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What's the best part about going through the hassle of filing your taxes? That beautiful tax return. The estimated average tax refund for 2012 is $2,899. That's a nice, big amount for something most people view as a bonus check. If you're considering treating yourself to a cosmetic treatment with that tax refund, here are a few procedures that may suddenly be in your price range:
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You'd still have a few hundred dollars left over if you chose to get this collagen-based injection designed to fill out your smile lines.
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OROVILLE — The Butte County Sheriff's Office seized a total of 751 marijuana plants and arrested four people Thursday when deputies served warrants at two different properties.
Michael Tran, 29, of El Cajon, and Damien Grall, 39, of Orange, were arrested on suspicion of cultivation of marijuana and possession for sale and being armed in the commission of a felony. Grall was also booked on suspicion of manufacturing a controlled substance.
The two men were served the warrant on the 400 block of Chinese Wall Road, in Oroville, by deputies from the BCSO Special Enforcement Unit. At the scene, a butane honey oil lab was found. An unregistered handgun and two other guns were also reportedly discovered.
A total of 510 plants were reportedly growing in several plots on the property.
At the second site, Jody Cook, 43, and Angelia Davey, 42, both of Fortuna, were actively cultivating marijuana when deputies arrived, according to a press release from the BCSO. Cook and Davey were arrested on suspicion of cultivating and possessing marijuana. Neither had a medical marijuana recommendation.
Three outdoor plots and one indoor grow house were reportedly found with 241 plants at the property on the 500 block of Galen Ridge Road in Berry Creek.
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HOUSTON (ICIS)--Looking towards the direction of future phosphate pricing, Mosaic said on Wednesday that the company expects to see the crop nutrient rebound in 2014.
The company has seen some signs of pricing increases through the autumn, but added that typically the time period between December to March is the lowest stretch of demand and movement, Mosaic said.
Speaking during the 6th Annual Citi's Basic Materials Symposium Conference in New York City, Mosaic said it has seen a steady rise in demand for the nutrient and reasserted that the acquisition of the phosphate segment from CF will prove to be a high-quality asset.
"We think CF was a really good strategic deal," said Joc O'Rourke, Mosaic CFO. "When we did the deal with CF industries for the phosphate, we called the project, Project Doughnut. And I'm going to tell you why. This is CF, this is Mosaic and it really was the whole in the doughnut for us."
"In phosphate we've seen a very steady rise in demand and we see a much more balanced market, where we still see ourselves in the high 80s or even 90s in terms of our running rate. And clearly, when we're running in the 90% range, the market is doing well. But the bottom line that means we've got a reasonably tight market and we're doing well," O'Rourke said.
Mosaic said it remains optimistic about phosphate in the long-term scenario and with the acquisition of CF Industries's phosphate business, the fertilizer producer said it will be optimising a significant amount capital and operating strategy on this market.
In October, Mosaic and CF agreed on a deal for the phosphate business for $1.2bn (€888m) in cash plus $200m to fund CF's asset retirement obligation escrow. The deal included the phosphate mine and plant in Hardee County, Florida, as well as an ammonia terminal and product warehouse in Tampa Bay, Florida.
O'Rourke said another advantage to the CF acquisition is the inclusion of the ammonia offtake agreement whereby CF will supply Mosaic with approximately 1m tonnes/year. The transaction between the two producers is still anticipated to close in the first half of 2014.
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GSA and DHS Open Border Station Exhibit to Public
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Posted August 28, 2006
A new exhibit showcasing architectural design at U.S. border stations along Canada and Mexico borders has opened at the Ronald Reagan Building in Washington, DC. The exhibit is co-sponsored by GSA and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security's Customs and Border Protection and highlights 13 border stations and three Art-in-Architecture displays.
At its August 4th opening, Lurita Doan, GSA Administrator, stated "Design is absolutely critical. This is America. We do welcome people with open arms."
David Winstead, Commissioner of GSA's Public Buildings Service remarked that "Crossing the border between the United States and Canada or Mexico is a significant experience. It is also an event increasingly distinguished by iconic architecture."
One of GSA's most important obligations and responsibilities is enhancing, rebuilding, and maintaining 167 border stations. GSA and partnering architectural firms have designed sweeping overhauls that integrate advanced security and sustainable design strategies with welcoming visitors and trade. The designs reflect local history and culture in their forms, designs, colors and artwork.
The new generation of border stations illustrates the major climate and traffic disparity between the stations on Canadian and Mexican Border. The exhibition contrasts the shade and controlled movement of vehicles at Eagle Pass, Texas with extreme climate and rolling hills of Raymond, Montana. The exhibit features large border stations like Sauté Saint Marie, Michigan and a smaller station in Calexico, California.
Entitled "Thresholds along the Frontier: Contemporary U.S. Border Stations," the traveling exhibit is on public display through October 15, 2006, at the Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center's Exhibition Gallery at the Oculus, located at 1300 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW, Washington, DC.
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The UK lads are making stops in SF, LA, and NYC before they head to Europe for the summer festival circuit and prepare for the release of their third album, Junk Of The Heart, on September 13th. Listen to the band's new song "Saboteur" HERE.
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Maine's Brunswick Executive Airport, the former Brunswick Naval Air Station that is being converted for civilian use, will soon have a permanent FBO. An existing building is now undergoing renovation into a permanent state-of-the-art general aviation terminal that will accommodate the FBO. Current FBO FlightLevel Aviation, which has been functioning from temporary facilities since the airport opened to civil aircraft two-and-a-half years ago, says it expects to be providing services from the new terminal next year.


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Buccaneers hold Jonathan Casillas out of game for 'disciplinary reasons'
Tampa Bay Buccaneers outside linebacker Jonathan Casillas was held out of Saturday's preseason game versus the Buffalo Bills for "disciplinary reasons," reports team writer Scott Smith.
Casillas was not with the team at the game.
Michael Sam bails out fan who promised drinks for sack of Manziel
The 27-year-old is listed as the Bucs starter at strong-side linebacker on the team's depth chart.
Casillas, who was signed by the Saints in 2009 after going undrafted out of Wisconsin, is entering his fifth season in the NFL.
In 2013, Casillas played 12 games for Tampa Bay, making four starts and registering 33 tackles.
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Sub-interval analysis and possibilities of its use
This paper is a brief review and development of a part of the plenary report in the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology. Three existing tools of sub-interval analysis (sub-interval arithmetic, incomplete data analysis and images) are reviewed and elements of two new tools (sub-interval calculus and layerwise analysis) are presented. The sub-interval analysis may be used, e.g., in economics: microeconomics, macroeconomics, accounting, econometrics, utility theory; internet.
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Choosing to live a cruelty-free lifestyle means not only changing the foods you do or do not eat, but also changing practically every beauty and grooming product you use. Hundreds of companies test their products on animals, with only a small amount of beauty companies choosing against this act. Laboratories for many of the most common and popular shampoo brands regularly test on animals causing pain and suffering in the millions.
Shampoo Brands That Do Not Test On Animals
There are many popular brands of shampoo and other hair care products that do not test their products on animals. These include Avon, Burt's Bees, Aveda, Conair, FX Special Effects, KMS California, Paul Mitchell, pH Beauty Labs, Tressa and TRI Professional Haircare Products, among other smaller and lesser known cruelty-free companies. Shop for any of these products with the ease of knowing that their testing labs are cruelty free. Most are available wherever shampoo is sold, with some of them at beauty supply stores and hair salons.
Alternatives to Animal Testing
Animal testing is not necessary to provide safe and healthy products. The FDA does not currently have a requirement for animal testing on products, which leaves the choice up to the manufacturers. Current methods of non-animal testing for products include using cell and skin tissue cultures as well as advanced computer and mathematical models.
About Animal Testing
Every year, millions of animals are injured and killed from animal testing in laboratories of common beauty and hair care companies. These animals, including rats and other small rodents, go through intensive experiments with various products causing unnecessary and painful deaths. Even animals that do not die from the product testing are then killed when they are no longer needed by the laboratory. Check with PETA for a complete list of cruelty-free companies.
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Most shampoo and beauty products that do not test on animals make it known somewhere on the brand's label. When shopping for shampoo brands, look for "No Testing on Animals" or "No Animal Testing" on the front or back of the labels. For more help locating cruelty-free products, organizations dedicated to educating the public on the importance of these products can help, such as PETA: People for The Ethical Treatment of Animals.


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- Hemostatic mouthwashes in anticoagulated patients undergoing dental extractionEdna Patatanian
Department of Pharmacy Practice, College of Pharmacy, Southwestern Oklahoma State University, Oklahoma City, OK 73103 2600, USA
Ann Pharmacother 40:2205-10. 2006..To evaluate the efficacy and safety of local acting hemostatic agents in patients who are undergoing dental extraction(s) and are taking oral anticoagulants...
- Retinoic acid syndrome: a reviewE Patatanian
Department of Pharmacy Practice, College of Pharmacy, Southwestern Oklahoma State University, Weatherford, OK 73103, USA
J Clin Pharm Ther 33:331-8. 2008..Liposomal ATRA is being investigated to induce haematological cure in APL without chemotherapy and to reduce the incidence of RAS but further validation of its usefulness is necessary...
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College of Pharmacy, Southwestern Oklahoma State University, Weatherford, OK, USA
Ann Pharmacother 45:1297-301. 2011..To review the current literature on drug-induced yawning...
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Pharmacotherapy 22:1157-62. 2002..To review the English-language literature on methotrexate-induced accelerated nodulosis, compile case reports of its occurrences, and make recommendations on the clinical management of patients...


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Jean Marie Le Pen, a former rightist deputy, was sentenced yesterday to three months in jail and fined 10,000 francs ($2.000) for making a public "apology for war crimes and criminals."
A Paris Criminal Court found the former Paris deputy guilty of having issued a record of Nazi war songs and marches, with a favorable commentary. The court also ordered Le Pen to destroy copies of the recording still in his possession and confiscation of those in stores. The defendant is well known in France for his support of extreme right-wing causes.


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I may have mentioned this before, but I'll say it again. I hate to vacuum. I don't know why. It's one of those jobs that I really don't like, so I don't do it as often as I should. The result is carpet that looks terrible and is worn before it's time. It's important to vacuum your carpet daily, this keeps the dirt from getting ground in and ruining the carpet.
I know, I know, just run the vacuum and be done with it, but I just can't make myself do it. I would rather clean every toilet in the house, every day, than vacuum. If I am being totally honest, I probably only vacuum about once a month. This is terrible for your carpet, I get that, but I don't really like carpet all that much anyway.
I want it all gone. Yes, I know how much work it is to maintain other types of flooring but I don't care, I really don't like carpet. I don't mind sweeping and mopping. I know its more work than vacuuming but I really don't mind it. I have even been known to clean my kitchen floor on my hands and knees.
I've been doing some research on the internet because although I don't like my carpet, I do try to be green. Bamboo flooring seems to be the way to go, it is sustainable and grows much faster than traditional hardwoods. It takes about 100 years for a tree to mature but it only takes about three to five years for bamboo to grow enough to be harvested for flooring. I love the look of hardwood floors but really don't want trees to be cut down so I can walk on them.
Bamboo flooring, if it is sealed properly, is as easy to maintain as other laminates with less effect on the environment. I think it's time to start ripping up this carpet and little by little replace it with bamboo. I will offer the carpet on freecycle so it doesn't go to the landfill and someone else can use it for the rest of it is useful life. I might even through in that pesky vacuum.


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Call 'Icy Roads' for Info, But Beware the Automaton
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Call 'Icy Roads' for Info, But Beware the Automaton
State police This week reminded motorists to call the state's "511 Travel Information" line for road condition reports, and NOT the local state police barracks.
Treacherous traveling conditions last week meant that police statewide were busy responding to accident reports. Having people calling the barracks for road reports can tie up lines at a crucial time, state police said.
The "Icy Roads" hotline, formerly maintained by state police, has now been merged into the Agency of Transportation's travel information telephone service and website.
Unfortunately, this automated service is still being developed, and it's not the easiest thing to use.
To reach the phone system, call 511 if in state, or 1-800-ICY-ROAD (429-7623) if out-of-state.
A stilted, automated voice welcomes callers and invites them to say "Goodbye," before hanging up: Doing so will give the caller a chance to give AOT some feedback on the system.
The voice then quickly lists the information options available on the 511 line, including: "road weather," "tourism," "ferries, "statewide summary," and "regional summary." Callers must state, very clearly, the option they would like to hear about.
"Road Weather" is the thing to say, but then be prepared to state the name of a town. And then, be prepared for some automated grilling: "You said 'Randolph.' Is that right? Say, 'Yes or No,'" and so on.
Then the voice—which sounds like bits of spoken words from three or four different people, mostly male, pasted together —will detail road conditions in an 80-mile radius around Randolph. "Rain … in … Orange … County… County! Fog … in … Windsor … County … County!"
Would-be travelers with computers may prefer to go online at 511vt.com, which also has regularly updated travel reports, in map form, with written descriptions.
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Shock news. Women who need or want to combine paid work with motherhood have to negotiate many obstacles – quite apart from grinding exhaustion.
Some of those obstacles come in the form of employers preferring full-time workers, standardised hours completed in the workplace, or employees who can always stay back when necessary.
But a lot of it also has to do with the practical problems of making a simultaneous commitment to family and to work, even with the most flexible hours, the most understanding employer and a supportive partner
An inquiry – by the Human Rights Commission no less – into workplace discrimination against pregnant women and parents returning to the workforce won't do any harm. Nor will it make much difference. Except, that is, to the Prime Minister's determination to use any ammunition to retain her unstable hold on leadership this week
Part of that is to sell herself as the resolute champion of women treated unfairly, including at work. (Spot the parallel, Kevin.)
It's the modern twist on the "motherhood'' statements beloved by politicians.
But her support among women, while still lousy, is one of the rare areas of potential advantage over
That most of the political criticism of Gillard is grounded in her own uni-sex failures as leader is considered irrelevant. Her case has been bolstered by offensive comments by a few of her critics. Such a lack of respect does reflect, in part, a degree of old-fashioned antagonism towards women in leadership positions in general and towards Gillard in particular.
dismissive treatment of women common
This is compounded by an aggressively sexualised or dismissive treatment of women common in a coarsened popular culture – from imported rap music to the inane chat common on social media and talk back radio.
Most women will also identify with the unhappy reality of coming up against an irritating level of sexual discrimination in the workplace, whether it's subtle and unintended or overt.
This all makes it useful for Gillard to try to obscure her problems by deliberately stoking a broader gender war – whether by reference to Abbott's supposed misogyny last year or her own recent references to abortion rights at risk due to an army of men in blue ties. Similarly, her suggestion women would be marginalised by an Abbott government is absurd but may resonate with some women.
The real debate, however, extends beyond the usual political arguments or even whether Labor's paid parental leave scheme or Abbott's limousine service – to be paid for by big companies – is better. It's really about a loud grinding of gears – individual, cultural and in the workplace – for parents, especially women.
The weeks and months after a birth are, of course, the easy bit when it comes to the balancing act required for raising babies who turn into small children and then, eek, teenagers. The questions about how to find affordable, decent child care gradually morph into how to manage school pick-ups and drop-offs, or how to supervise homework, or make early dinners, or attend school games.
Many women – and it is still mainly women doing more of the balancing – make the choice to return to work on a part-time basis only, sometimes after a break of several years. A minority plunge relatively quickly back into full-time work, driven by personal desire or financial need or the demands of the business. None of this is easy – although the advances of the internet now make it far more feasible to work any place, any time. That includes late at night once children are in bed and most males are more focused on what's on tv than work.
(All those outraged fathers rising in protest to claim equal responsibility for doing housework and making the lunches and looking after small children should calm down. Yes, an increasing number of you are out there, no doubt. But ask your wives and partners – who does more? The answer is even more predictable than the question.)
demoted and sacked
Maybe. But it's mostly about trying to fit the demands and joy of parenthood into former patterns of employment. It's true some businesses don't respond well to parents' need for flexibility in hours or the ability to work from home.
Too many of them are still too willing to trade the skills, experience and loyalty lost against the inconvenience. It can be even trickier in small businesses which find it hard to juggle part-time workers with full time business. It's one reason why many frustrated mothers often end up establishing their own small businesses to become their own (often brilliant) boss.
But many women also find the combination of demanding work and parenthood too much – especially given the extra costs of childcare, transport and perhaps domestic help. A decade ago, Abbott railed against the penalising effective marginal tax rate for women trying to increase their hours but getting hit by the withdrawal of family benefits.
That dilemma hasn't much changed. Business hasn't changed fast enough either. But it's far more complicated than announcing another inquiry. Ask any mother – of any age.
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After announcing Sechskies's return, YG Entertainment unveiled even more exciting plans for the group's 20th anniversary.
A poster for the group's upcoming anniversary shows they'll be releasing a new album, as well as a special exhibition, concert, and photobook & DVD, in addition to a fan meeting to celebrate the monumental occasion. This will also mean Sechskies's first fan meeting with their fans in 16 years.
SEE ALSO: Sechskies drop 'Smile' and 'Something Special' MVs!
Debuting on April 15, 1997, Sechskies reunited for the first time after 16 years last year on MBC 'Infinite Challenge', being welcomed warmly by both old and new fans.
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Ross and Sanders in couples counselling
Liberty Ross and Rupert Sanders are reportedly seeking therapy.
The Snow White and the Huntsman director jeopardised his marriage to model Liberty Ross following his cheating scandal with Kristen Stewart.
Rupert is rumoured to have convinced his wife to visit a counsellor in an effort to mend their strained relationship.
"It was Rupert's suggestion that he go to marriage counseling with Liberty," a friend revealed to Radar Online.
"He will do anything to save his marriage because he loves his wife and knows he screwed up."
Rupert issued a public apology for his behaviour, but Liberty has been photographed without her wedding ring.
Nevertheless, it appears she is willing to address her marital problems.
"Rupert and Liberty are currently in marriage counselling together and have been going to the therapist for weeks," the insider shared.
"Rupert and Liberty also see the marriage counsellor individually."
Apparently Rupert is currently residing in the same home as Liberty and their two children.
The long-term potential of their union remains uncertain.
"He absolutely doesn't want to leave," the friend asserted.
"Liberty needs to be able to learn to trust Rupert again, if the marriage has any chance of making it."
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The crossroads...
...where teenaged boys meet a growing art form, both of which are not necessarily exclusive--teenage boys have creativity too, it just strays towards boobs, videogames, and beer. And what ties all those together? NEWGROUNDS. Newgrounds, where one can express the inexpressable; where one can tap into the infinite and abiding idolization by the masses of NES characters; where one can laugh at the absurd, distasteful, and grotesque literally until dawn, through devious use of the "search' panel. Newgrounds is the stomping ground of everyone from junior high--highschool internet addicts to graphic arts undergraduates to professional artists, animators, and programmers. Part of the reason Newgrounds gets so many crappy submissions is that everyone wants a piece of the Flash pie--which is also what makes it great. There's no censorship; you are entirely at the mercy of your peers, not some mod. Anything goes. The same way ten years ago every teenaged boy wanted his own death metal band, today every kid wants to be able to live off of the proceeds from their computer-generated cartoons. You get animations ranging between arguing over pirates vs. ninjas to displaying the finer artistic points involved in animation, and some that do both. Some flashes suck, some are awesome, and everyone and anyone can express themselves totally, because what MAKES a flash awesome is almost totally random, and the only scale of greatness is how much soul someone put into it. Look at Numa Numa--it's critics call it a fat guy singing a crappy song into a low-quality webcam; most call it amazing. Why? Because you can't help but respect and laugh with a guy blatantly making fun of himself, his friends, and that song in joyful, random, childish abandonment. This sketchbook should be published and sold on the site; I know I'd buy it, if only to chronicle what I can't help but think of as an ephemeral phenomena that is one of the cornerstones of internet culture in its most developmental, impressionable stages. But who knows; maybe Newgrounds will turn out like Google; a reviled and simultaneously worshipped monopoly of flash animations and games that makes or breaks artists based on how many 'front-pages' they have. Sorry I'm a little wordy tonight. To cut to the chase--this book is awesome, though the image quality could be better, and it makes me happy to see so many classic NG animators making an effort to create a more traditional art project, in a more flexible media.
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Good work.
I liked the idea of this. There was some great work in there.
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wow this was a very sussesfull project! have fun claiming your well deserved award! ^^
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GAH! How come I wasn't aware of this?
Ohhh... If I had known about this project then I would have definitely participated. I'm quite an artist myself I'll have you know. Despite that, I enjoyed the superb sketches of others. I was actually awe-struck by many of them because of their absolute brilliance and talent. Looks like I'll have to wait until next year, oh pity. NEXT YEAR MAN! YOU JUST WAIT!
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...that ruled.....so bad.... :0 Im....so amazed by it all...
I havent got any submissions of my own on NG, nor do I do much other than watch and review...But I would love to do something like that...Youre doing one next year? If by any small chance in hell...Id love to take part in that :0...And, yes, I can draw lol. Let me know that I cant soon lol :D


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I had a bride call to cancel her wedding cake because they are now going to go out-of-state to get married. Does anyone have a form that they send out to be signed to cancel the contract?
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AI don't have a dorm. I send a follow up email and ask that they confirm the cancellation in writing either by mail or email.


text: News from Mayo Clinic 2016Sharing Mayo Clinic: Brothers bond over kidney disease and transplant Sept. 25, 2016, 07:11 p.m. CSTWife Gives Husband the Gift of Life with Living Donor Kidney Jan. 10, 2016, 10:44 a.m. CDT Request an Appointment at Mayo Clinic Resources Aug. 04, 2017 Share on: FacebookTwitter References Gilbert SJ, et al. Immunoglobulin A nephropathy and related disorders. In: National Kidney Foundation's Primer on Kidney Diseases. 6th ed. Philadelphia, PA.: Elsevier/Saunders; 2014. http://www.clinicalkey.com. Accessed Jan. 27, 2016. Roberts IS. Pathology of IgA nephropathy. Nature Reviews Nephrology. 2014;10:445. IgA nephropathy. National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases. http://www.niddk.nih.gov/health-information/health-topics/kidney-disease/iga-nephropathy/Pages/facts.aspx . Accessed Jan. 29, 2016. Immunoglobulin A nephropathy (IgA nephropathy). Merck Manuals Professional Edition. https://www.merckmanuals.com/professional/genitourinary-disorders/glomerular-disorders/immunoglobulin-a-nephropathy-(iga-nephropathy). Accessed Jan. 29, 2016. IgA nephropathy. National Organization for Rare Disorders. http://rarediseases.org/rare-diseases/iga-nephropathy/. Accessed Jan. 29, 2016. IgA nephropathy. National Kidney Foundation. https://www.kidney.org/atoz/content/iganeph. Accessed Jan. 29, 2016. Barratt J, et al. Clinical presentation and diagnosis of IgA nephropathy. http://www.uptodate.com/home. Accessed Jan. 31, 2016. Wyatt RJ, et al. IgA nephropathy. The New England Journal of Medicine. 2013;368:2402. Vecchio M, et al. Immunosuppressive agents for treating IgA nephropathy. Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/14651858.CD003965.pub2/abstract. Accessed Jan. 31, 2016. NKF PEERS. National Kidney Foundation. https://www.kidney.org/patients/peers/. Accessed Jan. 29, 2016. Cook AJ. EPSi. Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minn. Jan. 6, 2016. Your guide to lowering blood pressure. National Institutes of Health. http://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/health/resources/heart/hbp-guide-to-lower. Accessed Jan. 29, 2016. Fervenza FC (expert opinion). Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minn. Feb. 16, 2016. RelatedKidney biopsyProtein in urineHigh blood pressure (hypertension)Urine colorEdema Mayo Clinic in Minnesota has been recognized as the best Nephrology hospital in the nation for 2017-2018 by U.S. News & World Report. Learn more about this top honor IgA nephropathy (Berger's disease)OverviewSymptoms & causesDiagnosis & treatmentDiagnosisTreatmentThe Mayo Clinic experience & patient storiesDepartments & specialtiesExpertise & rankingsLocations, travel & lodgingClinical trialsResearchCosts & insurancePreparing for your appointmentSelf-managementMore aboutIn-DepthResourcesNews from Mayo Clinic Diagnosis & treatmentRequest an AppointmentDiagnosisTreatmentThe Mayo Clinic experience & patient storiesDepartments & specialtiesExpertise & rankingsLocations, travel & lodgingClinical trialsResearchCosts & insurancePreparing for your appointment CON-20166955 Patient Care & Health Information Diseases & Conditions IgA nephropathy (Berger's disease)


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The ENPAM pension fund for medical professionals is to gradually lower its investments into the real estate sector as part of its recently approved reform of its future asset allocation.
The €12.5 billion group, which is Italy's biggest private pension fund, told Citywire Global that while this change does not mean they are disposing of their current real estate investments, they will no longer be committing more incoming assets to this sector.
'There will be a substantial abandonment of the housing market by the foundation in the next year,' a spokesperson told Citywire Global.
Part of the pension fund's new asset allocation plans, which were recently approved by the Italian Ministry of Labour, will see it boost its investments in index funds as it looks to increase its passive investments. It will also be reducing its structured products portfolio.
The majority of ENPAM's property exposure is through real estate funds and their use is also being reviewed as part of its reform plans which should soon establish its definitive asset allocation based on an ALM (Asset Liability Management) logic.


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Michael Colyar, 'Barbershop' actor, alleges racism at Dulles Airport
An actor who appeared on the Showtime series "Barbershop" is alleging discrimination by United Airlines because he was removed from a flight at Dulles International Airport.
TMZ reports that Michael Colyar was removed from his flight after getting into an argument with a flight attendant over space in an overhead storage bin.
Colyar, who is black, blogged that a flight attendant refused to let him put a suitcase in the overhead compartment so that a white passenger could use the space.
Sources tell TMZ that Colyar and the flight attendant argued loudly and that he became unruly.
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Soundgarden to Play 'Superunknown' in Its Entirety to Celebrate 20th Anniversary
This year Soundgarden celebrates the 20th Anniversary of their most successful album – "Superunknown."
The album peaked at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 album chart, sold more than 5 million copies in the U.S., and gave us the hits such 'Black Hole Sun,' 'Spoonman' and 'Fell on Black Days.'
Look for special 20th anniversary editions to be released on June 3. Of course, you can expect the requisite extras, with the two-disc deluxe edition featuring the original remastered album along with several demos, live rehearsals, b-sides and more.
If you want to get a second mortgage on the house, you can pick up the uber-colossel super deluxe edition that comes with the two deluxe edition discs, along with two other discs with even more demos, rehearsals and b-sides.
And there's more! A fifth disc has the album re-mixes in Blu-Ray Audio 5.1 Surround Sound. Order now and they'll throw in a hardbound book with liner notes by David Fricke and new album art from Josh Graham! Actually, you don't have to order now to get all that extra stuff. It just sounds better in the commercial.
And with Record Store Day coming up on April 19, the band will have a special "Record Store Day" collection, with the "Superunknown" singles and b-sides with new artwork sleeves by Josh Graham will be reissued as five limited edition 10-inch vinyl records.
Basically, the ardent Soundgarden fan can plan on eating ramen for the remainder of 2014.
If the multiple ways to blow your hard-earned cash weren't enough, plan on heading to Austin, Texas for South By Southwest, because the band will be busting out the album in its entirety for the first time ever at a March 13 show at the festival.


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Career Webinars
The University of Miami Alumni Association is pleased to offer a webinar series with top career authors and experts on best practices in the career development process. To participate, all you need is a computer and an internet connection.
Upcoming Webinars
To register for these interactive presentations, go to www.alumnicareerservices.org/miami. Webinars begin at 8 p.m. EDT.


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Pet of the Week! October 21, 2011
Case #D11-238 (was D11-201, adopted and returned) Badge, a 9 month old
Black Lab mix male. He is adorable, energetic and a very fun guy! As Dog
of the Week his adoption includes a low cost neuter!
Case #11-460, Fergus, a stray adult male Terrier mix. He's adorable and
very cute! As Dog of the Week his adoption includes a low cost neuter!
The Coos County Animal Shelter is at 92960 Southport Road south of Coos Bay. Shelter hours are from noon to 4 p.m. Tuesdays through Saturdays. For information, call the shelter at 541-269-2312.


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Crusaders Seeking Ball Girls for 2011-2012 Season
The Valparaiso University women's basketball team is looking for girls age 7-12 to help serve as a ball girl during the 2011-2012 season.
The ball girls will help out pregame, halftime, and throughout the game. Contact Julie Brinson at email@example.com or 219.464.5146 or Rashida Ray at firstname.lastname@example.com or 219.464.6931.
The girls will have fun while watching Northwest Indiana's Home Team!


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So does that mean no sock jewelry? No canklets? No entrepreneurship?
I am glad Plaquenil left your water logged legs at the pool....and you are giving it more time. Atta girl...
In my quest to prove to stinky face that the plaquenil isn't working. A few days ago I stopped wearing my compression socks...which usually spells trouble.
I swell up by the second day and can hardly walk by the third day.
It's been 5 days and no swelling and no increased pain.
I think I out smarted myself.....and I may have to stay on the stuff.
Okay Okay I'll say it...perhaps it is working for me. Darn it all to heck and back. We'll see...give it more time.
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So does that mean no sock jewelry? No canklets? No entrepreneurship?
I am glad Plaquenil left your water logged legs at the pool....and you are giving it more time. Atta girl...
Oluwa....what it means is I can wear my pretty summer sandles
Which means I can wear my toe rings! And if I luck out and that silly specialist doesn't remove my toe nails :shock: I can paint them
All weekend and today I've been wearing my spring shoes and my summer sandles. I could hardly wear them at all last year...usually by 11:00 am my feet and legs would have started to swell, and I would have to put on my compression socks and my busterbrown sensable shoes. Which doesn't go at all well with a pretty summer dress.
This may sound silly...but I've missed being able to dress up for work. I know I cant where heels any more. I found great shoes that support my feet and they're really cute too...but the swelling was making it impossible to wear them. For the past year I've either had to wear my buster browns or my sneakers, or my house slippers....that's it!
I'm still working out (gently) and I'm finally losing some weight. I'm really really praying that the swelling is under control. If plaquenil does that much for me then woohoo. Sigh I hope this stays.
Oh look ... a cookie
That's a funny story - I guess even though it didn't work out the way you expected - it's great news and reason to CELEBRATE! I'm glad to hear the plaquenil is working for you.
I just need some sunshine, so I can break out the sandals!
It's cold and misserable here, but I've been wearing those thick hot compression socks for far to long...it's time to air out the tootsies.
I really dont wan't to jinx myself, but I really should have puffed up like a balloon over the weekend. This is the first time in over a year that I haven't swollen up.
Oh look ... a cookie
SITC..Maybe when you air out the tootsies maybe the fungi will resolve and take root on a Birch Tree.
If you have to remove the nail, you can always glue a fake on to your skin or perhaps just paint a fake one on....an idea..
SITC...they should be able to resolve the fungi issue. Remove it as the last resort. You need your nails to protect your digits...
Good for you on working out and congratulations on the weight lost. Losing a pound or two is a big task with IT..the steroids, the pills, the fatigue, the pain,the slow paced life...good for you...Woohooo!
Dear Sits In the Corner,
It was a big blow to me when I realized I couldn't wear high heels anymore. I felt a little less like a woman. I guess maybe that has to do with the brainwashing I received as a young woman. I felt I always had to wear heels and nylons for work .
I'm glad I'm not the only one that cannot wear high heels anymore , I just sold them all in a garage sale last weekend. My knees and feet can't handle them anymore. I get like this burning pain sensation in my feet every so often and before I started plaquenil my feet felt like I was walking on broken marbles or something and it hurt so bad first thing in the morning. My knees are the problem the past few days just achy and popping, I have to walk really slow and turn slow or I feel like my knees might just give way.... :x
Hey, Everyone, Don't know exactly where we can find them, but I just read an article (in the Seattle newspaper) about how shoe designers have finally learned that this particular generation (or several groups of them that are the current carriers of the cash) is more demanding of their shoes. They (we) want them to be stylish, attractive, but supportive and comfortable. Companies like Easy Spirit have been trying to do this for a while, but their "dressy" shoes are somewhat limited. The "big" designers are supposedly on the bandwagon now. They are making pumps and other "dressy" type shoes with more cushion and styled for better support of the feet and legs. They mentioned some of the designers, but the names escape me now. Anyway, I would guess we could find such things in the better department stores. They equated the new attitude to combining sports shoes with designer heels. I would really like to see some of those. Since we all seem to be either mourning our inability to wear heels any longer or wearing them and suffering, I thought you might want to be on the lookout for these new breed of shoes, as I am.
Sits in the Corner (or Susan #1),
Congratulations on the skinny feet!!
Show off those tootsies!!
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Sunday, July 14, 2013 | 2:02 a.m.
View more of the Sun's opinion section
It was good to read "Pope Francis' saintly politics," E.J. Dionne's reflections on last week's decision by the pope to honor two of his predecessors, especially regarding the role of Vatican II. However, I am bewildered about the sin of omission regarding Pope Paul VI.
Without the ministry of Paul VI, the council would not have continued nor would the reforms requested by the Council Fathers have been implemented. He allowed the council to continue and then in his 15 years as pope, he guided the implementation of the reforms we now enjoy.
We also forgot the very important writings of his papacy: "On the Progress of Peoples" and "Evangelization in the Modern Word" among the two greatest. He guided the Catholic Church through its efforts to live with the modern world rather than against it.
His day will come but I wonder how long it will take before the Church recognizes the leadership provided by Pope Paul VI.


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Plugin/Theme Competition
As the promised land of canonical plugins draws near, when WordPress plugins maintained by development teams rather than single developers working solo will hopefully become the norm*, we thought it would be fun to encourage people to think about working in development teams with a friendly competition. There will be two: one for themes, one for plugins. Time is short, so if you're interested, read fast and start coding!
The Rules:
Each submission must have 2 or more contributors. At least one of these contributors needs to be a New York Metro resident, and present at WordCamp NYC on Sunday, November 15.
Submissions must be repo-ready. That is, they should be able to be submitted to the WordPress.org theme or plugin repositories and be accepted: no spam, no security holes, no duping an existing theme or plugin.
Submissions must be new creations, not yet released to the public. You can use something you've been working on as a starting point, but remember that you *must* have collaborators to enter the competition.
Plugins can do pretty much anything, but must be GPL and must be free (as in beer), and not be simply a giveaway to upsell add-ons that are not free and/or GPL.
Ditto themes. You can do a basic theme, you can do a framework, you can do something specific and functional like P2, whatever, but it needs to be original to get into the top 3. Just changing a few colors or shifting the layout of an existing theme will not suffice for the sake of this competition. You may submit WordPress *or* BuddyPress themes.
The Deadline:
Submissions must be completed by 11:59pm (NYC time) on November 7, 2009. Leave a comment on this post and point to where the judges can download the code for evaluation. In your comment, feel free to provide the "elevator pitch" for your submission, describing what makes it special, etc. Identify in the comment who is on your team (link to names), who is in NYC, and who will be attending WordCamp NYC. This will give the judges enough time to evaluate entries. Late entries will not be accepted.
The Judging:
Matt Mullenweg and other trusted WordPress-universe personalities will be evaluating submissions for code competency, user experience, and style. The top 3 plugin submissions and the top 3 theme submissions will be invited to face off at WordCamp NYC's Sunday session, which will be held in a 1000-person auditorium. That's a lot of potential users, employers, clients, and collaborators.
Each team will have a few minutes to introduce their submissions, and then the judges will let you know what they liked and disliked about your entry, after which teams will have a chance to respond (think Project Runway for open source software). After all teams have been evaluated, the judges will announce a winning theme and a winning plugin. These winners will be congratulated (and their winning submissions promoted) on the official WordPress Development blog at http://wordpress.org/development, which reaches millions of people, once the submissions have been uploaded to the WordPress.org repositories.
Start your engines and get coding!
*If you don't know why canonical plugins = promised land, you should probably attend WordCamp NYC to find out!
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Why the limitation "New York Metro resident"… I would not be able to make it to NYC but would like to work on a plugin with developers I've met at other WordCamps who are attending WordCamp NY but don't live there.
I understand you reasoning behind it but I posted here because I couldn't find any local developers… @petemall if anyone is interested.
The team consists of
– Daisy Olsen http://wpmama.com/ (Metro NYC)
– Ron Rennick http://ronandandrea.com/ (New Brunswick, Canada)
Our submission is a fork of the Thematic Framework (by Ian Stewart) and an original child theme. In a standard WordPress or WPMU blog, the framework is functionally interchangeable with Thematic. The child theme works with either this framework or Thematic. In a WPMU site running BuddyPress, the BuddyPress functionality included in the framework is active on both home and member blogs.
Although there is a significant amount of interest in developing BuddyPress enabled themes, the learning curve with the BuddyPress hooks, filters, template tags and extended template structure is significant. Writing a new theme framework system from scratch would not have significantly reduced that learning curve. Ron chose the Thematic Framework as a basis for this framework because it has been downloaded 125K+ times and a segment of the community is already familiar with it. With this framework, those people can build BuddyPress ready original child themes without learning the BuddyPress hooks, filters, template tags and extended template structure.
Daisy is a freelancer who develops WordPress based sites using custom themes and child themes. The framework enabled her to create the Coffee with Friends child theme using a framework environment that she was familiar with.
The archive of our project can be downloaded at http://mamacommune.net/files/buddymatic.zip
The Coffee with Friends theme folder is under the Buddymatic theme folder.
Custom Admin.
– Jake Snyder http://labs.jcow.com/ (NYC Resident)
– Tim Bowen http://CreativeSlice.com/ (Tucson, AZ)
This plugin is something we have worked a lot together. We created it to customize the WP backend for clients when we use WordPress as a CMS.
Custom Admin allows the user or developer to upload images and a new favicon to be used in the backend. It also allows for the "Posts" menu item to be renamed and the "Pages" menu item to be moved first in the line up next to "Dashboard".
The branding customizations include a custom logo in the header, customized footer with developer link, customized login page logo. All of this can be done from with in the Custom Admin Settings area.
The menu customization also allows the admin to remove menu items that are not being used and to remove extra menu items for non-admins to keep the menu focused for clients.
The current version that is ready for release can be downloaded here:
"Music Label WP" is a WordPress plugin for Music Labels. With a few lines of code (in the plugin) and JQuery scripts, the complexities of managing media and related metadata for music labels are made extremely simple. Thus, "Net Labels" can leverage the power and ease of use of WordPress to easily control their own branding at a cost much lower than previously possible for a custom music label site.
This plugin is in alpha and changing daily until we release the beta on November 13, 2009.
Dan Polant, Ann Arbor, MI – plugin PHP coding
Ron Suarez, New York, NY – product manager, concept creation, usability, information architecture, customer support, and co-worker at New Work City – http://nwcny.com/
Prabode Weebadde, Okemos, MI – Chief Technology Officer, Feed Designer, Loud Feed Architect
We have created "Music Label WP" as a WordPress plugin that takes content managed in a free Loud Feed account and automatically populates your WordPress site. Whether you're an established Music Label or starting your own Net Label, this plugin leverages WordPress for the ease of creating and skinning your own site possible with content that Loud Feed stores in Amazon S3. Loud Feed offers a publishing workflow for all your music content (albums, artists, songs, shows, promotions, widgets and related metadata).
Content for artists and albums displayed on the "plugin" site are from the GoinNative Label, whose custom site we developed in Ruby on Rails and made us conclude that WordPress would offer more flexible and less expensive solutions. WordPress with the new Music Label WP plugin will now offer labels easy control over the WordPress front end, while leveraging the powerful Loud Feed Music Content Management System integrated with Amazon Web Services for unlimited scalability.
The plugin is being licensed as GPL Open Source and the Loud Feed platform itself is in the process of becoming licensed as GPL Open Source.
We are also planning to have the "Music Label WP" plugin work with BuddyPress for entities that represent multiple labels, from trade associations to distributors. We are about to launch this BuddyPress site for multiple labels, which is going into internal testing next week:
In the future we see niche oriented communities being able to aggregate content from multiple labels by building on the WordPress/BuddyPress platform with the "Music Label WP" plugin that leverages Amazon Web Services. We also hope to begin to build relationships with Automattic, Instinct Entertainment and Shopp at Wordcamp to help ensure that by going Open Source GPL with Loud Feed, we can become a much needed standard and increase the likelihood of the success of Loud Feed's mission to do for the music industry what Automattic has done for publishing with the WordPress platform.
We are ready, but have not yet submitted to the WordPress.org plugin repository because of this contest's requirement that the submission has not been previously released to the public. We created a quick site today to explain the plugin and offer the download for this contest, (so it just became public). We should have a new release tomorrow. I had to upload an earlier release because of the submission deadline and nonavailability of the other team members on a Saturday.
Ron Suarez (NY) and Dan Polant (Ann Arbor) will both be attending Wordcamp. (forgot to include this in submission for competition)
The team consists of:
– Brandon Dove: http://www.think-press.com/ (Tustin, CA)
– Jeffrey Zinn: http://www.think-press.com/ (Huntington Beach, CA)
– Andrew Christian: http://www.pharmcountry.net/ (NYC, NY)
– John Hawkins: http://www.johnhawkinsunrated.com/ (Las Vegas, NV)
We've created a plugin that attempts to spur conversations.
It has been said that the majority of readers don't comment on blog posts because they don't feel like they have anything specific to add to a conversation.
This plugin allows you to prompt your readers to comment by asking them to answer a question specific to that post. A simple box with text that you define when writing your post is added above the comment form. The box can be styled to match your site by adjusting some predefined options.
You can download the plugin at: http://www.think-press.com/downloads/conversation-starter.zip
Both Brandon and Andrew will be in attendance for WordCamp NYC.
I'm posting this a second time because the first one didn't appear to go through. If it's just held in moderation, feel free to delete this comment.
The team consists of:
– Brandon Dove: http://www.think-press.com/ (Tustin, CA)
– Jeffrey Zinn: http://www.think-press.com/ (Huntington Beach, CA)
– Andrew Christian: http://www.pharmcountry.net/ (NYC, NY)
– John Hawkins: http://www.johnhawkinsunrated.com/ (Las Vegas, NV)
We've created a plugin that attempts to spur conversations.
It has been said that the majority of readers don't comment on blog posts because they don't feel like they have anything specific to add to a conversation.
This plugin allows you to prompt your readers to comment by asking them to answer a question specific to that post. A simple box with text that you define when writing your post is added above the comment form. The box can be styled to match your site by adjusting some predefined options.
You can download the plugin at: http://www.think-press.com/downloads/conversation-starter.zip
Both Brandon and Andrew will be in attendance for WordCamp NYC.
Plugin: BuddyPress Registration Options
-Brian Messenlehner (Metro NYC)
-Chris Cochran (Metro NYC)
http://webdevstudios.com/ & http://nothingcliche.com/
New member moderation – If turned on any new members will have to be approved by an administrator before interacting with any BuddyPress elements of the site including sending messages, adding friends, wire posts, joining/creating groups and more. New members will also not be listed in any directories until approved. From the settings page administrators can approve or deny new member accounts.
Join groups at registration – From the settings page administrators can check off which groups they would like members to have a choice of joining at registration. If any groups are private and moderation is on admins will be able to approve, deny or ban members to or from groups along with approving their member accounts in one action.
Join blogs at registration – From the settings page administrators can check off which blogs they would like members to have a choice of joining at registration.
Custom Email alert messages – Admins can define what approval or denial messages are sent if moderation is on.
I think the timing is off on your server. I have Nov 7 11:56 pm. 😉
Plugin: WP Manage Plugins
– Matt Martz: http://sivel.net (Baltimore, MD)
– Brad Williams: http://webdevstudios.com (Metro NYC)
– Brian Messenlehner: http://webdevstudios.com (Metro NYC)
– Scott Basgaard: http://webdevstudios.com (Metro NYC)
WP Manage Plugins is an easy way to give you more control over the plugins section of WordPress. This plugin features the following functionality:
* Disable upgrade notices for specific plugins
* Hide the plugins page from all users except yourself
* Hide the WP Manage Plugins settings page from all users except yourself
* Automatically email the site admin when any plugin is added/activated/deactivated
This plugin should help anyone who is administering a WordPress website and needs more control over the powerful plugins section. This plugin is also great for blocking updates on plugins that you have modified.
Italic Smile 😉 http://italicsmile.com (with theme test data)
– Jake Snyder http://labs.jcow.com/ (NYC Resident)
– Tim Bowen http://CreativeSlice.com/ (Tucson, AZ)
This theme helps travelers or photographers easily create a site to share their journey. By incorporating Colorbox JS image handling, both galleries and single images are easy to navigate via thumbnails and JS pop-ups. The Italic Smile theme also highlights the most recent posts so they may be easily selected while offering widget capabilities for archives, categories, tags and pages as desired.
The code is simple, easy to modify, and open for graphic expansion!
The Italic Smile theme is based on this travel site built by Tim Bowen during a recent trip through China >> http://puertour.com
The current version that is ready for release can be downloaded here:
Plugin: TDN Digest Post
– Ken Walker: http://dailynewarker.com (Newark, NJ baby)
– Brandon Edling: http://the-edlings.org (Jersey City, NJ)
TDN Digest Post allows the user to post automated digests of the day's news, blogs and conversations on their blog. This plugin features the following functionality:
* User-set publish time
* Aggregates content via RSS
* Customizable sections to aggregate content (stories, blogs, tweets, etc)
* Posts published using WordPress' cron capability
TDN Digest Post makes it easy to post regular updates to your site every day.
Brandon and Ken will both be at WC NYC.
Just making sure our ItalicSmile theme was submitting. I haven't received any notification of a comment in moderation…
Oh no! Is it officially too late? I don't see toooo many submissions here and we've just finished a CMS oriented plugin that we'd love to submit! We are here in NYC.
We added a few small bug fixes to Custom Admin. 1.9.6 now. If anyone downloaded it, grab the latest version. http://labs.jcow.com/custom-admin.zip Thanks to Damon Cook who helped with some bug testing. Great finds!
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Same thing here, I had to turn off the PC because it keeps downloading and failing. This is a home built running Windows 8 and OSx dual boot. I do not get it. At least give us an ISO and stop...
Same thing here. I have tried 4 installs and it stops at first reboot saying it cannot install 8.1 on this PC.
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Carles Puyol could end signing search
Barcelona have suggested that Carles Puyol is nearing a return from his long standing knee injury, just as reports in Catalonia say the club have decided against signing a new centre-back this summer.
• Corrigan: Barca's conundrum
Barca had been widely expected to sign a new defender this summer, given Eric Abidal had left the club and with Puyol now 35 and having had his entire 2012-13 season wrecked by ongoing knee problems.
As recently as early August blaugrana sporting director Andoni Zubizarreta indicated the club were working on defensive targets, amid apparently well-sourced speculation that a €20 million plus bid had been made for Chelsea's David Luiz.
However a 'summit' meeting between Zubizarreta, new coach Gerardo Martino and club president Sandro Rosell at the Camp Nou on Tuesday reportedly decided against signing a new centre-back.
Martino is apparently happy to go into the new campaign with Gerard Pique and Javier Mascherano as his first choice pairing at the back, with Puyol, Marc Bartra, 22, and Frank Bagnack, 18, as cover.
The club then released a statement on Wednesday morning via their website, with accompanying photos, which showed club captain Puyol's recovery had progressed to the point where he could leave the gym and train outside on the pitch at Barca's Ciutat Esportiva facility.
"On Wednesday morning, Carles Puyol started his recovery programme on a training pitch at the Ciutat Esportiva," the statement said.
"The captain was joined by physio Juanjo Brau for a workout focused on strength and resistance. Puyol underwent surgery on June 19 to have a Baker's cyst removed from his right knee. He has been working to get back to full fitness ever since, and missed the trip to Asia in order to concentrate on his recovery programme in Barcelona."
Later on Wednesday Puyol himself tweeted about his return, saying "Very happy to return to train on the pitch. Each day is another step."
Muy contento por volver a entrenar en el campo. Cada día un paso más... pic.twitter.com/hV0AEHBp03— Carles Puyol (@Carles5puyol) August 14, 2013
Mundo Deportivo followed the party line on Thursday morning - hailing Puyol's return as being "like a new signing" on its cover, although the paper did also claim that Luiz had decided he wanted to leave Chelsea for the Camp Nou inside.
Puyol's knee issues have been so serious that he himself admitted to fearing he would have to retire during the 2012-13 season. In June he cut short a holiday in New York to return to Catalonia for another operation, amid fears that the problem had become chronic.
Barca doctor Ricard Pruna then rejected such claims and predicted Puyol would be able to join pre-season training with his team-mates in mid-July. That now looks to have been an optimistic.
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December 31, 2010
Ahead in the Count
What Home Teams Do Better
A few weeks ago, I wrote about how home teams had improved their performance in the last three years. After winning about 54 percent of games consistently for the last 60 years, home teams have won 55.5 percent of games in the last three seasons. Although it is just a 1.5 percent increase, there has not been a three-year period with home team winning percentage this high in 60 years, so there may be a noticeable reason for the shift.
Last time, I looked through which teams had seen the biggest home-field advantages in recent years, but there is little, if any, variation between teams in their abilities to win a disproportionate share of games at home. That is why in this article I have taken a different approach and looked at home and away performances in individual statistics over the last three years and compared them to the 1993-2007 period in which there has been a similar run environment to 2008-2010 (4.82 versus 4.55 runs per game), but a smaller home-field advantage (53.6 versus 55.5 percent).
Despite the larger home-field advantage overall, neither strikeouts nor walks appear to be happening more frequently.
There has barely been any change in how pitchers and hitters work counts at home and on the road. Pitchers continue to strike out a little more than five percent more hitters while walking a little less than eight percent fewer batters at home.
Home runs are a different story, as there has been a sharp change in how frequently batters hit the ball out of the park at home.
Home teams hit more home runs than road teams by more than twice the margin in the last three years than they did in the previous 15 seasons. Why is this? Could this be that hitters are seeing the ball better at their own parks? Are hitters better matched for their parks? To consider possibilities such as these, I also looked at several other statistics to consider the difference in recent years.
This does not appear to be extremely different, though there is definitely a tendency for hitters to do better at getting hits on balls in play at their own park, and more so in the last three years than the previous years. What types of hits are occurring more frequently?
There has been a major change in triples both home and away, while the increase in home-team doubles has been relatively minor, as has the change in the home-team singles. Triples have always been a statistic that shows a large home-field advantage, because they usually involve outfielders misplaying bounces, which occurs more often to defenders unfamiliar with the stadium they are playing in. The extra triples for home teams combined with the much fewer three-baggers for road teams suggests that clubs are starting to play better in their own parks.
The larger home-field advantage increase appears to have occurred in home runs and triples, which suggests that teams have players better-suited to their home parks or that players are playing their home parks better. Given the plethora of data available on spray charts, teams may be acquiring players whose fly balls are particularly likely to leave their parks, finding players who can take advantage of misplays in their stadiums, and outfielders who avoid misplays of their own.
The following table lists a few other statistics' difference in home and road performance in recent years.
More players have reached on errors at home in recent years, which could be about defense or more scrutinized scoring decisions. The latter explanation could explain the relatively smaller jump in singles.
Most other statistics do not show much change. The advantage at stealing bases at home has actually shrunk in the last three years, while fewer road pitchers are hitting batters than in previous years. Players are grounding into double plays at a similar clip as well.
Overall, this data combines to paint the general picture that the main difference in home-field advantage in recent years is success on contact, particularly in mashing home runs and triples. This still does not provide a definitive answer as to whether home teams are doing something different that will allow them to continue winning more often, or whether we should expect a reversion to the 54 percent rate we have seen throughout history. However, the fact that there have been large changes in home runs and triples as opposed to a series of small changes in many statistics suggests that something major may have changed, and provides evidence of a shift in home-field advantage that I did not see in my article before.
What do you think? Do the statistics above suggest home-field advantage will continue to grow?
Matt Swartz is an author of Baseball Prospectus.
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Interesting data.
Dec 31, 2010 07:40 AM
Mike Fast
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Dan Turkenkopf found an advantage in ball-strike calls to the home team worth 0.12 runs/game.
Dec 31, 2010 07:51 AM
Cool, thanks. If those stats are accurate, then umps favoring the home team on balls and strikes would account for the equivalent of one extra home win per season (out of the nine extra wins that need to be accounted for). Presumably umpires also favor the home team on other calls (out/safe, etc.), but this would be harder to study with small sample size...
Dec 31, 2010 08:18 AM
Matt Swartz
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Most of this stuff I looked at in my previous articles on this stuff actually. Great minds think alike and all..
Dec 31, 2010 08:26 AM
The new ballparks are much more distinct than the cookie cutter multipurpose ones from the 60s and 70s. There's a higher variance in the field dimensions. Now, maybe it takes a few years for teams to adapt their roster to fit the ballpark, so you don't see the effect immediately after a park change.
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That last line basically sums up the work I expect to be doing soon. In the mean time I'll develop all my other skills to the fullest. I hope I can develop many specialties which are critical in the AEC world; facade optimization, building energy analysis, adaptive design and integrated project development.
Btw, how long would it be acceptable to be out of the architecture/design loop? I figure after two years of drafting I might be tempted to go back to architecture. I expect the transition wouldn't be smooth but employers ought to be interested if they expect someone who is primarily drafting construction documents like most young professionals.
I have been in the BIM production role for 4.5 years - I do some design - unless I step up my game and make sure everyone knows it, I could be doing this permanently - provided I keep up with technology and make sure everyone knows it - I am on Revit 2013.5 and moving into 2014 - I would say 6 months - you need to get on to IDP and make progress towards licensure and make sure everyone knows it.
I don't know about licensure. I will be at an engineering firm where there might be some hours towards IDP but won't cover everything. I intend to involve myself in the design process as much as possible and not just sit on the sidelines updating drawings. If that happens I'll move on.
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