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Bruce Schumm
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April 29, 2014
Almost everyone has heard of the Standard Model of Particle Physics, and, while stifling a yawn, can regurgitate its particle content: six quarks, a handful of force particles like the photon and gluon, and of course now the Higgs boson. But what many fewer enjoy is an appreciation for the deep underlying mathematical structure that, once grasped, reduces the principles needed to understand the fundamental underpinnings of almost all everyday phenomena (and a lot of non-everyday phenomena to boot) to a set of almost stark simplicity. In this colloquium, making use only of elementary mathematics, I will introduce the essential notions of group theory needed to present the current theory force that binds nuclei together (the strong nuclear force). I will then discuss how it is that we can only understand the existence of composite nuclei, and thus atoms, and thus life itself, if we ascribe to nature certain properties that arise solely from the scrawlings of the abstract mathematician.

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There's never a dull week on Wall Street. Let's go over some of the news that will shape the week to come.
Herbalife (NYSE:HLF) has been busy this past week. The stock took a hit when Bill Ackman promised to expose the distribution of nutritional products as a pyramid scheme. He has been vocally short the stock since late 2012. However, Herbalife shares soared the day after Ackman's presentation didn't offer up the smoking gun that some were expecting.
Herbalife reports quarterly results on Monday, giving it the perfect opportunity to counter Ackman's latest allegations.
Sirius XM Radio (NASDAQ:SIRI) has a monopoly on satellite radio, but a growing number of connected cars and tech giants snapping up streaming applications are making things interesting. Sirius XM's still growing at a reasonable clip in this climate, and improving margins are giving it greater flexibility to return money to its shareholders in the form of stock buybacks. Sirius XM's board has authorized $6 billion in repurchases over the past two years.
Sirius XM reports on Tuesday morning. The market's hoping that it will revise some aspects of its guidance higher, as it has done through many quarters over the past few years.
SodaStream (NASDAQ:SODA) finally showed signs of life on Thursday on takeover speculation. Bloomberg News reported that the company whose beverage maker that turns still water into flavored soft drinks is in talks with a private-equity firm to get taken out at $40 a share. That would be a level a little more than half of last year's highs, but SodaStream has been hit with operational hiccups in recent quarters.
We'll get a fresh snapshot on SodaStream come Wednesday. Analysts see another period of margin contraction on slowing top-line growth. The world's two soda giants, PepsiCo and Coca-Cola, have posted flat growth in carbonated beverages, but SodaStream should continue to grow its global reach despite the challenges as we work our way down the profit-slurping income statement.
One of last year's hottest industries, 3-D printing, has been one of this year's biggest laggards. The potential of 3-D printing is evident, but expensive machines and slow printing have limited its actual use. 3D Systems (NYSE:DDD) reports on Thursday, and as one of the industry's two biggest players, it will give us a good read on the demand for 3-D products.
The last day of the trading week is typically a quiet one, but that's not the case during earnings season. Several companies will be reporting on Friday morning, including Catamaran (UNKNOWN:CTRX.DL). Pharmacy benefits management has proved to be a steady niche for investors, despite the ups and downs of health-care reform.
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We've taken a bit of a blogging hiatus lately due to my shoulder surgery, vacations, and the law librarians' national meeting. I've been catching up on my current awareness reading and saw an interesting article in the NY Times about a defense motion to bar the introduction of a list of books read by the defendant in prison from a homicide trial. The defendant, Steven Hayes, is a "career thief" who was arrested outside the home of the Petit family in Chesire, Connecticut, several years ago. When police entered the Petit home, they discovered that three members of the Petit family had been murdered. Hayes has been charged with the homicides and a number of related felonies. His death penalty trial is scheduled to start this September, and his defense team filed a motion requesting that the books that Hayes checked out of the prison library during his incarceration prior to the killings not be allowed as evidence in the trial. The defense indicated that some of the books contained material that could be considered "criminally malevolent in the extreme" and jurors might be unduly prejudiced if they knew that Hayes had checked these books out of the prison library prior to the alleged homicides.
No one has disclosed which books are on the defendant's prison library checkout record, but the defense motion is now resulting in some scrutiny of CT prison library contents. The article states that State Senator John A. Kissel of the Connecticut
Legislature's Judiciary Committee was "troubled by the
suggestions about Mr. Hayes's prison reading." Senator Kissel declared that he would send a
"letter to corrections officials demanding to know what books were
available to inmates."
If this article on the American Library Association website is accurate, "true crime" and "crime fiction" are some of the most heavily-requested materials within prison libraries (also check out this "most wanted" jail library book list from a library school). Should prisoners be allowed to read fiction and non-fiction materials that contain graphic depictions of crimes? How do you define what constitutes a "graphic" depiction of crime? What about classics like "Crime and Punishment"?
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I was on the fence about getting a Kindle a year ago, but my husband surprised me with one last fall, and I'm glad that he did. I was doing a lot of traveling between California and the East Coast, and the Kindle is truly a godsend for those unfortunate enough to be spending a lot of time in airports and on planes. I've read about 15 books on the Kindle, and I don't experience any eye fatigue from the screen. I've changed the text size to be slightly larger than the standard text size, and while that means that I have to click to turn pages more frequently, it seems to keep eye fatigue at bay. You can read the Kindle in a variety of light settings, including bright, bright sunlight.
The Kindle is pretty hardy. I've dropped it a few times, and it's survived. But my fears of hitting myself in the face with the Kindle when I fall asleep reading have been realized. I have bonked myself in the nose with the Kindle several times when I fell asleep reading, and yes, it hurts worse than having an open book fall on your face.
The battery life is amazing. If I turn the wireless off, I can read for several hours a day for over a week without having to recharge.
Browsing and buying in the Kindle store is extremely easy and fast. For example, I purchased and downloaded Wolf Hall and Matterhorn, two huge tomes, in less than 45 seconds. And there is a ton of classic literature available for free on the Kindle. I have the complete works of Charles Dickens on my Kindle now.
I do miss the ability to easily refer back to earlier pages. Professor James O'Donnell describes the Kindle reading experience perfectly in this Chronicle of Higher Ed article: "The Kindle is great for reading the way ancient Greeks read, on papyrus
scrolls, beginning at the beginning, proceeding linearly, getting to the
end, absorbed in one book, following the author's lead. That makes it
just fine for lots of fiction for entertainment or diversion." But when you're reading a more complex text, it can be really annoying to be unable to flip back quickly to an earlier chapter that contains important reference information. I still can't imagine using the Kindle or any other e-reader when I'm engaged in a complex research project. But would I recommend the Kindle for voracious readers who do a lot of traveling? Absolutely.
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I read a lot more than the average American. According to this Harris poll, only 37 percent of those surveyed read more than ten books a year. Last year, I read 113 books in one year. Given the volume of reading that I do, a lot of folks ask me if I'm going to get a Kindle 2 now that Amazon has revamped its wireless reader. My husband would be ecstatic if I replaced the stacks of books in our living room with a Kindle. And I have to admit, I'm sort of excited about the idea of being able to store and carry over 1,000 books on one lightweight device.
John Biggs does a nice job of making the case for and against buying the new Kindle, and several of the "don't buy" reasons jumped out at me. First, it's flimsy. Since I am notoriously hard on the electronic devices in my life, I would worry incessantly about breaking the Kindle. Even worse, it's battery-powered. I can't remember to keep my cell phone charged, so I'm dubious about my ability to keep the Kindle charged and ready to read. Third, Biggs notes that the new Kindle is bottom-heavy, which means if you fall asleep reading, it will bonk you on the nose. I'm not so worried about the nose-bonking since I usually end up with a book falling on me when I read in bed, but I worry about what would happen if you fell asleep reading the Kindle, then threw it out of the bed at night or rolled over and smushed it. Books can survive this sort of treatment -- they may get a little bent and bedraggled when you throw them or crush them, but they're still ready to read the next day.
The funniest "anti-purchase" reason supplied by Biggs: "Flight attendants will tell you to turn it off on take-off and landing.
You can't explain that it's epaper and uses no current. You just can't.
It's like explaining heaven to bears."
And the final reason? There's just something about a print book that I can't give up. Since I read text on a computer screen all day, picking up a print book is a signal to me that I'm reading for pleasure rather than for work, that I'm off-duty. And I like the sheer variety of books, their different sizes, shapes, and smells. I'm not ready to sacrifice those sensual aspects of reading yet, even if it would mean a tidier living room.
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The New York Times reported yesterday that American adults are reading more. According to a NEA report, about 50 percent of Americans said that they read at least one novel, short story, poem or play in the previous 12 months. That may not seem like a percentage worth celebrating, but in 2002, just 46.7 percent of Americans reported that they engaged in some form of literary reading. Looking for a good book? Check out NPR's Book Notes, Amazon's book blog, Omnivoracious, or the Seattle Public Library's blog, Shelf Talk.
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Many animal owners look to their community veterinarians for routine checkups, immunizations, and treatment of minor illnesses and injuries. Community practice veterinarians are general practitioners, like family doctors. However, like family doctors, community practice veterinarians may see patients that could benefit from the care of a specialist. Dr. Leah Cohn, Professor of Small Animal Internal Medicine and Director of Graduate Studies for the Department of Veterinary Medicine and Surgery, wants people to know that veterinary specialists exist, and at the University of Missouri Veterinary Medical Teaching Hospital, those specialists are on call to help.
In a back corner of the University of Missouri's medical building, a few floors above the hospital and tucked away to the right, Habib Zaghouani watches a cellular war. He has been up there for seven years, with an army of graduate students and a colony of mice, trying to understand why our bodies attack us and how we can make them stop.
A selection of interviewees from the last 50 features of SyndicateMizzou discusses how they came to be involved in their field.
Jason Ellis leads the project that examines how a T cell decides whether to live or die after fighting an infection. These memory T cells, the ones that remain, keep the same illness from happening all over again, and vaccines are based on this same principle.
As the recipient of $1.5 million in grants from the National Institute of Health, Zaghouani is working to develop a new immunology center at the University of Missouri-Columbia. When it is finished, experts from around the world will be able to meet and exchange ideas.
Christine Hoeman is the head of Zaghouani's project researching infant immune systems, an effort that seeks to understand why a newborn is more likely to have allergic reactions and fevers. The project will hopefully result in better vaccines for babies.
Zaghouani's passion for immunology springs from a love of genetics and a fascination with the human immune system. He sees his work as more a hobby than a job, and has been able to share his knowledge of the subject with his many graduate students and lab technicians.
Zaghouani's third project has had great success. Cara Haymaker, who is in charge of this research program, reports that they have identified a successful treatment for experimental allergic encephalomyelitis, a disease affecting mice that is very similar to multiple sclerosis in humans. So far, the research team has been able to completely reverse the disease in mice with two forms of treatment.
Danielle Tartar leads the project that works to treat Type I diabetes. In mice, the team has been able to isolate treatment and calm the immune cells that attack the insulin-producing cells. They are now working to create a form of that treatment that can be administered orally. Thus far, they have been able to treat the disease with weekly shots, and they plan to begin testing these treatments on humans very soon.
Habib Zaghouani, along with his team of graduate and post-doctoral fellows, is working on four different projects in the lab. The first examines why newborn babies are so susceptible to infection, the second tries to understand how the immune system's memory works, while the third and fourth aim at developing treatments for specific diseases: type I diabetes and multiple sclerosis.


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You will surely enjoy your Spanish getaway in this beautiful and comfortable two-bedroom apartment in Barcelona. Located in the Eixample district, this apartment´s central location allows you to easily explore all aspects of Barcelona. It is positioned near two of the city´s most famous streets, Passeig de Gràcia and Avinguda Diagonal. Both have some of the best restaurants and shopping Barcelona has to offer. This apartment is perfect when travelling with family or a few friends as it can accommodate up to six people.This apartment provides the homey feel many look for when traveling. The apartment enjoys a traditional feel with brick walls and parquet flooring, as well as French windows to let the natural light in throughout the day, and a balcony for whenever you need to step out into the fresh air. You can also take a seat in the living room on the comfortable double sofa bed to watch television after a long vacation day. An Internet connection is provided making it easy to stay in touch with friends or family back home.The kitchen comes fully equipped with all of the appliances needed to prepare your favorite home-cooked meals, all in the privacy of this ideal home-away-from-home.Both bedrooms are furnished with two single beds with bedding already provided. There is one bathroom that has a walk-in shower and the towels needed for your stay.With air conditioning included, this brilliant apartment will help you enjoy your Barcelona experience to the full.Metro Station: Girona (L4)Please note: This building does not have an elevator.Please note: Check-ins on Sundays and public holidays carry a supplementary charge of 30 EUR. This charge also applies every day for check-ins after 8pm, and increases to 50 EUR for check-ins after midnight.
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Eixample is Catalan for ´extension´, meaning an extension of the old Barcelona city, and it is one of the most popular districts in the Catalan capital. Eixample was designed by Catalan-born architect, Ildefons Cerdà, who took traffic and sunlight (amongst many other things) into consideration when drawing up the plans of the new area.Eixample is now characterised by its octagonal blocks and its grid-like pattern, with wide streets and both commercial and residential areas. It is split into two parts, Eixample Esquerra (Left, or in Spanish, Izquierdo) and Eixample Dret (Right, or in Spanish, Derecho), and is home to one of the most famous streets in Barcelona, Passeig de Gràcia, known for its high fashion stores and trendy restaurants.The street is intersected by the long Avinguda Diagonal, which runs through the entire city.Eixample Derecho is home to many gems of ´Modernisme´ architecture, including the unique Casa Milà (La Pedrera), the colourful Casa Batlló and the towering Sagrada Familia, known as Gaudí´s unfinished masterpiece. You will also find plenty of great bars and cafés here, too, and if you decide to choose one of the many Barcelona apartments in Eixample Derecho for your stay, you will be able to easily explore the city, due to the neighbourhood´s convenient, central location and excellent public transportation services.


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Upon the discovery of an amazing discount bookstore (worth the drive to St Catherines!), I find myself with a stack of new books to read. Glancing across my bookshelves, I caught sight of several other titles I hadn't read yet. So, grabbing my trusty pen and pad, I made a list (I *heart* lists) of all the fiction books I've bought, but haven't read yet.
I'm pleased that the list isn't as long as I feared.
Here they are, in no order:
The conclusion of this list? I have to stop buying books :)
Also, what should I read next?
I'm pleased that the list isn't as long as I feared.
Here they are, in no order:
- "The Dragon and the Unicorn" by A.A. Attansio
- "Mistress of Rome" by Kate Quinn
- "The Rosetti Letter" by Christi Phillips
- "The Tsarina's Daughter" by Carolly Erickson
- "Rampant" by Diana Peterfreund
- "The Lady Elizabeth" by Alison Weir
- "Namaah's Kiss" by Jacqueline Carey (I have to read the rest of the series first!)
- "The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana" by Umberto Eco (I went through an Umberto Eco phase that died out before I read this one)
- "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo" by Stieg Larsson (I may never read this one)
- "Quiver" by Holly Luhning
- "The Replacements" by Brenna Yovanoff
- "Sidekicks" by Jack D Ferraiolo
- "Not Suitable for Family Viewing" by Vicki Grant (an autographed copy, from OLA - this also won the Red Maple award for 2011!)
- "Between Two Ends" by David Ward
- "Dawn" by Octavia E Butler
- "Shabanu" and "Haveli" by Suzanne Fisher Staples
- "The Handmaid's Tale" by Margaret Atwood
- "I, Claudius" by Robert Graves
- "The War of the Worlds" by H.G. Wells
- "Wizard's First Rule" by Terry Goodkind
- "Eye of the Dragon" by Stephen King
- "Kushiel's Avatar" by Jacqueline Carey
- "The Good Fairies of New York" by Martin Millar
The conclusion of this list? I have to stop buying books :)
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Hey all!
Yesterday I was working at GeekU on my malware removal course when one of my instructors mentioned a website that has a lot of missions that will learn you how to think like a hacker thinks by completing little exercises in the form of missions.
You'll first need to register at
and then you can get to the missions my clicking on the "missions" tab on top of the homepage.
As said in the title, it's for tech savvy people, as at least the basics are entirely built on exploiting flaws in codes, URL's and site structures.
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Hypertext markup language holds the password
The second mission is a tad harder;
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The child doesn't work, so look for the parent
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By Nile Gardiner World Last updated: November 19th, 2012
Barack Obama: hardly off to a flying start
It is only two weeks since his re-election, and his second term remains two months away, but Barack Obama is already blundering again on the world stage, with the kind of gaffes that would have been plastered on the front page of The New York Times if they had been committed by George W. Bush when he was in the White House. Obama's first term was littered with foreign policy gaffes, and there is every chance the second term will be more of the same.
On his trip to Asia this week, President Obama struggled to pronounce the name of Aung San Suu Kyi, the most prominent human rights activist in the world. As The Associated Press reports (hat tip: Drudge Report):
As Obama stood next to the world's most recognized democracy icon, he mispronounced her name repeatedly.
Ever gracious, Suu Kyi did not correct her American guest for calling her Aung YAN Suu Kyi multiple times during his statement to reporters after their meeting.
Proper pronunciation for the Nobel laureate's name is Ahng Sahn Soo Chee.
Obama also botched his greeting of Burmas new president, according to the AP:
The meeting came after Obama met with Myanmar's reformist new President Thein Sein a name he also botched.
As the two addressed the media, Obama called his counterpart "President Sein," an awkward, slightly affectionate reference that would make most Burmese cringe.
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Don't know if everyone realizes how huge a insult to touch a female in the southeast Asia without an invitation.
In their mind, it means he thinks he owns her or she is involved in a profession where he thinks it is acceptable to touch her IOW: a hooker.
This is one time I wish he had just bowed.
Smartest President in the history of the Universe, folks.
King Obama has no need to know the names of his underlings.
Someone asked me this morning if I was concerned about fact the country is going to hell economically yet he flys off to Asia.
I thought about that for a second and figured two things, any day with him out of the country is a good day. Second, I would only worry about his being out of the country rather than handling matters here if I thought he had a clue about how to fix one problem. This guy is a complete dope, I don't even think he could load a dishwasher.
While he is over in Asia, I hope he stumbles into one of those border conflicts.
The SRM will be all over this.............................../s
Dumb & Dumber
We are so screwed.
Never touch a persons hair, head or cheek, even if you consider it as a friendly gesture. Myanmar people would not consider it friendly, and will think you are rude.
Dont touch any part of a ladys body. http://www.myanmar2day.com/myanmar-culture-custom/2008/12/myanmar-etiquette-general-rules/
media and late shows will be over this right away, ARF
Hey, go easy, it's not his fault he's not very smart.
Do they speak Austrian in Burma?
I think that was the most moronic thing I've ever seen anyone do.
Never raise your underwear above your head. This is considered very rude.
Never clean your feet in the basin you used to clean your hands and face.
Never use the water from the drinking pot to wash your feet. Myanmar people will consider this an insult.
Never put your feet on the pillow used for the head, or sit on the pillow for the head.
Never use your feet to point to a thing or a place. This is an insult for a Myanmar (Burmese).
Dont touch any part of a ladys body. You might end up in a police station.
I think he also called the country 'Myanmar'. Myanmar is not the recognized name of the nation, because it lends legitimacy to the military junta who changed it.
Obungler in chief. What the hell is he doing there anyway? We have enough problems here.
And he has learned all these lessons very well, from his own in-house mentor, Joe Biden.
Subtle insult by mispronunciations, by violating cultural mores, and by an abiding, sneering show of arrogance in every confrontation. Hard to believe this guy is "likeable" in any social venue.
Just recently a FREEPER told me that I underestimate dear leader, I wonder if that is even possible. If I say that someone is flat broke but they turn out to actually have a net worth of two cents have I underestimated them?
Maybe it's all part of the "urban" culture. It seems that whenever I go to an inner-city waiting room and give my name to a receptionist, if she is one of Holder's people, I find that my last name gets a whole lot of unnecessary syllables added when I'm called.
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Fedora provides it in installer, though not as default AFAIR. But they enjoy thinking of themselves as of bleeding edge, so their example may not be indicative. Arch still doesn't provide boot time fsck for btrfs (there is a package in AUR, but that is unofficial anyway). Given that is rolling release and pretty much targetted at "powerusers", this should be indicative.
The openSUSE distribution has supported Btrfs for a while now. I do not think it'll be the default under the release after this coming one, but they have done a lot of work with Btrfs and integrating snapshots in with the YaST admin tools. They seem to be the only Linux distribution taking Btrfs really seriously at the moment. Fedora and Ubuntu both have Btrfs as an option at install time, but it isn't really well implemented in either distribution.


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Angel or devil?
|EN: To be an angel or to be a devil?
What's you choice? Maybe it's more fun to be a devil but why don't be both and change from one to the other when needed? 😉
Another black and white outfit, apart of the T-shirt print and the shoes, which surely are a great eye-catcher by themselves!
Anyway in the future I think you will see more colors.
IT: Essere un angelo oppure un diavolo?
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Jean-Baptiste Queru is the technical lead for the Android Open Source Project at Google. When he talks, we tend to listen. Many a time now, JBQ (as he's more commonly known) has come to the aid of speculating bloggers and explained situations with updates, Nexus devices and much more. Today, with the Sony Tablet S getting updated to Android 4 and Google selling the Galaxy Nexus directly recently, JBQ took a moment to share his thoughts on updates on Google+.
When it comes to Sony updating their Tablet S, JBQ says that the five months time it took them to complete the update was, "very reasonable." He continues on to say that the changes from Android 3 (Honeycomb) and Android 2.3 (Gingerbread) to Android 4 (Ice Cream Sandwich) are huge. A lot has changed from previous versions of Android to now, and the only reason Sony has managed to stay as up to date as they are is thanks to their contributions to the AOSP. ASUS' updates have also been very timely, but that's because of the tight relationship between ASUS and NVIDIA. Both companies are extremely focused on keeping their products up to date.
Continuing on the subject of updates, JBQ isn't too happy on how the Nexus program is playing out. But Google selling the Nexus directly will help that:
The part that blows my mind is that some variants of the Google-engineered flagship devices still haven't received Ice Cream Sandwich (or are stuck with older versions of Ice Cream Sandwich) because of delays introduced by operator approvals. I'm very glad that Google is back in the business of selling phones directly without any middlemen to interfere, and I'll be even happier when I see that program expanded to more countries.JBQGoogle
Personally, I take two important things out of this. For one, Google is most definitely aware of the woes delayed updates cause. Especially when it comes to Nexus devices. And number two, those delays aren't going to change if you buy a carrier regulated device. If you really, truly want your updates from Google, you have to buy your device from Google.
While none of that may be new information (in fact, it's starting to feel like we're beating a dead horse here), it's especially relevant after this past weeks news of Google deciding to sell the Galaxy Nexus directly. Even the support website for the Google sold GSM Nexus will be directly managed by Google. And that's all there is to it.
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Nightclub that sells 10p drinks raises prices... to 25p
You may have seen some newspapers going crackers over a nightclub that has been selling drinks for 10p. We're talking booze drinks here, not orange squash. After being hammered by health officials, they've seen the error of their ways and put their prices up.
To 25p a drink.
So what drink can you get from Mamas Paradise in Pontardawe? Shots of knock-off Sourz filled with antifreeze? Not on your Nelly. Clubbers have been knocking back 10p pints of Strongbow, Carlsberg and Fosters. Finally, a someone prices those drinks correctly!
They also have ridiculous offers on alcopops and shots, which means everyone the former Welsh steel town is having a wonderful time.
This isn't the first time the club bosses have had to put their prices up. They once sold booze for 1p, but they lost their licence for that. Still, at 25p, they're still determined to party out of the recession and Mamas Paradise will be keeping their prices low because they want to "defend people's right to party".
A spokesman for the club said: "Unfortunately, due to the publicity we had on Halloween we can no longer do the 10p per drink. We are keeping the price as low as possible to try and defend your right to party. We are still the cheapest night out you will get."
The club has been caught up in a long running battle with the licensing department at Neath Port Talbot Council over its quest to provide outrageously cheap booze.
Paul Roberts, the chief executive of the Abertawe Bro Morgannwg University Health Board, isn't happy, saying: "It is irresponsible to sell alcohol so cheaply. I call on licensees and the bodies which licence pubs and clubs to consider carefully the effects of encouraging people to drink in excess."
He probably then knocked back a shot glass of Malibu and then removed his top as 'Sex Bomb' came on.
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- shiftynifityBeats paying £8.50 for two becks in twatty shoreditch
- Father J.DRINK!
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|Indictment - The McMartin Trial
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Vivid and compelling
Dennis Littrell | SoCal | 08/29/2000
(4 out of 5 stars)
"This account of the most celebrated trial arising out of the child molestation and satanic abuse hysteria of the eighties and nineties-a witch hunt far worse than that of the McCarthy era in terms of lives destroyed and innocent people thrown in jail, and even worse than the Salem witch trials of the 17th century in extent, except that nobody was actually stoned or hanged, was only the tip of the iceberg. Hundreds of innocent people went to jail and some are still there. Nobody can give them back their lives, ruined by immoral prosecutors bent on career-building at any cost and by guilt-ridden latch key parents out to excite their blood lust. Yes, children do lie and more important, as this film demonstrates, they can be brainwashed and coerced into telling the most outrageous and horrific tales (and believing them) to escape the gestapo tactics of their interrogators. Oliver Stone produced, and Abby Mann, who wrote the celebrated Stanley Kramer film, "Judgement at Nuremberg" (1961) and Myra Mann penned the compelling script. James Woods is excellent as Ray Buckey's attorney, but Lolita Davidovich who plays the evil and sick Kee MacFarlane (who led the indoctrination of the children) is both too pretty and too sane to be truly effective. Mercedes Ruehl plays incompetent L.A. County prosecutor Lael Rubin with enough vile to drip. Sada Thompson brings warmth and charm to the part of Virginia McMartin, and Henry Thomas plays Ray Buckey to a perfect fit.But this movie was made too soon. In the five years since its production, the full extent of the hysteria has come to light. When a significant portion of a society is taken in by something like this, it takes the passage of time before the full truth can be accepted. Had director Mick Jackson known of the near pandemic extent of the sickness he might have made a larger film. As it is, this is a vivid and compelling film."
The Value of an Open Mind
Harry Chandless | Hasbrouck Heights, NJ USA | 05/23/2000
(5 out of 5 stars)
"You will be engrossed in this film from beginning to end. Can you believe that a whole family who operated a pre-school would be indicted for sexual abuse? This is a true story. Can you believe that only a little known lawyer (James Woods is a masterful performance) would dare to take the case? This is a true story. Can you believe the defendants were in a California jail for years before the cases were over? This is a true story. Can you believe the defendants lost everything they owned, including their good names? This is a true story. Can you believe the people and the press believed and pronounced the defendants guilty from the day of the indictment and arrest? This is a true story.Can you believe that little children can be cajoled into lying? This is a true story.Watch the video tapes of how it is done.Can you believe, if you see this picture, that you will feel a new meaning to the words "innocent until proven guilty" when someone is arrested and indicted. That will be a true story."
Excellent and engrossing
Alexander L. Gillam | Virginia Beach, VA | 05/16/2000
(5 out of 5 stars)
"This is the second best HBO movie ever made, being closely behind And the Band Played On. The whole cast gives excellent performances, especially James Woods and Henry Thomas, who won emmy awards for their performances. This movie clearly shows that an injustice was done and that the Justice System of the US isn't infallable. The defendant's lost everything because of the LA District Attorney's Office, and it amazes me that anybody could have believed any of the children the way they kept changing their stories. This is an excellent movie but not for the weak of stomach. It is a little difficult to watch the first time through."
Beyond The Veil of Truth
Ellison Lowry | Pasadena, CA | 08/19/2007
(5 out of 5 stars)
"There is something here in this movie beyond the veil of truth that the media never spoke of during the actual witch-hunting of the 1980s. I grew up in the aftermath of these California trials and it was with much angst that I met with families affected by them.
Indictment looks at the era from the point of view of the real "victims," which are the McMartins. If you speak with any of the surviving families they will tell you that they "believe the children" which was the slogan adopted by families during the actual era.
However the ones that never got to speak are the ones who knew what had actually happened. At the time I didn't know that it was from a paranoid schizophrenic woman that these charges came about, even more shocking was that she continued to send her son to the McMartin preschool after the allegations were made.
What followed in this woman's wake was a series of events that nobody could control. There was too much power in the hands of too few. At that time, in the early 1980s, California law was trying to come down hard on pedophiles. They needed someone to blame to move legislation forward. So they used the McMartin case to their advantage.
The power that they used over the McMartins and the children "interviewed" violated just about every civil right law in the constitution. It a was scary time for anyone working with children.
There was a woman, Kee McFarlane who had no valid credentials for "interviewing" kids suffering from abuse trauma. One of my friends had come into contact with her through the CII organization which at the time was trying new methods of bringing repressed memories of abused children to the surface.
During his sessions with her he was put through so much trauma he was willing to tell anybody what they wanted believe.
Kee McFarlane's power came from the public who wanted "justice" for their children. Little did the public know that all of these allegations came from fabrications by Kee McFarlane.
The only change to come from this case and the trial was the questioning of children because they are impressionable and vulnerable to suggestability.
For those interested in the era that drove most families in California into hiding, see this movie but be aware, it's a horror story.


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Dr. Yael Stein is a physician and researcher at the Hebrew University-Hadassah medical center. She has researched the epidemiology and effects of various types of environmental and social exposures - including pesticides, electromagnetic radiation and hate language. She is a co-founder of the Jerusalem Center for Genocide Prevention. Dr. Stein is active in promoting pluralistic education, she is the former head of "Ganei Haim" Jewish pluralistic education association, and has participated in joint Israeli-Palestinian research projects.
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What are the benefits of Brazil nuts?
One of the exotic types of nuts is the Brazil nut. It is most common in South America, mainly in Brazil and Peru, Colombia and Bolivia, and a number of other countries. The most productive is Bolivia, despite the fact that Brazil is the birthplace of these nuts, and the name was borrowed from there. These nuts are grown and culturally – plant the plantation, then gather the nuts, and in the wild, i.e. harvesting takes place in plantations and natural areas.
By the way, that the wild plots the yields of Brazil nuts is much higher. This is motivated by the fact that pollination by bees occurs more in such areas than in specially cultivated areas. The trees of Brazil nuts is truly impressive, as their sizes can reach 40 meters in height, and of such size, harvesting is substantially more difficult. However, this tree has a long period of life, and therefore their fertility is also high.
The fruit of the Brazil nut is very interesting. So, grow on trees the nuts are of round shape, the size of the palm (by the way, looks like a coconut). And inside this fruit is fully Packed already a little nuts, which, in fact, after cleaning and are productcompare. Continue reading
The use of medicinal herbs in cosmetics. Phytocosmetics
Today cosmetic companies have come to understand that all production of cosmetics based on artificial ingredients it is not fashionable and prestigious. To increase sales of shampoos, conditioners, creams, lotions, tonics and scrubs, they need to be made on the basis of natural components. Phytocosmetics is the cosmetics created on the basis of herbal extracts, the medicinal properties of which is enhanced artificially.
Phytocosmetics combines traditional medicine and the latest discoveries in the field of research studies in chemistry and biology. The concept of phytocosmetics is rather arbitrary. Because fitokosmetiki tool can be called not only a cosmetic preparation, produced on an industrial scale, but also masks, lotions, compresses and creams made at home. Herbs, vegetables, fruits, berries can serve as the source material. The advantage of phytocosmetics, cooked at home is the lack of preservatives and artificial fragrances, but the downside is their short shelf life. They should be used immediately after preparation.
Cosmetics . prepared on the basis of medicinal herbs, much closer to our body, because they are recipes passed down from generation to generation, so they combine as healing recipes and beauty secrets. Continue reading
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Researchers from Medical School Templestowe University (Temple University School of Medicine, TUSM, USA) discovered new method to restore heart function after a heart attack using stem cells actcom.
About ten years ago, scientists discovered that all cells secrete tiny bubbles called ectosomal . responsible for communication between cells and transport of substances.
A team of researchers led by Dr. Raj Kishore (Kishore Raj) decided to use exosomes to stimulate healing after a heart attack damaged hearts.
For all its functional reliability, the heart has very little capacity for self-recovery. It cannot repair damage caused by heart attack the muscles, but instead compensates for the lost capacity of the blood pumping. However, this compensation leads to the fact that the heart increases in size, becomes flabby, its contractions become weaker. Continue reading


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Date of issue: 26 February 2015
Description of the book "Mightier Than the Sword":Mightier than the Sword opens with an IRA bomb exploding during the MV Buckingham's maiden voyage across the Atlantic - but how many passengers lose their lives? When Harry Clifton visits his publisher in New York, he learns that he has been elected as the new president of English PEN, and immediately launches a campaign for the release of a fellow author, Anatoly Babakov, who's imprisoned in Siberia. Babakov's crime? Writing a book called Uncle Joe, a devastating insight into what it was like to work for Stalin. So determined is Harry to see Babakov released and PDF the book published, that he puts his own life in danger. His wife Emma, chairman of Barrington Shipping, is facing the repercussions of the IRA attack on the Buckingham. Some board members feel she should resign, and Lady Virginia Fenwick will stop at nothing to cause Emma's downfall. Sir Giles Barrington is now a minister of the Crown, and looks set for even higher office, until an official trip to Berlin does not end as a diplomatic success. Once again, Giles's political career is thrown off balance by none other than his old adversary, Major Alex Fisher, who ePub once again stands against him at the election. But who wins this time? In London, Harry and Emma's son, Sebastian, is quickly making a name for himself at Farthing's Bank in London, and has proposed to the beautiful young American, Samantha. But the despicable Adrian Sloane, a man interested only in his own advancement and the ruin of Sebastian, will stop at nothing to remove his rival. Jeffrey Archer's compelling Clifton Chronicles continue in this spellbinding story with all the trademark twists and turns that have made him one of the world's most popular authors.
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Alright Markus!
How are you going? I am back in sunny Manchester (for a while at least)
Are you going to the 808 gig on 22nd? If you are, then we should meet up.
Also, of interest, was looking through some photos my Mum took at the Commonwealth Games earlier this year and found some of Homelife live. (They were some distance away but Grahams' bald spot could be seen a mile off! ) My Mum said she enjoyed their music very much.
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by Kathryn Cook of Avalon Hospice
Hospice. The mere mention of the word frightens patients and family members alike.
I would like to explain the benefits of using hospice services and also dispel a few myths.
What is hospice?
Definition: Hospice is a coordinated program of palliative (comfort, rather than aggressive) care and support services designed to meet unique needs of patients and families facing a life limiting expectancy. Services are provided through a medically-directed team of professionals....Physicians, nurses, social workers, chaplains, aides, therapists and volunteers.
How hospice differs from other types of healthcare?
- Hospice offers palliative rather than curative treatment
- Hospice treats the person, not the disease
- Hospice emphasizes quality, rather than length of life
- Hospice cares for the entire family not just the patient
- Hospice offers help and support 24 hours a day/ 7 days a week
- Once I'm on hospice, I can't change my mind. Hospice is an elective benefit and you can change your mind at any time.
- The biggest benefits to using the hospice benefit comes from using an agency earlier rather than later.
- Hospice does not hasten death! It is our objective to provide the best care for patient and family for whatever life expectancy is remaining.
- Every patient has the right to keep the primary care physician they choose.
- The primary care physician becomes part of the hospice team.
- Hospice care is paid for by Medicare, Medi-Cal and most private insurances.
- There is no out of pocket expense for the patient or family.
- No one is ever turned away from hospice.
- If a patient stabilizes and stops declining, they can revoke hospice services and be admitted again later.
Kathryn Cook, LVN/ Community Liaison
Avalon Hospice and Palliative Care
(760) 509-5705
A side note from Laura: Both of my parents have been on Hospice. My step-dad, Harry, ended up on Hospice when he had an accident and broke his neck. After the doctors at the hospital determined there was nothing that could be done to save him, the Hospice team worked with us to transition Harry to a wonderful Hospice Hospital where he spent the last week being kept comfortable and pain free, which was a blessing to both him and his family as we spent time with him in his final days.
My mother went on hospice when she had an internal bleed that was not fixed by two surgical procedures. Mom hovered between life and death for about a week and then her body started to heal itself. Mom stayed on Hospice for almost three months and then signed herself off when she was ready to start physical therapy and get back to her life.
Through both situations we had caring hospice medical staff, social workers, and counselors helping us through the experience. My step-sister had the support of Hospice in her last days with cancer and she died at home surrounded by her husband, children, and those of us that could get to Arizona to see her.
If you'd like more information about Hospice please call Kathy and if you'd like to have some support with your loved one through this difficult time, AltaGolden has wonderful caregivers experienced in loving hospice support.
Be well and have a wonderful week.
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The CMA CGM Group and PSA today kicked off the second phase of their container terminal joint venture in Singapore.
Officiating the event were Mr. François Hollande, President of the French Republic, and Mr. Khaw Boon Wan, Coordinating Minister for Infrastructure and Minister for Transport, Singapore.
The CMA CGM - PSA Lion Terminal (CPLT) started operations with two mega container berths at PSA Singapore's Pasir Panjang Terminal 5 (PPT 5) that had an initial annual capacity of 2 million TEUs (twenty-foot equivalent units) in July 2016. With the addition of two more berths under Phase 2 of its development, CPLT is now equipped with a total operating capacity of 4 million TEUs. CPLT has achieved high service levels with an average Gross Berth Productivity of more than 160 moves per hour for the mega vessels since the beginning of 2017.
Leveraging the industry-leading port infrastructure and technologies including the state-of-the-art yard automation at PSA's newest PPT expansion, CPLT is well-primed to serve the mega vessels of CMA CGM and the affiliate shipping lines of the Group. This also enhances Singapore's standing as a premier International Maritime Centre.
Mr. Jean-Yves Duval, Senior Vice President Asia, CMA CGM Asia Regional Office said: "This is another exciting milestone for CMA CGM as part of the Group's continuing efforts to make Singapore our main hub in the region, while reiterating the importance of Singapore to our global strategy."
Mr. Ong Kim Pong, Regional CEO Southeast Asia, PSA International, said: "PSA is deeply honoured by the trust that CMA CGM has placed on us to serve as their Asian hub for the long haul. We look forward to the opportunities this brings to support trade between the ever-growing economies of the Asia-Pacific region, and the world."
About CMA CGM
CMA CGM, founded by Jacques R. Saadé, is a leading worldwide shipping group. Its 453 vessels call more than 420 ports in the world on all 5 continents. In 2016, they carried 15.6 million* TEU (twenty-foot equivalent units).
Now headed by Rodolphe Saadé, CMA CGM enjoys a continuous growth and keeps innovating to offer its customers new maritime, terrestrial, and logistical solutions.
With a presence in 160 countries and through its 600 agencies network, the Group employs 29,000 people worldwide, including 2,400 in its headquarters in Marseilles.
About PSA Singapore
PSA Singapore, a fully-owned subsidiary of PSA International, operates the world's largest container transhipment hub in Singapore, linking shippers to an excellent network of major shipping lines with connections to 600 ports globally.
Shippers have access to daily sailings to every major port in the world at this mega hub. Its excellence in port operations has consistently been recognised by the shipping community.
In 2016, it was voted the "Best Container Terminal (Asia)" at the Asian Freight, Logistics and Supply Chain Awards. PSA Singapore Terminals handled 30.59 million TEUs of containers in 2016.
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Philips Lighting: VLZ Range of Moving Head Luminaires
- by Michael Eddy
Philips Lighting announced the availability of the new Philips VLZ range of moving head luminaires, which use the latest Philips LED light engine and provides advanced color and beam control. Responding to feedback from leading lighting professionals, the challenge for the design team at Philips Entertainment Lighting was to improve upon the industry standard Philips Vari-Lite VL3000 Series. The resulting Philips VLZ range has a smaller footprint, improved beam quality, and additional features based on the latest LED technology, while maintaining the familiar Vari-Lite color performance and programming workflow.
The three fixtures—the VLZ Spot, VLZ Wash and VLZ Profile—are dedicated to their individual functions, yet designed to work in unison. All deliver fast, accurate, and repeatable movement on all functions.
"With the VLZ we have kept the best features of the successful VL3000 Series, and brought them up to date with our latest light source technology," says Martin Palmer, Vari-Lite product manager at Philips Entertainment Lighting. "While each fixture is engineered for its specific role, their shared systems greatly enhance the consistency of performance across the range and, importantly, reduce the cost of on-the-road maintenance. The VLZ range's advanced color and beam control combinations will make it the go-to choice for lighting designers."
All three VLZ fixtures use the Philips Vari-Lite CMY-CTO color system, familiar to lighting designers worldwide for its creation of seamless mixed colors. Complementing this, dual fixed color wheels with linear control give access to all the Vari-Lite colors and split color combinations that users will expect. In addition, color shake and color wheel spin control have been added to every model, further extending the creative options available.
Using the same 620W LED engine, all Philips VLZ fixtures produce an 8,000K color temperature light output with variable CTO adjustment. They can also be frequency tuned and are equipped with Gamma shift for cameras. Lighting designers and directors are assured of consistent colors, effects, programming and performance across the range, reducing time spent adjusting for variations between fixture types. Standard Mode operation delivers another major advantage, as the VLZ sets a new standard for quiet operation.
VLZ Spot
The Philips VLZ Spot produces a 25,000 lumen output, creating striking mid-air and break-up effects from its dual rotating and indexable gobo wheels, plus a three-facet linear prism. The high contrast, flat field, 7-50˚ zoom range and iris provide beam control, while the 16-bit focus control channel allows for hard- to soft-edge focusing, with focus zoom tracking remotely selectable from the console. Beam softness can be further adjusted via the three-way frost control.
VLZ Wash
Also with 25,000 lumen output and 7-50˚ zoom range, the Philips VLZ Wash boasts a flexible array of beam-shaping options, with three different systems used independently of each other or in combination. A lenticular lens can flatten the beam shape, while a beam softening control offers four softness grades. Lastly, a set of four internal framing blades can be used to further shape the beam.
VLZ Profile
Designed for mid-air effects and crisp, defined image projection, the 24,000 lumen output Philips VLZ Profile features two gobo wheels with Philips Vari-Lite exclusive patterns. A continuously rotatable animation wheel provides further effects variety, while its iris and four-blade framing system give full beam-shaping control. Like the VLZ Spot, the VLZ Profile has 16-bit focus control for hard- to soft-edge focusing, console-selectable zoom tracking and three-way frost control.
Further information from Philips Entertainment Lighting: www.lighting.philips.com/main/products/entertainment-lighting


text: WASHINGTON (AP) - Supreme Court nominee Samuel Alito boasted about his work arguing that "the Constitution does not protect a right to an abortion" while trying to become a deputy assistant attorney general in the Reagan administration, according to documents released Monday. Alito, a federal appellate judge nominated by President Bush to the nation's highest court, was a young lawyer working for the solicitor general's office in 1985 when he applied for the position under Attorney General Edwin Meese. As part of his application, Alito sent a document saying his work in the solicitor general's office had included helping "to advance legal positions in which I personally believe very strongly." "I am particularly proud of my contributions in recent cases in which the government argued that racial and ethnic quotas should not be allowed and that the Constitution does not protect a right to an abortion," he wrote. That sentence provides one of the first clear-cut statements attributed to Alito about abortion, which will be one of the main topics of his January confirmation hearing as retiring Justice Sandra Day O'Connor's replacement. "I think that it is more reason to question him closely at the hearing," said Sen. Arlen Specter, R-Pa., who will run Alito's Jan. 9 hearings as chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee. Bush picked Alito after White House counsel Harriet Miers withdrew her Supreme Court nomination when confronted by withering criticism by some conservatives. "This may explain why the right wing expressed such enthusiastic support for Judge Alito after campaigning against Harriet Miers," said Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass., one of several senators who will meet with Alito privately today. O'Connor has been a crucial swing vote on abortion on the Supreme Court, and Alito's opponents fear that he and recently confirmed Chief Justice John Roberts would swing the Supreme Court to the right and lead to the overturning of the 1973 landmark Roe v. Wade decision establishing abortion rights. Alito, 55, has told senators in his two weeks of private meetings that he has "great respect" for Roe v. Wade as a precedent, but he did not commit to upholding it. The document was included in more than 100 pages of material about Alito released by the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library and the George H.W. Bush Presidential Library on Monday.


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All members will be involved in the selection and execution of projects, including co-authoring white papers, collaborating to leverage previously conducted and ongoing clinical studies, research infrastructure, and databases, as well as promoting dialogue on kidney health pertaining to drug, device, biologics, and food product development, evaluation, and safety. KHI members have access to the KHI web-based portal that collects member ideas for projects and provides a space for open dialogue. KHI members can submit project proposals and view all the proposals in order to provide comments that are constructive and enhance the submission. KHI members are also invited to attend the Annual KHI Stakeholders meeting, which brings together our diverse membership from the kidney community to connect members across different fields, share ideas, collect feedback, and collaborate on new projects.
KHI is dedicated to creating a transparent infrastructure and processes that facilitate collaboration and communication among the greater nephrology community and FDA. This includes establishing an open and efficient mechanism for encouraging and evaluating potential projects members submit to KHI, and to ensuring objective evaluation of those suggestions.
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