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Do stock returns lead real economic activity? Evidence from seasonal cointegration analysis
This paper investigates the causal relationship between the stock returns and real economic activity in seasonal unit roots and seasonal cointegration framework by taking into account of seasonal behaviors of the stock returns and industrial production as a proxy of real economic activity. We use seasonally unadjusted quarterly Turkish data series that covers the period from first quarter of 1987 to the third quarter of 2009. The empirical results support evidence for the existence of the causal relationship between stock returns and real economic activity. We determine unidirectional causality running from the real economic activity to the stock returns in the six-monthly term. The empirical findings support that only the real economic activity provides the forecasting ability for the stock returns and there is no feedback relationship between the stock returns and the real economic activity.
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The Pines on Fire Island in 1981 was outrageous, wonderful and carefree. It was a playground, mainly for gay men long oppressed and now out with a fabulous vengeance.
The opening moments of HBO's "The Normal Heart," premiering Sunday, perfectly capture the unbridled hedonism and expectations of fun. The magnificent film correctly portrays that snapshot, in which the predominant color was white, but within a few years would shift to unrelenting funereal black.
When the film opens, AIDS was unknown. By the end, the final sentence reminds: "Since 1981, more than 36 million worldwide have died. More than 6,000 people every day are infected with the virus."
In an epidemic, it's impossible to grasp the situation because the numbers are staggering. But in this beautifully told story, adapted from Larry Kramer's play, we get to know people, not numbers.
Mark Ruffalo and Matt Bomer star as lovers.
As wonderful as this movie is, it is tough to watch because it shows the hideous ravages of AIDS and the emotional tolls it took as it swept through the gay community.
Besides sterling performances — Julia Roberts in a wheelchair, portraying the doctor who was felled by polio as a child but who's a warrior for her patients; Bomer's terrifying transformation; and Jim Parsons re-creating his role as a gay health administrator from the Broadway play two seasons ago — the movie resonates because it nails the bewilderment, agony and fury of the time. Taylor Kitsch and Jonathan Groff also star.
Director Ryan Murphy does such a wonderful job, the film should come with a warning: Do not plan to do anything after watching. Viewers will need recovery time.
The actors found making it emotionally draining.
"There was one day where we shot the marriage scene, and you are always in tear-jerk mode, and you are sort of in the middle of it and just reflecting too much," Ruffalo says. "I just started sobbing and could not stop for an hour. It was just too much. The whole thing just dropped on my shoulders, the enormity of the suffering, the cruelty, the ugliness between the unnecessary loss of life and unnecessary infection. We were in the hospital where thousands of people had died from AIDS. It was a real hospital, and I could not help but feel the dread and suffering crowding into that little room that day."
Bomer also cites that moment with his character on his deathbed, as he and his lover profess their undying love to each other — decades before gay marriage was a political issue — as one of the most emotional he's experienced.
As Felix, a New York Times writer, Bomer goes from his usual stunning, buff self to skeletal for this movie. He stopped weighing himself when he lost 35 pounds but kept shedding weight.
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Ruffalo spent time with Kramer, on whom his character, Ned, is based. Bomer spoke with a Times reporter who explained what newsrooms were like 30 years ago.
When Ned approaches Felix, it is to get him to write about the disease. No one knows what is happening or why, only that gay men are dying horrible, painful deaths. The first stories, buried in the paper, referred to a gay cancer. No one knew what to call it.
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MXGP Insider No.21 presented by Kawasaki – KTM dominate in Valkenswaard
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Welcome to our web-exclusive weekly column: Transmoto's MXGP Insider, presented by Kawasaki. It's penned by Holland-based Aussie ex-pat and World Motocross fanatic, Geoff Meyer, who has seen more MXGP pit paddocks than most; a man so passionate about the sport that, in his early days, he used to hitch a ride from event to event. "MX Geoff" as he's now known also runs MX Large website and MX Illustrated digital magazine.
The Red Bull KTM Factory riders, Antonio Cairoli and Jeffrey Herlings, continue to prove just how amazingly talented they are in the sand. Last weekend in Valkenswaard, Holland, the Italian and Dutchman scored 1-1 victories for their third consecutive win at the eurocircuit.
Cairoli who has gone 1-1-2-2-1-3-1-1-1-2-1-1 in the was six years has always looked at home at Valkenswaard and this year he looked more comfortable than ever. The five-time World Motocross Champion just did what he had to and must have huge confidence going into Sevlievo, Bulgaria, in two weeks time.
"I like the track here and everything went perfect," Cairoli smiled. "Already after the qualification the bike was better, we changed some things. We had two good starts and good races. Steven (Frossard) was fast and pushing, I tried to follow, then he made two mistakes and I got him back. I tried to do the second race with a good start, but I made a mistake on the second corner. Christophe (Pourcel) broke hard and I nearly crashed, but I got to fourth quickly and got into third and followed them (Frossard and Desalle). I knew I had some speed and I saw them battling hard and I waited for the moment and then I used some speed to pass them. I have been practicing more on hard-pack and Bulgaria is an easy track and everyone will have good speed there. I want to be on the podium there. Also in the first race I had problems with the lapped riders, because a lot of blue flags, but the riders didn't see it or didn't want to move. We need to have a meeting and let them know what the blue flag is for."
As for Herlings, he couldn't have asked for a better start to the season. His lap times were at times three seconds a lap quicker than his rivals and his winning margin proved nobody was in his class.
"I could hear the fans," Herlings smiled. "The last few laps of each moto, I heard the fans screaming my name, which was nice. I love to come here and I won the last three years with double moto wins, I would love to race every GP here. I didn't know but my friends made some funny hats and I wore that on the podium. It was just for fun and has something special. I had a bad drop out of the gate in the second moto, but then I checked out and won by 30 seconds or something. I need to work on my starts and get the holeshot for Bulgaria. The 250 is running more like a 350 now; we did a lot of testing and it's really strong. I just need to get the starts. It's not my fault, we need to work on the bike for that. It's a new engine and you can't expect too much. I want to keep growing in everything and also the riding. If I am going to lose the title I was going to lose it on the hard pack, but I am working on that to improve my skills there."
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DEBATE on whether or not more needs to be done to stop women smoking while pregnant has raged on the Herald Sun Facebook page.
New data shows that one in seven Australian women still smoke during pregnancy, despite evidence it is putting the health of their baby at risk.
Many readers feel that it there should be more counselling and help provided for pregnant women who have the urge to light up, while others have defended the notion of it being the ultimately the mother's choice.
"I am disgusted when I see pregnant women smoke. Think of your unborn and all the dangers that you are inflicting on that precious gift," Natalie Lee said.
"While I agree that it is the mother's choice, perhaps not quite enough is being done to educate them of the risks. Perhaps research with imagery (fetal sonograms) showing how smoking effects fetal growth over time during pregnancy?'' Chris Giddings suggested.
"They of course should make every effort to stop. But Smoking IS an addiction, and some can stop more easily than others. Not everyone can do it,'' Andrew Couch said.
Other mums shared their experiences and many felt that it should not be up to the public to judge and enforce a ban on smoking while pregnant.
"I smoked with all my pregnancies and my gorgeous children are very healthy children. They never had any asthma or chest infections so why are we so against smokers? What about drinkers? We drive a car when pregnant and still drink and drive. Time to get off our case. What happened to Australia being a free country?" Tracy Ryan said.
"People need to keep their opinions to themselves. It's a mother's choice. She knows the risks," Jessica Busuttil said.
"I'm one lucky mother who loves my kids though some have stated I should be jailed because I smoked with my pregnancies or have my kids taken off me because I smoked. I have never done hard drugs nor drank grog. I have two very healthy boys to prove it with no complications, no low birth weight nor repertory problems." Joanne Braxton said.
New national maternity data shows pregnant women in public hospitals were four times more likely to report smoking, compared with private patients.
But in a positive shift, the overall smoking rate decreased between 2004 -2009, from 16.7 per cent to 14.5 per cent respectively.
The Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW) report on maternity indicators also showed there are big geographical and socioeconomic differences.
For instance, 13 per cent of women in cities smoke, compared with 36 per cent who live in very remote areas.
Last month, Australian media personality Chrissie Swan was criticised after she confessed to smoking during her pregnancy.
Executive Director of Quit Victoria Fiona Sharkie said research showed about 40 per cent gave up when they found out they were pregnant, a phenomenon known as squitting: spontaneous quitting.
The remainder struggle to kick their addiction.
Ms Sharkie said women need to know that quitting was the best thing they can do for their own health, regardless of whether they were pregnant.
"We can be very judgmental of these people, but what we know is that they need a lot of support and encouragement to give up,'' Ms Sharkie said.
Victorian mother of three Jane Compton-Robins, who has been smoking intermittently for 22 years, gave up smoking during each of her pregnancies, but began again straight after the births.
"I gave up when I found out that I was pregnant because my husband wanted me to and I didn't want it to affect my kid's health.''
She doesn't smoke around her children, but she still plans to quit.
Smoking during pregnancy increases the chance of a pre-term birth, placental complication and perinatal death.
Tobacco smoke exposure also been linked to Sudden Infant death Syndrome (SIDS), childhood diabetes and obesity.
Your Fertility spokeswoman Louise Johnson said smoking can also affect the chances of getting pregnant and the time it takes to conceive.
"Many people don't realise that smoking affects fertility for both women and men and that passive smoking is almost as harmful to fertility as active smoking,'' she said.
It is estimated the negative effects of smoking on fertility are reversed about a year after quitting.
The AIHW report also shows caesarean sections have risen from 25.3 per cent in 2004 to 27.1 per cent in 2009.
ACT and NSW had the lowest rates and the highest were in Queensland and NSW.
Almost a third of all births in private hospitals were c-sections, compared to 22.6 per cent in private hospitals.
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Everybody loves to go to the movies. Some more than the others. But not many want to see a documentary film, hung up as they are on fictionalised narratives which transport them to a magical world of make-believe. We all want to see a Salman Khan bashing up baddies by their dozens, and when we walk out the theatre, a bit of the actor's character would have seeped into our psyches. We may not have Khan's six abs, but we would like to feel our muscles and dream of those ripping ones we saw on the screen.
But there is another kind of movie that fills the screen with images which provoke us to think, even get angry. This is the documentary film, often called the poor cousin of the narrative or feature movie. Documentaries have very little popular appeal, and this is not just in India, but the world over.
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Teneros discovered this problem when it installed an ACA rated for 250 Exchange users at a customer site with 65 employees--all of them BlackBerry users. Because one BlackBerry user is equal to approximately 4.5 standard Exchange users, the ACA was "struggling," says Lewis. Similar performance problems happen when users have very large Exchange databases.
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MultiHasher is an excellent file hash calculator
MultiHasher is a very well-designed file hash calculator which comes packed with essential features and functionality.
The good news starts with the download. It's free, a compact 2.75MB and entirely portable, just unzip and run.
You're then able to add selected files, a folder, a folder tree, a path, even a running process. The program immediately calculates and displays CRC32, MD5, RIPEMD-160, SHA-1, SHA-256, SHA-384 and SHA-512 hashes (you can enable or disable any of these individually if you're not interested).
If necessary, the results can be saved using various checksum formats (SFV, SHA1, SHA256 and so on). Reopen that list later and MultiHasher will rerun its calculations, compare the latest hashes with those saved and highlight any files which have changed.
Integrated VirusTotal support means you're able to query VirusTotal with the hash for any file, a very fast way to check whether it's malware.
You're able to search online for any of these hash values, too. If a file on your system has been renamed then this could reveal its true identity.
Bonus features include optional Explorer integration, allowing you to calculate file hashes directly from their right-click menu.
But perhaps best of all, MultiHasher comes in an interface which consistently works as you'd expect. You can resize the window, double-click a hash for more details, right-click to view other options, press Ctrl+A to select all the hashes, Del to delete them. It's all very straightforward.
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FRIDAY: Looking for commerce
I returned to IBM's main island determined to find an IBMer who could answer some questions. I didn't find such a person, but I had a long chat with a well-dressed wolf who said he was from FurNation. He said he was only there to use the public "sandbox," which is provided by IBM, to build things. There are a number of such sandboxes in SL, where residents can go and unpack the bits and pieces in their "inventories" and then work to assemble them into useful objects, such as furniture, vehicles or fashion accessories.
I told him I was trying to find out if companies in SL made any money. Virtual companies make real money, he said, "selling furry avatars, sexual bits, weapons and the like," while real companies like IBM only advertise and recruit. The wolf was not applying for a job at IBM, it seemed, but he thanked IBM for providing the sandbox. I asked if I might photograph him in front of it, but he refused.
Still fretting about bandwidth, I traveled next to the Cisco Virtual Campus and walked into the Cisco Training Center. A sign indicated that it was for use only by Cisco partners and employees, which raises the question of why it's on the public Internet and not on a Cisco intranet.
In any case, I found neither partners nor employees in any of the training rooms, and no books, computers or training materials of any kind. Never had it seemed so reasonable to ask if there really was a there there.
SATURDAY: Looking for romance
I can't share all the details with you. Suffice it to say I found two choices. I could go to some more or less respectable place and approach some more or less respectable-looking women and chat them up. I did that. Some just walked away, and some made polite small talk and then walked away. I think one problem was I had not taken the time to tweak my appearance, so I still looked like a boring nerdy newbie -- no tattoos, no jewelry, no big muscles, no flashy, body-defining clothes.
The other choice was to go to some raunchy place devoted to orgies and just join in. I didn't do that. OK, I went to some but I didn't join in. That wouldn't have been "romance," would it?
SUNDAY: Reflection
To say I tried everything in SL would be almost as ludicrous as saying I have tried everything in my first life. Readers who are experienced SLers will argue that if I had only done this or tried that, or joined such and such a group, I would have seen the magic in this virtual world -- which, after all, has attracted 10 million registered users. Perhaps. But I can only report the disappointments as I encountered them, as seen by a real person during a short sojourn in a virtual world.
The user interface is slow, clunky and primitive, at least compared with what's available in the best computer games today. Graphics are flat and poorly nuanced, and image downloads would try the patience of Job. But perhaps my biggest disappointment, since I write for corporate IT managers, is that the corporate presence in SL is so tentative and rudimentary, in most ways inferior to the companies' own Web sites.
To be fair, most of these companies are experimenting, and their islands in SL are nascent works in progress. But I will now reveal to these companies what they need to do, so they can then buy huge numbers of Linden dollars with the real dollars they save on focus groups.
Each major company location in SL should be staffed with a real person, at least during business hours. If some friendly and attractive avatar at the Cisco center had approached me and said, "Yes, sir, how may I help you?" and then had given me useful answers to my typed in questions about training, employment opportunities or products, I would have fallen out of my chair with amazement and delight.
Yes, I know that would cost serious bucks. One or more real people would have to be paid real dollars to do that. But if a company can't make its virtual experience substantially better -- and I mean really head-and-shoulders better -- than its existing Web capabilities, it might as well not bother.
Because my wolf friend isn't going to buy an IBM computer because he spotted it through the window while playing in the IBM sandbox. The IBM island must be a destination deliberately sought out by people with an interest in IBM, with the knowledge that they will have a really cool virtual experience there while being treated like a real human by a real human.
So will I return to SL? I probably will one day. But first I have to knock out that Windows/Linux story.
Gary Anthes is a national correspondent at Computerworld.


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British Troops Complete Withdrawal from Basra Base
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JONATHAN RUGMAN, ITV News Correspondent: Moving on and out. Under cover of darkness, British tanks rolling through the streets of Iraq's second-largest city. Iraqis reportedly cheered their departure, not that we were allowed to be there to see it, for these pictures were supplied by the Ministry of Defense. This operation shrouded in secrecy and high security, for like the end of many a British colonial enterprise, this was no victory, merely recognition that Britain's time is almost up.
LT. COL. PATRICK SANDER, Commanding Officer, 4 Rifles: This marks the point where there will be no more British forces based in Basra City itself. So we will withdraw back to the contingency operating base out of the airport.
And this is the point, really, where we ask the Iraqis, the Iraqi security forces, to start to take the responsibility for the security of Basra themselves. I think that's the right thing to do, because the longer that we're here, the more they are — well, the less inclined that they are to run things for themselves.
A city under siege
JONATHAN RUGMAN: At Saddam Hussein's former palace, the last post sounded the end of four years of occupation. The British commander here said many of his soldiers had arrived as boys and were leaving as men after months of heavy fighting. And even the Iraqi raising his flag was wearing a flak jacket just in case.
For though this handover was cordial, preplanned, and expected for many months, the situation the British leave behind them is not one they wanted, for British troops leaving here have been living under virtual siege, in a city dominated by rival factions, militias and criminal gangs, where the police are widely derided as corrupt, where many ordinary Iraqis view today's pullback as the defeat of an occupying power.
MAHMOUD AL-BACHARI, Local Journalist: I feel happy about the British army withdraw from the center of the city, and my happiness will be full if they were to withdraw from all Iraq.
Replaced with neutral forces
JONATHAN RUGMAN: Yet the Iraqis replacing the British at the palace are not from Basra at all, in the hope of keeping them neutral. Still, the British have trained up to 14,000 troops in all, and they have faith in their Iraqi commander, General Mohan, who's no doubt relieved that last week's ceasefire by one of the biggest Shia militias has helped smooth the British withdrawal.
LT. GEN. MOHAN, Iraqi Commander, Basra (through translator): We told those who were fighting the British troops that the Iraqi forces are now occupying the palaces, so they have behaved, except for simple violations.
JONATHAN RUGMAN: In the last 24 hours, 550 troops have left the Basra palace complex to join the 5,000 British forces already at the airport, five miles from the outskirts of the city. Their mission now: to continue training Iraqi forces and to back them up when required.
Mistakes of the British
JONATHAN RUGMAN: Although some British forces are sleeping in tents, the airport's been reinforced to protect it from a regular barrage of mortar fire. How useful they can be remains to be seen, with the whole of Basra province expected to be handed over to Iraqi forces in the coming weeks. Iraqi forces have been trained, but according to the U.N.'s leading expert on nation-building, the British may have made a fatal mistake.
LAKHDAR BRAHIMI, Former U.N. Special Representative in Iraq: Where they probably got it completely wrong is in the training of the police. They were supposed to be training a national police, but that's not the fact what they did, is hand the police largely to the militias. The militias are all tied up some way, one way or another to Iran, but they're also fighting one another.
JONATHAN RUGMAN: The storming of Basra palace was a propaganda coup in its day, as was the sight of soft helmet patrols, amid talk of spreading democracy and peace. Yet 168 British personnel lie dead. A complete withdrawal seems unlikely for now. Not only might the Americans object, but if Basra's violence continues many bereaved might wonder what their sacrifice was for.


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Things to See in Boston — Head of the Charles
My wonderful friend who lives in the Boston area invited Kevin and me to go to the Head of the Charles with her and her husband. Not knowing anything about it we agreed to go :). Turns out it was amazing! (not that I didn't think it would be… we just didn't know what it was or what to expect) So, for those of you who don't know, it is actually called the Head of the Charles Regatta and is not a place (although it is that too…) but an event! This is the world's largest two day rowing event. It was so much fun! Read more →


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Betting on Carl Froch vs. Mikkel Kessler Rematch:
We've been waiting months to see the highly anticipated rematch between the Dane Mikkel Kessler and the Brit Carl Froch, who last fought back in 2010 as part of the Super Six Tournament. Then, Kessler won fairly comfortably, although Froch and his team disputed the decision. Since that time, a lot has changed in the careers of each man, and even with that previous win, Kessler is not coming into the rematch as the betting favorite.
Keep in mind that the betting odds are always shifting right up until the fight. However, right now, Froch is rated as the favorite in the fight, going off at about -240, while Kessler is being given odds of about +190. Of course these are not exactly long odds either, suggesting that plenty will be gambling on the Dane to come out on top again. For boxing fans and betting fans there are a lot of issues at stake in this match, from patriotic support for Froch to the awareness that if Kessler should lose, the Dane has already hinted that he may retire should he fail to win.
Since Kessler defeated Froch in the first match, he has largely been on the shelf with injuries, and hasn't scored any top-level wins. Froch went on to lose to Andre Ward – who also defeated Kessler before that – but came back in spectacular fashion by trouncing the then undefeated Lucian Bute. It seems as if he has still been improving, and that he's fresher, while Kessler has fallen off.
Of course, we'll have to wait until fight night to see how the action plays out. In addition to betting on the outcome of Froch vs. Kessler II, and other bets on the match, such as the over/under for the length of the fight.
Be sure to check back in with ProBoxing-Fans.com later in the weekend for full Froch vs. Kessler results coverage, and see how your bets on the fight turned out.


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With a couple exceptions, area high school swimming is not exactly brimming with options when it comes to locally hosted invitationals. Perry runs its invitational in late December/early January every year, but a pre-Viking Invitational event has not normally been in the cards -- until now.
Chardon played host to its first Hilltopper Invitational on Saturday at SPIRE Institute in Geneva, using the event to get its name out in the local swimming community and also as a charitable tool during the holidays. Joining Chardon in the 22-school field were fellow News-Herald area squads Beaumont, Harvey, Kirtland, Notre Dame-Cathedral Latin, North and Riverside.
"For us, it was extremely important," Hilltoppers coach Rebecca Repasky said. "We don't get a chance to swim schools like Magnificat and Bedford, and I was actually just speaking with the Edgewood coaches and they were saying the same thing.
"We're not going to swim at Viking or going to be traveling an hour to swim at an invitational. Bringing these teams to SPIRE was a great opportunity, not only for my swimmers but for other teams as well."
Several N-H area winners were crowned in the non-team scored event:� Harvey's Jeremy Preston (50-yard freestyle), Riverside's Baxter White (100 butterfly) and Nate Jerry (500 free), Kirtland's Ben Kehres (100 free) and NDCL's girls 400 free relay.
Chardon hopes to make this an annual part of the local calendar, and by all accounts Saturday's event served as a great springboard toward that goal.
"We were motivated by wanting to do something for others," Repasky said. "We used this as an opportunity to give back to our community.
"It went great. We had just shy of 400 swimmers, and what was neat to hear was all of the coaches kept commenting how kids were dropping time. It's rare for them to get to swim at such a great facility as SPIRE. For them to come and be a part of that dropping time -- my kids dropped a lot of time -- it was nice to be a part of that. It was very neat and went very well."
The event also made donations to local families.
Viking time
Psych sheets are out for Saturday's Viking Invitational, and as usual the N-H area is well represented among top-two seeds:
Boys -- Hawken's Micah Simpson (first, 100 fly and second, 200 free) and Henry Senkfor (second, 200 IM and 500 free), West Geauga's Gabe Nock (second, 50 free), Mayfield's Grant Gillenwater (second, 100 free) and Chagrin Falls' Austin Quinn (first, 100 back)
Girls -- Gilmour's Macie McNichols (first, 100 free) and 400 free relay (first) and Hawken's Carrie Bencic (first, 200 free and 500 free), Kaitlyn Cerne (second, 100 fly and 500 free), Marissa Cominelli (first, 100 back and second, 200 IM), Sarah Koucheki (first, 100 fly and 200 IM) and 200 and 400 free relays (both second).
Honor roll
A look at a few of the top performances by area swimmers from meets held this past week:
-- Brush's Alexandra Iosue was first in the 200 IM and 500 free and swam legs on the winning 200 medley and 400 free relays in the Arcs' 95-71 Northeast Ohio Conference dual win over Normandy.
-- Robbie Armstrong took the 200 IM and 100 breast and was on the first-place 200 medley and 200 free relays for Madison in a 111-65 victory over Perry.
-- Kenston's Kayla Korenowski won the 100 free and 100 back and took part in the winning 200 medley and 200 free relays as the Bombers recorded a 135-44 CVC Chagrin win over Perry.
Leaders debut next week
Area leaders will debut Dec. 21 instead of this week in order to account for times from Viking. Most times are compiled from the Northeast District leaders on swimmeet.com. Area coaches have been contacted about submitting additional times that may also qualify for N-H leaders.


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I have always loved to write songs, poems and stories for as long as I can remember and obviously I was over the moon when I discovered Fanfiction.net. I actually found it after I watched the one and only season of Wolf Lake for the millionth time and in a fit of dispair over the stupid cancellation of the show went looking for something (anything) to do with wolf lake and the story of the main Characters Sophia Donner and Lucas Cates. I love reading and watching so many different TV shows and therefore often have a vivid imagination of what should happen between the couples of the stories. So I completely intend to enjoy the other authors stories and hopefully find others who will enjoy my ideas and stories.
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Fauzia, Zulfar and Othman, Fadil and Sohaili, Johan and Ni'am, Moh Faiqun (2006) The magnetic field on physicochemical properties pertaining to magnetic treatment in wastewater. In: Managing Changes Proceeding 3rd Bangi World Conference On Environmental Management, 2006, Bangi.
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Wastewater treatment is concerned with environmental protection and with the reduction of pollutant discharge into the environment. Magnetic technology is a physical treatment technique, which is commonly used in water processing industry. Magnetic treatment is an alternative simple approach by which the water to be treated flows through a magnetic field and consequently changes some of its physicochemical properties. Alteration of physical and chemical properties in the mode of magnetic treatment implies a certain influence of magnetic field on the structure of water. This research is mainly focused on the capability of magnetic field to increase sedimentation process through circulation flowing method, which will be conducted using the settling tube test. According to the designed system, the efficiency to dissolve the concentrations of SS, BOD, NH3-N and COD were evaluated by measuring the remaining concentrations at the output the device. The study reveal that longer exposure time to magnetic field and lower flow rate will enhance the settling of suspended particles and the concentrations of BOD, NH3-N and COD in wastewater.
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Sadly, Charles Lockwood of UCL died today as the result of a motorcycle accident, it is reported by John Lynch (who in turn was notified earlier today). Lockwood was a morphologist trained at Wits in South Africa with a post doc at the Institute of Human Origins at Arizona State University (formerly of Berkeley). I think he moved fairly recently to the University College London.
Here's a recent (late last year) story in the Times on Lockwood's work.
Please read John's blog post on Lockwood.


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Hard-to-survey populations
As we saw a few weeks ago with the unexpectedly high frequency of virgin births, it can be hard to measure rare things accurately in surveys, because rare errors will crowd out the true reports. It's worse with teenagers, as a new paper from the Add Health study has reported. The paper is not open-access, but there's a story in MedicalXpress.
So imagine the surprise and confusion when subsequent revisits to the same research subjects found more than 70 percent of the self-reported adolescent nonheterosexuals had somehow gone "straight" as older teens and young adults.
"We should have known something was amiss," says Savin-Williams. "One clue was that most of the kids who first claimed to have artificial limbs (in the physical-health assessment) miraculously regrew arms and legs when researchers came back to interview them."
This wasn't just data-entry error, and it probably wasn't a real change; after some careful analysis they conclude it was a mixture of genuine misunderstanding of the question ("romantic" vs "sexual" attraction), and, well, teenagers. Since not many teens are gay (a few percent), it doesn't take many incorrect answers to swamp the real data.
It doesn't matter so much that the number of gay and bisexual teenagers was overestimated. The real impact is on the analysis of health and social development in this population. In Add Health and at least one other youth survey, according to the researchers, this sort of error has probably led to overestimating the mental and physical health problems of non-heterosexual teenagers.
Thomas Lumley (@tslumley) is Professor of Biostatistics at the University of Auckland. His research interests include semiparametric models, survey sampling, statistical computing, foundations of statistics, and whatever methodological problems his medical collaborators come up with. He also blogs at Biased and Inefficient See all posts by Thomas Lumley »
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When someone says that the respondents "misunderstood" the question, it usually means the question writers were the ones with the misunderstanding.
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The question writers are paid to make sure that the questions have the right meaning to the target audience.
Although to be fair, sometimes really bad questions have to be included in order to compare against some other surveys.


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From Arcadia Publishers, as part of their Images of America series,
we are very pleased to announce our newest publication:
by the Northfield Historical Society
This book is dedicated to all in the Northfield community --
past, present, and future. Without any of you, this book could not have been possible.
Contains 126 pages of historical Northfield photographs with captions. Many photos are published for the first time!
NHS volunteers who were principal authors are: Karen Halsted, Christopher Delmas, Donald Boardman, and Linda deNeergaard.
In a support role are NHS volunteers of the "cataloging crew": Joanna Caswell, Ingrid Eriksen-Wilson, and Kay Schlueter.
The price is $20.00 (Same price if purchased in person or mailed.)
Available from the Northfield Historical Society and Northfield Pharmacy
Mailed orders need to be pre-paid.
Make check or money order payable to the Northfield Historical Society and mail to:
Northfield Historical Society
Attn: Northfield Book Order
PO Box 422
Northfield, VT 05663
(We are not able to process credit cards.)
Green Mountain Heritage : the Chronicle of Northfield, Vermont : Revised Index, Updated Appendix (through January 1, 2010), Northfield and War Veterans List is now available!
The Revised Index, etc. updates Northfield's own town history, originally published in 1974 by the Northfield Town History Committee. Although the original history is now out-of-print (see listing below on how to obtain a copy), the index that was included in the book left a lot to be desired. We were fortunate to get a grant from IBM to have the book re-indexed by a professional indexer who is also a Northfield resident, Isabel Weinger Nielsen. At the same time, we decided to update the various Appendix entries that are featured in the original book. We also realized that the town's history did not include a comprehensive list of Northfield veterans who served in the military from the Civil War through the Vietnam War, so we included those names as well. This publication supplements the original 1974 town history.
Price: $15.00 + $5.00 postage (for single copy) if mailed (Add $1.50 postage for each additional copy)
To pick up a copy in person, please contact us by email or phone (see below) to make arrangements.
Checks, cash or money order only (we cannot accept credit cards or PayPal)
Make checks/money order payable to Northfield Historical Society.
Send orders to: Northfield Historical Society, Book Order, PO Box 422, Northfield, VT 05664
As soon as we receive payment, your order will be shipped. If ordering more than one copy, please remember to add $1.50 for postage for each additional copy ordered. Questions? Contact us at 802-485-4792 or by email at email@example.com.
The Society has published or sponsored several publications over the years. Below is a list of titles that are available for purchase. Some titles are in limited quantities, so please contact us if you are interested in purchasing. Postage is $5.00 for a single copy and $1.00 each for each additional copy or item. We can only accept pre-paid checks or money orders at this time.
To order, it is best to contact us by email:firstname.lastname@example.com
Please include the title(s), quantity, and your complete mailing address.
Green Mountain Heritage : the Chronicle of Northfield Vermont / by the Northfield Town History Committee (c1974). Currently out-of-print; check with used book dealers. Copies avaliable from Pat Nelson, a local used book dealer and Society member. Part of the proceeds go to the Society. To order from Pat her email is: email@example.com
My Little Life : a Girl Growing Up in the Forties / by Jane E. Bryant, Northfield resident (1997). Limited number of copies for sale, $14.95. (268 p.)
Northfield at War, 1941-1945 (2nd ed. c2002). Copies available for sale, $7.00. (170 p.)
Northfield in the Bicentennial Year / by the Northfield Bicentennial Committee (1976, rev. 1999). Free if you pick up.
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Early childhood (~4-6 years of age) is an important window for determining body composition trajectory and may be a critical period for the development of tissue partitioning patterns that influence later disease risk, including obesity and type 2 diabetes. As adiposity accelerates during this critical period, deposition/ preservation of fat stores may be sustained at the 'expense' of other tissues; i.e. energy homeostasis may be inherently biased toward fat gain. The type and amount of tissue mass accrued in early childhood has implications for metabolic profile, glucose/insulin homeostasis, hormone profile and resting energy expenditure.
The interplay between fat and bone deposition represents a physiologic trait enabling the body to choose between shuttling 'energy' towards accrual of a particular tissue. Plausibly the phenotype underlying obesity and diabetes risk may be determined by the differentiation of cell type (adipocyte, osteocyte, etc.) during this early stage of growth and development. In vitro studies demonstrate transdifferentiation under the influence of specific external stimuli, which can switch phenotypes toward other cell lineages. Further, rodent models have demonstrated that exposure to stimuli (exercise) early in life may prevent excess fat mass accrual in adulthood, even when the stimulus is later removed (animals are no longer exercising). Children's early experiences (engagement in physical activity) may 'environmentally induce' alterations in body composition and predispose individuals to diabetes throughout life (Figure 1).
Hypotheses and Specific Aims: Early growth patterns and cell differentiation may induce long term effects on body composition by impacting biological and hormonal axes that regulate childhood body composition. Body composition comprises not only absolute mass, but also aspects of size, shape and location. To that end, the following specific aims will be evaluated:
Quantify body composition, adipose tissue distribution, and relative tissue ratios using magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and dual-energy x-ray absorptiometry (DXA).
- Hypothesis: Early partitioning of 'resources' toward fat mass accrual will lead to decreased gains in bone mass that may persist long-term.
- Hypothesis: Partitioning of tissue toward fat at the expense of bone mass (and indirectly, lean mass) will result in adverse effects on glucose/insulin metabolism, total energy expenditure, resting metabolic rate and hormone signaling.
- Hypothesis: Children with greater levels of physical activity (energy expenditure) will have greater partitioning towards bone (and lean) mass.
Quantify adipose tissue distribution and adipocyte cell size and number using MRI and histological techniques.
- Hypothesis: A relatively greater amount of bone marrow adipose tissue will be apparent in those children with low levels of physical activity, resulting in the preferential differentiation of pluripotent stem cells towards adipocytes vs osteocytes in the bone marrow cavity.
- A relatively greater adipocyte cell number will be apparent in those children with low levels of physical activity indicating greater differentiation of MSC towards adipocytes vs osteocytes.
|Changes in Bone Mineral Content Changes in Bone Marrow Adipose Tissue
|Study Type:
|Study Design:
|Observational Model: Cohort
|Official Title:
|Tissue Partitioning in Early Childhood: A Critical Period for Obesity Risk?
- To evaluate if early life experiences may induce long term effects on body composition by impacting biological and hormonal axes that regulate childhood body composition. [ Time Frame: 1 year ]
Biospecimen Retention: Samples With DNA
Samples will be labeled with the study protocol number, a unique identifier, and the date of collection.
Blood specimens will be obtained by the nursing staff at the PCIR. The PCIR processing lab will process the samples, which will then be stored in a locked freezer at -80oC in the restricted access CNRU Metabolism Core lab (WEBB 337).
|Study Start Date:
|December 2009
|Study Completion Date:
|June 2011
|Primary Completion Date:
|December 2010 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)
|Ages Eligible for Study:
|3 Years to 7 Years (Child)
|Sexes Eligible for Study:
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|Non-Probability Sample
Inclusion Criteria:
- Healthy
- Aged 3-7 years
- Not taking medications known to affect body composition or metabolism
Exclusion Criteria:
- Not meeting inclusion criteria
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT01041794
|United States, Alabama
|Birmingham, Alabama, United States, 35294
|Responsible Party:
|Krista Casazza, Krista R. Casazza PhD, RD/Assistant Professor, UAB, University of Alabama at Birmingham
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
|NCT01041794 History of Changes
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|Study First Received:
|December 30, 2009
|Last Updated:
|April 18, 2012
Keywords provided by Krista Casazza, University of Alabama at Birmingham:
body composition
fat distribution
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As reported by a variety of Pittsburgh media outlets, the Monessen Valley Independent and WPXI prominent among them, the annual basketball rivalry game between Pittsburgh (Pa.) Brentwood High and Monessen (Pa.) High turned extremely ugly when the two teams tried to head to their respective locker rooms for halftime. Before the players could leave the floor, three fans from the visiting Brentwood student section ran onto the court in full-body banana suits.
The fans surrounded the Monessen players and allegedly began making monkey noises and hurling racial epithets at the Monessen players, with no one entering the fray to stop the horribly inappropriate catcalls.
"I was appalled and shocked," Monessen parent Terri Payne told WPXI. "I was like, 'I can't believe they're doing that, and they didn't do anything about it.'"
Disturbingly, other Monessen parents claim that the Brentwood players hurled similar racist epithets themselves, calling the Greyhounds "monkeys and cotton pickers," as one Monessen fan told WPXI.
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"You do not have to babysit the people from leaning or touching the cars."
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When I ate at Molly's during June "Restaurant Week," the place should have been at least as packed as Ruth's Chris was the previous night. The food was vastly better, the wine list more interesting and sophisticated, with smarter choices for less money. Yet barely half the tables were occupied, all (judging from overheard conversations) by hard-core foodies and winies (not "winos," nor a "nation of whiners" plunging into mental recession; from what I heard, everyone sounded pretty bright). So, just like the last time I reviewed Molly's, it's time to sound the trumpets in another wake-up call: Molly's may be a restaurant in a hotel, but it's a chef's restaurant first. Don't let the conventioneers keep it for themselves. Yes, it's a bit pricey, but no more so than is the norm in the Gaslamp, and you get a much better payoff in food quality, craftsmanship, and professional service — not to mention free parking.
Unlike most chains, the Marriott's local restaurants (another is Arterra in Del Mar, and another Roy's is about to open here on Harbor Drive) put the chefs and not the suits in charge of the food. (You can thank a food-forward manager named Steve Pagano, who ran the Del Mar location and was promoted to a higher slot in this one.) In fact, the Marriott is hip enough that instead of advancing some corporate drone, they appointed Molly's distinguished sommelier, Lisa Redwine, as the restaurant's general manager. (Only Amy Winehouse could beat that for an apt sommelier name, but Lisa was a more appropriate person for the job.) Lisa left a few weeks ago for the Shores — you can still read her legacy in the smart wine list — and now chef Timothy Au is in charge. This mode of operation is incredibly rare at American hotel chains. You may find it at a boutique chain like the Kimpton's or at a Euro-style luxury chain like the Ritz Carlton, but — wow — at a middle-class Marriott, where even I have occasionally stayed? Obviously, somebody at the top understands the distinction between the important pleasures versus the class-based snobberies.
Chef Brian Sinnott put Molly's on the map. After he moved on to 1500 Ocean nine months ago, the equally experienced chef Timothy Au took the helm. But the restaurant seemed to lose some of its local cachet, as if foodies didn't quite trust another chef to please them as much. If there were any initial problems with the transition, however, they're no longer evident. Everything we ate was totally "au-some."
Molly's menu is seasonal and local, changing constantly. (The menu posted on the website is more an overall sample than a precise depiction of what's coming from the kitchen in a particular week.) The generous Restaurant Week menu covered many of the dishes on that week's seasonal à la carte menu (although not the most expensive choices). But tempted beyond endurance, my posse and I strayed to the regular menu, to start with a round of oysters on the half shell. That told us plenty about the new chef. The species were kumamoto and hama hama, which are as good as oysters get. They arrived with an array of garnishes: lemon wedges, semi-hot Hungarian paprika, and an unconventional mignonette consisting of chopped shallots and herbs with only the barest touch of vinegar. As someone who learned to love oysters in New Orleans (land of do-it-yourself oyster sauces), I was overjoyed to avoid the vinegar OD of standard mignonettes. Sam and Mary Jo drank the grit-free juices from the shells as eagerly as I did.
There were three choices for every course, and coincidentally we were a threesome. (Sometimes life gives you a little break.) A terrine of house-cured, cold-smoked salmon and house-made Boursin cheese featured the rich, profound flavors of thin slices of cold-smoked lox layered with creamy cheese. Perfectly complementing the terrine was a salad of spring greens dotted with cubes of smoky bacon and capers with a preserved-lemon vinaigrette that tasted faintly like anchovy (not from the fish, it turned out, but from the spicing of the lemon).
Citrus and herb-cured ahi offered another intense raw fish, an essence of ahi, accompanied by lolla rosso (a hearty Italian red lettuce) with pancetta and sweet red onion slices in a cardamom-spiked lime-juice dressing. The flavors produced the whole-body satisfaction of a hot bath on a cool night or a Caribbean swim on a hot day.
Caramelized local peach made the most of the season: Instead of boring old melon with prosciutto, here was fresh, local stone-fruit with pancetta, pine nuts, aged balsamic, and a single, pristine glazed leaf of Genovese basil for deep-dark greenness flashed with sweetness. This, too, combined physical impact with an intellectual one: What a smart new combination of tastes!
We'd gone happily for the "wine pairings" offered with the menu, and for the first courses Ms. Redwine chose an interesting dry Riesling from Kim Crawford (Marlborough, NZ). I'm not normally a great Riesling fan, but this one was just right.
Our main courses covered sea, air, and land. Diver scallops, ultra tender in a warm coriander vinaigrette, benefited from accompaniments of shaved artichoke, braised fennel, with its subtle licorice flavor, and potato purée discreetly touched with orange and more fennel.
Roasted prime-grade tri-tip beef offered thin, rare slices bathed in a subtle sauce (egg-yolk Gribiche vinaigrette mellowed with a red wine–veal demiglace) with huge, grilled slices of heirloom tomatoes and pancetta-wrapped romaine, also grilled (but not quite enough — Piatti in La Jolla grills the lettuce longer and hotter, and it comes out better). After the prime filets at Ruth's Chris and Cowboy Star, how did this beef stack up? It was tougher — tri-tip is not a melt-in-your-mouth "gourmet" cut, it's the stuff (eaten with pinquito beans) of the famed Santa Maria annual community barbecue. But after its careful treatment, it gave an illusion of tenderness. The flavor was truly beefy, and the sauce civilized it and made it more interesting than mere meat.
[2009 Editor's Note: Molly's has since closed.]


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Hiram Green focuses less on X's and O's, depth charts and BCS possibilities than he does off-the-field comfort when providing advice about recruiting to his son, heralded Tampa Catholic football standout Christian Green.
"I tell him, 'Christian, you need to go where you're going to be happy.' " the elder Green said. "With the college experience, sports is a big part of it. But it's more than that. You meet people. You go out. It's probably going to be where you meet your wife. You have to take all these things into consideration."
On this subject, Hiram Green knows his stuff.
He isn't a father living vicariously through his son, a consensus top-100 national recruit who will play receiver in college and lists Florida, Florida State and Georgia as his leaders; he's a guy who was once a highly recruited athlete.
As a dominant 6-foot-8 power forward at Polk County's Bartow High in the late 1970s, Hiram Green was among the state's most sought-after basketball recruits and landed scholarship offers from schools such as Kentucky, Clemson and Oklahoma.
Ultimately, he chose lightly regarded USF.
With the upstart Bulls, then a member of the Sun Belt Conference, Green thought he could help put the program on the map. But more important, on his recruiting trip to the school he found a place he could see himself calling home.
"I could have gone to bigger schools at that time," Hiram Green said. "But I was happy here. When I came here, I knew it was the right fit for me."
Little did he know just how right it would be.
Throughout high school and during his USF career, Green suffered from constant knee problems. When he was a Bulls junior, a doctor gave him a choice: keep playing and he might not be able to walk by age 40, or quit.
He chose the latter.
"It was a tough decision," Hiram Green recalled. "I played basketball. That's what I loved to do. At the same time, I was at a place I felt very at home at. Because I was comfortable here, it wasn't as bad as if I would have been at a place I hated."
How much did Hiram Green love USF?
He graduated in 1982, and began working at the school the following year. With the exception of a four-year stint in which he worked for the Florida Classic, Green, who currently works in communications, has been a USF employee ever since.
"He always tells me you have to go where you feel comfortable, to go where I'd be happy if I couldn't play," Christian Green said.
The younger Green, who is visiting the Gators this weekend and will visit FSU in two weeks, has taken his father's words to heart.
Of his three top college options, he said, "I feel comfortable at all of them."
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Left to RIght: State Democratic Chairman Rod Smith, State Senator Nan Rich, D- Weston, Former Florida Attorney General Bob Butterworth, listen to US Senator Bill Nelson talk about the capture of Osama bin Laden and a Florida Senate bill that overhalls the election code, Monday at the Capitol in Tallahassee. [SCOTT KEELER | Times]
Democratic U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson was in Tallahassee Monday to blast the Republican Legislature for a proposed overhaul of the election laws for 2012, when Nelson himself will be seeking re-election. A bill awaiting Senate floor debate would end a 40-year-old practice that allows voters to update their legal address at the polls on Election Day.
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Issue No. 03 - March (1982 vol. 31)
pp: 239-248
M.A. Marsan , Politecnico di Torino, Istituto di Elettronica e Telecomunicazioni
Markovian models are developed for the performance analysis of multiprocessor systems intercommunicating via a set of buses. The performance index is the average number of active processors, called processing power. From processing power a variety of other performance measures can be derived as dictated by the specific processor application. Exact models are first introduced and are illustrated with a simple example. The computational complexity of the exact models is shown to increase very rapidly with system size, thus making the exact analysis impractical even for medium size systems. To overcome the complexity of computation, several approximate models are introduced. The approximate results are compared with the exact ones and found to be surprisingly accurate for a wide range of configurations. Simulation is used to validate the analytic models and to test their robustness.
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