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The city is responding to WestJet passengers who really gotta go.
Work has started to install a single washroom in the departures lounge at the Brandon Municipal Airport while also increasing the size of the crowded lounge by about 10 seats.
One wall has been knocked down and an office will be eliminated to make way for the additional seating and one accessible single washroom, which is scheduled to be completed in the next few weeks.
"It's not going to be perfect, it's still going to be crowded, but it's going to be a little bit better," said Tim Sanderson, the city's director of transportation services, whose office has been sacrificed as a result of the lounge expansion.
The measure is temporary since the airport is gearing up for a major facelift and expansion, for which a cost estimate and plans will be released by the end of the year.
Those plans will be based on a redevelopment proposal from three years ago — plans which were based on a 50-seat aircraft landing in Brandon. However, since WestJet's daily service to Calgary is via a 78-seat Bombardier Q400, the airport will now have to expand the building itself, increasing the initial cost estimate of $2 million.
So for now, staff and passengers will have to make due. Brandon's transportation services department recently identified the major issues the airport has faced since WestJet started service in September. Most of those issues are a result of a simple lack of space.
"Everybody does a really good job, but the space is really tight," Sanderson said.
On top of that list is a plea to passengers to get to the airport early. According to the city report, passengers check in with 30 minutes or less to spare — a bad habit which has made the smaller space even more crowded during boarding time, Sanderson said.
The report also highlights the airport's "dated" decor, including old flooring, adequate-yet-inefficient lighting and 1970s-style orange bucket seats. "It's functional, but it's not esthetically pleasing," Sanderson said, something that he said won't change before the major renovations happen.
"There's just a lot of unknowns and we don't want to go and spend thousands and thousands of dollars on furniture now," he added.
According to the city, money for the major construction — which has no firm timeline yet — will come from its capital budget, but Brandon will also be on the hunt for provincial and federal funding for the redevelopment that will include a new baggage carousel, updated arrivals hall and passenger hold area, new furniture, new lighting, updated mechanical systems and anything else to keep WestJet (or any other potential airline) happy.
The first two months, however, have been deemed a success by the city's transportation department and WestJet despite the numerous challenges the tiny airport faces.
"It's as good as it can get with the existing footprint," Sanderson said.
Meanwhile, reports from several of Brandon's passengers indicate interest hasn't waned since the service launched and many of the daily flights have been full or nearly full.
WestJet didn't provide any statistics, but airline spokesperson Brie Thorsteinson Ogle told the Sun that the aircraft "has been consistently operating at a high capacity" since the launch.
"In the two months since the launch of WestJet service into Brandon, we could not be more pleased with the performance, and we hope that this strong trend continues," she said in an email. "The entire Westman area has been incredibly welcoming and they have proven the need for air service in the area."
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1) The Wicker Chest
Date: Yesterday
Time: 1400 hours
Location: Work
There is a wicker chest in Evan's office. It is adjacent to his couch and doubles as a coffee stand upon which the past months' issues of SURFING Magazine are spread. Evan places these mags on the ground in order to open the lid, and the thing is packed to brim with videos.
"Just make sure to return it in the same condition," Evan says, rummaging through it until he finds the one he's looking for.
Unlike many of the other videos, this one is in its original case. The movie's title reads "Morning of the Earth".
2) Progression
Date: Yesterday
Time: 1900 hours
Location: Surf Shop
The air is larger than life: A surfer clinging to his board is silhouetted by the merlot sunset in the background — the entire moment captured and enlarged so that it looms on the wall over fifteen feet big. Two of the other walls are lined with clothes, and the fourth one is boxed in by a glass display case with a register on top. On this wall there are framed pictures in chronological order that are iconographic to the different decades of surfing's history.
While I search through an arsenal of different shortboards that are kept in neat rows, I chuckle to myself as I notice the advertisement on the gigantic poster with the silhouetted surfer. "Since when did shoes have anything to do with surfing?" I think.
3) Morning of the Earth
Date: Yesterday
Time: 2200 hours
Location: Home
From the first wave on Albert Falzon's movie I'm hypnotized. It rolls on and on in an endless stretch, empty and gilded by the morning sun. Michael Peterson at Kirra, Nat Young at Broken Heads, Gerry Lopez at Pipe — seeing these innovators of the past draw fluid lines down the same perfect waves that are still breaking today, I'm invigorated. People don't surf like this any more, but it's not something to lament. It's just refreshing to see. Much like it's hard to tell that the earth is round when you're standing on it, I need this extra perspective to put my own surfing into context. The music, the waves, surfing's rich cultural past — this is more than watching a video, it's a sance.
4) The {{{Blazer}}}
Day: Today
Time: 0100 hours
Location: Down the block
"Just make sure to return it in the same condition," Josh's father says.
He's balancing on an unstable chair trying to reach above one of the cabinets in his garage.
Even though it's one o'clock in the morning I knew he would be awake. He usually spends this early hour of the day chiseling stone sculptures in his workroom. Besides his "income-job" as an electrician this is the only other way that I know of that he spends his time. Every once in a while, when the swell's really pumping, he'll take out his fish for a session; but that's only when it's really pumping. When I first met him several years back, he had told me that his "hard-core" surfing days stopped in the late '70s.
Josh's father brings down an old orange board, at first sliding it with his fingertips and then getting a better grasp with the full grip of his hand, that looks like the type I saw in Falzon's movie. It has a long, ten-inch single fin with a small hole in it for the leash, is three inches thick, and has a diamond tail. The board is caked in a thick layer of dust.
"I haven't ridden it since '78," he says. "But the thing just flies down the line like a fire bolt."
Josh's father hands me the board and laughs to himself.
"We used to call it 'The Blazer'."
5) Obligation
Day: Today
Time: 0900 hours
Location: Work
Evan suggests doing a {{{review}}} of Morning of the Earth. I type one up in the standard movie-review format — the who, what, when, where — concise and to the point, but I don't even bother to turn it in because it doesn't get across what I feel is important about the movie. So I try my hand at it again. This time I do it as an editorial, inserting tidbits of my opinion throughout an analysis of the differences and similarities between modern day surf films and Morning of the Earth. I toss this version too, because I'm still not able to get across the way it affected me.
I decide to take a break and end up zoning out remembering my morning surf session on "The Blazer". The waves breaking were some of the first ones we've had in a long while. I don't know what it was that possessed me and made me decide to put my session at risk by paddling out on a type of board I've never ridden before. I didn't even sleep the entire night because I was so amped on surfing like those guys I saw in the movie. There was something in the fact that it took place over thirty years ago that made it all the more powerful. I wanted to recreate the same exact feeling that they experienced. Suddenly, the simple act of riding a wave took on a whole new dimension of meaning, and I wanted to make sure that it was real.
When I get back from my break I'm still at a loss as to how to convey these thoughts the movie spawned. I decide to let the review write itself, and after I'm done with this I'll return the two relics I borrowed — as I had promised — in the same condition. It's a good thing I never made any similar promises about myself.


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The Last Bison talks to The First Five about instrumentation, the songwriting process and their hope for their music:
"One of our prayers is that people experience joy through the music we play. We love creating art that's beautiful, good, and true. I mean, that's one of our goals is to put that out there. We see things beyond music, we really do feel that we're trying to create art that impacts people, and it's not just a band just creating music."
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Newark, N.J. • Free Wi-Fi is coming to the New York City metro area's major airports.
The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey on Wednesday approved a plan to offer free access at Newark Liberty International, John F. Kennedy International and LaGuardia airports, to a point: Wi-Fi would be free for 30 minutes, then travelers would have to pay $7.95 for the day.
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I thought I'd start a thread on a shopping list of what to buy prior to Surgery. I know I can find tips throughtout all the posts on RealSelf but just though a one stop thread with it all would be nice and convninent. So If any of the ladies here who have suggestions on what to get prior to surgery feel free to add. Good luck on the new boobs ladies! Ace Bandage Wrap Ice Packs (any suggestions on types of ice packs?) plastic silverware and paper plates and bowls Poggie Bait ( Army term for snacks and junk food lol)


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Ladies' Most HATED Nicknames Of All Time!
Apparently, there's a BIG difference in "Baby" as opposed to "Babe." Well, at least according to this list compiled by the readers of The Daily Mail. "Baby" is only the 17th most hated nickname chosen by women, as opposed to "babe" which was numero uno. Before I go on,you should know that this a BRITISH list. Just check out #17. Treacle. I said, "huh?" You probably already knew that this was referring to a golden syrup that is a mild mixture of molasses and/or cornsyrup, etc. But my education in the kitchen has limits! OK, radio campers, here we go.
1. Babe
2. Sweet cheeks
3. Snookums
4. Baby doll
5. Baby girl
6. Hot Sauce
7. Ducky
8. Baby cakes
9. Sexy pants
10. Pudding
11. Muffin
12. Angel pie
13. Pumpkin
14. Puppy
15. Sugar lips
16. Hottie
17. Baby
18. Pickle
19. Honeybun
20. Sugar pie
When it comes to referring to appearance, there ARE some names that are acceptable. Words like "gorgeous,"" beautiful" and "lovely" were considered OK. The research also revealed that only one in five of those surveyed calls their partner by their full name the majority of the time. That would be ex'es ... or soon to be.
So ladies, what is a nickname you absolutely HATE? Give your comments!


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Greg was born in 1948, the son of a family doctor and his wife, a political science major, also from Indiana University. Dr. Garrison practiced general family medicine in Cumberland, Indiana for forty years, delivering babies, setting fractures, sewing up lacerations, and otherwise tending his flock of hundreds of Hancock and Marion County families, before retiring in the early 80s. Strong Christians and stalwart family folks, the Garrisons raised Greg and brother Chris (still his law partner after all these years!) in the traditions and teachings of the Bible, the Constitution, and the bedrock principles of conservative politics. Both the boys� parents are alive and well, and Grandpa still tends to the medical needs of his ten grandchildren and his growing brood of great grandchildren.
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UPDATE 1-RESEARCH ALERT-Brokerages slash '08 estimates on Lehman
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June 10 (Reuters) - Several brokerages slashed their 2008 estimates on Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc LEH.N on Tuesday, a day after Wall Street's smallest major investment bank projected a worse-than-expected quarterly loss of $2.77 billion and raised $6 billion in capital.
Shares of the bank were down more than 6 percent at $27.67 in morning trade on the New York Stock Exchange.
Lehman sold 143 million shares, or $4 billion worth, at $28 a share and $2 billion of preferred stock that automatically converts to common shares in three years.
"The sheer size of such a dilutive capital raise will put serious pressure on the bank's ability to deliver on meaningful earnings-per-share growth over the near to medium term," Oppenheimer & Co's Meredith Whitney said in a research note.
She said the most recent capital raise is 30 percent dilutive to existing shareholders. For 2008, Whitney now expects loss from the bank and maintained a "perform" rating on the stock.
"We underestimated how poorly marked Lehman's assets were. In addition, the larger capital raise at meaningfully lower prices indicates that the company did not have, and potentially still does not have, a complete grasp of its exposures," said Wachovia Capital Markets, which downgraded the stock to "market perform."
Wachovia said Morgan Stanley (MS.N: Quotazione) and Goldman Sachs (GS.N: Quotazione) were more attractive as they were better capitalized, more diverse, and have experienced dramatically less dilution.
Credit Suisse, which called Monday's announcement disappointing and disconcerting, said Lehman's exposure to real estate inventories continued to remain too large and lowered its rating to "neutral" from "outperform." Continua...


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Japan tsunami debris reports match UH prediction
An estimated 5 million to 20 million tons of debris sucked into the ocean during Japan's massive tsunami in March 2011 is due to hit Hawaiʻi in 2013 and the West Coast in 2014, according to University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa scientists.
Nikolai Maximenko, a senior researcher at UH Mānoa's International Pacific Research Center, and scientific computer programmer Jan Hafner, developed a computer model of ocean currents earlier this year to speculate where the debris might end up. Now, valuable sightings of the debris are being reported by sailing ships from area where the model predicted.
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This situation is a global crisIs, Please believe that it is a sign to clean up our planet. If we can over fish our oceans we have the capability to fish out all this debri and to collect up the already existing pacific trash mass.


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Oh the disappointment and anticipation is gonna kill me. Bought a Glock 22 on sat. Went to the county court to submit my receipt and get my permit ammended. They told me it will be 4 weeks until I'll get my stuff back to go get my new baby. I dont know if I'm going to make it!
Sucks to live in NY...at least for the gun laws anyway.
Hearing stuff like this makes me glad I moved recently. I had lived in Mecklenburg County (Charlotte, NC) and moved to Iredell County (Mooresville, NC) in the past month. I've spoken with a couple of shops here and they told me that if I was still in Charlotte to expect 2-3 weeks to get a permit to purchase. In Iredell county I've been told I can get the permit from the sheriff's office, go to the shop and have a gun all in less than an hour!
So yes, I can see how 4 weeks would be a killer. Hope it goes quickly for you!
Not ccw. I have a target/hunting pistol license. To purchase a handgun here in NY, you must buy the pistol and then take the receipt to the county of issuance. They then submit your receipt and paperwork to the judge who then has to approve your purchase. Once approved, they send you your new license(with new pistol listed on it), and a piece of paper with the county seal stamped on it. You then take that piece of paper to whomever you purchased the handgun from, and he releases the gun to you.
4 weeks, and the judge has to approve it. Unbelievable course of events.
Could be worse. In Florida, they say 90 days to get your CCW. I am at 4 months and counting. They say another month or two because of backlog.
I am also in NY. They told me 6 weeks just to get a date to get fingerprinted and photos. Then up to another 6 months for the license to be approved AND the 4 weeks to get it on your license over 8 months
My last one took 31 days to get the amended permit back - and that was back in Sept/Oct.
It would be intresting to see the sales numbers for gun and ammo companies. I wonder what the numbers look like for prior year and for year to date. It might be one of the few market segments doing well in this economy.
That Sux! I am glad we don't have to do that kind of crap in Texas. I feel for yall.
Between pending state legislation and the new Federal administration, the shops here in NJ can't keep guns on the shelf. Anything and everything is flying out the door, at any price. Purchase Permit applications are through the roof, and taking as long a 3 or 4 months to process. Even ammo is selling for about twice what it is in PA.
I heard someone call it the Obama/Corzine effect.
Gun sales have always been somewhat recession proof, but this is a new high.
Best of luck with your struggle.
I was at a local shop today talking to one of the sales guys. He was telling me that their cost from the distributor for Colt AR-15's is what they were selling them for back in Dec/Jan ($1200-1300). There are a lot of people all along the supply line who are making a lot of money from the increase in gun sales.
My permit modifications just took me 4 days. drop off reciepts to pick up slips. And then my LGS had one more she just had to show me (and i just had to buy lol) (just added .. a few)
The part I dont like is when the clerk tells me it(current permit and sales receipt for new gun) goes to the judge and she has to APPROVE it and send it back. That makes me nervous.
The judge has to sign off on any change (amendment) to the permit, and since adding a gun is considered an amendment, it goes to the judge.
Its all part of the way the Great State of New York does things.
God I love my Old Kentucky home. The only thing we wait on is to save the moneyto go the shop. I've bought them three at a time then went in a week later and got two more. I think I'd go nuts in a waiting state.


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Iron Confederacies: Southern Railways, Klan Violence, and ReconstructionThis book reexamines the Civil War and Reconstruction through the lens of the Southern Railway Security Company, a massive railway system that connected eastern Virginia to the Lower South.
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|RIP CITY! Blazers Advance On Buzzer Beater
PORTLAND, Ore. -- In the frenzied celebration following his buzzer-beating 3-pointer to eliminate the Houston Rockets from the playoffs, Portland Trail Blazers guard Damian Lillard grabbed the public address microphone and shouted:
"Rip City!"
The hometown crowd roared.
The shot gave Portland a 99-98 victory in Game 6 on Friday night and propelled the Blazers to the Western Conference semifinals for the first time in 14 years.
"That's definitely the biggest shot of my life," Lillard said, adding with a smile: "So far."
Portland, making its first playoff appearance since 2011, had been eliminated in the first round in its last six trips, and hadn't advanced to the second round since 2000.
Dwight Howard made four consecutive free throws to tie the game at 91 before making a bank shot that put Houston ahead with 3:04 to go. Robin Lopez scored on a tip shot to give the Blazers a 94-93 lead with 2:15 left, setting up a wild finish.
Howard's layup and foul shot put the Rockets back up 96-94 before Nicolas Batum's fadeaway jumper tied it again with 39.9 seconds left. Chandler Parsons scored on a reverse layup with 0.9 seconds left to give Houston the lead.
Lillard prevented the series from going back to Houston with his 3-pointer as time ran out. He finished with 25 points.
The Trail Blazers said Lillard is the first player to make a buzzer-beating shot to win a playoff series since John Stockton's 3 that led Utah over Houston in 1997's Western Conference finals, according to the Elias Sports Bureau.
"He made a hell of a shot," Rockets coach Kevin McHale said of Lillard.
Portland will face the winner of the series between San Antonio and Dallas. The Mavericks forced a deciding Game 7 with a 113-111 victory over the Spurs on Friday night. There are five first-round playoff series that have gone to seven games.
LaMarcus Aldridge led the Blazers with 30 points and 13 rebounds. He averaged 29.8 points during the series.
After losing the opening two games in Houston, then claiming one of a pair in Portland, the Rockets staved off elimination with a 108-98 victory on Wednesday night to narrow Portland's advantage in the series to 3-2. Howard had 22 points and 14 rebounds, and Jeremy Linredeemed himself from a poor performance in Game 4 with 21 points off the bench.
James Harden led the Rockets on Friday night with 34 points. Howard had 26 points and 11 rebounds as Houston -- which earned the nickname "Clutch City" back in the mid-1990s when the team won back-to-back NBA championships -- failed to become the ninth team to come back from a 3-1 deficit in a best-of-seven playoff series and advance.
"It hurts," Howard said. "When you put everything you've got on the floor and somebody hits you with a dagger like that, it's a tough pill to swallow."
After Lillard's 3, Howard went over to congratulate his friend and told him he was proud of him and to go win the title.
The Rockets went up 27-17 in the first quarter, led by Harden with 13 points. Portland closed the gap with an 11-2 run to close out the quarter, pulling within 29-28. The Blazers went ahead 34-32 on Thomas Robinson's 16-foot jumper, but the lead was short-lived.
Lillard's 3-pointer put Portland in front 54-50 with about two minutes left, but the Rockets led 58-56 at the half. Harden had 24 points and was 10-for-10 from the free-throw line in the half.
Howard, who collected three fouls in the first half, dunked to put the Rockets up 66-58 in the third quarter. Houston held on to the lead, but Aldridge narrowed it to 77-66 with a dunk late in the period.
Nicolas Batum made a 3-pointer and Robinson had back-to-back baskets early in the fourth to give the Blazers an 85-81 lead.
Howard traded shots with Lopez, who put Portland ahead 89-87 with six minutes left. He added free throws to cushion the lead to 91-87.
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In all, I have spent 32 years in public education. After beginning my career in northern New York in 1984 as a secondary science teacher, my wife and I moved our two kids to Lancaster County in 1992, where we have resided since. After 13 years of classroom teaching, I have spent the last 19 years in building and district level leadership positions - 10 years in Manheim Township and the last nine years here at Hempfield.
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Minori Japanese Restaurant, The Royale Bintang, Damansara, Malaysia
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it was certainly a beautiful launch of Minori! such energy and finesse!!ReplyDeleteReplies
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Wow, when r u going? tag me along!It was indeed a very 'energetic' launching programme..ReplyDeleteReplies
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In USJ Taipan, the Restaurants really "come" and "go", today Ikan Bakar..., after few months renovation for Secret Reci...., then after few months ... Although business and location maybe bad, there seem to be really a lot of RICH people willing to invest. The Restaurant name you recommend, when I first, I thought it was "Minoriti Restaurant" ! Well, another Japanese makan place ! Did you know that they are people now BoyCotting Japanese food due to the "FISH Island" thing !ReplyDeleteReplies
I didn't know that. What is the fish island thing exactly? Seems a bit harsh to stereotype and boycott an entire group of independent restaurants. Tell me more.Delete
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the folks of the klang valley can't get enough of japanese restaurants! i'd quite happily eat sushi for dinner at least three times a week! :DReplyDeleteReplies
Have to say I'd agree. I'd happily mix it up with a bit of shobu shobu, sushi, Japanese curry and soba noodles. :-)Delete
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Big fights on tap for at least nine straight weeks
By Karl Freitag
Starting this weekend, a long run of big fights will keep fight fans occupied every Saturday night. HBO/HBO PPV will be launching an all out boxing assault with major fights scheduled for eight of the next nine Saturday nights. All feature big name fighters in compelling bouts. Meanwhile, after their blockbuster Mayweather-Alvarez PPV, Showtime doesn't return until October 26, which fills in the one date HBO missed. Expect Showtime to go up against HBO in some still to be announced head-to-head telecasts in November. Matchups and dates will be announced shortly. AWE TV returns with an attractive bout on October 26, while boxing will also be back on network TV in November with an NBC Fight Night telecast. The run could extend even longer as there are still more dates to be filled in November and December.
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September 28 – HBO
Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. vs Brian Vera
StubHub Center, Carson, California
September 28 – HBO
Adonis Stevenson vs. Tavoris Cloud
Bell Centre, Montreal, Canada
October 5 – HBO
Wladimir Klitschko vs. Alexander Povetkin
SC Olimpiyskiy Arena in Moscow, Russia
October 5 – HBO
Miguel Cotto vs. Delvin Rodriguez
Terence Crawford vs. Andrey Klimov
Amway Center, Orlando, Florida
October 12 – HBO PPV
Juan Manuel Marquez vs Timothy Bradley
Orlando Salido vs. Orlando Cruz
Vasyl Lomachenko vs. Jose Luis Ramirez
Seanie Monaghan vs. Anthony Caputo-Smith
Thomas & Mack Centre, Las Vegas, Nevada
October 19 – HBO
Mike Alvarado vs. Ruslan Provodnikov
1st Bank Center in Broomfield, Colorado
October 26 – AWE TV and AWEtv.com
Kell Brook vs. Vyacheslav Senchenko
Motorpoint Arena in Sheffield, England
October 26 – Showtime
Bernard Hopkins vs. Karo Murat
Peter Quillin vs. Gabriel Rosado
Deontay Wilder vs. TBA
Boardwalk Hall, Atlantic City, New Jersey
November 2 – HBO
Gennady Golovkin vs. Curtis Stevens
Mike Perez vs. Magomed Abdusalamov
November 9 – HBO
Nonito Donaire vs. Vic Darchinyan
Mikey Garcia vs. "Rocky" Martinez
Vanes Martirosyan vs. Demetrius Andrade
American Bank Center in Corpus Christi, Texas
November 16 – NBC
Tomasz Adamek vs. Vyacheslav Glazkov
Site: TBA
November 16 – HBO
Andre Ward vs. Edwin Rodriguez
Citizens Bank Center in Ontario, California
November 23 – HBO PPV
Manny Pacquiao vs. Brandon Rios
Evgeny Gradovich vs. Billy Dib II
Zou Shiming vs. TBA
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Antitrypsin deficiency and the serpinopathies: disease mechanisms and therapeutic interventions
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My research group has worked for over 20 years on understanding the pathogenesis of a1-antitrypsin deficiency. We were the first to show that mutant Z a1-antitrypsin forms polymers within the liver and that these comprise the PAS positive inclusions that are associated with disease. We showed that the same process also underlies the deficiency of the Siiyama, Mmalton, S and I variants and more recently have described the a1-antitrypsin Kings mutant that also forms polymers in association with hepatic inclusions and profound plasma deficiency.
We have dissected the pathway of polymerisation using crystallography, biochemistry, biophysical analysis and have generated monoclonal antibodies to the pathological polymers associated with disease. We have also probed the formation of polymers by developing cell, fly and animals models of disease. Our understanding of the process of polymerisation has allowed us to advance new paradigms for both the liver and lung disease associated with a1-antitrypsin deficiency.
The lung disease results from a process that is more complex than solely plasma deficiency. Z a1-antitrypsin is present in the lungs from passive diffusion and is also produced locally by bronchial epithelial cells and macrophages.
We have shown that this protein can spontaneously form polymers within the lung and that these polymers are chemotactic for neutrophils in vitro and in animal models of disease. Thus the lung disease is a combination of deficiency of a major protease inhibitor, inactivation of this inhibitor by the process of polymerisation and the conversion to a conformation that acts as a pro-inflammatory stimulus to recruit and retain neutrophils within the interstitium.
We have shown that the process of polymerisation also occurs in mutants of other members of the serpin superfamily in association with disease. Specifically mutants of antithrombin, C1-inhibitor and a1-antichymotrypsin form polymers that result in plasma deficiency in association with thrombosis, angioedema and emphysema respectively. This process is most strikingly displayed in mutants of neuroserpin in association with the autosomal, inclusion body dementia that we have called familial encephalopathy with neuroserpin inclusion bodies or FENIB. We have grouped these conditions together as a new class of disease that we have called the serpinopathies.
My long-term aim is to develop strategies to block polymerisation in vitro and in vivo and so provide a cure for a1-antitrypsin deficiency and the serpinopathies.
- Academic Career
- 2013 - Professor of Medicine and Dean of the Faculty of Medical Sciences. University College London
- 1998 - 2013 Professor of Respiratory Biology, University of Cambridge and Honorary Consultant Physician, Addenbrooke�s and Papworth Hospitals.
- 2007 - Fellow of the Higher Education Academy
- 2004 - ScD, Trinity College, University of Cambridge.
- 2001 - Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences
- 1995-1998 Lecturer in Medicine, University of Cambridge
- 1997 FRCP (London)
- 1993-1995 MRC Clinician Scientist/Honorary Senior Registrar in Respiratory Medicine, University of Cambridge
- 1990 - 1993 MRC Training Fellow, Department of Haematology, University of Cambridge
- 1993 PhD, Trinity College, University of Cambridge.
- 1988 PhD, MRCP (UK)
- 1985 Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery (Honours), University of Nottingham
- 1983 Bachelor of Medical Sciences (Honours), University of Nottingham
- Selected Publications
Excess ERK signalling promotes inflammatory signalling in primary airway epithelium expressing Z a1-antitrypsin. E.F.A. van 't Wout, J.A. Dickens, A. van Schadewijk, I. Haq , H-F. Kwok, A. Ordonez, G. Murphy, J. Stolk, D.A. Lomas*, P.S. Hiemstra* and S.J. Marciniak* (*joint senior authors). Hum. Mol. Genet. 2013; in press
Sterol metabolism regulates neuroserpin polymer degradation in the absence of the unfolded protein response inteh dementia FENIB. B.D Roussel, T.M Newton, E. Malzer, N. Simecek, I. Haq, S.E Thomas, M.L Burr, P.J Lehner, D.C. Crowther, S.J Marciniak and D.A Lomas. . Hum. Mol. Genet. 2013; In press.
Endoplasmic reticulum polymers impair luminal protein mobility and sensitise to cellular stress in a1-antitrypsin deficiency. A. Ordonez, E.L. Snapp, L. Tan, E. Miranda, S.J. Marciniak*, D.A. Lomas*. (*joint senior authors). Hepatology 2013; 57:2049-60.
Prevalence and risk factors for liver involvement in individuals with PiZZ-related lung disease. M.F. Dawwas, S.E. Davies, W.J.H. Griffiths, D.A. Lomas and G.J.M. Alexander. Am. J. Resp. Crit. Care Med. 2013; 187: 502-508.
Implications of endoplasmic reticulum dysfunction in neurological disease. B.D. Roussel, A.J. Kruppa, D.C. Crowther, D.A. Lomas, S.J. Marciniak. Lancet Neurology. 2013; 12: 105-118.
Blood fibrinogen as a biomarker of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. A. Duvoix*, J.A. Dickens*, I. Haq, D. Mannino, B.E. Miller, R. Tal-Singer and D.A. Lomas (joint first* authors). Thorax 2013; 68: 670-676.
Determinants of presence and progression of emphysema in COPD. H.O Coxson, A. Dirksen, L.D. Edwards, J.C. Yates, A. Agusti, P. Bakke, P.M.A. Calverley, B. Celli, C. Crim, D.A. Lomas, W. MacNee, B.E. Miller, S.I. Rennard, E.K. Silverman, R. Tal-Singer, E. Wouters, J. Vestbo for the Evaluation of COPD Longitudinally to Identify Predictive Surrogate Endpoints (ECLIPSE) Investigators. Lancet Respiratory Medicine. 2013; 1: 129-136.
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Cougars Make Adjustments Heading Into Nevada GameWashington State's defense gave up a long touchdown pass on Rutger's first play from scrimmage last week, and coaches have decided to shake up the inexperienced secondary. Defensive backs Tracy Clark and Teondray Caldwell are no longer in the starting lineup. Charleston White and Darius Lemora will start instead.
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Barbara Lee, U.S. Congresswoman, California's 9th Congressional District
Phaedra Ellis-Lamkins, CEO, Green For All
James Rucker, Co-founder and Executive Director, ColorOfChange.org
Richard T. Ford, George E. Osborne Professor of Law, Stanford Law School; Author, The Race Card
Martin G. Reynolds , Editor, The Oakland Tribune - Moderator
What is the real effect on the black community of the first African-American president? This February we take a look at the most momentous move forward in civil rights in decades: the election of the first African-American president of the United States. But what has this meant for the African-American community? Has Obama landed the final blow needed to break the glass ceiling? Or has electing the first African-American president during one of the worst times in our country's history created an unfortunate association that will become more of a hindrance than a help?
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Health Care: Why Corporate America Is ParalyzedRobert Kuttner
The business community continues to be divided on the issue of health care in instructive and ironic ways. Medical inflation is still roaring along at more than double the general inflation rate, and business shoulders much of the burden, paying approximately 28% of direct health care costs through employee benefits.
Some large corporations, especially those with unions or generous health plans, tend to support fairly radical surgery to fix the system. Others prefer simply to shift costs onto their employees through reduced benefits. Many smaller businesses, which do not provide health benefits, flatly oppose either universal health insurance or government-mandated private insurance. Another influential set of businesses--those that provide health care--tend to support broader insurance coverage but fiercely oppose tighter cost containment.
No one knows if these splits can be overcome in a manner that produces constructive public policy. Big businesses, of course, are seldom hotbeds of socialistic sentiment. But some large corporations are coming around to the view that a comprehensive and substantially regulated national system of health care is the only way to restrain escalating charges, reduce cost shifting, and require free-riding businesses to pay their fair share. Ultimately, the bills of the uninsured are paid either through taxes or through higher premiums charged to paying customers, and the sheer inefficiency of the present patchwork system inflates everyone's costs.
BIG GUNS. The blue-chip National Leadership Coalition for Health Care Reform, for example, is quietly moving toward a comprehensive proposal that would require every employer to either provide a specified level of health insurance or pay a tax ("play-or-pay") and would include comprehensive cost-containment features. The tax would finance part of a residual public health insurance system to cover those not insured by their employers. The coalition includes AT&T and several Baby Bells, Bethlehem Steel, Chrysler, Ford, Eastman Kodak, General Electric, Lockheed, 3M, Westinghouse, and Xerox, as well as several trade unions and charitable and professional associations. Notably absent are the health insurance, hospital, and pharmaceutical industries and the American Medical Assn.
What continues to divide the coalition are such thorny issues as how comprehensive any government-mandated coverage should be, how the tax-supported portion of the system should be financed, and just how cost-containment regulation should operate. There is also the awkward problem of new taxes.
Any universal approach necessarily increases taxes even if it ultimately contains overall costs. The proposal of last year's bipartisan Pepper Commission on comprehensive health care, a play-or-pay approach not unlike what the leadership coalition is contemplating, was criticized as fiscally improbable because it required new tax receipts of over $60 billion a year. A Canadian-style universal system, entirely publicly financed, would increase taxes by hundreds of billions of dollars a year--but it would reduce employer, administrative, and out-of-pocket costs by nearly as much.
ONE STEP AHEAD. Although the Leadership Coalition includes impressive corporate representation, such industry groups often take on a life of their own and get out in front of their CEOs. It is not yet clear that more than a handful of the 200 or so Business Roundtable CEOs, who tend to recoil from regulation in their own industries, are truly prepared to put aside ideological qualms and support a plainly socialistic health system--even one that saves them money.
Moreover, many advocates of a Canadian-style universal system, such as Dr. Sidney M. Wolfe of the Ralph Nader-affiliated Public Citizen Health Research Group, argue convincingly that only a universal system can avoid the pitfalls of cost-shifting, in which providers stay one step ahead of the forces of cost containment by inventing new procedures, gold-plating treatments, complicating bills, inflating diagnoses, and shifting costs to the better-insured parts of the system. A universal system, in contrast, caps overall costs and compels the several provider groups to fight over a relatively fixed pie. Although it is possible in principle for a play-or-pay system to achieve much of the discipline of a universal system, it is not yet clear whether leading businesses would support the degree of regulation that would be required.
Thus, we have another in a never-ending series of instructive contradictions of capitalism. Soaring health costs are cutting into corporate profits, and market-like approaches aren't restraining costs. Yet the villain of the piece is another set of corporations that misuse their entrepreneurial ingenuity to keep ratcheting up health costs.
In the usual account, it is government that is paralyzed. But in this case, the paralysis of public policy reflects an underlying gridlock of diverse, profit-making constituencies. Unfortunately, this costs the nation and its businesses a lot of money, not to mention much human suffering. It remains to be seen whether U. S. business can divine its true collective interest, let alone pursue it.


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Grief and loss fuels parents' continued battle against addiction in Delaware [video]
Delaware passed a new 911 Good Samaritan law in early July. It gives legal immunity to people who call for help when someone is overdosing.
Leading up to the bill's passing, legislators heard heartbreaking stories from parents who lost children to addiction. They say their work to fight addiction in Delaware is far from done.
A law backed by grieving parents
The day legislators voted on the law, David Humes of Wilmington was anxious.
"They allowed us to stand in front of the full House," Humes recalled. He stood with other families, clutching a picture of his son Greg who died of an overdose last year. Then the vote count started. "Yes, yes, yes, it started," Humes said. "You could just feel it, it went through and it was unanimous, it hit all of us, you know?"
Humes' son died after a long stretch of sobriety—and was not alone when he overdosed.
"They lifted him up, they placed him in his own car, drove him to a hospital," Humes said. "They opened the door and walked away, didn't honk the horn, didn't ring the bell, didn't call 911."
By the time Greg Humes was found, it was too late.
Next steps—getting the word out
A few weeks after Gov. Markell signed the Good Samaritan bill into law, Humes was sitting around the kitchen table with some of the same parents who stood in front of the legislature that day. They discussed strategies to make sure people know the law exists. Humes suggested a T-shirt that says "del-AWARE."
They talked about the recent drug death of "Glee" star Cory Monteith and whether the issue of addiction might become part of the show.
"We need to educate these young adults who are potentially abusing these drugs that this is a law that's on the books," Humes said. "They don't have to run away from people in distress. They can pick up the phone and they can save a life."
Helping parents cope with grief
Humes closed his landscaping business after his son died last year and is now focusing his efforts on addiction issues, all while dealing with his grief, which can be overwhelming at times.
He was recently at a doctor's office, answering a list of routine questions. "He says 'children?' and I say 'Tw...' and then I said, 'I have one living.' There are things like that that just smack you in the face."
Humes and other parents need help coping with their grief said Elizabeth Perkins, whose son John died from an overdose in 2011. She says they usually don't feel at home in regular support groups full of people who lost spouses or parents.
"We dealt with a child who had problems for a long time, totally different grieving process," Perkins said.
To help herself and other families in her situation, Perkins started a Delaware chapter of GRASP, which stands for Grief Recovery After a Substance Passing. Her group meets once a month. Families talk and learn to cope with their new reality.
"There are waves of grief, and it's like a tsunami coming in, and you have to learn how to ride the waves because if you go into that swell, you are done," she said.
Breaking the silence around addiction
Perkins wanted to do more than address grief. She wanted to break the silence and shame that she says surrounds addiction. "People were willing to come and talk to us, but wouldn't speak out, wouldn't talk publicly, we needed to start talking about this subject."
Delaware's Good Samaritan Law carries her son's name, John M. Perkins Jr., and Perkins has been encouraging other people to speak up about addiction—and access to treatment. This year, she connected to another grieving family sharing her vision, Don and Jeanne Keister, of Bear, Del.
"We feel as though we have an obligation to our son and to people who are in recovery and need help, and that's what we're going to do," Don said.
The Keisters lost their youngest son Tyler to a heroin overdose only seven months ago. He was 24. "He was a good kid," Don said. "He was funny, smart, athletic, he had a state championship, he just got involved in these pills I guess."
Access to treatment is an issue
Pills led to heroin, and one of the issues the Keisters want to bring awareness to is how hard it was—and is—to get help. "Don and I and Tyler spent four hours on the phone to find somebody who would take him with our insurance," Jeanne recalled.
To help create more treatment options, the Keisters have founded an advocacy group called Attack Addiction. "There's not many places in Delaware," said Jeanne. "Don would like to see a sober high school, many states have a sober high school, but children who are under the age of 18 have to leave the state to get help."
The group's other main mission is to raise awareness to Delaware's growing addiction issues. They are speaking to parents, kids, students at high schools and universities—anybody who will hear their message that addiction is a problem, these families say, that reaches every part of the state, and every kind of family.
Tune into WHYY TV's newsmagazine FIRST on Friday, July 26, 2013, at 5:30 p.m. to watch Maiken's story on battling addiction in Delaware.
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It's informally called the Llama Loophole.
But a legal oddity named for the tall, wooly mammal is now raising concerns in a far different realm: that of marijuana grow-ops and municipal taxes.
Mayors across British Columbia have long warned of a conflict between how properties are zoned municipally and how they are assessed for tax purposes by provincial authorities. With a flood of new grow-ops expected, the issue has taken on new urgency: Municipalities fear that due to the inconsistency, grow-ops could avoid paying nearly all property taxes.
The loophole was revealed in 2012 when a Chilliwack, B.C., business owner placed llamas on his land and successfully argued to the province that his commercial property was being used for agriculture. The province assesses property taxes by use, not zoning.
According to city records, the tax bill for Chilliwack's Trackside Holdings fell from $156,800 in 2012 to $1,400 the following year – a 99-per-cent drop. Incensed city officials maintain the llamas were only on the property on a "temporary" basis.
On May 8, a group of 33 B.C. municipalities voted unanimously to demand that the provincial government close the loophole and stop reclassifying business lands as agricultural, regardless of their current use. The lobby group for the province's municipalities will also consider the motion at a meeting in September.
Health Canada is reviewing 168 applications from B.C. businesses looking to open grow-ops in the province. B.C is second only to Ontario in such applications under federal legislation that came into effect on April 1.
Under the new federal rules, marijuana production has been centralized in larger secured facilities where plants must be grown indoors and storefronts are prohibited. Local officials say the rules favour construction on sites currently zoned as industrial. "It puts a strain on our financial resources when lands are being taxed based on use and not zoning," said Jason Lum, a Chilliwack councillor who is championing the motion to the province.
The largely rural municipality has created a special industrial zone to manage new marijuana grow-ops alongside slaughterhouses and a waste treatment plant. The councillor said it "wasn't unreasonable" to ask that large-scale marijuana grow-ops be classified as industrial or pharmaceutical. Unless provincial authorities respect the special zone, Mr. Lum said the city's efforts would be wasted and large swaths of industrial land formerly paying high taxes could be reclassified as agricultural. The difference in property taxes is substantial: Officials say taxes on farmland are only 10 per cent of what they are for other uses, while taxes on farm buildings are only 12.5 per cent of the business rate.
"It's known as Llamagate around here," said Bruce Banman, the mayor of neighbouring Abbotsford with a chuckle. "What we don't want to happen is that all of a sudden a lot of people start using this loophole. If you speak with most municipalities, they'll say this is a loophole that needs to be tightened up."
B.C. Assessment, the provincial agency at the centre of the llama case, still maintains that its inspectors did the right thing in 2012 and that the business, "met all the requirements to be classed as farm."
Tim Morrison, spokesman for B.C. Assessment, said businesses need to show that a certain amount of their income is derived from farm activity, which is monitored to ensure compliance. As for the influx of marijuana, municipalities looking for an industrial designation may have reason for concern. "If they are growing a product, just like any other plant, it's agricultural," Mr. Morrison said.
Any changes to the current system would need to be legislated by the ruling B.C. Liberals. The agency doesn't have the power to alter its assessment structure.
James Poelzer said the debate is guided by old stereotypes. The COO of Agrima Botanicals hopes to soon have permission to begin growing medical marijuana at a modern, nondescript facility in Maple Ridge, B.C., built to fit in with the surroundings. Under federal law, it's barred from emitting any smells or pollen. The high-tech security and fire-suppression system is reviewed by federal inspectors. All byproducts are composted on site. "This isn't a great big grow-op with smells and crime. It's quite the opposite," he says. "Some municipalities have a preconceived notion of a grow-op. We're working really hard to get rid of that stigma."
While some cities are looking to place grow-ops in small industrial areas, Mr. Poelzer is happy to have Agrima on agricultural land in a city that was glad to welcome the business and its 30 employees.
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