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Colorado voters lined up for nearly three hours on Monday to testify about the state reapportionment process, asking the commission charged with redrawing legislative district lines to focus less on competitive districts, and more on keeping communities of interest together.
Republicans and Democrats on the state's Reapportionment Commission wrangled over house districts, especially in Fort Collins, proposing maps that aim to protect their political base while attempting to adhere to court decisions that require lawmakers to keep counties intact.
The most significant vote taken on Monday by the 11-member bipartisan commission led to the adoption of a proposal by Democrats that would expand the two-district Fort Collins area to include two additional house districts.
The commission approved the proposal by a vote of 6-5, with all Republican members opposing it. Unaffiliated Chairman Mario Carrera, of Parker joined Democrats in supporting it.
The plan calls for two additional house districts for Fort Collins, spreading out to Republican-held House Districts 49 and 51, currently represented by B.J. Nikkel, R-Loveland, and Rep. Brian DelGrosso, R-Loveland, respectively.
Windsor would also be divided into three districts, including House District 48, held by Rep. Glenn Vaad, R-Mead, in addition to House Districts 49 and 51 Democrats believe they have drafted a fair, competitive map, while Republicans call the proposal "sloppy" and "unconstitutional," noting municipal splits that Republicans believe to be "unnecessary."
"That was just really sloppy work by whoever drew the plan, but I think that's clearly unconstitutional," said Republican Commissioner Steve Tool, a former state representative of Fort Collins who now lives in Windsor. "Those are municipal splits that are totally unnecessary and not needed."
Front Range asks to maintain communities of interest
The commission on Monday also took testimony from Denver-area and Front Range residents who want to avoid the controversy facing Fort Collins by keeping communities of interest together, especially those including the Hispanic population in the area. They are expected to offer their proposals on Monday when the reapportionment commission next meets.
"Our communities of interest within the Latino community need more representation, not less," said Amber Tafoya, executive director of the Denver-based Latina Initiative. "We are often fractionalized in this process; we are often split up… we are asking you not to do that," she told commission members.
Democrats are also concerned about maintaining a Hispanic community of interest in Weld County, specifically House District 50, which encompasses Greeley, formerly represented by Rep. Jim Riesberg before he was appointed commissioner of insurance last month. The Democratic-leaning Hispanic vote around Greeley has become crucial to Democrats in helping keep the district competitive.
Sen. Morgan Carroll, D-Aurora, a member of the Reapportionment Commission, spoke of the importance of HD 50 to the Democratic Party.
"HD 50 is the only one that can be competitive for Democrats out of Weld County," she said. "[HD] 50 can remain politically viable for a Democrat in one house district, otherwise it looks like it goes to one-party control."
But Republican Commissioner Rob Witwer, a former Representative from Genesee, said Weld County has a longtime voting tradition that could become more competitive.
"There's a history of racial bloc voting in northern Weld County," he said. "It is possible to draw a Hispanic majority district."
Boulder also has become a focus of the reapportionment debate, as the commission has proposed placing house districts in Grand County with Clear Creek and Gilpin counties, while joining the county with Boulder or Jefferson counties. Repositioning Grand County with Larimer County has also been discussed, but the commission does not appear to be moving forward with that proposal, according to reapportionment commission staff.
Putting Grand County with Boulder County, however, is one of the more contentious issues of the discussion, as rural Grand County voters do not believe they align well with urban Boulder County voters, and vice versa.
"We have nothing geographically or culturally in common with the people of the Front Range," testified Robert McVay, a resident of Hot Sulphur Springs in Grand County and chairman of the Grand County Democratic Party.
Some in Boulder, however, believe parts of the county, especially in the northwest, do have common interests with rural Grand County.
"The citizens of Grand County feel that they'd be poorly represented if they were coupled either with Larimer County or Boulder County… but that's not a complete picture," said Dan Gould, who lives in western Boulder County. "Many people are not familiar with all of Boulder County… Half of the geography of Boulder County is mountainous. It has a lot of similarities with some of the issues and some of the concerns of Grand County."
Commissioner Gayle Berry, a former Republican representative from Grand Junction, challenged notions that gerrymandering is taking place by placing conservative Grand County with liberal Boulder County, suggesting that voters are more interested in performance than party affiliation.
"Voters will vote for a candidate, not the party which makes it a competitive district, which is something that should be important to us as well," said Berry.
"We Republicans never get Republican majority, and I don't care, that's not the point of this exercise…" she continued later in the hearing.
Longmont residents on Monday raised concerns of their own over how district lines were drawn after the 2000 Census, and are asking the commission to redraw district lines so that Longmont goes back to where it was a decade ago. The commission at the time divided Longmont into two separate house districts and placed many of the rural neighborhoods in Boulder County. Longmont residents say they have little in common with Boulder.
"Our vehicles don't even fit in their parking lots," quipped Peg Cage, president of Longmont Republican Women.
Longmont resident Vuka Mitchell went as far as to say that the city was "screwed" by the commission following the 2000 Census. Mitchell believes Boulder is favored over Longmont when it comes to representation, and says the city would benefit from its own support.
"House District 11 looks like a crescent wrench, with Boulder at the base of the handle and Longmont at the top, getting screwed by the one at the base," charged Mitchell.
Front Range voters are also asking the commission to keep the Broomfield area as intact as possible. But if the commission does split up the Front Range, residents hope that Broomfield can be kept with Boulder County rather than with rural Weld County.
"I'm concerned that redrawing the lines of Broomfield is going to change the fabric of our community," said Broomfield resident Francesca Subramanian.
Reapportionment Commission staff also anticipate contention over El Paso County. Jerry Barry, staff director for the Reapportionment Commission, believes Republicans will raise concerns over predominantly Republican Colorado Springs being split more than necessary. That debate could spill over into discussions over how to redraw senate legislative district lines, he said.
Reapportionment and the fight for control of the Legislature
Republicans currently control the state House by one seat, while Democrats have a 5-person majority in the Senate. In years past, senate district lines have been the more contentious boundaries to redraw, say Reapportionment Commission advisers. But this year — as party leaders look ahead to a 2012 fight for control of the Legislature — house district lines have become the more volatile issue.
The Reapportionment Commission is tasked every 10 years, following the Census, with redrawing legislative district lines in order to conform to changing populations. The goal is to keep districts uniform in size to reflect "one person, one vote." House districts will ideally have a population of 77,372, and Senate districts will ideally have a population of 143,691 residents.
The governor appoints three members to the Reapportionment Commission; party leaders appoint four members; and the chief justice of the Colorado Supreme Court appoints four members to the commission.
The Reapportionment Commission is expected to release maps in August and then send the drafts for review to the Colorado Supreme Court in October. The new maps will take effect for the 2012 election cycle.
Both Republicans and Democrats have filed lawsuits over the congressional redistricting issue.
The Reapportionment Commission would like to avoid the fierce battles that took place during the congressional redistricting process a few months ago. In an attempt to defuse some of the tensions surrounding reapportionment, the commission takes testimony from the public before drafting specific maps on which to vote. Staff director Barry likens it to the old "chicken or the egg" question.
"Which do you do first?" asked Barry. "Do you first ask for testimony, or do you throw a map on the wall and ask for this?"

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Jan. 16, 2013
SAN DIEGO - The San Diego State athletic department announced Wednesday that the school will remain in the Mountain West for all of its sports which the league sponsors.
The Aztecs are one of six schools who have been with the Mountain West since its inception in 1999, joining Air Force, Colorado State, New Mexico, UNLV and Wyoming. As a charter member, SDSU will continue its storied rivalries with the other original five members, and renew them with recent additions Boise State, Fresno State, Hawai'i (football only) and Nevada, and newcomers San Jose State and Utah State.
San Diego State University President Dr. Elliot Hirshman and San Diego State University Director of Athletics Jim Sterk released the following joint statement:
"After substantial discussion and consideration of a broad range of factors, San Diego State University will be continuing as a full member of the Mountain West Conference in July 2013. We have the deepest respect for our colleagues in the Mountain West, BIG EAST and Big West conferences with whom we have worked collaboratively during the period of conference realignment. We are optimistic about the future of San Diego State University's athletic programs and the prospect of building on our university's rich tradition of intercollegiate athletics."
Under the new agreement San Diego State signed with the Mountain West, the Aztecs will receive their revenue from the 2012-13 season. Part of that revenue will be used to pay SDSU's exit fee from the Big West Conference. The Aztecs will not have to pay a BIG EAST exit fee, thanks to a clause in their initial agreement that SDSU wouldn't be bound to the conference if there wasn't another team west of the Rocky Mountains.
San Diego State is coming off its most successful fall season in school history. The football team went 7-1 in Mountain West play and won its first conference title since 1998, while advancing to a bowl game for the third consecutive season for the first time in program history. As a department, the Aztecs won four of the possible five trophies the Mountain West handed out, including a football regular season conference title, a women's soccer regular season and tournament title, and a volleyball regular season title.
In the 2012 calendar year alone, SDSU captured nine MW championships in seven sports with the four aforementioned along with women's basketball (regular season and tournament), men's basketball (regular season), men's golf and softball. Three teams finished ranked among the top 10 nationally.
"Our 2012 year was a memorable one with nine championship trophies and numerous coach-of-the-year awards," Sterk said. "This year looks to be equally as competitive and successful as last year."
Prior to the Mountain West, San Diego State was a member of the Western Athletic Conference (WAC) from 1978-99.
"As a charter member of the Mountain West, San Diego State has decades of history and tremendous competitive rivalries with our member institutions," Mountain West Commissioner Craig Thompson said. "With today's announcement, SDSU's membership continues uninterrupted and helps the Mountain West maintain a solid foundation going forward. The Aztecs remain a perfect fit geographically and provide the Conference with a highly-competitive athletics program that includes a Top 25 men's basketball team, a 2012 MW tri-champion in football and several other league championship-caliber programs."


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by John Milton
Lines 85-107 Summary
Get out the microscope, because we're going through this poem line-by-line.
Lines 85-87
O fountain Arethuse, and thou honoured flood,
Smooth-sliding Mincius, crowned with vocal reeds,
That strain I heard was of a higher mood:
- Phoebus out. Now that Phoebus has finished yammering on, the speaker resumes, well, speaking. Here, in another apostrophe, he addresses the Arethuse and the Mincius.
- For those not in the know, the Arethuse is a fountain on the island of Sicily. And the Mincius is a river (or "flood") that runs through northern Italy. Virgil mentions it in his Eclogues, in which he mentions the river's "reeds," which our speaker describes as "vocal." Our speaker sure has a thing for Virgil, doesn't he?
- In his address to the fountain and the river, the speaker tells us that Phoebus' speech was of a "higher mood," meaning that it was a bit too fancy-pants for a pastoral poem.
Lines 88-92
But now my oat proceeds,
And listens to the herald of the sea
That came in Neptune's plea,
He asked the waves, and asked the felon winds,
What hard mishap hath doomed this gentle swain?
- Oat? Is he talking about a piece of grain with ears, toddling along, listening to the ocean?
- We wish. No, he's talking about his song, the pastoral poem he's writing. "Oat" is a stand-in for a musical instrument made out of an oat-stalk, like the "oaten reed" he mentioned way back in line 33.
- When he says "my oat proceeds," the speaker means he is continuing his song. He describes how Triton, the "herald of the sea," comes to defend ("came in […] plea") Neptune, who is the god of the sea, from the charge of Lycidas' death.
- Milton's friend Mr. King drowned in the ocean, so it makes sense that our speaker might blame the god of the sea for his friend's death. But Triton isn't having it.
- In fact, Triton wants to understand what went down, too. So he asks the waves and the savage (or "felon") winds what happened to Lycidas, the "gentle swain."
- Sure Triton, just blame it on the weather, why don't you?
Lines 93-99
And questioned every gust of rugged wings
That blows from off each beaked promontory:
They knew not of his story,
And sage Hippotades their answer brings,
That not a blast was from his dungeon strayed;
The air was calm, and on the level brine
Sleek Panope with all her sisters played.
- This Triton dude is all about getting some answers. He also asked the "wings" blowing from pointed ("beaked") promontories (a piece of land jutting out into the sea), and they didn't know anything about Lycidas' story.
- These wings might be a synecdoche for birds, flying from sea-cliffs, or perhaps it's just referring to the wind.
- Who is this Hippotades guy? Well, that's just another name for Aelous, the god of the winds. He kept the winds stored in a cave ("dungeon") and tells the speaker that all of his winds were at home when Lycidas died, so they couldn't have had anything to do with the tragedy.
- Hippotades also says that the "air was calm," and Panope, one of fifty sea Nereids, was seen playing on the calm ("level") sea, or "brine."
Lines 100-102
It was that fatal and perfidious bark,
Built in the eclipse, and rigged with curses dark,
That sunk so low that sacred head of thine.
- "Perfidious bark"? Is there a dog around? Perfidious means deceitful, or untrustworthy, and bark is another word for ship. Here, our speaker is saying that the ship is to blame for Lycidas' death, not the winds or the sea. The ship is what "sunk so low that sacred head of thine." In other words, "The ship is what drowned you, Lycidas."
- Eclipses were once considered evil omens, and the speaker implies that because the ship was built during one it was "rigged with curses dark," which caused Lycidas' death. Let that be a lesson, all you shipbuilders out there.
Lines 103-107
Next Camus, reverend sire, went footing slow,
His mantle hairy, and his bonnet sedge,
Inwrought with figures dim, and on the edge
Like to that sanguine flower inscribed with woe.
"Ah! Who hath reft" (quoth he) my dearest pledge?"
- Camus appears, another word for the river Cam (which runs near Cambridge University, the home of Milton and King). The speaker personifies the river by saying that it is clearly mourning for Lycidas – it is "inscribed with woe." He also asks who has taken ("reft") his dearest "pledge." The river wants to know who has taken Lycidas.
- The speaker goes even further with his personification, describing Camus as a university student, complete with a furry academic gown ("mantle hairy") and wearing a "bonnet sedge." A "sedge" is a rush-like plant that grows near water.
- The bonnet is compared to the "sanguine flower," the hyacinth. In Greek mythology, a Spartan youth named Hyacinthus was accidentally killed while playing with Apollo, god of the sun, music, and poetry. According to one myth, hyacinth flowers sprung up from his blood that was spilled. Supposedly, the flower was marked with the Greek word "AI," which translates to "alas," which is a pretty woeful word, if we may say so.


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Thursday, Jan. 10
11 a.m. -- Break-in discovered on Reina del Mar Avenue.
11 p.m. -- Loud explosion or gun shot heard on Monterey Road.
Friday, Jan. 11
2 a.m. -- Arrest made for DUI at Sharp Park Road and the highway.
2 p.m. -- Burglary on Alta Vista Drive. Broken window on a vacant house. Door left ajar.
5 p.m. -- Trail of blood on an Eastlake Avenue resident's property looks like it hasn't been there for more than a day.
Saturday, Jan. 12
1 a.m. -- Argument between two women at a bar on Palmetto Avenue leads to an arrest.
9 a.m. -- Burglary on Esplanade Avenue. Purse stolen from a vehicle. Window smashed to gain entry.
10 a.m. -- Burglary on Paloma Avenue. Laptop stolen from a vehicle. Window smashed.
10:15 a.m. -- Burglary on Franz Court. Car broken into. Radio and backpack stolen.
10:15 a.m. -- Burglary of a vehicle parked near the swimming pool along Paloma.
3 p.m. -- Burglary on Granada Drive. Screen taken off windows at back door to garage.
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The destruction on household wealth wrought by the housing crisis has been staggering. Even though we're nearly five years past the actual financial collapse, the real estate website Zillow.com estimates that 25.4% of all homeowners are still underwater on their mortgage. And, mind you, this is a dramatic improvement. At the same time last year, a depressing 31.4% of homes were saddled with negative equity.
For some, the loss may still be on paper -- and, indeed, with any luck, it will never have to be realized so long as home prices continue to recover. But for those of you that are not so fortunate, you can at least seek consolation in the fact that you're not alone. As you can see in the chart below, the percentage of homes sold at a loss has skyrocketed since the middle of 2007. Prior to the crisis, less than 5% of homeowners sold their homes for less than what they paid. Nowadays, more than 30% are in the unenviable position of doing so.
Although it's arguably too little, too late for many people, the good news is that things do appear to be improving. In the first case, as you can see on the right-hand side of the chart, the percentage of homes sold at a loss is coming down. In March of last year, according to the Zillow data, it was 34.97%. This past April, it was 30.7%.
In the second case, we're starting to see green shoots break through the soil on the homebuilders' front. Last month, Toll Brothers (NYSE: TOL ) , the nation's largest luxury homebuilder, reported a 33% increase in unit deliveries for the three months ended April 30. And yesterday, Hovnanian Enterprises (NYSE: HOV ) , another major player in the industry, said that its unit deliveries shot up by 18%.
"We believe the industry is still in the early stages of a recovery," noted Robert Toll, executive chairman of Toll Brothers. "[A]s home prices continue to increase, homeowners' balance sheets should continue to improve as should bank balance sheets. People will feel wealthier, banks will lend more and the economy should continue to improve."
And finally, businesses further up the homebuilding supply chain are starting to experience the proceeds of an uptick as well. Two weeks ago, Home Depot (NYSE: HD ) , the world's largest home improvement retailer, announced a 7.4% year-over-year increase in its first-quarter sales and even felt confident enough to raise its earnings guidance for the remainder of the year. And while Lowe's (NYSE: LOW ) didn't have as good of a quarter, experiencing a 0.7% decline in same-store sales, it nevertheless managed to increase the bottom line by 2.5%.
At the end of the day, the importance of the housing sector speaks for itself. As my colleague Morgan Housel observed at the end of last year, there "hasn't been a strong economy without a strong housing market in modern history." This is why everyone should be pulling for the line in the chart to reach its historic norm sooner rather than later.
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RE: Campaign
DATE: January 4, 2010
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By Crystal Lewis Brown, Fort Jackson LeaderMarch 10, 2011
FORT JACKSON, S.C. -- From the brightly colored children's toys, to the plush sofas and even the numerous clocks decorating the walls of the conference room - everything in the newly opened Family Life and Resiliency Center works toward the center's mission: providing Soldiers, families and civilians a place where they can enhance physical, emotional, social, family and spiritual resiliency.
"That's our bread and butter," said Chaplain (Maj.) Charles Kuhlman, the family life chaplain who also runs the center. "That is what we do."
Though the FLRC opened officially this month, programs have been under way since January, Kuhlman said.
In addition to serving as a meeting place for several family and spiritual programs, the chaplain-led center offers confidential counseling.
"As we travel along the way, as we travel through our military journey and various transitions, we need help and at other times, we provide help," Kuhlman said, quoting the center's mantra.
"One of the unique (aspects) that chaplains provide to the FLRC is that they have a theological grounds in and the clinical training to deal with the (practical) approach and spiritual aspect of it," he said.
Kuhlman added that just because chaplains conduct the counseling doesn't mean that it is a strictly "religious" program.
"There isn't any pushing," he said. "We meet the individuals where they are."
Before receiving counseling, each person is asked to fill out an intake form in which they are asked a series of questions, including some that are faith related. This allows chaplains to better come up with a treatment plan that includes a faith-based approach, or not.
The chaplains who provide counseling are family-life trained, which means that in addition to their usual chaplain training, they have finished a condensed 15-month training that includes an on-the-job internship with face-to-face counseling. After finishing the training, the chaplains meet the clinical requirements for counseling in most states.
Angela Piekielko, an Army veteran, spouse and mother of two young boys, said the FLRC offers families a much-needed resource.
"This sounds amazing," said Piekielko, who has been at Fort Jackson for more than a year and is active in the Protestant Women of the Chapel. "I think there are a lot of families here who are struggling. We don't (always) see a (big) need here for family life help ... because we're a TRADOC post.
"When families go through a deployment, then get stationed here and their (Soldier) is a drill sergeant, that's stressful."
She added, "This could really help so many families who are struggling here. Being a spouse, and meeting all these women and just talking to them; they're hurting."
While Piekielko appreciates the religious aspect of the FLRC, she said she is glad that it is still an inclusive resource.
"I think that's one of the good things about this; it can be spiritual, but (doesn't) have to be. This is going to be an amazing thing for our families, as long as they use it. I think this will really help people with their spiritual walks, regardless of what their faith is."
Chaplain (Maj.) Carl Rosenberg, who teaches the Chaplain Basic Officer Leadership Course at the U.S. Army Chaplain Center and School, said the center also serves as a learning opportunity for the post's chaplains.
"The piece that I'm very excited about is the continued enhancement of pastoral skills for our chaplains," he said. "We help chaplains improve their skills.
Part of Rosenberg's duties include supervising more junior chaplains, and providing assistance when needed.
Both Rosenberg and Kuhlman hold master's degrees in counseling, with an emphasis in marriage and family therapy. And Rosenberg is a diplomate supervisor in the College of Pastoral Supervision and Psychotherapy, which means he has undergone additional training to be a clinical supervisor.
Though Rosenberg and Kuhlman may intervene and provide their knowledge to help another chaplain, if necessary, counsel a client, Kuhlman maintains that confidentiality is always kept.
"The bottom line is, what you say here, stays here," he said.
That confidentiality is necessary, he says, to help further alleviate any stigma associated with seeking counseling.
"Building your ... resiliency is looked at as a positive thing, not a negative thing. The individual who is a better wife, a better husband; an individual who works on his or her personal relationships will (also) be a better member of the workforce."
Rosenberg said that the center is also a conduit for those who may want to seek behavioral health help, but are fearful.
"We are a bridge between the medical care and (the client)," he said. "We can help lower people's inhibitions about seeking care. We're a live 'military one source,'" he said.
Those who need additional counseling may be referred to another agency as necessary, Rosenberg said. Currently, the FLRC offers counseling services by appointment only.
But the FLRC isn't only about counseling. Already, groups such as the A.T. E.A.S.E spouse's organization and Club Beyond, a youth ministry, meet in the building. Brown-bag lunches and other workshops aimed at improving resilience are in the works.
The key, said Kuhlman, is to take a proactive approach.
"We're double-stitching the seams," he said.
Rosenberg shared a similar sentiment, adding that their jobs are to enrich the Fort Jackson community.
"We are passionate about helping families live healthy, rich lives."
Editor's note: To make an appointment to speak with a counselor at the Family Life and Resiliency Center, call 751-4966/4949. The FLRC is located next to the Strom Thurmond Building, off Marion Avenue.


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Now that the cheering, dancing and massive peaceful protests ousted Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, the hunt is on for his assets around the world.
Within hours of his resignation, the Swiss announced their intention to find and freeze any assets believed to be in the hands of Mubarak or his inner circle. And U.K. Foreign Secretary William Hague said its government received a request from Egypt to freeze the assets of some of its former officials.
"We will of course co-operate with this request. If there is any evidence of illegality or misuse of state assets we will take firm and prompt action," Hague said.
He also said that any direct freeze would only come if there was proof of illegality, and that the Serious Organized Crime agency would handle any investigation, rather than the Serious Fraud Office.
Earlier, U.K. Business Secretary Vincent Cable had said the government would take action against any U.K. bank caught helping Mubarak move assets around.
Ironically, Egypt was perceived as cleaning up its corruption in the past year, moving up to 98th out of 178 countries in the 2010 Transparency International index, scoring a 3.1 out of 10 in its weighted survey of surveys. Though the Berlin-based anti-corruption group cautions against comparing results year-over-year, it's a marked improvement from Egypt's 2009 score of 2.8 that landed it 111th out of 180 countries scored that year.
The New York Times, which had five reporters on the story, reported that opposition groups have said for years that much of the corruption in Egypt stemmed from cronyism connected to the privatization of the Egyptian economy in the 1990s.
The Times also tracked down a myriad of business connections of Gamal Mubarak, Hosni's son, including the head of Egypt's largest investment bank, EFG Hermes.
Gamal currently owns half of Cyprus-based Bullion Company Ltd., which owns a London-based investment fund called Medinvest Associates he set up in 1996 with two partners. Gamal left Medinvest in 2001 and a current director told the Sunday Times that the firm is no longer linked to the Mubarak family. Bullion owns 35% of EFG's private equity operation, which has $919 million total under management. Bullion invests in oil and gas, steel, cement, food and cattle, according to the Times report. Ala'a, another Mubarak son, is on the board of directors, the report says.
The bank told the Times it got no special advantages from its connections to Gamal. Bullion and Medinvest did not return the Times' calls.
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Dr. Linda C. Halpern (Dean, University Studies; Professor, Art, Design and Art History) received $40,000 from the Association of American Colleges and Universities for "Blue Ridge Community College-JMU Quality Collaboratives Project" to increase the number and explore more fully the success of BRCC students who transfer into two educational areas of need at JMU: teacher education/interdisciplinary liberal studies and selected science, technology, engineering and mathematics majors.
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It's OK to Have a Boring Valentine's Day
It's not unusual for couples to find themselves sitting in front of the TV with their kids on Valentine's Day, the supposed most romantic day of the year. In the case of my family, we spent one February 14 watching a re-run of Wipeout.
The lovey-dovey among us might accuse us of prioritizing our kids over our marriage or avoiding each other on this special day, but that particular year Jeff and I had each had a grueling month of work, hadn't spent enough time together as a family, and had no desire to find a babysitter and fight the crowds.
There has always been a debate about whether it is healthy to have grand expectations for February 14. And for good reason. Because what I've found among those who have the best relationships is that how they handle Valentine's Day has much, much more to do with handling expectations than the celebration itself.
For the last three years I've been studying happily married couples for my book, The Surprising Secrets of Highly Happy Marriages. These husbands and wives set up specific patterns in their relationship throughout the year that don't put undue pressure on one single day. And these habits also change how they approach the red roses and boxes of chocolates come February. As we gear up for Valentine's Day yet again—whether you'll be on the couch or at a fancy restaurant—here are three important lessons from the habits of happily married couples:
They hang out with each other a lot.
Despite having busy schedules just like everyone else, these spouses make it a point to be together as much as possible—not just on "date nights" but driving to kids' soccer practices, sharing a hobby, or even grocery shopping -- just to do something together. Because of all this informal together time, the Big Day simply doesn't loom as large in their mind. If they arrange something: great! But they don't feel the same slightly hysterical pressure to have to arrange something spectacular. They don't have as much risk of someone feeling slighted or let down if it doesn't turn out perfectly.
And it turns out that during a season when spouses are struggling, spending "regular" time together is even more important than a Valentine's Day surprise. When we're fighting a lot, we are often tempted to avoid the conflict by reducing our time together, but that eliminates the special protection that comes from keeping our friendship close. Thirty minutes each day hanging out together (and being friendly, not negative) is far more beneficial than going on a special Valentine's date—and avoiding each other the rest of the week.
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Nanotube 'monorail' moves cargo
Apr 11, 2008
Researchers in Europe have built a "monorail" from carbon nanotubes that can transport a fleck of metal over a distance of about 800 nm. The metal cargo sits on a 5-nm long nanotube "sleeve" surrounding a much longer nanotube "rail" that is stretched across a trench in a silicon chip. Surprisingly, the team believes the sleeve is driven by lattice vibrations called phonons — rather than electrical interactions, which they originally thought would propel the device.
Carbon nanotubes are sheets of carbon one atom thick that are rolled up into tubes that are only several nanometres in diameter. Adrian Bachtold and colleagues at the Autonomous University of Barcelona along with collaborators at the University of Vienna and the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne built their device using a multiwalled nanotube, which comprises several concentric nanotubes (Science DOI: 10.1126/science.1155559) .
The team began by attaching a 1500-nm long multiwalled tube across the trench with metal electrodes. They then used an electrical-breakdown technique to remove several outer layers from most of the nanotube, leaving a short sleeve that could rotate freely and move to and fro along the inner rail.
Hotter in the middle
The team operate the motor by passing an electrical current through the rail, which causes it to heat up. However, the region of the rail in the middle of the trench becomes much hotter than the ends — because the electrodes act as heat sinks. If the sleeve and its cargo — a tiny piece of gold — are placed in the middle of the trench, they will move to one side of the trench at speeds of up to 1 µm/s.
This is a beautiful experimental resultRamin Golestanian, University of Sheffield
Bachtold told physicsworld.com that the team had originally hoped that they could apply a voltage between the electrodes to encourage atomic interactions between the rail and sleeve, causing the sleeve to move in a helical manner in one direction — and then in the other direction when they reversed the voltage. Such motion was expected, according to Bachtold, because the atoms on the inner and outer nanotubes would both be arranged in slightly different spiral configurations.
Instead, the team found that the sleeve always moved away from the centre of the trench. According to Bachtold, the first clue that heat was driving the motion was that the gold cargo particle changed shape by partially melting. The team confirmed the role of heating by doing computer simulations of the system.
Phonon propulsion
Heat is transported through carbon nanotubes in the form of quantized lattice vibrations called phonons, which behave much like particles. Copious numbers of phonons are created at the hot centre of the rail and move towards both electrodes, striking the outer sleeve and dragging it along with them.
Ramin Golestanian of the University of Sheffield describes the work as "a beautiful experimental result". However Golestanian, who studies the physics of moving nanoparticles and nanomechanical devices, told physicsworld.com that much more investigation is required to understand the mechanism responsible for the motion and the role of phonons in it.
Bachtold and colleagues have now turned their attention to making more practical motors based on the effect. They are currently working on reversible devices in which one end of the rail is heated and the other is not, which should cause the sleeve to move from the hot end to the cold end. The direction of travel could be reversed by simply switching which end is heated.
In the longer term, Bactold believes that such motors could be used to drive nanometre-sized machines, such as those that perform drug delivery or other medical functions in the body.
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New Rules for Growing Your Book of Business: Reach Clients and Prospects Through Their In-Boxes
June 23, 2009
by Dan Sommer
Define success
As with all other marketing efforts, define your objectives in advance and be realistic - building an effective e-mail marketing program takes time. Here are some of the metrics you can monitor using most e-mail solutions:
Open Rates: How many recipients actually open your e-mails?
Click-Through Rates: Which specific links do your clients and prospects click on? If you can provide a few links to different places within your e-mail, you'll be able to determine quickly what content they find most valuable.
Referrals/Forwards: How many of your e-mails are forwarded to others? This helps you to determine whether your content is engaging enough to motivate your client or prospect to pass it along to others as an online referral.
Other key considerations
Frequency: To avoid "list fatigue," don't send e-mails out more than once per week, unless you are sending an important service update to one of your clients.
Compliance: As with all other marketing communications, work with your legal and compliance departments to determine what you can and cannot send to prospects and clients. It's highly likely that your e-mail communications will require the same disclosure language as a publicly facing advertisement.E-mail marketing is part art and part science. Be creative and test different approaches until you develop a program that works for you and your firm. Finally, consider applying the best practices below as you explore e-mail marketing.
E-mail Best Practices
- Apply the "three-second rule": Assume that you only have three seconds to get a recipient's attention:
- Less is more
- Engage your audience
- Place a clear call-to-action above "the fold"
- Make all graphics clickable
- Two little lines make a big difference (From and Subject)
- Always send your messages from a recognizable source (Your name or your firm's name)
- Make your subject line highly relevant and personalize it if possible (e.g., Important Service Update for My Clients). Here are a few additional tips:
- Don't tell the whole story – intrigue recipients into opening the e-mail
- Don't mislead or trick people into opening your e-mail
- Keep subject lines under 45 characters
- Beware of spam practices (e.g., Don't use all CAPS!)
- Personalize whenever possible
- Test different subject lines on prospect mailings. Run with the winner!
- Relevancy rules!
- Make sure your from address is recognizable
- Use a short, inviting subject line
- Write in a credible, conversational tone
- Use multiple, strategically placed links (to learn which content is most relevant to your clients and prospects)
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Does reverse T3 block T3 receptors?
Mrs. Tracer is currently going to a Naturopath for treatment of her hypothyroidism, because she was dissatisfied with her mainstream endocrinologist.
The Naturopath has her on a regimen of pure T3 supplements. She is taking no T4 at all. The Naturopath claims this is because of a test for serum Reverse T3 levels she had her take, which indicated that her Reverse T3 level was too high. (T4 can be turned into either T3 or Reverse T3 by various deiodinase enzymes found throughout the body.)
According to this Naturopath -- and I've seen this same claim repeated on a buttload of alternative medicine websites -- Reverse T3 is actually a T3 antagonist. That is to say, it blocks the T3 receptors, preventing the (normal, bioactive) T3 from doing its thing.
I asked if she could point me to a peer-reviewed journal article that could back up that claim, and she says she knows of one, but "it would be better if I were to search around on my own" so that I could also read all the stuff on those hypothyroidism-sufferers websites out there.
Well, I've searched around on my own, and I've found site after site repeating the "reverse T3 blocks T3 receptors" claim, but NO actual reference to the peer-reviewed medical literature in support of this claim.
Is there actual evidence out there that reverse T3 acts as a T3 antagonist? If so, where?
This web page has references to articles on the idea that rt3 antagonises t3
Never heard of anything like that and trying to dig myself the closest I get is evidence that such is likely NOT true. Old article but shows that giving reverse T3 did nothing to effect thyroid function.
No link on that complementary medicine site Isilder links to supports the claim either. It is just stated.
Let me guess ... the pure T3 supplements are sold by the Naturopath and not available in a regular pharmacy?
More red flags (for me, at least):
I was going to look at this reference they list:
A study of extrathyroidal conversion of thyroxine (T4) to 3,3',5-triiodothyronine (T3) in vitro.
Endocrinology;101(2):453-63. Chopra IJ
But it's from 1977 and you need a subscription to view it and there's no abstract on PubMed or the Endo site.
This is their summary:
To late to edit, but I caught this in the quote I cited from their website:
So a site that concerned with the critical difference between T3 and rT3 gets the nomenclature wrong.
The "genuine" hypothyroid state is characterized by depressed reverse T3 levels.
It seems likely that tracer already suspects that this Naturopath is a quack and is merely doing due diligence. What he can do about that, I don't know.
tracer if you don't mind my asking, what did your wife find so dissatisfying about her mainstream endocrinologist? Was he trying to tell her that her low energy was not likley caused by low thyroid and suggesting she look for another cause?
To those who know about thyroid metabolism here ...
So what does rT3 do? I understand that it is produced as regular T3 is made from T4 peripherally, usually in about equal amounts. And that that ratio changes in states like depression, sudden change in activity, caloric or carbohydrate restriction, illness, certain medication usage, so on. (Thus rT3 being elevated with normal range TSH and T4 and T3 in those states sometimes). To dismiss it completely as an inconsequential byproduct of regulating the very active T3 with a metabolically inert coproduct seems likely to be missing something, at least to me. Why make something inert in equal amounts instead of just making less in the first place? I see no evidence of its being a partial or weak antagonist but such is not completely an irrational thought - if it is only 1% as active and it binds to the same receptors then it blocks those receptors from being triggered by T3 with something less potent ... But there is no evidence that such happens, some that it does not, and it seems like a crude hypothesis that makes little sense. (You activate T4 into T3 to get the bigger bang of the more active T3 form ... why make something that goes the other way at the same time? Less sense than even making something completely inert.) Does it do something else in the body that T3 does not? I can't find anything on what its unique function might be. If any.
I can find something that seems to suggest that there are specific rT3 receptors. And that rT3 is higher in the 2 weeks after birth before coming down to more typical levels. Both of these seem to suggest that it does something ... but what?
In any case tracer the importance of elevated rT3 may be more as a marker that there is something else other than hypothyroidism going on that may need to be addressed more than what form of thyroid hormone will be more effective.
Good luck!
Trying to satisfy my curiosity about specific rT3 receptors (to little avail) I have also found this (and others like it) that further demonstrate that rT3 is NOT an antagonist to T3 - it does not bind to the same receptors much so therefore cannot block them.
It seems there could be a simple experiment to determine whether rT3 acts as a thyroid hormone receptor antagonist.
There are ways of measuring the activation/repression of a cell signaling pathway by agonists/antagonists. A common one is called a dual luciferase reporter assay.
A DNA construct containing the response elements of a pathway specific transcription factor(s) along with a reporter gene is introduced into a cell.
Wikipedia for Thyroid Hormone receptors:
The amount of luciferase protein made by the transfected cell is positively correlated with activation by receptor agonists and is measured by providing a substrate, in this case luciferin, and quantifying the amount of chemiluminescence produced. The more activation, the more chemiluminescence produced.
The simple experiment would be to measure the amount of activation by an agonist such as T3 and then see if prior and/or co-treatment with rT3 reduces this.
These reporter assays exist for thyroid hormone receptors (see abstract below, for example) and Im sure this has been done before somewhere.
A new bioluminescent cellular assay to measure the transcriptional effects of chemicals that modulate the alpha-1 thyroid hormone receptor.
Toxicol In Vitro. 2007 Sep;21(6):1197-205. Epub 2007 Apr 14.
Jugan ML, Lévy-Bimbot M, Pomérance M, Tamisier-Karolak S, Blondeau JP, Lévi Y.
Lots of techniques ... here's another approach that shows there are specific rT3 receptors that are different than T3 receptors and that rT3 does not bind well to T3 receptors. So the exact claim made made the Naturopath is provably untrue.
OTOH ... rT3 does feed back on the deiodinase enzymes that convert T4 into T3 and rT3 and on the ones that get rid of itself and other thyroid hormones, all apparently variably active in different local areas according to local factors.
Having read a bit more now the issue/debate does seem to be over how to handle the referenced euthyroid sick syndrome. Apparently the mainstream consensus is that neither T4 nor T3 should be given and there is a minority opinion that one or the other should be as T3 levels is certain target tissues are low, and of that group some believe that T3 is the way to go.
Interesting stuff.
Mmm...wonder why they didn't use this paper of his on their website.
Also to consider: here is an article about Naturopathy from Quackwatch:
The first sentence call Naturopathy "largely pseudoscientific".
Her doctor started her on the smallest available dose of pure synthetic T4 (levothyroxine). To keep the dose even lower, he told her to take it on the weekdays and skip taking it on the weekends. She said she could feel the difference between the days when she was taking it and the days when she wasn't, but had to twist her doctor's arm to get her on a consistent daily dose.
Then, she started ... reading up on hypothyroidism. There wasn't a lot her doctor was telling her, so she fell back on the easiest, widest, quickest source of information she could find. Namely, Internet searches and asking around. There, she discovered a whole community of people (mostly other women) who whined incessantly about how awful their lives were and how no one was listening to them, including those awful mainstream doctors they'd been seeing. (I'm guessing. She didn't actually share most of this information with me.) Something must have struck a chord with her, because she started reading books like Bowthorpe's Stop the Thyroid Madness, whose basic message was:
Mrs. Tracer is quite overweight, so it's entirely possible that a T4 dosage that would be adequate for an average woman wouldn't be enough for her. But again, her TSH levels were now down within the normal range, so her doctor refused to increase her dosage -- or add any T3 into the mix -- despite the fact that she still felt lethargic. So she found a real endocrinologist, but this endocrinologist also dragged her feet when it came to adjusting her T4 dosage. So she found another endocrinologist, who was willing to ramp up her T4 dosage. But this second endocrinologist believed in never, ever, ever giving any of her patients any T3 for any reason.
So, having exhausted the endocrinologists in the area, she branched out in her quest to find a doctor who would LISTEN!! to her. That's how she found this Naturopath.
To this day, she is convinced that just about every mainstream endocrinologist out there hasn't been keeping up with the latest developments in thyroid research, and are thus pretty much useless when it comes to getting the treatment she wants.
Thyroid, Armour thyroid! What kind of folks take Armour thyroid?
Fat folks.
Sorry, that's all I got. :(
While desiccated thyroid was originally produced by the Armour meat packing company, they are no longer in that business. The Armour Thyroid brand name is now owned by Forest Labs.
And to be fair, the USP standards for desiccated thyroid extract are considerably stricter today than they were thirty or forty years ago. It used to be only that the iodine level had to be within 15% of some target value. Now, the actual measured T4 and T3 levels have to be within 10% of a target value.
So again, the Naturopath's claim is false but the idea that high rT3 may reduce the efficiacy of T4 supplementation has some reasonable theoretical basis.
That said it seems that the bigger significance of high rT3 is as a marker: it is high for a reason. What is causing it? It is established, for example, that the high rT3, low normal T3, normal T4, normal TSH state (euthyroid sick) associated with depression resolves upon successful treatment of the depression. Whatever other functions rT3 serves may, for all we know, be adaptive in the context of those other causes.
As previously cited above, it is established that neither T3 or T4 is useful in the euthyroid sick of serious systemic illness and may even be harmful.
There is some research I can find on using T3 as an augmenting agent for medication resistant depression which shows that it may be helpful, but no good comparison with plain T4.
I'd also personally run the other way from any one who told me that the study is out there but won't share it with me saying instead that I should find it myself so I can read all the crap internet "experts" to inform myself. Especially if the claim as stated is wrong. This is not someone who knows wat they are speaking about and any correct medical decisions or advice, if any, are completely coincidental.
The best I can get out of after my little reading binge is that regulation of thyroid hormones is extremely complicated. It also appears that there are many practioneers both of the traditional medicine side and the alternative side who get very dogmatic in the face of what should be a fair amount of uncertainty. Shame that.
I also just found this site that you may appreciate! She also has a very nice collection of information pertinent to the T3 only rT3 issue that I wish I had found when I first got intrigued by your question ... its reference list would have saved me a fair amount of time!
Oh, the parody is of the old hot dog commercial ... you may not be old enough so get off our lawns! Enjoy.
On this page, for example (which is the same page containing the reference list you mentioned), the site claims that "rT3 does not block the receptor at all; neither rT3 nor T3 is in the receptor, that's the problem" ... and then fails to give any references to back up this rather important assertion.
I've found a study from March 2013 which implies that it is T3 -- not T4 -- which the hypothalamic-pituitary axis senses, and which lowers TSH levels.
I can't say that I completely parse out what that article is saying but I do not read that as saying that elevated plasma T3 will feedback and suppress TRF and TSH like T4 does (by way of local conversion in the mediobasal hypothalamus by D2 into localized elevated active T3). It seems to be saying that without astrocyte specific D2 plasma T3 is still normal because other cells step up D2 production in the face of elevated T4.
The basic concept is still as stated
That's odd, because in the Introduction to that study, they state:
Local conversion of T4 to T3 by cells in the region of the brain, not elsewhere impacting plasma levels.
Like politics the T3 levels that matter are local, and regulated by local levels of deiodinases activiating T4 and deactivating T3. Most of the body's T3 is produced outside of the thyroid by D2 conversion of T4 into T3. D2 is mostly regulated by a feedback of local T3 levels (more local T3 downregulates it) and T4 induced ubiquitination.
Again, the cross talk that goes on between these deiodinases and other regulatory enzymes at tissue specific locations varies according to site and I cannot claim to have a very solid grip on the complexity of the systems and the levels of feedback. I undertstand just enough to understand that I understand only a small portion of how it works and to be skeptical of simplistic explanations, especially by self-appointed experts.
Again, my limited understanding is that T4 invokes an additional level of localized regulation and feedback control above that imparted by a T3 approach which to my read means less risk of adverse outcome.
FWIW and no more than that.
UPDATE: I think I've found the smoking gun!
First, there's this passage from Molecular Basis of Thyroid Hormone Action, page 93:
Then, there's this study from the 1977 Journal of Clinical Investigation, pp. 1230-1239, whose abstract contains this little gem:
And normal blood concentrations of total T3 are 2-18 times HIGHER than blood concentrations of Reverse T3.
So even if Reverse T3 is a T3 antagonist, it's a pretty darned weak one.
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