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A unique product that started life in the depths of the earth thousands of years ago...
This specially prepared potting and soil conditioner is mined from an extinct volcano near Fillmore, in central Utah. Much like the Hawaiian Islands formed in the Pacific, the volcano rose out of pre-historic Lake Bonneville over 20,000 years ago when the lake covered much of present day Utah, Nevada, Idaho and parts of California. The ancient lava flow was pure obsidian and is still visible. It traveled for miles in all directions. Geothermal zones and ice caves, indicative of volcanic activity, can still be found around the volcano.
This unique foamed obsidian is mined in the outer slopes of the volcano. During the volcanic eruption, molten lava, from deep inside the Earth, spewed upward, absorbing volcanic gases as it rose and gradually cooling as it shot from the mouth of the volcano. The gaseous, quick cooling lava near the crater formed today's bubbly, lightweight, multi-colored obsidian which is honey-combed throughout.
The different temperatures at which the molten lava rose and cooled resulted in this unique material's many different colors, which are often found side by side.
Heavier obsidian chunks, originating from deep inside the throat of the volcano, shot upward during the eruption during the eruption and can also be found miles away.
When fissures occurred in the walls of the volcano, molten obsidian flowed like glass and hardened into black masses.
All natural 3/8" minus Red Lava Rock and Black Lava Rock for potting and soil conditioning is a unique product, believed to be found in only one location in the United States in such quantity. It is a totally inert, naturally foamed producted, especially used in lightweight potting and soil conditioner. Its foamed porous obsidian cannont impart any harmful chemicals to you or the environment.
PERLITE is produced by applying 1800 degrees fahrenheit to heat ordinary Lava or Pumice Rock which expands it. Although it holds moisture it also looses it's quality under use, and can leave unwanted residue. It is used mainly for aeration of soils rather than moisture holding. pH range is normally 7 to 7.5. It is often used instead of washed sand to aerate. The excess floride is sometimes a problem, as is the dust.
VERMICULITE is prodced by applying 1800 degrees fahrenheit to Mica to expand it. It has been found to be of value in the first time use of potting soils. Under high watering it tends to float. Unfortunately for second and third time use, it tends to break down into a gooey state, which is negative to plant growth. pH range is normally 6.5 to 7.2.
3/8" minus Red Lava Rock and Black Lava Rock granules are naturally plant friendly. These particles of foamed obsidian will melt into black glass when subject to 1800 degrees fahrenheit heat. The granules have remained in their present state for over 20,000 years. Therefore, you can rely on their indestructible nature, performing their tasks controlling moisture and aerating soil without leaching or breakdown. This is why many new types of commercial potting formulas now incorporate lava rock granules in their mixes. You can use this product with confidence.
Lava Rock granules will not, by themselves, support fungus, disease or harmful plant predators, pH is the same as for glass, which is to say neutral.
Most potting soils are formulted to be in the pH range 5.2 to 6.2, slightly on the acid side, with 7.2 being neutral.
To each gallon of FORMULA I, II, or III mix, add 1 and 1/2 level tablespoons of Dolomite Lime. Mix thoroughly. Apply Lime every other month at 1 Tablespoon of 12 inces of potted plant.
For established plants requiring higher pH, use up to double the the amount non-hydrated ground limestone per gallon of mix.
Apply 1 to 2 inches of lava rock granules to surface to be treated in your garden, and mix thoroughly by spading or rototilling. It will help retain soil moisture and nutrients and aerate the soil, reducing potential anaerobic conditions.
Use a mixture of 2 parts lava rock granules and 1 part sphagnum Peat Moss. Wet thoroughly. Insert prepared cuttings to a depth of 1 1/2 to 2 inches. Place large clear plastic bag over container to form a small greenhouse. Removef the bag when the cuttings are rooted. Do not place the plastic covered container in direct sunlight.
Mix equal volumnes of Sphagnum Peat Moss and lava rock granules and 1 tablespoon Dolomite Lime per gallon of mix, wet thoroughly and mix. Place in shallow container to be seeded compress lightly, water again and sow seeds in rows. Don't cover small seeds; cover large seeds lightly. Place container in clear plastic bag, removing as soon as seedling leaves appear. Keep plants watered. Do not place plastic covered container in direct sunlight.
Use a deep rodent-proof container. Alternate 1 inch of lava rock granules with a lay of bulbs to a 12 inch depth. Cover with 1/2 inch wire mesh. Do not water bulbs in storage. Place container in a cool place where temperature does NOT fall below freezing. Lava rock granules protect the bulbs from drying and severe temperatures changes because of its highly beneficial insulating qualities.
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The cold continues and it is so tempting to just stay inside and bundle up on the couch, however, that isn't a great idea. I am planning on doing a LOT of shopping today. I haven't really started Christmas shopping yet. I'm usually done by this time, but I just don't have the Christmas spirit yet! Anyone else feel that way? It just doesn't seem like it should be Christmas time. I've put the tree up, got the stockings hung, but it still isn't quite there for me. So today I am going to get my shopping finished. I can wrap presents this week and have a little time to relax before the big day!
I've got my list, checked it twice and ready to go!
I am going to start my TurboFire and P90X rotation again. I skipped so many workouts with my neck issue (it's still flared up, we'll just have to see how it goes).
Monday - Turbo Fire cardio & abs
Tuesday - anything goes - fit club
Wednesday - P90X weight workout
Thursday - Turbo Fire Cardio & abs
Friday - P90X weight workout
Saturday - Turbo Fire cardio & abs
Sunday - yoga/stretch
I think it will be a good fit for me. I love my TurboFire, but want to continue with weighted workouts. It's the best of both worlds!
Feel free to join in. Of course, we still have the 100 pushups per day challenge going on the message boards. Jump in anytime. There will be a prize for the winner - I have a cool cookbook or a workout for you if you do the most pushups!
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Detail of a painted wall mural in Vienna. Unfortunately I have been unable to find any details of this.
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This ia a very odd mural. It looks like the soldier was added after the Grecian-looking figures were. The uniform looks to be something from the WWI era.
Because of the texture of the wall, the grain is not that noticible. At least on the monitor where I'm currently viewing it, it's not.
I like the cropping of ths composition, especially around the section where the doorway arches are. It adds a good symmetry to the photo along with the arched windows.
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I love cycling. One day I took 32 km ride across my town. It took me 2 hours. It was a perfect day for this ride. I appreciated every single minutes of it. I documented this event on an A5 size layout. First I made textured background using Tattered Angles Glimmer Mist spray (Choc.Cov.Cherries) and triangles stencil. I then glued on it my photo and one journaling card from Krafty package with some chipboard elements. I jotted down my thoughts on gift tag which is under my photo.
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Lago Calafquén
The most northerly of the seven lakes, Lago Calafquén is a popular tourist destination for Chileans, readily accessible by a paved road from Villarrica, along which there are fine views of the Volcán Villarrica. Wooded and dotted with small islands, the lake is reputedly one of the warmest in the region and is good for swimming. A mostly paved road runs around the lake.Lican-Ray
Situated 30 km south of Villarrica on a peninsula on the north shore, Lican-Ray is the major resort on the lake and is named after a legendary Mapuche woman . There are two beaches, one on each side of the peninsula.Although crowded in season, Lican-Ray can feel like a ghost town by the end of March, when most facilities have closed. Some 6 km to the east is the river of lava formed when Volcán Villarrica erupted in 1971.
Lying 21 km southeast of Lican-Ray at the eastern end of Lago Calafquén, Coñaripe is another popular Chilean tourist spot. At first sight the village is dusty and nondescript, but its setting, with a black-sand beach surrounded by mountains, is beautiful.
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Jimmy had two rules about investing. He could make decisions to buy or sell within the bounds of the rules, but he stuck to the rules no matter what. We'll get to those rules in a minute, but first … a little background.
I got my a Bachelors in Engineering and set off into the wilderness of the job market with a diploma in hand and a twinkle in my eye. My first position was in an aluminum foundry. There, I met a man named Jimmy whose office was right across from mine. Over the first few months, we formed a friendship and he introduced me to investing. I was hooked when he told me that one year he made more in investments than he did from working the job we shared. I bought a copy of "Investing for Dummies" (no, I'm actually serious) and set aside a small sum to give it a go.
I didn't yet understand about dividends, shorting, options and all the other things a person learns when they get further along in investing. More importantly, I didn't understand the concept of disruptive innovation. But, I put my money in a few companies that might be termed "Rule Breakers" by the Gardner brothers.
Then: I bought eBay Inc (NASDAQ:EBAY) in September of 2005 for $37.74/share. I sold eBay only three months later for $44.83/share (19% return). That's pretty remarkable and it was the first sign that I knew what I was doing (Spoiler alert: I didn't know what I was doing).
Investment philosophy then: I like buying things off of eBay. The company is doing something unique. The stock went up in a short time period. Sell it.
Now: Since I sold, the share price has increased over 25%, but it took a nose-dive shortly after I sold. Good thing, right? Well, if you truly believe in the business model, you want the stock to go "on sale." Patient, long-term investors wait for an opportunity in the stock price and then buy.
Investment philosophy now: eBay has significant network effects. Almost eight years later, they still occupy a pretty unique niche in the market. PayPal is positioned well to capture significant market share in the mobile payment revolution.
Netflix, Inc. (NASDAQ:NFLX)
Then: I bought Netflix the same day as eBay (September 2005). I sold in December 2005 for a loss of 4%.
Investment philosophy: I really hate driving seven miles to Blockbuster. Those late fees are ridiculous.
Now: Since I bought the Netflix in 2005, the shares have increased over 700%. I look like an idiot. Investment philosophy: Although Netflix is battling headwinds on rising content cost and made a major misstep in the Qwikster debacle, Netflix has first mover advantages in the space and is moving in the right direction by beginning to develop its own content. One major proprietary series can help to neutralize the networks during negotiations. That said, I can't say I am a buyer at this price/earnings (P/E) ratio.
Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL)
Then: I bought Apple at $84.48/share in February 2007, before the iPhone came out. Impressed, right? Well, it was pure luck. The stock doubled in eight short months and I sold. I bought again when it dropped back into the $120s.
Investment philosophy: I love my iPod and I feel an element of cool with the product. That's got to be worth something, right?
Now: I've bought and sold several times on the way and up and the way down. I'm actually excited about the stock once again with the rumors of the iWatch. Read about that here.
Investment philosophy: Technology companies have been near the top of the market cap before, but rarely has a technology company of this size and prospects traded at a forward P/E of less than 10. Apple still has a few things up its sleeve. The question is whether they can disrupt another market.
That brings me around to the title of this article. The dumbest mistake I've made in the market? Not taking the long-term approach at ALL times. If I had adopted a "buy and hold" approach from the beginning, I would have had the following results: >25% gain, >700% gain, >540% gain. If you truly believe that a company will revolutionize the market, buy and hold until they prove you right.
Oh, and those two rules that served Jimmy so well?
1). If a stock doubles, sell half of it. You still have the stock with room to run, but you got your initial investment out. Everything else is gravy.
2). If a stock drops by 20%, sell it. Hardly does a stock recover if it drops more than 20%.
That obviously worked for Jimmy. I have adopted more of a buy and hold approach.
I'll leave you with some words of wisdom by the Oracle of Omaha (Warren Buffett): "Our favorite holding period is forever."
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McMeaning in the Maw of the Masses: Analyzing Fast Food Mash-Ups
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This paper analyzes the foodways of teenagers in the digital age, specifically the construction of "fast food mash-ups." These practices, unlike typically documented ethnographic foodways, do not involve cookery; rather they involve the reappropriation of readily available fast food items. The results are massive hybrid sandwiches, like the "McGangBang," a McDonald's McChicken sandwich inside of a double cheeseburger. Using interviews with past and present members of the folk group that engages in these practices, collected online and in person, I will explore the meaning of these reappropriations to the people who make and consume them. This paper focuses on the social and psychological factors that influence fast food mash-ups, including the rite of passage ritual of consumption in excess, the desire to deviate from cultural and institutional norms, and the struggle to create meaning in the mass-produced food and drink that dominate youth food culture, as well as the function of fast food mash-ups as legends, which are being acted on ostensively whenever the sandwiches are ordered, constructed or consumed. Continue reading "McMeaning in the Maw of the Masses: Analyzing Fast Food Mash-Ups"


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We cannot wait to watch the ball drop – from a t.v. that is! Times Square looks too packed and too freezing for us, but if you're braving the cold to see it in person, we're mightily impressed! A New Year's Eve party is the bash of the year, full of glamour, sparkle, nostalgia for the past year and excitement for the year to come. If you're pulling together a New Year's Eve party at the last minute, just looking for the last touches for your annual New Year's Eve party, or want to make even a movie marathon night at home feel festive, then these 5 New Year's Eve party ideas are for you!
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1. Resolve: Whether you want to make 3 resolutions or 30, be sure to write them down now before your New Year's Eve party, because making a list is the first step in holding yourself accountable. Every year we make and break resolutions, but not this year! Because this year we are making SMART goals.
2. Glitter and glitz: No matter where you're going, ringing in the New Year calls for the bright and sparkly, the glitter and glitz! Whether you go all out in a sequin party dress or incorporate glitz into your ensemble via a statement necklace, a pretty purse, or dazzling shoes, we think it's absolutely mandatory for the countdown.
3. Pop, fizz, and clink: There's no need to stock a full bar for your New Year's Eve party. The only spirit necessary at your bash is some bubbly! You can set out bottles of champagne and flutes on a table with glitter confetti to add a chic touch to your décor.
4. Sweet nibbles: There's an awful long time to wait between dinner and midnight! Leave out little dishes filled with grapes, chocolate truffles, and other sweet snacks so everyone makes it to the NYE finish line! Or if you're going out, be sure to slip a snack into your purse before you go.
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THE INTEL Itanium has started to pick up some serious speed. Chipzilla is making merry over the fact that an HP Itanium 2 Madison running Windows Server 2003 Enterprise and SQL Server 2000 64bit edition has jumped into pole position for the TPC-C benchmark for a non-clustered system.
TPC-C is pretty much an industry standard benchmark. It's all about handling transaction processing for orders. The results that have been posted for the new system are fairly hefty to say the least at 658,277 transactions per minute (tpmC). The benchmark was running on a 64-way non-clustered HP server.
HP is not the only one to be squeezing ultra fast performance out of the new Madison chip. NEC just announced a TPC-C of 514,034.72 tpmC on a 32-way system. According to Intel, that's makes it the fastest 32 processor non-clustered system. Another feather in Itanium's cap. Especially as the NEC system managed a very respectable price/performance result of $11.50/tpmC.
You can compare the figures with other machines at the TPC website here. (No f00! Not here! Below!)
There can be no doubt that pushing the Itanium's internal cache up to 6MB has had a profound effect on its performance. The processor is starting to really shift. It seems only fair to wonder if the Itanium's 64bit competitors will follow suit with the huge caches to get bigger performance.
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With a stay at Hampton Suites Birmingham Hoover in Birmingham (Hoover), you'll be convenient to Riverchase Galleria and Aldridge Gardens. This hotel is within close proximity of Moss Rock Preserve and Regions Park.
Make yourself at home in one of the 102 air-conditioned rooms featuring refrigerators and flat-screen televisions. Complimentary wired and wireless Internet access keeps you connected, and satellite programming provides entertainment. Bathrooms feature shower/tub combinations, complimentary toiletries, and hair dryers. Conveniences include safes and complimentary newspapers, and housekeeping is provided daily.
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Featured amenities include complimentary high-speed (wired) Internet access, a 24-hour business center, and a computer station. Planning an event in Birmingham? This hotel features 1200 square feet (108 square meters) of event facilities. Free self parking is available onsite.
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Sony Launches YouTube App for the PS Vita
Months after the handheld's launch, the Vita's finally gotten app support for YouTube.
As was promised earlier this month, Sony has brought a YouTube app to the PS Vita. The YouTube app will come with the standard small screen/full screen mode, along with the usual video playback options. You'll also be able to tweak streaming quality settings, which is supported up to 720p.
Sony's been on a push to add more video streaming apps on its newest handheld after receiving complaints about the Vita's lack of software support… and it's true. Outside of the Netflix app and the YouTube app that just launched today for U.S. Vita owners, there aren't any options for video streaming on the handheld. Hopefully, we'll start seeing apps for Hulu+, Crackle, and Amazon Instant start rolling around in a few months.
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steved54321That's cool but pretty late addition. As a Vita Wifi owner, I do feel like the Vita has been rushed as in sent out without much games and apps. Although I'm sure there will be great games, there should have been at least a ton of apps like Youtube to begin with. I almost feel like it's a brick collecting dust...
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This is the only Season 3 episode not to be dubbed or aired in the United States, as the previous episode was the last episode to air in the US, therefore giving Yu-Gi-Oh! GX an abrupt ending in the dub. 4Kids had planned to air the fourth season, but they opted against it, and instead aired the English dub of Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D's.
The result of this duel makes Yubel unique among Yu-Gi-Oh! villains. In every duel she has fought, she either won, or the duel ended without a clear winner. She has never truly lost, thus making her unique compared to other antagonists.
Jaden seems surprised that Yubel summoned herself to the field, but he shouldn't since he has seen this from other opponents as well.
When Zane's life points drop to 200, the life point meter goes down, and then goes back up before going back down to 200.
Zane calls E-Emergency Call a Trap Card, Hero Barrier a Spell Card (which both aren't) and says that Jaden was going to fuse Sparkman and Spark Blaster, which is impossible since Polymerization needs monsters not Spell or Trap Cards.
When Jaden was having flashbacks, the fire was blue, but in the original version, the fire was red.
On his second turn, Aster refers to Diamond Dude as Destiny Dude.
In the dubbed episode, when Adrian looks at his Exodia cards, they weren't changed at all from the Japanese version of the episode.
when the Supreme King activated Dark Calling he said "I summon the spell card Dark Calling", instead of "I activate the spell card Dark Calling".
A big plot hole occurs when the Supreme King uses Dark Calling to summon Infernal Sniper. He says he is removing Clayman and Burstinatrix from play. However, Burstinatrix was never sent to his Graveyard by any move he previously made, and thus couldn't have been there.
The Trap Card that Axel tried to activate against the Supreme King was "Firewall". Even if he had successfully activated it, it would have done nothing, because he had no Monsters in his Graveyard to remove from play.
When Kozaky's card was introduced in a TCG version, it was altered, and his demonic horns were removed. Oddly, in this dubbed version of the anime, his horns remain.
During Syrus' first dream Jaden says Elemental Hero Avian, but when we see the close-up it's Elemental Hero Tempest.
The Spell Card that Bronn uses to Special Summon Reign-Beaux from the Graveyard is referred to as "Corridor to Dark World". The actual name of this card is "Gateway to Dark World".
Osamu incorrectly refers to Clown Zombie as Crass Clown.
During Jaden's flashback to his childhood, his friend duels him and attacks directly with Skull Servant, Dragon Zombie, and Clown Zombie but when their card form is shown, Clown Zombie showed the box for ATK and DEF in addition to the box for the card's text when it should've looked like Dragon Zombie and Skull Servant.
If you look closely, after Jaden destroys Uria, Lord of Searing Flames with Elemental Hero Chaos Neos, they show Jaden's duel disk which appears to have Elemental Hero Mariner on the field, even though Jaden sent Mariner to the graveyard before he summoned Chaos Neos.
Zane says that since he removed three Machines to fuse Chimeratech Overdragon, it can attack directly three times per turn. However it can only attack three monsters per turn.
Marcel referred to his "Break the Seal" cards as Spell Cards. However, the purple borders indicate that they are Trap Cards.
When Marcel laid out the Exoida pieces at the end of their duel, their card parts weren't altered to their usual Spellbinding Circle-like images.
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Comfort Hotel Sixteen Paris Montrouge
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A stay at Comfort Hotel Sixteen Paris Montrouge places you in the heart of Montrouge, convenient to Maison des Examens and Eiffel Tower. This hotel is within close proximity of Stade de la Plaine and Georges Brassens Park.
Make yourself at home in one of the 34 air-conditioned rooms featuring flat-screen televisions. Complimentary wireless Internet access is available to keep you connected. Bathrooms have complimentary toiletries and hair dryers. Conveniences include safes and desks, as well as phones with free local calls.
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Commission for my friend Maddie. Ludwig Bemelmans' Madeline puts the hurt on Dora the Explorer Ni Hao Kai Lan. Ink and Watercolor on bristol.
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text: Could you guys please help me? I'm a little pissed as my Cobra keeps stalling. I recently added March under drive pullies as well as Wazee's pulleys. I have a brand new powermaster 130a alternator. Last week, the car would start, but the starter would keep clicking. Took the battery in (it's 5 months old), and they charged it up as it was low. I added a brand new optima battery and some speaker equipment in the car. A professional installed put it all in. I drove it about 30 miles, and as it comes off the highway, the radio turns off, and then the car stalls as I pull it in. It won't start back up, but it jumps. I drive it home and on the highway and the speedo, tach, radio is not running. The car stalls going 80mph. I tow it home. It starts on a jump again. Any thoughts as to what's up? I would greatly appreciated it.


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When it comes to creating a new unified communications (UC) strategy, or revisiting an existing one, I don't know of many organizations that truly learn from their mistakes.
Most, if not all, approach a UC strategy with the goal of promoting better communication. The fact is if you don't have strong communication and collaboration to begin with, your UC implementation is bound to fail.
There are many skillsets outside the technical IT realm required to create a successful UC strategy. A recent event in my life helped me see their importance in an entirely different way.
1. Play your position
If you've ever watched kids play hockey or soccer, you've witnessed the pack approach. This is where all players chase the puck or ball in a cluster-like formation, essentially, all playing the same role and position. When the ball breaks free from the pack, rarely is anyone in position to take it and score. Many organizations also operate this way when it comes to rolling out new technology, as they have not been clear on who is playing what role.
Recently, I got to see firsthand people in different roles come together to work on a project. I was in awe with the speed and focus with which each contributor worked, how concerned everyone was with the impact they had on the outcome, and how well they ensured others on the project knew everything they needed to know to get the job done. This was not a UC rollout -- the project was me.
A few months ago, I had a bad fall that required my husband to call emergency services. Within minutes, police, paramedics, and firefighters were on scene, all with different roles to play. The paramedics were focused on me, my physical situation, vital signs, and ensuring that I was getting the attention I needed. Meanwhile, the firefighters and police were troubleshooting ways to physically get me out of the space I had fallen into. Once they got me out, and we arrived at the hospital, I was transferred into the care of the nurses and doctors.
The good news is that I came through it with all things being repairable. I spent a great deal of time in the hospital as an outpatient and, without a WiFi connection, defaulted to reading and people watching to pass the time.
It was in my people-watching mode that I came to realize some best-practices that we just expect to be there in healthcare that could easily be adopted by organizations when rolling out any large UC project.
2. Communicate and document
Communication is something we all take for granted. In my case, for example, having the radiologist communicate specifics of the many X-rays he took to the orthopedic surgeon was pretty damn important. Everyone in the process had a form of hand-off communication they did with the next caregiver. This meant that the right ankle was operated on, and that the proper limbs were cast.
A UC project is really all about improving communication from an enablement perspective, but I'm often amazed at how broken some of the communication is among the people involved in the project. For example, knowing the impact of how an engineer configures the Presence Service within Cisco UC Manager can be critical for any future federation. Again, it's about knowing your role and the impact it has on others.
Documentation is another important part of any roll-out strategy and really an extension of communication. We're all moving so fast today that we rarely take the time to document things in a way that will matter and be of use to those downstream in the process.
We all know what assuming makes out of "u" and "me," yet we do it all the time. In a recent client debrief on why their UC project didn't realize its full benefits, I counted references to "assuming" more than five times. When I asked if proper documentation for the purposes of clear communication were performed, again, it was assumed it was being done.
3. Seek different viewpoints
My last observation from my people-watching exercise was following the many troubleshooting discussions the caregivers had as they solved different scenarios. I loved this part, as it makes perfect sense to have people with different backgrounds and expertise come together to look at the problem from their own perspective. Listening to ideas on how the emergency services were going to get me out of my situation meant that people were weighing in, looking at the facts they had in hand, and collaborating (dare I use the term) to form a plan.
With so many IT projects at the average organization, I think we could do a much better job of coming together at the start of a project to not only discuss the success metrics, but to troubleshoot or offer different viewpoints for what we are trying to solve.
So, while I continue to work on healing, I throw down a challenge. I challenge you to engage in open conversations within your own IT groups on communication, documentation, and troubleshooting. All three are implicitly linked.
When I look at the clients who would earn a gold star on their UC rollout, they each could tick the boxes on how well they communicated, documented everything, and went outside of traditional roles to bring the right people together to solve their challenges.


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Say No To This SamsungReviewing: Samsung Sgh T619 | Rating:
Boo! That's what I have to say about this dog of a cellphone I am stuck with. When it was brand new in October of 2006, the T-Mobile saleswoman raved about it's features and reliability. I am afraid I have more BAD to say aout this gadget than good.
For starters, the reason I got that silly thing is for the "megapixel camera" application. Well, let me tell you, there is nothing "mega" about the images I shoot with this phone, as clarity is not one of its virtues. In addition, the side button that activates "easy camera access" likes to fire off pictures of the inside of my pocket without my permission.
I am pleased with the battery life, as until recently, and probably due to my extra use of the phone, I have enjoyed well beyond tha claimed battery life with this phone. I am also quite happy with this phones ability to pick up reception in seemingly "difficult" locales (like in theaters, rural areas, in my pocket)
I am also disgusted with T-Mobile for cancelling this little devil, and making accessories for it incredibly difficult to find. I had to resort to buying asian made cheap knockoffs of my charging accessories on eBay which certainly validate T-Mobile's claim that their genuine accesories are superior.
The best part of this little phone is that it fits in my pocket with ease and is light as can be. Perhaps my next phone will have a better camera.


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Johnny Manziel Wins The Heisman Trophy
Saturday night Texas A&M quarterback Johnny Manziel became the first freshman to win the Heisman Trophy, taking college football's top individual prize after a record-breaking debut.
Notre Dame linebacker Manti Te'o gets second and Kansas State quarterback Collin Klein is third in the voting. In a Heisman race with two nontraditional candidates, Manziel breaks through the class barrier and keeps Te'o from becoming the first purely defensive player to win the honor. Read more


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Slide Guitar 101: Seven Secrets for Beginners
Even if you don't play blues or blues-based rock, consider adding slide to your arsenal. This article will bring you up to speed on seven basic slide guitar techniques you need to get started.
English and American rock guitarists noted for their slide playing, like Ron Wood of the Rolling Stones and Allman Brother Duane Allman, cited African-American slide guitarists from the Mississippi Delta, like Elmore James and Bukka White, as their primary influences. But in the last few decades, American slide playing has busted beyond the blues with the avant-garde jazz of Dave Tronzo and the haunting modal playing of Ry Cooder. So, even if you don't play blues or blues-based rock, consider adding slide to your arsenal. This article will bring you up to speed on seven basic techniques you'll need to get started.
Examples of Slide Guitar
First order of business, of course, is to get yourself a slide. Different slides produce different tones. Ry Cooder favors the smooth sustain provided by a cut-off bottleneck. Keith Richards likes the more biting tone of a metal slide. Duane Allman often used a small glass medicine bottle (after having personally emptied it, one can assume). Lipstick covers work, so do straight razors, pocket knives, toilet paper rollers, pens, cigarette lighters, small juice cans, beer bottles, Playtex gentle-glide tampons - anything with a smooth surface that you can hold in your left hand, really. If it fits over your finger, put it over your finger, but if it doesn't, hold it between your ring and pinkie fingers.
No matter which odd device you decide to slide along your guitar strings, the idea behind all slide playing is very simple: instead of pushing down on a string to create a pitch, you touch the string with a slide. You still use the frets as markers for the notes you want to play, but your ear becomes much more important than your eyes when you play slide proper intonation demands you place the slide in exactly the right place. You have to play more like a violinist, acutely conscious of pitch.
Slide TechniquesThere are seven basic techniques that will make your slide playing solid. You can stumble across all these techniques on your own (and if you're like me, that'll take about a year) or you can learn them right now and start off on the right foot. What can I say, I'm here to serve.
1. Slide directly over the fret wire, rather than behind it or in front of it. To sound a note, aim for the fret wire immediately in front of the fret space you would otherwise play with your fingers. Always use your ears before your eyes, however. If your ear is telling you the note is a little flat even though your eye is telling you that the slide is hovering right above the fret wire slide up a bit until you hear the exact pitch of the note you want. Many slide players don't even look at the fretboard, they just allow their ears to guide them.
2. Do not press down with the slide. Slide playing requires finesse because you must touch the strings lightly with the slide. If you press them down to the fretboard, you will get a dead, buzzing sound (which can be kinda cool, but is probably not what you're hoping to hear most of the time). Apply enough pressure to the string with the slide for the note to sound, but not enough to push the string all the way to the fretboard. The amount of pressure you can apply is dictated by two things: the guitar and the slide. If you are playing an acoustic guitar with high action and heavy strings, for example, and you are using a glass slide, you are going to have to press a bit harder. If you are using an electric guitar with light strings and low action, in contrast, you will have to play very delicately. Different guitars may require different slides. The heavy brass slide that would be great for that high-action acoustic simply wont work on an electric guitar because it will weigh the strings down to the fretboard. Stick with glass or thin steel slides when you're playing on a guitar with low action and/or light strings.
3. Damp the strings behind the slide with your other fingers. This part is really key to getting a good, clean slide tone. You'll notice when you first start fooling around with a slide that many strings and notes will be ringing, making it difficult to play a clear single-note melody. The trick is to use the fingers of the left hand as a kind of damping device by dragging them along the strings behind the slide. Hold your palm flat with all the fingers straight and close together. Press them gently on the strings as you attempt to sound the note you want with the slide. They work like the damper pedal on a piano, muffling all strings but the one you are touching with the slide. Now your slide playing will pop out without interference.
4. Keep your left hand on a parallel plane to the fretboard. In order for the damping technique to be effective, though you've got to keep that left hand level with the fretboard. Bent fingers will allow unwanted open strings to ring. Aim for a smooth, sweeping stroke as you glide evenly over the fretboard.
5. Damp with the heel of your right hand. Left-hand damping is not enough on its own, because notes you've played (intentionally) will continue to ring. Let's say you just played a note with the slide on the second string and the next note of the melody is on the third string. You'll need to damp the second string as you play the note on the third string or the first note will just keep sustaining. Sometimes you'll want the first note to ring into the second, but not always; right hand damping gives you control. You can stop the second string from vibrating simply by touching it with the middle finger of your pick hand as you prepare to play the note on the third string. You can also use the heel of your picking hand to keep the strings from vibrating.
6. On higher strings, try to cover only the strings you are playing. With the straight, extended fingers of your left hand gliding along the strings as one unit, you're likely to cover five or even all six strings. If you're playing a melody on the 2nd string, though, you only need to cover the top three strings with your hands. Lowering your hand position toward the necks bottom edge will help you avoid banging the top of the slide against the lower strings. This prevents your guitar from emitting unwanted scrapes, rattles, and buzzes. If you're playing on the 4th, 5th or 6th strings, though, cover the whole fretboard with your hand, being especially careful to damp the 1st, 2nd and 3rd strings by dragging your fingers along them behind the slide.
7. Use vibrato. You may already use vibrato when you play lead with your fingers by moving the fretted string back and forth across the fretboard, enhancing sustain and giving your playing a more soulful feel. Violinists use vibrato to keep a note going because with the violins small body, pitches decay rapidly. Slide guitarists need to do the same thing, because the slide can quickly soak up the reverberations of the guitar and stop them cold. It also helps obscure intonation imperfections. To create vibrato with the slide, keep your entire left hand in the position described above fingers together, hand level to the fretboard and rock your hand back and forth. Pivoting at your elbow rather than at your wrist will make it easier to stay level. You can use this technique to obtain a slow, sexy quaver (Bonnie Raitt is mistress of this technique) or a fast, keening whine.
Okay, thats enough to get you started. In Part 2 well discuss the really important things, like how to avoid cracking a front tooth when you decide to make like Ron Wood and shove your slide into your mouth.


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Photos and Video of Renee Zellweger on The Late Show 2009-01-30 13:30:09
Renée Zellweger Is a Red Hot Runner
Renée Zellweger looked glamorous in her one-shouldered Nina Ricci dress on her way to The Late Show last night. She's making the rounds promoting New in Town, which Buzz thought had authentic chemistry but not such a great script. Renée turned on her southern charm and flirted with Dave, who wanted to know how she stays so thin, which she admitted was from running that she probably overdoes. She also mentioned that Harry Connick Jr. cooked for the cast while they were filming up in Canada. It sounds like the two stars of the movie developed a real friendship, which could be why it translated so well to the big screen.
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The eighth in a series of profiles of players that might be of interest to the Boston Celtics during the 2012 NBA Draft (June 28, ESPN, 7 p.m.):
Projection: Late first-round (Insider rank: 22; Position rank: 3)
In the news: Wroten has been making the rounds, working out for a number of NBA clubs, including the Portland Trail Blazers, according to Yahoo! Sports, and the Milwaukee Bucks, according to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. The Sentinel still has Wroten projected as a first-round pick.
Why the Celtics want him: Standing at approximately 6-foot-6, Wroten Jr. has tremendous size for the point guard position, and uses his considerable strength to finish effectively around the rim once he gets into the paint. Rajon Rondo is far too unique of a player to be deemed comparable to others, but Wroten Jr. is lauded for his court vision, passing ability, and athleticism, and has drawn heavy criticism for a poor jump shot and a questionable shot selection. In that regard he certainly sounds similar to Rondo. Depending on what the Celtics have planned for E'Twaun Moore, they might be willing to take a chance on another point guard prospect, and Wroten Jr. seems to have plenty of potential for a solid NBA career.
Why the Celtics don't want him: Similar to other prospects, Wroten Jr. to Boston could depend largely on the Celtics' outlook for next season. If they enter into more of a rebuilding stage they might try and land a promising prospect like Wroten Jr., but if they can re-sign the right people and make another push for a championship, they might opt for a player at a different position who might have more of a chance of helping them right away. With Rondo being only 26 years young, he'll still play the bulk of the minutes, and if the C's are serious about contending again, there's next to no chance they'll have a rookie serving as a backup point guard. The Celtics would most likely look to Avery Bradley or a veteran free agent (Keyon Dooling?) to fill such a role.


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With the ink on the Microsoft/Great Plains still wet, analysts have begun offering their opinions of just how good a deal this is for the accounting-technology sector: not all analysts approve of the buy.
"This is a real sea change for Microsoft," said Dwight Davis, vice president of Summit Strategies, a research firm in Boston. He sees the move as Redmond reneging on promises to keep its hands off of certain industry segments. Davis believes that the news will mortify not only competitors of Great Plains, but also many Microsoft partners.
Davis expects Microsoft to make more acquisitions to meet its goal to build a full suite of business process applications. He also thinks that Microsoft may gradually shift into supplying applications for the large enterprise space, and even eventually competing directly with Oracle in this market as well as in the database market.
"Microsoft denied that Oracle is a factor here, but Oracle, like all enterprise players, is trying to move down-market through the ASP (Application Service Provider) channel," according to Davis. ".Net has been little more than a vision to this point and remains one."
Positive and somewhat pessimistic opinions can be found in an article that ran in The Standard.


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Research Topics
K W Broman
Affiliation: Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Country: USA
Detail Information
- Mapping quantitative trait loci in the case of a spike in the phenotype distributionKarl W Broman
Department of Biostatistics, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland 21205, USA
Genetics 163:1169-75. 2003..The procedures are further illustrated with data from an intercross experiment to identify QTL contributing to variation in survival of mice following infection with Listeria monocytogenes...
- R/qtl: QTL mapping in experimental crossesKarl W Broman
Department of Biostatistics, Johns Hopkins University, 615 N Wolfe St, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
Bioinformatics 19:889-90. 2003....
- Crossover interference in the mouseKarl W Broman
Department of Biostatistics, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland 21205, USA
Genetics 160:1123-31. 2002..We further compared the observed numbers of crossovers to previous cytological observations on the numbers of chiasmata and evaluated evidence for the obligate chiasma hypothesis...
- Review of statistical methods for QTL mapping in experimental crossesK W Broman
Department of Biostatistics, Johns Hopkins University, 615 N Wolfe St, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
Lab Anim (NY) 30:44-52. 2001..The author reviews the basic statistical methods for mapping QTLs in experimental crosses and comments on a number of the statistical issues to consider in the application of these methods...
- Estimation of allele frequencies with data on sibshipsK W Broman
Department of Biostatistics, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland 21205, USA
Genet Epidemiol 20:307-15. 2001..We used computer simulation to study the performance of methods 3 and 4, and showed that method 3 provides some improvement over method 2, while method 4 improves little on method 3...
- The genomes of recombinant inbred linesKarl W Broman
Department of Biostatistics, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland 21205 2179, USA
Genetics 169:1133-46. 2005....
- Characterization of human crossover interferenceK W Broman
Department of Biostatistics, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
Am J Hum Genet 66:1911-26. 2000..Finally, we present an equation that provides the probability of the occurrence of a double crossover between two nonrecombinant, informative polymorphisms...
- Long homozygous chromosomal segments in reference families from the centre d'Etude du polymorphisme humainK W Broman
Marshfield Medical Research Foundation, Marshfield, WI, USA
Am J Hum Genet 65:1493-500. 1999..Our results indicate that long homozygous segments are common in humans and that these segments could have a substantial impact on gene mapping and health...
- Comprehensive human genetic maps: individual and sex-specific variation in recombinationK W Broman
Marshfield Medical Research Foundation, Marshfield, WI 54449, USA
Am J Hum Genet 63:861-9. 1998..The new linkage maps plus much additional information, including a query system for use in the construction of reliably ordered maps for selected subsets of markers, are available from the Marshfield Website...
- Method for constructing confidently ordered linkage mapsK W Broman
Center for Medical Genetics, Marshfield Medical Research Foundation, WI 54449, USA
Genet Epidemiol 16:337-43. 1999..We illustrate the approach using a short region of chromosome 7p...
- Significance thresholds for quantitative trait locus mapping under selective genotypingAni Manichaikul
Department of Biostatistics, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland 21205, USA
Genetics 177:1963-6. 2007..A stratified permutation test should be used, with phenotypes shuffled separately within the genotyped and ungenotyped individuals...
- Poor performance of bootstrap confidence intervals for the location of a quantitative trait locusAni Manichaikul
Department of Biostatistics, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland 21205 2179, USA
Genetics 174:481-9. 2006..Likelihood support intervals and approximate Bayes credible intervals, on the other hand, are shown to behave appropriately...
- Quantitative trait linkage analysis by generalized estimating equations: unification of variance components and Haseman-Elston regressionWei Min Chen
Department of Biostatistics, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland 21205, USA
Genet Epidemiol 26:265-72. 2004..Third, our general framework suggests important extensions to the Haseman-Elston approach which make more complete use of the data in extended pedigrees and allow a natural incorporation of environmental and other covariates...
- Genetic and physical mapping of the locus for autosomal dominant renal Fanconi syndrome, on chromosome 15q15.3U Lichter-Konecki
Center for Medical Genetics, Marshfield Medical Research Foundation, Marshfield, WI, USA
Am J Hum Genet 68:264-8. 2001..The identification of the gene and gene product altered in autosomal dominant renal Fanconi syndrome will allow the study of the physiology of proximal renal tubular transport...
- An initial linkage map of the West Nile Virus vector Culex tarsalisM Venkatesan
The W Harry Feinstone Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland 21205, USA
Insect Mol Biol 18:453-63. 2009..This map will aid in identification of loci involved with variable phenotypes in C. tarsalis including WNV susceptibility...
- The X chromosome in quantitative trait locus mappingKarl W Broman
Department of Biostatistics, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
Genetics 174:2151-8. 2006..We found suggestive evidence of linkage to the X chromosome, which would be viewed as strong evidence of linkage if the X chromosome was treated as an autosome. Our methods have been implemented in the package R/qtl...
- An extension of the regression of offspring on mid-parent to test for association and estimate locus-specific heritability: the revised ROMP methodM H Roy-Gagnon
Genometrics Section, Inherited Disease Research Branch, National Human Genome Research Institute, NIH, Baltimore, MD 21224, USA
Ann Hum Genet 72:115-25. 2008..The ROMP(rev) method provides a computationally fast and simple way of testing for association and obtaining accurate estimates of locus-specific heritability while minimizing the genotyping required...
- Comparison of human genetic and sequence-based physical mapsA Yu
Center for Medical Genetics, Marshfield Medical Research Foundation, Wisconsin 54449, USA
Nature 409:951-3. 2001..Linkage disequilibrium was much more common and extended for greater distances in the deserts than in the jungles...
- Linkage of late-onset Fuchs corneal dystrophy to a novel locus at 13pTel-13q12.13Olof H Sundin
Center for Corneal Genetics, Cornea and External Disease Service, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
Invest Ophthalmol Vis Sci 47:140-5. 2006..To identify the gene locus underlying the inheritance of late-onset Fuchs corneal dystrophy (FCD) in a large white kindred...
- Power and robustness of linkage tests for quantitative traits in general pedigreesWei Min Chen
Department of Biostatistics, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
Genet Epidemiol 28:11-23. 2005..While we have not yet examined the performance of our procedures in the context of selective sampling via computer simulations, the proposed tests satisfy all of the other qualities of an ideal quantitative trait linkage analysis method...
- Two autoimmune diabetes loci influencing T cell apoptosis control susceptibility to experimental autoimmune myocarditisMehmet L Guler
Department of Pathology, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
J Immunol 174:2167-73. 2005..SW mice demonstrate the same characteristics in apoptosis. These results suggest that common pathogenetic mechanisms involving apoptosis of both thymic and peripheral T cells are shared by multiple autoimmune diseases...
- Inheritance of a novel COL8A2 mutation defines a distinct early-onset subtype of fuchs corneal dystrophyJohn D Gottsch
Center for Corneal Genetics, Cornea and External Disease Service, The Wilmer Eye Institute, John Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21287, USA
Invest Ophthalmol Vis Sci 46:1934-9. 2005..To characterize the genetic basis and phenotype of inherited Fuchs corneal dystrophy (FCD)...
- Extreme hyperopia is the result of null mutations in MFRP, which encodes a Frizzled-related proteinOlof H Sundin
Laboratory of Developmental Genetics, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21287, USA
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 102:9553-8. 2005..MFRP appears primarily devoted to regulating axial length of the eye. It remains to be determined whether natural variation in its activity plays a role in common refractive errors...
- SNP-specific array-based allele-specific expression analysisHans T Bjornsson
Department of Medicine and Center for Epigenetics, Institute of Basic Biomedical Sciences, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland 21205, USA
Genome Res 18:771-9. 2008..The approach is scalable to the whole genome and can be used for discovery of functional epigenetic modifications in patient samples...
- Interactions in hypoxic and hypercapnic breathing are genetically linked to mouse chromosomes 1 and 5Clarke G Tankersley
Department of Environmental Health Sciences, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
J Appl Physiol 97:77-84. 2004..7) in a region between 7 and 29 cM (i.e., centered at D5Mit66). In conclusion, these results support the hypothesis that a minimum of two significant genes modulate the interactive effects of hypoxia and hypercapnia in this genetic model...
- Endothelial dystrophy, iris hypoplasia, congenital cataract, and stromal thinning (edict) syndrome maps to chromosome 15q22.1-q25.3Albert S Jun
Center for Corneal Genetics, Cornea and External Disease Service, The Wilmer Eye Institute, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland 21287, USA
Am J Ophthalmol 134:172-6. 2002..To localize a gene causing a newly described autosomal dominant anterior segment dysgenesis characterized by corneal endothelial dystrophy, iris hypoplasia, congenital cataracts, and corneal stromal thinning (EDICT syndrome)...
- The recombinational anatomy of a mouse chromosomeKenneth Paigen
Center for Genome Dynamics, The Jackson Laboratory, Bar Harbor, Maine, United States of America
PLoS Genet 4:e1000119. 2008..It appears that the regulation of mammalian recombination is a complex, dynamic process involving multiple factors reflecting species, sex, individual variation within species, and the properties of individual hotspots...
- Identification of susceptibility loci for skin disease in a murine psoriasis modelDaniel Kess
Department of Dermatology and Allergic Diseases, University of Ulm, Maienweg 12, D 89081 Ulm, Germany
J Immunol 177:4612-9. 2006..The identification of gene regions associated with psoriasis in this mouse model might contribute to the understanding of genetic causes of psoriasis in patients and pathological mechanisms involved in development of disease...
- A common locus for late-onset Fuchs corneal dystrophy maps to 18q21.2-q21.32Olof H Sundin
Center for Corneal Genetics, Cornea and External Disease Service, The Wilmer Eye Institute, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, MD 21287, USA
Invest Ophthalmol Vis Sci 47:3919-26. 2006..To identify the genetic basis of late-onset Fuchs corneal dystrophy (FCD)...
- Genome Reshuffling for Advanced Intercross Permutation (GRAIP): simulation and permutation for advanced intercross population analysisJeremy L Peirce
Center for Neuroscience, Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology, University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, Tennessee, United States of America
PLoS ONE 3:e1977. 2008..The critical problem with naïve mapping approaches in AIL populations is that the individual is not an exchangeable unit...
- Haplotype probabilities for multiple-strain recombinant inbred linesFriedrich Teuscher
Research Unit Genetics and Biometry, Research Institute for the Biology of Farm Animals, Dummerstorf, Germany
Genetics 175:1267-74. 2007..We also extend the two-point results for the case of additional generations of intermating, including the case of 2(n)-way intermated recombinant inbred populations (IRIP)...
- R/qtlDesign: inbred line cross experimental designSaunak Sen
Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California 94143, USA
Mamm Genome 18:87-93. 2007..We give examples of software usage in real-life settings. The software is available at http://www.biostat.ucsf.edu/sen/software.html ...
- A simple method for combining genetic mapping data from multiple crosses and experimental designsJeremy L Peirce
Center for Neuroscience, Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology, University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, Tennessee, United States of America
PLoS ONE 2:e1036. 2007..Many phenotypes are now associated with enough mapping data that meta-analysis could help refine locations of known QTLs and detect many novel QTLs...
- Crossover interference underlies sex differences in recombination ratesPetko M Petkov
Center for Genome Dynamics, The Jackson Laboratory, Bar Harbor, ME 04609, USA
Trends Genet 23:539-42. 2007..However, the interference distance is the same in terms of bivalent length. We propose a model in which the interference distance in the two sexes reflects the compaction of chromosomes at the pachytene stage of meiosis...
- The C. savignyi genetic map and its integration with the reference sequence facilitates insights into chordate genome evolutionMatthew M Hill
Department of Pathology, SUMC, Stanford, CA 94305 5324, USA
Genome Res 18:1369-79. 2008..These results, when considered in light of the neutral theory, suggest fundamentally different modes of evolution of animal species with large versus small population sizes...
- Mapping quantitative trait loci by an extension of the Haley-Knott regression method using estimating equationsBjarke Feenstra
Department of Natural Sciences, Royal Veterinary and Agricultural University, Frederiksberg, Denmark
Genetics 173:2269-82. 2006....
- The Collaborative Cross, a community resource for the genetic analysis of complex traitsGary A Churchill
The Jackson Laboratory, 600 Main Street Bar Harbor, Maine 04609, USA
Nat Genet 36:1133-7. 2004..The Collaborative Cross will provide a common reference panel specifically designed for the integrative analysis of complex systems and will change the way we approach human health and disease...
- Discrete gene loci regulate neurodegeneration, lymphocyte infiltration, and major histocompatibility complex class II expression in the CNSOlle Lidman
Department of Clinical Neuroscience, Karolinska Institute, Karolinska Hospital, S 17176, Stockholm, Sweden
J Neurosci 23:9817-23. 2003....
- SNPs made routineKarl W Broman
Nat Methods 1:104-5. 2004
- Genome-wide linkage identifies novel modifier loci of aganglionosis in the Sox10Dom model of Hirschsprung diseaseSarah E Owens
Division of Genetic Medicine, Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, 529 Light Hall, 2215 Garland Avenue, Nashville, TN 37232 0275, USA
Hum Mol Genet 14:1549-58. 2005....
- High-resolution quantitative trait locus mapping reveals sign epistasis controlling ovariole number between two Drosophila speciesVirginie Orgogozo
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Princeton University, New Jersey 08544, USA
Genetics 173:197-205. 2006..the absence of the QTL3b D. sechellia allele. This property of QTL3a allows us to reconstruct the probable order of fixation of the QTL alleles during evolution...
- Genetic control of X chromosome inactivation in mice: definition of the Xce candidate intervalLisa Helbling Chadwick
Institute for Genome Sciences and Policy, Duke University, Durham, NC 27708, USA
Genetics 173:2103-10. 2006..This study provides a foundation for future analyses into the genetic control of X chromosome inactivation and defines a 1.85-Mb interval encompassing all the major elements of the Xce locus...
- New loci regulating rat myelin oligodendrocyte glycoprotein-induced experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitisKristina Becanovic
Neuroimmunology Unit, Department of Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
J Immunol 170:1062-9. 2003..Furthermore, we detected a locus-specific parent-of-origin effect with suggestive linkage in Eae17. Further genetic and functional dissection of these loci may disclose critical disease-regulating molecular mechanisms...
- A major locus conferring susceptibility to infection by Streptococcus pneumoniae in micePaul Denny
MRC UK Mouse Genome Centre and Mammalian Genetics Unit, Harwell, Oxon, OX11 0RD, UK
Mamm Genome 14:448-53. 2003..Linkage analysis of the F(2) generation from a cross between resistant BALB/cO1aHsd and susceptible CBA/CaO1aHsd strains allowed us to map a major locus controlling the development of bacteremia and survival after intranasal infection...
- Simulation-based P values: response to North et alKarl W Broman
Am J Hum Genet 72:496. 2003
- Quasi-linkage: a confounding factor in linkage analysis of complex diseases?Sinthuja Sivagnanasundaram
The Krembil Family Epigenetics Research Laboratory, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, 250 College Street, Toronto, Ontario, M5T 1R8 Canada
Hum Genet 114:588-93. 2004..51. In conclusion, although complex disease relevant markers did not produce high QL lod scores, the general phenomenon of QL in humans cannot be excluded and potentially can be a confounding factor in genetic studies of complex traits...
- Breed distribution and history of canine mdr1-1Delta, a pharmacogenetic mutation that marks the emergence of breeds from the collie lineageMark W Neff
Veterinary Genetics Laboratory, School of Veterinary Medicine, University of California, Davis, CA 95616, USA
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 101:11725-30. 2004....
- "Bias toward the null" means reduced powerSolveig K Sieberts
Am J Hum Genet 75:720-2; author reply 723-7. 2004
- Spectrum of heart disease associated with murine and human GATA4 mutationSatish K Rajagopal
Department of Cardiology, Children s Hospital Boston, 300 Longwood Avenue, Boston, MA 02115, USA
J Mol Cell Cardiol 43:677-85. 2007..Additional studies will be required to determine the degree to which GATA4 mutation contributes to human CHD characterized by ECD or RV hypoplasia...
- Mapping expression in randomized rodent genomesKarl W Broman
Nat Genet 37:209-10. 2005
- Unknown biological mixtures evaluation using STR analytical quantificationSadeep Shrestha
Laboratory of Genomic Diversity, National Cancer Institute at Frederick, Frederick, MD 21702, USA
Electrophoresis 27:409-15. 2006..4 and 97.4%, respectively. The newly validated approach of using multiple STRs as highly informative biomarkers in unknown sample mixture analyses has potential applications in genetics, forensic science, and epidemiological studies...
- Multiperson use of syringes among injection drug users in a needle exchange program: a gene-based molecular epidemiologic analysisSadeep Shrestha
Laboratory of Genomic Diversity, National Cancer Institute, NCI Frederick, MD 21702, USA
J Acquir Immune Defic Syndr 43:335-43. 2006..Testing of STRs represents a promising approach to examining and accessing complex behavioral data, including syringe sharing...
- Multiple polymorphic loci determine basal hepatic and splenic iron status in miceGemma R Grant
MRC Toxicology Unit, University of Leicester, Leicester, UK
Hepatology 44:174-85. 2006..In conclusion, the findings show the location of polymorphic genes that determine basal iron status in wild-type mice. Human equivalents may be pertinent in predisposition to hepatic and other disorders...
- Quantitative trait loci x maternal cytoplasmic environment interaction for development rate in Oncorhynchus mykissKrista M Nichols
School of Biological Sciences and Center for Reproductive Biology, Washington State University, Pullman, Washington 99164 4236, USA
Genetics 175:335-47. 2007..Both MCE and QTL x MCE effects contribute to variability in development rate, but QTL x MCE were minor and detected only at small-effect QTL...


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Dean's Welcome
Welcome to the Graduate School of Management (GSOM), a special place at Clark University.
If you are interested in belonging to a community that encourages challenging the status quo, embraces diversity, enjoys learning across disciplines, thinks on a global level, has a high regard for sustainability and social issues, and prepares you for a career in an array of business fields, you have come to the right place.
In addition to producing impactful research, GSOM professors take a keen interest in our students and their professional development. All students attend classes taught by GSOM faculty, not graduate assistants, and the small class size allows students to engage and get to know our faculty and often work with them on research projects. This connection between students and faculty is a distinct advantage of studying at Clark GSOM. Because of these opportunities and relationships, our alumni keep in touch with their former professors and staff, which results in a far-reaching alumni network for your benefit.
Our students learn along with, and also from, other GSOM students coming from many different countries and backgrounds. The diversity of our student body provides an opportunity to study in an environment that exemplifies a truly global organization, providing an experience that many other schools cannot duplicate. Further, as an AACSB accredited institution since 1986, our Graduate School of Management is committed to maintaining high quality instruction, establishing lasting industry and corporate partnerships, and providing a rigorous academic experience that will challenge and prepare you for a career in your field of choice. You will graduate GSOM with skills that are valued by organizations around the world.
My hope is that you will come to Clark and feel at home here, engage in all we have to offer, and leave with the confidence and skills you need to change your world. I encourage you to visit our beautiful main campus at Clark University in Worcester or our Southborough (Ma) location and learn more about our transformative degree programs.
Catherine Usoff, Ph.D.
Dean, Graduate School of Management
Clark University
Catherine Usoff came to GSOM from Bentley University where she was a faculty member for 19 years. She was the inaugural chair of the Information & Process Management department after thirteen years in the Accounting department. Catherine has extensive curriculum development experience and has created and fostered many corporate relationships. Most of her recent teaching experience has been in a full-time MBA program. She worked with many leading local companies where her MBA students have completed business process improvement projects. Catherine earned her B.S. in Accounting from Boston College, and an MBA and Ph.D. from The Ohio State University. She lives in Acton, MA with her husband and son, and has a daughter in graduate school in California.


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Tis far too cold to be using my general riding gear and my feet and hands are suffering very badly.
I'm looking at possibly geting some overshoes or some sealskinz Thermal socks - what's the general thoughts on either of these? Reviews are mixed on both appoaches but have not known anyone other than road riders who use them.


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Rethink Breast Cancer: Touch. Look. Check.
The more I write about breast cancer, the more I realize the face of the disease is getting younger and younger. Women under 30 are regularly diagnosed with breast cancer – it is no longer a post menopausal disease. I just found the Canadian organization Rethink Breast Cancer. Their focus is not only fundraising for research, but creating awareness about the disease, and their target demographic is women under 40.
As a fundraising event RBC just hosted The Boobyball complete with a Tit for Tat Auction. If the events were as fun as their names, I am sure they raised a lot of dough.
Here is a PSA they have produced to remind you to check your girls. It will definitely give you a feel for the organization.
Remember: TLC = Touch. Look. Check.


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Cache is the new GHZ
I predict you're going to see more cache tossed about as things heat up between Intel and AMD -- lots of cache helps to keep plenty of code and data nearby for those multi-cores to chew on and stay busy.
You want to minimize hogging the FSB having to go to the Fridge (Memory) or God help us all the way to the Freezer (hard drive).
This goes hand in hand with the new onboard "disk cache" Intel announced ----- this will evolve into a L3 cache sitting between the Fridge and Freezer.
Lastly - look for algorithm wars on how best to clevery up relevant stuff in them caches


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According to a report on ESPNdeportes.com, scouts for the Oriolesand Blue Jays watched Manny Ramirez take indoor batting practice in Miami.
Nothing stirs up the masses like Manny.
Asked earlier today whether he could confirm the report, Orioles executive vice president Dan Duquette said, "I heard that Manny has been working out down there."
Asked again about the Orioles' interest, Duquette said, "We're aware that he's working out down there."
Fred Ferreira, the Orioles' executive director of international scouting, and manager Buck Showalter watched Ramirez hit in a cage shortly after the Winter Meetings in Dallas, which concluded Dec. 8.
"People have been trying to link us to Ramirez because I signed him in Boston, " Duquette said, "and they've been doing that ever since he said that he wanted to play ball again."
Ramirez signed an eight-year, $160 million contract with the Red Sox in December 2000, while Duquette served as their general manager.
Whichever team signs Ramirez must wait for him to serve a 50-game suspension following a second positive test for performance-enhancing drugs. The original 100-game suspension was reduced after he applied for reinstatement.
Ramirez, a career .312 hitter with 555 home runs in 19 major league seasons, retired after playing only five games with the Rays last season.
The Orioles are in the market for a designated hitter, which also fuels speculation that they'll make a run at Ramirez, who turns 40 on May 30.
"Any team that signs him, he can't play for 50 days anyway," Duquette said. "I'm not sure it's a January story."
Well, pretty much anything involving Ramirez is a story.
"He's always interesting and highly entertaining," Duquette said.
So, who would serve as the Orioles' designated hitter if the season started tomorrow?
"If the season started tomorrow, it couldn't be Manny Ramirez," Duquette said.
True enough.
Duquette confirmed that the Orioles retain interest in Luke Scott, who was non-tendered last month. However, they don't appear to be in a big rush to open up negotiations on a new contract.
At least 11 teams have expressed some level of interest in Scott. The Angels apparently are one of those clubs.
"We know Luke Scott," Duquette said.


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Las Vegas tapas Restaurant Reviews
Welcome to our Las Vegas tapas restaurant reviews guide where you'll find top restaurants off the beaten path, both locally owned and chain. In fact, some of the best restaurants in the Las Vegas just might be the little mom and pop operations flying under the radar. For some of the best picks in Las Vegas, you've come to the right place.
Our Las Vegas restaurant reviews guide can help you make sense of the thousands of options out there. Happy eating!
Also check out our Best Restaurants in Las Vegas 2016 Guide
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Barcelona Tapas & Bar(08/19/2010)
"We took my in-laws here and were very glad we did! The food was amazing and the service superb. Overall, it was a great experience. We will go again!"
Nittaya's Secret Kitchen(07/27/2010)
"Dinner was amazing! The food was spectacular! We will be back with friends."
Barcelona Tapas & Bar(01/18/2010)
"I always was curious to try this new tapas bar in Southern Highlands being that I was a fan of Firefly on Paradise Rd, but not a fan of how crowded it would get. Barcelona had great food. I highly recommend the bacon wrapped stuffed dates, the spicy pork chop with the tamarindo and chile glaze sauce... "
Barcelona Tapas & Bar(01/13/2010)
"Very fine and fun restaurant, I love it! Great live music! Great Bar! Great Food! Great Tapas!"
cafe Deia(03/17/2009)
"Our first course was the figs wrapped in bacon. It was an amazingly tasty combination. The artichoke toast was perfectly acidic and nicely seasoned. My husband had the philly cheese steak. He said the steak was very nicely seasoned, and paired with a well aged cheese and a spicy dipping sause ma... "


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PHILADELPHIA April 18, 2013 - American Associates, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (AABGU) announces that Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU) and Fox Chase Cancer Center (FCCC) in Philadelphia have received a two-year National Institutes of Health (NIH) research grant to observe "the role of host encoded microRNAs in the maintenance of the measles virus persistent state."
Many viruses are known to persist in their target cells and establish chronic infection, long after resolution of their acute phase. A thorough understanding of this interplay between viruses and their host may offer insight into the mechanistic basis of human infectious diseases.
This research collaboration is part of an ongoing agreement between BGU and FCCC to support and facilitate scientific and clinical exchanges, as well as to encourage collaborations and joint research between scientists and physicians. Fox Chase and Ben-Gurion formalized their relationship in 2008, but it actually began in 2003 as a partnership spearheaded by AABGU's National Vice President Alton I. Sutnick.
Sutnick, founder of the Health Sciences and Academic Affiliations Committee of AABGU's Mid-Atlantic Region, is a physician and former dean of the Medical College of Pennsylvania (now the Drexel University School of Medicine). Through this partnership, he sought to explore the genetic risks of cancer and incorporate these factors into clinical practice across cultural settings.
"Thanks to Dr. Sutnick and AABGU's Philadelphia chapter, BGU has a longstanding research partnership with Fox Chase that has greatly contributed to medical science," explains Doron Krakow, AABGU executive vice president. "It is a great accomplishment to receive this NIH grant and we look forward to their findings."
BGU researchers participating in the study include Prof. Jacob Gopas and Prof. Ynat Shemer Avni of the Shraga Segal Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Genetics. In addition, Prof. Zvi Bentwich from the Department of Virology and Developmental Genetics will act as a consultant. Dr. Glenn Rall at Fox Chase Cancer Center, Philadelphia will collaborate with the BGU researchers.
American Associates, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (AABGU) plays a vital role in sustaining David Ben-Gurion's vision, creating a world-class institution of education and research in the Israeli desert, nurturing the Negev community and sharing the University's expertise locally and around the globe. With some 20,000 students on campuses in Beer-Sheva, Sede Boqer and Eilat in Israel's southern desert, BGU is a university with a conscience, where the highest academic standards are integrated with community involvement, committed to sustainable development of the Negev. AABGU is headquartered in Manhattan and has nine regional offices throughout the U.S., including one in Philadelphia. For more information, contact 215-884-4510 or firstname.lastname@example.com, or visit http://www.


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Ron van der Ende at Ambach & Rice
The pleasures of trompe l'oeil effects are immediate. However the gee whiz marvel over the technical ability to optically deceive fades fast like the precipitous drop in earnings of a wide release film in its second weekend receipts. In a new exhibition at Ambach and Rice, Ron van der Ende races headlong towards this cliff but miraculously never falls into a non-resonant abyss. Don't let the double negative deceive, this is an excellent show.
The best diagnosis for van der Ende's visual success may lie in the fact that he doesn't traffic in narrative or naturalistic depiction. More often than not, these approaches become trite and cliche faster than summer lightning.
The boxes, cubes, letters and I beams that are van der Ende chosen subjects are, for all intents and purposes, abstract. In such, the artist can flex his sizable skill set of forced perspective and have the head-scratching charm of trompe l'oeil deception be the subject matter itself.
The second marvel in evidence in this fine exhibition is that these images are made of veneers of recycled wood nailed into an armature no more than four inches thick. No effort is made to conceal the flat head nails which attach the veneers of colored wood to the structure and thus become part of the tone and rhythm of the the piece.
A curious viewer yo yos back and forth, examining the sculptures up close to see their meticulously constructed feats and then slowly retreats perpendicular to the wall until the perceived three dimensionality snaps into recognition. Move side to side and the illusion continues to a point when it disintegrates again. The act of seeing and engagement is essential to the appreciation of van der Ende's work and thus his art becomes a collaborative experience. This dance is particularly effective in the east gallery where four pieces are installed on opposing walls.
The color palette is distinctive. Weathered hues lend an air of the antique. Furthermore, no paint is applied to the patchwork quilt of wood and color. This artistic restriction is also a gift to the viewer. Perfection is eschewed in favor of approximation.
The I Beams in the west gallery are bombastic and macho. They seem tailor made for a trading room of a hedge fund where positions of perceived strength can become self fulfilling prophecies.
Perhaps most satisfying is to witness exquisite craftsmanship at the behest of substantive aesthetic inquiry. In Los Angeles, where artifice in the film industry (matte painting and model building) were once the tools of cinema's magic, it's lovely to be seduced by magic for magic's sake.
Ron van der Ende at Ambach & Rice, 6148 Wilshire Blvd. through July 27th, 2013
-Mario M. Muller, Los Angeles, June 17th, 2013
also by Mario M. Muller
- Mid-Century Modern at LAMA Auction House, Van Nuys - February 20th, 2014
- Robert Therrien at Gagosian, Beverly Hills - January 22nd, 2014
- Art Fair Season in Los Angeles - January 15th, 2014
- Roy Dowell at Various Small Fires - October 14th, 2013
- Leon Benn at Carter & Citizen - September 13th, 2013


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Gareth Barry sought reassurances about Mark Hughes's future at Manchester City before he agreed the £12m deal that led to his leaving Aston Villa. Given the ambitions of City's owners and the fact they did not appoint him as manager, Hughes's position has always been subject to scrutiny. However, Barry was told by the club's chairman, Khaldoon Al Mubarak, that Hughes's job was safe.
"That was the first question," Barry said. "They told me he was secure, which was important because I didn't want to play for anyone else."
On the first day of a five-year contract, there was one question that kept returning to the midfielder. During his unsuccessful attempt to join Liverpool last summer, Barry, now 28, insisted the move was fuelled by his desire to play in the Champions League. Twelve months on, he has joined a club that has not even made the Europa League and many in Birmingham believe the wages offered by Manchester City – which in the words of the Tottenham manager, Harry Redknapp, blew bids from Spurs and Liverpool "out of the water" – are the real reason for the transfer.
Barry responded that it was the speed of City's move rather than the wage packet. After last summer's agonies that saw him temporarily stripped of the Villa captaincy by Martin O'Neill, he wanted his future settled quickly. "I could have waited for other offers," he said. "I waited the whole of last summer for something to materialise with Liverpool and it never did. I wasn't willing to go through that again. It was a bold decision, made very quickly."
Should Richard Dunne leave Eastlands – with Sunderland, Stoke and Tottenham all interested in the defender – Barry seems certain to be Manchester City's next captain. However, the odds must be against him playing in European football's premier club competition. Not since 1978 have City finished in the top four and Barry, who said he would have stayed had Aston Villa qualified for the Champions League, knows at first hand the difficultly required to break the big four's stranglehold. "Of course, it is a gamble coming here," he said. "At one stage last season, Villa were six points clear of Arsenal. We expected to break into the Champions League but the business end of the season is always the toughest part. That's when the top four clubs who have dominated for so long come into their own."
He has not yet spoken to O'Neill. "He is on holiday, his phone is turned off and his voice mail is full," Barry said. "I have left a message. I know what people say about our relationship but I am now an established member of the England set-up and I owe that to Martin O'Neill."
Meanwhile, Birmingham are expected to agree a season-long loan for City's goalkeeper, Joe Hart, Hughes confirmed.


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Kadushin takes a bite out of Meyer's debut novel, reading the suspenseful vampire romance with gusto and conveying a range of adolescent emotions. When 17-year-old Isabella Swan moves to perpetually rainy, small-town Forks, Wash., to live with her father, she accepts that it will be much duller than life in Phoenix with Mom. But Bella gets more excitement than she bargained for when she falls hard for Edward Cullen, a beautiful, pale boy with a disturbingly deep gaze and eyes that change color. It turns out that Edward and his adoptive family are all vampires, and Bella has entered mysterious, dangerous territory just by associating with them. The drama of everyday high school entertainingly blends with the supernatural as the plot thickens. And Kadushin makes listeners believe Bella's intense feelings of love, confusion and fear as Meyer's tale takes a gripping, unexpected turn toward a somewhat-rushed ending. This enticing production will definitely leave listeners wanting to hear more in this planned trilogy. Ages 12-up. (Sept.)
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Nice! Congrats on your first print!
This is a really good tee.
What a fantastic and unique shirt! So much better than the more common crap.
Unique no doubt, I like the landscape in the background a lot. Congrats on your first print!
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i LOVE this.
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Love this style – congratulations!
congrats, well deserved, I love it, will get this one
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All Ireland Qualifiers: Tough ties in prospect for Ulster sides
Five Ulster counties - Antrim, Fermanagh, Down and Monaghan along with Donegal or Cavan — will go into the draw for the first round of the All-Ireland football Qualifiers.
It is expected that the draw will be made next weekend and the matches are scheduled to be played on Saturday June 25.
Some or indeed all of the Ulster teams could potentially face tricky assignments as among the teams who will be included in the draw are Laois, Meath, Sligo, Wicklow and Westmeath or Wexford.
While most counties obviously prefer to take the most direct route possible to the All-Ireland quarter-finals by winning their provincial championship title, the Qualifiers have thrown up some hugely exciting matches in recent years.
Meanwhile, Antrim hurling manager Dinny Cahill believes his side have a great chance of advancing through the All-Ireland Qualifiers preliminary phase now that they have been drawn at home against Westmeath on Saturday week.
Antrim lost to Wexford in the Leinster championship after having beaten Laois but they now get the chance to redeem themselves.
"We fell away in the second-half of our match against Wexford but I think we will have learned from that," says Cahill.
"Home advantage against Westmeath is undoubtedly a bonus and we hope to make the most of it. If we win we will be at home again the following week against Carlow and that will be a powerful incentive for us to do well."
If the Saffrons beat Westmeath the Ulster final in which they are due to play the winners of next Sunday's semi-final between Armagh v Down on June 26, will be postponed until July 3.
Antrim chairman Jim Murray and secretary Frankie Quinn have urged fans to come out in big numbers to support the side, saying: "This is an opportunity to witness top-class hurling in Belfast and obviously we are hoping for a very positive response."
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Analysis Of Travel Agents Performances During The Economic Crisis - Case Of Cluj County, Romania
The economic crisis we confront at this moment affects the peoples' lives and enterprises' activity. In this paper we evaluate the impact of economic crisis on the travel agents' activity. The peoples' standard of living and the enterprises' activities has a significant influence on the travel agents' economic performances. We will base our analysis on two assumptions. Firstly, when the society standard of living is higher its leisure expenditures are higher and the travel agents have more clients. In opposition, in recession the amount of leisure expenditures decrease and the number of private clients of the travel agents is lower. Secondly, in the economic growth times, the number of business clients of the travel agents is rising, while in the recession times the business clients are decreasing. In order to verify these two assumptions, we will conduct a survey on travel agents from Cluj County, Romania. Using a questionnaire, we will collect the necessary data and by the statistical means we will process and interpret these data. In the questionnaire we will study the evolution of the peoples' leisure expenditure and business clients' expenditures on tourism services as reported to 12 months ago.
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