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But don't go looking for a somber mood at Precoa (the Preneed Company of America). The company, which markets plans that pre-plan and pre-pay funeral expenses, is on a roll and happy to share its success with employees.
Benefits are expanding during an era when many firms face painful cuts to health care and retirement plans. The break room's giant refrigerator and cupboards are stacked with free snacks and drinks that Costco delivers twice a month. Employees can burn off a few calories with games of table tennis before heading back to their desks. Monthly staff meetings come off like parties. And then there are the actual parties.
"It's probably one of the miracles of my life that I came here," said Wendy Williams, client services manager. She came to Precoa four years ago, after she had fought off cancer, but not before it robbed her bank account.
"When you find a job that takes care of you emotionally and financially and in some ways spiritually ..." she says, letting the sentence trail off with a shrug and smile. "I want to do well because they've given me so much. They truly have become an extension of my life."
Companies like to boast they value an employee's time outside the office as well as in it.
"Here, we rarely talk about work-life balance. It's a given," said Shane Malan, who works in information technology and often has his family stop by at lunchtime.
Mark Fischer works in Precoa's planning center, the company's largest department, where he spends much of his day on the telephone talking with prospective clients about what he considers the financial and stress-relieving benefits of pre-planning one's own funeral.
Fischer, who has worked as a salesman in other industries, said he feels a different sort of satisfaction working in this one. "I go home at night, I feel really good about what I did that day," he said.
"We really feel passionate about the families we're serving," said Lauren Nelson, training manager for the planning center. "We take a lot of pride in what we're doing."
Precoa works nationwide with 425 funeral homes and 500 independent contractors, known as "counselors" in the company, to sell insurance policies. The company's niche is marketing "pre-need" insurance plans, which includes identifying potential clients, setting up appointments between agents and families and providing training to local funeral homes.
Mark Hornibrook and Bret Davis, veterans of the funeral and insurance industries, co-founded the business as Lincoln Heritage Funeral Planning in 2004. They changed the name to Precoa last year after switching from Lincoln Heritage Life Insurance Co. to National Guardian Life for their funeral insurance policies.
Davis said he expects the company to sell about $135 million in insurance products this year.
As Precoa continues to grow at a 10 to 15 percent annual clip, Davis said its management team has followed the practice of sharing that success much as a family would.
For example, Precoa recently added a full match of an employee's first 1 percent contribution to the company's 401(k) plan and offered company-paid life insurance to their roster of benefits. The company already pays each full-time employee's entire premium for medical, dental and vision insurance, but when soaring costs forced Precoa to raise deductibles, the company made it up to employees by funding flexible spending accounts for full-time employees.
While the pocketbook benefits please employees, it's also the little things, like those pallets of munchies from Costco and the spontaneous grilled cheese sandwiches and tomato soup lunches that top executives have hosted. And when this year's company picnic happened to land on a 102-degree day in August, there was Davis manning the grill and Hornibrook shucking corn.
"You see the ownership of the company doing these types of things and it motivates you to put in the work and craftsmanship that you can," Malan said.
"Certainly there are decisions that we make that might not make complete and total sense from a financial standpoint," Davis said. "We feel like if we take care of our employees and treat them well, that's going to come back tenfold."
-- Eric Apalategui, Special to The Oregonian


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Psychological Factors, Stock Price Paths, and Trading Volume
Steven J. Huddart
Pennsylvania State University, University Park - Department of Accounting
Mark H. Lang
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Michelle Yetman
University of California, Davis - Graduate School of Management
March 15, 2005
AFA 2006 Boston Meetings Paper
We examine the relation between the trading volume of a stock and the past stock price trading range. Volume is strikingly higher, in both economical and statistical terms, when the current price is above (below) the previous fifty-two week high (low). Results are robust to a wide range of controls, including returns and news events. An event study shows that volume spikes in the week when price leaves the prior trading range, then gradually returns to normal levels. The results suggest that psychological factors are pervasive and strong enough to be an important determinant of equities market volume.
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Keywords: prospect theory, value function, reference point, behavioral finance
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Study: Exporting natural gas a boon to U.S.
A major new study for the U.S. Department of Energy supports controversial efforts to send natural gas to foreign nations, a conclusion that could push President Barack Obama to approve exports over the objections of some.
America's new energy bonanza is the natural gas found in shale rock -- including the Marcellus and Utica formations in Pennsylvania -- and there's a heavy push to build terminals where it can be liquefied and exported. The natural gas industry says exports will boost the economy. But opponents argue that exports will drive up prices in the United States and are bad for American consumers, manufacturers and energy security.
Foreign nations are thirsty for America's natural gas. But exports are restricted except for those countries -- mostly in North and Central America -- where the U.S. has special free-trade agreements. The federal government has approved major overseas exports so far from just one project, Cheniere Energy's 2 billion-cubic-feet-per-day project on the Gulf Coast of Louisiana.
There are more than a dozen other applications for export projects. But the government has held off on them while it awaited the results of Wednesday's study, which looked at the economic impacts of different levels of liquefied natural gas, or LNG, exports.
"Across all these scenarios, the U.S. was projected to gain net economic benefits from allowing LNG exports," said the report from NERA Economic Consulting.
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Time-Yahoo Merger Could Be the AOL Time Warner of the Teens
Time Inc. officials met with bankers to "discuss the possibility" of joining with Yahoo.By Claire Landsbaum
Time Inc. officials met with bankers to "discuss the possibility" of joining with Yahoo.By Claire Landsbaum
You ever go back and check your old MySpace account? Time Inc. does.By Samuel Lieberman
"We live in a capitalist society — not socialist."By Dayna Evans
Time Inc. and Hearst stake their claim.By Dayna Evans
The company's chief content officer calls the controversy "bullshit."By Gabriel Sherman
Whatever happened to the good old editorial-business boundaries?By Katie Zavadski
Time Inc. breaks new advertising ground before it goes public.By Joe Coscarelli
Executives on down are getting pink slips.By Adam Martin
One will have billions, one will have debt.By Joe Coscarelli
Someone who cares about magazines.By Joe Coscarelli
Negotiations with Meredith failed.By Joe Coscarelli
About 500 positions are being eliminated.By Joe Coscarelli
A lot of them.By Andre Tartar
That concludes a nine-month search.By Joe Coscarelli
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His "disruptive" management style was cited.By Julie Gerstein
Albany's working a bill that might help.By Nitasha Tiku
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Poorer mothers: poverty and anxiety link
Living in poverty can contribute markedly to anxiety disorders in mothers from poor backgrounds, new research has suggested. Published in Child and Adolescent Social Work, the study found this is likely to be a greater factor than suffering from a psychiatric disorder.
Led by Judith Baer, Associate Professor in the School of Social Work at Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, the investigation revealed there is little to suggest an internal malfunction might directly cause generalised anxiety disorders in poor mums.
Speaking about how best to treat the problems, Ms Baer stated: "While supportive therapy and parent skills-training are often helpful, sometimes the most appropriate intervention is financial aid and concrete services."
Ms Baer added the findings suggest anxiety in such women is often a reaction to extreme environmental pressures as opposed to it being a psychiatric problem.
Confirming the results of other studies, the report found the least well-off mothers are more likely to be diagnosed as having a generalised anxiety disorder than their more affluent counterparts.
Fellow of the British Psychological Society, Stephen Lea CPsychol, Emeritus Professor of Psychology at the University of Exeter, commented: "On the basis of research that we and others have done in the UK, I would support Baer et al's conclusions that poverty is more likely to be a source of psychological distress than the result of it.
"In a large-scale epidemiological survey on depression, Rachel Jenkins and her colleagues found that both poverty and debt, independently, were associated with increased risk of depression. In our research at Exeter on the psychology of debt, using both quantitative surveys and qualitatively interview techniques, we have repeatedly found that severe economic disadvantage is a source of major anxiety to people – but we have never seen any sign that it is a consequence of anxiety.
"Rather, its roots lie in low income, sometimes relationship breakdown and, often, a few bad decisions in early adult life among people who don't have family resources or good career prospects, to help them make a fresh start.
"Parents with young children are especially vulnerable, both to poverty and the anxiety it provokes, because of the great difficulty of limiting expenditure beyond a certain point when children's welfare is at stake."


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text: In the 1967 (published 1984) Des espaces autres. Hťtťrotopies, Michel Foucault already suggested that the disquiet provoked by space signaled a paradigm shift in contemporary thought. Yet while the subsequent diffusion of a spatially grounded vocabulary (contact zones, the location of culture, dislocation, or third space) attests to a ďspatial turnĒ in literary and cultural studies, it also veils the antagonism of three diverse trends: Anglo-american scholars emphasize the symbolic power of spatial representations to allow for politically engaged counter-discourse. Strict Foucauldians foreground the historically specific semiotic and mediatic constitution of a given geographical space. Others question the authority of textual paradigms for cultural studies and dwell on the incommensurability between mediatic, embodied and aesthetic experiences, and *literary* theory. We welcome proposals on topography as a form of writing space, spacial metaphor, cartographical diagram, or architectural design. Also: literary, urban and architectural utopias, models of traveling (pilgrimage, exploration, Bildung), the relationship between literature and the media, or theoretical reflections upon writing, materiality, and the transformations of space in the age of globalization.


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Honors & News
May 31, 2016
Dr. Ovitt Voted "Salivary Researcher of the Year"
Catherine Ovitt, Ph.D. has just been voted by the members of the Salivary Research Group as "Salivary Researcher of the Year"! Dr. Marit Aure, Postdoctoral Associate in the Ovitt Lab, helped contribute to this wonderful achievement.
July 2, 2014
Marit Aure, PhD, Shares 1st Place in World-Wide Dental Research Contest
Marit Aure, PhD, tied for first place for her salivary gland research.
Postdoctoral associate Marit Aure, PhD, of the Center for Oral Biology in the Eastman Institute for Oral Health and member of Catherine Ovitt's lab, tied for first place at the highly-competitive International Association for Dental Research/Johnson & Johnson Hatton Awards Competition held recently in Cape Town, South Africa.
The judges determined that the science presented by Aure and Joo-young Park, affiliated with the National Cancer Institute/National Institutes of Health, was exemplary in both projects, surpassing 36 other researchers from around the world in their category. There was no second place winner.
Aure had qualified for the international competition by earning second place in the American Association of Dental Research/Johnson & Johnson Hatton Awards Competition, held in Charlotte, North Carolina in March. For the international round of the competition, all participants were required to condense the research talk into a four-slide, 10-minute presentation to be given in front of three judges.
Telling the whole story in 10 minutes and four slides was especially challenging,said Aure, who said the poker-faced judges had some very tough questions.
My reaction to winning was a mix of surprise, excitement and joy! It feels really good to get positive feedback and exposure for the salivary research we're doing.
June 18, 2014
Five Recognized for Research Excellence
Five Eastman Institute for Oral Health professionals were recognized at this month's American Association for Dental Research's local meeting.
Thirty researchers from the Rochester area participated in oral and poster presentations covering a wide range of basic and translational science topics, such as fluoride varnish effectiveness, use of therapy dogs in pediatric dental settings and the success of implants, among many others.
Dr. Catherine E. Ovitt, Ph.D., associate professor of Biomedical Genetics in EIOH's Center for Oral Biology, delivered the keynote address,
Saving Saliva: Where do We Start?where Marit Aure, Ph.D. a Postdoctoral Associate in Dr. Ovitt's lab, won the William H. Bowen award for her poster presentation,
Mechanisms of Acinar Cell Maintenance in the Adult Salivary Gland.
Read the full article.
March 21, 2014
Marit Aure Places 2nd in the AADR/Johnson & Johnson Hatton Awards Competition.
Marit Aure, a Postdoctoral Associate from Catherine Ovitt's lab, has earned 2nd place in the AADR/Johnson & Johnson Hatton Awards Competition. She will now compete in the IADR Unilever Hatton Competition and Awards at the 92nd General Session & Exhibition of the IADR in Cape Town, South Africa, June 25-28, 2014.
Congratulations Marit!
October 1, 2013
Dr. Catherine Ovitt Accepted to the 2013 Mid-Career Women Faculty Professional Development Seminar
Dr. Catherine Ovitt has been accepted to the 2013 Mid-Career Women Faculty Professional Development Seminar to be held in Austin, TX in mid December. This three and a half-day seminar is primarily designed for women physicians and scientists holding medical school appointments at the Associate Professor level, and holding leadership positions within their discipline, department or institution. Seminar faculty members are chosen from various schools in the US and Canada for their demonstrated leadership abilities and offer knowledge, inspiration and valuable career advice to participants.
June 27, 2013
Ovitt Article Featured on NIDCR Website
Drs. Catherine Ovitt & Szilvia Arany's article,
Nanoparticle-mediated gene silencing confers radioprotection to salivary glands in vivojournal Molecular Therapy, has been featured on NIDCR website. The results of the study suggest that optimization of in vivo siRNA-mediated silencing for clinical application could be an effective means of protecting salivary glands in the radiation treatment of head and neck cancer. They also pointed out that the approach has significant advantages over alternative methods, as it is limited to the salivary glands, does not involve viruses, and the block in Pkcδ protein expression is only temporary.
September 14, 2012
Drs. Ovitt and Benoit Awarded NIH Grant
Salivary gland cells are viable encapsulated within hydrogels: A dissociated cell prep prepared from whole submandibular gland was seeded into PEG hydrogels and incubated in serum-free media. At 7 days, the hydrogels were fixed, sectioned, and immunostained for nuclei (DAPI) and keratin 5, a marker of salivary progenitor cells.
Biomedical Genetics assistant professor, Catherine Ovitt, Ph.D. and Danielle Benoit, Ph.D., assistant professor of Biomedical Engineering and Chemical Engineering, have been awarded a four year grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH), for the project, entitled Hydrogel encapsulation of salivary gland cells promotes cell survival, proliferation, and assembly.
This project deals with potential utility of adult stem or progenitor cells for repair of radiation-damaged salivary glands. While the potential is high, it is currently only a theoretical solution for patients suffering from xerostomia. There remain several critical obstacles that must be resolved before cell-based therapy for dysfunctional salivary glands can be moved into the clinical arena. These include the identification of appropriate donor cells, the technology for promoting implantation, and direct functional assays to assess the outcomes.
The goal is to determine if the use of hydrogels can promote in vivo differentiation of transplanted progenitor cells. The successful completion of this project will establish a foundation for subsequent translational research to progress the technology into clinical applications.
For more information please visit the Ovitt Lab and the Benoit Lab.
Recent Publications
- Cell-Specific Cre Strains For Genetic Manipulation in Salivary Glands.PLoS One. 11, e0146711. (2016 Jan 01).
- Salivary Glands: Stem Cells, Self-duplication, or Both?J Dent Res. 94, 1502-7. (2015 Nov 01).
- Development of poly(ethylene glycol) hydrogels for salivary gland tissue engineering applications.Tissue Eng Part A. 21, 1733-51. (2015 Jun 01).


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Can we use collaboration to solve government's big problems? | Opensource.com
Can we use collaboration to solve government's big problems?
Aneesh Chopra, the White House's chief technology officer, was at HIMMS last week talking about government as a platform for innovation. He referenced the open and transparent process that led to the Direct Project, which saw dozens of vendors, some of them competitors, working together with the ONC to establish a secure way to send health information as a possible template for bringing together stakeholders to create innovation.
"This is a new way of doing the public's business..." Chopra said. "Instead of the traditional top-down approach, it calls on stakeholders to work together in a more open and fast-moving way to achieve results. It makes government a platform for innovation by those who really know the field." — businesswire.com
So what do you think? Can we use collaboration to solve government's big problems like healthcare, education, and energy? Is it time for entrepreneurs to get in the government game?
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Open source community play a major role in innovation these days.. and they have always worked for something bigger.. and better.. my point is... that government works for country... government sector works in the same way as open source community... so collaboration is a sure shot thing! towards bigger and better!
The biggest problem governments face are politicians that think they are absolutely and completely right, regardless of the lack of evidence to support them. When we force politicians to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that their policies are correct before they implement them, then we'll have better government. Anything else is wishful thinking.


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A/N: This one is for me! :D haha
I smiled at my best friend, Naomi as I walked towards her. When I approached her, I noticed the two men beside her, Naomi's fiance, Jimmy, and his brother, Jey. Jey, who happened to be my best friend, greeted me first. I smiled up at him as he pulled me into a hug. When I slipped away and brought my attention to Jimmy, who I planned to greet next, Jey leaned down to kiss me. I became confused and without thinking, I ducked and gave him a confused look. Wondering what to do, I just turned to Jimmy, trying to put on a smile.
"H-he-hey Ji-Jimmy." I stuttered, sneaking a look at Jey again. Jey looked confused and hurt. As I hugged Jimmy, I whispered in his ear, "W-why did Jey j-just-"
Jimmy softly cut me off, giving me a smile, "You kissed him at midnight at the party last night. You don't remember?" I gave him wide eyes before sneaking a look at Jey again. He wore a forced smile as he waved at me. I turned back to Jimmy with a shocked expression.
I walked over to Naomi, planning to greet her next. As I hugged her, I looked behind her and noticed a window of opportunity. "Let's go for a walk, shall we?" I said quickly with a fake smile.
I looked over my shoulder and smiled at the boys, leaving Jey with a confused smile, and Jimmy with a glare.
"What are you doing? You have to face your problems!" I heard Naomi say protestingly to me as I pulled her towards a different hallway. When we finally stopped, she gave me a glare, "You need to talk to him! Don't run from him!"
"I panicked!" I said after a moment, looking around and thinking.
"I'll be back. Entertain yourself or something while I'm gone, but stay here." She said with a serious face as she looked around.
When she returned, she wasn't alone, she had her fiance, Jimmy with her. I sighed, knowing what was coming.
"We need to talk to you." Jimmy said with a sympathetic smile.
I rolled my eyes and sighed again. Naomi ignored my reaction and just grabbed my arm lightly. She pulled me towards and room and opened the door. I followed her inside, but the lights were off.
"Now, let's talk." Naomi said, leaving Jimmy outside.
"Okay, but turn on the ligh-" Just as I was about to finish my sentence, Naomi left and shut the door. "Is this punishment? Why are you leaving me in here all alone?" I tried to door knob, but it was locked.
"You're not alone." I heard a familiar voice say from behind me. It was Jey.
I turned around quickly, taking a gasp in from shock. I put my hand over my heart, recovering from the scare.
"I'm sorry for scaring you." He said, coming closer. He reached over me and flipped the light switch.
I looked back at the little window in the door; I could see Jimmy and Naomi, watching intently with big smiles. They both waved and I returned a glare to each of them.
Jey gave them a sarcastic smile before pulling a shade down over the window. I heard them curse as their vision of us was obstructed.
"We need to talk about the party last night." Jey started slowly, making my heart pound. I didn't want to be in this situation.
"There's nothing to talk about. I don't remember it at all." I said quickly, looking back at the door.
He touched my arm lightly to get my attention before speaking again. We were so close it made my heart pound.
"I took a risk and kissed you at midnight. You're telling me you don't remember that?" He said softly, feeling a little hurt.
I shook my head slightly, giving him a face full of sympathy. Our eyes met in silence for a moment.
"Do you want me to refresh your memory?" He said, inching closer to my face. I felt tingles along my spine as I looked up at him with wide eyes. I hadn't had a boyfriend in a long time and I wasn't sure how this was going to go. Needless to say, I was nervous.
As he leaned in and his lips got closer to mine, I said, "Jey, I don't know-" He cut me off with a kiss that only lasted a second. He pulled back and looked at me with a puzzled face, his brown eyes sparkling.
"What's wrong?" He asked quietly. He rested a hand on my arm.
"I don't want this to ruin our friendship." I said slowly, looking at the ground.
"Well, what if I said I didn't want to be friends anymore." He said seriously, making me look at him with hurt in my eyes. He quickly explained himself, "I'm crazy about you and I want to be more than friends. Let's just try it and see what happens." He said with a small smile, causing me to do the same.
I nodded, "Okay."
"Now, let's pretend it's New Years so we can do this again." He said, the serious Jey being replaced with the normal, goofy one. He grabbed me and dipped me back before giving me a huge kiss. He brought me back to my feet and said, "Happy New Year, girlfriend."
"Awwww!" We heard Naomi and Jimmy say from the door.
We both laughed and walked to the door hand in hand. He opened it slowly, waiting for his brother and soon-to-be sister in law's reactions. They beamed and smiled at us before high fiving each other.
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I Can Smell ItDon't tell me your my friend cause that's what you think I want to hear.
Don't act like you give a s h i t when you really don't even care.
Don't p i s s on me and tell me its rain
Don't BS and lie and game and pretend.
I really don't care if I see you again.
I need smoke blown up my a s s like I need a hole in the head.
You're a good argument for abortion you should be dead.
I don't need anyone to act like they like me.
I don't want your approval so just BITE me.
Quit trying to act like you got it when you really don't
Just be who you are tell it like it is and shoot me straight.
Or walk on by me, leave me be, I have no time for hate.
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I was almost afraid to come in....but ya know something? Ya don't scare Mmmmme! Ya told it like it is and that's the best way to be! I like that......Very well said.


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Burke Street students dance to better health
May 3, 2013
MARTINSBURG — Burke Street Elementary School students were part of a special worldwide wave Thursday morning, when they joined other youngsters — from across the nation and more than 50 foreign......
As a parent of a Burke Street student I am proud of all the hard work and effort the entire staff puts into these kids. Shame on you for judging a situation you most likely know nothing about. The program was awesome and highly motivating to my child. Keep doing what you are doing Burke Street!
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Budget surplus, 88 cent gas, the Big Three, Clinton and Lewinsky, walking someone all the way to the gate at the airport…from whence we came.
Ten years ago, before this current recession, before gas skyrocketed to almost $4 a gallon, before the collapse and restructuring of General Motors and Chrysler, before the controversial presidential elections in 2000 and 2004, and the historic election in 2008, before 9/11. We were on the cusp of a new century, a new dawn. We knew what was behind us, but no one could predict all that was before us over these next ten years.
Here we stand poised and positioned to close the chapter on the first decade of the 2000s and enter into the next. What have we learned? What will we do differently and what will we repeat?
Hopefully we have learned that we need each other. As this great city of our goes, so does the rest of the state. A decline in the manufacturing sector, record foreclosures, a shaky educational system, unspeakable youth violence, above-the-law politicians don't just have adverse impacts on Detroit but on our entire state.
These defining moments of the past decade have laid the groundwork for us all to do better. Do better for our neighborhoods, for our city, for our state, for our children, for ourselves. These defining moments should give us hope because no matter how challenged, we are still here. We have an opportunity each and every day to make a positive impact and change.
A great opportunity for me to make a positive impact and change what happened ten years ago was the birth of the FrontPage. It was a dream and a vision that Sam Logan, publisher of the Michigan Chronicle, and I had for young people to be informed and connected to what's gong on around them. From its inception I have worked tirelessly to make sure that young people under 40 were informed, educated and had a voice about the topics and issues that affect them most.
The FrontPage helped me to give back to the community in ways I couldn't have imagined. I am excited about the future and limitless possibilities for this publication. Those who serve in leadership positions in any organization know that for any organization to survive and thrive, those in charge must leave a legacy and an opportunity for someone else to assume the mantle of leadership and push it to new heights.
From whence I came in the newspaper business for over 30 years, it is time for a new journey, a new era to begin for myself but also for the FrontPage. As we welcome in a new year, let us all welcome in new opportunities, new ideas and new challenges. And hopefully when we look back in 2019 we will see a decade of progress and growth no matter what has come our way.


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Essar Steel Algoma is offering voluntary retirement to the most senior of its 3,500 employees at its Sault Ste. Marie plate and sheet mill.
The privately-owned parent company wants to avoid massive layoffs after the global financial crisis suddenly dried up the company's order book.
Employees were notified this fall of possibly layoffs but the voluntary incentive program is being offered for a limited time and will be capped at 200. The company said the program is designed to protect its most junior workers.
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West Virginia Wesleyan College is pleased to announce the academic achievements of this year's PROMISE Scholars who plan to attend the college.
Ninety-five students from all over the state will earn tuition and fees up to $4,750 at approved two-year and four-year colleges and universities in West Virginia.
This year marks the 10th anniversary of the program, which was launched in 2002 under the leadership of former Gov. Bob Wise, former state Sen. Lloyd Jackson II and Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin, who previously served as Senate president. Since the program's creation, more than 32,000 students have been awarded the scholarship, and more than $315 million has been provided to help West Virginians attend college.
Tomblin said those funds represent a valuable investment in our state.
"Ten years ago, West Virginia made a promise to its young people: if you work hard, earn good grades and fully commit to pursuing a college education in our state, we will help you pay for a college education. That promise is paying off today for students and their families - but more important for our state. Research shows that receiving the PROMISE Scholarship helps ensure that our students graduate from college, because the program requires students to maintain a high grade point average and take a rigorous course load," Tomblin said. "Additionally, more than 60 percent of PROMISE Scholars work in state after graduation. To meet work force demands and grow our economy, West Virginia needs additional qualified college graduates. The PROMISE Scholarship is a valuable tool in helping keep young, bright West Virginians active in our local communities and across our great state."
To receive the PROMISE Scholarship, students must obtain a grade point average of 3.0 or higher, an overall ACT score of 22 and a score of at least 20 in each of four ACT subject areas.
The following students were awarded the PROMISE Scholarship this year:
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In a matchup of potential playoff teams, the Chicago Bulls triumphed over the Utah Jazz by a score of 89-88. The game was not decided until the final possession, when Jimmy Butler hauled in a rebound off a Gordon Hayward miss.
With the win, Chicago improved to 35-27 on the season and is four games behind the Indiana Pacers in the Central Division.
Entering the game, the Bulls were trying to avoid their first three-game losing streak since November.
Chicago played without Derrick Rose, as the Memphis product is waiting until he is 100 percent healthy both mentally and physically to make his return.
Al Jefferson returned to game action against the Bulls, as the talented center missed Utah's last three games due to an ankle injury. Joakim Noah struggled to contain Jefferson and was in serious foul trouble for the majority of the game.
Chicago was overzealous on defense at times, as the Jazz found success employing the pump fake to free up open looks.
The Jazz have been terrible on the road this season, as evidenced by the 10-21 road record they brought into the game. The United Center hasn't been much of an advantage for the Bulls this season, with the team compiling a 18-14 record after Friday night's result.
With Kirk Hinrich, Richard Hamilton and Taj Gibson missing the game due to injury, the Bulls were forced to use a limited rotation. The starters were worked even harder Friday night, as every starter had logged over 30 minutes by the end of the third quarter.
The Bulls played great defense down the stretch in order to win the game, although, a clutch three-pointer from Marco Belinelli certainly didn't hurt the winning effort.
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Appendix invertus, a surgically inverted appendix, is a result of a type of appendicectomy, where the appendix is inverted into the cecum. Historically, some surgeons used the technique of inversion-ligation appendectomy to theoretically reduce the risk of peritoneal contamination in the setting of acute appendicitis.1- 4 This technique has also been used for incidental appendectomy performed during laparotomy for unrelated problems. The resultant appendiceal stump usually necroses and sloughs into the colonic lumen after several days, but remnant tissue may persist in some patients. Currently, the inversion-ligation technique is rarely used during an open or laparoscopic procedure. Many adults currently presenting for screening colonoscopy have undergone appendectomy decades earlier when this procedure was common practice. It is likely that our patient underwent appendectomy using the inversion-ligation technique; however, we were unable to confirm it because of the lack of an available operative record.
Inverted appendix does not cause any symptoms but may cause differential diagnostic problems when examining pictures from a large-bowel radiography examination or on colonoscopy.5 Sometimes the appendicular stump resembles a polyp at the appendiceal orifice in patients postappendectomy, usually with purse-string suture. The most common appearance of the inverted appendiceal stump consists of a raised prominence at the cecal tip. In less prominent cases, correlating this finding with the patient's history of appendectomy allows confident diagnosis. The postoperative appearance at the appendiceal orifice, however, can be quite variable. The appendiceal stump may be enlarged by postoperative hemorrhage or by stump appendicitis. The entire cecal tip may also become flattened as a result of surgery in this area.
Other than resulting from surgery, an inverted appendix can be congenital or due to an intussusception associated with diseases such as appendix tumors, mucocele, fecalith, or worms. Our patient was asymptomatic, suggesting intussusception as an unlikely cause. In our patient, an attempt was made to reduce the appendix but was unsuccessful, likely because of the ligation after inversion. High-resolution narrow-band imaging is a technologically advanced method of endoscopic imaging that can help differentiate neoplastic and non-neoplastic lesions by revealing their characteristic surface vascular pattern.6 It showed normal mucosa in our patient and thus excluded mucosa-based neoplasm. Additionally, the characteristic location and endoscopic appearance of the lesion and the surgical history of the patient were considered to be most compatible with an inverted appendiceal stump. No further therapeutic intervention is necessary when the diagnosis is convincing.
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PARIS (AP) -- France coach Didier Deschamps has called up Lyon forward Alexandre Lacazette to replace the injured Olivier Giroud for matches against Spain and Serbia next month.
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"Too much of the GDP over the last generation has gone to too few of the people," Lloyd Blankfein said this morning in an interview with CBS.
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Blankfein himself is firmly a beneficiary of one of the drivers of the yawning gap between the richest and everyone else: high executive compensation. Blankfein earned $23 million for his service as Goldman's CEO and chairman in 2013, making him the highest paid chief executive at any U.S. megabank. In a securities filing, the compensation committee of Goldman's board said that Blankfein "continued to demonstrate impressive leadership," and "successfully navigated the competitive landscape this past year, driving our commercial performance."
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1975 Carlton Fisk Boston Red Sox Signed Game-Used Home Jersey
Starting Bid - $1,000.00, Sold For - $5,800.00
Dating from the pennant winning season of 1975, this white knit jersey is lettered "Red Sox" across the front and features Fisk's number "27" on the reverse. All letters and numbers are appliquéd in red on blue twill. A Massachusetts Bicentennial patch appears on the left sleeve. Situated on the front tail, all adjacent to each other, are a "McAuliffe" label; a "43" size tag; a "1975" year tag and a wash tag. Original and unaltered, the jersey displays light wear. Fisk has signed the jersey in blue Sharpie ("9") on the right breast. The 1975 season began on a sour note for Fisk, as he injured his shoulder during spring training and missed the first third of the season. Returning to the lineup in June, he quickly made up for lost time, batting at a torrid .331 clip for the remainder of the season and leading the Red Sox to their first pennant in eight years. Although the World Series against the Reds was punctuated by spectacular plays and memorable moments, it was Fisk who "stole the show." His dramatic game-winning home run in the 12th inning of Game Six remains not only one of the most unforgettable moments in baseball history but the defining moment of his career as well. "Pudge" eventually retired in 1993 as the all-time record holder in games caught (2,226) and for home runs as a catcher (376, since surpassed by Mike Piazza). He was elected to the Hall of Fame in 2000. Graded A8 by Mears. LOAs from Dave Bushing & Troy Kinunen/MEARS and James Spence/JSA and Steve Grad, Mike Gutierrez & Zach Rullo/PSA DNA. Reserve $1,000. Estimate $2,000/$4,000. SOLD FOR $5,800.00
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The stretch leads through the high valley of Upper Valais presenting original little villages and amazingly picturesque natural scenery. Besides more tranquil water stretches, the tour offers some more challenging passages in which everyone should pull their weight!
River: young Rhone
River: young Rhone
Stretch: Oberwald – Gluringen, 14 km
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More Tegra K1 benchmarks confirm it's the fastest mobile chipset, Apple A7 and Snapdragon 800 kneel again
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1. PapaSmurf (Posts: 10456; Member since: 14 May 2012)
If this chip comes equipted with LTE, I seriously hope Samsung uses it for the Note 4.
8. ihavenoname (Posts: 1693; Member since: 18 Aug 2013)
There will maybe be even better processors when it's coming, but this really seems excellent.
20. PapaSmurf (Posts: 10456; Member since: 14 May 2012)
Doubt anything will top the Tegra 5. The closest thing to match it would be the A8, which in theory when it's 2x faster than the A7, it will match the power GPU wise but not CPU wise - even though iOS 7/8 won't need it.
36. ocilfa (Posts: 334; Member since: 03 Aug 2012)
You've got that mixed up. The CPU on the Tegra 5 is somewhat average, while the GPU is whats unmatched so far. Project Denver is when the K1's CPU will be improved.
49. a_merryman (Posts: 749; Member since: 14 Dec 2011)
Yeah, I can't wait to see what the Denver version of this chip can do when it gets released in the 2H of the year.
11. renz4 (Posts: 317; Member since: 10 Aug 2013)
no integrated LTE for sure.
19. PapaSmurf (Posts: 10456; Member since: 14 May 2012)
Same was said about the Exynos 4 series but Samsung integrated LTE for the Note 2.
Comment invalid.
23. renz4 (Posts: 317; Member since: 10 Aug 2013)
if nvidia integrate LTE into Tegra K1 they will said it. but last i heard for K1 still need separate chip for modem and OEM can choose to bundle K1 with their i500 if they want to. not sure if nvidia will coming up with something similar to tegra 4i with K1. maybe we will know more in the upcoming MWC
29. PapaSmurf (Posts: 10456; Member since: 14 May 2012)
I can't wait for MWC. If NVIDIA wants market share, they'd integrate LTE considering the world is now pushing for LTE instead of 3G.
46. renz4 (Posts: 317; Member since: 10 Aug 2013)
IMO if nvidia really want market share they should do what qualcomm or mediatek has been doing. make chip for different performance segment (entry level/mid range/ high end) based on your newest tech and don't just hope your last year best SoC to automatically fill the lower performance segment once you came out with your latest flagship. it doesn't have to be many but at least try to cater for each of this performance segment.
37. Dr.Phil (Posts: 1175; Member since: 14 Feb 2011)
It's not very likely that Samsung would use the Tegra K1 for any of their flagship series (or any of their phones for that matter). However, it is possible that you could see Samsung or even LG (a company that is also developing it's own mobile chipset) use the Kepler technology for their GPU. nVidia did announce last year that they would be licensing out their Kepler technology to those interested in wanting to use it.
48. zhiae (unregistered)
i wish it cames with htc one+
2. aayupanday (Posts: 574; Member since: 28 Jun 2012)
I Doubt any GPU will beat that 192 core Kepler this year or even another half..
4. ardent1 (Posts: 2000; Member since: 16 Apr 2011)
We will find out in Sept. when Apple unleashes it's A8 chip.
16. true1984 (Posts: 823; Member since: 23 May 2012)
i'm skeptical since they said the same thing about the tegra 3's 12 core gpu and that was terrible.
21. PapaSmurf (Posts: 10456; Member since: 14 May 2012)
But the Tegra 4 "72 core" GPU is on par with PowerVR G6630.
40. Extradite (banned) (Posts: 316; Member since: 30 Dec 2013)
I like that, what you just said there Papsmurf
The mighty PVR6630 GPU is immense, and that's only clocked at standard 476Mhz, if overclocked to 700Mhz could you imagine a Phones GPU giving you 300Gigaflops. That's twice the power off Adreno420
44. grahaman27 (Posts: 361; Member since: 05 Apr 2013)
The tegra 3 had a 12 core GPU that wasn't as good as the ipad retina that was out at the time. Now its twice as good.
3. IliyaBeshkov (Posts: 261; Member since: 09 Jul 2012)
In GFXBench 2.7 does it run in native 4K resolusion or downscaled to 1080p? Because in the onscreen test it doesn't performs quite well..
6. renz4 (Posts: 317; Member since: 10 Aug 2013)
for the off screen test were running on native res
31. nokia12 (Posts: 486; Member since: 19 Nov 2013)
the offscreen test runs at 1080p fixed for all gpu.. this allows for fair comparison of raw power of gpu..
the.onscreen test runs at native resolution I.e 4k in this case and hrnce poor performance in onscreen
5. apurb.lal (Posts: 13; Member since: 17 Oct 2013)
Everybody knows that Nvivia is a highly capable chipmaker.. It was about time that they caught with are mobile soc makers... The performance is just awesome , have to see how is their power efficacy.. They seem to be all prepared for 2014 except for 64bit processing.
9. renz4 (Posts: 317; Member since: 10 Aug 2013)
most likely they will be the first with high end 64 bit SoC as well. the first sample of K1 with denver core just coming out late/early this year and nvidia expect device based on it will appear in second half of this year. (the are already rumor about next Surface (for ARM) will use Tegra K1 with denver core variant)
15. sipha (Posts: 434; Member since: 12 May 2012)
They clearly dont need 64 bit!!
7. PootisMan (Posts: 250; Member since: 02 Aug 2013)
What about the new snapdragon 805?
10. renz4 (Posts: 317; Member since: 10 Aug 2013)
this benchmark is based on lenovo device that were shown during CES (it's the only company showing real device with tegra K1 apart from nvidia prototype 7 inch tablet - and it was surprise that lenovo let tom's hardware bench them).
maybe we will see numbers for snapdragon 805 in MWC
41. Extradite (banned) (Posts: 316; Member since: 30 Dec 2013)
S805 is just an overclocked S800 by 200Ghz and 40% more GPU power, which the S800 gives 130Gigaflops, X40% = 170Gigaflops..
12. superduper (Posts: 151; Member since: 20 Oct 2013)
The scores are good, but the Tegra K1 is still just a prototype and will remain out of reach for at least half a year. The A7 and Snapdragon 800 are fully functional in tens of millions of devices today.
17. sprockkets (Posts: 1611; Member since: 16 Jan 2012)
The current Tegra 4 can match and sometimes exceed the A7 already.
18. Shubham412302 (Posts: 431; Member since: 09 Nov 2011)
the one based on a15 will be available 1st half and the one based on denver will be available in second half
33. superduper (Posts: 151; Member since: 20 Oct 2013)
Denver won't be available for at least a year. Tablets with the A15 Tegra might be on the market sometime around mid-2014.
35. sprockkets (Posts: 1611; Member since: 16 Jan 2012)
tegra 4 is a15 already, with the surface 2, tegra note and various transformers using it. K1 is an further updated a15 for less power with the new gpu, and denver is nvidia's first custom made armv8 cores soc.
25. renz4 (Posts: 317; Member since: 10 Aug 2013)
Tegra K1 is nvidia top chip for 2014. it will compete with apple/qualcomm 2014 chip. but right now there is no real device with such processor available so they need to at least compare it to last year best chip
13. zunaidahmed (Posts: 812; Member since: 24 Dec 2011)
a product that is not even out on the market is useless, tegra 4 was one of the earliest to be announced but it came to the market last, so it's freaking useless. Let's hope tegra K1 doesn't make the same mistake.
14. troutsy (Posts: 311; Member since: 17 Feb 2012)
And it's official, the Nexus 5 is now a mid-range device.
22. PapaSmurf (Posts: 10456; Member since: 14 May 2012)
If you honestly believe that, you should go see a doctor immediately.
24. jellmoo (Posts: 1595; Member since: 31 Oct 2011)
Because of a chip that isn't available, and won't be for 6 months or more? Explain how that works.
50. a_merryman (Posts: 749; Member since: 14 Dec 2011)
The version of the chip tested in this article is already available to oems. The product used in this test is a real product that will be going on sale soon. You're thinking of the 64-bit Denver version that will ship in the second half.
That said, the Nexus 5 is still not mid-range by any sense of the word.
26. terabyteRouser (Posts: 457; Member since: 18 Oct 2011)
Graphics are not that important on these devices, unless all you do is play games.
They should be focused on increased IO speed with the persistent storage. Possibly increasing bus speeds and using DDR3 memory. That will improve overall snappiness.
30. PapaSmurf (Posts: 10456; Member since: 14 May 2012)
I don't think you paid attention to their announcement on the K1.....
32. terabyteRouser (Posts: 457; Member since: 18 Oct 2011)
What does that have to do with what I stated?
38. sprockkets (Posts: 1611; Member since: 16 Jan 2012)
The fact that they already are using DDR3? Bus speeds are irrelevant with SoCs.
39. Extradite (banned) (Posts: 316; Member since: 30 Dec 2013)
That you are old and like, prefer 2years old specs.
Live life in the fast lane. Power in reserve won't harm or destroy you.
Game companies have the graphics, but it's the Oems and that are behind in life buy 3 years off Tech.
The A15 has been out for a year know. Oems are finding these CPUs expensive to stock it in there devices. They rely on old A9s yet still in 2014. Lmfao.
These A15s are on par with iNtel i3 chips.... If processed at 18Nm, not 28Nm
42. terabyteRouser (Posts: 457; Member since: 18 Oct 2011)
Man you guys really aren't that bright when it comes to understanding points being made.
Something should be said about imperceptibility. It's called the law of diminishing returns. If your graphics speed is at a point where you won't notice any major positive gains for your daily workflow, it maybe more worthwhile to invest that R&D in something that will improve the overall experience noticably.
IO speed will be your largest bottleneck when using your devices daily. I.E. opening your phone, launching Gmail, opening YouTube etc. Not 192 GPUs.
Not all smartphones use DDR3 yet, some do but that being a standard will have more of an impact that some silly GPUs.
The major reason why I mentioned this is because, these charts try to make the other processors appear inadequate when in reality they may perform better than the K1 on normal daily usage patterns.
47. renz4 (Posts: 317; Member since: 10 Aug 2013)
nvidia improving their mobile graphic is the right thing for them to do. nvidia a is graphic company first before anything else. also they intend to licence this mobile kepler so they must show why it is right to choose their tech over others. one way to show it by showing it's graphical prowess.
27. bucky (Posts: 2582; Member since: 30 Sep 2009)
Battery vs performance is all I look at for processors. The current crop of chips are plenty fast
45. grahaman27 (Posts: 361; Member since: 05 Apr 2013)
Tegra k1 has the most efficient GPU... Idk about cpu
28. npaladin2000 (Posts: 165; Member since: 06 Nov 2011)
Speed isn't everything. I notice they're not bragging about power efficiency or potential battery gains. Which means it might be OK for tablets and embedded devices (SmartTVs running Android maybe, hey, built in game system!) but it's not going to have any impact on Qualcomm's utter dominance of the mobile phone space.
34. c.hack (Posts: 609; Member since: 09 Dec 2009)
I had Tegras in my Acer Iconia and 1st gen Nexus 7. They advertise how fast they are but in practice they are slooow. By the time this chip actually rolls out it will be eclipsed by other chips that are also in development.
Tegras over-promise and under-perform.
43. Evil_SaNz (Posts: 259; Member since: 20 Oct 2011)
Let's hope it's good for real, Haswell-level graphics at ~5W (they say 1.5X perf/Watt VS A7) sounds impressive. It means playing your favorite PC games of 1-2 years ago at low detail on a tablet. OpenGL 4.4, DX11 and CUDA support says it all :)


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Ok I think Im on to something here but I'm not sure and need an objective opinion. Been primal/paleo for about a year. Going strong, but still dealing with sugar cravings. I'm thinking it's my job but idk. I'm a retail store manager, I work around 60 hrs a week-10 hrs a day x 6 days. Im in constant movement all day. I throw stock(stocking shelves and everything involved) and I do so at a VERY high rate of speed in short bursts. That is about 3 days a week. The rest of the week is lighter lifting and moving but it's constant over the whole day. I am very strict with my eating bc I have multiple allergies. So besides the obvious non primal offenders, I exclude fruit and most nuts. So I am on the lowest end of the carb curve. Ok! I'm wondering if my sugar cravings, which I do indulge in and last no more than a couple days out of every two weeks or so, are due to my job. I don't have time or energy really to exercise much outside of work besides some yoga and pull ups which I love. I weigh around 125 on a 5 ft 8 frame which puts my body fat at around a 6 or 7. Does this add up to anyone? I wonder if I just added in some more potatoes each day if this would curb the cravings. I really just dont feel well afterwards. Oh and my sleep is okay, I track it on my iPhone and average 7.5 hrs a night everynignt.
My diet is about 75% fat.
Thanks for the link though, thats one Eades article I haven't read.
Listen to the Kurt Harris interview on Robb Wolf's podcast a few weeks ago. He talks about this very issue- being borderline ketogenic, lean and active. Except he wasn't experiencing sugar cravings, but low energy and having difficulty keeping weight on. In his n=1 experement he started eating a bowl of rice crispies for breakfast and his energy returned marketably. The consensus seemed to be we run well on fat OR starch as fuels, and if you're not metabolically deranged and insulin resistant STARCH is not the enemy, fructose, gluten and industrial seed oils, yes.
But starchy tubers and white rice? Not really.
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I agree, up the carbs a bit (potatoes, white rice, sweet potatoes, whatever paleo-friendly carbs work for you).
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Thanks for the help guys. Kurt Harris is indeed quite awesome. That podcast was great too. I know he had been experimenting with his carb level but I haven't had time to catch up with him yet. I actually had a baked potato with lots of butter today with my steak at lunch and I do feel much better. No cravings. I'm doing the same tomorrow but with catfish and I have a TON of work to do and it'll probably last around 15 hrs so we will see how that works out. I was never carbophobic but maybe I was a bit too Nazi about macronutrients. Lol


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