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Brooks & Dunn's year-old TNN special on ZZ Top laid out everything you must know about the band. If ZZ answered a single query from the duo with more than a smug titter, I didn't hear it.
That's Mescalero: a sphinx-like composition memorable for chortling and cryptic hotfoots. The guitars are flanged, tweezed, low-filter-oscillated, and hot-buttered to the farcical extent Billy Gibbons loves. Plus, just for rich Texan annoyance, some intros and outros are mastered rupturedso the stereo squawks.
Accidentally on purpose, the songs that rock hardest aren't rockers"Que Lastima" and the waltzing "What Would You Do." And the best barn-burn shouting is furnished by the guy who sings least: Dusty Hill, in "Piece."
You get the Billy G. fetish with the voice of the old black man sittin' on the porch at the poon farm outside La Grange. It's a fingernails-on-chalkboard-type throat-clearing effect in "Me So Stupid," a song that works as an IQ test. If you listen more than 30 seconds, you flunk.
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Providing decadent diners with a mobile version of Gourmet Traveller's annual compact restaurant guide, the app offers Australia's only expert-reviewed national mobile restaurant guide for the 360 best-of-the-best eating out options across metro and regional areas.
Users can search for a restaurant from a wide range of filters including; cuisine, location, rating and opening hours and then directly book a table from inside the app.
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Editor of Gourmet Traveller, Anthea Loucas, says "We are thrilled Australia's most comprehensive restaurant guide is now mobile. This app includes all reviews from the print edition and will feature comprehensive search and booking functions to further enhance the restaurant guide experience for our readers.
"This launch highlights the strength of Gourmet Traveller as a truly multi-platform brand alongside our increasing online presence through our website, a strong Twitter and Facebook presence and our award-winning iPad app, all of which underlines ACP and ninemsn's unflagging commitment to Australia's premier food, wine and travel magazine, Gourmet Traveller."
Rebecca Haagsma, ninemsn's Head of Lifestyle and Mobile Audience says: "Along with our partners, ninemsn is investing jointly in both apps and mobile browse as these are equally important in our vision to provide universal access to our content.
"We now have six mobile apps in the marketplace, across various platforms spanning the news, sports, entertainment and lifestyle categories. These are in addition to our 12 mobile browse sites.
"We are being thoughtful in our mobile approach, to ensure we continue to create the best consumer experience for out content brands for the long-term. We also think deeply about the type of audience that will be accessing our content and on what devices," said Haagsma.
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Research bioinformatics need tweaks for the clinic.
By Ron Ranauro
February 1, 2011 | Guest Commentary | It will soon be cheaper to sequence a patient's entire genome and use software filters to implement genetic testing than to conduct multiple separate tests for specific genes. Notwithstanding unresolved regulatory, legal, reimbursement, physician training, and privacy issues related to whole-genome testing, there remain big bioinformatics issues as well.
The recent crackdown by the FDA on the personal genetic testing services is a case in point: if the results of genome-wide genotyping from different labs for the same patient conflict, that could undermine trust in whole-genome testing and hinder adoption. Getting this right includes solving a number of bioinformatics issues. For their part, bioinformatics providers offer tools to help researchers make discoveries. Since the research market for whole genome analysis is still forming it's easy to see why the consumer portals are under fire: more research is needed.
Leading research hospitals and clinical testing labs are actively implementing workflows to evaluate how and when to deploy whole genome tests for their patients. But how do the needs for clinical bioinformatics differ from research bioinformatics? And will the clinical testing market adopt existing research platforms or develop its own solutions?
Research vs. Clinical Needs
A researcher is dedicated to discovery whereas clinicians need efficient and repeatable processes. But some of the assets in bioinformatics tools for researchers may be drawbacks in the clinical setting. While the basic next generation re-sequencing data processing pipeline—assemble reads to a reference, call variations, annotate and produce reports for interpretation—might look the same, there are subtle but important differences. For example, a software tool to process a whole genome that does not afford researchers flexibility to tune the algorithms would be seen as a black box and find little market share. But that same software's inflexibility might find favor for clinical use because of its ability to conform to the established guidelines.
There are presently no established guidelines for whole genome re-sequencing. Labs are left to develop their own methods to decide when a variation is real, or what coverage is needed to distinguish different alleles. This leaves the possibility that different labs could call variations differently for the same patient. The problem is compounded when you consider different instrument platforms, aligners, variant callers, and databases of reference annotation.
Another looming issue is the lack of a consistent, sanctioned database of variant annotations. Again, differences in research versus clinical requirements are subtle. Researchers extend annotation of variations with any and all sources regardless of quality, in hopes of finding the "needle in the haystack" causative variant. By contrast, clinical use should report only "what is known to be causative" so that reports that can be interpreted by doctors and geneticists.
Solving the problem is complicated; there are many sources of variant annotation: commercial databases such as HGMD and SNPedia; OMIM has many well-annotated entries; the Human Genome Variation Society maintains locus-specific databases (LSDB) on the Web; NCBI and EBI are collaborating to provide a stable locus reference genome (LRG) and annotating dbSNP entries from known clinical sources (ClinVar); PharmGKB is a popular research database of drug-gene interactions; research institutes maintain private archives of variant annotation, as do clinical testing labs. Without a single variant annotation source, labs are duplicating IT efforts and increasing the potential for inconsistent annotation of patient samples.
Reproducibility in the Clinic
Knowledge about a variation changes rapidly with new research. Research and clinical labs need a way to update and re-annotate genomes with new findings from the research world. Some have suggested a clearinghouse to share information on novel variations. As you might expect, they are uninterested in sharing details of patient traits, even in a de-identified manner.
Lab end-users need streamlined research workflows. Like their research colleagues, lab professionals are sometimes faced with determining whether a variation, never before seen, has the potential to cause the patient harm. For this use case a lab professional would like to have all the resources one would commonly associate with research: genome visualization, links to protein function, and pathway knowledge. While a researcher needs systems to experiment further, a lab professional needs concise reports so they can convey information to doctors. The clinical market will need standards and guidelines for classification and reporting of novel variants such as either pathogenic or benign, for example.
Research bioinformatics tools will not find a big clinical market without some changes. However, there is no reason that the best research bioinformatics cannot be made compliant with standards and streamlined for use by a community of users who cares little about how the software works, only that it does work—reproducibly.
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She is best known as Thelma from Good Times! But there's much more to her then that. In the 70s, BernNadette Stanis was the personification of Black Beauty. As sophisticated and graceful as she was, she still became TV's first Black sex symbol or "It" girl. Thelma/BernNadette and The Evans Family also proved many stereotypes wrong about the ghetto and the young black girl, like for instance…that all Black girls and Black families in the ghetto had no hopes, dreams, or class. Thelma showed that a "ghetto girl" had hopes and dreams, intelligence, respect, dignity and grace, and it wasn't just acting, BernNadette was that naturally. She introduced a new definitive image of the young Black girl and woman.
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The good news is that Gloucester, Salem, Cumberland and Camden county roads do not rank among the 10most dangerous roads in the state for pedestrians.
The Tri-State Transportation Campaign, a pllicy watchdog organization, ranks the roads in a recent report .
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Republican governors appear to be opposed to much of President Barack Obama's agenda for state governments. During interviews held on the sidelines of the National Governors Association meeting over the weekend, numbers of them expressed their fundamental opposition to several of the president's key policies.
Many, if not most, are opposed to Obama's health care plan, several are turning down federal funds for high-speed rail construction, and others are backing legislation that would weaken the unions.
"Republican governors are doing what they said they would do as candidates," Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour said.
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A broad consensus of Republican governors opposed Obama's economic stimulus plans as well as his moratorium on deepwater drilling in the Gulf of Mexico following last spring's massive oil spill.
After midterm elections, most of the 26 states opposing the president's health care plan now have GOP governors. Last month's ruling in Florida by U.S. District Judge Roger Vinson that Obama's plan is unconstitutional have buoyed decisions to refuse to implement the plan in their states.
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) - Despite the final score, the mood of the Northern Kentucky Norse as they boarded their bus for the long trek home was upbeat.
LaQuinton Ross scored a career-high 22 points to lead cold-shooting No. 4 Ohio State to a 70-43 victory over the Norse on Saturday.
The biggest benefits for NKU may come further down the road.
"We're headed in the right direction," said forward Eshaunte Jones, who had nine points. "We have a lot of young kids who are learning right now, so this game is definitely a building block. Ohio State went to the Final Four last year, and there aren't too many teams that come into this arena and leave with a win."
Jalen Billups led the Norse (0-5) with 11 points and nine rebounds.
Northern Kentucky made its NCAA Division I debut with four games in five days at a tournament in San Diego from Nov. 14-18. The Norse led in the second half of all four games, two of which were four-point defeats.
They didn't back down to the Buckeyes (5-1), either. Ohio State had to finish strong to win the rebounding battle (43-41) while shooting just 38 percent against NKU's pesky defense.
"The game plan was to crash the right side on the boards, and it worked well," Billups said.
The game marked the first time Northern Kentucky had played a Big Ten team. The Norse's last regular-season win against a Division I team came on Jan. 14, 1984, when they upset Tennessee State, 66-64, in Highland Heights, Ky.
The difference against Ohio State was the 20 turnovers which led to 22 points. Buckeyes point guard Aaron Craft was credited with four steals but may have had a hand in at least twice that many.
"In practice we put two guys on our ball handler to try to simulate" being guarded by Craft, coach Dave Bezold said. "He is like having two guys on you."
Northern Kentucky elected to crowd players around Deshaun Thomas, who came in averaging 22.4 points a game and finished with 14, while forcing the Buckeyes to hit outside shots. Ross obliged.
"We kind of figured somebody was going to make shots - we didn't know which one - but to his credit he stepped up and made them," Bezold said. "We knew we were going to give some open looks."
Ohio State struggled to pull away from the Norse through the first 13 minutes. But the Buckeyes built on a 22-16 lead with a 12-0 run. Thomas started it with two free throws and Ross ended the surge with a 3 from the right wing.
Bezold said he was pleased with the way his team played defense and rebounded. The turnovers and shooting 27 percent from the field were big problems, however.
"Those were the two aspects I was pleased with but the turnovers and the shooting percentage have been our woes the whole year so far," he said. "That was the disappointing thing. If we make a few more shots, that gets even tighter."
There was a feeling among all the Norse that they had acquitted themselves well.
"Ohio State has very good inside players, and Thomas is a great scorer," Billups said. "It was good to play against a team like this, and hopefully it's going to make us better in the long run."
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Air Force Airman 1st Class Juan M. Martinez Isaza graduated from basic military training at Lackland Air Force Base, San Antonio, Texas.
The airman completed an intensive, eight-week program that included training in military discipline and studies, Air Force core values, physical fitness, and basic warfare principles and skills.
Airmen who complete basic training earn four credits toward an associate in applied science degree through the Community College of the Air Force.
Martinez Isaza is the son of Carlos Martinez of Canyon Country, and brother of Josh Duarte of Saugus.
He is a 2010 graduate of Valencia High School in Valencia.


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April began with a flourish in the blogosphere, with an interview with Julia Roberts, the wicked stepmother; Farai Chideya's take on "mid-life crisis"; and a vaginal secret Eve Ensler never told us about.
- Like most writers, WVFC's Roz Warren has a love-hate relationship with the Internet, as well as the "other" Internet known as Facebook: How's a writer to get paid? At humor site The Yellow Ham, Roz and Liz Lowe share one idea: "I've decided to go ahead and institute my own membership structure and allow my Facebook friends to pay me directly via Paypal," she writes—offering, as a reward for appropriate payment, "a lovely 'Facebook Friend Certificate of Authenticity' adorned with faux gold flecks." Lowe and Warren also provide an orientation questionnaire: "Your knee-jerk response to an online survey is just as important as carefully thinking through any issue. True or False?" and "Isn't it true that the ability to view cute baby animals 24/7 is the activity toward which all of civilization has been progressing?" Click over to read the rest, and to see what you can do to earn one of those prized certificates.
- Journalist/novelist Farai Chideya zeroes in on the mid-life crisis, which sounds a lot like what WVFC calls reinvention: "This phase of life is something my peers and I are puzzling through, bit by bit," she writes. "It includes: death of your elders; once in while, your peers; and sometimes, shockingly, even your juniors. Plus: career and vocational crises; financial reversals; love's labor's lost . . . and paradise regained. To the extent that I've made peace with this process . . . it's because I've made peace with aspects of myself both admirable and problematic, weak and strong." Click over for more, and join us in thanking Farai for tagging the post "JHR," for Jurassic Hipster Report—officially our favorite new meme.
- We've often admired Liz Scherer's Flashfree for its news updates and musings on matters menopausal. And sometimes Liz, like us, goes for the giggle: "A 600-year old Korean remedy better known as "chai-yok" is suddenly taking hold in spas in the West," she writes. "The practice, which entails an infusion of 15 or so herbs into a pot of water, over which a woman sits on an open seated stool, is believed to maintain uterine health, rid the body of toxins and even promote fertility." Who wouldn't want a medical reason to go to the wet sauna? However, Scherer cautions, "despite anecdotal evidence to the contrary, there is nothing to suggest that steaming [down there] is going to yield much benefit beyond cleansing, improving circulation and an overall good feeling (if that's your thing)."
- If you thought you'd bookmarked enough style+history sites, you haven't checked out Mid-Century Folio, the new online magazine founded by Tally Caldwell. And WVFC's Stacia Friedman shines in the debut issue's inaugural "Losing My Head at the Movies." The Head in question is Hollywood's perhaps-most-legendary designer: "It's all Edith Head's fault. She made us believe that True Love was attainable, along with eighteen-inch waists, skirts that swirled like cotton candy and torpedo breasts . . . . She gave us the sexy tilt of Ingrid Berman's hat in Notorious. Audrey Hepburn's impossibly cinched waist in Sabrina. And the understated elegance of Grace Kelly's pearls and sweater sets in Rear Window." We think WVFC's fashion icons, Stacey Bewkes of Quintessence and Eleanore Wells of The Spinsterlicious Life, will enjoy the piece, especially the vintage video. And they might stay, as we did, to taste MCF's equally fun squibs on fine dining, architecture, and travel.
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Memory Locations
Here's just some general information to start with:
Chapter 1:
Checkpoint 1
01 - Daybreak
In the area with the fountain, there's a left path and a right path. Take the left path to a dead end.
Checkpoint 3
02 - Dusk
After the part where you're forced to get noticed by a dog and sprint to safety under a roof, wait until the dog leaves once you're safe. When it's gone, go back and head towards the long staircase that you ran past. The memory is at the top of the stairs.
Checkpoint 4
03 - The Town's Memories
Right after you force the second dog to run into the scaffolding, climb up, then go right and down to see a staircase. The memory's at the bottom of the stairs.
Chapter 2:
Checkpoint 1
04 - The Big Wide World
Immediately after escaping from the Unknown by running through the small hole, head to the left.
Checkpoint 2
05 - The Faraway World
After the first big muddy puddle, continue to the very end of that alley, past the stack of boxes, until you see a glowing hole you can crawl through. Crawl through and on the other side is the memory.
Checkpoint 4
06 - Premonitions
When you reach the church courtyard, don't enter the church. Go to the right into the little garden area and look behind the bushes for the memory.
Chapter 3:
Checkpoint 1
07 - A Face in Profile
Instead of running under the second tall beast, run to the left. The beast is practically staring at it.
Checkpoint 3
08 - The Wind
When you reach the very first set of 4 lockers, open the leftmost locker.
Checkpoint 4
09 - A Meeting
After you use the levers to move a platform a couple of times, you'll end up in a room with a muddy puddle and a couple of clear puddles. Make your way to the end of this room. Instead of going left to leave the room, go right and jump up a series of ledges. The memory is at the top to the right.
Chapter 4:
Checkpoint 2
10 - Metamorphosis
When you finally join up with the girl, she'll lead turn right to go down an alley. Ignore her and go straight to the end of your current alley where the car is instead.
Checkpoint 3
11 - Little Lost Child
Open the locker to the left of the locker with the key in it.
Checkpoint 5
12 - A Landscape
When you jump off of the cart being rammed, stay on that overhang. Run to the left until you see the memory pop up.
Chapter 5:
Checkpoint 3
13 - A Presence
After getting the charging beast to break the gate, head into that room where the girl was waiting. Once inside, head down until you go down a staircase. As you're going down, you'll see the memory, so go up and get it.
14 - Vanishing Shadows
Shortly after saving the girl from the charger/car situation, you'll come across a very large staircase. Ignore that for now and head to the end of the walkway next to it.
Checkpoint 5
15 - Welcoming the Rain
In the sewers, you'll do a section where you have to silently get around some dogs while walking on a water-covered floor. You'll climb a ladder with a muddy puddle at the top. Cross the little bridge, then head towards the barrels on the left instead of dropping down.
Chapter 6:
Checkpoint 1
16 - Into the Night
After the Unknown chases the girl into the circus tent, don't follow them inside. Instead, head to the right so that you're running where the Unknown/girl were running and go all the way to the end.
Checkpoint 3
17 - A Beacon
After you capture the Unknown, head outside and back to the left near where you originally started this chapter. A memory is now there. If you jumped to this checkpoint, then this is literally right where the checkpoint starts, so just head left.
18 - A Shadow Appears
Once you're in the house, head to the right and go up through the first doorway you see. The memory's in the bathroom.
Chapter 7:
Checkpoint 1
19 - The Darkness
Pass by the bugs and dog in the cages. While you're running across the long walkway with tall arches, you'll see an area in the middle of the walkway with some roots on it. Jump over the root for a memory.
20 - Behind the Night
This is very soon after #19. You'll pass by the charger and tall beasts in cages. When you jump down from a platform, you'll see a couple of staircases. Go up the small staircase on the left to reach a platform with the memory.
Checkpoint 3
21 - The Light
You'll probably see this one as you're running through the level, but you won't be able to reach it immediately. Ignore it for now and continue with the level. Run by the three bookcases and reach the top of that set of buildings. Right after you make your big leap across to the next building, stop. Walk, don't sprint, out onto the narrow walkway at the corner. Head to the end and sprint jump across to the left. Drop down a couple of times, jump across, then finally get your memory.
Chapter 8:
Checkpoint 1
22 - Awakenings
When you see the Chapter 8 text pop up, continue to the bottom of the stairs, then head left. Run by the Unknown and head up the other staircase. You'll end up on the other side of the gap where you originally started.
23 - Awaiting the Dawn
This is almost immediately after #22. Cross the bridge and head to the right towards the staircase. Don't go up the stairs, but run next to them instead and get the memory.
Checkpoint 5
24 - Daybreak
At the end of the chapter, after you've opened the first door, head inside and just start walking around the back-left side of the area. You can't see the memory, you'll just pick it up eventually when you finally touch it.
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Cool, I was wondering where these were whilst playing through it, figured it would be a NG+ thing
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Thank You / Comments / Revisions / Edits / Help
Anyway, after using your "Memory Locations" guide by quickly jumping to each Checkpoint within each Chapter from the Main Menu and then immediately selecting "Back to Title Screen" from the Pause Menu after collecting each one (since they do automatically save), I was able to get all 24 Memories in just a little over an hour. So clearly the Checkpoint information is extremely valuable in saving a lot of time, especially for those of us like myself who already took our time on our first playthrough to actually enjoy the game (4+ hours) , and just wanna get the 24 Memories as quickly as possible on our second playthrough for the story-related info they provide (and of course for the 100% Trophies).
During the process of using your guide this way, I was also able to personally confirm the exact Checkpoints for each Memory. Only 4/24 you listed were incorrect, which I have properly edited below. I also fixed the only typo I could find (changing "#23" to #22 in the "Awaiting the Dawn" description), and edited the info provided for the last Memory "Daybreak", since you don't actually have to open both doors to aquire it. I also took the liberty of making some formatting revisions so that the guide is easier to read, and I also removed the color red, since it hurts the eyes to read.
I only did this as a thank you to Seibei4211 (who already did 99% of the work) and of course to help the community. As soon as Seibei4211 either incorporates or copy+pastes the edits into his/her original "Memory Locations" guide, I will edit my post so that only Seibei4211's guide remains on this page for future use. Whether or not he/she chooses to also use my formatting revisions is entirely inconsequential, although of course it is recommended. After that's done, in all honesty this is pretty much all you need for a complete "Trophy Guide & Roadmap" anyway (until of course one is created). If you somehow happen to get stuck anywhere during your first playthrough, then just check out this video walkthrough playlist on YouTube courtesy of "gamerfuzionhd"..
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(I removed all of the edits and format revisions that I originally posted here, as Seibei4211 has already incorporated them into the Memory Locations Guide above. Please use it with confidence as it is now 100% accurate... and don't forget to thank Seibei4211 after you get your 100% on Rain )
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Thanks for the terrific guide! Like dmm, I was able to knock off all memories in just over an hour. The checkpoint locations were invaluable, and while I can only confirm the checkpoints from Chapters 5 and onward, it looks like dmm has got you covered .
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Round 2 of playoffs for the San Antonio Spurs and Portland Trail Blazers will start Tuesday night at the AT&T Center in the Alamo City.
This series looks like a tough one since the teams matchup evenly, however, the Spurs have a bigger advantage because of the depth from their bench. The Spurs use about four players from their bench on a regular basis, which any Spurs fan knows that they could go deeper if necessary. On the Blazers bench, only three players are lucky to come out and play the game.
Game 6 against the Houston Rockets, the Blazers played only three off their bench: PF Thomas Robinson, 16 minutes and 8 points; PG Mo Williams, 21 minutes and 3 points; and SF Dorell Wright checking in for only one minute. In the first round of playoffs the Blazers starting lineup was averaging at least 40 minutes per game. While the Spurs starters are barely scratching 35 minutes per game.
The two stars on Portland are the obvious F LaMarcus Aldridge and G Damian Lillard, but they could not have made it this far without the help of their role players. In their starting lineup, Portland has SF Nicolas Batum, C Robin Lopez, and SG Wesley Matthews.
The lanky, versatile forward, Nicolas Batum, averaged 13 ppg in the regular season and 15.8 ppg in the post-season. He can guard multiple positions, hit open shots, rebound and pass the ball and has the numbers to prove it. He can do anything on the court and is very durable playing every game during the regular season. The 7-foot center, Robin Lopez, has the role of protecting the hoop and grabbing rebounds. He averages about 8 rpg, 2 blocks and about 10 ppg. Because of his height he can give the big men from San Antonio some trouble inside. San Antonio native and Blazers guard Wesley Matthews, is instant offense, he can get hot at any moment and change the momentum of the game. Averaging about 16 ppg and shooting nearly 40% from the 3-point line, he is a big chunk of their offensive attack.
Portland's role players from the bench include PG Mo Williams, SF Dorell Wright and PG Thomas Robinson. Blazer's sixth-man and veteran Mo Williams, is a big shot maker, he always seems to step his game up while playing against the Spurs. Against San Antonio alone, Williams has averaged 15 points while shooting 50% from the field. Another role player from the bench is PF Thomas Robinson, a strong, young and a developing big man. He can't be muscled around by anyone and is more explosive than any San Antonio big man. Then, forward, Dorell Wright, can hit the 3 if left open, he's a decent defender at best and is mostly there to give the starters a break.
Portland's starting lineup is the main concern, but they could be worn out from carrying the team all year long. They may be young and have the energy, but with all the minutes each player is getting, it could possibly run them into the ground. Their role players seem to be more of a relief effort than anything else.
As for the Spurs' role players in the starting lineup, SG Danny Green, C Tiago Splitter and SF Kawhi Leonard have all made their own impacts on the game.
Spurs SG Danny Green is a 3-point shooter who hits big shots and is an elite perimeter defender. Over half his shots are from the 3-point line, and is one of the best transition defenders in the league. C Tiago Splitter has stepped his game up this post-season. With 9 rpg, 2 apg and 62% from the field he has been a big boost to the Spurs' lineup. Splitter played great one-on-one defense with Dirk Nowitzki and he has the ability to score with his back to the basket. Although some will argue he's a star, SF Kawhi Leonard, is one of the biggest role players for the Spurs. He is their best defender with his ability to steal the ball and guard anybody on the floor. He can score anywhere on the court, whether it is posting someone up or shooting an important 3-pointer. With his consistent play all year long, Leonard is arguably the team's MVP.
The Spurs have the deepest bench in the league. Along with that come more role players such as F/C Boris Diaw, PG Patty Mills, and SG Marco Belinelli. Big man Boris Diaw, can do anything on the floor, he is basically a point guard playing center. This can create chaos for the defense. He shoots over 40% from the 3-point line and over 50% from the field. PG Patty Mills helps bring the energy and usually full-court presses the opposing point guard. He is an explosive scorer that can take over the game at any time. He shot 42% from the 3-point line during the regular season, on almost 4 shots a game. Mills is a fireball of energy that the Spurs need off the bench. Then, the 3-Point Contest winner SG Marco Belinelli, obviously adds another 3-point presence in the lineup. He can also create offense with his penetrating ability.
The Spurs have more weapons on their bench that they can utilize if necessary. Portland's role players will have to step up in order to match the depth of the Spurs. But, containing the stars will be the Spurs' main focus. Blazer's star players Damian Lillard and LaMarcus Aldridge are two of the most elite players in the league and will cause some challenges come round 2 of the playoffs.
However, if the Spurs continue to play team basketball and limit turnovers, their chances getting to the finals are that much closer.


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Skip Blockbuster, Netflix, Rent New Movies With Red Box
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Now, what trumps any of those three options is your local public library but usually the selection is limited to older movies (not the new releases) because that's usually free (tax dollar supported, but incrementally free) and free is better than paying. But, barring an awesome library system where you get the newest releases…
Many of my friends have a Netflix account and there have been weeks we're I've gone over their houses and the stacks of Netflix movies haven't even been moved, let alone been watched. That's the main knock against services like Blockbuster Online and Netflix, if you're busy and don't watch movies, then why pay $20 a month to basically hold onto the few movies that you do watch?
That's me. I know that if I ever signed up for one of those services, and I've used their trials, I'd be just like my friends with stacks of movies that might get watched within a week or two of receiving them. Maybe. Do I really want to pay Netflix $4.99 to be able to hold onto one movie a month and borrow a maximum of 2 a month (that's their latest promotion)? Of course not… not when I can hit up a Red Box vending machine, likely with a Red Box free day movie rental coupon code, and get the movie the day that I want to watch it. If I don't have a code, it's a whole dollar!
The only negative is that selection will vary (thought you can check online at Redbox.com) so sometimes if you want a particular movie, you might not be able to get it but that's hardly a huge price to pay to watch a movie for a buck.{ 6 comments, please add your thoughts now! }


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L.A. Lakers guard Shannon Brown had an excellent start to the 2010-2011 regular season by showing off his athleticism and his newly acquired three-point shooting. After the first two months of the season, his production declined considerably due to his predictability on offense and his overplaying on defense.
Brown has an early termination option in his contract for $2.4 million. General manager Mitch Kupchak expects Brown to test the free-agent waters as he did last season and due to the lack of cap space on the Lakers' end, signing him to the contract he may be seeking will be difficult.
In a perfect world, the Lakers would like Brown to remain in Los Angeles by signing an extension to keep his athleticism, excitement and youth with the Lakers. The Lakers will definitely need a quality guard to replace Brown in the rotation—someone to provide scoring off the bench and allow Mike Brown to massage Kobe Bryant's minutes.


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I've just put out a new release of OpenZXRom, the freely licensed
replacement for the Spectrum ROM rewritten from scratch with no Amstrad
This release is particularly announcement-worthy, because it's the first
one that supports all the essential components of a Basic loader (namely
CLEAR, LOAD, RANDOMIZE and USR), meaning that a random TZX file plucked
from WOS will stand a small, but not vanishingly small, chance of
loading and running successfully. I don't know exactly what its success
rate is, because I've been spending the holidays at my parents' house
with dialup and without a massive collection of TZX files to test with,
but it definitely does run a grand total of... *some* games. Huzzah!
This means that any emulator author wanting to compile a self-sufficient
package that passes the ultra-picky licence requirements of people like
Debian and Ubuntu (that'd be Fuse then), or hardware clone builder
wanting to stick to the letter of Amstrad's permission statement, can
now begin to consider OpenZXRom as a workable (albeit still far from
perfect) solution to their problems. Double huzzah!
More to the point, the time is now right to compile a big chart of 'most
desired' games (the YS top 100s combined with Andrew Rollings's book
perhaps?), load up each one and note down which ones work with OpenZXRom
- and for the ones that don't, how and where they fail (via the
newly-added orange-border-of-death diagnostic error messages) so that we
can find out the most important features to tackle next. Any volunteers
to help out with that not-too-intellectually-challenging job? :-)


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Lambert, Edwards & Associates Inc. promoted Matt Jackson to director and Emily Moran to senior associate.
Echelbarger, Himebaugh, Tamm & Co. PC hired Daniel Holzgen as a business development consultant and Brian Leale as a Microsoft Dynamics certified consultant. Jenna Federau was promoted to senior accountant.
Robyn Thatcher was promoted to member service center manager at Consumers Credit Union.
Awards and achievements
Holland, a subsidiary of YRC Worldwide, Inc., was named 2009 Carrier of the Year by TTS, LLC.
Van Andel Institute received an Award of Distinction for Best Documentary by the Communicator Awards.
Groups and organizations
David Luna, of Saint Mary's Health Care, was appointed to the board of directors for the National Forum for Latino Healthcare Executives.
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Kenmore Elite 14-Cup Food Processor, Brushed Aluminum
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This Brushed Aluminum Food Processor Packs a Punch Built to get the job done and minimize the labor put into even the most complicated cuisines, this Kenmore 14 cup food processor aluminum features an extra wide food chute that curbs the need to pre chop large fruits and veggies. And perfect for pleasing a crowd, it comes equipped with dual processing bowls that swap out easily while preparing meals, that means you can whip-up a creamy dip for guests and switch instantly to the main course.
Equipped with the muscle to break down even the densest veggies and fruits, this brushed aluminum food processor is powered by an 800 watt motor and features a rugged multi-purpose blade that makes slicing, shedding and chopping a breeze. Equipped with a spatter free lid that seals tight, it takes the mess out of the toughest job in the kitchen and cuts down on clean-up time. A great way to put mouthwatering meals together in minutes, add this food processor to your kitchen array, and get cooking.
- Kenmore 14 cup food processor aluminum kneads dough, shreds salads and chips tough veggies easily
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- Works with standard electrical outlets
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'Workspaces' - A boon for institutions
By Mohit Phogat on May 11, 2012
With a PeopleTools 8.50 license, you are able to install and configure a PeopleSoft Enterprise Portal database to host collaborative services to be integrated with your PeopleSoft applications. Within the PeopleSoft Enterprise Portal you may use Collaborative Workspaces and any functionality that is delivered out of the box within a Collaborative Workspace. Specifically, this entitles you to use:
- Thirteen workspace modules and associated pagelets: Wiki Content, Welcome, Discussions, Documents, Blogs, Links, Action Item Lists, Calendar, Members, Related Data, Polls, Browse Workspaces, Administration
- Workspace branding
- Workspace content as feeds
- Workspace search
- Workspace tagging
- Integration with external email and calendar systems through delivered pagelets
- Related links from and to PeopleSoft application pages and components
- Related discussions from PeopleSoft application pages and components
- Resource Finder within a workspace
- Task and worklist integration through delivered pagelets
Though a list mentioned above is pretty much, but how does one actually take benefit from it?
So, this is what one of my customer is doing:
- They have allowed the creation of workspace to faculties and student alike.
- With this, students can create groups (sharing files and documents). Needless to say, the file size (< 4MB, etc.) and the format (only .doc, .xls, etc.) can be restricted here.
- Similarly, faculty can create groups (and they have mapped groups to the classes they teach). So, if a faculty is teaching 4 courses in the session, he/she creates 4 workspaces and gives rights to all the student who are enrolled in his/her class. The benefits that are reaped could extend to assignment disbursement, assignment collection, calendar sharing, notices, announcements, alerts, faculty blog, etc. for that specific class/course.
- The utility has also been extended to the administration/management where they collaborate over a workspaces and capture aspects like minutes of meetings, policy documents, etc. over one place. A big expensive DMS (Document Management System) can be avoided for such simple needs.


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LONDON -- The U.K.'s biggest bank, HSBC Holdings (LSE: HSBA ) (NYSE: HSBC ) , is set to release its annual results on Monday this coming week (4 March).
Don't expect to see the announcement on your regulatory newsfeed at 7 a.m.; as usual, HSBC has scheduled the release for 8.15 a.m.
At the time of writing, the shares of this 135 billion-pound banking behemoth are trading at 730p -- up 27% from a year ago compared with a 7% rise in the FTSE 100.
How will HSBC's business have performed in 2012 compared with last year? And will the results justify the strong performance of the shares? Here's your cut-out-and-check results table!
FY growth
|Net operating income*
|Profit before tax (£bn)
|Earnings per share (EPS)
|Dividend per share
|Net asset value (NAV) per share
Operating income and profit
Analysts are forecasting a decline of approaching 4% in net operating income, but an increase in profit before tax of around 6%, helped by lower loan-impairment charges -- forecast to drop to $8.5bn from over £12bn in 2011.
Cost cutting is part of HSBC's strategy to improve profits, and at the nine-month stage, the company reported sustainable cost savings in Q3 of $0.5bn, bringing total annualised savings to $3.1bn. The board said it now expects to exceed its target range of $2.5bn to $3.5bn by the end of 2013.
EPS, dividend, and NAV
Despite the forecast rise in profit before tax, the City is expecting EPS to fall by over 5%. This is due to lower bottom-line profit as analysts have pencilled in an effective tax rate of 24-25% compared with 18% in 2011.
Still, good news on the dividend is expected. Forecasts are for an increase in the full-year dividend of over 7%, almost twice covered by earnings.
HSBC has paid a dividend of $0.09 in each of the first three quarters of 2012 (the same as in 2011). If analyst forecasts for the full-year payout are on the button, look out for a Q4 dividend of $0.17 in the upcoming results -- a rise of over 20% on the $0.14 paid out in Q4 2011.
Assets are also expected to show a rise. Consensus estimates suggest an increase in NAV per share of around 8% to $9.15 from $8.48 in 2011.
Converting the U.S. dollar forecasts to sterling at today's exchange rate of 0.765, gives EPS of 66.5 pence, a final dividend of 13 pence to add to the 16.9 pence paid in the first three quarters (so around 30 pence for the full year), and a NAV per share of 700 pence.
At a share price of 730 pence, HSBC is trading on 11 times earnings, at a premium of around 4% to NAV and offers a dividend yield of a shade over 4%.
All those metrics are at "value" levels relative to the FTSE 100 averages, but whether they are truly value largely depends on your view of the likelihood of further shockwaves to the financial system.
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Genesis A is a poem in the 'Junius manuscript' of Old English poetry (Oxford, Bodleian Library, Junius 11), named after the Dutch scholar Francis Junius who studied it and published its contents in the seventeenth century. Compiled in the second half of the tenth or the early eleventh century, and illustrated with many line drawings, the manuscript contains three poems based on Old Testament narratives — Genesis, Exodus and Daniel — and a fourth, Christ and Satan, which complements the others with ideas from the New Testament. Together, these poems explore some of the major themes of Christian history, including above all sin and redemption. Genesis, the longest of the poems with its 2936 s…
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A girl's best friends are diamonds, of course, but we're not really sure how the ladies will react to these diamond-shaped speakers.
While they're sparkly, they're definitely not made of precious gems.
On the other hand, most 3.5-inch diamonds would cost you much, much more than you make in a month, but this pair will set you back just a little more than movie theater popcorn.
Another drawback to actual diamonds is their lack of USB, remote controls or the ability to play music.
Come to think of it, why would anyone choose crystallized carbon over crystal-clear sound?
But guys, do not attempt a marriage proposal with something you saw featured in WeirdWare.
What: Hercules XPS Diamond speakers
Where: tinyurl.com/weirdware-bling
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Why Organic Beauty?
Would you choose organic beauty products if you knew that:
- Juice Beauty's organic products give you better age defying and blemish clearing results than conventional products.
- These products can be luxurious and effective.
- Your skin absorbs up to 64% of what you place on it.
- Juice Beauty's clinical validation results showed up to 87% reduction of free radical scavenging. (Goodbye wrinkles and sunspots.)
- Juice Beauty's Blemish Clearing Regimen won a prestigious Dermatological best results product award and our focus groups showed up to 94% clearing within 4 weeks.
- You could help support our Eco Values of manufacturing with solar power, utilizing recycled paper and soy ink, supporting USDA certified organic farmers, using recycled and recyclable containers and more.
- Conventional and Natural beauty products may contain pesticides and other harmful chemicals that could be absorbed through your skin.
OK, so you got the message:
Many consumers have started purchasing organic food because they do not want to be exposed to harmful pesticides and chemicals. That's the same reason millions of consumers have turned to Juice Beauty's products made with certified organic ingredients; they want to have all the benefits of great beauty products without any unhealthy ingredients. Just like with food, your skin absorbs up to 64% of what you place on it, so instead of harmful ingredients use healthy ingredients. Some women switch to an organic lifestyle when they are pregnant because they want to protect their unborn child from harmful toxins. We're here to convince you to stick with these healthy habits because your kids and family care about your health and you care about looking fabulous! It's never too early or too late to start using organics!
The highest organic content in skincare because of our powerful patent-pending organic juice baseAt Juice Beauty our mission is to bring skincare with the highest percentage of certified organic ingredients to customers worldwide. To that end, we have come up with a unique formulation method, our certified organic juice base. We have just been awarded our first patent on our formulation methods for our bestselling Green Apple Peel.
Some brands would like you to believe that all of their ingredients are organic. Unfortunately, they only use a few organic ingredients in a mostly water base – often resulting in a total organic content of less than 5%.
If the first ingredient on the ingredient list is water or some fancy name for water and it is labeled organic, this means that the company dropped a few organic ingredients in water and the total organic content may be less than 5%.
Unfortunately, water is not "organic or pesticide free," and why would you pay for a 95% water product when you can get this from your tap?
Juice Beauty created an antioxidant rich organic juice base, which means that every drop feeds your skin with powerful antioxidants, nutrients, vitamins, minerals and more!
And this organic juice base, which can include luxurious organic shea, jojoba, aloe, grapeseed and 30 more organic juices, brings our total organic content to a very high level. Juice Beauty has already received one patent on our unique formulations and we have several more patents pending.
Did you know that Organically farmed fruits and vegetables can contain up to 30% more vitamins and minerals than conventionally farmed crops?Well … maybe that is why Juice Beauty has such astounding clinical results! All of those antioxidants are feeding your skin!
Did you know that: Your Skin Absorbs over 64% of what is placed on it.
Think about it … physicians prescribe prescription "patches" that are readily absorbed through the skin … hmmm … but what about your moisturizer? Do you know that most conventional beauty products contain pesticides, methyl, butyl and propyl parabens, propylene or butylene glycols, petroleum, sulphates, PEGs, TEA, DEA, phthalates, GMO, silicones, artificial dyes or fragrances, formaldehyde, and more. Do you really want all these on your skin?
Difference between "Natural" and "Organic" Products"Natural" products don't have any regulation, so any company can name their products "natural" if they have a few ingredients that come from the earth. Natural products range from some pretty good companies trying to do the right thing to hundreds of personal care companies that are simply using the term "natural" for marketing purposes.
However, "Organic" goes way beyond "Natural".If a product is labeled Organic on the front of the package and sold in the State of California, which has extremely rigorous organic regulations, then the products must contain USDA certified organic ingredients from a farm that uses a system of farming that maintains and replenishes soil fertility without the use of toxic and persistent pesticides or fertilizers.
Be watchful of some of the products that contain the word Organic in the label:
In the United States, the product NAME can contain Organic or some cute form of Organic (like "Organicy" or "Organix") and have little to no organic ingredients. The product name can be exempt from organic regulations and some companies use this loophole to falsely label their products as organic.


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n. A sexual maneuver between a man and a woman/victim of extreme pwnage in which the man involved retracts his testicles up into his lower stomach and, on command, releases the air pressure, which expels the testicles outward onto the woman's/pwn victim's/Pruger's face. The shotgunned testicles can often achieve velocities of up to 120 km per hour. Every year the masters of the shotgun technique meet in the Scrotodome in Vilnius, Lithuania for the annual Shotgun Olympics. During the Shotgun Olympics, competitors try to break wooden boards similar to those used in Martial Arts exhibitions. The upper weight divisions sometimes use cinder blocks.
Kcastun McScrotum, the world middle weight shotgun champion, broke through 22.5 consecutive boards with one blast of The Shotgun last summer at the Shotgun Olympics!
by MC Derf March 16, 2008
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Can you define these popular missing words?
right before you are about to blow your load you cock your dick along with a cocking noise and spooge all over the face.
Dude: oh baby... baby baby... baby..... baby...chick chick! ahhh.(spooge)
Girl: What was that?
Dude: The Shotgun!
Girl: What was that?
Dude: The Shotgun!
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Oren Shatken is an entrepreneur and user experience designer, with a passion for designing responsive web and mobile products. During his senior year at Purdue, Oren co-founded FoundOPS, a cloud-based logistics platform for field service companies. FoundOPS was the winner of the 2012 Powder Keg Startup Bowl and was acquired by Angie's List earlier this year. Oren has also been an active advocate of the entrepreneurial community at Purdue, launching a local chapter of Verge, guest lecturing classes in the Certificate in Entrepreneurship and Innovation program, and serving as a founding board member of LafayetTech.
B.A. Political Sciences, Purdue University, 2012
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Three Days is a made-for-TV movie starring Kristin Davis and Tim Meadows. It premiered on ABC Family's 25 Days of Christmas programming block on December 9, 2001.
An angel (Tim Meadows) offers a literary agent (Reed Diamond), whose wife of ten years (Kristin Davis) died just before Christmas, a chance to relive the last three days of his wife's life.
- Kristin Davis as Beth Farmer
- Reed Diamond as Andrew Farmer
- Tim Meadows as Lionel
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No, no you don't.
I won't waste my time explaining simple concepts to you.
Your input is what one would expect from a 6 year old dyslexic moron. No offence to dyslexics or the intellectually challenged.
If I didn't define myself for myself, I would be crunched into other people's fantasies for me and eaten alive. --Audre Lorde
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St. Tammany Parish sheriff's deputies are searching a wooded area east of Slidell at this time for a man who broke into a home and fled when he saw a resident inside the house, authorities said. Uniformed deputies, a helicopter and a canine unit are searching the woods behind the Whitney Bank on East Gause Boulevard.
Plainclothes officers can also be seen in the area, which is bordered on the north side by St. Luke Catholic Church.
Sgt. Sean Beavers, a spokesman for the Sheriff's Office, said deputies are searching for man who broke into a home in the New Cross Gates subdivision. Beavers said the man fled from the residence when he discovered the house was occupied by a 14-year-old.
Stay with nola.com for more on this story as details emerge.


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WASHINGTON — US federal justice officials were in the middle of an active criminal investigation of disgraced former Tour de France champion Lance Armstrong, ABC News reported on Wednesday.
The broadcaster cited an unnamed source saying agents were probing whether the US cyclist had ever obstructed justice or tampered with or intimidated witnesses — different charges from those previously looked at on a federal level.
US attorney Andre Birotte, who led a federal probe that was dropped last year, said on Tuesday he had no plans to press charges despite Armstrong's recent doping admissions, but he did not definitively rule out such action.
Birotte's investigation was centred on doping, fraud and conspiracy, and Armstrong's denials of such crimes when he was the lead rider in the extremely successful government-funded US Postal Service Team.
"Obviously we've been well aware of the statements that have been made by Mr Armstrong and other media reports," Birotte said, referring to Armstrong's bombshell doping confession to chat show legend Oprah Winfrey last month.
"That has not changed my view at this time. Obviously … we'll continue to look at the situation ."
The ABC News source, whom the broadcaster quoted on condition of anonymity, said: "Birotte doesn't speak for the federal government as a whole. Agents are actively investigating Armstrong for obstruction, witness tampering and intimidation."
But Armstrong faces other legal battles after being stripped last year of his record seven Tour de France titles. Dallas insurance company SCA Promotions has already demanded the return of $12m in bonuses it paid to the fallen Texas rider for achieving five consecutive Tour victories.
SCA attorney Jeff Dorough said the firm expected to file a lawsuit against the 41-year-old as early as Wednesday.
For years Armstrong denied doping but he was banned in 2012 after the US Anti-Doping Agency gathered compelling testimony that he had been the ringleader of a large-scale and highly organised doping conspiracy in competitive cycling.
He had long angrily professed his innocence, including in questioning by US federal agents investigating the same allegations, but the mask fell away last month when he confessed his guilt to Winfrey in detail.
The admission threw up a number of legal questions, including whether the federal probe might be reopened, whether he might be prosecuted for perjury, and whether he might be sued to recover former payments and prize money.
Armstrong told Winfrey he would like to get his lifetime ban reduced, so that he could eventually compete in marathons, for example, by the time he was 50.
His attorney, Tim Herman, said the shamed cyclist was now prepared to co-operate with the antidoping authorities in a bid to clean up cycling. This he would do even if his eligibility was not restored.
"Whether it's a truth and reconciliation commission or some comprehensive attempt to clean things up, it doesn't make any difference as long as something like that is convened," Herman said. "Lance will definitely co-operate."
Herman told newspapers that Armstrong did not believe the US Anti-Doping Agency was best placed to lead the battle against doping in cycling since the sport was largely based in Europe.


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Relationship between Marketing Segmentation and Consumer Needs
Mohd Arif
Mohd Arif Business Educational World(MABEW)
March 16, 2010
"Why consumers buy" - is a very dramatic sentence, which shows that, why consumer motivation and influence to purchase a product. Producers produce good through the production process, and arrance all the factors of production and its manpower for selling the product in the market. Every production's process has a final objective of an increase in slaes volume in context with profit, but if consumers do not have initiative to buy the product, then all the production cost will be useless. Consumers do not take chances because there is not enough money for every product.
Consumers have basic needs (food, water, clothing, housing) which are necessities for life, but in our market different types of products are selling, which are not necessities, objects such as pocket purses, key chains and other artificial goods. These products only objective is satisfaction of consumer life.
Different types of consumers, we can see in the market, who who do not have a need to buy a product, are only walking the market and attract the products they decide to purchase.
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Implant reconstruction has evolved with the addition of implantable collagen sheets. This material serves to support the implant internally much like a bra supports a natural breast externally. This allows for more stable placement and shaping. Consumers should be aware that they may need their implants replaced over time.
Implant reconstruction may be considered for those who do not wish to pursue natural tissue reconstruction. Use of implants to restore breast volume is an option for carefully selected patients. Better candidates are those with C cup or less breast volume, thick skin, non-smokers, and those with early breast cancer or need for prophylactic mastectomy. Those who may/will require radiation therapy are considered poor candidates for implant reconstruction as the occurrence of significant capsular contracture is very nearly assured.
Implant reconstruction is preferentially performed with a fully preserved skin envelope as provided with a skin and/or nipple-sparing mastectomy. This avoids the need for expander placement and a separate surgery to exchange the expander to a permanent implant. This type of procedure is the latest advancement for those seeking implant reconstruction and is often called a "One Step Implant Reconstruction" although, at the Center for Restorative Breast Surgery, we believe it is more properly referred to as an Alloderm Assisted Implant Reconstruction. This procedure allows for placement of the final implant at the time of mastectomy. The implant is placed under the pectoralis muscle and supported from below with a sling of collagen sheeting known as Alloderm. This provides added coverage for the implant and relieves the skin envelope of the burden of the implant's weight.
Careful counseling is important since implant reconstruction differs substantially from the more familiar breast augmentation. The biggest challenge with implant reconstruction is that breast implants were designed to make healthy breasts larger not to rebuild an entire breast. So, they are affected by the same issues that affect any artificial device that is used to replace a part of the body. These devices, whether they are artificial joints, heart valves, or breast implants are subject to wear and failure over time. In the case of breast implants, this usually means a deflation or silicone leak that is addressed with a surgery to replace the implant. Rarely, infections can form around breast implants requiring their removal. Patients should expect the implant to be more palpable than is typical for a routine breast augmentation. Capsular contracture is the most common complication after implant reconstruction and occurs in between 30 and 90+% percent of cases. It is the formation of scar around the implant that makes the breast firm and in worst cases misshapen and painful. Your individual risk is unpredictable except for those who undergo radiation treatments who will nearly all develop it to a significant degree.
Breasts reconstructed with implants also have a tendency to move and distort shape when flexing the chest muscle. This isn't harmful to the breast but is something that should also be anticipated. Watch Video here.
Making an informed decision for those who are proper candidates can lead to a very successful implant reconstruction when combined with a skillfully performed mastectomy for those with breast cancer or need for prophylactic mastectomy.
The Center for Restorative Breast Surgery, affiliated with the St. Charles Surgical Hospital—the only hospital in the world dedicated to breast reconstruction for women facing breast cancer—was established to serve as a dedicated center of excellence for women seeking the most advanced methods of breast reconstruction. Craig A. Blum, MD; Frank J. DellaCroce, MD, FACS; Scott K. Sullivan, MD, FACS; Chris Trahan, MD, FACS; and M. Whitten Wise, MD are pioneers in the art of rebuilding breasts lost to cancer, preventive mastectomy, developmental defects, and deformities associated with previous surgery. Their sophisticated microsurgical techniques allow for recreation of the breast with natural tissue while preserving strength and restoring beauty. Together, with our Breast Oncology team Surgical Breast Oncologist W. Karl Ordoyne, M.D., FACS and Clinical Breast Oncologist Alan Stolier, M.D., FACS, they comprise a group of international leaders in breast cancer surgery options, pioneering groundbreaking procedures including nipple sparing mastectomy, the Stacked DIEP, the Gluteal Hip Flap, the BODY LIFT Flap®, and the APEX Flap. They have performed thousands of breast reconstruction procedures for women facing breast cancer, seeking BRCA risk reduction, or searching for solutions to existing breast deformities. Their Center is tailored and staffed to cater to the needs of clientele who travel from all over the world for their services. For more information please visit www.breastcenter.com or www.scsh.com.


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College of Charleston delved into its history for its new athletics logo, unveiled today, as the Cougars enter their first season in a new conference, the Colonial Athletic Association.
The logo features a simple block 'C' in the school colors of maroon and gold and comes in alternate versions that include the words "Charleston", "The College," and "Cougars".
"Our new athletics logo gives us an opportunity to build on our brand identity on a local, regional and national level," said athletics director Joe Hull. "When our coaches and student-athletes step onto a playing field or into a gym, we need an identifiable mark that sets us apart and sends a strong message that, 'We Are Charleston.' We believe the new logo system accomplishes this, especially in recruiting and identifying ourselves with potential student-athletes."
A statement said the logo, designed in collaboration with local firm Gil Shuler Graphic Design, is the result of an eight-month process with input from alumni, students, faculty and staff and the coaches of 21 varsity teams.
"The new logo conveys the College's history and traditions while also providing us with a distinguishable identity among the other academically elite schools of the Colonial," said school president P. George Benson.


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NFL tables discussion of future Super Bowls in cold weather cities until May
ORLANDO, Fla. — The NFL in February held its first Super Bowl in an outdoor stadium in a cold-weather environment and other similar cities — including Denver — said they wanted the opportunity to host the big game.
But the topic was tabled at the NFL owners meeting this week until the spring meetings in May.
The Seattle Seahawks beat the Broncos, 43-8, on Feb. 2 in East Rutherford, N.J. And while there were fears of snow and cold temperatures in the week leading to the game, it kicked off under partly cloudy skies and a temperature of 48 degrees.
However, a big snowstorm hit hours after the game, and airports were closed the next day, stranding visitors who were trying to leave the New York/New Jersey metropolitan area.
The Broncos and the city of Denver set out in 2012 to land a Super Bowl in Colorado in 2018, 2019 or 2020.
"I think Denver would be head and shoulders above any other city to compete to host a Super Bowl," Mayor Michael Hancock said in 2012.
The next three sites are set — Glendale, Ariz., in 2015, Santa Clara, Calif., in 2016 and Houston in 2017. At the May owners meeting, the 2018 site will be chosen from among Indianapolis, Minneapolis and New Orleans.
Denver dropped its bid for 2018, waiting until after the New York/New Jersey Super Bowl to see how the experience went in a cold weather environment.


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Precaution was proper
Traffic patterns were interrupted Thursday in downtown Tiffin as drivers were redirected due to demolition of the tallest part of the 1884 courthouse, the clock tower.
The street closure was prompted by concerns for safety. As it turned out, the tower was razed without incident, but the decision to divert traffic nonetheless was a prudent precaution. Any inconvenience that closure created for drivers was a reminder how fortunate area residents are to live where such delays are rare.


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Avava Systems was inspired by the rapid construction of modular systems but also saw the need for a product that was more sustainable and had greater design flexibility. Experience the Avava Avantage.
"If we keep building using the technology of today, it will be nearly impossible to solve the economic and environmental challenges of tomorrow." - Benjamin Kimmich, CEO


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Morgan Stanley Credit-Default Swaps Drop on Moody's Downgrade
The cost to protect against losses on Morgan Stanley debt fell after Moody's Investors Service downgraded the owner of the world's largest brokerage two levels rather than the three that the ratings company previously said were possible.
Credit-default swaps tied to Morgan Stanley dropped 20 basis points after the announcement to a mid-price of 370 basis points, according to market participants familiar with the trades. The contracts, which decline as investor confidence improves, reversed an earlier increase to as high as 400 basis points, according to prices compiled by data provider CMA.
Bonds issued by Morgan Stanley had already dropped to prices implying junk ratings, according to a separate Moody's unit that analyzes market data. Moody's had said it might reduce the rating on the New York-based firm by as many as three levels in its industrywide review. Morgan Stanley can manage through any potential cut, Chief Executive Officer James Gorman said June 12 at an investor conference in New York.
Credit-default swaps tied to Goldman Sachs Group Inc. declined 20 basis points to a mid-price of 280 basis points, market participants said. Moody's lowered the fifth-biggest U.S. bank by assets to A3 from A1, with a negative outlook.
Contracts tied to debt of Bank of America Corp., lowered one level to Baa2 with a negative outlook, fell 10 basis points to a mid-price of 275, the data show.
'Significant Exposure'
"All of the banks affected by today's actions have significant exposure to the volatility and risk of outsized losses inherent to capital markets activities," Moody's Global Banking Managing Director Greg Bauer said in a statement.
Credit swaps pay the buyer face value if a borrower fails to meet its obligations, less the value of the defaulted debt. A basis point equals $1,000 annually on a contract protecting $10 million of debt.
The Markit CDX North America Investment Grade Index, a credit-default swaps benchmark that investors use to hedge against losses on corporate debt or to speculate on creditworthiness, rose 2.9 basis points to a mid-price of 117 basis points 5:34 p.m. in New York, according to Markit Group Ltd. That's down from as high as 118 basis points before the Moody's announcement.
The downgrades may force banks to post additional collateral to trading partners in derivatives deals while boosting the companies' borrowing costs. Moody's said when it announced the review that it was seeking to reflect the banks' reliance on fragile confidence in funding markets and increased pressures from regulation and a difficult market environment.