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Professor, Department of Medicine (Gastroenterology & Liver Diseases)
Professor, Department of Genetics
Dr. NAMITA ROY-CHOWDHURY
The overall goal of my laboratory is to study the liver-based inherited metabolic diseases, mainly, inherited disorders of Bilirubin Glucuronidation and Primary Hyperoxaluria type 1. To understand these diseases we determine the mutations in the genes and structure-function relationship. We also developing methods for correction of these diseases by gene therapy, introducing functional genes by different methods and by liver cell transplantation. As normal liver cells are not easily available and to avoid immune suppression, we collect skin fibroblasts of the patients and reprogram these to induced pluripotent stem cells, differentiate them to hepatocytes and transplant these cells to different animal models to test their efficacy.
II. Primary Hyperoxaluria Type 1 (PH1)
PH1 is an autosomal recessive disease caused by mutations in the alanine:glyoxylate aminotransferase gene (AGXT). In humans, insufficient AGXT activity in liver peroxisomes leads to increased oxalate production that causes calcium oxalate stones in the kidney and then in blood, heart, bones, etc. It is a lethal disease unless combined liver and kidney transplantation is performed. We have developed a mouse model of PH1. Our plan is to cure this disease by (a) gene therapy (b) transplantation of adult primary hepatocytes or (c) hepatocytes derived from human embryonic (hESC) or induced pluripotent stem cell (iPSC). For the latter, fibroblasts from the skin of normal volunteers or patients with PH1 are used to generate iPS. Initially we used viral vectors to generate induced pluripotent stem cells. Our current focus is to use non-integrating factors to generate iPS cells.
Roy-Chowdhury, J., Locker, J., and Roy-Chowdhury, N. (2003) Nuclear Receptors orchestrate detoxification pathways. Developmental Cell 4,1-2.
Ghosh, S.S., Lu, Y., Lee, S.W., Wang, X., Guha, C., Roy-Chowdhury, J. and Roy-Chowdhury, N. (2005) Role of cysteine residues in the function of human uridinediphosphoglucuronate glucuronosyltransferases-1 (UGT1A1). Biochem J. 392, 685-692.
Roy-Chowdhury, N. Wang, X., and Roy-Chowdhury, J.(2006) Bile Pigment Metabolism and Its Disorders. Principles and Practice of Medical Genetics, Fifth Edition, Rimoin DL, Connor JM, Pyeritz RE, Korf BR, editors. Churchill Livingstone,London.
Salido, E., Li, Xiao, Lu, Y., Wang, X., Santana, A., Roy-Chowdhury, N., Torres, A., Shapiro, L., Roy-Chowdhury, J. (2006) Alanine-glyoxylate aminotransferase deficient mice, a model for primary hyperoxaluria that responds to adenoviral gene transfer. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci., USA, 103:18249-18254.
Kawashita Y, Guha C, Moitra R, Wang X, Fox I, Roy-Chowdhury J and Roy-Chowdhury N. (2008) Hepatic repopulation with stably transduced conditionally immortalized hepatocytes in the Gunn rat. J Hepatol. 49: 99-106.
Jiang J, Salido EC, Guha C, Wang X, Moitra R, Liu L, Roy-Chowdhury J and Roy-Chowdhury N. (2008) Correction of Hyperoxaluria by liver repopulation with hepatocytes in a mouse model of primary hyperoxaluria type -1. Transplantation 85,1253-1260.
Roy Chowdhury N, Roy Chowdhury J. Disorders of bilirubin metabolism. In The Liver: Biology and Pathobiology, 4th edition, Arias, IM, editor in chief. Wiley-Blackwell,Oxford,U.K. 2009, 251-256.
Roy-Chowdhury N, Roy-Chowdhury J. (2010) Liver physiology and energy metabolism. In Sleisenger and Fordtran's Gastrointestinal and Liver Disease, 9th edition.Feldman M, Friedman LS, Brandt LJ, editors. Saunders-Elsevier,Philadelphia. Pp. 1207-1226.
Ding J, Yannam GR, Roy-Chowdhury N, Hidvegi T, Basma H, Rennard SI, Wong RJ, Avsar Y, Guha C, Perlmutter DH, Fox IJ, Roy-Chowdhury J. (2011) Spontaneous hepatic repopulation in transgenic mice expressing mutant human alfa 1- antitrypsin by wild-type donor hepatocytes. J Clin Invest.121(5): 1930-1934.
Zhou H, Dong X, Kabarriti R, Chen Y, Avsar A, Wang X, Ding J, Liu L, Fox IJ, Roy-Chowdhury J, Roy-Chowdhury N, Guha C. Single liver lobe repopulation with wildtype hepatocytes using regional hepatic irradiation cures jaundice in Gunn rats.PLoS One, 7:e46775,2012.
Sauer V,Roy-Chowdhury N, Guha C, Roy-Chowdhury J. Induced pluripotent stem cells as a source of hepatocytes. Curr Pathobiol Rep 2:11-20, 2014. (DOI 10. 1007/s40139-013-0039-2). NIHMS555298
Chen Y, Li Y, Wang X, Zhang W, Sauer V, Chang CJ, Han B, Tchaikovskaya T, Avsar Y, Tafaleng E, Madhusudana Girija S, Tar K, Stephen S, Bouhassira E, Guha C, Fox IJ, Roy-Chowdhury J and Roy-Chowdhury N. Amelioration of hyperbilirubinemia in Gunn rats after transplantation of hepatocytes derived from human induced pluripotent stem cells. Stem Cell Reports, 5,: 22-30, 2015.
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Albert Einstein College of Medicine
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Thursday's letters: Special interests
Published: Thursday, September 26, 2013 at 4:30 a.m.
Last Modified: Wednesday, September 25, 2013 at 3:46 p.m.
To the editor: Of the 20 poorest states according to the U.S. Census Bureau, those with the lowest median incomes, 15 voted Republican in 2012, including North Carolina, the 13th poorest state. These are the states that are most likely to have citizens without health insurance, that receive the largest food stamp benefits and that receive more federal dollars than they pay in federal income taxes.
These 20 states have 127 Republican members of the U.S. House versus 45 Democratic members. These Republican members comprise 55 percent of the total Republican House members. Yet all of the House Republicans in these states voted recently to defund Obamacare and most, if not all, voted to cut 4 million people off food stamps starting in 2014.
These Republicans are also the members who refuse to consider an increase in the minimum wage and who want lower taxes for the higher income earners, most of whom live in other, frequently Democratic-voting, states. Go figure.
The tea party may be part of the cause of this dichotomy, but the real cause is probably the corruptive influence of special interest money in politics, mainly due to the Supreme Court decision in the Citizens United case.
Ron Davis
Flat Rock
Wrong way
To the editor: I have noticed a dangerous traffic trend frequently happening on King Street and Church Street in downtown Hendersonville. Both streets are one-way and flank Main Street, with King Street going north and Church Street going south. Three times over the past few months and twice in the past two days, I have witnessed cars traveling the wrong direction down King or Church. Two of these times, cars were heading directly toward me, almost causing an accident.
This is an extremely dangerous problem because even though cars typically travel at slow speeds on these streets, they both have heavy traffic throughout the day. When a wreck does occur because of a car going the wrong direction, many people could potentially be involved. I personally know people who have been hit by a car going the wrong way on one of these streets, and the wreck caused serious health problems.
Why does this keep happening? Are one-way signs at each intersection not sufficient to prevent cars from going the wrong way? Are traffic offenders people from out of town who are unfamiliar with downtown street patterns? In any case, this is a serious matter that needs to be fixed.
Luke Dennison
Two thumbs up
To the editor: Here comes the judge!
Steve Franks, former District Court judge and candidate for Hendersonville mayor on Oct. 8, is all for challenging the status quo.
This includes improving parking in our downtown area, upgrading Seventh Avenue, and reinstating walking the beat by police officers to create safer and friendlier neighborhoods. Additionally, he is in favor of implementing the 17-mile bike and hike trail from the city to Pisgah Forest on the unused railway tracks. Steve also wants to reduce city impact fees to attract new businesses. All proposals are without raising taxes.
Improving our community is always a plus. A vote for Steve Franks for mayor is a vote for Hendersonville improvements.
Two thumbs up for Steve Franks for mayor on Oct. 8!
Lynda Erwin and
Bonnie Wilson
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'Sharknado 2: The Second One' Recap
The people who brought you the film that revived the careers of Tara Reid, Ian Ziering and the shark from Jaws are back with another mid-summer campfest, and you might think fame and money and notoriety might have ruined all the fun of watching something as idiotically titled as "Sharknado," but you'd lose that bet, race fans (and really, how did they set this one in New York City and not subtitle it "The Great White Fillet"? That's a missed opportunity right there.)
Okay, let's get one thing straight; this is not going to be a Joe Morgenstern, Pulitzer-worthy review. For one thing, Morgenstern wouldn't stoop to covering this goofball TV movie. For another, well, come on, it's called Sharknado. How serious can you be about something called Sharknado?
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Not very serious, and the people who put this comedy/horror piece of bite-sized zeitgeist don't take it very seriously, either. They have a lot of fun with it, but the real fun of this is watching it with the second screen. Last summer's original became a wild, viral hit when people took to Twitter to talk about the movie while watching it. This time around, the producers acknowledged that: a still before every commercial break contained several tweets from viewers. Everybody got in on the act, ever actors. Wil Wheaton, who we were told had a cameo in the movie (we missed it), tweeted this out:
If Tara Reid doesn't end this movie with a chainsaw for a hand, I don't even know why we got out of bed today. #Sharknado2
— Wil Wheaton (@wilw) July 31, 2014
Either he saw the script, or Young Wesley Crusher's got a great eye for foreshadowing.
The most amazing aspect of this whole phenomenon isn't the movies themselves; it's not the stories, or the scripts, or the acting, or the special effects (somewhat better now that they had an actual budget to work with). No, it's the fact that people find this utterly ridiculous movie so entertaining. Count us among that cohort. It's impossible to explain rationally at all why these movies are fun. You just have to want to enjoy some stupid, goofy, campy, empty-calorie popcorn. Watching Sharknado with however many thousands of others on Twitter is the modern equivalent of watching a midnight showing of "The Rocky Horror Picture Show" at a movie theater. The shared experience is what makes it entertaining.
Rocky Horror did have some good songs, at least.
Do you even need us to really explain what happened? Well, sure, why not. Fin (Ziering) and April (Reid), who miraculously survived the LA sharknado, are taking a trip to New York City to visit Fin's family. While en route to the city, the 747 they're flying gets caught in another storm, and right from this opening sequence you know what you're going to get: sharks, silliness, cameos, and clever little nods to other disaster tales (like the classic Twilight Zone episode "Terror at 20,000 Feet.") Robert Hays, from the classic airplane-disaster spoof "Airplane," makes an appearance, and you know this is going to be one two-hour winkfest.
With sharks. Lots and lots of sharks. There are three twisters twirling around Manhattan, and a lot of the plot, what plot there is, involves our heroes racing around Manhattan trying to find something, anything to use to fight the sharks. The Big Apple may have everything, and never sleep, but try finding a gun shop or hardware store. Fin climbs atop a fire truck, exhorts the New Yorkers to fight the sharks, and well, ends up riding a shark in the sky, Dr. Strangelove-style, right onto the antenna on top of the Empire State Building.
Like we said, it's all relative. Very, very relative.
Sharknado 2 has more clever winks than the original, and that's saying something when the original included an out of work actor getting killed by a flying letter from the Hollywood sign. This one had a ton of cameos, too, including Andy dick, what we thought was a Spice Girl but was actually Downtown Julie Brown, Billy Ray Cyrus, Robert Hays (as an airplane pilot, nice touch), Judd Hirsch (as a cab driver, nice touch as well), Will Wheaton (we were told), Kelly Osborne (we were told), Michael Strahan, Kelly Ripa, Al Roker, Matt Lauer, Richard Kind, Biz Markie, Robert Klein, we're not even sure who else, and a slice of New York pizza.
And you just can't beat a slice of New York pizza.
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The plot: Four friends find a magical Hot Tub that transports them back to 1986, Hilarity ensues. Rob Cordry, Clark Duke, Craig Robinson accompany John Cusack in one of the weirdest-looking movies we've seen in a long time.
In all honesty, though— it gets major points for the great casting, Chevy Chase cameo, and seeming just different enough than the Broken Lizard, Ben Stiller-made, or Judd Apatow movies.
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OAKLAND -- Tom Tolbert, standing courtside at before a Warriors playoff game last year, braced himself for the looming sonic boom.
Some NBA crowds are loud. Warriors crowds are ...
"Like being under the Blue Angels at Fleet Week," Tolbert said, gazing into the Oracle Arena stands. "The sound totally fills up your head."
Tolbert ought to know. For one thing, he spent three seasons as a Warriors forward during that rollicking early '90s era known as Run TMC. For another, he now works as a KNBR broadcaster and sometimes finds himself struggling to be heard above the din.
If the house is rockin', don't bother talkin'.
Now, as the Warriors gear up for their first home playoff game of 2014, Game 3 against the Los Angeles Clippers on Thursday, players are hoping fans can again pump up the volume.
The deafening soundtrack last spring helped fuel a first-round upset of the Denver Nuggets and prompted a new nickname for their home court -- Roar-acle.
"The energy level is probably going to be out of the arena," said center Jermaine O'Neal, an 18-year veteran in his first season with Golden State. "I've heard a lot about the atmosphere and the loudness of it. I know how loud it is in the regular season, so I can imagine what it's going to sound like in the playoffs."
The Warriors are at 6-0 at home over their past two first-round matchups, using a crowd of 19,000-plus to fuel upsets of the Mavericks (a No. 1 seed in '07) and Nuggets (a No. 3 seed last season). Sports Illustrated's Phil Taylor wrote at one point during the Nuggets series that "it sounded as if the game was being played on the tarmac at Oakland International."
ESPN last year took to showing a decibel-meter during Warriors broadcasts, and the crowd responded with readings that reached the 110 dBs range -- about the same as a jackhammer.
"Sometimes I take my headsets off (during a broadcast) because I want to soak it up a little bit," Tolbert said. "It gives you goose bumps occasionally when they get going and they sustain it a little bit."
The Warriors, though, spent much of the past few days trying to tune out the noise. They lost 138-98 on Monday at Staples Center, a blowout that evened the best-of-seven series at 1-1.
The Warriors know fans might give them a lift -- but not 40 points' worth.
"As good as our crowd is -- they're the best fans in the NBA -- we've still got to come out and get stops. We've got to score baskets," Draymond Green said. "We can't come out relying on the crowd to get it done for us."
The noise presents a hurdle for more than just opponents. John Trinidad, the remote engineer for KNBR, must find away to spare his radio audience the audio overload. During the regular season, microphones positioned near the floor can add to the ambiance by picking up squeaking sneakers or the thump-thump-thump of dribbled basketball.
But during the playoffs, the floor microphones pick up nothing but screaming fans. "It's hopeless because my priority is to get Tim (Roye) on the air," Trinidad said. "Anything else I can do is just frosting on the cake."
Trinidad, who has been courtside for Warriors broadcasts since 1981, has grown to appreciate Oakland fans not just for the decibels but for their sense of timing. He uses last year's Western Conference semifinals as an example.
"The thing that's intimidating about it is that they know when to do it -- when it's on the Spurs' end of the floor, when the Spurs are at the line, when the Spurs call a timeout -- that type of thing," he said. "It's not mindless my-first-Warriors-game-ever type of cheering."
Whether Oracle is the "loudest arena in the NBA" is a matter of debate. Last Nov. 16, a sellout crowd of 17,317 in Sacramento reached 126 decibels in the fourth quarter, a feat recognized by the Guinness Book of World Records as the loudest roar at an indoor stadium.
On reputation, it's a tougher call. Fans in Utah and Oklahoma City want to be heard, too.
The Warriors, though, aren't interested in settling the argument. After Monday's punch to the gut, they're just eager to give Oracle something to shout about.
"It gets crazy in there during there playoffs," Green said. "I mean, it's crazy any time, but it's an entire different level during the playoffs. ... We have to make sure we bring even more energy to the building. And it can get pretty ugly with that crowd."
Staff writers Diamond Leung and Jimmy Durkin contributed to this report. Follow Daniel Brown on Twitter at twitter.com/mercbrownie.


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Learn about levee tax
Published: Monday, November 26, 2012 at 10:52 a.m.
Last Modified: Monday, November 26, 2012 at 10:52 a.m.
Residents will get a chance to learn and ask questions about an upcoming levee tax proposal during a forum Tuesday in Chauvin.
It starts with dinner at 6:30 p.m. at the Ward 7 Citizens Club, 5006 La. 56. A presentation by levee officials begins at 7 p.m.
The Terrebonne Levee Board is asking voters Dec. 8 to approve a half-cent sales tax. Early voting is under way this week.
The tax would raise more than $330 million to finish and maintain the locally built Morganza-to-the-Gulf hurricane-protection system.
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|Photo by: Jeff Foy Photography
Why yes, yes it is. I was in charge of the sweet potatoes and rolls for our family holiday meal and thought to myself, "Self, I lived to tell the story of the red turkey at Thanksgiving and maybe I could test my luck by by making some kind of tamale this time?" I went looking for tamale recipes that included sweet potatoes and I found what I was looking for in a recipe from Bobby Flay, I made a few alterations based on a Peruvian recipe I found in an old book and added a squishy homemade marshmallow, my sister-in-law likes sweet potatoes that way, and I had a tamale that I thought was super yummy. One note about the original Bobby Flay recipe is that, as written, it has no sweet potatoes in it and instead calls for pumpkin puree. All I can say is that it worked out great with sweet potatoes but I used additional masa to guarantee that it steamed correctly.
|Lots of corn husks
|Tamale as it is being wrapped, notice the thickness of the masa mixture
|Wrapped tamale. I didn't tie mine
|Steamed and slathered with pecan butter. This one is minus marshmallow Photo by: Jeff Foy Photography
I also tried more savory, chicken and cheese tamale steamed in parchment. They were pretty good and a bit easier, as far as not having to work with the corn husks. I have never been a huge fan of tamales but I actually kind of liked this version. The recipe I used was from Food and Wine and other than not using plastic wrap, I used parchment paper, they were pretty tasty.
As I mentioned earlier, I also made marshmallows for my sister-in-law to add on top of her sweet potato tamale. I made two kinds while I was at it, regular and peppermint. We have been adding the peppermint ones to our hot chocolate and I have to admit that I melt right along with the marshmallow when I taste it. Marshmallows are crazy easy to make and there is nothing better than fresh made because they are fluffier, softer and much more flavorful than the store bought kind. I used a Martha Stewart recipe and made a few minor changes to it. You can find the recipe with the changes here.
|both regular and peppermint marshmallows Photo by: Jeff Foy Photography
Sweet Potato Tamales with Pecan Butter
Chicken and Cheese Tamales Steamed in Parchment
Two Kinds of Marshmallows
Maranda of Jolts & Jollies was our January 2012 Daring Cooks hostess with the mostess! Maranda challenged us to make traditional Mexican Tamales as our first challenge of the year!
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Divided House Slows Vote on Terrorism Insurance Bill
House Republicans are split over how to deal with an expiring law that provides government-backed insurance against terrorist attacks. There's no clear pathway forward despite a 93-4 vote to reauthorize it in the Senate two weeks ago, and if Congress doesn't act by Dec. 31, the law will expire.
The Terrorism Risk Insurance Act (TRIA) was signed into law in 2002 in response to the 9/11 terrorist attacks and stemmed in part from fears that private insurers wouldn't backstop certain real-estate projects or potential targets like pipelines because of uncertainty over who would cover losses from a future terrorist attack. It has been reauthorized twice, in 2005 and 2007.
The law is complicated, but essentially guarantees that the federal government will pay a share–not all–of the losses from "an act of terrorism" that causes more than $100 million in damages, up to a $100 billion cap.
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In the House, TRIA's future rests in the hands of House Financial Services Committee Chairman Jeb Hensarling (R., Texas), who has criticized the program but backed a bill to extend it with changes. Mr. Hensarling has said the program was only supposed to be temporary and includes too much taxpayer exposure, but he has also said that a private market for this sort of insurance hasn't yet developed and that another temporary backstop is needed.
In June, he supported a bill by Rep. Randy Neugebauer (R., Texas) that would extend the program for five years and raise the government's backstop "trigger" to $500 million in certain cases, among other things.
The bill passed Mr. Hensarling's committee by a 32-27 vote. Several New York Republicans who didn't like the changes went along with it in committee because they felt they could work with Democrats to make significant changes on the House floor.
But in July, the Senate voted 93-4 to reauthorize TRIA for seven years with a few minor changes to the current law, putting pressure on House Republicans to address the issue.
At a closed-door meeting of House Republicans two weeks ago, incoming House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R., Calif.) called on members to rally behind the Neugebauer bill, saying it would give them leverage in Senate negotiations to push changes, according to Rep. Peter King (R., N.Y.), who attended the meeting.
Mr. King also spoke at the meeting, saying the bill would be a big mistake and would hurt development and economic growth in places like New York because of the uncertainty about who would cover losses in the event of a terrorist attack. Mr. King supports a full reauthorization of TRIA, as do a number of business and sports groups including the National Grocers Association and Major League Baseball.
House GOP leaders held an "informal" whip count and realized they didn't have the votes to pass the bill that navigated through the House Financial Services Committee.
Mr. King said GOP leaders are now in a pickle. Do they bypass Mr. Hensarling and hold a vote on the Senate TRIA bill, or do they stand by the Texas lawmaker? Mr. Hensarling is now considering a seven-month extension of the current law, which would give them until August 2015 to come up with a longer-term plan. It's unclear if such a bill would pass the Senate or the House.
Both critics and supporters of the bill say the process is stuck in legislative wrangling, leaving the outcome uncertain.
Mr. Hensarling has suggested the House process won't be settled for several months. "We have some members who believe the reforms go too far and we also have a host of conservatives who feel the reforms don't go far enough," he said in a statement after the Senate vote earlier this month. "Washington is paying a lot of attention to one group's concerns, but not enough attention to the other's. That's got to change if any TRIA bill is going to pass."
"They don't know how to get around Hensarling without going to war," Mr. King said of GOP leaders. "He's put himself in this position."


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SAN JOSE -- A serial burglary suspect who slipped his handcuffs and stole a police van earlier this week was caught Thursday after he was found sleeping in another stolen vehicle about a mile from where he was first arrested, police said.
Anthony Sanchez, 32, was arrested about 11:20 p.m. Thursday after patrol officers spotted him in a stolen truck near Normington Way and Mt. Castle Drive in South San Jose. He was booked into Santa Clara County County jail on suspicion of four counts of auto theft -- including the police vehicle -- drug possession, burglary, possessing stolen property and for having two felony warrants for violating probation.
Sanchez was first arrested Wednesday afternoon after officers following through on the warrants found what they believe was stolen property linking him to several home and vehicle burglaries in South San Jose, said Sgt. Jason Dwyer.
"When you think of career criminal, this is your poster child," Dwyer said.
Officers used two sets of handcuffs to restrain Sanchez because of his large size and put him into an unmarked minivan. While an officer was distracted with paperwork, Sanchez slipped the cuffs to the front of his body and shimmied to the driver's seat and sped off, police said.
The van, which did not have any weapons inside, was found two hours later near Almaden Expressway and Wren Drive, but Sanchez didn't surface until the following night.
Contact Robert Salonga at 408-920-5002. Follow him at Twitter.com/robertsalonga.


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Ah, the great method actors. There's Robert DeNiro, Daniel Day-Lewis, Ashton Kutcher ...
To get into character to play the late Apple cofounder Steve Jobs in the film "Jobs," Kutcher went on a fruits-only diet that sent him in the hospital with pancreas problems.
"First of all, the fruitarian diet can lead to, like, severe issues," Kutcher told USA Today after the movie's screening at the Sundance Film Festival. "I went to the hospital, like, two days before we started shooting the movie. I was, like, doubled over in pain."
"My pancreas levels were completely out of whack. It was really terrifying ... considering everything."
That's, like, awful.
Maybe he was being a bit too much like Jobs, who was a fruitarian -- meaning he only ate fruits, nuts and seeds -- who died in October 2011 of pancreatic cancer.
The 34-year-old Kutcher -- who admits that, like Jobs, he has a "ravenous interest in the tech space" -- said about the visionary entrepreneur: "He's a guy that failed and got back on the horse. I think we can all sort of relate to that in some place in our life where we are moving forward with something and we fall down. You have to have the guts to get back up and go again. I think I share that as well."
RICK ROSS TARGETED IN SHOOTING: Someone opened fire on rap star Rick Ross on Monday morning while he was driving with his girlfriend in Ft. Lauderdale.
Neither Ross or his girlfriend, 28-year-old Shateria L. Moragne-el, were injured. Ross crashed his car into a building while escaping the gunfire, according to TMZ. The suspect fled before police arrived.
According to local news reports, "dozens" of shots were fired at the Rolls-Royce vehicle around 5 a.m., none of which hit the car but instead struck several nearby buildings. Police said another vehicle pulled up next to Ross and someone opened fire.
TMZ reported that police were planning to examine security cameras at a building across the street from the crash to try identifying either the shooter or the vehicle.
The Miami Herald reported Ross had just left the nearby Floridian Diner where he had celebrated his 37th birthday. The Diner's front window was damaged in the shooting.
Police do not yet have a suspect or a motive. Two witnesses told police the gunman got off about 20 rounds, none of which actually struck the Rolls.
DESTINY'S CHILD WON'T REUNITE AFTER ALL: Remember that big Destiny's Child reunion that was supposed to happen at the Super Bowl?
Not so much.
Beyonce's fellow Destiny's Child member Michelle Williams has shot down rumors of a possible reunion during Beyonce's halftime show, saying the reports are "not true."
"I'm going to be in the musical 'Fela!'" she recently told WRUG Media. "I hate to disappoint the people and tell them that it's not true."
E! Online reported Monday that Williams is headlining a world tour of the famed musical, and according to the show's website, she'll be performing at Washington's Sidney Harman Hall at 3 p.m. and 8 p.m. on Super Bowl Sunday.
Who goes to musicals on Super Bowl Sunday? Is that even legal?
Reports surfaced last week claiming Michelle and Kelly Rowland would join Beyoncé on stage at the New Orleans' Superdome Feb. 3 to perform a medley of their greatest hits. Williams said that's not going to happen.
"I'm so sorry. I'm so sorry," Williams said. "But we did record a song with each other before the holidays."
Williams referred to Destiny's Child's single "Nuclear," the group's first new recording together in eight years, off their new album "Love Songs."
TAYE DIGGS CATCHES INTRUDER: Taye Diggs confronted, chased and captured a guy who broke into his Los Angeles home Sunday night.
That's a guy who needs his own action theme music, right there.
The "Private Practice" actor just returned home from the Screen Actors Guild Awards, where he presented alongside Busy Philipps. TMZ reported Diggs found a man trying to break in just after 11 p.m.
Good thinking. Wait until after the award show is over to break into the celebrity's home.
Authorities said Diggs confronted the intruder and chased him after the man took off running. Diggs caught up to the suspect, who was said to be about 20 years old, and held him until police arrived.
The suspect allegedly had a getaway driver who fled the scene.
BARBARA WALTERS HAS CHICKENPOX: Barbara Walters now has chickenpox, casemate Whoopi Goldberg said Monday on "The View."
"You all know that she fell and cut her head 10 days ago, and then was running a temperature, but it turns out it is all the result of a delayed childhood," Goldberg said. "Barbara has the chickenpox. She'd never had it as a child. So now she's been told to rest, she's not allowed any visitors, and we're telling you, Barbara, no scratching!"
"We love you. We miss you. We just don't want to hug you," Goldberg said.
According to the ABC News website, Walters was transferred to a New York hospital late last week and expects to be home very soon.
Chickenpox is common in children but considered much more rare, and severe, when adults get it. The disease can be fatal in adults if not treated promptly.
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1929: The Seeing Eye, a New Jersey-based school which trains guide dogs to assist the blind, was incorporated by Dorothy Harrison Eustis and Morris Frank.
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mattmelcher wrote:When Gary puts his mind to it...it gets done...
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Staurday evening...the bridge is done.
porkchop wrote:I played the Norwalk course today and was joined by a scraggly golden retriever named buddy (so his tag said). I shot even from the long pads, including the framed gravel Hole #2 long (I think that 5-7 under is ideal for an advanced am). I started a second round at -3 but quit, I will explain later.
- Great course for a small town
- Great job on the signs, benches, and bench pad; you guys will have very little erosion problems because of these
- Great use of the stream
- Tough greens
- Holes # 5, 6, and 7 are great holes.
- Dogs, dogs, dog, and more dogs. Bob Barker should come teach the fine folks of Norwalk about spade and neutering.
- The Hole # and distances on the pads are nice, but due to the smooth surface they are slick. Therefore shortening the pads, or causing you to have to stride over that part if you start form behind; something you should not have to worry about.
- Hole #2 long fairway throws over #1 pin, this is just something to watch out for in future design. This should not be a problem unless park usage spikes and people are putting at the same time others are teeing off.
- Hole #11 plays to close to the utility substation for my liking, the preferred right handed route throws over it. I would recommend modifying the hole.
- Hole #5 needs some love. At 366 ft this hole is very duceable, but there is no way through the trees. All pins should have a route to them, the only one I saw was a thin gap over the bridge. On my first drive I crushed a wraith hyzering across the creek directly to the pin only to get knocked down by the trees and landing in a big ass ravine/creek. I laid up the second time around, my safe shot was about 70 feet away, but due to the trees my only shot was up and over. The thumber landed 5 feet from the pin but rolled into the pool of water in the creek to the left of the pin. I was using a branch over hanging the pool to support myself while fetching the disc, then the branch broke and sent me ass first into the pool. I didn't feel 8 more holes soaking wet sounded fun so I turned in. I also feel that the bridge plays to close if that gap is the only route. I would suggest removing a few trees to open up a route, this would make it duecable and also parable with a safe shot.
Overall fun course, with some tough greens, great for the town of Norwalk
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I am new to the waterfowl side of the hunting area and am wondering what is the best boat to take out? I am looking for one that can hold about 3 ppl and is cost effective (less than 3k)?
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Need more info to be able to offer any opinions. What kind of water are you thinking about hunting: small stream, small lakes/ponds, big river, big lakes, shallow sloughs, flooded timber? It has a lot of bearing on what kind of boat & motor combo would work for you. What part of the country are you from? What works for me and the hunting I do may well not work for you.
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I would suggest (and this is my personal opinion here) something in the 14-16' range. I also suggest nothing less than a 48" bottom for the stability, especially when hunting 3 people. Not only does it add stability on rivers and big creeks, but the extra room is nice for gear and dogs, etc... As far as hull design, it's completely up to you. I like a mod-v or semi-v over a flat bottom, but again, that's what works best for where I hunt.
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I am new to the waterfowl side of the hunting area and am wondering what is the best boat to take out? I am looking for one that can hold about 3 ppl and is cost effective (less than 3k)?
1) You get what you pay for. Always remember that.
2) Get something safe and big enough to suit your needs. ie can hold the decoys, weight, and the size water you hunt.
If you can find a used Carolina Skiff, or Jones Brother Skiff - that's ideal (for me anyhow). Get something big enough to hold your load. And something big enough for the water you hunt (think worst weather scenario). Sinking a boat in ice cold water, is trouble. And your life is not worth skimping on to save a few bucks.
Carrying 3 people, dekes, dog, gear = probably a decent sized boat.
3K might be a little light... might wanna consider saving some more funds, or maybe you'll luck up and find a sweet deal on a used boat to meet your needs.
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AUGUSTA, Ga. (WRDW) -- News 12 has learned the paraprofessional accused of slapping a student across the face has been fired.
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Monday, January 21, 2013
Augusta, GA- Paine College Lion, Senior Mario Jordan, has joined the 1000 points club. Jordan scored his 1000th collegiate career point, Monday, January 14, 2013 in Frankfort, Kentucky as the Lions faced Kentucky State University.
Mario scored 11 points, Jan. 12 against Lane College, to put him just nine points away.
The countdown to 1000 began at 9:11 when Mario hit a 3-pointer, his only basket in the first half.
Out of the break, and unbeknownst to Jordan, he was just six points away from recording a milestone. A 3-pointer cut Kentucky State's lead to one (54-53) with 8:47 remaining, and the milestone was set in stone at 8:14, connecting on a third 3-pointer to give the Lions a two point (56-54) lead over the Thorobreds.
Although the Lions were defeated (78-73), Jordan finished the night leading the Lions scoring 16 points; 4-7 from the field, 4-5 from the 3-point arc, and perfect 4-4 from the free throw line.
Jordan, who is a graduate of Washington County High School in Sandersville, GA, and the son of Veronica Cato, had scored 851 points going into his senior season.
As a freshman (09-10), Mario scored 143 points; sophomore (10-11) 382 points, and junior (11-12) 326 points.
This season, he has scored 183, with a season high 27 points, Saturday Jan. 19 in an 89-70 win over Fort Valley State University to give him a total of 1034 collegiate points.


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Kansas City Young Audiences - Miss Nelson Is Missing
Saturday, September 15, 2012
2:00pm @ Waldo Branch
Miss Nelson Is Missing is a humorous tale of a teacher who must go to outrageous extremes to deal with the most horribly-behaved class in her school.
Now Harry Allard and James Marshall's perennially popular book for young readers comes to life in an interactive play performed by arts educator Andi Meyer.
The performance is sponsored by Kansas City Young Audiences in celebration of National Arts In Education Week, authorized by the U.S. Congress to promote and showcase the role arts education has in producing engaged, successful, and college- and career-ready students.
Kansas City Young Audiences (www.kcya.org) was created in 1961 to bring classical music programs to area schools. Over the years it has expanded to deliver programs in all arts disciplines while managing the Arts Partners program and the Community School of the Arts. Today it is the largest provider of arts programs in the Kansas City area and one of the largest members of the national Young Audience Arts for Learning network.
Admission is free. Guests may register to win $100 to be applied to the cost of an arts education performance for the school of their choice.


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BELPRE - The City of Belpre was taken over by Belpre High School seniors on Monday for the annual Student Government Day event.
Roughly 20 members of the school's social studies senior class were voted by their peers to represent city officials during the day that began with swearing in ceremonies in the morning and ended with them sitting in for council members and city officials during Monday night's Belpre City Council meeting.
Several of these students also sat in for city officials the mayor, city prosecutor and police chief during a mock Belpre Mayor's Court trial in the afternoon.
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Belpre Mayor Mike Lorentz, left, speaks with Belpre High School senior Allison Gherke who was elected by her peers to represent him on Monday for the annual Student Government Day event. (Photo by Jolene Craig)
Belpre Clerk of Council Kim Meredith, left, and Colton Parsons, a senior at Belpre High School, take notes as he acts in her position Monday for Belpre City Council's annual Student Government Day. (Photo by Jolene Craig)
Belpre High School senior Chris Matheny, left, speaks to city councilwoman Susan Abdella, whom he is filling in for, on Monday during the the annual city council Student Government Day where students fill in for city officials and council members for the final meeting of the year. (Photo by Jolene Craig)
"I had no plans to participate when it was announced, but I'm glad I did it," said Leah Roberts, who sat in as city prosecutor. "I have found the day very beneficial because I learned the importance of the different courts and how the city works."
Longtime councilman Dewey Robinson said Monday's group of students did a good job with the agenda and what they did during the council meeting Monday night.
"This is the first time I've had a student out of the 4th Ward, which I represent, sit in for me," Robinson said. "I've been here 27 years and I've enjoyed every minute of it."
Mayor Mike Lorentz said this year's students were "a good group."
"It has been a pleasure, as usual, to have these young people work with us," he said. "If these are our future leaders, than I think we are OK."
Council president Will Neff said that the students did an "extraordinary job" filling their counterparts' shoes.
"These are some sharp young people and I think they are going to bode well for our country in the future," he added.
Students who participated in the event included: Allison Gherke who represented Lorentz; Chelsea Carpenter who sat in safety-service director Dave Ferguson's seat; Cody Martin represented city law director Tom Webster; Zach Thompson was Neff's council president counterpart; and Colton Parsons worked as Kim Meredith's clerk of council.
As for council members, at-large members Susan Abdella, Bob Wallace and John Newberry were represented by Alex Johnston, Chris Matheny and Robby Postlewaite.
Trent Stanley sat in for 1st Ward councilman Larry Martin, while 2nd Ward councilwoman Debbie Marshall was represented by Darlene Pickering, 3rd Ward councilman Eric Sinnett was represented by Jay Mason - who also filled in for Fire Chief Bob Frank - and 4th Ward councilman Dewey Robinson was aided by Hazel Greg.
Other city officials represented were Kayla Roberts for Police Chief E.D. Clevenger, Bryce Pittenger for city auditor Leslie Pittenger - who is also his aunt -and Ryan Leasure for city treasurer Bill McAfee.
Belpre City Government Day is always held the second Monday of December and was started more than 30 years ago by current Belpre Board of Education member Rod Hineman.


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You know the drill.
The Running group will be doing a different kind of running in Freeway Fury.
And the Retro group will be playing Untouchable.
Tetris Achievements At level 0, height 5 on game mode A.
Usual rules for the screenshots apply, including that they must be posted in the thread to be counted. The accepted score in Untouchable is your most recent, not your best. In addition, it should match your kongregate highscore.
The top 2 from each group will advance to the final!
As always, the spreadsheet is located here, totally ready to go for the next round.
This round will end at 12:00 Noon EST (GMT -5) on December 4, 2012.


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Get an overview of this hotelWaterfront hotel with free breakfast and free airport shuttle
Located in the heart of Portland, this hotel is within a 15-minute walk of Casco Bay Lines Ferry Terminal, Wadsworth-Longfellow House, and Portland Observatory. Children's Museum of Maine and Victoria Mansion are also within 1 mi (2 km).
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An indoor pool, a fitness center, and valet parking are available at this hotel. Free buffet breakfast, free WiFi in public areas, and a free airport shuttle are also provided. Additionally, a business center, a meeting room, and laundry facilities are onsite.
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Hampton Inn Portland Downtown Waterfront features an indoor pool and a fitness center. High-speed wireless Internet access is complimentary. Business-related amenities consist of a business center and a meeting room. A complimentary breakfast is offered. A roundtrip airport shuttle is complimentary to guests (available on request). Onsite parking is available (surcharge).
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"Let Food Be Thy Medicine…"
Well, October has ended, and I don't know about you, but I am a little "pinked out" these days. Don't get me wrong: I appreciate that October was Breast Cancer Awareness Month, and of course it's wonderful that organizations like the Susan G. Komen Foundation have raised hundreds of millions of dollars for breast cancer research over the years. I hope that cancer research eventually finds a cure for this awful disease, and I fully support getting out and racing for a cure and even buying a pink umbrella or Cuisinart if you're in need of a new one.
But the cynical side of me — and the side that's a mom of a young daughter — is a bit irked that the commercialization of breast cancer has overshadowed any talk of prevention, specifically the lifestyle choices we can make to help protect us from the disease.


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Bicyclist charged in burglary
Published: Wednesday, January 30, 2013 at 1:00 p.m.
Last Modified: Wednesday, January 30, 2013 at 1:00 p.m.
A man admitted to stealing air-conditioning coils from a Thibodaux relative after police stopped him on his bike and the relative decided to press charges, police said.
Charles Cole, 42, 125 W. Park Ave., Lot 12, Thibodaux, was stopped about 12:30 p.m. Friday, Thibodaux Police said. He had several coils on his bike. When he saw police, he turned around and began pedaling in the opposite direction.
When the officers, also on bikes, stopped him, he admitted he burglarized a home in the 1200 block of Goode Street and stole the coils, police said.
Cole is charged with simple burglary of an inhabited dwelling and simple criminal damage to property. He is still in the Lafourche Parish jail on bonds totaling $32,000.
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Maps of Louisiana are an very helpful area of ancestors and family history research, particularly in case you live far from where your ancestor was living. Because Louisiana political boundaries sometimes changed, historic maps are generally critical in assisting you uncover the precise location of your ancestor's hometown, what land they owned, who their neighbors were, and a lot more.
Maps of Louisiana generally are likely to be an outstanding reference for how to get started with your research, since they give substantially beneficial information and facts quickly. Louisiana Maps can be a major source of important amounts of details on family history.
Louisiana borders Arkansas, Mississippi and Texas. Louisiana's 10 largest cities are New Orleans, Baton Rouge, Shreveport, Metairie, Lafayette, Lake Charles, Kenner, Bossier City, Monroe and Alexandria. Learn more about Historical Facts of Louisiana Parishes.
There are large Louisiana map collections in both university libraries and public libraries. There are also several map collections in historical and genealogical societies, as well as private collections and archives. The French Quarter is home to the Historic New Orleans Collection, which includes the d'Auberville-Bouligny Family Papers and the Bouligny Family Papers. Those collections include maps and large amounts of documentation about the Spanish and French colonial times.
There is information found in the maps that cannot be found elsewhere. For example, the Claude Perrin Victor Papers and the Pierre Clement de Laussat Papers are particularly full of useful information. Antebellum era maps can also give researchers insights into transportation methods and population growth across Louisiana. Every piece of property in the French Quarter is listed in the Vieux Carr Survey. Photographs, drawings, and property title chains are included. The Historic New Orleans Collection also includes many of those documents.
Original survey plats, field notes, and maps of Louisiana that were made by early surveyors working for the United States can be found in Baton Rouge at the State Land Office, which is in the State Land and Natural Resources Building. The clerk of courts office in each parish courthouse may also hold plat maps, which list land ownership.
Interactive Map of Louisiana Parish Formation History
Old Antique Atlases & Maps of Louisiana
See U.S. State & County Boundary Maps and Antique Atlases to view free map images of antique maps & atlases maps during the years 1732 to 1897 for the entire United States as well as other states and countries.
These are scanned from the original copies so you can see Louisiana and Louisiana counties as our ancestors saw them over a hundred years ago. Some Louisiana maps years (not all) have cities, railroads, P.O. locations, township outlines and other features useful to the avid genealogist in Louisiana.
- 1776 Coast Of West Florida and Louisiana…with the Bahama Islands
- 1804 Louisiana Map
- 1814 Map of Louisiana
- 1822 Geographical, Historical, And Statistical Map Of Louisiana
- 1827 Map of Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama
- 1836 A New Atlas Map Of Louisiana With Its Canals, Roads & Distances from place to place, along the Stage & Steam Boat Routes (with) New Orleans
- 1845 Louisiana Map
- 1856 Louisiana Map
- 1856 City Of Louisville Kentucky. (with) The City Of New Orleans Louisiana Atlas Map
- 1866 Map of Louisiana
- 1880 County map of the states of Arkansas, Mississippi and Louisiana
- 1880 Plan of New Orleans
D.O.T. Parish Road and Highway Maps of Louisiana
The Louisiana Highway Department has prepared a series of parish road maps. These maps contain more detailed information about man-made features than the geological survey maps. In addition to roads and boundaries, these maps include rural communities, churches, and cemeteries.
To View the Map: Just click the Image to view the map online. In order to make the Image size as small as possible they were save on the lowest resolution.
Louisiana Map Links
- Louisiana Digital Map Library (usgwarchives.net)
- Lemmon, Alfred E. Charting Louisiana: Five Hundred Years of Maps. New Orleans: Historic New Orleans Collection, 2003.
- Louisiana Maps, Atlases & Gazetteers (ancestry.com)
- Louisiana Maps – The Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection (lib.utexas.edu)
- Louisiana State Museum Map Database (crt.state.la.us)
- U.S., Indexed County Land Ownership Maps, 1860-1918 (ancestry.com)
- Historical Maps of Louisiana (alabamamaps.ua.edu)
- American Memory Map Collection: 1500-2004 (memory.loc.gov)
- Louisiana State Museum Map Database (lsm.crt.state.la.us)
- Louisiana Map Books (amazon.com)


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CORPUS CHRISTI – The Texas A&M-Corpus Christi women's soccer team returns to the road this weekend for a pair of Southland Conference contests. The Islanders will face off with Central Arkansas (3-3-2) on Friday at 7 p.m. before taking on Oral Roberts (7-2-0, 2-0-0 Southland).
The Islanders had a tough opening weekend that saw them take two of the top teams in the Southland to the brink, but fall by one goal each time. A&M-Corpus Christi went toe-to-toe with Southeastern, but a second-half goal lifted the Lady Lions to a 1-0 victory on Friday. Then on Sunday, the Islanders found themselves in a 2-0 hole thanks in part to injuries on the back line, before pressuring undefeated Nicholls to the final whistle in a 2-1 loss.
Freshman Yvette Franco headed home the Islanders' only goal of the weekend in the 2-1 defeat, giving the standout eight goals in eight games for her career. She trails only Nicholls' Spencer Valdespino in the Southland in that category. Audrey Baldwin had 17 saves over the weekend, and leads the league with her 7.5 stops per game.
UCA will make its conference debut on Friday night after a solid non-conference slate that was highlighted by wins over Louisiana Tech and Louisiana-Monroe. The Bears also defeated Mississippi Valley State and posted draws against Lipscomb and UMKC in their non-conference action. The team is coming off a 3-0 loss to TCU on Sunday.
Adriana Lucar paces the offense with her five goals and 12 points for the Bears, while Brooke Ballard is just behind with four scores and nine points on the season. UCA has outscored its opposition 17-13 on the year. Hayley Romero has seen the bulk of the time in net for the Bears, posting a 0.86 goals-against average and a .769 save percentage on the campaign.
Oral Roberts has gotten off to a strong start on the 2013 campaign, carrying a 7-2-0 mark, including victories over the Southland's top two teams from a season ago. The Golden Eagles' only two defeats have come at the hands of Tulsa (2-0) and Oklahoma (1-0). In its opening conference weekend, ORU knocked off Stephen F. Austin in overtime and defeated Lamar 3-0.
Four players have scored at least four goals for the Golden Eagles, led by Jennifer Abernathy's five scores and 15 points on the year. Mary-Kate Halsmer, who scored the golden goal against SFA, is joined by Megan Giles and Kayla Keller with four goals on the season. In net, ORU has been without projected starter Helen Erb due to injury, but Maddie Rhodes has stepped in and posted a 0.81 GAA and an .810 save percentage in her six games of action.
For all the latest on Islanders Soccer, be sure to follow the team on Instagram and Twitter (@IslandersSoccer) and like the team's official Facebook page (Islanders Soccer).


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November 09, 2012
New research carried out for Barclays amongst 1,000 small businesses shows that fear of failure is holding many of them back. More than half of those polled (57%) admit that they have put off making important decisions in case they make the wrong call. And 48% admit their fear of failure has prevented or could prevent their business from growing.
Dubbed BoFFs (Businesses overcome by Fear of Failure) by the report authors, the research shows that these firms are concerned about many issues, including:
And these worries have altered the way many firms approach risk, says the report. Over half (51%) of the respondents say the economic environment has affected their approach to making business decisions. And over a quarter (27%) admit that economic uncertainty has made them much more hesitant about long-term decisions.
Sue Hayes, managing director of Barclays Business Banking, says this fear of failure could be impacting on the UK economy as a whole. She said: "The ability to make important decisions is vital to the growth of all businesses and the overall UK economy. At the time of making important business decisions, it's only natural to be scared of getting it wrong.
"It can feel like you are taking a big risk – whether that is decisions about staff, products, finance or even your marketing strategy. Despite the tough external environment, there are many opportunities to be seized upon."
Jon Cousins, psychological entrepreneur, said: "While risk aversion is a totally normal human response, the BoFF phenomenon is out of character when compared to the traditional risk-seeking behaviour we might expect of entrepreneurs. In the face of adversity a fear of failure can cause a freeze reaction amongst businesses, where it can often wrongly seem safest to do nothing at all."


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Each year on February 2, Americans across the country watch as the nation's most famous groundhog predicts the fate of winter weather in Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania. Chances are, the groundhog will emerge from his burrow and see his shadow, signaling six more weeks of winter.
Seattle's Best Coffee is eager to ease the sting of six more weeks of winter by offering free coffee to a lucky few if the groundhog sees his shadow.
Winter weather watchers can cast their prediction and enter for a chance to win a free cup of coffee by registering on Facebook.
"At Seattle's Best Coffee we know, without a shadow of a doubt, a delicious cup of coffee is the best way to warm a long winter day," says Jennifer Dimaris, vice president, brand management, Seattle's Best Coffee. "If Punxsutawney's famous groundhog predicts more winter days ahead, we want to offer a few lucky Americans the chance to warm up with a hot cup of Seattle's Best Coffee."
Those who want to join the festivities can visit Seattle's Best Coffee's Facebook page to register to win a free sample of Seattle's Best Coffee and vote.
If the groundhog does see his shadow, those who register will be eligible to win one of 10,000 free samples of ground coffee that brews a 10-cup pot of coffee.


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What We Saw (Day 2 & 3):
"35 years ago I was standing on the other side of the gate, yearning to cross to the other side, thinking that will never happen. Seeing you criss-crossing the globe I celebrate the decision we made! I'm happy that you will never experience the feeling of frustration we felt. I love you,and so good to see you with Julie!"It seriously brings tears to my eyes every time I read it. When the wall fell in 1989, people flocked to the reopened Brandenburg Gate to celebrate.
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Oliv Cafe: Max Wanger happened to be in Berlin the same week we were and he turned us in the direction (via social media) of this cute cafe. Corey and I sat here and enjoyed a heaping bowl of soup, a couple mint teas and a piece of cheesecake while we attempted to warm up after our last bit of sightseeing in Berlin. We really loved the ambiance and the food. If we lived there I could see myself spending a lot of time there on the weekends! It's right by Alexanderplatz.