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The world's largest biotech hubs are busy planning their delegations' visits to the BIO International Convention next month. The international program at the Convention will be one of the most robust to date, with international case studies, breakout sessions focused on globalization and Super Sessions focused on the emerging markets.
BIOtechNOW is profiling a few of the top delegations to give you a preview*:
Australia: Australia's biotech sector, along with the broader Australian economy, performed strongly through the global financial crisis. The sector now totals 527 biotechnology companies and showed evidence of an IPO window on the Australian Securities Exchange in 2010. The sector is most strongly represented in human therapeutics (49% of the total industry), agribiotech (16%), and diagnostics (13%). There are 151 healthcare and biotech public life science companies listed on the Australian Securities Exchange, of which 27 companies are capitalized at greater than A$100 million.
Canada: With its leading edge R&D and supportive innovation climate, Canada boasts the second highest concentration of biotechnology firms globally, which together with our research institutes are securing large investments from global multinational biopharmaceutical companies, and are attracting partnerships in emerging technologies such as clean technology, stem cells and nanotech. The Canadian Biotechnology Strategy (CBS) is Canada's plan for the emerging field of biotechnology that supports and compliments the regulatory and research activities of various federal departments and agencies. A renewed CBS creates a policy framework that integrates social, ethical, health, economic, environmental, and regulatory considerations, as well as addressing public information and participation.
China: In the coming 3 years, China's government will invest RMB 850 billion in reforming the Basic Medical Security System. It predicts, by 2013, China will be the third largest medicine market worldwide. In addition, the pharmaceutical industry will continue to sustain growth at a rate of nearly 30%, including the rate of no less than 20% in bio-pharmaceuticals. Meanwhile, on a basis of RMB 6 billion investment for "Key Items of National New Drug Innovation Plan", which focuses on technical platforms and all stages for innovation, supported by both central and local governments, and the well known comprehensive advantages of HR and abundant resource for clinical trials, China will play an ever increasing role in new drug R&D.
France: UBIFRANCE is the French agency for international business development. In the US, our team works with 150 French and 450 US biotech companies each year and welcomes the opportunity to help companies at this year's Convention in partnering with the French biotech industry. INVEST IN FRANCE AGENCY is in charge of promoting international investment in France. With offices in 22 countries, we offer investors outstanding business opportunities and customized services in the field of biotech.This year, the French Pavilion will be even larger than in 2010, with 120 biotech companies and 11 bioclusters attending. A session entitled "Vaccine Innovation, a collaborative approach: from diagnosis to prevention and treatment" will specifically showcase the French expertise in the field of diagnostic/POC and prophylactic/therapeutic vaccines against infectious diseases and cancer.
Germany: Germany Trade and Invest is the economic development agency of the Federal Republic of Germany. The organization promotes Germany as a business and technology location and supports companies based in Germany with global market information. Furthermore Germany Trade & Invest informs and advises international companies setting up business in Germany and promotes the economic development of Germany's new federal states including Berlin.
India: The Indian biotechnology sector is one of the fastest growing knowledge-based sectors in India and is expected to play a key role in shaping India's rapidly growing economy. The Indian biotech sector's overall revenue in 2009-10 was US$ 3 billion. Bio-pharma contributed US$ 1.9 billion; bio-agri US$ 420.4 million, bio-industrial segment US$ 122.5 million and bio-informatics US$ 50.2 million. The current trends indicate that the industry would touch US$ 8 billion by 2015.
Japan: The Japanese government recognizes biotechnology as a key driver of future economic growth and strongly supports both domestic biotech initiatives and foreign entry into Japan's biotech market. JETRO is a Japanese government-affiliated organization that promotes mutual trade, investment and business alliances between Japan and the rest of the world. JETRO has 732 offices in 55 countries of the world and specializes in assisting small and medium-sized businesses. In the field of biotech, JETRO provides market information and consulting to Japanese and non-Japanese companies wishing to enter each other's markets and business matching opportunities at events and tradeshows.
South Korea: Attendees at the BIO International Convention will have the opportunity to listen to an International Case Study on South Korea. The panel will explore the opportunity of cross-border deal making in Korea as leading pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies continue to globalize their R & D and commercial organizations. Attendees can expect to explore new transactional opportunities in the Korean biotechnology market and discuss strategy options for emerging market development in Asia.
Spain: Spain's biotechnology sector has recently experienced significant growth averaging 60 new companies per year, with numerous companies entering in later development stages. In the healthcare area, Spain is a leading country in oncology, neurodegenerative diseases, vaccines and other advanced therapies. Each year, 12,000 patients receive treatment with biotech medicines and 400,000 vaccine doses are delivered. More than 75% of the people in the Spanish population think that biotechnology is beneficial. Besides, we rank as the first European country in genetically modified organisms (GMOs) cropping, specifically, of corn, and as one of the most advanced countries regarding the generation of biofuels and energy generation by way of biomass.
UK: The UK offers one of the biggest country presences at Convention and provides a number of exciting opportunities for companies wanting to grow their business within the UK or source a UK-based partner. The Life Sciences are an important growth area and can also help the UK meet societal challenges such as improving healthcare, improving sustainability and decarbonising the economy. The use of biotechnology is expanding across the economy. Biotechnology is now being used in industrial applications and will help to reduce the UK's dependence on non–renewable feedstock for producing a wide variety of products from tyres to plastics. UK companies are utilising biotechnology to develop improvements that could lead to new drugs and improved feedstock for industry.
*Source of content: International Delegations
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Please note that international case studies are open to attendees with Convention Access, Education Access and Exhibitors.
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The England national team has consistently disappointed on the biggest stages.
With only a single World Cup title to boast of, and having not entered the semi-finals of any major tournament since the World Cup in 1990, the Three Lions have been one of the most under-performing teams in recent history. And as they look to reverse the trend next year in Brazil, here's a look at what could work as their best line-up.
In goal, Manchester City's Joe Hart has been in imperious form over the last two years, and England should feel reasonable safe in this area.
However, defence has been a headache for coach Roy Hodgson, with England unable to find a central defence partnership that works. With Hodgson having tried various combinations using Gary Cahill, Phil Jagielka, Chris Smalling and Joleon Lescott at the back, none of these combinations have particularly impressed.
Of these, Gary Cahill has been the most consistent, and should maintain his place in the team. But to find his partner is a tricky proposition. Even though Cahill has performed well with Lescott in the past, the duo looked well out of their depth in recent performances.
In this scenario, Hodgson should try out either the hugely impressive Phil Jones or Tottenham's massively under-rated captain Michael Dawson to partner Cahill in the centre.
In the left of defence, no team in the world is stronger than the Three Lions with Hodgson having the luxury of choosing between Leighton Baines and Ashley Cole who are among the best left backs in the world today.
However, the team might be better served starting both these stalwarts together, with Baines playing in front of Cole as a left-winger. Baines has consistently shown that he can attack well, and England should try to extract the best out of two exceptional players.
On the right hand side of defence Glen Johnson has consistently performed well and should find his place to be in no jeopardy, even with the emergence of young players such as Kyle Walker and Carl Jenkinson.
In midfield, Steven Gerrard and Michael Carrick are virtually assured to start. But the question lies as to who is best equipped to assist them, and as to which formation should England choose to obtain maximum results.
A central midfield consisting of only Gerrard and Carrick might find itself crowded out by an opposition that plays three players in the centre. The ideal solution to this problem would be to shelf Hodgson's preferred 4-4-2 formation in favour of a more stable 4-5-1 with Jack Wilshere coming into the team. Wilshere, being a classical schemer, would also provide an extra dimension to the England attack, with neither Gerrard nor Carrick being exceptionally adept at picking out the game-changing pass.
However, in the event that Hodgson chooses to continue with a system that has two strikers, a player of the mould of Danny Welbeck or Daniel Sturridge – both tireless runners – should be used so as to provide more support to the midfield two.
On the right wing, England again have a wealth of options with Theo Walcott, James Milner and Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain all being in contention to start. However, over the past season Walcott has been the most impressive and deserves to start above the other two. Walcott also provides a greater goal-scoring threat than Milner or Chamberlain.
On the left wing, the Three Lions would arguably be best served by playing current left back competitor Leighton Baines, especially with the Everton man being the best crosser of the ball that England have at their disposal.
If the rarely adventurous Hodgson sticks to conventional wingers, then England could choose between Chamberlain, Sturridge, Welbeck or Manchester United newboy Wilfried Zaha. At the moment though, Arsenal's Chamberlain looks to be the best equipped to play at left wing.
At the front of the pitch, there is no competition for Wayne Rooney, with the Manchester United man being England's best forward for quite some time. Alternate options are Andy Carroll, Jermain Defoe, Danny Welbeck and Daniel Sturridge – but none of these players are good enough to provide any serious competition to Rooney.
So, the best XI for England next year in Brazil would be:
Joe Hart
Glen Johnson
Gary Cahill
Phil Jones/Michael Dawson
Ashley Cole
Michael Carrick
Jack Wilshere
Steven Gerrard
Leighton Baines
Theo Walcott
Wayne Rooney
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John Evert Maki
April 29, 1921 - July 21, 2013
John Evert Maki of Redding,
California passed peacefully at Dameron Hospital, on July 21, 2013 after a lengthy illness. John was born April 29, 1921 in West Frankfort, Illinois to John Axel Maki and Hilda Lake. He married Mary Ann Buneta in March 1945 in New Orleans, LA. They moved to Carlsbad, NM where they raised their four children, Cynthia, of Napa, CA, Janet, of Las Cruces, NM and Evert and John, both of Stockton, CA.
John proudly served in the transportation corp during World War II. He then went on to become a journeyman electrician first working in the potash mines in Carlsbad and then at Lockheed in San Jose, CA. The family relocated to San Jose in 1967.
Mary Ann passed away in 1978. John remarried in 1987 to Margery Hauer. They made their home in Redding, CA. John is survived by his wife, Margery, his four children and spouses, six step-children and spouses, 21 grandchildren and 25 great grandchildren.
John felt blessed to have lived 92 years and to have had a loving family by his side. He will be missed by all who knew him.
Special thanks to the staff at Thornton Commons and Dameron Hospital who treated him with love and respect at the end of his life.
Internment July 26, 2013 at Oak Hill Cemetery in San Jose, CA.


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Michelle Ebanks, president of Essence Communications Inc., said the team began planning the 20th celebration of black culture and R&B music 14 months ago. Ebanks says their goal was to make the experience bigger and better than ever.
She says more than 80 artists and 150 speakers are scheduled to entertain, inform and empower attendees.
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Fannie Mae Howard Whatley, 80, of Tibbie died Sept. 10, 2006 at her residence.
She was born June 23, 1926. She was a member of Howardtown Baptist. She was a retired seamstress from Cam Manufacturing.
Survivors include two sons, Jimmy Whatley, Monroeville, Joe Whatley, Tibbie; three daughters, Betty Anderson, Mary Akridge, both of Tibbie, June Spaulding, Mt. Shasta, Calif.; three brothers, Eugene Howard, Tibbie, Leamon Howard, Wilmer, Billy Howard, Citronelle; four sisters, Jeannie Howard, Shirley Bazor, both of Tibbie, Betty Presnall, Jackson, Evelyn Tucker, Saraland; 16 grandchildren; 29 great-grandchildren.
Visitation will be Thursday, (tonight), Sept. 14 from 6 p.m. until at the Howardtown Baptist Church in Tibbie. The service will be Friday, Sept. 15 at 10 a.m. at the Howardtown Baptist Church in Tibbie. Lathan Funeral Home of Chatom will direct.
Frances Joyce Dennison, 62, of Sweet Water died Sept. 5, 2006 at her residence.
She was born June 15, 1944 in Ruston, La. She was a member of Union Grove Baptist Church. She as a former school dietician.
Survivors include her husband, William E. Dennison, Sweet Water; step-mother, Cecil Newton Barnett, Livingston; three sons, William R. (Vicki) Dennison, Vance, Kevin Lee (Tina) Dennison, John R. Dennison, all of Sweet Water; one daughter, Mary J. Dennison, Montgomery; six brothers, John Arthur (Peggy) Barnett, Little Rock, Ark., Winfred Trayler, Bashi, Robert (Debbie) Barnett, Demopolis, Ernest (Genevieve) Jordan, Monroeville, Morris (Joyce) Jordan, Uniontown, Walter Dennison, Monroeville; ten sisters, Margaret (Buddy) Lynn, Sharyn Cooke, all of Sweet Water, Georgia Ann Cobb, Linden, Marie (David) Posey, Huntsville, Sue (David) German, Tennessee, Betty Traylor, Bashi, Madeline (Richard) Titum, Livingston, Grace Wilkerson, Alabama, Carol Anderson, Mobile, Joyce Dennison, Monroeville; four grandchildren; special family friends, Cynthia Frederick, Montgomery, Peggy Gjellum, Enterprise.
The service was Sept. 7 at 4 p.m. at Union Grove Baptist Church with Revs. Lister Hill, Bo Brantley, Stan Stokely officiating. Burial was in the Union Grove Baptist Church Cemetery in Sweet Water. O'Bryant Chapel Funeral Home of Thomasville directed.
Memorials may be made for the Special Education Department at Sweet Water High School in memory of Frances Dennison.
Active pallbearers were Preston Honeycutt, Robin Barnett, Paul Anderson, Waylon Westbrook, Chris Newton and Kenneth Lynn.
Honorary pallbearers were her brothers and brother-in-laws.
Flossie L. Roe, 93, of Grove Hill died Sept. 8, 2006 at an area hospital. She was born April 2, 1913. She was a homemaker.
Survivors include four sons, Vernon Roe, Jackson, Kenneth Roe, Brewton, Jerry Roe, Mobile, Charles Roe, Grove Hill; two daughters, Barbara R. Wiggins, Martha R. Finney, both of Grove Hill; two brothers, W.C. Smith, Coffeeville, S.D. Smith, Theodore; four sisters, Lois Batley, Nettie Alday, Francis Davis, all of Jackson, Jeanette Lewis, Mobile; 14 grandchildren; 24 great-grandchildren; one great-great-grandchild.
She was preceded in death by her husband, Jim Roe, one daughter, Jean R. Howard, two sisters, Ada Williamson and Virginia Smith, two brothers, Clyde Smith, Clinton Smith, two grandchildren, Sam Roe and Jennifer Roe.
The service was Sept. 10 at 3 p.m. at Mt. Gilead Baptist Church in Walker Springs with Bros. William Allison and Carey Howard officiating. Burial was in the Union Baptist Church Cemetery in Grove Hill. St. Stephens Funeral Home directed.
Condy Lee Robinson, 82, of Campbell died Sept. 4, 2006 at a Mobile hospital.
He was born Aug. 24, 1924. He was a veteran of World War II having served in the United States Army.
Survivors include four sons, Condy J. Robinson, Helena, Ark., Roy (Betty) Robinson, Toledo, Ohio, Carlton (Harriet) Robinson, Campbell, Jerry (Shirley) Robinson, Montgomery; nine daughters, Celestine Daugherty, Nancy Gilmore, Sharron (James) McDow, all of Abilene, Texas, Nettie (Leon) Johnson, Janice McClain, all of Detroit, Mich., Sara (Robert) Thomas, Chicago, Ill., Vivian Howell, Coffeeville, Barbara (Garry) Caraway, Rialto, Calif., Bonnie (Vincent) Robinson, Fontana, Calif.; 45 grandchildren; 44 great-grandchildren; nine great-great-grandchildren.
The service was Sept. 9 at 11 a.m. at the Tallahatta Springs C.M.E. Church in Campbell with Rev. Jerry Robinson officiating. Burial was in the Tallahatta Springs C.M.E. Church Cemetery. Thomasville Memorial Funeral Home directed.


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Otaku Sakamichi Onoda has just entered high school and plans to join the anime club. In middle school, Onoda didn't have any friends with whom he could talk about anime, games, Akihabara and other otaku things, and he is hoping he can make such friends in the anime club, but he finds out it's been disbanded. In order to reestablish the club he tries to find 4 other people who would like to join.
Since he was a little boy, Onoda has ridden his mamachari—a bulky bicycle with a step-through frame mainly used for short rides, such as for casual fun or to pick up groceries—to go to Akihabara every week to check out or buy otaku things. Fellow freshman Shunsuke Imaizumi and bicyclist, while training, notices a boy (Onoda) riding his mamchari up a steep road.
Freshman and road racing cyclist, Shokichi Naruko visits Akihabara to get some Gundam plastic models for his younger brothers and meets Onoda who catches his attention because of the his cycling skill on the mamachari and later find out they go to the same school. Later on, both Naruko and Imaizumi try to convince him to join the bicycle racing club, but will he?
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Type: TV
Episodes: Unknown
Status: Currently Airing
Aired: Sep 28, 2013 to ?
Producers: TMS Entertainment, Toho Company
Genres: Comedy, Drama, Shounen, Sports
Episode 1 Impressions(contains spoilers)
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I like it so far. It reminded me a little of Overdrive tbh. I'm not too fond Sakamichi yet (he seems a bit shy and blushes more than I thought) but I think I can get used to him. Ouch, that was a hard landing too.
I really like the OST and intensity of the second half of the first episode though. I can feel it. I'm ready for some intense action this series especially that dude with the green hair. Nice to see most of the characters introduced though.
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Daiki Yamashita as Sakamichi Onoda
Kousuke Toriumi as Shunsuke Imaizumi
Jun Fukushima as Shōkichi Naruko
Hiroki Yasumoto as Shingo Kinjō
Showtaro Morikubo as Yūsuke Makishima
Kentarou Itou as Jin Tadokoro
Daisuke Kishio as Junta Teshima
Yoshitsugu Matsuoka as Hajime Aoyagi
Junichi Suwabe as Toji Kanzaki
Ayaka Suwa as Miki Kanzaki
Megumi Han as Aya Tachibana
Tomoaki Maeno as Juichi Fukutomi
Tsubasa Yonaga as Sangaku Manami
Tetsuya Kakihara as Jinpachi Tōdō
Satoshi Hino as Hayato Shinkai
Hiroyuki Yoshino as Yasutomo Arakita
Atsushi Abe as Tōichirō Izumida
Koji Yusa as Akira Midōsuji
Hirofumi Nojima as Kōtarō Ishigaki
Yukari Tamura as Kotori Himeno
Tomokazu Seki as Eikichi Machimiya
Original creator: Wataru Watanabe
Director: Osamu Nabeshima
Series Composition: Reiko Yoshida
Character Design: Takahiko Yoshida
Animation Production: TMS Entertainment
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Type: TV
Episodes: Unknown
Status: Not yet aired
Aired: Oct 2014 to ?
Producers: TMS Entertainment, TOHO animation
Genres: Comedy, Drama, Shounen, Sports
Duration: 24 min. per episode
Season 2 coming this Fall.
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I've watched the PV. Looks interesting. But dear lord this is the fourth sports series I'm going to be watching this season. This is gonna be joining Hajime no Ippo, Ace of the Diamond, and Wanna Be the Strongest in the World on my viewing list.
Confirmed 3-cours. 13 BD/DVD volumes with three episodes each(Amazon.jp shows a runtime of 69 minutes for each volume) so 39 episodes.
Ok, not half-bad so far, unrealized talent developed because of a different interest. No way he winds up with the girl though, right? Right? This one stays in.
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Just adding another sports title to my collection
The sports genre has finally got up and kick some ass
Its gonna be 39 episodes?
There is no rest for the weak. I need a weeks rest desperately.
It's going to be a fun ride
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it was actually pretty fun to watch, something about the characters (Shunsuke singing the song at the end just lol)
Onoda is also just silly fun as well
definitely gonna keep watching
What even
Yeah, really fun episode. The key to any sports anime is a great cast of characters(as nearly all of them follow the same plot line structure, with a few changes at various parts), and already Yowapeda has a pretty damn good cast lined up. Also those other two teams shown in the ending look interesting as well, especially the team that has that guy with the crazy face.
Yeah, I normally don't like sports anime. But, I'm enjoying this one.
yep this is a keeper.
First episode was a lot of fun and left me wondering how long it took him to get to Akiba and back
I find Sports anime strangely addictive, ever since Eyeshield. There is just something fun about watching a kid discover his talent and the rivalries that he makes doing so.
No fate of the world, no Good and Evil just good honest competition (with the occasional cheater team who get brutally face stomped and learn their lesson)
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yep this is a keeper.
First episode was a lot of fun and left me wondering how long it took him to get to Akiba and back
I find Sports anime strangely addictive, ever since Eyeshield. There is just something fun about watching a kid discover his talent and the rivalries that he makes doing so.
No fate of the world, no Good and Evil just good honest competition (with the occasional cheater team who get brutally face stomped and learn their lesson)
Not only that but sports anime tend to be nice fantasies for me, because I was pretty athletic in high school, but was too lazy to try out for any sports teams so I always have that, "What if?" type regret, but sports anime allow me to lose myself in a bit of wish fulfillment.
i loved overdrive i hope its similar in some way
I'm up for a NAFTA
Okay, had a go at this one. Not really my thing, so I think this is as far as I go, but I get the feeling it'll be big here at CR for a while.
And, yeah, sometimes people sing in the shower. Heh!
Goblin Slayer has nothing on '80s anime when it comes to hard content, folks.
finally watched tonight and I was cracking up so many times, maybe becuase I connected with Onoda's utakoness
This is it. The most entertaining episode 1 of all the titles I have seen so far for this season. Got me wanting to know more so I end up reading the manga , a lot of chapters , so now I am so ahead but its exciting.
Dang I can wait for those pages to get animated.
I think the next character, Naruko, will be Fukuyama Jun's. love that seiyuu but I doubt we will see him in t episode 2 though . Toriumi as Imaishi is awesome, mr attitute intense cyclist.I do prefer his character design in the anime .
Speaking about bikes and stuff, I never owned one as a kid , but when i was in 6th grade or middle school , my brother build a mountain bike and I only get to ride it when I was asked to go the store a couple kilometer away from the house to buy something lol ... yeap I grew up in a place and time where kids has duties to do and go to school by themselves but I remember being on that bike high off the ground , dont remember if there were gears lol.
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STOCKTON, Calif. (AP) — Cars and houses were riddled with bullets during a high-speed chase and hostages were thrown from a fleeing SUV after a bank robbery Wednesday that led to the deaths of a hostage and two robbers, police said.
The violence began at 2 p.m. when officers responded to a call of a robbery at a Bank of the West branch in north Stockton. Arriving officers spotted three men taking three female hostages from the bank at gunpoint. The robbers stole a bank employee's SUV and led officers on the pursuit, Stockton police Officer Joe Silva said.
During the chase that lasted 45 minutes along highways and city streets, two of the hostages who are bank employees were thrown from the SUV, police said. One was taken to a hospital with a gunshot wound; the other suffered a grazing bullet wound.
The pursuit continued as the suspects fired with AK-47 style rifles from the SUV. Fourteen police cars and an unknown number of homes along the robbers' path were peppered with gunshots, Police Chief Eric Jones told a news conference late Wednesday.
"It was such a chaotic ... fluid situation, really one of the most dangerous, tense situations that a police officer could go through," Jones said.
"There was a lot on the line and the officers responded appropriately," he said.
When the SUV became disabled at a street intersection, officers exchanged gunfire with at least one of the assailants.
"The firing never stopped," Jones said, noting that the suspects had ammunition strapped to their bodies. "They were trying to kill (the officers), no doubt."
When it was all over, the third hostage was found dead in the SUV and one of the robbers was also dead. The police chief said the hostage was a bank customer, and that she appears to have been used by the suspects as a shield during the shootout.
Police said the other two suspects were taken to the hospital with gunshot wounds, and one of them later died.
The surviving suspect was conscious, Jones said.
Witnesses said the shootout that brought the episode to a close looked like a war.
"It sounded like five minutes of straight gunfire," witness Sam York told KCRA-TV. "It seemed like it wasn't real."
Jose Maldonado, who said he saw the robbers taking the women out of the bank, said the men had rifles that looked like AK-47s slung over their shoulders and they didn't seem to care that there were police all around.
"They were not afraid. They weren't going to take no for an answer. These poor women, they were screaming, they were so distraught, so scared," Maldonado said.
Jones said the robbers also tied up a bank security guard.
The bank said in a statement that it would not provide information about the victims.
"This is a tragic incident and we are focused on supporting our customers and employees," the statement said.
Associated Press reporters Lisa Leff and Daisy Nguyen contributed to this report from San Francisco.


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NH's top prospects happy to be part of BostonBy ALLEN LESSELS
New Hampshire Union Leader
April 19. 2014 10:57PM
No way Milford's Tammie Robie was missing this Boston Marathon.
One of New Hampshire's top runners and the female from the state with the best Boston time in 2007, Robie had to sit out the two most recent renditions of the historic race.
Two years ago, she was two days away from giving birth to her daughter, Brooke, who celebrated her birthday on Friday. Last year, Robie had not been able to get a qualifying time and sat at home and watched the race - but had turned it off by the time the bombs exploded - with her baby.
Monday, she'll be right back in the thick of things.
"I would not have missed this one for the world," Robie said. "You know, it's just like probably everyone else has said. What happened made it so much bigger. It's hard to put it into words. ... I can't even put it into words. As you watch things on the television, more and more it becomes clear this is so much bigger than any of us understand. I think it will be the most incredible experience ever. I just think it's going to be 26 miles of emotion. I'm just honored and so happy I get a chance to be a part of it as a qualified runner."
Robie, 39, will likely again be one of the top female finishers from the state - though former Conant High School of Jaffrey and Boston University standout Andrea Walkonen is the clear favorite for those honors - and trained all winter with the goal of breaking the three-hour mark.
The truth is, what she gets for a time doesn't make a whole lot of difference, said Robie, a teacher at Elm Street Middle School in Nashua.
Covering the entire 26.2 miles to the finish line - and more importantly reclaiming the finish line - is all that matters.
Walkonen for the women and Kevin Johnson, who is living in Lebanon and working in Hanover while studying cancer epidemiology for a doctoral degree at Dartmouth, for the men had the best qualifying times among the New Hampshire runners competing on Monday.
An All-Atlantic 10 Conference and Academic All American runner at the University of Massachusetts, Johnson qualified in a time of 2 hours, 25 minutes and change in 2012 in Chicago.
He's hoping to go under 2:30 in Boston, but like Robie is not overly concerned about time this year.
"This race means a lot to people in Massachusetts and my friends and family who ran it last year," said Johnson, who is originally from Ludlow, Mass. "From a selfish standpoint, the energy is going to be incredible and it's a great thing to be a part of. I think it will be a great experience."
Johnson, 25, will be having a bit of a race within a race. His twin brother David, who was also a standout UMass runner and is now in grad school there, is also entered.
"I think he's looking to exact some revenge," Kevin said.
The twins are usually close together in a race, but at the Chicago Marathon Kevin pulled away late to beat David by almost four minutes.
David's desire for vengeance may go back longer than that.
"I'm older by two minutes," Kevin said and then laughed. "That's the ongoing joke. I beat him by two minutes but it was by Cesarean section and he says I cheated and cut the course."
Walkonen, 27, won the girls cross country Meet of Champions in 2003 while competing for Conant and then moved on to BU where she was a three-time All American.
She is a physical therapist and lives in Lebanon and has said recently that she is shooting to meet the "A" standard of 2:37 for the Marathon trials for the 2016 Olympics.
"If she's on her game, she definitely could hit that as long as the conditions are in her favor," said longtime BU coach Bruce Lehane, who recruited Walkonen to college and coached here there but does not work with her now.
Walkonen qualified for Boston with a 2:43:47 in Houston in January of 2013. On March 17, she was the second female finisher in the New Bedford (Mass.) half marathon in a time of 1:13:13.
Robie, then on the coaching staff at Bishop Guertin of Nashua, was impressed by Walkonen back when she ran for Conant and looks forward to seeing how she does at Boston.
"Unless she runs into a wall, she'll probably be the first New Hampshire person," Robie said. "She's legit."


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Bills re-sign QB Jackson; Fitzpatrick staying
BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — Backup quarterback Tarvaris Jackson is coming back to Buffalo after re-signing with the Bills on Friday. And returning starter Ryan Fitzpatrick remains part of the team's future for now.
In announcing Jackson's signing, new coach Doug Marrone ended a month of speculation regarding his plans at quarterback by saying he intends to have Fitzpatrick and Jackson compete for the starting job.
"I spoke with Ryan and Tarvaris and told them we will have an open competition at the quarterback position — similar to what we will do at all positions," Marrone said, in a statement released by the team. "I believe that our players will embrace this challenge."
This was Marrone's most definitive statement regarding Fitzpatrick's future since he took over last month. Marrone, credited for turning around a struggling Syracuse program over the past four years, replaced Chan Gailey, who was fired after three consecutive losing seasons.
Jackson signed a one-year deal after completing the final year of his contract, and was eligible to become a free agent next month. He's gone 17-17 in seven NFL seasons as a starter, but did not play a down for Buffalo after spending all of last year as the team's third-stringer.
Jackson elected to return because of the opportunity to compete for the starting job. He also referred to a conversation he had with general manager Buddy Nix, who had expressed an interest in re-signing him last month.
"You want to feel wanted," Jackson said. "To get a chance to compete, that's very important."
Jackson's no stranger to quarterback competitions. The Bills gave up a draft pick to acquire him in a trade with Seattle in August after Jackson lost a three-way competition with Seahawks eventual starter, rookie Russell Wilson, and backup Matt Flynn.
And it makes no difference to Jackson that the Bills have already indicated a desire to add a third person into the mix by selecting a quarterback in the draft.
"Somebody's got to go," Jackson said. "And I know that personally just from the situation last year. I guess we'll just see how everything plays out."
Fitzpatrick's status in Buffalo had been in question as a result of the coaching change and after the quarterback struggled in his second full year as starter. Fitzpatrick and the offense's production regressed last year. The Bills finished 19th in the NFL in yards gained after finishing 14th the previous season. In four seasons in Buffalo, Fitzpatrick is 20-33 as a starter.
Though he joined Hall-of-Famer Jim Kelly last year in becoming only the second Bills quarterback to throw 24 touchdowns in three consecutive seasons, Fitzpatrick's inconsistency has remained a question. In 55 games in Buffalo, he's thrown 80 touchdowns and 64 interceptions, including a career-worst 23 in 2011.
Another knock against Fitzpatrick is an expensive contract. He signed a six-year, $59 million contract extension in October 2011, and is due a $3 million bonus if he remains on the team's roster next month.
The Bills are expected to approach Fitzpatrick in a bid to restructure the deal, but that had not happened as of last week.
In re-signing Jackson, the Bills have, at the very least, added depth to the quarterback spot.
Selected in the second round of the 2006 draft by Minnesota, the Alabama State product has appeared in 51 games, and has starting experience with both the Vikings and Seahawks. Jackson's best season came in 2011, his one and only year with Seattle. He went 7-7, putting up career highs with 14 touchdowns, 271 completions and 3,091 yards.
Marrone's background is on offense. He's a former NFL offensive lineman who spent the 2006-08 seasons as the New Orleans Saints offensive coordinator. Though he didn't call the plays, his arrival in New Orleans coincided with the team signing star quarterback Drew Brees.
Jackson's already begun studying film of Marrone's offense at Syracuse, and is looking forward to getting another shot to prove himself as an NFL starter.
"I'm very confident in myself, but I'm not taking anything away from anybody else," Jackson said, when asked to compare himself to Fitzpatrick. "That's not really for me to say. That's really the coach's job to say who's best for the team. So I just leave it at that."


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About Dennis Spears & Ginger Commodore
An evening full of sizzling soul and powerful vocals.
Ginger Commodore's early background was gospel, and she honed her skills in church and in the Grammy Award winning group the Sounds of Blackness. Then came Moore by Four, and years of singing the jazzy gospel infused vocal arrangements that gave the group an international audience. Now she brings her talent and experience with her own group, GCQ.
A member of the Midwest music scene for many years, Ginger is a regular visitor to The Dakota stage. Classically trained, gospel influenced, and jazz inspired, Ginger's musical foundation is a true amalgam of musical styles presented with her own unique delivery. A former member of Sounds of Blackness, Ginger has also been very active in the local theater scene.
Dennis Spears became known as the male voice of Moore By Four, the locally based, internationally heeled quartet headed by pianist/arranger Sanford Moore, featuring the voices of Spears, Yolande Bruce, Ginger Commodore and Connie Evingson. Dennis has kept himself busy and visible ever since, performing in theater, in music ensembles, and gigging with his own band(s). One of the best entertainers in the Twin Cities, Dennis' renown is growing beyond the region. His musical theater celebration of Nat King Cole was presented at the Kennedy Center in spring 2010.
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HeHe Cap poop
what's the story with the caulk?
It`s better to be silent and thought the fool; than speak and remove all doubt.
That's a capacamite from the upper cap leaking.
Col 3:23
questions asked, answers received, ignorance abated
That run cap and the electrical in the coil section is interesting... very interesting..
I thought capacitors held more of a liquid? That looks like candle wax to me.
I have seen an oily residue in the electrical compartment, but never a wax like that.
I have been around when a cap blew up like the last pic. YIKES!
Seatonheating "Well, when you are the salesman/layout guy/installer/owner, you kind of have to watch out for yourself."
Words to live by my friends.
They are all missing their cardboard boxes.
Ditto on the missing box, must have been a slacker cap bandit.
Holy cap batman.
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HeHe Cap poop
Pic 1, Nice work.
Pic 2, Never seen a cap do that.
Pic 3, I have seen this. Fun to be there when it happens.
I found a blown cap on a unit last year, it looked similar to pic 3. It spewed this very sticky, clear, thick gelatinous like substance everywhere. Soap and water wouldn't touch it, I had to use WD-40 to get it off my hands
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I am looking for a command line encryption program that can encrypt a specific part of a line within a file.
The program must run on unix and idealy should be a commercial product.
Well, if you're looking for a command-line encryption program, you could try GnuPG (www.gnupg.org). It's based on Open PGP, is free, and is available for both Windows and *nix. It's pretty simple actually, I had to use it once for a class. However, it only does the whole file, not parts.
Now, I must ask because I'm curious as hell... why do you only want to encrypt *part* of a file and not the whole thing?? I don't know of any encryption program that does this, but if anyone else does, please let me know.
Well, you could extract the part of the file you want to encrypt, pipe the output into the gnupg program, and then redirect it back into the file - that should work in theory.
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I need to encrypt part of the file because it is sensitive information. I won't be able to work with the rest of the data if the whole file is encrypted.
Could try importing your data to a RDBM then encrypt the data to and from specific fields within a record. Dont know if that fits your needs but I'm a believer that flat file storage often times doesnt make sense with the availabilty of quality free DBMS's like MySql. But like I said this may not suit your needs.
\"If computers are to become smart enough to design their own successors, initiating a process that will lead to God-like omniscience after a number of ever swifter passages from one generation of computers to the next, someone is going to have to write the software that gets the process going, and humans have given absolutely no evidence of being able to write such software.\" -Jaron Lanier
Actually, I am importing the data into Oracle already. The data needs to be encrypted before it is loaded into Oracle.
Well what encyrption would you like to use and how are you importing the data? I would imagine you are using a script to import your fields, just add a routine in the script to encrypt the desired data as you break up the original file before stuffing it into Oracle,then you let that bad boy rip on the data. Take a look at the DBMS_OBFUSCATION_TOOLKIT for Oracle.
I'm sure you could write a stored procedure to handle this stuff for you. Oracle is sum powerful mojo.
To be honest, I don't care what encryption I use. I am actually using Oracle's sqlload command to load the data into Oracle. The data actually is coming from a number of different machines to one central one. I require the data to be encrypted before I transfer it from the originating machine. In a pinch, I do need to be able to unencrypt the data as well.
Ok, I think I should consolidate what I am looking for.
- Command line encryption program (preferably commercial)
- Must be able to encrypt part of a line (like position 23 to 36)
- Must be able to decrypt the data
- I still need to be able to use the encrypted data. I don't need to know what the data is, just that a given line is different than the next.
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As of 2012, global military spending is $1.7 trillion. Too much money, in my opinion, is being spent on hatred and violence through war instead of being used to promote something like education for all. The Millenium Developmental goals we're discussed in a conference in Mexico City on September 10, 2009; where Mexico City stated "Stressing that human security could only be achieved through human development, civil society representatives called on Governments worldwide to cut defence budgets in favour of poverty reduction and sustainable development strategies." This was stated back in 2009 and the global military spending has only increased since then, and yet, so has global poverty and need in developing countries. I believe that education should be at the top of global agenda because our future starts with what we know. Education is the forefront of the world of tomorrow. Don't hate, educate.
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Ten years from today, as you saddle up to your favorite watering hole, grip your barley soda and argue with the random guy sitting next to you about who is the greatest running back in NFL history, two names inevitably will surface: Barry Sanders and Adrian Peterson.
Well, we get a jump-start on the dispute.
The now-annual Madden Cover Vote, which this year asked fans to decide between "old school" and "new school" players, comes down to the shiftiest running back of the 1990s versus today's human steamroller.
Peterson has bowled over the competition in the fan voting much like he did to 2012 NFL defenses, winning each of his matchups with at least 64 percent of the votes. Sanders, however, faced a gauntlet the last three rounds, knocking off the newly retired Ray Lewis, followed by Hall of Famers Joe Montana and Jerry Rice.
Even Sanders was shocked that he squeaked past arguably the greatest player of all time:
Wow. Just wow.I can't believe I won, I can't believe I beat @jerryrice THE Jerry Rice. Thanks so the fans. This is all you guys.â Barry Sanders (@BarrySanders) April 17, 2013
Sanders will try to make it back-to-back Detroit Lions on the Madden cover after Calvin Johnson arguably snapped the "Madden cover curse" with his record-breaking season -- perhaps the curse just took it out on the Lions' win-loss record.
The debate about who is the GOAT never will end, but soon (the winner will be revealed April 24), one side will get to add polling data to its argument.
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MILWAUKEE - Terry Dvorak heard about the billboard on U.S. 41 - "Young Mother Needs Live Kidney Donor. Is It You?"
Two words resonated: "young mother." She had that in common with the patient seeking the kidney, Stephanie Henderson, an information technology worker from Kimberly, Wis.
Dvorak kept thinking: This woman needs to be there for her kid. Dvorak, a mother herself, would help this woman she'd never met.
She announced her intentions to her husband in a way that said, "This is not up for debate."
"She just told me she was going to donate a kidney," Carl Dvorak recalled.
That's when things got complicated.
It turned out Terry Dvorak, 46, could not give her kidney to Henderson, much as she wanted to. Tests showed they were not a match. In years past, that would have left Henderson stuck on the Froedtert Hospital kidney list, where the wait is between three and five years.
This time, however, Dvorak's offer of a kidney would set in motion a chain of gift-giving across the country. Her incompatible kidney allowed the hospital to use a relatively new strategy that is transforming organ transplantation.
On Nov. 28 a kidney from Maryland arrived at Froedtert. That afternoon Henderson, 38, was wheeled away for surgery.
"See you on the flip side," she told her husband.
In an effort to save lives and health-care costs, computers at the National Kidney Registry's offices in Babylon, N.Y., Ramsey, N.J., and Chicago connect dozens of hospitals around the country representing hundreds of patients, in a never-ending bid to link each person in need of a kidney to someone with a kidney to give.
The idea is that if Dvorak's kidney doesn't work for Henderson in Wisconsin, maybe it works for another patient at another hospital. Maybe there is a California hospital with a patient who needs a kidney just like Dvorak's. And maybe that hospital has someone who tried to donate to the local patient, but couldn't - just like Dvorak.
Sometimes the best kidney for a patient in Wisconsin happens to be in California or somewhere else.
And if the hospital in California cannot directly help the hospital in Wisconsin, maybe it can help indirectly by sending a kidney to New Jersey or North Carolina to obtain another that will work for the Wisconsin patient.
These chains can grow into massive feats of coordination. One involved 30 kidneys and 60 patients.
"The computer system goes crazy trying to make these matches all day long," said Joe Sinacore, director of research and education at the registry's office in Ramsey, N.J.
This year the registry is on target to arrange 225 transplants, roughly the combined total of the three years from 2008 to 2010. The increase in transplants is helping reduce the time people wait for kidneys, and that in turn reduces national health-care costs.
While they wait for transplants, many patients are forced onto hemodialysis. Three times a week for several hours each time they are connected to a machine that does what their kidneys no longer can do reliably: filter waste products from the blood. The annual cost of the sessions can reach $100,000 or more.
And some patients stay on dialysis year after year.
By comparison, a transplant costs roughly $100,000. Afterward patients also require medications to suppress their immune systems, an annual cost approaching $25,000.
Health-care providers are saving money for kidney patients within a year and a half after a transplant, said Allan Roza, a transplant surgeon at Froedtert and professor at the Medical College of Wisconsin.
Paired exchanges, as these kidney swaps are known, have gained popularity in the United States in recent years and have helped the nation's kidney donation system function more efficiently.
"The concept started in Asia decades ago," said Johnny C. Hong, who was recruited this year from the Geffen School of Medicine at the University of California, Los Angeles, to run newly reorganized transplant programs for Froedtert, Children's Hospital and the Medical College.
"Most of the countries in Asia don't have a �brain dead law,' so the only source (for kidneys) was live donors," he said.
In the United States and other nations, doctors can harvest organs from people who have been declared brain dead provided the people have arranged to be organ donors or that their relatives give permission.
Still, there are always fewer kidneys than needed. Each year about 4,500 people like Stephanie Henderson die waiting for a kidney.
"So we have a lot to do," said Sinacore at the kidney registry.
Mom gets kidney, again
The transplant at Froedtert Hospital on Nov. 28 was not Henderson's first. Headaches, blood in the urine and double vision led to her diagnosis of kidney failure in 1991. The following year she received a kidney from her mother at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn.
She was 17. Doctors said it was very likely she would need another transplant at some point in her life.
In late August 2004, Henderson's kidney problems returned, and by June of 2005 she was on peritoneal dialysis, a less burdensome form of dialysis. In 2010, after her appendix ruptured, she was forced back onto hemodialysis.
Twelve hours a week hooked up to a machine was something she did not need. Henderson was the family's primary breadwinner. She was raising a teenage son, Traven.
She had half-assumed that her father would be her backup kidney donor if she ever needed one. But people who have received one transplant become much harder to match for another. Her antibodies, the defense against bacteria, viruses and other invaders, had changed after the first transplant. Her father's kidney was no longer a match, and her antibodies posed a serious challenge for other potential donors.
As Henderson put it: "I was the bully in the petri dish. When you put my blood in with their blood, my antibodies would just demolish their blood."
Plea hits roadside, Web
In 2011, the billboard went up on the highway and www.FindStephAKidney.com went online. By then she had been on the kidney waiting list for seven years. There had been moments of promise when a match seemed close, but she never let herself get sucked in by hope.
"The only thing I ever really asked of God," she said, "was, �Let me see my kid reach 18.'?"
When Hong arrived at Froedtert and the Medical College this year, no patient from the Milwaukee area had been involved in a kidney chain. Hong and the medical staff, in particular Chris Johnson, chief of transplant surgery, worked to change that by registering Milwaukee's solid organ transplant program with the national registry. Joining the clearinghouse in May brought a swift payoff. Soon, a chain was assembling. Started by the altruistic donation of a kidney in California, the chain would link eight patients and four kidneys.
One kidney would be arriving in Milwaukee from Maryland; it would go to Stephanie Henderson.
Another would be leaving Milwaukee; Dvorak's kidney matched a patient in California.
Behind this organ match making lay the complex logistics of scheduling flights, backup flights and couriers for the kidneys. Two different medical teams in two locations would have to coordinate the work on each kidney. The doctors removing the kidney and those receiving it would have to be in phone contact.
Long before the surgery, Dvorak and the other donors had faced their own logistics, requests for medical histories, meetings with dietitians and interviews with social workers and transplant psychologists. Approval for donation seldom takes less than two months.
Cami Meunier, a 37-year-old nurse at Froedtert who serves as the transplant coordinator for the paired exchange program, had come to know Stephanie Henderson and Terry Dvorak. They were alike in some respects, reserved at first. Their lives had been in a holding pattern for months, at least as far as their kidneys are concerned.
When Dvorak learned that, yes, after all of the monthly updates, the actual moment of donation had arrived, she felt a tremor of panic. A college theater student, she was directing performances of "The Best Christmas Pageant Ever." She could not miss it.
She directed performances Friday and Saturday and arrived at Froedtert on Sunday. Her surgery on Monday was a few days after Henderson's.
Different doctors at Froedtert performed the surgeries.
Transplant surgeon Roza inspected the kidney that had come in for Henderson, trimmed away the excess tissue and readied the blood vessels that would need to be attached to those inside the patient.
He made the standard incision, about 8 to 10 inches long, in Henderson's lower abdomen. Roza likes to have music in the surgery room, but he makes an exception for live organ transplants.
"I want absolutely no distractions," he said.
The surgery took about two hours. He followed the standard transplant procedure, leaving inside Henderson the old, failed kidneys. She would now have four, though only one would work. Once the new kidney had been connected to the blood vessels, it began doing its job right away. The new kidney started making urine.
Although Roza has performed these surgeries many times, he felt as he always does.
"I never lose the sense of awe and amazement that we're able to do this," he said. "Through the gifts of others, we're able to save lives."
The day after the surgery, Henderson met Dvorak for the first time. Even though they were links in a chain, not directly connected by blood or tissue, the moment was almost too much, too overwhelming.
Henderson did not know what to say beyond "Thank you." Words seemed inadequate.
Her family added their own thanks, telling Dvorak that she was "an angel," and that she was the reason Henderson would get to do so many things in years to come. Dvorak felt awkward. "Angel" was not how she saw herself.
The two women hugged. They had run out of things to say.
A few days later, on the morning of Dec. 3, it was Dvorak's turn to leave for surgery. Her husband was nervous.
"Don't die," he told her.
She was delivered to the hands of Johnson, chief of transplant surgery at Froedtert and a veteran of about 500 such procedures. Asleep, Dvorak was tipped on her left side. The procedure was laparoscopic, meaning that it required a relatively small incision, about three inches or so. When Johnson had removed the kidney, Dvorak's remaining kidney began to ramp up, assuming a larger share of the work. Eventually the single kidney would go from doing about 50 percent of the work to 75 percent. She would never again have 100 percent of her kidney function.
Blood was flushed from the donated kidney and it was triple-wrapped in plastic resembling a Ziploc bag. The bag was placed in a cooler and embedded in ice. Then a courier drove the cooler to the airport.
It was on its way to the patient in California.
A few days later the magnitude of what had happened finally hit the woman whose image had been plastered on a billboard above U.S. 41, the woman with the new kidney.
Henderson was in her hospital room. From bed, she watched a woman walk gingerly along the hallway past her door.
Dvorak paused, glanced inside and greeted Henderson:


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We paired Kamil Kladeklo with the experienced top Mirek Ceslar for this Screentest. Kamil is a very nice looking guy and I was very keen to see him with another guy. Things start out with Mirek doing a brief interview with Kamil. Mirek starts things off rubbing Kamil's chest and licking at a nipple before kissing him. Kamil responds to the kissing and he begins to feel Mirek as well. Mirek takes Kamil's cock out of his jeans and starts to wank it as he kisses him. Kamil's cock is very hard indeed as Mirek wanks it. They remove Kamil's jeans and his cock is staning proud. Mirek continues to wank it and then takes it in his mouth for sucking. Mirek's mouth slide that big, hard cock in and out, lips closed tightly around the shaft. Mirek wants to move on to the next step and kisses Kamil and then pulls his own cock out and presents it to Kamil for sucking. Kamil is eager to please and does well at sucking and then licking up and down the shaft while he also plays with Mirek's balls. Mirek then positions Kamil for a 69, with Kamil underneath and Mirek on top. They both suck, with gusto, Kamil's head rocking up and down to get the cock and Mirek's ass is in full view as the cock is sucked. Next Mirek pays attention to Kamils nice hairy ass. With a leg in the air the hole is exposed and Mirek slips two fingers into that tight hole. He really works the hole, as he also wanks Kamil's cock. Three fingers stretch the hole very well and make it ready for cock. Mirek's cock is hard and ready, so he slides it into Kamil's ass and begins to fuck him. Holding Kamil's leg up gives Mirek full access to that hole and he really fucks deep and hard, with Kamil's cock rock hard and in need of wanking again. Mirek then lays on the bed and Kamil climbs on top, with Mirek holding him so that his ass is exposed and available for his cock. That cock rams into Kamil's ass so deep as it fucks it as hard as it can go. Kamil stays completely hard as he gets fucked and they move to a doggy style, with Kamil's cock pushed back between his legs and Mirek pounds his ass. Mirek really works that eager hole with his cock slamming in and out until he cant hold back and he moves to shoot his load all over Kamil's face and chest, squirting everywhere. Kamil then takes the spent cock in his mouth to drain it more completely. This sends Kamil over the edge as well and he blows his load too. To bring a wonderful screentest to an end, with Kamil proving that he is a great bottom.
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Rudy Bodlak and Jan Sadecky are both great additions to our ensemble, with good looks and very willing attitudes. So we decided to pair them up for a duo. The scene starts with Jan recling on the sofa, naked to the waist. He is feeling his body, running his chands over his chest, paying particular attention to rubbing his nipples. Then he get up onto his knees and continues to run his hands over himself. Suddenly he is joined by Rudy, who is standing behind him and his hands are working over Jan's body. As he does so Jan looks up into Rudy's eyes. Rudy slowly lowers his face and kisses Jan on the lips. Jan then starts to kiss and lick on one of Rudy's nipples, which clearly has an affect as Rudy opens his jeans to reveal that his cock is rock hard and in need of some attention. The jeans are pushed down so that we can see Rudy's bubble butt as Jan takes that stiff cock in his mouth and begins to suck. He sucks on Rudy's cock, taking it deep in this throat and then licking up and down the shaft. He then closes his mouth over that cock again and Rudy then starts to fuck it into Jan's mouth. A change of position sees Jan's jeans coming off and his cock rock hard too. As Jan lays naked, with his cock at attention Rudy takes some oil and rubs it over Jan's chest and then starts to suck on that big cock. It looks massive as Rudy sucks on it, with his lips closed tight around the head and working up and down on it. Then he starts to lick on the shaft as well before Jan fucks that mouth. Jan wants to move things on, and places Rudy on his back, with his legs in the air. He takes some oil to lubes Rudy's ass and then he begins to finger that tight hole. The finger goes in very deep, with Rudy grimacing somewhat as it does. Then a second finger works its way in a little, before coming out and being replaced by a thumb. Jan judges that Rud's hole is ready and puts him on his knees and slides his big, fat cock deep inside. He starts to fuck Rudy, slowly at first, with Rudy feeling every thrust. Then Jan speeds up and fucks that tight ass nice and deep. The guys change position, with Rudy sitting on that big dick and riding it, his own cock bouncing around as he does so. Jan then starts to fuck up into that ass and the guys take turns in doing the work, with Jan's cock stretching Rudy's hole wide as it is filled with big cock. Jan is ready to cum and Rudy lays down next to him Jan shoot his load all over Rudy's face. Rudy then sucks on Jan's spent cock. Rudy then moves up to Jans mouth and kisses him before laying down to deliver his cumshot. Jan kneels over Rudy and watches for the cum to shoot out of his cock, as Rudy wanks himself to a climax. Jan's then sucks on Rudy's cock to drain it completely before kissing him again, bringing a wonderful scene to an end.
Hi Everybody, this is Geoff substituting for Bill again today. I will give you an update on Bill's progress, as I understand it, but I haven't managed to chat with him yet today. His operation was on Tuesday and, according to the doctor, everything went as expected. The doctor inserted some wire pins as well to keep the foot as steady as possible, and Bill will have to stay off his feet, as much as possible, for quite sometime. He left hospital yesterday and is now back at home to recuperate. He still has quite a bit of pain in the foot, which is to be expected. Hopefully the pain will recede fairly soon. I am sure Bill will soon be back with us all in newsletter land, and able to give a fuller and better update than I can provide.
Today's newsletter has some really good sets for you to explore. Kamil Kladelko appears in his screentest, with Mirek Ceslar, Milos Capek does a fabulous erotic video, the lovely Rudy Bodlak has his stills shoot, as does Radko Stencl. We also have a special treat of Cumshot Compilation 2012 #1, which is a must for lovers of cum.
Our castings today are Jan Hrach, Radek Skocik and Tomas Strasak. My pick for today is Tomas, as he has already shown his prowess in duos.
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A game day retreat; low taxes and College Station ISD. Brazos River frontage, rolling terrain, cleared pastures, hayfields, dense wooded areas, numerous creeks and ponds, a 13 acre lake and springs. A 3 bedroom, 2 bath camp house with numerous upgrades provides lodging for those weekend events. Several out buildings include barns, sheds, and covered awnings for hay and implement storage. Could be an excellent hunting resort....deer, hogs, ducks, fish!
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Artists, Designers, and Other Creatives Are Bringing This Bauhaus Ballet into the Digital Age
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Each work is from the edition of 12 produced by Venini for Moss. Incised manufacturer's mark to edge of each example: [Venini per Moss 2005 Campane di Campana 9/12] and [Venini per Moss 2005 Campane di Campana 1/12].
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Moss, New York | Collection of Michael Maharam, New York
The Campana brothers are famed Brazilian furniture designers. Most celebrated for their design of the Vermelha chair—an iconic piece handmade from a huge length of rope, wrapped and woven to create the chair's nest-like structure. "The Vermelha chair is an homage to chaos," says Humberto. "It's a portrait of Brazil, a melting pot of culture and races...and I try to manifest this idea into a kind of chair that is chaotic in its very construction." The chair was the first piece of work exhibited by Brazilians at the Museum of Modern Art, New York. Their studio continues to produce and develop furniture made from ordinary everyday materials that have been discarded, such as rope, fabric, wood, cardboard, plastic tubes, and aluminum wire.
Brazilian, based in Sao Paulo, Brazil
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Market close: NZ stocks continue upward New Year march
New Zealand shares rose today, with good gains among stocks exposed to the Auckland economy and more strong sales figures from software-as-a-service firm Diligent Board Services, which pushed it to new highs.
The NZX 50 Index rose 17.038 points, or 0.41 percent, to 4170.955. Within the index 24 stocks rose, 19 fell, and seven were unchanged on turnover of $104.79 million.
While carrying a weighting of only 1.1 percent in the NZX 50, Diligent hit an all-time trading high of $5.61 during the day, according to Reuters, and closed up 0.9 percent at $5.54, capping an increase of 151.8 percent in the last 12 months.
The company reported sales for the 12 months to December 31 of $US26.3 million, a 66 percent increase over the previous year, greater than all its trading years since listing in 2007 combined.
The report to the market also disclosed a decline in the rate of sales growth, but an equities vice-president at NZ First Capital, James Schofield, says retention rates of 97 percent and the company's banked cash of $US33.4 million indicates Diligent's potential for strong, high-margin growth.
Diligent markets software that allows company board papers to be digitally organised and presented for directors.
"SAAS companies generally have very high margins once they hit critical mass," Mr Schofield says. "Diligent is right in the top range."
Elsewhere in the index, Auckland-centred companies Vector, Auckland International Airport and Sky City were all strong performers as a business confidence survey and real estate figures indicated a more buoyant year for the country's largest city and the New Zealand economy generally.
Vector was up 3.65 percent to $2.84, to lead the index higher, while SkyCity was third strongest riser for the day, up 2.6 percent to $3.95, followed by AIA, up 1.82 percent to $2.795.
Outdoor equipment chain Kathmandu recovered ground lost yesterday, up 2.86 percent to $2.16, for the second strongest gain of the day.
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Onorato Has Four Hits On Day For Bulldogs
FAIRFIELD, Conn. – There were no extra innings in Yale's Wednesday doubleheader with Fairfield. That doesn't mean there wasn't drama. The Bulldogs nearly pulled off a big seventh-inning rally in the first game but came up one run short and dropped a 5-4 decision to the Stags. Fairfield went on to win the second game 6-2.
Sarah Onorato had four hits in the two games for Yale, which had played extra innings in four of its previous six games entering the day.
The Bulldogs trailed 5-1 entering the seventh inning of the first game but as they have all season fought to the last out. Chelsea Janes walked to start the rally, and Kelsey Warkentine followed with a single to centerfield. Both runners advanced on a passed ball, and Riley Hughes delivered a sacrifice fly to centerfield. After the second out, Tori Balta singled, driving home Warkentine and keeping the Bulldogs alive. Onorato then pulled Yale within one when she doubled home Balta and took third on an error. Fairfield pitcher Rebecca Trott, though, retired the next hitter to end the game.
The Stags (14-15) scored four runs in the first inning to grab the lead. The big blow was a three-run home run by Rae Ball.
After that, Yale pitcher Kylie Williamson settled down beautifully. She allowed only four more hits over the next four innings and in one stretch retired eight straight hitters. Alex Lucas pitched the sixth inning for the Bulldogs.
Yale (6-12) started its comeback with a run in the fifth. Hughes singled and advanced to second on an error. Jennifer Ong followed with an RBI single up the middle.
Onorato was 3-for-4 in the game, and Christy Nelson added a pair of hits, including a double.
In the second game, Meg Johnson went 2-for-4 with an RBI for the Bulldogs.
This time it was Yale that jumped out to the early lead on Johnson's RBI ground out in the first.
Fairfield, though, used the long ball again in the bottom of the first. After Lauren Liseth's sacrifice fly tied the score, Alli Wigland homered to give the Stags the lead.
Fairfield added three more runs in the fourth to seize control. The Bulldogs got one back in the fifth on Onorato's RBI single and threatened for more by loading the bases but couldn't capitalize.
Chelsey Dunham pitched five innings, allowing only three earned runs for Yale. Kristen Leung tossed a scoreless sixth inning.
The start of the doubleheader was delayed approximately 30 minutes after some rain showers moved through the area early in the afternoon.
The Bulldogs open Ivy League play with doubleheaders against Columbia on Friday at 2 p.m. and Penn on Saturday at 12:30 p.m.
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KHARTOUM, Sudan (AP) — Sudanese police arrested at least 10 university students on Wednesday following days of unrest in the capital, witnesses said.
The students were arrested early Wednesday morning at Omdurman Islamic University in Khartoum, witnesses told The Associated Press. This followed clashes the day before between students from war-wracked Darfur and pro-Islamist students. A fire broke out in a dormitory building.
The incident is the latest in weeks of turmoil rocking Sudan since the government implemented austerity measures, setting off protests and government crackdowns.
Amnesty International said Wednesday that the Sudanese government "must end its violent repression of demonstrations." The group said in a statement that many protesters have been arrested or injured.
"The response to the recent protests is deeply troubling," said Audrey Gaughran of Amnesty International. With reports that some protesters are planning to return to the streets, "it is vital that the Sudanese authorities' repressive methods are curtailed before more people are harmed," she said.
The arrests came after four days of protests in the capital over the deaths of four students from a university in central Sudan this month. The students, from Darfur, were protesting over their university's refusal to let them register for classes without paying full tuition. A peace deal the government signed in 2006 exempted students from Darfur from paying tuition fees.
Authorities said the four students drowned. Local rights groups accused the government of foul play. One of the groups, called Girifna--"we are fed up" in Arabic--called on citizens to join non-violent demonstrations.
This week Human Rights Watch called on Sudanese authorities to investigate the deaths of the students. The New York-based group said that Sudanese security forces used tear gas, beat protesters with sticks and batons, and arrested dozens while dispersing protests in Khartoum on Sunday and Monday.


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Helen Of Troy Limited To Release And Webcast Fiscal Third Quarter Financial Results On Wednesday, January 9, 2013
By: PR Newswire
Dec. 26, 2012 07:30 AM
EL PASO, Texas, Dec. 26, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Helen of Troy Limited (NASDAQ, NM: HELE) designer, developer and worldwide marketer of brand-name household and personal care products, today announced that it will release fiscal third quarter financial results prior to the opening of trading on Wednesday, January 9, 2013.
The Company's quarterly earnings conference call has been scheduled for Wednesday, January 9, 2013, at 11:00 a.m. ET. Gerald J. Rubin, Chairman, Chief Executive Officer and President, Thomas J. Benson, Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, and John Boomer, Senior Vice President, will host the conference call. Members of the news media, investors and the general public are invited to access a live broadcast of the conference call via the Investor Relations page of the Company's website at www.hotus.com. This event will be archived and available for replay through February 28, 2013.
About Helen of Troy Limited: Helen of Troy Limited is a leading global consumer products company offering creative solutions for its customers through a strong portfolio of well-recognized and widely-trusted brands, including: Housewares: OXO®, OXO Good Grips®, OXO Soft Works®, OXO tot® and OXO Steel®; Personal Care: Revlon®, Vidal Sassoon®, Dr. Scholl's®, Pro Beauty Tools®, Sure®, Pert Plus®, Infusium23®, Brut®, Ammens®, Hot Tools®, Bed Head®, Karina®, Ogilvie® and Gold 'N Hot®; and Healthcare/Home Environment: Vicks®, Braun®, Honeywell®, PUR®, Febreze®, Stinger®, Duracraft® and SoftHeat®. The Revlon® trademark is used under license from Revlon. The Vidal Sassoon®, Vicks®, Braun® and Febreze® trademarks are used under license from The Procter & Gamble Company. The Dr. Scholl's® trademark is used under license from Merck. The Honeywell® trademark is used under license from Honeywell. The Bed Head® trademark is used under license from Unilever.
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