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As Rincewind involuntarily becomes a guide to the naive tourist Twoflower, they find themselves forced to flee the city of Ankh-Morpork to escape a terrible fire, and begin on a journey across the Disc. Unknown to them, their journey & fate is being decided by the Gods playing a board game the whole time.
A folklore professor becomes unwittingly possessed by the ancient Japanese demons of Thunder and Lightning. But when The Bureau of Paranormal Research & Defense dispatches a team of agents to investigate, a cursed samurai sword sends Hellboy to a supernatural dimension of ghosts, monsters, and feudal mayhem. Now while pyrokinetic Liz Sherman and fishboy Abe Sapien battle one very pissed-off dragon, a lost and cranky Hellboy must find his way home.
A TV adaptation of the classic Alexandre Dumas novel. Edmond Dantes is falsely accused by those jealous of his good fortune, and is sentenced to spend the rest of his life in the notorious island prison, Chateau d'If. While imprisoned, he meets the Abbe Faria, a fellow prisoner whom everyone believes to be mad. The Abbe tells Edmond of a fantastic treasure hidden away on a tiny island, that only he knows the location of. After many years in prison, the old Abbe dies, and Edmond escapes disguised as the dead body. Now free, Edmond must find the treasure the Abbe told him of, so he can use the new-found wealth to exact revenge on those who have wronged him.
Spending the summer at a Catskills resort with her family, Frances "Baby" Houseman falls in love with the camp's dance instructor, Johnny Castle, and nothing is ever the same for anyone in the Houseman family. Not only are the memorable songs from the original movie included, but there are additional songs from the era that will be featured, showcasing double the number of musical performances by the stellar cast.
When Sid accidentally destroys Manny's heirloom Christmas rock and ends up on Santa's naughty list, he leads a hilarious quest to the North Pole to make things right and ends up making things much worse. Now it's up to Manny and his prehistoric posse to band together and save Christmas for the entire world!
The Jack Bull tells the story of Myrl Redding, a Wyoming horse trader who clashes with Henry Ballard, a fellow rancher, after Ballard abuses two of Myrl's horses and their Crow Indian caretaker, Billy. When Judge Wilkins throws out Myrl's complaint, the war he wages to force Ballard to nurse the emaciated animals back to health escalates into a vigilante manhunt, murder and the possible defeat
Based on the book by John Heilemann and Mark Halperin, Game Change focuses on the Republican run of the 2008 Presidential election, when candidate John McCain picks a relative unknown, Alaskan governor Sarah Palin, to be his running mate. As the campaign kicks into high gear, her lack of experience, in both political and media savvy, becomes a drain upon McCain and his strategists. Directed by Jay Roach, who previously directed the HBO film Recount and the Austin Powers movies, Game Change premiered on HBO on March 10th, 2012.
A harried prehistoric bird mom Ethel entrusts her precious, soon-to-hatch egg to Sid. When she recommends him to her neighbors – a condor mom, Cholly Bear and Gladys Glypto – business booms at his new egg-sitting service. However, dastardly pirate bunny Squint, who is seeking revenge on the herd, steals, camouflages and hides all the eggs. Once again, with Squint’s twin brother, Clint, assisting, Manny, Diego and the rest of the gang come to the rescue and take off on a daring mission that turns into the world’s first Easter egg hunt.
Two space smuggles are caught by the government and told if they deliver a create to a certain location the charges will be forgotten. Turns out the create is the key to a cover up and other parties want it to.
Treasure Island is a two-part British television miniseries adaptation of the novel Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson. It was made by BSkyB and first shown in the United Kingdom on Sky1 on 1–2 January 2012. The screenplay was by Stewart Harcourt and it was produced by Laurie Borg and directed by Steve Barron.
Hannah Swensen is thrilled when she is chosen as a guest for the first Eden Lake Dessert Bake-Off, but when fellow judge, Coach Bishop is found murdered, Hannah once again takes it upon herself to find the killer.
Flight 93 is a 2006 made-for-TV film, directed by Peter Markle, which chronicles the events aboard United Airlines Flight 93 during the September 11 attacks. It premiered January 30, 2006 on the A&E Network and was re-broadcast several times throughout 2006. The film focused heavily on eight passengers, namely Todd Beamer, Mark Bingham, Tom Burnett, Jeremy Glick, Lauren Grandcolas, Donald Greene, Nicole Miller, and Honor Elizabeth Wainio. It features small appearances from many other passengers, namely Donald Peterson and his wife, Jean, and also from flight attendant Sandra Bradshaw.
Librarian and real crime buff Aurora “Roe” Teagarden never liked Detective Sergeant Jack Burns, but she also never wanted to see him dead. When his body is found outside of Aurora’s home, she then becomes the main suspect. Determined to find the killer and clear her name, Aurora can't help but to get involved once again.
Troy (Zac Efron), the popular captain of the basketball team, and Gabriella (Vanessa Anne Hudgens), the brainy and beautiful member of the academic club, break all the rules of East High society when they secretly audition for the leads in the school's musical. As they reach for the stars and follow their dreams, everyone learns about acceptance, teamwork, and being yourself. And it's all set to fun tunes and very cool dance moves!
This drama documentary tells the story of the Conservative Party's 2016 leadership campaign - how Boris Johnson, having won the referendum and in pole position to be the next PM, handed victory to Theresa May. Based on extensive research and first-person testimonies, this dramatized narrative goes beyond the headlines to lay bare the politicking and positioning, betrayals and blunders of this extraordinary political time. The programme also features key interviews with people who were intimately involved in the campaigns of the main contenders.


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Women in 2010; New White House report details areas of progress and potential
"There's a difference between working for a career, and working for work," he said. "If you work for a career, if you're career-oriented, you make sacrifices for the work. But working for a job means eight hours a day, and you don't really make the sacrifices for the job."
He pointed out that women who focus on careers may "sacrifice" having children, or delay childbearing until they're settled, thus lowering the number of children per family and increasing the risk of birth defects and complications.
In Utah, the average age of mothers giving birth for the first time mirrors the national numbers fairly closely, with an average age of 21.7 in 1970 and 24 in 2005, according to the Utah Department of Health. The highest age was 26.3 in 1990.
WOMEN AND CRIME
In 1993, 43 of 1,000 women were victims of non-fatal, violent actions. In 2008, that number dropped to 18 women for every 1,000
The imprisonment rate for females quadrupled between 1985 and 2008, going from 0.17 to 0.68 per 1,000 females
In 1990, 43,940 women were convicted of a felony drug offense in state courts. In 2006, that number increased to 68,020
While most people picture prisons filled with men, women are a growing inmate population, even though they're not committing as many violent crimes as men.
"We know that women's imprisonment rates have been going up a lot quicker than men's have over the last decade, but this doesn't really address what is causing the increase of more crimes," said Matthew Duffin, an assistant professor in UVU's criminal justice department.
His hypothesis, backed by various studies and personal interactions, is the increasing drug use among women.
"It seems to be a pathway for a lot of women to get into situations where they're committing criminal offenses," he said.
Stephen Bahr, a sociologist at BYU who studies prison populations, echoed Duffin's theory.
"Even violent and property crimes have a drug base to them," Bahr said. "We need more resources (for) drug treatment and prevention."
Though the federal report doesn't delve into state specifics, Utahns have struggled and continue to struggle with methamphetamine, heroin and prescription drugs — a category that hits women especially hard because it begins with something legal and prescribed.
Those addictions then drive women to commit crimes — especially property crimes. National data show that 40 percent of female convictions are for property crimes versus only 26 percent for males. For men, 20 percent of convictions are for violent crime, while it's only 11 percent of female convictions.
And while it's inherently problematic that prisons are becoming overcrowded, there's a deeper problem when a woman and mother is incarcerated, Duffin said.
"The thing that worries me the most (is) when you have women going to prison, they are often the sole caregiver of the children," Duffin said. "So children get thrown into social services, foster homes and in many instances, women are having their parental rights terminated. My biggest concern looking forward is the way that that is just destroying children's lives and really tearing up the family and society."
WOMEN AND HEALTH
35 percent of U.S. women are obese, up from 25 percent between 1988-1994
The C-section rate in 2008 was 32 percent, the highest ever in U.S. history
In 2009, 18 percent of women ages 18-64 lacked health insurance
Utahns may pride themselves on low smoking rates and low incidences of lung cancer, but that doesn't make up for the areas where they lag.
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Local Company Turns Operations Over to Make Face Shields
By JENNIFER GLACKIN
Specially Written for The Westfield Leader
GARWOOD — A small local company has found a way to aid medical professionals during the Coronavirus pandemic. The Shea family of The Pen Company of America (PCA) in Garwood modified their plastic pen manufacturing plant to supply healthcare workers with personal protective equipment (PPE). The company typically employs injection molding techniques to manufacture promotional pens, patented construction markers, and casing for medical markers.
“Nobody’s really handing out promotional pens right now,” laughed Colleen Shea, a fourth-generation pen manufacturer, so after a discussion with their chief executive officer at Rotuba Extruders in Linden in March, PCA began producing splash guards (also known as face shields). As of April 16, they can produce 50,000 splash guards per week.
“It’s a very simple design,” Ms. Shea said. A rounded plastic shield with a foam strip at the top, and a Velcro strap to wrap around the user’s head. Initially, the Shea family sent the design to major hospital networks in the area, such as Atlantic Health Systems, RWJBarnabas Health, and Hackensack Meridian Health, for evaluation. Once the designs were approved, they began small scale production the last week of March.
“It’s been a whirlwind,” Ms. Shea said, “but I was on a mission to do this.” PCA ordered the Velcro and foam via second day air, to begin production. The first delivery, 1,000 splashguards to St. Barnabas Medical Center in Livingston, was hand-delivered on April 3. Since then, PCA has flown in new machinery to help ramp up production. They’ve purchased a ribbon cutter to cut the Velcro strips and two card hole punchers that are strong enough to cut through the plastic shields. This also enabled the Shea family to hire back six of the 10 workers they laid off due to the pandemic shutdowns. Now, with the new machinery and rehired workforce, 10,000 face shields are produced daily.
Ms. Shea said PCA is producing shields for area hospitals and for smaller organizations like police departments, urgent care centers, and EMS units. Other essential businesses, that are smaller and at “the bottom of the chain when it comes to sourcing and getting PPE (personal protective equipment),” have also been able to get face shields now that PCA is producing them, said Ms. Shea.
The feedback from the hospital workers have been positive; one oncologist even called the splash guards “awesome,” said Ms. Shea. The shields are made of cellulose acetate, a strong plastic used in high-end welder’s masks. It is made from a renewable resource and chemically resistant, which means the shields can be disinfected and are reusable. According to Ms. Shea, the reusability is a huge benefit and hospitals have reported being able to use less resources because of PCA’s splash guards. She also said some of the hospitals have contacted them and expressed an interest in using the shields after the pandemic is over.
Changing their production is nothing new for the Shea family. Ms. Shea’s great grandfather started the company selling fountain pen kits in New York City in the 1920s. Then, after their grandfather came back from World War II, he took over and began manufacturing ball point pens in Jersey City, NJ. In 2011, Pen Company of America was acquired by their plastic supplier, Rotuba Extruders in Linden, NJ. The day to day operations at the manufacturing plant in Garwood are run by Ms. Shea, her father, and two brothers.
Recently, the United States government chose PCA to produce the pens for the 2020 census after an intense vetting process. This is what American manufacturing can do, said Ms. Shea, “change what you make on a dime” to meet the needs of the community. She also said creating and manufacturing the splash guards really came down to “what we could to help.”


To debut the new Alfa Romeo MiTo Quadrifoglio Verde SBK Limited Edition in Britain, the company decided to do something that was not only motorsports related, but also tied in with the car’s FIM World Superbike Championship collaboration. Of course, this being FIM and Alfa, the event also had to be spectacular.
So they did a stunt involving the car and a superbike that is the very definition of spectacular.
The idea is that the car and motorcycle speed along the track with the bike just behind the car. When they get to a certain point, the Alfa Romeo MiTo jumps up on two tires and the motorcycle, a Kawasaki ZX-10R Ninja British Superbike, throttles to catch up and go underneath the tilted Alfa in a bold move appropriately called The Undertaker.
The move, of course, is aptly named for another reason – it’s exceedingly dangerous. The car was driven by precision driver Paul Swift and the motorcycle by legendary British Superbike rider Chris ‘The Stalker’ Walker. It was performed on the Silverstone circuit at the Brooklands corner.
Obviously, you shouldn’t try this at home.
The new Alfa Romeo MiTo Quadrifoglio Verde SBK Limited Edition will be taking the “limited” part of its name seriously, with only 28 examples to be sold in the United Kingdom. The car debuted at the Paris Motor Show in 2012 as a design collaboration between long-time partners FIM World Superbike Championship and Alfa Romeo. It will become the official safety car for the championship as well as a showcase of the two’s seven years working together.
It’s powered by a 1.4 Turbo MultiAir 170 bhp Quadrifoglio Verde engine and has a racing body kit with SBK decals throughout (shown in the photos above). Braking is by Brembo on those 18-inch alloy wheels and the Limited Edition can be had in either a black or red roof.
Inside, the motorsports theme continues with red-stitched Sabelt® Alcantara® sports seats made with carbon fiber backs. The red stitching continues on the steering wheel and gearstick while sports pedals mark the driver’s floor. Each car’s exclusive production number is below the black carbon fiber-look dash.
The MiTo Quadrifoglio Verde SBK Limited Edition is priced at £21,595 on the road.
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Mansarovar is well liked for its restaurants. If you'd like to do some sightseeing in the greater Jaipur area, you might plan a trip to World Trade Park or M.I. Road.
If you're looking for some top things to see and do in Vaishali Nagar and surrounding area, you can visit M.I. Road and Ajmer Road.
Unique features of Bani Park include the shopping and gardens. Make a stop by M.I. Road or Station Road while you're exploring the area.
You'll appreciate the restaurants during your time in Tonk Road and you might want to plan a stop by World Trade Park and ISKCON Jaipur, Sri Sri Giridhari Dauji Temple while you're in the area.
Amer Fort Road is noteworthy for its lake views, and you can make a stop at top attractions like Jal Mahal and Hawa Mahal.
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The floodgates have been opened and motherboards built around Intel's brand spanking new Z77 Express chipset continue to pour into the market place. One of the newest to wash up is the Maximus V Gene, a Republic of Gamers (ROG) board from Asus. Like all Z77 boards, the Maximus V Gene is an LGA 1155 motherboard, but it's also one of the first to flaunt next-gen features in a micro-ATX form factor.
Biostar's chefs just finished baking a new batch of high end motherboards for Intel's Z77 chipset, one of which includes the company's flagship TZ77XE4 model. The TZ77XE4 plays nice with both 3rd generation (Ivy Bridge) and 2nd generation (Sandy Bridge) processors in a socket 1155 package (don't try plunking your Sandy Bridge-E processor into one of these boards, they require a socket 2011 motherboard).
The last motherboard announcement from EVGA came in November of last year when the company unveiled its X79 lineup. It's been relatively quiet since then, until now. Figuring four months was enough of a hiatus, EVGA is now letting the world know about its brand spanking new Classified SR-X, an ambitious slice of silicon designed to set a "new standard for what is considered an enthusiast motherboard," starting with dual-CPU support.
Love him or hate him, Fatal1ty (or Johnathan Wendel, as his mother calls him) continues to have his gaming moniker plastered throughout the do-it-yourself (DIY) scene on a wide range of peripherals, and somebody's buying all these products up. Apparently still relevant, the famous Fatal1ty brand has found its way onto the new ASRock/Fatal1ty X79 Professional motherboard for gamers.
Motherboard makers are just as anxious for Intel's upcoming Ivy Bridge launch as the rest of us are, and some of them have already begun rolling out slabs of silicon built around the Z77 chipset. Such is the case with Biostar, which unveiled its TZ77XE4 motherboard at CeBIT 2012. The TZ77XE4 is a socket 1155 part with native SuperSpeed USB 3.0 support.
Taiwanese motherboard and chipset manufacturer, VIA Technologies, today announced the 'EPIA-M901 Mini-ITX' board, it's latest dual-core mini-ITX platform with tons of I/O options to accommodate a plethora of embedded applications, everything from ATMs and kiosks, to digital signage, healthcare, and digital media applications, the company said.
Rolling your own rig is just as much about timing as it is part selection. Consider that around this time a year ago, hard drive makers were practically giving platters of storage away and backing them with longer warranties. Mother Nature ruined all that, and she's partially to blame for rising motherboard prices, which some industry sources predict are getting ready to spike.
In need of a pick-me-up to cure those mid-week blues? Here's a three-for-one announcement from Asus, which unveiled a trio of gamer-friendly products at the Consumer Electronics Show, all rolled into a single press release. New items include a dual-band wireless gigabit router (EA-N66), ROG Rampage IV Formula/ThunderFX gaming motherboard, and Xonar Phoebus soundcard set.
The Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas isn't just about media players and mobile products, there are also core PC products on display, and it doesn't get any more 'core' than motherboards. In a way, the convention is an ideal stomping ground for Gigabyte, which loves to throw around fancy terms and tout highfalutin-sounding technologies, like "3D Power."
Nearly three out of four people rocking an Intel X79 system are sitting pretty on top of an Asus brand motherboard. That's the conclusion you can draw from the company's claim that its X79 series motherboards have gone on to grab a global market share of 70 percent of all boards built around Intel's enthusiast chipset, and it isn't the only one Asus says it's dominating.


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You will think: “Are you vanishing? Trade okay, but the rest?” In truth, in the past Venice, due to the innate commercial spirit of its citizens, has had the ability to bring together in mutual tolerance many representatives of different peoples and cults (Jewish, Turkish, Armic and of different origins), considering them a source of enrichment of its economic, political and cultural heritage. The “strangers” were welcomed regardless of their social class and religious beliefs and took an active part in the life of the city at various levels. Strange, isn’t it? Yes, it sounds strange when we think of modern history.
International trade was the heart of the economic life of Venice and in the city the languages and dialects of the world were heard. Many peoples lived (not only passed through) here. Venice was practically the New York of the 16th century and Rialto was Wall Street. Like modern New York, Venice had the neighborhoods of different peoples: the Jewish ghetto, the Turkish casket, the island of the Armenians, etc. …
Some buildings, called “fondachi” (from Arabic funduq “house-warehouse”) were reserved for the goods and accommodation of foreign merchants. On August 16, 1575, at the request of the Turks, the Venetian Senate decreed to identify a space reserved for them, such as that of the Jews and Germans. In addition, a bazaar and, according to Turkish traditions, a small mosque and Turkish baths were built.
And that’s not all! Venice was the editorial capital, it made the world read. Thanks to the genius of Aldo Manuzio, books were printed in many languages. For several decades Venice became the capital of Jewish publishing: the first Rabbinical Bible (1517) and the first Talmud (1524-25) were printed there, and throughout the seventeenth century the multilingual Haggadot (ritual books for Pesach) printed in Venice went around Europe. And then, if Shakespeare set “The Merchant of Venice” and the events of Bassanio and Shylock in Venice and not elsewhere, there was a reason to be there.
And do you know that the first Koran was also printed in Venice? In 1537-1538 the Paganini, who had seen the business of selling the book in thousands of copies to the Arabs present in the city and beyond, printed for the first time the Koran. The book was believed lost forever and was found only 30 years ago in St. Michael’s island. The book contains many legends and I will tell you about them 😎 in a future post.

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AIDAnova: The Future Is Taking up Speed
Machine room module for the world's first LNG cruise ship leaves the Neptun shipyard
ROSTOCK, Germany, September 25, 2017 /3BL Media/ - Today, Monday, September 25, 2017 at 10:00 a.m., the first of two AIDAnova modules left the Neptun shipyard in Rostock, which belongs to the Meyer Group, with Papenburg as its destination. The first of two flotation elements is carrying the four dual-fuel engines by Caterpillar and hence the heart of AIDAnova. AIDAnova is the first cruise ship in the world, which, starting in the fall of 2018, will be able to operate both in ports and at sea with the currently most environmentally friendly and lowest-emission fossil fuel thanks to the operation of dual-fuel engines. By using low-emission liquid natural gas (LNG), emissions of particulate matter and sulfur oxides are almost completely prevented, and emissions of nitrogen oxides and CO2 are sustainably reduced.
The 120 meter long and 42 meter wide as well as three decks high machine room module, also referred to as Floating Engine Room Units (FERU), will, depending upon weather conditions, require four days for the crossing to the Meyer shipyard in Papenburg. With the help of tug boats, the flotation element will reach the North Sea-Baltic Sea Canal in the early morning hours of September 26, 2017, at around 7:00 a.m. and cross this in the course of a twelve-hour journey from Kiel to Brunsbüttel. The floating part will reach Brunsbüttel on September 26, 2017, at around 7:00 p.m. From Borkum, it will carry on towards Emden, with an expected arrival time of 9:00 a.m. on September 27, 2017. The last part continuing via the river Ems will be between Emden and Papenburg, where the module will arrive at around 7:00 p.m. on September 28, 2017.
The second AIDAnova module, also 120 meters long and 42 meters wide, is currently under construction at the Neptun shipyard. The four decks high floating part with the three LNG tanks of AIDAnova will most likely leave the Neptun Yard towards the end of November 2017. Two of the tanks each have a length of almost 35 meters, a diameter of approximately 8 meters and a capacity of 1,500 cubic meters. Another tank has a length of 28 meters, a diameter of approximately 5 meters and a capacity of 550 cubic meters. The total volume of the three LNG tanks thus amounts to 3,550 cubic meters.
With the construction of the engine room modules at the Neptun shipyard in Rostock and the investment in Caterpillar engines, AIDA Cruises not only strengthens regional cooperation, but is also a key driver of the local economy. More than 500 shipyard workers and 500 external employees from other service providers are currently employed at the Neptun shipyard. In addition, there are 120 Caterpillar employees assembling the engines.
Bookings are now available
Starting in December 2018, AIDAnova will offer trips around the Canary Islands. Before the start of the Canary season, the new ship will make a stop in Hamburg. On December 2, 2018, the new ship will visit the Hanseatic City on the Elbe. From here, it will set off towards Gran Canaria.
All AIDAnova cruises can be booked at travel agencies, the AIDA Customer Center at +49 (0)381/202 707 07, or at www.aida.de. More information and impressions are available at aida.de/genaumeinurlaub.
Rostock, September 25, 2017
About AIDA Cruises:
AIDA Cruises is one of the fastest growing and commercially most successful tourism businesses in Germany. The company employs about 9,000 people from 40 countries on shore and on board AIDA ships. AIDA Cruises operates one of the world’s most state-of-the-art fleets, currently comprised of 12 cruise ships. Two new ships built at the Meyer shipyard in Papenburg (Germany) will join the fleet by 2021. With its “Green Cruising” concept, AIDA Cruises will be the first cruise company in the world that can power its new generation of ships entirely with LNG (liquid natural gas) from 2018. More information at www.aida.de.

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The Offbeat snake is about to bite its own tail, like it happened with ‚Full On‘ a couple of years a go. It became popular very fast and meanwhile you hear as much as cheesy remixes of chart hits in an offbeat concept as we had it with Full On before.
This separates the scene into the younger, open minded but less psychedelic crowd, who just want to have a good time, without any style borders. But let`s not forget the more ‚educated listeners‘, who are looking for a decent +deep, psychedelic brain & leg stimulation which fits into 2014.
So what to do?
The Offbeat style done its conquest around the world, influenced a lot of artists and dancers and many producers followed this formula of rocking a dancefloor. So it became almost mainstream, a bit comparable to the huge impact ‚EDM‘ and ‚Big Room House‘ are having in the United States right now.
The more ‚conservative‘ trancers who grew up in the ‚Goa Movement‘ are worrying about this development, which is understandable, cause there will be more and more people who have no idea about the ‚roots‘ of this music. The situation reminds me a bit of t the early 90s.
Techno + Trance were new, exiting, underground and exclusive until Euro Dance happened. The true scene people worried about this, but didn‘t have in mind that for many young people this was the first encounter with electronic music at all.
After the Euro Dance + commercial Techno bubble exploded we had a new generation of electronic music lovers and a lot of them were willing to dig deeper into more ‚mature/quality‘ music.
And in 2014 I am waiting for this to happen with Progressive Trance too.
Maybe its a sign for this development that lots of small labels are growing these days, even they focus on a strictly non-commercial approach, for example Landmark Records, Zenon Records, Parasomnia Records just to name a few.
The established Prog labels like Spin Twist, Blue Tunes, Iono Music also are aware of the changing scene in widening their horizon for different styles, and the Progressive Dinosaur Iboga Records somehow always manages to include deep Twisted Psychedelic tunes and trancy morning stuff in their releases, without losing any fans.
The UK is also an exited place for fresh music today, Pioneer John 00 Fleming is heavily featuring Underground Trance on mainstream radio broadcasts and artists like Simon Patterson and Jordan Suckley releasing almost Psy Bangers on Big Labels, like Oakenfolds Perfecto Fluoro.
So in my view it‘s an exciting time for Progressive Trance again, and the old structures are getting an refreshing update, not at least trough many Israel based, former Full On producers, who bring the Full On energy into lower BPM Music.
Okay, lets name some more artists, who are pushing it forward in my opinion (my list will be far from complete, but should be seen as an appetizer).
Artists like Major7, Vini Vici, Vertical Mode, Captain Hook, and do not forget the great comeback of Master Astrix are bringing a fresh breeze into redefining the art of what is possible.
Swiss genius Tezla is also on a heavy run, Capital Monkey from Brazil, also Mandragora and Interactive Noise from Mexico, E-Clip from Serbia,
Merkaba from Australia, while in Denmark Morten Granau, Phaxe and Flowjob are delivering almost perfect Morning Trance at these days.
On the other side of the ocean there is a fantastic, growing music scene in the USA.
You should check out artists like Smoke Sign, J. Noriega. You should watch out for those!
If somebody is interested: I (Klopfgeister) will release an Ambient/Downbeat Album on Spin Twist Records soon, and I am also trying to find some new directions to discover with my Progressive Trance productions.
This was just a quick subjective look on the scene and probably I forgot to mention lots of artists.
I would like to invite you to join the discussion. Tell us your thoughts, ideas and visions about how you see the situation of Progressive Trance 2014.
Write to firstname.lastname@example.org.

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AUGUSTA, Ga. – Georgia now has more than 4,000 people hospitalized with COVID-19 as admissions rise at a pace that raises worries about health care facilities’ ability to handle demand.
But help is on the way, with the state getting a boost in supplies of coronavirus vaccine.
The state has moved into the top 20 for most new cases per capita in the past 14 days, seeing 3,100 new cases Monday after nearly 8,000 were recorded on Christmas Eve.
South Carolina, meanwhile, saw a drop-off in new daily cases Monday with a little more than 1,500. It comes after state officials reported their worst surge in cases on Christmas Day with more than 4,300 cases.
- University Hospital on Monday reached a new record for hospitalizations with 120 COVID-19 patients. As of Tuesday morning, that number was down to 114. The hospital has discharged 13 patients in the past day and admitted seven new ones, according to spokeswoman Rebecca Sylvester.
- Doctors Hospital has doubled its COVID patient total since the beginning of the month, standing at 48 patients.
- Augusta University Health is approaching that mark, too, with 87 patients.
- Aiken Regional Medical Center on Monday had 27 COVID-19 patients.
“We are continuing to administer Moderna vaccine to staff and physicians today, and we remain hypervigilant in our monitoring of staff, physicians and patients,” University’s Sylvester said Tuesday morning in an email.
She said flu numbers remain below average.
If you want to get a coronavirus test after the holidays, you have options.
The South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control is giving free tests to Aiken-area residents at the University of South Carolina Aiken Convocation Center.
Your only chance this week is Wednesday from 1-6 p.m.
Normal hours are Wednesday through Monday from 1-6, and that starts up again Sunday.
AU Health is testing on its normal schedule, other than being closed New Year’s Day.
Gov. Brian Kemp says around 90 percent of long-term care facilities across the state have access to both the Moderna and Pfizer vaccines through Walgreens and CVS.
Public Health Commissioner Kathleen Toomey says Georgia has now been allocated more than 500,000 doses of two vaccines, up from 300,000 before Christmas.
More than 43,000 doses had been administered in Georgia as of Tuesday morning, but Toomey says we can expect the next phase of the rollout to begin in the coming days.
She said the Georgia Poison Center has been enlisted to help disseminate information about vaccinations to people.
“Call that number if you have any questions about the vaccine your eligibility — when your particular group or age or occupation will be vaccinated,” she said.
On its coronavirus vaccine website, the state lists the information line as 888-357-0169.

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|Title: ||Access and Benefit Sharing from Genetic Resources and Traditional Knowledge in Jordan; Final Technical Report|
|Authors: ||International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas (ICARDA)|
|Keywords: ||PARTICIPATORY PLANT BREEDING|
RIGHT OF ACCESS
ACCESS AND BENEFIT SHARING
NATURAL RESOURCES MANAGEMENT
|Issue Date: ||2011|
|Abstract: ||The overall goal of the project was the empowerment of small resource-poor farmers by increasing their awareness of the plant genetic resources and enhancing benefit sharing among different stakeholders in Jordan.
The project was successful in consolidating participatory plant breeding (PPB) programs in wheat and barley and in introducing a program on evolutionary plant breeding which beyond any legal framework will de facto guarantee a fair and equal access to genetic novelties. The PPB program identified and disseminated 34 barley promising lines in seven locations and 5 promising wheat lines in three locations.
The project has been extraordinary successful in strengthening the capability of the local team to conduct PPB and evolutionary breeding programs and in increasing the awareness of farmers about their rights though a number of workshops in which articles 6 and 9 of the agriculture law were thoroughly examined.
Eventually the project has contributed to raise the interest in participatory research (NCARE has established a Participatory Research Unit) and the awareness among Ministry Officials of the need of a new system of variety release to facilitate the diffusion of the varieties produced through PPB.|
|Project Number: ||104283|
|Project Title: ||Fair Access to and Benefit Sharing of Genetic Resources : National Policy Development (China, Jordan, Nepal, Peru)|
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|Appears in Collections:||2010-2019 / Années 2010-2019|
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The Stubborn SuitorBy: Alexa Wilder
“You have such a beautiful face,” her mother repeated. “If you just lost a little weight, you’d have no trouble catching yourself a man.”
“I’m not fat, Mother,” Cami said through gritted teeth.
“No one said you were,” her mom said softly. She leaned forward to brush a loose lock of Cami’s hair behind her ear. “But you could stand to lose a few pounds. I’m not saying that to be mean, sweetheart. I’m only trying to help. Right now, you have so much going for you. You’re young and smart and vivacious. That head of hair of yours is just to-die-for. You know how many women wish they were natural redheads? Millions of dollars are spent in salons each year trying to recreate what God gave you naturally. And those eyes… you have your father’s eyes—so big and green. Not to mention your skin—so clear. Most redheads are covered with freckles.”
“There is nothing wrong with freckles,” Cami said defensively. “Madison has freckles.”
“All I’m saying, dear, is that, with a little weight loss, you could be absolutely stunning.”
Cami bit her tongue. She knew that her mother meant well. In her warped mind, she thought she was offering her daughter a piece of helpful advice, not trampling on her self-esteem. Cami tried not to let the words get to her, but she couldn’t help but feel hurt.
“You would have men falling all over you,” her mother continued. “If you lost a little weight, you would easily be able to catch yourself a guy. You could marry someone who would support you, so you didn’t have to work. Support you and Madison.”
“I already married a man who was wealthy enough to support me,” Cami spat bitterly. “And we both know how that turned out. I’m never going to rely on another man to take care of me! Especially not some hypothetical one that will only appear after I starve myself!”
With that, Cami pushed her chair away from the table and stood up. She stomped from the room before her mother had a chance to respond. Cami really wasn’t interested in anything she had to say at the moment.
Her mood was quickly lifted, however, as she found herself in the guest bedroom, leaning over her sleeping child. Madison was in the middle of potty training, and was wearing a pull-up and nothing else. She was stretched out on her stomach, with her strawberry curls twisting against her freckled back. She had one thumb in her mouth, while the other hand clutched the corner of her purple blankie.
Cami considered waking her daughter in order to help her dress, but she really didn’t have the heart to do so—not when Madison looked so peaceful and precious in sleep. Instead, she wrapped the little girl in the comforter and carried her out against her shoulder.
Her mother was standing in the hall as Cami walked by, but Cami didn’t raise her eyes to look at the older woman.
“Good night, sweetheart,” her mom said exasperatedly, seemingly unaware of the hurtful words she’d uttered only a few minutes earlier.
“’Night, Mom,” Cami replied quietly, so as not to wake her daughter, before exiting the apartment.
She tucked Madison into her car seat—a difficult task while still wrapped in the comforter—and kissed her forehead before starting the car and heading home.
Cami barely made it out of the parking lot before the weight of the day caught up with her. Sadness, anxiety, and frustration washed over her, twisting her body into knots. Tears, refusing to be contained, began to pour down her face. Within moments, she was crying so hard that she could barely drive. Unwilling to put her daughter in danger, she pulled over to the side of the road and put the car in park. Shoving her fist into her mouth so as not to wake Madison with her heaving sobs, she silently wept against the steering wheel.
Cami sat at the side of the road until she had no more tears left to cry. She felt oddly numb as she made the ten-minute drive home.
Madison woke while Cami was trying to remove her from her car seat, which was just fine with Cami. As exhausted as she was, she was more than happy to spend some quality time with her pride and joy. She gave Madison a bath, watching as the happy three-year-old splashed in the water. Cami allowed the shock and numbness of the day to wash away, replaced by the love and joy she found in her daughter. She then curled up next to her baby in her own bed, reading her stories that Madison was too young to understand, until the little girl drifted off to sleep.
Cami considered allowing herself to drift off as well, but it was barely eight o’clock. She’d only eaten a protein bar for lunch, which she hadn’t even been able to keep down, so she begrudgingly pulled herself out of bed. After carefully lifting Madison and carrying her to the crib in her nursery, Cami spent a few minutes simply gazing at her darling baby girl.

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In a message dated 99-04-13 15:05:49 EDT, you write:
<< Dear Listers,
i have just come from a local british car shop and been told
rebuild of my tr6 engine will come in somewhere around $3000! OUCH! the
engine was running fine when i began the restoration and i've pulled
most of the engine apart already and i'm starting to think i should let
someone do the machining and then put it back together myself. i rebuilt
a 327 from a book many years ago so i'm not afraid, just would rather
pay someone else to do it (but not 3 grand).
is this a fair ballpark price? the shop owner is assuming
replacement of the pistons/rings, cam, turning the crank, new bearings,
etc. what say ye listers?
Tom Di Iulio
1976 TR6 (in pieces)
Denver, Co. >>
Sounds more like it should be well under $1000. I'd get a second opinion were

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Early Life And Works
Palladio was born in the northern Italian region of the Veneto, where, as a youth, he was apprenticed to a sculptor in Padua until, at the age of 16, he moved to nearby Vicenza and enrolled in the guild of the bricklayers and stonemasons. He was employed as a mason in workshops specializing in monuments and decorative sculpture in the style of the Mannerist architect Michele Sanmicheli of Verona.
At the Villa Trissino, Palladio met the young aristocracy of Vicenza, some of whom were to become his patrons. By 1541 he had stylistically assimilated the Mannerist works of Michele Sanmicheli and the High Renaissance buildings of Jacopo Sansovino, whose library of St. Mark’s in Venice had been begun in 1536. He had probably been introduced in Padua to Alvise Cornaro, whose designs were the first to import the Roman Renaissance style to northern Italy. Palladio may also have met a prominent Mannerist architect and theoretician, Sebastiano Serlio, who was in Venice at that time and whose third and fourth books on architecture (L’architettura; 1540 and 1537, respectively) were to be an inspiration to him.
In about 1540 Palladio designed his first villa, at Lonedo for Girolamo de’ Godi, and his first palace, in Vicenza for Giovanni Civena. The Villa Godi has a plan clearly derived from the Villa Trissino but with similarities to traditional Venetian country houses. It contains all the elements of Palladio’s future villa designs, including symmetrical flanking wings for stables and barns and a walled courtyard in front of the house. In elevation the Palazzo Civena is close to the High Renaissance palace type developed in the early 16th century in Rome. In plan it resembles Sanmicheli’s Palazzo Canossa (c. 1535) in Verona. An innovative feature is the use of traditional arcaded pavement of northern Italy behind the main elevation, an idea that Palladio reinterpreted in imitation of an ancient Roman forum.
Visits To Rome And Work In Vicenza
In 1541 and again in 1547 Palladio visited Rome with Trissino. These visits greatly affected his palace designs. On them, he saw the work of the greatest architects of the Roman High Renaissance style, Donato Bramante, Peruzzi, and Raphael, generally more remembered for his painting than for his architecture. He also measured ancient Roman antiquities, notably the baths. Palladio’s principal ideas on palace design were formed between his first works of 1540 and his visit to Rome in 1554–56.
In 1546 Palladio prepared designs for the reconstruction of the 15th-century town hall in Vicenza, known since then as the Basilica, and in 1548 these plans were accepted, though much earlier designs, drawn in 1534 by the Mannerist architect and painter Giulio Romano and by several other distinguished architects, had been previously rejected. This was his first major public commission, and the work, which was not actually finished until 1617, involved recasing a vast hall with a two-story arcade of white stone to serve as a buttress to the old structure. Suited to both the Gothic style of the original structure and the dimensions of the classical orders, Palladio’s arcade was of great proportional subtlety. The architectural motifs used were taken from Serlio and from Sansovino’s library of St. Mark’s in Venice. Up to 1556 Palladio produced three basic palace types. The first, in 1550, was the Palazzo Chiericati, in which he extended his Palazzo Civena forum idea of a block with its axis parallel to the pavement, which it envelops in a loggia, or roofed open gallery. The tripartite division of the colonnaded elevation, which gives the building a definite central focus, was an innovation. The second, in 1552, was seen in the Palazzo Iseppo Porto, Vicenza, in which he stated in its clearest form his reconstruction of a Roman house. The facade was closely based on the Roman Renaissance palace type, such as Bramante’s House of Raphael (c. 1514), which Palladio had drawn in Rome. But it was planned in what Palladio believed to be the ancient Roman style. Two tetrastyle halls with four columns each were placed on opposite sides of a court surrounded by a giant colonnade of Corinthian columns. The third, in 1556, was in the Palazzo Antonini in Udine, which has a square plan with a central four-column tetrastyle hall and the service quarters asymmetrically to one side. The facade has six columns, which are attached to the wall rather than freestanding and which are centrally placed on each of the two floors, surmounted by a pediment or a low-pitched gable—a device normally used in his villas.
Palladio further developed the basic plan of his Palazzo Iseppo Porto in the Palazzo Thiene (c. 1545–50), Vicenza, the largest and most problematical of his palace designs, of which only the side and rear blocks were completed. Four wings, containing a combination of rectangular rooms and small octagons, similar to those of the Roman public baths, are symmetrically placed around a huge court. The elevations are of a grandeur unequalled in Palladio’s other work. The design is the first in which Palladio was influenced deeply by the prevailing contemporary style of Mannerism and especially by Giulio Romano, who was in Vicenza when the project was begun.
During his stay in Rome, from 1554 to 1556, Palladio in 1554 published Le antichità di Roma (“The Antiquities of Rome”), which for 200 years remained the standard guidebook to Rome. In 1556 he collaborated with the classical scholar Daniele Barbaro in reconstructing Roman buildings for the plates of Vitruvius’ influential architectural treatise (written after 26 BCE) De architectura (On Architecture). The new edition was published in Venice in 1556.
Palladio’s elevations have always a central emphasis that reflects the axial symmetry of the plan. This is developed in the Palazzo Valmarana, Vicenza, of 1565, along with an increasing use of stucco surface reliefs and giant orders, or columns, extending more than one story. The latter are both Mannerist elements, used particularly by Michelangelo. Giant orders were also used in the massive and unfinished Palazzo Porto-Breganze of c. 1570 and finally in the Loggia del Capitanio of 1571. The latter was built in emulation of many similar loggias, such as those of Florence and Venice. The lower floor was to be a raised platform open to the square and the upper a meeting hall. The original decoration was adapted to symbolize the contribution of Vicenza to the Venetian victory over the Turks at Lepanto in 1571, and a triumphal-arch motif was added to the side elevation. But the cost of the victory so impoverished the government that only three bays, or sections, were built of a possible five or seven intended.
Though Palladio absorbed contemporary Mannerist motifs, his plans and elevations always retained a repose and order not associated with Mannerist architecture, particularly that of Michelangelo and Giulio Romano. When the simplicity of his early designs was abandoned, it was largely to incorporate details warranted by the examination of buildings of the late Roman Empire, reflecting archaeological study common to his period.
Palladio’s villas were less affected by his visits to Rome. For practical reasons these buildings were always of stuccoed brickwork with a minimum of carved-stone detail. His aim was to recreate the Roman villa as he had come to understand it from Latin descriptions in the writings of Pliny and Vitruvius. His villas were built for a capitalist gentry who, during the period of Palladio’s maturity, gained in prosperity and found new economic outlets in agricultural improvement and land reclamation. He developed the prototype plan of Villa Trissino with many variations at Cricoli. The plan could change in scale and function to serve as a summer residence of an urban aristocrat or the estate headquarters of a gentleman farmer. Included in the former category are the least typical and most widely copied of Palladio’s villa designs, the villa for Giulio Capra, called the Villa Rotonda, near Vicenza. This was a hilltop belvedere, or summer house, with a view, of completely symmetrical plan with hexastyle, or porticoes on each of four sides and central circular halls surmounted by domes. The Villa Trissino at Meledo, of the same type, was to have curved wings attached to the main portico. This was a device Palladio usually used when less consideration had to be given to farming and agricultural use of the land. Although the Villa Trissino was not built, it was a most influential design because it was illustrated in the Quattro libri.
Palladio adapted the classical temple front to the facades of his villas because it had the dignity suitable for an entrance. He reasoned that, since ancient temples such as the Pantheon in Rome had pedimented porticoes, houses, which preceded temples, would also have had them. Sometimes, as at the Villa Cornaro (c. 1560–65) at Piombino Dese and the Villa Pisani (c. 1553–55) at Montagnana, the portico is two-storied, with principal rooms on two floors. Normally (as at the Villa Foscari at Mira, called Malcontenta ; the Villa Emo at Fanzolo [late 1550s]; and the Villa Badoer), the porch covers one major story and the attic, the entire structure being raised on a base that contains service areas and storage. In a third type the temple front covers the whole front of the house, as at the Villa Barbaro (c. 1555–59) at Maser, which Palladio designed for his friend the scholar Daniele Barbaro. This villa retains the contemporary fresco interiors painted by the Venetian master Paolo Veronese (c. 1528–88) and is one of the few interiors to survive from Palladio’s day.
At the Villa Thiene (c. 1550) at Quinto, he started to build a grandiose house planned on the lines of his reconstruction of a Roman villa shown in the Quattro libri, but it was never finished. At the Villa Sarego (c. 1568–69) at Santa Sofia a similar inward-facing complex was also planned but not completed. This design differs from the normal villa in its two-story rusticated colonnade forming loggias to rooms arranged around three sides of a court. It is reminiscent of the court to the Pitti Palace in Florence, built in 1550 by the Mannerist architect and sculptor Bartolommeo Ammannati (1511–92).
Palladio’s villas were planned as total complexes but could be built in part to satisfy the owner’s immediate requirements. He attached great importance to the courts that flanked or stood in front of the house, since they extended its axial symmetry and proportion.
At the end of 20 years of intensive building, Palladio in 1570 published I quattro libri dell’architettura. This work was a summary of his studies of classical architecture. He used a number of his own designs to exemplify the principles of Roman design. The first book contains studies of materials, the classical orders, and decorative ornaments; the second, many of Palladio’s designs for town and country houses, together with his classical reconstructions. His executed designs are frequently corrected, particularly in the case of early works like the Villa Godi. They are marked with dimensions according to a system of mathematical ratio. The ratios employed are based upon the musical intervals that were in use in Palladio’s day, and it was believed that numerical equivalents would result in a beautiful building, since it would be designed within a universal mathematical order. The third book contains designs for bridges, ancient town planning, and basilicas, or ancient Roman oblong halls for public assembly, later adopted as a prototype for the Christian church. The fourth book has to do with the reconstruction of ancient Roman temples.
Andrea Palladio: San Giorgio Maggiore
At the end of his life, in 1579, Palladio designed a central-plan church as a chapel at Maser. It is a shallow Greek cross covered by a circular dome. Internally, the complex decoration of all surfaces relates it in style more closely to Palladio’s late palace designs than to his churches. This was followed by a similar unexecuted project, San Nicola di Tolentino (1579) in Venice. These demonstrate Palladio’s ideal church plan and follow his reconstruction of the Pantheon in the Quattro libri and paralleling designs by Giacomo da Vignola (1507–73), the leading architect in Rome after Michelangelo.
With the death of Sansovino in 1570, Palladio became the leading architect of the Veneto region. Until then he had failed to gain official state patronage, and his designs for palaces in Venice, known from the Quattro libri and from drawings, had never found patrons. His later civic work in Venice consisted of advice on fortifications, designs for decorations used on state occasions, and interiors for the Doges’ Palace. In 1572 his two sons died, and afterward he lived a secluded life, publishing only an illustrated edition of Julius Caesar’s Commentaries as a memorial.
Palladio’s last commission came in 1579–80—to build a theatre in Vicenza for the Accademia Olimpica for the performance of classical dramas. The design of the Teatro Olimpico was in the nature of an academic exercise, being based on the reconstruction of the ancient Roman theatre at Orange, in France.
When Palladio died he left a considerable number of unfinished buildings, including the Basilica in Vicenza, the two Venetian churches, the Villa Rotonda, and the Teatro Olimpico. These were continued by his followers, notably Vincenzo Scamozzi (1552–1616) and O. Bertotti-Scamozzi (1719–90), but, because of the changing taste of the period, they were not strictly in accordance with Palladio’s designs.
Palladio is one of the most influential figures in the whole development of Western architecture. The qualities that made him influential were numerous and varied. His palaces and villas were imitated for 400 years all over the Western world; he was the first architect to systematize the plan of a house and consistently to use the ancient Greco-Roman temple front as a portico, or roofed porch supported by columns (this was probably his most imitated architectural feature), and finally, in his I quattro libri dell’architettura, he produced a treatise on architecture that, in popularizing classical decorative details, was possibly the most influential architectural pattern book ever printed.
The influence of Palladio’s buildings and publications reached its climax in the architecture of the 18th century, particularly in England, Ireland, the United States, and Italy, creating a style known as Palladianism, which in turn spread to all quarters of the world.

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Carbone team publishes important new finding about BAP gene and cancer in Nature
Pictured: Dr. Haining Yang, Dr. Michele Carbone and Dr. Angela Bononi in the Carbone Lab, UH Cancer Center.
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The findings of a team led by the UH Cancer Center’s Director of Thoracic Oncology Michele Carbone, who is also a professor at the John A. Burns School of Medicine, were published June 14 in Nature. The paper highlights how the BAP1 gene regulates a channel (IP3R3) inside cells that moves calcium. When the BAP1 gene is mutated or damaged, calcium levels inside the cells decrease. The decrease of calcium makes cells more likely to become malignant when exposed to environmental carcinogens.
BAP1 mutations make up tumor cells of:
Some people are born with the mutation
The new findings explain how and why mutations of BAP1 increases cancer incidence.
“The publication of the findings in Nature, the premier scientific journal in the world, shows the power of collaboration and the fact that we can overcome our geographical isolation making Honolulu the place where scientists from Asia, Europe and the mainland meet to work together to find new ways to fight cancer,” said Haining Yang, co-author and researcher in the UH Center’s Cancer Biology Program.
“We want to prevent and treat cancer in as many people as possible. We hope to start a clinical trial, within five years or less, to test the susceptibility to chemotherapy in patients with BAP1 mutated tumors,” said Carbone.
“Publishing in Nature is like winning an Oscar for a scientist, very few do so in their career. I came to Hawaiʻi all the way from Italy and I achieved my dreams. I very much hope that our discovery will help save many lives,” said Angela Bononi, co-author and post-doctoral fellow in Carbone’s lab.


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text: For authors Sue Stillman Linja and SeAnne Safaii-Waite, the devastation of Alzheimer's is all too familiar. They both witnessed the progression of Alzheimers in their mothers. As registered dietitian nutritionists and researchers, they've examined all of the evidence-based research on diet and Alzheimer's in order to offer a simple and practical dietary approach to protecting the brain from Alzheimer's. With The Alzheimer's Prevention Food Guide, Sue and SeAnne show you how to start eating for total brain health before its too late to prevent the development of Alzheimer's disease. The Alzheimer's Prevention Food Guide is the first and only action-oriented food guide for making brain-nourishing dietary choices. Youll discover how easy it can be to incorporate everyday brain foods into your diet, easily and without stress.

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Silence the Screaming:
While looking through his library, Cashell came across a book that promised to end his constant search for torture victims. A ceremony that could revive the dead that his father discovered on a trip to Africa. Did this really work? Could he really bring the dead back to life? He would soon find out that the dead should be left that way.
Stranded on a remote island, John Henry is in a fight for his life. A terrifying roar chases him and a fellow survivor further into the island, the result of which leads to the discovery of the islands horrific secret.
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The Enforcement Directorate on Friday registered a money laundering case against Karti Chidambaram, the son of former Finance Minister P. Chidambaram, on the basis of a corruption case filed by the CBI earlier this week, officials said.
The CBI registered an FIR against Karti Chidambaram, Indrani and Peter Mukerjea over the charges of cheating, receiving illegal gratification, criminal conspiracy, criminal misconduct and influencing public officials. He had allegedly got approval from the board to a "fallacious" proposal by INX Media, the company that was then run by Peter Mukherjea and his wife Indrani Mukherjea.
The case filed by ED was under sections of the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA).
Karti Chidambaram, who now faces a tight noose around his neck by the CBI, left for London along with three friends yesterday morning, sources said. Although a chunk of the raids were conducted in Chennai, Delhi and Gurgaon, the agency is hot on the trail of the city's shell companies due to Karti's alleged involvement in routing crores of rupees through them.
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These vouchers were issued in favour of Advantage Strategic Consulting (P) Limited, a firm "indirectly" owned by Karti, the CBI had alleged.
Karti Chidambaram has denied all the charges made against him.
But instead of Chess Management, an invoice of 10 lakh was raised in the name of Advantage Strategic private limited, a company that the ED alleges is controlled by Karti Chidambaram.
However, defending hi son, the senior Chidamabaram said that Karti will return soon and that his London visit was pre-scheduled.
Reacting to the raids, P Chidambaram, had said: "The government's aim is to silence my voice and stop me from writing, as it has tried to do in the cases of leaders of opposition parties, journalists, columnists, NGOs and civil society organisations".


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Four different “credit repair” operations have been ordered to pay a total of more than $2 million in penalties for allegedly tricking people into thinking their bad credit could be easily fixed.The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau announced today that it filed complaints and proposed judgments against Prime Credit, LLC, IMC Capital, LLC, Commercial Credit Consultants, and Park View Law, …
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Oakland Youth Chorus seeks a photographer to take photos of our school and community program classes, community performances and events, and concerts. Times can be arranged per project and visit, and OYC would be happy to provide photo credits for all work published in our materials or on our sites.
We seek photographers with a love and gift for finding and capturing joyful moments with children - who can evoke the feelings and relationships we build in our programs in images.
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Dr. Damage writes: The TSX instructions built into Intel's Haswell CPU cores haven't become widely used by everyday software just yet, but they promise to make certain types of multithreaded applications run much faster than they can today. Some of the savviest software developers are likely building TSX-enabled software right about now.
Unfortunately, that work may have to come to a halt, thanks to a bug—or "errata," as Intel prefers to call them—in Haswell's TSX implementation that can cause critical software failures. To work around the problem, Intel will disable TSX via microcode in its current CPUs--and in early Broadwell processors, as well.
Dr. Damage writes: AMD introduced it Mantle API for graphics in order to reduce CPU overhead and to create a means of programming that better maps to modern GPU hardware. Now, it appears Microsoft and the industry forces that collaboratively drive OpenGL may be moving to offer similar capabilities. Several GDC session listings suggest that a new version of Direct3D and "zero driver overhead" OpenGL will be introduced at the Game Developer's Conference next month. The "future improvements in Direct3D" promise "an unprecedented level of hardware control and reduced CPU rendering overhead."
Dr. Damage writes: "AMD's next-gen Bulldozer architecture hasn't performed up to expectations--it's relatively power-hungry and has weak performance, especially in desktop-style applications that require strong single-thread performance. Fortunately, AMD revealed today at Hot Chips that it is working to improve single-thread performance and energy efficiency with Steamroller, an upcoming architectural refresh."
Dr. Damage writes: "Nvidia continues to fill out its lineup of Kepler-based graphics products. Today, it plugs the hole at $299 with the GeForce GTX 660 Ti, which is based on the same GK104 GPU as the $499 GTX 680, only with a few functional units disabled. The Tech Report's review of the GTX 660 Ti goes beyond average FPS numbers, looking at frame latencies to get a better sense of hiccups and stutters that interrupt smooth gameplay. The verdict? The 660 Ti offers roughly equivalent performance to the Radeon HD 7950, a card that recently gained clock boosting firmware but costs $50 more than the GeForce. The 660 Ti is quieter than its Radeon counterpart, and it consumes less power when playing games. As the conclusion notes, though, any of the cards in the GeForce's price range is more than adequate given the demands of today's games."
Dr. Damage writes: Nvidia first unveiled the more expensive graphics cards in its new GeForce lineup, but today, the GeForce GTX 670 arrives, and The Tech Report says there's no reason to buy anything else. They prove it by driving a six-megapixel, triple-monitor array competently with a single video card and measuring performance using some intriguing, latency-focused metrics.
Dr. Damage writes: Nvidia's new GeForce GTX 590 poses an interesting question to the subset of folks who buy $700 dual-GPU graphics cards: does performance rank above all else, or do considerations like board size and noise levels matter more? This latest high-end GeForce isn't quite as fast as AMD's similarly outrageous Radeon HD 6990, but it's smaller and substantially quieter. Based on the numbers, the Radeon's louder fan may be easier to hear than the card's slightly higher frame rates are to see.
Dr. Damage writes: Less than two years after introducing its quad-core Core i7 processors, Intel will soon unveil a six-core CPU for the desktop that works as a drop-in replacement for older Core i7-900-series parts. The first previews of the six-core "Gulftown" reveal a chip with 50% more cores and cache that fits into the silicon area and power/thermal envelope as the quad-core it replaces. Performance in multi-threaded applications scales up nicely, but clock speeds—and thus single-threaded performance--remain the same. Do we really need six cores on the desktop? That depends, it would seem, on what you do with your computer.
Dr. Damage writes: AMD has a new $239 graphics card out, the Radeon HD 5830, that might be a good upgrade for some folks. What if you're upgrading from a graphics card in that same price range that's two, three, or four years old? How much of an improvement can you expect? And is the new Radeon a good value for the money? This review compares it, and a host of today's other graphics cards, to products dating back up to four years ago, including a couple of GeForce 7900s.
Dr. Damage writes: How do current $74 CPUs compare to the $133 ones? To exclusive $1K Extreme Editions? Interesting questions, but what if you took a five-year-old Pentium 4 3.8GHz and pitted it against today's CPUs in a slew of games and other applications? The results are eye-opening.
Dr. Damage writes: Netbooks have grown from tiny curiosities with 7" screens into surprisingly well-rounded little computers. The latest step? 11.6" displays with 1366x768 resolution and near-full-sized keyboards, believe it or not. Two such systems are available now for under $400 at U.S. retailers: an Aspire One at Walmart and the Gateway LT3103 at Best Buy. The Gateway packs an Athlon 64 processor and Radeon graphics, amazingly enough. The Tech Report bought them both and has compared them head to head in some depth, choosing a clear winner between the two.
Dr. Damage writes: AMD has quite a hit in the Radeon HD 4000 series. Coming up next is a product code-named R700, a high-end graphics card based on two 4870s paired together. Here's a preliminary look at how the card — to be called the Radeon HD 4870 X2 — performs. Hint: Nvidia's got one heck of a fight on its hands.
Dr. Damage writes: AMD's Phenom X3 processors are essentially quad-core chips with one core disabled, sacrificed for the cause of product segmentation. The X3 extends the Phenom lineup to under 150 bucks. Can AMD gain ground on Intel's very potent dual-core CPUs by offering a third core? Does a non-power-of-two core count make sense? The Tech Report finds out.
Dr. Damage writes: What happens when you put together a $1200 graphics subsystem involving four of the fastest GPUs available today? How does it compare to, well, nearly every other current one, two, three, and four-way GPU config of note? Which one draws the most power (over 600W) and makes the most noise? The Tech Report compared 20 different configs and lays it all out.
Dr. Damage writes: No single Radeon GPU can beat Nvidia's best. So on the X2, two Radeon HD 3870 GPUs gang up together to take on any GeForce 8800 available. This dually video card finally retakes the performance lead for AMD, according to The Tech Report. But is it a fair fight?
Dr. Damage writes: Creative has ruled PC sound almost since the beginning, but Vista's new audio layer changes the game by essentially killing off 3D positional audio acceleration. The Tech Report has reviewed a pair of post-Vista sound cards, with surprising results. Motherboard maker Asus saw the opening and created perhaps the best consumer-level sound card yet, the Xonar D2X, with quality components, an EMI shield, color-illuminated ports, the best objective measurements and subjective listening test scores we've ever seen, and (finally!) a PCI Express x1 connector. Could the Sound Blaster era finally be over?