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ROBOT RECONNAISSANCE: The rescue team at Utahs Crandall Canyon mine prepares to send a mobile robot down one of the seven boreholes drilled in an effort to locate six miners trapped in the collapsed mine 1,500 feet below.
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As Senate hearings get underway this week to probe the accident at the Crandall Canyon mine in Utah that claimed the lives of six miners and three rescuers, attempts are also being made to evaluate the performance of robotic equipment sent in to assist the failed rescue mission.
The robotics team faced several daunting engineering and device-control challenges as it tried to unearth clues as to the whereabouts of the miners trapped 1,500 feet underground. The mine's depth meant that any mobile robot deployed needed to be equipped to travel not only through one of the seven boreholes drilled into the mountain above the mine but also to navigate for several hundred feet once it reached the mine's floor. In addition, the robot had to be waterproofed so that it would not malfunction when submerged in the pools of ground water it would encounter while traversing the mine's interior. And all of this had to be done using equipment above ground that would control the robot's movement and onboard cameras.
Workers, handicapped by time constraints and the continued shifting of the mountain's mass, were able to get only one mobile robot through a borehole and onto the mine's floor, where it traveled as far as seven feet from the point of entry, says Robin Murphy, director of the Institute for Safety Security Rescue Technology at the University of South Florida. The U.S. Department of Labor's Mine Safety and Health Administration, charged with overseeing all rescue and recovery operations in the aftermath of the August 6 cave-in, asked the Institute's Center for Robot Assisted Search and Rescue for help shortly after the accident.
The Crandall Canyon mine, located 120 miles south of Salt Lake City, crumbled in a cave-in so powerful that it registered a magnitude of 3.9 on the Richter scale. Tremors continued for several days after the initial cave-in, the strongest striking on August 16 with a magnitude of 1.6 and causing a subsequent collapse that claimed the lives of three rescuers. After that, rescuers relied primarily on the boreholes drilled throughout the mountain to give them some idea of where the miners might be trapped. Each of the seven boreholes, which ranged in size from 2.5 to nearly nine inches in diameter, took at least 40 hours to drill. The deepest hole cut more than 2,000 feet into the mountain and took more than 58 hours to drill.
Rescue crews decided to build a robot crawler using four-by-15-inch tracks from Inuktun Services that let the vehicle squeeze through tight spaces. The robot was attached to a control cable supplied by PipeEye International and outfitted with an Inuktun Spectrum 90 amphibious pan, tilt and zoom camera as well as a very small video camera.
PipeEye was on-site at the mine for seven days working with Inuktun's technology tethered to more than a mile of fiber-optic and copper cabling. While none of PipeEye's robotic devices were small enough to fit down the boreholes, the company was able to transfer the control electronics from one of its robots to one of Inuktun's devices.
Search teams experienced quickly deteriorating conditions as the mountain shifted and settled atop the mine. Although seven boreholes were drilled, the sixth and seventh collapsed before the robotic device could traverse them.


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Date: April 15 2012
The Greens under former leader Bob Brown could have done a better job of selling their economic vision for Australia, according to the woman who replaced him in the top job.
Christine Milne took over the party's reins on Friday after Senator Brown's shock announcement that he was planning to quit parliament in June.
"The Greens haven't been, I think, successful enough in selling our economic vision, if you like, for the country," Senator Milne said on Sunday when quizzed about the difference between her approach and that of Senator Brown.
"I'm hoping that perhaps under my leadership we can go out with a stronger articulation of not only our vision for the country but how our economic strategy would support it."
The Tasmanian senator said the Greens looked at economic tools as a way of facilitating outcomes for the community in areas such as education, health and welfare.
"Just focusing on economic growth without considering the broader ramifications to the society is actually not improving our health and wellbeing," she said.
Senator Milne spoke with Prime Minister Julia Gillard on Sunday morning and reassured her the agreement regarding the Greens' support for her minority Labor government "stands as it was signed".
Senator Brown on Sunday said it would be a matter for the Greens team whether they chose to support a Tony Abbott-led government if the coalition won the next election.
"If he's elected as leader and the Greens are in the balance-of-power role there is no-one better in this country fitted out and practised to handle that situation than Christine Milne backed up by (deputy leader) Adam Bandt," he told ABC Radio.
Senator Brown said the Greens effectively held the balance of power under the Liberals in Tasmania and they helped achieve law reform for same-sex couples and deliver an apology to the Stolen Generations.
But Liberal frontbencher Christopher Pyne says the new Greens leader won't be as successful as Senator Brown because she won't work with Mr Abbott.
There was a slight possibility the coalition could win control of the Senate at the next election because it would effectively be a referendum on the carbon tax, which Senator Milne had helped to devise, Mr Pyne said.
He said Senator Brown was an astute politician who had seen the writing on the wall for his party after the Greens failed to pick up seats in the most recent Victorian, NSW and Queensland polls.
"It's a clever move because he won't be blamed for the decline of the Greens - he'll go out as the hero," Mr Pyne told ABC TV.
The Liberal frontbencher said Senator Brown's achievement in leading the Greens to their current position with 10 members in the federal parliament was enormous.
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The Danger of Laughing at Todd Akin (2 items) By Ilyse Hogue The Nation August 20, 2012 http://www.thenation.com/blog/169451/danger-laughing-todd-akin?rel=emailnation The Twittersphere went nuts yesterday after a video was posted of Missouri Senate candidate Todd Akin expressing some jaw-dropping views on rape and abortion in an interview with local news: "First of all, from what I understand from doctors [pregnancy from rape] is really rare," Akin told KTVI-TV in an interview Sunday. "If it's a legitimate rape, the female body has ways to try to shut that whole thing down." The short-term consequences of such an incendiary remark are predictable: Democratic incumbent Claire McCaskill will trumpet the remark to her own political advantage, donations will spike to her campaign and the party committees will offer the remark as one more proof point of the GOP's war on women. But the impact of Akin's effort to redefine the terms of this debate reaches beyond this one race. In the multidimensional chess that shapes public opinion, the game is less about individual elections and more about a sustained effort to mainstream radical ideas. In the case of denying women control over their lives, there's evidence that the bad guys may be winning the long-game. Akin was Paul Ryan's co-sponsor on a House bill just last year banning the use of federal funds for abortion except in cases of "forcible rape." This term seemed laughably redundant since all rape, by definition, is forced. But this redefinition of rape was deceptively sinister. Statutory rapists often use coercion but not physical force. If the measure had passed, a 13-year-old emotionally manipulated into having sex with an older friend or relative would no longer be able to use Medicaid to terminate a resulting pregnancy. Nor would her parents be able to use their tax- exempt health savings fund. While the measure was defeated, conversation around it introduced skepticism about whether all rape is created equal and what distinctions should be recognized by law. Instead of making him politically toxic, Ryan's support of the pioneering forcible rape measure likely made him a more attractive vice presidential candidate to a Romney campaign needing to energize the right-wing base. And whether or not Akin loses this cycle, his comments have already escalated the stakes. In his world view, the rape victim's body will be the ultimate judge of whether a crime has taken place. If she gets pregnant, by Akin's standard, her reproductive organs consented to the pregnancy, so she must have consented to the sex. This bizarre standard of innocence is reminiscent of medieval Europe, where the men in authority held the similarly scientific view that women guilty of witchcraft floated in water while innocent women would drown. Being cleared of witchcraft was of course not much consolation to the drowned women, though they at least got to skip being burned at the stake. Akin's comments appear an awful lot like step one in the GOP's favorite two-step tactic to redefine the world around us: first, more extreme figures voice opinions that would never fly from more politically palatable ones. The right- wing echo chamber picks up those opinions in the guise of news coverage. Then, the more politically acceptable candidates shift their rhetoric to acknowledge the newly accepted opinion as reality. Consider our seemingly uncontrollable slide towards climate catastrophe: in 2006 and 2007, the link between human activity and climate change was almost incontestable. Al Gore's movie An Inconvenient Truth was a breakout hit; and the former VP was rewarded for his leadership on the global issue with a Nobel Prize in 2007. In 2008, both McCain and Obama openly acknowledged the existence of the threat and the need for action. Scientists breathed a collective sigh of relief that the US might finally exert some leadership on this existential issue. But when the Obama victory made the idea of a clean-energy economy a potential reality, the climate deniers kicked into high gear. Cash from the Koch brothers poured into bogus organizations to promote climate skepticism and cast doubt on the scientific consensus. Senator Inhofe called climate change "the greatest hoax ever perpetrated on the American people." A 2009 Chamber of Commerce ad buy brutalized House Democrats who voted for the climate legislation. In the lead up to the climate summit of 2009, someone even hacked into a University server and published highly edited e-mails from climate scientists to make them appear to be fabricating their results. While the scientists were exonerated, the damage was done. The resulting shift in public opinion was almost immediate. Between 2008 and 2010, the number of Americans who believed media accounts of climate change were exaggerated jumped from 35 percent to 48 percent. Among self-identified Republicans, it went to 66 percent. By last year's Republican presidential primary, right-wing contenders made seemingly inane statements that flew in the face of scientific consensus, and even the ones like Romney who had previously acknowledged the threat were forced to recant to maintain their viability. While the political dynamics around these two issues are different, there are striking similarities in the right-wing strategy of capitalizing on extreme statements to shift the spectrum of what's possible. And the wary will take heed: in the span of four short years, we went from having two presidential candidates who openly advocated action to stop climate change to having no GOP candidates in 2012 who could or would affirm its existence and a Democratic president who seems to wish the issue would magically disappear. The consequences of inaction are already being felt. The same process is underway to undermine women's voices in our own destiny. Mitt Romney has already flip-flopped from a pro-choice Senate candidate and a governor who promised to be "a good voice" among Republicans on reproductive health to his new incarnation as Paul Ryan's running mate and an anti- choice leader. While Ryan allows lesser candidates like Akin to carry the water on extreme views held by the right-wing patriarchy, his equally radical views become mainstreamed as his anti-woman credentials are embraced by the party leadership. If we don't stop laughing and start drawing hard lines around scientific reality, how many Akin's will it take before we see a President Romney ordering rape victims thrown into the water to see if they float? [For a take on how to fight back against rape culture, read Jessica Valenti's "How to Out a Rapist."] * * * * * Paul Ryan and Todd Akin Partnered on Radical "Personhood" Bill By Ian Millhiser and Adam Peck ThinkProgress | Report August 21, 2012 http://truth-out.org/news/item/11026-paul-ryan-and-todd-akin-partnered-on-radical-personhood-bill-outlawing-abortion-and-many-birth-control-pills Yesterday, ThinkProgress reported that Rep. Todd "Legitimate Rape" Akin (R-MO) and GOP vice presidential candidate Paul Ryan both cosponsored the bill that introduced America to the despicable term "forcible rape." As it turns out, this may only be the second most sweeping attack on reproductive freedom that both men partnered on. Ryan and Akin also cosponsored a federal personhood bill, the Sanctity of Human Life Act of 2009, which declares that a fertilized egg is entitled to the exact same legal rights as a human being: (1) the Congress declares that: (A) the right to life guaranteed by the Constitution is vested in each human being, and is the paramount and most fundamental right of a person; and (B) the life of each human being begins with fertilization, cloning, or its functional equivalent, irrespective of sex, health, function or disability, defect, stage of biological development, or condition of dependency, at which time every human being shall have all the legal and constitutional attributes and privileges of personhood; and (2) the Congress affirms that the Congress, each State, the District of Columbia, and all United States territories have the authority to protect the lives of all human beings residing in its respective jurisdictions. Lest there be any doubt, this bill is unconstitutional. Congress does not have the power to overrule Roe v. Wade by an ordinary statue, only a constitutional amendment could serve that purpose. Moreover, even if Roe were overruled by the Supreme Court, Ryan and Akin's bill still attempts to redefine who "the right to life guaranteed by the Constitution" applies to. Again, changing the meaning of the Constitution can only be done through an amendment, not through an ordinary Act of Congress. Should Ryan and Akin's personhood agenda take effect, however, it would drastically reduce women's reproductive choice. The bill declares that a human egg obtains "all the legal and constitutional attributes and privileges of personhood" the moment it merges with a human sperm. Thus, a Blastocyst-American would not only enjoy the same constitutional status as a fully grown adult, it would also enjoy any "legal" attributes enjoyed by adults. Because every states' law makes it a crime to kill a human adult, the likely effect of Ryan and Akin's personhood bill would be to treat killing a fertilized egg as the same thing as homicide. Such an interpretation would not simply ban abortion, it could turn many forms of birth control into the legal equivalent of a murder weapon. Many forms of contraception, including many birth control pills, function in part by inhibiting a fertilized egg from implanting in a woman's uterus. Thus, Ryan and Akin's personhood bill could render the act of using many forms of oral contraception the equivalent of a homicide crime. UPDATE Recent scientific studies have called into question whether birth control pills can act by preventing implantation, although this view is still held by many medical professionals. 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Statewide legislation is proposed to expand bike ban authority to sixty-four separate county governments. Bicycle Colorado is working to prevent this expansion. Bike bans are not the way to improve road safety. SAFETY IMPROVEMENTS NEEDED, NOT BIKE BANS All local governments have a multitude of tools at their disposal to address roadway safety for motorists and bicyclists. There are many safety answers that don't need legislation opening the door to bike bans. Safety improvements to roadways are done with design changes, improved signage, better enforcement, education programs, and awareness building. Bike bans are not the answer.
TRAFFIC LAWS ARE THE FRAMEWORK Existing traffic laws don't prevent county governments from making a public road safe and welcoming to the public in cars and on bikes. State traffic laws provide consistent expectations for safe behavior on public roadways throughout the state. A patchwork of traffic laws that vary county-by-county will confuse road users and move away from improving safety. SOLVING THE RIGHT PROBLEM Often safety is used as an excuse for bike bans when the real problem is roads designed only for motor vehicles resulting in high speeds and poor behavior. Rather than a practical approach of restriping lanes and calming traffic, thereby reducing the risk of crashes on the road, bike bans are introduced. Bans don't solve any of the existing road design safety issues.
Countering this proposed legislation will be resource intensive and a major challenge. Bicyclists will need to fund campaign expenses and expand our statewide grassroots advocacy action network. This will take lobbyists, lawyers and professional staff, plus media and education materials. If we all chip in, the costs are small for everyone. If we let this threat go unanswered, the cost of losing access to county roads is impossible to measure. ACCESS TO COUNTY ROADS IS IMPORTANT Legislation to expand bike ban authority is a losing proposition for Colorado tourism, charity fundraising events, efforts to reduce congestion, and promotion of healthy bicycle travel. There are many, many options for counties to improve road safety within existing state motor vehicle and bicycle vehicle laws. Creating county-by-county, one-of-a-kind traffic laws is a danger for everyone on the road. We need consistency, not a patchwork of rules that change at every county line or every time you exit from a state or U.S. highway. COMPLETE STREETS HELPING COUNTIES Many counties around the country are finding complete streets policies are the best way to improve road safety. To date, no counties in Colorado have adopted complete streets policies to guide them in using public right-of-way for safe travel of all road users. Compare this with complete street policies in major Colorado cities like Colorado Springs, Fort Collins, and Boulder. Building a road only for motorized vehicles and then banning non-motorized users is outrageous and a poor use of publicy funded transportation resources.
Bicycle Colorado members have worked to successfully overcome bike bans and caps on events in the past. However, this issue may be the biggest challenge yet to bicycling in Colorado. If you ride a bicycle, you need to be involved and informed. Thank you for your support.
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I am writing to announce that I will be closing The Bear River Trading Post on October 9, 2012, eight years after I made my offer on the property. I am grateful to all of you for the years of support you have given us. My time as store owner at Newry corner has been full of laughter, solutions to all the local and world's problems, and more hunting stories than you can imagine. I want to express my sincerest thanks to you for the opportunity I had to run a successful business at the Trading Post, and I am excited to move on to other opportunities and adventures. I am looking forward to having time to be with my family and live the hunting stories I usually only hear. I am sorry I will not be able to enjoy the camaraderie of the hunting community as a tagging station, but maybe I will see you when weighing my own deer. Stop by over the next few weeks to see what special offers we have running on our products. Perhaps we will see you at Newry Corner again with a new endeavor in the future.
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Posted by ki-lo on 12/20/2012
yes, the portions are small. but as vegans, my spouse & i left very full. the choices are exotic --- i have no qualms about the food. it is extraordinary. the prices? i understand what goes into creating these food items --- aint easy. requires time. still, overpriced. the waitstaff needs to get a life. or a boyfriend. or a new job.
Posted by Rawfoodist from NY on 07/27/2012
The atmosphere is realy nice if you are in the garden, but extrimely noisy inside with very loud music. I liked first courses , but didn't like the second courses at all , they are too nutty and dense. When I think of raw food I think of much lighter food with more interesting flavours though.
Posted by Plateful on 03/30/2012
Food quality and service is very good. Room is attractive and comfortable but it can be very noisy. Menu is indeed interesting but why does raw food have to be so expensive and why do the portions have to be so meager. If you order 3 entrees, you will have one normal portion and the same goes with the other menu items. And desert is between $15-19. My wife, who is 110 pounds, and I went home and made ourselves sandwiches after spending $125 on dinner. Absurd.
Posted by yasmine on 03/05/2012
I love, cook, and eat vegan and gluten-free food. In addition, I appreciate the value of raw vegetables and nuts. However, I was very disappointed by this restaurant. The food is REALLY over-processed and dense, and it just sat in my stomach for 24 hours afterwards. I am not clear on why all the fresh vegetables and nuts need to be put in a food processor at this place? In addition, the flavors were overwhelming due to the high density. It was difficult to eat. The atmosphere was nice (especially considering most vegan restaurants) and the service was friendly. However, the prices are outrageously high (remember: vegetables and nuts only), and the food is totally bizarre. I wanted to love this place so badly! And, unfortunately, it just did not work at all.
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Newedge Senior Director of Corporate Credit Sales Larry McDonald on the future for the junk-bond market.
Feb 8, 2013
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We can't say rush -- has got to chug along the high yield bond market.
Which has been a super hot trade seems to be running out of a little gas so why should we care.
What does that really mean for stocks.
Specially if you don't have exposure to junk bonds why would you care you should Larry McDonald the securities was -- with senior policy strategist.
He says the market may be flashing -- -- signal by a little bit of weakness in the jump on world.
Well ever since I wrote a book -- was -- trader Lehman of the dedicated to analyzing risk and.
What put us back up sure that you're picking convertible bonds is -- high yield bond -- -- -- -- -- wonderful campus market.
-- you know what -- what I've seen over the years is.
It's good leading indicator when when high yield bond sell off typically -- from 2007 on.
It's a leading indicator for equities so if you look at the crash of -- wait look at the global meltdown of 2011 both times high yield bonds for selling off before those equity melt up.
So we're looking at the far right part of this screen to show that the S&P 500 that while looking a little bit higher.
The Blue Line.
ETFs here it's a high yielding TF.
Has sold off so you're saying that the yellow one of the S&P 500 might not be far behind.
Well I think for a lot of reasons stocks are overbought here this lot of from its mind on systemic risk indicators from -- -- rising so I think stocks are still here.
But -- -- look at more more deeply.
The reason high yield is off also is this the LLP -- right so when there's a big -- on the market it's the sign of a new Renaissance potentially.
In LBOs leopard spot Leveraged Buyouts and what that means is going forward all -- -- minister -- street a lot of them are looking okay what's the next LBO.
What they do is.
They start selling down those bonds as high yield bonds investment grade bonds ahead of the deals one -- could trigger that kind of move in the 20042007.
Cycle it was unbelievable -- -- here's what investors watching us right now should take away.
The key is -- wanna see more LBOs because it's a cycle of multiple LBOs is bullish for stocks -- sign that CFOs.
In private equity people are bullish they're pretty good risk takers at the beginning of the cycle as we saw 20072008.
They were weren't very good risk takers there.
But you want to see more than one LBO.
-- and we we have a I mean.
That they do come in fits and starts but let's -- say what's the trade Larry you if you are correct although we've had very Smart people standing in that very spot saying.
Why not just yesterday Carol pepper who has high net worth clients of more than a billion dollars.
She said don't wait for correction poured money into stocks you're saying no let's say you are right -- sick people by him.
What is the trade.
Short the S&P C.
Since -- the only people would have -- -- the market.
Bought political fear and sold in -- -- -- complacency so I would break here.
Laid up on stocks okay if you did -- 201120101112.
If you did that at this time in the spring of 20101112.
Stocks were up.
If you sold it to those that strength -- outperform the market so going forward here.
I would get long volatility I would -- up in stocks I think -- much we are shorting some sectors like retail looks very.
Very vulnerable oil -- moved.
Eleven dollars it.
56 days.
Oil that's a big problem for retail buy -- -- -- explain to people how he would -- others to think you can buy puts spreads on indexes puts spreads are nice that or you could celebrate short.
The did the feel most people at home bit there what they might own they might -- retail stocks you just just laid out.
You know just lighten up almost -- what's that into get along volatility you can buy.
Futures on the -- and things like that out is that the junk bond has issued a shock as the jump -- trade continue or we're starting to see that.
To have little teeny bit from that chart move down -- it's it's it's a long cycle in them if there are more LBOs.
The market be under more pressure in it's a very good leading economic indicator.
He is a survivor folks he survived leave it at that he is now more than it has survived -- -- its large -- McDonald outcome of if that's why the surviving and always push -- -- -- -- -- McDonald bought can't Larry McDonald new edge senior policy strategist.
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The rich may be rich and the poor may be poor, but a nonpartisan think tank says there's a way to eliminate state income taxes on the poorest Virginians while providing as much as a 10 percent tax cut to everyone else. The Thomas Jefferson Institute for Public Policy on Friday unveiled a plan to restructure Virginia's tax system – which the group says could generate substantial economic growth. The nonprofit group's report recommends slashing certain business taxes and income taxes while expanding the sales tax to currently untaxed services. "By expanding the current sales tax to most of the industries that do not currently collect it from their end-user individuals, every individual taxpayer can be substantially helped," said Michael Thompson, president of the Thomas Jefferson Institute. "The competitive business environment in Virginia can be enhanced, and our state and local governments would not lose a penny." The institute, based in Springfield, advocates a philosophy of "limited government, free enterprise and individual responsibility." Its new economic study, "Tax Restructuring in Virginia: Revenue Neutral Path for Improving Virginia's Economy," was prepared by Chmura Economics and Analytics, a Richmond consulting firm. "Basically, this is a collaborative team effort," Xiaobing Shuai, Chmura's senior economist, told reporters during a telephone news conference. "What Chmura Economics did in this study is go through probably 100-plus sales tax exemptions, and then try to estimate the value of those sales tax exemptions." A computer model developed by economists at the Beacon Hill Institute, an independent public policy foundation at Suffolk University in Boston, tested various scenarios for overhauling Virginia's tax system. Nine economic scenarios were put through the tax model. "We took Chmura's numbers, which is a static model that doesn't account for the positive economic benefits of the tax restructuring, and put them in our dynamic model and ran the nine scenarios that you see in the study," said Paul Bachman, director of research at Beacon Hill Institute. "The model resolves for new values, and we get new values for jobs, investment and disposable income. What we are doing, in economic terms, is shifting some of the tax burden away from businesses and households in some scenarios and putting it onto an untaxed service sector." Virginia currently exempts almost all services, from haircuts to auto repair, from sales taxes. A major goal of the Thomas Jefferson Institute's plan is to eliminate three taxes that business owners consider onerous and an impediment to creating jobs: • The Business Professional Occupation Licensing tax, which is levied on gross receipts. • The Machine and Tool tax, which is levied on equipment a business buys. • The Merchants Capital tax, which is levied on a business' inventory. Virginia businesses must pay those taxes regardless of whether they make a profit. Thompson called them "job-destroying taxes," saying they discourage businesses from expanding and hiring more employees. The Thomas Jefferson Institute initiated its study to see if it was possible to eliminate those taxes and restructure the state's tax system in a revenue-neutral manner that could improve Virginia's economy. The nine scenarios outlined in the study range from a relatively small impact to a radical overhaul. The first scenario, for example, would simply eliminate the BPOL, M&T and Merchants Capital taxes and make up the revenue by extending the sales tax to certain currently untaxed services. The study said this would create 900 private-sector jobs. Other scenarios suggested not only eliminating the three business taxes but also eliminating the lowest income tax bracket and cutting other personal income tax rates. Under these scenarios, the sales tax would be expanded to more services. In some scenarios, the sales tax would be cut, too. (It's currently 4 percent for the state and 1 percent for local government.) The scenarios did not specify exactly what types of services would be taxed. The study acknowledged that taxing medical bills, health insurance premiums, private school tuition and financial fees probably wouldn't fly. The more extensive scenarios would create at least 40,000 jobs, the study said. |
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For M&A Monday.
As usual the camera butchered the picture.
Size: 8 x 10 inches
Media: Pencil (4h-3b)
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Rated 4 / 5 stars Dec 16, 2012
some of it looks un-uniformal, but hay, the shit i draw is simply shit compaired to this! XD
the neck bone and boobs shape looks spot on, the left side next to the belly button looks less fat than the right which ruins some symetry, same with the shoulder to armpit looks like the shoulder is much bigger on the left.
here i am cretiqing somthing that would take me about atleast halph a year to get were you are...
thats why im giing it a 4. if it had color, then id give it a 5/5!
Rated 4 / 5 stars Sep 5, 2012
Great work of art. I like the contrast between the silky skin of the girl and the snake's skin.
Rated 5 / 5 stars Jun 6, 2012
Holy ...
Wow, wow, wow... Just wow.
It is so realistic that for a second I thought it was a photography of a naked female (lol). The hair is so good it made me puke rainbows, Shading, wow, wow ,wow, wow. Shading is just priceless.
The anatomy is so f*cking awesome I'd have sexual relationship with this drawing.
Overall, F*ucking AWESOME!
Rated 5 / 5 stars Jun 6, 2012
I love this. The style is very surreal, mysterious. It makes me consider many different situations this woman may be in, why she is wearing a snake, the hands in the jeans but the hair and jawline that looks almost Native American. Fantastic shading and work on the hair/face. Best out of the M&A bunch.
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Once again, you've shown your skill and mastery of the medium with which you choose to work.
You've capture the anatomy and shading down to a T, with a near photographic like finish.
My main gripe with the piece though is the fact that the background is nearly the same colour as the person, so there are some parts where the body seems to just melt into the background.
Also, the jeans are too dark to make any clear definitions, so it just seems like a black mass.


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The Beautiful Mystery SummaryNo outsiders are ever admitted to the monastery of Saint-Gilbert-Entre-les-Loups, hidden deep in the wilderness of Quebec, where two dozen cloistered monks live in peace and prayer. They grow vegetables, they tend chickens, they make chocolate. And they sing. Ironically, for a community that has taken a vow of silence, the monks have become world-famous for their glorious voices, raised in ancient chants whose effect on both singer and listener is so profound it is known as "the beautiful mystery." The Beautiful Mystery Reviews"Starred Review. Traditional mystery fans can look forward to a captivating whodunit plot, a clever fair-play clue concealed in plain view, and the deft use of humor to lighten the story's dark patches. On a deeper level, the crime provides a means for Penny's unusually empathic, all-too-fallible lead to unearth truths about human passions and weaknesses while avoiding simple answers." - Publishers Weekly
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Ok I need some help but I think I may have already figured out the issue. Last night I decided to bump up my FSB to 210mhz. Now thats a very mild OC and I normally ran her at 230mhz before but because I unlocked my forth core I didnt want to be greedy. Well everything seemed fine on reboot until the windows loading screen appeared. I lost signal. I rebooted and now all I get are two short beeps and no picture. Basicly no post. Not even a bios screen. Here is everything I'v done. 1. Reset the CMOS. 2. Ran each stick of ram individually. 3. Ran the RAM in different slots. 4. Removed both GPUs and ran the IGP. 5. Replaced the CPU with a new 955. Is my mobo dead from a 10mhz OC or could both my sticks of RAM be bad. Please I'm lost and I already missed my deadline at my new job. Anything would be helpful at this point.
if you read your motherboard manual for beep codes can you tell me what bios you have, pheonix, award, ami? and i will teel you what your beep code means
" two short beeps = Parity circuit failure " from this site http://us.msi.com/support/sup_tshoot.asp could be system memory or motherboard.
beat me to it lotus Have you 'hard' reset your Cmos on your board and not just reset in the bios back to defaults?
Grab ubcd and test your ram with both together and single stick with Memtest86+.. It could be that the ram are dead, dimm, just have to check to make sure.. sorry to see you coming back with a problem man.
Your best bet is to get some ram (other than whats in your PC) and test it out even if you buy it from a staples just take it back to test it, I mean trial and error is the best way to go about it here, and you seem to have tried everything else except the RAM, good luck man. Sounds to me that it's more than likely a memory problem but either its the RAM slots or The Ram it self is the hard part.
Try the ram. And realize that whatever died, did not die from such a mild OC. That was just a coincidence.
I feel bad for your board man. I'm not sure how those 2 buttons (Reset & clr cmos) work. It's always better to do it the old way. Taking the battery out.
lol, I ment to say do it in another computer if you can.. Sorry for that, was rushing when I wrote.. And chances are pretty good. I've had a few doa sticks, few dead memory sticks after runs, dimm slot burn out taking a kit,
It's called karma, you mod-hating golemn. 2 short beeps? What kind of bios does MSI use? It's probablly your board if neither stick works. Of course you could always run to a store and buy the cheapest stick of DDR2 just to try.
I just borrowed a single sick of PC8500 from a buddy to test the board. Ill be back with results. The ironic part is I just received my free Windows 7 in the mail.
The mailbox is dead? WHY OH WHY COMPUTER GOD!?! Why did you have to take the mail box from us! Awaiting mailmans return with hopefully good news that its just the ram.
The same thing happened to me when I tried to un-lock my 550x2. I removed my battery for about 5 mins and than it booted.
Maby we've stumbled upon a bad side effect of unlocking cores on the PII's. If it isn't the ram and it really is the mobo, maby the unlocked core on the 720 is corrupting something on the motherboard. Or it corrupted the ram possibly. What does one beep mean?
I used to run the FSB at 230mhz 24/7. Maybe unlocking the core was just the feather that broke the camels back. Now I just hope it didnt fry my CPUs. The 720 or the 955. I have to return the 955 after all. Wizz took mercy on me. I make my living off of my computer. If its down for more than a day it costs me a LOT. Anyway the ban was a joke by Wizz.


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Pearrygin Lake State Park plays host to Celebrating Cultures festival
OLYMPIA – Aug. 6, 2012 – The Washington State Parks and Recreation Commission Folk Arts in the Parks Program invites the public to the Celebrating Cultures festival at Pearrygin Lake State Park, near Winthrop. The event runs from 5:30 to 9 p.m. Aug. 28 and 29 on the lakeshore of Pearrygin Lake in Pearrygin Lake State Park, 561 Bear Creek Road, Winthrop. The two evening programs celebrate Washington's diverse cultures with music and performing art styles from around the world. Visitors enter the event through the east campground of Pearrygin Lake State Park. Refreshments provided by Room One are available at the festival. All are welcome to the free event. The Discover Pass is required for vehicle access to the festival. Performances are scheduled as follows: Aug. 28 • Phil and Vivian Williams: Old-time fiddle and string-band music from the Northwest and Oregon Trail • Mariachi Estrella de México: Music by Wenatchee's acclaimed professional mariachi band • Luc and the Lovingtons: Seattle world music band with Methow Valley roots (featuring renowned Chilean hip-hop artist, Felipe Cañete) Aug. 29 • La Famille Léger: Acadien and Quebecois string-band music from eastern Canada • Dragon Art Studio: World-famous Beijing rod puppet theater (www.dragonartstudio.com) • Los Flacos: Latin American and Caribbean acoustic music The festival is part of a broader series of events celebrating Washington's diverse cultures. The program is a partnership between the Washington State Parks and Recreation Commission, the Washington State Arts Commission and Northwest Heritage Resources. Funding is provided by the National Endowment for the Arts, the Washington State Arts Commission and the Washington State Parks Foundation. For a full schedule of Folk and Traditional Arts in the Parks Program events, visit www.parks.wa.gov/events. The Celebrating Cultures festival is accessible to persons with disabilities. If special accommodations are required in order to attend, please call (509) 429-6808 or (509) 996-2370. Those who are hearing-impaired or speech-impaired may call the Washington Telecommunications Relay Service at (800) 833-6388. Requests must be made in advance. Pearrygin Lake State Park is a camping park with more than 1,200 acres in the Methow Valley of north central Washington. The park features expansive green lawns leading to 11,000 feet of waterfront on Pearrygin Lake. The lake offers swimming, fishing and boating. Old willows and ash provide shade on hot summer days. Hikers can also walk the Rex Derr trail, a 3.1-mile loop through the east campground and along the shrub steppe hillside above Pearrygin Lake. Stay connected to your state parks by following Washington State Parks at www.facebook.com/WashingtonStateParks, www.twitter.com/WaStatePks_NEWS and www.youtube.com/WashingtonStateParks. Share your favorite state park adventure on the new State Parks' blog site at www.AdventureAwaits.com. The Commission manages a diverse system of more than 100 state parks and recreation programs, including long-distance trails, boating safety and winter recreation. The 99-year-old park system will celebrate its 100th anniversary in 2013. Support state parks by purchasing your annual Discover Pass today, and enjoy a whole year of outdoor fun on Washington's beautiful state-managed recreation lands. For more information, visit www.discoverpass.wa.gov. -30-


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Staphylococcus Aureus Bacteremia Antibiotic Treatment Options (SABATO)
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Increasing resistance to antibiotic agents has been recognized as a major health problem worldwide that will even aggravate due to the lack of new antimicrobial agents within the next decade [1]. This threat underscores the need to maximize clinical utility of existing antibiotics, through more rational prescription, e.g. optimizing duration of treatment.
Staphylococcus aureus bloodstream infection (SAB) is a common disease with about 200,000 cases occurring annually in Europe [2]. A course of at least 14 days of intravenous antimicrobials is considered standard therapy [3-5] in "uncomplicated" SAB. This relatively long course serves to prevent SAB-related complications (such as endocarditis and vertebral osteomyelitis) that may result from hematogenous dissemination to distant sites. However, there is insufficient evidence that a full course of intravenous antibiotic therapy is always required in patients with a low risk of SAB-related complications.
In a multicenter, open-label, randomized controlled trial we aim to demonstrate that an early switch from intravenous to oral antimicrobial therapy is non-inferior to a conventional 14-days course of intravenous therapy regarding efficacy and safety. An early switch from intravenous to oral therapy would provide several benefits such as earlier discharge, fewer adverse reactions associated with intravenous therapy, increased quality of life, and cost savings.
Condition | Intervention | Phase |
Staphylococcus Aureus Bloodstream Infection |
Drug: Trimethoprim-Sulfamethoxazole Drug: Clindamycin Drug: Linezolid Drug: Flucloxacillin Drug: Cloxacillin Drug: Vancomycin Drug: Daptomycin Drug: Cefazolin |
Phase 3 |
Study Type: | Interventional |
Study Design: | Allocation: Randomized Endpoint Classification: Safety/Efficacy Study Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment Masking: Open Label Primary Purpose: Treatment |
Official Title: | Early Oral Switch Therapy in Low-risk Staphylococcus Aureus Bloodstream Infection |
- SAB-related complications [ Time Frame: 90 days ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]S. aureus bloodstream infection-related complications (relapsing SAB, deep-seated infection with S. aureus, or attributable mortality) within 90 days
- Length of hospital stay [ Time Frame: 90 days ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]Length of hospital stay
- Survival [ Time Frame: 14, 30, and 90 days ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]Survival at 14, 30, and 90 days
- Complications of intravenous therapy [ Time Frame: 90 days ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]Complications of intravenous therapy, such as thrombophlebitis.
- Clostridium difficile associated diarrhea (CDAD) [ Time Frame: 90 days ] [ Designated as safety issue: Yes ]Clostridium difficile associated diarrhea (CDAD)
- AEs and SAEs [ Time Frame: 90 days ] [ Designated as safety issue: Yes ]Adverse events
Estimated Enrollment: | 430 |
Study Start Date: | November 2013 |
Estimated Study Completion Date: | December 2016 |
Estimated Primary Completion Date: | December 2016 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure) |
Arms | Assigned Interventions |
Experimental: Orally administered antibiotic
First choice (MRSA and MSSA): trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole, or Second choice (MSSA): clindamycin, or Second choice (MRSA): linezolid administered for 7-9 days
Drug: Trimethoprim-Sulfamethoxazole Drug: Clindamycin Drug: Linezolid |
Experimental: Intravenously administered antibiotic
First choice (MSSA): flucloxacillin [Spain: cloxacillin], or cefazolin or Second choice (MSSA): vancomycin, or First choice (MRSA): vancomycin, or Second choice (MRSA): daptomycin administered for 7-9 days
Drug: Flucloxacillin Drug: Cloxacillin Drug: Vancomycin Drug: Daptomycin Drug: Cefazolin |
Detailed Description:
- WHO. WHO Global Strategy for Containment of Antimicrobial Resistance.: World Health Organization, 2001.
- Kern WV. Management of Staphylococcus aureus bacteremia and endocarditis: progresses and challenges. Curr Opin Infect Dis 2010;23(4):346-58.
- Gemmell CG, Edwards DI, Fraise AP, Gould FK, Ridgway GL, Warren RE. Guidelines for the prophylaxis and treatment of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) infections in the UK. J Antimicrob Chemother 2006;57(4):589-608.
- Liu C, Bayer A, Cosgrove SE, et al. Clinical practice guidelines by the Infectious Diseases Society of America for the treatment of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus infections in adults and children. Clin Infect Dis 2011;52(3):e18-55.
- Mermel LA, Allon M, Bouza E, et al. Clinical practice guidelines for the diagnosis and management of intravascular catheter-related infection: 2009 Update by the Infectious Diseases Society of America. Clin Infect Dis 2009;49(1):1-45.
Ages Eligible for Study: | 18 Years and older |
Genders Eligible for Study: | Both |
Accepts Healthy Volunteers: | No |
Inclusion Criteria:
- Age at least 18 years
- Not legally incapacitated
- Written informed consent from the trial subject has been obtained
- Blood culture positive for S. aureus
- At least one negative follow-up blood culture obtained within 48-72 hours after the start of adequate therapy
- Five to seven full days of appropriate i.v. antimicrobial therapy administered prior to randomization.
Exclusion Criteria:
- Polymicrobial bloodstream infection
- Recent history of prior S. aureus bloodstream infection
- In vitro resistance of S. aureus to all oral or all i.v. study drugs
- Contraindications for all oral or all i.v. study drugs
- Signs and symptoms of complicated SAB as judged by an ID physician, such as deep-seated focus,septic shock, prolonged bacteremia, fever on two occasions within 48h before randomization,presence of non-removable foreign body.
- Failure to remove (within 4 days) any intravascular catheter, which is present when first positive blood culture was drawn
- Severe liver disease
- End-stage renal disease
- Severe immunodeficiency (e.g. primary immunodeficiency disorders, neutropenia CD4+ T-cell count <200/µl in HIV-positive patients, high-dose steroid therapy, recent hematopoietic stem cell transplantation, solid organ transplant)
- "Do not resuscitate"-order or life expectancy < 3 months
- Inability to take oral drugs
- Injection drug user
- Expected low compliance with drug regimen
- Participation in other interventional trials
- Pregnant women and nursing mothers
Contact: Achim J Kaasch, MD | +4922147832100 | |
Contact: Christian M Bernasch |
Germany | |
Uniklinik Köln | Not yet recruiting |
Cologne, Germany, 50935 | |
Principal Investigator: Gerd Fätkenheuer, Prof. Dr. |
Study Chair: | Achim J Kaasch, MD | University of Cologne |
No publications provided
Responsible Party: | Gerd Fätkenheuer, Prof. Dr. med., University of Cologne |
ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: | NCT01792804 History of Changes |
Other Study ID Numbers: | Uni-Koeln-1400, 2013-000577-77 |
Study First Received: | February 13, 2013 |
Last Updated: | October 7, 2013 |
Health Authority: | Germany: Federal Institute for Drugs and Medical Devices Spain: Agencia Española de Medicamentos y Productos Sanitarios Netherlands: Medicines Evaluation Board (MEB) United Kingdom: Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency |
Keywords provided by University of Cologne:
Staphylococcus aureus Bloodstream infection Oral switch |
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Staphylococcal Infections Gram-Positive Bacterial Infections Bacterial Infections Anti-Bacterial Agents Cefazolin Clindamycin Clindamycin-2-phosphate Cloxacillin Floxacillin Vancomycin Daptomycin Linezolid Sulfamethoxazole Trimethoprim |
Trimethoprim-Sulfamethoxazole Combination Anti-Infective Agents Therapeutic Uses Pharmacologic Actions Protein Synthesis Inhibitors Enzyme Inhibitors Molecular Mechanisms of Pharmacological Action Anti-Infective Agents, Urinary Renal Agents Antimalarials Antiprotozoal Agents Antiparasitic Agents Folic Acid Antagonists |
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Marwan Koukash is confident of bringing lasting success to Salford City Reds but admits the key is gaining control of the £26million stadium at Barton.
The Kuwait-born multi-millionaire businessman, who is a St Helens-based racehorse owner, outlined his ambitious plans to transform the City Reds' fortunes after watching them for the first time in last night's pre-season friendly against Wigan Warriors.
Koukash, who expects to complete his takeover by Monday, says he had been looking to become involved with a Super League club after having his appetite whetted watching Saints at Langtree Park last season and was delighted to receive an SOS from the Rugby Football League's chief executive Nigel Wood.
"I got hooked on rugby by watching my local team, St Helens, on a couple of occasions," the 54-year-old said.
"It's a lovely sport to be involved in and I hope it has the same kind of success racing gave me.
"I have been looking to get involved with a club and, when the opportunity came along, Nigel Wood introduced Salford to me - and I'm very glad to be involved."
Only last week Salford avoided a winding-up petition over unpaid bills amounting to around £400,000 but today the club's future suddenly looks bright.
Koukash has pledged funds for coach Phil Veivers to bring in new players in time for the opening match of the new Super League season in a fortnight's time and to spend up to the £1.65million salary cap.
"I'm not a sugar daddy but I'm somebody who will facilitate that," said Koukash, who has a string of property developments and a stable of more than 100 racehorses.
"Saving the Reds is not a big deal, the bigger deal is creating a team that could compete and win trophies for a number of years to come."
Salford drew a disappointing average crowd of 5,192 in their first season at the City of Salford Stadium in 2012 but Koukash believes a winning team could attract regular five-figure attendances within four years.
But he warns the club would need to maximise its earning potential to become successful and he is hoping to buy the stadium and surrounding land - or at least a major stake in it - from Salford Council and Peel Holdings.
"The problem Salford face is that it has no home," Koukash added. "It's a tenant in a stadium. It has to train miles away from where it plays and the income it generates is far less than the expenditure.
"Salford must look at ways of creating extra income from commercial ventures.
"Here around this stadium there are many opportunities to develop such ventures and part of the deal we're looking at is for Salford to have a share or an interest in the stadium as well as to be able to develop some of the surrounding land.
"We've talked about things like a high-performance gym and a hostel for the academy players. That's why the deal is taking longer to arrange than expected.
"I'd like to have the security of the deal on the stadium and some kind of development."
The City Reds currently share the stadium with Aviva Premiership club Sale Sharks, who have a 20-year lease.
Koukash has brought in former New Zealand chairman Andrew Chalmers to help smooth the transition.
"My role is to assist Marwan in putting together a team to complete the due diligence and help facilitate the completion of the purchase of the club," Chalmers said.
Koukash has also enlisted the help of former Wigan and New Zealand coach Graham Lowe to work with Veivers on player recruitment and turning around the team's fortunes after they finished 11th last season.
Lowe flew over from New Zealand this week and says he is prepared to stay on for as long as it takes to see the job through.
"I'll take whatever role is needed," he said. "I've been blessed with a terrific career in rugby league and the north of England, particularly Wigan down the road, played a major part in that.
"I do see it as my responsibility to help this club and put something back.
"The first thing to do is introduce an attitude that doesn't accept mediocrity, that is challenging itself continually. You need that before you need players.
"We would like to get a lot of international players, just like that, but we have a long-term vision and it's got to start with attitude. I think we've got a great opportunity to do that."


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Today, Patrick and Ethan are discussing FF 14, originally released December 2nd, 2013.
Patrick: "The eve of battle" is an experience most of us will never literally experience – simply by virtue of the fact that so few of us will ever experience "battle." The phenomenon, however, is immediately recognizable. People get introspective and honest and fearless the night before Something Big happens. That's why people hook up the last day of camp, that's why you stay up too late the night before finals watching Lord of the Rings with your friends. There's something about the Bigness of the next day that makes every flight of fancy seem relevant. As the FF find themselves staring down the barrel of a battle royale with Doctor Doom, the Allreds chase down every impulse and curiosity, revealing a beautiful mosaic as quirky and particular as the team itself. Continue reading


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