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The Puerto Rican pianist/bandleader Eddie Palmieri has reigned as "The Sun of Latin Music" for fifty years. He innovated salsa music with his two-trombone La Perfecta groups, and his propulsive piano style combines McCoy Tyner's power and Thelonious Monk's dark, chordal shadings. On this CD, Palmieri is backed by his long-time combo, augmented by special guest stars. Six of the ten tracks were written by the maestro, including the evocative trio track, "La Gitana" with guitarist John Scofield. But the highlights of this date are Palmieri's sizzling takes on four jazz classics. The Dizzy Gillespie hit "Tin Tin Deo" is signatured by David Sanchez's Latin-tempoed tenor. Monk's "In Walked Bud," dances with a Palladium-era pulse. Horace Silver's "Nica's Dream" is graced by violinist Regina Carter's sparkling strings and Nicholas Payton's neoclassic trumpet tones. The Eddie Harris-penned title track, with Michael Brecker's Traneish solo and Christian McBride's bold basslines, shows why Mr. Palmieri's recording represents the finest in Afro-Cubop. --Eugene Holley, Jr.


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Next on our list was the Terracross from the design folks at GMC, which provides the next step beyond last year's concept Terradyne. The name indicates that this too is crossover vehicle concept -- a five-passenger SUV that builds on GMC's new "industrial precision" style. "Just as last year's Terradyne concept represents GMC's vision for the ultimate 'professional grade' pickup, Terracross creates an innovative type of SUV, designed to exceed the expectations of the most demanding customers", said Lynn Myers, Pontiac-GMC general manager.
is more than just another SUV -- it is a pickup truck and a five-seat
convertible as well. It stretches 172-inches from nose to tail,
The Terracross features a three piece articulating roof with panels that may be powered electronically to varying positions. The panels are stackable, one atop the other, opening up two-thirds of the entire roof length and providing a comfortable fresh-air experience with the added security of a full safety cage. When all the sliding panels are moved to their forward-most position, an open cargo box is created at the vehicle's rear.
Terracross also employs a reconfigurable mid-gate system with a retractable rear window which is built into the back rest of the second row seats. This unit can be folded forward and stowed flush with the seat, producing an extended flat cargo be floor -- with the seat up, a closed passenger compartment and open cargo box is achieved.
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no "B" pillars on the Terracross, and the uniquely-hinged rear
High-tech instrumentation is programmable in different color displays, and evokes futuristic, computer-like images. GM's OnStar communications network is also found as standard fare on the Terracross, while the state-of-the-art audio system features the capability of playing radio, cassettes, CDs or digital music collections from Sony's 'memory stick' technology -- the memory card is removable for use in a portable MP3 player.
Terracross employs GM's VersaTrak All-Wheel-Drive (AWD) system for go nearly anywhere transportation. The system receives power from GM's transversely-mounted 3.4 liter V6 engine coupled to a four-speed automatic transmission. Horsepower is rated at 185 and 205 pound feet of torque are generated.
Wheelbase of the angular Terracross is 112.9-inches with an overall length of 171.9-inches ad 75-inch width. The Terracross tips the scale at 3,500 lbs., as does the Chevy Borrego, though it appears considerably more massive. Show colors are Dark Wind veil Pearl outside and steel gray inside with lots of brushed aluminum accents throughout. Terracross will be officially unveiled at the Detroit International Auto Show in January, '01.

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text: Updated from 3:38 a.m. ESTLONDON ( TheStreet) -- HSBC ( HBC), the U.K.'s largest bank, said fiscal-year while net earnings rose 2% to $5.8 billion, less than analysts had expected. HSBC said underlying pretax profit rose 56% to $13.3 billion, while on a reported basis pretax profit fell 24% to $7.1 billion. HSBC said loan impairment charges and other credit risk provisions were $26.49 billion in 2009, $1.55 billion higher than in 2008, and "we believe this was acceptable given the severity of the global recession and the rise in unemployment in most developed markets," said CEO Michael Geoghegan, in a statement. Loan impairments fell by 16% at HSBC's U.S. consumer finance run-off business in 2009 from 2008. The bank's core tier 1 ratio was 9.4% at Dec. 31. HSBC said it was profitable in all regions except North America. HSBC said its global banking and markets division had 2009 pretax profit of $10.5 billion, compared with $3.0 billion in 2008. Geoghegan confirmed Monday he would give his bonus to charity. -- Reported by Joseph Woelfel in New York. Follow TheStreet.com on Twitter and become a fan on Facebook.


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Howard Lloyd qualified from University College London in 1989 and worked for a short time in general practice. He held a number of hospital training posts in oral surgery and restorative dentistry, and in 1994 commenced training in endodontics. He graduated in 1996 and entered private practice. He has limited his practice to endodontics since 1995 and was accredited by the General Dental Council as a Specialist in Endodontics in 1998.
He lectures and runs hands-on courses for dentists in both this country and abroad. He is also a member of the teaching staff at the Eastman International Centre in London.


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Congratulations to Randy Houser, our newest champion on Danny's Daily Duel. His new song, "Runnin' Outta Moonlight" defeated the new song from Lady Antebellum in yesterday's competition.
Houser will now move on to take on the latest from Lee Brice, 'Parking Lot Party'.
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I've been covering PCs since 1981 and I like to think that by now I can spot a winner from a loser.
I'm afraid Apple fans, the Mac Mini is, well, not a winner. I'm not the only one. See Rob Pegoraro at the Washington Post. He's not that thrilled either. Nor is Seth Jayson at the Motley Fool, or Jack Kapica at the GlobeandMail.com in Canada.
For $500 you get far less than what you could get with a much better configured PC.
Let's look at the stats and see what you get and don't get.
Mac Mini, $499, 1.2GHz processor, 256MB RAM, 40GB hard drive, DVD-ROM/CD-RW.
For $599 you get a 1.4GHz processor and an 80GB hard drive.
What you don't get are a monitor, mouse keyboard.
Here's two configurations from Dell.
For $399 you get a 2.4GHz processor tower with 512MB RAM, 40GB hard drive, CD or DVD ROM drive, and a 17-inch monitor, a keyboard and a mouse.
For $699 you can get an Inspiron 1000 notebook. It has a 2.2GHz processor, 256MB RAM, a 30GB hard drive, CD ROM/DVD ROM, and a 14.1 inch XGA display. Of course the keyboard and mouse are built in.
It seems to me Apple will have a great deal of difficulty convincing most buyers looking for a solution rather than a nameplate to opt for the Mac Mini.
I know Apple fans will think I'm in the pay of Bill Gates but I'm not. I just don't see value conscious consumers who know how to shop buying a less than complete package for more money.
I predict that you will see Apple lower the price and by next year add a monitor, keyboard and mouse.
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A qualitative investigation of older pedestrian views of influences on their road crossing safety
Shaw, Lauren, Lennon, Alexia J., & King, Mark J. (2012) A qualitative investigation of older pedestrian views of influences on their road crossing safety. In Australasian Road Safety Research, Policing and Education Conference 2012, 4-6 October 2012, Wellington, New Zealand.
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With Australia's population rapidly ageing, older pedestrian safety has begun to receive greater attention from road safety researchers. However, reliance on simulator studies and observational techniques has limited current understanding of why older pedestrians adopt particular crossing behaviours, and how they perceive crossing the road. The current study aimed to investigate the psychological factors that may contribute to older pedestrians' crash risk by examining their perceptions of the issues they encounter on the road. Qualitative semi-structured interviews with 18 pedestrians aged 55 years and older were conducted, and the interview transcripts underwent thematic analysis. From this analysis, four key themes emerged. Firstly, the physical design of the road was perceived as posing a significant threat for older pedestrians, particularly sloped, semi-mountable kerbs and designated crossings. Secondly, declines in older pedestrians' confidence in their ability to cross the road were evident through fewer reported risks being taken. Additionally, older pedestrians sensed an increased threat from other road users when crossing the road, particularly from drivers and cyclists. Finally, older pedestrians referred to the informal rules and strategies used to guide their road crossing. The results suggest that the road environment is perceived as increasingly dangerous and hazardous environment for older pedestrians. Implications regarding the physical road design in areas with an existing high proportion of elderly people are discussed.
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Two much-anticipated projects aimed at preserving and renovating Princeton's downtown are closer to getting off the ground.
The Little Falls-based Initiative Foundation has awarded Princeton a $5,000 grant for its "It Starts Here" program while the Minnesota Historical Society has awarded the city a $6,630 grant for a survey of historic properties.
The Princeton City Council approved accepting both grants at its Thursday, July 26 meeting.
Initiative Foundation
The Initiative Foundation will support advertising, promotion and training of the "It Starts Here" program, a joint effort of the city of Princeton, its Economic Development Authority and the Princeton Area Chamber of Commerce. The grant was awarded to the city's Park & Recreation Advisory Board.
The goal of "It Starts Here" is revitalizing downtown by filling the vacant spaces with new businesses. Princeton community development director Carie Fuhrman has said there are 16 vacant spaces in a nine-block area downtown.
Grant dollars are expected to be received within the next 30 days. The grant agreement states that there is a two-year grant period.
Historical Society
The Minnesota Historical Society will fund a "reconnaissance survey" of Princeton's downtown through its $6,630 "Historical and Cultural Heritage" grant.
The grant monies will be used to hire a consultant to complete a reconnaissance survey of Princeton's downtown, approximately 50 commercial buildings.
Pat Gaarder, deputy director of programs for the MHS, said in a letter to the city that the Society is honored to support Princeton's efforts to preserve the state's heritage.
Under conditions of the grant, work on the survey must be completed by Aug. 1, 2013.


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- Smart City Operations - Always know, what has to be done, where and when?
Smart City Management Concept
The ITU focus group for "Smart Sustainable Cities" defines a Smart City as follows:
"A smart sustainable city is an innovative city that uses information and communication technologies (ICTs) and other means to improve quality of life, efficiency of urban operation and services, and competitiveness, while ensuring that it meets the needs of present and future generations with respect to economic, social, environmental as well as cultural aspects." (ITU Focus Group on Smart Sustainable Cities, 2015)
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If all organizations who shape, use and maintain the public space of a town would coordinate their projects, then
- every party involved could save 10% to 20% of the construction costs; and
- traffic disturbances and nuisances for the residents would considerably be reduced..
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- Submission of intentions, proposals and projects: no matter if electricity provider, telecommunications company, public transport operator, town planning office or civil association, every public agency captures and manages its own projects in a simple Web application. Construction plans, schemes and other documents can be uploaded and attached to the project.
- Spatial coordination: the coordination body bundles spatially collocated projects to coordinated projects.
- Temporal coordination: if several coordinated projects would impair each other, for instance if one project is located on the diversion route of another one, or if one utility involved does not have enough resources to run two large projects in parallel, the projects are phased properly to clear out the conflicts.
- Consultation and participation procedures: as soon as the coordination body has elaborated a suggestion for a coordinated project, the proposal is presented to all agencies to solicit their comments. In the Web application, they can study the coordinated projects with all the sub-projects including construction plans and documents. Every agency can formulate comments and requirements, supported by individual boilerplates. At the end of the consultation term, all comments and requirements are combined into a binding document for the constructor.
- Annual and realization programme: once a year, or more often if required, all coordinated projects for the next 12 months are combined in a realization plan, which again undergoes a final reconcilitation.
- Routes to be kept clear: for every project on the annual plan that causes traffic obstructions, diversion routes are determined. These routes must not be impaired by other construction projects. This is a assured by an official plan of all routes to be kept clear, which issues an absolute construction ban for such routes in the relevant period.
- Approval procedure: all utilities and offices involved in a coordinated project prepare the realization plans. Once they are ready, they have to be approved like any other construction project. The approval procedure is also carried out usinge Condesys' system. All details of the sub-projects and the coordinated project are copied to the approval file. Apart from saving time, this makes sure that all requirements resulting from the consultation will be considered and fulfilled.
- Management and publication of construction sites: finally, out of the approval file, the construction site record is created. Start and end of the different project phases as well as the current status can be edited by the constructor himself over the Internet. Imminent and active construction sites are published automatically based on the dates in the record on a Web map layer, that can easily be integrated in any kind of Web-based city plan application.
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Measurement equipment and sensors are omnipresent in today's connected world. Long gone are the times, when public weather services measured air temperature in Stevenson screens 2m above ground at only 3 or 4 fixed points in time per day. Meanwhile, even primary school classes publish weather and air quality data at minute intervals using their Raspberry Pi single board computer.
The challenge is not anymore the data collection, but the selection, organization and processing of the right data for the solution of the problem at hand. BigData methods might help, but sometimes it is more economical to gather and integrate the data specifically for the target. The Smart City Data Management Condesys deployed amongst others for the Principality of Liechtenstein manages all measurement stations and their observations including the measurement types in real-time and as an archive.
Measurement stations can be fixed or moving. For a fixed station it is enough to insert the coordinates into the Smart City Data Management system. For mobile measurements, the application handles GPS positions or other time-dependent locations. This is how even many years from now, every measurement can be precisely localized.
When supplying measurement values and observations, no matter if in real-time or from a long-term archive, there is a rather mundane rule: without an indication of what was measured, where and how, the mesurement values are useless. That is why Condesys developed a metadata system to document measurement types and measurement programmes. If new measurands need to be collected or if a measurement unit or method changes, a simple entry of the measurement parameters in the Web administration tool makes the database ready to host measurement values of a new type. There is no programming and no modification of the database needed. Using the system by Condesys, you are ready to mange all measurements you collect today and the ones you will collect in the future. SmartCity Data Management is the ideal platform for environmental monitoring, supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA), building and infrastructure surveillance, traffic count and to report maintenance work and effort on infrastructure assets.
Smart City Data Management is the ideal data-warehouse for static and dynamically moving geographic data and business assets with all related measurements, observations and modelled forecast data in the real world.
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Persons responsible for the operation and maintenance of infrastructures must be joined-up thinkers to cope with their daily challenges:
- Is there a time slot to repair the pavement of a main traffic artery without causing traffic chaos?
- How many operators, field staff and machines have to be provided in the growing season, to cut all hedges along motorways and railway lines?
- When must the tunnel lighting be replaced because the lifespan of the lamps is reached?
- Which drainage shafts tend to silt after heavy rainfall and must be cleaned quickly to avoid danger for traffic and local residents?
- Where do network faults occur frequently and what could be the cause? Is it the age of the lines? Are there environmental factors such as high stagnating groundwater? Are there frequent vibrations caused by heavy traffic or construction sites?
Condesys designed and developed Smart City Operations solution amongst others for the motorway maintenance operator of North-Western Switzerland, NSNW AG. Smart City Operations links every object of the facilities and infrastructure database with the required maintenance activities, their geographic location (GIS), any kind of measurement data, operational data, observations and documents. It determines and manages the work to be done and provides a standardized logging and reporting system for the proof of the maintnenance measures carried out. This spatial asset management system is an indispensable reference for all questions and processes associated with the physical foundation of an intelligent city, a transport or telecommunications network or for an operator of a transport, supply or disposal infrastructure.
Smart City Operations by Condesys is generic and can be continuously adapted to new requirements, directly in the Web administration interface, without any programming:
- Definition of new object types, e.g. for detecting and combating neophytes or for the coordination of road closures for neighbourhood festivals. Using Smart City Operations, you are immediately ready to organize your productive work without having to handle complex and risky IT projects beforehand.
- Definition and management of new relationships and associations between objects, so you can document important connexions and dependencies, and present them easily for everone to understand.
- Standard functionality with each object to manage related documents, photos, notes, GPS localization, work reports etc.; again without a line of program code.
- Definition, acquisition and retrieval of measurement and sensor data related to the environment, to operations, to workload of machines and facilities. Combination of measurement types in measurement programmes, and regular analysis with pivot functions.
- Dynamic managment of geographic work and accounting areas (operating routes, lots, maintenance districts, cost centers etc.), so resources can be allocated need-based and accounted for in a transparent way.
- Assignment of user rights (read, create, modify, delete) per object type or individually per object. This is how you can map the responsibility for the real infrastructure onto your information system, fully hassle-free.
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If you have more girlfriends and family members to pick from for your bridal party, you should feel lucky to be surrounded by so much love and support! When it comes to your maid of honor, remember that that title is reserved for unmarried women, while "matron of honor" is meant for one who has already tied the knot. But is it allowable to have one of each? Our wedding etiquette experts are here to weigh in on your bridal party questions in our daily post.
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* C$ ends at C$1.0501 vs US$, or 95.23 U.S. cents * Currency falls 1.6 pct vs greenback over week * Canada inflation edges up in July; U.S. new home sales fall * Bond prices rose across maturity curve By Alastair Sharp TORONTO, Aug 23 (Reuters) - The Canadian dollar gained slightly against its U.S. counterpart on Friday as dismal U.S. housing data and its possible impact on a Federal Reserve stimulus wind-down plan overshadowed domestic inflation data. The loonie, as Canada's currency is colloquially known, notched a 1.6 percent decline on the week, as investors ratcheted up expectations that the U.S. central bank would begin to phase out its massive bond-buying program in September. That prospect, which boosted the greenback, took a hit on Friday as data showed sales of new single-family homes in the United States fell sharply in July. But the loonie gained little ground as domestic inflation data rose less than expected, suggesting Canadian interest rates are unlikely to rise anytime soon. "The anti-Canadian dollar trade was a bit overdone by the time the (Canadian inflation) data came out," said Adam Button, currency analyst at ForexLive in Montreal. "There are very few bright spots in the global economy and the Canadian dollar has been resilient but it has finally run out of gas." The Canadian dollar is sensitive to global growth prospects because of the underlying economy's reliance on natural resource exports. Button predicted the loonie would likely test the $1.06 level next week. The Canadian dollar ended the day trading at C$1.0501 to the U.S. dollar, or 95.23 U.S cents. At one point it touched C$1.0569 to the U.S. dollar, its weakest since July 9. It ended slightly stronger than Thursday's finish of C$1.0516, but far weaker than last Friday's close of C$1.0339. Canada's annual inflation rate edged up to 1.3 percent in July from 1.2 percent in June, underlining how little pressure the Bank of Canada is under to tighten policy. Market operators had expected the rate to hit 1.4 percent. The Bank of Canada aims to keep inflation at 2.0 percent. The price of Canadian government debt rose across the curve. The two-year bond added 2 Canadian cents to yield 1.195 percent, while the benchmark 10-year bond gained 40 Canadian cents to yield 2.695 percent.


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Blake Shelton & Luke Bryan Start Off 2014 ACM Awards with Hilarious Insults: Watch Here!
Starting off the night with a bang, Luke Bryan and Blake Shelton took to the MGM Grand Stage for the 49th Annual Academy of Country Music Awards on Sunday (April 6).
The country boys spit out plenty of hilarious jokes to kick off their hosting duties, leaving big names including Justin Bieber and Britney Spears in their line of fire.
Starting off their speech, Shelton discussed the changes that occurred since last year's show, saying, "A year ago, same sex marriage just meant once you got married, you had the same sex over and over and over again."
"And if you don't like live music, you have to go down the block and see Britney Spears," he added.
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Group Files Suit To Establish Chimp's Legal Personhood
A U.S. animal rights group today filed what it said is the first lawsuit seeking to establish the "legal personhood" of chimpanzees.
The non-profit Nonhuman Rights Project asked a New York state court to declare a 26-year-old chimp named Tommy "a cognitively complex autonomous legal person with the fundamental legal right NOT to be imprisoned."
"A legal person does not mean human being, it means an entity whose interest the law takes notice of and will protect, and that's what we think chimpanzees should be as well, because they're so extraordinarily autonomous and otherwise cognitively complex," said the group's president, Steven Wise.
The lawsuit seeks a declaration that Tommy's "detention" in a "small, dank, cement cage in a cavernous dark shed" in central New York is unlawful and demands his immediate release to a primate sanctuary.


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The combination of a high Australian dollar and falling commodity prices is eroding the margins of Australian resources exporters, who are being urged to drop their traditional reluctance to hedge against currency market risk.
Mid-tier iron ore miner
"The [disconnect] is something that has emerged in only about the last six months. My instinct is if the iron ore prices stay low-ish then the dollar will drop over time," BC Iron chief financial officer
"But it is something we are starting to consider. We're fortunate in that the margins on our projects are fairly robust so the concept of hedging just to keep projects afloat isn't necessary."
In the past month,
Most major commodities are denominated in US dollars, meaning mining companies must exchange at least part of their sales revenue into Australian dollars to meet their local operating costs.
Resources companies previously were able to rely on the tight correlation between iron ore prices and the Australian dollar to provide a "natural hedge" against currency exposure. But with benchmark ore prices dipping to below $US90 a tonne and the dollar around $US1.04, miners are being hit by lower sales revenue in US dollars as well as a higher cost in bringing that revenue back to Australia.
Foreign exchange strategists say the dollar would be as low as US95¢ if the old correlation was still standing.
Hedging involves purchasing a forward or options contract in the currency market that would allow a mining company to exchange US dollars for Australian dollars at a fixed rate. This insures the company against the risk that the exchange rate will appreciate in that time-frame, but can also backfire if the currency falls below that level.
Australia's largest mining companies including BHP,
"There is a bit of a push to at least consider it, especially if you've got a high level of debt or your margins are under pressure," Citigroup mining analyst Clarke Wilkins said. UBS resources analyst Daniel Morgan said: "In three months' time, if iron ore prices are 20 per cent lower and the Australian dollar stays where it is, then the margins [of the miners] are all going to be under pressure."
Wilson Asset Management chairman Geoff Wilson said investors should understand miners are a leveraged investment to commodity and exchange markets, but acknowledged hedging made sense from a management perspective. "[Hedging] might make sense from a prudent management perspective but from an investor perspective I believe that investors . . . would prefer the companies didn't hedge," Mr Wilson said. "That view could change. As a board, you would probably want to mitigate the risk."
ANZ foreign exchange strategist Andrew Salter said the currency's action was "raising a few questions" about the current lack of hedging policy in the mining industry. "No one's really certain whether the divergence [between the dollar and iron ore prices] will persist," he said.
The Australian Financial Review


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From: "YvonnePurdy" <>
Subject: RE: Thomas Cromwell, Earl of Essex, his will?
Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2008 21:19:05 -0000
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Hi Tom,
I don't know how everyone posts their replies at the end of messages, and I realise that's seems to be the
norm here, rather than top posting, but this is just to say many thanks for your efforts in the summary
extraction of the will of Thomas Cromwell, Earl of Essex. Much appreciated.
Kind regards, Yvonne Purdy
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Sent: 10 December 2008 12:47
Subject: Re: Thomas Cromwell, Earl of Essex, his will?
On Dec 10, 7:47 am, "YvonnePurdy" <>
> Many thanks, Will, for the link to Thomas Cromwell's will. I was hoping to find a reference to Jane,
> supposedly a base born daughter to Thomas Cromwell, who married William Houghe in Cheshire. Their daughter
> Alice Houghe married William Whitmore of Leighton. I've seen a couple of statements that Jane was the base
> born daughter of Thomas, but no definite references. The IGI entry for Jane Cromwell, abt. 1538, Leighton,
> Cheshire, is member submitted. Does anyone have anything which might support or disprove Jane's parentage?
> Yvonne Purdy
> From: [mailto:]
> Sent: 10 December 2008 00:28,
> To:
> Subject: Re: Thomas Cromwell, Earl of Essex, his will?
> You can try this
> _http://books.google.com/books?as_brr=3&q=Thomas+Cromwell+Will+1529&bt...
> h+Books_
> (http://books.google.com/books?as_brr=3&q=Thomas+Cromwell+Will+1529&bt...)
> I can't say what you'll see, but I see several references to his will
> including the one I posted which lays it out in full evidently.
> OR just use super proxy !
> Apparently your net-nannies are censoring your view ;)
> Will Johnson
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Hi Folks,
I'm in Ireland, and using Proxify I can get many of the things that
would not come through without it. For those having trouble getting
through, here is a mini-summary.
from: 'History of England from the Fall of Wolsey to the Death of
p. 114-121
The Will of Thomas Cromwell - 1529
his son, Gregory Cromwell.
his sister, Elizabeth, [wife of William Wellyfed].
his sister, Katherine.
his late wife's sister, Joan, wife of John Williamson [or
his nephew, Richard Willyams, [servant with my Lord Marquess
his nephew, Christopher Wellyfed
his nephew, William Wellyfed, the younger.
his niece, Alice Wellyfed.
his sister, Anne.
his sister, Grace.
his nephew, Walter Willyams.
his mother-in-law, Mercy Prior.
his brother-in-law, William Wellyfed.
his brother-in-law, John Willyams.
his niece, Joan, daughter of Joan and John Willyams.
his servant, Ralph Sadler.
his servant, Hugh Whalley.
his sometime servant, Stephen Vaughan.
his servant, Page, aka, John De Pount.
his sometime servant, Elizabeth Gregory.
his daughter Grace.
his cousin, Richard Williams.
several lesser bequests added after his signature:
Executors: Stephen Vaughan, Ralph Sadler, John Willyams.
Overseer: Roger More.
oddly, on page 119, Cromwell calls Elizabeth, wife of William
Wellyfed, his only sister, yet on page 116 he describes Elizabeth and
Katherine as 'his own sisters'.
Tom Dunn, Kilbrittain, Co. Cork, Ireland
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Recently, my mother tangled with a home renovation project and ended up with several broken bones. Because she is in a cast to the knee and a cast to the elbow, she is more or less confined to a chair at home, on account of the doctor's orders to avoid putting pressure on either her arm or leg.
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My mother is the payroll supervisor for a multistate, 300-person firm, and the temp they brought in was making a hash of the books. Since she was getting bored on disability leave, Mom called her boss and offered to work remotely. The boss was enthused by this idea; his boss, however, said he didn't want to send over a spare machine, because what if someone in the office needed it? My mother volunteered her personal laptop. So Mom's workplace decided she could install some VPN software and work from the comfort of her sickbed.
Mom told her firm's IT staff that she works on an Apple iBook G4, passed along her operating system, and waited for someone to send her whatever CDs she'd need to install the software. Then she asked me to install the software.
Unfortunately, the tech had sent along .exe files. I quickly read the Readme file and confirmed that the IT department had sent along Windows-only software. I got on the phone with the IT department and explained the problem, asking if they had the Mac OS X version of the VPN software.
"It's too big to burn on a CD, so let me e-mail it to you," said the IT tech. That was my first clue that perhaps the IT department wasn't all that familiar with Mac-only software.
When attempting to e-mail a .dmg file failed (unsurprisingly), I called the IT department again to ask if I could just bring the laptop in and have the department install the software.
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Bear in mind that the point of bringing the laptop onto the premises was to secure it. Bear in mind also that the whole purpose of this exercise was to allow my mother to download and manipulate files that contained all sorts of confidential company and personnel information. She'd have this information saved to her personal laptop's hard drive -- which seems none-too-secure itself. But I'm not an IT professional, so what do I know?
Eventually, I was approved to come in to headquarters with the laptop and escorted to the IT department. There, the IT tech took one look at the iBook G4 and said, "I haven't worked with Apple since my school days. I had an Apple IIe. They've changed."
To make a long story short, I ended up installing the software myself and setting up the VPN configurations. The IT tech was ecstatic over learning about a new platform. And I did not walk out with any valuable company secrets, so all the company has to worry about is the fact that all their payroll data is on an employee's laptop offsite. How fortunate that neither the laptop -- nor my mother -- are going to be walking out the door any time soon.


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The itinerary was superb and I would recommend it. Since this was a charter we had two days in Vienna which was fantastic.
The room was wonderful expecially the bathroom and spacious shower. We had a twin balcony cabin which in retrospect More was not necessary as a french balcony would have been just fine. The point is to have the open view and to be able to open the balcony to let in fresh air. We practically never sat on the balcony because most of the day time we were in port and docked. Our cabin steward was excellent as was the cruise manager Cheri. She was the highlight of the trip. Too bad the rest of the staff did not measure up to her standard.
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If you have the old version of the xWHIP calculator (anything before v.1.4.3), please download the new one (available through the link below), as it will give you the most accurate projection.
I am forever locked in Mortal Kombat for the souls of sports fans everywhere. Statistics are my science and 'the immeasurable character of men' is the obsolete religion of blind faith. My job is to prove that God doesn't exist and that athletes are merely cold, metal machines with no hearts or souls.
Earlier this week, I projected Cliff Lee's prospective rest of season WHIP. The formulaic process of calculating his xWHIP got me thinking and I spent the (entire) morning creating an xWHIP calculator (visually based on the THT xBABIP Quick Calculator). If you would like a copy of the program, you can download the xWHIP calculator by clicking here. The password to utilize the excel sheet is soto18.
Explanation of the xWHIP Calculator
According to Gameday data, circa 2005-2010, BABIP by batted ball type is general broken down as follows:
- Popups: .008
- Groundballs: 0.237
- Outfield Flyballs: 0.269
- Line Drives: 0.733
This data includes home runs, which is why the Outfield Flyball xBABIP is so high. If you take home runs out of the equation, the xBABIP for Outfield Flyballs and Line Drives fall to .174 and .727, respectively.
I've taken the above numbers and paired them with a formula that normalizes a pitcher's line drive percentage to 19% and spits out remaining balls in play (BIP) data. The calculator also features a defensive adjustment so that you can account for a pitcher's team defense. The defensive adjustment operates under the assumption that all "saved hits" were of the singles variety.
Below is a picture of the xWHIP calculator. The numbers plugged into the model for the picture are those of Tom Gorzelanny through July 17, 2010.
The grey cells are for data you should input. The green cells feature the xBIP data per IP. The blue and orange cells feature xWHIP and xHit calculations. The data cells are pre-formatted to visually round all numbers to keep the sheet clean, though cells will retain the full value of any number entered.
I hope everyone enjoys this. If you have any questions/concerns/comments/criticisms, please email them to
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On a final note, I would like to give a special thank you to Derek Carty, who (possibly unknowingly) helped me create this xWHIP calculator.


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Plans to build up to 400 new homes, a supermarket and business start-up workspace in Hornsey have been unveiled to the public.
The developer, St James Group, have confirmed contracts with Sainsbury's and Haringey Borough Council to redevelop the former Hornsey Depot.
Today, a public consultation arranged by the developer and Sainsbury's is being held at St Mary's CE Primary School, in Rectory Gardens, from 2.30pm to 7pm.
The initial proposals for the 5.24 acre Brownfield site include a Sainsbury's store and cafe, space for start-up businesses, 400 new homes and improvements to Hornsey High Street.
Sean Ellis, chairman of St James, said: "I am delighted that we have been able to secure a deal to work with Sainsbury's and Haringey Council to deliver an exciting and sustainable regeneration of this near redundant site.
"With our experience in the local area, I am confident that we can deliver a quality scheme that will regenerate this site, benefitting the local community by providing new private and affordable homes and new job opportunities."
A planning application will be submitted to the council later this summer and if permission is granted the work will start in the spring 2014.
Lisa Poyser, development surveyor at Sainsbury's, said: "We are delighted to be taking an important step closer to bringing a new Sainsbury's store to Hornsey and regenerating this key area of the High Street.
"We have a long history in the area, with our Muswell Hill store opening in 1966.
"This new store will provide customers with the great quality and choice that Sainsbury's offers, and create around 120 new jobs, to add to the existing 880 colleagues currently working in the borough."
There will be another public consultation at the primary school in Rectory Gardens tomorrow from 6.30pm to 8.30pm and on Saturday June 15 between 10am to 2pm.


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With one of the biggest storms – Sandy* – in recent history having just ravaged the eastern seaboard of the United States, bringing flooding and power outages and downed trees and the kind of awe-inspiring displays of raw power that only Mother Nature can bring to bear, I got to thinking about Primal disaster/emergency preparedness. Obviously, regardless of the lifestyle habits we subscribe to, we're subject to the same basic concerns as anyone else: food, water, warmth, light, shelter, entertainment. The food we eat is gonna look different, and we might try to look at the bright side of being without power [1], but not much else changes.
Food? Yeah, it's important, but this post isn't about food. And anyway, a couple years back, I published a tongue-in-cheek guide [2] to surviving the apocalypse, and despite the humor, the recommended non-perishable foods and drinks from that post are still solid choices. The only items I'd add would be canned seafood beyond just sardines – like tuna, salmon, oysters – and kale chips. Because kale chips are that awesome. Oh, and try to get everything in BPA-free packaging [3]. Avoiding endocrine disruption [4] may not be your first priority in a disaster situation, but it can't hurt.
I won't go into the standard disaster preparedness checklist. That's pretty basic stuff that you can find anywhere. Everyone knows the material items they'll need to survive, the things you can buy at the store and keep in your basement or garage and forget all about until the day arrives. But in the event of a real disaster, whether it's modern fast zombies, old school shambling zombies, or an unprecedented subtropical storm, there is one essential – and totally Primal – factor that many of us are in danger of overlooking:
The importance of having people nearby on whom you can rely (and they you).
In my experience, most discussions about disaster preparedness overemphasize the individual aspects of survival. You've got your bug out bags [5], your go kits. You've got your fantasies of building underground bunkers capable of withstanding a direct hit from a nuclear weapon, amassing as much ammunition as you can find, stockpiling an arsenal that would put Michael Gross from Tremors [6] to shame, and lining your property with machine gun nests, bear traps, and a moat full of great white sharks, piranhas, and salt water crocodiles. Ultimately, these folks are assuming the worst – not just of the situation, but of the people around them – and end up preparing to face the coming onslaught all by themselves. It's important to be self-reliant, but is it enough? Is it even possible? Are you prepared to move that fallen tree blocking your front door all by yourself? What about the extrication of your living body from the ruins of your house – think that's a one man job? Can you wrap wounds, set bones, and fashion slings? Do you have carpentry, hunting, and masonry skills? If not, you might want to think about having a group of people upon whom you can rely (and vice versa). You might want to think about obtaining the one resource you can't simply buy and store in your garage (without going to jail, that is): friends.
Friends can help each other hunt, forage, and garden. Ten pairs of hands (or guns, or minds, or sets of legs) are better and far more effective at doing the things required for survival. Ten guns can defend better than one gun. Ten pairs of hands can chop more wood, carry more water, build more things [7], and pull more weeds than one pair of hands. Ten minds can come up with a better solution for water purification or shelter fortification than one mind. Ten sets of legs can cover more ground and find more survivors and food than one set of legs.
We all have friends, of course. But in today's world of Facebook, Twitter [8] feeds, message boards, email, and mobile phones that allow instant connectivity with anyone and everyone anywhere, our friends often live far, far away from us. Or perhaps across town, which doesn't help us if the roads are blocked and our cars are underwater. For friends to be helpful in disaster recovery, they need to be close. What about our neighbors – the people who we do have at arm's reach? These are the people who will be able to help us when disaster strikes. These are the people with whom we'll be able to share supplies and divvy up responsibilities. However, research shows [9] that these people are increasingly not our friends. We might share casual words on trash day with them, but we probably feel awkward asking them to feed our cat and water our plants when we're away.
When life is going as planned, strangers are fairly civil to each other. You bump into someone in the mall accidentally, you apologize. You see someone coming up behind you as you enter the bank, you hold the door open. This is basic common decency. Easy stuff. But when the world is falling apart around you, what do you do? Your innate sense of preservation kicks in. You grab your kids, your spouse, call your friends, your parents, and stuff the cat into a pet carrier. In other words, you don't even have to think about saving you and yours; you just act. This is an incredibly Primal response.
When you expand your circle of "yours" to include the people who live around you – and they expand their circles to include you – everyone looks out for everyone. Everyone's better off. Most importantly, each individual person is better off, because if you're the unlucky one whose ceiling fell in or whose canned goods were washed away, your neighbors are that much more likely to pull you out and invite you in for some canned tuna and water. And you're more likely to do the same for them. The beauty of it is that because these are now your friends that need help, you don't feel "put upon." You want to help them, because, well, they're your friends and that's what friends do. That's what a tribe [10] does.
Research even shows [11] that in real life disasters, it's not the government aid, the fire trucks, or the emergency responders that really help people survive in the immediate. It's the friends, the neighbors, the community. It's Paul from next door who you let borrow your tool set last year who's going to pull you out of your collapsed kitchen, not the anonymous emergency responder coming from fifty miles away. A government worker isn't going to know how many people live in the house across the street, nor will he know whose room is whose; you will. The official response is important, but we can't rely on it (or ourselves) for everything.
Daniel Aldrich [12], professor of public policy at Purdue, has made the study of post-disaster resilience in communities his focus. After living through Hurricane Katrina shortly after moving to New Orleans, he noticed that the most successful pockets of the city were the ones with the strongest social ties. The federal response to the hurricane's aftermath was infamously inept and initially nonexistent, and the folks who knew and liked each other survived and rebuilt their communities faster than the folks who had fewer ties, making this a prime example of the power of community, or what Aldrich calls social capital (PDF [13]). The same held true for communities struck by the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami and the 1995 Kobe, Japan earthquake, and, I'd imagine, the many thousands upon thousands of tribes, neighborhoods, communities, towns, city-states, and enclaves hit by floods, fires, famines, pestilence, earthquakes, tsunamis, and other disasters throughout history and prehistory. Why else do you think humans are social animals? Why else would the tribal structure have been evolutionarily preserved if it weren't helpful for survival?
So, folks, if you want to survive the next disaster, make friends with your neighbors. Get to know them. If you have a lemon tree, take a paper bag full of them over. Have a block party. Throw a barbecue. Pet their dog, feed their cat. Get yourself a tribe.
What do you think, folks? Do you know your neighbors?
*To all my east coast readers and anyone else affected by the recent storm, our thoughts are with you.


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Molecular targeting of contrast agents for ultrasound imaging is emerging as a new medical imaging modality. It combines advances in ultrasound technology with principles of molecular imaging, thereby allowing non-invasive assessment of biological processes
Compared with other medical imaging modalities, ultrasound imaging has several advantages. It does not involve radiation, has high spatial resolution and is generally considered cheap, safe and widely available. The introduction of gas-filled microbubbles as contrast agents for ultrasound imaging has further improved the performance and increased the versatility of ultrasound imaging.
Over the last decade, molecular contrast-enhanced ultrasound imaging has been established as a useful technique for imaging intravascular angiogenic markers in cancer. Proof-of-concept studies in preclinical models have repeatedly demonstrated that retention of targeted microbubbles, and thus the signal intensity of the ultrasound images, reflects the expression of target biomarkers. Here, we summarize the findings from preclinical studies of molecular ultrasound contrast agents with the intention to describe the potential clinical utility of these agents in ultrasound imaging of tumor vasculature.
Contrast agents for ultrasound consist of micrometer-sized gas bubbles stabilized by a thin encapsulating shell made of lipid, albumin or biocompatible polymers which are intravenously administered. Such microbubbles can undergo strong oscillations when exposed to an ultrasound beam. This leads to strong back-scattering of waves enabling detection of the microbubbles and thereby assessment of micro-circulation and perfusion. In the early eighties, Feinstein [
Ultrasound molecular imaging offers several advantages and some limitations compared to other imaging modalities. Low equipment cost, mobility of equipment and rapid execution of imaging protocols are important advantages of ultrasound. Spatial resolution is comparable to magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) for imaging of relatively small objects close to the transducer (e.g., prostate, breast, and thyroid) [
The major limitation of molecular contrast-enhanced ultrasound imaging is that microbubbles are restricted to the vascular lumen, and only targets in this compartment can be imaged.
Intravascular targets for contrast-enhanced ultrasound imaging must meet the same requirements as other targets for molecular contrast agents. First, the target should be extracellular. These targets in general are easier to image than intracellular targets, as internalization of contrast agent is not required [
Antibodies usually have high binding specificity and are frequently used in target validation or proof-of-concept studies. However, due to manufacturing issues and the risk of immunological adverse effects, antibodies are less clinically desirable [
The intravascular confinement of microbubbles represents both a limitation and an advantage. As the bubbles do not extravasate, they can only attach to targets expressed on the luminal side of endothelial cells. This limits the number of possible targets. However, this also allows imaging of the vascular pathology without any interference from extravascular tissue. The selectivity for vascular endothelium may be advantageous in cases where the target receptor is expressed both in the vascular compartment and in the surrounding tissues, or if extensive unspecific binding of ligand is observed in the surrounding tissue.
Cancer can be defined as diseases where cells divide in an uncontrolled manner and are able to invade other tissues. Solid tumors depend on formation of new blood vessels in order to grow beyond a size of 1–2 mm [
Development of angiogenic capability is typically acquired at a relatively late time point during tumorigenesis [
The tumor vasculature has a different morphology and biology than mature, quiescent vessels [
The most important molecule for control of the angiogenic process is the vascular endothelial growth factor A (VEGFA), which is produced by cancer cells as a response to hypoxia. VEGFA binds to the VEGF-receptor 2 (VEGFR2) on endothelial cells, activates the cells and induces vascular sprouting. Upregulation of VEGFR2 is observed both in animal models of cancer and in humans, and its expression is a prognostic marker in a variety of malignancies. In gliomas, the expression of VEGFR2 is 3–5 fold higher in tumor vasculature than in normal vasculature [
In a recent publication, Pysz
Integrins are a family of cell surface receptors whose primary ligands are extracellular matrix proteins. A full description of integrin biology in cancer is beyond the scope of this report, but has recently been reviewed by Avraamides
Interestingly, expression of αvβ3 occurs at a later stage in angiogenesis than VEGFR [
The first preclinical studies of microbubbles targeting the αvβ3-receptor were reported by Leong-Poi
Another intravascular target for imaging of angiogenesis is endoglin (CD105). This is a member of the TGF-β family of receptors, which is required for endothelial cell proliferation. Overexpression of endoglin is associated with poor prognosis in several cancers [
Prostate-specific membrane antigen (PSMA) is predominantly localized to the epithelial cells of the prostate gland, but its function is not fully understood. It is upregulated several-fold in high-grade prostate cancers [
Imaging of conditions associated with mild or chronic inflammation has been performed using contrast agents decorated with antibodies or other ligands to endothelial cell adhesion molecules. Since cancer frequently is associated with inflammation, ultrasound contrast agents targeting these proteins may potentially also be of value in cancer imaging. This has been demonstrated in the case of Intercellular Adhesion Molecule 1 (ICAM-1), which is associated with activated endothelial cells, promoting the arrest of leukocytes to inflammatory foci [
The principle of personalized medicine in cancer has led to an increased need for methods that can detect response to treatment, including antivascular and antiangiogenic drugs. Identification of responders to targeted anticancer drugs will be increasingly important as more drugs reach clinical practice. Ultrasound imaging is a suitable modality for this purpose, since it is a non-invasive, portable and non-radiative modality. In addition, it can be used to assess vascular function at several levels, including perfusion, blood volume and the expression of endothelial vascular markers [
Detection of microbubbles in ultrasound imaging is complex, depending on both biological (target expression) and physical (imaging protocol, microbubble characteristics) parameters. For evaluation of the abovementioned intravascular markers as targets for ultrasound contrast agents, direct comparisons in the same disease models using the same experimental conditions can nevertheless be valuable. As an example, microbubbles targeting VEGFR2 and αvβ3 have been studied in subcutaneous squamous cell carcinoma xenografts, where VEGFR2-targeted microbubbles were found to give 1.6-fold higher signal intensity [
The studies reviewed in this paper show that microbubbles targeting intravascular disease markers consistently give several-fold higher signal intensity than isotype control microbubbles. The difference between targeted and control microbubbles is in the same order of magnitude for most intravascular targets. Microbubble retention consistently reflects the expression of the target molecule across all studies. The
The studies summarized above demonstrate that the intravascular compartment in cancer contains several targets that can be imaged using contrast-enhanced ultrasound, for diagnostic or therapy monitoring purposes. For successful development of a targeted ultrasound particle, several aspects must be taken into account. Firstly, the microbubbles must be biocompatible and have physical/acoustic properties matching the intended use. Secondly, a relevant molecular target (or several targets) must be identified. Thirdly, the microbubbles must be decorated with ligands binding to this target with sufficient specificity and affinity, and at a sufficient density, to facilitate binding to the target
Based on the research summarized in this review, no single molecular target appears to be superior for ultrasound imaging of cancer. In terms of clinical translation, VEGFR2-targeting microbubbles are in early-phase clinical trials and may be the first to reach clinical use. Dual- or triple-targeting microbubbles have repeatedly been shown to outperform single-ligand microbubbles. It is therefore possible that future research will identify combinations of ligands which optimize the imaging performance and allow tailoring of contrast agents for specific purposes. A multi-purpose microbubble decorated with ligands both for angiogenesis and inflammation is an exciting possibility, which could reduce the relative development cost, as the same microbubble product can be used in different indications.
In conclusion, molecular contrast-enhanced ultrasound is well established as a method for functional studies of diseases involving vascular pathology. This has been demonstrated in cancer, where imaging of angiogenic markers with targeted microbubbles have been evaluated both for diagnostic imaging and for monitoring response to antiangiogenic treatment. Progress in ligand and conjugation chemistry has led to the development of contrast agents with clinically desirable properties, and clinical trials have been initiated. Future optimization of ligands and microbubbles may lead to contrast agents that are valuable in management of cancer. We believe that identification of applications which utilize the inherent strengths of ultrasound imaging will be crucial for the introduction of molecular contrast-enhanced ultrasound in the clinic.
The principle of molecular contrast-enhanced ultrasound. Microbubbles conjugated to specific ligands are injected into the circulation. In healthy capillaries, the expression of target receptors is low. Consequently, the microbubbles do not bind to the target but remain in circulation. In an angiogenic blood vessel, the activated endothelium target receptor is overexpressed. The microbubbles bind to the receptors and accumulate in the vessel. Despite a loss of basal membrane integrity in the diseased vessel, the microbubbles are too large to extravasate and remain in the intravascular compartment.
Molecular imaging of the αvβ3 integrin. The advantages and disadvantages of different medical imaging modalities are demonstrated in representative images from tumor-bearing animals.
The effect of dual and triple targeting of microbubbles. (
Summary of studies using targeted microbubbles (MBs) to assess tumor angiogenesis.
|Model System
|Tumor Contrast Enhancement Compared to Non-Targeted Control MBs
|Other Findings
|Heterodimeric peptide (BR55)
|Video intensity corresponds to MVD and VEGFR2 expression, allowing monitoring of antiangiogenic therapy
|Heterodimeric peptide (BR55)
|The binding specificity of microbubbles with heterodimeric peptide ligand was similar to that of microbubbles with anti-VEGFR2 antibodies
|Heterodimeric peptide (BR55)
|2-fold difference in VEGFR2 expression between tumor models reflected in video intensity
|Heterodimeric peptide (BR55)
|20-fold difference in signal intensity between prostate cancer and normal tissue. Binding similar to that of antibody-coated bubbles
|Retention of VEGFR2-targeting bubbles correlate to VEGFR2 expression but not vascularity
|Reduced endothelial expression of VEGFR after treatment with gemcitabine
|3–5 fold
|Unspecific control MBs had significantly higher video intensity than unlabeled MBs (10-fold)
|Reduced microbubble retention after matrix metalloproteinase inhibition. No significant difference between VEGFR2- and αvβ3-targeted microbubbles
|Spatial variation in signal intensity corresponded to integrin expression
|Knottin-decorated MBs outperformed MBs conjugated with RGD or antibodies and had a 12-fold tumor-muscle ratio
|Cyclic RGD peptide
|Endoglin (CD105)
|Microbubbles targeting endoglin had up to 3-fold higher video intensity than microbubbles targeting VEGFR2 or αvβ3. In pancreatic tumors, microbubbles targeting αvβ3 had the highest video intensity
|Spatial variation in signal intensity corresponded to vascular density
|Approximately 1.5-fold higher video intensity than RGD-labeled MBs
|VEGFR2 + αvβ3
|2 × antibody
|4-fold (VEGFR2)
|Dual-targeted microbubbles outperformed microbubbles with only one ligand
|VEGFR2 + αvβ3 + ICAM1
|3 × antibody
|Triple-targeted microbubbles had 1.6-fold higher signal intensity than the additive intensity of all three single-targeted microbubbles, and approximately 5-fold higher VI than any of the single-targeted microbubbles alone
The figures are not directly comparable, as different disease models express varying levels of angiogenic markers, and the imaging parameters and time points are varying. Data are either obtained from quantitative tabular data or visual interpretation of graphical representation of imaging performance in the reviewed papers.


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Mathieu FenasseClass: Senior
Height: 5-9
Weight: 145
Previous School: Gary Gilchrest Golf Academy
Hometown: Lias, France
Home Golf Course:
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Fall 2014 (Sr.):
• Fall stroke average: 74.00
• Led the team in scoring average during the fall
• Finished top 10 in two out of four tournaments
• Finished in fifth place in the Shoal Creek Invitational with a 2-under par 214 (72-72-70)
• Named Big South Golfer of the Week following his fifth-place showing at the Shoal Creek Invitational
• Tied for 18th at the Rod Myers Invitational with a 1-over par 145 (70-75)
• Tied for ninth place at the Pinetree Intercollegiate with a 2-over par 218 (73-75-70)
• Enters the spring semester with the third-best career stroke average (73.79)
2013-14 (Jr.):
• Season stroke average: 73.18
• Fall stroke average: 73.33
• Spring stroke average: 73.13
• GCAA/Ping All-Region selection
• Named to the GCAA/Cleveland Golf All-America Scholar team, becoming the 11th golfer in program history to earn the distinguished academic honor
• Big South All-Conference selection
• Named to the Big South Presidential Honor Roll
• Posted four top 10 finishes in 11 events
• Recorded 11 rounds at par or better
• Missed the team's season opener (Northern Intercollegiate) because he was participating in the 2013 Omega European Masters at the Crans-sur-Sierre Golf Course in Crans Montana, Switzerland
• Season scoring average ranked third on the team
• Finished tied for 24th place at the Shoal Creek Invitational with a 2-over par 218 (72-70-76)
• Opened the spring season with a fifth-place showing at the Sea Best Invitational with a 6-over par 222 (74-73-75)
• Tied for 21st place at The Hayt Collegiate Invitational with a 2-over par 218 (73-74-71)
• Tied for fifth place at the Cleveland Golf Palmetto Invitational with a 4-over par 214 (72-71-71)
• Finished in sixth place at the Big South Men's Golf Championship with a 1-over par 217 (74-72-71), helping the Flames capture their third Big South title in four years
• Tied for 36th place at the NCAA Eugene Regional with a 13-over par 223 (75-77-71)
2012-13 (So.):
• Season stroke average: 73.97
• Fall stroke average: 76.67
• Spring stroke average: 72.91
• Big South All-Conference selection
• Big South All-Championship team member
• Big South Men's Golf Championship medalist
• VaSID second-team all-state
• VSGCA second-team all-state
• Named to the Big South Presidential Honor Roll
• Posted four top 10 finishes in 11 events
• Recorded 10 rounds at par or better
• Had a 3.76 stroke average improvement from the fall to spring season
• Tied for 17th with an 8-over par 221 (73-71-77) at the Inverness Intercollegiate Invitational, his best showing of the fall season
• Tied for seventh at the North Ranch Intercollegiate with a 5-over par 218 (73-70-75)
• Carded consecutive par rounds of 70 to finished tied for sixth place at the Cleveland Golf Palmetto Intercollegiate with a 2-over par 212 (70-70-72)
• Tied for 10th with a 1-under par 143 (73-70) at the Linger Longer Invitational
• Claimed his first individual tournament title, carding a career-best 5-under par 211 (75-70-66) to finish in first place at the Big South Men's Golf Championship
• Closed out the Big South Men's Golf Championship with a 6-under par 66, the best 18-hole total of his collegiate career and the eighth-best 18-hole total in program history
• Part of Liberty's NCAA Fayetteville Regional roster, finishing tied for 32nd place with a 13-over par 227 (72-77-78)
• Carded a three-under par 213 (71-72-70) to claim the 2013 Swiss Amateur Championship at the Lausanne Golf Club in Lausanne, Switzerland
2011-12 (Fr.):
• Season stroke average: 74.20
• Fall stroke average: 73.67
• Spring stroke average: 74.26
• Named to the Big South Presidential Honor Roll
• Posted two top 10 finishes in 11 events
• Recorded eight rounds at par or better
• Finished his second collegiate tournament in fourth place, posting a 2-under par 142 (73-69) at the Trojan Fall Classic
• Carded a second-round, 4-under par 68, the best round of his freshman season, to help him finish tied for 21st place with a 7-over par 223 (79-68-76) at the Seahawk Invitational
• Tied for eighth place at the Panther Invitational with a 10-over par 226 (77-75-74)
• Tied for 19th place with an even par 216 (72-71-73) at the River Landing Intercollegiate
• Part of Liberty's lineup that won the Big South Men's Golf Championship, NCAA Greensboro Regional and finished in 10th place at the NCAA Men's Golf National Championship
• Opened the Big South Men's Golf Championship with a 1-under par 71 and an even par 72
• Helped the Flames take the first day lead with a 1-under par 71 at the NCAA Greensboro Regional
• Came to Liberty from the Gary Gilchrist Golf Academy in Howey-in-the-Hills, Fla.
• Birthday is on Dec. 6
• Son of Parcal and Claudie Fenasse
• Business management major


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