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Ofatumumab (Arzerra) given with a drug called chlorambucil is recommended as a possible treatment for people with untreated chronic lymphocytic leukaemia if treatments containing fludarabine or bendamustine are not suitable.
What does this mean for me?
If you have chronic lymphocytic leukaemia, and your doctor thinks that ofatumumab with chlorambucil is the right treatment, you should be able to have the treatment on the NHS.
Ofatumumab (with chlorambucil) should be available on the NHS within 3 months of the guidance being issued.
If you are not eligible for treatment as described above, you should be able to continue taking ofatumumab (with chlorambucil) until you and your doctor decide it is the right time to stop.
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The recommendations in this guidance represent the view of NICE, arrived at after careful consideration of the evidence available. When exercising their judgement, health professionals are expected to take this guidance fully into account, alongside the individual needs, preferences and values of their patients. The application of the recommendations in this guidance is at the discretion of health professionals and their individual patients and do not override the responsibility of healthcare professionals to make decisions appropriate to the circumstances of the individual patient, in consultation with the patient and/or their carer or guardian.
Commissioners and/or providers have a responsibility to provide the funding required to enable the guidance to be applied when individual health professionals and their patients wish to use it, in accordance with the NHS Constitution. They should do so in light of their duties to have due regard to the need to eliminate unlawful discrimination, to advance equality of opportunity and to reduce health inequalities.
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The history of the National Football League began on August 20, 1920, in Ralph Hay's Hupmobile showroom in Canton, Ohio. Four Ohio teams sent representatives from Canton, Akron, Cleveland, and Dayton. A month later, the group met again on September 17. The assembly grew to represent 12 teams from four states (Ohio, Illinois, Indiana, and New York).
The men who sat in Ralph Hays showroom (some of them on Hupmobile running boards) are considered the founding fathers of the modern National Football League (NFL). The meetings were used to outline rules and regulations and to elect officials for a newly formed football league, called the American Professional Football Association (A.P.F.A.) at that time. Carl Storck, representing the Dayton Triangle Football team, was elected treasurer of the new alliance.
The origins of the Triangle football club began in 1916 when F.B. McNabb, a patent attorney for the organization, developed the Triangle Athletic Association. The Association also fielded a basketball and a baseball team. Financial support for the Triangles came from a triad of Dayton industries, owned by Charles F. Kettering and Edward A. Deeds. The industries were the Dayton Engineering Laboratories Co. (DELCO), Dayton Metal Products, and Domestic Engineering Co. (Delco-Light).
On October 3, 1920, the Triangles took the field at Triangle Park against one of their long-standing rivals, the Columbus Panhandles. At 2:30 p.m. Mr. McCoy (the referee) blew his whistle to begin the first game of the new A.P.F.A. league. Two years later, the league shortened the name to the National Football League. This game is recognized by NFL historians, along with the NFL Hall of Fame, as the first National Football League contest and is considered the most significant in league history by an NFL website. Dayton won the battle 14-0, with Lou Partlow scoring the first touchdown and Hobby Kinderdine kicking the first extra point. Carl "Scummy" Storck managed the team's business affairs while Nelson "Bud" Talbot, (Yale All-American), was coach.
Although the October 3 contest has become one of national significance, the game played three weeks later, at Triangle Park, is considered to be one of the greatest sporting events in Dayton history. The famous Canton Bulldogs came to town on October 24, 1920. They brought with them, future Hall of Famers, Joe Guyon, Wilbur "Fats" Henry and of course, Jim Thorpe. The Bulldogs had not been beaten since 1915 and their opponents had not scored on them in over a year.
"Fats" Henry burst through the line to block one of Hobby Kinderdine's extra point attempts. Six thousand fans saw Jim Thorpe kick two field goals late in the game to secure a 20-20 tie with the Triangles. In 1950, the same year All-American Jim Thorpe hit the big screen, Wilbur Henry recalled the game as the greatest in which he ever participated. John Seis, a 96-year old Dayton native, witnessed the game. He remembered a comment that Jim Thorpe made to one of Dayton's defenders near the sideline, "The last time I was hit that hard, they carried the guy off on a stretcher." Mr. Thorpe came back to Dayton the following year with the Cleveland Tigers, but was sidelined because of broken ribs.
Dayton finished the inaugural season with a 4-2-1 record. The only two losses came from the Akron Pros, who were crowned league champs of 1920.
The years that followed resulted in diminishing returns for the Dayton aggregation. As a result, Brooklyn businessman, John Dwyer, bought the franchise after the 1929 season. The team played in several famous venues including the Polo Grounds, Comiskey Park, Wrigley Field, Crosley Field, and Tigers Stadium to name a few. Lee Fenner was the only player to wear Dayton moleskins each year of the team's existence (1916-1929). He saw action against 22 inducted Hall of Fame players during his Triangle tenure.
After several mergers and moves in the 1940's and 50's, the Dayton franchise came to rest in Baltimore. They were known as the Baltimore Colts until 1984 when they made another move to Indianapolis.
On April 30, 2005, an Ohio Historical Society marker was placed at Triangle Park in Dayton, recognizing the site of the very first NFL football game.


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USA's Matt Emmons misses final in air rifle
LONDON – U.S. shooter Matt Emmons has been through extreme ups and downs the past two Olympics. On the high end, he won gold and silver. One the low, he took a shot at a wrong target and also had a premature misfire. Each cost him a gold medal.
So the 31-year-old from Mount Holly, N.J., was ideally suited Monday to take his also-ran finish in the qualifying round of men's 10-meter air rifle in stride. He looked ahead to his main event at the London Games: the 50-meter rifle from three positions Aug. 6.
"I've kind of experienced it all, man," Emmons said. "One thing I kind of keep in the back of my head when I walk into the range every day to compete is that I've been through more situations than almost anyone on that firing line. … It's made me a much wiser person, a much more appreciative person of a lot of things."
Emmons won gold in Athens in 2004 in the 50-meter rifle prone competition. He won silver in 2008 in Beijing in the same event. He's also known for two catastrophic Olympic shots:
• In 2004, he was leading the 50-meter rifle three positions with one shot left. He mistakenly shot at the wrong target down the range after he had gotten confused looking through his sight. The zero score on the shot dropped him to an eighth-place finish.
• In 2008, he again led the field in that event going into his last shot. But his rifle fired prematurely and he finished fourth.
Emmons said he's learned to let things roll off his back — but his back was the issue Monday in the 54-man qualification round of men's air rifle.
"My back hurts, man," said Emmons, whose score on 60 shots (with a maximum 10 for each shot) was 590. Only the top eight made the final, and Emmons was 35th. U.S. teammate Jonathan Hall was 27th.
"I haven't been able to figure out, especially in air rifle, what I am doing wrong with my position that's causing it (his back) to hurt so much," Emmons said.
After his finish, he walked to the rail. His wife, Katy, a shooter for the Czech Republic, put her hand on his back.
"She said my body was just swaying back and forth," Emmons said.
Under the rules of shooting, he couldn't wear a back brace or tape the back (too much support in a sport that requires stillness). He said he wouldn't wear a brace anyway because he needs flexibility to get into his shooting position.
Emmons doesn't expect it to affect him so much in his next event.
"I'm not really worried too much. … It's only 40 shots (in the rifle event) as opposed to 60," he said. "Also, the gun is more adjustable, so it fits me a little better. It's also a little heavier which helps balance things a little bit."
He'll let Monday's performance roll off his aching back and savor his third Olympics.
"I definitely try to enjoy every single moment of it," he said.


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But the hive-mind of Twitter had been on the case long before, having come to the conclusion that this would be an excellent topic for today's ritual Mail-bashing. And I, meanwhile, had had a chance to look at what Mantel had actually written, and spoken, at length in the London Review of Books. Needless to say, this was no scathing attack on the former Miss Middleton. Rather, it was an discursive treatment of the public image of royal women, drawing on her extensive knowledge of history as well as a comparison between Kate and Diana. It offered some memorable vignettes, such as a function for writers at Buckingham Palace at which most of the guests tried desperately to avoid the embarrassment of having to talk to the Queen, while the servants failed to offer them a plate for used cocktail sticks. "The queen's revenge," thought Mantel, as though it were anything to do with her. There's a good line about Marie Antoinette: "one individual with limited power and influence, who focused the rays of misogyny." We also learn that a genetic condition may have been behind both Henry VIII's difficulty in fathering a healthy heir and the fact that in middle-age the once dashing monarch turned into a monster.
In discussing Kate, Mantel was talking less about the Duchess herself than about how she is fitted into media templates, "draped in a set of threadbare attributions", in the absence of any clearly-defined personality. She writes that Kate "appeared to have been designed by a committee and built by craftsmen." There is indeed something curiously identikit about her public persona: a perfectly pleasant young woman, much like perfectly pleasant young women are supposed to be, with nothing exceptional about her apart perhaps from an elevated ordinariness. Even the compliments offered by the people outraged in the Mail had a bland and formulaic air, as though in confirmation rather than refutation of Mantel's essay. To the prime minister she was "bright, engaging and a fantastic ambassador for Britain." The charity boss described her as "engaging, natural and genuinely interested"; she asked "really good questions, the questions of someone who wants to learn."
What was it that Mantel said? "Presumably Kate was designed to breed in some manners. She looks like a nicely brought up young lady, with 'please' and 'thank you' part of her vocabulary." In other words, "engaging".
The worst that can be said of Hilary Mantel is that she is as guilty of the same objectification of which she accuses the media. To her, Kate is not so much a clothes-horse or a walking womb as an illustration of the childishness and artificiality of public discourse around, and expectations of, royalty:
When her pregnancy became public she had been visiting her old school, and had picked up a hockey stick and run a few paces for the camera. BBC News devoted a discussion to whether a pregnant woman could safely put on a turn of speed while wearing high heels. It is sad to think that intelligent people could devote themselves to this topic with earnest furrowings of the brow, but that's what discourse about royals comes to: a compulsion to comment, a discourse empty of content, mouthed rather than spoken. And in the same way one is compelled to look at them: to ask what they are made of, and is their substance the same as ours.
Which is true as far as it goes, but rather overlooks the fact that Kate herself is an entirely blameless woman, doing her best to make sense of her bizarre role in national life, "engaging" indeed, and that however bland her public persona may be she herself presumably has feelings: some of Mantel's comments seem gratuitously mean.
At the root of Mantel's problem with Kate is regret that she's not Diana. Nor is she Marie Antoinette or Anne Boleyn, both of whom, you won't need reminding, ended up losing their heads. Diana, of course, lost her own head in a more metaphorical but no less fatal manner. In comparison with such divas, Kate is too dull for this novelist's interest:
she appears precision-made, machine-made, so different from Diana whose human awkwardness and emotional incontinence showed in her every gesture. Diana was capable of transforming herself from galumphing schoolgirl to ice queen, from wraith to Amazon. Kate seems capable of going from perfect bride to perfect mother, with no messy deviation.
Diana was "fitted to be the carrier of myth," thinks Mantel: a character of archetypal power who brought with her the archaic numinousness of royalty. Kate, on the other hand, is fit to open supermarkets and carry an heir, but that's about it.
The same might be said of Henry VIII's third wife, Jane Seymour, a parallel that Mantel fails to draw explicitly, though she does mention her in passing in the second part of the essay:
No one understood what Henry saw in Jane, who was not pretty and not young. The imperial ambassador sneered that 'no doubt she has a very fine enigme': which is to say, secret part. We have arrived at the crux of the matter: a royal lady is a royal vagina. Along with the reverence and awe accorded to royal persons goes the conviction that the body of the monarch is public property. We are ready at any moment to rip away the veil of respect, and treat royal persons in an inhuman way, making them not more than us but less than us, not really human at all.
Which, it seems to me, is precisely what Hilary Mantel is doing to Kate.
It must be said, though, that this is just as true of Prince William, who despite a lifetime in the public eye has accumulated no visible personality quirks, has provided no fodder for the tabloids, has had no other long-term girlfriends and hasn't even ever been drunk in public. If Kate is a "shop-window mannequin, with no personality of her own, entirely defined by what she wore" - well, so is the future king, though in his case the wardrobe is entirely functional and semiotic: well-cut suits, military uniforms, black tie, the fatigues he wears when flying his helicopter. If he is spared the constant scrutiny his wife attracts for her dress (and undress) it is at the price of having no real public image at all. He is a cipher.
He is not a cipher because of his sex or royal status. His father is not a cipher: he has a sharply defined persona, both comic and tragic, that had already assumed its well-known lineaments when he was the age that William is now. The eccentric opinions, the tortured public introspection, the seemingly interminable wait to "fulfil his destiny" as king. The British royal family is not short of cartoonish personalities. Think of Prince Philip, or Harry, or Princess Anne. Prince William alone has his grandmother's aloofness and unknowability, though not her aura of alien unapproachability. In Kate, he has found a consort as bland and self-effacing as himself. No doubt this is why they get on so well (c.f. Charles and Diana.) They are walking, talking cake decorations, which makes them probably the perfect royal couple, in a world where the function of royalty is to smile, act pleasantly and to provide some nice pictures to look at.
Hilary wonders if monarchy is "a suitable institution for a grown-up nation." I don't know, either, not because I'm unsure about the monarchy (it's silly) but because I'm far from convinced that we live in a grown-up nation. Such is the infantilised nature of our public life that it has become the preserve of the blandly inoffensive. It used to be said, following Bagehot, that the purpose of monarchy was to be decorative and the purpose of politicians was to be utilitarian and "efficient". But in those days there were politicians like Disraeli, or later Churchill, personalities far more vivid and even "decorative" than any modern royal. David Cameron is to politics what Kate and William are to royalty. He too might have been precision-engineered on a production line, and his conception of his own role closely resembles that which he ascribed to the Duchess of Cambridge: as "an ambassador for Britain."


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This case study is about iWaku, a new wake-up light that is controlled by an application on your smartphone.
The product will be available soon, after which the website will go live.
brand values
The brand values help develop the identity and communication.
creating the identity
The shape refers to the lamp, and creates a character.
Final logo
The product website
The Concept
iWaku is a new product in an existing market. There are more wake-up lights of course, but not like the iWaku. It is important that it will be noticed within its market and that the USPs stand out. The website should provide clarity about iWaku and show what iWaku can do. The iWaku can be purchased through a simple product website. To stand out within an industry, you have to stand out. That's why several parts are extensively explained throughout the website, using short texts and large, clear visuals.
Introducing the lamp
On the homepage, the lamp is introduced. The user is first tempted with beautiful visuals. These visuals are interspersed with 3D renderings of the lamp and the lamp in a real environment. The USPs are visualized shortly, but further down the page, they are more emphasized.
As you can see, everything is extensively visualized. Each element in the site has a lot of space in order to serve the user as well as possible. This space creates tranquility and clarity for a user. After the user has been introduced to the project there will be a big call to action block. Here the user can choose between two options: to stay informed about iWaku or pre-order the Iwaku.
More pages
Product page
The productpage is there for the user who wants to know more detailed information about the product. Among other things, it will tell that the iWaku works with an app for your smartphone.
Support page
At the support page, a user can find answers to the most frequently asked questions. The questions are searchable and if a question is clicked, the answer under the question emerges.
Blog page
The blog page will provide especially topical articles. At this page iWaku can show their expertises and their know-how about the industry. It is also a great opportunity to get in touch with their users.
The order proces
Choose a color
customer details
Order confirmation
payment method
The app
What sets iwaku apart from other wake-up lights and bright light therapy lamps, is that iwaku is wirelessly controlled by an application on your smartphone. While you are sleeping, the iwaku lamb communicates wireless with your smartphone. If you put your smartphone on your bed, iwaku can monitor your sleep cycle to only wake you up in your lighter sleep.
This is the start screen. Here you can set your wake up time easily by dragging the hands of the clock.
If you have pushed the start button you will see the nightscreen. It is the night version of the start screen with some basic information.
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A New Citizen for Obama
Before Awale came to the United States five years ago, he had never had the chance to go to school. "My family couldn't afford to send me to school in Kenya, so I would follow the other kids to school every morning and hide outside the door so I could hear the lessons."
Awale, who goes by Wally, is a sophomore at North Hennepin Community and Technical College. He wants to go on to earn a Bachelor of Communications Studies. He is most passionate about education and one day hopes to lead a university.
Wally recently become a citizen and quickly got involved to support President Obama.
President Obama knows the obstacles that students face because he's been there himself. He has been able to keep student loan interest rates low, while doubling funding for Pell grants. That is why my entire family is proud to be re-electing President Barack Obama.
I see the President working hard in the White House to protect the interests of young people in this country. President Obama has been able to achieve 80% of what he set out to do. That gives me confidence that his administration is putting us on the right path to recovery.
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May 11th, 2015 | by Christopher DeMorro
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A ground breaking company coming from the U.K. has come up with the beginning design for their first DIY electric vehicle, the Tabby.
August 29th, 2013 | by Christopher DeMorro
While many areas of America aren't suited to the limited range and lack of charging infrastructure, it is nothing in comparison to Australia's outback, where there could be hundreds of miles between filling stations. But even in Australia, DIYers and small shops are converting old cars into short-range EVs as petrol prices continue to rise
January 30th, 2013 | by Christopher DeMorro
People have been building EVs out of their homes and small shops for decades now, but the recent surge in interest has led to DIYers trying to take their hobby full-time. Gary Krysztopik has been driving around his home-built "battery box on wheels" for more than three years, and he has now turned to the Internet to help him make DIY kits for interested parties to purchase.
July 20th, 2012 | by Christopher DeMorro
It is no secret that the American education system is in need of some serious repairs. How that manifests itself is a project for people far smarter than I am, though if you ask me the biggest problem is a failure to engage students in interesting and creative ways. For inspiration, we need look no further than Japan, where a company has released a Do-It-Yourself electric car kit for the purpose of educating students and teachers alike


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Affirmative Action Is Over. Long Live Affirmative Action.the Editors
Oct. 10 (Bloomberg) -- "The way to stop discrimination on the basis of race is to stop discriminating on the basis of race," wrote Chief Justice John Roberts in a 2007 U.S. Supreme Court ruling on school desegregation.
It sounds simple enough. The only question is, when should we stop discriminating? In kindergarten? When high school seniors are applying to college? Later, when they are looking for jobs?
Fisher v. University of Texas, the affirmative action case now before the court, seems unlikely to resolve such questions. The revolution in race relations of the late 20th century, including race-based affirmative action, has eased into a less fraught, but no less muddy, evolution. Americans have conflicting impulses on justice and equality. Yet a new way forward is taking shape, and the Texas case could expedite the journey.
The case arose when a white woman, Abigail Fisher, sued the university after having been denied acceptance, claiming that less qualified minorities had won admission. Most racial minorities are admitted to the school not under affirmative action but as a consequence of the state's top 10 percent rule, which guarantees admission to public universities for high school students who graduate in the top 10 percent of their class. Because Texas schools, like those in most states, have a high degree of racial segregation, the top 10 percent at many schools inevitably consists largely of Hispanic or black students.
Tweaked Formula
The formula has been tweaked so that the actual percentage of graduates admitted is closer to 8 percent or 9 percent, depending on the year. After those graduates are admitted, the university fills additional slots using criteria including race, a practice it justifies in order to create a diverse environment -- not only across the campus but also in individual fields of study and classrooms. This is the provision that prompted Fisher's suit.
It is also the remedy embraced by Justice Sandra Day O'Connor in Grutter v. Bollinger, the Supreme Court's 2003 ruling that affirmed diversity as a valid goal in higher education. O'Connor said she expected the need for diversity programs to fade in a quarter-century or so. In agreeing to hear Fisher's case nine years later, the Roberts court appears eager to speed up the timetable.
Diversity itself is on an accelerated track. Births to racial and ethnic minorities now outnumber births to whites; the nation's transition to a future in which no single race constitutes a majority is almost complete. In a multicultural, multiracial society, institutions such as universities must be largely representative of the citizenship. As an amicus brief filed with the court by Fortune 100 companies says, racial and ethnic diversity in higher education is also in the interest of American businesses seeking to employ a diverse workforce.
The question is how to achieve such goals. More than one-quarter of the nation's high school students live in seven states that have already banned race-based affirmative action. Voters in California, the largest and most diverse state, elected to end racial preferences in admissions to its public universities in 1996. The percentage of Hispanics and blacks in these schools initially declined, but it has since climbed to about 24 percent, slightly more than half their proportion of the state's population.
At the state's most elite schools, the demographics are more skewed. The proportion of Asian students enrolled at the University of California at Berkeley is more than three times higher than their share of state population (and about nine times their share of U.S. population). Meanwhile, the university's black enrollment is 3 percent, only half that of California's black population.
Social Mobility
With blacks and Hispanics underrepresented in higher education and with race-based policies on the way out, we need new approaches. A report from the Century Foundation suggests that shifting from race-based affirmative action to class-based affirmative action might be a crucial part of the answer, proving roughly as effective in promoting college racial diversity while doing even more to encourage social mobility.
According to a study by Stanford University's Sean Reardon, class is a larger obstacle to educational achievement than race. Students from educated, affluent families are seven times more likely to receive a bachelor's degree than those from low-income families. The racial gap isn't nearly as large. Similarly, a study by scholars Derek Bok and William Bowen found that the vast majority of black students at selective colleges are either middle- or upper-class.
Affirmative action policies based on economic considerations have the potential to focus society's efforts on the truly disadvantaged. This path won't be easy, especially given rising inequality and declining social mobility. And it may take new levels of community engagement, such as a Rutgers University program that works with nearby middle schools and high schools. But by employing affirmative action that takes into account parental income and education levels, family wealth and even single-parent status, universities can potentially achieve greater diversity -- of race and class -- than purely race-based models. One additional benefit might be a boost to poor whites, who find few champions among elite institutions. And by using economic rather than racial preferences, schools will be able to stay on the right side of a Supreme Court that appears determined, sooner than later, to end affirmative action as we know it.
That isn't a bad thing -- so long as the ideal of colorblindness doesn't obscure the disadvantages of poverty. In Regents of the University of California v. Bakke, the 1978 case that is a distant antecedent of the Fisher complaint, Justice Harry Blackmun wrote: "In order to get beyond racism, we must first take account of race. There is no other way."
The road from Blackmun's view to Justice Roberts's has been pitted with conflict and compromise. Americans have already traveled a fair part of it together. If the Supreme Court sweeps away race-based affirmative action in higher education, it won't spell the doom of diversity. American institutions are committed to that end. Economic affirmative action will supply new means to achieve it.
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A lonely turtle becomes a refuge for his friends in "Turtle Island," by Kevin Sherry, the August Baby Buzz Pick, chosen by Washington School District Parents as Teachers.
Each month, the group selects a quality hardcover book for children birth to age 5. The parent educators purchase additional copies of the book to use in their visits with parents and children.
The following review was written by Maria Brady Smith, early childhood special education process coordinator.
"Learning to work and play with others is one of the major tasks of early childhood. This is a time when parents are dealing with squabbles between siblings, the defiant 'NO!' and the self-righteous 'MINE!'
"It is a time when children are learning about others — their similarities and differences. They are learning about how to be a friend and the ups and downs of life with other children. There are so many social skills that a child needs in order to be happy and successful in school, and in life, that some of us might argue that these are the most important lessons of this stage of development.
"That is why I always welcome books about these issues, especially because children learn so much through story.
"Kevin Sherry's 'Turtle Island' is just such a book. The adorable 'BIG as an island' turtle is all alone in the vast ocean until one day some shipwrecked visitors show up. Turtle is happy to let them live on his shell as he feeds them fish.
"The animals demonstrate kindness and cooperation as everyone works together using their own talents. Turtle's generosity blossoms into a community that grows on and around him and he is lonely no more.
"Simple language and lots of detailed pictures make this a perfect read-aloud book with a positive message."
Other parent educator favorites this month are, "Counta Block" by Christopher Franceschelli, illustrated by Peskimo; and "Peek-a-boo Barn" by Nat Sims with illustrations by Nathan Tabor.


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I was once in a heated competition with my neighbor on Xboxlive to see who could reach 10,000 achievement points first. Like myself he is an avid video gamer as well but he also has three children who game ferociously any chance they get. So the competition was stacked in his favor as there's only me to play the games and earn the achievements. Despite all of this I began to pull ahead and as the competition grew more heated over the weeks and it looked like I was going to break the magic 10,000 point barrier first my neighbor pulled out all the stops. He started renting games with reckless abandon and even began to platoon his children in shifts around the clock in order to rack up precious points. This disturbed his eldest child and she called the police on him citing child abuse. Social services arrived and things calmed down at his household as I crossed the finish line first!
Since then he and his family has pulled ahead of me but that's ok.... for now. He's only put about 800 pts on me and one of these days I plan to reel him back in and reclaim the lead. I don't think I'll tell him my plan, after all I wouldn't want him to end up in prison.


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Bruno Mars at 6 years old= More Cuteness Than You Can Stand!
Bruno Mars was born to entertain!! A local Seattle tv station did a story on him in 1992 about being an Elvis impersonator. Holy crap he really did look like Elvis. This is too adorable. It's also cool to see how supportive his family has been since day one!!
FYI....6:02 = Michael Jackson hip thrust= THE GREATEST THING EVER!


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Type of Document Dissertation Author Wang, Hui-Shan Amy Author's Email Address firstname.lastname@example.com URN etd-08232007-180656 Title Arsenic in drinking water caused ultra-structural damage in urinary bladder but did not affect expression of DNA damage repair genes or repair of DNA damage in transitional cells Degree PhD Department Veterinary Medical Sciences Advisory Committee
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- urinary bladder cancer
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- DNA damage repair
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Date of Defense 2007-08-10 Availability unrestricted AbstractArsenic is a human carcinogen associated with urinary bladder transitional cell carcinoma and other cancers. Arsenic is also a strong comutagen and cocarcinogen. One possible mode of action for arsenic carcinogenesis/cocarcinogenesis is inhibition of DNA damage repair. In laboratory animals, urinary bladder transitional cell carcinoma has only been observed in dimethylarsinic acid [DMA(V)]-exposed F344 rats.
The goal of the present studies was to investigate inhibition of DNA repair as a mode of action for arsenic carcinogenesis/ cocarcinogenesis in the urinary bladder. Methods were first developed to harvest only transitional cells, the target cell type of arsenic carcinogenesis, suitable for RNA extraction or for DNA damage detection by Comet assay. Morphological studies established that DMA(V) in drinking water at 40 ppm was cytotoxic to the urothelium of Sprague-Dawley and F344 rats, and mitochondria were targeted by DAM(V).
To investigate whether DMA(V) decreases the expression of DNA repair genes, mRNA levels of DNA repair genes in transitional cells were next measured in F344 rats exposed to up to 100 ppm DMA(V) in drinking water for 4 weeks. The mRNA levels of Ataxia Telangectasia mutant (ATM), X-ray repair cross-complementing group 1 (XRCC1), excision repair cross-complementing group 3/Xeroderma Pigmentosum B (ERCC3/XPB), and DNA polymerase beta genes were not altered, as measured by real time RT PCR. These results suggested either that DMA(V) affects DNA repair without affecting the baseline expression of DNA repair genes or that DMA(V) does not affect DNA repair in the bladder.
Arsenic effects on DNA repair were further investigated in F344 rats given 100 ppm DMA(V) or arsenate in drinking water for 1 week. DNA damage levels in transitional cells and micronuclei frequency (MN) in bone marrow were measured. Dimethylarsinic acid did not affect in vivo cyclophosphamide-induced DNA damage, and neither DMA(V) nor arsenate inhibited in vitro repair of hydrogen peroxide- or formaldehyde-induced DNA damage, as measured by Comet assay. Neither DMA(V) nor arsenate increased MN or elevated in vivo cyclophosphamide-increased MN. These results suggest inhibition of DNA repair by arsenic, in the transitional epithelium, may not be a major mechanism responsible for carcinogensis/cocarcinogenesis in the bladder.
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Tag Archives: Schooner Fame
Schooner Fame Hauled Out At Roses Marine
Click here to check out the Schooner Fame Website
The Schooner Fame website talks about the history of the original Fame, and has more such as a photo gallery, upcoming events, Schooner Camp and a bunch of other stuff for you to explore. It also has a section with pictures of Fame being built in Essex, Ma.
Schooner Fame Hauled Out For Maintenance 4:52AM 5/19/09
Rigging The Mast On The Schooner Fame
Click any photo on the blog to enlarge it. Once you are brought to the flickr page where it is hosted, click the option above the photo that says "all sizes" This will show any photo on the blog in greater detail.
Click here for a link to The Schooner Fame's Official Website
There are more photos, a section detailing how it was built, a brief history, a store, and more.


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From Jonathan D. Fitzgerald: The most inflammatory voices are always the loudest; this is a fact of our contemporary media landscape. Threaten to picket at the funeral of innocent children killed in cold blood and you'll make national headlines. Suggest that these killings were the result of expelling God from the public school system, and [Read More…]
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Jonathan Fitzgerald: A Quieter Voice
Douthat's Theory
Ross Douthat: But no matter how tight a connection one draws between a gun culture and a high murder rate, gun ownership is not an intrinsic evil: Most gun owners are law-abiding citizens, most guns are never used to kill, and the tragedies associated with the Second Amendment are exceptions to a liberty that's mostly [Read More…]
Finally in Print! (and a question about Moses) (RJS)
Last April I posted on a new e-book by Peter Enns and Jared Byas designed to introduce normal people (whatever this means) to the book of Genesis … the most controversial, misunderstood, and abused book of the Bible. I concluded my post with a comment that the book is well worth the price, but I [Read More…]
Christianity and Guns 1
RE-POST: It is time. And it is the season of peace. We join the people of Newtown and Aurora and elsewhere to raise the flag of peace when it comes to guns. The church and its leaders ought to be first in line. I join them. James Atwood admits he has been waiting for 36 [Read More…]


text: Shakespeare Electronic Conference, Vol. 2, No. 199. Thursday, 22 Aug 1991. Date: Wed, 21 Aug 1991 16:54:00 -0400 From: John Cox <COX@HOPE> Subject: World Shakespeare Congress, Tokyo Having just returned from the fifth World Shakespeare Congress in Tokyo, I would like to register my impressions while they are still fresh. These are for the benefit of SHAKSPEReans who could not attend, but no doubt I was not the only SHAKSPERean in Tokyo, and others may wish to add to my remarks. In my opinion, the Congress was well worth the substantial cost of attending. Apparently many others felt the same way, for about 700 people came, from thirty-two countries. Plenary sessions, short-paper sessions, and seminars were spread over five days. Three theater events were included in the cost of registration: a *kyogen* (farcical Noh play) adaptation of *The Merry Wives of Windsor*, a Japanese *Lear*, and an evening of traditional Noh. Everyone agreed that our Japanese hosts outdid themselves in hospitality and efficiency. Short-paper sessions and seminars were held at the Kyoritsu College of Pharmacy, next door to the Shiba Park Hotel, where most delegates stayed. Plenary sessions were at the Toranomon Pastoral Hotel, a long walk or short bus ride from Kyoritsu College. The logistics of moving large numbers of people around must have been challenging, but transitions always seemed to go well. A reception was also offered at the Toranomon Hotel on Monday evening. It was extraordinarily lavish and graciously hosted. The two Shakespearean productions were performed at the Panasonic Globe Theater, a full-sized replica of Shakespeare's Globe, built in 1984. Both productions will be taken to England later this year as part of that country's Festival of Japan 1991. *The Braggart Samurai* (adapted from *Merry Wives*) focused on the Falstaff plot but deleted Mistress Page, Fenton, and other subplot elements. Even so, it was unusually long for a *kyogen* but perrectly comprehensible and delightful. *Lear* was directed by J. A. Seazer, a "disciple" (according to program notes) of Shuji Terayama, a poet, playwright, and filmmaker. Playing in about two and a half hours, without an intermission, the production cut the text heavily, as one could tell even without knowing Japanese. Atmospheric effects, often spectacular, were added to enhance the sense of chaos and decay. An operatic soprano wandered in and out occasionally, singing "the thoughts of Cordelia." Rock music alternated with a spare classical trio (guitar, cello, flute), as lighting shifted rapidly from harsh, full white to matches lit by actors in total darkness to a full spectrum of colored effects. I found some moments intensely moving, though the ending was so huddled up and poorly rendered as to be merely confusing. Perhaps most striking was the dancing, which combined numerous styles in a stunningly gymnastic choreography that sometimes made me worry about the well-being of the performers. We were prepared for the Noh performance on Friday evening by a booklet in our registration materials that translated both the *kyogen* and Noh plays and discussed them briefly. The *kyogen* seemed to have been deliberately chosen to complement *The Braggart Samurai* that we had seen earlier, for both featured a drunken soldier, and it was clearer to me, seeing the second one, how the modern playwright ahd worked with traditional Noh materials in adapting *Merry Wives* to the same medium. A business meeting of the International Shakespeare Association was held on the last day of the Congress. Presiding was Ann Jennalie Cook, president of the ISA and former executive director of the Shakespeare Association of America. A resolution was passed urging the British government more actively to support archeological excavation of the Globe Theatre site near Southwark Bridge. Another resolution congratulated the Deutsche Shakespeare Geselschaft on its reunification since the last World Shakespeare Congress was held in 1986, in what was then West Berlin. No site has been chosen for 1996. A firm offer to hold the Congress in the U.S. has been made by the Shakespeare Association of America, but competing offers were invited. A decision is expected by next year. No matter where the sixth Congress is held, it is hard to imagine anyone doing a better job than our Japanese hosts did this year. John Cox Hope College cox@hope


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Uncle Ted Offers Gun Control Advice to V.P.
Good old Uncle Ted hasn't been shy about gun control and now penned a letter on the matter to Vice President Joe Biden. In an open letter published in the Washington Times, Nuge offers up his services to boot.
In the letter, Nugent actually agrees with our Commander in Chief, writing "I too want nothing more than to see evil, senseless massacres stopped. I concur with the president and caring people everywhere: It's time to end these slaughters," the rocker states. "While I strongly differ with President Obama on many issues, I agree with him that we must work with all we can possibly muster to end these tragedies."
His idea to fix the issue? Public service announcements aimed at parents being aware of their children's entertainment choices, as well as raising awareness about warning signs in the mentally ill.
He writes, "As you gather your team to study massacres and how to stop them, I offer to you my services and a lifetime of expertise on guns in all their implementations. In the spirit of goodwill and a deep desire to end gut-wrenching, incredibly sad and senseless rampages".
He also thinks "gun free zones" should be re-examined.
"Gun-free zones are modern killing fields," he says. "I implore you to recommend that Congress pass a law to ban gun-free zones immediately. Just like your full-time, armed security detail, qualified citizens with authorized, legal concealed-carry permits should be able to carry weapons virtually everywhere to protect themselves, their loved ones and innocents."
My favorite line is where Nugent argues that "We should never recommend or develop public policy that restricts the rights of the good guys based upon what evil people do or might do."


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Metro Detroit
State laws spotlight youth concussion awareness
Student-athletes cautioned about long-term effects
By Chris Jackett
Posted November 7, 2012
LANSING — With fall sports in the midst of playoffs and winter sports warming up, Gov. Rick Snyder recently signed two bills into law to help prepare young athletes to deal with potential concussions.
Senate Bill 1122 and House Bill 5697 were signed into law Oct. 23 as Public Acts 342 and 343. Act 342 "requires the Michigan Department of Community Health to develop both educational materials and a concussion awareness program."
Act 343 takes that up a level, requiring "all youth sports coaches, employees and volunteers (to) participate in the concussion awareness program, as well as provide the educational materials to athletes." The act also requires coaches to immediately remove any youth athlete from a contest if the athlete is suspected to have sustained a concussion. They will not be allowed to return to action until they receive written clearance from a health professional.
"The state has been very aggressive in mandating programs statewide," said Jim Cole, athletic director and assistant principal at Royal Oak High School. "Our trainer had a protocol. It's very similar to the ones used at the collegiate level. It's pretty thorough that she puts them through."
Cole said the Oakland Activities Association and MHSAA referees also have protocols of their own to help ensure the safety of student-athletes.
"Most people don't understand what a concussion is," said Dr. Neal Alpiner, a pediatric concussion specialist with Beaumont Health System. "You can have a concussion and not lose consciousness. There's just a lack of understanding that a concussion is a brain injury. You don't have to hit something to have a concussion. The brain is more sensitive to brain injuries during teenage years."
Football, hockey, soccer and boys lacrosse are the most common sports that concussions occur in because they are high impact, Cole said.
"We're pretty lucky this fall," Cole said. "Only a few and nothing major, knock on wood. We had a couple players who were held out for a few weeks. They all want to play and they know we're going to pull them and they disguise it if they can. That's not the way to go."
Alpiner said the longer a concussion goes untreated, the more problems it can cause. In addition to physical symptoms such as headaches, dizziness and nausea, he said emotional and academic changes may occur. Depression, anger, irritability and difficulty reading or retaining info are other possible symptoms.
"The longer you wait to get it looked at, the longer the recovery period," Alpiner said. "These other categories can show up a week, two weeks down the line."
There are several misconceptions with concussions that he hopes the new laws' educational component will help clear up.
"I think the first impact it will have is that a concussion is a serious problem and health problem. It can be dismissed and overlooked. Concussion isn't just sport," Alpiner said, noting that people could get concussions from falling down the stairs, or on a playground or during a car accident. "It can have long-term ramifications. It's really not hype. There's issues for kids who have multiple concussions."
Alpiner said hundreds of people visit Beaumont Health System and Children's Hospital annually, some from across the state.
"People come from all over the state to see me," Alpiner said. "We have nice, well-developed protocols for kids."
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Bought Heavenly Cakes and plan to make the White Gold Genoise Passion first.
Rose says for a genoise you don't need cake strips because they don't dome. I've only made one genoise before (Michel Roux recipe) and it was well domed on removal from the oven and didn't sink.
Would like to know if it should be domed on removal and then fall down to level or flat and stay flat?


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For all the talk of how open source software is kicking butt and taking names in the cloud space (see: Red Hat, Ubuntu, Novell) and in embedded space (see Android, MeeGo), there's one area where open source has consistently fallen woefully short: providing solutions for small businesses.
This is a weird sort of failure, too, because on the surface it seems like open source software products--with their collective low price tag, solid support, and better security--would be a perfect fit for the needs of smaller businesses, which often need superlative computing capabilities but can only afford the least-expensive hardware and software due to budget constraints.
Yet, to date, there have been few serious efforts to push open source software into the small business space. Off the top of my head, ClearOS from the Clear Foundation is the most successful effort, followed by Zentyal, an Ubuntu-based server system that's making a little noise lately.
Occasionally, you will hear companies like Red Hat or Novell make some token comments about meeting the needs of small businesses--but let's face it, they know the enterprise market is where the serious revenue lives, and by golly, that's where they're going to focus their efforts.
The historical problem, as I see it, has not been with the software itself. Linux is perfectly good for small business, as is OpenOffice.org/LibreOffice and a slew of other applications. There are gaps in the toolkit: while excellent point-of-sale clients and servers exist for Linux, there is still a lack of bookkeeping software. Actually, there is open source accounting and bookkeeping software out there, but no one wants to migrate to it because it's not 100% compatible with what they have now.
These gaps (real or perceived) are not insurmountable, but even if they are filled, I don't think there will be a large rate of adoption of open source desktop software by small businesses in the near future--indeed, if ever.
For small business, I think the window of opportunity for desktop deployments of open source software may have already passed. We had the shot, and we missed it.
The fault may not have been with the software itself--not completely, at any rate. I believe the difficulty of delivering a desktop platform to small businesses was a big factor, too. Shipping desktop software involves setting up very wide and very shallow sales channels, with smaller support revenue coming in per user, yet with training and support needs on a par with any needs individual enterprise users might have.
I'm not trying to lay all the blame on the platform, but delivering open source software to small business in the desktop "metaphor" is very difficult, faced with sales, marketing, and distribution costs--not to mention the constant pressure on the market form proprietary competition.
All hope is not lost, and recent activity in the open source world shows clear signs as to how open source software can succeed in the small business arena. I've already mentioned two clear paths: cloud and embedded/mobile. Each one of these platforms, whether used separately or used together, afford a much easier pathway to deliver open source software to small business.
In fact, the path to serious computing is potentially a bigger win for small business than any other computer solution they have had before. For a (finally) affordable price, any small business plugged into the right cloud solution can have access to the same tools the enterprise businesses use.
The benefits to open source software makers is equally high: instead of having to find and sell to thousands of small businesses, the software only needs to marketed and deployed at the cloud provider level. As small businesses come to the cloud, they can be using open source solutions based on what fits their needs and budgets. I wouldn't be surprised if some cloud providers (especially software-as-a-service vendors) started "white boxing" existing open source apps for their customers, such as a re-branded operating system or office suite.
The embedded and mobile channel also offers a big conduit into the small business space, because smartphones are getting very prolific, and the open Android platform is already very popular in that space. This proliferation will afford small business users and open source developers a big opportunity to connect with each other.
Is the open source small business desktop completely dead? In its older form, I think it might be. Canonical is splitting Ubuntu sharply away from the "traditional" desktop interface, trying to muscle in on the mobile platform alongside Android and MeeGo, while hanging on to its legacy desktop functionality. So, they can see the writing on the wall.
On the other end of the spectrum, the Red Hats and Novells of the world are driving straight towards the cloud, hoping to capture what is sure to be a very lucrative cloud provider market.
These actions are leaving the "traditional" desktop behind. But for small business users, that may be a good thing, since cloud and mobile may finally deliver the promise of open source software to small business that desktop could not.


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College Volleyball
Marist College 3, Rider University 2
Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference Match
Gajewski Single Season Dig Record
LAWRENCEVILLE--In a match that featured 42 ties and 19 lead changes, the Marist College Red Foxes rallied from two sets down to defeat Rider University 3-2 on Sunday afternoon in the final match of the 2012 season.
Marist (12-16, 8-10 MAAC) won 22-25, 19-25, 25-20, 25-23, 16-14 in a match that took two hours and 18 minutes.
"We just couldn't finish today," said head coach Christopher Feliciano. "The later part of the match, we were undisciplined in too many of the crucial points after playing excellent in sets one and two."
For Rider (11-17, 4-14 MAAC), sophomore Ashlee Amatulli (Menifee, Calif./Temecula Valley) had 49 assists and 12 digs with sophomore Jaclyn Webber (Anaheim, Calif./Canyon) compiling 24 digs and 11 kills.
Also for the Broncs, junior Bridget Sheerin (Oak Lawn, Ill./Marist) had 14 digs and 13 kills with junior Megan Knott (West Caldwell/James Caldwell) compiling 20 kills, five digs and two blocks and freshman Alexa Becker (El Dorado Hills, Calif./Oak Ridge) added 21 digs.
Marist out-hit Rider .188 to .181.
The Broncs lost at Marist 3-1 on October 13 as the Red Foxes swept the season series.
Rider honored its senior class of Haley Wilson (Williamsburg, Iowa), Meg Cook (Warrington, Pa./Archbishop Wood), Stephanie Nagy (Muscatine, Iowa/Muscatine) and Brittany Gajewski (Whitehouse Station/Hunterdon Central) prior to the match.
"It hurts to lose on senior day," Feliciano said. "Developing a winning culture takes time and we are still developing that. We are becoming a team that is feared in the conference. Our seniors can be proud that they were at the forefront of this change. We know there is a lot of work still to be done but they sacrificed and what they gave to the program will benefit our younger players for years to come."
Gajewski had 27 digs in the match and finished the season with a Rider record 583 digs on the season. Evette Hoeffner had 564 digs for the Broncs in 2001. Gajewski finished the season 19th in the nation averaging 5.55 digs per set and she finished her career with 1,304 digs, fifth best all-time at Rider.
Nagy finished the match with nine kills, three digs and a block.
Rookie Nicole Moorman (Moon Township, Pa./Moon Area HS) had eight kills, two solo blocks and hit .333 for the Broncs.
"It is great that we've had the depth that we've had," said Feliciano. "We lose four but gain five new players for 2013. The depth has gone a long way to helping in practice and had also helped the players push each other to become better."
Rider more than doubled its win total from the 2011 season but finished the 2012 campaign losing the final six matches, including the last two in five sets.
"The realization is that we are still a program that is rebuilding," Feliciano said. "I'm patient enough to know that we have shown considerable progress this season. Our RPI is higher and we've had a few conference weekly awards. We are making progress and that's the most important thing for the program. Do we want things faster? Sure we do but we are doing the things we need to do to make the program relevant."
The Broncs return 12 letterwinners for the 2013 season.
"A couple of the players already asked me when does spring practice start," Feliciano added. "That's a really positive sign, especially after such a tough weekend. The planning for August, 2013 starts tomorrow."


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Hillwalking Muirshiel Country Park
Muirshiel and Castle Semple Visitor Centres near Lochwinnoch, Renfrewshire.
Muirsfield Country Park was established around 1970 and covers over 100 square miles of land including, Ayrshire, Inverclyde and Renfrewshire. Here's a few walks for you.
includes Fishing, Cycling, Sightseeing, Climbing, Touring in the Scottish Countryside.
Hillwalking Muirshiel Park - Scottish Walks.
Castle Semple Walks
Castle Semple's Visitors Centre is an outdoor haven for enthusiasts of walking, bike riding and most forms of water sports. Situated on Castle Semple Loch in Lochwinnoch, Renfrewshire, it is open all year round. About 1 mile east of the centre there is a labyrinth of wooded walks that can be covered in a couple of hours and all are easy on the feet. A map of the routes is available at the Centres coffee shop. However, if you are of the " I must see a view" persuasion, then i would recommend the Parkhill walk, which rises up to offer superb views over Castle Semple Loch, Lochwinnoch and beyond.
Muirshiel Visitor Centre
The Muirshiel Centre is approximately 3 miles north of Lochwinnoch and is well signposted from the village. All walks at the Centre start from the car park. Here I shall describe 3 walks which can be done individually or take a full, let's say, leisurely, 8 hours to complete all 3. Please note that dogs are not allowed on walks that take in open fields.
Muirshiel Waterfall
A genuinely real easy walk to start the day. Just make your way down towards the river, following the marked signposts, past the barbeque area, then along the riverbank for about 10 minutes until you reach the waterfall. Here you must turn back for the centre and with views of the River Calder and Misty Law to your left, at least you can say you've got the old legs working.
|I found this walk the best of the bunch. Give yourself around an hour for this 1200 yard walk that takes you up through some pretty dark, dense forestry, on a wooden path, ( watch out for the bogey man ) and then leaves you in open fields with Windyhill immediately in view. Another 700 yards will let you reach the summit of this small hill, which offers splendid views of Misty Law to the west and Strathclyde to the east.I would have taken a photograph of Strathclyde from this point but damn those pylons.
Barytes Mine Walk
Heading north away from the centre, through a gate, pick up the track that will lead you through the Calder Glen, around the base of Queensmuir and eventually to the old disued barytes mine. The first few mile of this walk is quite scenic as you pass through the glen but alas and alack when you hit the open moorland things become quite bland. Still it's worth a walk and should take around 2 hours there and back.


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text: Posted December 16, 2012 Never. Moaning about moaning is perhaps even more tedious than the moaning itself. To be fair, I don't think this thread is a moan about the moaners thread. People can moan all they want, the bigger issue is when this a) affects sponsorship, coverage, perception of our game etc. and when fans just don't get behind the things that could make a massive difference for our game.The international scene is the most important thing IMHO, we all find ourselves complaining about how the test scene is organised, yet often organisers are faced with a very lacklustre audience. I really hope that we see full grounds all over the place for the WC next year, and people show that there is a desire to watch nations like Tonga, Samoa, PNG etc. Early signs are positive, but then I have seen far too many pi$$=poor crowds for tests versus NZ (which pretty much never disappoint on the field) to get too carried away. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites


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Mashed Plantains with Rum
The classic Cuban version of West African fufu (mashed plantains) mixes in bits of crispy pork. Michelle Bernstein prefers a sweeter version with the tang of lime juice, which she says is "more inviting and fun."
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- Servings: 6
- 4 very ripe plantains (almost fully black), peeled and cut into 1-inch pieces
- 4 tablespoons unsalted butter
- 1/4 cup packed light brown sugar
- 1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
- 1/4 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- 1 tablespoon dark rum
- 2 teaspoons fresh lime juice
- Kosher salt and freshly ground pepper
How to make this recipe
In a medium saucepan, combine the plantains, butter, brown sugar, vanilla and cinnamon. Add enough water to just cover the plantains and bring to a simmer over moderate heat. Cook until the plantains are very tender, 15 minutes. Using a slotted spoon, transfer the plantains to a medium bowl. Add the rum and lime juice and coarsely mash the plantains. Season with salt and pepper and serve.


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Arthritis & Rheumatism, Volume 63,
November 2011 Abstract Supplement
Abstracts of the American College of
Rheumatology/Association of Rheumatology Health Professionals
Annual Scientific Meeting
Chicago, Illinois November 4-9, 2011.
Myocardial Involvement in Systemic Sclerosis As Assessed by Ultrasonography and Scintigraphic Perfusion Imaging.
Tsifetaki1, Niki, Papagoras2, Charalampos, Achenbach3, Kersten, Georgiou4, Athanasia, Tsiouris5, Spyridon, Fotopoulos6, Andreas, Drosos7, Alexandros A.
Registrar in Rheumatology, Ioannina, Greece
Fellow in Rheumatology, Ioannina, Greece
Cardiologist, Ioannina, Greece
Fellow in Nuclear Medicine, Ioannina, Greece
Registrar of Nuclear Medicine, Greece
Associate Professor of Nuclear Medicine, Greece
Professor of Medicine/Rheumatology, Ioannina, Greece
Systemic sclerosis (SSc) is an autoimmune disease with two cardinal features: vascular involvement with intense vasoconstriction and smooth muscle proliferation, resulting in increased vascular resistance and tissue ischemia, together with excessive extra-cellular collagen deposition resulting in fibrosis. Both features affect multiple organs such as the skin and the lung. However, limited data are available on heart involvement.
We conducted a cross-sectional study of subclinical heart involvement in patients with SSc followed in a single tertiary rheumatology department. Enrolled patients underwent transthoracic echocardiography (GE Vivid 7 equipment), which assessed left ventricular hypertrophy (LVH) (defined as LV wall thickness >11mm), LV diastolic dysfunction, LV ejection fraction (EF) and pulmonary systolic arterial pressure (PASP). Stress echocardiography with dobutamine was performed in some cases. We also performed stress-rest myocardial perfusion imaging (MPI) scintigraphy by 99mTc-tetrofosmin single-photon emission computed tomography (SPECT). LV wall was divided in 20 segments to quantify ischemia as follows: mild (12), medium (34) & significant (>=5).
Thirty-seven patients with SSc were enrolled (33 females, 4 males; median age 56 years, range 3075). Eighteen of them had limited and 19 diffuse SSc, with median disease duration 15 years (range 257). Eleven patients had a history of arterial hypertension (AH), 2 of pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH), 1 of myocardial infarction and 1 of diabetes mellitus. Two patients were on endothelin receptor antagonists due to PAH, while 14 received bosentan alone or in combination with sildenafil for digital ulcers without PAH. Echocardiography revealed LVH in 9 cases (24.3%); diastolic dysfunction (up to grade 1) was found in 17 (45.9%), though only one had EF<55% (EF median 67%, range 5080). After excluding patients with a history of AH, LVH was still found in 6 (23.1%) and diastolic dysfunction in 10 (38.5%). PASP>30 mmHg was found in 13 patients (35.1%), 11 of whom had no history of PAH, while 3 were already on bosentan for digital ulcers. Stress echocardiography was performed in 12 patients and was negative in all. MPI by 99mTc-tetrofosmin SPECT was performed in 35 patients. Twenty-one (60%) exhibited reversible LV perfusion defects consistent with ischemia. Their median age was 54 years (range 3075); 4 patients were less than 40 years and 8 patients less than 50 years old. In the majority of cases (20) ischemia was graded as mild and in one it was moderate.
Subclinical heart involvement is common in SSc, even in patients in the younger age groups. Diastolic dysfunction without compromised systolic performance, increased PASP and ischemia on MPI SPECT are found in a significant proportion of SSc cases. Although the precise underlying pathology need be elucidated, careful screening of SSc patients for potential heart involvement and consultation by a cardiologist may often be warranted.
To cite this abstract, please use the following information:
Tsifetaki, Niki, Papagoras, Charalampos, Achenbach, Kersten, Georgiou, Athanasia, Tsiouris, Spyridon, Fotopoulos, Andreas, et al; Myocardial Involvement in Systemic Sclerosis As Assessed by Ultrasonography and Scintigraphic Perfusion Imaging. [abstract]. Arthritis Rheum 2011;63 Suppl 10 :699


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Is your sexual harassment policy up-to-date? If it has been gathering dust and is largely ignored, you are creating possible co-worker sexual harassment liability. That's because employees who claim co-worker harassment but who failed to take advantage of a harassment reporting system won't win.
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Let's review: Employers are strictly liable for supervisor sexual harassment if the employee also experiences a tangible employment action like demotion, termination or the like. Employers can escape liability for co-worker sexual harassment and supervisor harassment that doesn't include a tangible employment action only if they exercise reasonable care to prevent or correct any sexually harassing behavior and if the employee unreasonably failed to take advantage of any preventive or corrective opportunities.
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However, the agency showed the court its policy. It explained that Angela and other employees had received very specific training on the policy, including instructions on how, when and where to report any suspected harassment.
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Manfred von Richthofen - the Red Baron - was the most celebrated fighter pilot of the First World War, and was holder of the Blue Max, Pour le Me'rite, Germany's highest military decoration. He was credited with 80 victories in the air, before being shot down in disputed circumstances aged 26. In this autobiography Richthofen tells not only his own story but also that of his contemporaries, their duels in the sky, ever present danger, fame, honour and spiralling death.


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Jun 12, 2012 - Mary Claren, RivertonEditor:
I totally agree with Mr. Peck's editorial recently talking about how people try to sneak onto the ballot for the general election by not filing for the primary and then getting their friends and family to write in their names on the ballot.
I'm sorry but that is not an "election." Most of the time it is a trick to leapfrog the voters and get yourself on the general ballot.
Another similar thing is how many elected officials get elected to a four-year term and then don't serve it out. Now it is happening again on the school board.
I ask myself how many times we have elected someone to the school board, or the city council, or the state legislature, and they end up quitting before they have done what we elected them to do, and I lost count. Once the mayor even did it.
No, I have never run for any office, but there is a right way and a wrong way to serve the voters. We are not served as well as we should be by these people who try to get elected without running, or who don't serve as promised.
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Jennifer Peters Dodd
Master's Thesis submitted to the Faculty of the Virginia Tech in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of
Master of Science
Civil Engineering
Andrea Dietrich, Chair
Robert Hoehn
Daniel Gallagher
February 11, 1997
Blacksburg, Virginia
Aboard the International Space Station, potable water will likely be produced from recycled wastewater. The National Aeronautic and Space Administration (NASA) plans to use iodine as a disinfectant, and, consequently, the formation of iodinated disinfection by-products (IDBPs) requires investigation. Objectives of this research were to determine possible precursors of IDBPs, identify IDBPs formed, and apply flavor profile analysis (FPA) as a tool to evaluate water qaulity. Experiments were performed by separately reacting iodine with each of the following organic compounds: methanol, ethanol, 1-propanol, 2-propanol, 1-methoxy-2-propanol, acetone, and formaldehyde. NASA previously identified all of these compounds in wastewater sources under consideration for recycling into potable water. Experiments were performed at pH 5.5 and 8, iodine concentrations of 10 and 50 mg/L, and organic concentrations of 5 and 50 mg/L. Gas chromatography/mass spectrometry was used to identify and monitor the concentrations of organic species. Spectrophotometry was used to monitor the iodine concentration. Acetone was the only compound identified as an IDBP precursor and it reacted to produce iodoacetone and iodoform. Concentrations of iodoform from 0.34 mg/L to 8.637 mg/L were produced at conditions that included each pH level, iodine concentration, and acetone concentration. The greatest iodoform concentration was produced at pH 8 from 50 mg/L of iodine and acetone. FPA indicated that the odor threshold concentration (OTC) of iodoform was 1.5 ug/L, and the OTC of iodine was 500 ug/L. Both iodine and iodoform have medicinal odors, making it difficult to distinguish each compound when present in a mixture.
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Jessica Biel is reported by LatinoReview.com to be the top choice for the role of Chun Li in 20th Century Fox's game-based movie "Street Fighter."
Those who long for Jessica Biel to get back into action as she once did in "Blade: Trinity" probably can have the chance of seeing the beauty return to the genre soon.
LatinoReview.com has come up with an interesting tidbit informing that the actress is in the line to play the role of Chun Li in "Street Fighter", the forthcoming 20th Century Fox adaptation of the classic fighting videogame. A source for the site said that Biel is the next choice of the filmmakers after Keira Knightley and Jessica Alba both decided to pass on the project.
Pretty much unrelated to the 1994 movie of the same name except for the common source material, the picture is targeted for a 2008 release and has already tapped scribe Justin Marks to pen the screenplay. Plot details are being kept secret for now, but it is learned that the flick will focus on Li, the game's prolific female fighter known for her "Lightning Legs" attack.


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What's Cooking -- January 6, 2012
Chef Tom Bivins with Crop Bistro & Brewery joins us to make a delicious appetizer.
Skillet Raclette
Yield: 4 individual servings
4 slices of Spring Brook Farm Reading Raclette
1/2 lb. New Potatoes, sliced into 1/4 inch rounds, cooked to just tender in chicken stock
1 white onion, chopped fine
1/4 cup Small sour pickles, such as a cornichon or small sour pickle, chopped fine
1 cup diced ham, sliced salami, or other cured meats
salt an pepper to taste
1/4 cup chicken stock
Olive Oil
Croutons, fresh and toasted
Roasted Peppers
Toasted Nuts
Smoked Meats
In individual skillets or 1 large skillet, pour a small amount of oil and place skillet in broiler oven. When the pan is hot, remove and layer with chopped onion, pickle and ham. In between each layer, place a layer of potato. Season each layer of potato. Drizzle with a small amount of chicken stock. Top with a slice of Spring Brook Farm Reading Raclette. Broil until the cheese is bubbling and brown. Serve hot with fresh or toasted bread.
If desired, add toasted nuts as garnish. Roasted peppers and smoked meat may be served on the side as well.


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Three Ohio polls released today show Mitt Romney has momentum in the crucial state, but tomorrow's primary remains too close to call between the ex-Massachusetts governor and Rick Santorum.
Romney and Santorum, a former Pennsylvania senator, are tied at 32% each among likely GOP voters in a poll released this afternoon by CNN/ORC International.
Romney has a slim lead in Ohio polls released earlier today by Quinnipiac University and Public Policy Polling.
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Ohio is one of 10 states voting tomorrow on Super Tuesday, and it is a critical battleground for both parties in the general election.
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Gingrich, for example, is leading in his home state of Georgia and Santorum currently is outpacing Romney in Tennessee, according to the latest polls. Gingrich leads Romney by 23 percentage points in the CNN/ORC survey.
All eyes, however, are on Ohio because of the implications for November. No Republican has ever won the presidency without winning Ohio, and Democratic allies of President Obama have weighed in on the GOP primary.
Peter Brown, assistant director of the Quinnipiac University Polling Institute, notes that Romney's support in Ohio has swung by three to 10 points in the last seven days.
"The margin makes Ohio too close to call but Romney is the one with wind at his back," Brown said.
In the PPP survey, Romney has been gaining ground among late-deciding voters. He has a 12-point lead among Ohio voters who have decided on a GOP presidential candidate in the last few days.
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