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Office Communications Server (OCS) is finding new friends across the educational spectrum – aka Microsoft Lync. We're hearing good things about it from the University of Plymouth , for example, where it's used by academics to keep in touch with students away on work placements across the UK and beyond. There's a full case study in preparation, of OCS in education at University of Plymouth, so watch out for that.
Meanwhile, up the line near Exeter, our friends at Broadclyst Primary School are proving that OCS is just as useful for children between five and eleven – and, of course, for their teachers. As Head Jonathan Bishop says,
"We've put it on everybody's desktop, integrated it with SharePoint, and provided web access to it for children and staff to use as another tool in the raft of tools that we have for communication."
Currently the children are involved in business enterprise projects -working with partner schools in Holland and the USA on designing, making and marketing a range of products from fridge magnets to cookies. OCS, says Jonathan Bishop, keeps the branches of this global business consortium in step with each other.
"They can set a time when they need to work together in Outlook, then through a multi-way conference call using video and voice they can share screens and work together across thousands of miles. It gives them the sense of a multinational company and develops a very sophisticated skill set - engaging the children in learning"
And closer to home, OCS in education opens up the ability to include children who are away from school.
"My son, who's five, was at home after having his tonsils out and he was able to sign in and join the story time with his class. We have had children ill in hospital joining in with lessons from the hospital school, interacting with the class and teacher and accessing all their work through the Learning Gateway"
As Jonathan says, that's really just a taster of the way that children who are temporarily out of school can be involved in learning and interacting with their friends and their teachers.
Broadclyst teachers, for their part, are using OCS in education to collaborate with students and also with colleagues around the world, working and planning together on joint projects. As Jonathan says:
"The potential to save time and money is tremendous. It is a great tool to bring schools closer together and to get home school links working successfully.
Broadclyst's always been at the cutting edge of school ICT and it's not surprising to find that the school has had a more traditional, hi-tech video conferencing system for some time. The lecture theatre-style Year Six classroom, with a workstation for every child, has video conferencing available on a big screen, and it's accessible in other parts of the school including the head's office.
OCS – flexible, well integrated with school systems and available on every desktop - obviously complements video conferencing in schools, but Jonathan and his team haven't left it at that. They've managed to gain the best of both worlds by integrating OCS with their traditional style video conferencing system (older systems use the H323 protocol video system).
"A museum, for example, might have a traditional video conferencing system, but we can bring their high definition images of exhibits here to our children's desktops. It's merging the two technologies together."
Given that there are undoubtedly people out there with traditional hi-tech video conferencing systems in schools, and they are also likely to have OCS either now or in the near future, network managers will presumably be interested in that kind of integration.
The story, throughout, is one of communication driving collaboration, something that Jonathan's passionate about. Broaclyst's just become one of the first primary academies, and he sees this removal of boundaries as a pointer to the future.
"Schools will need to work together through these difficult times, and having the technology to underpin collaboration is going to be increasingly important."
It's a vision that's attracting interest in some significant ways – for example the school was recently visited by Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Schools, Lord Hill.
You can find more about OCS Server/Lync on the Microsoft website
As we talk about cost saving we keep coming back to server virtualisation. I don't feel the need to make any excuse for that, because as so many schools have discovered not only does it provide substantial cost savings – and we all know how important that is – but it can also provide a better and more reliable experience for users.
In a school, we're typically talking about using virtualisation to reduce the number of physical servers from say a dozen or so down to four or five. Now, though, we're seeing examples in further education that make the case in even more dramatic terms. Earlier this year, for example, we published a Microsoft Case Study of virtualisation at Leicester College, one of the biggest FE colleges in England, with 26,000 students.
Like many colleges, it deals with a very mobile, diverse and dispersed body of staff and students. There are three main campuses in fact, as well as 200 other venues including churches, halls and community centres.
It's no surprise, then, that IT is vital for binding the whole enterprise together, nor that by the time the network staff looked at virtualisation, they were maintaining 100 servers with the prospect of more to come and nowhere to put them.
"If we continued adding servers every time we wanted to offer a new service, we would have run out of space. Plus, our air conditioning system was inadequate and a new one would have been beyond our budget," says Head of Libraries and E-Strategy, Paul Chapman.
Virtualisation was the obvious answer, and they'd considered and even piloted it before with limited results. It wasn't until they consulted Microsoft Gold Certified Partner Dimension Data, who recommended Windows Server 2008 with Hyper-V technology that the project became viable.
The case study describes how it was done, by Dimension Data people and College staff working together, over a very short period of time. You can also read about the very significant cost savings – a 50% reduction in the cost of the servers themselves; energy costs down by 18%; better and more cost-efficient use of staff time. And, importantly, a significant contribution to the College's environmental strategy.
You can read the full Microsoft Case Study of virtualisation at Leicester College here
You may also find the main Top ICT Money Saving Tips article useful, to learn more about ways that ICT can help save money in school budgets
A retired head tells me,
"When I went into my first headship, I found that the staff were regularly giving the children published tests the results of which were put into a filing cabinet and forgotten. And I don't think this was the only school where that happened."
The arrival of ICT should have seen the end of that. Data is now more manageable, more visible, more open to examination and analysis by a wider range of people.
But it is really like that? Or is the data still sometimes under-used? Quite possibly. Making data accessible and intelligible doesn't of itself ensure that it's studied and acted on. The missing link is how it's managed. That's why I was so interested in talking to Lin Burrows, Vice Principal of Marsh Academy in Kent. She described to me how she and her colleagues use SharePoint and Office 2010 as a foundation for effective leadership of the school's improvement programme, and pupil intervention.
Marsh has a school year of six terms, each of six weeks. Pupil performance data across all subjects is collected and stored at the end of each term by the SIMS Management Information System.
Next, though, comes the important bit. First the data is extracted by the school's data manager from SIMS and displayed subject by subject on a series of Excel spreadsheets where the progress of individual students and selected groups is shown numerically, supported by "traffic light" colour coding. The whole is available to all staff on the SharePoint-based Marsh Academy Gateway (MAG)
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Lin has kindly written to me with a clear explanation of key parts of the process.
The Cohort Overview and /Student Progress sheets track every student in each year group for every subject they are taking. As soon as a data entry is completed in SIMs the data is exported into this sheet - which will immediately calculate the current progress against whole school, group and department targets. The data is used by the senior leadership team to identify trends and put in place interventions on a whole-school level. The Student Progress Sheet tracks each student in each of their subects against their Fisher Family Trust (FFT) data, and their 3 Levels Progress targets. Excel then adds Red, Amber Green (RAG) indicators to indicate the current situation. We then draw up specific interventions. For example we recently used data to identify KS4 students who were underachieving. We then drew up for each individual an action plan, to try to ensure that these students reach their potential targets.
All staff can access all of our data through the Data Portal on our Gateway. There are specific links to each type of data we hold, as well as a calendar so that staff are fully aware of the reporting and assessment timetable. There are also "video" tutorials demonstrating how to access and analyse the data. No data is now printed off for staff, as everything is now available for them on the MAG. All Key Performance Indicators (KPI) are also easily reached from this page. The KPIs themselves are based on the Cohort Overview spreadsheets. The KPIs therefore automatically update as soon as a new data entry is completed and the spreadsheets are uploaded to the MAG.
I hope this is of help.
Yes, Lin. It certainly is. She further explains that the process of examining the data and deciding on interventions involves a series of meetings at which graphical versions of the data are collectively studied by teachers, with set questions asked and answered, and proposed interventions recorded.
Following departmental meetings which involve every teacher, heads of department produce summary documents, in a form which also calls for trends and middle-leader interventions to be identified. These summaries are then studied at a meeting between heads of department and their respective line managers in the senior leadership team.
The final level of scrutiny of the data comes at a senior leadership team meeting. Lin Burrows says,
"We have all the progress data from departments but I can also cross reference because I can look at year groups, across all subjects and across our pastoral "Mini Schools".
Completing the picture, data on attendance and behaviour is also cross referenced in.
The process was devised in Office 2007, but the arrival of Office 2010 has added some useful features, such as 'Sparklines' – mini graphs – which provide additional visual alerts on where an individual or group's progress is headed.
In the screen example above, conditional formatting has been used to make trends and patterns easily identifiable. Instead of staring at pages of numbers alone, you can easily spot patterns for particular data points, or particular students - for example, it is easy to spot the column showing underperformance, with a line of red bubbles. Or the absence of data items, with the black bubbles.
For me, it's clear that while Lin's clever use of Microsoft software to make data intelligible and available is crucial, what's at least equally important is the way it's all put before staff. Everyone, classroom teachers, middle and senior leadership, is brought into contact with the data.
"The main thing," says Lin, "is that data is presented in a way that is easy to understand and therefore easy to analyse. This would not be the case if the mark sheets came straight out of the MIS."
Importantly staff aren't only left to absorb the data at leisure. It's actually "pushed" to them, to use the term in its ICT sense, in a formal meeting environment, in a way that defines and highlights areas of concern. Along with that goes a series of pointed questions about what interventions are being proposed and undertaken.
The example above(click for the full-size version) is the Subject Tracking Analysis, and shows some of the data and questions asked)
Put together the various cross-references, identifying each child as a member of a year group, a teaching group and a mini-school, and Lin is well justified in saying,
"No child here can slip through the net."
What Marsh Academy has in place then is an impressive combination of ICT expertise, up to date software and data enabled strong leadership, and it's not surprising that other schools are increasingly asking Lin to visit and tell them how it's done.
At the end of November, Rich Lane the resident techie of the education team ran a couple of webinars. If you want to have a listen in, you can view the recordings below.
VDI is a hot topic at the moment but what actually is it? When is it the right solution … and when not?
In this session, Quest discussed the future trends for the desktop, the options available, and how to blend different approaches for the right results. They also discussed their current VDI project at Kingston University rolling out globally to 20,000 students and staff – making this a practical session which cuts through the confusion and hype to provide realistic ways forward.
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System Center Service Manager is Service Desk solution providing incident and problem resolution, change control, and asset lifecycle management. By unifying knowledge across the System Center suite, Service Manager helps IT continuously adapt to new business requirements while reducing cost and lowering time to resolution. This session delivered by Silversands included a demo of the product.
Want to find out more? All recordings of our Microsoft Education webinars can be found via this link
Gerald Haigh, an education writer and journalist, is also an ex-head teacher and as a result he still has close contacts within many education establishments. It was because of this that we asked him to interview a wide group of people about the use of Cloud services in education, which meant understanding what's going on today, as well as what the future might look like. The results of this work is now available as a white paper - "Baby steps into the Cloud - ICT as a service for education"
We think that in the future you're likely to see a more dynamic mix between on-site IT systems and cloud-based ones. And this white paper is designed to help identify, discuss and address some of the key considerations as more choices become available.
One of the key questions is whether we expect the delivery of ICT services to fundamentally change direction in the future. I remember being told by Becta that UK education could never reach its carbon emission reduction targets whilst we had so many servers in schools. But does that mean taking them all out, and replacing them with Cloud services instead? And what does that mean about the role of IT managers? Well, the white paper doesn't have all of the answers - but it sets out to consider some of the questions that are being raised.
We don't normally expect a school, college or university to generate its own electricity. There's no building with a bank of generators, no "Manager of Electrical Generation", leading a team of technicians and adding to the woes of a vice-chancellor, principal, head or business manager. That would surely be absurd, when all that's really needed is a big "On-Off" switch and a phone to shout down when the service fails.
But we have expected our education institutions to be experts at running their own "IT Power Stations", generating their own utility service. Even though, as consumers, we are increasingly using IT as a utility service – to communicate, collaborate, work and play.
You may see where this is going. We believe we are at a critical turning point, and it's time to debate the future provision of IT in education. And at the centre of this change is "the Cloud".
Attempts to define Cloud computing often make the analogy with the development of public utilities - electricity, gas, water - where the move from on-site, or very local generation, through to national and international distribution has brought increased efficiency and lower costs.
So, goes the argument, why not provide computing power in the same way? It can be "generated" remotely by a factory-size bank of powerful computers ("servers") and delivered over the internet to subscribing consumers who can take as much, or as little as they need.
The white paper includes interviews and thoughts of some of the early adopting customers - people who have already had extensive experience of our Cloud services, and share their experiences and thoughts:
And we've also tracked the thoughts from key people in the Microsoft team:
You'll be glad to hear that we haven't produced a technical document - instead Gerald has worked hard to get to the issues behind the technology, and understand the issues which might guide your thinking as you develop your future IT strategy.
Download your own copy of the Microsoft Education White Paper - Baby steps in the Cloud
A few weeks ago, I wrote about the free Virtualisation ebook.
I'm still working my way through it on my Kindle - I've got to page 156 of 480, and am currently in the detail of desktop virtualisation. It's been really useful to help me understand some of the technical things I'd never understood about virtualising servers, and the current chapter is doing the same for desktop virtualisation.
A colleague shared with me a list of other free ebooks from Microsoft, that you may find useful too. Many of them are quite technical, so they won't be for everybody. I bet there are some staff or students around you that would appreciate this list:
Perfect Christmas holiday reading?
Over the next few months, we are going to introduce some big changes to school licensing. It will make licensing simpler, and it will make it significantly cheaper for most schools in the UK. The big announcement of all of the detail will happen in January at BETT 2011 in London, but we're publishing some of the information a little earlier, so that you can think about it in your planning for next year's budget.
All of the following information is a high-level overview, but at the end there are some very specific actions for some schools now.
From the 1st March 2011, we are introducing a new licensing scheme for schools, called Enrolment for Education Solutions. Or EES for short. This is a (better!) alternative to the School Agreement subscription scheme.
Firstly, costs will come down for most schools who use School Agreement, because you'll be counting staff, not computers. And in England, there's about two-thirds less staff than there are computers. We'll be able to tell you more about costs at BETT.
Secondly, if you normally buy your software on a perpetual license (eg Select), then switching to this will reduce your annual bill substantially, as well as making sure you're always licensed for the latest version, whenever you choose to use it. This means the decision of when you move to the latest version of Windows or Office can be dictated by your teaching and learning needs, not by cost. Of course, because it's a subscription, you have to pay the subscription fee every year, but when you see the costs nearer the time, you'll understand why it's wise to seriously consider a subscription.
Firstly, let me remind you that this is advance warning of a change coming on the 1st March 2011. So you can't get this new agreement now. But here's some advice on what you can do now:
You can see an updated comparison of the main schemes for Microsoft licensing for schools here
We have published more advance detail on the Microsoft EES scheme here
* The version of Microsoft Office 2010 that's included is Professional Plus , which includes Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OneNote, Publisher, Access and Lync (Full details here)
The Edublog awards have been around since 2004, recognising and rewarding the best blogs in education worldwide.
This year my blog has been nominated in the Best Elearning/Corporate Education Blog category, alongside a host of other good education blog sites (all of which can be seen here).
If you've ever written a blog yourself, you'll know it's a labour of love, especially when you're obsessing about trying to get every blog post relevant and useful. So it's always nice to see your efforts recognised. If you agree with the nomination team, that this deserves a pat on the back, then you can vote here for your favourite until 14th December
If you're looking for good eucation blogs to read (and vote for), then check out some of the other blog categories in the awards:
Monkseaton High School, Tyne and Wear are one of the many schools across the UK to have been badly hit by the weather. For them it was worse than just another snow day. Their building suffered, resulting in the three of its 100 roof panels becoming distorted - allowing water to come through and damage many of the school's computers (You can see the report about this on the North Tyneside Council website)
Of course the school has been closed whilst repairs are being made. Thousands of the schools and colleges in the country have had to also close, disrupting learning. Through innovative thinking, Monkseaton has been able to use their new IT systems to continue personalise learning, keeping students and parents informed, and continue teaching by sending out school work via e-mail and their web site
As a result, the number of students accessing the school website has increased dramatically in the last couple of days. It's a great demonstration of how IT can support learning to continue outside of the classroom in any situation.
Hopefully the bad weather won't last for too much longer although if it does, Monkseaton can continue to work around the problem and teach outside of the classroom on the next snow day.


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It's the same, except there's not a good way to verify you hit your seed. You would have to catch a wild pokemon and check its IV's, then see what seed you landed on through rng reporter. If you're trying to rng a stationary legend, then you have to calibrate as close as possible, then just keep trying until you get the right IV's and nature. Also, advancing the frame is more annoying, I think. You can use repels to keep track of your steps. :) Hope that helps, sorry it was kinda disorganized. ^^'
Hey wally haven't talked to you in a long time thought i would come scribble stuff on your wall :p Let's play pokemon again sometime ^^
Well I didn't call Lance, I actually used a rebattle code so I didn't have to advance the frame in front of the Elite 4.
I would just do Joey calls to be safe. The radio is too risky and it could throw your frames too far off. The Latios was certainly hard to RNG indeed. :)
Omg, you know what, I was editing my thread to put my own Lugia in it, and there I found your Lugia xD
Yes please :) I just hit my delay, which I checked with Elm Responses. I'm outside of Lugia's room, because inside I cannot make any phone calls, so I cannot check if I hit my delay. I'm faced towards the entrance, and the spread I want is on frame 48. Now what? I'm at frame 9 now
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Assuming you are on VBA... 1. Have the arrow pointed at sweet scent, and wait for the time to come. 2. When you are near the target (10 seconds or so), hit Ctrl + P to pause and save the game (Shift + F1-F10) 3. Hold Z or whatever you set A as, and hit Ctrl + P to unpause. 4. Check which frame the Pokemon from. Any problems?
Yeah sure, right now? Which Squirtle? I have 1 with Mirror Coat, Counter, Seismic Toss, Dynamic Punch. And another one with Mega Punch, Mega Kick, Counter, Body Slam.


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Apple and their minions toiling away in bowels of Cupertino's LSD-laden labs (I have no proof verifying the previous statement) have filed a new patent dealing with "smart kiosks" that interact with iOS devices.
The idea behind the Kiosks is simple, new iOS device users walk into an Apple Store, or Best Buy, (or just happen to see a kiosk at a bus stop) and all the new iOS owner wants to do is find the right accessories or apps for their device. The confounded customer would simply connect their device to the Kiosk, and the server, using a new determination server, the kiosk would supply a customized list of accessories and apps for the customer and their device.
How the kiosk connects to the device, and the kiosk's uses vary throughout the patent description. The kiosk could be positioned at trade-shows and provide useful information to curious iOS owners, it could also identify the users iOS device by a bar-code or serial number instead of connecting the device via a cable or dock.
Interacting with the Kiosk could be a familiar experience for iPhone 4S as well. While, not in the patent, Patently Apple does make the point that a kiosk of this nature begs for Siri to be implemented as a way of navigating and communicating. Apple has already implemented their hands free iOS checkout, and walk-in-grab-and-leave programs making possibility of a Siri-enabled smart kiosk very plausible.
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If they even did it, don't you think they'd have account and purchase security farther than a device scan of some sort? Like your iTunes password? Debit card pin? Somethin? Surely, a-holes with stolen phones won't be allowed to roam the streets, raggin out soccer mom bank accounts on Otter Boxes and Angry Birds at the local bus stop Apple kiosk.


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A new White House sanctioned group is setting out to turn Texas blue. The group is called Battleground Texas and it's made up of former Obama Campaign aides.
Their goal is to use what they learned during the president's campaigns to turn Texas into a battleground state that's more competitive for Democrats.
Battleground Texas says they are ready to get Lone Star Democrats fired up.
"For years on the Obama campaign, the Texas volunteers have been saying Texas can be a battleground state and now we're here to do that," says Jenn Brown, executive director of Battleground Texas.
Local Democrats welcome the movement but say the group isn't here to save them.
"It's not like in the old Western movies where the 7th cavalry is riding in to rescue us. The work has got to be done by Democrats who are here and are in place," says David Henderson, Smith County Democratic Party Chairman.
Henderson says the party's work starts with getting people to vote, "Democrats in the state of Texas are not outnumbered 60 to 40, we're simply out voted 60 to 40. A lot of the base of the Democratic Party are people who are working people, who are poorly educated, who we've got to get a message to to get out and vote."
Battleground Texas plans to do that through a grassroots approach, including person to person contact with voters.
A method JoAnn Fleming, executive director of Grassroots America, says Republicans should pay attention to, "I think they do a better job on working on things to turn out the vote sometimes than Republicans do and so I think Republicans as a whole have to get back to the basics."
Still, she thinks the group will have problems, "Texans are very independent minded and do not like for somebody to come in here and tell them how to run their business."
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Oatbarton was a town or village in the Northfarthing of the Shire. The Northway led from Oatbarton to the Great East Road.
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Oatbarton does not appear in the map A Part of the Shire therefore its location is unknown.
In The Atlas of Middle-earth, Karen Fonstad misread the name, which appears in small letters on a map by Tolkien. Her Atlas called the town "Oakbottom".
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- The Fellowship of the Ring, Map "A Part of the Shire"
- The History of The Hobbit: Return to Bag-End
- The Atlas of Middle-earth by Karen Wynn Fonstad


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Hello All,
Here is where Im at:
Android Version 2.2.1
Build vzw
System Version: 2.3.340.MB810.Verizon.en.US
NOT Rooted
I have had launcherPro for awhile.
I have the back up files:
I went into settings\Applications\Manage Applications and uninstalled LauncherPro
After doing this;
1) many of my apps will not launch with a message "App is not installed on your phone"
some of these apps and maybe all of the problem ones had been moved to the SD Card... not sure if thats part of the problem
2) Market works well except it will not install anything.
I can search for an app, view the app info, tell the app to install, approve the setting, then press OK and thats is far as it will go
3) settings\Applications\Manage Applications is having problems with computing the size of apps (Total, Application, Data, cache)
What steps do I need to fix the above issues
Thanks in advance
(Sorry if I have post this question under the wrong topic)
Since posting this problem:
I removed the SD Card and problem 2 & 3 are working proper
2) I went to the Market and successfully installed an app
3) Applications Manager working correctly
All seems well, so far, except for the apps that I had moved to the SD Card (remember I have it removed at this time)
So, New Question:
What would be my next step to clean up my SD Card so that can insert it and boot the phone with it in?
(one Idea I have is to:
copy the SD Card data to my home PC
then format the card
re-insert it into phone
boot phone allowing it to rebuild the SD Card
then move all my App Back-up files (apks) over to it
reinstall all my apps that had moved to my SD card to run
But is there an easier way?)


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"The four most expensive words in the English language are, "This time it's different." - Sir John Templeton (1912-2008)
Sir John Templeton, the legendary investor turned philanthropist, died last month in the Bahamas at the age of 95. Counted among the all-time investing heavyweights, Sir John was a contrarian investor, casually defined as one who buys while the market sells.
As you may have read, Sir John began investing at the onset of World War II by borrowing $10,000 and purchasing roughly 100 different stocks, more than a third of them were in bankruptcy at the time. While the rest of the world population was fearful, having barely recovered from the Great World War, Sir John went against the grain. His personal philosophy, one he would retain throughout his investing life, was to buy stocks at a "point of maximum pessimism," when the vast preponderance of investors had already cut and run.
The approach of such financial gurus as Warren Buffet and Sir John Templeton is to invest your money for the long-term in the unstoppable force that is the U.S. economy. The stock market is not a bingo parlor, a racetrack or a casino; it is where the companies of the U.S. (which are becoming increasingly global) come to raise capital for new facilities, projects and products by allowing you and me to become investors of said companies.
How is it then that the Templetons and Buffets of the world seem to be so rare? Why is it that the historic average mutual fund investor makes only 3 percent on investments while historically mutual funds have earned somewhere in the neighborhood of 10 percent? If you examine them closely, you will find that nearly every successful financial guru had the benefit of professional management (either their own or someone else's) coupled with a patient, long-term view on the market.
When the markets swing one way or another the natural human reaction is to either cash in on the trend or run from it. In financial parlance, they say the market is alternatively driven by "fear" or "greed." In order to track the performance of people who attempt to time the market, Dalbar, a financial services research firm established a measurement known as the "guess right" ratio. The guess right ratio checks mutual fund net inflows and outflows versus market performance to see how they stack up. If you invested in the market and it went up, you scored a point; likewise, if you pulled money from the market and the market went down, you scored a point. In both cases, your decision to act affected your portfolio positively, by making yourself money or preventing yourself from losing money.
So how did the market timers fare? The answer is: depends. In periods of rising markets investors guessed correctly. As the market was going up, they felt good about the U.S. equity markets and rode the wave of momentum. In down markets (1988-89, 2002) they guessed incorrectly; three out of four of investors, reacting to the markets, guessed wrong in 1988 and 2002! Once they began to lose principal, fear took hold as they fell into the mistaken believe that "this time is different" and lost confidence (and money) in almost equal amounts.
Those who do not learn their history
The most recent "crisis" to hit the U.S. economy has been the popping of the real estate bubble, followed up by the credit/liquidity crunch. People began to default on their homes and the proverbial "house of cards" came tumbling down with disastrous financial consequences. Example: Bear Stearns stock price, which went from $50/share to $2/share in the span of two weeks.
Here's the best part: None of that should matter to you because this time is not different. If you put a list of disasters from your lifetime in a row it sounds like a Billy Joel song (Asian flu, Enron, 9/11, dot-com, housing bubble, Gulf War, the S&L's went bust, Black Monday, stagflation, oil crisis, Vietnam, North Korea, World War II). In the moment each seemed like a crisis of insurmountable proportions and we were told "This time is different" - the end of the world was nigh. Every time the broad equity market rebounded with vigor and rose higher than it had been before the crisis, proving that notion false.
We may have lost Sir John, but that doesn't mean we have to lose one of the lessons he taught us: your personal behavior in the financial markets is a key component to your success. If you have a well-diversified portfolio that matches your risk tolerance and objectives, which is continually being monitored and rebalanced along the way, then why would you tinker with it? Why not embrace the one investment strategy, patience and courage, that time and time again, has proved its worth.
Market cycles like the rising and setting of the sun will happen no matter what we the government or anyone tries to do to prevent them. However, in the dozen or so bear markets since World War II, when the market recovered, it was the investor who was rewarded, not the panicked seller. It's trying times like now where more people are guessing wrong than right that you need to stick to your plan, listen to your advisor, tune out the "noise" generated by the media and ask yourself: Are you more like the herd or more like Sir John?
James Hallett is a registered investment advisor and is president of Hallett & Associates, Port Angeles. His column appears the first and third Wednesday of the month.
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September 20, 2011
3:30 pm
In Sunday's win against the Minnesota Vikings rookie linebacker Mason Foster had the best game of his young Buccaneers career. Head coach Raheem Morris praised the maturation of Foster in his Monday press conference.
Buccaneers rookie LB Mason Foster showed signs of coming of age on Sunday in Tampa Bay's 24-20 win over the Minnesota Vikings. Foster recorded 10 tackles, one sack and a forced fumble in just his second NFL start, impressing head coach Raheem Morris.
"That Adrian Peterson guy is different [from running backs Foster faced in college] now," Morris said. "He's a different guy, I think you all know that. But to have 10 tackles, a sack, a forced fumble, and to play with the energy that he played with time in and time out, of course he had a couple of mistakes, no doubt about it, that's just like my whole football team.
"They're going to have mistakes, but [it's] the understanding of those mistakes and his ability to come off and correct those things. He's really showing growth and his development. It's well beyond his years. It's awesome."
While Foster was pleased getting his first sack, the rookie admitted that he really didn't put much thought into it until after it happened.
"[You] really don't think about it, though, when you're playing," Foster said. "It's kind of like one of those things [where] you just make a play, but then after you're thinking about it [being against] a great quarterback you watched growing up and making a play on it, it's exciting."
The rookie, who played his college football at Washington, sees the improvements he has made since becoming the starting middle linebacker for the Buccaneers. He knows he still needs to improve in areas, but he is willing to work hard and put in the effort to do so.
"I thought I got better," Foster said. "I still had some mistakes I shouldn't make, but at the same time I'm still learning. I want to come out and play as hard as I can. I feel like getting the sack, forcing fumbles, and running around and making plays here and there shows that I was playing hard. I'm just going to keep improving [and] keep staying in my playbook."
The Buccaneers' come-from-behind victory over the Vikings on Sunday was huge. It's a major morale boost for the team, given the negative historical statistics and stigma surrounding 0-2 starts. Foster agreed that the feeling was great experiencing his first regular season victory.
"Yes, definitely," Foster said. "The goal is to win and [we] went out there and fought hard and came out with the W, so there is no better feeling than that."
This coming Sunday, Foster and his teammates will welcome their NFC rivals, the Atlanta Falcons, to Raymond James Stadium.
When asked about Michael Turner, Foster acknowledged that he is one of the toughest running backs in the league. Foster is also well aware of how good the Falcons offense can be, but he accepts the challenge.
"He's a great running back," Foster said. "Runs hard and breaks a lot of tackles. Again, it's the NFL. I'm excited to play a good running back, good O-line, great tight ends… it's going to be a challenge, but that's why you love playing."


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BRADEN RIVER — Five months ago, doctors told Dylan Lee he wouldn't be able to take the baseball field this spring.
After tearing his anterior cruciate ligament during football season, the Braden River High senior outfielder and first baseman assumed the worst.
"The doctors told me no baseball, so I thought, 'If I can't play then that (means) no scholarship,'" Lee says.
But, after five months of an intense rehabilitation regimen, Lee is back on the diamond and ready to help lead the Pirates to what he hopes will be a state title run.
In addition to defying the odds and making it back in time for his senior season, Lee also secured his childhood dream of earning a college scholarship.
On Jan. 24, Lee signed a national letter of intent to play baseball for St. Johns River State College in Palatka.
"It's a relaxing feeling (knowing) I don't have to think so much when I play this year," Lee says.
Lee, who plans to study medicine or education next year, wanted to play for the Junior College Athletic Association and liked the coaches' loyalty, not only to the baseball program, but to the school, itself.
He began playing baseball when he was 3 years old, and it wasn't long before he developed a passion for the game.
Then, nine years after he first walked onto the diamond, Lee played arguably one of his best games: He hit a pair of home runs and pitched a no-hitter in the same game in Cooperstown Dreams Park.
"I was 12 years old, so I didn't think it was a big deal at the time," Lee says.
Since then, he has become one of the Pirates' most dominant hitters. He holds the school record of seven home runs.
"I just like the feeling of having all of the attention on me when I'm up to bat," Lee says.
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When you have multiple sclerosis (MS), the long list of treatment options may seem overwhelming. How will you find what works for you? What if your symptoms change?
While there's no cure for MS, there's plenty of reason for hope. Treatments available today address many aspects of the disease. In fact, your physician has four main goals when treating your MS:
Modify the course of the disease.
Treat flare-ups.
Control symptoms.
Improve physical function.
When treatments target each of these goals, they can greatly improve your well-being and overall quality of life. Here's a closer look at how different treatments achieve those goals.
Goal #1: Modify the Course of the Disease
Disease-modifying agents are medications that reduce disease activity and slow the progression of MS. They're most often used for relapsing forms of MS, which are characterized by a flare-up of symptoms followed by periods of remission. These medications reduce the frequency and severity of those flare-ups.
Each drug works a little differently, so together with your doctor you can decide which is best for you, based on your disease characteristics and health history. There are currently 10 FDA-approved disease-modifying medications for MS. They are:
Aubagio (teriflunomide), a daily pill
Avonex (interferon beta-1a), a weekly injection
Betaseron (interferon), an injection taken every other day
Copaxone (glatiramer), a daily injection
Extavia (interferon beta-1b), an injection taken every other day
Gilenya (fingolimod), a daily pill
Novantrone (mitoxantrone), an IV infusion taken four times a year
Rebif (interferon beta-1a), an injection taken three times per week
Tecfidera (dimethyl fumarate), a twice-daily pill
Tysabri (natalizumab), an IV infusion taken every four weeks
Goal #2: Treat Flare-Ups
When you do have a flare-up of MS symptoms, corticosteroids are the most common treatment because of their anti-inflammatory properties. Not all flare-ups need medication. But if your symptoms significantly interfere with your ability to function in your daily life, your doctor may suggest a course of corticosteroids.
Treatment for a flare-up often involves a 3- to 5-day course of high-dose corticosteroids administered intravenously. You may be able to receive the IV medication as an outpatient, either at home or in your doctor's office. Some people may need to be hospitalized for this treatment.
Goal #3: Control Symptoms
There are a wide range of symptoms that can occur with MS, and they vary from person to person. With time, the symptoms you experience can change, too. As a result, the medications used to manage MS symptoms depend on which ones you're experiencing. Here's a brief overview of some of the types of medications used to treat different symptoms.
Ampyra (dalfampridine)—helps walking speed and leg strength
Antivert (meclizine)—helps control nausea, vomiting, and dizziness
Cymbalta (duloxetine)—for depression and pain
Detrol (tolterodine), Minipress (prazosin), and Oxytrol (oxybutynin)—for bladder dysfunction
Nydrazid (ixoniazid)—controls tremors
Levitra (vardenafil)—for erectile dysfunction
Goal #4: Improve Physical Function
As part of your treatment, you may participate in several forms of rehabilitation to help improve how you function in different aspects of your life. Rehabilitation programs, such as physical and occupational therapy, may focus on activities you need to be able to do at home or at work such as showering, cooking, and walking up stairs. If you experience memory or other cognitive problems, cognitive rehabilitation can help. With MS, you may develop problems with speech and swallowing; there's therapy for that, too.
Beyond Medical Treatments
You may find that certain types of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) help with the physical and emotional changes you experience with MS. Some of these options include acupuncture, yoga, biofeedback, naturopathy, and others. Discuss CAM options with your doctor to find what may work best for you in conjunction with the other treatments you receive.


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Um...a sneeze?What exactly is a sneeze you ask? Well, there are different definitions for that word. One, from the Merriam-Webster Dictionary, says:: to make a sudden violent spasmodic audible expiration of breath through the nose and mouth especially as a reflex act Or there is the made-up definition used for this site: :a fact that is completely useless. Nobody needs to know it, but everybody wants to anyway. That is the goal of SNEEZE. To branch out to the world, educating them about the importance(or should I say, unimportance) of sneezes. So join me in this quest! Help collect precious sneezes and gather them here on SNEEZE. Together we can make the useless into the useful. (By the way, zebras are black with white stripes. One mystery of the modern world down, five gazzilion more to go.)
Finally! The Sneezes shall begin!Mysteries of the Modern World~Zebras are black with white stripes.~According to the Book of Genesis 1:20-22, the chicken came before the egg. Firsts~The first product to have a bar code was Wrigley's gum.The Human Body~Our eyes never grow, but our nose and ears never stop growing.~A sneeze can exceed the speed of 100 mph. ~The most common blood type in the world is type O. ~The rarest blood type in the world is type A-H, less than 12 people have it. ~Fingernails grow nearly 4 times faster than toenails. ~Every time you sneeze, all your internal organs completely stop for a second. ~If jello is hooked up to an electroencephalogram (EEG), it would measure the same brainwaves as the average adult human, since it jiggles. ~In one year, the human body sheds eight pounds of skin cells. ~The brain is much more active at night than during the day. ~The brain Itself cannot feel pain. ~Everyday the average person tends to lose 60-100 strands of hair. ~The acid in your stomach is strong enough to dissolve razorblades. ~When you blush, the inside of your stomach turns red as well. ~Humans blink over 10,000,000 times a year! ~A baby does not develope fingerprints until eighteen weeks. ~You are taller at night than in the morning, and taller in the winter than the summer. ~The average human brain has about 100 billion nerve cells. ~The average cough comes out of your mouth at 60 miles (96.5 km) per hour. ~Human thigh bones are stronger than concrete. ~Your hair and fingernails DO NOT grow after you die (as this requires the generation of new cells, it's physically impossible). Instead, after death your body begins to dehydrate and your feet, hands and scalp shrink, revealing more of the nail and hair, giving the impression of growth, but no actual growth. ~More calories are wasted by sleeping than sitting and watching TV. ~Humans have two gallons of blood in their body. Animals~Some lions mate 50 times a day.~Hummingbirds are the only animals that can fly backwards. ~Elephants are the only mammals that can't jump. ~All polar bears are left-handed. ~Cats are the only animals who can't 'float' in space. ~It takes a sloth 15 minutes to cross a 4-lane street. ~A polarbear's skin is black. ~The study of horses is 'hippology'. ~The ears of a cricket are located on the front legs, just below the knee. ~Elephants are the only animals with four knees. ~possible to lead a cow upstairs but not down. ~Bears walk flat footed like humans do rather than on their toes like most animals. ~The oldest living goldish, named Fred, lived to be 41. ~Cockroaches can live for 9 days after their head has been cut off. ~A cat has 32 muscles in each ear. ~Certain frogs can be frozen solid then thawed, and continue living. ~The most money ever paid for a cow in an auction was $1.3 million. ~Canadian Hairless cats have hair. ~Cats have two eyelids on each eye. ~The scientific name for a Gorilla is Gorilla gorilla gorilla. ~Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur. ~You are more likely to get attacked by a cow than a shark. ~Porcupines float in water. ~Cryptozoology is the study of "hidden" animals. (like werewolves and Bigfoot and vampires) ~Besides humans, elephants are the only land animal that can cry. Literate~No word rhymes with month, purple, orange or silver in American English. (There are some words in British dialect)~The dot over the letter "i" is called a tittle. ~"Almost" is the longest word with all the letters in alphabetical order. ~The longest one-syllable word is "screeched." ~Satan is an anagram of Santa. ~Dreamt is the only word ending in "mt." ~In the Scottish language Gaidhlig (Gaelic), there is no word for 'yes' or 'no'. ~The French words 'eau' [water] and 'oui' [yes] have no consonants. ~The name of all the continents end with the same letter that they start with. ~In the original Aladdin story in Tales of 1001 Arabian Nights begins, 'Aladdin was a little Chinese boy.' ~The longest word in the English language has over 1,000 letters and is the word for a certain section of DNA. ~The study of stupidity is called monology. ~The symbol on the "pound" key (#) is called an octothorpe. ~Ernest Vincent Weight wrote the fifty-thousand word novel, Gatsby, without any word containing the letter 'e'. ~Sherlock Holmes never said "Elementary, my dear Watson." ~Of all the words in the English language, the word set has the most definitions. ~The letter 'W' is the only letter in the alphabet that does not have 1 syllable. ~The oldest word in the English language is 'town'. ~The Eskimo language has more than twenty words to describe different kinds of snow. ~Stressed is Desserts spelled backwards. ~A dentiloquist is someone who speaks with his teeth closed. ~Dysania is the state of finding it hard to get out of bed. LONGEVITY
The world's longest name is: Adolph Blaine Charles Daivid Earl Frederick Gerald Hubert Irvin John Kenneth Lloyd Martin Nero Oliver Paul Quincy Randolph Sherman Thomas Uncas Victor William Xerxes Yancy Zeus Wolfesschlegelsteinhausenbergerdorft Sr.
Crazy Laws In Phoenix, Arizona, you can't walk through a hotel lobby with spurs on.
In California, a law created in 1925 makes it illegal to wiggle while dancing. In Utah, daylight must be visible between dancing couples. In Michigan, it is against the law for a lady to lift her skirt more than 6 inches while walking through a mud puddle. In North Carolina, it is against the law for a rabbit to race down the street. In Georgia, it's against the law to spread a false rumor. In West Virginia, one can't cook sauerkraut or cabbage due to the odors and the offence is subject to imprisonment. In Missouri, a man must have a permit to shave. The law states that more than 3000 sheep cannot be herded down Hollywood Blvd. at any one time. In Texas, it is still a "hanging offense" to steal cattle. In North Carolina, it is against the law for dogs and cats to fight. In Cleveland, Ohio, it is unlawful to leave chewing gum in public places. In Virginia, chickens cannot lay eggs before 8:00 a.m., and must be done before 4:00 p.m. In Massachusetts, it is against the law to put tomatos in clam chowder. In San Francisco, there is an ordinance, which bans the picking up and throwing of used confetti. In Kentucky, it is illegal for a merchant to force a person into his place of business for the purpose of making a sale. It is against the law in Connecticut for a man to write love letters to a girl whose mother or father has forbidden the relationship. In Michigan, married couples must live together or be imprisoned. In Rochester, Michigan, the law is that anyone bathing in public must have the bathing suit inspected by a police officer ! In Kentucky, it's the law that a person must take a bath once a year. In Utah, birds have the right of way on any public highway. In Ohio, one must have a license to keep a bear. In Tennessee, a law exists which prohibits the sale of bologna (sandwich meat) on Sunday. In Virginia, the Code of 1930 has a statute which prohibits corrupt practices or bribery by any person other than political candidates. In Providence, Rhode Island, it is against the law to jump off a bridge. In the State of Kansas, you're not allowed to drive a buffalo through a street. In Florida, it is against the law to put livestock on a school bus. In New Jersey, cabbage can't be sold on Sunday. In Galveston, Texas, it is illegal to have a camel run loose in the street! In Texas, it's against the law for anyone to have a pair of pliers in his or her possession. In Philadelphia, you can't put pretzels in bags based on an Act of 1760. Alaska law says that you can't look at a moose from an airplane. In Corpus Christie, Texas, it is illegal to raise alligators in your home. In Miami, it is forbidden to imitate an animal. It is against the law to mispronounce the name of the State of Arkansas in that State. In Illinois, the law is that a car must be driven with the steering wheel. California law prohibits a woman from driving a car while dressed in a housecoat. In Memphis, Tennessee, a woman is not to drive a car unless a man warns approaching motorists or pedestrians by walking in front of the car that is being driven. In Tennessee, it is against the law to drive a car while sleeping. In New York, it is against the law for a blind person to drive an automobile. In West Virginia, only babies can ride in a baby carriage. In Georgia, it is against the law to slap a man on the back or front. A barber is not to advertise prices in the State of Georgia. In Louisiana, a bill was introduced years ago in the State House of Representatives that fixed a ceiling on haircuts for bald men of 25 cents. In Oklahoma, no baseball team can hit the ball over the fence or out of a ballpark. In Jasmine, Saskatchewan, it is illegal for a cow to moo within 300 kilometers of a private home. ~In Cleveland, Ohio it is illegal to catch mice without a hunting license. ~In York, excluding Sundays, it is legal to shoot a Scotsman with a bow and arrow. People~Walt Disney was afraid of mice.~Mel Blanc, the man who did the voice of Bugs Bunny, was allergic to carrots. ~When Albert Einstein died, his final words died with him. The nurse at his side didn't understand German. ~The PETA voted Marilyn Manson worst-dressed because he said he never takes off is leather cow-skin pants. ~In 1976, a Los Angeles secretary named Jannene Swift officially married a fifty-pound rock. The ceremony was witnessed by more than 20 people. ~There are +1200 bones in the basement of one of Benjeman Franklin's houses. ~Peter the great issued a tax for people with beards. Scientists say...~Scientists say the higher your I.Q, the more you dream.~If a tree falls in the forest and no one is there to hear it, does it make a sound? Scientists have been pondering this for years. Miscellaneous~Lying is one of the most common ways people start a conversation.~The plastic things on the end of shoelaces are called aglets. ~A toothpick is the object most often choked on by Americans. ~Most toilets flush in the key of E Flat. ~A car traveling 100 mph would take more than 29 million years to reach the nearest star. ~The king of hearts is the only king without a moustache. ~English gambling dens used to have employees whose job was to swallow the dice if police arrived. ~Australia is considered the easiest continent to defend in a game of Risk. ~Mario, of Nintendo, first appeared in th 1981 arcade game Donkey Kong. His original name was Jumpman. ~The Looney Tunes theme song is called "The Merry-Go-Round is Broken Down". ~Mickey Mouses ears are always turned to the front, no matter which way his head is pointing. ~The Black Cauldron is the only PG Disney animated movie. ~The face of a penny can hold thirty drops of water. ~If you took a standard Slinky and stretched it out, it would measure 87 ft. ~The yo-yo originated in the Philuppines, where it is used as a weapon in hunting. ~The hundred billionth crayon made by Crayola was Periwinkle Blue. ~Before the 1800s, there were no seprately designed shoes for the left and right feet ~Forest fires move faster uphill than down. ~Oology is the study of eggs. ~If you break off the middle two spikes in a spork, it becomes Batman. ~The numbers '172' can be found on the back of the U.S. $5 dollar bill in the bushes at the base of the Lincoln Memorial. ~On the new hundred dollar bill the time on the clock tower of Independence Hall is 4:10. ~The average major league career of a baseball is 5 to 7 pitches. PhobiasMy two personal favorites: Hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliophobia is the fear of long words.Phobophobia is the fear of phobias(fear).
Aichmophobia - Fear of needles or pointed objects.
Amaxophobia - Fear of riding in a car. Androphobia - Fear of men. Anthrophobia - Fear of flowers. Anthropophobia - Fear of people or society. Aphenphosmphobia - Fear of being touched. Arachibutyrophobia- Fear of peanut butter sticking to the roof of one's mouth. Arachnophobia - Fear of spiders. Arithmophobia - Fear of numbers. Ataxophobia - Fear of disorder or untidiness. Atelophobia - Fear of imperfection. Atychiphobia - Fear of failure. Autophobia - Fear of being alone. Bacteriophobia - Fear of bacteria. Barophobia - Fear of gravity. Batrachophobia - Fear of amphibians. Belonephobia - Fear of pins and needles. Bibliophobia - Fear of books. Botanophobia - Fear of plants. Cacophobia - Fear of ugliness. Catagelophobia - Fear of being ridiculed. Catoptrophobia - Fear of mirrors. Chionophobia - Fear of snow. Chromophobia - Fear of colors. Chronomentrophobia - Fear of clocks. Consecotaleophobia- Fear of chopsticks. Coulrophobia - Fear of clowns. Cyberphobia - Fear of computers. Dendrophobia - Fear of trees. Dentophobia - Fear of dentists. Domatophobia - Fear of houses. phebiphobia - Fear of teenagers. Gamophobia - Fear of marriage. Genuphobia - Fear of knees. Gynophobia - Fear of women. Heliophobia - Fear of the sun. Hypnophobia - Fear of hypnotism Iatrophobia - Fear of doctors. Insectophobia - Fear of insects. Koinoniphobia - Fear of rooms. Leukophobia - Fear of the color white . Lockiophobia - Fear of childbirth. Mageirocophobia - Fear of cooking. Megalophobia - Fear of large things. Melanophobia - Fear of the color black. Microphobia - Fear of small things. Mysophobia - Fear of dirt and germs. Necrophobia - Fear of death or dead things . Noctiphobia - Fear of the night. Nosocomephobia - Fear of hospitals. Obesophobia - Fear of gaining weight. Octophobia - Fear of the figure 8. Odontophobia- Fear of teeth. Ombrophobia - Fear of rain. Ommetaphobia- Fear of eyes. Odontophobia- Fear of teeth. Ophidiophobia - Fear of snakes. Ornithophobia - Fear of birds. Papyrophobia - Fear of paper. Pathophobia - Fear of disease. Pedophobia - Fear of children. Philophobia - Fear of love. Podophobia - Fear of feet. Pogonophobia- Fear of beards Porphyrophobia - Fear of the color purple. Pteridophobia - Fear of ferns. Pteromerhanophobia - Fear of flying. Pyrophobia- Fear of fire. Scolionophobia - Fear of school. Selenophobia - Fear of the moon. Sociophobia - Fear of social evaluation. Somniphobia - Fear of sleep. Tachophobia - Fear of speed. Technophobia - Fear of technology. Triskaidekaphobia- Fear of 13 Trypanophobia - Fear of injections. Venustraphobia - Fear of beautiful women. Verminophobia - Fear of germs. Wiccaphobia - Fear of witches and witchcraft. Xenophobia - Fear of strangers or foreigners. Zoophobia - Fear of animals. |
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The House will vote today on a measure that will raise the nation's limit on debt to $16.7 trillion. But don't expect it to to pass.
Today's vote is really just for show - as Republicans want to demonstrate that they are not going to raise the debt limit without some significant spending cuts - and so far, there has been no real progress on such a deal.
The bill on the schedule today in the House is a pretty simple one:
"A BILL To implement the President's request to increase the statutory limit on the public debt.
"Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, SECTION 1. FINDING.
"The Congress finds that the President's budget proposal, Budget of the United States Government, Fiscal 6 Year 2012, necessitates an increase in the statutory debt limit of $2,406,000,000,000.
"Subsection (b) of section 3101 of title 31, United States Code, is amended by striking out the dollar limitation contained in such subsection and inserting in lieu thereof $16,700,000,000,000."
The translation of that - this bill would increase the national debt by $2.4 trillion to $16.7 trillion. Again - it's not going to go anywhere, because most - if not all - Republicans will vote against it. And they may be joined by a number of Democrats.
Over the weekend, Republicans moved up consideration of the debt limit bill to today, and also put it on the special "suspension" calendar, which means the bill would need a two-thirds supermajority in order to be approved, instead of a simple majority of House members.
GOP leaders have been consistent in what they say they will accept on the debt limit, as they want cuts in spending as part of any bill to allow for more borrowing.
"That means no debt limit increase without meaningful budget reforms and serious spending cuts in excess of any increase in the debt limit," says Speaker John Boehner.
Negotiations on that continue with Vice President Biden leading high level talks.
The basic deadline for action is in early August, which means that more public maneuvering is fully expected in the weeks ahead - especially in late July.
But as I point out in my other blog today, the House and Senate are in session at the same time only five of the next ten weeks. That could make it even more difficult to find common ground on the budget and debt limit issues.
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DALLAS - On Monday morning, West Virginia University mascot Jonathan Kimble was standing among his costumed peers inside the Westin Galleria when the Oklahoma Sooners arrived.
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There were gasps and laughs, smiles and winces and then a reply from Oklahoma Coach Bob Stoops.
"We'll be there," he said.
A day later, Oklahoma State Coach Mike Gundy was in the middle of his press conference when a hollering from the hallway shattered the respectful silence inside a room filled with journalists.
"Let's go, Mountaineers!"
Gundy flinched, ever so slightly, and continued. A few moments later, another interruption arrived from a room to the right.
It was Kimble and center Joe Madsen singing the WVU fight song.
"Some of the cheerleaders were having a competition for what we do for a touchdown," Madsen said.
"Well, I scored a touchdown, which was pretty exciting, so I spiked the ball and did a little dance and then the Mountaineer and I did some pushups and sang for everyone. It was fun."
This noise lasted a little longer, so Gundy was forced to speak over the song, which he did with more pride than problems.
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Let it be known the Mountaineers wasted no time causing trouble in the Big 12.
They came here with a purpose, and while they didn't intend to do it by singling out opponents or rattling coaches, they wanted their peers to know they were very much a part of this conference.
Being invited is one thing. Belonging is another.
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Distinct Missense Mutations of the FGFR3 Lys650 Codon Modulate Receptor Kinase Activation and the Severity of the Skeletal Dysplasia Phenotype The American Journal of Human Genetics, Volume 67, Issue 6, 1 December 2000, Pages 1411-1421 Gary A. Bellus, Elaine B. Spector, Phyllis W. Speiser, Christine A. Weaver, Anthony T. Garber, Christine R. Bryke, Jamie Israel, Sally S. Rosengren, Melanie K. Webster, Daniel J. Donoghue and Clair A. Francomano Abstract The fibroblast growth factor–receptor 3 (FGFR3) Lys650 codon is located within a critical region of the tyrosine kinase–domain activation loop. Two missense mutations in this codon are known to result in strong constitutive activation of the FGFR3 tyrosine kinase and cause three different skeletal dysplasia syndromes—thanatophoric dysplasia type II (TD2) (A1948G [Lys650Glu]) and SADDAN (severe achondroplasia with developmental delay and acanthosis nigricans) syndrome and thanatophoric dysplasia type I (TD1) (both due to A1949T [Lys650Met]). Other mutations within the FGFR3 tyrosine kinase domain (e.g., C1620A or C1620G [both resulting in Asn540Lys]) are known to cause hypochondroplasia, a relatively common but milder skeletal dysplasia. In 90 individuals with suspected clinical diagnoses of hypochondroplasia who do not have Asn540Lys mutations, we screened for mutations, in FGFR3 exon 15, that would disrupt a unique BbsI restriction site that includes the Lys650 codon. We report here the discovery of three novel mutations (G1950T and G1950C [both resulting in Lys650Asn] and A1948C [Lys650Gln]) occurring in six individuals from five families. Several physical and radiological features of these individuals were significantly milder than those in individuals with the Asn540Lys mutations. The Lys650Asn/Gln mutations result in constitutive activation of the FGFR3 tyrosine kinase but to a lesser degree than that observed with the Lys540Glu and Lys650Met mutations. These results demonstrate that different amino acid substitutions at the FGFR3 Lys650 codon can result in several different skeletal dysplasia phenotypes. Abstract | Full Text | PDF (1123 kb) |
Diaphyseal Medullary Stenosis with Malignant Fibrous Histiocytoma: a Hereditary Bone Dysplasia/Cancer Syndrome Maps to 9p21-22 The American Journal of Human Genetics, Volume 64, Issue 3, 1 March 1999, Pages 801-807 John A. Martignetti, Robert J. Desnick, Elias Aliprandis, Karen I. Norton, Philip Hardcastle, Sydney Nade and Bruce D. Gelb Abstract Summary Diaphyseal medullary stenosis with malignant fibrous histiocytoma (DMS-MFH) is an autosomal dominant bone dysplasia/cancer syndrome of unknown etiology. This rare hereditary cancer syndrome is characterized by bone infarctions, cortical growth abnormalities, pathological fractures, and eventual painful debilitation. Notably, 35% of individuals with DMS develop MFH, a highly malignant bone sarcoma. A genome scan for the DMS-MFH gene locus in three unrelated families with DMS-MFH linked the syndrome to a region of ∼3 cM on chromosome 9p21-22, with a maximal two-point LOD score of 5.49 (marker D9S171 at recombination fraction [θ] .05). Interestingly, this region had previously been shown to be the site of chromosomal abnormalities in several other malignancies and contains a number of genes whose protein products are involved in growth regulation. Identification of this rare familial sarcoma-causing gene would be expected to simultaneously define the cause of the more common nonfamilial, or sporadic, form of MFH—a tumor that constitutes ∼6% of all bone cancers and is the most frequently occurring adult soft-tissue sarcoma. Abstract | Full Text | PDF (1018 kb) |
Brachydactyly Type B: Linkage to Chromosome 9q22 and Evidence for Genetic Heterogeneity The American Journal of Human Genetics, Volume 64, Issue 2, 1 February 1999, Pages 578-585 Michael Oldridge, I. Karen Temple, Heloisa G. Santos, Richard J. Gibbons, Zehra Mustafa, Kay E. Chapman, John Loughlin and Andrew O.M. Wilkie Abstract Summary Brachydactyly type B (BDB), an autosomal dominant disorder, is the most severe of the brachydactylies and is characterized by hypoplasia or absence of the terminal portions of the index to little fingers, usually with absence of the nails. The thumbs may be of normal length but are often flattened and occasionally are bifid. The feet are similarly but less severely affected. We have performed a genomewide linkage analysis of three families with BDB, two English and one Portugese. The two English families show linkage to the same region on chromosome 9 (combined multipoint maximum LOD score 8.69 with marker D9S257). The 16-cM disease interval is defined by recombinations with markers D9S1680 and D9S1786. These two families share an identical disease haplotype over 18 markers, inclusive of D9S278–D9S280. This provides strong evidence that the English families have the same ancestral mutation, which reduces the disease interval to <12.7 cM between markers D9S257 and D9S1851 in chromosome band 9q22. In the Portuguese family, we excluded linkage to this region, a result indicating that BDB is genetically heterogeneous. Reflecting this, there were atypical clinical features in this family, with shortening of the thumbs and absence or hypoplasia of the nails of the thumb and hallux. These results enable a refined classification of BDB and identify a novel locus for digit morphogenesis in 9q22. Abstract | Full Text | PDF (733 kb) |
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The American Journal of Human Genetics, Volume 63, Issue 1, 155-162, 1 July 1998
Sarina G. Kant1, Alexander Polinkovsky4, Stefan Mundlos6, Bernhard Zabel6, Ralph T.W.M. Thomeer2, Harmien M. Zonderland3, Ling-yu Shih7, Arie van Haeringen1 and Matthew L. Warman4, 5, ,
1 Department of Clinical Genetics,
2 Department of Neurosurgery, and
3 Department of Radiology, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands;
4 Department of Genetics, Case Western Reserve University, and
5 Center for Human Genetics, University Hospitals of Cleveland, Cleveland;
6 Universitätskinderklinik, University of Mainz, Mainz, Germany; and
7 Center for Human and Molecular Genetics, University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, Newark
Acromesomelic dysplasias are skeletal disorders that disproportionately affect the middle and distal segments of the appendicular skeleton. We report genetic mapping studies in four families with acromesomelic dysplasia Maroteaux type (AMDM), an autosomal recessive osteochondrodysplasia. A peak LOD score of 5.1 at recombination fraction 0 was obtained with fully informative markers on human chromosome 9. In three of the four families, the affected offspring are products of consanguineous marriages; if it is assumed that these affected offspring are homozygous by descent for the region containing the AMDM locus, a 6.9-cM AMDM candidate interval can be defined by markers D9S1853 and D9S1874. The mapping of the AMDM locus to human chromosome 9 indicates that AMDM is genetically distinct from the two other mapped acromesomelic dysplasias, Hunter-Thompson type and Grebe type, which are caused by mutations in CDMP1 on human chromosome 20.