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Katie Couric, @katiecouric, anchor and managing editor of the CBS
Evening News and a veteran journalist in mainstream media, discusses
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Katie Couric is the anchor and managing editor of the CBS EVENING NEWS WITH KATIE COURIC, a 60 MINUTES correspondent and anchor of CBS News primetime specials. When the CBS EVENING NEWS WITH KATIE COURIC debuted on September 5, 2006, Couric became the first female solo anchor of a weekday network evening news broadcast. The RTNDA honored the CBS EVENING NEWS WITH KATIE COURIC with the prestigious Edward R. Murrow Award for Best Newscast in both 2008 and 2009. Also in 2009, USC's Annenberg School for Communication awarded Couric with the Walter Cronkite Award for Special Achievement for "National Impact on the 2008 Campaign" and the University of South Dakota and Freedom Forum awarded Couric the Al Neuharth Award for Excellence in the Media. In January 2010, Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism awarded Couric the Alfred I. DuPont Award for political reporting for her 2008 interviews with Republican Vice President nominee Sarah Palin. She also writes a monthly column for GLAMOUR magazine which features an interview with a new female role model every month.
During the last 4 years, Couric has reported on and anchored newscasts and broadcasts for some of the biggest domestic and international stories and has conducted numerous exclusive newsmaker interviews including the historic 2008 Presidential election. Couric led CBS's critically acclaimed coverage, anchoring the CBS EVENING NEWS and live primetime coverage from the Iowa Caucuses and the New Hampshire and Ohio primaries, as well as Super Tuesday and other primary nights from CBS studios in New York.
Couric also conducted two special series of in-depth and incisive interviews during the Presidential campaign for the CBS EVENING NEWS series "Primary Questions" and "Presidential Questions." During "Primary Questions" Couric asked the then 10 presidential primary candidates key questions which elicited more than stump speech responses. CBS then launched "Presidential Questions," a weekly series where Couric asked both remaining candidates, Senator John McCain and President Barack Obama, the same set of questions to further explore their politics and character. Couric's other recent specials include her coverage of the Grammys and Michael Jackson's funeral.
During the campaign Couric launched a series of webcasts giving viewers live, exclusive Web coverage of the election and the historic beginnings of Obama's presidency. She conducted nightly webcasts from the Democratic and Republican National Conventions, the Presidential and Vice Presidential debates, election night, inauguration night and President Obama's 100th day in office. In addition to her webcasts, Couric has developed several online content initiatives including her notebook and YouTube channel, among others. Most recently, CBS News launched @KatieCouric, a weekly webcast hosted by Couric, which features candid one-on-one interviews with top newsmakers from the worlds of politics, business, entertainment and more.
In 2007, she covered the Virginia Tech shootings for the CBS EVENING NEWS including a one-hour primetime special, and anchored an award-winning primetime special, "Flashpoint," the story of CBS News correspondent Kimberly Dozier, her colleagues and the U.S. soldiers she was with when they were the victims of a car bomb attack in Iraq. Couric also anchored on-site during the California wildfires and the Minneapolis bridge collapse for the CBS EVENING NEWS.
Also in 2007, Couric reported and anchored the broadcast from Iraq and Syria in advance of General Petraeus' report to Congress on the status of "the surge." She traveled through Fallujah and Baghdad with Generals Petraeus and Odierno, met with U.S. and Iraqi soldiers and Iraqi citizens, and interviewed President Bush when he arrived in the al-Anbar Province in a surprise trip to the U.S. troops on Labor Day weekend. From Syria, Couric sat down with Syrian President Bashar Assad and questioned him on reports of diminished relations with the United States.
In November 2006, she anchored from Amman, Jordan, covering President Bush's summit with Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki. In December of that year, Couric covered the death of President Gerald Ford and, four days later, the execution of Saddam Hussein.
She has conducted numerous exclusive newsmaker interviews for the CBS EVENING NEWS and 60 MINUTES, including President George W. Bush, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, John and Elizabeth Edwards just after their announcement that Mrs. Edwards' cancer had returned, Israeli Foreign Prime Minister Tzipi Livin, Nora Jones and Michael J. Fox, among many others.
On May 28, 2008, Couric and her ABC News and NBC News counterparts, Charles Gibson and Brian Williams, announced on all three network morning news broadcasts an unprecedented tri-network effort to fight cancer called Stand Up To Cancer. The initiative raised philanthropic dollars for accelerating ground-breaking research and culminated in a one-hour, commercial free, simultaneous primetime program on ABC, CBS and NBC on September 5, 2008.
Couric completed a 15-year run as co-anchor of NBC News' "Today" on May 31, 2006. While at NBC, Couric was also contributing anchor for "Dateline NBC." She was a "Today" substitute co-anchor from February 1991 before taking over the job permanently two months later. Couric joined NBC News in 1989 as deputy Pentagon reporter before serving its first national correspondent in June 1990, which included two stints covering the Gulf War.
Couric has covered most of the major breaking news events over the past 15 years, including the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center; the Columbine tragedy in Colorado; six Olympic Games, including the 1996 Atlanta Olympic bombing; the funeral of Princess Diana; the Oklahoma City bombing; the Timothy McVeigh execution; the Clarence Thomas confirmation hearings; and the end of millennium coverage, which she co-anchored with Tom Brokaw.
Couric has interviewed an extraordinarily diverse collection of newsmakers, from presidents and prime ministers to captains of industry and cultural icons. She has interviewed Presidents Jimmy Carter, George H.W. Bush, Bill Clinton and George W. Bush, along with all of the major presidential candidates over the past several elections. Couric has also sat down with Vice President Dick Cheney, Colin Powell, Madeleine Albright, Sandra Day O'Connor and First Ladies Laura Bush, Hillary Clinton, Nancy Reagan, Rosalynn Carter, Betty Ford and Lady Bird Johnson. She has interviewed major world leaders including Kofi Annan, Tony Blair, Ariel Sharon, Saudi Crown Prince Abdullah (in his first U.S. television interview), Benjamin Netanyahu and Shimon Peres. Other Couric interviews include Bill Gates; Tricia Meili, the Central Park Jogger; the last interview with John F. Kennedy, Jr.; and a myriad of other authors, politicians and newsmakers.
After losing her husband, Jay Monahan, to colon cancer in 1998, Couric embraced the fight against the country's number two cancer killer. In March 2000, Couric launched the National Colorectal Cancer Research Alliance in association with the Entertainment Industry Foundation and Lilly Tartikoff, to fund new medical research in colorectal cancer and to conduct educational programs encouraging the prevention and early detection of the disease through proper screening. Following Couric's on-air colonoscopy in 2000, a scientifically documented 20% increase was noted in the number of colonoscopies performed across the country. Researchers at the University of Michigan dubbed this "The Couric Effect."
Couric received the George Foster Peabody Award for her March 2000 series on colon cancer, which also led to NBC News receiving the 2001 RTNDA-Edward R. Murrow Award for Overall Excellence. She also has won six Emmy Awards, the Society of Professional Journalists' Sigma Delta Chi Award, a National Headliner Award, an Associated Press Award, a Matrix Award, two American Women in Radio and Television Gracie Awards, the Harvard University School of Public Health's Julius B. Richmond Award and UNICEF's Danny Kaye Humanitarian Award.
Couric also played a leadership role in establishing The Jay Monahan Center for Gastrointestinal Health at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell. The Monahan Center, which opened in March 2004, provides a comprehensive, fully integrated multi-disciplinary program, stressing education and prevention in addition to diagnosis and treatment of gastrointestinal cancers. The Monahan Center's mission focuses on the seamless coordination of all needed care for patients and their families facing the difficult diagnosis of gastrointestinal cancer. As part of her work to generate funds for both the Center and the nine scientists whose research the NCCRA supports, Couric has hosted three extremely successful benefits. The most recent, "Hollywood Meets Motown," took place on March 15, 2006, and showcased approximately 40 film, recording industry, television and Broadway stars. These three events generated a significant portion of the almost $27 million Couric and EIF's NCCRA have raised to date to fight colorectal and other GI cancers.
Couric was a general assignment reporter for WRC-TV Washington, D.C. (1987-89) and for WTVJ Miami (1984-86). She worked for CNN (1980-84) as an assignment editor, associate producer, producer and, ultimately, political correspondent. Couric began her broadcast journalism career as a desk assistant at ABC News in Washington, D.C. (1979).
Born in Arlington, Virginia, Couric graduated with honors from the University of Virginia in 1979 with a bachelor's degree in English and a focus on American studies. She currently lives in New York with her two daughters.
Tim has a history of convening conversations that reshape the industry. In 1998, he organized the meeting where the term "open source software" was agreed on, and helped the business world understand its importance. In 2004, with the Web 2.0 Summit, he defined how "Web 2.0" represented not only the resurgence of the web after the dot com bust, but a new model for the computer industry, based on big data, collective intelligence, and the internet as a platform. In 2009, with his "Gov 2.0 Summit," he framed a conversation about the modernization of government technology that has shaped policy and spawned initiatives at the Federal, State, and local level, and around the world. He has now turned his attention to implications of the on-demand economy and other technologies that are transforming the nature of work and the future shape of the business world. He is the founder and CEO of O'Reilly Media and a partner at O'Reilly AlphaTech Ventures (OATV). He is also a founder and board member at Maker Media, which spun out of O'Reilly Media in 2012, and a board member at Code for America, PeerJ, Civis Analytics, and PopVox.
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TORONTO – Boys and girls are not affected equally when it comes to Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) – it affects four times more males than females. In their search to find genes linked to ASD, a team of international researchers led by The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids) and McMaster University have uncovered a key genetic clue to explaining the gender bias. The study is published in the April 12 advance online edition of The American Journal of Human Genetics.
The researchers analyzed the genes of more than 1,600 people with ASD. The analysis pointed to an alteration in the SHANK1 gene. The SHANK gene family is coded for proteins involved in the formation and function of neural synapses in the brain. SHANK2 and SHANK3 genes have previously been linked to ASD and intellectual disability.
In this study, investigators also identified six people from the same family who carried the SHANK1 mutation. The most significant finding was that only the four males with the genetic change had ASD, while the female carriers did not. Another male from a different family also had a SHANK1 mutation and ASD.
"Now we have more insight as to why males could be more susceptible to ASD than females," says Dr. Stephen Scherer, Senior Scientist and Director of The Centre for Applied Genomics at SickKids and the McLaughlin Centre at the University of Toronto. "This study indicates that there may be a protective factor preventing these female carriers from developing ASD."
Scherer says that if researchers can determine why SHANK1 females are being protected from ASD, then this "protective factor may one day be used to prevent or treat the disorder."
Dr. Peter Szatmari at the Offord Centre for Child Studies at McMaster University is the co-author of the study.
Funding was provided by the University of Toronto McLaughlin Centre, NeuroDevNet, Genome Canada/Ontario Genomics Institute, the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR), the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research (CIFAR), the Canada Foundation for Innovation, the Ontario Ministry of Economic Development and Innovation, Autism Speaks and SickKids Foundation.
Scherer holds the GlaxoSmithKline-CIHR Pathfinder Chair in Genetics and Genomics at the University of Toronto and SickKids.
About The Hospital for Sick Children
The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids) is recognized as one of the world's foremost paediatric health-care institutions and is Canada's leading centre dedicated to advancing children's health through the integration of patient care, research and education. Founded in 1875 and affiliated with the University of Toronto, SickKids is one of Canada's most research-intensive hospitals and has generated discoveries that have helped children globally. Its mission is to provide the best in complex and specialized family-centred care; pioneer scientific and clinical advancements; share expertise; foster an academic environment that nurtures health-care professionals; and champion an accessible, comprehensive and sustainable child health system. SickKids is proud of its vision for Healthier Children. A Better World. For more information, please visit www.sickkids.ca.
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The SickKids Centre for Research and Learning will bring together researchers from different scientific disciplines and a variety of clinical perspectives, to accelerate discoveries, new knowledge and their application to child health — a different concept from traditional research building designs. The facility will physically connect SickKids science, discovery and learning activities to its clinical operations. Designed by award-winning architects Diamond + Schmitt Inc. and HDR Inc. with a goal to achieve LEED® Gold Certification for sustainable design, the Centre will create an architectural landmark as the eastern gateway to Toronto's Discovery District. The SickKids Centre for Research and Learning is funded by a grant from the Canada Foundation for Innovation, the Government of Ontario, philanthropist Peter Gilgan and community support for the ongoing fundraising campaign. For more information, please visit www.sickkidsfoundation.com/bepartofit.
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Pure DWTS -Holiday Media To Begin Your Week
Holiday Greetings Everyone!! Have you finished your Christmas shopping yet?? I'm almost finished. Just a few more things and I should be sitting good. Now all we need here is some snow! lol
Speaking of Christmas shopping, I ran into a fun eBay store which had DWTS Magnets, Calendars, Mousepads, and more. There might be some cool gifts or stocking stuffers that your DWTS friends and family might love. Heidi could use a "Derek Mousepad" I am sure. 🙂 Here's the store: Port Charles Place.
In some DWTS news out there, Hollyscoop.com caught up with Carrie Ann at 'The Trevor Project', which deals with suicide prevention for Gay young people. Carrie Ann talks about her thoughts on this project, the past season on 'Dancing With The Stars', her holiday plans and more.
Jennifer Grey is recovering at home from her Surgery. Here is a take from People.com.
Dr. Robert S. Bray Jr. removed "a huge fragment" from Grey's back during the operation. The procedure was a success, and Grey, 50, is recuperating but feeling great.
"I'm still recovering at home. I have to rest a bit more, but I feel great – completely pain free," she tells PEOPLE exclusively.
Bray, who performed the operation at the D.I.S.C. Sports and Spine Center in Marina del Rey, Calif., says Grey "can go back to her family, pilates, dancing – just about anything she wants to do."
Maks lit up Twitter yesterday with a picture for where he's at in the Ukraine currently. Gorgeous! What a beautiful place to spend Christmas and "very Dr. Zhivago" as one twitter follower said.
He also tweeted this.
Just a quick message (in light of the current news) to all the fans! I'm great! Having an amazing time and finding out a lot about myself in the process… Don't read into things and I promise I'll let you know what it is that I'm doing in due time. LOVE all the support I'm getting from you all and can't wait to get back to NY and family/friends to celebrate 2011! And PLEASE don't worry about all the haters……I sure don't 🙂
Speaking of Maks, he along with Mark and Derek have made Glee So Rocks "TV's 100 Sexiest Men of 2010" List. Mark came in at #58. Maks came in at #24. Derek came in at #26. Sssss, it's a pretty cool list. I wouldn't mind seeing any of these men on Dancing With The Stars next Season. How about you? 🙂
For those of you missing Jonathan and Edyta like myself, here they are dancing The Grand Pacific Ball Catalina Optivest.
It looks like Karina had fun celebrating her engaement in Las Vegas this past week with The Chippendales. Here a picture of her. More pics in a cool gallery at Wizbangpop.
Courtney will love this. Anna and Tony attended a charity event in South Florida last week which benefitted The Ronald MacDonald House Charity, The Lisa Boccard Breast Cancer Foundation, and Disabled American Veterans. Here is a picture and a take from Accidental Sexiness. Be sure to see the link for more and some video footage as well…especially of Tony saying he'd love to dance with Lindsay Lohan if given the opportunity.
On Thursday, December 9th, 2010 the venue hosted an evening with Dancing with the Stars pro's Tony Dovolani and Anna Trebunskaya who were even more amazing in person than they are on television. ( I had no idea that was even possible!)
Tony is as dreamy and sexy as you could imagine and Anna's fiery red hair is quite representative of her electric personality. Poor thing had her suitcase go missing in Los Angeles but she still managed to look fantastic for the event.
The couple performed two dances for guests of the casino, even those who were not participating in the meet and greet. Crowds formed to catch a glimpse of the dancing duo who sadly will never be paired off on the show. Yes, they were THAT good together!
Lastly, would you like to learn to dance with some of the DWTS Pros in the off season? If so, see how you can do so at Suite 101. I'll take a lesson with Tony and Maks please. 🙂
Ok, this wraps up this media edition for now. Have a great upcoming week!!! xxxx


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|Glow stick dipped in hot water, then again in cold water at the bottom. You can see the difference!
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Subtraction Strategies
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Particles in Different States of Matter
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We began by marking off a "jar" on the floor. We just used chairs as our boundaries. We packed ourselves into the "jar" and pretended to be the particles of a solid block of ice, frozen in a jar in the freezer. We were all touching, and no one was really moving much. Then we pretended someone took us out of the freezer and sat us down on the counter of a comfortably-warm room, so we started to slowly melt into a liquid. We began to move around and bump into each other, still within our jar. Finally, someone held us over the stove, so we began to move faster and faster, bumping into each other and the walls of the jar, until finally we became a gas and came out of the jar and flew around the room. We compared the particles of a gas to a sugared-up toddler. Ha ha!! Then we went in reverse and eventually became a liquid, then a solid again.
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The Scientific Method
The last two days of science class have been all about the scientific method. We decided to do an experiment to determine what effects different liquids would have on the physical properties of gummy bears. We used a glass of water as our control, then brought in a glass of vinegar, a glass of water/baking soda, and a glass of water/salt. Before we put the gummy bears in the solutions, we first measured their length, width, thickness, and mass. We also observed their physical traits. Then we added the gummy bears to the solutions and left them overnight. The next day we observed their physical traits and again measured their length, width, and thickness. I hadn't ever done this experiment before, so I was pretty surprised by the differences we saw!!
|Our gummy bears in relation to the normal one in front
|Measuring the gummy bear left in salt
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Muster Roll, Kansas Volunteers for the Protection of the Ballot Box, Leavenworth County
Author: No authors specified.
Date: 1857
The Kansas Volunteers for the Protection of the Ballott Box were free state supporters who were determined to see that fair elections were held in Kansas. James Lane was appointed to organize companies throughout the territory. General Order No. 1, found on this site, included instructions for listing the members of each company. This muster roll was prepared as a result of that order. This company was recruited in Leavenworth County from Delaware City. The muster roll listed the officers and enlisted men, their age, place of birth, where from to Kansas, and Kansas residence. The ages of company members range from 18 to 54. The captain was A. Cutter.
Location of Original: KSHS Call Number: History Military Oversize 3
Item Number: 102907 Number of images: 1
Keywords: Cutter, A.; Delaware City, Kansas Territory; Election fraud; Elections; Free state movement (see also Topeka Movement); Free state supporters; Kansas Volunteers; Kansas Volunteers for the Protection of the Ballot Box; Leavenworth County, Kansas Territory; Militia; Topeka Movement (see also Free state movement); Voting; Voting fraud (see also Contested elections)
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Carolinas College offers several student organizations that provide opportunities to get involved on campus.
Student Government Association (SGA)
The SGA provides the primary voice for students in college decision making and coordinates college-wide activities to encourage interaction between students in different academic programs.
Student Ambassadors
Ambassadors serve as college representatives at recruiting events and help new students adjust to life at CCHS
Student Nurses Association (SNA)
The CCHS chapter of SNA provides opportunities for nursing and pre-nursing students to grow professionally as they explore various topics and careers in nursing. Students may also join at the state and national level which affords opportunities for scholarships, state and national conferences, and eligibility to receive student nurse publications. Visit www.nsna.org for additional information about the National Student Nurses' Association.
Phi Theta Kappa Honor Society
Phi Theta Kappa is an international honor society that provides opportunities for the development of leadership, service, and fellowship open to students in two-year programs meeting certain academic requirements. Eligibility requirements: Enrolled in either the nursing or radiologic technology program; completed at least 12 hours at CCHS; received at least 3.5 GPA.
To encourage engagement and broad student participation, students are invited to participate in many of the college's committees.


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Farming News - To grow or to defend: How plants decide
To grow or to defend: How plants decide
Scientists have discovered how plants use steroid hormones to choose growth over defence when their survival depends on it.
Researchers at the John Innes Centre in Norfolk, where the study was carried out, said their findings could be used to create crops that combine size with pathogen resistance.
"A major dilemma faced by plants is whether to invest their energy in growth or defending against pathogens," said Professor Cyril Zipfel from The Sainsbury Laboratory. "Knowing how this is controlled adds a powerful tool in our ability to breed disease resistant plants with maximum yield."
A key protein, BZR1, is responsible for rapidly tipping the balance in favour of growth and ignoring pathogen attack when it is a matter of life and death. This is the case when a seed germinates in the soil, for example.
"Light is essential for plant's survival and the number one priority for a seedling is to reach sunlight," said Dr. Rosa Lozano-Durán, first author of the study from TSL. "Investing the limited resources in fighting back a pathogen could have lethal consequences," she added.
The protein identified controls the activity of genes related to immunity. It is involved in growth mediated by steroid hormones called brassinosteroids, which are common to all plants. Brassinosteroids are already the focus of studies to breed semi-dwarfed cereal crops. The current study shows that reducing their levels or their activity could have the added benefit of making crops better able to resist disease.


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High-net-worth individuals and families often fail to adjust their personal insurance programs as they accumulate wealth, and as a result pay too much for coverage that still leaves them exposed to severe financial loss, according to research released Tuesday by ACE Private Risk Services.
ACE surveyed some 600 independent insurance agents and brokers in 2010 and again last year about their new high-net-worth clients who had previously been insured by a mass-market carrier.
The new survey found that the problem of overpaying and underinsuring had grown worse in 2012.
Eighty-one percent of agents reported that families had homeowners and auto insurance deductibles that were too low, compared with 78% who said this in 2010.
Another 62% said families did not take full advantage of discounts earned by placing multiple policies with one carrier, up from 55% who reported this in 2010.
And 50% of agents surveyed believed that families had overlooked credits available for safety systems such as burglar alarms, water leak detection and power backup systems, compared with 36% in 2010.
The surveyed revealed that more high-net-worth clients insured by mass-market carriers in 2012 were likely to be underinsured for various, often serious risks:
- 92% of agents reported inadequate liability coverage, even though 80% of families believed their wealth made them a target for a lawsuit (up from 89% in 2010)
- 86% said wealthy families had inadequate protection if they should suffer serious injury or damage at the hands of someone without the insurance or assets to meet liability obligations (82% in 2010)
- 86% reported ineffective coverage of valuable collections (83% in 2010)
- 83% believed families had insufficient coverage of the main home and/or vacation home, even as this often represented the largest component of a family's net worth (86% in 2010).
As in the 2010 survey, more than a third of agents reported that clients likely had too much insurance for minor losses, other structures on their property, such as detached garages and swimming pools, and the personal property in their home.
About the same number said these areas were likely to be underinsured.
"Unless they have a severe loss, [wealthy individuals and families] never realize their agent and carrier no longer have the expertise, insurance coverages and services to fully meet their needs," Robert Courtemanche, division president at ACE, said in a statement.
"But by then, it's too late. Ironically, if they had looked for an agent and carrier better suited to their current level of achievement and lifestyle, they probably wouldn't have had to pay much more for better protection. In many cases, they could have paid less."


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2009-10 Conference Primers: #7 – Mountain WestPosted by rtmsf on October 31st, 2009
Andrew Murawa of The Great Leap Backward is the RTC correspondent for the Mountain West Conference.
Predicted Order of Finish:
- San Diego State 10-6
- Utah 10-6
- New Mexico 9-7
- Wyoming 6-10
- Colorado State 5-11
- Air Force 2-14
All-Conference Team:
- Jimmer Fredette (G), Jr, BYU (16.2ppg, 4.0 apg)
- Carlon Brown (G), Jr, Utah (9.3 ppg, 5.2 rpg, 3.3 apg)
- Afam Muojeke (F), Soph, Wyoming (13.8 ppg, 5.3 rpg)
- Jonathan Tavernari (F), Sr, BYU (15.7 ppg, 7.2 rpg)
- Zvonko Buljan (C), Sr, TCU (12.3 ppg, 7.8 rpg)
6th Man: Billy White, Sr, San Diego State (8.8 ppg, 3.8 rpg)
Impact Newcomer: Derrick Jasper, Jr, UNLV
What You Need to Know. The Mountain West Conference is consistently one of the top high mid-major conferences in the country. In just over a decade in existence, the MWC has only failed to finish among the top 10 conferences in terms of RPI just once (2005-06), and only once in the conference's history has it failed to advance more than one team to the NCAA tournament (2000-01). Six of its nine member schools feature campuses above 4,000 feet in elevation, and that, coupled with some small, raucous arenas, make MWC arenas a tough place for visiting teams to play.
New look league: Only five of last year's top 20 scorers in the conference, and only one of last year's top ten in minutes played, return. Last year, the Mountain West Conference was dominated by veterans, but despite their absence, coaches around the league have plenty of incoming talent to get excited about. For every Luke Nevill, Lee Cummard, Wink Adams, Kyle Spain or Brandon Ewing that has moved on, a Derrick Jasper, Malcolm Thomas, Kawhi Leonard, Shawn Glover or JayDee Luster has arrived. As a result, every team in this league has questions that will need to be answered between now and March. Who can BYU get to step in and take up the slack that the graduation of Lee Cummard leaves? Can gigantic sophomore David Foster fill the hole in the paint for Utah left by Luke Nevill? Can UNLV get enough production from its frontcourt to help their strong backcourt? Can Steve Fisher's San Diego State squad not underachieve for once? Is New Mexico's Phillip McDonald ready to become a star in this league?
Stability remains: While there has been a lot of turnover in terms of players in the MWC, the guys patrolling the sidelines will look remarkably similar. In an era of seemingly rampant coaching turnover, the MWC boasts nine returning coaches, three of whom (UNLV's Lon Kruger, San Diego State's Fisher and New Mexico's Steve Alford) have more than 350 career wins. BYU fans should feel particularly pleased to see their head coach, Dave Rose, return. Rose was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer just after the end of last season, but has been fortunate enough to have received a clean bill of health following treatment and surgery in the offseason.
Non-conference boost: One area where the conference has gone downhill recently has been in the strength of its collective non-conference schedule. In the early 2000s, the MWC was consistently in the top 10 conferences in terms of non-conference schedule strength, but have slid to the point where their non-conference schedule strength the past three years has been out of the top 20. It would appear, however, that the conference has made a concerted effort to improve those numbers this year. In addition to the inaugural MWC/MVC Challenge (which will give MWC teams a chance to compete against a mid-major conference of similar historical strength), you'll find tough games against both major conferences and respected mid-major programs littering the schedules. From tough roadies against national powers like Arizona, LSU and UCLA to sneaky matchups against other mid-majors like Utah State, St. Mary's and Oral Roberts, the MWC has gone a long way towards beefing up their early-season schedules.


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Keep Baby Bottle Tooth Decay From Ruining Your Child's Smile
All About Baby Teeth
Baby teeth may not seem very important, but they play a crucial role in your child's oral health. Take a look at a few facts about primary teeth.
There is a Pattern to the Appearance of Baby Teeth
The two bottom front teeth usually appear first, followed by the top two front teeth. First teeth generally appear when your baby is between 6 months and 1 year old. Usually, the first teeth to appear are the first ones your child loses when the permanent teeth begin to erupt.
Losing Baby Teeth Can Affect Permanent Teeth
Baby teeth create space for permanent teeth and help guide them into the proper position. If your child loses a baby tooth prematurely, the permanent tooth may grow in crooked or might even be damaged if tooth decay in the baby tooth was extensive.
Baby Teeth are Essential to Your Child's Development
Baby teeth are needed to chew and bite. They also help your child form words correctly. Even at a young age, missing or damaged teeth can affect a child's self-esteem and may affect his or her social development.
Tooth decay can affect your children at a very young age. The American Academy of Pediatric Dentistry estimates that 28 percent of children ages 2 to 5 have already had cavities. Early childhood cavities, commonly called Baby Bottle Tooth Decay, is a serious problem, but one that can be easily prevented.
What is Baby Bottle Tooth Decay?
Baby Bottle Tooth Decay causes cavities in children under age five. The condition gets its name from the practice of putting babies to bed with bottles. When a child falls asleep, small amounts of milk tend to pool in the mouth. Milk and formula contain natural sugars. If the sugars mix with the bacteria in the mouth, acids are created that attack tooth enamel and cause cavities.
Is Milk (or Formula) the Only Culprit?
Although the condition is called "Baby Bottle" Tooth Decay, it doesn't just affect babies and can be caused by a variety of factors. Giving your baby or young child juice frequently may also increase the risk that your son or daughter will develop cavities. In some cases, early childhood cavities can develop if you share spoons with your child or clean a dirty pacifier in your mouth before handing it to your child. The problem occurs when the bacteria present in your mouth is transferred to your child through your saliva.
How Can I Prevent Baby Bottle Tooth Decay?
These tips will help your child avoid Baby Bottle Tooth Decay:
- Do Not Let Your Baby Linger Over a Bottle. Do not give your baby a bottle at bedtime or let him or her use the bottle as a pacifier for hours. The longer your child's mouth is exposed to sugars, the greater the chance he or she will develop cavities.
- Substitute Cups for Bottles. By age one, your child should be able to drink out of a sippy cup. Since it's important to remain upright when drinking out of a cup, milk or juice is less likely to pool in your child's mouth.
- Dilute Juice. Fill cups and bottles with a mixture of one-half water and one-half juice to decrease the sugar content of the juice. Serve juice at meal times only to minimize your child's exposure to sugar. Better yet, offer water instead.
- Make Good Oral Hygiene Part of Your Child's Daily Routine. Clean your baby's gums with a moist piece of gauze or a washcloth after every feeding. When your baby's first tooth appears, brush it twice every day with a small amount of fluoridated toothpaste.
- Serve Fruits and Vegetables Instead of Sugary Snacks. Fruits and vegetables are the better choice for your child's overall and oral health. Cookies and candy should be occasional treats, not everyday snacks, due to their high sugar content. Gummy candies are particularly dangerous because tiny pieces tend to remain on your child's teeth long after he or she has finished eating.
- Make Regular Dental Visits a Priority. Take your child to the dentist within six months after his or her first tooth appears or no later than age one. If he or she does have a cavity, prompt treatment will prevent the decay from spreading.
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Can you believe it's February already!? Time flies sooo fast, and before you know it, it's Christmas time again! (laughs) Anyhoo, I bet you were able to get some of your favorite things as gifts during the holidays. I was able to get a number of gifts last Christmas and would you believe they kept pouring in until January? Thanks to our dear friends for sending me some love!
For today, I want to show you this makeup palette that I got from our dear friends from AVON and Ogilvy:
AVON Holiday Collection Makeup Palette
This palette has 8 shimmery eyeshadows and 2 blushes, one is matte and the other one's shimmery.
Looking at this palette made me remember that my first makeup palette actually came from Avon. And why not? I mean, Avon is such a household name and it's been like that for years! I remember saving a part of my allowance to buy myself stuff from our dear Avon lady. Ohh, I remember my first perfume...Sweet Honesty!
Now, let's check out the swatches:
Too bad the shades aren't labelled. But I can say that the color selection is good. I particularly love the blue, the olive green and the gold. I just wish the palette comes with a black eyeshadow too! I love using black to give more definition to the eyes. All the colors can be used on its own too. Just add a liner and then a mascara, and you're good! I don't find them powdery, but if you do, try applying in a patting motion. The blushes are nice too. If you find the pink one, too pink, apply it lightly and you can put the shimmery blush on top for more dimension.
The palette comes with these two brushes:
blush brush - eyeshadow brush
I confess that I usually hate the brushes that come with makeup palettes. I usually throw them away. In this palette's case, well, I was able to use the eyeshadow brush...but not the blush brush which I initially thought to be a blending brush, because I find it too small to be used to apply blush. I still prefer using my own brushes.
As for the packaging, I love that it comes in black. But again, I have this wish that it comes with a mirror too! And while the packaging looks sleek, I always have a hard time opening it. I chipped my nails twice while trying to open it.
And here's a sample look I was able to come up with:
I used the yellow and the green on the left side of the palette, and black (from my Beauty Pro palette).
Take note I didn't use any primer underneath...and the good news? It still looked okay more than 8hrs after. It did crease a bit, but nothing that a good 'ole smudging using your finger won't be able to take care of.
I don't think this palette's still available. But if you have this, and haven't been able to use it, please do. Overall, I am liking this palette and I'm pretty sure you would too!
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I have a system to solve, set up as : $$Ax = b$$ with a square rank deficient matrix $A$. The paper suggests to use a Moore Penrose pseudo inverse, which in my case can be computed using the traditional inverse : $$ A^+ = (A+\frac{ee^T}{n})^{-1} - \frac{ee^T}{n} $$ where $e$ is a vector containing only ones, and $n$ is the dimension of the matrix. This matrix comes from the solution of a Multidimensional Scaling problem using the SMACOF method (the Guttman transform).
However, in my case, my matrix $A$ is very sparse (and rank deficient) : what method can I use to efficiently solve the original system without making my matrix dense (as would be the case by using an SVD, by using the above formula for the pseudo inverse, by computing $A^TA$ or by QR factorization) ? $A$ is also symmetric, has a positive diagonal, and the other values are either -1 or 0, and such as the sum of each row (resp. column) is 0.
Preferably, since I'll need to solve for multiple right hand sides with this same matrix, I would like to avoid performing the resolution from scratch for each right hand side. I would also like to get exactly the same result as the one obtained with the Moore Penrose pseudoinverse.


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Five things to watch in the Clippers-Grizzlies playoff matchup
Below are five things to watch in the Clippers-Grizzlies first-round matchup.
1. Can the Clippers' health hold up?
The Clippers have battled through injuries -- some big, some small -- all season but it's been a constant issue. They come into the postseason relatively healthy, although Chauncey Billups is battling leg problems and Caron Butler's knee has been a sore spot for some time. Billups, especially, is a concern early on, and his minutes will be monitored as he works his way back into shape. He returned after an eight-game absence Tuesday against the Portland Trailblazers and it will take time to round into form. The Clippers have shown they can win without their veteran leader. Remember, they beat the Grizzlies in seven games last year without Billups playing a game, but they are a much better team with him healthy and playing well, especially this time of year.
2. Can the Grizzlies score enough to keep up?
Yes, Memphis benefited from the midseason trade that sent leading scorer Rudy Gay to Toronto and brought Tayshaun Prince to the Grizzlies. Defensively, they are a better team and the ball moves better offensively. Putting it in the basket has been a challenge, though, and as they showed in a loss to the Clippers at home last Saturday, their lack of firepower is a major issue. Gay, for all the concern about how much he was getting paid, was a consistent scorer and the Grizzlies might learn the hard way his production isn't easily made up for in the playoffs.
3. Can DeAndre Jordan match up with Marc Gasol?
The Clippers' big man had one of his most efficient games of the year against the Grizzlies last Saturday with 16 points, 12 rebounds and three blocked shots. If the Clippers can get that kind of production from him in the first round, they should soar into the semifinals. The problem is Jordan hasn't reached the point where he can string together performances like that on a consistent basis. He too often plays well one night but vanishes the next. The Clippers have won a franchise-best 56 games dealing with those inconsistencies, but can they win four out of the next seven against the Grizzlies if he falls into that trend?
4. Can the Clippers play small ball?
We all know "Lob City" leads the league in highlight-reel plays. Between the dunks of Blake Griffin and Jordan and the crossover moves of Jamal Crawford and the alley-oop passing of Chris Paul, they are a television sports producer's dream. That's all well and good in the regular season, but winning playoff games comes down to focus, execution and an ability to make the most out of every offensive and defensive sequence. Do the Clippers have the maturity and fortitude to grind out each possession, execute their sets precisely and take care of the ball? Conversely, do they have it in them play after play to communicate, rotate and help each other defensively? If so, they should win this series easily.
5. Is Blake Griffin ready for prime time?
We all remember Griffin limping around last year as the Clippers beat Memphis in seven games before falling to the San Antonio Spurs in a four-game sweep. It didn't take a doctor to understand Griffin was playing at less than 80 percent capacity, and that is pushing it. This year he goes into the playoffs as healthy as can be and presumably ready to take another step on his way to stardom. Standing in his way are the physical, aggressive Grizzlies, who like to muck games up and take opponents out of their game. Griffin has made strides keeping his emotions in check this year, especially when it comes to his issues with the physical liberties opponents take on him and what he perceives as indifference from referees. That maturity will be tested big time against the Grizzlies, who will try to disrupt him mentally. If he can rise above it, he and the Clippers should be fine. If not, the edge goes to Memphis.


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Grilled Spaghetti and Meatball Sandwich
Cowboy Chicken Wrap – grilled chicken, bbq sauce, caramelized onions, cheese, and French's crispy onions
The Reuben-ATOR JUICY MEAT PILED ON OUR HOMEMADE RYE BREAD TOPPED WITH HOUSE MADE RUSSIAN DRESSING AND OUR HOT PEPPER SAUERKRAUT !
Grilled B.L.T. Served on homemade grilled bread with bacon, lettuce and tomato, Boursin cheese, provolone cheese and mayo
Italian Grill Sandwich- layered italian meats with provolone cheese topped with lettuce, tomato, onions, and balsamic vinaigrette
Broccoli Chicken Cheese Sandwich with peppers and onions
Cowboy Steak Sandwich – Ribeye Steak, BBQ Sauce,Bacon Crumbles , Cheddar Cheese, Caramelized Onions and then topped with fried onions.
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I'm constantly intrigued by new words and whenever I review a car I find out the etymology behind the name. Koleos is Greek and, as far as I can tell, spelled κολεός. Try putting that in Google Translate and, well, you'll find a very Latin name for a very female part of the body.
But I digress, and today I'm driving around in a black Koleos. It's a medium-sized SUV with a few Nissan X-Trail underpinnings that has proper off-road four-wheel drive capabilities, although looking at the tyres and given the amount of rain we've just had I'm not that keen on driving on anything that isn't at least a partial product of fractal distillation. Continue reading "Renault: 2014 Koleos 4×4 2.5-litre review" »


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They were Warriors. They lived as Warriors. They fought as Warriors. And they died as Warriors. This is the highest honor any Warrior can hope to achieve. The have seats at the table in Valhalla. I am only sorry for the loss their loved ones have to cope with… and I am sorry for the loss of such valiant assets for our Armed Forces. My prayers are with the Surviving Members of Seal Team Six, and for the families left behind.
Now these Seals have the opportunity to go down from the Pearly Gates and pay a visit in hell to Osama Bin Laden and kick his ass some more.


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#1 Attorney says Zimmerman had $200G from Web donations04-27-2012, 12:39 AM
ORLANDO, Florida George Zimmerman's website seeking money for his legal defense may have been shut down, but apparently not before pulling in quite a haul for the high-profile Florida murder defendant.
The attorney for Zimmerman, charged in the February shooting of unarmed 17-year-old Trayvon Martin, says in a TV interview Thursday that his client's website has raised more than $200,000.
Mark O'Mara, speaking to CNN, said he learned about the money on Wednesday and will inform a judge at a Friday hearing.
Zimmerman has been charged with second-degree murder in the shooting death of Trayvon Martin, though he has claimed he shot Martin in self-defense, invoking the state's "Stand Your Ground" law. The incident sparked a national debate as to whether the shooting was an act of racial profiling by Zimmerman, who has white and Hispanic ancestry. Martin was black.
Zimmerman was released from jail this week after paying 10 percent of $150,000 bail.
O'Mara says the bail amount may have been higher if the judge knew Zimmerman had raised $200,000.
The website used to raise the money has since been shut down, but O'Mara said he'll likely start a new defense fund for Zimmerman.
TheRealGeorgeZimmerman.com was launched April 10, as a digital soapbox for Zimmerman to give his side of the story, as well as a fundraising tool to solicit donations to his legal defense fund. Zimmerman used the site, which took major credit cards, to communicate messages to his supporters. But the site was shut down as of this week.
Ive started the process to properly authorize his legal fund," O'Mara said earlier this week. "I do not want him to have any Internet presence and that site has been taken down.
A friend of Zimmerman had helped launch the site, but several fake imitation websites and Twitter accounts have popped up in recent weeks. O'Mara said he is trying to clear the Internet of fake sites and set up a defense fund that meets all legal requirements.
Im trying to scrub through all of them and take action to have them taken down, he told FoxNews.com. We are currently going through the Division of Consumer Service for an authorized fund. We will likely put up another website for donations, but it will be done so through my office.
Reports are that after posting bail, Zimmerman immediately left Florida out of safety concerns and is moving between several undisclosed locations. O'Mara has said Zimmerman will likely remain in hiding until the trial starts sometime next year.
Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/us/2012/04/26...#ixzz1tCzdD78pNo weapon formed against you shall prosper. Isaiah 54:17
Matthew 10:29-31
"Are not two sparrows sold for a cent? And yet not one of them will fall to the ground apart from your Father. "But the very hairs of your head are all numbered. "So do not fear; you are more valuable than many sparrows.
Good to hear Zimmerman is getting some proper support.
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Who: Brett Cecil, No. 27. Left-handed starting pitcher. 6'1", 215 LBS, down from 250 last season. 25 years old.
Provenance: Dunkirk, Maryland. Drafted by the Blue Jays in the first round (supplemental) of the 2007 draft out of the University of Maryland. Go Terps.
Contract Status: Resigned for one year by the Jays in the offseason. Arbitration eligible after this season.
2011 Stats: 4.73 ERA, 1.326 WHIP, 87 strikeouts and 42 walks in 123.2 innings over 20 starts with the Blue Jays.
Career Stats: 4.64 ERA in 66 games (65 starts) over three seasons with the Jays. 6.3 K/9, 3.1 BB/9, 1.40 WHIP in 389.2 innings.
Looking Back: It feels as though we've spent much of the past 18 months treating Brett Cecil as some sort of riddle, wrapped in an enigma and smothered in secret sauce. How could the 15-game winner (most on the Jays!) in 2010 devolve into a 4-11 pitcher in the space of one year?
And yet, if you cast your eyes down his stat line a bit, you start to see that Brett Cecil's last two seasons have more in common than the win-loss record would lead you to believe. (Which is why we never talk about pitcher win-loss records, and why you should pay them little mind. But we digress.)
Cecil's WHIP in 2010 and 2011 was the exact same at 1.326. His K/9 rate was 6.1 in 2010 and 6.3 in 2011. His BB/9 was 2.8 in 2010 and 3.1 in 2011. The differences are hardly earth-shattering. The numbers that stand out when comparing the two seasons are those that show hitters getting balls in the air off the Jays' lefty. His flyball rate bumped up from 38.2% to 43.5%, and his HR/9 rate spiked from 0.9 to 1.6.
Plucking from our memory we'd explain the added loft by noting the trouble Cecil had keeping the ball down in the zone last year. His delivery seemed to be a constant work in progress, especially after he showed up to spring training with a couple of miles per hour missing from all of his pitches. He's gone from a pitcher who touches the low 90's and averaged 90.7 M.P.H. in his 2009 debut to averaging 88.5 M.P.H. last season.
Looking Forward: Funny how one year later, we're all still waiting for Cecil's velocity to return.
Anyone who is live-tweeting the games from Florida is questioned almost immediately from Jays fans as to the speed that Cecil is showing in any given game. There ought to be a hashtag for that: #CecilRadarGunWatch? #WhatsTheVelocityCecil?
Through his ascent through the system, there was talk of Cecil being a power lefty, and even the odd musing about his ability to close games. But the reports back so far would seem to indicate that Cecil has become a pitcher for whom the 90's will be just out of reach for his fastball. If Cecil is going to succeed, he'll have to do it with guile and control, and better location on his pitches.
Cecil's off-season weight-loss is supposed to help him finish through his delivery, and keep the ball down in the zone. Apparently, love handles and puffy midsections impede your ability to keep a downward angle on your pitches, which means that we'd probably be launching everything over the backstop at this point. Again, apologies for the further digression.
2012 Expectations: It's not inconceivable that Cecil could find a way to take his arsenal of pitches and carve out a decent season for himself, though the Jays will likely look to him to eat innings and carry his starts through and beyond the sixth inning this season. If his newly svelte figure truly helps him keep the ball down in the zone, we could see a season closer to his 2010 performance. Not exactly the stuff that puts you over the top in the AL East, but a very useful arm at the back of the rotation.
Wednesday, March 21, 2012
30 Jays in 30 Days - On the Velocity and Mass of Brett Cecil
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No mention of his "Hamels-level" stuff?!?
- March 21, 2012 at 12:03 PM
I like Cecil, but I don't think he finishes the season with the jays. The reason is he will be passed on the depth chart pretty soon. And we learned enough from jojo last season.
If he's doing well then I expect him to be traded. If not then someone in the minors will force AA's hand on promotion.
- March 21, 2012 at 1:08 PM
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A Burlington man was arrested Friday for his role in robbing a child Monday naer Pine and Key streets.
Dennis Lee McGee Jr., 24, was charged with common law robbery, according to warrants. He was placed under $50,000 bond.
According to Burlington police, McGee and an unknown second man allegeldy robbed the child Monday morning before school. The child, whose age was not available, missed the bus at Durham and Logan streets and tried to catch it near Jackson Street, and on the way was taken behind a vacant house near Pine and Key streets by the two suspects, who stole a necklace and tablet computer.
The child was not hurt.
Anyone with information about the second suspect should call the Burlington Police Department at 229-3500 or Burlington/Alamance CrimeStoppers at 229-7100.


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text: Perth - South Africa's AB de Villiers removed the question mark over whether he could bat while also keeping wicket with a storming 169 on Sunday to help his country to the brink of a series triumph over Australia. The 28-year-old took up the gloves on the tour of England last July, initially as an interim measure, when a freak eye injury prematurely ended the career of 147-Test wicketkeeper Mark Boucher. Although his skills as a wicketkeeper have never been in doubt, the lack of so much as a half century since he adopted the role had some asking whether the extra duties were taking their toll on his batting.Video highlights: Australia v SA, third Test, Day 3Live scorecard: Australia v South AfricaHe answered the doubters in some style on day three with a pugnacious 184-ball 169 littered with cover drives, pull shots, hook shots and three stunning reverse sweeps for four on successive balls to get him to the hundred mark. "Obviously, there's a bit of added pressure on me with the gloves in hand," he told reporters. "It's been coming for a while now. Can I score runs with the gloves? Luckily I did today."I honestly believe I don't get as tired when I'm 'keeping," he added. "When you are in the field and running up and down, it's really hard work and it can be mentally draining as well. When I'm 'keeping, I have 30 yards to run between overs and that's it. "I've got to expect the ball a bit more often but I love being in the game, it keeps me on my toes and I'm really loving having the gloves in hand." There has certainly been no question mark over the batting of Hashim Amla this year and he took his tally of runs over the 1 000 mark for 2012 with a sparkling innings of 196 off 221 balls. Coming after Australia had been bowled out for 163 on Saturday, the cascade of quick runs wrenched the game away from the hosts as South Africa were all out for 569 in their second innings. "It wasn't a plan. When I got to the crease with Graeme (Smith) there were a few loose balls we were able to get away and so that gave us some momentum," explained Amla. "We just felt good and continued doing it. We managed to manipulate the field a bit - wherever there's gaps you try to hit the ball - so I tried a few one-day shots. "We were in a strong position, which kind of gives you the freedom to do it. So if it goes wrong, it's not a train smash." Victory for South Africa now looks highly likely with Australia set to resume on 40-0 on Monday with a target of 632 for victory with two days left. "I feel really proud about what happened today," De Villiers said of his innings. "But once again, it's not a great performance if we don't win this game so I'll really love it if we can push through tomorrow, and on day five maybe. "I believe we have the skill to take 10 wickets," he added. "Our bowlers did amazingly well in the first innings, the best they have in this entire series. "I'm expecting more fireworks tomorrow from them."


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Argentine officials say their plan for paying $1.4 billion in defaulted debt is fully within the spirit of U.S. court rulings.
But Wall Street analysts say the offer looks nothing like the letter of the law as the appellate court sees it. They say the mix of new bonds to be paid out over the next 25 years boils down to just one-sixth of what Argentina was told to hand over in cash.
Many experts looking over the weekend at what President Cristina Fernandez's government filed with the court at midnight Friday said a new default by Argentina is now much more likely.
And some are predicting that if Argentina loses, it will try to reroute its debt payments from New York's banks, rather than submit to U.S. justice.
Fernandez and her economic team are proud of Argentina's long climb back from a world record debt default in 2001, and determined to keep the plaintiffs, and what they call their "vulture funds," from getting a better deal than what the other 92 percent of Argentina's defaulted debt holders accepted in 2005 and 2010 in exchange for the unpaid paper.
Those new bonds had a much lower face value at first, providing relief to Argentina in much the same way a bankruptcy proceeding writes off bad debts and ensures that all creditors are paid more or less equally. It has taken years, but these bondholders have gradually begun to recover most of what they lost more than a decade ago.
Rather than accept this bankruptcy scenario, about 8 percent of the debt holders refused to accept the bond swaps. Led by billionaire Paul Singer, they went to court instead, demanding payment in full for a plain and simple breach of contract. After a decade of litigation, they won. Now it's all about getting paid.
U.S. District Judge Thomas Griesa would block Argentina's regular payments to the 92 percent if U.S. banks don't ensure that the country hasn't already repaid the plaintiffs an equal amount in capital, interest and penalties.
If upheld, that would force Argentina into default in June, if it doesn't pay the plaintiffs their first installments totaling nearly $250 million, equal to what it must pay the exchange bondholders that month.
Vice President Amado Boudou said Saturday that "it would be a judicial absurdity to block payments by a country that has the capacity and willingness to pay."
Boudou added that "one way or another, Argentina will pay" the exchange bondholders no matter what the courts say.
That suggests Argentina might try a long-shot scheme of routing its payments through some other country, even though the exchange bonds are denominated in dollars and promised under New York law, analyst Daniel Kerner said.
"It suggests that it is highly unlikely that the government will comply with any court ruling that mandates full payment," Kerner said.
While the appeals court does not have a deadline, it could issue a ruling anytime in the next few weeks.
Argentina's shaky economy hangs in the balance. The government argued that if the plantiffs win the $43 billion would immediately come due, draining all the country's foreign reserves. Such a victory would enable NML Capital Ltd., a hedge fund owned by billionaire Paul Singer, to walk away with a profit of 1,380 percent, the government complained.
JP Morgan analyst Vladimir Werning predicted that the appellate judges would have little sympathy for such arguments. He also predicted that Argentina will lose and try to reroute its current payments through some other country - a complicated endeavor that U.S. courts could potentially block.
Argentina had some defenders on Monday. A coalition of church groups known as the Jubilee USA Network, which lobbies for foreign debt reduction, said the "payment plan protects the integrity of deals made with other debt holders, but most importantly it ensures that these holdout hedge funds can't take further advantage of the poor in developing countries."
But they appeared to be in the minority.
Arturo Porzecanski, an expert on Latin American emerging markets at American University, said Argentina should simply pay what it owes.
Instead, the government is offering no "explicit or implicit commitment to make anybody whole for the tremendous losses previously sustained," he said. "The plaintiffs are merely given yet another chance to be paid mainly in highly risky, long-term IOUs the little money that Argentina wants to pay them."


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TARRYTOWN, N.Y., Sept. 4, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Immune Pharmaceuticals Inc. (NASDAQ OMX Stockholm Exchange: IMNP and OTCQX: EPCTD) today announced it will be featured as a presenting company at the 15th Annual Rodman & Renshaw Global Investment Conference, sponsored by H.C. Wainwright & Co., LLC. The conference is being held September 8-10, 2013, at the Millennium Broadway Hotel in New York City.
Daniel Teper, CEO of Immune Pharmaceuticals Inc., will provide an overview of the Company's business during the live presentation and will be available to participate in one-on-one meetings with investors who are registered to attend the conference.
If you are an institutional investor, and would like to attend the Company's presentation, please click on the following link (www.rodm.com) to register for the Rodman & Renshaw conference. Once your registration is confirmed, you will be prompted to log into the conference website to request a one-on-one meeting with the Company.
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Immune Pharmaceuticals Inc. (Nasdaq OMX Stockholm Exchange: IMNP; OTCQX: EPCTD,) applies a personalized approach to treatment, developing novel, highly targeted antibody therapeutics to improve the lives of patients with inflammatory diseases and cancer. The Company's lead product candidate, bertilimumab, is entering Phase II clinical studies for moderate-to-severe ulcerative colitis and bullous pemphigoid, with additional studies planned for Crohn's disease and severe asthma. The Company is evaluating the use of its NanomAb® platform, a second generation antibody drug conjugate technology, with chemotherapeutics in order to enhance their safety and efficacy profiles by delivering the medicines directly to cancer cells. The Company's growing oncology pipeline also includes proprietary antibodies and, clinical-stage small molecules that have been shown activity in a variety of solid tumors.
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krisco necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 525 diseños de 144 diseñadores freelance.
We are in the process of having an entirely new website designed that will enable online ebusiness. We have just procured the trydti.com domain and would like to perhaps incorporate this as a logo itself, as well as revamping the stand alone dti logo.
The current site has been up for several years as http://www.dtisolution.com
The actual corporation is Distributor to Industry, Inc. I know, it's way too long, so a transformation to trydti.com or simply dti are certainly options. We are a long time existing business that is finding worldwide web success that we want to expand on. Check our current site for a feel of what we do, after you try to navigate around in the current site you will know why it has to go. We will have several more product lines on the new site, with (shoppoing cart)online ordering and credit card acceptance.
We are looking for something with an industrial feel, given what we sell and the name of the business. Historically red and gray have been the colors, don't know how we got so much blue on the current site, but we are open to ideas on color combinations.
The logo selected will be used in print ads in trade publications, on the website, on signage, on business cards, all the usual places. Vector based, is what we want, as I understand it.
- Item 1...Industrial, masculine, uncluttered. Motivates prospects to take action and try dti.
- Item 1...We are wholesale business to business, not retail. So we have to be wary of light airy colors or looks.
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Potatoes and cabbage are probably the two vegetables Ireland is most famous for. Millions of heads of cabbage will be cooked and eaten on March 17th and in the days leading up to St. Patrick's Day. Irish cabbage is boiled and shredded and served with melting butter.
When I was preparing corned beef last week, I mentioned to my husband that I planned to steam the cabbage in wedges. A look of disappointment crossed his face as he declared:
"Don't give me any fancy wedges of cabbage. I like my cabbage Irish style."
And so I cooked our cabbage Irish style, boiled and cut up into shreds, then served with melting butter. My grandmother always cooked cabbage in the same pot and salty water she used to boil bacon. I like the flavor a little bacon adds to cabbage, so I thought I would share my cabbage cooking technique with you today, in preparation for our favorite saint's feast day. It comes with a seal of approval from my Donegal man.
1/2 head of green cabbage
1 teaspoon of peppercorns
3 slices of streaky bacon
1/2 teaspoon of salt
Water for boiling.
Note: Cooking half a head of cabbage yields about 4 servings. I usually cook just half a head at a time, but this recipe works fine if you cook the whole head of cabbage, yielding about 8 servings.
Here is my trick for adding a little bacon flavor to my American boiled cabbage. I take the outer leaf off the cabbage head and remove the hard stalk at the very end.
Next I place 3 slices of bacon folded over in the center of the leaf, together with 1 teaspoon of peppercorns.
Next comes time to fold up this flavor packet, by bending the sides of the leaf inwards over the bacon, then rolling up the cabbage leaf. Secure it with some cotton thread, that will withstand boiling water.
Next cut the cabbage head in two halves. Remove the inner hard core of the cabbage by slicing on either side of it. Wiggle it and it should pop right out.
Peel the leaves off the cabbage head, layer by layer. Pop them in a colander and rinse them under cold water.
Transfer the cabbage leaves into a large saucepan, tearing any large leaves into smaller pieces. Add the bacon and peppercorn packet prepared earlier.
Cover the cabbage with water and season with salt. Bring to a boil.
Turn the heat down and simmer for 20 minutes until the cabbage is tender.
Drain the cabbage and return it to the pot.
Discard the cabbage package with the bacon and peppercorns.
Using a knife cut through the cabbage leaves.
When shredded nicely, add some butter if desired.
Serve with potatoes and corned beef. Simply delicious with a few knobs of butter melting over the cabbage and potatoes.
Wishing you all happy cabbage cooking for St. Patrick's Day.
Slán agus beannacht,
(Goodbye and blessings)
Irish American Mom