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c-Fms-IN-6 is a potent inhibitor of c-FMS (IC50 ≤10 nM for unphosphorylated c-FMS) and also weakly inhibits unphosphorylated c-KIT and PDGFR (IC50: > 1 μM). |
c-Fms-IN-9 is a c-FMS inhibitor extracted from patent WO2014145023A1 (Example 7). It inhibits unphosphorylated c-FMS kinase (uFMS) and uKIT (IC50s: <0.01 μM an...
c-Fms-IN-2 is an inhibitor of FMS kinase (IC50: 0.024 μM). |
CSF1R-IN-1 is a CSF1R inhibitor with IC50 of 0.5 nM. |
K-80003 is a potent inhibitor of cancer cell growth and tRXRα-dependent Akt activation. |
PLX5622 hemifumarate is a highly selective brain penetrant and oral active inhibitor of CSF1R(Ki of 5.9 nM). |
PLX647 is a highly selective dual FMS/KIT kinase inhibitor (IC50: 28/16 nM). |
AEE788 has been used in trials studying the treatment of Cancer, Glioblastoma Multiforme, and Brain and Central Nervous System Tumors. |
Masitinib is a tyrosine-kinase inhibitor used in the treatment of mast cell tumors in animals, specifically dogs. Since its introduction in November 2008 it has...
GW2580 is a specific, oral-bioavailable CSF-1R inhibitor for c-FMS. |
CC-223 is an orally available mTOR inhibitor with potential antitumor activity. CC-223 inhibits the activity of mTOR, which may result in the induction of tumor...
Ki-20227 is a specific c-Fms tyrosine kinase(CSF1R) inhibitor (IC50: 2 nM). It also has certain inhibitory against VEGFR2(IC50: 12 nM) and c-Kit/PDGFRβ(IC50: 4...
Nampt-IN-1 (LSN3154567) is a potent and selective NAMPT inhibitor. Nampt-IN-1 inhibits purified NAMPT with an IC50 of 3.1 nM. |
AZ304 is an ATP-competitive dual BRAF kinase inhibitor, potently inhibits BRAF (WT), BRAF (V600E), and wild type CRAF (IC50s: 79/38/68 nM). |
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PF-477736 is a specifc, effective and ATP-competitive Chk1 inhibitor (Ki: 0.49 nM ) and also inhibits FGFR3, Aurora-A, VEGFR2, Flt3, Fms (CSF1R), Ret and Yes. |
Cerdulatinib (PRT-062070) is an oral active, multi-targeted tyrosine kinase inhibitor with IC50 of 12 nM/6 nM/8 nM/0.5 nM and 32 nM for JAK1/JAK2/JAK3/TYK2 and ...
Pazopanib HCl (GW786034 HCl) is a novel multi-target inhibitor of VEGFR1, VEGFR2, VEGFR3, PDGFR, FGFR, c-Kit and c-Fms with IC50 of 10 nM, 30 nM, 47 nM, 84 nM, ...


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A group of six children between the ages of 5 and 13, known as Ghetto Kids, have achieved global success despite coming from slum communities in Uganda.
The group was founded in 2014 by Daouda Kavuma and gained recognition after featuring in the music video for French Montana’s hit song “Unforgettable” in 2017.
Since then, the group has performed at the FIFA World Cup 2022 in Qatar and at a Paris Saint-Germain football match in France. In April 2023, Ghetto Kids appeared on Britain’s Got Talent and received the golden buzzer from new judge Bruno Tonioli mid-performance, making them the first ever contestant to receive this honor in the show’s history.
The group will compete for the show’s first prize of £250,000 on June 4th, 2023. Winning the competition would mean a bigger house for the 30 children currently sharing a five-bedroom house in Kampala, where they are looked after by Daouda Kavuma. Ghetto Kids hope to inspire other disadvantaged children around the world to believe that they too can achieve their dreams.

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ETHIOPIA: At risk of multiplying conflicts stretching the capacity of the state
INDIA AND PAKISTAN: At risk of increased cross-border violence in Kashmir
MYANMAR: At risk of dormant conflicts reigniting
HAITI: High risk of increased gang violence amid rising authoritarianism
BELARUS: High risk of destabilization as regime, demonstrator, and Russian interests clash
COLOMBIA: High risk of rising violence targeting social leaders and vulnerable groups
YEMEN: High risk of humanitarian fallout amidst the offensive on Marib
MOZAMBIQUE: No end in sight for the Cabo Delgado insurgency
THE SAHEL: Insurgency and fragile politics at the center of an unabated crisis
Elliott Bynum, Roudabeh Kishi, Sogand Afkari, and Sam Jones
Adam Miller, Curtis Goos, and Josh Satre
Conflict levels in 2020 slightly decreased from 2019 in all regions except Africa. Still, many conflicts continued unabated despite the global COVID-19 pandemic, and several took on new dimensions as actors responded to the health crisis. Because the pandemic is a unique development, we expect global conflict levels, locations, and agents to increase significantly in 2021 — ultimately to a higher point than both 2019 and 2020.
Each year, ACLED identifies 10 conflicts or crisis situations around the world that are likely to worsen or evolve in the coming months. Not just hotspots, these 10 cases represent areas where new directions and patterns of violence are becoming clear, where there have been major shifts in conflict dynamics, and where there is a significant risk of conflict diffusion. This year’s report reviews key trends in Ethiopia; India and Pakistan; Myanmar; Haiti; Belarus; Colombia; Armenia and Azerbaijan; Yemen; Mozambique; and the Sahel. Ethiopia, Yemen, and the Sahel were previously highlighted in our 2020 series, and their re-inclusion here underscores how these conflicts have changed substantially in the preceding year, and how new risks continue to emerge.
All 10 conflicts are expected to evolve in 2021. They do not fit the standard narratives of state failure, exclusive politics, grievances, or resource competition. Each is shaped by the decisions governments have made i order to exert or retract their control and strength, as well as the ramifications, opposition, and vulnerabilities exposed by those decisions. While many world leaders stole the spotlight with political antics and by inflaming dangerous domestic fault lines, state actors in these 10 conflicts exploited global distractions to repress, attack, and subjugate their citizens. Others took advantage of rising radicalism and populism to sustain their leadership, ultimately resulting in scapegoating and further violence. As a result, violent and brutal governance is on the rise in many of these countries, while multiple powers compete for control in others.
Each case also illustrates the wide range of different political violence patterns currently affecting states: Haiti’s gangs have arisen in a context of highly politicized ‘law and order’ campaigns; the Sahel’s jihadi threat is reinforced by pastoralist populism and poor international coordination; Mozambique’s conflict was initially viewed by its government as a local revolt, but reached unprecedented levels of sophistication in 2020.
Russian interests are a growing and determining factor in Belarus, Armenia, and Azerbaijan; and the violent indirect effects of incomplete peace agreements are felt in Yemen and Colombia. 2020 was a sobering year, and one in which politics has failed the vast majority around the world. In 2021, we may be forced to reap what has been sown: the coming year is likely to be a dangerous and violent period leading to more uncertainty and less peace, especially for the countries embroiled in these 10 conflicts.In our mid-year update to this special report, we will revisit these conflicts to assess our analysis and determine if our expectations were accurate.
Prof. Clionadh Raleigh

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BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Four couples challenging Idaho’s gay marriage ban this week asked a federal judge to block the state from intervening in their lawsuit, arguing such a move would unnecessarily add to their workload and complicate the case.
They filed their lawsuit in U.S. District Court in November against Gov. C.L. “Butch” Otter and Ada County Clerk Chris Rich, contending Idaho’s 2006 voter-backed law banning gay marriage violates the U.S. Constitution’s equal protection and due process guarantees.
Now, the Idaho couples say allowing Idaho to intervene isn’t necessary, since Otter is already an adequate representative of its interests.
Attorney General Lawrence Wasden counters Idaho has a strong interest and right to defend its laws.
- Huskies upset USC 17-12 and beat Steve Sarkisian, their former coach
- Expect traffic delays when Obama visits Seattle Friday afternoon
- Win over USC puts UW’s coaching upgrade (Chris Petersen over Steve Sarkisian) on full display
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Idaho’s case comes as judges in New Mexico, Ohio and Utah ruled in favor of same-sex marriage recently.

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This is a journey into Kenya’s origins and its uncertain future. We travel along the colony’s iron foundations, the railway lines laid by the British imperialists as they raced to create a passage to Lake Victoria from Mombasa. 120 years later, the same railway is enjoyed by tourists seeking a taste of the vintage African safari, with luxury 1st-class carriages and pressed napkins. To either side of their trammelled way lie the gleaming metropolis of Nairobi, the rolling ranchers’ pastures and the sprawling slums of Kibera.
Shot on SD and 8mm film, this film takes the viewer on an experiential journey through different periods of history and levels of society: we are welcomed by a demented Mau Mau veteran, carefully set on our way by a railway tourist guide, and bade farewell in true Mombasa style by a melancholic Swahili guitarist.
David Cecil’s graduation film (Visual Anthropology, Goldsmiths’, 2009) was fraught with difficulty from the start. His original camera was stolen in Kilifi on the first night of the 2-week shoot, forcing him to shoot on 8mm and then film the rest in 5 days on a locally-sourced replacement. The result is haphazard but was well-received by audiences at Amakula Film Festival (Uganda) and received a nomination for Best Short Documentary in the 2010 Deborshir Festival (Russia).
Note the cameo (@06:10) by celebrated British film-maker Nick Broomfield who we bump into in Nairobi station during the shoot, and also the impressive rooftop graffiti in Kibera (@10:00). For those patient enough to sit through the credits, there is a final word from the film’s most colourful character.
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Sony Studios appointed Andy Serkis to direct ‘Venom 2’. The blockbuster sequel will be released in October 2020.
“It’s actually happening. I can feel it, the Symbiote has found a host in me, and I’m ready for the ride...Can’t wait! Are you ready Tom Hardy ?” Serkis captured the post on his Instagram.
Tom Hardy will again play Eddie Brock, while the script for the film will be written by the scriptwriter of the first part Kelly Marcel.
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17:14, August 23Michael Jackson’s ex-spokesperson speaks about star’s secret will
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Syuzanna Melqonyan on her entry at Romanian Golden Stag: Before seeing the video version, I didn’t know how had I sung (video)
13:16, August 23‘Game of Thrones’ star fears he will have no children after dragon scenes
12:14, August 23Salma Hayek, 52, flaunts incredible body in swimsuit
10:15, August 23Monica Bellucci wears wrong-size swimsuit (PHOTOS)
18:15, August 22Jordyn Woods shows off in sexy swimsuit
14:45, August 22Jamiroquai will be in Yerevan!
12:17, August 22Dwayne Johnson becomes highest paid actor
10:15, August 22Quentin Tarantino is to become dad for first time! (PHOTOS)
17:15, August 21Netflix to shoot comedy on Russia's participation in Eurovision
16:14, August 21Kim Kardashian has six toes?
15:12, August 21Kris Jenner fires nanny for stealing her children's clothes

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Five years after the initial announcement of a radical transformation for the John Hancock Center plaza, it finally appears as if a new look may be forthcoming for one of the key spaces along the Magnificent Mile.
John Hancock Financial Services, the building's owners, and U.S. Equities Realty Inc., the management firm, disclosed plans Tuesday for a $22.5 million redevelopment of the Hancock Center.
A central component of the plan is a redesign of the rectangular sunken garden on the plaza into a semi-elliptical form that lets in more light and improves access.
Amphitheater-type steps will accommodate people who want to sit and relax or bring lunch, and two waterfall systems will be installed, including one designed to mask traffic noise from Michigan Avenue and intended to operate year-round.
An outdoor cafe-type space with up to 70 tables will occupy the central area of the sunken garden during the warm months.
The fate of the plaza in front of the 100-story tower at 875 N. Michigan Ave. has been unsettled since the insurance company owner broached a plan in 1988 to cover the sunken garden with a three-story atrium.
That proposal was dropped after building residents, neighbors, and both Mayor Daley and his predecessor, Eugene Sawyer, opposed the plan because it would take away plaza space that had come into public use-even though it is privately owned property.
A subsequent design containing many of the basic features of the newest plan, including the semi-elliptical shape for the sunken garden, was announced in mid-1992, but action on it was delayed when John Hancock replaced CB Commercial Real Estate Group with U.S. Equities as building manager and leasing agent.
U.S. Equities Chairman Robert Wislow said the latest design had received all the necessary city approvals and would definitely proceed. The timetable calls for work to begin in July and reach completion in the fall of 1994.
"We want the revitalized plaza to be an inviting place for people to meet, eat and enjoy the unique atmosphere of the Magnificent Mile," said Richard Lewis, vice president of Hancock Realty Investors, a subsidiary of John Hancock Financial Services, the parent of John Hancock Mutual Life.
In addition to the plaza redesign, the renovation will include a makeover of the retail space on the concourse, street level and mezzanine levels to provide tenants with significantly greater visibility from Michigan Avenue. The curve of the sunken garden is intended to lead visitors more gracefully to the shops than the present squared-off well.
Camille Julmy, U.S. Equities vice chairman, said discussions had already begun with four retailers seeking Michigan Avenue locations for lease of the space, much of which was occupied by Bonwit Teller until that company folded.
A central objective of the new plan, done by the architectural firm of Hiltscher Shapiro Associates, is to redefine access to the different areas of the mixed-use building, which has been plagued since it opened in 1970 by uninviting and confusing lobby areas.
Office tenants will get a new entrance of their own on Chestnut Street, with elevators-formerly accessible to them only by escalator-brought down to street level.
Another entrance on Delaware Street will provide direct access to the elevators going to the 94th floor observatory and to the retail space, and a separate Delaware Street entrance will be for condominium owners. The primary retail entrance will remain on Michigan Avenue.
About 170 new parking spaces will be added on the fourth and fifth floors in previous Bonwit Teller space, bringing the total to about 750.
The building has already gotten an overhaul of its mechanical and fire and life safety systems that were part of the original 1988 revamp plan.
The 2.8-million-square-foot Hancock Center, designed by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, officially opened in 1970 after construction lasting almost five years and costing $100 million.
Wislow said some of the design problems with the lobby areas of the building, which have lacked a sense of entry and require visitors to navigate various escalators, may have stemmed from the fact that it was one of the earliest significant multiuse buildings in the country.
"They didn't know what to do with it," Wislow said.
Chicago has been a pioneer in large mixed-use properties that combine significant elements of retail, residential, commercial and sometimes hotel space in one complex, a pattern that has been followed by other properties on Michigan Avenue from Water Tower Place to Illinois Center.

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In an age of terrorism when strong, trusted leadership is essential, America’s global image has plunged to depths that were unthinkable even a few years ago.
So, today we present the results of an urgent investigative quest for new, super-smart weapons and ways to restore the United States’ worldwide reputation. Naturally, we hit all the best sources: A former Defense Secretary, a former Senate Armed Services Chairman, a former Marine general — and a suburban Washington D.C. dentist whose office has a brand new slide show in a picture frame.
Our first stop was George Washington University, where a prestigious think tank, the Center for Strategic and International Studies, gathered former Defense Secretary William Cohen, former Senate Armed Services Chairman Sam Nunn, the former commander-in-chief of the U.S. Central Command Marine Gen. Anthony Zinni, Pew Research Center President Andrew Kohut and CNN chief diplomatic correspondent Christiane Amanpour. This was the first of a series of what is billed as the “Cohen-Nunn Dialogues,” discussions on new national directions.
Kohut began by casting a poll-based pall, summarizing Pew’s impressive survey of 45 countries. Kohut said that “anti-Americanism had deepened,” even among U.S. allies — “and certainly the image of the U.S. is abysmal among the publics of Muslim countries.” In Turkey, between 2000 and 2007, those with a favorable view of the United States fell from 52 percent to just 9 percent. In Germany, it declined from 78 percent to 30 percent.
It was the Marine general who focused sharply on the need for non-military efforts. Zinni, who commanded all U.S. troops in the Middle East, spent the Vietnam War living not with U.S. troops but with Vietnamese villagers. In 1970 he almost died after being shot in a field near Danang.
“When we arrive on the scene, where is the entity that matches up with our battalions that does political reconstruction, economic reconstruction, social reconstruction?” Zinni asked. “…Where are the people that have the cultural understanding, the almost anthropological depth of understanding of the culture and how to do business in that culture? They’re absent. We’re alone on that battlefield.”
When Cohen asked what average Americans can do to help change the U.S. image abroad, the discussion turned to ways all Americans can contribute. “…citizens can make a big difference,” said CNN’s Amanpour. “…I think you really need to think about the world and your role in the world, I think you need to understand that it’s not okay just to be sitting in America and thinking that you’re just fine, that this is a powerful country, it’s economy’s great and you don’t need to think about the rest of the world.”
She talked about an improved Peace Corps — with doctors, business people, teachers, all going abroad to help somewhere. (Keen-minded readers will recognize that as a favorite theme in my last book, “Avoiding Armageddon,” which noted that sometimes ordinary people must lead their leaders by demanding they do what is right.)
The next day, I visited my dentist, Dr. Stan Shulman, and entering his office in the basement of his suburban home, I discovered I’d just done my investigative journalism for the week. On a shelf was a battery-operated picture frame clicking through slides showing how he’d just spent his spring vacation — volunteering as a dentist in rural Vietnam.
Shulman paid for his roundtrip flight and worked on children for a week in a makeshift clinic at Hoa Boc, in a school 30 minutes from Danang — not far from the field where Gen. Zinni once lay near death.
This was a dental program run by an admirable group, the East Meets West Foundation. The Vietnam dental program was begun in 1996 by Dr. Charles F. Craft, who lives in Cambodia. On the phone from Phnom Penh, Craft said his program treats some 10,000 Vietnamese children a year, thanks to some 100 dentists who pay their own way to Vietnam to volunteer. His program’s budget is just $85,000 a year.
“At first, the Vietnamese government greeted us with a lot of mistrust and skepticism,” Craft said. “But now they are very supportive.”
Dr. Shulman’s slides showed children looking somber and unsure waiting in line to for their turn _ then smiling and waving afterward.
“Most had never been to a dentist,” Shulman said. “They were amazingly stoic — so brave. Almost no one cried. Their teachers and parents were clearly grateful. It was a great vacation. I’m going again next year.”
(Martin Schram writes political analysis for Scripps Howard News Service. E-mail him at martin.schram(at)gmail.com.)

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Add some sweetness to your life!
♫ Another name goes up in lights, like diamonds in the sky ♫
"I just want to listen to Taylor Swift alone." - Jess Day
Love is in the air.
Food knows it all!
Come around, Swifties!
Are you ready?
True love at last!
It's called magic!
Poor unfortunate souls!
~I know things~
It's written in the pictures!
"Knowledge makes you powerful, but there's still so much that you don't know."
Gather around, sluts!
♫ Take a sip of my secret potion, I'll make you fall in love ♫
♫ And it's called black magic ♫
It's written in the candies!
One. Must. Go.
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Before you all jump on me, I sent out a “press release” yesterday about an interview. The link break was deliberate. I wanted to give you a taster to ensure that you look in tomorrow for a read… so don’t forget. BUT, back to now….
I’m in an inbetweeny stage at the moment… I’ve stacks of cotton yarn, oodles of acrylic and wool but no projects in mind… ho hum.
When this happens I always resort to wine cosies. Richard and I brew our own wine, either from kits, juices or occasionally when Mums grapes yield a good crop we’ll use them. Hence, I give out lots of wine in lableless bottles.
Wine cosies make great presents for the hostess at parties and spare your hands from getting wet/cold when taken out of the fridge, plus they offer a little protection against breakages.
Another secret, they hide a little less than vintage bottle of home made plonk!
Here is one I made for Christmas but never got around to giving out. Add a little heart and you have a Valentine/Anniversary gift. This one is actually made on a circular loom. I love looms as you can mix yarns to get some amazing effects.
My mission this week was to make a cosy that “fitted snug” over the bottle and didn’t slip.. heaven forbid your bottle slips out of your hand and you waste all that wine.
I made a nice little bottom from the cotton yarn bought at Lidl… sweet success is mine. I’m really pleased.
Now all I need is a nice sunny day, my wooleater blanket on the lawn, my bbq alight and a nice drop of something sweet and bubbling wrapped up inside one of my cotton bottle cosies… roll on spring, I can hear my flips flops calling me!
Don’t forget, pop in tomorrow… lots of rain drenched cuddles from Cardiff…. xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

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Please give a warm welcome to author Kathryn Johnson, her novel "The Gentleman Poet" was recently release on September 7, 2010. It has a unique story that has sparked my curiosity and I will be reviewing this one in the not so distant future. Kathryn has generously written a lovely guest post for the Historically Obsessed readers and you can check below for more information on "The Gentleman Poet" giveaway.
"Many scholars believe one of Shakespeare’s most beloved plays, The Tempest, was inspired by a shipwreck and true tale of survival that captured the imagination of 17th-century London. But what if the greatest playwright of all time didn’t simply read about the wreck of the Sea Venture off the Bermuda coast? What if Will was on board, fleeing powerful enemies, daring one last great adventure near the troubled end of his career?
Elizabeth Persons’ blinding headaches are an ominous sign, one she knows well as a warning of danger. The young servant girl is one of 150 passengers who survive a terrifying hurricane then struggle ashore in the Bermudas, rumored home to evil spirits. Despairing of rescue, Elizabeth and the others make their home on the uninhabited island for nine long months while they build a new ship to complete their voyage to Jamestown, Virginia. While there, love blossoms between Elizabeth and the young ship’s cook, and she befriends a mysterious old man.Kathryn Johnson’s dramatic and compelling story, The Gentleman Poet is a page-turning read that will hold her audience to the very end. This mesmerizing novel is also a celebration of good food, glorious words, and the power of love, while bringing readers an intriguing glimpse of arguably the most famous writer of all time".
With out further delay please welcome Kathryn Johnson!
The Gentleman Poet: A Novel of Love, Romance, and Shakespeare’s “The Tempest” by Kathryn Johnson
I think of writing any kind of fiction as a process very much like making a painting. It takes thought, planning, then a laying on of textures and colors before a frame (book jacket) can be put around it. Historical fiction is particularly demanding. There’s usually considerable research, and then the painful elimination of fascinating but unnecessary details so as not to overwhelm the story.
While writing my latest novel, The Gentleman Poet, I worked with a collection of intriguing facts. Choosing from among them—which to use, which to save for another book or discard—was very similar to preparing one’s palette before starting to paint. You can’t simply use every color available in the art store. You have to be selective. And so when I was at the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, D.C., I found an amazing array of information about my subject: What inspired William Shakespeare’s famous shipwreck disaster story, The Tempest? Among the materials was an account of the rescue of 150 souls aboard the Sea Venture, a ship bound for Jamestown from England, in 1609. Many aboard the ship were mentioned by name, and all made it to safety on an island. Detailed accounts of hunting expeditions, building shelters, assigned tasks, political and religious disagreements were included in the accounts.
So what does an author do? If she’s writing fiction, she blends the facts that work best for her vision of the story with fictional (imaginary) elements. For instance, I chose my heroine from the ship’s manifest, as I did several of my other characters. Elizabeth Persons was a real woman who survived the wreck and lived with her shipmates on the deserted island we now know as Bermuda for 9 months. During that time, the sailors, crew and passengers built a new ship to complete their trip to Jamestown. Many of the events in the novel really did take place, but many other details—what characters wore, said to each other, the relationships developing between them—had to be imagined.
It’s this mysterious blend of what’s real or conjured up in the mind that creates a satisfying historical novel. And just as an artist works to find the right balance, so does a novelist. Readers seek out their favorite combinations of fact and fiction, just as we each have particular tastes for art. Some relish novels so close to nonfiction they almost feel footnoted. Whereas others are only loosely inspired by a historical figure, event or setting. But isn’t that what makes this genre so amazing? No matter our preferences, we can find something very special, something that speaks to us in an intimate way.
You can learn more about Kathryn Johnson, her teaching, mentoring, and writing at these websites: www.gentlemanpoet.com and www.writebyyou.com
Thank you Kathryn for the invigorating wonderful guest post, I think we are on the same page in regards to what it takes to write historical fiction, I mean after all it is fiction.
Up for grabs is one new paperback copy. This giveaway is open to the US ONLY, sorry.
For 1 entry leave me a comment with a way to contact you.
For 2 entries follow my blog. If you already do, thanks, and please let me know in the comments. You're eligible for the extra entry as well.
For 3 entries blog or tweet this giveaway to spread the word.
Giveaway will end on November 12th at midnight.
Good luck to everyone I know one lucky reader is going to be very happy with this one.

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Max Allan Collins has been a Mystery Writers of America Edgar nominee in both fiction and nonfiction categories, has earned eighteen Private Eye Writers of America “Shamus” nominations, and his graphic novel, “The Road to Perdition” was the basis for the Academy Award winning movie. In this interview, Collins discusses his latest novel, “The Wrong Quarry.”
In 1971, while Collins was attending the University of Iowa Writers Workshop, he created the killer-for-hire Quarry character. Collins said, “He [Quarry] was intended to work on a couple of levels. First, he was a Vietnam vet with PTSD before that term was coined. I had friends who went to Vietnam, and some died, and it was very much on my mind. Second, as somebody who didn’t go to Vietnam, I was struck by the numbing effect of the war on the American populace—they would watch body bags being loaded onto planes on the evening news as they ate TV dinners on trays. I felt we had all become numb from this war, and the Quarry character represented that.”
The idea of a killer for hire as a protagonist was highly unusual at the time Collins created his character, but it was a decision brought on by the times, which were filled with a young, rebellious spirit. Collins said, “At the start of my career I was very influenced by the Parker novels by Donald E. Westlake, writing as Richard Stark. I wrote an imitative novel that spawned a series about a similar professional thief. But such novels, where the reader identifies with a criminal—a big trend during a time when young people distrusted and disliked cops in particular and the Establishment in general—seemed to me a cop-out of sorts. Instead of a thief, I gave the reader a professional killer to identify with. Instead of the distance of third-person, I told Quarry’s story in first person, in his voice. To this day, readers are disturbed by how normal Quarry seems outside of the killing aspect of his life and profession. That’s very much on purpose—Quarry is us, post-Vietnam. Now, he is us post-Iraq.”
For those who like to read for fun, this series might sound too philosophical—which would be way off the mark. Collins didn’t write this series with anything pretentious in mind, he wrote the books for pure entertainment. “These books are meant to be fun,” he said. “They are chiefly designed as entertainment. I consider noir fiction to be melodrama—at least mine is—and Quarry is in particular a dark comedy. You are allowed to smile and even laugh, despite the despicable things you’ll encounter.”
“The Wrong Quarry” is the eleventh installment in the series from Collins. That’s a lot of books about one character, but Collins has a philosophy about writing that should make readers take notice. He said, “With a series, the writer looks for something unique that can be brought to a new book. I see no reason to write books I’ve already written before, and that’s the danger of a recurring protagonist. In ‘The Wrong Quarry’ I had a specific premise in mind, unlike anything I’d done before with Quarry, or any other character. I can’t say more, because—here’s a late ’60s reference for you—that would be telling.”
Times and reader preferences have, of course, changed since the first Quarry novel was written. Due to the length of time since the first novel in the series was published, Collins faced some unusual, if not unique, challenges. He said, “The first four Quarry novels were published in the mid-’70s, and the first one was started, as I said, in 1971. I did another in the mid-’80s, and when Hard Case asked me to do another a few years ago, I set it more or less in a contemporary frame, with Quarry a much older guy. That book was called ‘The Last Quarry,’ and it was intended to be the final book in the series. It still is, chronologically speaking. But when ‘The Last Quarry’ was well-received, I decided to go back and write some more stories about Quarry in the original time frame. In other words, a series that began as contemporary has suddenly become historical.”
Thirty to forty years ago is a long time to remember details accurately enough to portray them in a novel. For Collins, the desire to ensure his novels are historically accurate puts him in the position of needing to verify everything he remembers. He said, “I find myself researching the ’70s and ’80s, obviously years I lived through. If I’d known I was going to do this I’d have paid closer attention!”
Learn more about Max Allan Collins on his website at www.maxallancollins.com.


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VEG Sternberg v1.0 Beta
the time has come today I present to you the VEG Sternberg Map in the 15 version.
Hello everybody. Here I present you my Map VEG Sternberg ready for playing. Many of you know the VEG still from 13 Ls, it has been completely rebuilt for 15 Ls.
Unfortunately, some buildings from the 13ner version could not be saved or the effort would have been very high. The farm is completely by Devin (LS-MOD-Temple) revised so still BETA, thank you to this point again for it.
As Sternberg is located in Mecklenburg, the map is rather flat. She has 18 fields of which you must buy some.
Other buildings have been preserved and well used so again. The dam is no longer available, I hope you have still enough fun on the Map.
Installed almost all fattening installations, composting plant Milchwerk with production and greenhouses. The sale of the pallets located at the Edeka market. Tree trunks can you sell the land trade and tree planting are shopped there.
And now discovered the rest yourself I wish you much fun. Your Bummi LS-MOD-TEMPLE.
This is a beta version yet because the court is not finished yet. I have to play first only a temporary installed.
But everything is in working order and the card is in the SP and the MP / Server error free.
Thanks to Marhu, Andy Farmer, Devin, San Andreas which originate for the built-up of mine buildings and scripts from your pen.
If I forgot someone writes me via PM to be added later once.
Mods needed only ne Empfelung from me you can love others looking for the same cause;
On other pages exclusively with original link.
Marhu, Farmer Andy, Devin, San Andreas


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This has been a good week with two papers accepted for publication:
- Hanna C, Fujimoto V, Robinson W, Kim D, Parsons P, vom Saal F, Taylor J, Steuerwald, A, Bloom M. DNA methylation changes associated with exposure to the environmental contaminants, mercury, lead, cadmium and bisphenol A, in women undergoing ovarian stimulation for IVF. Human Reproduction (in press)
- Peñaherrera MS, Jiang, R, Avila, L, Brown CJ, Robinson WP. Clonal patterns of placental development evaluated by X-chromosome inactivation profiling. Human Reproduction (in press)
In the first one Courtney Hanna (PhD student) collaborated with Michael Bloom and Vic Fujimoto to evaluate methylation differences potentially associated with BPA or metals exposures in a group of reproductive aged women. While this initial sample was relatively small, it provides important pilot data to try and link environmental exposures with epigenetic effects in humans. Ultimately we would like to evaluate the role of such exposures in relationship to female fertility.
In the second manuscipt, research associate Maria Peñaherrera addresses 1) the basic biology underlying the distribution of genetic and epigenetic variation within the placenta; 2) the timing of X-chromosome inactivation (XCI) during development in different tissues; and 3) appropriate sampling strategies for assessing molecular changes in placentas in a clinical context. We continue to look at epigenetic variation in different extra-embryonic tissues in order to improve our study designs and the way we interpret such data in relation to poor function.
Congratulations to Ryan Yuen for completing his PhD and graduating! He has moved on to a PostDoc at the U of T in the Scherer lab and will be missed.
Courtney was honoured twice at the Medical Genetics Research Day in November. First she won the Jim Miller Memorial award which is given to a PhD student who best exemplifies Jim’s values of:
1) Integration of basic science with clinical medical genetics; 2) Creative leadership in departmental exchange of scientific ideas; 3) Originality and creative thinking; 4) A high degree of independence.”
She was then given the Departmental Teaching award for her commitment to teaching!
Here is our 2011 Summer Newsletter. Enjoy!

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Examining the quality of name code record linkage: what is the impact on death and cancer risk estimates? A validation study
Alexander Swart, Nicola S Meagher, Marina T van Leeuwen, Kun Zhao, Andrew Grulich, Limin Mao, Deborah Anne Randall, Louisa Degenhardt, Lucy Burns, Dianne O'Connell, Janaki Amin, Claire M Vajdic
Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health | WILEY | Published : 2015
OBJECTIVE: To examine the validity and impact of record linkage using name code compared to full name records. METHODS: A registry of 45,419 opioid substitution clients (1985-2007) was linked with national population-based death and cancer registries using registrant's name, date of birth, sex, state, postcode and date of death. Records were linked using full name and then using the first two letters of the given and surname (2×2 name code). Sensitivity and specificity were computed and regression analysis used to identify factors related to linkage accuracy. Standardised mortality ratios (SMR) and standardised cancer incidence ratios (SIR) were estimated. RESULTS: The sensitivity and specif..View full abstract
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Awarded by Cancer Institute New South Wales
Australian National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC; ID630531) and the Faculty of Medicine, University of New South Wales. Also supported by Fellowships from the NHMRC Council (MTvL ID1012141; LD ID510279 and ID1041742; AEG ID568819; CMV ID1023159) and the Cancer Institute New South Wales (CMV ID10/CDF/2-42). The National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre at the University of NSW is supported by funding from the Australian Government under the Substance Misuse Prevention and Service Improvements Grants Fund. The funding bodies played no role in the study design or conduct, data collection, analysis or interpretation of data in the writing of the article or the decision to submit the article for publication.

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The Mexican government has confirmed earlier reports that transgenic maize is growing within the country’s borders and has apparently contaminated wild varieties, despite a national ban on the cultivation of genetically modified (GM) crops.
A government-commissioned study has shown that as many as 95 per cent of maize fields in the Mexican states of Oaxaca and Pueblo contain evidence of GM ‘contamination’— the highest level yet recorded.
The announcement — made yesterday (18 April) at the biodiversity convention meeting at the Hague, the Netherlands — is the latest twist in a heated scientific and political row over whether or not GM maize is contaminating wild strains in Mexico, the genetic home of maize.
The controversy erupted last November when David Quist and Ignacio Chapela from the University of California published a study in Nature that showed that DNA from GM maize had been found in wild varieties (see GM maize found ‘contaminating’ wild strains).
The findings have since been widely used by environmental groups and others as confirming the legitimacy of their concern about the potential effects of transgenic crops on plant biodiversity, considered essential for global food security.
But doubts about the scientific validity of the research led the journal earlier this month to withdraw its support for the study, concluding that there was insufficient evidence to justify its original publication of the paper (see Nature backtracks over GM maize controversy).
The new Mexican evidence, however, appears to support Quist and Chapela’s findings, and gives weight to environmentalists’ fears.
“Genetic contamination of wild Mexican varieties is taking place,” Exequiel Ezcurra, president of the National Ecology Institute at the Mexican environment ministry, told the Mexican newspaper La Reforma. “On average, 8 per cent of plants showed signs of GM contamination, although in other fields we found more than 10 per cent.”
The greatest levels of contamination were found near main roads and alongside commercially cultivated maize fields, whereas lower levels were found in more remote areas.
One explanation for the appearance of transgenic varieties of maize is that farmers may have planted maize imported into Mexico from the United States for use in tortillas, unaware that the grain was from GM crops.
According to Ezcurra, the Mexican study is planned to be published in a scientific journal after it has been carefully reviewed to avoid a repetition of the dispute over the scientific validity of the results that has dogged Quist and Chapela’s Nature paper.
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Statistics are a wonderful means of formatting reality into a concrete form that we can interpret. They help us realise patterns, trends and measure success and failures. They inform our decisions and actualise big, abstract systems and events into a form we can analyse and interpret.
However, they can and regularly are misused and deliberately misinterpreted – especially via social media platforms such as Facebook – to not illustrate but distort the truth of what is happening.
The Offending Image
The above image is a great example of how this can happen. It is a bold, eye-catching claim – why is poor Jeremy getting so much stick when he tried his best?
It is also completely inaccurate.
The page in question, “Another Angry Voice” (which regularly fills my newsfeed with this kind of shit) is run by an “independent blogger from Yorkshire,” rather than a reputable organisation or group of people. It doesn’t bother to footnote where its bold claim is from, so its baffling to see so many people treating any statistic it shits out likes its gospel. Unlike said page, I will footnote and substantiate everything I write here.
For those who do appreciate claims of this magnitude to be substantiated, the 123 stat is derived from here:
I wont beat around the bush here: the way AAV – a supposedly tell-it-as-it-is page with a 270,000-strong audience – has presented this statistic is as reprehensibly dishonest as the techniques the Murdoch press employ. The media coverage report from where it is derived is a report on just that – coverage. When they say media appearances, they do NOT literally mean interviews and filmed talks, but media coverage in the following forms:
Television: Channel 4 News (7pm), Channel 5 News Tonight (6.30pm), BBC1 News at 10, ITV1 News at 10, Sky News 8-8.30pm.
Press: The Guardian, The Times, Daily Telegraph, Financial Times, Daily Mail, Daily Express, Daily Mirror, The Sun, Star and the I.
To reiterate: the study is NOT into media appearances, but into media coverage. There may be statistics that do show Jeremy Corbyn to have made many, many media appearances, but I have not been able to find any.
To present, therefore, these statistics in terms of how hard these candidates campaigned represents either a deliberate desire to mislead, or woefully lacking reading comprehension on AAV’s part.
Even there, however, and even if subsequent statistics did emerge showing Jeremy Corbyn had made a significantly larger amount of appearances than Angela Eagle and Alan Johnson, the signs from the media coverage of Jeremy Corbyn are altogether that he failed to perform in the EU referendum.
Corbyn’s Performance Relative to Other Prominent Figures
Assessing Corbyn’s media prominence relative to his other party members is a pretty bizarre barometer to judge the commitment of these individuals; Corbyn was always going to receive more media attention as party leader – and thus the face of the second-largest party in the country – then relatively-unknown MPs like Angela Eagle and Gisela Stuart. After all, it is not the job of anybody but the party leader to lead the party.
Comparing Corbyn’s performance compared to the other most prominent figures in the referendum, however, makes a lot more sense:
Table 2.1: Top thirty media appearances (6 May – 22 June)
|Position||Name||Number of appearances||Percentage of items in which they appeared|
|1||David Cameron (Conservative IN)||499||24.9%|
|2||Boris Johnson (Conservative OUT)||379||18.9%|
|3||George Osborne (Conservative IN)||230||11.5%|
|4||Nigel Farage (UKIP OUT)||182||9.1%|
|5||Michael Gove (Conservative OUT)||161||8.0%|
|6||Ian Duncan Smith (Conservative OUT)||124||6.2%|
|7||Jeremy Corbyn (Labour IN)||123||6.1%|
|8||Priti Patel (Conservative OUT)||65||3.2%|
|9||Gordon Brown (Labour IN)||52||2.6%|
|10||John Major (Conservative IN)||47||2.3%|
Compare the difference in the amount of appearances between Corbyn and Cameron – a staggering 376 (18.8% of the total number of ALL media appearances). It is very easy to blame this on the right-wing tendencies of the media, and this did play a huge part in this. The report notes:
“National press coverage was highly polarised, with pro-IN papers emphasising pro-IN campaigners and arguments, and pro-OUT papers emphasising pro-OUT equivalents. In aggregate terms, this produced a ‘coverage gap’ of 60%: 40% in favour of OUT campaigners. However, when these differences are weighted by circulation, the difference extends to 80%: 20%.”
However, this does not absolve Corbyn from blame – it is the job of the leader to make his message heard. Extensive media coverage requires not just a high number of appearances, but also (i) high visibility and (ii) high quality in these appearance, which Corbyn simply did not provide
In terms of visibility, Corbyn refused to appear in the main televised debates – with viewing figures of 2.7 million and 3.9 million in the ITV and BBC debates respectively providing an excellent opportunity to make yourself seen.  Even with a right-wing media, if you create the news then you will be covered; Jeremy Corbyn failed to make any significant appearances.
This isn’t just about the real problems of sharing a platform with Conservatives. Ultimately, Corbyn simply failed to ever engage with any of the big-hitters of Leave (such as Boris and Farage), leaving it instead to figures such as Sadiq Khan and Angela Eagle.
As for high quality appearances? Appearing on The Last Leg and saying you are only 70% in favour of the EU does not constitute this (it is quite an amusing appearance nevertheless).  Compared to the genuine passion a speaker like Gordon Brown or Hilary Benn provides, Corbyn – who implicitly admits his heart wasn’t in the Remain campaign – just fails to inspire. Ultimately, he failed to provide anything with near the impact of the rapturous applause Boris Johnson received in the final BBC debate.
Corbyn’s Minimal and Antagonistic Involvement With Labour Remain
Furthermore, suggesting that the only complaint people have had with Corbyn’s campaign was the amount of media appearances he made is disingenuous. Corbyn’s involvement in planning the campaign itself has been heavily criticised, with Chuka Umunna claiming that Corbyn, or indeed anybody from his office, failed to attend even a SINGLE Labour Remain meeting. It’s a shocking claim and we only have Umunna’s word for it, but both the BBC and the Guardian (albeit not in an editorial) reported that leaked Labour documents – supported by multiple anonymous Labour sources – implied Corbyn’s office had deliberately sabotaged and watered-down the campaign.
For example, Labour campaigners were told to redirect people they met from immigration, whilst multiple Labour remain materials had reduced focus on immigration than what was agreed at meetings. Claiming that “Corbyn was one of the only ones who spoke to the public as if we’re adults,”  therefore, does not really fit when, under his leadership, Labour refused to engage with the singular main issue of this referendum – immigration. Positively campaigning for the benefits of EU immigration, whilst admitting some areas were under too much pressure due to Tory policy, would have been a far better move here – as Tim Farron did with some aplomb.
Finally, the Labour Remain campaign launched too late – as many observers at the time remarked. Corbyn, again, must take the blame for this.
So there are three main problems with this picture:
- It doesn’t show what it purports to show – it is MISLEADING
- Even if it did, it ignores explanations for these trends that do not fit into its narrative – it is BIAS
- It ignores wider trends – it is PARTIAL
It is far from alone in possessing these flaws; there are broader implications from this picture that means that these three problems must be kept in mind with whatever you’re reading.
Firstly, the best way to avoid misleading statistics is to never read a statistic at face value – even if the statistic is actually real, it might not mean what you think it does. Statistics are essential to interpreting trends and patterns, but must be analysed in context and alongside other statistics.
Secondly, consider bias – obviously in the attitudes of whoever is presenting evidence, but also in the attitudes that might influence how you approach the evidence; always avoid confirmation bias. People largely believe what they want to believe, and we’re all guilty of this – even those of us like this author, who like to lecture others on this. Check every statistic you read, even if it supports your own view.
In fact, especially if it supports your own view.
Finally, in terms of ignorance of the wider context and partial evidence, the last point I would make is very simple: don’t trust random shit you read on the internet. Most of it – especially the political stuff – is pure, refined, 100% bullshit made by people who probably have less of an idea what they are talking about then you do.
 BARB website – BBC 1 week June 20th and ITV week June 12th


By Angela Williams, Army Flier Staff WriterMay 10, 2012
FORT RUCKER, Ala. (May 10, 2012) -- For a few hours last week, Fort Rucker Elementary School's gym was transformed into a jungle, complete with vines and trees, and elephants, monkeys and bears.
The cast and crew, along with the help of a few parents and teachers, put hours of work into setting the stage for the sixth grade production of "The Jungle Book."
"This is an exciting event that we've all celebrated," said school principal Vicki Gilmer. "It was a spectacular performance."
The students auditioned for parts in November, studied scripts and lyrics in December, then started practicing twice a week in January, said Vicki Porter, one of the school's drama club directors.
The students were responsible for every part of the play, including changing costumes and adjusting microphones backstage, she added.
After the third and final performance Friday morning, Porter and Leslie Soffe, the other drama club director, gathered the students on stage to ask a few questions and give final instructions.
"Are you going to miss this?" the directors asked. "Yes!" the students shouted together.
The students said some of the most challenging parts of producing the play were remembering lines and dance steps at the same time, quick costume changes, staying quiet backstage and staying in character for the whole performance.
Some of the students' favorite songs included "Monkey Business," during which the students literally danced around like monkeys, and the finale version of "The Bare Necessities" that included the entire cast.
The directors extended special thanks to Allison Kickhoffel, a teacher who helped with the choreography; Laura Rogers, a parent who painted the backdrop for the play, and the school's Parent Teacher Association that provided microphones, costumes, and a "production box" of scripts and music.
Porter and Soffe also said the Thursday evening performance was a "special treat" because it was a packed house and a cast member from each of the previous plays produced by the sixth grade drama club attended.
"It was special to us because they made an effort to come back," Porter said.


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CHICAGO (AP) – Illinois Gov. Bruce Rauner says legislation that provides billions of dollars in subsidies to power giant Exelon Corp. is imperfect but that he’s “proud” of the deal lawmakers reached.
The measure approved Thursday provides $235 million per year to Exelon to keep unprofitable nuclear plants running in Clinton and the Quad Cities. More than 4 million customers of power-distributing subsidiaries ComEd and Ameren will pay more to finance the plan.
Rauner has previously blasted “special deals” for corporations. On Thursday he vetoed additional state money for Chicago Public Schools, calling it a “bailout.”
The Republican, who’s expected to sign the Exelon bill, said Friday that Clinton and the Quad Cities communities would have been “devastated” if those plants closed.
He also says subsidies are “endemic” in American energy policy.

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Attendees weren’t just scientists and people from the pharmaceutical industry. They also included, on one day of the event, families of patients with epilepsy.
It’s been my experience that right now Drs. ( vets also ) don’t have a lot of CBD knowledge. It was pain and depression so I wasn’t hanging onto the Epilepsy details. Charotte’s Web was what I was interested in and that when I starting reading the Epilepsy stuff. So please, please research this CBD gummies for sale first without just taking my word for it. You might even come across more detailed information and maybe even a suggested dose.
Potentially, CBD can increase the duration and strength of ibuprofen, thereby increasing the risk of adverse side effects. No human studies to date examine CBD’s interaction with NSAIDs specifically. Still, two studies conducted on animal models in 2006 and 2008 and published respectively in the journals, Pain and Pharmacology, suggest that other cannabinoids may work synergistically with NSAIDs like ibuprofen to reduce pain. Ibuprofen is a nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory (NSAID) medicine that reduces pain and inflammation in the body.
But these problems are seen only when very high doses of CBD (20-50 mg/kg) are given along with other drugs. One of the only established harmful effects of CBD is the modulation of liver enzymes. High doses of CBD — a few hundred or thousand milligrams taken orally — can inhibit drug-metabolizing enzymes.
A lack of federal regulation (for now at least) of the CBD space enables such false advertising—and also makes it difficult to know what other substances might be in any given CBD product. Each additional unknown substance could raise its own drug-drug interaction concerns. No one has systematically studied CBD’s interactions with other drugs. The only clear documentation of interactions comes from studies on Epidiolex, a federally approved treatment for a few rare forms of epilepsy made primarily of concentrated CBD. Those studies found that particularly high CBD doses could, in some patients, increase blood levels of other antiepileptics they were taking, such as clobazam, eslicarbazepine, rufinamide, topiramate, valproate, and zonisamide.


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New kitchen cabinets can be bought ready to assemble, and you can install them on your own. Custom cabinets are expensive and not always necessary. To get the right cabinets and stay within your budget, you just need to know that strength is important, and know which design options are affordable.
Kitchen cabinet refacing can be a simple way to change the entire look of your kitchen, especially if you have a lot of cabinets. Doing this process, you can change the color of stain if you have wood grain cabinets; or you can apply a colored paint. The thing to keep in mind is that there is a process that needs to be followed for your cabinet refacing to turn out perfect.
When selecting kitchen cabinets it is a good ideas to start by defining your style. Will your kitchen design be more along the lines of a traditional look with raised panel doors and a lot of ornate molding? Or will it be more of a rustic look with knotty pine and more simple detailing?
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I am a PhD candidate in MIT CSAIL, advised by Professor Srinivas Devadas.
My current research interests are in secure communication, public-key directories, cryptographic puzzles, cryptocurrencies, anonymity and privacy-preserving web applications.
I received an S.M. in EECS from MIT in 2015 and a B.S. in Computer Science from Stony Brook University in 2012, where I worked under the guidance of Professor Radu Sion.
Towards Scalable Threshold Cryptosystems, Alin Tomescu, Robert Chen, Yiming Zheng, Ittai Abraham, Benny Pinkas, Guy Golan Gueta and Srinivas Devadas, in IEEE S&P 2020.
Efficient Verifiable Secret Sharing with Share Recovery in BFT Protocols, Soumya Basu, Alin Tomescu, Ittai Abraham, Dahlia Malkhi, Mike Reiter, Emin Gun Sirer, in CCS 2019. [DL ACM] [arXiv]
Transparency Logs via Append-only Authenticated Dictionaries, Alin Tomescu, Vivek Bhupatiraju, Dimitrios Papadopoulos, Charalampos Papamanthou, Nikos Triandopoulos, Srinivas Devadas, in CCS 2019. [DL ACM] [IACR ePrint] [CCS slides] [latex] [code]
SBFT: A Scalable and Decentralized Trust Infrastructure, Guy Golan Gueta, Ittai Abraham, Shelly Grossman, Dahlia Malkhi, Benny Pinkas, Michael K. Reiter, Dragos-Adrian Seredinschi, Orr Tamir, Alin Tomescu, in DSN 2019. [arXiv] [bibtex] [code]
Catena: Efficient Non-equivocation via Bitcoin, Alin Tomescu and Srinivas Devadas, in IEEE S&P 2017. [pdf] [latex] [bibtex] [SP slides] [BM slides] [talk] [code]
PriviPK: Certificate-less and secure email communication, Mashael AlSabah, Alin Tomescu, Ilia Lebedev, Dimitrios Serpanos, Srini Devadas, in Computer & Security 2017. [link]
PrivateFS: A Parallel Oblivious File System, Peter Williams, Radu Sion and Alin Tomescu, in ACM CCS 2012. [pdf]
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Federal Tax Cuts Could Result in Utility Rate Cuts
By: Constitution Staff
Federal Tax Cuts Could Result in Utility Rate Cuts for Customers
The estimated annual tax savings for the five utility companies is approximately $100 million, not including additional savings from other affected utility accounts.
With the December passage of federal tax cuts, Oklahoma Corporation Commissioner Bob Anthony urged quick action to return ratepayer money to Oklahoma public utility customers. Commissioner Anthony said utility customers could see a $100 million savings. But, Anthony warned that unless regulators act, that benefit could go to the utilities rather than customers. The new tax law went into effect on January 1.
Because public utility rates include a component for federal income taxes paid by the utilities, Anthony suggested that utility rates should be lowered to pass the savings on to utility customers. But when the Tax Reform Act of 1986 lowered federal corporate income tax rates, modified depreciation provisions and otherwise changed the ways corporate taxes were calculated, Oklahoma customers did not see a rate reduction.
In the case of Southwestern Bell (now AT&T) a settlement agreement allowed the company to keep the federal tax savings rather than refunding the accumulated savings and lowering rates. The agreement was approved by the OCC, but it was later learned that the deciding vote was cast by a commissioner that was bribed. Now, more than three decades later, a group of Southwestern Bell customers is still battling to have the money returned. A separate article elsewhere in this edition reviews the latest action in those efforts.
In response to Commissioner Anthony’s call for a reduction of rates, Oklahoma Attorney General Mike Hunter filed five motions with the OCC asking for an immediate reduction in customer rates from the state’s leading utility companies. The attorney general’s request came the day that the overhaul of federal income taxes was signed into law. The new law lowers the highest corporate income tax rate from 35 percent to 21 percent.
The estimated annual tax savings for the five utility companies is approximately $100 million, not including additional savings from other affected utility accounts. “Oklahomans who are customers of these companies should immediately retain the benefits of the savings from the tax cut in the form of lower rates. We urge the OCC to act quickly and in the best interests of customers, not company shareholders,” Attorney General Hunter said.
The attorney general also requested that the OCC protect customers’ ability to receive excess accumulated deferred income tax, which is used to reflect utility companies’ past use of tax breaks to defer tax bills. With lower tax rates enacted, a portion of accumulated deferred income tax would be unnecessary to cover future taxes – creating an “excess” portion. Without OCC action, utility companies could retain the entire benefit of excess accumulated deferred income tax, so the attorney general requested that the OCC create a temporary protection. The actual treatment of the excess could then be addressed at the time of the final order, where the attorney general would request a refund to ratepayers.
The Attorney General’s office provided estimated annual corporate tax savings, not including accumulated deferred income tax, for each utility company :
Oklahoma Gas & Electric - $51.7 million;
Public Service Company of Oklahoma - $24 million;
Oklahoma Natural Gas - $20 million;
CenterPoint Energy - $859,000;
Arkansas Oklahoma Gas - $270,500 (changed order to reflect size)
In response to the initial recommendation of Commissioner Anthony, followed by Attorney General Mike Hunter’s formal request, OCC Administrative Law Judges held hearings and recommended that Oklahoma utilities use the savings they receive from the new federal corporate tax rates to issue rebates to their customers. But Commission Chairman Dana Murphy worried that the complexities of the new federal tax measure and each utility’s unique situation might make it difficult for regulators to quickly calculate what customers are due.
On January 9, the OCC in a 2 - 1 vote with Commissioner Anthony being the only member in favor of the immediate customer rate reduction, struck down the attorney general’s main recommendation. An alternative proposal supported by Commissioner Dana Murphy and Commissioner Todd Hiett was then approved which requires utility companies to begin tracking savings that each company will receive from the federal income tax cut. The order also instructed the companies to create an account for the savings received and refund those savings to customers after a review by the OCC at a later date. Companies must provide the OCC estimates of tax savings within four months.
Attorney General Hunter said he hopes the OCC’s decision will ultimately lead to money back in the pockets of Oklahomans. “We appreciate the commission acting quickly on our motions,” Hunter said. “While we would have preferred customers see immediate savings, putting the money aside and distributing it at a later date will give Oklahomans future relief.” Hunter urged the OCC to press forward without delay in completing its review of the amount to be refunded to customers, and in lowering customer rates.
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|Application number||US 06/081,452|
|Publication date||Jan 27, 1987|
|Filing date||Oct 3, 1979|
|Priority date||Oct 3, 1979|
|Publication number||06081452, 081452, US 4638565 A, US 4638565A, US-A-4638565, US4638565 A, US4638565A|
|Inventors||Clayton J. Podany, Richard W. Glaseman|
|Original Assignee||Podany Clayton J, Glaseman Richard W|
|Export Citation||BiBTeX, EndNote, RefMan|
|Patent Citations (8), Referenced by (20), Classifications (8)|
|External Links: USPTO, USPTO Assignment, Espacenet|
This invention relates generally to a bow sight for use by an archer and more particularly to an aiming reference within the bow sight.
The original method of aiming an arrow at a target is generally an inexact sight alignment of the arrow with the target. As the distance to the target increases, the angle of inclination of the arrow from the horizontal is increased to compensate for the effect of gravity on a flying arrow. Also wind movements from the side of the projected path of the arrow require compensation in the aiming of the arrow.
Gravity and windage corrections can be more exact under many conditions by the use of peep sights on the bow string and bow sights on the bow. The aiming reference on a bow sight can either be a pin head, a V sight, or cross hairs mounted either alone or in combination with a lens varying in power from 0 to 8 or even greater.
Problems existing with either a pin head or cross hairs aiming reference are the size and the color of the aiming reference relative to the target and the background of the target. If the size of the aiming reference is sufficiently large to make it readily observable under any kind of conditions then, at distances of under fifty yards, the archer is required to again estimate to a certain degree the aiming of the arrow. The aiming reference under that distance could easily project over an area having a radius of several inches.
Under cloudy conditions, at twilight, or when the background is shaded or blends with the target a small aiming reference may be undiscernable or barely discernable. Those adverse conditions require more time and make it more difficult to properly align the bow and arrow with the target.
In accordance with the present invention, an aiming reference for an archery sight has been devised which is a variable light source. The light source is connected to a power pack and a variable resistor wherein the intensity of the light source can be varied.
Accordingly, it is the principal object of the present invention to provide a novel and an improved aiming reference for an archery sight.
Another object of the invention is the provision of an aiming reference formed from a light source.
Yet another object of the invention is to provide an aiming reference formed from a light source having a variable intensity.
A further object of the invention is the provision of an aiming reference which is micro in size but yet readily discernable at any range.
Still a further object of this invention is to provide an aiming reference which is readily discernable under the most unfavorable light conditions and for the most unfavorable background or target conditions.
Yet a further object of the invention is the provision of an aiming reference for a bow sight which is extremely effective in use, economical of manufacture, and durable and simply of construction.
These objects and other features and advantages of the invention will become more readily apparent upon reference to the following description when taken in conjunction with the accompanying drawings.
In the drawings as hereinafter described, a preferred embodiment of the invention is illustrated; however, various modifications can be made thereto without departing from the true spirit and scope of the invention:
FIG. 1 is a partial elevation view of a bow and bow string with a peep sight and bow sight affixed thereto;
FIG. 2 is an exploded view of the bow sight;
FIG. 3 is a partial front elevational view of the bow sight;
FIG. 4 is a sectional view taken along the lines 4--4 in FIG. 3;
FIG. 5 is an enlarged front elevational view of the aiming reference and mounting ring;
FIG. 6 is a side elevational view thereof; and
FIG. 7 is a schematic of the electrical circuitry.
Referring now to the drawings, the bow sight of this invention is indicated generally by the numeral 10 in FIGS. 1 and 2. The bow sight is affixed to an archer's bow 11 and is used in combination with a peep sight 12 mounted on a bow string 13. Also depicted in FIG. 1 is an arrow 14 to show the relationship of the above mentioned elements.
Secured to the bow 11, on the side opposite the arrow, above a grip 16 is a bracket 17 having a forwardly projecting arm 18. Affixed to the forward end of the arm 18 is a vertical bar 19. Adjustably mounted on the bar 19 is the bow sight 10.
The bow sight 10 (FIGS. 2 and 3) includes a tubular housing 21 having a sight passage 20 formed longitudinally therethrough. A threaded mounting shaft 22 is secured to the outer wall of the housing and projects radially therefrom. The shaft 22 is adjustably affixed to the vertical bar 19 to permit the bow sight to be raised, lowered, moved to the right, or moved to the left.
Disposed laterally in the bow sight 10 is an annular mounting ring 23 (FIGS. 2 and 4). Abutting the mounting ring 23 is a lens 24 and mounted behind the lens 24 is an annular positioning ring 26. The mounting ring 23 is held against the lens by an O-ring 27 and a split ring 28.
The mounting ring 23 (FIGS. 5 and 6) is formed from a non-conductive material and has a copper film 29 disposed on one side thereof. A portion of the copper film 29 is removd at 45° and 225° thus providing two substantially semi-circular conductive spaced bands 31 and 32. Secured as by soldering to each band is one end of a wire 33 or 34. The other ends of the wires are connected to a male plug 36.
A hole 40 (FIGS. 2 and 3) is formed in the wall of the housing 21 proximate the mounting shaft 22. The wires 33 and 34 are disposed through the hole 40 with the mounting ring 23 in the housing 21 and the male plug 36 distal the housing 21.
An aiming reference or light source 37 (FIG. 5) includes a filament 38 connected between the ends of two electrical leads 39 and 41. The leads are secured at their other ends to the bands 31 and 32 respectively and position the filament 38 at the center of the mounting ring 32.
Secured to the arm 18 (FIGS. 1 and 2) proximate the vertical bar 19 is a power pack container 42. Disposed in the container is an electric circuit 43 (FIG. 7) connected on one end to a female plug 44. The circuit 43 includes in series a 9 volt battery 46; a first resistor 47 (430); a variable resistor 48 (5000) connected in parallel with a third resistor 49 (360); a switch 51; and the light source 37 (0.014A and 214). The male plug 36 is removably mounted in the female plug 44 thus completing an electric connection between the light source 37 and the electric circuit 43.
The variable resistor 48 is operable between a first position wherein no current is supplied to the light source 37 to a fully closed position wherein the light source is at maximum intensity. In operation the intensity of the light source 37 is adjusted to provide an adequate aiming reference.
Although a circuit and light source has been illustrated in a preferred form, it will be appreciated that they may assume other configurations to accomplish the desired result of a micro-sized aiming reference formed from a light source having an intensity which is variable.
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|U.S. Classification||33/265, 42/131|
|International Classification||F41G1/467, F41G1/34|
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|European Classification||F41G1/34B, F41G1/467|


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On Friday January 24, 2013 Year-End Charity Drive Presentation of Donations was held at Japanese Chamber of Commerce of Southern California Conference Room.
MCed by JCCSC officer Ms. Kitty Sankey, her opening remarks started the ceremony. Welcome greetings by the committee chair and Senior Vice President Mr. Kaz Kishita and President Mr. Yoshio Aoki followed.
The donations from 2013 Year-end Charity drive was donated to three organizations.
One of the purpose of 2013 Year End Charity was the Phillipine Typhoon desaster relief and the first organization who received the donation was the Philoppino American Chamber of Commerce. Mrs. Shirley Lumanog was present with Mr. Lumanog, to receive the donation from Committee Chair Mr. Kishita. Mrs. Lumanog and Ms. Mary Joy Ramirez, the Deputy Consul General of the Philippines, gave a word of appreciation to JCCSC.
Secondary, from one of the dedicated cooperating organization, Southern California Showa Kai, Mr. Seiji Horio presented the donation to Japanese Community Pioneer Center. Mr. Mack Miyazaki from Pioneer Center, who was one of the founder of the Year End Charity Drive years ago, expressed his thankfullness in his speech.
Finally, President Mr. Yosho Aoki presented the donation to Kizuna, a organization dedicated to develop and support the Japanese American youth community and activities. Craig Ishi, Exective Director of Kizuna received the donation and made a speech of appreciation.
At the end of ceremony, delicious cake from Yamazaki Bakery have entertained all that present.
We are very glad to be able to support Japanese Community Pioneer Center, Kizuna and those who suffer from Philippine Tyhoon, with our Charity drive and donations collected by the program. donations. We sincerely hope the rapid recovery for tyhoon-devastated Philippines and further development of activities for Pioneer Center and Kizuna!


Scott PD Searching For Attempted Bank Fraud Suspect
The Scott Police Department is searching for a man wanted for attempted bank fraud after attempting to cash a fake check at Home Bank on June 16.
Scott Police Chief Chad Leger said an arrest warrant has been issued for Marshall Harden Jr. who tried to cash a payroll check Tuesday. As the bank teller began verifying the check, the suspect became irritated as she began copying his information. Harden then grabbed his identification card from the teller and left the fraudulent check.
Harden, listed as being homeless, is being sought by Scott Police.


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I had discussed in my last post that the outsourcing debate is on the wrong track! It is NOT about the cost at all. It is about scalability and efficiency foremost! Here is another opinion that finally sees that light!
Salaries for Indian IT workers are climbing an average 12% annually. As large U.S. companies such as IBM and Electronic Data Systems Corp. expand operations in India, some analysts and competitors contend that pressure on wages will only increase, and the top-tier Indian IT providers will become victims of their own success.
Bah humbug, says Stephanie Moore, an analyst at Cambridge, Mass.-based Forrester Research Inc. Moore pointed out that despite wage inflation, India’s three largest IT providers, Infosys Technologies Ltd., Tata Consultancy Services Ltd. and Wipro, enjoyed stellar year-over-year revenue and profit growth for the first quarter of the current fiscal year.
More to the point, the top-tier Indian providers will continue to take business from their onshore “legacy” competitors, Moore said, because they have created a new and improved delivery model for IT services.
“The popular press is currently touting a pending slowdown among Indian providers as they become victims of their own success, but the truth is that Indian firms will continue to grow — and not just because they are a lower-cost option,” Moore wrote in a report published Aug. 1. “These players will continue their growth path because they have caused a fundamental and structural change in the service provider/client relationship. Offshore providers have taught clients to expect transparency, efficiency and accountability in service delivery.”
I hae often compared the Consulting model of today with the Airline model of a couple of decades back. The tools and software is as easily available as the aircrafts are.. and so are the professionals who can be hired on contract – much like the pilots. It is no longer going to be enough to simply take off and land safely but do every in the fastest possible time and to the complete satisfaction of the customer at the lowest possible cost!
Ultimately Southwest will win. And Southwest is not about just lowest cost but the most efficient service! That is where the Indian companies win hands down. Why? Because no one knows the Indian market and working style as well as they do. What they lack is in the Western style functioning but they are developing very fast!
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A fire that erupted over the weekend on a military ship that was officially extinguished on Thursday, with the cause of the days-long blaze still unknown, according to the Navy.
All known fires on the USS Bonhomme Richard have been put out, four days after the flames first erupted on Sunday, Rear Admiral Philip Sobeck, Commander, Expeditionary Strike Group Three said in a statement. The extent of the damage, as well as what started the fire, is still unknown.
“This was a Navy team effort. We had support from the air and sea,” Sobeck’s statement said. “Three helicopter squadrons conducted more than 1,500 water bucket drops, fighting the fire and cooling the super structure and flight deck enabling fire crews to get onboard to fight the fire.”
By Monday, 17 sailors and four civilians were injured, but Sobeck said on Thursday that 63 people — 40 Navy sailors and 23 civilians — have been treated for minor injuries, including heat exhaustion and smoke inhalation.
Authorities are still working to confirm that there are no more active fires aboard the vessel and will begin an investigation into what happened to start the fire. Sobeck told reporters Monday morning that initial reports indicated that pressurization caused the explosions, but did not elaborate on the details.
The Bonhomme Richard is an amphibious assault ship, which works to deploy elements of a Marine landing force. San Diego became home to the ship in 2018 after it was docked for six years in Japan, according to the U.S. Naval Institute.
Krishna Jackson, public affairs officer for Naval Base San Diego, told NBC San Diego Sunday that the ship had undergone a regular maintenance cycle before the fire was reported.
The ship’s future is unknown, Sobeck said, as the Navy assesses how badly the fire impaired the USS Bonhomme Richard.