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On the eve of what some are predicting will be a draft filled with a hundred trades, the Charlotte Hornets and Portland Trail Blazers start off the day with a nice trade.
The Charlotte Hornets get Nicolas Batum, and the Blazers get Gerald Henderson, Noah Vonleh.
Adrian Wojnarowski of Yahoo Sports tweeted out that Blazer's All-Star Lamarcus Aldridge was aware of this deal and it has nothing to do with his impending free agency this summer. Probably because Aldridge is leaving no matter what? I don't have any sources on that, but isn't he?
Now for the Hornets, who is Nicolas Batum? Well the more important question is, is he the answer that Lance Stephenson wasn't?
Batum went from averaging 13.0 points during the 2013-14 season to just 9.4 this past season although he was dealing with injuries. This means with Batum and Michael Kidd-Gilchrist the Hornets have two nice wings, but they have to stay healthy and on the floor.
Batum can be a scorer, but his defense is suspect to say the least.
Now the Blazers know what they are getting Henderson, a defender who can hit the 3 ball, but Noah Vonleh is the unknown here. It is also the piece that the Blazers wanted.
Vonleh came out of Indiana expecting to go as high as the #2 pick, but on draft day he slid all the way to the 9th pick when the Hornets took him and they didn't even work him out. They didn't think they had a shot with him.
Vonleh seemed like the bust of the draft. It might not be that way when his career is over, however, as he did have some moments last year. Vonleh was injured in training camp with a sports hernia, and was then sent to the dreaded D-League for awhile, but by the time he came back healthy, he looked ok.
He looked ok as far as a kid who only played one year on a bad Indiana Hoosiers team, and he probably could have used another year or two at Indiana. Vonleh is a great rebounder, he could be a league leader in boards, but his scoring and other parts of his game need major, major improvements.
Right now it's hard to tell who got the better end of this deal, but time will tell and if Vonleh pans out it will be a win for the Blazers. If he doesn't, Michael Jordan still might take the blame for drafting the kid without working him out.
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Lecture 1. International Finance ECON 243 – Summer I, 2005 Prof. Steve Cunningham. The New World Economy. The world economy has become increasingly interconnected: Globalization : markets exceed national boundaries; increased mobility of workers, products, and information.
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ECON 243 – Summer I, 2005
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Last week I attended a screening of 'Which Side Are You On?', a 1984 documentary by director Ken Loach. And in it he showed the extent of the police brutality during the Miners' Strike. Extreme, preemptive violence, and the removal of police ID badge numbers defined their behaviour as agents of the state. In 28 years this video proves nothing has changed:
Two female protesters who challenged police officers for not displaying their badge numbers were bundled to the ground, arrested and held in prison for four days, according to an official complaint lodged today.
The incident was caught on camera, and footage shows officers standing on the women's feet and applying pressure to their necks immediately after the women attempted to photograph a fellow officer who had refused to give his badge number.
The images are likely to fuel concern over the policing of protests, which is already subject to a review by the national police inspectorate and two parliamentary inquiries after the G20 demonstrations and the death of Ian Tomlinson.
Val Swain, 43, and Emily Apple, 33, both mothers with young children, believe they were deliberately targeted for arrest at last year's climate camp demonstration in Kent because they campaign for Fit Watch, a protest group that opposes police surveillance at demonstrations.
The pair were remanded to a women's prison for four days and released only after the demonstration against the Kingsnorth power station had finished. They believe their treatment is symptomatic of the increasingly aggressive approach taken by police at political demonstrations.
It's not a new tactic, but no less indefensible. Loach argued that this behaviour should not be a surprise because it's the function of the police, and all the recent evidence suggests he's right. Mess with the interests of the state, even merely through protest, and they'll do whatever it takes to stop you. Kingsnorth, Bishopsgate, Ratcliffe-on-Soar – these are only the opening shots in a new round of conflict.


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What should a law contain?
Minimum Standards For Maximum Disclosure
Access to information legislation must:
Begin with a clear statement that establishes the rule of maximum disclosure and a strong presumption in favour of access;
Contain definitions of information and bodies covered that are wide and inclusive, and include private corporations and non-government organisations where their activities affect people's rights;
Strictly limit and narrowly define any restrictions on access to information. Any body denying access must provide reasons and prove that disclosure would cause serious harm and that denial is in the overall public interest;
Override inconsistent and restrictive provisions in existing laws;
Require governments to create and maintain records management systems that meet public needs;
Include clear and uncomplicated procedures that ensure quick responses at affordable fees;
Create powerful independent bodies that are mandated to review any refusal to disclose information, compel release, and monitor and promote implementation;
Impose penalties and sanctions on those who wilfully obstruct access to information;
Provide protection for individuals who, in good faith, provide information that reveals wrongdoing or mismanagement;
Contain an obligation to routinely and proactively disseminate updates about structure, norms and functioning of public bodies including the documents they hold, their finances, activities and any opportunities for consultation;
Contain provisions obligating the government to actively undertake training for government officials and public education about the right to access information.
Maximum Disclosure and Minimum Exceptions
The right of access to official/government-held information should be a wide right. The exceptions to the rule of giving information must be limited and specific. The law must not contain a long list of exceptions couched in terms general enough to ensure that all kinds of information can be refused taking the help of the law.
A Right to Information does not need to disclose any specific need. If a person must show public purpose every time he seeks information, it would give unlimited discretion to public bodies to refuse information.
A Right to Information law must lay down clearly the principle of accountability. That is, it must state specifically as to who is responsible for providing the information. Penalties should be provided for officials who delay without just cause the giving of information or refuse on unwarranted grounds.
Independent Forum for Appeals
The law should contain a simple and independent procedure for appeals from refusals to give information. The appellate forum should be an independent person or institution such as an Ombudsman.Reasonable Fee Structure.
The law, if it provides for a levy of a fee for getting information must ensure that the fee is reasonable and does not act as a deterrent for asking information and does not end up debarring information from the disadvantaged groups who cannot afford the fees. The law must provide for waiver of fees in certain circumstances.
Upgradation of Systems
The law should contain provisions for setting up specific systems for storing and disseminating information and upgrading the existing systems for enabling easy access. There must be specific provisions for priority-wise computerization etc. of government offices.
Allocation of Funds
The law must contain a specific allocation of funds for the purpose of operationalising the Right to Information. Without this, the law will be a dead letter and will have no effect.
Methods of Communication
The law must contain a specific directive for simplification of official language. Information giving should be in a form that can be easily understood by people. There must be a focus on traditional means of giving information. As of now, most information is contained in official gazettes and publications that are usually unavailable and are of no use to the lay citizens, given the low literacy levels. The law should ensure proper use of the electronic and print media as well as use of conventional methods of communication as per the target group.
Duty to Inform
The law must cast a positive duty on public bodies to inform the public in case of certain projects and activities that relate to the public. This envisages giving information without being asked for it. It must be made mandatory to give out certain kinds of information on a mandatory basis. This kind of information would include rules, information on proposed projects and schemes, and other relevant information which needs to be given out and updated routinely.
Time Limit
The law must contain a provision for timely imparting of information. The concerned public officials should face a penalty in case the information is not given in time. The time limit should be reasonable and should not jeopardize a person's rights. Time limits should be set in order of urgency and accessibility. Information regarding a person's life and liberty should be made available forthwith or within the shortest possible time, say within 48 hours. Information which is available at hand should also be given in a shorter time. The Shourie Bill provided for a period of 30 days with a further period of 30 days for giving information. This period seems unreasonable for all kinds of information.
Protection of Privacy
The law must take into account the protection of an individual's privacy. Personal information held by the government must be exempt from disclosure. However, if the public interest in disclosure in the public interest greatly outweighs the preservation of individual privacy, then disclosure should be allowed.
Application to Private Bodies
Although, strictly speaking, the Right to Information is for government-held information, the law must make it binding on private bodies to disclose certain kinds of information that could affect the public health, etc. This is especially in view of increasing globalization and incidents like the Bhopal Gas Leak that claimed many lives and put to irreparable harm even future generations.
Protection of Whistleblowers
The law should give protection to public officials who give certain exempted information where it is necessary to do so in overwhelming public interest or to disclose some serious corrupt practice, etc.
Publicity and Training
The law must contain a mandatory procedure for publicising its contents. Often, laws are passed without their knowledge percolating down without sufficient speed or impact and therefore fail to bring about the desired change in the systems. The Right to Information law must also contain a strong aspect of training and orientation of public servants at all levels, in order to bring about an effective change in the culture.
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There are so many things to talk about in broadcasting right now. The Secretary of State's plans for local media which he announced today. The amazing global potential of UK media. Jeremy was kind enough to mention the success of Strictly this morning. It's turned out to be a kind of national secret weapon – the Americans have Hollywood and Silicon Valley, we have Ann Widdecombe. Again I could talk about how we are developing our plans at the BBC in the light of the recent licence fee settlement.
But instead I want to focus on an area which often takes a back-seat at gatherings like this. Not the question of content, but that of network, in other words of distribution and platform.
Isn't distribution, after all, merely a means to an end? A means, moreover, which digital will soon render functionally and economically trivial? Shouldn't broadcasters like the BBC concentrate on their knitting – investment in great British output – and leave the whole question of the conveyance of that output and the technologies by which it is conveyed to others: to Sky, to Virgin, to Arqiva, to the ISPs, to the fixed and mobile phone operators, to the set-top box and TV and radio manufacturers?
Content investment good, distribution investment – well if not actually bad, then at best a necessary evil which should be kept as low as possible.
And as for the idea of free-to-air broadcasters playing an active role in platform and network innovation: well that's not just bad – it's considered by some as completely unjustified as a public intervention in the digital era.
Of course content is central. At the BBC, we plan to boost pure content spend to more than 80% of the licence-fee and to make that content as original and impactful and valuable as we can. That will always be our primary aim.
And, of course, all other things being equal, distribution costs should be kept to a minimum.
Of course if you can buy the right distribution or platform technology on Tottenham Court Road, you should just go out and buy it.
But don't kid yourself that that is the end of the argument.
At the heart of the public service broadcasting contract is the promise of as close as we can get to universal availability – delivery of a broad range of outstanding content to every household in the land, free at the point of use, unthrottled, unfiltered and with the same quality accessible by all.
It is this universal availability which underpins the idea of public space in broadcasting and it's just as relevant, just as socially and culturally important, in a fully digital world as it was in an analogue one.
The mistake many people make is to assume that the character of the digital revolution – the progressive reduction of bandwidth constraint, the apparent plethora of content choices – makes the need for active public policy intervention to secure this kind of public space no longer necessary.
Far from it. The universal delivery of high quality free-to-air content faces immediate threats and a future which is by no means certain. Unless the broadcasters take an active role in defending it, it could disappear entirely.
The battle for the living room
Today in the UK we have a mixed economy of TV platforms: digital satellite and cable and in addition, in Freeview, another modern digital broadcast platform. As we begin 2011 there are nearly 19 million homes using Freeview making it by far the most popular way of receiving digital television.
Some households use Freeview for some TV sets and satellite or cable for others. Others rely entirely on Freeview. In particular, Freeview is the platform of choice for the majority of the last cohorts who are converting from analogue. Digital switchover is proceeding so smoothly that it scarcely gets a mention any more in policy debates about broadcasting – that smoothness is in large measure down to Freeview and its sister Freesat.
But none of this happened by accident. We still have thriving free-to-air options for television in this country because the broadcasters – and especially the BBC – decided to engage and work together to turn things around some eight years ago. And both Freeview and Freesat launched successfully at least in part because of breakthroughs by scientists and engineers in the BBC's Research and Development labs.
Those same scientists and engineers have ensured that the platforms have continued to develop and improve. It was they, for instance, who led development of the catchily-titled DVB-T2. T2 may be a bit of a mouthful, but it's enabled us to launch high definition on Freeview. It is a standard which is now internationally recognised and which is of immense future potential as a digital broadcast standard not just in the UK but across Europe and the world.
People who think that the BBC and the other PSBs can safely forget about platform innovation and concentrate entirely on content presumably believe that we should abandon research and development. But think where we would be today in terms of consumer choice, in terms of switchover, if we'd shut down our labs at the start of the last decade. No Freeview, no Freesat, no iPlayer, three major innovations that have delivered immense public value.
YouView, the partnership between the BBC, the other PSBs, BT, TalkTalk and Arqiva to create a simple standard to deliver internet-TV services like iPlayer to main TV sets, is the next chapter in our broadcast innovation story.
It's founded on the belief that broadcast PLUS the internet will offer the audiences of the near-future dramatically more choice, more quality and more interactivity and that the openness of the platform – with many different content providers and different business models – will encourage the widest and most plural relationship between those who make and want to distribute content and those who want to consume and interact with it.
Over the coming years, we're going to see an intense battle for the living-room.
Many of the participants in this battle will seek to control the user experience of TV and on demand audio-visual content as far as they can. They will focus on households and demographics which offer the best potential to drive pay revenues. They will try to make sure that the public encounter all content inside EPGs and search and navigation environments which favour their brands and proprietary technologies. There will be little incentive for them to support or to share their technological advantages.
YouView will be different.
There will be no choke-points in YouView. The user-experience and search and navigation environment will not unfairly exclude or favour some content players. Sky, Virgin and all other mainstream players will be able to offer channels and content to the public via YouView and we'd be delighted if they take up that opportunity.
Like everyone else, on YouView the UK's pay-TV operators will be able to choose whatever business model they want for any content or channels they offer. The only things they won't be able to do is to determine the economics or the business model by which others gain access to the platform or to gain differential proprietary advantage through ownership of the user experience.
Those who have unsuccessfully complained about YouView have argued that it is in some way uncompetitive. But that's the opposite of the truth.
YouView is an open standard. Because anyone who meets the standard will be able to build YouView boxes, TVs and other devices, it will encourage genuine competition in the consumer electronics market, just as it will in content and in the provision of broadband services. This competition will benefit consumers, give content providers more control over the monetisation of their intellectual property and encourage new entrants and new investment.
None of this is to criticise pay-TV services which have extended choice for British viewers immeasurably over the past twenty years. They have opened the public's eyes to what digital television can offer and what choice means, much in the same way iPlayer changed public attitudes to video on demand.
But without partnerships like YouView and without the continued active engagement of the BBC and the other public broadcasters in platform development, the danger is quite simply that free-to-air broadcasting will become obsolescent and get squeezed out – and the future will belong to the closed systems.
Net neutrality
Well, you say, perhaps that danger is true of TV, even of web-related TV–but surely it's a different story when you come to the web itself. Surely here at least, content providers can concentrate on just that and not worry about platforms and networks. After all, everyone knows that the web is the most open garden of all, a garden in which a website – Skype, Facebook – can start from nowhere and conquer the world.
Again, not so fast. As the web becomes a vehicle for the transport of richer and richer content, the question of whether all content from all providers is treated equally by the networks becomes ever sharper.
Use of the BBC iPlayer continues to grow at a remarkable rate. The BBC website as a whole grew 14% in the UK last year, the iPlayer by 27% with 145 million requests for BBC TV programmes in December alone. This year we begin the roll-out of the international iPlayer, beginning with a pilot on the Apple iPad.
But we know ISPs routinely dampen speeds well below published headline rates. They also have the capability – which they have used in the past, though no major ISP is using it currently – to convey some content from some providers at slower speeds than others.
Don't assume then that the web itself is naturally immune from the technological and economic forces which could limit quality and restrict rather than expand choice in the home and elsewhere, and stifle innovation. The net neutrality debate is a real one.
Do content providers like the BBC have responsibilities in that debate? Of course we do. A responsibility to work with the ISPs to understand and minimise the stress we place on their networks. A responsibility to work with them and the whole industry to create an environment which encourages the take-up of high speed broadband and which ensures that those who invest in it benefit from it.
Supporting net neutrality does not mean being against premium high speed services which households can choose to subscribe to and which guarantee the very highest quality experience of catch-up and other internet resources. Such premium services are a good idea, could help de-commoditize broadband and make the business case for infrastructure investment.
But net neutrality does mean that, no matter how many fast lanes there are, the basic internet service – standard lane, if you like – should itself provide a very good, and consistently and fairly delivered, service.
Just as in the case of over-the-air broadcasting, the objective should be that, once we've achieved universal broadband roll-out, every household – not just those who have elected to pay for premium services, nor just those who want to access content in which the network provider has an economic interest – should enjoy a quality service.
In addition to technical innovation, standard-setting and partnership, however, the PSBs and especially the BBC have another duty when it comes to both TV and web platforms: which is to encourage take-up of these new technologies and all the benefits they can bring by all of the public. Not just the enthusiasts, or the high-ARPU households, but guaranteeing access to everyone.
It's what the BBC has been doing as – alongside others – it's played its part in delivering analogue-to-digital television switchover.
It's what we tried to do this autumn with our First Click campaign, which involved The One Show, Breakfast, The Archers and many other BBC outlets and was simply aimed at encouraging those who are not currently on-line to give it a go. 30 million adults watched the First Click promotion in October. We believe more than 100,000 people went on-line for the first time because of the campaign. There came a point where our partners asked us to pause in the campaign because their call centres couldn't cope with the sheer volume of demand.
Switching the whole of the UK not just to digital television but to the web is a settled piece of public policy. It's a colossal task which will require the involvement of many agencies.
Here too, though, the free-to-air broadcasters have a special role. Because of the high levels of trust the public place in us. And because – that same point again – we reach everybody. For the BBC, First Click is only the beginning.
Digital Radio and the future of broadcasting
If the role of the public broadcasters is disputed in the case of TV and internet networks and platforms, at least in radio it is, I think, universally accepted that it is only if the BBC makes a massive effort alongside the commercial radio industry and government, that switchover is possible.
We support DAB and we want to play a full part in ensuring its success, but we have finite resources. We plan to build out DAB to move towards robust national coverage, approaching FM equivalence for our UK wide services. So far we have always taken up slots in local multiplexes as they launch to broadcast BBC local radio in DAB – we expect to continue to do so. We are looking hard at our own radio portfolio to find more effective ways to encourage more people to take up digital.
We don't believe it's wise for anyone – government or industry – to get ahead of radio listeners, but we want to move as quickly as possible to a point where take-up is such that rapid progress to switchover is possible.
In the meantime, we want to help the UK's radio industry innovate in other ways. A good example is the launch next month of the Radio Player, a simple application developed by the BBC which enables computer users to find and listen to a very wide selection of British radio stations, commercial as well as BBC, on their desk-tops.
But even when switchover to digital is achieved, we will still face searching questions about the future of broadcasting.
I am one of those people who believe that – even in a future with very widespread high-speed wired and wireless broadband – broadcasting over the air has a good future. Because of its universality and flexibility and ease of use on the move as well as in fixed locations. Because of its resilience and widespread availability even during disasters and emergencies. Because I believe we can already begin to see what an effective complement it can be to web-based content and interactivity.
But if we want free-to-air broadcasting to have a future, we have a lot to do and a lot to prove. We need to find and deploy standards and technologies – T2 may be part of the answer – which will enable us to achieve universal distribution as well as state-of-the-art content quality and innovation with maximum efficiency of spectrum usage. We need that efficiency not least to ensure that our own distribution costs – which have soared in the recent years as platforms have multiplied – can be first contained and then reduced. We need to understand better how linear broadcast and web-delivered content can work both together and independently to satisfy users best. We need a clearer sense of the convergence between the use of radio, TV and every other kind of content on the move and the world of the smart phone and tablet.
In a word, we need more analysis but also fresh creativity from our research and development teams and our platform and distribution specialists. There may come a day when all the questions have been answered. Right now there are more questions than ever.
The commissioning and production of brilliant content is the single most important mission of the BBC. Last week we launched Delivering Quality First, a BBC-wide debate about how best to implement our strategy between now and 2016 in the light of the new licence fee settlement. It will deliver proposals to the BBC Trust in the summer. Quite properly, it has content questions at its core.
But great content is only valuable to audiences if they can access it freely and conveniently.
Those who seek to be digital gatekeepers would be only too happy if the BBC and other broadcasters left technological innovation and platform and network development to others. They argue that the market can provide. What I think they actually mean is that they would like to provide and indeed control.
The BBC, however, has a tradition of innovation and implementation in platforms and networks which goes back to the 1920s. We have contributed more breakthroughs and more new standards to broadcasting than any other organisation in the UK. We have world-class teams of scientists and engineers wrestling with the new digital challenges I've raised this afternoon.
But critically, we're not going to do any of this just for ourselves. In TV, in radio, in the world of the web, in wired and wireless environments, we want to work with others, especially those players who for reason of scale or economics, cannot afford the costs of research and development themselves.
And, as far as possible, everything we do we will do through open standards, platforms and systems. There's nothing wrong with closed systems in themselves – and they may well co-exist and thrive in the digital future. But it is only through open systems, and the resources and commitment to ensure that those open systems continue to innovate and develop, that we can be sure that no one will get left out of digital and that we really can guarantee access to all.
Thank you.
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Henry Thoreau says, "The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it". It so true about all of us, we have all exchanged something very dear to us in exchange for life. Not always, are we able to do so with acceptance. This exchange scars us of life and makes us vulnerable to pain. Oddly some people seem happy and content all the time and you begin to wonder how life is so sorted for them. Truth is that they too have paid a price and if you look closely, chances are you will find the price clearly imprinted in their eyes.
About the art:
Yuki Matsueda is a Japanese artist who has done some remarkable work in 3D sculpting. His sculptures seem to be in suspended animation and he manages to pull out the core or the crux out an object and separate it from the whole. Just as we pay a price for life and are bereft of our core or our crux, these objects look like something vital is missing or has been pulled out of them with force. It would be interesting to imagine how we look, visually, separated from what we imagine to be our core. Matsueda's works show us the part, the whole, the crux and the absence and presence of the crux in the same frame at a single point in time.


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"You can help others become better by making yourself better".--Unknown
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"A smile will open all doors".--Unknown
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"Temptations often spread energies -- focus on priorities at this time".--Unknown
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"Your work today may seem futile but it will prove valuable as time goes by".--Unknown
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"There's no one as deaf as he who will not listen".--Unknown
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"It is impossible to help another without helping yourself".--Unknown
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"Problems are lessened if shared".--Unknown
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"Don't permit impatience to ruin your day -- self discipline is helpful".--Unknown
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"Select friends who meet you on even terms -- don't try to dominate".--Unknown
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"Accept responsibility cheerfully".--Unknown
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"See simplicity in the complicated -- achieve greatness in little things".--Unknown
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"Don't say it's not good -- be honest and say "I don't like it".--Unknown
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Wednesday, October 15, 2008
"Optimism and enthusiasm are highly contagious--bring them and watch the positive results".--Unknown
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"Select from the past only what is useful for dealing with the present".--Unknown
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"A task put off today is a problem tomorrow".--Unknown
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"Wisdom is knowing when to change your mind".--Unknown
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"Be happy. It cost you nothing".--Unknown
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"To take advantage of an opportunity you must first recognize it".--Unknown
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"The other side of the coin exists whether we turn it over or not".--Unknown
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"We are each responsible for the life we live--we must stop looking for scapegoats".--Unknown
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"Depend not on fortune, but on conduct".--Unknown
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"Anyone who fights for the future, lives in it today".--Unknown
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" Your first instinct will always be valid".--Unknown
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"Expand your view, the potential is limitless".--Unknown
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I've started to think that,as I get more into PP (principally with LR4), I could benefit from a graphics tablet rather than a mouse. I've searched around here, and the responses have seemed good. There seem to be a few around at quite reasonable prices, Bamboo and Trust seem widely available.
Any recommendations, and in particular what features are important for photoediting. I don't plan turning into a graphic artist.
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Cupid's Dart Pendant Ruby 24K Gold Murano Heart Sterling Silver Arrow
This ruby red Murano Heart pendant is inspired by the Roman story of Cupid and his magical darts. According to legend Cupid is a mischeivous boy who enjoys causing trouble for mortals by piercing their hearts with an arrow or dart from his bow, which makes them fall hopelessly in love. The heart itself measures 18 mm long and is genuine Murano glass from Venice itself. It pulsates with the 24K gold which is trapped under the glass and is one of my favourite beads. I have mounted this stunning work of art by crafting a sterling silver arrow entirely by a hand forging process of heating and hammering the metal, then carving out the details by hand such as the fletchings at the top of the shaft. This makes each arrow unique and totally one of a kind. At 40 mm 1 3/4" long and mounted on a 450 mm 17 3/4" sterling silver chain, this pendant would make a beautiful gift which is sure to be appreciated and treasured for years to come.
It comes packaged carefully in a black gift box, fastened with a satin bow.
I have made several pendants in this style in different colours and styles of beautiful Murano glass and they are my most loved design. As they are made by hammering sterling silver wire and forging it into shape, they are all completely unique and one of a kind. I love the way that the wire appears to grow into the shape of the arrow when I make the pendant, and the risk of hammering next to the precious Venetian bead is something of a thrill!
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Title: Zap'n Alien for unlimited puzzle gaming adventure.
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We kickoff our 2012 season of new shows with an All Star lineup.
A.J. Allmedinger has gone from driving for the King, Richard Petty, to driving for the Captain, Roger Penske. We talk to AJ about the move and the opportunity.
Add Courtney Force to the NHRA Full Throttle Drag Racing Series Funny Car lineup in 2012. 15-time Champ John Force's daughter will head down the strip full time beginning next month in Pomona. We'll try and slow her down long enough to chat.
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ZEO RANGER V takes the helm as the leader of the ZEO RANGER Team.
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The invited speaker, Irvin Mesmer of Bainbridge, OH, stressed the state's intent to lease the parks to drillers.
I grew up in Damascus township and because I spent the 5 last intense years (re: 14-19) a half mile away from where at the same time Josh's parents were constructing their city get-away, and because I also scrambled for miles up and down that same Milanville stream countless times, rock-hopping, wading, painting, studying crayfish, hellgrammites, eels, oswego tea, (past their cabin) it was very weird to see the acres of Calkins Creek/Skinner's Falls/Davis Road scenes in this context - especially the ones from that same time period. Just brought back so many memories of attitudes, and of all the places my head has been, and always since a kid being outside more than in. And what does that mean to value the natural world more than anything, to feel it is ones' real home. All that.
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The American musical, West Side Story, is based on Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet. The story is set in the 1950s Upper West Side neighborhood in New York City. At that time, the area was an ethnic, blue-collar neighborhood. The musical, which was conceived and choreographed by Jerome Robbins, explores the rivalry and tension between the Read More
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The Untold Story: Tutti Frutti
The invention of Rock n' Roll has no definite founder. We all know that Elvis was the King of Rock n'Roll, but others such as Bill Haley and Little Richard also form the foundation of Rock n'Roll. Little Richard has gone so far as to call himself the "Architect of Rock and Roll." On September Read More
Behind the Song: Puppy Love
Puppy Love was my parents favorite love song. My mom even has the song as her ringtone. Paul Anka wrote the song in 1960. At the time he was dating Annette Funicello and he wrote the song for her. The song hit number 2 on the Billboard 100 charts in the United States. The song Read More
Profile of a Performer: Gene Autry
Gene Autry gained fame as a singing cowboy, when his career began in the 1930s. He was born Orvon Grover Autry on September 29, 1907 in north Texas. He would work on his father's ranch while he was still in school. After leaving school, his talents singing and playing the guitar led to the opportunity Read More
The Untold Story: Earth Angel
Earth Angel became a hit for Frankie Avalon, but how he was far from the first to record the song. The demo was recorded in a garage studio in 1954 and released on the B-side to "Hey Señorita." The song quickly outshined "Hey Señorita." One of the more popular recordings is by The Penguins. Their Read More


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Sunday, September 29, 2002
Following on from the article highlighted yesterday on Soccernet, comes an "exclusive" in today's Observer that only three of the 24 clubs in the First Division can actually guarantee to complete their fixtures this season due to a combination of the ITV Digital collapse and the transfer window (no mention of financial maladministration or imprudent chairmanship). A good, readable article is diminished somewhat at the end when Palace chairman Simon Jordan rehashes the argument that would split the football league, saying that the chairmen of each division should be responsible for the running of that division. Without getting into the ins and outs in this limited space, it is an argument that doesn't stand up to close scrutiny once you disregard the blatant self-interest of the first division clubs' chairmen.
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Saturday, September 28, 2002
There's an article that's sort of worth checking out on Soccernet. The piece itself, by Richard Jolly, isn't particularly well written, basically being just a list of First Division clubs' transfers during the close-season, but the article's central premise, that the cash shortfall in football means that managerial ability is more to the fore, is unarguable. Or is it? Why not argue it using the Comment facility? We wouldn't normally highlight an article devoted exclusively to a division that United aren't in, but seeing as the First is our rightful place, and that we appear to be bound back there, why not?
Thursday, September 26, 2002
You may or may not remember that when I first introduced this weblog (or blog, as some refer to these sorts of things) I mentioned that not all posts may necessarily be about football, although all up until now have been. I thought that it was high time to diversify - live a little. As those who enjoy ripping animals to shreds were taking over the streets of London last Saturday (Ralph McTell would have been ashamed) not everyone believes that a return to a medieval type class oriented society is necessarily for the best. One such is novelist Will Self, whose article for This Is London articulates what many believe to be the hypocrisy that these Countryside types surround themselves with: "Marching for your livelihoods, are you? Where were you lot when the miners or the steelworkers lost their jobs because the Tory Government would have no truck with subsidies?" etc etc. Excellent stuff.
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Wednesday, September 25, 2002
The possibility of change to the game looms ever closer according to today's Guardian. It reports that many of Europe's top coaches are in favour of the idea of two additional match officials, monitoring the goal-lines, to assist the referees. Whilst many officials, including Pierluigi Collina, are opposed to using video technology, and the idea of two referees has never really caught on, this new approach looks both sensible (if the logistics can be overcome) and relatively popular, although not universally so. I'd be interested in your comments on this issue.
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Tuesday, September 24, 2002
The PFA reckons that clubs aren't as badly off as was first feared following the ITV Digital collapse, according to this report on the Nationwide site. The number of footballers still without clubs is less than expected and it's only those first division clubs "who speculated a little bit too much in striving for the Premier League" who are really feeling the pinch (with Watford the latest club to reveal their financial plight, claiming that they need to raise £9.5 million to avoid administration). The report quotes PFA Chief Exec Mick McGuire who believes that the crisis will lead to clubs becoming more prudent in their financial management. Let's hope so.
There's a very interesting, and very important, report in today's Guardian concerning a new FIFA directive. Essentially, from next month, a player receiving a red card will have to serve an immediate one match ban with no right to appeal except in cases of mistaken identity. This is a hard-line ruling introduced to prevent apparent abuses of the current system. In England it would mean that some of the high-profile appeals that we've been seeing recently would no longer occur. This is probably a more sensible system as it ensures that all players will be treated equally and everyone knows where they stand, whereas currently some players can use the appeal system to mean that they will be available for a game that they might otherwise be suspended for if they didn't appeal.
Friday, September 20, 2002
It looks like the Nationwide League are to be partially successful in their quest for exemption from the ridiculous transfer window. Today's Guardian reports that the League will probably be exempt for the next two years, enough time for clubs to get their squads in order, perhaps, before this window will be enforced. The good news, if this is correct, is that it allows this season to continue as normal. The bad news is that there is a reasonable chance that in the next couple of years clubs will overstretch themselves financially in an attempt to strengthen their squads before the transfer window bites, and we all know what happens when clubs spend more than they can afford.
Labels: Football League, Transfers
Thursday, September 19, 2002
On the front page of today's Oxford Mail is a story claiming that creditors of Oxford United are saying that the Manor Ground was sold too cheaply at £6 million. Unsecured creditors, who had received 10% of what they were owed under the term of the CVA, should also have received 50% of any profit from the sale of the Manor once the secured creditors had been paid off. The money received from the sale of the ground only covered the debts owed to the secured creditors, meaning that the rest (including Stadi Varios and Keith Cox) received nothing. One year later, with planning permission received, the ground was sold to the Nuffield Nursing Trust for £12 million, the extra being profited by Firoka, rather than OUFC. No doubt we have yet to hear the last of this, although it sounds more like one of Firoz Kassam's crafty deals rather than anything particularly dodgy.
Labels: Money, The Manor, Uncle Firoz
Sunday, September 15, 2002
Gordon Taylor, of the PFA, is suggesting that the Nationwide league "sells" one of its promotion places to the Premiership for £100 million, according to this report from the BBC. It's surprising that he stops there and hasn't suggested selling all three promotion places, thus saving the Premiership the hassle of having to worry about being too competitive, or of losing its consistently average members like Westam. Presumably that idea's being saved up for when Wolves go up, so in practice it will be on the back-burner for perpetuity.
Labels: Football League, Gordon Taylor, Money, PFA, Premier League
Friday, September 13, 2002
The football cash crisis continues with news from the Guardian that Derby were unable to pay Sheffield United money owing from the transfer of Lee Morris. Leicester are still having problems with their £5 million wage bill (not helped by Denis unWise's demand of half a mill to drop his court case), and now Northampton have to raise half a million pounds by January or face administration. Still, at least FIFA has seen some sort of sense over the ridiculous transfer window business.
Labels: Derby County, FIFA, Leicester City, Money, Northampton Town, Sheffield United, Transfers
Thursday, September 12, 2002
There's a disturbing story coming from Football 365 which reveals that the British National Party, a bunch of far right goons and ne'er do wells, is to sponsor the Tipton Boilers, a pub football team from the West Midlands. BNP's West Midlands organiser Simon Darby said: "For a lot of people in Tipton the BNP is their party." This is slightly disingenuous as the Anti Nazi League proves that only 334 votes were cast for the fascist gits in the last election, amounting to 7.5% of the electorate. Still far too many, but it paints Tipton is a slightly better light than Darby (notwithstanding the 1,070 who voted for the Freedom Party, dedicated to eliminating freedom). Tipton Boilers play in the Sandwell Premier and District Sunday Football League.
Labels: right wing religious arseholes, Tipton
Wednesday, September 11, 2002
Fed up with all the minutes of silence that take place before football matches these days, even for non-footy related events, even for events that took place many moons ago? Well, so is Steven Wells, who expresses his point of view quite forcefully in today's Guardian. The current Rage On has an article in a similar vein, and there appears to be a gathering momentum that these silences are happening too often, and that they're losing their import. Eventually there's going to come a time when supporters get fed up with yet another irrelevant remembrance and they're going to be irreverent, get a bad press, and generally upset people for whom these moments do actually mean something. Surely it would be better to allow people to express their grieving in their own ways, and not in contrived public displays that don't really do anyone any good anyway, unless they really are relevant to the game as a whole, or the club specifically.
Labels: Silence
Tuesday, September 10, 2002
A somewhat humorous report from today's Guardian about swindon's attempts to offload tubby Neil Ruddock from their wage bill. Okay, the report itself isn't written that funnily, but you've got to laugh at the Moonrakers, the one team in the league that makes United look almost ept.
Labels: Neil Ruddock, Sw*nd*n
Sunday, September 08, 2002
There's a curious article in today's Observer where David Moffett, chief executive of Sport England argues a reasonably compelling case for scrapping promotion and relegation. The kneejerk reaction is that this is a load of bollox, and so it is, but Moffett's arguments are certainly worthy of consideration. The problem really is that the level playing field scenario that Moffett claims would ensue is, to say the least, unlikely, even if these ideas were enacted at the start of the Premiership (which is what many Premiership chairmen were arguing in favour of at the outset). Even then there would have to be serious reform of the distribution of TV and sponsorship money if Moffett's suggestions are to have any chance of succeeding.
Labels: Premier League, Sport England
Friday, September 06, 2002
Greed begets greed. Some Premiership clubs are threatening to boycott this season's FA Cup according to this report from the BBC, claiming that they want a share of the FA's income generated by the competition. Although all clubs that are members of the Football Association are obliged to enter the competition, some Premiership clubs may possibly field sides that are so weakened they may as well not bother (although they would doubtless take their share of the gate money). Of course these are the same clubs that removed the away teams' share of the gate money which has been a major cause of the gap between rich and poor clubs increasing, and now they want yet more money. They won't rest until they have all the income the game generates, by which time there won't be a game.
Labels: FA, Money, Premier League
Thursday, September 05, 2002
Interesting item from the Leicester Mercury that suggests Rotherham are interested in buying one of the stands from the now defunct Filbert Street. The transportation logistics should set someone an interesting challenge, but they seem to have shied away from doing it all without dismantling it. Surprising that no-one expressed a similar interest in the Cuckoo Lane...
Labels: Cuckoo Lane, Leicester City, Rotherham United
Tuesday, September 03, 2002
York City's somewhat eccentric, and fairly dangerous, chairman John Batchelor, who is in the running to be chairman of the Football League, is talking about restructuring the format of the Nationwide League, including inviting Rangers and Celtic to join, according to a report on the Nationwide League web site. Batchelor wants the new league to start next season. One sensible idea he's come up with is ensuring that clubs are trading profitably before being allowed to enhance players' wages, which would otherwise be paid from a central pot. Let's hope that all this talk about inviting clubs to join leagues without starting at the bottom of the pyramid is cast aside by more sensible chairmen.
Labels: Celtic, Football League, Rangers, York City
Nowt to do with Oxford, but this story from today's Guardian should serve as a warning that, legally, Sunderland are not shite. Presumably this does not set a precendent for swindon...
Labels: Sunderland
The heartening tale of AFC Wimbledon is highlighted in Sunday's Observer by Ivor Heller, the Commercial Director of the new club. His one piece of advice is that if fans don't like the way that their club is being run they do have an option - set up an alternative club! It may not be easy, and will certainly involve a lot of hard work, but as AFCW have shown, it can be done!
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Chelsee Healey is "scared" of leaving her baby daughter to return to work.
The 29-year-old actress has been on maternity leave since giving birth to her daughter Coco last summer, but will return to "Hollyoaks" full-time next week and has admitted she feels slightly anxious about leaving the little one to shoot her scenes.
Speaking to Inside Soap magazine, she said: "It's a huge change being a mum. Getting both me and the baby ready to leave home on time is like a military operation! But I wouldn't change it for the world.
"Coco's just a dream and like my best friend. Although there are now lots of dirty nappies for me to deal with. The thought of leaving Coco was scary. But being at home with a baby is a job in itself, so weirdly going to work is like a bit of a break."
And, although she's had her hands full with her six-month-old daughter, the brunette beauty has been trying to catch up on the Channel 4 soap when she has spare time.
She explained: "I've been watching the show a little bit. I've been so busy with Coco, it's been madness. But whenever I'm sat at home with Coco, I have been putting it on."
Meanwhile, although she can't wait to get stuck back into filming again, Chelsee may not be around for too much longer as she's keen to have another baby with her boyfriend Jack Molloy as Coco has been such a good child.
She explained: "She's [Coco] been amazing, really good, sleeps right through. She's slept really good since she was born. I'm really lucky.
"She's really coming into her own now, which is amazing. I don't want her to grow up. I want her to stay as a baby but she's honestly unbelievable. I never imagined the feeling she'd give me. She's made me very content. I wouldn't say any time soon but definitely I want more. I never wanted any but now I've got Coco, I want another!"


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With Iphigénie, Racine returned once again to a mythological subject, following a series of historical plays (Britannicus,Bérénice, Bajazet, Mithridate). On the shores at Aulis, the Greeks prepare their departure for an attack on Troy. The gods quell the winds for their journey and demand the sacrifice ofIphigénie, daughter of Agamemnon, King of the Greeks.
As in the original version of the play by Euripides, Iphigenia at Aulis, the morally strongest character in the play is not Agamemnon, apusillanimous leader, but Iphigénie, driven by duty to father and country to accept the will of the gods. In the final sacrificial scene of Euripedes' play, the goddess Artemissubstitutes a deer for Iphigenia, who is swept through the heavens by the gods to Tauris. Based on the writings of Pausanias, Racine decided upon an alternative dramatic solution for the ending:another princess Ériphile is revealed to be the true "Iphigénie" whose life is sought by the gods and thus the tragic heroine of the play is spared.
Although a great success when itwas first produced, Iphigénie is rarely performed today.
* Agamemnon
* Achille
* Ulysse
* Clytemnestre, wife of Agamemnon
* Iphigénie, daughter ofAgamemnon
* Ériphile, daughter of Helen and Theseus
* Arcas, servant to Agamemnon
* Eurybate
* Aegine, lady-in-waiting to Clytemnestre
* Doris, confidante of Ériphile
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During the Second World War, the United States government detained 120,000 Japanese Americans in camps across the United States. Nine year old Sam Mihara and his family were sent to the relocation camp at Heart Mountain, Wyoming. Today Sam is an award winning presenter, speaking about his experiences before audiences across the United States. On March 14, 2018, the Sheridan County Historical Society will be hosting Sam Mihara at the Whitney Center for the Arts, Sheridan College, in Sheridan. as he speaks about his experiences at Heart Mountain, the daily condition in the relocation camps, the treatment of Japanese Americans, and parallels government policy during the 1940s and today. The program begin at the Whitney Center for the Arts, Sheridan College, at 7:00 pm, made possible by the Wyoming Humanities Council, Whitney Center for the Arts, Sheridan County Historical Society 7 Museum, and the Homer A. and Mildred S. Scott Foundation.


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Dignity, beauty and grace describe the Afghan Hound, a native sighthound from Afghanistan, whose near-human expression, intelligence and intensity have fascinated mankind for centuries. This is a long-coated dog who is graced with elegance, yet designed for hunting in the desert marked with characteristic aloofness, yet affectionate with his own people: and gifted with a free spirit and independent thought, yet trainable and obedient. The Afghan Hound today has evolved into a fashionable home companion and a flashy, superlative show dog. This book provides the much-needed factual information about the Afghan Hound and its ancestry, character and standard, as well as the proper selection, feeding, training, preventative health care and showing. The new owner will welcome advice about puppy-proofing the home, preparing for the pup's arrival and preventing puppy problems.
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Bottle Cottages
Nos 1 & 2 Workhouse Lane. Originally, two labourers' cottages, it is so named because of a bottle-end in the wall at the front of the house.
The cottages were built before the mid 1800s, but we do not know exactly when. At the time of the Tithe Apportionments Map, they were owned by George Pink and the occupants were "John Lovelock and others". Pink was recorded in the 1851 census as a 'general practisioner'. He lived in what is now Brooklyn, on the High Street. John Lovelock was an agricultural labourer, as was his wife Hannah. At least two of their neighbours were 'paupers' and may have been among the 'others' occupying the two cottages. Including the gardens, the total area was 24 perches.
At the time of the 1851 census the lane was named Cross Lane. At the next census, in 1861, it was Little West Street. Although the Workhouse had been established in 1727, opposite Bottle Cottage, the lane was not called by that name until much later. Before 1930 the properties belonged to Portsea Island Mutual Cooperative Society; then they were bought by Stanley Broadway of Longdown Farm.
Elsie Butler
Today, Elsie lives in the Almshouses, after a long life in which she has contributed considerably to the East Meon community.
In 1930, the Butler family, Roseana and Edward, were the tenants of No. 1; they had ten children of whom seven survived. "Teddy" was a fireman in East Meon's World War II fire brigade.
Harold Butler was born in No 1 in 1923 and lived there until 1965 when he was nearly 80. Elsie came to East Meon in 1951 when she married Harold, and remembers visiting her in-laws in No. 1. Until the early 1950s there was no mains water; there was a stand pipe at the corner of Chapel Street. Water was collected by bucket and stored in a tin bath and a copper, which was used for clothes washing, in the outhouse. There were wooden outhouses to the rear, the end one being a toilet. This was emptied regularly by the night soil man. It was connected to the mains sewers in 1958.
Jimmy Bray
Jimmy Bray worked all his life as a carpenter. Like his father before him he worked at the Edward Barnsley workshop in Steep. Until the 1950s, the cottages had been the only houses on the south side of Workhouse Lane. In 1953 Jimmy bought the land to the west of them; he planned to build a bungalow for his own family and in order to raise the money, he sold two other plots, on which bungalows were also built. Jimmy remembers he had to pay £2 per foot for the frontage as a tithe to the Church. Jimmy died in December 2012.
The meadow behind these houses was Kews Field on which a fair was held every year until the war years. It had been bought by a Mr Smith who sold two sites for a new Village School and Village Hall; he also built four bungalows along Chidden Close.
Today's Bottle Cottage
In 1965 the two cottages were condemned, and then bought by Ann and Dick Hutchings for £1,900. A long triangle of land adjacent to Chidden Close was bought from Mr. Smith in 1969 and added to the garden. The Hutchings converted the cottages into one dwelling, and re-roofed it using old tiles in place of the slate. They also built garages and outhouses to the rear using brick and re-claimed old oak beams. Ann was a teacher and Dick an architect who renovated old Austin Seven cars, as well as doing much of the work at Bottle Cottage himself. (They had one child, Kate, who sadly was killed in a motor cycle accident at only 18.)
Susan and David Hull bought Bottle Cottage in December 1982. They transformed the garden into one of the most beautiful in the village today. Susan Hull researched and wrote this history of her house.


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SR Shareef, SC Sharma, DJ Carey; In Vitro And In Vivo Characterization of Rat Embryonic Spinal Cord Stem Cells (SCSCs) in Culture and The Adult Rat Retina . Invest. Ophthalmol. Vis. Sci. 2002;43(13):3694.
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Purpose: To assess the ability of rat embryonic spinal cord stem cells (SCSCs) to survive, migrate and differentiate in mechanically damaged adult rat retinas. Methods: SCSCs were isolated from 13-day fetal rat spinal cord and cultured for up to one year in serum free medium with bFGF and EGF. One eye of each adult Wistar rat (n=23) received a retinal scratch. The injured eye received only DiI-labeled SCSC. The contralateral uninjured eye received either SCSC or buffer. At intervals up to 5 weeks, retinas were removed and evaluated by fluorescence microscopy. Results: In vitro, SCSC cultured with EGF and bFGF exhibited continuous proliferation and neurosphere formation. Differentiation to astrocytes, neurons or oligodendrocytes was induced by incubation in medium with serum, retinoic acid + bFGF, or no growth factors, respectively. Following injection of DiI-labeled SCSC into the vitreous, labeled cells were identified in all injured retinas. Lateral migration of cells within the retina was apparent. Di-I labeled SCSC were present in several retinal layers, including the gangion cell and inner nuclear layers. In control, non-injured retinas, DiI-labeled SCSCs were observed only on the retinal surface. Morphological evidence of SCSC differentiation in injured retinas was evident at 3 weeks. Neuron-like cells with 50-100 um processes oriented towards the optic nerve were observed. Conclusion: Rat embryonic SCSCs injected into the vitreous can colonize injured retinas. Some of these cells appear to have the capacity to migrate and differentiate, suggesting SCSCs have potential for replacement therapy in optic neuropathies.
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The Pitkin County Board of County Commissioners are formally welcoming the Trump children to town with a full page ad in today's local papers.
Last week, reports arose that President Donald Trump's three eldest: Donald Jr., Ivanka, Eric and their children would be in Aspen for a spring break trip.
During previous visits to Aspen by Michelle Obama and her daughters, the commissioners drew attention to environmental issues in the Thompson Divide through a full page notice. Commissioner Patti Clapper said they felt a similar need to put on a friendly face, while pointing out local values.
"The board felt it was appropriate, with the Trump family being here, to welcome them as we did the Obama family and asking them to really take note of our beautiful environment," said Clapper.
The board is paying for the full page ads out of its unallocated discretionary fund, the total cost for both full page ads is about $1000.


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