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Illinois Nursing Home Employees Picket for Better Care
Nursing home lawsuits seem to pit the residents (and their family) against long-term care facility owners, operators, and staff members. Yet, in many of these cases it would be inappropriate to consider the residents in an antagonistic relationship with the staff members. In fact, as elder care advocates have pointed out again and again, when it comes to ensuring proper care, the residents are usually on the same side as the staff members. That is particularly true when it comes to "front-line" care workers--or those who provide help to residents day in and day out. Many of those employees do yeoman's work with long hours, little pay, poor benefits, and little employer support. On many occasions, it is those employees who are the first to stand up for residents when resources are cut to the bone by owners and operators. In this way, nursing home residents and their families often side with front-line care workers in various disputes with owners and operators.
Sadly, the drive for profits by many long-term care facilities often results in severe cutbacks for the employees who are the lowest rung on the totem pole--but who do the most for residents each day. Often those actions result in labor disputes.
For example, last week, as reported by CBS local, employees at more than 50 Illinois nursing homes--including 12 Chicago nursing homes--conducted an "informational" picketing in front of a local facilities. According to reports the picketing was in response to chronic problems at so many facilities. One employee interviewed for the story explained that, amazingly, her facility continues to face severe shortages of even the most basic supplies, placing resident care and quality of life at risk. For one thing, she noted that things like diapers--or even food!--was sometimes at a bare minimum. On top of that, her facility, like so many around the state, face chronic under staffing problems. There is simply not enough bodies to help residents in the timely way that is necessary. No matter how well-intentioned those care workers, failure to have enough bodies in the hallways is a recipe for nursing home abuse and neglect.
The Service Employees International Union (SEIU) commented on the problem at so many homes. SEIU officials noted that the facilities have enough money to improve pay, ensure adequate staffing levels, and guarantee decent supply stocks. However, without outside pressure to prioritize those goals, the facilities are often prone to increase the bottom line for owners at the expense of residents. The unified picketing at half a dozen homes was undoubtedly a response to that need for outside pressure. So many facilities fail to do the "right" thing unless they are forced.
SEIU representatives also pointed out that a 2010 state law mandates certain staffing levels. They argued that most facilities were falling below those requirements. If facilities are not obligated to obey state rules, then it is hard to see how those facilities will ever be motivated to make the changes necessary to spare early death and suffering at these facilities.
Legal Pressure
It is the same concept that is at the root of the accountability function of lawsuits against these homes. If owners and operators are allowed to skate by without consequence for maintaining conditions that harm residents, then there is little chance that necessary improvements will be made. However, when those affected stand up, point out the misconduct, and do everything in their power to uphold the law, then real change might be spurred in the future.
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Welcome to the Parenting After a Termination for Medical Reasons group. Please post a short introduction of yourself here!
Welcome! Introductions.
Hi girls--
I go by Shay. I said goodbye to my ^dd^ in April '06 due to T21. After multiple complications during the tx and after, I'm grateful to report I have a healthy (almost) 4 month old ds. I also have 2 other sons, ages 6 and 9. I think my OB would have a heart attack if I became pg again (and age really isn't on my side at this point), so we are officially done, but considering adoption again (for those of you who don't recall, we had 2 failed adoptions prior to my surprise pg with my little guy). Just a consideration at this point though...nothing officially in the works.
I am an infrequent poster, but these boards have been a lifeline for me many times throughout the past 2 1/2 years. Don't know what I would've one without you gals...
OK - I'm little late making the move over here but better late than never...
Hi - I'm Mel. We terminated a much wanted baby in July 07 due to severe NTDs. I gave birth to our healthy and happy DS in July 08. The women on this board helped me keep my sanity through all the ups and downs of the past few years.
Ok, I haven't been around in a few days and I couldn't find my baby center group! Got scared!
I am Kristin, 34 with two kids... one is 3.5 and the other turned one in Oct. Between the two kids, I terminated our son at 16 weeks for triploidy. Then after that, took me almost a year to get prego again... difficult times with much support from these boards! Who else would understand? We are looking to have one more kid, maybe sooner that later OOPS!
Hi ladies- I've been a member for forever, but never really posted.
I said goodbye to my angel on Feb. 1st 2007. Sara had a severe ntd. I miss her everyday.
I have one prior child, 3 year old Anya, and one after child, who I found out I was pregnant with on Sara's EDD. Cordelia, my little redheaded sweetie was born four weeks early on January 29th 2008. She will be one soon!
Jen, Mom to one in heaven, three on earth!
ODD 9/2005 Angel MDD 2/07 YDD 1/2008 and DS 7/25/2012
I am Jana. I was active on the boards for a long time and then, once I was pregnant and on bedrest, I stopped. I haven't been on in such a long time I feel bad I wasn't there to suport you all.
Anyway, I tx my pg 10/24/2006 for several congenital heart defects. We named our baby boy Aaron John "AJ" and continue to celebrate his life daily. We now have 2 live children- twins- Mateo Aaron and Gianna Gloria Mary born May 9th, 2008.
We live in the San Francisco Bay Area.
My name is Amy, and dh and I terminated a much wanted pregnancy exactly one year ago today, for T21 and realted complications. Today is bittersweet, because on one hand we have a beautiful baby boy here with us now, who was born just 5 days ago, but we are also mourning the anniversary of the passing of our first baby boy.
I am excited to be a part of this board, and have followed many of your stories along the way. I have so many questions and find each day full of excitement and love for this new life that has joined us.
thanks to all of you for getting me through the last very difficult year.
welcome newbies! i'm looking forward to supporting you in any way i can. the expert mother that i am- hahahaha!
Realised that I hadn't left my important dates.
12/14/06 tx
08/04/08 Luc's birthday
06/07/74 My birthday!!
Luc 08/04/08
^Xavier^ 12/15/06
^mc 5 weeks^ 07/08/07 ^mc 81/2 weeks^ 10/02/09
Oh, so many people I know! I was on the TFMR board alot in 2006.
Our lo was dx with severe Congenital Diaphragmatic Hernia 5/2006 and we let him go May 11. My dh and I were married shortly after and 9 months to the day later, our daughter, Phoebe, was born.
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Hi! I am joining the parenting board after the recent birth of my son, Noah. I'm excited to be here, and hoping to learn a lot from you ladies as I try to figure out this whole mom thing!
I tx my first pregnancy, a little boy, for T-21 at 19 weeks. It's a year this week since our AHC, and we have finally settled on a name for our precious little boy - Nathanial Chase. After we chose the name, I looked up the meaning, and learned Nathanial means Gift of God. I thought that seemed fitting. I will always miss my little boy. We were thrilled to learn we were expecting another little boy, and he arrived 3 weeks ago.
Here are my dates:
angel date - 4-9-08
^Nathanial^'s edd - 9-1-08
Noah's birth date - 3-14-09
my birthday - 4-8-79
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Big Poppy
by Ted Hughes
Stanza 11 Summary
Get out the microscope, because we're going through this poem line-by-line.
Lines 25-26
And that stripped, athletic leg, hairy,
In a fling of abandon –"
- This is the first reference we get to anything that's not the top part of the flower. Additionally, it's also the last part of the list that started a few lines ago with "we could see nothing but" – so now the whole plant has been included in this kind of singular world-view.
- We're talking now, of course, about the stem, which on a poppy is very long, has no leaves (all the leaves are right near the base, almost on the ground), and is covered in a kind of rough fuzz. (See a picture here.)
- That's kind of convenient, really, when you've been comparing everything to body parts – that stem, long and singular as it is, could be said to be almost exactly like a leg.
- Why "athletic"? Well, if you look at a poppy, it seems nearly unbelievable that a stem that long and comparably thin could hold up such a huge blossom, but it does. As far as plants are concerned, we'll go ahead and say that that's pretty athletic.
- As a closing line, "in a fling of abandon" pretty well sums up the speaker's attitude towards the life cycle of this flower. After all, a "fling" is something that only lasts a short while, and in this case, "abandon" doesn't necessarily mean to leave something behind so much as it means "without thinking."
- The poppy's existence, in this poem, has been a kind of exuberant explosion – not so big on the forethought, but huge on the intensity of expression. It's poof! COLOR! then gone, and we're left reeling from the force of it. Phew. No ordinary flower, as it turns out.


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PORTLAND, Maine (AP) � Police are on the lookout out for a purse-snatching bicyclist who has grabbed handbags from women walking along Portland streets.
Officials say a 54-year-old woman reported that she was talking on a cellphone at an intersection near downtown when a man rode up on a bike and grabbed the purse from off her shoulder, knocking her to the ground. She told police the man was wearing black clothing with a dark, hooded sweatshirt and was riding a black bike.
Police told the Portland Press Herald (http://bit.ly/ZLHKMp) that a Scarborough woman said a cyclist rode past and grabbed her purse while she was walking along Commercial Street on Sunday night.
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Sylvester Lefort – How He Became the French Stallion
Sylvester Lefort is currently a professional WWE wrestler. He was born in Nice, France as Thomas La Ruffa, but currently resides in Florida as a member of WWE's NXT Wrestling branch.
A Meager Beginning to His Career
Lefort first started his wresting career by training with wrestler Lance Storm in Canada. He finished his time at Storm Wrestling Academy in 2006, then he debuted at Power Zone Wrestling near the end of that year.
Lefort made his international debut at the beginning of 2007 during the International Catch Wrestling Alliance. At this time, he was using the name Eagle Mask, but he and his partner failed to win the match. He did manage to achieve some success later on with another partner, but did not manage to win any titles. Lefort did fight on his own as well in 2007, but did not see much success. He attempted to get into the ICWA 16-Carat Gold competition, but did not get through the qualification round.
Most of the competitions Lefort participated in during 2007 were European. He used his original name Eagle Mask, but also went by Tom LaRuffa as he fought in various tournaments through France, Spain, and Italy.
Lefort Starts Making a Name for Himself
Before leaving for France, Lefort went to California to get some extensive training with some more impressive champions. He ended up debuting in Mexico later that year, as well as in California. Lefort fought individually, as well as in tag teams, but unfortunately did not reach much success.
After various defeats in both California, Lefort went on to assist Lance Storm in Canada.
He continued to help train wrestlers and also fight in some competitions. He received a lot of publicity by igniting a couple feuds with popular Canadian wrestlers during this time. Lefort started winning more matches in the U.S. as well, proving that 2008 was a much more positive year than the one before. Still, he could not achieve the winning titles, and unfortunately, his 2008 U.S. tour fizzled out with various losses. Lefort had also tried out for WWE various times during this year, but only managed to get into a small segment backstage.
Around the middle of 2008, and after failing to get into the WWE, Lefort went back to his home country of France to compete in various competitions. Though he participated in a couple different international tournaments, he did not manage to win winning titles. However in September, his luck changed as he started wrestling in Wrestling Stars, one of the oldest wrestling tournaments in Europe and France's most popular.
Lefort began making a name for himself among the European audience, especially through social media videos. His persona during Wrestling Stars was a Greek warrior, an homage to his ethnic background. Lefort shined there, and even caught the eye of France's top professional wrestlers. He became busier and busier as he was sought after by multiple promotions.
As with any popular professional wrestler, Lefort also had his fair share of feuds in France. However, he did not really achieve much success against these various wrestling stars.
Lefort, going by his birth name La Ruffa in France, also received a lot of publicity by starting a relationship with veteran wrestler Flesh Gordon's daughter, Lili. French media released a half hour special on them, where the couple discussed their lives and how La Ruffa's career played into it. Unfortunately, the constant traveling must have handed the relationship a large blow, as both moved on with their respective lives. Lefort kept achieving more success in his career, even becoming the premiere French wrestler to compete in Turkey in 2011.
The Birth of the "French Stallion"
Lefort returned to Canada in 2010, where he agreed to participate in the 2011 wrestling docu-reality program called "World of Hurt." Once again, Lefort collaborated with Lance Storm, who was in the show as a trainer. Lefort became somewhat of a villain during this time by acting obnoxiously, annoyingly, and being all around arrogant. This character he portrayed was called the "French Stallion," and he ended up actually stealing the spotlight with it.
Finally Living the Dream
Lefort had always wanted to participate in the WWE, but failed to do so back in 2008. However, after achieving quite a lot of success in both France and Canada, he was in a much better position to get in. Finally in November of 2011, Lefort ended up making an appearance on WWE Smackdown, and in the following August, he was signed into the company's development territory called NXT Wrestling. This is where Lefort changed his name to Sylvester Lefort, acting like a rich Frenchman who managed professional wrestlers. He debuted as his new name in mid-2013, where he managed a tag team duo. While managing fellow wrestlers and getting into his fair share of in-show fights, Lefort returned back to the ring as a single fighter. Unfortunately, the first few fights as a newly single wrestler did not prove successful.
After this, Lefort formed new alliances and created a tag team called the Legionnaires. This team had a highly publicized feud with Enzo Amore and Colin Cassady. This fight went back and forth, leading to both losses and wins, as well as in-show drama. Recently, however, fellow Legionnaires teammate Marcus Louis surprised Lefort when he attacked him during a match. We're yet to see how this once strong alliance will turn out.
Sylvester Lefort has definitely had his share of disappointments in his career, especially at the beginning of it. However, he has truly shown what a showman he is with his "French Stallion" character. We imagine we'll be seeing a lot more from Lefort in the future, along with a whole lot more entertainment.
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Why do you say that stocks are so hated now? If they are high doesn't that mean they are loved?
What kills me is that markets mostly went up on previous negative jobs reports because it meant more juice on the way from the Fed. Now more positive jobs numbers are apparently also cause for higher markets.


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[caption id="attachment_7476" align="alignright" width="500"] Actor Gary Sinise hits the stage to perform for troops and military families at U.S. Coast Guard Base Kodiak. U.S. Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer 1st Class Sara Francis[/caption]
When we think of our troops serving in remote locations, far from the comforts of home, we typically envision them in the desert on the frontlines of war but that isn't always the case.
Countless troops serve our nation right here on the home front, including the thousands of Guardsmen and military families stationed on the small island of Kodiak in Alaska, home to one of the largest U.S. Coast Guard bases in the world. I recently visited the island with USO tour veteran Gary Sinise and his band, The Lt. Dan Band, and discovered that you don't have to live in a foreign land to feel far from home.
"Alaska isn't another country, but sometimes it feels like it is"
From our first stop in Anchorage to our last stop in Kodiak we heard over and over how much troops and their families appreciated Gary Sinise and the Lt. Dan Band's USO visit and how much it meant to them. "We never get any famous people here, it's just too far," said one military spouse, who explained how much she missed just being able to attend a concert. The men and women stationed in Alaska may not be serving overseas or in combat zones, but it doesn't mean they aren't missing some of the same comforts of home as those who are. When a celebrity volunteer like Gary Sinise drops by to say thank you and deliver a high-energy, family-friendly USO show, it lets them know that America recognizes their service comes at a price and appreciates their sacrifice.
[caption id="attachment_7477" align="alignright" width="500"] (L-R) Medal of Honor recipient Drew Dix, actor Gary Sinise and Capt. Bill Deal, commanding officer of Coast Guard Air Station Kodiak, pose for a photo with the crews of the air station. U.S. Coast Guard Photo by Petty Officer 3rd Class Jonathan Klingenberg.[/caption]
Sometimes it's the simplest things that make the biggest differences. Petty Officer 3rd Class David Call, who escorted our group for most of our time in Kodiak, pointed out, "What I miss the most is being able to get in my car and drive."Kodiak hosts less than 100 miles of drivable road, and when you're used to hopping in your car to relax or clear your mind the open highway can become as welcome a sight as a good friend. That's why, no matter what it is our troops are missing or wherever they serve the USO and partners like Gary Sinise and TriWest Healthcare Alliance - who help to fund many of the Gary Sinise and the Lt. Dan Band tours - are there for them. While the USO may not be able to bring the open road to our men and women in uniform, like Petty Officer Call, we can bring them a good time and some memories to last a lifetime.
[caption id="attachment_7478" align="alignright" width="500"] Petty Officer 3rd Class David Call, who can be seen as part of the Weather Channel Series "Coast Guard Alaska," provides medical support to a 5-month-old baby girl. U.S. Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer 3rd Class Charly Hengen[/caption]
To see a glimpse of the action tune into The Weather Channel's hit series "Coast Guard Alaska," which airs Wednesdays at 9/8c and follow the men and women serving at Kodiak as they train, work, and tackle the harsh environment of rugged Alaska. USO and Gary Sinise fans can also look forward to a special USO themed episode in season three. To learn more about the USO and how you can support our forward deployed troops, military families and our ill, injured and wounded warriors please visit us online at www.uso.org. - Sharee Posey, USO Senior Communications Specialist
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USO and the What To Expect Foundation Host Special Delivery Baby Shower in Dover
Being pregnant isn't easy under the best of circumstances. But being pregnant and having a spouse in the military – or serving yourself – can make the expecting experience exponentially more difficult. That's why the USO and the What to Expect Foundation, led by best-selling author Heidi Murkoff, team to bring Special Delivery Baby Showers to military bases around the world.
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A Dish in the Desert: USO Piloting Expeditionary Satellite Internet Kit Program for Service Members Downrange
After months of research, two reinforced plastic cases arrived at Camp Shorab, a once-bustling Marine Corps base in Southwestern Afghanistan. When unpacked the packages' color-coded contents provided a free USO internet connection for troops on the ground.


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Relocating iMovie footage to an external hard drive
by benzipperer on Jun.26, 2009, under Apple
You can give your Mac hard drive come breathing room by relocating iMovie footage to an external firewire hard drive.
When you first started using your shiny new Mac, you thought the hard drive was so large you would never run out of storage. Then you started using iMovie for video, and now your Mac hard drive is almost full. Fortunately, you can free up lots of space on your Mac hard drive by moving iMovie video footage to an external hard drive. Dragging the video files in Finder will not work – doing this properly is a two-step process.
First, you must prepare your new external hard drive to hold video files in a format (Mac OSX Extended – Journaled) that iMovie likes. To do this, connect your new external hard drive to the Mac. It should show up as an appropriately named icon on the Desktop. Make note of its name so you can recognize it. Bring up the Disk Utility and look at the list of drives. Identify the external drive, and click on the drive. Don't click on any partitions underneath the drive, click on the entire drive. Then select Partitions, a Volume Scheme of 1 Partition, make up a name for the volume, pick a format of Mac OSX Extended – Journaled, and click Apply.
Your Mac will take a few minutes while it removes all existing information from the external hard drive.
Now that the external drive is in a format that iMovie likes, whenever you import new video footage you can select your external drive in the Save To dropdown box. You can also move your existing footage from the Macintosh hard drive to the external hard drive. Just bring up iMovie and select Events by Volume in the view menu. Then drag an event from its current location to the external drive:
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BANNU, Pakistan (AP) - A Taliban bombing inside an army compound in northwest Pakistan killed at least 20 troops Sunday, officials and militants said, in one of the deadliest attacks to target the country's forces as they battle insurgents in its volatile frontier. The blast targeted a vehicle ...
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Liam Neeson, Hollywood A-list actor is set to play a malicious leopard in South African animated film Khumba. Khumba is the second animated feature produced by Cape Town-based Triggerfish Animation Studios, which has seen a successful global release with Adventures in Zambezia.
The movie tells the story of a half-striped zebra that is blamed for the drought by his superstitious herd. He leaves his home in search of the magic waterhole where legend has it the first zebras got their stripes. He teams up with an overprotective, sassy wildebeest and a self-obsessed ostrich and meets a variety of wacky characters in an unforgettable adventure through the Great Karoo to 'earn his stripes'.
Triggerfish writers Raffaella Delle Donne and Anthony Silverston wrote the original story with Jonathan Roberts, co-writer of The Lion King.
Silverston, who is also the director, is proud to have Liam Neeson on board in the role of the villain. "He brought a real menacing gravitas to this key character with his powerful, distinctive voice. The fact that he took part in our movie is a testament to the quality of animation produced in South Africa and I am immensely proud of what our team has produced," says Silverston.
The rest of the cast to date includes rising starts Jake T. Austin (Rio, New Year's Eve), Anna Sophia Robb (The Carrie Diaries, Soul Surfer) and Joey Richter (A Very Potter Musical) as well as Emmy winner Loretta Devine (Grey's Anatomy, Crash), Richard E. Grant (The Iron Lady, Corpse Bride) and British comedy actress Catherine Tate (The Catherine Tate Show, Doctor Who).


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On Sunday in Rondout. More than 900 volunteers dished out 1,606 ft of vanilla ice cream, sprinkles, chocolate sauce and whip cream as Boice Bros Dairy broke the world record for the longest sundae. More than 5,000 people were on hand to consume the dessert. There were no leftovers. The event was held to mark the company's 100th anniversary. It was started by Pratt & Harriet Boice in 1914. Dozens of their descendants were on hand to dish out the sundae. Mayor Shayne Gallo served as judge. He will certify the results and send them to the Guinness Book of World Records. He said Kingston's event beat out the current world record by about 350 feet.
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That there exists an ancient mystery that holds the secret of America's future?
That this mystery lies behind everything from 9/11 to the collapse of the global economy?
That ancient harbingers of judgment are now manifesting in America?
That God is sending America a prophetic message of what is yet to come?
Before its end as a nation, there appeared in ancient Israel nine specific warnings and omens of national destruction These same nine Harbingers are now manifesting in America with profound ramifications for America's future and end-time prophecy.Hidden in an ancient biblical prophecy from Isaiah, the mysteries revealed in The Harbinger are so precise that they foretell recent American events down to the exact days the 3,000-year-old mystery that revealed the exact date of the stock market collapse of 2008 the ancient prophecy that was proclaimed from the floor of the US Senate and then came true and more. The revelations are so specific that even the most hardened skeptic will find it hard to put down. Though it sounds like the plot of a Hollywood thriller IT'S REAL.
The prophetic mysteries are factual but revealed through a riveting narrative the reader will find hard to put down. The Harbinger opens with the appearance of a man burdened with a message he has received from a mysterious figure called The Prophet. The Prophet has given him nine seals, each containing a message about America's future. As he tells of his encounters with the Prophet, from a skyscraper in New York City, to a rural mountaintop, to Capitol Hill, to Ground Zero, the mystery behind each seal is revealed. As the story unfolds, each revelation becomes another piece in a larger and larger puzzle, the ramifications of which are, even now, altering the course of America and the world.
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Buick may not have the racing panache of Chevrolet or the late Pontiac, but don't count it out of the race: the marque fielded a 2012 Regal GS sport sedan in this weekend's Silver State Classic Challenge in Nevada, and walked away with first prize in its class.
The Silver State Classic Challenge is a road rally that takes place on a closed-off 90-mile stretch of Nevada State Highway 318, ending about 120 miles north of Las Vegas. Drivers must average a particular speed, which is set by the officials, over the entire course, no matter the makeup of straights or curves.
The 2012 Regal GS was entered into the 120mph class of the SSSC–which means the driver must average 120 mph–and finished the course in 45 minutes, 0.0192 seconds, averaging a speed of 119.9991 mph. It was enough for the drivers to win best in class and beat 34 other rookie teams to win the special award for Most Accurate Rookie.
The team, it should be said, was hardly novice: the car was driven by the Regal GS model's lead development engineer, Bill Rietow, and navigated by GS drive quality powertrain engineer John Townsend riding shotgun.
One would think that a Buick wouldn't be well suited for racing, but the rally car was well-kitted: Rietow and Townsend's ride was a stock 2012 Regal GS, which comes equipped with a 270-hp, 295 lb-ft turbocharged four-cylinder engine, a six-speed manual transmission, and a top speed of 152 mph. For the race Buick only added a custom-fitted rollbar and five-point seatbelts, and Rietow said late Sunday that the car ran "smoothly, quietly and cool" throughout the course, hitting a top speed of 137 mph early in the race.
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In a new study, National Institutes of Health (NIH) scientists describe an approach to modeling and predicting human immune responses to influenza, or flu, vaccination based on the state of the immune system before immunization. These findings provide a conceptual framework for identifying factors that influence immune responses in people, which potentially may be used to optimize treatment. The study appears in the April 10, 2014, online issue of Cell.
"Systems biology" refers to an integrated, broad approach to studying biology by examining how diverse components work together to achieve a biological outcome, rather than scrutinizing a single factor and its effects. Systems biology combines computational modeling and laboratory experiments to generate hypotheses about how complex systems function and determine whether or not they hold true in living organisms.
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In this CHI study led by NIH scientists John Tsang, Ph.D., from the NIAID Laboratory of Systems Biology, and Pamela Schwartzberg, M.D., Ph.D., from the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) Genetic Disease Research Branch, researchers assessed and modeled the state of the immune system before and after administration of the 2009 seasonal and pandemic H1N1 flu vaccines. More than 60 healthy volunteers participated, and blood samples were taken multiple times before and after vaccination.
These samples provided many types of data for modeling, including the frequencies of different immune cell types, expression of genes, the levels of flu-specific antibodies, and the activity of antibody-producing cells, called B cells. Such data sets contain tens of thousands of measurements per person, so one of the biggest challenges is developing ways to meaningfully integrate the data to gain new insights on the human immune system, particularly the response to flu vaccination.
After accounting for factors such as age, gender, and pre-existing immunity to flu, the researchers found that the frequency of a few immune cell types present before vaccination was sufficient to predict the level of the flu-specific antibodies made after vaccination. More work is needed to assess whether this predictor holds true in more people, across different seasons, and in vaccines against other diseases.
The study is one of the first to use a systems biology approach to identify predictive factors that influence immune responses to flu vaccination. Importantly, the predictive factors identified (the frequencies of immune cells) were relatively stable within individuals over time. Therefore, cell populations may be reliable and promising biomarkers for assessing how a person may respond to vaccination. The analytical approaches developed in this study also may be applicable in future large-scale studies.
By examining pre-vaccination data, this study also contributes to our understanding of what constitutes a normal, or healthy, human immune system. A measurable definition of normal immune parameters, especially given the genetic variation among people, is not well defined, but it is necessary to create reliable, predictive models and effective therapies.
Currently, CHI researchers are modeling the innate immune response to flu vaccination, which occurs early on before antibodies are made. They also will use systems biology modeling to compare how immune responses differ when vaccines are given with or without adjuvants and to evaluate vaccines against other diseases. Adjuvants are substances used to boost the effectiveness of vaccines.
Researchers are using systems biology to model immune responses to commonly prescribed drugs like steroids and statins. Finally, CHI aims to address whether or not there are genetic contributions to the predictive factors uncovered in this study.
Tsang JS, Schwartzberg PL, Kotliarov Y, Biancotto A, Xie Z, Germain RN, Wang E, Olnes MJ, Narayanan M, Golding H, Moir S, Dickler HB, Perl S, Cheung F, Baylor HIPC Center, CHI Consortium. Global analyses of human immune variation reveal baseline predictors of the post-vaccination response. Cell (2014)
This work is funded by the NIAID intramural programs; National Cancer Institute; National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute; National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases; Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development; National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases; National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke; National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences; National Eye Institute; and NHGRI.
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The turkey has yet to be defrosted, but Amazon has jump-started the holiday shopping frenzy with a deal on smartphones. The e-commerce giant is selling non-iPhone smartphones for a penny through Monday.
The offer includes phones such as the Motorola Droid Razr 4G, the Samsung Galaxy S II and the BlackBerry Torch 4G. Customers must purchase a new contract with wireless providers Verizon, Sprint, or AT&T to take advantage of the deal.
Wireless carriers often subsidize device costs with the purchase of a two-year contract. A Samsung Galaxy S II retails for $499.99, but costs $199.99 when purchased with a two-year contract on the Sprint web site. But by reducing that $199.99 subsidized price to a penny, Amazon is likely taking a hit, says Forrester Research analyst Charles Golvin, even when accounting for the bounty that wireless providers sometimes pay sellers for bringing in new customers.
Amazon would not immediately comment on its pricing strategy, but cutting prices to bring in customers is part of the Amazon playbook, as demonstrated as recently as last week when the $199 Amazon Kindle Fire tablet went on sale. Earlier, the Wall Street Journal reported that based on the estimated cost of parts and manufacture, Amazon was possibly taking a loss with each Kindle Fire sold.
This week's penny deal may not just be aimed at new customers to Amazon, but new smartphone customers, says Golvin. "You can't maintain the remarkable growth in smartphones over the last year-and-a-half without finding a new customer base," he said.
Amazon's sale could help customers used to paying $50 for $70 for mobile phones overcome their reservations with adding a data plan to their subscription, he said.
An Amazon spokeswoman could not comment on sales, only saying that the Motorola Droid Razr has been popular.
AmazonWireless, Amazon's online store for wireless service plans and devices, has run penny deals before. When the store launched in July 2009, it offered customers the then-cutting-edge BlackBerry Curve 8900, among other smartphones, for a penny.
But earlier deals happened before Amazon had its own high-profile wireless device to sell: the Kindle Fire tablet. This week's offer could also help boost the new tablet's presence by bringing new eyeballs to the site. Also relatively new, the company's Appstore for Android, which launched in March. The store, modeled on Apple's App Store, hosts apps that customers can purchase for their smartphones or Android-based tablets such as the Kindle Fire.
Combined with the penny offer, which requires that customers purchase a wireless contract, Amazon's wireless store demonstrates the soups to nuts approach the company is taking to wireless.
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For centuries, physicists and mathematicians have been trying to work out the most efficient way of packing spheres in order to minimize wasted space. They think they know how to maximise efficiency in uniform packing, for example when stacking oranges. But they know less about how to improve random packing, a process that describes the behaviour of a wide range of granular materials such as sand and marbles. Now, a group of physicists in the US has modelled this random process statistically and has calculated that it can never be used to fill more than about 63.5% of available space.
Musings over sphere packing probably began in the 16th century with mathematician Thomas Harriot, a friend of the English explorer Walter Raleigh, when he tried to work out how many cannonballs could be stacked neatly on top of one another. In 1611 the German mathematician Johannes Kepler concluded that no arrangement was more efficient than the regular "face-centred cubic", which allows a packing fraction — the fraction of overall space occupied by spheres — of 74%. This belief was proved rigorously to most experts' satisfaction by the US mathematician Thomas Hales in 1998.
Random packing is less straightforward. There is "random close packing" which results, for example, when spherical grains are dumped in a box and then shaken. Experiments indicate that this leads to a packing fraction of 64%. But if the grains are left to settle gently, scientists instead end up with a "random loose packing" of about 55%.
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Hernán Makse, Chaoming Song and Ping Wang of the City College of New York have a theoretical model to describe random packing in detail. They assume that packed spheres obey the statistics of particles in a gas at thermal equilibrium, with a Boltzmann-like distribution of volumes. Building on research carried out by Sam Edwards of Cambridge University, they describe the volume occupied by each particle in terms of the number of neighbouring particles that it touches, a quantity known as the "geometrical coordination". Then by inserting this equation into the statistical expression they derive a simple formula linking packing fraction to geometrical coordination (Nature 453 629).
Using their formula, the researchers have calculated that the packing fraction for random close packing is 0.634, whereas the corresponding figure for loose packing is 0.536, roughly in line with conventional wisdom. Makse and co-workers have also illustrated their formula using a phase diagram, which, they point out, highlights the crucial role of friction in random packing (see Packing phase diagram). With no friction between particles only the maximum close packing can be attained, but as friction is increased, and the geometrical coordination drops as a result, the system of particles can take on a wide range of densities. "Previously people only dealt with frictionless systems," says Makse, "so they missed the most important part of the phase diagram."
The researchers now plan to carry out experiments to test their model. In particular, they intend to attach polymers to tiny silica spheres in a colloid in order to generate friction between the spheres and test their ideas about the role of friction in packing. Makse points out that even if these experiments back the theory there is still more work to be done before scientists have a unified understanding of both ordered and random spherical packing. In part, that is because this latest work makes a number of shortcuts, such as modelling average particle interaction across the whole sample. "Our work is just the first step on the road to a theory on a par with that of Hales," he adds. "The road is very long."
Makse believes that his team's work could have practical applications, however. He points out that granular materials are widely used in industry but that they are in fact poorly understood. He thinks that a quantity known as "compactivity" — a measure of how much a system can potentially be compacted — could help pharmaceutical, food or oil companies refine their products. "Compactivity could be used to characterize the state of a powder in the same way that temperature determines the state of a liquid or a gas," he says.
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Roger has reached the next round in New York, dropping his first set of the tournament against America's John Isner. Roger shred the local's Grand Slam dream 6-7 (4-7), 6-2, 6-4, 6-2.
Our star took a set to work out the rocket-like serve of the super-sized former university student, who was playing in only his second ATP-level event.
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Roger lost the opening set in a tiebreaker, then got down to business in dismantling the raw, unpolished game of Isner, who stands nearly 2.05 meters. The number one used his precision to glide past his third successive opponent ranked outside the top 100 this week. He committed just two unforced errors in more than two hours on court.
Roger won his 23rd match at the Open, where he was last beaten in 2003. Our top seed dominated after the first set, with errors piling up as fast as aces for the youngster. He will next face Feliciano Lopez from Spain.
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San Diegan Craig Jameson, who tried unsuccessfully to nab passes on Thursday, was able to do so today, but only after agreeing to buy breakfast for another person in line who let him and his son jump in line with him around 4 a.m. He said he had observed hundreds lined up overnight and in the early morning hours.
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Last year, Comic-Con International was forced to halt online sales twice because of overloaded servers and by early this year when sales resumed, badges sold out within seven hours.
Cathy Williams, of Fallbrook, said she's done with Comic-Con after this year. Soured by the long lines for pre-registration and popular panels, she said she will take a break next year from the always sold-out event, which attracts more than 130,000 fans.
"We had to wait 4-1/2 hours for Ballroom 20 yesterday after waiting hours to buy badges," said Williams, 52, of Fallbrook, who has been going to the convention since 2005 with her husband. "Each year it gets more and more crowded. We decided, we're done, although my son wants to come back."
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Producer: Zeynep Ozbatur AtakanScreenwriter: Ercan Kesal, Ebru Ceylan, Nuri Bilge CeylanCinematographer: Gökhan TiryakiPrincipal Cast: Muhammet Uzuner, Yilmaz Erdogan, Taner Birsel, Ahmet Mumtaz Taylan
The deliberate pace of Turkish filmmaker Nuri Bilge Ceylan's police drama and medical procedural is a far cry from the frantic crash-and-burn of Hollywood's action movies. But this exhaustive meditation on the mysteries of violence, the burdens endured by crime investigators, and, in the end, death itself, pays dividends throughout its 157-minute length. Like the somber family drama Three Monkeys (SDFF31), which earned Ceylan a Best Director nod at Cannes, Anatolia is also absorbed with thorny questions of good versus evil, knowledge versus ignorance, and the urges of personal deception.
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Issue No.04 - April (2013 vol.24)
pp: 642-651
Xiwang Yang , Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Polytech. Inst. of NYU, Brooklyn, NY, USA
Yang Guo , Bell Labs., Alcatel-Lucent, Holmdel, NJ, USA
Yong Liu , Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Polytech. Inst. of NYU, Brooklyn, NY, USA
DOI Bookmark: http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/TPDS.2012.192
In this paper, we propose a Bayesian-inference-based recommendation system for online social networks. In our system, users share their content ratings with friends. The rating similarity between a pair of friends is measured by a set of conditional probabilities derived from their mutual rating history. A user propagates a content rating query along the social network to his direct and indirect friends. Based on the query responses, a Bayesian network is constructed to infer the rating of the querying user. We develop distributed protocols that can be easily implemented in online social networks. We further propose to use Prior distribution to cope with cold start and rating sparseness. The proposed algorithm is evaluated using two different online rating data sets of real users. We show that the proposed Bayesian-inference-based recommendation is better than the existing trust-based recommendations and is comparable to Collaborative Filtering (CF) recommendation. It allows the flexible tradeoffs between recommendation quality and recommendation quantity. We further show that informative Prior distribution is indeed helpful to overcome cold start and rating sparseness.
social networking (online), belief networks, inference mechanisms, query processing, recommender systems, cold start, Bayesian-inference-based recommendation system, online social networks, content ratings, rating similarity, conditional probabilities, mutual rating history, content rating query, querying user, distributed protocols, Prior distribution, rating sparseness, trust-based recommendations, collaborative filtering recommendation, recommendation quality, recommendation quantity, Bayesian methods, Social network services, Motion pictures, History, Joints, Vegetation, Recommender systems, cold start, Recommender system, online social network, Bayesian inference
Xiwang Yang, Yang Guo, Yong Liu, "Bayesian-Inference-Based Recommendation in Online Social Networks", IEEE Transactions on Parallel & Distributed Systems, vol.24, no. 4, pp. 642-651, April 2013, doi:10.1109/TPDS.2012.192