text: Here is the latest info on upcoming MOU Field Trips SALT LAKE BIRDING WEEKEND - April 28-29 - Lac Qui Parle and Southern Big Stone Counties. This is only 4 weeks away now! Last year 148 species were counted including Scissor-tailed Flycatcher, White-faced Ibis, Hudsonian Godwit and Nelson's Sharp-tailed Sparrow. I have a feeling that some great birds will be seen this year as well. Saturday morning birders meet for breakfast at 7am at the Marietta American Legion located one block west of Co. Rd. 7 on Hwy 4. They form into groups and head out for the morning. At noon they stop back for lunch and sharing of info. That night there is a chicken dinner at 7:30pm at the Sons of Norway Hall on Hwy 75 in Madison, eleven miles east of Marietta. Reservations are required for the dinner and can be made with Becky Skallerud at 320-598-3797 or email@example.com. The dinner is $10. Lodging is available in Madison, Montevideo, Dawson or Appleton. Camping is available at Prairie Marsh Farm, 1770 151st Ave., Marietta, located 7 miles west of US 75 and 1.5 miles south of US 212. Contact Ken Larson at firstname.lastname@example.com for more information. Sunday birding is on your own. CAMP RIPLEY FIELD TRIP - May 12 - Morrison County This is a rare opportunity to explore portions of Camp Ripley with Bill Brown, Natural Resource Specialist. Birders will meet at 9am at a location to be determined near the camp and proceed through the security gate with Bill. There are currently 3 spots remaining on this trip so let me know if you are interested. DEEP PORTAGE LEARNING CENTER - June 8-10 - Cass County This trip features a day and a half of birding in Cass County and 2 nights of birding for Yellow Rails, Nelson's Sharp-tailed Sparrows and other nocturnal birds with Ben Wieland, Dale Yerger and Molly Malecek. The cost is $100 which includes 2 nights at the Deep Portage Learning Center(rooms will be shared), 3 meals on Saturday and breakfast on Sunday. More details are available upon request or you can check out the website for Deep Portage at www.deep-portage.org/rbirding.htm. The Deep Portage Learning Center is about 8 miles SE of Hackensack. This trip is limited to 20 but there is plenty of space available at this time. These trips are open to members and non-members alike. As always I am looking for more opportunities for field trips around the state. Contact me if you would like to lead one or if you have any ideas for trips. I can be reached at 612-728-2232 or at firstname.lastname@example.com Bob Williams, Bloomington


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APR 26, 2013 - Wall Street Journal
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Basel World is the largest event on both the watch and jewelry industry's calendar. WSJ's Michael Clerizo gives a preview of some of the watches on display and what makes buyers part with tens—if not hundreds—of thousands of dollars. Photo: Bloomberg
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Cross-training is recommended by organizations such as the American College of Sports Medicine and the American Academy of Orthopedic Surgeons as a way to improve total-body fitness while participating in sports or other specialized athletic activities. While some athletes cross-train using weights and other exercise equipment, it is also possible to cross-train by participating in other sports. This can be done during the off-season for your primary sport or as an additional part of your regular workout routine.
While some sports such as soccer and football require a wide range of movements during games, other sports such as fencing and archery deal only with a limited range of actions. Sport-specific training develops the muscles and reactions necessary to excel at a given sport, but this can leave you more open to injuries when performing actions and movements not included in that sport. Cross-training introduces additional movements and actions that are not typically present in your sport of choice, working additional muscle groups and increasing your overall level of fitness. Cross-training by participating in other sports allows you to stay active, gain the fitness benefits of cross-training and explore other sports that you might be interested in.
Choosing Sports
When choosing sports for cross-training, you have two options. You can choose a sport that uses similar mechanics to your current sport to allow you to continue using the same general motions and actions as your current sport during the off-season, or you can choose a sport that uses significantly different mechanics to ensure that you work the various muscle groups of your body more equally. For example, if your primary sport is tennis, you could choose to take up racquetball as a secondary sport that uses similar motions, or you could choose basketball as a sport that works different muscle groups. Both options have their advantage. The former option allows you to continue using the skills you've honed in your primary sport, while the latter option offers you more of the benefits of traditional cross-training.
Training Structure
If you use another sport as a form of cross-training during your primary sport's off-season, you can adopt a similar training and play schedule for your secondary sport as you used for your primary sport. When using a secondary sport to supplement ongoing training for your primary sport, however, your training and participation must be balanced with your primary sport. You may replace a general training day with a participation day for your secondary sport or adjust your training schedule to fit in the other sport in addition to your ongoing training activities, but you shouldn't replace a training session dedicated to your primary sport unless your secondary sport is very similar to your primary. Keep track of your training time for both sports to make sure that time spent on your secondary sport doesn't begin to interfere with practice for your primary.
While cross-training by playing other sports does have some benefits, studies have found that doing so does not seem to improve performance in your primary sport. Studies reviewed by Dr. Hirofumi Tanaka of the University of Texas in Austin suggest that cross-training through other sports offers no competitive advantage that couldn't be achieved or exceeded through dedicated single-sport training. While cross-training through secondary sports and cross-training in general do provide general fitness benefits, these benefits do not translate to improved performance in your primary sport. The only form of cross-training that does result in improved performance in certain sports such as cycling and swimming is weight training, though these benefits could also be achieved through additional sport-specific training.
- American Academy of Orthopedic Surgeons: Cross Training
- American College of Sports Medicine: Quantity and Quality of Exercise for Developing and Maintaining Cardiorespiratory, Musculoskeletal, and Neuromotor Fitness in Apparently Healthy Adults - Guidance for Prescribing Exercise
- United States Tennis Association: Playing Another Sport
- The New York Times: Perks of Cross-Training May End Before Finish Line
- AdisOnline: Effects of Cross-Training: Transfer of Training Effects on VO2max between Cycling, Running and Swimming
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I've been making journals these past couple of weeks. Lots of them. This is the cover of a 9" by 12" fabric journal I've made for myself and this is the back of it.
The past few weeks have been emotionally rough and I found that I simply didn't have the energy to paint. Painting for me is a high energy process. I have to be fully engaged and firing on all cylinders in order to create with paint and I just didn't have it in me. I tried, stopped and started. It was not going to happen.
All I really wanted to do was to curl up in my big pink quilt and snuggle into the safety and security of the soft fabric, shut out the world. And so all of the emotion that had been held up inside was gently smoothed away between the folds. The familiarity of cloth provided a soft place for my spirit to land.
When I am feeling most vulnerable are often the times when I need to create, when that need becomes vital to my survival and while I couldn't muster the energy I need to paint, I found that I could engage myself with cloth. Working with cloth does not demand the same kind of energy from me that painting does. It is a slower process. There is a natural ebb and flow that I can move through in order to create with fabric and that ebb and flow matched my emotional highs and lows.
I've always loved working with cloth as much as I love to work with papers and paints and that love is what inspired me to create journals so many years ago since I can bring everything I love to work with to them.
I love everything about cloth. The softness and textures, the colors and the prints, the gentle purr of the sewing machine right down to hand sewing final details. I love that I can move from one layer to the next without having to wait for something to dry. It's a gentle process and time loses it's hard edges and opens it up, allowing me to settle in, relax, let the stress and emotion fall away. I need that right now. I need a soft place to fall.
These are some of the journals I will be finishing in the coming days; adding their final embellishments, the paper and that will eventually make their way to my Etsy shop soon.
I've changed the way I constructed some of these journals and started using a cloth hinge which allows the pages to lay more flat when the journal is open and alleviate stress on where the pages would normally be folded. The cloth hinges also provide a sturdier binding. It is a process I am experimenting with and refining.
5" by 5" HuG style
6" by 6" HuG style
4.5" by 4.5" re-purposed jean pocket journal,
pocket on the back too.
This little quilted journal will grow up to be 'visual dialogue No. 3'
At least that is what I am thinking of at the moment.
And last but not least there is this one, still under construction.
The cover.
The back.
That's all I got for now. I'm working my way towards something I can call normal and finding comfort in cloth.
Thanks to everyone for your kindness and gentle support. It means more than I'll ever be able to fully express, just know you are appreciated.


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The Daily Docket: Kodak Can Keep Borrowing On Loan
A judge on Wednesday said Eastman Kodak Co. could continue borrowing on its $950 million bankruptcy loan from Citigroup Inc., after satisfying several parties' concerns with it. Read the Daily Bankruptcy Review article here.
The distressed-debt investors who buy up claims against a bankrupt company were more active in January than in December but targeted smaller claims, according to a new report. Click here to read the article in DBR Small Cap.
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Apple Inc. wants to move forward with patent-infringement litigation that Eastman Kodak Co.'s Chapter 11 bankruptcy halted, fearing that a disputed patent may be put up for sale as part of Kodak's restructuring. Read the DBR article via The Wall Street Journal.
The bankruptcy case of Jefferson County, Ala., is threatening the survival of municipal-bond insurer Syncora Guarantee Inc., which says it could be forced to pay millions of dollars to the county's bondholders, in a case that could have broad ramifications on the muni-bond market. Click here to read the DBR article via WSJ.
Bernard Madoff trustee Irving Picard faces a Thursday deadline to file arguments on why two judges erred in not letting him demand $30 billion in damage claims from banks including J.P. Morgan Chase & Co., Bloomberg reports.
Distressed investors have approached former customers of MF Global Holdings Ltd. to try to buy their claims for a bargain cash price, WSJ reports.
Also according to WSJ, American Airlines parent AMR Corp. has reshuffled its management team amid a $1.98 billion net loss.
General Motors Co. reported a $7.6 billion profit for 2011, WSJ reports.
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Purchase of bracelet supports children's cancer center
July 1, 2012
The Texas Children's Cancer Center has a new partner in its fight against childhood cancer.
Montblanc, known for its high-end pens, has created a collection of woven bracelets, with $50 of each bracelet purchased donated to Texas Children's Cancer Center.
"We're enthusiastic about this partnership and what it means for our Cancer Center, hospital and, most importantly, our patients," said Dr. David Poplack, director of the Texas Children's Cancer Center and professor of pediatrics – hematology/oncology at BCM. "Through this piece of jewelry, anyone can show their support and help us in the fight against pediatric cancer."
The bracelet is crafted of black woven leather with a sterling silver clasp bearing the Texas Children's logo.
Social commitment is an integral part of Montblanc's philosophy. Past charitable partnerships have included UNICEF, Best Buddies International and the Princess Grace Foundation – USA.
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This season on The Voice, first-timers Shakira and Usher are taking a seat alongside returning judges Adam Levine and Blake Shelton.
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Due Sasso worth a look in WA
The Magic Millions Perth Yearling Sale catalogue has arrived on my desk. The sale has been moved earlier than usual, starting on Wednesday, January 27.
A quick peruse of the 630 lots (sold over four days) and I couldn't help but notice that the former smart Melbourne sprinter Due Sasso has 47 yearlings in the catalogue, a healthy number from 76 foals born in his first season. Due Sasso (pictured) stands in 2009 at Mungrup Stud for a fee of $5500 (inc. GST) – he stood for $9900 in his first two seasons (he only has 36 foals from crop two).
Ironically, as Due Sasso is about to launch his stud career at the yearling sales, his former trainer Brian Mayfield-Smith is about to bow out from training at the end of this month.
Due Sasso has a lot going for him that appeals to West Australian buyers – he's a son of Scenic (IRE) (by Sadler's Wells), a stallion that had an amazing impact on WA, and Australian, racing after he moved there from Victoria in 1999. Scenic covered three seasons in WA before returning to Victoria in 2003. Scenic, who died in March 2005, sired the outstanding WA gallopers Scenic Blast, Scenic Shot, Marasco, Idyllic Prince and Grand Nirvana – and of course, the 2007 Melbourne Cup winner Viewed.
Due Sasso is listed as one of Scenic's fastest sons, which is a tick for his stallion potential – it's amazing how many times a fast son of a leading sire, even if not Group winner of note, can emerge as a good/champion stallion. Think Danzig (Northern Dancer), Red Ransom (Roberto) and even Due Sasso's barn mate at Mungrup Oratorio (by Stravinsky).
Due Sasso was a precocious juvenile, winning the Group 3 Blue Diamond Prelude (1100m, Caulfield), beaten subsequent Group 1 winners Nadeem (Blue Diamond Stakes) and Wonderful World (Caulfield Guineas).
Mayfield-Smith described Due Sasso, after that win, as a brilliant colt with natural speed at both ends of his races. He retired after only eight starts.
Due Sasso is out of the Rubiton mare Scarlet Bird, so he defied this part of his pedigree known for producing late maturers. He inherited his speed from his third dam, Sleepyhead, a slick daughter of the fast import Daybreak (IRE) (by Golden Cloud), although Sleepyhead's dam Mintaway won the Group 1 VRC Oaks (2400m). Sleepyhead is best known as the granddam of the freakish juvenile Rancher (by Bold Lad (IRE), who was also a good sire for Arrowfield Stud.
Three other first season sires have big drafts in the Perth sale – the Fusaichi Pegasus stallion Flying Pegasus (54 yearlings), the stout Danehill son Saxon (34 yearlings) and Catbird's brother Bearcat (27 yearlings).
Flying Pegasus (b h 2002, ex-Cashier, by Danehill (USA)) won the Group 2 Royal Sovereign Stakes (1200m) as a 3YO and the Group 3 Kindargarten Stakes (1200m) at two. His dam Cashier won the Group 2 Silver Shadow Stakes (1200m).
Bearcat (b h 1999, Danehill (USA)–Fitting, by Marscay) did his racing in Hong Kong where he won four races from 1200m to 1400m.
Saxon (b h 2001, ex-Jeanetta Cochrane (IRE), by Sadler's Wells (USA)) won four races including the Group 2 Queensland Guineas (1600m).


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So last fall, when Parker took on the role as president of the Board of Directors of the Alumni Association at Southeast Missouri State University, he welcomed being thrust into the controversial issue of changing the University's mascot and name.
"We all were Indians back in our days; we were passionate about our mascot, but that's been set aside," noted Parker of Sikeston. "There hasn't been a mascot or nickname (officially) being used by the University for 17 years."
The Board of Directors of the Alumni Association took the stance last summer to change the mascot and name as a proactive approach for the current student body, Parker said. They did this so the current students, too, would have a mascot to rally around and use through athletics and tie them to the University, he explained.
Parker realizes not everyone is ready for the change, but he said he must remain positive.
"We just deal with the reality of why change is needed and what our process has been and how thorough the committee has been studying this issue," he said.
And Parker welcomes the attention -- whether for or against the name change.
"If it gets people stirred up about the University, and they start communicating with us, then great. You're not going to change everybody's mind since the University does serve a community as diverse as it is," Parker said.
On Wednesday, Semo's Board of Regents will consider a proposal to make official changes to the University's name and mascot, which has been narrowed down to two choices: Redhawks and Redwolves.
Parker explained the Alumni Association wanted red for the mascot color and symbols that would be indigenous to the region. Both the Redhawk and Redwolf have been in Southeast Missouri for years, he said.
"People are quite passionate about their mascot and that's what we're going to get back with a new mascot. The Indian mascot is not coming back, and it's time for a change," Parker said.
But the whole mascot/name change isn't the only issue Parker has focused on since he began his two-year term in September.
"It's an opportunity to give back to the University," Parker said about serving his position. "Anytime you serve on a board of a large institute like the University, it's always fun."
A 1967 graduate of Southeast Missouri State, Parker continued his education, earning a master's degree from University of Southern California and other professional designations. As president, Parker meets approximately three times a year with a group of 20-25 alumni from various chapters throughout the nation.
"It's quite a diverse group of graduates from all different ages, and it's a lot of fun serving the Alumni Association," Parker said. "We have almost 58,000-60,000 members from Southeast so it's quite a challenge trying to communicate with all these folks and keep people updated with what the university is doing."
The Alumni Association works on how individuals can help the University and how to plug alums into the University -- and not just through homecoming and fund-raising, Parker said. While the Alumni Association doesn't allocate the University's funding, it is important to be informed about the situation, Parker said.
"State monies have been cut back and budget is in lean times with the economy. We don't make those decisions, but we do give input where our money is put for scholarships. As state money is reduced then private money is needed," Parker said. In September, the Board of Directors will vote to update the wording in the mission statement of Alumni Association, which was recently changed from the National Alumni Council to the Board of Directors of the Alumni Association, Parker said.
"We'd also like to get back to marketing the University as Semo again rather than Southeast," Parker noted. "We know it as Semo, and when games are on TV, they put SEMO in the score box."
In addition, the Alumni Association will get a new home in the next 2-1/2 years. It will move from in front of the Show Me Center to near the front of the University, where the First Baptist Church currently stands next to the football field.
Parker works as a certified financial planner with Lincoln Financial Advisors in Sikeston. He served in the U.S. Air Force for four years and has been involved in numerous organizations including the Sikeston Kiwanis Club, Sikeston Chamber of Commerce, Alliance Bank Advisory Board and many others.
"For most of us, college is a formative time from high school with unique experiences and mixing in a bigger melting pot of the world, so to speak," Parker said. "It's a time for making lasting friends and relationships. With the (alumni) connection, we try to keep it all alive through newsletters and e-mails."
For more information about the Alumni Association, visit www.semo.edu.


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Roger has swept almost all before him in the world of tennis since winning the 2004 Australian Open title. He has since become the first man since Mats Wilander in 1988 to win three Grand Slams in one season, adding Wimbledon and the US Open to his haul. In total he won all 13 titles where he had last made it to the final, an Open-era record eclipsing the 12 won by John McEnroe and Bjorn Borg. His professional success and the fact that he has also played with a smile have earned Roger the BBC 'Overseas Personality of the Year' award. Roger is very proud to have received this very prestigious title for 2004 which is also very important for tennis in general. Learn more about the trophy here.


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The Miami Marlins were in town to experience a blizzard-postponed game, followed by a makeup day/night doubleheader. The night of the blizzard, I drove home after 11 p.m. and was barely able to see 10 feet in front of me. It was hard to keep my car on the snow-buried road. I remember thinking26 Apr 13


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Does the brain process signed and spoken language in the same way?
Remarkably the answer to this is 'mostly, yes'! Deaf signers who have suffered damage to the brain show very similar language problems as hearing speakers with damage to the same brain regions. For example, damage to the front of the brain on the left side can lead to problems with both sign and speech production. We can also use new methods, for example functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), to look at healthy brains to find out which parts of the brain are active when people are processing signed and spoken language. These studies also suggest that very similar networks in the brain are used for the two languages, even though they are delivered in very different ways.
However, the networks used are not identical. Sign language processing uses the visual parts of the brain more than speech and, not surprisingly, spoken language uses auditory parts of the brain more than sign language.
In addition to these sensory differences, there are other subtle ways in which brain processing of signed and spoken language differs. For example, there is growing evidence that a part of the brain called the parietal lobe (at the back of the brain, towards the top), which is involved in processing spatial relationships, is more involved in sign language processing than spoken language processing (see FAQ 10 above).
It is likely that findings comparing how signed and spoken language are processed by looking at behaviour, such as accuracy or reaction times, will also highlight differences between how the languages are processed. Further research into the brain should be able to explore this in the future.


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By JAMES PINKERTON HOUSTON CHRONICLE
May 6, 2009, 6:26PM
A veteran lieutenant with the Harris County Sheriff's Office has been fired for leading a squad of deputies to investigate a $16 theft from his wife's car at an Humble carwash last year, the department confirmed Wednesday.
Lt. Louis Guthrie, a 17-year veteran of the department, was fired Tuesday for official oppression, Sheriff's Office spokesman Keir Murray said.
Murray said Guthrie's dismissal was the result of the department's investigation of an incident in July when Guthrie and a number of deputies shut down a carwash after Guthrie's wife complained that $16 was stolen from her vehicle.
The business, on FM 1960 in Humble, was cordoned off with crime scene tape and closed for an hour as Guthrie and deputies questioned employees about the theft.
"Based on the report I've read, his behavior regarding this incident was clearly a violation of sheriff's policies. He was fired for official oppression," Murray said. "His conduct in conducting an investigation inappropriately resulted in the termination."
Guthrie, who joined the department in October 1991, has 15 days to file a written response to his termination under civil service rules, Murray said. At the time of his termination, the lieutenant had been assigned to the detention bureau.
He plans to appeal
Guthrie was out of town and not available for comment Wednesday, his lawyer said.
"He was fired, and we're in the process of making an appeal to the sheriff," said Guthrie's lawyer, Earl Musick. "We don't believe he should have been fired."
Musick said he hoped Sheriff Adrian Garcia "keeps an open mind" in reviewing the appeal.
"You have an individual like Louis Guthrie, who has been in the sheriff's department for 17 years, and he has excelled and gone up through the ranks," Musick noted. "During those years, he's had a pretty clean record. Sometimes people make mistakes, and punishment can be harsh. But until we get a chance to look at the entire investigation, I would hate to make any comments."
Last year, immigration activists were angered by Guthrie's appearance at protests at a day labor site in Spring, where the officer pledged to bring local law enforcement into efforts to detain and deport illegal immigrants.
At the time, Guthrie was a candidate for constable in the Republican primary. He lost to incumbent Ron Hickman.
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Probably only people who have sent me materials would notice this, but I've become relatively inactive on editing and writing over the last couple of days. That's because I'm in the final phase of discussions with our prospective publisher, the distance in between a term sheet and a signed contract. Lots of things can go sideways in that phase of an agreement, as I well know from years of experience as a corporate lawyer. This is when you get down to the actual specifics as opposed to general plans, and it's also the point in discussions where the two parties are looking at a legal document - and a legal document is designed to address what happens if things go wrong. It's the touchiest phase of an agreement.
That's not really the issue - the issue is that I need that inked contract in order to know what my schedules are, and where the priorities are. Should I be focusing on lulu? On switching from lulu? On production, or on distribution matters? When do various things have to be completed? A lot of this is up in the air until the contract is signed.
This is the reason why I haven't been focused on editing and working with authors, or signing up artists. If I were a level-headed, business-oriented person, I'd be moving ahead regardless. But from a psychological standpoint, that's not what I am. I need to have the overall picture in mind before I can work particularly well. I don't function well during the periods of time when the project's direction is in flux (this is true of matters in RL for me, too).
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Kent Larson directs Changing Places Research Group and the City Science Initiative at the MIT Media Laboratory, with research focused on transformable urban housing, mobility-on-demand, responsive technology, urban food production, and living lab experiments. Larson practiced architecture for 15 years in New York City. His book, Louis I. Kahn: Unbuilt Masterworks was selected as one of the Ten Best Books in Architecture, 2000 by the New York Times Review of Books.
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In this survey of Medicare beneficiaries, the authors examined the relationship of obesity with all-cause mortality and the development and progression of disability. Only patients with markedly elevated body mass index (BMI) had increased all-cause mortality. However, patient reports of new or worsening disability increased in a dose-related manner as BMI increased above the normal range. Older obese adults may be an appropriate target group for interventions to prevent or decrease disability.
Cross-sectional studies have linked selenium levels to blood cholesterol levels. In this randomized trial, investigators found that selenium supplementation was associated with modest reductions in total and non–high-density lipoprotein (HDL) cholesterol levels. Supplementation at higher doses was associated with increases in HDL cholesterol levels. These findings more definitively identify the effects of selenium on lipids but do not justify its use to treat dyslipidemia.
Financial incentives will be available for providers that demonstrate meaningful use of electronic health records to facilitate health information exchange and improve patient outcomes. Regional health information organizations (RHIOs) aim to help providers meet meaningful use criteria. This 2009 survey found 75 operational RHIOs that covered approximately 14% of U.S. hospitals and 3% of ambulatory practices. Only 13 RHIOs facilitated the types of data exchange required to meet meaningful use criteria, and most RHIOs were not financially viable.
Metformin and sulfonylureas are inexpensive, first-line therapies for type 2 diabetes but are often insufficient to control blood glucose levels. This meta-analysis of 18 trials found that all other available drugs decreased hemoglobin A1c levels about equally when added to metformin and sulfonylurea therapy, and there were no clear between-drug differences. Insulin was associated with more weight gain and hypoglycemia. Evidence suggests no clear differences in benefit between drugs when adding a third agent to metformin and sulfonylurea therapy. Patient preferences and characteristics should guide the choice of drug.
Subgroup analyses in randomized trials require careful interpretation of potential confounding because the factors defining the subgroups are not randomized. Using examples from published trials, the authors show that adjustment for confounding is not necessary if the purpose of the subgroup analysis is simply to see whether the effect of an intervention varies across subgroups ("effect heterogeneity"). However, if the aim is to determine whether an intervention on the secondary factor would change the effect of the primary intervention ("causal interaction"), then controlling for confounders is essential.
This Update summarizes studies published in 2010 that the author considers highly relevant to the practice of endocrinology. Topics include calcium and bone metabolism, diabetes and metabolism, obesity, male hypogonadism, and thyroid hormone levels.
To reduce the costs of care and improve quality, the government is stimulating adoption of health information technology by providing financial incentives for physicians who demonstrate meaningful use of electronic health records. The author argues that aspects of the current policy make it difficult to reduce costs and improve quality. Modification of the policy to build on the needs of providers may be helpful.
The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality sponsored an international group of experts in patient safety and evaluation methods to develop criteria to improve the design, evaluation, and reporting of practice research in patient safety. This article reports the group's recommendations, which include increased use of theory and logic models, more detailed description of interventions and their implementation, enhanced explanation of desired and unintended outcomes, and greater description and measurement of context and of how context influences interventions.
Two articles in this issue focus on meaningful use incentives to promote adoption of health information technology. Adler-Milstein and colleagues surveyed 175 RHIOs and found deficiencies in the ability of existing RHIOs to support clinicians who are aiming to meet federal meaningful use criteria. Hussain critiques the top-down approach adopted by the meaningful use policy and proposes an alternative one that builds on the needs of providers first. The editorialist discusses the articles' findings and describes the adoption of electronic health records as moving toward "an uncertain but quite promising future."
In this issue, Shekelle and colleagues provide a framework for enhancing research on patient safety by proposing criteria for the design and reporting of studies to facilitate their translation into practice. The editorialists believe that increasing our knowledge about what works in patient safety and other quality improvement efforts is critical to making health care safer.


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Somewhere in my garden shed there's a pair of old football boots. Leather studs, leather strap across the toes, solid toe cap and high ankle supports. Sure they might have helped the lad. On second thoughts, don't tell anybody because they might be worth a few bob.
Was gonna say they same thing Alan....dig em out clean em up, bit of polish and dubbin on the leather, varnish on the wooden bits.......would make a lovely centre piece in a cabinet or on a shelf! The boots that is.....not Woodgate!


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I am buying my boyfriend a lightsaber for his b-day, but I'm kinda confused. The mini replica I am looking at is in handle form, while the larger model is in action form. Which is cool, but it's huge. Does anyone know what tha smaller one does???
The smaller version doesn't do anything. It is just a replica of the hilt(handle). The larger version with the blade is really cool it lights up and has sound effects. When it lights up the light starts at the bottom and goes up just like the movie effects.
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FIFA Names Governance Committee Members
International soccer's governing body named the members of its governance committee overseeing anti-corruption reform at the scandal-plagued organization.
Officials speaking at a Fédération Internationale de Football Association, or FIFA, press conference late Friday in Tokyo named former U.K. Attorney General Lord Goldsmith and Alexandra Wrage, founder and president of business anti-bribery group TRACE International, among others, as members.
The group, which is being led by Mark Pieth, the head of Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development's Working Group on Bribery, will begin meeting next year. Pieth is being paid by FIFA for his efforts, though he hasn't disclosed the amount.
The committee's mandate is to advise FIFA on how to implement anti-corruption controls following more than a year of scandals, including alleged match-fixing, bribery and bid-rigging over who gets to host the organization's main money-maker, the World Cup tournaments.
Pieth told Bloomberg News on Saturday the committee's decisions are non-binding, and that "we have to convince" FIFA to change its ways.
The makeup and payment of the group has been controversial, however, as Transparency International, which was consulting on reform, cut its ties with FIFA over the committee.
Critics kept up their fire after the committee's members were named.
"It is dishonest to suggest that a committee led by and comprised of one or more FIFA paid consultants and FIFA members, among others, and that is beholden to the body the football world finds most highly suspect…is in any way independent," said David Larkin, co-director of ChangeFIFA, in an email.
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Can you believe it's that time of year already?
I can't believe our youngest will finish her first year of high school in just two more weeks!
Her graduation will be here before we know it!
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Glorious Treats show you how to make these CUTE fondant graduation caps for your cupcakes!
Amy at Living Locurto has some great FREE cupcake toppers and gift tags you can download.
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Our oldest daughter graduated high school a year ago. It's such a special time to celebrate.
So many cute ideas! I love the fondant caps.
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Thanks for hosting, Cheryl!! 🙂
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Thanks so much for hosting! Oh it's so refreshing to be able to comment!! Blogger has been down for days!!
I am pinning this and sharing via FB and twitter:-)
Hi! great stuffs. I'm wondering how you did you make the blue flowers on the blackboard?
Thanks for hosting this blog party.
I made bakerella's graduation pops for my boyfriend three years ago when he earned his MFA…and I recommend them to everyone! They were so simple to make and turned out indescribably cute!
We had three college grads last year, but nothing this year! Cute grad treats!
I love the red velvet cupcakes! So cute!
Ahhh…I remember those days when my kids had their graduations…next came weddings and now I'm happily awaiting grandbabies 😉
Sorry, the photo did not come out for my strawberry lemon pound cake.
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Ugh, so late to the party this week! As always, thanks for hosting!
Thanks Cheryl for sharing my graduate cupcakes! So very sweet of you to include me! Happy Monday!
My graduation party was a few years ago but we coupled it with my 18th golden birthday and went with orange (my favorite color) and blue color theme. It was more focused on the colors than any specific theme, but those dessert ideas are very cute and I might use a few for my college graduation next year.
We made wraps and fruit platters which took time but it was tons of fun!
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The temperatures are staying warm, the sun is staying out longer in the evenings and the official start of summer is just a few weeks away.
The combination of these things has people outdoors playing sports, swimming, gardening and doing many other activities.
While it's very important for people to protect their skin from the sun's rays, eye protection is just as important, according to local optometrists.
"There are many eye diseases that can affect your eyesight and quite a few that can affect appearance that can be caused by the sun," said Dr. Malinda Lucky Flores, of Lucky Eye Care in Williamstown.
Flores said cataracts and macular degeneration are examples of such diseases.
"Both of those are also influenced by genetics, medication and health, but sun exposure is a very controllable risk factor," she said.
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People with oval faces have the most options when it comes to sunglasses, but slightly square frames usually look best.
People with square faces usually look best wearing oval or round shaped sunglasses.
People with heart-shaped faces should try to wear sunglasses that balance out a wide forehead and narrow chin. Tortoiseshell or other colorful frames help draw attention to the eyes.
Everyone should choose sunglasses that have good UV protection. Sunglasses labeled with a Z80.3 meet the standards for UV protection established by the American National Standards Institute (ANSI). The American Optometry Association (AOA) also issues a label, which indicates that 99 percent of all UVA and UVB rays are blocked.
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Dr. Mitchell Koerber, with the Williamstown Eye Clinic, pointed out that it's very important that people buy sunglasses that protect eyes from both UVA and UVB rays.
"A lot of your over-the-counter, store-bought sunglasses, a lot of the time when you see them marked as 100 percent, they're blocking UVA - they're not blocking UVB," Koerber warned.
Both Flores and Koerber said many people seem to prefer large sunglasses. They said while this type of sunglasses may be trendy, they are also ideal for blocking out the sun's rays.
"We're seeing the big fad towards the bigger and bigger sunglasses," Koerber said. "A larger frame is recommended because it's going to give you more protection - you're blocking the UV light from getting to the eyes."
Charla Hall, manager of Baker & Baker Jewelers in Marietta, said she, too, has noticed that many people prefer large sunglasses.
She said the jewelry store sells Kameleon brand sunglasses, in which small pieces of jewelry, called JewelPops, can be placed.
"They're interchangeable and there are hundreds of different pops you can choose from," Hall said. "It's a line we've carried for close to two years now and it's gone over really well."
While there are many different JewelPops that can be used in the sunglasses, she said the glasses themselves also come in a wide selection.
"There are some that are real big, there are some that are smaller, there are some that have nose pieces - there are all different styles," she said.
Hall said the sunglasses start at $79.
Flores said buying sunglasses over the counter is fine, as long as the lenses in the glasses are high quality.
"It may be such a poor quality (lense) that it distorts your vision a little bit," she said.
Flores added that there are many options when it comes to sunglasses, even for people who have vision problems and need prescription sunglasses, so people should not limit themselves to just one particular look.
"You shouldn't be scared to try things on because what you think doesn't look good might look good," she said.
Koerber did recommend one particular kind of sunglasses for folks who like to spend a lot of time on the water.
"What they choose is going to be their personal preference whether it's a plastic frame or metal frame, but with a lot of people in this area living on a river and having a lot of water sports, polarized sunglasses are the best for blocking glare," he said.


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NEW DELHI: The government's official number cruncher, the Central Statistical Organisation (CSO), poured cold water on the optimism expressed by industry in several recent surveys of business confidence.
It has projected a 4.4% growth rate for the economy in the current year. Negative growth in the agricultural sector — a result of poor monsoons — is expected to have slowed down the country's economic growth to 4.4% in fiscal '03, according to advance estimates of gross domestic product (GDP) released today.


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Actually, scratch that...anyone with children will know what it's like.
He emerges occasionally to grunt in the direction of food before shambling back into his darkened lair.
Many years ahead I expect to see a 6ft bearded stranger, wearing a suit and polished shoes, to materialize from that room, blinking in the sunlight, with a career, a briefcase and quite possibly a wife.
He will speak in full sentences and occasionally trim his nails.
Until that day, I can with confidence reveal that the smell of teen spirit is a heady concoction of armpits, hair gel and mouldy socks.
In the meantime I appear to be fueling this painfully slow metamorphosis with small mountains of tasteless carbs and monosodium glutamate.
She is also painfully skinny.
The belts we buy to hold up her jeans have to be punctured 1/2 the way up to secure them around her teeny tiny tummy.
She eats ridiculously healthy food (fruit, veg, meat) not because she thinks she should, but because she really likes it...but she doesn't do carbs.
Bread, pasta and rice are artfully moved around her plate and she has perfected the art of whisking her plate to the sink and throwing a "thanks I'm finished" over her shoulder as she vanishes out the door.
That girl can move fast.
Sometimes he'll push the boat out and risk some weetabix, or a few chips but that's the breadth of his culinary adventures.
He is a dedicated apostle of all things puréed, and in his opinion, fruit and veg are just silly.
So, every so often I indulge in a nice little worry about their nutrition and health and try to figure out where their food issues (*cough* neuroses) arise from.
I don't have to go far to find the answer.
I have a bad relationship with food, and really only cook when starvation is imminent.
It is definitely more Gordon Ramsay than Jamie Oliver in my kitchen.
If I could cook with the same passion as I swear at the shrink wrapping on frozen pizza, then gastronomic bliss would reign in our house.
So I asked myself, what exactly do I not like about food.
I like how it looks and smells, and I love to eat it....but I realised that I don't like to touch it.
Slicing chicken fillets make my toes curl, rubbing butter into flour fills me with sticky horror, and mixing anything doughy, meaty or gelatinous with my bare hands makes my heart race (and not in a good way).
(those pesky scientists who hypothesise that there is a genetic element to autism couldn't possibly be right, could they???)
Myself, Himself, Bob's teachers, sna's, occupational therapist, speech therapist, stylist (OK, he doesn't have a stylist...I was just checking that you were paying attention), friends, Romans and countrymen are all working towards Bob overcoming his sensory issues.
He has come a long way in three years, and can now tolerate walking on grass and sand, and not only will he touch play dough but he can finger paint and play with shaving foam (sometimes on the bathroom wall with his Daddy's best Nivea stuff, but that's another story).
So it's a bit rich for me to avoid cooking because food makes me squirm, when a young autistic child can successfully do battle, David and Goliath style, with a whole host of sensory issues.
I haven't eaten it yet, but I don't really care if it could be used as a breeze block to build a pier in the North Atlantic.
The fact is I got dough under my fingernails and toughed out the screaming urge to scrub them with surgical spirits.
All thanks to my autie kid's
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When to Seek Medical Care
Any victim reporting signs or symptoms of decompression illness that began within 48 hours of scuba diving should be seen by a doctor at an emergency care facility immediately.
The doctor will likely presume that a victim reporting symptoms within 48 hours of surfacing from a scuba dive to have decompression illness. It is important to inform the doctor of your recent diving experience and of your symptoms.
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An employee of German car maker Mercedes-Benz checks an S-class car at the end of the production line at the Mercedes-Benz production site in Sindelfingen, southwestern Germany.
BERLIN: Luxury German carmaker Mercedes-Benz said yesterday it had achieved record sales in 2012, driven by accelerating growth in China and the US.
About 1.3 million Mercedes-Benz cars were purchased in 2012, the firm said in its annual sales release, a gain of 4.7 percent on the previous year.
With 274,134 cars sold in the US (a gain of 11.8 percent), this overtook Germany (261,084 cars sold) as Mercedes-Benz's main sales market.
Nearly 200,000 Mercedes were sold in China, a gain of 1.5 percent, the firm added.
"We are very pleased with our sales for the full year 2012," said Dieter Zetsche, chief executive of automaker Daimler, which owns Mercedes-Benz.
"Despite the difficult market environment in the southern European countries and numerous model change-overs, we managed to exceed the previous year's sale record," added Zetsche.
However, the wider Daimler company has suffered from a difficult environment for the auto industry and was forced to cut its full-year forecasts in October after a disappointing third quarter. Daimler said it was hoping to cut some ¤2bn ($2.6bn) in costs by 2014.
Official data published on Thursday showed that new car registrations in Germany fell by nearly three percent last year.
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The thirst for yield in a world bled dry by ultralow interest rates was exemplified Tuesday by enormous demand for Apple's new bond issue. But another signal came that day from a decidedly lower-tech company: Pitney Bowes.
The postage-meter maker's stock was the S&P 500's worst on Tuesday, slumping by almost 16%. First-quarter earnings before exceptional items that missed the consensus estimate by 2 cents didn't help.
But the bigger issue may well have been Pitney's announcement that it was cutting its dividend in half.
Back in December, Pitney's stock fell to a multi-decade low just above $10, implying a dividend yield north of 14%. With an installed base of meters still needing supplies of high-margin ink, Pitney had been generating respectable free cash flows to fund payouts. Clearly, though, the dividend was at risk since snail mail isn't making a comeback.
But that didn't stop the stock rising to more than $16 before Tuesday's tumble. Even after that, it is still up a third from December and, despite the unkind cut, the dividend yield remains more than 5%.
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A research group at Keio University are creating interactive plants, enabling them to display emotions and communicate with people.
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MGM's bankruptcy held up the film's release for two years before Lionsgate got ahold of it. That delay has become a blessing in disguise, as your previously unknown actors, like Thor's Chris Hemsworth and Grey's Anatomy's Jesse Williams, have become bigger stars, but what was most difficult about the time when you didn't know what would become of this film?
Well, I just wanted to protect the film. You are never sure the new boss is gonna understand what you are trying to do and so I just wanted to make sure we didn't have to compromise the movie itself. Luckily, as soon as Lionsgate saw the movie they got what we were trying to do and they were on board 100% and I breathed a sigh of relief.
MGM's bankruptcy didn't just slow us down, it slowed down a lot of films. It slowed down James Bond and The Hobbit, and when you see heavyweights like them getting delayed you realize, oh, this isn't about any one movie. There's not a lot you can do about it. You just have to weather the storm.
I'm confident that the majority of horror fans will love the film, but the interesting thing is that a lot of non-genre fans seem to be enjoying it just as much.
That was crucial to me. I didn't want this to just be for horror fans, I wanted this to expand outward, and so much of it was telling our story as best we could and not making it too insular, not making it so that you had to know the films we were referencing to understand the movie. It was very much just tell our own story.
Part of casting guys like Richard Jenkins and Bradley Whitford is that it immediately tells the audience, "Look, this isn't your average everyday horror movie." The fact that these guys are in it should tell you right off the bat that we aren't playing it safe and it's something new.
You've said that you didn't intend for Cabin to be a deconstruction of horror movies. The fact that you poke fun at some of the genre's more ridiculous tropes may be appealing to outsiders.
Certainly. Part of the DNA of this movie is the tropes and things we play with and poke at so it's not like we weren't conscious of it, it's just we didn't want to destroy a genre, we wanted to celebrate the genre.
In order to celebrate a genre you have to honor what has come beforehand, and so it was crucial to maintain the myth while at the same time deconstructing the myth.
It's become almost legend how you and Joss wrote the script in three days, but you spent a long time beforehand developing the structure. What were the biggest issues or stumbling blocks before the awesomeness unfolded in your hotel writing suite?
[Laughs.] This movie was such a labor of love that I don't know there were a lot of stumbling blocks. I don't know that we were too conscious of anything other than the fact that we just wanted to write what we wanted to watch, and so we just kept having fun and trying to entertain each other, and I think that's been true of my whole career. Whenever you are just trying to entertain each other and talk about what you love rather than worry about what's popular or what studios are going to like you end up doing your best work.
One of the reasons you've both given for writing Cabin is that you grew tired of horror's torture porn subgenre, where underdeveloped teenager characters are just set up to be killed in gruesome ways. Have there been any developments in the horror genre that are exciting you in the past years?
I never really think in terms of development or the bigger picture, I just think in terms of movies I like, and certainly there have been some wonderful horror films in the last 10 years. There's a movie called The Descent that I adored. There was a movie called The Strangers that I loved. I don't know if Audition was in the last 10 years but I loved that.
Those are all tremendous horror films. What appealed to you about those three in particular?
I guess it's different for everyone but the thing that all three have in common, you could feel the filmmakers' love for their genre and for their characters. I can always tell when a filmmaker doesn't care about his or her characters, they just care about setting them up to kill them off. Even though a few characters are getting killed off within these movies you can tell when a filmmaker cares about them. You can feel the love from the genre coming through the screen.
Although you eschew the values of torture porn movies, there are still young people getting naked and dying gruesome deaths in Cabin—there's just a clever explanation for why these otherwise smart people do moronic things that put themselves at risk. Do the moments of nudity and stupidity feel justified to you?
They do. I mean, yeah, we wanted to honor what's come before it. In order to celebrate a genre you have to honor what has come beforehand, and so it was crucial to maintain the myth while at the same time deconstructing the myth. It's crucial to do both of those things at the same time for this movie, so I was always conscious of doing both.
You have some characters that address the idea of voyeuristic sadism in torture porn. Did you ever think about breaking the fourth wall like Michael Haneke did in Funny Games to directly hold the audience accountable for what it is taking pleasure in watching?
I love Funny Games. I thought it was a spectacular film, but I didn't want that to be this film. I felt like this film…I didn't want to ever want to break that fourth wall though. It was crucial that we had our own internal logic where we were telling our own story and we were never winking at the camera. That was one of the mission statements of this film, to make sure that no matter how absurd we got there was a reality to what these people were going through.
You shot Cabin three years ago. There are a couple elements of your ode to horror movies—a rivalry between the U.S. and Japan, and the presence of zombies—that speak to the time when you and Joss were developing the idea. If you were making the movie in 2012 would you make the same decisions?
Yeah, I think so. We were never worried about commenting on this specific time period we were in, be it 2010 or 2012. It was very important to me that this movie was about this genre and as it pertains to time as a whole rather than being fresh in 2010. I didn't want to be commenting on the time I wanted to be telling the best story that we knew how to tell, so yeah, I don't think we would have done anything differently.
What spoke to you about Japanese horror and zombies?
Because this movie goes so insane, we knew that we wanted to step it out—you don't want to go too insane too quickly. We wanted something that felt familiar so that the audience sort of understands where we are as we continue on this path. And if we started too insane too quickly I think it would have been a disservice, so it was either zombies or vampires, and I think people are tired of vampires! [Laughs.]
Japan—I don't know, we just love Japan. When you're talking about who is doing the most exciting and interesting horror films of the last 20 years, it's Japan. I mean, they are making amazing films.
Are there other countries that you feel are making some progress on that front?
Unquestionably. I mean Korea, there's wonderful stuff. Certainly there are a lot of European films that I adore. We wanted to feel worldly. It wasn't just Japan, it was the whole world.
You've spoken about your preference for creating monsters with suits and make-up instead of CGI. Of all the monsters that feature in Cabin, what do you consider your crowning achievement?
That's a great question. I don't want to spoil that ahead of time, but the truth is, all of them. In terms of the success, I really love them all. That's one of the fun parts about being a director, is that any ones you don't love you just don't put in there. They're all my children. [Laughs.] I love them all, and yeah, even the digital stuff, because we only use the digital stuff for stuff we couldn't actually figure out how to do. I thought my digital artist did an amazing job with those as well, so luckily I didn't have to compromise that goal. We only made the stuff digital that we had to and there was something exciting about that.
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