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Can you tell me what problems do people with COPD have? What are the difficulties? Why is it so difficult to live with this?
Dr. Sethi: The biggest symptom is dyspnea, shortness of breath. They also have problems with cough and sputum on a daily basis. So those are the major symptoms. They also tend to have fatigue; more advanced cases develop weight loss. They also become more prone to respiratory infections and they get these episodes known as exacerbations.
So they are more prone to pneumonia?
Dr. Sethi: Yes, but they also get more bronchitis attacks. They experience on daily basis; shortness of breath, cough and sputum.
How does it impact them? Are they tired all the time?
Dr. Sethi: They are very limited in their activities and the different symptoms impact them differently. For example, when they have shortness of breath they become more and more inactive and this inactivity makes them deconditioned which makes them more inactive. So they kind of get into this vicious cycle of shortness of breath, inactivity, and deconditioning. The cough and sputum is, of course, very irritating for them. It is also sometimes a social issue and then the sputum itself, bothers them because they feel it in the chest, in the airways, and that essentially can contribute to the shortness of breath and chest discomfort.
Is COPD an umbrella term for a lot of kind of different lung conditions?
Dr. Sethi: Pretty much; mainly chronic bronchitis and emphysema. So those are the two terms we used to use. Bronchitis refers to having a cough and Sputum Emphysema refer to having destruction of the lung, but there was actually used to be a lot of diagnostic confusion because some patients thought they had bronchitis; some thought they had emphysema. So now we have moved back, moved to more of an umbrella term of COPD and the other way to think about it is most of COPD in the US now is smoking related or ex-smokers. I like to call it, smoking-related lung disease, smoking-related chronic lung disease, or other exposures too.
What currently do they have to help them?
Dr. Sethi: In terms of the medications, the most important thing is quitting smoking. That is the cornerstone of treating COPD, but many a times the disease gets established or they have difficulty quitting. Then we have medications. They mainly fall into two categories; bronchodilators and anti-inflammatories. Bronchodilators open up the airways, help them breath better. The anti-inflammatories also help with the breathing, cough, and sputum. Also they help with reducing the exacerbation episodes. All these medications reduce exacerbation episodes, but none of these drugs directly attack the mucus in order to help directly in terms of clearing the mucus.
What are the dangers of having that mucus kind of sit there in their lungs?
Dr. Sethi: Well I think the danger is the discomfort of having it. You have some blockage of the airways. Obviously, it is going to contribute to the shortness of breath and sensations of chest discomfort. Then the other danger is that the mucus is basically a pool. A little amount of mucus is normal, but we don't cough normally because we have these cilia in our airways which clear the mucus. We don't normally cough on a daily basis and the amount of mucus is quite small. It is a very thin layer. When people develop COPD, they have more mucus and it also changes in its viscosity and its clear ability. That becomes much more difficult to clear and it then can become a small amount of mucus actually protects against infection, the normal mucus, but if you have excess mucus, you are more likely to get infections too.
Like pneumonia?
Dr. Sethi: Like pneumonia or exacerbations.
Can you tell me, what is the lung flute?
Dr. Sethi: The lung flute is essentially a device known as an oscillatory expiratory device. Essentially, when patients blow into this device, there is a reed in this device and the reed oscillates and this oscillation kind of sends a wave, retrograde, down the airways and that is supposed to help with airway clearance basically, secretion clearance.
Can you please explain what the sound wave technology is?
Dr. Sethi: It is a sound wave so that the reed is tuned in a certain way, to a certain hertz. I think it is in the 14 to 18 hertz range. That particular frequency helps with the, mucus clearance aspect of it.
And how does it help?
Dr. Sethi: It was invented by, or at least part of the people involved, were a Buffalo company and when they came to me and said we have this device which was created by an acoustic engineer. I said well we can, there are diseases I know which I deal with every day where people are very inconvenienced by and they do not have adequate ways to clear their secretions; so can we look at that to see if we can make these people clear their secretions easier. The other thing that came up while we were discussing this was the whole issue of needing to get the mucus from these patients to do studies in. For example, if you are looking for somebody with pneumonia, we want to look at what bacteria are down there. We want to look at sputum of people with suspected cancer. There was this diagnostic need of getting mucus from people reliably and easily also. So that was one aspect. The other aspect was helping people with COPD. There are other chronic lung diseases in which the results are a problem with excessive mucus, like cystic fibrosis, bronchiectasis, and also some patients with asthma. We focused on COPD.
How does sound wave technology clear mucus?
Dr. Sethi: We have not done all the detailed studies because they are rather difficult and expensive and can be quite complicated to look at exactly how fast the clearance happens. The concept is that because of the wave, the mucus kind may be getting liquefied a little bit or shaken around a little bit and because it (the wave) does go into all the airways, so that then results in better clear ability. So the way we use it in our patients is that they blow through it a few times and then they kind of do a huff cough, the kind of cough with an open airway, and because the mucus is now easy to clear, they should be able to bring it up easier.
What have your studies shown so far?
Dr. Sethi: Our studies, we have done two. Initially we started with healthy people; made sure the device is safe and then we went ahead and did the studies. These are pretty much following FDA requirements because the company was interested in getting the indication for the device. So, we said fine. Then we helped them develop the protocol and basically did the studies. The initial one was to look at diagnostic to see if used once, can you get an adequate sputum sample. We compared that with a more traditional method of doing that which is known as hypertonic saline, which is highly concentrated saline. The flute seemed to work as well as that. So, on the basis of that, they went to the FDA and they had a diagnostic indication. Then for the therapeutic indication, we took patients with COPD, who had mucus, which means they had chronic bronchitis and took those patients and either put them on the flute or another device which is marketed for similar purposes known as the acapella and we showed that with both the devices, the patients did feel better. The idea was to show that it is not inferior to the acapella, but at the same time also were able to show that in terms of symptoms and all, actually they did better with the flute.
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CRN Channel News
The 2016 CRN Channel Chiefs lean on their years of experience running channels to provide tips for today's channel up and comers.
Google and Verizon Debate Whether They See 'Talent Shortage'Are the brightest individuals in tech still taking their talents to large, corporate firms?
Ingram Micro President Is Stepping Down, Days After Tianjin Tianhai Acquisition AnnouncementPaul Read, Ingram Micro's second in command, will step down this week, the distributor revealed in a filing just six days after it announced plans to become part of Hainan, China-based HNA Group.
CRN Exclusive: NGenx Boosts MSP Access By 100 With TeamLogic IT DealDaaS provider nGenx partners with MSP franchiser TeamLogic IT, adding access to 100 shops in a single deal and beefing up its rapidly growing channel.
20 Innovative Partner Program Updates Channel Chiefs Are Proud OfAs part of the 2016 Channel Chiefs project, CRN asked participants to shed some light on the most innovative initiatives their companies rolled out for their partners in 2016.
20 Ways Channel Chiefs Spent Money Last YearAs part of the 2016 Channel Chiefs project, participants sound off on the key channel-focused investments their companies made in the previous year.
GE Launches New Partner Program Calling On SIs, ISVs And App DevelopersGE has launched a new partner program targeting the fast-growing industrial Internet of Things market through its cloud-based IoT platform, Predix.
Ingram Micro Exec: Proposed Chinese Ownership Won't Hurt Our U.S. Federal BusinessIngram Micro does not hold contracts or sell products through its public sector practice that require a security clearance, according to a memo by U.S. chief executive Paul Bay.
Ingram Leaders: HNA Deal Will Make Us More Financially Flexible With PartnersIngram Micro U.S. Chief Executive Paul Bay dishes on how Chinese conglomerate HNA Group's $6 billion acquisition will affect the distributor's U.S. government business and the pricing and credit terms being offered to partners.
2016 Channel Chiefs: The 50 Most InfluentialIn celebration of CRN's 2016 Channel Chiefs, here are 50 executives that drive the channel agenda and evangelize the importance of channel partnerships.
2016 Channel Chiefs By CompanyMeet the executives responsible for running channels at vendors in the IT market today.
2016 Channel Chiefs By NameMeet the executives responsible for running channels at vendors in the IT market today.
2016 Channel Chiefs: Transformation TimeLeading-edge solution providers are taking the first steps toward transforming themselves into strategic service providers and forward-thinking channel chiefs are helping them get there.
PCM CEO: Acquisitions Have Drawn Vendors' AttentionPCM CEO Frank Khulusi is finding that vendors are more attentive to his company after it made $50 million in acquisitions in 2015.
5 Companies That Came To Win This WeekFor the week ending Feb. 19, CRN takes a look at the companies that brought their "A" game to the channel.
5 Companies That Had A Rough WeekFor the week ending Feb. 19, CRN looks at IT companies that were unfortunate, unsuccessful or just didn't make good decisions.
Syntel CEO: Future Lies In Marriage of IT, Knowledge Process OutsourcingAfter jumps in revenue and earnings in 2015, Syntel CEO Nittin Rakesh explains why his company's future is tied to the marriage of IT and knowledge processing outsourcing.
Channel Beat: What Ingram Micro's Sale To Tianjin Tianhai Means For The ChannelIn other top stories this week, NetApp announced major layoffs. Also, IBM will restructure its partner program.
Capgemini Buys 70-Person, Cutting-Edge Design ConsultancyCapgemini has purchased a design consulting firm with expertise in boosting the digital brand of corporate giants like The Coca-Cola Company, Marriott and Citi.
Distribution Blockbuster: Chinese Logistics Giant To Buy Ingram Micro for $6B, Partners Say 'Stay The Course'Chinese logistics firm Tianjin Tianhai will shatter the distribution landscape by purchasing Ingram Micro for $6 billion and folding it into Fortune Global 500 powerhouse HNA Group.


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This was a week of stress. I admit that I did it to myself. I started to think about work stuff and family stuff and then I couldn't sleep, and then the next day I got more stressed because I was tired and well, you know how that vicious circle goes.
I tried to de-stress with swimming, power walking and yoga, but still the stress and insomnia remained until last night. What did I do differently? I didn't take a sleeping pill nor did I have my Jack Daniels night cap. No, instead, yesterday afternoon, I took out my electric hedge clippers.
I know what you are thinking… "Uh oh, Should I be afraid?" Well, the answer is: Yes, you should be very afraid. Nothing good can come out of a situation that involves a stressed out, and most likely, perimenopausal woman who has in her possession electric hedge clippers!
I love my hedge clippers. They make a lot of bad things go away. This is how it works. First, I get out my two, 100-foot extension cords. Then, I survey the front and backyards to see which bushes and trees need trimming. Depending upon the severity of my stress, I can chop off one branch of a shrub or every freaking leaf that dwells on my humble half-acre of land. This was a day when I knew branches would be shaking with fear.
I started out with the idea that I would just trim and shape things up. This was the first trim of the spring, and how lucky were the trees and bushes to have their first haircut of the season in the hands of a sleep-deprived maniac.
I began in the front yard, where these red thorny bushes grow. I hate these bushes whether I am in a peaceful mood or an agitated state of mind. The people who owned the house before us planted them to keep people and dogs off the lawn. Yes, they were welcoming souls. Unfortunately, the thorns from these bushes wind up everywhere. If I walk out to the mailbox without shoes, I get thorns in my feet. If I park my car too close to them, I get scratched, and I bleed. They needed to go, and they needed to go last night.
So, I took my blades to them first. I was like a ninja warrior waving my sword in the air mentally envisioning where I would deliver my first blow. Yes, that was me. I was in that blissful zone, chopping and trimming and thinning. I was focused.
After the thorn bushes, I moved on to the boxwoods and then these piney-thing bushes I have yet to identify. I even found a stray poison ivy vine growing and I took that out too.
"Begone, toxic weed!" I laughed aloud with a confident cockiness I had not felt in a long time. "You will not give me hives this year!"
Well, to be truthful, the jury is still out on the whole hives thing. I did brush against the poison ivy before I whacked it, and I do get severe reactions, so if I have no new writing out in the next few weeks, you can pretty much assume that anaphylactic shock got me.
After the front, I hit the backyard trees and shrubs. It was nothing short of nirvana. I could feel the stress leaving my body each time the clippers hit an unruly branch. It was when I sliced through the overgrown forsythias that I noticed how relaxed I had become. In fact, I realized I was singing.
Everything seemed to be at peace with the world again. I was happy; the birds were singing. I guess they could have been chirping out of fright. I can't be sure, but I might have made a few homeless in my quest for neater shrubbery.
When I was done, I walked around my property to inspect my work. My house looked superb from the outside and now with the shrubbery so much shorter and thinner, more sunlight would be able to stream into my windows. I was excited.
Proud of what I had accomplished and now feeling so much more like myself, I poured myself a light drink and sat down on my back porch to admire my work. My husband came home about a half-hour later after umpiring a baseball game. Apparently, he noticed the neatly trimmed bushes right away.
"Bad day?" He queried.
"Why do you ask?" I answered.
"We have no landscaping left!"
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NAVIGON has been successfully manufacturing mobile navigation solutions and producing GPS software for reputable consumer electronics manufacturers, and professional, highly flexible navigation solutions for the commercial market and the automotive OEM market since 1991. Developing the world's first GPS navigation system was the work of pioneers, and the company continues to set new standards of quality with its products today.
NAVIGON is also a leading international company in the mobile navigation sector (according to Canalys Q4/2008). As navigation experts, we are one of Europe's largest navigation software manufacturers, with a global presence through subsidiaries in North America, Asia and Europe. Over 400 employees worldwide work for NAVIGON.


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Men's Hockey Suffers First League Loss at Clarkson
POTSDAM, N.Y. (11/17/12) - The Princeton men's hockey team suffered its first ECAC loss of the season, falling 7-2 to Clarkson at Cheel Arena on Saturday, Nov. 17.
Clarkson set the tone scoring just 57 seconds into the game as Todd Christian collected his first goal of the season. The Golden Knights made it 2-0 at 7:01 with a power-play goal from Jarrett Burton at 7:01.
Princeton penalties got it into trouble as Clarkson converted on three of Princeton's five infractions.
Freshman Kyle Rankin scored his first collegiate goal at 9:07 to cut the deficit to just one. Senior defender Michael Sdao earned an assist on the goal. A flurry of penalties would follow, each team getting three, as the special teams took over for the final 10 minutes of the first period.
The Golden Knights broke the game open in the second scoring four goals to take a 6-1 lead and added another in the first four minutes of the third period.
Sophomore Aaron Kesselman scored his first goal of the season, a power-play goal at 11:14 of the third with help from senior Alec Rush and Rankin.
Clarkson had seven different goal scorers. Allan McPherson had a four-point game with one goal and three assist. Jarrett Burton and Ben Sexton each had three-point games with one goal and two assists apiece.
Senior Mike Condon played the first two periods and stopped 13 shots. Junior Sean Bonar would replace Condon in goal for the third period and made five saves, allowing one goal.
Goalie Greg Lewis earned his second win of the season stopping 21 shots for Clarkson, which improves to 2-5-4 overall and 2-1-1 in the league.
Clarkson outshot Princeton 25-23, but the Tigers did have the upperhand in the first, 9-7 and third, 9-6. Princeton was 1 for 6 on the power play, while Clarkson was 3 for 5.
Princeton is now 2-1-1 in league play and 2-3-1 overall. The Tigers will travel to play non-conference squads Sacred Heart and UMass Lowell next weekend, Nov. 23 & 24.


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A fistula is an abnormal connection between an organ, vessel, or intestine and another structure. Fistulas are usually the result of injury or surgery. It can also result from infection or inflammation.
Inflammatory bowel disease, such as ulcerative colitis or Crohn's disease, is an example of a disease that leads to fistulas between one loop of intestine and another. Injury can lead to fistulas between arteries and veins.
Fistulas may occur in many parts of the body. Some of these are:
Types of fistulas include:
Minei JP,Champine JG. Abdominal abscesses and gastrointestinal fistulas. In: Feldman M, Friedman LS, Brandt LJ, eds. Sleisenger and Fordtran's Gastrointestinal and Liver Disease. 9th ed. Philadelphia, Pa: Saunders Elsevier; 2010:chap 26.
Lentz GM. Anal incontinence. In: Lentz GM, Lobo RA, Gershenson DM, Katz VL. eds. Comprehensive Gynecology. 6th ed. Philadelphia, Pa: Mosby Elsevier; 2012:chap 22.
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ZF-3079: Zend_OpenId::bigNumToBin error
the current Zend_OpenId::bigNumToBin() gmp code produces inconsistent association shared secret computations.
Dmitry, could you please review this issue? I believe Luke has a patch that may be suitable for immediately committing to trunk.
Luke, did you have a patch for this issue? If so, can you please attach it to this issue?
Luke, could you provide a test case for the bug. Some small piece of PHP code that produce invalid output (and the expected output).
Paul will be able to provide one I think but we're a bit busy recently so it might not be until next week.
This is a file which presents the problem with Zend_OpenId::bigNumToBin when used with the gmp library.
The integer described is outputed differently than it should be. I believe this to be a problem with the way gmp_strval() is interacting with pack(), but I'm not entirely positive. Substituting with a slightly slower mod+div option of reconstruction the bytes of the big num in a binary packed string works fine.
The way this surfaces in the existing consumer code is that a consumer will sporadically but often (like 50% of time or more) fail to associate properly with a IdP because it doesn't reconstruct the secret properly coming out of computeDhSecret.
Substituting the included gmp conversion code in Zend_OpenId_bigNumToBin2 has caused our associations to occur without problems.
A note about the code's provenance: I copied it over and adapted it from JanRain's code. They've given permission for it to be included in ZF, but their code is licensed under Apache 2.0, so I'm not sure about the compatibilities with ZF.
this is the code change Paul made to fix the issue with bigNumToBin
Thank you very much for catching this bug. I've fixed it with simpler patch.
Marking as fixed for next minor release pending merge of changes to release-1.5 branch.
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Penn Athletics will be inducting its Hall of Fame Class VIII this Saturday, May 5 at the Inn at Penn. As we prepare for the upcoming ceremony, we will be introducing each inductee over the next several days. Click here to find the original release on all the inductees, from February 22.
Penn has fielded a sprint football team since 1932 and no player has dominated the ground game like Timothy Ortman. In his four seasons as a running back, Ortman ran his way to the top of the career rushing yardage list while mounting an attack on the single-game and single season rushing marks.
A four-time letterwinner who served as team captain in 1998 and 1999, Ortman began his sprint football career with a freshman season in 1996 where he was named the Thomas Stilwell Award recipient as Outstanding Freshman. That 1996 season was the first of two championship runs for Ortman as a sprint football player as Penn finished 5-1 for its most successful season in more than 55 years.
In 1997, Ortman set the first of three single-season rushing records with 977 yards as he earned the first of a record three Lt. Charles E. Schmucker Awards as Penn's Ideal Sprint Football Player. To this day, he is still the only player to receive that award three times. He was also named the team's Outstanding Offensive Back for the first of three times -- an award that has been since renamed in his honor.
The 1998 season saw Ortman earn the first of back-to-back Eastern Lightweight Football League (ELFL) Most Valuable Player Award honors as he carried the Quakers to a another ELFL championship. Along the way, Ortman shattered his own school record for rushing yards in a season with 1,108 yards, and he established a new career rushing record in the process.
In his final campaign with the sprint football team, Ortman was again named ELFL Most Valuable Player as he put a fitting stamp on his stellar football career. He totaled 1,218 yards rushing in 1999 - a school record that stands to this day. On Nov. 6, 1999 Ortman almost single-handedly destroyed Navy, amassing a school-record 363 yards on 47 carries and scoring four touchdowns in a 37-14 win over the Midshipmen. When all was said and done, Ortman finished his career holding the top five single-game rushing totals in Penn history-and today he still holds five of the top six. Over his four seasons, Ortman put up an incredible 3,670 rushing yards to set a school record that no other Penn sprint football player has come within 1,000 yards of.
What makes Ortman's efforts all the more impressive is that he was more than simply a sprint football player. When his season on the gridiron finished, he transitioned to the wrestling mats where he was also a key cog on Roger Reina's teams. A three-time letterwinner with the grapplers, Ortman was twice named the team's Most Improved Wrestler. After finishing fourth at the 1998 EIWA Championships at 150 pounds and fifth in 2000 at 165 pounds, Ortman saved his best season for his final campaign, where he was the 2001 EIWA champion at 165 pounds and named first-team All-Ivy. During his time with the wrestling program, Ortman was part of four Ivy League championship teams and three EIWA championship teams.
Ortman statement
"I would like to give my humble thanks for being included in this elite group of athletes. For me, this is an amazing bonus to the many great things Penn has done for me. To receive a top education and be a part of two terrific programs helped create the greatest experience imaginable. Competing in The Palestra and on Franklin Field was a dream come true. My special thanks go out to both Roger Reina and Bill Wagner for being amazing coaches, mentors, and friends. Both coaches put together staffs that created an environment of success. Coach Reina unselfishly allowed me to pursue my career in football while pushing me to be an accomplished wrestler. Coach Wagner generously gave me the opportunity to run the football time and time again, allowing me to do what I love the most. Without my teammates the experience would not be complete. They all made me a better athlete and will always be my friends. To be a member of six championship teams proves how great they were. Finally, I would like to thank the most influential people in my athletic career, my family. My siblings Katie, Mike and Liz traveled far and wide to support me and were never shy about giving words of encouragement. My father helped me learn the lessons of an athlete while providing the guidance of a coach. My mother is the heart and soul of all my accomplishments, always putting me before herself. Once again I thank Penn and everyone who helped me have success. My wife Lori and I are enjoying raising our sons as future Quakers."


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March 23 is a big day for Nash Martinez—and you too—if you're game
Utah Style & Design is pairing with SLCmixers to host two events that will showcase Martinez's spectacular light fixtures, each crafted from vintage and found pieces into a one-of-a-kind design.Martinez's designs shine across Salt Lake City and beyond.
His fixtures already illuminate restaurants Pallet and Copper Onion, and his designs continue to attract fans like moths to a flame. In fact, Pallet's perfectly composed atmosphere won Salt Lake magazine's Best Design during the recent 2013 Dining Awards (awarded by our very own editor Brad Mee), and to be sure, Nash's contributions added that extra spark to the scene.
On March 23, grab your chance to rub shoulders with this rising talent. In the morning, attend a specialized workshop with Nash to design your own light under his guidance ($85, register here), and then attend our launch party/SLCMixer's event free.
The party is being thrown by SLCMixers at Caputo's, and Nash's lights will be on display for all to see. Register here. ($15 if attending party separately from the workshop.)


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Reeds: Columnist holds out hope for some snow
Published: Saturday, January 19, 2013 at 8:08 a.m.
Last Modified: Saturday, January 19, 2013 at 8:08 a.m.
I am hoping when you read this article Saturday, we have some pretty white snow on the ground. As I write the column the weather forecasters are predicting a chance of 1 inch, so I will keep my fingers crossed.
Schools will be closed for holiday Monday
Reeds Elementary, along with the other Davidson County Schools, will be closed for the Martin Luther King Holiday on Monday and an optional teacher work day on Tuesday.
Report cards will be issued on Jan. 29. The PTO is selling cookbooks in the front office at Reeds Elementary for $15. They would make great gifts.
Yearbook are also on sale for $25 for preorders. They will arrive in the spring. You may purchase these in the office.
Support local teams
Tyro Middle School Dragons Basketball will play at 4:30 p.m. on Jan. 24 at South Davie and host Central Davidson at 4:30 p.m. Jan. 28.
Order yearbooks
West Davidson High School yearbook orders (with personalization) are due by Feb. 20. You can order online or call 1-866-282-1516.
Buy chicken pies from local veterans group
The Veterans of Reeds American Legion Post No. 162 will be selling chicken pies on Saturday mornings from 9:30 a.m. until noon. The pies are frozen and ready to cook. They include gravy and cooking instructions.
To place an advance order or to schedule a pick-up appointment outside regular Saturday hours, call 239-2157 or 853-7212. Proceeds from the sale of the pies go to veterans projects in the West Davidson area and to the state veteran's home in Salisbury.
Library will be closed on Monday for holiday
The West Davidson Public Library will be closed on Monday in observance of the Martin Luther King Holiday and will reopen on Tuesday at regular hours.
Prayers are needed
Please keep the families of Ray Berrier and Pearl Swanker Lamoureaux and Opal Rowe in your thoughts and prayers.
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Nature's Miracle Orthopedic Dog Cushion Bed is an extremely comfortable bed with a stylish design. This stain-resistant bed also inhibits the growth of bacteria, mold and mildew and reduces odors as well.
The easy-clean fabric features antimicrobial protection while the three inches of orthopedic foam offers superior comfort. Ships in assorted colors - please allow us to choose one for you.


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You can't get there from here, the familiar saying goes. That is wrong.
You can, but only if you go here, there, and everywhere first. I know this from personal experience. Let me explain.
My friend, Velveeta, and I were headed the new mega mall where we planned to rub the numbers off our credit cards, as my love god is fond of saying. We are shopoholics on a mission.
Armed with three full-color maps in various levels of detail, and a Global Positioning System that follows us like Inspector Clouseau, we couldn't go wrong. Besides, I had been to this mall before and managed to get there and back without a miscue on more than one occasion.
In fact I was pretty sure that if I adopted a keep-to-the-left policy as a driving rule-of-thumb, we would be there before you could say Southpoint.
Armed with optimism, off we went. Things looked very familiar for a little while, and then they didn't. My keep-to-the-left ideology was not working all that well, and the road signs and buildings seemed to place us in the wrong county, though thankfully still in the right state.
I tried hard to remember my last mega mall trip. . . dang it, was it keep-to-the-right, avoid- the- left? . . . or left, right, left? My hands grew sweaty on the wheel as my navigator gave me that look.
Velveeta was feverishly pressing buttons on the unfamiliar GPS, hoping a picture of the mall would appear on the credit card -sized screen.
No picture, no mall, no way – we were lost.
The GPS demanded the address of the mall before it would tell us how to get there, as if any woman actually knows a mega mall's exact address. We know crossroads and department stores . . period.
So I safely chose the middle of the range of street numbers that the GPS offered. Middle is good, I reckoned, just like being in the middle of the class in math was good at keeping me out of trouble with the folks.
We flew with abandon past farmhouses, rocking chairs and tired tobacco fields, looking anxiously for anything familiar. I tried to pretend that this lost-in-space detour was a chance to see the countryside and the quaint lifestyle of the local folk. Velveeta wasn't buying my bunk – she knew "lost" from "scenic tour".
Suddenly, over a hill, a vision appeared. There was Nordstrums, the mecca for all shoppers. We had made it, though like in the children's ditty, we had to go over the river and through the woods past grandma's place first.
There are lessons to be learned from this adventure.
First, read the GPS instructions before you need to use the blessed thing. It works much better that way.
Second, if you don't have a GPS, then read the map before you have to choose between the forks in any road.
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Born on February 19, 1940, Smokey Robinson is among the most enduring songwriters of the 1960s. He also produced great records, notably by his own group, 2012 Hall of Fame Inductees the Miracles, and by the Temptations, Mary Wells and Marvin Gaye. Finally, Robinson was a great performer, the longest-lasting aspect of his career. But performing was Robinson's least predictable talent. He couldn't really be called a soul singer. Jackie Wilson influenced every first-generation male Motown singer, but even at the Miracles' most raucous, Robinson was no belter like Wilson. His singing bore traces of doo-wop and 1950s R&B, but no gospel. He was the most controlled of the great soulsters, at his best as an unruffled ballad singer – Motown's answer to Bing Crosby, or at least Billy Eckstine. "The Tracks Of My Tears" may be Robinson's greatest record. Without disparaging his beautifully disciplined voice, its power comes from elements in the arrangement: huge drums, a lovely guitar line and sharp horns. Then there are the lyrics, with their irresistible rhymes. "My smile is my makeup I wear since my breakup with you" is tremendous not because it's profound, but because it says something so simple profoundly. Smokey Robinson and the Miracles are among the artists featured in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum in Cleveland's Cities and Sounds exhibit, in the section highlighting Detroit during the Motown era from 1962 to 1971.
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The County Executive Officer is the County's chief administrative officer, responsible to the Board of Supervisors for overseeing the day-to-day management and coordination of County operations. In addition to recommending the appointment of and supervising 10 non-elected department heads, the County Executive Officer is responsible for providing impartial analysis and making recommendations to the Board on all policy, fiscal and administrative matters, ensuring that Board policies and direction are fully implemented, evaluating the effectiveness and efficiency of County programs, preparing and recommending the County's annual budget to the Board, administering the County's approved budget and conducting long-range financial planning, overseeing the County's state/federal legislative advocacy and internal and external communication activities, managing the County's risk and emergency services efforts and providing for the effective administration of the County's personnel, information technology and purchasing systems.
The County Executive Office comprises the County Executive Officer and the professional and support staff that assist her in planning, monitoring and overseeing County operations and providing staff support to the Board of Supervisors. The Office includes a number of functions and programs, including Budget & Analysis, Clerk of the Board of Supervisors, Community and Intergovernmental Affairs, Risk Management, Emergency Services, Public Information, and Training and Organizational Development. The County Executive Office Department also includes two major divisions: Human Resources and Information Technology Services.
The mission of the County Executive Officer Department is to provide for the effective management of County operations and to ensure the alignment of the County's programs, resources and systems with the County Vision and Mission, as adopted by the Board of Supervisors.
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ZF-8643: Zend_Validate_Barcode_Code25 only accept barcodes with an even number of characters
Code 25 should accept all length and a new Interleaved 2 of 5 validator should only accept even number.
According to manual Code25 is the validator for "Code25 Interleaved 2 of 5" and it MUST be even. See here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interleaved_2_of_5
This is not a bug.
I know that but in this case we have perhaps to rename Code25 to Int25 and to create a new Code25 (http://www.activebarcode.com/codes/code25.html).
Unfortunatly all tests, I made with Zend_Barcode, were always with even number of characters. I only saw it today.
You are referring to Code25 - Non Interleaved
Exactly, I propose to rename existing one to Code25i or Int25 and to create a new one for non-interleaved
Changing type from bug to improvement
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The arrival of the Beatles triggered a musical revolution in the Sixties. Emerging from Liverpool, England, the Fab Four's sound took root in Europe, with songs like "Love Me Do" and "Please Please Me" touching an audience who were looking for something to take them from the doldrums into which rock and roll had fallen. "In England, during those very early days, just while the Beatles were recording their first songs, it was a real wasteland – England had nothing to really offer as far as pop music was concerned," said the Rolling Stones' Mick Jagger when he inducted the Beatles into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1988. "At that point, the Stones were playing in these little clubs in London, doing Chuck Berry songs and blues and things, and we loved doing that. And we were a pretty scruffy lot, and we thought we were totally unique – animals – I mean there was no one like us. And then we heard there was a group from Liverpool."
The Beatles' music - with its simultaneous refinement (crisp harmonies, solid musicianship, canny pop instincts) and abandon (energetic singing and playing, much screaming and shaking of mop-topped locks) – ignited the latent energy of youth on both sides of the Atlantic. "They had long hair, scruffy clothes, but they had a record contract – and they had a record in the charts, with a bluesy harmonica on it called 'Love Me Do.' When I heard the combination of all these things, I was almost sick," recalled Jagger.
"So, a little later on, we were playing this little club in Richmond, and I was doing this song and suddenly I saw there they were, right in from of me, the Fab Four – John, Paul, George and Ringo, the four headed monster – they never went anywhere alone at this point," said Jagger. "And they had on these beautiful, long black leather trench coats. I could really die for one of those. I thought, even if I have to learn how to write songs, I'm gonna get this. Later on, they gave us our first big hit in England, which was a song they wrote called 'I Wanna Be Your Man,' and we were very grateful for that, because that really broke us in England."
When the Beatles landed on American shores on February 7, 1964, they set the stage for a movement that would redefine pop culture and shape the musical agenda for the rest of the decade. They helped confer self-identity upon a youthful, music-based culture that flexed its muscle in myriad ways - not just as music consumers but also as a force for political expression, social commentary and contemporary lifestyles.
"Their success in America broke down a lot of doors that helped everyone else from England that followed, so I thank them very much for all those things," said Jagger. "We went through some pretty strange times. We had sort of a lot of rivalry in those early years and a little bit of friction, but we always ended up friends, and I'd like to think we still are. They were some of the greatest times of our lives, and I'm really proud to be the one who leads them into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame."
WATCH: The Beatles accept Hall of Fame Awards at the 1988 Induction Ceremony
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I was browsing through the internet today and I came across the cutest website, theretrobaby.com. They offer awesome clothes for your little hunk-a, hunk-a burnin' love.
I wish I had all day to talk about each piece I love and why, but I'll keep it to a minimum. Here are my top three favorites:
I Am … the Cat. This onesie is adorable and only $18.
Johnny Cash can live on through this one-piece and you'll have the coolest baby on the block.
Give a hoot. Don't pollute. A motto we can all live by!
Also look for other hilarious bodysuits, like I'm Big in Japan, Poops, I did it again and My other shirt is a Trans-Am. This site is definitely worth checking out for throw-back baby clothes. Don't forget to look through the rubber duckies while you're there!


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Criminal defense attorney Jack Swyteck learns that the sins of the past never die. . .
Many years ago, Jack Swyteck saved Theo Knight's life. Theo grew up on the streets of Miami's roughest neighborhood and lost his mother to a violent crime. By the time he was a teenager, he was on Death Row for a murder he didn't commit. Jack was the lawyer who proved him innocent.
Now a successful bar owner, Theo has turned things around. But he needs Jack's aid again, this time more than ever. An escaped convict from the old neighborhood shows up at Theo's back door, asking for help. In return, he'll finger the man who murdered Theo's mother. But the answers aren't so simple, and soon Theo's own life is in danger.
Last Call is a brilliant and bullet-fast thriller complete with revelations that no reader will ever forget.
James Grippando is a New York Times bestselling author. Blood Money is his twentieth novel, the tenth in his acclaimed series featuring Miami criminal defense attorney Jack Swyteck. James Grippando was a trial lawyer for twelve years before the publication of his first novel in 1994 (The Pardon). He lives in South Florida with his wife, three children, two cats, and a golden retriever named Max, who has no idea he's a dog.


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The Instructional Technology Coordinator Certification leads to Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction (DPI) #92 extended license as an Instructional Technology Coordinator.
This licensure program is available to individuals who hold a Wisconsin teaching license and have at least three years of teaching experience. Because the license is administrative, students must hold a master's degree or its equivalent by program completion. The program assists the candidate to satisfy the Instructional Technology Coordinator and Administrator Standards (PI 34).
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Individuals currently holding the position of Instructional Technology Coordinator or a similar position may require little supporting course work and may base their portfolio largely on their experience. Students do not have to be enrolled in Stritch's Master of Education (M.E.) in Instructional Technology program, offered in a convenient online format, but have the option of doing so in order to meet the master's requirement. Courses taken in pursuit of the Instructional Technology Coordinator certification may apply to fulfillment of the M.E. in Instructional Technology and, depending upon the courses, may also apply towards Instructional Library Media Specialist licensure.


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Island Princess passengers report norovirus-like symptoms
Several passengers aboard the Island Princess cruise ship are experiencing symptoms of gastrointestinal illness, a U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention spokesman said Tuesday.
The Princess Cruises ship is set to return to Port Everglades Wednesday at 5 a.m. after completing a 10-night Panama Canal itinerary.
Officers from the CDC's Vessel Sanitation Program are working with Princess on the issue and will be assisting the cruise line to sanitize the ship when it arrives in Fort Lauderdale.
Two VSP public health officers will meet the ship and take samples back for testing to help determine the cause of the illness, CDC spokesman Jay Dempsey said.
At present, the reported illnesses are not at "outbreak status," Dempsey said. That status is typically achieved when three percent or more of passengers and crew have reported symptoms of the illness, which include vomiting and diarrhea.
Dempsey said it's not yet known if the reported illnesses are due to the highly contagious norovirus.
The norovirus is easily spread people- to- people and can be passed on by touching affected surfaces, and symptoms include diarrhea and vomiting, according to the CDC.
The 1970-guest Island Princess is scheduled to depart Wednesday on another 10-night voyage, but the sanitation process could cause a delay.
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The Kenton Ruritan Club is hosting a car and truck show on Saturday, Oct. 5 to benefit Kay's Kamp for children with cancer.
The event will be held at the former Kenton School on Main Street (Route 300) from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Registration for vehicles in the show is from 9 to 11 a.m. Awards will be presented at 2 p.m.
The registration fee is $10. Make checks payable to "Kenton Ruritan Club." Dash plaques will be presented to the first 50 vehicles to register.
Vendor spots are also available for $15.
For information, call Dave Knotts, (302) 724-7311 or Eddie McMullen, (302) 668-8432.
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Active Defense Controls Spring Game -- But With Caveat
Sarkisian holds back Price and the quarterbacks so as to not reveal much of UW's new, no-huddle offense during the nationally televised scrimmage. Yet Price says
Unleashed: John Timu, And How We View Football Players
The first UW student-athlete to win the prestigious Baldwin Scholarship in Anthropology will be a featured researcher at a May symposium. The linebacker is redefining how we perceive the intelligence of football players.
Beach Boy: Surfing, Sand Runs Got Kohler Back
UW's two-year starter on the offensive line is back for the first time since surgery in September to repair a dislocated knee cap and torn quadriceps. A SoCal home remedy prepared him to play center.
Shaq Thompson's Spring Break Like None Other
No, it wasn't on a beach. It didn't involve wild parties. The Huskies' starting LB was at the Boston Red Sox' spring training complex continuing to build fundamentals as a raw outfielder and 18th-round draft pick.
Unleashed: Bringing Back Tui May Prove A 2013 Coup
Steve Sarkisian hiring Huskies legend Marques Tuiasosopo to be Keith Price's quarterbacks coach for his senior season is already improving the quarterback. For one, he's already
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The Huskies take on Arizona
Washington traveled down to Arizona to face against the Wildcats
Washington vs. No. 11 USC - AP Photos
Washington vs. No. 11 USC - AP Photos
No. 23 Washington takes on No.2 Oregon
The Huskies traveled down to Eugene, Ore. to face-off against the second ranked team in the nation
Football vs. Stanford
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Huskies square off against No. 3 LSU
The Huskies traveled down to Louisiana to face No. 3 LSU
So far, the Huskies are sneaking into this new Pac-12.
And there's no better place for a rising football team to be this time of year than unnoticed.
Wednesday brought the latest big news in a conference that already had been overflowing with action. The Pac-12 announced it has created its own national network plus six regional networks in league markets through a partnership with four cable partners, led by Time Warner. The unique, seven-network concept is scheduled to begin broadcasting in August 2012. The announcement came two months after the Pac-12's $3 billion TV deal for football and basketball with ESPN and Fox - which came on the heels of the conference adding Utah and Colorado.
Commissioner Larry Scott said Wednesday while announcing his latest bold stroke that between the two TV deals every Pac-12 football and men's basketball game will be broadcast nationally beginning in the fall of 2012, and will also be available through personal mobile platforms. The new regional networks - one of which will be Pac-12 Washington -- will also carry Olympic sports events, adding up to as many as 850 conference games in all sports shown nationwide.
"Our networks will have some amazing games," Scott said while announcing the newest deal in New York, home of Time Warner Cable.
On the field, the Pac-12's top football teams are in transition - or turmoil.
Multiple teams have lost at least 11 starters, half their lineup, from last season. And we don't need reminded that the Huskies' star quarterback since 2007, Jake Locker, is now a Tennessee Titan.
There are two rookie head coaches in the league, a new member that is playing regularly at the BCS level for the first time, and multiple off-field issues involving suspensions and NCAA investigations.
And it's only July.
These issues dominated the first Pac-12 media day here Tuesday at Fox Studios. Some coaches added entertainment to the news on the grounds of the film and TV factory.
Fiery Arizona coach Mike Stoops joked that the media picked his Wildcats, who spent most of last season competing with Oregon for the league title, for fourth in the Pac-12 South Division because "they must think I'm a bad coach." And Arizona State's 64-year-old Dennis Erickson had `em rolling by opening with, "It's great to be here. I'm happy to be anyplace, at this time (in my life)."
Amid all this, Washington's Steve Sarkisiansat almost unnoticed. Sure, he did his requisite tour interviews of seemingly every radio, TV and internet outlet from the Disney Channel to drdrew.com. But if a few locals he's known since growing up here and then becoming a top assistant at USC hadn't stopped by, Sarkisian likely would have eaten his boxed lunch in shady peace.
Every other coach had his own table. To the left and right, they were three and four deep at Kiffin's and UCLA coach Rick Neuheisel's. Sark? He shared his half-empty table with UCLA running back Johnathan Franklin.
Earlier, inside at the main interview podium, Sarkisian and 1,400-yard rusher Chris Polkspent just eight minutes answering the group questions. That was the shortest of any team, and about one-third the time people spent grilling Oregon's Chip Kelly.
Despite a third-place finish in the Pac-10 last season, their first bowl win since 2001 and the media predicting them to finish third this season in the Pac-12 North, the Huskies represented themselves quietly here as the steadily rising program tucked into the conference's upper left corner. Nothing flashy or particularly pithy to see or hear from the purple and gold amid all the glitz in L.A., 39 days before UW's opener against Eastern Washington.
Except, that is, for the continued drumbeat of progress and rise back to the top of the league, evidenced by four consecutive victories to end 2010.
"We are a football team that you saw at the end of last season play a brand of football that we believe in. And that is playing physical football, playing sound defense," Sarkisian said. "We're evolving. We're playing a brand of football that we are proud of."
It struck me while walking among the coaches, the players and these studios that produced The Simpsons, Star Wars and other epics that this conference isn't just newly expanded, or just newly minted with all these TV and multimedia deals.
The league is as wide open to win since perhaps the Huskies' last Rose Bowl appearance in 2001, when Neuheisel called UW's plays and Marques Tuiasosoporan them.
In Washington's division alone, Oregon returns consensus All-American back LaMichael James and dangerous quarterback Darron Thomas, whom Sarkisian says might be the toughest player in the conference to defend. But the Ducks lost 11 starters from last January's national title game, six on defense. Their top tacklers are gone, as are their top receivers.
"We've got some holes to fill," Kelly said.
Stanford has Andrew Luck, last season's Heisman runner up. But catalyst coach Jim Harbaugh is gone to the San Francisco 49ers and three of five starters on 2010's dominant offensive line have also departed. Oregon State lost do-it-all dynamo Jacquizz Rodgers, who won games by himself there for years. California, already rebuilding, opens Pac-12 play with a potentially season-dooming swing at Washington, at Oregon and then against USC. And Washington State is trying to rebound from having just one conference win in the last two years.
So here's Washington, poised with Polk, 1,000-yard wide out Jermaine Kearse and a potentially surprising new quarterback in redshirt sophomore Keith Priceto take, as Sarkisian has called it, "that next step." That is, to the top of the conference.
Now's as great a time as any.
As Erickson, the former coach of the Seahawks and 49ers in the division-filled NFL, noted, the margin for error for winning this new league has increased. He loves that the Pac-12's division winners will meet in December in the first conference title game.
"To have the idea of a playoff to win a conference title is great," he said. "You might lose a game, but you could do that, have a bad day, and you can still come back to win a division and play in the Rose Bowl. And that's why we're all here."
The format doubles UW's chances of playing on New Year's Day in Pasadena, doubles the chance for Sarkisian's program to really take off.
"The challenge for us is finding that consistency level," Sarkisian said. "Our first two years, we were up and down, we hit a lull then we finished pretty strong. The challenge for us and for our kids is to find that consistency factor, and if we do slip up and do lose a ball game, get back on that horse and play the brand of football that we're proud of the very next week."
Sarkisian wants to declare so clearly to rest of the conference that UW is back to its ruthlessly successful ways of smash-mouth play from Don Jamesin the 1980s and '90s, he mentioned this "brand" or "style of football" five times in about 90 seconds here.
With the bullish Polk and freshman tight end Austin Seferian-Jenkinsleading the first true, pro-style offense Sarkisian has had in three years at Washington, plus a potentially dominant defensive line returning, physicality has been Sarkisian's theme since December.
Sure, Oregon and to a lesser degree Arizona use the fast-break, spread offense to win. Oregon State succeeds sprinkling in some of it, too -- or at least did until Rodgers left for the NFL last winter.
Yet last October's bruising home loss to Stanford may prove to be the watershed moment in Sarkisian's UW tenure. For it was after the rugged Cardinal steamrolled the Huskies, just manhandled them along the line of scrimmage, that Washington turned around its season and the entire tone of the program through a more brutish, James-esque style on both sides of the ball.
"I love where we are headed. I love the way our community has rallied around our football program and the style of play that they believe in, that they've grown up watching with Coach James," Sarkisian said.
The Dawgfather himself loves what he sees. And he didn't have to be in Los Angeles, amid all the attention being heaped upon everyone except UW, to realize it.
"I saw the enthusiasm that first day (in 2010)," James told me over the telephone. "The remarkable part of what he's done was that they were 3-6 last year with three games to go. A lot of teams would have gone into the tank. He got them playing their best ball of the season. I was on the field for that Nebraska (bowl) game. What a great game. I saw an upset coming, even before the game.
"Nebraska's players looked like they were on Holiday, wearing headphones in warm-ups. Ours were focused, so determined. You could just see how Sark had them ready."
James enthusiastically said he will again make his annual summer practice visit soon after preseason drills begin Aug. 8.
Whatever you see, Coach, please keep it to yourself. The rest of this new conference, with all else going on in it, won't know what hit them.


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ZF-3136: On a 2.0 Provider, Consumer::_associate doesn't properly fallback to SHA1 authentication on a proper error message from the provider.
The spec requires a Consumer to fallback to SHA1 authentication if it receives a message saying that the Provider doesn't support SHA256, which it's not required to do.
This patch solves the problem. It alters _httpRequest to properly parse OpenId messages and return the values they give back to whatever is calling it.
Additionally, it falls back to sha1 encryption if sha256 fails, generating a new keypair in the process, just for safety's sake. It should also alter all the other places that call _httpRequest.
I've sort of hacked it together from our implementation, so I'm not quite sure if it's working, because I had to remove some key parts from our implementation before handing it over, but it kinda gives the idea of what the fix needs to happen in case.
Do you know a way to test the patch? (May be some OpenId provider which is affected by this bug)
Yeah, in 1.5.1 the Consumer fails on any 2.0 provider which doesn't support SHA-256. This includes Yahoo, and I think every other 2.0 provider that we tried, though I can't recall any of the other ones at the moment. Yahoo is the one I tested against, though, during which I discovered this bug and the url fragment bug.
Oh yeah, I remembered now. Beemba is another one, but I wouldn't test against them because they weren't fully up to spec, and my patch had to be loosened against spec to get them to work.
That's the relevant portion of the spec. Beemba was returning unsupported-type but wasn't setting HTTP_STATUS to 400, which the spec requires.
Because these are really openid messages that are being passed back, I figured that I'd move their parsing outside of the _httpRequest function, since it seems like _associate() or verify() should be the ones interacting with the openid level of the protocol...
Tested with Yahoo.
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Our Sorel Boot giveaway (thanks, Sorel!) was a major hit amongst all you wintery fashionistas. Thanks for all your fantastic tips and suggestions for staying warm and looking good.
We got tons of great comments (a selected few faves are below), but it was Thad W., who drew the most number of votes from our staffers with his cute tip: "Best winter advice for men? Wear whatever she tells you to. PS My 'she' wears a 7.5. I'd be a pretty cool husband to win these boots for her." We're sure he's got one happy missus.
We get that Thad's tip isn't really about how to fight the cold and still look rockin', so we'd like to share a few other favorites that got the thumbs up here in the Salt Lake magazine offices.
"My Tip: DON'T FORGET YOUR SKIN! Less of your skin may be showing during the winter, but it needs some serious love. Moisturize more often, exfoliate where needed, and keep it happy. Winters are killer on even the best skin." Lindsay P.
"Color block cashmere scarf(good for head wrap and can be used as a shawl) bright colorful ear muffs, Sorel boots with warm wool socks, sunglasses–and you must carry a hot cup of hot chocolate or coffee!" -Ada
"Winter fashion equals SCARVES! Dress an outfit up or dress it down with a beautiful scarf AND keep yourself warm. Dare to be different and use TWO scarves with complimenting colors, bunch one around your neck and let the other hang!" Amanda F.
"Gloves with texting tips!! You dont have to worry about taking your gloves off every single time you receive a text or phone call! With these gloves you will stay nice and warm and you can continue to text like an addict!" - Jessica L.
"Layering and scarves. And don't get pigeon-holed into wearing your scarf the same ol' way, either. There are some really cool ways to tie a scarf to give it some extra oomph – the infinity knot, the braid, the European, the Bunny ear – the list goes on. It can make a huge difference. Oh and cute ear muffs." -Eve L.
"Carry a pair of extra snuggly socks, colorful knit gloves and a small collapsible bright umbrella in your bag at all times. With the sudden changes in temperature and conditions here in Utah you'll have piece of mind and always look stylish no matter what the weather." -Marilee G.
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Tennis Insiders have taken control at Wimbledon, posting a 4-1 record the past two days.
Interesting match here, Hewitt coming out of retirement for the second time when accepting a wildcard for doubles participation. There is the possibility he may play doubles at the olympics along with coaching team Australia, so match practice will be important here. He'll team up with fellow Australian Jordan Thompson, and this could be the beginning of a very successful partnership. Due to rain, doubles has been reduced from best of 5 sets, to best of 3, certainly an advantage for Hewitt. After a complete meltdown in singles today, Almagro's hunger for this match must be questioned. He's 0-4 in doubles at the All-England Club. These matches don't have a scheduled court, but a show court is likely, and with Hewitt a fan favorite here expect plenty of support. Hewitt brings fantastic energy & drive into every match he plays, and has pushed the Bryan & Murray brothers to 5 sets in Davis Cup matches. He's advanced from the Round of 64 in Grand Slam Doubles 5 straight times, and in a best of 3 sets match his hustle should be enough to win.
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Browsing through decorating magazines is a great way to keep up on the latest styles. But to have a standout room design, homeowners should give themselves credit. Their innate sense of what looks right may be the best decorating guide of all, much like the natural beauty of oak flooring in Anderson's Lincoln Plank collection.
A family's favorite colors and style preferences shouldn't be unduly influenced by current trends. Reflecting one's personality is more important than allowing the "latest thing" to take over a design scheme.
"Great style isn't necessarily a finished product so much as it is an ongoing process," said designer Christiane Lemieux, author of the book, "Undecorate: The No-rule Approach to Interior Design."
Step out of the box
For homeowners hoping to break the predictable look of showroom decor, Lemieux advised them to search through every nook and cranny of their homes to unearth older furniture that can be repurposed into one-of-a-kind furniture and accessories.
SheKnows.com's advised people to keep an open mind about what home features look good together in a room. On the surface, an old iron gate may not have much aesthetic potential, but when it's used as a partition in a basement family room to separate different activity areas, it takes on a life of its own.
Taking a cue from professional designers, homeowners should create a furniture arrangement on graph paper that allows them to see everything to scale with the size of the room. They don't have to be great artists - a simple series of squares, rectangles and circles can represent different pieces.
For example, a 4-by-2-foot table would be four blocks by two blocks on the graph paper. Each piece should be labeled and cut out. On a master sheet, the pieces can be placed within the scaled-down room dimensions. It's an easy way to try different arrangements without moving around real furniture.
Mix style and function
As Lemieux profiled homeowners across the country for her book, she found those with the most unique decorating styles showed a mix of eye-catching features and everyday function in their furniture.
Some examples of the home styles that were featured in the home design book included a suburban home that managed to maintain a down-to-earth look while incorporating the homeowners' taste for marble-topped occasional tables. In a Brooklyn apartment, Lemieux found a nature-inspired retreat that highlighted the high ceilings and natural light that flowed into the urban space.
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6 Reasons The NFL Is The Trashiest Reality Show on TV
#3. Seeing Spoiled Rich Kids Get their Comeuppance
Deep down, we are all terrible people and love to see highly touted stars taken down a peg. That's why people love watching talent shows like American Idol where contestants who think they are God's gift to pop music get ripped a new "competitor" by a bitter Englishman.
"But... all my friends loved my Chewbacca impression!"
It only gets better the farther they have to fall, and as far as hype goes, it's hard to beat a #1 NFL draft pick. Even though #1 picks tend to fizzle about as often as they pan out, they're given guaranteed contracts in the tens of millions of dollars and the media pretends every year that the first chosen player is going to be awesome and change history.
The disappointing Tony Mandarich was called "The Incredible Bulk," originally as a compliment.
Note that even though the draft takes place over three days, the circus leading up to the draft goes for weeks or months, including the six-day NFL scouting combine, where potential draftees perform meaningless physical and mental tests while reporters and team officials nod knowledgeably at them.
I don't know why they all have to take their shirts off but I'm not arguing.
There is so much time spent building expectations that fans are prepared to literally crucify anyone who doesn't live up to them.
Former #1 pick Heath Shuler failed so terribly in the NFL that he was forced to go into politics.
For years, the draft bust poster boy was Ryan Leaf. He was actually a #2 (insert your own joke) but most people considered it a toss-up between him and #1 pick Peyton Manning, whom, if you follow football, commercials or cereal at all, you know to be a ridiculously successful player with a funny face.
Manning revolutionizes cereal boxes.
Long story short: Leaf did not wait for the pressures of success to cause him to flame out, but began to flame out immediately, before the season even began.
Not only did he have the attitude of a spoiled kindergartener, which is honestly par for the course in the NFL, but even worse, he couldn't play. After a couple more teams tried him out and confirmed that he was indeed broken, he was put out to pasture at age 26. Last year--11 years after standing on top of the world--he was arrested for breaking into someone's house.
#2. Fat People
Now, unless you are fat, you'll probably agree that fat people are always funny. Hell, I am fat and I find myself ruefully agreeing with the people that laugh at me that they have a point.
Artist's approximation.
But while the gossip world is gasping about Jessica Simpson getting "fat" for wearing "mom jeans" a size larger than what she normally does, the NFL has actual jiggly, beer-bellied men like "Fat Albert" Haynesworth who hilariously fail actual physical conditioning tests after getting paid nine figures to be in shape.
If this is considered fat, I quit. Everything.
And unlike singers and actors, a football player's entire job is to be athletic, so getting fat is actually a professional failing. That's good because we don't have to feel as bad about pointing and laughing. This opens up a fountain of fan creativity responsible for things like this list of nicknames for one-time player Jared Lorenzen :"Quarter(got)back," "Hefty Lefty," "The Pillsbury Throwboy," "The Abominable Throwman," "J.Load," "Round Mound of Touchdown," "Tubby Gunslinger," "BBQ (Big Beautiful Quarterback) ," "Battleship Lorenzen," "Butterball," "Lord Of The Ring-Dings" and "He Ate Me".
"Come on, kid, are you going to throw that ball or are you going to eat it?"
Seriously, how can the media be chasing down Gossip Girl's Michelle Trachtenberg and asking her if she's fat...
...when people are counting on Terrence Cody here to actually tackle a moving target?
#1. The Raiders
And finally, there's the Oakland Raiders. Some longsuffering East Bay fans actually follow the Raiders as fans, but most other people watch them for pure entertainment, because they encompass pretty much everything on this list so far.
The main villain is the owner, Al Davis, who was once a decent and respected man and is now a reanimated corpse bent on destroying all he once loved.
Bring me soullsss...
He drafts players apparently at random and keeps firing coaches until he finds one that agrees to coach his players to run smack into each other.
Or fall down for no reason.
The self-sacker there is JaMarcus Russell, who was, you guessed it, a #1 draft pick. He out-Leafed Ryan Leaf by being even more incompetent--and strangely serene about his incompetence--attributing it week after week to bad calls or bad luck, and saying he didn't need to change anything. He was given a $61,000,000 contract. There are no accidental zeroes there.
JaMarcus's career in a nutshell.
He obliged on the quirky scandal front with a rumored "purple drank" habit--a substance media outlets everywhere were delighted to explain to older white people.
It involves cough syrup and Sprite.
It goes without saying that Russell also became fat, a subject I admit I've milked for cheap laughs. In my defense, fat people are funny.
The Raiders have been surprisingly quiet on sex scandals recently, probably because catastrophic failure is a turnoff to most women. However, backup quarterback Kyle Boller did his best to bring scandal into the family by marrying Carrie Prejean who you might remember as the former Miss California who came out against same-sex marriage and then someone found a teen sex tape of her. Funny how that happens.
Here's the happy couple showing the NFL and tabloid world literally hand-in-hand. (See also: Tony Romo, Tom Brady.)
The Raiders even have heroes, with possibly the best punter and kicker in the league in Shane Lechler and Sebastian Janikowski, both coincidentally in positions that minimize contact with the rest of the team (they get on the field for one play, kick a ball and get off). They are heroes for remaining with this depressing team so long (10 years), although I'm sure their record-breaking salaries ease the pain.
The kickers usually frolic in a money pile on the sideline while waiting to be called.
Sure, a ton of people really dig the drama they make up on Gossip Girl or stir up on Jersey Shore, but come on, you can't beat a team being driven into the ground by a reanimated corpse.
Check out more from Christine, in Political Cartoons: The Lowest Form of Communication and 'Plus Sized' Clothes: Translating the Baffling Euphemisms.


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Christopher's Big Cherry is one of those hard to find regional/retro candies that I've been meaning to get my hands on for ages. It was only when I found myself in Los Angeles, Big Cherry's home turf, that I was able to finally buy one to try. It boggles my mind sometimes how I search high and low for a certain candy out East where I live, only to find it sitting in every gas station store once I get out West. It makes things interesting (and frustrating) for sure.
The big selling point for Christopher's Big Cherry is that in the very middle of this big mound of mockolate, peanuts, and fondant sits a whole maraschino cherry. Over the years the candy has changed companies and now currently resides with the Adam & Brooks candy company.
The candy smells very sweet of the mockolate and there's a strong peanutty edge to it. It looks like an unimpressive lumpy mound. The peanut bits give the surface and uneven texture, and the mockolate is lackluster and unexciting.
The flavor is sweet; so very, very sweet. The mockolate delivers a subtle cocoa flavor and a greasy mouth feel. The best part of this candy so far comes from the peanut bits which give it a nice, nutty flavor. They also have a knack for getting themselves lodged in my teeth. The fondant in the center is a brilliant Pepto Bismal pink with a thick texture and a subtle grain. The flavor is awfully sweet, but doesn't really taste of cherry. I didn't get any cherry flavor at all, in fact, until I bit into the maraschino cherry. The cherry is throat-searingly strong with that sweet and bitterly fake cherry flavor and the crystallized cherry texture.
I'm glad to have finally tried this, but the bland mockolate and the intense sweetness doesn't tempt me enough to give it a second try anytime soon.
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Equipment 101: Overhead handling equipment basics
With straight rails that result in easy installation, under-hung bridge cranes can handle up to 15 tons and their spanning capabilities can eliminate the need for additional supporting structures.
Up, up and safely on its way. Sometimes the best way to transport product through a warehouse or manufacturing facility is to lift it up then move it along. Handling materials overhead can increase productivity, enhance safety, improve ergonomics and maximize available floor space.
There are many types of overhead materials handling equipment, but they all share the same goal of safely lifting product and moving it efficiently and ergonomically from one point to another without damage to the product or the facility—or injury to the worker.
The right equipment for the job depends on the process, the product being moved, the task being performed and the desired rate of throughput. "There is a range of solutions in overhead handling," says Jeff McNeil, marketing manager at Gorbel. Different configurations and technology mean there are a lot of choices in overhead handling equipment, he says, and an operation's final equipment selections are usually based on performance and cost.
Overhead handling solutions can range from simple, manual hoists to fully automated systems with movements directed by software. Regardless of the complexity, the equipment, especially the equipment in the middle where people are working together with technology, should shoulder the bulk of the work. This equipment report looks at the primary overhead handling equipment: cranes, hoists and monorails.
Today's overhead cranes enable the movement of product above the floor, especially when handling materials manually or by lift truck isn't practical, productive or safe. Instead of being limited to available aisle space and moving materials by a lift truck or other floor traveling systems, overhead cranes allow you to cover a broad area of the manufacturing plant and move products through the manufacturing or storage process using all of the free space overhead, explains John Paxton, president of Demag Cranes & Components.
Cranes can be manual or power driven, depending on the application and the size of the load that's being moved. For example, workstation cranes and jib cranes are used to improve ergonomics in small areas, while bridge and gantry cranes handle the heavy lifting tasks over longer distances.
While there are a variety of crane styles, all include three basic components: bridge, trolley and hoist.
The bridge, which can be stationary or mobile, is made of rails and can carry one or more trolleys.
The trolley is the unit that travels side to side and carries the hoist.
The hoist is the lifting device that hooks onto and manipulates the load.
Cranes are also available in various load capacities, from workstation cranes that enable operators in a work cell to safely manipulate light loads (typically below 2 tons) to very large overhead cranes capable of transporting loads weighing as much as 500 tons.
While many cranes are pre-engineered solutions, which are produced from standard hoist and drive components, Paxton explains that the cranes with lifting capacities above 50 tons are usually engineered solutions with controls specifically designed for the manufacturing process that the cranes support.
Workstation cranes
On a smaller scale, free-standing workstation cranes enable operators in a work cell to safely and accurately maneuver light loads. These free-standing units improve ergonomic handling of product in a limited area, like production environments.
Some of the newest workstation cranes are intelligent devices that combine manual and servo-driven operations. The manual function allows workers to move at their own pace as they walk to a bin, select a part, and guide the crane to a machining center process.
The servo-driven function controls the positioning of the part on the machine, preventing damage to both by slowing down for part placement and release.
Gantry cranes are comprised of two uprights connected by an I-beam that serves as the bridge for the trolley. Gantry cranes can be manual or powered. In a powered gantry crane, the uprights run on a track at floor level; in a lighter-duty crane, the uprights are on wheels and can be manually positioned and repositioned around a facility. With load capacities of up to 5 tons and spans of up to 30 feet, gantry cranes are most commonly used in maintenance operations. They are a cost-effective solution for applications that require infrequent duty.
Jib cranes are also used for spot handling. These cranes include a single bridge that rotates to cover a circular area. Because the crane rotates, loads are easy to position. Jib cranes are often used in conjunction with an overhead crane to improve throughput in areas with more traffic and production than a single crane can handle.
Free-standing jib cranes are bolted to the floor and require a strong enough foundation to support the load without the crane tipping over. Because they are free-standing, they offer 360-degree rotation.
Articulating-arm jib cranes are simply jib cranes equipped with a pivoting two-piece arm. This gives the operator more precise control in positioning the load.
Overhead cranes
When it comes to muscle, overhead cranes have the most lifting capacity. Bridge and gantry cranes do the heavy lifting over long distances.
Bridge cranes are ceiling-mounted and allow loads to move in six directions: up and down, forward and backward, and side to side. They are typically part of a building's structure and installed when the facility is being built.
Always powered, bridge cranes consist of a trolley that runs across a bridge (which can have one or two girders). The bridge moves across a bay along a runway. The largest capacity units—known as top-running, double-girder cranes—mount the bridge on top of the runway and have two girders for the bridge. With capacities of up to 600 tons, a top running crane gives you the maximum headroom of any crane. Alternately, under-hung cranes, which are ideal for loads of 15 tons or less, have a trolley that runs on the bottom of the support I-beams.
In addition to top-running cranes, there are under-hung cranes where the trolley runs on the bottom of the support I-beams and can get loads closer to the wall. While distance is no impediment for this type of crane, an under-hung crane cannot lift a load as high as a top-running crane system and is meant for loads of 15 tons or less.
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Dezima Pharma in-licensed a cholesteryl ester transfer protein (CETP) inhibitor DEZ-001 (formerly TA-8995) from Mitsubishi Tanabe Pharma. Founded in 2012 and seed-financed by Forbion Capital Partners and BioGeneration Ventures, Dezima is a biotechnology company that aims to develop drugs in the field of dyslipidemia.
DEZ-001 has, according to the firm, completed single and multiple ascending-dose studies showing a notable effect on high-density lipoprotein (HDL) and low-density lipoprotein (LDL) levels in healthy volunteers with a favorable side-effect profile. The company plans to support clinical development of DEZ-001 to Phase III clinical trials. Professor John Kastelein, founder of Dezima, co-founder of UniQure, and advisor to Forbion Capital Partners, identified DEZ-001 as a potentially potent and safe CETP inhibitor.
At the same time, Dezima is expanding its scientific advisory board with the addition of two experts in the dyslipidemia space: Philip Barter, M.D., Ph.D., president of the International Atherosclerosis Society and conjoint professor at the University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia; and Bryan Brewer, M.D., director at Washington Cardiovascular Associates and senior research consultant of lipoprotein and atherosclerosis research at the Medstar Research Institute, Washington, D.C.
"CETP inhibitors hold enormous potential to further normalize lipid levels in millions of dyslipidemic patients worldwide," Professor Kastelein, who is also Dezima's CSO and chairman of its scientific advisory board, commented. "This product was a compelling in-licensing prospect because of its promising early clinical efficacy and safety profile. By applying a smart development program, DEZ-001 could potentially enter the market at a time similar to competing CETP inhibitors."
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