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Holds seven Duquesne University school records - Indoor: 400m (57.72), 4x200 (1:46.71), 4x400 (3:54.84) and DMR (11:54.56). Outdoor: 400m (56.88), 4x100 (49.16) and 4x400 (3:53.28).
2007 OUTDOOR SEASON: Was on school record setting 4x100m team that crossed in 49.16 at the Bucknell Outdoor Heptagonal ... also finished second overall in the 400m with a time of 57.24 and was on the third place 4x400m team that ran a 3:53.93 at Bucknell ... fifth in the 200m crossing in 26.44 at the Western Pennsylvania Championships ... finished first for DU in the 400m with a time of 58.15 at the 2007 Atlantic 10 Championships.
2006-07 INDOOR SEASON: Season best 58.34 in the 400m at the Akron Open ... set two school records at the Penn State National Invitational - 3:54.84 in the 4x400m and 11:54.56 in the DMR ... was first for DU in the 400m crossing in 58.33 in the 400m at the 2007 Atlantic 10 Indoor Championships.
2005-06: Won gold in the 400m at the West Virginia Holiday Invitational ... took sixth at the indoor Akron Open with a personal-best time of 57.78 ... took fifth in the 200m at the Western PA Championships with a personal-best time of 25.96 ... took gold in the 400m at the Bucknell Five-Way with a time of 58.99 ... was a member of the school record retting 4x400 team at Penn Relay's with a time of 3:53.287 ... took sixth at the outdoor A-10 Championships with a season-best time of 57.53 .
2004-05: Member of the 4x400 meter relay which took silver at the 2005 indoor championship ... won a bronze medal in the 400 ... posted DU's top indoor times in the 400m and 4x400 m relay ... at A-10 outdoor championship, won bronze in the 4x400m relay and was fourth in the 400m and ninth in the 200m dash ... produced DU top outdoor time it the 200m, 400m and the 4x100 and 4x400m relays.
HIGH SCHOOL: Named MVP of the Butler, Pine-Richland and Thomas Jefferson Invitationals ... set invite records in the 200m, 400m and in the 4x100 and 4x400 meter relays ... won WPIAL championship in 400m ... qualified for PIAA Championships, medaling in 400m ... set six school records ... was on WPIAL and PIAA state champion basketball and swimming teams ... Who's Who Among American High School Students.
PERSONAL: A liberal arts major ... her mother Tianna played volleyball at Prarie View A&M University ... member of Black Student Union ... Dean's List ... she is a tutor ... born December 29, 1985.

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Last year, a partnership officially began between Lebanon Valley College and the Big Brothers Big Sisters of the Capital Region (BBBSCR) that stemmed off a conversation between LVC's chaplain and director of service and volunteerism, Paul Fullmer, and BBBSCR's Lebanon program manager, Julie Baum. The partnership matched 18 LVC students with children facing adversity in Lebanon County.
The College had an eager volunteer in Tai Nguyen '14, a biology major from Lebanon who has been volunteering since he was 16 and has been instrumental in recruiting other LVC students into the program.
"I was an only child growing up, and being an only child, I didn't have too many people looking out for me," Nguyen said. "My parents were always working because they're first-generation immigrants. It got kind of lonely, but I always had good people in my life that would always push me to do better—to do well in school and make something of myself.
"I looked back and thought, 'I'm lucky. I've had good opportunities with good people, and they took care of me,' so I wanted to do my best to do right for somebody else."
Nguyen volunteered to sit at the BBBSCR table at last year's Activities Fair and actively recruited both friends and strangers. He dispelled any notion that involvement would overwhelm an already-busy college student, saying that an hour per week is a small commitment and that "Littles" did not need major entertainment.
Nguyen is a part of BBBSCR's one-on-one mentoring program, in which a "Big" is matched with a Little until one or the other chooses to leave the program, and so he and his Little, Jarrett, have been friends for four years.
"Sometimes we go to the movies. Occasionally, we'll go out to lunch or dinner," Nguyen said. "We've gone to Baltimore together to go see an Orioles game. Every now and then, we'll do big stuff, but normally we meet up on Sundays around 11 or 12 and just catch up on our weekend."
The relationship between Nguyen and Jarrett has evolved. Jarrett is now a freshman in high school, so their time is now spent playing sports rather than video games, and talking about girls and high school life.
"He's someone I call a really close friend," Nguyen said. "I'm very close with his family now, too. Without his dad around, his mom calls me whenever he gets into any trouble or there's something she doesn't know how to talk about. That's included puberty and all that stuff, too."
According to BBBSCR, children involved in the program do better in school with higher aspirations, better relationships, and avoidance of risky behaviors. Baum is in charge of its Lebanon County operations and will continue to actively recruit LVC students.
"Big Brothers Big Sisters of the Capital Region has been extremely fortunate to Start Something™ in the form of a partnership with Lebanon Valley College, and BBBSCR is excited to see how the relationship grows," Baum said.
"The partnership has endless potential and we look forward to recruiting more LVC students this upcoming school year so we can help children achieve success throughout Lebanon County by providing them with student Big Brothers and Big Sisters from Lebanon Valley College."
"Mentorship programs provide structured opportunities for mutual learning and inspiration in the context of meaningful relationships," Fullmer said, on behalf of LVC. "As a national organization, Big Brothers Big Sisters has an excellent reputation for establishing such relationships. Many of our students have worked with the group before coming to LVC. So we welcome the opportunity to partner with BBBS in our area and are overjoyed that the students have responded to the invitation."
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Q: I have a very intelligent Congo African grey. We carry on conversations most everyday. Her feathers are all turning red – not just her tail feathers, but her chest, back legs, etc. She eats a wide variety of fresh fruit, veggies, seeds and pellets. This has been happening for a few years now (she is 7 years old). I have had Savannah since she was 6 months old. I'm looking forward to your help on the issue of red feathers. Thank you in advance.
Jean Pattison, also known as "The African Queen," explains:I have seen this presentation in a few adult birds. In greys with unknown history, sometimes it is a result of earlier feather picking that damages the feather follicle. Since you have had your grey since she was young, this is not the case. Some research has been done in this area, and we have found no known cause and nothing negative regarding health. In the early days of importation, people thought it was a symptom of psittacine beak and feather disease (PBFD), but testing these birds has shown that it was coincidence and not a symptom of the disease. Kevin McGraw, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Arizona State University, is leading a study regarding feather coloration and the cause of abnormal coloration of feathers. View his paper here. (PDF format)
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Pulling heroes out of hiding
I want you to meet my cousin Rebecca.
Her beauty is not only on her face, but in her heart. Her heart is huge and keeps her looking toward far corners of history and geography, on the lookout for the works of God in people's lives.
I am thankful that in her books she shares her discoveries with us.
She wrote first about more well-known historical figures– Amy Carmichael, George Mueller, and Fanny Crosby.
Her most recent books are the beginning of her Hidden Heroes series– With Two Hands: Stories of God at Work in Ethiopia and The Good News Must Go Out: Stories of God at Work in the Central African Republic.
Obviously, there's another book underway. Rebecca tweets teasers, and is posting chapters on her blog.
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we are so looking forward to hearing you speak at the Oxygen Conference in Sydney later in August! I will be the MC for your session and was wondering if you would be able to contact me via email so we can talk about your session and about interviewing you before you speak. I am praying for your preparation and that of your husband, Dr. Piper.
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PITTSBURGH—The Pittsburgh Steelers' defense will be without two All-Pro players for the second game in a row. James Harrison (knee) and Troy Polamalu (calf) will not play against the Oakland Raiders, giving them at least two more weeks to heal before possibly returning in Week 5. The Steelers have Week 4 off.
This is third game Harrison will miss, and his return is more problematic. The Steelers will continue to start second-year linebacker Chris Carter, who has been nothing less than solid on the right side.
Carter hasn't utilized his speed to apply the type of pass-rush pressure needed from the position, but he has been very good from an assignment standpoint.
Jason Worilds, who had been the top backup to Harrison, will continue to spell Carter. Worilds missed all of the spring and summer with a wrist injury and is continuing to round into shape. He is more physical and capable of applying more pressure than Carter.
With Polamalu out, Ryan Mundy will start his third game in a row. Mundy started at free safety in the season opener in Denver when Ryan Clark was held out because of medical precautions, then replaced Polamalu at strong safety in Week 2 against the Jets. Clark takes on a different role with Polamalu out because he tends to play more in the box. He had a team-high eight tackles against the Jets.
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Despite having ACL surgery in January and missing most of training camp, left tackle Max Starks has played very well in both games. The Steelers are averaging only 2.6 yards per rush attempt and Ben Roethlisberger has been sacked eight times, but Starks has been solid on the left side, especially in pass protection. That was an area of concern for Starks, who thought his ACL would be tested when he moved laterally, planted and took on an opposing bull-rush.


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A new U.N. report warns that a threefold increase in extraction of the earth's primary materials over the past 40 years will intensify climate change, reduce biodiversity and raise the risk of conflict.
A new report reveals that two killings of environmental activists occurred on average every week—up a fifth from 2013. Nearly three-quarters of the known deaths were in Central and South America.
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The Philippines, which is one of the poorest and least developed nations on the planet, has had little hand in creating the conditions that nurtured Typhoon Haiyan (or Yolanda, as it's known locally), possibly the worst storm in recorded human history.
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In the disasters at the Massey coal mine in West Virginia and on the BP oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico, people were killed. So why aren't the executives of these companies behind bars?
After at least 54 people were killed in a bloody roadblock protest earlier this month, native groups in Peru have won a commitment from the government to revoke laws that opened the Amazon to foreign oil and gas companies to exploit indigenous land for resources.
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The name Frank Giustra may not ring any bells with those outside the international mining industry, but Thursday's New York Times brings Giustra (pictured with Clinton) out of relative obscurity into sharp focus with its startling report about the Canadian entrepreneur, who boldly inserted himself into the uranium business in Kazakhstan (!) and into Bill Clinton's inner circle.
More than 3,000 South African gold miners are trapped 1.4 miles beneath the surface of the Earth. The company that owns the mine said that its workers will be able to breathe, but South Africa's National Union of Mineworkers said it is extremely concerned for those who are trapped. Update: All of the workers have been rescued.
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Abigail Williams
I look for John Proctor that took me from my sleep and put knowledge in my heart! I never knew what pretense Salem was, I never knew the lying lessons I was taught by all these Christian women and their covenanted men! And now you bid me tear the light out of my eyes? I will not, I cannot! You loved me, John Proctor, and whatever sin it is, you love me yet!
Betty Parris
You drank blood, Abby! You didn't tell him that!
You did, you did! You drank a charm to kill John Proctor's wife! You drank a charm to kill Goody Proctor!
John Proctor
She thinks to dance with me on my wife's grave! And well she might, for I thought of her softly. God help me, I lusted, and there is a promise in such sweat. But it is a whore's vengeance, and you must see it.
Judge Hathorne
Mister Proctor, if I should tell you now that I will let her be kept another month; and if she begin to show her natural signs, you shall have her living yet another year until she is delivered—(Looks at Proctor.) what say you to that? (Proctor is struck silent.)
She sat to dinner in Reverend Parris' house tonight, and without word nor warnin', she falls to the floor. Like a struck beast, he says, and screamed a scream that a bull would weep to hear. And he goes to save her, and stuck two inches in the flesh of her belly he draw a needle out. And demandin' of her how she come to be so stabbed, she... (To Proctor.) testify it were your wife's familiar spirit pushed it in.
John Proctor
I like it not that Mr. Parris should lay his hand upon my baby. I see no light of God in that man. I'll not conceal it.
Abigail Williams
And mark this. Let either of you breathe a word, or the edge of a word, about the other things, and I will come to you in the black of some terrible night and I will bring a pointy reckoning that will shudder you. And you know I can do it; I saw Indians smash my dear parents' heads on the pillow next to mine and I have seen some reddish work done at night, and I can make you wish you had never seen the sun go down!
Abigail Wiliams
I want the light of God, I want the sweet love of Jesus! I danced for the Devil; I saw him, I wrote in his book; I go back to Jesus; I kiss His hand. I saw Sarah Good with the Devil! I saw Goody Osburn with the Devil! I saw Bridget Bishop with the Devil
"he say mister parris must be kill! mr. parris no goodly man, mr parris mean man and no gentle man, and he bid me rise out of my bed and cut your throat! but i tell him 'no! i don't hate that man. i don't want kill that man.' but he say, 'you work for me, tituba, and i make you free! i give you pretty dress to wear, and put you way up in the air, and you gone fly back to barbados!' and i say, 'you lie devil, you lie!' and then he come one stormy night to me, and he say, 'look! i have white people belong to me.' and i look- and there was goody good."
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Neuro-Ophthalmology Virtual Education Library (NOVEL)database
Provider: Spencer S. Eccles Health Sciences Library, University of Utah/North American Neuro-Ophthalmology Society (NANOS)
Contents: archive, Dictionary, full text, images, meetings/symposia, patient education, teaching aids, video, websites
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Descriptions: A discipline-specific, open-access repository of digital materials (images, video, lectures, articles and animations), to be used for educational and research purposes by health care professionals, educators, patients, and students. Features include a patient-specific portal, an ophthalmology curriculum outline, a list of outside resources, and a guide to contributing materials to the site. Many articles from Journal of Neuro-Ophthalmology are available here. Initial funding was provided by the National Library of Medicine. Materials may be used with proper attribution, under a Creative Commons license. This resource is still very much in development, but contains much useful material.
Keywords: collaborative, consumer health, eye, graduate medical education, neuro-ophthalmology, ophthalmology
Provider: University of Iowa Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences
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Descriptions: This University of Iowa site contains a wealth of resources for the student of ophthalmology. It includes tutorials, case reports, an atlas and a video atlas, an extensive section on competencies, and links to videos of many surgical procedures. The University of Iowa Department of Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences has been ranked one of the top eye hospitals by U.S. News , and as one of the Best Overall, Best Clinical and Best Residency Programs by Ophthalmology Times.
Keywords: Creative Commons, eye, ophthalmology
Cleveland Clinic Center for Continuing Educationwebsite
Provider: Cleveland Clinic Center for Continuing Education
Descriptions: The Cleveland Clinic, certified by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education, provides this website with a wide selection of (text and video) online CME units in approximately 40 medical specialties. Nursing, Dentistry and Health Care Administration are included along with medical specialties from Allergy/Immunology to Women's Health. A series of fee-based, live CME conferences is also offered.
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Robert Bendheim Digital Atlas of Ophthalmologywebsite
Provider: New York Eye and Ear Infirmary Department of Ophthalmology
Descriptions: "The Digital Atlas of Ophthalmology is a database of images drawn from the vast clinical experience of The New York Eye and Ear Infirmary specialists and their colleagues around the world. The Digital Atlas is intended to serve as a visual reference and educational supplement for ophthalmologists, general physicians, and medical students."
Keywords: eye, images, ophthalmology
Eye Pathologist, Thedatabase
Provider: Duke University Medical Center
Contents: brief records, images, index, summaries
Access Level: Free, Open Access
Descriptions: This web-based instructional database is the product of a felicitous partnership between two professors, a pathologist and an ophthalmologist, at Duke University Medical Center. Designed as a teaching and reference tool for health professionals, from first-year medical students to ophthalmic pathologists, The Eye Pathologist presents more than 5,000 diseases affecting the eye and related tissues, is illustrated with several thousand high-quality images, and also includes dynamic links to a glossary of over 6,000 definitions. Overview pages on all diseases are accessible without registration, but to see all pages and take full advantage of the program's features, free registration is required. The developers encourage user feedback via a form available from the program's menu. Note: Mac users may need to use FireFox browser with this database.
Keywords: diseases, eye, genetics, medical students, ophthalmology, parasitology, pathogenesis, physicians, syndromes
Provider: ProQuest
Contents: E-books, full text
Access Level: Licensed, On-Site Visitor, TMC Academic User
Descriptions: A collection of medical and life science e-books. Link to a quick guide and a training video from the ebrary home page. To make full use of ebrary, create a personal account. Go to ebrary's Help documentation for detailed information on setting up a personal account and on the features registration makes available. These include highlighting and annotation, creating a virtual bookshelf, linking out to other resources, copy and paste, printing up to 60 pages per session, sharing, and using RefWorks with this resource. Ebrary was added to the collection with funds donated by The Friends of the Texas Medical Center Library.
Keywords: alternative medicine, cardiology, dentistry, dermatology, internal medicine, nursing, ob/gyn, ophthalmology, otorhinolaryngology, pathology, pediatrics, pharmacology, pharmacy, public health, surgery
Medical Product Safety Network (MEDSUN)website
Provider: U.S. Food and Drug Administration
Descriptions: MEDSUN "...is an adverse event reporting program launched in 2002 by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's Center for Devices and Radiological Health (CDRH). The primary goal for MedSun is to work collaboratively with the clinical community to identify, understand, and solve problems with the use of medical devices. Over 350 health care facilities, primarily hospitals, participate in the entire MedSun network." There are MEDSUN sub-networks for various conditions and clinical settings in which medical devices are commonly used: HeartNet, HomeNet, KidNet (neonates), LabNet, SightNet and TissueNet.
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G & K Industries has a diverse real estate product base, which is geographically concentrated in California--primarily in Southern California with a secondary emphasis in the Northern California Area. Government subsidized multifamily complexes comprise approximately 34% of the portfolio. The balance of the portfolio consists of conventional apartment properties, mixed-use and marinas, congregate care facilities, commercial/industrial, and for-sale housing. The properties are owned in partnerships generally controlled by Jona Goldrich, Warren Breslow, and/or the estate of Sol Kest.
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As of sometime today, the TOC (I'm not sure what that stands for) started putting out the 2 new experimental elements into their correct directories.
I had guessed that they would name them "ds.apparentt.bin" and "ds.rh.bin". Unfortunately they chose "ds.apt.bin" and "ds.rhm.bin". This means that you can either download 1.72, or modify "/degrib/bin/ndfd.ini".
If you choose to modify "ndfd.ini", then you need to find:
"apparentt=Apparent Temperature,expr,ApparentT,expr,expr,expr,NA" and
"rh=Relative Humidity,expr,RH,expr,expr,expr,NA"
and change them to:
"apt=Apparent Temperature,expr,ApparentT,expr,expr,expr,NA" and
"rhm=Relative Humidity,expr,RH,expr,expr,expr,NA"
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I have just finished putting together version "1.72" (last one that I
announced was "1.70" on 6/15/2005).
This release is only focused on handling "ds.rhm.bin" and "ds.apt.bin".
1) Reconfigured ndfd.ini to handle ds.rhm.bin and ds.apt.bin
2) Updated htmlmaker.exe to create a column for Apparent Temperature (it already knew about RH). This is for the "generate images" button in NDFD.
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USELESS - Me and Lomography at Experimenta Design6 19
Yeah! My picture in Experimenta Design! In an exhibition! For the second time this year! :D
And all thanks to Lomography, once again…! Although I didn't won a camera this time… still, I think there is a reason to be proud!
The exhibition will be open until the 27th November, in the centre of Lisbon. It takes place in an old convent built in 1633 that later was converted into court and worked 165 years until it closed, in 2009.
It's a small room and there aren't many pictures (but there is one of mephisto19, man!, you are everywhere! ;)), the entrance is free, the building is amazing and you can see the rest of EXD'11.
So, if you're nearby, go check it! Lomo on! :D
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Chinzombo: Information from the owner
All the information on this page is supplied to us directly from the lodge owner and reflects their view, not ours.
For Expert Africa's view, see our own report, which contains our own observations and views.
|Safari Lodge
|No. of rooms
|Last updated
Main description of Chinzombo
Chinzombo: Facilities
|Property facilities
|Room facilities
|Air Conditioning, Complementary Wi-Fi, Balcony / Deck, Dressing Gowns, En-Suite, Fan, Fridge, Internet, Lounge Area, Mini Bar, Private Pool / Jacuzzi, Pure Cotton Linen, Safe, Shower, Tea / Coffee, Verandah, Disabled Rooms, Hair Dryer
|Available services
|Credit Card, Room Service, Airport Shuttle
|Activities on site
|(some activities may be seasonal) Big 5, Bird Watching, Boating, Fine Dining, Game Drives, Game Viewing, Game Walks, Massages, Safaris, Walks
Room types at Chinzombo
Family Villa
The Family Villa is over 300sqm in size and has 2 ensuite bedrooms and offers extra space for families and small groups. It also has a private pool, cooled sleeping areas and huge bathrooms; the main one with luxuriously deep bath. The minimalist design by award winning architects Silvio Rech and Lesley Carstens allows panoramic views of the Luangwa, the surrounding bush and the wildlife wandering through camp.
Standard Villa
Each Villa is approximately 150sq meters and has a private pool, cooled sleeping area and huge bathroom with luxurious bath. The minimalist design by award winning architects Silvio Rech and Lesley Carstens allows panoramic views of the Luangwa, the surrounding bush and the wildlife wandering through camp.
Units at Chinzombo
Family Villa
The Family Villa is approximately 330sq meters with a main bedroom and separate second bedroom sleeping up to 3 children. It has a private pool, cooled sleeping areas and huge bathrooms with luxurious spa amenities. The minimalist design by award winning architects Silvio Rech and Lesley Carstens allows panoramic views of the Luangwa, the surrounding bush and the wildlife wandering through camp.
Activities at Chinzombo
Boating Safaris
Once regarded as the time in the safari calendar to be avoided by less adventurous operators, the 'Secret' Season months of January through March are now heralded by those lucky enough to experience them, as the highlight of the year.
Norman Carr Safaris has always been open all year round and is the only Zambian safari operator to open a true Bush Camp in the Luangwa at this time of year. Kakuli opens around the 20th January and closes again in early April. We gain access to camp by boat and activities are either on foot or by boat. A few days at Kakuli combines very well with the game drives and prolific wildlife on offer in the areas around Kapani Lodge and Chinzombo.
During these Secret Season safaris the bush is in its fullest flush of growth, rivers and lagoons are brimming and boating safaris take you eye to eye with hippos and crocs. The air is clear and excellent for photography; you will find magnificent skyscapes and sunsets with the occasional dramatic tropical downpour.
A wealth of migratory birds in breeding song and plumage make the bush a wonderful place to explore at this time of year. It is a time of plenty so there is no shortage of wildlife; the Secret Season months are usually the best for seeing wild dogs in the South Luangwa.
Chinzombo Spa Rituals
Our local professional therapists offer you unique treatments with fresh homemade products.
All products used in the treatments are developed and mixed by the therapists using healing herbal plants and natural ingredients found in the local bush land and Mfuwe produce farms.
The products are all created and tested by us, and are safe to use on your skin; we guarantee a healthy and purely natural experience. Products are easily absorbed and are beneficial for the health of your body.
Enjoy all the treatments in the privacy of your Villa, surrounded by the sounds of the animals in the distance.
Game Drives
Driving safaris are all conducted in open 4X4 vehicles (Land Cruiser or Land Rover) with either two or three 'rows' of seats. At Chinzombo, Luwi, Nsolo, Kakuli and Mchenja we generally have 4, with no more than 6, people on a vehicle ensuring everyone has a 'window' seat.
Night drives are generally an extension of your afternoon game drive or walking safari. As the sun begins to set we stop to watch the day come to a close and as dusk falls set off to explore as the nocturnal animals start to emerge.
The best chance of seeing genets, civets, elephant shrew, porcupine and the fierce honey-badger is after sunset and the large predators, with the exception of wild dog, are most active at night. Night time birding can be very rewarding with nightjars, owls great and small, dikkop, bat hawk and coursers are all abundant.
The Africa night sky is simply magnificent and it's worth coming all this way just to experience its vastness and splendour. The Milky Way seems 100 times brighter in the Luangwa Valley where there is no light pollution. We're watched over by the Southern Cross, Orion and Scorpio amongst an infinite number of others and memories of sitting in awed silence listening to the distant call of lions, cicadas and a million tree frogs under the crescent of an African moon will live with you forever.
Walking Safaris
Back in the 1950's Norman Carr pioneered walking safaris in Zambia. His aim was to track big game on foot in Zambia's Luangwa Valley, one of Africa's last havens of un-spoilt wilderness and home to some of the continent's greatest concentrations of game. Norman like to say "to view the bush from a vehicle is simply to be an observer, but to get out on foot was to become a part of your surroundings." Over 60 years on, at Norman Carr Safaris we are still walking....we are still passionate about sharing the thrill of tracking lions on foot through early morning mists, the delight in learning something new on every activity and the adventure of walking from camp to camp the original safari way. Walking safaris are immersive, sensual and peaceful. In Zambia, an armed wildlife ranger or "scout" leads each walking group, followed by the trained walking guide. In other countries, the walking guide is armed and leads the group alone. Having a walk led by two wildlife experts was conceived by Norman and our 60 year track record of safety speaks to the effectiveness of this approach.
While certainly vehicle safaris allow one to cover more ground and see a greater volume of game in a 3-4 hour safari, it is only on a walking safari where all your senses are heightened and you can see, hear, smell and feel the bush. You begin to understand the interconnectedness of the flora and the fauna, how each small part plays an important role in the greater ecosystem. Small mysteries of the bush are unlocked and explored; tracks are investigated; and the wide variety of animal poo becomes an unexpected and fascinated learning experience! And while generally speaking, walks are more focused on the little things in the bush, tracking big game on foot is not uncommon and always thrilling.


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Health and Human Services secretary nominee Kathleen Sebelius has already been heavily criticized by pro-life groups because of her abortion record as governor of Kansas.
Now she is under fire for not disclosing all of the campaign money she received from controversial abortionist George Tiller.
Click play for more of CBN News White House Correspondent David Brody's analysis.
A senior Senate Republican aide told CBN News that this is a transparency issue as well as a life issue, and something the GOP will want to know more about.
Tony Perkins, president of the conservative Family Research Council, said the undisclosed Tiller donations have changed the landscape of the Sebelius nomination.
Since she was nominated, pro-life groups like the FRC have zeroed in on Sebelius's abortion record as governor.
Accepting 'Blood Money?'
Their list of complaints is long, including her relationship with Tiller. In her written questionnaire submitted to the Senate committee overseeing her nomination, Sebelius was asked by Sen. Jon Kyl about her financial connections to Tiller.
She originally disclosed $12,450 in donations from him, but it's now been revealed that she left off $10,000 more she received from Tiller and $13,000 from his abortion clinic.
That equals about three times as much as her original disclosure.
"I'm not sure that it was an oversight," Perkins told CBN News. "The fact that she reported contributions from Tiller himself... but conveniently forgot to report contributions from an abortion clinic, it's a big difference."
"While he's an abortion doctor, receiving money directly from abortion clinics-- some would call that political blood money," he added.
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A spokesman for Sen. Charles Grasssley, who is the ranking Republican on the Senate Finance Committee, told CBN News the committee won't vote on Sebelius' nomination until the senators are "reasonably satisfied with a nominee's responses to questions for the record."
"The senators are reviewing the responses to hundreds of questions for the record from Gov. Sebelius," he added. "The corrected response and explanation for the correction to Sen. Kyl's question will be part of the mix when they come in."
Sebelius's defenders say she's been unfairly targeted. They say as a Catholic she's personally against abortion and her supporters say she signed bills that promoted adoption and prenatal care.
"They're not really looking at her record honestly. Abortions have declined 10 percent in Kansas," said James Salt of Catholics United.
During Sebelius' confirmation hearing, Republican senators didn't make much of an issue about her abortion record or her relationship with the late-term abortion doctor. Perkins, however, believes that may change.
"It raises the question [of] 'what else has she not told us?' What other things remain in Sebelius' closet? What other alliances are there? What other political contributions may have tainted her decisions as governor?" he pointed out. "These are questions that I think are running through the minds of many senators right now."
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Caux Dialogue Explores Links between Land and Human Security
11 July 2013: The Caux Dialogue on Land and Security, which took place from 7-11 July 2013 in Caux, Switzerland, was convened by Luc Gnacadja, Executive Secretary of the UN Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD), and Mohamed Sahnoun, Chair of the Caux Forum for Human Security. The event sought to help participants deepen their understanding of links between land degradation and human security, share lessons learned and best practices for sustainable land restoration, and examine the potential for investment in land restoration, among other objectives.
Among the speakers at the opening session: Gnacadja highlighted that the conference would discuss natural resources alongside human security; Rattan Lal, Ohio State University, emphasized the need for sustainable soil management; Ian Johnson, Secretary General of the Club of Rome, suggested exploring a new economic model that incudes values and humans alongside economic considerations; and Bianca Jagger, International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Plant a Pledge Ambassador, stressed the importance of empowering women with regard to soil management.
In a keynote address, Allan Savory (Zimbabwean biologist, farmer, soldier, exile, and environmentalist, winner of the 2003 Banksia International Award and of the 2010 Buckminster Fuller Challenge) discussed food security and policies that seek to reverse desertification, and suggested reintroducing livestock on dry lands as a strategy to help land fertility and reduce erosion.
During a closing plenary session, Martin Frick, Ambassador, Germany, encouraged participants to engage in local action. Participants also highlighted the subjects of land degradation, water management and human security issues. [Caux Dialogue on Land and Security webpage][Opening session webpage]


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Satellite TV Companies To Lobby On Their Own Behalf By Using FansOctober 22, 2009 – 4:34 pm by Ryan Phillips
Yesterday the Washington Times broke a story that we'd been tipped off to by an anonymous source a few days ago. In the process of fact-checking and seeing what we could verify, the Times ran its article.
The long and short of the situation is this, satellite television companies have created a "fan advocacy" group called the Sports Fan Coalition. The purpose of the group is to lobby Washington in support of sports fans. The group's platform includes demanding that publicly financed stadiums offer cheaper tickets and have no media blackouts; the creation of a college football playoff; and demanding that local sports fans can view their local sporting events via television or the internet regardless of their service provider.
Sounds like a great idea, right? Wrong.
The group is almost completely backed by satellite television networks and another of its goals will be to push for enforcement of rules governing the carriage of sports networks that will benefit satellite at the expense of competing cable providers.
Thanks to a power point presentation acquired via our anonymous source, we obtained a list of the group's corporate board of advisors and contributors. Five companies are listed: DISH Network, DirecTV, RCN, Verizon and AT&T.
The idea of any group including DirecTV advocating for more fairness in the marketplace is laughable at best. The group claims to want to push against exclusivity, while they have an exclusive right to the most valuable property in all of sports, NFL games.
The Power Point we have access to, lists the organization's board. The Chairman of that board is David Goodfriend, who is a former lobbyist for Dish Network.
Also, one of the non-profit advisory groups for the Sports Fan Coalition is Public Knowledge. While Public Knowledge has always wished to maintain the image of an incorruptible consumer advocate, they're now part of a dubious corporate-backed coalition. Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (a lobbyist watchdog group) has already dubbed the Sports Fan Coalition as an obvious front-group to lobby on behalf of satellite companies.
"It seems like a classic front group," Melanie Sloan, executive director of Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington told the Times. "Their whole point is to get away with something and fool people into making them think they care about sports. It's the product of lobbyists."
Our source on the inside of this whole deal claims to have come forward because he feels this group will mislead sports fans into supporting something that will actually, in the end, hurt them. He, understandably, chose to remain anonymous because of the sensitivity of this issue and the fact that his job might be on the line if his name was made public.
Here is what he told us:
"As you know, Comcast, Time Warner Cable and other large companies have regional and some national sports networks. Plus, the rumored deal between Comcast and NBC would give Comcast enough sports content to rival ESPN. This likely has competitors quaking in their boots. The Sports Fan Coalition will likely attack cable companies for placing sports teams games – played in arenas/stadiums funded by local taxpayers – on a cable tier for which people must pay."
Obviously the satellite industry isn't completely blameless in this regard, considering DirecTV maintains a long term, exclusive deal with the NFL for its Sunday Ticket package. For years cable customers (like me) have been frustrated with their inability to access that package without having to switch to satellite TV full-time. To be fair, I would probably switch to satellite if they could ever figure out a way for me to be able to actually watch TV when it's freaking raining outside.
This year, when the NFL is blacking out games locally because fans can't afford over-priced tickets due to the state of the economy, the only way to get access is through DirecTV. Therefore the satellite television industry has partnered with the NFL to black out local games, but rather than try to fix the problem or do the right thing, they're going to attempt to drive fans' anger toward their cable competitors.
Now don't get us wrong, cable companies are not angels and we've got plenty of problems with them. We just think it's completely disingenuous for satellite companies to act as if they're working completely in the interest of fans, when in reality they're pushing their own agenda.
Our source continued regarding the launch of the Sports Fan Coalition:
"Its 'soft launch' will take place in fall 2009 with a public launch and press conference coming sometime between October and December.
So far they've been keeping news of this launch under wraps, but they recently submitted a logo competition to a crowdsourcing Web site; apparently they didn't know Google's spiders would crawl it."
If you want to check out the Power Point for yourself, it has been taken down but can be accessed via Google cache here.
So basically don't believe anything coming from the Sports Fan Coalition. They're not looking out for you in any way, shape or form. While their stated purpose sounds lovely, the actual goal of the group is to get more power and access for the same satellite companies that are currently ripping off the American consumer.
A Note On Our Source: He wanted us to make it clear that while he thinks this whole thing is a sham, he does have an interest in seeing it fail and be outed for what it really is. He didn't come forward solely for altruistic reasons. And it now appears that he "leaked" this information to as many places as possible.


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I love planning but I do not love erasing and crossing out my plans or putting lots of time into a plan that's useless because it need to be changed and it's on paper. This is why I love digital calendars. When we started homeschooling, I used iCal simply to keep track of what we did because I got tired of getting to the end of the day and thinking we'd done nothing.
When I started to plan our curriculum and subjects, I changed a little how I used iCal. I would put the plan into the calendar in red and in the timeslots I figured would work. I could get a feel for if I was trying to cram too much into our day. As changes needed to be made, it was so easy to do so. If we had a field trip added, I could easily customize that day and not any others. We used to start school at 10a and when that shifted to 12p, it only took me about 20 minutes to adjust our planner. I can make events repeat and customize the repeating. All very fabulous reasons for me to use a digital calendar.
A few weeks ago I shifted to using Google Calendar instead of iCal. I did not want to do this because I don't like change. However, my son needs to learn to manage his own life and we couldn't figure out how to have iCal and Google Calendars talk and he is using Google Calendar. So I exported all my iCal calendars [each color is its own calendar] and imported them into Google Calendar. The upside of this change has been that I can share certain calendars [like family life events and his personal events] with my son. As I make changes on my calendar, it automatically updates his calendar and this means Mommy can legitimately quit reminding him of events that are on the calendar. YAY!! The ease of sharing calendars has been beautiful as my husband just started working on his Master's degree. He set up all his school deadlines on his own calendar and shared with me, and now I can plan family events around his schooling. I share certain calendars with my husband, and he's not inundated with all my personal reminders or homeschool plans.
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Software Maturity Index
(A metric in IEEE 982.1-1988, see
M = number of modules in current version
A = number of added modules in current version
C = number of changed modules in current version
D = number of deleted modules in current version compared to the previous version
More perspicuously, SMI = 1 - N/M, where M is the total number of modules in the current version of the system and N is the number of modules added, changed or deleted between the previous version and this one.
SMI can be a measurement of product stability, when SMI approaches 1.0 the product is stable. When correlated with the time it takes to complete a version of the software, you have an indication of the maintenance effort needed.
This kind of maturity seems to be different from the maturity detailed in the
. Comments? Connection? Discussion?
The maturity that the
for software is speaking about is
maturity. SMI is a metric for
A mature product is not necessarily a stable product. And this is an index of stability.
And vice versa, a stable product is not necessarily a mature product. Perhaps the metric should be called Software Stability Index? Then again, that gives other associations...
If my SMI gets "too big," I can just make smaller iterations...
Then your boss orders you to report every n:th iteration instead...
Hey. It's not in the rules that my boss can be smarter than me at manipulating statistics.
The changed, added and deleted percentages ought to be computed off the total module count of the
release, not the current one, to give a more normalized view of product changes.
However, modules don't necessarily correspond well to functionality, so what you have here is more of a code perspective of product stability. The user may get a very different picture.
You ought to define your terms when you say "maturity" and "stability", especially when you claim them to be independent concepts. In statistical process control, stability is a prerequisite for maturity, and both terms have fairly precise meanings.
But, why have this index? In particular, what do you do when it's, say, very high? Very low? Would it be more useful if correlated with quality problems in the same release? That way, you might get an idea of how fast you can develop products safely. --
Why have this index? Well, naïvely - when SMI=1.0 the product is ready for release.
Oh my, that is naïve indeed! When SMI=1.0, the product is ready for a decent Christian (oops, can't say that here anymore) burial, not release. To find out when a product is ready for release, you have to measure something different -- something about your customer. --
Perhaps it should be called the (or
) "software stagnation index". Clearly a piece of software becomes mature when everyone working on it is so hopelessly mired in confusion that they are afraid to change anything. Or, of course, when it is so flawless that there is no reason to change anything. Deciding which outcome is more likely is left as an exercise for the reader.
As someone approaching maturity myself, I resent the attempt to equate maturity with stagnation. The product is mature when it has attained in large part what was expected of it. Studying change rates can tell you something of this, but it's not the whole picture. Indeed, stagnation along the road to maturity will prevent maturity, not herald its arrival. --
Perhaps the index does apply to people. I often remind older developers that they can learn an api in a day and a language in a week, where
is defined by the community standard and isn't particularly difficult. Adult stagnation occurs when developers refuse to replace or update their own modules (skills, patterns?) and this usually happens when they see the new stuff as inferior to the old, which it may be, but that doesn't matter. --
Accepted. But perhaps
s need to moan more as they learn. Was this use of Wiki anticipated? Hasn't this brought great benefit to the industry even if it hasn't always increased
or the
One problem with C (the number of changed modules) is that determining what has really changed can't be trivially automated. Simple case in point: every year we touch nearly all of our source files to increment the Copyright period. C approaches M. This usually happens in the middle of a development cycle, so it isn't easy to take a non-scored time out. One
add a little intelligence to the "has this really changed" determination, but this is one example of many. Another example of a non-change change is when the Legal department changes the boilerplate that they want in all customer visible files. Should this cause the product's "maturity" to take a hit? --
Absolutely not, Dave. According to good accounting principles, we leave maturity index at 100 and use the copyright and boilerplate stuff to lower the developer stagnation index. And keep our fingers crossed and hope we never have to learn C#, or get a visit from
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What is
in this context? I only know that word in the
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Friday, December 13, 2013
The weather may be cooling down, but local charity Warm Feet Happy Hearts is heating up this December, getting ready for their upcoming sock donation on Christmas Day.
The organization was founded in 2010 by now 13-year-old Jordan Crabb, with a mission to keep every kids toes warm in the winter.
Their last donation of 2013 at Without Walls Ministrys Birthday Party for Jesus on Dec. 25 may be their biggest event, but it doesnt mean they havent been busy all year long with other projects.
Last January the organization was contacted by Pine Ridge Reservation, an American Indian reservation in South Dakota. In March Warm Feet Happy Hearts made a donation of socks and underwear 15,000 pairs donated by Fruit of the Loom to Pine Ridge.
In June, the group donated socks to Charleston area fire departments that were collecting supplies for the families of Oklahoma firefighters who were devastated by tornados.
The Daniel Island-based company Gildan also donated 1,000 boxes of infant socks to Warm Feet Happy Hearts, which they distributed to Trident Hospital and Summerville Medical Center in October.
Jordans mom, Shelley Gordon, also said she and other volunteers have been working toward the goal of making Warm Feet Happy Hearts a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization so they can receive financial donations and ensure the financial longevity of the group.
She said as the organization expands, they also hope to expand their reach from childrens socks the core of their mission to covering adults too.
We dont want to take the focus off of the kids because thats truly what Jordans goal is, she wants to help kids because she is a kid, but were noticing more and more theres truly a need for homeless adults, Gordon said.
As Warm Feet Happy Hearts wraps up the year, the group is making one last effort to collect as many socks as possible for their Christmas Day donation.
People wishing to participate may drop off socks at participating Chick-fil-A locations in Mount Pleasant, North Charleston, West Ashley and James Island.
The Town also agreed to make Summerville Fire Departments drop off locations from now until Dec. 23, Gordon said.
Warm Feet Happy Hearts also welcomes donations from the public through sock drives at churches, schools and businesses.
Their goal is to collect 6,000 pairs by Christmas.
For Gordon, the drives go back to the organizations founding values: I just look at this as other people being able to serve other people, truly out of the goodness of their hearts.
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Circa 1890s Baseball Badges and Belt Buckle (12)
Starting Bid - $100.00, Sold For - $580.00
Collection of eleven children's baseball badges, plus one baseball belt buckle, dating from the late nineteenth century. While many children at the turn of the century were actively taking part in our national pastime, not all could afford uniforms. One method of identifying players by team, instead of uniforms, and also making note of their position on the field, was through the use of small metal badges (1.5 x 1.75 inches), which could be pinned on the front of each player's shirt. Offered are eleven such badges from the era. Ten of the badges are identical in size and shape (shield design) and bear a crossed bats, ball-and-cap motif on the front. The name of a position, or the title of either "umpire" or "manager," is printed on the front of each badge. Each is either yellow or light blue, with illustration and type in either red, blue, or green. Included here are badges for the positions of center field (2), left field, right field, second base (2), manager (2), captain, and umpire. An additional pressed white metal badge, similar in shape but larger in size (2 x 2.25 inches), bears an embossed crossed bat-and-ball motif and the name "Captain" lettered on the front in relief. These badges are undated and it is unknown precisely when they were manufactured, but we believe they date from the 1890s. We have seen political badges of similar design and style of manufacture dating from as late as 1912, though these particular badges appear to date much earlier. If they were produced during the early 1900s, they were clearly designed in the style of the 1890s. Seven of the badges include their original pin backs, while the remaining four are missing the pin component. Each of the badges is in exceptional Very Good to Excellent condition. Included with the badges is a nineteenth-century baseball belt buckle with the initials "B.B.C." within the design of a crossed bat-and-ball motif. The pressed tin buckle (4 x 2.25 inches) is heavily worn, including scratches and abrasions. Total: 12 items (11 badges and a belt buckle). Reserve $100. Estimate $200/$400 SOLD FOR $580.00
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Doctors Told Rep. Jaime Herrera Beutler Her Baby Would Die. But a Surprising Treatment Has Made Her the First to Survive a Rare Syndrome
Shortly before that picture was made, Beutler, a Republican congresswoman, and her husband, Dan, received devastating news: Their unborn child had Potter syndrome, a prenatal condition affecting 1 in 3,000, in which neither the kidneys nor lungs develop. "The doctors said, 'It's 100 percent fatal,' " recalls Jaime. "She will either be stillborn, you'll miscarry, or she will suffocate in your arms after she's born."
Instead Abigail became the first person to survive with Potter's, a milestone that Max Muenke, chief of medical genetics at the National Human Genome Research Institute, calls "a big success—unusual and wonderful."
In her 20th week of pregnancy, however, that outcome was impossible to imagine. A lot of women, her doctor told her and Dan, "would be scheduling a termination now," says Jaime, who opposes abortion. But this wasn't a political vote; it was a deeply personal decision. "As the doctor is saying these things, I could feel her moving," says Jaime, 35. "To me, that was a sign I was not going to be the one that ends this pregnancy." Though she was barely showing, she felt she had to share her story. "I didn't want everybody saying, 'Congratulations!' while inside my heart's breaking."
When a D.C. man whose son had been diagnosed with a similar condition read an article about Beutler, he got in touch. Treatment was possible, he told her; his son was now 7. Beutler rescheduled her flight home and called the man's wife's doctor—Jessica Bienstock, a perinatologist at Johns Hopkins Hospital.
The technique seemed shockingly simple: an infusion of saline injected by a needle into the womb. In a normal pregnancy, a fetus's kidneys help produce the amniotic fluid needed for overall development and, crucially, for lungs to grow. Because Potter's babies have no kidneys, their lungs don't develop normally and they cannot breathe after birth. Saline in the amniotic sac might allow lungs to grow, but Bienstock was not optimistic. In an ultrasound, the baby's "head was misshapen, her feet looked clubbed and her chest looked small." Still, she told them to return in a week. This time "the head was shaped normally; the chest looked like it might have grown."
That hint of hope was enough. "The difference between 0 percent hope and .00001 percent hope is enormous," says Dan, 32, a law student. Jaime fit the weekly treatments around her congressional schedule, rising at 4 a.m. to drive to Baltimore and return to D.C. in time for votes, sometimes staying on the House floor until 11 p.m. She was there July 11 when, two months premature, she felt the first pains of labor.
Four days later Abigail was born at a Portland, Ore., hospital. Weighing only 2 lbs. 12 oz., she arrived with a cry—her lungs worked just fine. Jaime recalls thinking, "That's our miracle."
Abigail remained in intensive care before coming home at 5 months. She gurgles and squeals happily and, like any kid, provides her parents with plenty of opportunity to make dirty diaper jokes. Still without kidneys, she is on dialysis and will need a transplant - Dan, on leave from school, is a potential donor. (The procedure and ongoing drug therapy costs about $260,000.) Since January, Jaime has been back to work, traveling across the country. "There were days Jaime was exhausted," says Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers, a close friend. "But she was doing what she had to." Not that the new mom is complaining. Seeing Abigail "happy and growing," says Jaime, "we're so grateful. She continues to beat the odds."
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Inpharmatica sells data products, but it also wants to discover drugs. Similarly, its product catalog consists of two rather different items: Biopendium, a database product that subscribers can purchase and receive in regular updates to use at home, and Pharmacarta, a drug discovery platform that users can access only via an agreed research collaboration with the company.
This game of halves is actually a well thought-out plan. "It's our hybrid business model," explains Patrick Banks, Inpharmatica's chief financial officer.
It all began in 1998 in the lab of Janet Thornton, then-director of the Bloomsbury Centre for Structural Biology, a shared initiative between two London universities — University College and Birkbeck College. Thornton, who now heads the European Bioinformatics Institute in Cambridge, England, spun out the company from her research work in bioinformatics — particularly, the comparison of protein structures. Her algorithms, developed over several years, became the cornerstone of the database product that was launched as Biopendium in 1999.Finding That Little Bit Extra
Essentially, Biopendium picks up all the publicly available protein sequence data and all 30,000 known structures and compares them to find relationships or similarities, however distant. In 15 minutes or less, the software can check all 2.4 billion precalculated relationships within Biopendium and select the ones relevant to the question at hand. In comparison to publicly available bioinformatics packages such as BLAST or PSIBLAST, Banks says, Biopendium can typically provide an additional 30 percent of annotation. For example, public domain searches for protein kinases yield less than 800 examples; Biopendium, by contrast, comes up with 973.
For all its performance and power, Biopendium remains a product designed to be used by biologists rather than computer experts. "A biologist can learn to use it in a couple of hours," says Richard Lingard, the company's director of business development. Inpharmatica expects that the main applications will include high-throughput data analysis (such as microarray or yeast two- hybrid studies) to prioritize research projects, deep genome mining, and literature-driven identification and prioritization of target proteins.
In practical terms, clients can buy their own server and license for the Oracle Corp. database system and then run Biopendium locally. Alternatively, they can now also use the database hosted at the 2,500-CPU compute farm in England to run their Biopendium queries remotely on Inpharmatica's hardware.
Current subscribers include a small circle of biotech and drug companies that pay a subscription fee depending on the number of users within the company and receive a new update of the package every three months. The oldest and biggest customer is Pfizer Inc., which signed up in December 1999. Pfizer stores the program on a central server in Ann Arbor, Mich., letting employees around the world access it via the Web. Last July, Inpharmatica secured its first Japanese customer: Daiichi Pharmaceutical Co.Drug Discovery
While Biopendium essentially compares proteins and protein structures to each other, the company's second major product, PharmaCarta, matches proteins to small molecules. It is designed to build on the annotation afforded by Biopendium and move from there to drug discovery. Specifically, it helps to assess the "druggability" of the proteins of interest, identify the most promising drug targets, and then match them up with suitable small-molecule compounds. As the program can cross-check for unwanted interactions with other proteins, side effects that would otherwise have shown up in clinical trials can be identified much earlier and at a fraction of the cost.
A major inhouse project at Inpharmatica's Camden research center concerns the family of nuclear hormone receptors. Of the 48 members of this protein family that have been publicly described, 14 already are targets for drugs currently on the market. Using its proprietary software products, Inpharmatica identified 15 additional putative receptors and has isolated 13 of them. Considering the high proportion of drug targets among the 48 previously identified members of this family, the researchers are optimistic that one or more products can be developed against these novel targets.What Next?
In a field moving as fast as proteomics and all the other "-omics," companies must run to stay ahead. The double challenge of preserving Biopendium's 30 percent advantage over public resources and discovering drugs that make it to market will keep Inpharmatica on its toes.
In November 2001, the company launched a joint venture with Celera Genomics Group to develop a special edition of the Biopendium platform incorporating Celera's exclusive genomic data. The first issue of the Celera edition of Biopendium was launched recently.
Proprietary data of other customers can also be combined with Biopendium on request, but, as Inpharmatica Chief Information Officer Pat Leach points out, the company would aim at appending the additional calculations at the end of a normal production run (involving 500 processors over three months) to keep the costs down.
On the sales front, Banks says Inpharmatica hopes to have 10 customers for Biopendium in the next two to three years. A new Biotech edition of Biopendium should make the product accessible to smaller biotech companies, which may need to register only a few users and may prefer to use the version hosted at Inpharmatica rather than buying their own server. The intent, however, is to preserve Biopendium as a premium-priced product that can give Inpharmatica clients (and its own researchers) a crucial advantage in a cutthroat field. So far, the data and discovery business are complementing each other well, adding credibility to Inpharmatica's unusual mermaid approach. Michael Gross is a science writer in residence at the School of Crystallography, Birkbeck College, University of London. He can be contacted through his Web page at www.michaelgross.co.uk.
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Members of Congress finally introduce serious DMCA reform
Posted: May 18th, 2013 by Militant Libertarian
The Library of Congress sparked a firestorm late last year when it issued new rules that made it effectively illegal to unlock a cell phone to switch to a new wireless carrier. An online petition on the issue attracted more than 100,000 signatures and prompted a White House statement criticizing the new rule. Members of Congress sprang into action, introducing at least three bills to deal with the issue.
But copyright reform groups panned these bills. Not only did they provide only narrow and temporary relief on the cell phone unlocking issue, the groups said, but they completely ignored the underlying problem: a provision of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) that makes it a crime to "circumvent" copy protection even for lawful purposes.
New legislation sponsored by Zoe Lofgren (D-CA), Thomas Massie (R-KY), Anna Eshoo (D-CA), and Jared Polis (D-CO) takes a broader approach to the issue. In addition to explicitly legalizing cell phone unlocking, the Unlocking Technology Act of 2013 also modifies the DMCA to make clear that unlocking copy-protected content is only illegal if it's done in order to "facilitate the infringement of a copyright." If a circumvention technology is "primarily designed or produced for the purpose of facilitating noninfringing uses," that would not be a violation of copyright.
For example, Lofgren's bill would likely make it legal for consumers to rip DVDs for personal use in much the same way they've long ripped CDs. It would remove legal impediments to making versions of copyrighted works that are accessible to blind users. And it would ensure that car owners have the freedom to service their vehicles without running afoul of copyright law.


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Final Exempted Players Named for U.S. Open
The United States Golf Association (USGA) has announced that one additional player has earned a full exemption into the 2013 U.S. Open, which starts Thursday at Merion Golf Club in Ardmore, Pa., bringing the number of fully exempt players to 76. In addition, five alternates from sectional qualifying were added to complete the 156-player field.
Kyle Stanley earned an exemption based on the current Official World Golf Ranking. Stanley, who is ranked No. 60, is making his fourth U.S. Open appearance. The 25-year-old from Gig Harbor, Wash., recorded his best Open finish in 2009 when he tied for 53rd at Bethpage. Stanley qualified for the 2005 U.S. Amateur at Merion and was a member of the 2007 USA Walker Cup Team.
The USGA held six spots in the field for players who could potentially qualify by being in the current top 60 of the Official World Golf Ranking. Since Stanley was the only player to earn an exemption, five alternates from sectional qualifying made the field. They are Mike Weir, Harold Varner III, Ryan Palmer, Ryan Yip and Rikard Karlberg.
Weir, who will play in his 13th U.S. Open, was the first alternate from the Columbus, Ohio, sectional. He made an 18-foot birdie putt on the third playoff hole in qualifying to earn the spot. Weir's best finish in an Open was in 2003 when he tied for third at Olympia Fields. Varner III was the first alternate from the Rockville, Md., sectional. He currently plays on the eGolf Tour and was the 2012 Conference USA Golfer of the Year at East Carolina University. Varner is making his first Open appearance.
Ryan Palmer was the first alternate from the Dallas sectional. He will play in his fourth U.S. Open. His best finish was a tie for 11th at Congressional Country Club in 2011. Ryan Yip was the first alternate from the Springfield, Ohio, sectional. He is playing in his first Open. Yip advanced to the quarterfinals of the 2005 U.S. Amateur at Merion Golf Club.
Karlberg was the first alternate from the England sectional. A 26-year-old from Sweden, Karlberg made his lone U.S. Open appearance in 2010 at Pebble Beach Golf Links. He has won twice on the Asian Tour.
There were 111 U.S. Open local qualifying sites that led to 13 sectionals, including international sites in Japan and England on May 27. Sectional qualifying in the United States took place at 11 sites on June 3.
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Lucas Glover
Branden Grace
Bill Haas
Peter Hanson
Padraig Harrington
Russell Henley
Billy Horschel
John Huh
Fredrik Jacobson
Thongchai Jaidee
Dustin Johnson
Zach Johnson
Martin Kaymer
Matt Kuchar
Martin Laird
Paul Lawrie
Marc Leishman
Hunter Mahan
Matteo Manassero
Graeme McDowell
Rory McIlroy
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The recent re-signing of Montreal Canadiens defenseman P.K. Subban brought about a lot of respect in the hockey community for general manager Marc Bergevin.
Accounts that the two sides were far apart prior to the inking of the two-year, $5.75 million deal were even met with doubt by a large number of fans and analysts alike that the Habs could keep him. The deal, however, not only means that Subban will remain a Hab for at least the time being, but that Bergevin essentially won the standoff between him and his prized restricted free agent.
Of course, Montreal's 4-1 start and Andrei Markov's unexpected resurgence as a power-play threat probably had at least something to do with Subban rescinding many of his demands. However, most will never know just to what degree. It's one question of many Habs loyalists would likely love to ask the new GM.
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A young engineering student and his dad in Ottawa Ontario, Canada, propose a quick and effective aid for the Gulf of Mexico oil spill. This is a macro scale remedy for a macro scale oil spill.
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1. Deploy (as many as required) large 1000 ft. barges (these are readily available in Louisiana and other Gulf coast states). On these barges, situate large water/oil separation tanks.(large means hundreds of holding/separation tanks each with hundreds of thousands of gallons capacities).
This suggested remedy simply pumps oil laden water into the bottom of the tanks, the majority of the oil rises to the top of the tank and is skimmed off by large (40 ft. diameter) five spoke rotating wheels (like fans) separating the primary oil/water mix into a 70 % oil/ 30 % water mix and the mixture is then cycled through a adjacent secondary tank similarly equipped. The oil water mix is now 90 to 95% oil and 5 to 10 % water.'
2. Deploy the barges to areas of importance or where oil concentration is highest, in order to begin collection and processing of oil laden water.
3. Utilize off share drilling operations pipelines to pump the 90 - 95 % oil and the 5 to 10 % into separate holding tanks at nearby refineries for refining and safe, environmental, friendly processing. All holding tanks are located on land at participating refineries that are employed to save and refine the oil. Gulf coast states have, what, 50 % of the USA's refineries.
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NEW YORK - 76ers majority owner Joshua Harris, a guy well-acquainted with numbers and probability, knew the odds of moving up Tuesday night in the NBA draft lottery were long.
He was right.
The Sixers stayed put at No. 11 after the drawing. The Cleveland Cavaliers, who had the second-worst record in the league, beat the odds and will have the first selection in the June 27 draft.
"I came here with a small probability of being super happy and a small probability of being super sad," said Harris, a hedge-fund billionaire. "But right now I'm neither - we're right where we're supposed to be."