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ESPN's Friday Night Fights season 17 kicked right off with a bout from the Target Center in Minnesota, a middleweight scrap between Caleb Truax, a Minnesotan, and underdog Ossie Duran. This gave our man Teddy Atlas the opportunity to note that Truax has been the recipient of a "little home cookin" in the past. He had the volume edge in this one, but we got off to a stellar start from a judging perspective, with the arbiters deeming the bout a draw, 95-95, 95-95, 95-95. Nope, no hometown cookin' to start the season, good deal, but the case could be made that Truax didn't need any aid, that he earned a W in Minneapolis, on a Mike Tyson card.
The Ghana-born boxer waits too much, oftentimes, but he perked up some in the third. We saw blood from Truax' nose to start the fourth. The jab was working. Truax went to the body, left and right side, but it lacked authority. In the sixth, Duran, who took the fight on three weeks notice, had Truax backing up late. Truax' corner told him to step up and he got peppier in seven and eight. His uppercuts scored more obviously by this point.
The ninth was a tight one, with Duran not looking to give ground and let the hometown guy derive energy from the homies, and pull away down the stretch. They clinched in the tenth, a bit, and you wanted Truax, who is hoping to become a contender, to put a stamp on the night, look to give the locals a buzz boost. Instead, we went to the cards.
Teddy Atlas offered up a wish list to viewers in between bouts. The Staten Island analyst-trainer-philanthropist first asked that judges, in the year 2014, could be punished for destroying the sport. Also, Atlas wants the sanctioning bodies to be exterminated, like cockroaches. Then, he said that networks shouldn't deal with single promoters. Also, the commissions should have cornermen acting right in the ring. "Let's bring class and dignity back to our sport," he said. Finally, he asked for the fans to root for Mago to continue a miracle comeback from brain damage.
In the main event, Argenis Mendez defended his IBF 130 pound crown against Rances Barthelemy, a 19-0 Cuban. The 21-2-1 Dominican boxer looked buzzed early, and was backed against the ropes. But he collected his senses, it appeared, but then again was backed against the ropes. The long jab from Bart worked well against Mendez, who was told by trainer John David Jackson "don't wait" after the round.
In the second, Mendez got untracked some, went to the body, but then ate left hooks, and went down. He was up, and then got dropped at the bell, by a nasty wide left hook, or a bit after. The ref waved off the fight with Mendez rolling around on the ground.
The end came at 2:59 of the second, though we suspect this issue isn't over, as I think Team Mendez has grounds for a challenge. The replay showed that Bart landed a few shots after the bell, two times after the bell, said promoter Mike Tyson.


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This release updates a previously published guideline: Screening for obesity in adults: recommendations and rationale. Ann Intern Med 2003 Dec 2;139(11):930-2. [5 references]
Adults aged 18 years or older
Key Question 1: Is there direct evidence that primary care screening programs for adult obesity or overweight improve health outcomes or result in short-term (12 to 18 mo) or sustained (>18 mo) weight loss or improved physiologic measures (i.e., glucose tolerance, blood pressure, and dyslipidemia)?
Key Question 1a: How well is weight loss maintained after an intervention is completed?
Key Question 2: Do primary care-relevant interventions (behaviorally based interventions and/or pharmacotherapy) in obese or overweight adults lead to improved health outcomes?
Key Question 2a: What are common elements of efficacious interventions?
Key Question 2b: Are there differences in efficacy between patient subgroups (i.e., ages 65 years or older, sex, race/ethnicity, degree of obesity, baseline cardiovascular risk)?
Key Question 3: Do primary care-relevant interventions in obese or overweight adults lead to short-term or sustained weight loss, with or without improved physiologic measures?
Key Question 3a: How well is weight loss maintained after an intervention is completed?
Key Question 3b: What are common elements of efficacious interventions?
Key Question 3c: Are there differences in efficacy between patient subgroups (i.e., ages 65 y or older, sex, race/ethnicity, degree of obesity, baseline cardiovascular risk)?
Key Question 4: What are the adverse effects of primary care-relevant interventions in obese or overweight adults (e.g., nutritional deficits, cardiovascular disease, bone mass loss, injuries, death)?
Key Question 4a: Are there differences in adverse effects between patient subgroups (i.e., ages 65 years or older, sex, race/ethnicity, degree of obesity, baseline cardiovascular risk status)?
Note from the National Guideline Clearinghouse (NGC): A systematic evidence review was prepared by the Oregon Evidence-based Practice Center (EPC) for use by the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) see the "Availability of Companion Documents" field).
Data Sources and Searches
EPC staff relied on existing reviews to cover part of the search window from the previous USPSTF review, following previously detailed guidance. A 2006 National Institute for Clinical Excellence systematic review on behavioral weight-loss interventions and orlistat and a 2008 review of metformin trials were identified. Their inclusion and exclusion criteria were congruent with those of the EPC's, and investigators for both searched multiple databases and examined reference lists of pertinent reports. The reviews' search and selection strategies were judged acceptable to substitute for those of the EPC's through 2005. EPC staff bridge-searched MEDLINE, PsycINFO, and the Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials from 2005 through 9 September 2010. The search was supplemented with relevant existing systematic reviews identified through databases (Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, the Database of Abstracts of Reviews of Effects, and MEDLINE) and Web sites (Institute of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, and National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence). The searches were supplemented with experts' suggestions and reference lists from relevant publications, including evaluating all studies from the previous USPSTF review.
Study Selection
Two investigators independently reviewed 6498 abstracts and 648 articles against prespecified inclusion and exclusion criteria (see Appendix Figure 2 in the Evidence Review). For key questions 1 to 3, EPC staff included randomized or controlled clinical trials with interventions focused on weight loss in adults (age ≥18 years) conducted in settings relevant to primary care (studies conducted in primary care or those that could in theory be implemented in a health care system, to which primary care clinicians could refer patients). Criteria for acceptable control groups were defined a priori so that they would represent usual care and not overlap with low-intensity intervention groups. Acceptable control groups could not receive a personalized intervention, at-home workbook materials, or advice more frequently than annually; they also could not participate in frequent weigh-ins (<3 months). Healthy lifestyle messages were considered equivalent to weight-loss messages. For harms (key question 4), EPC staff included additional study designs (large cohort studies or case-control studies; large event monitoring; systematic evidence reviews of randomized, controlled trials or controlled clinical trials) and did not require 12 months of follow-up.
Key Question 1: No trials could be identified comparing screening with not screening for adult obesity.
Key Question 2: 32 articles (15 trials)
Key Question 3: 98 articles (58 trials)
Key Question 4: 60 articles (38 trials)
Two independent investigators critically appraised all included articles using design-specific criteria (see Appendix B Table 2 in the Evidence review [see the "Availability of Companion Documents" field]) and U.S Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) methods. The USPSTF has defined quality ratings of "good," "fair," and "poor" based on specific criteria.
Note from the National Guideline Clearinghouse (NGC): A systematic evidence review was prepared by the Oregon Evidence-based Practice Center (EPC) for use by the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) (see the "Availability of Companion Documents" field).
Data Extraction and Quality Assessment
Two independent investigators appraised all included articles as good, fair, or poor quality according to design-specific criteria and USPSTF methods. A third investigator resolved discrepancies. EPC staff assessed validity of randomization and measurement procedures, attrition, baseline characteristics, intervention fidelity, and statistical methods. Good-quality trials blinded researchers to participant randomization if they performed tasks related to assessment, had follow-up data on 90% or more of participants with fewer than a 10-percentage point difference between groups, and described anthropomorphic measurements in detail. Trials were rated poor quality and excluded if attrition was greater than 40%, was missing, or differed by more than 20% between groups (except for harms data); key baseline characteristics differed substantially between groups and were not controlled for in analyses; or outcomes were measured unequally between groups. Additional issues caused trials to be downgraded but not excluded; these included inconsistently applied interventions, selective reporting, and unclear or suboptimal blinding or randomization procedures. A table of excluded studies is available in the full evidence report.
For included studies, one investigator abstracted data on study design, setting, population characteristics, baseline health and weight, intervention characteristics, prespecified outcomes, funding source, and adverse events into standardized evidence tables. A second investigator reviewed abstraction for accuracy.
Data Synthesis and Analysis
Separate random-effects meta-analyses were conducted to estimate the effect size of behavioral and pharmacologic interventions on weight loss (expressed in kg) and intermediate health outcomes (adiposity, systolic and diastolic blood pressure, total cholesterol, high-density lipoprotein cholesterol, low-density lipoprotein cholesterol, triglycerides, and glucose). Within each intervention type, trials were grouped according to the study population's risk status—cardiovascular risk (diabetes, dyslipidemia, hypertension), subclinical risk (prediabetes, borderline high lipids, prehypertension, abdominal obesity as defined by study researchers), and unselected/low risk—and then ordered by the behavioral intervention's intensity (number of sessions for behavioral trials and brief or intensive behavioral component accompanying medication trials).
The presence of statistical heterogeneity among studies was assessed by using standard chi-square tests and estimated heterogeneity magnitude by using the I2 statistic. Tests of publication bias included funnel plots and the Egger linear regression method when there were 10 or more studies.
Heterogeneity of the effect size for weight loss was explored with a series of meta-regressions. Factors the researchers included were population risk status, recruitment strategy, retention, study focus (weight maintenance vs. loss), whether the trial was conducted in primary care, setting (United States or not), quality, and selected patient characteristics. For behavioral trials, investigators also examined the number of sessions during the first year and presence of several key intervention components. For medications, investigators also examined the percentage retained after run-in, medication type, and intensity of accompanying behavioral intervention.
The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) systematically reviews the evidence concerning both the benefits and harms of widespread implementation of a preventive service. It then assesses the certainty of the evidence and the magnitude of the benefits and harms. On the basis of this assessment, the USPSTF assigns a letter grade to each preventive service signifying its recommendation about provision of the service (see Table below). An important, but often challenging, step is determining the balance between benefits and harms to estimate "net benefit" (that is, benefits minus harms).
Table 1. U.S. Preventive Services Task Force Recommendation Grid*
*A, B, C, D, and I (Insufficient) represent the letter grades of recommendation or statement of insufficient evidence assigned by the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force after assessing certainty and magnitude of net benefit of the service (see the "Rating Scheme for the Strength of the Recommendations" field).
The overarching question that the USPSTF seeks to answer for every preventive service is whether evidence suggests that provision of the service would improve health outcomes if implemented in a general primary care population. For screening topics, this standard could be met by a large randomized, controlled trial (RCT) in a representative asymptomatic population with follow-up of all members of both the group "invited for screening" and the group "not invited for screening."
Direct RCT evidence about screening is often unavailable, so the USPSTF considers indirect evidence. To guide its selection of indirect evidence, the USPSTF constructs a "chain of evidence" within an analytic framework. For each key question, the body of pertinent literature is critically appraised, focusing on the following 6 questions:
The next step in the Task Force process is to use the evidence from the key questions to assess whether there would be net benefit if the service were implemented. In 2001, the USPSTF published an article that documented its systematic processes of evidence evaluation and recommendation development. At that time, the Task Force's overall assessment of evidence was described as good, fair, or poor. The Task Force realized that this rating seemed to apply only to how well studies were conducted and did not fully capture all of the issues that go into an overall assessment of the evidence about net benefit. To avoid confusion, the Task Force has changed its terminology. Whereas individual study quality will continue to be characterized as good, fair, or poor, the term certainty will now be used to describe the Task Force's assessment of the overall body of evidence about net benefit of a preventive service and the likelihood that the assessment is correct. Certainty will be determined by considering all 6 questions listed above; the judgment about certainty will be described as high, moderate, or low.
In making its assessment of certainty about net benefit, the evaluation of the evidence from each key question plays a primary role. It is important to note that the Task Force makes recommendations for real-world medical practice in the United States and must determine to what extent the evidence for each key question—even evidence from screening RCTs or treatment RCTs—can be applied to the general primary care population. Frequently, studies are conducted in highly selected populations under special conditions. The Task Force must consider differences between the general primary care population and the populations studied in RCTs and make judgments about the likelihood of observing the same effect in actual practice.
It is also important to note that one of the key questions in the analytic framework refers to the potential harms of the preventive service. The Task Force considers the evidence about the benefits and harms of preventive services separately and equally. Data about harms are often obtained from observational studies because harms observed in RCTs may not be representative of those found in usual practice and because some harms are not completely measured and reported in RCTs.
Putting the body of evidence for all key questions together as a chain, the Task Force assesses the certainty of net benefit of a preventive service by asking the 6 major questions listed above. The Task Force would rate a body of convincing evidence about the benefits of a service that, for example, derives from several RCTs of screening in which the estimate of benefits can be generalized to the general primary care population as "high" certainty (see the "Rating Scheme for the Strength of Recommendations" field). The Task Force would rate a body of evidence that was not clearly applicable to general practice or has other defects in quality, research design, or consistency of studies as "moderate" certainty. Certainty is "low" when, for example, there are gaps in the evidence linking parts of the analytic framework, when evidence to determine the harms of treatment is unavailable, or when evidence about the benefits of treatment is insufficient. Table 4 in the methodology document listed below (see the "Availability of Companion Documents" field) summarizes the current terminology used by the Task Force to describe the critical assessment of evidence at all 3 levels: individual studies, key questions, and overall certainty of net benefit of the preventive service.
Sawaya GF et al. Update on the methods of the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force: estimating certainty and magnitude of net benefit. Ann Intern Med. 2007;147:871-875. [5 references].
What the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) Grades Mean and Suggestions for Practice
USPSTF Levels of Certainty Regarding Net Benefit
Definition: The USPSTF defines certainty as "likelihood that the USPSTF assessment of the net benefit of a preventive service is correct." The net benefit is defined as benefit minus harm of the preventive service as implemented in a general, primary care population. The USPSTF assigns a certainty level based on the nature of the overall evidence available to assess the net benefit of a preventive service.
A formal cost analysis was not performed and published cost analyses were not reviewed.
Peer Review. Before the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) makes its final determinations about recommendations on a given preventive service, the Evidence-based Practice Center and the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality send a draft evidence review to 4 to 6 external experts and to Federal agencies and professional and disease-based health organizations with interests in the topic. The experts are asked to examine the review critically for accuracy and completeness and to respond to a series of specific questions about the document. After assembling these external review comments and documenting the proposed response to key comments, the topic team presents this information to the USPSTF in memo form. In this way, the USPSTF can consider these external comments before it votes on its recommendations about the service. Draft recommendation statements are then circulated for comment among reviewers representing professional societies, voluntary organizations, and Federal agencies, as well as posted on the Task Force Web site for public comment. These comments are discussed before the final recommendations are confirmed.
Response to Public Comment. A draft of this recommendation statement was posted for public comment on the USPSTF Web site from 26 October to 23 November 2011. All comments received were reviewed during the creation of the final recommendation statement. Specifically, responses to these comments led to clarification of the definition of "intensive" and "multicomponent" in the Clinical Considerations and Discussion sections. The Implementation section was expanded to reflect referral to community-based programs. The Recommendations of Others section was expanded to include recommendations from other professional associations. The Clinical Considerations section was expanded to clarify why overweight was not included in the recommendation statement. The Scope of the Review section was refined to clarify the scope of the update. Some respondents asked about costs. The USPSTF does not consider costs in its appraisal of the effectiveness of a service.
Recommendation of Others. Recommendations for obesity and overweight from the following groups were discussed: The National Institutes of Health, The Canadian Task Force on Preventive Health Care, The American Academy of Family Physicians, and The American Congress of Obstetricians and Gynecologists.
The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) grades its recommendations (A, B, C, D, or I) and identifies the levels of certainty regarding net benefit (High, Moderate, and Low). The definitions of these grades can be found at the end of the "Major Recommendations" field.
Summary of Recommendations and Evidence
The USPSTF recommends screening all adults for obesity. Clinicians should offer or refer patients with a body mass index (BMI) of 30 kg/m2 or higher to intensive, multicomponent behavioral interventions. This is a B recommendation.
Clinical Considerations
Patient Population under Consideration
This recommendation applies to adults aged 18 years or older. The USPSTF uses the following terms to define categories of increased BMI: overweight is defined as a BMI of 25 to 29.9 kg/m2, and obesity is defined as a BMI of 30 kg/m2 or higher.
The USPSTF found that the most effective interventions were comprehensive and were of high intensity (12 to 26 sessions in a year). Although the USPSTF could not determine the effectiveness of other specific intervention components, most of the higher-intensity behavioral interventions included multiple behavioral management activities, such as group sessions, individual sessions, setting weight-loss goals, improving diet or nutrition, physical activity sessions, addressing barriers to change, active use of self-monitoring, and strategizing how to maintain lifestyle changes.
Weight-loss outcomes improved when interventions involved more sessions (12 to 26 sessions in the first year). Behavioral intervention participants lost an average of 6% of their baseline weight (4 to 7 kg [8.8 to 15.4 lb]) in the first year with 12 to 26 treatment sessions compared with little or no weight loss in the control group participants. A weight loss of 5% is considered clinically important by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA).
For obese patients with elevated plasma glucose levels, behavioral interventions decreased the incidence of diabetes diagnosis by about 50% over 2 to 3 years (number needed to treat, 7). Behavioral interventions also demonstrated some improvement in intermediate health outcomes, such as blood pressure, waist circumference, and glucose tolerance.
Interventions that combine pharmacologic agents (orlistat or metformin) with behavioral interventions resulted in weight loss and improvement in physiologic outcomes. Orlistat led to an average weight loss of about 2.6 kg (5.7 lb), a 1.9-cm decrease in waist circumference, and a decrease in fasting glucose level. However, there are concerns about the potential harms of orlistat because of recent U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) reports of rare severe liver disease and a lack of long-term safety data. Metformin led to a 1.5-cm greater decrease in waist circumference; however, its use for obesity is not approved by the FDA and is thus considered an off-label use. In addition, sufficient data were lacking about the maintenance of improvement after discontinuation of medications. As a result, the USPSTF is unable to recommend medication use.
Results of trials were not stratified by BMI category, making it difficult to ascertain the certainty of benefit in overweight (BMI of 25 to 29.9 kg/m2) groups. Although some studies included overweight participants, the mean BMI across trials was in the obese range (≥30 kg/m2). Therefore, the USPSTF was unable to examine differential effects of interventions on both overweight and obese patients. However, the recommended interventions may also lead to weight loss in some overweight patients. Compared with that of obesity, less is known about the association of overweight and long-term health outcomes.
Screening Intervals
No evidence was found about appropriate intervals for screening.
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The type of supporting evidence is not specifically stated for each recommendation.
Benefits of Detection and Early Intervention
The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) found adequate evidence that intensive, multicomponent behavioral interventions for obese adults can lead to an average weight loss of 4 to 7 kg (8.8 to 15.4 lb). These interventions also improve glucose tolerance and other physiologic risk factors for cardiovascular disease.
The USPSTF found inadequate direct evidence about the effectiveness of these interventions on long-term health outcomes (for example, death, cardiovascular disease, and hospitalizations).
Harms of Detection and Early Intervention
Adequate evidence indicates that the harms of screening and providing behavioral interventions for obesity are no greater than small.
Possible harms of behavioral weight-loss interventions include reduced bone mineral density and increased fracture risk, serious injuries resulting from increased physical activity, and an increased risk for eating disorders. Although limited data suggest that weight loss may be associated with decreased bone density at the hip, the clinical significance of the bone loss is uncertain. The trials found no evidence that weight-loss interventions are associated with serious injuries or an increased risk for eating disorders, weight cycling, or depression.
The experiences of the first and second U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF), as well as that of other evidence-based guideline efforts, have highlighted the importance of identifying effective ways to implement clinical recommendations. Practice guidelines are relatively weak tools for changing clinical practice when used in isolation. To effect change, guidelines must be coupled with strategies to improve their acceptance and feasibility. Such strategies include enlisting the support of local opinion leaders, using reminder systems for clinicians and patients, adopting standing orders, and audit and feedback of information to clinicians about their compliance with recommended practice.
In the case of preventive services guidelines, implementation needs to go beyond traditional dissemination and promotion efforts to recognize the added patient and clinician barriers that affect preventive care. These include clinicians' ambivalence about whether preventive medicine is part of their job, the psychological and practical challenges that patients face in changing behaviors, lack of access to health care or of insurance coverage for preventive services for some patients, competing pressures within the context of shorter office visits, and the lack of organized systems in most practices to ensure the delivery of recommended preventive care.
Dissemination strategies have changed dramatically in this age of electronic information. While recognizing the continuing value of journals and other print formats for dissemination, the USPSTF Task Force will make all its products available through its Web site . The combination of electronic access and extensive material in the public domain should make it easier for a broad audience of users to access USPSTF materials and adapt them for their local needs. Online access to USPSTF products also opens up new possibilities for the appearance of the annual, pocket-size Guide to Clinical Preventive Services.
To be successful, approaches for implementing prevention have to be tailored to the local level and deal with the specific barriers at a given site, typically requiring the redesign of systems of care. Such a systems approach to prevention has had notable success in established staff-model health maintenance organizations, by addressing organization of care, emphasizing a philosophy of prevention, and altering the training and incentives for clinicians. Staff-model plans also benefit from integrated information systems that can track the use of needed services and generate automatic reminders aimed at patients and clinicians, some of the most consistently successful interventions. Information systems remain a major challenge for individual clinicians' offices, however, as well as for looser affiliations of practices in network-model managed care and independent practice associations, where data on patient visits, referrals, and test results are not always centralized.
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Task Force Members*: Virginia A. Moyer, MD, MPH, Chair (Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas); Michael L. LeFevre, MD, MSPH, Co-Vice Chair (University of Missouri School of Medicine, Columbia, Missouri); Albert L. Siu, MD, MSPH, Co-Vice Chair (Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, and James J. Peters Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Bronx, New York); Linda Ciofu Baumann, PhD, RN (University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin); Kirsten Bibbins-Domingo, PhD, MD (University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California); Susan J. Curry, PhD (University of Iowa College of Public Health, Iowa City, Iowa); Mark Ebell, MD, MS (University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia); Glenn Flores, MD (University of Texas Southwestern, Dallas, Texas); Adelita Gonzales Cantu, RN, PhD (University of Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio, Texas); David C. Grossman, MD, MPH (Group Health Cooperative, Seattle, Washington); Jessica Herzstein, MD, MPH (Air Products, Allentown, Pennsylvania); Joy Melnikow, MD, MPH (University of California, Davis, Sacramento, California); Wanda K. Nicholson, MD, MPH, MBA (University of North Carolina School of Medicine, Chapel Hill, North Carolina); Douglas K. Owens, MD, MS (Veteran Affairs Palo Alto Health Care System, Palo Alto, and Stanford University, Stanford, California); Carolina Reyes, MD, MPH (Virginia Hospital Center, Arlington, Virginia); and Timothy J. Wilt, MD, MPH (University of Minnesota Department of Medicine and Minneapolis Veteran Affairs Medical Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota). Former USPSTF members who contributed to the development of this recommendation include Ned Calonge, MD, MPH, and George Isham, MD, MS
*Members of the USPSTF at the time this recommendation was finalized. For a list of current Task Force members, go to http://www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/Page/Name/our-members
The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) has an explicit policy concerning conflict of interest. All members disclose at each meeting if they have a significant financial, professional/business, or intellectual conflict for each topic being discussed. USPSTF members with conflicts may be recused from discussing or voting on recommendations about the topic in question.
Electronic copies: Available from the Annals of Internal Medicine Web site .
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Evidence Reviews:
Electronic copies: Available from the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) Web site .
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Electronic copies: Available from U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) Web site .
The following are also available:
The Electronic Preventive Services Selector (ePSS) , available as a PDA application and a web-based tool, is a quick hands-on tool designed to help primary care clinicians identify the screening, counseling, and preventive medication services that are appropriate for their patients. It is based on current recommendations of the USPSTF and can be searched by specific patient characteristics, such as age, sex, and selected behavioral risk factors.
Print copies: Available in English and Spanish from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) Publications Clearinghouse. For more information, go to http://www.ahrq.gov/research/publications/index.html or call (U.S. only).
Myhealthfinder is a new tool that provides personalized recommendations for clinical preventive services specific to the user's age, gender, and pregnancy status. It features evidence-based recommendations from the USPSTF and is available at www.healthfinder.gov .
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Costumes...rock...spikes...accordians? Yes.
Sunflower Dead takes veteran musicians Jamie Teissiere (formerly of DROID), Michael Del Pizzo and Jaboo (former members of Two Hit Creeper), Luis Gascon (touring member of Buckethead) and Jimmy Schultz (touring drummer of In This Moment) and turns them into walking corpses who just happen to play some in your face music for the living public. With their debut self-titled album ready to hit shelves on August 21, we are in for a natural and yet hard hitting sound feeding over the airwaves as Sunflower Dead takes their place on the metal music circuit. With expansive vocal range, tight instrumental and contagious rhythm combined with a truly unique brand of stage performance, the band is promising to be a favorite.
I had the opportunity to speak with vocalist Michael Del Pizzo about what we can expect from Sunflower Dead.
Jenn: How did you decide to get together on this project – what was the idea behind it and how did you go about selecting the right combination of musicians for what you want to do?
Michael: How we came together was very natural and we were extremely lucky. We've actually all known each other for 10-12 years now from playing the Los Angeles music scene, being in bands together before or playing in the same shows. The idea came about because we really wanted to give the audience something to look at. I went to a KISS concert a couple of years ago and it's really about putting on a show. We wanted something that was like that, but a little more modern and serious. We have had a lot of really happy accidents. It really has all happened with nothing planned, but its worked.
Jenn: What do you think sets Sunflower Dead apart from other bands on the metal scene right now?
Michael: A really dynamic sound – but natural. We're not over-processed or over-harmonized – we took a Guns n' Roses "Appetite for Destruction" kind of approach to this album. I do all my own harmonies and the music isn't too altered. You'd hear on the cd pretty much the same thing you would hear in a live show. We're also doing everything ourselves. We decided not to wait around for someone to help us get it done and we went out and made the cd, started looking at shows and everything on our own.
Jenn: What is the story behind the band name?
Michael: I live on Sunflower Ave and one day when I was going home I came up with a story (I am a writer too) about these five men who were murdered. The killer, who was never found, placed dying sunflowers into their eye sockets. The spirits came back to right the world's wrongs and became known as the Sunflower Dead.
One day we were all sitting around trying to come up with a band name and everyone had some really lame names. We made fun of each other's ideas for a while, and then it was suggested that we find something that was both beautiful and dark like our music represented, maybe with a flower in the name. I said, 'oh that's funny – I wrote this short story called the Sunflower Dead' – everyone really liked it; it really couldn't have been more perfect.
Jenn: You have a very unique look as a band – who came up with this look? Can we expect to see this at every show?
Michael: The look really came out of a conversation that me, Jamie and Jaboo were having – we had been wearing the suits and did the black eyes and Jaboo suggested we take it even further. So we thought about that. We had a horror movie makeup artist come in and play with some of the ideas we had. They really nailed it right away. When they showed us a picture of the result, there was our look. Yes, we will be in costume at every show – it will give something for people to look forward to seeing when they see we are playing.
Jenn: How does the image of the band differ from how you are every day – is it truly a stage persona or are there similarities?
Michael: The costumes and makeup are definitely just a stage thing. We don't walk around like zombies all the time and we're not in The Walking Dead (although I wouldn't mind that at all, its a great show). We aren't going to be doing interviews telling people we are these characters, etc. Lyrically though it's me – the more rabid and ravenous side of my personality.
Jenn: You have some really sick ink – which is your favorite one and why?
Michael: I'd have to say the one on my right forearm – it's a collage from my old band before Jaboo and I moved to California from Philadelphia. It really means a lot to me and to the people there. Plus, I have a kind of a charicacture of Jaboo in it so anytime I need anything and he gives me a hard time I can say "dude, I tattooed you on my arm!"
Jenn: So you guilt trip him with it?
Michael: Definitely.
Jenn: You also play the accordion – whatever made you get into that and how long have you been playing?
Michael: When I was around 20 years old I wanted to try something different. I grew up playing piano. One day I was just bored and decided I wanted to try and play something that no one else was really playing, so I went to the music store and bought some crappy accordion for $200. I taught myself. I don't play polka or anything like that, but I use it more as an "inhuman lung" or make it sound kind of like an eerie keyboard.
Jenn: Tell me about the album – what can we expect from it?
Michael: This is a really dynamic album with a lot of peaks and valleys through it. There are a lot of catchy riffs and musical themes and we really set a vibe. We're taking people on a journey, but sticking to the core of what we are trying to do. The sound we are bringing doesn't necessarily go with what we appear to be, so if someone just heard our song on the radio they may expect something completely different than if they saw our picture. It keeps it interesting. There are a lot of layers to this music, its like peeling the onion.
Jenn: Are there any tour plans for promoting the record that you can share with me?
Michael: We just started looking into tours for the fall, but we haven't booked anything yet. We do have a private CD release party in August over in Long Beach – its going to be crazy with a deejay, go go dancers, zombies and werewolf belly dancers.
Jenn: Wait – what? Werewolf belly dancers? You need to tell me more.
Michael: Yeah we have a friend who works for a company that does this. They are made up to look half human and half like they are changing into a werewolf, pretty awesome.
Jenn: Anything else you would like your current and future fans to know?
Michael: I like food. If you bring me food, delicacies of any kind, I am a happy camper.
Look for Sunflower Dead's debut CD in stores and on-line on August 21, 2012 - visit their website: www.sunflowerdead.com and check out the EPK teaser video right here.


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The Crimson Tide's spring graduates include eight All-Americans, four Academic All-Americans and 13 student-athletes who were part of national championships during their Alabama careers
Randolph earns offensive MVP, Cooper named defensive MVP
The Crimson Tide closed its season at 19-15 and is now 11-5 over its last 16 games in the NIT
Levi Randolph, playing in his 134th game in a Crimson Tide uniform, led the Tide with 20 points, seven rebounds and five assists
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Player Profile: Rodney Cooper
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Finished his Alabama career with 1,122 career points, good for 41st in program history … played in 131 career games, good for fifth all-time … played in 33 games, missing just one contest and starting each game he played … led the team in three-pointers with 49 and was second on the team in three-point percentage (.374) and minutes per game (31.5) … finished third on the team in scoring average (11.1 ppg), assists per game (1.6) and free throw percentage (.800) … was fourth in field goal percentage (.474) … closed his career with nine consecutive double-digit scoring performances … scored a season-high 27 points at Iowa State (11/24) while tying career-highs in field goals (10) and three-pointers (4) … had the game-winning put-back against Auburn (1/24) with six seconds left in the game to finish with eight points while matching a career-high with two blocks … put up 23 points while shooting a career-best 11-of-14 free throws against Tennessee Tech (12/13) … scored 19 points in the NIT opening round win against Illinois (3/17) … had a game-high 20 points at Miami (3/21) … scored in double-digits 19 times during the season and led Alabama in three-pointers a team-high 13 times.
Played in 32 games making 23 starts ... led team in rebounding (4.9 rpg) to go along with 7.5 points per game ... finished as Tide's top rebound in a team-best 15 games ... led team in assists seven times, second-most on the team ... recorded his third career double-double and second of the season with a season-high 22 points and 10 rebounds at Arkansas ... had 19 points and tied a career high with four three-pointers (4-of-5) in win over LSU, also posting season-high numbers in field goals made (7) and attempted (12) ... recorded double-double with 10 points and a career-high-tying 10 rebounds against Oklahoma ... had a career-high five assists along with 11 points, five rebounds and a block at South Carolina ... came off the bench to record 16 points, seven rebounds and three assists versus Charleston Southern ... set career high with four made threes and tied career best with three assists in that win over the Buccaneers ... totaled 15 points, six rebounds, three assists and three steals at Georgia ... came off the bench to account for 14 points in 30 minutes against then-No. 11/9 Wichita State.
Played in 35 games, making 34 starts while leading the squad in rebounds (4.5) and offensive rebounds (1.9) per game ... finished second on team in field goals made (136) and was third in scoring (10.2 ppg), field goals attempted (339) and double-figure scoring games (20) ... reached double-figure scoring in 11 of his 18 SEC games, compared to only nine in non-conference action ... named to 2K Sports Classic All-Tournament team ... recorded his first collegiate double-double by scoring a season-best 20 points and grabbing a career-high 10 boards in win over Mississippi State ... connected on a career-high tying three treys (3-of-5) in that win over the Bulldogs ... totaled 18 points and nine rebounds in triple-overtime loss at LSU ... scored 17 points in five different games ... scored 17 points to go along with eight rebounds and three assists versus Lamar ... poured in 17 points on 6-of-12 shooting in win over South Dakota State ... hit 7-of-10 field goals and accounted for 17 points in 2K Sports Classic championship game versus Villanova ... recorded 17 points and seven boards against Mercer ... hit game-winning three-pointer with 12.2 seconds remaining and finished with 12 points in 65-62 win over Oregon State.
Named to the SEC First-Year Academic Honor Roll ... averaged 5.3 points in 17.4 minutes per game during his freshman season ... started 14 games, appearing in 31 of 33 games ... averaged 8.8 points per game in SEC road games, on 51.2 percent shooting ... led Alabama in scoring twice, on the road at LSU (28 points) and Arkansas (17) ... stepped up with a season-high 28 points on 10-of-19 shooting at LSU, adding three three-pointers and a season-high five steals ... his 28 points at LSU ended up being the most scored by a Crimson Tide player in a single game all season ... scored eight points with a pair of three-pointers against Mississippi State ... led Alabama with 17 points off the bench in win at Arkansas ... made every shot he attempted, including a pair of three-pointers, and finished with eight points in win at Auburn ... had five points and four rebounds in 18 minutes at Georgia Tech ... started the first nine games of the season ... scored seven points on 3-of-4 shooting and a three-point play, as a late-game defensive substitution against VCU ... scored 11 of Alabama's first 15 points against Alabama A&M, finishing with 15 points and three three-pointers ... posted seven points and six boards against Maryland ... made the start in his first collegiate game and scored seven points with five rebounds against North Florida ... scored six points with seven rebounds against Oakland.
Joined the Crimson Tide ranked as a three-star recruit by all three major recruiting services ... Rivals.com rated him No. 35 among shooting guards and No. 117 overall nationally ... averaged 31.3 points and 10.4 rebounds as a senior at Russell County High School ... selected as a Parade first team All-American during his senior season ... named to the Alabama Sports Writers Association all-state first team ... also an ASWA Super Five selection ... averaged 20.1 points and 9.6 rebounds per game as a junior.
Born March 20, 1993 ... son of Richard and Rosemary Cooper ... majoring in marketing.


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The Museum of Aviation is a great place to hold your next special event, meeting or private gathering. We have several hangars and meeting facilities for a reasonable charge. Rates depend on location within the museum. Please contact the museum for availability and rates.
- 240 capacity
- Stadium-style seating
- Large screen with Audio Visual (AV) Capabilities
(If AV equipment is needed, user must bring own laptop. A dry-run is recommended and may be scheduled with our AV specialist at time of booking.)
- Located behind the gift shop
- No food or beverage allowed inside of auditorium.
(For events requiring reception, food and beverage will be placed in Rotunda under the F-15 wing.)
- 72 person capacity
- May hold up to 9 round tables seating 8
- Audio Visual capabilities (AV)
(must bring own laptop for event requiring presentation or slide show)
- Located on the 2nd floor of the Eagle Building
(elevator and stair access)
- 50-60 person capacity
- Classroom style seating
(add additional chairs around walls of room if needed)
- Audio Visual capabilities (AV)
(Must bring own laptop. A dry run can be scheduled at time of booking to insure a smooth presentation)
- Located on the 3rd floor of the Eagle Building
(elevator and stair access)
- 200 person capacity
- Holds 25 round tables seating 8
- Audio Visual capabilities with a large drop down screen
(Must bring own laptop. Please make arrangements to schedule a dry run at time of booking)
- 600 person capacity
- Must have at least 200 guests to book this venue
- Holds up to 75 round tables seating 8
- Has 3 large screens for Audio Visual capabilities
- Sound and lighting equipment
- Stage with two podiums and stage lighting
- Handicap friendly; offering ramp and elevator access
(Georgia Aviation Hall of Fame located on the 2nd floor)
- Parking lot behind Hangar One for closer access
- 5 pavilions each seating 40 people
- Up to 4 pavilions may be reserved for an event
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Nov. 29, 2012
TUSCALOOSA, Ala. - For the fourth consecutive season, The University of Alabama soccer team garnered recognition for its work in the classroom as the National Soccer Coaches Association of America (NSCAA) named the Crimson Tide to its College Team Academic Award list. To be eligible a team must have a cumulative grade point average above 3.0 for the 2011-12 academic year.
"We remain extremely proud of the work our soccer players put into their studies," Alabama head coach Todd Bramble said. "We are fortunate here to have an outstanding facility on campus that is staffed with people who care about seeing them succeed academically."
The NSCAA announced that a total of 732 soccer teams (225 men, 505 women) posted a team grade point average of 3.0 or higher, thereby earning the NSCAA Team Academic Award for the 2011-12 academic year.
Alabama had 14 players earn academic honors for the 2011 season, and the announcement of the 2012 honor roll will be made following the conclusion of the 2012 fall semester.


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1. Details to include in your athletic resumes:
- Your history in the sport
- Your current level, category or classification within your sport
- Current and relevant finishes along with the race date, the level/class/category you competed in
- Your sponsors, if any
- Any media coverage received including web, magazine, newspaper, video or TV coverage.
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Based on Java Servlet technology, JSP (JavaServer Pages) allows the platform-independent development of dynamic web applications.
JSP (JavaServer Pages)
JSP is a Java view technology running on a server which allows you to write template text in client side languages like HTML, CSS, JavaScript and so on. JSP supports the so-called taglibs which are backed by pieces of Java code with which you can control the page flow and/or output dynamically (programmatically). A well known taglib is JSTL. JSP also supports Expression Language (EL), with syntax like
${} which can be used to access backend data (actually, the attributes which are available in page, request, session and application scopes), mostly in combination with taglibs.
When a JSP is requested for the first time or when the webapp starts up, the servlet container will compile the JSP file into a class extending
HttpServlet and use it during the webapp's lifetime. You can find the generated source code in the server's work directory. In, for example, Tomcat, it's the
/work directory. On a JSP request, the servlet container will execute the compiled JSP class and send the generated output (usually just HTML/CSS/JS) through the webserver over the network to the client side, which in turn displays it in the browser.
Hello World
This example uses JSTL and EL to display the user IP and the today's date.
<%@ taglib uri="http://java.sun.com/jsp/jstl/core" prefix="c" %>
<%@ taglib uri="http://java.sun.com/jsp/jstl/fmt" prefix="fmt" %>
<jsp:useBean id="date" class="java.util.Date" />
<!DOCTYPE html>

<title>JSP Hello World</title>

Welcome, user from <c:out value="${pageContext.request.remoteAddr}" />

It's now <fmt:formatDate value="${date}" pattern="MM/dd/yyyy HH:mm" />
Save it as
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If JSTL doesn't work (the JSTL tags are not parsed/executed and still there in generated HTML output when you right-click and View Source in browser), then probably your servlet container doesn't support it out of the box (like Tomcat). You can install it by just dropping jstl-1.2.jar in
/WEB-INF/lib. If it still doesn't work, then refer JSTL info page for more detail.
You can also inline raw Java code in a JSP file using scriptlets (those
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<%@ page import="java.text.SimpleDateFormat" %>
<%@ page import="java.util.Date" %>
<!DOCTYPE html>

<title>JSP Hello World</title>

Welcome, user from <%= request.getRemoteAddr() %>

It's now <%= new SimpleDateFormat("MM/dd/yyyy HH:mm").format(new Date()) %>
Its use is however as per the JSP coding conventions discouraged for other purposes than quick prototyping.
Data pre-loading and form post-processing
To pre-load data for display in a JSP and to post-process a form submit, you'd like to use a Servlet. For more detail, see Servlets tag info page.

If you open this page in a browser and do a View Source, then you'll see something like:

(note that those single quotes were thus mandatory to represent a JavaScript string value!)
- use the HTML DOM to manipulate a hidden input field and fill it with the data, and if necessary submit the form using
form.submit()so that it's available by
- use
window.locationto do a "redirect" to a new URL with the JavaScript variable as a request parameter.
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XMLHttpRequestto send an asynchronous (ajax) request with the JS variable as a request parameter.
- let JavaScript set it as a cookie so that it's available by
request.getCookies()in subsequent requests.
Since Java EE 6, JSP has been succeeded by Facelets as default view technology for the Java EE MVC framework JSF (JavaServer Faces). Since the Java EE 6 tutorial, JSP is not treated in detail any longer. You need to head back to the Java EE 5 tutorial if you want to learn JSP. See also http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4845032/wheres-the-official-jsp-tutorial.
Online resources
- Wikipedia: JavaServer Pages
- Beginning & Intermediate Servlet & JSP Tutorials
- Advanced Servlet and JSP tutorials
- Core Servlets and JavaServer Pages eBook
Frequently Asked Questions
- What is the difference between JSP, Servlet and JSF?
- How to avoid Java code in JSP files?
- Hidden features of JSP/Servlet
- How to introduce Ajax in JSP? - Follow up
- How to upload files to server using JSP/Servlet?


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The server has been running very stable with 12.04 LTS for years but after upgrading to 14.04 LTS a encountered huge samba issues. Directly after upgrade the mapping from Windows was toggling but there was a samba fix next day correcting this. It has run fine for weeks but after the last updates it doesn't work at all. Yesterday I even tried to remove and reinstall samba without success.
Have read the other threads but it doesnt help me. Everything looks fine in Webmin 1.680. Users and shares exists. I reentered the passwords but I cannot map any network drive from Windows anymore.
System error 53 has occurred. The network path was not found.
It is no DNS issue. I get the same error when using IP-address. HTTP, SSH and ping works fine with host name.


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Hawkeyes set to compete against BYU and Utah
Jake Jacoby is unbeaten in singles heading into the match
Hawkeyes travel to compete against Cornell and Yale
Hawkeyes travel to compete against Cornell and Yale
Iowa to host Western Michigan/Western Illinois on Sunday
Iowa Men's Tennis vs Illinois
Hawkeyes Fall to No. 69 Indiana, 4-3
The Iowa Hawkeyes face Purdue in Iowa City
Bradley at Iowa Friday, Feb. 1, 2013
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Steve Houghton, the dean of Big Ten coaches, is in his 34th year as head coach of the Hawkeyes. He has compiled a career record of 354-396, recording the most wins of any coach in University of Iowa men's tennis history.
In the past five seasons, Iowa has defeated 22 nationally-ranked teams, including 15 opponents in the nationally recognized Big Ten Conference. Iowa beat 39th-ranked Minnesota in the conference opener in 2014. Houghton also has guided his athletes to success off the court recently as the 2011 Iowa team earned the ITA All-Academic Team Award.
Houghton has coached 20 All-Big Ten performers and his players have received 97 Academic All-Big Ten accolades. He has coached Big Ten singles champions and ITA Regional singles champions, and several of his players have played professional tennis, including Tyler Cleveland, who reached the top 300 ATP in the world.
Since taking over the program in 1982, Houghton has led the Hawkeyes to 13 winning seasons. Two years after taking over the program, the 1984 team won a school record 21 matches and finished fourth in the Big Ten Conference. Mike Inman and Sunil Reddy earned all-Big Ten honors. In 1989, Houghton was named NCAA Region IV Coach of the Year and picked up his 100th career dual win.
Houghton has coached many outstanding student-athletes at Iowa, including Tyler Cleveland, Claes Ramel, Martin Aguirre, Tom Derouin, Klas Bergstrom, Mike Inman, Stuart Waters and Bart van Monsjou.
Cleveland became the first player in conference history to earn consecutive Big Ten Player of the Year awards in 2000 and 2001. He is only one of two Hawkeyes in school history to earn all-Big Ten honors all four years of his career (1998-2001). He was also the first men's tennis player to be named University of Iowa Male Athlete of the Year, earning the honor in 2000. Cleveland's other honors include 2001 Region IV ITA Farnsworth Senior Player of the Year, 2000 Big Ten Sportsman of the Year, 1998 Big Ten Freshman of the Year and 1998 Region IV Rookie of the Year.
The doubles team of Ramel and Aguirre earned Iowa's first-ever national ranking, climbing to as high as 25th, by the Intercollegiate Tennis Coaches Association. In 1989, the duo became the first Hawkeyes to play at the NCAA Championships. They still hold the school record for best doubles record at No. 1 in a season (17-6).
He has coached two Davis Cup players at Iowa - Aguirre from Ecuador and Rudy Foo from Malaysia. Bryan Crowley won the Rolex Region IV championship in 1995 and was ranked first in regional singles action, before falling to career-hampering injuries.
Not only are Houghton's players students of the game, as their victories attest, but they are also students in the classroom. Houghton's players have consistently maintained a grade point average above 3.0 (on a 4.0 scale). Since the Big Ten started awarding academic all-conference honors in 1987, 40 Hawkeyes have earned Iowa's 88 honors. Iowa has had three four-time honorees (Ben Bamsey, Neil Denahan and Todd Shale), 23 three-time honorees, nine two-time honorees and 13 players earn the honor once.
Houghton also had a successful playing career at Iowa, lettering three years and winning the No. 5 singles championship at the Big Ten meet. His career Big Ten singles record was 21-6, and his career winning percentage of .727 (40-15) is the second best in Iowa history.
The Hawkeye coach was a member of the 1971 Iowa tennis team that recorded a 3.53 team GPA, the highest of any NCAA team in any sport that year. That team also qualified for the NCAA meet after a third place Big Ten finish.
A member of the Iowa Tennis Hall of Fame, Houghton completed his sixth year as a member of the Region IV Ranking Committee. He is also involved with the Iowa City Tennis Association and has worked with the Iowa sports school's tennis program since its inception. He has also served on both the NCAA ranking and selection committees.
An Iowa City native, Houghton was a nationally ranked junior player at City High School. He earned his bachelor's (1971) and master's (1973) degrees from the University of Iowa.
Houghton was born Jan. 9, 1949. Steve and his wife, Leora, have four children: Cari, Jeff, Jon and Scott.


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Online Bachelor of Business Administration Degree
The Bachelor of Business Administration is an excellent program for those who desire a Christ-centered and flexible education. The degree is completed entirely online, and explores business principles in a practical and biblical manner. Students are introduced to different areas of business including management, marketing, entrepreneurship, communication, and finance.
Program Structure
The structure of the program is unique. Classes are either taken in 15-week semesters or 4 month terms, depending on financing. Per federal regulations, students who use financial aid take semester-based classes. Otherwise, you have the option of taking classes within a 4 month term, in which you determine the start date of your classes.
Most students take three classes at a time. Classes are completed online and have weekly assignment due dates, but no meeting times. The faculty members are professionals in their fields, and share a Christian worldview. They purposefully incorporate faith in their classes. In a recent survey, 100% of students said that their faith has been strengthened by their experience at Taylor.
Course Format
Courses are offered in two formats. Major courses are collaborative study in which students interact through discussion boards. These courses are offered on a rotational basis in the fall, spring, and summer. Courses outside of major requirements are delivered in independent study format in which students work one-on-one with the professor.
In either format, you can work on a class any time of the day, and never have to be online at a specific time. Taylor utilizes Blackboard, a password protected interactive website, as the platform to deliver courses.
Transfer Credit
Most students transfer credit into the program. The Bachelor of Business Administration is a 120-credit-hour online program, and students may transfer up to 60 credits from regionally accredited institutions, which makes this degree ideal for students who currently hold an associate degree. In addition, credit can be earned through the College-Level Examination Program (CLEP) and life experiences documented in a prior learning assessment (PLA) portfolio.
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Hello from the New Mexico desert! Looking to start carrying a handgun, attend classes and such. Of course my number one priority is to find a gun that fits me and that I shoot well, but specifically I am looking for something that will be reliable and hardy. I live in the desert and this thing is going to need to function for me in dust storms and freezing snowstorms. My old man was with the USBP back in the day and tells me to go get myself a revolver. What do you all think?
I hear Glocks are as reliable as revolvers. Are SIGs reliable? I hear they're a little more maintenance dependent, but I've never been the kind of guy who doesn't clean his guns. Border Patrol is now using the HK P2000, but they've been having some issues with mechanical failures and breakages so I don't know... maybe that's inevitable.
Haha the list goes on forever. So I am going to go with what works best for me. But give me some guidance! Let me know where to start. Revolver? Glock? SIG? Other?
Remember, rugged reliability is my number one concern.
PS Maybe when we've settled this once and for all we can figure out which round to shoot in it!


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When forced to see and look for an appropriate setting for our fathers and mothers, aunts and uncles each family member has a role to be played. Do you know yours? This is a very vital time in the life of a family, not to mention in the span of a marriage or relationship. We must take the temperature of not only the situation but of all those in the situation with us. Can we provide quality life without imposing a sentence of 'my way'?
This is plotted out each day by those now in the turmoil of caring for an aging adult. And as we look at this conundrum, can we meet the needs without sacrificing our relationships and our own beings in the quest? This is a situation that is as old as time and yet as new as us. Adult children in the U.S. have not in many cases watched as family members were taken care of by other family members; and if they did what they saw was a through together plan to keep grandma or grandpa out of the nursing homes of the 1960's.
We, as a people, need to learn all over again how to meet this need. And while doing so, have our relationships and our beings survive.


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Looking through a local weekly community newspaper today, I came across several large Maine law firms listing some of their partners as having been ranked "among the best attorneys in the nation" by Chambers & Partners, which is apparently an independent British legal research firm.
I find it curious that the vast majority of the lawyers listed are all from the largest 10 or so law firms in the state. In addition, it appears that every state in the nation has a bunch of lawyers that are "among the best attorneys in the nation."
I've been practicing law for 25 years and know a fair number of Maine lawyers — especially those in the Portland area. Sure, I've never practiced with any of the big firms. But still, Maine has a relatively small bar. If you don't know of a particular lawyer, you've often heard of the person or know someone who has.
It's amazing how many of these lawyers that are "among the best attorneys in the nation" that I've never heard of before.
Do I think that Maine doesn't have any fine and gifted lawyers? Of course not. Do I think that Chamber & Partners doesn't scrupulously determine the best of the best for its rankings of global law firms? No, not at all.
But according to the Chambers & Partners website, Maine has nearly 75 lawyers that appear to be "among the best attorneys in the nation." Do I believe that?
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Tim Tebow doesn't have a contract, but he's happy about it. Formerly a QB for the Broncos, Jets and Patriots, Tebow has turned to acting instead.
He stars in the 2014 T-Mobile Super Bowl commercial and it looks like he's found his calling. Currently a free agent, Tebow seems to be enjoying his time being a man without an NFL team to play for.
Ranked as one of the best commercials of Super Bowl XLVIII, Tebow is featured in a variety of scenes bragging about how good life is without a contract.
Watch Tim Tebow in "What can Tim Tebow Do with No Contract?"
T-Mobile puts Tebow's no contract status to use by using the popular NFL player to promote its no contract cell phone service.
How is life without a contract working out for Tim Tebow? Watch the commercial and you'll see that its freed him up to pursue things like delivering babies, chasing Sasquatch, playing the lead guitarist in a heavy metal band and throwing a football at the moon.
Is this the funniest 2014 Super Bowl ad? It might be.
Not only is it funny, it may make Tebow fans choose to go contract free with T-Mobile. Especially if living the life fantastic like Tim Tebow does in the ad spot is appealing to you.
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Release Date: 2006-04-21
Genre: Drama,
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Duration: 1hr 46min
After making a misjudged advance towards her mother's boyfriend, 16-year-old Heidi flees her home for the small Australian ski town of Jindabyne. Entranced by the startling beauty of the wintry landscapes and falling snow, she begins to create a new life for herself. With little money or practical experience, she accepts a job at a petrol station and finds lodging with Irene. When she falls for Joe, the son of a wealthy local farmer, her self-destructive tendencies re-surface, and her fragile new world threatens to come tumbling down. An erotic, lyrical depiction of a young girl's sexual awakening, "Somersault" is a breakthrough debut for both its director and its star.
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Flash Memory Summit 2014 - One of the most interesting conversations we had at the Flash Memory Summit came from Dr. Simon Sze directly after he won a lifetime achievement award for co-inventing the floating gate back in 1967. Interestingly enough the very first floating gate was deployed in the original Nintendo game system.
According to our rough calculations there are over 1 pentillion floating gates in use in the world today. Or 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 floating gates, for those keeping exact track. Dr. Simon Sze has an interesting story, and continues to teach in a university to this day.


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Aug 18, 2012 8:21 AM
We aren't even going to try applying this 28 Day Mascara ($25) by ourselves, but we figure a month of having gorgeous lashes is worth the bottle of cheap Chardonnay we'll need to buy to bribe a friend into helping us. We'll just make sure she doesn't start drinking until we're done playing with chemicals.
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moss was commissioned to formulate the LAMP (Lakeview Area Master Plan) by the The Lakeview Chamber of Commerce to pro-actively plan for business, economic development, and sustainability initiatives in the Lakeview neighborhood of Chicago, Illinois. The plan creates a hub for urban scale sustainable design innovation and improvements while enhancing the pedestrian environment, strengthening business opportunities, and mending the urban ecosystem.
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The NEW Outdoor-Experience!
The FUSION line has been the most sportive Yeti sleeping-bag line so far.
With its body-contour shape this line is setting new standards. A generous freedom of movement for the shoulders and legs and a best-possible insulation function are the features of this line. Tailor-made thermal insulations (700+ cuin) filled with European goose crystaldown and a ten per cent feather proportion provide for the required insulation. Comfortable one-hand operations at the drawstring provide for a precise and fast closing of the thermal collar.
The elastic string offers sufficient space and freedom of movement during sleeping. The new comfort-fit hood encloses perfectly the head.
The calendered fabric offers high protection against wet conditions and wind.
Thanks to the new FUSION models the fascination of travelling is fully thriving.


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We're having a hard time staring at this clutch and finding our lives complete without it. The Polka Dot Clutch ($228) by Juicy Couture is sweet (the large and lovey bow) and sassy (metallic polka dots!). We'd like to think of ourselves as both those things (errr...sweet and sassy, not bowed and polka-dotted), so this clutch is a perfect fit. If you're like us, it's going on your list for Santa pronto!
Betsey Johnson did this two years ago. I have one that's black with pink polka dots and looks very very similar, but classier.
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Are you tired of keeping track of all the different websites to search when planning your RV travels? To research a wide range of campground options, an RVer typically needs to find and consult websites for state parks, national parks, private RV park and campground associations, RV clubs, and more. Otherwise they only get a partial view of the venues available.
A new website portal, AccessCamping.com, now gives you access to more than 500 private and public campgrounds, RV parks and resorts across the country. Access Canadian Camping
provides similar information for much of Canada.
The AccessCamping.com website is easy to use. Start your search by selecting a state. Then explore the options in three categories: private campgrounds, state campgrounds and campground affiliations.
The campground affiliations category provides a variety of links, including ones to:
- US Army Corps of Engineers recreation areas,
- online databases of the major campground industry directories, including those of Trailer Life, Woodall's and the National Association of RV Parks and Campgrounds
- campground chains, such as Kampgrounds of America Inc. (KOA) and Jellystone Park Camp-Resorts.
At this point, the site does not have a link to the national parks. In the meantime, you can find out about all the U.S national parks at www.nps.gov.
AccessCamping.com also includes an iPod application.
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Sandra Cagle Wins July's Blue Ribbon Award
Sandra Cagle, senior secretary of computing services, is the Blue Ribbon winner for the month of July. In her nomination, Vivian Schmid, senior programmer, pointed out that Sandra divided her time between the computer center and CECA for three years where there were more than 30 student workers to supervise in addition to payroll and paperwork for both offices. "Sandra has been a valuable part of our UTC computer center family since 1984. The service she provides is invaluable to everyone, but she is particularly close to the student workers who often seek her out for advice or a sympathetic ear," wrote Vivian.
Has a UTC employee gone the extra mile to help you? You can show your appreciation by nominating that person for a Blue Ribbon Award. A committee appointed by the chancellor selects monthly winners who exhibit outstanding service. Nominations should be specific in identifying incidents that show the nominee has served with special distinction. All non-faculty staff (full or part-time) with at least one year's regular service are eligible for the award. Any UTC faculty, staff, student, alumnus, or member of the community can submit nominations.
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Open House weekends project
I got the chance to wear both my writing and design hats in this recent project for The Tennessean. I designed the logo to promote two open house weekends in April, hosted by the Greater Nashville Association of Realtors. The project included yard signs, web graphics, print ads as well as some writing work—radio scripts and promotional materials.


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Ironbuds from Acoustic Forge - under $50 ecobuds
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STAGEDIVER 4S smaller housing - more users! Technical data correspond to SD 4. STAGEDIVER 4 Each one comes with 4 drivers per ear, powered by a 2-way crossover network, the StageDiver 4 offers enormous reserves in the base, linear middle notes an finely nuanced high notes. The perfect mapping of frequencies and three-dimensionality offers musicians, sound engineers and hi-fi...


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Rogers and Bell getting Windows Phone 7, too: Samsung Focus and LG Quantum (Optimus 7Q)
Telus will not be the only Canadian carrier to offer Windows Phone 7 devices soon. Rogers and Bell are also readying the release of WP7 handsets (although Microsoft left them out when announcing its launch partners).
Rogers will bring the Samsung Focus to Canada, a touch-only device with a 4 inch Super AMOLED display, 5MP camera, HD video recording, 1GHz processor, and 8GB of internal memory.
The price and launch date of Rogers' Samsung Focus was not announced.
Bell is all set to offer the LG Quantum (also known as LG Optimus 7Q).
The LG WP7 handset features a 3.5 inch WVGA display, full QWERTY keyboard, 5MP camera, HD video recording, and 1GHz processor. The Quantum could be sold by Bell for $199.95 with a 3-yr contract agreement.


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March 9, 2013
Three Bruins rounded out the weekend at the men's and women's track and field indoor championships Friday in Fayetteville, AR. Allison Koressel set a personal best in the women's pole vault, posting a score of 14-1.25.
Koressel was one of three Bruins who competed Saturday. She placed fifth in the pole vault final, jumping a career indoor best mark (14-1.25).
Marcus Nilsson completed the heptathlon Saturday, taking 14th place (5,386 points). He finished the 60m hurdles in 8.50, the pole vault at 4.60m and finally the 1,000m in 2:41.88.
Brea Buchanan finished the weekend for the Bruins, taking fifth place in the women's 60m hurdles final (8.16). Buchanan also qualified fifth in the preliminary round Friday.
"Today was a huge day for our Bruin women's team. Two athletes finished with season bests during this weekend's championships," Director of UCLA Track & Field Mike Maynard said following the end of the meet. "Our coaching staff has done a great job preparing these athletes for this meet. I'm excited by the future of this team as we move to the outdoor season in the coming weeks."
The Bruins begin the outdoor season next weekend, as they head to San Diego for the Sheraton Mission Valley Aztec Invitational.


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Cruiserweight Francisco Palacios (21-2, 13 KOs), has not fought since 2012, and though no fault of his own, he just was not getting any fights fighting under Don King. Moving on, Palacios has ended his contract with Don King and started his own promotional company. World Wide Elite Entertainment, created by Palacios will allow him to create his own fights and assist other talented fighters that have experienced the same hardships he has faced.
Palacios, a tough scrapper with tremendous talent, fought Krzysztof Wlodarczyk twice in Poland for the WBC cruiserweight title, and in both bouts walked away empty handed and with questionable results. The bouts with Wlodarczyk were the only two losses for Palacios, and he says the losses taught him a lot.
Without a doubt, Palacios is eager to climb in the ring, it may have been a long time since boxing fans have seen him fight, but Palacios has been very active and working out, always prepared to fight.
Francisco Palacios is wasting no time for his quest for a world title. He will begin by facing James Johnson for the USBU cruiserweight title as the main event, on Saturday, Sept. 20, at the Mela Room in Orlando, Florida. The card is being presented by Palacios and his Worldwide Elite Entertainment.
Joining Palacios in his corner will be John Scully, one of the most respected trainer's in the business. Scully, known as the "Iceman" in his fighting days was a world-ranked light heavyweight.
Since retiring, Scully has trained world champions, Chad Dawson and Jose Rivera. He has also worked with contenders, Ray Oliveria, Mike Oliver and Matt Godfrey.


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Shoreline Firewall 4.2.4 Includes IPv6 Variant
The Shoreline Firewall product, also known as Shorewall, has arrived in its 4.2.4 version. The new release includes a configuration tool for IPv6 networks.
Analogous to their IPv4 forerunners, the IPv6 packages are called Shorewall6 and Shorewall6-lite. The configuration data is stored in the /etc/shorewall6/ and /etc/shorewall6-lite directories, respectively. As with Netfilter, the IPv4 and IPv6 variants are configured and controlled separately. Even starting and stopping the traffic is separate for each address family.
Shorewall6 doesn't use Network Address Translation (NAT), rather local addresses use an IPv6 prefix. The Shoreline release announcement includes further details. Downloads are available here in various package formats.
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But if you are not using the latest Linux kernel, your system is insecure.
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The web seams to be full of holes the last few weeks with all of the smartphones that have been leaked. There has been the iPhone6, a pair of Nokia Windows phones and the HTC W8. The one platform that seemed to be missing from the leak factory was any android-based smartphones. On Monday that absence was taken care of when GSMarena leaked the first photos and rumored specifications of Samsung's Galaxy Note 4.
The pitchers show the back panel will have a faux leather finish and metal frame giving the so called 'phalet' a professional portfolio look to it. Along the bottom there is a microUSB 3.0 port, S pen stylus holder, headphone jack and a speaker. The back also show a camera that is rumored to be a very respectable 16-megapixel. If you look next to the camera you will see a little sensor that is rumor to be a heart-rate sensor.
The one thing that is certain is that the Galaxy Note 4 will have a high-resolution 5.7-inch display. The rest of the possible specifications of the smartphone are a Qualcomm Snapdragon 805 process running at a blazing 2.7 GHz, 3 GB of RAM, 32GB of internal storage, a 3-megapixel front-facing csmera for 'selfies' and video chatting, a finger printer scanner and a 2,560 x 1,440 resolution on that big display.
The official announcement of the Galaxy Note 4 is expected to be made at a September 3 'unpacked' event to be held in New York, Berlin, and Beijing. The timing of the event will giving Samsung a jump on the IFA consumer trade show set to kickoff the next day in Berlin were they induced the original Galaxy Note in 2011.
When Samsung introduced that original Galaxy Note the standard for smartphones was 4-inches. When Samsung announced their 5.3-inch Note it was quickly dubbed a 'phablet' and dismissed as something that would never catch on in the marketplace. The Galaxy Note did succeed to catch on in the market helping propel Samsung into the smartphone leader it is today.
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text: The Fornace laboratory focuses on signal transduction and abnormalities in cancer. The laboratory has made important contributions in defining the roles for key tumor suppressor pathways in cancer prevention, and their perturbations that contribute to tumor development and resistance to cancer therapy. Many of these important pathways impact on signaling mechanisms controlling cell death, apoptosis, which have potential in prostate cancer therapy. The laboratory previously received a Department of Defense Award to study death receptors, such as TRAIL, and their roles in mediating apoptotic signaling in prostate cancer. A new line of research focuses on targeting a oncogenic phosphatase that blocks apoptosis and related protective responses; for more details see: "Chemical inhibition of Wip1 phosphatase contributes to suppression of tumorigenesis". Cancer Biol Ther 4: 1154-1158, 2005.