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If you want to hear the opinion of one former player who was involved in the bargaining about why last week's negotiations failed, here's an interesting take, as recounted by Comcast Sports Net's Tom E. Curran.
In effect, according to Pete Kendall, it was a combination of owners' greed and what seems like a ludicrously low-ball offer to the players that appears rather insulting.
Make sure to click the link for the full low-down, but here's my favorite passage.
(Kendall) said, to boil it down, the owners wanted to pocket 100 percent of the money any time they exceeded the league's projected revenue.
And the owners were trying to project the revenue at artificially low levels. …
If the owners "pegged" revenue for $10 billion in a season and then exceeded that projection, they wanted all the money to go into their pockets. The players were willing to give them the first 1.5 percent free and clear (in the $10 billion case, $150 million). After that, they wanted a 50-50 split.
Score another win for the owners in the PR battle.*
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Summer Sisters by Judy Bloom, Let the Great World Spin by Colum McCann, Kyra by Carol Gilligan, Eva Luna by Isabel Allende, and Little Bee by Chris Cleave.
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The Florida Gators are in desperate need of offensive linemen in the class of 2016 and the Gators are even looking at some JUCO linemen to help the immediate need.
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Autry is a native of Mobile, Alabama and he grew up watching the SEC and now he's hoping to play in that conference soon.
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INSIDERS TAKE: Autry admits that playing in the SEC is something he wants to do and he says that he didn't really grow up with a favorite team so he's not waiting on any particular offer. Autry is a native of Mobile, Alabama so he's familiar with the lay of the land in the SEC.


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10-03-11, 11:00 AM #1Texas fan (6582 points)
DMN/NYT reporters give good news this morningChuckCarltonDMN: Big 12 board of directors votes to equally share Tier 1 and Tier 2 revenue including football TV, men's basketball TV and NCAA Tournament.
ChuckCarltonDMN: One caveat: The Big 12 revenue sharing becomes effective after each member grants its Tier 1 and Tier 2 TV rights for six years.
PeteThamelNYT: Big 12 announces equal distribution, which will happen after each school puts in its grant of rights.
PeteThamelNYT: When each school votes on agreeing to the grant of rights, the Big 12 will effectively be saved. But, that still needs to happen.
PeteThamelNYT: That said, I doubt that Neinas and Big 12 announce this without having Mizzou on board. This was a key step in luring them back.
PeteThamelNYT: The Big 12 grant of rights, when agreed to, will be for "at least six years." A message to BYU and others: "We're not dysfunctional."
PeteThamelNYT: It remains to be seen what LHN agreements have been made. RT @vgregorian: Accordingly, Mizzou curators expected to meet tomorrow
10-03-11, 12:47 PM #2Baylor fan (748 points)
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lUT and LHN????? they have always wanted to share equally right???
10-03-11, 12:54 PM #3Texas fan (6582 points)
No idea what you're getting at, but the LHN would not be part of this deal, that would remain entirely UT's, pending those "LHN agreements" in the last tweet from Thamel.
10-03-11, 01:18 PM #4University of Missouri fan (20 points)
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Not sure exactly why any of this indicates anything about our intentions. Nothing announced here is new from when we first started acting coy and refused to commit. And as mentioned, I thought LHN was our biggest problem. Still, it seems likely Mizzou is staying.
10-03-11, 01:37 PM #6Mickey's Island Stadium fan (2596 points)
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This could be significant or just a house of cards.
I think it is just to get a symbol of stability out in the public.
It is, at least, a start in the right direction.
10-03-11, 05:32 PM #8University of Missouri fan (20 points)
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10-03-11, 05:44 PM #9Mickey's Island Stadium fan (2596 points)
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Mizzou wanting to feel wanted.....that is all.
10-03-11, 06:29 PM #11Duke fan (2 points)
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So, is what this really means is that negotiations are ongoing. The Big 12 still might be losing members, but it might become less unstable.
10-03-11, 07:51 PM #12Texas fan (1221 points)
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LHN is Tier 3 and not affected by this announcement. Which means all Big 12 schools have the opportunity to make the most of their Tier 3 rights, if they will just put some effort into it and stop whinning about the school that did.
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The NFL is based on equal sharing and there are no bigger capitalists then the owners. They knew how to protect a league not tear one apart. Thanks ESPN
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No, not everyone can start their own network. In the Big 12 only Texas can pull it off, and even then it's a risky experiment for ESPN. No one is going to team up with Baylor or Iowa State for their own networks. Dodds knows this. Everyone knows this. But he still insults everyone's intelligence by trying to sell the lie that "everybody can do it."
Yeah, yeah, everyone can start a pointless online network, but how are they going to make money on that and get exposure? They're not. Dodds knows this.
The reason everyone agreed to the tier 3 deal is to keep UT from leaving for the PAC. No one had any leverage. OU and A&M jumped on board because they thought they could do the same and take advantage of the situation as well. Turned out they couldn't, and they both got their panties in a wad.
If Dodds didn't have a PAC offer hanging over everyone's heads, the majority of the schools would not have signed off on this tier 3 deal. It only benefits UT. The forgotten five had no choice but to give UT what they wanted, then bribed OU and A&M to stay. Now A&M is trying to run out the back door with our money, and UT is trying to tell us how fair the conference is. If Dodds' lips are moving he's lying or at best manipulating everyone for the sake of "looking out for our own best interest."
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A look at revenue sharing in the Big 12
Updated: 2011-10-04T04:11:55Z
Equal revenue sharing in the Big 12?
If the Big 12 had divided its payouts to members equally for the last school year, Missouri would have received less money than it actually gained. Currently, schools receive more money based on television, bowl and NCAA Tournament appearances. But because the Big 12's new sharing proposal includes a grant of rights, Missouri and other schools would gain the security that's a hallmark of other conferences.
2009-10 payouts
Kansas $12,116,857
Texas $12,048,365
Oklahoma $11,214,630
Okla. St. $10,692,725
Missouri $10,395,893
Baylor $10,228,970
Texas Tech $9,689,068
K-State $9,428,315
Nebraska $9,334,548
Texas A&M $9,265,582
Iowa State $8,896,242
Colorado $8,325,680
Sources: Tulsa World, IRS Form 990
Comparing the contracts
How the Big 12's television contract and revenue distribution compares with the other five Bowl Championship Series automatic qualifying conferences:
Big 12, $155 million a year
•Sharing: Equal and grant of rights pending approval
•First-tier rights: ABC/ESPN ($480 million, expires in 2016)
•Second-tier rights: Fox ($1.2 billion over 13 years starting in 2012)
•Third-tier rights: Negotiated by schools
Pac-12, $250 million a year
•Sharing: Equal and grant of rights
•First- through third-tier rights: ESPN and Fox ($3 billion total, both expire in 2023)
Big Ten, $214 million a year
•Sharing: Equal and 20-plus year grant of rights
•First- and second-tier rights: ABC/ESPN ($1 billion, expires in 2016) and CBS (basketball, $20 million, expires in 2019)
•Third-tier rights: Big Ten Network ($2.8 billion, expires in 2032)
SEC, $205 million a year
•Sharing: Equal
•First- through third-tier rights: ABC/ESPN and CBS ($3.075 billion total, both expire in 2024)
ACC, $155 million a year
•Sharing: Equal
•First- and second-tier rights: ABC/ESPN ($1.86 billion, expires in 2023)
Big East, $33 million a year
•Sharing: Unclear how money is split
•Rights: ABC/ESPN ($200 million over six years, expires in basketball in 2012 and football in 2014)
Sources: Media reports
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10-04-11, 09:12 AM #20Texas fan (6582 points)
1. You'll be laughed out of the room.
2. It would be political suicide for each and every one of them.
3. Every year thousands of graduates from UT, A&M, Rice, Baylor and others go out to continue the work of improving the state of Texas.
4. UT was established in the state's constitution. If you have problems with public higher education, take it up with Sam Houston.
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SpeedUp is known to some in Indonesia for producing modems, Android tablets, and routers. The company took a bold step in March this year by launching SpeedUp Studio, a local third-party Android app store that challenges the Google Play store. The startup aims to gain users as Android booms in Indonesia and helps local developers monetize their apps through SpeedUp Studio; it also promises better local content (music, magazine, apps and games) discovery.
Doing what Google can't
The Google Play store doesn't yet support Android developers in Indonesia who wish to monetize their apps through direct sales or in-app purchases. So after signing up as a developer by paying $25, app makers in Indonesia can only upload free apps to the Play Store. The only way to make money from an Android app in Indonesia is to integrate advertising into the app.
This is where SpeedUp has the upper hand. SpeedUp provides a convenient way for users to pay for apps in SpeedUp Studio by charging it directly to the phone's credit. Similar to Google Play, SpeedUp Studio only supports Telkomsel for the time being, but plans to work with XL and Indosat in the future. But, unlike Google, SpeedUp can actually pay the developers for the apps sold in SpeedUp Studio. If payment is done by deducting from a user's phone's credit, then developers get 49 percent of the share, while 30 percent is going to the telco and the remaining 21 percent goes to SpeedUp. The scheme differs if payment is done through credit cards, however, as SpeedUp guarantees a 70 percent for developers (and the rest for itself) split after the payment gateway fee and tax. That 70:30 split is on a par with what Google and Apple do in their respective stores.
The SpeedUp Studio store boasts of hosting over 850,000 apps and other media. Much of the number is actually music and magazines. The number of apps was not disclosed.
Confusing strategy
SpeedUp, however, pushes a more Apple-like "walled-garden" approach with its own app store. For instance, SpeedUp Studio is exclusively tied to SpeedUp tablets. That means the distribution channel is very limited and is constrained by the sales of their tablets. But SpeedUp's own-brand tablet also comes with the Android Play store installed, which could confuse early adopters of tablets in the country.
We talked to SpeedUp BizDev Reza Januarto about the number of devices sold, and he mentioned that currently 10,000 SpeedUp devices were sold in the past three months. Reza, however, could not provide specific numbers for tablets.
Aiming for global roll-out
Reza also told us that SpeedUp aims for global sales of its tablets (with its app store in tow), and is trying to enter the market in Taiwan, the US, India, and parts of Europe (Belgium, Germany, Spain). This might prove to be difficult up against tablets from established players like Samsung, HTC, Sony, Huawei, and LG, not to mention newcomers from China like Oppo and Xiaomi. SpeedUp's tablets are sold in the range of $80 to slightly above $200, meaning that they are targeting the lower-end market, and are even cheaper than some 7-inch tablets like the Nexus 7. This pricing makes Android tablets affordable to most people and it might actually work well in developing countries where GDP per capita is low and people are very price conscious.
(Editing by Steven Millward)


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These are a pair of N.D.C. boat shoes I bought before coming to Algarve and I couldn't be happier.
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In four worldwide professional tournaments this weekend, 335 out of a possible 490 players relied on a Titleist golf ball for their success. A hard charging effort by Pro V1x loyalist Kevin Kisner at the Chile Classic on the Web.Com Tour helped him edge the field for a one-stroke victory. While at the TPC Blue Monster at Doral, top-10 finishes for Titleist Brand Ambassadors Steve Stricker and Adam Scott made the WGC-Cadillac Championship another productive tune-up in preparation for this season's first major, exactly one month away in Augusta, Ga.
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WEB.COM: Chile Classic
Winner: Pro V1x Loyalist Kevin Kisner
Relying upon the New 2013 Pro V1x golf ball, Kevin Kisner closed with a final-round 4-under 68 to secure a one-shot win at the Chile Classic. After posting a course-record 11-under par 61 on Saturday, Kisner pulled away from his two fellow overnight leaders with five birdies against a single bogey en-route to a 21-under 267 victory total. It marked the second career Web.com Tour title for Kisner, who topped a leaderboard that included Titleist golf ball loyalists among each of the top five finishers and nine of the top 10.
Titleist was the most played golf ball at the Chile Classic with 99 players in the field of 143 relying upon a Pro V1 or Pro V1x, more than six times the nearest competitor with 16 and more than all competitors combined.
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PGA: WGC-Cadillac Championship
In only his third start of 2013, Titleist Brand Ambassador Steve Stricker relied on his Titleist Pro V1x golf ball to garner his second runner-up finish and third top-5 finish. Stricker leads the PGA Tour in scoring average (68.29) and ranks second in greens in regulation (76.19%).
Titleist Brand Ambassador Adam Scott trusted his new 2013 Pro V1 golf ball to fire the low round of the tournament with a bogey-free 8-under 64 on Sunday, placing him in a tie for third place for the week.
What's in Adam Scott's Titleist Bag?:Ball: New 2013 Titleist Pro V1Driver: Titleist 910D3 8.5º (Graphite Design Tour AD DI8 X with SureFit Tour setting A•1)Fairway Metal: Titleist 910F 15º (SureFit Tour setting D•3)Hybrids: Prototype 712U utility iron 19ºIrons: Titleist MB (3-9)Wedge: Vokey Design SM4 48º, 54º, 60ºPutter: Scotty Cameron Prototype
Titleist was the most relied upon golf ball in the limited-field of 65 at the 2013 WGC-Cadillac Championship with 37 players trusting on a Pro V1 or Pro V1x, more than four times the nearest competitor with nine, and more than all other competitors combined. Titleist was also the favorite in the sand, lob and approach wedge category (72).
For more photos and a video from Doral, check out This Is Team Titleist from the WGC-Cadillac Championship.
Titleist was the most relied upon golf ball in the field of 132 with 87 players, more than five times the nearest competitor with 16. Titleist was also the top choice in the wedge category with 123 Vokey Design models in play, more than twice the nearest competitor with 57, and in putters with 52 players trusting a Scotty Cameron model.
Fabian Gomez relied on his Pro V1x golf ball to tie for second place, and was joined by six other Titleist golf ball loyalists among the top-10 finishers. Justin Bolli (Pro V1) and Brian Stuard (Pro V1x) finished two shots behind the winning score in a tie for fourth place, while Titleist Brand Ambassador Peter Uihlein trusted his New 2013 Pro V1x to eagle the 72nd-hole and finish in a tie for sixth place. This was Uihlein's second consecutive top-10 finish, fresh off a solo fourth finish at the European Tour's Tshwane Open in South Africa last week.
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Titleist was the top choice in golf balls in the field of 150 with 112 players, seven times the nearest competitor with 16. Titleist was also the field favorite in the iron (40) and wedge (164) categories.
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Dr. Marc Feingold examines John Sabo of Manalapan in his family-medicine practice in Manalapan.
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Dear Drs. Donohue and Roach: I'm recovering from pancreatitis. No one can give me an explanation of how I got it. Let me answer one question right now: No, I don't drink alcohol. Everyone else has asked me, so I figured I'd give you the answer right off. What might have been the cause? -- R.I.
Drs. Donohue and Roach: The pancreas has two functions. One, it makes insulin to control blood sugar. Two, it produces enzymes that digest food. The enzymes reduce food to a state where it can be absorbed.
As with all "itis" words, pancreatitis is an inflammation of the gland. The two most common causes of this inflammation are excessive alcohol and gallstones. I get the message -- we can eliminate alcohol. Gallstones are still a candidate cause. The pancreas and gallbladder share a drainage duct into the small intestine. A gallstone can migrate from the gallbladder down to the common duct and block it. The pancreas's digestive juices cannot leave the gland. They begin to digest it -- pancreatitis.
Other causes are possible. One is an extremely high level of blood triglycerides, a form of fat. Viruses are another cause. Mumps, chickenpox, coxsackie (a widely distributed virus responsible for intestinal problems) and the hepatitis B virus target the pancreas. And finally, there's idiopathic pancreatitis -- inflammation for which no cause is found.
Acute pancreatitis gives rise to severe, upper-abdominal pain that often bores into the back. Nausea and vomiting are common. The pain doesn't come and go. It's steady and can last for days to a week.
Treatment is resting the gland by not stimulating it with eating. Nourishment is provided through intravenous feeding. Pain medication is essential. One of the complications of pancreatitis is infection of the gland. That's the reason why some doctors prescribe antibiotic therapy from the start.
About 10 percent of acute pancreatitis patients go on to have a chronic inflammation of the gland. Looked at with more upbeat statistics, 90 percent of patients are completely well after the acute condition has been controlled.
Drs. Donohue and Roach regret that they are unable to answer individual letters, but will incorporate them in the column whenever possible. Readers may write the doctors or request an order form of available health newsletters at P.O. Box 536475, Orlando, FL 32853-6475. Readers also may order health newsletters from www.rbmamall.com.


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I did an undergraduate degree in Cognitive Science at UCLA,
where I worked with Keith Holyoak on analogical reasoning
and with Nancy Kanwisher on visual attention. I then moved
to Princeton for my PhD with Anne Treisman, also on visual
attention. The next two years I spent in Nancy
Kanwisher's lab at MIT, where I began doing fMRI
research on attention and on the organisation of visual
cortex. Since 2000 I have been on the faculty of the School
of Psychology at Bangor University, where I am a member of
the Centre for Cognitive Neuroscience.
Since 2008 I have been Research Director of the
College of Health and Behavioural
Sciences, of which Psychology is a member School.
At the broadest level, I am interested in understanding how
the brain deals with one of its most complex problems --
understanding other people. With my students and colleagues
we have focused on the earlier perceptual stages of this
process, such as how people perceive faces and bodies and
their movements. In collaboration with Nick Oosterhof and Steve Tipper, I've extended this
research into studies of the shared visual/motor
representations of bodily actions. Still more
recently, Kim Graham and I have developed a line
of work comparing and contrasting the perceptual
functions of extrastriate cortex and the medial
temporal cortex.
In terms of methods, our main research tool has been and
continues to be fMRI; our studies use traditional blocked
and event-related designs, and, more recently, multivoxel
pattern analysis approaches. Recently I have also
collaborated on ERP studies of body and face perception
with Guillaume Thierry, and I am working a new line of
research with Martijn van Koningbruggen, Marius Peelen, and
Francesca Perini that uses TMS and fMRI conjointly to study
person and action perception.
Our research is currently funded by BBSRC. Recent grants
came from the ESRC, the Leverhulme Trust, and the Wales
Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience.
I have taught undergraduate modules on a wide variety of
topics, including human neuropsychology, memory, reasoning
and decision making, cognitive neuroscience, and the
"social brain". At the master's level I have led seminar
classes on current issues in the neuroscience of high-level
vision. An important part of my teaching involves the
supervision of undergraduate student projects, which I
especially enjoy. Project groups from previous years have
investigated such topics as visual attention, the neural
basis of scene perception, and how extended affective
experiences are represented in memory. Current students are
looking at plasticity in the sensorimotor cortex and
illusions of body perception. I have also enjoyed
supervising a number of MSc thesis projects, four of which
have resulted in published articles.
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Daily Archives: October 31, 2008
UPDATE: Proof Korir of API IS Sammy Korir
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|Immunosuppression by human seminal plasma--extracellular organelles (prostasomes) modulate activity of phagocytic cells.
MedLine Citation:
|PMID: 1337434 Owner: NLM Status: MEDLINE
|PROBLEM: Prostasomes are trilamellar to multilamellar vesicles produced by the acinar cells of the human prostate and are present in appreciable amounts in normal human semen. The aim of this work was to study the effect of prostasomes on human polymorphonuclear cell and monocyte function. METHODS: Functional activity of human neutrophils and monocytes was studied after incubation with prostasomes isolated from normal human seminal plasma. The following functional tests were employed: ability to ingest latex particles and opsonized bacteria (St. aureus) and ability to generate superoxide anion in response to PMA and FMLP. The latter was determined by measuring the superoxide-dismutase inhibitable reduction of ferricytochrome c to ferrocytochrome c at 550 nm. Expression of cell surface markers and interactions of prostasomes with cells were studied by cytofluorimetry. RESULTS: We show that prostasomes bind rapidly to the leukocyte cell membrane followed by internalization of adsorbed material. Interactions of prostasomes with neutrophils and monocytes inhibits their ability to phagocytose latex particles. The ability to ingest opsonized bacteria is, however, not impaired. Our results also show that incubation of leukocytes with prostasomes effectively inhibits superoxide anion generation in response to activation by PMA and FMLP. CONCLUSIONS: Prostasomes may play a complementary role to other immunosuppressive factors contained in the human semen. They may protect sperm cells from deleterious effects of phagocytosing cells, prolong their life, and consequently enhance the chance of conception. At the same time prostasomes may have a permissive effect on sexually transmitted diseases.
|G Skibinski; R W Kelly; D Harkiss; K James
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|Type: Journal Article; Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Journal Detail:
|Title: American journal of reproductive immunology (New York, N.Y. : 1989) Volume: 28 ISSN: 1046-7408 ISO Abbreviation: Am. J. Reprod. Immunol. Publication Date: 1992 Sep
Date Detail:
|Created Date: 1993-03-17 Completed Date: 1993-03-17 Revised Date: 2006-11-15
Medline Journal Info:
|Nlm Unique ID: 8912860 Medline TA: Am J Reprod Immunol Country: DENMARK
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|Languages: eng Pagination: 97-103 Citation Subset: IM
|MRC Reproductive Biology Unit, University of Edinburgh, Scotland.
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Cell Adhesion
Cell Membrane / immunology
Cells, Cultured
Dose-Response Relationship, Drug
Flow Cytometry
Immune Tolerance / physiology*
Latex / metabolism
Leukocytes / metabolism
Monocytes / physiology
N-Formylmethionine Leucyl-Phenylalanine / pharmacology
Organelles / immunology*
Phagocytosis / physiology*
Prostate / cytology*
Receptors, Complement 3b / biosynthesis
Receptors, IgG / biosynthesis
Semen / cytology, immunology*
Superoxides / metabolism
Tetradecanoylphorbol Acetate / pharmacology
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|0/Latex; 0/Receptors, Complement 3b; 0/Receptors, IgG; 11062-77-4/Superoxides; 16561-29-8/Tetradecanoylphorbol Acetate; 59880-97-6/N-Formylmethionine Leucyl-Phenylalanine
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Details of the Childcare Center
The Michigan Tech Little Huskies Childcare Center is located between the Student Development Complex tennis courts and the Forestry Complex on MacInnes Drive.
Square footage is 4,400 square feet.
The center is licensed for 60 children with a maximum of 8 infants, 8 toddlers and 30 pre-school age children.
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If Springfield students decided tomorrow's election, President Barack Obama would win in a landslide.
The Springfield School District held an online mock election for students, staff and parents Monday. Just about 2,200 students voted, out of around 15,000 total students.
Barack Obama won with 75 percent of the votes to Mitt Romney's 25 percent.
Among students, Obama took about 77 percent of the vote. Romney garnered more of the staff vote than student, but still lost with 43 percent. Obama received 57 percent.
But, among the more than 2,000 employees in the district, only about 236 staff members voted.
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I Honor – Moonie Of LEP On 106 & Park
LEP has laid it down in the streets of Chicago for the past few years! They have been on top of their business as well as their music! Moonie it's GOOD to see you shine! E yall did it! Keep going for the Go! Yall give the city hope! Chuuuuurch!


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Liberty's season ends at regionals
March 4, 2014
Patriots fall to top-ranked Cleveland, 48-35
If anyone had any questions about the Liberty High School girls basketball team's season goal, they need only to look at the players' forearms as they stepped on the Bellevue College court for a March 1 loser-out, winner-to-state game.
Scrawled in black, capital letters was the acronym DIFD — Do it for the Dome, the Tacoma Dome, that is.
The Patriots' road to the state tournament, held at the Tacoma Dome, came to an end March 1, after a 48-35 loss to top-ranked Cleveland.
Patriots hit a wall with pair of losses as regular season comes to a close
February 4, 2014
It's been nothing but smooth sailing this season for the 14-5 Liberty girls basketball team, but things got a little rocky just a week before the end of the season.
It began with a 53-45 loss to Mercer Island on Jan. 29, and continued with a 55-36 defeat at the hands of a determined Bellevue team Jan. 31. The Islanders and the Wolverines were both teams the Patriots beat earlier in the season
"Hopefully, we've got this rough stretch out of the way," Liberty coach Curtis Terry said. "I'd rather get it out now than in the playoffs, when it's do or die."
Explosive second half propels Patriots to win
October 15, 2013
Liberty High School soccer coach Tami Nguyen must have said something rather poignant during her halftime speech to the team in an Oct. 8 match against Interlake.
The Patriots ended the first half down 1-0. The second half was a different story, however, as Liberty erupted for five goals, clinching a 5-3 victory against the Saints.
Nguyen's halftime pep talk to the team was short and simple, according to Liberty defender Shaniah Adriano.
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Kodak sees losses grow to $366m as reorg, lawsuits continue
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Kodak still far from profit
Kodak saw mixed performance on Friday as it fought to get back to profitability. Although it now had a cash balance of $1.4 billion, up from $500 million in a pre-bankruptcy fall 2011, its losses widened from $246 million to $366 million. The deeper impact was pinned on restructuring costs as the company hoped to sell off money-losing divisions.
Its revenue dropped 27 percent from a year ago, to $965 million, as it eliminated the camera business that had defined the company for much of its life.
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Once the car came to a stop, Naruto quickly unbelted his seat and
quickly shoved the door opened. Sasuke reached out.
Naruto, eyes filled with fear, turned to face him. "Don't touch me!" he cried out.
Sasuke flinched, his hand hanging in mid air. He knew it. Naruto hated him. Hated Akatsuki. Hated him.
Naruto froze then looked away and slammed the door shut, running inside of his house. Iruka stood by the door, looking surprised at Naruto's sudden rush and looked out at the staring raven. He narrowed his eyes, meeting the calm dark eyes in the car. He shut the door as the car left the road.
"Naruto? Naruto what's wrong?" Iruka knocked on the Naruto's bedroom door. He received no answer. Worried, he fetched Kakashi, who was laying in bed reading Make-Out Paradise.
"Kakashi san, Naruto won't answer me."
"Leave him alone. He probably just had a fight with his friend."
"Kakashi san, do something!"
Kakashi sighed and propped himself up on both his elbows, closing his book. "What am I suppose to say to him? That the kid belongs to the Akatsuki and hurt Naruto's feelings?" Iruka flinches. "Think about it, Iruka san. Naruto is growing up. Sometimes he would want some alone time to think."
Iruka looked away, sadden but knew what Kakashi said was true. Of course he should let Naruto have some time alone, but shouldn't he explain to Naruto about the Akatsuki? His frown turned into a pout as unable to leave Naruto alone.
"Then what about Tsunade sama's recent founding in the reports about murders found in Konoha?"
"Ahh, that. Now that's something you should announce."
"you're his guardian aren't you?" Kakashi smirked.
"Aren't you one too?"
"I'm merely his guardian as much as you are."
"I think we should keep this from him as well."
"And get himself killed? He's gonna find out sooner or later and by the time he finds out, he's either dying or in a gloomy state."
"Don't say that!!" Iruka exclaimed. "Jeez, what kind of 'mere' guardian are you anyways? Saying stuff like that."
"I'm sorry, Iruka san." Kakashi sat up and leaned forward to give Iruka a kiss.
Knock knock.
Both adults look up and saw Naruto standing by the door, sadly looking down on the floor.
"Iruka san…"
Kakashi blinked as Iruka opened his arms, letting the blonde teen sink into his arms, crying.
"Iruka san!"
Iruka, close to tears himself, swallowed down the tight knot in his throat. "What's wrong, Naruto? Did that black hair kid scare you?"
Naruto clung tightly to Iruka's sweater sleeves, soaking the front with his tears, barely able to say anything, just shaking his head no. Kakashi sat up completely, sitting beside Iruka and pulling him close as so he could place a hand on Naruto's head. Naruto continued to cry then sobbed and finally fell asleep, face covered in tears. Kakashi had helped carried Naruto to bed as Iruka wiped away those tears.
"What should I do?" Iruka looked up from Naruto to his silver haired lover. Kakashi smiled a small smile and walked to where Iruka was and cupped Iruka's face in his hands.
"Not I, Iruka san. What should we do." Iruka slightly smiled. "I guess we should tell him the truth tomorrow.
"Naruto! Breakfast is ready!"
Naruto refused to go to the appetizing smell of bacon and sausage. He sat on his bed, knees pulled up to his chest, arms wrapped around those knees and cried. His heart was in pain. His mind replayed the scenes where he had discovered the tattoo of the Akatsuki, when Sasuke lied, to last night's scene when Kiba was carried to those sad dark colored eyes of Sasuke. Sad? Was that what he had seen last night when that lying good for nothing finally admitted to being an Akatsuki?
"Teme…" Naruto cried silently to himself. "Why does it have to be you?"
A knock at his door. Naruto quickly wiped away the tears and nose before grabbing his study book.
"Come in…"
Iruka slowly opened the door and walked in. He smelled of bacon and sausage, making Naruto's stomach growl.
"Come down for breakfast, Naruto. I know you're hungry." Iruka said softly.
Naruto shook his head. "I'm not hungry."
Iruka sat down on his bed, smiling like a caring parent should. "I know you've been crying, Naruto." he reached out and touched Naruto's sticky cheek. "I don't know what happened, but you should know, Naruto, that I'm always here for you."
Naruto didn't flinch away as his eyes welled up with freshly new tears. "Iruka san…" he grabbed around Iruka by the midriff and hugged tightly, crying again.
"He…he's an Akatsuki…I don't want to believe it…but it's true…and he lied!"
"Shh~" Iruka stroked his blonde hair and rubbed his back, soothing him. "It'll be alright, Naruto."
Naruto pulled away, nodding and wiping away his tears.
"I want you to listen to me, Naruto." Iruka caressed Naruto's left cheek, looking into the sadden blue eyes. "I want you to stay away from that guy. He's dangerous and I don't know what he had planned last night, but I was worried and am really glad that you're safe."
Naruto smiled at that. Then his mind slowly wrapped around Iruka's words, suddenly realizing something.
"Now, let's go downstairs and get some breakfast before it's cold. I know you never turn down food, Naruto." Iruka smiled.
Naruto put away his book, threw off his blankets and walked downstairs to where Kakashi was, sitting in a seat eating and reading.
"Morning, Naruto." Kakashi said, glancing up once at the blonde before going back to his book. Naruto smiled and sat down.
"Good morning, Kakashi sensei."
That night, Naruto had stayed in his room the entire day, moping while Iruka sat in the living room, thinking what to tell Naruto.
"Kakashi san." hands on hips, Iruka snatched Make-out Paradise out of Kakashi's hands.
"Pay attention to what I'm saying, Kakashi san!"
"I was getting to the good part, Iruka san!" Kakashi whined.
"If you don't listen, we're not going to do it for an entire year."
Kakashi froze at his words. "Y-you can't be serious, Iruka san?"
"Try me."
Kakashi frowned through his mask and sat back, pouting. Iruka smiled and placed the book in one of the shelves by the fireplace.
"Naruto, come down here please!"
Naruto came down the stairs and saw both his guardians sitting together by the couch, looking at him…well Iruka was. Naruto mentally rolled his eyes. aw man, not another lecture. He got the bottom of the stairs before asking,
"Did you want something, Iruka san?"
"Sit down please." Iruka demanded nicely, pointing to the couch across from his and Kakashi's.
Naruto slowly skittered across the room to the couch and plopped himself on the couch. He searched Kakashi's eye for any clue but received none as the copy-nin clouded his eye with no emotion. He looked at Iruka, slightly cowering, ready for whatever he had to say.
Iruka sighed. "Naruto."
"This isn't another one of those lectures that you'll be getting from me." Naruto sighed in relief. "But it's not anything good either."
"Well what is it then?" Naruto asked, curious.
Iruka glanced once at his nonchalant silver hair lover and sighed again. "I know this will be hard on you, but…" Naruto looked at him intently. "we need you to stay away from that boy."
Naruto blinked once then smiled sadly to himself. "Heh…like I'm ever going back out with him…"
Iruka could see the shadow looming over Naruto as sadness overwhelmed him. Iruka had never see him like that before. Naruto was always cheery, excited, and could never sit down for long, but now…it was different. He was sad, eyes puffed red, his twinkling blue eyes weren't twinkling anymore, and worst of all, he wasn't…Naruto. It seemed as if he was…heartbroken.
"Naruto." Kakashi finally spoke.
Naruto looked up. Iruka nervously fidgeted in his seat as Kakashi stared straight at the blonde.
"Have you recently heard about Tsunade sama's report?"
Naruto slowly shook his head. "No. What is it about?"
Kakashi narrowed his eye. "It's about the recent murders in Konoha." Naruto stiffened. "By Akatsukis." Naruto stared at his guardians.
It was no surprise to any Jinchuuriki. They had heard many reports about Akatsuki murdering innocent people.
"But that doesn't involve us does it?" Naruto glanced at Iruka for an answer, but met no eyes.
"Naruto." Naruto looked backed at the copy-nin. "The murders have been sighted in our turf." Naruto gasped silently. "They were Jinchuuriki members. They were found a few nights ago."
Naruto's fists opened then closed tightly. That was the night Sasuke texted him about their date and he had Sakura over…and she left after that!
"Sakura! Is she…" he forced tears back.
"Sakura?" Kakashi questioned. "Don't worry. She's safe. Only the ones on patrol that night were murdered."
Naruto let out a breath of relief. He thought to himself, if Sakura died, what would he had done? Mourn? Revenge?
"How do they know it was the Akatsuki?"
Kakashi showed him a kunai. "What other clan other than us uses deadly weapons like these?"
Naruto sat there, mouth gaping.
"Also, Tsunade sama has declared for us to keep everyone inside for the time being. Stronger and bigger patrols are sent to search the perimeter. And most important,-" he stared intensely into the blue eyes. "We are not to contact the Akatsuki in any way or form. Meaning that friendly terms, friendships, and relationships are severed."
Naruto's heart somewhat crumbled at that. He was having a hard breathing and he mentally clutched at his chest. Not being able to text Sasuke? Sure he can do that. Not talk to him? He could do that too. But friendship wise? He felt the bond falling. He was just getting to know Sasuke better and now this? Was it his idea so that he wouldn't find out about the murders? Naruto then physically clutched at his chest and took in deeps breath, feeling as if the world was running out of oxygen.
Sasuke's one of them... he reminded himself.
Iruka ran to him, rubbed his back and whispered soothing words for Naruto to calm down. After Naruto had calmed down, he had Naruto lean towards him.
"I'm sorry you had to hear that, Naruto, but we couldn't do anything else."
Naruto stayed quiet for a moment, then spoke. "It's alright. At least you and Kakashi sensei are fine then I'll be okay." he forced a smile on his face, barely convincing either guardian.
"We want you to promise us that you'll stay away from that boy."
Naruto hesitated, then nodded, avoiding their gazes.
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LAS CRUCES >> A dozen New Mexico State University students are ensuring a collection of 19th-century retablos will be preserved for years to come.
The students, studying to become licensed museum conservators, are restoring the religious paintings as part of the undergraduate Museum Conservation Program, one of only three in the nation.
"Conservation is the study of preservation of art or historical objects, anything that humans give value to," Program Director Silvia Marinas-Feliner said. "We learn how to better preserve objects and slow down the deterioration process in the safest way possible. There is a huge problem in museums all over the nation. Collections are not well-kept because museums do not have enough staff that have the knowledge of how to preserve the objects."
Some of the projects the students have recently undertaken include the restoration of "The Traders" sculpture outside the NMSU Business Complex and the "Heroes of Bataan" bronze sculpture in Las Cruces.
Under Marinas-Feliner's supervision, a group of 12 students restored the retablos.
"Conserving Tradition: The NMSU Retablo Collection Exhibition" will be on display through Dec. 21 at the University Art Gallery.
There will be a public reception featuring a talk with Marinas-Feliner and her students from 6-8 p.m. Wednesday.
The retablos were obtained by NMSU in the late 1960s and early 1970s from independent collectors. Most were made in the 19th century in central Mexico, though there are some from the late 18th century. Several have circulated in international exhibits Marinas-Feliner organized.
Damages to the retablos included corrosion, surface scratches and melting, probably from being near candles, graduate art student Whitney Jacobs said.
Restoring the retablos was a multistep process that involved analyzing works, identifying problems, conducting tests, determining a treatment and applying the treatment.
"First, Dr. Marinas-Feliner taught us to assess the overall damage," student Maria Marin said. "We do different types of testing, and sometimes we find other problems and solutions. From there, we take a course of treatment, and in the case of the retablos, treat both sides.
"We want to see what kinds of solvents we can use to remove that type of rust and stabilize the surface. We start out gently, dry brushing with a cotton swab, then we move onto something like water. The use of solvents escalates, depending on how aggressive the treatment needs to be. Once we pick the right one, we continue with the treatment until the retablo is clean."
Solvents frequently used include mineral spirits, acetone and alcohol, among others.
"We work on a variety of materials," said Jacobs, who in addition to the retablos, restored a wooden crucifix sculpture. "Every object is different with a vastly different history. All the materials have to be approached in a different way. Nowadays, people are using lots of mixed media, and that poses challenges for conservators."
She suggested artists include a descriptive note of the materials used in an artwork if they wish to preserve it for a long period of time.
Marinas-Feliner, originally from Spain, helped launch the NMSU program in 2002. She received a second master's degree from NMSU in archeology.
"My idea was to combine both areas," she said. "I wanted to restore all kinds of materials in really bad condition. When I first came here, I tried to do that, and that's what I want to pass on to my students. I really hope that my students will go to small museums and help better preserve their art collections.
"At this stage, what they get here is preparation in order to get to the graduate level. They can work as conservator technicians but not as conservators until they get to the graduate level."
The retablos exhibit features before-restoration photos of the items, a table with some of the tools used in the restoration process and wall texts explaining the process.
"It's the first time we've had the opportunity to show what the program is about," Marinas-Feliner said. "A lot of people have no idea what conservation work entails, so this will be a great opportunity to show the public. The retablos are the first real objects the students worked on, and they did an incredible job. I'm very proud of them."


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Uprising: Hip Hop and the L.A. Riots Panel Discussion - Grammy Museum - 4/26/12
Maybe it was the fact that we had to sit in downtown rush-hour Los Angeles traffic before we got to the Grammy Museum. But probably, it was the fact that we pressed through such a long, shitty day because the light at the end of the tunnel was the knowledge that after trying for so many damn years, we were finally going to get to meet Snoop Dogg -- and had just learned that tha Doggfather wouldn't be sitting on the panel discussing the new VH1 documentary titled Uprising: Hip Hop and the L.A. Riots.
Press Snoop was not in the building
Whatever the case, we was pissed when the woman next to us asked if we would stop taking pictures because the beeping on our camera was preventing her from hearing.
N.W.A's seminal anthem "Fuck Tha Police" is used heavily in the documentary and rightfully so. The song's inclusion is mandatory considering how this documentary is aimed at the connection between hip-hop and the events leading up to and after the riots. That said, the most powerful connection between the track and the riots was not the song itself, but the footage of graffitied "fuck the police" and "fuck tha police" that was spray painted in looted areas during those tumultuous three days. You can talk all about how rap music was the voice of a voiceless generation, but it's only until you see these words written on walls when you realize that hip-hop was more than a musical genre during this era -- it literally was the soundtrack to thousands, if not millions, of people living in poverty who were fed up with police harassment. Black, white, red, purple, brown, green ... it doesn't matter, because that's a message we all understand.
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"Fake" lossless file from artist's store?
"Fake" lossless file from artist's store?
Sep 16 2012, 06:54
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Hi. I bought an ALAC-encoded album from an artists' official homepage a few days back. The file size was a bit smaller than I expected (and the "bitrate" displayed in foobar lower than 90% of my own lossless rips).
So, I checked the filed with this application called Audiochecker 2.0.
It reports the rip as being MP3s that have been transcoded into lossless format. I tried the same application on a lot of my own lossless rips, and it reports my own rips as "true" lossless rips.
Is there a way to confirm whether the album I bought really is a lossy to lossless transcode or not? I do not own the original CD, so I can't compare that way.
Sep 16 2012, 09:15
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The lossless version is only sold through the store I bought the download at, so it's not like it's spread all around the internet. I'm sure the lossy rip is all good
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