GTA Liberty City Stories #20 – Resolvendo a treta com os Japas! (Legendado PT-BR) – Video

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Let’s Play Minecraft Islands #004 [Deutsch] [HD] – Farmen was das Zeugt hlt – Video

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Let #39;s Play Minecraft Islands #004 [Deutsch] [HD] - Farmen was das Zeugt hlt
In diesem Minecraft Projekt werden wir mit vielen kleinen Inseln zurechtkommen mssen und uns so eine kleine Metropole aufbauen. Du willst auch Minecraft kaufe es hier: https://minecraft.net/...

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The magic islands of the Kuriles

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Centimetre by centimetre, the earth at this spot is reclaiming dry land for Asia from the Pacific.

Lava slowly streams down from a volcano, creating a hissing sound when the molten hot stone meets the water.

Expedition chief Nicolas Dubreuil guides his inflatable boat past the smoke rising up several metres.

"I have never seen anything like this on any of my previous trips," the 45-year-old says.

But he had an inkling that something was about to happen on this island. It's the eighth morning of the cruise and Dubreuil has risen early. In the moonlight he discovered smoke rising in the distance.

Now some of the first cruise passengers are up on deck, their hands stuffed deep into the pockets of their polar jackets.

What they see is something that few people ever get to witness - the formation of land. This is the way oceanic islands form.

Riding in small boats powered by rattling motors, the group approaches the site of the volcanic eruption. The ground is vibrating as rocks go rolling down the slope.

"Here comes a giant one," says one of the group just as a rock crashes into the water.

The cruise ship L'Austral, which is operated by the Ponant cruise line, set out a week earlier to ply the waters of the Kuriles, a chain of Russian islands that stretches out from the Asian continent to Japan.

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Genetics guru to lecture in Chennai

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Chennai, February 22:

Geneticist Eric Steven Lander who pioneered the general principles for identifying human disease genes and their application to medicine will deliver a lecture in Chennai on Wednesday as part of the Cell Press-TNQ India Distinguished Lectureship Series 2015.

Lander will talk on The Human Genome and Beyond: A 35-year journey of genomic medicine, on February 25, at 6.00 pm at the Sir Mutha Venkatasubba Rao (Lady Andal) Auditorium. N Ram, Chairman and Publisher of The Hindu Group of publications will introduce the speaker, said a press release from the organisers.

Lander who was appointed by US President Barack Obama in 2008 to co chair the US Presidents Council of Advisors on Science and Technology is concurrently Professor of Biology at MIT and Professor of Systems at the Harvard Medical School.

The mathematician turned biologist turned geneticist was one of the principle leaders of the Human Genome Project which mapped the human genetic code between 1990 and 2003.

Cell Press, based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, is an imprint of Elsevier Press which publishes 31 highly cited journals. The Chennai-based TNQ delivers pre publishing services and publishing solutions.

(This article was published on February 22, 2015)

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Gene making human brains bigger found

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By inserting bits of human DNA into mice, scientists were able to make their brains develop more rapidly and ultimately grow bigger in the womb. The study, published in Current Biology, suggests that the evolution of this gene may be one of the things that sets us apart from our close relatives in the primate world.

Human brains are unique, even when compared with our close genetic relatives, such as chimpanzees. Our brains are about three times heavier than those of our cousins, and are more complex and interconnected as well.

It's generally accepted that these neurological differences are what allowed us to evolve the higher brain function that other primates lack. But just what genetic changes allowed humans to surpass chimps in the brain arena is one that's still being answered.

There are a lot of physical differences to examine more closely, but size is such a dramatic one that the authors of the new study chose to start there.

Using databases developed by other labs, the Duke University scientists cross-checked areas of human DNA that had developed differences from chimp DNA with areas of DNA they expected to be important for gene regulation. Regulator genes help determine how other genes will express themselves, and the researchers suspected that some of these regulators might be making brain development more active in human embryos than in chimps.

They ended up focusing on a region called HARE5 (short for human-accelerated regulatory enhancer), which testing indicated had something to do with brain development. They suspected that the enhancer, which is found close to a molecular pathway important in brain development, might have changed in a way that influenced brain size in humans.

We discovered that the human DNA sequence, which only had 16 changes in it compared to the chimp sequence, was being expressed differently in mice, said study author Debra Silver, an assistant professor of molecular genetics and microbiology in the Duke University Medical School.

In fact, HARE5 was regulating how many neural stem cells the precursors of brain cells a mouse embryo could produce.

The human DNA was really able to accelerate the way the stem cells divide, Silver said. And as a result, the mice were able to produce more neurons.

The brains of these genetically modified mice grew 12 percent bigger than ones given the chimpanzee version of HARE5.

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Health Care Opens Middle-Class Path, Taken Mainly by Women

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HUNTINGTON, W.V. For Tabitha Waugh, it was another typical day of chaos on the sixth floor cancer ward.

The fire alarm was blaring for the second time that afternoon, prompting patients to stumble out of their rooms. One confused elderly man approached Ms. Waugh, a registered nurse at St. Marys Medical Center here, but she had no time to console him. An aide was hollering from another room, where a patient sat dazed on the edge of his bed, blood pooling on the floor from the IV he had yanked from his vein.

Hey, big guy, can you lay back in bed? she asked, as she cleaned the patient before inserting a new line. He winced. Hold my hand, O.K.? she said.

Ms. Waugh, who is 30 and the main breadwinner in her family of four, still had three hours to go before the end of a 12-hour shift. But despite the stresses and constant demands, all the hard work was paying off.

Her wage of nearly $27 an hour provides the mainstay for a comfortable life that includes a three-bedroom home, a pickup truck and a new sport utility vehicle, tumbling classes for her 3-year-old, Piper, and dozens of bright blue Thomas the Tank Engine cars heaped under the double bed of her 6-year-old, Collin.

Nicole Bengiveno/The New York Times Tabitha Waugh, 30, a registered nurse at St. Marys Medical Center in Huntington, W.Va., is the main breadwinner in her family of four. The daughter of a teachers aide and a gas station manager, Ms. Waugh, like many other hard-working and often overlooked Americans, has secured a spot in a profoundly transformed middle class. While the group continues to include large numbers of people sitting at desks, far fewer middle-income workers of the 21st century are donning overalls. Instead, reflecting the biggest change in recent years, millions more are in scrubs.

We used to think about the men going out with their lunch bucket to their factory, and those were good jobs, said Jane Waldfogel, a professor at Columbia University who studies work and family issues. Whats the corresponding job today? Its in the health care sector.

In 1980, 1.4 million jobs in health care paid a middle class wage: $40,000 to $80,000 a year in todays money. Now, the figure is 4.5 million.

The pay of registered nurses now the third-largest middle-income occupation and one that continues to be overwhelmingly female has risen strongly along with the increasing demands of the job. The median salary of $61,000 a year in 2012 was 55 percent greater, adjusted for inflation, than three decades earlier.

And it was about $9,000 more than the shriveled wages of, say, a phone company repairman, who would have been more likely to head a middle-class family in the 1980s. Back then, more than a quarter of middle-income jobs were in manufacturing, a sector long dominated by men. Today, it is just 13 percent.

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Governors: No clear plan if health care subsidies dropped

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Published: Sunday, February 22, 2015 at 8:14 p.m. Last Modified: Sunday, February 22, 2015 at 8:18 p.m.

WASHINGTON Millions of people could lose health insurance subsidies in the coming months if the Supreme Court sides with opponents of President Barack Obamas health care overhaul.

And one thing was clear this weekend as the nations governors gathered in Washington: Many of the states that could be affected are not prepared for the potential fallout.

In rounds of interviews at the National Governors Associations winter meeting, several governors indicated they could do little about the estimated 8 million people who could drop coverage if they were to lose health insurance subsidies later this year a scenario that legal experts suggest is a real possibility. While preliminary state-level discussions have begun in some cases, many governors charged that Congress should bear the burden of fixing any problems.

That responsibility doesnt fall in the hands of the states or the governors, it falls in the hands of the leaders right here in Washington, said Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker, who is contemplating a run for the Republican presidential nomination in 2016. Hes one of the many Republican leaders who resisted efforts to create a state-based health insurance exchange.

Indeed, while the Supreme Court deemed the health care overhaul constitutional more than two years ago, the Affordable Care Act still sits on shifting political sands.

The Supreme Court will hear arguments March 4 on whether the health care law allows the federal government to pay subsidies in states that declined to set up their own insurance markets, or exchanges. For many Americans, the subsidies make the insurance affordable. More than 30 states largely those led by Republicans declined to set up state-based systems and have exchanges run by the federal government instead.

We declined to operate a state exchange along with a majority of other states, said Indiana Gov. Mike Pence, a Republican who is also weighing a 2016 White House run and supports the repeal of the health care law. Right now were just evaluating what our options are depending on what the Supreme Court decides.

Coverage losses would be concentrated largely in Republican-led states across the South and Midwest that have resisted the law, among them Florida, Maine, North Carolina, Michigan, Texas, Virginia and New Jersey.

Residents of states that are running their own markets, including California and New York, would continue to receive benefits.

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For Freedom's Callahan, winning districts might be sweeter than going to Hershey

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As John Callahan described his "pretty crazy ending," another district champ stopped by to congratulate him.

"Way to keep wrestling, good job," Bethlehem Catholic's Andrew Dunn said.

Callahan, a Freedom High senior, did just that Saturday, winning the District 11 Class 3A wrestling title at 195 pounds with a takedown in the waning seconds. Though his season is far from over, Callahan called the victory a career highlight.

"All year I said my one goal was to win a district title, more than anything else," Callahan said. "More than qualifying states."

Callahan's win punctuated a shining tournament for Freedom, which placed second to Bethlehem Catholic, the team's best finish at districts since 1977. The Patriots, who won a school-record 25 dual meets, advanced seven wrestlers to this week's PIAA Northeast regional tournament at Liberty. And Brandon Hall was named District 11's 3A coach of the year.

Callahan's 2-1 victory over Emmaus senior Thomas Alcaro came down to a thrilling, and disputed, finish. Alcaro led 1-0 late in the third period, when Callahan got in deep on a shot.

Alcaro defended it well, so Callahan (20-3) said he switched tactics and tried to finish in the headlock position. The buzzer sounded without a call, and the officials huddled for what Callahan called "the longest five seconds ever."

"Then he came out with 'two,' and I've never been more excited," Callahan said.

A future linebacker at Amherst, Callahan didn't even plan to wrestle last season. But he watched some of Freedom's early matches and realized what he was missing. After the bout, Hall brought up their talk last fall, when Callahan said he wasn't going to wrestle.

"Yeah, he mocked me," Callahan said. "But this is great. It's something I can always look back on. When I'm 40, I can say, 'I won districts once.'"

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Financial freedom is just $4.5-million away

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Lets put a price on freedom.

Many of us dream of being able to walk away from work, supporting ourselves solely on income from our investment portfolios.

But what does that fantasy really mean?

The ideal arrangement would be to take as little risk as possible. We would live on only dividends and bond yields, without ever touching our capital.

To be sure, this dream could quickly turn into a nightmare if it required us to live on a pittance. Most of us would stipulate that we want at least as much annual income as the median Canadian family.

Given all that, what would freedom cost? Roughly $4.5-million, according to my calculations for the drum roll, please first ever Financial Independence Index.

The index is a toy Ive developed to answer the many readers who want to know when they can say good-bye to work without ever having to think about money again.

The good news and you may be happy to hear this is that the index is not designed as a realistic savings target for most families.

Think of it instead as an indicator of how financial conditions have shifted over the years and also as a demonstration of why most of us have to keep thinking about money and risk, even after we quit work.

The Financial Freedom Index owes a great debt to Scott Burns, a pioneer of personal finance journalism during his years at the Dallas Morning News. For years, hes compiled the Life of Riley Index, which puts a price tag on financial freedom for Americans.

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Aboriginal Tent Embassy in Redfern: We'll evict them from the block says Aboriginal housing boss Mick Mundine

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By Rick FeneleyFeb. 23, 2015, 3:05 p.m.

Down on the Block in Redfern, theyre calling it an act of social cleansing the eviction of Aboriginal people. But they will be evicted on the orders of other Aboriginal people.

The site of the Aboriginal tent embassy at the Block in Redfern. Photo: Nick Moir

The Redfern Aboriginal Tent Embassy has been issued an eviction notice by the Aboriginal Houncil Corporation. Pic Nick Moir 23 feb 2015 Photo: Nick Moir

Redfern elders Debbie Bell , Kay Hookey and Jenny Hodge. Photo: Nick Moir

An artist's impression of the Pemulwuy project.

Down on the Block in Redfern, they're calling it an act of "social cleansing" the eviction of Aboriginal people. But they will be evicted on the orders of other Aboriginal people.

Michael Mundine, chief executive officer of the Aboriginal Housing Company, says he will initiate the removal of the Redfern Aboriginal Tent Embassy erected on Sorry Day in May last year if its members do not go voluntarily on Monday.

"They're on Aboriginal Housing Company Land," Mr Mundine told Fairfax Media. "It is private land and they're trespassing."

"It's not Micky Mundine's land," says elder Cecil Bowden. "He reckons he owns it but he doesn't. Gough Whitlam gave it to Aboriginal people."

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