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Minnesota's Price Named Women's Cross Country Runner of the Week
Sept. 28, 2010
PARK RIDGE, Ill. - The Big Ten Conference announced on Tuesday its women's cross country Runner of the Week, Minnesota junior Stephanie Price.
Big Ten Women's Cross Country Runner of the Week
Stephanie Price reels in her second Big Ten Runner of the Week honor of the season after finishing second out of 300 runners at the Roy Griak Invitational on Saturday. Price crossed the tape in 20:40, good for a new personal 6,000-meter mark and the eighth-best time in school history. The junior paced the Golden Gophers to a seventh-place finish in a field that included nine teams that competed in the 2009 NCAA Championships.
Last Minnesota Runner of the Week: Stephanie Price (Sept. 14, 2010)
2010 Big Ten Women's Cross Country Runners of the Week
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Although the Rangers saw only two minor league free agents reach the big league club last season (INFs Alberto Gonzalez and Luis Hernandez), seven made appearances in 2011. These players will fill the bulk of the roster at Triple-A Round Rock, with a couple likely to be placed with Double-A Frisco.
Part one of this two-part story will profile the players joining the Rangers' organization via minor league free agency. The second part, which will be linked here when posted, will look at the players who have come in via other methods––including major league free agency, trades, waiver claims, and the Rule 5 Draft.
Entering this offseason, the Rangers had 23 players set to hit free agency. Six were re-signed just following the season's end––LHP Neal Cotts, RHP Jon Edwards, RHP Daniel Lopez, INF Guilder Rodriguez, INF/OF Alejandro Selen, and RHP Ross Wolf. The club also placed free agent to-be RHP Justin Miller on their 40-man roster, protecting him from the Rule 5 Draft. Cotts and Miller will be attending major league camp this spring.
An in-depth rundown on those players can be found at this link.
Of the other 17 players, most remain free agents as of December 24. The players who have signed with other clubs include RHP Fabio Castillo (Giants), INF Alberto Gonzalez (Cubs), INF Luis Hernandez (Indians), 1B Brad Nelson (Cubs), and OF Ryan Spilborghs (Japan).
The Dominican Republic native was added to the Rangers' 40-man roster following a breakout 2010 season, but he was non-tendered last December after a disappointing 2011 performance. He returned via a minor league deal last offseason but will now move on to the Giants' organization.
Since hiring current Senior Director of Player Personnel A.J. Preller in 2004, the Rangers have consistently been a key player in the Latin American amateur free agent market. Castillo––along with then-INF Johan Yan and catchers Cristian Santana and Manny Pina––was part of Preller's first international free agent class in 2005. Only Yan remains in the organization entering the 2013 campaign.
Despite spending much of last season in the major leagues, the 29-year-old Gonzalez played in just 24 games as the Rangers' utility infielder. He went 13-for-54 (.241) at the plate with two doubles and a triple. Hernandez, 28, batted .262/.303/.376 in 129 contests for Triple-A Round Rock. He also appeared in two games (getting two at-bats) for the Rangers.
As of December 24, the Rangers have signed nine pitchers and eight position players to minor league contracts.
The pitchers are as follows: RHP Collin Balester, RHP Joucer Martinez, RHP Evan Meek, LHP Scott Olsen, RHP Yonata Ortega, RHP Zach Simons, RHP Yoshinori Tateyama, RHP Randy Wells, and RHP Johan Yan.
The position players are: 1B Brandon Allen, C Juan Apodaca, OF Jim Adduci, OF Chih-Hsien Chiang, OF Aaron Cunningham, INF Yangervis Solarte, 1B Brandon Snyder, and INF Gabriel Suarez.
Here's a closer look at those players, beginning with the pitchers:
Standing at 6-foot-5, Balester is a big hurler with some velocity. Per the FanGraphs pitch f/x data, his average fastball last year clocked at nearly 93 mph, down just slightly from the 94 of a year before. He'll also mix in an upper-70s, low-80s curveball with the very occasional changeup.
Balester split the 2012 campaign between Triple-A Toledo and the Tigers' big league club. With Toledo, he posted a 3.64 ERA in 47 innings, yielding 38 hits while walking 12 and striking out 45. But in Detroit, he gave up 14 runs (13 earned) in 18 innings, serving up five home runs while walking 11 and fanning 12.
Balester has an invitation to major league camp and will provide depth to the Rangers' right-handed middle relief corps.
Initially signed by the White Sox in 2005, Martinez played four seasons with the organization, ranging between the Venezuelan Summer League ('06-'07) and the rookie Pioneer League ('09). With Great Falls in 2009, he had a 4.44 ERA in 16 games (15 starts). Over 79 innings, he allowed 85 hits, walked 24, and struck out 52.
Now, after being away from the States for three full seasons, the 6-foot-2 righty will make his return in 2013. While pitching in semipro ball this fall and early winter, Martinez worked as a starter and showed an 89-92 mph fastball to go along with a promising (though inconsistent) low-to-mid 80s slider that reached 86 mph. He made four appearances for Aragua in December, yielding six earned runs in 9.2 innings.
With the Rangers, the Maracay, Venezuela, native will work out of the bullpen, where the club hopes his stuff will play up. Martinez is a bit of a longshot, but he's an intriguing story with a good arm. He'll report to minor league camp in March and should compete for a relief role between High-A Myrtle Beach or Double-A Frisco.
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The 6-foot-0, 225-pound reliever has lost some of the power that made him a force out of the Pittsburgh bullpen in 2010. While he attacked hitters with consistent mid-90s velocity during his All-Star campaign, his fastball averaged 92.8 mph in the majors last season. The fastball-cutter specialist now works in the low-90s with both offerings, and he'll also mix in an upper-70s, low-80s curve.
Although Meek struggled in the majors in 2012 (nine runs in 12 innings), he had success while pitching the bulk of the year at Triple-A Indianapolis. In the minors, he had a 2.74 ERA in 46 frames. He surrendered 33 hits, walked 26, and struck out 41 while inducing more than 2.6 groundouts per airout.
Like Balester, Meek has a good fastball but spotty command. He also has an invitation to big league spring training and will provide middle relief depth in 2013.
Once considered among baseball's more promising young lefty starters, Olsen battled a number of on- and off-field disciplinary problems in his first few major league seasons. His best campaign came in 2008, when he had a 4.20 ERA in 201.2 innings for Florida. Injuries began to plague his career following a trade to Washington in 2009.
At his best, the 6-foot-4 southpaw showed an upper-80s, low-90s fastball with a plus slider and usable changeup. A former sixth-round pick of the Marlins, he was signed by current Rangers pro scout Scot Engler. While Olsen could log some innings on the big league side this spring, he will report to minor league camp and is almost a certainty to open the season at Double- or Triple-A.
According to one National League pro scout, Ortega ran his fastball up to 98 mph in 2011, when he posted a 4.11 ERA in 48 appearances between High-A Visalia and Double-A Mobile. That season, he logged 57 innings and yielded 44 hits, walking 32 and striking out 76.
But Ortega's stuff dropped off this past season––his fastball topping out at 93 mph, per the scout––when he had a 6.88 ERA in 42 games with Mobile. He gave up 57 hits and walked 40 over 52.1 innings, striking out 51.
Ortega made two appearances for the Leones del Escogido in the Dominican Winter League this offseason, yielding a run in two innings. He'll likely pitch out of the bullpen at Double-A Frisco or Triple-A Round Rock in 2013, as the Rangers hope he can regain the form that made him an intriguing power relief prospect in '10 and '11. He will open spring training in big league camp.
Although Simons scuffled in Colorado Springs, he posted a 1.93 ERA in 33 relief appearances for the Drillers while beginning to rely more on his cutter. Overall, he had a 3.57 ERA in 42 games––58.0 ip, 52 h, 29 bb, 47 k.
The Everett Community College product has logged Triple-A time in each of the last four years, though he's yet to reach the majors. Simons was ranked as TigsTown.com's #21 prospect in the Tigers' system following a 2010 campaign in which he posted a 2.70 ERA and struck out more than a batter per inning at the Double- and Triple-A levels. After that season, Mark Anderson wrote that Simons flashed a 92-93 mph fastball (topping at 95-96) to go along with an upper-80s cutter and a breaking ball.
But Simons wasn't able to match that success in 2011 and 2012, as his walk rate increased and his strikeout rate declined. As is the case with Olsen and Ortega, the Rangers are hoping that Simons can rediscover the stuff that made him an intriguing prospect two seasons ago. Like Olsen, he's a candidate to see action on the major league side this spring but will report to minor league camp.
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The sidearming right-hander doesn't overpower hitters; his three-pitch arsenal includes a lively 86-88 mph fastball, a sweeping low-70s slider, and a low-70s changeup with screwball-like action. Though he fills up the strike zone, his soft stuff gives him little margin for error over the plate, accentuating the importance of within-the-zone command. Tateyama has a major league invite to spring training and will provide further bullpen depth.
In the majors last season, Wells gave up 17 earned runs on 35 hits in 28.2 innings, walking 24 and striking out 14. His struggles continued at Triple-A Iowa, as he was tagged for 39 earned runs in 43.1 frames before going under the knife.
Even with his injuries last season, the Illinois native has maintained similar pure stuff; he relies heavily on his upper-80s fastball (touching low-90s) and low-80s slider while also mixing in a changeup. His command, which was arguably his biggest asset when successful, became a huge issue, however.
According to Wells' hometown newspaper, he hasn't experienced any setbacks in rehab and is expected to be ready for the start of spring training. If healthy, he should fill a rotation spot at Triple-A Round Rock in 2013.
While Yan's sidearm delivery and heavy upper-80s sinker can cause problems for fellow righties, he is considered a fringy relief prospect because of his pedestrian command and inability to combat left-handed bats. Although the Dominican Republic native limited right-handers to a .203/.291/.257 slash line in Triple-A last season (throwing 62 percent strikes), lefties tagged him at a .364/.470/.564 clip (throwing 55 percent strikes). In addition to his sinker, Yan also mixes in a low-to-mid 70s breaking ball to go along with the very occasional changeup.
The 6-foot-3 reliever is coming off a successful stint with the Aguilas Cibaenas of the Dominican Winter League. Pitching his first full winterball campaign, Yan had a 1.53 ERA with 24 strikeouts and six walks over 17.2 innings. His sinker induced an impressive 5.5 groundouts per airout.
According to one scout in the Dominican Republic, Yan displayed an 87-89 mph fastball with some tailing life this winter. The scout commented that "it's fringy stuff but he's throwing at the knees and getting outs."
The former infielder will begin camp with the Rangers but will likely open the year at Triple-A Round Rock.
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For all his upper minors success, the left-handed slugger has yet to do much with his big league opportunities. Appearing with three different clubs (Arizona, Oakland, Tampa Bay) over the last four seasons, Allen has a .203/.290/.375 slash line in 116 major league games. He's coming off a whirlwind 2012 campaign that saw him break camp in the majors with Oakland before being traded to Tampa, spending time on the DL, being sent to Triple-A, and then finally finishing the year in Japan.
Primarily a first baseman, Allen also saw time at both corner outfield spots with Tampa last season. The Rangers figure to have plenty of depth at first––especially if Ian Kinsler moves there in spring training. Still, the native Texan will be in big league camp and should open 2013 as the Round Rock first baseman.
The Venezuela native split his 2012 campaign between Double-A Tennessee and Triple-A Iowa in the Cubs' organization, posting a career-best slash line of .291/.407/.399 in 83 contests. He had 17 doubles and two home runs while drawing 40 walks and striking out 40 times. Behind the plate, Apodaca threw out 18-of-75 (24 percent) attempted base stealers.
The 5-foot-11, 180-pound Apodaca is currently playing winterball in his home country with the Aguilas del Zulia. Through 20 games, he is 8-for-51 (.176) at the plate with a triple, seven walks, and 16 strikeouts.
A minor league backup catcher for the majority of his career, Apodaca is expected to fill a similar role at Double-A Frisco or Triple-A Round Rock in 2013. He has an invitation to big league camp.
At those two levels, the British Columbia native appeared in 126 games and posted a .298/.371/.419 slash line with 21 doubles, three triples, and a career-high seven home runs. He drew 48 walks, struck out 87 times, and stole 18 bases in 25 tries.
Listed at 6-foot-2, 210 pounds, Adduci is a lefty hitting, lefty throwing outfielder. He logged significant action at all three outfield positions last season. He also holds an invitation to major league spring training.
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Boston capitalized on Chiang's breakout by flipping him to Seattle as part of a trade for Erik Bedard in July 2011. He scuffled in 32 late-season contests for the Mariners' Double-A affiliate, hitting just .208/.255/.262.
Added to Seattle's 40-man roster last offseason, Chiang continued to struggle at the plate throughout 2012. The 6-foot-2, 195-pound outfielder split the campaign between Double- and Triple-A, hitting only .249/.281/.363 with seven round-trippers in 117 games. He was designated for assignment in June but cleared waivers and was outrighted to the minor leagues.
Because Chiang was no longer on the 40-man roster and has six full years of professional experience, he became a minor league free agent this offseason. According to the Rangers' official website, he'll report to minor league camp in March, though he could still see some action on the big league side. Expect him to fill a spot at either Double-A Frisco or Triple-A Round Rock in 2013.
Like Simons (and 2012 Rangers draft pick Keone Kela), Cunningham is a product of Everett Community College in Washington. The outfielder has logged significant major league time in each of the last five seasons, appearing in a total of 222 games for the A's (2008-2009), Padres (2010-2011), and Indians (2012).
Although Cunningham has an impressive .303/.376/.485 career slash line in the minor leagues, he hasn't been able to carry that offensive success over to the majors, where he has a .219/.280/.347 line in 501 plate appearances. This past season, the 5-foot-11, 195-pound righty hitter and thrower played in 22 games at Triple-A Columbus and 72 for the Indians as a reserve outfielder.
Regarded as a strong defender, Cunningham often appeared as a late-inning defensive replacement for the Indians in 2012, as he got only 109 plate appearances in those 72 games. Officially, he went 17-for-97 (.175) with four doubles and a home run. He drew nine walks, struck out 25 times, and didn't steal a base in three attempts. Cunningham played 52 games (with just seven starts) in left field, 13 in right, and 11 in center.
A longshot to make the opening-day roster, Cunningham will report to big league camp in February and should be insurance in case something happens to current Rangers defensive outfield specialist Craig Gentry.
After signing a minor league deal with the Rangers last offseason, the former Twins farmhand returns on another minor league deal for 2013. Solarte put together a solid performance in big league camp last year (7-for-22, two home runs) and showed some pop early in the regular season. While he put together good at-bats throughout the campaign, he appeared to tire and lose some punch down the stretch.
Currently playing with the Tigres de Aragua in his native Venezuela, Solarte has split his time between second, third, and left field while hitting an impressive .301/.363/.417 with 17 walks and 17 strikeouts in 43 contests.
Solarte will report to big league camp in February. While he's not much of a utility candidate due to his inability to play shortstop, his bat gives him the potential to help a big league club in some capacity.
Although he isn't a standout player defensively, Snyder is passable at both first and third base. He can play in the corner outfield but is a below-average defender there. Triple-A is the most likely opening-day destination for Snyder, but he'll be in big league camp to compete for a reserve role. He will have to compete with similarly profiled players like Brandon Allen and Mike Olt, and it's no guarantee that any of those three make the club out of the gates.
A career .245/.308/.304 hitter in 160 affiliated games, Suarez has logged time at every position but catcher. He's currently playing with the Adelaide Bite of the Australian Baseball League, batting .197/.243/.212 in 16 contests and splitting his time between second base and all three outfield spots.
The 6-foot-0, 170-pound utility man will report to minor league camp in March and could fill a reserve role at any of the Rangers' full-season affiliates.

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'White Collar,' 'Covert Affairs' and 'Royal Pains' Renewed by USA
USA has renewed three of its top-rated original summer drama — White Collar, Covert Affairs and Royal Pains.
The network has ordered a 16-episode fourth season of Covert Affairs, a 16-episode fifth season of White Collar, and 26 additional episodes of Royal Pains to be spread across seasons 5 and 6.
Read on…
White Collar premiered in 2009 and quickly became one of USA's standout dramas. The series stars Bomer and Tim DeKay as an unlikely duo — con man Neal Caffrey (Bomer) and FBI agent Peter Burke (DeKay) — who partner to catch white collar criminals. In the explosive summer finale, Neal finally learns the mysterious Sam (Treat Williams), is his father.
Meanwhile, Covert Affairs stars Golden Globe-nominated Piper Perabo as Annie Walker, a young CIA operative who is out for blood — and vengeance — when the series returns on Tues., Oct. 16 with six all-new episodes. The drama also stars Christopher Gorham and Peter Gallagher.
Royal Pains follows disgraced New York City physician Hank Lawson (Mark Feuerstein) as he reinvents himself as the Hamptons' hot new doctor-on-demand to the rich and famous. The series also stars Paulo Costanzo, Reshma Shetty and Brooke D'Orsay.
The network will air "Off-Season Greetings," a two-hour TV movie which will explain the backstory of the Lawson brothers, on Dec. 16.
Are you happy for more of your favorite USA shows? Share your excitement in the comments below!


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How can the Jacksonville Jaguars' anemic offense get on track?
Some are suggesting that getting Marcedes Lewis going would be a start.
Vito Stellino wrote on Thursday that the Pro Bowl tight end needs to be a more intricate part of the Jaguars' passing attack going forward. That's a logical assertion, but is Lewis capable of being a prolific weapon through the air?
Obviously he had the talent to haul in 10 touchdown receptions last season, but one has to wonder if he's regressed after signing a five-year, $34 million extension this offseason.
Lewis, who missed Week 2's contest versus the Jets, has logged just 10 receptions this season for 116 yards. He looked off against the team's loss to the Pittsburgh Steelers last week when he caught just two passes for 29 yards, despite being a focal point in the game plan. That didn't sit too well with Jaguars' head coach Jack Del Rio.
"We're looking to him," Del Rio said. "He had, I think, eight or nine targeted plays [against Pittsburgh] where we tried to go to him and we only connected on two of them. So we've got to become more efficient in utilizing him. It's good for us, it's good for him, it's good for the quarterback. We've made our efforts to try to get him involved and we just haven't connected nearly often enough. That's something we'll continue to work on."
Some of that is because the Jaguars are working with green quarterback Blaine Gabbert, but Lewis didn't help the rookie out at all last week, dropping two very catchable passes.
In a league where using the tight end has become all the rage, the Jaguars would be wise to continue targeting Lewis. Nothing can relax a rookie quarterback's nerves more than looking down field and finding a 6-foot-6, 275-pound monster streaking across the hashes.
The problem with that though, is that monster has looked ghoulish with his dropped passes. David Garrard did look Lewis' way often last year, so a lack of chemistry with Gabbert makes sense for some of Lewis' struggles.
But eventually, Lewis is going to have to man up and make plays for his team. He's a great blocker and emerged last year as a solid red-zone target.
Now can he take his game to the next level and become a play maker for the Jaguars? Based on his play so far this year, the early answer to that question is no.Tags: Blaine Gabbert, Football, Jack Del Rio, Jacksonville, Jacksonville Jaguars, Marcedes Lewis, NFL, Pro Bowl


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'NZN Awoak' Image encased in White Frame with White Mount
Three picture frame - DC edition.
Featuring 'The Bat', 'Super S' and the 'Super Bat' images.
Overall frame dimensions: 25.5 x 52.5 cm
Each picture is 10.5 x 17 cm
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Thank you so much for having us last night at your Differentiate Art Exhibition. It was lovely meeting you and the other artists.
We are so grateful for your support and your reasons behind supporting us - we hope the rest of the evening went well and that you had a lot of interest for your pieces.
It would be great to hear how you got on and to also know if you have any other events that we could maybe come along to to raise awareness about the RNIB and sight loss.
We look forward to hearing from you and well done again for a great night!
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I am very excited to see more of Jon Judace's work, its refreshing to see an artist with so much to offer. I purchased a bag recently and love it (quality and stylish), whenever I wear it people are always complimenting or asking where I purchased it from! X
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Waiting on Wednesday
by Sarah Rees Brennan
Release Date: September 11, 2012
Published by: Random House Books
Kami Glass loves someone she's never met . . . a boy she's talked to in her head ever since she was born. She wasn't silent about her imaginary friend during her childhood, and is thus a bit of an outsider in her sleepy English town of Sorry-in-the-Vale. Still, Kami hasn't suffered too much from not fitting in. She has a best friend, runs the school newspaper, and is only occasionally caught talking to herself. Her life is in order, just the way she likes it, despite the voice in her head.
But all that changes when the Lynburns return.
The Lynburn family has owned the spectacular and sinister manor that overlooks Sorry-in-the-Vale for centuries. The mysterious twin sisters who abandoned their ancestral home a generation ago are back, along with their teenage sons, Jared and Ash, one of whom is eerily familiar to Kami. Kami is not one to shy away from the unknown—in fact, she's determined to find answers for all the questions Sorry-in-the- Vale is suddenly posing. Who is responsible for the bloody deeds in the depths of the woods? What is her own mother hiding? And now that her imaginary friend has become a real boy, does she still love him? Does she hate him? Can she trust him?
Sarah Rees Brennan brings Gothic romance kicking and screaming into the twenty-first century with a funny, modern heroine who can take care of herself, an angry, beautiful boy who needs to be saved, and the mysterious forces that bring them together and tear them apart.
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(2) In adopting rules specifying the measures to be used by hospitals in submitting the information, the director shall consider both of the following:
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(b) Whether there are any excessive administrative or financial implications associated with the reporting of information by hospitals regarding their performance in meeting a particular measure.
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|Monday June 10, 2002
As Richard Melville Hall stands in a health-food store in his rumpled sweatshirt and jeans, the lunch-hour shoppers have no idea this diminutive fellow rivals Beck as the hip pop auteur of the day. He looks like just another 36-year-old bald guy trying to choose between barbecue seitan and tofu.
It's not until a record company promotion man starts talking to Hall about seeing his new video on MTV that anyone senses that in their midst is a gifted artist whose work is helping open a door to 21st century pop. Studying the shaved head and thin frame, a shopper whispers to his friend, "It's Michael Stipe".
Moby — as Hall is better known to most of us — may be anonymous in a crowd, but he has much of the pop world enthralled. If Bono were looking for a running mate in his campaign to save the world, Moby would be the one. The New Yorker is smart, talented and opinionated, as quick to write letters to the editor to express his views on social issues as he is to write essays in his album booklets about everything from the virtues of a vegan diet to the dangers of religious intolerance. There is also a warm, spiritual component to his music that shares U2's uplifting faith in the goodness of man.
His music is a liberating merger of classic blues, gospel and rock elements with the forward-thinking world of samplers and computers.
It's music that seems to incorporate the best of
decades of pop emotion into tracks that are fresh and affecting.
A specific track from Play, his 1999 album, demonstrates how Moby works. Why Does My Heart Feel so Bad is an expression of longing that is as gripping as any of the classic '60s and '70s soul hits, such as Percy Sledge's When a Man Loves a Woman or Al Green's Tired of Being Alone. When you think of those old songs, what really stands out in your memory is the title phrase and the deeply emotional vocal. Moby combs through hundreds of blues and gospel and pop recordings for a vocal moment that touches him, and then he tries to create new music that places the vocal line in an original and absorbing setting.
There are those who have come to believe that Moby is a visionary with the answers to many of the questions dogging a pop world besieged by declining fan loyalty and an absence of clear musical direction. "Moby epitomises the post-millennial downtown sensibility," says Vanity Fair's New York-based scenester George Wayne. "If Warhol were still with us, he would have been cosying up to Moby as his best new friend."
One reason Moby is suspected of having special insight is an innovative marketing campaign that turned his last album, Play, into an international best-seller. Rather than turn to radio, which had been cool to Moby's music in the past, he and his advisers reached potential fans by putting his songs in dozens of movies and commercials.
But it's an illusion to think that he or anyone else has figured out the secrets of hit making, and Moby understands that better than most. That's why he's trying to improve his chances of another hit by launching his new album, 18, with a five-month promotional blitz that has taken in about 750 radio, TV and press interviews. He will soon begin a 15-month concert tour to further promote the album.
Rather than the all-knowing figure often portrayed by the media, Moby has the same deeply rooted insecurities of most pop stars. "Pathological low self-esteem" is a phrase he often employs.
"I feel I have to work 10 times harder than anyone else because I felt so inadequate growing up," he says as he unwraps the seitan sandwich in the back seat of a four-wheel drive that is taking him to the next in a long line of radio interviews. "Feeling out of place is one of the things that drove me to fall in love with music in the first place, which is true of a lot of musicians, isn't
it? There's not a lot of precedent for well-adjusted, normal musicians going on to make great records.
"When fans ask how to succeed as a musician, my answer is harsh. I tell them not to do anything else. Most people aren't willing to do that — drop out of college, forsake relationships, anything that distracts you from your music. I'm different."
And so is his music. Moby played in punk bands as a teen, but later became fascinated with disco and electronica sounds. Over thousands of hours spent alone in his home recording studio, he came to realise the only thing that mattered was the final product. It doesn't matter if he sings the vocal or samples it from an existing record. It doesn't matter if the song has extensive lyrics or just keeps repeating a phrase. It doesn't matter if he plays the instruments or crafts sounds through synthesisers. His only allegiance is to the sound that finally comes out of the speakers.
"If you look at the history of pop music, any interesting genre is predicated on breaking taboos," he says. "What's ironic is the people who break the taboos usually go on to erect new ones. I've seen it with two of my favorite musicians. Brian Eno, one of my musical heroes, was complaining recently about the lack of real musicianship in popular music, and he's someone who started out making noise on a Moog synthesiser. Keith Richards yelled at me because he thought my sampling old blues recordings as wrong. I kept my mouth shut, but my first reaction was, here is one of those white kids from England covering and ripping off old blues records in the '60s. How dare you criticise me?"
Because he spends so much time on the road, Moby travels light. On this West Coast swing, he has just a backpack that holds books and his laptop, which he uses to post a daily journal on his Web site. He's got some T-shirts and jeans, which pretty much define his fashion choices, in a duffel bag. Both bags fit conveniently in the overhead bin on the flight from San Jose to LA.
Moby also doesn't appear to need much in terms of material goods. Despite the fortune he's made since Play, which has sold more than 10 million copies around the world, he still lives in the same relatively modest apartment in lower Manhattan, and his biggest splurge since the album's success, he says, was a $US10,000 Christmas party he threw last year.
His spartan lifestyle may be a reflection of his semi-hippie upbringing or simply another sign of his insecurity. Moby's father was a Columbia University teaching assistant who was so prone to depression that his death in a car accident when Moby was two has long been considered a likely suicide. After his father died, Moby's mother worked at various secretarial jobs, often relying on food stamps to supplement her income. It was a traumatic time, Moby says, because he felt so out of step with the rest of the families in the wealthy suburb in which they lived.
"There's just that feeling of always knowing I was poor and my friends were wealthy," says Moby, an only child. "It was being raised by a single parent who smoked pot and painted and played music, while my friends' parents were executives and housewives.
"I'm not complaining. I love the circumstances of my upbringing. But at the time I hated them. I desperately wanted to have the normal family with the father who made a lot of money and nice house and nice clothes. I longed for normalcy."
Moby found comfort in music. A subscriber to Rolling Stone magazine at 13, he found it reassuring that many of the artists who featured in its pages also came from difficult childhoods. "It made me feel there was a place for me too."
After leaving the University of Connecticut, where he studied philosophy for a couple of years, Moby, who took piano and guitar lessons as a child, began searching for that place. In 1989, he moved to New York City, where he worked as a club DJ at night and recorded his own music during the day.
Barry Taylor, Moby's co-manager for a decade, says the musician has always been a hard worker. "He's basically the same person I met 11 years ago," says the former rock journalist. "He was never into material comforts. When we started working with him, he didn't have running water in his old apartment, but he was happy because he was making music."
Although Taylor and his partner, Marci Weber, always saw Moby as someone who could reach a wider pop audience beyond the dance-music world, it took years for them to prove the point.
Moby made some acclaimed records, including the 1991 dance hit Go and the 1994 album Everything Is Wrong. But sales were slow and Moby started to think a change of labels might help jump-start his career. He worked out a release from Elektra Records in 1997, but it took months to find any other label interest.
"It was a very debilitating time," Taylor says. "When we couldn't get a record contract for Play I didn't want Moby to think it was because there was something wrong with the music. I kept stressing that record companies make their decisions based on things other than the music."
Even after he got a new record deal (with V2, the label Richard Branson launched after selling Virgin), Moby felt so beaten down that he was sure the album was going to be another commercial failure. He walked around his neighbourhood the night before its release, thinking about going back to school to study architecture.
Taylor and Weber, however, set about trying to place the Play music in films and commercials, something they had done with some success on earlier Moby recordings. To attract the attention of the film community, Moby performed at the Sundance Film Festival in 1999. The campaign resulted in songs from Play being licensed for films, TV shows and commercials — everything from The Beach to X-Files to ads for American Express and Adidas.
It's no wonder industry observers think Moby and his team are marketing masters. Even though Moby now has radio on his side, Taylor knows there's no guarantee that 18 will come close to Play's sales.
"This business isn't a formula," he says. "It's like the lottery each time out with a record. Moby isn't taking anything for granted. He's only had one vacation in the last five years. He went to an island for a week, but he's on the phone to me the second day saying he needs to get back to work."
In making 18, Moby listened to hundreds of records searching for vocal lines — often just two or three words — that moved him. When he found one, he listened to it over and over while playing different accompanying chords on the piano to build a new musical setting for it. Sometimes the process led to dead ends. He estimates he has pieces of 3000 recordings stored in his studio.
When I ask him to walk me through the creation of a track on 18, he chooses In My Heart, one of the songs in the gospel-driven style of Why Does My Heart Feel So Bad, one of the highlights from Play. The spirited solo on In My Heart is by a member of the Shining Light Gospel Choir.
"He's singing in C major," Moby says as he begins reconstructing the recording. "If I play C major or G major or F major, it has a very wholesome, calm, uplifting quality. I play something in A minor, it becomes very sad. E minor would be even more disturbingly sad. D minor, very mournful. It's just basic music theory and it's how I start. I'll keep playing things until something feels right, then I'll add some rudimentary drums, sometimes sampled, sometimes with a drum machine, sometimes live. Then I'll add other instruments."
Although the bulk of the tracks are done in this form, Moby sometimes brings in vocalists to join him (Angie Stone and Sinead O'Connor are among the guests on 18), and he sometimes sings himself, as on the new single We Are All Made of Stars, a song with an everyman optimism reminiscent of David Bowie's Heroes.
The new album doesn't break ground the way Play did, so it may not be as acclaimed. But the album extends the discoveries of Play in ways both pleasing and joyful.
"I've softened as the years have gone on," Moby says when asked about the gentle, reassuring tone of the new album. "I want people to feel cared for. I wanted to reach out to people, even take care of them a bit. There are some people for whom music can be inadvertent background music. For others, music can be an integral part of their life, and that's who I'm trying to reach because I'm one of those people."
Moby speaks vaguely about getting married and having kids some day, but it doesn't seem very convincing. He's got a network of friends, but everything seems secondary to his work. By most standards, he pursues his art and career with almost monastic devotion. Even when he isn't recording at home, he is usually content pursing his solitary passions of reading, watching films and visiting museums.
"When I was growing up, I thought my ultimate happiness would be tied to some exclusive relationship with a monogamous partner," he says. "But at some point, I stopped feeling that way. I became so thrilled by the fact that I could make music,
I felt that anything else would distract me from what I was trying to do.
"If I spend a week in the studio working obsessively on music, there is a good chance nothing good will come of it. But if I don't spend a week in the studio working obsessively on music, I know nothing good is going to come of it."
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Buffalo's Friendly Taverns Of Years Gone By [VIDEO]
I have always said that the best places to have a drink are the "mom and pop" bars. I am talking about the neighborhood gin mills which seem to be disappearing from the Western New York landscape. Back in the early 1900's, Buffalo was home to probably thousands of these small taverns where the drinks were cheap and the people were friendly.
I found this video of the R & L Lounge which could very well be one of the last of the old fashioned "shot & beer" joints. Let Ronnie pour you an old school drink at this classic Polish tavern. One of the most unique places that remain of "Old Buffalo." Located in the Historic Polonia District, only 2 miles from Niagara Square in Downtown Buffalo. 23 Mills Street, Buffalo, New York.
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Without a league victory in 2003, Hibs would celebrate this icebreaker without a trace of guilt over the prosaic manner of its achievement. Tom McManus's early strike was one of only two genuine scoring attempts the visitors produced in 90 minutes, but, in truth, the home side were no more coherent or incisive in the matter of carrying menace to their opponents' goal.
There cannot be many venues outside Firhill at which Hibs appear capable of scoring while not playing especially impressively. Even their own ground at Easter Road rarely yields the kind of improbable rewards they appear to enjoy at the home of Partick Thistle.
Having won 3-0 on their previous visit last October, the Edinburgh side on this occasion managed to contrive a goal that was utterly exceptional in construction and execution on their only threatening attack of the entire first half.
This is not to suggest that Thistle had swarmed all over them - in fact, there was a monotonous balance to the general play, largely confined to midfield - but there had been no hint from their earlier attempts at moving forward that they could deliver as McManus did.
It was John O'Neill who began the move by prodding the ball to Mixu Paatelainen, the muscular Finn relaying it on to Mathias Jack. Moving forward purposefully, the German midfielder threaded an impeccable pass through a collection of defenders to the running McManus, the ball so perfectly measured that the striker was able to drill it right-footed past Kenny Arthur from 12 yards without an instant of hesitation.
But Thistle have made their way to the Premierleague and remained there on the back of unflagging industriousness, and their willingness to commit themselves energetically to regaining parity was hardly a surprise. What was also predictable, however, was the difficulties the home side would encounter in trying to find space in the vicinity of Nick Colgan.
Typically, the Hibs goal keeper was not required to work until Alex Burns produced a very dangerous drive from outside the area. Hitting the ball on the turn, the forward sent it low to the goalkeeper's right, requiring a quick dive from Colgan to deflect it for a corner kick.
David Lilley would have a similar try soon after, this time the ball passing outside the post, before Martin Nardie's more exhilarating attempt. Burns ran hard to reach the ball wide on the Thistle right and played it back between Gary Smith and Janos Matyus to Hardie. The Thistle player's measured left-foot chip from the edge of the penalty area curled just over the junction of crossbar and post. But, despite earning the bulk of the possession, the home side were largely cumbersome and sluggish in their attempts at beating Colgan.
Even when Hardie was offered an extraordinary opportunity, the Hibs goalkeeper once again frustrated him. Hardie appeared at the far post to receive a header from Gerry Britton from the left side of the penalty area, but, from only three yards' range, he drove the ball against Colgan. This was at least an improvement on the earlier attempt by Burns, in that he put the ball between the posts and under the bar.
When Stephen Craigan's long throw from the right was headed down to Burns by Mathias Doumbe, the Thistle striker, almost swaying backwards, scooped it yards too high from about 10 yards. The main difficulty both teams most regularly suffered was actually keeping the ball in play. It was an indicator of the generally moderate standard that players should spend so much of the time retrieving it from beyond the touchlines.
The introduction of Gary O'Connor to the Hibs attack in place of the tiring, ageing Paatelainen should have brought a renewal of energy in that area, but the ball was too infrequently played to the substitute for anyone to tell. But, by replacing McManus with another striker, Derek Riordan, after 80 minutes, Bobby Williamson, the Hibs manager, at least made a declaration of his willingness to hunt for a second goal.


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Commander-In-Chief Tattoos Are Like, Pretty Cool: Miley Cyrus has been known to quote Albert Einstein and Buddha on her Twitter and now the 19-year-old newly engaged star has permanently quoted a President Theodore Roosevelt speech from 1910 on her body. "So that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat," Miley's ink on her left forearm reads. Other Miley tattoos include a Native American dream catcher on her rib cage and an evil eye symbol on her finger. Check out Miley's presidential tat, HERE!
PLAY IT NOW: Liam Hemsworth's 'Hunger Games' Premiere
"Potter" Stars Split, Is Zac Efron's Ex Moving In?: "Harry Potter" stars Bonnie Wright (who played Ginny Weasley) and Jamie Campbell Bower (Gellert Grindelwald and also vampire Caius in "The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 1 & 2") have called it quits, People reported. The former couple announced their engagement in April 2010. Following the split, Jamie and "Mirror Mirror" star Lily Collins (who was previously linked to Zac Efron and is the daughter of musician Phil Collins) were spotted holding hands. Check out the possible new duo, HERE!
Kellan Dundee!: "Twilight Saga" star Kellan Lutz has a new friend - one who is green, scaly and likes to be carried on the actor's back. Check out the actor chilling with an alligator on his WhoSay page, HERE!
VIEW THE PHOTOS: Miley Cyrus & Liam Hemsworth: Young Hollywood's Hot Power Couple
Back To Middle Earth!: Comic-Con is just hours away and Entertainment Weekly has a first look at "The Scroll' from "The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey"! Dwarves, elves, evil wolves and Gandalf talking to a bear, oh my! Check out the very cool glimpse into the upcoming "Lord of the Rings" prequel, HERE!
-- Jesse Spero
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Easter Stamped Cookie Cutters
Great for your holiday sugar cookies! A bunny, egg, basket and chick.
Edible art by Elenis NY. Beautiful easter cookies in every shape size and form, all deeeeelicious!Tags: food, cookies, baked goods, Easter, sugar cookies, elenisAdded 7 Years Ago from Elenis
Want to impress someone with a really great Easter gift? Check out these gorgeous Easter cookies available from Costco. Hand decorated and beautifully arrayed, they look truly exquisite.


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Registered Charity no. 1127806
The Playing for Success Programme provided study support for local school children aged 10 – 14. Participants attended weekly after school sessions, taking part in a range of activities designed to raise standards in Numeracy and Literacy, through the use of ICT.
Participants got the chance to use state of the art ICT equipment in a modern classroom environment, and the latest teaching techniques to help them improve their grades and attitude to learning. By working independently and as part of a team, students completed a range of inspirational tasks, many based around football, using the unique setting of the Loftus Road Stadium as an interactive learning resource. A module option system enabled programmes to be personalised to the needs of each school group. Some of the activities on offer included budgeting in the QPR Superstore, performing and analysing fitness tests, creative writing, match reports, researching & creating player profiles, and music making.
Pre and post assessments were used to show the impact of the programme on participants' academic progress, motivation, and attitude to learning. Each young person completing the programme was asked for their feedback on a range of factors, with the results used to identify strengths and target areas of improvement.
On completion of the programme a selection of young people were given the opportunity to return to the centre as Peer Mentors. Pupils acting as peer mentors are able to develop new skills through offering one-to-one support, help deliver sessions, act as role models, and assist with the organization and running of events. The Peer Mentors were able to accredit their hours by working towards the ASDAN Youth Challenge / Youth Achievement Awards.
During the final week of the programme participants attend a presentation afternoon, giving young people, staff, and parents a chance to celebrate success. Participants are presented with certificates and prizes, and where possible the event is supported by QPR players.


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Product Bulletin, No. 936
Catalyst 8540MSR Four-Port OC-12c ATM Module
Cisco Systems, Inc., is announcing the introduction of a new series of high-density, high-speed ATM modules for the Catalyst® 8540 multiservice switch router (MSR) platform. This product bulletin explains the features and benefits of the new four-port OC-12c ATM module and compares it to the existing LightStream® 1010 OC-12c port adapter module (PAM). These high-density ATM interface modules provide four OC-12c ATM ports on a single line card for the Catalyst 8540MSR. They are available in both multimode and single-mode fiber(SMF) intermediate-reach (IR) versions. The modules are available through all distribution channels and are now shipping.
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Catalyst 8540 four-port OC-12c/STM4c MMF
Catalyst 8540 four-portOC-12c/STM4c MMF (spare)
Catalyst 8540 four-port OC-12c SMF-IR
Catalyst 8540 four-port OC-12 c SMF-IR (spare)
Catalyst 8540 High-Density ATM Interface Modules Series
The Catalyst 8540 high-density ATM interfaces allow the full bandwidth capacity of the Catalyst 8540MSR to be utilized. The 4-port OC-12c modules described here are complemented by the new 16-port OC-3 module. The 4-port OC-12c card is ideal for highly meshed, high-bandwidth backbone connectivity. These cards also allow unprecedented switch density for OC-12 LAN Emulation/Multiprotocol over ATM (LANE/MPOA) connections.
Comparison of the Catalyst 8540MSR High-Density Port Adapters and the LightStream 1010 PAMs
The existing LightStream 1010 PAMs can be deployed in the Catalyst 8540MSR by using the Super-CAM. This scenario protects customer investment in existing technology and allows a wide assortment of interfaces implemented today. This approach does not, however, take advantage of the full slot bandwidth capacity of the Catalyst 8540MSR.
The new high-density modules address this issue by providing port densities that match the slot capacity of the Catalyst 8540MSR. The new four-port OC-12c module allows for a maximum of 32 OC-12c ports to be installed in a single chassis.


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In this week's show, Camila Ruz meets Blanca Huertas, the Lepidoptera curator at London's Natural History Museum, to learn about the museum's Sensational Butterflies exhibition.
And Camila discovers the wonders of a leaf-cutter ant colony when she meets naturalist George McGavin who presents Planet Ant, part of the BBC 4's Alien Nation series exploring the worlds insects.
Also we have a round-up of this week's science and environment news when Camila is joined by Adam Vaughan, editor of environmentguardian.co.uk, and by Dr Emily Sidonie Grossman, maths and science tutor, expert in cell biology and genetics focused on cancer research. The panel discuss the change in UK government policy which means climate change is no longer obligatory in the geography curriculum, what new research tells us about the mysterious giant squid and Britain ponders "three-person embryos" to combat genetic diseases.


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Regional Reviews: Boston
Also see Suzanne's review of Breath, Boom
The world premiere of Arthur Laurents' 2 Lives represents an unusual collaboration between two Boston theatres. Some months ago the Lyric Stage Company, one of Boston's well-entrenched smaller theatres, was approached by Nicholas Martin, Artistic Director of the much larger and better-endowed Huntington Theatre. Martin was looking for an appropriate, intimate space to direct a regional production of Laurents' play as a prelude to Lincoln Center (now proposed for July, 2004). Everyone benefits from Artistic Director Spiro Veloudos' decision to make 2 Lives part of the Lyric's regular season.
This play is an intriguing semi-autobiographical story of a septuagenarian playwright named Matt Singer. As played by actor Tom Aldredge, a Broadway mainstay for the last four decades, Matt isn't nearly as cocksure as Laurents comes across in person. And at 75, Aldredge isn't as spry as the amazingly fit 84-year-old Laurents either.
Tom Aldredge, Elizabeth Wilson and James Sutorius
Photo by Maryann Zschau
Matt is rejuvenated by the prospects of a Broadway production of his new play in the offing from Leo Kondracki, a movie mogul dabbling as a theatrical producer. Leo is deliciously portrayed by Boston actor Jeremiah Kissel as a thinly disguised (albeit somewhat thinner) Scott Rudin.
The true inspiration for the writing spurt and the reason for the serenity and spirituality Matt has come to feel later in life is Howard, his partner of 35 years. Based on Laurents' real life partner, a successful Long Island real estate developer and landscaper, he's disarmingly represented here by James Sutorius.
For details of the real people, check out Laurents' 2000 autobiography Original Story By: A Memoir of Broadway and Hollywood. It's a good read. But for an inspired take on friendship, love, art and sex go see what's been put on stage.
In a divergence from the facts, Laurents' imagines the unimaginable. A few days short of his 65th birthday, Howard drops dead, sending the household of weekend guests, family and long-term employees into a tailspin. Matt opts for denial; Kondracki withdraws his commitment to the play.
What's so intriguing about 2 Lives is not that it's based on real people and real events, but that it offers a heartfelt glimpse into the roots, blossoming and nurturing of a mature and enduring love partnership.
Set entirely in a hidden park tamed from its natural, unruly state by Howard's care and patience into something fruitful and lasting, the garden provides a personal oasis that Matt can chose to invite others into or not. Laurents treads on this metaphor lightly; designer James Noone is much too literal with the dyed green Flokati carpet underfoot. Better to trust our imaginations to fill in the magic of this place.
At this point, there's a lot of flotsam and jetsam thrown in with the flora and fauna of the play. Much as I love Elizabeth Wilson, she's a bit too robust for Howard's mother, a woman in her nineties. The ditties she sings when she can't think of what she wants to say are intrusive, a missed opportunity to provide a picaresque comment on the goings on.
The others who make an appearance can be pruned and cultivated. Houseguests Willi and Nerissa (Susan Kellermann and Cigdem Onat) provide an amusing glimpse into the difficulty of maintaining old friendships and admitting new ones into a "life of 2" that has so carefully weeded out the complications over the years. (Local designers could take a lesson from the drape and fit of the costumes provided for these two women by Theoni V. Aldredge.)
Late in the play Nerissa offers a counter argument to the grieving Matt that art, in and of itself, can fulfill a life. If the seeds of that idea were planted earlier on, the point could flower in the end and better serve the play.
The much younger local couple Matt and Howard have absorbed into their lives offers a welcome generational and social contrast. The simple, honest reaction of Scooter and Meryanne (Michael Kaye and Helen McElwain) to every event underscores the duplicity of everyone else. These young people also want what they want and need what they need, but not at the expense of Matt and Howard whom they look up to, respect and love.
Laurents comes perilously close to making us own up to the terror inherent in the idea of suddenly losing one's life partner. Working against our giving over to that realization is the encapsulation of events into a single weekend. Admittedly, no one would want these particular houseguests to linger, but Matt's dilemma needs to unfold over a longer period of time for it to be absorbed by him and by us. I trust this is what these folks are here in Boston to figure out.
2 Lives presented by the Lyric Stage Company in association with the Huntington Theatre now through April 12th Performances are Tuesdays through Sundays at the Lyric Stage Company, 140 Clarendon St. (Copley Square), Boston, Mass (in the YWCA Building, 2nd floor.) For tickets and information: (617) 437-7172 or online at www.lyricstage.com.
- Suzanne Bixby


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The Lupus Research Institute (LRI) announced findings of studies by two lupus scientists demonstrating the power of its innovative strategy to drive discovery in lupus by backing potentially groundbreaking ideas that are typically too early or too novel for mainstream support.
Novel Drug Candidate May Block Lupus' Attack on the Brain
Dr. Betty Diamond at Feinstein Institute of Medical Research in New York came to LRI determined to find out why 4 out of 5 people with lupus have some type of neuropsychiatric difficulty. She discovered a particular type of antibody in lupus patients that can kill nerve cells in the brain. Working with colleagues at Feinstein, Dr. Diamond has now gone on to discover a potential drug to counteract these antibodies and possibly block lupus from attacking the brain. The Feinstein team will share a $571,610 NIH grant with Biomedical Research Models Inc. to test the molecule to see if it is safe for clinical trials with patients.
We'll keep you posted on her progress…
Why Does Lupus Discriminate Against African Americans?
Finding which genes may predispose African Americans to lupus was the focus of a proposal to LRI from Dr. Timothy Niewold at University of Chicago Medical Center. Confirming his original hypothesis, he has shown that African-American patients carry genes that cause them to produce higher levels of a critical molecule driving lupus progression. On the basis of this LRI-funded work, Dr. Niewold just received nearly $2 million from the National Institutes of Health for further study. His goal is for this knowledge to help personalize treatment for patients. We congratulate him on this grant and look forward to seeing his results.
Margaret Dowd, President, Lupus Research Institute
About the LRI
The world's leading private supporter of innovative research in lupus, the LRI champions scientific risk-taking in the hunt for solutions to this complex and dangerous autoimmune disease.
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I had a chin implant via intra-oral surgery. It's been 2 wks, and my chin is still largely swollen. It sticks out in an unnaturally disproportionate manner. My doctors says I'm still swelling. I understand patience is key, but I'm worried: Is significant swelling after 15 days normal? What's abnormal?
Significant Swelling 15 Days After Chin Implant - Is This Normal?
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Significant swelling two weeks after chin implant may mean infection.
Without an examination, a definitive answer is impossible, but "significant" swelling sounds worrisome to me, especially when the issue is an implant placed via a bacteria-contaminated route. I am sure your surgeon has done many chin implants via this incision without problem, but in general, the intraoral approach has a higher likelihood of infection than the submental incision (below the chin). Even if you are taking antibiotics (if prescribed, they were likely only for a few doses post-op) you can develop an infection around your chin implant.
If your implant is infected, more or stronger antibiotics may be prescribed, but your implant will most likely need to be removed, the infection treated and resolved, the affected tissues healed and scar tissue softened, and the implant replaced.
So, yes, this CAN be serious, and your concern warrants continuing to see your surgeon for advice regarding this. If things are getting better (albeit slowly), trust your doctor and be patient!
Learn more: http://www.mpsmn.com/html/other-face-procedures.html#chin-implants
Swelling can be normal after chin implant
Dear Plunge
First and foremost, if you are concerned with the swelling, call your surgeon so your healing can be checked.
The process of healing can take months.
- If your surgeon believes that the swelling is normal and doesn't represent fluid or infection, then:
- it is not uncommon for slight temporary numbness around the chin implant for weeks after surgery..
Having some numbness of the chin can make your chin feel more swollen
- (Just like our lips feel big after a dentist numbs a tooth)
Best Wishes
Swelling after implant
Significant swelling may mean one thing to you and a different thing to someone else so visual inspection is a must. Swelling 2 wks after a chin implant is to be expected, an increase in swelling two weeks after is not, if there is redness or pain I would go back to your Doctor. If you want a second opinion find a qualified specialist.
Dr Siegel
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Swelling after Chin Implant
Learn more: http://www.drclevens.com/face/facial_implants.htm
Swelling after chin augmentation is normal....
Swelling is very normal after having a chin augmentation. However a lot of the swelling goes away by two weeks. It is possible that you may need a smaller implant, but you should give it at least two months before you decide that. Patients heal at their own pace, so your swelling may just be taking a little longer to subside. If redness is present, it may be developing an infection, so I'd recommend seeing your surgeon so he can thouroughly examine you. Be sure to discuss all of your concerns.
Prolonged swelling after chin augmentation
it is difficult to offer specific advice without a picture but swelling for up to 3 weeks after chin augmentation can be normal
Learn more: http://www.bodysculptor.com/
Chin Implant
Prologed swelling can indicate infection.
Consult a BOARD CERTIFIED PLASTIC SURGEON (AMERICAN BOARD OF PLASTIC SURGERY) ASAP
These answers are for educational purposes and should not be relied upon as a substitute for medical advice you may receive from your physician. If you have a medical emergency, please call 911. These answers do not constitute or initiate a patient/doctor relationship.


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Discovered that once again RNA extraction failed.Gel showed no trace of cDNA as all samples were the same length, both controls and samples from RT-PCR. First two lanes are G & C primers, middle is ladder, and last two lanes are S &C primers. Decided to insert DNA into T-plasmid vector. Purified our PCR product using QIAquick kit. Ran another gel to see if purification succeeded.