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Maldives to host World Travel Awards 2013 - Indian Ocean category
"Maldives...the sunny side of life" is proud to be hosting the World Travel Awards Regional Category on 12th May 2013 at Paradise Island Resort and Spa. This is the first time a travel event of such high calibre is being hosted in the Maldives. It is an honour to be hosting such a prestigious event especially in a significant year to the tourism industry of the Maldives as it celebrates the 40th year of tourism.
Industry leaders will meet in the Maldives to witness the presentation of awards in 58 categories amidst a glamorous gala ceremony under the stars and on the white sandy beach of Paradise Island Resort & Spa; also a prestigious opportunity to welcome the top industry leaders in the Maldives.
The World Travel Awards serves to acknowledge, reward and celebrate excellence across all sectors of the global travel and tourism industry. Since its establishment in 1993, the World Travel Awards has become the Oscar equivalent of the global tourism industry.
Hosting of the World Travel Awards in the Maldives would yet raise the profile of the destination. It will also act as an opportunity to diversify the product segments to develop event based tourism in the Maldives, as Hon. Ahmed Adeeb Abdul Gafoor, the Minister of Tourism, Arts and Culture states; "We are proud to be hosting World Travel Awards in Maldives… the Sunny Side of Life. It's an assurance to the travel trade that Maldives is ready for event based tourism in a luxury and private setting"
Furthermore, Maldives has been nominated for 30 different categories this year [Annexe 1 & 2] and anticipates to keep shining as a world class destination by winning important categories. Previously, Maldives was the proud winner of numerous categories at the World Travel Awards in 2012 [Annexe 3]. Such distinguished endorsements of the Maldivian tourism product by the World Travel Awards highlight the uniqueness of the Maldives as a destination and indicate the visitors' love and confidence towards Maldives further generating investor confidence.


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Marketplace for Thursday, February 2, 2012
February 02, 2012
Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg will take a huge pay cut this year. His new salary: $1. Will Facebook's culture change with the company going public? Law schools are getting sued for allegedly attracting students through deception. Walmart is succeeding in going green. With the unemployment rate in double digits, there just aren't many opportunities for Nevada's new college graduates. And London bureau chief Stephen Beard reports on what the Queen of England does for work.

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Developer - Mycroft A.I.
Website - openstt.org
Developer - Mycroft A.I.
Website - openstt.org
Mycroft Announces The OpenSTT Project
Published on Mar 14, 2016
Mycroft is announcing that we are going after the Watson AI XPrize, and our first project aimed at achieving this goal is OpenSTT, an initiative to create an open source speech-to-text model that products and services, the world over, will be able to make use of.


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Happy Father's Day to all the fathers in our reading audience. I hope you all have an awesome day.
Happy Father's Day to all the fathers in our reading audience. I hope you all have an awesome day.
Hedrick's Grove UCC honors graduates
Hedrick's Grove Reformed United Church of Christ observed Scholarship Sunday on June 2. This day is set aside to honor all recent graduates and to collect a special offering for the Scholarship Fund, which enables this important ministry of the church.
Among the graduates recognized on this occasion was Joni Winebarger, who will graduate from Central Davidson High School. Winebarger received a scholarship from the church to help as she continues her studies at Appalachian State University. Receiving bachelor's degrees were Amber Frank and Monnie Frank from Salem College, Lynnsey Lollis from Appalachian State University and Courtney Lollis from Catawba College. Lauren Young Frank received her master's degree from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Alex Nance completed the Pastoral Leadership Development Program of the United Church of Christ and will pursue ordination.
Becks Lutheran recognizes seniors
Becks Lutheran Church recognized these fine young people at worship June 9. Congratulations to Chase Blankenship, Connor Gallimore and Kristina Lamb upon their high school graduation.
Churches will hold Bible schools
Heath Church will hold Vacation Bible School starting at 6:30 p.m. Monday through June 21.
Holly Grove Lutheran Church will have a two-day VBS on June 21-22.
Greenhouse is open
Stoner-Thomas's Greenhouse is open for business, and the students are raising a beautiful variety of plants and vegetables. Come in and purchase some soon. The hours are approximately 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. Call to make arrangements to come at other times. Your support for all Stoner-Thomas projects is amazing and greatly appreciated.
Hospice official speaks to senior citizens
The Holly Grove Senior Citizens met at 10:30 a.m. May 15 in the Mt. Tabor United Church of Christ Activity Center. Twenty-one members attended.
The center table held an arrangement of spring flowers, yellow forsythia, pink tulips and greenery, compliments of James Tysinger. The thought for the day was "we are most useful to God when we are most useful to others." Lois Brown and Sarah Leonard were responsible for refreshments and the program. Leonard conducted devotions using a number of scripture passages.
Brown introduced Helen Fitzgerald, who is the community education coordinator for Hospice of Davidson County. She provided a most interesting and informative program.
For more than 27 years, Hospice of Davidson County has been providing pain and symptom management, emotional support and grief counseling to residents of Davidson County. In 2012, they served more than 750 patients in homes, facilities and at the county's only inpatient hospice unit, The Henry Etta and Bruce Hinkle House. Fitzgerald asked us to think of the person we want to make decisions for us when we can't, the kind of medical treatment we want or don't want, how comfortable we want to be, how we want people to treat us, and what we want our loved ones to know.
Virginia White gave the treasury report and read a number of Christian one-liners. Example: "Don't give God instructions, just report for duty!" after which the Rev. Darrell Sluder asked the blessing, and Daisy served another of her delicious meals.
The next meeting is scheduled for June 19.
Marking milestones
Congratulations to Ariel Everhart who received an Associate of Arts from Davidson County Community College and to her sister, Leighanne Everhart, who graduated from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, College of Health with a Bachelor of Science degree. They are the daughters of Rex and Tracy Everhart.
Mourning loses
Please remember the family and friends of Shelby Davis Bauernfeind, Tracy Morgan, Martha Berrier, Julie Layman Murphy, Andy Lopp and Susie Cross Burris who have passed away recently.
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Tweet this: Tani Pazarlama Maximizes Customer Loyalty Program Effectiveness with @InformaticaCorp #DataQuality http://bit.ly/VsadAN
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"Tani Pazarlama's loyalty programs and database marketing services can only succeed if we have a single, accurate and timely view of each consumer," explained Tolga Evren, Data Technologies manager, Tani Pazarlama. "By standardizing on Informatica Data Quality, database marketing results are more accurate than before, which cascade down to more effective campaign management and target list selection. Partner companies within the Koç Group can then use this trusted data for more effective cross-selling and up-selling."
"Tani Pazarlama is a showcase example of an organization that sees value in elevating the importance of data to the business," said Ash Kulkarni, senior vice president and general manager, Data Integration and Quality, Informatica "Informatica Data Quality allows Tani Pazarlama to cleanse its data, proactively monitor its data quality and effectively report data quality issues in a timely manner to key business stakeholders.
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Tani is a subsidiary of the Koç Group, the largest privately run organization in Turkey (the only Turkish firm on Fortune 500 listing) with revenues of $41.5 billion and more than 85,546 employees.
Tanı Pazarlama ve İletişim Hizmetleri A.Ş., is Turkey's most competent customer loyalty operator that manages data. Tanı brings together different sectors in one loyalty program and adds value to brands. With these services, Tanı supports companies to differentiate in their sectors and thus aims to increase their turnover.
Tanı offers CRM consulting services to companies, as well as Data Access and Data Management, Channel Services, Network Administration, Web and Social Media Products.
Learn more about Tanı Pazarlama ve İletişim Hizmetleri A.Ş.. Visit us at www.tani.com.tr.
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Mumbai, Oct 5: Bowing before the sentiments of the Sikh community, actor-filmmaker Ajay Devgn has agreed to delete certain offensive dialogues and scenes from his forthcoming venture 'Son of Sardar', an official said here Thursday.
Congress leader and legislator Charan Singh Sapra had raised objections to certain dialogues and promos of the movie, which he contended hurt the sentiments of the Sikh community.
Last month, Sapra, who is also Punjabi Cultural Heritage Board (PCHB) president, had written a detailed letter pointing out the community's objections to Devgn.
This culminated in a meeting between the PCHB officials and Devgn as well as one of the producers, Kumar Mangat during which the entire issue was discussed threadbare.
On Thursday, Devgn and his associates submitted in writing that they would omit the objectionable scenes - both from promos and the movie - prior to its release, scheduled soon.
Devgn has also agreed to permit PCHB and Sapra a preview of the amended promos and revised portions of the movie for their complete satisfaction, even before it is sent for censor certification, Mangat said in a statement here Thursday evening.
"They have also agreed to remove the promos from YouTube and the internet for which they required 48 hours time," Sapra said, expressing satisfaction at the resolution of the issue.
While raising the matter with Devgn, Sapra said that historically Sikhs had been brave warriors during both Mughal and British rules.
"Even post-Independence, India has a great contribution from the Sikh community. The present army chief is a Sikh and the nation is led by a Sikh, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh. Mainstream cinema should project a 'true Sikh' instead of portraying them as bumbling fools," Sapra noted.
Sapra termed insensitive cinematic portrayals as "a deliberate and malicious act" intended to outrage the religious feelings of the Sikhs, which also amounted to violations of the law.


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Efficacy Study of Substitution of Darunavir/Ritonavir (DRV/r) for Dual-boosted Protease Inhibitors (DVD)
|The safety and scientific validity of this study is the responsibility of the study sponsor and investigators. Listing a study does not mean it has been evaluated by the U.S. Federal Government. Read our disclaimer for details.
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT00543101
Recruitment Status : Completed
First Posted : October 12, 2007
Results First Posted : August 17, 2010
Last Update Posted : July 21, 2017
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|Condition or disease
|HIV Infections
|Drug: Darunavir (DRV/r) Drug: continue on current dual boosted PI
|Phase 4
|Study Type :
|Interventional (Clinical Trial)
|Actual Enrollment :
|24 participants
|Intervention Model:
|Parallel Assignment
|None (Open Label)
|Primary Purpose:
|Official Title:
|A Randomized, Controlled Trial to Evaluate the Efficacy of Substituting Darunavir/Ritonavir (DRV/r) for Dual-boosted Protease Inhibitors in Individuals With Virologic Suppression for at Least 12 Weeks
|Study Start Date :
|October 2007
|Actual Primary Completion Date :
|February 2010
|Actual Study Completion Date :
|February 2010
Active Comparator: Switch to DRV/r
Switch to DRV/r at a dose of 600/100 BID for 48 weeks
Drug: Darunavir (DRV/r)
Switch to DRV/r at a dose of 600/100 BID for 48 weeks
Active Comparator: Continue on Current Dual Boosted PI
Continue on current dual boosted PI until week 24. At week 24, participants will be allowed to cross over to the DRV/r arm provided that they have maintained virologic suppression (< 400 copies/ml) for the first 24-weeks of the study and are followed for an additional 24 weeks
Drug: continue on current dual boosted PI
Continue on current dual boosted PI until week 24. At week 24, participants will be allowed to cross over to the DRV/r arm provided that they have maintained virologic suppression (< 400 copies/ml) for the first 24-weeks of the study and be followed for an additional 24 weeks
- The Percentage of Participants With Successful Virologic Suppression [ Time Frame: 24 weeks ]Amount of HIV RNA copies per ml blood collected from subjects as measured by the Ultra-sensitive HIV-1 PCR (Roche Cobas). Successful virologic suppression is defined as < 50 copies/ml blood. The result is the percentage of participants with successful virologic suppression.
- Economic Impact of a Substitution of Dual Boosted PIs With DRV/r [ Time Frame: 48 weeks ]To assess the economic impact of DRV/r substitution for dual boosted PIs, we compared the average wholesale acquisition costs for the drugs in US Dollars ($) per month. The wholesale acquisition cost in US dollars ($) for each ART regimen was determined and the difference between the cost for the experimental and control groups was calculated and reported as US dollar savings per month.
- Lipid Fraction Results, Mean of the Change From Baseline to Week 24. [ Time Frame: baseline and 24 weeks ]We collected fasting total cholesterol, LDL-cholesterol, HDL-cholesterol and triglycerides from all participants in both arms of the study. We calculated the differences between the values at week 24 and baseline for the participants in both arms. We reported the mean of the change from baseline to week 24.
- Treatment Satisfaction (+3, Much More Satisfied Now to -3, Much Less Satisfied Now) [ Time Frame: 24 weeks ]Participants in the experimental arm completed treatment satisfaction questionnaires at 24 weeks, and the control arm at 48 weeks (24 weeks after mid-study crossover to boosted darunavir). The questionnaires used numeric satisfaction scales (+3 much more satisfied now to -3 much less satisfied now). We reported the median and ranges for each question for each study arm.
Choosing to participate in a study is an important personal decision. Talk with your doctor and family members or friends about deciding to join a study. To learn more about this study, you or your doctor may contact the study research staff using the contacts provided below. For general information, Learn About Clinical Studies.
|Ages Eligible for Study:
|18 Years and older (Adult, Older Adult)
|Sexes Eligible for Study:
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
Inclusion Criteria:
- Age 18 years or older
- Treatment with a stable antiretroviral regimen containing two protease inhibitors, one additional FDA-licensed agent from another class (except NNRTIs) and a boosting dosage of ritonavir (100 BID or QD) for at least 12 weeks prior to screening
- No plans to make any changes in HIV treatment regimen (other than those required by study) in the next 48 weeks.
- HIV-1 RNA < 400 copies/ml based on the most recent value done as part of routine care at least 12 weeks prior to screening; and < 400 at screening
- Any CD4 count is allowed
- Written informed consent to participate
Exclusion Criteria:
- Current regimen includes an NNRTI
- CDC Class C Illness diagnosed within 30 days of screening
- Lab abnormalities as defined by a standardized grading scheme based on the DAIDS table
Any grade 3 or 4 toxicity with the following exceptions:
- Pre-existing diabetes with glucose elevations ≥ grade 3
- triglyceride or total cholesterol elevations ≥ grade 3
- Clinical or laboratory evidence of clinically significant liver impairment/dysfunction, disease or cirrhosis Note: Individuals co-infected with chronic hepatitis B or C will be allowed to enter the trial if their condition is clinically stable. Individuals diagnosed with acute viral hepatitis at screening will not be allowed to enroll during acute phase.
- Active substance abuse or significant psychiatric illness that in the opinion of the investigator might interfere with study compliance.
- Use of any investigational agents 30 days prior to screening
- Life expectancy < 6 months in the opinion of the investigator
- Prior use of darunavir or known allergy to any of the components of darunavir
- Breast feeding
- Female subject of childbearing potential not using effective non-hormonal birth control methods or not willing to continue practicing these birth control methods from screening until the last trial related activity.
Note: Hormonal based contraception may not be reliable when taking darunavir, therefore to be eligible for this study, women of childbearing potential who may have vaginal intercourse should either:
- Use a double barrier method to prevent pregnancy (i.e., using a condom with either a diaphragm or cervical cap) Or
- Use hormonal based contraceptives in combination with a barrier contraceptive (i.e., male condom, diaphragm, cervical cap or female condom) Or
- Use an intra uterine device (IUD) in combination with a barrier contraceptive (i.e., male condom, diaphragm, cervical cap or female condom) Or
- Be non-heterosexually active, practice sexual abstinence or have a vasectomized partner (confirmed sterile).
To learn more about this study, you or your doctor may contact the study research staff using the contact information provided by the sponsor.
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier (NCT number): NCT00543101
|United States, Arizona
|Spectrum Medical Group
|Phoenix, Arizona, United States, 85012
|United States, California
|AIDS Healthcare Foundation
|Los Angeles, California, United States, 02319
|United States, Florida
|Orlando Immunology Center
|Orlando, Florida, United States
|United States, Massachusetts
|Community Research Initiative of New England
|Boston, Massachusetts, United States, 02215
|United States, New York
|Albany Medical Center
|Albany, New York, United States, 12208
|Principal Investigator:
|Calvin J Cohen, MD, MSc
Additional Information:
|Responsible Party:
|Community Research Initiative of New England
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
|NCT00543101 History of Changes
|Other Study ID Numbers:
|First Posted:
|October 12, 2007 Key Record Dates
|Results First Posted:
|August 17, 2010
|Last Update Posted:
|July 21, 2017
|Last Verified:
|July 2017
Keywords provided by Community Research Initiative of New England:
Protease inhibitors
Dual boosted
Treatment experienced
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
HIV Infections
Lentivirus Infections
Retroviridae Infections
RNA Virus Infections
Virus Diseases
Sexually Transmitted Diseases, Viral
Sexually Transmitted Diseases
Immunologic Deficiency Syndromes
Immune System Diseases
HIV Protease Inhibitors
Protease Inhibitors
Enzyme Inhibitors
Molecular Mechanisms of Pharmacological Action
Anti-HIV Agents
Anti-Retroviral Agents
Antiviral Agents
Anti-Infective Agents
Cytochrome P-450 CYP3A Inhibitors
Cytochrome P-450 Enzyme Inhibitors


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Amherst (town, United States)
Amherst:1 Town (2000 pop. 34,874), Hampshire co., central Mass., in a fertile farm area; inc. 1759. Named for Lord Jeffery Amherst, it is a college town. Emily Dickinson was born and lived there all her life. Helen Hunt Jackson was also born there, and Ray Stannard Baker, Eugene Field, Robert Frost, and Noah Webster lived in the town. It is the seat of the Univ. of Massachusetts, Hampshire College, and Amherst College. The Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art is there.
2 Town (2000 pop. 116,510), Erie co., W N.Y., a large commuter suburb of Buffalo, est. 1818. It contains most of the village of Williamsville (inc. 1850) as well as Eggertsville, Getzville, Snyder, Swormsville, and East Amherst. Like its Massachusetts counterpart, it was named for Lord Amherst. The Erie Canal (1825) passed along the town's northern edge and encouraged settlement, largely by Germans who creaed a thriving farming community. Bungalows began to be built in the 1920s, and today Amherst is primarily residential. It is the site of the main campus of SUNY's Univ. at Buffalo, of Daemen College, and of campuses of Medaille and Canisius colleges.


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Owasso Critical Mass!
Tomorrow there will be not one, but two critical mass rides in Owasso, Oklahoma! Imagine that! Two rides in a single day.
The first one will leave from my house, travel along neighborhood streets, four-lane arterials, and two-lane rural roads, generally heading south toward the airport.
The second ride will take place at mid-afternoon. It too will follow four-lane arterials, two-lane rural roads, and some neighborhood streets, eventually ending at my house.
Both rides will involve unimaginative, boring adherence to the rules of the road, partly because it's less stressful than the usual CM practice of corking intersections and running red lights, and partly because most motorists in the area are polite and safety minded. Pissing off other drivers and the police is hardly a method guaranteed to win hearts and minds, and if we want to persuade some out from behind the wheel of a car and onto a bike, it really helps if we don't antagonize them first.
The first ride leaves around 6 AM. Lights and reflectors are required, as stipulated by Oklahoma law. That means a white front light, a red rear reflector, and a red rear light.
Be prepared to confront the occasional stupid motorist, but it's more common to have short, intense interactions with roving dogs and stubbornly intractable skunks. Skunks do not give a damn about your right-of-way!


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Altsoft XML2PDF
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I would like your opinions on this idea for a game:
You must break into this 3D building allong with 5 or 10 men and steal a highly gaurded object(s). You can choose what men you want from a list of about 100 people. Each person is capable of doing and operating different things. There is also a list of gadgets witch you can buy with an amount of money. You can type in the actions of each man. Then activate, and watch it all happen. In the beggining you get to view your target inside and out. There is more, this is just a basic overview of my idea.


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The Oklahoma Department of Public Safety has issued a Silver Alert for Melvin Pidgue, an 84-year-old white male.
Pidgue was last seen at Mercy Memorial Tishomingo at 11:45 p.m., Sunday evening. He is reported to be driving a Gray, 2000 Toyota Truck with a toolbox in the back. He was reported to be heading east from Tishomingo.
Pidgue is wearing at black jacket and a baseball cap.


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Sprechen sie Damon?
Matt Damon looks even sharper than usual, thanks to his crisp military uniform, in this latest photo from the Berlin set of The Monuments Men.
And he's joined by George Clooney, his fellow Sexiest Man Alive and recent snowball adversary, who co-wrote and is directing and starring in the film, which is about the Allied soldiers who protected art from being destroyed by the Nazis during World War II.
While Damon, 42, is looking his usual dapper self, Clooney, 51, is sporting a bit of a different look, having grown a mustache for his role.
The friends are clearly enjoying their time together on the movie. And Clooney's girlfriend, Stacy Keibler, is also taking advantage, spending her time shopping and touring the German capital.
• Reporting by MICHAEL ANHALT


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The parasite that escaped out of Africa
PHILADELPHIA – An international team of scientists has traced the origin of Plasmodium vivax, the second-worst malaria parasite of humans, to Africa, according to a study published this week in Nature Communications. Until recently, the closest genetic relatives of human P. vivax were found only in Asian macaques, leading researchers to believe that P. vivax originated in Asia.
The study, led by researchers from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, found that wild-living apes in central Africa are widely infected with parasites that, genetically, are nearly identical to human P. vivax.
This finding overturns the dogma that P. vivax originated in Asia, despite being most prevalent in humans there now, and also solves other vexing questions about P. vivax infection: how a mutation conferring resistance to P. vivax occurs at high frequency in the very region where this parasite seems absent and how travelers returning from regions where almost all humans lack the receptor for P. vivax can be infected with this parasite.
Of Ape and Human Parasites
Members of the labs of Beatrice Hahn, MD, and George Shaw, MD, PhD, both professors of Medicine and Microbiology at Penn, in collaboration with Paul Sharp, PhD, an evolutionary biologist from the University of Edinburgh, and Martine Peeters, PhD, a microbiologist from the Institut de Recherche pour le Développement and the University of Montpellier, tested over 5,000 ape fecal samples from dozens of field stations and sanctuaries in Africa for P. vivax DNA. They found P. vivax-like sequences in chimpanzees, in western and eastern gorillas, but not in bonobos. Ape P. vivax was highly prevalent in wild communities, exhibiting infection rates consistent with stable transmission of the parasite within the wild apes.
Ape P. vivax infects both gorillas and chimpanzees, unlike the ape precursor of P. falciparum, the deadliest human malaria parasite, which only infects gorillas. The origin of P. falciparum in gorillas was discovered several years ago by the same international group of investigators. The team continued its widespread screen of malaria parasite DNA in wild-living primates, and noted that P. vivax was also endemic in gorillas and chimpanzees in central Africa.
To examine the evolutionary relationships between ape and human parasites, the team generated parasite DNA sequences from wild and sanctuary apes, as well as from a global sampling of human P. vivax infections. They constructed a family tree of the sequences and found that ape and human parasites were very closely related. But ape parasites were more diverse than the human parasites and did not group according to their host species. In contrast, the human parasites formed a single lineage that fell within the branches of ape parasite sequences.
From these evolutionary relationships, the team concluded that P. vivax is of African — not Asian — origin, and that all existing human P. vivax parasites evolved from a single ancestor that spread out of Africa. The high prevalence of P. vivax in wild-living apes, along with the recent finding of ape P. vivax in a European traveler, indicates the existence of a substantial natural reservoir of P. vivax in Africa.
Solving a Paradox
Of the five Plasmodium species known to cause malaria in humans, P. vivax is the most widespread. Although highly prevalent in Asia and Latin America, P. vivax was thought to be absent from west and central Africa due to a mutation that causes the Duffy-negative phenotype in most indigenous African people. P. vivax parasites enter human red blood cells via the Duffy protein receptor. Because the absence of the receptor on the surface of these cells confers protection against P. vivax malaria, this parasite has long been suspected to be the agent that selected for this mutation. However, this hypothesis had been difficult to reconcile with the belief that P. vivax originated in Asia.
"Our finding that wild-living apes in central Africa show widespread infection with diverse strains of P. vivax provides new insight into the evolutionary history of human P. vivax and resolves the paradox that a mutation conferring resistance to P. vivax occurs with high frequency in the very region where this parasite is absent in humans," says Hahn.
"One interpretation of the relationships that we observed is that a single host switch from apes gave rise to human P. vivax, analogous to the origin of human P. falciparum," Sharp adds. "However, this seems unlikely in this case since ape P. vivax does not divide into gorilla- and chimpanzee-specific lineages. "
A more plausible scenario, say the researchers, is that an ancestral P. vivax stock was able to infect humans, gorillas, and chimpanzees in Africa until the Duffy negative mutation started to spread — around 30,000 years ago — and eliminated P. vivax from humans there. Under this scenario, existing human-infecting P. vivax is a parasite that survived after spreading out of Africa.
Forest Reservoirs
"The existence of a P. vivax reservoir within the forests of central Africa has public health implications," notes Peeters. "First, it solves the mystery of P. vivax infections in travelers returning from regions where 99 percent of the human population is Duffy negative. It also raises the possibility that Duffy positive humans whose work may bring them in close proximity to chimpanzees and gorillas may become infected by ape P. vivax. This has already happened once and may happen again, with unknown consequences."
The team is also concerned about the possibility that ape P. vivax may spread via international travel to countries where human P. vivax is actively transmitted. Since ape P. vivax is more diverse, genetically, than human P. vivax, it potentially has more versatility to escape treatment and prevention measures, especially if human and ape parasites were able to recombine.
Given what biologists know about P. vivax's ability to switch hosts, the team suggests it is important to screen Duffy positive and negative humans in west central Africa, as well as transmitting mosquito vectors, for the presence of ape P. vivax. Such studies are now possible through the development of molecular tools that distinguish ape from human P. vivax. This information is necessary to inform malaria control and eradication efforts of the propensity of ape P. vivax to cross over to humans.
As a next step, the team will compare and contrast the molecular and biological properties of human and ape parasites to identify host-specific interactions and transmission requirements, thereby uncovering vulnerabilities that can be exploited to combat human malaria.


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Less black, more brights: nail winter's colour-blocking trend
There's something very comforting about wearing black in winter. It's easy, forgiving and screams cold weather - not to mention it makes us feel those effortlessly cool model-off-duty vibes when we wear it head-to-toe! For most people, it's ingrained in us to whip out the black coats, boots and jumpers as soon as the temperature drops, but why do we ditch our brightly-coloured wardrobe items when they can be just as warm and stylish?
Colour-blocking is a huge trend for winter '18, but it doesn't have to be as scary as you think. Here are three tips for wearing the colour-blocking trend, if this whole "colour" thing is new to you too. They all star our favourite woollen fabrics for extra warmth.
Mix your textures
A simple yet effective way to nail colour-blocking is to pick two complementing colours and contrast the fabrics, like this hot pink and orange combo that mixes knits with silks.
Pictured, left to right: Trenery Stitch Sleeve Merino knit, Karen Walker Super Duper Strength sunglasses from David Jones, sass & bide The Hope skirt,GUESS Terra backpack, Seed Heritage Hoop Stud earrings, Converse All Star Wordmark sneakers from Universal Store.
Stick to one colour palette
The best way to ease into colour blocking is by choosing one colour or colour palette and running with it - or mixing and matching different shades of the same tone. You can always step it up a notch by adding a contrasting accessory.
Pictured, left to right: Wittner Foster leather jacket, Mimco Swirl earrings, Elvie Disc bangle, ZARA Colour Block midi skirt, Dior Diorsoreal sunglasses from Sunglass Hut, Status Anxiety Fixation wallet from General Pants, Tony Bianco Freddie boots.
Tone it down with denim
Your favourite denim and tee is the perfect foundation to experiment with colour-blocking. Start with that base, then add a coloured boot or coat to make it pop.
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Jessica Michelle Hunter, a tenth grade mathematics teacher at Sterlington High School in Sterlington, LA has been selected as a Louisiana State Finalist for the Presidential Award for Excellence in Mathematics and Science Teaching (PAEMST).
Pictured with Superintendent Don Coker and Principal Dell Ashley, Ms. Hunter, a teacher in the Ouachita Parish Public School system for 8 years, is now one of three Louisiana high school mathematics teachers eligible to receive a PAEMST award, the nation's highest honor for U.S. K-12 mathematics and science teachers. The awards program is administered by the National Science Foundation (NSF) on behalf of The White House.
Commonalities among PAEMST awardees have been shown to include devoting more time to professional development, incorporating innovative approaches into their classroom teaching, and using technological resources in their classrooms. Ms. Hunter is one of six State Finalists - three mathematics and three science teachers - chosen from the submitted State applicants. As a State Finalist, she was recognized by Louisiana First Lady Donna Edwards at an awards ceremony held on September, 27th at the Governor's Mansion in Baton Rouge.
Each year, a national committee of distinguished scientists, mathematicians, and educators recommends up to 108 teachers to receive the PAEMST awards. Up to two teachers – mathematics or science - from each State, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, the U.S. territories as a group, and schools operated in the United States and overseas by the Department of Defense Education Activity receive the award. Teachers who are selected as PAEMST awardees receive a trip to Washington, D.C., where they attend a series of recognition events and professional development opportunities. They also receive a $10,000 award, and a Presidential certificate.
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Right Wing Watch dug up this old video of Paul Weyrich, the founding father of the religious right, bluntly saying that he wants fewer and fewer people to vote because the more people who vote, the less leverage the Christian right has. If you don't know who Weyrich was, he was easily the most important figure in creating the religious right in this country. He co-founded nearly every major organization, including the Moral Majority, the Heritage Foundation, the Free Congress Foundation, and the Council for National Policy.
This video is from 1980, the year before the Republican party began its voter suppression efforts with its first voter caging scheme, in New Jersey. That resulted in a federal lawsuit and a consent decree that forbid them from engaging in voter caging, which they have violated repeatedly since then.


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CERN's Large Hadron Collider boosts superconducting magnet performance
The European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) in Switzerland and the University of Sannio, Benevento, Italy, have collaborated on the design of an advanced instrument for measuring magnetic fields in CERN's Large Hadron Collider (LHC) superconducting magnets. Called the Fast Digital Integrator (FDI) board, this measurement device uses Analog Devices' A/D converters, analog multiplexers and DSP components to provide the LHC with the highest possible performance achieved to-date in measuring magnetic fields.
The new FDI board enables 100 times the resolution and frequency bandwidth of the previous generation digital integrator. This significant improvement in dynamic range enables scientists to detect even more minute artifacts that contribute to magnetic field variations, field decay and other time dependent phenomena typical in high-field superconducting accelerator magnets that all negatively affect the quality of particle beams under study. The new FDI boards are used at CERN to measure magnetic flux at 10 revolutions per second through fast-rotating calibrated coils that evaluate the magnetic field produced by the LHC's 8 Tesla accelerator magnets.
"Prior to the FDI board, the available electronic components were not suitable in terms of accuracy or resolution, which in the case of the Large Hadron Collider easily approaches 10 parts per million," said Pasquale Arpaia, professor of engineering at the University of Sannio.
The LHC is the world's largest and highest-energy particle accelerator, as well as the biggest machine ever built by humans. Construction started in 2003, and the LHC was operational in 2008. Its mission is to probe some of the most fundamental questions of physics and advance the understanding of the most fundamental laws of nature.
CERN technician connects superconducting magnets in the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) tunnel. Analog Devices' processing technology helps CERN's LHC achieve the highest possible superconducting magnet performance, the company said. The LHC is the world's largest and highest-energy particle accelerator, as well as the biggest machine ever built by humans. Its mission is to probe some of the most fundamental questions of physics. Courtesy: CERN


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Big Data is here, and it's a problem that IT departments are going to have to deal with now and in the future. In fact, the Big Data market will reach $106 billion this year, according to Gartner. And many companies are struggling with their wealth of growing information assets, according to a recent survey from CompTIA, the non-profit association for the IT industry. So what's driving this trend? Credit the still-overwhelming volume of email traffic, e-documents, customer analytics tools and multi-media content. The growing Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) movement is also a significant contributor. However, given the immediacy of this potential problem, you may be surprised to discover how few business-side execs are even familiar with the term, Big Data. It's time for CIOs and other IT managers to get up-to-speed on the situation, and devise practical, scalable solutions. "Not every business will need a big data strategy," says Tim Herbert, vice president of research at CompTIA. "But just about every business will need to effectively aggregate, store, manage and analyze the data they do have - regardless of its volume, velocity or variety." A total of 435 U.S. executives from IT firms took part in the research.
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JOHSON CITY, Tenn. - UNC Asheville had four players score in double figures to lead the Bulldogs in a 70-65 win againt East Tennessee State at ETSU's Memorial Center.
Adam Earnhardt (14), Andre Smith (14), Brett Carey (12) and Allan Lovett (11) all scored in double figures for the visitors. Earnhardt added five rebounds.
Despite being outrebounded 50-35, the Bulldogs prevailed in the non-conference tilt. UNCA (3-1) shot 47.2 percent from the field while the home squad made 33.8 percent of their shots. The free throw line ruined the Bucs as they shot just 58.6 percent (17-of-29).
ETSU (1-4) was led by Ryan Carson who scored a team-high 13 points. Adrian Meeks (12) and Cliff Decoster (12) also scored in double-figures. Decoster added a game-high five assists.
The Bulldogs took command early, jumping out to a 7-0 lead on a three-pointer from Carey at 17:34 of the first half. The Bucs fought back and took their first lead of the game at 5:09 with a jumper by Decoster.
ETSU increased its advantage to a game-high seven points (32-25) at 2:16 of the first half before going to the break ahead 35-33.
UNC Asheville began the second half with an 8-2 run to take a 40-36 lead at 17:38. The game see-sawed before the visitors took the lead for good on another Carey three pointer, at 8:58. The Bulldogs made their free throws down the stretch and assumed control.
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We were then asked which characters we would like to see out of the dozen or so that were available in the demo (this number is not reflective of how many fighters will ultimately be in the game). Being old-school fans of the series we picked Mitsurugi and then added in Ivy because everyone likes seeing Ivy.
As two SC vets battled Sasaki pointed out all the new details such as more detailed lighting and shadow effects and reflections of sunlight glinting off of armor. Typically these small details are hard to notice in the heat of battle, but when you watch it being played you can appreciate the fine level of detail. Not only that, but none of what we saw was final, so SCIV is only going to look better as it gets closer to gold.
We were also shown the new Siegfried, who is now armed with Soulcalibur and looking more badassed than ever. The Soulcalibur looks crystalline and so does his armor, it's easily the coolest version of Siegfried we've ever seen. We also saw a jungle level with hippos and flamingos in the background. In this level the sun is setting and it does a great job of showing off all the game's fancy new lighting effects.
One new fighter that we can't wait to try out is Hilda. She's the armored warrior who appears in the trailer. She's armed with a long spear and a short sword. This is definitely unique in the world of Soulcalibur as most characters have been limited to one weapon that is either good for long-, medium- or short-range attacks. With Hilda you'll be able to have the long-range striking ability of her spear as well as close-up attacks with her short sword. They haven't finalized exactly how all her attacks will work, but we know that a number of them will be context-sensitive. Like all the previous games, SCIV will keep the vertical attack, horizontal attack and kick button setup.
Sasaki says that there will be a new features added to the fighting system to make the game unique from the others, but he said he couldn't reveal it just yet. It was at this point when the translator assured us that it really is something cool. We received a similar answer when we asked about new features for character customization. What we do know is that you can now create a character from scratch and take it online to fight against your buddies. Sadly, we didn't get a chance to see what the new character creator looks like, much less see it in action.
The game was running at 720p, we were told that the development team is looking into 1080p but for now 720p is where it's at. There will be little to no differences between the Xbox 360 and PS3 versions of SCIV other than the fact that the Xbox 360 version will have achievements.
There is still a lot of mystery surrounding SCIV. We can't wait to see what the devs have planned to mix up the gameplay this time and we're also looking forward to seeing what other modes will be included, but for now we're in the same boat you are, and that means we'll just have to wait until Namco Bandai decides the world's ready to see more.


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It has been more than two years now since MTV pulled the plug on The Hills, and I'm still mourning the loss of the show. It so beautifully/horrifyingly wove together all of the outrageous drama and tangled webs of friendship and love into one gripping half hour of drama each week. It was reality TV at its finest ... only it wasn't exactly real.
We suspected it, and as much as we didn't want to believe it, the epic ending pretty much flat out told us it was all a sham. It was shocking and obvious all at the same time, and made us really question all of our favorite reality shows. But time went on, and we sort of forgot all about that ... until now when Kristin Cavallari has to go reminding us all over again.
Last night on Watch What Happens, she told Andy Cohen just how fake her role on the show was and how she had "fake relationships" and "fake fights." Fake. Fake. Fake.
"But it was fun, 'cause you're acting. And that was more fun for me," she said. Well, I'm glad it was fun for someone.
For example, remember when she made out with Justin Bobby? "I think I made out with him once and that took a lot of convincing, she said. "Finally I was like, 'All right, I'll just do it!'"
La La La La La -- these things I do not want to know. If The Hills was scripted, then what about The Real Housewives, and Keeping Up With the Kardashians, and The Shahs of Sunset, and ... dammit, I like my reality TV, and I hate having to guess if each and every bit of drama is real or not. As unbelievable as their behavior is, I want to believe it's really happening. Of course I know on some level it can't all possibly go down like it does, but I don't care to hear it so bluntly from a reliable source like this.
Kristin did at least say at least some of the drama was real. Specifically -- the bad blood between her and her co-star Lauren Conrad. When Andy asked if her "distaste" for Lauren was fake, she gave an emphatic, "No!" She did, however, even blame producers for that to a degree.
"I feel like they put things in our heads," she said. "We were 17 and 18, and they made it a lot worse than it was."
And she just made my reality TV viewing a little worse.
How scripted do you think most reality TV shows are? Do you want to believe they're real?
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How cool and exciting. Noomi Rapace has signed on to play Elizabeth Shaw in the Ridley Scott directed Prometheus which even though is not yet written already has a release date of March 9, 2012. Happy International Women's Day! (Ok, it's the day after but you get my drift.)
The even better part is that Charlize Theron and Angelina Jolie are circling the other female lead. Now all we need is a part for Sigourney Weaver and we have pretty much all the women who've ever been in action flicks in one movie.
According to the piece in Deadline, Rapace was cast after Scott saw her in the Dragon Tattoo flicks. And Scott knows how to direct kick ass women having directed Thelma and Louise which is celebrating its 20th anniversary this year.
Here's a very cryptic description from Scott about the film. Damon Lindelof (Lost) is writing the script.
While Alien was indeed the jumping off point for this project, out of the creative process evolved a new, grand mythology and universe in which this original story takes place. The keen fan will recognize strands of Alien's DNA, so to speak, but the ideas tackled in this film are unique, large and provocative. I couldn't be more pleased to have found the singular tale I'd been searching for, and finally return to this genre that's so close to my heart.
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Second Time Around: The Hubcap as Art
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What would you create from a blank canvas? What if that blank canvas was once a piece of trash? Beginning in 2008, Ken Marquis, artist and founder of Pennsylvania-based nonprofit Landfillart, Inc., solicited more than 1,000 artists from around the world to create and donate works of art made from discarded automobile hubcaps. The collection now numbers more than 900 transformed hubcaps, created by professional artists hailing from every U.S. state and 52 countries.
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"Aminatou Haidar" was arrested and abducted at Laayoune airport / Western Sahara immediately after getting out of the plane which as she was coming from Las Palmas, Canary Islands. Her family reported that they were waiting outside the airport and that they were hindered from meeting her or seeing her. The whole airport was surrounded by secret services and by different police and intelligence agents.This shows Moroccan police will go after any Sahrawi who supports a referendum, even those with international connections and support. Haidar's awards (most recently the Civil Courage Prize) weresupposed to place her outside these dangers by showing the Moroccan government the world is watching them.
The family "Aminatou Haidar," had to wait for an hour at least, but to no avail especially that all the passengers got off the plane and left the airport except for their daughter Amiantou and two Spanish journalists who were taking photos of Amiantou Haidar when she was getting out of the plane at the airport in question and subjected to harassment and arrest by the officers and agents of the Moroccan police.
Last month, I saw Haidar at a reception in Washington. One of the speakers suggested asking the US Ambassador in Rabat to send an embassy car to meet Haidar at the airport so she wouldn't be arrested upon landing. It seemed unlikely to me that she would be arrested, since she's so well-known. Looks like that was wrong.
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Apple, for a very short time, used to include the number of times an iPhone app had been downloaded right there on the App Store for everyone to see, but the count was quickly removed. The only way developers could check on sales after that was to wait for the monthly sales report from Apple, the first of which won't be available until August. Thanks to tips from our readers and a poster on Apple's support forums, however, developers can now log in to iTunes Connect to view daily and weekly sales data.
Unfortunately, sales data is only available for the last three days, so it doesn't give developers accurate information about trends just yet. However, having this data available makes it possible to adjust pricing and get more accurate feedback about the effect on sales. According to a Forbes report, the proliferation of similar apps has already caused some developers to drop prices. Gameloft halved prices for its sudoku and solitare apps, and MacRumors reports that Pangea Software dropped Cro-mag Rally from $9.99 to $5.99. One thing's for sure: having a better way to track sales will help developers keep the price competitive while still earning a profit.


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Atlanta Police DepartmentHome Menu
The License and Review Board hearings are held at Atlanta City Hall, 55 Trinity Ave, 2nd floor committee room 2.
Police In the Park
- Date: 07/22/2017 1:00 PM - 3:00 PM
- Location: Old English Ave Elementary School
627 English Ave
Atlanta, Georgia 30318
What: The Atlanta Police Department will be partnering with Vertical Church for "Police in the Park" and "Burgers and Backpacks." The event will feature games for kids, backpack giveaways, health screenings, soccer demos, music, fire trucks, Atlanta Police Mounted Patrol, free haircuts and free burgers for attendees. Back packs with varying school supplies are given to children ages K-12th grade. A parent/ guardian must be present with the child to receive a backpack and supplies, with no exceptions. Backpacks and supplies will be given on a first-come, first-served basis.
When: Saturday, July 22, 2017, 1 p.m. – 3 p.m.
Where: 627 English Avenue, Atlanta, GA 30318 (old English Avenue Elementary School)
Who: The Atlanta Police Department in partnership with Vertical Church and Atlanta Fire Rescue. Sponsors for this event include; CEI Hair Schools, Atlanta Lions Club, Soccer in the Streets, iHeartMedia Atlanta and the City of Atlanta Office of Emergency Preparedness.


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Ironically (I'm on the PC), I'm probably the last one to post about the SODA acceptances (although I did tweet it a while ago)
In case you don't already know, one major change this year is the 20 page limit on final versions, brought about by the all-electronic proceedings. It's worth pointing out here that this is a major change that I don't think ANY conference (theoretical or otherwise) has put into place (I can say this because I had nothing to do with it :)). 20 pages is huge: there's no way you can wiggle out of writing full proofs at this point, and I hope that this trend will continue as more of our conferences go all-electronic.
One caveat: I don't know what the final version format is. It seems unnecessary to go with the butt-ugly Sheridan 2-column format, but we'll see.
On the papers:
I'm not going to comment on the papers, since I reviewed many of them. Suffice it to say that (even though it sounds like a cliche), I was impressed by the quality of the submissions, and there were many good papers that unfortunately couldn't make it. We're in the process of writing decision summaries for the authors: these are intended to capture more of the discussion surrounding a paper. Hopefully, they will give a better sense of what the reviewers liked and disliked about the paper than just the actual reviews.
On the process:
I felt a bit more disconnected from the overall deliberations this time, and maybe others felt this way too. I spent a lot of time on "my pile", but I didn't have a lot of time to look over papers that I wasn't in some way responsible for. Given the number of submissions, this is unavoidable I guess.
I actually think the reason I felt this way was because of the software interface. Instead of the (clunky) SIGACT server interface used in years gone by, we used the snazzy HotCRP interface. In almost every way, this is a vastly superior interface (and I've used EasyChair, the Microsoft CMT, and other packages as well). It feels lightweight, it has great searching and tagging capabilities, and most of the interfaces are one or two clicks from the home page. It cleanly combines email notifications and uploads/downloads with web-based editing, and I'd recommend it very strongly for anyone organizing a conference in the future.
The only feature the SIGACT server had which this doesn't, was a landing page where you got a stream of all comments on all papers. It was a serendipitious way of picking up on discussions not related to papers you were in charge of, and I remember in the past getting interested in a discussion and a paper and actually reading and submitting a review myself. In HotCRP, you land at a page containing your reviews, and it doesn't give you a direct view into the global picture (except maybe for the PC chair).
One amazing feat of social engineering that HotCRP also does: at this landing page, it tells you how many reviews you've put in compared to the average. There was a time during the review process where I'd reload the page every few hours and see myself falling behind the PC average, increasing the pressure on me to submit reviews :).


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CRESTVIEW � Forty-three of Detroit's classic and more recent products were joined by one vehicle each from Wolfsburg and Hiroshima to complete the Okaloosa School Nutrition Association's inaugural car show.
CRESTVIEW � Forty-three of Detroit's classic and more recent products were joined by one vehicle each from Wolfsburg and Hiroshima to complete the Okaloosa School Nutrition Association's inaugural car show.
Vehicle registration fees and sales of lunch plates, combined with bounce house admission tickets, raised $1,200 for the association's scholarship fund and continuing education efforts.
"We had 45 cars! Isn't that awesome for the first car show?" organizer Lynn Rogers, Crestview High School�s cafeteria manager, said. "Everybody said it was going to rain but it just turned out to be a perfect day. It was fun. We had a good time."
Vehicles lining the high school's front parking lot ranged from souped-up 1930s roadsters to 1950s sedans with gleaming chrome bumper bullets and hood ornaments.
Classic cars from the �60s included the Rogers family's 1967 Plymouth Satellite, a pair of vintage Mustangs, a yellow Thunderbird, and a Mercury Cougar.
A Pepto-Bismol pink early-�60s Volkswagen Bug and a 1989 Mazda B2200 truck converted to a low rider, just barely off the parking lot, attracted car buffs who munched barbecue sandwiches and hotdogs while strolling from car to car.
Newer entries included a late-model Trans Am with an ultra-detailed paint scheme made to look as if the sleek car was peeling off its factory skin to unveil the beast lurking within.
A vintage 1950s T-bird, several Corvettes, including a classic 1967 Stingray, and a 1978 Chevy Malibu with a stuffed white tiger reposed on its roof drew approving gazes.
The association plans to make the car show an annual event, a precursor to the April Spanish Trail Cruisers Club's yearly Average Joe Car Show.
The crowd pleased organizers, who learned some lessons for next year�s show, Rogers said.
�Next year, we know we're going to do a little more advertising,� she said.
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WORCESTER, Mass. – Clark University quickly established a commanding lead that MIT was unable to overcome as the host Cougars registered a 76-36 victory in a NEWMAC women's basketball game on Saturday afternoon. Sophomore Sharon Hao (San Jose, Calif.) paced the Engineers with 12 points to go along with four rebounds and two steals coming off the bench.
Clark tallied 14 straight points during the first seven minutes of the contest while a steal by sophomore Tamara Pena (Aliso Viejo, Calif.) set up a basket from fellow classmate Rachel Hunt (Arlington Heights, Ill.) to put MIT on the board. The Cougars responded with 10 unanswered points to extend its comfortable margin.
A layup by Hunt at the 7:26 mark ended the Engineers' scoring drought from the floor while Hao powered the attack with a pair of three-pointers and a lay-in to help MIT outscore Clark, 19-13, and enter halftime trailing, 37-22.
The Cougars' offense maintained its momentum in the second stanza as it generated a 14-3 run during the first four minutes to put the game out of reach.
Hunt finished the day with seven points and six rebounds, including five off the offensive glass. Pena notched six points and four steals while freshman Mari Kordell (Ijamsville, Md.) tallied four rebounds, two assists, and two steals. Sophomore Margo Batie (Los Angeles, Calif.) tacked on four points as junior Lauren Sascha Burton (Seattle, Wash.) grabbed four steals. Freshman Michelle Battipaglia (Katonah, N.Y.) hauled in five boards while classmate Alexxis Isaac (San Antonio, Texas) totaled four rebounds, two assists, and one steal.
As a team, the Engineers snagged 16 steals and forced 22 turnovers while collecting 22 offensive rebounds.
MIT (7-5, 3-3 NEWMAC) concludes its three-game NEWMAC road trip on Wednesday, Jan. 11 at nationally-ranked No. 22 Babson College.


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Something with Yahoo Sports, I found funny..
Talk about any other sports here.
Moderators: Mr. Crackerz, JREED, Guybrush, 32
Diogu right now is probably the rookie who is the most intriguing - If he plays well enough, the Warriors could be top 4 in the West and he will get alot of credit for his skills and might even bolster his chances of getting ROY. Not many rookies right now in a talented team with a chance to be the spark or missing link that can make the team great


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Kristen Stewart & Robert Pattinson: 'Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 2' Final Poster Revealed!
Check out the final poster for The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 2 featuring Robert Pattinson, Kristen Stewart, and Taylor Lautner.
The poster also features the first appearances from Lee Pace, who plays Garret, and Rami Malek, who plays Benjamin.
Breaking Dawn – Part 2 happens after the birth of Renesmee, when the Cullens gather other vampire clans in order to protect the child from a false allegation that puts the family in front of the Volturi.
Make sure to check out the fifteen new stills that were also just released, which feature other cast members including Ashley Greene, Nikki Reed, Kellan Lutz, Jackson Rathbone, Billy Burke, Michael Sheen, Elizabeth Reaser, and Mackenzie Foy.
WHAT DO YOU THINK of the final poster for The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 2?


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Exam time is going on and so also munching time. I see to it that i feed my son wholesome nutritious food all the time , food which is less on oil and not many sweet dishes .
My son does get irritated to see nutri-food and he calls it at the table all the time , so he wants something to munch on in between meals ( I dont blame him because you need to distract yourself from your studies once in a while and what better than some munchies).
That reminds me, i will have to take some pictures of the munching stuff that i have for him which i choose with precaution as they are ready made and i do not like them to be too unhealthy.
The sandwich above is not something that i like to give him because i am not too fond of jams which are nothing but sugary water and preservatives but , i feel its a better eat compared to the other deep fried items that the kids prefer.
He likes his bread to be brown toasted with lots of butter and jam and i do indulge him .


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Notes From Tonight's Nugs Game
I was at the game tonight and being the nerd that I am, I took some notes. Paid attention mostly to the substitutions and rotation. Around 1,000 people there. The Turkish fans rocked. They were doing soccer-style chants across the Can.
Starters - Dre, Kleiza, Melo, K-Mart, Camby
Dre definately looks "doughy". Court vision was good, but looked slow. Hopefully he'll play his way into shape. And quick. K-Mart looked like he could care less. Hopefully it's just the opponent. K-Mart left the game around half way through the first favoring his right knee. Gillen looked at it and within 2 minutes he was back in.
First reserve off of the bench was Reggie "The Ballgrabber" Evans (for K-Mart). With 4 min left in the first, J.R. Smith and Boykins came in replacing Dre & Linas (Boyk, JR, Melo, KMart, Camby). Smith's first shot as a Nugget was from the corner from three. It promptly went off of the side of the backboard. About a minute later, Evans came in for Camby. Diawara came in for Melo to finish the first. We were up 35-22 after one with Melo having 7 points.
Joe Smith came in for KMart to start the second, meaning our second unit was Boykins, JR, Diawara, Joe Smith & Evans. Diawara looked good. Nice finish on a fastbreak and a nice post up. Joe Smith can fill in for Camby on offense as he has the top of hte key jumper that Marcus nails down pretty well. Anthony Carter came in for Boyukins with about 6 min left in the second. Kleiza back in for JR shortly thereafter. Within another minute, Marcus and Melo came on the floor and left us with Carter, Diawara, Melo, Kleiza and Camby. Dre came in for Diawara shortly thereafter and we finished with the small lineup. We actually did that a few times tonight and it worked pretty well. Melo with 11 at the half as we had a 55-44 lead.
Started the third with Melo, Dre, Kleiza, Joe Smith and Marcus. Camby looked good all night. Around four minutes left in the quarter we had Boykins, Evans and JR Smith all come in. A few minutes later Diawara joined them and we had Earl, Diawara, JR, Melo and Evans on the court. JR Smith had some nice drives, but didn't shoot real well (going by memory which means he probably shot around 60%). Smith & Diawara are pretty good. We got lucky there. End of three, we were winning 88-66. Melo had 22 & 5 boards, JR had 11 points and Reggie Evans had 11 points and 6 boards.
The fourth started with Boykins, Kleiza, JR, Diawara and Evans on the floor. Reggie got quite a bit of playing time. We still didn't appear to have any outside shooting, but I think it was more of a case of it not being necessary than anything else. Efes Pilsen couldn't stop us from driving, so we just kept attacking. ~8 minutes left Carter came in and Antoine Hood joined him. I can't imagine Carter not making this team. He didn't look great, but he was solid and if he had to fill in some extra minutes during the season I wouldn't worry too much. Around 5 minutes left Sampson came in. He's not as good as Elson, but he's decent for a 12th man. Busts his ass. Gives us 6 fouls. Highlight of the game came with 15 seconds left as Carter stole the ball and had a breakaway lay-up. Instead he bounced the ball off of the backboard, JR Smith caught it and slammed it home. Nugs win 118-102.
No Nene. No Najera tonight. Depending on who starts at SG (I'm betting that it'll be Smith with Diawara close behind him), our rotation is pretty much set it appears (I imagine that Nene will grab Evans' minutes and Evans or Najera will get the minutes that Joe Smith got).
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One question; The paper said Kleiza started at the 3 and Melo at the 2. Was Kleiza really as effective as they made him out to be?
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Honestly, I thought that article oversold Kleiza a little. He looked decent, better than last year, but if he's starting that means that JR Smith and Diawara are struggling. I think Diawara is going to be a pleasent surprise this season. Don't get me wrong, I love Kleiza, but he's not someone I want playing 30 minutes a game.
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Now We're Talking Turkey
I've hunted wild ducks, grouse, pheasants and other game birds with varying levels of enthusiasm for 40 years. But I had never seen anything like this: two resplendent four-foot-tall adult male wild turkeys, all bronze and black and iridescent, galloping on stilt-like legs across a cattle pasture the size of two football fields. And on this sparkling spring afternoon, they were racing right toward me!
I was dressed head to toe in camouflage clothing designed for the occasion, sitting on a camouflaged stool, cradling a camouflaged 12-gauge Italian-made shotgun, peering out a narrow slit in a camouflaged nylon blind that my guide and I had set up in the rustling palmetto trees an hour earlier.
My mouth was as parched as cotton balls. My heart pounded. My sweaty hands shook as I gripped the gun.
"Shhhh," whispered Jeff Budz, forefinger to his lips, covered by a mesh facemask, his other hand lightly on my shoulder. Budz is an expert's expert: He has bagged more wild turkey grand slams (see sidebar) than any hunter in the history of the sport. A mere 20 yards in front of us, six juvenile male turkeys or "jakes" were nonchalantly pecking at and prancing around a bedraggled mounted tom turkey, tail fanned, and two sleeker dusky mounted hens. Jeff had skillfully lured in the young males by scratching discreetly on his cedar box call, making the soft cluck-cluck-cluck sounds of pre-mating hens.
In a flash, the scene outside our cozy cave-tent was mayhem. The two mature toms, feathers flared, scarlet and blue-white heads leading the testosterone charge, dangerous spurred claws slashing, were jumping on everything that moved–and the "stuffer" decoys that didn't. Gobble-gobble-gobble. All was whirring, colliding, flailing, ferocious motion. Instantly the air filled with giant birds.
How could I think about killing such gorgeous creatures? Easily. First, I relish the taste of wild game, properly and reverentially prepared. Second, there are plenty of birds running wild–so many that they have become a nuisance. As recently as the 1930s, the species was nearly wiped out, with an estimated 30,000 birds holding on in isolated pockets of habitat. But today, more than seven million wild birds thrive from coast to coast. Every state except Alaska (too far north) has a carefully managed hunting season.
And hunters were instrumental in funding the hugely successful restoration.
I looked down the barrel, saw red, and squeezed the trigger. KABOOM! I had bagged my first wild turkey.
Planning Your Hunt
For information about the history of wild turkeys and tips on getting started hunting, contact the National Wild Turkey Federation, www.nwtf.org,
firstname.lastname@example.com, (800) 843-6983.
March through May is the most popular season for turkey hunting, when the mature toms are aggressively rounding up breeding hens and fighting off competing males. You may legally hunt wild turkeys in every state except Alaska, according to regulations and seasons set by state management agencies. Hunting expert Jeff Budz says his favorite states in which to pursue wild turkeys on both expansive public and private lands are Florida (Osceola subspecies), Kansas (Rio Grande subspecies), Missouri (Eastern subspecies) and Nebraska (Merriam's subspecies).
For information on 2012 seasons and license requirements, contact Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, www.myfwc.com,
(850) 488-4676; Kansas Department of Wildlife, Parks and Tourism, www.kdwpt.state.ks.us, (620) 672-5911, Missouri Department of Conservation, www.missouriconservation.org, (573) 751-4115; Nebraska Game and Parks Commission, www.outdoornebraska.org, (402) 471-0641.
Going Grand
Among hunters of America's grandest game bird, the wild turkey–Meleagris gallopavo–bagging all four subspecies will get you listed in the prestigious grand slam record book of the National Wild Turkey Federation in Edgefield, S.C.
Of the four subspecies, the Eastern–whose white-tipped tail feathers the Wampanoag visitors wore braided in their hair to the first Thanksgiving–is by far the most abundant, with more than five million birds throughout 38 states and four provinces. The other subspecies include the Rio, with one million throughout the dry bottomlands of Texas and the desert Southwest; the Merriam's, with 300,000 gobbling in the Ponderosa uplands of the Rockies and Western plains; and the Osceola, with 100,000 strutting and nesting in the palmetto prairies and cypress swamps of central and southern Florida. (There's actually also a fifth subspecies, the Gould's, which are the largest wild turkeys, but they're found primarily in northwestern Mexico. A few hundred pairs still breed in southern Arizona, where the bird is protected.)


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Hearst the Collector
William Randolph Hearst (1860–1951) was one of the most influential forces in the history of American journalism. Mercilessly caricatured inCitizen Kane, Hearst in reality was a populist multimillionaire who crusaded against political corruption. He fostered simultaneous excellence and sensationalism in reporting, transformed the graphic design of newspapers, and was in the vanguard of the development of newsreels. Hearst also became a conspicuous movie producer, a voracious collector, and an outstanding benefactor of the early Los Angeles County Museum.
An obituary estimated that Hearst alone had accounted for 25 percent of the world's art market during the 1920s and '30s. When his empire teetered near bankruptcy in 1937, the collections were divided. Half was retained by Hearst, and half became his companies' asset, much of it to be sold. The dispersal of most of this colossal hoard over the years, andCitizen Kane 's freakish image, hindered a correct assessment of Hearst's achievements as a collector, as a thrillingly imaginative patron of architecture and design, and as the greatest individual donor to the Los Angeles County Museum. A remarkable figure in American history, Hearst was part of California's heritage and a dominant personality in Los Angeles.
This unprecedented exhibition of approximately one hundred and seventy works, organized by the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, will provide a better understanding of Hearst by exploring what he owned—and why—and by reassembling and contextualizing the best of what he collected, including many of his gifts to the Los Angeles County Museum.
This exhibition is curated by Mary Levkoff, European painting and sculpture, organized by the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and made possible in part by the William Randolph Hearst Foundation. In-kind media support provided by KCRW 89.9 FM and Los Angeles magazine.
Image: Armor (detail), Milan, Italy, c. 1600–1610, steel, gold, silver, textile, leather, height: 62 1/2 in., weight: 42 lb., 6 oz., The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Fletcher Fund, 1938, photograph © 1990 The Metropolitan Museum of Art.


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Storm Rips Through Crawfordsville• April 20, 2011 Share:
A powerful storm moved through Crawfordsville near 10 p.m. Tuesday evening downing trees and cutting power to parts of campus.
Director of Information Technology Brad Weaver got an email message out to students on the Tornado Warning minutes before the storm blew through. Students were also notified via text messaging.
See photos of the damage here.
Officials at Purdue University said winds gusted up to 50 mph at its airport. A National Weather Service meteorologist said gusts could have been stronger elsewhere.
Damage on campus includes a small portion of roof peeled back on Hays Hall, shingles and guttering torn off on a few others campus buildings. Power was out on campus approximately six hours.
An area around Martindale Residence Hall had approximately 10 trees down. The Wabash Avenue corridor also had substantial tree damage.
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vintage Pink garter belt
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I sewed this garter belt for the birthday of my boyfriend : ).
I love the shape of the vintage Garter belt that goes to the waist and covers the hips. I had a piece of white silk that I dyed pink with a Dylon Camelia A16 and I used black velvet elastic to make details. I traced the pattern according to my measurements and I added six bones and eyelets in the back. The lining is black thick cotton.
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Apr 25, 2012, 10.03 AMby MissCorsetLizz
Amazing! Great Job!!!
Apr 6, 2012, 05.59 AMby lauriana
Great job! How do you like to wear a garter belt made without stretch like this (and by 'whales', do you mean boning?)?
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Apr 6, 2012, 10.56 AMby Craftine
Thank you Laurianna! This is a "special" belt that I don't wear all day long but just some time to time. However, it's very comfortable despite the rigidity of the fabric. May be due to the eyelets? You just learn to bend your legs to bend down…
And yes, Whales = bones / boning, I used Google traduction to translate my comment and I dont have seen this funny mistake ^ ^
Apr 3, 2012, 10.27 AMby Jelena Mitic
Veeery sexy! Great job! :)
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