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An Inflammatory Story in Type 2 Diabetes
Drs. Steven Shoelson and Jongsoon Lee are broadening their studies of how the anti-inflammatory drug salsalate achieves its positive results.
For most scientists, discoveries in the lab do not translate directly into medical uses. But for the Joslin researchers investigating inflammation as a troublemaker in type 2 diabetes, the road to the clinic has run smoothly so far. Unexpected plot twists are popping up, however, in their search for the drug's elusive underlying molecular mechanisms.
Ten years ago, Steven Shoelson, M.D., Ph.D., and his co-authors reported that salicylates, a family of anti-inflammatory agents that includes aspirin, could boost insulin sensitivity, lower blood glucose levels and even reduce blood lipids in rodents. The drug seemed to work by blocking a specific lowgrade inflammatory pathway activated by weight gain and obesity. The paper provided a plausible way that obesity promoted insulin resistance—and suggested a way to intervene.
The findings set the stage for tests in people of a stomach-sparing formulation called salsalate, an inexpensive generic drug widely prescribed for rheumatoid arthritis joint pain. The multi-center clinical trial was co-headed by Dr. Shoelson and Allison Goldfine, M.D.
Positive results from the first stage of this trial were reported in 2010. There are also two large ongoing trials of salsalate—one to further confirm treatment of type 2 diabetes and another for cardiovascular disease, specifically to alter plaque built up in blood vessels and to prevent heart attacks. Results of the diabetes trial are expected in late 2011. Those for the heart disease trial will follow by several years.
That gives the salicylate family the strange honor of being among the oldest and newest experimental remedies for type 2 diabetes and for one of its major complications, since scattered reports of its usefulness date back to 1876.
"The clinical path has been unusually straightforward," Dr. Shoelson says. "The surprise is its efficacy. But trying to figure out exactly how it works has been a challenge."
Drawing out details for the fat attack
The original inflammation hypothesis was launched nearly 20 years ago by an observation from a neighboring lab at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute that fat tissue in obese mice releases an inflammatory substance. This bumps up insulin resistance in the liver and muscle and cuts back insulin secretion from the pancreas—all big steps on the road to type 2 diabetes.
The connection was strengthened by epidemiological studies showing other inflammatory substances in the blood of people with insulin resistance or type 2 diabetes. Then came the paper by Dr. Shoelson and his colleagues identifying a pro-inflammatory molecular target that prompted and sustained a vicious cycle of fat-induced insulin resistance. Suddenly, white fat took on a new and nastier identity, morphing from an unsightly storage depot to a dispenser of disease-promoting proteins.
The plot thickened when other scientists discovered immune cells known as macrophages lurking amid fat cells in obese animals and people, and identified them as the source of several of the pro-inflammatory substances previously attributed solely to fat. In the last few years, scientists have found almost every type of immune cell tucked among over-nourished fat cells and contributing to the potent mix. Macrophages remain the centerpiece in the type 2 diabetes story.
Fat-friendly inflammatory macrophages do increase with obesity, but Dr. Shoelson and collaborator Jongsoon Lee, Ph.D., believe the biology is much more complex and systemic. "We are working on how different immune cells are involved in the induction of inflammation by obesity and eventually how they regulate insulin resistance in obesity," Dr. Lee says.
Teaming up with the lab of Harvard Medical School's Diane Mathis, Ph.D., the Joslin colleagues discovered that abdominal fat in lean rodents held T regulatory cells ("Tregs," known as the guardians of the immune system) with a distinctive molecular signature. Further study showed that in obese rodents and people, these lean-fat–specific Treg cells dwindled while destructive macrophages piled in. But in obese mice, salsalate seems to prevent this switch.
The immunological framework holds promise for revealing how obesity correlates not just with type 2 diabetes but with Alzheimer's disease, asthma and certain cancers. "Obesity seems to affect the immune system everywhere," Dr. Shoelson says.
Stress testing
However, as Dr. Shoelson and his colleagues probe the molecular and cellular diorama of salicylate activity in mice and people, unexpected anomalies have cropped up: Their recent comprehensive evaluation showed that inflammatory pathways don't account for all of the salicylate effects.
The scientists knew that plants make salicylate in response to bacteria, fungi, extreme temperatures, drought and other stresses. Could salicylate also activate a stress response in people?
To find answers, Drs. Shoelson and Lee are teaming up with Joslin's T. Keith Blackwell, Ph.D., who works in C. elegans, a tiny worm that serves as a fundamental biological discovery tool. In early work in both worm and mammalian cells, Dr. Blackwell says, "we see that salicylate acts on a stress defense mechanism that may be critical for its anti-inflammatory function and effects on insulin resistance."
"Salicylate is doing something important and quite wonderful," Shoelson sums up. "It reduces levels of chronic inflammation, and thus suppresses the collateral damage caused by that inflammation. And at the same time salicyate protects against a variety of cellular stresses."
"For us to make the next leap, we need to figure out how the inflammation and stress response pathways are interrelated and regulated," he says. "The clues are there, we just need to be a bit smarter."
In these fat tissues from lean and obese mice, green indicates lipids and red shows immune system cells known as macrophages.
Greater inflammation in obese mice (right) is illustrated by the way in which fat cells are selectively surrounded by macrophages. Images: Hyuek Jong Lee, Ph.D.
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When we were given the assignment to do a tribute to comedy creator Judd Apatow, It was hard to pick a favorite movie/show/characters so I decided to create a somewhat of a medley in An homage to "The Gossips" (http://bit.ly/TvPTQy) by the American artist Norman Rockwell. As an artist who defined the american landscape of his time, Apatow did with how he shaped the comedic landscape today. Below is the full piece and some closer previews. 20 limited edition Giclee prints will be available at Gallery 1988 GET IT NOW
Artist Notes: This was quite the intense piece since it involved 30 seperate portraits (2 of the person) and what was hard was picking and choosing who would be included and who not. Maybe someday I'll make a EXTENDED version adding others of my fav members of Team Apatow: Jay Barachul, Martin Starr etc.


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England number eight Billy Vunipola has been ruled out of the remainder of the RBS 6 Nations with an ankle injury.
Vunipola limped off in the second half of Saturday's 13-10 victory over Ireland and will now miss the final two games against Wales and Italy.
"It's a blow as Billy has had a good Six Nations but he is young and will be back," head coach Stuart Lancaster said.
Vunipola sprained his right ankle at Twickenham and a scan on Monday afternoon revealed the extent of the ligament damage.
It is not known how much more of the season the Saracens back row will miss.
Ben Morgan replaced Vunipola against Ireland and will be promoted to the starting line-up for the visit of Wales on Sunday week.
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Solar Impulse completed its journey across America using solely solar energy. This achievement was made on the occasion of the Across America Mission which aimed at flying Solar Impulse from the West to the East coast of USA in 5 legs without using fuel.
The Mission was completed yesterday when André Borschberg (right in the picture) landed in New York John F. Kennedy International Airport after a 18h23 min flight from Washington Dulles. The landing happened 3 hours earlier than planned because of a rip in the fabric on the lower side of the left wing.
"This last leg was especially difficult due to the damage of the fabric on the left wing. It obliged the team to envisage all the possible scenarios, including bailing out over the Atlantic. But this type of problem is inherent to every experimental endeavour. In the end, this didn't prevent us from succeeding in our Across America mission and provided an invaluable learning experience in preparation for the round-the-world tour in 2015," said Borschberg shortly after landing,
André Borschberg was welcomed at New York by city authorities and also Bertrand Piccard (left in the picture), co-founder with Borschberg of the Solar Impulse project.
"Flying coast-to-coast has always been a mythical milestone full of challenges for aviation pioneers. During this journey, we had to find solutions for a lot of unforeseen situations, which obliged us to develop new skills and strategies. In doing so, we also pushed the boundaries of clean technologies and renewable energies to unprecedented levels," said Piccard.
The FAI has received three preliminary world record claims for Distance along a course, pre-declared waypoints (1487.6 km), Free Distance (1506.5 km) and Straight distance, pre-declared waypoints (1386.5 km) following Solar Impulse's flight from Phoenix to Dallas.
Pilot: André Borschberg, Co-founder and CEO
Take -off time: July 6, 2013 04:46 AM EDT (UTC-4)
Time of landing: July 6, 2013 11:09 PM EDT (UTC-4)
Flight duration: 18h 23min
Average ground speed: 27km/h (15 kts)
Highest altitude reached: 3110 m (10 200 ft)
Flight Distance: 495 km (~267 NM)
3 May 2013: First leg San Francisco/Moffett Airfield – Phoenix/Sky Harbor
22 May 2013: Second leg Phoenix/Sky Harbor – Dallas/Fort Worth
3 June 2013: Third leg Dallas/Fort Worth – St. Louis/Lambert Airport
14 June 2013: Fourth leg A St. Louis/Lambert Airport - Cincinnati/Lunken
15 June 2013: Fourth leg B Cincinnati/Lunken – Washington DC/Dulles
6 July 2013: Fifth and last leg Washington DC/Dulles – New York/JFK
|Type of Record
|Absolute altitude
|9235 m
|André Borschberg (SUI)
|ratified - current record
|26 h 10 m 19 s
|André Borschberg (SUI)
|ratified - current record
|Gain of height
|8744 m
|André Borschberg (SUI)
|ratified - current record
|Distance along a course, pre-declared waypoints
|1487.6 km
|André Borschberg (SUI)
|preliminary record claim received
|Free Distance
|1506.5 km
|André Borschberg (SUI)
|preliminary record claim received
|Straight distance, pre-declared waypoints
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|André Borschberg (SUI)
|ratified - current record
|Straight distance, pre-declared waypoints
|1386.5 km
|André Borschberg (SUI)
|preliminary record claim received
Photo credit: Solar Impulse | Revillard | Merz | Rezo.ch
The solar-powered airplane Solar Impulse, which departed yesterday 22 May from Phoenix, reached Dallas this morning, thus achieving a flight that might prove to be the longest flight ever made with 1'541 km.
With this performance André Borschberg, who piloted the plane in this 2nd leg of the Across America Mission, would supersede the record he himself established in 2012
All the data from the loggers must be now be provided by the Solar Impulse team to the National Aeronautics Association and then to the FAI for ratification. Observers from the FAI Amateur Built and Experimental Aircraft Commission (CIACA) were present in Dallas and at the Observation Centre in Payerne, Switzerland to collect the flight information. The Observers included CIACA President Alfons Hubmann.
"This leg was particularly challenging because of fairly strong winds at the landing. It also was the longest flight – in terms of distance - ever flown by a solar airplane. You have to understand that the pilot needs to stay awake for more than 20 hours without any autopilot" said André Borschberg, co-founder, CEO and pilot of Solar Impulse who still holds the record for the longest duration ever in a solar powered airplane with 26 hours."


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HOUSTON - Deputies said a naked man forced his way inside a woman's northwest Harris County apartment while she was at home.
Misty Stanford said she heard breaking glass outside her apartment on Hammond Drive and F.M. 1960 about 10 a.m. Sunday. She cautiously cracked her front door but never imagined what would meet her on the other side.
"I opened my door and there was a naked man on my front porch," Stanford said.
Harris County Sheriff's investigators said the man was 24-year-old Andrew Abernathy.
Stanford said the unclothed man had smashed the lamp outside her front door and held his hand out to touch her as if they were old friends. When she refused and told him they had never met, she said Abernathy refused to leave.
"I asked him to get off my porch," said Stanford. "I said, 'I'm going to give you until (the count of) three.' And so he mimicked me and while he did that, he started playing with himself and counting."
Stanford said the intruder then ran inside her apartment as she screamed for help from neighbors.
Stacey Byrd said he also saw the naked man crawling around the Dumpster and trying to break into cars, so he dialed 911.
"I said, 'Ma'am, there's a guy walking around here naked and he looks kind of hostile,'" Byrd told the 911 operator.
Soon deputies arrived, but Stanford said Abernathy would not give up easily.
"He was kicking," she said. "He was fighting. He started running from them. They put him on the ground and had to Taser him."
Even now, with Abernathy arrested, Stanford said she worries every time she opens her door.
"I'm afraid he's going to come back," she said.
Abernathy has been charged with indecent exposure and trespassing. Investigators said he appeared incoherent during his arrest.
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Lemon Spritz Recipe
My mother made the yummy tinted cookies at Christmastime, and she always baked a big batch. My sister, brothers and I had lots of fun decorating them with colored sprinkles...and sampling them, too!
- 1 cup shortening
- 1 package (3 ounces) cream cheese, softened
- 1 cup sugar
- 1 egg yolk
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1 teaspoon grated lemon peel
- 2-1/2 cups all-purpose flour
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1/4 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- Food coloring, optional
- Nonpareils and colored sugar, optional
- 1. In a large bowl, cream the shortening, cream cheese and sugar. Beat in egg yolk, vanilla and lemon peel. Combine the flour, salt and cinnamon; gradually add to creamed mixture. Beat in food coloring if desired. Cover and refrigerate for 30 minutes or until easy to handle.
- 2. Using a cookie press fitted with the disk of your choice, press dough 2 in. apart onto ungreased baking sheets. Sprinkle with nonpareils and colored sugar if desired. Bake at 350° for 12-15 minutes or until set (do not brown). Remove to wire racks. Yield: about 9 dozen.
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Thread: Broadband recommendations
Broadband recommendations
Awright troops?
I know there are lots of other places to get consumer broadband advice from, but the amount of noise on the web is deafening - especially to an old, lazy man like me.
Tonight, my long-standing and increasingly-loathed ISP, Tiscali/Talk Talk has finally broken my spirit. Do any of you nice people have a recommendation for me to switch to? I live near the centre of Glasgow, I want good speed, I already have a BT phone line and am not currently under contract to anyone.
I'm aware that 'unlimited' downloads are usually a myth, but I want an honest supplier who'll give me as much fast access as possible. I'm currently paying Talk Talk fifteen quid for net access alone and about thirty pounds per month for a BT phone.
Anybody got any suggestions? I'm instinctively loath to give any money whatsoever to Rupert Murdoch and I'd rather not give up my BT line, since it works and would be very expensive to re-connect. I think I'm looking for an old-school ISP who doesn't try to sell me movies or phones or web portals, but I stand to be corrected.
Thank you in advance.
I've always been satisfied with Plusnet.
I also hear good things about BE (there)
I've also (lately) heard some good things about Plusnet, but they were such a pain in the arse to remove as the line-hogger from the previous owner of my house (granted, about six years ago, but it took three weeks to get net access - THREE WEEKS, I TELLS YA!) that I find it hard to forgive them. Their phone helpline (in those days, admittedly) was non-existent. One of the reasons I want to ditch Talk Talk, btw.
I've looked into BE before and they're currently one of the top candidates. My father-in-law used Zen for years. They're the only UK ISPs I know of at that even remotely tickle my fancy.
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If money is no object, goto Zen Internet. They're nowhere near as good as they used-to-be (once-upon-a-time you spoke to actual technical people when you rang them!) but still head-and-shoulders above everyone else.
If money IS an issue and you have an O2 or Orange mobile or Sky TV - get their Broadband because it's cheap-as-chips and works (yes, I know, Murdoch!)
Note: BE are just O2 Internet resellers with a different talk package option...
I can specifically speak for Sky in that they do not throttle/choke or otherwise interfere with your service tho (other than blocking Piratebay perhaps) and unlimited IS unlimited as far as I've been able to test that.
Yeah, the callcentres for all of those are a nightmare but we're talking a service which costs £7.50 a month (cheaper for first-timers too) wheras Zen charge £35-odd for their '200Gb' package and BE is £22.
How much better customer service would you expect for £15-30 a month - I'd want a blow-job thrown in there, frankly...
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Thanks for the advice. Everything seems to come up Sky when I do the maths. Bah. I hate everything about Sky, from their corporate governance to the music they use behind 'station identification' jingles. BAH!
Thanks though. Good advice, and I liked the blowjob joke.
I used to use an ISP called UKOnline and vowed that I'd go to my grave a customer of theirs - until they were bought by Sky. So then I was a Sky customer for a while and found the service to be pretty good. I would have stayed with them.
Unfortunately I then moved home, and the ADSL availability in my new area was shocking. 0.2 Mbit/s estimated speeds kind of shocking.
So I did what I swore I would never do and signed up for a Virgin Media cable connection. I'm aware that there are some genuine horror stories out there about Virgin, but in my experience at least, I've been very pleasantly suprised.
Installation was slick and the guy cabled up the house exactly as I wanted. The connection is a rock solid 60 Mbit/s and has never gone down or been slow. I pay £35 a month for it, which is kind of eye-watering compared to a budget ADSL provider, but I've honestly had no reason to complain.
Bear in mind that I do live in a smaller town - I hear that over-subscribed areas (I guess a major city centre would be one) can have issues with speed and reliability. But otherwise, a cautious thumbs up from me...
Been using BE for about three years now, best ISP I've been with and they've got excellent customer support, though the connection has only ever gone down once for line upgrade and they warned us of it in advance. I get consistently good down/up speeds and around 40 ping in games.
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I used to be under the rotten yolk of O2. Horrible horrible company, I used to get disconnected on a regular basics, I had insane pings for both World of Warcraft and Rift due to them capping the line as 'torrent' lines for some stupid reason. Capped download speeds during the day and just poor all round. The final straw was when they increased the prices, so I switched to Plusnet.
The best company I could of chosen!(apart from BE but I can't get BE here) I have the extra package so I get 60gigs a month and when you download from 12am to 8am it doesn't contribute to your download limit which is a godsend for sticking those 10-15gig Steam games for download overnight and whatever certain stuff you download. It also lets you know how much you have downloaded by logging into the website. I also get top speeds whatever the time of day.
So, Yorkshire! is the way to go(I never thought I would say that being a southern fairy)
A small minor note: I do live about 100 meters from the exchange so I could be a little bias here.
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I will shortly be moving in to my new home, I was wondering if these recommendations still hold.
To slightly complicate matters, it looks like the area will be upgraded to 'superfast' by the end of December, am I at risk of getting stuck in the slow lane and basically paying the same whilst I wait for the end of my contract?
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If you have the option, Virgin Media fibre knocks everything else into a cocked hat. The service has improved (admittedly from a very low base,) hugely from the NTL days and for all out speed nothing else at a sensible price gets close.
It is worth seeing if anyone you know locally has VM as I know that there have been issues with over subscription in certain parts of the country though.
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We currently have Virgin in our shared house, which is a few miles down the road, and it is a bit rubbish - it drops out sometimes and the speed can be atrocious. However, it does look like virgin's broadband only deal may well be the cheapest, so I might have to consider it.


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The season is still months away, but Winnipeg Blue Bombers long-snapper Chris Cvetkovic is already preparing to tackle one of the most important challenges of his career.
It has nothing to do with his unique ability to rocket a football with laser-like accuracy between his legs to one of the kickers on the local Canadian Football League squad.
It has everything to do with his dogged determination to help Canadian Forces veterans struggling with the nightmare of post-traumatic stress disorder.
But we'll get to that in a moment. First, a little background.
For Cvetkovic -- a father of two and, at 35, the oldest player on the Bombers -- helping others comes as naturally as slamming his 6-1, 235-pound body into opposing lineman on the gridiron.
Don't let the rest of the CFL in on this secret, but this special teams expert and Hamilton native, entering his 10th season with the Blue and Gold, is a bit of a softie.
When he isn't on a football field or in the gym, he's helping raise money for the fight against cancer, visiting up to six schools a week with an anti-bullying program, promoting literacy and lending his voice to a provincial campaign to inspire Manitobans to speak out against domestic violence.
But, perhaps more than anything, Cvetkovic has a long-standing love affair with animals, especially dogs. That's why last year he founded Cvet's Pets, a volunteer-run, non-profit group dedicated to helping raise cash and awareness for Manitoba's animal rescue programs.
Since last February, Cvet's Pets has helped raise more than $25,000. "It's simple -- I do it because I love animals," Cvetkovic explains recently over lunch. "To me, it's about lending a voice to those who can't speak."
In January, Cvetkovic and a group of CFL buddies -- Bombers QB Buck Pierce, former Bombers Ian Logan and Brady Browne, Toronto Argonauts' Andre Durie, Calgary Stampeders' Jabari Arthur and Saskatchewan Roughriders' Chris Getzlaf -- spent a week in Mexico working at a volunteer spay and neuter clinic.
In the Cancun area, he noted, there are more than two million stray animals roaming the streets, compared with about a million human residents. "It was jarring," Cvetkovic recalled. "They're everywhere -- on rooftops, on top of vans. You're blown away by the extent of the problem.
"In five days, the volunteer vets at the clinic spayed and neutered 1,327 dogs and cats. We pulled starving dogs and cats off the streets, administered anesthetic, prepared the animals for surgery, helped with the breathing tubes, cleaned their wounds, picked ticks out of their ears... The only thing we didn't do was surgery."
When he returned home, along with a renewed sense of commitment, Cvetkovic brought back Lobo, an emaciated boxer-terrier cross puppy that now lives the good life along with his two other rescue dogs, Cody and Jersey.
"When you saw Lobo before, he was just ribs and hips," the snapper with a sharp sense of humour says, chowing down on a salad. "He was kind of bug-eyed. Now he's awesome. He's just like any other dog."
Then, at a Super Bowl party in February, Cvetkovic met an Air Force employee who told him about a program that would let Cvet's Pets kill two birds with one stone -- helping animals and traumatized veterans at the same time.
In a heartbeat, he decided to throw his weight behind Courageous Companions, a made-in-Manitoba project that provides specially trained service dogs for free to veterans struggling with PTSD and other disabilities.
The canine project was launched eight years ago by MSAR, a non-profit organization whose volunteer members conduct search and rescue operations on Manitoba First Nations and train service dogs for almost every duty imaginable.
"All the dogs come from shelters," Cvetkovic noted. "These are dogs that nobody wanted. They are amazing dogs. The dogs have a calming effect on traumatized veterans. I know there has been a reduction in suicides. It's that unconditional love.
"These are people that gave a lot to our country and now it's our turn to give back and serve them."
Capt. George Leonard, search commander and master trainer with MSAR, formerly known as the Manitoba Search and Rescue Association, launched Courageous Companions in 2005 after meeting a Manitoba veteran crippled by PTSD.
Since then, MSAR has placed 70 service dogs with veterans in Canada and the U.S., including 21 in Manitoba.
The vast majority of the dogs -- trained to help with every kind of disability from autism and dementia to serious depression -- are rescued from animal shelters. They are trained by volunteers, a process that typically takes at least a year and can cost in excess of $100,000, Leonard says. The program receives no government funding.
"There's no charge to the veterans of any kind," the master trainer stressed. "We've even had recent requests from the U.K. We're not going to turn away a NATO ally."
He said a service dog can literally mean the difference between life and death for traumatized veterans.
"With PTSD, you withdraw into your own little world. A lot of guys attempt suicide. The dog builds a bond with the person. It starts pulling them out of the darkness. It changes their life. The dogs keep them in the here and now, so they don't have any flashbacks."
About a year ago, a Manitoba veteran, at the end of his rope, was sitting in a local Tim Hortons, writing a suicide note, when, by sheer accident, a family with an MSAR service dog trained to help their autistic child came into the coffee shop.
The vet and the service dog locked eyes. The desperate man struck up a conversation with the family, who told him about Courageous Companions.
"He called me the same day and now he has one of our dogs," Leonard explained. "He had been planning to take his own life that night. He's doing much better now. The timing couldn't have been better."
He said having Cvet's Pets and a squad of CFL stars -- Bombers Pierce, Kito Poblah and Carl Volny, Edmonton's Don Oramasionwu and Eddie Steele, Saskatchewan's Joe Lobendahn and B.C.'s Andrew Harris -- join his pack is a blessing. "That's huge for us," he said with delight. "I can focus on training and not worry about other things."
For Cvetkovic, the goal is to raise cash and awareness for Courageous Companions. But Job No. 1 is to cover the cost of the $300 "starter kits" that are given to every veteran who receives a service dog.
The kits contain everything from a kennel and a dog bed to collars, leashes and dog dishes. Eventually, the longtime Bomber hopes his organization can also pick up the costs of adopting the shelter dogs trained by MSAR.
"A lot of people are in the dark about this program," Cvetkovic said. "I know I was. I think a lot more people need to know about this. And I want to absorb some of their costs. This is a national issue. We're helping veterans across the country."


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From Presents for Your Sex Life to Gifts You'll Want to Steal Back: Betty's 2010 Holiday Gift Guide
We've found the perfect gifts for your pal, your guy, your mom – and even you!
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You love shopping for yourself, but shopping for everyone else in your life can be a bit of a challenge. That's why we've brought you our comprehensive 2010 holiday gift guide. Whether you're looking to show your guy how much you care or score points with your mom, we've got you covered. We've even thrown in a few gifts you can share steal from your BFF and some presents just for you. Don't worry about the cost – we've got 50 gifts for under $20 to help you save, too.
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Hi, it's been awhile since I was last here at the forums ... Sitepoint has been redesigned ... again LOL.
I've been using Matt's Script FormMail form script for forms such as contact us for my clients for a year or so without any problems.
However, this time, I do have a problem and I am not sure why.
Problem: Click on submit and the form redirects to the formmail.cgi instead of the thank you page. Never had this happen before.
a) I do test using my personal email address that is at a different domain than the client's website. I've done this successfully with all the forms I create. So there shouldn't be a problem this time.
b) I am doing 2 different forms on this website (which I've done before, so quantity of forms isn't an issue): Contact and Submissions.
c) Contact form is standard and short. The redirect problem happens on this form also.
d) Submissions form is a bit more complicated than I usually create and also has the added feature of adding photos. THAT might be messing up that form, but doesn't account for the problem happening with the Contact us form.
e) Both forms validate (well, there's one minor issue with the contact form, but shouldn't be causing this problem).
Submissions form: http://www.modeltalentsearchgroup.com/submissions.phpContact form: http://www.modeltalentsearchgroup.com/contact.php
So, what do you think is wrong?If I'm using an out-of-date script, what form mail script do you suggest? Naturally, one that is easy to setup like this one was would be preferable.
Did you get email from this form after submit?
I feel the process is getting terminating in the script that sends email. Did you get chance to review the server errors?
No, no email gets through.
As for your question about the error logs ... hmmm ... come to think of it ... I have no clue where they are in GoDaddy (where the website is hosted). With that said, now that I think about it ... this is the first time I have used this form script on a GoDaddy hosted website (all the other clients have been hosted on my Hostgator reseller server). Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm.
You did not get email so it must be that the script failure or either the web server is not able to send email or the ports might have got blocked. If it is cPanel interface there must be a provision for you to see the error logs. Did you see anything in there?
I just tried to get into the client's GoDaddy account (which I've been into before) and now the password isn't working. So, I'll have to see what is up with that. GoDaddy doesn't have a typical cPanel interface ... they have their own misconbobulated interface. grins So, I'll have to hunt and peck around to see if I can find an error log. There isn't one that shows up in the files when looking via FTP.
Well, I got the Contact form to work ... at least it goes to the thank you page.
According to the hidden tags you can add, you can receive the form hourly or in a digest .... so I'm still waiting for the email as I have it set to hourly. I'm thinking of deleting that tag and seeing if the email comes right away. [edited: I did receive the email, after about 5 mins].
While I was waiting ... I tried doing the submissions form too ... but that one redirects to an error page. Not sure why yet.
EDIT: Well, re-tried the contact form without that hidden tag and am getting the same error message now.
I'm getting you can't send more than one form with the GoDaddy webformmailer.php ?????????
You might want to ask the GoDaddy helpdesk what that means?
Thanks for the thread move ... truly wasn't sure where to post it.
Re: the error ... via some searching I was able to find someone who had the same problem and someone posted a fix. In the webformmailer.php file, need to change "split" to "explode" on line 29. The poster said it had something to do with the latest in PHP/MYSQL versions.
I'm using the gdform.php for the Contact Us form. GDForm only displays the results in the email alphabetically. This would be a nightmare for the Submissions form.
So, I'm using the webformmailer.php for the Submissions form.
My last thing to tackle is how to allow folks to upload 3 images of themselves (this is a modeling website). GoDaddy specifically states that their webformmailer.php (and I also assume gdform.php) doesn't allow for file uploads.
So ... after doing another search, someone suggested Uploadify. I'm looking at that right now.
My only question is ... it doesn't seem to be any form upload script (for forms) that allows the uploads to be a direct attachment to the email. It seems all uploads are only accessible via the assigned folder on the server? The reason why I ask is that the client is not tech savvy and would consider it to be a big hassle to go into the uploads' folder and download the pics, whereas she should be able to see them attached to the email sent by the form. Is this not doable?
Looks like your web server or php settings restrictions preventing multiple form submissions. Did you get update from GD?
Hi Jerom ... sorry, took the weekend off =)
Yes, that is what I concluded also - that you can only do one form per domain with the GoDaddy webformmailer.php. I did search online and couldn't find an answer one way or another on that.
But you can use webformmailer.php for one form and the gdform.php for another (but that one automatically alphabetizes your fields in the email you receive).
Still looking for a way to have the uploads be attachments to the emails to make things easier for the client.
Well, after yet another round of researching, I think it is safe to conclude that no one has been able to edit the GoDaddy webformmailer.php file to get it to accept file uploads, much less attach those files to the email (instead of just storing the files on the server).
And, because GoDaddy has the mail() function blocked, you can't use a 3rd party form script.
Can anyone help with this please?
Hmm. is that not possible for you to use the SMTP authentication mode? Do they allow or you form accepts it first.. can you it out.
No issues. I was able to figure out from the error message you shared here. If its for client. then would suggest you choose other service provider if they are so restrictive.


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Kuşadası TV, July 14th, 2008
Adnan Oktar: May Allah forbid, let's think that Konya, Izmir, Adana were apart, and then we'd say, "We are brothers, how come we are apart? We will unite." And let's assume that someone says, "This is utopia, how can this happen, they are separate", this would make no sense. In the same way, there is no logic to us being divided from the Turkic states. We share the same religion and the same language and are descended from the same race. Everything about us is the same. Our culture, customs, traditions; in other words, there is no reason for us to be divided. That is why the passport requirement must be lifted between these countries, between the Turkic states and Islamic countries. THE VISA REGIME MUST BE ABOLISHED. PEOPLE MUST BE FREE TO DO BUSINESS AND ESTABLISH CONTACTS AS THEY PLEASE. That happens in the European Union, so why not in this Turkish-Islamic Union? In the EU, people go to whatever country they like and settle there. No passports or visas are used. So why can't we do that? There is no reason. Of course it is possible. The Turkic and Islamic countries enjoy the finest views and have the finest lands, and the world's richest mineral resources are also found in these lands. We have flour, butter and sugar, and we now just have to bake a halva. That is what the entire Turkish people want.
TASCA (TURKISH-ARAB SCIENCE, CULTURE AND ART ASSOCIATION), November 21st, 2008
Adnan Oktar: Actually, in the essence of Islam, there is love, affection, peace, ease of mind, internal tranquility and joy. There is a kind of relief that is felt during religious holidays. It has friendship. Constituting those values among Muslim countries, constituting those values among Turkic countries, constituting a Turkish-Islamic Union under Turkey's leadership. In order to have those, in order to make good intentions prevail in the world, to make sincerity prevail, to have free practices in industry, science, technology and investments; we demand the elimination of visa and passport problems. We want this obligation to be removed; as we desire a much easier trade, comfortable ways of investment, a comfortable way of exchanging love and friendship. In other words, just showing an identity card should be enough to cross the border. Actually, we don't even need them to show. I mean, I should be able to get my identity card and go to Azerbaijan, to Syria, to Kazakhstan. I should be able to go to Morocco, Tunisia, and Algeria. I should be able to get on a boat and arrive in Tunisia, Algeria. I could socialize there with my brothers. We'll dine together, remember Allah together. And we come back, the next day. If I need to trade, I'll trade. We desire a system like that, a unity of love.
Yeni Akit, 26 December 2011
Zafer Çağlayan, the Minister of Economy, stated that Turkey abolished the visa requirements for Saudi Arabia and asked Saudi Arabia to do the same and abolish visa requirements for Turkish citizens, except for the hajj period. Çağlayan pointed out that the businessmen of each country would launch more successful projects when the visas are abolished."


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Apple (AAPL) kept the Nasdaq in the red, but the other major indices managed gains. Breadth was pretty good at about 3350 gainers to 2070 decliners, and banks and homebuilders provided leadership. But under the surface, there were quite a few reversals and the market closed on the weak side. I found the action in many individual stocks troubling and I didn't feel very good about the way it moved today. The midday spike felt frothy and manipulated and there was just too much red on my screens.
I constantly preach that we shouldn't anticipate a market top but I didn't have a good feeling about the action today, although there weren't any glaring negatives. Many market players think that tonight's State of the Union address might be the catalyst for a top, but I see no reason to jump to that conclusion.
I have to admit I'm finding it increasingly difficult to stick with longs as this market floats higher so I'm rooting for some downside, but I don't want to let my hopes color the way I view the action. As I've often said, markets at their highs don't just suddenly reverse and fall apart. Tops are a process that take time to develop and there are still few signs that things are about to turn.
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A Journey to Flower-HeavenLogic puzzles require you to think. You will have to be logical in your reasoning.
Hi. My name is mister Kvakk. I live in a very big house in the country. Outside my house I have a lot of big gardens. In one of them I have hundreds of beautiful, delicious, red flowers.
At my house, my dog is waiting. I have told him about this flower-heaven-garden with hundreds of flowers, and it really wants to find that garden to eat the flowers (yes, my dog eats flowers).
However, this flower-heaven is far away, and my dog wants to go there as soon as possible. It has to travel through some other gardens on its way, but it wants to travel between as few other gardens as possible.
Your mission is to find the best route for my dog, from my house to the flower-heaven. The dog wants to go through as few gardens as possible on its way.
Here are some facts about my gardens:
1. There are two gardens between my (mister Kvakk's) house and the house of my neighbour Quack, if you take the shortest route.
2. The only garden between The lawn and Soria is The field
3. It's one garden between The field and flower-heaven
4. One possible route (but not the shortest) from Kvakk to flower-heaven, is: The pool, Soria, Star, The mountain
5. To go from Kvakk to Quack as fast as possible, you don't need to go through The field, The forest, The angels valley or Star
6. You can go from The forest to The mountain by going through Longo
7. Duck country and The forest are my only two gardens that lie against Quack's house
8. From the garden The field, you can go directly to The lawn, Longo, The pool, Soria, Star and Kvakk's house
9. There are two gardens between Quack and flower-heaven. These are not the same gardens that are between Kvakk and Quack
10. Quack's house is to the east of Kvakk's house
11. Flower-heaven is south-west of Quack's house
12. Except for the two houses and flower-heaven, ten gardens of different size and shape are named in this teaser
13. You can go into flower-heaven from three different gardens
14. If you are at Star, you must go through one garden to come to flower-heaven
15. Star, The lawn, The mountain, The pool, Soria, The forest, Duck Country and the two houses lie beside the sea. It is not possible for the dog to travel through the sea. Luckily, no other gardens lie beside the sea.
16. The angel's valley is between flower-heaven and The forest
Through which gardens should my dog travel?
HintIt's easiest to solve this if you try to draw a kind of map. You should maybe start by using the information points in this order: 1, 10, 7, 9, 11, 4, 5, 6, 8
Answer-You should start by drawing the two houses and the two gardens between them (1). The house to the west is my (mister Kvakk's) house (10).
-From 7 we know that the garden to the left of Quack is either Duck country or The forest
-Use 9 and 11 to draw flower-heaven to the south of Quack. The first garden to the south of Quack is either Duck country or The forest
-Use 4 to draw the four gardens The pool, Soria, Star and The mountain between Kvakk and flower-heaven
-From 5 you see that you don't need to go through The forest to go from Kvakk to Quack. Therefore, the garden to the left of Quack must be Duck country. And so on, the garden to the south must be The forest.
-Use 6 to draw in the garden Longo
-And finally, use 8 to draw the garden The field
-By 3 and 13 we know se the solution. The three gardens that lie against flower-haven must be The angels valley, Longo and The mountain.
The shortest route (measured in number of gardens) is: Kvakk's house / The field / Longo / Flower-heaven
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Learn about Adobe Paper Textures Pro, a panel for Photoshop CS6 that makes it easy to add special effects to your images. This Pro version of the panel is exclusively for Adobe Creative Cloud paid subscribers. It's our little way of saying thanks! In this video Russell Brown shows you how to make the most of this great free product and get creative with your images.


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Streetwise: Masters of 60s Photography
Streetwise builds on Swiss photographer Robert Frank's snapshot aesthetic, which gained attention following the release of his groundbreaking book, The Americans in 1959. Frank's focus on a more personal documentary style influenced a new generation of photographers, including legendaries such as Diane Arbus, Lee Friedlander, Jerry Berndt, Ruth-Marion Baruch, Garry Winogrand, Bruce Davidson, Danny Lyon and Ernest Withers.
Major funding for Streetwise is provided by the National Endowment for the Arts, the County of San Diego Community Enhancement Fund, the City of San Diego Commission for Arts and Culture, Becky Moores, Jon Doellstedt and the Gardner Bilingual Endowment.
Traveling Exhibition Schedule
February 5 – May 15, 2011: Museum of Photographic Arts
October 2, 2011 - January 22, 2012: The Light Factory
May 4 - August 5, 2012: Knoxville Museum of Art
Robert Frank and The Americans
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Street Photography and the 1960s
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Share your photos and stories from the 60s and for the opportunity to be featured on an in-gallery monitor during from February 5 - May 15, 2011.
Where were you from 1960-1969? Show us your photos that define the decade. Join the Flickr group pool to upload your photographs and share your memories.
Not around in the 60s? Show us how the 60s live on today through protests, fashion, concerts and social gatherings. Please note that all images will be approved before going live on our website or in-gallery monitor.
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Streetwise: Masters of 60s Photography highlights nine photographers intent on redefining the nation based on what they saw in the turbulent time of the 1960's. This realistic, sometimes dire, view of America ranges from the "outlaw culture" of bikers and chain gangs; Boston's red light district known as the Combat Zone; Black Panthers; the gritty streets and neighborhoods of New York; the politically charged South; to the darker sub-cultures photographed by Diane Arbus.
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With the score tied at 6-6, the bases loaded and two outs in the bottom of the ninth, Brill lifted the first pitch he saw from ETSUs Will Chesney well over the Buccaneers drawn-in outfield. The ball one-hopped the wall in right-center field and Jaylin Davis (McLeansville, N.C./Northeast Guilford) scored easily from third base to set off a wild scrum in celebration of Appalachian States first walkoff victory of the season.
Davis sparked Appalachians ninth-inning rally with a one-out single to left field on an 0-2 pitch from Chesney (2-2). Michael Pierson (Coral Springs, Fla./Pine Crest) followed with a bloop double into right center that landed just out of reach for ETSUs diving center fielder Jeremy Taylor. With runners on second and third, the Bucs elected to intentionally walk Tyler Zupcic (Charlotte, N.C./Providence), who was 2-for-4 with two RBI, including a game-tying RBI single in the seventh. Chesney struck out Bradley Morton (Winston-Salem, N.C./Mount Tabor) for the second out of the inning but the strikout only served as a setup for Brills heroics one pitch later.
Appalachian State (9-17) jumped out to a 4-1 lead in the bottom of the first on back-to-back homers from Davis, who blasted a no-doubt three-run bomb to left-center field, and Pierson, whose solo shot cleared the wall in right.
ETSU (14-14) drew even with a run in the third and two in the fourth but Appalachian regained a 5-4 advantage on Zupcics RBI double in the fifth.
The Bucs took their first lead of the ballgame on a two-run homer to left by Chris Riopedre in the top of the seventh but Zupcic answered with his game-tying RBI single in bottom of the frame that knotted the score at 6-6 and paved the way for the Mountaineers walkoff win.
Appalachian State matched a season high with 14 hits in the victory but stranded 10 baserunners. Pierson paced the 14-hit attack by going 3-for-4 with two doubles, a home run, a walk, an RBI and two runs scored. Brill, Davis, Zupcic and Preston Troutman (Rockwell, N.C./East Rowan) added two hits apiece. Troutman became the first Mountaineer with two triples in a game since current San Francisco Giants farmhand Will Callaway tripled twice against LaSalle in 2011.
Robert Whaley (Hickory, N.C./Hickory), Appalachians seventh pitcher of the evening, picked up the win with two innings of flawless relief. Whaley (1-1) retired six of the seven batters he faced with the only baserunner getting aboard on an error.
Chris Cook and Dylan Tritsch led ETSU with two hits each.
Appalachian State returns to Southern Conference action with a three-game weekend series at Wofford. Game times are set for 6 p.m. Friday, 3 p.m. Saturday and 1 p.m. Sunday at Russell C. King Field in Spartanburg, S.C.
NOTES: Appalachian State won for only the second time in nine one-run games this season ... the walkoff win was Appalachians first since Dillon Dobsons (Hamptonville, N.C./Starmount) RBI double capped a 9-8 win over No. 29 Western Carolina in the 2013 regular-season finale ... Brill is hitting .462 (12-for-26) during his current team-best eight-game hitting streak ... the Mountaineers moved to 6-1 this season and 43-13 since the beginning of 2012 at Smith Stadium ... however, the win was App States first over ETSU at home since 2010 ... the Bucs had won the previous two matchups at Smith Stadium.
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HOSPITAL bosses have said competition laws would not be broken if Birmingham NHS trusts take over the running of the Alexandra Hospital.
NHS leaders in Worcestershire said any change to the running of hospital services in Worcestershire would be subject to policy not EU competition law.
The move comes after a meeting of the Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust was earlier this week about the future of the Alex.
During the meeting chief executive Penny Venables said: "There are issues that would need to be confirmed around competition law.
"What we have made clear as a trust is that we are committed to providing the fullest range of services we can across all three of our hospital sites."
Non-executive director Bryan McGinty said Eamonn Kelly, chief executive of NHS Worcestershire, had indicated a number of potential issues with a Birmingham NHS trust taking over the hospital, including that it may be infringing competition law.
However, speaking after the meeting Mr Kelly, senior responsible officer for the review of services, said: "These rules are complicated but it is clear that this kind of proposal could be approved by the Department of Health.
"Transfers between NHS providers occur all the time. For example in 2011 we transferred a number of services to Worcestershire Acute Hospitals Trust, including the Wyre Forest Community Unit."
He added: "As people are aware there is a lot of work still to do in respect of the Joint Services Review (JSR) but we are clear that competition law wouldn't be a specific problem if the alternative providers of services were the right answer for our population."
Senior GPs in the north of the county are in talks with several Birmingham NHS trusts about the possibility of one of them running the Alex Hospital.
However, no formal options have yet been announced about the future shape of county health services.
It is hoped proposals for 'public engagement' can be announced in March, 14 months after the JSR into the future of local health services was launched.
The JSR has left a cloud hanging over the Alex Hospital while project leaders seek to address shortages in staff, including middle grade doctors, and save money (£50 million across acute hospitals) through centralising certain key services.


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Fruited Chicken Spinach Salad Recipe
This is my favortie luncheon salad for summertime. It's cool, colorful and always brings compliments to the chef. I like to serve it with a crusty loaf of French bread and tall glasses of iced tea—very refreshing!
- 3 tablespoons vegetable oil
- 3 tablespoons red wine vinegar
- 2 tablespoons sugar
- 3 tablespoons orange juice
- 1 teaspoon ground mustard
- 1 tablespoon poppy seed
- 10 cups torn fresh spinach
- 2 cans (11 ounces each) mandarin oranges, drained
- 2 cups fresh strawberries, hulled and halved
- 1-1/2 cups cubed cooked chicken
- 1. Combine first six ingredients in a jar with a tight-fitting lid; shake well. Chill for at least 2 hours. Just before serving, combine spinach, mandarin oranges, strawberries and chicken in a large salad bowl. Pour dressing over and toss lightly. Yield: 4 servings.
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"Some Genuine Laughs"
I wanted a bit of light humour, so I thought I'd give this book a try. I've been leery of dramatised books, but this title proves that they have merit.
I like this type of humour. I could describe it as "audio slapstick". Some moments are sheer non sequitur, which unbalances my train of thought and causes some sharp laughs. The accents are engaging. I'm reminded of The Maltese Falcon and Who Framed Roger Rabbit? The half-hour format is useful, as I can listen to one on my way to work and when I go home, I'm not picking up in the middle of anything.
Overall, an unexpected pleasure.
"A knight in dull armor!"
I found this series of half-hour radio shows quite entertaining! We follow our semi-clever private-eye through a number of misadventures calculated to deliver lots of gags, one-liners, and puns. Many are funny, though most are just "smilers", and a few are (I think) overdone. There's enough of a plot too provide a sense of continuity throughout, but it's not particularly credible. But then again, who cares when you're laughing?
"Delightfully flaky"
I had no idea what to expect when I purchased this title. I hoped for a good detective story. I got a hardboiled detective with puns galore, terrific casting and more than a few laugh-out-loud moments. If you like both Miss Marple and Monty Python, this one's for you.
"Great radio show!"
Take Sam Spade and mix in some Kenneth Horne and you get Garson Krebs. This is a great radio show. I highly recommend those fond of old British radio farce shows to get Garson Krebs, Private Eye!
"silly fun"
I've listened to this a couple times now as the stories are 1/2 hour segments and they're nice little time fillers. it's a goofy word play & pun Naked Gun style private eye radio drama with sound effects & voices and at times something strikes me as so silly I laugh out loud. the first stories are the best perhaps, at least for me. some get a little too silly and there are running gags through the stories that maybe went on too long, but I laughed again and the sound effects of the fights are hilarious.
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The hockey stick is a players number one piece of equipment and is also the part of equipment that players are most particular about. In addition to the right curve and flex, players also need the right accessories for their hockey sticks. Pure Hockey offers a large variety of stick accessories, from waxes for the hockey tape on your blade to the tape itself. You'll also find butt-ends here, also called end-plugs, which are used to extend the length of sticks for the taller players. Choose from top brands like A&R, Bauer, Sex Wax, Renfrew and much more at the lowest prices guaranteed.


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PORT HUENEME, CA--(Marketwire - March 19, 2013) -
A Biologics Master File is a confidential, detailed dossier submitted to the FDA which contains the proprietary information on the manufacture and safety of a drug component.
Stellar continually updates and maintains master files at the FDA for its KLH products. These files allow Stellar to provide controlled access to a single source of information on file with the FDA, for customers to reference as part of their product applications.
This new BB-MF is intended to support Stellar's KLH customers who file applications under the CBER division, thus expanding applicability of the Company's KLH for broader uses.
Stellar's goal is to help accelerate the regulatory approval process for products that use the Company's KLH. Only Stellar KLH is derived from proprietary, cultured keyhole limpet colonies. This allows Stellar to deliver an unprecedented level of control over its KLH quality and performance; benefits valued by vaccine manufacturers and drug developers using KLH.
"Stellar is always looking for effective ways to support our customers' applications through the regulatory process," commented Catherine Brisson, Chief Pharmaceutical Officer at Stellar Biotechnologies. "We are very pleased to have this master file submitted to CBER. By ensuring that the information required by FDA is accessible, we can facilitate regulatory approvals for KLH-based products."
For more information:
Visit www.StellarBiotech.com and the KLH knowledge base www.KLHSite.com.
About Stellar Biotechnologies, Inc.
Stellar Biotechnologies, Inc. (OTCQB: SBOTF) (TSX VENTURE: KLH) is the world leader in sustainable manufacture of Keyhole Limpet Hemocyanin (KLH). KLH is an important immune-stimulating protein used in wide-ranging therapeutic and diagnostic markets. Potent, yet proven safe in humans, KLH operates as both a vital component for conjugate vaccines (targeting cancer, autoimmune, and infectious diseases) as well as an antigen for measuring immune status. Stellar Biotechnologies was founded to address the growing demand for renewable, commercial-scale supplies of high-quality, GMP-grade KLH. Stellar has developed leading practices, facilities and proprietary capabilities to address this need. To receive regular updates, enter email at bottom of http://stellarbiotechnologies.com/investors/news_releases/
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Greetings, and welcome to The SnowBird Company's AmericanSnowbird.com website, showcasing snowbird rentals all across the country, Caribbean & Mexico! That's right, you can view snowbird rentals not only from California to South Carolina & Florida, but also as far south as Mexico and The Caribbean. Through this website, Property Owners can showcase your properties 'By Owner' to the maximum number of Snowbirds, and Snowbirds can browse the maximum number of monthly & seasonal rental listings – and all in an organized and easy-to-use way.
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For both Snowbirds and Property Owners, we promise and deliver all of these. After all, isn't that the way business should be?
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DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. - Crews continue with construction as they make the Daytona International Speedway "race ready."
20 million pounds of steel is going up, according to Joie Chitwood III, speedway president.
"We're paving areas that weren't paved before, clearing out the dirt, creating the walkways that our fans will use to go from the gates- to the actual grandstands," he said.
Race fan Sally Zooner is not looking forward to walking through the construction site to get to her seat.
"That's going to be rough, that's going to be real rough," she said.
On Thursday, speedway officials gave Local 6 a tour of their progress on Daytona Rising, a $400 million project, renovating the front stretch.
It will take another two years to complete, and fans will be walking past piles of steel and concrete blocks to get to their seats.
"New things create uncertainty, and fans tend not to read what we send them, so we're making sure that we overdo it and they're getting numerous emails, maps, letters from us- we're trying to make sure that they catch something along the way that explains what's happening," said Chitwood.
Speedway officials are debuting a new cross over gate that eliminates two stair cases and a platform.
They hope it will move fans off the field and into the grandstands more quickly.
"I know myself, I've had knee surgery and a replacement in my knee, and it's difficult- so I think that's good," said Zooner.
Speedway officials are beefing up their staff by about two hundred employees- to help guide fans to their seats once races begin at the speedway.
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Barbie® doll pays tribute to a favorite indulgence with White Chocolate Obsession™ Barbie® doll. The doll wears a gown of off-white charmeuse and chiffon with a matching stole. Tricot hose and white shoes are sophisticated accessories, while golden earrings lend a final elegant note. As a wonderful surprise, this doll's head is scented with the luscious aroma of white chocolate. The Platinum Label™ version of the Silver Label™ Chocolate Obsession™ Barbie® doll is lovely, re-created with blonde hair and an off-white gown.


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I'm here as usual, just being a bit quiet is all
Just wanted to point out that I predicted this board would be dead about 2 months after the Wii U launch. The 2 months are over today. TBH, I'm surprised this board is still as active as is. Anyway, now that a lot of people that I'm good friends with on here I either have on Facebook or Skype, I haven't been posting much anymore. Besides, my life kinda trainwrecked in the last couple months, so GameFAQs is kinda less of a priority.
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Wilson Named Big South Attacking Player of Week; Earns Inclusion on CSN Team of the Week
Liberty forward Sachem Wilson has been named the Big South Men's Soccer Attacking Player of the Week and included on the College Soccer News National Team of the Week.
Wilson, a sophomore from Stow, Ohio, netted three goals this past week, helping Liberty (9-7, 5-4 Big South) record Big South victories over Longwood and Campbell. With his three goals, he moves his season total to team-leading eight goals and 19 points. His eight goals are the most by a Liberty player since 2010.
The forward got the Flames off to a fast start, scoring 7:28 into Liberty's contest against Longwood, Tuesday. Wilson picked up a loose ball off a corner kick and netted his sixth goal of the season, as Liberty went on to win the contest, 2-1, in overtime.
Saturday, the sophomore scored twice, propelling the Flames past Campbell, 3-1. It was the midfielder's second two-goal game of the season and the third of his career.
Once again, Wilson put Liberty on the scoreboard early. The midfielder caused a turnover in the midfield and scored on the Flames' first shot of the contest with an attempt from just outside the 18-yard box 9:28 into the contest. Later in the first half, he picked up another turnover at the top of the box and put home the game-winner during the 36th minute.
The honor marks the second Big South Attacking Player of the Week nod of his career, with both coming this season. Earlier this year, Wilson received the honor after recording five points on two goals and an assist in Liberty's 4-0 win over IUPUI on Sept. 6. It is the first time that the forward has been selected to the CSN National Team of the Week in his career.
Wilson and the rest of the Flames will host the Radford Highlanders in their final regular season game of 2013 on Wednesday. Game time is scheduled for 5 p.m. Before the game, the Liberty seniors will be honored.


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While Wandering: Chicago
Book 1
de Ryan Hodgson-Rigsbee
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This book will only be sold for a limited time to raise funds for the project.
"Nature within the urban landscape is simultaneously close at hand and hidden from view -- a paradox of proximal obscurity. Yet its myriad forms and manifestations are as diverse in kind as their human denizens. City parks, community gardens, nature centers, green rooftops, restored natural ecosystems, golf courses, back yards, alleys, vacant lots, landscaped public spaces, plus the resident non-human biota in all its riotous diversity and plenitude -- all these and more comprise urban nature." -Michael Bryson
"While Wandering" is a photographic exploration of Chicago's urban nature through the four seasons. Featuring an introduction by Michael Bryson, author of "Visions of the Land: Science, Literature, and the American Environment from the Era of Exploration to the Age of Ecology" (2002).
This book is the first in a limited edition three volume sample series. The series stands as an introduction to the work of Ryan Hodgson-Rigsbee and a glimpse into a bigger picture still to come.
Produced via Urban Nature Media.
Características y detalles
- Categoría Arte y fotografía
Apaisado estándar, 25×20 cm
76 Páginas
- Fecha de publicación mar. 11, 2011
- Etiquetas urban nature, nature, chicago, city
Acerca del creador
I am a photographer based in Chicago and New Orleans.
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There was something familiar about reports that a German cleric dubbed "the bishop of bling" had spent €15,000 on a bathtub for his palatial new residence. The Pope has now suspended Franz-Peter Tebartz-van Elst, Bishop of Limburg, while his home improvements are audited. There is no evidence the bishop has done anything wrong, let alone illegal. But the affair brings back memories of disgraced Tyco chief executive Dennis Kozlowski's notorious purchase of a $6,000 gold-and-burgundy floral-patterned shower curtain, using cash and loans from the company.
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It was an absolute disaster. I have a Mississippi mud pie recipe that I thought would make a fantastic base for a s'mores-inspired dessert. It's all chocolate goo and spread with marshmallow fluff, so the only thing I needed to do was anchor it with a Graham cracker crust. Simple.
Halfway into baking, the floodgates opened. I had flipped on the oven light just to check in, and to my shock and horror, it seemed to be breathing deeply. Transfixed and hoping that this didn't mean the filling was going to start pouring out of the baking dish, I watched as the breathing turning into heaving. And then, naturally, the mudslide came. It was unstoppable; thick brown batter gushed out and cascaded down to the bottom of the oven. There was nothing to do but remove the pie from the oven and discard it.
It gets worse. I scraped as much of the batter from the oven floor as I could, then decided it was probably a good time to set it to self-clean. Wrong again. A few minutes into the cycle, my living room was filled with smoke and it smelled like an open-pit barbecue. Three hours later I was shoulder-deep in the oven, scrubbing away the debris, inhaling toxic fumes.
Traumatized, I moved away from the Mississippi mud pie, but I did venture back into the kitchen to make these s'mores brownie bars. The base is a slightly modified version of "The Greatest Brownies Ever" from Jennifer Appel's The Buttercup Bake Shop Cookbook. I've adapted her well-behaved recipe to make an intense, bittersweet chocolate layer between the graham cracker crust and the toasted mini-marshmallow topping. The dark chocolate center curbs the over-the-top sweetness that candy bar milk chocolate normally lends the classic kid dessert. The brownie layer is thinner than a proper brownie, as I was aiming for a bar effect rather than a brownie with a crust. Even if you didn't have a nightmare day in the kitchen, you deserve this treat.
About the author: Maria del Mar Sacasa is a recipe developer, food stylist, and author of the food blogs High Heels & Frijoles and Voracious Billy Goat. Behind her girly façade lurks a truck driver's appetite.


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Food allergy is a serious medical condition—but the ways in which we raise awareness can have a lighter approach! This year, FARE is starting its first #TealTakeover—a coordinated campaign that encourages individuals, organizations, schools, and businesses to paint their community teal, the official food allergy awareness color.
There are lots of ways for you to get involved, including making these allergy-friendly cookies for friends, family or coworkers!
Milk-free, Egg-free, Peanut-free, Tree nut-free
- ⅔ cup shortening
- ¾ cup sugar
- 1 tsp. vanilla extract
- 1 ½ T. water, 1 ½ T. oil, 1 tsp. baking
- powder; combined
- teal food coloring (optional)
- 4 tsp. water
- 2 cups flour, sifted
- 1 ½ tsp. baking soda
- ¼ tsp. salt
Preheat oven to 375 degrees. Cream together shortening, sugar and vanilla. Add water, oil and baking powder mixture; beat until light and fluffy. Optional: add food coloring as desired to remaining water. Stir water into shortening mixture. Sift together dry ingredients; blend into creamed mixture. Divide dough in half. Chill 1 hour.
Grease cookie sheets. On lightly floured board, using half of the chilled dough at a time, roll to 1/8-inch thickness. Cut in desired shapes with cookie cutters. Bake for 6 to 8 minutes. Cool slightly; remove from pan and continue cooling on wire racks.
Makes 2 dozen cookies.
- 1 cup confectioners sugar
- 4 tsp. water
- 1 tsp. clear vanilla extract
Combine sugar and water and stir until smooth and to desired consistency. Add vanilla. Spread over cookies. Allow to harden.
To decorate cookies as pictured, make two batches of icing. Add teal food coloring to one batch (if you don't have teal food coloring, try combining blue and green until you have the shade of teal you like). Spread cookies with white icing. Snip off the corner of a small plastic bag, then fill with teal icing and pipe the outline of the cookies in teal.
Remember to tag your photos and updates with #TealTakeover – we can't wait to see how everyone is participating!


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slices off Bob.
How do I get all three into a var with line breaks between them so I can display them with
You could use the string .split() method which will split it in to an array, which you can then join with linebreaks (\ or
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var someString, theArray, theResult;
someString = "Item1, Item2, Item3";
theArray = someString.split(","); // ["Item1", " Item2", " Item3"]
theResult = theArray.join("
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Perfect! Thank-you very much.
I have another question. I haven't found a good explanation for the array index and how it works.
I understand that [0] is the array index in:
Can you explain the array index and how it works, or provide a reference that you like?
Because you're using getElementsByTagName() it returns an array of all tags that it finds, even if there is only 1 item, it will still be put in to an array. Some other methods like getElementsByClassName() work in the same manner.
However, there are yet others that will return a single result element, for example getElementById().
The way this is useful is if you wanted to iterate through a set of elements, e.g. let's say you have the following HTML:

This is list item 1

This is list item 2

This is list item 3

You can iterate through all the list elements like so:
var listElements, i, length;
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length = listElements.length;
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//do something with listElements[i]
I'm not familiar with this notation:
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How's it interpreted?
Isn't there a conflict with:
listElements = document.getElementsByTagName("li");
In addition to AussieJohn's explanation, document.getElementsByTagName() gets all the elements in the entire document with the specified tag name.
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Incorporating Healthy Foods Into Your Diet: Q&A With Katie Leeby Joseph Erdos in Uncategorized, January 22, 2013
Bobby Flay manages to stay fit and healthy even with a busy lifestyle as a chef, and he's eager to share his healthy eating and fitness plan with fans in a seven-part Web series, Bobby Flay Fit.
In Episode 5 of Bobby Flay Fit, Bobby's friend Katie Lee joins him for SoulCycle class and later meets him in the kitchen to cook breakfast dishes that are totally healthy but seem indulgent. Katie also makes healthier snacks in a bonus video.
Healthy Eats caught up with Katie to talk about how to incorporate healthy foods and routines into any diet.
What's your go-to healthy snack?
Katie Lee: I keep cut-up veggies in the fridge at all times so that I can grab them with hummus for a quick, healthy snack.
Do you have any tips for cooking healthier?
KL: Cook more vegetables! Think about making a colorful plate. Vegetables have so many vitamins and antioxidants, plus they are full of fiber, which keeps you full longer. I make protein and carbs about 30% of my plate and vegetables the remaining 70%.
What do you eat or drink before and/or after a workout?
KL: I typically work out in the morning, so I have a light bite beforehand, like a piece of fruit, and I make a green juice. Afterward, I like to have some protein. I make a smoothie with protein powder or tofu, frozen berries, a banana, almond milk, flax seeds, chia seeds and a shot of aloe vera juice.
Are there any kitchen tools or appliances that you rely on for cooking healthy at home?
KL: My juicer and my blender. I make green juices daily and I use my blender not only for smoothies, but also healthy soups.
What's the one food you could never give up?
KL: Pizza!
Make it at home:
Chili Kale Chips
Dry Roasted Edamame with Black Sesame Seeds
Hummus With Herbed Pita Crisps