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Spoilers on the new season of the show: Another Life season 3
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Another Life is one of the extremely watched shows being cast on Netflix, the show hold lot of interesting elements to attract viewers but it has a drawback of releasing the updated version within a long interval of time. This test patience of the audience leads them to lose interest in the show. Another life season was more or less similar to its first season. Another life falls under the genre of science fiction. Science fiction is always expected to rise with a unique idea to attract attention in the market. the repetition of ideas is not appreciated when it comes to science fiction.
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Another life came up with its first season in July 2019 and was appreciated by many of its followers and critics. The show came up with its second season 3 months later when the first season was streamed. Thus we cannot expect the appearance of the show before 2022 with its third season, yet the markers had not made remarks on it and we are just calculating the dates based on our assumptions.
Another life season three will also continue with its lead star named Kate Sackhoff. Kate Shakhoff is and major character in the series and she enjoys playing the role in Another life. During an interview, Shakhoff also mention how is fascinated by the show and could analyse the potential of the show. She feels extremely happy being one of the crew members in the series and is always ready to be a part of the series with all dedication and hard work.
Along with Kate many other actors are also expected to join in Another life season 3 naming them as Justin Chatwin, Samuel Anderson, Elizabeth Ludlow, Lina Renna, Selma Blair, Tongayi Chirisa, Alexander Eling, Blu Hunt, Jayr Tinaco, A.J. Rivera, Parveen Dosanjh, Shannon Chan-Kent and Kury Yaeger.
Another life season 3 will also be a new age of freedom and exploration where we can see Niko could have some trouble by exploring other worlds. The production of the show is yet to start and we cannot expect its start before 2022.
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The Carry the Torch Award is an award that is given away each year to a young man who has embodied what Our Time is all about. Each year at Our Time, this torch is passed from the previous recipient to the next young man who will carry the torch for our generation for the coming year. Each recipient's name is etched into the crystal base of the torch. The passing of this torch symbolizes the need for each generation to do their part in reaching their world. It is our prayer that this torch will continue to be passed from generation to generation until Jesus comes.
In a time when the world is in desperate need of redemption and revival, God is looking for a generation that will stand up and go "all out" for Him. Thousands of young people are catching the vision that it is "Our Time" to do our part in reaching our generation. The time to serve God is NOW!
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Whether your having a party or at the disco, rave, club, concert or event Party Light is for those who love partying and being in the lights.
Party Light is the original party lights app that turns your phone in to a hypnotic strobing light machine! Party Lights has plenty of trippy effects. Party Light makes use of your phone's internal accelerometer, and camera LED lights to pulse, strobe and mix various lighting effects based on movement. Party Light's unique rave mode changes color based on how you hold your phone. No need for glowsticks, wave your phone for a multicolored rave light. Party Light is the original disco light and dance light!
Just turn on Party Light and it takes over pulsing, it'll turn heads and creates a unique ambiance that makes you part of the experience!
Party Light has multiple strobe, rave, color effects with more effects in the works!
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The audit of the Google Analytics activity of "26th Cancer Genomics Congress: New Era for Cancer Prevention" provides two days robust discussion about the diagnosis, prevention and management of Cancer and it also discusses about the various treatments and therapies available for cancer. The conference welcomes all the Eminent scientist, Cancer Specialists, physiologists, Surgeons, Oncologists, Radiologists, Immunologists, Professors, Young Researchers, Academicians, Students who are scrutinizing to attend, present and exhibit their research findings on highly acknowledged international conferences. The web traffic of our site aggregates of 62, 540 visits. The examined report mirrors that the aggregate page viewers were 113, 229 of every year.
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Phoenix Suns VS New Orleans Pelicans game 4 – NBA Playoffs report
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Phoenix Suns VS New Orleans Pelicans game 4 Report | Shahzada TV | Sports News | Pelicans who started their regular NBA season 2021-22 with 1-12 have previously booked their number 8 seed dramatically. They are now facing the Phoenix Suns, who stood top of the western conferencing, in round one of the NBA playoffs.
New Orleans Pelicans defeated Phoenix Suns 118-103 in Game 4 and tied the round 1 of playoffs with 2-2 at New Orleans on Sunday night (US time).
Phoenix Suns pulled score 89-84 in the fourth quarter in the absence of Booker. But they didn't sustain the lead for long. In the fourth-quarter New Orleans went for a big run to earn a tremendous victory against the leading headers of the conference.
Thanks to some consistent performances from Brandon Ingram who contributed 30 points in the victory. While Jonas Valanciunas added 26 points and 15 rebounds and CJ McCollum added 18 points in the victory.
The Phoenix Suns were led by Deandre Ayton's 23 points and 8 rebounds. And off-the-bench JaVale McGee who played only 13 minutes and contributed second highest points in the Suns roaster with 14 points, 4 rebounds, and a single assist.
One of the major differences in the game was created by the number of fouls from the players of both teams. The Suns were called for 28 fouls in the game, whereas, Pelicans were called for 16 fouls.
Furthermore, Pelicans went 32-42 from the free-throw line. At the same time, Phoenix Suns went 10-for-15. Both teams shot 85 times from the field and Suns made 43 while Pelicans managed to put 40 on target.
It is after a long period of time that the New Orleans Pelicans have made it to the finals of NBA. Last time, the team made it to the finals in 2017-18 season of the NBA. This season, Pelicans have played without Zion Williamson, the big guy, who is off due to a foot injury. No one believed they will make thorough this as they started their season with 1-12 and then 2-16. Their rookie Trey Murphy almost lost believing in the victory of the Pelicans.
Pelicans, not only made their way to the playoffs, but they have also shown some glimpses that they can even beat Suns and can possibly make their way to even a second round of the playoffs. If this happens, this will be mind-blowing for many analysts and NBA experts out there.
Internet users on Twitter have also started believing that Suns are in big trouble against Pelicans. Game 5 will surely tell a different story, till that stay tuned and keep reading Shahzada TV sports analysis and highlights.
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ART3 encodes an arginine-specific ADP-ribosyltransferase. Additionally we are shipping ADP-Ribosyltransferase 3 Proteins (5) and ADP-Ribosyltransferase 3 Kits (2) and many more products for this protein.
knockdown of ART3 in breast cancer cells inhibited cell proliferation and invasion.
ART3 protein is expressed in testes in particular on spermatocytes, indicating that ART3 exerts a specific function only required at a particular stage of spermatogenesis.
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This gene encodes an arginine-specific ADP-ribosyltransferase. The encoded protein catalyzes a reversible reaction which modifies proteins by the addition or removal of ADP-ribose to an arginine residue to regulate the function of the modified protein. An ADP-ribosyltransferase pseudogene is located on chromosome 11. Multiple transcript variants encoding different isoforms have been found for this gene.


Five years have passed since Japan's Great Zombie Panic. The confusion of those days is gone and people have finally regained their ordinary, peaceful lives. One day, out of nowhere, a zombie appears and becomes trapped in a house. Six people have spotted the zombie, including the home-owner couple, a cheeky high school boy, a boring small-factory owner, a suspicious young intern and a woman who insists she is the zombie's wife.


I make it no secret that I have a strange hobby. People are always either impressed, surprised, or confused when I describe to them what I enjoy doing in my spare time. It's not like it's that different from other hobbies which people have; some people make models of trains; some people made digital models of real-life systems.
I am making a futuristic starship simulator.
I mean make in a very loose sense. This is hardly my project, and I am hardly a contributor at all. But the small part I am playing is certainly an integral role in the process. So far, I've had a say in the software controls, the universe which the simulator will operate in, the lighting and sound system layout of the simulator set, and some of the custom hardware integration which we will be using.
I might be getting ahead of myself, though. I suppose I had better take a step back and explain the whole process from top to bottom.
This is Victor Williamson. Inspired by Star Trek, and seeing the benefits of simulated education early on in his career, he pioneered the concept of using science fiction simulations to teach Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM). Early on, he would do simple role-plays where his students would push paper buttons on cardboard boxes and he would react by narrating a story using his vast collection of false accents and an overhead projector. His first flights were recon missions to Mars where they would skim the surface, talking about the nature of the Red Planet. Students were interested, but not really excited. So he figured he would spice things up.
He had a Romulan ship attack them.
It worked. By adding in that bit of drama, the kids were suddenly glued to their chairs, their minds fixed on the simulation. He would go on to craft 'missions' like this one which revolved around a main story point, but also featured a prominent science topic: negotiating with the Romulans to go and study a Supernova; passing by a black hole and dealing with the relativistic effects; deciding what to do with an escaped slave who emerged from a wormhole. Adding the artistic elements (turning STEM to STEAM) helped to round out the missions and keep the kids interested. Lots of good fortune and several thousand dollars of grant money later, and a permanent simulator was built in his school's back lot.
And thus the Space Center was born.
The Voyager was built in 1990, the first of six ships built at Central School (the last of which was built in 2005). The image above is how the flagship looked shortly before it was shut down in 2012. For 22 years, this ship was the stage of space dramas teaching school kids teamwork, leadership, math, science, communication, responsibility, and decision making. It was a classroom, laboratory, and summer camp destination.
While the Voyager was open, the Space Center was also the central hub of a bustling volunteer organization. Hundreds of students impressed and inspired by the field trip experience on one of these ships would become even more involved. I was one of them.
I was so fascinated with the experience of the Space Center that I made no delay in beginning my work as a volunteer. I had come to the Space Center many times with my older brother, who was already a volunteer, and was blown away at what happened behind the scenes that I knew I had to become part of it.
I put in my volunteer registration papers in 2006, and began the process of observing and volunteering. I saw the control rooms, the skilled Flight Directors in charge of the flights (and which I always wanted to become), the supervisors assisting and monitoring the crews, the volunteers performing acting parts and running computer stations.
My brother, Brent, was a programmer, so naturally I would join with them. These programmers would meet at least weekly to work on the next cool computer terminal or software controlled gadget. The meetings were truly amazing. None of the members of this 'Programming Guild' were even out of high school, and yet every week there would be some new, amazing idea for something to put into a simulator. An integrated video system for creating video playlists for the missions; a fluid set of controls, which would allow you to put any screen on any computer; a sound effects player which integrated into the controls to react to what the kids were doing; a push server architecture. Some of these things would be discussed, even prototypes made. But none of us were skilled enough to be able to build it all. Over time, the programmers moved on to bigger and better things, leaving me as the lone remnant of that guild.
I eventually did reach my dream of becoming a Flight Director, and found it to be one of the most fulfilling and powerful experiences of my life up to that point. As Flight Director, I was in charge of representing the Space Center to the students who came. I would brief them on their mission, train them on how to use the simulator, launch them into space, play the role of all the aliens they came in contact with, play the mood music and sound effects and video and tactical view screens and interact with their computer stations and direct my volunteers and actors to do the various things which they needed to do… it was a lot of work. But in addition to doing all those things to put on a good show, I tried my best to remember that this was an educational venture (or EdVenture as we like to call it), so I mixed in the science, math, and social studies as much as possible.
I also became a full-fledged programmer, and started working on creating new simulator controls. One by one, I re-programmed each of the Space Center simulators (excepting the Voyager) using the new Revolution programming environment. Many of the ideas which were first brought up in the programming meetings were implemented in these controls. Truth be told, though, they were buggy and not entirely functional. There was so much more that they could be, given time, resources, and experience.
When the former Set Director, or simulator manager, of the ship I ran left on a mission to Korea, I was placed in charge. Suddenly I was responsible for an entire starship simulator. In the weeks following, me and my co-director Bracken Funk did some major modifications and renovations to the ship. I tore that ship apart and put it back together, learning how it worked.
I learned how the networking ran through conduit, and I even pulled my own cables through to set up a phone in the front of the ship. I learned how the audio inputs fed into the mixer, which fed into the amp which ran out to all the speakers, and I even added a few more speakers to the mix. I learned how the video systems converged to two switcher boxes, and the output of those ran to the main view screens on the ship, and then, out of necessity, learned how to set up a RGB Component video system (it had a funny glitch, though, where the signal would cut out whenever you switched inputs, returning after a few seconds of blackness). I did some custom electrical wiring to create a smoke machine timer, a transporter light, and a strobe light spark effect. This little ship pushed the boundaries of what kinds of effects we could pull in simulators.
Also, working off of the groundwork laid by my brother, I installed a DMX (computer controlled) lighting system in the Galileo simulator. This allowed the lights to be turned on, off, switched from red to white, and shaken (during an explosion) with the mere push of a button. This was an exciting time.
I left the Space Center officially in August of 2011 when I moved to Provo to attend BYU. I knew that I wouldn't have the means necessary to be coming to and from the Space Center to program and fix bugs, and I needed to let my successor get his feet wet without me hovering behind him. I left on my mission in January of 2012.
August of 2012 brought the closure of the Space Center by the Alpine School District for renovations. By October, there was no sign of the Space Center ever re-opening and a political campaign was founded to fight the District's decision and bring the Space Center back. This campaign was successful to an extent. In time, the District caved and began to perform the necessary remodeling. However, the original Voyager simulator (by far the most impressive and attractive of the five) was deemed too much of a hazard to be retrofitted, and was closed permanently.
I got the chance to see the Voyager after I got home from my mission. It was hardly a shell of it's former glory. Dust was everywhere; random implements were strewn all over the place. The desks, void of computers, revealed the plywood which was concealed within. I remembered going up those spiral stairs, exploring the Captain's loft, working from the Engineering platform or sleeping in the bunks on Deck 2. Now all of those things were either gone or boarded up. Nothing was left except memories.
During this time, Victor, who had been director of the Space Center from when it opened to when it closed, moved from Central to another elementary school, and eventually retired completely. Not too long afterward, though, he was approached by Renaissance Academy, a charter school in northern Utah County, and asked if he wanted to make a space simulator for that school. He accepted.
Since then, a group of Space Center volunteer alumni have joined together to create what we call the Farpoint Creative Team. This team is a band of some of the Space Center's skilled and talented volunteers who have gone on to get degrees and training. Helping to construct this new simulator is our way of giving back.
It's remarkable who we have on the team. Of course, Victor is the visionary leader and chief educator. We also have science fiction and astronomy experts; a data analyst, graphic designer, and expert flight director; an architect; an engineer; medical professionals; and programmers (my brother and myself). All of us bring something unique to the table, and all of us together, pooling our resources, think we'll be able to make the most impressive, most immersive experience ever. Not only that, but also an environment where learning will happen organically.
There was a little bit of debate about what we were going to call the new ship. Vanguard was a name that was sticking for a time. However, much to the approval of the team as a whole, we decided on something better.
The new ship will be called Voyager.


I rarely watch films on Netflix, mainly just use it for the TV series.
If anyone enjoys cartoons then Big Mouth is definitely worth watching. Up there with the best of them.
Not my usual thing, but been watching Series 1 of The Crown on Netflix which is a pretty good watch so far, think I'm about 7 or 8 episodes in.
Just finished mindhunter not normally my thing but really enjoyed it, starting altered carbon for my next binge watch tomorrow.
Yeah I liked Mindhunter too.
I gave up after one episode of Altered Carbon.
I liked Altered Carbon, started off slow I'll agree but got better.
Another one? What's this one gonna be about? More on the Cali cartel?
Mexican drug cartel- specifically the Guadalajara Cartel and Felix Gallardo.
Enjoying series 2 of Ozark, didn't think the first episode or two were up to much but it's really picked up again after that.


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CASBAA Satellite Industry Forum 2012: Massive Upsides for Asian Satellite Sector
SINGAPORE, June 26, 2012 - (ACN Newswire) - The annual CASBAA Satellite Industry Forum concluded June 18 on a strong note as delegates agreed that growth opportunities for the sector in Asia remained emphatically positive.
Addressing nearly 250 delegates, speakers and media, Michel de Rosen, CEO & Board Member of Eutelsat, illustrated the potential of the satellite industry in Asia Pacific thanks to the region's high population growth, incomplete terrestrial infrastructure and strong GDP prospects.
M. de Rosen added that satellite services have an assured future because of their cost-effectiveness as an unrivaled platform in terms of distribution costs per channel per home and in the ability to deliver quality TV with the bandwidth to handle HD signals especially ultra-high definition TV. He noted that 90% of his company's revenues in Europe are generated by video, and that Asia should be heading in the same direction.
However, Barry Matsumori, SVP, Commercial Sales & Business Development, SpaceX pointed out that with global mobile data traffic forecast to surpass 10 exabytes (1018 bytes) per month in 2016, according to a recent Cisco report, capacity will still not meet demand.
Terry Bleakley, Regional VP, Asia Pacific Sales at Intelsat acknowledged that ethnic DTH and the globalization of Asian content are major drivers for the growth of TV in Asia while the migration from SD to HD is just one of the reasons for increased data demand.
To help solve the upcoming data crunch issue, Intelsat recently announced its "Epic" satellite solution, a high-performance, high throughput satellite combining spectrum rights in the C-, Ku- and Ka-bands to increase capacity by as much as ten-fold. Featuring switchable bands, frequency reuse benefits and backwards compatibility, Epic has been touted as "a game changer" that will ultimately lower cost per byte.
Jean-Yves Le Gall, Chairman & CEO, of launch specialists Arianespace noted the importance of creating tailor made solutions for satellite launch customers. He added that project financing through export credits and assistance with ITAR (International Traffic in Arms Regulations), Arianespace "remains creative in order to bring more to the launch service than science."
Despite the rosy picture painted of the satellite sector in Asia, however, hurdles still exist to impede further progress.
David Hartshorn, Secretary General, Global VSAT Forum pointed out that as a result of decisions taken during the World Radio Conference 2007 in Geneva, there are now higher levels of signal interference across the Asia Pacific, with degraded end-user signal quality and potential financial losses due to spectrum grabs by terrestrial service providers.
Also of concern were the uncertain digital roll-out programmes in several markets in Asia, chief of which is India where the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting recently extended a deadline to digitise all TV homes in Chennai, Kolkata, Mumbai and New Delhi to October 31.
"While satellite services have proliferated across the region, there are still issues that remain critical," added Twiston Davies. "These issues include the control of signal quality, access to markets and the opportunity to expand video consumption and viewership across the region. CASBAA's role is to support its Members and industry while educating regulators and media on the significant challenges ahead for the communications business in all its forms."
For more information about the Satellite Industry Forum 2012, please visit http://www.casbaa.com/events/events-calendar/details/308-casbaa-satellite-industry-forum .
Partners for the Satellite Industry Forum 2012 include Supporting Sponsor SKY Perfect JSAT and Sponsors Arianespace, AsiaSat, Boeing, Comsat, Eutelsat, GE Satellite, Marsh, MEASAT, SES, Space Systems/Loral, SpaceX and Thales Alenia Space.
About CASBAA
Casbaa is THE trade association for the video industry and ecosystem in Asia Pacific. It serves to make the video industry stronger and healthier through promoting the common interests of its members. Casbaa leads the fight against video piracy, publishes in-depth reports and hosts conferences and seminars aimed to support a vibrant video industry. For more information, visit www.casbaa.com.
Desmond Chung, PR & Communications Manager, CASBAA
Email: desmond@casbaa.com
Adela Chen, Director, Marketing & Communications, CASBAA
Email: adela@casbaa.com
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If you find yourself connecting to public Wi-Fi networks (like at Starbucks or the library), you're opening yourself up to a significant security risk. VPNs, or virtual private networks, are the safest alternative options that let you connect to a private, secure network from the comfort of your favorite coffee shop. In this seminar, we'll talk about what makes public Wi-Fi risky, as well as how you can use a VPN (including free options) to browse instead.


Ruth G. Leon, 92, off Kellersville, passed away on Monday April 1, 2019 at Slatebelt Health and Rehabilitation Center.
Born May 15, 1926 in East Stroudsburg the daughter of the late Calvin and Grace (Barnes) Smith, she spent most of her lifetime as a resident of Monroe County. She graduated from Stroudsburg High School in 1942. Then went on to work in manufacturing in Newark, New Jersey before returning to Pennsylvania to raise her family.
Prior to her retirement, she worked as a secretary at Patterson -Kelley in East Stroudsburg; earlier she worked at the former Wyckoff's Department Store.
She was a member of the Neola United Methodist Church; and volunteered for the Pleasant Valley Ecumenical Food Pantry and also for the Hughes Library.
Ruth is survived by her children: Robert R. Leon and his wife Diane of Arizona, Patricia M. Hoffman of Effort, Michael C. Leon of Martins Creek, and Jeffrey J. Leon of Stroudsburg; her 7 grandchildren and 6 great grandchildren.
She was preceded in death by her brothers Bernard P. Smith and Donald Smith.
Funeral Services will be held on Thursday April 11 at 11:00am at the Bensing-Thomas Funeral Home, 401 North 5th Street, Stroudsburg with Pastor Margie Good officiating. Burial will follow in the Kellersville Cemetery, Hamilton Township.
There will be a viewing from 10:00am until the time of the service at the funeral home.
In lieu of flowers, memorial donations may be made to the Neola United Methodist Church, 5621 Neola Road, Stroudsburg PA 18360.
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Pioneers Memorial Healthcare District Becomes Affiliate of Scripps Health Network
Pioneers Memorial Healthcare District is an affiliate of the Scripps Health Network. The announcement was made today at a ceremony at Pioneers Memorial Hospital in Brawley. This marks the first time a hospital has joined the Scripps network, and the first expansion of the network outside of San Diego County.
Pioneers and Scripps Health entered into a two-year agreement in October 2015, with the goal of Pioneers becoming an affiliate of the Scripps Health Network. Since then, the two organizations have worked toward providing increased value to patients through enhancing the quality of care and reducing costs.
"We are excited to have reached this milestone in our agreement with Scripps Health, which is helping us achieve our goal to be the premier provider of health care services in the Imperial Valley," said Pioneers CEO Larry Lewis. "We have been working together during the past months to expand needed services for the Valley while improving the quality of the care we offer and now are taking the next step by becoming an affiliate of the Scripps Health Network."
Effective today, Pioneers Memorial can refer to itself as an affiliate of the Scripps Health Network in its marketing materials.
"We are proud to have Pioneers as an affiliate of the Scripps Health Network," said Chris Van Gorder, Scripps president and CEO. "We look forward to continuing our work together to further enhance the quality of health care offered in Imperial Valley."
Under the terms of the October 2015 agreement, Pioneers runs as an independent hospital, and retains its name and current governance structure. The agreement includes Scripps providing Pioneers with leadership training and development, process improvements and other related services.
The October agreement was reached after discussions between Scripps and Pioneers that began in April 2015 upon Pioneer's decision to pursue an affiliation with Scripps, which had responded to Pioneer's Request for Information. The Request for Information was sent to several major acute care providers in San Diego seeking expressions of interest in affiliating with Pioneers. The Pioneers board determined that, as part of its strategic initiative to improve access to care for Imperial Valley residents, the best choice would be an affiliation relationship with Scripps.
Learn more about Scripps Health, a nonprofit integrated health system in San Diego, Calif.
Janice Collins
collins.janice@scrippshealth.org
Follow me: @janicecollins


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Genetics news & views from students enrolled in BIOL 2110 at Stockton University.
Tea tree genome contains clues about how one leaf produces so many flavors
You would think that different varieties of tea would come from different plants and those different plant characteristics would be what gives the tea its distinct flavor. However this isn't the case and in fact many of the most popular kinds of tea including green tea, black tea white tea, and chai tea all come from the leaves of the Camellia sinensis plant. There are only two major varieties of this plant that are used commercially for making tea and geneticists wanted to determine what it is about the plants that give the diverse flavors. Studies have shown that tea gets its flavor mainly from flavonoids, which are antioxidants that help plants survive. The C. sinensis species has genes that code for different levels of flavonoids when compared to other Camellia species which is why they are so good for tea production. Scientists are currently attempting to sequence the genome of this plant, however it is quite difficult because of "jumping genes" which have copied and pasted themselves into the genome. The genome is 3.02 billion base pairs long and roughly four times larger then the coffee plants genome. Scientists have completed the sequencing the initial genome but still have to double check the draft and sequence different tea tree varieties from around the world as environmental factors are thought to have contributed.
Scientific Journal
Labels: base pairs, diversity, Genome sequencing, tea tree
great article, never knew tea is base on environmental factor
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Why is Janyse, Canadian Voiceover Artist & Singer 'Voting' for Obama with her voice?
Here is an exclusive podcast with Janyse who is well known as the voiceover artist for such animated projects as Hasbro's My Little Pony.
Janyse also voices 6 characters in the new Batman Motion Comics, and is the voice of Pinkie Pie in My Little Pony (Hasbro), and Orange Blossom in the new 2009 series Strawberry Shortcake (American Greetings/DIC).
Janyse was selected as one of the top celebrities to appear in the new Harper Collins Publishing book "The Vision Board" by Joyce Schwarz which hits stores, 10/28/08. Janyse is one of only two Canadian personalities included along with Toronto-based, Bob Proctor, the motivational speaking guru who wrote the foreword.
The book click to see on amazon.com also focuses on success stories and vision boards of Olympic athletes, TV personalities like Aras Baskaskas, winner Survivor and such renowned personal development experts as Jack Canfield, Chicken Soup for the Soul and 7 of the teachers featured in the blockbuster movie The Secret.
Janyse was also nominated for Best Dance Song (Dreamers) and Artist of the Year.
Every year I predict 5 trends that content and marketing execs can refer to in order to THRIVE not just SURVIVE the coming 12 months blogged by joyce Schwarz, JCOM, www.joycecom.com @ www.hollywood2020.blogs.com.
And some of the time I even have to remind myself to refer back to this list to see what is hot or not or how my trends are holding up. So this is a beginning of second quarter update for you. The past day I've spent time looking at the hottest new phenom online -- THE LOST RING (www.findthelostring.com) -- an alternate reality game that is grabbing headlines on mainstream media and at the same time managing to fascinate the digerati and next-gen game creation community.
Not surprisingly, what I found by scanning my own list is that THE LOST RING is a superb example of Trend #5 -- social media embedded into content. Later today, I'll be doing a New York Times interview about THE LOST RING with their new advertising reporter so I don't want to steal that thunder, but I'll get back to you with more of my thoughts later.
Scroll down to see Joyce Schwarz 5 trends for 2008 as presented at Digital Hollywood, CES, January, 2008. For more info email me at [email protected].
More thank 150 people turned out for my panel at CES/Digital Hollywood, www.digitalhollywood.com blogged by Joyce Schwarz, JCOM, www.joycecom.com. In the opening part of my presentation as moderator, I listed 5 trends to thrive/not just survive in the NEW HOLLYWOOD in 2008.
Click on thumbnail to see VIP panelists on Digital Hollywood panel on Widgets/next gen advertising & social media. "The Next Generation in Mobile & Broadband Platforms: Social Networks, Widgets, Search Information , Advertising & Personalization!" Photo by Joyce Chow.
Here's a brief recap of those trends. Watch for more details and screengrabs in a blog post later this week.
2) YOU AS THE STAR, YOU'RE IN THE PIX, AD, GAME...finally, you're the star-- not just yuor video on Youtube.com or your tunes on your Myspace page..you're in the pix-- with your avata and/or your "real' scanned image. Examples: Zcam, 3DV Systems, Virtual Heroes, Primesense.com, Organic Motion, BigStage.com.
HOW: Join Second Life for free at: https://secondlife.com/join.
* Note: access to the Sun Pavilion will be restricted prior to the event.
Sun Co-founder John Gage, will appear as an avatar to chat about what the SUn press release calls "the opportunities for experimentation with new forms of communication, collaboration and economic activity in the virtual world." Chris Melissinos, Sun's chief gaming officer, will also speak during the event. Philip Linden, CEO of Linden Lab, the creator of Second Life, will also be on hand for the event.
HAPPY JULY 4th! Of course, what else could we at Hollywood2020.blogs.com post about on this independence day than the ultimate in viral videos --the DIET COKE & MENTOS VIDEO! BUT THIS TIME, WE REVEAL THE SECRETS -- courtesy of course of the creators at www.eepybird.com. According to the creators the video has been shown more than 4 million times and no it was not on Youtube.com -- it was distributed courtesy of Revver.com.
SO WHAT THE HECK DOES THEIR WEBSITE NAME MEAN? Well, we tried to find info on eepybird.com but we did not see info on why call the site that strange moniker?
1) Make a cartridge of Mentos by stringing them together (see details at link above). They suggest a paperclip or fishing line for hooking up your Mentos!
2) Get a bottle cap (for COKE of course) and drill a hole into it! SPOILER -- different size holes will give you different size and duration of geysers! THIS IS ONE OF THE BIG SECRETS -- an 1/8 inch hole will last 30 seconds , a 1/2 inch hole only 5 seconds and a 1/4 inch hole can produce a geyser 20 foot high.
3) Drill holes in the Coke bottle itself, (my guess is they tried this with a plastic Coke bottle/not a glass bottle!)above the level of the soda. (The 'mad scientists' call this a 'crown'-- several geysers spraying out from one center.
4) USE LOTS OF MENTOS AND LOTS OF DIET COKE! The dudes at eepybird.com used 500 Mentos and 200 bottles Diet Coke-- that's about 34 six packs if my July 4th math is working!(BLOGGER NOTE -- or did they use that many-- here this article on Asia1.com says "The video, which features 523 Mentos sweets causing 101 bottles of Diet Coke .
WHO ARE THESE MAD SCIENTIST DUDES?
Fritz Grobe is a juggler and Stephen Voltz, a trial lawyer, met in Maine and worked in theatre together. For their video, they enlisted theatre owner Mike Miclon to operate the camera and a friend to create the soundtrack according to several reports in the press we saw.
SO WHEN DID THIS START ONLINE? The duo say they posted their video on June 3, 2006 and immediately started to see action to their site...and now MENTOS even features it on their website.
DID IT MAKE THEM RICH?
*Yes, I realize it is probably cheaper at your store but just figure if you HAD to buy these 200 bottles off of Amazon.com = 83 cents or so a bottle x 200= $166 for the diet coke.
@Zopmaz "I don't think anyone knows for sure how much this cost, except for the guys that did it, but I can make a guess. Each roll of Mentos contains fourteen candies per pack (except for the sour variety which contain eleven). Let's assume for now that they used the non-sour type. The video says they used 523 Mentos total, or roughly thirty-eight rolls. Mentos can be purchased in bulk from Sam's Club, in boxes that contain 20 rolls each, for $7.79. We'll assume they bought two boxes and ate the extras that didn't get used in the video. The total price for Mentos is $15.58."
Anything uglier or scarier then creepy.
Sheri is eepy looking. And she has fat fingers.
TELEVISION DISRUPTED --a book review by blogger Joyce Schwarz, www.hollywood2020.blogs.com and author and emerging entertainment consultant JCOM, www.joycecom.com.
Beyond the TV SET -- Television 2.0 -- from network to networked TV, June 25, 2006 (Copy of review just written for Amazon.com) AUTHOR OF TELEVISION DISRUPTED: Shelly Palmer, publisher Focal Press an imprint of Elsevier, $29.95. website www.televisiondisrupted.com.
Okay, so I used Shelly's tagline above but I added Television 2.0 because that's what this is about...You've probably heard of Web 2.0 -- well this is the complement to it. Palmer not only walks the talk as chairman of the TV Academy's Advanced Media committee but he's actively involved in the next-gen of television as a speaker and host of his own TV Show -- Media 3.0 in NYC.
Check out his blog www.emmyadvancedmedia.com and his columns on Mediapost.com. He opens his intro with the old chestnut tail of how the railway biz didn't get it when approached by early airline entrepreneurs...after all they were in the railroad biz not the airway biz....of course as Shelly knows and reminds us-- they were/are in the transportation biz. Or I might add an even broader look at it -- they are in the hospitality biz-- not just transportation but you need hotels and you need entertainment at your destination etc...upgrade, upgrade, upsell, upsell....those infomercial people get it better than anyone else...bundle it! But that's another book or column that I'll include in my next book...meanwhile back to Shelly's!
TV/Computer convergence-- old news according to Palmer. He starts with the basics (which you may or may not need to know depending on your industry -- from free analog TV to broadcast networks and what a DMA is (Designated Market Area)to digital TV to hybrid subscriptions to cable television to digital cable to satellite. And then moves into the disrupting part-- where the viewer takes control away from the programmers or distributors. He moves into what are called "value added services" like IPTV, VOD and time-shifting and interactive and enhanced TV ETV.
IT AIN"T YOUR DADS INTERNET!
A chapter on the Internet even includes an explanation of the now trendy 'metatagging' --improving search and RSS (really simple syndication -- that you know well if you have a blog). His Chapter 4 on existing wireless networks covers video on mobile and PMD (personal media devices) Although he barely mentions the video iPod, he gets his point across about how video is personal and the rise of genre-specific content.
PEER 2 PEER & BEYOND....but where's user generated content & citizen's journalism?
His peer to peer chapter is exhaustive and thank heavens includes some well-designed charts. It's really the napsterization of content. The content chapter (6) talks about one-to-one storytelling giving way to 2-way TV and the importance of packaging to bring content to market. He asks if Google, Yahoo and MSN are the new networked distribution channels but I can't see coverage of Youtube.com and Ohmynews.com and other user-generated video-related sites leading the way to the next-gen of entertainment like Myspace.com where teens spend an average of 3 hours a day.
Networked Value Propositions Ch 7 focuses in in DRT (direct response television ) or transactional TV -- but it seems to skip shopping -- maybe that's a chick's arena? The book covers Chris Anderson's Long Tail (just where is Chris's much-touted book on that topic?) and includes a few pages and chart on Zipf's distribution --used to project demand (but even re-reading that I'm not sure how critical it is in a user-generated content environment?) Walled gardens - iTunes and a bit on broadband penetration.
WHERE ARE THE FROGS IN THE BLENDER?
DRM (Digital Rights Management and Copyright Laws" rightly delves into the new area of Creative Commons. The Evolution of Advertising and Audience Measurement captures of the challenge of DVRs (TIVO-type devices) in an ad-skipping and time-shifting era. Maybe a closer look at Google and ITV could have been added to this section but it covers the basics well. Addressable dynamic ads are a focus-- but Palmer doesn't get into profiling and personalization that may be where this is all heading and has been heading since the early days of cable when the set-top boxes started to record our preferences...not unlike Amazon.com of course.
FROM GAME CONSOLES TO CENSUS BASED METRICS -- but where is the red button?
I don't see info on teletexting --yes in Europe you can text on one side of the screen while you watch TV. Also innovations like the Indy 500 split screen that allows ads on one side and race coverage on the other side of the screen would have been nice additions. BUT he covers a lot of great stuff. And he knows what he talks about.
Reality TV changed the way we watch....SURVIVOR house parties, Dancing with the stars-- video viewing along with your favorite cocktail shaker 'highball' create not only new cross-generation cultural experiences but popular culture itself. What about the StarTrek fans who have brought back that show even when it was cancelled?....the power of the fan ....product placement and branded entertainment from the days of the Sgt Bilko's SMOKES AND JOKES segments to Millionaire's phone call options. UNLESS I'm wrong and missed those topics.
TELEVISIONDISRUPTED.com -- check out the book's website too!
Alas, there is no index...really I can't believe it...on a book like this you MUST have an index! And where are the pictures (TV is a visual medium) and the screen grabs of the websites for the TV shows...BUT the glossary is excellent...maybe there's more at www.televisiondisrupted.com.
Full disclosure-- I just met the author Shelly at the NAB where I bought the book and he signed it for me. I'd heard about him for eons from his NYC pals and others. And I've followed this area of ITV/ETV and next-gen TV and emerging entertainment platforms for the past 15 (yes 15 years) so I may know the arena a bit too well and may be over-demanding of the book. It's a landmark tome and heads in all the right directions.
WHERE ARE THE PIX? SCREEN GRABS?
Lots of detail...but I'd have loved to see (yes, more pictures PLEASE) examples and less emphasis on stats and more on the role of TV in popular culture in the past. From the toilets flushing during the Milton Berle TV breaks to live TV with Sid Caesar and the launch of CNN -- taking TV worldwide and the rise of the screenager weaned on Sesame Street, raised on PBS and charmed by WB (or whatever it is now called) to the phenom of worldwide sports and ESPN who now services 11 alternate platforms-- yes 11 ....to live TV on mobiles at Wimbledon and the World Cup....yes, consumers rule and networked TV is hotter than Network TV but...never underestimate the power of popular culture in crafting the next-generation of anything... hmm maybe they are CREATING THE NEXT GEN OF ENTERTAINMENT AFTER ALL....POWER TO THE PEOPLE!
by Joyce Schwarz, JCOM, www.joycecom.com, author and emerging entertainment consultant, blogging at www.hollywood2020.blogs.com. Unless you've been living in a cave lately, you know that the hottest 'cross-between' (as we call the comparison in Hollywood) is MySpace/YouTube -- now along comes another version of the virtual community experience-- a virtual disco www.pcdmusiclounge.com, The new experience is brought to you by a company called Doppelganger.
In today's SF Chronicle article Doppelganger Chief Executive Officer Andrew Littlefield says, "It's an environment where they can see and be seen."
Most of the articles on the new site list product placement as the ad model.
NOTE that the company Doppelganger was formerly called Evil Twin.
Personal Robot PaPeRo gets smarter....according to www.pinktentacle.com NEC just announced new tech that enables PaPeRo household robot to connect with personal devices by using a digital avatar that "follows" you ,appears on the screen( on the device) and interacts with you.NEC's PaPeRo robot gets digital . Hollywood2020 wants to know why PaPeRo can't just embed the devices within it's body-- why can't it BE THE TV, BE THE MP3 PLAYER, BE THE CAMCORDER, BE THE DVD PLAYER-- all that metal and no guts? Let's see how smart the avatar can get, previous explanations show that the personal robot is authomomous -- and they show it going to sleep on the couch -- just another couch potato? Most women would not tolerate for another authomomous agent during football games hanging out on the couch! Japanese execs should get a clue! In case you haven't seen the NEC guidelines for their personal robots-- we're reprinting them here-- pretty kewl huh--not unlike guidelines for real people in real relationships -- except the artifact stuff (which I'm sure is really just a language translation goof -- artifacts in our culture go in the attic or are banned to the Goodwill or if worth something-- sold at a yardsale or carried off to the Antiques Roadshow...people generally aren't artifacts? But then some that I know bear a close resemblance to them sometimes!
NEC says online: What kinds of things do we want for robots to achieve the "world with personal robots in mind" that we introduced earlier? We present the following 3 items required for robots from the point of view of "interaction with people."
password, but with a 'natural form'.
comments blogger Joyce Schwarz, Hollywood 2020.blogs.com.
On-location at E3 (www.E3expo.com) at Thursday's conference program "In-Game and Around-Game Advertisement: What Marketers Are Looking For"....at the end of the session featuring some top dawgs like Dave Madden, EVP Wild Tangent, David Rubin, Unilever, Monika Madrid, Ubisoft, Brndon Berger, OgilvyInteractive and Kamer Shah, Nokia and Carol Kruse, VP Interactive Marketing, The Coca Cola Co, this blogger Joyce Schwarz asked a question about ARG's (Alternate Reality Games -- see link to Joyce's recent story on Imediaconnection.com iMedia Connection: Alternate Reality Gaming 101)and directed a query to panelist Kruse(VP The Coca Cola Co.) about the LOST TV show and LOST EXPERIENCE (ARG) tie in with www.subLYMONal.com and she said, "Yes, it is SPRITE!" Aha just as we all thought --all of us that are getting lost and found within the new LOST ARG -- see previous blog post below or link here : LOST -- Sublymonal Madness?? that will give you 7 steps to figuring out what the heck I'm talking and blogging about.
LYMON vs lymon -- Somehow even I missed the imporance of the capitalization of the 'word' LYMON in the URL www.subLYMONal.com . To be honest my post yesterday did not include that capitalization so I just updated it. BUT now it becomes clear that if you go to http://www.LYMON.com it's a website for the new Crispin Porter campaign for Sprite. I couldn't quite figure out why the word OBEY was in the center of the www.subLYMONAL.com wesite -- but then I got it -- the Sprite slogan "Obey your thirst".
Check out this link to the BRANDWEEK story Going Gets Tough, Sprite Gets Weirdthat broke on May 1 crediting Coke & Crispin Porter Miami for the new Sprite campaign-- now if I had only seen that in advance I could have figured out at least part of what was happening with www.subLYMONal.com. click on thumbnail above to see the graphic. Then go to the www.LYMON.com site -- see the screengrab above and click on thumnail to see it better.
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Robert Preidt and Robin Foster
NIH Director Dr. Francis Collins to Retire by Year's End
Dr. Francis Collins, the longest serving director of the U.S. National Institutes of Health, plans to step down from his leadership post by the end of the year, the institute plans to announce on Tuesday.
Collins headed the government's effort to map the entire human genetic code 20 years ago, and he is now one of the most respected public health leaders in this country's battle against the coronavirus pandemic, the Washington Post reported.
"He has a knack for taking very complex topics and breaking them down in a way that people can understand," Jeff Zients, the White House coronavirus response coordinator, told the Post. "I think that's very under-appreciated in public health."
Following his 12-year stint as the leader of the NIH, the 71-year-old physician-geneticist will return to his lab at the National Human Genome Research Institute in Bethesda, Md., the Post reported. Born in Staunton, Va., and home-schooled through the sixth grade, Collins helped discover the genes responsible for cystic fibrosis and neurofibromatosis, a condition that causes tumors to form in the spine and brain.
Collins was first named director of the NIH in 2009, and he held the post through the Obama and Trump administrations and the first year of Biden's presidency.
An NIH official told the Post that no decision on an interim NIH director has been made. President Joe Biden will nominate a new NIH director who must be confirmed by the Senate.
Collins told the Post he decided to step down now because he didn't want to serve too long in the Biden administration before leaving the position, and he felt confident that the NIH's role in developing tests, treatments and vaccines for the coronavirus was in "a pretty stable place."
"There comes a time where an institution like NIH really benefits from new vision, new leadership," Collins told the Post. "This was the right timing."
During his time as NIH director, the agency's budget rose from $30 billion to $41.3 billion, and Collins has appointed most of the current heads of the 27 NIH institutes and centers, the Post reported.
In 2009, Collins, a born-again Christian who wrote a book about reconciling science and religion, assumed leadership of the NIH amid some sharp criticism about whether a man of faith should lead a data-driven research institution that includes world-renowned scientists among its 18,000 employees, the Post said.
Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, has known Collins for decades and now interacts with him on a daily basis as part of the pandemic response.
Fauci said one of the most important contributions Collins made during the pandemic was his presence on Saturday morning calls with drug companies, helping to persuade them to recruit Black and Hispanic people into vaccine trials.
"That is extremely noteworthy -- that the director of NIH would join me and my programmatic colleagues on the nuts and bolts of what you need to do to get more African Americans and Hispanics involved in the clinical trials. He didn't have to do that," Fauci told the Post.
Collins' departure as NIH director comes as science has become highly politicized and even well-established medical facts have been challenged.
"Every issue, the polarization gets deeper and deeper, the tribes have formed their views, and it's very hard to see how we step back from that," Collins told the Post.
He described the political battles over COVID-19 vaccines and mask-wearing as a "major heartbreak."
"I did not dream that we would end up with fantastic, historic [vaccine test] results, and here we are in October 2021 with 70 million" people unvaccinated and hundreds of thousands dead "as a result of a culture war," Collins said. "I did not imagine that possible in the United States of America."
Eric Lander worked with Collins on the Human Genome Project years ago and described him as "a brilliant scientist and an amazing administrator, and a real humanist," the Post reported.
"Time after time, Francis was able to bring a vision to his institute at NIH, and then the whole NIH, to see what the next challenges would be that the scientific community could rally around. It was a huge thing," Lander told the Post.
Visit the U.S. National Institutes of Health for more on Dr. Francis Collins.
SOURCE: Washington Post
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A: You can use the CSS property pointer-events on the 2 canvas that should not listen to events, something like that :
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It should do the trick.

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I am super happy because I feel ready to share this review of one of my favorite books and is this wonderful coloring book with beautiful illustrations of different artists. Like some of you already know i am a huge fan of Sarah J. Maas and I love the most of her books so when I found the date of release of this colouring book I was super excited and I knew that I needed that new book in my life.
This post will be share some of my favorite illustrations that content this book. And like this trilogy is over so I am not going to reveal any early spoiler. I hope you can enjoy this book review. By the way If you are interested in read my review of A Court of Thorns and Roses click in the name.
I love that so many people are doing coloring books for their books, it's just so much fun!
It's a lot of work to color those things. Never was my cup of tea to color in general even as a kid, but the art in them is always pretty beautiful.
The art is this coloring book is gorgeous!
Love that is an actually book that you can color.
E as ilustrações, são formidáveis! Muito bem feitas, e repletas de detalhes encantadores!
Certamente, uma belíssima sugestão de leitura, Sakuranko!


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CLC SUBMITS COMMENTS ON PROPOSED RULE
ON PAYMENT REFORM FOR PART B DRUGS
Thomas A. Scully
200 Independence Ave., S.W.
Room 445-G - HHH Bldg.
RE: Medicare Program; Payment Reform for Part B Drugs,
Proposed Rule, August 20, 2003 (CMS-1229-P)
Dear Mr. Scully:
The undersigned organizations, representing cancer patients, providers and research organizations, write to express serious concern about the proposed rule on "Payment Reform for Part B Drugs," 68 Fed. Reg. 50428 (August 20, 2003). If the proposed rule is adopted with any of the options discussed in the Federal Register notice, there will likely be an unsustainable reduction in total payments for cancer care and an inevitable threat to patient access to quality cancer care, particularly in rural areas where treatment options may be limited.
In a number of previous communications with the President, the Secretary of Health & Human Services (HHS), the Administrator of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), and Members of Congress, we have indicated strong support for true reform of Medicare payment policies regarding cancer drugs (which constitute the overwhelming majority of drugs at issue in the proposed rule), but we have also insisted that reform of drug payments must be accompanied by reform of the woefully inadequate methods for reimbursing the cost of administering drugs in physician offices. The proposed rule fails to address adequately the shortfall in payments for practice expenses for oncology and simultaneously offers a menu of unworkable approaches to reducing payments for drugs.
Moratorium on Reductions in Drug Payments
The proposed rule is contrary to an explicit moratorium on decreases in payment rates for drugs imposed by Congress in section 429 of the Medicare, Medicaid and SCHIP Benefits Improvement and Protection Act of 2000 ("BIPA"). Under section 429(c) of BIPA, the Secretary "may not directly or indirectly decrease the rates of reimbursement [for drugs] until such time as the Secretary has reviewed the report submitted [by the Comptroller General] under subsection (a)(2)."
That subsection imposed on the Comptroller General a number of studies and recommendations related to Medicare reimbursement for drugs and for drug administration, which were to be submitted to Congress and the HHS Secretary. Among the requisite studies and recommendations were those related to reimbursement for both drugs and the practice expense component of the physician fee schedule which currently under-reimburses oncology practices. In addition, the Comptroller General was charged with ensuring "that medicare beneficiaries continue to have appropriate access to health care services" taking into account "the potential for patients to receive inpatient or outpatient hospital services in lieu of services in a physician's office."
Perhaps most significantly, Congress was very explicit in requiring that the Comptroller General complete a task previously assigned but never completed-i.e., "a nationwide study to determine the physician and nonphysician clinical resources necessary to provide safe outpatient cancer therapy services and the appropriate payment rates for such services under the medicare program." This requirement was set forth in section 213(a) of the Balanced Budget Refinement Act of 1999 ("BBRA"), which also compelled an assessment by the Comptroller General of the adequacy of various elements of current practice expense reimbursement as well as "standards to assure the provision of safe outpatient cancer therapy services." Recommendations from the Comptroller General were required to include proposed adjustments to practice expense payment methodologies "to assure the adequacy of payment amounts for safe outpatient cancer therapy services."
Reflecting intense Congressional interest in the BBRA study, Congress stated that, "[i]n making recommendations [under BIPA], the Comptroller General shall conclude and take into account the results of the study provided for under section 213(a) of BBRA. Section 429(a)(3)(D) of BIPA. In fact, the nationwide study of these critical issues was never commenced, much less concluded. Without the BBRA study and accompanying recommendations, the Comptroller General cannot be said to have completed his BIPA report. And absent the Comptroller General's report and review of such report by the Secretary, the moratorium against decreases in payment rates for drugs remains in place.
These are not mere technical requirements. Congress made a studied decision in BBRA to require a "nationwide study" of the full range of issues related to cancer drug therapy, ranging from drug pricing to practice expense to the safety of patients in the face of proposed reforms. Noting that such study had not been completed at the time of BIPA's passage, Congress reaffirmed the importance of the BBRA study and recommendations and insisted that those results be an integral part of the Comptroller's report under BIPA. For whatever reason, that critical study and its attendant recommendations do not exist; therefore, the report contemplated by BIPA is not complete, and the moratorium accordingly remains in place. The proposed rule is thus invalid on its face.
Options to Decrease Payment Rates for Drugs
As noted above, Congress has forbidden decreases in payment rates for drugs under Medicare absent the full report required by BIPA, including the nationwide study and recommendations mandated by BBRA. Nevertheless, it is important to note that the options under consideration by CMS could prove disastrous for cancer patients in the United States, particularly in rural or other underserved communities. Each of the options presents the potential for reimbursing at least some Medicare providers less than their actual cost to acquire certain drugs. In an environment where drug acquisition costs are high and the ability of practitioners to obtain discounts is variable, drastic cuts in payment place quality care in jeopardy for many beneficiaries. Such "reform" of payment rates for drugs creates substantial disincentives for usage of the appropriate drug for treatment of cancer and undermines the quality cancer care that Medicare beneficiaries have come to expect.
Inadequate Adjustment of Practice Expense Payments
While the proposed rule is aggressive in restraining payment rates for drugs, it is timid in consideration of the corresponding issue of practice expense payments. Despite the fact that virtually all interested parties assert that excessive drug payments are offset by inadequate practice expense reimbursement, the proposed rule adopts a distinctly unbalanced approach, resulting in relatively minor revision to practice expense in the face of substantial cuts in drug payments. According to the Federal Register notice, proposed adjustments to practice expense would increase payments by a system-wide amount of $175 million. However, system-wide decreases, by CMS's own calculation, could be as much as $570 million or more. Anyone interested in quality of cancer care has to be concerned about a proposed rule that could take roughly $400 million net out of the nationwide system of cancer care for Medicare beneficiaries. If drug payments are to be reformed-which we all enthusiastically support-there must be balanced and corresponding reform to practice expense payments.
Access to Cancer Care
In the proposed rule, CMS flatly asserts, without citing any supporting data or analysis, that "we do not believe that any beneficiaries will experience drug access issues as a result of our four proposed options." 68 Fed. Reg. 50441. This assertion is a reflection of CMS's fundamental misunderstanding of the patient care issues raised by its proposal, regardless of which of the four options is adopted. Quality cancer care involves much more than simply providing access to drugs.
Patients may have access to drugs but still suffer inadequate care if the necessary infrastructure for delivering drugs and other therapy is not present. Modern cancer care requires trained oncology nurses, psychosocial and nutritional counseling and significant monitoring and follow-up. It is the evolution of that infrastructure that has permitted the successful migration of cancer care from the more expensive and often less convenient hospital setting to the physician office. The proposed rule threatens to dismantle that essential infrastructure.
While CMS has not cited any data to support its assertion that access will not suffer, surveys of physicians indicate that net payment reductions of the sort contemplated in the proposed rule will prompt many physicians to close satellite offices that serve patients in outlying areas, to curtail participation in clinical trials, and to consider declining to accept new Medicare patients. The impact on cancer clinical research was reinforced by a letter forwarded to the Administration, signed by 56 national cancer centers expressing their concern that large payment reductions would undermine clinical trial participation throughout the United States. Thus, the proposal will negatively affect not only individual patients, but also overall progress against cancer.
The scant attention to access issues in the proposed rule is particularly troubling in light of the explicit instruction to the Comptroller General to consider issues of safety and access in making its report to Congress. The Comptroller General made no real effort to review those issues, and thus his report inadequately equipped CMS to consider them in fashioning the proposed rule. The single paragraph devoted to the question of patient access in the proposed rule is shamefully overshadowed by the many pages of analysis in the proposed rule devoted to issues of drug pricing.
The proposed rule should be withdrawn until such time as CMS has sufficient data, presumably from the Comptroller General, to conduct a meaningful analysis of the all-important issue of access to quality cancer care for Medicare beneficiaries. Without such an analysis, it is unthinkable that CMS would undertake actions that could reduce by hundreds of millions of dollars the funds available to provide cancer care to our nation's senior citizens.
Inadequate and Untimely Reform
The proposed rule is not only inadequate in providing balanced reform; it is also untimely in that Congress is currently considering comprehensive legislative solutions that would address reform in a more comprehensive fashion. CMS is well aware of this Congressional activity and has in fact based some of its proposals for drug price reductions on as-yet-unenacted legislative provisions.
Congress intended CMS to act only with all the information provided by all studies, recommendations and reports mandated in both BIPA and BBRA. CMS does not yet have that information, and in fact, Congress is itself actively deliberating a solution to the dual problem of excessive drug payments and inadequate practice expense payments. In light of all these considerations, CMS should refrain from precipitate action and should decline to finalize this seriously flawed proposed rule.
Cancer Leadership Council
Cancer Care, Inc.
Cancer Research and Prevention Foundation
Coalition of National Cancer Cooperative Groups
Colorectal Cancer Network
International Myeloma Foundation
Kidney Cancer Association
The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society
Lymphoma Research Foundation
Multiple Myeloma Research Foundation
National Patient Advocate Foundation
National Prostate Cancer Coalition
North American Brain Tumor Coalition
Ovarian Cancer National Alliance
Pancreatic Cancer Action Network
The Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation
Us Too! International - Prostate Cancer Education and Support
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Y-ME National Breast Cancer Organization
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Фрэнсис Нил Доусон (, родился 6 ноября 1948 года, Крайстчерч) — скульптор из Новой Зеландии, наиболее известный своими масштабными гражданскими изделиями из алюминия и нержавеющей стали, часто выполненными с использованием решётки естественных форм, которые между собой образуют геометрическое целое.

Биография
Родился в Крайстчерче в 1948 году. Сын священника Джона Брента Доусона и его жены Флоренс Эмили (урожденная Карлайл), детство прошло в Мастертоне, Петоне и Гастингсе, среднее образование получил в школе для мальчиков Гастингса.

Учась в четвертом классе, Доусон забрался в актовый зал и нарисовал на крыше большими белыми буквами «Первоапрельский дурак». Это событие попало на первую полосу газеты «Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune», и Доусон считает это «началом [своей] карьеры в паблик-арте».

Доусон учился в Кентерберийском университете (1966—1969), его педагогами были Расс Уильямс, Том Тейлор и Эрик Даудни. Он получил диплом дизайнера (с отличием), а затем провёл год в педагогическом колледже. Затем получил с помощью гранта Совета искусств королевы Елизаветы II диплом о высшем образовании в области скульптуры Викторианского колледжа искусств в Мельбурне в 1973 году. По возвращении четыре года водил грузовик.

Преподавал рисунок и дизайн в Крайстчерчском политехническом институте с 1975 по 1983 год.

В 1990 году Доусон был награжден Медалью памяти Новой Зеландии 1990 года. В 2003 году он получил премию Фонда искусств Новой Зеландии в номинации «Лауреат искусств», а под новый 2004 год он стал кавалером Новозеландского ордена «За заслуги» за свою профессиональную деятельность.

Творчество
Самые известные произведения Доусона включают «Чашу», большой перевернутый конус на Соборной площади Крайстчерча и Папоротники, сферу, созданную из металлических листьев папоротника, на Гражданской площади Веллингтона. Основные зарубежные заказы включают глобус для Центра Помпиду в Париже и Canopy для Художественной галереи Квинсленда в Брисбене.

Небольшие работы Доусона часто создают иллюзию используя такие оптические узоры, как муар. Многие из этих работ настенные, хотя есть отдельные произведения, в которых используются такие повседневные узорчатые предметы, как формы игральных карт и посуда с узором из ивы.

Занимался скульпторой с конца 1980-х годов. С конца 1980-х он работал в бывшем зале Oddfellows' Hall в Линвуде.

Доктор Майкл Данн, почётный профессор Оклендского университета и бывший глава Эламской школы изящных искусств, описал Доусона в своей книге «Скульптура Новой Зеландии: история» следующим образом:
Скульптура Доусона индивидуальна, уникальна и легко узнаваема. На самом деле его скульптуры нарушают условности в своей легкости, прозрачности и бегстве от условностей приземленной демонстрации на пьедестале.
В книге Данна есть фотография Папоротника на суперобложке. Фанфары сняты с Сиднейского моста Харбор-Бридж

Скульптура Доусона «Фанфары» впервые была подвешена к мосту Харбор-Бридж в Сиднее в канун 2005 года. Скульптура состоит из 350 отражающих вертушек, расположенных в виде сферы. Лорд-мэр Сиднея Кловер Мур впоследствии подарил скульптуру городскому совету Крайстчерча. После долгого хранения в конце концов было решено установить Fanfare рядом с государственной автомагистралью 1 к югу от моста через реку Ваймакарири, чтобы приветствовать посетителей, прибывающих в город с севера. Fanfare были официально представлены 10 июня 2015 года мэром Лианн Далзил и Доусон. Далзил, имея в виду первую инсталляцию Fanfare в Сиднее и разрушительные землетрясения в Крайстчерче, сказал на церемонии:
    сегодня кажется, что он вернулся домой, и это действительно будет большое заявление о том, что наш город и что он собирается стать
Доусон был более скромным и описал свои работы как «просто шар с несколькими пропеллерами на нем».

Spiers расположен на Латимер-сквер в Крайстчерче.

В феврале 2014 года шпили Доусона были установлены на Латимер-сквер в Крайстчерче. Работа была вдохновлена попытками Доусона нарисовать по памяти разрушенный шпиль собора Крайстчерча. Первоначально планировалось, что скульптура будет парить над центром Латимер-сквер вдоль оси Вустер-стрит, чтобы была достигнута визуальная связь с собором Крайстчерча. Однако в настоящее время он находится в южной половине Латимер-сквер, недалеко от Картонного собора. В 2012 году к Доусону обратился инженер-строитель, чтобы узнать, не хочет ли он спроектировать еще одну скульптуру для Крайстчерча, и, когда он согласился, она пожертвовала своим временем, чтобы заняться структурным проектированием инсталляции.

Известные работы

Галерея

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And then you spot it. Sitting most inelegantly on the end of the aisle, pots of it jostling for space. It's understated in stature but MAGNIFICENTO in essence.
And you groan, step forward again intent on ignoring it. Reverse back, because you simply can't. You have to have it. $14.99 a pot and all!
Because, every SINGLE year you kill it. Finito. Done. Dusted. No Boronia beyond the memories of the scent, a shrivelled up brown mess left to stare at you in condemnation you even dared to try again.
I love it. My mum loved it. My grandmother loved it. And I'm guessing if there had of been a local nursery or Bunnings back in the late 1800's, my great grandmother would've loved it too.
I buy a pot of Boronia every year, and every year, without fail, I kill it. Despite adding lots of water, little water, pot planting, garden planting, north, south, east, west facing, rich soil, crappy soil … I just cannot keep the damn things alive.
And to make matters worse, every year, a beautiful reader and now friend of mine, Wendy (Hi Wends :) ), posts a photo on Facebook of her stunning, red/brown, pink in two shades and now yellow boronias surviving and thriving right here in Gippsland.
I asked her for advice.
Not this little black duck.
Last year after killing the 1245th Boronia to enter my life, I swore I would never buy another. I simply couldn't do it to the poor plant.
A Boronia free 2018. High five!
Ahem. A girl has a right to change her mind.
It was called "Just Margaret". My beloved late great aunt was called Margaret. She loved pretty things and beautiful scents and flowers.
So here we go. On a wing and a prayer (are you listening up there, Aunty Margaret?) and on Wendy's advice, I'm going for a south-easterly position, afternoon sun, a 'Do Not Disturb' sign over the roots and an average watering regime.
Boronia number 1246, I hope you're up for it.
Here's a link to a nice, easy recipe I found which might go down well with the FamBam this weekend. For those – like me – who had no idea what Marsala was, I'm told it's a fortified Italian wine, and its cheap too.
… at my new Speckle Park calves. Have you ever seen a calf scratch its ear like a dog?
I have see calves (and full grown cows) scratch themselves like that and it is hilarious!
I hope your boronia is the lucky living plant!
Great minds read alike! Just finished The Single Ladies of Jacaranda Retirement Village three days ago and absolutely loved it.


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Could Cardinals target their tight ends and get a Golden boost vs. Rams?
Could Cardinals target tight ends, get a Golden boost vs. Rams?
TEMPE, Ariz. — Suffering such a flattening defeat to open the season left the Arizona Cardinals "salty," defensive coordinator Al Holcomb said Thursday.
It could get a little more sweet if the team adds two energizing starters on Sunday for a Week 2 visit to the Los Angeles Rams.
While the Cardinals ruled out starting right tackle Andre Smith (elbow) and backup defensive tackle Olsen Pierre (toe) on Friday, head coach Steve Wilks left the potential returns of tight end Jermaine Gresham (Achilles) and Markus Golden (ACL) on the table. Both players have practiced all week on a limited basis and are listed as questionable.
Gresham or not, Arizona might be wise to key in on their tight ends this week.
In a 33-13 win over the Oakland Raiders on Monday, Los Angeles picked off three passes but allowed 303 passing yards. One-hundred-eighty of those went to veteran tight end Jared Cook, who caught nine passes on 12 targets.
"They got matched up on linebackers a lot," said tight end Ricky Seals-Jones, a second-year pro and former college receiver who has filled in for Gresham. "If I get my opportunity against a linebacker, I got to go in. Watching that game, just seeing how they went off — (Cook) especially — if you get matched up on a linebacker, you got to win.
Against a formidable Rams defense, a tight end who puts money in the bank by blocking for his running backs could kick-start the offense by helping the Cardinals set a tone that they didn't produce a week prior. Gresham's presence would be a positive addition in that regard.
Golden not only returned to practice on a limited basis and looked good while doing so this week. Wilks began thinking about how to use him if he were active against Los Angeles.
Though the defensive end is listed as questionable, Arizona's head coach remained optimistic he was more than close to returning.


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Florida escapes federal list of 31 polluted states.
BY JOHN HEILPRIN ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER
WASHINGTON - Counties in 31 states are flunking air-quality standards, drawing a federal warning to clean up industrial plants, put new restrictions on cars and take other action to make their air less polluted.
Nearly 500 counties, mostly in California and the eastern third of the country, were cited Thursday as having too much smog-causing pollution in violation of the federal clean air law. The report did not cite any of Florida's 67 counties.
The Environmental Protection Agency told state and local officials to develop new pollution controls to reduce ground-level ozone, a precursor of smog. Some 159 million people, more than half the U.S. population, live in areas singled out by the government for contributing to unhealthy air.
Acting under court order, the EPA identified all or parts of 474 counties that either have air that is too dirty or have pollution that causes neighboring counties to fail the air quality test.
Despite having some of the toughest air pollution requirements, California still has the worst air, the EPA said.
The Los Angeles basin was designated as having severe air pollution, the only one in the category. The area has until 2021 to come into compliance with the federal standard.
Three California regions - Riverside County, San Joaquin Valley and Sacramento - were listed with serious pollution, the fourth-worst designation, and given until 2013 to curtail the pollution.
Other areas with marginal or moderate pollution problems have until either 2007 to 2010 to comply. Areas that continue to violate the standard could lose federal highway dollars.
Those areas include a ring of Great Lakes states and a concentration of Northeast states from the Washington area to Boston. Also failing the federal test were parts of eastern Tennessee, Georgia and North Carolina, as well as Dallas, Houston and San Antonio.
The EPA said regions in noncompliance may have to impose new controls on industrial plants, restrict transportation and require tougher vehicle inspection programs. Some counties may have to require the use of special, cleaner-burning gasoline.
"Many communities will find it difficult to eventually meet such standards without jeopardizing local economic growth," said Jeffrey Marks of the National Association of Manufacturers. He said more than half of the country's manufacturing capacity is in areas that do not meet the air standards.
Some environmentalists and health advocates said the EPA, by extending compliance deadlines, was slowing improvements in air quality.
John L. Kirkwood, president of the American Lung Association, whose lawsuit triggered Thursday's decisions, said the EPA was dropping "key counties in many areas where air quality is poor" and giving "too many communities a way to avoid or delay cleaning up the pollution their citizens must breathe."
"It will be many years before these benefits are fully realized," said Kirkwood.
The EPA has said it will act to reduce pollution from power plants. But in a companion regulation, the agency Thursday proposed new requirements to curtail pollution drifting from power plants and other industrial facilities. The proposal, resulting from a court order, is intended to cut haze in 156 parks and wilderness areas in 35 states.
EPA Administrator Mike Leavitt said he held dozens of private meetings with members of Congress, local officials, industry representatives and environmental and public health advocates, who argued either for or against being included in the list.
"This isn't about the air getting dirtier. The air is getting cleaner," said EPA Adminstator Mike Leavitt. "These new rules are about our new understanding of health threats, about our standards getting tougher and our national resolve to meet them."
The new standards were adopted in 1997 but delayed because of court challenges. They allow less ozone in the air and require monitoring of air quality over eight hours instead of one hour, because of concerns for children, the elderly and people with respiratory illnesses.
Leavitt said it would be unfair to say that dirty air is a national problem. "There may be a few areas where that phrase applies, but there aren't many," he said.
"We're going to raise the bar for everybody - no exceptions," he said at a news conference.
In 1991, under the older standard, the EPA designated 371 counties as having air with ozone. Some counties fixed the problem; others fell into noncompliance because of the tougher 1997 standards. Some 221 counties with 110 million people had been violating the one-hour standard, EPA officials said.
Leavitt said 2,668 counties met the standards. Also, 19 states had all counties in compliance: Alaska, Florida, Hawaii, Idaho, Iowa, Kansas, Minnesota, Mississippi, Montana, Nebraska, New Mexico, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Oregon, South Dakota, Utah, Vermont, Washington and Wyoming.
The standards were delayed from taking effect for four years because of a lengthy court challenge by industry and states. They were upheld by the Supreme Court in February 2001. Environmental and public health groups sued to force government into action.


RIYADH (AFP) - An extremist from the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria killed three people Friday when he blew himself up in a car outside a Shiite mosque in Saudi Arabia, the second such attack in a week.
The bombing, again coinciding with weekly Friday prayers, added to the distrust felt by the Shiite minority of protection provided by security forces in the predominantly Sunni kingdom.
It was the third attack since November to target Shiites in the oil-rich Eastern Province where most of the country's Shiites live, and according to the interior ministry it killed three people and wounded four.
The suicide bomber - disguised in women's clothing - detonated his device at the entrance to the mosque during Friday prayers, the official Saudi Press Agency cited a ministry spokesman as saying.
ISIS, in a statement distributed by jihadist accounts on Twitter, quickly said it was behind the attack, which it said was carried out by "soldier of the caliphate Abu Jandal al-Jazrawi".
Friday's blast comes exactly seven days after the jihadist group sent a suicide bomber into another Shiite mosque in a village in Eastern Province.
Twenty-one people were killed in the May 22 blast, which was also claimed by ISIS.
Sympathisers of the Sunni extremist group are also accused by the Saudi authorities of gunning down seven members of the minority Shiite community last November.
Activist Nassima al-Sada, who arrived at the site right after the latest attack, said the suicide bomber blew himself up after security volunteers tried to prevent him from entering the ladies' side of the only Shiite mosque in Dammam.
After the previous week's deadly attack, residents had set up security committees to search those entering mosques during prayers, witnesses said.
"I think one dangerous result of these increased bombings is the Shiites' loss of faith in the security services, potential formation of local self-protection units or vigilantism."
Neighbouring Sunni-ruled Bahrain, which crushed a 2011 uprising by the Shiite majority there, condemned the "terrorist bombing" which "aims to fuel sectarian divisions," in a statement on the official BNA news agency.
As the bomber struck in Dammam, cleric Osama al-Khayat, leading Friday prayers in the holy city of Mecca, slammed last week's "ugly crime" and urged all residents across the kingdom to "stand up against this aggression... this great sin".
Saudi King Salman has vowed punishment for anyone linked to last week's "heinous crime".
And the country's top cleric, Grand Mufti Sheikh Abdul Aziz al-Sheikh, has called it a "criminal act" targeting national unity.
Saudi Arabia and its Sunni Gulf neighbours last year joined a US-led military coalition waging a campaign of air raids against IS in Syria, raising concerns about possible retaliation.
Since late March, Saudi Arabia has also led a coalition bombing Iran-backed Shiite rebels who have seized large parts of Yemen and sent deadly shell and rocket fire across the border.


The Burning Hell return to The Louisiana for their 2019 tour. The constant has always remained Kom's singular outlook on the world: wise and naive, cynical and life-affirming, full of brilliant, unexpected narratives and a deeply felt generosity of spirit. The band's live performances underscore these themes: they exhibit a joy and camaraderie too infrequently seen on stage.


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Democracy 4 (v1.47, MULTi11) [FitGirl Repack] torrent
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Genres/Tags: Managerial, Strategy, Turn-based, 2D
Developer: Positech Games
Publisher: Positech Games
Engine: in-house
Steam User Rating: 85% of user reviews are positive (based on 2,268 reviews)
Interface Language: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese - Brazil, Polish, Russian, Simplified Chinese
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Crack: built-in (DARKSiDERS)
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Democracy 4 lets you take the role of President / Prime minister, govern the country (choosing its policies, laws and other actions), and both transform the country as you see fit, while trying to retain enough popularity to get re-elected...
Built on a custom-built neural network designed to model the opinions, beliefs, thoughts and biases of thousands of virtual citizens, Democracy 4 is the state-of-the-art in political simulation games. A whole new vector-graphics engine gives the game a more adaptable, cleaner user interface, and the fourth in the series builds on the past while adding a host of new features such as media reports, coalition governments, emergency powers, three-party systems and a more sophisticated simulation that handles inflation, corruption and modern policy ideas such as quantitative easing, helicopter money, universal basic income and policies to cover current political topics such as police body cameras, transgender rights and tons more.
Democracy 4 is the ultimate sandbox for testing out your political ideas. We all think our politicians are useless and that we could do a better job ourselves, but is that really true? With one eye on the budget, one-eye on the polls, and somehow finding time to watch out for terrorist attacks at the same time, you will find that staying in power while changing society for the better is a tougher job than you ever imagined.
Would it really be a good idea to legalize all drugs? to give the police machineguns? to ban abortion? to invest heavily in green energy? would UBI really work? can you stay elected after cutting pensions in half to pay for your science budget? There is only one game that lets you find out!
The intention in designing this game is to have no implied bias whatsoever (tricky, but we try!) so this is NOT a game that is going to lecture you about politics, or tell you that your beliefs are wrong. This is a strategy game, not a political protest :D. If you want to turn your country into ayn rand's fantasy, abolish all public spending and all taxes, you can do that. it might work, it might not! depending on how you handle it. On the other hand if you want to nationalise the railways, the energy companies, the water companies, cap CEO pay, ban second-home ownership and put universal income in place, you can do that too. All the game tries to do is model the *likely* effects, short and long term of any action you take.
Because modders have so enthusiastically supported earlier games in the series, we are doing our best to make Democracy 4 as mod-friendly as possible too, and steam workshop support will make choosing and installing mods easy. Ultimately all our data is in text files that you can edit yourself, so if you think our analysis of the link between car tax and car usage is wrong (for example), its trivial to edit it, and share your changes with other players.
Ultimately Democracy 4 is not a game about simply winning an election, but about running the country. Losing an election is just the end-game (unless you get assassinated), the real challenge to the game is whether or not you can create a country you are honestly proud of. I hope you enjoy trying!
Based on Democracy.4-DARKSiDERS ISO release: ds-democracy4.iso (658,016,256 bytes)
Game version: v1.47
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PREP FOOTBALL: Alamogordo dominates Highland 59-6
Peter Dindinger
ALBUQUERQUE >> The Alamogordo Tiger (3-0) football team dominated the Highland Hornets (1-2) 59-6 courtesy of the mercy rule in the third quarter Friday night at Wilson Stadium.
Highland got on the board with 9:08 in the first quarter on a fumble recovery by Seth Platt on a bad snap.
Trailing 6-0, Alamogordo's junior quarterback Kyle Hooper found senior Hunter Graham for a 12-yard touchdown pass to give the Tigers a one-point lead at 7-6.
Hooper connected with junior Alex Ramirez for a 34-yard touchdown strike. The extra point attempt was blocked giving Alamogordo a 13-6 lead with 3:20 left in the first quarter.
Towards the end of the first quarter, Graham broke a 62-yard touchdown run to put Alamogordo up 19-6.
With 11:36 in the second quarter, Graham scored on an 18-yard scamper. He later found the endzone on a one-yard run to give Alamogordo a commanding 32-6 lead.
Hooper found senior Julian Segura for a 14-yard touchdown pass to put the Tigers up 39-6 at halftime. Hooper hit the century mark in the first half with 196 passing yards after completing 9-of-16 passes for three touchdowns. Graham rushed for 200 yards in the first half while scoring four total touchdowns.
To begin the second half, Hooper connected to senior Carlton Bartley on a four-yard touchdown pass to make the score 46-6. Bartley later caught a 44-yard touchdown pass to extend the lead with 6:35 remaining in the third quarter.
Junior Noah Ruckel dealt the final blow in the third quarter on a 30-yard touchdown run to help Alamogordo spoil Highland's homecoming night.
Graham finished the night with 217 total yards of offense (200 rushing, 17 receiving) while scoring three rushing touchdowns. Ramirez contributed with 119 total yards of offense (26 rushing, 93 receiving) while scoring one touchdown.
Segura tallied three receptions for 67 yards while Bartley finished with 65 receiving yards on three catches with two touchdowns. Hooper completed 13-of-24 passes for 241 yards with five touchdowns.
The Alamogordo defense tallied one fumble recovery and three sacks. Senior Nathaniel Silva also recorded an interception.
All roads eventually lead to Mayfield (3-0), the Trojans defeated the Carlsbad Caveman (0-3) 41-6 Friday night in a dual between brothers Gary and Michael Bradley.
Alamogordo hosts Mayfield 7 p.m. Friday.


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Pool Floats have 3 Poses and works with SL water.
1. search at your invetory for MODIFY HAIRS and make a copy on your hairs folder from the hairs you will wear and will edit.
2.wear the copy hairs you just create.
3.wear the hat / adjust it or resize it how you like .
4.resize your hat by touch (IF NEEDED) , will pop up a menu , choose how big or small you want it.
5.click edit your hairs , click the box EDIT LINKED , click the part of the hairs you dont want to be shown out of your hat and choose TEXTURE .
6.Click the square it says TEXTURE and will open to your screen a different window .
9. keep doing this in every part of your hairs you dont want to appear outside the hat .


Surprise and show all your affection for a loved one in São Paulo, Brazil. with this beautiful basket with fruits of the season and several assorted appetizers that are sure to make a big smile on honored! Ideal for birthdays, anniversaries, coffee breakfast incredible and romantic gifts. Items may vary depending on the region and season. WARNING: Gourmet Baskets need, usually a minimum of 1 working day prior to preparation and submission of the application..


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