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Refaeli, 27, reportedly avoided being drafted into the Israeli armed forces as her modeling career was beginning to take off by exploiting a loophole in the law which meant married women would be exempt from the two-year stint, which is compulsory for men and women over the age of 18.
She allegedly wed a family friend and then filed for divorce once she had been given exemption from the military.
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A spokesperson for the organization said, "The choice of a representative who did not serve in the military as an official presenter on behalf of Israel, conveys the message that we ignore and forgive evasion of enlistment, and encourages identification, among youths of both sexes, with the success of those who did not enlist."
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As the Fed has attempted to push interest rates down with the purpose of boosting the economy, there have been numerous stories mourning the situation of savers who see little return on their money. The NYT gave us such a piece on Tuesday.
While those who have all their savings in short-term assets like savings accounts and money market funds are seeing low returns, the low return story does not apply to all savers. Of course those who have money in the stock market have done quite well, with prices nearly double their lows from 2009.
However, even people who do not have money in the stock market would have done well if they had put money in long-term bonds. The graph below shows the price of a 30-year bond that comes due in 2037, assuming that it was bought in 2007 with a 5 percent yield (roughly the interest rate at the time).
Source: Smart Money Bond Calculator.
The bond that our troubled saver purchased in 2007 for $10,000 would be worth a bit more than $14,000 in today's low interest rate environment. That isn't exactly the sort of situation that would normally call for violin music.
As a practical matter, there are people who are losing in this story, but realistically there are not a lot of people who both have substantial savings (enough that the interest makes up a big share of their income) and who kept it exclusively in short-term assets.
There are no policies to increase growth that leave no one harmed. (If you think you know of one, then you haven't thought through the implications of the policy carefully enough.) The winners from a policy to boost growth through lower interest rates vastly outnumber the losers. The biggest grounds for complaint is that the Fed did not go far enough.
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Two Year Results of Phase 3 Studies with EYLEA™ (aflibercept) Injection in wet AMD Show Sustained Improvement in Visual Acuity
Patients in the EYLEA 2mg every eight week group achieved visual acuity gains similar to ranibizumab with 5 fewer injections, on average, over two years
Patients who required the most intense therapy received, on average, 1.4 fewer injections in the EYLEA 2mg every eight week group compared to ranibizumab in the second year
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TARRYTOWN, N.Y. and BERLIN, Dec. 5, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NASDAQ: REGN) and Bayer HealthCare today announced that in an integrated analysis of two parallel Phase 3 studies (VIEW 1 and VIEW 2) in patients with the neovascular form of age-related macular degeneration (wet AMD), patients treated with EYLEA™ (aflibercept) Injection For Intravitreal Injection showed a sustained improvement in visual acuity at 96 weeks versus baseline. The 52-week results (primary analyses) from these studies have previously been reported.
During the first year of the VIEW 1 and VIEW 2 studies, patients were treated with three different dosing regimens of EYLEA, 0.5 milligram (mg) every four weeks, 2mg every four weeks, and 2mg every eight weeks (following three initial monthly injections), compared to ranibizumab 0.5mg every four weeks. The EYLEA 2mg every eight week regimen was recently approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), based on efficacy (maintenance of vision) that was clinically equivalent at one year to the monthly ranibizumab regimen. In the second year of the studies, patients were treated with the same dose per injection as in the first year and were evaluated monthly to determine need for retreatment. Patients were treated at least every 12 weeks. All year two analyses were considered exploratory.
In an integrated analysis of the VIEW 1 and VIEW 2 studies, the visual acuity gain from baseline in the EYLEA 2mg every eight week group at week 96 was 7.6 letters compared to 8.4 letters at week 52, with an average of 11.2 injections over two years and 4.2 injections during the second year. The visual acuity gain from baseline in the monthly ranibizumab group at week 96 was 7.9 letters compared to 8.7 letters at week 52, with an average of 16.5 injections over two years and 4.7 injections during the second year. The results of each of the VIEW 1 and VIEW 2 studies were consistent with the integrated analysis.
The overall fewer average number of injections in the second year in the EYLEA 2mg every eight week group compared to the ranibizumab group (4.2 versus 4.7) was driven by the fact that fewer patients needed more intense therapy in the EYLEA group and those patients required fewer injections.
The proportion of patients who required frequent injections (six or more) during the second year was lower in the EYLEA 2mg every eight week group compared to the ranibizumab group (15.9% versus 26.5%). In the 25% of patients who required the most intense therapy (the greatest number of injections), patients in the EYLEA 2mg every eight week group required an average of 1.4 fewer injections in the second year compared to the ranibizumab group (6.6 versus 8.0). In the 25% of patients in each group who had the fewest number of injections in the second year, the average number of injections was similar (approximately 3 for both groups, corresponding to the protocol-mandated minimum number of injections).
A generally favorable safety profile was observed for both EYLEA and ranibizumab. The incidence of ocular treatment emergent adverse events was balanced across all four treatment groups in both studies, with the most frequent events associated with the injection procedure, the underlying disease and/or the aging process. The most frequent ocular adverse events (greater than 10% of patients for the overall study population) were conjunctival hemorrhage, eye pain, retinal hemorrhage, and visual acuity reduced. The most frequent serious non-ocular adverse events were typical of those reported in this elderly population who receive intravitreal treatment for wet AMD; the most frequently reported events (greater than 1% of patients for the overall study population) were falls, pneumonia, myocardial infarction and atrial fibrillation. There were no notable differences among the study arms. The incidence of arterial thrombotic events as defined by the "Anti-Platelet Trialists" group criteria was 3.2% of patients for ranibizumab and 3.3% of patients in the combined EYLEA groups.
"These second year results confirm the sustainability of the vision gains achieved by EYLEA with a less than monthly dosing frequency. Importantly, the second year data demonstrated that for patients that needed more anti-VEGF treatment, this was achieved with fewer injections using EYLEA," said George D. Yancopoulos, M.D., Ph.D., Chief Scientific Officer of Regeneron and President of Regeneron Laboratories. "As a reminder, the recommended dose for EYLEA is 2mg every eight weeks following three initial monthly injections, which demonstrated visual acuity gains that were clinically equivalent to monthly ranibizumab. Retinal physicians and their wet AMD patients consider the predictable every eight week dosing regimen for EYLEA as a significant advance that helps overcome the challenges of monthly office visits."
Further results from year two of the studies will be presented at upcoming medical conferences.
About the VIEW Program
The VIEW (VEGF Trap: Investigation of Efficacy and Safety in Wet AMD) program consists of two randomized, double-masked, Phase 3 clinical trials evaluating EYLEA in the treatment of the neovascular form of age-related macular degeneration (wet AMD). The VIEW 1 study, which randomized 1217 patients, was conducted in the United States and Canada by Regeneron. The VIEW 2 study, which randomized 1240 patients, was conducted in Europe, Asia Pacific, Japan, and Latin America by Bayer HealthCare. The study designs are essentially identical. The primary endpoint evaluation was conducted at 52 weeks.
About Wet AMD
Age-related Macular Degeneration (AMD) is a leading cause of acquired blindness. Macular degeneration is diagnosed as either dry (non-exudative) or wet (exudative). In wet AMD, new blood vessels grow beneath the retina and leak blood and fluid. This leakage causes disruption and dysfunction of the retina creating distortion and/or blind spots in central vision, and it can account for blindness in wet AMD patients. Wet AMD is the leading cause of blindness for people over the age of 65 in the U.S. and Europe.
About EYLEA™ (aflibercept) Injection For Intravitreal Injection
Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor (VEGF) is a naturally occurring protein in the body. Its normal role in a healthy organism is to trigger formation of new blood vessels (angiogenesis) supporting the growth of the body's tissues and organs. However, in certain diseases, such as wet age-related macular degeneration, it is also associated with the growth of abnormal new blood vessels in the eye, which exhibit abnormal increased permeability that leads to edema. Scarring and loss of fine-resolution central vision often results.
EYLEA™ (aflibercept) Injection, known in the scientific literature as VEGF Trap-Eye, is a recombinant fusion protein, consisting of portions of human VEGF receptors 1 and 2 extracellular domains fused to the Fc portion of human IgG1 and formulated as an iso-osmotic solution for intravitreal administration. EYLEA acts as a soluble decoy receptor that binds VEGF-A and placental growth factor (PlGF) and thereby can inhibit the binding and activation of these cognate VEGF receptors.
In the United States, EYLEA is indicated for the treatment of patients with neovascular age-related macular degeneration (wet AMD).
The recommended dose for EYLEA is 2 mg administered by intravitreal injection every four weeks (monthly) for the first 12 weeks (3 months), followed by 2 mg once every eight weeks (2 months). Although EYLEA may be dosed as frequently as 2 mg every four weeks (monthly), additional efficacy was not demonstrated when EYLEA was dosed every four weeks compared to every eight weeks.
EYLEA is contraindicated in patients with ocular or periocular infections, active intraocular inflammation, or known hypersensitivity to aflibercept or to any of the excipients in EYLEA.
Intravitreal injections, including those with EYLEA, have been associated with endophthalmitis and retinal detachments. Proper aseptic injection technique must always be used when administering EYLEA. Patients should be instructed to report any symptoms suggestive of endophthalmitis or retinal detachment without delay and should be managed appropriately.
Acute increases in intraocular pressure have been seen within 60 minutes of intravitreal injection, including with EYLEA. Sustained increases in intraocular pressure have also been reported after repeated intravitreal dosing with VEGF inhibitors. Intraocular pressure and the perfusion of the optic nerve head should be monitored and managed appropriately.
There is a potential risk of arterial thromboembolic events (ATEs) following use of intravitreal VEGF inhibitors, including EYLEA, defined as nonfatal stroke, nonfatal myocardial infarction, or vascular death (including deaths of unknown cause). The incidence of ATEs with EYLEA in clinical trials was low (1.8%).
Serious adverse reactions related to the injection procedure have occurred in less than 0.1% of intravitreal injections with EYLEA including endophthalmitis, traumatic cataract, and increased intraocular pressure.
The most common adverse reactions (greater than or equal to 5%) reported in patients receiving EYLEA were conjunctival hemorrhage, eye pain, cataract, vitreous detachment, vitreous floaters, and increased intraocular pressure.
Please see the full Prescribing Information for EYLEA, available online at www.regeneron.com/EYLEA-fpi.pdf.
About the EYLEA™ (aflibercept) Injection Global Collaboration
Regeneron is collaborating with Bayer HealthCare on the global development of EYLEA. Bayer submitted an application for marketing authorization in Europe for wet AMD in June 2011.
Bayer HealthCare will market EYLEA outside the United States, where the companies will share equally the profits from any future sales of EYLEA. Regeneron maintains exclusive rights to EYLEA in the United States.
About Regeneron Pharmaceuticals
Regeneron is a fully integrated biopharmaceutical company that discovers, invents, develops, manufactures, and commercializes medicines for the treatment of serious medical conditions. Regeneron markets two products, ARCALYST® (rilonacept) Injection For Subcutaneous Use and EYLEA™ (aflibercept) Injection. Regeneron also has completed several Phase 3 studies and is conducting an additional Phase 3 clinical trial for the product candidate ZALTRAP® (aflibercept) Concentrate for Intravenous Infusion. Additional therapeutic candidates developed from proprietary Regeneron technologies for creating fully human monoclonal antibodies are in earlier stage development programs in rheumatoid arthritis and other inflammatory conditions, pain, cholesterol reduction, allergic and immune conditions, and cancer. Additional information about Regeneron and recent news releases are available on the Regeneron web site at www.regeneron.com.
About Bayer HealthCare
The Bayer Group is a global enterprise with core competencies in the fields of health care, nutrition and high-tech materials. Bayer HealthCare, a subgroup of Bayer AG with annual sales of more than EUR 16.913 billion (2010), is one of the world's leading, innovative companies in the healthcare and medical products industry and is based in Leverkusen, Germany. The company combines the global activities of the Animal Health, Consumer Care, Medical Care and Pharmaceuticals divisions. Bayer HealthCare's aim is to discover and manufacture products that will improve human and animal health worldwide. Bayer HealthCare has a global workforce of 55.700 employees and is represented in more than 100 countries. Find more information at www.bayerhealthcare.com.
Regeneron Forward-Looking Statement
This news release includes forward-looking statements that involve risks and uncertainties relating to future events and the future performance of Regeneron, and actual events or results may differ materially from these forward-looking statements. These statements concern, and these risks and uncertainties include, among others, the nature, timing, and possible success and therapeutic applications of EYLEA and Regeneron's product candidates and research and clinical programs now underway or planned, the likelihood and timing of possible regulatory approval and commercial launch of Regeneron's late-stage product candidates, determinations by regulatory and administrative governmental authorities which may delay or restrict Regeneron's ability to continue to develop or commercialize EYLEA and other products and drug candidates, competing drugs that may be superior to EYLEA and Regeneron's products and drug candidates, uncertainty of market acceptance of EYLEA and Regeneron's products and drug candidates, unanticipated expenses, the availability and cost of capital, the costs of developing, producing, and selling products, the potential for any license or collaboration agreement, including Regeneron's agreements with Sanofi and Bayer HealthCare, to be canceled or terminated without any product success, and risks associated with third party intellectual property and pending or future litigation relating thereto. A more complete description of these and other material risks can be found in Regeneron's filings with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission, including its Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2010 and Form 10-Q for the quarter ended September 30, 2011. Regeneron does not undertake any obligation to update publicly any forward-looking statement, whether as a result of new information, future events, or otherwise, unless required by law.
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The last thing Tobyhanna Township firefighter John Switzer remembers, before waking up in Geisinger Medical Center, is being on the third floor of a burning house in Arrowhead Lake, Coolbaugh Township.
The last thing Tobyhanna Township firefighter John Switzer remembers, before waking up in Geisinger Medical Center, is being on the third floor of a burning house in Arrowhead Lake, Coolbaugh Township.
That's where Tobyhanna Township Fire Co. was providing mutual aid April 6 to Thornhurst Fire Co., which covers western Coolbaugh Township.
A fire had started in the chimney and was spreading to the third floor.
Switzer, who arrived on the scene prior to Tobyhanna Township Fire Chief Troy Counterman, was unavailable to be interviewed for this story.
But fellow firefighters who were there said a backdraft knocked Switzer through the third-floor wall to the outside of the house, where he then bounced off the roof, over the attached garage and landed on the driveway.
"He suffered a concussion, but no broken bones," Counterman said. "He must have had an angel with him."
A medical helicopter flew Switzer to Geisinger Medical Center, which released him more than four days later.
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I contacted Tyler a few months ago about the possibility of working together to upgrade Logger and expand on its capabilities. Since then we've been busy working on Logger on our spare time (which isn't much these days). That being said, I'm pleased to announce that Logger 2.0.0.a01 (Alpha) is now available to download!
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i'm trying to save up enough money buy the music equipment i need to create and record my own music. i already have instruments but just need to invest in some studio quality recording equipment such as a professional 8 track recorder with built in patterns and effects. but once i do, and i've finished the tracks for my albums i plan on finishing. i am going to need someone with a really good voice, preferably edgy, and dark, girl or boy, to add vocals over the tracks i've created lyrics for.
i'm curious to see who has the skill to collaborate ideas with me and hopefully be available to add vocals to my songs when i am finally finished. i'm guessing i will need this person to be available in or around a year or so, since i haven't even started and want to at least create my first to albums before i'm ready. if so, we would most likely have to meet, since i would have record it on my equipment, of course unless you have your own equipment to record on which is probably unlikely. but in the case that you are a musician with studio equipment, that would be perfect, since we could do everything online. for example i would just send you the mp3's via email or send you a link to download it from a downloadable link. either way it would be good to know, since i always looking for other musicians to collaborate with.
anyone with a good voice that sounds dark and edgy? please feel free to let me know if you are interested.
a little about myself: my name is Cory. i live in Stockton, CA. USA
The Birthday Massacre is my main influence, and is my favorite band. i usually don't like most music since it sounds boring and ordinary to me. i feel i'm not the most talented person, but i have alot of good ideas. i consider myself more of a song writer rather than a musician. my only drawback is that i don't know much about studio recording. but once i get my studio together i am bright enough to figure that out. i really have high hopes that my music will turn out the way i expect good music to sound, and quality is a must, or why bother. i don't necessarily want my music to sound like The Birthday Massacre, but i really like their style and atmosphere, and i plan on to making at least some songs on the album having elements that remind me of a similar atmosphere, since my ideas are influenced by my influences, if that makes sense.
let me know thanks!
I'm not a musician, but good luck! Hope you're able to find someone. Have you posted anywhere else on the web? These forums aren't very active anymore, sadly.
I also understand what you mean when you say most music sounds boring and ordinary. For me it's modern mainstream music (pop in particular) that I dislike - mainly as it's designed to get stuck in your head.
Last edited by DoomScarf; 01-03-2017 at 07:55 PM.
I would love to hear your music! Anything that is TBM influenced, I'm interested in for sure. Definitely post around other places, if you can, like DoomScarf said. Not many people around here I do remember seeing someone post a few months ago or so about looking for other musicians, don't think they've been back around much though.
I really hope you can find someone or even a few people to work with, best of luck!! :D
So stkncb28, maybe you want to try and get in contact with the OP in that thread? There are some Facebook groups like Imaginary Monsters you could try posting in as well, I think you'd have better luck there too.
Last edited by DoomScarf; 01-03-2017 at 07:56 PM.
^ Yes, that is them! Thank you for finding that thread
Would be cool if you guys could talk and work something out :D
yea i replied to that one haha. unfortunately my situation has changed so im out. but maybe that guy in the thread can collaborate with him even though hes east coast.
am on here today, haven't been on this site since about a year. but to answer you, i totally agree with you 100%. it is the modern mainstream pop mtv type music that i dislike the most, that and country. you would think that these musicians that have so much talent, would have the talent to know how to make music objectively better than what they produce, and it wouldn't hurt to make it subjectively interesting either.lol i'm no talented musician but at least i know a little about music theory, or at least i like to think so
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Cyberbullying and the Cheese-Eating Surrender Monkeys
(This post is based on a talk I gave at the Seton Hall Legislative Journal's symposium on Bullying and the Social Media Generation. Many thanks to Frank Pasquale, Marisa Hourdajian, and Michelle Newton for the invitation, and to Jane Yakowitz and Will Creeley for a great discussion!)
New Jersey enacted the Anti-Bullying Bill of Rights (ABBR) in 2011, in part as a response to the tragic suicide of Tyler Clementi at Rutgers University. It is routinely lauded as the country's broadest, most inclusive, and strongest anti-bullying law. That is not entirely a compliment. In this post, I make two core claims. First, the Anti-Bullying Bill of Rights has several aspects that are problematic from a First Amendment perspective – in particular, the overbreadth of its definition of prohibited conduct, the enforcement discretion afforded school personnel, and the risk of impingement upon religious and political freedoms. I argue that the legislation departs from established precedent on disruptions of the educational environment by regulating horizontal relations between students rather than vertical relations between students and the school as an institution / environment. Second, I believe we should be cautious about statutory regimes that enable government actors to sanction speech based on content. I suggest that it is difficult to distinguish, on a principled basis, between bullying (which is bad) and social sanctions that enforce norms (which are good). Moreover, anti-bullying laws risk displacing effective informal measures that emerge from peer production.
The Law
The ABBR is complex. It requires New Jersey school systems to adopt anti-bullying policies that mandate investigation of bullying complaints and incidents, and that require schools to ban at least the speech and conduct defined by the bill as "harassment, intimidation, and bullying." Students who engage in such activity are subject to punishment, including suspension and expulsion. The bill's definition of harassment, intimidation, and bullying is extremely broad. It includes any gesture; any written, verbal, or physical act; or any electronic communication, that
- is reasonably perceived as being motivated by any actual or perceived characteristic, or by any other distinguishing characteristic;
- takes place on school property, at a school-sponsored function, on a school bus, or off school grounds; and
- substantially disrupts or interferes with the orderly operation of the school, or the rights of other students.
Also, the harassment / intimidation / bullying must be such that
- a reasonable person should know will physically or emotionally harm a student, damage the student's property, or place the student in reasonable fear of physical harm, emotional harm, or property damage; or
- it has the effect of insulting or demeaning any student or group of students; or
- it creates a hostile educational environment by interfering with a student's education, or by severely or pervasively causing physical or emotional harm
The definition is capacious by design. In substance, it covers speech that few would consider problematic. Consider the student who, in homeroom, loudly quotes Groundskeeper Willie from The Simpsons to the effect that the French are "cheese-eating surrender monkeys," offending a student of French descent. Or, imagine a group of students who, on the bus ride home, sing "Blame Canada" from the film South Park: Bigger, Longer and Uncut, to the consternation of a classmate from Montreal. Each qualifies as harassment / intimidation / bullying – regardless of whether our potential bullies intend to cause harm, or whether our singers know that their classmate is Canadian. The ABBR sweeps a wide expanse of innocent speech under its ban.
Substantial Disruption
The response to these examples is to focus attention on the aspect of the statute that performs the most work: the requirement that speech "substantially disrupt or interfere" with either school operations, or the rights of other students. (Ronald Chen, who helped design the legislation, somewhat sheepishly noted that the latter is circular: a student's right not to be bullied is violated when her rights are substantially disrupted or interfered with. It's obvious!) Below, I note that this second aspect – banning speech that disrupts rights, without defining those rights – is well beyond existing precedent regarding schools' lawful power to regulate speech. Here, I want simply to note that another problematic characteristic of the bill is that it confers considerable discretion upon school officials, such as principals and anti-bullying specialists. It is a canonical First Amendment principle that regimes which license or punish speech must contain sufficiently precise formulations such that enforcing officials do not have unfettered discretion. Part of this requirement is to provide noticed to the regulated, so that they can predict how their speech will be categorized and conform their behavior accordingly. The tale of capacious discretion in enforcement is a sorry one in American constitutional history. Schools have punished Jehovah's Witnesses for refusing to recite the Pledge of Allegiance; Vietnam War protesters for wearing black armbands to class; and a student who displayed the nonsensical banner "Bong Hits 4 Jesus" outside school grounds. The disruption caused by these actions is plainly chimerical; rather, school officials punished speech of which they personally disapproved. The ABBR does nothing to cabin discretion. Rather, it encourages it.
The substantial disruption test is borrowed from Tinker v. Des Moines Independent Community School District, 393 U.S. 503, which is arguably the most important Supreme Court case on school regulation of student speech. Tinker's holding, though, does not go as far as the ABBR reaches. Justice Fortas emphasized that schools may proscribe "interference, actual or nascent, with the schools' work or of collision with the rights of other students to be secure and to be let alone." (393 U.S. at 508) Tinker contemplates restrictions on speech that impede education, affect the student body in a substantial way, or that impinges upon a student's physical security or privacy. However, the Court is careful to constrain the power of school officials: "Any word spoken, in class, in the lunchroom, or on the campus, that deviates from the views of another person may start an argument or cause a disturbance." (393 U.S. at 508) New Jersey may not constitutionally punish a student who states his heartfelt political belief that Nicolas Sarkozy is a cheese-eating surrender monkey, no matter how much emotional pain that statement generates for his Francophile classmate. Thus, the ABBR's substantial disruption language is not protected by Tinker, and is likely unconstitutional in potential application, if not on its face.
Vertical Versus Horizontal Regulation of Student Speech
I argue that Tinker is intended as vertical regulation: it permits school officials to constrain speech – even otherwise lawful speech – when that speech is too disruptive of the school environment. Tinker is intended to prevent the classrooms and hallways from turning into the island of Lord of the Flies: if political protest or hurled epithets gravely disrupt the learning environment, they can be proscribed. Tinker seeks to maintain an orderly hierarchy whereby students are under the tutelage, and control, of teachers and principals.
Tinker is not, though, about horizontal regulation: it does not permit school officials to ban speech by one student that another student finds uncomfortable, emotionally painful, or offensive. Indeed, Tinker seeks to protect such expression. Justice Fortas wrote that "state-operated schools may not be enclaves of totalitarianism… students may not be regarded as closed-circuit recipients of only that which the State chooses to communicate. They may not be confined to the expression of those sentiments that are officially approved." (393 U.S. at 511)
Jane Yakowitz pointed out two Third Circuit cases that elaborate upon this point. First, in DeJohn v. Temple University, the court struck down Temple's sexual harassment policy, which banned "expressive, visual, or physical conduct of a sexual or gender-motivated nature, when (c) such conduct has the purpose or effect of unreasonably interfering with an individual's work, educational performance, or status; or (d) such conduct has the purpose or effect of creating an intimidating, hostile, or offensive environment." The Third Circuit held that the policy was overbroad. It also took issue with the ban on creating an intimidating, hostile, or offensive environment, stating that, "It is difficult to cabin this phrase, which could encompass any speech that might simply be offensive to a listener, or a group of listeners, believing that they are being subjected to or surrounded by hostility." So, to, with New Jersey's ban on speech that might have the "effect of insulting or demeaning any student."
Similarly, in McCauley v. University of the Virgin Islands, the Third Circuit overturned the university's ban on conduct that creates emotional distress, defined as "conduct which results in physical manifestations, significant restraints on normal behavior or conduct and/or which compels the victim to seek assistance in dealing with the distress." The court noted that this definition was "entirely subjective and provides no shelter for core protected speech." It elucidated that the infirmity was that the prohibition depended upon the listener's reaction, and thus could include "minority students [who] may feel emotional distress when other students protest against affirmative action; a pro-life student [who] may feel emotional distress when a pro-choice student distributes Planned Parenthood pamphlets on campus; even simple name-calling could be punished."
In short, the circuit court of appeals that could hear a challenge to the ABBR has been hostile to similar speech codes. I think the ABBR is at the mercy of the first aggrieved student disciplined under its provisions.
Impingement on Other Freedoms
A third weakness of the ABBR is that it trenches too greatly on other First Amendment rights, such as religious freedom. The ABBR covers, under its definition of bullying, speech that targets an individual based on a characteristic such as religion or sexuality. Given this prohibition, could a group of LGBT students criticize a classmate who is a member of the Westboro Baptist Church for his beliefs, which they would find repugnant? Similarly, could the church member express his sincerely held belief that God hates gays and lesbians? The likely answer to both questions is "no." Ironically, the bill threatens both sides of this debate with punishment for bullying. It creates a zone of silence about an issue – the morality of same-sex relationships and intimate conduct – that is of sufficient importance for the Supreme Court to take up a case on it last term.
This is not merely a hypothetical risk. Union Township special education teacher Viki Knox wrote on her Facebook page an objection to her school's celebration of LGBT month. She posted, "homosexuality is a perverted spirit that has existed from the beginning of creation… Why parade your unnatural immoral behaviors before the rest of us?" Her school district investigated her comments, and Governor Chris Christie criticized her, saying, "I'm really concerned about those kind of statements being made." Knox's views are repugnant to many, but they are also ones shared by a substantial portion of Americans. A student who similarly questioned LGBT month – even on her Facebook wall – might be targeted for discipline under the anti-bullying bill. Schools must of necessity deal with contentious issues in their curricula, and students will bring strongly-held views to those debates. The ABBR risks censoring those views, in direct contravention of the First Amendment and related jurisprudence.
Bullying and Social Sanctions
The First Amendment inculcates a healthy skepticism towards government actions that sanction speech based on its content. The ABBR's goal is laudable: it seeks to avoid physical or emotional harm to students. However, the Constitution mandates sizeable leeway for emotionally harmful speech, for at least two reasons. First, sharp debate is more likely to engage listeners and, perhaps, change minds. Consider the raw language used in discussions over the Vietnam War, or the adoption of federal health care legislation.
Second, and more relevant here, social sanctions through criticism or opprobrium are powerful and often beneficial means of shaping behavior. Consider teen anti-smoking campaigns: peer pressure is an effective inducement to quit a harmful habit. Yet targeting someone for being a smoker counts as focusing on an "actual characteristic" under the anti-bullying law. The ABBR threatens to impede or punish individual and collective expression that can generate helpful shifts in behavior, from evincing greater toleration for people of different sexualities to political outreach. The difficulty is that there is no principled means to distinguish between social sanctions that enforce norms we like, and bullying that enforces norms we do not. It would be unlawful for Viki Knox to critique LGBT month in her school, and unlawful for students to criticize her for those beliefs.
Thus, the ABBR has only two stable outcomes: a school free of such expression and activity, or one where penalties against it are at the discretion of school officials, who may have idiosyncratic views regarding favored and disfavored speech. The former creates a highly artificial school environment – one hermetically sealed against the realities and controversies of life outside the schoolyard gates. The latter creates the perils of censorship based on a principal's own preferences on what speech counts as right or wrong.
Unintended Consequences
State regulation of expression – even when it is inarguably bullying – may worsen matters. Formal adjudication of speech as problematic or hurtful may interfere with informal mechanisms that students have adopted to minimize, mitigate, or simply ignore the bullying. danah boyd's research shows, for example, that teens may deal with bullying speech by downplaying its import or effects. These methods may be more effective than official school procedures, particularly since they emerge organically from the vulnerable population. The concern is that governmental labeling of speech is powerful. Even negative labeling – such as describing a particular gesture or taunt as "intimidation" – may heighten its perceived effect, and draw attention to it. The ABBR risks increasing the harms it seeks to mitigate.
The First Amendment protects student speech even within their schools' classrooms and corridors. The Supreme Court has permitted some limits on speech based on the need to maintain a functional educational environment, to block incitement or endorsement of unlawful activity, or to protect students' physical security and privacy. Anti-bullying laws such as New Jersey's, though, break new ground – they seek to regulate not the school institution itself, but rather the relationships among students. The orientation of these laws is clear from their application to speech that takes place outside school, such as via social media. This shift is normatively problematic, for two reasons. First, it seeks to create a social dynamic that is at best unrealistic, and at worst leeched of all controversial expression. And second, bills like the ABBR risk imposing school officials' views on students by defining a wide swath of expression as potentially sanctionable.
Disruptive, hurtful, and unpleasant speech are a difficult part of growing up, and in particular of school life. Yet it is not merely the price we pay for robust discourse – it is at times at the heart of it.
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AssetBundle fundamentals
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This is the fourth chapter in a series of articles covering Assets, Resources and resource management in Unity 5.
This chapter discusses AssetBundles. It introduces the fundamental systems upon which AssetBundles are built, as well as the core APIs used to interact with AssetBundles. In particular, it discusses both the loading and unloading of AssetBundles themselves, as well as the loading and unloading of specific Asset and Objects from AssetBundles.
For more patterns and best practices on the uses of AssetBundles, see the next chapter in this series.
3.1. Overview
The AssetBundle system provides a method for storing one or more files in an archival format that Unity can index and serialize. AssetBundles are Unity's primary tool for the delivery and updating of non-code content after installation. This permits developers to submit a smaller app package, minimize runtime memory pressure, and selectively load content optimized for the end-user's device.
Understanding the way AssetBundles work is essential to building a successful Unity project for mobile devices. For an overall description of AssetBundle contents, review the AssetBundle documentation.
3.2. AssetBundle layout
To summarize, an AssetBundle consists of two parts: a header and data segment.
The header contains information about the AssetBundle, such as its identifier, compression type, and a manifest. The manifest is a lookup table keyed by an Object's name. Each entry provides a byte index that indicates where a given Object can be found within the AssetBundle's data segment. On most platforms, this lookup table is implemented as a balanced search tree. Specifically, Windows and OSX-derived platforms (including iOS) employ a red-black tree. Therefore, the time needed to construct the manifest will increase more than linearly as the number of Assets within an AssetBundle grows.
The data segment contains the raw data generated by serializing the Assets in the AssetBundle. If LZMA is specified as the compression scheme, the complete byte array for all serialized assets is compressed. If LZ4 is instead specified, bytes for separate Assets are individually compressed. If no compression is used, the data segment will remain as raw byte streams.
Prior to Unity 5.3, Objects could not be compressed individually inside an AssetBundle. As a consequence, if a version of Unity before 5.3 is instructed to read one or more Objects from a compressed AssetBundle, Unity had to decompress the entire AssetBundle. Generally, Unity cached a decompressed copy of the AssetBundle to improve loading performance for subsequent loading requests on the same AssetBundle.
3.3. Loading AssetBundles
AssetBundles can be loaded via four distinct APIs. The behavior of these four APIs is different depending on two criteria:
- Whether the AssetBundle is LZMA compressed, LZ4 compressed or uncompressed
- The platform on which the AssetBundle is being loaded
These APIs are:
AssetBundle.LoadFromMemory(Async optional)
AssetBundle.LoadFromFile(Async optional)
UnityWebRequest's DownloadHandlerAssetBundle
WWW.LoadFromCacheOrDownload (on Unity 5.6 or older)
3.3.1 AssetBundle.LoadFromMemory(Async)
Unity's recommendation is not to use this API.
AssetBundle.LoadFromMemoryAsync loads an AssetBundle from a managed-code byte array (byte[] in C#). It will always copy the source data from the managed-code byte array into a newly-allocated, contiguous block of native memory. If the AssetBundle is LZMA compressed, it will decompress the AssetBundle while copying. Uncompressed and LZ4-compressed AssetBundles will be copied verbatim.
The peak amount of memory consumed by this API will be at least twice the size of the AssetBundle: one copy in native memory created by the API, and one copy in the managed byte array passed to the API. Assets loaded from an AssetBundle created via this API will therefore be duplicated three times in memory: once in the managed-code byte array, once in the native-memory copy of the AssetBundle and a third time in GPU or system memory for the asset itself.
Prior to Unity 5.3.3, this API was known as AssetBundle.CreateFromMemory. Its functionality has not changed.
3.3.2. AssetBundle.LoadFromFile(Async)
AssetBundle.LoadFromFile is a highly-efficient API intended for loading uncompressed or LZ4-compressed AssetBundle from local storage, such as a hard disk or an SD card.
On desktop standalone, console, and mobile platforms, the API will only load the AssetBundle's header, and will leave the remaining data on disk. The AssetBundle's Objects will be loaded on-demand as loading methods (e.g. AssetBundle.Load) are called or as their InstanceIDs are dereferenced. No excess memory will be consumed in this scenario. In the Unity Editor, the API will load the entire AssetBundle into memory, as if the bytes were read off disk and AssetBundle.LoadFromMemoryAsync was used. This API can cause memory spikes to appear during AssetBundle loading if the project is profiled in the Unity Editor. This should not affect performance on-device and these spikes should be re-tested on-device before taking remedial action.
Note: On Android devices with Unity 5.3 or older, this API will fail when trying to load AssetBundles from the Streaming Assets path. This issue has been resolved in Unity 5.4. For more details, see the section Distribution - shipped with project section of the AssetBundle usage patterns chapter.
Prior to Unity 5.3, this API was known as AssetBundle.CreateFromFile. Its functionality has not been changed.
3.3.3. AssetBundleDownloadHandler
The UnityWebRequest API allows developers to specify exactly how Unity should handle downloaded data and allows developers to eliminate unnecessary memory usage. The simplest way to download an AssetBundle using UnityWebRequest is call UnityWebRequest.GetAssetBundle.
For the purposes of this guide, the class of interest is DownloadHandlerAssetBundle. Using a worker thread, it streams downloaded data into a fixed-size buffer and then spools the buffered data to either temporary storage or the AssetBundle cache, depending on how the Download Handler has been configured. All of these operations occur in native code, eliminating the risk of expanding the managed heap. Additionally, this Download Handler does not keep a native-code copy of all downloaded bytes, further reducing the memory overhead of downloading an AssetBundle.
LZMA-compressed AssetBundles will be decompressed during download and cached using LZ4 compression. This behavior may be changed by setting Caching.CompressionEnabled.
When the download is complete, the assetBundle property of the Download Handler provides access to the downloaded AssetBundle, as if AssetBundle.LoadFromFile had been called on the downloaded AssetBundle.
If caching information is provided to a UnityWebRequest object, and the requested AssetBundle already exists in Unity's cache, then the AssetBundle will become available immediately and this API will operate identically to AssetBundle.LoadFromFile.
Prior to Unity 5.6, the UnityWebRequest system used a fixed pool of worker threads and an internal job system to safeguard against excessive, concurrent downloads. The size of the thread pool was not configurable. In Unity 5.6, these safeguards have been removed to accommodate more modern hardware, and allow for faster access to HTTP response codes and headers.
3.3.4. WWW.LoadFromCacheOrDownload
*Note: Beginning in Unity 2017.1, WWW.LoadFromCacheOrDownload simply wraps around UnityWebRequest. Accordingly, developers using Unity 2017.1 or higher should migrate to UnityWebRequest. WWW.LoadFromCacheOrDownload will be deprecated in a future release. *
The following information is applicable to Unity 5.6 or older.
WWW.LoadFromCacheOrDownload is an API that allows loading of Objects from both remote servers and local storage. Files can be loaded from local storage via a file:// URL. If the AssetBundle is present in the Unity cache, this API will behave exactly like AssetBundle.LoadFromFile.
If an AssetBundle has not yet been cached, then WWW.LoadFromCacheOrDownload will read the AssetBundle from its source. If the AssetBundle is compressed, it will be decompressed using a worker thread and written into the cache. Otherwise, it will be written directly into the cache via the worker thread. Once the AssetBundle is cached, WWW.LoadFromCacheOrDownload will load header information from the cached, decompressed AssetBundle. The API will then behave identically to an AssetBundle loaded with AssetBundle.LoadFromFile. This cache is shared between WWW.LoadFromCacheOrDownload and UnityWebRequest. Any AssetBundle downloaded with one API will also be available via the other API.
While the data will be decompressed and written to the cache via a fixed-size buffer, the WWW object will keep a full copy of the AssetBundle's bytes in native memory. This extra copy of the AssetBundle is kept to support the WWW.bytes property.
Due to the memory overhead of caching an AssetBundle's bytes in the WWW object, AssetBundles should remain small - a few megabytes, at most. For more discussion of AssetBundle sizing, see the Asset assignment strategies section in the AssetBundle usage patterns chapter.
Unlike UnityWebRequest, each call to this API will spawn a new worker thread. Accordingly, on platforms with limited memory, such as mobile devices, only a single AssetBundle at a time should be downloaded using this API, in order to avoid memory spikes. Be careful of creating an excessive number of threads when calling this API multiple times. If more than 5 AssetBundles need to be downloaded, create and manage a download queue in script code to ensure that only a few AssetBundle downloads are running occurring simultaneously.
3.3.5. Recommendations
In general, AssetBundle.LoadFromFile should be used whenever possible. This API is the most efficient in terms of speed, disk usage and runtime memory usage.
For projects that must download or patch AssetBundles, it is strongly recommended to use UnityWebRequest for projects using Unity 5.3 or newer, and WWW.LoadFromCacheOrDownload for projects using Unity 5.2 or older. As detailed in the Distribution section of the next chapter, it is possible to prime the AssetBundle Cache with Bundles included within a project's installer.
When using either UnityWebRequest *or *WWW.LoadFromCacheOrDownload, ensure that the downloader code properly calls Dispose after loading the AssetBundle. Alternately, C#'s using statement is the most convenient way to ensure that a WWW or UnityWebRequest is safely disposed.
For projects with substantial engineering teams that require unique, specific caching or downloading requirements, a custom downloader may be considered. Writing a custom downloader is a non-trivial engineering task, and any custom downloader should be made compatible with AssetBundle.LoadFromFile. See the Distribution section of the next chapter for more details.
3.4. Loading Assets From AssetBundles
UnityEngine.Objects can be loaded from AssetBundles using three distinct APIs that are all attached to the AssetBundle object, which have both synchronous and asynchronous variants:
The synchronous versions of these APIs will always be faster than their asynchronous counterpart, by at least one frame.
Asynchronous loads will load multiple Objects per frame, up to their time-slice limits. See the Low-level loading details section for the underlying technical reasons for this behavior.
LoadAllAssets should be used when loading multiple independent UnityEngine.Objects. It should only be used when the majority or all of the Objects within an AssetBundle need to be loaded. Compared to the other two APIs, LoadAllAssets is slightly faster than multiple individual calls to LoadAssets. Therefore, if the number of assets to be loaded is large, but less than 66% of the AssetBundle needs to be loaded at a single time, consider splitting the AssetBundle into multiple smaller bundles and using LoadAllAssets.
LoadAssetWithSubAssets should be used when loading a composite Asset which contains multiple embedded Objects, such as an FBX model with embedded animations or a sprite atlas with multiple sprites embedded inside it. If the Objects that need to be loaded all come from the same Asset, but are stored in an AssetBundle with many other unrelated Objects, then use this API.
For any other case, use LoadAsset or LoadAssetAsync.
3.4.1. Low-level loading details
UnityEngine.Object loading is performed off the main thread: an Object's data is read from storage on a worker thread. Anything which does not touch thread-sensitive parts of the Unity system (scripting, graphics) will be converted on the worker thread. For example, VBOs will be created from meshes, textures will be decompressed, etc.
From Unity 5.3 onward, Object loading has been parallelized. Multiple Objects are deserialized, processed and integrated on worker threads. When an Object finishes loading, its Awake callback will be invoked and the Object will become available to the rest of the Unity Engine during the next frame.
The synchronous AssetBundle.Load methods will pause the main thread until Object loading is complete. They will also time-slice Object loading so that Object integration does not occupy more than a certain number of milliseconds of frame time. The number of milliseconds is set by the property Application.backgroundLoadingPriority:
ThreadPriority.High: Maximum 50 milliseconds per frame
ThreadPriority.Normal: Maximum 10 milliseconds per frame
ThreadPriority.BelowNormal: Maximum 4 milliseconds per frame
ThreadPriority.Low: Maximum 2 milliseconds per frame.
From Unity 5.2 onwards, multiple Objects are loaded until the frame-time limit for Object loading is reached. Assuming all other factors equal, the asynchronous variants of the asset loading APIs will always take longer to complete than the comparable synchronous version due to the minimum one-frame delay between issuing the asynchronous call and the object becoming available to the Engine.
3.4.2. AssetBundle dependencies
The dependencies among AssetBundles are automatically tracked using two different APIs, depending on the runtime environment. In the Unity Editor, AssetBundle dependencies can be queried via the AssetDatabase API. AssetBundle assignments and dependencies can be accessed and changed via the AssetImporter API. At runtime, Unity provides an optional API to load the dependency information generated during an AssetBundle build via a ScriptableObject-based AssetBundleManifest API.
An AssetBundle is dependent upon another AssetBundle when one or more of the parent AssetBundle's UnityEngine.Objects refers to one or more of the other AssetBundle's UnityEngine.Objects. For more information on inter-Object references, see the Inter-Object references section of the Assets, Objects and Serialization article.
As described in the Serialization and instances section of that article, AssetBundles serve as sources for the source data identified by the FileGUID & LocalID of each Object contained within the AssetBundle.
Because an Object is loaded when its Instance ID is first dereferenced, and because an Object is assigned a valid Instance ID when its AssetBundle is loaded, the order in which AssetBundles are loaded is not important. Instead, it is important to load all AssetBundles that contain dependencies of an Object before loading the Object itself. Unity will not attempt to automatically load any child AssetBundles when a parent AssetBundle is loaded.
Assume material A refers to texture B. Material A is packaged into AssetBundle 1, and texture B is packaged into AssetBundle 2.
In this use case, AssetBundle 2 must be loaded prior to loading Material A out of AssetBundle 1.
This does not imply that AssetBundle 2 must be loaded before AssetBundle 1, or that Texture B must be loaded explicitly from AssetBundle 2. It is sufficient to have AssetBundle 2 loaded prior to loading Material A out of AssetBundle 1.
However, Unity will not automatically load AssetBundle 2 when AssetBundle 1 is loaded. This must be done manually in script code.
For more information on AssetBundle dependencies, refer to the manual page.
3.4.3. AssetBundle manifests
When executing the AssetBundle build pipeline using the BuildPipeline.BuildAssetBundles API, Unity serializes an Object containing each AssetBundle's dependency information. This data is stored in a separate AssetBundle, which contains a single Object of the AssetBundleManifest type.
This Asset will be stored in an AssetBundle with the same name as the parent directory where the AssetBundles are being built. If a project builds its AssetBundles to a folder at (projectroot)/build/Client/, then the AssetBundle containing the manifest will be saved as (projectroot)/build/Client/Client.manifest.
The AssetBundle containing the manifest can be loaded, cached and unloaded just like any other AssetBundle.
The AssetBundleManifest Object itself provides the GetAllAssetBundles API to list all AssetBundles built concurrently with the manifest and two methods to query the dependencies of a specific AssetBundle:
AssetBundleManifest.GetAllDependencies returns all of an AssetBundle's hierarchical dependencies, which includes the dependencies of the AssetBundle's direct children, its children's children, etc.
AssetBundleManifest.GetDirectDependencies returns only an AssetBundle's direct children
Note that both of these APIs allocate string arrays. Accordingly, they should only be used sparingly, and not during performance-sensitive portions of an application's lifetime.
3.4.4. Recommendations
In many cases, it is preferable to load as many needed Objects as possible before players enter performance-critical areas of an application, such as the main game level or world. This is particularly critical on mobile platforms, where access to local storage is slow and the memory churn of loading and unloading Objects at play-time can trigger the garbage collector.
For projects that must load and unload Objects while the application is interactive, see the Managing loaded assets section of the AssetBundle usage patterns article for more information on unloading Objects and AssetBundles.


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I'm on a roll! As you know our fam was in town. I had promised a special someone some baked goodness and since we have an abundance of cherries I wanted to make her something using them.
I decided upon a CCC cake - Cherry Crumb Cake
Its SO good that you won't want to give it to a neighbour - trust me!
If you don't have a mixer don't worry, my mother in law doesn't either - old fashion wooden spoons and some arm power and you're golden!
Here's the recipe:
CCC Cake
6 tbsp. unsalted butter or margarine (I use I Can't Believe it's not Butter)
3/4 c. sugar
2 large eggs
1 1/2 tsp. vanilla extract
3/4 c. sour cream (low fat)
1 1/2 c. all purpose flour
1 tsp. baking powder
1/4 tsp. baking soda
1/2 tsp. salt
1 c. chopped pitted cherries
6 tbsp. unsalted butter or margarine
1/4 c. brown sugar
1/4 c. granulated sugar
3/4 c. flour
1 tsp. cinnamon
1/8 tsp. salt
Heat oven to 350, grease 4 mini loaf pans (or one 9 in round pan if you want a traditional cake)
Cream together butter and sugar, add eggs one at a time. Beat in vanilla and sour cream until mixture is smooth.
In a separate bowl mix together dry ingredients. Once combined add to wet mixture and stir until blended. Fold in cherries.
Pour into pans
Mix all Topping ingredients together and crumble over cake batter.
Bake 40-45 minutes or until toothpick comes out clean
Trust me...you are going to LOVE this recipe!!


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Time to look through all those electronic and paper files you have stored carefully on your laptop and desk. It's an impressive library with data everyone needs, so it's good you've got your own system for accessing it. Today's goal: get your hands on the 2D design you wanted to reuse. Then you can answer those questions from manufacturing about that part.
Creo Elements/Direct Model Manager integrates product data management into your design process, so you and your team can track your efforts and easily access the most up-to-date information about your product. No more ad hoc systems with their potential for error and confusion. Instead, Creo Elements/Direct Model Manager allows you to manage file ownership, revision, and model design states seamlessly. You'll never have to disrupt your workflow or worry about data integrity.
Creo Elements/Direct Model Manager, tightly integrated with Creo Elements/Direct Modeling, suits organizations of any size and installs in 15 minutes. Think about it: one centralized workgroup database and tools that can coordinate across the entire product lifecycle. Now that we've taken the mystery out of product data management, you can focus on creating the best products.


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Today is the 78th birthday of Marie Tharp, an oceanographic cartographer whose maps of the world's sea floors helped shape a new view of Earth--plate tectonics--in which crustal plates constantly shift and move on top of the mantle. During the 1940s, Tharp and her co-worker Bruce Heezen used sonar to gather data on the topography of the floor of the Atlantic Ocean. From this they assembled in 1952 the first three-dimensional picture of the sea floor, which revealed a deep valley along the crest of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge. They suggested that this was a plausible location where molten rock wells up to form new oceanic crust. By 1959, their interpretation was validated by data showing high seismic activity in the suspected rift valley.
[Source: Emily McMurray, Ed., Notable Twentieth Century Scientists (Gale Research Inc., ITP, 1995).]


text: By Robert Mueller, B. Pharm. Cancer is on the rise in pets today The rate of humans contracting cancer is ever increasing and unfortunately this trend is as prevalent in veterinary clinics as it is in medical facilities across the United States. It has been reported that cancer is a major killer in our pet


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Decision : 30 COM 8B.50
Nominations of Properties to the World Heritage List (Cornwall and West Devon Mining Landscape)
The World Heritage Committee,
1. Having examined Documents WHC-06/30.COM/8B and WHC-06/30.COM/INF.8B.1,
2. Inscribes the Cornwall and West Devon Mining Landscape, United Kingdom, on the World Heritage List on the basis of criteria (ii), (iii) and (iv):
Criterion (ii): The development of industrialised mining in Cornwall and West Devon between 1700 and 1914, and particularly the innovative use of the beam engine, led to the evolution of an industrialised society manifest in the transformation of the landscape through the creation of new towns and villages, smallholdings, railways, canals, docks and ports, and this had a profound impact on the growth of industrialisation in the United Kingdom and then on industrialised mining around the world.
Criterion (iii): The extent and scope of the remains of copper and tin mining, and the associated transformation of the urban and rural landscapes, including the now distinctive plant communities of waste and spoil heaps and estuarine areas, presents a vivid and legible testimony to the success of Cornish and West Devon industrialised mining when the area dominated the world's output of copper, tin and arsenic.
Criterion (iv): The mining landscape of Cornwall and West Devon, and particularly its characteristic engine houses and beam engines, as a technological ensemble in a landscape, reflect the substantial contribution the area made to the industrial revolution and formative changes in mining practices around the world.
3. Notes the statement of the State Party specifying that, according to paragraph 106 of the Operational Guidelines (2005), a further buffer zone is not required due to the comprehensive mechanism of conservation which shall protect the Cornwall and West Devon Mining Landscape from large scale development that might impinge on its integrity and value;
4. Requests that any proposals concerning the re-opening of mines in the nominated areas be forwarded to the World Heritage Committee for debate and scrutiny;
5. Also requests that the natural values of the cultural landscape should be fully integrated into the future management of the site in a way that demonstrates the link between biodiversity and landscape protection and that policies should be developed for biodiversity, the protection of natural landscapes, contamination control and for the protection of distinctive habitats and plant communities related to mining.
DocumentsDecisions Report
Context of DecisionWHC-06/30.COM/8B


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It's been a long time Kotaku. How are things? Have time for a chat? No, don't worry this isn't an intervention. You don't drink too much, really!
Why don't you drop in and ask me a question, I'll then answer and we'll proceed. Before you know it: Conversation! It's like magic, but without all of the Harry Potter.
Here are some suggestions questions to get you started:
*So.... E3 huh?
*Why is Fahey so very, very funny?
*What's your favorite video game?
*Watchaaa doing?
*Is it true that the Kotaku writers, in times of need, can combine to form a giant blogger, capable of striking down evil with a right hand of Totilo and a left foot of Ashcraft?
Crecente is a go, if you're interested.


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Whether you're doing an engine swap or just plain need to clean up the engine bay, there's nothing like a classy mounting system to make an ordinary accessory stand out. Take our '72 Project Nova, for instance; it was in desperate need of a newer, more modern mounting solution for the power steering pump and reservoir.
Initially, as we were putting the car together, we grabbed a simple universal stamped-steel bracket system to get us by. And it worked. However, as we continued to modify the engine with upgrades, even adding a supercharger with additional pulleys, the brackets began to weaken. It was difficult to line up the belts, which consisted of three separate brackets, and it was also challenging to assemble. It seemed as though with each removal and install, the belts repositioned again, causing twice the work. Our final install of the old power steering brackets had the power steering belt running directly into the water pump belts.
To satisfy our front accessories and remedy the belt issues, we turned to Summit Racing and its Correct-Align polished aluminum power steering bracket (PN SUM-340100) for small-blocks. This small, yet potent, billet bracket provides a solid mounting point for the power steering pump and offers front-to-back adjustability up to 3/4 inch to compensate for short or long water pumps, dampers, and machining tolerances. The best part is that it'll bolt directly to the block, which makes the install no more than threading a couple of the included fasteners.
While our small-block was out for a new top end, it served as the perfect time to add our new mounting system from Summit. Using minimal tools, we had the new bracket mounted and ready for the belt in less than an hour. We not only achieved our goal for a more efficient bracket, but simplified the look of the engine bay, too.
Article Source: www.chevyhiperformance.com


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SKF ST-1100s is a control center for chain lubrication system. The system lubricates each link of the chain either according to the settings in the automatic mode or manually. Lubrication interval can be set either on the basis of time duration or of the number of chain rotations. The lubrication pulses are timed by means of an inductive sensor, which recognizes the links of the chain.
Technical features:
Technical features:
Lubrication channels: 1
- Operation temperature: –20 to +60 °C
Operating voltage range: 115/230 V AC
- Casing: 200 x 300 x 120 mm (w x h x d), painted RAL 7035
- Protection class: IP65
- Interface: 6 digit, 3 button user interface


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PAGELAND – Responding quickly to a string of a smash-and-grab car stereo thefts, Pageland police caught a Lancaster man who had tell-tale blood on his hands from shattered glass.
Police received a 911 call at 6:46 p.m. Nov. 9 from a truck owner in the Bojangles' parking lot who had just seen the thief speed away in a white Honda.
Steven Dale Moree, 36, of Pageland, told officers that he saw his truck window broken when he came out of Bojangles'.
PAGELAND – A 19-year-old Lancaster man was charged with possession of marijuana with intent to distribute and three teenagers were charged with underage drinking after a Pageland officer noticed suspicious activity at Grits and Groceries on Nov. 5.
Officer Albert Parsons noticed that 19-year-old Ricky "June" Baxter looked his way and ducked behind an SUV and then got into a two-door Chevrolet when he passed, a report said.
Lancaster County sheriff's deputies have arrested four Lancaster residents in connection with a rash of burglaries in the county over a several-month period.
Sheriff Barry Faile said he couldn't give specifics about the areas or addresses the suspects have been charged with burglarizing, the number of burglaries involved or the time span of suspected cases, as the investigation is ongoing.
"We've solved a bunch of burglaries, but we're continuing to solve more each day," Faile said.
Tending to roses at Lancaster City Hall and providing hot meals for firefighters were just some of the deeds that Joan Hall Williams rendered on a regular basis.
The Lancaster native was known locally for lending a helping hand and spreading knowledge about Lancaster County's history. Because of that dedication, many county residents came to know Williams affectionately as "Aunt Jo."
Now they are reflecting on what Aunt Jo meant to the community. She died Sunday at the age of 79.
A history enthusiast
Most elementary and middle schools in the Lancaster County School District received the same grade on their state-issued report card in 2010 that they did a year ago.
The state Department of Education released the 2010 report cards last week.
Schools and districts are assessed by two ratings on the report cards – absolute and growth.
Absolute ratings are based on overall student performance on standardized tests. Growth ratings look at individual student test scores from one year to the next and the number of students who have made such gains.
Supporting the NAACP was the main topic at the Lancaster Branch of the NAACP's 32nd annual Freedom Fund Banquet at Lancaster High School on Saturday night.
About 200 people attended.
The Rev. M. Diana Charles, pastor of Rock Hill AME Zion Church in Pageland, was the keynote speaker. She is a retired educator, president of the Cheraw Branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and member of the executive board of the S.C. Conference of the NAACP.
Jesef Williams
A Lancaster man said he was leaving an acquaintance's house late Saturday night when his vehicle was shot at.
The shooting happened shortly before 11:30 p.m., according to a Lancaster Police Department incident report.
The man went to a Sumter Street home to visit someone, and when he came back outside and got into his car, was shot at, the report said.
It was a long but rewarding morning for the men of the New Hope Brotherhood.
And at 12:30 p.m., when the men's club at New Hope Missionary Baptist Church, completed their mission, Joe King sighed.
"My legs are about to fall under it," an exhausted King said.
It had been a beautiful fall morning at this church located about seven miles south of Lancaster. The weather was perfect – bright Carolina blue skies and mild temperatures – the kind of day many people wish every day would be like.
Alice Robinson's late husband, Larry, has been buried at Lancaster Memorial Park since 1992.
In those 18 years, Robinson said she's never known anybody to steal vases from the cemetery.
News of the latest thefts has left her upset.
Robinson is one of more than 30 plot owners to have bronze or copper vases taken from those plots. Between Oct. 29 and Nov. 1, 39 vases total were stolen from various plots, according to a Lancaster County Sheriff's Office incident report.
You may know that Jody Miles has gone through serious health struggles since she learned she needed a new liver a couple of years ago.
Now, her hope is rising, as she's at the top of the transplant list at Medical University of South Carolina in Charleston.
She's on call, having been told she could be asked to come to Charleston for the transplant at any time.
"We just got back home from Charleston Tuesday, after being called as the alternate for a transplant on Monday," said Helen Warren, Miles' mother.
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Q&A With Middle Blocker Calvin Ross
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The UC San Diego men's volleyball team continues to aim for a Mountain Pacific Sports Federation playoff spot as the 14th-ranked Tritons go up against the nation's best teams each night. So far in 2010, the Tritons have wins over two ranked opponents, including a first-ever win against Pepperdine. A big part of UCSD's success has come from middle blocker Calvin Ross. The local Carlsbad native leads the team with 1.15 blocks per set while adding 1.72 kills per set and a .426 hitting percentage. Ross recently took time to discuss life as a student-athlete on the UC San Diego men's volleyball team.
Q- What are the team goals from now through the rest of the season?
ROSS- As a team we set goals at the beginning of the season. Some of them can no longer be fulfilled but we would like to finish out the season keeping them intact. We said we would like to win all non- conference games, make playoffs and win at least one set per match.
Q- What has been the highlight of your career at UCSD so far?
ROSS- Last year we beat USC in four sets at home. They were ranked in the top five and continued on to the NCAA finals to lose to UC Irvine. It was nice to say that we beat them pretty bad that same year.
Q- What do you consider your greatest attribute on the court? Off the court?
ROSS- Being 6'9" is useful on and off the court. There are very few players in the league that are as tall or taller than I.
Q- How do you spend your time when not playing volleyball?
ROSS- I love to play beach volleyball, which is a very different sport from indoor. Also, I love movies and TV and couches whenever I get the chance.
Q- What would you like to do with your Mechanical Engineering degree?
ROSS- I would like to design cars but I really have no idea what I want to do after I graduate. Engineering is a broad field with many different opportunities.
Q- Was it a difficult choice in deciding to attend UCSD?
ROSS- No, I was born in san diego and there's nowhere else I would rather live. I also knew the assistant coach well because he was my club coach.
Q- You earned all-league honors in high school for water polo. Do you catch many of the Triton water polo games? Do you miss playing the sport?
ROSS- Yeah one of my high school teammates plays on the team, and I miss it a lot. It was tough to choose between the two sports. I miss the pool and being outdoors for practice.
Q- Who are some of the best student-athletes you've faced in your Triton career?
ROSS- Cal State Northridge has been our toughest opponent my entire career. We have yet to take a game off them my entire career.
Q- What has been your favorite men's volleyball roadtrip and why?
ROSS- Hawaii is the best roadtrip for obvious reasons. We get four days off school to play volleyball and hangout on the island.
Q- In your opinion, which MPSF opponent has the most difficult gym to play in and why?
ROSS- Hawaii has a really big gym with a really big, loud crowd. Their crowd has been the most relentless heckling crowd I have heard.
Q- What are some of your favorite places to eat around the San Diego area?
ROSS- Rigobertos in La Jolla is the best, but carl's jr. is also unbeatable, and souplantation is the best buffet place so between those three I don't eat much else besides panda express in price center.
Q- Who are some of your favorite athletes that you look up to?
ROSS- Gerald Houseman was and still is my idol, especially because he played Middle Blocker too. Russ Hardy is also an alumni athlete I look up to and admire.
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Nicole Saari (Softball) February 4, 2010
Brad Kreutzkamp (Women's Water Polo Head Coach) January 18, 2010
Tyler Acevedo (Men's Basketball) January 4, 2010
Dr. Cliff Kubiak (UCSD's Faculty Athletic Rep) December 18, 2009
Chelsea Carlisle (Women's Basketball) December 9, 2009
Carianne Cunningham (Women's Swimming) November 23, 2009
Elena Inouye (Cross Country) November 6, 2009
David Morton (Men's Water Polo) October 28, 2009
Juan Pablo Carillo (Men's Swimming) October 19, 2009
Sara Spaventa (Women's Soccer) October 10, 2009
Karen Reis (Women's Volleyball) October 2, 2009
Daniel Pavitt (Men's Soccer) September 23, 2009
Daniel Anderson (Cross Country) September 11, 2009
Peter Gresham (Men's Water Polo) September 2, 2009
Alexia Zatarain (Women's Soccer) August 24, 2009
Elaine Chen (Women's Volleyball) August 12, 2009
Jared Kukura (Men's Soccer) July 30, 2009
Dawn Lee (Former Women's Soccer Standout) July 8, 2009
Rob Mamula (Director of Athletic Performance) June 18, 2009
Garrett Imeson (Baseball) June 8, 2009
Leon Baham (Men's Track & Field) May 21, 2009
Kristyn Lesovsky (Softball) May 8, 2009
Kazumi Negishi (Men's Tennis) May 5, 2009
Laiah Blue (Women's Track & Field) April 16, 2009
Ryan Andre (Men's Crew) April 2, 2009
Josh Tanner (Baseball) March 24, 2009
Anju Shimura (Women's Swimming) March 7, 2009
Stephanie Bocian (Women's Water Polo) February 20, 2009
Lauren Chastain (Softball) February 5, 2009
A.J. Maulhardt (Men's Basketball) January 28, 2009
Annette Ilg (Women's Basketball) January 22, 2009
Steven Hardy (Men's Swimming) January 13, 2009