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Hovering in the Wind
The 40 mile-per-hour howling wind didn't seem to bother the syrphid fly, aka hover fly and flower fly.
It clung to a blossom on the tower of jewels, Echium wildpretii, and proceeded to nectar. Its wings sparkled in the morning sun.
This is a pollinator and one that's often mistaken for a honey bee.
A honey bee it isn't. It's a fly.
If you want to read more about them, be sure to check out entomologist Robert Bugg's UC ANR publication, Flower Flies (Syrphidae) and Other Biological Control Agents for Aphids. Click on the link for access to a free 25-page PDF.
Syrphid fly nectaring on tower of jewels, Echium wildpretii. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Syrphid sparkles in the early morning sun. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
The Girl and the Bubble
Ah, the little intricacies of life...
We were walking along a stretch of the coastal town of Bodega Bay when we spotted something we'd never seen before: a bubble on a syrphid fly.
Syrphid flies, also known as hover flies or flower flies, are pollinators, just like honey bees. As floral visitors, syrphids are often mistaken for bees. They're not. They're flies.
But what was the bubble?
Several of our UC Davis entomologists weighed in.
"Weird, I wonder if that's an egg," said one entomologist. "Looks like the ovipositor is extended."
Said another: "If this were a honey bee, I would suggest that you shot your first defecation photo." (Spoken like the true honey bee expert he is!)
And another: "My guess is that droplet is fly (note: brace yourself--here comes the "p" word) poop, composed mostly of digested pollen grains that the flies commonly feed on. If you look closely at the abdomen of these flies, you often see the gut outlined with yellow or orange through the semi-translucent membrane areas of the abdomen due to the pollen they have ingested."
We asked fly expert and senior insect biosystematist Martin Hauser of the California Department of Food and Agriculture's Plant Pest Diagnostic Branch for an I.D. of this syrphid fly. "A female Sphaerophoria," he said.
And, oh, yes, the bubble is not an egg. It's the "p double oh p" word with pollen inside. Hauser pointed out that the eggs are oval and white, so the yellow bubble is not an egg. Check out this photo of syrphid eggs on the bugguide.net website, Hauser said. And here's a image on bugguidenet.com of the syrphid fly ovipositing.
Mystery solved!
Sounds like a good question for an Entomology 101 quiz...
Or the Linnaean Games...
Syrphid fly (female Sphaerophoria), as identified by senior insect biosystematist Martin Hauser of the CDFA. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Gavrey)
Close-up of "The Girl and the Bubble." See text above for what the bubble is. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Not a Good Day for a Flower Fly
It was not a good day for a flower fly.
A flower fly, aka syrphid fly, dropped down in a patch of pink roses at the Häagen-Dazs Honey Bee Haven at UC Davis today to sip nectar.
It was a pink-rose kind of day.
Not for the flower fly, though. A crab spider, lying in wait, pounced.
The battle ended quickly, but the syrphid-fly feast was not to be. Not today. The predator dropped its prey.
You can see lots of predator-prey action at the Häagen-Dazs Honey Bee Haven, a half-acre bee friendly garden located next to the Harry H. Laidlaw Jr. Honey Bee Research Facility on Bee Biology Road, west of the central campus.
It's open from dawn to dusk. Admission is free for all--including predators and their prey.
Crab spider nails a flower fly in the Haagen-Dazs Honey Bee Haven. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Crab spider loses its prey and heads down a stem. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Why Organic Farmers Love Hover Flies
"If you were an aphid on a head of lettuce, a hoverfly larva would be a nightmare. They are voracious eaters of aphids. One larva per plant will control the aphids."
That's what organic researcher Eric Brennan of the Agricultural Research Service (ARS), U.S. Department of Agriculture, told reporter Jim Robbins in a recently published New York Times article.
Headlined "Farmers Find Organic Arsenal to Wage Wars on Pests," the news story drew attention to why natural enemies are "key to the organic approach."
Brennan is based in Salinas Valley, known as "The Salad Bowl of America." It's reportedly where 80 percent of Americans get their greens.
And it's where the lettuce aphid gets its lettuce.
To help resolve the problem, organic farmers are planting alyssum in their lettuce beds. Hover flies "live in the alyssum and need a source of aphids to feed their young, so they lay their eggs in the lettuce," Robbins wrote. "When they hatch, the larvae start preying on the aphids."
Could be that the "salad days" are over for the aphids--thanks to Brennan, alyssum and hover flies.
Hover Fly
How Grand They Are
Aren't syrphid flies grand?
Syrphid flies, aka hover flies or flower flies (family Syrphidae), are especially grand in a Calandrinia grandiflora, aka rock purslane.
Often mistaken for honey bees, these insects hover over flowers, wings spinning like helicopters, and then dart inside a blossom to feed on pollen and nectar.
We spotted a brightly colored syrphid on a rock purslane in our garden last Sunday. It appeared in no hurry to leave its host.
Is it true that this colorful fly is in the same order (Diptera) as the common housefly? It is.
Hover flies are found everywhere in the world except Antarctica. For a look at some of the species, check out BugGuide.Net. The site contributors are self-described naturalists "who enjoy learning about and sharing our observations of insects, spiders, and other related creatures."
Another great source is entomologist Robert Bugg's 25-page booklet, "Flower Flies (Syrphidae) and Other Biological Control Agents for Aphids in Vegetable Crops," published in May 2008 by the University of California, Division of Agriculture and Natural Resources (UC ANR). You can download it for free by accessing this page.
Syrphid Fly
Sipping Nectar
Taking Flight


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Sakura Quick Math is an educational iPhone and iPad game for children and adults that drills your basic arithmetic skills by having you race against the clock and input your answers by simply writing them on the screen. It's gorgeous, innovative, and fun.
Sakura Quick Math has 5 different modes: addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, and mixed. Each mode also has 3 different levels of difficulty: beginner, intermediate, and advanced. All these modes and levels makes Sakura Quick Math great for kids in grades 1-5.
To play the game, you simply answer each arithmetic problem that comes up by writing it anywhere on the screen. If you get it wrong, you have to keep trying until you get it right or you can choose to skip the question. The goal is to get through all the problems as quickly as possible, however, so skipping a question will result in a time penalty.
When you complete a round, your time and penalties will be calculated and displayed on a graph. This lets you keep track of your progress to see if you're getting better. Since a faster time means you did better, you want your graph to decrease over time, not increase!
As with anything that uses handwriting recognition, it's easy to be skeptical and think "does it really work"? Sakura Quick Math is off to tremendous start with their handwriting recognition. It's definitely not perfect, but works pretty darn good. It will sometimes misread my 2's and 5's and mistake them for 8's and 6's. My husband also runs into an occasional hiccup. Unfortunately, since Sakura Quick Math is a game where speed is everything, this can be rather frustrating. But my guess is that young kids won't be bothered by this as much.
Sakura Quick Math is a fun way for adults and children to test their arithmetic skills. It does occasionally make mistakes with handwriting recognition, but overall, Sakura Quick Math is a great educational app. In fact, I'm highly considering reserving my school's iPads and having my students compete against each other during class sometime this semester -- I think they'd have a lot of fun.


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A day belated simple blue bird…
The birds I have posted here so far with Gayla's invitation have been calls for Spring. As of today, while Winter's legacy does still linger in crusty countryside ditch snowbanks and the occasional flurry of odd styrofoam-like snow pellets, many signs of Spring are happily appearing.
The scents and smells are returning. Even the sometimes fetid first whiff of last year's decomposing plant matter can be wonderful. Winter can often feel sterile, even dead, with natural smells locked in temporary cryonic freeze. In these early Spring days, with animals and plants reappearing to the delight of our senses, and the air so much easier to draw in to our lungs, we wait even for that first ozone-tinged rain storm. Smells tie us to life and memory so directly.
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About all you can do is move.
Hey guys, I spent the last few days researching on pocket pistols and had decided pretty much to get a kel tec...until today I found that they are not legal in CA, argh! Any Californians on here share their thoughts on good CA legal pocket pistols? Thanks.
About all you can do is move.
Ohhhhh. Ok. That makes a little sense now.
With no external safety I guess that'd outlaw most if not all snubbies right?
I hear that they cause "lead poisoning" too I
No, they are legal in California because the safety is the trigger safety on the glocks and the trigger safety + grip safety on the XDs. It doesn't have to be an old school safety, just some sort of safety from what I understand. Every gun store in CA sells a ton of glocks and XDs (purchased one last week) so they are definitely legal.
I just bought a very nice SP101, no safety. I am surprised I can buy ANY handgun in this messed up State.
Not really impressed with my P3-AT. I guess a Kahr would also be out of the question. I do like my P40.
Do like Tommy Lee Jones says,"get yourself a Glock, and get rid of that nickle plated sissy pistol."
Yup, Kel-Tecs aren't allowed in CA.
Check this DOJ site that tells you what CA allow and what don't allow:
Glocks are on the list! What about a subcompact Glock model 26?
I'd like to see a list of five good pocket pistols that are California legal. I don't want to spend time bashing California, it's a great State and other than the limited selection of guns to purchase, I love the State. I can wait ten days to pick up a weapon, I just wish I had more choices. I'm certainly not going to move so I can buy a Ruger LCP.
Everyone is missing the biggest reason why a some handguns cannot be sold in KA. Manufacturers decline to submit a handgun for testing. If you want to sell it in KA, you must submit several samples of each model for testing. XD's are legal for sale, XDM's are not. All Glocks are legal, as are most Sigs. External safties are not an issue, internal safties are. Alot of manufacturers have just written off KA. I can't say I blame them.
We spell California with a "C". I sometimes think that people are jealous of California and all it's natural beauty. If these gun manufacturers want to write California off, that's their business. I wish it didn't have to be that way, but I can roll with it. I can only buy so many guns anyway.
so the mfg has to submit 780 xb93 guns for testing ..... and thats just that model in ONE caliber, each model, each caliber, each barrel length, each finish, each grip, each sight (cept night sights) and when the certificate expires, they gotta do it again.
oh, and in california you cant manufacture a pistol in the state if it doesnt pass the tests, yet you cant submit a pistol for testing unless you manufacture it.
if you submit a pistol for testing to see if its safe for sale, your results will never be SAFE.... its either "unsafe" or "not unsafe".... if it was "safe" the mfg might not be able to be sued.
so its not jealousy that is keeping gun mfg from california, its the asinine liberal lawmakers PUSHING them away
Good explanation of the process, but rather than blame one particular ideology, It'd be more apt to blame a ridiculous bureaucracy that feeds off of these type of rules and regulations.There are just as many assanine conservative lawmakers who want to take away my freedom and force their religion down my throat. I also wonder if this process actually makes any money for California. I would have purchased ten times as many guns if the rules were more relaxed. That would include the taxes and the fees involved. The gun stores would benefit as well as the State. Like I said, I'm grown up enough to wait ten days for a handgun, but I'd rather wait three. California, is still a great State to live in and I just happen to be be a progressive who enjoys collecting firearms and who cherishes my Second Amendment rights. I try to explain to my more liberal buddies that it's easier for a bad guy to get a gun than it is for me to get one legally, but no dice.
your feelings about conservatives and their religious views have nothing to do with this process and is a bait and switch..... if we were on a religious forum, it might have merit but not here.
liberals politicians rule california, make the laws, run the courts and drive away business'
From your post you appear to have the following views:
You want less govt regulation.
You are pro 2 nd amendment.
You are pro capitalism.
You prefer to not depend on the police to protect you.
You are not a progressive. You may not be a conservative (about which, you are wrong, by the way. I don't care about your religion, just leave me & mine alone.), but you will have to see about turning in the progressive card. Stand by for the intervention from your progressive friends.
If you want lower taxes & a pickup truck, turn that card in immediately.
I see absolutely no S&W .380's on that list.........commies////


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Chicago Wolves' Guillaume Desbiens speaks French with Waubonsie students
By Jane Donahue For Sun-Times Media February 1, 2013 1:26PM
Chicago Wolves' Guillaume Desbiens, No.21, recently spoke with students learning to speak French at Waubonsie Valley High School in Aurora. Here he tries to control a lose puck agains the Rockford Ice Hogs during an Oct. 13 game. | Sun-Times file photo
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Chicago Wolves right winger Guillaume Desbiens demonstrated his off-ice talents in January when he paid a visit to Waubonsie Valley High School. The 27-year-old native of Quebec met with more than 200 students enrolled in French classes to help them sharpen their foreign language skills.
"This is an incredible opportunity for students to use the French that they have been studying at Waubonsie," said French teacher Savannah Smith, who was born and raised in Quebec. "In contrast to students who study Spanish, and have ample opportunity to hear, and even speak Spanish in real-life situations close to home, French students rarely have the opportunity to interact with French native speakers."
Waubonsie student Kylie Russell, 15, agreed.
"I enjoyed getting to hear a native speaker outside of the classroom setting," Russell said. "Getting the opportunity to ask questions in French helps with gaining confidence in speaking (French)."
Desbiens is one of several French-speaking hockey players who take part in the Chicago Wolves Player Visit Program. Since 1999, team members have volunteered their time and language skills at area high school classes throughout the season.
"It's great meeting with the students because they're fun, they're young and they have so much energy," Desbiens said. "It's nice to feel like I'm back to the days of my youth a little bit, and it's a chance to use my French. I don't get a lot of chances to use it."
Courtney Mahoney, Chicago Wolves senior vice president of operations, said it's a popular program with area students and teachers, and they try to accommodate as many schools as they can. This season there are 17 visits planned throughout the Chicago area.
"We, as an organization, always feel it's important to give back to the community in any way possible," Mahoney said. "Nowadays, when the value of learning a second language is so important for students, it's a really tremendous value for them to see our players use it in real-life situations and learn how important it is to them in their careers. I also think it's a great opportunity for them to work on their French in maybe a little more fun setting than the normal classroom."
This season, the Wolves roster includes three French-Canadians, three players from Sweden and one from the Czech Republic.
"We want them (students) to understand there is a value to this; learning a second language is something that's important and something that's used every day, whether it's Spanish, German, Swedish or French," she said. "It's something these guys have to use. It blows me away how good their English is and how talented they are with languages."
In December, Desbiens paid a visit to Naperville North High School where he met with students in advanced placement French classes.
Naperville North teacher Suzanna Schweer said it's important for students to make real-life connections with the language by interacting with native speakers.
"Students learned a lot about the culture of Quebec from Guillaume," Schweer said. "He did a wonderful job answering all of their questions and keeping them engaged. "
She said for students to hear a native speaker who has an accent different from those in France was helpful, too.
"Quebecois sounds very different from standard French and uses a different sort of lexicon, providing students with 'a more global perspective,'" Schweer said.
"(The visit) was also a nice reminder that French is commonly spoken on our very own continent. These experiences are important to make learning meaningful."
The hockey player will be back in town Feb. 21 when he visits Neuqua Valley High School.


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What's New: The Outland front grilleguard and Sure-Step nerf bars for the '99 Chevy Silverado. The Outland front guard includes four auxiliary-light mounting tabs and removable wire headlight protectors. The Sure-Step bars feature a nonslip polyester pad for easier entry and exit. Both products are also available for most other popular trucks and SUVs.
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We are at a choice point in our spiritual evolution. Can we learn from the lessons of Atlantis?
Once upon a time there was a place called Atlantis … that disappeared into the sea.
We have all heard about Atlantis and know that it was a place that once existed and is now believed to be under the ocean. But the story of Atlantis is much more complicated than that. It was part of our most recent ascension cycle and when it was destroyed, we had to begin again.
Today we are where at the point where each choice is important. Will we destroy ourselves, the Earth and the hope of ascension? Or will we move into higher dimensions of being? The choice is ours to make and we're making it right now.
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I'm using a PPC mac and I'm unable to convert Apple's (encrypted/corrupted?) PNG's for editing. I'm working on a new theme and I need to explore a bit
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I'm using a PPC mac and I'm unable to convert Apple's (encrypted/corrupted?) PNG's for editing. I'm working on a new theme and I need to explore a bit
Thanks in advance.
Here is a great tool for windows
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Thanks, but I'm on mac
Don't have a windows computer around.
What I'm trying to do is change the blue background of the popup screen when you double click the home screen to change a song into black.
There's a program called fixpng that converts an 'iphone' png to a regular one. I think the iphone png's are ordered BGRA, and this program swaps the channels to be RGBA. If the binary doesnt work, compile the included code. This worked on my PPC mac.
Download (change the $ to s)
Once you make your png's, you can put them back on the iphone without converting back to BGRA. Regular png's work fine!
EDIT: Upon further inspection, it looks like you should run fixpng and then flipchannels. Both are included in that zip file.
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Thanks kurro, worked great.
spyboy: yes you can change that, someone on the macthemes forum actually created an all black interface, changed all the graphite to black. It also changed the popup notification background
THANK YOU!!! I have been looking for something to do this for a long time. I will try it out later or tomorow. Again, thanks!
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hmmm I think we've found the missing link
We need to locate this png.. I doubt its in the springboard.app , maybe its in the frameworks folder. Usually the smallest ones are the ones that make a big difference, take safari for example; there is one picture like 1 px in size but its responsible for the whole gray background we c when we switch tabs.
This is the GUI that I was referring to:
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Eight Purple Heart recipients turned out at the depot Friday to participate in the facility's first wounded warrior hunting trip event. The veterans, three of whom worked at the depot, were honored and recognized for their service during a special ceremony Friday. The hunting trip will take place during the weekend on a secluded section of the depot's acreage.
Col. Brent Bolander, the depot commander, said the sole purpose of the event was to honor and give thanks to veterans, particularly those wounded in battle. Purple Hearts are awarded to military personnel wounded during service.
"Sacrifice, courage, there are no words that can identify what you all are about," Bolander said while speaking to the veterans at the event. "I've seen many, many soldiers come and go and you represent what we're about."
Bolander noted there were also quite a few large deer roaming around the depot, one of which a vehicle recently struck.
"Part of the reason you're here is so they don't do that anymore," Bolander said with a laugh.
Michael Knight, a maintenance worker at the depot, first came up with the idea for the hunt.
"I just thought it was something we needed to do," said Knight, who has not served in the military. "It's a way of giving back with the resources we have."
Wearing a camouflage jacket Friday, Johnathan Purser, 35, of Jacksonville looked eager to get outside and find a large buck. A quality assurance specialist at the depot since 2006, Purser was severely injured when his helicopter fell from 9,000 feet and crashed in Afghanistan in 2003 during Operation Enduring Freedom. Out of 12 passengers, only five survived. Another soldier made it possible for Purser to be where he is today.
"He cut me out of my harness and saved my life," Purser said.
After more than 20 surgeries, Purser retired from the U.S. Army and eventually found his way to the depot through the Army's Always a Soldier Program, set up in 2004 to place wounded soldiers in Army civilian jobs.
Micah McGuffey, 28, of Alexandria has worked for more than three years at the depot as a tools and parts attendant. Before that however, McGuffey served between 2003 and 2007 in the Army military police. He was injured during his second tour of Afghanistan about a mile away from base.
"We passed a vehicle and it detonated and our truck went up in flames," McGuffey said.
McGuffey suffered a concussion and second- and third-degree burns.
McGuffey said he thought the depot's hunting trip was a great idea, even though he is not an avid hunter.
"It's just awesome to come out and participate in something like this and mingle with other veterans," McGuffey said.
Unlike McGuffey, Derek Fowler, 34, of Cropwell is a hunting enthusiast and actually tagged a large deer last year in Louisiana during another wounded warrior hunting trip.
Fowler has worked at the depot's small-arms facility since 2007, the same year he retired from the U.S. Marine Corps. Fowler was injured when an improvised explosive device struck his vehicle right outside Fallujah in Iraq. After recovering from his wounds, he could have ended his military career and gone home. But instead he decided to stay and serve.
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Driskel left Saturday's 27-20 dramatic win against Louisiana-Lafayette in the third quarter and Florida ahead 13-10. Brissett replaced him, and after some initial struggles would lead a game-tying touchdown drive in the final two minutes
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The Mexican Caribbean has long been a draw for meetings, thanks to its convenient location, spectacular beaches, rich history, and variety of accommodations. In February 2009, the region's Aqua Cancun played host to an executive seminar arranged by Valerie Moore, president of Executive Meeting Consultants in Cedarhurst, N.Y.
"One of the deciding factors in choosing Aqua over a competing property was its fabulous outdoor space," recalls the New York-based meetings executive. "At the competing property, if we wanted to host a dinner on the beach, we would have had to bring in lighting, décor, seating — virtually everything. At Aqua, we took over the open-air, thatched-roof, beachfront restaurant Azur. The only thing we added was entertainment. This resulted in tremendous savings — well over $10,000."
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Terrible service – This place is great....when it comes to getting your order messed up. Then you have to deal with slow service on top of that! And don't dare take it up with management, because their morning assistant manager thinks he's God who will literally laugh at you! No joke, he laughed at my concerns. Never in all my life have I had that happen. And when I called the Franchise Corporate Office, they forwarded my concerns to the District Manager who promptly swept it under the rug. Don't waste your time or money here. You'll be happy you didn't.
Customer service is easy – if they actually gave me what I ordered and didn't take literally 15 minute for 2 dishes of ice-cream when they weren't at all busy, I would change this to a 4-5... bud sadly it happens more than 3/4 of the time... if only the franchisee knew.
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Sometimes the hardest thing about saving money is just getting started. It can be difficult to figure out simple ways to save money and how to use your savings to pursue your financial goals. The step-by-step guide below can help you develop a realistic savings plan.
The first step in saving money is to know how much you are spending. For one month, keep a record of everything you spend. That means every coffee, every newspaper and every break-time snack you purchase for the entire month. Once you have your data, organize these numbers by category - gas, groceries, mortgage, etc. - and get the total amount for each.
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Setting savings goals makes it much easier to get started. Begin by deciding how long it will take to reach each goal. Some short-term goals (which can usually take one to three years) include:
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Different people have different priorities when it comes to saving money, so it makes sense to decide which savings goals are most important to you. Part of this process is deciding how long you can wait to save up for a goal and how much you want to put away each month to help you reach it. As you do this for all your goals, order them by priority and set money aside accordingly in your monthly budget. Remember that setting priorities means making choices. If you want to focus on saving for retirement, some other goals might have to take a back seat while you make sure you're hitting your top targets.
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"It's speculative, but given their main drug has been approved and the stock's barely budged, I think we could have a real opportunity here," said Jim Cramer on Monday's broadcast.
The stock that's captured Cramer's interest is NPS Pharmaceuticals.
"The stock hasn't rallied much, yet there have been some major positive developments," said Cramer.
On December 21st, NPS received FDA approval for Gattex, which is their treatment for an ultra-rare orphan condition called short-bowel syndrome where patients need to be fed intravenously for 10 to 12 hours a day because their intestines can't properly absorb nutrients.
Even though only a few thousand people have this condition, Gattex could potentially generate $350 million in peak sales.
Although stocks such as these are higher risk investments, Cramer said, "When you consider that NPS has a market cap of $775 million, the stock seems cheap in light of the potential opportunity."
And he added, the company makes another drug that could generate gains as well.
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A sign is seen outside of a KB Home sales center in Richmond, California. A lack of housing supply in the Western U.S. is spurring homebuilders to start building again.
The National Association of Realtors (NAR) has released its pending home sales index for August. The index fell a bit from July but is up more than 10 percent from last August.
That's the national picture. But in the West, the story is...well, distorted. The July-August decline was more than 7 percent, and the year-over-over year was more than 4 percent. What's to blame? A lack of housing inventory, according to the NAR.
I've been noting this trend often here at the DeBord Report. It's both good and bad. Good because a lack of supply to meet demand is encouraging homebuilders to...build! And that means unemployed construction workers have a good chance in the future to be not unemployed. But it's bad because the lack of supply, combined with historically low interest rates, is driving up prices. And it's dragging down pending sales — because there just aren't enough homes to be pending a purchase!


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Oxyphenol \Ox`y*phe"nol\, n. (Chem.) A phenol, C6H4(OH)2, produced by the distillation of catechin; called also oxyphenic acid, and now pyrocatechin. [1913 Webster] .
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Pyrocatechin \Pyr`o*cat"e*chin\, n. [Pyro- + catechu.] (Chem.) A white crystalline substance, C6H4(OH)2, of the phenol series, found in various plants; -- so called because first obtained by distillation of gum catechu. Called also catechol, oxyphenol. etc. [1913 Webster]


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Jamie Dimon has become a heroic figure on Wall Street.
During a Q&A session with Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke in Atlanta, JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon questionedwhether too much bank regulation—especially new capital requirements—might be slowing down the economy.
"Now we're told there are going to be even higher capital requirements, and we know there are 300 rules coming, has anyone bothered to study the cumulative effect of these things? And do you have a fear—like I do—that when we look back and look at them all, that they will be the reason that it took so long for our banks, our credit, our businesses, and most importantly, our job creation, to start going again? Is this holding us back at this point?" Dimon said.
The question seemed to put Bernanke back on his heels—and brought some on trading floors to their feet—cheering.
"Nobody has looked at it in all detail, but we certainly are trying as in each part to develop a system that is coherent and that is consistent with banks performing their vital social function in terms of extending credit," Bernanke replied.
In other words, Bernanke more or less admitted that Dimon's concerns are well-founded. Policy-makers have not thoroughly examined the cumulative effects of all the new regulations.
At one large midtown trading floor, there were cheers as Dimon spoke.
The clip of the video instantly made its way through thousands of email in-boxes inside the biggest financial companies.
One Wall Street executive described Dimon as "Our Pericles" in an email to associates. Pericles was an Athenian general who helped lead Athens into a golden age following the devastating Persian Wars.
Others are calling it Wall Street's "Tea Party moment"—comparing it to the speech CNBC's Rick Santelli gave that helped spark the Tea Party movement.
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Apr 3 2013
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As an account supervisor in PadillaCRT's D.C. office, Kim has more than 10 years' experience in strategic communications planning, branding, marketing and media relations, with an emphasis on healthcare. She has helped create award-winning campaigns for clients such as the American Physical Therapy Association and The Partnership at Drugfree.org. Kim has been a speaker at the Healthcare Businesswomen's Association Annual Conference, the Public Relations Society of America's International Conference and the Society for Healthcare Strategy and Market Development Annual Conference.
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Aquatic Physical Therapy
When land-based exercises are not possible because of disability and pain, Aquatic Therapy offers the unique healing benefits of water: a gentler, more beneficial environment in which to rapidly improve mobility, strength, and function.
Aquatic Physical Therapy is recommended for patients undergoing treatment for:
- Arthritis
- Fibromyalgia
- Injuries to the neck, shoulder, low back, knee and ankle
- Rehabilitation after surgery
- Chronic pain
- Work-related injuries requiring rapid rehabilitation
How it works
Water supports the weight of the body, reduces stress and pain, and provides gentle resistance to rapidly promote strengthening and conditioning while reducing the risk of further injury. The relaxing sounds and warmth of the water can make Aquatic Therapy a more pleasurable patient experience.
Aquatic Therapy has been associated with a variety of beneficial outcomes, including improved circulation, strength, and endurance; increased range of motion and flexibility; decreases in swelling; and a faster return to normal activity.
Benefits of Aquatic Physical Therapy
Often after an injury or surgery, a patient's sensitivity to pain is increased and the ability to bear weight on the injured area is limited. In water, the pull of gravity on the body is not as strong as on land, so motion and functional activity is more comfortable. Water supports the body, reduces joint stress, and provides resistance and assistance to movement in a truly unique manner. Patients can improve mobility, strength, and function rapidly during the healing process.
Patients in our Aquatic Physical Therapy program may experience the following benefits:
- Accelerated rehabilitation
- Protection of joints during exercise
- Reduced stress
- Decreased swelling
- Improvements in gait or posture
- Increased circulation
- Increased strength and endurance
- Increased range of motion and flexibility
- Increased balance and coordination
- Increased muscle tone
Our Staff
Aquatic physical therapy complements traditional, land-based physical therapy programs. Licensed physical therapists and physical therapy assistants who are trained and certified in aquatic therapy develop and administer a treatment plan for our patients.
Patients work one-on-one with their therapist and are never left unattended while in the pool.
What Happens at an Aquatic Therapy Session?
- Patients do not have to know how to swim to participate in Aquatic Physical Therapy.
- Each session is individually designed to meet the patient's needs and utilizes different equipment depending upon the nature of the condition.
- Treatment may include a warm-up followed by balance and stabilization exercises, strengthening,
- A treatment session may last from 30 to 60 minutes.
- Land exercises and manual or hands-on therapy may also be prescribed in a patient's plan of treatment.
Our State-of-the-Art Facility
The Jefferson Hospital Physical Therapy & Sports Medicine Center houses a HydroWorx 1000 rehabilitation pool. This revolutionary piece of therapeutic equipment features an integrated treadmill, resistance jets, and an underwater monitoring system that allows the patient and therapist to observe and correct movement patterns.