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Boise State softball will play its final early-season tournament March 19-20, and it may have saved the best for last. The Broncos are set to take on two top-five teams among four quality opponents at the Judi Garman Classic in Fullerton, Calif.
The Broncos (14-8) will open the tournament pitting their 12-game win streak against No. 5 Arizona State (27-2) Saturday, at 3:30 p.m. (PT). Boise State takes on Penn State (9-7) in the nightcap.
The second day figures to be equally challenging as the Broncos start Sunday with regional showdown against No. 4 Washington (20-1). First pitch is scheduled for 1 p.m. (PT) against the Huskies. Boise State completes its stay at the Judi Garman Classic against host Cal State Fullerton (8-12) at 3:30 p.m. (PT).
For the second-consecutive weekend Boise State faces a full slate of first-time opponents.
Live stats and audio will be available for select Boise State game this weekend. For details check the schedule page at BroncoSports.com.
About the Broncos
Boise State softball is in its third season. Head coach Erin Thorpe and the Broncos return 15 letterwinners and eight starters from the 2010 squad that finished third in the Western Athletic Conference.
After a 2-8 start, Boise State has won a school-record 12-straight games behind strong pitching. The Bronco pitching staff has combined for a staggering 0.65 ERA in the last 10 games, a span that included a 41-inning scoreless streak.
Junior Allie Crump leads the team on both sides of the field with a 9-3 record in the circle and a .424 batting average at the plate. Crump has won her last seven starts. She not only leads the Broncos in hitting for average, but is supplying the power with a team-best six home runs and .763 slugging percentage.
Junior Aubray Zell has also been dominant in the circle, posting a 4-1 record with a 1.75 ERA for the season. Zell is 4-0 during the win streak and is yet to allow a run in her 23 innings of work during that stretch, including the first no-hitter in school history March 4, against Southern Utah.
Freshman Devon Bridges has come on strong for the Bronco offense. Bridges is batting .529 with four home runs and 17 RBI during the win streak, with a base hit in 11 of the games.
About the Judi Garman Classic
The Judi Garman Classic is widely regarded as the premiere mid-season college softball tournament. This season's field features seven past national champions. The five-day tournament runs Wednesday through Sunday. Each of Boise State's four opponents will take on the Broncos in its final game at the tournament.
About Arizona State
The Sun Devils (27-2) entered the Judi Garman Classic ranked No. 5 in this week's coaches' poll on the strength of a 22-game winning streak. They went 1-1 on the first day. Arizona State has taken 17 of its 27 victories by the run rule, and scored double-digit runs in 10 of ots 11 games prior to the tournament. ASU enters the weekend hitting .407 as a team with a 1.54 staff ERA.
The Series
First meeting.
About Penn State
The Nittany Lions (9-7) wrap up a grueling early-season road schedule at the Judi Garman Classic. Penn State will be playing its 15th game in 16 days when it meets the Broncos and has yet to play a home game this year.The Nittany Lions enter the weekend batting below .200 as a squad, but feature two ace pitchers with sub-2.0 ERA's.
The Series
First meeting.
About Washington
The Huskies (20-1) were the last undefeated team standing in NCAA Division I softball before falling to No. 14 Texas in their second of six games at the Judi Garman Classic. The Huskies are led by five regulars in the lineup batting over .400 and freshman Kaitlin Inglesby's 2.15 ERA in the circle.
The Series
First meeting.
About Cal State Fullerton
The Titans (8-12) opened their prestigious home tournament Wednesday, with a win against Notre Dame. Cal State Fullerton entered the weekend averaging less than three runs per game, but have held nine opponents to three runs or fewer, including then-No. 14 Oregon in the season's opening weekend.
The Series
First meeting.
Crump Recognized Nationally
Junior Allie Crump added to her slew of honors with an honorable mention nod for the National Fastpitch Coaches Association Division I National Player of the Week. Crump was among six players across the country to be recognized for standout performances during the week of March 7-13.
Setting the Table
As a team, Boise State is reaching base 45 percent of the time leading off an inning. Devon Bridges leads the way with a 63.6 percent success rate (7-of-11). Allie Crump has had the most opportunities and has taken full advantage. Crump has reached base 13 of the 25 times she has come to the plate first. Three of her home runs have come leading off an inning.
Hitting Their Stride
Boise State hit .415 as a team at the SpringHill Suites Invitational to raise its batting average to .320. The Broncos continued the strong play at the Santa Clara Bronco Classic to remain at .320, good for second in the WAC. The Broncos now boast four of the top-10 batting averages in the conference, led by .Allie Crump (second, .424), Devon Bridges (fourth, .404), Kellie Caplan (fifth, .382) and Holly Bourke (sixth, .380).
Boise State Streaking
The Broncos are riding a school-record 12-game winning streak. Boise State has scored 92 runs during the streak, which comes on the heels of suffering back-to-back shutouts. Bronco pitchers have combined for a 1.77 ERA during the win streak...The strong pitching included a 41-inning scoreless streak, during which Boise State shutout five-straight opponents. The Broncos have six shutouts this season. The previous single-season high for shutouts by Boise State was four (2010).
Alvarez Arrives in the Clutch
Sophomore Vanessa Alvarez is thriving on clutch hitting situations in 2011. Alvarez is batting .255 on the year, but that number rises to .343 with runners on base and .455 with runners in scoring position. She leads the team in batting with runners in scoring position...Of Alvarez' 13 RBI this season, 11 have come with two outs.
Tazz a Tough Out
Junior Tazz Weatherly tied her career high with three hits in three-consecutive games (Feb. 25-March 4). It is the first time a Bronco has recorded three base hits in three-straight games. The single-season record for three-hit games is five (Kathy Cox, 2009).


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Montes Leyda Sauvignon Blanc 2007
Sauvignon Blanc from Chile, South America
Winemaker's Notes
This wine is a clear, crispy and fruity wine with light yellow-green color, bright and transparent. 100% Sauvignon Blanc from Leyda valley. After fermentation there we apply cold stabilization and then bottling. There is no oak ageing in this wine in order to maintain the freshness and crispiness of the Sauvignon Blanc from this area. Peaches, pineapples and other tropical fruits with citric hints together with a nice minerality, makes this wine a fresh and appealing wine. The aroma shows its power and super Sauvignon Blanc character, also showing the full potential of its cold zone origin, with morning fogs, low temperatures and long hanging period. At palate is persistent, very fresh, crispy with nice structure at mid palate.
Critical Acclaim
The Wine Advocate - " "The 2007 Sauvignon Blanc Leyda Vineyard, a more serious effort, is an unoaked cuvee with an expressive bouquet of spring flowers, citrus, and fresh herbs. Light- to medium-bodied, it exhibits lively white fruit flavors, vibrant acidity, and excellent balance. This exceptional value has a pure, fruit-filled finish." "
Montes Winery
With the release of the first Montes Alpha wine back in 1988, Montes became one of the first premium wineries of Chile. Their premise, a clear belief that Chile had an untapped potential as a producer of quality wines, made them a benchmark for other wineries to follow. Its original four partners' total involvement and the continuous help of the angels that decorate their labels was key to their success. Two decades later, Montes is the fifth most important winery of Chile where Aurelio Montes continues leading the winemaking area with the same passion as the first day. Hard work and total focus on quality has led Montes to be one of the most successful and respected quality-driven wineries in Chile as they continue pioneering and breaking new grounds in wine. View all Montes Wines
About ChileView a map of Chile wineries (CHEE-lay)Long and thin, Chile has a lot of land north to south. The wine region here is a series of districts based near Santiago. The vineyards are protected by the Pacific on the west and the Andes mountains on the east. This could help explain why the climate changes more from east to west than north to south – also why the country has remained phylloxera free. Quite a few wineries in Chile were founded by large French wine companies. Seeing the potential of the country, vineyards were bought and planted by these French folks and the results tell of a smart investment. Some of these wineries include: Los Vascos, Casa Lapostolle and Cousino Macul. And while the inspiration may have been French, but the wines here are quite Chilean.
Photo of the sun break following morning fog over the vineyards of Veramonte Winery (located in the Casablanca Valley)
Notable FactsThe main regions of Chile include Maipo (pronounced MY-poh), known for reds like Merlot, Cabernet Sauvignon and Carmenere; Casablanca Valley, a region producing delicious Sauvignon Blanc, as well as other whites & some reds; Colchaugua, an inland district creating amazing red wines from Syrah and Cabernet Sauvignon, particularly in the Apalta sub-region; and Rapel Valley, settled right under Maipo and producing the same red varietals. A couple of smaller regions to watch include Limari and Elqui, two valleys further north, producing some delicious cool-climate Chardonnay and Bio Bio, an area further south, which is also focused on cool-climate varieties. Chilean wines are growing in exports and more consumers are enjoying the delicious values coming from the country. Red wines of the region, though they cannot be generalized, make the whole gamut of wine quality – quaffable to collectible. Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot & Carmenere are the main players, though Syrah is also making a splash. Some of the best reds are blends of the above varieties. As for whites, Sauvignon Blanc is typically crisp, herbal and racy, while Chardonnay is richer in style with full-bodied texture and tropical fruit flavors.
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Alcohol By Volume GuideMost wine ranges from 10-16% alcohol by volume. Some varietals tend to have higher (for example Zinfandel and Cabernet Sauvignon) or lower alcohol levels (Pinot Noir and many white varietals), but there is always some variation from producer to producer. Some wine falls outside of this range, for instance Port weighs in closer to 20%, while Muscat and Riesling are usually a bit below 10%.
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- Light to medium bodied wines that are high in acid and light to medium fruit. Typically no oak.
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by Jonathan Wynn
Jonathan R. Wynn currently teaches at the University of Massachusetts – Amherst, but can still give a pretty good tour of the area around the CUNY Graduate Center. His next book will be about how music culture is used to brand three cities: Nashville, Newport, and Austin.
The following is an excerpt from Wynn's book, The Tour Guide: Walking and Talking New York (U. Chicago Press, 2011).
The Seeker
Tourism has been of particular interest because it is alternately seen as an avenue to finding "authentic" culture for the general public and, in the eyes of scholars, it can potentially undermine the very existence of that authenticity (Gotham 2007; Grazian 2003; Kelner 2010). Lower East Side guides, for example, have told me of Jewish and Italian groups attempting to return to the "homeland" through touring, looking to purchase Judaic trinkets or sip Italian espressos to enrich their experiences. A fieldnote of the "Immigrant Foods of the Lower East Side" walking tour with an independent guide provides evidence of this during a break in the tour:
Still noshing on knishes from Yonah Shimmel's famous bakery we walk up to Russ and Daughters. The guide tells our group of ten out-of-towners that "this establishment has been in the family for four generations, starting as a pushcart back in 1914. It is now in the National Register for Historical Places and the Smithsonian deemed it an official piece of New York culture." We all file into the deli to pick out something to put on a bagel. As we get our tickets from a red dispenser, the fishmonger tells us that they specialize in eight kinds of salmon, from lox, "which is cured in brine, not smoked," to "Kippered," "which is what people know as baked salmon." I get my favorite, sable (which is also called "Black Cod" and is filleted and cured in salt and brine) on a poppyseed bagel, which sparks a conversation with a middle-aged tourist from Connecticut, in town for the day with her daughter:
"A good Jewish order!" she says.
"Oh, thanks. I'm not Jewish, though."
"Have you been on this tour before?" she asks.
"No, no. I just love this," I say but, realizing she is looking for some locus of expertise, I add, "I live here." I ask, "Why did you come on this tour?"
"I wanted my daughter to know what my grandfather's life was like here in the Lower East Side. We get to taste exactly the same food that he would've eaten." When her number is called she breaks off the conversation by saying, "I want the same thing," and orders sable and cream cheese on a bagel. She tells me the tour is the educational part of their trip, a deal brokered with her teenager who "just came for the shopping."
Spilling back out on Broadway, people's hands are full with coffees, bagels, and knishes. A husband-and-wife team keeps rotating the delicacies between them. We walk another block and stop outside Katz's Delicatessen. "A famous New York landmark too crowded to pop in for a taste." There's a groan from the group that rises above the street noise, even though few have even made dents in the snacks that are already in their hands.
"This place is authentic, no doubt—it has been around since 1888—but it has been overrun with tourists ever since that scene in When Harry Met Sally. . ., and it'll just take too long to get something from here." Still attempting to assuage the group, she continues: "If you want to go and wait in line for a pastrami sandwich, that's great, but we're going to head over to the Essex Market." She does, however, take a minute to explain a sign that reads, "Send a salami to your boy in the Army," which has hung in the window since World War II.
[Big Onion guide] Erik Goldner explained his experience with these kinds of folks:
[They] come from all over the country and want to come to the Lower East Side to learn about the Jewish history of the Lower East Side, when the current Jewish population on the Lower East Side today is about one-fiftieth of what it was, and it's disappearing fast. Well, some of the old places are being rejuvenated, but anyway. So a lot of people do come to hear about an "authentic" Jewish community. A lot of people are searching for that.
Walking guides feel the pressure of this newfound interest, bristling when they feel a participant expects a more "touristy tour," and "real" New York experiences, when guides would like to focus on the stories they feel are most important rather than address what they perceive as the tourist's imagined cultural history.
Negotiating Edutainment
From interactions with this mixture of tour participants, the guide usually adapts his or her tour content. […] Because she was writing her dissertation on how social activists investigated the seedier problems of brothels and gang activity in New York City, [Big Onion guide] Jennifer [Fronc] draws from deep wells of New York scandals, but still hopes to walk the line by also sharing the more sober, social conditions of working-class folk. The topic of "Lower East Side Immigrant Labor" brings in clientele more inclined to the latter emphasis, but when taking other groups around the neighboring areas of Little Italy and Chinatown Jennifer describes feeling, "almost immoral" about telling salacious stories of Irish and Chinese gangs, and the mafia. She says it is difficult to avoid being too sensational on these "more touristic" tours and if she sees attentions wane she tends to offer up stories about the Raines Law, or how Jewish prostitutes would have to walk the other side of the street from the Italian prostitutes, or that a "stand-up" cost 75 cents. When I asked for an example of when she felt this pressure most pointedly, she described an event on one Chinatown tour:
I had this group; I think they were ninth or tenth graders, just a couple of months ago. This kid said to me, "Don't you think that the people who are living in these tenement apartment buildings feel upset that you stop in front of their house and talk about what a crappy building it is?" And I really didn't know how to answer that. I stammered something out about how it is a historic neighborhood, and I'm talking about how the city doesn't care about working people, but I've been really plagued by that question ever since.
To moderate her self-image as a historian with the expectations of her clients, she has tried to develop a concluding frame for these reluctantly told stories about gangs and crime in the neighborhood to make herself feel better about it:
I've just recently started wrapping it all up in something like: "It's interesting to think that—particularly among the Chinese and the Italians and less so with the Irish—these were men who were here without their families, they didn't have the sort of intimate personal relationships. So what does the gang mean for the political history of the city, with patronage, blah blah blah." So, I try to say that it's not really about these craven, horrible immigrants killing each other, it's a different meaning. But I don't feel good about that either.
Such a balancing act is the nature of the business. Buff- and Seeker-type participants crave details and more educational tales, while Kids want to be entertained. The perspectives of two prominent guides provide two ends on this particular balance, and how they approach each other in the in-between: Seth Kamil and Jane Marx. Over breakfast at Dizzy's Diner in Brooklyn, Jennifer's boss, Seth, portrays Big Onion as giving "lecture tours." He explains, "There are people out there that sing on their tours, there are people who do a song and dance, there are people who do costumes. We don't do any of that." "Whether you are fifty years old and have lived here all your life, or you are an eighth-grader, you are going to learn. That," he emphasizes, "is entertainment enough." […] Obviously, guides with more of an academic background can still be entertaining. While Jennifer describes her labor tour as "more educational," she conducts other tours, on Wall Street and Five Points, for example, which she pejoratively refers to as "pure tourism."
At the other end of the spectrum stands Jane Marx, the silver-tongued guide who makes every attempt to create an entertaining tour, although she is quick to insist that she doesn't do "pure fluff." As we sat at an Upper East Side diner, she jokingly claimed that one of the reasons she's a guide is because she has "Adult Attention Deficit Disorder" and that her quirkiness is a draw rather than a detriment. She insists clients come back for her as much as for the content. As she breaks a blueberry muffin apart with her hands for us to share, she tells me, "They won't remember a goddamned thing from the tour. But they'll remember that they had a great time, and that they love New York. My persona is what clients come back for." I saw the aspiring actress in her come alive on tour, reminding me that jazz is not the only cultural world where idiosyncrasy is rewarded. I press her with questions that would get at how such an entertaining, charisma-based disposition actually develops on tour; she recalls that, when giving one of her first tours, a child told her that anyone who wears a hat is fun, and she has worn a hat for every tour since. She tells me she wears four watches for the same effect. "All I have to do is look," pulling her wrist up a few inches from her face, "and people get that I am a wacky person." "It's all presentation, dah-ling, only 25 percent of it is facts." "It's vaudevillian. Charisma, however, is god-given. People see right through someone if they are faking it." She tells me, on stage and on the streets, that she "can wake up a stone." […] Willing to get a group interested by focusing on the more humorous and engaging aspects of a topic in a similar spirit, autodidactic guide Mark Shulman explains it is all "about liking people, wanting to make the tour an enjoyable experience, and realizing that the balance between education and entertainment should skew toward entertainment." […]
Coming from different ends, guides still hope to situate their work somewhere in the in-between. A few describe themselves as "pure" historians who divulge facts and tell precise stories, vehemently opposing the idea of being an entertainer, but most negotiate these distinctions, offering what has been called "infotainment" or "edutainment." […] Such issues over edutainment are not particularly new. As a prime mover of Disneyfication, the tourism industry writ large is often seen as staging "pseudo-events" and "invented traditions" to leave a subgroup of tourists seeking canned experiences for at least fifty years. Research on the topic portrays tourists who have a fully developed "symbolic complex" or "set" of expectations—existing before arriving at any touristic destination, like the Lower East Side or Harlem—that determines the success of their thematized visits. […T]hese touristic desires are tangible and can be a source of great anxiety for guides, particularly for those who disliked the more "mass touristic" aspects of bus tourism and those who come from academia. Even still, guides spoke with empathy when talking about the expectations of participants, particularly Seeker types. Erik Goldner told me:
I wrestle with presenting [these touristic aspects]. Personally, I don't want to say it's crap. I tell them that Hasia Diner writes about how a group from Iowa will come to the East Side and buy a loaf of rye bread from a kosher bakery, and by the time they get back to Iowa, it's stale. And basically, it's the same as the rye bread that you can get from the kosher bakery in your hometown. But to them, that bread, that's from the Lower East Side. That means something. And that's a very human impulse, I'm not against it.
To grapple with these impulses another BOWT guide, Annie Polland, described her strategy of flipping the mass-market expectations into a history lesson that she is more comfortable with when faced with a challenging group from a "spoiled suburban school" by reorienting their pervasive interest in shopping to talk about how their grandparents (particularly if they are Jewish) were at the very beginnings of the fashion industry in New York and on the Lower East Side, as both producers and consumers. She says, "All they can refer to is shopping [and ask] 'Where is H&M?' 'Where is Niketown?' and they are completely divorced from that historical perspective. As an academic I feel comfortable dealing with it my way." Both Erik's and Annie's comments pivot upon sensitivity to a group's perspective, but also their own feelings of who they are as aspiring academics and how they believe they should present their material.


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Somali National Army forces with the support of AMISOM troops captured the town of Jowhar on Sunday. Jowhar, one of the last large towns held by Al-Shabaab, is in the Middle Shebelle region, on the Shebelle River 90 kilometers north of Mogadishu.
Its capture opens up the road into Hiiraan region and to Belet Weyne where AMISOM's Djibouti's troops are now in charge of security. The joint Somali Army and AMISOM forces faced little resistance as they entered Jowhar which has been a major base for Al-Shabaab over the last few months. Eyewitnesses were quoted as saying that Al-Shabaab fled the town after the government forces and AMISOM advanced towards it on Saturday.
AMISOM's Force Commander, Lt. General Gutti said the joint forces were now consolidating the city's defenses and he appealed to the residents to remain calm. He described the capture of Jowhar as going " a long way towards improving security for the civilian population in Hiiraan and the Lower and Middle Shabelle regions. Lt. General Gutti who congratulated the Somali National Army troops on their success, said AMISOM would continue to enhance the capability of the Somali National Army through training and mentoring.
He noted "AMISOM is building up the capacity of the Somali National Army to train its troops within Somalia and we have already begun courses for Somali trainers at the Al Jazira Military Training Base."


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Help to affinity purification with specific antibodies!!
I´m having some trouble purifying a certain protein...
This is my current setup:
I´m using pAb´s that are covalent coupled to protein a - sepharose beads (~ 1.5 mg ab to 1.5 ml 100 % beads) with glutaraldehyde.
Incubate with ab for 2 h at RT followed by fixating with glutaraldehyde for 1 h RT and neutralize with ethanolamine (~ 400 mol excess)
By calculating the remaining ab from coupling incubation, all but 0.08 mg was bound.
The beads are placed on a 20 ml column from Bio-rad and washed 5xCV in PBS pH 7.4
Incubate with serum (10 ml) in 10 ml buffer over night at 4 degrees on rotation
wash x 5CV in TBS + 0.05% tween 20
elute bound protein with glycine 0.1M pH 2.5 and neutralize with Tris-HCl 1M pH 8
Shows that my protein elutes i certain fractions, and that there is a profound difference between in the amount of protein in the initial serum sample and serum after incubation on the beads...
Shows that my protein elutes in the same fractions as indicated by my ELISA
Shows rather weak bands around the theoretical molecular weight of the protein that aligns with what I see in the WB, and as indicated by my ELISA.
HOWEVER I get substantial amounts of other proteins in the elutes...!!!
How can I avoid this?? I figure that it must be either unspecific binding into the seph-beads, cross-reactivity of abs with my coupled pAbs, the pAbs I use recognize other serum proteins aside from my desired protein or that the protein a on seph-beads are not saturated, and therefore binds serum abs, which recognize other serum proteins...
Is it possible to wash these "other" proteins away and get a more pure product?
Please help..
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Portage Worker
What does a Portage Worker do?
Portage workers provide a home-visiting service for pre-school children (under five years old) who have special educational needs, and their families. They work to a portage model which aims to develop play, communication, relationships and learning. The model places importance on the family working together, and on inclusion and participation in the community.
Portage workers often have an on-going caseload of between eight and fifteen families. Work with each family is likely to include:
- an initial assessment of the child's needs; including social, cognitive, motor and language skills
- tailoring a programme of tasks and activities to the individual child, in agreement with the parents/carers
- visiting the family weekly to check on progress and set new goals
- writing regular reports on development and long-term targets
- consulting with other professionals such as psychologists or health visitors.
What's the working environment like working as a Portage Worker?Portage workers spend a great deal of time visiting families in their own homes, the remainder of time is spent putting together reports or attending meetings in an office.
They work around 35 hours a week, although part-time positions may be available. Evening and weekend work maybe necessary for visiting parents who work during the day, so flexibility is important.
What does it take to become a Portage Worker?To be a portage worker you should:
- have a flexible approach
- be able to maintain confidentiality
- have an understanding of child development
- be able to work within a multi-agency team
- have listening skills and be able to explain tasks and the portage model to parents
- have the ability to keep accurate records and write reports.
Portage Worker Career OpportunitiesPortage workers are usually employed by local authorities or children's charities. There are around 140 portage services registered in Britain. The programme is still very much in development, so while opportunities are increasing there may not be services in some local areas.
It is possible to become a senior portage worker with supervisory or management responsibilities. Portage workers may also move into other early years professions, for example nursery nursing.
Further information:
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Opportunities are likely to be advertised in the local press, or on local authority websites.
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Caroline Blomst for Deichmann Shoes SS14 Collaboration
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There are several distinct forms of polycythemia in domestic dogs: relative, transient and absolute. Absolute polycythemia can further be broken down into primary and secondary forms. It is important to determine which type of polycythemia is involved in a given dog, so that treatment can be tailored appropriately.
Relative polycythemia, sometimes called spurious polycythemia, refers to an apparent, but not actual, increase in the number of circulating red blood cells. Relative polycythemia can be caused by dehydration, blood loss, shock, decreased water intake, vomiting, diarrhea, kidney disease, hyperventilation and a number of other conditions – essentially, by anything that reduces plasma volume. Plasma is the liquid component of blood. No extra red blood cells are being made by a dog's body in cases of relative polycythemia; rather, the condition is caused by changes in the relative levels of the liquid and solid components of blood. For example, vomiting and diarrhea cause dehydration by depleting the overall amount of circulating fluid in the body, without reducing the number of circulating red blood cells, resulting in relative polycythemia. Fluid loss can happen for many other reasons as well, both externally from wounds and internally from trauma, parasites, hemorrhage, clotting disorders or otherwise. In other words, while the overall red blood cell mass remains normal, the fluid component has lessened, making the blood thicker, or more viscous.
Transient polycythemia is a type of relative polycythemia that is caused by splenic contraction. The spleen is a storage site for mature red blood cells. When a dog becomes extremely excited or experiences fear, anger, restraint, vigorous exercise or surprise, its spleen contracts in response to the release of epinephrine by its adrenal glands. Epinephrine is commonly called adrenaline. When the spleen contracts, it injects large numbers of red blood cells into circulation, thereby increasing the relative ratio of red cells to fluid in the blood. This is beneficial for dogs that are experiencing sudden and strong feelings, because the increased concentration of red blood cells facilitates the transport of oxygen to key organs and body tissues, preparing the dog for unusually energetic activity.
Absolute polycythemia is an actual increase in the number of circulating red blood cells. It is caused by increased proliferation of red blood cell precursors in the dog's bone marrow. Absolute polycythemia can be either primary or secondary.
The cause of primary absolute polycythemia is not known. It is uncommon in domestic dogs and cats, but does occur as an inherited defect in cattle. Also called polycythemia vera or polycythemia rubra vera, primary absolute polycythemia is characterized by increased formation and growth (hyperplasia) of the bone marrow tissue that is responsible for producing red blood cells. This causes an abnormal increase in circulating red cells, while the overall fluid component of blood remains unchanged.
Secondary absolute polycythemia is caused by an increase in the production and release of erythropoietin (EPO) by the kidneys. Erythropoietin is a hormone that stimulates red blood cell production by bone marrow through a process called erythropoiesis. When there is not enough circulating oxygen available for distribution to body tissues (a condition called hypoxia or hypoxemia), the kidneys release EPO. This causes a complex cascade of events that ultimately increase the amount of circulating mature red blood cells. The availability of oxygen can be deficient for many reasons, such as adaptation to high altitudes, cancer, pancreatitis, renal cysts or other forms of renal disease, hyperthyroidism, hyperadrenocorticism (Cushing's disease), heart, disease, lung disease and other causes of circulatory insufficiency. Regardless of the cause, when hypoxia develops, secondary absolute polycythemia usually also occurs.
Relative polycythemia can be prevented by ensuring that a dog is well-hydrated. Transient polycythemia is not preventable and lasts only a short period of time; it usually is clinically insignificant. Absolute polycythemia cannot really be prevented, because the causes are either unknown or highly variable.
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"Focus on the user and all else will follow. Since the beginning, we've focused on providing the best user experience possible. Whether we're designing a new Internet browser or a new tweak to the look of the homepage, we take great care to ensure that they will ultimately serve you, rather than our own internal goal or bottom line. Our homepage interface is clear and simple, and pages load instantly. Placement in search results is never sold to anyone, and advertising is not only clearly marked as such, it offers relevant content and is not distracting. And when we build new tools and applications, we believe they should work so well you don't have to consider how they might have been designed differently."
So, you can imagine my dismay when I learned of Google's most recent initiative, "Search, plus your world." At first blush this sounds like the beginnings of social media and search integration—the Holy Grail of Internet media. But instead, Google has actually hardcoded content from their social media product, Google+, into their search results.
Google's decision to prioritize Google+, not surprisingly, resulted in complaints from Facebook and Twitter. Additionally, this has also resulted in the FTC expanding its antitrust investigation to include Google+. Of course, Google is simply trying to increase Google+'s market share; however, whether the move reflects the sixth item in Google's company philosophy—"You can make money without doing evil"—is questionable.
Facebook, Twitter and MySpace certainly think it's questionable. The three social media networks have partnered to create a bookmarklet (found at www.focusontheuser.org) that uses Google's own algorithm to replace hardcoded Google+ results with social media results from around the Web (watch the video on their site for a full explanation).
Although some will argue that Google has the right to update their products as they choose, it's important to understand that Google's dominance in search (65.9 percent in December 2011) gives them the power to affect significant change with even the smallest step. Consider that Google's stock is currently trading at over $600 a share, Facebook is poised to have the largest internet IPO in history, and each company is trying to win the digital ad game, and it's easy to see why the introduction of "Search, plus your world" is getting people's attention.
I'm still a die hard fan, but I hope that they come to an agreement with the rest of the social media industry that is mutually beneficial to all users. As I mentioned above, my favorite thing about Google is the first principle in their company philosophy, "Focus on the user and all else will follow."


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In order to use the same casserole used for cooking the mussels, decant the liquor that they have released, carefully pouring it into another container to eliminate the sand.
Rinse the casserole. Add the white wine and shallot. Reduce it vigorously until about 3 tablespoons are left. Then add 3 deciliters (1 1/4 cups), carefully measured, of cooking water from the mussels. Make sure that it is not too salty, or you will have to add some water, thereby diluting the cooking liquid. Boil it for only a few seconds without reducing it. Turn off the heat.
Next, add to the sauce, always off the fire, the pepper, if this has not already been included as peppercorns; and the butter, divided into very small pieces the size of very small hazelnuts. Sprinkle over the bread crumbs, mixing well and shaking the casserole to melt the butter; and then some minced parsley; and some lemon juice, if using.
Put the mussels back into the casserole. Shake them in the sauce for a few seconds only without putting them directly over the heat. The point is to heat the mussels thoroughly and to cover them completely with sauce, but not to allow this to boil or even overheat, because the butter just added would lose its creaminess and turn to oil.
Then pour everything in a pile, pell-mell, into a warm timbale or a warm plate.
A note from Gourmet's food editors: The cookbook provides a lengthy explanation of cooking mussels. We cooked the mussels with 1 sliced medium onion, 5 thyme sprigs, 1/3 Turkish bay leaf, a pinch of white pepper, and 1 cup water, covered, over high heat until mussels just opened wide, 6 to 8 minutes, discarding mussels that didn't open after 8 minutes.


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Microsoft has launched another app for the iPad, this time it is MSN UK. MSN UK is brings all the latest news, sport and entertainment from the UK right to your iPad.
The MSN experience is now enhanced on iPad – easily swipe to find your favourite news, sport and entertainment articles and videos. Excited about something you read on MSN for iPad? Just tap and share with your friends on Facebook and Twitter.
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DATE & TIME: Wednesday, February 6, 9 p.m. (et)
FACTS & STATS: Site: Tad Smith Coliseum (9,061) -- Oxford, Mississippi. Television: CSS. Home Record: MSU 5-5, Ole Miss 11-1. Away Record: MSU 1-5, Ole Miss 5-2. Neutral Record: MSU 1-3, Ole Miss 1-1. Conference Record: MSU 2-6, Ole Miss 6-2. Series Record: Ole Miss leads, 139-106.
GAME NOTES: Fresh off back-to-back losses for the first time this season, the Ole Miss Rebels will try to get back on track against their in-state rivals, the Mississippi Bulldogs, in an SEC showdown at Tad Smith Coliseum on Wednesday night.
Mississippi State opened the 2013 calendar year by claiming three consecutive wins, but since then it has slid into a season-worst, six-game losing streak to plummet to 7-13 overall and 2-6 in conference. The Bulldogs appeared to be in position to snap the skid when they led LSU late in last Saturday's game, but they faltered down the stretch and were saddled with the heart-breaking 69-68 defeat.
Ole Miss was one of the surprises of the early season, and at 17-2 and 6-0 in the league, it was off to the best start in program history. The team's success allowed it to ascend all the way to No. 16 in the AP poll, but it promptly fell from the ranks following a pair of losses last week at home to Kentucky (87-74), and at nationally-ranked Florida (78-64).
With regard to the all-time series between these two bitter rivals, Ole Miss has a 139-106 advantage. The teams split the season series in 2011-12, with each winning on their home floor.
Mississippi State built a 14-point halftime lead against LSU on Saturday, but it lost control down the stretch and fell victim to a last-second field goal by the Tigers as it suffered the devastating one-point defeat. After shooting 57.1 percent in the opening period, it shot just 38.5 percent over the final 20 minutes, and it was hindered by a poor 13-of-27 showing at the free-throw line. Gavin Ware finished with 14 points and seven rebounds, Trivante Bloodman had 12 points, Craig Sword netted 11, and Roquez Johnson and Colin Borchert tacked on 10 points apiece in the setback. On the season, the Bulldogs own the SEC's worst scoring margin (-5.2 ppg), while also ranking last in the conference with a .407 field goal percentage. Fred Thomas is the only player averaging double figures with 10.4 ppg, albeit on only 34 percent field goal accuracy. Ware chips in with 8.9 ppg on nearly 55 percent from the floor, while also grabbing a team-high 6.8 rpg.
Ole Miss was thoroughly overmatched in its recent bout with Florida, as it was outshot (.516 to .382) on its way to a 14-point defeat. Marshall Henderson was fantastic in defeat, draining 7-of-11 shots from 3-point range en route to a game-high 25 points. Henderson kept up his pace as the SEC's leading scorer (19.5 ppg), and he increased his league-high 3-point total to 83, which is 32 more than second place. Murphy Holloway was also solid in the setback at well, netting 15 points and grabbing seven rebounds, but he shot only 5-of-16 from the floor. Murphy acts as the other half of the Rebels' potent inside-outside duo, putting up 14.6 ppg and league-high 10.1 rpg. While no one else averages in double figures, Reginald Buckner (9.6 ppg, 7.8 rpg, 2.7 bpg), Nick Williams (9.4 ppg) and Jarvis Summers (8.8 rpg, 81 assists, 27 turnovers) are also crucial pieces to the puzzle, although Williams is out indefinitely with a foot injury. As a team, Ole Miss ranks fifth in the nation in scoring with 79.2 ppg.
Despite the Rebels' recent struggles, they now return home where they've won 11 of 12 this season. They should have little trouble dismissing an underwhelming Mississippi State squad in this one.
Sports Network Predicted Outcome: Ole Miss 80, Mississippi State 63
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Rand Paul endorses immigrant path to citizenship
WASHINGTON Republican Sen. Rand Paul said Tuesday that illegal immigrants should be allowed to become U.S. taxpayers and ultimately get a shot at citizenship, a significant step for the Tea Party favorite amid growing Republican acceptance of the idea.
"Let's start that conversation by acknowledging we aren't going to deport" the millions already here, the potential 2016 presidential candidate told the U.S. Hispanic Chamber of Commerce. "Prudence, compassion and thrift all point us toward the same goal: bringing these workers out of the shadows and into becoming and being taxpaying members of society."
It was the latest sign that the Republican Party is moving to broaden its appeal to politically influential Latinos and other ethnic minorities after significant election losses last fall. Paul spoke a day after a Republican National Committee report called on the GOP to support comprehensive reform, though without specifying whether it should include a pathway to citizenship, which is decried by some conservatives as amnesty.
Meanwhile, a bipartisan group of senators is nearing agreement on sweeping legislation to overhaul the nation's immigration policy, an effort that could get a boost from Paul's stance.
The Kentucky Republican said for him to support such an approach, a stronger border must come first, and Congress must agree that border security has improved. The path to citizenship he envisions would come with other conditions, too, that would make it long and difficult for illegal immigrants to travel.
"Immigration reform will not occur until conservative Republicans, like myself, become part of the solution. I am here today to begin that conversation and to be part of the solution," Paul said.
Underscoring the political risks conservative Republicans face in embracing citizenship for illegal immigrants, Paul never used the word "citizenship" in his warmly received 17-minute speech, and aides sought to emphasize that his focus is on border security and on getting illegal immigrants into a probationary legal worker status.
From there, according to his approach, they would have the opportunity after some time to get green cards, the permanent resident visas whose holders become eligible after five years to obtain citizenship.
Paul's speech was peppered with Spanish phrases from his youth in Texas, references to his immigrant great-grandparents and praise for Latino culture. He said his party must adopt a new face toward Hispanics and conservatives must be part of it.
For Paul, there are political overtones to his newly articulated stance, since he's viewed as a potential presidential candidate and Hispanics are an increasingly important part of the electorate. Latino voters overwhelmingly backed President Barack Obama last year, helping seal his re-election, and Paul said the GOP needs to reverse that trend or risk "permanent minority status."
Paul laid out broad elements of a comprehensive immigration overhaul that has some overlap with the approach contemplated by the Senate's bipartisan Gang of Eight, which hopes to release its legislation next month. The Senate group aims to secure the border, improve legal immigration and boost workplace enforcement, as well as create a pathway to citizenship. In an interview, Paul said he could foresee backing the Senate group's emerging bill, although he plans to try to amend it on the floor with some of his own ideas.


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Head Coach of Ghana U-17 team (Black Starlets), Samuel Fabin tells Cafonline.com that his team has not qualified for the 2013 Africa U-17 Championship despite carrying a 3-2 lead into this weekend's second leg against South Africa.
He insists there is much to play for in the return encounter and they are bracing up for the final test against the Amajimbos.
How are preparing for your second leg against South Africa?
We are going about our normal preparations and doing nothing special. It is the same training regime we underwent towards the first leg.
What did the trick for you in the first leg in Soweto two weeks ago?
We were well prepared and the players were also psyched up for the game. Our tactics also work well leading to victory.
With the 3-2 win, can you say you have already qualified for the African Championships in Morocco next year?
We are not there yet. Football is full of uncertainties and we need to tighten up for the second leg. Also, we must play a better game. We are playing at home and expectations are high of us, so we have to deliver.
What are your observations of the South African team?
They have a very good team and have good passers of the ball. They are technically disciplined and we expect a tough test from them. With that, we are preparing seriously to seal our qualification for the African Championship.
Are you under some form of pressure playing at home?
We are under no pressure. The players have been psyched in that regard and are aware of what is at stake.
What does this game mean to you since Ghana has failed to qualify for the last two editions of the continental championship?
It means as a whole lot because we (technical team) were tasked with qualifying for the African Championships as the team had failed in recent past. We are on course and we are looking forward to qualifying for the World Cup as well.
What has been the driving force of your team?
For my players, the will to make a name has been the driving force. They want to go far in their career. The Black Starlets has served a stepping stone for many players in the past and they want to follow suit.


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If you bought a Powerball ticket with the numbers 1, 6, 7, 20, and 49 with a Powerball of 23 on or just before August 25 of last year at Playland Market in Rye, N.Y., you bought a winning ticket for $1 million.
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New York Lottery spokeswoman Christy Calicchia says that $28 million in lottery prizes have gone unclaimed in the first four months of this year. In 2012, a total of $65 million was left on the table by forgetful players. According to Calicchia, some players put the ticket through the wash, forget they bought it in the first place, or don't realize when there's more that one drawing prize.


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Just about every one else in the AFC North has one or two. The Cleveland Browns have 6-foot-3, 225-pound Josh Gordon and 6-foot-2, 220-pound Greg Little . The Cincinnati Bengals have 6-foot-4, 207-pound A.J. Green and 6-foot-2, 210-pound Mohamed Sanu.


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They're everywhere. No matter where scientists look in the depths of Earth's crust, the same 19 microorganisms keep popping up. Nobody knows how these cosmopolitan bugs went global.
On Earth's surface, separate locations are home to quite different organisms, even if the conditions are similar: Antarctica has penguins, but the Arctic has polar bears instead. A species can only spread more widely if it can travel freely. "It is easy to understand how birds and fish might be similar oceans apart," says Matt Schrenk of Michigan State University in East Lansing. "But it challenges the imagination to think of nearly identical microbes 16,000 kilometres apart in the cracks of hard rock."
Under the banner of the Census of Deep Life, Schrenk and an international coalition of researchers are probing depths from 100 to 2000 metres beneath the surface. They use mineshafts, wells and drilling rigs, in locations scattered from Canada to Antarctica and the bottom of the ocean. Samples brought back from the deep are sent to the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, Massachusetts, where Sharon Grim has been analysing them for microbial life.
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"There seems to be a core group of microbes that appears again and again in all of these environments," says Rick Colwell of Oregon State University in Corvallis, who will present Grim's early results at a meeting of the American Geophysical Union in San Francisco this week. "Some might be very rare, just a fraction of a per cent of the total life present, however they are there."
The team is flummoxed when it comes to finding a good explanation. "It is hard to come up with a single hypothesis for how the organisms spread so widely," says Colwell. Perhaps the microbes move around underground, but it is difficult to explain how a South African gold mine, for instance, is linked to frozen methane pockets beneath the Indonesian sea floor.
Alternatively, subsurface bugs around the planet may be forced to evolve in similar ways by the limited resources that are available to them. So far, Grim has been looking at a single gene that is commonly used to identify types of bacteria. It is possible that all these microorganisms may carry similar versions of that one gene but not be closely related to each other.
Schrenk proposes a more controversial explanation. Many of the organisms have been found in serpentine minerals, which form under conditions similar to the ones that may have prevailed where life first started more than 4 billion years ago. Schrenk says the microbes could have evolved in similar primordial environments, and been transported around the globe by plate tectonics.
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"These results imply a commonality of colonisation of the subsurface of the planet," says Barbara Sherwood-Lollar of the University of Toronto in Canada, who studies ancient ecosystems preserved inside a mine in Canada. "Determining how and when that happened is the next critical step."
Colwell is more cautious. "I don't feel comfortable saying these organisms could have spread from a location," he says. But given how stable conditions are in the depths, he believes the microbes may have been down there for aeons, and will be there long after surface life has died out.
"I'm willing to think about the subsurface biosphere as being the once and future refuge for microbial life," says Colwell. "And when the sun goes through its cycle and Earth is fried, that will be the last place where life will wink out."
So, who are these mysterious bacterial super-invaders? The genetic sequencing cannot yet tell us how they manage to survive in a wide range of extreme depths, pressures and temperatures, but it is likely that they are very good at fuelling up in many different ways. And, given how little there is to eat down there, Colwell says there is a chance they exist at the very limit of life. "Thinking of them as the living dead may not be far off," he says.
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"Star Wars" fans got their first look at an Episode VII X-Wing Starfighter in a charity video starring J.J. Abrams.
In the video, which is an ad for a UNICEF charity drive, the "Star Wars" director and "Lost" co-creator is seen standing in front of the starfighter while he describes the fundraiser and some of the rewards fans could get. After slowly panning out to reveal the full size and scope of the spacecraft, Abrams is interrupted by a Rebel fighter heading to the cockpit.
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The Mau-Mau uprising (1952-60) remains a controversial conflict, waged by warriors about whom many myths have been formed, but little truth has been written. Condemned by history as a brutal rag-tag force engaged in oath-taking, cannibalism and witchcraft, the military activities of the Mau-Mau have long been overlooked. Although their skill, organization and unique motivation forced the British government to undertake the longest airlift in military history, and to deploy extensive force at a cost of almost £60 million, before it could claim victory. This book reveals the real men and women behind the Mau-Mau; the truth behind the oaths that bound them together; and how they became a powerful force, paving the way for Kenya's independence.
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The Curtiss Jenny made its final flight on Saturday to the Municipal Airport, where it will sit in the new terminal at the Jet to Jenny exhibit.
The delayed opening of Wichita Falls Regional Airport is not putting the brakes on artifacts moving into the Jenny to Jet Museum this weekend.
Dr. Armando San Diego's $32,000 auction bid wins him a seat in the cockpit during the final flight of the Curtiss Jenny.
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Super League leaders Wigan will be out for revenge when they take on basement boys Widnes on Monday night, live on Sky.
Widnes have had a tough season after coming up to the Super League but they did pull off a fantastic win against Wigan earlier this year - albeit against a depleted Warriors side.
Wigan boss Shaun Wane was very unimpressed with that result. To say Wigan were embarrassed by losing to Widnes would be an understatement - and they will certainly show them more respect this time around. I fear they may really take it out on Widnes!
Wigan will start the match as red-hot favourites and will no doubt dominate the match. They'll kick and smother the ball, forcing Widnes deep into their own half before capitalising on any mistakes. Then, when Wigan attack with ball in hand they'll really go for it.
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However, the hosts will face Widnes without one of their key players, Thomas Leuluai. The New Zealand half back broke his leg playing against England last week and will be an enormous loss for Wigan.
Of course, one man doesn't make a team and it shouldn't stop Wigan winning Super League, but the combination between Leuluai and Brett Finch has been superb this year.
The two halves are the most important players in any rugby league team, so of course he's going to be a big loss.
Sam Tomkins, who normally plays at full back, has played at stand off before and could go back in to partner Finch, or young Matthew Russell could be called back from Hull FC where he's enjoying a successful loan spell.
This season was always going to be a struggle for Widnes, who came up from a lower division and had to rebuild their squad virtually from scratch.
But they've learnt a lot, brought in Kevin Brown, an experienced international player who is a good organiser and a good player, and now they need to continue to develop their squad.
A lot of people have no patience and think rugby league teams should click straight away but it's difficult. Widnes have had some good results though, not least against Wigan, and there's hope there for their fans and the young juniors coming through.
STEVO'S STAR MAN: If it's bad weather it could come down to goal kicking, in which case Patrick Ah Van will be crucial for Widnes.
STEVO SAYS: You've got to say this is going to be an easy win for Wigan. I can't see Widnes upsetting them again. Shocks do happen but I don't think we'll see one on Monday night.