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Tell Steven Wilson that the album as an art form is dead. I dare you.
For most listeners under the age of 30, it probably doesn't matter that the greatest contemporary bands – consider Radiohead and the Flaming Lips, Tame Impala and Foxygen – are still crafting full, purposefully sequenced collections of songs meant to be listened to in one sitting, if at all possible. They are still likely to cherry-pick the songs they like and either download them individually or stream them. It's what they know.
The under-30s who do grasp the concept of the album as musical statement aren't likely to stumble upon it if they spend their time in the mainstream. They'll have to work for it.
"The Raven That Refused to Sing (and Other Stories)," Wilson's third solo album (out now), would be a fine place to start for anyone curious about the supposedly antiquated idea of "the album." It is a throwback to an older, venerated age, when virtuosic musicianship met deeply imaginative compositional conceptions. The album's seven pieces can be seen as one multisegment composition, but they also can be treated as songs – either method works. This is, quite literally, an album constructed the way the most imaginative artists did it back in the middle 1970s.
That said, "Raven" is no mere nostalgia trip, nor is it solely a record aimed at the hearts of alienated rock music fans who wonder why no one seems up to the task of creating something as majestic as Yes' "Close to the Edge," or even Radiohead's "OK Computer" anymore. It's a modern-sounding collection, even if it is littered with references to the most grandiloquent masterpieces of progressive music.
Wilson – erstwhile leader of Porcupine Tree, and member at various points of the side-projects Blackfield, Storm Corrosion, No-Man and Bass Communion – has delivered his finest work with "The Raven." Considering that he already has at least a half-dozen stone-cold classics under his belt, that's saying something.
With Porcupine Tree on hiatus, Wilson formed a powerhouse new band to tour behind his outstanding "Grace for Drowning" album in 2011. The tour was so well-received, and the experience apparently so personally rewarding, that Wilson almost immediately set about the construction of this new project when the "Grace" tour ended.
It's abundantly clear that he is inspired by these musicians – only guitarist Guthrie Govan is new to the band, with bassist Nick Beggs, drummer Marco Minnemann, keyboardist Adam Holzman and saxophone/flute player Theo Travis being holdovers from the "Grace" tour. They are scary good as individual players, and simply breathtaking in their ensemble performance, revealing deep experience in the worlds of jazz, rock, progressive music and fusion.
Happily, Wilson, who also plays guitar, bass, mellotron and piano on the album, has given these musicians plenty to chew on. His compositions are wildly ambitious at one turn, achingly ruminative and melodic at the next. The 12-minute opener "Luminol" comes screaming out of the gate with a knotty prog-rock motif led by bassist Beggs, moves through interesting spins of prog-rock tropes – one can easily spot the influence of Gentle Giant, Rush, early Genesis and Return to Forever within the first four minutes – and reveals the dizzying complexity of Wilson's compositional mind by the time it's through.
Things then proceed apace, as Wilson moves freely and gracefully between more subdued, acoustic textures, (the aching "Drive Home"), gnarly jazz-fusion motifs ("The Holy Drinker") and epic, Pink Floyd-like ballads (the album-closing title tune). It all adds up to an embarrassment of riches for listeners who appreciate stellar musicianship and daring songwriting. (If you don't, steer clear. This is not the sort of music that holds your hand and walks you safely toward the chorus.)
Wilson engaged revered producer Alan Parsons – yes, the guy who worked on the Beatles' "Abbey Road" as a kid, then went on to produce Pink Floyd's "Dark Side of the Moon" – to aid him in capturing the majesty of this music on tape. The production here is all but transparent – "The Raven" boasts a live-off-the-floor feel, and is not given to excessive technological frippery. The production seems written into the songs and the arrangements themselves.
All of this would be enough to recommend "Raven" as an inspired work. But there's more. In his lyrics, Wilson conjures a world where the living and the dead commingle, and it is often difficult to tell them apart. There is an air of the gothic at work, but not the cheesy pseudo-goth of the CW's "Vampire Diaries" or the "Twilight" series.
In Wilson's hands, this strain recalls Edgar Allan Poe's "Ligeia," in which the lines between ghosts and corporeal beings become blurred, past and present intermingle, and a sense of all-pervading loss is summoned.
Wilson does this without being maudlin, which is no mean feat. During the album-closing title song, he crafts a character haunted by loss, and of the firm belief that his dead sister has been reincarnated as a raven. Not many rock songs deal with the concept of transubstantiation, but this one does, over an elegant, if haunting, piano-led chord progression that builds toward a transcendent coda. It is a stunning conclusion to a brilliant song-cycle.
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PETERSBURG - Michael Ayers, only 2 years old, was shot to death by his father, Kenneth Robert, early Saturday morning, authorities said, when a routine visit at his grandmother's house near Petersburg in Huntingdon County turned deadly.
According to Huntingdon County District Attorney George Zanic, the 52-year-old Ayers would go to the home of his mother, Mary Olive Ayers, on Saturdays for a custody exchange and supervised visit with Michael, but yesterday Ayers began fighting with his estranged wife, Hollie Jo Ayers of Belleville, who arrived with the boy.
He shot her in the legs, right arm and face.
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Pennsylvania state police conduct an investigation of a shooting which took place outside the home of Mary Ayers in Barree Township, Huntingdon County, on Saturday. Kenneth Ayers is accused of shooting his son there in a murder-suicide.
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Authorities received a call about shots fired about 9 a.m. Saturday and responded to the scene of what Huntingdon County District Attorney George Zanic ruled a murder-suicide.
Police said Hollie Ayers, taken to Altoona Regional, is expected to survive.
After killing his son and disabling his wife, Ayers shot at his mother and missed.
He fled the rural home and was on the lam for several hours before a State Police Special Emergency Response Team found his body in his parked truck, located in a wooded area off Route 550 in Warriors Mark Township.
"Words can't describe the scene ... heartbreaking," Zanic said as he fought his own emotions while standing outside the well-kept ranch-style home of Mary Ayers.
It was a sunny, blustery day, the extreme violence of the incident belying what otherwise was a quiet overlook of the Shavers Creek area of Huntingdon County, at the intersection of Greenwood Road and Manor Hill Road in Barree Township.
According to Zanic, Kenneth Ayers, known as Robbie, was under a protection from abuse order that prohibited contact with his wife.
Yet he was permitted to visit his son at the mother's house on Saturdays.
Police said a physical altercation occurred between Kenneth and Hollie Ayers. He pulled a .40-caliber handgun and shot her in each leg and the right arm, and then, police said, he grabbed the 2-year-old, intentionally killing him. He placed the boy in the back of his car, at which point the wounded Hollie Ayers retrieved the boy's body. That's when he shot her in the face and shot at his mother.
Authorities received a call of "shots fired" at about 9 a.m. and police went to the residence.
Police don't know where Ayers went after the shootings, but they were able track his car to his residence near McAlevy's Fort. Ayers apparently changed vehicles, fleeing then in his truck.
Police at about 4 p.m. confirmed that Ayers was dead, noting he died of a self-inflicted wound.
Both Hollie Ayers and Mary Olive Ayers were able to give police statements about what occurred at the home.
All of the violence, Zanic emphasized, occurred outside.
State Police Cpl. Daniel Sneath said the investigation will continue despite the Ayers death.
He said police want to know why this incident occurred.
Another question is why Ayers was carrying a gun, Sneath said, noting he was under a protection-from-abuse order.
He said also police will request an autopsy to determine if Ayers was under the influence drugs or alcohol.
It will be up to Huntingdon County Coroner Paul J. Shraum to determine if an autopsy is warranted.


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Faces of Food Safety: Bridgette Keefe-Hodgson
To her colleagues at the Food Safety and Inspection Service, Bridgette Keefe-Hodgson is a top-notch communicator who can make sense out of the most complex language and fashion it so that it is easily understood by consumers. But for deaf and hard-of-hearing consumers needing food safety information, Keefe-Hodgson is a godsend, or perhaps more importantly, a lifeline.
The job of communicating food safety information to deaf and hard-of-hearing consumers is, literally, in Keefe-Hodgson's hands.
Deaf since birth, she knows what it's like to live in a silent world, where all of her information is gleaned from the written word or from the assistance of an interpreter who can translate what is heard into American Sign Language (ASL). She cannot hear the shriek of a warning siren, the blare of a horn or a scream of danger. "And that's a problem," Keefe-Hodgson said through an interpreter. "People who can hear can turn on the radio to hear about an emergency, but we can't. They can overhear conversations, but we can't."
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Keefe-Hodgson's community of friends told her that important food safety information, such as recalls, came way too late. She knew they needed to know about recalls when they happen — before they got to a restaurant or before they actually ate a recalled product from their refrigerator. Keefe-Hodgson stepped up to the job.
For the past 7 years, she has been the chief communicator to, and an advocate for, deaf and hard-of-hearing consumers needing information from FSIS. She has authored a number of outreach materials, including press releases, fact sheets and podcasts over the years, but perhaps one of her greatest creations are a series of videocasts in ASL featuring text-captioning.
"I am always thinking about ways to help deaf and hard-of-hearing individuals realize the same opportunities as hearing individuals."
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The videocasts are designed to inform deaf and hard-of-hearing consumers about foodborne illness and raise the level of awareness of the dangers associated with the improper handling and undercooking of food. The videocasts are also available on YouTube, and the amount of subscribers has grown from 3,400 to 25,000 according to the latest data. The online audience comes from around the world — most thanking her and others lamenting that their countries don't offer the same service.
"I am glad that we are providing this service and that it is being well-received. I think about the information that I'd like to receive, and I work to provide it to our deaf and hard-of-hearing audience," said Keefe-Hodgson. "This proves that we have improved our outreach and reaching our target," Keefe-Hodgson added.
In addition to her outreach to deaf and hard-of-hearing audiences, Keefe-Hodgson is also using her talents to recruit other deaf and hard-of-hearing employees to the agency. USDA currently employs between 50-100 deaf and hard-of-hearing employees, with 4 employed at FSIS.
A graduate of the Washington, D.C.-based Gallaudet University, a liberal arts university that enjoys a stellar reputation for programs geared toward deaf and hard-of-hearing students, Keefe-Hodgson is encouraging students at the school to consider a career at FSIS. To that end, she is working on an FSIS recruitment video — one that says the agency is a welcoming environment.
"I'd like for other deaf people to know how accessible and open FSIS is," she said. Her work here — whether it is providing valuable food safety information or recruiting employees to the agency — "offers important opportunities to break down the barriers brick by brick," she said. "I am always thinking about ways to help deaf and hard-of-hearing individuals realize the same opportunities as hearing individuals."
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Keefe-Hodgson has come a long way — both personally and professionally — from her early days growing up as one of two deaf children in a family of four children in Long Island, N.Y. While she did not set out to make a difference in the lives of deaf and hard-of-hearing community, she relishes in knowing she has.
So what's next? Jokingly referring to herself as a "jewel of all trades," Keefe-Hodgson said she is looking for additional ways to reach out to the deaf and hard-of-hearing community. "If I can remove the barriers for one person or make hearing audiences appreciate what deaf and hard-of-hearing people have to offer, I've done a good job and feel very content."
You can check out videos Keefe-Hodgson produced at www.youtube.com/usdafoodsafety#g/c/E2CA3E2B8C6504CF.


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Q&A: What Are Trans Fats? What Foods Are They In?
The Food and Drug Administration on Thursday ruled for the first time that trans fats aren't generally considered safe in foods, a sharp shift in policy that could lead to banning trans fats in baked goods, refrigerated dough products, frosting and other foods. Here is a rundown explaining trans fats and where they are currently found.
What are trans fats, and why are they bad?
Trans fats, or trans fatty acids (the name comes from their chemical structure), are an ingredient in some foods that has been shown to increase levels of low-density lipoprotein, or LDL, known as "bad cholesterol." This blocks arteries and can lead to heart disease, the No. 1 killer in the U.S.
Where do trans fats come from?
Some of it is produced naturally in the stomach of grazing animals, and therefore present in small amounts in milk products and meat. But the main source is from vegetable oil that has been processed with hydrogen to make it more solid. Food makers use these artificial trans fats, known as partially hydrogenated oils, to improve texture and make products last longer.
Where are they found?
Trans fat has been used in many food products, particularly cookies, muffins, cakes, and other baked goods, as well as frostings. According to the FDA, it also is used in some snack foods (such as microwave popcorn), frozen pizza, vegetable shortenings, and coffee creamer.
What's been done about them before the ban announced Thursday?
Trans fat became popular in part because of health concerns – vegetable oils were considered healthier than the saturated animal fats that were widely used. In the 1980s and 90s, researchers began linking trans fats to heart disease. In 2006, after much debate, the FDA began requiring food companies to put labels on foods containing trans fat. Before that, only consumers familiar with ingredients jargon like "partially hydrogenated vegetable oil" and "vegetable shortening" would have known that their foods contained trans fat. Some states and localities have also adopted regulations limiting the use of trans fat.
Where have trans fats been pulled from?
The FDA's labeling requirement, and growing public concerns about the health risks of trans fat, prompted many big chains and food companies to stop using the stuff, or cut way back. Mondelez International, then part of Kraft, replaced it with non-hyrdogenated vegetable oil in its Oreo cookies in 2006. On its website, Mondelez says it has completed a multi-year effort "to eliminate or significantly reduce trans fats from our entire portfolio around the globe." Fast food and other restaurants were once a big user of trans fat, but McDonald's, Burger King, Starbucks and KFC all artificial dropped trans fats (Burger King and KFC still have small amounts in some menu items; a Burger King spokesman says some of its meat and dairy items have the naturally occurring trans fat). And Long John Silver's has announced plans to switch all U.S. restaurants to trans-fat-free cooking oil. Church's Chicken also expects to have all stores converted to trans-fat-free oils by Christmas.
What foods still contain trans fat?
Sara Lee cheesecakes, Betty Crocker cake mix, and Pop Secret popcorn all list partially hydrogenated oils in their ingredients. The Center for Science in the Public Interest, which has been a leading crusader against trans fat, identifies some fast-food chains, including Popeye's Louisiana Kitchen, that still use trans fats in some products.
Why are they still in foods?
Hydrogenated oils are easy to use. They can withstand repeated heating without breaking down, and the process can turn liquid oil into solid, making for easier transportation and wider uses, according to Harvard School of Public Health's Nutrition Source website. Hydrogenation also is relatively cheap—which explains why it continues to be widely used in many emerging and developing economies.


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Arkansas Children's Hospital is getting a new leader.
The Little Rock hospital announced Friday that Dr. Jonathan Bates is retiring as president and chief executive officer and Marcella "Marcy" L. Doderer will step into the position in July.
Bates' retirement is effective June 30, and Doderer is to start July 15.
The change was announced by the hospital board chairman Tom Baxter.
Doderer is vice president and administrator at Children's Hospital of San Antonio. She is a graduate of Little Rock Central High School.
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At the end of Terrence McGee's second season, he'd made the Pro Bowl as a kick returner and established himself as the left cornerback on the NFL's second-best defense.
McGee's future with the Buffalo Bills was unlimited.
Flash forward eight years and McGee can't help but ponder a legacy of dissatisfaction. Beset with injuries in recent years and unable to remain in the lineup, McGee was released by the Bills on Thursday.
McGee, recovering from a November knee surgery, plans to forge ahead and hook on with another team.
But does he wonder what his career would have been like had he avoided all those injuries?
"Hey, man, that is what I think about every day," McGee told The Buffalo News from Texas. "The times that I've missed games, you sit there and watch other cornerbacks making plays and think, 'Aw, man, I would just love to make a play right now, get an interception, anything to be out on the field.'
"You wonder, 'What would it have been like if I stayed healthy?' That's what I don't want to leave the game wondering. I know it would eat me up for the rest of my life. I want to be healthy for a season and then be able to leave the game with my head held high."
McGee, a 2003 fourth-round draft choice, spent a decade with the Bills. He started double-digit games from 2004 through 2009. He returned three kickoffs for touchdowns in 2004 and notched a career-high four interceptions in 2005 and 2007.
But he managed to play all 16 games just once in his career.
He ended three of his past four seasons on injured reserve. Over the past three years, he has played only 22 games, starting 10.
McGee's recovery from a torn left patellar tendon suffered in 2011 carried over into last season, when he played seven games and started zero. The surgery he had in November was unrelated to the patellar tear.
"Terrence has been a contributor to the Bills organization for 10 years and we thank him for his efforts on the field and off," Bills General Manager Buddy Nix said in a statement. "We wish him the best of luck in the future."
McGee expected the Bills to cut him, especially after they unloaded linebacker Nick Barnett and safety George Wilson on Monday.
Yet when the phone call came Thursday morning, McGee said he "felt blindsided" because it came a day after he had visited One Bills Drive, had his knee inspected and received what he said was positive feedback from secondary coach Donnie Henderson.
"I could see it coming, but not the next day," McGee said of being cut. "Maybe a month down the road or something. That's why I felt blindsided. It still caught me off guard.
"But what kind of argument can I make? I was there for 10 years. I've been hurt a lot. They didn't have to give me too much of a reason why they had to move on. You've just got to accept it. I understand. It's nothing I can get mad at."
McGee, 32, conceded he will need to prove he's healthy before another team will take a chance on him. He also confessed to being dejected about his recurring injuries.
But he insisted he is focused on getting his knee rehabilitated and playing again.
"It's very discouraging because you wonder, 'Even when I do get healthy, am I going to go out there and do something else to set me back again?' Playing football, you know there's a high chance an injury can happen again," McGee said. "But I can't think like that. I just need to get healthy and get back at it."
McGee added he would love the chance to re-sign with the Bills if they decided they wanted him back later, although he didn't get the impression the Bills were entertaining the same notion.
"I'm trying to get my knee back to 100 percent," McGee said. "I definitely have not thrown in the towel. That's not even in my brain right now.
"Hopefully, when I get healthy I'll have a shot at a couple teams and show what I can do. Once my knee's all right, I'm all right."
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Siemens PLM Software presents a portfolio that focuses on the workpiece-oriented process chain that extends from initial idea for a product to the finished piece. The chain begins with product development and part program generation with CAD/CAM systems and optimization of the postprocessor and CNC parameters. It extends to online and offline simulations for controlling and optimizing the manufacturing process on the PC.
Virtual Machine Technology is a complete, one-to-one copy of a machine tool on a PC. It is equipped with full functions of the company's Sinumerik controller as well as machine tool simulation designed to add value for both the end user and machine builder. This technology is said to improve productivity by eliminating the need to use the physical machine for non-production tasks. With next-generation, shop floor NC programming validation and off-machine setup preparation and checking, the software can reduce errors and setup time while transforming how machine tools are built and utilized, the company says.
Optimized CAM-to-CNC connection with advanced post-processing is key to linking the virtual world of engineering design and planning to the real world of the shop floor, the company says. To that end, NX CAM software provides enhanced output to drive advanced functions on the Sinumerik control, providing quality surface finish, advanced tool-axis control and faster machining.


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Your bro does something sexy. Then all the sudden boyyoyoing. broner!
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A slang term used to explain the phenomenon during which a fiercly heterosexual male achieves an erection (or, "boner") for or while in the company of one of his male friends (or, "bros"). This may only occur while engaging in all-male activities, particularly those which include feats of strength or displays of hyper-masculinity. Upon achieving a broner, the man in question is often known to exclaim, "dude, suck that shit!" or "meet me in the shower."
The way you creamed that linebacker gave me a total broner.
by Delongpre Dannon February 03, 2007
When a fan of my little pony get's an erection.
When Derpy first spoke I got a wicked broner.
by Brony98 September 02, 2012
An unintentionally manly inspired boner.
You're a guy getting a massage from another guy, and its nice, its relaxing then all of a sudden you get a little tingle; that my friends, is a 'broner'.
by Addeh September 11, 2007
The accidental erection, or boner, induced by a male friend.
Oh shit, we gotta stop wrestling, i'm getting a broner.
by McCullo January 28, 2009
An unintentional man-inspired boner
My masseuse was a guy and during my massage I popped a slight broner.
by Commander William Riker September 02, 2008
An erection inspired by the actions of your buddy- be they sexual or just plain impressive.
"Dude, I saw you catch so much air off that jump that you gave me a broner."
Abbreviation: Brone
Abbreviation: Brone
by Garrick Douche' November 02, 2009
Dude check this out! stop man your totally givin me a broner right now.
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An abbreviation of 'sick in my mouth'.
'Oh my God, don't look. The guy I kissed last night is over there... He was such a bad kisser, he makes me simm.'
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someone who is ethnically confused.
A fucking tool.
A fucking tool.
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I yanked out 4 8mb SIMMs out of my old PC.
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Shit In My Mouth
The only thing that film was lacking is a SIMM scene.
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Sometimes referred to as the 7th layer of hell, Simms is a small town in Montana. Inhabited by drunkards and racist hillbillies, it is advised to never enter unless you plan on hitting up a clan rally. The High School is run by a fucktard nazi, and the town is run by a cavalcade inbred douchenozzles.
What, you live in Simms? Please don't talk to me, as I am not a racist asshole.
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A person who is dizzy(drunk).
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Milk Producers Council Hires Prominent Sacramento Lobbying Firm to Fight for Dairy Families
Milk Producers Council Hires Prominent Sacramento Lobbying Firm to Fight for Dairy Families
Recognizing that California's dairy families can no longer live under the status quo, this week, Milk Producers Council's Board of Directors voted to team up with a prominent Sacramento legal/lobbying firm, Nielsen Merksamer (http://web.nmgovlaw.com/) in an effort to strengthen dairy farmers' position in our State Capitol.
The financial struggles faced by California's roughly 1,600 dairy families are well-documented. Over the past five years, the prices paid for California-produced milk has more-often-then-not failed to cover the cost of producing that milk, resulting in massive amounts of debt being accumulated by the State's dairy families. While the general dairy markets have impacted our industry throughout the country, California's dairies have been especially devastated by the refusal of the California Department of Food and Agriculture (CDFA) to implement a fair minimum pricing structure. For example, as MPC noted in last week's newsletter, CDFA has seen fit to artificially discount our Class 4b price (the minimum price for milk sold to California cheese manufacturers) below the comparable Federal Order Class III price (the minimum price for milk sold to regulated cheese manufacturers around the country) to the tune of $745,000,000 since 2010.
Despite several administrative hearings aimed at fixing this obvious problem, it has become clear that CDFA is not willing to make the changes dairy farmers desperately need. MPC and our fellow dairy producer organizations/cooperatives will be looking to our elected officials in Sacramento to make the changes we need for an economically sustainable dairy industry, and our new relationship with Nielsen Merksamer will give MPC and our producers a strong, new ally in that effort.


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Bob Smizik: Time to say goodbye
Bob Smizik thanks his readers, signs off.
Bob Smizik: Keep Walker and Melancon
The Pirates offseason is thick with major questions with these being the most important:
Bob Smizik: Disappointing minor-league system must improve
The 2016 season will be a pivotal one for the Pirates. Today the farm system is the topic of discussion. Tomorrow - personnel moves.
Bob Smizik: Pirates playoff offense Bondsian
Final thoughts on the Pirates one-game postseason.
Bob Smizik: Major roster overhaul possible
Nobody asked me, but . . .
Bob Smizik: Arrieta simply too good
Event the 1927 Yankees would have had trouble with Arrieta, Bob Smizik argues.
Bob Smizik: Cole vs. Arrieta
Past performance does not always hold in athletic contests. Big games often do not unfold as expected. History is full of stars who flopped
Bob Smizik: Harrison should be in Pirates lineup against Cubs
Regular readers might be aware that I've never fully bought into the Harrison mystique.
Bob Smizik: Pirates vs. Cubs
The MLB regular season ended yesterday on an upbeat note for the Pirates.
Bob Smizik: Who's hot and who's not!
With the Pirates' magic number at one for home-field advantage in the wildcard game, we look at players' recent stats on offense.
Bob Smizik: Steelers stumble to defeat
Overlooked a bit in the late carnage was the fact that Antonio Brown dropped a touchdown pass in the end zone, Smizik says.
Bob Smizik: If Pirates get past Arrieta . . .
On the bright side, better to be eliminated, 11-1, than, say, 11-10.
Bob Smizik: Criticism of Pirates, their fans unfair
The Pirates didn't do enough to improve their 2015 roster.
Bob Smizik: Cole vs. Happ
The Pirates could have asked for nothing more than for the game to be in the hands of Mark Melancon. their stellar closer.
Bob Smizik: Not a good sports Sunday in Pittsburgh
The Steelers and Pirates have seen their immediate futures and they are not promising.
Bob Smizik: And the Pirates' MVP is...?
Selecting the Pirates' Most Valuable Player, even with nine games still remaining in the season, is easy.
Bob Smizik: Pirates win, stay four behind
The Cubs blinked, the Cardinals didn't and the Pirates -- officially in the postseason -- appear headed for a wildcard game at PNC Park
Bob Smizik: What to do with Pedro Alvarez?
No question that Alvarez's defense could lose a game. But his bat could win a game.
Bob Smizik: Time running out on Pirates
With 12 games remaining in the season, the Pirates trail the St. Louis Cardinals by four games. That is not good.
Bob Smizik: Steelers look Super Bowl good
Who expected this? After a bad loss at New England, the Steelers responded with an emphatic statement about their ability today.
Bob Smizik: Pirates players faltering in September
As a result of their recent play, the Pirates have lost virtually all hope of finishing first in the National League Central Division.
Bob Smizik: Kang loss a staggering blow
Kang's recovery time has been labeled at six to eight months, which means he could miss as much as a third to one-half of next season.
Bob Smizik: McCutchen missing in action
Former MLB player Ron Coomer, who serves as color analyst for the Cubs, called McCutchen's absence "bizarre."
Bob Smizik: Pirates match Arrieta, still lose
For the first 11 innings, it was a pennant-race classic. For the 12th, a Pirates nightmare.
Bob Smizik: Looking at Hurdle's strategy
Nobody asked me, but . . .
Bob Smizik: McCutchen's MVP hopes improve
Random thoughts on the Pirates and their 7-6 win Sunday over Milwaukee.
Bob Smizik: High drama in NL Central
This is what is known as a pennant race.
Bob Smizik: Bad night for Pittsburgh sports
Some thoughts on the losses Thursday night by the Pirates and Steelers.
Bob Smizik: Is Happ the new ace?
J. A. Happ is presenting Pirates manager Clint Hurdle with quite the postseason dilemma.
Bob Smizik: Pirates' first-place chase may be over; season is not
It's better to tip your cap to St. Louis than to dole out harsh criticisms to the Pirates, a team that does not deserve such abuse.
Bob Smizik: Swept by the Brewers!
Nobody asked me, but . . .
Bob Smizik: Ruling against Brady suspension embarrassing for NFL
Commissioner Roger Goodell is the man in charge while the league has suffered one colossal embarrassment after another.
Bob Smizik: Pirates fall another game behind
In Milwaukee, the Pirates sent out their ace in search of a much-needed win against the Brewers Tuesday night, a team that was 18 games
Bob Smizik: If Pirates get past Arrieta . . .
On the bright side, better to be eliminated, 11-1, than, say, 11-10.
Bob Smizik: Amazing Cardinals roll on
Regardless of how well they've been playing -- and that would be spectacularly well -- there has been speculation all season, a lot of it
Bob Smizik: About that rotation
The Pirates rotation is not as strong as it was earlier in the season and the playoffs are a time of year where pitching is important.
Bob Smizik: A vote for man over dog
Almost as if they wished to put the Michael Vick controversy behind them, the Steelers gave their fans perhaps something even more awful to
Bob Smizik: Pedro Alvarez -- trade 'em or keep 'em?
There are only a handful of designated hitters who are having a better season than Alvarez.
Bob Smizik: McCutchen for MVP?
Nobody asked me, but . . .
Bob Smizik: Locke pitching for his job
When Jeff Locke takes the mound tonight, he will not only be pitching for his spot in the rotation but possibly for his future with the


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on May 25, 2013 - 12:15 PM
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A 23-year-old man was shot several times at on the 200 block of Roslyn Street about 4:20 a.m. Saturday, Northeast District police reported.
The victim, identified as Johaan Littlejohn, was rushed to Erie County Medical Center, where he underwent surgery. His condition is not available.
A spokesman for Rural Metro Ambulance said the victim suffered several gunshot wounds, primarily to the arms and legs.
A police report said an unknown man fired several rounds, one of which went through the front window of a house across Roslyn Street. The police report previously gave a different name for the victim.
Homicide detectives recovered several shell casings and bullet fragments.


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on March 21, 2013 - 10:27 PM
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A knife-wielding man who robbed the Stop and Gas station in the 300 block of Hopkins near Tifft streets and stabbed a clerk just before 6 p.m. is the subject of a city-wide search by Buffalo police.
The stabbing victim, a Lackawanna man in his 20s, was discharged from Erie County Medical Center after he was treated in the emergency room there for a head injury and a stab wound.
Police had no information on whether anything was taken in the robbery attempt.
Anyone with information is asked to call or text the Confidential TIPCALL Line at (716)847-2255 or e-mail the Police Department at www.bpdny.org.


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A code women use to get together and drink large amounts of alcohol, especially margaritas. It makes their husbands, boyfriends, and other friends think they are doing something smart.
Girl 1: I'm so glad we have book club tonight. I've had a crappy-ass day.
Girl 2: Yep, me too. I'll meet you at the bar at 6.
Girl 2: Yep, me too. I'll meet you at the bar at 6.
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A boring sounding codeword for having a hot affair with someone.
He is so hot, I'd like to form a little bookclub with him.
by kirschlorbeer July 13, 2009
A boring group of people
Some of the losers at work always stick together.Bookclub
by The Dux March 22, 2008
a polite euphemism for orgy
why do candy hearts say "book club"? it must mean orgy. think about it...
by kaaaaaat February 15, 2004
A group sex session in which multiple partners practice the "Librarian" on one another.
Guy 1: Hey dude! Do you want to join my Book Club?
Guy 2: Sure, what are you reading this week?
Guy 1: Faust.
Guy 2: Oh boy!
Guy 2: Sure, what are you reading this week?
Guy 1: Faust.
Guy 2: Oh boy!
by BioStud October 16, 2014
A noun refering to a bitch-ass nigga who smiles in your face when you are with your woman and then tries to spit weak ass game to her as soon as you turn your back. When the gump bitch notices that you are watching, he tries to claim that he was conversing about a fake book that he is reading for his book club.
...SO yea, that new book on that rapper is fire...HEY MAN!! I wasn't trying to holler at your girl or nothing. ha ha ha....yea...
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I've been trying to hit my list of must watch movies outside of rereading the Hunger games books (3 times now). One of the movies I've been wanting to revisit is Julie and Julia base on Julia child's book. What an awesome gem this movie is, not only is it funny! but the inspiration can be used for anything in life. After the robbery last week, it made me realized how short life is, I decided to start working on my bucket list.
This week I pull out my list of making some day for dessert and modified this dessert a bit to fit my health needs while feeding my sweet tooth :)
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Bitching about other people bitching.
Did you hear how Mike wrote that article about how stupid people are that are complaining about how bad TV is? That was one great metabitching article.
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To complain about someone else who complains all the time or to complain about a complaint someone else has made.
So anyway, my friend does nothing but bitch all day, and I'm really getting sick of it. Sorry for the meta-bitching.
מאת Kwame Beauvais 28 בינואר, 2009
Bitching about bitching.
My sister will never stop metabitching about that bitch Caroline who was all "you should never wear that shirt again."
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quote: What if I told you insane was working fifty hours a week in some office for fifty years at the end of which they tell you to piss off; ending up in some retirement village hoping to die before suffering the indignity of trying to make it to the toilet on time? Wouldn't you consider that to be insane?
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When Rajesh Panjabi was nine years old, a war erupted in his home country of Liberia. When the war encroached on his hometown, his family had to leave. On the airport's tarmac, Panjabi, his sister, and mother were separated on the tarmac from poorer Liberians. His family got on the plane and out of the country. The less fortunate did not. That memory stuck with him. Years later, as a trained medical professional, he returned to Liberia and saw the lasting mass destruction and utter lack of healthcare. This prompted him to co-found Tiyatien Health (TH).
TH builds relationships between rural health centers and their surrounding communities, working towards greater equality in healthcare delivery. The organization leverages community health workers who accompany patients through their illness and beyond – providing the sick with home-based care, a designated caregiver to help them navigate the medical system, and links to social and economic support. TH hopes to scale the program to redefine how healthcare is provided throughout Liberia.
(Photo credit: Kris Krüg)
Pieter Hoff: Saving the World with Radical Roots and Water Batteries
Pieter Hoff is renewing a tried-and-true environmentalist mission: saving the world by planting trees. But Hoff has the technology to go with it; he's engineering new ways to nurture trees in some of the world's driest, harshest climates.
He begins by identifying a problem: millions of people are already going hungry, and 10 billion more will be coming as the world's population grows. He asks: "Is there a possibility that we can feed those people?" He then identifies another problem: an excess of CO² in the atmosphere and the resultant global warming.
His solution to both is the Groasis Waterboxx: a device that "drinks from the air" by collecting condensation and storing it, therefore becoming a sort of "water battery." He says the biggest challenge for plants in arid climates is not the amount of rain, but the consistency: it's the dry seasons that kill any chance of growth. The Waterboxx proposes to solve that by creating a continuous source of water from occasional rainfalls.
Brian Elliot: Who's down with LGBT? Their community
Social Innovation Fellow Brian Elliot describes himself as being "professionally gay". He confesses that it is not what he set out to do, but as someone who can be legally fired in 29 states, evicted in over 30 and denied over 1,000 federal rights just by the nature of whom he chooses to love, he felt he didn't have a choice.
Elliot stated that over 77% of Americans have a friend who is gay or transgendered. Operating under the principle that friends tend to support their friends, he started the site Friendfactor after receiving an enormous show of support from over 19,000 friends (and strangers!) on his Facebook page when he posted about gay rights. Friendfactor allows gay and straight people who want to support changing discriminatory laws denying basic rights, to network, find information, and organize.
"We can change the way this chapter in history is being written," said Elliot, "just by being a good friend."
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PopTech Fellows Justin Gallivan and Nina Dudnik
2010 Science and Public Leadership Fellow Justin Gallivan is amazed by bacteria. You can get them to do almost anything. For instance, Gallivan, associate professor of chemistry at Emory University, told the PopTech crowd Saturday that he can program e. coli bacteria to eat atrazine, a widely used herbicide that can contaminate ground water. The key is to be able to turn the gene on and off. Using a molecule called Riboswitch allows him to do just that. "We want to be able to program the bacteria to send it after atrazine," he said. "Turns out we can do that."
2010 Social Innovation Fellow Nina Dudnik told the crowd that her company, Seeding Labs, is taking discarded lab equipment from the United States to needy labs in other countries. "Talent is everywhere," she said. "We need to train more scientists to be better everywhere." As part of that commitment, Dudnik said Seeding Labs has also launched a program to connect scientists from the U.S. with their counterparts in Africa and South America. "Just 48 hours ago, the first group of science ambassadors landed in Nairobi," she said. "Putting scientists from different walks of life together makes everyone's work better."
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Chris Chabris on Gorillas, Illusions, and the Things We Miss
Psychologist and neuroscientist Chris Chabris studies the numerous ways our intuitions fool us. Chabris is the co-creator of the famous "gorilla experiment" and author of The Invisible Gorilla: And Other Ways Our Intuitions Deceive Us. He explores six "everyday illusions" that demonstrate the mistaken beliefs that we all hold about how our minds work.
For example, Chabris says that we often suffer from an "illusion of attention," thinking that we see the world as it really is when in fact we are making all kinds of assumptions that shape how we perceive the real world. We also tend to have too much confidence in our own skills and abilities, and the least skilled tend to be the most overconfident. Another illusion that Chabris discusses is the illusion of cause: we tend to inaccurately connect cause and effect, when what really exists is accident or correlation.
You can also try a few of the experiments discussed in Chabris' book.
Project Masiluleke Continues to Transform Mobile Healthcare in South Africa
Speakers Robert Fabricant and Gustav Praekelt took to the PopTech stage to talk about the next chapter for Project Masiluleke, an innovative effort to leverage mobile technologies and a bold self-diagnosis campaign to combat South Africa's crippling HIV/AIDS and TB epidemics.
In the two years since Project M launched, the initiative has proven itself to be a transformative intervention that allows public health initiatives to directly reach the public. It helped create a self-testing kit that allows people to learn their HIV status from the privacy of their homes, and despite the pronounced social stigma surrounding the disease. According to Praekelt, Project M has also delivered more than 800 million text messages, at no cost to users and while generating revenue for local phone operators. In addition, the project has also established a successful AIDS help line, which has received about 1.5 million calls to date.
Project M's success demonstrates the real world impact of PopTech, says Fabricant. The idea for the project emerged in response to Zinny Thabethe's appearance at the PopTech 2006 conference. HIV positive herself, Zinny has been fighting to reverse the course of HIV/AIDS in South Africa. Moved by her story, an interdisciplinary mix of partners that included Fabricant, of frog design, Praekelt, of the Praekelt Foundation, and representatives from iTeach.
The initiative also received critical support from PopTech's Accelerator, a social innovation incubator that works to sustain the earliest stages of transformative initiatives. It's tempting for designers to think they've solved something, says Fabricant, when there's often a huge gap between bright ideas and actually achieving something worthwhile. The initial creative plan for Project M only took a few days, yet implementing the project and ensuring that it would be sustainable proved to be a far greater challenge. "Who is going to do all the messy, dirty things," asks Fabricant. "This is what PopTech did for two years, on every level imaginable."
In May 2010, Project M won the prestigious 2010 Impumelelo Sustainability Award. Now that the initiatives has demonstrated its effectiveness within communities, the award grant will be used to build public awareness about the project itself.
Life during wartime: Laura Poitras on doc-making after 9/11
"I was with contractors in Kurdistan and one night, one of them told me he needed to use my room to do an arms deal. As a documentary filmmaker, I said, 'Of course, please come in and use my room for your arms deal.'"
Just your typical Laura Poitras story. The acclaimed director took time Saturday to share stories with the PopTech conference crowd about the making, and consequences, of her most recent films – My Country, My Country and The Oath, which form part of a trilogy she's making about life after 9/11.
"With my work I'm trying to bridge the gap between what we actually know and what we actually feel," she said. "I'm trying to make films that make you feel. And these films are about us. Even if they're filmed over there, they still have to do with us."
Adrian Owen's quest for consciousness
Imagine you were entirely conscious but unable to move — your eyes could be open, you might twitch, but the movements would be completely involuntary. In short, you would be just as conscious as you are right now but totally incapable of communication. What would you give for someone to figure out that you were, indeed, fully awake?
Neuroscientist Adrian Owen has dedicated his career to determining consciousness in vegetative patients. Since 1997, he has used brain-scanning techniques and, most recently, functional magnetic resonance imaging, to measure brain activity.
"We have a logical problem here," he told the PopTech audience Saturday evening. "If a patient was conscious but incapable of generating responses, which is the hallmark of vegetative state, we would logically have no way of knowing if that person was conscious."
Since command following is the most effective means of determining consciousness, Owen devised a rather simple experiment – he would have patients imagine performing physical activities upon command. "When you imagine things, the same areas of brain will activate as if you were actually doing that thing," he said. "The point is to get this person to think about…initiating movement. When you ask someone to relax, the brain activity disappears."
In 2006, Owen and his team had a rather improbable breakthrough. Using functional magnetic resonance imaging, they were going to measure brain activity in a vegetative patient. "We had a young woman who had been in a road traffic accident and was entirely vegetative for five months," he said. "She was the very first patient we tried this technique on. We asked her to imagine playing tennis. And she activated the same area of her brain as a healthy volunteer despite outwardly showing no signs of being conscious. When we asked her to relax, the activity disappeared."
Bribes be gone. The Zero Rupee note combats corruption.
Corruption is rampant in India. It's a day-to-day affair. Regardless of wealth or social status, a person in India can't live without paying a bribe for a birth certificate, a passport, enrolling a student in public school, or any of the mundane but necessary activities others might take for granted. 99% of India's population is impacted by these bribes. In fact, based on an index from Transparency International, India ranks 84th in the world when it comes to corruption.
But Vijay Anand believes it doesn't have to be that way. Why do Indian citizens need to put up with this abuse of public trust for private gain? That's why he started 5th Pillar, an organization dedicated to providing everyday citizens with tools to help them eliminate corruption throughout society, and more specifically, through the Zero Rupee note. Disseminated throughout India, these bills are "non-violent weapons of non-cooperation" that give people who may have been afraid to raise their voice, a convenient and simple mechanism to refuse bribery without fear or shame. While the bill looks like typical currency on one side, the other side provides training on how to use India's Right of Information Act to demand government accountability.
Thus far, 1.5 million Zero Rupee notes have been distributed in the past few years. While success stories of combating bribery throughout the country abound, there's still a long way to go before this phenomenon creates a country-wide societal shift. Until then, Anand will continue to overhaul the cultural acceptance of bribery by focusing his efforts on educating students. His hope is that their parents, whose behaviors tend to be more ingrained, will listen to their children and flash the Zero Rupee note the next time someone tries to pull a fast one.
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Catching up with Ushahidi co-founder Erik Hersman
We had a few moments to catch up with 2008 PopTech Fellow Erik Hersman, who let us know what's been going on with his company, crisis mapping and communication platform, Ushahidi.
It's been quite an amazing year, Erik. Best wishes to you and your team and safe travels back to Kenya!


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on March 5, 2013 - 11:35 PM
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People with development disabilities, their family members, caregivers and local human service agencies joined Tuesday in Buffalo to protest Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo's proposal to cut $240 million from their programs in next year's budget.
They contend that the cuts will lead to reductions in programs and services, staff shortages, and risks to health and safety.
The proposed cuts are the result of a dispute between the federal government in Washington and the state government in Albany over Medicaid reimbursement rates, the Developmental Disabilities Alliance of Western New York reports.
The state already has cut $350 million from similar programming and services during the past four years, the alliance said.
"There are too many families who simply cannot provide the around-the-clock care that is required for so many thousands of people with developmental disabilities," said Stephen R. Anderson, chief executive officer of Summit Educational Services and a member of the disabilities alliance board. "We are already in crisis, and cuts of this magnitude put us all in an untenable situation."


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The best technique to use depends largely on the chemical nature of the compounds requiring analysis.
There are three main atmospheric pressure ionization (API) techniques that differ in their application concerning compound molecular weight and analyte polarity. The best technique to use will depend largely on chemical nature (i.e., functional groups) of the compounds requiring analysis. Selecting the appropriate ionization method is essential for achieving optimum results. The three primary API ionization techniques have been described below, highlighting the advantages and disadvantages of each.
Electrospray Ionization (ESI): Electrospray is an atmospheric ionization technique that enables the transfer of analytes in an aqueous medium to the gas phase under the influence of a high potential electrostatic field. ESI works well for polar analytes and polar solvents are typically recommended for best results. The pH of the solvent has a major effect on efficiency of analyte ionization and the nature of the ion formed. The manipulation of the solvent pH by volatile additives is a common practice; acidic pHs are preferred for positive ion formation and basic pHs are favored for negative ions. Therefore analytes with basic functional groups, such as amino groups, are generally ionized in positive mode. The analyte will accept a proton from the more acidic solvent. In this case the molecule will be detected as the [M+H]+. Analytes with acidic functional groups, such as carboxylic acids, tend to ionize in negative mode. The analyte of interest will donate a proton to a base in solution. For negative mode ionization the resultant molecule will be detected as [M-H]-.
Due to the nature of the acid/base solution chemistry facilitating ionization, ESI is generally considered the softest API technique. Electrospray ionization is applicable to a wide range of compounds from species of biological origin such as proteins, oligonucleotides, and metabolites, to organic molecules.
Atmospheric Pressure Chemical Ionization (APCI): Atmospheric pressure chemical ionization is complementary to electrospray for less polar analytes. Unlike ESI, the ionization of analytes via the chemical ionization (CI) process is a secondary reaction. The solvent and analyte are completely aerosolized within a high-temperature vaporizer region. The solvent molecules are ionized under the influence of a corona discharge; these newly formed CI reagents in turn ionize the analyte. The major ions formed would be [M+H]+ and [M-H]-, in positive and negative modes respectively. APCI works well for analytes with a wide range of polarities including those that are non-polar. However, due to the higher heat generated by the vaporizer, APCI is less useful for thermally labile compounds. The advantage of APCI is that it is less sensitive to solution chemistry and resists adduct formation, such as [M+Na]+ or [M+K]+. Atmospheric pressure chemical ionization is commonly employed in the analysis of small molecule organics, polymers, and lipids.
Atmospheric Pressure Photo Ionization (APPI): Much like APCI, in APPI the solvent and sample are completely vaporized with the application of a heater. Photoionization (PI) is then initiated by a UV lamp. There are two main types of APPI: direct and dopant. With direct, an analyte molecule is ionized by the UV; with dopant, a photoionizable dopant is present in large concentrations that will transfer charge to the analyte in a secondary interaction. APPI, like APCI, can be used for non-polar analytes, it can provide a high linear calibration range, and it requires some compound volatility. Because of the application of heat, APPI has a disadvantage with thermally labile compounds. As an ionization technique APPI is frequently employed in the analysis of oils, polyaromatic hydrocarbons, and lipids.
Given the various advantages of each ionization technique, choosing the appropriate source for your particular analytes is the first step to achieving quality results. In general, ESI is the most sensitive of the techniques discussed here, in that it will ionize a greater variety of compounds and a higher percentage of molecules in solution. On the other hand, APCI and APPI are highly selective sources. They will ionize a select class of compounds and therefore might provide a higher signal-to-noise ratio.
It would be recommended that, due to ease of use and responsiveness to a wider range of compounds, ESI should be the first option for method development, instrument parameter tuning, and analysis. Because APPI and APCI work for a narrower range of compounds they can be explored as alternatives for improving sensitivity, increasing linear dynamic range, and possibly generating a higher signal-to-noise ratio.
Michael Timmons, Ph.D., is an ESI application scientist at Bruker Daltonics.
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Komen deceives women about mammograms, doctors say
Susan G. Komen for the Cure's advertising deceives women about the benefits of mammograms "and ignores the harms altogether," two doctors say in the British Medical Journal's new edition.
They focus on what the Dallas-based charity began telling women last October, which is breast cancer awareness month: "The 5-year survival rate for breast cancer when caught early is 98%. When it's not? 23%."
The doctors, Lisa Schwartz and Steven Woloshin of Dartmouth University's medical school, call the ad worthy of "an Oscar for misleading statistics." Here's an example they use to make their point:
"Imagine a group of 100 women who received diagnoses of breast cancer because they felt a breast lump at age 67, all of whom die at age 70. Five-year survival for this group is 0%. Now imagine the women were screened, given their diagnosis three years earlier, at age 64, but still die at age 70. Five-year survival is now 100%, even though no one lived a second longer."
As for harm, the doctors note that up to 50 percent of women screened annually for a decade "experience at least one false alarm requiring a biopsy." They add: "For every life saved by mammography, around two to 10 women are overdiagnosed. Women who are overdiagnosed cannot benefit from unnecessary chemotherapy, radiation, or surgery. All they do experience is harm."
Komen responded with a statement that says, among other things: "The numbers are not in question. Early detection allows for early treatment, which gives women the best chance of surviving breast cancer."
I wish I could give you a free link to the full BMJ paper, but it's behind a steep pay wall. However, here's a link to an audio commentary by the doctors.
This is Komen's second public-relations nightmare of 2012. Early this year, as you probably recall, news leaked out that the charity had defunded Planned Parenthood. It later reversed course.
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Advaxis inked a research collaboration to evaluate its immunotherapies against allergies with Marianne van Hage, M.D., Ph.D., research group leader, head of the clinical immunology and allergy unit, and vice head of the department of medicine, at Karolinska Institutet.
Dr. van Hage's research is focused on further understanding the molecular mechanisms of underlying allergic disease and the function of allergens. Her team aims to develop diagnostic markers and strategies for vaccination. Her work using cat allergy as a model system has reportedly resulted in insights that can be used to develop treatments and prevention options for allergic responses.
Dr. van Hage will be using Advaxis immunotherapies to develop allergy treatments using the models she and her team have developed. If successful, this work may be applied to other allergic diseases. "We are very excited about the collaboration with Advaxis and hope to develop an efficient and safe vaccine for cat allergy, which could lead to other allergy treatments in the future," says Dr. Marianne van Hage.
Advaxis has been developing vaccines for cancer. Its immunotherapies are based on a platform that utilizes live, attenuated Listeria monocytogenes (Lm) bioengineered to secrete an antigen/adjuvant fusion (Lm-LLO) protein. Lm-LLO consists of a truncated fragment of the Lm protein listeriolysin (LLO), fused to target antigens of interest. Lm-LLO is designed to stimulate a powerful immune response not only to Lm, which is inherent in humans, but to redirect this same response to the target antigens. Lm-LLO-based immunotherapies are designed to generate a more comprehensive immune response by serving as its own adjuvant, directing antigen presentation, and changing the tumor microenvironment by increasing tumor infiltrating killer T cells and decreasing Tregs and myeloid-derived suppressor cells.
The company's lead candidate, ADXS-HPV, is in four Phase II trials in HPV-associated diseases: cervical intraepithelial neoplasia 2/3, locally advanced cervical cancer, recurrent/refractory cervical cancer, as well as head and neck cancer. Advaxis adds that over 15 distinct candidates are in various stages of development, both directly by the company and through strategic collaborations such as with the NCI, Cancer Research UK, the Wistar Institute, and the University of Pennsylvania, the University of British Columbia.
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MARTINSBURG - The 2013 Heritage Day has a very full schedule of events of interest to the whole family.
Festivities begin early Saturday, 7:30 a.m., with a Boy Scouts "Founding Fathers Pancake Breakfast" at Trinity United Methodist Church. Author Tim Ballard will discuss his book, "The Covenant: One Nation Under God."
The official opening ceremony is a wreath-laying at the Adam Stephen Monument at the 600 block of South Queen Street by the General Adam Stephen Chapter West Virginia Society of the Sons American Revolution and Pack Horse Ford Chapter, National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution.
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Emilee and Liam Sager point to the triptych in the "for the kids, by George"?children's museum that directs visitors to a triad of trails with floor "prints" guiding the way. Each trail explores a different era of history and includes "Young George on the Frontier," "Tracks Through Time" and "Magical History Tour."
Maria Amores and her friends play at "for the kids, by George" children's museum as she crawls through a log that connects two exhibits. Other children pictured are Ethan Jensen, Ruby Amores, Emilee Sager, Sabrina Harrison and Liam Sager.
Sabrina Harrison enjoys the bike simulation theater, where visitors pedal together to generate enough power to watch a short video that simulates the views of the George Washington Heritage Trail Scenic Byway.
Visitors can use a real Morse code machine at the "Working on the Railroad" exhibit just as the railway workers did in that very room in the 1800s.
Ruby Amores plays with a wall collage game in the Pedestrian Bridge. The museum features kid-friendly and hands-on exhibits, such as this one.
"We've added a lot of events around town," said Keith Hammersla, curator for the General Adam Stephen Memorial Association. "There's something for everyone."
Martinsburg Mayor George Karos will give the official proclamation for Martinsburg Heritage Day tonight at the Martinsburg City Council meeting.
Event planning began last September, with representatives of several historic sites and groups meeting monthly. Hammersla said the Boy Scouts approached them about the pancake breakfast. He was also happy Relay for Life asked to be part of Heritage Day with the Jam Fest to be held downtown.
"We lacked something in the center of town," he said. "This is a benefit for us that Relay for Life wanted to move to the square."
He said the Norwalk Antique Car Club did not have a venue for a car show since the Air Show was canceled. They are setting up at the Roundhouse, and displaying the Norwalk car. They will also have vintage bicycles from a private collector, and antique steam engines from Dillon Farm Museum.
Another new activity is the "Reminisce" event at 10:30 a.m. at the Martinsburg Public Library. Longtime residents Susan Brown Bales and her mother, who is 88, will discuss life in Martinsburg and bring a collection of old photos.
The library will show two older films continuously from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. They are "Martinsburg 1950s" and "Highland Pride: The Life of Adam Stephen," produced by Jim Surkamp.
Hammersla said the "Martinsburg 1950s" film was made in the 1950s to promote business and industry in the town.
"It was discovered from a local businessman," he said. "It shows people at different places like their businesses, or school."
The General Adam Stephen House will have a photography exhibit by Sterling "Rip" Smith about the house. "The General Adam Stephen House: The Best Kept Secret in Martinsburg, West Virginia" collection of photos was turned into a book that Smith will be signing from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
A natural underground tunnel system lies in the limestone geology on the eastern edge of Martinsburg. The Adam Stephen House was built over one of the cave openings which led into this tunnel system, perhaps as an escape route from a possible Indian raid or an attack by the British or other foes. The tunnels will be open for tours with Tri-State Grotto, NSS.
A collection of David Hunter Strother's (aka Porte Crayon) works and an exhibit about West Virginia's 150th anniversary of statehood will be on display at the Belle Boyd House. Belle Boyd will appear to talk to guests. She will mingle around town throughout the day.
Boydville, the 1812 General Elisha Boyd mansion recently under new ownership, will be open for tours. Boydville once was part of a 300-acre farm owned by Boyd, who served in the War of 1812. It was later home to the Charles J. Faulkner, the nation's minister to France under President James Buchanan. His son, Charles J. Faulkner Jr., who served in the U.S. Senate, also resided there. It was saved from burning by Union troops by President Lincoln during the Civil War.
Other historic sites open include Aspen Hall, and the blockhouse Mendenhall's Fort built for defense during the French and Indian War. Civil War reenactors from the "Ill Tempered Men" will be on the grounds.
The Martinsburg-Berkeley CVB will continuously show "Road Trip to History: Martinsburg" and Joe Santoro's puppets will walk around town.
Organizers of the planned For the Kids By George Children's Museum of the George Washington Heritage Trail will conduct a brunch for kids at Caperton Station. This is a ticketed event. Call 304-264-9977 or visit www.forthekidsbygeorge.org.
"Three or four rooms will be linked by a tunnel the children go through," Hammersla said. "Each room is a different part of history. They'll learn about famous Martinsburg people. Stationery bicycles take kids on a tour of the George Washington Heritage Trail."
The Founding Fathers brunch requires pre-registration at www.bsatroop25wv.eventbrite.com.
Most other events and all historic site tours are free. Breakfast will be sold by the Sher Bears at Jamfest at East Burke Street parking lot. Lunch will be available for sale at some locations like Boydville and Adam Stephen House, which plans a traditional 18th century menu.
Note some of the events that are continuous begin at different times. Hammersla suggests looking at the program that will be distributed or the full schedule at www.orgsites.com/wv/adam-stephen. Some beginning times are different. All events end at 5 p.m.
The free trolley will provide transportation between sites throughout the day until 6 p.m. Free parking is available at Caperton Station, city parking lots, and at street meters.


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It appears that references can have side-effects. Below are two examples. Both are simply copying one array to another. In the second example, a reference is made to a value in the first array before the copy. In the first example the value at index 0 points to two separate memory locations. In the second example, the value at index 0 points to the same memory location.
I won't say this is a bug, because I don't know what the designed behavior of PHP is, but I don't think ANY developers would expect this behavior, so look out.
An example of where this could cause problems is if you do an array copy in a script and expect on type of behavior, but then later add a reference to a value in the array earlier in the script, and then find that the array copy behavior has unexpectedly changed.
// Example one
$arr1 = array(1);
echo "\nbefore:\n";
echo "\$arr1[0] == {$arr1[0]}\n";
$arr2 = $arr1;
echo "\nafter:\n";
echo "\$arr1[0] == {$arr1[0]}\n";
echo "\$arr2[0] == {$arr2[0]}\n";
// Example two
$arr3 = array(1);
$a =& $arr3[0];
echo "\nbefore:\n";
echo "\$a == $a\n";
echo "\$arr3[0] == {$arr3[0]}\n";
$arr4 = $arr3;
echo "\nafter:\n";
echo "\$a == $a\n";
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When teenagers Lee Whittaker and Ashley Taylor saw a power line safety demonstration at their high school, they never dreamed their new knowledge would be put to the test. Five days later, they and two classmates were in a car that crashed into a utility pole, bringing live power lines to the ground.
Fortunately, they remembered the advice safety expert Kyle Finley had presented in his Live Line Demo program. All four survived because they knew the right actions to take.
"That information saved my life and my friends' lives," said Lee Whittaker.
"You have to remember that you can't smell, hear or see electricity, but the power in that line is tremendous and can be deadly," Finley said. "The safest place after a crash is inside the vehicle, and the best thing you can do for a loved one who is trapped is to stay back and call the utility to disconnect power to the line."
There were injuries during the car accident, but the teenagers knew not to get out of the car and told those who approached the accident to stay away. They waited more than 30 minutes for line crews to arrive and deactivate the power line.
In the vast majority accidents involving power lines, inside the car is the safest place to be. Only in the rare instance of fire should people exit the car.
If you must exit the vehicle, jump clear of the vehicle with both feet together. Keep your feet together as you hop away from the car. This prevents current from flowing from one foot to the other.


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NLG Stands up for Palestine Solidarity Activists
From college campuses to community centers across the country, students and other activists have faced orchestrated and aggressive attacks when speaking in support of Palestinian rights. Many have had their viewpoints shut down and have even been called anti-Semitic. Once vibrant forums for free speech are becoming restrictive places where individuals daring to speak out against injustice are unabashedly bullied.


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Kansas City police said the driver of a minivan was shot by an officer while trying to leave the scene of a crash on Tuesday afternoon.
Police said the officer was one of several in the area of Ninth Street and Cypress Avenue at the time of the crash. The officer went to investigate and said the driver of one vehicle tried to leave the scene.
Investigators said the officer tried to intervene and the driver tried to ram the officer. Another officer fired a shot and injured the driver.
The driver was listed in fair condition after the shooting. Police have not released that person's name.
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