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Hi, this is 2nd time i,ve turned to scuba.com for solid advice.I was thinking of purchasing a mares prestige 12s regulator this year, like it,s look and features, i am a 58 year old diver and have 25 dives done in the carribean now i m back in eastern canada and will soon be diving here as well with a good dive school and club, but review of prestige 12s seem to be pro warm water ie carribean, the info i got from a dive shop here is if i am going to do wreck diving course with them they can give me the prestige 12 s however i would be possibly better off with the prestige 22 DPD which is what one dive master uses that i spoke to, have not found any other reviews so any advice what is the working range dor the 22 DPD vs 12s scuba pro mentioned 7 deg cel for 12s the other question is i like the 12s for it,s fature of more exhaust from thee side of the second stage less bubbles in view does the DPD have a similiar feature, last the dpd has a dive pre dive switch and i have to put my BCD/tank combo on in water due to a spinal surgery to prevent excess stress on my back so,i am a little occupied when i slip into the water, shoul i forget to turn the switch as i decend will i still get some air until i wake up and realize i have to open the switch and is the dpd a better choice of a reg to equal the recreational deep dives and wreck dives in the eastern canadian and american waters Once again thanks folks for being out there to ask questions to. best regards mike
Hello Mike, if you are looking for both a warm and cold water regulator. The regulator I would suggest for you would be the Oceanic Delta 4.1 Maxflex Regulator web link: http://www.scuba.com/scuba-gear-36/033356/Oceanic-Delta-4.1-Maxflex-Scuba-Regulator.html. That regulator has the diver venturi which will help unwanted free flow and will give you the air you need in either positions. Plus it is design for colder water but works great in warm water. Another feature is a Diver Adjustable" Air flow which you can fine turn your breathing rate at different depth.
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• Very easy and natural breathing
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A modern new look for a medium-sized technopolymer second stage featuring cutting-edge technology. The special shape of the internal baffle, coupled with the VAD system, makes breathing easy and natural so it's perfect for use at any depth.
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Material: Technopolymer
First stage: Balanced diaphragm design
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First stage weight (g) INT: 781
First stage weight (g) DIN300: 616
Second stage weight (g): 215
Total weight (g) INT: 1154
Total weight (g) DIN300: 986
Second stage dimension: medium
Oil/Dry cold water kit: Oil
Nitrox: -
HP Ports: 2 HP 7/16'
LP Ports: 1LP 1/2' (primary)
Inhale pressure: 9.50
Inhale pos pressure: 0.00
Exhale pressure: 9.08
Ext work breathing: 1.05
Inhale work: 0.37
Pos inhale work: 0.00
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Pressure depth: diagram at 50mt (165ft)
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Dynamic Flow Control: Minimizes intermediate pressure drop during inhalation thus maximizing gas delivery, especially under extreme conditions. The DFC system (Mares patented) minimizes the pressure drop that occurs in all regulator first stages when the diver inhales. This phenomenon is even more pronounced as depth increases and when airflow demand from the regulator rises.
The DFC system is an exclusive system, unique on the market, that operates in relation to the diver's actual air demand, independent of depth and tank pressure.
The DFC system uses the Venturi Effect, optimizing the regulator's sensitivity and minimizing inhalation resistance, especially during dives in extreme conditions.
Fluid Dynamic Deflector: Receives and properly directs the airflow from the bypass tube to the mouthpiece.
Mesh Grid: Patented design which reduces the impact of water flow onto the second stage diaphragm, thus eliminating free flows even in strong currents.
Superflex Hose: Extreme light weight and exceptional softness guarantee the maximum freedom of movement.
Tri-Material Valve: Patented technology combines two grades of polyurethane on a brass core. Maximizes performance, safety and reliability.
It is composed of: a central valve body manufactured in nickel-plated brass; a highly-resistant polyurethane coating covering nearly the entire valve body that can ensure elevated resistance to wear and mechanical stresses; finally, an additional covering is applied to the surface ('head') of the valve; this covering is also polyurethane but has a softer 'modulus'(hardness) to provide a perfect seal, even under extreme conditions.
Thanks to the use of a special technology ('adhesion at the molecular level') and the characteristics of the materials used, a high level of safety (uncontrollable free flow never occurs) and reliability is guaranteed under any conditions.
Ultralight Techno Polymer: Abrasion resistant and affordable, ideal for diving in warm and moderate water temperatures.
Vortex Assisted Design: The air bypass tube conveys air to the mouthpiece creating a swirling vortex with a low pressure area in the center that keeps the diaphragm down during inhalation, for very sensitive and easy breathing at all depths.
The air coming from the LP-hose passes through the second stage control valve and is conveyed directly to the mouthpiece through the by-pass tube (Mares patented). In the mouthpiece connector, the airflow creates a swirling action, or "vortex". The core of the vortex is a low-pressure area, which, during inhalation, helps to hold down the second stage diaphragm, thus markedly increasing regulator sensitivity. The decisive advantage of the VAD System lies in the precision of its control. The VAD supplies the inhalation effort with just the intensity required.
Another advantage of the VAD system is related to the bypass tube, through which most of the air is delivered. In cold water diving, this system prevents ice crystals (which can be generated by the expansion of humid air in cold temperatures) from interfering with the proper operation of second stage components.


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The United States, soon after the First World War, was somewhat of a nation in isolation. The Senates refusal to ratify the Versailles Treaty kept it out of the League of Nations. The influx of immigrants were a drain on the economy and the economy was yet to get its succour from the magic of mass production. The invincible, ruthless American tycoon was the icon of the day and of screen-writer Peter B Kynes tales of Cappy Ricks.
Even though Mr Kyne really attained the halo of an author with his best-selling love story Kindred Of The Dust, the legend of his crusty timber tycoon Cappy Ricks (first published as a nautical adventure story in 1916) and its successors, Cappy Ricks Retires and The Go-Getter made several comebacks. The Go-Getter, the story of a war cripple turned super salesman, who won Cappy Ricks confidence and a $ 10,000 job, first appeared as a serial in the Saturday Evening Post and Cosmopolitan magazine in 1921.
Business historian Alan Axelrod puts that story back in the bestseller lists, with an Afterword on motivation, in times when business worldwide is trying to live down a recession and the aftermath of the terror strike on the twin towers in New York. The Go-Getter according to its publishers, has sold five lakh copies worldwide, but this time it is non-fiction. The unavoidable declivities of the Ricks Logging and Lumbering Companys roller coaster ride to riches, are parables for modern day managers to learn from, and war veteran Bill Peck is the paragon of 21st Century virtues - the self-motivated achiever.
As Cappy Ricks reminds his old-fashioned general manager,This is a smart mans world, a persistent mans world, not an old mans world...And the go-getters of this world are as often as not under thirty years of age. If that was true of the United States in 1921, it is true of the whole wide world in 2003 and Mr Axelrod knows it. He uses Bill Pecks foot-in-the-door drive and Cappy Ricks earthy pragmatism to underscore the winning mantras of the day.
Bill Peck walks with a limp and his right arm has been amputated to the elbow. He had been turned down at Ricks Logging & Lumbering Company, before he seeks an audience with the founder. He gets the job, but with it, an impossible assignment to sell smelly coarse and stringy skunk spruce. Bill Peck takes the

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Two Canadian prisoners were captured March 18 after using a helicopter to escape from a Quebec prison the previous day. Two armed men allegedly held up a tour company helicopter, forced the pilot to fly to the prison, then used cables or ropes to free Benjamin Hudon-Barbeau, 36, and Danny Provencal, 33. All four men were in police custody within 24 hours.
Matthew Keys, 26, a deputy social media editor at Thomson Reuters, was charged March 14 in federal court with conspiring with the Internet hacking group "Anonymous." Keys, whom Time named one of the top 140 people to follow on Twitter in 2012, faces up to 25 years in prison and fines totaling $750,000. Reuters immediately suspended Keys with pay.
A New York City man was charged March 7 with negligent homicide in the deaths of three people after the SUV he was driving killed a couple, both 21, and their unborn baby. Julio Acevedo, 44, fled the scene of the accident but later surrendered to authorities in Pennsylvania. The couple's child lived one day after being delivered from his deceased mother's womb.
A Russian soldier who went missing in the 1980 invasion of Afghanistan has been found living with local tribesmen where he was lost in battle. Bakhretdin Khakimov, who now goes by the name Sheikh Abdullah, was nursed back to health by Afghans after he sustained a head injury in a battle in Shindand. He converted to Islam in 1993 and is a practicing traditional healer.
The bus driver charged in the gang rape of a 23-year-old Indian woman hanged himself with a blanket in a New Delhi jail on March 11. Ram Singh was one of six men charged in the Dec. 16 attack, which injured the woman's male friend and led to her death. The incident sparked protests across India calling for stronger rape laws to protect women.
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By David Gewirtz
Our ongoing story about the security of White House email took a strange turn on Friday, proving some of the national security concerns I've been discussing to be true in a particularly tangible and unfortunate way.
On Friday, the Associated Press reported that Rafael Quintero Curiel, lead press advance person for the Mexican delegation, was caught stealing BlackBerry devices belonging to White House staffers who were attending meetings between U.S. President George W. Bush and Canadian and Mexican leaders in New Orleans last week. Unfortunately, Quintero Curiel was caught after the devices had been in his possession for some time.
One story, originating with Fox News, had the count of missing BlackBerrys at six or seven, but when I spoke to Mark Stevenson of the Associated Press, on site in Mexico City, he told me the final count was, in fact, two devices.
"Racial stereotyping may have contributed to spinning this story in a way that may be obscuring the true magnitude of the possible damage to our national security."
On Friday, we issued a breaking news press release on this topic, which covered the early news and what I saw as the national security concerns that weren't initially getting covered. This Special Report expands on that press release and is a detailed analysis of the issue.
What makes this topic so troubling, of course, is the serious national security breach that may have occurred. But there's more to the story, including issues of the relationship between the United States and Mexico, and even how racial stereotyping may have contributed to spinning this story in a way that may be obscuring the true magnitude of the possible damage to our national security.
Of course, as the Times-Picayune in New Orleans noted:
David Gewirtz, an expert on email security, has written about lost BlackBerrys at the White House in his book "Where Have All the EMails Gone?" He said the episode in New Orleans may not reach international-incident status, but it should be a wake-up call about the insecurity of U.S. government data carried in BlackBerrys.
Given that one of the nightmare scenarios I wrote about in the book has come true with almost freaky precision, I'm hoping we can get the other systems fixed in the White House before some of my even scarier scenarios come true as well.
Finally, it's important to note that this isn't just a cautionary tale for the U.S. government, but for businesses and individuals as well. You'll see what I mean as you read on.


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The boom from a KC-135R Stratotanker from the 128th Air Refueling Wing, Milwaukee, offloads fuel during an incentive flight to an F-16 Fighting Falcon from the 148th Fighter Wing out of Duluth, Minn., over Norther Wisconsin, Aug. 15, 2012. The refueling mission was part of a employer incentive flight where Air National Guardsmen nominate their civilian employer(s) to witness an air refueling mission as a measure of thanks for the support their employers give to the air national guard and the guardsmen.
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|City Code Chatter — Back-to-school, safety a concern
|Written by Chris Lee
Crosswalks, flashing lights, kids and bikes. Back-to-school time has come and that means time to beef up safety and awareness.
Now that school has started, drivers throughout town need to be more cautious when coming to a crosswalk, Police Chief Phil Biersdorfer said.
By law, if a crosswalk is being used by anyone, all vehicles are required or obligated to stop and wait until the area is clear. Biersdorfer said Holyoke PD patrols the crosswalks when they can, both in the morning and afternoon.
The flashing signals on S. Interocean Ave. are in operation for about an hour in the morning and then again in the afternoon warning drivers of the slower posted speed. Times are from about 7:45-8:45 a.m. and then again from 2:45-3:45 p.m.
The speed limit usually is 35 m.p.h. but while the light is flashing, the limit is reduced to 20 m.p.h.
Fines for speeding through the zone while the lights are flashing are doubled. Biersdorfer mentioned a ticket for traveling as much as 20 m.p.h. over the speed limit can cost around $500.
When traveling on the streets around the schools, Biersdorfer said to obey all speed limits and use caution. Many of the streets are permanent 20 m.p.h. zones.
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Biersdorfer wants everyone to remember the curfew for minors in Holyoke.
The city ordinance pertaining to the curfew reads, "it is unlawful for any child under the age of 17 years to loaf and/or loiter in any public street, alley or any other public place within the city, on foot or in any conveyance of any nature between the hours of 11 p.m. and 6 a.m. on Sundays, Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays or Thursdays; and between the hours of 12 midnight and 6 a.m. on Fridays and Saturdays, unless accompanied by a parent, guardian or adult member of his/her family."
Biersdorfer said there has been some vandalism at the park where roughly 25 sprinkler heads have been pulled off and broken from the underground sprinkler system. He guesses the crime has been done while the sprinklers have been on, so they know about when it has been happening.
Parking issues around the schools
Biersdorfer would also like people to keep in mind parking around the schools. The bus zone directly in front of the high school is closed from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. on school days. The area directly in front of the grade school is restricted parking from 8-8:30 a.m. and then again from 3-3:30 p.m. to allow for buses to load and unload.
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Senate Bill 75 has been passed which allows small electric vehicles on city streets in Colorado. Also known as neighborhood electric vehicles, they cut down on emissions and allow for quieter neighborhoods.
Sen. Gail Schwartz and Rep. Don Marostica were leaders in getting the bill passed.
Biersdorfer said vehicles such as golf carts fall under the category and are allowed on streets but must be street legal. Headlights, taillights, turn signals and brake lights are required, he said.
The vehicles may not travel on any street with a speed limit greater than 35 m.p.h.
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CLEVELAND – Cleveland State coach Kate Peterson Abiad said the best thing about freshmen is they become sophomores.
When one of those former freshmen is Kailey Klein, that statement becomes even more accurate.
Klein, a 5-foot-11 guard from Cherry, Ill., had what might have been the best season any freshman has had in the history of the Cleveland State University women`s program. She led the team in scoring (318 points) and scoring average (11.0 per game).
Klein really came on once the Horizon League season began. In 16 league contests, she averaged 16.3 points a game (fourth in the HL). She was fifth in the league in steals (1.56 per game), seventh in rebounding (5.8) and 10th in free throw percentage (73.9). That earned her the league`s Newcomer of the Year award and landed her a spot on the 2007-08 preseason All-Horizon League first team.
"She`s a true offensive threat," Peterson Abiad said. "She`s looking to score from the moment she gets on the floor."
Three other sophomores also got major playing time as freshmen last season, and will be counted on to help the Vikings better their 8-22 (5-11 HL) record. Jessica Roque, a 5-7 guard, was one of two who started all 30 games for the Vikings in 2006-07 and was second to Klein in scoring at 8.2 per game. Her twin sister, Angel Roque, started 11 games and played in all 30.
Stephanie Crosley, a 5-11 forward, started the first nine games of the season before being sidelined by a stress fracture. Peterson Abiad said Crosley is still recovering and is somewhat limited, but will get to play off the bench.
"We expect pretty great things this year," the fourth-year coach said. "The sophomores had a full year of knowing what we do offensively and defensively. They have a full year of knowing each other. I think we have a more mature team."
Dominique Butler, a junior who has twice been named to the league`s all-defensive team, is back after a season in which she averaged 7.9 points and 4.8 rebounds a game. Butler also led the HL in steals with 1.85 a game.
The fifth starter is Brittany Korth, who played in all 30 games and started in 19 last year. Korth, a 5-10 guard, led the Vikings with 75 assists and averaged 6.7 points per game.
Peterson Abiad regards quickness as easily the greatest strength of the team, and says the Vikes will use quickness mismatches the way other teams use size mismatches. Size is one area where CSU is lacking. Senior Robyn Hoying (3.5 ppg, 2.6 rpg) is the tallest Viking at 6-0.
"I anticipate answering that question about our height all year long," Peterson Abiad said. "I tell my team to never make height an issue. We`ll use defensive pressure all over the court to make up for not having height."
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Q: When Does "Tabu" Come out on DVD? A: The official US DVD release date for "Tabu" has been set for October 29, 2013.
Acclaimed director Miguel Gomes returns with a sumptuous, eccentric two-part tale centered on Aurora, shown first as an impulsive, cantankerous elderly woman in present-day Lisbon. When Aurora is hospitalized, she sends her neighbor, Pilar, to pass word of her grave condition to Gian Luca, a man of which no one has ever heard her speak. Pilar's quest to fulfill her friend's wish transports us to Africa fifty years earlier, before the start of the Portuguese Colonial War. We see Aurora again, this time as the gorgeous, smoldering wife of a wealthy young farmer, involved in a forbidden love affair with Gian Luca, her husband's best friend. Their moving, poetic tale is conveyed through the older Gian Luca's suave voiceover, combined with the lush, melodious sounds of its heady, tropical setting, peppered with a soundtrack of Phil Spector songs.
Starring:Ana Moreira, Teresa Madruga, Laura Soveral
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Commentators are still reeling in shock at the Archbishop of Canterbury's sermon at St Paul's Cathedral to give thanks for HM the Queen's Diamond Jubilee – it was clear and easy to understand; moreover, his remarks on the real meaning of dedication, of which, he said, HM's dedication to her people was emblematic, made good sense. What a shame Dr Rowan Williams is due to retire soon – though without doubt he will be relieved to quit the post, leaving the imminent crisis over women bishops to his successor, whoever that may be.
One thing is sure – it will not be a woman. Or will it? After all, after his enthronement, the new incumbent might very well declare that he 'feels like a woman' and announce his wish to be addressed as one. By that time it will probably be a case of ritual right-on humiliation for anyone… Read more


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Yes folks, once again I've had a crash.
You see, riding SWBs isn't the only riding I do........ I still pretend I'm a road racer with the Masters comps, and I got involved in a high speed sprint, a rider came down right in front of me....I went up in the air, over the drops, down hard then got hit by another rider and messed up my left shoulder, an acromian clavicular separation or whatever......more scars and bruising.
I was hoping to finally meet Jur and Connie face 2 face at a MS ride next month, still hoping to but with 13% climbs it's going to hurt.


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Resale shop in Pottsville reopens after renovations
The New Life Shoppe in downtown Pottsville recently had a facelift.
The not-for-profit resale shop, located at 110 S. Centre St., supports the Care Net Pregnancy Center of Schuylkill County, which is located next door.
"We had a vision for this place," Cheryl Cresswell, executive director of Care Net, said Thursday.
Care Net is a nonprofit organization that has provided services such as pregnancy testing, peer counseling and education for about the last 15 years in the county. All services are free and confidential.
"We just try to help them see their way as parents," Cresswell said.
Cresswell said the organization has leased the former Kerwick's Leather building for about the last five years. The store was closed for about two weeks for renovations and reopened Jan. 6.
All the work was done by volunteers, Cresswell said. Members of the Lighthouse Church, Orwigsburg, painted the facility along with other work. The Ramada Inn also donated a lot of furniture to the facility.
Cresswell said Care Net has had a lot of support from churches, businesses and individuals over the years.
"It's their way of helping the community," Cresswell said.
All items in the store are donated from local consignment shops, businesses and individuals. While inventory changes daily, the shop resells clothing, shoes, accessories, toys, books and various other items.
"The retail store is for everyone," Cresswell said.
Location has also contributed to the success of the store.
"There are not many places to buy clothing in downtown Pottsville," Cresswell said.
Kimberly Pace serves as shop manager for the store.
Pace said the store has grown in popularity over the last couple years and the average purchase has doubled during that time to about $9 now.
"We have great stuff and we like being downtown and we think downtown needs us," Pace said.
The door separating the pregnancy center and store has been removed during renovations, providing easier access to the two counseling rooms and about 15 trained counselors.
Cresswell said donations are being used to install a kitchen in the back of the building with the goal of starting life skills classes. Volunteers have also been working on a meeting room downstairs for the men's group at the center. They meet at 10 a.m. every Tuesday, she said.
Care Net plans to hold a grand opening for the store in the spring, Cresswell said. Care Net will also host a fundraiser at the Walk In Art Center, Schuylkill Haven, on March 21 that will feature country music, line dancing and auctions.
The New Life Shoppe is open from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday and from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. Thursday. For more information about Care Net Pregnancy Center of Schuylkill County and events, call 570-624-7244 or visit at www.freepregnancyhelp.org.
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Anna and I went up to the 18th Arrondissement, the Monmartre area, this morning for a baking class offered by Cook'n With Class. We made croissants, pain au chocolat, pain raisin, and babas au rum. The recipes are simple so it's the techniques that must be mastered. This is the kind of cooking class that I still enjoy...those that teach techniques that are just about impossible to learn from a book.
Rolling croissants is very satisfying. Can't wait to try it at home.
Lovely little pastries just waiting for the oven.
This dough that we learned how to make today is comprised of 80 layers as you can see plainly in these fresh out of the oven pain au chocolats. The chef explained to us that the French like their pastries to be baked until quite dark. They like the burnt caramel flavor as in Creme Caramel and Creme Brulee. He said that baking this way signifies that this is something to be eaten right away, not saved for later and reheated. According to him, Americans eat baked goods that are undercooked, "blond" and that uncooked gluten is hard to digest even for those who are not gluten sensitive. In other words, no more snacking on raw cookie dough. Don't know if all this is fact, just passing along the advice of our french pastry chef friend.


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College Hockey:Dartmouth gets veteran play out of a young roster
In what had been predicted to be a stop-and-start kind of campaign for Dartmouth, all lights appear to be Green entering the postseason.
"Our team is playing really, really hard, and I think this is going to be the healthiest we've been in a while," coach Bob Gaudet said. "For a young, young team — probably not a younger team in the country — to be picked 10th in our league [by the media], to be picked seventh in our league [by the coaches] and to finish in fifth, barely out of a bye, I'm pleased with the way the team is playing."
Pundits couldn't be blamed for tabbing Dartmouth so low before the season began. Even now, if you saw only class year and games played, you probably would imagine the Big Green to be a big mess: Only four seniors have suited up for Gaudet this season, and they have summed just 67 games.
Fortunately, the kids came up big this year. Junior Eric Robinson and sophomore Tyler Sikura shared the team lead with 10 goals apiece; Sikura also chipped in 18 helpers to lead the team in scoring. Rookies have accounted for 14 of Dartmouth's 80 goals to date, and sophomores 34. It's a youth movement, for sure.
"There's times I look on the ice and we have four freshmen and a sophomore," Gaudet said. "I like this team a lot, and I have a lot of faith in this hockey team."
The Green stumbled in their final weekend of the season, tying Princeton and falling to Quinnipiac in Hanover. The team had been 10-3 (7-2 in ECAC) at Thompson Arena entering Friday's action, but the results cost the squad a shot at an always-desirable bye week.
"I thought we played a really good game against Princeton, and I thought they played really well," Gaudet said. "Then we're in a 2-1 game with Quinnipiac halfway through the third, they made a couple plays. They're a really good team."
The Green were outshot both nights, and though much credit is due to the Tigers and Bobcats, Gaudet is confident that his side can do better.
"Sometimes you'll have the shot totals go your way and sometimes you won't, and a big part of that is that some of your best defense is your offense," Gaudet said. "We have to be a little bit more willing to shoot the puck ourselves. That creates a little bit of a frenzy in the offensive zone, which gives you zone time, which boosts your shot totals and keeps the opposition shot totals a little further down."
Gaudet was mum on this weekend's starting goalie, but is excited at the prospects of getting a number of players back in the lineup after missing time with injuries.
Senior Dustin Walsh is one of the recently healed, and Gaudet said the Green's leading active goal-scorer was "feeling pretty good" last weekend. The coach has his fingers crossed for the return of freshman forward Tim O'Brien as well, though he did note that freshman Jack Barre and sophomore Brandon McNally are "out indefinitely."
With Ivy archrival, travel partner, and spring chicken Harvard making the haul to Hanover this weekend, Gaudet and the Green are looking forward to another opportunity to prove the doubters wrong.
Evolution of the Tigers
When center Andrew Calof's extra-attacker, overtime winner blew by Harvard's Raphael Girard last Saturday, Calof became the first Princeton junior since 1991 to earn 100 points. That's a long time.
The win also secured the Tigers a home-ice spot for the sixth time in seven years. That's a long time, too.
The opponent — Cornell — is on the road in the first round for the first time since 1998-99. That's a long time. And Cornell's opponent in that series 14 years ago? Princeton.
There's a lot of history here, and plenty more unmentioned. The Ivies love their illustrious pasts, and Princeton is no different. But the one piece of history the Tigers would love to revisit is the outcome of that first-round series in the late winter of 1999: Princeton beats Cornell 10-9 on aggregate.
What was an historic but half-empty Hobey Baker Rink not so long ago is now the third-toughest ticket in the country, by capacity. The Tigers are drawing 105 more fans per game than they have seats, packing the venue in support of the Garden State's only D-I men's hockey program. With attendance steadily climbing over the past half-decade, Baker is now a premier attraction in central Jersey.
"Anyone would tell you they'd rather play at home than on the road, so it means a lot," coach Bob Prier said. "Baker Rink was [filled] beyond capacity all year, so it's a nice home-ice advantage for us. It's one of the largest advantages you can have in college hockey."
The Tigers swept the Big Red for the first time in five years this season, and Prier likes the look of his squad going forward.
"We've played well in our last three games — we've come out of them 1-1-1 … and we've controlled most of the play here in our last three games," Prier said. "We're starting to play with a lot more confidence, controlling the puck a little bit more. We've got some good depth now so things are looking good for us."
Last weekend's gritty 2-2 tie at Dartmouth and 2-1 OT win at Harvard continued to set the postseason tone for Princeton, which has played six one-goal games (or ties) in its last seven outings.
"We're fortunate that we played well this weekend on the road, and we'll just have to continue playing that way," Prier said. "We are in playoff mode, certainly. Last weekend, those were important games for us to try to attain home ice. We played playoff-type hockey, I believe the other teams played playoff-type hockey as well, so it was a nice test for us.
"They were low-scoring games, which is probably what we're going to see throughout the playoffs. They were three really hard-fought points. Guys are certainly in the right mind-set. I think we have just as good a chance as anyone to go the distance."
A big reason why the Tigers will sleep in familiar dens this weekend is the play of senior goalie Mike Condon. The keeper boasts a .925 save percentage and a 2.42 goals against average in 22 games this season, and is saving nearly 94 percent of shots faced since mid-November, 16 games ago.
"Mike's certainly taken over that starting position. Throughout the second part of the season he's played really, really well, so yes, he's certainly our No. 1 goalie right now," Prier said. "He's playing as well as he has in [my two years here], right now."
In fact, Condon has put up career bests in minutes, save percentage, goals against average and wins. If he could lead the Tigers to their first series win in four years, too? Now that's the kind of history Princeton likes to see.
More to come
Be on the lookout for our comprehensive series predictions in the ECAC Blog on Friday morning, as Nate Owen and I gear up for our own prodigious postseason run.
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I really enjoyed your article about your trip to Albania. My wife and I spent five weeks in the region last summer (basically, everything in former Yugoslavia but not Albania) and our experiences in Serbia, Macedonia, Montenegro, and Bosnia were just as you have described. The natural beauty, the unbelievable multi-layered history, warm and hospitable people, the great food; just as you've described.
We hope desperately to return this summer. In fact, if you are interested we're looking to add a few people to our small group (maximum eight guests). As you learned in Albania, stuff is cheap in these places and the astounding beauty will keep us captivated the whole time. And, while we did not visit Albania last summer, we are going to incorporate five days of 22 in that country this year and most eliminate Croatia (too expensive and already "discovered").
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Tech School Joins Cornell in Contest
Cornell University is seeking to bolster its bid to construct an engineering and applied-science campus in New York City by teaming up with Technion-Israel Institute of Technology.
The schools announced plans for their joint bid Tuesday, just 10 days before the Oct. 28 deadline in a competition that is expected to draw submissions from more than a dozen institutions.
The Bloomberg administration, which is seeking to make the city more competitive in generating tech-related jobs, is offering public land and as much as $100 million in public funding to the bidder selected to build the campus.
Stanford University, already considered a top applicant in the contest, announced last week that it would collaborate with the City University of New York. A partnership with a local institution such as CUNY likely strengthens the prospects of the Palo Alto, Calif.-based university.
Cornell, which already runs the Weill Cornell Medical College in the city, is responding by joining with the premier tech school in Israel.
Technion has helped the country to become a major player in high technology.
"We wanted to find an institution that had complementary strengths to Cornell's strengths," said David Skorton, Cornell's president. "Technion is among the world's leaders of turning science into jobs."
There are more than 4,000 tech start-ups in Israel, second only to Silicon Valley, according to Technion officials. Of those start-ups, 70% were founded by Technion graduates, said the school's president, Peretz Lavie.
U.S. tech giants such as Google Inc., Microsoft Corp. and Qualcomm Inc. have each set up outposts near the Technion campus in Haifa in part to help recruit new graduates, according to Mr. Lavie.
"In the last 20 years, we moved from Jaffa oranges to semiconductors," Mr. Lavie said of Israel's economy. "What we can do for New York is similar to what we did for the state of Israel."
The schools have been discussing the collaboration for more than two months. Cornell and Technion propose to build a two-million-square-foot campus on city-owned land on Roosevelt Island. The campus would likely cost well above $1 billion to construct.
Cornell would pay the entire building costs of the campus in the city. Technion, which is a public university, lacks the financial resources to bring a school to New York without a partner.
"I don't think any foreign university can do it on its own," Mr. Lavie said.
Technion has set up research laboratories in Singapore, but hasn't participated in any international collaboration on the scale that it is now proposing with Cornell. The schools say they would build an entirely new "independent campus" on Roosevelt Island that will take about 25 years to fully develop.
"It's not going to be a satellite campus," Mr. Lavie said.
If their bid is successful, Cornell and Technion would launch an interim campus by fall of 2012 that will pull from their existing faculty and use either leased space or space already owned by Cornell.
Once it is fully built, the New York campus will have about 2,000 graduate students and 250 faculty members.
But Technion and Cornell still have to beat out Stanford and others. Local institutions such as New York University and Columbia University are also weighing bids to build the tech school, as is Carnegie Mellon University, which has one of the best engineering programs in the U.S.
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I'm looking for tools and approaches to determining what parts of of my Cocoa and Cocoa-Touch programs are most contributing the the final binary image size, and ways to help reduce it. I'm not looking for a "magic bullet" compiler flag. I'm looking for profiling techniques for evaluating and reducing image size waste in the same vein as Shark and Instruments help for run-time evaluation.
A first-order approximation may be the size of the .o's, but how trustworthy is this in terms of final image size after optimizations and dead-code stripping? If I add up all the .o's they are much larger than my final image, so clearly the linker is already helping me out significantly. But this means the size of the .o's may not be a useful measure.
Where do others look to reduce image size without undermining code maintainability?


text: NEW DELHI: Journalists jostling for access to Modi Sarkar will have a new competitor: a not-for-profit media portal manned by professionals who were part of Team Modi during the poll campaign and had enjoyed access to him. 'The Indian Republic', launched originally as a campaign portal to support Modi in October 2013, is now a fullfledged media outlet , and may soon feature live chats with the PM, apart from "exclusive stories" on the new government's policy formulations and interventions, according to people familiar with the portal's plans."We are not here to spread Modi propaganda. We won't be putting out every press release of his; it will rather bring out interesting stories that will engage people in the government's functioning. At best you can describe us as being pro-development," said Ashwini Anand, editor-at-large of the portal.


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A rare Bengal tiger at Zooworld at the beach has given birth to four cubs, including a pure white pair that joins only about 200 such tigers in the world.
The cubs' mother, five-year-old Delhi, and father, three-year-old Kabul, have been at Zoo World since March.
They are on loan from Josip Marcan, a veterinarian who owns 25 Bengal tigers and a tiger preserve in Ponce de Leon.
The cubs, two pure white, and two orange with black stripes, were born Tuesday night and Wednesday morning.
Like many Bengal tigers, Delhi did not know how to care for her first litter, and zoo officials immediately began looking after the newborns, who all appeared to be in good health.
Marcan says the tigers and cubs will stay at Zoo World over the summer, giving the public the chance to learn more about the species.
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"The Double"
"The Double" is based on a short story by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, but there's a lot more than the sensibilities of the Russian literary giant hanging over this grimly amusing picture. British director and comedian Richard Ayoade's follow-up to his stylized coming-of-age tale "Submarine," the abstract drama owes an obvious debt to "Brazil," but also borrows liberally from the likes of "1984," the labyrinthine plotting of a Kafka story and the outmoded aesthetics eighties computer commercials, while maintaining a deadpan stillness that calls to mind Finnish director Aki Kaurismaki. Yet the familiar elements of "The Double," which Ayoade co-wrote with Avi Korine, coalesce into a unique whole that turns the material into a contemplative nightmare. Read more here.
"Only Lovers Left Alive"
If the fashionable bloodsuckers of the "Twilight" movies traded their frantic stares for expressions of ennui, they might have something in common with Adam (Tom Hiddleston) and Eve (Tilda Swinton), the retro cool vampires at the heart of Jim Jarmusch's "Only Lovers Left Alive." But that could never happen. Jarmusch's characters are always too hip for the mainstream, which he reminds viewers by making a welcome return to the realm of deadpan comedies that put his work on the map in the first place. Not that he ever drifted too far from it. Read more here.
With his fourth feature, "R100," Matsumoto merges his outlandish wit with a satiric take on the Japanese ratings system and disorienting tangents that's second only to the impermeable "Symbol" in its riotous absurdity. Yet despite its head-scratching moments, "R100" also maintains an elevated cult movie consistency that's par for the course with Matsumoto, by combining its playful irrationality with an emotional and philosophical core. Read more here.


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Home > Blogs > 3 Ways to Take a New Look at the Uncovered Call - Is It Really High-Risk?
The traditional view of naked call writing is that this is one of the highest-risk strategies possible. But is this necessarily true? Can naked call writing be safer than most of us think? There are ways of looking at risk that challenge traditional thought and even present a scenario for low-risk naked call writing.
Admittedly, this hypothesis is controversial. After all, everyone knows that writing uncovered calls is one of the most reckless strategies around, right? Well, yes, but only if you use the most popular method for defining risk. There are other ways to look at it as well. And as a true-blue conservative investor myself, I challenge everyone to consider a revised definition of high-risk.
The typical risk definition is strategy-specific. So uncovered calls are always high-risk and covered calls are always low-risk. A debit spread is low-risk and a credit spread s high-risk. But there is a big problem with these definitions and blanket assumptions about risk itself. Consider the following:
1. Flaws with attribute-specific definitions. The standard definition of risk based solely on the attributes of a strategy are never universally true. Even on the low-risk side, a poorly structured covered call can be very high-risk.
2. Methods for reducing risks. By applying risk-related standards to selection of an options strategy, you are able to reduce risk substantially. Even for something as high-risk as a naked call, you can make the position low-risk by selection positions with high probability for successful outcome, and timing entry when volatility spikes high. Under these circumstances, even the named call is going to be safer than a covered call entered at the wrong time, with the wrong strike, the wrong expiration, and the wrong probability or volatility.
3. Rethinking the definition of risk for everything. The very idea that a definition of risk may be revised and completely changed is revolutionary. But open-minded traders are going to see the options universe in much different ways if they consider these points.
So for me, a new and changed definition of risk is situation-specific instead of strategy-specific. I have been trading options and writing about them for over 35 years, but this expanded view and definition of risk has made me stop and reconsider the entire question. It simply makes sense. It also presents all of us with a way to approach and define risk based on sensible analytical tools, rather than on assumptions about strategies themselves.
I invite everyone to think about what risk means. As a conservative investor, I require two attributes to make a trade truly conservative: It must reduce risk, but must also increase income. This is not impossible to even paradoxical, as many will think at first glance. But think about it. Any strategy -- any -- will succeed or fail based on timing of entry and exit, with both sides equally crucial. With this in mind, my new definition of risk meets the two-part test (lower risk, higher income), and can be applied to many strategies. Under the traditional definition, a conservative investor must avoid naked options for well-known reasons. But these reasons are based on what I now believe to be a narrow definition of risk.
Michael C. Thomsett (email@example.com) is author of FT Press's "Options Trading for the Conservative Investor." He is an instructor with the New York Institute of Finance. He teaches five courses: "Swing Trading with Options," "The Amazing World of Options," "Synthetic Options Strategies", "Options timing and dividend income strategies," and "Using candlestick reversal and continuation patterns to improve timing." He is also an investing and options author and has also written for FT Press' Agile Investor series, which can be viewed on FTPress.com.
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The hunt is on for the next breakout comic strip talent, and it's up to Amazon customers to help pick who will be the grand-prize winner.
In late August, Andrews McMeel Publishing, the publisher of contemporary comics classics like Calvin and Hobbes, The Far Side, Zits, Foxtrot, and more, unveiled their plan to bring fresh ink to the newspaper funnies, and Comic Strip Superstar was born. The floodgates opened, and budding talent answered the call. A panel of celebrity judges and industry experts then narrowed the list down to 10 Finalists, and now it's your turn!
Help us decide who will win the grand prize: a publishing contract and the opportunity for comic strip syndication with Universal Press Syndicate. Amazon customers can visit the contest page, log in, and vote for the winner. Here's a quick run-down of the 10 Finalists with links to samples of their respective strips:
- Belle Plaineby Eric Gapstur
- Büni by Ryan Pagelow
- CounterCulture by Kory Merritt
- Evil Twin by Alexander Matthews
- Girl by Dana Simpson
- Hemlock Heights by Todd Machen
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- Lil Witby Andrew Paavola
- Nutz n' Doltz by Michael Underhill
- Thatababy by Paul Trap
Important Note: The deadline for voting is Friday, November 6. For synopses of all finalists, creator bios, contest details and rules, plus videos from our judges, head on over to the contest page. Place your vote and let us know which strip should be the next big thing in comics!


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Strolling Through Siena: A City's Highlights and Baby-Friendly Rest Stops
Posted Jun 24th 2011 03:00 PMUpdated Jul 7th 2011 01:08 PM
Jerry Soverinsky, AOL Travel
Without the baby, I would have opted for a self-guided tour or even a group tour organized by the local tourist office, but today we went with a private guide. Knowing we needed to go at an unpredictable pace, Jana and I decided planning our own itinerary was the way to go.
We found our local guide through Motion Europe, an incoming European tour operator that I've worked with on dozens of group programs (Let's just say I have a nice looking rolodex after operating a European adventure travel company for 15 years.) While many people opt for the do-it-yourself internet or guidebook search, I've found it far more reassuring to partner with an agency that specializes in European destinations.
Expect to pay from €150 to €250 three-hour private tour. Sure it's a splurge, but because Siena is a fairly large city with a detailed history it was worth it to make this our one private tour for the month (separate from wine tours, of course, which are modestly priced.)
ME's advice has always been spot-on. And, in this case, I needed a guide sensitive to stroller-accessible Siena and who was comfortable with babies. They set me up with Bettina, a perfect choice – she even knew the most convenient diaper-changing spot in the Duomo (the restrooms near the 15th century frescoes).
Bettina was impossible not to love. Siena's steep, stone-laid streets are far from stroller-friendly, but, for three-and-a-half hours, she escorted us on a customized walk we never needed to carry our stroller up any steps. While that might seem like a minor consideration, take a 23-pound, 4-ounce baby, add an 11-pound stroller, plus 27 pounds of equipment and gear, and then throw in 50- and 60-step portages up 28-percent grade hills made of bumpy stone and trust me, you've got a hassle.
Speaking of strollers: We brought our rugged stroller from home. It's our largest piece of gear, taking up nearly half our rental's trunk space, but it's been an invaluable transport source for Max. Cheap strollers are not a good match for the uneven patchwork of stones and cobble that line much of medieval Europe's streets, and ours is a true workhorse.
The archetypical backpack didn't get left behind, though -- well, the baby backpack that is. Ours has been a welcome complement to our stroller, and Max switches frequently between the two throughout the day.
As for our experience in Siena, the tour was great, and Jana and I are planning to return next week for the practice round of Il Palio. This traditional (since 1644) horse race around the Piazza del Campo (main square) pits the town's contradas (wards) against one another. The actual race, July 2, will be far too crowded for us to get a view. And it probably wouldn't be the most bambino friendly environment, either.
This weekend marks the half-way point for our trip, and despite just a two-week time span, I'm noticing remarkable changes in Max. He's crawling, talking more, and exhibiting much better fine motor development (not to mention nearly flawless Italian grammar). These are subtle changes, to be sure, but I appreciate how fortunate I've been to spend uninterrupted time with him.
As I finish this, I'm looking over at him lying in his crib, his afternoon siesta nearly finished. We'll soon eat dinner (formula and strained squash for him, pasta for Jana and me) and head into town for espresso and gelato (our second of each for the day.)
Truly la dolce vita.
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schemia-induced paraplegia often combined with a qualitatively defined increase in muscle tone (i.e. spasticity and rigidity) is a serious complication associated with a temporary aortic cross-clamping ( a surgical procedure to repair an aortic aneurysm). In addition to spinal ischemic injury-induced spasticity and rigidity a significant population of patients with traumatic spinal injury develop a comparable qualitative deficit i.e. debilitating muscle spasticity. At present there are no effective treatment which would lead to a permanent amelioration of spasticity and rigidity and corresponding improvement in ambulatory function. In recent studies, by using rat model of spinal ischemic injury we have demonstrated that spinal transplantation of rat or human neurons leads to a clinically relevant improvement in motor function and correlates with a long term survival and maturation of grafted cells. More recently we have demonstrated a comparable maturation of human spinal precursors grafted spinally in immunosupressed minipig. In the proposed set of experiments we wish to characterize a therapeutical potential of human blastocyst-derived neuronal precursors when grafted into previously ischemia- injured rat or minipig spinal cord. Defining the potency of spinally grafted hESC-derived neuronal precursors in two in vivo models of spinal ischemic injury serves to delineate the differences and/or uniformity in the cell maturation when cells are transplanted in 2 different animals species and can provide an important data set for future implications of such a therapies in human patients.
Traumatic or ischemic spinal cord injury affect a significant number of people and in majority of cases can lead to a variable degree of motor dysfunction (such as paraparesis or paraplegia) and often combined with increased muscle tone (i.e. spasticity and rigidity). In contrast to other organ systems the central nervous system and spinal cord in particular has minimal or no neuron-regenerative capacity and therefore if a significant population of spinal cord neurons or fibers is lost the resulting deficit is permanent and irreversible. At present there is no effective therapy which would lead to a clinically relevant neurological improvement in patients with ischemia or trauma-induced paraplegia. Initial experimental data using paraplegic rats show that spinal grafting of rat or human neuronal precursors can provide a significant amelioration of spasticity and lead to improved ambulatory function. In the proposed set of experiments we wish to characterize a therapeutical potential of human blastocyst-derived neuronal precursors when grafted into previously ischemia- injured rat or minipig spinal cord. If proven effective such a treatment can potentially be used in patients with spinal ischemic paraplegia or in patients with other spinal injury-related dysfunction associated with a region-specific neuronal loss.
SYNOPSIS: Weakness, muscle atrophy, paraplegia and spasticity that results from spinal ischemia is a significant neurological complication of surgery. Previously work has suggested that injury associated with ischemic events involves largely inhibitory GABAergic interneurons. The investigator has limited data that suggest that engraftment of either rat or human spinal neuron precursors, in a spinal injury models, can lead to a significant functional improvement in these models. Furthermore, analysis has suggested that theses cells differentiate into GABAergic neurons and form inhibitory synaptic connections to local neurons. In this proposal, the investigators will use two models: a rat model and a mini pig model of spinal ischemic paraplegia to validate use of several human embryonic stem cell (hESC) lines in hopes of finding relevant engraftable cell based therapies. Overall the investigators will use a systematic approach of optimizing cellular delivery, timing, and volumes, and cell number.
IMPACT AND SIGNIFICANCE: During cross clamping of the thoracic aorta to repair aneurysms, the distal spinal cord is subjected to ischemic conditions with the potential for significant injury. Ischemic paraplegia is a significant complication of surgery, with no effective therapy. The lack of neuronal proliferation in the adult spinal cord after traumatic or ischemic injury indicates that cell replacement therapy is necessary for long-term therapeutic effects. These experiments should test the effectiveness of hESC derived neuronal progenitors in rodent and large preclinical models of ischemia induced paraplegia and lay a possible framework for translation into humans. The selective replacement of these inhibitory interneurons has the potential to alleviate this disabling condition and would be an important new strategy for helping repair the injured spinal cord.
QUALITY OF THE RESEARCH PLAN: This proposal is well thought-out and has the necessary expertise in place through long standing collaborations across two continents. The preclinical model systems are mature and are complementary being in two different species, one being a large animal. The experiments are feasible and focused to test specific questions as well as functional recovery. The experimental plan includes appropriate measures and quantification of differentiation as well as a limited attempt to track newly generated neurons- employing pre-labeling with viral tags. There are appropriate plans for monitoring histological outcome and functional outcome, with the ultimate plan of choosing the best cell line and conditions for evaluation in a mini pig model.
The experiments are logically described although tend to be dependent on the success of the first aim, specifically that at least one of the cell lines to be tested will differentiate into a significant number of inhibitory interneurons and be responsible for the functional improvements to be examined in the rat model. But in vitro data provided in Fig. 4 suggest that this can occur for either the H1 or H9 cell line (not clear which is shown in Fig. 4D-F) although whether the same number (70%) differentiate after being transplanted still needs to be determined.
STRENGTHS: The proposal addresses an important clinical problem for which treatment options are limited and for which a selective cell replacement therapy may be effective. The expertise of the applicant and the research team indicates that they will be able to complete all of the proposed studies. The applicant proposes an analysis of a number of existing hESC lines for the potential to differentiate into inhibitory interneurons following transplantation to the chronically injured spinal cord, a number of direct anatomical and functional assays to determine the efficacy of the transplant, and two well-defined animal models of ischemic paraplegia to assay long-term recovery and possible translation to the human condition.
The proposal presents an organized approach for deliver of different cell concentrations and injection time points. There is an extensive use of markers to identify outcomes for the use of multiple behavior outcome measures. Applicants have the techniques in place to assess the presence and degree of motor dysfunction and spasticity by using behavioral and quantitative electrophysiological tests, to obtain neuron-specific labeling with lentiviral reporter of neuronal precursors derived from hESCs and to distinguish human from rat or pig cells immunohistochemically. The applicants also have an immunosuppression protocol for both rat and pig such that the animals survive for at least 6 months (potential for teratomas will be followed for at least 6 months in the long term studies).
WEAKNESSES: The success of the last two aims is dependent on the successful completion of Aim 1. While some preliminary data is presented demonstrating that one of the cell lines to be tested can differentiate into inhibitory interneurons in vitro, it remains a possibility that none will effectively differentiate in vivo. If this is the case, it is not clear what alternative approaches the applicant will take. Furthermore, the proposal is somewhat redundant with previous published studies using other neuronal cell lines. Consequently, it is not particularly innovative.
Several technical weaknesses were noted. First, no control cells (sham or lysed) are proposed. Second, it's not clear that utilizing a viral neuronal marker will help extinguish the differentiation of these cells into astrocytes (i.e., it's likely that many of these cells will differentiations to astrocytes). Third, it's not clear that this approach would fare better than including aims with focused differentiation of these cells into GABAergic interneurons rather then using early progenitors.
This proposal requires an extensive amount of histology that the investigator does not seem to adequately have within their facility and is relying extensively on foreign collaborators. The ability of this proposal be adequately carried out in a timeline using foreign collaborators who are not being funded, seems to be questionable. Overall, at least 50% of this proposal needs to be done on foreign soil. The investigator has extensive experience with models of injury but has very limited true hands on experience with utilization of stem cells, in terms of engraftment studies or extensive histology, required to truly evaluate almost 50% of this study. This dramatically lowers confidence that this study can be completed in the planned timeline.
DISCUSSION: This proposal aims to generate appropriate cells, follow their outcome and look at their function once they are engrafted. There are two well-developed animal models proposed and the applicant proposes to check both functional and histological outcomes. This is a clean system for looking at repair of the spinal cord and the researchers have the required expertise. Ischemic paraplegia is an underappreciated problem which, unlike traumatic spinal cord injury, involves a specific loss of inhibitory interneurons. Concern was expressed that the PI needs to examine four cell lines to generate the inhibitory interneurons, but this is an elegant proposal nonetheless.


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Chicago, IL (SportsNetwork.com) - Second-ranked Michigan State held off No. 1
Kentucky 78-74 on Tuesday in the first game of the much-anticipated Champions
The game marked the first 1-2 matchup of Associated Press-ranked teams since
Feb. 23, 2008, when Memphis -- then coached by current Kentucky coach John
Calipari -- and Tennessee met.
Keith Appling had 22 points, eight assists and eight rebounds for the Spartans
(2-0), who improved to 4-19 all-time against teams ranked No. 1 in the AP Top
25. Gary Harris and Adreian Payne tallied 20 and 15 points, respectively.
Freshman Julius Randle recorded his third consecutive double-double with 27
points and 13 rebounds for the Wildcats (2-1), who entered the game 3-0 all-
time vs No. 2-ranked teams when ranked No. 1 in the nation. James Young
donated 19 points.
The second game of the Champions Classic pits No. 4 Duke against No. 5 Kansas.
Trailing 59-46 with 11 1/2 minutes to play, the Wildcats roared back with a
13-1 run. Randle tallied nine points during the surge that Andrew Harrison
capped with a layup to cut the gap to 60-59.
The turning point in the game occurred after Harrison and Randle both made two
free throws to deadlock the game at 66 with 4:48 to go. Appling's 3-pointer
broke the tie before Harris made a layup off a steal.
Michigan State was able to hold off Kentucky in the final two minutes.
Harrison made a pair of free throws and Randle added a short jumper around an
Appling turnover to get the Wildcats within 76-74 with 40.7 seconds left.
Branden Dawson's tip-in with 5.7 ticks remaining sealed the victory for
Michigan State.
The Spartans took advantage of Kentucky's slow start, jumping out to a 14-5
lead. During Michigan State's run to start the game, the Wildcats went just 1-
of-9 from the field and turned the ball over six times.
Holding a 26-17 margin, the Spartans went on an 8-2 spurt. Payne scored all
eight of Michigan State's points, including a 3-pointer with 4:39 left to make
it a 34-19 contest.
The Spartans took a 44-32 lead into the locker room. Michigan State shot 58.1
percent from the field over the first 20 minutes.
Randle, who had just four points in the first half, scored the first six
points of the second to get Kentucky within six.
But the Spartans responded with an 11-4 run to build a double-digit margin
again. Denzel Valentine capped the burst with a 3-pointer to make it 55-42
with 13:52 to play.
Despite the loss, Kentucky owns a 12-11 edge in the all-time series with
Michigan State. The two teams previously met in the Elite Eight of the 2005
NCAA Tournament ... Randle had eight of Kentucky's 17 turnovers ... The game
featured the earliest matchup between teams ranked No. 1 and No. 2 in the
history of the AP poll.
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Taste of Chicago
Taste of Chicago is the nation's premier outdoor food festival showcasing the diversity of Chicago's dining community. The delicious array of food served at Taste of Chicago is complemented by music and exciting activities for the entire family. Every summer since 1980, Chicago's beautiful Grant Park on the city's magnificent lakefront has been home to the world's largest food festival.
Festival of the Vine
Geneva's Festival of the Vine provides plenty of good wine, good food and good fun for the whole family! Taste wines from around the world. Sample mouth-watering specialties at our Flavor Fare. Find unique gifts at our incredible Fine Arts and Crafts show. The Festival of the Vine is a great fall getaway. We hope you can make it!
Kane County Flea Market - June 2016
Browse the wares of hundreds of dealers at the Kane County Flea Market in St. Charles, held the first weekend of each month (rain or shine) at the Kane County Fairgrounds.
CITY:St. Charles
Chicago Air and Water Show
This summertime favorite brings approximately two million people to the lakefront each year to witness the many feats that will be attempted and performed both in water and air. Civilian and military air crafts perform at soaring heights, while parachute teams and flying aerobatic acts entertain the audience below.
Boo! at the Zoo
Halloween fun awaits families at Brookfield Zoo's annual Boo! at the Zoo celebration. The popular daytime event, presented by Fisher-Price, features a Costume Parade, Costume Showcase, professional pumpkin-carving demonstrations, not-so-scary games and activities, special animal Zoo Chats, and haunted hayrides. For more information, visit www.CZS.org or call (708) 688-8000.
Chicago Blues Festival
Chicago Legend Buddy Guy will headline the 32nd Annual Chicago Blues Festival, the largest free blues festival in the world. During three days on five stages at Grant Park, more than 500,000 blues fans prove that Chicago is the "Blues Capital of the World." Past performers include Bonnie Raitt, Ray Charles, B.B. King, the late Bo Diddley, Buddy Guy and the late Koko Taylor.
Chicago Pride Fest
Get ready for a flamboyant, fun party in Boystown! Show your pride while enjoying an eclectic lineup of crafts, food and entertainment from some of Chicago's finest LGBT performers.
Kane County Flea Market/April 2017
Monthly Flea Market at the Kane County Fairgrounds. "The Best in the Midwest or Anywhere". Up to 1000 dealers display and sell antiques, collectibles & Fancy junque. Food served all day.
CITY:St. Charles
Northalsted Market Days
The 35th Annual Northhalsted Market Days® is coming to you live! Crowds from across the country will come together to celebrate the largest two-day street festival in the Midwest, right here on Halsted Street. Northalsted Market Days® is also famous for its vast array of unique vendors, from local arts and crafts to craft food and drink.
Swedish Days Festival
Come fest at one of the Best of the West, Swedish Days, Geneva's Midsommar Festival! The whole family will enjoy fabulous food, carnival rides, live music & entertainment nightly, plus Sweden Vast, our tent that's everything Swedish. Summer doesn't get any sweder than this!
Warrenville Holly Days
Holly Days, sponsored by the Warrenville Park District is the City's annual holiday celebration that marks Santa's official entry into Warrenville. Guests can enjoy a warm bonfire, raffles, free horse and carriage rides, hot cider and cookies, and, of course, a visit with Santa. Local Park District and school dance troops, singers, and bands entertain attendees during the event. It is at this event that Warrenville officially turns on its holiday lights creating an array of colors for passersby along Route 56 to see. Holly Days, primarily for Warrenville residents, gives the community an opportunity to come together and kick off the holiday season.
Retro Prom
Pick any decade and come ready to dance! Event fundraiser features: *King & Queen voting *Groove to the DJ mix *Raffles & Prizes *Finger foods & desserts from local restaurants *A Local Celebrity Lip Sync Battle General Ticket $75: includes open bar, appetizers & desserts and coat check.
Chicago 47th Annual Pride Parade
Celebrate Chicago's LGBT community at the annual Pride Parade, now in its 47th year! The parade will feature floats, decorated vehicles and marching groups representing organizations, groups, businesses, elected government officials and individuals. Be sure to arrive early to get a good spot!
Kane County Flea Market July 2016
Monthly flea market at the Kane County Fairgrounds. "The Best in the Midwest or Anywhere". Up to 1000 dealers display and sell antiques, collectibles & Fancy Junque. Food served all day.
CITY:St. Charles
2nd Annual Outdoor Sculpture Walk
Take a self-guided tour of public art from June 2 to September 2 as part of the 2nd annual Sculpture Walk in downtown Oak Park. The walk features 12 world-class sculptures prominently placed among Oak Park's many shops and restaurants.
CITY:Oak Park
Geneva Arts Fair
Express your originality with the artwork you discover at Geneva's nationally-acclaimed outdoor gallery of juried art. More than 140 artists will show their work; from drawing, painting and sculpture to ceramics, glass, textiles and jewelry. All art is available for sale. Come for the day or stay for the weekend. We hope to see you.
Walking Tour of Historic Riverside
The Frederick Law Olmsted Society is pleased to offer great opportunities to learn about our historic landmark village. Discover the winding roads, delightful parks, beautiful landscapes, varied architecture and much more!
Kane County Flea Market/Nov. 2017
Monthly flea market at the Kane County Fairgrounds. "The best in the midwest or Anywhere". Up to 1000 dealers display and sell antiques, collectibles & Fancy Junque. Food served all day,
CITY:St. Charles
Berwyn Cruise Nites in the Depot District
Head to the Depot District for the 9th Annual Cruise Nites presented by Berwyn Kia, Paisans Pizzeria & Bar, Mike & Sons Auto Services, Cicero Auto Parts, Deece Automotive! Cruise Nites take place on Tuesdays from 6-9pm in the Depot District at Windsor & Grove Avenues steps away from the Berwyn Metra Station. Enjoy your summe evenings while taking a stroll through a combination of car show and nightlife.
Uncorked Summer Nights
Experience the Oak Park Conservatory from a fresh perspective with Uncorked Summer Nights! Admission includes 2 drink tickets and appetizers. Also, included is showcase tours of the Fern, Tropical and Desert rooms. Enjoy music by the Grosso Family Band and art by Phil Malhiot. Appetizers provided by New Rose Catering and wine and craft beer by Marion Street Cheese Market.
CITY:Oak Park
Brewery Tour/Beer Tasting
Tour the Pollyanna Brewing Company brewery along the I&M Canal,enjoy our tap room,share the experience of fresh, flavorful, craft beer-locally in Lemont, Illinois. Pollyanna Brewing Company experiments with local fruits and spices, seasonal lagers, barrel-aging, wild yeast and bacteria, and cider-beers on occasion.
Art on Harrison
Seeking a way to announce the emerging Arts District, galleries and building owners in partnership with the Oak Park Arts Council inaugurated Art on Harrison in 1995. Conceived of as an informal Friday evening gallery walk, the event has continued each September since its inception, expanding to include entertainment and performances at participating galleries. Come out and see what the area has to offer in a convivial atmosphere, a celebration of what the creative spirits of this community have accomplished.
CITY:Oak Park
Kane County Flea Market - December 2016
Monthly flea market at the Kane County Fairgrounds. "The Best in the Midwest or Anywhere". Up to 1000 dealers display and sell antiques, collectibles & Fancy Junque. Food served all day.
CITY:St. Charles
Joliet Slammers Baseball Opening Night
Join the Joliet Slammers for affordable, family fun all summer long! Parking is free or you can take the train to beautiful Silver Cross Field located in downtown Joliet, IL. Special promotions for this event include Opening Night festivities and two dollar tickets ($2 Tuesday)! The Joliet Slammers are a professional baseball team based in Joliet, IL that play in the independent Frontier League. Home games are played at Silver Cross Field in Joliet. They are the 2011 Frontier League champions.