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When a person has a heart attack, portions of the heart muscle die in the next several days or even weeks if deprived of oxygen for long enough. The recovering heart slowly remodels itself, even fostering the growth of new blood vessels, in an attempt to regain some of its former function. But all too often, the remodeling is actually harmful, and the damaged heart is on an inevitable downward slide to heart failure.
Now, scientists at the Center for Translational Medicine at Temple University School of Medicine have identified a key target they hope will help stave off the potentially harmful effects of remodeling. They have shown that by turning off the activity of a protein, GSK-3α, in the heart cells of mice that have had a heart attack, they can prevent heart remodeling, preserve heart function and significantly improve survival.
Their findings offer new insights into processes underlying remodeling, and perhaps to eventual strategies against heart failure. They reported their results November 5, 2012, at the Late-Breaking Basic Science Oral Session at the American Heart Association's Scientific Sessions 2012 in Los Angeles.
"We need to find ways to prevent and slow down remodeling of the heart after a heart attack -- that's the Holy Grail of heart failure," said senior author Thomas Force, MD, Professor of Medicine and Clinical Director of Temple's Center for Translational Medicine. "Our findings are important steps in understanding some of the mechanisms at play in remodeling, and hold promise to eventually lead to new interventions and perhaps even help prevent heart failure."
Focusing on GSK-3α
The protein enzyme GSK3 -- glycogen synthase kinase 3 -- plays a key part in many cellular processes and diseases. It has two forms, GSK-3α and GSK-3β, both of which have particularly important roles in heart disease. While the exact role of GSK-3α in heart cells has been unclear, studies indicate that it is important in regulating the heart's growth, ability to contract, and its expansion in size associated with heart disease and heart failure.
To find out the role of GSK-3α specifically in heart cells, Dr. Force, first author Firdos Ahmad, PhD, a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Pharmacology and the Center for Translational Medicine and their co-workers compared mice with normal levels of the protein in their heart cells to mice with heart cells lacking a working GSK-3α. All of the mice in both groups experienced the equivalent of a heart attack. The researchers found that the mice missing the protein in their heart cells had significantly better survival (100 percent) over the next several days or week compared to the normal mice (75 percent survival).
After two weeks, they found that both groups had comparable increases in heart chamber size and accompanying reductions in the heart's left ventricle's ability to pump blood effectively. Yet, at four weeks after a heart attack, the two groups began to separate, with the mice without GSK-3α in their heart cells showing significantly better preserved heart function. By that time, however, the left ventricle in the non-GSK-3α mice showed a much greater reduction in size than was seen in the hearts of the mice with the GSK-3α protein. As a result, the hearts of the mice without GSK-3α showed greater pumping ability.
Eight weeks after experiencing a heart attack, 92 percent of the mice lacking GSK-3α were still alive compared to only 71 percent of the normal mice.
"During remodeling, the heart's ventricles dilate and the ventricle function deteriorates," explained Dr. Force. "Remodeling after a heart attack is the major cause of heart failure in the United States. We'd like to prevent this by finding something to modulate the process."
Surprising Results
The researchers were surprised by the results, since earlier studies have found the opposite -- that is, heart attack-induced mice that lack the GSK-3α protein in all of the body's cells have an increased rate of mortality, along with a less effectively functioning heart.
"These results are very unexpected," Dr. Force said. "We think that since turning off GSK-3α activity in all of the cells causes so many cardiac problems, there must be other processes at work there that are causing these differences from what we see when the protein's activity is halted in only heart cells. We'd like to find the mechanisms involved in this."
"The results also suggest that inhibiting both GSK forms might be a way of controlling post-heart attack remodeling and retain heart function," Dr. Ahmad noted, pointing to earlier research showing that inhibiting GSK-3β was also beneficial.
Other researchers contributing to this work include Hind Lal, Ronald Vagnozzi, Jibin Zhou, and Erhe Gao, Temple University School of Medicine, and James R. Woodgett, University of Toronto.
The work was supported by the National Institutes of Health.
About Temple Health
Temple Health refers to the health, education and research activities carried out by the affiliates of Temple University Health System and by Temple University School of Medicine.
Temple University Health System (TUHS) is a $1.4 billion academic health system dedicated to providing access to quality patient care and supporting excellence in medical education and research. The Health System consists of Temple University Hospital (TUH), ranked among the "Best Hospitals" in the region by U.S. News & World Report; TUH-Episcopal Campus; TUH-Northeastern Campus; Fox Chase Cancer Center, an NCI-designated comprehensive cancer center; Jeanes Hospital, a community-based hospital offering medical, surgical and emergency services; Temple Transport Team, a ground and air-ambulance company; and Temple Physicians, Inc., a network of community-based specialty and primary-care physician practices. TUHS is affiliated with Temple University School of Medicine.
Temple University School of Medicine (TUSM), established in 1901, is one of the nation's leading medical schools. Each year, the School of Medicine educates approximately 720 medical students and 140 graduate students. Based on its level of funding from the National Institutes of Health, Temple University School of Medicine is the second-highest ranked medical school in Philadelphia and the third-highest in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. According to U.S. News & World Report, TUSM is among the top 10 most applied-to medical schools in the nation.
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As head of ''people capability'' for the Australian Defence Force, Major-General Craig Orme used to get asked: ''Why are you doing so bad at recruiting?'' Now he gets asked: ''Why are you doing so well?''
Defence is hitting a near-record high 93 per cent of its recruitment target. And no, not all of its recruits are signing up because of the global financial crisis - another question Orme gets asked.
Last month Defence re-signed with the ad agency which has been running its recruitment campaign for the past decade, George Patterson Y&R. Its people are the creative minds behind the ADF's recent ''Rise''' campaign. You know, the one with the catchy tune and the emotive images?
''Ri-ise, it's time to get on your feet,'' goes the theme song. It contains footage of soldiers carrying boxes of aid supplies, handing out water bottles to locals, hammering building structures into place. It shows medics with the red cross prominently featured on their armbands giving medical treatment to young children.
If you count the humanitarian images in some of the ads, they outnumber the images of guns and tanks, though the latter still feature in the campaign.
The ads speak volumes about the way we see - or want to see - our defence force these days. ''They were a really successful set of ads,'' Orme told me. ''The analogy that I always used is a very simple fishing one: a) we've got bait the fish like and b) we are fishing where the fish are.''
Why the emphasis on the warm and fuzzy side of soldiering? Orme says the use of the humanitarian images is about ''broadening the information out there about what we do'', and that it is work the military has been doing for ''decades''. ''We're not backing away at all from the hard end of military capability.''
The ads came to mind after something the United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs, Sir John Holmes, told me while in Australia last week.
Holmes is your quintessential British diplomat. A one-time adviser to former prime ministers John Major and Tony Blair, Holmes was awarded his knighthood in 1999 for his role in the Northern Ireland peace process. His three-year term at the UN finishes later this year. As he winds up his post I asked what are the most pressing issues on the humanitarian agenda?
He nominates two. Climate change, which is responsible for the escalating number of humanitarian disasters, is one. The other is the increasing targeting of humanitarian workers.
''It's not just a question of being in the wrong place at the wrong time, but actually being targeted because we are humanitarians, because we are part of an international community seen as interfering in inappropriate ways in local cultures,'' Holmes says.
He is speaking about the documented increase, particularly noticeable in the past four years, of attacks against aid workers. Among the worst places for this are Afghanistan, Pakistan, Somalia and Sudan. In 2008 alone, 260 humanitarian aid workers were killed, kidnapped or seriously injured in violent attacks, according to one study.
Why is this happening? There is no doubt that part of the reason for the targeting of humanitarian workers is the confusion created as the military takes up non-traditional, non-war fighting tasks of aid delivery. Aid has been politicised and securitised. And the targeting of aid workers is political and ideological.
There is a dangerous blurring of the lines between the work of soldiers and aid workers. When aid workers distribute aid, they do it without discrimination, to friend and foe. Soldiers do discriminate. But if soldiers and aid workers appear to be performing the same tasks, how can an insurgent differentiate?
Holmes explains: ''Sometimes the military are trained to be performing a humanitarian role, sometimes they explicitly do humanitarian tasks, giving out food and water, but they do it not in what we would regard as a genuine humanitarian way based on need, but it's based on something else - it's based on helping people in villages who are helping them.''
This confusion of roles and the adoption by the military of the idea that they are carrying out a humanitarian role is putting the genuine humanitarians in danger.
The military is not alone to blame for these developments, and the fact that soldiers are undertaking more of this humanitarian-type work is not the only reason more aid workers are getting targeted. General opportunist banditry is also on the rise.
For its part the UN is trying to make more of an effort to distinguish its role from that of the military, meaning it will, if necessary, talk to the Taliban in Afghanistan or Al Shabaab in Somalia. They are also using more local staff, and are reluctantly adopting more physical security measures.
In the meantime, Holmes's comments raise some important issues, particularly as more people question the role coalition forces are playing in Afghanistan. For example, is providing humanitarian work to aid your war effort still humanitarian work? Do we want our soldiers to be performing this kind of role? Is it actually achieving the desired political outcomes anyway?
Sometimes, of course, there are security situations so perilous, where the humanitarian need is so dire, that the only way to get the care to the people is through the military. But that is not why Australian soldiers are in Afghanistan.
Coalition soldiers, we are told, are performing counter-insurgency in Afghanistan, conducting ''population-centric'' warfare where the battle is for hearts and minds. This might be a more palatable version of warfare, but it is just as deadly as the other kind - for soldiers and increasingly for aid workers.
Cynthia Banham is the diplomatic correspondent.

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SLIDESHOW: "The Collectibles" web TV series film heroically this weekend
Last month we featured a new web TV series "The Collectibles"- superheroes meets "The Office". Cast & crew, several from West Seattle & White Center, are heroically spending the 3-day weekend in their Bothel studio (witnessing some snowfall) filming four more of the 10 episodes, soon to air. Lisa Skvarla of Lee's Martial Arts Academy on California Ave. is a real-life black belt. She is associate producer & sassy cast member, "Ultrafemme". For more information visit: www.the-collectibles.com.
Co-writers/directors/producers are Dan Heinrich & Todd Downing. Downing lives in West Seattle and is also with Twelfth Night and their Kenyon Hall productions. His wife Raechelle is the line producer. " love watching this show," she said. "I love reading it. The scripts are great. Our 14 year-old daughter Kayleigh is here helping us out. She's in Twelfth Night now."
Joe Downing (No relation to Todd) portrays superhero "Death-Wish". A former West Seattle resident, Joe is also a martial artist like Skvarla. The youthful 37 year-old said, "My father Kum Sung is a grand master martial artist with a school in New Jersey. My background is mainly taekwando, but I've learned jiu jitsu and some other things. I am proud to say I have never been in a fight. I'm a nice guy. My dad has always wanted to do this, and created his own movie, 'Ninja Way.'"
Actor Conner Marx who portrays "Graviator", a wanna-be superhero, also works with West Seattle's Stephanie Cristalli Photography.
Superhero "Super Star" Brian Sutherland, a star in "All My Presidents" filmed on North Admiral recently. He is a former West Seattle and Ballard resident. "I love playing Super Star," he said. "Super Star is basically the boss. He takes naps, and is a dim-witted character all about love and making everything work, even if it's all falling apart. Lisa and I trained together at the Seattle acting school. Many of us trained there, four years, sometimes seven days a week. It's nice we are all still working together."
Conor Hogan was born and raised in White Center, Chief Sealth graduate of '98 and attended South Seattle Community College. He has acted with Todd in Twelfth Nigh Productions for 10 years, and appeared in Fiddler on the Roof, Bye Bye Birdie and others. In the Collectibles is best boy, the director and producer's right hand."You're constantly moving fast, fast, fast," he said.
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Hi Everyone,
I expect we are all hoping for a good clear weather run, so no mist on the lake to spot any upturned tyres!
This will be my 12th Marathon and could be my last!
Really very much looking forward to it.
I am not a negative person, however it may be a nice way to finish my Marathon career.
1982 I ran the Nottingham Robin Hood Marathon in 2:48 PB
2010 my last Marathon ran London in 3:55.
So getting a lot slower, I have Chronic Arthritis, diagnosed in 1990.
Wish everyone great health and zero injuries for LN.
Good Luck.
Hi BerlinBolt,
The best of luck in LN.
I can only dream of running a marathon in the times you have obtained, so very well done.
I'm looking at running my 10th of 2012 marathon in LN in time of under 5hrs (with injury), although it would be nice to finish around 4h30.
Good luck with the rest of your training.
Hi SkiSpeedQueen,
Thanks for that and I'm sure you will achieve your goal being so experienced!
I lost my MoJo some time back ! Still plodding away.
Grit and determination will get us both through.
Whatever time, is a Mega achievment as you already know !
Good luck Buddy.
LN will be my very first marathon. Really looking forward to it, have heard so many positive things about it.
Good luck to everyone entering.
Hello everyone. Really looking forward to the views and the fresh air ! A bit worried about the bus and loo situation. That's because I'm over 50, I guess....
Can't wait!
It's my fifth marathon and a huge treat for my 30th birthday (which is this Monday) - a whole weekend away with my partner, though its just me doing the marathon! What a fab holiday!
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HIGH SCHOOL SOCCER: Indiana boys nip Derry to improve to 9-2
David Zimmerman and Braydon Sharbaugh each scored to lift Indiana to a 2-1 win over Derry in a WPIAL Section 1-AA boys' soccer match Saturday.
Zimmerman's goal was assisted by Cole Rosenberger, and Zimmerman assisted on Sharbaugh's goal.
The Indians' junior varsity team lost, 1-0.
Indiana (9-2 overall, 4-2 section) travels to Greensburg Salem on Tuesday.


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Melissa Gilbert and Timothy Busfield joined her.
Mariah Carey and the tightest pants ever get some help to her car.
Nicky Hilton doing some last minute Christmas shopping.
Pamela Anderson shows off her ice skating skills as she gets ready for her next reality show competition in England.
Peter Facinelli takes his daughter shopping.
Rita Ora trying a new position in Dubai.
Ryan Seacrest and Julianne Hough went out for his birthday. They book look thrilled.
Meanwhile, Julianne's brother, Derek went shopping.
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This RV park is fabulous!! The staff is very friendly and the maintenance is done beautifully!! It is near many casinos and shopping. The park is so quiet, you don't even realize you have neighbors. I would recommend this to everyone!! The rates are reasonable, and even the WiFi works where ever you are in the park.
Date of Stay: May, 2009
If you enjoy drama, and want to deal with someone who is drunk 24/7; then this is the park for you!! When you check in, you have to be here before 9 a.m. or forget it!! The bathrooms are poorly cleaned, the overall maintenance of the park is horrible. Weeds everywhere!! Some people are charged for internet--when it works, and some are not; depending how drunk she is upon check-in. You must also give your ip-address so she can track what you do online. As for "friendly", that is a misused term for this park. There are plenty of reasonable and beautiful parks in town that are more pleasant and enjoyable. Especially for long stays!! I will NEVER stay at this park again OR recommend it to anyone!!!


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NEW BOOKS: Innovative Africa: The new face of Africa (Technology & Startups)
I'm all about emerging markets. Innovation in technology in parts of the world that have historically been on the losing-end of tech-booms excites me. Here's one book I'm looking forward to reading that was just published this month: Innovative Africa: The new face of Africa by Will Mutua, Mbwana Alliy
We live in an age of increasing innovation taking place throughout the world. Easy access to cheap or free technology, social media networks and oceans of investors looking to seep their funds into the next game-changing idea has leveled the playing field and created fertile ground for entrepreneurs and would-be entrepreneurs around the world to launch tech startups. It really is a new day.
Africa (like many other parts of the world) is experiencing an "innovation rebirth" that is holding its own compared to other parts of the world. Particularly with regards to mobile technology (where African nations need and use technological innovations the most), it's clear Africa is making strides in tech. MobileActive.org (@MobileActive) documents research being done on the numerous mobile technological advances being done in third world countries and many poorer nations in Africa and the results are both surprising and hopeful. While Forbes recently did a post on Africa's hottest tech startups which you can read here. And since we're on the subject and I'm sharing, here are tweets from last week's Open Innovation Africa Summit (
#OIAS) http://ow.ly/bl3nw #innovation
Innovative Africa: The New Face of Africa is a compilation of essays discussing Africa's current and potential future tech startup economy. Can't wait to get my hands on this one. Here are a few of the chapters that should make any entrepreneur, investor, marketer or techie want to grab this book and delve in:
- Doing Tech Business in Africa: A Few Lessons from Twitter's Rise in Africa
- Which African Country is Best To Do a Tech Startup?
- The Road Ahead: Blueprint for Building Africa's Tech Ecosystem
- Disruptive Innovation in the African Tech Context
- 7 Stepts to Raising Seed Investment for Africa-focused Tech Startups
- Mending Africa's Tech Skills Gap & Tapping into its Youthful Population to Power Innovation in Tech
- The Making of Silicon Valleys in Africa
- Looking East: Observations and Lessons for Africa from China's Startup Ecosystem and Special Economic Zones
Below is more about the book from the publisher. You can also download a preview of the first few chapters here. It's available on Amazon here.
Technology and Innovation are playing a vital role in shaping Africa's future and will continue to do so. This collection of essays on the 'New face of Africa' posits an African continent where technology, innovation and entrepreneurship create new opportunities for even further growth on the continent.
We look at a wide array of issues that affect the creation, growth and sustainability of startup and innovation ecosystems around the continent. The book does not seek to address issues at the level of a specific country or locality, but instead looks at things from a broad and high level, with the intention of highlighting issues that are pertinent across borders and cultures. Indeed, some aspects may apply more within some country or culture than others ("Africa is not a country").
The book is divided into two parts: The first, "Investigating Technology Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Africa", takes a look at the current state of things and makes observations of what progress has been made, existing challenges and opportunities as well as providing specific recommendations that startups, investors and government can use to further technology innovation and entrepreneurship on the continent.
The second part "In Search of a Model for Technology Innovation and Entrepreneurship Ecosystems that fits the African Context" takes a close up view of three innovative economies: Silicon Valley, China and Israel, from which we try to glean a few lessons about startup ecosystems that could be applied within the African context in order to come up with a (perhaps hybrid) model that works best for the continent and specific nations within the continent.


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The life of a celebrity and editorial hairstylist can take you off to the most exotic locales at a moment's notice (or so we've heard…and daydreamed about)—and what's a hairstylist to do in a pinch with nary an outlet in sight? This patented cordless, rechargeable styling iron from Sarah Potempa's growing lineup of innovative, high-quality tools is just the ticket for any jet setter. Just charge the travel iron in an ordinary outlet, store it in the heat resistant carrying case, tuck it into your bag, and pop it out whenever you need it—it can store up to thirty minutes of battery power.


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2012 Faculty Spotlight - East Asia
The Asian Studies Program at UVM draws upon the talents of numerous faculty members from various departments within and beyond the College of Arts and Sciences. With each edition of our program newsletter, we cast a spotlight upon a handful of those scholar-teachers and reveal a quick portrait of their current research activity. This spring we take a look at some of our specialists in the East Asia field who spent time in China and Japan in 2012 –
Associate Professor of History and Director of Asian Studies Erik Esselstrom spent five months in Japan teaching at the Graduate School of Hitotsubashi University in the western suburbs of Tokyo.
Associate Professor of Anthropology Jeanne Shea wins Fulbright fellowship for research in China.
In 2012 Political Science Professor Matthew Carlson packed up his family to live in Japan for a year.
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Google Maps Has Forsaken Us
Once upon a time, in the days of yore — meaning, in hyper-fast-forward Silicon Valley, five years ago — there were things you could count on, evident truths on which you could rely, cornerstones on which you could construct your mental model of the world; and high on any such list would have been "Google will provide you with relevant search results."
Yeah, well, that was then, this is now. I am sorry to report that after exhaustive anecdotal use I have concluded that the new Google Maps is kind of a shit show.
Check this out:
Remember when GMaps would actually show you the places you searched for? Sigh. From a Berkeley IP number, no less: —
Jon Evans (@rezendi)
Seriously, Google? I try to find some tasty In-N-Out Burger in the East Bay (because the city in which I live is of such) and when I search for "in-n-out east bay" you direct me to Gleghorn-South Kilgore, Arizona ? (edit: Arkansas. Sorry, I'm Canadian.) If you have developed a sense of humor, it is one with sharp ironic teeth.
But wait, there's more. Consider this:
…Well, OK, I guess there's just no such place, must have misspelled it or something. Unless…let's just try…what the hell?
FFS, Google. If I search your maps for "Sambisa Forest" and there is anyplace in the world named, conveniently enough, "Sambisa Forest", how about you just go ahead and show it to me without me having to first specify the nation in question?
Is it just me? I sure don't think so:
new google maps: like most web 3.0, fucking terrible and substantially worse than old google maps.—
ಠ_ರೃ强大声 Alex Leitch (@aeleitch)
Alex is quite right. All of the above are searches which, I'm quite confident, would have worked beautifully back in the day. Google Maps used to be absolutely wonderful. It was working, and then they broke it, and now it's actually pretty bad.
I know, I know, I'm whining about a free service — for the — but it's a free service that provides Google with an immense amount of valuable data, one which is portrayed as convenient and reliable, and one which they presumably want me to keep using. I think it's reasonable to point out repeated ridiculous-seeming failures in what is arguably its most fundamental feature.
Or, as Matt Haughey : "That's Google trying to be helpful, but not being actually helpful: and in reality, confusing me … Google indexes all of the world's information … Why doesn't Google bring any of that additional information into searches and results within the Maps app?"
Good question, Matt.
I suppose one possible culprit is Google's increasing use of (PDF) Such networks are, by their nature, black boxes whose outcomes cannot be traced to any particular algorithm or line of code. Maybe I'm just unlucky enough to be an outlier who keeps running into anomalous outcomes, which have actually improved for the vast majority of users.
Maybe. But I doubt it. Instead I strongly suspect the answer is strongly related to some kind of byzantine system of feudal silos and fiefdoms within the Google empire. Because when I'm not tooling around the East Bay in search of tasty In-N-Out Burger, I'm busy writing web and smartphone apps for , and in that capacity I keep running into kind of astonishing Google-product bug reports like:
- "," reported July 2012, still active in January 2014;
- "," something which used to work in previous versions of Android, but suddenly started silently failing in 4.4, despite file-upload inputs being, y'know, not exactly the rarest and most exotic elements in web pages across the world;
- and my , which was reported by some poor developer in, get this, 2009 — let me say that again, two thousand and nine, nearly five years ago — and still has not been fixed.
My point? The ways of Google are mysterious. Both its moonshots and its ignoble failings are dictated by criteria and desires as inscrutable and baffling as those of the fabled Bavarian Illuminati. Users? Developers? Don't make me laugh. Nowadays we are barely worthy of Google's contempt.
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Modification of the surfaces of Wyoming montmorillonite by the cationic surfactants alkyl trimethyl, dialkyl dimethyl and trialkyl methyl ammonium bromides
Frost, Ray L., Xi, Yunfei, & He, Hongping (2007) Modification of the surfaces of Wyoming montmorillonite by the cationic surfactants alkyl trimethyl, dialkyl dimethyl and trialkyl methyl ammonium bromides. Journal of Colloid and Interface Science, 305(1), pp. 150-158.
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Surfaces of a Wyoming SWy-2 sodium montmorillonite were modified using microwave radiation through intercalation with the cationic surfactants octadecyltrimethylammonium bromide, dimethyldioctadecylammonium bromide and methyltrioctadecylammonium bromide by an ion exchange mechanism. Changes in the surfaces and structure were characterized using X-ray diffraction (XRD), thermal analysis (TG) and Infrared (IR) spectroscopy. Different configurations of surfactants within montmorillonite interlayer are proposed based on d(001) basal spacings. A range of surfactant molecular environments within the surface-modified montmorillonite are proposed based upon their thermal decomposition. IR spectroscopy using a smart endurance single bounce diamond attenuated total reflection (ATR) cell has been used to study the changes in the spectra of CH asymmetric and symmetric stretching modes of the surfactants to provide more information of the surfactant molecular configurations.
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Menlo School product and former Central Coast Section singles champion Dmitry Tursunov reached the quarterfinals of the Western and Southern Open in Cincinnati with a 6-2, 6-4 upset over fourth-ranked David Ferrer of Spain on Thursday.
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Tursonov was only at Menlo one year, so don't think he's a Menlo "product."
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Thanks for taking the time to comment. Tursunov, of course, left Menlo School after one year to pursue his professional tennis career, reaching a career-high ranking of No. 20 at one point. He did not graduate from high school, earning his G.E.D. while on tour. Tursunov was trained by Bill Shine for the year, and acknowledged in an interview I had with him, when he appeared at the SAP Open in San Jose years ago, that Shine was a positive influence on him and that he valued the experience he had at Menlo. He continues to keep in touch with several of his former classmates. This is my long-winded explanation of why I use the term "product" instead of "grad" or "alum." It's the same term I use for the Bryan brothers, since they were at Stanford two years before turning professional. Perhaps there is a better term to use, though I would likely choose to continue utilizing "product."


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Wolters can play some point and has size to play 2guard as well.. He can shoot the ball from anywhere and also has some moves going to the rim. Hes kinda Gordan Hayward like, with alittle more explosion(when hes on).
Like I said before,t his would be a great draft to get multiple picks, as I think the Knicks could easily get 2helpful parts, with how hard this yrs evaluation process is, so many guys are gonna go farther then they should of.. Some combonation of Nate Wolters, Kelly Olynck, Gorgi Dieng, Reggie Bullock, Shane Larkin, would be great..
STAT is completely useless playing with Carmelo. Its ridiculous a guy can't figure out how to play with another player. Its a joke that Stat can't figure out how to play well with another super star scorer.. Why would u even want a player like that?
where do you come up with this nonsense about stat being useless playing with melo? do you even watch the games or look at advanced statistics at all? according to advanced statistics the knicks best lineup was felton, JR, melo, stat, chandler.
stat and melo playing together has NEVER been the problem. the problem was a combination of dantoni being a terrible coach that tried to play amare as a stretch 4 and have him shooting 3s (same thing he did to gasol on the lakers) due to chandler killing the offensive spacing along with amare's health. when amare was healthy this season he was playing amazing. i think he had a top 10 per if i'm not mistaken.
the only reason for anyone to want to trade amare is his health and his contract. his play with melo has never been a problem. it's been completely overblown by the media and ignorant fans that just blame the 2 best players on the team.
barnani is trash. doesn't rebound, doesn't defend, doesn't stay healthy. he's a worse version of stat. on paper he might fit better in between chandler and melo but that is only on offense. he's a worse defender and rebounder than stat. plus i doubt woodson would ever have a frontcourt of melo, bargs and chandler. he's in love with small ball and melo at the 4.
barnani shot .399 from the field and .309 from 3pt this past season. 11.23 per (15 is league average)
amare had a per of 22.16.
there is no comparison at all between amare and bargs. the only reason to discuss it is amare's health and contract. i don't think it is worth it to get a worse player that is also injury prone because the difference between amare's contract and bargs isn't enough to get the knicks under the cap so what's the point?
bargs contract is the same length as amare's and like 10 mil less per season.
knicks right now will have 76 mil committed for 2014/15 if melo takes his player option. this is not including the MLE the knicks will surely use this year and next, along with the contract they give to JR which will be around 6 mil in that season.
so if you replace amare with bargs (not even including fields' horrible contract that redeye originally suggested in the trade) the knicks will still be over the cap. so there is no added financial benefit for swapping amare with bargs other than the owner paying less luxury tax. which makes the debate simply about amare vs bargs the player, along with amare's health.
which brings me back to my original thought. i'd rather take the small chance of amare being healthy over bargs. if amare stays healthy (a huge if i know) it could potentially put the knicks over the top and give them a chance at a title. bargs doesn't do that. he is simply not the type of player that impacts the game like amare.
if the knicks could somehow move bargs for other role players then maybe it would be more plausible to me. there was some talk about boozer for bargs this past season. i would definitely consider doing amare for boozer in a 3 team trade. boozer has by far the most value out of those players so the knicks or raptors would have to include other assets to get it done. the bulls just wanted to get under the luxury tax more so than they wanted to get rid of boozer i think.
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I also like the flexibility of 2 contracts rather then just 1 big 1 at the trade deadline if there is a piece they want. Amares expiring is great but its not going to be easy to find a 23 million in salaries to send back if that team is over
you're viewing it more as a trade for the future rebuild where as i'm still all in for the best chance of winning this year or next. plus you guys know i'm a homer and i still love amare... i really don't like bargs' game at all. i still despise fields as well (as a player, not as a person). i would view as a step back even if bargs was healthy.
i don't think the spacing is the big problem with melo/amare, especially now that amare developed a solid post game and melo has improved his 3pt shooting. tyson is more of the problem. if the knicks had a center like gasol OMG stat and melo would absolutely work.
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According to PER last season are PG's was the worst group for this team.
Were did u find the + - with Melo and Stoudamire because from the 82 games site I got an even + - from adding and subtracting. The best lineup per minute I could find with all 3 on the court was Kidd Smith Melo Stoudamire Chandler. That Lineup was +25 in 56 minutes which is ridiculous really.
The Felton Smith Melo Stoudamire Chandler group was +4 in 103 minutes. Not really that impressive. The worst unit with them together is with Stoudamire at Center. Prigioni-Smith-Novak-Anthony-Stoudemire was -29 in 47 minutes thats awful.
Also the rebounding with Bargs at the 4 would still be better then who is playing the 3 for the Knicks now. If Woody doesnt play Melo and Bargs together though this trade is counter productive


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As it stands now Gill and Johnson will oppose each other a year from now for the fourth time — but in a mostly new congressional district that arcs from Champaign-Urbana on the northeast to the Illinois suburbs of St. Louis on the southwest. Johnson has defeated Gill in congressional races in 2004, 2006 and 2010.
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I just got my own property to hunt in south Alabama, just cleared my property out and dont have enough time to set up a plot so someone told me about ice cream salt. I took a few boxes and put them in a gym bag and hung it from a tree. I was told that everytime it rains the salt will get into the soil and deer go crazy over it. In Alabama state law says the only thing you can hunt over is pure salt so that is all I have to work with. I got one doe on my camera but did not leave it out long. That was before I put the salt up, I was using apples and buck jam when I got the doe. My property is set like this. I am surrounded by woods on the south,east, and west. To the north is a dirt pit that belongs to the owner which has a stream running throught it. He tells me that there are alot of deer in the pit in the morning grazing. I am young and I am wanting some good advice. Thanks!
I believe you will fnd just about any salt will work in LA. You will also find no need to plant expensive seeds for greenfields. A clover/rye grass mixture will work just fine and ideal time to plant is Mid-late September.
The gym bag idea is fine and a tow sack will work just as well. I prefer to put my salt in an old stup in cly soil. It won't take long the "lick" will be huge and the deer actually lick the soil. I do believe however, you will find that is great for a camera but of little use for hunting purposes. I also suppose you are aware the rut in LA peaks in early January?
Good luck and enjoy working with your own property and remember this. Deer are edge animals. An S shaped food plot will beat a square one all to pieces.
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We return again with Path to Fellow, a recurring feature here on STC's Notebook to highlight the rich contributions of our honored members. If you're a Fellow or Associate Fellow and haven't been contacted to participate in this feature, please email Kevin Cuddihy.
I became an STC Fellow in 1999. Shortly thereafter (2002) the East Bay STC chapter to which I belong celebrated its fiftieth anniversary. So by luck the 50-year retrospective issue of the chapter newsletter (Devil Mountain Views) already contains my brief summary of the regional and personal trends and highlights that led to my becoming a Fellow (still online as "Looking Back: Technical Writing in the Bay Area").
That earlier article notes several mainstream, "expected" things (such as online publishing and usability) through which my Path to Fellow passed. Here, I want to comment on several equally important but rather unexpected things that also happened along that path.
First, I discovered that much current high-school classroom writing bears little connection to writing at work, but that real-world cases can be adapted to make very effective skill-building activities for students who write below grade level. Second, I found out that while learning to write (better) is hard for students who cannot learn from examples, learning from examples is itself a teachable and learnable skill (see my "Example Elaboration as a Neglected Instructional Strategy," SIGDOC01 Proceedings). And third, I found that the apparently specific techniques that help English-language learners cope with problems in their second language also generalize nicely to support all students as they improve their nonfiction ("technical") writing skills.
Together, these three realizations enabled me to launch a new and rewarding adventure just when I became a Fellow: an STC-based literacy outreach project to help precollege students (and their teachers) write more effectively for "authentic" communication in business and professional life, not just for school.
The Computation Directorate at my pre-retirement employer (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, LLNL) generously supported me in designing and presenting school-day workshops on basic technical writing for underperforming students at several high schools in the EBSTC service area. Later, the Edward Teller Education Center (a collaboration between LLNL and the University of California, Davis) enabled me to share my approach to building writing skills with dozens of in-service (and later, pre-service) science teachers during their summer professional-development internships. Still later, I introduced hundreds of students to the elements of effective technical communication (through their abstracts, risk assessments, and project posters) as they participated in the Tri-Valley Science and Engineering Fair (where I served on the fair's Scientific Review Committee). Most recently, in March 2011, at the only conference session to report on STC outreach, I summarized these literacy efforts for 70 teachers who were attending the huge annual meeting of the National Science Teachers Association in San Francisco.
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In my opinion, yes, the AGS are why you heat up faster than a non-AGS car.
But with that said, are you sure you're heating up fast?
Why I ask is, that gauge on your dash is nothing more than a fancy looking idiot light. It's terribly innaccurate to reality, as it jumps up to the middle of the range, or what seems like operating temperature, but from what I can recall this morning, it's approx 50degF colder than operating temp.
What we really need is for someone else who has the AGS to be able to take data on a cold morning like I did. Then we would really see the difference.
Hmmmmm, perhaps I will have to go to my local dealer and drive a new one with AGS and watch how it heats up on my scangauge.
It depends on where or how you drive, I don't have a scan gauge, but I do have the AGS and if you put the car into test mode (hold down the left OK button on the steering wheel from before the car starts until after the computer boots up and says TEST and scroll up or down you'll see various test parameters including the actual temperature sensor reading in degrees C.
The standard gauge is basically an idiot light for the most part reading normal before the car has even heated above 50C, normal operating temperature is nearer to 90-97C depending on conditions. I haven't timed the warm up, but the car can go from 14 or 21C up to around 60 + C in just a mile or so in town at slow speeds and getting stuck at lights, e.x. stopping for lunch during the work day, the car cools down to 50ish c and then heats back up to maybe 70ish on the return mile depending on how long you take to get back out.
The AGS doesn't seem to work for me visibly unless its really cold and I've commanded maximum heating performance (max defrost), or rather it didn't start to become noticeably effective until winter. During the summer months or with the a/c on in the fall I did not see the shutters completely closed.
This doesn't mean they weren't working or that they are broken, they could have been partially closed while driving along, however when the car was parked each time I went to look through the lower grille (the one that is easier to see the shutters in) was wide open.
The top and bottom grille shutters are linked to a single motor and temperature sensor as far as I know.
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George Zimmerman.....Again!
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#1 Sep 9, 2013
Come on fan club, let's look for ways to rationalize George's latest outbreak of domestic violence against his wife, Shellie, and her father. What took him so long to go on another rampage of violence? Line up your excuses for this event.
#2 Sep 9, 2013
Here you are again trying to stir up and interject comments into a subject you know nothing about. We would think that after your last crusade at trying to have a innocent man convicted that you would know by now that it is not what you think but up to the courts to decide. We all know about a woman scorned and many times the truth just may be stretched a bit. The news media and the escapade that Zimmerman's marriage had to endure is quite likely responsible for their divorce proceedings. Zimmerman's life is ruined and he will never have a normal life, that should be enough retaliation towards someone that has never done anything personal towards you. I am sure that the proof that you hold that he is guilty will never be offered, like the media will drain this subject empty in an attempt at making something to talk about at anothers expense. Pinnochio's nose was long, was it because he told a lie or was it because he stuck it in everyone elses business? lol, just wondering.
#3 Sep 9, 2013
What an A Hole.
#4 Sep 9, 2013
I guess you can defend him all you like, but that does not stop the fact that Zimmerman has proven to be a person who is totally out of control in his life. And yet, you still defend his actions. Now you even defend domestic violence and assaulting an old man. How many more examples will you need?
#5 Sep 9, 2013
Yes, Zimmerman is in fact proving that point.
#6 Sep 9, 2013
At this moment as you continue to point fingers and accuse, Zimmerman's wife admitted that there was no gun and there will be no charges filed by law enforcement. Where do you go with this from here. Only thing proven here is that Zimmerman is targeted by people like you and the news media and are not able to make anything stick. The only thing I defend is his right to be innocent until proven guilty, that right of which you so adamantely try to deny. A great remedy to prevent egg on the face is to have the facts first.
#7 Sep 9, 2013
Looks like zimerman is spiraling out of control. Ill venture a prediction, once the fact that his life is fully over that he will always be a pariah, fully dawns on him, he'll commit suicide by cop. When he does, all the groups that have a price on his head will have to donate the reward to the police station that the officer that kills him works out of.
At that poimt, I'll be laughing my ass off. Karma truly is a bitch.
#8 Sep 10, 2013
Let's venture another prediction that after all this is said and done, Zimmerman's lawyers will win in their lawsuit towards all the people who have falsely accused and slandered his name. All those groups that have a price on his head you speak of are no better than what you try to make Zimmerman out to be. These groups are vigilante groups that have no respect for our judicial system and are taking the law into their own hands. Karma is when something happens to you that you have done or wished on someone else, laugh now for your turn is coming. Karma truly is a bitch.
#9 Sep 10, 2013
Zimmerman 4 President!!!!
#10 Sep 10, 2013
There can be a variety of reasons why charges will not be filed. Battered women do this all the time. When you live long enough and observe the world, one of the many things you notice is that there are patterns that very seldom change. This was first displayed to the world with his killing Martin, and now he is committing violent acts with his family. Zimmerman has developed a clear behavior m.o. of being out of control. Maybe you have not noticed this walking around with blinders to the true facts regarding him. I will venture that the pattern will continue. All of your weak excuses will not change the facts. There will be more incidents of future out of control violence involving George Zimmerman. Watch and see. The man needs serious help.
#11 Sep 10, 2013
If the facts are there and he really is out of control, why is it that none of it is ever presented in front of a judge when he is under trial or in front of a D.A. when there are charges to be pressed? You people that already have him guilty are the ones with the blinders, you can't see the forest for the trees. You are so bent out of shape that he killed a black man while defending himself that you would not notised the facts if they were forced under your nose, you just want him convicted, guilty or not.
#12 Sep 10, 2013
Looks like the wife admitted there was no gun involved as she had originally claimed. That means she was lying. Add in the fact that she was just convicted of Lying to a judge. So why would anyone believe anything else she said? If Zimmerman assaulted anyone, that person has the option of filing charges. apparently, it either didn't happen or was so insignificant that the persol let it go.
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#13 Sep 10, 2013
That wasn't my post.Last time I checked, Zimmerman isn't in any trouble.Bummer, huh?
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#14 Sep 10, 2013
A lot of us need serious help.Only people like you, horrified that Zimmerman got away with self defense,construe non events into sinister plots.Your agenda is showing.
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#15 Sep 10, 2013
Looks like his wife, who already lied to a judge, was being a liar again.You may have to suck that laugh back, ha ha!
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#16 Sep 11, 2013
Anti-gun senators in Colorado RECALLED, replaced by pro-gun republicans.One of the recalled senators was the senate president....NO MORE!
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#17 Sep 11, 2013
Does anyone know the status of Zimmerman whether if he's being detained or not?
#18 Sep 11, 2013
"'News' is a business not your friend.
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#19 Sep 11, 2013
He was never really"detained".His wife recanted, lied, whatever you call it. No gun was around.Was all .
#20 Sep 11, 2013
He lost control and smashed up some items to the point where the police were contacted. He was handcuffed at the scene. Typical behavior of us all, wouldn't you say? Does anyone else on here who is 29 or over go that far with loss of control?
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Well, tomorrow is the day that JD and I find out if baby number 2 (which we have affectionately been calling "Reload") is a boy or a girl.
Time to weigh in and take a guess.
Last time someone asked what I thought s/he was because it's always best to go on "Mommy" instincts and they turned out to be correct. We were blessed with a beautiful baby boy.. this time I'm sorry to say I have had no Mommy impressions. I will be pleasantly surprised either way though JD and I are both kind of hoping for another boy.
What say the DC masses?
Sixto, you can rest easy tonight. You were right!
We are happy to announce that we are having a healthy little girl (as far as we know so far). She has two legs and two arms with ten fingers and ten toes.. two kidneys, four chambers in her heart, no cleft lip/pallet, one perfectly-sized brain. She is the picture of health and very active though modest and a bit shy. Her heart-rate was 127.
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A survey of the use of grading scales for contact lens complications in optometric practice
Efron, Nathan, Pritchard, Nicola, Brandon, Kady, Copeland, Joanne, Godfrey, Roslyn, Hamlyn, Benjamin, & Vrbancic, Vanessa (2011) A survey of the use of grading scales for contact lens complications in optometric practice. Clinical and Experimental Optometry, 94(2), pp. 193-199.
Purpose: The aim of this study was to investigate the extent and pattern of use of grading scales for contact lens complications ('grading scales') in optometric practice.
Methods: An anonymous postal survey was sent to all 756 members of the Queensland Division of Optometrists Association Australia. Information was elicited relating to level of experience, practice type and location, and mode of usage of grading scales.
Results: Survey forms were returned by 237 optometrists, representing a 31 per cent response rate. The majority of respondents (61 per cent) reported using grading scales frequently in practice, while 65 per cent of these preferred to use the Efron Grading Scales for Contact Lens Complications. Seventy-six per cent of optometrists use a method of incremental grading rather than simply grading with whole numbers. Grading scales are more likely to be used by optometrists who have recently graduated (p < 0.001), have a postgraduate certificate in ocular therapeutics (p = 0.018), see more contact lens patients (p = 0.027) and use other forms of grading scales (p < 0.001). The most frequently graded ocular conditions were corneal staining, papillary conjunctivitis and conjunctival redness. The main reasons for not using grading scales included a preference for sketches, photographs or descriptions (87 per cent) and unavailability of scales (29 per cent).
Conclusion: Grading scales for contact lens complications are used extensively in optometric practice for a variety of purposes. This tool can now be considered as an expected norm in contact lens practice. We advocate the incorporation of such grading scales into professional guidelines and standards for good optometric clinical practice.
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Europe has urged G20 nations and other big contributors around the world to come to the aid of eurozone bailout efforts through the IMF, after British resistance saw finance ministers miss a self-imposed EU target.
Eurozone chief Jean-Claude Juncker said after a 3½ hour conference call that the 17 single currency countries had pledged 150 billion euros ($195.89 billion) in new loans for the International Monetary Fund to use in stabilising the debt-laden euro area.
The shortfall from a 200-billion-euro target announced by EU leaders at a December 9 summit was in large part caused by Britain's refusal once more to sign up on the terms demanded.
Britain's refusal, which had been widely expected, came as the European Central Bank warned that contagion from the debt crisis could afflict other eurozone countries and even spread across the globe.
The central bank's financial stability review said tensions had now reached the "systemic crisis proportions" seen at the time of the Lehman Brothers collapse in 2008 – partly because of the failure of politicians to act in time.
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Britain's share, based on IMF quotas determined by wealth and size, would be in the order of some 30 billion euros.
The IMF currently has some 250 billion euros available for lending to countries that enter reform programs.
The appeal for help from states who rely on the eurozone as a major trading partner and fear recession in 2012 has put pressure on the United States as the biggest IMF contributor. Washington however has its own debt and budget crises to contend with.
"The EU would welcome G20 members and other financially strong IMF members to support the efforts to safeguard global financial stability by contributing to the increase in IMF resources so as to fill global financing gaps," Juncker said in a statement.
He said the Czech Republic, Denmark, Poland and Sweden had each pledged to make loans, but added that Britain would only "define its contribution early in the new year in the framework of the G20."
A British government spokesman said: "The UK has always been willing to consider further resources for the IMF, but for its global role and as part of a global agreement."
A diplomat involved in the talks said the European Union as a whole "implicitly" agreed to cough up, using individual loans.
A key factor, though, will be how the Americans respond.
Juncker, who spoke of a "special responsibility" for eurozone states, noted that for some countries, notably Germany, parliamentary approval will be required before it will come up with the lion's share at 45 billion euros.
The head of the German central bank said last week that it will only do so on condition the very biggest G20 contributors come through with the goods.
Jens Weidmann said that Germany's quota is available, provided there is "fair" burden-sharing among IMF members.
But "if large members, for example the US, were to say 'we're not taking part,' then from our point of view it is problematic," he said.
Russia last week suggested in Brussels that it could contribute up to $US20 billion in loans and investments via the IMF but China, India and Brazil have yet to go that far.
Finance ministers knew international credit rating agencies were watching closely – after one of the biggest, Fitch, warned that a meaningful solution may prove "beyond reach" of the EU.
The diplomatic source told AFP that the British government could not sell more money for the eurozone now to increasingly sceptical voters.
Finance minister George Osborne has maintained his position that London will not fund special eurozone aid since a G20 summit in Cannes in early November.
The latest sign London is out of synch with broader EU goals came 10 days ago after Prime Minister David Cameron vetoed an EU treaty change and then opted out of a subsequent pact to create a new "fiscal union."
The EU leaders decided to give the IMF the lead following months struggling to increase their existing, stretched eurozone bailout fund, the 440-billion-euro European Financial Stability Facility (EFSF) set up last year after Greece had to be rescued.
The agreement should offer some respite on the day that European Central Bank (ECB) chief Mario Draghi described as "morbid speculation" interpretations of an interview in the Financial Times in which he appeared to envisage a eurozone break-up.
In the interview, he said that if countries left the eurozone, they would only "have to undertake the same reforms that were due to begin with, but in a much weaker position."
That was seen as breaching the ultimate taboo, but he insisted: "I have no doubts whatsoever about the strength, the permanence and the irreversibility of the euro."
Draghi told MEPs in Brussels that pressure in bond markets in the first quarter would be "really very, very significant, if not unprecedented" as hundreds of billions in debt came up for renewal.
Draghi told the European parliament's economic committee that EUR230bn of bank bonds, up to EUR300bn of sovereign bonds and more than EUR200bn of collateralised debt obligations will all become due in the first three months of 2012. He said the "fiscal compact" discussed in Brussels overnight was a breakthrough but was inadequate to solve the crisis.
Meanwhile, Germany raised the prospect of reopening negotiations on some form of protection for the City of London, the issue that led to the UK veto last week. Westerwelle's comments, following talks with the UK foreign secretary, William Hague, suggested serious efforts were to be made to repair the damage from the bust-up with Britain at the EU summit 10 days ago.
When Westerwelle was asked if it was still possible that the UK would agree a 27-strong treaty for the euro, he answered "with goodwill, it is do-able". He added "There is no doubt for us that we want to make the next steps in the EU together as 27, or next with Croatia as 28 countries."
The German foreign minister said: "We think we have a common destiny. We think the EU is not only the answer to the darkest chapter of our history. It is also a life insurance in times of globalisation because no country - not Germany, not Great Britain, not France - no country is strong and big enough to face the challenges of globalisation alone."
He added: "My main message is for the British people: you can count on us, and we count on you."
Meanwhile, Fitch Ratings has warned it could lower the triple-A rating of Europe's investment and development banks because they rely on support from troubled member countries.
Fitch said it had put the top rating of the European Investment Bank (EIB) and the Council of Europe Development Bank (CEB) on "rating watch negative", saying they could be downgraded within the next three months.
The French ratings agency said it had taken the action after warning six eurozone countries on Friday their credit scores could be downgraded. The countries targeted are Belgium, Cyprus, Ireland, Italy, Spain and Slovenia.
The credit watches "could lead to a downgrade between one and two notches for these countries, which are all shareholders of CEB and EIB", the firm said.
And the ECB warned the risk of failure of two or more major eurozone banks has increased sharply in the past six months and was now higher than it has been since 2007.
The chances of a simultaneous default of two or more banks in the next two years, which were practically zero at the start of 2007, now stand at around one in four, the ECB calculated in a new Financial Stability Review.
"The increase over the past six months of the probability that one or several eurozone banks will default has been more rapid and more marked than in the past, with the indicator of systemic risk reaching levels unprecedented" since the indicator started to be calculated in 2007, the central bank wrote.
The ECB calculates the index by taking into account stock prices and the prices of so-called credit default swaps (CDS), used to insure against the risk of a borrower failing to repay.
Generally speaking, the risks to financial stability in the single currency area "have increased considerably in the second half" of this year, ECB deputy president Vitor Constancio told a news conference.
He saw the biggest risk as a combination of contagion from the debt crisis, the vulnerability of the financial sector and weak economic growth.
Nevertheless, with the ECB making unlimited liquidity available to banks, there was no reason for the banking sector to stop lending to businesses and trigger a credit crunch which would be catastrophic for growth, Constancio said.
At the same time, the risk of a break-up of the eurozone has not been taken into account in the figures because such as a scenario was "unthinkable", he said.
Britain has announced plans to separate the retail and investment arms of its banks to prevent a repeat of the financial crisis that triggered massive state bailouts.
Backing the recommendations of the government-appointed Independent Commission on Banking (ICB), finance minister George Osborne also ordered Britain's biggest banks to substantially increase their capital buffers.
"While a European and international regulatory response to the crisis is important, we cannot rely on this response to make our banking system safe," Chancellor of the Exchequer Osborne told parliament on Monday.
"The government will separate retail and investment banking through a ring fence (...) to protect the British economy, protect British taxpayers and make sure nothing is too big to fail."
Legislation on ring fencing will be completed by the end of the current parliament in May 2015, while banks will be expected to comply "as soon as ... possible thereafter", said Osborne.
The ICB - chaired by former Bank of England chief economist John Vickers - issued a report in September that recommended a series of measures to protect retail operations by 2019.
The radical overhaul is an attempt to avoid a repeat of the massive state bailouts of lenders, including Royal Bank of Scotland, sparked by the 2008 global financial crisis.
The sector overhaul is to be pushed through despite an expensive and intensive lobbying effort on the part of lenders, who say the changes will hinder their business.
Osborne on Monday estimated that the changes would cost Britain's banking sector between £3.5 billion and £8 billion ($5.5 billion and $12.5 billion) a year.
Analysts believe the higher charges risk being passed on to customers, while some say it could force banks such as Barclays and HSBC to relocate abroad.
The International Monetary Fund says it will release €2.9 billion ($3.8 billion) to Portugal in the newest instalment of the country's huge rescue loan.
The release follows the second IMF formal review of Portugal's progress on budget austerity and economic reforms under the 78-billion-euro IMF-European Union bailout program launched last May.
Last week the government announced it was well below the ceiling for the fiscal deficit set under the IMF-EU program.
The government headed by Pedro Passos Coelho said the deficit would likely not exceed 4.5 per cent of output this year, sharply below the maximum 5.9 per cent set by creditors.
Last year, the deficit hit 9.8 per cent of gross domestic product.
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