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Health Equity Matters
In this Newsletter
Winter 2015 ~ Vol.4, #1
A quarterly e-newsletter in which the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's (CDC) Office of Minority Health and Health Equity (OMHHE) shares news, perspectives and progress in the science and practice of health equity.
to Health Equity Matters,
an electronic newsletter intended to promote awareness of minority health and health
equity issues that affect our work at CDC and in the broader public health community, support the achievement of our goal to eliminate health disparities, and foster ongoing communication and collaboration.
Greetings! We hope your work in the New Year is progressing toward health equity as we celebrate Black History Month, the 50th anniversary of the passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, the creation of Medicaid and Medicare and the Head Start program. This year marks a number of milestones in our nation's efforts to reduce health disparities and improve minority health. We will celebrate 30 years since the release of the 1985 Secretary's Task Force Report on Black & Minority Health and 100 years since the establishment of National Negro Health Week by Dr. Booker T. Washington which evolved to National Minority Health Month. The Office of Minority Health and Health Equity is collaborating with a number of partners this year to pause, reflect, assess our progress, and continue to move forward toward achieving health equity. For example, we will be releasing several new reports this year including the first Vital Signs Report on Hispanic Health. We are also co-sponsoring in partnership with Tuskegee University, Morehouse School of Medicine, and the Atlanta University Center a health summit at CDC that will examine African American and minority health over the past 100 years, review federal initiatives to improve minority health through research, practice, and policies, and explore health equity strategies needed to improve population health outcomes in the 21st century. Stay tuned… There is much more to come!
In this issue of Health Equity Matters, we congratulate Dr. Camara Jones on her recent election as President-elect of the American Public Health Association, and we honor Dr. Robert Hahn – the first CDC scientist to be selected Health Equity Champion by the Office of Minority Health and Health Equity. Both Dr. Jones and Dr. Hahn have long and distinguished careers promoting equity and social justice. We also celebrate the accomplishments of several members of the Health Disparities Subcommittee whose leadership is helping to accelerate public health's impact in achieving health equity; and there are snapshots of activities underway at CDC that support the science and practice of health equity and our efforts to ensure a diverse and inclusive workforce.
With great respect, we salute the life and legacy of Lark Galloway-Gilliam who passed away December 1, 2014. Her vision to end racial and ethnic health disparities will live on through her family and colleagues, and all who have dedicated themselves to eliminating health inequities.
As always, we hope you will enjoy this issue, and your comments are always welcome!
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Leandris C. Liburd, PhD, MPH, MA
Associate Director for Minority Health and Health Equity, CDC/ATSDR
Office of Minority Health & Health Equity (OMHHE)
News You Can Use!
Work Towards Health Equity Requires Practice and CollaborationCDC leaders and staff gathered for the State of Health Equity at CDC Forum on November 12, 2014, at CDC's headquarters in Atlanta, Georgia. This Forum, convened by OMHHE, is the third in an annual series of agency-wide gatherings to discuss issues, opportunities, and challenges related to health equity efforts at CDC.
This year's forum "Toward Achieving Health Equity: Emerging Evidence and Program Practice," featured two panels. The first panel, "What are the key characteristics and evidence requirements for effective health equity-relevant programs?" highlighted programs from across the agency addressing a variety of health disparities (e.g. violence prevention, HIV, sexually transmitted diseases, smoking).
The second panel "What are the organizational and structural supports needed for developing effective health equity programs?," discussed cross-cutting policies and planning activities needed to develop effective and appropriate health equity programs. Engaging in collaboration, developing interventions with more than one approach, and education were recurring themes. "We have been pushing and encouraging collaborations with non-traditional partners," said Kim Williams, PhD, MSW, Behavioral Scientist, Prevention Research Branch, Division of HIV/AIDS Prevention/NCHHSTP.
Discussions at the Forum also included breaking down silos to reduce duplication of public health efforts and resources. "We need to address all levels concurrently, and the real leverage is in things like structural and societal changes. These are difficult, expensive, and require a focus on collective, cross-sectorial impact that has not typically characterized public health efforts. I think many of us in public health and in program evaluation are up to this challenge," said Tom Chapel, MA, MBA, Chief Evaluation Officer, Office of the Director/Program Planning and Evaluation Office.
The next Forum, to be held in the fall of 2015, will focus on policy levers that support health equity.
Healthy People 2020: Resources to Address the Social Determinants of HealthHealth starts in our homes, schools, workplaces, neighborhoods, and communities. Healthy People 2020 focuses on identifying, measuring, tracking, and reducing health disparities through a determinants of health approach and its new Social Determinants of Health (SDOH) topic area and objectives. Healthy People 2020 organized the SDOH around five key domains: (1) Economic Stability, (2) Education, (3) Health and Health Care, (4) Neighborhood and Built Environment, and (5) Social and Community Context.
Improving health status by addressing the social determinants that impact individual health requires careful assessment, planning, and use of effective interventions at the community level. Healthy People 2020 recently launched a database of social determinants of health resources, organized by domain, to help departments of public health, community-based organizations, policymakers and others identify strategies for addressing the social determinants of health in their communities and to explore ways communities across the country are addressing these critical issues.
New CDC Diversity & Inclusion Executive Steering Committee (DIESC)As part of CDC's ongoing diversity and inclusion management efforts, OMHHE's Diversity and Inclusion Management (DM) Team created a new, more inclusive Diversity & Inclusion Executive Steering Committee (DIESC). The initial meeting of the DIESC took place on November 18, 2014 at the CDC headquarters in Atlanta, Georgia. It comprises CDC top, middle, division, branch leaders, seven Chairs of employee organizations; one labor management partnership council member, one Hispanic work group member, and one Veteran work group member.
The new Steering Committee will guide and provide support for agency-wide diversity and inclusion initiatives. "Our top four diversity and inclusion management priorities and objectives for fiscal year 2015 are recruitment, retention, succession planning, and sustainability," said Dr. James Nelson, Chief Diversity Officer, Office of Minority Health and Health Equity.
CDC's definition of diversity is "an appreciation and respect for the many similarities and differences in the workplace, including the varied perspectives, approaches and competencies of co-workers and populations we serve. Diversity is a resource that is fundamental to organizational excellence."
"The expanded DIESC creates a space for new relationships to be formed, multiple viewpoints to be heard, and to support efforts to sustain a "habitable work environment." Coming together through the DIESC will allow us to share experiences and influence change. We want to let all employees know they are valued and engaged in achieving the mission of the agency every day," said Dr. Liburd, DIESC's co-chair along with Dr. Ileana Arias, CDC's Principal Deputy Director.
Remembering, Celebrating, and Acting on Dr. King's LegacyCDC held a lively Martin Luther King Commemoration on January 15, 2015. "Remember, Celebrate, Act: Our legacy of Peace for Our World," was the theme of this year's celebration. " At CDC we continue to dedicate our efforts to the spirit of Dr. King's legacy with primarily our service to communities around the world through our mission to promote health equity, enhance quality of life by preventing and controlling disease, injury and disability," said Dr. Ileana Arias, CDC's Principal Deputy Director, on behalf of CDC Director Dr. Tom Frieden. "We are committed to promoting equal opportunity for employment, promotion, and training in all segments of the workforce, and embrace a diverse workforce not only here at CDC but globally."
This year's guest speakers were Dr. Nicole R. Phillips, Assistant Professor of Religion and Human Difference, and Dr. Gregory C Ellison, II, Assistant Professor of Pastoral Care, Candler School of Theology, Emory University.
Anniversary of a Landmark ReportThe year 2015 marks the 30th Anniversary of the 1985 Report of the Secretary's Task Force on Black and Minority Health , a landmark eight-volume report, known as the Heckler Report, documenting health disparities affecting Americans of color and recommending action steps for the nation to address these disparities. Both the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and CDC's Offices of Minority Health were set up in response to the report.
After years of observing poorer health for Blacks and other minorities in comparison to Whites, the Secretary of HHS, Margaret Heckler, commissioned a powerful task force in 1984 to describe the health status of racial and ethnic minority populations more fully and to consider what the federal government could do to address them.
The Task Force defined minorities as Blacks, Hispanics, Native Americans, and Asian/Pacific Islanders. The Task Force paid particular attention to the higher death rates of Blacks and other minorities in comparison to Whites; noting that there were 59,000 greater deaths for Blacks per year, higher than for any other racial or ethnic group.
Congratulations to the new President-elect of the American Public Health Association (APHA)OMHHE wishes to congratulate Camara P. Jones, MD, MPH, PhD, Senior Fellow, Satcher Health Leadership Institute, new president-elect of APHA, one of the largest and oldest public health organizations committed to speaking out about public health issues and supporting policies and practices that are most likely to improve the nation's health.
In November 2014, Jones became the second CDC employee to be elected president-elect of APHA (Faye Wong, MPH, served as APHA president from 2001–2002). Jones, who has over 30 years of public health and medical experience, is a family physician and epidemiologist. In 2000 she joined CDC to serve as research director on social determinants of health and equity within the National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion (NCCDPHP). In that role, she led the development of the "Reactions to Race" module on the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System and the establishment and formalization of the CDC Racism and Health Workgroup as an official CDC scientific workgroup.
Now a medical officer in the Office of Public Health Scientific Services' (OPHSS) Community Guide Branch, Jones is currently on loan to the Morehouse School of Medicine's Satcher Health Leadership Institute as a senior fellow. Her scholarship on social determinants of health and equity, with a focus on the impacts of racism on the health and well-being of the nation, has earned her awards from APHA, the Cobb Institute of the National Medical Association, and the Association of State and Territorial Directors of Health Promotion and Public Health Education, among others.
From Our Partners on the Health Disparities Subcommittee (HDS)The following announcements were shared by our partners on the Health Disparities Subcommittee – a subcommittee of the Advisory Committee to the Director (ACD) that provides expert advice and guidance on health disparities to OMHHE and the CDC Director. The Health Disparities Subcommittee is comprised of national leaders representing a broad range of health equity, public health, and health care expertise.
New Health Equity Office in Connecticut's Department of Public Health
HDS member Jewel M. Mullen, MD, MPH, MPA, Commissioner and State Health Officer Connecticut Department of Public Health, has risen to the rank of President of the Association of State and Territorial Health Officials (ASTHO), and has indicated that her President's Challenge will focus on healthy aging.
She also announced the formation of the Connecticut Department of Public Health Office of Health Equity, replacing the former DPH Office of Multicultural Health. "Promoting health equity is central to our mission at the Department of Public Health," said Dr. Mullen. "This office provides support and resources to all our programs so they can incorporate health equity into their everyday work." Dr. Mullen noted that the new Office of Health Equity has supported recent efforts at DPH, including the department's strategic plan, which now includes "Champion a Culture of Health Equity" as a new cross-cutting objective; and the State Health Improvement Plan, in which health equity and the social determinants of health are overarching themes for the entire plan. The office facilitated the development of a new DPH "Health Equity Toolkit," which serves as a resource for all DPH staff wanting to incorporate health equity principles into their work through programming, analysis, training, and/or work with subcontractors.
A Promotion to Advance Reducing Health Disparities
HDS member Will R. Ross, MD, MPH, Associate Dean for Diversity at Washington University School of Medicine, was promoted last year to Professor in the Department of Internal Medicine, Renal Division. His promotion was largely based on his tireless efforts to enhance Washington University's public health "footprint" locally and globally. His work can best be described broadly in three areas, each aimed at reducing health disparities: Increasing awareness of health literacy; broadening the understanding of social determinants of health; and improving public health workforce diversity.
Dr. Ross served on the task force that culminated in the creation of the Washington University Institute of Public Health, and pioneered the integration of public health into the medical school curriculum. In 2013, Dr. Ross received the Samuel R. Goldstein Leadership Award in Medical School Teaching, one of the medical school's most prestigious awards, on the basis of his longstanding efforts to improve student's knowledge of cultural competence, diversity, and social determinants of health through service learning. "Improving cultural diversity within the public health workforce is not only a 21st century moral imperative, but the centerpiece in our national effort to achieve health equity," said Dr. Ross.
Award from the American College of Emergency Physicians
HDS Chair Lynne D. Richardson, MD, FACEP, Professor and Vice Chair of Emergency Medicine; Professor of Health Evidence and Policy, was the recipient of the 2014 Colin C. Rorrie Jr. Award for Excellence in Health Policy.
This award was presented to Dr. Richardson by the American College of Emergency Physicians for her outstanding leadership at the national level on policy development to end healthcare disparities in the United States. "I am grateful for this recognition by my colleagues in emergency medicine for my efforts to promote health equity - this is work that I am passionate about," said Dr. Richardson.
- New Health Equity Office in Connecticut's Department of Public Health
Tribute to Lark Galloway-GilliamOMHHE expresses its condolences on the passing of Lark Galloway-Gilliam, Executive Director, Community Health Councils (CHC) , a Los Angeles-based health promotion, advocacy and policy organization dedicated to building healthy communities and the elimination of racial and ethnic health disparities. She was 61. Ms. Galloway-Gilliam was an advocate for health and human rights, public accountability and quality healthcare for uninsured and underinsured communities. Her reach extended far beyond her own community, and in the summer of 2012 she was nominated by the Office of Minority Health and Health Equity as a Health Equity Champion for communities across the nation working to overcome health disparities and achieve health equity. Her leadership and dedication to the pursuit of health equity will be greatly missed.
Science Speaks
Selected Publications from OMHHE Authors:
Man-Huei Chang, Michael T. Molla, Benedict I. Truman, Heba Athar, Ramal Moonesinghe, Paula W. Yoon.
Differences in healthy life expectancy for the US population by sex, race/ethnicity and geographic region: 2008.
Journal of Public Health, August 30, 2014.
Ramal Moonesinghe, Karen Bouye, Ana Penman-Aguilar.
Difference in Health Inequity between Two Population Groups due to a Social Determinant of Health.
International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, December 16, 2014; 11(12):13074-83.
Priscilla A. Barnes, Paul C. Erwin, Ramal Moonesinghe.
Measures of Highly Functioning Health Coalitions: Corollaries for an Effective Public Health System.
Frontiers in Public Health Services and Systems Research, August, 2014; 3(3): Article 1.
Tanya Telfair LeBlanc PhD, MS, Laurie Reid BSN, Hazel D. Dean ScD, MPH, Yvonne Green RN, CNM, MSN
Introduction: Health Equity among Incarcerated Female Adolescents and Adult Women: Infectious and Other Disease Morbidity..
Women & Health, November 6, 2014; 54(8):687-693.
Tsulukidze M, Honoré P, Ramal Moonesinghe, PhD, Fisher J.
Classification tree analysis of race-specific subgroups at risk for a central venous catheter-related bloodstream infection..
Jt Comm J Qual Patient Saf, March, 2014; 40(3):134-143.
Wayne A. Duffus, Cynthia Trawick, Ramal Moonesinghe, Jigsa Tola, Benedict I. Truman, Hazel D. Dean.
Training Racial and Ethnic Minority Students for Careers in Public Health Sciences..
American Journal of Preventive Medicine, November, 2014; 47(5 Supplement 3):S368-S375.
Health Equity Champion
On behalf of the Office of Minority Health and Health Equity, I am pleased to recognize Dr. Robert Hahn as a Health Equity Champion. Dr. Hahn is an accomplished medical anthropologist, epidemiologist, and community activist. He embodies the best of the convergence of anthropology and epidemiology, and his expertise is sought globally. At CDC, Dr. Hahn has been a forerunner – a visionary leader motivated by values, ideals, and evidence, who championed the integration of health equity into public health research, policies, and practice much before health equity was as widely discussed or considered essential to achieving the mission of public health. Dr. Hahn is a deep thinker, change agent, and activist anthropologist whose career has been devoted to ensuring the best health for all.
We congratulate Dr. Hahn for his distinguished and enduring service, and designate him a Health Equity Champion!
--Leandris C. Liburd
Robert A. Hahn received his PhD in anthropology at Harvard University (1976) and his MPH in epidemiology from the University of Washington (1986). He began his career at the CDC in Atlanta in 1986 in the Epidemic Intelligence Service.
As a child growing up with parents who were German refugees, Dr. Robert A. Hahn, developed a strong sense of social justice at an early age. It was this development and his interest in other cultures that would lead him to study anthropology.
While pursuing a master's of public health in epidemiology from the University of Washington, Dr. Hahn learned about the Epidemic Intelligence Service program at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). "I'm very interested in the interaction of mind, body and culture and I wanted to make my anthropology useful," A member of the Senior Biomedical Research Service, Dr. Hahn has also served as an epidemiological consultant on international projects in Brazil, Hungary, and West Africa. He is the author of Sickness and Healing: An Anthropological Perspective (Yale, 1995) and co-editor of Anthropology and Public Health: Bridging Differences in Culture and Society (Oxford, 2008, second edition). In 1998-1999, he worked as a Capitol Hill fellow in the House of Representatives Committee on Veterans' Affairs and in the office of Congresswoman Louise Slaughter. "I'm honored to be recognized and I feel gratified knowing that what I've tried to do in my work is thought to be helpful," said Dr. Hahn after accepting the Health Equity Champion nomination.
As a Coordinating Scientist of systematic reviews for the Guide to Community Preventive Services (The Community Guide), Dr. Hahn has led reviews on the prevention of excessive alcohol consumption and violence prevention. He currently leads a team in reviews of educational interventions to promote health equity. Dr. Hahn believes that working to improve education should be an important part of the efforts of public health professionals to reduce health disparities.
In his work on violence prevention, Dr. Hahn and his review team examined laws and policies that facilitated the transfer of youths from juvenile justice systems to adult criminal justice systems for the purpose of reducing violence. His team found that such laws and policies are actually associated with increased subsequent violent behavior among transferred youth.
For his leadership in the founding of CDC's Behavioral and Social Science Working Group, he was awarded the "Lifetime Contribution Award for Outstanding Dedication to Excellence in Behavioral and Social Science." And in 2012, he was awarded the Career Achievement Award by the Society for Medical Anthropology. Dr. Hahn is an active member of the American Anthropological Association and currently participates in leading efforts to bring anthropological expertise to CDC's Ebola response.
He is an adjunct associate professor in the department of anthropology at Emory University. Also, he is actively involved as a tutor and advisory board member for KIPP (Knowledge Is Power Program) West End Young Scholars middle school in Atlanta. KIPP is a public charter school system that uses a structured learning environment to prepare students in low-income communities for college.
"A long-term goal of mine is to help make education a public health tool, not just health education, but education overall so that young people can understand social issues and work to address them," Dr. Hahn said. "I believe that education is probably the most important way of breaking the cycle of poverty."
2015 Latino Medical Student Association Southeast Regional
February 27–28, 2015
San Juan, Puerto Rico
8th Health Disparities Conference
Xavier University of Louisiana College of Pharmacy
March 12–14, 2015
New Orleans, Louisiana
National Conference on Health and Domestic Violence
March 20-21, 2015
Washington, D.C.
2015 Associations of Schools & Programs of Public Health (ASPPH) Annual Meeting
Framing the Future: A New Paradigm for Academic Public Health
March 22–25, 2015
Arlington, Virginia
4th Annual Public Health Ethics Intensive Course
National Center for Bioethics in Research and Healthcare at Tuskegee University
March 23–27, 2015
Society for Public Health Education (SOPHE) 66th Annual Meeting
Blazing a Trail for Health Education and Health Promotion
April 23–25, 2015
Portland, Oregon
For more announcements, see the Minority Health Announcements Page
Statistics Highlight
Vital Signs: Preventable Deaths from Heart Disease & Stroke
Nearly 1 in 3 deaths in the U.S. each year is caused by heart disease and stroke.
At least 200,000 of these deaths could have been prevented through changes in health habits.
Men have the highest risk of death across all races and ethnic groups.
Black men are most at risk. Blacks are nearly twice as likely as Whites to die early from heart disease and stroke.
For More Information:
Holt JB, Huston SL, Heidari K, et al.
Indicators for Chronic Disease Surveillance — United States, 2013
MMWR Recommendations and Reports, January 9, 2015 / 64(RR01);1-15.
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Me again, sorry. I was wondering if there's a way to fire the custom actions on the grid. I'm using the following to do a "double click to edit" type functionality:
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I was wondering if it's possiable to make a standard html button also access the same?
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Alex (ActiveWidgets)
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Although that makes sense, I don't see how the function(){alert(1)} would fire the grid's .this.action("myEdit") function. Is it not possible to programmatically fire events on the grid?
Thursday, March 25, 2004
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i'm sorry i'm a newbie and i just can't find where's my mistake when i try to make a button which would fire the ondblclick event in the grid:
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The generation of δXi (but not the decision on its acceptance) depends only on Xi and does not take into account the penalty function on structural diversity. This protocol may lead to a large number of step rejections. However, the above choice is the simplest to use in a parallel computing environment, and it further leaves some room for future publications.
The parallel environment is important because the computations are pursued typically on a cluster of workstations or on a parallel computer with multiple CPUs. Each of the homologous proteins is assigned to one processor. The processor calculates the displacement δXi and the energy εi(Xi)+Δi(Xi) and decides whether to accept or to reject the move. The correlation with other structures is built using the function Δi(Xi) that depends on all the other coordinates. The conformations of the set are therefore sampled from the canonical ensemble with an "energy", Etotal.
To compute the penalty function Δi(Xi), it is necessary to have the coordinates of all the proteins on each of the processors. The update of the coordinates can be done with every Monte Carlo step. However, to reduce communication overhead, we usually update the coordinates only after a few Monte Carlo steps.
A related algorithm can be easily formulated for molecular dynamics, solving the Newton's equations of motion:
where M is the mass matrix for protein i. Nevertheless, the lattice approach suggests a number of unique advantages for the protein folding problem, which are discussed elsewhere (3).
We now return to the functional form of the penalty on structural variations. We experiment with two measures:
Root mean square difference (RMSD) of the shared Cα coordinates after optimal overlap (4):
L is the fraction of dissimilar contacts in the maps of the two structures. L=(number of dissimilar contacts)/(total number of contacts in the two maps). (Two residues are considered at a contact if their Cα distance is ≤6.5 Å.)
The RMSD is a common and useful measure of global similarity. However, it is doing poorly in detecting similar folds of structural segments. For example, if the secondary structure elements are predicted correctly but their packing is incorrect, the RMSD is typically high. In contrast, L, which is not as widely spread as the RMSD, detects local similarities and shows more uniform decrease in value as the structure quality decreases.
Both functions are useful in comparing the final structure to the native fold; however, the task of forcing the different chains to look alike is best done with the RMSD. The application of L is problematic because maps with no contacts at all have (of course) no dissimilar contacts. As a result, restraining the structures to similar L values pushes the system to unfolded swollen states. We therefore used the RMSD. The specific functional form of Δij(Xi, Xj) is listed below:
Simulation Protocol and Results. We provide a numerical example for a family of pancreatic hormones (5). In Table 1, we list the seven sequences that were used in the runs with coupled optimizations (6).
We performed 100 Monte Carlo simulated annealing runs of the protein 1ppt and 142 coupled runs of structures of seven sequences, which were optimized in parallel. Only one experimental structure (of 1ppt) is available, and we compared with it the results of the computations. In Fig. 1, we show the energies of the 100 Monte Carlo runs of 1ppt as a function of the RMSD from the native structure. Also shown are the energies of the 142 coupled runs.
It is clearly seen that runs, which employed seven coupled proteins, cluster near lower RMSD values and therefore provide better prediction. The lowest energy structure of the coupled and the uncoupled runs (our best guess of the native conformation) are shown in Fig. 2. Again, the coupled runs provide a better answer. The improvement does not require an increase in computational effort. Each of the uncoupled 1ppt runs was seven times longer than the run of the seven sequences.
Another example for a protein family (homeodomain) can be found in ref. 6. Yet, another study employed coupling in a two-dimensional lattice (7) and showed even more profound improvement.
Here we discuss the question of ''why." Why does the proposed algorithm improve structure prediction? We have seen one example, and other examples are available in the literature (6, 7). From a global optimization perspective, it may be surprising that optimizing a system, N times larger (N homologous sequences) is easier than optimizing one sequence at a time. At the limit in which the optimizations are completely independent, they should take approximately N times longer.
Obviously, the coupling plays an important role in increasing the computation efficiency and accuracy. To understand the effect, it is useful to consider a simpler system first in which the "homologous" proteins are all of the same molecule. Hence, only structural diversity remains. Etotal is now Etotal= [ε(Xi)+Δi]. A single energy function [ε(Xi)] is used for the different conformations of the proteins {i=1,…, N}.
In Fig. 3, we compare annealing results with coupled and uncoupled energy function for the protein Ifsd. The distribution clearly shows that better energies are obtained when the coupling (of identical proteins) is employed. Hence, a better optimization protocol is obtained without sequence diversity. However, it is important to emphasize that the quality of the structures (as opposed to the energies) is not necessarily better because it depends also on the quality of the energy function.


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Verna McClain entered the plea Tuesday at a court hearing in Conroe.
Montgomery County prosecutors had said they would seek the death penalty against McClain for the April 2012 slaying of 28-year-old Kala Golden-Schuchardt.
McClain was accused of fatally shooting the new mother outside a pediatric clinic in the Houston suburb of Spring and snatching her 3-day-old son, Keegan. He later was found safe with McClain's sister. She told authorities McClain intended to adopt the child.
Investigators and McClain's relatives said she had a miscarriage and was desperate to find a baby to pass off as her own.
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Full detailed profile on Dr. Douglas Kline Played by Mark LaMura on One Life To Live Daytime Soap Opera.
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Birthday: 1948/10/18
Still at the mansion with Moe and Noelle, as Viki rants, hoping that Dorian doesn't hurt David, Dorian appears, looking like Little Red Riding Hood - trying to hide her orange robe! Though Dorian is furious to hear Viki talking about her, she snaps back into new-Dorian mode and asks if Viki needs anything else in regards to the Go Red Ball. Noelle then agrees to let Dorian borrow something to wear to the Ball then Dorian announces, "I think it's going to be a night to remember." Once Dorian and Noelle head upstairs, Moe says, "I think she's up to something," and Viki agrees!
Over dinner at The Palace, Dorian expresses to Clint how nice it was to make love that afternoon. Just then, Dorian spots Viki across the room and suggests they go say hello to her! Although Clint refuses, Dorian pulls him along and says, "Hello, Viki, are you dining alone?" Suddenly, Dr. Kline arrives and Viki introduces him to Clint and Dorian, then says, "Enjoy your meal." Clint and Dorian leave� When Dr. Kline senses the tension between Viki, Clint and Dorian, he thinks she's trying to make Clint jealous and suggests that they give Clint and Dorian a show! However, Viki assures him that she's not, "I'm here because you invited me." Dr. Kline seems pleased and orders a bottle of the best champagne, leans in close, tells Viki he wouldn't mind getting to know her better, then kisses her!
Back at their table, Dorian gloats to Clint that Dr. Kline held onto her hand a bit too long, "He's a womanizer! That guy is going to try to get Viki into bed tonight." After Clint tries to act as though he doesn't care, he asks Dorian to please, for him, stay off the subject of Viki. Just then, Clint turns around to catch Viki and the doctor in a lip lock! With Dorian close behind, Clint marches over and demands to know what's going on! Although Viki and Dr. Kline claim to be having a great time, Dorian insinuates that Viki's doing it to get back at Clint! Viki stands up and screams, "I was having a good time and I wish you two would leave me alone!" Viki storms off� After she returns from the bathroom, Viki informs everyone she is leaving alone. Dr. Kline appears to be a bit tipsy.
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UKtech50: Liam Maxwell, CTO, HM Government
At Computer Weekly's annual UKtech50 event, Liam Maxwell, HM Government, discussed building a digital government around user needs to an audience of CIOs, industry executives, public servants and business leaders who are driving the creation of a high-tech economy.
Liam Maxwell, the government's first chief technology officer, is famed for responding to requests for expensive IT projects by holding up a sign on his phone reading, "What is the user need?". Maxwell's main objective is to shape the government's approach to technology in central government and the focus is on providing what the end-user wants. Maxwell will talk about his journey to achieving that goal.
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Veteran Mississippi State art professor Brent Funderburk will discuss the life and works of one of the state's most famous artists during a free campus program Thursday (Jan. 24).
"Walter Anderson: A World Vision of Art and Nature" will be the topic of his 3:30 p.m. presentation in Giles Hall's Robert and Freda Harrison Auditorium. Funderburk will provide an in-depth look at the lifelong creative investment of the late Jackson County artist, naturalist and writer (1903-65).
Anderson's son, John Anderson, will be in attendance at the university program.
Among other topics, Funderburk will discuss why and how Anderson created thousands of images, some purposefully reproducible and others more carefully crafted, selected and hidden from view.
A North Carolina native and East Carolina State University graduate, Funderburk joined the MSU art faculty in 1982. He is a recognized authority on Anderson and his artistic career.
In 2005, he helped lead a team of MSU faculty members and students who rushed to Ocean Springs after Hurricane Katrina to help save and preserve the artist's works that had not been destroyed by the massive storm.
For more information on the program, telephone the art department at 662-325-2970.


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by Chas August
Everyone knows what sex is. Sex is "coitus, " from the Latin for sexual intercourse. Sex is "copulation", from the Middle English for sexual intercourse. Sex is "doing it", from the playground at most middle schools. In high school biology they taught us that sex was the means of reproduction for lots of animals and plants. The male has a seed, the female has an egg; sex is the activity that transfers seed to egg. Simply put, sex is a piece of skin wiggling around in or on another piece of skin until something goes "pop". Right? Sex = wiggle-wiggle-pop.
Well, there you have it. No need to attend any workshops, classes or trainings. Sex is "wiggle-wiggle-pop" and its purpose is reproduction…unless…unless… sex is actually something more than just reproduction, something more profound than just wiggle-wiggle-pop.
Who taught you what sex is? Did your parents explain sex to you? (Do you think they were nervous?) Was Sex Ed on the curriculum of your middle school or high school? Did your parents or your teachers give you a book or pamphlet that explained sex? Do you think either your parents or your school teachers were trying to give you as full and complete an understanding of sex as they possibly could? Did you learn about sex from your friends? Do you believe that your friends knew very much about sex? Do you think your parents did?
What if the people who taught you about sex didn't really know much about sex?
When we use the word "love" we can mean so many things. People love their car, some love pizza, many love their favorite team. We love our children, our spouse, our pet, and our favorite music group. If the ads are to be believed, we love New York, Virginia is for lovers, and Subaru asks us to "love wherever the road takes you." Love is a big word that covers a wide range of feeling.
On the other hand, when we talk about having sex, people pretty much go straight to wiggle-wiggle-pop. In a 2009 study of adult men and women, conducted by the Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex, Gender, and Reproduction, when asked about which sexual behaviors constitute having 'had sex', there was no universal consensus. Quoting from the article abstract:
"More than 90% responded 'yes' to penis-vagina, but one in five responded 'no' to penis-anal, three in 10 responded 'no' to oral-genital and about half endorsed manual-genital. Fewer endorsed penis-vagina with no male ejaculation (89.1%) compared with penis-vagina without a qualifier (94.8%). Manual–genital was endorsed more often when received (48.1%) than given (44.9%)."
In other words, about half of adults don't consider masturbation of themselves or others to constitute having sex, 30 percent think oral sex is not having sex and 20 percent believe that anal sex is not having sex, and, it seems about 25% think that gay men and lesbians must be virgins or asexual because they aren't having sex!
Why does it matter how you define it? It is my observation that our experience in life is not so much a result of our circumstances, our experience is the result of our thoughts and beliefs about our circumstances. Numerous scientific experiments have demonstrated that our ideas and beliefs limit our ability to perceive reality. For far too many people, their narrow definitions of sex actually impedes their ability to experience the spirituality, sensuality, sacredness, and magic of what sex can be.
Take a moment to remember the very first time you held hands with someone you felt attracted to, your first girlfriend or boyfriend. Can you remember working up the courage, overcoming the shyness? Can you remember how it felt to join in your mutual innocence, to feel the intimate connection? Maybe that was sex? Remember the first time you really kissed someone you had a "crush" on, someone you were crazy about. Can you remember when kissing was sex for you? Can you remember how "hot" it was to "make out"? Maybe that was sex?
Maybe sex is any behavior that "turns you on"? Maybe sex is any behavior that embodies desire for another? Maybe sex is any behavior that honors and reveres a human being? Sex can be looking deeply into your beloved's eyes. Sex can be breathing together. Sex can be playful exploration, heart-centered meditation, hotter-than-hot genital manipulation, and sweet, tender caresses.
What is sex? The word itself – S –E –X – might be an acronym for Sacred Energy eXchange, or Sensual Energy eXchange, or Spiritual Energy eXchange, or Sweet Energy eXchange, or Salacious Energy eXchange.
I thought I knew what sex is, I thought I was quite the expert, until I took my first workshop with HAI. In one short weekend I discovered how my habits and beliefs about sex – and love, and intimacy – actually got in the way of my sexual satisfaction, my relationships, my body image, and my ability to find and sustain love. Instead of sexual techniques and performance tips HAI helped me find genuine, heart-centered connection and helped me open to a view of sex that wasn't about an "act", but rather about a way of being.
I have come to believe that sex is intertwined with intimacy and love in complex and ever-changing ways, that are different with different partners, different at different times of day, different as we age, different in each new moment. Sex is not so much an act or event but a language, a language spoken in looks and touch, and in breathing and sighing. This language is spoken through a shared experience of vulnerability and strength, a shared experience of giving and receiving, a shared experience of human-ness and divinity. Sometimes this language can be spoken in the instant it takes for our eyes to meet, and sometimes one can spend a lifetime learning this language, embodying it. Seems to me that'd be a mighty a good way to spend a lifetime.


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Early Decision apps up 33 percent over last fall
A record number of high school students have applied early decision to Duke's Class of 2014.
The number of applicants increased 33 percent, from 1,535 last November to 2,040 this year—an unexpected increase, Dean of Undergraduate Admissions Christoph Guttentag said.
"I think if anybody had said this Fall, 'You'll see a 33 percent increase in applications, and you'll break your previous record by 350, I think nobody would have thought that was a reasonable prediction," he said.
The previous record was set in 2001 with 1,589 early decision applicants.
Of this year's applicants, 1,703 applied to the Trinity College of Arts and Sciences and 337 to the Pratt School of Engineering, proportions similar to last year's 1,288 and 247 applications, respectively.
Despite the current economic climate, the same proportion—51 percent—of early decision applicants indicated plans to apply for financial aid this year as last year.
"As we saw last Spring, it seems that the economy hasn't had a [negative] effect on the macro level on our applicant pool—quite the opposite, in fact," Guttentag said.
In light of the University's budget constraints, the Office of Undergraduate Admissions cut back on recruiting by visiting fewer high schools and leaving current undergraduates behind on recruiting trips.
"That's the odd thing—there were no extra or unusual recruitment efforts this year, we were a little more conservative with our recruitment," Guttentag said.
It is unclear what factors contributed to the unexpected jump, he said. Provost Peter Lange noted that it may take a few more weeks to determine what led to the increase.
The largest increases by geographic location are spread out across the country, indicating little to no pattern in recruitment or applications. The number of applications from California and Virginia increased 85 and 74 percent respectively. The number of early decision applications from outside the United States increased 39 percent to 251.
This year, admissions officers emphasized that the acceptance rate is higher for early decision applicants, Guttentag said. He added that students and families may have also taken note of the University's need-blind admissions process and financial aid offerings.
"I think that people got the message that in fact... we're really working to make Duke affordable from a wide range of economic backgrounds," he said. "This has probably sunk in some more than in the past."
In December 2007, Duke announced its new Financial Aid Initiative, which provides more need-based aid for students from lower-income families. The University requires no parental contribution from families with incomes less than $60,000.
Guttentag noted that it is currently difficult to predict what this increase means for regular decision applicants, although it is unlikely that there will be a significant decrease in regular decision applications. He added that the percentage of early and regular decision applicants that make up the Class of 2014 will largely depend on the quality of the early decision pool and the number of students admitted in December.
"I'm pleased for the students who have indicated that we're their first choice," Guttentag said. "I think it's a reflection of the fact that even in a challenging economy, all kinds of people appreciate the value and the meaning and the benefit of a Duke education."


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ALBANY — During a 2:30 a.m. stakeout Wednesday, police caught two copper irrigation wire theft suspects in a cotton field.
One copper wire thief was 12 feet atop a triangular pivot ready to cut the copper wire from an irrigation line when Dougherty County Police Department officers stopped him, said Detective Sgt. Chad Kirkpatrick.
"We stopped him before he cut the line," Kirkpatrick said. "We didn't want him to damage the farmer's irrigation lines."
The thief's partner took off running from the 4500 block of Harris Road field but he didn't get more than 10 feet before officers grabbed him, Kirkpatrick said. Both men wore black gloves and black hoodies, he added.
Because it is a continuing investigation, Kirkpatrick did not release the names of the thieves or the make and model of the waiting getaway vehicle. They are in Dougherty County Jail, he added.
Police confiscated black electric tape used to hold the copper wire together as it is stolen, flashlights and a hacksaw.
The men will be charged with two felonies — criminal attempt of theft by taking and possession of tools for the commission of a crime. Both will be charged with misdemeanor criminal trespass.
Kirkpatrick said, "It is possible there will be more arrests of copper irrigation wire thieves."
Also participating in the investigation were the Georgia Department of Natural Resources, Worth County Sheriff Office and the Dougherty County District Attorney's Office.
waltspecht 3 years, 10 months ago
Now lets see what is done to them to deter them from simply doing it again.
WJReady 3 years, 10 months ago
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Ten political questions to which you should want the answers:
1. What will the first post-Reagan ABC News/Washington Post numbers say tonight at 6:30 pm ET on World News Tonight with Peter Jennings?
2. Will the Bill Clinton and Michael Moore PR machines dovetail or clash?
3. Will any swing voters enter their polling places in November with the words "Halliburton," "Guantanamo," "Wilson," or "Dukakis" on their minds?
4. Will John Kerry choose from the Edwards/Gephardt/Vilsack list, or someone NOT from that list?
5. Which article more caught Karl Rove's eye: the USA Today story on how Clinton could impact the race for Arkansas electoral votes, or the Washington Post story about the mobilization of union foot soldiers in Pennsylvania?
6. Are the people in charge of compliance for the fundraising of Kerry campaign and the DNC re-looking at their procedures this Monday morning?
7. How much obsessing will NSC spokesguy (and People magazine "hot" bachelor) Jim Wilkinson do about the kicker quote in Al Kamen's column? ("'The guy is a PR genius. The fact that he could convince anyone that he is remotely hot is an impressive achievement,' said one Bush adviser.")
8. Just exactly when, FPPO, is that 9/11 report coming out, and, as Bill Safire points out, whatup with the commissioners acting like their staff is footloose and fancy free?
9. What does Jim Dyke think of the pure comedy of John Kerry going from Nantucket to Aspen?
10. Which gold medal-bound Olympic athletes are from swing states and who do they support for president?
Today, President Bush travels to Cincinnati for a 4:00 pm ET conversation on compassion and marriage in poor communities and a 6:10 pm ET fundraiser.
Sen. Kerry launches a week focusing on the economy and scientific research with a 5:00 pm ET Denver speech sandwiched between Aspen and Denver fundraisers.
Earlier, Vice President Cheney speaks about the economy in Henderson, Nev., at noon ET and then travels to Springfield, Mo., for a 5:50 pm ET campaign rally.
Ralph Nader announces his running mate at 1:00 pm ET at the National Press Club, Washington, D.C.
Along with Matthew Dowd and Susan Pinkus, we eagerly anticipate the release today of the latest ABC News-Washington Post poll on Iraq and politics.
This afternoon the Senate debates the defense budget bill -- the final vote is expected tomorrow.
We'll watch and wait to see if John Rowland is Connecticut's governor by day's end. LINK
The rest of this week . . .
On Tuesday former President Bill Clinton's book, "My Life," is released, and he appears on "Oprah" and signs books in New York. President Bush is at the White House and Sen. Kerry is in Albuquerque and San Francisco. Prison guard Lynndie England has an Article 32 hearing in Fort Bragg, N.C. for allegedly abusing Iraqi detainees. Teresa Heinz Kerry campaigns in Miami, and Laura Bush holds an online chat.


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A typical day at Music Theatre Camp
A camper's day begins early! The first activity of the day begins at 8:30 am and both resident and day campers are kept busy. A typical daily schedule might go like this:
8:30am - Voice Class
9:30am - Movement Class
10:30am - Acting Class
12:15pm - Lunch
1:15pm - Afternoon activity
2:00pm - Music Theatre Workshop
3:30pm - Recreation
5:00pm - Dinner
6:30pm - Master Class / Rehearsal
8:00pm - Evening Activity
10:30pm - Lights Out
Afternoon activities may include swimming, outdoors activities, arts and crafts and field games. Evening activities may include trips to Swings-n-Things Family Fun Park, a dance night with DJ, movie night, and the student Talent Show.
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Saturday, December 12, 2009
© Copyright 2015 Gwinnett Daily Post
NORCROSS -- As the No. 1 preseason choice in Class AA, GAC's boys basketball team was already somewhat of a known commodity.
However, the Spartans demonstrated they are among Georgia's elite teams on any level Saturday against Centennial in the GAC Boys Basketball Showcase at the Long Forum.
Malcolm Brogdon had a huge all-around game to lead a balanced effort as GAC held Centennial -- Class AAAAA's eighth-ranked team -- at arm's length before pulling away late for a 70-60 victory.
"That's why we play games like this," Spartans coach Eddie Martin said after his team improved to 5-0 on the young season. "I've said it about a hundred times. You need to go out and challenge yourself and challenge the kids with games like this, particularly early in the year. I think our schedule allows us to do that."
Brogdon and the Spartans were definitely up to the challenge Saturday.
The 6-foot-4 junior posted a game-high 28 points and added eight rebounds, six assists and four steals, and gave GAC a lead it would never relinquish at 16-15 with his 3-pointer from the right wing with 1:05 left in the first quarter.
That doesn't mean the win came easy for the Spartans as Centennial never went away. Senior guard Devonta' White, who started his career at Central Gwinnett before transferring two years ago, made sure of that.
The Georgia State signee helped keep the Knights in the game after GAC took as much as a 37-27 lead with 1:13 left in the first half.
His 3-pointer with 7 seconds left in the half keyed a 6-1 run that cut the Spartans lead to 38-33 heading into intermission.
GAC stretched the lead to as much as 47-39 in the third quarter, only to see Centennial make another charge with an 8-2 run over the final 3:46 of the period to pull to within 49-47 heading into the fourth quarter.
But once again, Brogdon and his teammates gathered themselves and gave themselves breathing room again.
Brogdon set up Paul Dawson and Elliott Long for transition layups on GAC's first two possessions of the final frame, and then hit two free throws to push the Spartans' lead back to 55-47 with 5:20 to play.
"Coach (Martin) mentioned in the locker room that that shows the maturity of our team," Brogdon said. "We were able to withstand their run and keep pushing forward."
Centennial made one last run, pulling to withing 64-60 on White's 3-pointer with 19 seconds left.
But freshman A.J. Davis connected on four straight free throws and Brogdon added two more to seal the win for GAC.
The Spartans also got a big game from 6-7 senior Trent Wiedeman, who had 12 points, seven rebounds and six blocked shots despite being hobbled with a sore ankle, while Elliott Long added a double-double with 12 points and 10 rebounds and Dawson chipped in 10 points.
White led Centennial with 24 points and added six rebounds, while Adrian Rodgers added 11 points and nine boards.
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Friends, I have to inform you… Shades of Color Art (blog and store) has come to an end. It has been a wonderful year and ten months of growth and great learning experience. But, with every growth comes changes. Shades of Color Art started as a Grad School project and from my passion of painting and journals. A few months ago, I decided to rebrand because I wasn't feeling the name Shades of Color Art anymore. Also, because I want to take my "little Grad School project" to the next level. For me, it's not a hobby anymore, it's part of who I am and it's part of my personal and professional growth.
Don't worry, it's not a goodbye. I'm rebranding and changing the website. Now you can find me at StephanieBlondet.com. This website will be the home of everything I am and everything I love. Here you will find my portfolio, my notebooks shop, my art print shop and my blog. Not only I've grown as a creative and entrepreneur, my notebooks have grown too. Now, I have better quality products that I will use in my journals. As a business owner, if you want the perfect quality in your products, you have to invest in the best equipment. That's what I did! For the last couple of months I've been searching the web and talking to vendors to have the best equipment to create my handmade notebooks. I was offering a good product before, but now I'm offering even better journals.
I'm really excited for the change because I've been wanting to do this for a long time and I know that with this change will come more opportunities and more relationships.
So, bookmark StephanieBlondet.com/blog and continue following my journey as an artist and small business owner. And don't forget to follow me on Bloglovin, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Pinterest and Tumblr or connect via email.
Thank you so much for your support and hope you continue following my journey on StephanieBlondet.com!
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An improved shop light for being releasably mounted in a desired location for illuminating a work area. The shop light (10) comprises a handle member (12) provided with a light bulb socket (16) for releasably receiving a light bulb (18). Electricity for powering the light bulb (18) is supplied by a cord (20) received in handle member (12). A guard member (34) is releasably engaged to the handle member (12) in order to protect the light bulb (18) from damage. Magnetic mounting means (52) are provided for selectively mounting the shop light (10) on a metalic surface, such means being capable of selectively pivoting the shop light (10) to most desirably illuminate a preselected work area. The shop light (10) is further provided with a hook member (50) for hanging the shop light (10) at a desired location.
1. An improved mounting device for use on a shop light for enhancing the selective illumination of a work area, said shop light being provided with a reflector guard member, said mounting device comprising:
a first clevis member having an arcuate base member including means for releasable attachment to such guard member and a pair of upstanding parallel arms, each of said arms being provided with an aligned aperture;
a permanent magnet member;
a second clevis member releasably attached to said magnet having a pair of parallel brackets, each of said brackets being provided with an aligned aperture;
a connector member having first and further ends, said first end proportioned to closely fit between said arms of said first clevis and provided with a first aperature, and said further end proportioned to closely fit between said brackets of said second clevis and provided with a further aperture, with axes of said first and further apertures of said connector member oriented perpendicularly to each other;
a first pivot member passing through said aligned apertures in said arms of said first clevis member and said first aperture of said connector member, said first pivot member being provided with means for producing frictional engagement between said arms and said first end of said connector member; and
a second pivot member passing through said apertures of said brackets of said second clevis and said further aperature of said connector member, said second pivot member being provided with means for producing frictional engagement of said further end of said connector member and said brackets of said second clevis.
2. The mounting device of claim 1 wherein at least the surface of said connector member is resilient to enhance frictional engagement with said arms and said brackets.
3. The mounting device of claim 1 wherein said magnet is provided with an extended planar surface oriented in a direction substantially perpendicular to said brackets for assuring support of such shop light upon a surface substantially angled vertically and horizontally allowing low used extreme inclines of said surface.
4. The mounting device of claim 1 wherein said first and second pivot members are bolts having enlarged slotted heads at one end, said bolts being provided with external threads at a further end, and internally threaded adjustment nuts threadably engaged with said threads.
5. The mounting device of claim 1 wherein said permanent magent member is rectangular in configuration, and said connecting member is an insulating and entirely resilient body.
1. Technical Field
This invention relates generally to shop lights for illuminating a work area, and more particularly to an improved shop light provided with dual axis magnetic pivoting means to facilitate the selective positioning of the shop light to achieve the most desirable illumination.
2. Background Art
There are various types of shop lights presently on the market and in use, featuring various mounting devices for enhancing the selective positioning of the shop light for the desired angle of illumination. Such prior art shop lights have included magnetic mounting devices and various means for selectively adjusting the angle of the light. However, these prior art shop lights have consistently been either difficult to adjust, requiring the operator to divert his attention from his labors for even minor adjustments in the position of the light, or have had limited facility for pivoting to the most desirable angle.
For example, U.S. Pat. No. 1,932,143 issued to Earl R. Piercy on Oct. 24, 1933, discloses a lamp with a magnetic mounting device; however, the device has limited pivoting capability and requires the operator to divert his attention from his labors to readjust the position of the lamp. Similarly, U.S. Pat. No. 2,460,173 issued to Anthony T. Halbing on Jan. 25, 1949 and U.S. Pat. No. 2,506,400 issued to Lewis K. Wietz on May 2, 1950, disclose little facility for pivoting the angle of illumination without removing and remounting the shop light.
Therefore, it is an object of the present invention to provide a shop light with a mounting device capable of releasable attachment to a metallic surface.
Another object of the present invention is to provide a shop light which, once in place, may be pivoted to the most desirable angle for illumination of the work area without requiring the operator to divert his attention from his labors.
Yet another object of this invention is to provide a shop light with a pivoting magnetic mounting device which is inexpensive to manufacture and simple to manipulate.
Other objects and advantages will be accomplished by the present invention which provides an improved shop light for being releasably mounted in a desired location to selectively illuminate a work area. The improved shop light comprises a handle member for grasping and holding the shop light, the handle member being provided with a light bulb socket at its first end portion for releasably receiving a light bulb. Electrical power is supplied to the light bulb socket by a cord having a first end portion received in the handle member and routed through an on/off switch to the light bulb socket. A guard member is provided for protecting the light bulb from damage. The guard member comprises a back portion releasably engaged to the handle member, and a front cage portion hingedly connected to the back portion of the guard member. The back portion of the guard member is further provided with a hook member for releasably hanging the shop light in a desired location. The shop light further comprises a dual axis magnetic mounting member, the mounting member comprising first and second clevis members and a connecting member. The first clevis member is mounted on the back portion of the guard member and pivotally secured to the connecting member upon a first axis by an adjustable pivot bolt. The second clevis member comprises a pair of bracket members mounted on a magnet, the magnet serving to allow the shop light to be mounted on a metal surface. The bracket members of the second clevis member pivotally engage the connecting member upon a second axis, perpendicular to the first axis, and are secured by a suitable pivot bolt.
The above-mentioned features of the invention will become more clearly understood from the following detailed description of the invention read together with the drawings in which:
FIG. 1 illustrates a side view of the shop light as it is mounted on a metallic surface.
FIG. 2 illustrates a perspective view of the dual axis magnetic mounting member of the present invention.
FIG. 3 illustrates a partial side view of the shop light, and more specifically a portion of the guard member of the present invention.
An improved shop light incorporating the various features of the present invention is illustrated generally at 10 of FIG. 1. In the illustrated embodiment, the shop light 10 comprises a handle member 12 for manually grasping the shop light in order to selectively position the light. The handle member is most desirably fabricated or covered with a resilient durable material having insulating qualities so as to reduce the possibility of electrical shock to the operator.
At its first end portion 14, the handle member 12 carries a light bulb socket 16 for releasably receiving a standard electric light bulb 18. Electrical power is supplied to the socket 16 by a cord 20 having a first end portion 22 received in an opening (not shown) in a second end portion 24 of the handle 12, the first end portion 22 of cord 20 being routed through an on/off switch 26 and ultimately engaging the socket 16. A second end portion 28 of cord 20 carries a grounded electrical plug 30 for being received in a standard electrical outlet. Further, in a preferred embodiment the handle 12 is provided with a stop grommet 32 which is fixedly received in the second end portion 24 of handle member 12, and fixedly engages and encircles cord 20 to prohibit cord 20 from being pulled from the handle member 12.
The shop light 10 is further provided with a guard member 34 to protect the bulb 18 from being damaged as the shop light 10 is selectively moved about by the operator, and to prohibit the bulb 18 from directly contacting and/or damaging other surfaces or objects should it become necessary to rest the shop light against any such surfaces or objects. The guard member 34 is provided with a back portion 36 which partially encloses the bulb 18, the back portion 36 preferably being fabricated of a light durable metal capable of quickly dissipating heat. However, it will be appreciated that various durable materials may be used in such fabrication. Further, it is desirable that the interior surface (not shown) of back portion 36 comprise a reflective surface in order to enhance and direct the illumination provided by bulb 18.
The guard member 34 further comprises a front cage portion 38 which encloses and protects that portion of the bulb 18 not enclosed by back portion 36. In order to allow access to the bulb 18 and the socket 16 for bulb replacement, the cage portion 38 is hingedly mounted on back portion 36 by hinge member 40 as illustrated in FIG. 3, thus allowing the cage portion 38 to be selectively opened and closed with respect to back portion 36. Further, a snap clip 42 is provided on back portion 36 to releasably engage cage portion 38 and hold it in a closed position.
The guard member 34 is releasably fastened to the handle member 12 with a clamp member 44, the clamp member 44 being integrally formed with back portion 36. The clamp member 44 encircles the handle member 12 proximate the first end portion 14 and is releasably fastened with a suitable fastener 46. Thus, if desired, the guard member 34 may be completely removed and the shop light 10 used without the guard member 34. In the preferred embodiment of FIG. 1, the handle member 12 is further provided with an encircling ridge portion 48 having an increased cross-sectional diameter relative to the handle member 12. This ridge portion 48 prohibits the movement of clamp member 44 toward second end portion 24 of handle member 12, and thus, eliminates slipping or encroachment of the clamp member 44 on that portion of the handle member 12 which is grasped by the operator.
In one embodiment of the shop light 10, a hook member 50 is provided. The hook member 50 is fixedly engaged to the back portion 36 of guard member 34 and allows the shop light 10 to be releasably hung on various objects in order to secure the shop light in a desired location.
The shop light 10 further comprises a dual axis magnetic mounting means 52 for releasably attaching the shop light 10 to various metallic surfaces. The mounting means 52 comprises a first clevis member 54 provided with an arcuate portion 56. The arcuate portion 56 is provided with a plurality of mounting holes 58 (see FIG. 2) and is releasably mounted on back portion 36 of guard member 34 with a plurality of screws 60 inserted through holes 58 and through corresponding mounting holes (not shown) in back portion 36, and secured with suitable nuts (not shown). It will be appreciated by those skilled in the art that arcuate portion 56 of first clevis member 54, may fixedly engage, or be integrally formed with, back portion 36 of guard member 34. However, the releasable attachment of clevis member 54 provides the operator with the option of completely removing the mounting means 52 if desired.
The mounting means 52 further comprises a second clevis member 62. The clevis member 62 in turn comprises a magnet 64 carrying a pair of oppositely disposed bracket members 66 and 68 fastened to magnet 64 by a plurality of fasteners 70. The magnet 64 allows the shop light 10 to be mounted on various metallic surfaces including various parts of a motor vehicle. Further, in a preferred embodiment, the magnet 64 is provided with a flat or planar surface 65, thus allowing the magnet 64 to serve as a supporting base such that the shop light 10 may be placed on any horizontal or substantially horizontal surface, supported by mounting means 52 with the surface 65 contacting such horizontal or substantially horizontal surface, whether such surface is metallic or non-metallic. This, for example, would allow the operator to place the shop light 10 in a standing position on the floor beneath a motor vehicle to illuminate selected areas under such vehicle. The first clevis member 54 and the second clevis member 62 are pivotally engaged on two perpendicularly aligned axis by connecting member 72. To accomplish this, the connecting member 72 is provided with a first hole 74 and is pivotally secured to first clevis member 54 by passing a pivot bolt 76 through corresponding holes in clevis member 54 and hole 74, and securing bolt 76 with a suitable nut (not shown). Similarly, connecting member 72 is provided with a second perpendicularly disposed hole 78 and is pivotally secured to the second clevis member 62 by passing a second pivot bolt 80 through a corresponding hole in bracket member 66, through hole 78 and through a corresponding hole in bracket member 68, the bolt 80 being secured with the nut 82.
In the preferred embodiment, the connecting member 72 is fabricated of, or covered with, a durable rubber or rubber-like material. Thus, when the bolts 76 and 80 are tightened to a preselected pressure the resulting friction between the connecting member 72 and the clevis members 54 and 62 is sufficient to hold the shoplight 10 in a stationary position yet such friction may be overcome by manual manipulation by the operator in order to selectively pivot the shop light into a new desired stationary position without the further manipulation of the bolts 76 and 80. This eliminates the necessity of manually untightening and retightening the pivot bolt every time the operator needs to reposition the shop light, and allows the operator to reposition the light with a minimum interruption to his labors. Further, the fabrication of the connecting member 72 from a rubber or rubber-like material serves as an insulator between the first clevis member 54 and the second clevis member 62, thus insulating the electrical components of the shop light 10 from any metallic surface to which it is attached and providing for safer operation of the shop light 10.
It will be further appreciated that the incorporation of magnet 64 greatly facilitates the operator's ability to position the shop light to obtain the maximum benefit of its illumination. As is illustrated in FIG. 1, the shop light 10 may be mounted on a metallic surface 88 by releasably securing magnet 64 to the surface 88. Accordingly, the light 10 may be mounted on the interior surface of an automobile hood or various other metallic and magnetic parts of an automobile or other vehicle, eliminating the need for finding a structure to hang the shop light on, such structures often being undesirably located for proper illumination of the work area. The handle 12 gives the operator the option of holding the shop light in his hand and the hook member 50 allows the light to be hung in a desired position when appropriate structures are available making the shop light of the present invention an extremely versatile tool where selective illumination is required
While a preferred embodiment has been shown and described, it will be understood that there is no intent to limit the invention to such disclosure, but rather it is intended to cover all modifications and alternate constructions falling within the spirit and scope of the invention as defined in the appended claims.
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You will need one candle (white would be best). A strand of your own hair. A drop of your own blood and 2 table spoons of water from any stream (bottled, tap, river, sea)
Chant this as you mix the blood, the water, and your strand of hair together in a bowl.
You pour the two table spoons into a bowl. You then add the drop of blood and strand of hair. When you are mixing them, repeat the following in a chant (you must believe it, otherwise it shall not work)
Magic, Magic, enter unto me. Vampire transformation, is what it shall be.
Bring me the powers, bring me the feeling.Bring me what I desire, So mote it be!
You will need two white candles. A strand of your own hair. A drop of blood. A drop of your saliva. Two tear drops from yourself and a tablespoon of stilled water. All this must be in a glass.
You mix them all together, whilst chanting:
"A vampire soul stuck for eternity
Make me a night child so i'll be free
I'm begging you, i turn to thee
Make me a vampire, so mote it be"
Then pour the glass over the candle first lit, and then say "so mote it be" five times before blowing out the second.
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While there is no perfect method of communicating end-of-life wishes, particularly in an emergency situation, that doesn't mean that we should do nothing. Filling out the Oregon Advance Directives (preferably with the KEYConversations Individual Worksheet - see www.oregonhealthdecisions.com for more information) is still the best way to make sure that people making decisions when we are no longer able to know what level of care we want at the end of life. But just as important is making sure that we talk about our values and wishes with our loved ones so that they understand what we do and don't want in a variety of situations. If we talk about WHY we made the choices on our Advance Directives, they can better extrapolate in a variety of situations.
The fact is that few of us will die suddenly - and in those cases, it may be tough to get Advance Directives factored in to emergency care (though electronic medical records allow medical personnel to locate Advance Directives much more quickly). But to not fill out and discuss one's Advance Directives because it MIGHT not be readily available in an emergency is a cop-out. Most of us will die slowly, with many, many medical decisions that will need to be made along the way, and it is likely that, at some point, we will need others to make those decisions for us. Give a gift to your family and loved ones - let them know in advance what you want. Don't leave them guessing - don't leave them guilt-stricken as well as grieving when you're gone.
Just because the system isn't perfect doesn't mean it's better to just ignore Advance Planning and leave your loved ones with the burden of having to figure out your values and wishes on their own. Ask any family member who has been through it - it's SO much better to have those Advance Directives in place!
This column is such a pile of ignorant ranting that it barely justifies a response. I'll take our Volt any day - despite it's cost - power it with the solar panels we have on our roof - and laugh my way past the people paying $5/gallon for gas and pollute the air as they drive. We have NO regrets about spending the money to be an early-adopter of this technology. It will only get better and less expensive if those of us who can make the effort to push it forward.
Thank you for saying exactly what I was going to say, responding to that same section at the end of the editorial. My comment is more about the incredible arrogance that someone who has NO IDEA what it's like to live in the skin of a dying person must have in order to judge what is and is not the appropriate way/time to die. How does the author of this editorial have any clue whatsoever about the effectiveness of palliative care for Dr. Goodwin's condition, and what suffering continued to lie ahead of him despite that good care? Wow - I'm astonished at the naivete of people out there, so separate from the dying that they have no idea the suffering that can be involved, even WITH excellent palliative/hospice care. It might not be just physical pain, but suffering nonetheless. And we each must have the right to say when we've had enough and chose to hasten what is already inevitable death without interference from those who sit back and make the kind of pronouncements that this editor did.
So thank you, Dr. Goodwin, for helping us all to have that right and freedom.
We have lost a great man - compassionate and caring for his fellow humans as well as for animals. Thank you, Steve, for all of the good work you did to make the world a better place.
Thank you, Dr. Bascom, for your important message. As long as we, as a society, continue to view death as "the enemy" to be fought at all cost for every last second - even while our eventual loss to that enemy is a given - we will not learn to avail ourselves of the resources that allow us to put quality of life ahead of quantity. Palliative care, hospice, caregiver resources, and a variety of available community support networks could have helped prevent the Hamel tragedy. Doctors - especially oncologists - MUST be actively engaged in referring people to these resources appropriately, especially the male partners of those who are in the last chapter of life. Men are often not well trained to seek out social support and resources the same way women are and need that help from the medical and social services systems to get the support they need when their partners in life are dying.
All of us need to have our decisions respected at the end of life - that's clear. The problem is that we're fighting a cultural denial of death AND a paucity of accurate information from health-care providers that can help us make those decision intelligently. It's tricky to balance the desire to live longer with the deep need for quality of life even at the end of life, but it can be done.
A related article well worth the reading: http://www.dailygood.org/view.php?sid=136
Greshamdadjohn - be aware that Oregon EMS WILL resuscitate unless there is a physician's order not to, and the POLST (bright pink form) is what emergency health workers will look for in that situation. I do hope that's what you're referring to. If you don't have one, check with your doctor.
Thank you so much for saying what needs to be said: even the most modern medical techniques cannot prevent death when the human body becomes too damaged to live. The wisdom to make the best decisions during that critical time period when life hangs in the balance seems often over-powered by frantic denial that death could come, despite the fact that we ALL face the inevitability of death. Physicians can help us during those times by giving us honest, accurate information that includes their best prognostic estimates about the quality of life that can be expected should aggressive treatment be chosen. Yes, we are a culture that insists on prolonging our dying process, often increasing the suffering of the dying in an attempt to lessen our own, and we need all the help we can get from the health care team and our faith leaders to help us to NOT do harm while making those tough decisions about how aggressively to treat.


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Posted by Anonymous on 11/11/2012
Wow this place has poor service. I called one day to order a delivery and they put me on hold twice for over 5 minutes. This isn't the first time they do it. They take forever to deliver. Even if you go to the place they either take forever with your order or just get your order wrong.
Posted by alby on 06/10/2012
the people that work here are really impolite. the bagels are tasty.... when they put the correct cream cheese like they had the previous time and don't burn them.... otherwise, next to the F is convenient but we're going to bagelworld next time!
Posted by bageleaater on 11/09/2011
the bagels here are amazing! I would def recommend!
Posted by anonymous on 07/20/2011
the food served is delicious,the iced coffee is great in this hot weather.Ive seen people go in to order and are really rude how do they expect to not be treated the same way.Give respect to get it back,other then that the place is great!!
Posted by prab on 06/25/2011
wrong order delivered after 1.5 hours. order at your own risk!
Posted by Drew on 05/25/2011
Slow, rude, inattentive staff usually get my order wrong. Wait time is ridiculous, even when no one else is in the place. They've actually forgotten my order completely before, and again, it was when there were only two other customers besides myself. Skip this place.
Posted by Goodrich on 01/16/2010
Over and over they get my order wrong. They hang up on me when I try to get something delivered. You wait forever. I hate this place!


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Recently, parents have begun to ask me some pointed questions about the new vaccine for preventing genital warts and cervical cancer. So this week, let me take my best shot and provide some information on this new vaccine. The new vaccine everyone is talking about protects against getting infected with, or spreading strains of, human papilloma virus (or HPV), a sexually transmitted virus that causes genital warts and may lead to cervical cancer. The virus often times does not cause damage immediately, but can do it years later. People may not even realize they have been infected by HPV and can innocently and unknowingly pass it on to others. In fact it is estimated that 50% of sexually active women in this country will get HPV at some point in their lives if they do not get vaccinated. The new vaccine against HPV protects those who have not been previously infected that is why it is being given, ideally, as a series of three shots over a six-month period to girls 11-12 years of age who, hopefully, have not yet become sexually active, although can be used up to 26 years of age. So what are the complications of this vaccine? Some parents believe we are giving live virus to their child, but that is not true. The vaccine contains bits and pieces of killed virus and thus cannot result in the complications of live virus such as genital warts and cervical cancer. The only side effect of this vaccine that we are aware of is some soreness at the injection site, and even that is rare. Once your daughter gets this vaccine, it is important to remember that it only protects against one type of sexually transmitted disease. Therefore, make sure your daughter knows that she will still need to use appropriate protection if and when she does become sexually active. The vaccine also does not protect against all types of HPV, just the most common strains, so pap smears to monitor for cervical cancer will still be needed as your daughter gets older. Hopefully tips like this will vaccinate you against any misinformation you may encounter when it comes to making sure your teen-age daughter gets this important new vaccine. Lewis First, M.D., is chief of Pediatrics at Vermont Children's Hospital at Fletcher Allen Health Care and chair of the Department of Pediatrics at the University of Vermont College of Medicine. You can also catch "First with Kids" weekly on WOKO 98.9FM and on WCAX-TV Channel 3. Visit the First with Kids archives at www.vermontchildrens.org.
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