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Quarterly Report
We are a real estate investment trust ("REIT") that commenced operations in 1986. We invest in healthcare and human service related facilities including acute care hospitals, behavioral healthcare facilities, rehabilitation hospitals, sub-acute facilities, surgery centers, childcare centers and medical office buildings ("MOBs"). As of September 30, 2012, we have fifty-five real estate investments or commitments located in fifteen states consisting of:
• seven hospital facilities consisting of three acute care, one behavioral healthcare, one rehabilitation and two sub-acute;
• forty-four medical office buildings, including fourteen owned by various jointly-owned LLCs, the majority of which are unconsolidated, and;
• four pre-school and childcare centers.
Forward Looking Statements and Certain Risk Factors
This report contains "forward-looking statements" that reflect our current estimates, expectations and projections about our future results, performance, prospects and opportunities. Forward-looking statements include, among other things, the information concerning our possible future results of operations, business and growth strategies, financing plans, expectations that regulatory developments or other matters will not have a material adverse effect on our business or financial condition, our competitive position and the effects of competition, the projected growth of the industry in which we operate, and the benefits and synergies to be obtained from our completed and any future acquisitions, and statements of our goals and objectives, and other similar expressions concerning matters that are not historical facts. Words such as "may," "will," "should," "could," "would," "predicts," "potential," "continue," "expects," "anticipates," "future," "intends," "plans," "believes," "estimates," "appears," "projects" and similar expressions, as well as statements in future tense, identify forward-looking statements.
Forward-looking statements should not be read as a guarantee of future performance or results, and will not necessarily be accurate indications of the times at, or by which, such performance or results will be achieved. Forward-looking information is based on information available at the time and/or our good faith belief with respect to future events, and is subject to risks and uncertainties that could cause actual performance or results to differ materially from those expressed in the statements. Such factors include, among other things, the following:
• a substantial portion of our revenues are dependent upon one operator, Universal Health Services, Inc. ("UHS");
• a number of legislative initiatives have recently been passed into law that may result in major changes in the health care delivery system on a national or state level to the operators of our facilities, including UHS. No assurances can be given that the implementation of these new laws will not have a material adverse effect on the business, financial condition or results of operations of our operators;
• a subsidiary of UHS is our Advisor and our officers are all employees of UHS, which may create the potential for conflicts of interest;
• lost revenues from purchase option exercises and lease expirations and renewals, loan repayments and other restructuring;
• the availability and terms of capital to fund the growth of our business;
• the outcome of known and unknown litigation, government investigations, and liabilities and other claims asserted against us or the operators of our facilities;
• failure of the operators of our hospital facilities to comply with governmental regulations related to the Medicare and Medicaid licensing and certification requirements could have a material adverse impact on our future revenues and the underlying value of the property;
• the potential unfavorable impact on our business of deterioration in national, regional and local economic and business conditions, including a continuation or worsening of unfavorable credit and/or capital market conditions, which may adversely affect, on acceptable terms, our access to sources of capital which may be required to fund the future growth of our business and refinance existing debt with near term maturities;
• further deterioration in general economic conditions which could result in increases in the number of people unemployed and/or insured and likely increase the number of individuals without health insurance; as a result, the operators of our facilities may experience decreases in patient volumes which could result in decreased occupancy rates at our medical office buildings;
• real estate market factors, including without limitation, the supply and demand of office space and market rental rates, changes in interest rates as well as an increase in the development of medical office condominiums in certain markets;
• government regulations, including changes in the reimbursement levels under the Medicare and Medicaid program resulting from, among other things, the various health care reform initiatives being implemented;
• the issues facing the health care industry that affect the operators of our facilities, including UHS, such as: changes in, or the ability to comply with, existing laws and government regulations; unfavorable changes in the levels and terms of reimbursement by third party payors or government programs, including Medicare (including, but not limited to, the potential unfavorable impact of future reductions to Medicare reimbursements resulting from the Budget Control Act of 2011, as discussed below) and Medicaid (most states have reported significant budget deficits that have resulted in the reduction of Medicaid funding to the operators of our facilities, including UHS, during each of the last several years, and many states may effectuate further reductions in the level of Medicaid funding due to continued projected state budget deficits); demographic changes; the ability to enter into managed care provider agreements on acceptable terms; an increase in uninsured and self-pay patients which unfavorably impacts the collectability of patient accounts; decreasing in-patient admission trends; technological and pharmaceutical improvements that may increase the cost of providing, or reduce the demand for, health care, and; the ability to attract and retain qualified medical personnel, including physicians;
• in August, 2011, the Budget Control Act of 2011 (the "2011 Act") was enacted into law. The 2011 Act imposed annual spending limits for most federal agencies and programs aimed at reducing budget deficits by $917 billion between 2012 and 2021, according to a report released by the Congressional Budget Office. The 2011 Act provides for new spending on program integrity initiatives intended to reduce fraud and abuse under the Medicare program. Among its other provisions, the law established a bipartisan Congressional committee, known as the Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction (the "Joint Committee"), which was tasked with making recommendations aimed at reducing future federal budget deficits by an additional $1.5 trillion over 10 years. The Joint Committee was unable to reach an agreement by the November 23, 2011 deadline and, as a result, across-the-board cuts to discretionary, national defense and Medicare spending were implemented which, if triggered, would result in Medicare payment reductions of up to 2% per fiscal year with a uniform percentage reduction across all Medicare programs starting in 2013. We cannot predict whether Congress will attempt to suspend or restructure the automatic budget cuts or what other deficit reduction initiatives may be proposed by Congress. We also cannot predict the effect this enactment will have on operators (including UHS), and, thus, our business;
• three LLCs that own properties in California (one of which was divested subsequent to the third quarter of 2012), in which we have various non-controlling equity interests, could not obtain earthquake insurance at rates which are economically beneficial in relation to the risks covered;
• competition for our operators from other REITs;
• the operators of our facilities face competition from other health care providers, including physician owned facilities and other competing facilities, including certain facilities operated by UHS but the real property of which is not owned by us. Such competition is experienced in markets including, but not limited to, McAllen, Texas, the site of our McAllen Medical Center, a 428-bed acute care hospital, and Riverside County, California, the site of our Southwest Healthcare System-Inland Valley Campus, a 130-bed acute care hospital;
• changes in, or inadvertent violations of, tax laws and regulations and other factors than can affect REITs and our status as a REIT;
• should we be unable to comply with the strict income distribution requirements applicable to REITs, utilizing only cash generated by operating activities, we would be required to generate cash from other sources which could adversely affect our financial condition;
• our majority ownership interests in various LLCs in which we hold
non-controlling equity interests. In addition, pursuant to the operating
agreements of most of the LLCs (consisting of substantially all of the
LLCs that own MOBs in Arizona, Reno, Nevada and California), the
third-party member and the Trust, at any time, have the right to make an
offer ("Offering Member") to the other member(s) ("Non-Offering Member")
in which it either agrees to: (i) sell the entire ownership interest of
the Offering Member to the Non-Offering Member ("Offer to Sell") at a
price as determined by the Offering Member ("Transfer Price"), or;
(ii) purchase the entire ownership interest of the Non-Offering Member ("Offer to
• UHS's 2010 acquisition of Psychiatric Solutions, Inc. has required UHS to substantially increase its level of indebtedness, which will be further increased by UHS's planned acquisition of Ascend Health Corporation later in 2012, which could, among other things, adversely affect its ability to raise additional capital to fund operations, limit its ability to react to changes in the economy or its industry and could potentially prevent it from meeting its obligations under the agreements related to its indebtedness. If UHS experiences financial difficulties and, as a result, operations of its existing facilities suffer, or UHS otherwise fails to make payments to us, our revenues will significantly decline;
• fluctuations in the value of our common stock, and;
• other factors referenced herein or in our other filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
Given these uncertainties, risks and assumptions, you are cautioned not to place undue reliance on such forward-looking statements. Our actual results and financial condition, including the operating results of our lessees and the facilities leased to subsidiaries of UHS, could differ materially from those expressed in, or implied by, the forward-looking statements.
Forward-looking statements speak only as of the date the statements are made. We assume no obligation to publicly update any forward-looking statements to reflect actual results, changes in assumptions or changes in other factors affecting forward-looking information, except as may be required by law. All forward-looking statements attributable to us or persons acting on our behalf are expressly qualified in their entirety by this cautionary statement.
Critical Accounting Policies and Estimates
The preparation of financial statements in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America requires us to make estimates and assumptions that affect the amounts reported in our consolidated financial statements and accompanying notes. We consider our critical accounting policies to be those that require us to make significant judgments and estimates when we prepare our financial statements, including the following:
Revenue Recognition: Our revenues consist primarily of rentals received from tenants, which are comprised of minimum rent (base rentals), bonus rentals and reimbursements from tenants for their pro-rata share of expenses such as common area maintenance costs, real estate taxes and utilities.
The minimum rent for all hospital facilities is fixed over the initial term or renewal term of the respective leases. Rental income recorded by our consolidated and unconsolidated medical office buildings ("MOBs") relating to leases in excess of one year in length is recognized using the straight-line method under which contractual rents are recognized evenly over the lease term regardless of when payments are due. The amount of rental revenue resulting from straight-line rent adjustments is dependent on many factors including the nature and amount of any rental concessions granted to new tenants, scheduled rent increases under existing leases, as well as the acquisitions and sales of properties that have existing in-place leases with terms in excess of one year. As a result, the straight-line adjustments to rental revenue may vary from period-to-period. Bonus rents are recognized when earned based upon increases in each facility's net revenue in excess of stipulated amounts. Bonus rentals are determined and paid each quarter based upon a computation that compares the respective facility's current quarter's net revenue to the corresponding quarter in the base year. Tenant reimbursements for operating expenses are accrued as revenue in the same period the related expenses are incurred.
Real Estate Investments: On the date of acquisition, the purchase price of a property is allocated to the property's land, buildings and intangible assets based upon our estimates of their fair values. Depreciation is computed using the straight-line method over the useful lives of the buildings and capital improvements. The value of intangible assets is amortized over the remaining lease term.
Asset Impairment: Real estate investments and related intangible assets are reviewed for impairment whenever events or changes in circumstances indicate that the carrying amount of the property might not be recoverable. A property to be held and used is considered impaired only if management's estimate of the aggregate future cash flows, less estimated capital expenditures, to be generated by the property, undiscounted and without interest charges, are less than the carrying value of the property. This estimate takes into consideration factors such as expected future operating income, trends and prospects, as well as the effects of demand, competition, local market conditions and other factors.
The determination of undiscounted cash flows requires significant estimates by management, including the expected course of action at the balance sheet date that would lead to such cash flows. Subsequent changes in estimated undiscounted cash flows arising from changes in anticipated action to be taken with respect to the property could impact the determination of whether an impairment exists and whether the effects could materially impact our net income. To the extent estimated undiscounted cash flows are less than the
carrying value of the property, the loss will be measured as the excess of the carrying amount of the property over the fair value of the property.
Assessment of the recoverability by us of certain lease related costs must be made when we have reason to believe that a tenant might not be able to perform under the terms of the lease as originally expected. This requires us to make estimates as to the recoverability of such costs.
An other than temporary impairment of an investment/advance in an LLC is recognized when the carrying value of the investment is not considered recoverable based on evaluation of the severity and duration of the decline in value, including projected declines in cash flow. To the extent impairment has occurred, the excess carrying value of the asset over its estimated fair value is charged to income.
Investments in Limited Liability Companies ("LLCs"): Our consolidated financial
statements include the consolidated accounts of our controlled investments and
those investments that meet the criteria of a variable interest entity where we
are the primary beneficiary. In accordance with the FASB's standards and
guidance relating to accounting for investments and real estate ventures, we
account for our unconsolidated investments in LLCs which we do not control using
the equity method of accounting. The third-party members in these investments
have equal voting rights with regards to issues such as, but not limited to:
(i) divestiture of property; (ii) annual budget approval, and; (iii) financing commitments. These investments, which represent 33% to 95% non-controlling ownership interests, are recorded initially at our cost and subsequently adjusted for our net equity in the net income, cash contributions to, and distributions from, the investments. Pursuant to certain agreements, allocations of sales proceeds and profits and losses of some of the LLC investments may be allocated disproportionately as compared to ownership interests after specified preferred return rate thresholds have been satisfied.
At September 30, 2012, we have non-controlling equity investments or commitments in fourteen LLCs which own medical office buildings ("MOBs"), one of which was divested subsequent to September 30, 2012. As of September 30, 2012, we accounted for: (i) thirteen of these LLCs on an unconsolidated basis pursuant to the equity method since they are not variable interest entities, and; (ii) one of these LLCs (Palmdale Medical Properties) on a consolidated basis, as discussed below, since it is considered to be a variable interest entity where we are the primary beneficiary by virtue of its master lease with a subsidiary of Universal Health Services, Inc. ("UHS"), a related party to us.
The majority of these LLCs are joint-ventures between us and a non-related party that manages and holds minority ownership interests in the entities. Each LLC is generally self-sustained from a cash flow perspective and generates sufficient cash flow to meet its operating cash flow requirements and service the third-party debt (if applicable) that is non-recourse to us. Although there is typically no ongoing financial support required from us to these entities since they are cash-flow sufficient, we may, from time to time, provide funding for certain purposes such as, but not limited to, significant capital expenditures and/or leasehold improvements. Although we are not obligated to do so, if approved by us at our sole discretion, additional cash fundings are typically advanced as equity or short to intermediate term loans.
In addition, at December 31, 2011 and September 30, 2012, as a result of our purchases of third-party minority ownership interests in eleven LLCs in which we formerly held non-controlling majority ownership interests, we now hold 100% of the ownership interest in these LLCs which own MOBs and are accounted for on a consolidated basis, as previously disclosed.
Palmdale Medical Properties has a master lease with a subsidiary of UHS. Additionally, UHS of Delaware, a wholly-owned subsidiary of UHS, serves as advisor to us under the terms of an advisory agreement and manages our day-to-day affairs. All of our officers are officers or employees of UHS. As a result of our related-party relationship with UHS and the master lease, lease assurance or lease guarantee arrangements with subsidiaries of UHS, we account for this LLC on a consolidated basis, since the fourth quarter of 2007, since it is a variable interest entity and we are deemed to be the primary beneficiary. The master lease threshold on this MOB has not yet been met and is not expected to be met in the near future.
The other LLCs in which we hold various non-controlling ownership interests are not variable interest entities and therefore are not subject to consolidation.
Federal Income Taxes: No provision has been made for federal income tax purposes since we qualify as a REIT under Sections 856 to 860 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, and intend to continue to remain so qualified. As such, we are exempt from federal income taxes and we are required to distribute at least 90% of our real estate investment taxable income to our shareholders.
We are subject to a federal excise tax computed on a calendar year basis. The excise tax equals 4% of the amount by which 85% of our ordinary income plus 95% of any capital gain income for the calendar year exceeds cash distributions during the calendar year, as defined. No provision for excise tax has been reflected in the financial statements as no tax is expected to be due.
Earnings and profits, which determine the taxability of dividends to shareholders, will differ from net income reported for financial reporting purposes due to the differences for federal tax purposes in the cost basis of assets and in the estimated useful lives used to compute depreciation and the recording of provision for investment losses.
Relationship with Universal Health Services, Inc. ("UHS") and Related Party Transactions - UHS is our principal tenant and through UHS of Delaware, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of UHS, serves as our advisor (the "Advisor") under an Advisory Agreement dated December 24, 1986 between the Advisor and us (the "Advisory Agreement"). Our officers are all employees of UHS and although as of September 30, 2012 we had no salaried employees, our officers do receive stock-based compensation from time-to-time. As previously disclosed on our Current Report on Form 8-K as filed on June 11, 2012, in recognition of the efforts and contributions of our executive officers in connection with the various previously disclosed acquisitions, divestitures and purchases of third-party minority ownership interests in certain majority-owned limited liability companies, as completed at various times during 2011 and the first quarter of 2012, the Compensation Committee of the Board of Trustees of the Trust recommended, and the Board of Trustees of the Trust approved, one-time, special compensation awards to our executive officers in the form of a cash bonus and/or shares of restricted stock. The cash bonuses were paid and the restricted shares were granted during the second quarter of 2012. The restricted shares are scheduled to vest on the second anniversary of the date of grant. Please see additional details and disclosure included on our Current Report on Form 8-K as filed on June 11, 2012.
Pursuant to the Advisory Agreement, the Advisor is obligated to present an investment program to us, to use its best efforts to obtain investments suitable for such program (although it is not obligated to present any particular investment opportunity to us), to provide administrative services to us and to conduct our day-to-day affairs. All transactions between us and UHS must be approved by the Trustees who are unaffiliated with UHS (the "Independent Trustees"). In performing its services under the Advisory Agreement, the Advisor may utilize independent professional services, including accounting, legal, tax and other services, for which the Advisor is reimbursed directly by us. The Advisory Agreement may be terminated for any reason upon sixty days written notice by us or the Advisor. The Advisory Agreement expires on December 31 of each year; however, it is renewable by us, subject to a determination by the Independent Trustees, that the Advisor's performance has been satisfactory. The Advisor is entitled to certain advisory fees for its services. See "Relationship with Universal Health Services, Inc. ("UHS") and Related Party Transactions" in Note 2 to the condensed consolidated financial statements for additional information on the Advisory Agreement and related fees. In December of 2011, based upon a review of our advisory fee and other general and administrative expenses, as compared to an industry peer group, the Advisory Agreement was renewed for 2012 at the same terms and conditions as 2011.
The combined revenues generated from the leases on the UHS hospital facilities comprised approximately 29% and 30% of our consolidated revenues during the three and nine months ended September 30, 2012, respectively, and 55% and 59% of our consolidated revenues during the three and nine months ended September 30, 2011, respectively. The decreases during the third quarter and the first nine months of 2012, as compared to the comparable quarter and nine months of the prior year, were due primarily to the December, 2011 purchase of the third-party minority ownership interests in eleven LLCs in which we previously held noncontrolling majority ownership interests (we began recording the financial results of these entities in our financial statements on a consolidated basis at that time) and various acquisitions of medical office buildings ("MOBs") and clinics completed during 2011 and the first quarter of 2012. Including 100% of the revenues generated at the unconsolidated LLCs in which we have various non-controlling equity interests ranging from 33% to 95%, the leases on the UHS hospital facilities accounted for approximately 21% and 18% of the combined consolidated and unconsolidated revenue for the three month periods ended September 30, 2012 and 2011, respectively, and 21% and 19% of the combined consolidated and unconsolidated revenue for the nine months ended September 30, 2012 and 2011, respectively. In addition, fourteen MOBs, twelve of which are owned by LLCs in which we hold either 100% of the ownership interest or various non-controlling, majority ownership interests, include or will include tenants which are subsidiaries of UHS. The leases to the hospital facilities of UHS are guaranteed by UHS and cross-defaulted with one another. For additional disclosure related to our relationship with UHS, please refer to Note 2 to the condensed consolidated financial statements - Relationship with Universal Health Services, Inc. ("UHS") and Related Party Transactions.
Results of Operations
Our Consolidated Statement of Income for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2012 includes the revenue and expenses associated with the previously disclosed LLCs in which we purchased the third-party minority ownership interests during the fourth quarter of 2011. As a result of the purchases of the minority ownership interests, we now own 100% of these entities and therefore began consolidating the financial data of each effective December 12, 2011. Prior to these minority ownership interest purchases, we previously held noncontrolling majority ownership interests in these LLCs and they were therefore accounted for on an unconsolidated basis.
The tables below reflect the "As Adjusted" Statement of Income for the three and . . .


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Day 9: Kidney Stones by sbelmarshWatch
©2012-2016 sbelmarsh
Day 9 of the Daily Draw....one of my favorites to draw. Rabbits!
TO those who have kidney stones, look up chanca piedra.
That's so awesome. His mouth/teeth are the best!!
Great name and piece
I love it! You did a very great job on the eye
¡UN CONEJO! ¡LO AMO! Ok, not that much as you do but I FUCKIN' LOVE IT!
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Best Freak-Show, Acid-Trip, "I Certainly Didn't Come Here for the Food" Mexican (2003)
Casa Bonita
Hunter Thompson once said of Circus Circus in Las Vegas, "This is what the whole hep world would be doing on a Saturday night if the Nazis had won the war." Well, that was then -- and today, Casa Bonita is the place to see what would really become of the world if the radical fun police ever had their way. Sure, we all know the food is, er, questionable. But that can be said of a lot of places where there aren't strolling mariachi bands and teenage cliff divers, so everyone just give Casa Bonita a break, okay? Will anyone who's ever been there soon forget the smell of the swampy, chlorinated backsplash that could grace your gooey tacos if you're lucky enough to get a seat behind the waterfall? For sheer "I can't believe this place is real" thrills, nothing beats Casa Bonita -- the closest thing in Denver to a Terry Gilliam film come to life. And hey, any place where you can buy Coronas by the bucket can't be all bad.
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I made this in Paint only because I was bored. dango!
I tried dango in class once! It was yummy!
I actually never tried it before....
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What's to be said? I just a non-regular 21 year-old Argentinian :P I have a sharp interest in anything related to science and I love to put my mind into any subject, so beware to start a discussion with me! (chadaFACE would know). well, what else... I've had over 10k visitors to date, so that must mean that I'm quite popular (or so does my ego like to beleive). what else, what else... Oh I almost forgot. I'm a modest mission maker for the game Nexus: The jupiter incident, but I'll expand my horizons sooner than later. I'm currently working in the mod Stargate: War Begins (yeah, you've probably guessed I'm a stargate fan by now) as a mission maker and mild coder, and also trying to finish a damn book I've been writing since I was 12.
So.... A couple of months worth of vacations have come and pass, and the days till the back to college are getting thinner at an alarming rate, not to mention an exam I have on early Febraury... F**** Algebra...
Anyhow, I've spent this past months trying out for the first time the 360, a good friend of mine got it on his trip to the States. So these days have been all about Co-op games (with the exception of Assassins Creed 2, which turned out into a pretty good game, absolutely loved the game mechanics). First of all it was Gears of War 2, then Borderlands and now Army of Two: 40fth day.
But after all that gaming there's only one thing left to say: The more and more I played on that console I realized that there's no better device for FPS games than the all-mighty mouse. I mean, after a while you get used to aiming with the pad, but... it's just not the same. Not by a long shot.
Anyway, as fun as it is, other than with AC2 I didn't played with it by myself, even though I had it at home for weeks with some pretty nice-looking games. It's just... not so appealing. I even preferred to play Imperium Galactica 2 (a great but very old game) than the xbox. Heck, I even re-started playing Freespace2 (for a short time, yeah, but I re-started it non the less). But that's probably 'cause I'm getting old...
On the modding aspect of things, work on the Prequel Campaign for Stargate: War Begins is coming along nicely, even after the countless setbacks, which have been all cleared now... after many long and frustating hours... sometimes I just HATE Nexus.
But the community of that agonizing game has grown a lot in the past months, with plenty of old mods being brought back to life and other being started from scratch, and the future of our beloved game is looking brighter now. Or at least a bit less dark :P
Oh, I almost forgot, the call for both Beta Testers and Voice Actors is still up, so if you wish to become either (or both) just let me know :)
And also, a good friend of mine the other day made me feel rather guilty of leaving behind any work on my book... haven't done pretty much anything these vacations... or the whole 2009 for that matter... and now that they're almost over the guilt's come... so time to unpolish the 200 pages manuscrit and continue digitizing the blasted thing....
Okey, moving on... Finished reading the newest book from Dan Brown these last few days, The Lost Symbol. Quite mind-blowing, in fact. A good read, by all means. Specially because it backed up my beliefs (if you could call it that) quite well, it was a bit... I don't know, far-fetched, about certain stuff (well, a lot of stuff, actually), but it was rather good too (and I won't be doing here a full review of it... not in the mood right now...), but I do beleive that some of the stuff there has to be true, specially what's related to our mind, but that's just my belief.
I'm now trying to find a copy of Alice's adventures in wonderland to get warmed up for Tim Burtom's upcoming film, which I'm definately going to see (I mean... one of the most "lisergic" books made into film by one of the most, again, "lisergic" director? that's got to be something)
well... that would be it for now... Just some rambling that I decided to put into paper (you know what I mean...)
G'Night people
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Merry Christmas Murlarac. I hope its a good one!
merrrryyyy xmmasss dduuuudddee :D have a good one (Y)
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"For to us a child is born, to us a son is given, and the government will be on his shoulders. And he will be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace."
Well I think there is a course devoted to that because our tutor said something like that yesturday... in the course we're doing we're only covering the principals, basics and stuff like that as we're doing a unit for just about everything lol.
So far we've had units covering, Communication and Employment, Information Systems, Computer Troubleshooting and Repair, Advanced Databases, Advanced Spreadsheets, Communication Technology, Networking, Programming, Systems Analysis, Computer Animation, Business Information Systems and Website Design. Right now we're doing like I said before event drive programming, Project Management, Games Design and the other one is Data Analysis and Design.
Along with that we've been doing like side qualifications such as Communication Key Skills Level 3, Application of Number Level 2, IOLP Level 3 and some other maths stuff lol.... we're going to be doing this problem solving level 3 too.
Overall this year is going to be fun fun fun XD
The programming language that we've been using is VB.net :D probably because its easy(ish) to learn lmao :P but we've also got another unit this trimester which is event driven programming :D should be fun (Y)
Well, it´s getting hot in here. At least stopped raining (last week my bedroom was full of water becoz a small role on the roof =/ )
Anyway, only more 2 days of school. And getting quite good grades. Than I will be on vacation. =D
coolz your college to what i think i remember from a pic LOOKS EPIC lmao :L and same here tbh lmao the government decided to end the existence of the qualification we're doing. So to keep on a course that is similar to ours that offers the same reward, we had to hand in 3 entire units a couple of weeks early, which was a massive shock seen as we had no idea to do XD. They were the worst possible units too.... Programming, Systems Analysis and Networking lmfao
Woo! Networking!!!
hahahaha XD
I got a distinction in it WOOOT :D
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Vapor phase mediated cellular uptake of sub 5 nm nanoparticles
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© Serdiuk et al; licensee Springer. 2012
Received: 19 October 2011
Accepted: 11 April 2012
Published: 11 April 2012
Nanoparticles became an important and wide-used tool for cell imaging because of their unique optical properties. Although the potential of nanoparticles (NPs) in biology is promising, a number of questions concerning the safety of nanomaterials and the risk/benefit ratio of their usage are open. Here, we have shown that nanoparticles produced from silicon carbide (NPs) dispersed in colloidal suspensions are able to penetrate into surrounding air environment during the natural evaporation of the colloids and label biological cells via vapor phase. Natural gradual size-tuning of NPs in dependence to the distance from the NP liquid source allows progressive shift of the fluorescence color of labeled cells in the blue region according to the increase of the distance from the NP suspension. This effect may be used for the soft vapor labeling of biological cells with the possibility of controlling the color of fluorescence. However, scientists dealing with the colloidal NPs have to seriously consider such a NP's natural transfer in order to protect their own health as well as to avoid any contamination of the control samples.
During the last decade, the biomedical research field has been identified as one that can greatly benefit from the advancement in nanotechnologies. In particular, the use of various kinds of nanoparticles (example: metallic, metal oxides, semiconductors, silica, etc.) in biotechnology merges successfully the fields of materials science and biology [1]. It has been found that different nanoparticles (NPs) can enter living cells, providing specific tagging of cell components. Nowadays, NPs are preferred to be used for multicolor cell imaging due to their unique properties, such as size and composition-induced tunable spectral characteristics, narrow emission spectra, high quantum yield, and low photobleaching [2]. In particular, II-VI NPs [3, 4] and silicon NPs [5] are among the most extensively studied. We have already presented studies which implemented NPs produced from SiC as fluorescent agents for living cell imaging, similar to what our colleagues did [6, 7]. We have also found preferential toxic effect of these NPs on cancer cells, which was described in detail in a previous work [8].
Although the potential of nanoscale objects in biology is tremendous, a number of questions concerning the safety of nanomaterials and the risk/benefit ratio of their usage remain open. Thus, nanotoxicology refers to the study of potential negative effects coming from the interaction between nanomaterials and biological objects [9, 10]. Toxicity of NPs is studied from NPs in suspensions [11] except for the studies of lung toxicity where NPs are studied as aerosols [10, 12].
In the following work, we show that even when NPs have been initially dispersed in liquids, they may be easily transported into the surrounding air environment at relatively long distances due to the natural evaporation of the liquids at room temperature. Such an innate transfer of NPs from the originally colloidal suspension into an aerosol state may easily lead to a significant labeling of any biological system, although it is separated from the colloidal source of NPs, by a gas phase. These results should be taken into account in order to (a) use them for soft cell labeling through the vapor phase, (b) avoid any contamination of control samples and (c) improve health protection of users.
Fluorescent NPs were formed by means of electrochemical anodization of a low-resistivity grade (< 1 Ω) bulk SiC polycrystalline wafer (NPs) [6]. The etching process took place for 2.5 h at a current density of 25 mA/cm2 using a 1:1 HF (50%)/ethanol electrolyte. After the etching, a highly porous network constituted by interconnected SiC nanocrystals was formed. The ultraporous layer was washed several times with deionized water then naturally dried in ambient air, removed from the wafer and ground to powder. To obtain colloidal suspensions of NPs, the powder was dispersed in 1:1 deionized water/ethanol mixture or Dulbecco's Modified Eagle's Medium (DMEM) buffer for mammalian cell investigations, and then large NP crystallites were removed by centrifugation at 10,000 g for 5 min. These suspensions contained only small-sized (< 3 nm) and uniformly dispersed NPs. Typical TEM images, dynamic light scattering size distributions and zeta-potential measurement of which had already been shown in the study by Botsoa et al. [6].
The inner layer of a fresh thin onion epidermis was peeled off. The onion peels were neatly spread in the center of a glass slide in a drop of water. The glass slide was then mounted on a mobile holder situated above a colloidal suspension (2 mL, surface area 4 cm2) containing the NP suspension (1 g/L). Height origin was fixed at the suspension surface. At a fixed height value, the onion epidermis samples were exposed to the suspension vapors for different periods of time varying from 3 to 17 h. Depending on exposure time, evaporated volume was changing from 0.5 to 1.5 mL. All experiments were carried out at a temperature of 21°C, humidity of 60% and vapor pressure of 1,018 hPa, without air mixing. Speed of convection flow was equal to 0 m/s. The manipulations were performed under two different conditions: (a) in open air and (b) in confined air with the whole system being covered by a cap. After a certain exposure time, the onion peels were intensively rinsed in deionized water to remove the NPs deposited onto the epidermis surface and unincorporated inside the epidermal cells. Control manipulations were carried out with the use of a pure suspension without the NPs.
Suspension containing NPs was also added to the 3 T3-L1 fibroblasts (American Type Culture Collection, Manassas, VA, USA). The cells were grown on glass substrates in DMEM supplemented with 10% newborn calf serum, 4 mM glutamine, 4 nM insulin (Actrapid Human Torrent Pharmaceuticals Ltd., Ahmedabad, India; Novo Nordisk A/S, Bagsvaerd, Denmark), 10 mM HEPES, 25 μg sodium ascorbate, 100 IU penicillin, 100 μg streptomycin and 0.25 mg/L amphotericin B at 37°C in a water-saturated atmosphere with 5% CO2 in a Heraeus incubator (BB16; Thermo Scientific, Brebières, France). The cells have been incubated for 15 h in the presence of NPs (with concentration of 0.8 g/L in suspension in DMEM). Some 3 T3-L1 samples were cultured in DMEM without NPs but, in air contact, were allowed with wells containing NP suspensions. After a certain incubation time, cells were rinsed twice in pure ethanol to eliminate NPs from the environment and to fix cells.
Finally, the samples were observed under a fluorescence microscope (Leica DMI 4000B, Leica Microsystèmes SAS, NANTERRE, France) using the following filter combination: UV/violet excitation band at 2.92 to 3.5 eV with an observation spectral range of < 2.64 eV. Leica EC 3 camera (Leica Camera Sarl, Saint Jorioz, France) was used.
For each image, luminosity per cell was calculated by summing intensities (in a range from 0 to 255) of each pixel in the picture and dividing this result by the number of fluorescent cells in the picture. The MathWorks Matlab R2009b and Simulink software (Torrance, CA, USA) were used for image analyses in order to quantify luminosity per one cell.
Typical fluorescence images of the onion epidermal cells exposed to the evaporating suspensions without and with NPs are shown in Figure 1c, d, respectively. As one can see, no fluorescence is visible in the absence of NPs (Figure 1c), while the cell structure of the fluorescent onion epidermis consisting of large, rectangular cells may be easily recognized in the presence of NPs (Figure 1d). The latter is due to the fluorescent labeling of the onion cells by the NPs originating from the colloidal suspension vapors. Indeed, water molecules leaving the suspension during its natural evaporation carry away the very light NPs into the surrounding air. Thus, initially colloidal NPs are transferred from liquid to vapor environment, reaching the cells, entering inside and tagging them. Similar to the fluorescent labeling of the 3 T3-L1 fibroblast cell culture reported earlier [6], a strong heterogeneous distribution of the fluorescent intensity through the onion cells may be observed. Indeed, one can notice that the external cell membranes and nuclei are preferentially tagged by the fluorescing NPs. The cytoplasm of the onion cells contains some small fluorescent spots as well, but their number is low, and the corresponding fluorescence intensity is weak in comparison to the fluorescence level of the cell membranes and nuclei.
In summary, the present study demonstrates that NPs in colloidal suspensions can be transported in the environment through evaporation to rather long distances and can reach biological targets. In particular, observed results need future development of deep theoretical understanding. The main conclusion is to warn scientists dealing with the colloidal NPs to seriously consider air contamination in order to take care of their own health protection as well as to avoid any contamination of their control samples sharing air environment with the colloidal suspensions containing dispersed NPs.
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FOR decades, Cafe Slavia was a center of Prague cultural life, a place brimming with painters, playwrights, and poets.
In 1989, dissident intellectuals jammed the lively space overlooking the Vlatka River during the Velvet Revolution that won Czechs their freedom from Communism. But today the cafe is closed - a metaphor for a recent decline of expression and artistic spirit in the free-market Czech Republic.
Leased in 1992 for 50 years by American real estate firm HN Gorin, Slavia got lost in a legal and commercial limbo. Sources say the historic cafe would have become a glitzy tourist site, and powerful forces, including President Vaclav Havel, helped halt planned renovations. With no side giving in, the cafe today sits in stalemated emptiness - no life stirring behind dust-streaked windows.
The city of Franz Kafka has long defined its identity through intellectuals and artists; for 40 years Prague's special blend of brooding ennui and absurdist humor made it the only Left Bank in the former East Bloc.
"Under communism we didn't have money, we had culture," one Prague-born emigre put it.
YET today, priorities seem reversed. Battered by high costs and hesitant about mass-market approaches, many Czech artists have not hit stride. Intellectuals complain that as rents go up, the quality of art goes down. Writers such as Vaclav Havel, Milan Uhde, and Eva Kantorkova, who used to fill small magazines with electrifying essays, are now in public service.
"I haven't read the book or seen the play that is about everything I'm living in," says Sasha Neumann, publisher of Respekt magazine. Mr. Neumann, a rock music critic in the 1980s, adds, "I haven't seen or heard or touched the art that is really it, something we all agree is on new ground."
With Czechs newly concerned about jobs and making ends meet, audiences have dried up. Magazines, plays, books, and film are no longer subsidized by the state. Painter Milan Knizak, now director of the Czech Academy of Arts, this year began to include courses on entrepreneurship for his students.
Vaclav Marhoul, head of the Barrandov Film Company, says his problem today is finding scripts that appeal to a broad audience. "My first question is not about art. It's about whether a film will sell," he says. Mr. Marhoul doesn't want films about "post-communist realism. …


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In my opinion, the West has failed to create a new paradigm to regulate their relations with the East since the 1990s when the Cold War ended. This is why the effects of the old paradigms designed for the 20th century continue to have influence today. But since these paradigms have become outdated, the West frequently finds itself in a paradoxical situation in their relations with the East that it cannot justify easily. Now, the West's inability is the main attribute of the relationship that they established (or could not establish) with the East.
I have discussed this issue in previous columns. Now, I want to discuss the East's paradigm, designed to regulate their relations with the West.
It was not easy for the East to respond to global competition while fighting against Western threats and under immense pressure from the West after the Renaissance, the Enlightenment period, the French Revolution of 1789, geographical discoveries, technical inventions and industrialization. Modernization spread everywhere; the West had to look to the past in order to find something that was not modern. It was this counter-essentialist approach that has provided the groundwork for the West's prejudices about the East. As the recent developments in Egypt have proven, the way that the West -- excluding post-modernist and post-colonial discourse -- describes the East has never changed for the last 400 years. The East was a place where weird, wild and lazy "humanoids" were gathered. The rich natural resources of the East could not be left to remain stagnant in the hands of tribes; they had to be used for the sake of the West's great visions and ideals. There is no change in this attitude of the West, either.
Internalization of the West's superiority in the East has also become a deep-rooted "faith," and suggests that that the source of every problem in the East is the West. The West has not been equated with Satan only for its evil qualities; there were also religious, unconscious drives that demonized the West in the eyes of the East. Satan is not an ordinary creature. Satan was so well-equipped, powerful, overbold and intelligent that he rebelled against God. Moreover, when you take a look at the world's current situation, one can easily claim that Satan has become quite successful in the world. For the believers, the Satan metaphor was very functional. Just as the West stereotyped the East, the East also has reduced the West to a fixed Western image that integrated its evil qualities and its knowledge and technical equipment.
The East's violence-prone attitude of rebelling against the West and the uniform Western perception have created a deadlock in the East. Modernity has conquered everything, including perceptions, time and space. It has become the atmosphere that we live in and it becomes impossible to think in any other way. Thus, in order to have an escape, Easterners resisted change. Radical organizations such as al-Qaeda have greatly exploited this contradiction and enjoyed vast room to justify violence. The violent practices of the West, such as occupations and its attitude of a double standard have been used as an excuse to resort to violence. However, the reason for this minefield was not modernity itself, but the East's failure to create a new paradigm. (The East could not find a way to respond the West.)
Although there are some exceptions, the East has already admitted defeat and it seems that there was not any alternative to the changes (and injustices, such as occupation in Palestine) but violence. While deconstructing the West's tactics, late Columbia University Professor and Palestinian intellectual Edward Said inadvertently underlined and reproduced the West's superiority. Thanks to Said, the East realized that the West was much more complicated, powerful and intelligent than they had known and it was an honorable act to fight against such an enemy, even if they may be eventually defeated. And of course, their belief in Allah's promise that He will grant the ultimate victory to the innocents and the Islamic ummah was very strong. Paradoxically, this confidence -- submission -- stemming from a different interpretation of the Quran has also caused a short circuit in the believer's ability to think and to solve problems (create a paradigm). Referring the task of solving despair to Allah and choosing violence, even for self-defense, has reinforced the East's passiveness against the West, which then used the East's physical attacks as tools to legitimate its superiority. The vexations and harassments of the West have disrupted the chemistry of the East and the Islamic world that is an important part of it.
Isn't it possible to think in other ways?
What does that make us, if we are to think that modernity was constructed independently from the East and Islam? Do not we accept that change is timeless and it affects everything that exists in the world? Do not we accept that everything in the history of humankind (civilization) is the accumulation of every historical age and nation that has now reached our time and, like a river, it will continue to flow down to the future? But Easterners have perceived and accepted modernity as pre-eminent in the world; it was as new and extrinsic as aliens.
Can we isolate the contribution of Islamic scholars such as Alhazen, who made significant contributions to the principles of optics; Al-Kindi, who discussed the theory of relativity within the scope of physics for the first time; Al-Biruni, who correctly calculated the densities of many minerals and Ibn Yunus, who invented the pendulum as a timing device and established rules of physics before Galileo from the enlightenment of the West? How can you ignore the contributions of the Islamic civilization in Andalusia and Sicily? How has the principle of continuity of the civilization been disturbed?
My intention in recalling these facts is not merely to soothe Easterners' inferiority complex with nice words. The facts have an important function. The East can see the beyond modernity only if it correctly defines the contradiction caused by their submission to a false perception of modernity imposed by the West and restore its misguided perception of modernity and the principle of the continuity of civilization. Without deconstructing the pre-learned dogmas, it is impossible to expand the limits imposed on us by the presumptions.
Describing Westerners as technological vandals who want to plunder the East's material wealth creates another uniform perception. But, the Enlightenment's humanitarian efforts to fight poverty, famine, diseases and superstition are admirable. Considering its democratic values, the EU, which is the most important union established for the sake of peace in the world's history, is very valuable.
Sometimes, we just forget that we are only part of a larger picture. Both the West and the East are choosing the parts that they want to see by isolating themselves from their historical concepts. In this way, we forget how the West used to watch the East with awe and had accepted the superiority of the Ottomans until 17th century. Just like the Ottomans, whose presumed superiority prevented them from self-contemplation; modernity has become a collective paradigm and does not reflect on itself.
The reason for this is that the Western paradigm considers itself "completed" and perfect while on the contrary, there is a lack of a paradigm in the East.
Perhaps, in contrast to established belief, both the West and the East, which have reached their natural limits, can come to their senses and the East may thrive in the next millennium. And maybe, in the coming era the world's axis will not start to shift toward the east but will be located at a mid-point in a way that will become a bridge between the two worlds.


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