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Release: Parkinson's Biomarker Initiative Expands Study Of Genetics
NEW YORK, NY (February 25, 2014) — The Parkinson's Progression Markers Initiative (PPMI), a large-scale biomarker study sponsored by The Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research (MJFF), is expanding to study individuals with genetic mutations associated with Parkinson's disease (PD). Researchers hope that greater understanding of the biology and clinical features of these participants — people with or at risk to develop Parkinson's — will lead to therapeutics that would help all Parkinson's patients and ultimately provide strategies to prevent disease onset.
"Focusing on PD patients and those at risk for PD with genetic mutations will allow us to track the disease process at the earliest stages of illness," said Ken Marek, MD, principal investigator of PPMI and president and senior scientist at the Institute for Neurodegenerative Disorders in New Haven, Connecticut. "This population will teach us about the biology of Parkinson's disease and will accelerate our research toward a PD biomarker and more effective PD therapies."
Speeding Therapeutics Against Two Promising Targets
PPMI will enroll individuals with a mutation of the LRRK2 or SNCA gene. The LRRK2 protein kinase and the alpha-synuclein protein, encoded by the LRRK2 and SNCA genes respectively, are two of the greatest targets of interest in PD drug development. A mutation in the LRRK2 gene may heighten activity of the LRRK2 protein kinase, which modifies other proteins important in PD pathology. The normal function of alpha-synuclein is not yet known, but clumps of this protein found in the cells of all Parkinson's patients may be a cause of brain dysfunction.
The functional understanding of LRRK2, the ubiquity of alpha-synuclein aggregation and the genetic association of both make them foci of therapeutic programs at several pharmaceutical companies. However, missing from the development pipeline is a key tool to measure a drug's effect on disease; a biomarker would allow researchers to quickly and objectively measure a therapy's ability to slow, halt or reverse the Parkinson's process.
PPMI is studying clinical and imaging data and biological samples of people with a genetic mutation to identify biomarkers and speed clinical trials. In addition, when a drug targeting LRRK2 is ready for clinical testing, this study will have assembled a group of people with this mutation for participation in studies. Alpha-synuclein therapies can be tested in all Parkinson's patients, but individuals with the SNCA mutation present another population of interest to study the effects of candidate drugs.
PPMI will enroll 250 people with the LRRK2 mutation and Parkinson's and 250 people with the mutation but without Parkinson's. Since the SNCA mutation is rarer, the study is recruiting 50 people with Parkinson's and the mutation and 50 people with the SNCA mutation but without PD. These participants will be followed for five years.
By collecting data and samples over time from people who have not been diagnosed with the disease but who carry an associated genetic mutation, researchers can test for characteristics that may denote greater risk of disease onset or, conversely, protection from symptoms.
The genetics of Parkinson's is a relatively new area of study. Two decades ago, the disease was thought to have no genetic component. In 1997 researchers found that several families with a high prevalence of Parkinson's had mutations in the SNCA gene. That information ultimately led to the finding that all PD patients show cellular alpha-synuclein aggregation. By continuing the study of familial Parkinson's, researchers discovered the LRRK2 gene's correlation with PD in 2004. Scientists are still investigating the role of the LRRK2 kinase in Parkinson's disease.
Although known genetic mutations currently account for only five to 10 percent of all Parkinson's cases, study of these individuals may reveal disease traits that apply to all PD patients. The PPMI genetic cohort will expand understanding of the pathogenesis of both genetic and idiopathic Parkinson's disease.
Interested individuals can visit www.michaeljfox.org/ppmi/genetics. The LRRK2 mutation accounts for a greater number of PD cases among certain ethnic populations and families, notably the Ashkenazi (Eastern European) Jewish descent. PPMI is particularly interested in testing individuals with that background and with Parkinson's or with a relative with the disease. The LRRK2 mutation also accounts for more PD cases in people of North African Arab Berber or Basque descent. Study sites will recruit people with the rarer SNCA mutation through familial connections.
PPMI: The Search for Parkinson's Biomarkers
Biomarkers — such as cholesterol level for heart disease — are substances, processes or characteristics of the body that communicate disease risk, onset and/or progression. They aid in diagnosis and disease management and help researchers stratify for clinical trials and test new drugs quicker by measuring biological changes rather than waiting for clinical improvement. There are no validated biomarkers for Parkinson's disease, a reality researchers are hoping to change with PPMI.
Launched in 2010, PPMI is a longitudinal clinical study that collects standardized clinical, imaging and biologic data. Now taking place at 32 clinical sites around the world, the study completed initial enrollment of 423 recently diagnosed Parkinson's patients and 196 controls in April 2013. That month PPMI began recruiting individuals with the known Parkinson's risk factors of smell loss and REM sleep behavior disorder.
"We're studying multiple cohorts — Parkinson's patients, populations with genetic and other risk factors — in a sort of full-court press to find and validate these biomarkers. We hope this expanded study of people who carry PD genetic mutations will mean better therapies for people living with the disease today and for the many more who will soon be at risk as our population ages," said MJFF CEO Todd Sherer, PhD.
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I need to type up a small proposal and would like to do it bed watching tv, on my iPad. I have heard nothing good about apple products.ultimately I want it in a window format.what to do?free apps? Should I type it as an email then paste to open office?
The why did you buy an iPad? You must be reading publications from Microsoft! If is a small proposal that you are only going to do once, then emailing it to yourself is probably the easiest and cheapest way to go. OTOH, if this is something you plan to do on a regular basis, I might suggest you look into Apple's Pages app. Yes, it costs a whopping $9.99, but you can save documents in MS Word format.
excuse me to say that , in my eyes you look like an hater … nobody force you buy an iPad , if you are not satisfied you can give it back …. i use page and work like a charm every device have it's good & bad point , when i can live with the bad point i just don't buy or resell is no more complicated than this ...
OP was not hating, geeze guys. The question was what are some recommendations on apps that work with Word format?
The answer is: You can use google docs in your web browser on iPad, or you can use Apples Pages or Quickoffice and sync with any number of cloud based systems. There are any number of free and cheap apps that let you wordprocess. The less you pay is seems the less 'rich' the user experience is. One of my favorites is the Star Trek Captains Blog. Looks like you are typing in a Star Trek computer. You can store locally or email. I have another one mitypewriter, looks and sounds like your typing on an old typewriter. These are stupid but fun, that's why I use em. As I say I mostly use Quickoffice (the full version) I write a lot of articles and it is perfect for basic wordprocessing. Hope you continue to have fun with your iPad I use Quickoffice a lot. Apples Pages has more facility though.

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My husband and I came here for drinks on a couple of nights while staying in Cape May. It was nice to sit at the bar with a view of the ocean. Service was good and the prices were reasonable. I also had some appetizers and they were decent.
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在您离开之前与我们分享另一次体验。My husband and I came here for drinks on a couple of nights while staying in Cape May. It was nice to sit at the bar with a view of the ocean. Service was good and the prices were reasonable. I also had some appetizers and they were decent.
Visited often the summer of 2016. Great view of the ocean, friendly bartenders and great lunch. The soups are outstanding.
We were staying at Montreal Beach Resort so the first night we had abnormally good weather and decided to try Harry's which is located at the hotel. It's an indoor/outdoor restaurant located right on Beach Drive directly across from the ocean. It's really a great setting for a beach bar/restaurant. I'm sure that it can be quite loud at times,... 更多
We were looking for a place to have some drinks outside with a view of the ocean. This place seemed to be perfect. With a roof top open air bar and live entertainment it was a very nice atmosphere. All put together with a beautiful view of a full moon rising it made for a perfect night. Not highly impressed... 更多
This is a good place for lunch, dinner or drinks. Nice menu, good food and reasonably priced. Outside seating offered upstairs with live music during the day (in season).
Stopped by Harrys while staying at the new Icona; the location was excellent to see BOTH the Supermoon rising over the ocean to your left, and the Sun setting to your right! Service was excellent, and the recommended Brie was PHENOMENAL! Ambiance with the bar area open to the beautiful day/evening in October was exceptional!
We had breakfast here two days (had a room here) and loved it. Service was great, menu items were plentiful and varied, and food was delicious. Husband raved about the fluffly omelet. I appreciated the healthy option of whole grain bread with avocado and sunny side up egg - felt like I was at a California breakfast place! Also enjoyed... 更多
The food was delicious, the hostess was friendly, the waitress was excellent BUT our dining experience was ruined by the bartender. Every 5 or 6 minutes he tossed/crashed/smashed a glass bottle into some kind of container. It was absolutely unnerving and annoying as hell. Other customers were noticing it too. We sat about 20-25 feet from the bar. I told... 更多
Definitely recommend this place!! The crab Mac n cheese is awesome. I holy recommend the peanut butter bomb for dessert. I get French onion soup a lot and it was one of the best I've had here. Unfortunately, there was no moon to allow us a view of the ocean but I'm sure that would put it at 5 stars... 更多
This place has it all, great food, wonderful service and the ocean breeze. Menu options for every taste, large portions and average pricing.


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Great Push: The Battle of the Somme 1916 (Images of War) by William Langford
English | July 19, 2014 | ISBN: 1781590419 | 240 Pages | MOBI/EPUB/PDF | 186.74 MB
English | July 19, 2014 | ISBN: 1781590419 | 240 Pages | MOBI/EPUB/PDF | 186.74 MB
It was too good an opportunity to miss for many officers in the British Army when, in 1914 and 1915, they sailed across the Channel with the BEF - they took their cameras with them to record the historic events unfolding in Europe.
Soon photographs of British soldiers in the trenches began to appear in newspapers and magazines throughout this country. The War Office decided it had to be stopped - far too much information presented on a plate to the enemy.
Official cameramen - only - would take the images the nation thirsted for, thus control would be firmly with the authority conducting the war. Otherwise, illicit cameras were banned. This action coincided with the Allies' planned offensive against the German areas of occupation of France. In 1916, Sir Douglas Haig, commanding the BEF, began his great offensive to drive the invaders off the ground they had been occupying for over a year and a half. The 'Great Push' as the offensive was advertised to the nation, began 1 July 1916. A glossy picture magazine was produced to inform the British public of the progress of the offensive. Over a four months period until the Battle of the Somme faded away in November the magazine appeared with the following advertising blurb:
'Sir Douglas Haig's Great Push; The Battle of the Somme; A popular, pictorial and authoritative work on one of the Greatest Battles in History, illustrated by about 700 wonderful Official Photographs and Cinematograph Films; By Arrangement With the War Office; beautifully printed on the Best English Art Paper.'
As is well known, the Great Push turned out to be little more than a nudge, but, for the sake of national morale, the British public had to be encouraged to believe that all was going well, especially in view of the horrific casualties wrecking the lives of families throughout the land.
The Great Push, in the form of IMAGES of WAR, helps capture the propaganda thrust of the times and presents once more the illustrations of those bewildering days along with an ID number for easy reference.
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To lapse into the technical for just a moment…
On 'BROL a few days ago a fascinating discussion opened up on crank lengths… called (oddly enough) "Recumbent Crank Length Exploration". Good post, good questions, good answers including this contribution from "TrikerBob" of Chicago.
Robert created this dynamic model with a program called GeoGebra and it allows you vary the critical elements of the pedaling equation… crank-length, hip height, hip-to-crank, femur length, tibia length and ankle-to-spindle (as well as setting min and max on several critical angles). Wow! It is a work-in-progress but extremely useful in analyzing the variables at play here.
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BattleTech: The Crescent Hawks' Revenge is the sequel to BattleTech: The Crescent Hawk's Inception. It is the year 3029 during the Succession Wars; as the nineteen-year-old Mechwarrior Jason Youngblood of the Lyran Commonwealth (House Steiner), it is time to strike back at the treacherous forces of the Draconis Combine (House Kurita), who captured Jason's father in the original BattleTech, and whom he has sworn to rescue.Unlike its predecessor, the game inclines more towards RTS (real-time strategy) than role-playing gameplay style. The player will lead the forces of 31st Century BattleMechs (Warrior Robots) in a daring mission of rescue and revenge. The game consists of two parts - the storyline, which gives the player guidance and direction, and changes with the outcome of every decision made; and the scenarios, which are the arenas where the player watches his/her maneuvers unfold in real time. The game has digital speech and a technically advanced musical score.
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Along the way, we learn the noble but tragic fate of Gideon Braver Vandenburg, leader of the Blazing Aces mercenaries from MechWarrior: he died in his Phoenix Hawk, kicking Ghost Bear butt in a 5-on-1 fight.Inspiration
- The rule set was exactly patterned after the BattleTech board game created by Jordan K. Weisman and L. Ross Babcock III.
- The designer was inspired by the game mechanics from Brøderbund's The Ancient Art of War.
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This game is the first real-time strategy game Westwood ever developed. The format was tweaked and changed later in Dune II: The Building of a Dynasty and Command & ConquerReferences
Mechwarrior's last names in one campaign are famous horror directors and Infocom game writers in another.Information also contributed by Matt McLaine and Tony Van.
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The collapse of Italy's fragile coalition government appears to have moved a step closer with centre-left prime minister Enrico Letta warning Silvio Berlusconi's conservatives that he would not "blackmailed" as they try to prevent the criminal tycoon from being kicked out of parliament.
Following the mogul's definitive tax-fraud conviction earlier this month, a senate disciplinary committee, dominated by Berlusconi opponents, will meet in September to discuss his conviction. Under the "Severino law", they are obliged to vote for the three-time premier's expulsion from the Senate.
Leading members of Berlusconi's Pdl (People of Freedom) Party, including ministers in the coalition, say they will pull the rug from under the government if their leader is evicted. One such Pdl parliamentarian, the Deputy Prime Minister Angelino Alfano met with Mr Letta for three hours on Wednesday evening in an attempt to persuade Mr Letta to stop Berlusconi's expulsion. But after the meeting, Premier Letta said: "I don't accept blackmail or inadmissible ultimatums."
In an interview this morning, Michaela Biancofiore, a Pdl MP and junior minister in the current coalition, said that the government would fall were Berlusconi expelled form parliament as the law demands.
But leading figures in the Democratic Party (Pd), already ill at ease working with the right-wing Pdl, appear determined to block any compromise regarding Berlusconi's predicament.
The Pd minister and government whip Dario Franceschini said today: "Regarding the threats and the ultimatums, we only need to respond with a simple principle: do not barter legality and respect for the rules to prolong a government. Ever."
The Pdl's threat to pull the plug on the government comes amid first signs of a revival in Italy's recession-mired economy. As a result, the centre-right has been accused by some of holding Italy to ransom, just when it needs a period of stable government.
Political pundit James Walston of the American University of Rome said: "A collapse of the government now would be disastrous. I think they will try and find a fudge, a way out. by delaying the vote in the Senate."
Berlusconi, who is already facing a period of house arrest or community service for the tax fraud conviction, is thought to dread losing his Senate seat. Observers note that deprived of parliamentary protection, magistrates will find it much easier to arrest him for other crimes of which he is accused.
The new anti-corruption law that looks set to expel him from parliament was drafted by the leading criminal lawyer Paola Severino, in her role as justice minister in the previous Mario Monti government. Berlusconi supporters say it should not be applied retrospectively. But Ms Severino told La Repubblica newspaper this week that the legislation was clearly applied to crimes committed before it became law in December in 2012.
Berlusconi, in an interview with the conservative Catholic journal Tempi, attacked once again what he claimed was a left wing conspiracy against him. "They can't take away my right to speak in the public arena," he said. "They can't take away the right to remain the point of reference for millions of Italians as long as this is want Italians want."


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Not only do people not care what a doctor or hospital charges but they don't care how many times they use the insurance. Unlike car insurance, there is no penalty for for excessive usage or being sickly. But you'd have to admit that the system is running exactly the way the hospitals, doctors, and insurance companies want it run. Otherwise, they'd have the power to change it.
What I don't understand is why the insurance companies aren't screaming blood murder over paying $20,000 for a procedure that the hospital will accept $5,000 for. If the hospitals are overcharging the insurance companies to cover their deadbeat loses then it should be provable in black and white in a court of law. How can a contractor blatantly say, or be proven, that he's charging you more because the last customer stiffed him? Since when are prices on a menu determined by your gross annual income.


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Been using SUF for a month now and I really like it. One question I have, is there any place to configure class/race aliasing? Like Nelf instead of Night Elf, or Warr instead of Warrior? I can't make my frames wide enough to accommodate race/class display without compromising my UI, so I'd like the ability to add custom abbreviations...
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I just want to thank you for tweaking what was a great mod into a PERFECT mod. I think bbuffbars is, bar none (heh), the best bar mod since Cata came out. It's been a very well-kept secret, but I couldn't live without it. Your tweaks make it even BETTER, though. Many, many thanks to both you and the original author!
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Is there a way to find out on what server's auction house a particular item was posted? I'm seeking an extremely rare BOE green that hasn't been seen lately on any of my server's auction houses (it says Long Ago for all 3 on the website).
But, the Undermine tooltip information lists the Market Mean as 17k gold, which means it's b...
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I LOVE you. This program is perfect. I was tearing my hair out trying to convert a blp to a viewable format before I found this. Thank you so much!
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Installed it and promptly uninstall...
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Installed it and promptly uninstalled due to an error (I screencapped it):
Just thought you'd like to know since there are no comments yet. If you fix the bug, please reply to this comment and I'll try installing it again later. I'm actively looking for a good arena frames mod.
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Originally posted by Tellat
Ok first thing to do is to use a text editor like notepad on Win or TextEdit on Mac
Open mapster.lua
Then do a find/replace put this in the find field NUM_WORLDMAP_DETAIL_TILES
put this in the replace
and then tell notepad/textedit to replace all
save file and map...
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Originally posted by Fragglerock
This fix seems to work!
Please post what you changed and with what to replace it, exactly.
1) GetNumberOfDetailTiles() is not a function in Mapster.lua. Do we have to add a function somewhere?
2) I found two instances of the text "NUM_WORLDMAP_DETAIL_TILES" in Mapster.lua, but I don't know...
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I'm getting 5man diagonal groups occasionally, but only after I do a reloadui in an instance. Just making a comment about it because I don't feel like filling out a bug report. And it only happens if I reloadui in a dungeon, so I can avoid it.
Can't isolate the problem so meh. I figure someone will fix it eventually.
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Take your time, I appreciate that y...
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Take your time, I appreciate that you're looking into it!
I mean it, yours is the only buff mod that currently does exactly what I want and need it to do (display buffs as bars with text and time remaining, right-clickable in combat). I'm not going to complain about a few mildly inconvenient tweaks.
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I believe that this is THE ONLY ful...
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I believe that this is THE ONLY fully functional buff mod right now. It allows right clicking of buffs, even in combat; it functions right out of the box. You are amazing, thank you for releasing this. Such well-formed code too, no obfuscation. I've never edited lua for an addon before but your code makes it so easy to do! (obviously...
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changing targa textures
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This is the best tidyplates theme I've seen yet. I love the health display integration, particularly as a tank! (and as dps it assists in getting KBs for my warrior and priest, which are nice for triggering kb-procced abilities in PVE). My question is this:
I dislike the checkered texture on the nameplates and would prefer a nice...


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Saturday, September 15, 2012
What I Learned As An Author, by ATTMP author Monica M Brinkman
Seems so much has already been written about what it takes
to be a successful author so I am sharing a bit of what I have learned during
my journey.
Since 2007 when I
penned my first completely unnoticed book of poetry to the present where I am
nearing the completion of The Turn of the Karmic Wheels' sequel, The Wheel's
Final Turn, it has been a voyage of education.
You may believe writing a book is all about you. After all,
aren't you the person who toiled for long sometimes exasperating hours before your
computer, pouring your heart and soul into authoring your book? Shouldn't you
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written a great book would be famous.
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ability or means to invest in a marketing or promotion company will gain the
most exposure. Authors who can afford to
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those who have the luxury of writing full time will gain exposure as they are
not committed to working 40 hours a week and have more time to market their
books. Fair – perhaps not, but then who
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can with the time available and go forward.
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celebrity is in it for the wrong reasons. We authors write because we have a
story to tell. Yes, it would be wonderful if the entire world was able to enjoy
the tale, and perhaps that will happen one day, but it is not why I write. I've
learned I write to bring joy to myself, to release the characters that mull
inside my head, to gain satisfaction of a story well done and if I can bring
enjoyment to a reader that is an added pleasure.
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encompassing your mind, screaming to be written, and needing to be told.
When it comes down to it, I write for my personal enjoyment,
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promotion. I now look forward to each new friendship formed and dream of the
day I can look back and say I have helped someone else reach success and the
day one of my books has touched the heart of thousands of readers.
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Author, Monica M Brinkman believes the world needs less
greed and more humanitarianism. Her
novel, The Turn of the Karmic Wheel, reflects those beliefs. Look for the
sequel, The Wheels Final Turn to be released early 2013. Her latest effort is a
contributing author with her story, My Life As A Singing Telegram, as we take a
walk down memory lane in 25 Years In the Rearview Mirror: 52 Authors Look Back.
Monica is a member of the Missouri Writers Guild,
Vice-President of the Phelps County Historical Society, hosts the Thursday
night It Matters Radio Show and is a columnist for A Touch of Karma on
She resides in the Midwest with her husband Richard, two
dogs and five cats.
To view or purchase 'The Turn of the Karmic Wheel'
Visit: Amazon.com
Visit her websites: A Touch of Karma
It Matters Radio @ It Matters
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Posted: 18 Mar 2013, 14:24
Remember that doing 20 push-ups in a day is not a failure. The idea is to do as many as you can so 5 push-ups at a time 5 times per day is great. The only failures are not doing it at all.
At the same time if 100 per day is easy for you bump your personal goal up to 150 or 200. The idea is to make these habits.
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Posted: 20 Mar 2013, 14:54
Additionally, if you aren't a fan of crunches (as I am not, I think they put a lot of stress on your back, spine, neck, etc.) ... we can substitute something like the UNC Medicine Ball Workout or other ab activity, yes? That's like 200 reps of ab rotations with a medicine ball in various ways that not only works the abs but works the whole body too, and can also top off the lunge challenge since some of the moves are squat/lunge type exercises.
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Posted: 20 Mar 2013, 17:27
Any ab workout will be fine. The idea is to perform the reps. I use a stability ball "Yoga Ball" to do my crunches. Much easier on the back and it helps isolate your abs.
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Posted: 21 Mar 2013, 10:21
I did 25 pushups in a row! Then.. I keeled over. But.. I did 25 pushups in a row! I know it hasn't started yet but I had to see how many I could actually do.
They weren't pansy pushups either or assisted pushups where you lean on a desk.. they were honest to pete pushups.
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Posted: 21 Mar 2013, 10:51
Pickles!!!! 25 reps in one set is awesome!!!! In fact most guys I know keel over after 20!!!!
On a side note I finally got to use "pickles!!!!!" Keep it up. I actually started 2 days ago. I am running 4 sets of 50 throughout the day. Only doing 4 sets of 30 crunches on my stability ball. Haven't started the lunges yet. I hate those things. If I can get my diet right I may see my abs by summer.
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Posted: 21 Mar 2013, 11:04
Because I'm still heavy, could I use my stairs to assist in a push up? Iusually use them for tthat purpose instead of a push up on hands and knees, feel more of a burn that way.
Current Weight-231lbs.
Mini Goal #1-215lbs.
Mini Goal #2-199lbs.
Goal Weight-180lbs.
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Posted: 21 Mar 2013, 11:09
You can use any method that works for you. If you feel a burn it is working. If your method seems too easy then increase your reps. The idea here is to make this a normal routine. Stick with it and you will see results withing the 4 weeks.
Remember the only failure in this challenge is not doing it at all.
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Posted: 21 Mar 2013, 11:34
Awesome, thanks Rhodes.
Current Weight-231lbs.
Mini Goal #1-215lbs.
Mini Goal #2-199lbs.
Goal Weight-180lbs.
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Posted: 21 Mar 2013, 19:48
I do pushups every other day. Today I did 25 regular (guy) pushups, 10 decline from 2 different angles each, 3 diamond pushups, and 3 partial handstand pushups with my toes supporting me. I guess I'll do more on pushup day. My goal is to do 100 on my 58th birthday in May.
I think maybe I'll build up to doing 100 hanging leg raises on pullup day. No real pullups or chinups yet, but I am getting closer.
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Posted: 23 Mar 2013, 09:47
Thank you for this post. I did 100 crunches, but I could only do 25 (girl) pushups.
I plan to be doing 100 by the end of the challenge
Thanks for the helpful comment.
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Posted: 23 Mar 2013, 11:15
Remember that this does not mean you have to do 100 pushups at one time. Spread them out throughout the day. 10 20 or 30 at a time. Whatever works best for you.
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Posted: 23 Mar 2013, 14:47
This challenge is reminding me how out of shape I am, but by the end of it, I should be in pretty decent shape. No pain, no gain!
"I have been up against tough competition all my life.
I wouldn't know how to get along without it."
Walt Disney
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Posted: 25 Mar 2013, 07:32
I actually knocked this out before I left the house for work this morning. My goal today is to double it.
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I Turned Thirteen
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The day I turned thirteen I got to help Mom out in a way I had only dreamed about.
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I Turned Thirteen
My name is Claudette and I always thought that I was an ordinary typical teenage girl. I was pretty and the boys liked me. I had nice clothes, good friends, and I went places with my parents. I even did well in school. My life was perfect…or so I thought.
The night before my thirteenth birthday Mom tucked me in and kissed me goodnight as she had done since I was a baby. Then she said, "When you wake up in the morning things will be different. You will become a woman. Your two brothers will come in here and relieve themselves sexually with your body. Later your father will too. I have had to endure all three of them for several years now so now it is your turn."
Panic set in and I asked, "What are you talking about? Sex? With my own brothers!"
Mom laughed and said, "Yes Claudette, that is exactly what I'm talking about. You are thirteen now and a woman. So it is going to be your job to spread your legs for them whenever they want you. At first they will try to fuck you to death but then they will settle down to two or three times a day."
I asked, "You said that you have had to endure them for several years."
Mom said, "Come on Claudette. Can you be so innocent that you never noticed that the boys would take me into their bedrooms several times a day?"
I replied, "I guess so but I never knew what you were doing in there with them."
Mom just laughed at me and said, "Oh my God, you really are that innocent. Well young lady you are in for one hell of a day tomorrow. Your two brothers and your father are planning on fucking your brains out. It will probably hurt the first few times, your pussy will be sore, and you will beg them to stop. Nothing will work. Those three have been waiting to get their cocks in you ever since you started developing. I've had to keep them off you until now. Now you will do your duty. Get some sleep you'll need it. By the way I highly recommend that you start sleeping in the nude and if I were you, I wouldn't bother to get dressed for a few days either."
I suddenly realized something and said, "Jill is supposed to spend the night on Saturday."
Mom said, "You can call her tomorrow and tell her that your plans have changed."
I asked, "What should I tell her?"
Mom Laughed and patted my pussy through the blankets and said, "Tell her the truth. That you are now your brother's fuck toy."
I replied, "I can't tell her that."
Mom said, "Well in two months when Jill turns thirteen you two will have plenty to talk about."
After Mom had left, I thought about what she had said. Jill was two months younger than I was and she had three older brothers.
As I lay there thinking about tomorrow, I got excited and I slipped my finger into my pussy. I had been masturbating for a couple of years now but my pussy was wetter than I could remember it being. I started stroking my clit, I massaged my breast, and I rolled my nipple between my fingers. I had wondered what it would be like to have a nice stiff cock shoved up my pussy. In the morning I would find out.
I was sleeping soundly when all of a sudden I felt a stinging sensation between my legs. My eyes flew open and there was my brother Randy lying on top of me fucking me. At first I was shocked but the pain was over before I even knew it. Then I realized how good it felt. I knew right then that I would like sex. I felt him slipping in and then I felt him cum in me too.
As soon as Randy got off from me my older brother Jacob climbed in bed with me. Randy was fifteen and Jacob was sixteen. It was clear that Jacob knew more about pleasing me that Randy did.
Jacob kissed me first and said, "Good morning Sexy." That was what he always called me. Then he asked, "Can I fuck you. I need too really badly."
Of course I said, "Yes, any time."
He kissed me again and slipped his cock into my wet pussy. He said, "I like sloppy seconds."
I knew what that meant and replied, "I like the way your cock feels inside me."
He just proceeded to fuck into me for a much longer time than Randy had. It felt much better and I even had an orgasm before he did. He seemed to like the fact that I came first. He even laid next to me for a while and we cuddled.
Randy said, "Hey Sexy, that was great. I'm really going to enjoy fucking you. Dad wants a turn too so I had better leave now."
Dad must have been waiting out in the hall because he came right in, looked at me, and dropped his robe. I saw that monster between his legs and closed mine. Dad just pulled my knees apart and shoved his cock into me. It was a good thing that I had been stretched and lubricated by both of my brothers first. Dad never said a word, he just thrust into me until he came, and then he left.
I put on my robe, used the toilet, and then I went down to breakfast.
Mom asked, "So how was it."
We were all seated at the table so I hesitated to tell her. Mom coaxed it out of me so I said, "Randy was too quick and self centered, Jacob was really nice and made me have an orgasm, and then Dad just came in, fucked me, and left. He made me feel like a piece of meat."
Mom smiled and said, "Welcome to my world. I've tried to teach Randy to respect women but he doesn't have to as long as his father treats us like a piece of meat. Jacob is a pleasure to be with and he will make some girl very happy."
Randy said, "Keep eating Claudette, I want to fuck you again."
I turned toward him and said, "I might have to let you fuck me but I'm not going to be your sex toy. I'm a girl and I want you to start asking me nicely, that goes for you too Dad."
Mom smirked, Dad glared at me, and then he said, "Randy treat your sister nicer and she'll let you fuck her more often."
Randy said, "I didn't have to be nice to Mom."
Dad said, "Randy, Maybe you should have. Maybe I should have too. Maybe Jacob could teach us both a lesson."
I made Randy wait until I had finished eating and then I asked Mom if she needed help with the dishes.
She looked at Randy, giggled, and said, "No! But thank you for offering." There was a pause and then Mom said, "Send him back down when he is finished with you."
I giggled and replied, "That shouldn't take long."
Sure enough once we were inside my bedroom, Randy threw me down, pulled my robe open, and thrust his cock inside me. He fucked me violently…well as violently as he could that is.
I laughed at him and said, "Randy, you can't hurt me with that little thing. You might have gotten my virginity but Jacob showed me how nice a cock could feel. Then Dad reamed me out good with his. It's a wonder that I can even feel you inside me."
Then he pulled his cock out, slapped my face, and left without ever cumming.
I walked downstairs naked and let them all see the red handprint on my face. Then I said, "Maybe you can make me let him fuck me…but I don't have to take that crap. If he does it again, I'm crossing my legs and calling the police."
Dad looked at me as if I had shot him and said, "There will be no need for talk like that young lady. I'll see to it that he never hits you again." He drew his attention to Randy and said, "Start jerking off because your sister and your mother are off limits to you for a whole week. Maybe that'll teach you a lesson."
Mom smiled at me.
That night Mom came into my bedroom to kiss me goodnight and to tuck me in. She asked, "So how was your first day?"
I kissed her back, hugged her tightly, and said, "I love it. I love the feel of a cock inside me. I like the way Randy is forceful with me…but don't tell him that. Jacob made love to me three times and Dad said thank you when he finished tonight."
Mom said, "I am so glad that you enjoy it. Some girls don't."
I asked, "Can Jill sleep over this Saturday? I'll let Jacob and Dad fuck me whenever they want too. Please."
Mom said, "You won't mind that she finds out that you are letting your brothers and father fuck you?"
I laughed and said, "Not at all. Actually it was her idea. I tried to call it off but she all ready knew what I was doing. Her mother told her that it was my time and that on her birthday Jill would be doing the same thing. The best part is that we will let the other's brothers fuck us too. That way no one gets shut off during our periods."
Mom smiled and said, "That's what Jill's mother told me a little while ago, when I called her. You girls really have your acts together. Goodnight."
The next day was Saturday and Jacob woke me up with a kiss. We made love and then he took me into the shower with him. I gave him my first blowjob and he ate my pussy. It was cool. He just picked me up, upside down, and put his tongue in my pussy. I just opened my mouth and his cock entered. The whole time I was bathed with nice warm water.
Jill came over early and watched Jacob fuck me again. We both liked having an audience. Jill got naked too and he saw what he could expect in a couple of months. Jill had tiny titties but she made up for it with a nice big ass.
Jacob said, "The better the cushion, the better the pushing."
We all laughed.
When Dad fucked me he sent Jill out of the room. He said that he wasn't an exhibitionist. He was glad that I was though. He liked seeing Jill naked too.
That night we did something that we had discussed often. We made love to each other. I tasted my first pussy and Jill tasted Dad's cum in me mixed with a little from Jacob.
When Mom came in to wish us a goodnight she saw us in a sixty-nine but waited until we were done. Then Mom French kissed us both to taste us and then she licked each of our pussies to get an even better taste of us.
Mom said, "Jill, you taste just as good as your mother does."
That did it…we three girls stayed up till midnight licking one another.
In the morning Jacob got in bed between Jill and I. He felt us both but he only fucked me. Breaking Jill in was her brother's job. He didn't want to blow a good thing.
After church Jacob invited Jill's three brothers over for a taste of me. They were excited because they thought that they would have to wait until they could give Jill to my brothers.
Those four boys took turns teaching me everything that they had learned about sex. I was amazed. They fucked my pussy, they fucked my mouth, and they even fucked my asshole. They took me one at a time, two at once, and then tree at a time. I had a cock in every hole plus one in my hand getting ready.
That night when Mom came in to say goodnight I told her all about our orgy, our gangbang, our fuck party.
She said, "So you like being thirteen…don't you?"
All I could say was, "I love every inch of it."
The End
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Emmy Rossum ("The Day After Tomorrow"), Zach Gilford (TV's "Friday Night Lights") and Ashley Springer ("Teeth") head up a stellar cast including Ana Gasteyer ("Mean Girls"), Rooney Mara ("A Nightmare on Elm Street"), comedienne Sandra Bernhard (TV's "Roseanne") and Alan Cumming ("X2:X-Men United") in this captivating story of high school seniors at the crossroads of their adult lives. When a pompous actor tells good girl Alexa (Rossum) that she hasn't lived, she embarks on a bold journey that takes her to mysterious bad boy Johnny (Gilford). Envious, her shy best friend Ben (Springer) also dares to pursue Johnny, complicating Alexa's romance and pushing the boundaries among the three friends.


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Malaria, which is transmitted by mosquitoes, remains one of the greatest threats to global health, infecting more people than ever before. Understanding how the risk of catching a mosquito-borne infection varies depending on the environment is an important step in planning and implementing effective control measures. The rate at which humans become infected is determined by how often they are bitten by mosquitoes and the proportion of mosquitoes that are infectious. It is often assumed that if the percentage of infectious mosquitoes increases, so will the rate at which humans get bitten. But in a new study published in the open access journal PLoS Biology, David Smith, Jonathan Dushoff, and F. Ellis McKenzie challenge this assumption. Using a mathematical model, the authors show that the rate at which humans are bitten and the proportion of infectious mosquitoes peak at different times and places, revealing that the standard metric of estimating the risk of infection -- the average number of times an infectious mosquito bites a person per day -- is flawed.
The distribution of humans and suitable habitat for mosquito larvae varies across the landscape. And the density of mosquito populations varies seasonally, rising and falling with changes in rainfall, temperature, and humidity. Temporal and spatial variations in mosquito populations affect the rate humans get bitten, the number of infectious mosquitoes, and the risk of infection. The mathematical model that Smith and colleagues developed predicts that human biting rate is highest shortly after mosquito population density peaks, typically either near breeding sites or where human density is highest. The proportion of infectious mosquitoes, on the other hand, reflects the age of the mosquito population: it peaks where older mosquitoes are found--farther from breeding sites--and when populations are declining. The combination of these factors results in, for example, the surprising prediction that the risk of infection can be lowest just outside an edge of town.
By mapping larval habitats against the local risk of mosquito-borne infections, Smith and colleagues conclude, epidemiological models can be developed to predict risk for local populations. Their results make the case that mathematical models can help public health officials calculate risk of infectious diseases in heterogeneous environments--that is, real world conditions--when vector ecology and the parameters of transmission are well characterized. Any plan to prevent and control the spread of mosquito-born infections would clearly benefit from paying attention to mosquito demography and behavior.
Citation: Smith DL, Dushoff J, McKenzie FE (2004) The risk of a mosquito-borne infection in a heterogeneous environment. PLoS Biol 2 (11): e368.
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The broadcaster ITV yesterday sought to draw a line under the rapidly rising cost to its underfunded final salary pension scheme of people living longer by paying Credit Suisse to take on the risk.
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The deal will in effect add £50m to the £2.2bn ITV pension scheme's funding shortfall of £312m. However, ITV will make this up by extending an arrangement where revenues from its digital subsidiary SDN are paid into the pension scheme.
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Commentary, information and resources related to green manufacturing, sustainable manufacturing and sustainability in the US and abroad. Based on information from a variety of sources (web to print) and including technical information from researchers in the field as well as researchers at the University of California in the Laboratory for Manufacturing and Sustainability (LMAS - lmas.berkeley.edu).
Sunday, November 27, 2011
Tools of the trade, Part 3
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We continue our discussion of the the OECD (Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development) Sustainable Manufacturing Toolkit and related items. In case you've missed the past two posting you can find details on the toolkit in and on line Start-up Guide.
Last time we looked at the seven defined steps from priority setting to performance indicators and normalization factors - factors that relate the level of performance to the individual product (piece, weight, volume) or to sales volume, etc. These factors could be based on production quantities in number, sales volume, hours worked, levels of service provided ("over one billion hamburgers served"!) or product lifetime.
The tool kit also discusses how to prioritize areas of improvement that can be focused on. One can use a degree of impact to assist with prioritization. For example, improving air quality may result in a significant environmental impact as well as business related impacts. "High" impact for the environment is defined as resulting in "significant damage or enhancement to the general environment" and likely to be "of great concern to stakeholders." This level of impact for the business side of the equation is defined a having "significant ramifications for business and reputation with potential for substantial losses or gains."
Medium impact is a lesser - moderate - view of above and low impact is minimal damage or enhancement of environment and ramifications for business and reputation.
One interesting visualization approach suggested is the "priority matrix" for showing, graphically, the positive or negative impacts in terms of key performance indicators. The matrix shows the relative impact in terms of both environmental and business effects/results. On the environmental impact axis contributors include: energy efficiency, air and water quality, use of toxic materials, use of renewable materials, greenhouse gas emissions and product impact. On the business axis contributors include: sales, cost, licence to operate, disruptions to operation and reputation/brand.
The illustration below, from OECD, shows the bands of high priority issues (dark) to low priority issues (light) in this matrix with a data point for each impact or, I assume, interaction between business and environment.
The impacts with the highest potential for improvement/damage are the first priority.
This type of visualization has been proposed by others as well and can be a powerful illustrative tool for showing present circumstances (in terms of environmental or business conditions) as well as plotting changes.
An excellent example of this is the Siemens "Eco-care Matrix". The eco-care matrix has along the x-axis the business or customer benefit and along the y-axis the environmental benefit. A presentation by the head of Siemens Industry Solutions Division last year explained that the concept is to allow the assessment of the environmentally compatibility and cost effectiveness of anything from a single product to a complete industrial system or plant. The figure below, from Siemens, illustrates the concept.
The reference dot in the center describes the environmental performance and economical customer benefit of one or more green solutions compared to a defined reference solution (usually an existing product of system.) The environmental performance is measured using typical life cycle analysis (LCA) outputs and, for example, can use the results of a LCA tool such as GaBi. The reference point, according to a published paper by Wegener (see reference below) is based on a system or product that "should deliver nearly the same function or service to the customer as the considered green solution. Only if both product systems under examination have the same function using of course different process technologies and product designs, their environmental impacts can be related to
the same functional unit."
The "new solution" is plotted on the matrix compared to the reference. Only if the trajectory improves both environmental and business benefits is the solution considered an overall improvement.
The economic benefit is determined using standard business accounting practices comparing the costs/benefits of the two alternatives.
For a detailed discussion of this approach, including an example and references, see the paper titled "Improving Energy Efficiency in Industrial Solutions - Walk the Talk" by Dieter Wegener et al from the Riso International Energy Conference in 2011.
A basic example is shown in a web posting from Siemens for a type of gearless AC motors used in dragline excavators — vehicles that pull a bucket freely suspended on a boom across earth or rocks in order to extract materials in large scale mining operations. The high efficiency of these motors makes the excavator 22 percent more environmentally compatible than the DC motor that serves as the reference, while reducing electricity costs by 22 percent.
Reading through the Siemens Eco-care Matrix methodology one can't help but notice strong similarities to the OECD toolkit approach. Concerns are on prioritization, normalization and the use of standardized metrics in the analysis to yield a realistic basis for decision making.
The OECD Toolkit also offers a number of case studies applying the methodology.
A logical process based on measurable impacts/performance related to realistic business outcomes and aided by a methodology for prioritization and progress tracking - all form a solid methodology for greening manufacturing.
Finally, I am participating in an Autodesk sponsored GreenBiz webinar on "Design Technology as a Sustainability Strategy for Manufacturers" on December 13th 2011 at 1PM EST. I will be joined in this webcast by Patrick Coulter, Chief Operating Officer, Granta Design, and Sarah Krasley, Product Manager, Sustainability, Autodesk. Joel Makower, Executive Editor at GreenBiz Group, will moderate the panel. You can find more info, and register for this free event, at the following GreenBiz link. Hope to "see" you there!
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