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SoVaNow.com / July 31, 2013Clarksville is hosting the 30th annual National Night on Tuesday, Aug. 6, part of a national and local effort to put an end to crime. This year's event is in the parking lot behind Wells Fargo, and will include bluegrass music by Higrass, a moon bounce for the children, refreshments, prizes, school supplies, educational material, and much more.
The crime and drug prevention event is sponsored by the National Association of Town Watch (NATW) and co-sponsored locally by the Mecklenburg County Domestic Violence & Sexual Assault Coalition. This year's corporate sponsors are Target, Nextdoor.com, and Associa.
From 6-8 p.m., people throughout Mecklenburg County, but especially in Clarksville, are asked to lock their doors, turn on outside lights and spend the evening outside with neighbors and police. Everyone in Mecklenburg County is invited and encouraged to participate.
National Night Out is designed to: heighten crime and drug prevention awareness; generate support for, and participation in, local anticrime efforts; strengthen neighborhood spirit and police-community partnerships; and send a message to criminals letting them know neighborhoods are organized and fighting back. Over 15,325 communities from all 50 states, U.S. territories, Canadian cities and military bases around the world are expected to join in the event. In all, over 37.5 million people are expected to participate in "America's Night Out Against Crime."
In Mecklenburg County, the responsibility for hosting the National Night Out moves from town to town each year. Last year, South Hill's Centennial Park was the site for the local celebration of National Night Out.
National Project Coordinator Matt Peskin said, "This is a night for America to stand together to promote awareness, safety, and neighborhood unity. National Night Out showcases the vital importance of police-community partnerships and citizen involvement in our fight to build a safer nation. On National Night Out, we invite neighborhoods nationwide to join us in Giving Crime & Drugs A Going Away Party.
For more information about the event contact Hattie Farrar at (434) 738-6191 ext. 4355, or Bonnie Chapman at (434) 247-1695.
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The parent of United Airlines reported a third-quarter profit below analysts' expectations as it absorbed a drop in revenue for flights to Asia _ a key market.
Chairman and CEO Jeff Smisek said United managers weren't satisfied with the financial performance, "and are taking prompt actions to increase our revenue and operate more efficiently across the company." The company's press release didn't say what those actions would be.
United Continental Holdings Inc. earned $379 million, or 98 cents per share, for the quarter. If not for special charges, it would have earned $590 million, or $1.51 per share. That's three cents a share less than expected by analysts surveyed by FactSet.
During the same period last year United had a profit of $6 million, or 2 cents per share.
Revenue in the most recent quarter rose 3 percent to $10.23 billion, also less than analysts had expected.
United has been struggling to absorb Continental after their 2010 merger. On Thursday, Smisek said the company has improved its operations and customer service to the point where it is competitive in those areas.
United is the world's largest airline by traffic, but some customers avoided it after its service problems. Traffic fell slightly in the most recent quarter, and is down 1 percent for the year. Traffic at rival Delta Air Lines Inc. is up slightly so far this year.
United passenger revenue for Pacific flights fell 11 percent. It posted an 11 percent gain in revenue from Atlantic flying, and a gain of 0.4 percent in domestic revenue.
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BioMarin Pharmaceutical Inc. will start a late-stage study by the end of this year for patients with the rare and fatal muscular disorder Pompe disease.
The decision by San Rafael-based BioMarin (NASDAQ: BMRN) to move into a Phase II/III program follows a Phase I/II study that showed that patients who received BioMarin's drug, called BMN-701, were able to walk a longer distance and breathe more strongly.
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The disease is caused by mutations in a gene that makes an enzyme called acid alpha-glucosidase, or GAA. Normally, the enzyme breaks down glycogen, a stored form of sugar used for energy, but the mutated GAA gene reduces or completely eliminates the enzyme, allowing glycogen to accumulate everywhere in the body.
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SAN FRANCISCO and BEIJING, Nov. 29, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- App Annie today unveiled the App Annie Index™, a monthly report that charts and analyzes major revenue and download trends within the iOS and Google Play stores worldwide. Leveraging data from the company's premium service, App Annie Intelligence, the Index will be freely available on the App Annie blog every month. "Our mission as a company is to help drive better business decisions in the app industry through analytics and market data," said Bertrand Schmitt, CEO, App Annie. "With the launch of the App Annie Index, we want to inform a broader audience and educate the public on key trends breaking every month."
"What has become clear from App Annie's first Index is that while iOS took home most of the global revenue pie in October, the rising adoption of Google Play in Asian markets, including South Korea and Japan, is already driving major revenue growth opportunities on the platform," said Schmitt. "We can also see from the data that app publishers have two options when it comes to becoming a global app store success—distributing a large quantity of apps or marketing one or two high quality apps. Both business models are working—from large publishers including EA and Zynga, which have been able to scale, to smaller publishers such as Supercell, which had runaway success last month with Clash of Clans."
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"Japan has seen tremendous revenue growth in the last few months, thanks to the average revenue per user being significantly higher than in other countries, considering that download volume in Japan is a only a quarter that of the U.S.," said Schmitt. "This represents a major tectonic shift in the international app store economy, and one that I'm sure publishers will be looking to take advantage of."
On iOS, revenue in Japan is still well behind the U.S.—14.4 percent compared to 32.7 percent respectively. However, Japan is catching up month-by-month, with the country taking an increasingly larger share of global revenue and the U.S. taking an increasingly smaller share.
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In October 2012, iOS global app store revenue was four times larger than that on Google Play. However, Google Play revenue grew an astonishing 311 percent for the year-to-date, compared to iOS revenue, which grew a modest 12.9 percent. It's a different story when looking at free downloads, where Google Play slightly lagged behind iOS in download volume, but grew an impressive 48 percent for the year-to-date compared to just 3.3 percent growth for iOS.
"The gap between global revenue on iOS and Google Play is still there," said Schmitt, "but the gap is shrinking every month, creating more opportunities for publishers to generate significant revenue growth in several countries on Google Play."
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At the beginning of the year, the U.S. accounted for 33 percent of all global iOS downloads. Nine months later, in October, the U.S. accounted for just 25.3 percent, with China not far behind at 15.3 percent. On Google Play, it's a very different set of countries that are vying for worldwide downloads. Korea, home country to the Samsung Galaxy, now stands as the nation driving the most free downloads behind the U.S., eclipsing download volumes in Japan by nearly two times. India is also starting to show its distribution muscle, coming in at third place, ahead of Japan, and accounting for 6.2 percent of global free downloads.
"The flood of low-cost Android phones into the Indian market is starting to turn the country into a download superpower," said Schmitt. "Monetizing those downloads, however, is still a challenge that app publishers have yet to realize."
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App Annie also found that several app publishers are making more money from only one or two apps than large and established publishers are making from more than 50 apps. For example, publishers including Supercell, NextFloor, Kabam, WeMade Entertainment and Applibot are monetizing users from a small handful of apps at an astounding rate.
"On iOS, Supercell is the most impressive, second only to EA in generating revenue on the back of two apps," said Schmitt. "Applibot and Kabam also make it into the top 10 with just a few apps each to their names. On Google Play, it's the Korean game publishers WeMade Entertainment and NextFloor who make more money than many of the large multinationals."
U.S., Japanese and Korean Game Publishers Dominate Top Revenue Charts
In line with the macro trends App Annie has seen at a country level, publishers from the U.S., Japan and Korea are dominating publisher revenue charts. On iOS, Japanese and U.S. publishers account for eight of the top 10, while on Google Play, a staggering eight of the top 10 publishers by revenue are from Japan or Korea.
For October, the top 10 iOS publishers by revenue were:
- Electronic Arts (US)
- Supercell (Finland)
- Zynga (US)
- Gameloft (France)
- Apple (US)
- Applibot Inc. (Japan)
- SQUARE ENIX (Japan)
- GungHo Online (Japan)
- Kabam (US)
- GREE (Japan)
On Google Play, they were:
- DeNA (Japan)
- COLOPL (Japan)
- GungHo Online (Japan)
- WeMade Entertainment (South Korea)
- Zynga (US)
- GAMEVIL (South Korea)
- GREE (Japan)
- NAVER (Japan)
- Gameloft (France)
- NextFloor (South Korea)
App Annie Resources
- To access all the App Annie Index monthly reports, visit: http://www.appannie.com/index.
- Check out our Weekly Top Gainers chart at: http://blog.appannie.com/category/weekly-top-gainers
- To access the most complete app store rankings database, check out Store Stats, available for free at: http://www.appannie.com/top/.
- To learn more about the most advanced market data available for app stores, check out App Annie Intelligence at: http://www.appannie.com/intelligence/
- And for the latest trends, insights and comment from App Annie's Market Insights team, visit the App Annie Blog at: http://blog.appannie.com/.
About App Annie
App Annie is the industry leader in app store analytics and market intelligence for the global app economy. More than 80 percent of the Top 100 iOS publishers use its services, and more than 150,000 apps rely daily on App Annie Analytics to track their downloads, revenues, rankings and reviews. The company is tracking more downloads and revenues than any other app store market data company – to date, over 11 billion downloads and more than US$1.5 billion in app store publisher revenues. App Annie is a privately held global company with offices in Beijing, San Francisco, Hong Kong and Paris.
For more information, please visit http://www.appannie.com/, check out our blog, and follow @AppAnnie on Twitter.
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Almost a year after the Florida Senate proposed to slash USFs budget by58 percent, a proposal that USF President Judy Genshaft called blatantly unfair, Genshaft stood before the Faculty Senate on Wednesday cautiously optimistic as the university waits for the Governors proposed budget that will begin the legislative allocation process.
This time, she said, things were different.
All 12 of Floridas public university want the same thing, she said.
Its unusual for all state presidents to get together to give one unified message to the Legislature, she said. But all of our university state presidents have come together because if, for example, we were a car, were out of gas and electricity.
They want, she said, the $300 million cut from the State University Systems budget last year restored. They also want an additional $118 million about equivalent to a 15 percent tuition increase, something Gov. Rick Scott has repeatedly said he opposes.
If they give us that, then we will not ask for tuition to be raised, Genshaft said.
In a campaign called Aim Higher, Genshaft said the university presidents are traveling around the state, meeting with senators, legislators and editorial boards to spread their message.
But even if the money is granted, it may not all come easily.
At a Board of Governors (BOG) meeting last week, BOG member Tom Kuntz said if the State University System did receive the additional $118 million from the state, they would likely distribute it to universities using a performance-based funding model.
The Board has identified 10 metrics out of an initial list of 40 they would likely use if the money was granted, though they said the metrics are still up for discussion.
You might as well have none if you have 40 metrics, Kuntz said. Everyone can find one they look great in and one someone else doesnt look good in, and then you end up right where you started.
The metrics include: percent of graduated undergraduates employed or seeking higher education, cost per undergraduate degree, average wages of employed undergraduates, six-year graduation rates (a metric of USFs which was critically questioned by the BOG during the last legislative session), academic progress rates, university accessibility rates, bachelors degrees awarded in areas of strategic interest, masters degrees awarded in areas of strategic interest, one BOG-selected metric and one university-selected metric.The BOG would rank schools in both excellence as well as improvement.
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University of Florida (UF) President Bernie Machen said the metrics lacked emphasis on research a component important to schools such as USF and UF.
Faculty Senate President and a professor in the department of mental health law and policy Gregory Teague said the metrics could potentially devalue areas of the university that are not weighted metrics, such as non-science, technology, engineering and mathematics related area.
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Vice Provost for Strategic and Budget Planning Graham Tobin said overall, performance-based funding could be a good thing in allowing USF to improve on its own strategic interest, but said constant improvement in the metrics could potentially be difficult if neither tuition nor funding were increased.
Genshaft said tracking students after graduating would be an important component of keeping these metrics, and the University was planning to offer one free year of membership to the Alumni Association in an effort to keep in touch with alumni better.
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SNZ acting chairwoman Nicky Sherriff said the meeting ended with "a commitment to work on a series of initiatives" aimed at building stronger connections between SNZ and its membership.
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Popping sugar
What is it?
Carbonated sugar or, rather, sugar containing carbon dioxide so that it crackles, pops and explodes in your mouth. It's one of the products in the culinary alchemy phenomenon known as molecular gastronomy, what The Associated Press coins "a science-tastic take on haute cuisine."
To make it, the sugar is melted and then cooled in the presence of pressurized carbon dioxide so that the gas gets trapped in the particles. When the bits are melted in the mouth, or bitten into, the gas gets released with a popping effect.
Looks like:
This brand, from Montreal-based Molecule-R, has large golden granules, which looks like chunky raw sugar -- or Rice Krispies.
Tastes like:
An adult version of the Pop Rocks candy some of us remember from the 1970s, but minus the artificial colouring and flavouring. And popping sugar is less fizzy. No word what happens if you eat it while drinking cola.
Used in:
Carbonated sugar is popular among chefs and pastry cooks -- and molecular gastronomists, of course. Molecule-R touts it as "an innovative fun ingredient" to use as a topping or filling for desserts, chocolates and ice cream. Sprinkle it over any sweet dish -- fruit salad, for example -- right before serving, or add it to a salted dish for a unique effect. The sugar can also be added to low-water confections, like icing.
Found at:
www.Molecule-r.com, where it sells for $29.95 for a 1.2-pound container.
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A Study of Foot Massage and Cancer Symptoms
By Tracy Walton, LMT, MS
In my May 2006 column (www.massagetoday.com/archives/2006/05/13.html), I discussed a wonderful study on massage and healing touch for patients in chemotherapy.1 Here, I'll continue the research theme by describing another solid research paper, this one published in 2000 in a nursing journal.One might not think that an article published six years ago is news, but I find myself repeatedly referring to it in my teaching and practice. It's not just the newer studies that should make a splash; the enduring "solid citizens" of past research bear repeating and celebrating. I introduce the study here not only to acknowledge the work, but also to highlight some things in massage and cancer research: The importance of noting the massage providers and their credentials; the actual massage therapy protocol used in the study; and the results they found.
In "Foot Massage: A Nursing Intervention to Modify the Distressing Symptoms of Pain and Nausea in Patients Hospitalized with Cancer,"2 the investigators studied a sample of 87 inpatients. To bring this study most vividly into the present, I ask you to imagine you were a patient in the study. You were studied over a period of three consecutive nights during your hospital stay. On two of those evenings, you received foot massage; on the other evening, you were asked to stay in bed for a "quiet activity" (usually reading or watching television) only. The sequence of these was random (massage-control-massage or control-massage-massage, and so on). The same measurements - your heart rate and your "zero to 10" reports of your pain, nausea and relaxation levels - were recorded before and after the intervention each night.
A Crossover Study
The fact that you "crossed over" between massage and control conditions makes this a "crossover study" - a nice design when it's done well. You were your own control. Since you effectively served in both groups, the control and experimental groups were comparable. Interventions occurred at roughly the same time each day, because regular medications in the hospital tend to make symptoms follow characteristic patterns each day.
The Massage Provider and Protocol
In the study, you received foot massage from a nurse "experienced in the administration of massage." This sometimes raises eyebrows among massage therapists who ask about credentials and whether this truly reflects massage therapy practice. In this case, the authors wanted to restore massage to nursing care when needed, not try to pass off a nursing intervention as massage therapy. But, their description of the massage, a very detailed, fixed protocol, suggests that the authors clearly understand some of the important essentials of massage. This is the massage session described by Grealish, et al. "The massage was performed using slow, firm or gentle strokes toward the heart, from the base of the toes up the foot and lower leg to the knee ... The fingertips were used to make small circular movements around joints and between deep and superficial muscles, including the ankle, and between the metatarsals. A rhythmic lifting and squeezing of the flesh using both hands was alternated with the other movements. Joints were rotated in a clockwise and counterclockwise direction three times. When doing massage, the nurse's hands were warm. The foot not being massaged was covered with a towel and the massaged foot was held firmly. A non-fragrant vegetable oil was used."
Two things are important to note about the protocol. First, the title of the study depicts "foot massage," yet it included both foot and low leg. In fact, "foot massage" might have been good shorthand for the study, but this discrepancy suggests it's important to read what actually happened in the session. I meet MTs in my trainings who claim to be allergic to reading research, but even they become engaged when flipping through a study to read the actual massage protocol. Second, this massage protocol is very clear. This is one of my favorite massage research protocols because it describes so clearly what actually happened. I can imagine each toe being rotated three times in each direction! The researchers clearly share practices with massage therapists and note them in the study. Cover the nonmassaged area with a towel. Firm touch matters. The kind of oil you use bears mentioning. Moreover, each patient received an "introductory massage" before the study began, so they would know what to expect. These things suggest the researchers understand important elements such as safety, warmth, depth and firm touch. Regardless of whether I agree with their choice of protocol, the description is so clearly written I could easily replicate it in practice, especially if good things seem to come from it!
Measurements and Findings
The authors measured immediate effects of massage, not sustained or long-term effects. They asked questions just prior to the massage, and then 20 minutes after it was over. On the control night, they did the same, but left the patient in a quiet activity, and then measured again 20-30 minutes later.
Three "subjective outcomes" (pain, nausea and relaxation) and one "objective outcome" (heart rate, a function of relaxation) were measured in this study. Patients were asked to complete three "visual analogue scales" before and after each condition. On a 100 mm line, showing "no pain" at 0 mm and "worst possible pain" at 10 mm, patients were asked to mark their symptom level on the scale. Somewhat similar scales were used for relaxation and nausea. While subjective, the VAS is a convenient measurement tool that therapists easily can incorporate into clinical practice, before and after the session.
The study found that immediate self-reports of pain and nausea dropped on the massage nights compared to the control nights. Relaxation appeared to increase after massage, shown in heart rates and self-reports. This was associated with only two short foot massages; perhaps a greater effect would occur with a higher massage therapy dose. In their discussion, the authors note the positive findings. But, instead of making sweeping, grandiose claims of benefit, they list limitations of their own study and directions for further research. (A humble tone is a good sign in a research paper; look for it any time you read the discussion section.) We should follow their lead and not overstate results. This study still is relatively small - 87 in the sample - although it's one of the largest of the small studies. We need a larger body of research evidence before we truly can claim, "The evidence shows massage helps symptoms." For now, we can state that small "controlled trials" (as both Grealish and Post-White provide, with control conditions and good design) are "beginning to suggest a relationship between massage and symptom relief." This study, along with some other solid contributions, is beginning to point the way. Cautious claims aside, let's focus on the individual stories again. If you were a patient whose nausea or pain subsided, would you insist on the data to support your experience? Probably not. You would simply feel better. Perhaps you'd feel grateful for having your feet and low legs massaged with firm, warm hands. Your single story is worth telling, too. Indeed, individual stories are as compelling as the group story here. All should be examined closely and noted, told and retold. Each story contributes something to our understanding of massage and symptom relief.
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