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By taking a closer look to these intriguing ?bacteria eating? viral agents, medical scientists may soon find an efficient cure for various diseases that involve malignant behavior of otherwise harmless bacteria.

Concerning strep throat, medical scientists believe that a type of toxin-producing bacteriophage carries a toxin gene present in its genome to Group A hemolytic streptococcus bacteria, transforming this otherwise neutral organism into a threatening microbe. The process through which the bacteriophage transforms the neutral organism into a disease-causing microbe is known as lysogenic conversion. Inside the human body, this process is accelerated and facilitated by a factor in the saliva referred to as SPIF (soluble phage inducing factor). SPIF has been identified to mobilize the bacteriophage, which enters in lysogenic conversion with streptococcus bacteria, thus causing strep throat.

A series of experiments conducted on mice have revealed that virtually any bacterium carrying a toxin-encoded bacteriophage can transform non-toxigenic organisms inside the body into toxigenic infectious agents. According to the findings, non-infectious bacteria can become toxigenic by entering in contact with organisms carrying toxin-encoded bacteriophages. The studies suggest that the treatment of strep throat and various other infectious diseases that involve lysogenic conversion between bacteriophages and non-toxigenic bacteria should be aimed not only at controlling the causative microbe (in the case of strep throat ? Group A hemolytic streptococcus bacteria), but also the bacteriophages that facilitate the occurrence of the infection.

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Ask yourself what you can afford and

Ask yourself what you can afford and what you cannot.

Take a serious look at who you are, what you have to offer, and what kind of resources you have available to you. One complaint I have heard repeatedly from women of the CIS countries is that western men sometimes exaggerate what they have to offer and make promises they don’t keep.

Don’t tell her that you’re a high roller on your government employee’s salary. Don’t tell her that Fresno is a major cultural center of California. Don’t promise her an expensive wedding or a honeymoon if you aren’t going to keep your promise.

When she pulls into your driveway, it will be apparent to her that your home is not a Malibu beach house (unless, of course, it is). If you are an average guy with an average income, she will find out within one week of arriving in your country.

Most of the Russian women, who are looking to meet western men, are looking for an average guy.

You wonder, how can this beautiful, intelligent woman be interested in me? She is thinking the same thing.
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Only 9 Olympic trainees qualify as tradesmen

Only 9 Olympic trainees qualify as tradesmen

0 Comments | Evening Standard; London (UK), Jun 10, 2010 | by Matthew Beard

THE Pounds 9.3 billion London Olympics has so far created only nine qualified tradesmen and women, the Standard can reveal.

Figures on 2012 apprenticeships show that among those workers to have completed their training on the Olympic site, which opened in late 2007, are five electricians, one bricklayer and one plumber.

The disclosure under the Freedom of Information Act has heightened concerns that Olympics chiefs will not be able to fulfil their pledge of creating a “skills legacy” from the Games.

The Olympic Delivery Authority aims to create 350 fully qualified tradespeople — three per cent of the peak workforce of almost 10,000 — and there are 199 on site with about one year remaining of the “Big Build” phase.

Most of the apprentices are not due to complete their courses until several years after the 2012 Games.

The ODA says that where contractors cannot retain these workers after the Games, they may be able to complete their training on other major public works such as Crossrail.

But Alan Ritchie, general secretary of construction union UCATT, said: “It is essential that apprentices currently working on the Olympics are provided with rock-solid guarantees that they will be able to complete their apprentice training and will not be cast aside when contractors finish their projects at the Olympics.”

UCATT has also accused the ODA of setting its staff training targets too low. Two years ago the authority doubled its target for apprentices from 1.5 per cent, which was just half the average proportion of apprentices from building sites in the UK. In the latest figures, the ODA said 2,865 workers had passed through its training centres in east London.

The ODA said it would hit its target despite getting off to a slow start. It said that at the start of the project in autumn 2007 the ODA employed low-skilled labour such as in demolition and earthworks.

The Big Build phase requiring more skilled workers did not begin until the middle of last year. A spokesman said: “Over 350 people will start their apprentices on the Olympic Park, twice the average for London construction sites.”

UNIONS have launched a campaign against sweatshop conditions for workers producing sportswear for the 2012 Games. The Trades Union Congress’s “Labour Behind the Label” campaign calls on leading brands to improve pay and conditions at their factories. TUC general secretary Brendan Barber said: “Acting together, we have the power to bring about change.”

‘GAMES GAVE ME THE JOB I NEEDED’ ANNAMARIE FERGUSON is an apprentice electrician working at the Olympic Park.

The 38-year-old from Camden had been studying for three years and was previously unemployed before she got her job on the 2012 site.

She works for a contractor installing temporary facilities, such as street lighting and wiring accommodation.

She said: “The Games only come along once in a lifetime and have given me what I needed — a job
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Women cry foul play on the pitch

Women cry foul play on the pitch

0 Comments | Scotsman (Edinburgh, Scotland), The, Feb 26, 1998

Byline: Elisabeth Mahoney

FOOTBALL is famously a game of two halves, but in the Nineties it is also a game of two sexes. Female fans have been flooding through the turnstiles at grounds across the country as the clubs clean up their acts and begin to realise that women make good supporters too.

But that is just the problem. Females may add a certain vibrato to the crowd chants and the abuse being shouted at the referee, but heaven help those who step into size five football boots, boy-sized shirts and Puma shorts. They are the ones opening themselves to ridicule.

Karen Brady knew where the boardroom carpet ended and the turf at Birmingham City FC began when she was appointed as the chief executive of the club. Her new job showed that women could occupy a position of power within the game -but what about on the field?

Playing the Field is a new BBC drama by the screenwriter Kay Mellor (of Band of Gold fame) which charts the foul play and penalty shoot-outs of the women’s game, as played by Castlefield Blues, a fictional South Yorkshire team based on the highly successful Doncaster Belles. But frustratingly for those who like to indulge in the technicalities of the beautiful game, she is focusing on the touchy-feely relationships between the players as they juggle boyfriends, children and careers while occasionally turning up for some training practice. She says: “I loved the idea of a group of women with a collective spirit, working together to get results. Those were the qualities that really made this project for me.”

Greg Brennan, the series producer, sees the programme as having great potential for change – “I can see it having an enormous impact on the culture of women’s football” -while Mellor is concerned more with the dramatic than sporting action. “Playing the Field is about family life and relationships, on the pitch and off,” she explains
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I feel your heart

I feel your heart beat often as you walk by, I want you to be happy in everything you do and with everyone you meet.

Lately I sense you are stressed out and not happy with the twists and turns of life and the cards being dealt to you, it is okay, do not worry I am here and want you to win and overcome, adapt and go on to be all that you want to be. And I know you and I know you can too, because I have seen this before in you. And we both know it was not long ago when you were on top of the world.

Let’s go back there again, let’s do it now. Show the world what you got, because I know you and I want to help you too. Let us take the bull by the horns and go get what you deserve. It is time to attack, just go for it, because I will be here, I am the Wind at your back.

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Teacher may have

Teacher may have to start the game by giving some examples.

Note that there are only two English words with a single letter: a and I.

Get the idea? Children like this very much. They are not intimidated by small words (easy to spell) and I accept abbreviations like CD, BBQ, TV, Ok, SOS, TNT, UN, USA, and UK. In Korea I also accept short English names of pop-music groups as the kids know these from television: SES, HOT, UN, NRG etc. and TV stations like MBC, KBS.

This game can cover two or three classes and it is good to post a large table/graphics of short word on the class wall in big writing for all to see and use in the following weeks.
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Young star takes a pot at sealing incredible double

Young star takes a pot at sealing incredible double

0 Comments | Leicester Mercury, Jun 26, 2010 | by JON PAUL

Champion potter Joe O’Connor will have his eye on an even bigger prize when he defends his junior eight-ball World Masters trophy in Blackpool next week.

The 14-year-old from Bruntingthorpe is aiming to add the World Championship crown to the title he won last year.

On that occasion, he came through a star-studded field to lift the trophy at the Imperial Hotel.

The challenge this year is tougher as, not only will he defend his Masters title, he will also go up against the very best under- 18 players as they battle for the World crown.

PRESSURE O’Connor gets his World challenge under way on Tuesday, while his Masters bid starts a week today.

“I’m really looking forward to it,” said O’Connor, the Leicester Mercury Junior Sportsman of the Year runnerup and a pupil at Abington High School in Wigston.

“There will be lots of pressure to retain my Masters title, and going for the double only adds to it.

“But I think I play better when I’m under pressure and, the further I go, the better I’ll play.

“I’ve been practising hard for the last few weeks and I’m playing well. It all comes down to how you play on the day, but I feel I’ve got a chance to win both titles.”

O’Connor has enjoyed a stellar two years. As well as his Masters success, he has won a string of top national titles and qualified for the England junior team.

Earlier this year, he lifted the European eight-ball trophy and helped England to the team title for good measure.

O’Connor’s Leicestershire team-mate John Bowkett, 16, is also doubling up for an assault on Masters and World glory.

Bowkett, the Leicestershire junior captain, is also an England team regular and will be hoping to improve on his appearance in the last 32 of the Masters last year.

There are a host of senior players from the county also in action during the 14-day extravaganza, which breaks off tomorrow.

Vinny Allen and Temujin Dixon are in first-round action in the World Championships, while Ady Alexander is in the preliminary qualifying round.

Dixon is also in the draw for the under-21s tournament, while Theresa Sheridan goes for glory in the wheelchair event.

In the Masters tournament, snooker pro Tom Ford is in the men’s preliminary qualifying round, along with Allen, Dixon, Alexander, Steve Chambers and Leicestershire captain Steve Robertshaw.

Colin Treadwell, Nicky Parnell and Gavin Lomax have been awarded places in the first round.

Michelle Brown is the sole County representative in the women’s singles.

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Together they form

Together they form the technical components of sales training. Once mastered, they only improve with practice and repetition.

Arguably, the technical learning described in the preceding paragraph is not difficult. Product knowledge may be the exception as product can be complex. The topics have been studied and presented over many years. They have evolved and adapted but there have been few changes to the fundamental concepts of selling. Perhaps the last major change was the shift to needs based selling and the impact of a more informed consumer due to greater access to information on the Internet.

So then has the art of selling been perfected?

Perhaps, but some say it’s all for naught if you haven’t first tackled the way you think!

In fact my experience suggests that how think should be an “up front” consideration.

Before getting on the road to technical development, there are real advantages to individuals and their organizations if both appreciated the impact effective thinking has on learning.
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Dragon drummers keep up the beat

Dragon drummers keep up the beat

0 Comments | Winnipeg Free Press, Jul 25, 2010 | by Redekop, Bill

They set a fun pace at boat race festival

The drummer, in the humble opinion of drummers, is the most important member of a Dragon boat team.

“If you don’t have the drummer, that’s what keeps your pace,” said Marliese Friesen, after pounding the KGS Group to victory on a bongo drum in one leg of the Dragon Boat Festival.

The drummer sits on the helm in a chair too narrow for a child in kindergarten and keeps rhythm for rowers. “You’re better off to lose a row of paddlers than the drummer,” maintained Friesen.

About 40 teams are competing this weekend in the Dragon Boat Festival at Manitoba Water Ski Park. The annual event raises money for the Canadian Cancer Society, bringing in about $50,000 per year.

The usual assortment of colourfully named teams are out, like Blazing Paddles, Up Y’Oars, Chemo Savy, Diggin’ Divas, the Eh Team and Wake Warriors. There is also a beer garden and live music
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The following is an outline of

The following is an outline of what may be expected for doctors or medics. Because of the physical size of rigs, many of these types of roles are sole charged and one must be able to make do with the facilities and resources at end. In the case of doctors or medics based aboard oil rigs, it may be necessary to treat patients suffering from a huge variety of ailments and illnesses. Issues can arise as a lot of the workers aboard oil rig installations may speak foreign languages, so it is critical for the medical personnel to be able to quickly and effectively diagnose the problem. Generally medical staff will work one of two shifts, either day or night. Their role can often also include checking and maintianing stocks of emergency supplies, testing and verifying drinking water supplies are clean, as well as inspecting both raw and cooked foods from the kitchen. They are also often responsible for conducting weekly first aid seminars for all workers aboard the oil rig.

Claire Calkin has been working in the oil rig employment industry for over 4 years and during this time has provided countless people with advice and assistance on how to best get jobs in the oil industry.

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