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Beta-catenin is involved in cell adhesion through catenin-cadherin complexes and as a transcriptional regulator in the Wnt signaling pathway. Its deregulation is important in the genesis of a number of human malignancies, particularly colorectal cancer. The β- Catenin adhesion complex is crucial for intercellular adhesiveness and maintenance of tissue architecture. Its impairment is associated with poorly differentiated phenotype and increased invasiveness of carcinomas. Dysregulation of these pathways allow Beta-catenin to accumulate and translocate to the nucleus, where it may activate oncogenes. Such nuclear accumulation can be detected by immunohistochemistry, which may be useful in diagnosis. Catenins link E-cadherin to other integral membrane or cytoplasmic proteins and are modulated by Wnt1 proto-oncogene. The central core region of β-Catenin is involved in mediation of cadherin complex interaction with EGFR. β- Catenin signaling has been shown to have a role in the regulation of angiogenesis and cytoplasmic localization of β-Catenin has been demonstrated as a marker of poor outcome in breast cancer patients.
Immunogen: Beta-catenin aa 571-781.
Staining pattern: Cytoplasm, cell membrane and nucleus.
Positive control: Tissue sample from colon or breast carcinoma.
This antibody is designed for the specific localization of human b-catenin using IHC techniques in formalin-fixed, paraffin-embedded tissue sections.
This antibody has been described as a useful marker for the discrimination of lobular and ductal lesions of the breast.


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Marcella Hazan wrote this book based on her master classes and gives a wealth of tips and information on Italian cooking techniques and philosophies. There are 120 recipes that allow the reader ample opprtunity for practice. Hazan’s style is eloquent, if at times blunt, and makes the book a pleasure to read. This is the book for anyone who wants to learn why a recipe works, instead of just following simple directions on a page.
From inception, this was destined to be a classic. Del Conte details – and in 1987 it was the first time anyone ever had – all of Italy’s regions, ingredients, techniques and dishes. The organisation by alphabetical order makes it as perusable and practical as an actual dictionary. If you consider that at that point Italy, as a unifed whole, was a mere centenarian, wrestling the diffuse, intensely regional nature of its geography and its cuisine into something this digestible really took some doing. A herculean effort, lauded as loudly abroad as it was at home.
COMMENTSGeorge Miller had rightly said, "The trouble with eating Italian food is that two or three days later you're hungry again". A four-course meal is served with a variety of 400 types of cheese, and every bite speaks of its origins from the 4th century BC. Did you know that Italians are known to take their food very seriously? The lunch hour is the most important meal of the day. It starts with antipasti (before the meal) like cheese, olives, salad etc. The main course mostly comprises of the most popular Italian recipe pasta or risotto. Fact: There are more than 600 shapes of pasta produced across the world.
For those who want an overview of Italian recipes and cooking techniques, there is no better choice. This book has extensive information on many areas, including meats and seafood, frittate, vegetables and salads, risotto, polenta, gnocchi, as well as dessert. There are also a few examples of what a typical Italian menu might look like. This book, beautifully illustrated by Karin Kretschman, is a good place to start for a beginner who would like to learn about Italian cooking and try a wide range of dishes.
Clams vary in brininess and the amount of liquid they’ll release during cooking, so you’ll need to adjust the salt and add pasta water accordingly. To prevent the sauce from getting too salty, we recommend a measured amount of salt for the pasta water. If possible, look for an artisanal dried pasta for this recipe—the rougher surface texture will catch the slippery sauce better.

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The Pick of the Day is no ordinary Volkswagen Squareback station wagon, not that there ever was anything ordinary about such vehicles in the United States, where Beetles and vans were the mainstay of the import fleet. The VW Type 3 was sold in Fastback, Squareback and Notchback styles for only a few years in the late 1960s and early ‘70s.
Known in some markets as the 1600 designation based on the displacement of their 1,585cc engines, were based on the European Type 3 Volkswagen. When the models arrived in the U.S. for the 1966 model year, those engines provided 65 horsepower, 15 more than the 1,285cc powerplants in the Beetle and Karmann-Ghia.
According to the advertisement, this custom Squareback wagon has undergone a recent restoration. It rides on Air Ride suspension and its 1600 engine has been upgraded with dual Weber carburetors and a stainless-steel A1 exhaust. The engine links to a 4-speed manual gearbox.
The front track has been narrowed by four inches and front wheels changed from 4- to 5-lug. The dealer notes the car’s “Porsche performance stance” enabled by the use of 15-inch Porsche wheels and front disc brakes.
“Finished in show-winning Olive paint with a black roof, the finish and trim on this wagon are in excellent order overall with only some very minor imperfections,” the dealer notes. “The body panels are straight and solid, the engine bay is extremely tidy and the chrome bumpers are in very good order. The rear cargo area above the engine is well-finished and the rear window has an electric defroster.
“Inside, the red front bucket and rear bench seats are in excellent condition. The black carpet is in very good order while the white headliner is in similar condition and offers great contrast to the carpet and seats.
“A factory, two-spoke steering wheel faces the driver while the red inner door panels and instrument panel are all in very good shape but the fuel gauge and horn are inoperable. The car has VDO gauges as well but does not have wiper blades. A floor-mounted shift lever resides between the front seats. Controls for the air ride system are hidden in the glovebox.”
The dealer points out that, “Unlike the Beetle (Type 1), the Type 3 engine and transmission unit was mounted into a subframe (which contained the complete rear suspension), in turn rubber-mounted to the floorpan and body, thereby isolating vibration and road noise from the passenger space.
“A notable advance from the Type 1 to the Type 3 was the front suspension, although similar to the Type 1, it was the first Volkswagen front suspension to incorporate transverse round torsion bars, as opposed to the Type 1’s torsion leaves. The Type 3’s torsion bars are cross-mounted in the lower tube, so that each individual torsion bar spans the full width of the car, the upper tube containing an anti-roll bar that connects the upper trailing links to each other. The complete front suspension unit is rubber-mounted to the car’s floorpan.
“In 1968, the rear suspension was upgraded to double jointed CV joint semi trailing arm suspension (sometimes called IRS by VW enthusiasts to differentiate it from the previous (IRS) swing-axle type), a design feature that previously appeared on the VW Type 2 in 1967.”
The dealer also points out that the Type 3 had both front and rear luggage areas.
“The Type 3 was competing in the market with the Chevrolet Corvair that had been previously introduced in the United States in 1960, which incorporated a six-cylinder, rear-mounted, air-cooled engine in notchback and station wagon body style, as well as a compact van derived from the platform,” the dealer reports.
“In 1968, the Type 3 “E” (Einspritzung) became the first German automobile in series production with electronic fuel injection (Bosch D-Jetronic) as standard equipment.”


Etta Express sweeps Heidelberg
TIFFIN, Ohio – Marietta College solidified its first place standing in the Ohio Athletic Conference with a doubleheader sweep of Heidelberg University Saturday in Peaceful Valley. The Pioneers have a two game lead in the OAC and now stand 18-11 overall and 8-2 in conference play. The Student Princes fall to 12-16 overall and 4-6 in the OAC.
Senior Christian Herstine (5-2) struck out a career-high 15 Berg hitters in Marietta’s 7-1 win in the first game. Herstine scattered five hits, all singles, over eight innings and allowed just one unearned run. David Stover retired all three batters he faced in the ninth.
Marietta got on the board in the second inning. Connor Golden smacked a double to right field scoring Michael Barnabei and moved to third when the throw to the plate got away. Brandon Papp followed with a sac fly plating Golden.
The Pioneers made it 3-0 in the third inning after Mike Hale reached on a one-out triple. Tim McCoy lined a single to center driving in Hale.
Golden and Papp teamed up again in the fourth to extend the Pioneer lead to 4-0. Golden singled to right and came around to score when Papp tripled to the wall in left field.
Heidelberg got on the board with an unearned run in the fifth. But the Express got the run right back in the top of the sixth. Marietta tacked on a couple of insurance runs in the ninth. Papp drove in Golden with an RBI single in the sixth, while Eric White and Barnabei each plated runs with sacrifices in the ninth.
Adam Manner (3-3) started on the mound for Heidelberg and took the loss. He pitched seven innings and was charged with five runs on 10 hits. Manner struck out seven.
McCoy, Golden and Papp each finished with three hits in the game for the Pioneers. McCoy and Golden each had a double, while Papp had a triple and three RBI. Hale went 2-for-4 with a pair of runs scored and a triple.
Junior Tommy Crowl (2-3) gave Marietta its second quality start of the day in the nitecap. Crowl worked seven innings and allowed one run on eight hits in MC’s 8-4 victory. He struck out eight. Kordell Antill threw a perfect eighth inning and Stover gave up three runs on two hits in the ninth.
The Pioneers worked a little two-out magic to take an early 2-0 lead. After the first two batters of the second inning were retired, Barnabei and Papp both reached on infield singles. A wild pitch allowed both runners to move up one base and then Joe Garnder smacked a double to center field scoring both runners.
Heidelberg cut the lead in half with a run in the bottom of the fourth. Cory Jacobs hit a solo home run over the wall in left-center making it 2-1.
Two runs in the eighth and four in the ninth gave the Express an 8-1 cushion. McCoy and Tyler Packanik drove in runs in the eighth inning, while the Pioneers scored four times in the ninth on just one hit.
Packanik delivered the one hit, a two-run single to left. Chris Petrucci worked a bases loaded walk and Garnder scored on a wild pitch in the inning.
The Student Princes tried to rally in the bottom of the ninth scoring three times before Stover put the game away. Derek Hug had a two-run double and finished with three hits in the game.
Kyle Fluharty (3-5) started and was tagged with the loss. He pitched eight innings and allowed four runs on nine hits. Anthony Hajdu gave up two unearned runs in 1/3 of an inning, while Steve Huber allowed two runs on one hit in 2/3 of an inning.
Packanik had two hits and three RBI for the Pioneers. Petrucci and Barnabei also had two hits in the game and Gardner finished with two RBI and a double.
After a week on the road, the Etta Express returns home to host Capital University on Tuesday at Don Schaly Stadium. Game one is slated for a 4 p.m. first pitch


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The opinion of the court was delivered by: DENISE COTE, District Judge
We represent defendant Citigroup Global Markets Holdings Inc.
("CGMHI") in Nickell v. Citigroup Global Markets Holdings
Inc., 04 Civ. 8474 (DLC) ("Nickell II"). Nickell II, which
is currently pending before Your Honor, is an individual action
in which plaintiffs Robert A. and Natalie Bert Nickell assert
claims against CGMHI (and no other defendant) for alleged
violation of the Texas Securities Act, common-law fraud,
statutory fraud, and gross negligence. CGMHI's Phase IV motion to
dismiss Nickell II is scheduled to be filed on August 19, 2005.
Mr. and Mrs. Nickell, the plaintiffs in Nickell II,
previously brought another action, Nickell v. Citigroup Global
Markets Inc. ("Nickell I"), which is currently pending in the
County Court at Law No. 3 in Dallas County, Texas. Nickell I
asserts all of the same causes of action asserted in Nickell
II, and in addition asserts causes of action for breach of fiduciary duty, grossly negligent
misrepresentation, negligent misrepresentation, and negligence,
based on substantially the same factual allegations as Nickell
II. The defendants in Nickell I are Citigroup Inc., Citigroup
Global Markets Inc. ("CGMI"), and a former CGMI broker. CGMI is a
subsidiary of CGMHI, the sole defendant in Nickell II.
Last Friday, the Honorable Sally Montgomery, who is presiding
over Nickell I in the Texas state court, conducted a hearing in
that action. The parties in Nickell I are now awaiting rulings
from Judge Montgomery on issues raised at the hearing.
Pursuant to Your Honor's order dated May 19, 2005, CGMHI is
currently scheduled to file a motion to dismiss the Nickell II
complaint on August 19, 2005. In light of the proceedings now
occurring in Nickell I, CGMHI respectfully requests an
adjournment to and including October 19, 2005, of the date on
which its Phase IV motion to dismiss Nickell II is due. Under
the proposed new schedule, plaintiffs' opposition papers would be
due on November 9, 2005, and CGMHI's reply papers would be due on
November 30, 2005. We are authorized by counsel for plaintiffs in
Nickell I and Nickell II, Will S. Snyder, Esq., to state that
plaintiffs support this request. This proposed briefing schedule
is identical to the current briefing schedule for the Phase IV
motions to dismiss in Crane v. Ebbers, No. 04 Civ. 9942
(DLC), and New Mexico State Investment Council v. Alexander,
No. 04 Civ. 8309 (DLC), as set forth in the stipulation and order
approved by Your Honor on August 11, 2005.
Thank you for your consideration of this request.
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How the internet helped break sexual taboos, especially for women
With everything from porn to erotica available, the internet has been a space for many people to begin discovering what sexual freedom can mean in their own lives.
Nikhil was 14 when his class began anticipating “that” biology lesson. The textbook’s chapter on the reproductive system had already been read several times over, and the excitement in the Delhi private school classroom was palpable.
Students were whispering in a mix of apprehension and glee, and not a single child was absent that day. “But when the time came,” Nikhil recalls, “the teacher walked into class and said, ‘Today we will start with a very important chapter. But I am warning you, if I hear any laughing, giggling or jokes, we will skip it and go straight to the endocrine system.’ The way she said it totally deflated us.”
That lesson, Nikhil tells me, was the sum total of sex education he received through all his years of schooling —and his experience is hardly an anomaly. In a survey of over 500 South Asians, 60% said they had no sex education in school. And of those who had some variant of it, 51% said it was terrible. What’s more, only 3.2% said they learned about sex from their parents, with 41% saying that friends or siblings were their first source of knowledge.
Sexual freedom online should include freedom from corporate control
These numbers say a lot about the way Indians grow up perceiving sex: as a complete mystery. On the one hand, sexuality is hinted at in practically every movie, song or advertisement ever made. But on the other hand, sex itself is hidden, inaccessible, and rarely spoken about. And because no one talks about it, there aren’t many places to learn, explore or express sexuality either. Broadly speaking, sexuality is an arena of life that is tightly controlled — within family structures, through violently enforced caste boundaries and by sexual censorship across popular media.
But over the past two decades, the advent of the internet in India has slowly begun to change this culture of sexual silence and control. With the possibilities presented by everything from porn to erotica, chat rooms to virtual realities, the internet has been a space for many people to begin discovering what sexual freedom can mean in their own lives. In late 1970s America, people began connecting their personal computers through Bulletin Board Systems, or BBS.
A slow system that predated modems, BBS allowed users to leave messages on both public and private message boards — a process closer to letter writing than anything we associate with the digital world today. Using BBS was a clunky, arduous process that required patience. But it turned out that people were willing to put in a large amount of time and effort for one very specific purpose: sexual interactions.
Patchen Barss hypothesises in his book The Erotic Engine that as the number of computers connected to BBS increased, it was clear that the trading of sexual words, images and, later, videos was driving the commercialisation of the internet. These early users overcame numerous technological barriers, united by the singular drive to sexually connect to one other. As Barss writes, “the sexuality that drove people into cyberspace… was deeply personal, passionate and intimate.” And contrary to popular perceptions of “seedy” internet desire, this is still the type of sexuality that is driving people online today.
Take the case of Sonali. When she was growing up as a teenager in the UAE, all her friends had crushes on boys, except her. She really liked girls. But there was no one she could discuss these feelings with. One day, when she was researching a school project on her family’s computer, she came across a queerfriendly internet forum.
Taking their layout and inspiration from BBS message boards, forums were the first large-scale interactive spaces on the internet. They organised user-interactions into topics and sub-topics, and it was in one of these sub-topics that Sonali came across a thread called “How do lesbians have sex?”
And attached to this thread was a link to a chat room. “I just sat there reading and reading,” Sonali recalls. “I was fascinated. And when I started introducing myself slowly, the women there had long chats with me about how being a lesbian is. I asked them if they were single, where they were from, what the situation in their country was. I remember meeting four or five people from India at the time.” And it was through these chats that Sonali began to accept her own lesbian desires: something that the offline world around her made no room for.
One of the transformative capacities of the internet lies in its ability to enable human connections. Finding people to develop intimacies with has been deeply valuable to people living in isolated pockets of society. And for people living in places where conversations about sexuality are missing — or worse, where a range of sexualities are stigmatised or criminalised — the connectivity of the internet has been lifesaving.
As one man I spoke to from India’s BDSM community says of the interactions he had online: “For the first time, I realised that I was not a sick or a diseased person. That I was not alone. And that I was not alone in India.” Sexuality can feel like a lonely burden to bear in a society that pretends it doesn’t exist. And for many digitally connected Indians, the internet was the first place they could explore the contours of their desires, and realise that it was okay to be themselves.
Malini grew up in a small town on the industrial coal belt of India, in a family where talking about sex was a big no-no. So when she first went online in her late teens, she found it “revolutionary, because it allowed one to talk to other people in the world.”
And it was through her forays on internet chat rooms that she discovered camming sites. Camming websites allow people to transmit sexy live streams from the privacy of their bedrooms. All you need is a webcam and a decent internet connection. When Malini went to university and had a laptop and a room of her own, she went from watching other women camming to trying it herself. “It was fun…there was something satisfying about watching people watch me naked and feeling good about it. I also felt connected to a larger world out there, because I was feeling quite isolated and disconnected from people around me at the time.”
The internet has the capacity to connect to a larger world. I’ve heard this time and again from people who engage with the more sexual parts of the internet. I think that’s because sexuality, by nature, is performative. So while it is entirely possible to feel sexually good on your own, when a sexual self comes into positive contact with others, it flourishes. For many people, and especially for women, the possibility to form these sexual connections is limited. Whether it involves family restrictions on women’s free movement, women’s own fears of abuse or violence, or the deep misconception that women aren’t sexual beings, there are several constraints on women having safe and pleasurable sexual encounters. This means that when it comes to sexual freedoms, women make up one section of society that has a lot to gain from the internet. Which is also perhaps why the drive to restrict the internet’s sexual content is being tackled with such urgency.
Historically speaking, women’s chastity and virtue have always been used as markers of cultural worth. And for those who are trying to erase India’s diverse past and replace it with a singular idea of Indian Culture, women’s bodies are often the battleground where this plays out. The sexless, clothed Bhartiya nari is seen as the epitome of cultural purity, and of a monolithic cultural history. The living, breathing, sexual realities of Indian women, on the other hand, are affronts to this mythical cultural identity — and every effort has been made to control and erase women’s desires. But what women do on the internet is harder to control. The digital world has limitless space and countless entry points.
Every mobile phone acts as a potential portal. For the first time in a long time, women can access and shape the sexual community — and this process has already begun. The idea that Indian women are sexual and independent is being normalised by the internet, and that’s exactly what gives our moral gatekeepers cause for worry. The internet has not created sexual desire; sexuality, at its core, has remained the same throughout the ages. People have always felt all types of desire. What the internet has done, however, is make desire more visible, accessible and tangible. And through its participatory nature, the internet has also allowed people to forge sexual connections, shape sexual community, and change the landscape of what sex in India looks like.
But for many people, the question is: if the internet has made sexuality accessible to larger numbers of people, has it also done the same for sexual violence? As the world becomes further embedded in digital technologies, we are also seeing new forms of sexual violence being perpetrated against children, women and minorities. From digital stalking to online sexual harassment, from “revenge porn” to rape videos, the concern is that instead of allowing for sexual freedoms, the internet is giving birth to sexual violence.
But the reality is that digital technology has not created new structures of control over marginalised bodies and lives. Instead, it has simply presented new avenues for existing hierarchies to operate. What was once “only” rape is now a rape video and blackmail. What might have once taken the form of a jilted lover stalking you across a college campus is now Facebook stalking, maybe with some revenge porn thrown into the mix.
Those who face sexual oppression offline are the primary targets for sexual violence online. But this violence is not created by technology; it is created by inequality. And that, perhaps, is where the internet is truly allowing people to move towards greater sexual freedom: in its potential to foster equality. Studies across the world directly link internet access to the empowerment of girls, women and a range of other minorities. And this includes sexual empowerment, too.
“Today, many people whose sexualities and desires have been historically disregarded can participate in sexual interactions, advocate for their rights, speak up against violence and be heard. And while access to the internet itself is deeply unequal — according to a 2016 IAMAI report, only 35% of India’s population had internet access — these numbers are continuously growing. By truly diversifying who gets to be online, the opportunities to resist unequal hierarchies of power and control will increase for those who need them the most.
The tricky thing about living on the internet is that we’re living in someone else’s house. Whether it’s Facebook, Google, Twitter or Wordpress, we live by their house rules. They decide which rooms we can access, what ads are shown on our TVs, and which other guests we repeatedly encounter.
They let us hang privacy signs on our doors, but they reserve the right to barge in unannounced and claim ownership over whatever we’ve stocked in our rooms. What does it mean to talk about sexual freedoms in the context of an almost-entirely corporately controlled internet? This, I believe, is the real question we will have to grapple with as we move further into the 21st century. Sexting, for example, has proven to be an important space of sexual exploration, connection and intimacy for people across the world. But which servers are these sexual images stored on? If you send a picture of your nude body to a partner, does WhatsApp own that image?
Can they share it with Facebook and connect your body to your face? Internet companies also have the power to decide which bodies are acceptable, and which ones are not. Over the years, Instagram has banned, among many things, a photo where a woman’s stray pubic hair emerged from her swimsuit and a picture by poet Rupi Kaur that showed periodstained trousers. In the past month, after the passage of two regressive anti-sex work bills in America, various internet services including Skype and Google Drive began removing and restricting users’ private content claiming these were “offensive”.
These are the same companies that told us they would never look at the contents of the emails we send, the files we upload or the private conversations we have. And then there’s large-scale surveillance and data mining: growing topics of discussion following the Cambridge Analytica revelations. What does it mean for companies to be gathering unfathomably huge quantities of data about our lives, our faces, our bodies? Who owns that information? What can they do with it?
We have to actively ask such questions, because internet companies are increasingly shaping what it means to be a person in the world — including what it means to be a sexual person. Sexuality is a human right, and as human beings living in the digital era, we have the right to facilitate and nurture that sexuality through technology — free from violence, harm and corporate control.
And the internet does have comparatively freer spaces, where it’s still possible for people to meet and connect without first connecting with an advertisement. Even in the spaces where we do encounter ads, we also encounter intimacy, desire and various types of sexual freedoms.
For women, folks from sexual or gender minorities, and people from marginalised castes, the internet has been a space to come together and stake our claim to the types of sexual communities and experiences that we have been historically denied. And I believe that as long as we keep asking difficult questions — to internet platforms, to governments and to ourselves — we will be able to embrace what the internet has meant for our personal sexual freedoms, and use it as the basis for a more democratic and accessible online world.
(The writer is the author of forthcoming book Cyber Sexy: Rethinking Pornography)


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We are pleased to announce the launch of "WiFiBOX," an "unprecedented Wi-Fi rental service" that allows users to easily rent a mobile Wi-Fi router using a non-contact device, at the "shibuya-san tourist information & art center (hereinafter referred to as "shibuya-san") on the first floor of Shibuya Fuklas from 10:00 a.m. on Monday, May 22, 2023.
This is the second location in the Shibuya area, and the first is the tourist information center "shibuya-san" on the first floor of Shibuya Fuklas, which aims to meet the needs of foreign visitors to Japan as well as domestic business, sightseeing, and Giga-shortage users.
This brings the total number of WiFiBOXes installed to 14 facilities and 19 locations. We will continue to further expand the service in Japan, including the Shibuya area, to further improve customer convenience.
shibuya-san tourist information & art center
1-2-3 Dogenzaka, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo, Japan (attached to Tokyu Plaza Shibuya)
Within Japan 840 yen per day (tax included, unlimited use)
*500MB/440 yen (tax included) and 1GB/660 yen (tax included) plans per day are also available.
10:00 - 20:00 (open year-round)
"shibuya-san" is Japan's first tourist information center and art center, located on the first floor of Shibuya Fuklas in front of Shibuya Station. Located right in front of the bus terminal where express buses from Narita and Haneda Airports arrive and depart, it serves as a base for welcoming many tourists and business travelers. Since all staff members speak at least three languages, the facility is in high demand as a luggage storage and tourist information center for foreign visitors to Japan.
Alcohol and soft drinks are served inside the facility, and the facility can also be used as a waiting area, so it can be picked up in advance before arrival at the airport and used for light work while waiting for the bus. In addition to the demand from overseas travelers, the facility can be used temporarily for sightseeing and business, and can also be rented and picked up across the Tokyo metropolitan area, making it even more convenient.

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Warner Brothers Animation Art by Jerry Beck - AbeBooksThe lowest-priced brand-new, unused, unopened, undamaged item in its original packaging where packaging is applicable. Packaging should be the same as what is found in a retail store, unless the item is handmade or was packaged by the manufacturer in non-retail packaging, such as an unprinted box or plastic bag. See details for additional description. I do a lot of posters and minor artwork for church projects and programs. This book is perfect for that. I am no artist, but it makes me look like I am. I have even used pictures from this book to paint onto flower pots.
Warner Bros. Pictures/Warner Bros. Animation/DC Comics (2018)
ISBN 13: 9780883633601
Once upon a time, way back in , long before the internet… Will Friedwald and I teamed up to produce the blue book on the left — the first Looney Tunes filmography, The Warner Brothers Cartoons published by Scarecrow Press. The green book in the center is the same book with a new Introduction reprinted in and still available! Cartoons — its long out of print, you better grab a copy if you can find it. It is out of print, but you can check ebay and amazon. Abrams is long out of print — but available for as little as 14 cents on Amazon.
Goodreads helps you keep track of books you want to read. Want to Read saving…. Want to Read Currently Reading Read. Other editions. Enlarge cover.
This text traces the history of the characters and the men who created them, telling the story of Warner Bros, how the animation unit was established and how it grew. The book also presents photographs of the animators and technicians at work in the studio as well as reproductions of original animation cells and the limited edition prints. Discussion of collectible cel art soon slips away, though, as the object becomes not to evaluate Warner animation, but to praise it on big, lavishly illustrated pages that are bound for heavy duty. Exhaustiveness is not a concern: Beck and Friedwald spotlight a lesser character like Michigan J. Frog, but not many others, mostly, it seems, because M. The upbeat exposition even cites a few controversies, such as the trimming of Heckling Hare that contributed to Avery's leaving Warner what the original ending was or why it was changed are never specified, though. Mickey Mouse may be a more successful corporate shill, but Bugs Bunny is the quintessential funny animal.
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A Brooklyn man is facing burglary and grand larceny charges over an attempt to steal a Flatlands house he once lived in, using an underhanded strategy of deed theft that has left many others across the borough devoid of their dwellings.
James Effiwatt, 64, was arraigned Tuesday in Brooklyn Supreme Court on an indictment alleging he transferred the deed to 36 Hubbard Place — a three-story, two-unit abode where he once lived — to a trust under his control, despite being unable to claim legitimate ownership over the property, which is assessed at a value of $759,000, according to prosecutors.
“This defendant allegedly filed a fake deed in an unlawful attempt to take ownership of his landlord’s property,” said Brooklyn District Attorney Eric Gonzalez in a statement. “Title theft is a serious crime that deprives hard-working people of the single most important asset any American can hope to own. As real estate values continue to rise dramatically in Brooklyn, I remain committed to protecting homeowners across the borough from fraudsters who would steal their security and investment in the future.”
The wannabe house-pilferer moved into the building’s attic in 2017, but soon stopped paying rent and was eventually ordered to vacate from the premises by the city, which claimed the attic was unsafe for residential use. Effiwatt ignored that order, but was finally evicted in 2019 when the Department of Housing Preservation and Development arrived on-site and boarded up the attic. Effiwatt showed up again a few months later and attempted to intimidate the building’s other tenants, but otherwise went AWOL for a year.
In March 2021, Effiwatt came back to Hubbard Place, this time changing all of the building’s locks, destroying surveillance cameras, and removing some of the other tenants’ belongings, according to court filings by the building’s legitimate owner, Shifra Salamon. He went on to tell the tenants that he was the building’s new owner and that rent should henceforth be paid to him; he handed out keys for the new locks and notified Con Edison that he was the new owner.
When Salamon called the cops, she said, Effiwatt produced a document purporting to show that the LLC registered as the building’s owner, Hubbard Estates LLC, had transferred the deed to the “Ayonkladd Trust,” which is controlled by Effiwatt. The deed is a forgery and the trust is a phony, Salamon said in an affidavit, but the purloiner successfully conned the NYPD into believing he was the proprietor, and the police refused to remove him from the site.
The huckster subsequently returned to the attic and resumed squatting there. Meanwhile, the other tenants subsequently stopped paying rent owing to confusion over who to make out their checks to, Salamon claims, and Effiwatt has allegedly been trying to sell the house for a cool six-figure payday.
Salamon, through Hubbard Estates LLC, filed a civil lawsuit against Effiwatt in March of this year; litigation is ongoing.
Effiwatt, who is representing himself in the matter, says that the property is his because Salamon defaulted on debt to him, and produced an array of documents with city and state entities purported to prove his legitimate ownership of 36 Hubbard. Salamon says the debt and the documents are all bogus, claims to which the Brooklyn DA agrees.
Effiwatt could face up to 15 years in prison if convicted. He is being held on $25,000 bond or $10,000 cash bail, and is due back in court on Feb. 15.
Deed theft remains a stubborn problem in Brooklyn, especially in Black neighborhoods undergoing gentrification; residents in brownstones and other homes that have seen massive upswings in value in recent years are frequently targeted by unscrupulous scammers who underhandedly trick them into selling their house for a fraction of their real value, after which the new owners flip them for what they’re worth on the market and walk away with a massive profit.
The city recorded 3,000 deed fraud complaints between 2014 and 2019, with a little under half of the claims originating in Brooklyn. Mayor Eric Adams, formerly Brooklyn Borough President, has referred to the practice as a massive “transfer of wealth” out of communities of color.


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|Reviews for Sweet Serenity|
| Moonlight Cosmic Angel chapter 15 . 2/4/2014
ok well are you gonna finish this story?
because i love it and am looking forward to more
| HarbingerLady chapter 7 . 8/4/2012
Vote for NarutoXUsagi. There are too many UsagixSasuke pairings already.
| serryblack1 chapter 15 . 8/2/2012
kakashi/usagi or itachi/usagi and hotaru/naruto or hotaru / sasuke and naruto / hinata and sasuke/ tenten they are my votes
| Taeniaea chapter 14 . 7/28/2012
| Guardian Of Winter chapter 9 . 1/21/2012
my world just went crashing down. *starts to pull sasuke and usagi together* THEY'RE MADE FOR EACHTOHER! Well, Itachi/usagi is my seocnd fav, then gaara, i can survive with that. *Stares at the name Hotaru and Sasuke and starts twitching as she hates the pairing* I officially hate hotaru in a romantic relationship :)
| dark-wolf-howl chapter 14 . 1/20/2011
If you will keep updating, you sould definetly have a threesome between naruto/usagi/sasuke
| cross-over-lover232 chapter 14 . 9/28/2010
haha two of my faves got a cameo last time harry potter and inuyasha!::blinks::does this have a deeper meaning?will neptune bring forth shippou who is the younger form of the kyuubi no kitsune driven mad by the death of his kagome mama and the hands of inuyasha,when he went crazy when his sword was taken away?
| Lunalab chapter 14 . 3/18/2010
This story is soo cool. When will the Outer Scouts arrive? And how did Endiymon and the Inner Scouts turn dark? I would really like to see Usagi and naruto get together. Since Naruto is the last of his clan, can't he be with Usagi and Hinata, even though he doesn't know who his parents are?
| MoonBunny777 chapter 4 . 3/4/2009
Usagi/Sasuke! great story!
| Wal Otter chapter 14 . 2/16/2009
Nice to have you back writing this story, i actually missed this story.
Great chapter, i wonder if Kakashi would use that explanation on front of sasuke, would he flip?
The way how outters visited in other storie's/anime's was also cool.
| zodiac1231 chapter 14 . 2/12/2009
I really like what you have written!
You make it even more interesting than when I've read the comic book.
| Azera-v chapter 10 . 5/13/2008
Please update soon, also what happened with Luna and Artemis?
| Azera-v chapter 13 . 4/9/2008
Don't forget to update! Great story so far!
| Wal chapter 13 . 1/10/2008
Great chapter, about Michiru & Haruka, on the anime they are lesbian couple, so i think you should make them bi-sexual couple, if you pair them.
Iruka/Setsuna or Michiru (not sure which)
That's my pairing vote, keep updating and sorry my low english.
| Hasi chapter 13 . 1/1/2008
Hello, i liked this chapter. I hope to see the outers senshi very soon, I would like to vote for an Haruka & Kakashi pair. I'll be waiting the next chapter.


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Utilising our extensive teaching experience and our basis within an academic department we delivered these day-long analogue photography and darkroom printing workshops, to the University’s Art and Design Foundation students. It was part of their Cambridge Education Group (CEG) programme, which aims to give international students a taster to a variety of artistic mediums and creative processes.
We structured each workshop to cover both shooting with traditional film cameras (in studio and external environments), and darkroom printing from the negatives using chemical techniques. This ensured that the students experienced and learnt the whole analogue image-making process, which then moreover informed and supported their workflow with digital imagery. The workshops were a great educational and inspirational success, with much owed to the super-engaged, lively, and enthusiastic foundation students and their tutors.
“The students had the most valuable experience in the darkroom photography workshops. A big thank you to you and your team.”- Lenora Minto, Foundation Pathway Leader

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Industry by nature
In order to limit pollution generated by surface treatment processes, CORELEC Equipements designs and manufactures air and water decontamination processes that respect the environment and conform with current regulations. To this end, our Environment department offers a range of complete solutions for the treatment of industrial waste.
Initially applied to surface treatment processes, by recruiting the right specialists, we have been able to successfully extend our solutions to all industrial activities (aerospace, oil & gas, chemicals, nuclear, construction, automotive, luxury, manufacturing, etc.).
Drawing on decades of experience and CORELEC Equipements’ numerous fields of business expertise, the Environment department also provides services for the sizing, design and manufacture of equipment for the treatment of vapours (waste gases).


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US - A video released by Compassion in World Farming (CiWF) showing conditions in West Virginia broiler farms has been examined by experts as part of efforts to bring more critical evaluation to such videos.
The video involves some contract growers for Pilgrim's Pride, and CiWF used the video to criticise broiler growing conditions and genetics, adding that farmers are concerned that diseased birds are ending up on consumers' plates.
The Center for Food Integrity, which is a non-profit organisation aiming to improve consumer trust of the food system, responded by gathering an expert panel of poultry scientists to review the video.
The US' National Chicken Council, which requested the panel, said the response was an independent, third-party review that was supported by Pilgrim's Pride.
The experts came up with some key pointers to help the poultry farmers featured in the video to improve chicken care, such as replacing litter, humanely culling birds with limb defects or walking problems, and improving communication between growers, companies and technical personnel to boost broiler health outcomes.
Farmers were also urged to walk more slowly through the flocks to decrease stress and prevent them injuring each other.
However, the experts said that some of the ways the video was filmed meant they could not assess certain claims properly.
Other implications of the video, such as that levels of contractor debt are bad, were disputed by the experts, in that case because the large amounts of debt were shared amongst a huge industry and could be considered an investment.
They were also very critical of the claims that diseased animals could be reaching consumer food.
Dr Bilgili, from Auburn University (retired), said: "This is a false statement and an exaggeration! During slaughter, broilers are inspected individually and diseased birds are condemned. There is no chance that a diseased bird will end up on a dinner plate."
Dr Webster, from the University of Georgia, added: "I don’t think there should be a whole lot of public concern in this regard."

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