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Tuesday's Seattle Mariners 2014 Opening Night is "virtually" sold out. Scattered single tickets remain available. Any tickets that are returned to the Box Office will be added immediately to the inventory. Fans can check mariners.com/tickets for any late availability.
The Mariners open the 2014 home season on Tuesday, April 8 against the Los Angeles Angels. Game time is 7:10pm. Gates open at 4:40pm. The pregame ceremony, including the ceremonial first pitch by members of the Super Bowl Champion Seattle Seahawks, begins at 6:30pm.
Oso Relief
The Mariners, Major League Baseball and the Major League Baseball Players Association are donating $225,000 to the American Red Cross Washington Mudslide Relief fund. Volunteers from the Red Cross will be outside the gates of Safeco Field collecting donations to benefit those affected by the Oso mudslide. Fans can donate on Opening Night, or can give at redcross.org, or by texting REDCROSS to 90999 to make a $10 donation.
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Tickets for the remaining games in the homestand are still available, including Safeco Insurance Grand Slam Family Package Night on Wednesday, April 9, with $15 View Level, $30 Main Level, and $35 Terrace Club tickets, as well as a three-game series against the Oakland A's. A full list of 2014 Mariners ticket specials is available at mariners.com/specials.
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The Supreme Court will be in session at Safeco Field on Friday, April 11, when Felix Hernandez is scheduled to make his first home start of the season against the Athletics. For this special session of the "Supreme Court," the first 25,000 fans will receive a special t-shirt and commemorative K card. Special ticket prices for the game are $12 for all View Level seats and $25 for select Main Level, Terrace Club and Outfield Reserved seats.
In compliance with Major League Baseball's mandate that all teams implement an enhanced security screening program by the start of the 2015 season, fans entering Safeco Field will be subject to enhanced screening procedures. Although metal detectors will be in place at all gates, fans will not be subject to secondary screenings on Opening Night. The Mariners will be phasing in the use of metal detectors at gates over the first few months of the season with the goal of being fully operational by All-Star break. All bags will still be subject to inspection, including women's purses. Fans are encouraged to arrive early to be in their seats for the pregame festivities starting at 6:30pm.


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OROVILLE >> Testimony began Thursday in the retrial of a man previously convicted of murdering his roommate in January 2012.
Defendant John Lawrence Halsema, 67, is charged in Butte County Superior Court with a count of murder for the shooting death of Craig Steven Davies on or about Jan. 30, 2012. The shooting took place at Davies' Nelson Bar Road residence in Yankee Hill.
A previous jury had convicted Halsema of second-degree murder in December 2012 and the defendant was later sentenced to 40 years to life.
Last January, the 3rd District Court of Appeal ordered a new trial for Halsema. Based on the evidence, appeals court judges ruled that trial court Judge James Reilley should have given the jury instructions to consider whether Halsema committed the lesser offense of voluntary manslaughter.
Man held in contempt
One of the witnesses in the afternoon refused to answer key questions. Judge Reilley ordered Friedrich Heindrikus Muniaerts, 43, to testify and then held the witness in contempt when Muniaerts again refused.
Muniaerts is serving a state prison sentence after violating probation in three cases, including one where he stole an antique car in Oroville in June 2012. Butte County sheriff's deputies later found stolen items on Muniaerts' Nelson Bar Road property, according to reports at the time of his arrest.
After Muniaerts refused to testify, chief deputy district attorney Francisco Zarate and a Butte County District Attorney's investigator read aloud the witness' original testimony from the first trial.
During the first trial, Muniaerts testified that Halsema paid damages after Muniaerts' dog was killed. He also recalled Davies and Halsema arguing over Halsema's dog.
Muniaerts also purchased an off-road vehicle from Davies. When the witness went to make the final payment at Davies' house, Halsema answered the door and said Davies was sleeping. Muniaerts said the situation was strange, including Halsema only opening the door a few inches.
Gun tested
Halsema's dog was a key element in the first trial. Halsema told officers that Davies had been acting erratically and threatened to kill his dog with a knife after Halsema tried to show him that Davies left a borrowed gun in an unsafe, loaded state.
The defendant previously testified that he panicked and thought Davies was going to kill his dog. The gun discharged when Halsema took a step backward. He said it was an accident.
Halsema waited nine days to call police on Feb. 8, 2012. He also put a knife in Davies' hand to make it appear Davies had been the aggressor.
On Thursday, senior criminalist Brandy Spas from the state Department of Justice testified about testing the handgun recovered in the case. She tested the amount of pressure needed to discharge the weapon, which exceeded the gunmaker's specifications.
Spas said the gun did not have a hair trigger, where only a little amount of pressure was needed to discharge the gun.
Testimony is scheduled to continue this morning.
The defendant remains in custody, without bail.
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|Unprecedented DDoS Attack At Swedish Government, Media Outlets
|Saturday March 12, 2016 @03:14AM
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|Thursday March 10, 2016 @04:09PM
|Cisco Patches Serious Flaws In Cable Modems and Home Gateways
|Thursday February 25, 2016 @09:40AM
|Google Releases Project Shield To Fight Against DDoS Attacks
|Friday December 25, 2015 @06:35PM
|Pwnd Aethra Routers Used To Brute-Force WordPress Sites
|Thursday December 24, 2015 @05:27PM
|PhantomSquad Hackers Begin Their Xmas DDoS Attacks By Taking Down EA Servers
|Saturday December 12, 2015 @10:26AM
|Anonymous Goes After Donald Trump
|Tuesday November 10, 2015 @11:45AM
|ProtonMail Restores Services After Epic DDoS Attacks
|Thursday October 29, 2015 @08:41AM
|MySQL Servers Hijacked With Malware To Perform DDoS Attacks
|Thursday September 24, 2015 @08:35AM
|Imgur Exploited To Channel Botnet Attacks At 4chan
|Tuesday September 08, 2015 @10:54AM
|Hacking Medical Mannequins
|Thursday August 20, 2015 @08:34AM
|BitTorrent Clients Can Be Made To Participate In High-Volume DoS Attacks
|Monday April 27, 2015 @11:02AM
|Indian Telecom Authority Releases a Million Email IDs, Taken Down By Hackers
|Tuesday April 14, 2015 @01:32PM
|Turkish Hackers Target Vatican Website After Pope's Genocide Comment
|Friday January 16, 2015 @08:28PM
|19,000 French Websites Hit By DDoS, Defaced In Wake of Terror Attacks
|Thursday January 01, 2015 @02:08PM
|Finnish KRP Questions Suspected Lizard Squad Member
|Tuesday December 30, 2014 @11:53AM
|Lizard Squad: Xbox Live, PSN Attacks Were a 'Marketing Scheme' For DDoS Service
|Monday December 29, 2014 @01:53PM
|FBI Allegedly Investigating Lizard Squad Member Over Xbox Live, PSN Attacks
|Sunday December 28, 2014 @01:17PM
|Sony PlayStation Network Back Up Now, Supposedly
|Thursday December 25, 2014 @05:10PM
|Xbox Live and PlayStation Networks Downed By Apparent Attack
|Wednesday September 03, 2014 @12:04PM
|Akamai Warns: Linux Systems Infiltrated and Controlled In a DDoS Botnet
|Monday July 28, 2014 @12:18PM
|Attackers Install DDoS Bots On Amazon Cloud
|Tuesday March 04, 2014 @02:17PM
|In Ukraine, Cyber War With Russia Heating Up
|Wednesday February 12, 2014 @11:59AM
|More Bitcoin Exchanges Forced Out of Sync After Massive DDoS Attack
|Monday February 10, 2014 @11:49PM
|DDoS Larger Than the Spamhaus Attack Strikes US and Europe
|Wednesday February 05, 2014 @09:18AM
|Britain's GCHQ Attacked Anonymous Supporters With DDoS
|Wednesday December 04, 2013 @11:42AM
|Anonymous Member Sentenced For Joining DDoS Attack For One Minute
|Wednesday November 27, 2013 @10:47AM
|Spamhaus Calls for Fining Operators of Insecure Servers
|Thursday August 08, 2013 @06:54AM
|Zimbabweans Hit By Cyber Attacks During Election
|Wednesday July 17, 2013 @12:51PM
|Network Solutions Hit With DDoS
|Wednesday July 03, 2013 @06:48PM
|Skype Overload Interrupts Zimmerman Trial
|Wednesday April 17, 2013 @12:16PM
|Average DDoS Attack Bandwidth Jumps Eight-Fold In One Quarter
|Friday March 29, 2013 @10:51PM
|Is Eccentric Sven Olaf Kamphius To Blame For Spamhaus DDoS?
|Friday March 29, 2013 @10:34PM
|After attack on Spamhaus almost brings web to its knees, shadowy figure emerges
|Friday March 29, 2013 @03:37AM
|Did the Spamhaus DDos really slow down global Internet access?
|Thursday March 28, 2013 @03:38PM
|Misconfigured Open DNS Resolvers Key To Massive DDoS Attacks
|Thursday March 28, 2013 @01:44PM
|Biggest DDoS in history fails to slash interweb arteries
|Thursday March 28, 2013 @01:27PM
|Spamhaus Attack: Did Biggest Cyber-Attack in History Really Break the Internet?
|Thursday March 28, 2013 @10:02AM
|DDoS Feud Backfires: Bulletproof CyberBunker Busted
|Wednesday March 27, 2013 @09:53AM
|Largest DDoS In History Reaches 300 Billion Bits Per Second
|Wednesday March 20, 2013 @08:32AM
|Krebs Hacker Unmasked, Hit Ars and Wired's Honan
|Thursday January 24, 2013 @04:30PM
|UK Anonymous Hacktivists Get Jail Time
|Thursday January 24, 2013 @01:24PM
|UK Anonymous Hacktivists Get Jail Time
|Friday December 28, 2012 @07:47PM
|New Android Malware Uses Google Play Icon To Trick Users
|Friday December 28, 2012 @07:34PM
|McAfee Labs Predicts Decline of Anonymous
|Tuesday December 25, 2012 @02:14PM
|You're Being DDOSed - What Do You Do? Name And Shame?
|Thursday December 13, 2012 @04:58PM
|Islamic Hacker Group Resumes Attacks On Banks
|Monday September 10, 2012 @04:06PM
|GoDaddy Goes Down, Anonymous Claims Responsibility
|Monday September 10, 2012 @03:01PM
|GoDaddy Goes Down, Anonymous Claims Responsibility
|Wednesday August 15, 2012 @02:49PM
|Mountain Dew "Dub the Dew" promo pulled due to hacking and internet shenanigans
|Wednesday August 08, 2012 @10:37AM
|Wikileaks DDoSed Again
|Wednesday August 08, 2012 @07:30AM
|WikiLeaks Under DDoS Again
|Thursday August 02, 2012 @10:27AM
|Demonoid Down For a Week, Serving Malware Laden Ads
|Monday July 09, 2012 @02:27PM
|End of the line for Spamcop?
|Friday June 08, 2012 @03:40AM
|George Takei Facebook Fans in 'DDoS Attack' on His Own Website
|Thursday May 17, 2012 @03:11PM
|The Pirate Bay Returns, Anonymous Hater Takes Credit For DDoS
|Wednesday May 16, 2012 @01:55PM
|The Pirate Bay Suffering Global Outage From Massive DDoS Attack
|Wednesday May 16, 2012 @11:40AM
|Pirate Bay Under DDoS Attack From Anonymous?
|Wednesday May 16, 2012 @09:15AM
|Pirate Bay Under DDoS Attack From Unknown Enemy
|Thursday May 10, 2012 @08:33AM
|Pirate Bay Criticizes Anonymous' Attack On Virgin
|Thursday May 03, 2012 @07:27AM
|British Cyber Crime Agency Forced Down By Attack
|Monday April 09, 2012 @06:35PM
|Ask Slashdot: Experience Handling DDoS Attacks On a Mid-Tier Site?
|Sunday April 08, 2012 @06:37AM
|Anonymous Hacks UK Government Sites Over 'Draconian Surveillance'
|Tuesday March 13, 2012 @07:02AM
|How To Crash the US Justice System: Demand a Trial
|Monday February 27, 2012 @12:38PM
|Vatican Attack Provides Insight into Anonymous
|Monday February 20, 2012 @03:05PM
|LOIC DDoS Attack Tool Goes Mobile to Android
|Thursday February 16, 2012 @11:14PM
|DDoS attackers start targeting IPv6 networks
|Wednesday February 15, 2012 @11:49AM
|NASDAQ and BATS DDoSed
|Tuesday February 14, 2012 @01:19PM
|Did Anonymous Take Down CIA.gov?
|Saturday January 21, 2012 @07:32AM
|Downloads of DoS Attack Tool LOIC Spike
|Friday January 20, 2012 @06:02PM
|Downloads of LOIC DoS Attack Tool Spike
|Thursday December 29, 2011 @09:52AM
|Microsoft Issuing Unusual Out-of-Band Security Update
|Thursday December 29, 2011 @09:41AM
|Microsoft Issuing Emergency Security Update Thurs.
|Wednesday December 28, 2011 @06:15PM
|Hash Table Bug Enables Wide-Scale DDoS Attacks
|Thursday December 15, 2011 @11:21AM
|Feds Arrest GeneSimmons.Com Attacker
|Tuesday December 13, 2011 @07:38PM
|How To Deny DDoS Attacks
|Sunday December 04, 2011 @02:01PM
|Russian Websites Critical of Elections Targeted In DDoS Attack
|Sunday December 04, 2011 @10:14AM
|In Soviet Russia DDOS The Opposition?
|Thursday December 01, 2011 @06:00PM
|Bank Accounts Vulnerable For Victims of ZeuS Trojan Variant 'Gameover'
|Thursday November 24, 2011 @10:40PM
|2011's largest DDOS so far: 45Gbps
|Friday September 09, 2011 @08:57PM
|Aussie Blogger Hit With DDoS Death Threats
|Thursday September 01, 2011 @09:44AM
|Anonymous Claims Responsibility For WikiLeaks Attack
|Monday August 01, 2011 @06:44PM
|UK Police Charge Suspected Anonymous Spokesman
|Wednesday July 27, 2011 @09:25AM
|House Websites Jammed After Obama Debt Speech
|Saturday June 25, 2011 @07:33PM
|Head of ChronoPay Arrested In Moscow
|Tuesday June 21, 2011 @07:32AM
|Network Solutions DNS Hosting Down
|Sunday June 12, 2011 @08:34PM
|Turkish Police Nab 32 Suspects Tied to Anonymous
|Friday May 27, 2011 @07:13PM
|Sony Hackings Could Happen To Any Big Business
|Friday March 11, 2011 @08:18AM
|Australia Creates Cyberwarfare Unit
|Friday February 18, 2011 @07:36PM
|Anonymous Goes After GodHatesFags.com
|Tuesday February 01, 2011 @11:55AM
|DDoS Attacks Exceed 100 Gbps For First Time
|Tuesday February 01, 2011 @10:43AM
|DDoS Attacks Exceed 100 Gbps for First Time
|Friday December 31, 2010 @12:54AM
|FBI Raids Texas ISP For Anonymous DDoS Info
|Tuesday December 28, 2010 @09:22AM
|4chan Has Been DDOSed
|Wednesday December 22, 2010 @06:31PM
|Study Finds DDoS Attacks Threaten Human Rights
|Saturday December 18, 2010 @01:38PM
|Spamhaus Under DDoS Over Wikileaks.info
|Tuesday December 14, 2010 @03:44PM
|Why Anonymous Can't Take Down Amazon.com
|Monday December 13, 2010 @03:27PM
|4chan Declares War On Snow
|Monday December 13, 2010 @10:48AM
|Operation Payback and Hactivism 101
|Sunday December 12, 2010 @09:29PM
|Has Progress Been Made In Fighting DDoS Attacks?
|Thursday December 09, 2010 @02:11PM
|NL teen arrested over Visa DDoS attacks
|Thursday December 09, 2010 @02:06AM
|Inside Wikileaks ally, Anonymous
|Monday December 06, 2010 @03:12PM
|Amazon Web Services Launches DNS Service
|Friday December 03, 2010 @06:38AM
|Wikileaks DNS shut down
|Friday December 03, 2010 @05:18AM
|Wikileaks loses DNS
|Wednesday December 01, 2010 @05:15PM
|Wikileaks DDoS Attacker Arrested, Equipment Seized
|Wednesday December 01, 2010 @11:41AM
|'Hacktivist' Claims Credit for WikiLeaks Attack
|Tuesday November 30, 2010 @01:16PM
|DDoS Attack On Wikileaks Increasing
|Sunday November 28, 2010 @01:34PM
|WikiLeaks Under Denial of Service Attack
|Sunday November 28, 2010 @01:28PM
|WikiLeaks Under Denial of Service Attack
|Saturday November 06, 2010 @09:38AM
|Former Student Gets 30 Months for DDosing &Bot
|Thursday November 04, 2010 @12:58PM
|Massive DDoS Cuts Myanmar Off From Net
|Tuesday October 19, 2010 @10:20AM
|Gene Simmons Threatens Anonymous Again and Gets DDoS'd
|Friday October 15, 2010 @10:32AM
|Western governments will use botnets in cyber wars
|Wednesday October 06, 2010 @08:12PM
|Spanish Copyright Society Under DDoS Attack
|Tuesday September 28, 2010 @12:04AM
|Thousands of sites taken offline in 4Chan misfire
|Friday September 17, 2010 @07:03PM
|Imminent 4chan DDoS on MPAA.org
|Wednesday August 25, 2010 @11:58AM
|Rustock Botnet Responsible For 40% of Spam
|Tuesday June 15, 2010 @11:35AM
|iPhone 4 Pre-Orders Wreaking Havoc On Apple Store
|Sunday June 06, 2010 @04:51PM
|Prosecuting DDoS Attacks?
|Monday February 15, 2010 @02:05AM
|Operation Titstorm Hits the Streets
|Monday February 15, 2010 @01:57AM
|Operation Titstorm hits the streets
|Friday February 12, 2010 @10:28AM
|Anonymous Speaks About Australian Gov't. Attacks
|Thursday February 11, 2010 @07:40PM
|Anonymous speaks about Australian Govt attacks
|Thursday December 24, 2009 @04:56PM
|Holiday E-Commerce DDOS Attack hits EC2 Cloud
|Wednesday December 16, 2009 @04:12PM
|Angry AT&T Customers May Disrupt Service
|Tuesday December 15, 2009 @02:00PM
|Freenode under DDoS attack
|Monday July 27, 2009 @11:58AM
|AT&T Blocks Part of 4chan
|Friday June 12, 2009 @10:38PM
|Disney Strikes Against Net Neutrality
|Saturday February 28, 2009 @07:47AM
|Wife of Harried Pirate Bay Witness Gets Buried in Internet Love
|Sunday February 22, 2009 @05:38AM
|Startup Threatened Into Settling Over Hyperlinking
|Thursday February 05, 2009 @06:18AM
|Death Knell For DDoS Extortion?
|Saturday January 24, 2009 @02:49PM
|Network Solutions Under Large-Scale DDoS Attack
|Wednesday November 19, 2008 @12:38PM
|McColo Briefly Returns, Hands Off Botnet Control
|Friday February 08, 2008 @10:36PM
|W3C Gets Excessive DTD Traffic
|Friday January 25, 2008 @03:22PM
|DoS Attacks on Estonia Were Launched by Student
|Thursday November 15, 2007 @07:14AM
|Comcast Sued Over P2P Blocking
|Wednesday September 26, 2007 @02:36AM
|Firefox 3 Antiphishing Sends Your URLs To Google
|Wednesday February 07, 2007 @03:09AM
|DNS Root Servers Attacked
|Friday May 26, 2006 @10:36AM
|BlackFrog to Take up BlueFrog's Flag
|Thursday May 11, 2006 @08:57PM
|Email Bomber Faces Retrial
|Monday May 08, 2006 @11:50AM
|What Happened to Blue Security
|Thursday May 04, 2006 @01:41PM
|Spam War Takes Out Blog Services
|Monday March 27, 2006 @08:08AM
|DDoS on Domain Registrar
|Friday March 24, 2006 @10:21PM
|Sun Grid DOS'd
|Thursday March 16, 2006 @03:25PM
|DDoS Attacks Via DNS Recursion
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I am well on my way to secretly memorizing all of the answers in the "Trivial Pursuit" board game in my home don't tell my wife but there is one bit of trivia I haven't seen addressed.Where did Bobby McFerrin decide he wanted to be a singer?"[Living in Salt Lake City] was a very important time for me," McFerrin told the Tribune in an e-mail interview. "That's when I realized I was really a singer. It was March 11, 1977. I was walking home from playing a dance class and suddenly, I got it. I went home and looked in the phone book for the number of a local hotel lounge and by the end of the week I had my first gig as a singer. I also met the dancer and choreographer Tandy Beal in Salt Lake City; she's remained a touchstone in my life, one of my favorite collaborators."The University of Utah gave the young, unemployed McFerrin a job as a piano accompanist in the department of modern dance, more than three decades ago. It was a decade before the worldwide success of his a cappella hit "Don't Worry, Be Happy" that he found himself in Salt Lake City needing work. He had followed a band member to the city in the late 1970s, but a job playing for a nightclub's house band didn't pan out. Newly married, McFerrin answered an ad to be an accompanist at the U.It was in that gig, while watching the dancers, that the pianist began to sing in earnest, learning about how to use his body as an instrument from dancers.While he always thought of himself as a pianist first and a singer second, McFerrin needed to supplement his income. So he called every hotel and club in the Salt Lake City phone book, seeking work as a lounge singer. The Hilton hired him, and the rest is history.McFerrin returns to Utah on March 25, and he answered questions about teaching singers, grace and joy, and his forthcoming album "spirityouall," due out in May.When you talk to students, what do you impart to them?Here's what I like to tell singers: Sing for 10 minutes every day. No matter what. Don't listen to other singers for a few years it's too hard to hear your own sound. Learn some Bach. Here's what I like to tell everybody: Remember that all of life is improvising. Don't forget to play. Get right with yourself and the people you love and the people you work with and the music will benefit.You have said, "What I want everyone to experience at the end of my concerts is . . . this sense of rejoicing. I don't want the audience to be blown away by what I do, I want them to have this sense of real joy, from the depths of their being. Then you open up a place where grace can come in." How do you define joy and grace? I'm very lucky. I don't try to define them. I try to live them, musically and personally. I seek them out. I encourage others to seek them. I think that's my mission as a concert artist, though I hope it doesn't sound too pretentious. I am instigating joy and grace wherever I can.How does "spirityouall" honor your father? This album is so deeply connected to my father, but it's also so far from anything he ever would have done. The discipline and purity with which he approached the craft of singing imprints everything I do. And I had the incredible chance as a child to hear Hall Johnson (who was maybe the foremost authority on singing the spirituals and the grandson of a former slave) coaching my father on how to sing the spirituals, telling him about pronunciation and floating around the beat. Really incredible. But I could never have tried to make an album singing these songs the way my father sang them. I couldn't do that nearly as well as he did. I had to find my own way.How can music, such as the music on "spirityouall," help us through life's trials and triumphs?I just think we sing our way through. If I get onstage and I feel angry at something, the more I sing the more that feeling gets worked out. I can't hold on to it. When I'm done I feel better. There's no better example than the spirituals of singing through trials and tribulations, sending coded messages, talking about pain and hope and life or death situations, calling up all our strength to get to a better place. We just sing our way to a better place.Are there spirituals that lift you up, personally? Absolutely. Every song on this new album does that for me. And there are lots more. I'm an improviser, so I always think you know in the moment what song you need to sing, what song you need to hear. Sometimes it's a song you've known all your life. Sometimes you need to make it up as you go along.
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LRI-Funded Novel Research on Lupus and the Brain Helping to Explain Pregnancy Loss among Women with Lupus
Why is pregnancy loss more common for women with lupus? The answer may come from a seemingly unrelated finding started 10 years ago by noted researcher Betty Diamond, MD at The Feinstein Institute for Medical Research. Dr. Diamond is applying her initial LRI-funded discovery of an autoantibody that attacks the brain to provide a new biological explanation of pregnancy loss in lupus.
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The groundwork for Dr. Diamond's latest study, which is funded by the National Institutes of Health, was laid by an innovative research finding sponsored almost 10 years ago by the Lupus Research Institute. In the original LRI-funded project, Dr. Diamond discovered that certain auto-antibodies, which trigger the kidney and related physical complications of lupus, are likely also responsible for lupus patients' neurological, or brain, changes, which range from headaches and memory problems to seizures and stroke. She and her colleagues have designed an experimental drug to neutralize these auto-antibodies. If this drug proves safe in animal studies, clinical studies will then look at its effectiveness in lupus patients.
Continuing to build on her findings, Dr. Diamond went on to show that these auto-antibodies can cross the placenta and harm the brain of the fetus. According to Dr. Diamond, this subset of auto-antibodies which cause miscarriage in mouse experiments occurs in about 40% of patients with lupus.
Her latest study with pregnant lab mice with a lupus-like disease, revealed that these auto-antibodies triggered the loss of more female than male fetuses.
These findings, reported in the May 2012 issue of the Journal of Experimental Medicine, may help explain reports of births of more boys than girls to women with lupus, she said. The reason for this gender bias could not be determined but the study provides clues for further exploration.
It is very encouraging that Dr. Diamond's fundamental discoveries show promise in developing new treatment approaches to reduce the risk of pregnancy loss for women with lupus.
For now, however, Dr. Diamondemphasized that the findings should not worry women with lupus who are pregnant or want to have a child. "Every woman, not just those with lupus, takes a risk when she becomes pregnant," she explained. "For women with lupus, there is some increased risk for fetal loss and complications. However, I don't discourage my lupus patients from becoming pregnant."
Most Women with Lupus Have Successful Pregnancies
Recognized expert in lupus pregnancy Jane E. Salmon, M.D., of the Hospital for Special Surgery in New York echoes Dr. Diamond's reassurance to women with lupus that pregnancy is often safe and successful. A study reported by Drs. Salmon and Buyon last year at the American College of Rheumatology Annual Scientific Meeting found that most women with stable lupus have successful pregnancies and healthy babies.
"Our findings showed that women with lupus whose disease is not active and who may be taking low dosages of prednisone are likely to have uncomplicated pregnancies.
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"Dr. Diamond's work is so important as pregnancy is a very real issue for women with lupus, said Margaret Dowd, President and CEO of LRI. "But also exciting is how this research demonstrates the progression of the science, from a novel, out-of-the-box idea through new drug development. We are very proud of Dr. Diamond for her achievement in following her scientific vision over the past decade, and we are proud of the LRI for providing the funding to help realize that vision into reality."


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"Based on the overwhelmingly positive response we've received from our in-store customers, we've decided to expand the Sears Blue Crew's presence online, so that our customers can also engage online on a personal level with our Blue Crew experts," said Scott Freidheim, EVP operating and support Businesses and Interim CMO of Sears Holdings. "By housing all Sears Blue Crew capabilities in one place online, customers will be able to easily get the information they're looking for at any time, anywhere and have the confidence that they are making smart decisions when it comes to purchasing new products for their homes."
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Armed rebel groups in Algeria have killed 22 people and wounded four others in a period of less than 24 hours, according to security services.
Ten Algerian police officers were killed and two other injured on Wednesday in an ambush near the city of Tizi Ouzou, an estimated 110 kilometers east of the capital Algiers, hospital services said.
Two police vehicles came under fire from suspected Islamist militants armed with machine guns at around 4:30 p.m. (local time) on the outskirts of Beni Douala in the Berber region of Kabylie, the security services said.
The ambush came a day after 12 people were reported killed and two injured in a shooting at a fake checkpoint near Ain Defla, some 160 kilometers west of Algiers. (Albawaba.com)
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We are very pleased to announce the official opening of the new Lotus Flagship Showroom in
The 4,400 sq ft Showroom was officiated by the Chairman of Group Lotus , YBhg Tan Sri Dato' Sri Haji Mohd Khamil Jamil, who was accompanied by the Chairman of Richburg Motors Singapore, Mr Eric Wong. Also present at the event were His Excellency Mr Antony Phillipson, the British High Commissioner to
According to Tan Sri Haji Mohd Khamil, the launch of the Flagship Showroom in
Eric Wong of Richburg Motors is equally delighted to work with Lotus to help grow the brand in the region. "As a Lotus dealer in Hong Kong for eight years, it is my great pleasure to be appointed as the dealer for Lotus in
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The Flagship Showroom will be displaying the best from Lotus : The award-winning Exige S embodies the Lotus philosophy of performance through lightweight and focussing on the ultimate dynamic drive experience, whilst the stunning Evora with IPS transmission delivers exotic looks and Lotus' trademark handling in a refined package that makes it the perfect day-to-day sports car. But for some 'fun on the side' the Elise is the ideal second car, available with either a 1.6 or supercharged 1.8 litre engine, the Elise is a weekend joy ride or a track-day warrior; it is small, light and quick, delivering an agile and fun drive experience.
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The message did not come via special delivery. Instead, the news that the U.S. Postal Service is moving to end Saturday mail delivery of first-class letters in August landed with an unceremonious thud on our collective front porch.
"The Postal Service is advancing an important new approach to delivery that reflects the strong growth of our package business and responds to the financial realities resulting from America's changing mailing habits," Postmaster General Patrick R. Donahoe said Wednesday.
In other words, snail-mail is inching off into the sunset, and it's all our fault. But our Lands' End chinos will still arrive as scheduled. Just in time for our next meet-up. The one we arranged through Evite.
Given the fact that our friends at the Postal Service lost $15.9 billion in the last fiscal year, the writing was already on the civic wall. Like milk men and gas-station attendants, Saturday mail could be a genteel luxury we can no longer afford.
Judging by the no-sweat responses I got from locals, however, it is more likely just one more perk that a pragmatic America doesn't even expect anymore.
At the perpetually swamped Hillcrest post office, a man named Jim ("If I tell you my last name, they won't deliver my mail!" he boomed) had plenty of beefs with the U.S. Postal Service. Not enough people working behind the post-office counter on busy days. Too many promotional postal-service ads cluttering up the change-of-address forms. Grumpy postal workers.
But no mail on Saturdays? Not a problem.
"I send everything by mail," said Jim, who lives in the South Bay. "I'm 62, and I've been doing it this way my whole life. I don't trust the security of a computer. If they have to close down on Saturday to make better service, that doesn't bother me."
Businesses will not appreciate losing a day of direct-mail opportunities, and members of Congress and various postal unions have already registered their objections. But a study cited by postal officials says seven in 10 Americans support the no-Saturday plan. San Diego State University marketing professor Mickey Belch is one of them.
"I think it's a good thing," Belch said. "Obviously, (the postal service) can't continue to operate the way they've been operating. And the fact that you can put something in the mail to someone on the other side of the country and they will still get it in two days, that still amazes me.
For Americans of a certain age (ancient) and temperament (panicky), however, it is another alarming sign that a Quality of Life Apocalypse is upon us. And not just because we may not get our Entertainment Weekly until the week is long over.
"Anyone who has ever been in love with someone in the era of letters knows it tickles you when you get a letter from someone you love," said Esteban del Rio, associate professor of communication studies at the University of San Diego. "I remember getting letters from my now-wife when we were dating in college, and I would take them somewhere where I could be alone to read them. I still have them."
A world with less mail is a world with fewer handmade birthday cards and handwritten thank-you notes, which means a world with fewer people sharing well-chosen words with the people they love. Who wants to live in a world like that? Spoiler alert: We already do.
"That postal service is one of those civil services that is always there, so it breaks your heart a little from that perspective," del Rio said. "But if you start reading social media and commentary, I think a lot of (the worries) are motivated by nostalgia. We are nostalgic for a time when we wrote letters and put them in the mail, but most of us don't do that anymore. A lot of young people think it's silly that there is a mail service at all."
At 70 years old, Judie Roberts is not part of the paperless generation. But even as she was leaving the post office, the Hillcrest retiree had no intention of bidding a sad goodbye to Saturday delivery. For mail-service mourners, it is a message worth passing along. Chain letters anyone?
"It just means less junk mail to sort through," Roberts said briskly. "I don't really think (the postal service) will go away altogether. They may make a lot of modifications, but look how long we have had mail. Look at the Pony Express for goodness sake."
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Nam was pronounced dead at the scene. It was not clear why he committed suicide, authorities said. (An earlier version of this story listed the wrong age for the man who died. He is 35.)
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In any event, you should train yourselves: 'Our minds will be unaffected and we will say no evil words. We will remain sympathetic to that person's welfare, with a mind of good will, and with no inner hate. We will keep pervading him with an awareness imbued with good will and, beginning with him, we will keep pervading the all-encompassing world with an awareness imbued with good will — abundant, expansive, immeasurable, free from hostility, free from ill will.' That's how you should train yourselves.
I found the metta and Karanya metta sutta's through google but they seem to be general discourses on metta.
Maarten wrote:Vimalaramsi say the Buddha recommended it more that anything else.
Hanzze wrote:Maarten wrote:Vimalaramsi say the Buddha recommended it more that anything else.
Does he also quote any recources about his idea? Metta is a good protection for one self and others (if not just hypocratical) but at least not a factor of enlightenment.
Pervading The Divine Abiding – MN7 (excerpt) wrote:Mettā-sahagatena cetasā ekaṃ disaṃ pharitvā viharati Tathā dutiyaṃ tathā tatiyaṃ tathā catutthaṃ Iti uddhamadho tiriyaṃ sabbadhi sabbattatāya Sabbavantaṃ lokaṃ mettā-sahagatena cetasā Vipulena mahaggatena appamāṇena averena abyāpajjhena pharitvā vihāratī
I will abide pervading one direction with a mind endowed with friendliness; in the same way the second, in the same way the third, in the same way the fourth; thus above, below, around and everywhere, extended to all; renouncing the entire world with a mind endowed with friendliness; dwelling suffused with this abundant, lofty, & limitless state that is without aggression, or ill-will.
"Sigalovada Sutta: The Discourse to Sigala" (DN 31), translated from the Pali by Narada Thera. Access to Insight, 24 March 2012, http://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka ... .nara.html . Retrieved on 9 September 2012. wrote:"And how, young householder, does a noble disciple cover the six quarters?
"The following should be looked upon as the six quarters. The parents should be looked upon as the East, teachers as the South, wife and children as the West, friends and associates as the North, servants and employees as the Nadir, ascetics and brahmans as the Zenith.
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The White House continued its outreach Wednesday to business on the so-called fiscal cliff by holding a meeting with Wall Street executives.
The meeting was hosted by senior White House adviser Valerie Jarrett, Jeffrey Zients, the acting director of the Office of Management and Budget, and Jason Furman, deputy director of the National Economic Council.
Attendees, according to a person familiar with the meeting, included Stefan M. Selig, executive vice chairman of global corporate and investment banking at Bank of America/Merrill Lynch, Jonathan D. Gray, global head of real estate at Blackstone Group Management, and Jes Staley, chairman of J.P. Morgan Chase's Corporate & Investment Bank.
President Barack Obama, meanwhile, held a meeting and conference call Wednesday with mayors and county officials to discuss negotiations over a budget deal. The White House said attendees included Mayor Bob Buckhorn of Tampa, Fla.; Mayor Chris Coleman of St. Paul, Minn.; Mayor Michael Coleman of Columbus, Ohio; Mayor Ted Ellis of Bluffton, Ind.; Judge Clay Jenkins of Dallas County, Texas; Mayor Mark Mallory of Cincinnati, Ohio; Executive Russ Pry of Summit County, Ohio; Mayor Marie Lopez Rogers of Avondale, Ariz., and Mayor Raul Salinas of Laredo, Texas.


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Anaheim, Detroit, Jersey City and Miami to play in RBI World Series title games
A group of RBI players will receive the experience of a lifetime in Arlington, Texas when they take the field tomorrow at Globe Life Park in Arlington, the home of the Texas Rangers, to represent their respective cities in the championship games of the 2014 Reviving Baseball in Inner Cities (RBI) World Series. Angels RBI of Anaheim, Calif. and Jackie Robinson RBI of Jersey City, N.J. will vie for the Senior Baseball Division Championship, which is scheduled to be played tomorrow at 11:45 a.m. ET. The game will air on MLB Network and stream on MLB.com on Saturday, August 16th at 4:30 p.m. ET. The Jackie Robinson RBI league from Jersey City won the Senior Division Championship in 2012.
In the Junior Division, Detroit Arsenal Youth Sports & Fitness RBI will take on Miami Marlins RBI at 8:30 a.m. ET. A team from Detroit won the Junior Division Championship from 2006 to 2008. Miami last won the Junior Division Championship in 1997.
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RBI alumni on MLB rosters during the 2014 regular season include Michael Bourn (Cleveland Indians), Carl Crawford (Los Angeles Dodgers), Coco Crisp (Oakland Athletics), Yovani Gallardo (Milwaukee Brewers), James Loney (Tampa Bay Rays), Manny Machado (Baltimore Orioles), Anthony Rendon (Washington Nationals), CC Sabathia (New York Yankees), Tyler Skaggs (Arizona Diamondbacks) and Justin Upton (Atlanta Braves), among others. Crawford (Houston RBI - '97), Loney (Houston RBI - '99), Crisp (LA RBI - '95, '96) and Gallardo (Fort Worth RBI - '03) have each played in the RBI World Series.
In the 2012-2014 First-Year Player Drafts, 40 RBI alumni were selected, with 27 of those players participating in past RBI World Series tournaments. The RBI program, which has served approximately 2 million young people since 1989, currently serves approximately 230,000 young people in 300 programs in over 200 cities worldwide. For more information, visit MLB.com/rbi.


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As California pushes to keep citrus greening out of the state's commercial groves, growers and packers in Tulare County are implementing new restrictions with no audible murmurs or grumbles.
Obviously they want to be able to keep selling fruit in the next six months after the latest find, the third in a year there, of an Asian citrus psyllid.
So you won't be seeing stems or leaves on product shipped from target zones in Lindsay and Strathmore, or Terra Bella. Their removal is now required. So is spraying of groves.
Longer term, producers want to escape Florida's fate. Florida is the scary bedtime story California citrus growers tell their kids.
Huanglongbing (HLB), or citrus greening, cost that state $3.6 billion in lost economic activity from 2006-11, according to the University of Florida.
Of that, $1.3 billion was in losses to growers.
"The questions from growers are, 'How do we make this work?'" said Bob Blakely, director of industry relations for Exeter-based California Citrus Mutual.
"There are no outcries, protests or threats not to comply. Between Citrus Mutual, the (California) Citrus Pest and Disease Prevention Committee and the county agricultural commissioner, I think you'll see a lot of peer pressure brought for everyone to participate. You'll see good compliance in Tulare County."
Previous psyllid findings clustered around urban residential areas to the south, in the Los Angeles and San Diego areas. (The lone HLB case was in residential Hacienda Heights.)
It's no small feat for an industry to speak with one voice, even on an important matter.
But expecting the same from homeowners would be sheer fantasy. They're a law unto themselves.
The straggler psyllids in Tulare are so few yet as to raise suspicions they rode up the road from parts south to the San Joaquin Valley.
Eradication could be a realistic outcome there. But to the south, the pest seems as well established as any homeowner.
A war of attrition goes on, but they too have taken out mortgages.
The real battle is to keep these city dwellers from encroaching on commercial groves in Riverside County.
"We'll have to be vigilant but we believe that we can stay ahead of it," Blakely said.
"I think we'll be able to slow it enough that we won't be looking at what they're dealing with in Florida unless we let our guard down."
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Three Los Angeles firefighters were injured this afternoon while fighting a house fire in Arleta.
One fell through the weakened eaves of the house, striking a colleague in the head and sending both men onto a pile of rubbish in the yard, which included metal shelves and computers.
"It was a hard landing, to say the least," said Brian Humphrey, a Los Angeles Fire Department spokesman.
The two were taken to Providence Holy Cross Medical Center in Mission Hills with injuries that weren't thought to be life-threatening.
A third firefighter suffered a glancing blow as the other two fell. He was treated at the scene, but not hospitalized, Humphrey said.
The fire, which was reported at 12:48 p.m. and took 16 minutes to put out, was in a one-story home at 9205 Dorrington Ave.
A resident told firefighters she left burning coals in metal bowls on top of a grill under a small tent or tarp structure, Humphrey said. A fire engulfed the tent and spread to the house, which was rendered uninhabitable.
The American Red Cross was helping the three adults and four children who lived there. They were not hurt.
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Sometimes, the smallest things make my day.
My family recently spent the week at Disney World with two other families. There were 11 of us all together. My friend (also a Tom Bihn fan) had the brilliant idea to bring the clear organizer wallet to help keep track of all our tickets and Fast Passes. It worked like a charm, especially with the little dividers to keep everything organized.
Even with the pouring rain we had a couple of days, our tickets and passes stayed dry, as did everything my friend carried in her Synapse.
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I'm a fan, and am getting ready to place an order for my own wallet, and um, a few other goodies. ;-)


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Safety and Efficacy Study of GS-5806 in Healthy Volunteers Infected With Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV) (Challenge)
This study has been completed.
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This study is to evaluate the antiviral effect of GS-5806 in healthy adults infected with a strain of Respiratory Syncytial Virus.
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- Change in viral load measurements. [ Time Frame: Post initial dose of GS-5806/placebo to Day 12 ]Area under the curve for viral load as measured by qRT-PCR assay from the first viral load measurement post initial dose of GS-5806 or placebo through day 12.
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- Change of baseline symptoms [ Time Frame: Innoculation through Day 12 ]Change of baseline symptoms post initial dose of GS-5806 or placebo through Day 12
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GS-5806, powder for oral solution
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- Body Mass Index of 18 to 33 kg/m2
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DeVincenzo JP, Whitley RJ, Mackman RL, Scaglioni-Weinlich C, Harrison L, Farrell E, McBride S, Lambkin-Williams R, Jordan R, Xin Y, Ramanathan S, O'Riordan T, Lewis SA, Li X, Toback SL, Lin SL, Chien JW. Oral GS-5806 activity in a respiratory syncytial virus challenge study. N Engl J Med. 2014 Aug 21;371(8):711-22. doi: 10.1056/NEJMoa1401184.
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A £37.5 billion plan to run and expand the railways in the period 2014-19 has been unveiled by Network Rail (NR).
If approved, the plan will provide 170,000 extra commuter seats at peak times by 2019, by which time the railways could be carrying as many as 225 million more passengers than at present.
But despite the big investment plans, NR envisages no overall improvement in train punctuality compared with the trains-on-time target for 2009-2014. A figure of 92.5% punctuality was set for the period 2009-2014 - a target which NR has failed to meet.
In the business plan, the company said it expected to achieve a trains-on-time figure of 92.5% "by the end" of the period 2014-2019.
NR also warned that even with the extra trains and seats this would "not be enough" on the busy West Coast Main Line where the added capacity of the London to Birmingham HS2 high-speed rail line project was, it said, "essential".
And NR chief executive Sir David Higgins added, ominously, that the industry, under pressure to cut costs, had entered "the era of trade-offs".
He went on: "Increasingly we have to balance the need to build more infrastructure, run trains on time and cut costs, and in many areas choices will need to be made."
To be agreed with and approved by the Office of Rail Regulation (ORR), the NR plan envisages improvements that by 2019, including various electrification schemes such as the Great Western and Midland Main Lines, station improvements at Birmingham New Street and Reading in Berkshire, and reopening 31 miles of railways in Scotland closed under the Beeching cuts of 50 years ago.
Office of Rail Regulation (ORR) chief executive Richard Price said: "Ministers have shown huge faith in what the railways can add to Britain's society and economy, committing to around £20 billion-worth of public money at a time when there is little money to go around."
Manuel Cortes, leader of the TSSA rail union, warned ministers against big annual fare hikes to pay for rail expansion. He said: "We obviously back rail investment to improve the service but passengers have already suffered enough pain with a decade of annual inflation-plus fare increases."


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What Are Heritable Disorders of Connective Tissue?
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More than 200 heritable disorders of connective tissue (HDCTs) affect the tissues between the cells of your body. The disorders are called "heritable," because they are passed on from parent to child. HDCTs come from changes to genes that build tissues.
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Genes carry our hereditary (family) information. We each have two copies of most genes: one set from each parent. Genes are what make you look like your biological family.
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Connective tissue supports many parts of the body (skin, eyes, heart, etc.). Think of it as "cellular glue" that:
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Connective tissue is made of many kinds of proteins. Sometimes genes that have changed make proteins that don't do their job right. This can change how the connective tissues work. Sometimes this leads to an HDCT.
What Are Some Kinds of Heritable Disorders of Connective Tissue?
Common HDCTs include:
- Ehlers-Danlos syndrome (EDS). This group of HDCTs mostly affects the skin and joints. With EDS, connective tissue becomes weak. This can cause fragile, sagging skin, and loose joints.
- Epidermolysis bullosa (EB). With these disorders, the skin blisters when it is stressed. For example, a hug could cause a blister.
- Marfan syndrome. This disorder can affect the heart, blood vessels, lungs, eyes, bones, and ligaments. People with this syndrome may be unusually tall and thin, with long arms and legs.
- Osteogenesis imperfecta (OI). With this disorder, bones break easily. Sometimes they break for no obvious reason.
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By one estimate, more than a half million people in the United States could have an HDCT. It can affect anyone. Some of these disorders are obvious at birth. Others don't become obvious until later in life.
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Each HDCT has its own symptoms. Some examples are:
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- Skin problems. There are HDCTs that cause loose skin, skin that hangs in folds, or blistered skin.
- Blood vessel damage. Some HDCTs lead to weak blood vessels. Other HDCTs can close-off or block blood vessels.
- Height issues. Some HDCTs cause people to be unusually tall or short.
- Head and facial structural problems. Certain HDCTs can make the head and face look different from others.
How Do Doctors Diagnose Heritable Disorders of Connective Tissue?
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Some people may also see a medical geneticist (someone who studies how genes affect people). Lab tests can confirm many HDCTs, but not all.
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With the U.S. presidential election over, it seems as though some uncertainty might lift. But gridlock remains and, for many businesses, reason for caution still abounds, as the fiscal cliff might not be resolved this year. As a reminder, the "fiscal cliff" is the $600 billion in tax increases and spending cuts that begins January 2013. The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office says it could send the U.S. economy into a recession if it is not resolved.
Will Congress successfully address the issue in the lame-duck session, or will it simply postpone the debate into the future? Or will the U.S. go off the cliff entirely? We just don't know for sure, though we can guess.
Businesses, however, tend not to like "guessing." That means decisions to hire, invest or expand get postponed or sidelined until clarity arrives on those fiscal issues. Yet, with Congress still divided between a Democratic Senate and a Republican House, will any bills even get through to the president?
How long, moreover, will gridlock remain? We hope it will end long before the U.S. reaches the fiscal cliff, but I have my doubts. If businesses have concerns, they may cut back before that occurs -- and we can in fact see this via surveys.
In the Business Roundtable's third-quarter CEO Economic Outlook Survey, the results index sank to 66 from the prior quarter's 89.1. According to the report, this was "the lowest reading since the third quarter of 2009 and the third largest single quarter drop in the survey's history."
Politics were to blame, according to the group, particularly relating to poor visibility of action in a gridlocked environment. 34% of CEOs plan to reduce employment in the next six months, while 29% plan to add to staff. In the second quarter, 20% planned to reduce staff, while 36% planned to add jobs. That's a big swing -- going to a net 5% of planned cut jobs from a net 16% planning to add them.
Small businesses were only a shade more optimistic, and still concerned about gridlock. In a press release, the National Federation of Independent Businesses summarized its members' views: "Few employers continue to think the current period is a good time to expand. The percent of owners viewing the current period as a bad time to expand due to political uncertainty reached a new record high for this business cycle at 22%."
While those surveys were taken before the election, they nonetheless represent the biggest political challenge businesses see: inaction. We still do not have any further clarity on what will happen to taxes or spending. The political divide continues as gridlock remains. The election hasn't changed that.
That is a shame, because consumers have been revving up their engines. For the economy to be off to the races, though, businesses must get the green light to go ahead with their own plans to hire and grow. Consumers' mood has improved to highs last seen several years ago, and they are spending more on discretionary, durable goods. Businesses are hiring more -- but, arguably, they would do even more if the future weren't still so cloudy.
What we need is for lawmakers to set aside their differences and come to a solution. I'm not even so sure that it has to be the absolute best solution, just as long as it is "good enough." We need to remove the guesswork for businesses about whether the fiscal cliff will be resolved and, if so, how. Consumers are quite ready to power the economy ahead. We just need Capitol Hill to give businesses the confidence they need to step on the accelerator.


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THREE young Pershore Swimming Club prospects travelled to Hereford for the last weekend of the Worcester County Championships.
Josh Sharratt, Chris Vizard and Isobel Cumming qualified for the gruelling 800-metre freestyle and the trio put in brave performances.
Sharratt produced a 28-second personal best in the boys' 12 years event to snatch bronze in 11 minutes 11.71 seconds for his first county medal.
Vizard was not too far behind Sharratt, clocking 11.16.83 for a 20-second pb.
Cumming went for Pershore in the girls' 11 years event and swam 12.19.83 to finish fifth.
Meanwhile, Pershore grabbed a crucial second spot in the Worcester Winter League second round at Bromsgrove.
The end result saw a win for Worcester 'A' (197 points) ahead of Pershore (160), Halesowen (150), Redditch (140) and Haden Hill (133), The town started well with a second place for the mixed 11 and under medley relay team.
Hope Rochelle and Michael Evans recorded good times in the 15 and under 100m freestyle but finished just outside a podium finish.
Naomi Marsden was third in the 13 and under 100m backstroke in 1.18.95 and Simon Sweatman finished first in the boys' equivalent in 1.12.84.
Katie Sharratt and Angus Jones just missed out on the top three in the open 100m butterfly.
Megan Annis was edged into second in the 11 and under 50m freestyle in 33.26, while William Gearey grabbed first place in the boys' equivalent in 30.91.
Amy Weston and Josh Sharratt swam up an age group in the 13 and under 100m butterfly, finishing third and second in 1.23.63 and 1.25.54 respectively.
Katie Sharratt produced 1.19.83 to take third in the open 100m backstroke and Jones managed fourth.
In the 11 and under 50m backstroke, Marsden recorded 35.83 to win, while Sweatman claimed the boys' equivalent in 35.01.
Isabella Woodcock and Vizard were both second in the 13 and under 100m breaststroke in 1.29.65 and 1.34.29 respectively.
Cumming was second in the 11 and under 50m butterfly in 41.59 and Sweatman won the boys' race in 33.82.
Beth Carter was second in 1.23.55 in the 15 and under 100m breaststroke.
The 13 and under mixed medley relay team celebrated a winning time of 1.44.74.
Woodcock and Gearey won in the 11 and under 50m breaststroke in 40.64 and 41.40 respectively.
Jasmine Taite was third in the 13 and under 100m freestyle in 1.12.39 and Gearey bagged the boys' contest in 1.07.70.
Carter, 14, then swam in the open 100m breast stroke and secured an impressive third in 1.25.20.
With just the relays left, Pershore were second in the mixed 11 and under 6x25m freestyle relay in 1.34.30.
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The first week in May, is a busy one in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia. It is the Apple Blossom Festival in Winchester, the Gold Cup Races at Great Meadows in the Plains Virginia and the beginning of the Art at the Mill Show in Millwood, Virginia. All of these events are just minutes from our Shenandoah Valley bed and breakfast. So come out this weekend; there is plenty to see and do, or just kick off your shoes in the backyard of the inn and enjoy the summer-like weather.
The firemen's parade is this Friday to kick off the Apple Blossom Festival in Winchester! If you haven't attended this parade it has the most fire trucks of any Firemen's parade in the country.
Our celebrities that will be out and about this year are Mario Lopez, of MTV's America's Dance Crew and author of Mario Lopez's Knockout Fitness and the beautiful Jazz Dorset, daughter of legendary sports figure with the University of Pittsburgh and the Dallas Cowboys.
The circus is in town and the Grand Feature Parade on Saturday will be a "Salute to Our Troops" with our local Virginia Girl, "Wounded Warrior" Capt. Leslie Smith, as the Grand Marshall. There are parties, sports breakfasts, dances, dinners, 10K race, the carnival, circus and much more. It is a local event the whole family can enjoy! A small town event at it's finest.
It is the 87th running of the Virginia Gold Cup and there are still some tickets for spaces left if you go to their website. This is a fun-filled day of steeplechase racing and tailgate picnics! The festive atmosphere and the thrill of the chase make this a must for any city folks. Bring a beautiful hat and let us pack you a picnic to take.
Every Spring and Fall, the Burwell Morgan Mill in the quaint village of Millwood, Virginia becomes an extraordinary art gallery. Over 300 judges artist display their pottery, sculpture, fine woodwork and all types of paintings. There is truly something for every taste and budget. This show runs through May 13 and is a must see for the art lover in this 18th century working mill. When the art show closes the mill resumes grinding of fresh flour for the year. You can stop in this summer and pick up fresh whole wheat, corn, blue corn, and general all purpose flours, just to name a few. Buying local comes to new heights.
So grab your gal and come out to the beautiful Shenandoah Valley of Virginia and enjoy all the countryside has to offer. And don't forget Mother on the 13th of May, the plant sale at the Virginia State Arboretum, Bland Farm and brunch here at L'Auberge Provencale from 11:30-2:30 and Mother's Day Dinner 2:30-7:00. Treat your mom to the best that is offered in the Valley at our Shenandoah Inn!


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MORE should be done to ensure everyone entitled to vote in West Somerset is on the register of voters, it is claimed.
The announcement comes as West Somerset was accused with four other South West authorities of not doing enough to ensure that voter lists are as accurate as possible.
The district authority, and Taunton Deane, Mid Devon, Torridge and West Devon councils, were criticised in Parliament for not carrying out enough door-todoor checks last year to make sure its register is as accurate as possible.
The overall response rate to the 2013 canvass in West Somerset was 92%, compared to the average response rate in England of approximately 94%.
Since 2008, 90 council officials have failed in at least one year to meet the Electoral Commission's standards for door-to-door canvassing.
Labour MP Chris Ruane told the political and constitutional reform committee a 'lackadaisical' approach by some councils has resulted in millions of people across the country being unable to vote.
He said that as a result, nearly six million people have disappeared off the electoral register.
A West Somerset spokesman said the council now shares an electoral services team with Taunton Deane and is working with the Electoral Commission on implementing Individual Electoral Registration when a full door-to-door enquiry service will be rolled out.
They said: "West Somerset has carried out door-to-door canvassing in its most populated areas. "However, the district covers a substantial and very rural area, including part of Exmoor, and has historically found it extremely difficult to find recruits willing to carry out the work.
A source close to West Somerset Council said: "This is ridiculous.
"I hope it's sorted and next year the standards are met."
Voters in England and Wales will be able to register online this summer.


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Topic: Starting SBRT Thursday, 5/2
Hi Everyone,
As some of you may know, I was suppose to leave tomorrow for a pilgrimage to Lourdes, France for healing. However, I started having dark urine and some pain over the weekend. I went to my GP, thinking (really hoping) it was an UTI and she would give me antibiotics and send me on my way. Sadly, not the case - bilirubin is very high. Results were given to my radiation oncologist and she said I have to start SBRT right away or I could turn jaundiced in a few days. She said this is a sign the tumor is growing and squeezing on the bile duct. So I'm starting this Thursday, 5/2.
I am very disappointed that I will not be going to Lourdes but am trying to stay positive and believe everything happens for a reason. God is in charge and He does know what's best. Better this happened before I left for the trip rather than when I was in France.
Please keep me in your thoughts and prayers. I'm praying the SBRT works for me.


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Discussion in 'Jack's Place' started by Sad Navigator, Jan 21, 2011.
sorry, i'm going to see the Jayhawks tonight. this doesn't even chart.
Have I ever told you that I find the Jayhawks super-boring?
yes. you're still wrong.
They're still boring.
Scott Miller & The Commonwealth/V-Roys > Jayhawks
that said...
The song posted by SN sucks just about as hard as anything has ever sucked. Just IMHO of course. No need to get all butthurt about it, bros.
I think the forumites here are broken.
Instead of Johnny 5, someone should have disassembled Apt # 5.
man, the V-Roys. i saw them open up for GSW back in the late 90s at the Wetlands. Steve Earle guested with them during the set. always dug them.
You've surprised me. I was just trying to get your goat because I thought I remembered you saying that you didn't like the V-Roys way back in the day on HC. If you really do like them, however, I'll send you a bunch of stuff. They have to be in my top-5 favorite bands.
I've only ever heard some Jayhawks clips at a Borders listening station. You want to swap some tunes?
i mean, they were never my favorite, but i dug them.
tuneswap in effect. will try to get you something by Sunday.
No...not the prettiest song I will hear today.
Cool. I'll send something your way pretty soon.
Oh! She said "fuck." That's edgy!
I don't think that "edginess" is the point, yo.
Christ! That sucked a bag of dicks.
So you didn't like it? I think it's great.
I didn't enjoy that very much, no.
And the Yayhoos > the V-Roys. I'm just sayin'...
Disagree, but that seems like a cool band.


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since we're living in the transaction blackout, I thought this would be a good time to post your "if I were in charge" preferences.
Here's the list of players we've got on contract right now:
F Jones
As far as I know (and I'm sure someone will correct me ) these are our unrestricted free agents:
J Jones
Anyone notice that there are 16 names total?
Let's take a new angle - here are the players who either have no contract or the contracts end next summer (again, corrections welcome):
F Jones
E Gill
J Jones
SO LETS GET TO IT - barring trades, who do you sign or extend? Why?
My answers:
Pollard - despite how I like his personality, there's no need to explain how he only has value as cap space clearing trade fodder.
Fred Jones - The only guy I would consider extending right now, I still need to be cautious and wait until next summer to sign him, even if it's only in a sign-and-trade. He's wicked talented but right now he's not someone I would mold a team around. I just think he'd be much better and much more valuable on one of the quicker West Coast teams. He can be a mid-level star and a top scorer in a running offense, and other teams probably know this and are watching (and waiting).
Gill - keep him this year and then let him go FA. Again, an improvement at PG is not going to happen in-house. I'll wish him luck and thank him for stepping up during the season from hell.
Dale Davis - Don't think. Sign him and sign him now. Even if it's just for PR and 15 minutes worth of muscle a night, he's worth it. That is, as long as he doesn't want way too much money in return.
Edwards - no explanation needed when I say dump him, but I renew my prediction from a few months ago that he will be with the organization again this season.
James Jones. I'm sorry to say it, but he's expendable, especially with the addition of Granger. Sign and trade or outright release.
Lorbek. I don't know this guy from Adam, so I won't state a preference until I hear more.
SO - leaving trades out of it - what would you do? Extend? Sign? Let expire?


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Here's the catch: The individual mandate penalties will be pretty weak as they are phased in over two years — only $95 when they start in 2014, much less than it costs to buy insurance. And yet, everyone with pre-existing conditions will have to be accepted for coverage right away.
That's why insurance companies are telling the administration the mandate won't be enough for the first two years. They want more incentives — such as a late enrollment fee — to get healthy people to sign up quickly. Without getting the healthy folks in, the fear is that everyone's health insurance premiums could shoot through the roof when all those sick people get their coverage.
The idea is being called "mandate plus" — because some of the ideas were floated by health experts last year as replacements, in case the Supreme Court struck the mandate down. Now that the mandate is here to stay, insurance companies and some policy experts say the other ideas should go hand in hand with the coverage requirement to make the whole system work — and be affordable.