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"The Cup of Tears," a super slick short that appeared online last fall, is getting made into a major motion picture.
Writer-director Gary Shore posted the two and a half-minute trailer on Vimeo in September 2009, with the bold pronouncement, "This is a trailer for the forthcoming feature I am writing and directing, 'The Cup of Tears.'"
Now Universal and Working Title have bought the film rights and are helping to shepherd it to the big screen, according to Heat Vision.
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The highly stylized clip, while visually stunning, is sort of a hodgepodge of every martial arts movie cliche, topped off with a soupçon spaceships.
According to the caption on the YouTube version of the clip that was posted by his production company, Windmill Lane, "Cup of Tears" is:
"(A) visually modern fairytale, set in old world Japan. The narrative follows a scorned geisha who creates a magical cup made of tears that causes any man who drinks from it to fall under a stasis of permanent sleep. One night the cup is stolen, setting off a chain of events that threatens civil war amongst the clans. Taro, a once gifted samurai, and his companion Jin set out to find the cup and the one who can break the spell before inner turmoil consumes the land."
Shore, who makes a living directing commercials, made "Cup" in between jobs over the course of six months last year in the hopes of breaking into features. Well played, sir.


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So you decide to drive home after a few drinks. All of a sudden, panic strikes when blue and red lights appear in your rearview mirror.
Getting pulled over is a scary ordeal — even if you haven't had a sip of alcohol. And if you have, a big decision awaits you you: whether or not to take a breathalyzer.
We asked Martin Kron, a New York State traffic attorney and former judge, what to do when facing the threat of a driving under the influence (DUI) charge. (Some states use the acronym DWI, for driving while intoxicated.)
"Technically, you can refuse a breathalyzer, but it's not going to help you," he said.
First, most states have "implied consent," Kron said. By getting your license, you also agree to take a breathalyzer upon request. And if you turn it down, many of those states impose a separate penalty where you'll lose your license for a period of time anyway.
In New York, for example, the punishment for refusing a breathalyzer is just as harsh as actually driving drunk, according to Kron. (When you refuse a breathalyzer for the first time in the Empire State, your license can get suspended for a whole year.)
And just because you refused the breathalyzer doesn't mean you successfully avoided a charge. "There are lots of ways a cop can come to the conclusion that you're drunk," Krone explained.
For example, an officer could testify in court that he or she smelled "alcoholic beverage" (since alcohol doesn't have a scent) in the vehicle or that the driver failed a number of field sobriety tests, like walking a straight line or reciting the alphabet.
Technically, the apparatus you blow into on the side of the road isn't even a breathalyzer. It's an alco-sensor, according to Kron, which gives the officer a "loose reading" of your blood alcohol content (BAC). That signals to the officer whether you're within a range that requires going back to the station for a true breathalyzer, which usually occurs in a room with cameras. Your true BAC could increase or decrease by then.
These alco-sensors can malfunction. If you take the test, "you'll give your lawyer something to work with — maybe he can prove the machine wasn't working properly or the cop didn't administer it properly on the scene," Kron said. And you might not even blow above the legal limit. You'll never know unless you try.
There's only one instance where you shouldn't take a breathalyzer — "if you're really, really, really plowed," Kron said. Some states include a drunk driving provision called "aggravated DWI," when you blow .18 or above, which is more than two times the legal limit. Serious penalties accompany aggravated DWI.
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NEW YORK (AP) — Bradley Cooper, not too long ago crowned "sexiest man alive" by People magazine, is coming to Broadway in an ugly role.
Producers said Thursday the "Silver Linings Playbook" and "American Hustle" actor will star in "The Elephant Man" this fall.
It's about a disfigured man in Victorian London whose own inner goodness forces people to reevaluate their notions of beauty.
It will be directed by Scott Ellis and co-star Patricia Clarkson and Alessandro Nivola. The stars and director were all in the 2012 Williamstown Theater Festival production of the play. The Broadway revival will be at a Shubert theater to be announced later.
Cooper was last on Broadway in 2006 opposite Julia Roberts and Paul Rudd in Richard Greenberg's "Three Days of Rain." The last time "The Elephant Man" was on Broadway was in 2002, with Billy Crudup in the starring role.
The play by Bernard Pomerance shows some two dozen snapshots in the life of the grotesque John Merrick, tracing his journey from an abused circus freak to a curiosity of London's high society.
The original "The Elephant Man" was an astounding success during the 1978-79 theater season, first off and then on Broadway, where such diverse performers as David Bowie and Mark Hamill eventually followed the mesmerizing Philip Anglim in the title role.
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Winterbotham, a British secret service official who would play a decisive role in the World War II Ultra code-breaking project, is born on this day in 1897.
A graduate of Oxford and trained in law, Winterbotham had been a pilot with the Royal Flying Corps in World War II before joining the British secret service (MI-6) in 1929 as chief of air intelligence. In 1938, Winterbotham and MI-6 colleagues learned of a German encrypting device called Enigma. By 1940, British experts broke Enigma's code, enabling MI-6 to intercept top secret and highly sensitive messages (even from Hitler himself) transmitted to and between German armed forces. Winterbotham was given the responsibility of distributing the German data, code-named Ultra, to British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, among others. This data proved invaluable to the Allies as a strategic tool in anticipating and undermining Axis military operations, from the Battle of Britain to Normandy.
Winterbotham was made a Commander of the British Empire in 1943 and was awarded the Legion of Merit in 1945. He died in Blandford, Dorset, in 1990.
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Disaster Averted[edit]
Okay, believe it or not, I have to tell a quick real-life story: as you may have garnered, I try to sort of tell a cohesive story when I write these Sims guides. As I finished the last section, I was trying to figure out how to change their careers to cover the rest of the guide… do I start giving them kids? Do I switch back to the original Schultzes, with Samson's cousin Dannie?
Then… I was hit with Save Error 12 (check the Bugs Q&A section for details), and wouldn't you know it? I lost IGN Guide Town!!! My last backup is from six months ago, so I've had to come to a tough decision… we're going to let the Schultzes rest in peace, only to live on in pictures and downloads from the official Sims 3 site.
Instead, we're going to move to New IGN Guide Town, in the new Twinbrook neighborhood. Our NEW stars (hopefully for the rest of the guide series) are a trio of Sims, and we'll meet them one at a time. First up, is Destiny Carwin…!
Getting Started[edit]
Destiny, clearly, is not your typical Sim who wants a conventional career. She wants to paint the world—or at least the neighborhood—using other Sims' bodies as her canvas. She calls a taxi and heads over to Drea's Salon, which is already placed because this is the Twinbrook template. She signs up for the job with no problem.
As with other interactive jobs, there are three responsibilities for Destiny to pay attention to in order to get promoted. However, unlike the other careers, being a stylist does not require any job skills. Destiny gets promoted by successfully fulfilling styling requests, by earning tips as a result of those requests, and by building her portfolio of successes. That third one is probably the one that's not self-explanatory, so we'll get to that one eventually.
Styling hours are Tuesday through Saturday, and it's currently Sunday morning, so it's going to be awhile. That's fine, though: this is a new family, which means I need to get their cooking and so on developed, and put her two roommates into part-time jobs for now. And I'm sure none of you need to see any of that.
Okay, now… once Tuesday comes around, Destiny gets this message in the corner…
Ah, Destiny automatically gets a contract to do a styling job. By clicking the button, Destiny hops in a taxi and heads down to the salon. There, she meets the client, as well as a little mini storyline behind the contract. Turns out that Pattina Knack wants some new threads for her athletic outfit because she wants to look her best for a gym opening. Not the most prestigious order in the world, but it has to start somewhere.
Destiny heads over to one of the makeover stations, which looks like this…
The two cabinets, the mirror, and the platform in front of the mirror collectively is a makeover station. Destiny interacts with the platform in front of the mirror, but can interact with any of the four objects to start the process. She picks the "Offer Makeover To…" command, then selects Pattina from the selection box that pops up. While she can offer a makeover to anyone on the lot, until she builds up some trust, random strangers might refuse her. Because Pattina has offered a contract, Pattina will guarantee to accept the offer. By the way, a copy of the contract as it were is on the left side of the screen, just in case Destiny forgets who contracted her or what the contracted Sim wants. (Destiny is a blond, after all!)
Making Over a Sim[edit]
We come to a modified Create-A-Sim screen. Destiny can actually affect everything here: hair, clothes, and makeup; everything except facial structure. However, because Destiny is contracted only to do an athletic outfit, that's what we need to concentrate on now.
There is a lot of freedom here: Sims typically don't care what they look like, oddly enough. There is no reason you can't give all your clients the same outfits, or a butt-ugly outfit, or an outfit that is completely hideous to look at. Destiny decides, what the heck, let's give this elder something that will attract the eyes…
Oh yeah: that will turn some heads!
Destiny hits the check mark, and… uh… it didn't turn out so well. Hm… perhaps giving her an outfit that can cause video epilepsy may not have been the best choice? Destiny makes the offer again for a makeover… Ah, I see the problem. See, Pattina wanted a new athletic outfit, and what I did was recolored her outfit. Here's the magic button you need to click…
That's the "add an outfit" button, and remember that any given category of clothing can have up to three outfits. You probably won't come to that limit when dealing with Townies, but your own Sims might get up there if you switch up their clothes often enough.
Now, remember that Destiny is just giving a random makeover here: she only gets one chance per contract, and she already failed once. However, she goes ahead and makes a new outfit for Pattina anyway, something a bit more conservative. Because this is a freelance makeover, Destiny earns a tip.
Or rather, she would have, but according to a message that pops up, Pattina refuses to pay. Sims have a 24-hour cooldown when they get made over, which means that Pattina won't pay again for a makeover for one more day. The makeover "takes" in the sense that Pattina now has a new athletic outfit, but Destiny doesn't have anything to show for it. This is to keep you from abusing the system, so to speak, by making over only one Sim a million times per day.
No matter. Destiny starts offering her services to anyone on the lot, giving quick hairstyle changes and color changes to existing outfits. Each one earns her a little cash, plus job experience. The cash she earns from styling far outweighs her weekly stipend: she gets about $100 per makeover and makes a measly $178 weekly, meaning she earns more with just two makeovers than from a whole week of doing nothing. (Elementary math FTW!) Clearly, Destiny is on her way.
All is not perfect: because she is a poor stylist (level 1 remember), she has a rather strong chance of failing a freelance makeover. Failing one basically randomizes the client's makeup and possibly their clothes, making them look like something out of a horror movie, or perhaps a Marten Jansen painting.
The next day, Destiny gets a new contract, and vows not to mess it up. Her client, Penny Pincher (seriously?!), wants a new hair color. Well, there is no option to "add a hair color" like there is to add an outfit, so just recoloring Penny's hair should do. Naturally, nothing can possibly go wrong with this.
Ugh. Well, Penny likes it, which is all that really matters. With a successful contract completed, a popup box insists that Penny gets her picture taken. You don't even have a choice here: the game kicks you to picture taking interface. Your Z and X buttons change the zoom, and your C key takes the shot. For some reason, you can't pause the game, and Penny keeps dancing around in various poses just to annoy me. Oh well… I get a half-decent shot, and the picture goes into Destiny's portfolio.
This is a good time to talk about the portfolio, actually. As soon as Destiny got her job here, she got a PDA, which went right into her inventory. Destiny can check it out through her inventory, and view all the pictures she's taken. Now, the way the portfolio works is that there are different contracts needed to fill it up. For example, Destiny's first picture here is "New Hair Color." If she encounters another Sim who wants their hair redone, Destiny will still earn the job experience and the cash for doing so, but her portfolio will not get better. However, the next time Destiny gets a new contact type, her portfolio will grow.
When you open the PDA, you can pull pictures out of it, and the picture becomes a standard item. That means you can hang the picture on the wall or put it on a desk, or even sell it (though they always sell for $0). This doesn't really help you out at all, and in fact for Destiny, it would be counterproductive: she wants pictures in her portfolio to help with her job progress and experience, and removing the pics removes the progress of the portfolio. Still, she can unload the pictures if, for some reason, she wants to change careers.
On her third day, Destiny gets a pretty large contract: she is to give Jenni Jones-Brown a new everyday outfit, two new sleepwear outfits, two new formalwear outfits, and a new swimwear outfit. This one will take awhile…
Once Destiny finishes, she sadly doesn't get paid in scale to the task; in fact, she's only paid a measly $60, despite making six new outfits. She does however get a new entry to her portfolio and some job experience, both of which are arguably better than petty cash.
Working From Home[edit]
After finishing with that client, Destiny gets a bit hungry for lunch, and she decides to go home… and is still on the clock! That's right, Destiny can work from home, except for contracts. At the moment, she's made over everyone else at the salon, so she decides to just go home for now and have lunch.
While she's there, Destiny decides to make a quick purchase. She drops $750 on a drafting table, which can be found in the Hobbies & Skills subsort of the Study sort, plus a bit more for a special stool, which you can buy from the same subsort. Her room gets a bit cramped, but they can't afford much more at the moment…
Man, this is the whole reason why I kept the Schultzes around is so I wouldn't run into money problems like this for the sake of the guide. Bah. Well, I promise, when The Sims 3: Late Night comes out, the Carwins will be ready to roll. Oh sure, I could throw in a "rosebud" or two, but heck, what fun is that? And you get to see how my poor Sims can claw their way to the top!
AAANNNYYYway… The whole point of the drafting table is to give Destiny a way to flesh out her skills. By interacting with the drafting table, she can increase her painting skill, as well as new fashion concepts or architectural designs. Hm… Valerie might want to steal the drafting table for her purposes, so Destiny decides to just lock her door. Hey, they may be sisters, and they may love each other, but Destiny has never liked sharing. I heard once that as a toddler, she beat Valerie with the arm of her own teddy bear.
As with all skills, a progress bar fills as she works on the drafting table. Regardless of what she picks, Destiny is gaining experience toward her painting skill. However, there is a key difference among the various options. Because Destiny is employed as a Stylist, every moment she is studying fashion concepts, she is gaining job experience! This makes learning the actual painting skill a bit slower, but it helps get her promoted up the ladder a heck of a lot faster.
Destiny hits Level 2 of the Stylist career track before the end of the week. On her fifth workday, she is not alerted when it's time to go to work… yet there is a contract waiting for her. This goes to show you that the message alerts for contracts don't show up once your Stylist gets past being a newbie. There is a hint here: if Destiny goes to her job panel, she sees the phrase "On the clock" in red rather than the usual dark navy. When "On the clock" is red, that means a contract is waiting for her, and she needs to leave the house. When "On the clock" is navy, she can stay home and just work on her drafting table.
No problem though: she drives over to the salon, takes her contract, and gets some job experience. Note that this is a new contract type, one that includes the client getting a new hairstyle and a new accessory in addition to a new outfit. "Accessory" can be anything from new earrings to a pair of glasses or even socks: just something new.
Starting the next week, Destiny is at Level 3 in her Stylist career track. At that point, she's allowed to give "freestyle makeovers," which really is a fancy way of saying that she gets to go to other people's homes to do the makeovers rather than the salon. I still need to open her job panel and, if "On the clock" is red, I need to click the "Go To Work" button that's there. Rather than going to the salon, Destiny takes the taxi to the client's home. This time, it's Phoenix Prudence, who just wants a new hair color. I click him, and we see this…
"Imply client looks like a llama"? Ouch! Well, Destiny is a nice girl and wants to climb up the ranks of being a Stylist, not smack away clients. 'Twould be fun for a Sim with the Evil trait, I'm sure, but not for our pink-tipped hottie. Destiny goes ahead and fulfills the contract, then heads home to work on her sketches some more.
Once Destiny hits Level 4, things get a lot more active. Now, she's getting multiple contract offers per day. She gets three contract offers immediately, and takes them in turn, as she's not on a time limit to get them done, other than the 7pm deadline of her work hours. This allows her to gain job experience rapidly, not to mention the increased cash from the promotions, and manages to cram in even more once she's free to work on her drafting board.
Destiny eventually hits Level 6. In her job description, one line reads: "Keep your portfolio overflowing with the latest looks, and weed out images of yesterday's trends." Despite what that might imply, the game doesn't care about what your portfolio has in it: all that matters is the portfolio being as full as humanly possible at all times. You might want to remove photos of Sims who are dead if you use the PDA to solicit your styling services, but otherwise, you may as well keep them in.
The final Stylist milestone is at Level 9; though technically you can do it anytime before then, it seems to gain some effectiveness if you wait, and besides, she wasn't able to afford it before now. Destiny purchases her own salon stuff, which is located in the Hobbies & Skills subsort of the Entertainment sort of Buy Mode. Note that she can buy a makeover station (the two cabinets and a mirror with a platform), as well as her selection of tattoo chairs. She can only afford one due to purchasing a brand new beautiful hot pink car, so she goes for the makeover station.
She can't invite any Sims directly with the makeover station, but now, whenever she invites friends over, she can immediately force them to have a makeover for some additional money. Again, this is a good excuse to have a makeover party, sort of like those crazy Mary Kay and Avon saleswomen that all you ladies out there know about.
By the way, one advantage to having her own car is that Destiny can now interact with it and use a special "Perform Job: [Whatever]" command to go to a lot and do a freestyle makeover, just in case you accidentally close out the message center window and are too lazy to go into Map View.
It's pretty much the same routine from here on out: Destiny does contracts when she's got them, and works on her drafting board when she doesn't. At this point, her Painting skill is maxed out, so her sketches are fetching over $300 each, making her an additional $750 or more daily in addition to her weekly stipend and her styling fees. She'll definitely be carrying the family for a bit… at least until we get to the next subsection of the guide, anyway!
Stylist Q&A[edit]
Do Sims care about what they look like?[edit]
Not really. Unless a Sim has a specific request (which will be listed in their contract on the popup box on the left side of the screen), you can do whatever you want when you makeover a Sim. You can make clashing colors, Mohawks for elders, or any texture for any surface you want. The game basically detects that you did something, leaving the actual makeover's quality in the eye of you, the gamer.
Gaining promotions seems to take forever, especially because there are no required skills for being a stylist! Any tips?[edit]
A simply routine will net you tons of experience points for the Stylist career. Basically, the routine is a simple if/then statement loop: if you have a contract waiting, then go do it at the salon. If you don't have a contract waiting, every second you're on the clock, stay home and do the "Research Fashion Designs" command at a drafting table. Your job experience will rocket upward, and you'll find that you get far more experience and progress just sitting on your butt than actually working. It's just like being at the IGN offices!
That's not to say you should only practice your research while you're on the clock. You'll gain job experience every so often as long as you're working on the drafting table (provided you've chosen "Research Fashion Designs") regardless of whether you're on the clock or not.
I got multiple contract offers in the message center, but I closed them before I accepted them. Can I see them again? …Wait, let me guess: I can see it with the new map tags from Map View, right?[edit]
Right, good guess! Just head to Map View, filter the tags by "Jobs and Opportunities," and you'll see where all your potential clients are located.
How many possible pictures are there for the portfolio?[edit]
Forty. Every picture adds 2.5% completion to the portfolio, though it's rounded down when you check the reports. Simple math tells us that there are 40 different contract types that you can take.
Okay, speaking of the portfolio, does it have any other use other than a picture collection device?[edit]
"Picture collection device"? You mean a "camera"? Man, I thought I was the only one who used awkward phrases under the guise of a more sophisticated vocabulary. Anyway, one thing the portfolio does is guarantee you customers. Say you makeover Pete Falkon and take his picture for the portfolio. Now, any time Pete is on the same lot as your stylist, you can use a special command from the PDA called "Solicit Styling Services…" This lets you basically force a previous customer—Pete in this case—to pay you to make him over again. He still won't pay if you try this more than once per 24 hours, but once you make over the town, you could throw a party some day and solicit your talents on all your party guests for some serious cash.
I took a contract that says I need to give my client new shoes. Which outfit do I apply that to?[edit]
It doesn't really matter, but I always apply new shoes to the client's every day outfit. Same deal with new hair styles, new hair colors, new makeup, or anything else: I just do it for the everyday outfit by default, but it doesn't matter. The important thing is doing the new shoes (or whatever) and not doing anything else.
My client wants three new outfits, but she already has one, and I can't add a fourth! What do I do?[edit]
Remember that if it says "new outfit," it means you can change their current outfit, you just can't merely recolor it. Recoloring an outfit counts as not giving them anything at all, strangely enough, so you'll want to change up the top and bottom of an outfit to get your contract fulfilled.
Why is my client yelling at me when I'm visiting him?[edit]
You go to clients' houses to work, not to socialize. Doing literally anything that isn't related to making over the client is flagged "inappropriate behavior," and you'll be warned to stop. Keep it up and you'll lose the contract and booted from the house. The AI is your enemy here, because if your Sim is on High Free Will, your Sim might run around and serve themselves food or watch TV or something; you'll want to keep your eye on your Sim's commands and cancel anything that shouldn't be there.
If you have a high relationship with the client, you might be able to get away with more, especially if he invites you to do something. Still, it's better to err on the side of caution: if you go to a client's home to work, then work, and you can socialize later (or even just go to the same lot on your own later).


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Robert Pattinson: With Other Girls While Kristen Stewart Waited For Him
Rob was having fun and meeting fans in Australia while Kristen was putting on a brave face at the 85th annual Oscars all alone. Do you think he misses her?
A new pic has emerged of Robert Pattinson posing with a fan in Australia. It's hardly an uncommon sight, but the timing is troubling, since on the very same day, Feb. 24, Kristen Stewart was walking the red carpet at the Academy Awards on crutches after hurting her foot — all alone. A source tells HollywoodLife.com Kristen was upset because she was waiting for Rob's call — but it never came.
Robert Pattinson Meets Fans Down Under
On Feb. 25, a fan named Louise Lynch posted a photo on Instagram with Rob, 26, at the Leigh Creek Tavern. "Just a casual Monday sesh. #robertpattinson #lovedmyhair #mademeblush #tookhisorder #gavehimgarlicbread #wetight #bff #XXXX #luckygirl #luckyguy #sadhisgone #hadconnection #mustbelove #hastag #somuchtosay #robo #pattsy #therover," she posted.
Rob seems to be running into fans all over Australia as he films The Rover, and since he is such a nice guy, he is happy to pose for pics.
Kristen Stewart Limps At The Academy Awards
Kristen hobbled down the red carpet and on stage while presenting the award for Best Production Design with Harry Potter star Daniel Radcliffe.
Next to a visibly pained Kristen, Daniel told E! News he felt horrible!
"I felt so bad. I just wanted to pick her up, put her in my arms and carry her onto the stage!" Daniel said. "I probably would have dropped her and opened her wound again," he laughed.
Kristen Was Waiting For Rob's Call
As we told you on Feb. 25, "Kristen Stewart was VERY depressed at the Oscars," a source tells us exclusively. "She thought Rob would at least call and congratulate her but he didn't at all. She kept her phone near her and checked it for texts but they never came."
Our source continued: "It was just a bad weekend, between the injury and being lonely. She felt dumb and was holding back tears the whole night. Kristen was on the verge of tears during Oscars because Rob didn't call her." Poor K-Stew!
Do you think Rob and Kristen will ever get back together, HollywoodLifers?
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More Robert Pattinson News:
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- Robert Pattinson With Fans In Australia — Over Kristen Stewart?
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What's new in Sabre Land? How about Ryan Miller? He has backstopped the Sabres to eight points in his first six NHL starts. Two wins, an overtime win and two overtime losses, at least a point in every contest, until being nipped 3-2 Tuesday evening in Philadelphia. How about Ales Kotalik? He took down the mighty division-leading Ottawa Senators last Saturday on their own ice almost single-handedly with both Sabre goals in a 2-1 OT victory.
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Now Google users can spy on how the coastline of Dubai, Brazilian rainforest or Las Vegas urban landscape has change in the last 28 years with Google Earth Engine.
Google went through more than 2 million pictures, or 90 terabytes of data, from Landsat (a joint mission between the USGS and NASA) to find images for every place on Earth without clouds to obscure the view, according to the official Google blog. The search engine then pieced them together to create a giant image for each year.
"As the final step, we worked with the CREATE Lab at Carnegie Mellon University, recipients of a Google Focused Research Award, to convert these annual Earth images into a seamless, browsable HTML5 animation," Rebecca Moore engineering manager at Google Earth Engine & Earth Outreach.
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Using Time's new Timelapse project, users can also see several timelapsed maps including the emergence of the Palm Islands of Dubai, the retreat of Alaska's Columbia glacier and the disappearance of Brazilian rainforest.
Many may view these timelapsed maps, or GiFs, strictly as amusement, but the images are meant to cause users to think. All four freely shareable GiFs tackle an issue: urban sprawl, deforestation, coastline exploitation and the disappearance of glaciers/global warming. This project seems to be educating the public on hotly debated environmental issues rather than just giving Google users a way to waste a few minutes.


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Haithabu Viking Museum – just outside Schleswig – is among the foremost archaeological museums in Germany.
The Wadden Sea National Park and World Heritage site is at your fingertips at the Multimar Wattforum Centre.
One of four sites under the Saxon Museum of Industry umbrella, Chemnitz Museum of Industry is housed inside a former foundry.
Erika Pohl-Ströher is the granddaughter of Franz and Marie Ströher – the founders of cosmetics company Wella, which was based in Rothenkirchen in Saxony until 1945.
The State Museum of Prehistory in Halle is one of the most important archaeological museums in central Europe.
Seven thousand years of Gallo-Roman history are brought to life at the European Archaeological Park in Bliesbruck-Reinheim, right on the French border in the Saarland .
As soon as you go inside you find yourself in a dark room. The objects on display in the cabinets at the Saarland exhibition have an almost theatrical effect.
Villa Borg, situated in the town of Perl in the Saarland , paints a vivid picture of life in the Saarland, Lorraine and Luxembourg region some 2,000 years ago.
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This chapter from the forthcoming book Women and the Law Stories, to be published by Foundation Press (Elizabeth Schneider and Stephanie Wildman, eds.), explores the story behind United States v. Cruikshank, 92 U.S. 542 (1875). In this decision the Supreme Court held, relying on its reasoning in The Slaughter-House Cases, that federal indictments against perpetrators of the racially-motivated Colfax Massacre of 1873 could not stand, because the indictments did not enumerate the specific rights of national citizenship that were violated when the victims were killed.
To the extent that this case is remembered at all, it is remembered as a race case. But this case marks the death knell of a human rights regime that, in recognizing the indissolubility of race and gender, the private and the public, and political, civil, and social rights, responded in a sophisticated way to the regime we call racialized gender. In the Reconstruction period (as in the present), racial identities were formed and maintained in part through ideas about gender and sexuality, and white racist violence frequently took the form of sexual violence, as in rapes and lynchings. Beginning with congressional testimony given by a black woman, Frances Thompson, about her rape by a white police officer during the 1866 Memphis Riots, we argue that understanding how post-Civil War white supremacy operated through ideologies of gender and sexuality can enrich our understanding of feminist history and constitutional law and theory.
Friday, April 9, 2010
Hall and Harris on The Story of U.S. v. Cruikshank
5 comments:
- Shag from Brookline said...
Can this essay be downloaded?
- April 10, 2010 at 6:49:00 AM EDT
- Mary L. Dudziak said...
I've fixed the link, so please try again. Thanks for the heads up.
- April 10, 2010 at 2:22:00 PM EDT
- Shag from Brookline said...
The fix works. Thanks. I was attracted to this because of the brouhaha during recent oral arguments before SCOTUS on the McDonald v. Chicago gun control case relative to the P/I clause of the 14th Amendment. Jack Balkin at Balkinization in a post had suggested that instead of SCOTUS focusing upon the Slaughterhouse cases re: P/I that the focus should be upon overturning Cruikshank. Then as I started reading this relatively short chapter, I was reminded of the recent proclamation by VA's governor to celebrate the Confederacy during this month of April. Jack had a couple of prompt posts at his Blog on this. I read about two-thirds of the chapter and then got to today's Sunday NYTimes where Jon Meacham's OpEd "Southern Discomfort" addresses the VA governor's proclamation. Also, on the same page was Maureen Dowd's column "Worlds Without Women" with its focus on recent headlines on Catholic Church issues that have been in the news.
All of these in conjunction with Hall and Harris' chapter have a connection. Today I am a woman, and I am roaring mad.
- April 11, 2010 at 1:18:00 PM EDT
- Shag from Brookline said...
The download consisted of 21 pages. It is obvious that this is not complete. Part II appears not to be complete and Part III is entirely missing. Can you check on this? Thanks.
- April 11, 2010 at 3:38:00 PM EDT
- Mary L. Dudziak said...
Authors often post drafts to SSRN, so it's likely that this is simply the current draft of this forthcoming piece. In any event, questions about an SSRN paper are better directed to the authors. You can find links to the authors' contact information on the abstract page for their paper.
- April 11, 2010 at 3:45:00 PM EDT


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Kaz Hirai used to be Mr. PlayStation, but now that he runs everything at Sony (which has its own motion picture studio), dude gets an invite to the Oscars.
You can play a little Where's Kazdo on the pic above using our image annotation. Hint: he's not one of the giant gold guys.
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I picked up at the light purple or lavender closest to the bottom and have added 5 more colors. The photo below shows all rows/ all of the colors. I took these late in the day with no flash...so the colors are just not vibrant as they should be.
I'm only adding about 7 more colors
Can you believe I started this ripple on November 1st or 2nd of last year?
This was my progress from November last year.
I can't wait to be finished. Maybe this November...if I try;D


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Brian Jones has been an admirer of Republican Sam Brownback's fiscal conservatism going back to Brownback's days as an anti-tax congressman in the 1990s. But now the real estate company owner from southeast Kansas finds himself in the odd position of fighting hard against the governor's plan for phasing out the state income tax.
Brownback has been lionized by the GOP right for trying to end the personal income tax, something not accomplished by any state in more than 30 years. In his two years in office, he has aimed to make Kansas a national testing ground for conservative theories about economic prosperity.
But the push, which he began with a 24 percent cut in the top rate, now depends on wiping out deductions claimed by more than 300,000 homeowners. He suddenly confronts the conundrum that just because taxpayers want to get rid of taxes doesn't mean they're ready to give up favorite tax breaks.
"All of a sudden, on this one, he just kind of went off the deep end," Jones declared at a recent Statehouse rally against Brownback's proposals. The Kansas Association of Realtors spent $195,000 in January alone on ads against the idea, which the group charges would slam the industry as well as people eager to own their own homes.
The governor insists that everyone will save in the long run. But his latest tax proposals are now stuck in the Republican-controlled Legislature, and some of his allies are worried they could be changed or, even worse, enacted in a way that would trigger drastic cuts to state programs, especially schools, potentially discrediting his vision.
"Going from a slow-growth to a pro-growth state involves tax policy, and it's difficult," Brownback said recently.
Anti-tax crusader Grover Norquist said conservatives nationwide are avidly watching Brownback's effort. "This is a completely new world," he said. "There's no shame in being slow in moving from the thing you've been doing for 30 or 40 years.
Brownback spent 16 years in Congress, most as a senator whose aw-shucks Midwestern manner softened a strong zeal for the supply-side economics of Reagan administration guru Arthur Laffer. Upon becoming governor, he began engineering a hard shift to the right for a state that had been led only recently by Democrat Kathleen Sebelius, now President Obama's Health and Human Services secretary.
Under Brownback's tax plan, the lowest income tax bracket would gradually decline from 3.5 percent to 1.9 percent and the top rate from 6.45 percent to 3.5 percent. Rates would plummet further toward zero if the state economy grows as he expects. His administration projects at least several thousand new jobs a year and a boost in the state's population by 35,000 by 2020.
But last year's tax cut was so aggressive that big budget problems loom unless Kansas cushions the fiscal blow. In addition to rate reductions, it wiped out taxes on many small business owners entirely. Scrapping the two homeowner tax breaks, plus extending a sales tax that was scheduled to expire, would raise about $490 million of the $850 million in revenue subtracted.
The Legislature is feeling the backlash about the homeowner deductions. A Senate committee voted to preserve the deduction for home property taxes. The full Senate expects to consider more changes next week.
The 56-year-old Jones, president of a family real estate firm that started in 1905 in his hometown of Pittsburg, said the money shouldn't come at the expense of helping people buy houses and helping brokers like him sell them.
"We've helped him all the way through, and it's kind of like, why? Why have you done this now?" Jones said.
Another Republican, Martha Atlas, 63, says the two deductions save her at least $700 in taxes a year on her three-bedroom ranch house in the Kansas City suburb of Prairie Village. She said she came to Kansas more than a decade ago in a downsizing move but "I'd move back to Missouri tomorrow if this went away - no question," she said.
Lawmakers could consider putting other tax breaks in the crosshairs, such as those benefiting religious or charitable groups, but those would generate their own political fires.
"Mathematically, something is going to have to give," said Republican Sen. Jim Denning.
The governor's administration contends that many homeowners would actually gain hundreds of dollars a year when the rate cuts are fully phased in. And that the state's surging economic activity will make up the revenue from the rate cuts long term.
Laffer, who has been a consultant for Brownback's administration, says the bountiful economic results of Brownback's plan, along with others favored by Republican Govs. Bobby Jindal in Louisiana, Mike Pence in Indiana and Pat McCrory in North Carolina, will be evident after the new system is in place and working.
"We have huge amounts of experimentation going on at the state level that will make a huge difference with the federal government," said Laffer.
Kansas governor: https://governor.ks.gov/
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|Shefali Chowdhury
|Biographical information
|In Harry Potter
Shefali Chowdhury (born 20 June, 1988) is a Welsh actress originally from Denbigh, Wales. She was brought up in a Muslim family, along with five siblings, of whom she is the youngest. Shefali is of Bengali origin; her parents immigrated to England from Sylhet, Bangladesh in the 1980s, when many Bengalis migrated to the UK.
She plays Harry Potter's Yule Ball date, Parvati Patil, in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. Daniel Radcliffe, who plays Harry Potter in the film, spoke at the launch of Goblet of Fire in London and said, "I had a dance scene with Shefali. She was completely gorgeous."
She also appeared in an uncredited role in a Tamil film Kannathil Muthamittal.
Shefali landed the coveted role of Parvati Patil whilst she was still a student in her final year at Waverley School in Birmingham. She did four A Levels, in English Language, Literature, Sociology, and Religious Studies at The Sixth Form College, Solihull. Her studies coincided with shooting of the current instalment of Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, where she reprised her role as Parvati Patil.
Despite Parvati's relatively small role in the book, Chowdhury was able to reprise her role for film adaptation of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince.[1]. She did not, however, appear in either part of the adaptation of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows.
She is currently studying Photography in Birmingham, UK.
- Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (2009) - Parvati Patil
- Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (video game) (2007) - Parvati Patil
- Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (2007) - Parvati Patil
- Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (2005) - Parvati Patil
- Kannathil Muthamittal (2002) (uncredited) - Refugee
External linksEdit
- Shefali Chowdhury on Wikipedia
- Shefali Chowdhury at the Internet Movie Database
- Harry Potter Role for College Student
Notes and referencesEdit
- ↑ "NR chats to GOF's Patil twins", BBC Newsround (2005-11-17). Retrieved on 2007-06-04.


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Argentina continues to make significant progress in prosecuting military and police personnel for enforced disappearances, killings, and torture during the country's "Dirty War" between 1976 and 1983, although trials have been subject to delays.
Comprehensive legislation was adopted in 2009 to regulate broadcast media,but a 2010 court injunction obtained by the Clarín Group, Argentina's largest media company suspended the implementation of provisions in the law that limit the ownership of radio and television outlets. In November 2012, the director of the regulatory body responsible for the law's implementation indicated that a major media company would lose some of its media licenses in December, when the court injunction was set to expire.In December, the Federal Civil and Commercial Court again postponed implementation of the relevant articles of the media law.
In recent years, the Supreme Court has defended the right of pre-trial detainees to be held in adequate conditions, the right of critical print media not to face discrimination in allocating official advertising because of their editorial position, and, in 2012, the right to legal abortions.
Significant ongoing human rights concerns in 2012 include poor prison conditions, torture, and arbitrary restrictions on reproductive rights.
Confronting Past Abuses
Several important human rights cases from Argentina's last military dictatorship (1976-1983) were reopened in 2003 after Congress annulled the 1986 "Full Stop" law, which had stopped prosecution of such cases, and the 1987 "Due Obedience" law, which granted immunity to all members of the military, except those in positions of command. In 2005, the Supreme Court upheld the unconstitutionality of the amnesty laws, originally decided by a judge in 2001 ina case brought by the Center for Legal and Social Studies (CELS)and Abuelas de Plaza de Mayo. Starting in 2005, federal judges struck down pardons that then-President Carlos Menem issued between 1989 and 1990 to former officials convicted of, or facing trial for, human rights violations.
As of August 2012, the number of persons accused of crimes against humanity had increased to 1,926, from 922 in 2007, according to CELS. There were 799 people facing charges for these crimes, and 262 who had been convicted and sentenced.
Trials have been subject to delays at the appellate level, with appeals normally taking more than two years to be heard after the sentence of the trial court. As of August 2012, the Supreme Court had confirmed final sentences in only eight of the cases reactivated after the annulment of the Full Stop and Due Obedience laws.
In July 2012, a federal court sentenced Jorge Videla, de facto president from 1976 to 1981, to 50 years in prison for implementing a plan to steal babies from women who gave birth while they were being held in torture centers before they were killed, andto hand them over to military families for adoption. More than 400 babies are estimated to have been affected. Other officers, including the head of the last military junta, Reynaldo Bignone (1982-1983), also received prison sentences. The court concluded that the theft of babies was a "systematic and generalized practice." Videla had been convicted in 1985 for crimes against humanity and was already serving a life sentence.
The "mega-trial" of state agents responsible for crimes committed at the Navy Mechanics School (ESMA) continued in 2012. In October 2011, a federal court sentenced 12 of the perpetrators to life imprisonment for the illegal arrest, torture, and murder of detainees held at the center. A second trial commenced in November 2012, in which 67 state agents faced similar charges. Seven of them were being tried for their alleged participation in "flights of death," in which prisoners held at ESMA were drugged and dropped from planes into the Atlantic.
The security of witnesses in human rights trials is a concern. After Jorge Julio López, a former torture victim, disappeared from his home in September 2006—a day before he was due to attend one of the final days of a trial—the government implemented measures to protect witnesses. The fate or whereabouts of López have still not been clarified.
Freedom of Expression
A law to regulate the broadcast media, which Congress approved in 2009, aims to promote diversity of views by limiting the ability of corporations to own large portions of the broadcasting frequency spectrum. The law contains vague definitions of what "faults" could lead to sanctions, including the revocation of broadcasting licenses. The Federal Authority for Audiovisual Communication Services (AFCSA), the regulatory body responsible for implementing and enforcing the law, issued repeated decisions in 2011 and 2012 against Cablevision, the cable TV division of the Clarín Group—Argentina's largest media corporation and a prominent government critic—for failing to reorganize its channels according to AFCSA regulations.
In October 2010, the Supreme Court upheld an injunction in favor of Clarín and suspended application of an article of the law that would oblige the company to sell within a year its outlets that exceed the new legal limits. In May 2012, the court ruled that the suspension would finally be lifted on December 7, 2012, even though a lower court was still considering the law's constitutionality. AFCSA's director, Martín Sabbatella, stated in November that only one media group had not agreed to present proposals to restructure its holdings before the December 7 deadline—a clear reference to Clarín— and that AFCSA would begin procedures for reassigning its excess licenses if it failed to do so.
In March 2011, the Supreme Court unanimously upheld an administrative court ruling in favor of Perfíl publications, which had filed for an injunction against the government of President Néstor Kirchner for refusing to allocate official advertising to Noticias and Fortuna magazines, and to the Perfíl newspaper, because of their critical editorial positions. The current administration of President Cristina Fernández has failed to comply with the court's ruling that it must provide advertising to Perfíl's publications in "reasonable balance" with that provided to similar outlets without reference to their editorial positions. In August 2012, an administrative appeals court ordered the government to comply with the Supreme Court ruling within 15 days. Following a successful government appeal against this order, the Supreme Court was expected to give a final decision on the case.
Argentina does not have a national law ensuring public access to information held by state bodies. A bill to this effect has been stalled in the Chamber of Deputies since it received Senate approval in September 2010.
Prison Conditions
Overcrowding, inadequate physical conditions, and inmate violence continue to be serious problems in prisons. In the province of Buenos Aires, inmates continue to be confined in police lock ups not designed or equipped to hold detainees for long periods, although their number has declined significantly since 2010 when the provincial authorities began relocating detainees after expressions of concern by national and international human rights bodies. Detention cells in 138 police stations in the province were closed in 2011 and detainees transferred to the already-overcrowded Buenos Aires prison system, according to CELS. According to the Committee against Torture of the Provincial Commission for Memory, 127 prisoners in Buenos Aires prisons died in attacks by other inmates, suicides, and accidents in 2011, the last year for which figures were available.
Torture and ill-treatment by prison guards are common problems. In its 2011 annual report, the National Register of Torture and Ill-Treatment reported 584 cases of physical violence by prison guards. The group is a monitoring organization set up by the National Penitenciary Procurator (ProcuraciónPenitenciaria de la Nación), an official body created by the legislature.
Counterterrorism Legislation
In December 2011, Congress approved additions to Argentina's criminal code that double the penalties for crimes committed with the aim of "terrorizing the population," or of obliging the authorities to take an action or refrain from doing so. The broadness of this language—and its applicability to any crime in the criminal code— raises concerns about possible misuse of the law against those responsible for actions that fall short of terrorism, such as violence during public protests.
Transnational Justice
At this writing, no one had been convicted for the 1994 bombing of the Jewish Argentine Mutual Association (AMIA) in Buenos Aires in which 85 people died and over 300 were injured. Judicial corruption and political cover-ups hindered criminal investigations and prosecutions from the outset. Iran, which is suspected of ordering the attack, has refused Argentina's requests for the extradition of former Iranian President Ali Akbar Hashemi-Rafsanjani and six Iranian officials. In September 2012, in a joint statement following a meeting at the United Nations, the Argentine and Iranian foreign ministers said they would continue to search for "a legal mechanism that is not in contradiction with the legal systems of Argentina and Iran" until a "mutually agreed" solution was found.
Reproductive Rights
Abortion is illegal in Argentina, with limited exceptions, and women and girls face numerous obstacles to reproductive health products and services, such as contraception, voluntary sterilization procedures, and abortion after rape (one of the circumstances in which abortion is permitted). As a result of these barriers, women and girls may face unwanted or unhealthy pregnancies.
In a landmark ruling in March 2012, the Supreme Court determined that prior judicial authorization was unnecessary for abortion after rape. The court urged provincial governments to adopt protocols to ensure access to legal abortions. As of September, 10 out of Argentina's 23 provinces had taken steps to do so, and 5 had announced that they were in the process of doing so.
Also in September, the legislature for the city of Buenos Aires legislature passed a law implementing the ruling in its jurisdiction. However, the city's governor, Mauricio Macri, vetoed the law, claiming that it went beyond what the court required. The local ministry of health's protocols implementing the court's ruling—which contained requirements that could serve as obstacles for access to legal abortion—remained in effect. In October, after anti-choice groups won a court order that would have prevented the victim of a sex trafficking ring from obtaining an abortion, the Supreme Court intervened to allow the abortion to be performed.
Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity
In May 2012, a law entered force establishing the right of individuals over the age of 18 to choose their gender identity and their right to undergo sex-change operations and hormonal treatment without need for administrative or legal authorization.
Key International Actors
In his report on his November 2011 visit to Argentina, the UN special rapporteur on the rights of indigenous peoples, James Anaya, expressed concern at the large number of evictions of indigenous communities due to "the grave situation of legal uncertainty over indigenous land." The special rapporteur also observedthat those who resist eviction or protest against it may be subject to a "disproportionate use of force by police" and criminal prosecution.
At the Organization of American States (OAS) General Assembly in June 2012, Argentina's foreign minister publicly questionedthe role of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR), suggesting that it should not be critical of the region's "democracies" today in the same way it had been critical of "dictatorships" in the past.


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Anatomy of the Ear
Outer Ear
- Pinna (auricle) – collects and funnels sound into the ear canal
- Ear canal (external auditory meatus) – directs sound into the ear
Middle Ear
- Eardrum (tympanic membrane) – changes sound into vibrations
- Hammer, anvil and stirrup (malleus, incus and stapes) – this chain of three small bones (ossicles) transfers vibrations to the inner ear
Inner Ear
- Inner ear (cochlea) – contains fluid and highly sensitive "hair" cells. These tiny hair-like structures move when stimulated by sound vibrations
- Vestibular system – contains cells that control balance
- Auditory nerve – leads from the cochlea to the brain
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HI All
I need some help confirming that I have Blue Green Algae.
I am no expert, but from the reading I have done I think that is what I have.
Here is a pic of my tank:
Let me know what you think, and I would apreciate any tips for removal.
The tank has 2 live plants, driftwood, and is lit for about 9 hours a day (used to be 10, but I cut back). No Phosphates, 0 ammo, 0 nitrite, 5-10 nitrate.


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By Rebecca Berman, Janet Segall and Jean-Claude Bystryn, M.D. from The National Pemphigus Foundation and The Ronald O. Perelman Department of Dermatology, New York University School of Medicine, New York, NY. February 17, 1999
As many of you know, we recently conducted a survey of persons with pemphigus to find out 1) which treatments were most commonly used, 2) which appeared to be the most effective, and 3) which were most often associated with side effects. The survey was conducted by means of a questionnaire enclosed in the Fall 1998 issue of the National Pemphigus Foundation newsletter, the Quarterly. The questionnaire was also sent to all individuals who responded to a notice on the NPF website.A total of 110 responses were received. This number is impressive, taking into account the rarity of pemphigus. We thank all participants for their collaboration.
The results of the survey have been analyzed and a summary of the findings follows. The questionnaire was focused on commonly recommended therapies. These were topical, intralesional and systemic steroids, cytotoxic drugs (Imuran, Cytoxan, Cyclosporin and Methotrexate) and antiinflammatory agents (Dapsone and Tetracycline).
Most respondents had tried multiple agents. Overall, 8% of respondents tried one agent, 24% tried two, 28% tried three, 17% tried four, and 22% tried five or more of the drugs listed above. Currently, 33% of patients are using one medication, 42% are using two medications, 17% are using three medications, and 10% of patients are using four or more medications.
The agents used most commonly for the treatment of pemphigus were systemic steroids, topical steroids and Imuran, which were tried by 78%, 72% and 64% of respondents respectively. The least commonly used agents were Cyclosporin, Tetracycline and Methotrexate, which were tried by 8%, 13% and 14% of people respectively. The drugs that appeared to be the most beneficial from the respondents' perspectives were: systemic steroids, Imuran and topical steroids, which were described as helpful by 100%, 62% and 60% of patients who used the drugs. The least beneficial drugs seemed to be Tetracycline, Dapsone, and Methotrexate, whose use was discontinued because "it did not work" by 43%, 24% and 20% of patients treated with the drugs.
The drugs associated most often with side effects severe enough for treatment with that drug to be terminated were Cytoxan, Methotrexate and Imuran, which were discontinued by 38%, 33%, and 27% of users. To estimate the apparent relative effectiveness of the various drugs used to treat pemphigus, we calculated the ratio of respondents who believed the drug was useful to those who thought it did not work.
On that basis, the most effective drug was systemic steroids, with a ratio of 25. The ranking of the other drugs, based on their relative perceived effectiveness, were Imuran (ratio 5.1), topical steroids (ratio 5), Cytoxan (ratio 3.5), intralesional steroids (ratio 3.3), Methotrexate (ratio 2), Dapsone (ration 1.4), Cyclosporin (ratio 1.3), and Tetracycline (ratio 1.1). This survey was very helpful in collecting data from a large number of patients suffering from pemphigus.
However, it must be kept in mind that the reliability of the data is subject to question. One problem is that patients' evaluations of response to treatment is subjective, that in many cases treatment was given over a number of years and that memory of earlier treatment may not be completely accurate; and lastly, that several agents may be used concurrently so that the determination of which was effective is difficult. We again wish to thank all respondents for their time and effort. We hope you will be able to respond to additional questionnaires in the future.


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Needle Trax
Needle Trax a small chain of music retailers featured in Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories and based in Vice City in 1984. There is a total of two Needle Trax outlets in the city: One in southern Downtown and another at the Vice Point Mall in Vice Point, on the mid-eastern side of the mall.
Given its name, Needle Trax appears to exist in direct competition in the local vinyl record and cassette tape markets with Vinyl Countdown, which happens to be located on the other side of the Vice Point Mall from Needle Trax's mall outlet. Despite focusing on the same market, Needle Trax appears to be trailing behind Vinyl Countdown given its cheaper appearance and a lack of star power (Needle Trax only displays posters for Prix's new album; in comparison, Vinyl Countdown's active promotes Phil Collins among others).
The lack of a presence in Grand Theft Auto: Vice City implies Needle Trax is either no longer in operation, has moved, or has been rebranded by 1986; the Downtown outlet is occupied by Rock City, while the mall outlet lacks any signage.


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This is an archived article that was published on sltrib.com in 2012, and information in the article may be outdated. It is provided only for personal research purposes and may not be reprinted.
Utah's potential is evident during practice on most days in a Huntsman Center that is largely empty outside of players and a few members of the media.
The Utes' dismantling of Simon Fraser last Friday was encouraging, not because Simon Fraser was any good, but because Larry Krystkowiak's team had enough talent to win handily when it should.
Friday will officially begin to answer the questions when Utah faces Willamette to begin the regular season.
Krystkowiak would rather not speak too much on the 6-25 performance of 2011. And truthfully, not much evidence of last season is around. Only two players Jason Washburn and Cedric Martin return with any significant experience. Other than those two, the Utes' entire playing rotation will be new.
"We think we will be better, and we think the Pac-12 Conference as a whole will be better," Krystkowiak said. "We're looking forward to growing as a program, and becoming a better team."
Not many are convinced. At least about the Utes. They are picked to finish last in the Pac-12 by virtually everyone from media that cover the league to preseason publications. The Utes will have to prove they can win before they can be considered upwardly mobile. Most fans are hoping for measurable, if incremental progress.
They should see a better product.
A Utah program that struggled to put the ball in the basket will receive a scoring punch from the likes of Jarred DuBois, Aaron Dotson and Jordan Loveridge. A Utah team with little size outside of Washburn last season now has five players 6-foot-10 or taller, and that makes Krystkowiak, a 6-9 power forward in his college and NBA playing days, a happier man.
In addition, a Utah team with virtually no depth last season now looks like it will have solid point guard play and a rotation that could go as many as nine deep. No longer will Krystkowiak have to play his best guys for better or worse. Now, there are some options.
"We can do a lot of things with this team, and everyone is excited to get the season started," DuBois said. "We feel like we have some talent, and we want to go out and play well."
What will this translate to?
That's still anyone's guess. A weak nonconference schedule might provide some clues. The Utes struggled mightily in non-league play last December playing a similar schedule. So if Utah is winning games against the likes of Idaho State and Sacramento State, it's a step forward from 2011.
Challenges before conference play will come from a trip to Provo to face BYU, a Texas road swing that includes the Larry Brown-coached SMU Mustangs (twice) and a home game against a Boise State team that destroyed the Utes last season.
So, yes, the talent appears to be better, perhaps significantly. Yes, Utah should be a different team.
But the Utes and their fans are still wary, if more hopeful. Some of the answers will come in the next month. Many more will come in January and February when conference play begins.
Best-case scenario
The Utes start fast and feast on a weak nonconference schedule, which gives them the confidence to win six to 10 Pac-12 games. With a winning record, Utah makes the postseason, garnering a berth to the CBI or even the NIT.
Willamette at Utah
P Friday, 7 p.m.
TV • Pac-12 Network
Utah schedule
Friday • Willamette, 7 p.m.
Nov. 16 • Sacramento State, 7 p.m.
Nov. 21 • Central Michigan/Idaho State/Wright State, 7 p.m.
Nov. 23 • Central Michigan/Idaho State/Wright State, 5 p.m.
Nov. 24 • Central Michigan/Idaho State/Wright State, TBA
Nov. 28 • at SMU, 8 p.m.
Nov. 30 • at Texas State, 6 p.m.
Dec. 5 • Boise State, 6:30 p.m.
Dec. 8 • at BYU, 7 p.m.
Dec. 18 • SMU, 7 p.m.
Dec. 21 • Cal State Northridge, 8:30 p.m.
Dec. 28 • College of Idaho, 7:30 p.m.
Jan. 2 • at Arizona, 8 p.m.
Jan. 5 • at Arizona State, 3 p.m.
Jan. 10 • UCLA, 7:30 p.m.
Jan. 12 • USC, 4 p.m.
Jan. 16 • at Washington State, 7:30 p.m.
Jan. 19 • Washington, 9 p.m.
Jan. 24 • California, 7 p.m.
Jan. 27 • Stanford, 6:30 p.m.
Feb. 2 • Colorado, 12:30 p.m.
Feb. 6 • at Oregon State, 8 p.m.
Feb. 9 • at Oregon, 6 p.m.
Feb. 13 • Arizona State, 6 p.m.
Feb. 17 • Arizona, 1 p.m.
Feb. 21 • at Colorado, 8 p.m.
Feb. 28 • at California, 7 p.m.
March 3 • at Stanford, 3 p.m.
March 7 • Oregon State, 9 p.m.
March 9 • Oregon, 12:30 p.m.
March 13-16 • Pac-12 Conference Tournament; MGM Grand Garden Arena, Las Vegas


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If the purpose of Virginia's secession was to ease the minds of Virginia's slaveholders, the move backfired. With the Commonwealth's proximity to Union territory, especially the federal capital of Washington, D.C., and with the move of the Confederate capital into Virginia, it became a major focus for Union military activity. While reviewers are finding various reasons to quibble with Gary Gallagher's recent book, The Union War, he is correct that the presence of northern troops had a way of upsetting the slave system, even if the soldiers did not see themselves as liberators of slaves.
This phenomenon, of course, was first seen around Fortress Monroe in late May 1861 after Gen. Benjamin Butler gave refuge to fugitive slaves. With this act, Butler set in motion forces he could not entirely control and neither could anyone else. Not only did a stream of slaves descended on the fortress, but the discipline of the slave system broke down in the surrounding area. On June 21, the National Republican, the semi-official organ of the Republican Party in Washington, D.C., carried the following story.
THE NEGROES.–A Fortress Monroe correspondent of the New York Tribune, writing June 17, says:
"Negroes continue to come into the fortress and the whole country around is full of them, at liberty to come and go just as they choose."
In front of our lines, across the Potomac from this city, the number of slaves who run away is not so great as the number whose masters run away, or whose masters tell their slaves to shift for themselves. The article has ceased to have a market place [Probably here referring to the heretofore bustling Alexandria slave market.], and can hardly be so managed as to have an income. Virginians who can move South with their slave property are doing so in large numbers, but the number of Virginia slaveholders who cannot move South is larger still. This larger class cannot now sell slaves at the South, where there is neither demand or means of payment, and, as our armies advance, these slaves will run away, or be abandoned by their masters. The thing is inevitable.
Virginia slaveholders clearly were aware of what was happening, and attempted to respond to deal with disruption caused by Union forces and the subsequent flight of slaves from their owners. The Virginia State Convention, meeting on June 19, 1861, in its second session had the following ordinance reported. To whit:
Be it Ordained, That in such counties of this State as are not actually invaded, but which, from she proximity of the enemy of the State, or other cause, danger exists of a loss of property to the citizens thereof, the Colonel commanding the militia of said county, or in his absence or inability to act, the next highest officer of such militia, shall whenever in his opinion it shall be necessary protect the property of the citizens of such counties, and have power, and is hereby authorized and required, to draft from the militia of such county such men as may be sufficient to prevent any loss of properties in his county, as afore said. This ordinance further authorizes the Colonel of the Regiment to forward to the Governor the names and rank of all men under his command, who shall be paid by the State, as if they were in its actual service in some regularly organized regiment.
While the proposed ordinance never specifies the property in question, the implication is clear enough it is referring to slaves. So with the flight of slaves to Fortress Monroe and in Northern Virginia, the Virginia Convention moved to organize home guard militia to keep more slaves from fleeing to Union controlled territory.
Likewise, an ordinance was proposed to the convention to retaliate against the northern states for the slaves already lost to the contraband of war policy. One that would hurt the northern states in their pocket books. It read:
The officers of the Federal Government now in command of an army quartered on the said of Virginia, have inaugurated (apparently with the concurrence of the authorities at Washington) a system of war late unknown to the uses and practices of civilized nations, by enticing away from their owners, protecting and holding slaves the property of citizens of this Commonwealth, whether said citizens are combatants or noncombatants. Be it, therefore.
Resolved, That the Committee on Finance inquire in other propriety of setting aside all debts the by this Commonwealth of Virginia, or the citizens or corporations thereof, to the citizens of any of those Northern States who are engaged in the invasion of our soil.
Clearly, by organizing stay-at-home militia and threatening to withhold debts owed to the North, the Virginia Convention hoped to end the contraband-of-war policy and reinforce the slave system against Union incursions into the Commonwealth. What it was not reckoning with was the strong determination of many people in the North following Fort Sumter to crush the Confederacy, the political focus of which was now gathering in the new capital of Richmond, a mere 100 miles from Washington, D.C. It also did not take into account the fierce desire of the slaves to be free and their willingness to act on that sentiment given even the smallest opportunity. White Virginians and other southerners would learn these facts in the months and years to come.
Sources: 1) http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn82014760/1861-06-21/ed-1/seq-2/; 2) http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A2006.05.0149%3Aarticle%3D27.


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Haynes' Bomb, Timely Pitching Gives Tigers OVC Split with EKU
NASHVILLE, Tenn. – The Tigers used an Ashley Haynes home run and a strong pitching performance to earn a split to open Ohio Valley Conference play at home on Saturday. Tennessee State picked up a 4-1 victory in game two of the twin bill, after dropping the first game 1-0.
TSU is now 13-17 on the season and EKU is 11-11, as both teams start OVC play at 1-1.
Hannah St. Clair and Leanna Pittsenbarger went toe-to-toe in game one to produce an old fashion pitcher's duel. Both pitchers went the distance and allowed just three hits between the two of them.
EKU picked up a Christina Ciolek double in the first and a Shannon McQueen single in the fourth. McQueen's single was a high hopper over St. Clair's head and fielded behind second base by Lindsey Burgess, giving McQueen time to leg out the two-out single. On the play, Lauren Mitchell scampered home from third to give the Colonels a 1-0 lead.
Pittsenbarger would make the score hold up as she kept the Tigers off the base paths for most of the game. Tayler Shimizu earned a walk to leadoff the third, but was stranded on second after a sacrifice bunt. Shimizu was the lone Tiger to reach base on the EKU pitcher until Burgess stepped to the plate with two outs in the sixth. The sophomore missed tying the game by a foot as she hit just underneath the top of the fence in left center. The Burgess double was the only hit Pittsenbarger would surrender.
The EKU pitcher earned the win with six strikeouts, while St. Clair fell to 2-5 surrendering three walks and striking out four.
The Tigers wasted little time jumping on Pittsenbarger in the backend of a double dip, as Ashley Haynes drove a 2-2 pitch over the left field wall for a quick 2-0 lead. Haynes drove in Kate Morris, who began a two-out rally in the first with a single into left center.
The Tigers extended their lead in the fourth inning on a two-run single off the bat of Rebekka Gross. Haynes led off the inning with a single and moved to second on a single by Jayna Hanawahine. The two runners advanced 60-feet on a Shimizu sacrifice bunt, to set up the clutch hit by Gross.
Olivia Gamache kept the Tigers in front as she held the Colonels to two hits and four walks over the first six innings of play. After allowing a leadoff walk in the seventh, Shea Morris entered for Gamache. Morris pitched the final inning, striking out one, walking one and was touched for a hit.
Gamache improved to 4-6 on the season, as Morris collected her fifth save of the season. Pittsenbarger took the loss and is now 8-6.
Haynes and Kate Morris each finished 2-for-3, as Hanawahine, Gross and Courtney Gearlds all picked up a hit in game two.
The final game of the series is scheduled for 1:00pm on Sunday at Tiger Field. The games can be seen on the ovcdigitalnetwork.com.


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Title says it all. Files are ogg-vorbis tagged using
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1.02 Joy Inside My Tears (Disc 2, Track 2)
1.03 Black Man (Disc 2, Track 3)
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The National Identification Services (NIS) coordinates the identification of plant pests in support of USDA's regulatory programs. Accurate and timely identifications provide the foundation for quarantine action decisions and are essential in the effort to safeguard the nation's agricultural and natural resources.
NIS collaborates with scientists who specialize in various plant pest groups, including weeds, insects, mites, snails and plant diseases. These scientists are stationed at a variety of institutions around the country, including federal research laboratories, plant inspection stations, land-grant universities, and natural history museums.
NIS supports the use of alternative diagnostic methods to enhance the speed and precision of the identification process. The Remote Pest Identification Program utilizes digital imaging technology to capture detailed images of suspected pests which can then be transmitted electronically to qualified specialists for identification. Additionally, the Molecular Diagnostics Laboratory is responsible for providing biochemical testing services in support of the agency's pest monitoring programs.
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- Remote Pest Identification Program (RPIP)
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Eurocopter announced at the Paris Air Show that receiving formal EASA approval for an EC225 retrofit kit – intended to solve the ongoing main gearbox issue – is a matter of days.
"We have found the full set of explanation, the full root cause; we have agreed with the authorities on the technical content of the measures that will allow return into service," said Jean-Brice Dumont, chief technical officer. The first retrofitted aircraft is planned to be ready by the end of the month or mid-July at the latest.
EC225 in the colors of CHC. Photo courtesy of Eurocopter
To be sure of having fully understood the problem's cause, Eurocopter conducted extensive ground and flight testing. One EC225 test team went as far as a deliberate shaft failure. "It is not only a question of approval by the authorities, it is also a question of confidence from our customers and their passengers," Dumont said.
The retrofit kit is a short-term solution for the in-service fleet, but Eurocopter engineers are also working on a new shaft design.
CEO Guillaume Faury admitted the situation has had an impact on sales. "During the first half of 2013, we've had slow deliveries and bookings," he noted. The company took provisions that appear in its 2012 financial performance.
Even the EC175 program is feeling the impact of the EC225's woes. Certification has been postponed to early 2014. "In light of recent events, we are running many kinds of maturation tests on what could be the weak points of the aircraft," Dumont said. The first deliveries will be to UTair, NHV and Heli-Union.
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JOHANNESBURG – The office of South Africa's president says former leader Nelson Mandela remains in critical but stable condition in a hospital, but is continuing to show improvement.
President Jacob Zuma is urging the public to continue praying for Mandela and is offering thanks to those who do charity work to honour the ideals of the 95-year-old former president and anti-apartheid figure.
Zuma's office relayed his message in a statement on Tuesday.
Mandela was hospitalized on June 8 for what the government said was a recurring lung infection. His birthday on July 18 was marked by an outpouring of support from compatriots and people around the world, as well as campaigns to assist needy communities across South Africa.