7 (1). p. 37. [Journal article]
Elsaesser, Andreas, Barnes, Clifford A, McKerr, George, Salvati, Anna, Lynch, Iseult, Dawson, Kenneth A and Howard, Vyvyan (2011) Quantification of nanoparticle uptake by cells using an unbiased sampling method and electron microscopy. Nanomedicine (London, England), 6 (7). pp. 1189-98. [Journal article]
Hazekamp, J, Doherty, S, Elsaesser, A, Barnes, Clifford, O'Hagan, Barry, McKerr, George and Howard, Vyvyan (2011) Focussed ion beam milling at grazing incidence angles. Journal of microscopy, 242 (1). pp. 104-10. [Journal article]
Park, Margriet V. D. Z., Verharen, Henny W., Zwart, Edwin, Hernandez, Lya G., van Benthem, Jan, Elsaesser, Andreas, Barnes, Clifford, McKerr, George, Howard, Vyvyan, Salvati, Anna, Lynch, Iseult, Dawson, Kenneth A. and de Jong, Wim H. (2011) Genotoxicity evaluation of amorphous silica nanoparticles of different sizes using the micronucleus and the plasmidlacZgene mutation assay. Nanotoxicology, 5 (2). pp. 168-181. [Journal article]
Elsaesser, Andreas, Taylor, Ashley, Staats, Gesa, McKerr, George, Kim, Eun-Mee, O'Hare, Eugene and Howard, Vyvyan (2010) Quantification of nanoparticle uptake by cells using microscopical and analytical techniques. Nanomedicine, 5 (9). pp. 1447-1457. [Journal article]
McArt, DG, McKerr, George, Saetzler, Kurt, Howard, Vyvyan, Downes, Stephen and Wasson, GR (2010) Comet sensitivity in assessing DNA damage and repair in different cell cycle stages. Mutagenesis, 25 (3). p. 299. [Journal article]
McArt, Darragh G, McKerr, G, Howard, Vyvyan, Saetzler, Kurt and Wasson, Gillian R (2009) Modelling the comet assay. Biochemical Society Transactions, 037 (4). pp. 914-917. [Journal article]
McArt, Darragh G, Wasson, Gillian R, McKerr, George, Saetzler, Kurt, Reed, Matt and Howard, Vyvyan (2009) Systematic random sampling of the comet assay. Mutagenesis, 24 (4). pp. 373-378. [Journal article]
Park, Margriet VDZ, Annema, Wijtske, Salvati, Anna, Lesniak, Anna, Elsaesser, Andreas, Barnes, Clifford, McKerr, George, Howard, Vyvyan, Lynch, Iseult, Dawson, Kenneth A, Piersma, Aldert H and de Jong, Wim H (2009) In vitro developmental toxicity test detects inhibition of stem cell differentiation by silica nanoparticles. TOXICOLOGY AND APPLIED PHARMACOLOGY, 240 (1). pp. 108-116. [Journal article]
Van Hoecke, Karen, Quik, Joris TK, Mankiewicz-Boczek, Joanna, De Schamphelaere, Karel AC, Elsaesser, Andreas, Van der Meeren, Paul, Barnes, Clifford, McKerr, George, Howard, Vyvyan, Van De Meent, Dik, Rydznyski, Konrad, Dawson, Kenneth, Salvati, Anna, Lynch, Iseult, Silversmit, Geert, De Samber, Bjorn, Vincze, Laszlo and Janssen, Colin R (2009) Fate and Effects of CeO2 Nanoparticles in Aquatic Ecotoxicity Tests. Environmental Science Technology, 43 (12). pp. 4537-4546. [Journal article]
Barnes, Clifford, Elsaesser, Andreas, Arkusz, Joanna, Smok, Anna, Palus, Jadwiga, Leśniak, Anna, Salvati, Anna, Hanrahan, John P., Jong, Wim H. de, Dziubałtowska, Elżbieta, Stȩpnik, Maciej, Rydzyński, Konrad, McKerr, George, Lynch, Iseult, Dawson, Kenneth A. and Howard, Vyvyan (2008) Reproducible Comet Assay of Amorphous Silica Nanoparticles Detects No Genotoxicity. Nano Letters, 8 (9). p. 3069. [Journal article]
Myllynen, Paivi K., Loughran, Michael J., Howard, Vyvyan, Sormunen, Raija, Walsh, Adrian A. and Vahakangas, Kirsi H. (2008) Kinetics of gold nanoparticles in the human placenta. REPRODUCTIVE TOXICOLOGY, 26 (2). pp. 130-137. [Journal article]
Sneddon, Jennifer C., Ritruechai, Pattama, de Yanes, Gesa Staats and Howard, Vyvyan (2008) Seasonal influences on quantitative changes in sweat-associated anatomy in native and thoroughbred horses. VETERINARY DERMATOLOGY, 19 (3). pp. 163-173. [Journal article]
Barnes, Clifford, O'Hagan, Barry, Howard, Vyvyan and McKerr, G (2007) Verification of cell viability at progressively higher scanning forces using a hybrid atomic force and fluorescence microscope. Journal of microscopy, 228 (Pt 2). pp. 185-9. [Journal article]
Ellis, Kathryn A., Innocent, Giles T., Mihm, Monika, Cripps, Peter, McLean, W. Graham, Howard, Vyvyan and Grove-White, Dai (2007) Dairy cow cleanliness and milk quality on organic and conventional farms in the UK. JOURNAL OF DAIRY RESEARCH, 74 (3). pp. 302-310. [Journal article]
Ellis, Kathryn A., Monteiro, Ana, Innocent, Giles T., Grove-White, Dai, Cripps, Peter, McLean, W. Graham, Howard, Vyvyan and Mihmz, Monika (2007) Investigation of the vitamins A and E and beta-carotene content in milk from UK organic and conventional dairy farms. JOURNAL OF DAIRY RESEARCH, 74 (4). pp. 484-491. [Journal article]
Newby, J. A., Busby, C. C., Howard, Vyvyan and Platt, M. J. (2007) The cancer incidence temporality index: An index to show temporal changes in the age of onset of overall and specific cancer (England and Wales, 1971-1999). BIOMEDICINE & PHARMACOTHERAPY, 61 (10). pp. 623-630. [Journal article]
Ellis, KA, Innocent, G, Grove-White, D, Cripps, P, McLean, WG, Howard, CV and Mihm, M (2006) Comparing the fatty acid composition of organic and conventional milk. JOURNAL OF DAIRY SCIENCE, 89 (6). pp. 1938-1950. [Journal article]
Kannekens, EM, Murray, RD, Howard, Vyvyan and Currie, J (2006) A stereological method for estimating the feto-maternal exchange surface area in the bovine placentome at 135 days gestation. RESEARCH IN VETERINARY SCIENCE, 81 (1). pp. 127-133. [Journal article]
Lau, K, McLean, WG, Williams, DP and Howard, Vyvyan (2006) Synergistic interactions between commonly used food additives in a developmental neurotoxicity test. TOXICOLOGICAL SCIENCES, 90 (1). pp. 178-187. [Journal article]
Sneddon, JC, Boomker, E and Howard, Vyvyan (2006) Mucosal surface area and fermentation activity in the hind gut of hydrated and chronically dehydrated working donkeys. JOURNAL OF ANIMAL SCIENCE, 84 (1). pp. 119-124. [Journal article]
Cranston, A, Howard, L and Howard, Vyvyan (2004) Quantitative phenotyping as an efficient means to estimate C-cell number in a knock-in mouse model of MEN2B. TRANSGENIC RESEARCH, 13 (4). pp. 339-348. [Journal article]
Pennycook, FR, Diamand, EM, Watterson, A and Howard, Vyvyan (2004) Modeling the dietary pesticide exposures of young children. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF OCCUPATIONAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH, 10 (3). pp. 304-309. [Journal article]
Axelrad, JC, Howard, Vyvyan and McLean, WG (2003) The effects of acute pesticide exposure on neuroblastoma cells chronically exposed to diazinon. TOXICOLOGY, 185 (1-2). pp. 67-78. [Journal article]
Hill, A, Howard, Vyvyan, Strahle, U and Cossins, A (2003) Neurodevelopmental defects in zebrafish (Danio rerio) at environmentally relevant dioxin (TCDD) concentrations. TOXICOLOGICAL SCIENCES, 76 (2). pp. 392-399. [Journal article]
Axelrad, JC, Howard, Vyvyan and McLean, WG (2002) Interactions between pesticides and components of pesticide formulations in an in vitro neurotoxicity test. TOXICOLOGY, 173 (3). pp. 259-268. [Journal article]
Dhaliwal, GS, Murray, RD, Rees, EM, Howard, Vyvyan and Beech, DJ (2002) Quantitative unbiased estimates of endometrial gland surface area and volume in cycling cows and heifers. RESEARCH IN VETERINARY SCIENCE, 73 (3). pp. 259-265. [Journal article]
Hill, AJ, Howard, Vyvyan and Cossins, AR (2002) Efficient embedding technique for preparing small specimens for stereological volume estimation: zebrafish larvae. JOURNAL OF MICROSCOPY-OXFORD, 206 (Part 3). pp. 179-181. [Journal article]
Kelsall, A, Fitzgerald, AJ, Howard, Vyvyan, Evans, RC, Singh, R, Rhodes, JM and Goodlad, RA (2002) Dietary lectins can stimulate pancreatic growth in the rat. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL PATHOLOGY, 83 (4). pp. 203-208. [Journal article]
Platt, MJ, Stanisstreet, M, Casson, IF, Howard, Vyvyan, Walkinshaw, S, Pennycook, S and McKendrick, O (2002) St Vincent's Declaration 10 years on: outcomes of diabetic pregnancies. DIABETIC MEDICINE, 19 (3). pp. 216-220. [Journal article]
Ansari, T, Sibbons, PD and Howard, Vyvyan (2001) Estimation of mean nuclear volume of neocortical neurons in sudden infant death syndrome cases using the nucleator estimator technique. BIOLOGY OF THE NEONATE, 80 (1). pp. 48-52. [Journal article]
Reed, MG, Shanks, E, Beech, DJ, Barlow, L and Howard, Vyvyan (2001) Stereological estimation of eye volume using the Pappus method. JOURNAL OF MICROSCOPY-OXFORD, 202 (Part 3). pp. 473-479. [Journal article]
Beech, DJ, Howard, Vyvyan, Reed, MG, Sibbons, PD and Van Velzen, D (2000) Unbiased and efficient estimation of the total number of terminal bronchiolar duct endings in lung: a modified physical disector. JOURNAL OF MICROSCOPY-OXFORD, 197 (Part 1). pp. 36-45. [Journal article]
Beech, DJ, Sibbons, PD, Howard, Vyvyan and van Velzen, D (2000) Renal developmental delay expressed by reduced glomerular number and its association with growth retardation in victims of sudden infant death syndrome and in ``normal'' infants. PEDIATRIC AND DEVELOPMENTAL PATHOLOGY, 3 (5). pp. 450-454. [Journal article]
Beech, DJ, Sibbons, PD, Howard, Vyvyan and van Velzen, D (2000) Terminal bronchiolar duct ending number does not increase post-natally in normal infants. EARLY HUMAN DEVELOPMENT, 59 (3). pp. 193-200. [Journal article]
Brotchie, D, Birch, M, Roberts, N, Howard, Vyvyan, Smith, VA and Grierson, I (1999) Localisation of connective tissue and inhibition of autofluorescence in the human optic nerve and nerve head using a modified picrosirius red technique and confocal microscopy. JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE METHODS, 87 (1). pp. 77-85. [Journal article]
Howard, Vyvyan and Saunders, PT (1999) Sensible precautions make good science ... NATURE, 401 (6750). p. 207. [Journal article]
Reed, MG and Howard, Vyvyan (1999) Stereological estimation of covariance using linear dipole probes. JOURNAL OF MICROSCOPY-OXFORD, 195 (Part 2). pp. 96-103. [Journal article]
Norton, TA, Thompson, RC, Pope, J, Veltkamp, CJ, Banks, B, Howard, Vyvyan and Hawkins, SJ (1998) Using confocal laser scanning microscopy, scanning electron microscopy and phase contrast light microscopy to examine marine biofilms. AQUATIC MICROBIAL ECOLOGY, 16 (2). pp. 199-204. [Journal article]
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Oh, Miley Cyrus, you are a bad, bad girl. Cyrus, no stranger to controversy (hello, salvia smoking photos or those controversial, back-baring shots when she was a young teen that appeared in Vanity Fair) seems to be working overtime to shed her Disney image. The singer's co-star in an upcoming video is a porn star.
The video is reportedly so steamy that Cyrus and her collaborator needed to recruit an adult film actress in order to get the job done right. It's a dirty job but only a porn star can do it, we guess.
The video was shot a couple weeks ago at Beacher's Madhouse in Hollywood and will be for Miley's song 'Decisions' with DJ Borgore, according to the sleuths at TMZ.
We know, we know. You are more interested in who the porn star is. We've got some bio info on her. Turns out she is AVN Award-winner Jessie Andrews – the AVNs are porn's Oscars -- and is all of 20. How did Miley find her? Did she scout her by picking up some DVDs?
Nah. Andrews used to date Borgore and the song is about her, so he and Cyrus had a line in and asked her to be a part of things. So it must have been an amicable split between Andrews and Borgore. Porn stars tend to be, uh, open-minded, so maybe she can get along with her exes. And Andrews appears to like her job. A lot.
But back on track. The video will supposedly debut this week and is said to feature little people, unicorns, a goat and a woman with watermelon-smashing boobs (!!!). We don't even know what to make of the latter element of the vid. We're still stuck on Miley co-starring with a sex worker.
Watch the Miley Cyrus 'Party in the U.S.A.' Video


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Lots of people consider Christmas in July as the perfect excuse to throw parties and have fun. If that's the case, where do we sign up? People who celebrate this non-holiday do so in traditional Christmas party style—complete with the winter trappings. But if you find heavy sweaters, an open fire, and calorific eggnog way too warm for July, then a summer-friendly Caribbean cruise theme is what you need.
All Aboard
Get your guests on board with the cruise ship theme by sending out paper or email invitations fashioned as "boarding passes." Choose from dozens of free online templates or create your own with cruise-related images, like anchors, palm trees, or ocean liners.
Casual dining attire on cruise ships can be a simple polo shirt and slacks for men, and a breezy top and skirt for women. For a brighter affair, ask guests to come in colorful tropical shirts, linen pants, and comfortable sundresses. As the host, you get the privilege of wearing a captain's hat.


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Southern Rail scores lowest in UK for rail customer satisfaction
Published on by Sofi Germanos (writer), Jonaqline Addai (editor)
Southern Rail have been given just ONE STAR for punctuality following a survey
Veterans not tapping into help given to find jobs.
Published on by Nadine Vieira (author), Jonaqline Addai (editor)
Veterans aren't tapping into the help given to find jobs after they leave the service, according to a Military charity.
Warnings of dog deaths leads to owners taking extra care at Sussex beauty spots.
Published on by Rachel Mckenzie (author), Jonaqline Addai (editor)
The recent death of a dog on the cliff side of beachy head has lead for national Charity RNLI to put out a warning about dog safety along the beach.
Price Hike Looming for Hastings Residents
Published on by Reece Webb (author), Jonaqline Addai (editor)
Residents in Hastings are facing a double financial blow this year with proposals to increase council tax and parking charges. Hastings Borough Council have unveiled proposals for its budget up until 2020, forecasting 'difficult choices' ahead.
The Battle of Litter in Hastings.
Published on by Rebecca Wheeler (author), Jonaqline Addai (editor)
Littering in Hastings can get you a three figure fine.Our Reporter Rebecca Wheeler finds out the impact littering the streets of Hastings could have.


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Make journal and status entries in 37signals' Backpack. This was a lunchtime project, and it's been dormant for a while. I'm not even sure if this code works. If you happen to use this and want to take over as maintainer, drop me a line!
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Tali - Treason part 2
Walkthrough - Tali - Treason part 2
From here, you'll get a glimpse as to where the trial will be taking place, a rare, open area in the flotilla that can accommodate a lot of people (and a little bit of pomp, as well). As Shepard and Tali walk in, you'll get a glimpse of the parties that will be involved in this trial. After an opening speech by Shala'Raan, the trial will begin. Before it gets a chance to get very far, however, one of the ruling council immediately objects to Shepard being present at the trial, and representing Tali. Shala'Raan rebuts by letting the complaining party, Admiral Koris, know that Tali has the legal right for the captain of her ship to represent her, regardless of if he's human or Quarian. And then, the questioning begins.
As the beginning of the trial winds on, some important information comes to light. At first, the admirals on the council will ask Tali how she pleads. Naturally, you should plead not guilty for her, regardless of how you choose to word it (which may differ depending on your Paragon or Renegade slant). Tali will insist that she sent inert, inactive Geth parts to her father's ship. Her father is a scientist, and needed the parts for research. But that's when the bombshell you were likely expecting explodes in your face. The reason the Quarians know the Geth parts were active was because the Geth have taken over Tali's father ship. Presumably, nobody is left alive on it, but that remains to be seen. Either way, the Geth have successfully infiltrated the fleet, and Tali seems to be the one to blame. This surprises not only Tali, but everyone else in the room, since that was a well-hidden secret up to this point. That's when a solution comes to light -- to let Tali and her friends from the Normandy breach the Geth-seized ship, to take it back for the Quarians, and to see just what happened there.
Now, it's time to begin speaking with the Quarians around you. You don't have to do this -- you can make haste directly for the shuttle that will bring you to the occupied laboratory ship -- but there's no reason to rush around. This is Mass Effect 2, after all. Begin by speaking with some of your old friends. You can find both the Quarian marine Kal'Reegar, and the Quarian technician Veetor, granted that both survived their earlier encounters with you. Kal'Reegar will speak with you a bit about the star back on Haestrom (during the Dossier: Tali mission). It appears that the Geth could be responsible for that star's erratic, unpredictable, and strange behavior. Meanwhile, Veetor, who you met way back during the Freedom's Progress quest at the beginning of the game, will still be dealing with the mental fatigue associated with nearly dying (and watching everyone else perish all around him). Veetor will be accompanied by his doctor for the duration of your conversation. While he says he spoke to the admirals to put in a good word for Tali, he's incapable of doing much more to help.
From there, you can begin to speak to some of the admirals themselves. Begin with Admiral Xen. This female Quarian doesn't care much for the outcome of the trial, nonetheless the participants therein. All she cares about is what Tali's father was doing on board his ship, and if he figured out a way to manipulate or defeat the Geth. Remember -- the Quarians created the Geth, and the Geth turned on them, took their homeworld away, and have been doing sporadic battle with the survivors ever since. Thus, Xen's notions, at best, seem quite strange. Meanwhile, Shala'Raan, who is related to Tali, gets an ear-full. She was the one who told the captain earlier not to give any details as to the nature of the charges against Tali. This was only to give her the feeling of authentic shock and awe in the court itself, which would ultimately allow Tali to go and retake the seized ship herself. Though Tali is mad about this, she can't deny that the technique worked.
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text: While MSG Network officially named Mike Breen the voice of the Knicks on TV yesterday, the man he replaced has yet to find another local job. "I can't say a thing," Marv Albert said during a recent conversation. Albert, who left MSG after a dispute with management over the content of the game broadcast and money, likes to stay sharp by doing a local team. With Ian Eagle seemingly entrenched with the Nets, YES doesn't appear to be an option. Albert declined to say if there were other options. Albert, who calls Monday Night Football on radio, will still be the voice of the NBA on TNT.


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Arkansas farmer Jim Burton was sick and tired of taking soil samples in his fields. So being a natural tinkerer, he devised a better way to do it. From Burton's garage began a decade-long project, and he named the love of labor that resulted from his hard work the AutoProbe, and formed AgRobotics to market it.
Pulled behind a tractor, the AutoProbe can take dozens of 6-inch soil cores per acre – one every 8.5 feet – in a matter of seconds. They are then mailed off for analysis just like any other soil sample. Jeff Burton, senior vice president of business development, says the AutoProbe addresses an interesting pain point in precision ag.
"People really don't want to take soil samples, even though they need to," he says. "It's one of the last operations you have to do by hand, but it's the foundation of the entire precision process."
The device caught the eye of Agronomic Innovations, LLC., a start-up owned by Allen Lash and Harold Birch (of FamilyFarms Group notoriety), which purchased AgRobotics in July. Lash says he's confident the AutoProbe represents a superior way to pull soil samples.
"We're spending all of this money on precision ag, and yet we're still testing soil like we did 50 years ago," he says. "Spot sampling isn't precision. You only understand what's happening in that spot where the sample's pulled. It's logical that more samples are better. It's also statistically more accurate."
In the video below, Jason Webster, an agronomist with Beck's Hybrids, shares his thoughts on soil testing and demonstrates the AutoProbe in action.
For more information, visit www.agrobotics.com. Want to talk about more on-farm technologies? Visit the AgWeb technology discussion forums.


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Artist's description:
A beautiful original cut-out of an abstract nude in a gorgeous deep jade. The nude figure is meticulously cut by hand from painted paper, before being mounted on crisp off-white paper. Initially inspired by the wonderful Matisse, I aim to capture the elegance of the female form in bold simplicity.
Size: 35 × 50 cm (size of the paper) / 30 × 40 cm (suggested actual image size)
This art work is sold unframed and is shipped flat, carefully packaged in a protective clear plastic sleeve with a backing board to keep it rigid and a piece of acid free paper between the art work and the board. A few centimetres of blank paper are left around the figure to allow the artwork to be framed. This art work can easily be framed in a high-street frame. A 40 x 50 cm frame, with a 30 x 40 cm mat opening, would be perfect.
Art work is shipped from Hungary within 5 days of ordering. Please allow another 8 days for delivery to the UK, 14 days to the USA, 21 days to Australia and 7 days to Europe. If you need an estimated delivery time for a different country, just ask.
Please don't hesitate to contact me if you have any questions about the art work.
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220gsm paper (painted with acrylics), mounted onto acid-free 220gsm white paper
Esther in Jade (2015)
Collage by Elizabeth Lever
$223.47 Sold
- Collage on Paper
- One of a kind artwork
- Size: 13.78 x 19.69 in (unframed) / 11.81 x 15.75 in (actual image size)
- Signed on the front
- Style: Naive
- Subject: Nudes and erotic
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This artwork has sold, but the artist is accepting commission requests. Commissioning an artwork is easy and you get a perfectly personalised piece.
This artwork is sold by Elizabeth Lever from Hungary


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Help provide the life-giving benefits of breastmilk from hospital to home. Medela's sterile breastpump kits are designed to support your efforts every step of the way.
Medela's Breastmilk Initiation (BMI) Kits are designed to help set proper expectations of initial expression and can be used throughout the entire breastfeeding experience.
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HIV/AIDS News
Interleukin-12 Helps Control Mycobacterium Avium Infection
Scientists at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases(NIAID)have found that treating mice with interleukin-12 (IL-12) plus conventional antibiotic therapy can help control infection with Mycobacterium avium, an opportunistic infection common in people with late-stage AIDS. IL-12, a cytokine or chemical messenger produced by immune cells, helps regulate cell-mediated immunity.
These findings in immunodeficient mice suggest that combined IL-12/drug treatment may offer a highly effective strategy for managing atypical mycobacterial infections in people who have AIDS or are otherwise immunocompromised, note Mark Doherty, Ph.D., and Alan Sher, Ph.D., of NIAID's Laboratory of Parasitic Diseases, in their report published June 1 in the The Journal of Immunology. Furthermore, they postulate that the same approach might work for other opportunistic infections common in these individuals such as Toxoplasma and Histoplasma. Previous research in animals has shown that these infections also respond to IL-12 treatment.
Based on the new findings, researchers at the National Institutes of Health led by Henry Masur, M.D., recently began recruiting people with both AIDS and Mycobacterium avium complex (MAC) into a Phase I clinical trial to test IL-12 in combination with standard antibiotic treatment regimens. MAC is an infection caused by either M. avium or its close relative, M. intracellulare.
This is an excellent example of how a preclinical study can provide a model for designing a clinical trial," says Anthony S. Fauci, M.D., director of NIAID. "It's very difficult to treat this infection in AIDS patients," comments Dr. Sher. Often patients have to be treated with three or four different drugs, which can have toxic side effects so that patients become intolerant to one or more drugs. Furthermore, the bacteria that causes the infection can become resistant to one or more antibiotics. This protocol is evaluating a way we might enhance natural immunity to the infection while continuing to use antibiotic therapy."
M. avium is a ubiquitous type of bacteria found in water, mist, dust, soil and bird droppings. People usually become infected through contaminated food and water or, less often, by inhaling the organism. Healthy individuals can be infected but have no symptoms. In people who have AIDS or are otherwise immunocompromised, however, the organism can spread throughout the body, damaging tissues and causing fever, night sweats, weight loss, fatigue, or progressively severe diarrhea. In people with AIDS, M. avium infection usually occurs late in the course of the disease concurrent with low CD4+ T-cell counts. Currently, any of three drugs-rifabutin, clarithromycin and azithromycin-are approved as standard therapy to prevent MAC in HIV-infected people with CD4+ T-cell counts below 50.
Once prevention measures have failed and someone develops MAC, however, treatment is more problematic. Patients require life-long maintenance therapy with multiple antibiotics-which can lead to the development of antibiotic resistance or drug intolerance-because symptoms return if treatment is stopped. Thus, researchers are interested in new treatment options.
IL-12 both enhances the immune system's ability to kill infected cells and induces the production of interferon gamma, a protein that helps control infections like MAC. IL-12 can stimulate interferon gamma even in the absence of T cells, a potential advantage when used to treat immunocompromised patients.
Through a series of experiments conducted in immunodeficient mice, Drs. Doherty and Sher discovered that the combination of IL-12 and antibiotics has a synergistic effect, working better than either IL-12 or drugs alone. Infected mice were treated on alternate days for three sequential doses. After a two-day rest period, the animals received another three doses on the same schedule. Control animals were given saline alone. The investigators looked for evidence of bacteria in the spleens and lungs of infected mice. The first group of infected mice received high doses of IL-12 alone. These mice had significant but undramatic reductions in mycobacteria counts, and the mice displayed noticeable wasting and enlarged spleens when compared with control animals.
To try to improve the therapeutic response and reduce side effects, Drs. Doherty and Sher cut the total IL-12 dosage by half (to 500 nanograms). This dosage of IL-12 caused minimal side effects but lowered bacteria counts only slightly. However, when they combined IL-12 with clarithromycin, an antibiotic effective against M. avium in both humans and mice, the reduction in M. avium was 100-fold greater than in control animals.
Because standard clinical practice for MAC treatment involves administering multiple antibiotics, they tested the same low-dose IL-12 regimen with a second unrelated antibiotic, rifabutin. This combination also resulted in a greater than 100-fold decrease in bacteria counts when compared with using rifabutin alone.
Although they found that the activity of IL-12 depended on the stimulation of interferon gamma, when given by itself, even at a higher dose than IL-12, interferon gamma was not more effective at clearing the bacteria than antibiotics alone.
Speaking of the newly opened protocol, Dr. Sher says, "Ethically, you can't take patients off of antibiotic regimens known to be partially effective in order to test a new experimental treatment. So combined treatment is an approach that allows clinicians here at NIH to test the antimicrobial functions of IL-12 in AIDS patients without compromising standard practice."
Reference: IL-12 promotes drug-induced clearance of Mycobacterium avium infection in mice. The Journal of Immunology 160, 5428-35 (1998).
NIAID supports biomedical research to prevent, diagnose and treat illnesses such as AIDS, tuberculosis, malaria, asthma and allergies. NIH is an agency of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
Press releases, fact sheets and other NIAID-related materials are available via the NIAID Web site at http://www.niaid.nih.gov.


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Habitat hunks are in the house
I'm too sexy for my clothes … In the name of fundraising (or is that fun-raising?) nine generous gentleman will vie for the title of Mr. Habitat 2011. Our divine diva Barbara Quinn will emcee, making sure the audience is aware of all of the contestants' attributes as she keeps the show moving along. It all happens Saturday, Feb. 26, at the Rockin' A Café. Plan to attend as you support your favorite Habitat guy — Clark Winslow, Mike Blueitt, Gordon Williams, Shane Howard, Kevin Steele, James Johnson, Ronnie Ramirez, Chuck King and Brad Klein. All proceeds benefit Habitat for Humanity of Jefferson County. See you there!
Tickets of gold … Thar's gold in them thar Texas hills, and you might be the lucky winner. By now, a board member or advisory board member from the Art Museum of Southeast Texas has contacted most of you about purchasing your Go for the Gold winning ticket. Each ticket is one of only 500 in the reverse drawing with the winner receiving $10,000 in gold coins ($1,500 for second place or $1,000 for third place), plus dinner and libations for two. AMSET is bringing in the luck of the Lone Star State with a Texas-themed party in honor of the current exhibition on view, Southeast Texas Art: Cross-Currents and Influences. Emceeing the drawing for the evening will be Texas Country Reporter Bob Phillips and KFDM-TV news anchor Kelli Phillips. Linda Foutz and Carla Allen are orchestrating this fun event with the excitement starting at 6:30 p.m., Thursday, March 3. For more tickets, call (409) 832-3432 or buy them online at amset.org.
In the blue … Invitations have gone out for the fantastic Lamar University gala themed "Rhapsody in LU," as the Friends of the Arts present Le Grand Bal, a fabulous evening of art, fine dining, dancing and entertainment. The black-tie event honors Judy and James Black for their contributions to Lamar University, the community and the arts. Le Grand Bal, now in its 37th year, is the major annual fundraiser benefiting the College of Fine Arts and Communication. Michele and Mitch Smith are chairing this affair and promise an evening to remember. Activities include a reception and silent art auction from 7 to 9 p.m. in the Dishman Art Museum, with a gourmet buffet, dancing and entertainment from 8 p.m. to midnight to follow in the Montagne Center. Guests will dance to the music of Beaumont's Night & Day Orchestra, under the direction of Wayne Dyess, and the Works of Houston. For more information or reservations, call (409) 880-8137.
News of I do's … Congratulations to Meredith Ducote and Bert Reiner, who tied the knot this past Saturday evening in their wedding at St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church followed by a reception at the Beaumont Country Club. Also, Caroline Maida and Michael Whaley recently became engaged and plan to marry around New Year's.
Candles and cakes … Champagne toasts to Kathryn Honsberger, Rachel Grove, Lila Stevens, Ashley Carter, Tara Cook, Kathryn Honsberger, Donna Gwynn, Crissy Clarke, David Verde, Reggie Ramirez, Laurie Chaudhury, Hart Green-Mar and Tanner Hunt.Until the next RSVP!


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Summer ends with an explosion of colour in the forests. This is the season known as 'ruska', when the autumnal reds, browns and yellows are especially beautiful on the fells of Lapland. September is also a popular time for trekking in northern Finland.
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80 – 90 days
September – November
Autumn leaf colour, or "ruska" to locals, is a spectacular natural phenomenon that paints northern landscapes in deep and soft tones. Covered in forests and wildernesses, Finland is a prime destination for some serious leaf peeping.
Well-being from Finnish Forests
The pièce de résistance regarding Finnish food products is the surprising fact that they are often completely free of charge and have grown in the wild. Everyman's right in the country's forests guarantees that you are allowed to pick almost anything your heart and mouth desires.
Season of change
Autumn leaf colour acts as a messenger of sorts; it bids a melancholic but sweet farewell to long summer days and serves as a reminder of the dark and cold winter days looming around the corner.
CAFÉS and Bistros
Helsinki is a buzzy foodie city in the cutting-edge of Finnish new cuisine and there are lot of nice places offering warm corners for relaxation for those lazy days. Laid-back atmosphere is what Helsinki's bistros are all about!
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Morning office hours are held at the Pembroke Senior Center the 1st Friday of every month from 9am to 10am. Appointments are not required. All residents are welcome to stop by and speak to Rep. Cutler and his staff whether it's to share your views on an issue, discuss a constituent service matter or just to say hello.
Please note, if the Town Hall or Senior Center is closed for any reason we will not have office hours that day. Please check the website prior to the scheduled office hours as we occasionally have to rearrange our schedule when there are overlapping events.
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Nordson DAGE bondtesters perform shear tests in accordance with; JEDEC JESD22-B117, JEDEC JESD22-B116 and ASTM F1269.
The Nordson DAGE 4000Plus test system's low force capabilities and specialist tooling allow brittle fracture testing of materials such as silicon and glass.
Nordson DAGE Bondtesters provide bump shear testing for use in the production test environment to remove the solder ball from a device or substrate.
Nordson DAGE bondtesters provide cavity shear testing as an alternative method for applying a load to a solder ball or ball bond in shear.
Nordson DAGE bondtesters provide cold bump pull tests to vertically remove the solder ball from a device or substrate by using patented tweezer jaws.
The Nordson DAGE 4000Plus micro materials test system has a range of tooling for compression testing of small samples.
The Nordson DAGE 4000Plus micro materials test system applies loads to small samples and measures the tiny movements that take place over extended time periods.
Nordson DAGE bondtesters cater for the range of die shear testing requirements from traditional die shear, high force die shear and low profile die shear.
Nordson DAGE bondtesters provide fatigue tests for a wide range of different applications.
Nordson DAGE bondtesters cater for the requirements of first bond ball pull and stud bump pull testing.
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Nordson DAGE bondtesters provide high force pull testing (up to 100kg) for specific applications within automotive and materials testing where significantly higher pull forces are demanded.
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Launch at 7:00am it was great got some live squid and crawdads with the sabiki as bait, put'em on live bait hook and let's try my luck. Got 2 Sand dabs, and nothing else. Fishing between 80ft - 120 ft. by the port hueneme bouey what's called the Hueneme Flats. Got a video on my Go Pro of my crash landing. LOL
Items lost: anchor, pair of shades and arrogance!
Halfway through the video you can see my buddy also crashing LOL I slow motion his crash LOL


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DStv Installations Driefontein
Driefontein DStv Installations thrive in making your viewing experience a pleasure. Our highly skilled and trained DStv Installers Driefontein are here to help.
DStv Installations Driefontein
What you need to know about having DStv Installations Driefontein at your home or business premises.
The process for DStv Installations Driefontein is not a simple as buying the decoder and the satellite dish.
In order to have your installation done properly you will need a registered DSTV Installer to assist you.
It is recommended that before purchasing the decoder or satellite dish that you first contact DStv Installations Driefontein.
The DStv Installations Driefontein supplier will access your needs with regards to how many TV sets you require to be set up to the decoder. The installer will then advise the cost depending on your needs, and what is required to successfully install the decoder and satellite dish.
For multiple points (i.e. more than one TV set), you will require a twin (SMART) LNB to be connected to the satellite dish.
The choice of decoders are either a DSTV HD decoder or a DSTV Explora decoder.
The DSTV Explora decoder offers the PVR option to record up to 220 hours of content. The decoder has an internal storage of two terabytes. While recording, you have the option of viewing another channel at the same time. The decoder is HD capable and gives you access to DSTV BoxOffice and DSTV catch up.
The DSTV Explora is not a dual view decoder, but can be linked to an XtraView capable decoder to give you access to watch other live channels at the same time.
The Installation Process
Your chosen installer will bring all the tools and equipment need to complete the installation.
The satellite dish will be mounted in an easterly direction with a bracket.
The DStv Installations Driefontein will adjust the angles of the dish so it faces the satellite.
The LNB is attached to the receiver on the dish.
Cables are then run from the dish to your decoder/s.
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Current Diveter Ring Will Reduce Energy Consumption in Food Processing Equipment
With newly-developed CDR technology, Inpro/Seal has become a supplier of bearing protection devices for motors using Variable Frequency Drives (VFDs) to adjust the speed output of Alternating Current (AC) motors. The motor manufacturers can conveniently package the motor, drive and CDR.
Only 40% of the motors in industrial use today employ VFDs for powering motors. According to industry sources, this percentage will increase significantly, near term. VFD-controlled motors inherently produce destructive shaft currents that must be redirected around the bearings; otherwise, unmitigated electrical currents initiated by the VFD and induced by the motor shaft destroy the bearings. The Inpro/Seal CDR safely diverts these currents and saves the motor bearings.
When operating centrifugal equipment such as pumps and fans, a 10% reduction in speed will result in a 27% reduction in energy consumption of the pump or fan. Rather than being limited to fixed system parameters such as rigid pump performance characteristics and pressure reduction valves in the system, centrifugal equipment can be programmed to respond to system requirements.
Inpro's CDR components are developed, engineered, tested and manufactured completely within the Inpro/Seal Company facilities in Rock Island. They are made from corrosion resistant bronze in any shape or configuration needed by the customer.
The new device will be available from all major motor manufacturers around the world as well as EASA repair facilities. It will be available as a "press-in," a "Clip-on," a "split" configuration or an "MGS" design Inpro/Seal, which prevents contamination from entering the motor bearing enclosure while diverting destructive shaft currents.


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The Providers - Trying to Fill the Health Care Gap - Clip
Clip: Season 20 Episode 15 | 1m 53s
In this excerpt from the film The Providers, rural New Mexico health care provider Matt Probst updates his colleagues on the dire staffing situation their clinic is in. Then, with an eye to the future, Matt works with local teens interested in the health care field who could someday fill the gap.
Aired: 04/08/19Video has closed captioning.


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Ghostbusters in Indonesia Riding the Economic Boom
Chasing away supernatural beings is proving to be a lucrative business in Indonesia, where people pay as much as $100,000 for the services of a top exorcist or shaman. The WSJ's James Hookway has the story.
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Jack Osbourne Earns a Cape to Match His Wedding Ring
Okay, Jack Osbourne, you've won us over. You're clearly a very different guy from the insolent, whiny punk we used to watch on 'The Osbournes' — but we didn't know you were in the life-saving business, too.
The new father is in Hawaii honeymooning after his not-so-secret Sunday wedding to baby mama Lisa Stelly. And the day after they tied the knot, the two were enjoying newlywed time at the beach when a woman had a heart attack in the water and began to drown — but Osbourne and a friend rescued her and kept her breathing until an ambulance arrived.
The unnamed woman is recovering, and Jack Osbourne's new wife later happily told her Twitter followers all about her heroic hubby:
Really proud of Jack and his friend Tyler who saved a woman on the beach yesterday who'd had a heart attack and drown. They resuscitated her
— Lisa Stelly (@lisamarstelly) October 9, 2012
Until the ambulance came. We just found out she's in a stable condition! Awesome!
— Lisa Stelly (@lisamarstelly) October 9, 2012
When asked for comment, Jack's dad, legendary rocker Ozzy Osbourne, muttered, "Mmmmxmmshaawejroig SHARROOOOOOONNNNN!"


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Ninth Circuit Upholds $65,000 Award for Sexual Harassment
PHOENIX – A three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit in San Francisco has affirmed a $65,000 jury verdict against AutoZone, Inc., the Memphis-based national auto parts retail giant, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) announced today.
The EEOC had sued AutoZone (EEOC v. AutoZone, Inc., CIV 06-926-PHX-SMM, U.S. Dist. Court for the Dist. of Ariz.) for creating a sexually hostile work environment for Stacy Wing, an employee at an AutoZone store in Mesa, Ariz. Wing reported the sexual harassment to AutoZone management, the EEOC said, but AutoZone failed to take immediate and appropriate action to stop it. The evidence at the resulting jury trial showed that Wing was subjected to egregious sexual harassment by AutoZone's store manager, including repeatedly forcing Wing's face down to his genitals and making crude sexual remarks to her. At least one such incident was captured and recorded on the store's video camera system but AutoZone claimed it lost the video prior to trial, along with all records of Wing's reports and the "investigation" AutoZone asserted it conducted.
Sexual harassment violates Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. The EEOC filed suit after first attempting to reach a pre-litigation settlement through its conciliation process.
On June 10, 2009, an eight-person federal jury in Phoenix returned a unanimous verdict in favor of the EEOC, and awarded Wing $65,000 in compensatory and punitive damages. On August 21, 2009, AutoZone appealed the trial court's denial of AutoZone's motion that sought to overturn the jury's verdict (EEOC v. AutoZone, Inc., 09-16860 and 10-15059, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit).
On March 15, 2011, the Ninth Circuit rejected AutoZone's appeal, holding that the jury could reasonably have determined that AutoZone management failed to exercise reasonable care to correct promptly the store manager's obscene and harassing behavior once Wing brought it to their attention, and that a reasonable juror could question the efficacy and good faith of AutoZone's investigation. The court noted evidence was introduced that AutoZone's investigator, a regional human resources manager, did not interview certain employees, did not report the investigation to AutoZone per company policy, and did not advise Wing of the outcome of the investigation. The court stated that AutoZone's inability to produce any documentation corroborating that it had even conducted an investigation – documents AutoZone's own policies required that it create and maintain – and the loss of the video evidence cast doubt as to AutoZone's actions.
Upon learning of the Ninth Circuit's ruling, Wing said, "I can finally close this chapter of my life and move forward; you will never know grateful I am for all of [the EEOC's] help."
EEOC Senior Trial Attorney D. Andrew Winston, one of the EEOC lawyers who tried the case to the jury, said, "Stacy Wing demonstrated tremendous courage coming forward and reporting what happened to her, and her actions and the actions of other women like her improve conditions in the workplace for all women."
The EEOC appellate attorney who handled the case on appeal, Paula Bruner, added, "The Court's decision reaffirms that it is not enough for a Title VII-covered employer to have an anti-discrimination policy. The employer must enforce the policy and take preventive or corrective action to effectively fulfill its statutory obligation to maintain a workplace free of discrimination and harassment . "
According to the company's web site, "AutoZone is the No. 1 auto parts retailer in America, with "4,000 AutoZone stores in 48 states and the District of Columbia … and 84 AutoZone stores in Mexico."
The EEOC enforces federal laws prohibiting employment discrimination. Further information about the EEOC is available on its web site at www.eeoc.gov.
The EEOC's Phoenix District Office has jurisdiction for Arizona, Colorado, Utah, Wyoming, and part of New Mexico (including Albuquerque).


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For instance, given a theory and a formulation thereof in terms of a principal bundle with a Lie group $G$ as its fiber and spacetime as its base manifold, would a principle bundle with the Poincaré group as its fiber and $\mathcal{M}$ as its base manifold, where $\mathcal{M}$ is a manifold the group of whose isometries is $G$, lead to an equivalent formulation? Why? Why not?
On a related note, can any Lie group be realized as the group of isometries of some manifold?


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2012 "Official Bluebonnet Festival of Texas"
Take a trip to Chappell Hill, Texas on Saturday, April 14 from 10AM-6PM or on Sunday, April 15 from 12PM-5PM to see some of the most beautiful Bluebonnet Blossoms and other wildflowers in Texas!
Chappell Hill is located at U.S. Highway 290 and FM 1155. Admission is free and parking is $5.00. Vendors sell a variety of crafts and food. There is plenty of live entertainment, children's activities, and tours of the community. For more information, see www.chappellhillmuseum.org.
Get there early, as it gets packed!