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Are you the kind of person who watches YouTube videos 24 hours a day, or even just one particular channel on a regular basis? If so, RSS Handler could become your best friend. It is meant to take YouTube URLs and turn them into podcast feed links that you can use to get your favorite →
Spin like a pro with Virtual DJ Home FREE
We've all wanted to be able to mix our music like the pro's do at one point or another, but who has time or money to go out and get one of those big mixing boards and then find a place for it in the house, etc. ? Not many, but Virtual DJ is there →
Play or pause your music or videos with a wave of your hand using Flutter and your webcam
Flutter is one of those rare finds that is just absolutely fun and brilliant in it's conception. It is a program for Windows or Mac that will let you control your media with a wave of your hand. If you have a webcam, Flutter will monitor to and respond to your hand movements, Kinect-style, in →
Stream videos from your desktop to your iOS or Android device wirelessly with Air Playit
Air Playit is a handy little free program that allows you to stream videos and music from your home computer to your Android or iOS mobile device. It features such smart options as on-the-fly conversion, support for multiple file formats, and built-in HTTP support, along with support for Apple's proprietary TV-Out system. As it progresses →
Organize your multimedia with Banshee
Banshee is an open source freeware multimedia manager that will help you organize and centralize your media. It is loaded with tons of options for sorting, organizing and playing your music and video files, and even has a nifty 'favorites' feature that tracks what files you play most often and remembers them for use in →
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Tunestor is an extension for IE and Firefox that allows for downloading MP3s and adding them to your Itunes library in one fell swoop from the browser context menu. This browser extension aims to condense what would typically involve 4 different steps into a single, simple right-click command. While normally you would need to (1) →


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Dynamo captain Brad Davis and goalkeeper Tally Hall are returning to training national team duty in preparation for the FIFA World Cup 2014. National team coach Jurgen Klinsman made the announcement Friday morning, January 3, 2014. Both are slated to report to the national team training center in Carson, CA for a week of work (Jan 6-12) before departing for the team's base camp in Sao Paulo, Brazil Jan. 13-25. Both will then return to Carson for a final week of preparation before a 4 p.m. CT friendly match against the Korean Republic on February 1, 2014 at the Stub Hub Center. The game will be televised on ESPN2 and UniMas.
Davis, with 12 national team caps to his credit including five during 2014 World Cup qualifying recorded two assists in the USA's final qualifying match against Panama.
Hall, the Dynamo's 28 year old keeper, has earned three call-ups to the national team.
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Favourite photographer: Ditto... that and I've been playing too many video games to know
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Skin of choice: Fur, it looks cool when dyed plus it's great for winter... though washing it would take a while
Favourite cartoon character: Motoko Kusanagi (Ghost In The Shell series)
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I would love to fuck my neighbors brains out, his wife is pretty hot too! I wouldn't mind eating her sweet peach either! I just wonder if my husband is up for it, not sure how he would react to seeing me getting fucked by another man but it would be kind of hot to see him doing another woman! Who said you can't live out your fantasies?
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Heartbeats On The Beat
Untold tales of Sydney
Michael Stikovic
Heartbeats On The Beat is a photojournalism series looking into the intimate moments of individuals on the streets of Sydney.
The series gives a name and a story to the many faceless blurs of people we pass each day.
The Images give viewers a glimpse into their lives by sharing a moment within the duration of a heartbeat.
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Sun Systems Management Demo
By user12601629 on May 30, 2007
Steve Stelting has a great note over at the Sun Connection blog about the demo his team constructed to show off our management products in a booth at JavaOne. I got to see the demo during the show, and it was quite impressive. Steve's posting includes a bunch of screen shots so you can get an idea what it looked like. JavaOne is really a developer show (not focused on SysAdmins), but the demo does show how these products fit into a development life cycle and the booth got a large amount of traffic. You should go check it out.


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What's in Store for Adobe Systems?
Andrew Keene
The tech company is projected to outperform the market at a less-than-average risk.
The future for
Adobe Systems
(NASDAQ:ADBE) looks bright.
The company is taking many steps to make it more attractive to consumers. It is integrating a new cloud system (Creative Cloud) that allows business to monitor their progress from anywhere. Even though many tech investors are concerned about the rising competition (from
(NASDAQ:AAPL) and
(NASDAQ:MSFT) primarily), Adobe is still projected to significantly outperform the market.
Adobe has many things going for it right now. One of them is that the company is not only being projected to outperform the market, but to also do it at a less-than-average risk. Its price-to-sales multiple is very high, which indicates that it is having no trouble getting customers to subscribe to a membership. Even though its revenues and earnings might see a slight dip in the short term, it will be very profitable in the long term.
Adobe has become a company that many have bought into for a couple of reasons: Adobe has been very consistent with high relative price changes, and it is also expected to deliver shrinking bottom lines. Even with all this great news, however, there is a downside.
One major problem facing Adobe now is that it is getting to be a pricey company, with a 25:1 price to earnings ratio.
There is also heavy competition facing Adobe; between Apple and Microsoft alone, there are many products that are neck-to-neck with Adobe's products, including Microsoft's new release of XPS, which compares to Adobe's PDF.
Another recent competitor that has cut into Adobe's profits is WordPress, which allows users to do some of the same functions Adobe provides, without having to purchase the software. This causes Adobe's profits to lag behind. There are too many free websites and apps for Adobe to compete with.
As long as the company can somehow find a way to get through digital marketing by getting in with
(NASDAQ:FB) or
(NASDAQ:GOOG) (companies that are trying to grow their mobile ads), Adobe's long-term growth potential can be noteworthy.
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We all get hungry at work. Some of us every day (I'm one), and others just sometimes. Snacks are almost a necessity. Yet, if you choose the wrong snacks, day after day, it can lead to weight gain, lack of energy, and decreased productivity. On the other hand, the right snacks will prevent the munchies later in the day, keep your energy levels up, and help you work better. Here are some of my favorite snacks to keep at work.
Trail Mix: Trail mix can give you a nice, healthy blend of carbohydrates, protein, fats and fiber. Commercially packaged trail mixes are convenient, but may contain unwanted sugars,extra fat, and even trans fats. Your best bet is to make a large bag of trail mix yourself. You can use your favorite nuts, seeds and dried fruit. Some recommendations include almonds and walnuts, as they contain more Omega-3 fatty acids than other nuts; and Brazil nuts due to their high selenium concentration. Choose at least two different nuts and/or seeds, and at least one dried fruit.
Instant Oatmeal: If you are looking for something to stick withyou, oatmeal is the way to go. While most people can't make regular oatmeal at work, instant oatmeal can be made in just a couple minutes in the microwave. Just one packet will provide slow digesting carbohydrates for lasting energy, fiber to keep you full, and even a bit of protein. If you keep nuts or dried fruit in your desk, these can be mixed in to make it even better. Beware, many brands add lots of sugar, and even some partially hydrogenated oils (trans fats) in their instant oatmeal. Look for an organic brand for a healthier choice.
Healthy Chips: Chips are the perfect snack food. They can be eaten almost anywhere. Unfortunately, they are also perfect for consuming unnecessary calories and putting on unwanted weight. To satisfy your need for something salty and crunchy, check out bean chips and hummus chips. Beanitos are made with black or white beans, while Kashi hummus chips are made with baked hummus. Both contain a healthy dose of fiber and protein, without the fat of regular chips. As an added bonus, you will be consuming beans, a healthy food choice most people under-eat.
Canned Fruit: Fresh fruit is something that is hard to stock. It needs to be bought frequently as it spoils. Canned fruit is a great solution. While it doesn't quite equal fresh fruit, canned fruit still provides vitamins, minerals, antioxidants and fiber. Plus, there are a number of fruits to choose from, providing variety of healthy nutrients, and preventing your taste buds from being bored. Consider this option 1b to fresh fruit.
Dry cereal: Cereal can be a great snack during the day, even without the milk. Think of it as second breakfast. There are plenty of healthy options that include healthy doses of vitamins, minerals, fiber, and even protein. This can help make up for anything you may have missed with your first breakfast of the day. Keep a box in your drawer to pull out and much on a few handfuls when hunger hits.
By keeping these healthy snacks in your drawer, you will have more energy for your day. As an added bonus, you will keep off unwanted weight from those dire vending machine runs. So what are you waiting for? The grocery store awaits.


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Rockies 11
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Diamondbacks 0
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3:10 PM ET, February 28, 2014
Salt River Fields at Talking Stick, Maricopa County, AZ
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L: P. Corbin
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The Red Wings begin the final part of their preseason schedule tonight, hosting the Pittsburgh Penguins in the first of three games in four nights.
Detroit will be without Daniel Alfredsson and Jakub Kindl due to injury and will be sitting their top line and top defensive pair. Petr Mrazek will get the start in goal. Expected lines are as follows:
Johan Franzen - Stephen Weiss - Justin Abdelkader
Gustav Nyquist - Joakim Andersson - Tomas Tatar
Drew Miller - Cory Emmerton - Mikael Samuelsson
Daniel Cleary - Riley Sheahan - Todd Bertuzzi
Kyle Quincey - Brendan Smith
Danny DeKeyser - Xavier Ouellet
Adam Almquist - Brian Lashoff
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South Korean electronic band Love x Stereo reached out to us recently to share their new EP Off the Grid. It's a short three-song jaunt that blends two of our favorite things here at Viva—dance music and 90's alternative rock.
Citing Nirvana, Smashing Pumpkins, and Pearl Jam as her largest influences, lead singer/synth player Alice Ko unironically reveres the 90's alt-rock scene, even the parts we Americans have come to distance ourselves from. Lead track "Soul City (Seoul City)" is an exercise in Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness-esque excess, an almost 7-minute trek though the good and bad of the band's hometown, propelled by an unabashedly poppy guitar lead and vocal melody.
The quartet's shameless love of the pop-hook makes them comparable to a more modernized Saint Etienne, another band whose recorded output was an homage to their record collection. But whereas Etienne covered "I'm Too Sexy" and sample Dusty Springfield, Love X Stereo covers "1979" and samples Massive Attack—all in one song.
It's a strange mix that's pulled off by a foreign sincerity—Ko takes on both the grandiose and the saccharine without donning a acid-washed jean jacket to let you know she's "serious."


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The Signature of All Thingsis Giorgio Agamben's sustained reflection on method. To reflect on method implies for Agamben an archaeological vigilance: a persistent form of thinking in order to expose, examine, and elaborate what is obscure, unanalyzed, even unsaid, in an author's thought. To be archaeologically vigilant, then, is to return to, even invent, a method attuned to a "world supported by a thick weave of resemblances and sympathies, analogies and correspondences." Collecting a wide range of authors and topics in a slim but richly argued volume, Agamben enacts the search to create a science of signatures that exceeds the attempts of semiology and hermeneutics to determine the pure and unmarked signs that signify univocally, neutrally, and eternally. Three conceptual figures organize Agamben's argument and the advent of his new method: the paradigm, the signature, and archaeology. Each chapter is devoted to an investigation of one of these concepts and Agamben carefully constructs its genealogy transhistorically and from an interdisciplinary perspective. And at each moment of the text, Agamben pays tribute to Michel Foucault, whose methods he rethinks and effectively uses to reformulate the logic of the concepts he isolates. The Signature of All Thingsreveals once again why Agamben is one of the most innovative thinkers writing today. Distributed for Zone Books


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Truth about junk bonds
Dear Dollar Diva,
What is a junk bond?
A junk bond is issued by a corporation or municipality
with a bad credit rating. In exchange for the risk of lending money
to a bond issuer with bad credit, the issuer pays the investor a
higher interest rate. "High-yield bond" is a nicer name for junk
What is a bond?
When a corporation or municipality borrows money from
an investor, it gives the investor a bond. The bond is like an IOU
or promissory note -- it states the amount that will be paid back,
when it will be paid back, and what interest will be paid on the
borrowed money. Bonds come in two grades:
How do I know if a company or municipality has
a bad credit rating?
Standard and Poor's and Moody's are the bond-rating
systems used most often by investors. Their ratings are as follows:
Should I buy junk bonds?
Never buy individual junk bonds because they are too
risky. However, a high-yield bond fund can be a good addition to
your portfolio if you do all of the following:
DOROTHY ROSEN has a master's degree in finance, with a specialization in accounting,
from the Kellogg Graduate School at Northwestern University in Evanston,
Ill. Rosen has more than 15 years of experience in the financial arena, serving
in Illinois and Florida as a certified public accountant, financial consultant,
expert witness and educator. She is owner of Dorothy Rosen, CPA, a public
accounting firm that serves individuals and small businesses.
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While we at Wagemark are by no means mind-readers (yet), we're willing to wager that many of you spent time on airplanes in the past week. The last days of […]
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Wagemark is an international wage standard used by companies, non-profit organizations and government agencies to certify that the ratio between their highest and lowest earners is competitive and sustainable.
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Introducing the new international standard for fair pay… in just 43 seconds.
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Meet the organizations creating a new economy with room for everyone.
Wagemark Certified organizations are committed to ensuring that the wage ratio between the highest earn and the average earnings of the lowest decile of earners within their organization does not exceed 8:1.
This starts with you.
We can all do our part to create a more prosperous and fair economy. Help us as we promote Wagemark and make it a twenty-first century standard for business, government and non-profits.
We're taking our cue from one of America's most respected management visionaries.
In 1977 famed business theorist Peter Drucker wrote in the pages of the Wall Street Journal, that "the most radical but also the most necessary innovation would be a published corporate policy that fixes the maximum compensation of all corporate executives as a multiple of the lowest paid regular full-time employee."
The headlines tell the story.
Since 2009, the number of articles published in the global press which refer to "income inequality" have grown 530%.
The twelve days of financial hemorrhage (and hope for the antidote)
It's that week in between Christmas and New Year's! Bah humbug? Well, actually, sort of. The Montreal-based Centre for Research on Globalization estimates that "the twelve days of Christmas [in […]
There's nothing inevitable about inequality.
Since the 1970s median wages have decoupled from the compensation paid to executives. Today Fortune 500 CEOs routinely make more than 300 times the average salaries of their workers.
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The Living Wage + Wagemark
The Living Wage movement and Wagemark are complementary approaches to tackling one of the most intractable issues facing modern societies. While the Living Wage — endorsed by jurisdictions throughout North American and Europe — focusses on establishing a higher wage floor that corresponds to true local living costs, Wagemark is focussed on the range between top and bottom earners within an organization.


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On this day...
by Stuart Vose
safc.com takes a look at what happened on this day in the club's history.
1998 – Martin Smith and Paul Butler scored in a 2-0 home win over Port Vale.
1948 – Colin Todd was born in Chester-le-Street.
1891 – Sunderland beat Darwen 7-0 at home. The Lancashire club also went down 7-1 in the return fixture.


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Psychometric Properties of the Pressure to Move Scale in Relocated American Older Adults: Further Evaluation
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The number of elders who relocate to retirement communities is increasing exponentially, and their ability to exercise free choice, personal control, and autonomy has been associated with relocation adjustment and positive outcomes in regard to physical, emotional, and social well-being. Although a measure of relocation controllability (the degree of personal control associated with the move) exists, there is limited evidence of its psychometric adequacy. This study tested the reliability and validity of the Pressure to Move Scale (PTMS). A convenience sample of 104 American elders who relocated to six Northeast Ohio retirement communities was recruited. Study participants completed the nine-item PTMS and two validation measures during structured interviews. Cronbach's alpha was .71. Homogeneity was supported by item-to-total correlations between .30 and .70, except for two items. Deletion of the item asking about the elder's first impression of relocation improved the alpha to .74. The PTMS was correlated in the expected direction with positive cognitions (r = −.37, p < .01) and relocation adjustment (r = −.62, p < .01), indicating convergent validity. Factor extraction generated three factors, the first reflecting "internal" control factors and the second reflecting "external" control factors; a third factor, containing two items with low item-to-total correlations, reflected another level of "external" control. With preliminary evidence of its reliability and validity, this scale can be a useful tool for screening for pressure to move or involuntary relocation among older adults so that negative outcomes associated with relocation can be prevented through tailored interventions. Read More: http://informahealthcare.com/doi/abs/10.3109/01612840.2011.600808
Issues in Mental Health Nursing, Volume 32, No. 11, pp 711-716 (2011). DOI: 10.3109/01612840.2011.600808


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High throughput approaches to biological problems such as a microarray functional genomics study are often expensive and inherently produce large volumes of data. It is therefore imperative that the studies be carried out as efficaciously and economically as possible. In order to meet those goals, three important phases of a toxicogenomics study must be successfully completed (Fig. 1).
Phase I is the experimental design of the microarray experiment. The successful completion of phase I is realized when the microarray results are relevant to the scientific questions asked. We encourage at least one meeting with the researchers to discuss the critical issues regarding the experimental design.
Phase II is the carrying out of the microarray experiment itself to generate the raw data, and we carry out preferred protocols covering RNA isolation and RNA quality control assays, RNA amplification, complementary DNA (cDNA) synthesis, cDNA and amplified RNA (aRNA) labeling, microarray slide production, microarray hybridization and wash conditions, and microarray slide scanning and data generation.
Phase III is the analyses of the voluminous amounts of data generated by a typical microarray experiment. The data analysis and data management is carried out by the Dartmouth Biostatistics and Bioinformatics Shared Resource Core directed by Dr. Jason Moore.
Information of Note
The spotted DNA sample (known sequence) is referred to as the probe, and the fluorescent-labeled cDNA or cRNA (unknown sequence) is referred to as the target.
To determine experimental variability, it is strongly recommended that a given experiment be carried out at least in triplicate and preferably in quadruplicate. For the same reason, it is also recommended that for one of the slides in the triplicate or for two slides of the quadruplicate, the Cy-3 and Cy-5 labeling are switched for the control and experimental target RNAs.


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Milwaukee District / North Line (MD-N)
Chicago to Fox Lake
Attractions from the Milwaukee District / North Line [MD-N]
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|Morton Grove Historical Museum
|The museum collects and displays artifacts of significance to Morton Grove, including those of the original founders and those of more recent settlers to the community — all who continue to enhance the vitality of Morton Grove. Show DetailsHide Details
6240 Dempster Street Morton Grove, IL 60053 847-965-0203
Within walking distance of the Morton Grove Station.
|Kohl's Children's Museum
|Kohl Children's Museum of Greater Chicago is a hands-on learning laboratory for children ages birth to 8. All of our exhibits and programs are aligned to the Illinois State Learning Standards and are designed to make learning fun and interesting for young children Show DetailsHide Details
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PERRIE PERRIE: Nandos Launch A Special One Direction Themed Menu
Those cool dudes over at Nandos have launched a special One Direction menu to celebrate the band's gig in Washington tonight.
Each of the 1D boys have got their own menu which is a copy of what the lads ordered on their recent Nandos visit.
@NandosUSA tweeted the following:
"We've put together a special menu for #1DinDC. Come by Nando's 7th St tomorrow to order @OneDirection's favorites! pic.twitter.com/b7j7WAKvfj"
The menu says:
Five directions to mouthwatering Peri-Peri chicken! Taste your favorite's favorite 'One Thing'.
1. The Harry
A wrap with double chicken breast basted with Mango & Lime Peri-Peri sauce, with fresh green leaf lettuce, peppery sweet chilli jam, tangy yoghurt sauce, plus grilled pineapple and cheddar cheese.
2. The Liam
A whole butterfly-cut chicken breast without skin basted with our Medium Peri-Peri sauce with sides of olives and perinaise.
3. The Louis
1/2 chicken basted with our Medium Peri-Peri sauce and served with chunky, garlic-buttered red skin mashed potatoes and perinaise.
4. The Niall
A wrap with double chicken breast basted with Medium Peri-Peri sauce with peppery sweet chilli jam and tangy yoghurt sauce, plus five medium wings, perinaise, and spicy rice.
5. The Zayn
A toasted pita with double chicken breast basted with our Medium Peri-Peri sauce, served toasted with a delicious mix of crispy vegetables and mayonnaise with a hint of fresh cilantro. Sides of olives, coleslaw, and corn on the cob.
Which of the boy's orders would you go for?


text: Sensational and avant-garde, Sharon Eyal and Gai Behar are two of Israel's most talked-about innovators--she as a dancer and choreographer and he as an underground art and rave events producer. Known for collaborations with Ohad Naharin's acclaimed Batsheva Dance Company, they have just launched their own adventurous ensemble, L-E-V. In its much-anticipated U.S. debut, the exquisite dancers of L-E-V, including Sharon Eyal herself, perform the provocative work HOUSE. With intense choreography by Eyal, an eclectic soundtrack by experimental musician Ori Lichtik, and lighting by acclaimed designer Bambi, HOUSE is an alluring spectacle of hypnotic sensuality and raw physicality.


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Running releases an enzyme that is associated with memory function in mice and humans.
Discoverer of G Proteins Dies
December 29, 2015|
Nobel laureate Alfred Gilman has passed away at age 74.
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Nobel laureate Alfred Gilman has passed away at age 74.
December 21, 2015|
Italian scientists are under investigation for allegedly worsening the transmission of a pathogen that is decimating olive groves in Puglia.
December 21, 2015|
In 2015, The Scientist dove deep into the latest research on aging, HIV, hearing, and obesity.
December 9, 2015|
Commensal bacteria living in the gastrointestinal tracts of cockroaches lace the insects' feces with chemical cues that mediate social behavior, according to a study.
December 6, 2015|
The popular type 2 diabetes drug may cause profound changes in patients' microbiomes.
December 1, 2015|
Without a vacuole, cell-cycle progression stalls out in yeast cells.
December 1, 2015|
Contrary to years of research suggesting otherwise, most aggregated proteins regain their shape and functionality following heat shock.
December 1, 2015|
Associate Professor, Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology, University of Colorado, Boulder. Age: 43
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See the soldier whose recovery from a debilitating muscle injury was greatly aided by a cellular therapy plus physical therapy.
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A rash of deformed lambs eventually led to the creation of a cancer-fighting agent.


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|Verbatim Report of Experience with TopLink
I'd heard that TopLink was the product of choice for object-relational mappings. Java Report described it as "A rock-solid, mature product that fits a lot of needs. The better you understand the problems of object-to-relational mapping, the more you appreciate how well TOPLink addresses those problems." So I was quite interested in doing some work for a company that was trying to standardize on TopLink. One of the staff was showing me how to import a database table through the TopLink GUI tool for establishing mappings between database tables and JAVA classes. He clicked OK and suggested it would take 5-10 minutes to complete. "Wait a second," I said, "it can't possibly take more than a couple of seconds to suck all the metadata from an Oracle database, let alone for a single table!", but his estimate turned out to be about right, and in line with my own later experience. When taking that long, you'd expect the results to be beautiful, but it would generally screw up if there'd been a change in the database effecting a primary key, that change wouldn't be reflected automatically. The TopLink GUI tool allowed mapping either JAVA class public data members directly or else through get and set methods. Oddly, though, even if get and set methods were being used, there still had to be an identification of a single data member even when the accessor methods did not correspond to a single data member. In some cases dummy variables had been added to a class to serve this purpose. Staff seemed to be taking an inordinate amount of time to solve simple mapping problems involving three table joins, and there seemed to be a lot of problems handling inheritance, but I can't comment on these further since I only implemented simple mappings myself. One thing that was noticed was that TopLink applications were using up all the the available Oracle database connections. It was pooling database connections (which is good) but by default it was opening up six connections (even if it only ever used one, which is bad). This was reconfigurable with some work - just that the default behaviour was bad. Another thing was that by default TopLink was caching everything, which I found a little strange; the database is after all a shared resource, which is the whole point. It took a second or two to figure out why a change made in the database was not being reflected in a read. Again, this can be turned off with some work, but it's an odd thing thing to have as a default. It's OK to have for static data, but not generally. I think one of the reasons for all the caching was to achieve reasonable performance and still access data in a way that favours many reads over a single join. I used the on line documentation a lot trying to find ways of solving problems. There are many ways of doing the same thing, and many classes share the same interface even if a good part of that interface is not usable in a given context - TopLink's own class hierarchies did not seem to be particularly well designed. A problem with the documentation was that there user documentation did not show import statements in examples or give any information about what packages classes belonged to. For that you had to go the reference documentation, and hunt through what were a fair number of candidate packages. More generally, I don't think you should try and map classes directly with tools like TopLink, but rather map proxy classes and have a factory method to create the real object. If you don't do this you'll end up compromizing your class design too much. Anyway, I don't think I would recommend this product. Regards, Daniel Parker danielp@no_spam.nshima.com


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Payrolls in April 2008
May 05, 2008
Nonfarm payroll employment was little changed in April (-20,000), following job losses that totaled 240,000 in the first 3 months of the year.
Job losses continued in construction, manufacturing, and retail trade.
Employment grew in health care and in professional and technical services.
These data are from the BLS Current Employment Statistics program, and are seasonally adjusted. Data for the most recent two months are preliminary. More information can be found in "The Employment Situation: April 2008" (PDF) (TXT), news release USDL 08-0588.
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I apologize in advance for this mini blog. But you all now expect me to get things off my chest, and I do like to tell it how I see it. Nevertheless this still pains me. (And I think I may have resisted temptation, but the title of this blog was just too good an opportunity to pass up.) So here goes...sequins, Argyle check and a pearl necklace...Michelle Obama, what were you thinking? There, said it. Let's move on.


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Doctors have long known that even when children with juvenile rheumatoid arthritis, or JRA, achieve remission, they have a high risk of relapse when taken off their medication.
As a result it has been standard practice for most kids to stay on their methotrexate for at least one year after their symptoms disappear.
But a study presented at the 2009 annual meeting of the American College of Rheumatology in Philadelphia, has concluded that the extra year on medication doesn't really affect the risk of relapse – a finding that may allow more JRA patients to come off methotrexate as soon as their disease subsides.
For this study, Dirk Foell, MD, of the Department of Pediatrics at the University of Muenster in Germany, and his team set out to determine if the length of treatment after reaching inactive disease status influenced the risk of future recurrences and whether patients at risk for flares can be identified by molecular biomarkers.
Scientists studied 365 JRA patients whose disease had been inactive for at least three months. Patients were split into two groups. One stopped methotrexate after six months, the other after 12. When participants were taken off the medication, myeloid-related proteins 8 and 14 – which are markers for inflammation – were analyzed.
Of the 297 patients who completed the study, roughly half in each group saw their arthritis flare again – 54.3 percent of the group continuing on methotrexate for six months and 43.7 percent of those taking it for a year saw the disease return.
"Longer treatment with methotrexate in remission does not prevent flares after withdrawing therapy in juvenile idiopathic arthritis," Dr. Foell says. "We say that children should be taken off medication earlier when they are in remission, and that novel biomarkers may be used to help with this decision."
Study authors found that traditional blood tests, C-reactive protein or CRP, and ESR, or "sed rate", couldn't accurately tell them who was at risk of relapse. "All of our patients had normal CRP, although clearly the outcome with regard to disease flare differed. Hence, CRP is not able to detect subclinical, minimal inflammation and cannot be used to further differentiate between patients at risk for flares and those who stay in remission," Dr. Foell explains.
But scientists did find that measuring myeloid-related proteins 8 and 14, or MRP 8/14, which are markers of inflammation, could accurately predict which children would relapse, and which could safely come off their meds. These proteins were significantly higher in those patients who subsequently relapsed compared to patients with stable remission.
"MRP 8/14 is the first biomarker reflecting subclinical inflammation in remission," Dr. Foell says. "Novel molecular markers of inflammation may at least give more certainty about the fact that there are no signs of ongoing inflammation, and that will help with decision making."
Unfortunately, the blood test for these proteins is still experimental and is not yet available for clinical use.
"We can't use it right now but it's a little promising for the future," explains Lisa Imundo, MD, director of the Division of Pediatric Rheumatology at Columbia University Medical Center in New York City.
Despite the fact that the blood test isn't readily available, Dr. Imundo says this study is helpful.
"We do notice with methotrexate in particular, that a good percentage of patients flare up again. There have never been any studies about what we should do. So this shows us what we've all found – that sometimes a lot of patients can't come off the methotrexate. They need to continue on it."
She says there is some positive news here as well. "If a patient is doing well, you don't have to wait to take away the methotrexate. That's sort of good news for some patients. This study shows there's no added reason to continue the medication for an additional year," she explains. "There are patients who could definitely stop earlier. That's the good news. But the bad news is, even if you are asymptomatic and have no arthritis on the medication, about 50 percent of patients wont be able to come off [the medication]."
"I think it's pretty much what we see in practice. That we hope we can stop the methotrexate but there's always a group of patients that relapse and need to stay on the methotrexate," Dr. Imundo adds.


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So what is search engine optimization (SEO) and why is it such a big deal?
Well, that's a great question. Search engine optimization is related to how individual pages show up in search engines like Google, Bing and Yahoo!. The strategy consists of adding tags and keywords to a page in such a way that, when done well, the page will consistently appear in search results and prompt a user to choose (click) the link to our site.
Best Practices for Search Engine Optimization
Below is a list of practical tips to help improve ranking of UTC pages in search engines.
- Use the words and phrases (keywords) that your users are most likely to type into search engines.
- Write effective URLs, with keywords included, and dashes separating words.
- Write effective title tags for each page of the web site, so that Google will correctly files your pages in its library.
- Write compelling metatag descriptions for each page of the web site, so that once your page climbs to the top of the search engine results, visitors will choose it.
- Write focused, optimized content for primary "magnet" pages (i.e. for degree programs).
- Include keywords in the internal links that are sprinkled throughout the content on your site (e.g., "Click here for more information about financial aid, loans, scholarships and grants," NOT "Click here for more information."
- Eliminate all duplicate content throughout the site.
- Pay attention to site architecture, and don't have "magnet" pages nested too deeply within the site.
- Use your own "link juice" from your home page to boost "magnet" pages.
- Addition through subtraction (take outdated or useless pages off web site; move off-topic content to another page; and remove unnecessary layers of nesting).
- Use great design, great calls-to-action, and great directions for next steps to take to turn your newfound search engine traffic into conversions!
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15 March, 2002
Week 3 Wrapup
Okay, let's get a show of hands. How many of you predicted that Hunter would get the boot this week? Anybody? That's about what I thought. The voting out of Hunter has to rank among the great shocks of this series. He was clearly the strongest member of his tribe and also the hardest working. He seemed the anointed leader as well. And yet he spends the remainder of the competition on the outside. Amazing.
So what happened that led to this strange turn of events? Well, for one thing the Maraamu tribe seems totatlly incapable of winning a challenge. Are they weak or just dumb? Not necessarily. What they do have is a failure to come together as a team. There are a few strong bonds but the whole group is pulling in too many directions at once. They clearly aren't playing for each other but for themselves and that leads to failure.
The first challenge was for the reward of either pillows and blankets or rice. The object was to build a raft, pilot it through a course while picking up crates and reach the finish line first. Two factors contribute to Rotu's win. One is the fact that several Maraamu tribe members had no skill with a paddle. Sean in particular was just splashing about with his. Second was bad teamwork on Maraamu's part. They were disorganized at times picking up the crates and at the end simply gave up. Take a look at this shot of Sean where he just puts down his paddle and stops trying before the race was over.
The second challenge was for immunity and that was just a bit of bad luck on Maraamu's part that they lost. Some bad bounces cost them. But that left them in the same awkward spot of voting someone out and at this point the tribe seems to have simply imploded. Rob has emerged as the leader, acting as some sort of evil genius, pulling people's strings from behind the curtain. He clearly wanted to take control of the tribe in a sneaky underhanded manner and he appears to have succeeded. He's clearly much brighter than I gave him credit for initially. But as a strategist for winning the big prize, he's going in the wrong direction. Yes he has carved out a strong position for himself but unless something drastic happens, his tribe will go into the merge badly outnumbered which is a guaranteed way to lose. In other words, he won a battle but is losing the war.
Of course you have to wonder about the intelligence level of a group that in the midst of a horrific losing streak, votes off their strongest member. Hunter had survival skills and was a good athlete to boot. Now they're left with weaker members with almost no work ethic. If they ever create a Survivor hall of fame, I want Hunter inducted just on the strength of his exit speech. "I really don't understand the logic behind it right now. But hey, you got me. I was camping with a bunch of knuckleheads and I'll tell you that to your face when I see ya again. And I will phone the Red Cross and let them know where you are so that you can be airlifted out of there after you die of starvation and dehydration after the next couple days," said Hunter. Classic.
Now on the other side of the game is Rotu, who is becoming something of a mystery. Their success means we see much more of Maraamu onscreen so we don't get the chance to know the Rotu members as well. So far the only thing we've learned is that Kathy can be a pain in the ass, although that seems to have subsided; Paschal is a big hugger; Robert has a lot of tattoos and Neleh is a sweet kid. Oh yeah, and John has a way of attracting blood. First he gets stabbed by a sea urchin. Those are poisonous little critters so he has to have someone pee on his hand. Wow. Network TV at its best. They couldn't get a shot of someone vomiting so instead they bring us footage of Kathy squatting on John's hand. Thank you so much CBS. Anyway, Robert then cuts his foot pretty badly so John, being a registered nurse, gets the call to fix him up. Watch closely as he carves big chunks of shredded flesh from Robert's toe. Finally, John gets bitten by an eel while searching for food. The guy is a menace I tell ya.
This is an episode that will go down in the Survivor history books for its combination of gore, knuckleheads and stunning events. The promo for the next episode hints at another big shocker. Perhaps it will be something on the order of last season's tribe swap. They probably have to because Maraamu probably can't survive without some help from the producers. Oh yeah, thanks to the NCAA basketball tournament, the show will again air on Wednesday.
Episode Rating: 9 out of 10
- John Shea
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Eric Schmidt, Executive Chairman of Google Inc., became the highest-profile U.S. executive to visit North Korea—a country with notoriously restrictive online policies—since young leader Kim Jong Eun took power a year ago. He arrived with Former New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson, who called the trip to North Korea a private humanitarian visit. (See related article).
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Former New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson, left, and Executive Chairman of Google, Eric Schmidt, disembarked from an airport transfer bus after arriving at Pyongyang International Airport in Pyongyang, North Korea on Monday. Jared Cohen, behind them, a former policy and planning adviser for the U.S. State Department who heads Google's New York-based think tank, is accompanying Mr. Schmidt on the trip.
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Yes, I'm finally getting to play the witch of my dreams. [The series, like the 1987 film, is loosely based on John Updike's novel The Witches of Eastwick; Lindsay Price, Rebecca Romijn and Jamie Ray Newman star.] I'm the ultimate older witch who shows the young ones that they don't know anything compared to me.
Let's switch gears and talk about playing Martha Stewart, which you did twice, in Martha, Inc. and Martha Behind Bars.
I just loved doing that. When I was developing the character, I sort of looked at her as Queen Elizabeth I—a person who often said, "Off with their heads." A woman who is incredibly powerful. Of course, I don't imitate that; it becomes a kind of springboard for me.
[Martha Stewart] is a complicated woman. She's a mentor, a kind of genius, and she's had this huge success—and boy, has she worked for it. She also has a temper. We didn't make that up in the movie. I'm thinking that if I have to do Martha Stewart again it might have to be a musical.
Have you ever met her?
I did, many years ago. I always fantasize that Martha will call me one day and say, "Thank you, Cybill, for doing such a wonderful job of portraying me." But I don't think I'm at the top of her call list.
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A view from inside the Google Toolset
Save time and simplify your life with Google's innovative online tools.
For years, experts have predicted the rise of a world in which the complete experience of the average computer user occurs in the serenity of a single browser window. Work, play, travel, and shop from anywhere in the world – all through the mystical interaction of web browsers and web servers operating at the speed of light. A most inviting vision, but is anyone actually making it happen?
Google is making it happen. The innovators at Google have assembled an impressive collection of free tools for working, exploring, collaborating, and distributing information on the web. This Google Tools Special Edition takes a close look at the tools of the Google environment.
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