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Most of the Important Positions at International Border Crossings Are Not Reassigned, not Following a Sub-Decree – Friday, 21.5.2010
The Mirror, Vol. 14, No. 665
"Phnom Penh: Important positions of some officials – such as police, customs, and CamControl – at border crossings for international travelers and at border crossings for local travel are, at present, not reassigned properly, contrary to the terms that are clearly set by the Royal Government in a sub-decree.
"Sub-Decree 64, signed by Prime Minister Hun Sen in 2001, that consists of 13 chapters and 39 articles, clearly speaks about the structure for the administration, and the roles and terms of the officials that must be followed.
"According to Chapter 8, about the terms in Article 29, the head of border crossings for international travelers, and the officers at border crossings for local travel, the heads of sea ports, and the heads of other expert authorities must be reshuffled every two years. According to Article 30, officials stationed at border crossings for international travelers, and at other border crossings, will be reshuffled every year.
"But in reality, those officials collude with each other systematically, and important officials are not reshuffled according the terms as clearly stated in the Sub-Decree of the Royal Government. On the contrary, most officials holding important positions, such as in the police, or as tax and custom officers at international border crossings, and at other border crossing for local traffic, stay in their lucrative positions more than five years, and some even up to eight years, and the relevant ministries do not reassign them. In addition, the number of 'mixed officials' [police, tax officials, CamControl, and local authorities] at each international border crossing point is too high.
"It is seen that when related ministries and institutions do not implement the terms for the officials working at international and other border crossings for relevant ministries for years, without being reassigned, those officials use their positions to commit all kinds of corruption. They commit dishonest activities for personal gain and seek money for bribing the higher levels, so that they can stay in their positions longer, which leads to the loss of income for the state.
"In Chapter 11 of the Sub-Decree about penalties, Article 35 clearly states that officials who take the opportunity to use their positions and power to arbitrarily create difficulties for travelers, for for owners of vehicles, and relate to all types of goods crossing the border, or who violate their duties, will be convicted according to the law. However, in reality, none of them has been punished. Officials working at the same border crossing for several years usually make the citizens, and especially big traders feel afraid of them, as they think that officials who can stay at their posts for many years are not normal cases: they must have the backing of some high ranking officials. This allows those officials to do whatever they want.
"The Sub-Decree also established a monitoring procedure, with a representatives from the Council of Ministers as the head, and representatives from other ministries and institutions, and from the related municipalities, according to a notification from a Minister of the Council of Ministers, to monitor the activities and to checking the related offices, in order to report to the head of the government.
"But the mechanism seems ineffective for the day-to-day activities at international and other border crossings. Some police, customs, and CamCotrol officials are not reshuffled as required according to the sub-decree. Those officials use money collected at the border crossings to control the flow of document themselves. Some do this directly with the departments and their staff at each ministry. Others do it directly through the Customs Office, so that they can hold their positions at border crossings for years.
"Prime Minister Samdech Hun Sen warned on 6 April 2010 during the closing convention of the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry, and Fisheries, that even if they fail to reshuffle, officials will be punished according to their terms that seem to allow those officials to commit corruption systematically as they know the place well.
"A parliamentarian from the Cambodian People's Party, Mr. Cheam Yeap, told reporters that through direct monitoring at some international border crossings, such as the Poipet border crossing, the international seaport in Sihanoukville, and the Smach international border crossing in Komopong Cham, there are many organizational structures of administration, and more than 1,000 coalition personnel involved, including police, military, and CamControl officials, and local authorities.
"Mr. Cheam Yeap added that the collection of state income is destroyed by corruption, committed by a small number of people working at those border crossing points. If an official takes, personally, just Baht 5 or Riel 1,000 or Riel 500 to buy something to eat, pretty much money is lost. They cause difficulties for the trading of citizens and of national and international investors. He suggested that the number of those officials should be reduced by half in order that much benefit can be contributed to Cambodia.
"Therefore, related ministries must check these unclear points, because the collusion not to reshuffle important positions of officials at international and other border crossings, and the too high number of officials, seriously violates the Sub-Decree signed by the head of the Royal Government.
"Many officials who do not have high ranking officials backing them and have no money to bribe higher levels, complained that they could not stay at good posts like others, because those working at such good posts are not reshuffled as before, but there are biddings for positions. This is a bad model for law enforcement which requires reforms." Rasmei Kampuchea, Vol.18, #5203, 21.5.2010
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Deum Ampil, Vol.4, #483, 21.5.2010
- The Phanpimex Company Destroyed a State Electricity Cabin to Claim Land [Phnom Penh]
- The Garment Sector Creates Employment for More Than 300,000 Workers [in Cambodia, despite of the global economic crisis]
Kampuchea Thmey, Vol.9, #2254, 21.5.2010
- Robbers Armed with AK Rifles Robbed a Village Chief in Banon District, Battambang [taking away some money and jewelries]
- Opportunists Committed Looting and Robberies and Burnt Down [about 35] Buildings in Bangkok
Khmer Amatak, Vol.11, #769, 21.5.2010
- The Great Heroic King [the former King] Should Raise the Restricted Freedom and Human Rights Issues of Kampuchea Krom People in His Meetings with Yuon [Vietnamese] Leaders during His Visit to Yuon [Vietnam – no date of his visit is specified]
Khmer Machas Srok, Vol.4, #661, 21.5.2010
- [Sam Rainsy Party spokesperson] Yim Sovann: Mr. Om Yentieng Has Made No Achievements in Combating Corruption [recently, Mr. Om Yentieng was nominated head of the Anti-Corruption Unit – he will be automatically also a member of the Anti-Corruption Council, the body that is supervising the Anti-Corruption Unit; it seems that this construction implies that the head of the Unit is also supervising himself]
Koh Santepheap, Vol.43, #6961, 21.5.2010
- More Than 30 Buildings Were Burnt Down in Bangkok – the International Community [the European Union and the United States of America] Condemned the Violent Suppression, but Were also Surprised with the Violence of the Demonstrators
- In a Raid on a Drug Site in Sihanoukville, Sixteen People Were Arrested [for drug smuggling]
Moneaksekar Khmer, Vol.17, #3885, 21.5.2010
- The Opposition Party Calls the Prohibition to Visit [two] Farmers Being Jailed [for removing border markers in Svay Rieng] a Breach of the Rights of Parliamentarians
Phnom Penh Post [Khmer Edition], Vol.1, #176, 21.5.2010
- The Cambodian People's Party Will Create Quick Reaction Youth Teams Countrywide [before the elections in 2012 and 2013]
- The Nomination of Mr. Om Yentieng [a senior advisor of the Prime Minister] Invites Criticism [he was appointed by Prime Minister Hun Sen as the head of the Anti-Corruption Unit – the Sam Rainsy Party parliamentarian, Mr. Yim Sovann, said that Mr. Om Yentieng is not able to fight corruption as head of the National Anti-Corruption Committee of Cambodia under the Council of Ministers, and also, he might be influenced by Prime Minister Hun Sen]
Rasmei Kampuchea, Vol.18, #5203, 21.5.2010
- Most of the Important Positions at International Border Crossings Are Not Reassigned, not Following a Sub-Decree
- Cambodia Loses US$45 Million Each Year due to the Import of Pigs from Thailand [about one million pigs are imported to Cambodia each year, affecting local pig raisers; according to the head of the Cambodian Macro, Small, Medium Enterprise Project [MSME] of USAID, Mr. Curtis Hundley]
Have a look at the last editorial – you can access it directly from the main page of the Mirror.
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My night at the MAD Blog Awards 2012
OK, I'll be absolutely honest; when I was shortlisted for a MAD Blog Award I was terrified by the prospect of the actual bash. I'm totes not plugged-in to the mummy blogger network and most of the people involved in the MADs are. Plus, women are like cats: one at a time they're fantastic, too many in a room all at once = shit scary…
But last night wasn't the scare-fest I feared. And that's because I was lucky enough to meet a few of the other nominees beforehand at the summer yacht party – nothing takes the edge off your nerves like a bunch of pals, and I really do feel like I've made friends for life within this whole awards process.
One of those new mates went and bagsed the Best Fashion Blog award: The Baby Wears Prada is all about Lucie (one incredibly stylish 18-month old) and what she wears. It's written by super-mum (and fellow Northern lass) Liz, who is a legend and absolutely deserved to take the prize.
|The best fashion blog category was sponsored by TK Maxx – as was my outfit
Of course, the downside to making fabulous new friends is talking absolute garbage to them at 2am, an expensive black cab ride home after missing all the tubes and the gigantic (seriously, HUGE) hangover I'm now nursing.
Would I enter Fashion Detective in those awards again? Abso-freakin-lutely! I won't lie, I find the mum blogging community largely intimidating and am still not sure fashion journalists go down all that well within its ranks, but as a result of your very generous nominations (thank you, thank you, thank you!), I partied on a yacht, got a snazzy new dress, bag and shoes, stuffed my face with a gorgeous dinner, drank litres (ouch) of wine and met some seriously cool ladies.
As (alleged love maniac) Justin Lee Collins would say, good times.
|Man: can this girl work a room? Liz (Baby Wears Prada), wearing Vivienne Westwood, mingled with a mascot as soon as we arrived
|Helen (Coco Mama Style) looked beautiful in Love Moschino
|Cathy (Mummy Travels) only gave birth 10 weeks ago: this is pure evidence of MUM POWER!
|I've known Cathy for yonks – it was good to have an old buddy (with an amazeballs faux fur cape!) in da house
|Meanwhile, Liz makes a new BFF – Myleene Klass, innit
|Girl crush alert! This is Emma (Adventures of an Unfit Mother) looking gorgeous
|And Emma's hubby doesn't scrub up too badly either (poor Damian – one of about three guys at the entire event – had to put up with me burbling about photography, America and how gorgeous his wife is for hours)
|We ate squid, followed by chicken, followed by PIE (aka chocolate and pear torte/tart): all delicious
|And the winner is….
|You can totally see why she won *winks*
|Back to reality: El gets stuck into the goodie bag and reminds me why I was able to enter these awards in the first place (cheers, mate)
With thanks to TK Maxx and the Mad Blog Awards

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I have written a bunch of subroutines to perform common tasks and I would like to know if there is a way to load them by default (something similar to add to Matlab path) ? Is creating a plugin a way to achieve that ?
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Ever since the first installation of Playtop impact-absorbing playground safety surfacing in 1977, the product has maintained its market-leading position by continually upgrading the technical performance while finding ways to bring down the cost.
Over the same period, the company has built up an international network of Licensee partners who now market and install the Playtop system in more than 40 countries around the world.
In his article 'The first thirty years of Playtop', Barry Baker, who has held senior positions in the company throughout this period, traces the technical development of the product and the commercial development of the company through their first three decades.
The first thirty years of Playtop
by Barry Baker, International Business Development Manager, Playtop Licensing Limited
From the time of the earliest installations of Playtop impact-absorbing playground safety surfacing in the 1970s, the product has been the market leader in Britain, and it has held a similar position in Europe since the mid 1990s. Today it is marketed and installed in more than 40 countries by an international network of Licensee partners.
Playtop has maintained its position against competitors and imitators by continually upgrading the technical performance while finding ways to bring down the cost.
The technical story
The very first installation of Playtop was on a housing estate near Loughborough in England in 1977. Originally part of the Charles Lawrence Group of companies, Playtop already exhibited many of the crucial features of the product: a continuous, resilient surface without joints, mixed on site from rubber particles and polymeric binders and installed by a team of specialists - in contrast to pre-manufactured items such as rubber tiles.
The present-day Playtop (Playtop is now a registered trademark of Playtop Licensing Limited) surfacing is the fifth distinct generation of the product and results from a policy of continual research and development. It has been fully tested for compliance with both the European (CEN) and American (ASTM) Standards. With the development of the company's international Licensee network, the landmark of the first million square metres of Playtop was passed early in the new century and the product is now well on the way to its second million.
The development of Standards
The first Playtop installations in 1977 consisted of 12 mm thickness of porous rubber laid on asphalt or concrete, with a sprayed top coat. Being resilient, the material clearly provided better cushioning than traditional hard playground surfaces, but there was no scientific basis for its performance.
Soon afterwards, research in America established the medical criteria needed to prevent brain injuries in falls. The crucial factor was found to be deceleration. If the deceleration of a child's head as it struck the ground could be limited to 50 g (fifty times the force of gravity), permanent brain injury was very unlikely. This became the basis of new British and then European Standards for impact-absorbing playground surfacing.
From then on the performance required of a playground surface was clear. It must have just the right elastic properties, neither too soft nor too hard, to maintain deceleration below 50 g. And it must be thick enough to go on deforming progressively until the child's head was safely brought to rest.
Achieving the performance was relatively easy. For higher equipment you just added more material. But the considerable thickness of the resilient material required under the highest play equipment - typically 150 mm for a fall height of 3 m - made the first products very expensive.
Better performance at lower cost
Starting from the unchanging basic requirement of safety through impact absorption, the development of Playtop was therefore directed towards bringing down the capital cost of surfacing able to give the required performance, and at the same time improving its durability, so improving total Life Cycle Cost.
In the first product, 12 mm of black rubber crumb and shred was hand-laid onto an asphalt or concrete base, followed by a spray application of red- or green-coloured rubber-polymeric material to provide a cosmetically attractive coating. Very little impact absorption was provided, but Playtop offered a comfortable, level surface for children to circulate and play on - a considerable improvement on the muddy potholed grass, sand, gravel, broken asphalt, hard concrete or uneven paving slabs that were the norm in the 1970s.
The second-generation Playtop saw the introduction of through-coloured EPDM-rubber for a full depth of 15 mm as an alternative to applying colour by spraying. Previously the need for calm conditions for spraying - and even more the restricted temperature range at which early binders would cure - had limited installation in Britain to the months between spring and autumn, on a good day!
By the early 1980s, playground safety was the subject of public debate in Britain. The consumer television programme 'That's Life', presented by Esther Rantzen, raised parents' awareness of the potential for accidents in the playground and increased pressure on politicians to make funding available. At the same time, some absurd claims for impact-absorbing surfaces were made - such as "you can bounce an egg on it without breaking the shell".
After exhaustive tests with leading scientific consultants at the Greater London Council, the Charles Lawrence Group responded with their third-generation product, Playtop 85. This had a 15-mm-thick top layer laid over a mixed base of mineral aggregate and rubber, which in turn was laid on a 150 mm thickness of clean stone. This structure, coupled with improved binders, allowed all-year-round installation, improved the porosity of the surface and eliminated the expense of providing a concrete or asphalt foundation. Playtop 85 was available in standard thicknesses from 15 mm to 150 mm and certified for fall heights from play equipment of up to 3 metres. The system was an immediate success and was imitated worldwide.
Recycled tyres
The most crucial breakthrough in reducing cost came in the 1990s, when we discovered that the rubber used for commercial-vehicle tyres has ideal elastic properties for playground surfacing. Furthermore, it was available very cheaply in old, unwanted casings, which in an increasingly 'Green' age were becoming expensive to dispose of.
In order to secure itself a feedstock of known quality, and to achieve economies of scale, the Charles Lawrence Group therefore designed and built its own plant to recycle old tyres into rubber granules. Today this processes 400,000 tyres a year and produces some 13,000 tons of granules for sports and play surfacing.
In the resulting fourth-generation Playtop of the 1990s, the base layer consisted of coarse recycled-rubber granules and the top layer of finer recycled-rubber granules, mechanically interlocked as well as chemically bonded at the joint to create an immensely strong structure.
The top-layer granules could be pre-coated red or green to provide basic colour effects at low cost. The product was significantly cheaper than previous versions, especially in thicker layers beneath high play equipment. About this time the Charles Lawrence Group also started to design and manufacture its own specialised mixing machines and hand tools, making itself largely self-sufficient.
The current product
The fifth and current generation of Playtop followed toward the end of the 1990s and was marked by refining of the granulate size in the base layer and by improvements to pre-coating techniques in the top-layer rubber. This further increased the product's strength and durability and allowed the construction of two-layer systems down to 40 mm in thickness that could be laid directly on a loose-stone base, without the added expense of an engineered layer.
At the same time a huge colour range of fine EPDM-rubber granules was introduced for the top layer. This has provided a wealth of new opportunities for creating exciting - and permanent - playground designs that will attract children to come and play where it is safe.
Partnership with Nike
The most recent development occurred in 2005, when Playtop became one of Nike's first international partners in the sportswear company's Reuse-A-Shoe programme for recycling old sports shoes and trainers.
The best of the shoes are sent to the third world for the benefit of less advantaged young people, while those beyond further use are sliced and then mechanically ground to create materials for sports and play surfaces. The rubber granules from the outsoles, branded as Nike Grind, can be incorporated in the top layer of Playtop at levels up to 20%. Apart from the environmental and cost benefits, the recycled granules produce an attractive speckled effect. The fees paid to Nike by Playtop and other partners go to fund sports and play facilities in the third world under the Let Me Play scheme.
One of the first installations of Playtop with Nike Grind was for the red perimeter track at Manchester United Football Club, which also acts as one of Nike's collection partners for the old shoes.
Leading the industry
From the earliest days of impact-absorbing playground surfacing, Playtop has committed itself to developing internationally accepted technical Standards for product performance and methods of testing and installation. It has assigned personnel and finance to working on or with British and European Standards Committees, trade associations, test houses, consultants and National Safety Committees in individual countries.
The company has also worked closely with other responsible manufacturers and contractors to create and supervise recognised codes of commercial practice in the industry.The Charles Lawrence Group was a founder member of the Association of Play Industries (API) in Britain and was instrumental in the production of the API's Guide to Safety Surfacing.
Playtop with Nike Grind
Playtop is the only play surfacing company in the world to offer a range of four coloured blends that include Nike Grind and are made from at least 82% worn out sports shoes and recycled rubber products. Every square metre of Playtop coloured blends with Nike Grind contains rubber from up to 22 sports shoes!
This latest range is:
- Made using recycled products, having a minimum recycled content of 82%. The black option is 91% recycled rubber.
- Designed so that the top layer goes further.
- Available in black, green, red and blue.
- Fully compliant with all international standards for critical fall height.
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THE PEE-WEE HERMAN SHOW ON BROADWAY -- DVD review by porfle
Taped at New York's Stephen Sondheim Theater after its successful Broadway run, THE PEE-WEE HERMAN SHOW ON BROADWAY (2011) proves that fans of Paul Reubens' iconic comedy character really can go home again. Or at least back to the playhouse.
The audience is filled with people who weren't even born when the original "The Pee Wee Herman Show" premiered on HBO back in 1981, and some of them are barely old enough to have grown up with "Pee-Wee's Playhouse" on Saturday mornings from 1986 to 1991. But they're an enthusiastic bunch and respond to Pee-Wee's kids' show antics as though they were sitting in Howdy Doody's Peanut Gallery. Reubens' appearance alone onstage at the beginning of the show, leading them all in a solemn Pledge of Allegiance, elicits a wild ovation.
After the unveiling of the beautiful playhouse set, based mainly on the design of the TV show, Pee-Wee and his usual cast of playmates delve into their familiar antics almost as though thirty years hadn't passed. The returning members of the cast, of course, are noticably older (Reubens' no-longer-quite-boyish appearance takes a little getting used to) but they bring their characters to life again just as before. These include Lynne Marie Stewart as Miss Yvonne, "the most beautiful woman in Puppet Land", John Moody as the mischievous Mailman Mike, and John Paragon as mystical, magical swami Jambi, a head who lives in a box.
Also returning is the King of Cartoons, with Lance Roberts replacing the late William Marshall and showing a "Penny" cartoon first aired on the TV show. (Fans of the 1981 show will be happy to see a reprise of the legendary "Mr. Bungle" educational short.) Besides a man in a bear suit whom Pee-Wee finds unbearably annoying, the best new character is an energetic Jesse Garcia as Latino handyman Sergio, who installs Pee-Wee's new computer to the consternation of his mechanical pals Clocky, Conky, and Magic Screen. Lexy Fridell performs the voice of probably the most beloved inanimate playhouse character, Chairry, who actually joins Pee-Wee in a charming song-and-dance number. Pterri, Randy, and most of the other familiar puppet characters return as well.
"MadTV" alumnus Phil LaMarr does a wonderful job taking over for Lawrence Fishburne as Cowboy Curtis, while also standing in for the late, great Phil Hartman in material originally written for his Kap'n Karl character. The entire subplot concerning Kap'n Karl's secret love for Miss Yvonne is re-enacted along with most of the other material from the 1981 production, including Pee-Wee's desperate yearning to be able to fly. LaMarr even seems to be channeling Hartman as he delivers certain lines ("It's the sea, Pee, the sea!"). Missing, and missed, are Edie McClurg as "Hermit Hattie" and Robert Rodriguez regular Tito Larriva as "Hammy."
Also missing, unfortunately, are the snappy pacing and pitch-perfect timing and delivery of the 1981 version, although some of this can be attributed to the fact that the cast are performing a sometimes patchwork blend of both it and the Saturday morning TV show and projecting it all for a much bigger audience. Comparing the differences between the old and new interpretations of the material distracted from my enjoyment during my initial viewing and I even found myself becoming rather disappointed with it. With subsequent viewings, however, this problem faded as I began to better appreciate the newer show as its own entity while the nostalgia factor started to kick in more and more.
The DVD from Image Entertainment and HBO is in 1.78:1 widescreen with Dolby Digital stereo. No subtitles, although closed-captions are available. The sole extra is a delightful commentary track featuring Reubens and most of the cast, which continues for almost four minutes after the show has ended (so keep it running after the closing credits).
Though not as sharp and fresh as the 1981 show or as exhilaratingly off-kilter as the TV series, THE PEE-WEE HERMAN SHOW ON BROADWAY should be a delight for Pee-Wee Herman fans old and new. Lush, colorful, and vigorously performed to a joyfully receptive audience, it's a welcome return to a unique character and a magical time and place that you may have thought was lost forever.
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text: There are so many things that go into planning a full kitchen remodel. Way more than I originally anticipated. Honestly moving into a new home that is essentially a fixer upper is way more intense than I originally thought as well (especially when you're not Chip and Joanna Gaines). I mean there are just so many moving parts that happen each and every day it's so overwhelming! Continue reading "Kitchen Renovation – Part 1 – Pricing"


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Early College
"Expanding a Strategy for Achieving College Readiness for All"
A new guide provides information to help state and local policymakers develop, expand, and scale up early-college programs for underprepared, low-income students.
Dual-enrollment programs that allow students to earn college credit while still in high school have become popular nationwide, but, in its report, Jobs for the Future, a Boston-based nonprofit, sketches out a vision for programs that make dual enrollment a schoolwide strategy.
While 24 states currently have early-college high schools, Jobs For the Future wants to see every state adopt such programs as a way of ensuring that every student is prepared to earn a postsecondary credential or degree. The report says the graduation rate for early-college schools in 2008 was about 92 percent, while the national average was 69 percent. Upon graduation, 86 percent of students went to college immediately after high school, as opposed to 66 percent nationally.
Vol. 30, Issue 10, Page 5Published in Print: November 3, 2010, as Early College
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Wake Up
Agency: OgilvyOne
Client: Nescafé Global
Role: Art Direction / Interface Design (UX UI)
Year: 2013 Germany
NESCAFÉ's aim is for people to enjoy the perfect start to their day. The task was to create a fresh wake up experience that helps the brand to claim great mornings.
Every day one billion people wake up to the annoying alarms tones of their mobiles. The NESCAFÉ WakeUp app stopped that accoustic torture by replacing preset mobile alarms for creative wake up videos messages. Using Facebook, users can record and share their wake up videos from their friends around the world. In return they receive personal wake up videos to start the day in a fun way and earn surprises or special offers from the NESCAFÉ.
As you read the app launches in countries all over the world. Within days of launching in the first market, Marocco, over 300 video messages were uploaded to the WakeUp cloud. Meaning hundreds of people were having a better start to their day with NESCAFÉ and it's unique mobile service.
1x Honor Art Directors Club 2015 (Digital / App Design)
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Stabilization work at Pointe du Hoc
The cliff eroded naturally and moved back about ten meters in the past 60 years.
The historical vestiges located at the top of the Pointe du Hoc are now threatened by this erosion. ABMC's objective is to preserve these historic resources and to secure the site for the visitors. The stabilization works aim at protecting and securing the blockhaus, which allows it to reopen by the end of 2010.
Up until 2010, the observation post (blockhouse) located at Pointe du Hoc was threatening to fall into the sea.
The works involve strengthening the cliff base by filling cavities using natural materials that do not alter the landscape.
The basement of the observation post is consolidated through the establishment of rigid inclusions in order to confine the land supporting the blockhouse. All work is done on a sensitive site with respect to the environment (marine) and the landscape (site receiving 500,000 visitors per year).
The works are carried out from the top of the cliff by workmen specialized in rope access works. All construction equipment is led down at the cliff base using a 180 T crane and is brought back up according to the tides.
Stabilization works of the cliff include:
• Filling of cavities at the cliff base
• Stabilization of intermediate parts of the cliff
• Stabilization of the highest part of the cliff
• Drainage of surface waters
Management and drafting of the regulatory filings (Following the statutory procedures, the Ministry of Ecology, Energy, Sustainable Development and the Sea). Organization and setting up a dialogue for competitive contractors. Assistance in the preparation of the tender dossier. Monitoring and supervision of construction. operations of temporary and final acceptance of the works.


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Time For Love
Melinda Curtis
Harlequin Heartwarming, Aug 1 2015, $4.99
Harlequin Digital Sales Corp
Using college as a ticket to escape, teenager Kathy Harris fled Harmony Valley, California. Away only short time, a pregnancy sent Kathy back to this remote Sonoma Valley hellhole. She became an alcoholic, which cost her, the trust of her now five-year old son Zach. Now clean, she works for veterinarian Dr. Gage Janero (see One Perfect Year) who also hires "miracle worker" horse whisperer Dylan O'Brian, son of an alcoholic, to work with the animals.
Kathy's brother Flynn (see Summer Kisses) worries about his sister's sobriety; so he hires Dylan, who needs the money, to keep his sib sober but must never tell her. Dylan knows good deeds sometimes lead to punishment like when he opens his Redemption Ranch to help recovering alcoholics only to have his ex-wife use that as a tool to gain custody of their eight-year old child Truman. As Kathy and Dylan fall in love, he needs to tell her the truth, but doubts that will set him free in the way he wants.
The latest Harmony Valley romance (see Season of Change) is a leisurely-paced family drama that looks closely at the impact of alcoholism on loved ones. Working with seemingly dangerous horses augments a heartwarming contemporary.
Harriet Klausner


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Tuesday, August 25, 2009
Mark's Pig
It's another sighting of one of those black-and-white concrete pigs, identical to the ones spotted at Joe's Older Than Dirt Diner in Lyndon and Ole Hickory Pit Barbecue. Somewhere, there must be something like "Crazy Clyde's Barbecue Restaurant Supply, Inc." that all these places are getting their pigs from.
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- ebrake said...
Come to Cadiz, KY you'll find many more of them during the city's annual ham festival.
- August 25, 2009 at 7:38 AM
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We don't have a full recording (i.e., from the beginning of this stop) but it apparently began with a seat-belt violation. By the time the recording begins, the passenger has already been asked to show some ID. He doesn't have any on him, much to the officers' apparent unease. At one point, his hand goes towards the center console, prompting one officer to pull his gun.
The driver (Lisa Mahone) is on the phone with a 911 dispatcher, trying to get some help because she has two cops going after her passenger, one of whom has already pulled a gun. The operator tells her to calm down (and why wouldn't she suggest that — after all, the driver is "safely" in the hands of law enforcement) but Mahone points out something that should be equally obvious, especially post-Ferguson.
"I am scared. And the man–pulled a gun out. A gun! Why do my kids have to see that," Mahone told the 9-1-1 operator.
Jamal Jones, the passenger at whom the gun is being pointed makes the same point.
Mr. Jones expressed reluctance to get out of the vehicle due to the officers' aggressiveness and mentioned that "People are getting shot by the police."
Also true. Case in point: seatbelt violation greeted with a handful of bullets rather than a citation. But these police officers have apparently gone too far by the point the recording starts. They can't de-escalate, not after a weapon has been unholstered. So, they take it further.
"You're going to come out of the car one way or another," the officer menaced. "You want your kids to see you come out through the window?"
Apparently afraid Jones has a gun (because why else would another gun be out), the officer approaches the vehicle with an ax and smashes the window, sending glass flying into the back seat where Mahone's two children are sitting. Almost immediately, Jamal Jones is tasered and dragged from the vehicle.
The seven-year-old begins crying. The fourteen-year-old continues to record with his cellphone.
Now, it's a lawsuit.
Jamal Jones was officially charged with resisting law enforcement and "refusal to aid an officer." The last charge makes no sense. Here's the law itself:
A person who, when ordered by a law enforcement officer to assist the officer in the execution of the officer's duties, knowingly or intentionally, and without a reasonable cause, refuses to assist commits refusal to aid an officer, a Class B misdemeanor.
This is officers piling on charges because they were inconvenienced. Refusing to exit a vehicle may be "resisting law enforcement" but this law isn't supposed to be read as another means of forcing citizens into complete compliance. It's meant to direct citizens to assist law enforcement officers when their help is requested. Being ordered out of a car under threats of violence isn't the same thing as being asked to give an eyewitness statement or use a cell phone to call dispatch/911 for backup. (That this law is on the books is itself questionable, considering it effectively directs citizens to protect and serve police officers who are under no legal obligation to return the favor. It also would seem to put citizens directly in the path of civil lawsuits, should they injure someone or assist officers in violating their rights.)
As the PoliceMisconduct.net story notes, Mahone told police dispatch that she had been "pulled over like a bank robber." Once again, we have to wonder what was actually on the officers' minds when they deployed a spike strip in front of the vehicle they had allegedly pulled over because of seatbelt violations.
The official statement attempts to explain this.
The police release said that another officer car with video equipment was called for and "considerable time" had passed. It added that Mahone at one point put the vehicle into drive, which is when they were told about the spike strips.
So, the spike strips preceded the supposed attempt to escape.
Here's what the PD has to say in defense of its officers' actions.
The officers… called for backup and at some point saw Jones' hands drop to the center console. That's when police ordered Jones to show his hands and exit the vehicle because of fear for officer safety, according to the release.
Jones also feared for his safety, but had no laws backing up his refusal to exit the vehicle. For two officers "fearing for their safety," they sure move with a lot of confidence.
At what point does the mental math add up to "he might have a gun so I'd better move towards the window armed only with an ax?" Or, for that matter, when Jones asks for a "white shirt" (supervisor), why does the fearful officer (remember a gun has already been pulled at this point) say, "Look at my shoulder, dumbass. I've got bars?" These don't seem to be the actions of officers fearing for their lives. These seem to the actions of officers who are now looking to prove a point after coming up empty in their demands for ID.
The police report also says that 13 minutes had elapsed between the beginning of the stop and the shattering of the window/tasering of Jamal Jones. What were they looking for? They had two people effectively detained for a minor traffic violation and yet deployed a spike strip in front of the vehicle and finally forced their way inside. They then had one person in custody and another cited. With all of this information and time, they still couldn't come up with heftier charges than those thrown at people when cops can't find anything more damning: variations on resisting arrest.
So, you can cut the cops some slack (but not much considering both accused officers have been named in excessive force lawsuits in the past) since they were dealing with an unknown person and the perception of danger. But then what? Here's more of the police statement:
"In general, police officers who make legal traffic stops are allowed to ask passengers inside of a stopped vehicle for identification and to request that they exit a stopped vehicle for the officer's safety without a requirement of reasonable suspicion," the release says. "When the passenger displayed movements inside of the stopped vehicle that included placing his hand in places where the officer could not see, officers' concerns for their safety were heightened."
The statement claims officers were concerned about multiple movements inside the vehicle and yet they never made an attempt to search it for weapons, drugs or anything else that might "heighten safety concerns." They deploy a spike strip in front a stopped vehicle but don't bother trying to justify this tactic until after the fact.
What it looks like — and yes, appearances can be deceiving, especially if several minutes elapsed between the beginning of the stop and the violent conclusion — is another case of officers not knowing how, or just being unwilling to de-escalate a situation when immediate compliance isn't forthcoming. It's at minimum a training issue. But it's also an attitude issue. You want to use a seatbelt violation as an excuse to run names for warrants? Fine. But where do you go when someone has no ID, or refuses to produce it? This is one answer. And it's the wrong one.
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One of the best things about the practice of yoga is that you don't really need anything to do it. Sure, props are nice, yoga mats keep you from slipping, and yoga clothes might make you more comfortable--but you can still practice if you don't have any of these things. It's a comforting thought that you were born with everything you need to do yoga.
Here are 5 things that yoga does require:
1. An open mind. Yoga is an exploration of who you are, and who you are becoming. You might not always like what you find, but in order to grow, you have to be willing to explore the unpleasant, accept it, and love it anyway.
2. The willingness to look silly. A new yoga pose can make even the most experienced, athletic yoga student look silly. If you want to be a yoga student, you have to understand that yoga isn't about how you look--it's about how you feel and what you feel.
3. An adventurous spirit. A yoga practice session is a new adventure every single time. One day your backbends feel spacious and light, the next day they're constricted and confined. Being open to the exploration of whatever journey your practice will take you on that day is far more rewarding than holding yourself to a set of expectations.
4. A sense of humor. If you can't laugh at yourself when you fall down, when you look impossibly ungraceful in a new pose, or when your belly grumbles or otherwise makes itself known, yoga won't be nearly as enjoyable for you as it could be.
5. Body, breath, and spirit. The most important thing you need for yoga is YOU. You need your body, breath, mind, and spirit. Paying attention to how you feel during different moments, different levels of intensity, and different kinds of situations--this is what the practice is all about for me. And you don't even need to be doing a pose to do that!
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Gabon's ailing president returns for government swearing-in, months after reported stroke
LIBREVILLE, Gabon -- Gabon's President Ali Bongo Ondimba, who has been out of the country for health reasons since October, has returned for the swearing-in of his new government.
Bongo's return comes a week after an attempted coup by officers with the Republican Guard. Two of the plotters were killed and four others were arrested and face life sentences, authorities have said.
Local media said Bongo arrived overnight from Morocco, where he had been recovering from a reported stroke he suffered in Saudi Arabia. The government has said little about his condition.
"His presence is a sigh of relief for the economy of our country. It must reassure businessmen," said Minister of Economy Jean Marie Ogandaga.
Bongo made no statements at Tuesday's swearing-in. He appointed a new prime minister, Julien Nkoghe Bekale, shortly after the Jan. 7 coup attempt.
Bongo took power in the oil-rich Central African nation after the death of his father in 2009.
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Born Garian Fifer on February 10, 1984 Yung Passport grew up in the crime infested streets of North Memphis, Tn where he attended Carnes elementary two blocks from the notorious Dixie Homes housing projects. Raised by his mother a single parent along with his aunts and grandmother the young Garian looked to the streets for a father figure. Early on he had an undeniable passion for music and often used rap as a way to deal with frustrations he had due to a lack of presence from his father. Soon he gravitated to sports and began experimenting with marijuana by age 12 and shortly thereafter graduating from just using marijuana to selling it.
Growing up with the basic necessities in life like food, shelter, and clothes Garian often wondered like many other teenagers what would it feel like to be rich. Although his mother did the best she could he wanted more and got a job at 15 played football and was selling cannabis full time. As time passed he began to get deeper into street life, moving up to distributing larger amounts of marijuana, crack cocaine, prescription pills and x-pills.
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Road Test: Lamborghini LP560-4 Spyder
I'd only been up a matter of minutes, but I was already fidgeting. I knew I had a long day ahead of me, but boy was it going to be a satisfying one. I picked up the trusty iPhone and checked the weather in the Peak District. Fantastic, 25 degrees. There was only one nasty thing between me and the day's pleasure - the M1.
So, a bit of cereal consumed to avoid the inevitable McDonalds breakfast menu, and I was ready for the off. Not too much luggage, as my weekend transport can only hold an overnight bag and my camera bag. Hop into the dull eurobox hire wagon I have that week, and schlep up the M1, through boring roadworks, avoiding drunk lorry drivers (I'm guessing, he was all over the road) and trying to avoid Burger King's temptations for lunch. How do reps manage it? Anyway, back to the trip…
After what seemed like a week (actually 4.5hrs) I arrive in Wakefield, at ecurie25's Leeds branch. And sitting there, looking gorgeous in the beaming sunlight, was my weekend's transportation. The Lamborghini Gallardo LP560-4 Spyder to give it the full title. Wow. White bodywork, black wheels, black leather, just gorgeous. After a brief handover, it's mine for the taking.
I must admit to a little trepidation at this point. You see, the old Gallardo Spyder, in manual gearbox form, was my favourite car. And I don't use that term lightly – it genuinely was my favourite car. I adored the looks, the sound, the driving experience, everything. So this updated Gallardo had a lot to live up to, and to my initial dismay it came with the eGear paddle-shift gearbox. I've always preferred my Italians to be stick-shifters, purely down to my love of getting the heel-and-toe just right on the way into a section of bends, and powering through them with the smug knowledge that you got it right that time.
Right, onto first impressions of the updated baby bull. As I've stated, I loved the Gallardo Spyder of old, but I think Lamborghini have very much succeeded in doing one of the hardest tasks in the whole of automotive-land; making a facelift look better than its predecessor. The shorter and slightly wider front lights, resplendent with DRL's, sit above a restyled front bumper which has taken more than a little inspiration from the Reventon hypercar. Larger air intakes jut out aggressively on the lower edge, ready to decapitate any unlucky pedestrians caught by them and the nifty carbon blade which joins them. Around the back there are some large changes to the look as well. The rear light clusters are much smaller, no longer wrapping over the rear clam and holding LED lights in arrow formations, as on the Reventon. A new carbon diffuser sits at the bottom, with 2 enormous exhaust outlets at either side, which should in my opinion be classed as musical instruments.
Inside it's much the same as before, apart from the fact that this particular car has some awful silver plastic trim on the steering wheel. Honestly, if it was my £170,000 I'd be rather unhappy with the cheap feeling, cheap looking addition to the bottom of the wheel, but I assume one can have it in traditional leather. What hasn't changed luckily is the driving position and driving environment. Sitting low in the seats, you have a pure supercar view out of the tiny side windows and down the short nose. Amazingly easy to place for a supercar too, as the short nose enables you to know exactly where the front of the car is.
After sitting there for a few minutes getting some odd looks from people, it's time for the off. I have to be in north Cheshire for dinner later in the evening, with the Peak District between me and my food. The trip computer says it's 28 degrees, there's a beaming hot sun in the sky, and the roof is down. Perfect.
In a refreshingly old-school way, a turn of the key fires the glorious 560bhp, 5.2 litre V10 engine into life, with a bark and a loud blare of exhausts. On first start-up this fanfare lasts a surprisingly long time, not that I'm complaining! With no roof, and the rear facing a big wall, the noise that fills the cabin and my ears is incredible – loud, melodious and smelling of petrol. Now onto my first interaction with the eGear transmission. Foot on the brake pedal, flick the right pedal and into 1st it slips. Crawling away from the ecurie25 office and into traffic it's a very docile beast, with no juddering or clutch smells when pulling away. The same slip road I encountered in the Audi S8 appears before me, which is interesting as that has a very similar engine, and didn't feel too fast in the Audi.
Not so in the LP560/4. I squeeze the throttle, then plant it into the carpet and a wall of noise erupts all around me. Somehow Lamborghini have managed to improve the noise the old Gallardo made which is quite an achievement; once again a deep rumble which resonates through your body gives way to a harder edged rasp, and onto a screaming wail at high revs. I realise at that point that I will be accelerating like that a lot this weekend, and to hell with the 99RON…
Even though the noise is all-encompassing, you can't help feel the sheer forces of the acceleration. A few weeks later my internal organs have only just made their way back to the correct bodily positions after being forced into an orgy with my spine. A cheeky little lift of the throttle - not much, just lift the foot maybe an inch or two – as you flick the gearshift paddle is enough to ensure a smooth shift, and is very impressive. Combined with the smoothness of operation when taking it easy, this is the most impressive (non-dual clutch) paddle shift 'box I've driven yet. I'm still pretty sure I'd have the manual but this is certainly a good option.
Once the motorway and A-Road sections are out of the way I have my pick of the Peak District ahead of me. I pick a suitably twisty looking road, and away I go. 3rd gear squirts along the straights link the faster bends, flicking the left paddle to give a throttle blip as it shifts into 2nd for the tight turns. Noise ricocheting off the high valley walls it is utterly intoxicating. Accelerate, brake, blip, turn, accelerate, flick, accelerate, flick, brake……. and on it goes until I reach civilisation again. Nope, that wasn't enough, so I find a carpark and turn around. Back I go along that road, taking in the stunning views and ribbon-like tarmac, revelling in the sensual overload that this Lamborghini is providing.
I was supposed to be taking some photos whilst in the Peaks, but the thought only crossed my mind on my last run back when I got to the village again, with failing light. I was just too involved to think of anything other than that car, the noise and the view.
I revelled in everything the LP560/4 had to offer over the weekend, using the nose lift seemingly everywhere I went, contributing massively to Shell's profits, and doing my own little bit of posing in Alderley Edge. Given how good this car looks with the roof up as well as down, the engine, the handling and the noise, it has happily taken over from the older Spyder as my new favourite car.
My choice? Bright orange for that extra bit of Lamborghini extrovert style, and grey leather so it doesn't get so hot!
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How the hell did I manage to go 4.5 months without posting anything to GatorUptown.com?! In the more than six years since I've been posting to this site, I've never gone that long without a quick update. Clearly, things have been a mess.
Let me catch you up real quick.
- Sal and I are still living together (after 6 years of dating, sheesh) and recently signed our third lease in this NYC apartment. Not sure what we'll do after that, but things are good here.
- New job is going very well — honestly the best job I've ever had in more than 8 years at the company, and in my entire career for that matter.
- Rapidly approaching the long-overdue end of my tenure as the global co-chair of my company's LGBT employee network. Bittersweet, for a number of reasons.
- Wedding plans are coming together nicely.
- My crazy mood swings around my Ph.D. program have largely subsided — I'm in a better mental state about the whole thing and excitedly moving forward.
Those are the highlights of the major things going on in my life right now, I suppose… I could go and write this giant paper about all of them, but honestly, who would read such a long-winded rambling post? (See, I'm learning.) I suspect what I'll do instead is try to tackle each of those subjects in a separate post over the next week, so stay tuned for more.
I'll try to be better about posting, though. Hopefully those of you who haven't heard from me as much lately can get the occasional sneak preview about how things are going, to tide you over until our next proper conversation.
If nothing else, though, I find it to be a good mental exercise for myself, and helpful in gaining some perspective about my life. We all need our Doogie Howser moments from time to time, right?


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— Breakages in chromosomes in mammalian evolution have occurred
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The researchers, reporting in the July 22 issue of the journal Science, also found that chromosomal evolution has accelerated, based on the rate of breakages and reorganization, since the extinction of dinosaurs 65 million years ago.
In a study led by Harris A. Lewin of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and William J. Murphy of Texas A&M University, the organization of chromosomes of humans, mice, rats, cows, pigs, dogs, cats and horses was compared at high resolution.
"This study has revealed many hidden secrets on the nature and timing of genome evolution in mammals, and it demonstrates how the study of basic evolutionary processes can lead to new insights into the origin of human diseases," said Lewin, the director of the Institute for Genomic Biology at Illinois and a professor of animal sciences.
The multi-species comparison was aided by a computer visualization tool – the "Evolution Highway"– developed by collaborators in the Automated Learning Group at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications at Illinois. Other lead participants were from the University of California, San Diego, and the Genome Institute of Singapore.
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mammals of 94 million years ago.
"Based on our findings of the mammalian rate speed-up, we postulate that early mammals, with conservative body plans, retained fairly conserved genomes, as evidenced in the striking similarities in the reconstructed ancestral genomes," Murphy said.
"The widespread origin and diversification of most mammalian orders after the K-T extinction, due to exploitation of new ecological niches, may have facilitated isolation and opportunities for the fixation of karyotypic differences," said Murphy, a professor of veterinary integrative biosciences.
The K-T extinction occurred 65 million years ago as the Cretaceous Period closed and the Tertiary Period began. The Cretaceous-Tertiary Boundary, a defining moment marked throughout the world by a thin layer of iridium-rich clay between the rocks of the two periods, is believed to have resulted from a massive comet or asteroid strike.
The study's data, Murphy added, provide a potential link between post-K-T isolation and the accelerated development of species-specific chromosomes. Since the K-T extinction, rates of chromosomal evolution among the species have increased from two-to-five fold, the researchers reported.
Rates of changes were obtained by analyzing the placements of breakpoints in the genomes of the species studied. A breakpoint is where one chromosome has split and the DNA is rearranged by the insertion of a piece from another chromosome or a different part of the same chromosome.
Breakpoints have been implicated as potentially major triggers for cancers and many other human diseases. "We looked closely at these breakpoints, asking if there are specific DNA signatures in these regions," Lewin said. "The answer is, we still don't know, but in the human there is a high frequency of segmental duplication around the sites of breakage. We are interested in characterizing the genes and their functions in these regions."
The multi-species comparison showed significant overlapping with breakpoints that occur in a variety of human cancers, Lewin said. "While more work needs to be done to clarify this relationship, it is clear that the overlap is real, and that there is likely to be biological significance to this discovery."
The researchers theorize that chromosome rearrangements that result in the activation of cancer-causing genes are related to the propensity of chromosomes to break and form new combinations as new mammalian species evolve.
In all, 1,159 pair-wise breakpoints were found among the genomes of human and six non-primate species. Using a bioinformatics tool, researchers aligned and compared the breakpoints across species and constructed an evolutionary scenario for chromosomal rearrangements among all genomes and ancestors. They found 492 evolutionary-specific breakpoints and analyzed them for segmental duplication; 40 breakpoints were considered to be primate specific.
"Understanding the features of the DNA sequence in and around the evolutionary breakpoint regions is of key importance in determining why chromosomes break in specific regions," said Denis Larkin, a visiting animal scientist at Illinois and a principal author.
The researchers found that chromosomes tend to break in the same places as species evolve. Evidence for such a pattern had been suggested previously by Larkin and Lewin and by study co-authors Pavel A. Pevzner and Glenn Tesler, both of the University of California, San Diego. However, the new study is the first to show the phenomenon on a genome-wide basis by multi-species comparison.
"Finding rearrangement hotspots in mammalian genomes is a paradigm shift in the study of chromosome evolution," said Pevzner, a professor of computer science. The next important questions, he added, involve what it is that makes some regions fragile and how fragility in an evolutionary context is related to fragility in cancer.
The regions immediately flanking breakpoints, they discovered, have more genes than the rest of the genome on average.
"One of the most gene dense regions of the human genome," the authors wrote, "is characterized by recurrent breaks in different mammalian lineages (dog, cat, cattle, rodents), marked by large amounts of gene turnover and variation in centromere placement."
(Centromere refers to highly condensed and constricted regions of chromosomes, where spindle fiber is attached during mitosis.)
Scientists at several other institutions contributed key genome-mapping information to the project.
Mapping data for the dog genome was provided by scientists at the U.S. National Human Genome Research Institute and French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS). Cat-mapping data was contributed by the U.S. National Cancer Institute.
Scientists at Illinois, Texas A&M University and the National Institute for Agricultural Research in France provided genome maps of cattle, horses and pigs. The genome maps of humans, mice and rats were available from public sources.
"None of this would have been possible without the strategic investments by the National Institutes of Health and by the U.S. Department of Agriculture in the genome projects of humans, model and agriculturally important organisms," Lewin said. "It's a perfect example of the unity of biology when studied at the level of DNA. Many more surprises await us as we relate genomes to biology, and these surprises will lead to better understanding of how species evolve and what peculiarities in their genomes cause one species to have a high rate of cancer and others not."


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Not all real estate careers deal with buying or selling homes. Some require more attention to management than sales, namely property and real estate management jobs. If you've ever worked in an office building or rented an apartment, chances are it was a property manager that held things together! Here's what they do, how much they earn and how you can become one!
More often than not, rental properties are run by real estate or property managers. These guardians oversee day-to-day activities, like making sure repairs are timely and the accounting adds up. They also manage the long-term interests of the owner, making sure their investment remains strong.
What Makes a Good Property Manager?
Property managers are involved in a variety of activities throughout the day, so they must be good at multitasking. They must also have strong interpersonal skills. Real estate managers deal with many people throughout the day, including building maintenance crews, doormen, leasing office staff, and potential renters. They benefit from having a composed, professional demeanor and a clear mind for solving problems and responding to emergencies, such as earthquakes, fires, and floods.
Sales and marketing are also an important part of property management. Managers need to have a keen sense of the value of their rental properties and how to fetch the best price. When the rental market is soft, the sales aspect of property management becomes more important. Managers must devise creative strategies to attract business, such as offering discounts or hosting special events at the property.
Training for Careers in Real Estate Management
According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), "most employers prefer to hire college graduates for property management positions." The BLS adds that good preparation for careers in property management include business-related degrees. What's most important, however, is having an ability to follow through with the business of the day and find common sense solutions to problems.
Property Manager Salaries
Median annual earnings of salaried property and real estate managers and community association managers (people who manage residential properties such as condos and apartments) were $39,980 in 2004, but the highest paid property managers earned more than $89,000 a year. Better paying management jobs will likely be in buildings in high-valued business districts, such as those in downtown New York, San Francisco, and Boston, though education is certainly a factor. A business degree could have a significant impact on your earning potential.
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At the Gates rose from the ashes of Grotesque, a Satanic Swedish Black / Death Metal band from the late 80s. With the Gardens of Grief E.P. the band already showed a definitive shift from the sound of Grotesque to a heavier, more bottom-heavy sound more related to other bands of the time. The vocals were much deeper as well, for the most part, but the release showed promise.
The Red In the Sky Is Ours is the debut full-length from Sweden's At the Gates. This is truly a masterpiece of an album, and far surpasses anything the band would go on to release. The spirit of Grotesque lives on here, but in much different form. This is not typical Swedish Death Metal, at all. It is actually much more reminiscent of early Burzum. In many aspects, this album possesses a similar feel and the structures are quite more complicated than most Death Metal. However, it does feature some of the rhythmic structures of that subgenre.
Vocally, Tomas Lindberg's style is a terrible shriek, that fits alongside that of Varg Vikernes. It works brilliantly with the hauntingly miserable melodies of this album. It sounds much less controlled than on later releases and is one of the best aspects of this album.
"The Red In the Sky Is Ours / The Season To Come" starts off furiously with tortured screams, blasting drums and fast tremolo riffs. This album gives the impression that the band could have easily chosen to go down a different path. They could have made the transition to Black Metal, such as Darkthrone did, and been quite successful. One can even find minor similarities between this and Soulside Journey. It is a shame that At the Gates chose a simpler way, following this album. At the conclusion of the opening track, there is the sound of thunder and rain, accompanied by a violin. This seems to accentuate the atmosphere very well.
To explain the production, the sound is clear enough but not overdone. It's not exactly raw, either. To best describe it, one would have to compare it to the first two Burzum albums and even Diabolical Fullmoon Mysticism from Immortal. The guitar is definitely audible, but not very sharp. Really, the album may have benefited from the guitars being a little bit louder in the mix, but this is a minor complaint. The drums drive the songs nearly as much as the guitars do, so it may not be right to bury them in the mix.
In some places, one can find doom-inspired riffs, maybe in the vein of Dissection's The Somberlain. There is definitely a dark and somber atmosphere being created with this work. "Through Gardens of Grief" is one of the best songs on here, and features brilliant harmonies. There is also another violin piece in this song, going further to add to the depressive feeling. The song is mostly fast-paced, but not entirely. The vocals really convey a deep hopelessness here.
The epic feeling continues on the next song, "Within." It begins with a doomy riff, yet manages to get up to full speed later on. There is even another violin passage that blends in, seamlessly. And it is at this point the listener must realize the pure genius of this record. Here, At the Gates have created an absolute masterpiece, yet it seems to have occurred naturally. Many bands try to achieve such lofty goals, only to fall short. They try too hard. On The Red In the Sky Is Ours, the members of At the Gates flawlessly executed their goal. They brought their vision to life, and it was only a coincidence that it turned out so brilliantly. It was an extension of their creativity, which seemed to have no boundaries at this point. Only later on would they appear to limit themselves and thus suffocate this brilliance.
As the album continues, "Windows" offers great melodies filled with tension and dread. "Neverwhere" is certainly one of the standout tracks on this album. The dark melodies, agonized vocals and lyrics flow together, perfectly.
"Life doesn't belong here."
"The Scar" seems to be more of an extension of the previous song. The mood is much the same, though the delivery is much more subdued. Though quite simple, the song does well in painting a very bleak picture.
"The end, it reaches out for me. My soul still calling to be free."
This short piece manages to, effectively, create a very bleak and hopeless feeling. As the album draws to a close, the pace picks back up, somewhat. We also get a new version of "City of Screaming Statues" which was originally released on the Gardens of Grief E.P. This song is blindingly fast, most of the way through, yet it is a fitting close to this monumental album. Such an achievement would never again be equaled by this band or any other that attempted to follow in its wake. This album represents that peak of creativity for At the Gates. If you have not yet heard this, then you do not truly know this band.


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Aethlon Medical Announces Data Against Metastatic Melanoma
Sep 09, 2010, 07:05 ET
SAN DIEGO, Sept. 9 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Aethlon Medical, Inc. (OTC Bulletin Board: AEMD), the pioneer in developing therapeutic filtration devices to address infectious disease and cancer, announced today that its researchers have demonstrated the ability of the Aethlon Hemopurifier® to capture immunosuppressive exosomes derived from individuals with metastatic melanoma.
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The Hemopurifier® is the first medical device to selectively target the removal of infectious viruses and immunosuppressive proteins from the entire circulatory system. Metastatic melanoma is an advanced stage of skin cancer where cancer cells have spread to tissues, lymph nodes, or body organs. The classification of either stage III or IV denotes metastasis. Metastasis greatly affects the survival rate or life expectancy of patients with melanoma. The 5-year survival rate of stage III melanoma is approximately 50% to 68%, while stage IV survival is approximately 18%.
"Our goal is to provide oncologists with a device that will improve effectiveness of melanoma cancer therapies without adding drug toxicity or interaction risks," stated Aethlon Chairman and CEO, Jim Joyce. "The data also provides supporting insight that our Hemopurifier® has broad-spectrum activity against various forms of cancer." Aethlon previously demonstrated that the Hemopurifier® was effective in capturing exosomes from the fluids of five ovarian cancer patients during in vitro studies.
Aethlon believes the Hemopurifier® represents the sole therapeutic strategy to directly inhibit or reverse the deleterious effects associated with exosomes secreted by tumors as a survival mechanism for cancer. Tumor-secreted exosomes have been reported to trigger programmed cell death (apoptosis) of immune cells; interrupt T-cell signaling required to mount an immune response; inhibit the production of anti-cancer cytokines, and have implications in the spread of metastasis and allowing for angiogenesis.
In the study, small-scale versions of the Hemopurifier® removed 73% of melanoma derived exosomes from cell culture fluids in one hour and 87% in two hours. The study also documented the capability of a diagnostic device being advanced by Aethlon Medical's wholly owned subsidiary Exosome Sciences, Inc. The device, known as an enzyme linked lectin specific assay (ELLSA) was proven to directly detect melanoma derived exosomes from fluid samples. Previously, exosomes had been measured by total protein content in purified samples and by indirect immunomodulatory effects. ELLSA directly measures exosome particles in complex solutions, and has already been found capable of detecting exosomes from other sources, including ovarian cancer and tuberculosis-infected macrophages. While the Hemopurifier® represents a new therapeutic strategy to address cancer, ELLSA is being advanced to provide the ability to diagnose and monitor cancer progression.
About Aethlon Medical
At Aethlon Medical, we create revolutionary devices to address infectious disease and cancer. Our devices are designed to be novel platform solutions that fill therapeutic voids or aid in disease diagnosis and monitoring.
Our Hemopurifier® is the first medical device to selectively target the removal of infectious viruses and immunosuppressive proteins from the entire circulatory system. We recently discovered that our Hemopurifier® captures tumor-secreted exosomes that suppress the immune system of those afflicted with cancer. Prior to this discovery, a did not exist in cancer care. By eliminating this mechanism, we believe our Hemopurifier® can fill an unmet clinical need and provide the benefit of an immune-based therapy without adding drug toxicity or interaction risks to established and emerging treatment strategies.
Human studies have documented the ability of our Hemopurifier® to safely reduce viral load in both Hepatitis-C virus (HCV) and Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) infected patients without the administration of antiviral drugs. However, our initial clinical and commercialization focus is to establish our Hemopurifier® as an adjunct therapy to enhance the benefit of both infectious disease and cancer treatment regimens. In this regard, we plan to commercialize our Hemopurifier® in India as we advance our clinical strategies in the United States and the European Union. In vitro studies conducted by government and non-government research institutes have also verified that our Hemopurifier® has broad-spectrum capabilities against bioterror and emerging pandemic threats. These studies have confirmed the capture of Dengue Hemorrhagic Virus, Ebola Hemorrhagic Virus, Lassa Hemorrhagic Virus, West Nile Virus, H5N1 Avian Influenza Virus, 2009 H1N1 Influenza Virus, the reconstructed Spanish Flu of 1918 Virus, and Monkeypox Virus, which serves as a model for human Smallpox infection.
As a therapeutic device, the Hemopurifier® provides us with a pipeline into four significant market opportunities:
- Cancer: A treatment candidate to improve patient responsiveness to established cancer therapies by removing immunosuppressive exosomes from circulation.
- Hepatitis-C Virus (HCV): As an adjunct therapy to accelerate viral load reduction at the outset of standard of care drug regimens.
- Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV): Provides a potential therapeutic option for HIV-infected individuals to manage disease progression once they become resistant to antiviral drug regimens.
- Bioterror and Pandemic Threats: Represents the most advanced broad-spectrum strategy to address untreatable bioterror and emerging pandemic threats.
The Hemopurifier® is an expansive multi-patented platform technology whose mechanism of action can be leveraged to provide therapeutic, diagnostic, and biomarker discovery solutions. As a therapeutic, the Hemopurifier® is a single-use disposable cartridge designed for implementation within the established infrastructure of dialysis machines and other blood circulatory pumps already located in hospitals and clinics worldwide.
In design, our Hemopurifier® is a selective filtration device containing affinity agents that tightly bind to high-mannose structures unique to the surface of exosomes produced by cancer and glycoproteins residing on the envelope of viruses. These agents are immobilized around approximately 2800 porous hollow fibers that run the interior length of our device. The resulting design provides us the novel ability to separate both exosome and viral targets away from blood cells so they can then be selectively and permanently removed from the circulatory system. In application, blood circulation is established into the Hemopurifier® via a catheter or other blood access device. Once blood flow has been established, treatment benefit is immediate as the entire circulatory system can pass through the Hemopurifier® in as little as 15 minutes.
Our wholly owned subsidiary, Exosome Sciences, Inc. (ESI) is focused on the development of exosome-targeted products and services that improve cancer diagnosis, provide post-treatment cancer surveillance, and aid in the discovery of biomarkers that allow doctors to optimize patient therapy. Additional information regarding Aethlon Medical and Exosome Sciences can be accessed online at www.aethlonmedical.com.
Certain of the statements herein may be forward-looking and involve risks and uncertainties. Such forward-looking statements involve assumptions, known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors which may cause the actual results, performance or achievements of Aethlon Medical, Inc. to be materially different from any future results, performance, or achievements expressed or implied by the forward-looking statements. Such potential risks and uncertainties include, without limitation, the capability of the Hemopurifier® to reduce viral loads and other disease conditions or to identify or treat disease conditions such as cancer, including the ability to capture exosomes and the impact that potential ability may have on disease conditions, the Company's ability to raise capital when needed, the Company's ability to complete the development of its planned products, the ability of the Company to obtain FDA and other regulatory approvals permitting the sale of its products, the Company's ability to manufacture its products either internally or through outside companies and provide its services, the impact of government regulations, patent protection on the Company's proprietary technology, product liability exposure, uncertainty of market acceptance, competition, technological change, and other risk factors. In such instances, actual results could differ materially as a result of a variety of factors, including the risks associated with the effect of changing economic conditions and other risk factors detailed in the Company's Securities and Exchange Commission filings.
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We're having a little … discussion … over on the BSides group list, and Erin most appropriately started us off with the lovely memories.
Mostly so I don't have to choke the thread with a 300K JPG, and also so it's somewhere else, I post the picture here.
For context, here're two of my favorite BSides memories, in this case about LV #2:
– Track #2, the "game house", was over capacity and overheated from the jump on day one. Jack managed to miracle a 3-ton unit literally overnight. (I've pulled some huge honkin' rabbits out of my ass before, but Jack wins the prize for this. He must have been bleeding for months.)
– Track #2, end of day one. As speaker wrangler, I noticed the last talk of the day in that overheated and under-oxygenated room was a panel, and (IIRC) my contact for that panel was Leigh Honeywell. I went to her and started to ask, "Since y'all are a panel, do you need A/V, or can we just leave the doors open for that hour?"
I got as far as "do you…" in that sentence, and Leigh finished that sentence for me with the words "… want to run it by the pool?"
I blinked for a few seconds, and said, "Give me 15 minutes." Went to Vyrus and Jack, and damn if within 15 minutes Vyrus hadn't redirected all the necessary A/V to the poolside – in particular, the beach. Jack got the video camera set up on the walkway in about that time, and off we went.
That's what I'm talkin' 'bout.
But a picture's worth 1000 words, as we know, so I'll just STFU and leave you with this.


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January 15, 2016 – Minister's Mining Advisory Council Shows Results of Co-operative Relationships: Minister Chomiak
Manitoba is committing to share up to 25 per cent of mining taxes on new mines with Indigenous communities, Mineral Resources Minister Dave Chomiak announced today.
"Indigenous communities that want to participate in the mineral resources industry will be partners every step of the way as new mines are brought on line and they will share in the benefits of resource development," said Minister Chomiak. "There will be new training opportunities, good jobs, revenue sharing and a range of social and economic benefits for Indigenous communities. This will also send an important message to those who want to invest in Manitoba's mining sector that we're open for business."
The announcement is part of a number of results out of the Minister's Mining Advisory Council (MMAC), which was formed in 2013 to bring leadership from Manitoba, First Nations and industry together to strengthen Manitoba's investment climate, and develop a collaborative decision-making process to improve Indigenous participation throughout the mining cycle.
"The work of the advisory council has already developed meaningful consultation processes, is building stronger, more respectful relationships with First Nation communities and has begun to increase First Nation decision-making," said Chief Ron Evans, Norway House Cree Nation, and co-chair of the MMAC. "Being at the table has ensured a strong voice for our communities, employment opportunities and direct participation in economic development by our people."
Manitoba's commitment to revenue sharing is in addition to continued support of the council and the newly established First Nation Mining Economic Development Corporation. Also highlighted is the Mining Association of Manitoba's release of new Guidelines for Mineral Exploration in Manitobaand the Aboriginal Engagement Handbook, which provides guidance to industry and First Nations throughout the various stages of the mining cycle. These publications can be found at www.mines.ca/publication.php or by calling the Mining Association of Manitoba at 204-989-1890.
"Supporting Manitoba to become a top jurisdiction for mining and mineral exploration will benefit us all," said Rob Winton, co-chair, MMAC. "Forums such as this have helped significantly improve the mutual understanding of our issues and opportunities, making it clear that together, we are better."
Mining is the second-largest primary resource sector in Manitoba and one of the largest employers of Indigenous people in the north. In 2014, the province's combined value of mineral production for metals and industrial minerals exceeded $1.3 billion and generated more than 3,200 Manitoba jobs.
The province's six mines produce 100 per cent of Canada's cesium, 11.9 per cent of Canada's nickel, 23.6 per cent of Canada's zinc, 5.5 per cent of Canada's copper, 2.4 per cent of Canada's gold and 5.6 per cent of Canada's silver.
Manitoba is also in early discussions with the Manitoba Metis Federation regarding engaging Métis participation in the mining industry, Minister Chomiak noted.
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