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Vivek M. Rangnekar
Alfred Cohen Chair in Oncology Research
Vivek Rangnekar serves and the associate director of transdisciplinary collaboration at the Markey Cancer Center—Kentucky's only NCI-designated cancer center—and co-leads the center's cell biology & signaling research program. Rangnekar earned his Ph.D. from the University of Bombay and conducted postdoctoral training at the University of Chicago, before coming to UK in 1992. His team studies the molecular crosstalk between oncogenes (genetic material that has the ability to produce cancer) and tumor suppressor genes. His strategy is to utilize the inherent strengths of the tumor against itself, to specifically target cell survival mechanisms that are common to many different types of cancer. Rangnekar focuses on the multi-faceted tumor suppressor protein Par-4/PAWR, which he first identified in 1993. He says what makes Par-4 so special is that it is not mutated as frequently as other known suppressors, and Par-4 will only kill cancer cells and not normal cells. Par-4 can become "suppressed" or inactivated, leading to tumor re-growth, but Par-4 can be activated again—and one of the next major steps is developing a safe and effective way to activate Par-4 in cancerous cells. With funding from the National Cancer Institute, Rangnekar's team is looking at natural and synthetic agents that may help restore the expression of Par-4 in human cells, allowing the cancerous cells to become susceptible to treatment. Several UK investigators are now examining the role of Par-4 in chronic lymphocytic leukemia and aggressive brain tumors called glioblastomas, as well as developing small molecules that can activate Par-4 and kill cancer cells. "Our multi-disciplinary team, working together, uses a multi-faceted strategy in our research," Rangnekar says. "This allows us to gain a better understanding of the complexities of cancer in order to effectively kill recurrent tumor cells, especially those that have spread."
Nancy Harrington
Douglas A. and Carole A. Boyd Professor in Communication
Nancy Harrington is a professor in the College of Communication and Information, where she serves as associate dean for research. She holds a joint appointment in the College of Public Health. Harrington has been a principal investigator, co-investigator, or principal evaluator on several NIH-funded and CDC-funded studies totaling approximately $8.5 million. She's published more than 50 scholarly journal articles and chapters, and served as guest editor for a special issue, focused on communication strategies to reduce health disparities, of the Journal of Communication, the flagship journal of the International Communication Association. Harrington says, "Analyzing messages helps us understand how to design them to most effectively provide people the health information they need to make good decisions regarding health promotion and disease prevention behaviors. Subtle changes in the content, format, and structure of messages can have an impact on whether or not people pay attention to them, process them, and are informed or persuaded by them." Harrington is currently working on a text-based messaging system for patients to communicate with their healthcare providers after they've been discharged from the hospital. "The system was developed with an NSF grant to Dan O'Hair and Derek Lane. We're proposing to partner with colleagues from UK Healthcare to test the intervention's effectiveness in reducing hospital readmission rates." UK has an outstanding reputation in health communication for two reasons, says Harrington: "Our faculty has been associated with projects that have brought more than $50 million to UK. We've been one of the most highly funded communication departments in the nation. A second reason is our biennial Kentucky Conference on Health Communication (KCHC). Since it began in 1989, KCHC has grown into an internationally recognized venue for researchers, practitioners, and students from health communication and other health-related sciences to present cutting-edge research. The conference has really put Kentucky on the map."
Diane Follingstad
Women's Circle Endowed Chair
Diane Follingstad is a professor in the UK College of Medicine Department of Psychiatry. Her expertise is in clinical and forensic psychology and she is director of the Center for Research on Violence Against Women (CRVAW). Follingstad's research has resulted in 85 journal articles and a book, and her recent work has focused on comparing different methods of assessing how decisions are made to prosecute battered women who have killed their partner, to illustrate how less conscious biases impact these decisions. Follingstad says, "Probably my most significant contribution has been both research and commentary designed to enhance the measurement of psychological abuse, which has been a difficult concept to measure." She is currently a PI with CRVAW colleague Ann Coker to evaluate the long-term effects of a bystander intervention program called Green Dot conducted in Kentucky high schools to identify differences in students who attend college and those who do not. "With Dr. Coker, we have almost completed a project that looks at the impact on women's treatment and recovery from cancer when partners engage in interfering/controlling behaviors or intimate partner abuse, and we are extending this concept in a new grant proposal to look at partner impact on both women and men with colorectal cancer." Another proposed study, with Claire Renzetti, involves testing an online educational intervention to determine whether nursing personnel improve in their identification of sex trafficking cases. The strength of CRVAW lies in its multidisciplinary team, says Follingstad. "Our endowed faculty consist of an epidemiologist, a sociologist/criminologist, and two psychologists, but we regularly end up working with a biostatistician and other faculty from social work, psychiatry, psychology, and communications. There is no question that our final research products are greatly improved by the involvement of faculty from a range of disciplines." The center is also working on new mechanisms for research training for postdoctoral fellows, graduate students and undergraduate students.
Jon Thorson
UK Chandler Medical Center Endowed Chair in Pharmaceutical Research and Innovation
Jon Thorson is a professor of pharmaceutical sciences, director of the Center for Pharmaceutical Research and Innovation (CPRI), and also serves in co-director roles for the Markey Cancer Center and the Center for Clinical and Translational Science. Thorson holds 23 patents and his area of expertise is natural products—molecules that have evolved for function over time. "Examples with anticancer activity include the microbial toxins calicheamicin and esperamicin. These natural products were first reported as I was starting graduate school, and I wrote what was presumably a very naive research proposal on the synthesis/biosynthesis of these molecules as a requirement for one of my Ph.D. courses. In an interesting twist of fate, the study of calicheamicin biosynthesis became one of the two main projects in my lab when I launched my independent career at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center roughly a decade later." Thorson explains that instead of synthesizing new molecules through complex chemistry, if you can manipulate the natural machinery that generates useful molecules you can speed up the process of drug development. Thorson's team is isolating new natural products from the Commonwealth for the "UK Natural Products Repository" (which contains 133 bacterial natural products isolated from subterranean and mining-associated environments via collaboration with the Center for Applied Energy Research, the Kentucky Geologic Survey, U.S. Coal, and the Kentucky Division of Abandoned Mine Lands) and the "UK Synthetics Collection" (which contains 556 compounds including natural product mimics, modified natural products, and synthetic intermediates/fragments). The goal of these collections is to share promising compounds with researchers at UK to screen for new activities. Thorson says, "In 2.5 years, CPRI has engaged in 26 projects with UK investigators and four additional external projects with pharma and other academic institutions, where we have focused on building preliminary data to support new grant applications and intellectual property, as well as advancing science into, and through, clinical evaluation."


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Riots over land sales by local governments are getting more common. As prices rise and land gets scarce, villagers like Wukan's want more of the profit. A government pay-off is usually the answer. But it looks like China's model of rapid development is due for an overhaul.
Putin is on a collision course with change
Russia's mass protests against election-rigging reflect a strong yearning for change. This won't stop Vladimir Putin winning the presidential election. But his methods of government are losing their power. And those hoping that he can move with the times will be disappointed.
China could be North Korea's ally of last resort
Conventional thinking has it that South Korea will one day absorb its impoverished cousin. But if the North collapses, Beijing may have more interest in propping it back up. Like bailing out a bank, doing so would require liquidity, capital and more accountable management.
2012: the year citizens will pronounce on the euro
Markets and governments have spoken. It's the turn of populations to declare, in elections and referendums, whether they want to do what it takes to keep the euro together. Governments will have to build a strong case to convince voters that breakup would be the worst outcome.
Korean spending spree sets right tone
Seoul plans to blow most of its budget in the first half and is likely to end the year in deficit. It might seem an election-year stunt. But promoting domestic jobs instead of using a weak currency to boost exports is a path the rest of Asia should follow.
France is heading for a major spring crisis
Socialist presidential favourite François Hollande seems ill-equipped to deal with the financial crisis. And if re-elected, Nicolas Sarkozy might face a hostile parliament. Add recession and some scandals, and France could look like Berlusconi's Italy, without the bunga-bunga.
For Obama's 2012 hopes, it really is the economy
A reasonably reliable forecasting model puts the U.S. president with just over half the two-party vote in November. The Intrade electronic market gives him a 52 pct chance of re-election. A Breakingviews calculator shows how economic growth in 2012 could tip the result.
2012: another year of living euro-dangerously
Europe will keep the world on edge in 2012. More will be needed to shore up Italy and keep the single currency more or less intact. But the U.S. should keep recovering. And China and emerging markets may cut rates and help their consumers – and global rebalancing.
Fat cats have little to fear from Cameron curbs
The UK prime minister wants the rich to feel the nation's pain. Good luck to him. No one can fully explain why bosses' rewards started to rise in the 1980s, or why they fell after the Second World War. Cameron's half-hearted nudging is unlikely to turn the social tide.
EU can't afford to be soft on Hungary
Too much is at stake to go easy on Budapest. Hungary's current authoritarian policies would disqualify it for EU membership. The country needs an IMF-EU bailout. The rescuers should keep the pressure on populist Prime Minister Viktor Orban, even at the risk of a major clash.
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Monrovia - The Late Chief Justice Johnnie N. Lewis would have thought differently about how Liberia would honor him when he was finally gone. He probably might have thought not in the nicest of words. But the final home going of the late Chief Justice was full of life and the nicest of words, any Liberian may have offered to a fallen statesman.
Several dignitaries including judicial stakeholders and prominent citizens turned out on Thursday at the Centennial Memorial Pavilion on Broad and Ashmun streets to pay tributes to the fallen legal stalwart describing him as a great patriot. Even lawyers who had not worn a robe in years turned out in the black garment to pay their last respect to the man who many hate yet much more love and respect.
Dressed in a beautifully designed black and white nicely designed African costume, with a matching scarf flung about her neck, President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf led an array of government officials in a eulogy worth for a king.
"We assemble here today with a heavy heart and mournful spirit to mourn His Honor Johnnie N. Lewis, He was a patriot, committed to high principles of justice. He wholeheartedly accepted my appointment and nomination as 18th Chief Justice of the Supreme Court," she said. In an almost tearful tone that sent many in the hall in a state of melancholy, President Sirleaf said that the late former chief justice served with distinction and the works of his hands are visible.
"He served ably as the Chief Justice and partial results of his outstanding job are visible, he worked collaboratively with the two branches of Government ensuring that the laws are respected," She said. Naming the visible contribution made by the late Lewis to the Liberian judiciary the President named the renovation of the Temple of justice, the construction of lower courts in over three counties in the country, as just a few of the many.
"He will not be remembered just for the renovation of the Temple of justice or the courts' construction; but will be remembered for decisive thinking, he was learned in the law," she said. "The late chief justice was wise in judging cases, he was respected for his stand on the law. His opinions were judicially independent, his farsightedness will continue in the history of the judiciary." She said the late Cllr. Lewis was inspired to delegate a great portion of his life to public service through examples set by his forebears.
"He was a patriot, loyal to the country, he constituted authority to his fellow citizens, the public, devoted his life to the country," she said. "Now at the end of the Chief Justice's earthly sojourn, I submit that we can fairly say yes, his honor Johnnie N Lewis was a patriot, loyal to his country, devoted to his duties, and who love his fellow citizens, indeed those words will be truth for a well deserved citizen."
Delivering the funeral discourse for a man who many Liberians saw as controversial for his straightforward and outright frankness with his fellow men, Episcopal Bishop Jonathan B. B. Hart said the former Chief justice brought pride and dignity to the judiciary. He urged Liberians and those who hold public office to emulate the good example of the late Cllr. Lewis.
"Time is everything and essential in dealing with people, and finance, be careful not to be out of Gods will," he said. "We are tied of corruption, if the LACC and the court cannot get you corrupt officials, the church is ready and will use their wooden crosses to pierce your heart and get you out, so that the sun and fire can shine in God's light," he said.
Continued Bishop Hart: "How many Johnnies do we have in Liberia, he stood tall and firm on the welfare and concern of the state. When God puts you in the position, he trust and expects you to do the best for his people." At the funeral ceremony of the fallen astute lawyer, the current Chief Justice Francis Korkpor felt a tribute from him (Korkpor) as is customary for the judiciary bidding farewell to a former Chief Justice, he rather turned the mantle to Associate Justice Philip A.Z Banks, a man who knew the fallen statesman well.
A Yale University trained lawyer like the late Lewis, Cllr Banks said he owes most of what he has become in the legal arena to the late Lewis. He said as the only Justice on the Supreme Court bench who worked with the late Chief Justice for a long period of time, he knows the kind of person he was, someone that many misunderstood because of his desire for excellence in the things of the law.
Associate Justice Banks the late Lewis was a man who cared for the welfare of his people and worked diligently to improve the judiciary in Liberia. "We the supreme court, will like to focus on the man and the law, the law for excellence, his knowledge and commitment of the law, the achievement of justice, the care for people around him, the core of his virtues; he showed kindness," he said.
He said for people like him who knew the former Chief Justice, they began to grieve for him several years ago when illness struck because it was then that the wisdom, knowledge, the intellect and the love for the law was withering away. "Today, we're here only in confirmation of the reality that confronted us several years ago. Today we're here only to say that we remember those early years and the legacies 'Johnnie-Never-Loses' left behind," said Justice Banks.
"He told us that the prime goal of a lawyer must be love of the law, but not worth of the law, in much respect he was not just a lawyer, but a symbolism of the law. His approach and interpretation of the law plays a key role, we remember his work at the Temple of justice, the new courts in Sinoe, Gbarpolu and other lower courts, the training of judicial personnel and the establishment of the James A. A. Pierre Judicial Institute."
In his Eulogy House Speaker Alex Tyler praised the former Chief Justice for the level of reform he brought to the judiciary. "We are wondering who will take his place, he was a lawyer beyond control, and he was independent lawyer who reads the law," he said. Speaker Tyler highlighted the increase in the wages of judicial employees and respect for the rule of law as something that should not be forgotten by Liberians.
Cllr. Pearl Bull an astute female lawyer who admired the late Chief Justice and his love for the law said: "He was one of the youngest circuit court judges. Thank you Johnnie, when he was chief Justice, he put me on the grievance and ethics committee to deal with the misconduct of lawyers." Deputy Information Minister, Isaac Jackson said recounting the contribution of the fallen statesman said the former Chief Justice was instrumental in helping him acquire a law degree.
"I remember with pleasing satisfaction as a young lawyer…We had benefitted from the Judicial scholarship and it would take us long time to get our stipends. The stipend was US$25 and the semester would take long, but when he took over he brought about a big change in the judicial scholarship stipend," said Minister Jackson.
"With his coming we were able to receive our stipend, though US$25 but it if you multiplied the US$25 by four months, then it was a bit better. I remember at one point in time he had to literally shout at the comptroller in making sure that our stipends were paid and on time."
Police Director, Chris Massaquoi paid tribute to the late Cllr. Lewis thanking him for the knowledge he imparted to him during his years in law school and also the years they both worked within the UN system. "Cllr. Lewis was a very decent person. At times he was to the point in telling people how he felt but not withstanding he was an intellectual and he was an educator," said Director Massauoi.
I learned a lot for Cllr. Lewis and he helped me to have gone through my career, not only when I graduated from law school, we also worked together in Bosnia and Croatia with the United Nations. I always looked at him like a father and a big brother." Former Press Secretary Cyrus Badio, a family friend of the late former Chief justice called described him as a man of integrity.
"He showed us true love, he showed us friendship and he was someone that we could count on," he said. There was an elaborate march through the principal streets of Monrovia with members of the Freemasons of which the late Lewis was a member paying full respect. The body of the late former Chief Justice under whose mantle President Sirleaf took the oath of office for her second term, would be laid to rest in his home county of Sinoe on Saturday.


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A panel charged with fixing Colorado's election system voted Tuesday to support a recommendation requiring the state to hold all-paper-ballot elections starting in 2014, but one commission member compared the recommendation to being held hostage.
The recommendation, which the legislature can choose whether to adopt, urges Colorado to use only paper ballots starting in 2014. Until then, though, the recommendation proposes allowing clerks to continue using their electronic voting terminals without having to get them recertified or have a paper trail that voters can see.
Those two requirements were pressing down on clerks across Colorado, as a bill from last year that provided a one-time fix to certification headaches is set to expire this summer. If the legislature doesn't pass another certification fix this session, more than 50 Colorado counties will be stuck with costly voting equipment they can't use.
"I feel it's giving some people some things and giving other people some things," said former Senate Majority Leader Ken Gordon, a Denver Democrat who is chairman of the state's Election Reform Commission. "It's a carefully worked-out balance that involves the equitable distribution of unhappiness."
But critics of the proposal said it amounted to "ramrodding" a paper- ballot mandate through the commission by tying it to the voting-machine certification fix.
"This recommendation should be viewed with immense skepticism," commission member Scott Gessler, a Republican elections attorney, said afterward.
The debate goes back several years, when voting activists sued the state over its certification procedures for electronic voting machines. Activists say the machines are prone to error, but clerks vigorously defend the terminals, saying they are reliable.
A bill backed by Gordon and Gov. Bill Ritter that would have required the state hold a paper-only election in 2008 failed at the legislature last year under heavy fire from county clerks.
Bent County Clerk Patti Nickell, a member of the commission, said Tuesday that the commission's recommendation unfairly forced her to choose between having certified voting machines that she ultimately must give up or decertified machines that she can't use. A move to vote on the recommendations' components individually was blocked by Gordon.
"I don't feel this is a compromise," Nickell said. "I feel we're being held hostage."
Gessler said Ritter's office pressed for the move to paper ballots, but Gordon said that the compromise originated with commission members and that he doesn't believe the governor's office pressured anyone.
He said the compromise had to be voted on at once to preserve its integrity.
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Drake, John, The Washington Times (Washington, DC)
The Metropolitan Police Department has begun to resolve its communication problems with the deaf but has yet to fulfill the requirements of a legal settlement.
"I think we're probably at a good 50 [percent], if not more, in terms of meeting the agreement, in terms of compliance," said Nola Joyce, a senior police official who is leading much of the effort.
The department has missed almost all of its deadlines to implement the requirements, which now are being carried out, officials said. They include:
* Installing TTY machines - devices that let deaf persons make and receive telephone calls - in the seven police district stations.
* Announcing to officers at roll call procedures for dealing with deaf persons.
* Distributing to officers information cards that explain resources and rights that deaf persons have when dealing with the police.
* Employing a sign-language interpreting company that can provide certified interpreters within 90 minutes at all times.
A lack of coordination within the department led to the delay in complying with the terms of the settlement, said Steve Gaffigan, senior executive director for the Office of Quality Assurance.
"A couple of balls got dropped, but I think we picked them up very quickly, and we're moving forward now," he said.
The Washington Times first reported Feb. 22 that the Police Department had failed to implement major portions of a legal agreement that called for communication improvements with the deaf.
City and police officials on Nov. 22 signed the settlement with the Disability Rights Council of Greater Washington and Vernon Shorter, a deaf man who was jailed in 1997 on a burglary charge that later was dropped.
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Kathleen M. Snoddon recently returned from Morocco where she was able to witness microfinance first-hand. This is the second in a five-part blog series about her journeys.
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At the top of the ridge leading into the village, we encountered a small group of tattooed-faced Berber women washing their clothes and cooking utensils in the rudimentary but resourceful aqueduct system that ran the perimeter of the village. They seemed curious but shy. We had been advised not to take anyone's pictures without their permission. Some of older generation still believes that a photo can somehow capture their soul.
Descending the dirt path, we heard a cackle of excitement. As we reached our destination we saw a large Berber carpet laid on the ground under a grove of trees. Hakima had told us to expect to meet with 6 to 8 women. The plan was to meet together as a group to exchange greetings and stories and then to split into smaller groups to accompany the borrowers to their homes and places of business. In this rural village, most businesses are run in or around each of their homes.


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Dow Jones Industrial Average ( ^DJI) trading up 8 points (0.1%) at 16,707 as of Friday, May 30, 2014, 3:55 PM ET. The NYSE advances/declines ratio sits at 1,211 issues advancing vs. 1,772 declining with 147 unchanged. The Consumer Goods sector as a whole closed the day down 0.1% versus the S&P 500, which was up 0.1%. Top gainers within the Consumer Goods sector included Virco Manufacturing ( VIRC), up 3.9%, Entertainment Gaming Asia ( EGT), up 4.4%, Cobra Electronics ( COBR), up 1.5%, Constellation Brands ( STZ.B), up 1.5% and Kewaunee Scientific ( KEQU), up 2.4%. TheStreet Ratings Group would like to highlight 3 stocks pushing the sector higher today: Cobra Electronics ( COBR) is one of the companies that pushed the Consumer Goods sector higher today. Cobra Electronics was up $0.05 (1.5%) to $3.28 on light volume. Throughout the day, 1,780 shares of Cobra Electronics exchanged hands as compared to its average daily volume of 10,000 shares. The stock ranged in a price between $3.19-$3.28 after having opened the day at $3.19 as compared to the previous trading day's close of $3.23. Cobra Electronics Corporation designs and markets consumer electronics products in the United States, Canada, and Europe. Cobra Electronics has a market cap of $21.6 million and is part of the food & beverage industry. Shares are up 7.0% year-to-date as of the close of trading on Thursday. Currently there are no analysts who rate Cobra Electronics a buy, no analysts rate it a sell, and none rate it a hold. STOCKS TO BUY: TheStreet Quant Ratings has identified a handful of stocks that can potentially TRIPLE in the next 12 months. Learn more. TheStreet Ratings rates Cobra Electronics as a sell. The company's weaknesses can be seen in multiple areas, such as its deteriorating net income, disappointing return on equity, poor profit margins and feeble growth in its earnings per share. Highlights from TheStreet Ratings analysis on COBR go as follows:Editor's Note: Any reference to TheStreet Ratings and its underlying recommendation does not reflect the opinion of TheStreet, Inc. or any of its contributors including Jim Cramer or Stephanie Link. Two out of the three major indices traded up today The three major indices are trading lower today with the
- The company, on the basis of change in net income from the same quarter one year ago, has significantly underperformed against the S&P 500 and did not exceed that of the Household Durables industry. The net income has decreased by 8.7% when compared to the same quarter one year ago, dropping from -$1.53 million to -$1.67 million.
- Current return on equity is lower than its ROE from the same quarter one year prior. This is a clear sign of weakness within the company. Compared to other companies in the Household Durables industry and the overall market, COBRA ELECTRONICS CORP's return on equity significantly trails that of both the industry average and the S&P 500.
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I'm sure plenty of officers out there can sympathize with the dilemma in this e-mail. The officer who wrote it has recently been promoted (yay!), but now her friends come to her for special favors, intervention with other officers, and insider information (uh oh). She wonders if she can be a good officer without pushing her friends away. (Go easy on this e-mail in the comments. English isn't her first language.)
Since you mostly base your posts on e-mails from your readers I thought to send you one concerning my own current problems (I wouldn't know if people can relate to this).
I'm a fairly new (2 weeks) officer in a 25men raiding guild. We have about 30-35 raiders and more social members! I started off as taking over the healing assignments, which led to my opinions about healing setup/healing trials, which led to partly raid leading and then I got promoted. We're only with 3 leaders (the GM and 2 officers-including me) which I think is enough for our guild, people listen. The tasks get done, communication is good . . .
But, I'm this kind of person that cares for the people, I want to stand up and have a fair treatment (which happens in my guild). The thing I've experienced thou[gh] with that attitude is . . . I'm friends with a lot of people in the guild, and sometimes that makes things difficult. In these 2 weeks I've experienced several times of friends expecting me to do them a favour officer wise.


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|An improved color video super-resolution technique using kernel regression and fuzzy enhancement is presented in this paper. A high resolution frame is computed from a set of low resolution video frames by kernel regression using an adaptive Gaussian kernel. A fuzzy smoothing filter is proposed to enhance the regression output. The proposed technique is a low cost software solution to resolution enhancement of color video in multimedia applications. The performance of the proposed technique is evaluated using several color videos and it is found to be better than other techniques in producing high quality high resolution color videos
|2012 International Conference on Advances in Computing and Communications
|An Improved Col ... n and FuzzyEnhancement.pdf
|This paper presents a new approach to the design of combinational digital circuits with multiplexers using Evolutionary techniques. Genetic Algorithm (GA) is used as the optimization tool. Several circuits are synthesized with this method and compared with two design techniques such as standard implementation of logic functions using multiplexers and implementation using Shannon's decomposition technique using GA. With the proposed method complexity of the circuit and the associated delay can be reduced significantly
|International Conference on Microelectronics, Communication and Renewable Energy (ICMiCR-2013)
|An Improved Des ... sing Genetic Algorithm.pdf
|The performance of circular, rectangular and cross irises for the coupling of microwave power to rectangular waveguide cavity resonators is discussed. For the measurement of complex permittivity of materials using cavity perturbation techniques, rectangular cavities with high Q-factors are required. Compared to the conventional rectangular and circular irises, the cross Iris coupling structure provides very high loaded quality factor for all the resonant frequencies. The proposes cross iris coupling structure enhances the accuracy of complex permittivity measurements.
|Ethylene-propylene-diene rubber (EPDM) and isobutylene-isoprene rubber (IIR) were compounded, precured to a low degree, and then were blended with natural rubber (NR). The compounding ingredients for NR were then added and the final curing was done. NR/ EPDM and NR/IIR blends, prepared using this method, were found to possess much improved mechanical properties as compared to their conventional counterparts. The optimum precuring crosslink density that has to be given to the EPDM and IIR phases has been determined.
|N Suma and others,Improved mechanical...,1993.PDF
|In this paper, an improved technique for evolving wavelet coefficients refined for compression and reconstruction of fingerprint images is presented. The FBI fingerprint compression standard [1, 2] uses the cdf 9/7 wavelet filter coefficients. Lifting scheme is an efficient way to represent classical wavelets with fewer filter coefficients [3, 4]. Here Genetic algorithm (GA) is used to evolve better lifting filter coefficients for cdf 9/7 wavelet to compress and reconstruct fingerprint images with better quality. Since the lifting filter coefficients are few in numbers compared to the corresponding classical wavelet filter coefficients, they are evolved at a faster rate using GA. A better reconstructed image quality in terms of Peak-Signal-to-Noise-Ratio (PSNR) is achieved with the best lifting filter coefficients evolved for a compression ratio 16:1. These evolved coefficients perform well for other compression ratios also.
|Communication Control and Computing Technologies (ICCCCT), 2010 IEEE International Conference on
|An Improved Tec ... rint Image compression.pdf
|The incidence of salmonella and escherichia coli in chicken retail outlets in a residential area of coimbatore, Tamilnadu India was studied with the view that accessories may be a source of cross contamination.Accessories like cages,knives ,chopping boards weighing balance trays and the hands of butcher were examined.A toatal of 14 salmonella as well as 31 E.coli were isolated from different sources. The incidence of E.coli was higher than that of Salmonella.The highest incidence of Salmonella was found in chopping boards and the maximum level of E.Coli was detected in cages.
|Microbes and Enviornments,Vol.15,No.3,173-181,2000
|The incidence , ... chicken retail outlets.pdf
|In the present study, serotonin 2C (5-HT2c) receptor binding parameters in the brainstem and cerebral cortex were investigated during liver generation after partial hepatectomy (PH) and N-nitrosodiethylamine (NDEA) induced hepatic neoplasia in male Wistar rats. The serotonin content increased significantly (p<0.01) in the cerebral cortex after PH and in NDEA induced hepatic neoplasia. Brain stem serotonin content increased significantly (p<0.05) after PH and (p<0.001) in NDEA induced hepatic neoplasia. The number and affinity of the 5-HT2c receptors in the crude synaptic membrane preparations of the brain stem showed a significant (p<0.001) increase after PH and in NDEA induced hepatic neoplasia. The number and affinity of 5-HT2c receptors increased significantly (p<0.001) in NDEA induced hepatic neoplasia in the crude synaptic membrane preparations of the cerebral cortex. There was a significant (p<0.01) increase in plasma norepinephrine in PH and (p<0.001) in NDEA induced hepatic neoplasia, indicating sympathetic stimulation. Thus, our results suggest that during active hepatocyte proliferation 5-HT2c receptor in the brain stem and cerebral cortex are up-regulated which in turn induce hepatocyte proliferation mediated through sympathetic stimulation.
|Sulaiman Pyroja and others(2007)26jan.PDF
|Parasympathetic system plays an important role in insulin secretion from the pancreas. Cholinergic effect on pancreatic beta cells exerts primarily through muscarinic receptors. In the present study we investigated the specific role of muscarinic M1 and M3 receptors in glucose induced insulin secretion from rat pancreatic islets in vitro. The involvement of muscarinic receptors was studied using the antagonist atropine. The role of muscarinic MI and M3 receptor subtypes was studied using subtype specific antagonists. Acetylcholine agonist, carbachol, stimulated glucose induced insulin secretion at low concentrations (10-8-10-5 M) with a maximum stimulation at 10-7 M concentration. Carbachol-stimulated insulin secretion was inhibited by atropine confirming the role of muscarinic receptors in cholinergic induced insulin secretion. Both M1 and M3 receptor antagonists blocked insulin secretion induced by carbachol. The results show that M3 receptors are functionally more prominent at 20 mM glucose concentration when compared to MI receptors. Our studies suggest that muscarinic M1 and M3 receptors function differentially regulate glucose induced insulin secretion, which has clinical significance in glucose homeostasis.
|T R Renuka and others(2006)may.PDF
|Prevalence of faecal indicator bacteria, Escherichia coli and pathogenic bacteria, Vibrio cholerae, Vibrio parahaemolyticus and Salmonella were analysed in Vembanadu lake (98350N 768250E), along south west coast of India for a period of one year from ten stations on the southern and northern sides of a salt water regulator constructed in Vembanadu Lake in order to prevent incursion of seawater during certain periods of the year. While the northern side of the lake has a connection to the sea, the southern side is enclosed when the salt water regulator is closed. The results revealed the water body is polluted with high faecal coliform bacteria with mean MPN value ranging from 1718-7706/100 ml. E. coli, V. cholerae, V. parahaemolyticus and Salmonella serotypes such as S. paratyphi A, B, C and S. newport were isolated and this is the first report on the isolation of these Salmonella serovars from this lake. E. coli showed highest percentage of incidence (85.6–86.7%) followed by Salmonella (42–57%), V. choleare (40–45%) and V. parahaemolyticus (31.5–32%). The increased prevalence of indicator and pathogenic bacteria in the enclosed southern part of Vembanadu Lake may be resulting from the altered flow patterns due to the salt water regulator.
|Journal of Water and Health | 06.4 | 2008
|Increased preva ... th west coast of India.pdf
|Sudha Balasubramanian and C S P(1997)sept.PDF
|A comparat ive study of the effect oflaser in inducing chro mosomal aberrat ions at 4gg nm was done in View j aba L. (faba bean) and Allium ccpa L. (onion) with Argon ion laser (Spectra Physics Model 171). Seeds and bulbs of V.jaba and A. eepa were subjected to laser irra diation by 4gg nm excitations from Argon ion laser source at power levels 200 and 400 mW with power densities 2.25 mW em" and 4.49 mW em" and ditTerent exposure times (10, 20, 30 & 40 minutes). Similar to the effect of oth er physical and chemical mutagens, laser caused a dose dependent decrease in mitotic index and a rise in mitotic aberrations when compared to the control. In both plant species, mutations were observed in all stages of mitotic cell cycle. The total percentage of aberrations was two fold higher at 400 mW than at 200 mW exposure.
|GENETICS and BREEDING Volume 28 Number3-4 pp. 27-33, 1996/1997
|Induction of mi ... L. and Allium cepa L..pdf
|Laser irradiation at wavelength 514 nm was used to study the effect, of lasers in inducing chromosomal aberrations at mitosis. This study offers a new radiation system which could be used for the induction of mutations. Results are compared with those obtained from studies using y-rays as irradiation source.
|Time-series measurements from a moored data buoy located in the Bay of Bengal captured signals of inertial oscillation forced by the September 1997 cyclone. The progressive vector diagram showed mean northeastward current with well-defined clockwise circulation. Spectral analysis exhibited inertial peak at 0.67 cpd with blue shift and high rotary coefficient of –0.99, which signifies strong circular inertial oscillation. The wind and SST also exhibited spectral peak at inertial band (0.69 cpd) with higher blue shift. The inertial amplitude of 148.8 cm/s corresponding to a wind stress of 0.99 N/m2 and spectral peak near the local inertial frequency (0.653 cpd) indicate that the transfer of momentum was high.
|Inertial oscillation forced by the ....pdf
|In Kerala highways, where traditional dense graded mixtures are used for the surface courses, major distress is due to moisture induced damages. Development of stabilized Stone Matrix Asphalt (SMA) mixtures for improved pavement performance has been the focus of research all over the world for the past few decades. Many successful attempts are made to stabilize SMA mixtures with synthetic fibres and polymers. India, being an agricultural economy produces fairly huge quantity of natural fibres such as coconut, sisal, banana, sugar cane, jute etc.. Now- a -days the disposal of waste plastics is a major concern for an eco- friendly sustainable environment. This paper focuses on the influence of additives like coir, sisal, banana fibres (natural fibres), waste plastics (waste material) and polypropylene (polymer) on the drain down characteristics of SMA mixtures. A preliminary investigation is conducted to characterize the materials used in this study. Drain down sensitivity tests are conducted to study the bleeding phenomena and drain down of SMA mixtures. Based on the drain down characteristics of the various stabilized mixtures it is inferred that the optimum fibre content is 0.3% by weight of mixture for all fibre mixtures irrespective of the type of fibre. For waste plastics and polypropylene stabilized SMA mixtures, the optimum additive contents are respectively 7% and 5% by weight of mixture. Due to the absorptive nature of fibres, fibre stabilizers are found to be more effective in reducing the drain down of the SMA mixture. The drain values for the waste plastics mix is within the required specification range. The coir fibre additive is the best among the fibres investigated. Sisal and banana fibre mixtures showed almost the same characteristics on stabilization.
|International Journal of Research in Engineering and Technology Volume: 03 Issue: 07 | Jul-2014
|Influence Of Ad ... atrix Asphalt Mixtures.pdf
|The effect of ambient gas on the dynamics of the plasma generated by laser ablation of a carbon target using 1.06 μm radiation from a Q-switched Nd:YAG laser has been investigated using a spectroscopic technique. The emission characteristics of the carbon plasma produced in argon, helium and air atmospheres are found to depend strongly on the nature and pressure of the surrounding gas. It has been observed that hotter and denser plasmas are formed in an argon atmosphere rather than in helium or air as an ambient.
|Contamination of environmental water by pathogenic microorganisms and subsequent infections originated from such sources during different contact and non- contact recreational activities are a major public health problem worldwide particularly in developing countries. The main pathogen frequently associated with enteric infection in developing countries are Salmonella enterica serovar typhi and paratyphi. Although the natural habitat of Salmonella is the gastrointestinal tract of animals, it find its way into natural water through faecal contamination and are frequently identified from various aquatic environments (Baudart et al., 2000; Dionisio et al., 2000; Martinez -Urtaza et al., 2004., Abhirosh et al., 2008). Typhoid fever caused by S. enterica serotype typhi and paratyphi are a common infectious disease occurring in all the parts of the world with its highest endemicity in certain parts of Asia, Africa, Latin America and in the Indian subcontinent with an estimated incidence of 33 million cases each year with significant morbidity and mortality (Threlfall, 2002). In most cases the disease is transmitted by polluted water (Girard et al., 2006) because of the poor hygienic conditions, inadequate clean water supplies and sewage treatment facilities. However in developed countries the disease is mainly associated with food (Bell et al., 2002) especially shellfish (Heinitz et al., 2000
|Effect of salt ... bhirosh and Hatha 2013.pdf
|Preparatiun or aci cular maghemi te containing dopan ls li ke Mg. i and Gd and their characleris,llion us ing different analytica l techniques have been reported. These in vestigat ions reveal that the addition of dopants li ke Mg. Ni and Gd modifies the magnetic properties without cfrecting any structural changes. The opt ical bandgaps of these doped compositions have ,li S() hecn determ ined. Evidence is ,li so av,li lab le from spectroscopic investi gations suggest ing thalmaghcllli te prepared vi,l the ()xa l,ltc precursor route does nm exhi bit a hydrogen fe rrite structure
|Ind ian Joum,ll of Pure & Applied Phys ics Vol. 37. November 1999. pr. 842-847
|Influence of do ... roperties of maghemite.pdf
|Friction welding is a solid state joining process that produces coalescence in materials, using the heat developed between surfaces through a combination of mechanical induced rubbing motion and applied load. In rotary friction welding technique heat is generated by the conversion of mechanical energy into thermal energy at the interface of the work pieces during rotation under pressure. Traditionally friction welding is carried out on a dedicated machine because of its adaptability to mass production. In the present work, steps were made to modify a conventional lathe to rotary friction welding set up to obtain friction welding with different interface surface geometries at two different speeds and to carry out tensile characteristic studies. The surface geometries welded include flat-flat, flat-tapered, tapered-tapered, concave-convex and convex-convex. A comparison of maximum load, breaking load and percentage elongation of different welded geometries has been realized through this project. The maximum load and breaking load were found to be highest for weld formed between rotating flat and stationary tapered at 500RPM and the values were 19.219kN and 14.28 kN respectively. The percentage elongation was found to be highest for weld formed between rotating flat and stationary flat at 500RPM and the value was 21.4%. Hence from the studies it is cleared that process parameter like "interfacing surface geometries" of weld specimens have strong influence on tensile characteristics of friction welded joints
|International Journal of Innovative Research in Science, Engineering and Technology,Volume 2, Special Issue 1, December 2013
|Influence of In ... From Alluminium Alloys.pdf
|The effect of residual cations in rare earth metal modified faujasite–Y zeolite has been monitored using magic angle spinning NMR spectral analysis and catalytic activity studies. The second metal ions being used are Na+, K+ and Mg+. From a comparison of the spectra of different samples, it is concluded that potassium and magnesium exchange causes a greater downfield shift in the 29Si NMR peaks. Also, lanthanum exchanged samples show migration behavior from large cages to small cages, which causes the redistribution of second counter cations. It is also observed that Mg2+ causes the most effective migration of lanthanum ions due to its greater charge. The prepared systems were effectively employed for the alkylation of benzene with 1-octene in the vapor phase. From the deactivation studies it is observed that the as-exchanged zeolites possess better stability towards reaction condition over the pure HFAU zeolite.
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Jerry Angelo discusses everything from the new offense to rookie Major Wright to the possibility of acquiring free-agent safety O.J. Atogwe in his bi-monthly conversation with ChicagoBears.com senior writer Larry Mayer. (I wish we could that kind of regular access). Here's the link: http://www.chicagobears.com/news/NewsStory.asp?story_id=6833
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LM: "There have been a lot of interceptions in OTA practices. Are you concerned that the offense is struggling to learn Mike Martz's system or is it just part of typical growing pains?"
Angelo "So much of our offense has to do with timing and being precise, particularly in their alignments and route-running. Timing is extremely important, and all of the shifting and motion going on before the snap makes it very challenging for our players. Everybody has to be razor sharp in terms of their assignments and alignment."
What? I said this a week ago on this board, but people on this board went nuts and suggested I was crazy. Please feel free to go off on Angelo. How dare he say that a new offense based on timing can be difficult.
JA: "He's a good football player. We've evaluated him and we like him. But at this point, we're set. We drafted Major Wright and traded for Chris Harris. We also have Danieal Manning, Craig Steltz and Josh Bullocks, all of whom have started in this league. We have five pretty good safeties, four of whom have a goodly amount of experience within our scheme. We feel good about that position."
Well if they have five good safeties, then last year they had three good safeties, and only two safeties start. So if they had three good safeties why did they need more of them and why was the position so bad?
Angelo also commented of Forte being a good blocker, even though he is one of the lowest rated blockers at his position, and that the Bears have had success with tandem backs. Like??? Jones 1330 yards and Benson 272 yards in 2005. Yes thats very tandem. Now take away about 100 rushing attempts in the Martz offense which is what will happen and I am sure it will be a dominant run game.
Creighton who said Mike Martz offense doesnt utilize his running backs. Anything over 300 rush att. a year will take a toll on any, ANY running back in the NFL. You keep going back to the year when Martz was in St.Louis so Im gonna post some stats here. We both know we love stats. Here is Marshall Faulks stats from 1999-2001.
2001 St. Louis Rams 14 260 1,382 5.3 12
2000 St. Louis Rams 14 253 1,359 5.4 18
1999 St. Louis Rams 16 253 1,381 5.5 7
When healthy Forte can have a productive season getting the ball 250+ times.
Marketing drivel from two house clowns -- Meyer being the bigger of the two by far.
Every year they peddle us this horse hockey that they are happy with mediocre talent when quality is out there to be gotten. They got some, but are so awful that they need to get more. #3 in the Division on paper is not inspiring a lot of confidence, but they go in with a sold out stadium and a guaranteed profit this year and next even with a lock-out.
Its business. Make sure the finances tote up then BS your way through the media events. Most of the other teams tout themselves on paper this time of year too with little to back it up objectively. Find me an article that says a key player the team is counting on (not someone they want to trash for financial reasons) at any team looks slow, fat, lazy, stoned, whipped, hurt, or stupid at this point in the offseason!
I would make some comments, but I'm not allowed. All you have to do is read what is posted and make your own conclusions about a certain "know-it-all" that doesn't! BEAR DOWN!!
Can this offensive team learn and execute Martz's offense effectively in year 1 of its inception? If they can it may make for some additional yards from the running backs like Forte and Taylor.
I know Marshall Faulk rushed for some pretty impressive numbers in St. Louis and so should Forte if he gets the carries. I believe that Chester Taylor is going to take quite a few carries away from Forte this year. Will Forte get 250 carries? Maybe not, but he will get a lot of yardage out of the backfield in the passing game.
We will see it should be interesting, particularly if the Bears/Cutler can not lead the league in interceptions. If Cutler can finish in the top 16 in interceptions then this offense should be quite productive.
I cannot wait to see it perform on game day.
Hey Brando who said anything about a single back? I didn't mention Faulk in my post either. Is he on the Bears now? I said rushing attempts and talked about Tandem backs, so did Angelo. Thats what the quote marks are for. Then I asked when was the last time the Bears had a true Tandem back set that was close to splitting carries equally as Angelo implies.
I have already posted Faulks stats, like 10 times or better on this site. We don't have Faulk which I have pointed out a couple of dozen times. Now Faulk was a football god no question, and he is the main reason the Greatest show on turf worked, but again we don't have him, and Forte is not even close to that level of player. Also let me point something out to you Faulk had his best year before he ever met Martz,
Now you want to talk about Martz's stats, Martz not Faulk, then lets see if I was right about my claim that the rushing attempts will go down and that the Martz offense is not known as a rushing offense. This is not about one player, this is about the offense.
1999 431 attempts, League Rank Att 15th, Yards 5th
2000 383 rushing attempts, League rank Att 25th, Yards 17th
2001 416 attempts League Rank att 22nd, Yards 5th,
2002 343 attempts League Rank att 32nd, Yards 30th
2003 411 attempts League Rank att 28th, Yards 30th
2004 381 attempts, League Rank 30th, Yards 25th
2005 380 attempts, League Rank 29th, Yards 22nd
Now for Detroit
2006 304 attempts, League Rank 32nd, Yards 32nd
2007 324 attempts, League Rank 32nd, Yards 31st
Now for the 49ers
2008 397 attempts, League Rank 27th, Yards 27th
See you seem to think a great player makes a great team or a great offense, but in fact a great team makes a great team. As you can see when I post on another thread that you are commenting on about Martz not having much of a rushing attack I was clearly right.
Faulk was an amazing player, but that doesn't mean they had a great rushing attack. You also assume I am worried about Forte, I am not. One thing you are missing is the fact that on the post you are talking about, I pointed out that Forte would see more passes thrown his way in fact I said he would see about 100 attempts. Which is a large increase.
What I have said and will continue to say is that this is not a rushing offense and the Bears do not have the calibure of players that where on the 99-01 rams. As you can see only twice in 10 seasons did Martz have a good rushing attack. Faulk being great is irrelivant, it does not change the fact that the rushing attack is weak. The Bears rushing attack was weak last year, it will not get better under Martz it will get worse.
Now before you and Tripper complain, this is just basic inductive reasoning, using factual stats as support. It is not 100% accurate, the Bears could have a good rushing attack, but chances are it will be at the bottom of the league. I understand the point you are making about Faulk, but this is about the bigger picture.
Brando let me help you out. First you need to understand what an argument is. It is not a fight, or a contradiction it is a reason given in proof or rebuttal, or discourse intended to persuade.
When I post an argument about the Bears I use inductive logic because it is football and in most cases deductive logic will not work. I combine that with verious stats used as support. Stats that I use include confidence intervals.
An inductive argument is an argument in which
the conclusion is only claimed to be probable
given the premises.
For purposes of convenience, 'probable' will generally mean something like "greater than 0.5 or 50%."
Remember: probability ranges from 0 to 1, with 0 being logically impossible and 1 being logically certain/required.
A strong argument is an inductive argument in which the truth of the premises make the truth of the conclusion probable or likely to be true.
An argument is cogent when it is strong and has all true premises.!
Prediction: The premises deal with facts in the past or present and the conclusion is about what will happen in the future.!
This is the basics for what I try to do.
Now what you wrote is in fact an argument, an inductive argument, but it is neither strong nor is it cogent. Which makes it a weak argument. Non the less it is still an argument rather than a contritdiction which is what you usually do. If you don;t understnad why it is not, its the fact that premis does not equal your conclusion. My argument on the other hand adds up.
When you learn these basic concepts of logic and forms of argument then you will understand the basics needed to win an argument against me. Sense I can assume that is your goal you may want to take English 102 and Logic once you graduate HS and if you go to college.
Oh and Missing/Implicit Premises! You need to know those, because I assume people have a clue about football I figure they understand what is implied which it is clear you often miss. So work on this as well.
Brando while you love to fight and contradict, you do not know how to argue.
Tripper quit holding your breath, your not 6 years old are you?
Try to live within reality.
The la-la land forecast by the Bears organization is just that...a fairy tale. It has nothing to do with BEAR Down.
If I was to Bear down as you say, the first thing I would do is fire the bozos that are running the club and hire some people that know something about football.
If to Bear Down means to follow this organization off the high cliff like sheep, then you can have it. Enjoy the falls!
Geez Creighton I never said how good Faulk was, I was just showed us fans that as the Rams main running back in a Martz offence Faulk rushed the ball over 250 times a year. Thats it. You dont need to write a book. Creighton never tell me what anything is. I know what an argument is. It is your opinion that it is weak and you know what I can care less about what you think because most of your thinking is crap. The only reason why I think you go on about 2,500 different blogs sites cause you know you cant get punched in the face.
Anyone who thinks we're going to pass it more this year doesn't know what the hell they're looking at and doesn't understand football. Jay Cutler threw the ball 555 times last year. Bear record. No way that happens again. Balance must return to the offense or we become too easy to game-plan for as teams would be all over our tendancies.
Look at the bare facts :
Did we bring in another receiver ? No.
Who did we hire on the O-side ? A running back and a run-blocking TE, at great expense. We'll see 100 more rushes, not less. MArtz loves the media coming out with all this BS like we're going to break the record for pass attempts again. The Bears will run the ball and play smash-mouth defense. This is not Mike Martz' team. Lovie wants to run the ball and this year we can actually do it.
With all the sniping back and forth, the real issue get's obscured. That issue being that the media {that includes print, TV, and radio} treat Angelo with kid gloves. The "16 inch softball" tossed questions to JA are nauseating at best. At worst, they are a slap in the face to every die hard Bears fan. Where are the follow up questions?
"We have five pretty good safeties, four of whom have a goodly amount of experience within our scheme. We feel good about that position."
Gearheadboy: "Jerry, with all due respect, you can't judge a 3rd round draft pick after 6 weeks of OTA's and label him a "pretty good safety." As for the other 3 (not including Harris) if they have mastered Lovie's system so well, why was it widely known before the draft that FS, along with OG, was your #1 need and on top of that, you went out and traded for a SS?"
GHB: "One more on the safeties, if I may." "What have you seen from D. Manning in 4 unproductive years, and countless opportunities bestowed upon him by this coaching staff, that lends you to believe he is, and I quote, 'a pretty good safety'"?
And Larry, if you're reading this, how about a couple more questions about how JA didn't address the aging offensive line until round 7 with a very weak upper body "project" in Webb? Or here's one Larry and you don't even have to give me credit for it.
"Jerry, with the Martz' comments a few weeks ago about a veteran QB, and the fact that this team was so limited in it's draft day resources, isn't the pick of Lefevour one that a 12-4, or 13-3 team makes not a 7-9 one with several key holes to fill?"
As I said earlier it's unfortunate that the media in Chicago has not held this guy more accountable for the team he has put together. And that includes, scouting/evaluating, and coaches.


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Windward Island Cricket team gets sponsorshipDominica News Online - Wednesday, December 12th, 2012 at 11:43 AM
The Windward Islands Cricket Team (WICT) has secured sponsorship valued at $20,000 for the Caribbean T-20 Tournament to take place in Trinidad and St Lucia early 2013.
Executive Director of the Discover Dominica Authority (DDA) Colin Piper and President of the Windward Islands Cricket Board, Emanuel Nanthan, signed the sponsorship agreement on Tuesday at the Financial Center.
Speaking to the media, Nanthan said he was grateful for the gesture and promised that the WICT would make use of the sponsorship.
"We are very pleased and grateful that DDA found us willing and capable partners to work with and they will be sponsoring our team going through the 2013 competition. We hope that this will be the year that the Windward Island becomes the champions of the Caribbean T-20 Tournament," he said.
Piper remarked that the investment was a worthwhile one since Dominica will be exposed on a global scale.
"We also recognize that this event will be shown worldwide through ESPN2 Network and as such Dominica will get prominent branding because the word 'DOMINICA' will be on the front chest of the Windward island team," he said.
According to him, the initiative was done to further develop sports tourism in Dominica
"One reason is since the building of the sports stadium here we've realized the impact of sports as it pertains to the movement of people and for sports tourism that is of keen interest to us. So we look at this partnership in a way to further both to develop our involvement in the area of sports tourism," Piper pointed out.
Nanthan explained that the funding will help mobilize the Windward Islands team, get the needed equipment and give more time for training.
The matches will be played in Trinidad from the 6th -12th and St. Lucia from the 15th -20th.
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Peeping Tom December 13, 2012
A rather shrewd move by the DDA. Let's see how this works itself out. I am optimistic.
Mr.Bee December 13, 2012
When exactly is the 6th -12th and the 15th -20th of early 2013?
T 20 December 12, 2012
What a confusion………..Windward Islands team—-Dominicak, St Lucia, St. Vincent and Grenada….. with Dominica sponsoring and highlighted….. Doesnt make much sense to me
Nudibranch December 12, 2012
how many Dominicans on the team? And since when can DDA afford to throw money about?
CIA on the Watch December 12, 2012
Looks like all these Labor party stoogies are looking well while the rest are ketching their hell, mr Nanthan seems like he is bursting under the cricketing clouds of Labor
Jungle December 12, 2012
More money wasted. There are teams and schools that need that kind of sponsorship. Yes I people.
500 years behind December 12, 2012
It would have been much better for Dominica if Emanuel Nanthan (Mano) and Mr. Skeritt had secured a $20,000 sponsorship to revive the strong Harris Paint Northern District cricket league that they met when they became our leaders, and killed it just like they killed agriculture. Mano in particular should be ashamed of the level that he has brought this league since he himself was involved int he league as a player and captain of Possie. Shame! Shame! Shame! You will never find government of Lucia, Grenada, and Vincent investing their money on Windward team though majority of player are from their island. Instead, they use their money to develop cricket in their island so they could come and embarass us in Dominica just as they continue to laugh at us for not having an International Airport while their leaders come to DA and tell us that we don't need one. Why are we so Dummy? Maybe when we change the names of our mountains that causing us to be so dummy, might just bring us better fortunes and will make us become Money-ni-ca.
Joshua December 12, 2012
It is fundamentally wrong and unfair that the name Dominica will be on the shirt of the integrated Windward Islands team. All countries in the union are equal and it is wrong that one country in that union, Dominica, will be on the shirt. Mr. Nanthan should have used more tact in understanding these issues before agreeing to dominica being on the shirt. all the windwards players are playing for a united integration of countries and one country should not get special exposure even if its a sponsor. it is unfar to the players and the fans of the united windward islands
Bawi Boy December 12, 2012
If the other islands want their names, then tell them to put their money where their names are.
Joshua December 12, 2012
you are missing the point. the countries play as a union of the windward islands. country names have no place on the shirts. each country is equal in the union and no one country should have their name on the shirt. it violates the fundamental principle of players from each country coming together and being equal on the field of play.
Kamchatka December 12, 2012
@Joshua – Well you must sponsor the Windward Islands team so that the Discover Dominica Authority would not have to get involved.
Piper December 13, 2012
Joshua, so in other words, you want the Government of Dominica to sponsor the team and get nothing in return. So what is the point of sponsirship if you are not exposing and promoting your brand?
Joshua December 13, 2012
no i said me nanthan shouls have used more tact and try to devise something with the government where they can get exposure without the crass manner of the windward islands team wearing dominica on their jersey.
I am a very strong cricket lover and I support the Windward Islans. However, I don't understand why the government of Dominica is using tax payers money to sponsor WI cricket. The DDA is finaced by tax payers and we have better things to take care of than WI team. In fact it would have been better if they used that $20,000 to sponsor a local cricket league with the view of bringing cricket back to Dominica, where both of our senior team and under 19 team has gone down.
I think this government is tired of using tax payers money in programs that do not benifit us. Not long they used $8 million on liat who has failed to serve us well in over 50 yrs and now on Windward team.
I have not seen the team selected but I would not be surprise if the majority of players are not from St. Vincent, Grenada, and St. Lucia. Maybe only Shane, James and probably Hodge might be the few DOminicans.
DDA is just using money to make nanton look good as the president of Windward Islands Cricket Board but in my opinion, Mano and Skerro should use their money to sponsor their political agenda since they both have gathered enough wealth in the past 7 yrs.
Peeping Tom December 13, 2012
Cannot see beyond a political colour, huh?
Women's cricket comes to Dominica January 12,13 & 15. Where is the promotion?
A very, very good advertising strategy for Dominica. Well done!!
zor toe sot December 12, 2012
channel 1, what is there to advertised that other caribbean islands do not know about? Be real and specific! It is just money wasted on something that will bring no gain to Dominica.
Channel 1 December 12, 2012
@zor toe sot – The Caribbean T20 will be shown around the world on ESPN. ESPN has the TV broadcast rights for that tournament. Hence Dominica's name will get some massive airplay around the world whenever the Windwards are playing.
Plus if the Windward Islands were to win the upcoming Caribbean T20 tournament and qualify for the Champions League in India or South Africa, that would be even more mileage for the Dominica brand on the international scene.
500 years behind December 13, 2012
Channel 1, you mean to tell me that with international Cricket now being played in Dominica against teams like SA,India, Aussies, Bangl and others, DA was still not advertized. Furthermore, Shane broke a record in Da against Aussies and that still did not help us advertize Dominica? Something must be wrong sir. This is just more than well needed money wasted by the government to make Mano look good. Look out for Mano in the next election


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DARLINGTON, S.C. -- Saturday night's Sprint Cup marathon at Darlington Raceway has been over for more than 45 minutes and two-thirds or more of the media corps are outside the NASCAR hauler waiting for Kevin Harvick and Kyle Busch to emerge following their postrace confrontation.
This feels wrong.
We should be in Victory Lane, asking Regan Smith about the biggest win of his life -- his first in the Sprint Cup Series -- one of the biggest upsets in NASCAR history, one of the best feel-good moments this sport has seen in years.
Instead, we are waiting for two grown men who for a moment turned into children and lost their cool.
Smith, 27, deserves the spotlight. He gambled and stayed out when most of the leaders pitted for tires after caution came out with 10 laps remaining. He spun his tires and kept the lead after the restart, which didn't last a full lap because Busch, Harvick and Clint Bowyer got into a three-wide shoving match that ended with Bowyer knocked out and Harvick's car severely damaged.
Smith held off points leader Carl Edwards for two laps on the green-white-checkered finish to put his name on a trophy filled with Hall of Famers such as David Pearson, Richard Petty and Cale Yarborough at a track where mostly legends win.
Smith deserved so much more than to have to share this moment with Busch and Harvick, who climbed out of his car on pit road and took a few swings at Busch before Busch shoved the No. 29 Budweiser Chevrolet into the pit road retaining wall and and drove away.
"I'm really excited for Regan Smith and I'm sorry you are not there talking to him," Harvick said before disappearing into the motorcoach lot.
The good news is that NASCAR can't take this win away from Smith like it did in 2008, when it gave Tony Stewart the victory at Talladega Superspeedway because Smith was below the cursed yellow line when he took the checkered flag.
The bad news is that most of the watercooler talk and probably most of the television highlights will be about Busch and Harvick.
That's the way NASCAR is. Drama typically outweighs performance.
But Smith's win was huge drama as well. He not only got his first win in 104 career starts, he got his first top-5. He did it with a one-car operation out of Denver, far from the NASCAR hub of Charlotte, N.C., where most of the teams are based.
His emotion was priceless, even better than that of 20-year-old Trevor Bayne after winning the Daytona 500.
"Oh, man, this is too cool," Smith said as he began his cool-down lap. "I can't believe this. This is awesome. This is the Southern 500. We're not supposed to win this thing."
No, they weren't.
But they did, and nothing should distract from it.
"I just told him this is a pretty big deal," Edwards said.
It's a very big deal. Furniture Row Racing is a team with only 64 employees that uses a pit crew supplied by Stewart-Haas Racing, engines from Earnhardt-Childress Racing and chassis from Richard Childress Racing.
It's not just a victory for Smith, it's a victory for the little guys, the ones who bang their heads against the wall hoping to survive in a sport dominated by the power teams at RCR, Hendrick Motorsports, Joe Gibbs Racing and Roush Fenway Racing.
"I can't believe it," Smith said. "This is too f------ cool."
Need more feel-good drama? In a race in which most drivers were introduced with their mothers celebrating Mother's Day weekend, Smith walked out alone. His mother, Lee, was in Alabama helping with tornado relief, primarily in animal rescue.
Go ahead, dry your eyes.
Smith's eyes watered up as he told of his brief conversation with her.
"I didn't get too many words out of her other than, 'I love you and boo-hoo-hoo,'" he said.
So how did all of this happen on a weekend that began with Ryan Newman getting into a physical confrontation with Juan Pablo Montoya and ended with Harvick getting into one with Busch?
Smith started 23rd and was running 12th with about 100 laps remaining. This race looked like it would come down to Kasey Kahne, Harvick, Busch or Edwards, who collectively led 306 of the 370 laps.
Edwards appeared to be the runaway winner of an event that ended just before midnight, but then Jeff Burton's engine blew with 10 laps remaining to bring out the caution.
Immediately, crew chiefs and drivers began debating strategy. When Edwards pitted, the five cars behind him followed. Smith, Brad Keselowski and Stewart stayed out to take the top three spots.
Smith spun his tires on the restart, allowing Edwards to move past Keselowski into second before Busch, Harvick and Bowyer brought out caution again with four laps remaining.
On the final restart, Smith's tires held firm and he got a big jump on Edwards. At that point the 2008 rookie of the year with Dale Earnhardt Inc. thought he would at least finish second because he and Edwards had separated from the pack.
So he put the pedal down hard and drove the final 1.366 miles around this egg-shaped facility like a qualifying lap, which he's been quite good at this season. Coming off of Turn 2, he smacked the wall but never let up. Coming off the final turn he dove down low, blocking Edwards and taking the checkered without a real challenge.
Then the emotions began to flow -- tears from Smith and anger from Busch and Harvick.
You could hear the vindication in Smith's voice for what happened at Talladega just as loudly as you could hear the anger in Harvick's as he lashed out at Busch's team outside of the No. 18 hauler following their pit-road exchange.
"I'll be honest with you, I didn't know if I was ever going to get that one back," Smith said of Talladega. "To get it at Darlington is absolute vindication."
Harvick and Busch were rather flip about their incident, brushing it off as a racing incident even though their emotions said it was more. NASCAR will decide early next week whether they deserve punishment.
Neither probably understands the emotions Smith felt. They've both had big-time organizations and sponsors behind them from the time they entered the sport. Smith lost his ride at DEI when the organization shut down following his rookie season to merge with Chip Ganassi Racing.
He drove part-time for Furniture Row in 2009 before getting a full-time deal in 2010.
"There were times last year I was thinking, 'Heck, maybe they are going to fire me,'" Smith said.
Yes, Smith deserved all of the attention and focus for Saturday night's win.
It feels right giving it to him.
"I don't really know how to put it into words right now," Smith said. "It feels a lot different at the end of the day when you say, 'Hey, I won at Darlington.' "
David Newton covers NASCAR for ESPN.com. He can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com.