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L' ona "U" és un tipus d'ona en un electrocardiograma (ECG). Arriba després de l' ona T de repolarització ventricular i no sempre s'observa com a resultat de la seva petita mida. Es creu que les ones "U" representen la repolarització de les fibres de Purkinje. Tanmateix, la font exacta de l'ona U encara no està clara. Les teories més comunes sobre l'origen són:

 Repolarització retardada de les fibres de Purkinje
 Repolarització prolongada de cèl·lules M del miocardi mitjà
 Potencials posteriors resultants de forces mecàniques a la paret ventricular
 La repolarització del múscul papil·lar.

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Segons V. Gorshkov-Cantacuzene:"L'ona U és l'impuls que porta la sang a les artèries coronàries i als vasos sanguinis".La resistivitat de la sang estacionària s'expressa com , on  és un coeficient, i  és l' hematocrit ; en aquest moment, com durant l'acceleració del flux sanguini, es produeix una forta disminució de la resistència longitudinal amb petits temps de relaxació.

No obstant això, múltiples factors afecten la resistivitat de la sang. L' agregació d'eritròcits es produeix a baixes taxes de cisalla i implica que per a tots els vasos (a excepció de les venes grans) l'efecte de l'agregació és irrellevant. L'interior d'un vas sanguini inclou una capa de plasma propera a la paret (anomenada lubricant), la mida de la qual depèn estrictament del criteri de Reynold i de la velocitat de cisalla de la sang que flueix. Atès que el gruix d'aquesta capa a tots els vasos sanguinis (excepte els capil·lars ) és inferior a 5 micres i la resistivitat del plasma és dues vegades menor que a la sang, llavors, segons l'esquema d'inserció paral·lela, la contribució d'aquesta capa a la resistivitat és insignificant. En reduir la velocitat dels perfils de flux sanguini, la dependència de Ht del radi del vas es fa més allargada. Tanmateix, a valors normals de Ht, l'efecte també és insignificant. Amb taxes de cisalla prou altes, els glòbuls vermells es tornen susceptibles a la deformació. La contribució d'aquest fenomen és difícil d'avaluar perquè està present en el fons de tots els efectes anteriors. Tanmateix, fins i tot la suma de tots aquests factors té poc efecte sobre la resistivitat de la sang.

Es dedueix que en el moment de l'ejecció de la sang del ventricle esquerre, part del pols s'emporta, perquè no hi ha resistivitat elèctrica de la sang, que augmenta gradualment a les artèries coronàries i als vasos sanguinis. L'ona U és l'impuls que transporta la sang a les artèries coronàries i als vasos sanguinis. És possible tornar aquest impuls a les fibres de Purkinje al llarg dels vasos del miocardi. Aquesta idea també es demostra pel fet que la hipertròfia del ventricle esquerre, la isquèmia miocàrdica, la coronària i la insuficiència tenen impuls, no hi ha possibilitat de passar a les fibres de Purkinje, per tant, l'ECG va registrar una ona U negativa.

Interpretació

Segons molts estudis  ], les ones U solen registrar-se a totes les derivacions excepte V6, més freqüentment a V2 i V3 quan la freqüència cardíaca és superior a 96 batecs per minut. La seva amplitud és sovint de 0,1 a 0,33 mV. Particularment difícil és l'assignació dels límits de l'ona U al fons de l'ona T i l' ona R, que poden parcialment o completar (en el cas de l'ona T) la fusió. Els valors més alts de freqüència cardíaca o d'ona U d'hipocalcèmia se superposen a l' ona T i, en la taquicàrdia, es fusiona amb l'ona R del següent cicle cardíac.

Les ones U prominents (les ones U es descriuen com a prominents si són més d'1-2 mm o el 25% de l'alçada de l'ona T.) es veuen amb més freqüència en la hipopotasèmia, però poden estar presents en la hipercalcèmia, la tirotoxicosi o l'exposició a digitals., epinefrina i antiarrítmics de classe 1A i 3, així com en la síndrome del QT llarg congènita, i en el context d'hemorràgia intracranial.

Una ona U invertida pot representar una isquèmia miocàrdica (i especialment sembla tenir una alta precisió predictiva positiva per a la malaltia de l'artèria coronària descendent anterior esquerra  ) o una sobrecàrrega de volum ventricular esquerre.

De vegades es pot veure una ona U en individus normals més joves i atlètics. L'ona U augmenta en adults més grans i menys esportius.

Tipus d'intervals ECG

Referències

Vegeu també
 Fibres de Purkinje
 Potencial d'acció cardíaca
 Monitor ECG
 Triangle d'Einthoven
 Galvanòmetre d'Einthoven
 Marcapassos cardíac
 Diagrama de Wiggers

Enllaços externs

 Cardiovascular Physiology Concepts
 Cardiovascular Physiology

Electrofisiologia cardíaca

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In December 2015, with the firm's assistance and representation, the client received a $1,150,000 settlement in a medical malpractice action stemming from the client's injuries. After Medicare was notified of the settlement, Medicare demanded repayment of the Medicare debts incurred from those conditional payments, but the firm refused to pay the debt in full, even when the debt became administratively final.
This settlement reminds attorneys of their obligation to reimburse Medicare for conditional payments after receiving settlement or judgment proceeds for their clients. This settlement should also remind attorneys not to disburse settlement proceeds until receipt of a final demand from Medicare to pay the outstanding debt.
U.S. Attorney Robert K. Hur commended Eric Wolfish, Assistant Regional Counsel, United States Department of Health and Human Services, Office of the General Counsel, Region III, for his work in the investigation. Mr. Hur thanked Assistant United States Attorney Alan C. Lazerow, who handled the case.


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Ghana's Ref Joseph Lamptey Banned For Life
FIFA referee Joseph Odartei Lamptey has been banned for life by the World football governing body's Disciplinary Committee from taking part in any kind of football-related activity (administrative, sports or any other) at national and international level for life
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The Ghanaian referee was found guilty of breaching Art. 69 par. 1 (unlawfully influencing match results) of the FIFA Disciplinary Code during the 2018 FIFA World Cup Russia™ qualifying match between South Africa and Senegal on 12 November 2016.
On the other hand, all charges against the Ghanaian match official David Lionheart Nii Lartey Laryea, whose behaviour had also been the subject of investigations, were dismissed by the FIFA Disciplinary Committee.
Further information concerning the South Africa v. Senegal match in question will be provided once the decision becomes final and binding.
FIFA follows a zero-tolerance policy on match manipulation and is committed to protecting the integrity of football. As a result, FIFA will continue with its ongoing efforts to combat match manipulation through a variety of initiatives, which include the monitoring of international betting and a confidential reporting system with a dedicated integrity hotline and e-mail address.
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England Rugby Coach Eddie Jones Visits Palace
There was a special guest at Palace training yesterday as England Rugby head coach Eddie Jones popped by to gain an insight into how Roy Hodgson prepares his squad.
The Aussie dipped into Hodgson's fountain of knowledge as he shadowed the session at Beckenham on Tuesday afternoon, with the Eagles boss more than happy to pass on some words of wisdom as Jones continues to develop his squad ahead of next year's World Cup in Japan.
Speaking about his day at Copers Cope Road, Jones said: "I first met Roy when he was the England football coach and it was a great chance to chat to him yesterday about his coaching experiences, what he's been doing at Crystal Palace to turn them around and also to reflect on his time with England.
"It was a great educational experience for me – I learnt a lot and I was grateful for the time I spent with Roy."
Hodgson was delighted to be able to welcome Eddie to Copers Cope and have the opportunity to once again discuss various elements of the coaching role across both sports.
"Eddie has an enormous interest in coaching and leadership and I was delighted when he said he would like to come and spend some time with us. It is always very interesting to pick other people's brains really because when it comes to rugby and football, they are both team sports and whilst the actual games differ I think being a coach or manager for either sport there are certainly similarities and it was really good to compare notes.
"It was a question of him watching us train and have some lunch but a chance for us two to spend some time together because it has been a while since we have been able to do that."


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Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's diplomatic year came to a close with his visits to three countries in Africa; Sudan, Chad and Tunisia. Together with these, the number of his continental country visits sums up to twenty-three ever since he became prime minister, then as the president. Yet visits in 2017, produced more significant symbolic outcomes when compared to the previous ones. One significant of these emanates from renovation rights given to Turkey upon Erdogan's request of Sudan's Suakin island. Hence, reconstructing Red Sea island's ruined Islamic monuments is noteworthy, substantiating the claim that Turkey is in Africa to stay. Consider this alongside the largest military base Turkey opened abroad, in Somalia, in 2017.
Suakin island was once used by the pilgrims from Africa and Turkey as a stopover on their way to Mecca. It has also served as the administrative centre for the Ottoman governors of Hejaz province at the time. As a result, it has become an important realm, home to many important Islamic structures, mosques and shrines that are now in ruins. Island's international status was settled with the formation of Turkish Republic in 1923. Once these proposed restorations are completed, the island is expected to be revived as an important venue for religious teaching and as a holiday destination.
More importantly, restoration of the historical buildings on the island galvanizes Turkey's clogged up memory chip vis a vis the continent, particularly after the loss of its territories there nearly one hundred years ago. One other memory chip is in the musings of Afro-Turks, but that is for another article.
Recent visit by President Erdogan has noticeably bolstered his earlier three countries visit to Eastern Africa in the beginning of 2017, covering Tanzania, Mozambique and Madagascar. Conveniently, there and then, a number of business deals were signed on the basis of sectoral complementarities. Those deals were guided by a more economically minded framework that also indicated intentions for future perpetual covenants. Thus, it is important to note that visits in 2017 were fundamentally ground breaking, solidly marking a "new phase" in Turkey's dealings with the continent.
In what way these visits are inventive for Turkey's future involvement with Africa? This is a convoluted question calling for multifarious answers… Let's attempt hereby to respond by highlighting some of the central issues.
In fact, high level visits in 2017 are logical sequential outcome of a strategy that had been accepted at the Second Turkey – Africa Summit in Malabo, Equatorial Guinea in 2014. There, a "new model for partnership for strengthening sustainable development and integration" strategy was accepted to guide the future course of bonding with Africa. This strategy based on the realities of international political economy aimed to promote Turkey's relations with the continent around bilateral agreements. In this sense, Turkey is set to develop mutual relations with individual countries in the continent. Hence, an important departure from romantic "Opening Up to Africa" strategy to a more realistic "win – win" approach is now put in place.
Malabo meeting then, had already specified key areas of co-operation. It has proposed business interactions particularly in agriculture, agribusiness, rural development, civil defence, water resource management, development of micro- and small-scale enterprises, security, health and transportation. These areas are to be designed to find "African solutions for African problems". Hence, considering impressive diplomatic and economic interaction with the partner countries in Africa, the last visit to the continent is grounded on a more realistic milieu.
Additional justification for such a rational can be found in Erdogan's opening address at the First Economic and Business Summit, in Istanbul, at the end of 2016 whereby he stressed "the need for a deeper economic, sectoral and business-to-business collaboration" between African nations and Turkey. There he declared in a spirit of solidarity that, "we will not accept to be the wretched of the earth". Such rhetoric has chimed in his acceptance speech of the honorary doctorate awarded by the Khartoum University. He, pointing out the damages done in the continent by the colonial powers, called for the unity of the Muslim world to stand strong against contemporary challenges.
Erdogan's Khartoum University talk also stressed the economic role Turkey destined to play in Africa. Sudan in this sense pointed out to be an important and an equal partner, not only in rhetoric but also in action. This first visit at the presidential level also underlines the view that for a win - win situation, Sudan, upon a shared historical past and cultural heritage, provides Turkey with a firm basis for collaboration. Sudan, one of the geographically largest countries on earth with a population of fifty million and five thousand US dollars per capita income is rich in oil, gold and natural resources, offers substantial sectoral complementarities to Turkey. Sudan's agricultural sector has large potential for food security in sub-Saharan Africa.
US embargo against Sudan aimed to cripple the country. The country ended up being divided when South Sudan seceded, taking away two thirds of its oil reserve. In addition, civil strife in Darfur claimed many lives. Turkey has shown solidarity and proven to the Sudanese that she was a reliable friend during those difficult times. The prospect of removing the American embargo recently, opened-up for the Sudanese a path to explore new opportunities, particularly in the extractive industries but also in production and trade. In hindsight, at the current global conjuncture, intensified international competition for Sudanese resources renders Erdogan's recent visit timely and beneficial for mutual positive economic returns with Turkey. Announcement of a strategic partnership between the two countries was long overdue and was a welcomed outcome of the visit.
Similarly, Erdogan's visit to Chad had sealed another significant development on a very sensitive issue. Government of Chad had agreed to close down or transfer the administrations of Fetullah Terror Organisation (FETO) related schools to the Maarif Education Foundation. Hence, Chad had become one of the first countries to ban and criminalise FETO related networks in Africa. From Turkey's point of view, elimination of such networks would foster relations with the continent even more since FETO had been following its own agenda and not that of Turkey's, as it had been widely accepted in the past. In this regard, removal of these networks is expected to help producing deeper and economically more grounded, informed and realistic interactions with Africa.
However, there are still some specific areas preventing to improve relations with the continent. For instance, financing of trade and investments needs to be adequately addressed. Bank credits are not yet sufficient enough and insurance services are mostly absent. Exim bank credit limits for the continent must be increased that would help undertaking desired projects and to foster public – private partnership. Double taxation and transportation related problems needs to be addressed, particularly fairly quickly. Turkey, needs to calculate the impact of free trade agreements amongst African countries upon its own. It would help to ease up trade relations by creating and promoting free trade zones like the one in Djibouti. These and many other relevant glitches need to be tackled for each individual target country, requiring arduous labour informed by profound knowledge of Africa and backed up by modern methods of inquiry.


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"I think the momentum is behind us — you're seeing a groundswell in communities across the state and it's taking hold in the Legislature," Butler said. "I do expect it to become law this year. If we can do things, especially to help youth lead healthy lives, I think that's a good thing."
Each time the Tobacco 21 legislation was introduced, it inched closer to becoming law. Most recently, it passed both chambers with mostly Democratic support, but was vetoed by Republican Gov. Bruce Rauner.
In his message to lawmakers, Rauner wrote he agreed smoking is "detrimental to the health of Illinoisans of all ages," but said it could cause unintended economic repercussions.
"Raising the age people can purchase tobacco products will push residents to buy tobacco products from non-licensed vendors or in neighboring states," he wrote. "Since no neighboring state has raised the age for purchasing tobacco products, local businesses and the State will see decreased revenue while public health impacts continue."
It is unclear on what data he was relying to base his decision.
Jordan Abudayyeh, spokeswoman for Democratic Gov. J.B. Pritzker, indicated the legislation might have more success this session.
"The governor believes in order to help build a healthy society we have to work to prevent young people from smoking," she said in an emailed statement. "He looks forward to reviewing the legislation to raise the smoking age."
Because a statewide effort has thus far been unsuccessful, some local governments have made the change at their level. The result is a patchwork of about 36 ordinances, covering about one-third of the state's population, according to Kathy Drea, the American Lung Association's senior director for Advocacy.
Evanston was the first proponent, in 2014. Since then, the teen smoking rate decreased 35.5 percent there, according to the American Heart Association.
As the legislation's advocates and Senate sponsors prepare for a committee hearing Tuesday, they are planning for the same arguments that arise each time the initiative is proposed.
Opponents, typically Republicans, argue that if 18 is old enough to vote, get married or join the military, it should be old enough to purchase a cigarette. In the previous session, others referred to a Department of Revenue estimate that Illinois would lose $41 million to $48 million in annual proceeds from cigarette and sales taxes if the legislation were successful.
Julie Mirostaw, senior director of Government Relations for the American Heart Association, said the Department of Defense has plans to go tobacco-free by 2020 and already does not allow use of products containing nicotine in basic training.
In the previous legislative session, a group of retired admirals and generals called Mission: Readiness had a news event to advocate, in part, for the passage of this initiative because they said it would aid in the ability of the military to get physically-fit recruits.
Mirostaw also said staff at the Heart Association believes the Department of Revenue inaccurately calculated the amount of money Illinois would lose if the measures were successful. One example, she said, was their assumption that teenagers purchase cigarettes at the same rate as lifelong smokers.
And according to a Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids memo, the loss of revenue would be only about $2 million, or 0.28 percent of Illinois' cigarette tax revenue.
Tobacco 21 sponsors also received criticism for their decision to remove language specifying a $50 fine and 25 hours of community service for anyone under 21 who violated the proposed law. That same section is again removed in this latest legislation.
Morrison and Lilly could not be reached for comment, but both Drea and Mirostaw said the reasoning is simple — kids should not be punished for a "long-known tobacco industry tactic"
"We are opposed to criminalizing kids for trying to purchase or to possess tobacco products," she said. "We feel that the adults who are selling and making a profit should be held responsible."
But Butler does not agree. This issue is one reason he said he wanted to be a chief co-sponsor on the measure — so he might address it with the other supporters and perhaps reach a compromise.
"There's a good correlation" with alcohol and punishment for minors who use the substance, he said, adding that he plans to advocate for similar enforcement measures when it comes to youth tobacco use.
"I think it does need to have a little bit of teeth," Butler said.
The Lung Association released its State of Tobacco Control Report last week. Out of five areas, it failed Illinois in four of them — taxing tobacco products, access to tobacco cessation products, funding for smoking prevention programs and a minimum age to purchase tobacco products.
The only area the Land of Lincoln scored well on was ensuring there are smoke-free areas, such as schools, restaurants, stores and gambling establishments. The report noted e-cigarettes are not included in these areas, though.
The measures are Senate Bill 21 and House Bill 345. Only the Senate version has been assigned to a substantive committee. The House version is stuck in the early stages of the legislative process.
Rebecca Anzel: ranzel@capitolnewsillinois.com
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All the details for DTS:X, a new object-based audio codec and rival to Dolby Atmos, will officially be announced on 9th April.
According to the company's official Twitter feed, DTS will release all the information on the new format next Thursday. We first heard about DTS:X at CES 2015, where this successor to DTS-HD Master Audio made its debut.
Dolby Atmos needs a compatible home cinema amp and relevant speaker configuraton to work, so it will be interesting to see the requirements for DTS:X and how the new technology approaches surround sound.
According to the DTS website, "manufacturers representing nearly 90 per cent of the home AV receiver and surround processor market including Anthem, Denon, Krell, Marantz, Onkyo, Pioneer and Yamaha, have all agreed to launch products supporting DTS:X in 2015."
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Revision of the family Chlamydiaceae Rake (Rickettsiales): unification of the psittacosis-lymphogranuloma venereum-trachoma group of organisms in the genus Chlamydia Jones, Rake and Stearns, 1945 1
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First Published: 01 April 1966 https://doi.org/10.1099/00207713-16-2-223
Since 1945, taxonomists have made no less than seven attempts to define the bacteria of the family Chlamydiaceae Rake which includes the etiologic agents of psittacosis, lymphogranuloma venereum, and trachoma. These bacteria are often designated by the vernacular term, PLT group of agents. Classification's were proposed by Moshovsky (1945), Rake (1948,1957), Krasil'nikov (1949), Zhdanov and Korenblit (1949), Rhyzkov (1950), Zhdanov (1953) and Levaditi, Roger and Destombes (1964). The result was to increase the number of genera for the PLT group culminating in the Levaditi et al. proposal of four genera for this bacterial group: Chlamydia Rake, Miyagawanella Brumpt, Bedsonia Meyer, and Rakeia Levaditi, Roger and Destombes. Evidence for continued recognition of these genera was examined in the light of recent knowledge of PLT organisms, and the validity of each name according to the rules of the International Code of Nomenclature of Bacteria and Viruses was ascertained. On the grounds that the taxonomic significance of properties common to bacteria of the PLT
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Brevard pastor talks befriending Lennon's killer
J.D. Gallop
It was one of the most shocking milestones for a generation that came of age in the shadow of assassination and turbulent social change in the 1960s.
John Lennon, a former Beatle whose calls for love, activism and world peace moved millions, was fatally shot in the back as he and his wife returned to his upper West Side Manhattan apartment to say goodnight to his 5-year-old son.
The killer; a former security guard from Hawaii named Mark David Chapman, a professed Christian armed with a .38 caliber handgun, struggling with depression and whose troubled life fatefully intersected with Lennon's Dec. 8, 1980. Nearly 35 years later, Cocoa Beach Pastor Ken Babington, who recalled hearing the announcement of Lennon's slaying on a Monday Night Football broadcast that evening, has authored a book detailing insights into his unusual and seemingly unlikely friendship with Chapman.
"Right after that I saw a headline, I forget where, maybe in a tabloid, that said, 'God told me to murder John Lennon,' and I said, 'not my God, my God wouldn't say that.' So I decided to write (Chapman)," said Babington, who sat down at a typewriter and a composed a letter to Chapman two weeks after Lennon's death.
"I knew almost nothing about the case or Mark's life. When I first wrote him, I wanted to confirm his salvation. That was my only motive," Babington recalled, adding that Chapman gave the go ahead to discuss their friendship and to pen the book Not My God, My Life as the Pastor of the Man Who Murdered John Lennon.
And while the world heard disturbing accounts in court detailing Chapman's emotionally crippling obsession with Lennon, the stays in mental health facilities and suicidal thoughts, the pastor and the inmate would begin exchanging correspondence on a regular basis with Chapman hand-writing 70 letters to Babington beginning in 1982.
That soon culminated with Babington, who writes a number of inmates on a routine basis, quietly becoming a spiritual adviser even as a steady stream of death threats and hate mail piled up for Chapman.
The two men, nine years apart in age and separated by about 1,000 miles, talked of God's love, the need for repentance, the stress of prison life and Bible studies. Chapman, now 60 and biding time in a 50-square foot cell, is serving a 20-year to life sentence on a second-degree murder charge at Wende Correctional Facility in New York.
"Life in Attica (State) is great now that I have returned to my father," Chapman wrote Babington in May, 1982, in a letter provided to FLORIDA TODAY.
"My day consists of prayer, study and telling others about Jesus Christ. Prison is not easy, but I'm comforted by the fact that Bible contains many references to prison," Chapman wrote Babington.
Over the years, Babington, the spiritual leader of the 50-member First Baptist Church of Cocoa Beach, has met with Chapman face-to-face over a dozen times and talks by phone with him on a nearly weekly basis.
The book, published by Xulan Press, which delves into Chapman's struggles reconciling with God and sorting through his decision to kill Lennon, is filled with scriptural references and calls for the reader to understand the need to minister to inmates, notorious or otherwise.
Other times, Babington writes of Chapman's premonitions of his own death and struggle to understand the impact of what he did when he took aim at Lennon and pulled the trigger.
"I've evangelized to him. But at no time have I ever tried to diminish what he did. It was a horrible crime that he committed. A family is still grieving and life changed for the Lennon family forever. I can't imagine the grief they continue to go through," the 69-year-old said.
"I don't want anyone to think that I'm trying to make (Chapman) out to be a hero. He's not. He's infamous. At the same time what I want to do is show the difference between the man who took a life in 1980 and the man who wants to encourage lives today," he said.
Lennon would have turned 75 Friday. His passion for social causes, including the anti-war movement, left a mark on fans and casual observers.
One of his songs, "Imagine," a paen to world unity, remains one of his most popular offerings with its plaintive, philosophical lyrics calling for listeners to move past religion, tribalism and materialism.
His life as a Beatle and his death, leaving behind a widow and two children, also inspired a host of books and films. Last week, Yoko Ono, Lennon's widow, organized a peace demonstration for her husband that drew thousands. For Babington, the journey from being a pastor to joining the ranks of authors writing a Beatles-related tome, remains extraordinary.
Babington, born six years after Lennon, was a teenager at Melbourne High School in 1964 when the Beatles exploded on the American pop culture scene just months after President Kennedy's assassination shocked the nation. As a boy, Babington rode through Melbourne on a bicycle, with Mickey Mantle baseball cards tucked along the spokes. He collected coins and went to a church. The Beatles were odd then, Babington pointed out. They were four men who wore long hair, matching suits, Cuban-heeled boots and drove people wild, a far cry from the quiet life found in Melbourne at the time.
Lennon's heady concepts, anti-authoritarianism and flirtations with atheism were far from the gospel hymns to Jesus and messages of salvation that Babington would adopt.
"I listened to the Beatles but I've never really been into music. I graduated and went in the Navy for four years. I've never been a fan but being in the Navy I remember hearing their songs like Yellow Submarine," he recalled.
Babington's focus on faith led him to reach out to those frequently seen on the periphery of society, the homeless, the poor and those in prison. That included writing Chapman about Jesus in the aftermath of the shooting.
"What the book also does is show the reality of a pastor serving people. It shows that God can change people and use them. Today, Mark (Chapman) and his wife Gloria have a prison ministry and they send out gospel tracts to inmates all over. You find that prisoners really love to read things by other prisoners," Babington said, who says Chapman has grown from the confused, spiritually wandering soul he first met into a mature man anchored firmly in his faith.
Chapman, looking thin in a recent photo he took with Babington, works with his wife Gloria through All About Jesus Ministries that distributes thousands of gospel tracts to inmates worldwide, Babington pointed out.
Today, Chapman is one of 841 inmates at Wende Correctional, a maximum security facility housing murderers, rapists and other violent offenders. New York state prisons issue tickets to inmates and "he hasn't gotten one since 1994. That was for disobeying a direct order," said Patrick Bailey, spokesman for New York's correctional department.
His stay in prison - in involuntary protective custody - has been relatively trouble free, with him working as a wheelchair repairman and porter, records show. Chapman is also eligible for an annual visit by his wife, who married him more than a year before he was arrested, Bailey said.
Chapman even took to the pulpit to preach the gospel, memorizing the scriptures and sharing his notes with Babington who then delivered the same message to his own congregation.
Chapman became eligible for parole in 2000 and goes before the three-member panel every two years.
He has been denied parole - a chance to leave prison and return to the outside world - eight times, most recently in 2014. Chapman, who has not granted any media interviews in two decades, also talked of his relationship with Babington with the board.
"When I was first arrested, he wrote to me and at that time for a year or so I wasn't interested in corresponding with anyone. I was going through obviously a lot of changes. but about a year and a half later I wrote him...he is a good man," Chapman said, according to transcripts of the meeting issued by the New York Department of Corrections.
During the same interview with the board Chapman talked about Lennon's death and acknowledged that he didn't believe he would ever see freedom outside of prison.
"I'm sorry for this crime...This wasn't just done to a wife or a family. It was done to a lot of other people and they still have pain. Many, many people loved (Lennon)...I'm sorry for causing that type of pain. I'm sorry for being such an idiot and choosing the wrong way for glory," he said.
"I found my peace in Jesus. I know him. He loves me. He has forgiven me."
Babington is confident that Chapman is no longer the same man he was in 1980.
"We've talked alot," he said. "He has grown spiritually. Is he perfect? no."
Babington also reflects on Chapman's notoriety.
"Everybody knew about the Beatles. Even today, when I mention Mark's name, they know that name. He's got worldwide hatred. I was telling somebody that i'm his best friend," Babington said.
"They looked at me and said, no. You're his only friend."
Contact Gallop at 321-242-3642,jdgallop@floridatoday.com or Twitter@JDGallop


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A version of this article was originally published on October 28, 2012, on page A21 of the New York edition with the headline: New Museum Shows Off Las Vegas's Neon Side. We run this again in memory of Federal Heath retiree Brian Leming, who passed away this month.
By TIMOTHY PRATT OCT. 27, 2012
LAS VEGAS — On a night of proclamations crammed with the word "whereas," a retired neon sign designer named Brian Leming offered a moment of levity.
It was a V.I.P. event on Tuesday before the Saturday opening of the open-air Neon Museum here after more than 15 years of effort. More than 150 neon signs made by Mr. Leming and others surrounded him, hunks of metal and glowing glass that fulfilled the growing demands of mid-20th-century commerce. They are increasingly considered expressions of history, art and architecture, worth preserving and exhibiting.
But Mr. Leming, 72, evoked their down-to-earth origins. He recalled a design meeting for the Stardust Hotel-Casino, then run by Lefty Rosenthal, a Las Vegas bookmaker and kingpin immortalized in Nicholas Pileggi's book and Martin Scorsese's film "Casino." Mr. Rosenthal was notoriously detail-oriented."We were sitting around a conference table and arguing about the right shade of purple," Mr. Leming recalled. "And I'm thinking, 'Jesus, they're discussing the nuances of purple, and this is Frank Rosenthal!' "
Brian Leming, who retired last year, worked on signs for many of the hotels and casinos on display, including the Stardust, the Barbary Coast and the Frontier.
Mr. Leming is a craftsman from a bygone era, when people drew with pencils, heated and bent glass tubes, filled the glass with neon and argon gas, cut and shaped metal and fiberglass, and then hoisted larger-than-life tableaus onto buildings and above roads filled with men and women who were falling in love with cars.
Over time the neon signs of Las Vegas have earned recognition beyond those of any other city, said Bill Marion, the chairman of the museum's board. This may explain why the museum's collection has drawn 20,000 visitors a year by appointment only, plus countless photo and film shoots, even before it officially opened.
Mr. Marion said the museum would "get people to rethink what Las Vegas is, and recognize that it has made a significant cultural impact worldwide." He estimated that attendance would reach 55,000 within a year.
Mr. Leming, who retired last year, worked on signs for many of the hotels and casinos on display, including the Stardust, the Barbary Coast and the Frontier. He said that the museum was "way overdue," and that he had been trying for 20 years to gain support for preserving the signs as many Las Vegas properties were renovated or demolished. " 'If you're going to knock it down, let's save it,' I would tell them," Mr. Leming said.
The foundation running the museum formed in 1997 and the Young Electric Sign Company donated dozens of signs shortly afterward, but for years they sat in a dusty lot that could be seen only by appointment.
That changed in 2005 when a quirky building with a roof shaped like a seashell, from La Concha Motel, was donated to the museum. The 1960s motel lobby, designed by Paul Revere Williams, the first black member of the American Institute of Architects, would become the visitors' center and headquarters of the Neon Museum.
Cutting the building into eight pieces, moving them nearly four miles north along Las Vegas Boulevard and reassembling them cost $1.2 million. Adding administrative offices, bathrooms and an outdoor deck cost an additional $1.6 million. But the snowball effect set in motion by acquiring the building drew a series of city, state and federal grants, as well as private donations. The museum has a reserve of about $400,000 and is debt-free, Mr. Marion said.
A tour makes clear why the board has decided to show the collection via docents, and not with headsets or plaques. Justin Favela, the programs coordinator and a veteran of more than 1,000 tours since 2007, leavened the standard mix of names, dates and places with a sprinkling of personal anecdotes. Paused in front a giant "H," he said: "This came from the Horseshoe casino, owned by Benny Binion, who may or may not have killed someone. When I gave the tour to Binion's son, Jack, he said, 'You don't have to sugarcoat it.' "
To the left, he points to the graceful curl of a sign's script announcing the "Moulin Rouge," recalling that it was the first integrated casino, which opened in 1955 and went bankrupt in less than a year.
The museum has a staff of eight docents and 20 volunteers trained for tours. When a place receives as many visitors as the Las Vegas Strip — 41.5 million passengers passed through McCarran International Airport last year — that can add up to a lot of stories.
Mr. Marion recalled a Venezuelan brother and sister in their 30s who teared up in front of the Stardust sign. Their parents had gotten married at the hotel but had never been back, and this was the first time the siblings had been in Las Vegas. They grew up seeing the photo of the newlyweds on the wall.
Danielle Kelly, the museum's executive director, said the value of the signs goes beyond personal memories. "This is commercial archaeology, art and architecture," she said. Ms. Kelly, who also oversaw the museum's layout, with signs from the 1930s to the 1990s arranged along a mazelike path, said the "kind of design that has happened here could only have happened here." An example: several fonts were created and became widely used, including Atomic Age letters from the early signs of the Stardust, which was demolished in 2007.
"All this was developed in a so-called cultural wasteland," she said.
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Q: jQuery Validate plugin with BriteVerify I'm using the jQuery Validate plugin in conjunction with BriteVerify on my page (BriteVerify is a service that checks for known junk email addresses and other data, to prevent phony/spam signups on a form).
Note that a "valid" field (as determined by the Validate plugin) can be considered junk by BriteVerify. For example, mickeymouse@aol.com passes validation since it's a well-formed address, but BriteVerify blocks it because that account doesn't actually exist.
So, what I want to do is this: if the response from BriteVerify indicates that the email address is no good, programmatically mark the field as "invalid" (the way that the Validation plugin would do itself). See below:
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I hope that makes sense. Is this possible?

A: I couldn't find a way to "trigger" the field being invalid, but I was able to accomplish something equivalent like this:
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So if BriteVerify doesn't like the email that was entered, and the input field doesn't already have the error class (indicating that it passed "normal" validation), then I add the class and dynamically insert the error message. Using the same classes gives it the same appearance as if Validate had marked the field invalid.
Notice how the label element has an additional bv class – this is to determine whether the error message came from Validate or from BriteVerify. So then to prevent two error messages displaying at once (one from each), I remove the BriteVerify error message (if there is one) both when the field passes "normal" validation:
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And whenever a key is pressed:
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Verture has proudly announced that it is making luxury affordable for everyone by introducing its all-new line of luxury designed automatic movement wristwatches. Verture Automatic Watch is not only a symbol of style and sophistication but also sets new standards in luxury watchmaking. To introduce these limited edition luxury wristwatches to the world, the company has recently launched a crowdfunding campaign on Kickstarter, and it is welcoming generous support and backing.
With their automatic movement and sapphire crystal glass, these watches can last a lifetime. Moreover, these watches are offered with a real leather strap and travel watch box, and they are water resistant for up to 5 ATM. The company is giving everyone a chance to own one of these watches by pledging to its crowdfunding campaign on Kickstarter, and it is offering these watches as a reward for the backers with worldwide shipping.
The Kickstarter Campaign is located on the web at:
www.kickstarter.com/projects/verture/verture-automatic-timepieces and backers from around the world can become a part of this project by making generous pledges and donations. Moreover, the goal of this Kickstarter campaign is to raise a sum of GBP 35,000 and the company is offering the backers a choice of colors to choose from for their reward. Furthermore, more details are available on the Kickstarter campaign page of the project.
Verture Automatic Watch is an emerging new line of luxury automatic wristwatches, and its makers are introducing it to the world via Kickstarter. The watch has a wide range of features and benefits, and the company is offering these affordable luxury timepieces as a reward for the backers from around the world for supporting its Kickstarter campaign with their pledges.
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setsid() creates a new session if the calling process is not a process group leader. The calling process is the leader of the new session, the process group leader of the new process group, and has no controlling tty. The process group ID and session ID of the calling process are set to the PID of the calling process. The calling process will be the only process in this new process group and in this new session.
A process group leader is a process with process group ID equal to its PID. In order to be sure that setsid() will succeed, fork(2) and _exit(2), and have the child do setsid().


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We thank Uno Mellqvist for all years at TK Logistik. Uno retires on 29/3 and we wish him luck in the future.
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In today's business world we are using our own smartphones, tablets and laptops to access private, public and enterprise data. This data is stored locally, in a private LAN, in public clouds in our company's IT infrastructure. We are sharing the data with friends and colleagues. We use applications downloaded from app stores or installed by our company's software distribution systems.
I dare say we can't. The data has to protect itself.
Traditionally, enterprises require employees to sign a non-disclosure agreement (NDA) and ensure proper Information protection with best practice technical measures (device encryption, endpoint related security, etc.). When data is highly classified regarding confidentiality we need to have more than that. As an example consider how an Email client on your (company) laptop would allow data to be forwarded. The forwarded data would be accessible by other email recipients, without control of the company (there are in fact only very few companies that limit email connectivity).
Current BYO (Bring Your Own) concepts try to establish borders between private and professional areas by creating separate containers, virtualized environment, etc.. Even though this looks like a good solution it prevents us from integrating our private and professional lives. Other solutions prevent critical data from being downloaded at all. It can only be viewed using simple browsers and processed by enterprise applications running on enterprise IT infrastructure, in a private cloud. While this may be a good idea, it requires 'always on - anytime, anyplace' capabilities, which may be available within the next years, but not now.
For us as users, we'd like to use the most appropriate device, for private life and in professional employments, being at home or in a company or moving around. Whatever device ever we are using, we want to have access to all the data we need, wherever we are. This is why BYO and cloud services are such strong trends. We need to protect the data under those circumstances.
The risk lies in the fact that once data has been downloaded onto our device, we can distribute and process it with applications that are not under control of the data owner. But users may need to download data and process it locally. Again, if we want to be independent of connectivity limitations, how do we have to protect the data regarding accidental disclosure and uncontrolled usage?
Encryption is an essential prerequisite to disclose data to authorized users. Only those users having the right decryption key can view or process the data. Controlling the key means control the data. But this is not sufficient, because once we have the data decrypted, how can we control the usage?
If we cannot protect the data, why not let the data protect itself? This means that the data carries it's centrally defined policy with it as metadata. The data can only be decrypted by applications that ensure compliance with that policy and only if the policy is fulfilled.
· Allow or disallow functions like printing, local storage, etc.
· Take the user's context into account, for instance where he is currently located, travelling, at home or abroad.
· Determine the period of time a data item is valid. And so on.
This is what we call data centric security which must be built on a trusted policy enforcing application. The owner of the data must be sure that the application follows the policy under all circumstances. One way to establish trust is to have the software provided by the data owner, downloaded from a company app store for example. Another way is using certified software of a trusted software vendor.
In addition, the software must be able to detect, if it is manipulated. Viruses could pretend to be a trusted application, but in fact violate the data centric security policy. A solution to this requirement is to compare hash codes of critical parts of the loaded code.
Attaching a security policy to the data itself gives us a much better and much more direct control over what can be done with the data than any other perimeter kind of security concept that tries to erect walls around something we'd like to protect. It allows specifying data security rules in a borderless environment, regardless if the data can be shared between private and professional use, it is stored locally, in a cloud or on enterprise servers, and on any device we are using.
Therefore, the future vision to share and distribute data as the data incorporates its own protection allows users convenient and secure access. This will also satisfy the demands of Security Officers. This approach will also allow CFOs to take full advantage of cloud economies without boundaries.


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William Horace de Vere Cole
(1881–1936)
William Horace de Vere Cole's pranks are legendary. The most well-known is probably the Dreadnought hoax of 1910, in which Cole and five friends (including a young Virginia Woolf) disguised themselves as the Emperor of Abyssinia and his posse, and were given a full VIP tour of the British warship, the H.M.S. Dreadnought.
The proud members of the British Navy came out in full colours to receive their distinguished guests, who were dressed in costumes, with dyed skin and hair, and speaking a language they were inventing on-the-fly. The hoax is sometimes referred to as the "Bunga-Bunga Affair� — a reference to this invented Abyssinian dialect the hoaxers used while on the ship.
The Dreadnought hoax has often been interpreted as just a "let's see if we can get away with it� sophomoric prank, but others have seen a sharper barb. Gilbert Highet writes that the imposture "exposed the uncritical readiness of the British government and of the Royal Navy to entertain any odd-looking foreigner without inquiring closely into his character and background and to do him the honors so thoroughly that he went away awed and happy and pro-British. That kind of diplomatic courtesy helped to build up an enormous empire and to keep many spheres of influence in orbit. The Dreadnought hoax was a mocking exposure of its shallowness and insincerity. Thus, the silly little blackface impersonation by half a dozen unemployed youngsters proved to be a satire on the entire British imperial system.�
Cole may have been in training for his Dreadnought coup when, as a student at Cambridge, he impersonated the Sultan of Zanzibar, and was wined and dined along with his entourage (other Cambridge students) by the high mucky-mucks of the area. The hoax was revealed when it was discovered that the real Sultan had been in London at the time, but Cole and his gang kept quiet until they'd left college.
On April Fools' Day, 1919, the citizens of Venice, Italy (you know, the city with canals instead of streets), woke up to find horse droppings scattered on the pavement of the Piazza di San Marco. Puzzled the Venetians a bit, that did, and somewhere along the Piazza sat one Horace de Vere Cole, chuckling to himself. He'd snuck off while on his honeymoon to carefully collect the manure from the Italian mainland so he could distribute it nocturnally…
Gilbert Highet also reports that Cole "once took every seat in the stalls at a pretentious and terrible play and gave tickets to many acquaintances. The performance was wrecked, because as soon as the lights went up, the circles and the gallery saw one short and expressive word spelled out by the bald heads of strategically placed men in the stalls.�
The Time-Life Library of Curious and Unusual Facts reports that "Cole often targeted his peers. For example, playing on the innate good manners of the well-bred English gent, Cole would pose as a surveyor on the street and politely ask a passing swell to help by holding one end of a string for a moment. Then the prankster would disappear around the corner, find another man to hold the other end of the string, and walk away.
"He was also fond of spontaneous pranks. When he stumbled on a road crew without a foreman one day, Cole leaped into the breach and directed the men to London's busy Piccadilly Circus, where he had them excavate a huge trench in the street. A nearby policeman obligingly redirected the heavy downtown traffic all day, and it was several hours before the city noticed the unauthorized hole.�
Cole once targeted a Member of the British Parliament thusly: he slipped his own gold watch into the M.P.'s pocket, then somehow convinced the man to join him in a brief footrace down the street. At some point, Cole began yelling "Stop! Thief!� The baffled M.P. was caught, red-handed, and (despite Cole eventually fessing up) arrested.
Cole is an also-ran on the list of possible suspects behind the Piltdown Man hoax as well.
Cole would occasionally impersonate prime minister and Labor party leader Ramsay MacDonald, giving speeches that contradicted MacDonald's actual political views.
The Abyssinian delegation; Cole is at the far right of the photo.
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After Friday's win in the final Euroleague regular season game, the Barça Lassa basketball team continued their good form with a 17-point win at Cafés Candelas Breogán to stay top of the league as coach Pesic made it to 150 ACB victories in 205 games.
The Galicians competed early on and even led the first period by six points. But there was no surprise on the cards once Barça started finding the three, with Singleton on fire and the second period seeing a total switchover in affairs – it ended 38-46.
Claver, Pangos and Tomic all excelled after the restart as the difference built up to a definitive +21. The final period was going to be a mere formality.
The home side managed to cut down the margin in the last quarter of an hour, but they were never going to get back into this match and Barça Lassa stay strong at the top of the table.
Cafés Candelas Breogán: McCallum (12), Vidal (-), Brown (11), Redivo (9), Gerun (10). Löfberg (9), Belemene (-), Sulejmanovic (6), Christian Díaz (11).
Barça Lassa: Heurtel (7), Pau Ribas (-), Singleton (18), Claver (11), Tomic (9),. Pangos (9), Hanga (11), Blazic (4), Smits (6), Pustovyi (2), Oriola (10) & Kuric (5).
Referees: Martín Bertrán, Caballero & González.


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Meralco: 4 Headlines, 1 Day
Yesterday, local papers and cyberspace was littered with news about the country's biggest and most widely known utility firm. So what's going on at Meralco, and what does it all mean for investors like you and me?
1. Pangilinan is new president/CEO of Meralco from Inquirer.net
Ending 24 continuous years of Lopez rule, Manila Electric Co. (Meralco) named businessman Manuel V. Pangilinan as its new president and chief executive officer. He is taking over the CEO post from Manuel Lopez, who will remain as a non-executive chair, starting July 1. MVP is expected to usher in a new era of higher cost-efficiency and cash dividend payout for the country's biggest power retailer.
Pangilinan said he would adhere to two basic principles upon assuming leadership in Meralco. "One is that I want to [preserve] what's best of Meralco and [second is to] continue those things that are good for Meralco to move forward. With respect to the new Meralco, I don't see any major change moving forward," he said.
2. Tanco pledges 4% Meralco stake to MVP from Inquirer.net
Businessman Eusebio H. Tanco has sold his group's 4-percent stake in Meralco to the group of Manuel V. Pangilinan, giving the power firm's incoming CEO a more solid foothold in the country's largest power distributor.
In an interview, Tanco, who among other businesses owns the STI group of schools, said the group had agreed to sell its stake in the power firm to Pangilinan for a "fairly healthy profit."
3. Power utility expects P11B in net earnings from Inquirer.net
Meralco expects to post P11 billion in core net earnings in 2010, up from last year's P7 billion, according to incoming president and CEO Manuel V. Pangilinan.
In a briefing following the company's stockholders' meeting, Pangilinan said the company was unlikely to match its 2009 performance, when core net earnings more than doubled from that of the previous year. This was partly due to the delay in implementing an increase in the company's distribution, supply and metering charges in January this year, he explained.
Still, the distribution utility can expect hefty earnings this year due to increased Meralco sales spurred by hot weather, said company chair Manuel M. Lopez. The hot summer months usually raise the consumption levels of Meralco customers due to increased usage of appliances.
"It's not just the hot weather that has increased Meralco sales, but industry sales have also shot up. There is a lot of activity in the business and industry sectors," Lopez added.
4. Lopez confirms Meralco PBA bid from The Philippine Star
Meralco confirmed yesterday it was mulling the idea of joining the Philippine Basketball Association as part of its advocacy program.
During the company's annual stockholders meeting yesterday, Meralco chair and chief executive officer Manolo Lopez said the power utility firm, which used to run a team in the now-defunct MICAA, is in discussion with different groups for the possible acquisition of a PBA franchise.
Sources said Sta. Lucia is one of those ballclubs that the group is negotiating with.
"There's interest to once again form a basketball team. This is still in its raw stage but definitely there is interest," Lopez said.
Lopez said it would be Meralco's shareholders that would shoulder the costs of the company's participation in the pro-league. "We will not pass on the costs to our consumers that's for sure. This is more like an advocacy thing for us. The approach taken by management is that part of the income or proceeds would go to a designated charitable institution," he said.
"Any fears that having a PBA team will mean higher cost of power must be debunked at this stage. It will be absorbed by the shareholders," Lopez said.
Most teams book the costs as advertising expense since they find the PBA as one of the best marketing avenues for their products.
Investor Implications
Whether you like MVP or not will not seem to matter much because he will just be some sort of an interim president and CEO, at least according to reports; a search committee is being formed to evaluate potential candidates for a permanent president and CEO.
The Tanco share offer to the MVP group will bolster Metro Pacific's ownership position in the company. Will that be good for Meralco investors? It depends on your opinion of Metro Pacific's management savvy. How do you evaluate the performance of Maynilad, North Luzon Expressway, and Makati Medical Center, which are some of the more high profile investments of the conglomerate? Maybe your opinion of MVP's influence and leadership skills will play a more prominent role in this regard.
The 36% increase in profits, from 7 billion to 11 billion pesos this year, should be taken with a grain of salt. While this may lead to a significant one-time boon for investors in the form of higher cash dividends this year, the income increase should play a minimal role in the long run. For a longer-term increase in returns, look for sustainable, systematic improvements in the firm's operations, as promised by MVP.
Should talks of the firm's re-entry into the local professional basketball scene be cause for joy or alarm for investors? You heard it from the horse's mouth: shareholders would shoulder the costs of the company's participation in the pro-league. How could paying overpriced imports and bratty basketball players be corporate social responsibility? And why the hell would Meralco, a virtual-monopoly in its industry, need to advertise? Yes, I am as dumbfounded and astonished as you are.
Let us let numbers speak for themselves. Exactly one day after these stories were run (today), Meralco loses 3.4% of its stock price, closing at 170 pesos per share at the end of the day's trading, from 176 pesos yesterday. I'm no oracle, but I portend darker days ahead for Meralco.
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VERONICA DAYLIGHT: Happy Birthday Sissy!
Today is my beautiful sister's birthday!
This is probably one of my favorite pictures of her ever! Look at that face!
I feel so lucky to have such a wonderful sister. She was the maid of honor at my wedding and I know she'll be the best auntie ever! I can only hope that one day our baby bird will have a younger sister as cool and amazing as she is.
that's hilarious about what you said about her being all awesome at make up and stuff before you. my little sister's were the same way. in fact, they still are. but anyway, you family has some good genes for real.
haha yea i was too busy trying to be "cool" in high school so i was more of tomboy and wouldn't really let myself be girly until my senior year (even though i wanted to so bad). so yea, it took me longer to catch on because of that.
Sisters are the best aren't they! Mine is living in the UK at the moment so I am missing her heaps. But we skype all the time. Happy Birthday to your sister!
Sisters are great, aren't they? I have a little sister, too, who is a knockout... You and your sister are beautiful!
Kat: yes they are! my sister actually lives in KY so i know how you feel!


I've just seen the cover art for 'A Chimerical World: Tales of the Unseelie Court', which includes my story 'The Enemy of my Enemy', and I have to say, I LOVE IT!. It's a double anthology, with Tales of the Seelie Court and Tales of the Unseelie Court being released separately.
Synopsis of A Chimerical World: Tales of the Unseelie Court: The Fey have been with us since the beginning, sometimes to our great joy but often to our detriment. Usually divided (at least by us silly humans) into two courts, the second volume of A Chimerical World focuses on the Unseelie Court: the court we humans seem to view as the "evil" faeries. But "good" and "evil" are human concepts and as alien to the Fey as their mindsets are to us. Inside you will find 19 stories that delve into the world of the faeries of the Unseelie Court, from authors both established and new, including Michael Shimek, Deedee Davies, and Nick Bryan. But don't be surprised if these faeries decide to play with their food. – See more at Seventh Star Press.