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Muslim Scientist And Their 1001 Inventions & Discoveries
1~ Coffee
An Arab named Khalid in kaffa in southern Ethiopia was one day grazing goats and observed that his goats became more energetic and much livelier than before after some time. After further inspection, he found out that this energetic behavior was because of certain berries that his goat grazed. He later boiled those berries to make the first coffee.
The first historical record of the drink was made when beans exported from Ethiopia to Yemen were used by Sufis to stay awake as a sign of religious devotion on special occasions.
By the late 15th century it had arrived in Makkah and Turkey from where it made its way to Venice in 1645. But it wasn't until the 16th century that coffee beans came to Europe. It was brought to England in 1650 by a Turk named "Pasqua Rosee" who opened the first coffee house in Lombard Street in the City of London.
The Arabic word "qahwa" became the Turkish "kahve" then the Italian "caffé" and then English "coffee".
2~ Optics
We all know about Ibn-al-Haitham from our primary and secondary school books, as he was a great Muslim mathematician, astronomer and physicist of the 10th century.
The Greeks used to think that light leaves the eye like a laser, but Ibn-al-Haitham was the first person to realize that light enters the eye, rather than leaving it. He proved that humans see objects by light reflecting off of them and entering the eye.
He invented the first pinhole camera after noticing the way light came through a hole in window shutters. The smaller the hole, the better the picture.
The word 'camera' as we know today is basically derived from the word Qamara, The same qamara we use for our rooms in Urdu, because he made the pinhole camera in a dark room.
3~ Universitites
A young princess named Fatima Al-Firhi in 859 founded the first degree-granting university in Fez, Morocco.
Fatima and her sister Miriam wanted to expand it that is why they founded an adjacent mosque and together the complex became the "Al-Qarawiyyin Mosque and University".
Still operating for almost 1,200 years by now, this should also be noted that the center reflects the core belief that the quest for knowledge is close to the heart of Muslims and is the core of the Islamic tradition.
The story of the Al-Firhi sisters continues to inspire young Muslim women around the world. It also stresses the fact that Islam does not restrict women from acquiring knowledge.
4~ Surgery
Abul Qasim Khalaf ibn al-Abbad al-Zahrawi", a man known in the West as Abulcasis, was the first surgeon in human history.
During the 10th century, he wrote "Al-Tadrif", his medical encyclopedia which included a treatise called "On Surgery". This held a staggering collection of knowledge which included his scalpels, bone saws, forceps, fine scissors for eye surgery and many of the 200 instruments he devised.
Those instruments are still in use by modern surgeons today.
All of those illustrations were used in Europe as a medical reference for the next 500 years.
5~ Hospitals
The first Medical Center of its kind, with wards, beds, nurses, etc was the "Ahmad ibn Tulun Hospital" (named for the founder of the Tulunid dynasty). It was founded in 872 in Cairo.
Tulun hospital provided free care for anyone who needed it, a policy based on the Muslim tradition of caring for all who are sick. From Cairo, such hospitals spread around the Muslim world.
All patients received free health care, a Muslim tradition which was institutionalized with the advent of the hospital.
Slightly more basic hospitals had existed prior to this in Baghdad. But it was the Cairo model which would later serve as the template for hospitals all around the globe.
6~ Algebra
Students struggling through math classes may not particularly appreciate this Muslim invention but it is one of the most important contributions of the Muslim Golden Age to the modern world.
The system of numbering in use all round the world is probably Indian and Greek in origin but the style of the numerals is Arabic and first appears in print in the work of the Muslim mathematicians Al-Khwarizmi and Al-Kindi around 825.
The word algebra comes from the name of Al Khwarizmi's book "Al-jabr", meaning "completion".
He even solved the real-world problems such as zakat calculation and inheritance division. A unique aspect of his reasoning for developing algebra was the desire to make calculations mandated by Islamic law easier to complete in a world without calculators and computers.
The work of Muslim mathematician scholars was imported into Europe 300 years later by the Italian mathematician Fibonacci.
7~ Windmill
The windmill was invented in 634 for a Persian caliph. Initially electricity wasn't made from these windmills instead they were used to grind corn and draw up water for irrigation.
In the vast deserts of Arabia, when the seasonal streams ran dry, the only source of power was the wind which blew steadily from one direction for months. These mills had 6 or 12 sails covered in fabric or palm leaves.
It was 500 years before the first windmill was seen in Europe.
8~ Vaccinations
As even taught in secondary school books, that the technique of inoculation was invented by Jenner and Pasteur is wrong. It was actually the Muslims who first devised the technique, which was later brought to Europe from Turkey by the wife of the English ambassador in 1724.
Children in Turkey were vaccinated with cowpox to fight the deadly smallpox at least 50 years before the West discovered it.
9~ Rocket and Torpedo
Though the Chinese invented saltpeter gunpowder, and used it in their fireworks, it was the Arabs who worked out that it could be purified using potassium nitrate and can later be used for military use as a weapon.
Muslim incendiary devices terrified the Crusaders. By the 15th century they had invented both a rocket, which they called a "self-moving and combusting egg", and a torpedo, a self-propelled pear-shaped bomb with a spear at the front which impaled itself in enemy ships and then blew up.
10~ Earth Is a Sphere
By the 9th century, many Muslim scholars took it for granted that the Earth was a sphere. Astronomer Ibn Hazm as a proof said that, "the Sun is always vertical to a particular spot on Earth" due to which it must be in sphere shape.
It was 500 years before that realization dawned on Galileo. The calculations of Muslim astronomers were so accurate that in the 9th century they reckoned the Earth's circumference to be 40, 253.4km – less than 200km out.
11~ Fountain pen
On the demand of sultan of Egypt, the fountain pen was invented in 953. As he demanded a pen which would not stain his hands or clothes and a pen which didn't needed an inkpot with it, instead it should carry the ink in its body.
Later a fountain pen was designed. It held ink in a reservoir and, as with modern pens, fed ink to the nib by a combination of gravity and capillary action.
12~ Shampoo
Washing and bathing are religious practice and is a requirement for Muslims to pray, which is perhaps why they perfected the recipe for soap which we still use today. Hazrat Saalih (A.S) is known to have invented soap as we know today.
The ancient Egyptians had soap of a kind, as did the Romans who used it more as a pomade. But it was the Arabs who combined vegetable oils with sodium hydroxide and aromatics such as thyme oil.
Shampoo was introduced to England by a Muslim who opened Mahomed's Indian Vapour Baths on Brighton seafront in 1759 and was appointed Shampooing Surgeon to Kings George IV and William IV.
13~ Parachute
A thousand years before the Wright brothers a Muslim poet, astronomer, musician and engineer named Abbas ibn Firnas was the first person to make real attempts to construct a flying machine and fly.
In 852 he jumped from the minaret of the Grand Mosque in Cordoba using a loose cloak stiffened with wooden struts. He hoped to glide like a bird. He didn't. But the cloak slowed his fall, creating what is thought to be the first "parachute", and leaving him with only minor injuries.
But his dreams of flying couldn't let him sleep in peace for which, In 875 at the age of 70, having perfected a machine of silk and eagles' feathers he tried again, jumping from a mountain. This time he designed a winged apparatus, roughly resembling a bird costume. He flew to a significant height and stayed aloft for about ten minutes but crashed on landing, later it was concluded that it happened because he had not given his device a tail so it would stall on landing.
His designs would undoubtedly have been an inspiration for famed Italian artist and inventor Leonardo da Vinci's hundreds of years later.
Baghdad international airport and a crater on the Moon are named after him.
Muslims have a big contributions in chemistry known as Al-Chemya


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Aww, no more potholes?
Dear Mr. Kabbash, your maintenance of this parking lot is criminal for a Mass Transit depot. Would it kill you to fill in the large pot holes during the winter with a truckload of gravel. If I were Wild Wings it would be a major bone of contention that an urban parking lot be allowed to be so infrequently maintained.
I'm sure there is some reason you have not paved it like anyone else would do. Somehow it will turn out the city is a fault.
It should be paved in the first place, but to charge for parking when the lot is kept in suck poor condition. I'm going to charge the owner for the cost of replacing my car's suspension. What a nimrod...


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iPatientCare – EHR vendors always do well as advertisers on EMR and HIPAA and so it's great to have iPatientCare as a new advertiser. They provide the full suite of EHR, PMS, PHR, HIE, and Mobile that you could need along with all the important EHR and meaningful use certifications. I see that they're going to be exhibiting at HIMSS at Booth #5519 if you want to check them out at HIMSS. Plus, I love that their website has an image that says they won 9 TEPR Awards. Many of you probably won't even know what TEPR is since it's no longer around. However, TEPR was a conference focused exclusively on EHR (although it was probably called EMR back then since it was before EHR became in Vogue). The fact that they won awards at TEPR shows how long iPatientCare's been doing EHR.
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Sfax – I call Sfax a returning advertiser because they first started advertising on EMR and HIPAA back in December of 2009. So, they supported EMR and HIPAA back when we were just starting to get some traction. After a short hiatus, they're back as an advertiser. What many don't realize is that Sfax handles the faxing for a large number of the EHR vendors out there. While I generally avoid faxing as much as possible, sometimes it can't be avoided and so I'm always grateful I can just send a fax similar to how I send an email using Sfax. Word on the street is that they have the next version of their software coming out soon. I'm excited to check it out.
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For its newest generation, the 2013 Nissan Sentra is skipping the facelift and getting the full on Michael Jackson. The all new car has a laundry list of new features, and they stretch from the nose to the tail. It's lighter. It's economier. It's upscalier. It's LEDier. It also looks like the lovechild of the new Altima and a Lexus IS. And it's boring.
Nissan says that the new car drops 150 pounds compared to the last generation car. which lets it get 34 MPG combined. It touches 40 MPG on the highway.
While it's lighter and more efficient, it has also grown in size, which is one trend that carmakers can't seem to stop. Soon the Maxima will legally be considered a yacht and they'll need something even smaller than the Versa in the lineup.
The Sentra will have Nissan's CVT and the exterior styling will be accented by the de rigeur LED lighting package. The interior is supposed to be more upscale. A nav system is optional, and it also comes with apps like Pandora as well as a speech-to-text one that allows you to text while driving. Sounds like something for millennials to us!
The bad news is that it's boring. It has all the features that have been in other cars, including Korean cars, for years. It's all wrapped up in an inoffensive body that could be nearly any car on the road. But, as Toyota has proved, beige is boring, but it sells. At least this car comes in a handsome blue.
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According to The Pulse Of Radio, Joe Perry says that AEROSMITH's new "Music From Another Dimension!" album could be the band's last. While talking to Noisecreep, Perry spoke about the recent release, explaining, "We knew we had another record in us, despite what many said, and I make no bones about it, I don't know if we're gonna make another record."
He addressed the fact that over the past few years tensions between the bandmembers reached a fever pitch. "Our disagreements are what make us dynamic," he said. "If we all thought the same way, nothing good would happen, but even after we argue, we don't take it home. It's one of the things that allowed us to get back together. We'll argue things to death, but we deal with it, figure it out and move on. There's too much life out there to waste time being like kids in high school. We had a meeting yesterday over a video, it got really heated, but then went down to look at Steven's [Tyler, vocals] motorcycle. All was fine. Then it was like, what are you doing tonight?"
Perry was pressed as to how "Music From Another Dimension!" stacks up against other AEROSMITH albums. "In order to compare, you have to not like something else," he said. "So I'll pick what I don't like and work my way up. I really didn't like 'Done With Mirrors'. I really didn't like 'Just Push Play'. Then there are other records I really think we're good for their time, like 'Toys (In The Attic') and 'Rocks'. I still listen to those and I put this one in that category of a record I will continue to listen to a lot. I can't get enough of this one."
Perry says that even taking their already 40-year-career into account — there's no reason that AEROSMITH can't be rocking onstage for decades still to come. "I think that the band has to look at what it takes to do this gracefully," he said. "There's no reason why the band can't keep playing until we can't walk. There's just no reason. You just have to know that you can't do certain things anymore. Y'know, you can't do somersaults on stage, you can't do, y'know, swing from ropes. But there are other things you can do that are just as entertaining — like sing, play."
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PIERRE - A comprehensive South Dakota economic development fund proposed by state legislators would be paid for with contractors excise tax collections and money from unclaimed property.
Republican Sen. Corey Brown, of Gettysburg, outlined the Building South Dakota Fund to the House State Affairs Committee on Monday. The panel voted unanimously to move the bill to the House floor.
The measure was introduced at a bipartisan news conference last week. It would focus on providing tax breaks for large projects that the state otherwise might not attract. It also would provide money for training workers and helping communities build the infrastructure needed to encourage development.
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BACKGROUND.l-Carnitine, an abundant nutrient in red meat, accelerates atherosclerosis in mice via gut microbiota–dependent formation of trimethylamine (TMA) and trimethylamine N-oxide (TMAO) via a multistep pathway involving an atherogenic intermediate, γ-butyrobetaine (γBB). The contribution of γBB in gut microbiota–dependent l-carnitine metabolism in humans is unknown. METHODS. Omnivores and vegans/vegetarians ingested deuterium-labeled l-carnitine (d3-l-carnitine) or γBB (d9-γBB), and both plasma metabolites and fecal polymicrobial transformations were examined at baseline, following oral antibiotics, or following chronic (≥2 months) l-carnitine supplementation. Human fecal commensals capable of performing each step of the l-carnitine→γBB→TMA transformation were identified. RESULTS. Studies with oral d3-l-carnitine or d9-γBB before versus after antibiotic exposure revealed gut microbiota contribution to the initial 2 steps in a metaorganismal l-carnitine→γBB→TMA→TMAO pathway in subjects. Moreover, a striking increase in d3-TMAO generation was observed in omnivores over vegans/vegetarians (>20-fold; P = 0.001) following oral d3-l-carnitine ingestion, whereas fasting endogenous plasma l-carnitine and γBB levels were similar in vegans/vegetarians (n = 32) versus omnivores (n = 40). Fecal metabolic transformation studies, and oral isotope tracer studies before versus after chronic l-carnitine supplementation, revealed that omnivores and vegans/vegetarians alike rapidly converted carnitine to γBB, whereas the second gut microbial transformation, γBB→TMA, was diet inducible (l-carnitine, omnivorous). Extensive anaerobic subculturing of human feces identified no single commensal capable of l-carnitine→TMA transformation, multiple community members that converted l-carnitine to γBB, and only 1 Clostridiales bacterium, Emergencia timonensis, that converted γBB to TMA. In coculture, E. timonensis promoted the complete l-carnitine→TMA transformation. CONCLUSION. In humans, dietary l-carnitine is converted into the atherosclerosis- and thrombosis-promoting metabolite TMAO via 2 sequential gut microbiota–dependent transformations: (a) initial rapid generation of the atherogenic intermediate γBB, followed by (b) transformation into TMA via low-abundance microbiota in omnivores, and to a markedly lower extent, in vegans/vegetarians. Gut microbiota γBB→TMA/TMAO transformation is induced by omnivorous dietary patterns and chronic l-carnitine exposure. TRIAL REGISTRATION. ClinicalTrials.gov NCT01731236. FUNDING. NIH and Office of Dietary Supplements grants HL103866, HL126827, and DK106000, and the Leducq Foundation.
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Energy stress, such as ischemia, induces mitochondrial damage and death in the heart. Degradation of damaged mitochondria by mitophagy is essential for the maintenance of healthy mitochondria and survival. Here we show that mitophagy during myocardial ischemia was mediated predominantly through autophagy characterized by Rab9-associated autophagosomes, rather than the well-characterized form of autophagy that is dependent upon the Atg-conjugation system and LC3. This form of mitophagy played an essential role in protecting the heart against ischemia and was mediated by a protein complex consisting of Ulk1, Rab9, Rip1 and Drp1. This complex allowed recruitment of trans-Golgi membranes associated with Rab9 to damaged mitochondria through Ser179 phosphorylation of Rab9 by Ulk1 and Ser616 phosphorylation of Drp1 by Rip1. Knock-in of Rab9 (S179A) abolished mitophagy and exacerbated injury in response to myocardial ischemia without affecting conventional autophagy. Mitophagy mediated through the Ulk1-Rab9-Rip1-Drp1 pathway protected the heart against ischemia by maintaining healthy mitochondria.
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Ca2+ channel β-subunit interactions with pore-forming α-subunits are long-thought to be obligatory for channel trafficking to the cell surface and for tuning of basal biophysical properties in many tissues. Unexpectedly, we demonstrate that transgenic expression of mutant cardiac α1C subunits lacking capacity to bind CaVβ because of alanine-substitutions of three conserved residues — Y467, W470, and I471 in the α-interaction domain of rabbit α1C — can traffic to the sarcolemma in adult cardiomyocytes in vivo and sustain normal excitation-contraction coupling. However, these β-less Ca2+ channels cannot be stimulated by β-adrenergic pathway agonists, and thus adrenergic-augmentation of contractility is markedly impaired in isolated cardiomyocytes and in hearts. Similarly, viral-mediated expression of a β-subunit-sequestering-peptide sharply curtailed β-adrenergic stimulation of wild-type Ca2+ channels, identifying an approach to specifically modulate β-adrenergic regulation of cardiac contractility. Our data demonstrate that β subunits are required for β-adrenergic regulation of CaV1.2 channels and positive inotropy in the heart, but are dispensable for CaV1.2 trafficking to the adult cardiomyocyte cell surface, and for basal function and excitation-contraction coupling.
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Emerging evidence indicates that angiopoietin-2 (Angpt2), a well-recognized vascular destabilizing factor, is a biomarker of poor outcome in ischemic heart disease. However, its precise role in postischemic cardiovascular remodeling is poorly understood. Here, we show that Angpt2 plays multifaceted roles in the exacerbation of cardiac hypoxia and inflammation after myocardial ischemia. Angpt2 was highly expressed in endothelial cells at the infarct border zone after myocardial infarction (MI) or ischemia/reperfusion injury in mice. In the acute phase of MI, endothelial-derived Angpt2 antagonized Angpt1/Tie2 signaling, which was greatly involved in pericyte detachment, vascular leakage, increased adhesion molecular expression, degradation of the glycocalyx and extracellular matrix, and enhanced neutrophil infiltration and hypoxia in the infarct border area. In the chronic remodeling phase after MI, endothelial- and macrophage-derived Angpt2 continuously promoted abnormal vascular remodeling and proinflammatory macrophage polarization through integrin α5β1 signaling, worsening cardiac hypoxia and inflammation. Accordingly, inhibition of Angpt2 either by gene deletion or using an anti-Angpt2 blocking antibody substantially alleviated these pathological findings and ameliorated postischemic cardiovascular remodeling. Blockade of Angpt2 thus has potential as a therapeutic option for ischemic heart failure.
Seung-Jun Lee, Choong-kun Lee, Seok Kang, Intae Park, Yoo Hyung Kim, Seo Ki Kim, Seon Pyo Hong, Hosung Bae, Yulong He, Yoshiaki Kubota, Gou Young Koh
Heart failure (HF) remains a major source of morbidity and mortality in the U.S. The multifunctional Ca2+/calmodulin-dependent kinase II (CaMKII) has emerged as a critical regulator of cardiac hypertrophy and failure, although the mechanisms remain unclear. Previous studies have established that the cytoskeletal protein βIV-spectrin coordinates local CaMKII signaling. Here we sought to determine the role of a spectrin/CaMKII complex in maladaptive remodeling in HF. Chronic pressure overload (6 weeks transaortic constriction, TAC) induced a decrease in cardiac function in WT mice but not in animals expressing truncated βIV-spectrin lacking spectrin/CaMKII interaction (qv3J). Underlying observed differences in function was an unexpected differential regulation of STAT3-related genes in qv3J TAC hearts. In vitro experiments demonstrate that βIV-spectrin serves as a target for CaMKII phosphorylation, which regulates its stability. Cardiac-specific βIV-spectrin knockout (βIV-cKO) mice show STAT3 dysregulation, fibrosis and decreased cardiac function at baseline similar to WT TAC. STAT3 inhibition restored normal cardiac structure and function in βIV-cKO and WT TAC hearts. Our studies identify a novel spectrin-based complex essential for regulation of the cardiac response to chronic pressure overload. We anticipate that strategies targeting the new spectrin-based "statosome" will be effective at suppressing maladaptive remodeling in response to chronic stress.
Sathya D. Unudurthi, Drew M. Nassal, Amara Greer-Short, Nehal J. Patel, Taylor Howard, Xianyao Xu, Birce Onal, Tony Satroplus, Deborah Y. Hong, Cemantha M. Lane, Alyssa Dalic, Sara N. Koenig, Adam C. Lehnig, Lisa A. Baer, Hassan Musa, Kristin I. Stanford, Sakima A. Smith, Peter J. Mohler, Thomas J. Hund
The ubiquitin-proteasome system (UPS) degrades a protein molecule via two main steps: ubiquitination and proteasomal degradation. Extraproteasomal ubiquitin receptors are thought to couple the two steps but this proposition has not been tested in vivo with vertebrate animals. More importantly, impaired UPS performance plays a major role in cardiac pathogenesis including myocardial ischemia-reperfusion injury (IRI) but the molecular basis of the UPS impairment remains poorly understood. Ubiquilin1 is a bona fide extra-proteasomal ubiquitin receptor. Here we report that cardiomyocyte-restricted knockout of Ubiquilin1 (Ubqln1-CKO) in mice accumulated a surrogate UPS substrate (GFPdgn) and increased myocardial ubiquitinated proteins without altering proteasome activities, and resulted in a late-onset cardiomyopathy and a significantly shortened lifespan. When subject to regional myocardial ischemia-reperfusion, young Ubqln1-CKO mice showed significantly exacerbated cardiac malfunction and enlarged infarct size and, conversely, mice with transgenic Ubqln1 overexpression displayed attenuated IRI. Furthermore, Ubqln1 overexpression facilitated proteasomal degradation of oxidized proteins and the degradation of a UPS surrogate substrate in cultured cardiomyocytes without increasing autophagic flux. These findings demonstrate that Ubiquilin1 is essential to cardiac ubiquitination-proteasome coupling and that an inadequacy in the coupling represents a major pathogenic factor to myocardial IRI, identifying strengthening the coupling as a potential strategy to reduce IRI.
Chengjun Hu, Yihao Tian, Hongxin Xu, Bo Pan, Erin M. Terpstra, Penglong Wu, Hongmin Wang, Faqian Li, Jinbao Liu, Xuejun Wang
Cardiac two pore domain potassium channels (K2P) exist in organisms from Drosophila to humans, however their role in cardiac function is not known. We identified a K2P gene, CG8713 (sandman), in a Drosophila genetic screen and show that sandman is critical to cardiac function. Mice lacking an ortholog of sandman, TWIK related potassium channel (TREK-1 or Kcnk2), exhibit exaggerated pressure overload induced concentric hypertrophy and alterations in fetal gene expression, yet retain preserved systolic and diastolic cardiac function. While cardiomyocyte specific deletion of TREK-1 in response to in vivo pressure overload resulted in cardiac dysfunction, TREK-1 deletion in fibroblasts prevented deterioration in cardiac function. The absence of pressure overload induced dysfunction in TREK-1 KO mice was associated with diminished cardiac fibrosis and reduced activation of c-Jun N-terminal kinase activity (JNK) in cardiomyocytes and fibroblasts. These findings indicate a central role for cardiac fibroblast TREK-1 in the pathogenesis of pressure overload-induced cardiac dysfunction and serve as a conceptual basis for its inhibition for as a potential therapy.
Dennis M. Abraham, Teresa E. Lee, Lewis J. Watson, Lan Mao, Gurangad S. Chandok, Hong-Gang Wang, Stephan Frangakis, Geoffrey S. Pitt, Svati H. Shah, Matthew J. Wolf, Howard A. Rockman
The superoxide-generating enzyme Nox2 contributes to hypertension and cardiovascular remodeling triggered by activation of the renin-angiotensin system. Multiple Nox2-expressing cells are implicated in angiotensin II (AngII)-induced pathophysiology, but the importance of Nox2 in leukocyte subsets is poorly understood. Here, we investigated the role of Nox2 in T cells, particularly Tregs. Mice globally deficient in Nox2 displayed increased numbers of Tregs in the heart at baseline whereas AngII-induced T-effector cell (Teffs) infiltration was inhibited. To investigate the role of Treg Nox2, we generated a mouse line with CD4-targeted Nox2 deficiency (Nox2fl/flCD4Cre+). These animals showed inhibition of AngII-induced hypertension and cardiac remodeling related to increased tissue-resident Tregs and reduction in infiltrating Teffs, including Th17 cells. The protection in Nox2fl/flCD4Cre+ mice was reversed by anti-CD25 Ab-depletion of Tregs. Mechanistically, Nox2–/y Tregs showed higher in vitro suppression of Teffs proliferation than WT Tregs, increased nuclear levels of FoxP3 and NF-κB, and enhanced transcription of CD25, CD39, and CD73. Adoptive transfer of Tregs confirmed that Nox2-deficient cells had greater inhibitory effects on AngII-induced heart remodeling than WT cells. These results identify a previously unrecognized role of Nox2 in modulating suppression of Tregs, which acts to enhance hypertension and cardiac remodeling.
Amber Emmerson, Silvia Cellone Trevelin, Heloise Mongue-Din, Pablo D. Becker, Carla Ortiz, Lesley A. Smyth, Qi Peng, Raul Elgueta, Greta Sawyer, Aleksandar Ivetic, Robert I. Lechler, Giovanna Lombardi, Ajay M. Shah
Fibroblasts are a dynamic cell type that achieve selective differentiated states to mediate acute wound healing and long-term tissue remodeling with scarring. With myocardial infarction injury, cardiomyocytes are replaced by secreted extracellular matrix proteins produced by proliferating and differentiating fibroblasts. Here, we employed 3 different mouse lineage-tracing models and stage-specific gene profiling to phenotypically analyze and classify resident cardiac fibroblast dynamics during myocardial infarction injury and stable scar formation. Fibroblasts were activated and highly proliferative, reaching a maximum rate within 2 to 4 days after infarction injury, at which point they expanded 3.5-fold and were maintained long term. By 3 to 7 days, these cells differentiated into myofibroblasts that secreted abundant extracellular matrix proteins and expressed smooth muscle α-actin to structurally support the necrotic area. By 7 to 10 days, myofibroblasts lost proliferative ability and smooth muscle α-actin expression as the collagen-containing extracellular matrix and scar fully matured. However, these same lineage-traced initial fibroblasts persisted within the scar, achieving a new molecular and stable differentiated state referred to as a matrifibrocyte, which was also observed in the scars of human hearts. These cells express common and unique extracellular matrix and tendon genes that are more specialized to support the mature scar.
Xing Fu, Hadi Khalil, Onur Kanisicak, Justin G. Boyer, Ronald J. Vagnozzi, Bryan D. Maliken, Michelle A. Sargent, Vikram Prasad, Iñigo Valiente-Alandi, Burns C. Blaxall, Jeffery D. Molkentin
SCN5A encodes the voltage-gated Na+ channel NaV1.5 that is responsible for depolarization of the cardiac action potential and rapid intercellular conduction. Mutations disrupting the SCN5A coding sequence cause inherited arrhythmias and cardiomyopathy, and single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) linked to SCN5A splicing, localization, and function associate with heart failure–related sudden cardiac death. However, the clinical relevance of SNPs that modulate SCN5A expression levels remains understudied. We recently generated a transcriptome-wide map of microRNA (miR) binding sites in human heart, evaluated their overlap with common SNPs, and identified a synonymous SNP (rs1805126) adjacent to a miR-24 site within the SCN5A coding sequence. This SNP was previously shown to reproducibly associate with cardiac electrophysiological parameters, but was not considered to be causal. Here, we show that miR-24 potently suppresses SCN5A expression and that rs1805126 modulates this regulation. We found that the rs1805126 minor allele associates with decreased cardiac SCN5A expression and that heart failure subjects homozygous for the minor allele have decreased ejection fraction and increased mortality, but not increased ventricular tachyarrhythmias. In mice, we identified a potential basis for this in discovering that decreased Scn5a expression leads to accumulation of myocardial reactive oxygen species. Together, these data reiterate the importance of considering the mechanistic significance of synonymous SNPs as they relate to miRs and disease, and highlight a surprising link between SCN5A expression and nonarrhythmic death in heart failure.
Xiaoming Zhang, Jin-Young Yoon, Michael Morley, Jared M. McLendon, Kranti A. Mapuskar, Rebecca Gutmann, Haider Mehdi, Heather L. Bloom, Samuel C. Dudley, Patrick T. Ellinor, Alaa A. Shalaby, Raul Weiss, W.H. Wilson Tang, Christine S. Moravec, Madhurmeet Singh, Anne L. Taylor, Clyde W. Yancy, Arthur M. Feldman, Dennis M. McNamara, Kaikobad Irani, Douglas R. Spitz, Patrick Breheny, Kenneth B. Margulies, Barry London, Ryan L. Boudreau


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Minister of planning: we attempt to expand border crossing with ...Web News 08/10/2019
Minister of planning says depend on quality and quality assurance give original companies project. Today on October 8, 2019, at ministry building, Dr.Dara Rashid minster of planning of regional government received delegation of exterior minister of Islamic Republic of Iran headed by Dr.Ansari deputy of exterior minister for economic affair and Iran consul in Erbil. Connection between regional government and Islamic Republic of Iran discussed, assist of Iran to region from different states also t ...
Korea International Cooperation Agency (KOICA) and Ministry of ...Web News 29/04/2018
The Country Director of Korea International Cooperation Agency (KOICA) in Iraq, Mr. Ra Kapchae, has signed the Record of Discussion with H.E. Dr. Ali Sindi, Minister of Planning of Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG), for the project of "Modernization of Public Procurement System in Kurdistan Region, Iraq" in Erbil on Sunday, 29 April 2018. The Korean Government will provide grant aid of six million US dollars (US$ 6,000,000) for this project and KOICA will implement the project fro ...
KRG Launches the KRG Social Protection Strategic FrameworkWeb News 28/09/2016
Erbil, Kurdistan Region of Iraq September 21, 2016 - The Kurdistan Regional Government has approved a new strategic framework to strengthen the Region's social protection programs "The new Framework strengthens and aligns KRG's social protection system with the KRG Vision 2020 by promoting more effective strategies for the labor market, for social insurance and for social safety nets, to protect the poor and vulnerable population and provide opportunities for our youth. This c ...
Modernization of Public Procurement for Sustainable Economic ...Web News 14/08/2016
Under the leadership and direct supervision of the Minister of Planning HE Dr. Ali Sindi, the Ministry of Planning in the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) recently embarked on modernizing its public procurement system through a comprehensive and multi-faceted reform program supported by the World Bank. In line with the KRG 2020 Vision of 'Effective, transparent, trusted and honest Government', and as part of the 3-year economic reform plan aimed at "Achieving Shared Prosperi ...
DEPUTY UN RELIEF CHIEF KYUNG-WHA KANG SAYS IRAQI HUMANITARIAN ...Web News 13/12/2015
(Baghdad/Erbil, 30 November 2015): Kyung-wha Kang, the United Nations Assistant Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs visited Baghdad and Erbil to discuss the humanitarian crisis. "The human cost of the crisis is devastating. We are extremely worried that all indicators point to a dramatically worsening situation in the months ahead," Ms. Kang said"I spoke with women who had lost virtually everything. If we are to succeed in responding to their most basic needs, we need in ...
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A vision for the Future 2020
The overall development vision of the Kurdistan Regional Government is aKrudsitan Region of Iraq where all people enjoy the benefits of freedom,health,
welfare, and economic security and opportunity. The vision has been produced for three reasons. The first one is to have people know how the government
envisions the Regional developing and how the KRG is working to improve the people's well-being. The second one is to unify the present thinking into an overall plan for the government in order that all parts of the government will work together for a common goal. The third one is to provide a framework under which the individual ministries could develop their detailed policies and goals through 2017, and so included five-year policy priorities
Spotlights: Facts Sheets
Ministry of Planning and RAND Corporation Phase 1 Joint reports
Building the Future: Summary of Four Studies to Develop the Private Sector, Education, Health Care, and Data for Decision making for the Kurdistan Region — Iraq
At the request of the KRG, the RAND Corporation had undertaken four studies with the aim of improving the economic and social development of the Kurdistan Region. The work by RAND was intended to help with the expansion of access to high quality education and health care, increase of the private sector development and employment, and designing a data collection system to support high priority policies. …Read more
Resolutions and regulations to terminate Public Investment Projects
To help companies and contractors that have been affected by both the KRG financial crisis as well as the delay of the advance funding and are unable to continue with the implementation of the KRG projects assigned to them,we have decided:
The Prime Minister of the Kurdistan Regional Government has issued an optional resolution to KRG ministries, departments and institutions that refers to the termination and/or cancellation of the extension periods of the implementing public investment projects. Ministry of Planning and Ministry of Finance have decided on necessary regulations so as to put that resolution into action. KRG departments should observe the resolution and enforce it to terminate the projects and cancel the extension periods for them. Click on the links below for more information on:
1- KRG PM's Resolution No. 9051 on Nov. 11th, 2015.
2- Regulation No. 1 MoP on Jan 1st, 2016.
3-Resolution to Termination KRG Projects.
4-Clarification on MOP Regulation No.1 7/1/2016
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Understanding why stock ownership can bias directors' objectivity, and examining how board discussion transparency can yield differential effects for stock-owning and non-stock-owning directors makes it possible to anticipate the effects of increased board transparency on earnings management and directors' decisions. The notion of increased board discussion transparency is valid in the current environment in which shareholders are pushing for "constituency board seats" because information leaks surrounding board discussions likely will result when constituent directors report back to their shareholder groups. Hence, if controversial boardroom discussions are eventually divulged to the public, the findings suggest that directors' judgments and decisions will be influenced by knowledge of increased board transparency.
Rose, J. M., C. R. Mazza, C. S. Norman, and A. M. Rose. 2013. The influence of director stock ownership and board discussion transparency on financial reporting quality. Accounting, Organizations & Society 38 (5): 397-405.
This study contributes to existing literature by re-examining the relationship between audit committee compensation and financial reporting quality. The findings indicate the continuance of a negative relationship between audit committee members' stock-option compensation and financial reporting quality in the post-SOX era. These results are relevant to regulators, compensation committees, and auditors because they imply that shifting audit committee director compensation away from stock options has the potential to improve financial reporting quality.
Campbell, J. L., J. Hansen, C. A. Simon, and J. L. Smith. 2015. Audit Committee Stock Options and Financial Reporting Quality after the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002. AUDITING: A Journal of Practice & Theory 34 (2):91-120.
When selecting members of the audit committee, our results suggest the need for the nominating committee to pursue individuals who place great emphasis on issues of fairness to shareholders. Beyond such initial screening, one way to improve the quality of the financial reporting process could be to educate audit committee members to explicitly consider outcome fairness to shareholders of the financial statement presentation, especially in matters that involve ambiguous accounting issues. This education process should help to emphasize that audit committee members need to consider stakeholders, such as current and prospective shareholders, above the potentially parochial views of management. Moreover, regulatory bodies may consider emphasizing the nature of the monitoring role of the board and how examining decisions through the lens of fairness may enhance the ability of the board to fulfill its monitoring role in a more effective manner.
For more information on this study, please contact Dana Hermanson.
Bierstaker, J., J. Cohen, D. Hermanson, and T. DeZoort. 2012. Audit Committee Compensation, Fairness, and the Resolution of Accounting Disagreements. Auditing: A Journal of Practice & Theory 31 (2): 131-150.
First, the weight of evidence suggests that weak governance is associated with an increased likelihood of adverse financial reporting outcomes (in particular, fraud and restatements). Thus, perhaps the most fundamental practice implication is that the governance research findings to date are, on an overall basis, consistent with the focus on improved corporate governance (e.g., board independence, audit committee expertise) found in SOX and related regulatory reforms.
Second, since the board and the audit committee are primary mechanisms for the internal monitoring of top management's financial reporting behavior, and given that the CEO and/or CFO is involved in 89 percent of all public company accounting frauds (Beasley et al. 2010), external auditors need to very carefully examine corporate governance characteristics and processes in assessing the control environment.
Third, research finds that auditor changes/dismissals are less problematic in the presence of good governance. That is, in the presence of good governance, the auditor change/dismissal may be justified by poor auditor performance or excessive fees. Since regulators do not have the resources to examine all auditor changes, even if limited to dismissals, regulators might want to consider the client firm's governance characteristics when deciding whether to investigate an auditor dismissal.
Fourth, research indicates that external auditors assess risk higher and plan more audit hours for firms with weak governance. However, whether auditors adequately adjust for weak governance has not been examined. In other words, adjustments of risk assessments and audit hours occur, but is there enough adjustment in light of the higher risk?
Fifth, strong governance and strong auditing appear to be complements rather than substitutes—stronger boards and audit committees are associated with stronger auditing. Therefore, monitoring (both internal monitoring by the board and audit committee, and external monitoring by the auditor) is likely to be especially weak in firms with weak governance, for the quality of auditing is likely to be lower in the presence of weak governance.
Sixth, a number of studies have demonstrated the importance of audit committee accounting expertise, as well as auditing expertise and industry expertise. Firms should strive to appoint audit committee members with specific accounting and auditing expertise given their apparently greater effectiveness and the positive stock market reaction to the appointment of accounting experts.
Seventh, a growing line of research indicates that audit committee compensation methods can influence audit committee members' judgments, and audit committee compensation methods are associated with the risk of restatement and with the handling of auditor adjustments. We encourage auditors, analysts, and shareholders to be cognizant of the potential risks involved if audit committee members are compensated primarily with short-term, incentive-based pay.
Eighth, some audit committees appear to take their monitoring roles seriously, while others appear to be primarily ceremonial in nature. Auditors are in a unique position to evaluate the effectiveness of the audit committee process. Auditors should explicitly evaluate the effectiveness of the audit committee's processes, and adjust their risk assessments, budgeted hours, and the nature, extent, and timing of audit testing, especially if effective audit committee processes seem to be attenuated by the intervention of a dominant CEO.
Finally, given the severe reputational damage experienced by directors, especially audit committee members, in cases of financial reporting failures, and given the difficulty of monitoring a large entity on a part-time basis, audit committees might want to consider retaining permanent staff or consultants to the audit committee.
For more information on this study, please contact Dana Hermanson.
Carcello J. V., D. R. Hermanson, and Z. Ye. 2011. Corporate Governance Research in Accounting and Auditing: Insights, Practice Implications, and Future Research Directions. Auditing: A Journal of Practice & Theory 30 (3): 1-31.


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ORRINGTON � Three children and a man died in a house fire early Saturday, but a woman believed to be the children's mother escaped and was taken to a hospital, authorities said. The identities were not released and the state medical examiner was at the scene of the fire.
PROVIDENCE, R.I. � The election could not have gone much worse for Republicans in New England. GOP presidential candidate and former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney did not capture a single electoral vote here. Sen. Scott Brown was cast aside by Massachusetts voters in favor of Democrat Elizabeth Warren. Elsewhere in New England, Republicans lost every major election for Congress and governor. In Maine, a GOP-majority Legislature was replaced by a Democratic-dominated House and Senate, and the state Republican chairman, Charlie Webster, says he's not running for a new term.
�VATICAN-GAY MARRIAGE-MAINE � � The Vatican is digging in after gay marriage initiatives scored big wins this week in Maine and two other U.S. states and Europe, vowing to never stop insisting that marriage can only be between a man and a woman.
� ZUMBA-PROSTITUTION � Two defendants in the Maine Zumba prostitution case, Mark Strong and Alexis Wright, are asking for separate trials.
�WIND FARM DENIED � Maine's environmental commissioner has accepted a recommendation to reject an application to build a 14-turbine wind farm on Passadumkeag Mountain in Penobscot County.
� FOOD DRIVE � Gov. Paul LePage and his wife are serving up refreshments and giving short tours of the Blaine House for the third straight week as part of a food drive to help needy Mainers put food on the table.
�FBC-GEORGIA STATE-MAINE � Georgia State visits the University of Maine in the Black Bears' last home game of the 2012 football season. Maine (3-6, 2-4 CAA) will try to recover from last week's 31-7 loss to No. 10 James Madison as it faces Georgia State (1-9), which last week lost 53-27 to No. 5 Old Dominion.


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This seems to be a real problem with some LCD Monitors, especially the entry level TN panels like the popular Dell models (one of which I'm in front of right now).
In my case, the monitor was fine for the first two months. But then started making a buzzing noise… 1) when on, 2) worse when in power stand-by mode, and 3) even worse when turned off.
Thanks Dell!
It seems as if the cheap capacitors manufacturers' use in these LCDs, after a while, start to resonate at a high pitch frequency that is very annoying in a quiet room. I've read that some people have fixed this by opening up the monitor and putting epoxy resin around parts … something I was not ready to do.
Adjusting the brightness setting of the LCD managed to fix this problem. Since this changes the power the monitor takes, this also changes the frequency these cheap capacitors resonate at… Sometimes for the better. You'll have to play around and see what works for you best.
Next time I'm going for a nice non-TN Samsung.
Other reported fixes include changing the refresh rate (switching between 50Hz or 60Hz), and disabling the internal/integrated speakers or setting their volume to zero (they might be on without you knowing).


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Lady Gaga's Godfather Passes Away
Sad news for Lady Gaga and the Germanotta family. The Mother Monster's godfather has died.
Gaga posted a tweet sharing the news of her loss, along with a photo of her godfather cradling her in his arms when she was a newborn. Look how proud he is! Little did he know that the infant in his arms would grow up to be a major pop superstar.
It's a far cry from the nude photo she shared via her LittleMonsters.com site yesterday. She really has been sharing quite a bit with her little monsters via her new social networking site, from clothes-free shots to old-school family images. It's certainly a way to get to know both Gaga and her friends and family on a more intimate level.
Gaga is from a tight-knit, traditional Italian family, where the role of a godparent is a critical one, often more important than that of a blood relative since a godparent is chosen. Haven't you ever seen the movie? The Mother Monster obviously loved her godfather and is likely going through a rough time right now, so our thoughts are with her.
Gaga's tweet on her loss is as follows: "My godfather died yesterday, sweet man I love him. That's me, just a lil baby in his arms. Buono note."
"Buono note" loosely translates to "good night" in Italian. What a loving sendoff to a key figure in Lady Gaga's life. R.I.P.
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Seattle wins on Hail Mary! What a
simultaneous catch by Golden Tate! Why, just look at the picture, it's a wild catch by Golden Tate! This must be the one they mean when they say "Seattle wins on Hail Mary," right?
Nah. Nah, it's not.
Yet there's the NFL's fan page on facebook celebrating Seattle's big win over the Packers with a pretty misleading picture. [@ShotOfGinn]


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The Adjustable Walkin' Wheels dog wheelchair is different from any cart that has been available in the past. So different, that it is often stocked and sold by veterinarians, rehab centers, clinics and pet professionals. The custom built carts of the past, of course, could not be stocked as they took weeks to build and required excruciating measurements. This veterinarian approved dog wheelchair is available for overnight delivery, and sets up minutes (see Instruction Video). This dog wheelchair offers all the mobility and comfort of custom carts with none of the problems.
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There are 29 Bronze Trophies, 5 Silver Trophies, 5 Gold Trophies, and 1 Platinum Trophy.
...and I thank you for playing Twisted Metal. (Bronze) - Complete the Story mode on any difficulty
60 to 0 (Bronze) - Kill a player with full health in one shot.
A la Mode (Silver) - Win 10 Ranked games in each game type.
All sales are final (Bronze) - Win at least 1 Ranked Online game per day for 30 straight days
Am I not merciful? (Bronze) - Kill 100 flaming gunners and/or drivers in campaign mode.
Another Level (Silver) - Win 10 Ranked games in each map. Map size does not matter.
Any car will do (Gold) - Earn 50 Kills with Each Vehicle in Online Ranked Games
Because I care (Bronze) - Complete a campaign game without hitting a single pedestrian.
Birth Control (Bronze) - Defeat the semi before a single enemy is spawned in Juggernaut DM - Watkyn's Harbor.
Blah, Blah, Blah, Gimme the trophy (Bronze) - Play and finish the "Live Training" tutorial mode
Calypso (Bronze) - Achieve the Highest Online Rank
Cookie Party (Bronze) - Kill 3 enemies in a single game using drop mines.
Fire in the sky (Bronze) - Shoot down an enemy missile 1 time in a ranked game of NUKE.
Grace Under Fire (Bronze) - Beat Metro Square Electric Cage on HARD MODE with 5 SECONDS LEFT in your GRACE PERIOD meter. Cooperative Story is allowed.
Grimm's Dark Trip Back (Bronze) - Complete the Grimm story on any difficulty.
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Make up your mind (Bronze) - Use the garage 25 times.
Medic! (Bronze) - Heal a teammate.
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Are you ready? Are you ready for the live House of Representatives Special Committee on Intelligence impeachment show hearings, affectionately known as the Adam Schiff Show, featuring emergency replacement and actual national wrestling champion Republican Rep. Jim Jordan of Ohio on the panel asking Democrat witnesses questions about what they claim to know, but didn't witness as revealed in the transcripts of closed door depositions?
Guess what, the Schiff Show is about to go live, and We the People will be witness to history, the sort of history that will be turned into memes and soundbites for the next election cycle without any passing go. See, Fox News's Gregg Jarrett tells us about the hole Democrats have dug for themselves, but refuse to admit.
At first, Schiff wanted the faux "whistleblower" who triggered the impeachment farce to testify. Then, suddenly, he didn't. What changed? In the interim, evidence emerged that Schiff and/or his staff colluded with the "whistleblower" before the complaint was ever filed and then lied about it, earning Schiff "Four Pinocchios" from The Washington Post.
The chairman now wants to conceal his own role in engineering the pretext for impeachment and his subsequent deceit. This is why he has insisted that the "whistleblower" remain anonymous, despite no such right, guarantee, privilege, or entitlement written in the law, as I explained in an earlier column. Even though the undercover informant (reportedly working for the CIA) does not qualify for whistleblower status under the law as determined by the Department of Justice, any effort by Republicans to call him as a witness will be blocked by Schiff.
But Schiff's machinations are more malevolent than masking the key witness. Those he will call to testify are already on record dishing up prodigious plates of multiple hearsay and rank speculation. It is obvious from the released transcripts of the heretofore "super top-secret" inquisition that none of them have any firsthand knowledge of a "quid pro quo" allegedly demanded by President Trump.
In other words, the Democrats have been running around claiming double secret probation without the benefit of any crime committed, or even a witness that can claim any material knowledge of what condiments President Trump had on his last hamburger. Not only that, they don't want anyone to know who the whistleblower (Eric Ciamarella) is to the point that no one is supposed to utter his name in public. Well Republican Rep. Dan Bishop had something to say about that.
And…they're holding public hearings today, apparently trying to relive the heady days of Watergate when a future Democrat candidate for president was actually fired from that fiasco for lying. (Funny that the little woman didn't learn from that experience.)
Watch at any of the links provided. (More options for viewing will be dropped below when they come available.)
By the way, Epstein Didn't Kill Himself.


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The merger will create a firm with a market value of more than $30 billion, surpassing London-based industry leader WPP. A combined firm will allow for more pricing power, though the decrease in competition could present regulatory hurdles in the US and Europe. Client conflicts also could arise.
Publicis said the transaction was expected to create "significant value for shareholders", with expected synergies of $500 million. The merged group would keep its head offices in Paris and New York, it said. Publicis said the deal, which had been unanimously approved by the boards of both companies, was expected to close in the fourth quarter of 2013 or the first quarter of 2014.
"(Omnicom head John Wren) and I have conceived this merger to benefit our clients by bringing together the most comprehensive offering of analog and digital services," Publicis Chief Executive Maurice Levy said in a statement.
Wren and Levy will be joint CEOs for an initial integration and development period of 30 months, after which Levy will become non-executive chairman and Wren sole CEO, Publicis said.
Publicis shareholders will receive one newly-issued ordinary share of Publicis Omnicom Group for each Publicis share they own, plus a special dividend of 1.00 euro per share.
Omnicom shareholders will receive 0.813 newly issued ordinary shares of Publicis Omnicom Group for each Omnicom share they own, together with a special dividend of $2.00 per share. They will also receive up to two regular quarterly dividends of $0.40 per share. The companies said the transaction would be a cross-border merger of equals under Netherlands-based holding company Publicis Omnicom Group.
Omnicom Group, based in New York, owns BBDO Worldwide, DDB Worldwide Communications Group and TBWA Worldwide, among other agencies. Paris-based Publicis runs its namesake agency as well as Leo Burnett Worldwide, Saatchi & Saatchi and Digitas.


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Tips on preparing for the superstorm forecast to bring destruction to East Coast
The Federal Emergency Management Agency offers tips on how to prepare for Hurricane Sandy and other tropical storms. Sandy is expected to be especially disastrous when it merges with a winter storm system, bringing powerful winds, rain, snow and storm surge along the Eastern Seaboard.
Before the hurricane:
� Know your surroundings and whether your home is in a flood prone area. Determine where you would go � and how you would get there � if you were ordered to evacuate
� Cover your home's windows, either with permanent storm shutters or marine plywood at least 5/8 of an inch thick
� Be sure trees and shrubs around your home are well-trimmed
� Clear clogged rain gutters
� Secure all outdoor furniture, decorations, trash cans and anything else that could blow away.
� Install a generator for emergencies
� Listen to the radio or TV for information
� Secure your home, close storm shutters, and secure outdoor objects or bring them indoors
� Turn off propane tanks
� Avoid using the phone except for serious emergencies
� Ensure a supply of water for sanitary purpose such as cleaning and flushing toilets. Fill the bathtub and other larger containers with water
� Stay indoors during the hurricane and away from windows and glass doors
Do not:
� Drive into low-lying areas or over roads and bridges that are already under water
If evacuating, bring:
� Checkbooks
� Driver's license
� Credit card information
� Birth certificates
� Social Security cards
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Tears flow as 13 Serbian shooting victims buried
Mourners wailed and church bells tolled Friday in this Serbian village as hundreds came to bury 13 people shot dead by a man some called a quiet, helpful neighbor.
Ljubisa Bogdanovic, a 60-year-old veteran of the Balkan wars, went on a pre-dawn, house-to-house rampage Tuesday in Velika Ivanca, before turning the gun on himself and his wife, police said. The 13 victims included his mother, his son and a 2-year-old boy who was his cousin.
On Friday, the dead lay in coffins - a dozen brown wooden ones and a small white one for the boy - all lined up on a red carpet before a small church near the village cemetery. Mourners, many dressed in black, crowded the small graveyard, just a few kilometers (miles) from the scene of the shootings.
Two women, relatives of the boy's family, fainted when his coffin was lowered into the grave.
"Sometimes humans do evil that would shame the devil," Serbian Orthodox Church Bishop Jovan said in a eulogy. "No knowledge can explain why this happened in this quiet village."
The gunman died Thursday in a Belgrade hospital. His 60-year-old-wife is still hospitalized, recovering from shoulder and head wounds.
Police say they do not yet know what motivated Bogdanovic, who had no criminal record or recorded history of mental illness. He fought in the Balkan wars in the 1990s and lost his wood factory job a year ago.
Residents of the village 50 kilometers (30 miles) southeast of Belgrade have expressed deep shock at the rampage.
"I never could have expected this to happen," said Radoslav Stekic, whose mother was killed. "Look around you, there's nobody left here to even say hello to. Look at our village, it has been closed down completely."
The suspect's wife, speaking to doctors from her hospital bed, said Bogdanovic had "a bad temper" and used to beat her and their 42-year-old son who lived with them.
Serbian officials said the killings showed the government must pay more attention to gun control, medical screening for war veterans and other social problems. Police said Bogdanovic had a license for the handgun he used.
No burial plans have been announced for the shooter.
Associated Press correspondent Dusan Stojanovic contributed from Belgrade, Serbia.


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Ag students win awards
Staff Reports
The Douglas High School agricultural program and the Carson Valley chapter of FFA were the presenters at the Jan. 29 meeting of Minden Rotary.
Agriculture teacher Allyson Lammiman presented four DHS students who were chapter winners for the FFA SAE (ag project) of the month with their awards.
Presenters were Jessica Martin on vet science at Quail Ridge Animal Hospital, Brittany Clark specifically on horses, Austin Beaty on vision agriculture pertaining to organic produce and turkeys, and Kelsey Lalonde on vet science at Carson Valley Vet.
Minden Rotary recently supported the local FFA chapter for banners relating to their competitions and presentation vests for some of the presenters.


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Located at the mid point between Lees Marvin and Harvey Oswald, Bill Callahan aka Smog aka (Smog) has established a reputation as a classic American Male Outsider. With 12 studio albums under his belt Callahan remains an enigma. A consummate storyteller in the tradition of Leonard Cohen and Kris Kristofferson Smog songs are car-wreck compelling, unsettling, unsentimental narratives delivered in an irresistible rich brown baritone. Whether accompanying himself on acoustic guitar or surrounding himself with crack musicians and producers Smog's sound is constant: the sound of a gold prospector ruminating into the night. Conforming to the loner mould of a long line of great American artists, Callahan radiates a peculiarly male energy: an unspecified kind of careworn rage, an acute sense of restlessness – his characters are horse breakers, ex-convicts, strangers. As an autobiographer, Callahan is a rogue trader with an unreliable commodity, a conscientious objector to the confessors club that constitutes singer-songwriting. Only an advocate of anonymity could write a song like I Was A Stranger, advise his listeners to Live Your Life As If Someone Is Always Watching You. His every lyrical move is impossible to second guess, his songs full of sonic surprise: the Casio baroque of Wild Love; the lush instrumentation of Red Apple Falls and Knock Knock; the choirs of innocents - Chicagoan school kid and cheerleader cadence – backing one of music's most mesmerising voices of experience. For Booking information contact: email@example.com For Press information contact: firstname.lastname@example.com
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Cincinnati High School Paying Students To Come To School
CINCINNATI, Ohio (CBS Cleveland) — A Cincinnati high school is paying its students to come to school.
The Dohn Community High School has launched a $40,000 incentive program to get students to come to class.
The school's CEO Ken Furrier told CBS Cleveland that students will get Visa gift cards for showing up everyday for school, being on time for class and not getting into trouble. Seniors would get $25 while underclassmen would get $10.
The school would also put $5 into a savings account for the student that earns a gift card.
"Our student population is 90 percent poverty," Furrier told CBS Cleveland. "Money is important to them. We can't teach them if they're not here."
Despite taking criticism for the program, Furrier brushes it aside.
"I think the thing that many parents have to realize is that these kids are very poor," Furrier said. "They don't have all the benefits suburban kids have."
Dohn students have come around to the idea, excited about being rewarded for coming to school.
"I'm very excited to get the money," 16-year-old student Arneqka Lester told the paper. "It makes me want to come to school on time, not that I don't. But some students don't have the money and this will help them. It's a good idea."
The school is trying out this new idea after the Ohio Department of Education designated the school an "academic emergency" on its report card. About 14 percent of students graduated from Dohn during the 2010-2011 school year.
Furrier said the program — which began Monday — has already seen benefits. Class attendance yesterday was up by 15 percent compared to Friday.


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We Try The New Salted Caramel Cake Pop from Starbucks
I'm a fan of the concept of the cake pop, though in practice I always find I'd rather eat a slice of cake, mainly because cake pops lack real cake frosting. And I do like salted caramel anything, though the endless variations never compare to a simple piece of caramel with big chunks of sea salt on it. So I decided to give Starbucks's new Salted Caramel Cake Pop a chance.
Generally, I think Starbucks's sweet treats are pretty good. They're never impressive, exactly, but considering how mass-produced they must be to end up all over the world, they're never gross or disappointing.
Unfortunately, the Salted Caramel cake pop was a little bit of both. The ball of cake was of indeterminate flavor: it was dark brown yet didn't really taste like chocolate or caramel (although if I had to guess, I would say that the latter is what they were going for). It was overly sweet, although it did have a nicely dense and moist texture.
The pop was covered in a coating of hard milk chocolate, and topped with a hat of white chocolate, a squeeze of caramel, and flakes of salt. There really wasn't much caramel (unless the cake flavor counts) for something named Salted Caramel, and a lot of the caramel and salt was on top of the white chocolate, which wasn't the best combination.
I wouldn't pick this up again. However, now I really want the improved Salted Caramel Cake Pop I'm imagining in my head. A big ball of vanilla cake, dipped in chocolate ganache, bathed in sticky caramel, and sprinkled with chunky salt. Anyone have a recipe for this?
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Five tips to prepare for the NDIS
WHETHER the NDIS is rolling out in your region tomorrow, in six months or in a year, you need to start getting ready now.
Pre-planning is vital to ensure you know exactly what you want and need before you have a program tailored to suit you.
Here are five tips to get ready for the NDIS:
1. Assess your situation: Write down your current needs, the current support you receive, anything else you require or would make life easier. Gather all the information you can about your disability including medical assessments and reports. If you don't have access to any records, don't worry, your NDIS caseworker can help you arrange them.
2. Think ahead: What do you want your future look like? Think about the perfect scenario, what you hope to achieve and any ideas on what you might need to get there.
3. Day in the life: Diarise a typical day or week in your life. Ensure you include any barriers you face, any support you receive etc.
4. Network: Where possible, try to connect with other people and families in a similar situation as you. Compare notes and seek various perspectives. This will help you better understand what others are doing, any things you may not have considered, or types of support you could also be entitled to.
5. Research: Become familiar with the language associated with the NDIS. Understand what the various components are and what certain terms mean. Keep up to date with information on our website. Start looking at providers in your area so you are familiar with who they are and their principals.
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The Meeting venue will be the Hilton Hotel on Victoria Square. Centrally located, enjoy a coffee at the market followed by a short stroll to the exciting new bar and restaurant quarter on the way to the River Bank and picturesque Adelaide Oval.
The theme of the meeting is Periodontics: Working with Nature. Our keynote speaker is Prof. Anton Sculean.
Adelaide comes to life in March with Wine Regions, The Fringe Festival and other local activities taking advantage of the inviting Mediterranean
Come along and help us celebrate ANZAP's 30th Birthday in our beautiful city.
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Saddam Hussein's Yacht Takes the Long Way Home
Saddam Hussein's 269-foot yacht, Basra Breeze, which has been on the lam since the 1980s, is back in Iraq. Now the country's transportation minister, who enjoys using Saddam's toilet and sleeping in his bed, wants to make it a museum.
Speaking to NPR, Transportation Minister Amer Abdul Jabar Ismail said he had a brush with another one of Saddam's yachts in the 80's when he was working as an engineer on an oil tanker: "The captain of this Saddam yacht told me, 'Please, I need some assist, we need repair.' I speak, 'Yes,' because I can't refuse." One of Saddam's guards then detained and interrogated Ismail, before letting him go with a warning: "If I see you again, I kill you."
Decades later, after the Basra Breeze was loaned out to the royal families of Saudi Arabia, Jordan and Oman and then renovated in Greece, Ismail is getting the last laugh:
But now, I stay here - in Saddam's position. You see? Now I receive Saddam's salon, Saddam's bedroom," he says. "I read in the Koran. I sleep in the bed. I use bathroom. I use everything here."
As one would expect from Saddam, the Basra Breeze boasts a minisubmarine, a helipad and gold-plated everything. And now Ismail, once threatened by the dictator's men, is shitting in Saddam's toilet and sleeping in his bed.
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EXCLUSIVE: Khalid Shows Us Inside His EP Release Party
"To share it with people who I really love was amazing"
Last month Khalid released his latest EP Suncity, a more mature step forward for the already award-winning American Teen singer.
The collection shows a lot of growth for the now 20-year-old artist, and also serves as a love letter to his hometown roots in Texas. Suncity finds Khalid trying on different vibes and flexing the dynamics of his voice, but never losing that cool and calming trademark voice in the evolution.
In the days leading up to the release, Khalid was anxious and surrounded by friends. "We were waiting, and it felt like the time went by so slow. The hours were dragging" he told us.
Rather than watch the clock, Khalid came up with a way to pass the time and to celebrate the next step in his career. "The night of, I literally invited all of my closest friends to my house and I had tons of cupcakes and a cake with my face on it. We just sat there, and we just enjoyed the moment with each other, because this life is such a blessing and I'm having so much fun. These experiences and these new beginnings are just everything to me, so to share it with people who I really love was amazing."
Related: Behind The Scenes at the AMAs: Khalid and Poppy Become BFFs
Friends, family, and food with you face on it are generally a great fix to any situation. For Khalid, he emerged with an outstanding new era of music and a party full of good feelings. "Releases can go either way" he added. "For me it was just more of the fact that I had this body of work that I was able to express with so many people who I love, and who love me, and that really made it everything."
Khalid also recently took part in a game of "pass the baton" with Shawn Mendes, Ella Mai, and more. Check out the video and see what G-Eazy asked our favorite American Teen.