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Pennsylvania chain rebranding as consumers protest; BP station owners may sue over gas pricing.
NEW YORK -- As U.S. consumers vent their frustration over the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico by launching demonstrations and speaking out online, some retailers are evaluating their gas brand choice, according to published reports.
Several U.S. groups, including consumer watchdog Public Citizen and Vermont-based Democracy for America, have called for a BP boycott. And social networking sites are becoming a place where consumers can speak out against the situation or join groups advocating for boycotts and other causes, the report stated.
"People are posting their anger and frustration on their own personal newsfeeds," Karen North, director of the Annenberg Online Communities program at the University of Southern California, said in the report. "But in terms of people coming together as part of a collective effort, if it's there, I haven't seen that much of it. And that might be because people aren't sure what the right bandwagon is to join."
Seize BP, a campaign urging the U.S. government to seize BP's assets and redistribute them to those damaged by the spill, is planning a week of demonstrations in all 50 states at gas stations and BP offices, according to the Reuters report. The campaign is gaining ground on Facebook, where at least five groups with a total of more than 8,000 members were advocating this cause as of Thursday.
A spoof Twitter feed, BPGlobalPR, meanwhile, purports to be the oil company's online persona. The satirical feed has more than 114,000 followers, compared to the official BP_America feed, which had less than 10,000 on Thursday, Reuters reported.
Meanwhile, the unrest over the failed cleanup efforts is hitting the convenience store industry. Philipsburg, Pa.-based Snappy's Convenience Stores decided to debrand three of its BP-branded stations in Bald Eagle, Philipsburg and State College, and switch to an unbranded banner, the Altoona Mirror reported.
"We are debranding BP. We will no longer be associated with BP by the end of the month. We are doing this because of the backlash and bad publicity from the handling of BP's catastrophe," Sean Lay, vice president of operations, said in the report. "We don't want to be associated with them any more. We've had enough."
The chain has noticed a slight drop in business at the locations that sell BP products, he said.
"We want people to know we don't own BP. We want to make sure we are politically correct, and that is why we are separating ourselves from BP," Lay added. "We want to focus on the positive things we have done over the past 15 years."
And Snappy's is not the only fuel retailer to feel the heat.
"We are starting to see some impact so far, and a percent of decline or two can have a dramatic impact," Tom Kloza, chief oil analyst at the independent New Jersey-based Oil Price Information Service, said in the Reuters report. "Unfortunately, it has an impact on what you might say are the victims: the marketers and the dealers that made commitments to fly the BP flag."
He noted that historically, energy boycotts have had minimal impact on the parent companies' revenues.
In other BP news, a group of BP gas station and convenience store owners in Massachusetts are dealing with two blows to their business -- high prices and consumer fallout due to the spill -- and are considering filing a lawsuit, the Patriot-Ledger reported.
Station owner Maurice Succar noticed fewer drivers pulling into his location before the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.
"I've been running the station 15 years. I can't last anymore," Succar said in the report, noting his station pumped half its usual volume last month.
The root of the problem stems from the fuel's price per gallon, according to the report. The retailers are required to sell the company's fuel at prices too high to be competitive, Warren Kirshenbaum, an attorney hired to represent the station owners, told the newspaper.
Fifty to 75 Getty, Lukoil and BP stations have partnered and they have instructed Kirshenbaum to file a lawsuit. The attorney blames BP's local fuel distributor, Green Valley Oil, for setting prices that average 10 cents to 15 cents per gallon higher than what competitors are charging, the report stated.
"I think they're trying to manipulate the market," Kirshenbaum said in the report.
Green Valley, a limited-liability company located in Providence, R.I., reached a deal with BP Products North America Inc. to convert 235 Getty stations in New England into BP stations, with Green Valley paying a commission to stations that sell its fuel. Succar's station, though, has seen its commission payments plummet along with its sales volume, according to the report.
In a letter to Green Valley, Kirshenbaum accused the company and its partners of "price manipulation" and said Green Valley was "protecting its own revenues" by requiring set monthly lease payments based on "pre-contractual volume estimates."
In a May 12 response, Green Valley denied that it had manipulated prices. In the letter, Green Valley attorney Gary W. Smith stressed that gasoline prices are constantly in flux and vary from company to company.
"Contrary to the suggestion in your letter, Green Valley has no incentive to limit the sale of its gasoline at the retail level," Smith wrote in the letter cited by the paper. "As a distributor, Green Valley is in the business of selling gasoline and it has every incentive to sell more gasoline."
In Massachusetts, the price of unleaded regular gas averaged $2.76 per gallon, according to a survey by AAA Southern New England that was cited by the Ledger. Succar's BP station was charging $2.85 for regular last week, while down the street, a competitor was selling a gallon for 11 cents less.
"If they say $2.85 and I put $2.84, I have to pay that other penny from my own pocket," Succar said in the report.
His station usually sells 140,000 to 170,000 gallons of gas a month, but in May, it sold only 78,000 gallons, he told the paper.
Two Green Vally executives, Edward J. Janoski Jr. of Sandwich and Joel A. Despres of Providence, did not return phone calls to the paper. Smith declined to comment as well.
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The forage field day at the Russell Hackley farm featured a story going back to the fall of 1971 when Russell seeded a new variety of fescue in cooperation with University of Kentucky College of Agriculture of a farm forage trial. That trial began the many years of research that moved Russell towards a totally endophyte free grazing program. He markets all of his forage production through grazing gains on stocker cattle. He manages his pastures with an intense rotational grazing system that allows him to maximize pounds of beef per acre of forage. Over 75 producers attended the program sponsored by the Grayson County Cattlemen's Association and the Grayson County Extension Service. The evening program consisted of comparisons of Russell's Stocker Grazing $"s per Acre and Jack's cow/calf Grazing $'s per Acre forage base and fertility program. Fescue research specialist Dr. Tim Phillips, discussed Novel Fescues value and importance as we establish new pastures. Dr. Ray Smith and Dr. Garry Lacefield discussed Forage, Fence and Water on the pasture tour. Feedback from producers has indicated that there was a valuable information exchange created. One producer has already come to the Extension office and developed a plan and went into immediate action to establish a novel fescue seeding for this fall.
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Description: So watching various YouTube videos on the diverse processes of artists, inspired me to paint in my own style, compiled from the many I've seen. As an artist, it's crucial to develop your own style to stand out from the crowd. In this new dragon tutorial, I will show you the painting process on how I colored my dragon digitally, plus, a few tip steps on the many customizations of a dragon's features. For the coloring part, I'd recommend getting yourself a digital painting program like Corel Painter 12 or Photoshop CS3. Whatever the case, practicing and watching others paint and draw is probably the best way. You learn so much just by watching, and by just 'doing it', you will advance as an artist faster than you know it. Anyways, I had so much fun experimenting with this, I hope you guys will enjoy my tutorial on 'how to draw a dragon', step by step. Enjoy and have fun!
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Description: Starting from the head shape you just drew in step one, you will begin sketching out the snout of the dragon, all the way up to the forehead and back jaw line up near where the temple is going to be. Add a small horn on the snout like so, as well as some pointed frills on top of the head.
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Description: There's many types of snouts to customize your dragon in. I like to range the mouths and teeth for my creations because it adds contrast to the overall creature. Just keep in mind, dragons with an abundance of angular features will always look violent and vicious. A dragon with rounded features will seem soft and neutral. The first style is the typical teeth style. The second style are for dragons with age. The third style is for a more wild, reptilian feature that will definitely create an evil look. Switch it up and reference as much as possible!
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Description: You will now begin sketching out the brow of your dragon. Notice how it is arched high, and well defined once you add the inner lid of the eye under the brow like you see here. The ends of the brow also have some spiked tips.
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Description: Next up, draw the shape of the dragon's eye and be sure that the upper lid is nice and bold as well as defined and realistic. Make the detailed lining under the eye which is also the cheek. Make some definition lining around the edge of the muzzle too.
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Description: It's now time to draw out the entire jaw structure for your new dragon creation. If you notice, the jaw and or structure of the whole shape sort of reminds you of a dinosaur. Sketch in the long, thick slithering tongue, then add the sharp teeth on the left side of the jaw or gum line.
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Description: You will now begin drawing the rest of the dragons teeth for both the upper and lower parts of the gum line and or jaw. Once the teeth is drawn in, you will also need to sketch out the membrane tissue that is stretched as the dragon has his mouth roaring.
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Description: Lastly for this drawing step, draw in the rest of the dragon's head. Notice how there is three very thick horns attached to the top in a crowning design. There is also a smaller horn on the cheek or side of the dragon's face. Sketch out the curved shape of the neck, then begin adding the last bits of detailing. Once you are satisfied with your sketch, you can begin cleaning up your work to prepare this dragon for color.
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Description: This is it. The final line art is all done. Color in the drawing using the tools of your choice. I hope you enjoyed this tutorial on drawing another dragon. Also, be sure to view the tip steps below that will aid those of you that color digitally.
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Description: I've recorded my basic progression within the overall painted piece. Please note that I am use 'Adobe Photoshop CS3' to digitally paint my drawing. Through the next three steps, I'll show you how I panted the individual details. First, I color my background a dark grey, which already presets my shadows, making it easier to paint highlights. I also make my lines lighter and empty because the painting will fill in most of the subject. Secondly, I go ahead and add a simple, light wash on areas which light will hit the dragon. As you can tell, the light source is aimed from the upper side.
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Description: Next, using a semi-bright color, I go ahead and add scales throughout the drawing in a subtle pattern. Because we're painting a dragon, they will have scales ranging in various sizes, like dinosaurs. Unlike snakes, having evened patterned scales, a dragon has a larger body mass, so scales will be randomized in size and patterns. Next, I go ahead and take a brighter color than the last, and highlight the areas which has the strongest source of light. Basically, we're shading with various tones, brighter than the last. It makes the overall process MUCH easier than initially shading with a solid bright color.
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Description: Repeating my process throughout the entire piece, I go ahead and darken the contrast by choosing 'Image > Auto Contrast'. This contrasts the overall piece to a more appropriate depth. Afterwards, I go ahead and create a new layer, set it to 'overlay' and pick pastel colors and paint over the grey-scaled painting. Eventually, it will turn out like the image next to it. I hope you guys enjoyed these short tips on 'how to color a dragon digitally'! Thanks!
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A simple short scarf featuring open work and a button closure. Compliments the uniqueness of hand died and hand spun yarns beautifully. Perfect instant gratification knitting or a project for that last minute gift.
Please note that the gauge is for the lace pattern given and is more of a guideline than a rule, any worsted weight yarn will give a similar effect.
• This scarf was made with 150g of 100% Wool from the Gulf Islands Spinning Mill but any worsted weight yarn will do.
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The concept of creating an IT infrastructure that supports and integrates social, mobile, analytics and cloud is gaining ground, and some industry experts and IT executives are convinced that the next generation of IT will revolve around SMAC components as the key foundational technologies.
"We see a lot companies focusing on one or more of these trends. But it's when they converge that it becomes really interesting," says Ed Anderson, research vice president at Gartner.
"It's like an industrial revolution of sorts, where you're achieving the digital critical mass of some key foundational elements," Anderson says. "We have this platform in cloud services that presents us with unlimited capacity of computational resources. With mobile we have this unprecedented ability to put connectivity into the hands of individuals and devices. Analytics gives us specific insights we never had before, and social media makes it all personal."
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Early morning ground mist surrounds Fischer's Tower, an ancient volcanic plug, in a region of Kenya where the latent signs of volcanic activity are still evident. The Aberdare Mountains rise in the far distance. The tower was named after a German explorer, Gustav Fischer, who was the first European to reach the area in 1883. A Grant's gazelle can be seen in the foreground.
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Gina Marie Lee and Eric Timothy Augustus were united in marriage on Sept. 21 in a double-ring ceremony at Immaculate Heart of Mary Catholic Church. The Mass was officiated by the Rev. Thomas McCann of Immaculate Heart of Mary, and the Rev. Robert Clancy of Sacred Heart of Jesus in Akron.
The bride is the daughter of Willard and Lucille Lee of Cuyahoga Falls. The bridegroom is the son of Ken and Shirley Frick of Stow.
The bride was given in marriage by her father.
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To say that the month of October 2012 was a difficult month for the market would be an understatement. One of my own priorities for this model is conservation of principal, and I am very loss averse. This sometimes has resulted in me walking away from positions that later rebounded, but I do not wish to be holding on to positions as profits and value evaporate.
During the month, I parted company with Apple (AAPL). I still like Apple, and I am sure I will be looking for a re-entry into this position, but I try to avoid depending on emotions, and rather let the stock performance dictate my own actions.
On October 1, I purchased shares of Barrett Business Services (BBSI) but sold these shares on October 9th as the market weakened. This particular stock reported strong earnings on October 23rd and the stock rebounded.
Ecolab (ECL) became a holding in this model on October 15th. The company services healthcare, foodservice, industrial and energy products with cleaning supplies.
Towards the end of the month, I closed out another favorite holding of mine as the stock showed weakness — Hibbett (HIBB) was sold October 26th. International Business Machines (IBM) was sold on October 18th, Interxion Holding NV (INXN) was sold October 25th, Lancaster (LANC) was sold on October 22nd, SolarWinds (SWI) was sold on October 18th, Transdigm (TDG) was sold October 23, and TJ Maxx (TJX) was sold October 25.
The other stock that was acquired during the month was eBay (EBAY), added to the model October 26th.
At the end of October, the Buy and Hold Model had positions in Cardtronics (CATM), Colgate (CL), Disney (DIS), eBay (EBAY), Ecolab (ECL), FleetCor Technologies (FLT), General Electric (GE), Lumber Liquidators (LL), PetSmart (PETM), SBA Communications (SBAC), The Fresh Market (TFM), and Visa (V). In addition the model had a growing holding in cash.
I offer my own thoughts and prayers to all who might have been hit by the destructive Sandy. I am afraid that financial markets may yet be hit by the effects of the real perfect storm, as well as the growing clouds of the Financial Perfect Storm, as budget sequestration, the expiring Bush tax cuts, and the debt ceiling all seem to be taking direct aim at Wall Street.
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A poll conducted for Panorama: Britain on the Brink shows seventy-five per cent public support for the UK standing "shoulder to shoulder" with the United States.
However, if Osama Bin Laden is killed, captured or handed over, more than half those questioned would not support further military action.
The poll also reveals that most British people do not feel more at risk of terrorist attack than they did before the 11 September attacks and would be unwilling to accept an influx of refugees from the region should the situation deteriorate.
The questions in the Panorama poll were:
Q1. Following the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Centre in New York and the Pentagon in Washington, Tony Blair has said that "Britain will stand shoulder to shoulder with the United States". Do you agree that Britain should stand shoulder to shoulder with the USA or do you disagree?
Agree 76%
Q2. If the Taliban hand over Bin Laden or he is killed, do you think military action should stop there?
Yes 56%
Q3. After the terrorist attacks in the USA do you fear the risks of you and your family being caught in a terrorist attack are greater, less or about the same as before?
Greater 32%
Q5. Thinking about the people you know, since the terrorist attacks in the USA do you think they are more hostile towards Muslims here in Britain, less hostile or do you think it has made no difference once way or the other? (this was asked of Non Muslims).
More 29%
Q6. If the situation in Afghanistan and Pakistan were to deteriorate over the next few weeks do you think Britain should accept more refugees from these countries or not?
Yes 28%
ICM interviewed a random sample of 1,000 adults aged 18+ on Friday 28th/Saturday 29th September. Interviews were conducted by telephone across the country and the results have been weighted to be representative of the adult population.
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Tissue-resident immune cells play a key role in local and systemic immune responses. The liver, in particular, hosts a large number of invariant natural killer T (iNKT) cells, which are involved in diverse immune responses. However, the mechanisms that regulate survival and homeostasis of liver iNKT cells are poorly defined. Here we have found that liver iNKT cells constitutively express the costimulatory TNF superfamily receptor OX40 and that OX40 stimulation results in massive pyroptotic death of iNKT cells, characterized by the release of potent proinflammatory cytokines that induce liver injury. This OX40/NKT pyroptosis pathway also plays a key role in concanavalin A–induced murine hepatitis. Mechanistically, we demonstrated that liver iNKT cells express high levels of caspase 1 and that OX40 stimulation activates caspase 1 via TNF receptor–associated factor 6–mediated recruitment of the paracaspase MALT1. We also found that activation of caspase 1 in iNKT cells results in processing of pro–IL-1β to mature IL-1β as well as cleavage of the pyroptotic protein gasdermin D, which generates a membrane pore–forming fragment to produce pyroptotic cell death. Thus, our study has identified OX40 as a death receptor for iNKT cells and uncovered a molecular mechanism of pyroptotic cell death. These findings may have important clinical implications in the development of OX40-directed therapies.
Peixiang Lan, Yihui Fan, Yue Zhao, Xiaohua Lou, Howard P. Monsour, Xiaolong Zhang, Yongwon Choi, Yaling Dou, Naoto Ishii, Rafik M. Ghobrial, Xiang Xiao, Xian Chang Li
Proinflammatory cytokine overproduction and excessive cell death, coupled with impaired clearance of apoptotic cells, have been implicated as causes of failure to resolve gut inflammation in inflammatory bowel diseases. Here we have found that dendritic cells expressing the apoptotic cell–recognizing receptor CD300f play a crucial role in regulating gut inflammatory responses in a murine model of colonic inflammation. CD300f-deficient mice failed to resolve dextran sulfate sodium–induced colonic inflammation as a result of defects in dendritic cell function that were associated with abnormal accumulation of apoptotic cells in the gut. CD300f-deficient dendritic cells displayed hyperactive phagocytosis of apoptotic cells, which stimulated excessive TNF-α secretion predominantly from dendritic cells. This, in turn, induced secondary IFN-γ overproduction by colonic T cells, leading to prolonged gut inflammation. Our data highlight a previously unappreciated role for dendritic cells in controlling gut homeostasis and show that CD300f-dependent regulation of apoptotic cell uptake is essential for suppressing overactive dendritic cell–mediated inflammatory responses, thereby controlling the development of chronic gut inflammation.
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Inborn errors of DNA repair or replication underlie a variety of clinical phenotypes. We studied 5 patients from 4 kindreds, all of whom displayed intrauterine growth retardation, chronic neutropenia, and NK cell deficiency. Four of the 5 patients also had postnatal growth retardation. The association of neutropenia and NK cell deficiency, which is unusual among primary immunodeficiencies and bone marrow failures, was due to a blockade in the bone marrow and was mildly symptomatic. We discovered compound heterozygous rare mutations in Go-Ichi-Ni-San (GINS) complex subunit 1 (
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Programmed death ligand-1 (PD-L1) interacts with programmed death-1 (PD-1) and the immunostimulatory molecule CD80 and functions as a checkpoint to regulate immune responses. The interaction of PD-L1 with CD80 alone has been shown to exacerbate the severity of graft-versus-host disease (GVHD), whereas costimulation of CD80 and PD-1 ameliorates GVHD. Here we have demonstrated that temporary depletion of donor CD4+ T cells early after hematopoietic cell transplantation effectively prevents GVHD while preserving strong graft-versus-leukemia (GVL) effects in allogeneic and xenogeneic murine GVHD models. Depletion of donor CD4+ T cells increased serum IFN-γ but reduced IL-2 concentrations, leading to upregulation of PD-L1 expression by recipient tissues and donor CD8+ T cells. In GVHD target tissues, the interactions of PD-L1 with PD-1 on donor CD8+ T cells cause anergy, exhaustion, and apoptosis, thereby preventing GVHD. In lymphoid tissues, the interactions of PD-L1 with CD80 augment CD8+ T cell expansion without increasing anergy, exhaustion, or apoptosis, resulting in strong GVL effects. These results indicate that the outcome of PD-L1–mediated signaling in CD8+ T cells depends on the presence or absence of CD4+ T cells, the nature of the interacting receptor expressed by CD8+ T cells, and the tissue environment in which the signaling occurs.
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The growth factor receptor Kit is involved in hematopoietic and nonhematopoietic development. Mice bearing
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Acute graft-versus-host disease (aGVHD) is the most common complication for patients undergoing allogeneic stem cell transplantation. Despite extremely aggressive therapy targeting donor T cells, patients with grade III or greater aGVHD of the lower GI tract, who do not respond to therapy with corticosteroids, have a dismal prognosis. Thus, efforts to improve understanding of the function of local immune and non-immune cells in regulating the inflammatory process in the GI tract during aGVHD are needed. Here, we demonstrate, using murine models of allogeneic BMT, that type 2 innate lymphoid cells (ILC2s) in the lower GI tract are sensitive to conditioning therapy and show very limited ability to repopulate from donor bone marrow. Infusion of donor ILC2s was effective in reducing the lethality of aGVHD and in treating lower GI tract disease. ILC2 infusion was associated with reduced donor proinflammatory Th1 and Th17 cells, accumulation of donor myeloid-derived suppressor cells (MDSCs) mediated by ILC2 production of IL-13, improved GI tract barrier function, and a preserved graft-versus-leukemia (GVL) response. Collectively, these findings suggest that infusion of donor ILC2s to restore gastrointestinal tract homeostasis may improve treatment of severe lower GI tract aGVHD.
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Mature B cell pools retain a substantial proportion of polyreactive and self-reactive clonotypes, suggesting that activation checkpoints exist to reduce the initiation of autoreactive B cell responses. Here, we have described a relationship among the B cell receptor (BCR), TLR9, and cytokine signals that regulate B cell responses to DNA-containing antigens. In both mouse and human B cells, BCR ligands that deliver a TLR9 agonist induce an initial proliferative burst that is followed by apoptotic death. The latter mechanism involves p38-dependent G1 cell-cycle arrest and subsequent intrinsic mitochondrial apoptosis and is shared by all preimmune murine B cell subsets and CD27– human B cells. Survival or costimulatory signals rescue B cells from this fate, but the outcome varies depending on the signals involved. B lymphocyte stimulator (BLyS) engenders survival and antibody secretion, whereas CD40 costimulation with IL-21 or IFN-γ promotes a T-bet+ B cell phenotype. Finally, in vivo immunization studies revealed that when protein antigens are conjugated with DNA, the humoral immune response is blunted and acquires features associated with T-bet+ B cell differentiation. We propose that this mechanism integrating BCR, TLR9, and cytokine signals provides a peripheral checkpoint for DNA-containing antigens that, if circumvented by survival and differentiative cues, yields B cells with the autoimmune-associated T-bet+ phenotype.
Vishal J. Sindhava, Michael A. Oropallo, Krishna Moody, Martin Naradikian, Lauren E. Higdon, Lin Zhou, Arpita Myles, Nathaniel Green, Kerstin Nündel, William Stohl, Amanda M. Schmidt, Wei Cao, Stephanie Dorta-Estremera, Taku Kambayashi, Ann Marshak-Rothstein, Michael P. Cancro
In transplantation, there is a critical need for noninvasive biomarker platforms for monitoring immunologic rejection. We hypothesized that transplanted tissues release donor-specific exosomes into recipient circulation and that the quantitation and profiling of donor intra-exosomal cargoes may constitute a biomarker platform for monitoring rejection. Here, we have tested this hypothesis in a human-into-mouse xenogeneic islet transplant model and validated the concept in clinical settings of islet and renal transplantation. In the xenogeneic model, we quantified islet transplant exosomes in recipient blood over long-term follow-up using anti-HLA antibody, which was detectable only in xenoislet recipients of human islets. Transplant islet exosomes were purified using anti-HLA antibody–conjugated beads, and their cargoes contained the islet endocrine hormone markers insulin, glucagon, and somatostatin. Rejection led to a marked decrease in transplant islet exosome signal along with distinct changes in exosomal microRNA and proteomic profiles prior to appearance of hyperglycemia. In the clinical settings of islet and renal transplantation, donor exosomes with respective tissue specificity for islet β cells and renal epithelial cells were reliably characterized in recipient plasma over follow-up periods of up to 5 years. Collectively, these findings demonstrate the biomarker potential of transplant exosome characterization for providing a noninvasive window into the conditional state of transplant tissue.
Prashanth Vallabhajosyula, Laxminarayana Korutla, Andreas Habertheuer, Ming Yu, Susan Rostami, Chao-Xing Yuan, Sanjana Reddy, Chengyang Liu, Varun Korutla, Brigitte Koeberlein, Jennifer Trofe-Clark, Michael R. Rickels, Ali Naji
Alloimmune T cell responses induce graft-versus-host disease (GVHD), a serious complication of allogeneic bone marrow transplantation (allo-BMT). Although Notch signaling mediated by Delta-like 1/4 (DLL1/4) Notch ligands has emerged as a major regulator of GVHD pathogenesis, little is known about the timing of essential Notch signals and the cellular source of Notch ligands after allo-BMT. Here, we have shown that critical DLL1/4-mediated Notch signals are delivered to donor T cells during a short 48-hour window after transplantation in a mouse allo-BMT model. Stromal, but not hematopoietic, cells were the essential source of Notch ligands during in vivo priming of alloreactive T cells. GVHD could be prevented by selective inactivation of
Jooho Chung, Christen L. Ebens, Eric Perkey, Vedran Radojcic, Ute Koch, Leonardo Scarpellino, Alexander Tong, Frederick Allen, Sherri Wood, Jiane Feng, Ann Friedman, David Granadier, Ivy T. Tran, Qian Chai, Lucas Onder, Minhong Yan, Pavan Reddy, Bruce R. Blazar, Alex Y. Huang, Todd V. Brennan, D. Keith Bishop, Burkhard Ludewig, Christian W. Siebel, Freddy Radtke, Sanjiv A. Luther, Ivan Maillard
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Date: February 22 2013
Troubled surfwear retailer Billabong has posted a $537 million first half loss and downgraded its expectations for underlying earnings in the full year.
The company also said it was continuing discussions with two parties that have made takeover offers for the company, and due diligence was scheduled to conclude at the end of March.
Billabong's net loss in the six months to December 31 compares to a $16.1 million profit in the previous corresponding period.
The result included $567 million in impairments to the company's brands and value, most of which was not in cash terms, Billabong said.
Sales revenue fell in the period as conditions remained difficult, particularly in Europe, it said in a statement on Friday.
The company now expects its underlying earnings in the year to June 30 to be between $74 million and $85 million, down from its previous guidance of $85 million to $92 million.
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It's no secret that the Australian film industry struggles most years to find a local audience interested in local product, but in 2015 box office for local movies is already way ahead of last year. Mad Max and the Water Diviner can take a bow for much of that but the other movie that grossed more than $9.5 million at the box office features no guns, no explosions and no high calibre toys. Paper Planes is about a young boy, Dylan, who folds paper to fly it. It's loosely based on the story of Dylan Parker and James Norton. They joined RN Afternoons to talk the art of making paper fly.
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In Alien Trilogy, Ripley is armed initially with the 9mm as her default weapon. Certain Company Security Guards also use the 9mm pistol and some can be collected off of dead Marine remnants. The weapon is relatively weak against adult Xenomorphs and some human enemies, but is very effective against Facehuggers and Chestbursters.
- The pistol bears some resemblance to the Colt M1911. However, the M1911 is primarily chambered for .45 ACP rounds and the 9mm is chambered for 9mm rounds. This could mean that the 9mm is supposed to be the 9mm chambered M4 Pistol seen in Aliens: Colonial Marines Technical Manual.


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Chief Rabbi Alexander L. Shafran of Rumania arrived here yesterday in response to an invitation from the United Jewish Appeal. He will make his first public address this Sunday at the Conference of the Council of Organizations of the U.J.A., which will take place in the New School of Social Research.
The Chief Rabbi is the first Jewish leader to reach this country from Rumania since the liberation of the country. He was active in the underground movement during the period that the Rumanian Government collaborated with the Nazis and helped to rescue many Rumanian Jews who were deported to Transnistria.


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ASDA is continuing to drop the price of petrol for UK motorists.
Following its market leading drop to below £1 a litre last week, ASDA has introduced a further reduction in the price of petrol and diesel.
All ASDA's 172 forecourts will be at 97.9p per litre for petrol and 109.9p for diesel across Great Britain and Northern Ireland from tomorrow morning (21 October).
ASDA trading director Darren Blackhurst said: "We monitor prices daily and are committed to delivering the best and fairest prices for our customers – which is why all our petrol stations charge the same low price, rather than hiding behind local pricing.
"We expect oil prices to fluctuate in the coming weeks and will continue to pass on cost savings to customers whenever and wherever possible."


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Lindsay Lohan's Out Of The Gotti Movie
Seen here hiding her face in shame after being spotted at the Coldplay concert last night because, honestly, hasn't she embarrassed herself enough? Lindsay Lohan's sole acting prospect is basically gone, but here's the producers cautiously dancing around that fact to avoid Dina breaking into their house and drinking all their gin again. It's how she shows her feelings. E! News reports:
Now, Lohan, who has lobbied hard for the film, first for the plum role of John Gotti Sr.'s wife, Victoria Gotti, and then taking on the smaller part of John Gotti Jr.'s wife, Kim Gotti, has yet to ink a deal.
However, producers are still in talks with the actress, says Steve Honig, the rep for both Lohan and the film.
"The producers of the film and Lindsay's representation have not yet worked out an agreement for her to appear in the movie. At this point, we cannot provide a definitive answer either way," Honig said, adding "Fiore is still very much in talks with Lindsay Lohan to play the role of Kim Gotti."
Keep in mind this is a film that's probably never going to see a camera in the first place, not to mention they've already ditched Joe Pesci who would've made this his long-awaited return to acting. So I'm pretty sure they're not losing sleep over Lindsay unless the script specifically calls for a pair of freckled tits, "battle worn, and pocked by the ravages of coke and lesbian gargoyle hands" in the third act. In which case, invite her on the set, tell her you're thinking of casting her in another movie and be sure to have the camera ready because they're gonna fly out quick. You'll find yourself questioning if she even arrived with a shirt on, she's that fast. You'll be in her dojo now.
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Twenty & Six Espresso, North Melbourne
April 16, 2012 § 1 Comment
North Melbourne is lousy with places to eat all-day breakfast. But only a handful bring the love, and Twenty & Six Espresso* is one of these. It's a designer's café, in that it's hip, with fancy light-fittings and beautiful tables and chairs and crates and drawings of deer on the wall, and a small thoughtful menu. Beyond that, however, the food is excellent, and portions are really, really generous.
I've eaten "The Traveller" (pictured) twice this week, and it's definitely competition for the "Shady Deal"** Moroccan baked eggs around the corner at Auction Rooms. "The Hunter" is an epic plate of perfectly-cooked mushrooms with slightly sweet and smoky chorizo and a cloud of parmesan. Eggs are free-range (damn straight) and most brunch options cost between $15 and $18. The coffee is unimpeachable, they have a house blend from Proud Mary and a rotating guest blend as well as all the filter/pour over options for coffee fanboys and girls. The courtyard is lovely and on weekends you will probably have to wait for a table, as with everywhere that's good in this part of Melbourne, although turning up before ten a.m. may help. My only gripe is that the flat bread served with "The Traveller" is tortilla, probably Mission brand, and I'd love it if they had a house-made flat bread. But that's petty, when you think of how much love clearly goes into the food and coffee at Twenty & Six.
*My housemate asked about the name "Twenty & Six" and was told it was because there are twenty six letters in the alphabet… and they probably wanted an ampersand in the name. Like I said, designer's café. Ugh.
** Is it just me, or is that name a little bit racist?
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Why the arbitrary breakdown into 20 and 6? Why not 21&5 for the 21 consonants and 5 vowels of the alphabet?


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My reader Tina sent me this amazing ArtDeco Mineral Eyeshadow in Graphite. She said she didn't use it and that's why she kindly gave it to me. Thank you so much, Tina!
I wanted to do a simple look with it and Tarja's make up was my inspiration.
I'm not too happy with the outcome, but that doesn't change the fact I love this eyeshadow. It's perfect and I love wearing greys on my eyes.
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May 23, 2012
LARAMIE, Wyo. -
Aubry Boehme, an incoming junior for the Wyoming women's basketball team, was recently recognized for her outstanding play during the 2011-12 season. The Women's Basketball Hall of Fall in Knoxville, Tenn. will display her Otero Junior College No. 42 jersey in the "Ring of Honor" for the next year.
The Ring of Honor is one of the many unique displays of the Hall of Fame. Not only does the Ring of Honor provide a colorful backdrop at the Hall of Fame's many exhibits, but it also recognizes some young basketball players for their achievements in their sport. By acknowledging the athletes, the Hall of Fame is able to fulfill its mission to "honor the past, celebrate the present and promote the future" of women's basketball.
Currently, the Ring of Honor consists of over 100 jerseys hanging from the rafters of the back rotunda at the Hall of Fame. The display includes jerseys of the top high school and college players from the 2011-12 season.
"It's a tremendous honor for Aubry to have her jersey hanging in the Women's Basketball Hall of Fame," said Wyoming head coach Joe Legerski. "We are excited for her and that she will be a part of our program in the future."
Boehme, from Smithfield, Utah, was named First Team NJCAA All-America last month, which is given to the Top 10 players in the nation for junior colleges. She was also selected All-Region and to the Region IX All-Tournament Team during her sophomore year after averaging 17 points and 6.6 rebounds per contest.
This past season, Boehme helped lead her team to a school best 33-3 record and the Region IX Championship, which was the first ever in school history. They would earn the seventh seed in the NJCAA National tournament and went 2-2 to place eighth in the 16-team tournament.
In 2010-11, the team went 25-6 falling one victory short of qualifying for the national tournament. Boehme earned All-Region and All-Tournament Team honors, while being selected to the Academic All-Region Team.
She finished her career second all-time in scoring with 1,041 points, while recording a school high 94 blocks in a career and 100 steals in a season.
The Women's Basketball Hall of Fame, opened in 1999, and is located in Knoxville, Tenn. The Hall of Fame is the only facility of its kind, dedicated to all levels of women's basketball.


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Satoru Iwata has resigned. In a fit of confusion and distain for old ideas, the board casts aside the likely players Reggie Fils-Aime and Satoru Shibata while Shigeru Miyamoto decides he's having too much fun designing. Instead, they look to the streets. In need of someone who has traced Nintendo since they entered the video game industry, the board selects you to call the shots.
With a wealth of gaming and entertainment experience, vast knowledge of existing Nintendo IP, and a keen eye on the next-gen competition, you are able to provide a unique take on the market. Until now, you have been removed from the sales forecasts, plethora of board meetings, and the mountain of insider politics. Nintendo calls upon you for the executive decisions that solidify them as a key player in this polarizing age of innovation and interactivity.
First order of business: What do we do with Wii U?
Invest in more remakes? Stick to the tried and true IP? Release a "Pro" bundle sans GamePad?
Begin Change the marketing strategy? Buy out more third-party studios? Scrap it altogether?
And how about mobile?
The 3DS is doing well but figures are still low compared to the original DS. Can it sustain itself against the smartphone market? Should we quit while we're ahead and release our back catalogue for iOS and Android? Or maybe we take Gruber's advice, keeping our own hardware but test the waters with one or two iOS specific games with existing IP. Super Mario Bros. endless runner? Star Fox top-down scrolling shooter?
The choice is yours. If you were at Nintendo's helm, how would you steer the ship? Sound off in the comments below.


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crazy4coal wrote:If you have rice coal, last year Kimmel's had a problem with 1.5 & 2" stone getting mixed with the coal. When the bucket loader was reloading from the stock yard he scraped up stone from the yard and put it in the bagging plant. I had about a half a dozen bags that had 1 rock in them. Thankfully my customers caught it before it did any damage to their stokers. Is it possable that what you have was bagged last year and was left over? One of my customers put a piece of 1/2" hardware cloth over the hopper and poured the coal thru it. If you dealer is any good he will replace any bags that you want to send back. That's what I would do. You got to keep the customer happy!
markviii wrote: I don't see how rocks that large could get through the sizing process, perhaps the rocks were stuck in the loader bucket.
wlape3 wrote:Where can I find hardware cloth? Is it like expanded steel?
mason coal burner wrote:did you notice blashak is much smaller than kimmels ?
The bags keep any moisture locked up so you can end up with a very wet coal supply, especially if the vendor stores it outside. The stretch wrapping appears to not make any difference.
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New-look Sixways Stadium will be open to supporters for the very first time this season after Warriors played their opening two games in the league away from home.
Fans have responded to the chance to be part of an historic day at Warriors by flocking to the Sixways Box Office to snap up tickets - with nearly 2,000 tickets sold in the last week.
The club can now confirm that the previous record capacity of 10,193 has been eclipsed ahead of the game with over 10,500 tickets now sold for the arrival of our Midlands neighbours.
The last few hundred tickets are now on sale, with the stadium holding a reduced capacity until all corporate areas and surrounding areas are complete in the new Slick Systems Stand, and fans are urged to act quickly to avoid any disappointment.
Tickets remain on sale today from the Sixways Box Office on 01905 454183 or online at www.warriors.co.uk until midnight.
Fans can also visit the Sixways Box Office today in person until 4.30pm to snap up tickets to the big game.


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|From: Deren Dohoda (deren.dohoda at gmail.com)
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You might want to consider something like the "Backtracking via the stream of successes" mentioned in SRFI 41, unless you are very wed to amb. On Sun, Sep 12, 2010 at 10:16 AM, Stefan Busch <stefan_busch_ at arcor.de> wrote: > Hello racket community, > > though it may be impolite to enter the community with a wish, > I'd like to ask for help with the following problem: > > > I want a and b to "run through" all elements of two given lists, > and then to catch the combinations that fullfill a desired condition with > an "amb-assert" statement. > > If I try this in the following way > > (amb-collect > (let ((a (amb *someList*) > (b (amb *someDifferentList*))............... > > it turns out that not the list elemets are considered possible values for a > or b, > but the lists themselves are treated as the only possible value. > > In all examples I could find for the uage of "amb-collect" the values to run > through were > recited, but in my case these are quite many, so would be grateful for a > handier solution. > > thanks, > Stefan > > > > > > > > > _________________________________________________ > For list-related administrative tasks: > http://lists.racket-lang.org/listinfo/users >
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When a person needs a co-signer, it is generally because the lender feels that the borrower does not have the means to repay the loan on their own. If you decide to co-sign a loan for a friend or family member, you are just as responsible for the money borrowed as the other person – which means if your friend or family member fails to make a payment – the lender will look to you for the money.
Legally, there is no difference between the applicant and the co-signer when it comes to the responsibility for making payments on the loan. If the loan payments aren't made, the co-signer can be sued, credit rating ruined, your wages can be garnished and, in extreme cases, you can even lose your house. Co-signing a loan is extremely risky.
The risks of co-signing
It can be hard to say no when a family member or a close friend requests your help in getting a loan – especially if they're planning to use the money to improve their situation.
Money issues are the quickest way to dissolve a relationship with a friend or family member, so if there is any chance at all that the person you are considering co-signing for will be unable to make their payments, you may want to tell them you are unable to co-sign.
If you are considering co-signing, make sure you truly understand the risks:
- Your credit report will be reviewed by the lender, and it counts as an inquiry which will temporarily lower your credit score.
- Your credit score will be affected if the borrower doesn't make payments on time.
- You will have to pay the loan back if the borrower fails to pay it and if you don't, you will face the same consequences that not paying your own loans would cause.
- Your credit score will also be affected because your debt to available credit ratio will be affected by the amount of the loan you co-sign for.
- Lenders do not always call or send a notice to co-signers that a payment has been missed – don't be surprised if you start receiving phone calls from debt collectors.
- If co-signing for a car loan, keep in mind the friend or family member's name is on the car's title – which means you can't even take the car from him or her if you end up having to make the payments. If they stop paying the loan, the debt becomes your responsibility but the car belongs to the person's name on the title.
- Student loans have a tendency of growing – so if you co-sign for a $25,000 loan and the student capitalizes the interest during the first year or two of the loan, the loan amount can grow as much as 33% – making you responsible for $33,000 even though that wasn't the amount in the original agreement.
Co-sign with caution
If you understand the risks of co-signing and still decide to proceed with helping your friend or family member get the loan, here are some tips for reducing your risks and improving the process:
- Consider having the statements sent to your address and requiring the friend or family member sends the payments to you, too. This allows you to keep track of the due dates and ensure the loan is being paid on time.
- Only co-sign for a loan amount that you could pay off without financial difficulty if the friend or family member bails on the loan.
Help without co-signing
If you want to help a friend or family member but feel the risks for co-signing a loan are too great, there are other ways you could help them financially. You might consider loaning them money from your savings and setting up a payment plan between you. This will not eliminate relationship issues that occur when the borrower doesn't make payment as planned, but it saves you from having to make payments on a loan to a creditor or risking having your credit score ruined.


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March showed a nice turnaround in the housing market in Wilson County with 127 homes sales, up from 99 in February, and the number of in homes under contract increased from 126 in February to 181 in March, as well.
That was the word Thursday from Amy Hamilton of the Eastern Middle Tennessee Association of Realtors, or EMTAR.
"The median sales price dropped a little over $24,000 to $172,485 and the days on the market increased 15 days, up to 85. With 424 new listings on the market in March, raising our overall inventory to 1,191, our housing supply in Wilson County is a little over 9 months, still creating a buyer's market," she said.
Hamilton noted, "With the availability of homes for sale throughout Wilson County and the homebuyer tax credits coming to an end April 30, it is crucial for sellers to make sure their homes are priced competitively as well as being staged well and in good repair."
There are still a large number of foreclosures on the market and sellers must be able to compete with them since many of the foreclosures are in very good condition as well.
"We are seeing much more activity with many Realtors reporting that offers being submitted recently are becoming multiple offer situations, where more than one offer is received on a home at the same time. This is happening on privately owned homes, not just short sales and foreclosures," Hamilton added.
Lebanon's housing activity did very well in March with 56 closed homes with a median sales price of $172,900 with a median of 75 days on the market. She noted that 15 of the 56 closed homes were new construction. "Lebanon's market has not been as strong as Mt Juliet's in the past few months but had a nice comeback in March."
Mt Juliet held its own ending with 58 closed homes with a median sales price of $189,945 and a median day on market at 101. Hamilton said 17 of those 58 closed were new construction. "Providence continues to be a strong attraction to Mt Juliet with both the shopping and the availability of the new housing opportunities there."
Old Hickory came in strong in March with 10 homes sold at a median sales price of $149,900 and a median day on the market of 78.
"Compared to March of 2009, we increased in sold homes by 19 and homes under contract by 57. Interest rates continue to be very low and housing is as affordable as it has been in many years. With the availability of homes, we expect to continue to see the housing market in Wilson County to remain strong," she said.


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As UNC's Marcus Garvey Cultural Center celebrated its 30th anniversary Feb. 15, one of its co-founders, who couldn't attend the event, shared some memories from his time on campus. Continue Reading
Anita Fleming-Rife, special assistant to the president for Equity and Diversity at the University of Northern Colorado, will be presented the 2013 Distinguished Educator Award by The Education Center, a Denver-area nonprofit provider of training and programs supporting African-American education, at the center's annual awards presentations March 1.
The award, considered by the center to be equivalent to an "educator hall of fame award," honors an outstanding black educator who exemplifies the highest standard of excellence in the field of education and has dedicated his or her life to teaching, inspiring and motivating students, parents and other educators to become lifelong learners.
Past recipients of the award include Marie Greenwood, the first African-American woman to be tenured by Denver Public Schools, and who like Fleming-Rife, is a UNC alumna.
Fleming-Rife, who earned a bachelor's degree in Communications and a master's in Journalism from UNC, received her doctorate in Journalism from Southern Illinois University-Carbondale. She returned to UNC to teach from 1995-1998 and again from 2008-2010, when she served as visiting professor of Africana Studies and Journalism before being named to her current position.
She previously held teaching positions and was involved in issues of diversity and inclusiveness at Penn State University and Southern Illinois University, and held communications management positions with the United Nations.
As a member of UNC President Kay Norton's executive team, Fleming-Rife helps connect diversity and community building efforts across the university,.working closely with the Dean of Students, Human Resources Office, Equity and Diversity Council and campus governance groups. She also represents UNC in discussions about diversity, climate and equity in the broader community.
Read more about Fleming-Rife's career at http://www.unco.edu/diversity/flemingrife.html.
The schedule for the 2013 Assessment Fair on Feb. 26 is now available here. The fair, which is from 9:45 a.m.-3:30 p.m. in the Panorama room of the University Center, provides a forum for sharing and learning from the work of colleagues across campus about how they are using assessment to improve teaching, learning and program quality. For more information, contact Kim Black, 970-351-1102.
The University of Northern Colorado School of Theatre Arts and Dance's spring Performing Arts Series, featuring the schools' top theater majors, continues March 6, with Legally Blonde, the Broadway musical adapted from the movie of the same name.
Legally Blonde plays March 6-9 at 7:30 p.m.; and at 2 p.m. March 10 in Langworthy Theatre in Frasier Hall, intersection of 9th Avenue and 17th Street.
Directed and choreographed by Theatre Arts Professor John Leonard, the PG-rated production features a student orchestra from the UNC School of Music under the direction of Associate Director of Bands Richard Mayne. Musical direction is by Richard Shore, musical director for the School of Theatre Arts and Dance.
The rest of the series includes:
For ticket prices, call the Performing and Visual Arts Box Office at 970-351-2200.
For performance descriptions, visit the series' website.
The Office of Sponsored Programs will host an advanced proposal writing workshop from 9 a.m.-4 p.m. Friday, April 5, in the Centennial Hall room in Brown Hall, with an application deadline of March 1. Ten to 12 faculty members who have experience writing proposals but wish to expand their skills to become more competitive will be selected through an application process to receive this intensive training.
Participants will receive individual coaching and group training while working on their proposal ideas. The instructor, Lynn Miner, has helped thousands of grant writers to improve the success of their proposals.
The application form, which must be submitted by Friday, March 1, is available on the OSP website.
CSC and PASC seek donations from faculty and staff for the silent auction that will be held in conjunction with this year's Staff Recognition Banquet on March 25. Proceeds from the auction will support PASC and CSC programs that, in addition to staff recognition and social events, include community service projects, staff professional development opportunities and scholarships for UNC staff and their children.
To donate an item to the auction, please contact Morgan Gray, 970-351-2287 by Friday, March 15.
As part of the university's agreement with the Greeley Tribune, students can get complimentary subscriptions to the online edition of the daily newspaper by using their UNC email address when signing up. To subscribe, visit the Tribune website and follow these instructions:
Complimentary copies of the paper's print editions are available in racks around campus. If you have questions, or if you've previously purchased a digital subscription to the Tribune, please contact the newspaper's circulation department at 970-352-8089.
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Five hundred years before the birth of Jesus, a God-realized being named Lao-tzu in
ancient China dictated 81 verses, which are regarded by many as the ultimate
commentary on the nature of our existence. The classic text of these 81 verses,
called the Tao Te Ching or the Great Way, offers advice and guidance that is
balanced, moral, spiritual, and always concerned with working for the good.
In this book, Dr. Wayne W. Dyer has reviewed hundreds of translations of the Tao Te Ching and has written 81 distinct essays on how to apply the ancient wisdom of Lao-tzu to today's modern world. This work contains the entire 81 verses of the Tao, compiled from Wayne's researching of 10 of the most well-respected translations of text that have survived for more than 25 centuries. Each chapter is designed for actually living the Tao or the Great Way today. Some of the chapter titles are 'Living with Flexibility,' 'Living Without Enemies,' and 'Living by Letting Go.' Each of the 81 brief chapters focuses on living the Tao and concludes with a section called 'Doing the Tao Now.'
Wayne spent one entire year reading, researching, and meditating on Lao-tzu's messages, practicing them each day and ultimately writing down these essays as he felt Lao-tzu wanted you to know them.
This is a work to be read slowly, one essay a day. As Wayne says, 'This is a book that will forever change the way you look at your life, and the result will be that you'll live in a new world aligned with nature. Writing this book changed me forever, too. I now live in accord with the natural world and feel the greatest sense of peace I've ever experienced. I'm so proud to present this interpretation of the Tao Te Ching, and offer the same opportunity for change that it has brought me.'
About the Author
Dr. Wayne W. Dyer is an internationally renowned author and speaker in the field of self-development. He has written numerous bestselling books and has created a number of audios and videos. He has appeared on thousands of television and radio programs, including The Today Show and Oprah.
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This also comes in audio format however I chose the book because you need time to fully absorb what it is being presented. I read the Tao verse by itself a couple of times. Like a poem or a riddle I mull over what i think it means for a few moments, see if i can identify similarities in my experiences/life? Then I read Dr Dyer's insights, i find his work inspiring & insightful and it helps to clarify, interpret the Tao, then as you go about your day, you start noticing things & recognizing the Tao in all your daily life; work, home, relationships. It's food for your soul!
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I found this book a miracle, for it answers a smorgasbord of questions which I've had over the past 20 years. RIP Dr Wayne Dyer.
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Book was hard to follow. For a man in his mid 50's with children with some worldly experience I thought this book was rubbish. Perhaps you people need to read this type of books before you sell them. I won't be buying from again.
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Format: Paperback
Language: English
Number Of Pages: 395
Published: 1st October 2007
Publisher: Hay House Inc
Country of Publication: US
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Samsung's Tocco did quite well in my hands last July. The full frontal touchscreen was really gaining momentum and Samsung managed to differentiate itself by coming up with the idea of widgets for you to pull onto the screen from a sidebar. This allowed you to personalise the phone but let Samsung retain control of how.
The Widgets remain in the Tocco's follow-up, the Tocco Ultra S8300, but much else has changed. The Tocco Ultra is Samsung's flagship handset for 2009 so I expected great things from it.
Every major operator has this handset free on various contracts. Vodafone is doing it free on £20 plans, for example. You can get it from around £350 on Pay As You Go.
When you first pick up the phone, it looks like a standard touchscreened slab. Mine had a thin frame of red down its vertical front edges and around the bottom of the screen. The red really comes into play when you expose something the original Tocco didn't have – the numeric keypad.
Yup, this is a slider phone and the concept of adding in a numeric keypad is a good one. It caters for those who want a touchscreen but aren't sure they can cope with using it for on-screen text entry.
The red – actually a vivid, vibrant pinky crimson – also shows up on the back panel section that's exposed when the slide is up. O2 has a blue version that looks just as in-your-face vibrant.
The slide adds a bit of height to the handset, which increases the height to a shade over 135mm. Closed it measures 110mm x 51.5mm x 12.7mm and weighs 122g. This makes it taller, thicker and heavier than the original Tocco but a little narrower (The Tocco comes in at 98.4mm x 55mm x 11.6mm and weighs 106g).
Build quality is superb. This mobile feels very solid and durable. The flat numberpad is easy to use at speed. Its keys are large and I had no trouble entering text at a fair old lick. The screen and frame are scratch resistant, and the slide mechanism is smooth. It delivers a very reassuring thunk when you open and close it. However, I did find that I had to press on the touchscreen to open and close the phone, and this sometimes meant I made selections when I didn't really mean to.


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In order to improve productivity, Major Tool & Machine, Inc. (Indianapolis, Indiana), which specializes in large parts for power generation, aerospace and defense, decided it wanted to provide machine operators with every piece of information for the job at hand, in one place, at one time and in real-time. The company had an old text-based system that ran on an IBM 400. If an engineer needed to adjust the sequence on a part process, for example, it was necessary to enter everything manually, print updated routers and distribute them to the manufacturing team leader. This person, in turn, ran off paper printouts and handed them to the operators. However, outdated versions would sometimes stall production. At times there was also information loss during the second and weekend shifts. Data would sometimes be stuck in one of many un-integrated systems, inaccessible to the back-shift crew. When the amount of operator and team leader time wastage was added up, Major Tool & Machine realized it had to act.
In the planning stage, it defined everything it wanted from the ideal shop-floor system. This boiled down to a few key factors:
- it had to provide all necessary information to machinists right at the work site, in real-time;
- it had to be rugged enough to handle the environment;
- it had to be able to interface with other systems, such as the e-mail software and manufacturing resource planning (MRP) system;
- it had to run on Windows 95/NT.
Once it was clearly stated what was needed, Major Tool & Machine searched for companies that could fulfill its expectations. After checking out many firms, it located two candidates. Each installed test units for 90 days, during which Major Tool & Machine reviewed the performance and gathered feedback from operators and Information Services. At the end of the three-month pilot, the company chose the DLoG/JobPack (Hoffman Estates, Illinois) package over the other one because it was well-engineered and easy to use.
The purchase included three parts: a DNC system, a set of industrial PCs, and the data collection control engine.
The DNC software takes the paperwork and disks out of transferring data to and from the shop floor. Uploading and downloading become relatively problem-free, and machinists no longer have nagging doubts about the accuracy of the information.
The industrial PC is designed with clumsy, greasy fingers in mind and can withstand factory conditions. The interior components are durable, and the surfaces are oil and splash waterproof. It also has a touch screen, consisting of large graphical on-screen buttons which, when pressed, operate the system.
The data collection control engine is essentially a machine-tool monitoring system that gives management the ability to collect in-process transaction data in real-time. It records only specified data in an individual logbook for each work center. Then the company can analyze performance, generate standard and ad-hoc reports, and pass data to the MRP and financial systems.
The great feature about this new line-up is that it brings everything together for both supervisors and machinists. Once the employees' clock numbers are entered and bar code routers are scanned, the company can tell what people are on what jobs, what detail each is performing and exactly where each is in the sequence. The system presents the operator with blueprints, customer details, job instructions, process drawings, CNC setup sheets and associated programs, tool sheets, quality requirements, e-mail, and so on. This gives operators everything they need to do their jobs—all on a single screen.
One problem concerned interfacing the new software with the existing MRP system. The company had previously purchased a scheduling system known as Visual Manufacturing (VM), made by Lilly Software Associates Inc. (Hampton, New Hampshire), to run everything from estimating through shipping. Since VM wasn't integrated with the DLoG shopfloor system, Major Tool & Machine developed its own interface. An in-house software developer was given the task of evolving an interface that reduced the number of screens and applications needed to view all relevant documents.
The new DLoG system made integration relatively easy. "Our hardware and software solutions are flexible and modular in nature," says DLoG President Dave Welsh. "This enabled Major Tool & Machine to use what they wanted 'out of the box' and to then customize and control the work environment to their own specifications."
The company is pleased with the interface and the system as a whole. The operators have everything they need, and team leaders are no longer tied up in finding or verifying documentation. In the end, this comprehensive information delivery approach brought Major Tool & Machine a 10 to 15 percent increase in productivity.


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Investors have been keeping a watchful eye on Beijing in the week, hoping China's incoming leadership team of Xi Jinping and Li Keqiang will use the National People's Congress as an opportunity to display their reform ambitions.
Xi has already embraced some reforms, conducting a popular fight against official corruption and government extravagance. In a widely reported speech in January, he vowed to crack down on both "tigers" and "flies" – powerful officials and lowly bureaucrats.
What's more, the Chinese newspaper, 21st Century Business Herald, recently reported Xi intends to split China's powerful and scandal-ridden railway ministry (former railway minister Liu Zhijun was arrested on corruption charges in 2011). The ministry's regulatory functions will be transferred into a "super" transport department, while its commercial passenger and freight operations will move to a separate publicly owned company.
But although current Railway Minister Sheng Guangzu said he favours separating the running of the railways and its administration, he declined to say whether he would be the last railway minister, which has raised doubts as to the timing of the reforms. The risk is the reforms may be delayed or diluted thanks to vested interests.
Similarly, some analysts are sceptical as to whether the new leadership is determined enough to undertake the painful reforms needed to rebalance the country's lopsided economic model, reducing dependence on exports and investment, and boosting domestic consumption. They point out that domestic consumption will only rise if household disposable income rises and there is a more equal distribution of national wealth.
They also argue China needs to encourage private sector companies to boost investment, particularly in higher-end export industries and in domestic services. But privately owned firms are hamstrung by heavy-handed regulation and stiff competition from the dominant state-owned enterprises. And they can struggle to raise funding, because Chinese banks prefer to lend to state-owned businesses.
Certainly the frothy property market is a sign of unbalanced growth. Markets were recently sent reeling after Beijing, worried that sharp rises in housing prices will fuel social tensions, announced measures aimed at containing property speculation, including enforcing a 20 per cent capital gains tax on profits from home sales and encouraging banks to raise deposit levels and mortgage rates for some second-home buyers.
Indeed, in the past week there has been a steep increase in the number of divorces in China as couples exploit a loophole that allows divorcing couples who own two housing properties to sell at least one property without paying any tax. After the sale, the couples can remarry, having saved tens of thousands of dollars in tax.
Beijing has waged a three-year battle to stop property prices spiralling higher, but they remain under pressure. Households pour surplus savings into housing because there are few alternative investments, while local governments depend on revenue generated by land sales. Estimates show Shanghai property prices up 41 per cent in January and February compared with last year. Beijing prices are also increasing rapidly.
There are also indications that inflationary pressures are building as the Chinese economy recovers. Many analysts believe the central bank, the People's Bank of China, will continue to tighten monetary conditions by draining excess liquidity from the system.
At the National People's Congress in the week, outgoing Chinese Premier
But there is a risk China's crackdown on inflation and property market speculation could dent the revival of confidence in growth prospects, which would put commodity prices under pressure.
In a recent interview with The Australian Financial Review, highly regarded China expert Andy Xie warned China's new measures to curb property speculation could jeopardise the earnings of Australia's big iron ore miners. He predicted iron ore would drop below $US60 a tonne, from around $US150, leaving investors in debt-laden Australian iron ore miners with big losses.
"I think a lot of shareholders in these highly leveraged miners will lose everything – in the end, creditors will take over these projects," Xie predicted.
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SEAN Dyche is a magician and, make no mistake, he should be handed the manager of the season prize for returning Burnley to the promised land of the Premier League.
I've watched the Clarets for 40 years – but I never thought I'd see us back in the top flight in my lifetime after our brief foray there five years ago.
After witnessing those remarkable scenes at Turf Moor yesterday, I believe it is one of Burnley's greatest achievements, especially when you gauge the size of our squad, in comparison to other Championship clubs who have spent millions more than us.
The team's broken so many individual and club records, and I feel very honoured to have seen every fixture of this truly memorable campaign.
In fact, this promotion feels a lot more special than when we achieved it under Owen Coyle in 2009 because we've done it on a shoestring budget.
We've been on the launching pad for several weeks now, but promotion feels like a supersonic rocket taking off, with us once again ready to welcome Manchester United, Chelsea and Arsenal to Turf Moor.
I'll even have a local derby to look forward to at Stoke, a few miles from my home village in Staffordshire!
Now we've crossed the finishing line, and we can crack open the champagne and make a toast to Sean Dyche, his terrific players and the Premier League.