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U.S. News and World Report ranked our Division of Pediatric Orthopaedic Surgery among the top four in the country. The division's research efforts and presence at annual meetings helped contribute to the stellar ranking. Faculty members strengthened the division's national reputation by continuing to present findings and techniques at annual meetings of the Pediatric Orthopedic Society of North America (POSNA) and the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons (AAOS). In addition, faculty enhanced its global reputation by participating in collaborations and conferences in Greece, Brazil, India and Saudi Arabia.
We welcomed new hires Sheila Chandran, MD, and Jaime Rice-Denning, MD, this year. They will certainly contribute to the continued research and clinical accomplishments of the division. Chandran specializes in all aspects of non-surgical pediatric orthopaedics, with a special interest in pediatric gait and the Ponseti technique for managing clubfoot. Rice-Denning specializes in orthopaedic trauma cases.
This past year marked the opening of the much-anticipated Motion Analysis Gait Lab. The lab is part of the Center for Advanced Technology at Cincinnati Children's, and it offers cutting-edge technology to better evaluate and treat orthopaedic and mobility issues. The lab uses high-tech diagnostic instruments that allow doctors to determine exactly how a patient walks, how their joints move and how their muscles function. The research goal of the lab is to use outcomes data to characterize the effectiveness of current treatments while focusing on the development and implementation of innovative techniques. Over the last year, the Gait Lab had 113 patient visits, more than projected for the first year of operations.
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Stanford Women's Crew defeated Princeton University in the grand final of the Women's Henley Regatta Sunday afternoon and return to the States as champions of the Senior Four event. Their morning semi final was uneventful as they defeated England's Aberdeen University with a time of 5:42. Princeton defeated Seattle Pacific University in their semi final in a time of 5:41 thus setting the stage for a great grand final in the afternoon. Slow out of the starting platform, Stanford found themselves down by 3/4 of a length to Princeton at the 600 meter mark. Their move at the 750 brought Stanford even with their competitor. At 900 meters Stanford was 1 seat up and committed to extending this lead through the finish line. The last 600 meters saw Stanford walk away from Priceton to finish 2 3/4 lengths ahead of the Tigers. In the first of what the Women's Team hopes will be a tradition across the Atlantic every four years the Stanford crew of Wendy Hoeveler, Missy Fiesler, Melissa Haury, Ashley Maloney, and Stephanie Connolly have set an impressive standard. Congratulations to these Cardinal athletes!

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Emiquon scenery The UIS College of Liberal Arts and Sciences is the largest college at UIS, enrolling approximately 55 percent of all UIS students. It delivers a rich array of undergraduate and graduate programs using classroom-based, online, and blended formats in technologically advanced environments. A wide range of options exists for ongoing study, including experiential learning opportunities through Experiential and Service Learning and interdisciplinary degrees such as the Liberal Studies major. Research extends far beyond the campus, as exemplified by the Emiquon project on the Illinois River. We also emphasize global and multicultural issues throughout the curriculum.


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Kirstie Alley, Weight-Loss Evil Genius?
TMZ is questioning the timing of Kirstie Alley's weight-gain now that she is starting her own diet plan. Check it out:
After losing over 75 Scientolopounds on Jenny Craig, Kirstie said she was planning to start her very own slim down system that she'd launch next year. But these days it's clear ... Kirstie isn't taking her own medicine.Blah, blah, blah—just another celebutard.
But how's this for a theory -- she can't sell a weight loss program if there's no dramatic before and after fresh in people's minds. So she balloons up, then slims down, and then sells tons (you'll pardon the expression) of her magic weight loss stuff.


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Steven McLean Gibson, 65, lifelong Cheney resident, died April 24. His family held a private ceremony at the Spokane Memorial Cemetery where he was laid to rest near his parents, John and Evelyn Gibson.
He is survived by his sister, Cindy Bruce of Edmonds, Wash., nieces Leslie, Holly, and Heather, along with five grandnieces and nephews.
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Valuing the Arc
This project funded by the Leverhulme Trust, is a five-year collaboration between a number of partners from European, Tanzanian and US Institutions. The study is focussing on the Eastern Arc mountains of Tanzania, an area of global importance for conservation and the source of water supply and power to at least half of Tanzania's urban population. However, despite growing global-level recognition that conservation often makes economic sense for society as a whole, decision-makers continue to behave as if ecosystems have little or no value. Therefore, the aim of this project is to determine the economic value of the Eastern Arc Mountains to the people of Tanzania, and to the international community. In achieving this, the project is carrying out detailed study of ecosystem services including carbon-related services, hydrological services, and biodiversity-related services.
I have been carrying out the first phase of fieldwork for the project, assessing carbon-related services. Global warming caused by release of greenhouse gases through human activity, is set to cause significant environmental damage at a high economic cost. Habitats that store high amounts of carbon (such as forests), therefore have high economic potential as carbon sinks, but before values can be attached to them, we need to know actual quantities. To determine this I have been using one hectare permanent sample plots (PSPs) in several areas of the Eastern Arc Mountains. By measuring the trees within each plot, established equations will be combined with empirical modelling to convert the dimensions into biomass and then carbon. Trees will then be remeasured after a period of three years to assess the rate of carbon sequestration. Empirical and theoretical data will then be combined to develop descriptive, spatially explicit models of the production and delivery of each focal service. Results will then be used to inform and support Payment for Environmental Service initiatives under development in Tanzania.
Funding: The Leverhulme Trust (UK)
The Borderlands Project: Climate Change and Species Distributions
The second of my two postdoctoral projects is focussed on the borderlands of Tanzania and Kenya. The area is characterised by a wide range of environments with one of the largest concentrations of wildlife on earth. Now the effects of global climate change pose a serious threat to this extraordinary region – not only to its wildlife but to the lives of the Maasai, who have evolved with a variable climate and lived alongside the wildlife for millennia. This area is also the economic driver of the tourist industry for Kenya and Tanzania: each year over one and a half million visitors are drawn to the region's 14 world-famous parks, earning the two African nations over $0.5 billion in vital revenue.
The project will chart the consequences of climate change on people, animals and protected areas. The project unites the University of York's Environment Department with international scientists from the African Conservation Centre (Kenya) and the University of San Diego and Missouri Botanical Gardens (USA), as well as drawing heavily on traditional knowledge in the area. Results will be used to develop management strategies for this vitally important area that are sensitive to climate change, population use of the area and the dynamic nature of the ecosystems. Together with our colleagues, we are mapping the distribution of plants, mammals and birds in the borderlands – and to model their vulnerability to climate change. The research will build on the work underway at the University of York within the Historical Ecological of East African Landscapes and York Institute for Tropical Ecosystem Dynamics headed by Dr Paul Lane (Archaeology) and Dr Rob Marchant (Environment) respectively.
Funding: Liz Clairborne Art Ortenberg Foundation (USA)
Udzungwa Forest Project
UFP was established through my position at Flamingo Land Theme Park and Zoo (link below) to research and monitor forest animals and plants in the Udzungwa Mountains, with particular focus on the effects of forest degradation. It was initiated in September 2007, with the following aims:
The Udzungwa Mountains are part of the Eastern Arc mountain chain (see Valuing the Arc project above). Of all the Eastern Arc forests, the Udzungwa Mountains are arguably the most important for conservation. They supply water to hydropower plants that produce one third of Tanzania's electricity and have the highest number of endemic and threatened species of all the Eastern Arc forests (Burgess et al 2006). They also contain the Eastern Arc's only National Park, which covers just below one fifth of the 10,000 km2 land area. Threatened species present include Africa's rarest carnivore, Jackson's mongoose, the Udzungwa forest partridge and Abbott's duiker. Furthermore the Udzungwas are arguably Africa's most important single site for primate conservation, with up to 12 species, including two Udzungwa endemics (the Udzungwa red colobus, Sanje mangabey), one Eastern Arc endemic (a bush-baby Galagoides orinus) and one that was found new to science within the last two years (kipunji monkey Rungwecebus kipunji). But perhaps most importantly, Udzungwa has the largest area of forest in the Eastern Arc (1,353 to 1,500 km2; Marshall 2007).
The major components of the project are 1) integrative conservation planning with villages and managers of the threatened Magombera forest, and 2) long-term research to determine the ecology and habitat requirements of some key animal and plant species in Magombera forest, Kilombero Nature Reserve and Udzungwa Mountains National Park. The research component includes monitoring of threatened primates, duikers and trees and assessment/restoration of forest habitats affected by human and elephant damage. The research is carried out mostly by Tanzanian villagers and graduates, along with international researchers and volunteers.
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Perhaps the most classic American snack is the chocolate chip cookie. It's a simple recipe but there are many ways to make and personalize it. Serve them at Christmastime to the kids (and Santa!) or during the summer as a treat after a long day of playing outside. Chocolate chip cookie recipes abound, but here's one way to make that classic chocolate chip cookie.
4 cups of 1 ounce squares unsweetened chocolate
1 cup butter
2 cups all-purpose flour
2 cups yellow cake mix
1 teaspoon baking soda
2 teaspoon baking powder
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 1/2 cups white sugar
1 cup brown sugar
4 eggs
2 teaspoon vanilla extract
1 1/4 cup sour cream
3 1/2 cups semisweet chocolate chips
Preheat oven to 375 degrees. Melt butter and unsweetened chocolate together. Sift together flour, cake mix, baking soda, baking powder, and salt. In a large bowl, beat sugar, eggs, and vanilla.
Stir the chocolate mixture into the eggs and add sour cream. Stir in the sifted ingredients. Mix in chocolate chips. Drop rounded tablespoonful onto ungreased cookie sheets. Bake for 8 to 10 minutes until edges are starting to turn dark brown.
Enjoy these wonderful cookies at any occasion. They disappear very quickly at family events. You might notice the secret ingredient – the boxed yellow cake mix. Cake flour gives the cookie a little more body than just regular unbleached flour. Enjoy!


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The Tap Project Needs Your Restaurant

The Tap Project, a UNICEF charity we've supported in the past, has a simple and elegant premise: If people paid one dollar for tap water in restaurants for a week, it would pay for a lot of clean drinking water in Third World countries. You can't complain about the price — in New York, our tap water tastes better than a lot of brands that cost more. But UNICEF is looking for more participants to join the effort during World Water Week, March 16 to March 22. If you own or operate a restaurant, contact the Tap Project. You'll be in good company: Participating establishments include Esca, Le Bernardin, and Gramercy Tavern.


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Over 6 weeks have passed since 37-year-old Nikki Burgess disappeared from her Nashville, Tenn. home. Though her body hasn't been found, it is believed she is deceased, based largely on blood evidence found in her home, as well as the detection of human decomposition both in her home and in the trunk of the car belonging to a person of interest in the case, Caleb Cannon, the father of Nikki's 10-year-old son.
On Sunday, Jay Henry offered up a $1000 reward to anyone who knows where his girlfriend is. He says he's not interested in knowing the names of those involved or getting anyone in trouble, he just wants to be able to properly lay her to rest. He even posted to the Find Nikki Burgess Facebook page: "Bottom line is if you have the information then I have the cash."
No charges have been filed, nor has anyone been arrested in connection to Nikki's disappearance. Many items were removed from her home by police, as well as from Cannon's home, but so far, they have not found enough to lead to the arrest of Cannon.
There are also multiple reports of Cannon being at Nikki's house around the time of her disappearance. Her last text message was to a friend on May 23, saying she was arguing with her ex. A friend of the son reported seeing Cannon place 2 black nylon bags in the trunk of his car, while standing in Burgess' driveway, but it is not completely clear which day that happened. However, on May 25, her neighbor, Jamie McCavanaugh, is sure that he saw Cannon and another person carrying something out the back door of Nikki's house. Even the young son told a friend that he's pretty sure his dad killed his mom.
Did Caleb Cannon kill Nikki Burgess and hide her body? If so, why has he not been arrested yet? All signs seem to point that direction, surely others are aware of that. Perhaps the offer of the reward will bring out someone who has some answers.


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Extra Body Fat Increases Risk of Type-2 Diabetes
The pancreas is then required to produce even higher amounts of insulin to accommodate the heightened insulin requirements. This stresses the pancreas's beta cells to work harder and eventually poop out, but also the effects of NOT eating a diet high in veggies, beans, seeds and fruits places the pancreas at further risk from oxidative stress.
For example, twenty pounds of extra fat may force the pancreas to produce twice as much insulin to do the necessary job. Fifty pounds or more of excess fat on our frame and the pancreas may be forced to produce 6 to 10 times as much insulin as a normal person who is lean. What do you think occurs after ten or twenty years of overworking the pancreas? Again, it poops out and loses the ability to keep up with such huge insulin demands. The pancreas is still overworked, pumping out much more insulin than a thinner person might need, but still not enough to cover all that disease-causing body fat.
Adult diabetes is a disease of insulin resistance, not of insulin deficiency. The pancreas's ability to secrete insulin continues to diminish as the diabetes continues and the overweight condition continues year after year. Total destruction of insulin secreting ability almost never occurs in type-2 (adult onset) as it does in type-1 (childhood onset) diabetes. But the sooner the type-2 diabetic can lose the extra weight causing the diabetes, the more functional reserve of insulin secreting cells in the pancreas will remain.


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|The Giants look to have staying power, but Prisco says don't be surprised if the 49ers regress. (US Presswire)
The four biggest misconceptions of the NFL offseason:
• Peyton Manningwill make the Denver Broncos an immediate Super Bowl favorite.
• The San Francisco 49ers have staying power.
• The New York Giants can't repeat.
• The Cincinnati Bengals don't have staying power.
Let's look at all four of those, starting with the Broncos. Manning, if he's back to his old form, gives the Broncos a chance to be a playoff team and maybe more. But they have to fix a defense that struggled for much of last season and they have to adjust to the Manning ways. That could take time.
The 49ers, in my mind, are one of the playoff teams from 2011 that might take a step back. I say that because of style of play. They run it and play good defense. That's a style that has seen many a playoff team fade the next year. The margin for error for those types of teams is slim. The 49ers are no different.
The Giants are a young team that should be much improved from a year ago. Remember, they were 9-7 to just get into the playoffs before getting hot at the right time. They have most of the key players back. And Eli Manning is now a much more confident passer. As for the Bengals, they made the playoffs as a surprise wild card team last season with rookie quarterback Andy Dalton. He is a year older and will benefit from having an entire offseason. In addition, the Bengals had the best draft of any team in the league, which will help fortify what is already a good, young roster. They're not going anywhere.
Take all of those into account, and you will get a better idea of where my thought process was for the latest CBSSports.com Power Rankings. This batch reflects what has happened in the NFL since February and also includes some of my theories about the league that could impact where teams are headed (see 49ers).
Just remember that there will be a preseason batch of rankings coming as camps open, with another one or two before the regular season.
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DeKALB, Ill. – The Northern Illinois University track & field team starts their 2014 outdoor season Saturday in Edwardsville, Ill., when they compete in the Cougar Classic. The meet gets underway at noon inside SIU Edwardsville's Korte Stadium with the hammer throw and long jump. Running events will begin at 2 p.m. with the 4x100 relay. "The transition from indoors to outdoors can be simple or as complicated as the region an athlete resides," said NIU head coach Connie Teaberry. "For us, it brings challenges, especially with the winter we had in this area. There are certain events that have not received the proper attention due to the need to practice outside, like the 400 hurdles, discus, hammer, 4x100 relay, steeplechase and javelin. The other events are easier to transition into. This weekend will be the first or second time the majority of the athletes will have ran outside since the fall. We will use this competition as a starting point, a chance to begin to get the athletes use to the outdoor elements, working on competing through whatever the weather and competition my bring." The Huskies closed out their indoor season February 28 and March 1 at the 2014 Mid-American Conference Championships, where they took 10th place with 37 points, the second-highest point total at the conference indoor meet in NIU history. At the meet, Claudette Day (Belleville, Ill./Belleville West) broke the school's long jump record and Latesha Bigby (Hanover, Jamaica/Butler CC) topped the NIU pentathlon standard, while the quartet of Ali Olson (New Auburn Wis./Bloomer), Julianne Cronin (Bartlett, Ill./Bartlett), Hannah Savage (Cedar Falls, Iowa/Cedar Falls) and Meghan Heuer (St. Charles, Ill./North( combined to break the Huskie record in the distance medley relay. Looking ahead to the upcoming weekend, NIU will take on in-state rivals SIUE, Bradley and Western Illinois in the Metro East, in addition to Milwaukee and Western Kentucky.
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Making yourself more marketable in the Boston area involves building up your skills with technology. Conducting a training class using instant messaging applications is easier than you think. Communicating and collaborating online makes it possible to engage learners in new ways. Once you get the basics of signing in and out, establishing automatic settings, inviting participants, adding video to the conversation, sharing your desktop, opening a whiteboard, recording a meeting and presenting online, you'll be ready.
As a meeting presenter, you typically have many options. For example, using Lync 2013, you can assign presenter rights to other participants, mute other attendees or block participants from displaying video. You can show a PowerPoint presentation, display your desktop to give a demonstration, conduct a poll or use the whiteboard to explain a concept. The whiteboard feature replicates meeting room flip charts. You can save as an image or send it to OneNote.
You can also record your meeting to allow other participants to review your training class presentation. From the … (More Options) button in the lower right. Select the "Start recording" link. A "Recording has started" message displays. Be sure that you alert everyone attending your virtual training class that the meeting is being recorded. From the … (More Options) button in the lower right, select the "Stop recording" link. Open the Microsoft Lync Recording Manager to manage your recordings, including options play, publish, rename or delete the file. You can upload the MP4 file to collaborative spaces or submit to a learning management system.
Make sure that your PowerPoint slides are too dense or crowded as they will display poorly in the instant message window. Encourage participants to take notes, for example using OneNote. You can ensure participants have copies of handouts by inserting them. Click the Present button and then click the Attachments tab. Browse to the file you want to upload and click the OK button.


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When it comes to their advanced designs, meticulous craftsmanship, and quality factory parts, all new Mazdas are created equal. But once a vehicle requires repair, whether as a result of an accident, or normal wear and tear on parts like brakes, things can get quite different. This is because there are two types of parts you can use to fix a Mazda: Aftermarket (or imitation parts) and Genuine Mazda Body Parts.
When you use Genuine Mazda Body Parts to fix your vehicle, you're literally making that piece of it brand-new again. That's because Genuine Mazda Body Parts have been made from the same blueprints as the original. Every single part is guaranteed to perform and wear the same as the day you first drove your new Mazda. Equally important, only Genuine Mazda Body Parts are specifically covered by the Mazda warranty.
Aftermarket parts are quite different. They're generally made to a lower standard in order to cut costs. And without access to original manufacturing specifications, their fit and finish can be dramatically different - panels may not match up perfectly, brakes don't stop or wear as well, and lower-quality steel may corrode quickly. Worse yet, the original warranty could become invalid if aftermarket parts contribute to the damage of original parts. Even lease-end charges can be affected if the replacement parts fit poorly.
Always be sure to specifically ask your repair shop to use Genuine Mazda Body Parts before anyone creates a repair order or estimate. In addition, be sure to watch out when insurance companies try to use aftermarket replacement parts, which they misleadingly refer to as "like kind and quality." Depending upon the state you live in, you may actually have the legal right to demand Genuine Mazda Body Parts. If your insurance company refuses, simply contact your agent, or the office of the State Insurance Commissioner to find out what rights and recourse you may have.