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"original": "- KCII Radio - http://kciiradio.com -\nTransportation Changes Possible for Mid-Prairie\nPosted By News On @ 6:25 am In Today's Local News | Comments Disabled\nAs the Mid-Prairie School District’s new high school building comes closer to completion, the district’s school board is having discussions about transportation. Superintendent Mark Schneider says growth is main reason for the conversation about bussing in the district. He says new transportation director Steve Holland and technology director Shawn Flockhart addressed the board at their recent meeting about possible concerns and improvements of transportation in the district.\nSchneider says efficiency is important when talking about transportation, as it can be a significant portion of the budget as well. He says the board plans to discuss possible new bus routes and transportation finances before the 2011-2012 school year.\nArticle printed from KCII Radio: http://kciiradio.com\nURL to article: http://kciiradio.com/2011/07/transportation-changes-possible-for-mid-prairie/\nCopyright © 2005-2013 KCII Radio"
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"original": "Did you know over the last year, 115 alumni and University friends each gave $500 to build a large unrestricted scholarship benefiting UWGB students? Because of their generosity, together, they created a $57,000 scholarship that will annually produce more than $1,000 in scholarships from now until the end of time! We invite you to join them in growing the Phoenix 500 Scholarship Fund by participating in the first ever Phoenix 500 Duck Race.\nOn Saturday, August 6, we are hosting the Phoenix 500 Duck Race, tournament style, with ducks navigating a slip and slide course. The cost to participate is $5 per duck or $20 for a quack pack of 5 ducks. This is going to be a ton of fun with ducks moving forward in brackets.\nDate: Saturday, August 6\nTime: 2:30 p.m. – 4 p.m.\nLocation: Hagemeister Park Restaurant and Patio, 325 N Washington St, Green Bay\nIf you wish to make a $500 gift and be a Phoenix 500 flock member, there’s still time! To learn more or sign up today, visit Phoenix 500 flock. Each flock member receives a one-of-a-kind Phlash Phoenix rubber duck!\nThere’s no better place to have summer family fun than Bay Beach Amusement Park! Join fellow alumni and their families for a super fun day at Bay Beach! Each family will receive 20 tickets for Bay Beach and a special UW-Green Bay gift. Wear UWGB gear to receive an additional prize.\nBring a picnic lunch and catch up with friends. There will be family games to compete in for UWGB prizes and an opportunity to get your picture taken with Phlash.\nNoon: Check in and ‘bring your own’ picnic lunch\n12:30 p.m.: Family/kids games\n1 p.m.: Have fun at Bay Beach\nPlease register at UW-Green Bay Day at Bay Beach by Friday, August 12.\nAll alumni activities will take place in shelter 2. Look for the UWGB alumni sail banners. You won’t miss us!\nContact your alumni director, Kari Moody at [email protected] or 920-465-2226 with any questions.\nThe University of Wisconsin Green-Bay had a tremendous 50th Anniversary this past year! For a re-cap, check out our 50th Anniversary website. As the celebration of this important milestone comes to a close, 50th Anniversary Co-Chairs Tracy Heaser ’05 and Molly Vandervest want to send a special “thank you” to those who helped make it happen. “We are especially grateful for the generosity of our sponsors helping to put the University in the spotlight while allowing us to maintain our most important function: providing an excellent, interdisciplinary and problem-focused educational experience for our students.” All of us at UW-Green Bay ask you to please join us in saying thank you to our 50th Anniversary sponsors for their tremendous support!\nWould you like to help welcome freshman to UW-Green Bay this fall? We’ve got the perfect opportunity for you! First-year students move in to campus housing on Thursday, September 1st between 8:30 a.m. and noon and we need your help getting them and their stuff to their rooms.\nAs part of tradition, UWGB faculty, staff and alumni have been on site to assist our newest students as they move to campus and take one of their first steps towards completing their education. As you know, this is a stressful time for both the student and their family and friends who may be assisting them. In the past, our Phoenix families have been very appreciative and relieved to arrive on campus to find conveniently located information tables, staff directing traffic and others awaiting to help tote boxes, bags and refrigerators into the buildings.\nThe Office of Residence Life invites you to be one of the volunteers who will both welcome and assist our students with their physical move into UWGB student housing. This small gift of your time and energy could have a huge impact on our students’ engagement and retention. If interested, please register here by August 1.\nAs always, a luncheon will be provided to all volunteers following move-in day as a small token of our appreciation. Thank you, in advance, for putting Phoenix first! If you have questions, please contact the Office of Residence Life, (920) 465-2040.\nAs part of Associated Bank’s Fridays on the Fox series, UW-Green Bay is inviting all students, alumni, fans and supporters to attend Phoenix Friday on the Fox. This fun night celebrating UW-Green Bay and the City of Green Bay’s partnership will include socializing, games and activities for kids and adults, live music from the band Big Mouth, which features five UWGB alumni, an appearance by Phlash the Phoenix and much more!\nWear your favorite Phoenix gear for a chance to win an awesome prize.\nDate: Friday, July 29\nTime: 5 p.m. – 9 p.m.\nLocation: Main Stage on the CityDeck (enter at the Pine and Washington St. intersection)\nTime: 5 p.m. – 9 p.m.\nThe event includes free admission and is open to everyone. Parking is free the first hour and after 6 p.m. in the ramps and on all city streets.\nSponsored by the UWGB Alumni Association and Willems Marketing and Events\nNew course, same awesome outing! Come enjoy a great day of golf at the Brown County Golf Couse and support students following in your footsteps at UWGB. 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"original": "Geoffrey Cain | August 08 2013 | Global Post\nSEOUL, South Korea — Although the Korea-US Free Trade Agreement (KORUS FTA) has been in effect for little more than a year, it is already drawing vehement condemnation from both sides of the Pacific.\nIt wasn’t supposed to be this way.\nThe Obama administration feted KORUS as a veritable job-creation machine, a remedy for the tepid post-crisis recovery. When the US Congress voted in favor of the deal in October 2011, the president called it “a major win for American workers and businesses.” Some proclaimed that KORUS was the most significant trade agreement since NAFTA in 1994.\nThe US forecast an additional 70,000 American jobs from exports alone. The International Trade Commission estimated the pact would kick-start some $10 billion in US exports to Korea, improving the trade balance by a net $4 billion or more, a boon to the economy.\nBut already, it’s not clear that the agreement is living up to its promise.\nIn the US, critics claim that KORUS, which went into force in April 2012, is costing American jobs."
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"original": "Now that the major party National Conventions have ended, there is no question about the names of the respective candidates for the two top offices in the United States. On the left, we have former First Lady, U.S. senator and secretary of state Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-New York. On the right we find, developer and businessman Donald J. Trump, R-New York.\nMy, what a choice we have to make. We could have had an avowed Socialist and U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders, I-New Hampshire, against any number of applicants. The best vote getter being former Texas Solicitor General and present U.S. Senator Ted Cruz, R-Texas, who as solicitor general won a number of cases in the U.S. Supreme Court and is a dedicated constitutional conservative.\nSecretary Clinton has loudly proclaimed her intention to “continue the legacy of” PRESBO, which we can assume would mean the continued destruction of our defense capabilities and the military officer corps, as well as massive giveaways to more or less unfriendly nations around the world. All the while, Mr. Trump has equally loudly proclaimed his intent to “make America great again.”\nFrankly, I do not put much faith in any campaign promises. My preferred agenda, particularly in the area of tax relief and reduction, has not been proposed by any of the numerous primary candidates, except perhaps for former Governor Mike Huckaby, R-Arkansas, who came out fully in favor of the long proposed in Congress “Fair Tax” as a total replacement for the now onerous IRS managed income tax. More on that in a later tome.\nFor the present, it seems proper to take a look at the record of current White House tenant, PRESBO, for the last seven plus years since January 2009. In my mind, the only campaign promise he has fulfilled was his repeated “fundamentally change America” – but it has been not for the better. In my opinion, he and Secretary Clinton, while in office, committed acts that border on, if not exceed, the definition of treason. Her actions, recently outlined in detail, would put any of us in prison for life but she has not been charged.\nLast year, talk show host Mike Gallagher researched and wrote an essay which he titled: “Obama: It was You.” Space does not permit the full disclosure of statements, but here are some of the, considered by me, most alarming:\nAt an Islamic dinner he stated in his remarks: “I am one of you.” He allocated $100 million to rebuild foreign mosques. He wrote that in event of a conflict, “I will stand with the Muslims.” He assured the Egyptian Foreign Minister that: “I am a Muslim.” His administration has exempted Muslims from the Obamacare penalties. Early on, he supported the building of the “Ground Zero Victory Mosque” overlooking the World Trade Center site. His administration is staffed at top positions with dedicated Muslims, many with close ties to extremist groups, et al.\nIn my mind, the fact that the establishment rulers of the once patriotic Democrat Party allowed this travesty to be fostered on us amounts to disloyalty at the least, aided and abetted by a sympathetic and aggressive Communist/Socialist media and some RINO (Republicans In Name Only) members of Congress. It is a possible sad ending to that magnificent experiment in republic form of government established 240 years ago with great sacrifice and bloodshed. I firmly believe that it cannot continue to exist with another four years of the same operation. But, unfortunately, large numbers of voters seem to be blind to the danger and willing to vote for those offering “freebies” which leaves us with a Congress staffed by a majority of elected officials selling out to them."
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"original": "We love our overpaid athletes\nI was driving somewhere last week listening to sports talk radio, and I heard a discussion that, if I had really thought about it, might have driven me off the road.\nThe hosts were talking about Brandon Jennings and his future with the Milwaukee Bucks. They were discussing salary possibilities and whether Jennings could get a \"max\" contract or have to settle for something less.\nOne host suggested Jennings could command $14 million a year and the other one said it would be a shorter contract at $13 million. Then the first host said that they were arguing about \"only a million bucks.\"\nOnly a million bucks.\nHow crazy is the world when the figure one million dollars is preceded by the word \"only?\"\nOverpaid athletes and stars are nothing new. I can't even get my arms around things like \"millions.\" So in order to make me feel real bad, I tried to figure out what a paycheck looks like for some of these guys.\nI figure each guy gets paid every two weeks, just like most of us. Also just like us, they have withholding. So I figured they pay the top marginal tax rate of 39.6 percent. Try to wrap your mind about these numbers.\nEvery two weeks when he picks up his check, Alex Rodriguez gets about $743,000. Every two weeks. Kobe Bryant gets a check for about $497,000. Every two weeks.\nMark Sanchez (proving money doesn't equal worth) opens his pay envelope and finds a check for $290,385. He does this every two weeks. To bring this a little closer to home, Carlos Lee picks up a check for $430,000 every two weeks unless he has direct deposit.\nIt's enough to make you want to throw up. 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Something is wrong somewhere.\nI have no idea what to do about this, if anything at all can be done.\nI thought about appointing another presidential czar with the power to regulate salaries, but the teams would likely beat back that effort in the courts.\nI thought about hiring the guys who ran Barack Obama's first campaign to create a public groundswell that would result in a massive boycott that could force the restoration of some sanity. But even with sophisticated \"Get Out The Vote\" effort, I think most people love their sports too much to actually boycott them.\nWhich leaves us with what? Nothing. Our hands are tied. Athletes can take performance enhancing drugs, they can commit all sorts of mayhem, but as long as they can still run, jump, swing and hit harder than any of us, we will continue to flock to watch them do all this.\nBut we can still get sick to our stomach when we watch them at play.\nDave, you know what makes me sick? The thought that you get paid anything at all to write for this site.\n\"...we have lots of problems in this world that would benefit from an infusion of money.\" Wait... I thought that's why Obama has the printing presses cranking out $$ at a record pace, to \"infuse\" money into the world and solve all the problems. Except for when a box of Macaroni and Cheese costs $7.50. Then we'll have a whole host of new problems.\nWhat is the point of this article? It's stupid. Athletes deserve every penny they earn. Take baseball, the Brewers drew almost 3 million fans last year at an average ticket price of $20 (approx). That's $60 million right there. Then, you throw in parking, concessions, souvenirs, etc. Throw in local TV and radio money. Add in the national TV contracts and other revenue streams (internet, Extra Innings, etc). Add it all up. What should they do with that money? Pocket it? (Yes, I know there are other expenses associated but you get the point). I got in this argument with a co-worker a few years ago. I told him he has no leg to stand on. If you can get 40,000 people to pay to watch you work every night, then you might have a point.\nDave while I may share your frustration, I have to agree with the previous contributor. It's like blaming the drug cartels for the drug use in America. I predict that we, the taxpayers, will be footing the majority of the bill for an arena, that not only will showcase the rich players, but attendance will only be affordable by the rich. Give me a good reason for that? And don't give me the economic version of trickle down benefits, I didn't believe that when Reagan was trying to sell it. And don't tell me they will move. If they do, relieve the tension on the door spring so it dosen't hit them in the backside\nWhen the teams are making hundreds of millions of dollars why shouldn't the athletes be paid the way they are? 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A leader and innovator in spiritual formation and biblical community, Randy is the architect of The Story church engagement campaign. He is also the author of The Heart of the Story, The Connecting Church 2.0, and The Christian Life Profile Assessment. He and his wife, Rozanne, live in San Antonio, Texas.\nFrazee summarizes and comments on the Bible, showing how the stories fit together and connect to life today. Frazee's main premise is that God's perspective of the things that happen in life is often very different from man's perspective. Gods thoughts are not our thoughts (Isaiah 55:8-9). Frazee says that our goal should be to align ourselves more with Gods story.\nFor those who grew up in church, the book offers nothing new or insightful. At first, it seems to have the potential to benefit people less familiar with the Bible, but it doesnt sustain that momentum. It lacks organization and it fails to follow through on key matters with specific biblical references, parables, or spiritual lessons. The Heart of the Story is essentially a CliffsNotes version of the Bible, but scattered through the book are errors in direct quotations, story interpretations, and personal applications. In an attempt to be more interesting, some comments compromise the books accuracy to the details of the Bible text. Therefore, I hesitate to recommend this book to someone who is unfamiliar with Scripture. Grace C. Yates, www.ChrstianBookPreviews.com\nNicole4RevivalSaginaw, MIAge: 45-54Gender: female5 Stars Out Of 5What a powerful tool!December 21, 2012Nicole4RevivalSaginaw, MIAge: 45-54Gender: femaleQuality: 5Value: 5Meets Expectations: 5I first chose this book with a college student who was having trouble understanding the point of the Bible . She & I loved it! Randy's book is readable, clear, helpful & (most importantly) practical. What a difference it has made to have a tool to help college students understand God's \"upper story\" & how our \"lower story\" lives fit into His exciting purposes. It helps them see how the Bible IS relevant to their lives...not just a bunch of stories. I now order this book by the dozen, and am using \"The Story\" adult curriculum to give newcomers to the Bible an overview--before they deep dive into specific passages. Definitely one of the most useful & powerful Bible tools I have ever had!\nDouglaskyAge: 35-441 Stars Out Of 5Poor fact checkersNovember 24, 2012DouglaskyAge: 35-44Quality: 5Value: 3Meets Expectations: 1I am very surprised at the example of the size of the earth compared to the moon. Why would this mistake happen - especially on the second page. How could the earth be smaller than the moon when reduced if it's 3.7 times larger than the moon now? This does not influence his overall point but makes this a difficult book to recommend. Which is sad because I feel the overall series is excellent for introducing people with little background to the Bible.\nDaiv1 Stars Out Of 5Not heresy, but just weakSeptember 10, 2012DaivQuality: 1Value: 1Meets Expectations: 1I've not read this entire book, but what I have read comes across as a little too man-centered and not God-centered. The impression I get from this book is that God was sad and lonely so he created man. Not just that, but man is just the next-best thing to God himself. I would contend rather that man's importance is only because God chooses to interact with man, not because humans are intrinsically great.\nI would recommend those interested to read the first few pages of \"The Heart of the Story\" and then read Psalm 8? These are essentially trying to communicate the same thing, but it is quickly apparent that the scripture is far more focused on the greatness of God than is Frazee. In the scripture, God is a creator to be feared, in Frazee's book, one gets the feeling that God is just a good pal - or was a good pal at least in the beginning. I would say that even prior to the fall, Adam and Eve were not God's \"pal\" - at least in the sense that two people are pals with each other on earth. This is evidenced in the book of Revelation (and places like Ezekiel, Isaiah, etc.) where there are once again perfect, sinless people and they fall on their face and cry \"Holy, Holy, Holy\" to God.\nI guess if you need \"milk\" and not \"solid food\" then maybe reading \"The Story\" would get you started, but for any High-School or older literate person in the U.S. at least, reading the actual Bible itself shouldn't be that hard. I would say lack of effort is more the cause for biblical illiteracy than lack of comprehension. 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"original": "285 F2d 368 Moran Towing Transportation Co v. Conners-Standard Marine Corp\n285 F.2d 368\n86 A.L.R.2d 1227\nMORAN TOWING & TRANSPORTATION CO., Inc., Libellant-Appellee,\nCONNERS-STANDARD MARINE CORP., Respondent-Appellant.\nNo. 76, Docket No. 26216.\nUnited States Court of Appeals Second Circuit.\nArgued Nov. 4, 1960.\nDecided Dec. 21, 1960.\nRehearing Denied Jan. 25, 1961.\nRobert A. Feltner, New York City (Eugene Underwood and Burlingham, Hupper & Kennedy, New York City, on the brief), for libellant-appellee.\nVincent A. Catoggio, New Youk City (Purdy, Lamb & Catoggio, New York City, on the brief), for respondent-appellant.\nBefore SWAN, CLARK and MEDINA, Circuit Judges.\nMEDINA, Circuit Judge.\nConners-Standard Marine Corp., owner of the tug Gramercy, appeals from an interlocutory decree holding the Gramercy solely to blame for damage caused to the barge C. L. Stillman, owned by the assignor or libellant Moran Towing & Transportation Co., Inc., and towed pushboat fashion by the Moran tug Harriet moran, when the Gramercy and her twobarge tow crowded the Moran flotilla off the channel and aground in the New York State Barge Canal. The opinion below is not reported.\nAt about 1:55 p.m. on June 6, 1956, 'a fair, clear, beautiful, sunshiny day,' in the Mohawk River section of the New York State Barge Canal, two flotillas approached one another on the opposite sides of a 90 degrees S-bend surrounded by high land. The tug Harriet Moran, operated by libellant Moran Towing & Transportation Co., Inc., had in two, push-boat fashion, the steel barge C. L. Stillman, owned by Moran's assignor, and fully loaded. The Harriet Moran is a 1,000 horse powered single screw, steel vessel, 89.4 feet long, and 25.2 feet abeam. Her diesel power was operated electrically from her pilot house, which was, at the time of the grounding hereafter referred to, hydraulically lifted to a height of about 21 feet above the water line, giving a clear and unobstructed view ahead. The C. L. Stillman is a steel barge, 211.1 feet long and 42.9 feet abeam, of 1,508 gross and net registered tonnage. The Gramercy, with 150 horsepower, was also single screw, 63.8 feet in lenght, 18.8 feet abeam and a tonnage of 64 gross, 43 net tons. She was towing two wooden barges tandem, one loaded, one light, on two hawsers 70 feet in length, both running from the stern bitts of the tug to the forward port and starboard corners of the lead barge. The two barges were fastened together by another double line possibly one or two feet long. These barges were not equipped with any steering apparatus. One of the witnesses estimated the length of the Gramercy flotilla as about 290 feet.\nThe current was not a factor in the case, but what little there was of it favored the Moran flotilla. When this flotilla passed the railroad bridge about three-quarters of a mile from the place of grounding, Captain Perry cut his engine down to one-half speed or five statute miles per hour over the ground, and the sounded one long blast as the required bend signal. The Gramercy flotilla approached from the opposite direction at three miles per hour and it sounded no bend signal. As it was impossible to see around the bend this was a statutory fault, in violation of the Inland Rules, Article 18, Rule V, 33 U.S.C.A. 203, which provides as follows:\n'Whenever a steam vessel in nearing a short bend or curve in the channel, where, from the height of the banks or other cause, a steam vessel approaching from the opposite direction cannot be seen for a distance of half a mile, such steam vessel, when she shall have arrived within half a mile of such curve or bend shall give a signal by one long blast of the steam whistle * * *.'\nAs the Moran flotilla reached the bend at the stake light marked 163 on the chart (Libellant's Exhibit 2A) the two flotillas first came in sight of one another and they were then between 1,000 and 1,500 feet apart, as found by the trial judge. At about that time the Gramercy sounded one blast for a port to port passage and the Harriet Moran responded with one blast. Captain Perry then checked down his speed 'a little more.' He did not lower his speed further, nor did he put his engine in reverse, and at the time of the grounding was making from 4 to 5 statute miles over the ground as found by the trial judge. Neither tug at any time sounded the danger signal.\nWhile the Gramercy flotilla was to some extent on the wrong side of the channel when it was first observed by Captain Perry, there is no testimony that it was then 'three-quarters of the way over in the channel on her port side,' as found by the court. But she was on the wrong side of the channel and this was another statutory fault (Inland Rules, Article 25, 33 U.S.C.A. 210). Despite all this, there would still have been room in the 300 foot channel for the flotillas to pass one another in safety had not the mate of the Gramercy, who was at the wheel, suddenly decided to do the one thing that could not fail to produce an increasingly perilous situation. He made a sharp turn to starboard. This threw the stern of the Gramercy to port and swung the two barges out into the path of the oncoming Moran flotilla. No one can tell precisely what was the distance separating the two flotillas when this maneuver was undertaken; they were not far apart. It is clear to us that it would have done no good had the Harriet Moran sounded the danger signal, and, in view of the momentum of the Moran flotilla, that further cutting down speed or stopping the engine entirely would have been of no avail, as the flotillas were so near to one another. To have reversed would have increased the probability of collision, as this could have thrown the stern of the Harriet Moran to her port and closer to the Gramercy flotilla, because the Harriet Moran was a single screw vessel.\nThe gist of the case is that the swinging of these barges directly in the path of the Moran flotilla was a gross fault and it was the sole proximate cause of the damage to the C. L. Stillaman. Even the mate of the Gramercy admitted there was a swing to his left, although he insisted that there was at least 100 feet of open water between the two flotillas when the C. L. Stillama grounded. The diffculty with this is that Judge Murphy believed the Moran witnesses who testified that when the Gramercy passed there was a clearance of only 30 to 35 feet, which was reduced to 20 when the first barge went by, and to only 7 or 8 feet, or so near that a man could almost jump aboard as the second barge passed. Captain Perry testifed that he veered off to starboard more and more as the Gramercy flotilla came closer and closer in order to avoid a collision, and that is how he was forced off the channel into shallow water where the C. L. Stillman momentarily gorounded and sustained the damage complained of. While it is suggested that had Captain Perry stopped his engine the damage caused by the grounding might have been less, we think this is mere conjecture. The speed of 4 to 5 statute miles per hour could scarcely have become much less in the course of a few hundred feet, and it is a more likely inference that the C. L. Stillman would have gone on and over the shallow place where she struck, and have sustained precisely the same damage, even if Captain Perry had shut off his engine as soon as he became aware of the Gramercy's turn to starboard. We think the findings that the Gramercy was at fault and the Harriet Moran was not are supported by the proof. The last clear chance doctrine is obviously inapplicable to the state of facts we have just described.\nIt is vigorously contended that the Harriet Moran was at fault because she had no lookout. Surprisingly enough, this argument is made although Elmer Bicknell, the mate of the C. L. Stillman, was in the bow of the barge as it approached the bend, and he signalled to Captain Perry the presence of the Gramercy flotilla as soon as it hove in sight. Counsel argues that, even if he performed the suties of a lookout, we must hold the Harriet Moran at fault for failure to provide a lookout, as Bicknell was not hired by Moran nor had he been instructed to act as a lookout. He testified that he was bracing the dogs on the hatches and that when he heard Captain Perry sound the bend signal he dropped his work, looked up ahead and that when he saw the Gramercy flotilla he signalled back to Captain Perry that something was coming. Captain Perry testified that immediately after he saw Bicknell's signal he heard the single blast of the Gramercy for a port to port passage and, as the Gramercy then came into view, he answered the Gramercy's signal with a single blast of his own.\nIt is quite true that the mere presence of someone on the bow of a vessel does not satisfy the rule of 33 U.S.C.A. 221 that nothing in the Inland Rules shall exonerate any vessel for 'any neglect to keep a proper lookout.'1 Perhaps the Harriet Moran was at least guilty of a technical fault suffcient to bring into play the strict rule of The Pennsylvania, 1874,19 Wall. 125, 86 U.S. 125, 22 L.Ed. 148. Even so, if it were clearly established that Bicknell was an experienced lookout, that he knew just what the duties of a lookout were, and that he performed these duties, it would be difficult to reach the conclusion that the failure 'to keep a proper lookout' in any way contributed to or was a proximate cause of the damage to the C. L. Stillman. But we do not reach this point because, as already above stated, the sole proximate cause of the grounding was the sharp turn to starboard by the Gramercy, and this maneuver was undertaken after the flotillas were in full view of one another and after the time had passed when the duties of the lookout were to be performed. In other words, had the Gramercy simply shaped her course slightly to starboard or even kept on her original course there was room in the channel for the flotillas to pass one another in safety. With these facts in mind, and applying the rule of The Pennsylvania in all its rigor, we are bound to conclude that on no state of facts consistent with the evidence was the failure 'to keep a proper lookout' a proximate cause of the damage.\nAnother argument by appellant is that the trial judge refused to permit an oral summation at the close of the evidence and refused to allow time for the submission of a typewritten brief. But the trial transcript reveals no clear request for an opportunity to make an oral argument after both sides had rested.2\nOne of the basic requirements of a fair trial is the right to be heard. A litigant is deprived of this right if his counsel is not afforded an opportunity to inform the court of the reasons why the case should be decided in his favor. On the other hand, such is now the congestion of the courts, and such is the prejudice to thousands of litigants by reason of delays in the administration of justice, that every proper means must be availed of to speed up the process of trying and deciding cases. Courtesies to counsel smooth the path of justice and there are occasions when a trial judge may well be inclined to indulge counsel and even allow a few weeks or months to write and file briefs. There is, of course, no rule of thumb; everything is relative; in deciding whether or not there has been an abuse of discretion in giving directions with respect to the filing of briefs the decisive factors are the kind of a case one is dealing with and the maintenance of the authority and power of the trial judge to control the proceedings. In a simple non-jury case like the one now before us the issues of which depend on a mere question of credibility, and the inferences to be drawn from the facts as found, we do not see anything to prevent the trial judge from deciding the case forthwith, as soon as both sides have rested, in the absence of an unambiguous request for some reasonable opportunity to present orally the reasons why counsel thinks the case should be decided in his favor.\nIf the trial judge wishes to dictate his opinion and findings at once, there is no reason why he should not do so, and many reasons why he should. If time is allowed to counsel for the filing of briefs, they will want time to reply after the briefs have been filed; and the net result more often than not will be that the trial judge will, by the time the briefs are all finally filed, have forgotten many of the details that were fresh in his mind when the case was being tried. We have already approved the practice of promptly deciding non-jury cases, especially in admiralty. Polarus Steamship Co. v. The T/S Sandefjord, 2 Cir., 1956, 236 F.2d 270, 272.\nOn Petition for Rehearing.\nSWAN, Circuit Judge.\nI would grant a rehearing with respect to Point VI of the petition.\nSee The Ariadne, 1871, 13 Wall. 475, 80 U.S. 475, 20 L.Ed. 542; Poling Russell, Inc. v. United States, 2 Cir., 1952, 196 F.2d 939; Dahlmer v. Bay State Dredging & Contracting Co., 1 Cir., 1928, 26 F.2d 603; The Knoxville City, 9 Cir., 1940, 112 F.2d 223; Smith v. Bacon, 5 Cir., 1952, 194 F.2d 203; United States v. 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The amenities include 2 ocean-side pools for adults and children, tennis courts, brand newfitness center, equestrian center, cabana bar/dining, 2 restaurants, and 2 championship golf courses, which include Crooked Oaks and Ocean Winds, there are pool-side activities for kids and day camps during summer months. Our club membership will enable you to use these club facilities at a charge to the renter of $25 per day or $150 per week if you choose.\nThis is a very attractive villa that looks directly at the ocean/Edisto River inlet, with a direct (short) boardwalk to the beach. There are no high rises in sight (or anywhere on the island). A short walk leads to some very natural unspoiled areas, including marshland. Opposite is the undeveloped north end of Edisto Island. Dolphins swim constantly in front of the house, sometimes coming within 10 feet of shore. The Club pool and golf course are a 5 minute walk away. The unit is spacious, comfortable and well decorated. Seabrook Island is very quiet and peaceful. It shares a high-end shopping area with neighboring Kiawah - including gourmet grocery. Downtown Charleston is 30-40 minute drive away. Activities are golf, tennis, bike riding and walking along the beach or to the marshes and viewing wildlife. Probably the best location of any VILLA on the whole island. Great for kids if they like nature - less so if they want or need constant entertainment. No nightlife - thank goodness. Weather in mid-March was warm (70s) and windy.\nWe had a perfect family vacation. This villa is in an exceptional location to the beach club, golf club, and a quick walk or bike ride to the tennis courts. We truly enjoyed being right on the beach, quiet, watched the Dolphins, and caught the amazing sunsets.\nOur family of four thoroughly enjoyed our stay in this villa. It is completely private and you feel as though you are staying in a freestanding home rather than a villa. No noise from neighbors, no crowded beaches, no one walking overhead. It is pleasant and sunny and bright and the first thing you see when you open the door is the spectacular and very close ocean view. With two young children we were able to walk/bike easily to the beach club pools and restaurant. It goes without saying that getting to the beach was effortless because it is directly on the beach. We enjoyed surf fishing and catching blue crabs all week during the day and at night we sat on the deck and had spectacular views of the stars because the lack of commercial development on the island means no light pollution. Wild life is abundant. We saw deer, rabbits, a baby turtle, blue crabs, horseshoe crabs, dolphins, sting rays, countless fish, etc. Highly recommended!\nMy family absolutely loved our week in Seabrook, and we highly recommend this condo for its amazing location, direct ocean views, close proximity to the Pelican Nest, and great lay-out. It is a perfect vacation home, and we can't say enough about the customer service the owner provides. Thank you for making our visit to Seabrook so special!\nThis is truly a beautiful villa. It has wonderful views and spacious living areas. The boardwalk to the water is close to the villa and made for a lovely walk along the beach. The fishing was fun. Dolphins swim very close to the shore line. The sunsets are incredible. This is one of the few villas that provides a grill which we enjoyed using and we spent many mornings on the deck drinking coffee. The reasonable distance to Charleston provided a few day trips but we always looked forward to spending time on the private beach areas that Seabrook Island provides. We certainly enjoyed our stay and have many wonderful memories and photos of this gem along the ocean.\nA beautiful place, and being located right on the beach made it perfect for our family which included our four small grandchildren. We loved watching the dolphins swim by daily. The owner is very accommodating and friendly. The maintenance needs to be improved. We reported the broken dishwasher the day after we arrived and it was still broken when we left. I did not appreciate doing dishes all week for nine people when this was supposed to be my vacation. They did eventually send us some dish soap, towels, a pack of paper plates and cups. We also had a problem with several large roaches. Overlooking these inconveniences we enjoyed our beach vacation.\n25 miles from historic downtown Charleston. 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"original": "Sign Up | Log In\nBLUE SUN ROOM FAN FICTION - ADVENTURE\nA screenplay taking place not long after the events of \"Serenity.\"Showdown...\nCATEGORY: FICTION TIMES READ: 1205 RATING: 9 SERIES: FIREFLY\nINT. PALADIN – BRIDGE\nA tech turns to Madsen who stands on the middle level reading an electronic clipboard.\nTECH: The investigators are aboard sir, plus one suspect.\nMADSEN: Excellent. Set course for Londinium so that we might off-load this fresh load of refuse.\nThe view screens show Sihnon’s horizon disappear from their lower halves. There is the slightest tremble on the bridge as the ship powers up to break atmo.\nSwing view to rear of Paladin to reveal five tremendous thrusters firing up, propelling the ship skyward.\nINT. PALADIN – BRIG ENTRANCE\nKaylee assists Mal as before while Simon and Inara attempt to drag Jayne. Zoe trudges along, coughing raggedly. They are being led at the end of five rifles back into the Brig. Kayner and Jaxx are picking themselves up off the floor, shaking their heads. One of the new troops, Pinteray, scoffs.\nPINTERAY: Heroes of the Allied planets you boys sure as shit ain’t. Lemme guess, the women-folk kicked yer pee-goos?\nThey guide the crew back to their cells. Kaylee assists Mal into Cell One. Inara and Simon dump Jayne in Cell Two, then Simon is led into the next cell with Zoe. The cell doors slide closed.\nJAXX (nursing his bleeding nose): If a one o’ you asks to use the john, I’m gonna shoot you in the gorram knees.\nINT. PALADIN – HALLWAY\nPaul jogs down the hall with the troops flanking him. His expression is stone-cold, purposeful.\nINT. SERENITY – CARGO BAY\nRiver is suspended from the crane cable above the airlock, one of her pistols in hand.\nCU River’s face.\nPAUL (VO mind): RIVER!\nRiver’s eyes widen and she nearly drops her pistol.\nPAUL (VO mind): River, can you hear me?\nRIVER (VO mind): Sifu!\nPAUL (VO mind): River, if you can hear me, I need your help. Shut up, you coward! River... River...\nPaul is still jogging ahead of the troops, expressionless.\nRiver places both hands on her temples, obviously concentrating.\nRIVER (VO mind): Sifu, I’m here.\nPAUL (VO mind): Praise Buddha. I need your help. He’s too powerful. I don’t know where he came from. This isn’t me.\nRIVER (VO mind): I know. You have to fight.\nPAUL (VO mind): Shut up! Get out of my head!\nRIVER (VO mind): Paul, you’re stronger than he is. Take my hand.\nPAUL (VO mind): I’m trying... Get away from her!\nRIVER (VO mind): Just take my hand. We’ll beat him with love, with peace. He hates those things.\nPAUL (VO mind): You can’t beat me. I am what I am supposed to be. You're nothing. Now get out of my HEAD!\nRiver winces at the outburst, but visibly increases her effort.\nRIVER (VO mind): I won’t let him keep you buried, Paul. You’re the stronger one. The gentler one. Don’t let go. I’ve got you. Now LOVE!\nPaul’s pace is the same, but a drop of blood can be seen creeping from his nose. His forehead is deeply creased.\nHe and the troops turn one last corner, the large doors leading into the hangar come into view.\nRiver still hangs from the crane cable. Her eyes are squeezed shut, her forehead creased.\nPAUL (VO mind): Almost there... No! You’re weak! You’re nothing! I am my future!\nRIVER (VO mind): I’ve got you. You’re almost there. You nearly have him quelled. He's an angry child, nothing more. You're almost there. Just keep loving. Dream of peace. Dream of puppies. Dream of oceans.\nPAUL (VO mind): Almost... there... You son of a bitch! I won’t let you take back... no, no, no!\nRiver relaxes, her body almost limp except for her legs which keep her held to the cable.\nClick to go to Ch. 45\nClick to go back to Ch. 43\nClick to go back to Ch. 43\nFriday, January 5, 2007 1:39 PM\nFriday, January 5, 2007 1:44 PM\nSaturday, January 6, 2007 4:54 PM\nSunday, January 7, 2007 5:30 PM\nYou must log in to post comments.\nOTHER FANFICS BY AUTHOR\nAll FIREFLY graphics and photos on this page are copyright 2002-2012 Mutant Enemy, Inc., Universal Pictures, and 20th Century Fox.\nAll other graphics and texts are copyright of the contributors to this website.\nThis website IS NOT affiliated with the Official Firefly Site, Mutant Enemy, Inc., or 20th Century Fox."
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"original": "Illegal \"magic\" trade thriving in Middle East\nThe authorities of the United Arab Emirates claim this is the case; they often confiscate objects linked to magic or animist cults, held to illegal because they date back to pre-Islamic periods. Historians warn: this prejudice kills research into ancient cults still widespread in Arabia.\nAbu Dhabi (AsiaNews) Ancient writings on stone tablets, animal skins and claws, talisman dating back to pre-Islamic times: the trade in \"magic\" is a thriving business across the Middle East, says the Abu Dhabi Customs Department of the United Arab Emirates.\nStatistics acquired by the Gulf News daily reveal that between April and May this year, there were 27 confiscations of material described as \"magic items\" at various border points of the Arab Emirates.\nThe authorities say most items are seized from people who own them for \"personal use\", but many say there is a flourishing trade in the region.\nAbdullah Ebrahim, a Customs official, said such material was confiscated because it was held to be illegal. \"Many of these things date back to pre-Islamic times and so they go against Islamic principles.\"\nEbrahim said the \"magical\" objects originated from surrounding countries, including Saudi Arabia, Oman, Qatar and Bahrain, but many objects came from Africa and East Asia too.\nPeter Hellyer, a historian who has worked in the Emirates for over 30 years, said the \"particularly sensitive nature\" of the objects meant very little systematic research had been conducted about them, as they are viewed solely as material linked to witchcraft. But he said there was a strong belief practiced clandestinely in ancient, animist practices among some people in the Gulf states. \"There is a tradition of belief in magic in much of southern Arabia but very little research has been undertaken into it,\" he said.\nAccording to Ebrahim, Abu Dhabi destroyed confiscated items without the carrier being charged for trying to bring them into the country. He said customs inspectors were trained to recognize any object that may have particular cultural significance or historical value, to deliver it to some museum or other."
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"original": "Employment is something that interests most people, but it's hard to find. To get the sort of lucrative position you want, knowledge of the process is key. In this article, you will find some of the best job seeking tips available. Keep reading to find out more.\nWhen job hunting, talk with people you're already acquainted with. Check to see if they have contacts that can help you land an interview. This is the best place to start, as employers are more likely to take a second look at someone who has been recommended.\nIt is good to know how much people in your chosen industry are getting paid so you do not low-ball yourself during the negotiation process. Most people will put a low salary because they are afraid they can be turned away if they put a better rate. It may also make you appear desperate.\nRemember that a resume is only a portion of what determines who gets hired. You must be sure that this is updated, as well as current and fresh. The resume is just one piece of the puzzle. Employers want people who can further the business, and improve on it. Always focus on your strengths, and play to them in the interview.\nWhen you're filling out applications, use a form that will make the task easier. You'll find yourself having to supply dates and information that may not be fresh in your mind. You should create a cheat seat that contains all of this information. This will allow you to finish more applications.\nPut together a sheet that contains all of the information that is typically requested on application forms. You may be asked for prior job information that you don't remember. You'll want to have this information written down somewhere, and keep it handy. This will allow you to finish more applications.\nA cover letter is an important feature of a resume, so use this to showcase your leadership skills and overall qualifications for the job in a succinct way. If you are responding to an ad that requires leadership, focus your cover letter on your leadership skills. Check the ad and highlight any keywords you can use.\nMake a form that will aid you while inputting applications. Applications usually ask you to recall information from the past. It is good practice to write everything down and keep the information handy. This will help to make the application process go a lot quicker and smoother.\nMake sure to answer phone calls with a professional greeting when looking for a job. You may have some surprised people greeting you back as they won't expect such a proper person on the other end, but potential employers will be more than impressed at your demeanor, giving them the right impression from the start.\nYou always want to look your best when attending a job interview. Ensure your clothing is appropriate, and remember the small details, including your hair, nails, face, etc. It is important to look your best because a sloppy appearance can have a negative impact on the overall impression you give.\nIf you become aware you will be losing your job, apply for unemployment benefits immediately. Don't wait for your last day on the job or until your severance ends. The sooner you apply, the greater the likelihood of getting approved.\nRegardless of the doubts you may have, keep on trying. Edit your resume and apply for position you normally would not. Get creative to get back to work. Combined with a persistent nature, these tips will work for you."
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"original": "Ubly board OKs teacher contract\nPublished 11:10 am, Monday, April 25, 2016\nUBLY After negotiating since the spring with the teachers union, the Ubly Community Schools Board of Education ratified a two-year teachers contract at its monthly meeting this week.\nAccording to Superintendent Hal Hooks, teachers will receive a 2.25 percent raise in 2005-06 and 2006-07. In addition, union members changed from the Super Care I medical insurance plan to Choices II, which will save the district about $40,000. Hooks said some language was cleaned up in the contract, as well.\nIts a good contract; its fair to both sides, Hooks said.\nFive board members approved the contract. Board member Mike Rutkowski voted no and board Member Martin Kubacki abstained due to conflict of interest. The teachers union has about 50 members, Hooks said. The teachers already have ratified the contract.\nIn other business, high school Principal Fred Ligrow announced graduation has been scheduled for 1 p.m. Sunday, May 21, 2006.\nDuring public comment, members of the Ubly Athletic Boosters voiced concerns with the indoor and outdoor concession stands. The board voted to explore options to alleviate the heat in the indoor concession stand, with costs not to exceed $4,000 with the exception that the Athletic Boosters will help to defray the costs.\nThe board approved several coaching positions: James Becker as weight room coordinator and powerlifting coach; Pam Lackowski as junior varsity volleyball coach; Lorie Ruthko as freshman volleyball coach; Sue Bensinger as eighth grade volleyball coach; and Debbie Bischer as seventh grade volleyball coach.\nThe board commended many athletes on the girls cross country team, the boys cross country team, the girls basketball team, all conference football players, an all conference golfer, and the Signature Bank Athlete of the Week. The board also commended the September and October Students of the Month."
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"original": "(22 quotes found)\n“What it reminded me of the other day is 'Baghdad Bob' saying there are no Americans at the airport.”\n“It just sounds like it was amateur hour.”\n“I certainly hope this is as bad as it gets. I hope this is the nadir of the last three months.”\n“I'm surprised it's not even worse, ... beginning to scratch their heads.”\n“Republicans are not so angry at the president that they want to vote for the other guy. They just stayed home,”\n“You don't have to be a political genius to sniff the smell of blood in the water.”\n“I would be surprised to see the White House scaling back on anything. That would be an admission they are operating from a position of weakness.”\n“...If Forbes gets out of the race this week, it will make McCain's hill a bit steeper to climb in South Carolina,”\n“He's learned that the election is over - and now he's free to acknowledge that course change doesn't necessarily mean a mistake.”\n“Republicans regard Dean as one of their best secret weapons, I have yet to find a Democrat who, in private chatter, doesn't think he's a problem for them.”\nQuotes Daddy offers a number of tools for developers and bloggers to integrate quotes into their site including customizable widgets, embeddable quotes and API.\nOver 1,000,000 famous quotes and user quotes that you can save to your favorites, share with friends and add to your site, blog or social network."
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"original": "AfriGeneas Books~Authors~Reviews Forum\nUSC student wins Supreme Court copyright de\nWow! I wonder what losses we may have here in the USof A\nFormer USC student wins Supreme Court copyright decision\nformer USC student who bought textbooks in his homeland of Thailand and sold them in the United States won a major Supreme Court ruling on copyright law that gives foreign buyers of textbooks, movies and other products a right to resell them in the United States without the permission of the copyright owner.\nSupap Kirtsaeng was sued by publisher John Wiley & Sons for violating its copyright protection. A jury in New York agreed with the publisher, and Kirtsaeng was assessed damages of $60,000 for willfully violating the company’s copyrights.\nBut in a 6-3 decision, the Supreme Court reversed that judgment Tuesday and ruled that Kirtsaeng had the better interpretation of the law.\nMessages In This Thread"
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A wooden pole landed with a snap next to his face, forcing him to open his eyes once more and look up. A red Nimmo leaned down, staring curiously into his face. Falaren didn’t even think that he could help. He just lay there. The red Nimmo reached down and grabbed the Kougra’s paw, pulling him up with such strength that he was forced to stand. He stood on his four paws, legs braced apart as if he would fall at any moment.\nThe Nimmo steadied him with a hand and they slowly walked through the storm until they reached the doors of the Training School. The Nimmo pushed open the doors and led the Kougra inside. The walk through the school was a blur. Falaren could only remember the Nimmo placing him down on a bed and touching his head softly, whispering something and departing. Then falling into a deep sleep.\nHe woke up, and was completely unaware as to how long he had been asleep. He struggled to stand, and found he could. Barely. 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"original": "Dumpster Rental in Delmar, NY\nAlthough this town is not particularly large, it is constantly expanding, therefore encouraging the supply of dumpster rentals in Delmar. Sure enough, you are also looking for dumpster rental services – after all, you did end up on this page. If you have been researching this subject for a while now, you are probably concerned about whether or not you can actually find someone to rent a dumpster from that will not squeeze every last penny out of your pockets. Luckily, you are in exactly the right place to avoid such unpleasantries.\nOur name is Local Dumpster Rental and anyone who knows a thing or two about the waste removal industry would be able to confirm that we are the undisputed leader for such services in the Delmar area. Regardless of the reasons that drove you to search for a roll off dumpster, we can wholeheartedly guarantee that we have something that will make you happy in terms of both reliability and costs.\nHow to Get Reliable Dumpster Rentals in Delmar\nWith so many dumpster rental companies fighting for a share of this market, one truly has a lot of options to choose from. But let’s be honest here – would you really be willing to finish your renovation job a week late just because the provider you chose turned out to be completely unreliable? Obviously not, so instead of spending the rest of your day attempting to find something better, you should realize that you have already found the best Delmar dumpster rental company. Call us now and we will make certain you won’t regret it. In fact, we will demonstrate exactly how proud we are of our system by thoroughly describing how it works.\nThe Process of Getting Dumpster Service in Delmar, New York\nTime is of the essence with any construction project, and for that reason we did everything possible to ensure that it all happens as fast as possible. First off, we do not expect you to assess the size of your waste removal problem all by yourself. Instead, we will gladly help you on this issue by asking a few simple questions related to the state in which your home currently finds itself in. Truth be told, this step is more important than most people realize. Just imagine renting a forty yarder when all you needed was a 20 yard construction dumpster and you will understand why we putting so much emphasis on this.\nBelieve it or not, once you do this, the hardest part is over. All you need to do now is wait until the day of the delivery comes – and we can fully guarantee that there won’t be any reliability issues when working with us. Thousands of satisfied customers cannot be wrong.\nEstimated Dumpster Dimensions in Delmar\n|**10 yard dumpsters\n||**12 yard dumpsters\n||**15 yard dumpsters\n|**20 yard dumpsters\n||**30 yard dumpsters\n||**40 yard dumpsters\nSuperb Roll Off Dumpsters in Delmar are Now Easy to Find\nTake a step away from ordinary waste management companies and give us a chance to prove we truly are the ones who deliver the best dumpster rental Delmar is likely to encounter.\nWe also offer Dumpster Rental in Coeymans."
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"original": "I love lazy weekends where anything is possible. Breakfast at the diner? OK. Fussing in the garden? I’ll take it. A whirl around the gym? Only because I have to. Making grilled cheese for lunch? You betcha! (Hence the time at the gym.) These bbq pulled pork grilled cheese sandwiches were a creation I had been dreaming of since the pork shoulder went in the oven a few weeks ago. I had also planned on making taquitos with the leftovers but sadly, the leftovers never made it that far. Anyway, perfectly buttered and toasted white bread hold together this magnificent sandwich combination. The Monterey Jack melts into the pulled pork just as it should, leaving you with sandwiches that you’ll wish there were more of (though one certainly was plenty for lunch for us). I decided to toast all of the bread slices independently and to cover the pan to allow the cheese to melt before combining the halves because all too often, when grilled cheese sandwiches have a lot going on inside, the cheese doesn’t melt completely. Problem solved. And? The perfect weekend lunch.\nAs with most grilled cheese sandwiches, the bread you use makes all the difference. Because these sandwiches have the tendency to be on the messy side, choose a hearty white bread that can stand up to the awesomeness within; thick-sliced country white or homemade white bread are excellent choices. I didn’t think of this when making these sandwiches, but if you love red onion like we do, thinly sliced onions would be an excellent addition to this sandwich, as would sliced pickled jalapenos if you’re looking for a little extra bite.\n- 4 slices white bread (see header)\n- Salted butter, softened to almost melted\n- 1 ½ cups bbq pulled pork, warmed\n- 4 oz Monterey Jack or sharp cheddar cheese, shredded\n- Heat a large non-stick skillet over medium heat. Butter one side of all of the bread and place the butter side down in the skillet. Divide the cheese between all of the slices and top the cheese on just of the two slices with the pulled pork.\n- Cover the pan with a lid or sheet of aluminum foil for about 3 minutes; this will ensure heat melts the cheese and heats the pork through. Remove the lid (or foil) and check the undersides of the bread with a spatula. If all of the slices are lightly browned, flip the slices with the cheese onto the pulled pork so the cheese and pork can meld together. After 30 seconds to 1 minute, flip the sandwiches to finish off the other sides. When both sides of the sandwiches are perfectly browned (you know what that looks like) and the cheese is fully melted, remove them from the pan, cut, and serve hot and gooey.\nsource: Smells Like Home original"
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"original": "Redirected from Pacifist\nPacifism is the commitment to achieving one's goals only through actively non-violent or non-aggressive means. At the individual level, this can refer to how one chooses to live one's personal life when relating to other people, such as refusing to fight other people or to own weapons of self-defense; or it can refer in a more political sense to total opposition to war and the promotion of peaceful means of settling international conflicts. In the political sense, it may combine both the personal and the political through acts of civil disobedience or refusing to participate in a war effort.\nPacifists may be also vegetarian or vegan, but this is not a rule: pacifists refuse violence against human beings. Pacifists also vary with their opinion on virtual[?] violence, such as in some computer games, as it is not violence against real living beings. Some argue that virtual violence promotes and celebrates real violence, while others assert that it may be helpful to fight stress and relieve subconscious trends, and therefore prevent real violence.\n\"Pacifist\" often less technically describes a person who accepts risks to himself and others, or prefers the social penalties which might accompany a non-aggressive stance even under extreme circumstances, for the sake of avoiding a violent or military solution especially in politics. Referring to personal character a person may be distinguished above others as more than usually confident in peaceful means for the resolution of any conflict, more of a pacifist than others, earning the reputation as a \"dove\", or a \"peacemaker\". Pacifism also describes a stance under particular circumstances, in contrast with those who believe that the criteria have been met for the justification of violence under those same circumstances. An advocate of a pacifist strategy may be more optimistic or relatively more opposed to violence relative to the situation, differing from his non-pacifist counterpart only in his assessment of the means called for by the specific situation. Positions which advise non-aggression under normal circumstances, but reserve the right to self-defense under crisis, while not pacifist in an ideal sense, they may be called more or less pacifist in a pragmatic sense, reflecting a more or less strong commitment to the natural and nearly universal preference of peace over war.\nPacifism may be adopted as a pragmatic political strategy, in which case its effectiveness is open to debate. It has sometimes been successful, as in the case of Mohandas Gandhi's non-violence, which played a major role in India's independence. Gandhi relied on his followers committing acts of non-violence with the specific purpose of setting a perfect contrast with the violence used by the British against them, in order to sway public opinion. Similarly, Gandhi repeatedly advocated that Europe, from Britain to the Jews and Czechs, not resist Nazi violence; he hoped that the Nazis themselves would then see the error of their ways. Critics have generally judged Ghandi correct in his own circumstance under the British, but naive in the case of the Nazis. His doctrines proved apparently incapable to prevent violence during the partition of British India into today's India and Pakistan. Critics of this kind of pacifism claim that being non-violent in the face of violent criminals or armies tacitly or explicitly encourages more violence. They often characterize pacifism as simply \"waiting tolerantly for criminals to learn that their actions are unwise\".\nThe political theory of Green parties lists 'non-violence' and 'de-centralization[?]' towards anarchist co-operatives or minimalist village government, as two of their ten key values. However, in power, Greens like all politicians often compromise, e.g. German Greens in the cabinet of Social Democrat Gerhard Schröder supported an intervention by German troops in Afghanistan in 2001, but on condition that they host the peace conference in Berlin - and during the 2002 election campaign forced Schroeder to swear that no German troops would invade Iraq.\nThis suggests that many who advocate 'non-violence' or pacifism, especially political parties that participate in government, actually advocate what is more properly called de-escalation[?] or even arms reduction[?] (on a very large scale). Many outstanding pacifists of this sort have taken part in defensive military actions when their countries were attacked, but others prefer to leave their country if it is preparing for aggressive war (such as Germany in the 1930s). Clearly a party that writes and enforces law is not non-violent. It can be pacifist, however, by refusing participation in external conflicts, refusing to supply weapons, and sheltering refugees but not combatants. There are many definitions of such \"pragmatic pacifism\".\nWhile those who believe that war is normally preferrable to peace are rare indeed, pacifism as a distinctive belief is not at all common. The distinction of pacifism is not only an extraordinary faith in the effectiveness or benefits of peaceful means of resolution of conflict, but the principled rejection of all pretended justification of violent means under any circumstances. At a minimum, this stance is adopted as a matter of personal conviction limited to one's own choices, which sometimes leaves the individual conscientiously free to serve in a war effort as a non-combatant if required to do so. Some people who felt they could not in good conscience fight in a war, served as ambulance drivers during World War I, others were jailed.\nThe ultimate pragmatic argument that may be offered by pacifists is that violent resistance to violence always fails to bring about peace, that war can only be expected to establish a realignment of forces under principles of violence. Besides, pacifists may argue, war frequently fails to accomplish the political or economic ends to which it is supposedly directed, nor do the benefits usually outweigh the cost, and rarely in actuality is war motivated by the high ideals that its supporters use to justify it. Not all forms of radical pacifism make pragmatic assumptions, and rather simply oppose violence as such. Radical pacifism is controversial, and only a few religions (such as the peace churches of Christianity) advocate it.\nPacifism has both a passive component (refusing to fight) and an active component (working for peace). Many pacifists may seek to be recognized conscientious objectors by their government, and may actively seek other ways to avoid all participation in their nation's maintenance or use of military forces. Pacifists believe that if their community is threatened by a crisis of aggressive opposition, all aggression as such should be opposed, including self-defensive aggression. Those who advocate a philosophy of total non-violence at all levels may offer pragmatic arguments for the benefits of non-violent resistance; however, a radical pacifistic position is in the final analysis a moral, spiritual or religious principle intended to be maintained at all cost, and therefore does not necessarily imply any optimistic expectation for the material benefits of this policy.\nSuch radical behaviour as pacifism is often induced by religious beliefs. In particular, many Buddhists are pacifist, as are members of the Religious Society of Friends and some other Christian sects. During WWII some Quakers put aside their pacifist beliefs and did fight.\nOpinions are divided among Christians over whether Jesus Christ advocated pacifist teachings. Certain Christian denominations, known as peace churches, have tave taken the position that he did do so, and believe further that early Christianity was essentially pacifist in nature. The Russian novelist, Leo Tolstoy advocated what has come to be known as anarcho-pacifism or Christian anarchism[?]. He argued that Christians were obligated to be pacifists, and that pacifists, in turn, were obligated to be anarchists -- since government is based on the use of force. Tolstoy was influenced by Henry David Thoreau's writings on civil disobedience. Tolstoy's own writings on pacifism and non-resistance[?] converted Gandhi to pacifism.\nNon-pacifistic religions, including Judaism, many varients of Christianity and Islam, have usually made no pretense of meaning \"pacifism\" by their messages concerning the great obligation to pursue peace: typically constructing rules, sometimes very elaborately defined, under which the use of aggression for the establishment and maintenance of justice may be legitimate. Non-pacifist Christians typically interpret Christ to have taught patience under even extreme religious persecution, but do not directly extend the teaching as a rule for the governance of nations or the strategies of police forces. Most, including the Roman Catholic Church, adopt some formulation of a just war doctrine, by which the use of violence or force is deemed legitimate and necessary under certain circumstances, on which occasions non-participation may be judged morally wrong.\nWhile usually emphasizing the inherent limitations of aggression toward accomplishing these ends, and typically warning of the risk that aggression often works contrary to its aim, force is not a fundamental contradiction of their religious principles. However, it is almost universal among these religions to absolutely reject violence as a means for spreading their religion to uncoverted peoples - a principle for which their adherents are often chastised, from within and outside their communities, on account of the occasions upon which it has been ignored. Even some of the pacifist religions and philosophies have sometimes approved the use of force in apparent contradiction of their principles, although not always by stooping to take up weapons themselves. Buddhism, for one example, has repeatedly embraced bloodshed in its generally pacific history (through hired armies or government intervention) as a \"Final Solution\" against heterodox opponents. Members of the Religious Society of Friends and some other Christian sects are pacifists, but during WWII some Quakers put aside their pacifist beliefs and did fight."
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"original": "What ‘The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 1’ Has in Common with ISIS Videos and Killing Bin Laden\nThe Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 1, the first cinematic chapter of the final installment in the dystopian film series, is the most political entry yet.\nThe movie, directed by Francis Lawrence, opens after the events of Catching Fire. Katniss Everdeen (Jennifer Lawrence) is in the psychiatric ward of District 13 where the rebel alliance, led by the resolute President Coin (Julianne Moore) and her Dick Cheney-ish advisor, Plutarch Heavensbee (Philip Seymour Hoffman), is readying for war with the Capitol. Katniss is suffering PTSD from the third Quarter Quell, where she ended the games by firing a charged arrow into the games’ force field, shattering it to pieces. The move, according to Coin, “electrified the nation,” and the oppressed districts are rallying behind their arrow-slinging rebel figurehead, or “Mockingjay.”\nCoin and Heavensbee want Katniss to star in a series of Rosie the Riveter-esque propaganda films for the rebels displaying both the damage wreaked by the Capitol, including the destruction of her home, District 12, and their defiance in the face of it. As a counterpunch, the Capitol and President Snow (Donald Sutherland) have tortured the captured Peeta (Josh Hutcherson), starved him, and “hijacked” him—a method of extreme, drug-induced brainwashing.\n“One of the big themes—if not the big theme—of Mockingjay – Part 1 is the battle of the airwaves,” Lawrence tells The Daily Beast. “I don’t think teenagers really understand the role propaganda has in our lives in terms of politics, advertising, and the general manipulation of imagery.”\nSnow and the Capitol broadcast a series of interviews with a brainwashed, gaunt-looking Peeta where he repeats lines given to him by his captors—that the rebel alliance should lay down their arms and stop fighting, and that Katniss is merely a pawn to further Coin’s agenda. The coerced Peeta transmissions are eerily similar to recent videos of ISIS captives who have been forced to speak ill of the west.\n“I think there are parallels with ISIS,” says Lawrence. “We made this film before the videos were released, so it’s a chilling reminder of what can happen in the real world. Suzanne Collins wrote a series of books specifically about the consequences of war, and one of the facets we get to explore in this movie is the use of propaganda in war, and the manipulation of imagery and people in the use of propaganda. Unfortunately, this kind of thing has been happening for a really long time. Now, due to technology, it reaches people in a faster, more immediate way.”\nAnother real-world parallel with Mockingjay – Part 1 is a covert mission late in the film to rescue Peeta from the clutches of the Capitol. A volunteer team of six rebel fighters, led by Gale (Liam Hemsworth), flies in on a helicopter in the middle of the night and rappels down through a glass roof and into a compound allegedly housing Peeta.\n“In the book, the rescue is obviously very important but since Katniss doesn’t go, she just hears about it, so it was something we had to engineer for the movie,” says Lawrence. “I was definitely inspired by Zero Dark Thirty as far as going in under cover of darkness, flying low, not being seen, and getting out really quickly.”\nBut the biggest likeness to Operation Neptune Spear is what occurs back at District 13’s command center. The six team members are wearing helmet-cams that transmit footage back to the base, and huddled together watching the footage is Katniss, Coin, Heavensbee, Beetee (Jeffrey Wright), and Finnick (Sam Claflin). The scene bears a striking resemblance to the now-iconic photo of President Obama, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Vice President Joe Biden, and the national security team crammed into the Situation Room watching the Bin Laden raid.\n“That one photo down in the meeting room in the White House—absolutely,” Lawrence says of the comparison. “It was based on that general idea.”\nHe adds, “My goal with Mockingjay is to make people think about war—the sides of war, the consequences of it, the propaganda, and the images we’re being shown.”\nTune in next week for the rest of our in-depth interview with Mockingjay director Francis Lawrence."
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"original": "by Peter Jakey–Managing Editor\nThe Presque Isle County prosecutor’s office will be in need of a new assistant prosecutor following the resignation announcement of Meghan Hurley, who has served in the office for six years this month. Her last day is Feb. 28.\nHurley made the public announcement during Friday’s Presque Isle County Board of Commissioners meeting. She will be working in a similar position in Berrien County.\n“Meghan is an amazing young lady, who is an extremely talented lawyer,” said county prosecutor Rick Steiger. “I am sorry that she is leaving.”\nUnlike, previous assistant prosecutors, her love of Rogers City made it difficult for the Buffalo, New York transplant to leave. She starts her new job, Monday, March 3. “I wanted to stay as long as I could,” said Hurley Tuesday afternoon. This was her first job out of Cooley Law School in Lansing.\nBeing raised, and going to school in larger cities, it was an adjustment coming to Presque Isle County.\n“I grew to love it,” she said. “It’ll now be an adjustment going back to a bigger city.”\nMeghan moved to the area on Super Bowl Sunday, 2008, and started the next day.\n“I remember everything was closed, so I ate at Kelly’s (Venture Inn) for the first time.” She did not have any cash and found out they did not take credit cards. She was surprised when they said, “‘That’s OK, you can pay us tomorrow,’ ” said Meghan, errupting in laughter of disbelief that a stranger was allowed that courtesy. “It’s a great story, and it’s a great part of being part of this town.”\nShe’s also enjoyed working with her office family on the second floor of the county annex.\n“The community takes you in,” said Meghan. “My family would come here from Buffalo and spend a week or two.”\nShe would have liked to stay, but her fiancé works downstate.\n“I completely understand,” said Steiger. “He attempted to locate employment in this area, and he was unable to do so.” The wedding is scheduled for late in the summer.\nSteiger knew this day could come.\n“When I interviewed Meghan, I was impressed with her character,” said Steiger. “I had one condition, if she accepted the job. ‘You will have to promise me you will remain here for two years.’ ” His hope is to hire someone that would get vested in the community, rather than leave after a year. Meghan was impacted by parental termination/abuse/neglect cases “where you start off by taking the child and putting them in foster care and seeing them progress.” Sometime the parents cannot overcome their problems, and working in the office for six years, she has seen some get adopted and have better lives.\n“I always tried to sit in on the adoptions,” she said.\nMeghan also worked on the forfeiture portion of the recent horse neglect case. “That really showed an outpouring of the community. It took a group effort, because we don’t have the facilities to house that many animals. Animals cannot help themselves. In cases like that, it is rewarding.”\n“We are gong to miss her,” said Steiger."
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"original": "This jellyfish can sting\n- Truth: A History by Felipe Fernández-Armesto\nBantam, 247 pp, £12.99, October 1997, ISBN 0 593 04140 2\nDespite his exotic name, Felipe Fernández-Armesto is an upper-class Englishman of the kind who seem to float on a cloud of contentment, perpetually entertained by the oafish antics of the rest of us down below. His press release describes him as ‘a member of the Modern History Faculty of Oxford University’ and Millennium, his blockbuster on the history of the world, as a ‘highly acclaimed’ bestseller, while translations of his monographs and reference books are ‘pending in twenty languages’. But he is not just a historian. He is also something of a philosopher, and his publishers have now given him the chance to address the world in a format that other authors only dream of: a brief and opinionated essay, with a smart design but a popular price, on the epistemological ills of modern civilisation. I shall not try to conceal my feelings: reader, I envy him.\nThe title of this venture into mass-market philosophising will remind punters of the much-bought A Brief History of Time. Both titles have a tone of guileless sincerity on first hearing. But their simplicity turns out to be deceptive and, on second take, to reveal a shimmer of paradox. How can you pursue the history of time, given that time itself is presupposed as the framework and medium of history? And how can you describe the history of truth, given that you would need to know what truth is before you could even begin to sniff out its various historical embodiments?\nIt would seem that a history of truth, constantly turning round on itself and trying to provide a historical explanation of why its own version of events should be accepted as the true one, is bound to degenerate into a tedious game of tail-chasing. Before Fernández-Armesto there were no more than two or three intellectual adventurers who embarked on this formidable task in full consciousness of the dangers. Hegel, at the optimistic start of the 19th century, tried to paint a portrait of the human spirit looking back – autobiographically, so to speak – on the experiences of discovery and disappointment through which it had attained its current vantage, poised on the threshold of Absolute Knowledge. And more recently there was Heidegger who, in a kind of reversed-out recapitulation of Hegel, tried to get away from the notion of ‘spirit’ by providing his anguished times with a history of Being as such – a kind of biography which would show how Being has always coyly concealed its essence from us, especially at those moments when we thought it was finally surrendering to the power of our inquiring minds.\nFaint-hearted thinkers might quail at the thought of setting off in the wake of Heidegger and Hegel. Fernández-Armesto, however – the author of a respected book on Columbus – is nothing if not bold. Indeed, he manages to overlook the existence of his forerunners, claiming that his own attempt on the history of truth is altogether ‘unprecedented’. But if he belittles the achievements of Hegel and Heidegger, he cannot be accused of plagiarising their insights. Philosophically speaking, he is the model of an 18th-century eclectic, his conceptual repertoire quite untouched – or untainted, as he might prefer to say – by any of the great revolutions in philosophical inquiry that have occurred in the past two hundred years. Where Hegel makes our heads spin with his symphonic portrayals of the shifting configurations of a self-propelling dialectic, and Heidegger dizzies us with his hermeneutic shuttle between different origins of existence, Fernández-Armesto keeps us firmly on familiar ground, regaling us with curious anecdotes, and reassuring us with simple philosophical checklists and chronologies. In place of a reflexive epistemological argument he offers us a simple inventory of the various ‘means of truth recognition’ which he thinks have been employed, in various combinations, at different junctures in the history of humanity.\nThe full text of this book review is only available to subscribers of the London Review of Books."
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"original": "Manager Peter Taylor wishes Bradford nothing but the best following the 3-2 win over nine-man Stockport in his last match in charge of the Bantams.\nThe former England Under-21 boss announced after his side's 1-0 defeat to Chesterfield in midweek that he would be stepping down following the crunch clash with the Hatters. Gareth Evans' injury-time strike wrapped up the win for Bradford, whilst Steve Williams also bagged a brace.\nTaylor said: \"I spoke to the players after the game and wished them well. I told them that the majority of them are my players and I want them to be very professional because this is a magnificent football club.\"\nHe added: \"The first thing they have to do is make sure we stay up and the club has to kick on from there.\n\"Whoever comes into the club in my place will have a good crop of players and he might have better luck with injuries.\n\"I wish Bradford City well and I am disappointed to be leaving early.\"\nStockport caretaker manager Peter Ward was distraught after his side conceded a late goal and slipped to the bottom of the npower League Two table.\nWard said: \"It's tough after playing so well to concede a goal after 95 and a half minutes and lose the match.\n\"I have nothing but praise for the lads. They gave everything they had for the shirt. Every game is important for us now.\n\"It was an excellent performance and although were beaten the players haven't given up. As long as they have that fight in them we have a chance.\"\nCopyright (c) PA Sport 2009, All Rights Reserved."
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"original": "The male part of fashion week in Paris came to an end and we decided to savor the most stupid little models, carefully examining every detail of the podium, “toilet”.\nNobody disputes the fact that its a high fashion, it is not ready-to-wear, and it can soar high. However, sometimes it seems that nobody never soared, and all invented or under the influence of narcotic, or with the usual hangover And There is nothing but an attempt to make you smile. Have a look…\n3. The same designer came up with a silver colored pants and put on for a wonderful picnic. Who inspires you? Silver pearl rabbit or a kangaroo?\n4. And this? Lurch from “The Addams Family”?\n5. 6. Well, finally! Now you can not only fill his pants into socks, and jackets with jackets neatly hidden in his pants from the idea of «Lanvin». Do not forget to raise the waist to the level of the ni**les!\n7. 8. «Pierre Cardin» made suede astronauts. It does not matter that the front forever, “attributes” of the leg is in a crawl leg. The main thing that pop plush and is the “pendant” with a zipper – better not even think about.\n9. And let everyone know the color of my panties! So what? Very good slogan Although we can see not only color but full model.\n10. There is no corruption! Very strict dress from Walter Van Beyrendonka. Ni**les in fact hidden\n11. This same model designer: “Feel like a cake.”\n13. Suit “seems like want to kill me.”\n14. They took away our pants and shorts. They wear neckties and shirts! Here is our counterattack beats Raf Simons model (Raf Simons).\n15. 16. The trend of Yohji Yamamoto – a bruise, a scratch on his nose and tatushechka on his chest.\n17. Looking at the collection of the designer’s thinking: “Either the models were beaten, and then gave a trend, or alcoholics, and parasites are now eaten all over the world for its powerful fashion hipsters fumes and will not choke.\n18. 19. 20. If you grew suddenly, His stomach – John Galliano will save you. A great move for all lovers of beer – 3D-snail just above the waist.\n21. 22. 23. Never respond to these clothes to the question “How much lobster?”. Most likely, they already know the price and just looking for cheaper one.\n24. Do you want all of others behind you? Simply put on this suit. The facial expression would be a nice bonus.\n25. Here it is! Here it is – the cap of my dreams! It is suggested by the brand «Kenzo»."
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"original": "Nov 24, 2001\nI've read that lymphoma can occur dispite of high cd4 count. Why does this happen? What should one do to prevent or cure from lymphoma?\nResponse from Dr. Feinberg\nYou don't have to be HIV+ to get lymphoma, but the risk of developing it are higher for individuals with impaired immune systems, such as those with HIV or a solid organ transplant. Because even people with apparently normal immune systems can get lymphoma, there is no association with a specific CD4 cell count (unless you are talking about the more unusual kind confined to the brain and central nervous system, which occurs in people with fewer than 100 cells). There is nothing that can be done speficially to prevent lymphoma. Standard treatment consists of combination chemotherapy, which will be curative in some people.\nPregnancy and CMV\nThis forum is designed for educational purposes only, and experts are not rendering medical, mental health, legal or other professional advice or services. If you have or suspect you may have a medical, mental health, legal or other problem that requires advice, consult your own caregiver, attorney or other qualified professional.\nExperts appearing on this page are independent and are solely responsible for editing and fact-checking their material. Neither TheBody.com nor any advertiser is the publisher or speaker of posted visitors' questions or the experts' material."
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"original": "back to Health & Wellness\nSciatica Learning Center\nSciatica refers to pain, weakness, numbness, or tingling in the leg. It is caused by injury to or compression of the sciatic nerve. Sciatica is a symptom of another medical problem, not a medical condition on its own.\nYour sciatic nerve begins at your spinal cord, runs through your hips and buttocks, and then branches down each leg. This nerve is your...\nback to top"
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"original": "Hidden Profits: Use Your Blog To Increase Your Bottom Line In The Background\nI know it doesn’t happen often but every now and then you’ll trip over a blog that has no obvious signs of monetization – no AdSense ads in the posts, no banners in the sidebars, not even an Amazon search widget. How do these bloggers do it? They don’t make money directly from their blogs, they make money because of their blogs.\nMany of these blogs don’t even get what you and I would consider a significant amount of traffic, yet in most cases they produce as much or more income than blogs monetized with traditional methods. I know of a freelance writer who’s lucky if he gets 100 visitors a month and he has no desire to go after more traffic because he just doesn’t need it for his business.\nHow Do You Make Money “Because” Of Your Blog?\nObviously, the only way to make money is to sell something, usually a product or a service. In most cases, bloggers who make money because of their blogs are promoting themselves or their own products or services.\nConsultants – If you’re an expert in your niche you can develop your own online consulting service. People are visiting your blog because they want to learn something and there are plenty of people out there willing to pay for an in-depth, one-on-one consultation.\nFreelancers – Writers, graphic designers, copywriters, blog designers, CAD experts, virtual assistants – the list goes on. You’ve seen yourself how crowded the Web is. Webmasters pay good money to hire talented people to help with all aspects of their online business. And there’s still a huge market for freelancers willing to work offline, as well.\nSpeakers – If you’re an expert in your niche and you enjoy public speaking there are clubs and organizations in even the smallest towns who’d be interested in hearing your presentation. You can even set up your own seminars and charge an admission fee.\nWhat You Need To Make Money “Because” Of Your Blog\nHigh-quality content – It’s important to provide high-quality content when you’re promoting affiliate products simply because you have tons of competition. But generally, your job is done once your visitor clicks your link. At that point, the advertiser takes over and provides the kind of over-the-top content that gets the sale.\nWhen you’re promoting yourself you are the advertiser. If you want people to hire you as a consultant, a speaker, or as a content provider or designer, then you need to show them you’re THE expert in your niche, not just another blogger.\nTargeted traffic – Even the highest-quality content won’t do the job if you’re attracting the wrong traffic. My freelance writer friend first started blogging about writing tips. The traffic she attracted consisted of people who wanted to learn how to write. When she started blogging about how and where to use your online content to attract traffic, then she started attracting readers who wanted to know more about the benefits of using high-quality content. Her traffic numbers are a lot smaller but it’s targeted traffic that converts.\nThe biggest difference between making money directly from your blog and making money because of your blog is the type of content you need to provide. Instead of always tell your readers how to do something, be sure to tell them why it’s so beneficial if they do it. Then, when they can’t do it themselves for whatever reason, they’ll be happy to hire you.\nWhen you're learning how to make money blogging, you need to understand that the very first step is to create a website. If you're interested in starting your own blog, I have written a step-by-step guide that will show you how to start a successful blog for as little as $3.49 per month (this low price is guaranteed only through my link). You will also receive your own domain name for free ($15 value) by clicking on this link and purchasing at least 12 months of hosting with BlueHost. Keep in mind that if you're learning how to make money off a blog, the first thing you need is your own self-hosted website. It will help you look more professional in front of your visitors, clients, companies, and everyone else."
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"original": "Hop, Illumination Entertainment’s second animated feature following last year’s Despicable Me, debuted in first place in North America with $37.5 million last weekend, making it the second strongest domestic opening of 2011. The solid US debut for the live-action/CG combo was tempered by the film’s tepid foreign premiere where it grossed under $7 million from 2,362 locations in 26 markets. Universal, which distributed the film, offered a perfectly rational reason for the poor overseas performance, blaming it on the “first warm and sunny weekend of the year.”\nILM’s Rango scored $4.5 million in its fifth frame for a total of $113.7 million in the US. Extraterrestrial live-action/CG combo Paul followed behind with $4.2 million and a three-week total of $31.8 million."
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"original": "Greensky Bluegrass Announce NYE Show\nGreensky Bluegrass will celebrate the New Year with a home state show at the Royal Oak Music Hall in Royal Oak, MI. Tickets for the gig, which comes at the end of a length y2014 tour in support of the band’s forthcoming album If Sorrows Swim, will go on sale tomorrow, August 27 t noon.\nGreensky Bluegrass are set to release If Sorrows Swim on September 9 via Thirty Tigers. The band will also be featured with a Spotlight article in the upcoming September issue of Relix."
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"original": "The budding yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae has proven to be an important model organism in the field of aging research 1. The replicative and chronological life spans are two established paradigms used to study aging in yeast. Replicative aging is defined as the number of daughter cells a single yeast mother cell produces before senescence; chronological aging is defined by the length of time cells can survive in a non-dividing, quiescence-like state 2. We have developed a high-throughput method for quantitative measurement of chronological life span. This method involves aging the cells in a defined medium under agitation and at constant temperature. At each age-point, a sub-population of cells is removed from the aging culture and inoculated into rich growth medium. A high-resolution growth curve is then obtained for this sub-population of aged cells using a Bioscreen C MBR machine. An algorithm is then applied to determine the relative proportion of viable cells in each sub-population based on the growth kinetics at each age-point. This method requires substantially less time and resources compared to other chronological lifespan assays while maintaining reproducibility and precision. The high-throughput nature of this assay should allow for large-scale genetic and chemical screens to identify novel longevity modifiers for further testing in more complex organisms.\n27 Related JoVE Articles!\nHigh-throughput Fluorometric Measurement of Potential Soil Extracellular Enzyme Activities\nInstitutions: Colorado State University, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, University of Colorado.\nMicrobes in soils and other environments produce extracellular enzymes to depolymerize and hydrolyze organic macromolecules so that they can be assimilated for energy and nutrients. Measuring soil microbial enzyme activity is crucial in understanding soil ecosystem functional dynamics. The general concept of the fluorescence enzyme assay is that synthetic C-, N-, or P-rich substrates bound with a fluorescent dye are added to soil samples. When intact, the labeled substrates do not fluoresce. Enzyme activity is measured as the increase in fluorescence as the fluorescent dyes are cleaved from their substrates, which allows them to fluoresce. Enzyme measurements can be expressed in units of molarity or activity. To perform this assay, soil slurries are prepared by combining soil with a pH buffer. The pH buffer (typically a 50 mM sodium acetate or 50 mM Tris buffer), is chosen for the buffer's particular acid dissociation constant (pKa) to best match the soil sample pH. The soil slurries are inoculated with a nonlimiting amount of fluorescently labeled (i.e.\nC-, N-, or P-rich) substrate. Using soil slurries in the assay serves to minimize limitations on enzyme and substrate diffusion. Therefore, this assay controls for differences in substrate limitation, diffusion rates, and soil pH conditions; thus detecting potential enzyme activity rates as a function of the difference in enzyme concentrations (per sample).\nFluorescence enzyme assays are typically more sensitive than spectrophotometric (i.e.\ncolorimetric) assays, but can suffer from interference caused by impurities and the instability of many fluorescent compounds when exposed to light; so caution is required when handling fluorescent substrates. Likewise, this method only assesses potential enzyme activities under laboratory conditions when substrates are not limiting. Caution should be used when interpreting the data representing cross-site comparisons with differing temperatures or soil types, as in situ\nsoil type and temperature can influence enzyme kinetics.\nEnvironmental Sciences, Issue 81, Ecological and Environmental Phenomena, Environment, Biochemistry, Environmental Microbiology, Soil Microbiology, Ecology, Eukaryota, Archaea, Bacteria, Soil extracellular enzyme activities (EEAs), fluorometric enzyme assays, substrate degradation, 4-methylumbelliferone (MUB), 7-amino-4-methylcoumarin (MUC), enzyme temperature kinetics, soil\nAutonomously Bioluminescent Mammalian Cells for Continuous and Real-time Monitoring of Cytotoxicity\nInstitutions: Oak Ridge National Laboratory, 490 BioTech, Inc., The University of Tennessee, Knoxville.\nMammalian cell-based in vitro\nassays have been widely employed as alternatives to animal testing for toxicological studies but have been limited due to the high monetary and time costs of parallel sample preparation that are necessitated due to the destructive nature of firefly luciferase-based screening methods. This video describes the utilization of autonomously bioluminescent mammalian cells, which do not require the destructive addition of a luciferin substrate, as an inexpensive and facile method for monitoring the cytotoxic effects of a compound of interest. Mammalian cells stably expressing the full bacterial bioluminescence (luxCDABEfrp\n) gene cassette autonomously produce an optical signal that peaks at 490 nm without the addition of an expensive and possibly interfering luciferin substrate, excitation by an external energy source, or destruction of the sample that is traditionally performed during optical imaging procedures. This independence from external stimulation places the burden for maintaining the bioluminescent reaction solely on the cell, meaning that the resultant signal is only detected during active metabolism. This characteristic makes the lux\n-expressing cell line an excellent candidate for use as a biosentinel against cytotoxic effects because changes in bioluminescent production are indicative of adverse effects on cellular growth and metabolism. Similarly, the autonomous nature and lack of required sample destruction permits repeated imaging of the same sample in real-time throughout the period of toxicant exposure and can be performed across multiple samples using existing imaging equipment in an automated fashion.\nCellular Biology, Issue 80, Toxicity Tests, optical imaging devices (design and techniques), Cytotoxicity, Screening, Optical Imaging, Bacterial Bioluminescence, lux, Mammalian Cell Culture\nCharacterization of Complex Systems Using the Design of Experiments Approach: Transient Protein Expression in Tobacco as a Case Study\nInstitutions: RWTH Aachen University, Fraunhofer Gesellschaft.\nPlants provide multiple benefits for the production of biopharmaceuticals including low costs, scalability, and safety. Transient expression offers the additional advantage of short development and production times, but expression levels can vary significantly between batches thus giving rise to regulatory concerns in the context of good manufacturing practice. We used a design of experiments (DoE) approach to determine the impact of major factors such as regulatory elements in the expression construct, plant growth and development parameters, and the incubation conditions during expression, on the variability of expression between batches. We tested plants expressing a model anti-HIV monoclonal antibody (2G12) and a fluorescent marker protein (DsRed). We discuss the rationale for selecting certain properties of the model and identify its potential limitations. The general approach can easily be transferred to other problems because the principles of the model are broadly applicable: knowledge-based parameter selection, complexity reduction by splitting the initial problem into smaller modules, software-guided setup of optimal experiment combinations and step-wise design augmentation. Therefore, the methodology is not only useful for characterizing protein expression in plants but also for the investigation of other complex systems lacking a mechanistic description. The predictive equations describing the interconnectivity between parameters can be used to establish mechanistic models for other complex systems.\nBioengineering, Issue 83, design of experiments (DoE), transient protein expression, plant-derived biopharmaceuticals, promoter, 5'UTR, fluorescent reporter protein, model building, incubation conditions, monoclonal antibody\nSetting-up an In Vitro Model of Rat Blood-brain Barrier (BBB): A Focus on BBB Impermeability and Receptor-mediated Transport\nInstitutions: VECT-HORUS SAS, CNRS, NICN UMR 7259.\nThe blood brain barrier (BBB) specifically regulates molecular and cellular flux between the blood and the nervous tissue. Our aim was to develop and characterize a highly reproducible rat syngeneic in vitro\nmodel of the BBB using co-cultures of primary rat brain endothelial cells (RBEC) and astrocytes to study receptors involved in transcytosis across the endothelial cell monolayer. Astrocytes were isolated by mechanical dissection following trypsin digestion and were frozen for later co-culture. RBEC were isolated from 5-week-old rat cortices. The brains were cleaned of meninges and white matter, and mechanically dissociated following enzymatic digestion. Thereafter, the tissue homogenate was centrifuged in bovine serum albumin to separate vessel fragments from nervous tissue. The vessel fragments underwent a second enzymatic digestion to free endothelial cells from their extracellular matrix. The remaining contaminating cells such as pericytes were further eliminated by plating the microvessel fragments in puromycin-containing medium. They were then passaged onto filters for co-culture with astrocytes grown on the bottom of the wells. RBEC expressed high levels of tight junction (TJ) proteins such as occludin, claudin-5 and ZO-1 with a typical localization at the cell borders. The transendothelial electrical resistance (TEER) of brain endothelial monolayers, indicating the tightness of TJs reached 300 ohm·cm2\non average. The endothelial permeability coefficients (Pe) for lucifer yellow (LY) was highly reproducible with an average of 0.26 ± 0.11 x 10-3\ncm/min. Brain endothelial cells organized in monolayers expressed the efflux transporter P-glycoprotein (P-gp), showed a polarized transport of rhodamine 123, a ligand for P-gp, and showed specific transport of transferrin-Cy3 and DiILDL across the endothelial cell monolayer. In conclusion, we provide a protocol for setting up an in vitro\nBBB model that is highly reproducible due to the quality assurance methods, and that is suitable for research on BBB transporters and receptors.\nMedicine, Issue 88, rat brain endothelial cells (RBEC), mouse, spinal cord, tight junction (TJ), receptor-mediated transport (RMT), low density lipoprotein (LDL), LDLR, transferrin, TfR, P-glycoprotein (P-gp), transendothelial electrical resistance (TEER),\nBladder Smooth Muscle Strip Contractility as a Method to Evaluate Lower Urinary Tract Pharmacology\nInstitutions: University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine.\nWe describe an in vitro\nmethod to measure bladder smooth muscle contractility, and its use for investigating physiological and pharmacological properties of the smooth muscle as well as changes induced by pathology. This method provides critical information for understanding bladder function while overcoming major methodological difficulties encountered in in vivo\nexperiments, such as surgical and pharmacological manipulations that affect stability and survival of the preparations, the use of human tissue, and/or the use of expensive chemicals. It also provides a way to investigate the properties of each bladder component (i.e.\nsmooth muscle, mucosa, nerves) in healthy and pathological conditions.\nThe urinary bladder is removed from an anesthetized animal, placed in Krebs solution and cut into strips. Strips are placed into a chamber filled with warm Krebs solution. One end is attached to an isometric tension transducer to measure contraction force, the other end is attached to a fixed rod. Tissue is stimulated by directly adding compounds to the bath or by electric field stimulation electrodes that activate nerves, similar to triggering bladder contractions in vivo\n. We demonstrate the use of this method to evaluate spontaneous smooth muscle contractility during development and after an experimental spinal cord injury, the nature of neurotransmission (transmitters and receptors involved), factors involved in modulation of smooth muscle activity, the role of individual bladder components, and species and organ differences in response to pharmacological agents. Additionally, it could be used for investigating intracellular pathways involved in contraction and/or relaxation of the smooth muscle, drug structure-activity relationships and evaluation of transmitter release.\nThe in vitro\nsmooth muscle contractility method has been used extensively for over 50 years, and has provided data that significantly contributed to our understanding of bladder function as well as to pharmaceutical development of compounds currently used clinically for bladder management.\nMedicine, Issue 90, Krebs, species differences, in vitro, smooth muscle contractility, neural stimulation\nDetermination of Protein-ligand Interactions Using Differential Scanning Fluorimetry\nInstitutions: University of Exeter.\nA wide range of methods are currently available for determining the dissociation constant between a protein and interacting small molecules. However, most of these require access to specialist equipment, and often require a degree of expertise to effectively establish reliable experiments and analyze data. Differential scanning fluorimetry (DSF) is being increasingly used as a robust method for initial screening of proteins for interacting small molecules, either for identifying physiological partners or for hit discovery. This technique has the advantage that it requires only a PCR machine suitable for quantitative PCR, and so suitable instrumentation is available in most institutions; an excellent range of protocols are already available; and there are strong precedents in the literature for multiple uses of the method. Past work has proposed several means of calculating dissociation constants from DSF data, but these are mathematically demanding. Here, we demonstrate a method for estimating dissociation constants from a moderate amount of DSF experimental data. These data can typically be collected and analyzed within a single day. We demonstrate how different models can be used to fit data collected from simple binding events, and where cooperative binding or independent binding sites are present. Finally, we present an example of data analysis in a case where standard models do not apply. These methods are illustrated with data collected on commercially available control proteins, and two proteins from our research program. Overall, our method provides a straightforward way for researchers to rapidly gain further insight into protein-ligand interactions using DSF.\nBiophysics, Issue 91, differential scanning fluorimetry, dissociation constant, protein-ligand interactions, StepOne, cooperativity, WcbI.\nHigh-throughput Titration of Luciferase-expressing Recombinant Viruses\nInstitutions: Ottawa Hospital Research Institute, University of Ottawa, University of Ottawa.\nStandard plaque assays to determine infectious viral titers can be time consuming, are not amenable to a high volume of samples, and cannot be done with viruses that do not form plaques. As an alternative to plaque assays, we have developed a high-throughput titration method that allows for the simultaneous titration of a high volume of samples in a single day. This approach involves infection of the samples with a Firefly luciferase tagged virus, transfer of the infected samples onto an appropriate permissive cell line, subsequent addition of luciferin, reading of plates in order to obtain luminescence readings, and finally the conversion from luminescence to viral titers. The assessment of cytotoxicity using a metabolic viability dye can be easily incorporated in the workflow in parallel and provide valuable information in the context of a drug screen. This technique provides a reliable, high-throughput method to determine viral titers as an alternative to a standard plaque assay.\nVirology, Issue 91, titration, virus, plaque assay, high-throughput, transgene, luciferase, automated, cytotoxicity assay, Vesicular Stomatitis Virus, Herpes Simplex virus, Vaccinia virus, Adeno-Associated virus\nMolecular Entanglement and Electrospinnability of Biopolymers\nInstitutions: Pennsylvania State University.\nElectrospinning is a fascinating technique to fabricate micro- to nano-scale fibers from a wide variety of materials. For biopolymers, molecular entanglement of the constituent polymers in the spinning dope was found to be an essential prerequisite for successful electrospinning. Rheology is a powerful tool to probe the molecular conformation and interaction of biopolymers. In this report, we demonstrate the protocol for utilizing rheology to evaluate the electrospinnability of two biopolymers, starch and pullulan, from their dimethyl sulfoxide (DMSO)/water dispersions. Well-formed starch and pullulan fibers with average diameters in the submicron to micron range were obtained. Electrospinnability was evaluated by visual and microscopic observation of the fibers formed. By correlating the rheological properties of the dispersions to their electrospinnability, we demonstrate that molecular conformation, molecular entanglement, and shear viscosity all affect electrospinning. Rheology is not only useful in solvent system selection and process optimization, but also in understanding the mechanism of fiber formation on a molecular level.\nBioengineering, Issue 91, electrospinning, rheology, molecular entanglement, fiber, nanofiber, biopolymer, polysaccharides, starch, pullulan\nPhysiological Recordings and RNA Sequencing of the Gustatory Appendages of the Yellow-fever Mosquito Aedes aegypti\nInstitutions: United States Department of Agriculture.\nElectrophysiological recording of action potentials from sensory neurons of mosquitoes provides investigators a glimpse into the chemical perception of these disease vectors. We have recently identified a bitter sensing neuron in the labellum of female Aedes aegypti\nthat responds to DEET and other repellents, as well as bitter quinine, through direct electrophysiological investigation. These gustatory receptor neuron responses prompted our sequencing of total mRNA from both male and female labella and tarsi samples to elucidate the putative chemoreception genes expressed in these contact chemoreception tissues. Samples of tarsi were divided into pro-, meso- and metathoracic subtypes for both sexes. We then validated our dataset by conducting qRT-PCR on the same tissue samples and used statistical methods to compare results between the two methods. Studies addressing molecular function may now target specific genes to determine those involved in repellent perception by mosquitoes. These receptor pathways may be used to screen novel repellents towards disruption of host-seeking behavior to curb the spread of harmful viruses.\nMolecular Biology, Issue 94, Gustation, insect, Aedes aegypti, electrophysiology, mosquito, RNA-seq, qRT-PCR, taste, chemosensory\nPreparation and Respirometric Assessment of Mitochondria Isolated from Skeletal Muscle Tissue Obtained by Percutaneous Needle Biopsy\nInstitutions: Wake Forest School of Medicine, Seahorse Biosciences.\nRespirometric profiling of isolated mitochondria is commonly used to investigate electron transport chain function. We describe a method for obtaining samples of human Vastus lateralis,\nisolating mitochondria from minimal amounts of skeletal muscle tissue, and plate based respirometric profiling using an extracellular flux (XF) analyzer. Comparison of respirometric profiles obtained using 1.0, 2.5 and 5.0 μg of mitochondria indicate that 1.0 μg is sufficient to measure respiration and that 5.0 μg provides most consistent results based on comparison of standard errors. Western blot analysis of isolated mitochondria for mitochondrial marker COX IV and non-mitochondrial tissue marker GAPDH indicate that there is limited non-mitochondrial contamination using this protocol. The ability to study mitochondrial respirometry in as little as 20 mg of muscle tissue allows users to utilize individual biopsies for multiple study endpoints in clinical research projects.\nMedicine, Issue 96, Respirometry, mitochondria, bioenergetics, skeletal muscle, Vastus lateralis, biopsy\nContrast Imaging in Mouse Embryos Using High-frequency Ultrasound\nInstitutions: University of Toronto, Sunnybrook Research Institute, Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto.\nUltrasound contrast-enhanced imaging can convey essential quantitative information regarding tissue vascularity and perfusion and, in targeted applications, facilitate the detection and measure of vascular biomarkers at the molecular level. Within the mouse embryo, this noninvasive technique may be used to uncover basic mechanisms underlying vascular development in the early mouse circulatory system and in genetic models of cardiovascular disease. The mouse embryo also presents as an excellent model for studying the adhesion of microbubbles to angiogenic targets (including vascular endothelial growth factor receptor 2 (VEGFR2) or αv\n) and for assessing the quantitative nature of molecular ultrasound. We therefore developed a method to introduce ultrasound contrast agents into the vasculature of living, isolated embryos. This allows freedom in terms of injection control and positioning, reproducibility of the imaging plane without obstruction and motion, and simplified image analysis and quantification. Late gestational stage (embryonic day (E)16.6 and E17.5) murine embryos were isolated from the uterus, gently exteriorized from the yolk sac and microbubble contrast agents were injected into veins accessible on the chorionic surface of the placental disc. Nonlinear contrast ultrasound imaging was then employed to collect a number of basic perfusion parameters (peak enhancement, wash-in rate and time to peak) and quantify targeted microbubble binding in an endoglin mouse model. We show the successful circulation of microbubbles within living embryos and the utility of this approach in characterizing embryonic vasculature and microbubble behavior.\nDevelopmental Biology, Issue 97, Micro-ultrasound, Molecular imaging, Mouse embryo, Microbubble, Ultrasound contrast agent, Perfusion\nRemoval of Trace Elements by Cupric Oxide Nanoparticles from Uranium In Situ Recovery Bleed Water and Its Effect on Cell Viability\nInstitutions: University of New Mexico, University of Wyoming, University of Wyoming, Colorado State University, Colorado State University, California Northstate University.\nrecovery (ISR) is the predominant method of uranium extraction in the United States. During ISR, uranium is leached from an ore body and extracted through ion exchange. The resultant production bleed water (PBW) contains contaminants such as arsenic and other heavy metals. Samples of PBW from an active ISR uranium facility were treated with cupric oxide nanoparticles (CuO-NPs). CuO-NP treatment of PBW reduced priority contaminants, including arsenic, selenium, uranium, and vanadium. Untreated and CuO-NP treated PBW was used as the liquid component of the cell growth media and changes in viability were determined by the MTT (3-(4,5-dimethylthiazol-2-yl)-2,5-diphenyltetrazolium bromide) assay in human embryonic kidney (HEK 293) and human hepatocellular carcinoma (Hep G2) cells. CuO-NP treatment was associated with improved HEK and HEP cell viability. Limitations of this method include dilution of the PBW by growth media components and during osmolality adjustment as well as necessary pH adjustment. This method is limited in its wider context due to dilution effects and changes in the pH of the PBW which is traditionally slightly acidic however; this method could have a broader use assessing CuO-NP treatment in more neutral waters.\nEnvironmental Sciences, Issue 100, Energy production, uranium in situ recovery, water decontamination, nanoparticles, toxicity, cytotoxicity, in vitro cell culture\nA Microplate Assay to Assess Chemical Effects on RBL-2H3 Mast Cell Degranulation: Effects of Triclosan without Use of an Organic Solvent\nInstitutions: University of Maine, Orono, University of Maine, Orono.\nMast cells play important roles in allergic disease and immune defense against parasites. Once activated (e.g.\nby an allergen), they degranulate, a process that results in the exocytosis of allergic mediators. Modulation of mast cell degranulation by drugs and toxicants may have positive or adverse effects on human health. Mast cell function has been dissected in detail with the use of rat basophilic leukemia mast cells (RBL-2H3), a widely accepted model of human mucosal mast cells3-5\n. Mast cell granule component and the allergic mediator β-hexosaminidase, which is released linearly in tandem with histamine from mast cells6\n, can easily and reliably be measured through reaction with a fluorogenic substrate, yielding measurable fluorescence intensity in a microplate assay that is amenable to high-throughput studies1\n. Originally published by Naal et al.1\n, we have adapted this degranulation assay for the screening of drugs and toxicants and demonstrate its use here.\nTriclosan is a broad-spectrum antibacterial agent that is present in many consumer products and has been found to be a therapeutic aid in human allergic skin disease7-11\n, although the mechanism for this effect is unknown. Here we demonstrate an assay for the effect of triclosan on mast cell degranulation. We recently showed that triclosan strongly affects mast cell function2\n. In an effort to avoid use of an organic solvent, triclosan is dissolved directly into aqueous buffer with heat and stirring, and resultant concentration is confirmed using UV-Vis spectrophotometry (using ε280\n= 4,200 L/M/cm)12\n. This protocol has the potential to be used with a variety of chemicals to determine their effects on mast cell degranulation, and more broadly, their allergic potential.\nImmunology, Issue 81, mast cell, basophil, degranulation, RBL-2H3, triclosan, irgasan, antibacterial, β-hexosaminidase, allergy, Asthma, toxicants, ionophore, antigen, fluorescence, microplate, UV-Vis\nViability Assays for Cells in Culture\nInstitutions: Duquesne University.\nManual cell counts on a microscope are a sensitive means of assessing cellular viability but are time-consuming and therefore expensive. Computerized viability assays are expensive in terms of equipment but can be faster and more objective than manual cell counts. The present report describes the use of three such viability assays. Two of these assays are infrared and one is luminescent. Both infrared assays rely on a 16 bit Odyssey Imager. One infrared assay uses the DRAQ5 stain for nuclei combined with the Sapphire stain for cytosol and is visualized in the 700 nm channel. The other infrared assay, an In-Cell Western, uses antibodies against cytoskeletal proteins (α-tubulin or microtubule associated protein 2) and labels them in the 800 nm channel. The third viability assay is a commonly used luminescent assay for ATP, but we use a quarter of the recommended volume to save on cost. These measurements are all linear and correlate with the number of cells plated, but vary in sensitivity. All three assays circumvent time-consuming microscopy and sample the entire well, thereby reducing sampling error. Finally, all of the assays can easily be completed within one day of the end of the experiment, allowing greater numbers of experiments to be performed within short timeframes. However, they all rely on the assumption that cell numbers remain in proportion to signal strength after treatments, an assumption that is sometimes not met, especially for cellular ATP. Furthermore, if cells increase or decrease in size after treatment, this might affect signal strength without affecting cell number. We conclude that all viability assays, including manual counts, suffer from a number of caveats, but that computerized viability assays are well worth the initial investment. Using all three assays together yields a comprehensive view of cellular structure and function.\nCellular Biology, Issue 83, In-cell Western, DRAQ5, Sapphire, Cell Titer Glo, ATP, primary cortical neurons, toxicity, protection, N-acetyl cysteine, hormesis\nMicrovolume Protein Concentration Determination using the NanoDrop 2000c Spectrophotometer\nInstitutions: Thermo Scientific NanoDrop Products.\nTraditional spectrophotometry requires placing samples into cuvettes or capillaries. This is often impractical due to the limited sample volumes often used for protein analysis. The Thermo Scientific NanoDrop 2000c Spectrophotometer solves this issue with an innovative sample retention system that holds microvolume samples between two measurement surfaces using the surface tension properties of liquids, enabling the quantification of samples in volumes as low as 0.5-2 μL. The elimination of cuvettes or capillaries allows real time changes in path length, which reduces the measurement time while greatly increasing the dynamic range of protein concentrations that can be measured. The need for dilutions is also eliminated, and preparations for sample quantification are relatively easy as the measurement surfaces can be simply wiped with laboratory wipe. This video article presents modifications to traditional protein concentration determination methods for quantification of microvolume amounts of protein using A280 absorbance readings or the BCA colorimetric assay.\nBasic Protocols, Issue 33, NanoDrop, protein measurement, protein concentration, spectrophotometer, A280, UV/Vis, BCA, microvolume, microsample, proteomics\nThe Importance of Correct Protein Concentration for Kinetics and Affinity Determination in Structure-function Analysis\nInstitutions: GE Healthcare Bio-Sciences AB.\nIn this study, we explore the interaction between the bovine cysteine protease inhibitor cystatin B and a catalytically inactive form of papain (Fig. 1), a plant cysteine protease, by real-time label-free analysis using Biacore X100. Several cystatin B variants with point mutations in areas of interaction with papain, are produced. For each cystatin B variant we determine its specific binding concentration using calibration-free concentration analysis (CFCA) and compare the values obtained with total protein concentration as determined by A280\n. After that, the kinetics of each cystatin B variant binding to papain is measured using single-cycle kinetics (SCK). We show that one of the four cystatin B variants we examine is only partially active for binding. This partial activity, revealed by CFCA, translates to a significant difference in the association rate constant (ka\n) and affinity (KD\n), compared to the values calculated using total protein concentration. Using CFCA in combination with kinetic analysis in a structure-function study contributes to obtaining reliable results, and helps to make the right interpretation of the interaction mechanism.\nCellular Biology, Issue 37, Protein interaction, Surface Plasmon Resonance, Biacore X100, CFCA, Cystatin B, Papain\nLinearization of the Bradford Protein Assay\nInstitutions: Tel Aviv University.\nDetermination of microgram quantities of protein in the Bradford Coomassie brilliant blue assay is accomplished by measurement of absorbance at 590 nm. This most common assay enables rapid and simple protein quantification in cell lysates, cellular fractions, or recombinant protein samples, for the purpose of normalization of biochemical measurements. However, an intrinsic nonlinearity compromises the sensitivity and accuracy of this method. It is shown that under standard assay conditions, the ratio of the absorbance measurements at 590 nm and 450 nm is strictly linear with protein concentration. This simple procedure increases the accuracy and improves the sensitivity of the assay about 10-fold, permitting quantification down to 50 ng of bovine serum albumin. Furthermore, the interference commonly introduced by detergents that are used to create the cell lysates is greatly reduced by the new protocol. A linear equation developed on the basis of mass action and Beer's law perfectly fits the experimental data.\nCellular Biology, Issue 38, Bradford, protein assay, protein quantification, Coomassie brilliant blue\nThermodynamics of Membrane Protein Folding Measured by Fluorescence Spectroscopy\nInstitutions: University of California San Diego - UCSD.\nMembrane protein folding is an emerging topic with both fundamental and health-related significance. The abundance of membrane proteins in cells underlies the need for comprehensive study of the folding of this ubiquitous family of proteins. Additionally, advances in our ability to characterize diseases associated with misfolded proteins have motivated significant experimental and theoretical efforts in the field of protein folding. Rapid progress in this important field is unfortunately hindered by the inherent challenges associated with membrane proteins and the complexity of the folding mechanism. Here, we outline an experimental procedure for measuring the thermodynamic property of the Gibbs free energy of unfolding in the absence of denaturant, ΔG°H2O\n, for a representative integral membrane protein from E. coli\n. This protocol focuses on the application of fluorescence spectroscopy to determine equilibrium populations of folded and unfolded states as a function of denaturant concentration. Experimental considerations for the preparation of synthetic lipid vesicles as well as key steps in the data analysis procedure are highlighted. This technique is versatile and may be pursued with different types of denaturant, including temperature and pH, as well as in various folding environments of lipids and micelles. The current protocol is one that can be generalized to any membrane or soluble protein that meets the set of criteria discussed below.\nBioengineering, Issue 50, tryptophan, peptides, Gibbs free energy, protein stability, vesicles\nQuantifying Agonist Activity at G Protein-coupled Receptors\nInstitutions: University of California, Irvine, University of California, Chapman University.\nWhen an agonist activates a population of G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs), it elicits a signaling pathway that culminates in the response of the cell or tissue. This process can be analyzed at the level of a single receptor, a population of receptors, or a downstream response. Here we describe how to analyze the downstream response to obtain an estimate of the agonist affinity constant for the active state of single receptors.\nReceptors behave as quantal switches that alternate between active and inactive states (Figure 1). The active state interacts with specific G proteins or other signaling partners. In the absence of ligands, the inactive state predominates. The binding of agonist increases the probability that the receptor will switch into the active state because its affinity constant for the active state (Kb\n) is much greater than that for the inactive state (Ka\n). The summation of the random outputs of all of the receptors in the population yields a constant level of receptor activation in time. The reciprocal of the concentration of agonist eliciting half-maximal receptor activation is equivalent to the observed affinity constant (Kobs\n), and the fraction of agonist-receptor complexes in the active state is defined as efficacy (ε\n) (Figure 2).\nMethods for analyzing the downstream responses of GPCRs have been developed that enable the estimation of the Kobs\nand relative efficacy of an agonist 1,2\n. In this report, we show how to modify this analysis to estimate the agonist Kb\nvalue relative to that of another agonist. For assays that exhibit constitutive activity, we show how to estimate Kb\nin absolute units of M-1\nOur method of analyzing agonist concentration-response curves 3,4\nconsists of global nonlinear regression using the operational model 5\n. We describe a procedure using the software application, Prism (GraphPad Software, Inc., San Diego, CA). The analysis yields an estimate of the product of Kobs\nand a parameter proportional to efficacy (τ\n). The estimate of τKobs\nof one agonist, divided by that of another, is a relative measure of Kb (RAi) 6\n. For any receptor exhibiting constitutive activity, it is possible to estimate a parameter proportional to the efficacy of the free receptor complex (τsys\n). In this case, the Kb\nvalue of an agonist is equivalent to τKobs/τsys 3\nOur method is useful for determining the selectivity of an agonist for receptor subtypes and for quantifying agonist-receptor signaling through different G proteins.\nMolecular Biology, Issue 58, agonist activity, active state, ligand bias, constitutive activity, G protein-coupled receptor\nLong-term Lethal Toxicity Test with the Crustacean Artemia franciscana\nInstitutions: Institute for Environmental Protection and Research, Regional Agency for Environmental Protection in Emilia-Romagna.\nOur research activities target the use of biological methods for the evaluation of environmental quality, with particular reference to saltwater/brackish water and sediment. The choice of biological indicators must be based on reliable scientific knowledge and, possibly, on the availability of standardized procedures. In this article, we present a standardized protocol that used the marine crustacean Artemia\nto evaluate the toxicity of chemicals and/or of marine environmental matrices. Scientists propose that the brine shrimp (Artemia\n) is a suitable candidate for the development of a standard bioassay for worldwide utilization. A number of papers have been published on the toxic effects of various chemicals and toxicants on brine shrimp (Artemia\n). The major advantage of this crustacean for toxicity studies is the overall availability of the dry cysts; these can be immediately used in testing and difficult cultivation is not demanded1,2\n. Cyst-based toxicity assays are cheap, continuously available, simple and reliable and are thus an important answer to routine needs of toxicity screening, for industrial monitoring requirements or for regulatory purposes3\n. The proposed method involves the mortality as an endpoint. The numbers of survivors were counted and percentage of deaths were calculated. Larvae were considered dead if they did not exhibit any internal or external movement during several seconds of observation4\n. This procedure was standardized testing a reference substance (Sodium Dodecyl Sulfate); some results are reported in this work. This article accompanies a video that describes the performance of procedural toxicity testing, showing all the steps related to the protocol.\nChemistry, Issue 62, Artemia franciscana, bioassays, chemical substances, crustaceans, marine environment\nPerceptual and Category Processing of the Uncanny Valley Hypothesis' Dimension of Human Likeness: Some Methodological Issues\nInstitutions: University of Zurich.\nMori's Uncanny Valley Hypothesis1,2\nproposes that the perception of humanlike characters such as robots and, by extension, avatars (computer-generated characters) can evoke negative or positive affect (valence) depending on the object's degree of visual and behavioral realism along a dimension of human likeness\n) (Figure 1\n). But studies of affective valence of subjective responses to variously realistic non-human characters have produced inconsistent findings 3, 4, 5, 6\n. One of a number of reasons for this is that human likeness is not perceived as the hypothesis assumes. While the DHL can be defined following Mori's description as a smooth linear change in the degree of physical humanlike similarity, subjective perception of objects along the DHL can be understood in terms of the psychological effects of categorical perception (CP) 7\n. Further behavioral and neuroimaging investigations of category processing and CP along the DHL and of the potential influence of the dimension's underlying category structure on affective experience are needed. This protocol therefore focuses on the DHL and allows examination of CP. Based on the protocol presented in the video as an example, issues surrounding the methodology in the protocol and the use in \"uncanny\" research of stimuli drawn from morph continua to represent the DHL are discussed in the article that accompanies the video. The use of neuroimaging and morph stimuli to represent the DHL in order to disentangle brain regions neurally responsive to physical human-like similarity from those responsive to category change and category processing is briefly illustrated.\nBehavior, Issue 76, Neuroscience, Neurobiology, Molecular Biology, Psychology, Neuropsychology, uncanny valley, functional magnetic resonance imaging, fMRI, categorical perception, virtual reality, avatar, human likeness, Mori, uncanny valley hypothesis, perception, magnetic resonance imaging, MRI, imaging, clinical techniques\nApplications of EEG Neuroimaging Data: Event-related Potentials, Spectral Power, and Multiscale Entropy\nWhen considering human neuroimaging data, an appreciation of signal variability represents a fundamental innovation in the way we think about brain signal. Typically, researchers represent the brain's response as the mean across repeated experimental trials and disregard signal fluctuations over time as \"noise\". However, it is becoming clear that brain signal variability conveys meaningful functional information about neural network dynamics. This article describes the novel method of multiscale entropy (MSE) for quantifying brain signal variability. MSE may be particularly informative of neural network dynamics because it shows timescale dependence and sensitivity to linear and nonlinear dynamics in the data.\nNeuroscience, Issue 76, Neurobiology, Anatomy, Physiology, Medicine, Biomedical Engineering, Electroencephalography, EEG, electroencephalogram, Multiscale entropy, sample entropy, MEG, neuroimaging, variability, noise, timescale, non-linear, brain signal, information theory, brain, imaging\nDetection of Architectural Distortion in Prior Mammograms via Analysis of Oriented Patterns\nInstitutions: University of Calgary , University of Calgary .\nWe demonstrate methods for the detection of architectural distortion in prior mammograms of interval-cancer cases based on analysis of the orientation of breast tissue patterns in mammograms. We hypothesize that architectural distortion modifies the normal orientation of breast tissue patterns in mammographic images before the formation of masses or tumors. In the initial steps of our methods, the oriented structures in a given mammogram are analyzed using Gabor filters and phase portraits to detect node-like sites of radiating or intersecting tissue patterns. Each detected site is then characterized using the node value, fractal dimension, and a measure of angular dispersion specifically designed to represent spiculating patterns associated with architectural distortion.\nOur methods were tested with a database of 106 prior mammograms of 56 interval-cancer cases and 52 mammograms of 13 normal cases using the features developed for the characterization of architectural distortion, pattern classification via\nquadratic discriminant analysis, and validation with the leave-one-patient out procedure. According to the results of free-response receiver operating characteristic analysis, our methods have demonstrated the capability to detect architectural distortion in prior mammograms, taken 15 months (on the average) before clinical diagnosis of breast cancer, with a sensitivity of 80% at about five false positives per patient.\nMedicine, Issue 78, Anatomy, Physiology, Cancer Biology, angular spread, architectural distortion, breast cancer, Computer-Assisted Diagnosis, computer-aided diagnosis (CAD), entropy, fractional Brownian motion, fractal dimension, Gabor filters, Image Processing, Medical Informatics, node map, oriented texture, Pattern Recognition, phase portraits, prior mammograms, spectral analysis\nQuasi-light Storage for Optical Data Packets\nInstitutions: Hochschule für Telekommunikation, Leipzig.\nToday's telecommunication is based on optical packets which transmit the information in optical fiber networks around the world. Currently, the processing of the signals is done in the electrical domain. Direct storage in the optical domain would avoid the transfer of the packets to the electrical and back to the optical domain in every network node and, therefore, increase the speed and possibly reduce the energy consumption of telecommunications. However, light consists of photons which propagate with the speed of light in vacuum. Thus, the storage of light is a big challenge. There exist some methods to slow down the speed of the light, or to store it in excitations of a medium. However, these methods cannot be used for the storage of optical data packets used in telecommunications networks. Here we show how the time-frequency-coherence, which holds for every signal and therefore for optical packets as well, can be exploited to build an optical memory. We will review the background and show in detail and through examples, how a frequency comb can be used for the copying of an optical packet which enters the memory. One of these time domain copies is then extracted from the memory by a time domain switch. We will show this method for intensity as well as for phase modulated signals.\nPhysics, Issue 84, optical communications, Optical Light Storage, stimulated Brillouin scattering, Optical Signal Processing, optical data packets, telecommunications\nMeasuring the Mechanical Properties of Living Cells Using Atomic Force Microscopy\nInstitutions: Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester Polytechnic Institute.\nMechanical properties of cells and extracellular matrix (ECM) play important roles in many biological processes including stem cell differentiation, tumor formation, and wound healing. Changes in stiffness of cells and ECM are often signs of changes in cell physiology or diseases in tissues. Hence, cell stiffness is an index to evaluate the status of cell cultures. Among the multitude of methods applied to measure the stiffness of cells and tissues, micro-indentation using an Atomic Force Microscope (AFM) provides a way to reliably measure the stiffness of living cells. This method has been widely applied to characterize the micro-scale stiffness for a variety of materials ranging from metal surfaces to soft biological tissues and cells. The basic principle of this method is to indent a cell with an AFM tip of selected geometry and measure the applied force from the bending of the AFM cantilever. Fitting the force-indentation curve to the Hertz model for the corresponding tip geometry can give quantitative measurements of material stiffness. This paper demonstrates the procedure to characterize the stiffness of living cells using AFM. Key steps including the process of AFM calibration, force-curve acquisition, and data analysis using a MATLAB routine are demonstrated. Limitations of this method are also discussed.\nBiophysics, Issue 76, Bioengineering, Cellular Biology, Molecular Biology, Physics, Chemical Engineering, Biomechanics, bioengineering (general), AFM, cell stiffness, microindentation, force spectroscopy, atomic force microscopy, microscopy\nTest Samples for Optimizing STORM Super-Resolution Microscopy\nInstitutions: National Physical Laboratory.\nSTORM is a recently developed super-resolution microscopy technique with up to 10 times better resolution than standard fluorescence microscopy techniques. However, as the image is acquired in a very different way than normal, by building up an image molecule-by-molecule, there are some significant challenges for users in trying to optimize their image acquisition. In order to aid this process and gain more insight into how STORM works we present the preparation of 3 test samples and the methodology of acquiring and processing STORM super-resolution images with typical resolutions of between 30-50 nm. By combining the test samples with the use of the freely available rainSTORM processing software it is possible to obtain a great deal of information about image quality and resolution. Using these metrics it is then possible to optimize the imaging procedure from the optics, to sample preparation, dye choice, buffer conditions, and image acquisition settings. We also show examples of some common problems that result in poor image quality, such as lateral drift, where the sample moves during image acquisition and density related problems resulting in the 'mislocalization' phenomenon.\nMolecular Biology, Issue 79, Genetics, Bioengineering, Biomedical Engineering, Biophysics, Basic Protocols, HeLa Cells, Actin Cytoskeleton, Coated Vesicles, Receptor, Epidermal Growth Factor, Actins, Fluorescence, Endocytosis, Microscopy, STORM, super-resolution microscopy, nanoscopy, cell biology, fluorescence microscopy, test samples, resolution, actin filaments, fiducial markers, epidermal growth factor, cell, imaging\nPhage Phenomics: Physiological Approaches to Characterize Novel Viral Proteins\nInstitutions: San Diego State University, San Diego State University, San Diego State University, San Diego State University, San Diego State University, Argonne National Laboratory, Broad Institute.\nCurrent investigations into phage-host interactions are dependent on extrapolating knowledge from (meta)genomes. Interestingly, 60 - 95% of all phage sequences share no homology to current annotated proteins. As a result, a large proportion of phage genes are annotated as hypothetical. This reality heavily affects the annotation of both structural and auxiliary metabolic genes. Here we present phenomic methods designed to capture the physiological response(s) of a selected host during expression of one of these unknown phage genes. Multi-phenotype Assay Plates (MAPs) are used to monitor the diversity of host substrate utilization and subsequent biomass formation, while metabolomics provides bi-product analysis by monitoring metabolite abundance and diversity. Both tools are used simultaneously to provide a phenotypic profile associated with expression of a single putative phage open reading frame (ORF). Representative results for both methods are compared, highlighting the phenotypic profile differences of a host carrying either putative structural or metabolic phage genes. In addition, the visualization techniques and high throughput computational pipelines that facilitated experimental analysis are presented.\nImmunology, Issue 100, phenomics, phage, viral metagenome, Multi-phenotype Assay Plates (MAPs), continuous culture, metabolomics"
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"original": "More voices waded into the Common Core conversation this weekend in the pages of the New York Times. In the provocatively titled, \"Who's Minding the Schools?,\" Andrew Hacker, an emeritus professor of political science at Queens College, City University of New York and long-time New York Times writer-turned university adjunct prof Claudia Dreifus ask two questions:\n\"Will national, ramped-up standards produce more successful students? Or will they result in unintended consequences for our educational system?\"\nThat seems like the classic \"When did you stop beating\nyour spouse?\" setup.\nVirtually every action we take has unintended consequences. Clearly we should avoid those actions that are fraught with problems. But anytime the rules of the game change, there will be unintended consequences--both good and bad. And to answer whether our students will be \"more successful,\" we have to have a notion about what \"success\" means: will they do better on tests? Make more money? Live the American dream?\nI suspect the authors meant the latter: Will the new standards help our children thrive when they become adults? And provocatively, the (paper) version of the New York Times offered an interesting context for this question by simultaneously running a piece by computer scientist, Jaron Lanier entitled: \"Fixing\nthe Digital Economy.\" Lanier's essay is rather grim. He believes that computer technology is widening the divide between the rich and the poor, in part because people don't understand what's valuable in the information age. They settle for virtual tschotskes--not real compensation--for the value that they have in the digital world because they don't understand how the other 1% is making money. He proposes a way to more appropriately charge for value.\nI'm not sure Lanier's solution is the right answer--but I do agree that the future is at least as complicated as he portrays. So if our children are to survive--better, thrive--in this brave digital world, we have to help them become sophisticated, integrative thinkers, to be able to detect points of view, to know how to ask questions, and a whole raft of analytical skills.\nCan the Common Core help? Surely it is better than simply memorizing facts.\nJumping to the online version of the New York Times story, there were a number of comments from teachers on the \"Minding Schools\" piece. I've picked a couple of excerpts below--but read through them. What runs through the comments is an acknowledgement that yes, the Common Core will demand more from students and especially, more from teachers.\nBut what worries them isn't what they will have to learn but instead the assessments that are to come--and how those will be administered.\nMore comments from teachers on the Common Core are here on the New York Times education blog."
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"original": "Very interesting to see what is transpiring between LGF and GOV and several other European blogs. One of the tragedies of the virulent Euro PC culture is that citizens of those countries seemingly no longer have the political vocabulary needed to effectively counteract Islamofascism. This role is being filled to a degree by some pretty unsavory types. So I do think that in sending a clear signal about the dangers of the neo-Nazis and similar European groups, and about the unsuitability (both moral and tactical) of an American affiliation with them in combating the threat posed by Islam, Charles Johnson is in the right.It may be that this little blogosphere quarrel presages greater struggles between Americans and Europeans as Islam advances in Europe. I hope that it never comes to this.\nI think the right wing in Europe is pretty far to the right.I read Biased BBC a lot, and the folks over there who are horrified by creeping Islamization have the same problem of being tarred as BNP (apparently a far right Nationalistic party) supporters. It is going to be a very difficult minefield for them to navigate.My own guess is that once one European country veers hard against Moslems that it is going to set off a chain reaction as, with the relatively open boarders of the EU, Moslems slosh around Europe to escape the harsher measures. I think it is going to be a mess.\nOne of the dangers of the failure of the left wing European governments to deal with Islamists and immigration is that the door is wide open for the radical right. The promise to keep order in a decaying civic community is a strong message.And let us remember that the European Right doesn't like us anymore than the European Left.\nAnd let us remember that the European Right doesn't like us anymore than the European Left.Yup. Very tough to predict.\nAmbi:I think the right wing in Europe is pretty far to the right.I know what you mean, but they are not \"to the right\" and are often well to the left. They are racists and socialists at once.The larger question for us is how do we pick our allies in the battle that is coming?\nYea, I think in the last election La Pen -- the French right-winger -- was willing to throw in with the 'youths' in the ghettos surrounding the French cities.\nAnd that is what makes the future so hard to predict.\nSkookumchuk,I gotta be honest -- I think the \"fascists were really socialists\" is one of the goofier arguments conservatives push. Hitler taking over a party with Socialist in its name doesn't mean much to me. He, Franco and El Duce were right-wing nationalist thugs as opposed to Collectivist thugs.Granted, it doesn't mean much when you're standing against a wall with a blindfold on, but it sure does make conservatives look screwy every time they float it. There are thugs on both sides of the spectrum -- doesn't make much sense to deny it in my opinion.\nAmbi,I don't think it is that nutty at all. Mussolini began as a Communist and remained so right up until 1914, when he split with the Party over participation in WWI. He then spent some time at a Syndicalist newspaper (IIRC). After he came to power he did a lot of economic experimentation, trying to avoid what he thought were the mistakes that the Bolsheviks had made in Russia. What he ended up with isn't all that different from what you see in parts of Europe today, or from what Roosevelt sought to put in place here. It is also worth mentioning that Mosley came from the Labor Party and that Per Albin Hansson (Swedish Social Democratic Party) had an extensive correspondence with Mussolini. BTW, the Wikipedia entry on the Swedish Social Democrats is a hoot if you are tickled by propaganda.It is easy to think that all socialists are Marxist internationalists and that makes the Fascist phenomenon a real puzzle to explain -- Trotsky, for instance, struggled to formulate a correct Marxist explanation -- but there was a lot of variety on the Left before the triumph of the USSR in WWII and some strands were notably nationalistic.\nFascism was seen as a transitional phase from capitalism to \"pure\" socilaism. Mussolini put sindicatos (labor leaders) on corporate boards as \"stakeholders\" as an initial step in the process. The nationalization of certain industries followed - and actually continues today.Two sides, one coin - state control of the means of production.\nI'm looking for a famous quote - so far without success - in which Hitler claimed that the natural converts to Nazism were to be found among the Communists and almost never among the Social Democrats and others of the bourgeoisie. And the Fascist insistence on state control of the means of production survived the war, to be found among the Peronists in Argentina even to this day.\nAnd it will be very interesting to see the contortions of American intellectuals in trying to explain things if and when a goose-stepping band of racist, antisemitic socialist skinhead thugs takes power in a European capital. It might be good only insofar that it might sweep away our old 20th century notions of what constitutes \"left\" and \"right.\"\nIn my view, 20th century notions of what constitutes \"left\" and \"right\" (the newsreel in Citizen Kane comes to mind) come down to how one identifies oneself and those with whom one disagrees on one or more questions regarding how people should relate to one another. Those who continue to self-identify either way won't have much, if any, trouble in deciding, however irrationally, who is with them and who is against them and those who opt out when it comes to ideological labeling will more often than not adopt an a plague on both your houses stance.\"Conformity or rebellion?\"\"Neither one. Both ways are simple-minded—they are only for people who can't cope with contradiction and ambiguity.\"\nSkook,I think it was Ernst Rohm who remarked somewhere that his thugs might be out fighting with the Communists one day, and with the Nazis the next. This bit from The Face of the Third Reich by Joachim Fest captures something similar. \"Above all in the big cities, 'a permanent underworld war was carried on between the SA and the Red Front (RF), in which both sides made use of low taverns as bases', not without occasional tactical alliances and, following National Socialist reverses at the end of 1932, frequent desertions from the SA to the RF, which in the spring of 1933 were offset by whole units of the RF going over to the SA.\"I think the Nazis were a far more complex movement than the Italian fascists and based their politics more around emotion than philosophy.Here is a link to Joachim's text. I found it engrossing.\nAnd this:Strictly speaking, it is not that revolutions devour their own children: it is the principle of violence that destroys revolutionaries.Damn, I'm going to have to buy that book.\nInteresting life, also.\nAnd the book ends thus:The totalitarian infection survives its active phase in many, often apparently insignificant, manifestations. The world-wide political developments of the post-war period have given the German people, at least in the Federal Republic, a period of grace during which its changed consciousness has not been put to the test. Nevertheless it is possible that the new 'political rationality' of the German people, not infrequently pointed out with pride, is merely the reflection of 'rational' circumstances. The proof has yet to be given, but who can be blamed for awaiting it with trepidation.Isn't that what we are talking about?\nFest preferred to call himself a pessimist rather than a conservative, albeit a pessimist who believed that strong healthy societies could be built out of the rejection of dangerous utopias.I can relate. I wasn't aware that he'd died. Thanks, chuck.\nHaven't gotten through all the commentary yet. Nice to see such good participation ;)Coupla thoughts...I'm with Rick re: fascism and socialism/communism - two sides, same coin. Both are statism. In fascism the authoritarians see the people as belonging to the state and, by virtue or their ownership of the state the people belong to them. In communism the authoritarians see the state as belonging to the people and, by virtue of their ownership of the people the state belongs to them. A difference with precious little distinction.Re: right vs. left in Europe... There is very little difference except at the fringes. Europeans want their welfare state. They want no anxiety, let alone real conflict, in their lives and they are willing to accept most any political and social charade to maintain what they currently have for as long as they possibly can. The political consensus is H-U-G-E regardless of rhetoric and number of parties. Individuals and parties may self-identify as center, right of center, left of center, and so on but the sliver around their notion of center is very slim. Only radicals, of whatever stripe, buck the consensus. Or at least that's the way I've perceived things over there since I've been going there and payign at least some attention. Which is all to say that I have at least some understanding for, if not complete comfort and agreement with, the points GoV is making. The vast majority of Euros belong to the political sliver in the \"center\". Anyone who wants to do anything outside the broad consensus (such as put up, or at least discuss, resistance to Islam and/or protecting Western culture, must step outside the sliver and the moment they do, they are Dancing With Radicals. Only the \"crazies\" are outside the sliver so stepping outside the sliver immediately identifies one as a \"crazy\". We here in the US think we have untold political pain because of the nastiness between our political halves. The Euros, poor dears, will have to go through real political pain just to develop some healthy differences of opinion. I don't know if they can get there. As far as I can tell they just flat out aren't willing to accept the conflict, anxiety, and damage to the one thing that they view as utterly essential in their political systems - consensus.\nKnuck, I don't know if they can get there either.\nWhen you can't be bothered to reproduce at the natural \"balance\" rate you reap Gaia's reward. It's fitting that Russia is leading the way to the demographic grave.They might consider importing some South Americans or Filipinos, once they fence out the muslims. That would guarantee the type of hospice care that the Europeans are seeking.\nPost a Comment"
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"original": "An invitation to a friend’s cottage is always exciting. It’s a rare opportunity to escape the city for a relatively inexpensive relaxing getaway with the perfect company. But that coveted invite is a privilege, not a right. Cottage owners only enjoy playing host to friends who impress them with their conscientious attitude and come fully prepared. Want to score a permanent spot on the guest list? Make sure you never show up without the following items.\nAlcohol is the number one must-bring item. It’s non-negotiable. The worst kind of cottage guests are the ones who show up with no libations and still expect to get a good dock buzz. It’s likely that your hosts will be happy to share some of their own booze, but only if you add your own contributions to the mix. And if you’ve got very specific drinking needs, you can’t expect other people to accommodate. If you only drink lite beer, sip pink wine, or chug straight from the bottle, you’re on your own!\n2. A towel (or two!)\nYou’re going to a lake. You will spend a lot of time wet and covered in sand. Consider it your responsibility to be clean and dry when you enter your friend’s cottage. If they don’t have enough towels to share with you, it’s going to get messy fast. And even if your host has an abundance of clean towels, they’ll be very grateful that you’re not adding to the laundry pile.\nDon’t be that person who didn’t plan ahead for a weekend of baking in the hot sun – who sheepishly has to borrow the sunscreen bottle every few hours to reapply. Your friends will hand it over to save you from a nasty sunburn, but they won’t appreciate your lack of foresight. And if the lotion runs out before the end of the weekend, it won’t be pretty for anyone.\n4. A folding chair\nYou never know what outdoor seating situation will be like. And whether you’re lounging down on the dock, relaxing around a roaring fire or sipping beers on the deck, you’ll want to be comfortable. For your own sake as much as your hosts, bring a back-up chair in case there aren’t enough seats for everyone.\nIt may seem harmless to rely on the existing insect repellent for just a few days. A spray here and there won’t make a difference, right? Maybe, but by the end of the summer—with numerous friendly and family to entertain—your hosts will have spent a small fortune helping their loved ones fend off mosquitos. They’ll be impressed if you show up prepared to battle the bugs on their own.\nYour hosts will definitely want to feed you. They may even want to dazzle you with their cottage culinary skills. But you shouldn’t expect them to foot the entire food bill. Ideally you should offer to plan, shop for, and cook at least one meal, but if you’re truly kitchen challenged or your host insists on doing all the cooking, find out what they’ll need and offer to pick up a few things on the way.\nYour friend’s cottage is not a hotel so don’t assume their bathroom comes with complimentary shampoo and toothpaste. It’s proper etiquette to pack a complete toiletry kit and let your friends save their supplies for future cottage weekends.\nBonus: A flashlight\nThis is a great one for those of you who have been invited to a more rustic place. If you have to use the facilities in the middle of the night you’ll need easy access to a flashlight—unless you’re weirdly fond of stumbling around in the dark over foreign terrain. Even if there are indoor bathrooms a flashlight will be very handy for trips to and from the cottage during a campfire, especially after a few beers."
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"original": "<a href=\"http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2011/11/21/foreclosure-firm-steven-j-baum-to-close-down/\">The NY Times reports</a> that Steven J. Baum P.C., the firm of foreclosure lawyers who had earlier agreed to a settlement of 2 million dollars for improper activities that included<a href=\"http://longislandbankruptcyblog.com/steven-baum-pc-served-foreclosure-papers/\"> \"robo-signing\" foreclosure documents</a>, will permanently shut down. The reason was not because of their bank related actions, but rather a Times story showing photos of a homeless themed party last Halloween.\nPublication of pictures some of of the firm's 89 employees in costumes mocking folks who had lost their homes led Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae to forbid servicers of their mortgages from using Mr. Baum and his colleagues.\nJoe Nocera, The Times columnist who originally wrote about the firm’s Halloween party, published another column about the controversy. In it, he quoted an e-mail that Mr. Baum had sent him last week.\n<blockquote>“Mr. Nocera — You have destroyed everything and everyone related to Steven J. Baum PC. it took 40 years to build this firm and three weeks to tear down.\"</blockquote>"
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"original": "Fifteen-year anniversaries often come and go without fuss, overlooked in favor of those we can mark in full decades. Yet recently, at Johns Hopkins and nationally, we've crossed that mark for a couple of events in patient safety that merit both celebration and reflection.\nIn January 2001, a series of lapses at Johns Hopkins led to the preventable death of Josie King, a toddler recovering from second-degree burns before her condition deteriorated and she developed sepsis. That tragedy, and the June 2001 death of a healthy 24-year-old clinical trial participant, Ellen Roche, brought our organization to a crossroads. Were we going to circle the wagons or take an honest look at ourselves so that we could do better?\nThe most recent issue of our flagship newsletter, Dome, chronicles the transformation that has taken place as we challenged ourselves to improve. It highlights past and ongoing efforts to change culture, groundbreaking work that slashed central line-associated bloodstream infections at Johns Hopkins and around the world, and programs and innovations that engage all heath care staff members — and patients — to eliminate harm. Though we remain humbled about the task at hand and the work to be done, we have learned a lot.\nThe timing of our journey loosely mirrors that of the nation at large. In December, the National Academy of Medicine's annual Rosenthal Forum convened a broad panel of experts to mark roughly a decade and a half since two landmark Institute of Medicine reports, \"To Err Is Human\" and \"Crossing the Quality Chasm,\" issued 1999 and 2001, respectively. These events are commonly regarded as the birth of the patient safety movement in the U.S and across the globe.\nStepping back to reflect on this time period, it's natural to pause for a proud papa (or mama) moment. Despite these signs of maturation, this 15-year-old movement still has some growing up to do. Entrenched hierarchies that prevent clinicians from raising patient care concerns and keep patients from partnering in their care have been battered, but they have not yet been toppled. Organizations profess patient safety as a top priority, but they are still figuring out how to manage it with the same rigor, discipline and accountability that they do their budgets. There are encouraging success stories everywhere, yet they often do not get traction beyond the local setting or target more than one harm.\nWhat will it take for this movement to mature, for us to see the widespread harm reductions that we all hope to achieve? Here are several key growth areas — by no stretch the only ones:\n- Develop sound metrics. The plethora of ratings issued by government agencies, insurers, private companies and even journalism organizations too often confuses and overwhelms. We need better systems to create and vet new measures to ensure they are scientifically sound and truly meaningful to all users — clinicians, hospitals, patients and payers.\n- Manage data better. Finance departments can track the performance of virtually any aspect of hospital operations, from a transplant surgery program to gift shop revenues. Yet at too many hospitals, data on patient safety performance are squirreled away in different formats by various departments, with no central coordination. For patient safety to be treated with the priority it deserves, data management systems must be as robust and coordinated as those used by finance.\n- Enhance transparency. Patients have preciously limited valid data about the quality of care provided by their physician or hospital or the costs they may incur. For example, patients have a difficult time finding out how many times a surgeon or hospital has performed a procedure, although volumes are often related to outcomes. To be helpful, the data must be valid and transparent.\n- Build accountability systems. It's one thing for hospital leaders to declare patient safety as their chief priority, but it's another entirely to make goals explicit and hold themselves and others responsible for them. All members of health care organizations — from the bedside to the executive suite — should not only know their organization's patient safety goals, but also understand how their work contributes to meeting them, and they must have the tools, training and time to fulfill those goals. It sounds simple, but it's surprising how rare that is.\n- Motivate change. Pay for performance clearly is not resonating with physicians and is contributing to sky-high burnout rates. Rather than relying on such extrinsic motivation to coerce improvement, we must find ways to tap clinicians' intrinsic motivation to deliver safe care.\n- Advance the science of safety. Knowledge of how to prevent harm continues to advance, yet this research still receives a sliver of all biomedical funding. As a nation, we must recognize the importance of treating the delivery of care as a field of scientific inquiry and discovery that is as important as finding a new treatment, and fund it accordingly.\n- Re-engineer care. Health care is a severely underengineered system, in which clinicians must often take heroic actions to prevent harm. Our current technologies have to improve upon their clunky and clumsy technology and their lack of interoperability. Care delivery systems should work with clinicians, not against them.\n- Target all harms. We have to move from projects focusing on one type of harm to efforts seeking to prevent all harms. A patient who develops ventilator-associated pneumonia doesn't care if he or she avoids 20 other harms.\n- Pursue high reliability. 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"original": "Simple Homemade Beef Stew Recipe For Dogs\nYour dog needs a break from dry kibble now and then. Hey, you’d get tired eating the same meal day in, day out. Plus, it’s a great idea to give your dog chunks of meat every once in a while in order to keep her jaw strong. And that’s when this simple homemade beef stew recipe for dogs comes in handy. There’s a few wholesome and nutritious ingredients needed, so you’ll feel as good serving it up as your dog does about eating it."
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"original": "Dannii began her transformation three years ago and is now in maintenance mode.\nOne of the best things about our digital age is how small it makes the world feel. Just a decade or two ago, it may have been tricky to connect with UK resident Dannii of Hungry Healthy Happy (requested by you, her fans, as an individual to feature on a previous Fit Blogger We Love post!). But when we reached out to her just days ago, we heard back within minutes. Awesome news for us, since we could hardly wait to hear how she was able to drop nearly 100 pounds!\nRead on for success secrets from this clean eating fan who inspires readers worldwide.\nMy \"I did it\" moment: Winning the mental battle that comes along with losing weight. One day everything just “clicked.” I realized that eating didn't have to be a battle. I didn't have to deprive myself and I could still enjoy the foods I loved every now and then. Working out didn't have to be a chore, I just needed to find the workouts that I enjoyed and looked forward to doing. Of course there are still days when I don't want to get up at 6 a.m. to hit the gym and other days where I want to eat a giant pizza (I'm human), but giving myself permission to sometimes skip a workout and indulge in a pizza was pretty liberating. I have found balance, happiness and health, to me that means that \"I did it.\"\nMy favorite fit snack: I am a big snacker—that is something that hasn't really changed since I have lost 98 pounds—but what I snack on has changed. I definitely have a sweet tooth, so I get creative in the kitchen and create healthy snacks that taste like chocolate cake, but don't come with all the calories, like these healthy chocolate fudgey brownies. You would never know they were healthy and only 135 calories a slice!\nMy favorite way to work out: I could never stick to the same workout day in day out as I would get bored and not stick to it. I recently started running (it is a bit of a love/hate relationship). It gives me such a clear head after and I definitely feel sore muscles the next day. But, equally, I love just turning up my favorite music and dancing round the house for an hour. For me, a workout has to be fun—otherwise I just won't want to do it.\nOn my fit life list: A 10K. That might sound small to many of the amazing people out there that are regularly running marathons, but to me that will be HUGE and the only person I am competing with is my former self! From the girl who got out of breath getting up from a chair, being able to run a mile was something I never even dreamed would be possible, so finishing a 10K race will be a very special moment for me. I am currently training with my husband, but taking it very slowly. Being obese for so long means that my knees carried a lot of weight and I get knee problems very easily. I may be progressing slowly, but I am progressing and that is what is important.\nMy biggest motivator: My health—and that is the reason why I lost weight in the first place. Sure, feeling great about the way I look is a very welcomed added bonus, but I was making myself ill with the things I was doing to my body a few years ago. Reminding myself of how it felt to live like that everyday and never wanting to go back is what motivates me to stay on track. Your health really has to be your biggest motivator. Without health, life is pretty tough.\nDo you have a favorite fit blogger you want us to highlight? Leave a comment below or email [email protected]"
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"original": "A power outage at the 18-story Brighton Towers senior living complex on East Brighton Avenue in Syracuse left dozens of people unable to get back in to or even leave their apartments for more than ten hours on Friday.\nThe power came back on around 6 p.m. Residents of the apartment building say the full power went out around 7 a.m. on Friday morning. Some had been without power since midnight. Residents were unable to use the elevators or any apartment appliances. Because the elevators were not functioning, many residents were unable to leave from or return to their apartments, especially those on the upper floors.\n\"I lost a job today from a temp agency on account of my phone was dead, and I had no way to charge it,\" said tenant Susan Tinsley.\nâ??I had to walk down 14 flights of stairs and I havenâ??t gone up since,â?? said tenant Dennis Hough.\nBrighton Towers is managed by Rochester Management. The company brought cookies and water to the residents stuck in the lobby. When a CNY Central crew arrived at the apartments around 4:45 p.m., the management office was dark, leaving only a security guard to look over the tenants.\n\"It was havoc,\" said resident Anne Hobert. \"It was a mess. It's been out before, but it's never been this long, where nobody's told us anything that's going on either.\"\nA representative with the emergency after-hours line said residents should call their power company. National Grid was on location trying to resolve the situation.\nBob Barker, owner of Bob Barker's Famous Hot Dogs and Coneys in Syracuse, heard the news about the outage and broughkt his hot dog truck to Brighton Towers.\n\"I just like to help people if I can,\" said Barker. \"I was brought up like that. My mom and taught me if you can help someone, help them, you know? And these people, they need help.\"\nBarker had an estimated 400 hot dogs to hand out to residents who had gone all day with little or no food. Brighton Towers management had only provided cookies, pretzels and water to residents during the outage.\nManager Nancy Madugo maintained that management had been on site all day, and had been waiting for equipment from National Grid to de-energize the blown transformer that caused the outage.\nNational Grid said the transformer is owned by Brighton Towers, and they were only on scene to de-energize it.\nA National Grid spokesperson said the company received a call from Brighton Towers around 2 a.m. on Friday. Crews were on scene early in the morning, and received a request from Brighton Towers to de-energize the transformer before noon. Because of the transformer's location and the surrounding snow and ice, a specialized piece of equipment was needed. National Grid said the equipment was on scene around 3p.m to de-energize the transformer, which was then repaired by a contractor working for Brighton Towers."
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"original": "The BGPmon::Fetch::Archive module, to connect to an online archive of BGP files, download XML files and read XML messages one at a time.\nThe BGPmon::Fetch::Archive module provides functionality to connect to an BGP archive and read one XML message at a time.\nuse BGPmon::Fetch::Archive; my $ret = init_bgpdata('scratch_dir' => '/tmp/', 'ignore_incomplete_data' => 1, 'ignore_data_errors' => 0); my $ret = connect_archive('archive.netsec.colostate.edu/collectors/bgpdata-netsec/', 1234567890,2345678901); my $xml_msg = read_xml_message(); my $ret = is_connected(); my $num_read = messages_read(); my $num_files = files_read(); my $uptime = uptime(); my $ret = close_connection(); my $downtime = connection_endtime(); my $duration = connection_duration();\ninit_bgpdata connect_archive read_xml_message close_connection is_connected messages_read files_read uptime connection_endtime connection_duration get_error_code get_error_message get_error_msg\nInitializes the scratch directory and error-checking flags for the next archive connection. 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"original": "By Benjamin Todd Jealous\nIn legislatures across the county, misguided state politicians have proposed, and in too many cases have passed, laws that create obstacles to voting. That is why on December 10, International Human Rights Day, we took a principled stand for freedom in New York City to let the world know that we will not sit back and let our right to vote be taken away.\nOver the last 12 months, 34 states have introduced voter suppression legislation, with laws passing in 14 of those states and bills pending in eight. These suppressive laws take many forms, but in each case they disproportionately impact people of color, working women, blue-collar workers, students, seniors and immigrants.\nIn some states like Wisconsin and Ohio, lawmakers are limiting access to the polls by cutting or even eliminating early and Sunday voting opportunities. These significant cuts force parents, blue-collar workers, students and seniors who do not have the luxury of a flexible schedule to stand in polling lines for as many as eight hours.\nIn states like South Carolina, Tennessee, Wisconsin and Texas, politicians have used the threat of voting fraud to move bills requiring voters to acquire government-issued photo identification before they cast a ballot. However, studies show that a person is more likely to be struck by lightning than to impersonate someone in the polling booth.\nMoreover, while states are required to provide photo identification for free, the underlying instruments needed to obtain the identifications, like a certified copy of a birth certificate, can in fact be very expensive. In this way, the new laws become a sort of poll tax for certain individuals.\nOther creative voter suppression measures are making their way into law across the country. They include bills stripping voting rights from rehabilitated criminal offenders, eliminating same-day voter registration or voting, and targeted purging of African Americans and Latinos on registered voter rolls.\nThese attacks on voter participation mimic those used nearly a century ago in the lead-up to the Jim Crow era. The lesson we learned then surely applies today — that an attack on voting rights is merely a gateway to further restrictions on our rights, including our right to organize, our right to clean air, our right to negotiate, and even our right to privacy.\nOur democracy is far too important to allow self-serving politicians to suppress the vote. We must defend our rights. We must have our voices heard.\nFor a copy of the NAACP’s new report, “Defending Democracy: Confronting Modern Barriers to Voting Rights in America,” contact NAACP Communications Chief Ben Wrobel at [email protected] or by phone at 202-463-2690 ext. 1012. For more information, visit the website www.Stand4Freedom.org.\nBenjamin Todd Jealous is president and CEO of the NAACP."
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"original": "One has just completed the most public, drawn out, some would say bitter election campaign in the full glare of the media and the world. The other has quietly fixed the new autocratic regime for the next decade behind closed doors.\nThis week, Xi Jinping, a member of the party’s politburo since 2007 and currently vice president, succeeds Hu Jintao as president, potentially ushering in a new period of enlightened leadership (or so some had hoped) but President Hu’s outgoing address to the party’s 18th National Congress suggests in many crucial areas that little is going to change.\nThere is a huge amount of debate about the merits of political change for China. Traditionalists will point to the past decade during which China has gone from the sixth largest economy to the second largest in the world, more than quadrupled it gross domestic product, and drastically raised living standards.\nReformers will point to cases like that of Bo Xilai, former Chongqing party boss, now mired in corruption and, with his wife, convicted of murder as examples of a deeply corrupt political system.\nWith the state not just involved, but driving the economy, such corruption taints nearly every aspect of business activity. As worrisome to the political elite is the growing sense of frustration among a population that sees a growing gap between the general population and the ruling elite and business community, and sees rampant corruption among state officials.\nOne FT article quotes a professor of politics at a Chinese university who said within three years, the Chinese people would take to the streets to demand the government loosen its grip on power.\nIn the article, President Hu Jintao acknowledged, “social problems have increased markedly” under his decade of rule. He also warned that if the party failed to curb corruption, “it could prove fatal to the party and even cause the collapse of the party and the fall of the state.”\nContinued in Part Two.\nImage source: opencanada.org"
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This is stopped by a bodydrop from EC3, who follows up with some punches on the ground. Corner clothesline and a backdrop suplex connect. Curry Man stops another bodydrop with forearms and a splash in the corner. Up top, gorilla press puts Curry Man down and a huge clothesline leads to the One Percenter.\nWinner by pinfall: Ethan Carter III\nRecap of the \"Cowboy\" James Storm and Bobby Roode match from TNA Turning Point.\nKurt Angle meeting up with Gunner backstage. Angle thanks Gunner and Storm for being on his team tonight. Storm walks in and there is some tension between him and Gunner over last week, but Gunner tells him he only threw in the towel to help Storm.\nTNA Tag Team Champions The BroMans are backstage and now have Zema Ion as their DJ. Eric Young and ODB come up and Young declares that he is now the \"High Chancellor of the Turkey Bowl.\" Young has two turkey suits ready for the team and places The BroMans in a match tonight with Norv Fernum and Dewey Barnes. The BroMans say the team has to do the turkey dance when they lose later tonight.\nMatch Two: Velvet Sky vs. Lei'D Tapa (w/Gail Kim)\nLockup and Lei'D Tapa shoves Velvet Sky into the corner. Repeat of the same and Tapa charges into the corner. Sky ducks out and lands a series of leg kicks to down Tapa. Front facelock attempt is countered by Tapa running Sky into the corner with force. Forearm smash misses and Sky takes the back to lock in a sleeper. Tapa struggles, but snapmares Sky to the mat. Sky cornered once again and Tapa misses a kick that tangles her in the ropes. Leg kicks again come in for Sky.\nSky off the ropes and she is tripped up by TNA Knockouts Champion Gail Kim. The referee ejects Gail Kim and Tapa is set off. Shoulder bump and brutal strikes keeping the smaller Sky down. The head of Sky is bounced off the canvas like a basketball. Tapa tossing Sky from corner to corner before landing a splash. Choke hold applied to Sky, who is raised above her head. Sky fighting back in the center of the ring with kicks to the legs, body, and head Sky runs into a boot off the ropes and Tapa hits the TKO cutter.\nWinner by pinfall: Lei'D Tapa\nDJ Zema Ion introduces the TNA Tag Team Champions.\nPrior to the match, Robbie E and Jessie Godderz taunt their opposition and Dewey Barnes gets slapped in the face.\nTurkey Bowl Match Three: The BroMans vs. Norv Fernum & Dewey Barnes\nNorv Fernum and Dewey Barnes fight back as The BroMans turn away from laughing with DJ Zema Ion. Right hands from both are followed by rollups for brief nearfalls. The BroMans toss Dewey Barnes out of the ring and the Bro Down bearhug and lariat combination nearly decapitates Norv Fernum.\nWinners by pinfall: The BroMans\nThe BroMans demand the two put on the turkey suits and do the turkey dance. The BroMans leave frustrated as ODB and Eric Young join the two and the crowd enjoys the dancing.\nVideo package shows AJ Styles defending the TNA World Heavyweight Championship in Mexico and Japan.\nDixie Carter backstage. Carter demands Styles return the TNA World Heavyweight Championship next week or she will get her team of lawyers involved.\nTeam Roode meeting backstage. Bad Influence and TNA X Division Champion Chris Sabin are part of the team. A few jokes are exchanged but Roode wants the team to know that the group can only be serious tonight as they will prove that Roode is better than Angle yet again.\nRockstar Spud giving instructions for those preparing Thanksgiving dinners backstage.\nKurt Angle meeting up with Magnus. The two will team up tonight and go toe-to-toe next week. Both promise to bring it to each other next week, but agree to defeat Team Roode tonight.\nVideo package documents the rivalry between Mr. Anderson and Bully Ray that ended Aces & Eights.\nThe funeral for Aces & Eights features Samoa Joe, Magnus, Kurt Angle, Eric Young, and Mike Tenay attending as Mr. Anderson invites each man up to say a few words and bury an item. Bully Ray interrupts and tells Anderson to sleep with one eye open for himself and his family.\nRockstar Spud taste testing the dinner for tonight and requesting that it be remade.\nElimination Match Four: Team Angle vs. Team Roode\nKurt Angle and Bobby Roode start off exchanging blows. The two exchange attempts at signature maneuvers and it is a stalemate. Kazarian tags in and gets hip tossed. Christopher Daniels runs in to help his partner, but they are both taken out by a clothesline from Angle. Magnus in and he sends Kaz into the corner, but runs into a boot. Springboard crossbody by Kaz is caught by Magnus, who turns it into a driver. Kaz is pinballed by punches from Magnus and the rest of Team Angle.\n\"Cowboy\" James Storm in and Kazarian rakes the eyes to tag out to Christopher Daniels. Storm immediately clobbers him with a clothesline. Hip toss connects and Gunner in. Nearfall for Gunner after a double-team maneuver by himself and Storm. Daniels knocks Gunner outside and Team Roode pummeling him outside.\nChris Sabin now in and double-elbow connects for a brief nearfall. Sabin choking Funner on the second rope and Daniels returns. Corner work from Daniels and Bad Influence attempt to work the double-team on Gunner, but he slugs Daniels and hits a fallaway slam on Kaz. James Storm returns to the match and he pummels Sabin and takes out Daniels with Closing Time. Closing Time on Sabin as well. Last Call Superkick dialed in, but Kaz steps in to take it. Rollup from behind by Chris Sabin.\n\"Cowboy\" James Storm has been eliminated.\nMagnus and Chris Sabin in now. Both men chasing and Magnus gets the clothesline. Daniels tagged in and he gets his chest chopped in the corner. Magnus runs into a boot in the corner and Kazarian in. Daniels hip tosses Kaz on top of Magnus for a nearfall.\nDaniels with a phantom tag to work Magnus over with an elbow drop for a nearfall. Daniels doubling up on strikes to maintain control. Magnus slams Daniels down. Both men tag out and Kaz and Gunner join the match. The teams gather outside and Kaz is put in the Gun Rack backbreaker. Chris Sabin steps in and tangles the referee. Daniels with a leg kick and he clotheslines Gunner and Kaz sweeps the leg. Kaz with the cover.\nGunner has been eliminated.\nMagnus now in and he works Kaz over in the corner. Gorilla press attempt fails and Magnus shoved into the Team Roode corner. Quick tags now being made and Daniels downs Magnus. Elbow to Angle on the apron leads to Magnus recovering to trade shots in the center of the ring. Daniels hip tossed down to the floor. Magnus moves to the apron and hits a flying clothesline, but comes down wrong on the knee. Magnus being examined by doctors as we break.\nWe return and Kurt Angle is the only member left on his team. Chris Sabin keeping Angle down. Bad Influence and Sabin working on Angle. Daniels is the legal man now and Angle with a cradle, but the referee is tied up with Kaz and it only gets a brief nearfall. Clothesline from Daniels gets a nearfall itself. Kaz tags back in. The high-low attack connects for Bad Influence again.\nBobby Roode reenters the matchup. Roode puts Angle up for a fireman's carry, but Angle slips out and takes out Bad Influence from the apron. Sabin attempts to apprehend Angle, but he ducks out and Roode takes out his own partner. Clotheslines from Angle are followed by a belly-to-belly. Sabin gets one of his own. Trio of German suplexes for Roode and Daniels. Kaz now getting his own trio. Kaz grabs on Daniels, who is holding the ropes to stand. The referee kicks the hands off the ropes and a double German suplex for Bad Influence. Chris Sabin enters and gets an Angle Slam on Sabin. Bad Influence now locked in a double Ankle Lock. Roode from behind with a chair, but he misses and Roode eats an Angle Slam. Angle with chair in hand and he cracks Roode across the back.\nWinners by disqualification: Team Roode\nEvery member of Team Roode is taken out with the chair and they limp back as Angle stands tall in the ring as we break.\nRecap of the elimination match.\nTeam Roode heads to the locker room. Roode tells the group to prepare for their feast tonight and to think about what they are thankful for. Roode declares he is thankful for being himself and beating Kurt Angle once again.\nJames Storm and Gunenr backstage. Storm is frustrated by Gunner sitting back and letting him get pinned. Gunner wants to know if they even have goals as a team and walks off.\nPreview of the semifinals of the TNA World Heavyweight Championship Tournament.\nRockstar Spud, Dixie Carter, and Ethan Carter III backstage. The Carters plan on leaving to celebrate Thanksgiving on their own and Rockstar Spud is left in charge of the feast.\nAll the winners of tonight's matches are invited out by Rockstar Spud. Roode asks Sabin what Velvet Sky is doing here, as she lost earlier in the night. Sabin gets fired up and tells Roode he is right and sends Sky backstage with a kiss. Zema Ion joins the group. Roode thanks Dixie Carter for their careers and this dinner. Roode asks everyone what they are thankful for.\nBad Influence states how thankful they are for their looks and intelligence, before stating how thankful they are for spending time with each other and Roode. Gail Kim is thankful for Lei'D Tapa and being the best-looking and most dominant TNA Knockout in history. 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"original": "|MILESAGO: Australasian Music & Popular Culture 1964-1975||Groups & Solo Artists|\nArticle by Michael Robbins\nSoulful and versatile singer Linda George, one of the most successful and respected Australian female vocalists of the 1970s, is best known for her 1974 hit \"Mama's Little Girl\" and after her period of pop success in the 1970s she went on to be an in-demand session singer and teacher.\nLinda was born in the UK and emigrated with her family to Australia as a young teenager in the 1960s settling in Adelaide. By 1969 Linda had joined her first band Nova Express, a jazz-rock ensemble augmented by a horn section, similar to the influential US groups Chicago and Blood Sweat and Tears, with the notable difference of having a female singer up front. Finding it hard to financially sustain a large ensemble Nova Express soon moved to Melbourne, Victoria, then the live music capital of Australia. There they entered and won the state final of the 1969 Hoadley's Battle of the Bands, though they lost out to The Flying Circus, runner up Zoot and third place getter Autumn at the National Finals.\nIn 1970 the band released their first and only single on the EMI's Columbia label. A more than competent version of \"Piece of My Heart\" (originally recorded by Erma Franklin, then Janis Joplin). This debut single managed to reach a respectable #28 in hometown Melbourne and George’s career began to take off. A rare clip of Linda and Nova Express performing \"Around The Block\" on the ABC's HitScene was posted on YouTube in June 2007. She left Nova Express later that year for a solo career, initially sharpening her performance skills with Brian May and the ABC Showband on a tour of Vietnam.\nIn 1972 George joined the new independent label Image Records and\nreleased her first solo single \"Let's Fly Away\" in May of that year.\nThough not a success, her career received a major boost in March 1973\nwhen she scored the pivotal role of the Acid Queen in the\ngroundbreaking Australian 'arena' production of The Who’s\nrock opera Tommy.\nLinda’s performance was singled out for praise amongst a cast\nof local stars including Daryl Braithwaite, Colleen Hewett, Billy\nThorpe, Ross Wilson, Jim Keays, Doug Parkinson, Broderick Smith, Wendy\nSaddington, Bobby Bright, with The Who’s Keith\nMoon reprising his role as 'Uncle Ernie' for the Melbourne show\nonly. The Sydney show, with Molly Meldrum replacing Moon,\nwas televised by the Seven Network and this telecast later\nreceived a TV award for the year's most outstanding creative effort.\nThe raised exposure helped ensure that George’s second single in July 1973 was a success. A superb interpretation of the then current Gladys Knight & the Pips U.S hit \"Neither One of Us\" George’s version narrowly missed out on becoming a national Top 10 hit, while the original failed completely to dent the Top 40. George's hit follow up, an updated remake of the Ruby & The Romantics 1963 hit \"Our Day Will Come\", while not as big a hit, helped keep her name at the forefront.\nNext came the much acclaimed debut L.P. Linda in August 1974. American producer Jack Richardson (who had worked with Alice Cooper, The Guess Who, Poco and Bob Seger among others) was brought to Australia by Image Records boss John McDonald and Linda's manager Gary Spry of Aim Australia Management (who was the former manager of The Twilights) and was recorded with the best session musicians of the day.\nUnusually, neither of Linda's previous two hits were included on the new record. However, the first single lifted from it, \"Mama's Little Girl\", went to #8 nationally, becoming her most successful recording and her signature song. It’s follow up \"Give it Love\" was not as successful but did garner enough TV and radio exposure to keep album sales moving. While only peaking at #32, the Linda album stayed on the charts for five months, quite an achievement for an Australian female performer at the time. The previous two years had also seen George win several awards as \"Best New Female Artist\", \"Best Female Vocalist\", \"Best Female Single\" -- despite some formidable competition at the time. She was acknowledged as one of Australia's top female singer and her appearance at the final historic 1975 Sunbury Pop Festival confirmed it. That month she appeared on the first colour edition of Countdown, performing \"Give It Love\" (see YouTube links below).\nNow at the peak of her still-young career Jack Richardson was again enlisted to produce the follow up album, Step by Step (December 1975). While the album again highlighted Linda's love of American soul music which had provided the hits for her to date, the new album also added a slightly tougher rock edge to the mix. After its release Linda parted ways with her management. To promote the album she formed her own Linda George Band which performed throughout 1976 to rave reviews.\nThe album’s first single \"Shoo Be Doo Be Doo Dah Day\" performed reasonably well in her hometown of Adelaide, but reaction in the rest of Australia was only lukewarm and the album only managed three weeks at the very bottom of the Top 40. A follow up single, the title track, was released to boost sales but, this failed to chart. Image then released a brand new, non-album single \"Sitting in Limbo\" (Nov. 1976), a version of the Jimmy Cliff classic, but it too was unsuccessful. Following the failure of the single Linda broke her ties with Image and became an in-demand session singer with many prominent pop and advertising sessions to her credit.Throughout her hitmaking years Linda George had been in demand as a backing vocalist on many singles and albums by her contemporaries, including Brian Cadd, Madder Lake, Daryl Braithwaite, Normie Rowe, Marcie Jones of Marcie and The Cookies and Kerrie Biddell. During the late 1970s, her voice prominent in the background of many recordings, and she was also one of the most recognised and fequently used female voices for radio and TV jingles.\nwith Nova Express:\n\"(Take Another Little) Piece Of My Heart\" / \"Around The Block\" (Columbia A-9014)\n\"Let's Fly Away\" / \"Song To Save The World\" (Image IS-113)\n\"Neither One Of Us (Wants To Be The First To Say Goodbye)\" / \"If It's Alright With You\" (Image IS-138)\n\"Our Day Will Come\" / \"Yesterday And You\" (Image IS-138)\n\"Mama's Little Girl\" / \"Between Her Goodbye And My Hello\" (Image IS-152)\n\"Give It Love\" / \"Yesterday And You\" (Image IS-160)\n\"Shoo Be Doo Be Doo Da Day\" / \"I Wanna Hear Music\" (Image IS-171)\n\"Step by Step\" / \"Wake Up\" (Image IS-178)\n\"Sitting In Limbo\" / \"Hard To Be Friends\" (Image Records IS-178)\nwith Paul McKay\n\"Love Is Enough\" / \"You Are Mine Tonight\" (Full Moon)\nTelephone Lines / Physical Things (Full Moon)\nFace To Face / Up Until Now (Full Moon)\nLinda (Image ILP-741)\n\"Hard To Be Friends\" 3.10 (Larry Murray)\n\"Indian Summer\" 3.12 (Edmund Villareal-Wanda Watkins)\n\"The Singer\" 4.21 (Barry Mann-Cynthia Weil)\n\"Mama's Little Girl\" 3.44 (Dennis Lambert-Brian Potter)\n\"You And Me Against The World\" 3.46 (Paul Williams-Kenneth Ascher)\n\"How Many Days\" 3.47 (Stevie Wonder)\n\"Give It Love\" 3.16 (Barry Mann-Cynthia Weil)\n\"Memphis Nights\" 4.17 (Tim Martin-Walt Meskell)\n\"Love Me\" 3.19 (Tom Baird-Nick Zesses-Dino Fekaris)\n\"Between Her Goodbye And My Hello\" 3.11 (Jim Weatherly)\nProduced by Jack Richardson for Nimbus 9 Productions\nRecorded at Armstrong's Studios, Melbourne\nEngineer: Roger Savage\nArranged and conducted by Peter Martin\nKeyboards: Ian Mason\nElectric and acoustic guitars: Peter Martin\nSteel guitar: Mike Burke\nBass: Barry Sullivan\nDrums: Geoff Cox\nBacking vocals: Wendy Cook, Beverly Cook and Margaret Cook (The Cookies), Howard Gable, Terry Dean\nStep by Step (Image ILP-550)\n\"Shoo Be Doo Be Doo Da Day\" (Stevie Wonder-Henry Cosby-Sylvia Moy)\n\"New York City\"\n\"Drift Away\" (Mentor Williams)\n\"Goin' Thru Some Changes\" (Mike Settle)\n\"California Free\" (Mike Settle)\n\"Step By Step\" (Bias Boshell)\n\"Home Made Love\" (Don Covay)\n\"Old Time Feeling\" (Tom Jans-Will Jennings)\n\"You Put Something Better Inside\" (Gerry Rafferty-Joe Egan)\n\"I Wanna Hear Music\"\n\"Goin' Through The Motions\"\nProduced by Jack Richardson\nReferences / Links\nThanks to Mick Robbins\nAustralian Encyclopedia of Rock & Pop (Allen & Unwin, 1999)\nEncyclopedia of Australian Rock (Outback Press, 1978)\nChris Spencer, Zbig Nowara\n& Paul McHenry\nWho's Who of Australian Rock (Five Mile Press, 2002)\nDreams, Fantasies & Nightmares: Australia (Borderline Books, 1999)\nRate Your Music\n- Linda George\nNova Express (with Linda George) performing \"Around The Block\", Hit Scene, 1970\nLinda performing \"Give It Love\" (Countdown, Jan. 1975)\nLinda George and Paul McKay performing \"Love Is Enough\", Countdown, 1980 (excerpt)"
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"original": "Zizi TPR Radar ball stretcher / cockring no zz04\nThis is a wider ring designed as a ball stretcher. It has an unusual shape and because of this it fits very well. It is not as tight as the others in the line, but it is pretty wide. It is pretty comfortable. It could also be used around the balls and shaft as a cockring at the same time if that’s what you prefer.\nIn terms of material thickness Radar is one of the thinnest. This makes it slightly harder to remove.\n- At the largest end it measures 2.4″ x 2″, the hole is 1.8″ x 1.9″ minus a slight indent on the middle.\n- The smallest end is 2″ x 1.6″ ant the hole is 1.4″ x 1″. The depth of the ring is 1.4″."
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"original": "\"apparently having taken the baton from the desktop, which has failed to live up to years of expectations and promises.\"\nLinux has not failed to live up to expectations and promises. It works perfectly fine in desktop capacity, whether that be for personal or business use. Its use in a business desktop setting requires an IT Dept with sufficient knowledge and commitment to facilitate a migration. It requires management that will commit to financing a migration and it requires training of end-users. Obviously in any company this becomes a major project which requires thought, testing and cost-justification, especially if core applications have to be modified, migrated or replaced.\nThis has nothing to do with the ability of Linux to perform. At a personal desktop level, I only recommend Linux now to people who want a new PC. I can't be stuffed supporting them when windows fails to perform adequately due to some action on behalf of those users. Windows does not adequately protect inexpert users from their own actions. When will it live up to expectations and promises? :)"
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"original": "SPANISH FORT, Alabama -- The Spanish Fort baseball team continues to move up in one national poll even as its season has come to an end.\nThe Class 5A champion Toros moved up three spots in the latest CBS MaxPreps Xcellent 50 Baseball Rankings this week, jumping from No. 17 to No. 14.\nSpanish Fort (40-6) swept all 10 of its playoff games, beating Cullman in Montgomery for its fourth championship in five years.\nBarbe (Lake Charles, La.) continues to be No. 1 followed by Lambert (Suwanee, Ga.), Puyallup (Wash.), Rancho Bernardo (San Diego) and Clovis (Calif.).\nSpanish Fort, which was ranked No. 1 throughout the season in the Alabama Sports Writers Association Class 5A poll, remains the only Alabama team ranked in the poll."
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"original": "Wayne \"The Train\" Hancock is the self-described \"King of Juke Joint Swing.\" Despite what you might think, that's a pretty fair label for this eccentric Texan. It's great to see that he's scheduled to play The Taphouse in Hampton Aug. 22.\nHancock is 47 years old. Musically he's an anachronism in the best sense. His sound is closely tied to that of the hillbilly and rockabilly acts of the 1940s and 1950s. Hancock isn't putting on a disguise, though. He lives the part.\n\"I was looking for something that was different,\" he said in an interview posted on the Retrospective website. \"When I listen to Hank Williams, I get chills down my spine. I don't get those chills when I listen to music on the radio. I play what gives me a good feeling.\"\nHis bio explains:\n\"Wayne Hancock is that rare breed of traditionalist, one who imbues his retro obsessions with such high energy and passion that his songs never feel like museum pieces he's trying desperately to preserve. Hancock is most often compared to Hank Williams, and he can indeed be a hardcore honky tonker, but there's more to him than that: he also displays a genuine affinity for stomping rockabilly, Western swing, blues, and old-timey country à la Jimmie Rodgers.\"\nHis most recent album is \"Viper of Melody,\" which was released in 2009 on the Bloodshot Records label."
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