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CHENNAI: Over a period of four years, a group of persons have taken charge of their problem and tried to help others who, like them, stammer. It was the internet that brought the group together. It met in Mumbai in 2008 after several rounds of e-mails and formed The Indian Stammering Association (TISA).
The group's Chennai chapter was an initiative of two persons, V. Manimaran and Vishal Dadha, who realised that sharing their experiences helped them handle their disability. Now, the chapter has around 50 members who meet once a month.
At the first anniversary of the Chennai chapter of TISA on Saturday, the two founder members dispelled myths about the reasons for stammering. Addressing the gathering, Keith Boss, a trustee of British Stammering Association, said "We could try to change the stigma associated with stammering by talking more. When I am fluent I do not stammer. Speaking slowly and seeking more time to express in front of an audience will help," he said.
Satyendra Kumar Srivastava (Sachin), a medial practitioner, said "Stammering can be managed by improving communication skills. Do not live in falsehood and deny your disability. We have launched self-help groups in 12 cities in the country. The members are volunteers who reach out to children."
"At the SHG meetings we speak our heart out," Mr. Manimaran said. "Those who stammer are stressed in their mind. To avoid stammering, you have to plan from the morning what to speak. This stresses my mind. Now I have accepted my disability and I know there are times I do not stutter." As for Mr. Dadha, the group helped him gain confidence. "I still stammer a lot but I have gained confidence. I run my own company. My stammering does not make a difference to the clients as long as I can provide the services," he said.
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Protein Engineering, Synthetic Biology, Metabolic Engineering, Biocatalysis, Biosensors, Biotechnology
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Website: http://www.clemson.edu/ces/proteinengineering
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Ph.D., Columbia University, 2009
M.S., Columbia University, 2006
B.S., Manhattan College, 2004
Research Interests: Protein Engineering, Synthetic Biology, Metabolic Engineering, Biocatalysis, Biosensors, Biotechnology
As a group that uses protein engineering and synthetic biology, we take a molecular-scale approach to improving bioprocessing. We apply chemical engineering fundamentals along with tools from protein engineering, synthetic biology, molecular biology, and biochemistry to address major problems in energy, sustainability, and human heath.
We study how microorganisms sense their environment, how that information is processed, and how it ultimately leads to a change in phenotype. From an engineering standpoint, we are interested in using this information to improve biological synthesis of fuels and chemicals from renewable biomass. Another major interest of our group is developing cell-based biosensors for metabolic engineering, environmental detection, biodiagnostic, and biocatalysis applications.
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Nedumpully-Govindan, P., Li, L., Alexov, E., Blenner, M., Ding, F. (2014) "Structural and Energetic Determinants of Tyrosylprotein Sulfotransferase Specificity" Bioinformatics. In Press.
Blenner, M., Dong, X., Springer, TA. (2014) "Towards the structure basis of regulation of von Willebrand Factor binding to Glycoprotein Ib." Journal of Biological Chemistry, 289 5565-5579.
Shur, O, Blenner, M., Baltimore, M., Banta, S. (2013) "A Designed, Phase Changing RTX Peptide for Efficient Bioseparations" Biotechniques, 54(4) 197-206.
Banta, S., Wheeldon, I., Blenner, M. "Protein engineering in the development of functional hydrogels," Annual Reviews in Biomedical Engineering, 12 167-186 (2010).
Blenner, M., Shur, O., Szilvay, G., Cropeck, D., Banta, S., "Calcium induced folding of a Repeat in Toxin (RTX)- Domain Via C-Terminal Entropic Stabilization," Journal of Molecular Biology. 400(2) 244-256 (2010).
Szilvay, G., Blenner, M., Cropeck, D., Banta, S. "A FRET-based Method for Probing the Conformational Behavior of an Intrinsically Disordered Repeat Domain from Bordetella pertussis Adenylate Cyclase," Biochemistry 48(47) 11273-11282 (2009).
Blenner, M., Banta, S. "Characterization of the 4D5Flu single chain antibody with a stimulus-responsive elastin-like peptide linker: A potential reporter of peptide linker conformation," Protein Science 17(3) 527-536 (2008).
Chockalingam, K., Blenner, M., Banta, S. "Design and application of stimulus responsive peptide systems," Protein Engineering Design and Selection 20(4) 155-61 (2007).
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Returning For His Senior Year
The Gators will
be the unquestioned preseason No. 1
"Let's do it again. I'm
coming back."
Give the man this; he has a sense of his own importance to the college
football world and the Florida Gators.
Tim Tebow announced he's coming back for his senior season, despite
thoughts that he was looking to leave early for the NFL after pulling
off the national championship win over Oklahoma last Thursday night.
While he and his family have made it well known that the NFL is a main
goal, and that he was interested in taking off for the pro level early
if he was considered a first round prospect, now he has a chance to go
down as the greatest college football player of the modern era (roughly
starting at 1970, since that's when the sport finally became almost
fully integrated and the national title was awarded after the bowl
Considering college football used to rival baseball as America's biggest
sport, players like Red Grange, Bronko Nagurski, George Gipp, Nile
Kinnick and Sammy Baugh were more than just players; they rivaled the
Babe Ruths and Jack Dempseys of the world in popularity and importance
to the culture of American sports. It was a different time, when a
singular figure like Grange could put over 100,000 people in Soldier
Field by himself, so keeping that in mind when comparing apples to
oranges, eras to eras, it's a simplistic overstatement to immediately
assume that Tebow has the potential to finish his career as the greatest
college football player of all-time, but …
Tim Tebow has the potential to finish his career as the greatest college
football player of all-time.
Forget about pro prospects, potential, and NFL talent for a moment. When
discussing the best ever, it's all about the college careers the players
had. Would anyone start an NFL team with Danny Wuerffel over Peyton
Manning? Of course not, but Wuerffel has to be considered the better
college player based on career achievements, both individual and with
the Florida Gators. Stanford's John Elway is widely considered to be the
greatest NFL quarterback prospect of all-time, but he never took his
team to a bowl game. Meanwhile, Nebraska's Tommie Frazier won two
national titles, came within a missed field goal of a third, and had the
better career.
The history of college football is about the running backs. From
Herschel Walker to Doak Walker, Ron Dayne to O.J. Simpson, Barry Sanders
to Jim Brown, and on and on and on, the runners have been the stars of
the sport until relatively recently. That's why players like Matt
Leinart, Vince Young, and Frazier, lead a list of the greatest
quarterbacks ever, while the late 1800s to around the mid-1980s was
woefully short of standout signal callers. So when a player like Tebow
comes in and becomes a cult hero as a freshman, a Heisman winner as a
sophomore, and the unquestioned leader of a national champion as a
junior, the potential is there for him to be among the most decorated
stars of all-time.
If the Heisman voting was done the day after the last bowl game (like it
should be), who wins this year? Not Sam Bradford. Colt McCoy of Texas
might have pulled it off, but Tebow likely would've been handed his
second straight honor, and if he takes Florida to the 2010 BCS
Championship Game in Pasadena, he'll almost certainly do it as the
second two-time winner, joining Ohio State's Archie Griffin.
If he and Florida win their second straight title, and third in four
years, Tebow will have finished his career with three national titles
and, possibly, two Heismans. No college quarterback will have come
remotely close to accomplishing more. But there will be others.
With the popularity of the spread offense, and the sophistication of the
sport from the coaching to the film work to the specialization, more and
more high schools are running the spread. Somewhere out there is another
player with far more talent than Tebow who'll take the college football
world by storm soon enough. But will he have Tebow's attitude and drive?
Will he have the type of personality to make otherwise reasonable grown
men melt like a schoolgirl looking at a Zac Efron poster? And will he be
able to win like Tebow?
For now, the test will be to see if Tebow can actually pull it off,
unlike Leinart, when he was in a similar situation in 2006 when he chose
to come back to lead his juggernaut of a USC team that came up short
against Vince Young and Texas. The pressure will be unfair and
unrelenting. Now, anything less than another national title will be a
failure of a 2009 season. Anything less than a Heisman-worthy
performance will be a major disappointment.
Keep in mind, Florida's only unbeaten season was 1911, and major help
was needed for the program to backdoor its way into national titles in
1996 and 2006. But the 2009 Gators will be expected to go unbeaten.
Anything less won't be acceptable considering the team that's returning.
An early look at next year's schedule has only two realistic concerns:
at LSU and the showdown against Georgia. However, the Bulldogs will be
without QB Matthew Stafford and RB Knowshon Moreno, who are each leaving
early, and LSU isn't going to be the 2007 version. The other road trips
are at Kentucky, Mississippi State and South Carolina, and the toughest
home games will be against Tennessee and Florida State.
And then there's the team. Assume WR Percy Harvin and LB Brandon Spikes,
likely top 20 draft picks, will likely be leaving early. Even so,
outside of a slight concern on the offensive line, especially at tackle,
and a need to find a go-to receiver with Louis Murphy and Harvin both
gone, this will be the preseason No. 1 team by a landslide.
If you were sick of Tebow before, bunker down, because the next eight
months will be Tebow mania. Will he be able to overcome the hype to pull
it off, or will he end up like Leinart?
The bull's-eye is on Tebow's back … just where he wants it.
Welcome to the start of the 2009 season.


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Recently the CIS- A2K team organised a four-day workshop in collaboration with Goa University for students of MA (Konkani). This workshop involved 38 students creating 43 new articles on Konkani Wikipedia, which is incubation. We hope that these efforts will contribute towards bringing this seven-year-old project out of incubation into a live Wikipedia project.
Before a Wikipedia shapes up as a live project, it undergoes an incubation process. A community of volunteers gradually grows to sustain this Wikipedia in incubation with active contributions. The Konkani Wikipedia Incubator started way back in 2006. However, owing to many reasons it could not take off. One of the major reasons has been the usage of multiple scripts. Because of political and religious reasons, Konkani has multiple writing and verbal standards as also multiple scripts. Devanagari is the official script, but Konkani is also written in the Roman script (also known as Romi), the Kannada script (in the Konkani speaking regions of Karnataka, primarily in and around Mangalore), the Malayalam script in Kerala (Kochin region), and in Perso-Arabic script. The most used script for Konkani is Devanagari. Goa University is world's first university to offer a master's programme in the Konkani language, in which the writing standard is in Goan Konkani written in Devanagari. We met with the students and introduced Konkani Wikipedia to them. Four students volunteered to coordinate the workshop. They discussed plans for the workshop and its prerequisites, going through the list of articles on Konkani Wikipedia, writing a unique article by collecting resources before attending the workshop. To our surprise, all of the students including the four coordinators came up with at least two pages of written content before the workshop.
Day 1: Intro yourself
To start with the first day of the workshop held at Krishnadas Shama State Central Library, Goa we had an "Adjective Name" activity. It was fun to know how people judge themselves with adjectives. I turned out to be Sub-Hashish and Nitika turned out to be Naughty-Nitika! Then we had a discussion about the articles students planned to write. A few of them were not sure if articles on social issues or biographies of a writer could fit into Wikipedia framework.
Editing time
Article titles were decided, everyone was ready with their homework write ups and books for adding sources. Only four-five of them knew typing in Devanagari. For the first time some of them typed few words and they typed correctly. I could see the glow of triumph after they typed correctly using Transliteration layout. My experience with majority of the Indian language outreach participants had been more or the less the same; most new wikipedians struggle to type. This time we printed some handouts with the layout for typing help. It worked well. Students managed to type albeit with small typographical errors.
Game time
We had to cut the session for an activity break and invited them to play "Tumi Kashi Asat" (meaning "How do you do?" in Konkani). This is a game I learnt from my colleague Vishnu. To make it more interesting we got it translated to Konkani by our coordinator Supriya. The host has to make some body movements and ask "Tumi Kashi Asat?" and bend forward. The participants have to move their body in the reverse way and answer "Ami bari ashat" (I'm doing well). This replaced the caffeine intake for the four days and kept all of us lively.
More editing post lunch:
The editing spree went on for rest of the day. Regular doses of small fun activities were served to keep the Goan tides high. To our surprise all of the students created articles; I don't know if I could judge them as "Stub" or "Start" class articles. For me it was the greatest start for a language to have the asset of these sweet Wikipedians, even as the Konkani Wikipedia has seen many struggles and spent seven years in incubation.
Rat and frog game
There was surprise for participating Wikipedians: Rat race. Participants sit on chairs and one of them is made to stand in the centre. The rat makes others run and replace each other's seats and one of the participants becomes the 'rat'. This rat race brought back old childhood memories and for a moment everyone forgot their age. At the end of it students sat down to take a deep breath and we taught them some basic Wiki codes (bold, italics, and adding references). To our surprise all of the students had created their first articles by the end of the day.
Day 2: Climbing up the ladder
This was the day to tell the students about the advanced options and ensure addition of more citations. Citations on Wikipedia are very essential for readers to validate the facts. But bringing this to the students who just had started learning to type in their language a day earlier was not easy. The second day was spent giving small breaks during the editing session for small activities. Running, jumping, and shouting fueled the students to be happy editors and not burdened. We managed to teach them the advanced options for proper Wiki-formatting (Bold, Italics, Heading, and Category), and citations. By the end of the first two days 22 students created 24 articles (about 42 pages of written content). Everyone clapped for their friends. We welcomed them to Konkani Wikipedia community.
Day 3: Fresh batch, new start
16 new students from MA course were welcomed. Four student coordinators and one from the first batch of students joined us. The entire day was spent having lots of fun, creating articles and basic know how of Wiki syntax. Half the students in this batch knew how to type using the Devanagari InScript layout. Our first and second day taught us how students ask their fellow students more than they ask us for small help. Thanks to the Fedora Devanagari keyboard layout, it helped us to look and guide the students. All the students created their first articles. John, Supriya and Vaishali (from the first batch) gave final touches to their respective second articles.
Day 4: No need to say good bye!
This was the day to do two very important things; applaud their contribution on the first day and tell about contribution of their friends, teach about the advanced options and extending support further. Seeing the newspaper coverage about the workshop featuring some of their friends was a delight for our new Wikipedians after two long days. A few of them came forward to share their experience about the workshop and their vision for Konkani language.
At the end of four days all of them bid us farewell. It felt like saying bye to good old friends. These were the foundation days and the biggest editing rally Konkani Wikipedia Incubator has seen in the last seven years with this milestone that the students had created. Happy faces of our new found friends is going to be a great piece of memory in this personal journey.
Important links:
Konkani Wikipedia Incubator
Konkani Wikipedia Workshop (21-24 August 2013) at Goa State Central Library
Konkani department, Goa University, Goa
Media files (Photos, videos, presentations, etc.)
Bio: Subhashish Panigrahi is Programme Officer for Access To Knowledge at The Centre for Internet and Society (CIS-A2K), Bangalore. Prior to his work at CIS-A2K, he was a consultant with the Wikimedia Foundation's India Program. He contributes to Odia Wikipedia, donates pictures, presentations and videos to Wikimedia Commons, writes, speaks and conducts activities for South Asian language communities for Open Source, Digital natives and Collaborative contribution models. When not online, he travels, goes biking, meets new people, cooks and tastes various cuisines, learns new languages, and explores the world outside. subhashish @ cis-india.org
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Did you ride the 500 CanAm, with 2 250 motors grafted together? Now that would be awesome, but to me, only on dirt track. My old neighbor 4 houses from me was GrandNationalChamp#5 in 1958, or was it '55. MartyMalchow. He'd have some top dirt trackers over his house when I was in 4th grade, and I was interested, but didn't know a thing about bikes.
My bud Kevin one eye, who works at WiseSurfboards still, still has his Maico490, but my Kawasaki always got better starts, due to less power, but smoother power and better hookup.
Even KennyRodriquez's RM-500 had worst starts than my 420, as he rode it one expert race and started 2 of 3 motos dead even with DaveCoupe on the factory Yamaha490. Too much power is not good for me, and Kenny was 190 lbs.
I got to work for HarryHunt, one of the TeamYamaha private teams out of Brisbane, Calif, with DonGreene the main rider. My part was DunlopTires, never rode the TeamYamaha bikes, but got to scrub in tires at several EastCoast road tracks for ArtBauman and RonGrant of TeamSuzuki. Those 500 2 stroke twins would hit 10,400 rpm in 6th gear, supposedly 175 mph. I laid up the fairings and seats for them.
I think I would go with the Service Honda 500 AFX since it gets the Cail green sticker. The Service Honda AF 500 does not have the sticker but Optional FMF Q-series or Pro Circuit 296 series silencer can meet current noise emission standards. What does that mean for both bikes not sure about the cali laws out here?
Funny how Suzuki and Yamaha killed off the 500 class since Kaw and Honda were killing that class. Now it seems like the 450 class will get killed by 13500rpm 350 class. The AF has an potion for head porting for 250 and Boyesen rad valve for 180. The 2008 Service Honda 500AF put out 65hp and a 2013 Honda 450 put out 55 hp plus the AF is 17 pounds lighter. Never got to ride a kx 500, Yanaha 490 or Suzuki 500.
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Under the watchful eye of trainer Henry Ramirez, the confident Arreola shadow-boxed, hit the mitts, clubbed the heavy bag, ripped the speed bag and did a series of conditioning exercises during an energetic 80-minute workout.
I guarantee that its going to be an exciting fight and I guarantee that Im going to come out with the world title and Ill work my (expletive) off, Arreola said..
The confident, popular, talented Arreola, who has had only one fight go the distance (24 by KO, two by DQ on the way to a KO), will try to make history by becoming the first boxer of Mexican descent to capture a World Heavyweight Championship.
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FSM's Mori meets Forum SG, Dame Taylor
PALIKIR, FSM — Federated States of Micronesia (FSM) President Manny Mori last week met with Dame Meg Taylor, Secretary General of the Pacific Islands Forum Secretariat in Palikir, Pohnpei.
PALIKIR, FSM — Federated States of Micronesia (FSM) President Manny Mori last week met with Dame Meg Taylor, Secretary General of the Pacific Islands Forum Secretariat in Palikir, Pohnpei.
POHNPEI, FSM — The FSM Congressional Standing Committee on Ways and Means reported to Speaker Dohsis Halbert on 22 September its concurrence with regards the fiscal year 2015 revenue projection made available by President Manny Mori in accordance with constitutional requirement.
CHUUK, FSM --- The Chuuk Department of Education needs to hire nearly 100 teachers to make up for a potential shortage in their local public school system.
POHNPEI, FSM --- Access to affordable and reliable energy sources is key to enhancing sustainable livelihoods in Pacific Island countries and territories (PICTs), as it decreases the reliance on imported petroleum fuel, which is seen as a major threat to energy security in the region.
KOSRAE, FSM --- A new improved coastal road designed to withstand high tides and heavy rainfall is now open for residents of Kosrae in the Federated States of Micronesia FSM. The much needed road provides the people of Tafunsak safe road access in all types of weather.
PALIKIR,FSM — Federated States of Micronesia (FSM) President Manny Mori has signed the telecommunication liberalization bill.
POHNPEI, FSM ---- Federated States of Micronesia President Manny Mori has reminded Speaker Dohsis Halbert about the administration's legislative priorities when the FSM Congress holds its third special session.
POHNPEI, FSM ----- The state governments saw an increase in their respective shares under the Compact sector grants when the Federated States of Micronesian National government put into effect a new grant distribution that reduces its 10 percent share to only 5 percent pursuant to Public Law 18-12.
POHNPEI, FSM ---- Federated States of Micronesian President Manny Mori has issued a notice of termination of employment to Nickson Bossy, FSM election commissioner in Chuuk, based on recommendation from Albert T. Welly, director of the FSM National Election Office.
PALIKIR, FSM --- The maritime security cooperation talks were held recently between the Federated States of Micronesia and Australia in Palikir.
POHNPEI, FSM --- Officials from Thailand, Malaysia, the Philippines, India, Fiji, Papua New Guinea, Jamaica, Kiribati, Marshall Islands, Samoa, Sri Lanka, Tonga, Vietnam and the Federated States of Micronesia kicked off the 50th Asia Pacific Coconut Community Ministerial Meeting on Feb. 11.
POHNPEI, FSM --- Federated States of Micronesia President Manny Mori has declared a state of emergency from 22 January to 22 February following a declaration from Pohnpei Governor John Ehsa regarding environmental threats from the grounded fishing vessel, Ping Da 7.
PALIKIR, FSM — After the 18th Federated States of Micronesia Congress passed a number of congressional acts during its last special session, President Manny Mori took the time to review the measures during the holiday season and made his decisions.
POHNPEI, FSM --- Concerns are being raised over possible environmental damage from a Chinese mother ship that ran aground on a reef in the Federated States of Micronesia (FSM) in December.
MAJURO, FSM --- The Federated States of Micronesia (FSM) and the Republic of the Marshall Islands spent US$106 million and US$95 million respectively on infrastructure projects out of their US$229 million and US$106 million in Compact funds allocated for infrastructure, according to a Jan. 7 Government Accountability Office report to ...
POHNPEI, FSM --- The Federated States of Micronesia continues to expand its reach in the Asia-Pacific region. In a short official ceremony recently, the FSM and Mongolia signed a joint communiqué on the establishment of diplomatic relations with Mongolia.
POHNPEI, FSM — The Second Special Session of the Eighteenth Congress of the Federated States of Micronesia adjourned with a Climate Change Act, a Policy on Overseas Development Assistance, assistance towards Typhoon Haiyan relief efforts, and grant resolutions for various federal programs in the Nation.
SAIPAN, FSM --- The Senate has approved a major policy decision calling for the privatization of the Commonwealth Utilities Corp., a move seen to pave the way for affordable power rates via alternative energy for both residential and private industries in the CNMI.
SAIPAN, FSM --- There's a push to establish a cargo and passenger shipping service between Guam and the neighbouring Northern Mariana Islands that is cheap and reliable.
SAIPAN, FSM ---- Federated States of Micronesia (FSM) President Emanuel Mori and Marshall Islands President Christopher Loeak took issue with the U.S. State Department's 2013 Trafficking in Persons Report that listed their islands under a Tier 2 watch list for human trafficking and sex trafficking—labels that these leaders say do ...
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COLONIA, FSM — The 2013 Joint Committee Meeting or JCM between the Federated States of Micronesia and the United States of America was held here on Nov. 19, 2013. The JCM is an annual consultation between the FSM and the U.S. on issues of mutual interest under Title III of ...
POHNPEI, FSM ----Sei Francis Uemoto became the first national of the Federated States of Micronesia (FSM) to obtain his citizenship under a changed immigration law.
PHONPEI, FSM --- Reliable and up-to-date resource data that is publically accessible is critical to private sector investment in renewable energy in Pacific Island countries and territories.
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So coach Urban Meyer isn't even trying.
Meyer says he and his staff will really have to coach hard this week to make sure the Buckeyes (3-0) focus on the game at hand. The Rattlers (1-2), from the Championship Subdivision, a notch below Ohio State, have lost two in a row to Tennessee State and Samford. A&M is getting $900,000 to step up in class in Saturday's game.
Even Ohio State safety Christian Bryant concedes he'd rather be playing a tougher, high-profile opponent that might better prepare the Buckeyes for what lies ahead.
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Sexy Kapuso star Solenn Heussaff surprised regulars of the jazz bar Tago in Cubao, Quezon City, with a sultry performance on Thursday night.
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Solenn sang "Fever," "Come Together " and a couple of French songs.
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"These full first-year results provide a more complete picture of PLEGRIDY and its positive effects on the reduction of relapse, disability progression and lesion development," said Peter Calabresi, M.D., director, the Johns Hopkins Multiple Sclerosis Center. "These data suggest that, if approved, PLEGRIDY may offer the benefit of a less frequent dosing schedule, which would be a meaningful advance for people living with MS."
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FRANKFURT—US hotel chain Marriott said Tuesday it is teaming up with Swedish furniture giant IKEA to launch of new budget hotel brand in Germany and Europe, called Moxy Hotels.
Over the next 10 years, 150 low-cost hotels will be opened in 10 different countries, Marriott chief Arne Sorenson told a news conference in Berlin.
In addition to Germany, hotels would be opened in Austria, Britain, Finland, Ireland, the Netherlands, Norway and Sweden. The very first Moxy Hotel would open in Milan at the start of next year, Sorenson said.
The new brand was targeted at a young, price-conscious, well travelled clientele.
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And a new face in the Mater Dei room is already making a big impact on O'Rourke. Ullsperger found Brett Sanchez, a former two-time state place winner from Clovis High School.
"Coach Brett has been my biggest influence so far this year," said O'Rourke, who plans to wrestle at 140 later this year.
"He's made me smarter and faster. He's always a hard worker. I've never had a person in the room with his knowledge."
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HITMEN who shot dead a born-again Muslim in a packed gym may have been hired by angry drug dealers, it emerged last night.
Former kickboxing champion Azmat Yaqub, 35, was murdered in an execution-style killing while he worked out at Chic Physique Health in the Sparkhill area of the city last July.
The shooting happened in the weights room next to an area where a group of youngsters were having a kick-boxing class but no one else was shot.
A lone gunmen burst into the building and fired about 10 rounds before escaping in a car with an accomplice.
Now murder squad detectives are investigating claims that Mr Yaqub, known as Tony, had upset local drug dealers with his anti-drugs stance.
A close friend of the family said: 'Azmat turned to Islam about ten years ago and was becoming more and more active in the local mosque.
'Before he found Islam he was like a lot of young Pakistani lads in the area getting into trouble and hanging with the wrong crowd.
'Azmat began working with local youths teaching them kick-boxing and encouraging them to keep fit.
'He was very anti-drugs and would go around telling youngsters not to mix with dealers.
'He even began confiscating drugs and money off petty dealers which upset afew of the main drug suppliers in the area.'
The friend added: 'Azmat was a popular man and everyone knew him as a man who was not to be messed with because of his size and connections.
'Some people have been portraying him as modern-day Robin Hood type of figure and say that is what lead to him being targeted.'
Last year, the Sunday Mercury revealed how Mr Yaqub had previously survived a murderous attack which killed his best friend Shaham Ali just weeks before his death.
Police probed a possible link to the drive-by shooting in which Mr Yaqub and Mr Ali were shot at when two groups of Asian men clashed in Waverley Road, Small Heath.
Mr Ali was blasted in the head and later died while Mr Yaqub was shot in the shoulder and is believed to have been wearing a bullet-proof vest.
It is thought that the shooting wasthe terrifying conclusion to a huge bust-up between two factions at Birmingham Central Mosque.
Six men were arrested over the earlier shooting, including Sheik Abu Yusuf Riyadhul-Haq, 34, a former imam at the mosque. Two of the accused, Mohammed Arshad Khan and Mohammed Sharafit Khan, were later cleared of murder and attempted by a jury at Birmingham Crown Court.
The court heard that Mr Riyadhul-Haq had secretly married a woman who became his second wife.
But problems arose from that relationship which led to Shockat Lal, a mosque secretary and friend of Mr Yaqub and Mr Ali, having an affair with the woman and making her pregnant.
Last week detectives renewed their appeal for help in catching Mr Yaqub's killers.
They are particularly interested in tracing the occupants of a light-coloured five series BMW seen leaving the murder scene. One of the gunmen is desribed as white in his late 20s, between 5ft 9ins and 6ft, of medium build with a thin face, short hair and clean shaven.
His accomplice is black, similar age and build and wearing a black baseball cap and dark-framed glasses.
West Midlands Police are offering a pounds 5,000 reward for information and can be contacted at the incident room on 01922 439107
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Get behind the scenes of Illinois Gymnastics with Illini Ink - the weekly women's gymnastics journal. In this summer edition, freshman Kelsey Joannides talks about the team's summer activities and working at the Illini Gymnastics Camp.
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I hope you are all having a fantastic summer so far! It's hard to believe that it's already half over and we will be heading back to school in a few weeks. I know here in Champaign we are enjoying every last minute of it.
As we said goodbye to our seniors back in May, the majority of us went home for almost a month. It was a nice stretch of time to see our families and sleep in our own beds for a change! As wonderful as it was to be home, those four weeks crept by so slowly and by mid-June, I speak for all of us when I say we were just itching to get back on campus and see each other again! It was so much fun to arrive in Champaign and see the girls! June 15th began the second summer school session that we all returned for, but it also started our fun list of activities for summer '09! Where do I even start?
Back inside Kenney Gym has been tons of fun. We have a more laid back schedule outside of season. We are free to keep up with skills on our own, so we have had time to try lots of new things. Just about every day at practice, I see one of us throw a new bar release or chuck a different tumbling pass. Seeing the girls push themselves to increase their difficulty has been very motivating. It is getting me sooo anxious and excited to see what we are going to be able to put together come the 2009-2010 season!
On another note, we had another successful year of our Illini Gymnastics Camp! I joined the coaching staff and other girls in coaching 92 girls from ages 7 through 17. Our 2009 seniors, Marijka and Kimmy, even returned to lend a hand. It was quite an experience spotting, interacting, and keeping up with so many energetic girls! Myself, along with Sarah, Laura, Allison, Sam, and Mel, chose to be over night counselors and got to stay in the dorms with the campers during their time here. It was really fun to learn all their names and watch them train. They learned so much, and we concluded the camp with the Mini-Olympics which provided us with some good laughs from the crazy activities we had them do - obstacle courses, face painting, pull-up contests...to name a few. Check out all the pictures from camp on the website!
Outside the gym is just as exciting because this is my very first summer experience as an Illini. One of the nicest things about summer on campus is living in the apartments with the older girls! It is a much needed break from the dorm life :). Besides, we have done some pretty cool stuff. Our team, along with the Men's Gymnastics Team, went on a boat trip together. We spent a weekend camping and enjoying life on a lake. It was a great time. And also, now that our recreation center, the ARC, is done, we spend much of our time outside of practices laying out at the pool. We've also gone to movies, attended concerts, and really had fun so far.
I can't wait to wrap up the rest of an amazing summer here in Champaign so that pre-season training starts up in preparation for another successful year! I hope everyone is having a relaxing, eventful summer as well, and thanks for keeping up!
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While Minnie Mouse never got her ears done, her Orange Country neighbor Vicki Gunvalson said she's taken to a nip here and tuck there – including two breast enlargement procedures – because she's "always felt like [she's] not pretty enough."
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Ten years after Jay Lemberger shot himself dead at 21, his parents, Nancy and Pat, and his two sisters, Tami and Heidi, gathered around the family's coffee table in the living room of their home in Nacogdoches. On the table was a box of horrifying drawings by Jay, representing what he felt about his years of sexual abuse by a notorious former Dallas priest, Rudy Kos, who is currently serving three life sentences in prison. "This one is called Surrender," said Nancy, handing me a large penciled rendering of a single hairy hand with figures of small boys drawn between the five fingers. "Now that I know what happened to Jay, I see what power Rudy had over him and other boys. When I look at this picture, all I see is the grip of a priest's evil and sickness."
Most of us have only recently learned about the onslaught of priestly pedophilia that previously had been a dark secret of the Catholic Church. But the Lemberger family has been living with the shock and the consequences of the scandal for much longer. In July 1997 a Dallas jury found that the local Catholic diocese had covered up years of unchecked child molestation by Kos and returned a record $119.6 million judgment in favor of the Lembergers and other plaintiffs. The judgment—later settled for $23 million—was at the time the largest sex-abuse judgment against the clergy in history. Although it paved the way for hundreds of other cases involving the crimes of priests, its most significant legacy may be the shaken faith of Catholic families across America, including the Lembergers.
The questions now being asked in local parishes and at the highest levels of the Vatican—and which will be a major concern of the attendees at the National Conference of Catholic Bishops when they gather in Dallas this month for their annual meeting—are the very ones the Lembergers have been living with. How did a church that has at its focal point the worship of the birth of a divine child produce as many as two thousand priests who preyed on innocent children—and leaders who protected them? What makes holy men commit such unholy acts? What happens to your faith in God when those who speak for God violate your children?
It is only natural that distraught families would ask these questions. And yet, such questions by their nature are hostile to the entire notion of faith, which requires the unshakable belief of Job and places considerable responsibility on the believer. As Southern novelist Flannery O'Connor, a Catholic, once wrote, "Either one is serious about salvation or one is not." Faith doesn't come in degrees, which is why the doubts raised by the pedophilia scandal will have long-term effects on the church. A Christian has faith in redemption. A Christian must look past evil and see the good because the good is the ultimate reality. But it's hard to see the good when priests are molesting children.
Leafing through Jay's box of drawings, I saw what the dark-haired, slender boy did not live to tell in words—the story of his relationship with Kos, which probably began in 1982, when Jay was a twelve-year-old altar boy at All Saints Catholic Church in North Dallas, and continued until he shot himself on January 31, 1992, in his apartment in Denver, only a few days before Kos was scheduled to visit him for a skiing trip. One of the drawings, called Treads, shows a single tennis shoe. During the trial, the Lembergers listened to testimony about the macabre significance of tennis shoes. Four of Kos's victims testified that the priest had asked them to remove their shoes when they visited him in the rectory and that he had used their feet to gratify himself sexually. Three said Kos had performed oral sex on them. "Once, Pat and I gave Jay a pair of tennis shoes to wear while he was in the hospital," recalled Nancy. "I couldn't understand why Jay tore those shoes to shreds. Now I understand." Another drawing shows a figure throwing stones at a depiction of Jesus carrying His cross to Calvary. Underneath the figure's eyes, Jay scrawled the name "Rudy."
The Lembergers did not learn of Jay's abuse until other families filed a lawsuit six months after he died. When he was fourteen, he was hospitalized for depression after he admitted he had contemplated hanging himself in the garage, but he never disclosed to doctors or family members the nature of his relationship with Father Kos. All his parents knew was that Kos was Jay's best friend and mentor. From 1981 to 1985, Jay spent the night at the rectory with a group of boys several times. Kos taught him to use a computer, talked to him about becoming a priest, and counseled him about school problems. The first person outside the family Nancy called after learning of Jay's death was Kos, who was then serving as a priest in Ennis, near Dallas. He drove to Nacogdoches and preached the homily for Jay's funeral: "Blessed are they that mourn," read Kos from the Book of Matthew, "for they shall be comforted."
The memory of the priest extending his false comfort continues to fuel Pat's fury. He believes Kos is directly responsible for his son's suicide and can't forget that the same priestly hand that gave him the Eucharist, the bread and wine that Catholics believe is the body and blood of Jesus, was also the hand that abused his son. "God forgive me, but there are still many nights that I long to kill Rudy Kos," sobbed Pat, as he covered his face with his large hands.
Who can blame him? Kos was the only person allowed to visit Jay behind closed doors at the psychiatric hospital. "He regularly took Jay Communion," said Nancy, with a visible shudder. "From Jay's artwork and some of the entries in his journal, we believe there was psychological abuse while he was in the hospital"—in the form of intimidation.


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