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Playing their fourth game in 12 days and third road game in nine days, the Dynamo earned a 0-0 draw in the most intimidating venue in the league with a determined effort that saw Brian Mullan head a shot off the goal line and the Dynamo force four saves out of Seattle's Kasey Keller.
The Houston Dynamo earned a 0-0 road draw in their first game of the 2009 MLS Cup Playoffs Thursday night, holding the Seattle Sounders scoreless in front of 35,807 at Qwest Field in Seattle. The Dynamo will host the second leg at Robertson Stadium on Sunday, November 8, trying to advance to their third Western Conference championship game in the last four years.
The closest either team came to scoring was in the 14th minute, when Seattle defender Pat Ianni headed a shot to the back post, and Houston midfielder Brian Mullan, guarding the post, leaped and cleared the ball off the line with a header. Ianni, who moved from the Dynamo to Seattle in the offseason, also hit the crossbar with a header.
The Dynamo had several good chances as well, with Brad Davis heading wide from close range in the first half and Seattle goalkeeper Kasey Keller saving a header from Brian Ching.
Houston goalkeeper Pat Onstad, 41 years old, made two saves for the shutout. His counterpart, Seattle's Kasey Keller (39 years old), made four saves. Houston and Seattle tied for the MLS lead with only 29 goals allowed in 30 regular season games this season.
The Dynamo where whistled for 18 fouls in the game, while Seattle was only called for six fouls. Each team had three players receive yellow cards in a physical game that picked up right where the teams' two regular-season and one Open Cup meeting left off.
The Dynamo are now unbeaten in their last five MLS games (2-0-3). Thursday's game was their third consecutive road game in nine days and their fourth total game in 13 days.
The Dynamo played without midfielder Corey Ashe (ankle) and defender Richard Mulrooney (disabled list). Forward Luis Angel Landín (knee tendonitis) did not start but came on as a second-half substitute.
Houston Dynamo vs. Seattle Sounders
October 29, 2009 -- Qwest Field, Seattle WA
Western Conference Semifinals -- Game 1
Scoring Summary:
Houston Dynamo -- Pat Onstad, Andrew Hainault, Bobby Boswell, Geoff Cameron, Mike Chabala, Brian Mullan, Ricardo Clark, Stuart Holden, Brad Davis, Brian Ching (Cam Weaver 89), Dominic Oduro (Luis Angel Landin 79).
Substitutes Not Used: Tally Hall, Wade Barrett, Ryan Cochrane, Eddie Robinson, Craig Waibel.
Seattle Sounders -- Kasey Keller, James Riley, Patrick Ianni, Jhon Kennedy Hurtado, Leo Gonzalez, Nate Jaqua, Brad Evans, Osvaldo Alonso, Steve Zakuani (Sebastien Le Toux 82), Freddie Ljungberg, Fredy Montero (Roger Levesque 63).
Substitutes Not Used: Terry Boss, Stephen King, Zach Scott, Peter Vagenas, Tyson Wahl.
Misconduct Summary:
SEA -- Fredy Montero (caution; Unsporting Behavior) 16
HOU -- Pat Onstad (caution; Unsporting Behavior) 16
SEA -- Osvaldo Alonso (caution; Reckless Tackle) 64
SEA -- Brad Evans (caution; Tactical Foul) 68
HOU -- Brian Mullan (caution; Unsporting Behavior) 71
HOU -- Mike Chabala (caution; Tactical Foul) 75
Referee: Ricardo Salazar
Referee's Assistants: Steven Taylor; Hector Vergara
4th official: Edvin Jurisevic
Attendance: 35,807
Weather: Cloudy-and-50-degrees
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build it at the sindh rajestan border; in light of the prevailiing wind patterns, not to mention good deterence to incursions from the east.
I've stopped fighting my inner demons. We're on the same side now.
Posted 22 December 2013 - 04:14 PM
Maybe they are building them near Karachi because thats where the electricity is destined? But still it is quite a big risk in case of an accident. What if the reactor is attacked in case of war? The whole city of Karachi and Pakistan's financial center will be neutralized in one blow.
Posted 22 December 2013 - 04:19 PM
Not related to the topic, apologies...but I think Karachi actually and seriously needs an overhaul of it's infrastructure.
Also from a security perspective Karachi has been wholly sensitive, I hope that these nuclear plants are being planned and built whilst keeping in mind this vital aspect as well.
1) "We but teach bloody instructions which, being taught, return to plague the inventor" — Macbeth, Act 1, scene 7
2) "It is cream that rises to the top of milk. It is scum that rises to the top of a dirty pond."
Posted 23 December 2013 - 07:35 PM
Cooperation between China and Pakistan on nuclear energy is for exclusively peaceful purposes and in the interests of local people, said a Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman on Monday.
China and Pakistan have cooperated on civilian nuclear energy for years, Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying said at a daily news briefing, with regard to construction of a nuclear power plant in the southern Pakistani port city of Karachi.
"Such cooperation is entirely for peaceful purposes, in line with international obligations, and subject to the safeguards of the International Atomic Energy Agency," she said.
The work helps to ease Pakistan's electricity shortage and is in the interest of local people. China will continue to provide assistance within its ability, Hua said.
Stressing that China attaches great importance to the peaceful use of nuclear energy, Hua said China cooperates with various countries in this regard on the premise of strict adherence to nonproliferation.
Construction of Pakistan's largest nuclear power project with the Chinese cooperation was launched in Karachi on Nov. 26. According to local media reports, the Coastal Power Projects K-II and K-III are designed to produce 2,200 megawatts of electricity when completed in November 2019.
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Posted 24 December 2013 - 07:39 PM
Posted 25 December 2013 - 03:22 AM
The reason could be that karachi is a little away from the earth quack fault line which is going through out Pakistan.
Posted 27 December 2013 - 11:22 AM
China has no operational plant of this specific design. Their 1000MW plants are being built by Russia and France. This a huge gamble by putting all eggs in one basket. They are foreseeing the start date for 2020, but with an experimental design, these dates can shift very quickly.
Posted 28 December 2013 - 01:46 PM
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Posted 03 January 2014 - 02:45 PM
The supply will be linked to the national grid, priority will be given to industrial zones/cities.
For safety reasons, a nuclear reactor is almost always built closer to indefinite water supply. Location of Kahuta is a concern, for if an incident like Chernobyl takes place, they have no more than 5-7 days of water supply, and after that it becomes a Fukushima.
No matter where you build it, it will raise the concerns of India and IAEA. If it is solely for power generation we can easily pacify the Nuclear watchdogs. As for India, they will think 10 times before bombing it as the winds will carry the radiation into India in a matter of few hours. They will probably defend it against Israeli strikes as well.
Posted 03 January 2014 - 04:01 PM
If I remember correctly there is a specific agreement between Pakistan and India that neither side will attack each others nuclear installations during wartime.
1) "We but teach bloody instructions which, being taught, return to plague the inventor" — Macbeth, Act 1, scene 7
2) "It is cream that rises to the top of milk. It is scum that rises to the top of a dirty pond."
Posted 08 January 2014 - 10:07 PM
Nuclear power is a wise economic investment assuming great deal of redundancy is built. But why is Pak going to china ? is it for pak benefit or china benefit? there are more established players such as france, russia etc.
Thorium reactors is a good idea on which india is working for decades. Maybe both can co-operate there it has no impact on weapns,
Posted 09 January 2014 - 06:21 AM
The concerns expressed in this article are valid. Why is the government allowing for an untested nuclear plant design, not even built in China. Also bypassing the provincial government they have violated the 18th amendment and are risking the lives of millions of Pakistanis. This smells of kickbacks. Nawaz Sharif never has looked out for the interest of other provinces and this deal looks like the result of that same mindset.
'Karachi being used as guinea ###### for nuclear power plants'
Experts believe that the China-funded project of setting up two nuclear plants on Karachi's outskirts will be a disaster in the making as their designs are still on paper – not even the Chinese have built them in their country so far.
"Karachi is being subjected to an experiment," nuclear physicist AH Nayyar said at a consultation titled "Impacts of Nuclear Power Projects (KII AND KIII) along the Coastal Areas" organised on Wednesday.
It was pointed out that the site evaluation report on the nuclear plants was grossly flawed in terms of estimates and this could result in an unimaginable disaster for the city.
"The report says that Karachi has a population of 10 million, however, the number has doubled in recent years," said Nayyar.
"The designs of the plants are still on paper. Their safety and performance haven't been assessed."
It was also noted that that the location chosen for the two massive reactors, which would produce 1,100MW each, fell on seismic fault lines.
The Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission in its evaluation report has chosen to underplay this fact, if not totally ignore it.
"If a Tsunami strikes, the chances of which cannot be overlooked, Karachi will have a Fukushima-like situation, which means radiation proliferation, in other words, human casualties at a massive level, as we know, Karachi has no emergency plan for a city of 20 million," said physicist Pervez Hoodbhoy.
The speakers at the event warned that though Tsunami could be a once-in-a-decades possibility, the real danger lay in a mere technical error leading to a disaster, which could ultimately cause immense human and environmental loss.
"Chernobyl is an example," said Hoodbhoy, "the disaster was so huge that it is estimated that between 8,000 and 24,000 people were affected by radiation and it continues to this day."
Hoodbhoy further said that the need for energy could be fulfilled by other means, as countries like Japan (after the recent Tsunami incident), Germany and Switzerland had already decided to stop producing energy through nuclear power.
"Even India, despite the nuclear option made available by the US, is planning to shift its energy production towards wind and other alternatives. So the dangers associated with nuclear reactors are now taken seriously across the world," said Hoodbhoy.
The experts also highlighted the adverse effects of a nuclear reactor on marine life which would go unaccounted for.
"The disposal of the reactors' spent water would lead to unimaginable environmental problems for marine life and thus also the people living around the coastal areas whose livelihoods depend on that," said Mohammad Ali Shah of the Pakistan Fisherfolk Forum.
"The people in the coastal areas were not taken into confidence and the government made decisions in a clandestine manner," he said.
"The existing nuclear power plants - Chashma and Kanupp - are already posing a threat to lives and livelihoods. There is no study available to confirm a safe level. There is the threat of terrorists attacking nuclear plants which is not impossible in Karachi."
Senior human rights activist Karamat Ali said the locals and the Sindh government were not taken into confidence before making the decision of building nuclear power plants in Karachi.
"This decision is a blatant violation of the 18th Amendment."
Ali said Article 19-A of the Constitution provided the right to information. "This doesn't mean that citizens should ask for information, but the government should ensure that the people's point of view is sought and public hearings are held for such major projects."
Ali said the Constitution also guaranteed the right to life. "This means that all possible dangers to human lives should be prevented and people are informed of those dangers."
The rights activist said the possibility of corruption could not be ruled out in such deals. He alleged that somebody had already fetched a commission of around $700 million by giving approval to such projects.
"There should be a regional position on nuclear power in South Asian countries because other countries are also in the race to set up nuclear power plants."
The consultation was jointly organised by civil society organisations including the Pakistan Fisherfolk Forum, the Pakistan Institute of Labour, Education and Research, ActionAid Pakistan and the Strengthening Participatory Organisation.
Posted 09 January 2014 - 10:27 AM
China is offering US $6.5 Billion funding for this project, that is the only incentive, plus we are in dire need of energy. Pakistan sits next to de-industrialization today. With other countries the work could stagnate before the project completes.
If any reactor is in danger today, that is Kahuta - life is almost over and barely any water supply to curtail emergency. At the time of construction that too was a new design wasn't it.
While Kanupp surpassed it's life, wasn't it the Chinese who gave life to Kanupp? That upgrade too was only on paper then.
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Posted 09 January 2014 - 10:28 AM
That's a new angle, didn't know the design was only on papers.
1) "We but teach bloody instructions which, being taught, return to plague the inventor" — Macbeth, Act 1, scene 7
2) "It is cream that rises to the top of milk. It is scum that rises to the top of a dirty pond."
Posted 25 January 2014 - 08:01 PM
Ormara would have been a good place to build it. Pak has a naval base there (Turkish built). It is 250 Km west of Karachi, already linked to the coastal highway. The country needs at least 4 coastal cities: Karachi, Ormara, Pasni and Gwadar.
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Posted 07 February 2014 - 08:36 AM
^ That is infuriating. Now I'm 100% sure that some kind of kickbacks were involved in the deal. And ofcourse the PML-N doesn't care. To them Karachi is filled with all those people who aren't "sons of the soil". So what if Karachi is vaporized...
Someone please hang the Sharif brothers.
Posted 07 February 2014 - 10:45 AM
Kahuta was also an untested design, so what happened to Islamabad? Sharif wasn't born out of radiation I'm pretty sure.
Chinese upgraded Kanupp after her end of life, those upgrades too were untested.
I doubt the Chinese will use us as lab rats, or the army wants to see the financial capital vapourized either.
Posted 10 February 2014 - 01:12 AM
From the looks of it Nawaz is born out of radiation.
Better safe than sorry. It needs to be far from the city.
Posted 21 February 2014 - 06:31 AM
Posted 22 February 2014 - 12:50 PM
Fukushima was almost fault free, the best design, they even built it using earthquake proof materials; just didn't take a Tsunami into account.
With the power gone and the standby generators flooded/sunk, the water pumps were rendered useless - it was another Titanic.
Kahuta and Chernobyl have similarities, including negligent reserve water supply.
Posted 20 July 2014 - 08:47 PM
Karachi's Kanupp now again being upgraded, not sure how much life can they inject into it.
A Feb. 2014 article: http://www.dawn.com/news/1084350
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Celebrity art shows usually don't merit much serious aesthetic consideration. But when the celebrity in question is Courtney Love -- the volatile Hole frontwoman and sometimes actress -- attention should be paid, if only to see how her outrageous personality expresses itself through art.
"And She's Not Even Pretty" is set to open this week at Fred Torres Collaborations in New York. The show is to feature more than 45 of Love's drawings, some of them of an explicit nature and many featuring fragments of her poetry and lyrics.
Yana Balson, director of the art space, said the show came about through Love's friendship with photographer Dave LaChapelle, who is a friend of Torres.
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Love's artwork portrays young, blond women in states of emotional despair. One of the more provocative pieces is titled "Keep It Up, Mother ..." and shows a woman crucified with blood running down her naked body. The piece features some of Love's writing, including the following passage:
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Hey Mike , it's Theresa. I sent a message to your email , but don't know if you got it.
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The UCSB Decathletes and Heptathletes will be competing against a stellar field of top collegians, American elites and international multi-event athletes at Westmont College for the annual Sam Adams Multi this Friday and Saturday. Quickly becoming one of the premier multi-event competitions in America, this year's Sam Adams Combined Event will feature four Olympians and the world record holder and reigning Olympic Champion in the decathlon, Ashton Eaton.
Sam Adams was the long-time coach for the Gauchos and was known for his passion for the decathlon throughout his 34 years as head coach at UCSB. As an athlete, Sam competed in track and field at Cal Berkeley and finished fifth in the decathlon at the 1956 U.S. Olympic Trials. His expertise in the decathlon launched him into international prominence. He made three trips to the former Soviet Union as coach of national multi-event teams during the Cold War years.
Fast forward to the present day where the Gauchos have continued that tradition with a talented stable of multi event athletes led by senior and NCAA Qualifier, Derek Masterson. In 2012, Masterson posted a lifetime best of 7,558 in last year's edition of the Sam Adams multi. He is the reigning Big West Champion in the decathlon and so far this spring has posted new lifetime bests in the javelin- 211'4, the high jump – 6'6 3/4 and in the discus- 155'3.
Joining Masterson will be last year's Big West runner-up in the decathlon Mike Powers. Powers brings a lifetime best of 7,138 into this weekend's competition. A hurdle specialist, Powers helped propel UCSB to their first ever Men's Team Championship by taking 4th in the 400H, 8th in the 110HH and 6th in the High Jump in addition to his decathlon silver at last year's Big West meet.
UCSB will also send several newcomers into action. Tori Usgaard, a freshman heptathlete from Dana Hills High School will compete in her second heptathlon of the year. She finished second in the Northridge Multi earlier in March with a new lifetime best of 4812. It only took Usgaard one meet to find herself now third all-time on the UCSB list. She won the Arcadia High School Heptathlon one year ago.
On the men's side, Billy Britt last year's 5th place finisher in the California State Community College Championships for Riverside will try to up his best score of 6428. Ike Okpara, a Freshman from St. John Bosco in Bellflower will toe the line in his second career decathlon. He racked up 5605 in his debut at Northridge.
Competing in the heptathlon and representing her long time club in Germany LC Jena will be Gaucho Assistant Coach Annett Fleming. Last year's Mt. Sac Relays Champion with a lifetime best of 5851, Fleming capped the year with a silver medal at the German National Championships in Hannover in August. And this weekend, she will have some company. Brianne Theisen, last year's NCAA Champion, NCAA record holder and Canadian Olympian in the heptathlon will be in the field as well as two-time US Olympian Sharon Day. Former UCSB All-American and NCAA Runner-Up Barbara Nwaba will be competing under her new affiliation with the Women's Athletic Performance Foundation (WAPF) started by former Gaucho Assistant Josh Priester. The WAPF is based locally and has a young group of US hopefuls training at Westmont College.
The decathlon will feature Olympic champion and world record holder, Ashton Eaton. Eaton will compete in select events throughout the competition as he prepares for this summer's IAAF World Championship in Moscow, Russia. Damian Warner of Canada will also compete in select events. Warner finished 5th in last summer's Olympic Games after upping his personal best score 335 points in the competition. Gray Horn, a former Florida standout who finished 3rd in the 2012 Olympic Trials decathlon will also be in the field.


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Research Highlights
February 2005
Identifying shed and secreted proteins by mass spectrometry after exposure of CHO cells to low-dose radiation
David L. Springer and John H. Miller, Principal Investigators
In work sponsored by the U.S. Department of Energy's Low-Dose Radiation Program, scientists at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) are unraveling effects that produce biological responses in cells not directly hit by radiation—called bystander cells. Their findings will appear in Proteomics and have been submitted to Mutation Research.
The hypothesis being addressed is that radiation-induced bystander effects (RIBE) are caused by release of cell surface proteins generated by changes in either regulated proteolysis or secretory processes in response to low doses of radiation. Shed proteins were previously discovered in media taken from human mammary epithelial cells after treatment with phorbol ester, a known shedding inducer (Ahram et al. in press). However, after radiation exposure similar changes were not observed, and subsequent assays showed no bystander activity (Springer et al. submitted).
Subsequently, the research team conducted a radiation study using Chinese hamster ovary (CHO) cells because the bystander response is better characterized in these cells and large numbers of cells can be grown thus providing enough material to rigorously analyze for shed and secreted proteins. Samples were evaluated by both tandem ion trap and FTICR mass spectrometry in the Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory at PNNL. Mass spectrometry outputs were analyzed using a recently developed discriminant analysis procedure developed in EMSL (Strittmatter et al. 2004), which provides a confidence score based on SEQUEST parameters, the tryptic nature of the peptide, mass, and retention time.
Current findings
Figure 1. Possible network linking down-regulated proteins by signaling downstream of the activin A receptor in the TGF-? superfamily. Full Image
Using this approach the PNNL group identified approximately 500 proteins in the media, about 10% of which contain one or more transmembrane domains; hence, they likely shed (Ahram et al., in press). Because of the increased sensitivity of the FTICR and the improvements in informatics, the researchers observed several changes that appear to be attributable to radiation. These include 1) down-regulation of activin A receptor (a member of the TGF-β receptor superfamily), stromal interaction molecule (STIM) 2, vitronectin (an adhesive protein in plasma and serum), heat shock protein (HSP) 70 (a protein that plays roles in the folding, transport, synthesis, and quality control of other proteins), and fibronectin (an extracellular adhesion molecule involved in cellular processes); and 2) up-regulation of metalloproteinase carboxypeptidase and alpha-1-microglobulin (Table 1).
Figure 1 shows a possible link between the down-regulated proteins based on known pathways in eukaryotic cells. The upper part of the pathway illustrates the well-established mechanism by which receptors of activin and TGF-β; activate receptor-phosphorylated SMADs (R-SMADs) causing transport into the nucleus to assemble transcription factors through binding to Co-SMADs (Massague 2000). Through linkages with the metalloproteinase 13 and the Creb-binding protein, transcription factors p53 and NF-Β are activated, which leads to links to HSP70, fibronectin, and vitronectin. By placing the proteins with modified abundance in the context of known regulatory pathways, hypotheses can be formulated for modeling and new experiments.
The radiation-induced down-regulation of activin A receptor may be particularly relevant to RIBE because TGF-β has been implicated in bystander effects by other studies (Iyer and Lehnart 2000). Receptors on vesicles in the extracellular medium tie up ligands that initiate signaling pathways if they bind to receptors on the cell surface. Decreased activin A receptor in the medium could, therefore, imply a shift toward more TGF-β available to interact with cell surface receptors. Work continues to investigate this hypothesis.
- Ahram M, JN Adkins, DL Auberry, DS Wunschel DS, and DL Springer. 2005. "A Proteomic Approach to Characterize Shed Proteins." Proteomics 5(1):123-131. DOI:10.1002/pmic.200400912.
- Ahram M and DL Springer. 2004. "Large-Scale Proteomic Analysis of Membrane Proteins." Expert Opinions in Proteomics 1(3):293-302. DOI:10.1586/147894184.108.40.2063.
- Ahram M, EF Strittmatter, ME Monroe, JN Adkins, J Hunter, JH Miller, and DL Springer. 2005. "Identification of Shed Proteins from CHO cells: Application of Statistical Confidence using Human and Mouse Protein Databases." Proteomics 5(7):1815-1826. DOI:10.1002/pmic.200401072.
- Iyer R and BE Lehnert. 2000. "Factors Underlying the Cell Growth-Related Bystander Responses to α Particles." Cancer Research 60(5):1290-1298. DOI:10.1586/147894126.96.36.1993.
- Massague J. 2000. "How Cells Read TGF-β Signals." Nature Reviews 1(3):169-178. DOI:10.1038/35043051.
- Strittmatter EF, LJ Kangas, K Petritis, HM Mottaz, GA Anderson, Y Shen, JM Jacobs, DG Camp, and RD Smith. 2004. "Application of Peptide Retention Time Information in a Discriminant Function for Peptide Identification by Tandem Mass Spectrometry." Journal of Proteome Research 3(4):760-769. DOI:10.1021/pr049965y.
Table 1
The proteins listed showed either up- or down-regulation following low-dose radiation exposure of CHO cells as determined by FTICR mass spectrometry.
|Reference Number
|Protein Name
|Activin A receptor, type 1B
|Stromal interaction molecule 2
|Alpha-1-microglobulin/bikunin precursor
|Carboxypeptidase N, polypeptide 1, 50 kDa
|Fibronectin 1 isoform 1 preprotein
|Heat shock 70kDa protein 1A
|Vitronectin precursor


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To be clear, the legal sale of Battlefield 3 in Iran has never exactly been widespread. But as is the way of the world, "street vendors" had been selling the game anyway, and according to reports that's resulted in a crackdown from Iranian authorities
While many retailers never even bothered stocking the game (in which you play various Americans blowing the shit out of Iran), anticipating such a move, a story from Lebanon's Daily Star reported those few who have tried now find themselves the target of raids and arrests.
This isn't surprising. What is surprising is EA's response, telling website IndustryGamers, "In that Battlefield 3 is not available for purchase in Iran, we can only hope the ban will help prevent pirated copies reaching consumers there".
Yeah. That'll work.
Iran bans US video game showing Tehran invasion [The Daily Star, via IndustryGamers]


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My goal is to get a second bachelor's degree. This time in economics. I have chosen to apply to Boston University. What are my chances of admittance? I mean, now I am 29 years old; soon to be 30. I already have a bachelor's degree from the University of Maine, my GPA was ~3.56; I attended the University of Southern California Law School; I finished fifth in my class in high school; I was in the National Honor Society in high school; then in college I joined Pi Mu Epsilon and Phi Beta Kappa. Furthermore, since elementary school, I received numerous awards in classes and physical fitness. In high school, too. For example, in high school, I received the Daughters of the American Revoultion Good Citizenship award twice, my freshman year and senior year. I also got the Semper Fidelis award. And, if I am not mistaken, I had the best grade point average in Spanish II. And I've held a bunch of jobs over the years, including as an assistant manager at CVS/pharmacy in Boston. My salary was like 39K annually. And I sold about $ 2 million of merchandise at a car and truck dealership in North Hollywood California. And, I can play the "Crazy Train" solo!
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Frank Horwill
- These articles were first published many year's ago and whilst some are as relevant today as they were when new, many are now mostly of historical interest as modern research and coaching methods have superseded them.
Run Like a Gazelle
By Frank Horwill
If you want to improve your race times, imitate the action of the gazelle
(Frank Horwill was in South Africa for six months coaching the South African cross-country team. Both the senior and junior men' s teams defeated the Great Britain teams.)
In 1947 the sports world press was flabbergasted by a report from the Middle East. An Arab prince decided to go hunting for gazelles in a jeep. In due course they spotted a herd grazing in the distance. They approached at top speed and drew alongside the stampeding animals, when one of the prince's servants tapped him on the shoulder and pointed to what seemed to be a gazelle running on its hind legs. They moved in closer to view this extraordinary spectacle and were astounded to discover that it was not a gazelle but a young man!
The prince looked at his speedometer which was registering 30mph, twice as fast as Roger Bannister ran to break the four-minute mile! They pursued the youth until he dropped exhausted to the ground. He was immediately photographed and tied up. The picture was cabled to every news agency in the world. The lad was thin, with long black hair, no beard, completely naked and very scared (which was hardly surprising). The prince sent the boy to a Cairo hospital where it was discovered he could not talk nor eat any food other than grass. Without his gazelle friends and not used to captivity he began to pine, refused to eat and eventually died. A sad and remarkable story.
When they took fright, he ran too.
The world's athletics press began to speculate about his plight and what he might have done if they could have gotten him to run around a track. How he joined the herd was a mystery. It was agreed that he would not have survived unless he had done so already able to walk and run, say around five years of age. Any older and the herd would have been wary of him. When feeling hungry he copied their habits and diet. But, more significantly, when they took fright, he also ran with them. As the years went by, he learned not only to run with them but also of necessity to keep up with them. The Cairo doctors estimated his age at around 17 but said he would not have lasted much longer as he was showing signs of malnutrition. This is a true story and any national newspaper will have the press- cuttings filed away.
Running at world-record pace
What is the significance of this amazing occurrence? It is this: gazelles do not jog, nor do they do steady runs. They are built to run fast away from their enemies, perhaps once or twice a day to survive. They learn to do this from the day they are born.
Modern middle-distance training methods are based on the principle that athletes start running slowly and get faster. This has one obvious snag - the athlete never experiences what it is like to run at world-record pace; in fact, the athlete may never run at such a speed. This has a bad psychological effect the longer it continues because world-record pace is thought to be something beyond reality. But is it?
If we examine every distance-running world record, then work out the speed per 400m, then break that down into the rate per 100m, we will discover that we can train at world-record velocity. What's more, we can actually cover the distance in total at that speed.
For example, let's take a mile in 3:46, that is 56.5 secs per 440 yds or 28.2 per 220 yds or 14.1 per 100 yds. We might not be capable of running many 400m in 56 secs (400m is about two metres short of 440 yds) or even many 200s in 28 secs, but we can run 100m in 14 secs. If we ran 16 x 100m in 14 secs with 30 secs recovery after each, we have a mile done at the world-record pace of 3:46. When we have accomplished that, we might consider running 24 x 100m, and from there we could progress to running 150m in 21 secs, still with 30 secs rest, then eventually on to 200ms in 28 secs, 250ms in 35 secs, 300ms in 42 secs and 400ms in 56 secs.
Record Familiarisation
More to the point is that, like the Gazelle Boy, we can start young runners doing this once a week, and who knows what they will progress to in eight years' time? Even more significant is the fact that they will know what world-record pace feels like and will keep experiencing it every week.
Here below are two tables of world-class times broken down into rates per 100m:
We can call this particular session each week 'Record Familiarisation'. We need from the outset to adopt a methodical system. For instance:
- What day in the week is this to be done regularly?
- What event?
- What segment can be tackled first?
- How many repetitions?
- What recovery?
- What progression?
Here is John's programme
Let's take an example. John is a 26-year-old 10km runner with a best time of 30 mins for 10km (72 secs / 400m). He decides to do the session on Sunday morning and to reduce his traditional long run. He chooses, of course, the 10km event.
Since the world-class time for 400m is seven seconds per lap faster than in his best-time 10km, he decides that 300ms in 48.6 is manageable. He works out that there are 35 x 300ms in a 10km. Too many to start with, so he opts for 18 x 300m. He has to think carefully about the recovery. He wants to do them all on time, but bearing in mind his event (25 consecutive laps) he wants the recovery to be realistic. He opts for 100m walk after each. He completes the session with some effort but on time.
He decides that the following week he will add a further four repetitions. This time it takes him six weeks to get it right. He now goes for the maximum (35), and after a month he conquers the session.
The track season is now over but he thinks it would be good cross-country preparation. He decides to increase the repetition by 50m to 350m in 56.7 secs and go for the maximum of 35 repetitions. By the middle of the next track season John is doing 25 x 400m in 65 secs with 100m walk recovery. Two years later he is doing 12 x 800m in 2 mins. 10secs with 100m walk rest. His 10km time is now 28mins.45secs (69 secs / 400). He is progressing to world class having trained at world class.
And here is Jane's programme
Another example might be Jane, a 16-year-old interested in the 800m. She has a best time of 2:16 (68 secs / 400m). She decides to do world-class pace on Saturday afternoons when not racing. She decides to do 16 x 100m in 14 secs, which is also her best speed per 100m for her 400m (56 secs). She reduces this to only 8 x 100m in 14 secs with 100m walk rest.
After a month it becomes too easy, so she decides to add four more repetitions, and a month later she can handle 16 x 100m. She then reduces the reps by half and increases the distance of the repetition to 150m in 21 secs. This takes her to the end of the track season.
She wants to compete in the National Indoor 800m championships and keeps the weekly session going. Halfway through the winter she conquers the 150ms, but only just; she advances the distance to 175m in 24.5 secs and reduces the reps to six. After a month she is able to do well and reverts back to eight reps. Indoors she runs a PB of 2:12 and is now able to do 8 x 200m in 28 secs with 100m walk. She now plans to do 8 x 250m in 35 secs with 100m walk recovery. In all, she has done over 50 training sessions in a year at world-record pace.
Add one press-up per day
It should be remembered that if a person aged 14 takes up running, it will take 8-10 years before a peak is reached. There may be great moments on the way, but the statistics are there. Many athletes are impatient for instant success, a bit like instant coffee, easily made and easily gone. From humble beginnings amazing things have been achieved. An athlete was told he was weak at press-ups, so his coach advised him to do one press-up first thing in the morning, and add one a day.
The coach forgot all about his advice, and a few months later the athlete queried: 'Hey, Frank, how much longer do I have to continue these press-ups? I'm on 133 at present'. That was more than 100 better than he could do five months before. He had taken note of the old Chinese proverb: 'A 10,000 mile walk begins with the first step'.
In time (it might be years), if we train at world-record speed we will no longer fear it. In fact, we may become contemptuous of it, thinking nothing of running the first half of our specialist event at a speed that has become all too familiar. The Gazelle Boy was, after all, a human being.


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While I applaud Medtronic's first real foray into the Twittersphere, I must say the experience left me wanting more.
As a patient (and potentially lifetime consumer of their heart devices), it's great to see that Medtronic is not only listening, but also willing to engage. I followed their tweets broadcasted from this year's HFSA Scientific Meeting in Boston, but got little out of them.
Medtronic appears to have aimed their tweets mainly at conference attendees, not at folks who, like me, couldn't be at the conference. No doubt the twitpics were a very nice touch. But perhaps, next time we can also get links to press releases, result studies and even, dare I say it, a video or two.
Boston Scientific, St. Jude and other device makers don't seem to have yet awaken to the power of social media and the impact patients are having in this brave new online world of Web 2.0. But I hope they'll soon follow Medtronic's example.
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Thundering water, swirling fog and countless colourful rainbows: Niagara Falls, on the border between the US and Canada, is a breathtaking show of nature. This amazing natural wonder is easily accessible from Toronto, just 1.5 hours by car.
Niagara Falls actually encompasses 3 waterfalls: Horseshoe Falls, American Falls and Bridal Veil Falls. With an average height of 50 metres, these are not the highest waterfalls in the world but they are certainly the most powerful. More water flows through these falls per second than any other waterfall in the world. The Niagara is not just any old river; it's a narrow passage from the enormous Lake Erie to the lower-lying Lake Ontario.
One of the most beloved attractions for young and old is the Maid of the Mist. Since 1846, this exciting boat ride has been bringing visitors face to face with the force of falling water. The mist of the water creates beautiful images, especially on sunny days when you can see impressive rainbows from the deck. Regardless of the weather, it's a good idea to wear a poncho: it always 'rains' around the falls, except in winter when the water freezes temporarily and boat tours are suspended.
An alternative attraction to the Maid of the Mist is the view from the Skylon Tower in the city of Niagara Falls on the Canadian side. The observation deck is the perfect location from which you can view the impressive scale of this force of nature: enjoy the sweeping views 236 metres above the churning water. At the foot of the tower you will find the Skylon Fun Center, which includes a 4D cinema, shops and restaurants.


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HAART Use Improves Hepatitis B Vaccine Response, Even at High CD4 Counts
An Interview With Michael Landrum, M.D.
There's nothing like hearing the results of studies directly from those who actually conducted the research. In this interview, you'll meet one of these impressive HIV researchers and read his explanation of the study he presented at ICAAC/IDSA 2008.
I'm Michael Landrum. I work in San Antonio, Texas, at Fort Sam Houston, and also with the Infectious Disease Clinical Research Program from the Uniformed Services University in Bethesda, Md. We examined hepatitis B [HBV] vaccine responses in our cohort of HIV-positive individuals, of which we looked at 626 participants who had been vaccinated with hepatitis B vaccine after their HIV diagnosis.
Michael Landrum, M.D.
What we found was that individuals on highly active antiretroviral therapy, or HAART, had a significantly improved likelihood of developing a response to hepatitis B vaccine; [HAART] improved their [vaccine] response rates by about a factor of twofold.
Why was that? Do we understand the mechanism?
It's not entirely clear, although we think it has to do with improved CD4 cell function, because hepatitis B vaccine requires your CD4 cells to be functioning well to respond to the vaccine.
I see that HAART even improved the HBV vaccine response among people who had a CD4+ cell count greater than 350.
Correct. We looked to see if HAART benefitted all patients, or specifically patients with lower CD4 cell counts. We found that it actually benefitted all patients, even those with CD4 cell counts greater than 350. Those individuals who were on HAART with higher CD4 cell counts still benefitted from being on highly active antiretroviral therapy, similar to other recent investigations that have shown people benefit from being on HAART, even at relatively preserved or high CD4 cell counts.
Do you know what the prevalence of HBV is in people with HIV?
In our cohort, if you look for any serologic evidence of hepatitis B infection, the prevalence is about 40% to 50%. For chronic hepatitis B, it's around 3% to 4% total. So HBV is a very big problem in HIV-infected people.
When someone is infected with HIV, do the guidelines suggest that they also be tested for hepatitis B? Are HIV/HBV coinfected patients advised to get HBV treatment at the same time they're getting HAART?
The guideline recommendations are for HIV-positive individuals to be tested for hepatitis B at the time they're diagnosed with HIV. If they're not infected with hepatitis B, they should be vaccinated against it. If they are [infected with hepatitis B], then whether they should initiate treatment for both hepatitis B and HIV depends to some degree on how active their hepatitis B is and their stage of HIV infection, although most folks now are leaning more towards treating them earlier for both infections.
What's the take-home?
The take-home, I think, is that HAART is beneficial in regards to hepatitis B vaccine responses. Unfortunately, the responses we saw in individuals that were on HAART were still low: 44%.
How does that compare with HIV-uninfected people?
For non-infected individuals, it's about 90%, so there are a lot of factors that come into play. [HIV-infected individuals] need to make sure that they complete their vaccination series. That's another factor we found, which was very important.
HIV-infected people didn't complete their series?
Correct. In clinical practice, one limitation is that they may start the immunization series but don't complete it. That's been shown, in our study and in other studies. That's a very important point. They need to complete their vaccination series.
Could you talk a little bit about the patient characteristics here?
Sure. We had 626 individuals who had been vaccinated against hepatitis B. Overall, their median age was approximately 30 years. The breakdown of their ethnicity was about 45% Caucasian, [45%] African American and another 10% to 15% [representing] other ethnicities. CD4 cell counts at the time of their vaccinations were relatively preserved still, with a median of 490 cells. So, a relatively healthy group of patients.
Are these all veterans?
They are mostly folks serving on active duty or their dependents; they could also be veterans. But our cohort includes mostly active-duty individuals.
Most people don't know that HIV-infected individuals can still be on active duty.
HIV-infected individuals can continue to serve their country on active duty.
Were these people all located in Texas?
Our cohort is at seven participating Department of Defense military or medical treatment facilities, of which San Antonio, where I work, is one. The National Naval Medical Center in Bethesda [Md.] and Walter Reade here in Washington, D.C., are some other centers. Most folks are on active duty and followed in one of those clinics.
Was there any understanding of why people didn't continue with their vaccination series? Was it because they were being deployed to Iraq or elsewhere?
Great question. HIV-infected folks are not getting deployed, so they weren't going off to Iraq. But the next analysis we're planning is to look at factors that were associated with who at least started the series, and then who completed the series.
The military is an open-access care model, so that all health care, vaccines and medications are free of charge to the patient. There are pretty good guidelines for when you need to get staging evaluations for HIV while you're on active duty. We know that they are being seen in clinics, so the reasons why they're not completing their series aren't entirely clear.
We're going back all the way to 1988 here, so guidelines have changed over the years. Clinical practices have changed. Currently, our immunization coverage and completion rates are much better, but we haven't done the formal analysis of that.
In a military setting, isn't it easier to follow up with patients? They're all located within a small area.
That's right. It's what we call a closed health care system. So they do have to come to certain clinics to be seen.
This is a military world, but do we know what these people's risk factors were for HIV?
Now you're really starting to get out there and ask those probing questions. I can't tell you for our cohort overall. There was a study published a few years ago, looking at risk factors, but we don't have the data on everyone in the cohort.
Thank you very much.
This transcript has been lightly edited for clarity.
- Landrum M, Hullsiek K, Ganesan A, et al. Highly active antiretroviral therapy improves hepatitis B vaccine response regardless of CD4 count. In: Program and abstracts of the 48th Annual ICAAC/IDSA 46th Annual Meeting; October 25-28, 2008; Washington, D.C. Abstract H-2314.


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Jim Tracy: "Coors Field will be a bad place for opponents to come." (Denver Post)
For one game anyway, that's no Tracy horseshit.
Rockies 12, Diamondbacks 4 (boxscore)
-- Despite the offensive breakthrough, which was fantastic, the biggest storyline of the afternoon is the soreness in Jorge De La Rosa's elbow. No word at this time what the exact problem is there. All we can do is cross our fingers and hope to hear encouraging news, because that would be a very difficult setback to overcome even for a team's that playing consistently good baseball, which the Rockies are not.
-- I said after Sunday's game that the Rockies offense struggles to create runs. They do, but there's no need to create runs when you're stringing together quality at-bats and putting good swings on baseballs. That's what the Rockies started doing in the 4th inning, and it continued right on through until the end.
-- Carlos Gonzalez started the offense with a solo home run in the 4th. He also finished the offense with a two-run homer in the 7th. In between he drew a walk that loaded the bases and delivered an RBI groundout. That's a beautiful game from your three-hole hitter.
-- Other offensive heroes: Dexter Fowler (two hits, triple, two walks, two runs, two RBI), Seth Smith (home run, double, one run, two RBI), Jose Lopez (two hits), and Chris Iannetta (two hits, walk, two runs).
Damn that Dexter Fowler line was a good one. And I shouldn't forget about Troy Tulowitzki's bases loaded walk. That was a pivotal time in the game, so for Tulo to show that type of patience, and also confidence in the hitters behind him, is good to see.
-- Hats off to Greg Reynolds for his good relief this afternoon. Never easy being forced into duty due to injury, but he gave the Rockies exactly what they needed. Now it seems likely the Rockies will need him to make at least one start this weekend and potentially more depending on De La Rosa and Aaron Cook.
-- Role change: Rafael Betancourt pitched a 1-2-3 7th inning. It appears Matt Lindstrom was due to pitch the 8th, but the Rockies plated five in their half of the seventh so we got Matt Daley instead. Could be a temporary deal, but with how well Lindstrom has thrown, I wouldn't just hand the 8th inning back to Raffy once he figures it out.
-- Overlooked play: Really excellent play by Chris Iannetta fielding the wild pitch ricochet and firing a perfect strike to third to nail Melvin Mora. Definitely some luck involved there, but Iannetta made a nice play. That shut down a potential rally when the Rockies lead was still only 5-3. Big play.
-- That concludes the Game 1 recap. Game 2 recap to come later assuming the weather holds off.


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Confederate Flag Prom Dress — Should This Girl Be Able to Wear It? [POLL/VIDEO]
It's prom season here in East Texas, and high school juniors and seniors have been busy planning the evening. And more importantly for the girls, they're searching for the perfect dress. Everything has to be perfect for the young lady attending the prom right down to her accessories. Yesterday, we posted a story online highlighting six of the wackiest prom dresses. One of the dresses really caught my attention — not necessarily the dress, but the situation around it.
Texanna Edwards from western Tennessee took pride in that she created her Confederate Flag prom dress, but the principal of the school didn't feel it was appropriate for the event and was asked to leave the prom.
In the interview with Texanna and a few of her classmates, it seems as if wearing Confederate themed clothing to school was acceptable because students would wear it and nothing would happen to them. Texanna says she wasn't trying to be offensive, but wanted the dress because she liked the rebel flag.
I'd like to know how you feel about this, leave me your comments in the section below and be a part of the quick poll.


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Nest Labs Recalls to Repair Nest Protect Smoke + CO Alarms Due to Failure to Sound Alert
WASHINGTON, D.C. - Consumers should stop using this product unless otherwise instructed. It is illegal to resell or attempt to resell a recalled consumer product.
Recall Summary
Name of Product: Nest Protect: Smoke + CO Alarm
Hazard: Activity near the product during a fire can prevent the alarm from immediately sounding when the Nest Wave feature is enabled.
Remedy: Refund, Repair
Consumer Contact: Nest Labs at (800) 249-4280 anytime or online at www.nest.com and click on Nest Protect Safety Notice for more information.
Recall Details
Units: About 440,000
Description: This recall includes all Nest Protect Smoke + CO alarms. The alarms are made of black or white plastic and are about 5.25 inches square with rounded corners and about 1.5 inches deep. The word "nest" is on a large button on the face of the alarm. Consumers can enable the alarms to be controlled by a computer or a smartphone over a wireless network. The alarms have a Nest Wave feature, which allows users to temporarily silence some alerts or cancel a manual test by vigorously waving an arm near the unit that triggered the alarm. Nest Protect Smoke + CO alarms came from the factory with the Nest Wave feature enabled and with the slider button in the "On" position in Nest Protect Settings.
Incidents/Injuries: Nest Labs has received no reports of incidents, injuries or property damage.
Remedy: The repair is an automatic electronic update that disables the Nest Wave feature and is delivered automatically to devices connected wirelessly to the Internet and linked to a Nest account. Consumers should take one of the following actions:
Consumers who have not connected their Nest Protect devices to their wireless network and linked them to a Nest account should immediately do so. The devices will automatically receive the update that disables the Nest Wave feature. Customers should confirm that their devices have been updated by going to Nest Sense on their Nest account mobile or web application and ensuring that the button for Nest Wave is off and grayed out. Instructions on how to connect to a network and disable the feature are available at http://support.nest.com/article/Nest-Protect-Safety or by contacting Nest Labs.
Consumers whose Nest Protect devices are connected to their wireless network and linked to a Nest account should immediately confirm the receipt of an automatic repair that disabled the Nest Wave feature by going to Nest Sense on their Nest account mobile or web application and ensuring that the button for Nest Wave is set to "off" and grayed out. No further action is required and consumers can continue to use their devices.
Consumers who cannot or do not wish to connect their devices to a wireless network to have the Nest Wave feature disabled should contact Nest Labs for a full refund.
Sold at: Best Buy, Home Depot and other retailers nationwide, and online at nest.com, amazon.com, bestbuy.com and homedepot.com from November 15, 2013 to April 3, 2014 for about $130.
Importer and Distributor: Nest Labs Inc. of Palo Alto, Calif.


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I was taking a writing break, surfing the net, and came across Steal This Movie 2.
It doesn't directly address copyright infringement, or offer any solutions. But it does a very good job of explaining why copyright infringement exists, and is unstoppable. It's 45 minutes long, and well worth your time if you have any interest in the future of ebooks, concerns about illegal filesharing, and questions about what the future holds.
One of the ideas I found to be the most compelling was the concept of fences.
In the past, property (including intellectual property) had owners. If you owned a bicycle, or wrote a book, it existed as a physical object. To protect your property, you could build a fence around it, so it wouldn't be stolen. Then you could decide what to do with your property. Sell it. Give it away. Throw it away.
But there are no fences anymore. Intellectual property can be copied and distributed, and there is no way to protect it. In fact, the internet was created so people can share and copy information.
I've talked before about gatekeepers. In the past, TV studios, movie producers, and publishers have decided what media the masses can see.
The Internet is changing that. Now, everyone can produce media. The way the trend is going, there won't be any gatekeepers. Or at the very least the ones who exist will have more competition and fewer ways to make money.
For a society, that seems to be a good thing.
But is it good for a writer?
While YouTube has shown that a lot of people can produce media--media that can take viewers away from the TV shows and films produced by the gatekeepers--it hasn't shown how those media creators can make money. The money YouTube generates goes to YouTube, not the people uploading their movies.
And the majority of people uploading content to the Internet aren't uploading their original content. They're uploading media paid for by the gatekeepers.
If you're an artist who wants to earn a living, the way to get paid is to work for the gatekeepers.
But how long will these gatekeepers exist in their present form? How long before the media shared by individuals--both original and pirated--reaches more households than the established distribution networks run by the gatekeepers? And what will happen when that tipping point occurs?
In our desire to share and copy media, we're destroying the institutions that create the media.
But here's the thing. We're only destroying the institutions. We're not destroying the artists.
I don't believe the incentive to create is directly tied in to a paycheck. I wrote many books before ever earning a dime. And if the publishing world collapses, I'll still write books.
If people have an interest in reading me, money will somehow follow suit.
After viewing Steal This Film 2, you won't walk away thinking this is the end of media.
In many ways, it's more like a vibrant new beginning.
Tuesday, September 22, 2009
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