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Exercise 1: Data Interpretation Table 1: Water Quality vs. Fish Population Dissolved Oxygen 0 2 4 6 8 10 12 14 16 18 Number of Fish Observed 0 1 3 10 12 13 15 10 12 131. What patterns do you observe based on the information in Table 1?2. Develop a hypothesis relating to the amount of dissolved oxygen measured in the water sample and the number of fish observed in the body of water.3. What would your experimental approach(s) be to test this hypothesis?4. What are the independent and dependent variables?5. What would be your control element?6. What type of graph would be appropriate for this data set and why?7. Graph the data from Table 1: Water Quality vs. Fish Population (found at the beginning of this exercise). You may use Excel, then "Insert" the graph, or use another drawing program. You may also draw it neatly by hand and scan your drawing. If you choose this option, you must insert the scanned jpg. image here.8. Interpret the data from the graph made in Question 7.Exercise 2: Testable ObservationsDetermine which of the following observations (A-J) could lead to a testable hypothesis. For the ones that are testable: Write a hypothesis and null hypothesis What would be your experimental approach? What are the dependent and independent variables? What is your control? How will you collect your data? How will you present your data (charts, graphs and types)? How will you analyze your data?1. When a plant is placed on a window sill, it grows three inches faster per day than when it is placed on a coffee table in the middle of the living room.2. The teller at the bank with brown hair and brown eyes and is taller than the other tellers.3. When Sally eats healthy foods and exercises regularly, her blood pressure is 10 points lower than when she does not exercise and eats unhealthy foods.4. The Italian restaurant across the street closes at 9 pm but the one two blocks away closes at 10 pm.5. For the past two days the clouds have come out at 3 pm and it has started raining at 3:15 pm.6. George did not sleep at all the night following the start of daylight savings. Exercise 3: Conversion For each of the following, convert each value into the designated units.1. 46,756,790 mg = _______ kg 2. 5.6 hours = ________ seconds 3. 13.5 cm = ________ inches 4. 47 °C = _______ °FExercise 4: Accuracy and Precision 1. During gym class, four students decided to see if they could beat the norm of 45 sit-ups in a minute. The first student did 64 sit-ups, the second did 69, the third did 65, and the fourth did 67. 2. The average score for the 5th grade math test is 89.5. The top 4th graders took the test and scored 89, 93, 91 and 87. 2. Yesterday the temperature was 89 °F; tomorrow it's supposed to be 88°F and the next day it's supposed to be 90°F, even though the average for September is only 75°F degrees! 3. Four friends decided to go out and play horseshoes. They took a picture of their results shown to the right:4. A local grocery store was holding a contest to see who could most closely guess the number of pennies that they had inside a large jar. The first six people guessed the numbers 735, 209, 390, 300, 1005 and 689. The grocery clerk said the jar actually contains 568 pennies.Exercise 5: Significant Digits and Scientific Notation Part 1: Determine the number of significant digits in each number and write out the specific significant digits.1. 405000 2. 0.0098 3. 39.999999 4. 13.00 5. 80,000,089 6. 55,430.00 7. 0.000033 8. 620.03080Part 2: Write the numbers below in scientific notation, incorporating what you know about significant digits.1. 70,000,000,000 2. 0.000000048 3. 67,890,000 4. 70,500 5. 450,900,800 6. 0.009045 7. 0.023
Hi, Welcome to JustAnswer!I can assist you with those questions. In Exercise 4 (Accuracy and Precision), it is not mentioned what is to be done? Please clarify.Thanks.
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Make money online , the Checklist
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Making money online has become the norm. Here are some of the things you should keep in mind while you venture into this trade.
The Opportunities
There are several opportunities virtually in all fields to make money online. The question is how to you know the genuine sites from scams?
The following check list should guide you on identifying the genuine websites and opportunities.
The Checklist
1. Check the websites layout and general grammar. A genuine website will not have bad grammar and one should be able to see other users of the site.
2. For writing websites, creating an account should be easy and they should not ask for your credit card details.
3. If it is a paying website, they should accept your payment without you disclosing your credit card, bank account details. It is safer to use PayPal for the payments.
4. For Freelancing websites, you should be able to see job posts from clients and contractors profiles who have actually gained contracts from bids.
5. If you are in doubt, ensure you use a search engine like Google, to search for that website's review. It is better to see what other users are saying about that website and make an informed decision. You are better safe than sorry.
My Personal Experience
I should probably state at this point that I am not an expert in this field but someday, I will be. I have been writing at Wikinut and Helium and I am loving it. I also offer freelance services at Elance and oDesk. So far, these four websites have proven to be genuine and very endless opportunities.
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Green Ideas
Here are some ideas we found to
help you Go Green. Have an idea of your own?
Click here to read other listener ideas
and submit your own.
Go Green with your
Landscaping: Watering lawns, gardens and landscapes in
the U.S. adds up to 8 billion gallons of water every day. If you
must water, only water once a week and give it a good soak early
in the morning or after the sun goes down. Check the forecast andlet
Mother Nature handle the chore for you!
Go Green with your
Electronics: That standby light on your electric toothbrush
charger, stereo system, and or computer adds about $70 a year to
your electric bill and creates up to 190 pounds of unnecessary greenhouse
gases. Instead of leaving the tv, coffee maker or batterycharger
plugged in to consume power when it's not being used; put
all of those electronics on a power strip and turn off and on when
you need them. (Fact Source: page 42 of the book, "True Green.")
Go Green with your
Laundry: Did you know that electric clothes dryer generates
more thank 6.5 pounds of greenhouse gases per load? A solar clothes
dryer – a clothesline-, on the otherhand, generates none!
If it rains consider it nature's fabric softener. (Fact Source:
page 30 of the book, "True Green.")
Go Green with your
Painting: It's true! Indoor air is three times more
polluted than outdoor air; with conventional paints being the main
contributor of the unhealthy air. Buy natural paints, stains and
finishes, or water based paints. They're better for the environment
and better for you! (Fact source: page 37 of the book, "True
Go Green in the Shower:
If you spend more than five minutes in the shower you're wasting
water. If your showers are ten minutes or longer you could waste
enough water to fill a backyard swimming pool while creating 2,200
extra pounds of carbon dioxide emissions just from the energy used
to heat the hot water. Cut your shower time in half from 10 to 5
minutes and you'll save more than 4,200 gallons of water a
year and lower your utility bill too! (Fact source: page 16 of the
book, "True Green.")
Go Green with your
Trash: It's a fact, the United States is the world's
most wasteful society; on the average every person generates 4.5
pounds of trash per day. To cut down on all that garbage we can
simply extend the life cycle of the products we use. Can that wrapping
paper be saved? That machine fixed, that container refilled or that
pair of shoes be repaired? Ask those questions before you throw
away and you'll help to save 236 Million Tons of solid waste
to the landfill each year! (Fact source: page 13 of the book, "True
Go Green with your
Water Usage: Did you know the average American family uses
102, 000 gallons of water every year and that toilets use the most
water in the home? 9,000 gallons of water per person a year to be
exact! If you don't have one of those new high efficiency
toilets, do your part to conserve water by filling one or two empty
plastic soda bottles with water and place in your toilet tank. You'll
save water and recycle the bottles at the same time. You can save
about one third of your water in the tank this way - that's 3,000
gallons of water per person!! (Fact source: the book "True
Green" page 18.)
Go Green with your
Home: Move your heater thermostat down two degrees in winter
and up two degrees in the summer. You'll save 2000 lbs of
carbon dioxide and $98 per year. For more, visit www.biggreenpurse.com.
Go Green with your
Car: You can help stop global warming by changing your
air filter. Check your car's air filter monthly – when it's
dirty, change it. You'll Save 800 lbs. of carbon dioxide and
$130 per year. For more, visit www.biggreenpurse.com.
Go Green with your
Cleaning Supplies: Many common cleaning products contain
hazardous chemicals that impact our health and the environment in
three ways: when they're manufactured, when they're used, and when
they're thrown away. You can buy alternative, eco-safe cleansers,
or you can make your own. Water, plus a little baking soda, vinegar,
and plant-based soap, will clean up almost every surface in your
home. For more, visit www.biggreenpurse.com.
Go Green with Your
Fertilizer: Every 40-pound bag of synthetic lawn fertilizer
is manufactured with the fossil fuel equivalent of 3 gallons of
gasoline. Organic fertilizers, on the other hand, are often recycled
biproducts such as corn meal, animal manure, fish emulsion or seaweed.
For more, visit SafeLawns.org.
Go Green With Your
Mower: Gas-powered lawn mowers collectively contribute
up to 10 percent of the air pollution in the U.S. Each summer. Electric
mowers are far less polluting and the newer reel push mowers don't
pollute at all. For more, visit SafeLawns.org.
Go Green in Your
Home: Turn off the lights. Turn off lights, tv's
and other electrical appliances when you're not using them. This
is a no-brainer, but it's surprising how many times we forget.
Go Green with Appliances:
Use your appliances more efficiently. Clothes dryers kept in warm
areas work more efficiently. Clear the lint filter after each load,
and dry only full loads. And don't forget that hanging clothing
outside in the sun and air to dry is the most energy-efficient method
of all.
Go Green with Your
Car: If every American's tires were properly inflated
we could save approximately 2 BILLION gallons of gas each year,
and remember junk in the trunk is only extra weight and lowers your
gas mileage.
Go Green with Your
Car: Cut driving miles and combine your trips. Each gallon
of gas your car burns releases about 22 pounds of atmospheric-warming
carbon dioxide. By reducing your driving by just five miles each
day you could contribute to keeping tons of carbon dioxide from
entering the air.
Go Green with Your
Shopping: Carry a reusable tote bag or take bags to the
store when you go shopping. There are attractive nylon mesh bags
available that can be stored easily in the glove compartment of
your car. Also durable canvas bags which take very little space
totuck away when not in use.
Go Green with Baby
Products: Disposable diapers are made of an outer layer
of waterproof polypropylene plastic. Sandwiched in between the plastic
layer and water-repellent liner is a thick later of an absorbent,
cotton-like material made from wood pulp. It is estimated that 75,000
metric tons of plastic and 1,265,000 tons of wood pulp are used
every year to make disposable diapers in the U.S.
About five million tons of dirty diapers are
buried in landfills in the U.S. each year and consumers spend at
least $100 million annually to dispose of these. Cotton diapers
cost about one-fourth of the amount of disposable diapers during
the diapering life of the child.
Go Green with Your Household Products:
Annually, more than two billion disposable razors were bought in
the U.S. alone. Today's disposable razors, made from plastic and
steel, can occupy space in the landfill for many years. Invest in
a quality razor and change the blade oruse an electric razor.
Go Green with Your Car:
More than 200 million tires are discarded each year in the U.S.
You can help reduce this amount by buying high-mileage tires and
by maintaining proper air pressure in your tires. Remember to check
your tire pressure every other time you fillyour tank.
Go Green with Your Paper Products:
Minimize the use of paper towels, plates and napkins. Invest in
cloth napkins for daily use and use reusable wiping cloths, towels
and plates -- not paper "throw aways."
Go Green with Your Batteries:
Batteries are recyclable. However, many find their way into landfills
or into incinerators where they should not be. Shop for longer-lasting
batteries (nickel-cadmium rechargeable batteries) as batteries create
a problem in disposal.
Go Green with Lighting:
Consider replacing your incandescent light bulbs with compact fluorescent
light bulbs. These bulbs can reduce energy usage per light by up
to 70%.
Go Green with Furnishings:
Vintage and second hand furniture requires no additional resources
to manufacture and can be the most green purchase of all. Quality
vintage and second had furniture can also have an excellent resale
value. Investigate a flea marketor yard sale.
Go Green with Your Materials:
Use recycled envelopes and paper that have been processed and colored
using eco-friendly practices. Refillable markers and pens are also
an eco-friendly choice, rather than disposable ones. Also, recycling
printer cartridges is often free of charge and recycled replacements
are cheaper than new ones.
Go Green with Water:
A leaky toilet can waste up to 90 thousand gallons of water a month
and a dripping faucet can use up to 20 gallons. Change the washers
on yours sinks and showers or consider new washerless Faucets. Mantainence
is the easiest and cheapest way to start conserving water.
Go Green with Gift Giving:
A hand made gift or one grown locally has a story to tell; or give
something you've discovered from your favorite neighborhood
shop. You'll save the environment from the emissions involved
in shipping. Wrap your gift usingbrown paper grocery bags, then
get artistic and decorate the package yourself.
Go Green with Brown Paper Bags:
Instead of ordering new business cards, try this…get a rubber
stamp made to include all of your Contact information, cut brown
paper grocery bags into business card size then stamp away. It may
take effort, but think of the money and trees you will save.
Go Green with Lighting:
If you already have energy efficient lighting remember, it doesn't
make sense to have the lights on when no one's in the room.
Turn out lights in rooms or parts of the house that aren't
being used and teach family and friends to follow your lead. Fluorescent
light bulbs are another energy saver when it comes to lighting you
Go Green with Appliances: Appliances
are the second biggest users of energy in your home. When in need
of new appliances, look for the most energy-efficient models. Look
for the EnergyGuide label and Energy Star rated products.
Go Green with Heating:
Try using less hot water by aerating your faucets - they will enhance
spray while minimizing your water usage, turn down the thermostat
on your water heater, insulate your water heater or purchase a new,
more energy efficient one.
Go Green with Your Gadgets:
Consider getting a solar powered charger for all of your portable
electronic devices. Your cell phone, camera, laptop, MP3 player
and PDA can all be charged with solar energy.
Go Green with Water:
Turn the shower off while soaping up and shampooing, or consider
installing water saving, low flow shower heads. Some models feature
a "pause button" to let you stop the water while soaping
up or shampooing.
Go Green with Lighting:
The best source of light is the sun and it's free. Make the
most of daylight by keeping your window blinds open. If building
or renovating a home you will benefit by installing as many south
facing windows as possible if you live in the northern Hemisphere.
Go Green with Your Wardrobe:
Buy vintage or used clothing or donate your old clothing. One man's
trash is another man's treasure! You'll be giving your
unwanted clothes a new life and possibly support charity at the
same time.
Go Green with Heating Your Home:
A well positioned and slow-rotating fan can help ensure that heat
doesn't drift up to your ceiling but spreads throughout the
Go Green with Water:
Get drinking water from the tap by attaching a filter to the faucet
or use a filtered pitcher Instead of bottled water. Not only is
most bottled water more expensive per gallon than gasoline, it is
packaged in not so eco-friendly plastic bottles.
Go Green with Your Meals:
Grow your own fruits and vegetables. In the window box, garden,
or greenhouse. You'll be surprised what you can "produce"
with not a lot of space.
Go Green with Renewable Energy:
Your utility company may offer a green power option. Using this
program, the local company buys renewable energy (solar power, wind
power, etc.) and passes it along to you, their customer. Cost is
sometimes a bit higher, butnot much, and it helps support clean,
green power supplies.
Go Green with Your Car:
Institute a "no idle" rule when waiting to pick up someone
from work, school, home or a trip to the store. Turn off your engine
while you wait.
Go Green with Water:
Turn off the water while brushing your teeth or shaving and always
wash a full load of laundry or dishes. When hand washing dishes,
fill up the sink – one side with soap for washing, the other
side without soap for rinsing.
Go Green with Your Wardrobe:
Take care of your clothes. When you get home, change out of work
clothes and into your comfy clothes. Don't do dirty work like
check the tire pressure or cook in the Clothes you want to wear
in public. Learn how to sew on a button or get the name of a good
tailor or seamstress for big jobs.
Go Green with Heating Your Home:
Most heat loss occurs through and around windows so draw your drapes,
especially at night. During the day leave North facing windows uncovered
to take advantage of Winter sunshine. You can buy insulated drapes
or line your drapes with old bed sheets or other material.
Go Green with Lighting:
Dimmer switches can give you just the right amount of light, timers
can be programmed to turn electric powered devices on and off and
motion sensors can be a convenient and efficient way to turn on
and off lights when needed.
Go Green with Gift Giving:
The packaging might be part of the gift itself, or utilize reusable
wrapping like gift bags, the comics page in the newspaper, or use
a brown paper grocery bag instead of commercial gift wrap.
Go Green with Water:
Be alert! Report open hydrants, broken pipes and excessive waste.
Don't be shy about pointing out leaky faucets and drips to
your family and friends, they may have tuned out that dripping sound
a long time ago.
Go Green at Work: Bring
your lunch to work in reusable containers, it's the healthiest
and greenest way to eat at the job. If you order out, place a large
order with co-workers and bring in reusable utensils, plates, and
Go Green with Your Meals: Buying
seasonal, local food cuts back on the climate-change impacts of
transportation, generally uses less packaging, is fresher and tastier,
and supports local growers.
Got a great idea of your own?
Want to check out what other Summit listeners are doing to Go Green?
Click here to read and submit Go Green


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Stephen Waxman M.D.
Dr. Stephen Waxman is board certified in Internal Medicine and emergency medicine. He is a Clinical Assistant Professor in NYUs Department of Medicine and formerly was an attending physician and educator in the Department of Surgery/Emergency Medicine. Dr. Waxman has also held a variety of administrative and educational positions in emergency medical services at Bellevue Hospital Center.
Dr. Waxman earned his bachelors degree from the University of Pennsylvania. He received his medical degree at SUNYs Downstate Medical Center. He completed his internship at Kings County Hospital, Brooklyn and his medical residency at Montefiore Hospital, the Bronx.
He is board certified in Internal Medicine and Emergency Medicine.
Contact Info
135 East 37th Street
Contact Number: 212-684-5061
Medical School
SUNY - Downstate Medical Center
New York, NY
Internal Medicine
Kings County Hospital
New York, NY
Internal Medicine
Montefiore Hospital & Medical Center
New York, NY
American Board of Internal Medicine
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What We Know
- Bravely Default is a the spiritual successor to Final Fantasy: The Four Heroes of Light for the Nintendo 3DS and 2DS. It might not officially be a Final Fantasy game, but it sure as heck looks like one.
- Bravely Default was developed by Square-Enix and was originally released in Japan in 2011. After significant interest from fans, Nintendo announced earlier this year that they would be publishing the game in North America, Europe, and Australia. The version we're getting is actually an expanded version, dubbed Bravely Default: For the Sequel in Japan, that includes a number of new features designed for the forthcoming sequel.
- The game features a jobs system inspired by games like Final Fantasy V and Final Fantasy Tactics. Combat is turn-based and involves optionally over-playing your turn for a chance at greater damage, leaving you vulnerable during future turns.
Release Date: December 5th, 2013 (Japan); December 6th, 2013 (Europe); December 7th, 2013 (Australia); February 7th, 2014 (North America)
I look forward to much gnashing of teeth over the microtransactions
I wish it would hurry up and get here. I can't wait.
It's effectively a short cut for people who are impatient. I doubt it'll get much use among most RPG players. But we'll still whinge about it anyways
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It's effectively a short cut for people who are impatient. I doubt it'll get much use among most RPG players. But we'll still whinge about it anyways :)
I have absolutely no problem with that system as described. :)
Same here. But people (not necessarily here) wailed when they revealed microtransactions in Plants Vs. Zombies 2, so yeah.
Ditto, can't wait for this one!
February 7th in North America.
Woo! Day one Perch!
EDIT: Oh for crying out loud, February is looking increasingly like I'm just handing Uncle Ninty my wallet. (Auntie Squeenix too)
I am ready!
Another trailer probably not much new stuff but hey February is a long way away so this helps tide me over.
Very excited for this!
I can't see the title without thinking of someone going through the process of bankruptcy in a stoical and vaguely optimistic fashion.
Having said that: wow, that looks fantastic! The visuals are very original FF:Tactics brought forward to current standards. I just hope it doesn't release too late here, I'm still waiting on SMT IV for crying out loud.
Edit: Oh hey, I checked, we actually get it December this year. /dance
You get it before we do. December 7th in Australia.
Yeah I checked up on the release date shortly after posting. Yay!
Release date delays are really weird, especially for stuff out of Japan that often has months long differences between the EU and NA releases. I've never quite understood that.
Looks like the hope that "Europe first" also meant "better voice acting", as it did with Xenoblade and The Last Story, was too much to hope. Alas.
Xenoblade had good voice acting?
...well, I liked the voice acting. Compared to most JRPG's, at least. I don't remember it being painful, at least, and was fine leaving it on English.
Ditto, I rather like Xenoblade's voice acting in English.
Do special/limited editions have more game content or is it just physical items like the art books, music, cards.....? I'm going to pre-order the just the game but I would be upset with myself if the special edition had more game play. any thoughts?
A few reviews to tide those of us in the US over
Sounds to me like they should've called it Final Fantasy XVI.
Why is it taking 2 months longer to get to the US? They can't claim translation issues if EU/UK/Aussies are getting it this week.
I'd argue "framerates" or whatnot that keeps NTSC and PAL from playing nice, but it's on a 3DS, not a TV. And I'm actually not sure if NTSC or PAL matters much in regards to HD Televisions, either.
I dunno. Nintendo is just starting to love Europe more.


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Actress Jenny McCarthy greeted fans Monday at the Arcada Theatre in St. Charles before her husband, Donnie Wahlberg, took the stage.
Another Evening with Donnie Wahlberg and Special Guests had The New Kids On The Block member performing in the town where he married McCarthy in 2014.
Chrissie Butkus of New Lenox waited for McCarthy to appear on the red carpet as audience members formed a line down the block an hour before the concert began.
"I want to meet her," Butkus said. She is also a big fan of New Kids and said her favorite song is "Step by Step."
Other New Kids joined Wahlberg on stage, as well as Naughty By Nature and Boys II Men. An...


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UMKC researchers in several multidisciplinary, interprofessional collaborations are achieving the Triple Aim of Healthcare: improving the patient experience, advancing the health of populations and reducing per capita costs of care.
Jannette Berkley-Patton: Health Disparities and HIV Prevention
Jannette Berkley-Patton is Assistant Professor of Psychology and Director of the UMKC Community Health Research Group. She is currently the principal investigator of a National Institute of Mental Health-funded project to develop HIV intervention strategies in African American churches. In collaboration with Calvary Community Outreach Network, she is conducting studies on HIV prevention and screening in African American churches in the Kansas City metro area and in Montgomery, Ala. Her research efforts played a critical role in the founding of the Heartland Health Network, a coalition of community partners working together to address health disparities by promoting wellness and facilitating health research in the African American community, funded by a three-year, $1 million grant from the National Institutes of Health. She is also a co-investigator, with the Heartland Health Network, of a National Institutes of Health-funded grant project focused on enhancing the capacity of African American churches and the ability of researchers to fully collaborate on community-based health science research. The UMKC Community Health Research Group supports collaborative community research and provides doctoral and undergraduate training in community participatory research. Her additional research interests include communication strategies to increase health-service-seeking behaviors among underserved populations.
Lynda Bonewald: Bone Biology
Lynda Bonewald is the Curators' Professor, Lee M. and William Lefkowitz Professor, Director of the UMKC Center of Excellence in Dental and Musculoskeletal Tissues, and Director of the Bone Biology Research Program in the UMKC School of Dentistry. Bonewald is a pioneer in the study of an elusive cell embedded in mineralized bone, the osteocyte. This cell was previously thought to be inactive, but she has shown that it is a regulator of our bone health and bone strength. These cells are now a major target for development of therapeutics to prevent bone loss, treat osteoporosis and accelerate bone healing. She is principal investigator for a five-year, $8.3 million grant from the National Institute on Aging, part of the National Institutes of Health, to study the relationship between osteoporosis (loss of bone density) and sarcopenia (loss of muscle mass) as people age. The research focus is on "endocrine crosstalk," or how bone and muscle cells biochemically communicate with each other in health and disease. The UMKC investigators propose that bone can act, in effect, as an "endocrine organ" to control muscle physiology and disease.
Marco Brotto: Muscle Biology
Marco Brotto, BSN, MS, Ph.D., is the Dale and Dorothy Thompson/Missouri Endowed Professor for Nursing Research. Brotto holds joint appointments at the Schools of Nursing, Medicine and Biological Sciences and is director of the UMKC Muscle Biology Group. He also serves as Director of the Center for Biomedical Research at the College of Sciences and Technology in Salvador, Brazil. Brotto is internationally recognized as a leader in muscle physiology and intracellular calcium signaling research with a prestigious record of publications in journals such as Nature, Nature Cell Biology, Aging Cell, Aging, Journal of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics, as well as 15 years of consecutive grant funding. Since coming to UMKC, Brotto has had seven grants funded as a Principal Investigator or Co-PI, and was instrumental in the growth of the A&P program from 190 to 450 students per year.
Sarah Dallas: Mineralized Tissue Research
Sarah Dallas is a Professor in the UMKC School of Dentistry Department of Oral Biology and a member of the Center of Excellence in Dental and Musculoskeletal Tissues at UMKC. Dallas performs research in bone cell biology, with a particular interest in bone extracellular matrix proteins and their assembly, cell and matrix dynamics in bone and the mechanisms regulating the transition from osteoblast to osteocyte. Dallas directs the Microscopy Core and Histology Core Facility for the Mineralized Tissue Research Program, and is the principal investigator for a $500,000 National Institutes of Health grant that funded the purchase of a Leica TCS SP5 Laser Scanning Confocal Microscope System for the program. The system provides 3-D live cell imaging of sub-cellular structures that can be resolved down to 0.1 micrometers, approximately 1/1000th the width of a human hair.
Peter Koulen: Vision
Peter Koulen is the Professor and Felix and Carmen Sabates Missouri Endowed Chair in Vision Research at the University of Missouri–Kansas City, and is the Director of Basic Research at the Vision Research Center, a collaboration of several UMKC schools and Kansas City medical centers working to better diagnose, prevent and treat eye disease and vision disorders through translational research. His research aims for new therapies for protecting the retina and optic nerve in chronic degenerative eye disease. This degeneration is one of the leading causes of loss of quality of life and productivity in the U.S. and worldwide. The research goal is to develop drug therapies that will be both preventative and therapeutic, complementing existing treatments.
John Spertus: Heart Disease and Patient Outcomes
John Spertus is the Lauer/Missouri Endowed Chair and Professor of Medicine at UMKC and the Medical Director of Outcomes Research at Saint Luke's Mid America Heart Institute. Spertus, collaborating with other UMKC researchers, Washington University, Harvard University, the University of Kansas Medical Center and the University of Colorado, discovered that Americans might be spending hundreds of millions of dollars more than necessary on drug-coated stents that provided no more medical benefit than less expensive metal stents that keep narrowed heart arteries open after angioplasty. Spertus' outcomes research has led to the creation of Health Outcomes Sciences, an Overland Park-based biotechnology startup that could become a large regional employer to further develop Kansas City's life sciences economy. Spertus' research focuses on methods for assessing patients' health outcomes, measuring health care quality and the use of information technology to guide medical decision-making so that treatment can be safer, more cost-effective, evidence-based and patient-centered. He developed the Seattle Angina Questionnaire and the Kansas City Cardiomyopathy Questionnaire, both of which have been translated into more than 50 languages and are recognized as the gold standards for measuring patients' symptoms, function and quality of life in coronary artery disease and heart failure.
Charles Van Way III: Shock Trauma Research
Charles Van Way is the UMKC School of Medicine Sosland/Missouri Endowed Chair of Trauma Research, Professor of Surgery and Director of the UMKC Shock Trauma Research Center. The Center is engaged in research to develop new treatment strategies to reduce the amount of cell death that occurs following shock. Besides studies in shock, the research programs of the Center include basic studies to understand the molecular events that allow cells of the immune system to "recognize" the presence of microbes and microbial products, and to communicate that information to white blood cells. Van Way's research centers on hemorrhagic (bleeding-driven) shock, and explore the basic mechanisms of cell injury during hemorrhagic shock and resuscitation, and to identify changes which produce long-term damage. In the past several years, his research team has carried out basic and clinical studies of the genomic response to shock and injury, and has developed several potential therapeutic agents for the treatment of hemorrhagic shock. Currently, his team is exploring the mechanisms by which cells adjust to the low-oxygen environments which characterize septic and hemorrhagic shock.


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About Us 8 Feb 2013
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With a useful directory including education, health, birthdays, activities, shopping and a section for mums, the site provides a one-stop source of continually up-dated services and activities. A popular What's On section, bi-monthly newsletter, a brand new blog and social media ensure parents are constantly informed on current events.
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Sportsmen along river believe hatchery in jeopardy of closing
Some Heber Springs residents believe they may be catching the bad end of a possible deal to close a local fish hatchery.
A nesting ground for fish around the Little Red River helps replenish the waters known as a heaven for trout fishing, but if federal programs decide to close the hatchery it may diminish more than just the sport of fishing.
"It'll dramatically change this river," said trout guide Lowell Myers.
Myers with Sore Lip'Em All Guide Service has been guiding groups to beds of trout for more than two decades on the Little Red River, but without more of these slippery fish his profession could hit rock bottom.
"You're going to see a lot of guides who will have to do something else. You'll look at a lot of fly shops who will have to do something else," Myers added.
"You think about just the property value here that's along this river. If there's no fish it's going to decline."
According to the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service for every $1 of the hatchery's budget, $122 was put back into the local economy.
One of the primary uses for the Greers Ferry National Fish Hatchery is to keep the Little Red River stocked with rainbow trout because the fish aren't able to reproduce at a strong rate themselves.
Working to keep the facility open is a battle Myers said the area goes through every year, needing the breeding grounds to stay open so that more casts don't come up empty.
"It's been a yearly battle. Over the past several years there's always been some issues in funding for the hatcheries," he added.
A member of U.S. Fisheries & Wildlife Service in Atlanta told Channel 7 Wednesday it just finalized a study of all the hatcheries in the U.S., but has made no actions to close any of them, and wasn't sure when a decision could be made.
Congressman Rick Crawford introduced a bill to Congress in June that could require federal agencies to continue funding many of these hatcheries.


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Rupnagar, Nov 2 (UNI) Three more prosecution witnesses in the disproportionate assets case against Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal and others, deposed in the local court here, today.
The prosecution witnesses, Chief Parliamentary Secretary (Cooperation) Jagdeep Singh Nakai, Haryana State Industrial Development Corporation, Panchkula Assistant General Manager Ms Sudesh and Assistant Manager Rajinder Kumar Tiwari deposed in the court of special Judge G S Saran and by and large supported the prosecution story.
Mr Nakai stated that he got his education from Lawrance School Sanawar (Himachal Pradesh) from 1974 to 1979 with Mr Badal's son, Sukhbir Singh Badal and had good relations with him (Sukhbir).
He stated that he had purchased two flats at Barakhamba road, Delhi, through Munjal Leasing Limited Delhi in 1997 at a cost of Rs 21.08 lakhs. Munjal Leasing Limited had taken the sites from Som Dutt builders at a cost of Rs 15.16 lakhs.
He stated that he had transferred the flats in the name of Sukhbir Singh Badal in 1997 and received Rs 21,11,200 from him in installments.
Later, he returned Rs 3,200 to Sukhbir Badal.
The prosecution witnesses Ms Sudesh and Rajinder Kumar Tiwari produced the record pertaining to the allotment of Orbit Resort in the court.
With this, total 41 prosecution witnesses have deposed in the case so far out of which 25 have turned hostile.
Yesterday, two prosecution witnesses, Oriental Bank of Commerce Anandpur Sahib Branch Manager Jit Singh and constable Balbir Singh had deposed in the case.
After the completion of the depositions, the court fixed November 26 and 27 as next dates for further prosecution evidence.
All the accused except the Chief Minister, Surinder Kaur Badal and Sukhbir Singh Badal were present in the court during the hearing of the case.


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Rain eases for launch of Fieldays extravaganza
The stormy weather made an exit from the Waikato providing a clear morning to kick off the opening day of the 46th National Agricultural Fieldays at Mystery Creek.
Rain may have settled in during yesterday afternoon but Fieldays chief executive Jon Calder said he was happy with the number of people at the event on day one.
"Given the weather we had overnight, we're really happy with the way things have started out," Calder said.
"When we actually opened the gates we had semi-clear sky overhead and no rain, which was a bonus. Despite the odd shower, the day's been pretty good.
"We had about 22,000 [people] on site at midday, so it will probably be slightly down on what we were expecting compared with last year's number but, hey, given the weather we've had, probably to be expected."
Calder said 37 countries, including China, were represented by international visitors this year.
Site managers were making the best of the first day of the event, which concludes on Saturday.
Swanndri production manager Allan Brown said business on their site had been steady and he was reasonably happy with the traffic that had come through.
"Compared with last year it's quieter and if you look outside, it's quieter partly because apparently there are a lot of road closures too.
"It's been steady, and I would say it's about 70 per cent of where it was on the first day last year."
Brown was confident numbers would pick up through to Saturday once the weather settled.
Milk Bar's Brian Whyte also said site traffic was down but sales were about the same.
He believed genuine buyers had turned up at Fieldays while the weather kept the "lookers" away.
Farmers he had talked to on site were feeling very upbeat, he said.
Oringi Ltd's Chris Bousfield also thought more people would come in over the next couple of days.
"I wouldn't have come to the Fieldays based on last night's forecast, so you can't really blame people. They just postponed it for the day."
Police gave a warning for drivers to be careful on the roads around the site, with more traffic than usual in the area.
Xero New Zealand was upbeat about attendance. The first-time exhibitors and premier feature partner were "crazy busy" all day, marketing head Tarryn Brent said.
Brent said the company had been overwhelmed with interest in their farming in the cloud programme.
The event was officially opened by Prime Minister John Key, who said the farming industry was becoming "increasingly hi-tech".
Key said $38 billion per year was generated by agriculture in New Zealand and the country should be "100 per cent committed to the agricultural industry and 100 per cent committed to free trade".
The theme for the premier feature is managing resources for a competitive advantage and visitors flocked to the premier pavilion to see how the New Zealand agricultural sector can maintain its place as one of the world's best agricultural producers.
Fieldays visitors should expect showers, easterly winds today, 15 degrees Celsius. Tomorrow and Saturday are forecast to be fine but gumboots are recommended.
Today's highlights:
■ 10am, Ag Art Wear show, Fieldays theatre
■ Noon, 3pm, Suzuki Extreme Air, demonstration area
■ 1pm, Rural bachelor heat – tractor pull, tractor pull area
■ 2.30pm, Innovation Den, Innovation Centre
■ All day, Stihl NZ Festival of Logging Skills, logging skills area
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28 Jan 20104
15 Ways to Expand Your Horizons as a Designer
Do you want to spend this year doing the same things you did last year – stuck in the same schedule, the same income bracket, facing the same problems? Of course not!
Everybody needs to take some time now and then to refresh, look at how they've been doing things, and then figure out how to climb a bit higher. Here's a list of 15 ideas to help you break out of the rut and expand your horizons - some thoughts to inspire you and get you started.
27 Jan 20109
Top 10 Free Applications That Help Designers Stay Organized
As designers, it's important to stay current with new trends and to sharpen your skills when needed. But how effective can these skills really be if you're not organized? Being a cool and collected designer that's organized is key to your success. Without the discipline a designer needs in today's industry, it will be a bit hard to stay afloat when large and very important projects that require this skill come your way.
This is why we've compiled a list containing the Top 10 Free Applications That Help Designers Stay Organized. Takes these applications seriously and use them to systemize and enhance your workflow.
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5 Simple Time Management Techniques for Freelance Designers
While there are, of course, probably thousands of time-management tips and techniques, starting with the basics has a greater chance of actually changing one's habits. Follow these 5 to get started.
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10 Highly Common SEO Mistakes That Designers Make
Before diving into this article, I would first like to state that I am not a designer. I certainly hope I can call myself one in the future, but for now, I'll stick with what I know best.
Having said that, it's easy for me to write this article because as someone who has worked with a bazillion designers on so many different projects, I've seen every one of these mistakes made, of which I have to go back and correct…which is totally cool because contrary to popular belief, being a designer doesn't mean you're an SEO expert. But if you, the designer, can knock out some of this stuff before it gets to the marketing/SEO person, it would play a part in boosting productivity and efficiency, which we all know equals more money in the bank.
The following 10 mistakes are very common, and very easy to correct. If anything, at least you'll know what to do for your own personal website projects, but I can assure you that your clients will appreciate (even if they don't know it) the extra SEO effort that you can start them out with.
1. Abusing or Ignoring the Title Tag
This may be the most common mistake made when designing a website (and not just by designers). The Title tag is pretty much the first thing someone will see when they view your website in a list of search results. Not only that, but it's one of the first things a search engine sees when deciding what to rank your site for.
There are a few ways that this incredibly simple, yet important element can be screwed up:
1. Leaving the Title tag blank (see below)
2. Stuffing it with keywords (see below)
So if your title tag looks like either of the above, it's not going to do anything for you SEO wise, and more importantly, a botched Title tag will harm your overall situation as you'll lose search visitors and with keyword stuffing, potentially be penalized.
So what's the proper way to format a Title tag? It's easy, really. You want a nice, (no more than) 70 character introduction to your page, with a main keyword or two in it at most.
Example of a properly formatted Title tag:
Also, make sure you use your main keyword toward the beginning if possible (just in case your Title is longer and gets truncated), and take the time to create a unique Title tag for each page on your site.
2. Confusing Meta Description and Meta Keywords
Right, right, I know, the Meta keywords tag doesn't have much bearing (if any at all) on your rankings. The Meta description isn't seriously high on the priority list, but it's up there somewhere for a lot of folks. Just hear me out…
All too many times, I've seen the two tags flip-flopped around, and instead of entering a nicely formatted Meta description of a page, they jam it up full of 300 keywords AND they do the same thing for the Meta keywords tag. This is a very common mistake, and can easily be corrected.
At one time (long ago), these tags held incredible importance in the ranking of your site (when search engines were stupid), so keyword stuffing everything possible quickly became an effective (albeit blackhat) way to get your site at the top. Of course, this doesn't hold true anymore, and I'll go on record of saying that unless I'm being super anal about a site, I rarely mess with the Meta keywords tag anymore because it's nearly completely useless. The Meta description, however, is something that Google sees and takes into consideration when providing search results, and again, it's also one of the first things that a visitor will see after performing a search – so properly formatting it is probably worth your time.
A good Meta description should be a nice, 155 character description of your site, incorporating a few target keywords – but make it look "natural". Usually, describing your site (whether you offer services or products) in a few well written sentences should do the trick, but here is an example of a less desirable Meta description vs. a good one:
Less Desirable
Why? The "good" one takes advantage of the space they're given, uses a couple of good keywords without sounding or looking like spam, and gives the end-user a clear and concise description of the services/products offered.
What's wrong with the less desirable one? It's not the worst I've ever seen, but it's too short, and doesn't fully explain to me what they have to offer, compared to the next guy.
Just like Title tags, make sure you generate a unique Meta description for each page for maximum benefit.
3. Forgetting Image Alt Attributes
A very common mistake made among all is forgetting (or neglecting) to use good alt tags for the images on a page. Naming the image with a good keyword or phrase that describes the image is key to getting the search engines to recognize it (they can't see what's in the image…yet). Not only will it help you in places like Google images, but it will also help search engines more accurately identify what your page is about.
This one is quite simple, but just in case you need a visual…here is what the "Alternate Text" line should say for the following example:
Remember to keep your image sizes as optimized as possible, because you don't want to slow down load time for your site. This can affect spider performance when they arrive on your page.
4. Too Many H1's, or None at All
Header tags play an important role in "on-page" SEO, and properly using the available header tags can give the search engines a more clear-cut idea of the theme and idea of your page.
I've seen some projects use several H1's (do they think they're going to fool someone?), and completely ignore any other tags. The general rule is to use one H1 per page, and you want to use it for that particular page's most important keyword (in other words, the text in your H1 should pretty much portray the content of the entire page). Then use your H2's, H3's and so on.
As a designer, you should know that you can style the header tags any way you'd like, so that shouldn't be an excuse to use them improperly. H1 tags are huge by default, but with a little CSS, you can hook it up real nice.
5. Internal Linking – Not Using Good Anchor Text
This is a simple, yet potentially large issue. Internal linking (meaning, links that link pages of your entire website together) plays a part in your overall SEO situation. Google and others like to see healthy amounts of internal linking, so while its good to get in the habit of linking to your other pages in a proper, SEO friendly way.
To this day, I still see new sites that have fantastic internal linking, but they lack the ability to make the links really work for them by linking with proper anchor text. The most common instance of this is the dreadful "Click Here" anchor text. I have nothing against using "Click Here" for quick blog posts or things like that, but when it comes down to linking products or services, instead of using "Click Here" for blah blah blah, try using an anchor text that describes the page you're linking to.
Example: Instead of "Click here to see the latest iPhone cases" you could use "Check out the latest iPhone cases" (using "iPhone cases" as the anchor text).
6. Forgetting to Leave Room for Text
Designers love to use all sorts of images and graphics wherever possible, which can make for a pretty page, but don't forget to leave plenty of room for actual text!
While I hate using the phrase, "content is king", it really still holds true, and allowing your clients to have a healthy amount of text on that newly designed page will help them achieve better rankings in the long run.
Organize your pages, and don't be scared of using fancy images and graphics, just try not to overdo it. Simple, really.
7. Dirty Code
Again, I'm not a designer or coder, but I do know that Google and other search engines are not a fan of dirty, cluttered code. Having ugly and messy code can hurt your search rankings tremendously.
You want to make the job of searching the page as easy as possible on the search spiders, so that they'll keep coming back on a regular basis.
Make sure HTML is validated and W3C compliant, and to go a step further for even more gains, try to bring your website up to 508 compliance, which is designed to allow sites to be accessible by those with disabilities. This is a relatively quiet subject, but I've heard through the grapevine that 508 compliant sites enjoy an extra boost when it comes to rankings. Here's more on 508 compliancy standards.
8. Not Using Clean and Descriptive URLs
You'd think that by now, most people (even those that aren't that familiar with SEO) would know that a cleaner, more keyword friendly URL is easier for the user and the search engines, but to this day, it's still common to see URLs structured like this:
While Google and other search engines are still smart enough to find out what the page is about, there is still plenty of evidence that having a keyword descriptive URL will give you an edge when it comes to organic rankings.
An example of a search engine friendly URL:
So, why not play it safe, and make sure your URLs are looking as friendly as possible? Name your pages with keywords that appropriately describe them, and if you're using a WordPress platform, make sure and change the permalink structure to something like /%postname%/
9. Too Much Flash
We all understand that flash can make a page look extremely attractive (if done right), and that you have a wide range of design possibilities when implementing it.
However, flash is the bane of Google's existence. While Google and Adobe announced an initiative last year to allow Google to more deeply and thoroughly index and read flash, it's still not anywhere near an optimal experience.
Using flash in your site should be limited to a supplemental design element at most – and if you remember anything, don't put any important keyword rich text in the flash element where Google can't see it. There's certainly nothing wrong with incorporating a bit of flash into a page, but just keep in mind that search engine's are still pretty much blind to it.
10. Using Only Javascript Navigation Menu's
There is absolutely nothing wrong with using a fancied up Javascript navigation menu with cool drop down's and what-not. But keep in mind that search engines cannot read these navigation menus and follow them to their respective pages.
The most common and accepted way to use sweet Javascript based navigation and still allow the ability for search engine's to discover your pages? Just duplicate the menu in text and throw it in the footer. You'll see this on 9 out of 10 sites, and it is encouraged by Google to do so.
Are you making any of the 10 mistakes above in your design process?
If so, that's alright, because it's never too late to start adapting better SEO practices. Like I said at the beginning, your clients will appreciate the added SEO boost (even if they don't know it) when you design a site that has a lot of the basics already implemented. Not only that, but the term "SEO" is a hot buzzword and through personal experience, a lot of clients have heard of it, but are not quite sure what it means – so being able to proudly say that your sites are "Search Engine Optimized" could make the difference between them selecting your or your competition.


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Male contraceptive success
Success is being claimed for a male contraceptive after tests with pills and patches on 23 men.
Volunteers taking part in the study by scientists at Manchester Royal Infirmary in Britain were divided into three groups given low, medium and high doses of progesterone.
A total of 66 per cent of the men in the high dose group and 60 per cent of those in the medium group produced no active sperm after three months.
When they stopped taking the pill, their sperm counts gradually returned to normal.
The researchers unveiled their findings at the annual meeting of the British Endocrine Society in Bournemouth.
While acknowledging that the method needs to be made more reliable, they say it will lead to the first practical male contraceptive.


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For conservatives, it was a second wasted legislative session in a row. Moderate leadership, and two-dozen anti-conservative Republicans conspired with Democrats to thwart reform and push big-government agendas despite a near-supermajority of self-proclaimed "conservatives."
Here are the top-line numbers: the House average was a 46.9% and the Senate a 58%.
The House GOP averaged an anemic 63%, while the Senate GOP averaged a D+ 68.9%. The House Democrats averaged an 18.7%, while the Senate Dems averaged a 40.8%.
As we have come to expect, the House and Senate GOP committee chairs had worse ratings than their caucus averages. The Speaker Joe Straus-appointed GOP chairs averaged 10 points lower (52.97%) than the caucus, as did Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst's appointed Senate GOP chairs (58.16%).
Personnel is policy, as the old saying goes, and nowhere is that more true than in the committees — where legislation can be pushed forward or killed silently. Committee chairmanships rest squarely with the lieutenant governor and speaker in their respective bodies. (It will be up to Mr. Dewhurst and Mr. Straus to explain why they picked so many moderates to chair committees and control the flow of legislation.)
Examples of anti-conservative action by Republicans abound. In the House there were pro-ObamaCare Medicaid-expanders Reps. John Zerwas and J.D. Sheffield, Republicans who rated lower than Democrats. They, and other allies of Speaker Straus, pushed reckless public policies while refusing to even hold hearings on items like zero-based budgeting or strengthening the state spending limit.
The pervasive lack of fiscal responsibility in public policy is driven by the irresponsibility of the legislative leadership and their allies.
Simply: Texans cannot expect better policies until we have better personnel serving in those chambers.


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Rediscovering Philly
This article is freely available. Click here to download a PDF.
The AAO meets again in Philadelphia for its 113th annual session, to be held May 3-7 in the recently renovated Pennsylvania Convention Center. As a major hub of travel, culture, history, and commerce, the City of Brotherly Love has tons of attractions
and opportunities for sightseeing, education, shopping, and dining. Many websites have recently added free apps to help you find your way smoothly around town using your mobile device. . . .


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Sector Columbia River received a VHF Channel 16 call May 31, 2013, "SOS, SOS," with a reply to callouts, "I'm by the 5.1 railroad bridge on the Willamette River." The call was traced to the area around the railroad bridge near downtown Portland.
Sector Columbia River received a one-time VHF Channel 16 call "We're sinking, Mayday, Mayday," June 1, 2013. The call was traced to Longview near the Lewis and Clark Bridge.
Sector Columbia River issued urgent marine information broadcasts and launched assets in all five cases. Each case resulted in saturation of the search area with good Samaritans and other local search-and-rescue agency personnel and assets. No distress was found in any case.
When the Coast Guard dispatches vessels and aircraft in cases of false distress, it not only drains limited resources, but needlessly puts our personnel at risk. Making a false distress call is a federal felony with a maximum penalty of five to 10 years in prison, a $250,000 fine, $8,000 civil penalty and the possible reimbursement to the Coast Guard for the cost of performing the search.
Boaters are reminded that they are responsible for the safety and actions of their passengers and are encouraged to educate them about the proper use of emergency equipment including a marine VHF radio. Oftentimes passengers, especially children, may not understand the consequences of playing on the radio and reporting false distress.
In response to the high number of calls, the Coast Guard offers a reward of up to $1,000 for information leading to the arrest and prosecution of anyone responsible for making a false distress or hoax call to the U.S. Coast Guard.
Anyone with information regarding false distress calls is encouraged to contact the U.S. Coast Guard at (206) 220-7308.


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mtvU HONORS NASHVILLE COLLEGE BAND THE LONELY BISCUITS WITH A WOODIE AWARD
Band from Belmont University will open the 2013 "mtvU Woodie Awards Festival" in Austin, Texas During SXSW on March 14, 2013; MTV Presents Band with MTV Hype Music Deal
"2013 Woodie Awards" Special to Air on MTV and mtvU on Sunday, March 17 at 8 p.m. ET/PT
New York, NY – March 8, 2013 – MTV's 24-hour college network, mtvU, announced today that The Lonely Biscuits from Belmont University in Nashville, Tennessee took home the first-ever Chevrolet Sonic College Artist Woodie Award, which honors the best emerging musicians on campus. After winning the online voting competition, the band will hit the road to open the "2013 mtvU Woodie Awards" at the SXSW Music Festival in Austin, Texas on March 14. Later that day, HAIM, Timeflies, Trinidad Jame$, Travi$ Scott, Alt-J, Jake Bugg, and Joey Bada$$ will perform at the "Woodie Awards Festival," and Macklemore & Ryan Lewis, as well as twenty one pilots will take the stage at the "mtvU Woodie Awards," with additional performers to be announced. MTV and mtvU will air the "2013 Woodie Awards" special, hosted by Tegan and Sara and Machine Gun Kelly, on Sunday, March 17 at 8:00 p.m. ET/PT, and viewers will get a glimpse of The Lonely Biscuits during the half-hour show. The band's journey to Austin will also be profiled on-air on mtvU, MTV and on MTV.com.
When the mtvU film crew surprised the students on-campus earlier this week, they offered the band a deal with Hype Music. A first-of-its-kind music licensing partnership between MTV and Extreme Music, the production arm of Sony/ATV, Hype Music incubates and introduces some of today's hottest emerging, independent artists to professional music users.
"It's an honor to win the first ever Chevrolet Sonic College Artist Woodie Award," said The Lonely Biscuits. "This is huge for us. We've only been a band for a year and a half, so this is definitely the biggest opportunity we've gotten and we're just hoping to take advantage of it and have an awesome time at SXSW."
The Lonely Biscuits, formerly known as Gravy and the Biscuits, have been together since September of 2011. Founding members Grady Wenrich and Sam Gidley were random roommates at Belmont University where they started jamming and making music in their dorm room. John Paterini, current lead singer of the band came into the picture in September after hearing some of their tunes from his dorm room across the hall. Then, two months later, Nick Byrd joined as an official biscuit, playing bass guitar. Blending soul, funk, and pop with rap, The Lonely Biscuits have created a unique and chilled out sound that appeals to a wide array of people.
Each year the "Woodies" pay homage to the artists who are breaking through, and this year the show is partnering with Chevrolet Sonic to also spotlight the best emerging musicians on campus. Chosen by a panel of industry insiders including Matt Pinfield, the finalists included Kiah Victoria from the New York University Clive Davis Institute of Recorded Music, The Madison Letter from Greenville College, and Little Sur from New York University and The New School. Each was profiled on-air on mtvU, MTV and on MTV.com. Fans can still check out all of the bands at Chevy.MTV.com.
The Woodies Festival and Award Show
To harness the power of live music, MTV and mtvU are touching down in Austin, Texas during the SXSW Music Festival on Thursday, March 14, 2013. The day will begin at 1:30 p.m. CT with a host of live performances by up-and-coming artists during the open-air "Woodie Awards Festival," which will feature two stages: the "Festival" stage, and the "MTV Jams" stage. Open to all SXSW badge holders and music fans over the age of 18, the performances will lead up to the "2013 mtvU Woodie Awards," which will take-over the Festival beginning at 7:20 p.m. CT on March 14, 2013.
Music fans without SXSW badges will need a "Woodies" ticket for entry. Tickets are free and available in the Austin Convention Center on Wednesday, March 13 from 12:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. at the top of the Rotunda stairs. On Sunday, March 17, 2013 at 8:00 p.m. ET/PT, mtvU will bring the best moments from the show to MTV and mtvU in the half-hour "2013 mtvU Woodie Awards Special." The hosted special will showcase some of the best "Woodie Awards" performances and celebrate the artists who are walking away with Awards this year. Additionally, the biggest celebrities, comedians and artists will join the special to give a nod to their favorite artists.
The ninth annual "mtvU Woodie Awards" promise to be an unforgettable night of music and performances. The "mtvU Woodie Awards" originate from the indie tradition of giving a wooden record to those artists who generate a passionate response to their music. The show was established in 2004 and has since propelled numerous recognized acts to the next level of their careers – including surging record sales, headlining tours and mainstream acclaim. Examples include: The Killers (Breaking Woodie '04), Death Cab for Cutie (Best Video Woodie '05), Muse (Performing Woodie '07), Gym Class Heroes (Woodie of the Year '07), Lupe Fiasco (performed at Woodies '07), Paramore (Woodie of the Year '08), Kings of Leon (Woodie of the Year '09), Vampire Weekend (performed at '09 Woodies), Matt & Kim (Best Video Woodie '09), Wiz Khalifa (Woodie of the Year '11), Odd Future (performed at '11 Woodies), MGK (Breaking Woodie '12) and Mac Miller (Woodie of Year and Performing Woodie '12).
Official sponsors of the "Woodie Awards Festival" and "2013 mtvU Woodie Awards" include Chevrolet, Doritos, Express, The Hershey Company, Outlook.com, Pepsi and Taco Bell.
Eric Conte, Amy Doyle and Gina Esposito are the Executive Producers of the "2013 mtvU Woodie Awards." Joe Buoye is the Executive in Charge of Production. Produced by Tracy Hellerud.
About Hype Music:
Hype Music is the remarkable, first-of-its-kind, hybrid music licensing partnership between MTV and Extreme Music, the production arm of Sony/ATV, which brings together two industry powerhouses to incubate, nurture and introduce some of today's hottest, emerging, independent artists to professional music users.
About mtvU:
Broadcast to more than 750 college campuses and via top cable distributors in 700 college communities nationwide, mtvU reaches nearly 9 million U.S. college students – making it the largest, most comprehensive television network just for college students. Twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week, mtvU can be seen in the dining areas, fitness centers, student lounges and dorm rooms of campuses throughout the U.S., as well as on cable systems from Charter Communications, Verizon FiOS TV, Suddenlink Communications, AT&T u-Verse and nearly 70 others. mtvU is dedicated to every aspect of college life, reaching students everywhere they are: on-air, online and on the campus. mtvU programs music videos from emerging artists that can't be seen anywhere else, news, student life features and initiatives that give college students the tools to advance positive social change. mtvU is always on campus, with hundreds of events per year, including exclusive concerts, giveaways, shooting mtvU series and more. For more information about mtvU, and a complete programming schedule, visit www.mtvU.com.


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A girl from Gravesend is getting ready to chop off her hair to raise funds for a charity helping transform the lives of children with cancer.
Rebecca Jones, aged 15, who is a pupil at Mayfield Grammar School in Pelham Road, decided to cut her hair for charity as she thought her long blonde hair could come in useful to help make wigs for youngsters going through chemotherapy.
Rebecca will have her hair chopped off at Images Hair in Perry Street, Northfleet at 5.30pm on June 27.
So far Rebecca has raised almost £700 for The Little Princess Trust through cake sales at her school and sponsorship by teachers, family and friends. She also raised money through washing people's cars.
She said: "I thought it sounded like a brilliant charity as they care for children who are very ill and so I thought I could get rid of my long hair to raise money for them. I thought it could also help make a wig for a child suffering from cancer.
"Everyone's been very supportive and some of my friends will be coming to the hairdressers when I get my hair cut. I am having a Pixie style cut, because of the amount of hair I am donating.
"I'm quite excited and a little bit nervous."
Rebecca's mother, Dawn Miller, said: "It was all her idea. I am really proud of everything she's achieved and is doing."
You can support Rebecca's efforts and The Little Princess Trust by donating at justgiving.com/rebeccajones99


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PEOPLE in Tiverton can expect changes to their postal service after Royal Mail announced that it is to adopt a revised delivery route.
It has written to every address in the town about the changes, including households, businesses and other organisations.
Many people in Tiverton will continue to receive their mail by lunchtime, but Royal Mail said delivery times will depend on where people live on the new delivery route.
A statement said: "Fewer letters are now posted every day and Royal Mail needs to organise its delivery routes to be as efficient as possible.
"We also deliver more larger items, so we're investing in new equipment to carry these items to customers even more securely.
If customers have any queries after they have received a letter they can call the Royal Mail Customer Services Team on 0845-6011399.
Deaf and hard of hearing customers can use the textphone number 0845-6000606.


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Here is a list of events and goings-on in the world of genealogy blogging. Here's what is happening in the coming week:
Daze of the Week!
Some of you may have noticed that in each Genealogy Blogging Beat we now feature national holidays and some of the more offbeat holidays. Here are some dates next week to look out for so you can plan your blog posts for next week:
- 6 September: National Read A Book Day.
- 7 September: America's Cup Finals begin, Grandma Moses Day, and "Neither Snow Nor Rain" Day.
- 8 September: Galveston Hurricane – Anniversary, First Miss America Crowned – Anniversary, and National Grandparents Day.
- 9 September: California – Admission Day.
- 10 September: World Suicide Prevention Day.
- 11 September: Patriot Day – National Day of Remembrance.
- 12 September: Defenders Day – Maryland, and Jesse Owens – 100th Birthday.
- 13 September: Blame Someone Else Day, Friday the Thirteenth, Star Spangled Banner Day, and Yom Kippur (begins at sundown).
Happy Blogiversary!
If your blog anniversary is coming up soon, make sure it gets on our GeneaBloggers calendar! Remember to send your blog anniversary info to GeneaBloggers.
Genealogy Conferences and Events
Conference Keeper is the resource to help you keep track of upcoming conferences on the national, state and local level! You can also learn more about call for paper and exhibitor deadlines and more! GeneaBloggers is proud to partner with Conference Keeper to make sure the genealogy community has the latest information on genealogy and family history related conferences in one convenient online location.
Genealogy Webinars This Week
From the GeneaWebinars site:
"We provide information about how to attend genealogy-related online meetings, classes, hangouts, seminars and webinars, where there is a visual slide share and/or website or software demo for attendees to view.
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CALLS have been made for a slip-way in Newport city centre to aid rescues in the River Usk.
Councillor Paul Hannon for Beechwood says he is concerned the job of saving those who find themselves in the water is hampered by the lack of a launch site and slipway in the city centre area.
He said he and Cllr Majid Rahman, both Newport council members on the South Wales Fire and Rescue Authority (SWFRA), "fear that the delays in launching and reaching the rescue site may lead to an avoidable fatality."
However cabinet member for human resources and assets, Cllr Mark Whitcutt, said a previous feasibility study into the idea found a scheme could cost more than a million pounds.
Cllr Hannon said there have been a number of people finding themselves in the river requiring rescue from the fire service - an issue that is growing with the housing developments along the riverbank.
He said crews at the moment have to use a site in Uskmouth.
Cllr Whitcutt, speaking on the matter at a council meeting, said the council previously undertook a feasibility study into a launch area on the river.
However due to the need to procure land and piling to compensate for changes in tide levels the scheme was thought to be "cost prohibitive" and was valued in excess of £1 million.
He said the council would work with partner agencies, in particular the SWFRA, and will co-operate fully in the identification of a suitable site in council ownership.
"But as there is no budget for a scheme of this nature we would need to consider how such a scheme would be funded," he added.


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Here are some interesting things that have happened in my life recently:
Leading Women/Building Communities Award
On March 12, I received the Ontario Government's "Leading Women, Building Communities Award" for "exceptional community leadership to improve the lives of women and girls in Ontario" which was presented by Leona Dombrowsky, MPP for Prince Edward-Hastings and Minister of Education.
"What an honour" is such an understatement! I am grateful to her for nominating me for this prestigious award and will do my best to live up to its name.
PELA/CFDC promotional video
I was interviewed, in English & in French, for a series about people in the creative industry in the County. Here is the link to the English version:
So You Think You Can Dance Quinte
I have been asked to participate in a local Quinte version of "So You Think You Can Dance" as a fundraiser for Volunteeer Information Quinte and Big Brothers/Big Sisters. It will be held at the Yardman Arena in Belleville, ON on Friday May 14th. My partner is David Allen, Regional Director, YMCA Belleville & Quinte and we will be meeting our choreographer this week to choose our music, dance style & choreography. It's going to be a lot of work over the next few weeks but I'm up for the challenge. And, it's for a great cause! Tickets are $20 and can be purchased through Volunteer & Information Quinte: www.viq.ca
Helsinki, Finland in June 2011
I have been invited to the International Congress for BPW International (Business & Professional Women) to sing "Women of the World" in their 4 official languages: English, French, Spanish & Italian. I should probably learn a Finnish phrase or two, as well!!
This Is My Canada sweatshirts
I still have a few sweatshirts left – $40 each or 2 for $30 each. I will be ordering t-shirts in April. Both are available by emailing me with your orders.
New album
I've been in studio for the past few months working on my newest album which I hope to release this summer. It will include "The Sound of Haiti", "Angels", "Spirit of Peace", "The Power Within", "Secret Dreams", to name a few. And, of course, you will be among the first to know about it!!
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With an eye-catching 20-storey black tower and a location at a traffic hub, the international pharmaceutical company Ferring has become a landmark of Ørestad City.
With its distinctive 20-story black tower and location at a traffic hub, Ferring has become Ørestad City's landmark. From Malmö, Sweden, the tower looks like a black line against the sky, and when a visitor sees it from close up, looking along the glass façade with black metal shutters, the impression is dizzying. Ferring's employees moved into the building in 2001 and were the first "residents" of Ørestad City.
The building consists of two parts, designed for the facilities that they house. Ferring's laboratories are placed on the three-story building that circles two green courts. The laboratories are on the west, away from Kay Fiskers Plads and the throng of people around the Metro and the Field's shopping mall. Employees have plenty of space and peace to concentrate on research. The administrative section is located in the transparent 20-story tower built up of glass and vertical, black-lacquered metal slats that give a good horizontal view from the building. To passersby, the façade seems to change colors with reflections on the metal slats. On the ground floor, the paving on the square seems to merge with the floor of the foyer, separated only by large expanses of windows.
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Erlanger Health System awarded $1.7 million in executive bonuses but had to absorb $82 million in uncompensated care costs in fiscal 2010.
Now the hospital is making a last push to get its usual slice of public funding.
Since 1976, Erlanger has received money from the Chattanooga-Hamilton County sales tax agreement to treat indigent county residents. For years, the annual allotment has been $3 million.
That changed when the agreement expired in May. County Mayor Jim Coppinger's proposed 2012 budget has only $1.5 million for Erlanger.
Now the public hospital, which turned a profit the last two years, potentially faces a $1.5 million budget hole if the city won't make up the difference.
But Chattanooga Mayor Ron Littlefield and the City Council have expressed reluctance to include Erlanger in the list of quasi-governmental agencies it will support now.
Doug Fisher, vice president of governmental and community affairs for the hospital, criticized what he saw as a lack of initiative from local officials.
"It's a game of chicken between the city and the county," he said. "We're the ones that lose."
Chattanooga City Council Chairwoman Pam Ladd said funding from the city is "pretty much off the table."
"[Erlanger has] been successful," she said. "Perhaps they can look at scaling back some, like we're all having to do."
A total of 110 management-level Erlanger employees split $1.7 million in bonus payments in October 2009. Last December, total bonuses rose to $1.9 million.
But the government funding game isn't over. City and county lawmakers have yet to approve their budgets, and those deliberations typically take a few weeks - plenty of time for Fisher to make his case to local elected officials, he said.
"We're not giving up yet," he said. "We're not taking it lightly."
Fisher said it's difficult to pinpoint exactly how the hospital's indigent program would be affected by a lack of funding, which covers everything from "the working poor" to gang members with gunshot wounds.
"I'm not sure that really matters because the reality is, we continue with our mission," he said, adding that Erlanger hasn't begun considering how to pool extra money if local governments don't pony up.


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Squash Ribbons Recipe
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These pretty vegetable ribbons will dress up your dinner plate. The combination of summer squash and zucchini, shared by our home economists, is steamed and well seasoned for a healthy side.
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- 1 small yellow summer squash
- 1 small zucchini
- 3 teaspoons butter, melted
- 1/4 teaspoon onion powder
- 1/4 teaspoon dried rosemary, crushed
- 1/8 teaspoon salt
- 1/8 teaspoon dried thyme
- 1/8 teaspoon pepper
- With a vegetable peeler or metal cheese slicer, cut very thin slices down the length of each squash, making long ribbons. Place in a steamer basket; place in a saucepan over 1 in. of boiling water. Cover and steam for 2-3 minutes or until tender.
- In a small bowl, combine the butter, onion powder, rosemary, salt, thyme and pepper. Add squash and toss to coat. Yield: 2 servings.
Originally published as Squash Ribbons in Quick Cooking November/December 2005, p65
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Reviewed Mar. 28, 2012
"This recipe was Ok but not great. I thought it tasted a little like medicine and was mushy."
Reviewed May. 28, 2010
"Next time I will try to cut the slices thicker - cut mine with a regular vegetable peeler & got too "mushy". The family agreed I should try this again because it tasted good. I also used Mrs. Dash Herbs instead of thyme because I didn't have any and left out the salt."
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"This had really nice flavor, but it was sort of a pain slicing the squash into little ribbons. Sure it looked nice but it would have tasted equally good if I'd sliced it normally, and it would have been a lot quicker."


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In the midst of one of the most culturally religious times of the year, how do Americans perceive religion's potential power and its influence on society? According to a November 2003 Gallup Poll*, most Americans say they think religion is losing its influence in America, yet most also say they firmly believe in the power of religion to solve today's problems.
The percentage of Americans who believe religion is "increasing its influence on American life" has dropped significantly since February, from 46% to 32%. This continues a decline from the immediate post-Sept. 11 environment. A December 2001 poll found 71% of Americans saying religion was increasing its influence, and the percentage steadily dropped since then. The current levels are similar to those Gallup measured before Sept. 11.
While most Americans believe religion is losing its influence, a solid majority (61%) believes that religion can "answer all or most of today's problems." This trend has remained in the 60% range over the past decade, unmoved by Sept. 11. The percentage who say religion can answer contemporary problems is currently the same as the percentage who say religion is "very important" in their lives.
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In the aftermath of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, many Americans -- including political leaders -- turned to their religious faith for comfort and reassurance. Church and synagogue attendance increased, albeit slightly and briefly -- and for a while it seemed at least that people had become more aware of their faith and the faith of others. It is therefore not surprising that Americans perceived religion to be increasing its influence on society during this period.
As the immediate impact of the attacks faded and things returned to normal, perceptions of the influence of religion reverted as well. As indicated by a May 2003 Gallup Poll**, 67% of Americans believe that "the state of moral values in this country as a whole" is "getting worse." This finding suggests a general pessimism about American culture and society, and reflects the perceptions of a decline in the influence of religion.
However, Americans do believe that religion can answer today's problems, even though they do not see evidence of such answers being lived out on a large scale in American society. This apparent contradiction may reflect Americans' inherent duality: they feel frustrated but hopeful. Their sense of moral stagnation is tempered by the idea that the potential for improvement exists, and that religion can help. To the extent that that mindset prevails, religious leaders have an opportunity to challenge their members to not only hope for a better tomorrow, but to put their faith into action to create a better today.
*These results are based on telephone interviews with a randomly selected national sample of 1,004 adults, aged 18 and older, conducted Nov. 10-12, 2003. For results based on this sample, one can say with 95% confidence that the maximum error attributable to sampling and other random effects is ±3 percentage points. In addition to sampling error, question wording and practical difficulties in conducting surveys can introduce error or bias into the findings of public opinion polls.
**Results are based on telephone interviews with 1,005 national adults, aged 18 and older, conducted May 5-7, 2003. For results based on the total sample of national adults, one can say with 95% confidence that the margin of sampling error is ±3 percentage points.


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Chocolate Puddings
The front of the card (number 15 in a series of 16) features the title text, Chocolate Puddings. A recipe for Chocolate Shortening Pudding follows, plus two brief modifications for Chocolate Tapioca Pudding and Chocolate Bread Pudding. The back of the card is blank.
Donor: Sliker, Shirley Brocker
Brand Name: Ghirardelli
Publisher: D. Ghirardelli Co. (San Francisco, Calif.)
1952 (ca.)
7.6 x 12.7 cm
Language: English
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Citation: Chocolate Puddings. The Alan and Shirley Brocker Sliker Collection, MSS 314, Special Collections, Michigan State University Libraries. Available at http://www.lib.msu.edu/exhibits/sliker/detail.jsp?id=7813


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