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Scotsdale shines at Haddonstone Stockist AwardsCambridgeshire garden centre named top performer in awards that celebrate the hard work of independent garden centres across the country in display and sales.
Scotsdales Garden Centre has been awarded the 'Best Consistent Performance over 5 Years', honour by Haddonstone, the UK's leading manufacturer of cast stone garden ornaments.
The highly sought-after award was introduced to show recognition to the stockist who has continually made an outstanding contribution to presenting and selling Haddonstone's ornamental product range.
Scotsdales was also runner-up in the 'Best Display' category behind Waterperry Horticultural Centre, near Oxford. It achieved the award for the best Haddonstone display in 2007.
The annual Stockist Awards, now in its sixth year at Glee, handed out a third award to Otter Nurseries, which was named the 'Most Promising New Stockist' for showing an encouraging start in representing Haddonstone's ornamental product range.
Haddonstone's managing director, Adrian Coles, presented the awards.
Displays were judged on performance in six categories - product mix, condition of stone, display, planting, labelling and overall effect.
Haddonstone's director of ornamental sales, Alison Lowe, said: "Our new awards for 'Most Promising Newcomer' and 'Best Consistent Performance over 5 Years' enable us to recognise exceptional effort encompassing a maintained high quality display, good customer service and all the other elements which lead to regular, confident customer orders."
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PARKERSBURG - Slams, throws and pins filled the Parkersburg High School Field House on Saturday for Respect and Dignity III presented by American Pro Wrestling Alliance.
Don West, owner and Chief Executive Officer of American Pro Wrestling Alliance, said Saturday's card served two purposes.
"Tonight's show is for drug awareness education for the Parkersburg Police Department and all the concessions will go to the Parkersburg High School athletic department," he said. "We like to do a lot of charities to give back to the community."
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Jeering at the favorite wrestler's opponent are Michael and Brelynn Kirk, both of Parkersburg, during Respect and Dignity III presented by American Pro Wrestling Alliance at the Parkersburg High School Field House.
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Meeting in the center of the ring are Moose, right, and Tank for Tank's American championship. He retained the title in a double count-out.
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Don West, left, and his wife, Amber, wait for her opponent to appear for her match.
West said the wrestling company, which is based in Parkersburg, has presented 54 shows since 2011 and this is their fourth drug awareness show at Parkersburg High School APWA.
"We're a company that does big things," he said. "We have a syndicated television show in West Virginia, Ohio and Pennsylvania; we're not a small regional company."
Some big names were slated for the eight-match show on Saturday, West said, including Big Pappa Pump Scott Steiner, The Barbarian and Rob Terry.
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* Respect and Dignity III was presented by American Pro Wrestling Alliance at the Parkersburg High School Field House on Saturday.
* Don West, owner and Chief Executive Officer of American Pro Wrestling Alliance, said Saturday's card served two purposes.
* One was to support drug awareness education in local schools and the concessions were raising funds for the Parkersburg High School athletic department.
Amber Lee West was to wrestle for the woman's title but her opponent did not appear and she won by forfeit. West said Amber, his wife, was wrestling at her alma mater.
Amber West said she has been wrestling for about a year.
"I graduated from this school in 2006 and it's cool to be here," she said of PHS.
In her years as a student, Amber West said she was not involved in athletics
"I was shy and quiet," she said. "A lot of people cannot believe I do this."
She used to watch wrestling on TV and went to shows in the area.
"It was something I wanted to do," she said.
One wrestler on hand to defend a title was Joey Vengeance, one half of the Unified APWA/MDW World Tag Team Champions with Juice Jennings.
From Canton, Ohio, he has been wrestling for seven years and is now at the age of 23.
"I started when I was 16," he said "It was 2007 when I started and I wrestled here for the first time in 2009 after high school."
Vengeance said his age and experience level throws people at times
"I'm the oldest rookie I know," he said. "Since I'm only 23 people say to me, 'Oh, you're the new guy,' but I've been doing this for seven years."
Sherman Tank, the current American champion, has been wrestling for 19 years after playing high school football.
"I've been doing this since 1996, right out of high school," he said.
Sherman said the show was his latest appearance in Parkersburg with different wrestling shows and his second with American Pro Wrestling Alliance
Onyx, the APWA World Heavyweight Champion, said he has been champion for the past year. He got into wrestling after wrestling and playing football in high school and college. At this time he is the holder of seven belts.
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Corey Crawford stopped all 19 shots he faced, and Patrick Sharp and Ben Smith scored in the second period when the Chicago Blackhawks blanked the Detroit Red Wings, 2-0, at United Center.
"He didn't get tested much," Blackhawks coach Joel Quenneville said of Crawford. "But we got him a full game and he looked like he was tracking the puck well."
Jonas Gustavsson stopped 21 of 23 shots for the Red Wings. Jared Coreau relieved Gustavsson at the start of the third period and made 11 saves.
Sharp broke a scoreless tie at 16:37 of the second when he took a pass from Jeremy Morin and snapped a shot past Gustavsson. Smith scored 1:09 later.
"You play your first game of the year and suddenly you've got nine forwards there and they're out of gas fast," Red Wings coach Mike Babcock said. "I didn't think we had much of a push there tonight to tell you the truth. I thought we killed penalties good. Other than that, though, they were better than we were. They had the puck more. But it's a good evaluation. We had a lot of kids in the lineup here tonight."


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Monday, November 3, 2008
Why Modano Wants An Office Job ...
For those of you who missed Saturday night's Dallas-Boston game (and I'd bet that 95% of you did...who would watch that on a Saturday night?), these two lengthy clips distill the best moments of what turned into an absolute gong-show of epic proportions.
Steve Ott and Sean Avery were running around like nutjobs and the Boston Bruins not only stood up to the Stars, they embarrassed them with some old time Boston hockey. I don't care what team you root for, you can't help but cheer the Big Bad Bruins as these clips unfold.
You probably don't have the 20 minutes to watch these but if you do, it is worth it.
Ott, who was much worse than Avery if you can believe it, probably was the main inspiration for Mike Modano's now already famous two day quote when he said, "It was one of the most embarrassing things I've seen. If that's what we're going for, then they need to find me an office job.''
Even Marty Turco got in on the act, elbowing a Boston forward in the jaw right behind his net.
I've just made a decision to watch both of these teams a lot more this season on Centre Ice. The Bruins are really coming into their own and the Stars are just too entertaining to pass up.
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- Peter said...
Wow. That was entertaining. Big ups to Marc Savard for jumping on Avery after he submarined Lucic. Boston is a loveable team.
Other highlights: Ference's hit, obviously, and Chara tossing Ott to the ice.
Thanks for posting these.
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I came to The UPS Foundation just over one year ago after eleven years in corporate marketing. The desire to work in the foundation and have a job that allows me to give back started back in 2005. I was selected to attend the UPS Community Internship in McAllen,Texas. For one month, I was relieved of my daily office responsibilities and asked to do service work in this extremely challenged community. Those thirty days changed my perspective on life. I became thankful for the things I had, and less wishful for those I didn't.
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Two area farmers markets have announced that they will extend their seasons through the fall.
The Raymore Farmers Market, located in the 200 block of South Washington Street, was originally slated to conclude at the end of September.
But this week, Mayor Peter Kerckhoff said favorable weather has allowed area growers to produce and harvest much more food than usual so the market will continue through October.
The Raymore Farmers Market is open 4-7 p.m. on Tuesdays.
The new Harrisonville market, located on the Historic Square, is also staying open longer than expected.
Organizer Obie Carl said the Harrisonville Farmers Market, which runs 7:30-11 a.m. on Saturdays, was originally scheduled to end in August.
Due to the delayed growing season and successful patronage, the market has been given approval to stay open through the end of September.
Carl said the market has been successful in its first year.
"We're having about 25 vendors every Saturday," Carl said. "It's taken off and we're really happy."
Farm Outreach Specialist Jeff Yearington of Lincoln University in Jefferson City, working out of the University of Missouri Extension Office in Harrisonville, said the growing season has been challenging but fruitful in Cass County, overall.
"It started out cold and wet. We were late getting things in, and produce has been late coming into the markets, but the quality has been pretty good," he said. "I know both of the farmer's markets in Harrisonville have done really well. There was a lot of good traffic and lots of vendor."
Popular items to be available this month include squashes, watermelons, tomatoes, cucumbers, potatoes, apples and possibly pumpkins, Yearington said.
"There is a good opportunity for people to get out and still get a variety of good produce," he said.
Yearington expects gardens to be producing for about another month.
"We generally get a frost toward the middle or end of October," he said.
Yearington did note that a particular insect is taking a bite out some gardens and fields.
The Spotted Wing Drosophila, an Asian fruit fly, has left some fruits and tomatoes rotten this season in Cass County and across the state.
"It just destroys (the produce)," Yearington said.
"You'll have a nice, beautiful peach and you may sell it to someone, but when you cut it open, it's rotten on the inside. The bad thing is you can't see a blemish on the outside of it. It can be devastating"
Other seasonal crops, corn and soybeans, should be ready for harvest during early October, Yearington expects.


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i was returning from a appt. in concord n.h. i had gotton a ride for a women that worked with the c.a.p. office in somersworth n.h./she had business with the state office of some kind. i remember her licsense plate read HOUNDS on it but i dont remember her name. we had just left the lee traffic circle heading east passed durham nh / to get me home when we saw the craft. i new right away that it was something id never seen before it was very large and had lights that seemed to revolve/rotate on the underside but the upper part of the craft seemed to be sationary only the underside of the craft was moving /the lights as i recall were red and possibly green or blue .it was in and open area of durham n.h with the the unh horse barns just behind it and the rt#4 which we were traveling i dont really remember for sure but one of the lights were defintitly red. as i looked a the craft it occurred to me that the lights were moving with the bottom half and appeared to be switching from one side to the other side of the ufo but i realized that they were just rotating on the under side . this craft was very large and it looked like a feeris wheel on its side ,it made no autable sound other than a low electrial sort of hum and current you could feel on you skin and it kind of reminded me of the sound a jump rope makes when it breaks the air around it as you are jumping that low whooping sound but not really a sound maybe a vibration. when i got home i called the dover pd and they laught at me, so i called the pease air force base i portsmouth n.h. they told me that it was probably a helicopter. i also called the durham police station and when they took my call they( the dispatcher) didnt want to talk becauce they(other officer/police employees) were witnessing the ufo themselves and she wanted to get off the phone and see the ufo for herselves. at the time this occurred i didnt have a phone in my apt. i had to use my neigbors phone. they were a husband /wife and child that lived right next to me . the husband was in the air force and worked at pease air base after i made the calls from his phone he was call back to the base for some purpose unknown to me at the time and that he would not discuss with me because i asked him if it had any thing to do with what i saw . he would not give me an answer and left to report for work. but it seemes very odd to me. i still wonder about this and would love to talk with other who might have seen the same thing.
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Skill Level Intermediate
In this exercise, I am going to introduce you to your final blending option inside Photoshop. And these are the luminance exclusion slider bars, which allow you to either drop away specific ranges of luminance levels inside the active layer or force the display of luminance levels from the underlying layers. We are going to use these options in order to mass this lightning into these clouds. So the lighting actually appears to be coming out of the clouds, as if it's all one organic image. Now I have two files open, one is called Big cloud.jpg and the other one is called Lightning.jpg.
They are both found inside the 09_sliders folder. You might look at this lightning and figure if you were actually given this job, my gosh this is going to be so complicated. We have all these tiny little tendrils of light coming off here. Actually masking bright lightning against a dark background is quite easy. All you have to do is go over to the Channels Panel and find the channel that offers the most contrast, you'd see that the Red Channel doesn't offer enough, the Blue Channel is kind of a mess, it's got all kinds of posterization inside of it particularly over here on the left hand side.
The Green Channels probably the best bet. Even though, it's not in great shape either. But we go ahead and grab that green channel, duplicated by dropping it onto the little page icon there at the bottom of the panel. Presumably, we would rename this mask or something along those lines, press Ctrl+L or Command+L to bring up the Levels dialog box and go ahead and crank up the black slider value to about 90 should do us. And then I take the white slider triangle down to something like 220 and at that's it. Click OK, we have got ourselves a mask.
Then you would Ctrl+Click or Command+ Click on the mask, in order to load it up as a selection outline, switch back to the RGB image, switch over to Layers Panel, double-click on the Background Layer and let's go ahead and call this New Layer lightning and then click OK. Just drop-down to the Add Layer mask icon at the bottom of the Panel and click on it. And now you have managed to mask the lightning. Let's go ahead and copy it over to the clouds image by right-clicking inside the image window, choosing the Duplicate Layer command and then I'll go and switch the Document to Big clouds.
The layer is already named so we are good to go, click OK, switch over to that image and we've got ourselves a mass lightning. But couple of different problems, one is, we've got these sort of dark edges surrounding each one of the bolt of lightning. And the lighting doesn't appear to be coming out of the clouds. It just appears to be sitting on top of them. By the way, this is taken too much effort. Even though, I went that quickly we could do this job a lot better with a lot less work without any masking whatsoever, just by taking advantage of blending.
So I'm going to right-click on that Layer Mask and choose Delete Layer Mask to get rid of it. The first step where blending is concerned, is to keep the bright stuff drop out the dark stuff, so of course we are going to switch to a lighten mode and our pre-eminent lighten mode is Screen, and that's going to work pretty darn well for us. That does a lot of the work right there by itself, without harming the image or requiring us to generate a mask. However, we can still see an awful lot of that red background and it's brightening of the clouds as well.
So we need to drop out that background. And you do that by bringing up the Blending Options dialog box. And the easiest way to bring up the dialog box is just double-click on the thumbnail, in the case of a pixel-based layer like this one. If you're working with the some other kind of layer you can double-click any empty portion of the layer over here on the right-hand side or you could just drop-down to the fx icon and choose Blending Options. Any of those approaches is going to work. And then notice these sliders down here at the bottom of the dialog box, they are often called the Blend If sliders.
Blend If refers just to this little blending option right here and I'll show you what's up with that in the future exercise. But the sliders function independently of that option. They are that This Layer slider and the Underlying Layer slider. This layer controls which luminance levels are visible in the active layer, Underlying Layer which should be called underlying layers plural because it could be a stack of layers piled on top of each other, controls the display of luminance levels being forced through from those underlying layers.
So we are going to start things off by dragging this white slider triangle over to the right. And notice what I'm doing here. As soon as I take it over to let say something like well let's say a 101 that's fine. Any luminance level that's a 101 or brighter, bearing in mind that 0 is black and 255 is white. Anything with the luminance level of a 101 or brighter, is going to go transparent. So it's a dropping out and anything a 101 or darker, is remaining visible. That's exactly the opposite of the effect we want of course because we are dropping away the bright stuff the lightning and we are leaving the dark stuff in its wake.
So let's go ahead and reset that guy all the way back to 255 and instead we will drag the black slider triangle like so. And I'm going to take it over to let's say 85 for now. And at this point I am saying, anything that has a luminance level of 85 or darker, drop that out of the active layer. Anything 85 and brighter, keep that visible. Problem is let's go ahead and zoom in here so you can see, we've got some oftenly jagged transitions. That's because, this is an on-off proposition so far.
Either the pixels are opaque if they are brighter than 85 or transparent if they are darker. What we need to do here is introduce some fuzziness that is lend some softness to this transition and if you take a very close look at the slider triangle's, you will notice that they are different than what we just saw in the Levels' dialog box. Instead of being solid triangles, they have a little cleft in the middle of them. And that shows you that they're actually two triangles fused together. You can pull them apart by pressing the Alt key or the Option key on a Mac and dragging in our case, the right half of that slider triangle over to 175 is what I'm looking for.
And so now, notice that we have these nice soft transitions, around the bolt of lightning. And what we were saying just to be clear about what these values now mean. Anything that has a luminance level of 85 or darker is going transparent. Anything with a luminance level of 175 or brighter is remaining opaque subject to the Screen Mode of course. And anything in between 85 and 175 is growing increasingly opaque, so that we can see it more and more over the span of these luminance levels.
And as a result, we get this nice, soft transition. Alright, I will go ahead click OK in order to accept that result and that's how you use that this layer slider, inside of Photoshop. In the next exercise, I will demonstrate how to work with the underlying layer slider.


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Global Flow Cytometry Market
- March 2016
- Region: Global
- 166 Pages
- TriMark Publications
- Abcam
- BD Biosciences
- Clarient (GE Healthcare)
- Luminex
- Promega Corporation
- Spherotech
Flow cytometry is a laboratory analytical technique that can rapidly measure multiple parameters of individual cells or particles as they pass through a beam of light, typically a laser. The global flow cytometry market remains one of the fastest-growing segments of life sciences and clinical diagnostics markets. In the current life sciences research, pharmaceutical drug discovery and development, and clinical diagnostics markets, flow cytometry offers some of the brightest promise for growth and innovation.
The purpose of this report is to provide a detailed analysis of the global flow cytometry market, including size, growth, technology platforms, applications, new instrumentation, industry trends and the internal structure of the sector. The study covers highly attractive growth areas such as stem cell research, biomarkers and companion diagnostics, CD4 testing, high throughput screening and immunology and vaccine development.
It also analyzes almost all of the companies known to be marketing, manufacturing or developing flow cytometry products in the U.S. and worldwide. Additionally, this review provides detailed tables, charts and figures with past and projected sales data by geographic region for North America, Europe, Asia-Pacific and the emerging BRIC (Brazil, Russia, India and China) markets.
- Abcam
- BD Biosciences
- Clarient (GE Healthcare)
- Luminex
- Promega Corporation
- Spherotech
1. Overview
1.1 Statement of Report
1.2 About This Report
1.3 Scope of the Report
1.4 Methodology
1.5 Executive Summary
1.5.1 The Global Picture
1.5.2 Two Major Companies Dominate the Market
1.5.3 Reagents and Consumables Are the Fastest Growing Product Group
1.5.4 The HIV/AIDS Epidemic Has Created a Market for Point-of-Care Flow Cytometry
1.5.5 Flow Cytometry Will Advance Research and Development of New Cellular Therapies, Biologics
and Vaccines
2. Background and Development
3. Market Overview
3.1 Technology and Products
3.2 Market Environment
3.2.1 Global Economic Uncertainty
3.2.2 Lower Healthcare Utilization
3.2.3 Reduced Government Funding for Life Science Research
3.2.4 Consolidation of the Pharmaceutical Industry
3.2.5 Global Aid to Resource Limited Countries
4. Global Flow Cytometry Market 2013-2018
4.1 Global Flow Cytometry Market Size
4.2 Market Drivers
4.3 Market Restrictors
4.4 Flow Cytometry Market by User
4.4.1 Overview
4.4.2 Academic and Government Research Laboratories
4.4.3 Pharmaceutical and Biotechnology Companies
4.4.4 Hospital and Reference Clinical Laboratories
4.4.5 Niche Laboratories
5. Flow Cytometry Projected Revenue by Product. 2013-2018
5.1 Instruments and Service
5.2 Reagents and Consumables
5.3 Software
6. Market Analysis by Region
6.1 Market Size by Region
6.2 Developed Markets
6.2.1 North America
6.2.2 Western Europe
6.2.3 Asia-Pacific
6.3 Emerging Countries
6.3.1 Emerging Countries Projected Flow Cytometry Market
6.3.2 China
6.3.3 India
6.3.4 Brazil
6.3.5 Russia
6.4 Resource Limited Countries
7. Technology
7.1 Principle of Flow Cytometry
7.2 Fluidics
7.3 Optics
7.4 Electronics
7.5 Data Analysis
7.6 Cell Sorting
7.7 Labeling and Detection
7.8 Multiplex Bead Assays
7.9 Imaging Flow Cytometry
8. Applications
8.1 Research Applications
8.1.1 Detection of Cell Signaling Pathways in Single Cells
8.1.2 Cell Proliferation
8.1.3 Cell Viability
8.1.4 Apoptosis
8.1.5 Cell Cycle, DNA Content, Gene Expression
8.1.6 Multiplex Bead Assays
8.1.7 Stem Cell Research
8.1.8 Immunology Research and Vaccine Development
8.2 Clinical Diagnostics
8.2.1 Monitoring T-Cell Markers
8.2.2 Immunophenotyping of Leukemias and Lymphomas
8.2.3 Detection of Minimum Residual Disease
8.2.4 Anti-Neutrophil Antibody Detection in Auto-Immune and Immunodeficiency Disease
8.2.5 Platelet Associated Immunoglobulin Assays
8.2.6 Reticulocyte Count
8.2.7 HLA Crossmatching and Cell Analysis for Stem Cell and Organ Transplantation
8.2.8 Paroxysmal Nocturnal Hemoglobinuria
8.3 Pharmaceutical Applications
8.3.1 Biomarkers and Companion Diagnostics
8.3.2 Drug Discovery and High Throughput Screening
8.3.3 Toxicology
8.3.4 GMP Manufacture of Cellular Therapeutics
8.4 Global Health
8.4.1 Parasitic Diseases and Tropical Medicine
8.4.2 HIV/AIDS, Malaria and Tuberculosis
8.5 Niche Applications
8.5.1 Marine Biology
8.5.2 Plant Biology, Agriculture and Veterinary Medicine
8.5.3 Microbiology
8.5.4 Clinical Microbiology
8.5.5 Industrial Microbiology
8.5.6 Monitor Fermentation Processes
8.5.7 Monitor Water Quality
8.5.8 Screening Raw Materials and Finished Product
9. Flow Cytometry Instruments
9.1 High Performance Multicolor Analyzers
9.2 Midsize Flow Cytometers
9.3 Compact Flow Cytometers
9.4 Cell Sorters
9.5 Flow Cytometry Imaging Systems
9.6 High Throughput and Automated Systems
9.7 Multiplex Systems
9.8 Considerations When Purchasing a Flow Cytometry Instrument
9.9 Pricing
10. Flow Cytometry Reagents
10.1 Leading Suppliers of Reagents and Kits
10.2 Reagent Selection
11. Software and Bioinformatics
12. Competitive Landscape
12.1 Competitors and Market Share
12.2 Key Players
12.2.1 BD Biosciences
12.2.2 Beckman Coulter
12.2.3 Life Technologies
12.2.4 Luminex Corporation
12.2.5 EMD Millipore (Division of Merck KGaA)
12.2.6 Partec GmbH
12.2.7 Miltenyi Biotec
12.2.8 Affymetrix eBioscience
13. Industry Analysis
13.1 Trends
13.1.1 More Lasers, More Fluorescent Dyes, More Data
13.1.2 Moving Flow Cytometry Out of Core Laboratories
13.1.3 Higher Throughput
13.1.4 Clinical Scale Cell Sorting
13.1.5 Point-of-Care Flow Cytometry
13.2 Recent Industry Developments, 2011-2013
14. Innovation and New Technology
14.1 Cell-Analyzing Bio Chips for Point-of-Care Testing.
14.2 Microchip Based Disposable Cell Sorting Technology
14.3 Microfluidic Cell Sorter with Integrated Piezoelectric Actuator
14.4 On-Chip Sorting Using Acoustically Enhanced Magnetophoresis
14.5 NanoCytometry
14.6 Micro-Fabricated Fluorescence-Activated Cell Sorter
14.7 Flow Cytometry and a Cell Phone
14.8 Disposable Devices for CD4 T-Cell Enumeration
14.9 Non-Invasive Technique for Cytometric Analysis of Whole Blood
14.10 Innovative Startup Companies
14.10.1 Nanostring Technologies, Inc.
14.10.2 NanoCellect Biomedical, Inc.
14.10.3 Lamprogen
15. Gaps and Challenges
15.1 Software
15.2 Point-of-Care Flow Cytometry
16. Opportunities
16.1 Integrating Complementary Technologies
16.2 Automated Compound Screening
16.3 Specialized Flow Cytometers
16.4 Veterinary Testing
16.5 Marine Biology Systems
16.6 Plant Biology
17. Strategic Recommendations
17.1 Competing in the Flow Cytometry Market
17.2 International Operations Risks
17.3 Dependence on Government Funding and Healthcare Reform
17.4 Reimbursement for Clinical Diagnostics
18. The Point-of-Care Flow Cytometry Market
18.1 Introduction
18.2 Clinical Significance of the CD4 Test
18.3 Users
18.4 The Market Situation
18.5 The Regional Picture
18.5.1 Sub-Saharan Africa
18.5.2 India
18.5.3 Russia, Eastern Europe, Central Asia
18.5.4 China
18.5.5 Brazil
18.6 Market Projections 2013-2018
18.7 Competitive Landscape
18.8 Gaps and Challenges
18.8.1 Gaps
18.8.2 Challenges
18.9 Point-of-Care Flow Cytometry Innovation and New Technology
18.9.1 Immunochromatography
18.9.2 Cell Stacking/Sedimentation
18.9.3 Affinity Chromatography and Lysate Impedance Spectroscopy
18.9.4 Fluorescence Assay Illumination
18.9.5 Microchip Imaging Cytometry
18.9.6 Flow Cytometry and a Cell Phone
18.10 Point-of-Care Flow Cytometry Recent Industry Developments
19. Company Profiles
19.1 Abcam
19.2 Affymetrix eBioscience
19.3 Alere, Inc.
19.4 ALPCO Diagnostics
19.5 Apogee Flow Systems
19.6 Bangs Laboratories
19.7 Bay Bioscience
19.8 BD Biosciences
19.9 Beckman Coulter (Danaher)
19.10 Biocytex (Stago Group)
19.11 Bio-Rad Laboratories
19.12 BioVision
19.13 Cell Signaling Technology
19.14 Cira Discovery Sciences
19.15 Clarient (GE Healthcare)
19.16 Cytobank, Inc.
19.17 CytonomeST
19.18 Dako A/S
19.19 DVS Sciences, Inc.
19.20 IntelliCyt Corporation
19.21 Life Technologies
19.22 Luminex
19.23 EMD Millipore (Division of Merck KGaA Germany)
19.24 MBio Diagnostics
19.25 Miltenyi Biotec
19.26 Mindray
19.27 MiraiBio Group (Part of Hitachi Solutions America)
19.28 Nihon Kohden
19.29 Partec GmbH
19.30 PointCare Technologies
19.31 Promega Corporation
19.32 Propel Labs
19.33 R & D Systems (Techne Corporation)
19.34 Santa Cruz Biotechnology
19.35 Sigma-Aldrich
19.36 Soft Flow Hungary, Ltd.
19.37 Sony Biotechnology, Inc.
19.38 SouthernBiotech
19.39 Spherotech
19.40 Stratedigm
19.41 Sysmex
19.42 TaKaRa Bio
19.43 Thermo Fisher
19.44 Tree Star
19.45 TTP LabTech
19.46 Union Biometrica
19.48 U.S. Biological
19.49 Verity Software House
20. Acronyms Used in This Report
Figure 4.1: Flow Cytometry Market by User, 2013
Figure 5.1: Projected Market Growth by Flow Cytometry Product, 2013-2018
Figure 5.2: Flow Cytometry Market Distribution by Products, 2013
Figure 5.3: Flow Cytometry Market Distribution by Products, 2018
Figure 6.1: Global Flow Cytometry Market by Region, 2013
Figure 6.2: Global Flow Cytometry Market by Region, 2018
Figure 6.3: Five-Year Projected Flow Cytometry Market by Region, 2014-2018
Figure 6.4: Flow Cytometry Projected Growth Rate by Region, CAGR 2013-2018
Figure 6.5: Western Europe Flow Cytometry Market by Country, 2013
Figure 6.6: Emerging Countries Flow Cytometry Projected Market by Country, 2013-2018
Figure 6.7: Emerging Countries Flow Cytometry Market Share by Country, 2013
Figure 6.8: Emerging Countries Five-Year Growth Rate, CAGR 2013-2018
Figure 7.1: Schematic of a Flow Cell
Figure 7.2: Schematic of a Flow Cytometer Optical Layout
Figure 7.3: Example of a Dot Plot of Lysed Whole Blood
Figure 7.4: Fluorescence Intensity Histogram
Figure 7.4: Principle of Multiplex Bead Assay
Figure 12.1: Flow Cytometry Competitors' Market Share, 2013
Figure 18.1: Global Distribution of HIV/AIDS Infected Persons Receiving Antiretroviral Therapy in Low-Middle Income Countries, 2012
Figure 18.2: Market Projection for POC Flow Cytometry in Middle to Low Income Countries, 2013-2018
Figure 18.3: Competitors' Shares, Flow Cytometry and POC Instruments/Reagents/Consumables, 2013
Table 2.1: Flow Cytometry Timeline
Table 3.1: Differences between Hematology Analyzers and Flow Cytometers
Table 3.2: Flow Cytometry Market Environment
Table 4.1: Flow Cytometry Projected Market Revenue, 2013-2018
Table 4.2: Flow Cytometry Market Drivers and Restrictors
Table 5.1: Flow Cytometry Projected Revenue by Product, 2013-2018
Table 5.2: Projected Market Growth by Flow Cytometry Product, 2013-2018
Table 6.1: Projected Flow Cytometry Market by Region, 2013-2018
Table 6.2: Flow Cytometry Projected Growth Rate by Region, CAGR 2013-2018
Table 6.3: North America Flow Cytometry Market Projected by Product, 2013-2018
Table 6.4: NIH Historical Spending, 2008-2012
Table 6.5: Flow Cytometry Systems in NIH Flow Cytometry Core Facilities
Table 6.6: CROs Specializing in Flow Cytometry Services
Table 6.7: Western Europe Flow Cytometry Market Projected by Product, 2013-2018
Table 6.8: Western Europe Flow Cytometry Market Projected by Country, 2013-2018
Table 6.9: Asia-Pacific Flow Cytometry Projected Market by Product, 2013-2018
Table 6.10: Emerging Countries Flow Cytometry Projected Market by Country, 2013-2018
Table 6.11: Emerging Countries Five-Year Growth Rate by Country, CAGR 2013-2018
Table 6.12: Emerging Countries Flow Cytometry Projected Market by Product, 2013-2018
Table 6.13: Resource Limited Countries Flow Cytometry Projected Market, 2013-2018
Table 7.1: Common Fluorophores Used in Flow Cytometry
Table 8.1: Cell Types, Proteins and Microbes Detected by Flow Cytometry
Table 8.2: Flow Cytometry Applications in Stem Cell Research
Table 8.3: Flow Cytometry Clinical Diagnostic Applications
Table 8.4: NIH Definition of Biomarkers
Table 8.5: Advantages of Flow Cytometry for High Throughput Screening
Table 8.6: Flow Cytometry Applications for Toxicology
Table 8.7: Neglected Tropical Diseases
Table 8.8: Flow Cytometers Products for Niche Applications
Table 8.9: Microorganisms Detected by Flow Cytometry
Table 9.1: Features: High Performance Analyzers
Table 9.2: Features: Midsize Analyzers for Research and Clinical IVD Applications
Table 9.3: Features: Midsize Analyzers for Research Applications
Table 9.4: Features: Compact Flow Cytometers
Table 9.5: Features: Cell Sorters
Table 9.6: Key Features of Multiplex Bead Systems
Table 9.7: Considerations When Selecting a Flow Cytometer
Table 12.1: Suppliers of Flow Cytometry Instruments, Reagents and Software
Table 12.2: North American Companies Participating in the Flow Cytometry Market
Table 12.3: Western European Companies Participating in the Flow Cytometry Market
Table 12.4: Asian Companies Participating in the Flow Cytometry Market
Table 12.5: BD Biosciences Selection of Flow Cytometry Instruments
Table 12.6: BD Biosciences Flow Cytometry Branded Reagents, Buffers and Solutions
Table 12.7: Beckman Coulter Flow Cytometry Instruments
Table 12.8: Beckman Coulter Branded Flow Cytometry Reagents
Table 12.9: Life Technologies Branded Flow Cytometry Reagents
Table 12.10: Luminex Instruments for Multiple Assay Analysis
Table 12.11: Luminex Branded Multiplex Assays and Reagents
Table 12.12: EMD Millipore Flow Cytometers
Table 12.13: EMD Millipore Brand Flow Cytometry Kits and Reagents
Table 12.14: Partec Flow Cytometry Instruments
Table 12.15: Partec Flow Cytometry Systems for Remote Testing
Table 12.16: Partec Reagents and Kits
Table 12.17: Miltenyi Biotec Branded Cell Separation and Flow Cytometry Products
Table 12.18: Affymetrix eBioscience Branded Reagents
Table 18.1: WHO Recommendations for the Use of Antiretroviral Drugs
Table 18.2: Global Distribution of HIV/AIDS Infected Persons Receiving Antiretroviral Therapy in Low-Middle Income Countries, 2012
Table 18.3: Top 12 Countries by Number of HIV/AIDS Infected Persons, 2012
Table 18.4: Market Projection for POC CD4 Systems in Middle to Low Income Countries, 2013-2018
Table 18.5: Point-of-Care Flow Cytometry Market Drivers and Restrictors
Table 18.6: CD4 Testing Platforms for Low to Middle Income Countries
Table 18.7: Optimal Features of a Point-of-Care CD4 Test System
Table 20.1: List of Acronyms Used in this Report
- Abcam
- Affymetrix eBioscience
- Alere, Inc.
- ALPCO Diagnostics
- Apogee Flow Systems
- Bangs Laboratories
- Bay Bioscience
- BD Biosciences
- Beckman Coulter (Danaher)
- Biocytex (Stago Group)
- Bio-Rad Laboratories
- BioVision
- Cell Signaling Technology
- Cira Discovery Sciences
- Clarient (GE Healthcare)
- Cytobank, Inc.
- CytonomeST
- Dako A/S
- DVS Sciences, Inc.
- IntelliCyt Corporation
- Life Technologies
- Luminex
- EMD Millipore (Division of Merck KGaA Germany)
- MBio Diagnostics
- Miltenyi Biotec
- Mindray
- MiraiBio Group (Part of Hitachi Solutions America)
- Nihon Kohden
- Partec GmbH
- PointCare Technologies
- Promega Corporation
- Propel Labs
- R & D Systems (Techne Corporation)
- Santa Cruz Biotechnology
- Sigma-Aldrich
- Soft Flow Hungary, Ltd.
- Sony Biotechnology, Inc.
- SouthernBiotech
- Spherotech
- Stratedigm
- Sysmex
- TaKaRa Bio
- Thermo Fisher
- Tree Star
- TTP LabTech
- Union Biometrica
- U.S. Biological
- Verity Software House


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Supreme Court Roundup; Free Speech or Hate Speech? Court Weighs Cross Burning
By LINDA GREENHOUSE
Published: May 29, 2002
WASHINGTON, May 28— The Supreme Court agreed today to decide the constitutionality of a 50-year-old Virginia law that prohibits burning a cross ''with the intent of intimidating any person or group of persons.''
The case is an appeal by the state from a decision of the Virginia Supreme Court, which held in a 4-to-3 ruling last November that burning a cross, no less than burning an American flag, was symbolic speech protected by the First Amendment.
The state court decision grew out of two prosecutions in 1998, one of two white men who burned a cross in the yard of a black neighbor in Virginia Beach, and one of a Ku Klux Klan leader in rural Carroll County, who presided over a rally and the burning of a 30-foot cross that was visible for three-quarters of a mile along a state highway.
In hearing the state's appeal, the justices will revisit a subject they last confronted 10 years ago, when the court overturned a cross-burning ordinance in St. Paul, in a 5-to-4 decision that fell well short of resolving a societywide debate over the relationship between free speech and hate speech.
Thirteen states and the District of Columbia have criminal prohibitions against cross burning, and the state and lower federal courts have continued to issue conflicting rulings since the Supreme Court's 1992 decision in R.A.V. v. City of St. Paul.
The attorneys general of Arizona, California, Georgia, Kansas, Massachusetts, Missouri, Oklahoma, Utah and Washington all signed a brief urging the justices to hear Virginia's appeal. ''Cross burning is an especially virulent, even unique, form of intimidation in American society'' that states should be able to prohibit, the brief said.
One reason for the continuing confusion is a disagreement among judges and legal scholars over how to interpret the Supreme Court's last decision. The St. Paul ordinance that the court invalidated made it a crime to place a symbol, including a burning cross, ''which one knows or has reasonable grounds to know arouses anger, alarm or resentment in others on the basis of race, color, creed, religion or gender.''
According to the court's majority opinion, written by Justice Antonin Scalia, this description of the prohibited conduct amounted to ''content-based discrimination'' because it ruled symbolic speech in or out depending on the groups that the speech targeted.
The Virginia law, which was enacted in response to highly publicized Ku Klux Klan cross burnings in the late 1940's and early 1950's, does not refer to any particular group. The law provides that ''it shall be unlawful for any person or persons, with the intent of intimidating any person or group of persons, to burn, or cause to be burned, a cross on the property of another, a highway or other public place.''
In finding the law unconstitutional, the Virginia Supreme Court's majority said that despite the lack of reference to any specific target, the law was nonetheless ''analytically indistinguishable'' from the St. Paul ordinance. The Virginia law was in its own way just as selective, the state court said, because it proscribed not all intimidating expression but ''selectively chooses only cross burning because of its distinctive message.''
Virginia's attorney general, Jerry W. Kilgore, said in the state's appeal, Virginia v. Black, No. 01-1107, that the law's sole focus on cross burning was justified by the sense of threat associated with the practice. Even a ''white, middle-class Protestant waking up at night to find a burning cross'' outside his home would feel more threatened than if he found ''say, a burning circle or square,'' Mr. Kilgore's brief said, adding: ''In the latter case, he may call the fire department. In the former, he will probably call the police.''
The three defendants, Barry E. Black, Richard J. Elliott and Jonathan O'Mara, are represented by a well-known First Amendment scholar, Rodney A. Smolla of the T.C. Williams School of Law at the University of Richmond, and by the American Civil Liberties Union of Virginia and private lawyers. Urging the justices to reject the appeal, they said the Virginia Supreme Court ''conscientiously applied core First Amendment principles in unpalatable circumstances.''
There were these other developments at the court today:
Effective Counsel
Voting 8 to 1, the court overturned a federal appeals court's ruling that set aside the death sentence of a Tennessee man convicted of a double murder. The United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, in Cincinnati, had granted Gary B. Cone's petition for a writ of habeas corpus on the ground that his lawyer's handling of the sentencing hearing was so deficient as to have violated the Sixth Amendment right to the effective assistance of counsel.
The lawyer, in whom mental illness was diagnosed and who later committed suicide, failed to present mitigating evidence to the jury and did not make a closing argument.
Writing for the court today, Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist said that under the circumstances, forgoing a closing argument could be seen as ''a tactical decision about which competent lawyers might disagree'' because it deprived the state's highly effective lead prosecutor of the chance to make a rebuttal argument in the moments before the jury retired for its deliberations.
Consequently, Chief Justice Rehnquist said, it was not unreasonable for Tennessee's appellate court to find no constitutional violation in the lawyer's performance.


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Normally, both your asses would be dead as fucking fried chicken, but you happen to pull this shit while I'm in a transitional period so I don't wanna kill you, I wanna help you. But I can't give you this case, it don't belong to me. Besides, I've already been through too much shit this morning over this case to hand it over to your dumb ass.
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If you were looking to start your day off with a healthy breakfast, you wouldn't wake up and take a shot of whiskey or down a bowl of potato chips. One of the first commitments I try to gain from my clients I coach is to "become a corporate athlete!" Take you health and fitness seriously, train like an athlete. Try like heck to "eat clean," wholesome and fresh foods that will fuel your body. Take world class supplements, drink water (lots of water), and don't be afraid to set fitness and health goals (have three for every 90 days). And, if nothing else, start the day with a nutritious breakfast- fresh fruit, yogurt, you get the idea. Breakfast is the pace-setter to your diet. It is the platform for your fuel and energy and ability to manage your emotions.
Your mental vitality can be trained just like your physical body. Use this athletic training mindset to transfer your habits from working out to training mentally. Just like breakfast is the key to your health and diet, the first 20 minutes of you day sets your emotional clock for Playing Big. If we want to be truly extraordinary, we cannot stuff "junk food" into our mind first thing in the morning. I suggest to my clients that checking email first thing in the morning is the worst way to start off the day. It is the equivalent of opening up the flood gates of information and emotional turmoil before you have set your emotional clock to Play Big. We all need a few minutes in the morning to orient ourselves to handle the trials and stresses of the day before we find ourselves flooded by them.
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Rather than checking your email, smart phone, TV, radio or any other device (or should I say vice), take 10-15 minutes to be quiet and thoughtful. Have your cup of coffee and practice appreciation. Take a few moments to give thanks for the people in your life who influence you, who care for you, who help you. Appreciate members of your family, your friends, your coworkers. Whisper a prayer.
For the next ten minutes, read to lead yourself. This means reading something you find inspiring, calming, orienting. Read something that will set your emotional clock to Play Big. Read something with words that will stay with you and encourage you throughout your day and give you something to remember when those stressors do come out to try to ruin your day. Right now, I am reading a great personal development book by Mel Robbins, "Stop Saying You're Fine."
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As the election nears, it gets increasingly tough to tell where the White House ends and the Obama campaign starts.
Boundaries get blurry. Former White House people now work on the campaign; ex-campaign aides are in the White House.
Mr. Obama flies to electoral battlegrounds and gives official addresses. Or he stays in the White House and delivers what sound like campaign speeches.
Two Obama spokesmen briefed reporters Tuesday aboard Air Force One – one from the White House, the other from the campaign. All were flying to an Obama campaign event in Iowa.
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No matter what forum he is in – campaign or official — Mr. Obama sticks to familiar points.
The president, speaking of Republican economic doctrine at a campaign event in Pittsburgh on July 6: "We tried it and it didn't work. So why would we want to go backwards to the same theory that didn't work before?"
Mr. Obama, speaking from the East Room of the White House at an official event on Monday: "So we don't need more top-down economics. We've tried that theory. We've seen what happens. We can't afford to go back to it.''
The integration of White House and campaign plays out at many levels.
On Tuesday, a reporter called the Department of Energy with questions about a $151 million economic stimulus project for electric car batteries. The grant recipient was a subsidiary of a South Korean company, LG Chem. A local union has complained that foreign workers were used to build the manufacturing plant in Holland, Michigan. Republicans have flagged this as an example of stimulus money benefiting foreign companies and workers.
Soon, the Obama campaign learned of the reporter's inquiry.
Both the campaign and the Energy Department would send along separate written statements, rebutting critics and defending the expenditure.
A campaign aide, speaking of South Korean workers at the plant, said: "Those were temporary foreign nationals on site to install proprietary equipment and to provide training.''
The Energy Department statement said that "it's no surprise that several companies chose to build on established production methods and transfer that technology to the U.S., which includes training a significant number of new U.S. employees.''
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1 Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, University of Calgary, Alberta, T2N 4N1, Canada 2 Alberta Children's Hospital Research Institute for Child and Maternal Health, University of Calgary, Alberta, T2N 4N1, Canada 3 Department of Pediatrics, University of Calgary, Alberta, T2N 4N1, Canada
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AbstractThis review summarizes our current understanding of the role of cyclo-oxygenase inhibitors (COXI) in influencing the structural development as well as the function of the developing kidney. COXI administered either during pregnancy or after birth can influence kidney development including nephronogenesis, and can decrease renal perfusion and ultrafiltration potentially leading to acute kidney injury in the newborn period. To date, which COX isoform (COX-1 or COX-2) plays a more important role in during fetal development and influences kidney function early in life is not known, though evidence points to a predominant role for COX-2. Clinical implications of the use of COXI in pregnancy and in the newborn infant are also evaluated herein, with specific reference to the potential effects of COXI on nephronogenesis as well as newborn kidney function.
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Frank Polito, Department Head Computer Engineering Technology, Electronic Engineering Technology, Animation and Graphic Game Programming
Professor Frank Polito comes to NHTI with 30 years of research and development experience in the telecommunications industry. He started his career at Bell Laboratories which later became Lucent Technologies and then Alcatel-Lucent. Frank's industry experience in R&D afforded him the opportunity to broaden his electrical engineering expertise to include software development, system architecture, data communications, and technical management. In addition to his industry experience, Frank has been an adjunct in the engineering department at Merrimack College where he also served on the Industry Advisory Board for many years. Frank earned a BSEE from Worcester Polytechnic Institute and a Master's in EE from Cornell University; he will be teaching courses in both the CPET and EET programs.
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Something of the sort has already been described for the self-actualizing person. Everything now comes of its own accord, pouring out, without will, effortlessly, purposelessly. He acts now totally and without deficiency, not homeostatically or need-reductively, not to avoid pain or displeasure or death, not for the sake of a goal further on in the future, not for any end other than itself. His behavior and experience becomes per se, and self-validating, end-behavior and end-experience, rather than means-behavior or means-experience. At this level, I have called the person godlike because most gods have been considered to have no needs or wants, no deficiencies, nothing lacking, to be gratified in all things. The characteristics and especially actions of the "highest," "best" gods have then been deduced as based upon not-wanting.
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Probably the authentic person is himself complete or final in some sense; he certainly experiences subjective finality, completion or perfection at times; and he certainly perceives it in the world. It may turn out that only peakers can achieve full identity; that non-peakers must always remain incomplete, deficient, striving, lacking something, living among means rather than among ends; or if the correlation turns out not to e perfect, I am certain at least that it is positive, between authenticity and peak-experiencing.
Source: Toward a Psychology of Being, 3rd Edition, Pages: 123
The person in peak-experiences feels himself, more than other times, to be the responsible, active, creating center of his activities and of his perceptions. He feels more like a prime-mover, more self-determined (rather than caused, determined, helpless, dependent, passive, weak, bossed). He feels himself to be his own boss, fully responsible, fully volitional, with more "free-will" than at other times, master of his fate, an agent.
Source: Toward a Psychology of Being, 3rd Edition, Pages: 118
Expression and communication in the peak–experiences tend often to become poetic, mythical, and rhapsodic, as if this were the natural kind of language to express such states of being.
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Love and the self are one and the discovery of either is the realization of both.
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1. You are a ripple in the fabric of the cosmos
2. Through the mirror of relationships you discover your nonlocal self
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4. Your intent weaves the tapestry of the universe
5. Harness your emotional turbulence
6. Celebrate the dance of the cosmos
7. Access the conspiracy of improbabilities
Living synchrodestiny & spontaneous fulfillment of desires...
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Fame or integrity: which is more important? Money or happiness: which is more valuable? Success or failure: which is more destructive? If you look to others for fulfillment, you will never truly be fulfilled. If your happiness depends on money, you will never be happy with yourself. Be content with what you have; rejoice in the way things are. When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you.
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You have available to you, right now, a powerful supercomputer. This powerful tool has been used through-out history to take people from rags to riches, from poverty and obscurity to success and fame, from unhappiness and frustration to joy and self-fulfillment, and it can do the same for you.
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My heart goes out to the woman who wrote complaining about New Year's Eve fireworks. ("Fireworks rude welcome to city.") Better batten down the hatches or head for the hills before Fourth of July! I have one idiot living down the hill from me who starts days ahead of time and another clown up the hill who does the same. It's like dueling fireworks and it goes on until long after midnight!
I called the police and was told, "Yes, Ma'am. The personal fireworks are illegal." Well … hoop de doo! I gave them the name and address of the dipstick down the hill and nothing was done. I have no clue who the uphill jerk is.
I've put up with this nonsense for over four years now. I'm 80 years old and could use some sleep! This is just a sad statement of what our society has become. No consideration for others. No manners and potty mouths everywhere.
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The 2009 odyssey of Jason Castro is over.
The Astros' top pick in the 2008 draft was stationed in all four of this country's major time zones and Europe over the course of a season which, if considered liberally, spanned nearly nine months.
He started in Kissimmee, Fla. at spring training, began his regular season in Lancaster, Calif., finished it in Corpus Christi, went to Cary, N.C., for World Cup practice, to Italy for the event itself and to Arizona for the Fall League.
Now he's back in California, and there will be no baseball for a while.
"Obviously this was the most I've ever played before," Castro said in a phone conversation Sunday. "It was a good challenge to see what the rigors of the season were like."
As I wrote in this story, the Astros have shut him down to rest up for 2010 one day after the Rising Stars Game, an all-star contest for the top prospects in the Arizona Fall League.
He played in 11 games for the Peoria Saguaros struggling at the plate like he did in Europe as his first full professional season wound down.
"It was a great experience," Castro said of the AFL. "A great opportunity to compete with the best players from around the minor leagues."
Including All-Star games, Castro has now played roughly 140 games as a catcher, so the season shutdown is completely understandable. The Astros, if nothing changes, should give Castro a legitimate shot to make the roster in 2010, though a little bit of Class AAA exposure wouldn't be the most shocking event since he's never played at that level.
Until spring training, he'll be on a workout plan that starts in the weight room and stays out of the cage for a while.
"I'm not going to do much training for baseball until around Christmas," Castro said.
What do you think. Should Castro, whose stats can be found here, get the starting job next year? The backup job? Or should he get some more seasoning?
Trivia: Alex Rodriguez had the most home runs in Major League Baseball in the 2000s (2000-09). Who was second?
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February 26, 2009 | 7 Comments
Designed by Tres Tipos Gráficos | Country: Spain | Fonts used: Univers
"This box contents 3 books where the international Olympic Comitee can find all kind of information regarding the city of Madrid as social and political context, economy, legal aspects, sports organisation etc… The box shows a complex pattern full of names from different cultures as the concept of the Madrid 2016 candidature was "The games with the human touch". The books covers show pictures of anonymous people from Madrid showing their support to the Olympic project."
Changzhi Lee Portfolio
February 25, 2009 | 10 Comments
Designed by Changzhi Lee | Country: United States
Changzhi Lee sent us his portfolio package that he put together to present work when applying for his junior year internship program.
"As I was applying to a design company that believed in environmental sustainability as its key philosophy, I constructed a paper pop up out of paper left over from my other school projects!"
Get a Tree
February 25, 2009 | 2 Comments
Designed by thisislove™ | Country: Portugal | Fonts used: Myriad
"Christmas gift made for Get a Light™, 2008. Postal packaging which contains a small vase cup with pine seeds planted in sand, and closed with a lid, accompanied by leaflet."


text:
"Sometimes enemies make better friends, than your real friends."
I drove Garett to the hospital screaming at him to keep pinching his nose and he screamed back it hurts. I screamed back that my fist would hurt even worse if I saw a spot of blood in my car. He groaned, pinched the bridge of his nose and glanced out the window as we sped by World's Slowest Drivers.
I turned the radio up and Use Somebody by Kings Of Leon was playing. I gasped quietly because I hadn't heard that song in forever. I turned it up louder and started singing along.
I've been roaming around
Always looking down at all I see
Garett turned his eyes to me and rose a eyebrow. I ignored him and continued to sing.
Painted faces
Feel the places
I can't reach
You know that I can use somebody..
I paused at Garett's voice. "You're so gay."
"Don't interrupt me while I'm singing." I responded.
Someone like you
And all you know
And how you speak
Countless lovers
Under covers of the streets
You know that I can use somebody
I pretended to play the guitar as we stopped at a traffic light. I shook my hair back and forth as the Anthony, the singer repeated the last line.
"Someone like you!!" I shouted and brought the instrumental in. I found Garett laughing at me as I carried on until the car behind me honked the horn and sped around me with their middle finger out the window.
"I'll break that bitch, test me!" I shouted out of the window, but they were long gone.
I sighed and stepped on the gas. "Stop laughing at me." I snapped at him who laughed harder.
"You're fucking insane!"
"So's your mother for having you." I whispered the last part to myself and bit my bottom lip.
"You also sing pretty good." He said after his laughing died down. I blinked twice not believing I heard something nice from this prick.
"What did you say?"
He cleared his throat. "I said you sing pretty good for a gay guy."
I rolled my eyes. Yup, back to block one.
I entered the hospital through the emergency entrance and parked in the disabled parking space.
"You're not handicap." Garett informed the obvious.
"Nope," I got out the car and he followed. "But you are." I poked my tongue out and dodged his angry insults as we walked into the hospital.
We checked in at the front desk and waited in the waiting room. I flipped through the magazine close to me ignoring Garett who sat two seats down from me, switching bloody tissues back and forth. We were strangers until the doctor called him back and I followed just to be nosey. Get it, 'nosey'?
xxxxx Chapter 5 xxxxx