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Milk Carton Boat Race, by Ciara, Brittney, and Maria
We recently had a very "mooo-ving" experience: we built a boat entirely out of milk cartons to enter in a hometown race! Using 150 milk cartons, we had to design a boat that would carry all three of us in a race. Our DFTV question: What boat shape or design is most effective?
What did we do?
We each thought a certain design would work best. Brittney voted for a boat with a pointed bow and a V-shaped hull for easy turning. Maria thought a catamaran/pontoon boat would be fastest. Ciara said a flat-bottomed raft would offer the most stability. The only way to determine the best shape was to build and test miniature versions of each design. We used half-pint cartons for our test boats, and tested each model three different ways. First, we tested how well each boat glided through water by giving it a push and measuring how far it drifted. Second, we judged the boat's maneuverability by creating an "obstacle course" with bobbers. Finally, we checked for stability by loading each boat with sand and testing for "tippiness."
What did we find out?
We know that there are a lot of boats with V-shaped hulls, but our V-shaped test boat didn't do well; it was tippy and didn't glide far at all. The catamaran gave us the most glide by far, with 8.5 feet. Finally, the raft and the catamaran offered good stability. We ended up choosing to build a combination catamaran-raft for the race. We entered the local competition, and took 2nd in our age group!
- Design your own milk carton boat. Figure out how many cartons you need to keep yourself afloat. [Hint: a half-gallon carton can float about 4 lbs.] Then, with an adult close by for safety, try floating your boat at the lake.
- How does the shape of a sail affect how well a sailboat zips along? Build a simple milk carton boat and make some different sail shapes to find out. Take it to a lake or pool when there's a nice breeze and see how well each sail catches the wind.
- If you know someone with a sailboat, ask to go sailing. Take a stick with a streamer attached. While you are sailing, hold up the streamer near different parts of the sail. What does the streamer show you about how the air is flowing near the sail?
- Use this engineering investigation as a science fair project idea for your elementary or middle school science fair! Then tell us about it!
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ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Islamabad condemned on Monday attempts to launch bomb attacks in Britain and said it was concerned about the safety of people of Pakistani origin there after reports of anti-Pakistani sentiment.
People of Pakistani origin have been linked to some previous bomb attacks and plots in Britain.
British police have yet to give details of seven suspects detained in connection with two car bombs discovered in London on Friday and the ramming of a fuel-packed jeep into Glasgow airport's terminal building on Saturday.
"We condemn these intended terrorist attacks. We are not aware of any details as far as the origin of those who were planning to carry out these attacks," Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Tasnim Aslam told a news briefing.
Asked about reports of anti-Pakistani slogans daubed on a wall in Glasgow, Aslam said Pakistan was concerned but was confident Britain would ensure the safety of people living there.
"We feel concerned, of course, about safety and security of Pakistanis and people of Pakistani origin if there are threats to them, if there are racial slurs, if they are being harassed."
"We are sure that the British government is taking all necessary steps to ensure security and safety of their citizens and people who are residents there," she said.
She also said she believed there had been enough bonding between people of Pakistani origin and other people in Britain to overcome any problem "that may take place at the behest of some fringe elements".
There are about 750,000 people of Pakistani origin in Britain.

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PennDOT says what happened again last Monday morning — the Parkway North's HOV lanes being closed due to a mechanical malfunction in an access gate — is rare, yet it doesn't track the frequency of power-related gate problems that produce the same dismal, congestion-aggravating result.
PennDOT District 11 officials say the HOV closure of Feb. 25, involving electronics gone bad, and another, involving "misalignment," are the only mechanical problems it's had with the gates in about 18 months. They recall two or three power-related closures in the last couple of years but can't be more precise; they say they don't keep records on those problems.
Yet to motorists who follow local traffic reports, it seems there's always something going wrong with gates that closes the HOV lanes. That impression is supported by WPXI-TV's Trisha Pittman; she's been doing local traffic reports for 13 years and says gate problems close the HOV lanes about once every two months.
Power-related HOV gate problems aren't rocket science, and weather surely can't be blamed for many such instances. So, motorists have every reason to wonder about PennDOT's apparently lackadaisical attitude toward tracking those problems — and about those problems' persistence.
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by Franklin van den Hout and Jo Koullen
Since the introduction of the first operational turbojet
engine some 50 years ago by Frank Whittle and his team in Great
Britain, the engines have become bigger and bigger to meet the demands of high fuel efficiency and specific thrust. Six
years ago, a team of researchers in the Netherlands began to go against this trend by designing and manufacturing a very
small turbojet engine.
Measuring 12 inches long and 4.3 inches in diameter, this 4-pound engine posed a significant engineering challenge.
Following many hours of static runs and tests, the engine will soon be flight-tested in a model of a de Havilland Vampire III
Because of the engine's size, its thermodynamic cycle ischaracterized by relatively high operating temperatures, very
low component pressure ratios and efficiencies, and the high rotational speed of its rotor. The low Reynolds numbers
encountered (1.5x105) indicate the dominance of frictional forces and losses plus their influence on boundary-layer
behavior. The result is a very sensitive engine in terms of operation and off-design behavior.
Goals for the engine's design-point performance at ISO conditions were gross thrust of 9 pounds, specific fuel consumption of 0.225 kilogram per newton-hour, compressor airflow of 0.33 pound per second, compressor pressure ratio of 1.90, turbine-inlet temperature of 1,256°F, rotational speed of 100,000 rpm, and maximum sound-pressure level of 90 decibels at 39 inches. A turbine fuel of JP3/JP4 kerosene and natural gas was used.
The off-the-shelf rotor assembly is a Garrett Airesearch Model T3/T31 60-TRIM. This assembly, with its overall diameter of 2.3 inches and weight of 10.5 ounces, has proven to be an excellent choice. The high-peak-efficiency,backswept-vaned compressor has a wide stable operating range of airflow for a given rotational speed and is already of excellent aerodynamic design. The radial inflow turbine, made of Inconel 713 alloy, is capable of handling operating temperatures up to approximately 1,652°F.
Today's lightweight turbocharger rotors have very short shafts, leaving little space between compressor and turbine rotor (approximately 3.5 inches) to add other components such as the combustor, compressor diffuser, and turbine nozzles. Positioning all of these components within this limited space would be impossible.
Therefore, instead of an annular straight-flow combustor arrangement, a reverse-flow
annular configuration was chosen, to be situated aft of the turbine. Although the length
of the turbojet engine increased, the overall diameter was kept very small. For
applications in model jet aircraft, overall body diameter is more critical than length. A
small diameter also allowed for unlimited axial enlargements of the combustor and
eliminated the complex integration of a straight-flow combustor with the bearing module,
for example.
Placing the combustion chamber behind the turbine isolated the much colder bearing module and compressor arrangement from the high temperatures encountered in the combustor and turbine. Measurements have shown that bearing temperatures are kept at a surprisingly low 50°F throughout the stable-speed operating range of the engine.
Special bearings and other complex cooling arrangements are therefore unnecessary.
The designers' experience with pulse jets fueled by liquefied petroleum gas led them to select kerosene fuel for this turbojet engine. Kerosene has good combustion characteristics when properly atomized and is much safer to handle than gasoline or liquefied petroleum gas. Although very flammable when atomized, kerosene has less of a tendency to form explosive mixtures quickly when a leak occurs, such as in pumps or feed lines. Safety in fuel handling and engine operation has been a serious design issue.
The use of kerosene did require the addition of a booster pump for fuel pressurization. The main difficulty with kerosene fuel was proper atomization or evaporation within the limited space of the combustion chamber. Ample margins in temperature (thermal stress) and rotor speed (component loadings) have been provided to ensure long life, particularly for the hot-section components. The maximum operating turbine-inlet temperature of 1,382°F is well below the turbine's capability. The maximum rotational speed of the rotor during takeoff is approximately 105,000 rpm, which is also well below the engine's design limits.
Although the rotor is extremely lightweight, its rotational speed is high and the risk of noncontainment should not be ignored. During tests of the preliminary design, an unexpected axial movement of the compressor occurred at 40,000 rpm. The aluminum rotor rubbing against its casing caused the rotor to decelerate quickly to rest. There was no severe damage to the other components, and any broken pieces remained within the engine.
Component Design
A modular design concept has been maintained throughout the entire engine. All components have been designed to be easily manufactured and put into series production. The turbojet engine has been divided into several modules that are combined by means of bolts, press-fit connections, and special clamps.
A typical bell-mouth-shaped intake was used in this engine for good inlet flow characteristics. Aircraft speeds of approximately 175 miles per hour have been anticipated. A new divergent intake is therefore being considered to reduce the inlet air velocity to acceptable levels and thereby prevent negative-incidence stall at the inducer vanes of the impeller. The intake and compressor casing are two separate items made of an aluminum alloy. The compressor casing also includes a messing nozzle that feeds compressed air to the compressor rotor to accelerate the rotor to ignition speed.
The machining of the rotor casing had to be highly accurate.Large tip clearances are detrimental to overall engine performance and compressor efficiency, especially on an inlet diameter of only 1.8 inches. Tip clearances have been kept between 0.008 and 0.012 inch. A tip clearance of less than 0.008 inch required too much effort for radial and axial rotor displacement control and alignment, and was not pursued.
The proposed engine layout and the selected radial compressor required compressed air
to be redirected to an axial flow. The rotor diameter of 2.3 inches was small enough to
include a radial first-stage vaned diffuser without exceeding the target overall diameter
of 4.7 inches. A 90-degree axial redirector channel and a second-stage flow straightener
are integral parts of the diffuser and were designed to provide an axial flow of air
without too much swirl. The entire diffuser has been manufactured from a single piece of
aluminum alloy.
Impeller exit velocities were estimated to be around Mach 0.55 for the turbojet engine. At Mach 0.5 and above,compressibility effects have to be taken into account when designing a diffuser; above Mach 0.6, these effects are considerable. The severe pressure gradients at the inlet to the diffuser are caused by large changes in air density, and could easily result in early boundary-layer separation and thus poor diffuser performance. The divergence angle or area ratio at the inlet of the diffuser should therefore be small (i.e., conservative) but may increase progressively toward its exit.Such trumpet-shaped diffuser designs can be difficult to manufacture.
For this design, however, easy-to-manufacture trumpet-shaped diffuser channels were made possible by so-called symmetrical half-moon-shaped diffuser vanes. Many small engines use similar designs.
Calculations for this small diffuser can be only approximate because of factors that
are difficult to quantify, such as boundary-layer behavior and the nonuniform inlet
conditions of the air entering each diffuser passage. Creating the diffuser
therefore required a mixture of art (a good eye for shape) and science.
Splitting a flow of air such that each diffuser passage has the same air-mass flow and
pressure is difficult. The imbalance between adjacent diffuser passages increases the
likelihood that the compressor will undergo a surge, as does an increase in the number of
vanes. Increased surface area, friction, and diffuser blockage are side effects that must
be taken into account when a large number of vanes is selected.
Diffusers having 15, 16, and 17 radial vanes were tried. The final configuration chosen was 17 vanes because this number
had the best performance within the part-speed operating range of the engine. An important aspect with respect to the
number of vanes is aerodynamically induced blade vibration caused by the blade-passing frequencies of rotor and stator
vanes. An unbalanced ratio of the number of diffuser vanes to the number of compressor rotor blades is preferred. To
damp aerodynamically induced blade vibration and to even out any imbalances in airflow and pressure to each passage, a
vaneless space of 0.2 inch was introduced between the rotor exit and diffuser inlet.
During the tests of early designs, low-frequency rumbles could readily be heard at certain operating points of the engine. Pressure fluctuations also indicated such flow instabilities and the sensitive nature of overall engine performance.
The design of the reverse-flow combustor has been largely a process of trial and error. At 4.3 inches long and 3.5 inches
in overall diameter, the combustor has reached an absolute limit with respect to the available volume for reasonably good
combustion characteristics on kerosene fuel. Much effort has been put into testing specific cooling concepts (film and
impingement). After many test runs, which lasted up to 10 minutes each, visual inspections were performed. Color differences on the liner and the appearance of soot, smoke, and carbon deposits provided feedback on the quality of combustion with respect to uniform temperature distribution and local overheating (hot spots). Feedback was also obtained on the proper layout and size of these cooling holes.For these small combustors, a correct balance of several cooling techniques is very important.
Impingement cooling of the hot gases and the combustion-chamber inner walls by air jets has been a predominant technique in the primary and secondary zone of the combustor. Film-cooling techniques have been used extensively in the tertiary zone and around the transition piece near the turbine's first-stage nozzle assembly. Because of the changing direction of the impinging hot gases, this transition piece required extra film cooling. Without this thermal barrier, local overheating and even meltdown could occur very easily.
The two other important aspects of combustor design have been primary-zone recirculation and flame stabilization. The so-called swirl vanes at the entry to the combustor have been eliminated because of difficulties in manufacturing and because kerosene fuel was not intended to be injected by means of individual orifice nozzles. Instead, large-scale primary-zone recirculation using a small number of large air jets has finally led to the successful design of this combustion chamber. When correctly placed, these recirculation holes significantly improved mixing and combustion stability, and later test runs resulted in a spotless combustion chamber.
The use of a radial-inflow turbine required that the hot gases be redirected from an axial reverse flow to a radially inward one. The first-stage nozzle assembly is constructed from a single piece of alloy and includes not only a curved passage (transition piece) to redirect this flow of hot gases but also a set of fixed-geometry radial vanes or nozzles. These vanes are used to accelerate the hot gases and generate the correct velocity triangles at the turbine inlet simultaneously, such that a smooth inward flow through the turbine impeller passages is accomplished at its design point. The fixed-geometry vanes of the assembly have blunt leading edges to allow the hot gases to enter the nozzle passages smoothly from any direction.
Although stability limits for sustained combustion with respect to fuel-to-air ratio
are wide, these limits are narrower for
ignition. Therefore, good ignition characteristics depend greatly on the fuel-injector design and the achievable atomization quality. A well-atomized or evaporated fuel (preferably close to the stoichiometric fuel-to-air ratio) is required in the primary zone. The air temperature and pressure at the inlet to the combustion chamber at low rotational speeds are almost ambient. This is especially detrimental to ignition performance because of the large ignition heat loss and the very poor fuel atomization quality that can actually be achieved.High-quality fuel atomization using plain orifice nozzles was investigated, but small high-performance orifice nozzles require high fuel pressures and heavy onboard boost pumps to achieve fine fuel sprays. These orifices are also difficult to manufacture. If multiple injectors were used, flow division would be the next problem to deal with.
The most important disadvantage is that such orifices tend to create large spray-cone angles, and a finer fuel spray will mean a larger cone angle. The radiation caused by the impingement of burning droplets onto the liner's inner wall is high, especially in a very small combustion chamber. Fuel control, however, is more accurate, and the engine response time caused by changes in fuel flow is very short. Fuel pre-evaporation provided the best solution. The design consists of a fuel pre-evaporator manifold located within the combustion chamber. Because the fuel and the combustion chamber are cold at start-up, the fuel cannot be pre-evaporated unless it is preheated to its high evaporation temperatures just before ignition, which is cumbersome. The solution was to use a natural-gas fuel for start-up and ignition.
Not surprisingly, the use of natural gas has proven to be an excellent choice. At minimum idle speed, the transfer to kerosene fuel is initiated through the same manifold, using synchronized valves. The already hot gases in the combustion chamber then preheat the fuel in the manifold to a high evaporation level before it enters the combustion chamber.Fuel flow is controlled by a variable-speed electric-motor-driven miniature gear pump.
Ignition is accomplished by a 5-kilovolt electronic-condenser discharge spark-ignition unit developed in-house. The position of the spark igniter strongly influenced the start-up and ignition sequence of the engine. When the designers changed the igniter's position relative to the evaporator manifold and the recirculation or cooling holes, the rotational speed at which ignition could actually occur changed from 10,000 rpm to as low as 3,000 rpm.
A trial-and-error process was required to find the right position. Ignition at reasonably high rotational speeds is preferred to prevent flashback caused by low pressures and flows throughout the engine. Ignition speed was finally set to approximately 10,000 rpm.
The rotor-bearing module, the heaviest part of the engine, is the most important module in terms of its construction. Made entirely of stainless steel, it isalong with the compressor diffuser and turbine nozzle assemblybasically the mainframe of the engine. Its alignment with all other components is of prime importance because tip clearances of both compressor and turbine are controlled by this alignment.
The reverse-flow design allows the hot-section components to expand freely to the rear of the engine while the compressor-diffuser/bearing-module combination acts as a fixed pivot. The bearing within this module has a double-overhung arrangement comprising two special ball bearings that can withstand the axial loadings at high rotational speeds. These bearings require preloading in the axial direction. This has been accomplished with a spring.
Both bearings are lubricated and cooled with oil fed from the externally mounted tank by a tube through the compressor casing. This lube-oil system is of the total-loss type. Only a little oil is required during normal operation. A closed-loop system would be too heavy and too difficult to engineer, and would require an overly complex sealing arrangement. The lube-oil droplet flow is controlled by a small orifice of proprietary size, and the oil is fed to both bearings using compressor discharge air. Before start-up, when no pressure is available, a few drops are fed manually. All oil is finally lost in the exhaust duct where it is entrained in the hot gases.
The biggest problems of all were rotor balancing and vibration damping. A two-plane dynamic balancing machine with G1.5 balancing capabilities, available in-house, worked well.
Handling and Operation
To date, the engine has been started up, run normally, and shut down only on a specially designed test bed, on which rotational speed, exhaust temperature, compressor discharge pressure, thrust (static), bearing and oil temperature, and fuel pressure and temperature can be measured.
Oil-droplet flow to the bearing module can be monitored with a sight glass; rotational speed is measured with an optical sensor and static thrust is measured with a load cell. The small lube-oil tank is mounted on the compressor casing of the engine. The test bed also contains the miniature gear-type liquid-fuel pump, the condenser-discharge spark-ignition unit for the igniter, and the synchronized control valves for both natural-gas fuel and kerosene.
The engine is started on natural gas, and the start-up sequence can be done safely by one person. Compressed air from a small electric-motor-driven compressor unit is fed to the start-up nozzle, located on the compressor casing. First the rotor is accelerated with compressed air to 10,000 rpm.
At this point the ignition is turned on, the natural-gas-fuel valve is opened, and light-up occurs, accelerating the engine further to its minimum idle speed of approximately 65,000 rpm. The air starter unit is shut down shortly afterward. The thrust then produced is about 1.1 pounds, while the exhaust temperature is 896°F and the compressor pressure ratio is approximately 1.3.
Changeover from natural-gas fuel to kerosene is accomplished using the same fuel manifold system, by simultaneously closing the gas-fuel valve and opening the liquid-fuel valve. During changeover, the turbojet engine runs on a mixture of gas fuel and kerosene for a few seconds. This method has been very successful. Further acceleration to the engine's maximum continuous speed of 100,000 rpm can then be initiated.
The engine can be shut down simply by closing the liquid-fuel valve after the engine has been decelerated back to its minimum idle speed and maintained at this speed for approximately 1 minute. After rotor runout, the temperature within the bearing module increases slightly from 176°F to 189°F because of radiation effects from the turbine and combustor, as the bearing module is no longer cooled by the relatively cold air passing it during normal engine operation. The team concluded that the only way to increase the specific thrust of the turbojet was to increase the turbine-inlet temperature, which would require costly new materials.
Sensitivity toward component pressure losses and efficiencies increases significantly at very low compressor pressure ratios in combination with high turbine-inlet temperatures. As a result, the off-design performance simulations could be far from reality.
Component interaction on this scale is also extreme. Slight changes in the geometry of the diffuser, for example, may have a tremendous negative effect on the behavior of other downstream components as well as on overall engine behavior. The desirable characteristics of an off-the-shelf item of already excellent design can be lost by the use of incorrectly matched components.
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Here's how you can install Wine 1.5.27 in Ubuntu 13.04. Wine will let you run Windows applications on your Ubuntu system.
1. Open a terminal window.
2. Type in the following commands then hit Enter after each.
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntu-wine/ppa
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install wine1.5
sudo apt-get install winetricks
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My grandma uses this phrase. Whenever she says something nice about one of her (eight) great grandchildren, she always follows up with "they all are."
Example: My daughter rocked out on a standardized test. Grandma says "C is so smart! They all are!" My nephew is a really affectionate five year old--he wants nothing more than a lap to sit in. He gives an inordinate number of hugs and kisses. Grandma says "D is so sweet! They all are." (my own son is a lot of things, and "sweet" in his own way, but "sweet" like his cousin...not so much!)
I thought this was something peculiar to Grandma. She's big on fairness and equality...but then one of the characters in a book I'm reading used the same phrase in the same context, and I started wondering if it was a cultural thing I hadn't noticed.
I wanted to take a poll at the playground today (y'know, just asking strangers,) but I was afraid people would think I was weird, so I didn't. MDC is the next best (or maybe better!) thing.
So, tell me! Have you ever heard anyone use "they all are" in this context?
YES! I have heard this from multiple people throughout my life..my DH's grandmother does this currently in reference to her great grandkids as well.
I kind of think it takes away from the accomplishment of the child who did xyz sometimes, but I do understand wanting to say nice things about everybody in the interest of not playing favorites.
My grandma does.
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Oh, totally! It doesn't bug me at all to hear my grandma say how smart all of the kids are...but when she starts in with how athletic they all are, or how outgoing they all are, or how sweet they all are...geez! If my son had a theme song, it would be "I always have to steal my kisses from you!"
Sometimes it's like I'm 13 again--I have to hold on tight to my eyeballs, lest they roll on their own accord!
I would never correct her, though! I do appreciate the sentiment!
Sweetness is not really something that goes against "they all are" though. There are no real requirements to being "sweet" when your a young child.
If it looks like I'm trying to pick a fight... I'm not, I'm rarely that obvious.
My dh's grandma says this. I think it's sweet. I also don't think she's just trying to be fair. I think she honestly believes they're all that great!
I can see where it takes away a bit from the accomplishment of the child you are talking about originally. But better than her saying "ya, the rest of them are dumb as stumps".
Besides, if she's anything like my grandmother... All her grandkids are perfect. My bio mom's mother still thinks I'm sooo athletic, even though she could out do me in any sport despite not being able to get out of bed most days. She also believes my kids are perfect and going to superstar, hockey playing, prime ministers someday.
If it looks like I'm trying to pick a fight... I'm not, I'm rarely that obvious.
My dad is the same way. My dd is the cutest, my sister's dd is the cutest, my ds is the smartest, her ds is the smartest....bla bla bla. It's cute, he really believes these kids are perfect! It's funny though, whenever I crab about ds and his behavior/school work/whatever he defends him like a lawyer :)
i see its all gparents doing it.
i think its an age thing. i have noticed this with my aging mil. she speaks about her outlook on life and i noticed how open minded she has gotten. or should i say how she is much more acceptable to things she is which she wasnt earlier on.
i dont think your gma means 'they all are smart' or they all are cute. i think she means C is smart, but they all have something special about them'.
i notice the same thing happening to me. as i grow older the individual differences kinda merge into one big thing. there is something unique about everyone of them.
That's so cute! I wish my grandma acted like that. She is more the type of person to say "C is a lazy bum. They all are!" LOL.
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It's a sweet sentiment, but I can see thinking, "Say what?" at some of them. I mean, it's not like she could say, "Wow, Mary is so tall! They all are."
Limabean: Exactly. I was thinking before that Mum never said that, but it was probably because she had six kids and was scrupulously honest. So she would have had to say "DD2's so good at crafts! They all are... well, except for DD1 and DD4". Or "DD6 is such a great singer. They all are, except for DD2 who can't carry a tune". :p Probably not quite the vibe the phrase is meant to convey!
Arizona backwards is still Arizona! It's a palomino!
My grandmother does this too. She is very careful to have everything equal between her kids/grand children/great grandchildren. Really really careful.
According to my father, his grandchildren are all the best, brightest, sweetest....anything with an est on the end. Its his reward for not strangling us all so let him have it.
Also, he picks them up, takes them to breakfast or lunch (they can order breakfast though if they want!!) and then a trip to a toy store or book store etc. Then playtime at their house. Stocks his house with all kinds of treats.
I dont know these people, they were not my parents. They people who look like my parents must be stand ins from another planet or something. Dont remember ANY of this growing up!
*CPST* mama to my three year old DS1 1.31.09 and wedded to angel 8.07
According to my father, his grandchildren are all the best, brightest, sweetest....anything with an est on the end. Its his reward for not strangling us all so let him have it.
Also, he picks them up, takes them to breakfast or lunch (they can order breakfast though if they want!!) and then a trip to a toy store or book store etc. Then playtime at their house. Stocks his house with all kinds of treats.
I dont know these people, they were not my parents. They people who look like my parents must be stand ins from another planet or something. Dont remember ANY of this growing up!
LOL! If I lived closer to my parents, this would be them. They think DS is the best, cutest, brightest (my dad was calling DS "advanced" at the ripe old age of 6 DAYS - I'm not sure I know any 6 DAY old babies who are "advanced" but apparently my dad saw it!), smartest, fastest, you name it, and its a good thing, and thats what DS is. My dad doesn't have any other grandkids at the moment, but when he has more, you bet they'll be just as great as DS. It's pretty funny.
My Mm - who has 5 grandchildren...has often said it....My MIL - who has only ONE grandchild...has never said it.....hmmmmm there seems to be a pattern emerging!
Happy at Home Mama to DD 4/95 DS 4/98 and DS#2 8/10
Awww you are lucky to have such a loving family. I absolutely LOVE this kind of sentiment. I really do. Its like the person loves all his/her littlies so much she/he has to give a shout out to them everytime something nice happens. Thats rad.
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A bird 125 million years ago had two distinct kinds of feathers, resembling those of non-flying feathered reptiles and modern birds, Chinese researchers say.
A new analysis of the fossil Jeholornis, first described more than a decade ago, revealed a previously unrecognized second group of flight feathers at the base of its tail, Zhonghe Zhou of the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology in Beijing said.
"We did not expect to find this new structure," he told New Scientist.
Like the tails of modern birds, these formed an airfoil that could have provided control during flight, the researchers said.
Previously it had been thought Jeholornis only had feathers at the tip of its tail, largely useless for flight, similar to the tail feathers of some dinosaurs like the flightless Caudipteryx.
"We believe that the fan at the base of the tail mainly helps to streamline the body and reduce drag," Zhou said. They could have also generated more lift than the feathers along the tail of the most primitive bird, Archaeopteryx, making it more useful for flight, he said.
The find raises new questions about feather evolution, leaving the place of Jeholornis in the avian family tree somewhat unclear, Michael Habib of the University of Southern California, who was not involved in the study, said.
"This could be an intermediate form or an 'evolutionary experiment', which left no descendants," Habib told New Scientist.
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The SH2 domain-containing adaptor protein ShcA is a proto-oncogene involved in growth factor receptor signaling. The role of phosphorylated ShcA is to link receptor tyrosine kinases with the SH2-containing adaptor protein Grb2, thus facilitating signal transduction from receptor tyrosine kinases to Ras, leading to MAPK activation. The present study was designed to investigate the prognostic significance of phosphorylated ShcA in primary breast cancer and its association in the interactions between the ER and ErbB2 pathways. Using a two-site chemiluminescence-linked immunosorbent assay, we detected the quantitative expression levels of total tyrosine- and threonine-phosphorylated ShcA in cytosol fractions obtained from fresh frozen tissue samples of 153 selected primary breast cancer patients. ShcA phosphorylation was not associated with nodal status, estrogen receptor (ER) status or grading. High levels of both tyrosine (pYShcA) and serine (pSShcA) phosphorylated ShcA correlated with good prognosis (p < 0.01), with respect to both disease-free (DFS) and overall survival (OS). In addition, pShcA levels were found to correlate with threonine-phosphorylated ErbB2 and inversely with phosphorylated Akt (pAkt), as well as ErbB2 and ER expression levels. Our findings demonstrate that ShcA activation in primary breast cancer patients correlates with low levels of ER, and is associated with good prognosis.
Molecular analysis of human tissue specimens is performed for diagnostic and prognostic purposes and provides valuable data about the expression of individual proteins or genes. Such an approach, however, remains restricted in its ability to reveal the function of such proteins. Protein function is regulated not only by transcription and translation, but also by posttranslational modifications such as phosphorylation, glycosylation, and acetylation. Phosphorylation is involved in most cell signal transduction pathways, and is thus, essential for both normal physiology and disease. Therefore, the number of proteins in the phosphorylated state may be more biologically significant than the total number of proteins present. We have previously shown that protein phosphorylation can improve the prognostic value of Akt and ErbB2 proteins [
The adaptor protein Shc is a SH2 domain-containing proto-oncogene implicated in growth factor signaling. In addition to the ubiquitously expressed ShcA, two other isoforms exist - ShcB and ShcC, which are expressed in neuronal cells. Biochemical and genetic data revealed a general role of ShcA proteins in the transduction of signals from receptor tyrosine kinases to Ras, leading to MAPK activation [
ShcA can be expressed as three splice forms of approximately 46, 52 and 66 kDa. p46 and p52 ShcA isoforms share an amino-terminal SH2 domain, followed by a CH domain, and a carboxy-terminal phosphotyrosine-binding domain (PTB). Within the CH domain of ShcA, three tyrosine-phosphorylation sites have been identified. The role of phosphorylated ShcA proteins is to link receptor tyrosine kinases with the SH2-containing Grb2 adaptor protein [
p66 ShcA is a third isoform expressed through alternative splicing [
In the present study, we report serine and tyrosine phosphorylated ShcA (pSShcA and pYShcA, respectively) by means of a novel two-site chemiluminescence-linked immunoassay (CLISA) in fresh frozen primary tissue samples from 153 selected primary breast cancer patients. The aim of this study was to investigate the prognostic value of phosphorylated ShcA, as well as its association in the interactions between the ER and ErbB2 pathways.
CLISA quantified pShcA levels in the 153 primary breast cancer samples studied have a left-tailed distribution ranging from 0–32.33 U/mg with a median of 4.05 U/mg (mean 4.63 U/mg) for pYShcA and from 0–19.49 U/mg with a median of 3.76 U/mg (mean 4.27 U/mg) for pSShcA. After square root transformation, values become almost normally distributed (
Histograms showing distribution of square root values of (
Spearman rank correlations of quantitative pShcA and of other biomarkers expression levels.
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We compared the quantitative pShcA protein levels to the quantitative protein expression or phosphorylation levels of other markers assessed in our laboratory. Using Spearman rank correlation, pShcA levels were found to correlate with threonine-phosphorylated ErbB2 (pTErbB2) levels and inversely with phosphorylated Akt (pAkt) levels as well as ErbB2 and ER expression levels (
Scatter plot of pYShcA versus pSShcA expression levels (rs = 0.88, p < 0.001).
The prognostic value of pYShcA was investigated with respect to DFS and OS. (
This effect was more pronounced when pYShcA levels exceeding the first quartile value were used as a cut-off value. Twenty-six out of 38 (68%) patients with pYShcA-negative tumors developed disease recurrence, while this was the case for only 51 out of 115 (44%) in the pYShcA-positive group (
Kaplan–Meier survival curves for pYShcA. Patients were dichotomized according to the median (
Univariate Cox regression revealed also a weak significant (
Using the first quartile value of pSShcA levels as threshold, the association with survival observed was weaker (
Kaplan–Meier survival curves for pSShcA. Patients were dichotomized according to the median (
This is the first study to measure quantitative levels of phosphorylated ShcA applying a newly developed immunoassay, and investigating the relationship to protein expression levels of the established prognostic markers and survival.
Phosphorylation, which actually reflects the functionality of various proteins, has a potential to be of better prognostic value than expression levels of those proteins. Subsequently, the analysis of phosphorylation of important signaling molecules is becoming more and more prominent. Phosphorylation of proteins, such as Akt [
Our study is the first report on pShcA assessed quantitatively using a phospho-specific antibody in breast cancer cytosols of cryopreserved tumor samples. We also understand the limits of our assays, since the conditions of our assay do not entirely rule out co-immunoprecipitation, therefore we cannot exclude that the measured phosphoproteins could in part represent ShcA binding proteins. Moreover, it should be noted that anti-phosphoserine antibodies do not recognize all serine phosphorylation sites, and different anti-phosphoserine antibodies may possibly recognize different epitopes on the same protein. Therefore, the results are related to specific epitopes recognized by the selected antibodies. However, the CLISA assay used in this study was reliable and repeated measurements revealed a highly reproducibility. Measurements were performed on homogenized samples, which were checked by the pathologist in charge and confirmed to contain at least 60% tumor cells. In addition, samples were previously analyzed for ER, PgR and ErbB2 using both EIA assays, immunohistochemistry and/or fluorescence
pYShcA and pSSchA correlated very strongly to each other. Univariate Cox-regression revealed a statistical significant correlation between pShcA and patient survival. Kaplan-Meyer curves were plotted using the median and the first quartile values of both test results. In general, patients with tumors expressing higher levels of pYShcA and/or pSSchA, though lower levels of ER had significantly better prognosis.
It is noteworthy that we selected the samples a priori according to ER and ErbB-2 protein expression levels and explicitly enriched the population with ER-negative and ErbB-2 positive samples (64% ER negative and 53% ErbB-2 positive instead of ~30% and 15%, respectively, in a randomized population). Moreover, our ER-positive population had ER protein expression levels ranging from 10-393 fmol/mg total protein. This corresponds to the lower third of ER expression levels among ER- positive patients when compared to the distribution of ER protein expression levels observed in a large randomized study population, where ER expression levels among ER positive patients range from 1-1200 fmol/mg. Following our findings confirm that elevated pShcA is providing additional prognostic information for patients with tumors expressing lower ER and higher ErbB-2 levels.
The original finding of this study is that pShcA expression seems to have a favorable effect on patient survival. This is in disagreement with a number of
In addition, the correlation of pShcA to the threonine phosphorylated ErbB2 is also very interesting. We have some indications that serine and threonine phosphorylated ErbB2 have potential prognostic values (data not shown).
A collective of 153 cryopreserved (−80 °C) and well characterized primary breast tumors was selected from our tumor bank according to their ErbB2 and ER protein expression levels routinely assessed at the time of surgery. In order to better understand the role of pSchcA in the amplification of ErbB2 or down-modulation of ER, we selected tumors with high ErbB2 or low ER expression levels. Eighty-one (53%) of tumors overexpressed ErbB2, the remaining 72 (47%) had intermediate (50–260 ng/mg) levels. Ninety-eight tumors (64%) were ER negative, the remaining 55 (36%) had low (20–390 fmol/mg) ER levels. All patients underwent primary surgery before January 1996. Seventy-seven (50%) patients experienced a disease recurrence within the median follow-up time of 47 months (range 24–87 months). Fifty-eight patients (38%) were nodal negative and 75 (49%) nodal positive. None of the patients received neoadjuvant therapy. Patients and tumor characteristics are summarized in
Clinicopathological characteristics of the patients.
|Number of patients (%)
|Patients enrolled
|10 (6.5)
|88 (57.5)
|55 (36)
|Histology type
|104 (68)
|9 (6)
|40 (26)
|Tumor size
|39 (25)
|87 (57)
|24 (16)
|3 (2)
|Lymph-node status
|58 (38)
|75 (49)
|20 (13)
|Histopathological grade
|49 (32)
|57 (37)
|Not analyzed
|47 (31)
|Estrogen receptor (ER)
|Positive (>20 fmol/mg)
|55 (36)
|Negative (≤20 fmol/mg)
|98 (64)
|Progesterone receptor (PgR)
|Positive (>20 fmol/mg)
|40 (26)
|Negative (≤20 fmol/mg)
|113 (73)
|Positive (>260 ng/mg)
|81 (53)
|Negative (≤260 ng/mg)
|72 (47)
SKBr3 breast cancer cells were cultured in Improved Minimal Essential medium with zinc option (IMEM-ZO) supplemented with 5% fetal bovine serum and L-glutamine at 37 °C in a 5% CO2 incubator. For the phospho-standard preparation, sub-confluent SKBr3 cells were serum-starved for 48 h in serum free medium, treated with NaF and Na3VO4 for 1 h, then with 10% FBS for 10 min. Cells were lysed in EB lysis buffer (0.5 M NaCl, 10 mM EDTA, pH8, 1% Triton X100, 20 mM Tris-HCl, pH7.0, 20 mM NaF, 20 mM glycerophosphate, 2 mM Na3VO4, proteinase inhibitor cocktail, Roche) for 5 min on ice, centrifuged at 20,000 g for 5 min and the supernatant stored at −80 °C.
Tissue homogenates were prepared in accordance with standard procedures for tumor marker EIA measurement as previously described [
Black 96–well microtiter plates (Nunc Black MaxiSorp Surface; Nalgen Nunc International, Rochester, NY) were coated with anti-Shc antibody, Cat. No. 06-203 (Upstate Biotechnology, Lake Placid, NY) at a concentration of 3 mg/mL of coating buffer in a volume of 100 µL/well and kept at 4 °C overnight. For determination of phosphorylated ShcA, tumor extracts were prepared as described as above in the presence of Na3VO4. Before sample applications, the coated microtiters were washed five times with 200 µL/well of washing and then blocked for 2 h at room temperature with 250 µL of blocking buffer. The blocked wells were washed five times with 300 µL of blocking buffer and then 50 µL of the diluted tumor membrane extracts or reference material was added to the wells and incubated overnight at 4 °C. As a reference for each assay, a cell extract of SKBr3 cells, stimulated as described above, was used. For use in ELISAs, the SKBr3 cell membrane extract was sequentially diluted with sample dilution buffer at ratios of 1×, 0.75×, 0.5×, 0.25×, 0.125×, and 0.025×, and then 100 µL aliquots were incubated on each microtiter plate together with the tumor tissue extracts and blanks (containing only dilution buffer). After incubation of the samples and references, the wells were washed five times with 300 µL washing buffer at room temperature to eliminate unbound particles. Biotinylated PhosphoSerine Antibody Q5, Cat. No. 37430 or alkaline phosphatase (AP) conjugated PhosphoTyrosine antibody PY20, Cat. No. 03-7722 (Zymed Laboratories Inc., South San Francisco, CA) was added to the wells and incubated for 2 h at room temperature. Complex was detected with AP-conjugated streptavidin, diluted in conjugate diluent for 1 h at room temperature. AP activity was detected with CDP Star substrate (Tropix, Bedford, MA) in a glow luminometer. The response data of the series of diluted reference material were fitted and the curve was used for quantification of the tumor extracts. The value of the undiluted SKBr3 extract was denominated 1 U/mL.
Correlations between continuous values were assessed by the Spearman rank correlation coefficient (
Using a novel CLISA assay, we demonstrate that increased levels of phosphorylated ShcA assay correlates with good prognosis in selected primary breast cancer with lower ER expression levels. Our results indicate the need for further studies on the role of ShcA phosphorylation in breast cancer, using a larger patient collective with a longer follow-up time. It would be also important to develop assays recognizing particular phosphorylation sites on the ShcA protein or upstream factors in order to elucidate the role of specific sites. Moreover, the direct correlation between the ShcA phosphorylation and Erk1/2 phosphorylation should be further investigated. Of particular clinical relevance will be the analysis of the possible predictive value of pShcA toward antiestrogen, anti-ErbB2 as well as other targeted therapies.
This work was supported by the Stiftung Tumorbank Basel (STB). We thank Christine Wullschleger, Francoise David, Heidi Bodmer and Sabine Ehret for technical assistance, data management and tumor banking. We are indebted to A Almendral, M Anabitare, C Braschler, B von Castelberg, H Dieterich, D Fink, R Flury, R Gaudenz, K Lüscher, S Heinzl, M Mihatsch, H Moch, D Oertli, G Sauter, J Torhorst, E Wight and M Zuber – clinicians and pathologists. We declare that there are no financial relationships or other interests with regard to this manuscript that might be construed as constituting a conflict of interest for any author.


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For most coaches, any mention of a section championship in the preseason is taboo. As soon as I bring it up, the subject is quickly changed and some generic response about a day-by-day approach is given.
That is not the case at Lakeland.
"You read other coaches, and they kind of say that we're taking it one game at a time," Lakeland coach Tim Hourahan said. "Every single day in practice we talk about a situation that has come up in sectionals. We've been in three finals since I've been here. We want to play in the sectional final. That's our goal, and we're not afraid to talk about it every day."
If there was ever a time for the Hornets to scale back the bravado, it would probably be now. They've been one of the best teams in Class A in recent years — winning a section title in 2011 and reaching the semifinals last season — but they were hit hard by graduation. Gone are critical 12 players, including seven starters, but the confidence at Lakeland has not wavered.
The Hornets will certainly be younger this season, but they don't believe that means that they won't be as good.
"The team is a little bit different, but I feel like through summer league and everything, we've gotten better as a team," junior forward Devin Flanagan said. "I feel like we can be just as strong as last year. Other teams have also lost their seniors and their older players. There are other young teams also, so I feel like we can compete just as well. I feel like we can win a section title."
• The entire Lakeland team was wearing T-shirts that had the initials "G.I.B." on the back. I asked Hourahan what it stood for. "It stands for 'Get It Back,' " he said. "The only word that we're concerned about right now is "it" – the it factor of the belief, the mystic of Lakeland soccer, winning home games and getting yourself into the sectional tournament. We're working on the "it" part right now. Even the JV team breaks the huddle at the end of practice and says, 'Get It Back,' so it's a program goal. It's the only thing we talk about every year."
• Perhaps the biggest reason that the Hornets sound so confident is because sophomore Johnny Denis (pictured to the left) is still wearing their uniform. The ultra-talented central midfielder was a full-time starter last season, and as expected, the U.S. Academy came calling this offseason. For awhile, it appeared as if Denis might defect, but he has decided to stick with high school soccer. Hourahan said he was "the happiest guy in Section 1" when Denis informed him of his decision, and already calls him Lakeland's best player. "Shoot, he's in the national pool," Hourahan said. "I think more so than his skills, it's just his intelligence. The type of passes and the crafty passes that you might not even see from the sideline or expect to happen – what he does is he puts the ball in a great position for someone else to take one touch and shoot. It's basically his intelligence with the ball and his ability to find seams. His passing is as good as it gets, and again, it's is free kicks, which the majority of our goals come from. We'll look to get some there from him, as well."
• While Denis played a lot of minutes as a freshman, pretty much every other starter from the midfield up is gone. The biggest loss is midfielder Gonzalo Prando, who led the team with 18 goals — including a midseason stretch in which he recorded back-to-back hat tricks. Midfielder Timmy O'driscol and forward Patryk Seweryn will also be tough to replace, so offensive production is probably the Hornets' biggest concern. The guy who Lakeland is hoping will step up is Flanagan, who led the team with nine goals in their summer league. "I feel like they know how to play me the ball and know where I'm going to be," Flanagan said. "When I get the ball, I do my job and finish it up top. If I do my job for the team, they're going to do their job for me."
• Flanagan up top and Denis in the midfield will be the big guns for Hourahan, but he said that he plans to use a two-forward system with senior Edwin Hernandez playing along side Flanagan. He also sounded high on freshman Nick Foci, who Hourahan said won't start, but will play. "Our No. 1 scorer in the summer was a junior Devin Flanagan," he said. "As a sophomore, he was a reserve midfielder and played a little defense for us. Very crafty, great finisher – he had nine goals out of our 24 in the summer league. He's going to be our main guy up top, but I think we're going to get a ton of goals from Johnny off of set pieces and free kicks. He's a free kick specialist who can swing the ball. He scored directly off of a corner kick in the summer league. So, we have those two guys, and then we have a bunch of other guys looking to help out. Edwin, who started against Byram Hills in the sectional semis. He was a kid who actually played JV the first half of the year as a junior, and when we called him up, he scored two goals – one versus Beacon, and one versus Saunders in sectionals. We're looking for him to be the bigger guy up top, with Devin being the craftier."
• Flanagan spoke about how well he feels that he and Denis work together. "We play together on our summer club team, and we have very good chemistry," he said. "On the high school field, it's just another game. We play well together, and we finish well together."
• While it seemed like a minor concern, Flanagan wasn't practicing today with a strained Achilles. He said he's at "70-80 percent" and doesn't expect to miss significant time. "It's only going to be two weeks," he said. "I'll be back on the field. I'll miss probably the first two, but I'm looking at hitting every game after that."
• The strength of this Lakeland team will be on the back end, where all of its returning starters not named Denis reside. The most important player will probably be second-year starting goalkeeper Reggis Mora (pictured above). There's been a long line of successful keepers at Lakeland — remember 2011 TJN Westchester/Putnam player of the year Steven Reiche — and Hourahan is looking to see Mora take the next step as one of the top goalies in the section this season. "That was the big talk that we had," Hourahan said. "Actually, as a freshman, the kid was a starting center midfielder on my JV team. We knew Reiche had one year left, and we were looking for a kid who had a little bit of a nutty attitude with good reaction and good hands. As a sophomore, he didn't play a second behind Reiche, and last year was his first year starting. He had a great, great year for us. He gave us a chance to win the whole thing, and we asked him to take the next step this year – to be a leader, be a senior. Other guys are looking up to him – we have two juniors behind him – and he also has to get one of those guys ready for next year. It's a different role. He was baby-faced last year, and now he's a returning starter. There shouldn't be any rookie mistakes at that position."
• Mora is an athlete — that's not difficult to notice when you watch him play — but one of Hourahan's concerns with him last season was his ability to communicate with his defense. He's a soft-spoken kid, but he seems to have more confidence now as a senior. "I do feel good, but I still want to do more. I'm more confident in the goal than I was last year," Mora said. "I'm more confident in my punts. (Also), now I'm more comfortable talking to the team from back there."
• The only three-year starter for the Hornets is senior Jon Pinto (pictured to the right), who has a reputation for being one of the best man-marking defenders in the section. He famously shutout Port Chester's best player Kevin Riveros in the 2011 section final, and didn't allow Byram Hills' Jon Berry — the top scorer in the section last year — to score in their semifinals meeting. Pinto was expected to start for Lakeland at center back this season, but he was sitting out of practice with a knee injury. Junior Gino Cassese is another returning starter on defense, and Hourahan said that he'll probably fill Pinto's spot until he's ready to return. The defense is expected to stout. "We have a goalie who has a chance to be a top goalie in the section," Hourahan said. "If our center back comes back and gets healthy, he's a top defender in the section. We have a junior captain (Cassese) who we're going to play as a holding center midfielder behind Johnny (Denis) who is about as good as it gets in the middle of the field winning balls and squaring the ball out."
• To me, it seems like this Lakeland team could resemble the section title team from '11. The Hornets might not have an explosive offensive team, but they also shouldn't give up very many goals. "We're going to play a different system," Hourahan said. "We're going to try and defend with five, at times, and we're going to attack with five at times. Really, as long as we keep our shape in the back and find Johnny going on transitions, or find Johnny going on counters, we're going to score enough goals. I'm not trying to say that we're going to win every game 1-0 like we did a few years ago. Obviously, that's a heart attack waiting to happen. But the strength is going to be in the back."
• Midfield was the position where Lakeland was hit the hardest by graduation. Other names who came up who should play alongside Denis are senior Brandon Dias and freshman Matias Prando (Gonzalo's younger brother).
• Hourahan is always great with giving me random (but useful) stats, and this one really stood out to me. It stresses the importance of winning as many regular season games as possible. "I've been the head coach for eight years, and we've been in the semifinals six years," he said. "This is a good stat for you: We've had three away games in the semifinals, and we're 0-3. We've had three home games in the semifinals, and we're 3-0. We want to win enough games in the regular season to put us in a spot in the semifinals where we have a home game so we can play in the big match."
• I'll give the final word to Hourahan, who spoke about coaching one of the youngest teams that he's had in his tenure. "I'll tell you what I told these guys on the very first day of practice. Now, we're not getting into any bar fight – I can tell you that – but if we ever were to get into a bar fight and a guy takes a swing at you, he's not going to ask you how old you are," he said. "We don't care how old we are. We have enough talent out here to be competitive, and we have enough talent out here to win the section. We're not concerned with age. This group is that has 12 players who I've been coaching since they were U-9. They're now U-15, U-16 players, so maybe they're new to varsity, but they're not new to me. There's a lot of commonality to what we do there, and what we do here. That's good to have. In saying all of that, the varsity experience that we have in terms of varsity minutes played is the lowest that I've had in a few years. This is a brand new group coming in. I have three freshmen that made the team who all play on my U-15 team, so we're young and inexperienced. But we're not concerned about age; we're concerned about getting better."
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Brenda Song: Love Child Chick
She's been denying pregnancy rumors since September, but Brenda Song isn't doing herself any favors with her baggy clothing with not-so-ambiguous messages.
The Disney darling was spotted leaving an eyelash salon yesterday (November 15) sporting a loose-fitting sweatshirt that said "Love Child" over her midsection.
This flies in the face of Brenda's mom's statement to press this fall declaring that she wasn't with child- "It's very upsetting to our family because of what I'm going through and it's not how we raised her. She's very upset."
However, Brenda has been out of the public eye as of late, and her rumored babydaddy Trace Cyrus is keeping mum on the whole thing.


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Marginal density expansions for diffusions and stochastic volatility, part II: Applications [to the Stein--Stein model]
In the compagnion paper [Marginal density expansions for diffusions and stochastic volatility, part I] we discussed density expansions for multidimensional diffusions $(X^1,...,X^d)$, at fixed time $T$ and projected to their first $l$ coordinates, in the small noise regime. Global conditions were found which replace the well-known "not-in-cutlocus" condition known from heat-kernel asymptotics. In the present paper we discuss financial applications; these include tail and implied volatility asymptotics in some correlated stochastic volatility models. In particular, we solve a problem left open by A. Gulisashvili and E.M. Stein (2009).
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By Tommy Gilligan, Pointer View Assistant EditorOctober 22, 2009
WEST POINT, N.Y. (Oct. 22, 2009) Earlier this fall, West Point and the New York Yankees were in the headlines for striking a deal to bring football back to the Bronx for the next five years.
However, West Point's history with the Pin Stripers goes much deeper than that. Since the turn of the 20th century at the old Polo Grounds, the cadets of West Point have been involved with the storied franchise doing everything from playing more than 20 Army-Navy games at the field to practicing with the baseball team during spring training.
In recent years, the cadets have not only represented the academy, but the military as a whole, on some of the biggest stages in professional sports. From the 2008 Major League Baseball All-Star game to the playoff baseball games, the cadets were asked to bring a color guard and other participants by the top officials in the Yankees front office.
More than 80 cadets and 40 members of the West Point Band traveled to the Bronx Oct. 16, to represent the armed services for the first game of the American League Championship Series between the New York Yankees and the Los Angeles Angels.
For the majority of the cadets, it was their first time handling the 50-yard-long American flag.
"We like to use the students from West Point because of their discipline, respect for the flag and the long-standing tradition they represent," Doug Green, vice president of Bowl Games of America, said. "I have been displaying the flag here for the Yankees for over 10 years at every major home event for the team and the cadets are always one of my favorite groups to work with."
Green said it takes 75 people to handle a flag of that size and to properly render the respect the flag demands.
Throughout the practice session, the young men and women worked with absolute precision to ensure the millions of people that would be watching the game would have their expectations upheld.
Even during practice, many of the cadets could not help but look around at the brand new stadium.
"It was a big opportunity to see this new stadium and to be able to take part in a big pennant baseball game," Cow Teddy Yost said.
While many went to watch pre-game warm-ups, some of the group took the opportunity to tour the new Monument Park, seeing the vast history of individuals who had roamed the field of the old stadium while wearing the Bombers jersey.
As game time approached, the five members of the color guard prepared in the green room while the band and the flag bearers waited in the tunnel for their cue to enter the field in front of nearly 52,000 screaming fans.
As the band performed the national anthem, the cadets unveiled the flag that nearly covered the entire outfield. With players and fans on their feet, a feeling of cultural pride filled the air. It did not matter what team one was rooting for--during those moments, there was only one team.
"It was an amazing feeling to be on the field during the national anthem of game one of the ALCS," Yearling Jeffery Gulley said. "I felt a strong sense of pride and gratitude for my service to our country while hearing the crowd roar during the final portion of the national anthem as we waved the flag."
The roar continued as they marched off the field with meticulous attention to detail.
The Yankees provided the more than 120 individuals that were involved with the opening ceremony with some of the hottest tickets in the tri-state area for the evening. Even while the first pitches were being thrown in the first game, spectators came up to the cadets and thanked them for what they were doing.


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Re: your edits Enzo. There is no mention in the episode (I have just watched it again) about putting anything "in". The dialogue is:
Doctor: "A spinal shunt, i'll isolate the spinal cord from the brain stem until I can repair..."
Doctor: "Sub-dermal scalpel"
Doctor: "Bio-neural field generator"
Paris "His vital signs are stabilising"
Paris: "It's working"
Doctor: "Cellular regenerator"
Doctor: "His neural membranes are re-establishing themselves."
So, it is clear that nothing was put in, a shunt as we would know it, possibly the bio-neural field generator created the shunt...? Commodore 17:15, 7 April 2007 (UTC)
- I watched this one recently myself, I got the impression that the Bio-neural field generator was used to create a disconnect between the brain and spinal cord to stop the damage from reaching Harry's brain. This could just be bad writing, but perhaps they were thinking of shunting it to... nothing? In any case it's very definite that nothing was put in. --Maestro4k 17:58, 7 April 2007 (UTC)


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Jowler Creek Vineyard and Winery
Hands dig into the springtime earth, heaving up tufts of Missouri dirt cooled by the nearby waters of historic Jowler Creek. The year is 2004 and Colleen and Jason Gerke are trying their hands at winemaking, planting 250 norton grapevines in the ground near their home. Today, the 7-acre plot of land houses more than 3,000 vines, protected by insect-consuming chickens, rodent-hunting hawks and owls, and weed-noshing sheep who graze at carefully managed intervals. The sustainable vineyard sprouts grapes used to concoct nine award-winning wines—from dry to sweet—which are crafted with solar-powered devices. Jowler Creek Vineyard and Winery regularly hosts tours for up to 30 people, where patrons spend approximately 90 minutes observing the crash-diet techniques grapes undergo before squeezing into Jowler Creek's trademark baby blue sealed bottles.


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Experience Atlanta's new and trendy, Coze Event Space, browse and shop fashionable apparel, accessories and more. Learn from the experts with nail, hair and makeup demonstrations, health and fitness instruction and more. And of course there's something for the guys, as well, at the Dudes' Corner!
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A portion of the proceeds to benefit
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What are my transport/parking options getting to the event?
There is a paid parking lot accros form the venue, carpooling is strongly encouraged
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Inpatient Case Management Medical Director UnitedHealthcare Clinical Services (UCS) conducts medical management activities for commercial, Medicare and retirement, and community and state business. The majority of these activities are concentrated in inpatient review and appropriate inpatient utilization, although depending upon location and products covered, functions such as pre-certification and other traditional utilization management activities may be performed. UCS nurses, with supporting clerical staff, are concentrated in large regional centers, (although some nurses accountable to a location may work from home or onsite at network hospitals). UnitedHealthcares care management approach is data driven, and grounded in the use and application of evidence based medicine (EBM) and guidelines. The successful UCS medical director appreciates and understands data, is a champion of and is very conversant with evidence-based medicine, and uses nationally recognized clinical guidelines to teach and direct clinical staff, as well as engage the practicing community in discussions designed to result in individual patients receiving the right care, in the right place, at the right time. Through daily support of the UCS nurses, the medical director serves as a primary clinical educator and mentor, and facilitates achievement of appropriate patient care goals through guiding nurses and conducting peer-to-peer communication with practicing physicians. In addition, through the sharing of data and the promotion of EBM dialogue, the UCS medical director may engage with hospitals and/or local physician groups in forums designed to accomplish systemic change. The UCS medical director is part of a national organization and team, and will collaborate with UCS peers and nurse managers, market medical directors and others from across the country. In response to customer need and expectation, UnitedHealthcare is continuously modifying its programs and approaches. Although not a primary job function, medical directors with the interest in doing so often have the opportunity to be involved with change design and management. Responsibilities: Is a champion of EBM, and in particular of MCG which currently are the companys primary review guidelines. Engages daily and ongoing with line inpatient review nurses, reviewing cases electronically or in verbal case discussion, (and less often in group discussion) with the goals of achieving the delivery of the right care at the right time in the most appropriate setting. Seeks opportunities for clinically appropriate behavior change based upon EBM, and accomplishing same with the practicing community. As a clinical resource and coach, assists nurses in having and improving insight into where and when opportunity exists. Helps nurses develop the skills and willingness to engage physicians in EBM discussion. Develops and delivers clinical education programs that address the specific needs of the local team; instructs individual nurses to understand and apply review guidelines, as well as engage with the practicing community. Promotes referrals to case management programs as part of longitudinal care management with the objective of reducing admissions and readmissions. Through use and/or analysis of available data (e.g., APR/DRG), identifies more global opportunities for intervention that may 1) better focus available review resources and activities, and/or 2) change practice or hospital habit. Assists in developing clinical strategy, identifying areas of clinical focus, developing initiatives to improve appropriate inpatient utilization and other functions and representing same to senior management. Concisely and articulately documents case review findings, actions and outcomes in electronic systems, and meets medical director inter-rater reliability and quality guidelines. Regularly engages in peer-to-peer dialogue with practicing physicians about the care of individual inpatients to develop collaborative intervention plans based upon EBM. Engages with employees from other business units (e.g., market medical directors, contracting personnel) to discuss and develop strategies to promote systemic network change based upon identified operational efficiencies or gaps from EBM. As needed, may meet with physician groups and/or hospital personnel. With operational leadership, monitors site-specific operations dashboard data, identifying opportunities and assisting in the development of appropriate action plans. Participates in national forums, sharing ideas on best practices with other medical directors and clinical leaders from other UCS sites. As need and opportunity present, participates in national committees and/or the design/redesign and development of programs. Works in close collaboration with site nursing leadership to provide strong leadership to staff. Supports and champions operational change. As needed, participates in other utilization management activities such as pre-certification review, appeals and grievance adjudication, etc.
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Thailands third largest cellco True Corp yesterday became the first operator in the country to launch commercial 4G mobile services by switching on its 2100MHz network offering both 4G Long Term Evolution (LTE) and 3G W-CDMA/HSPA services. At launch Trues new network is limited in scope, comprising 500 LTE base stations and the same number of cell sites offering 2100MHz 3G services, compared to its existing 3G 850MHz network of 13,000 base stations nationwide. As reported by the Bangkok Post, the 4G network covers densely populated areas including Bangkoks central business districts of Siam Square, Silom Road and Sathon Road, and will be expanded to 15 major provinces this year including Chon Buri, Prachuap Khiri Khan, Chiang Mai, Phuket, Surat Thani and Ayutthaya. True added that by year-end it will increase the number of its 4G and 3G base stations on the 2100MHz spectrum to 2,000 and 5,000, respectively, while its total 3G 850MHz base stations will also rise, by around 1,000 to 14,000 this year. Trues 4G subscription packages start from THB699 (USD23.70) per month for an unlimited data service aimed at users of the handful of LTE-compatible devices currently available in Thailand, whilst the average price per MB (THB1) for its 3G users is half the cost of data access on Trues 2G network. Trues management stated that the operator will spend an additional THB15 billion on network expansion this year, and is aiming for six million 4G subscribers by year-end compared with 3.2 million at present for 3G.
The launch of Trues 4G/3G 2100MHz network came the day after market leader Advanced Info Service (AIS) officially launched its commercial 2100MHz W-CDMA/HSPA network. AIS soft launched 2100MHz services on 9 April to existing customers with compatible devices, targeting at least 200,000 users in the introductory month, but at the official launch on 7 May it declared that it had exceeded this expectation, reporting that it already had 800,000 3G 2100MHz users.
Thailands second largest mobile operator DTAC confirmed yesterday that it will stick to a plan to commercially launch its 2100MHz 3G network in June.
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