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stem cell research is our way to a cure??
ive been reading the latest news everyday on stem cell research and it looks like this will be the way to get the virus under control and out of our bodies! theres a rumor going around in the hiv news that a pill that you can buy from germany which would cost us close to $1000.00 dollars for it is the cure to the infection? ive done some research on german science and they are way ahead of the game infact ive seen and noticed that as soon as a company finds the correct cure there stocks will break many records for others wanting it! the cure is going to make someone very rich and all of us better!!!! ;D :D ;D :D ;D 8)
I definitely subscribe to the optimistic and, hopefully, realistic view that with all the exciting new treatments presently being researched, there will be a cure or at least a definitive treatment within our lifetime.Having said that, I would suggest that the results of your internet searches sound dubious to me and it would be better if you cited sources or, at least, provided links before posting information like this.
Boston is right, please be more precise Lovelife Jacques
I think you are refering to Dr Rath? he is now in court for Fraud!!! His pills can't cure him even ;)Pill king on German fraud rap23/07/2006 22:43 - (SA) Cape Town - Controversial doctor Matthias Rath, the German who says his vitamin pills can cure HIV/Aids and who encourages South Africans not to use antiretroviral drugs, has appeared in a Hamburg court on a charge of fraud. He is being held responsible for the death of a nine-year-old boy who had osteosarcoma. The British Medical Journal reported on its website that Rath allegedly convinced the boy's parents to use his vitamin pills, rather than follow conventional medical routes. Dominik Feld's parents stopped his chemotherapy early in 2004 and chose to give him Rath's vitamin pills. Dominik died in November 2004. Sipho Mthathi of South African Aids activist group, the Treatment Action Campaign (TAC), said they hoped the court case in Germany would encourage South Africans, influenced into using Rath's alternative medicines rather than tested antiretroviral drugs, to institute legal action, as well. Government sending 'wrong message' Mthathi said: "I think the reason why family of people who have HIV/Aids in South Africa haven't taken legal action against Rath is because there's so much confusion in South Africa about drugs available for treating Aids. "The message the government sends by supporting Rath's pills in the struggle to eradicate Aids also tells South Africans they can use them." TAC instituted legal action against Rath last year, trying to stop him from saying his vitamin pills were more effective than antiretroviral drugs for people with Aids. The case is continuing. The department of health's PRO, Charity Bhengu, said the department had no comment about the court case and had nothing to do with the case in Germany.
Lovelife, I am sorry about your recent diagnosis. I understand you initial desperation is driving you crazy to find any news about a cure. But you must not believe all the scams on the internet. Trust your Dr. an the people from this site. Some of them with HIV for more than 20 years. If there was a cure, your Dr. or the people in these forums would´t hide it form you.There is now cure today. I am sure there will be a cure someday and I hope we can all see it in our lifetime. But it has not happened yet.
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Hi. I am trying to fit a linear model Y= m*X. I wanted to get T test p values for individual regression coefficients. I have seen that the function regstat does provide the T test p values. The problem is that while performing regression , regstat adds a column of ones by itself to the feature set (X). I do not plan to include the column of ones as my model is simple Y=m*X instead of Y=m*X + c. Is there any way or any function I could use to compute the T test p values without including a column of ones in the feature set.
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Hi. So I found a solution. There is this library posted by someone http://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange/26169-regstats2
It is an improved version of original regstats function in matlab and also allows p values of coefficient for regression with intercept term.
If you look at "help regstats" you will see that the default model is 'linear' and this includes the constant. But you will also see that there's a way to specify the terms you want directly. An identity matrix will provide what you need. Admittedly this is obscure, but try this:
>> x = rand(20,3); >> y = x*[1;-2;3] + randn(20,1)/100; >> s = regstats(y,x,'linear'); s.beta' ans = 0.0117 0.9907 -2.0019 2.9866 >> s = regstats(y,x,eye(3)); s.beta' ans = 0.9982 -1.9984 2.9977
I show the coefficient estimates, but the t statistics and p-values are in there as well.
If you have a recent release of MATLAB, consider
I believe you could use the function nlinfit() from the Statistics Toolbox to do this.
Here is an example of the function:
% Here is an example of using nlinfit(). For simplicity, none of % of the fitted parameters are actually nonlinear!
% Define the data to be fit x=(0:1:10)'; % Explanatory variable y = 5 + 3*x + 7*x.^2; % Response variable (if response were perfect) y = y + 2*randn((size(x)));% Add some noise to response variable
% Define function that will be used to fit data % (F is a vector of fitting parameters) f = @(F,x) F(1) + F(2).*x + F(3).*x.^2; F_fitted = nlinfit(x,y,f,[1 1 1]);
% Display fitted coefficients disp(['F = ',num2str(F_fitted)])
% Plot the data and fit figure plot(x,y,'*',x,f(F_fitted,x),'g'); legend('data','fit')
My example only uses one explanatory variable, and does have an intercept term, but you should be able to adapt it to your model.
Hi. Thanks for the answer. I actually am interested in getting the t-test P values of the coefficients as returned by REGSTATS function in form of stats.tstat
For your future reference, this "answer" would have been better placed as a comment on my answer.
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Despite talks of an early economic recovery, CEOs still believe the competitive environment triggered by the onset of the recession is impacting the growth prospects of their companies and is a biggest challenge facing them at the moment. According to a CEO survey by Frost & Sullivan, majority of the CEOs believe growth is their top priority and to achieve the growth, sales have to be stepped up.
The third annual survey by Frost & Sullivan, a San Antonio, Texas based business research firm, revealed that CEOs feel competitive environments pose largest challenge to growth and that the recession is greatly impacting the growth prospects of their companies.
The survey which assessed the responses from CEOs on growth plans, organizational abilities, management development, external and internal corporate challenges, media perceptions, and corporate reputation to CEOs, Presidents, and Chairpersons, found that 60 percent of respondents consider growth as their top objective – down from 84 percent in 2008 – followed by vision strategy and innovation. Surprisingly, CEOs rate employee satisfaction and shareholder satisfaction as the lowest growth objectives.
When asked how they would achieve the coveted growth, CEOs had varied ideas, with majority of them seeing sales as the crucial tool to bolster the company growth. About 45 percent of CEOs reported increase in sales to be the number one projected growth strategy, followed by strategic partnering (40 percent) and product development (34 percent) which also are instrumental in achieving the desired growth, the CEOs said.
Additionally, customer strategies and geographic expansion have also been utilized by nearly one third of CEOs (both 29 percent). For its second consecutive year, the least successful growth strategy appears to be growth outsourcing (5 percent), the survey report pointed out.
"The numbers are clear," explains Tonya Fowler, Global Director with Frost & Sullivan's Customer Research Team. "Consistent with last years results, CEOs remain committed to growth and will utilize a combination of strategies to achieve this goal," Fowler said in a media release.
Interestingly, Dennis Sommer, sales guru also believes increasing sales drive the growth of a company. However, he says, CEOs looking to increase sales, profit margins and drive new business growth should pull themselves out of the day to day issues and concentrate on core areas of business.
"When times get tough, CEO's spend more time in the details of the business. By doing this, CEOs lose sight of what is most important, focusing on how to improve business performance in a changing competitive environment," Sommer noted in his article with SalesHQ, an online community for sales professionals.
Sommer, founder and CEO of Executive Business Advisers, a Columbus, Ohio based business and management consulting firm prescribes a five point formula to achieve growth by focusing marketing dollars on value and not on brand. "Focusing your time and money on "brand marketing" may boost your brand recognition but it doesn't generate revenues," he remarks.
"Showing customers what value your product or service provides will generate top line sales revenue. Spend more on such marketing campaigns which gives your customer first hand information on your products value," reiterates Sommer.
Additionally, a joint survey by the Inside Indiana Business, Ice Miller, and the Butler University College of Business also found that 58 percent of the surveyed CEOs consider sales and business development to be the most crucial areas for them to concentrate.
"CEOs responded somewhat intuitively that sales & business development functions would be two of the most important executive level functions that would help them in executing successfully post economic recovery. Somewhat less intuitively, the third most important functional area ranked was product development," the Butler University survey noted.
Meantime, corroborating the Butler University study, the Frost & Sullivan report recorded largest decline of CEO confidence in launching new products (31 percent), down 22 points from 2008 (53 percent).
Marred by current economic conditions, CEOs appeared less confident in their organizations' ability to conduct core growth strategies. The most prominent external challenge to CEOs is the economic recession (65 percent), up 17 percentage points from 2008 (48 percent). All other external challenges appear to have become afterthoughts – becoming less important in just a short period of time, the Frost & Sullivan report observed.


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Emmyilynn Grace vs. Marisa Jane vs. Madelynn Avery
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There's something to said about using common/original spellings of names...
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How in the heck do you even pronounce Emmyilynn? It looks terrible, don't do that to your kid
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I love it! . . . .I think it's a great track – a very good drive. It's got elevation, which is always great. It's going to take a lot of laps by a lot of people here to get a rhythm going, because it's [a difficult] track. Which is good, because you don't want to have an easy track. It's challenging, and that's what makes it fun. … The track requires driving skills for sure.Arie Luyendyk, Sr., Two time Indy 500 Winner
Exhilarating . . . .four or five "brave corners." It's going to take people a while to learn it. Really enjoyed driving it. A really nice job conforming to contours of the land. Great places for faster cars to pass slower cars. But also lots of chances for little cars to catch up to bigger cars.. . . . If you're into trail braking, plenty of opportunities.Nick Ham, Driver of the SpeedSource #70 Mazda RX-8 in the GRAND AM Sports Car Series and winner of the 2008 The Rolex 24 Hours
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Background: Suspended particles and ozone have been associated with varying degrees of cardiac autonomic dysfunction
Methods: In Mexico City, residents from a nursing home underwent heart rate variability analysis every other day for 3 months. Indoor and outdoor PM2.5 (particulate matter less than 2.5 mm in diameter) were measured daily at the nursing home. Levels of ozone and other atmospheric pollutants were obtained from a nearby automated monitoring station.
Results: Of the initial 42 screened participants, 34 (81%) were followed during the study period. The 24-hour average levels of indoor PM2.5 ranged from 15 to 67 μg/m3, and outdoor PM2.5 ranged from 9 to 87 μg/m3. Daily 1-hour maximum ozone levels ranged from 47 to 228 ppb. After adjusting for age and heart rate, we observed a strong decrease in the high frequency component of heart rate variability and the average 24-hour concentrations of PM2.5. Participants with hypertension had considerably larger reductions in their HF-HRV (high frequency–heart rate variability) component in relation to both ozone and PM2.5 exposure.
Conclusions: Our results suggest that ambient levels of PM2.5 and ozone can reduce the high-frequency component of heart rate variability in elderly subjects living in Mexico City and that subjects with underlying hypertension are particularly susceptible to this effect.
An association of increased cardiopulmonary morbidity and mortality with particulate matter (PM) pollution has been shown in epidemiologic studies from various countries.1 Suspended particle exposure is also associated with increased rates of hospital admissions and emergency room visits for respiratory and cardiovascular causes.2-4 However, the mechanisms responsible for the increased cardiovascular morbidity and mortality are poorly understood. Environmental exposure to suspended particles has been associated with an increase in mean heart rate and cardiac rhythm abnormalities independent of oxygenation levels in both animals and humans.5,6 The link between particulate matter pollution and cardiac conduction abnormalities has led to research focusing on changes in autonomic cardiac regulation assessed by heart rate variability.7-9,13 Recent studies suggest that PM levels are associated with a reduced heart rate variability, which in turn is known as an independent risk factor for cardiovascular mortality.10-12 However, these studies were conducted with a small number of participants over a limited period of time, and the effects of PM2.5 (particulate matter less than 2.5 μm in diameter) and other specific pollutants on heart rate variability was either not reported7,9,14 or reported only partially.8 In the Mexico City metropolitan area air pollutant levels (in particular, fine particulates and ozone) frequently exceed the Environmental Protection Agency standards.15 Therefore, to explore the autonomic cardiac response in relation to air pollutant exposure, we conducted a longitudinal study among elderly residents of a nursing home located in the northeast of the metropolitan area, an area frequently exposed to high levels of suspended particles and ozone.16
The population under study consisted of volunteers who were the permanent residents of a nursing home in the northeast area of the metropolitan area. We followed participants over a period of 3 months, from February 8 to April 30, 2000, obtaining daily local measures of fine particulate matter (PM2.5) and studies every alternate day of heart rate variability. We excluded current smokers, participants with pacemakers or underlying cardiac arrhythmias, and persons who were unable to sign a consent form or attend the study site located within the nursing home. The ethics committee of the Mexican National Institute of Public Health approved this protocol.
Daily 24-hour measurements of PM2.5 were determined by gravimetric analysis using Mini-Vol portable air samplers (version 4.2, Eugene, OR) with 47-mm Teflon filters (Pall Gelman, Vancouver, WA) and flows set at 4 L/min. Outdoor monitors were located on the roof of the nursing home, approximately 150 feet from the entrance and the closest road. Indoor monitors were placed in common living areas. We performed gravimetric analysis of Teflon filters at the air laboratory of the National Center for Environmental Research and Training (CENICA) in Mexico City.
Ambient levels of O3 (ozone), nitrogen dioxide (NO2), sulfur dioxide (SO2), and carbon monoxide (CO), as well as climatic variables, were obtained from an automated monitoring station (Tacuba) located 3 km (NE) upwind from the study site. All pollutant levels were measured by Thermoelectron devices (Franklin, MA) We determined NO2 by chemiluminescence (Thermoelectron 42 MCA), SO2 by an ultraviolet fluorescent analyzer (Thermoelectron 42 MCA), ozone by ultraviolet photometry (Thermoelectron 49 MCA), and ambient CO levels by infrared light absorption (Thermoelectron 48 MCA). Filter gravimetric analysis was performed under controlled climatic conditions at a room temperature of 22°C (±°) with a relative humidity of 40% (±5%); each filter was exposed for 24 hours before gravimetric analysis. Filter weights were obtained by a micrometric scale (Cahn C; Thermo Cahn, Madison, WI) under laminal flow.
Participants were scheduled to have a heart rate variability analysis every other day between 8:00 AM and 1:00 PM using an LPPac Q, Predictor 3.0 (Arrhythmia Research Technology, Houston, TX), which meets standards of the European Society of Cardiology and the North American Society of Pacing and Electrophysiology.17,18 Before measuring heart rate variability, we had participants rest in a supine position for 5 minutes. Each recording lasted 5 minutes while the participants continued in the supine position. We identified a QRS template by an automated algorithm that identifies the waveform most representative of the patient's dominant rhythm. This template was compared with subsequent R waves using a correlation coefficient of 0.75 as previously described in the study by Liao et al.7 We discarded any test having more than 15% of abnormal QRS processes. A total of 132 heart rate variability studies (12.8%) were excluded through the editing process. All patients had at least 1 study excluded with an average of 3.81-15 excluded per participant. We estimated the power spectral density using a Fast Fourier Transformation and a Hanning window with a smoothing weight of 10. Three frequencies were obtained from the power spectral density: a high-frequency component (HRV–HF; 0.15-0.40 Hz), a low-frequency component (HRV–LF 0.04-0.15 Hz), and a very-low-frequency component (HRV–VLF 0.033-0.04 Hz)19
All participants answered a questionnaire, which included demographic information, smoking habits, and a daily diary to record their hourly activities. We extracted the medical history, diagnosis of hypertension, and medication use from the participants' medical files.
To analyze the effects of PM2.5 and other pollutants on the population average HRV, we transformed the response variables HRV–HF and HRV–LF (msec2) using a log10. We calculated estimates of total PM2.5 exposure based on the time activity patterns and PM2.5 microenvironmental concentrations (indoors and outdoors). Our index of personal exposure to PM2.5 was calculated using the following formula: (PM2.5 indoors × hours spent indoors/24) + (PM2.5 outdoors × hours spent outdoors/24).
We initially studied the association of PM2.5 and ozone with HRV–HF, HRV—LF, and HRV–LF/HF ratio using generalized estimating equations. These models are specially developed to account for autocorrelation and allow for the use of both fixed and time-dependent covariates.20 We adjusted models for potential confounding factors, including participants' age and the average heart rate during each HRV measurement. Hypertension, sex, minimum temperature, and relative humidity did not confound the association between HRV and PM2.5 and were not included in the regression models. Given the fact that patients with hypertension are more likely to have deregulation of the autonomic nervous system and reduced heart rate variability,21 we stratified our analyses separately for subjects with and without hypertension. All analyses were conducted using air pollutant concentrations on the same day and with a 1-day lag for PM2.5, ozone, as well as SO2, NO2, and CO ambient concentrations; multipollutant models, including PM2.5 and ozone, were also examined. All statistical analyses were conducted using Stata 6.0 (College Station, TX).
Of the initial 42 screened participants, 34 (81%) were followed up during the study period. The mean age was 79 years, and 44% were men. Thirteen participants had a diagnosis of hypertension (38%) and 6 had diabetes mellitus, other diagnoses included 4 patients with chronic bronchitis, 4 patients with Parkinson's disease and 1 each with transient ischemic attacks, hypertension and ischemic cardiomyopathy. Participants spent 86% of the time indoors during the study period as determined by the results of an activity questionnaire completed daily. The mean number of hours spent indoors for the whole group was 21 hours (range: 12–24) and hours spent outdoors were 0.6 hours (0-6) while at the nursing home. The rate of reexamination was high, with a mean of 18 studies per participant and a total of 595 monitoring sessions. Subjects with a medical diagnosis of hypertension were more likely to be women and to spend more time indoors. The mean heart rate variability indices, averaged over the 3-month follow up, were higher for subjects without hypertension than for those with hypertension (Table 1).
Results from the air pollutants measured during the study are shown in Table 2. The 24-hour NAAQS (National Ambient Air Quality Standards) for PM2.5 were exceeded on 6 days, and the average indoor and outdoor levels where higher than previously reported in similar heart rate variability studies.7-9 Levels of ozone were also high during the study period, with more than 75% of days being above the NAAQS for the ozone 1-hour maximum. There was a moderate correlation (r = 0.52) between PM2.5 indoors and PM2.5 outdoors, and the correlations of PM2.5 estimates of total exposure with PM2.5 indoors and PM2.5 outdoors were r = 0.92 and r = 0.55, respectively. The correlation of the ozone one-hour maximum with PM2.5 indoors, PM2.5 outdoors, and PM2.5 total exposure were r = 0.27, r = 0.47 and r = 0.18, respectively.
The observed associations between the daily variation of PM2.5 total exposure and the HRV indices are presented in Table 3. After adjusting for age, heart rate, and hypertension, we observed an inverse relation between the high-frequency component of heart rate variability and total PM2.5. A 10-μg/m3 increase in PM2.5 was associated with a 5.0% change in HRV–HF. The exposure to indoor levels of PM2.5 was associated with a substantial reduction in the HRV–HF component (β = −0.049; confidence interval = −0.090–0.007 for a 10-μg/m3 increase in PM2.5) and exposure to outdoor PM2.5 was associated with a more modest reduction in high frequency (β = −0.023; −0.058-0.010 for a 10-μg/m3 increase in PM2.5). When restricting the analysis to participants who had a diagnosis of hypertension, a larger reduction in the HRV–HF component was observed, corresponding to a 7.1% change in HRV–HF for a 10-μg/m3 increase in PM2.5. We used associations with other metric parameters of heart rate variability to assess the impact of air pollutants on cardiac autonomic dysfunction; low frequency (HRV–LF) showed a moderate inverse association with PM2.5, whereas the LH/FH ratio showed a modest positive association with levels of PM2.5. In addition, changes in heart rate variability were strongly related to ambient ozone concentrations among subjects with hypertension for HRV–HF and HRV–LF (Table 4), corresponding to a 2.0% change in heart rate variability per 10 ppb increase in ozone 1-hour maximum. Control for diabetes did not change the observed associations. Of our patients with hypertension, 8 were taking angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitors, 2 were taking beta-blockers, 4 were taking a calcium channel blocker, and 2 were taking a thiazide diuretic. Because of the small number of participants, we were unable to stratify the effect of PM2.5 on HRV by each group of antihypertensive medications.
Other pollutants (NO2, CO, and SO2) were not related to heart rate variability (Table 5). All of these results are for air pollution parameter on the same day as the heart rate variability assessments; results were similar when we used 1-day time-lag exposure for the pollutants.
In multipollutant models, including both PM2.5 and ozone, the magnitude of the relation of PM2.5 with the HRV–HF component decreased slightly (Table 6), corresponding to the following percent changes: 5.0% in our total sample, 4.0% among participants without hypertension, and 6.4% among participants with hypertension for a 10-μg/m3 increase in PM2.5. Ozone was no longer associated with HRV–HF (Table 6).
This is one of the largest studies to date on the effects of PM2.5 and ozone on heart rate variability, and it is the first of its kind in Mexico. Our results suggest that exposure to ambient air concentrations of PM2.5 and ozone is associated with autonomic cardiac dysfunction in the elderly, characterized by a reduction in the high frequency or vagal component of heart rate variability. Furthermore, in our study, participants with a diagnosis of hypertension appeared to be more susceptible with larger reductions in the HRV–HF associated with PM2.5 exposure. Although individuals diagnosed with hypertension are known to have lower heart rate variability,21 an increased susceptibility to particulate air pollution in this group of patients has not been previously described. In our study, exposure to ambient levels of ozone was also associated with reductions in the HRV–HF component, although this effect was not as strong in the multipollutant models that adjusted for PM2.5.
Numerous mechanistic hypotheses have been proposed to explain how exposure to ambient levels of PM2.5 might produce changes in the autonomic cardiac regulation. Translocation of inhaled ultrafine particles into the systemic circulation,22 the activation of pulmonary irritant receptors that mediate the stimulation of parasympathetic pathways,23 an increase in plasma viscosity,24 and the elevation of inflammatory mediators25 are some of the potential biologic explanations. It is possible that the stimulation of irritant receptors from ozone-induced airway inflammation and oxidation23 can either independently lead to changes in heart rate variability or potentiate the effect of inhaled particulates. In general, it is conjectured that interactions among inflammation, abnormal hemostatic function, and altered cardiac rhythm might play an important role in the pathogenesis of cardiopulmonary diseases related to air pollution.26
Several limitations have to be considered in interpreting our results. We used only short-term heart rate variability recordings (5 min), which could have hindered the possibility of performing an adequate assessment of lower frequencies. However, there is a high correlation between short recordings of HRV–HF using spectral analysis and using longer time-domain analysis.27 Because we obtained short-term study results that were performed during the morning, we were unable to account for any changes related to circadian variation in heart rate variability parameters. Maneuvers to elicit vagal responses, such as metronomic breathing, were not performed, but controlling respiratory rate does not seem to confound the association between PM2.5 and changes in heart rate variability.8 The same trained technician performed the entire heart rate variability recording, thus reducing intertest variability. PM2.5 exposure was limited to 384 observations from 34 subjects who had complete time activity data; these coefficients were not substantially different from coefficients calculated from the 595 heart rate variability monitoring sessions using PM2.5 indoor exposure.
Restricting analysis to outdoor PM2.5 was associated with a modest reduction in the HRV–HF component, suggesting that some indoor sources might play a role. We were unable to identify significant indoor exposure sources and the nursing home was a smoke-free environment. However, idling diesel buses were parked for a few hours close to the nursing home indoor living areas at least 3 times a week. We speculate that such emissions could have contributed to the larger effects seen in association with indoor PM2.5.
Information about ozone concentration and other pollutants was available through a nearby automated monitoring station, which was situated 3 km upwind from the study site, allowing a reasonable estimation of the nursing home ozone air pollution. Measurements for NO2 and CO are more susceptible to local sources of emission and traffic flow, and therefore might not be representative of the nursing home environment. Our results are from a single nursing home located in the northeast metropolitan area and might not be applicable to a more general population; still our findings are consistent with a similar study of elderly nursing home residents.7 A reduction in heart rate variability has been positively correlated with increased rates of cardiovascular morbidity and mortality in both the high-risk and the general population.11,12 However, further studies are needed to determine whether the daily fluctuations in autonomic cardiac balance associated with exposure to ambient particulate matter and ozone will provide meaningful clinical and epidemiologic data. Results from this study complement previous reports by identifying subjects with hypertension as a population potentially at risk of experiencing the adverse cardiovascular health effects associated with ambient ozone and particulate air pollution.
We thank the CENICA (Centro Nacional de Investigación y Capacitación Ambientales in Mexico City) group and Victor Gutierrez for their contribution in performing the gravimetric analyses in our study; the DIF (Departamento de Integración Familiar, México) for allowing them to perform the study in their nursing home, and Isabel García and Rafael Santibañnez for their technical support.
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In order, the rest of the county's rankings are United at number 238, up 39 spots from last year; Blairsville-Saltsburg, down four spots to number 247; Marion Center, which fell 38 spots to number 279; Homer Center, which dropped 56 places to number 341; Purchase Line, which gained ten spots to number 346; and Penns Manor, down 5 spots to number 447.
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A Permanent Home for St. Peter Parish in Tulsa?
June 8, 2011
Just how deep the commitment is to the traditional Catholic sacred liturgy can be measured by the sacrifices the Latin Mass Communities endure, often for many years. In 1995 Bishop Slattery of Tulsa, one of my favorite US bishops, invited the Priestly Fraternity of St. Peter to serve Catholics in Tulsa who desired the Traditional Latin Mass. He has done a great deal more, but that's another story.
Since its inception, St. Peter parish has been depositing funds into the diocesan account to acquire their own church and currently has amassed $500,000. This is pretty good for a group that started out in a tiny chapel with only 12 people in 1995. Over the years the parish has grown and now requires two priests to meet its needs.
Enter St. John's Health System in Tulsa, which owns the convent of Our Lady of Sorrows in Broken Arrow. This spring the board agreed to GIVE the facility to St. Peter parish. The only thing lacking is another $500,000 for the parish to take over the 120,000 square foot facility and maintain it.
Bishop Slattery would prefer the parish have $10,000,000, but he is willing to allow them to accept the deed at $1,000,000.
This will be one of the largest buildings and grounds operated by the Priestly Fraternity of St. Peter in the USA. Plans are for a Catholic school in addition to everything else that goes with a parish.
I knew when I got involved in the Ecclesia Dei movement in 1999 that we were pioneering and making history. The battle has been uphill all the way and not over by a long shot, but when I see first hand the great advances of Tulsa, Dallas, Oklahoma City, and Cherokee Village, Arkansas – all Fraternity parishes – I can only rejoice for the Catholics who will have such wonderful support in living their Catholic identity.
My husband and I used to drive 3 hours one way every month to attend the Traditional Latin Mass in Tulsa. We also attended some Holy Week services and Christmas Midnight Mass there because it was the closest location available for the Traditional Latin Mass. The success of St. Peter's is therefore, particularly sweet to us.
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Posted on 12/19/2007 12:09:02 PM PST by pissant
Tom Tancredo has scheduled a press conference in Des Moines tomorrow afternoon to make a "major announcement regarding the campaign," according to a media advisory his campaign sent out today.
Asked whether Tancredo intended to drop out of the race, his congressional spokesman, TQ Houlton, said he didn't know. But Houlton didn't affirm that Tancredo was staying in and directed calls to the campaign.
A campaign spokesman didn't immediately reply to an email or voice mail.
Tancredo will appear at the Des Moines Marriott tomorrow at 2:00 Central, according to the advisory.
Despite the fervor Iowa Republicans have over Tancredo's pet issue, immigration, the Colorado congressman has not seen a commensurate bump in the polls. And even though he's run a couple of provocative ads warning about the security threat of illegal immigration, his numbers have remained in the low single-digits.
Perhaps most notably, Tancredo's close friend, Rep. Steve King, passed over his colleague and threw his support behind Fred Thompson this week. King and Tancredo have worked closely on immigration and many in Iowa thought King would not endorse as long as Tancredo was in the race.
A source close to King said they knew of the press conference for tomorrow but didn't know what Tancredo would announce.
Easy enough to find out, just check and see if reservations have been cancelled.
I don't know what reservations to check.
He'd have speaking engagements, each of which would require him to rent a venue.
True. But I do not know his schedule.
I'll take that over an endorsement for one of the 'top tier'
All of the candidates should step down when their continued presence in the race is counterproductive to their ideological agenda. If Tancredo thinks now is that time for him then I admire him for being wise enough to see this and patriot enough to put the country first.
Ditto. I was impressed with him during the debate, and at least he was there to push the issue.
He's being sued by the ACLU /sarc
He'll get behind Fred. Good!
Can't wait to see what it's all about.
Flights, hotels, meeting halls, just check Tancredo's website for a list of events and their location. Pretty straight forward from that point.
The fact that his website is not responding is perhaps a clue....
Go ahead. And get back to us.
Not that big of deal for me to do it, I was just sayin....(chuckle)
I would not count on that, but I reckon it is a possibility
"Cant wait to see what its all about."
I just hope he doesn't go off the deep end like Gilchrist did.
Whatever it is, he's managed to get more press than usual.
Boy, you are really all over this, aren't you :>)
If Tanc endorses Dukakabee I'm sending him a head of lettuce.
I'd start with whether he had any reservations about winning :>)
Hoping for a Hunter endorsement from Tanc. It would make up for him getting in the race in the first place and stealing some of Duncan's thunder.
fwiw, I'm leaning toward guessing he'll announce a 3rd-party run....
Maybe he saw Hunter on TV yesterday...
I think so too...any avalanche starts with a few snowflakes.
Or Hunter.
Apparently, he has lots of those.
Judging by your link, and one or two posts on the other thread, my guess is that Steve King's endorsement of Thompson is the opening Tancredo wanted/decided to use to announce his resignation, and then himself openly endorsing Thompson.
It would be interesting to learn exactly what role King has played in this.
Me too. I'll be suprised if he does not support Hunter.
I hope so. It's time for conservatives to stop frittering away their support on one issue/fringe candidates and start backing Fred, the solid conservative choice among the frontrunners. Tancredo and Hunter just need to give place - they're not going anywhere, despite the gusto and chest-thumping of their supporters. Time for conservatives to unite behind FDT. Once Huckabee implodes (and he will), much of his support ought to flow back to the real conservative among the front-runners.
I see no reason for him to endorse Fred.
I can't imagine him doing so.
Tom Tancredo is the very best conservative in the race. I'm very sorry his campaign has gone nowhere, or I'd be backing him ahead of Fred. I hope Tom endorses Fred, and I hope Duncan winds up doing the same.
Hunter is better than Tanc on many issues, including illegal immigration, his pet.
This would show class and party loyalty. I wish some others would do the same.
Rep. Tancredo would make a good president. The time is not right for him. Perhaps, there is another task for which he will be called.
He is better than any of the Dem candidates.
"I just hope he doesnt go off the deep end like Gilchrist did."
I don't think he will, but you never know these days. So many strange things have been happening.
Looks like perhaps a Fred/Tancredo/Hunter coalition to stop Huckabee, Romney, Guilani and now McCain?
Well, on that we can agree to disagree.
DUNCAN HUNTER gets things done! Duncan Hunter actually had a fence built which tremendously cut drug trafficking and crime in San Diego, and Hunter authored the bill for a fence from California thru Texas, which was signed into law, and here's the fence!
It is a DOUBLE fence with border patrol in-between, and note the CLIMB-PROOF BARRIER at the top.
You have FRmail
I wish you all would quit alluding to the fact that you want the best candidates to quit. What you're going to end up with is another RINO. Just like Arnuld.
That about sums it up, IMO. And while Hunter isn't yet on board, he's philosophically there. And on THE one vital issue going in to this election (at least as it stands now); immigration.
Why should he endorse Fred?
From TeamTancredo's blog:
I listened to Tom's campaign manager, Bay Buchanan, on O'Reilly yesterday (12-18). She failed to plug Tom's campaign, but she had plenty to say about Hillary. Of course, she was a guest on Bill's show for the purpose of discussing Hillary, but with Iowa's caucus TWO WEEKS away, I'm wondering how Tom's final campaign days in Iowa are going!!!! Can you give us some updates?????
Why not?
1) Fred's standing in the polls has been consistently higher than Hunters;
2) An endorsement of Hunter would add nothing statistically poll-wise to Hunter's campaign;
3) Tancredo's buddy, Steve King has endorsed Fred; was that the first act?
4) Fred's standing on immigration, Tancredo's single hot-button issue, has been consistently conservative.
I see no reason not to.
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General Hospital Brings Back Jon Lindstrom.
Yesterday, it was announced that Genie Francis is returning to GH. Today, we learned another vet is coming home to Port Charles. Soaps in Depth has revealed that Jon Lindstrom will reprise his role as Dr. Kevin Collins beginning January 30. He will reportedly return just as Lucy (Lynn Herring) gets herself in a jam. The status of their relationship will be revealed.
Lindstrom played Kevin on "General Hospital" from 1994 – 1997 and briefly again in 2004. He took the character to "Port Charles" from 1997 – 2003. The actor went on to play Craig Montgomery on "As the World Turns" from 2008 – 2010. There's no word on how long he'll stick around "GH," but Lindstrom took to Twitter to credit the fans for his return.
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YAPHANK - Long Island honored its D-Day veterans Friday on the 70th anniversary of the invasion.
A special ceremony was held in Yaphank to honor the courage and sacrifice of the soldiers, many of whom were only between 19 and 22 years old.
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NVIDIA Corporation reported financial results for the first quarter of its fiscal 2004. Due to the weak market as well as several other factors, NVIDIA's revenue for the period declined more than 30% compared to the same period last year. The company still remained profitable what is definitely a good news for shareholders, nevertheless, its gross-margins decreased since NVIDIA did not meet the cost-targets for the GeForce FX product line.
For the first quarter of fiscal 2004, NVIDIA's revenue was roughly $405 million, compared to $582.9 million for the first quarter of fiscal 2003. Net income for the first quarter of fiscal 2004 was $19.7 million, or $0.12 per diluted share, compared to net income of $83.2 million, or $0.47 per diluted share, for the first quarter of fiscal 2003.
During the conference call representatives from NVIDIA Corporation, namely, NVIDIA's CEO and president Jen-Hsun Huang, Michael Hara (Vice President of Investor Relations and Communications) and Marvin Burkett (Chief Financial Officer) said quite a number of interesting things about the company's business during the quarter as well as their expectations about the future.
Quarter Highlights, Financials:
- Gross margin is lower quarter-over-quarter and now is 31.3% (35.7% after the settlement with Microsoft last quarter) despite of the high margins with nForce and XBOX products.
- Net inventory level is now $166 million (primarily because of new products) and represents 54 days of sales. NVIDIA inventory level target is 45-50 days of sales.
- The quarter was strong for mobile graphics processors, nForce platform products, professional series of Quadro GPUs. Seasonal slowness drove the number of standalone GPUs shipped down.
Quarter Highlights, Products:
- The whole line of the GeForce FX graphics processing units is now in production.
- NVIDIA actually shipped more than 1.5 million of GeForce FX-series if graphics processors during the quarter despite of analysts' expectations.
- nForce chipsets' sales were 80% up from the previous quarter. Now NVIDIA's market share in chipsets with integrated graphics market is 7% (3% last quarter).
- Revenues from XGPU and MCPX declined by $43 million quarter-over-quarter.
- XBOX intended chips' sales now account for less than 10% of revenue.
- Memory sales increased moderately to $28 million.
- Costs targets for the GeForce FX product line were not achieved and are expected to be only by the end of the Q2 of fiscal 2004 (please keep in mind that this is a forward-looking statement with all consequences). This presumably drives NVIDIA's gross-margins down.
Second Quarter of Fiscal 2004 Expectations:
- Revenue is expected to uptick 12% to 18%.
- Sales of XBOX core-logic, GPUs and platform products are expected to grow.
- Gross margins to decrease 1-2% due to yield issues with the GeForce FX product line.
- Operating expenses to be up 5% to 10% since the company acquired new emulation equipment and software this quarter for the next-generation products (it means that they were a bit up already in the first quarter). Moreover, NVIDIA will also spend some money on additional marketing.
- NVIDIA will ship more than 3 million of the GeForce FX graphics processors by the end of Q2. If the GeForce FX graphics processor will account for larger part of NVIDIA's revenue, gross margins of the company will be lower because of the fact that these graphics processors cost the corporation more than it was originally estimated.
Current Products:
- The yield of the GeForce FX GPUs product line is lower than expected.
- The NV30 aka the GeForce FX 5800 was not a successful product for NVIDIA, the CEO said.
- NVIDIA will ramp up the GeForce FX production for the next two quarters.
- The company will launch its code-named NV35 graphics processor next week. The GPU will return leadership position for the company.
- NVIDIA is actually delighted with initial shipments of the GeForce FX product line.
Future Products:
- The NV35 graphics chip is in production since January and quite a big number of the processors were made already in February 2003. The first silicon of the code-named NV35 was perfect, what leads us to conclude that it is mostly based on already approved technologies. Note that recent increase of net inventory level might be because of large stock of expensive products. The yield issue of the NV30 was addressed in NV35.
- The NV35-based products will be shipped really shortly after the formal announcement of the chip, according to the CEO, Mr. Jen-Hsun Huang.
- NVIDIA expects more than hundreds of thousands NV35 units to be shipped by Christmas 2003.
- IBM will manufacture several of the next-generation GPUs from NVIDIA.
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Former Assistant Sues Courtney Love
More legal trouble for Courtney Love: a former assistant has sued the rocker and alleges Love asked her to break the law and counterfeit legal documents.
Jessica LaBrie claims Love intentionally withheld her salary because she refused to "commit fraudulent, unlawful, and unethical acts," according to TMZ.com.
LaBrie also alleges her former boss asked her to hire a computer hacker, but has not gone into details.
LaBrie claims she worked for the Hole singer from June 2010 to July 2011, and was eventually forced to resign because Love wouldn't pay her.
Last month, bosses at Keith A. Fink & Associates accused Love of failing to pay them for their services between January and October, 2009, and has launched a legal battle against Love in a bid to recoup the funds.


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My work deals with the contrast between balance and imbalance, control and the lack there of. Specifically, I explore the movement of the human body through space and time. My interest in the nature of the human form comes from living with cerebral palsy – a physical disability that causes difficulty in movement and speech as well as involuntary tremors. My small line drawings, photography and interactive sculpture installations incorporate elements of performance art and Minimalism.
I use the unique machinations of my own body motion, often showcasing a visual full figure of my body or my own shaky line drawings. The work is a balance between simple composition and complicated issues that are unseen by many.


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- n. A word or construction that takes the place of a verb or verb phrase, such as do in the sentence She likes ice cream and I do, too.
pro(noun) + verb.(American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
So thank goodness for Dr. Boris Worm, whose latest study puts the old pro-verb right again, at least in part.
˜Being™ (˜Das Sein™) along with the forms am, are, is, is a pro-verb in exactly the same way as ˜this™ is a pronoun.
When there isn't enough Predicator available to release a particle for the pre-Subject position, a form of the pro-verb 'do' is brought into play: (1b) "Does the woman feed those pigeons regularly?"


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Raised Garden BedsOften thought of as utilitarian, these raised beds break the mold with their good looks
Raised bed gardens are one of the most productive ways to grow your own food. They give you better control over the soil conditions and allow for quick and easy harvesting of your crops. Raised beds can be simple or quite elaborate depending on your needs and the overall aesthetic you wish to create. Use the information below to determine what type of raised beds you would like in your own garden.
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Stacked Stone
These raised beds, shown at the height of the growing season, are made from stacked stone. Some gardeners prefer stone to wood for their beds because there is less maintenance. Others chose stone because they love the way it looks. The only downside is that the upfront investment is typically more with stone.
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Recycled Redwood
These eco-conscious raised beds hold eggplant, squash, tomato, and herb plants. Redwood is a good choice for planters like these because it is more resistant to rot than most types of wood. In fact, this wood has held up so well that it has found a second life in this application. A small shaded table provides an idyllic spot to sample produce at its freshest-straight from the garden.
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Nothing is ordinary about these raised beds. First, they veer from the norm with their circular shape. Second, they are made of twigs woven together in a basket-like fashion. To complete the look, handmade tepee trellises add vertical support for climbers.
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If you'd like to grow veggies on your deck or patio, try a redwood planter box like this one. Much like raised beds, self-contained planters, offer better soil control and easier harvesting, plus they can be moved around if necessary.
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Dailey's career in glass has spanned more than 40 years.
He is a professor at the Massachusetts College of Art, where he founded the glass program.
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Well I figuered it out myself
Since correlation are not additive I realized I cant just simply take the weighted average. So I transformed them into standard normal variables and then calculated the weighted average.
I am comparing the results of broad bond market to equity market for a hypothetical portfolio.
The hypothetical portfolio consists of 60% large cap; 20% mid cap; 20% small cap equities.
The correlation for the large, mid, & small cap to the broad bond market are -0.09, -0.05, -0.11 respectively.
Would taking the weighted average of the correlation of the large, med, & small cap be the right approach to get the correlation for the bond market to the equity market?


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SCS has over a dozen Sage X3 consultants and is positioned to help BAASS serve its expanding North America, Latin America and Caribbean business. BAASS will also assist SCS by extending their professional service resources and offerings including CRM, business intelligence, and human resources information systems.
This alliance works great for both sides as it solves some of the challenges for our X3 practice demand. SCS also has top consultants in this area and we needed a practice leader, [SCS president Sonia Ferrera] has a lot of experienced consultants and this creates a stronger alliance between our firms, said BAASS vice president of U.S. and Caribbean operations Manny Buigas. Theres lots of potential to share business for other products as well. This is not a merger, but a partnership that gives us a chance to work with a great firm that Ive known for a long time. When you look at possible partners out there, they also bring a lot to the table.
Headquartered in Miami, SCS has over 600 ERP and CRM software installations across the U.S., Latin America & Caribbean and was ranked 69 on the Accounting Today 2013 VAR 100 list.
This is a mutual win for our companies, but more importantly for our mutual clients. BAASS will assist our clients with services that will enable us to extend our offerings and effectively respond to todays rapidly changing business requirements, said Ferrera. Our management teams have enjoyed a cordial professional relationship for numerous years and belong to the same professional associations. We have shared best practices and practical experience over the years. Aligning our businesses more closely will help our firms deliver a better customer experience to our small and midsized clients.


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A Tale of Two GlassFish Releases: 2.1.1 p8 and 3.1 MS6
By pelegri on Oct 29, 2010
The two most recent releases show how GlassFish provides support and add new features.
GlassFish 2.1.1 patch 8 is the most recent patch in the GlassFish 2 family. This commercial release fixes 17 new defects. The last 8 patches collectively fix 207 defects since the last public and free release, GlassFish 2.1.1. GlassFish 2.1.1 was also GlassFish 2.1 patch 6, including 251 fixes since the previous public and free release, GlassFish 2 U2.
These patch releases reflect the core of the GlassFish commercial support from Oracle. The other extreme are the milestone releases in GlassFish 3.1: we just released GlassFish 3.1 MS6 (or build 26, see mapping), which is a feature-complete version of GlassFish 3.1, and includes all our clustering support.
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By Freedom Newspapers
Two federal agriculture agents were killed June 1 when their plane crashed as they were shooting wildlife in Wayne County, Utah. This was the 26th such crash, and the 10th and 11th fatalities, that have happened during aerial gunning since 1979. Another 27 people have been injured while shooting animals from airplanes or helicopters.
Gunners have taken to the sky twice in the past year in the Rio Grande Valley in Texas, both times to reduce the numbers of nilgai antelope running wild. The U.S. Department of Agriculture Wildlife Services reports that it kills more than 1.5 million animals a year, including bobcats, badgers, foxes, wolves and even regular housecats. The program costs U.S. taxpayers about $100 million a year, and an average of one airplane or helicopter, with at least one injury or death, crashes per year.
One would think officials would recognize there are better ways to control these animals.
The practice is inherently risky, since the pilots fly low to get near the animals and often are distracted. Pilots focusing their attention on the animals they are chasing have flown into trees, power lines and even land formations.
Some 27 environmental and wildlife advocacy groups are petitioning the USDA to stop the practice. We agree. It seems the most costly and least efficient method to reduce animal populations.
Smaller animals like those mentioned above could be rounded up with traps and disposed of more effectively and humanely than shooting at them from the sky, which probably results in many nonfatal hits that only leave the animals injured and suffering, and susceptible to infection or attack by predators and scavengers.
A better option exists for culling herds of larger animals like the nilgai gunned down in Texas and elk at Rocky Mountain National Park that recently were hunted at night by government sharpshooters using military weapons that included silencers and night-vision scopes.
It should be quite simple to hold public hunts for the animals; countless hunters would pay good money for the chance to harvest one or two of the animals, which could provide several hundred pounds of meat for their families. In fact, public hunts already are held during December and January every year at the Laguna Atascosa National Wildlife Refuge.
Rather than cost taxpayers money, public hunts generate revenue, not only for federal and state wildlife agencies but for the areas in which the hunts are held. Hunters spend money at area sporting goods stores, restaurants and hotels.
Addressing overpopulated wildlife numbers through public hunts would generate revenue rather than cost taxpayers millions, and eliminate the high-risk, low-percentage aerial hunts that already have cost nearly a dozen lives and more than two dozen other casualties. It would seem an obvious, logical option.
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Though PR girls are absolutely supposed to "own" the room when hosting an event or escorting clients to an important party, there are plenty of other opportunities to show off your social prowess in everyday life and practice your networking skills. Since I am naturally introverted, I look for any opportunity to push myself out of my comfort zone, make a few new friends and work on my social graces. And hey, you never know who you could meet while chatting up fellow football fans!
Whether you're still in school or already working your way up the corporate ladder, here are a few ways you can rock the room and own any social situation:
In college – I was still pretty shy through the first part of college, and it wasn't until I started my internships that I realized how easy it is to make friends when you speak up! Adrianna had a very different college experience, and she swears that her sorority life completely influenced her PR career. Either way, be sure you get involved during your four years of higher learning – join dance club, debate team, club lacrosse, whatever! Put yourself into a new group of people and you'll be sure to be thrown into the role of hostess/party guest/team leader/cheerleader at any given moment
At the farmer's market/spin class/Bed Bath and Beyond – When you're running errands or at a new workout class, take the opportunity to talk to a stranger and learn something new. Ask a store clerk about the best kind of blender. Ask someone in line for class where she got her spinning shoes. Learning how to ask the right questions and keeping up an informative conversation is key in PR, and will get you very far very quickly in life!
At Happy Hour – When you're in college, "Happy Hour" sounds like an excuse for adults to drink after work before they crash in bed at 9:30pm. That's only partly true. Happy Hour is a very strong networking opportunity and a chance to bond with new people in a fun location. If you're going to Happy Hour with girl friends, be sure you branch out and ask strangers about the game on TV or any current events to strike up a conversation. If you're with work colleagues, take this opportunity to learn about their work load and how they are managing at the office
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2012: Could it be the "big one?"
Happy Easter to all.
Okay now with that out of the way, I'm happy to announce that my ballhawking season opener may be on Tuesday. Which is not far from today. If not Tuesday, then Friday, but anyways, I need to make some plans and goals. By the end of last year, here's how my goals ended up:
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Really? You think Buffalo is a bad stadium? Rochester I personally think is horrible for ballhawking. The ushers are real mean too. I live in Buffalo and I get about 8-15 balls per game and then I went to Rochetser and only got 4, which is my Triple A lowest amount this year. I think Buffalo is a great stadium for ballhawking minus the outfiled seats in Center and Left, but that is still not a big deal. hope your having a great year so far.
Yeah, one of the ushers in Rochester screamed at me for going down by the dugout and trying to get a third out ball. The people are also a little bit mean there to as a lady screamed at my brother and mom when they bent down and were talking to me. They were in no way blocking the persons view unless they were looking into foul territory behind them.


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Deffo 6c to read those moves onsight. Best sequence on grit?
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RUSH: All right, we keep hearing, ladies and gentlemen -- and you heard it in the sound bites that we played from cable chat shows -- that you and I, Christine O'Donnell, conservatives are out of the mainstream, that we are out of the mainstream. Everybody is talking about and wondering what the October Surprise will be. By the way, did you see this? I can't describe -- I mean I can describe it. I can't show you on the radio, Dittocam. But the Democrats had a big, big announcement yesterday. You know what it was? They got a new logo. They've got a D inside a circle. Honestly. That is their new logo: A D inside the circle.
The circle is supposed to be an O, obviously, for Obama. It's pathetic. But we keep hearing these people are the mainstream and we're not. We're kooks, fringe, what have you.
Let's examine who is mainstream. Pick an issue. Pick an issue. Let's pick Obamacare. The mainstream of America, the majority, is against it. In fact, there's a Rasmussen poll out today: More Americans than ever before want it repealed. More Democrats are spending more money in campaign ads opposing Obamacare than they are spending money saying they voted for it. If the mainstream is the majority, and it is, the majority is dead set against Obamacare. The Tea Party is dead set against it. What's the mainstream? The liberals, the people who are in favor of it are not the mainstream. They are the minority. They're the fringe. We're being governed -- we're being ruled -- by, actually, very tiny minority.
How about borrowing and spending? How about stimulus, bailouts, all of that? Well, the mainstream of America is against that, no matter what poll you look at. Everybody's against it, or the vast majority is against it. Tea Party is opposed it. And one of the primary reasons the Tea Party exists is because of all this spending. People are rising up against it. But the liberals are the authors, they're all for it. They're in the minority. We are the mainstream. The stimulus that didn't work? I mean, it doesn't matter. Issue after issue, cap and trade, the mainstream is against it. The vast majority of Americans across the aisle, across the spectrum, are against it. The more the left makes in or out of the mainstream, the more they feed their base and their journalists but the more they make our case because it is they who are out of the mainstream.
Their judicial nominees are out of the mainstream. Their candidates are out of the mainstream. Their president is out of the mainstream.


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I was picking the brain of a restauranteur for insight into things like Groupon. He confirmed what we all understand in the abstract: that these deals are terrible for the businesses that offer them; that they draw in nomadic deal hunters from a vast surrounding region who are unlikely to ever return; that most deal-hunters carefully ensure that they spend just the deal amount or slightly more; that a badly designed offer can bankrupt a small business. He added one little factoid I did not know: offering a Groupon deal is by now so strongly associated with a desperate, dying restaurant that professional food critics tend to write off any restaurant that offers one without even trying it.[more inside]
Up through Los Angeles came a bubblin' crude: Southern California was the Kuwait of the Jazz Age, turning a religious piano teacher into an oil baroness
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Web developer Justin Watt was staying at the Courtyard Marriott in Times Square, New York and using the hotel wifi to access the Internet. He noticed some strangeness on his website... and on every other website he visited (not to mention YouTube was broken.)
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Building an enduring and stable political consensus in Afghanistan's complex, multiactor environment requires clear analysis of the conflict. Getting It Right in Afghanistan addresses the real drivers of the insurgency, how Afghanistan's neighbors can contribute to peace in the region, and the need for more inclusive political arrangements in peace and reconciliation processes.
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