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The surprise visit, however, was in some ways inevitable. For weeks, there had been speculation that Bush would use the occasion to visit Afghanistan a country that the president had never visited but that his wife, Laura, had, as well as Vice President Dick Cheney, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld. At some point it probably would have become embarrassing for the White House if the President were the only top-ranking official not to visit the country to which he had dispatched thousands of American troops. Eventually Bush�s absence would only have highlighted the fragile security situation in the country, where attacks on the Karzai government have been on the rise and President Bush had to swoop in under the protection of military escorts in a Blackhawk helicopter instead of the unarmed Presidential chopper that usually ferries him around.
As it happened, the meetings went off without a hitch. Bush met with President Karzai to go over everything from the hunt against Al Qaeda to Afghanistan�s still heavy drug trade. Meanwhile, the First Lady met with female officials from the Karzai government to discuss health and education. Bush helped dedicate the American embassy in Kabul, joking with the new ambassador, Ron Neumann, whose father had also been ambassador to Afghanistan. �There�s nothing wrong in a son following a father�s footsteps,� said Bush to laughter. Later he thanked U.S. troops at Bagram air base and praised Afghanistan�s transition to democracy. Before leaving Afghan soil, Bush also vowed that Osama bin Laden would be caught. "I am confident [bin Laden] will be brought to justice," Bush said. "What's happening is, is we got U.S. forces on the hunt for not only for bin Laden, but those who plot and plan with him." What was left unsaid, of course, was that four and a half years after 9/11, that goal remains as elusive as ever, and Afghan President Karzai and Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf have traded barbs in recent days charging the other with not doing enough to crack down on Al Qaeda.
For Bush, it was then off to India, the first Republican president to visit the world's largest democracy in 35 years. That�s one chit that Bush gets to have that his father did not. (And Bush�s visit to Afghanistan makes him the first president since Dwight D. Eisenhower went there in 1959.) At a time when a new CBS/New York Times poll shows his approval rating sinking back to the mid-thirties, those are some of the few things he can really boast about.


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Hillary Carlson scored 21 points and grabbed 10 rebounds as Wyoming defeated San Diego State 63-51 on Wednesday night.
The Cowgirls (15-7, 6-4 Mountain West) shot just 31.7 percent (19 of 60) but hit several big shots to pull away in the second half.
Carlson banked in a 3-pointer at the shot-clock buzzer to give Wyoming a 41-30 lead with 13:37 to play, and Aubrey Vandiver did the same on a 2-pointer with 5:37 left to put the Cowgirls up 51-36.
Jene Morris scored 12 points and Allison Duffy and Quenese Davis added 10 each for the Aztecs (14-8, 6-4), who shot just 29.2 percent (19 of 65).
Vandiver finished with 18 points and 15 rebounds for Wyoming, her 13th double-double of the season. Jade Kennedy and Emma Langford added 11 points each for the Cowgirls. Wyoming outrebounded the Aztecs 50-43.

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I'm really not an early riser. I sure don't like the cold. And I certainly don't care for standing around for hours on end in freezing temperatures after getting out of bed really early and without enough sleep. But on Tuesday this week in Washington DC I gladly put aside all of these personal disinclinations to be on the National Mall for the inauguration of the 44th president of the United States, Barack Obama.
Sure it was uncomfortably cold as I waited, standing in the one spot for five long hours in frigid temperatures after being up since 4AM. Not only that but, like the majority of the other people that crammed all the way from the Lincoln Memorial to the Capitol Building on Tuesday, I didn't even catch a firsthand glimpse of the miniature faraway figure of Barack Obama on the steps of the Capitol Building. Instead I only got to see him (and everything else) on one of the many JumboTrons that were set up along the National Mall. But none of these temporary, uncomfortable inconveniences mattered one iota to me or seemingly to anyone else who had gathered in the numbingly cold pre-dawn to late morning hours patiently waiting for the historic ceremony to begin. It was all well worth it.
While varying reports I have read estimated Tuesday's turnout to be anywhere from 1.5 to 2 million, all seem to agree that it was a landmark event with a stunning turnout. Consider in comparison that for the last inauguration, George W Bush's second in January 2005, that a mere 100,000 showed up, and many of them were protesters. Meanwhile, for this year's inauguration festivities an estimated 10,000 charter buses, packed with revelers from as far away as Chicago and California, descended upon Washington for Tuesday's events and the couple of days leading up to it. So crazy were the numbers arriving in the nation's capitol that not only were all hotels in the DC area completely booked (many reportedly jacking their rates way up in a direct correlation to demand) but hotels up to a three hour drive in all directions out of DC were also booked up. One guy told me how his friend had rented out his DC apartment for $2000 for a night. In fact, get this, even all the campgrounds in the greater DC area were all booked up, and trust me, this is not camping weather on the East Coast. Many, like me, were lucky to have friends living in the DC/Maryland/Virginia areas who they could stay with.


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The "morality of homosexuality" became the major issue at the statehouse in Helena, Mont., Tuesday regarding a bill that would require insurance companies to offer group health coverage for domestic partners of the employees they insure. While supporters of the measure said it is a matter of fairness for unmarried couples of any sexual orientation, critics assailed it as lending legitimacy to a lifestyle they abhor. "Heterosexual, monogamous relationships are the only proper context for sexual expression," said Tei Nash, representing Missoula group Coalition for Community Responsibility. Jenny Dodge, spokeswoman for family advocacy group Citizens Network, said the notion of domestic partners "diminishes the family to a living arrangement between two people without any commitment or moral
But those backing House Bill 692 told the house state administration committee that denying health care insurance to same-sex partners while allowing it for heterosexual couples smacks of discrimination. The constitution was written for all Montanans, but not all citizens have an equal opportunity for a healthful environment when it comes to health insurance, said Rep. Rosie Buzzas, sponsor of the measure. The committee took no immediate action on the bill.
HB692 requires those wanting domestic-partner coverage to provide proof of financial interdependence and show that they are in a "committed relationship" expected to continue indefinitely. The measure acknowledges that extending health benefits to same-sex couples doesn't represent state authorization of the right of marriage for gay men and lesbians, which remains prohibited by law.
The issue of insurance coverage for partners of gay employees has been a hot one for the Montana university system in recent years. The system has refused requests to provide such coverage, and a district judge last November upheld that policy. Buzzas said that benefits, including insurance, account for about 30% of an employee's compensation, and gay and lesbian workers should not be disadvantaged just because of their sexual partners.


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The world of advanced baseball statistics can be an intimidating place for those of us who slept our way through advanced algebra or haven't been a follower of the Bill James revolution from the beginning.
Still, that doesn't mean that we should feel left out when it comes to another way of understanding and appreciating the game we all love. With that in mind, BLS stat doctor Alex Remington will explore a new advanced statistic each week during the offseason, providing a simple primer for the uninitiated.
Today's statistic: Win Shares
What Win Shares Means: Win Shares was first advanced in a book of the same name that Bill James wrote in 2002. It's an extension of an older stat of his called Runs Created that tries to measure the number of runs that a hitter has put on a scoreboard. (The earliest version of Runs Created was simply the product of OPS x Total Bases. Recent versions take many more offensive outcomes into consideration, including baserunning.)
Win Shares attempts to measure how many wins a hitter or pitcher has personally notched for his team in the standings. Unlike other new-school stats, Win Shares look quite explicitly at the standings: A 90-win team has more Win Shares to allocate than an 80-win team.
Win Shares are defined as 1/3 of a win — three Win Shares are equal to one team win. Why three? Well, the number is arbitrary. Since Win Shares are only whole integer values, James wanted to pick a number that was neither too small, so as not to lose a great deal of information in rounding, nor too big, because the estimators in Win Shares weren't precise enough to differentiate between 1/10 of a win and 2/10 of a win.
Win Shares have changed since they were first introduced. Bill James later introduced a stat called "Loss Shares" because Win Shares themselves are never negative. They have also been eclipsed in popularity by Tom Tango's WAR which was introduced in 2008.
It sounds like James is still tinkering with the formula and others have made tweaks too. However, Hardball Times, which carried Win Shares data for years, is no longer tracking them, having recently replaced their player pages with links to FanGraphs (which prefers to measure WAR instead).
How to calculate Win Shares: I'm just going to paraphrase Dave Studeman's definition over at Baseball Graphs, the best encapsulation of the method available on the web, because it's a long process. (If you want to know how long, read Brandon Heipp's fine-toothed walkthrough.) Win Shares for offense (batting and baserunning) and defense (pitching and fielding) are calculated separately and allocated proportional to the overall contribution that each made. That proportion is determined by calculating each player's marginal contribution to the whole.
The team's number of Win Shares is equal to its win total times three. To allocate team Win Shares, we look at Marginal Runs. The insight is similar to that in WAR for a replacement player — namely, that we only care about the runs scored and prevented by the team above and beyond what a minimally acceptable offense and defense would provide. This is preferable to starting from zero, because you can't start a game without nine men in your lineup. (Note: Win Shares themselves are allocated from a team's win total, and are NOT adjusted for replacement value. Hardball Times's Win Shares Above Bench, below, addresss this problem.)
Offensive Marginal Runs are equal to Team Runs Scored minus 52 percent of the League Average Runs Scored; Defensive Marginal Runs are equal to 152 percent of the League Average Runs Allowed minus Team Runs Allowed. Then, add them together and calculate the proportions: Offensive Marginal Runs divided by Total Marginal Runs, and Defensive Marginal Runs divided by Total Marginal Runs. The team's Win Shares are allocated proportionally to the offense and defense according to their percentage of the total Marginal Runs.
Next we do the same for each player. We calculate their marginal proportions using Runs Created per 27 Outs (RC/27, a measure of how many runs the player creates over the usual length of a game). Subtract 52 percent of the league average RC/27 from the player's RC/27, and adjust for ballpark; this gives us each player's marginal RC/27. Do this for every player on the team and add them all up. Then allocate the team's offensive Win Shares to each based on their proportion of the sum.
That leaves us pitching and defense, which we similarly have to separate. Pitchers are allocated runs based on the components of FIP, home runs, walks and strikeouts. Fielders are allocated runs based on extraordinary plays like passed balls, errors and double plays, as well as the a measure of how many routine plays the team converts into outs (we use a park-adjusted version of a stat called Defense Efficiency Ratio, which is like BABIP for fielders). However, the proportions are bounded: "Pitching never is credited with less than 60 percent, or more than 75 percent, of defensive Win Shares."
Just as we did with RC/27, we calculate each pitcher's marginal runs not allowed, as well as wins, losses and saves. Closers are given credit for their high-leverage innings. Then, pitchers are docked credit if they're truly awful hitters. Unearned runs are split evenly between pitchers and fielders. The most complicated part of all (!) is fielding, because each position has its own formula, involving calculations of things like errors, putouts, double plays, and assists. As usual, we allocate the Win Shares proportionally according to the player's marginal contribution to his team's fielding total.
I am not aware of a public explanation of the Loss Shares method (other than Tom Tango's rough assumption) — or of easily available measures of Loss Shares.
What Win Shares is good for: Unlike WAR (and other win-based measurements like Baseball Prospectus's WARP), Win Shares are allocated from a team's actual win total. As a result, they may be better for discussions about real-world awards like All-Star selections and MVPs, flawed as they are, than stats like WAR which seek to separate a player from his context as much as possible. Generally speaking, a 20 Win Share season (equal to 20/3, or about 6.7 team wins) is an All Star-type campaign; a 30 Win Share season (equal to 10 team wins) is an MVP-type season. (Note that the underlying win values in each of these are different from those in WAR. In WAR, an All Star-type campaign is usually between 4-6, and MVP is usually between 7 and 9.) As Studeman wrote in 2004, "The Win Shares system actually goes to great lengths to make sure the total contribution from all players equals the number of games his team actually won. None of the other stats do that."
When Win Shares doesn't work: It's a really long and complicated process for a stat that few people prefer to WAR, but instructive as a window into the mind of Bill James, one of baseball's great innovators — and also a cautionary tale for anyone thinking about devising her or his own stat. As Bill James himself admitted in 2008, six years after he introduced it, "There are some things about it that are fouled up." Hardball Times did some good work to tweak and improve Win Shares, such as the calculation of Win Shares Above Bench, which was basically an attempt to add a replacement adjustment (the Above Replacement in Wins Above Replacement) to Win Shares. But, as we've seen, they wound up giving up and simply switching to WAR.
Tom Tango believes that Win Shares (along with Loss Shares) are essentially a version of Pete Palmer's Linear Weights, which are also an inspiration for Tango's own wOBA and WAR, and asks: "Since we can derive Win Shares from Linear Weights, then why go through this whole exercise? Linear Weights is far easier to calculate." He's obviously a proponent of his own stat, but most baseball bloggers at this point would probably agree with him.
Why we care about Win Shares: Win Shares was a fascinating intellectual exercise, an attempt to derive a new total value stat that actually corresponded to a team's win total that wound up straddling the line between what I've been calling old-school and new-school: traditional metrics that measure what happened, like runs and wins, and new metrics that try to measure what should have happened in a neutral environment, controlling for things like park effects, defense, teammate strength, handedness, and so on. New-school stats are most popular among the hardcore fantasy baseball crowd, because they tend to be much better predictors of future performance. But because they attempt to control for context — and dumb luck — they're not necessarily great descriptors of what actually happened. Old-school stats reflect the scoreboard and standings. Win Shares tries to do a little of both.
Bill James is a great innovator, but he's also an employee of a major league team who's no longer able to do his best work in the public domain. Win Shares is not a perfect stat by any means and at this point, WAR is easier to find, easier to use, and more popular. Win Shares is an interesting answer to an interesting question: given the number of wins a team actually has, how can we figure out how they add up? This is just the beginning of the answer. Bill James is one of the best at asking good questions. Win Shares are a good start. But they also go to show that the first answer isn't always the best, even when it's offered by Bill James.
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Now that Edward Snowden has temporary asylum in Russia, he has the freedom to travel anywhere in that country and work. Apparently, he may already have a job offer.
Late Thursday, the founder of Russia's Facebook-like social network site VKontakte, made what sounded like a job offer.
"We will be happy if he decides to supplement the team of star programmers at VKontakte," Durov wrote on his page.
Meanwhile, the usual crowd of grandstanding US politicians are howling for retaliation against Russia for this flagrant act of lese-majeste by Russia. This is going to box in Obama and he has not helped himself by suggesting that he might not go to the G20 summit in St. Petersburg next month or the subsequent one-on-one summit meeting in Moscow with the Russian president. Now if he goes, he will look weak and if he doesn't go, he will look stupid.
Journalist Amy Goodman sums up the peculiar state of affairs where major war criminals and white collar criminals walk free while those who expose them at great personal risk are hounded and put in prison for long sentences.
"What a dangerous edifice war is, how easily it may fall to pieces and bury us in its ruins," wrote Carl von Clausewitz, the 19th-century Prussian general and military theorist, in his seminal text "On War", close to 200 years ago. These lines came from the chapter "Information in War", a topic that resonates today, from Fort Meade, Maryland, where Bradley Manning has just been convicted of espionage in a military court, to the Ecuadorean Embassy in London, where WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has lived for more than a year, having been granted political asylum to avoid political persecution by the United States, to Russia, where National Security Agency whistle-blower Edward Snowden has been granted temporary aslyum.
Manning took incredibly courageous actions to release data, to pierce the fog of war, to make public the machinations of modern American war-making. Edward Snowden has exposed the sophistication and extraordinary reach of the US surveillance state, cracking down on those who would dare to release information. And Julian Assange sits within the four walls of his embassy redoubt, persecuted for the crime of publishing. Yet those who planned the wars, those who committed war crimes, those who conduct illegal spying, for now, walk free.
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"Red, White and Tuna," making its Lubbock debut Tuesday with the first of eight performances at the Municipal Auditorium, is a comfortable blend of skit comedy, one-liners, silly burlesque and, quite often, only barely veiled satire.
Indeed, the team of lead comedy writer Jaston Williams, Joe Sears and the invisible Ed Howard, who also directs, obviously felt that more humor could be mined from the lives of now familiar residents of Tuna, Texas.
They were right.
The play is hilarious.
There's a zinger for everyone, as the Tuna team takes on everything from blatant Texas racism to the art world.
Witness artist Stanley Bumiller explaining with a laugh that he spray paints road kill because the folks over in Santa Fe, N.M., pay big bucks to own such pieces.
Sears and Williams return to play almost a dozen characters apiece and, if not every man or woman is as dignified as the next, they are at least consistent in actions and beliefs.
The decision to introduce '60s dropouts Amber Wind-Chime and Star Bird-Feather Fern and Bernice, to those who knew them back at school was risky. Yet their scenes find humor in honesty and hope.
Fear arrives on the back of recognition rather than threats.
"Red, White and Tuna" follows on the heels of "Greater Tuna" and "a Tuna Christmas," and it makes no sense to try to compare them. It's an ongoing tale and "Red, White and Tuna" is but the latest chapter.
And one eventually celebrating life's second chances.
Meanwhile, Independence Day and a high school reunion have the town excited in the current comedy. Not to mention a competition for free meals, a zircon tiara and the title Reunion Queen waged by Pearl Burras, Didi Snavley and Vera Carp.
Vera still hasn't found many books that shouldn't be banned. Didi explains with comedic frankness how America won its wars, then hawks used weapons. And Pearl, while friendly, can show a malicious streak and trade verbal put-downs like a gunslinger firing bullets.
Two actors play more than 20 characters, with almost 50 costume changes, and also react with split-second timing to sound and lighting effects.
"Red, White and Tuna" is complex staging disguised as simple comedy. Both actors are marvelous, although a number of patrons complained that Williams could not be consistently heard and understood Tuesday.
Some humor is Texas born Arles Struvie wears his boots to weddings and says, "If Heaven has a dress code, I'll walk to hell in my Tony Llamas" yet the characters are universal and audiences everywhere are bound to laugh both with and at them.
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When he began experiencing trembling in his legs, which only got worse, he had a checkup and received the bad news that he had been diagnosed with Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS), an incurable disease.
ALS is a rare muscular dystrophy, which is detected among one of 10,000 people. There are an estimated 700 ALS sufferers in Israel. The patients' life expectancy is particularly low, between three to five years, and only 10% will be able to live with the disease for 10 years.
Although his condition deteriorated gradually, Omri stayed in the army, moved to the Intelligence Corps and was promoted to captain.
Thanks to an innovative treatment, his disease stopped progressing. With the help of senior IDF officials, he received the experimental treatment for a second time, as well as a new infusion of hope.
"It was bad news, but I wasn't discouraged and I moved on with my life," Omri says, recalling the moment he learned about his disease. "I took an unpaid leave from the IDF and went on a six-month journey to South America. When I returned, I had the option of rotting in front of the television at home or doing something significant which would add interest to my life. I think the army is the best way."
Fifteen months ago, Omri joined a clinical trial conducted by the BrainStorm company at the Hadassah Medical Center in Jerusalem. He was treated by Prof. Dimitrios Karussis, director of the Multiple Sclerosis Center at Hadassah and chairman of the Israeli Neuroimmunological Society at the hospital, which is conducting the trial.
"My mother and I spent months looking for anything that would give me some kind of hope, and when I heard about the trial I realized that I must participate," he says.
"In the treatment we take adult stem cells from the patient's bone marrow," the professor explains. "We then use them to create a tissue culture in order to breed the stem cells in larger numbers, and then we use growth factors to make the stem cells more close resemble neurons.
"These cells are injected into the muscle or implanted through lumber puncture into the cerebrospinal fluid, which reaches the spinal cord and the brain. And so, the substance reaches the motor areas damaged by the disease, prevents the ongoing degeneration of the cells, and even encourages them to renew and rebuild. There was an excellent response, and no serious side effects were recorded."
The trial included a total of 24 patients, and 60% of them recorded a clinical response to the treatment. In other words, the deterioration in the chronic illness slowed down, was halted or in a small number of cases even showed a slight improvement.
After the first stage of the experiment, which examined its safety, the trial is now in its second stage, which examines efficiency and safety in a small group of patients. A third stage planned later on will include a wider examination with a control group.
Since being diagnosed as an ALS patient, Omri's condition deteriorated gradually. His motor skills were impaired, his breathing deteriorated to only 80%, he finds it difficult to talk and hold on to objects. He is also forced to use a walking stick and relies on his friends' support in order to walk.
But Omri's treatment stopped his deterioration, and his ability to move his hands has even improved. He was the youngest patient ion the group; Prof. Karussis explains that people in their 20s rarely suffer from muscular dystrophy, which usually appears between ages 45 to 65.
But several months later, the disease began deteriorating again, albeit at a slower pace. Senior officers in the Medical Corps pressed BrainStorm, Hadassah and the Health Ministry to allow the young captain to participate in a second trial, which was conducted about six months ago.
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"The second treatment was a sort of compassion treatment," Omri explains. "According to estimates, this treatment should be received every few months. The checkups show that the deteriorations stops around the months closer to the treatment, after which a very slow deterioration begins again. I am talking now and you can understand me, and I don't know if healthy people can understand what a relief it is.
"The IDF accompanied me throughout the entire process, from the diagnosis through the treatment. It didn't abandon me in any way. They told me that whatever I wanted would happen, and it's been that way till this very day."
Despite the disease, he won't let his life stop. He lives in Tel Aviv with friends, studies programming at the Open University and plans to continue his studies in the future. He arrives at the Kirya Base every day for his classified role in the Intelligence Corps and performs his missions like any other officer.
"I handle the gaps between the way I was and the way I am now and I move on. I understand that optimism is the only way to do it," says Omri. "This faith is one of the reasons why my treatment was more successful. it succeeded with everyone, but I am an extreme case."
BrainStorm is an Israeli-American company whose treatment is based on technology developed by Professors Daniel Offen and Eldad Melamed of Tel Aviv University. Additional trials are expected to begin in the coming days at Harvard University, the University of Massachusetts and Mayo Clinic in the United States.


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DHS Sets Guidelines For Possible Swine Flu QuarantinesMay 1st, 2009
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The U.S. Department of Homeland Security has sent a memo to some health care providers noting procedures to be followed if the swine flu outbreak eventually makes quarantines necessary.
DHS Assistant Secretary Bridger McGaw circulated the swine flu memo, which was obtained by CBSNews.com, on Monday night. It says: "The Department of Justice has established legal federal authorities pertaining to the implementation of a quarantine and enforcement. Under approval from HHS, the Surgeon General has the authority to issue quarantines."
McGaw appears to have been referring to the section of federal law that allows the Surgeon General to detain and quarantine Americans "reasonably believed to be infected" with a communicable disease. A Centers for Disease Control official said on Tuesday that swine flu deaths in the U.S. are likely.
Federal quarantine authority is limited to diseases listed in presidential executive orders; President Bush added "novel" forms of influenza with the potential to create pandemics in Executive Order 13375. Anyone violating a quarantine order can be punished by a $250,000 fine and a one-year prison term.
A Homeland Security spokesman on Tuesday did not have an immediate response to followup questions about the memo, which said "DHS is consulting closely with the CDC to determine appropriate public health measures."
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A group of nine of us gathered at Meritage for wonderful evening of fine rose wines from Solo Vino in St. Paul. The delightful menu was expertly paired and prepared by James Beard Best Chef Nominee Russell Klein.
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2010 Ameztoi Getariako Txakolina Rubentis
89 points
Light pink color with a bit of spritz. The nose shows raspberry and strawberry with minerals and a subtle briar essence. The palate is tart, light, good acid, strawberry, raspberry, nice. Very good sipper.
2010 Commanderie de la Bargemone Coteaux d'Aix-en-Provence Rosé
87 points
Incredibly pale salmon color. Nose is modest with citrus and mineral. The palate shows marked acid, citrus, mineral, and a bit of tannin. This needs some food, not a great sipper for me.
2010 Domaine Romy Beaujolais Rosé Cuvée non chaptalisée
90 points
Dmedium salmon color. Nose is also somewhat modest with watermelon, strawberry, spice. The palate is crisp and clean, nice balance, watermelon, citrus, strawberry, and some mineral, very tasty. Very nice gamay rose, price around 16.99, not to bad.
2009 Azienda Agricola Moroder Marche IGT
91 points
Nice strawberry color. Blend of 70% Montepulciano, 15% Sangiovese, and 15% Alicante. The nose is lovely with cherry, strawberry, melon, and earth. The palate is fresh and lively, bright strawberry, strawberry kool aid, nice acid and some tannins. This is very fun and very easy to enjoy.
Rosé - Sparkling
N.V. Lucien Albrecht Crémant d'Alsace Brut Rosé
90 points
Light orange salmon solor. Nose is red berries, mineral, yeast. The palate is consistent, criisp refreshing, strawberry, mineral, a touch of bitterness. Very tasty, I always enjoy this rose sparkler, great QPR and a crowd pleaser.
There was a nice mix of roses from France, Italy, and Spain. The WOTN for me was the Morodor rose blend.


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This makes me think of Jodie Foster in the movie " Nell"
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This makes me think of Jodie Foster in the movie " Nell"
That was hillarious. Christa starst to salivate at an ol southern style lynching. :triplets That was great. :clap
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:rofl Great job Fluff. Your descriptions are hilarious!
Good stuff Fluff,
My favorite quote is "Jiff informs the Morgans that hes about to call Guinness because this is the crappiest tribe ever". Too funny, everybody is thinking the same thing!!
Fabulous recap, as always, Fluff. :bowdown
There are so many funny things in this review--I think it was more entertaining than the show itself! Thank you so much! When I read the part about Andrew approaching Osten to give him support "like only he can," I thought I would die laughing. Bravo!! :clap :clap :clap
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Jiff informs the Morgans that hes about to call Guinness because this is the crappiest tribe ever.
Oh, man, Fluff! You were spectacularly funny yet again. I expect no less every week, but I just love laughing out loud when I'm reading. Thanks!
My favorites (not sure if they've been repeated yet, but I guess it doesn't matter, right? :laugh):
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he keeps looking round for two more, at which point the editing team decide to cut to a shot of the somewhat busty Tijuana (how did I miss that one? :laugh)
you could find it with such a crude tool. Speaking of which, we have yet to see any prolonged shots of Jon, so A+ for editing. (:rofl)
Jon informs her that his dad is bigger than her dad and in response, Sandra reminds him that she is rubber and he is in fact, glue. (:laugh :laugh)
Osten literally just sits there performing interpretive theatre. Tonight ladies and Gentlemen, I am ballast (I can just hear it! :))
the stamina of an five year old boy on a Saturday afternoon shopping trip (:nod :laugh Great analogy!)
I hate to do this to you Lill, but the slightest suggestion that your knot work might not be all that it should be means I have to ask for another badge back
Darrah wastes her one line this episode (:laugh Ain't THAT the truth?!)
Knowing that the person first in line will get to bail the quickest, Jon obviously takes up position there.
He discusses who to boot with Rhino, OT and T, and when they decide that D is capable of doing everything Scoutmaster Mrs. Lillian Morris does, it seems clear which way the vote will go. (:laugh Very insightful, F!)
Andrew takes Lill aside so she can listen to his pearls of wisdom while they inexplicably separate a length of rope into two thinner, weaker lengths of rope. (:rofl My favorite line of the whole thing!)
Jiff tells the rest of the tribe to get their torches and get out of his sight. (And one for the road. I love it! :laugh)


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Today Vic Gundotra revealed the many ways Google will be working in the social landscape in the very near future through a project entitled Google+. In many ways this is what groups like Facebook, Twitter, and even the dying MySpace have been trying to do for many years now, Google now appearing to take what they call a "broken" sharing system online and fixing it with a series of projects, each of them with a "+" in the title. All of this begins with the very recently rounded-up Circles legend yours truly spoke about on SlashGear. Behold the round futuristic landscape!
Below you'll see the first video, a sort of basic and general look at how this whole project is going to play out. With each of the smaller projects here comes a video as well, made by Google. Smart of them to create such videos so that the reporters don't mess it all up with their words. Google you cads!
This part of the project separates you from your friends. Sounds terrible! But it's not what you think. Much in the opposite way that Facebook places you in a sort of single group unless you take an extra few steps to separate your sharing into who can and cannot see, +Circles allows you to create circles of people into which you'll be able to share the media and text you'd like to share. Have a look at the following video, it makes this rather simple concept into a really ohh and ahh sort of deal:
What this element does is "break the ice" between you and other prospective friends and associates on the internet. Interests can be added to your account via an Add Interest button. Once you've got an interest added, that being any topic you want, (possibly even Adult or otherwise inappropriate for the general public content, we'll just have to see,) in just above 40 languages – this number current to the time this post was posted. You'll share to the subject you like. It's emphasized that the things you share, you share because you are passionate about them, not because you think other people will like them. Sound true to you?
This is very much the Google video sort of situation we've been waiting for, it appears, with a sort of chatroom being set up for your friends and associates at any given time, a main video sitting on top with several smaller ones below, or two cameras side by side, everyone just hanging out. While this may seem very much like video chat sites like TinyChat and StickAM out there today, it appears that Google's cleaned up approach will do away with all the evil, if you know what I mean.
Yes indeed, there will be an Android element here. Though perhaps, it seems, Google+ wont be limited to Android (because that'd be just silly,) and will focus on GPS, cameras (both video and photo), and messaging. Included in this is what Google calls "+Location, Location, Location" or more than likely just Location, this surrounding the fact that you can tag every bit of your content with your literal GPS location.
You'll also be able to upload instantly with a deal called Instant Upload. This functionality takes every photo you snap and adds them "instantly" to the cloud – aka accessible by you from anywhere you're able to sign in to your Google+ account. Will this incur large amounts of data costs on you through your carrier? We're thinking yes. Get those unlimited data plans ready! Of course, on the other hand, all of this is optional.
Tied directly to your Circles, Huddle will allow you to send out messages that will then be accessible by everyone in the circle you sent it to. Rather simple, rather amazing if it truly does include photos and videos down the line.
All of this, says Google, comes down to +You. You've got to test this stuff out, get some invites to the program, and download the apps. Currently there's a bit of the ol Google+ app in the market and it comes automatically with another app by the name of, you guessed it, +Huddle, but neither are working unless you've been invited to the Beta. We'll be testing all of this out asap- and I say this at the moment I post this on June 28th, and we'll have hands-on with all of it for you soon!


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SINGAPORE (ICIS)--Zhengzhou Naweigao Fertilizer plans to shut its nitrogen phosphorus potassium (NPK) units that have a combined capacity of 2m tonnes/year, for maintenance from 25 January, a company source said on Friday.
The company has a total of seven NPK units in the provinces of Henan and Hubei in central China.
The plants are expected to be restarted on 7 February, the source said.
Orders for NPK are limited in the weeks leading to the Lunar New Year holidays, the source said.
The Lunar New Year falls on 31 January.


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YALSA's Reads 4 Teens recommended reading for teen patrons is a downloadable collection of the best in the latest teen literature which includes 32 pamphlets and 4 bookmarks, each featuring a different theme or genre. Lists can be customized to include call numbers, library information, hours or teen specific programming before making copies available to patrons. All 36 resources included in this digital download can be printed in both color and black/white on 8.5" x 11" paper.
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Facebook partners with 'Saavn' with India in mind for global social music service
Facebook in its quest to crack the social music code is partnering with Indian start-up 'Saavn'. Facebook hopes that with Saavn's large repository of local music it will enrich its Indian audience with a global social music service, which will provide equitable local content. Facebook sees India as a high growth market and it hopes 'Saavn' with enable exactly that. According to a report by TechCrunch, it appears Saavn is already having a significant impact. Ever since its launch as an Facebook Timeline app four weeks ago, its user base has increased by 40 fold with user base increasing ...Read Full Article


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Julie James's FBI/US Attorney series gets its fourth installment this month with the release of Love Irresistibly, and the series continues to stay as strong as when I first fell in love with it.
These books center around the men and women of the FBI and US Attorney's office in Chicago, aggressive, hard-hitting heroes and heroines who have no trouble holding their own. All of the agents and lawyers in this book are driven men and women who love their jobs. They are fiercely competitive—both the men AND the women—and totally unapologetic about it. The rivalries are genuine, no punches are pulled, but when it comes down to it, they pull together as a team. That commitment gives all the characters so much life that they practically leap off the page. They are dedicated and passionate, workaholics even. But that creates some problems in romance department. Let's face it, for an agent undercover months at a time or a lawyer with her eyes on billing enough hours to make partner, it's hard to maintain much of a love life. But never fear! They find a way to make it work.
The series starts off with a bang. Something About You has a murder that possibly involves a senator and a couple with really good reasons for their really bitter feelings about their past. Disgraced agent Jack Pallas is back in town. No sooner has he arrived, then they are thrown together when she is the only witness to a murder. It doesn't start off well.
You go find this agent, whoever he is, and tell him that that the fussy woman in room 1307 is through being jerked around. And tell him that I would appreciate it very much if he could wrap up his little power trip and condescend to speak to me himself. Because I would like to know how long he expects me to sit here and wait."
"For as long as I ask you to, Ms. Lynde."
The voice came from the doorway.
Cameron had her back to the door, but she would've recognized that voice anywhere—low and as smooth as velvet.
It couldn't be.
She turned around and took in the man standing across the room from her. He looked exactly the same as he did the last time she'd seen him three years ago: tall, dark, and scowling.
In the second book, A Lot Like Love, agent Nick McCall coerces heiress/wine store owner Jordan Rhodes into helping him in an investigation while they ignore a mutual attraction. From their rocky start, the pair reluctantly develop a mutual respect that quickly tumbles into something more. This book highlights the characters' smart-mouthed, sarcastic dialogue. These are my people.
"Okay. What's going on? Why would you suddenly be more comfortable driving?"
"We're not supposed to stand out, remember? We're still undercover. And I expect that ritzy places like this are accustomed to seeing the man driving. People are going to think I'm your assistant or something."
She pointed. "Now that would be a fun cover. Let's do that one for a change. I get to be in charge, and you have to call me Ms. Rhodes all weekend."
"I'll even get you a little notepad, and you can follow me around taking dictation."
Jordan's brother ex-convict and computer genius Kyle Rhode is up next in About That Night when he meets a woman he almost had a relationship with a decade earlier. The fact that Rylann Pierce is an assistant US attorney is, shall we say, awkward. You see, Kyle was dubbed the Twitter Terrorist by her office after he shuts down Twitter for two whole days. But she doesn't stand a chance against the charming blonde. One of my favorite things about this book (besides the delish sexual tension between Rylann and Kyle), is her friendship with one of her coworkers, Cade Morgan. A guy. Who is straight. And unattached. That is a very unusual thing in a romance novel and I loved their easy, Starbucks-and-work-chat relationship.
The newest release, Love Irresistibly, is the story of former football star Cade and Brooke Parker. The sparks that fly in their first meeting aren't just sexual.
"Hmm." He stretched out in the chair, looking effortlessly handsome and every bit the successful trial lawyer in his tailored gray pinstripe suit. "Now, normally, this would be the point when I'd have to give you the tough-guy speech about how, if you were to reveal to anyone the confidential nature of the information I'm about to give you, you could be charged with obstruction of justice and face a possible felony conviction and imprisonment." He flashed her a dashing grin. "Luckily, though, since you're a lawyer and obviously know that already, we can skip over the tough-guy stuff. Which is nice, because that part of the conversation can get really awkward."
Maybe it was the fact that Brooke, admittedly, was having a bad day. She'd been dumped by the Hot OB, had just spent three hours on the phone haggling with the Staples Center lawyers over every tiny, miniscule part of their hospitality deal, and had done it all on two measly bites of a chicken taco and a melted strawberry-mango smoothie. She was tired, hungry, and had, up until ten minutes ago, been looking forward to the first weekend in a long time where she did not have to work. So, yes—she was, perhaps, feeling extra-cranky because of circumstances that had nothing to do with anyone sitting in that office right then.
But Cade Morgan was seriously beginning to piss her off.
He'd come to her office, seemingly to ask for her help. Now he was threatening her with obstruction of justice charges—and most annoyingly, he was doing it with a smile.
So she returned the favor. "That is nice, Mr. Morgan. Because in response to your tough-guy speech, I, in turn, would've had to give you my tough-girl speech, about where, exactly, federal prosecutors who come to my office looking for assistance can stick their obstruction of justice threats." She smiled ever-so-charmingly. "So I'm glad we were able to sidestep that whole ugly business. Whew."
Julie James is hard at work on the next book, but she hasn't yet revealed who the hero and heroines are. There are so many to choose from. That FBI office is like a smorgasbord of manly goodness. Vaughn would be fun. Or Wilkins. I like him. I've heard Ford's name floated around. Isn't Rae a lawyer too? Ooh, the possibilities. Anyone else have ideas?
Have you tried Julie James? What do you think?
Julia Broadbooks writes contemporary romance. She lives in the wilds of suburban Florida with her ever patient husband and bakes ridiculous amounts of sugary treats for her teens' friends. Find her on Twitter @juliabroadbooks.


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footsloggin' photogwrote a review of MSR MiniWorks Ex Water Filter on July 5, 2009
Great Filter
This is a great filter. There are some reviews that state it slows down in "silty/ muddy" conditions, but there isn't a filter available that doesn't slow down when filtering silty water. The only way to prevent this is to "prefilter" as much as possible with a coffee filter or bandana if the conditions warrant such extra effort, but it is better to avoid very silty water if you can. I have had to filter some pretty muddy water in a pinch, and it does slow down, but, once you're done, the cartridge cleans up fine and you're good to go. With all that said, this pump has been awesome. I have owned one for several years and many people I know have owned theirs for years as well and they are always reliable and have never left me or anyone I know without a steady supply of water, and I have never known any of my backpacking friends to get sick from filtered water from these units. The only reason I wouldn't give it 5 stars is for the weight....not that there is a better option out there. There are a couple of new filters out there such as the hyper flow from MSR, but it hasn't had enough time in the field to prove itself, in my opinion. If you need a good reliable, field maintainable filter, get this one!!


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PSN Gets Retro-Inspired Arkedo Series
It would be difficult for even the most avid indie fans to blame anyone else for not knowing about the Arkedo series. After all, the three titles that make up the franchise launched on Xbox Live Indie Games. And we know how well that service promotes its content.
Sure, indie dev Sanuk Games was able to churn out the three Arkedo titles at a rapid pace, but they didn't exactly fare very well from a commercial standpoint. Now, though, the company is looking at the future, and it will launch its games across the PlayStation Network. Basically, if you're a fan of old school titles or indie games, you should definitely be stoked.
The three games set for release on Sony's digital games market are titled Jump!, Swap!, and Pixel! Each of these three titles offers a different type of retro experience, and they all bleed wonderful pixelated charm. But don't take my word for it (plug incoming)--check out the official announcement from Sanuk Games.
Pretty awesome, huh? Admittedly, Jump! and Pixel! are the titles I'm most excited to play, but even Swap! has an addictive and endearing look to it, especially for you puzzle fanatics. The games will be landing on the PlayStation Store soon, and they will be priced at $2.49 each. PlayStation 3 owners, watch out for the Arkedo series!


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TORONTO - Marquee matchup
Since Andrea Bargnanis too slow and Amir Johnson is banged up and might not play, the task of trying to contain rookie of the year in waiting Griffin will fall to Davis.
Good luck. Sure, Davis is coming off a career-best 13 rebound game, but Griffin is averaging 12.6 boards a night. Davis, who says he is surprised at the impact Griffin has been able to have in his first season in the NBA, will have his hands full against the far more powerful Griffin.
Davis plan: Take him out of his comfort zone and try to get him into things he doesnt want to do..
Scouting report
Few teams play as exciting a style as the Clippers, who consistently go above the rim. Griffin, athletic marvel DeAndre Jordan and Al-Farouq Aminu can all soar higher than almost everybody else in the league.
Baron Davis is finally starting to look like his old self, averaging 19.2 points, 10.7 assists and 3.5 steals over his past four games, all on the road.
Eric Gordon, averaging nearly 25 points per game, is an outstanding complement for Griffin, though he is currently injured.
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Griffin has averaged 28.1 points, 13.3 rebounds and 5.2 assists over his past 10 home games, though the Clippers are just 4-18 on the road ... Centre Chris Kaman is still out. In his absence, Jordan has emerged as one of the seasons major surprises and has played himself into what surely will be a massive raise on the free agent market this summer ... The Clippers have dropped 5-of-6 games after going 9-1 at home in January and likely will come in angry, having lost to Cleveland this week to end the Cavaliers NBA-record 26-game losing streak.


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I all so got this error message as well
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The ACC Basketball Book of Fame
Dan Collins
John F. Blair, Publisher
$26.95 hardcover
6 x 9
288 pages
September 2013
Specialized ebooks for UNC and Duke players also available.
No Chris Paul? No Walter Davis?
What is this guy, blind? Brain-addled?
Actually, he's neither. Dan Collins was already immersed in ACC basketball the day in 1971 he and the Carmichael Auditorium faithful lustily booed the visiting South Carolina Gamecocks, the conference villains of his student days. Since then, in his tenure at the Chapel Hill Newspaper and his 20-plus years as Wake Forest beat reporter for the Winston-Salem Journal, he has watched countless ACC games and interviewed and written about greats from Juan Dixon to Christian Laettner to Ralph Sampson to Michael Jordan.
Collins devoted two years to devising a system to fairly select an ACC Basketball Hall of Fame. Most of his inductees have universal appeal—from latter-day greats including Tyler Hansbrough and J. J. Redick to old-timers including Len Chappell and Ronnie Shavlik. But others are nearly forgotten gems, like Lou Pucillo, the five-nine high-school benchwarmer discovered playing against the Philadelphia School for the Blind and Deaf.
The 78 illustrated player profiles in this book will prove an anecdote- and trivia-filled delight even to fans who think they know ACC basketball. Remember Tim Duncan's comment after Randolph Childress beaned a Duke fan with a postgame full-court heave?* Or David Thompson's legendary kindnesses to reporters, fans, and critics? Readers will especially enjoy the "Portico of Prominence" chapter, which recognizes players—among them Paul and Davis—who were undoubtedly great but didn't accumulate the credentials for admission to the Hall of Fame.
Longtime ACC scribe Dan Collins's cards are on the table. Let the argument begin.
* "Decent arm. Nice follow-through."
"In The ACC Basketball Book of Fame, Dan Collins gives his perspective on the many greats that have made the ACC one of the top conferences. Dan's experience in covering ACC games over the years allows him to go in-depth about the greats that have worn an ACC uniform, such as Michael Jordan, Christian Laettner, and Ralph Sampson. Dan's work is awesome, baby, with a capital A!"—Dick Vitale
"The what-ifs of history are daunting to consider. What if Albert Einstein had been obsessed with ACC basketball rather than the space-time continuum? Might he have come up with a genius equation for ranking the greatest ACC basketball players in the league's 60-year history? Instead, that honor has fallen to Country Dan Collins of Spudtowne, North Carolina. Though he kept a proper distance from a physics lab during his college days, he has nonetheless invented a brilliant formula for basketball fame, suitable to a physicist who has spent his years studying the trajectories of three-pointers. As the readers of this stimulating book will soon discover, Dan Collins should be as legendary as the players about whom he writes."
—Will Blythe, author of To Hate Like This Is to Be Happy Forever
"There aren't many of us left—those writers and broadcasters who still remember and enjoyed the early days of ACC basketball. Country Dan Collins, the veteran sportswriter for the Winston-Salem Journal for the last 35 years, is one of the few still at it. Every avid conference fan will want to read and discuss The ACC Basketball Book of Fame. Dan believes players should be judged against who they played, and he developed an Awards Points system to indicate just how good players were and what they meant to their teams and the conference at large. He also includes those players who were good but didn't garner enough points to merit his Hall of Fame."
—Woody Durham, "the Voice of the Tar Heels," 1971–2011
- Visit the Winston-Salem Journal for Dan Collins' "My Take on Wake"


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ConvergEx Group Sees Significant Growth in International Execution Business
Sep 11, 2013, 09:51 ET from ConvergEx Group
NEW YORK, Sept. 11, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- ConvergEx Group, a leading provider of global brokerage and trading-related services, today announced that its international execution business has grown by more than 25% year-over-year. By offering a truly unified high- and low-touch global desk, clients have been able to realize the full benefits of the company's highly efficient service model and cutting-edge products – and the business has grown accordingly.
"We have invested a large amount of capital in our products in a time when others are contracting their businesses," said William Capuzzi, managing director, Global Execution. "We have found that both new and existing clients have been very pleased with our offerings and have continued to increase their business with ConvergEx as they see how our client-first approach helps them achieve their goals."
"For example, the usage of our most popular liquidity-seeking international algorithms, AbraxasSM and Darkest, are up nearly 400% year-over-year," added Pamela Cheng, vice president and global product manager, Global Execution. "We attribute this growth to the quantifiable execution improvement and amount of liquidity captured that clients obtain when they trade with us."
ConvergEx gives its clients a single point of coverage for global electronic, worked orders and program trading. The hybrid desk is run in a virtual capacity out of a number of different locations that follow the sun for seamless round-the-clock coverage. For clients trading in the less liquid emerging and frontier markets, ConvergEx is able to use its years of experience and in-depth local knowledge to enhance the sourcing of local liquidity.
In addition, ConvergEx has leveraged its expertise in international markets to increase its international institutional clearing capabilities. The company plans to roll out more clearing capabilities in the coming quarters.
"Our all-encompassing coverage model, along with our award-winning liquidity-seeking tools, offer clients a highly consultative service and tangible results that they simply cannot get anywhere else," concluded Mr. Capuzzi.
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Research scientist (medical)
Medical research scientists devise and conduct experiments in order to increase the body of scientific knowledge on topics related to medicine. They also develop new, or improve existing, drugs, treatments or other medically related products.
Medical research takes place in higher education institutions, research institutes, hospitals and industry. The level of research is wide ranging from investigating the underlying basis of health or disease, to conducting clinical research and investigating methods of prevention, diagnosis and treatment of human disorders.
Molecular level research may be carried out using appropriate cell and animal models, or human volunteers may be used to study the clinical effects of various factors.
The specifics of the role vary according to the setting, but much of the work is laboratory-based. Tasks typically include:
- planning and conducting experiments and analysing or interpreting the results;
- keeping accurate records of work undertaken;
- using specialist computer software to analyse data and to produce diagrammatic representation of results;
- teaching and supervising students (in higher education);
- writing and submitting applications and progress reports to funding bodies that support medical research (outside industry);
- discussing research progress with other departments, e.g. production and marketing (in industry);
- constantly considering the profit/loss potential of research products (in industry);
- collaborating with industry, research institutes, hospitals and academia.
Results of work are often disseminated to others, which includes:
- carrying out presentations or discussions at team meetings with colleagues;
- preparing presentations and delivering these at national and international scientific conferences;
- writing original papers for publication in peer-reviewed medical or scientific journals. In industry, there is usually less pressure to publish.
It is also important to stay in touch with developments and advances in your field and activities that help with this include:
- reading relevant scientific literature and journals;
- attending scientific meetings and conferences in order to hear presentations from other researchers and participate in informal discussions with scientists from other parts of the world.
- As an entry point PhD studentships, which allow you to study for a PhD while also carrying out research work, usually pay a stipend. Research Councils UK (RCUK) suggest a minimum rate of £14,057 for the stipend but some employers may pay more.
- Medical research scientists with a PhD may start on around £25,000 to £35,000 a year.
- Salaries increase following this with senior researchers and university professors earning £50,000 to £70,000 a year or more.
Pay is usually higher in industry and the private sector.
Income figures are intended as a guide only.
Working hours
Working hours are normally 9am to 5pm, Monday to Friday. However, due to the nature of experimental work, some evening and weekend work may be required. There may be some flexibility in start and finish times, especially in academic settings.
Longer hours may be necessary when, for example, grant application deadlines are looming or an important experiment is underway. Overtime may be paid in industry but it is unusual in academia.
What to expect
- Work is mainly laboratory-based with some time spent in the office planning and writing up experiments. Some positions may require field work.
- With career progression, the work becomes more office-based with a focus on writing grant applications, collaborating with other scientists, supervising staff, planning experiments, writing papers for publication and reviewing papers.
- Care and attention to detail is required as work may involve contact with potentially toxic or radioactive materials. Working with animals or animal-derived products, such as embryonic stem cells, may form part of the research, which may result in ethical dilemmas for some. See the arguments on the Understanding Animal Research website.
- Travel may occasionally be required, as scientists often collaborate with other institutions. Some national and international travel is needed for attendance at conferences to present the results of research. Travel usually becomes more frequent with career progression.
A good honours degree in a medical or life science subject is usually required. The following subjects are particularly relevant:
- biochemistry;
- biomedical sciences;
- genetics;
- immunology;
- medical microbiology;
- molecular biology;
- pharmacology;
- physiology.
Although graduates entering this area of work traditionally have a degree in a medical or life science discipline, many areas of medical research now look for graduates in chemistry, physics or statistics/bioinformatics.
Direct entry to a research scientist role with an HND or foundation degree only is not possible. Opportunities for HND or foundation degree holders may exist at technician level, but progression to medical research scientist will require further qualifications. Some employers may allow you to study while working part time.
You will usually need to have an MSc or PhD, or be working towards one, to secure a position in this field. However opportunities at entry level without a postgraduate qualification do exist, particularly in industry. Career progression does usually require further qualifications though, particularly a PhD.
Funding is made available to research institutions via the Medical Research Council (MRC). This is then passed on to students in the form of scholarships, bursaries and studentships. You should contact the individual institution to find out more about the funding options.
You need to show evidence of:
- technical, scientific and numerical skills;
- good written and oral communication skills;
- genuine enjoyment of the research subject;
- a methodical approach to work;
- tenacity and patience;
- ability to work well in teams and to network and forge links with collaborators;
- problem-solving skills and analytical thinking;
- attention to detail.
Work experience
Laboratory experience and knowledge of the range of techniques used will improve your chances of finding a research appointment. Experience can be achieved through either a sandwich-year placement in industry or vacation work experience in academia or industry. Summer placements in academia can be funded through the:
There are various employers in medical research including:
- universities;
- industry (especially pharmaceutical companies);
- research councils, especially the Medical Research Council (MRC);
- National Health Service (NHS);
- non-governmental and voluntary bodies.
Work outside industry is usually funded by the government through the allocation of research funding to universities, research councils and hospitals.
Medical research also receives extensive financial support from charitable bodies that fund specific research into their areas of interest.
Opportunities may also be available through Knowledge Transfer Partnerships (KTP). This is a joint project between a graduate, an organisation and a 'knowledge base', such as a university or a research organisation, which allows PhD graduates to apply research in a commercial environment.
Look for job vacancies at:
- Jobs.ac.uk
- Knowledge Transfer Partnerships (KTP)
- Medical Research Council (MRC)
- Nature Jobs
- New Scientist Jobs
- Pharma Job Vacancies
- Times Higher Education Jobs
Also try university websites and the national press for vacancies.
Specialist recruitment agencies are widely used within the scientific community. These include:
Get more tips on how to find a job, create a successful CV and cover letter, and prepare for interviews.
Professional development
Most employers will assume that you already have sufficient research skills, either from your degree or a PhD, to make an immediate contribution to the work of the team.
In academia, there is often very little formal training after you complete a research degree. Continuous on-the-job technical training, either self-taught or from more experienced scientists, allows you to learn new laboratory techniques.
It is also quite common to visit other laboratories to be taught techniques that are already established elsewhere. The personal development of researchers is supported by the MRC.
Outside academia, training is usually more structured and there is a trend for scientists to develop their own training programmes with guidance from a mentor.
Scientists in all settings must keep abreast of research techniques and scientific advances, so attending conferences or meetings is common. Attendance at a conference may sometimes involve presenting your own work.
Membership of a professional organisation, such as the Royal Society of Biology, is another option. Professional bodies such as this encourage continuous professional development (CPD) and usually have their own schemes. They will sometimes offer professional qualifications and chartered status.
Career prospects
Career structures vary between sectors. In academia, after a PhD, most medical research scientists enter employment in postdoctoral positions. These are normally short-term contracts of up to three years.
It is also possible for you to work abroad for a time, typically in the USA, Canada, Japan, Australia or Europe to experience different laboratory set-ups and widen your network of international contacts.
In academia, career progression is usually related to the success of your research project(s) and the quality and quantity of original papers you publish. With experience, you may progress to senior research fellow or professor and could manage your own team.
You will usually have to undertake three or more short-term contracts before you have a chance of securing a highly sought-after permanent position in academic science. There are often teaching duties attached to these positions and the amount of opportunities is limited with high levels of competition.
Career development tends to be more structured in industry, hospitals or research institutes and usually involves taking on increased responsibilities, such as supervising and managing projects.
With experience and a successful track record, you could move into senior research and management roles. It may also be possible in some industrial companies to move into other functions, such as production, quality assurance, HR or marketing.


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The MITOR Project supports research stays at POLITo and MIT for graduate students, post-docs and young faculty. In all cases, funding comes from the MITOR seed funds. Deadline: September 28 , 2010 .
For stays of one semester or more, when the participants are eligible for visiting status at MIT, the following guidelines and procedures apply.
Post Docs
Recently minted (max 2 years) POLITO PhD's who are involved in collaborations supported by the MITOR seed funds, have an MIT host and plan on being at MIT for at least one semester, are eligible to come to MIT as MITOR "Post doc Fellows". Grants are meant to help meeting additional travel and insurance expenses, and are subject to successful completion of MIT internal approval procedures and visa process. For more info, please go to http://web.mit.edu/iso/.
Ph.D. and Master Students
Only students who come for a minimum of one semester and a maximum of three, and who are hosted by an MIT professor participating in one of the funded MITOR seed projects, are eligible for the visiting student status. Visiting students have access to MIT facilities and the labs they are affiliated with, and can audit seminars and classes with instructors' permission. However, they cannot receive credit, or enroll in language classes, and are not eligible for a MIT degree. Unless otherwise arranged by their MIT host, POLITO students should time their stays to coincide with MIT semesters: from the beginning of February to the end of May for the Spring semester, and from the beginning of September to the third week of December for the Fall semester.
MITOR grants are meant to supplement the students' sources of support and are conditional to completing MIT acceptance and Visa procedures. For more info, please go to the International Student Office site http://web.mit.edu/iso/.
Visiting Scholars
Researchers and Faculty who intend to spend a 3-6 month research period at MIT working on a long term collaboration between their lab at POLITO and their host MIT lab may be eligible for a Visiting Scholars status—Ph. D and publication record required. Definitions and procedures vary by hosting labs. For more information about the requirements and visa procedures please go to http://web.mit.edu/scholars/.


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Anglicans Eye Canterbury as Bishops Gather for Lambeth
All eyes are on Canterbury as more than 600 bishops from across the Anglican Communion arrive on Wednesday for the start of the Lambeth Conference.
Conference proceedings, spread over two weeks at the University of Kent, threaten to be overshadowed by the thorny issues of women bishops and homosexuality.
The Church of England caused controversy when it voted in support of women bishops at its July Synod in York, and the issue of homosexuality has plagued the Communion since the ordination of the openly gay Bishop Gene Robinson as bishop of New Hampshire in 2003.
Robinson was excluded from the conference but has promised to speak up for the rights of homosexuals at fringe events. He has already grabbed headlines in the days running up to the conference, after a protester shouted at him to "repent" and called him a "heretic" as he preached a sermon at St. Mary's Church, Putney, on Sunday morning.
A large number of bishops, mainly from the Global South, have decided to boycott Lambeth in protest at the presence of pro-gay bishops.
They met in a separate summit in Jerusalem last month, the Global Anglican Future Conference (GAFCON), during which they complained of churches within the Communion preaching a "false gospel" mainly in regards to homosexuality.
Towards the end of the once-a-decade gathering, bishops will work on the draft Anglican Covenant, a document they hope will help hold the 77 million-strong Communion together.
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If this comic book battle were waged in four colors at the proper scale, Metropolis, Gotham and New York City would all have been leveled by the clash. But the years-long dispute between "Sandman" creator Neil Gaiman and "Spawn" creator Todd McFarlane, has been decided by a Madison, Wisconsin Federal Court jury on Thursday, which ruled in Gaiman's favor on all counts.
The dispute stems from issue 9 of "Spawn," which Gaiman wrote, and in which he introduced the wildly popular character of Angela, an angel who served as the starring Hellspawn's nemesis. The ownership of the character, and characters created for a subsequent story arc, were in dispute, with McFarlane claiming total ownership of the characters. Additional claims spinning out of this initial dispute were also in question during the three day trial.
According to a report published by ICv2, the jury concluded that:
- Gaiman had an interest in Medieval Spawn, Cagliostro and Angel;
- A reasonable person would not have understood that McFarlane was claiming full copyright ownership of the characters from the copyright information included in the books;
- McFarlane breached contracts to Gaiman in 1992 and 1997, with the latter being the proposed swap of partial or total interest in the characters in exchange for McFarlane handing over his porting of the rights to British superhero Miracleman, which Gaiman once wrote and in which he has a partial ownership stake (although that too is under a cloud of legal confusion);
- Image Comics failing to identify Gaiman as a writer on some of the books constituted damage;
- And that Image did not have the right to use Gaiman's name and biography in the recent Angela trade paperback.
The damages portion of the trial began immediately following the decision, and Federal Court judge John Shabaz indicated the case was "going out of here by the end of the week."
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"Are we there yet, are we there yet?" the kids say. Your husband/wife is taking up all the seat. You're hungry, thirsty, you're freezing but you're also sweating, your trying to sleep but the guy in front of you won't stop yapping, and the baby is screaming. Sound familiar? Is that the exact scenario you have in your head when you go on a 15 hour flight with the family. Well here's how to stop it...
1Pack wisely. Packing wisely all depends on the baggage allowance, your age, your hobbies, etc. etc. For young children pack lots to keep them entertained but for older kids, the TV provided on the plane, a book and there iPod, should keep them entertained, if they pack to much there carry on will just take up space.
2Be ready. Have a bum bag ready with all your passports and tickets in there, have chewing gum for take off and landing, moisturizer for when your skin gets dry and be wearing comfortable clothes, high heels and your fanciest dress aren't so stylish when your 30,000 feet (9,144.0 m) in the air. Also wear slip on shoes so they are easy to remove and put back on during security check.
3Catch a taxi or get a friend to drive you to the airport This will save you a heap not leaving your car at the airport
4Be prepared for security. Take of your shoes, jewelry, hoodie/hat and anything else you need to remove.
5Once you are through security and have everything sorted out, get a bottle of water and some snack foods for the plane ride
6Once on the plane, put any carry on luggage you won't need until later in the overhead bins . It won't give you much more room but even if it is a few Cm's it will help!
7During the flight, don't take sleeping pills, unless you know they won't affect you adversely.
8Do eat and drink even if you aren't hungry or thirsty they will give you much more energy and make you feel better
9Try to sleep. Even if you can't, just rest, it will make you feel less tired and help out with your jet lag.
10Try to keep your hair out of your face during the flight. It will make you feel less of a mess.
11If you get travel sickness, take travel sickness medication. They will make the ride more pleasant.
12Keep cool. If you don't, you will sweat and this will make you feel dirty.
13Don't be afraid to use the bathroom. They may be gross, but it's better then having a sore gut because you have hung on to long
14When you hit the ground, don't delay. As soon as you can get out of the there, out of that aeroplane and then as soon as you can get out of the airport
15Enjoy being off the plane! Enjoy that cold breeze and sunshine.
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FABIO BORINI is keen to keep his options open for as long as possible despite Sunderland having agreed a £14m fee for his services on Friday evening.
Borini was part of the Liverpool squad that flew to the United States yesterday afternoon ahead of a pre-season tour that may not end until August 4, a move that indicates his reluctance to make an immediate move to the Stadium of Light.
Reports emerged in Italy over the weekend suggesting the striker had rejected the opportunity to re-sign for Sunderland, and while that is not the case, sources close to the move claim Borini has expressed reservations about rejoining a Black Cats side that was battling against relegation until the final week of last season.
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Having previously spoken of his desire to play in the Champions League next season, the 23-year-old is keen to assess all potential options before deciding on his future, in the hope that other clubs may enter the fray with alternative offers.
Borini has, however, accepted that he does not really have a future at Anfield, with Liverpool boss Brendan Rodgers confident of completing a deal for former Newcastle United loanee Loic Remy.
At the moment, Sunderland are the only club to have had a bid accepted for Borini, and both sporting director Lee Congerton and head coach Gustavo Poyet remain hopeful of completing a deal.
The Italian's presence in the United States should not prevent them from initiating personal talks with Borini and his representatives, and previous transfer deals have seen Liverpool release one of their players from a pre-season tour in order for them to complete a switch.
However, there will be a limit to how long Sunderland can wait for an answer, as a significant proportion of Poyet's transfer budget is tied up in a potential deal and alternative options will have to be assessed quickly if Borini ultimately refuses to return to Wearside.
Sunderland kicked off their pre-season preparations with a 5-1 win over Darlington on Saturday, but post-match discussions were dominated by Borini's future, with members of the current squad quick to underline just how valuable the striker's permanent return would be.
"It would be a really big deal for the club," said Seb Larsson, who signed a new deal of his own this summer. "Fabio was here last year and did really well, so he knows the place and we know him. Of course that would be a great signing, but it's for the people behind the scenes to deal with and we'll have to see if it gets over the line.
"He showed last year just what a good player he is. Especially in the second half of the season, he showed what he can do for the club. We all know what he can bring to the team, and you need as many good players as you can to help improve the competition in the squad. If Fabio returns, it will help everyone else drive on and get better."
Poyet had hoped to speak to Borini prior to Saturday's friendly at Heritage Park, but Sunderland officials did not receive written permission to initiate personal talks in time and the striker instead played for more than an hour of Liverpool's 2-1 win over Preston.
"We have agreed terms with Liverpool," said the Black Cats boss. "We are now waiting for correspondence, and we will go from there. We're just waiting.
"I think (Fabio's) impact is clear, as is the reason why we want to spend that quantity of money. We know how much he can give us because we know him perfectly. It would be perfect for us."
Poyet is also hoping to complete the re-signing of full-back Marcos Alonso before his squad leaves for a training camp in Portugal at the end of the week.
After weeks of negotiations, Congerton is finally close to agreeing a deal with Fiorentina that will see Sunderland pay around £2.2m for Alonso, with Modibo Diakite also heading in the opposite direction.
"That's been an ongoing situation, and it's gone on a little bit longer than expected," said Poyet. "But you need to have everything in place, and it does not depend only on us. It also depends on other people as well, so you need to keep negotiating. It's up to Lee and the recruitment system, which are doing their work."
Sunderland have made three free signings so far this summer – Costel Pantilimon, Billy Jones and Jordi Gomez – but even if Borini and Alonso are added to that list, the new squad will not look too much stronger than the one that scrambled to safety in the final week of last season.
Further reinforcements are surely required, especially in the back four, but having watched a number of Premier League clubs pay what he feels are exorbitant fees already this summer, Poyet is urging Sunderland supporters to remain patient.
"There is a reason behind everything," he said. "It's been a bit of a strange summer for me, with the World Cup in the middle, and with people buying players for too much money. So we need to stay calm and make sure we do things slowly, but buy in the right way."
Saturday's win over Darlington featured a first-half double from Steven Fletcher, who marked his return from a four-month injury absence by rounding off moves that also featured trialist Max Clayton, a 19-year-old forward who is being considered for the development squad after his previous contract at Crewe expired.
Poyet changed his entire side at the interval, and second-half goals from Emmanuel Giaccherini and Connor Wickham extended Sunderland's lead.
Darlington grabbed a consolation when an error from Wes Brown enabled Gary Brown to drill home, but the Black Cats added a fifth late on when Gomez found the net from outside the area.
First Half (4-4-2): Jameson; Brown, Hunter, Hatch, Walker; Mitchell, Galbraith, Portas, Purewal; Thompson, Armstrong.
Second Half (4-5-1): Bell; Brown, Hunter, White, Galbraith (Walker 49); Fisher, Mitchell (Cocks 79), Portas, Hopson, Purewal; Hatch (Fryatt 74).
First Half (4-1-4-1): Mannone; Watmore, O'Shea, Roberge, Jones; Cabral; Honeyman, Larsson, Ba, Clayton; Fletcher.
Second Half (4-1-4-1): Pantilimon; Mavrias, Brown, Diakite, Ferguson; Cattermole; Karlsson, N'Diaye, Giaccherini, Gomez; Wickham.