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Between the best seats at the Jimmy Fallon show and listening to Peter Parker sing, my family and I went on a trip to Brooklyn Brewery. The frigid conditions outside would have made the warm interior enticing even if they didn't have beer. We made it through the entrance and hoped to be welcomed with […]

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Bring some social consciousness to your spending habits today with Buycott, which lets you scan products to find out what companies actually benefit from you buying them. Famous Birthdays is up next and is packed with information about celebrities. Finally, there's Blitz Brigade, an online first-person shooter with vehicles, character classes and more. Also on […]
Bring some social consciousness to your spending habits today with Buycott, which lets you scan products to find out what companies actually benefit from you buying them. Famous Birthdays is up next and is packed with information about celebrities. Finally, there's Blitz Brigade, an online first-person shooter with vehicles, character classes and more.
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Buycott (Free)
What's it about? Ever wonder if the products you buy put money into companies who fight for political and social causes you don't believe in? Buycott helps you figure that out to buy from companies you agree with and avoid those you don't.
What's cool? Buycott describes itself as "the opposite of a boycott." Instead of exclusively avoiding purchasing from companies whose beliefs you oppose, the app helps you to figure out which companies you want to support and seek them out in particular. It works by allowing you to scan the bar codes of products and find out what companies are actually behind them, going up through the family tree of a company to find its ultimate parent. You can join campaigns created by other users, such as avoiding the products of companies that oppose marriage equality or buying from those who are on your side of the genetically modified food labeling debate, or you can create your own. The app isn't angled at any particular set of beliefs, but instead empowers you to make choices about who you give your money, regardless of where you stand on issues.
Who's it for? If you want to be more conscious about what you buy and what political actions your money might be funding, check out Buycott.
What's it like? Get some more social action out of your mobile devices with ACLJ Social Action and Free2Work.
Famous Birthdays (Free)
What's it about? As you might expect, Famous Birthdays connects you with information about the birthdays of famous people each day of the year, and gives you interesting biographical information about them as well.
What's cool? Every day is someone's birthday, and Famous Birthdays lets you know who's birthday it is every day, with more than 30,000 profiles of famous people. The app includes tons of information about the people featured within, and scores their "popularity" based on user activity to bring you the profiles you'll be most interested in seeing. You can also search for celebrities to learn more about them.
Who's it for? Fans of celebrity profiles will find lots of information here.
What's it like? Get more info on lots of different celebrities from IMDb, and play some games with your celebrity knowledge in Who's the Celeb?.
Blitz Brigade (Free)
What's it about? Jump online and blast enemies in Gameloft's latest first-person shooter, the cartoonish and team-based Blitz Brigade.
What's cool? Fans of the popular PC first-person shooter Team Fortress 2 will see the heavy influence on Blitz Brigade, a similar team-based FPS that's all about joining up with other players to take down the opposing force. Players choose from a number of different character classes that determine what weapons they have and how they play, and then work to either beat down the other team or capture flags or territory in Blitz Brigade's multiple game modes. The game also includes vehicles, offering different ways to assault bases and get around its maps, and supports as many as 12 players per match.
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As Victor Fabry napped in his hospital bed, a quiet symphony filled his room. The steady pulse of a cardiac monitor marked the progress of his mending heart. Over that beat, the swaying strains of a Brazilian guitarist pumped nearly nonstop from a CD player on the shelf.
For nine days after his surgery at the Gagnon Cardiovascular Institute in Morristown, N.J., Fabry soaked up that tranquil, wordless strumming. And while he praised his surgeon, he raved about the musical score that accompanied his recovery.
His heart literally fell in rhythm with guitarist Tomaz Lima. The music became his medicine.
"Very restful, very soothing," said Fabry, 68, now almost two years removed from the surgery. Immediately after his operation, a live harpist also played at his bedside. "The mind influences your recovery. Anything that quiets your anxiety is powerful."
Listen carefully and you'll hear the same refrain at a rising number of hospitals. From Massachusetts General to the Mayo Clinic, patients are hearing the first strains of a harmonious movement — the infusion and inclusion of music in the treatment of ailments, from brain disorders to cancer. This goes beyond the psychological smile favorite songs can induce.
Doctors are increasingly studying — and employing — the physiological dance music does with the body's neurons and blood-carrying cells.
"We're in the infancy," said Dr. Ali Rezai, director of the Center for Neurological Restoration at Ohio's Cleveland Clinic. During a surgery called deep brain stimulation — performed while patients with Parkinson's disease are awake — Rezai and his team play classical compositions and measure the brain's response to those notes. "We know music can calm, influence creativity, can energize. That's great. But music's role in recovering from disease is being ever more appreciated."
Using music to help the ill has been employed for thousands of years, even though modern medicine is just starting to understand how it works, said Dr. Claudius Conrad, a senior surgical resident at Harvard Medical School and, himself, a gifted pianist. He is set to launch the first study of music's impact on the sleep cycles of acute-care patients.
"Research has already shown that if you play a piece — like Mozart — at a certain slow beat, the listener will adapt their heart beat to the beat of the music."
From musical notes to hormone stimulation
The anatomical route musical notes take through the body is indeed a busy highway celebrated in many songs, from head to heart. Based on interviews with neurologists and cardiologists, the journey from an instrument string to your heart strings goes something like this:
Sound waves travel through the air into the ears and buzz the eardrums and bones in the middle ears. To decode the vibration, your brain transforms that mechanical energy into electrical energy, sending the signal to its cerebral cortex — a hub for thought, perception and memory. Within that control tower, the auditory cortex forwards the message on to brain centers that direct emotion, arousal, anxiety, pleasure and creativity. And there's another stop upstairs: that electrical cue hits the hypothalamus which controls heart rate and respiration, plus your stomach and skin nerves, explaining why a melody may give you butterflies or goose bumps. Of course, all this communication happens far faster than a single drum beat.
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Before jetting through the blood stream, the signals are converted again — to hormones. At the University of Munich, Conrad was able to show that critically ill patients required fewer sedative drugs when they listened to one hour of Mozart piano sonatas. As expected, the patients' blood pressures and heart rates eased with the music.
But what surprised Conrad is that the patients also showed a 50 percent spike in pituitary growth hormone, which is known to stimulate healing. Today, at Massachusetts General Hospital, Conrad asks his patients (or their families) in the surgical intensive care unit what music they'd like to hear; if neither is can provide an answer, he often plays Mozart.
Healing dose of Lady Gaga?
Classical is a common pick among doctors and therapists who use melody as a healing tool. The vibrations of stringed instruments in particular are said to mesh with the energy of the heart, small intestine, pericardium, thyroid and adrenal glands, according to a soon-to-be-published study by researchers at Gagnon Cardiovascular Institute in New Jersey. But what about rock or hip hop? Country or house? Does the body react as positively to Lady GaGa as it does Bach? Do you heal faster with Beethoven or a dose of Miley Cyrus?
"I recommend listening to joyful music as part of an overall prescription for maintaining good heart health," said Dr. Michael Miller, director of the center for preventive cardiology at the University of Maryland Medical Center.
Joyful? "Music that brings out a natural high in order to maximize endorphin release," explained Miller, whose research (presented last November to the American Heart Association) showed that hearing your favorite song can cause tissue in your blood vessels to dilate, increasing blood flow.
Miller examined 10 healthy, non-smoking volunteers before and after they grooved to tunes of their choice and measured a 26 percent jump in the diameter of their upper arm blood vessels. (Conversely, after wincing through music they hated, the volunteers' blood vessels narrowed by six percent.)
Prescription for helping brain injuries heal?
At Cleveland Clinic, Rezai and other neurosurgeons collaborate with The Cleveland Orchestra to compose classical pieces to play for patients during brain operations. Rezai then gauges how individual neurons fire when the head hears those foreign chords and cadences, and he compares that reaction to how the neurons behave when familiar songs fill the operating room. Hair-sized sensors placed in the brain translate those signals to an amplifier. Study results are expected in three to six months.
The firing of a neuron "may sound like static to some, but it's music to my ears," said Rezai. Patients tell him when the music soothes them, and Rezai can hear the corresponding changes in a single neuron. The research, he said, can serve as a keystone for other studies of music's potential in treating people with traumatic brain injuries, stroke, multiple sclerosis and severe depression.
But some of the oldest healing music may still be the most potent. Frescos painted around 4,000 B.C. depict harp-playing priests. Today, live harpists can be heard at Gagnon, at the University of Rochester Medical Center and at least five other hospitals.
"This gentle but powerful instrument goes to the deepest places of the body that need to be healed," said Tami Briggs, a pioneer in "harp therapy" who has played at the bedsides of hundreds of patients, including many at the Mayo Clinic. "I'm not a nurse, but I know enough about the monitors, and what I see is blood pressure usually goes down (when I play), oxygenation rates go up. That's connected to that more peaceful place, where they are taking deeper breaths."
The harp is the only instrument that has 20 to 50 strings and is open, unlike, say, a violin. When a harpist strikes a chord, she also opens vibrations in strings just above and below the few she plucks. Those vibes, Briggs said, are absorbed by the body.
"When I play, it's as subtle as watching somebody relax in the littlest ways," Briggs said. "They fall deeper into their bed."
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Debugging Build Problems
Sometimes builds fail. There are many possible reasons. With ibs, there could be problems during the generation process or during the build itself. If the problem happens during the build system generation, then you can just run the build_system_generator.py script in the debugger and put a breakpoint in the problematic area.
One problem that happens a lot with other build systems is missing or misnamed files. This happens if a file is moved, renamed or just deleted but the corresponding build file is not updated. With ibs, it can't happen because the build files are generated automatically based on the existing files. But, a source file might reference a missing file. This will be discovered during the build itself.
Another common problem is link failure. That happens if an executable or dynamic library depend on a static library, which is not linked into it. There are two reasons for link failures:
- The dependency is not specified in the build file
- The static library failed to build
Failure #1 can't happen with ibs because it detects all dependencies automatically and adds them to the build files. Failure #2 is easy to detect because the static library will fail to build before the executable or dynamic library fail to link.
A more difficult failure that can't be detected automatically is dependency on dynamic library. You must come up with some system to track and manage dynamic library dependencies. You will usually get a clear error message that says that such and such dynamic library can't be loaded.
If you integrated testing into your build system then the most common failures will be test failures, which you just need to fix.
There could be other failures if your build system is even more sophisticated and perform other tasks like compiling documentation, packages your system for deployment, uploads to a staging area or a web server.
The key is always to prevent as much as you can and make sure that failures are easy to detect with good diagnostic messages that contain all the information needed to correct the problem.
Developing a Custom Build System
ibs, the build system I described in this series, focused on building C/C++ source files in a cross-platform way or rather generating build files. A serious industrial-strength build system does much more. If you want to develop your own build system, you need to consider these aspects. The absolute minimum must include checking out the sources from source control, building all the software artifacts on all platforms, running a test suite on all platforms, and reporting the results.
The automated test suite is a critical piece for a professional software organization and it get as fancy as you want with complete test environment that simulate your deployment environment, automated GUI tests and complete builds and tests of your source releases (that's right -- building the source is part of the test)
Then there is packaging. There are many ways today to distribute software. You may develop a web application, a native client, a smart phone app or a plugin to some other application like Firefox, Eclipse, or Visual Studio. Probably, you end up with multiple artifacts that need to be packaged and deployed. Your build system should take care of this aspect too.
Automatically generated documentation is also in the realm of the build system. In general, almost any repetitive task can be automated with some imagination.
It is important to start small and grow the build system incrementally. If you try to nail everything down before you let the developers make the firs checkin you won't get very far.
The best guideline is to address pain points as they show up. If your developers keep having problems with third-party dependencies then figure out a way to verify it before checkin. But if you release software every two years, there is probably no need for the automatically creating an installer for fancy GUI client.
In this five-part article series, I delved into the sometimes mysterious world of building software. I described the issues involved in building cross-platform C/C++ code and presented a unique build system called ibs (Invisible Build System) that addresses many of the issues. I explored the design and implementation in great detail. I even tried to be funny by showcasing the build system through the most bloated "Hello World" application I could conceive. I hope you liked this series and that some of you will find it useful and may even try to create your own build system. It's a lot of fun.


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President Barack Obama's summer jams range from a little pop to a little hip hop, and much in between.
The White House released the president's playlists Thursday as Obama vacations with the first family on Martha's Vineyard.
Classics include the Beach Boys' "Good Vibrations" and Prince's "U Got the Look." When he gets into the mood for more recent releases, he's listening to "Acid Rain" by Chance the Rapper and "Forever Begins" by Common.
Obama says via Twitter: "Been waiting to drop this: summer playlist, the encore. What's everybody listening to?"
Chance tweeted his excitment about being included on the president's list.
The full list of 39 songs is broken down into daytime and nighttime categories, and people can listen to many of the tracks on the Spotify streaming service.


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Second Amendment March -- Washington, DC -- April 19, 2010
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The national event for Second Amendment March is scheduled for April 19, 2010.
We have reserved the grounds of the Washington Monument from 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. that day.
So far, we have the following speakers scheduled. We are constantly working on this event, so be sure to check back!
Scheduled Speakers:
Larry Pratt has been Executive Director of Gun Owners of America for 26 years. GOA is a national membership organization of 300,000 Americans dedicated to promoting their Second Amendment freedom to keep and bear arms.GOA lobbies for the pro-gun position in Washington, D.C. and is involved in firearm issues in the states. GOA's work includes providing legal assistance to those involved in lawsuits with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms, the federal firearms law enforcement agency.Pratt has appeared on numerous national radio and TV programs such as NBC's Today Show, CBS' Good Morning America, CNN's Crossfire and Larry King Live, Fox's Hannity and Colmes and many others. He has debated Congressman James Traficant, Jr. (D-OH), Charles Rangel (D-NY), Rep. Carolyn McCarthy (D-NY), Senator Frank Lautenberg (D-NJ), and Vice President Al Gore, among others. His columns have appeared in newspapers across the country.He published a book, Armed People Victorious, in 1990 and was editor of a book, Safeguarding Liberty: The Constitution & Militias, 1995. His latest book, On the Firing Line: Essays in the Defense of Liberty was published in 2001.Pratt has held elective office in the state legislature of Virginia, serving in the House of Delegates. Pratt directs a number of other public interest organizations and serves as the Vice-Chairman of the American Institute for Cancer Research.
Lt. Colonel Dave Grossman Col. Grossman is an Airborne Ranger infantry officer, and a prior-service sergeant and paratrooper, with a total of over 23 years experience in leading U.S. soldiers worldwide. He retired from the Army in February 1998 and has devoted himself to teaching, writing, speaking, and research. Today he is the director of the Killology Research Group, and in the wake of the 9/11 terrorist attacks he is on the road almost 300 days a year, training elite military and law enforcement organizations worldwide about the reality of combat.
Kenn Blanchard is a former Marine Security Guard who has worked protective details for international celebrities and US diplomats. Later after becoming a federal police officer, he was detailed to protect a couple of families which morphed into another career path where he worked or taught firearms, tactics and protection. He is also a D.C.-area pastor who runs blackmanwithagun.com. Kenn has been involved in the struggle for the Second Amendment since the state of Virginia reformed its conceal carry law in the early nineties. He founded the Tenth Cavalry Gun Club, a national pro-gun organization for African Americans, and worked around the country after that to promote safe and responsible firearms ownership. He was involved in concealed carry reforms in Texas, South Carolina, Michigan and Wisconsin and has testified in the US Congress and in Maryland on bills or acts designed to prevent law abiding Americans from legal firearm ownership or concealed carry.
Suzanna G. Hupp is a former Republican member of the Texas House of Representatives and a recognized public advocate for the Second Amendment and an individual's right to carry a concealed weapon.
A Friendswood, Texas, native, Suzanna Gratia (married name Hupp) was born on January 1, 1959. After she received a doctor of chiropractic degree from the Texas Chiropractic College in Pasadena, Texas, she owned and operated Cove Physical Rehab Clinic in Copperas Cove, Texas from 1987 until she sold the practice in 2000.
On Wednesday, October 16, 1991, Suzanna and her parents were having lunch at Luby's Cafeteria in Killeen, when a man drove his truck into the restaurant and opened fire on the patrons. Suzanna instinctively reached into her purse for her handgun, but realized it was in her vehicle, as a new law was passed in Texas banning the carry of a concealed weapon. Suzanna escaped out of a broken window, but 23 unarmed others, including Suzanna's mother and father, were killed at the hands of the gunman.
As a survivor of the Luby's massacre, Suzanna has been quoted in U.S. News & World Report, The Wall Street Journal, Texas Monthly, Time and People magazines, in addition to appearing on CNN, 48 Hours, Today Show and World News Tonight, to name a few.
Hupp has since authored a memoir recounting her experiences in the massacre, entitled From Luby's to the Legislature: One Woman's Fight Against Gun Control, available December, 2009.
Richard Mack held office as Sheriff in Graham County, Arizona, and is a long-time crusader for freedom and individual rights as well as an author of several books on those topics. In 1994, Sheriff Mack also challenged the Brady Bill in the Supreme Court of the United States.
Michael Bane is the host of Shooting Gallery, a show on the Outdoor Channel that every week explores a different facet of the very wide world of shooting, from competition to law enforcement to self-defense to the men and women at arms who are defending this country.
From Michael's bio:
"I've been involved with guns and shooting literally my entire life. Most recently, I conceived and still manage the five-year-old NSSF Media Education Program, which has had a profound effect on the relationship between the firearms industry and the media. It also bought together the perhaps greatest group of firearms instructors of all stripes ever. That "critical mass" of instructors has been redefining handgun instruction, and I'm proud to have had a small part in that. I was part of the 3-person team who handled national media during the Maryland sniper crisis, which as emerged as a textbook example for the industry in dealing with flashfires. I've also handled crisis stuff for IPSC and USPSA. we're currently working directly with major companies on setting up their own media events and training their people to deal with media crises."
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AARP will be at the Hills Memorial Library on 18 Library Street today, from 9:30am - 1:15pm, providing free tax assistance and help with tax returns. While walk-ins are welcome, making an online appointment is strongly encouraged, since only appointments are guaranteed to receive tax help.
To make an appointment, click here.
Below is a list of what to bring to your tax appointment:
- Proof of ID (photo ID)
- Social Security cards for you, your spouse and dependents
- Birthdates for you, your spouse and dependents
- Wage and earning statements (Form W-2, W-2G, 1099-R, 1099-Misc) from all employers
- Bank Interest and dividend statements (Form 1099)
- All forms 1095, health insurance statements
- A copy of last year's federal and state returns, if available
- Proof of bank account routing and account numbers for direct deposit of tax refunds
- Both spouses must be present to sign a married-filing-joint tax return
- Total paid for daycare provider, and daycare provider's tax identifying number (Social Security Number or Employer ID Number).
- Forms 1095-A, B or C, Affordable Health Care statements
- Copies of income transcripts from IRS and state, if applicable
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Today, on the Ed Morrissey Show (3 pm ET), Kerry Picket of the Washington Times joins us to get us up to date on Capitol Hill. Will Boehner get the votes he needs for the budget deal? In the second half-hour, Kevin McCullough joins us again to discuss the intersection of faith and politics. Kevin and I will talk about the budget deal, painting toenails of grade-school boys, and much more.
We'll also talk about The Binge Thinker, Kevin and Stephen's exploding success in independent talk radio, as well as Kevin's book, The Kind of Man Every Man Should Be: Taking a Stand for True Masculinity. You can now order Kevin's new book, No He Can't, too!
The Ed Morrissey Show and its dynamic chatroom can be seen on the permanent TEMS page — be sure to join us, and don't forget to keep up with the debate on my Facebook page, too!
We'll also cover the the case of Marizela Perez, who has been missing in the Seattle area for a month. Marizela's case has a connection here at Hot Air, as she is the cousin of the Boss Emeritus, Michelle Malkin. Michelle is trying to spread the word through Facebook and Q13Fox/KCPQ in Seattle. We want to encourage prayers for Marizela's family, and also try to reach anyone in the area who knows where Marizela might be and ask them to contact the police.
The search has its own website now, Find Marizela, for the latest in the efforts to bring Marizela home. There is also a fund for the family to keep the search efforts going. Be sure to check there and at Michelle's site for further developments, and keep the family in your prayers.
Michelle has a new update today:
For Seattle-area readers, Marizela's friends are holding a benefit concert and fundraiser in May to support the family's continuing search efforts.
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How does Office 365 migration work?
GoDaddy now offers email migration services to Office 365. We take care of all the hard work to move your email data from wherever you are to Office 365. At each step, we will email you and your email users with reminders, and any instructions required to complete the transition.Take a look at the videos and the step-by-step process, below, so you can know what to expect.
If you have set up your Outlook client with POP email settings, you and your users are REQUIRED to download and install the Outlook Setup Assistant in order to migrate any local data. The Assistant will copy over your client configurations and prepare each desktop with the existing settings. Be sure your computer/users all fit requirements. Please see What is the Outlook Migration Assistant? for more information.
Starting the Migration
In order to begin your migration to Office 365, you will need to contact a GoDaddy customer support representative so they can walk you through customizing your migration, including:
- What mailboxes will be migrating into Office 365
- Setting up an Office Add-ons, such as Advanced Email Security, Archiving, or Email Backup
- Adding email aliases, distribution groups and/or forwarding addresses
- Choosing a date to start using Office 365
Step 1: Domain Verification
Office 365 setup requires you to prove you own your domain by entering a TXT record on the domain DNS. We will be sending you the instructions to update your DNS via email. It is important to get this done as early as possible, or else your migration may be delayed! The change will not interrupt your current email service.
Note: If you already setup your Office 365 accounts prior to contacting our support team, or if your domain and DNS are in the same GoDaddy account as the migration, we will perform this step for you.
Step 2: Collecting Passwords
- In order for us to migrate email from your current email service into Office 365, we need to be able to access your accounts to start the data sync. In order to accomplish this, our migration partner, SkyKick (email@example.com) will send each end-user an email with a unique secure link that will ask you or your users to provide their email address and password. This is your current email address and password you are using now.
Once you have enter your current information, the page will ask you to set a password for your new Office 365 account. This is the password you will use to access your new account.
- After creating your new password, we will begin migrating emails in the background while you continue to use your current email service.
Note: If you are migrating from GoDaddy Workspace Email, you don't have to enter your current email passwords. We already have everything we need to handle this part, and you don't need to provide any extra details, or any passwords, to proceed.
Step 3: Download the Outlook Assistant
Be sure you and your end users are qualified to use this program by going over the qualifications. Please see What is the Outlook Migration Assistant? for more information. If you are not eligible, you may not be getting all the data that you are expecting.
To make the migration process smoother, and allow us to move even more of your data and settings, we recommend that you and your email users download and install the Outlook Assistant, before your scheduled upgrade date. The Assistant is only available for Windows PC users
If the qualified users download and install the program prior to the migration date, the Outlook Migration Assistant does the following for them:
- Automatically creates a new profile in Outlook that will use the new Office 365 email
- Migrate local .PST content from the old email into the new profile. This means things like:
- POP email data
- Contacts/Calendars/Tasks
- Signatures
- Autocomplete cache
The account holder will receive daily reports on the Outlook Setup Assistant downloads by your email users. We highly recommend that everyone (who can) downloads and installs the Assistant, as early in the process as possible.
Anyone not able to use the Outlook Setup Assistant will have to manually move any local content that they want, and set up their client manually as well. We will send instructions to these users on the migration date. Mac users and those without Outlook setup cannot use the Setup Assistant.
Step 4: Migration Day - DNS cutover
On the date and time you chose earlier with your support representative, it will be time to start using Office 365. You will need to change your DNS settings to point to Office 365, and you will begin using your new email.
These settings will be emailed to you 8 hours prior to the migration, so if you need to take steps to prepare with your DNS provider, be ready to give them these DNS instructions. If your domain and DNS are with GoDaddy, we will make these changes for you.
If you downloaded the Outlook Migration Assistant, the DNS will need to be updated in order for the assistant to finish your Outlook client setup successfully.
Step 5: Finishing touches
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Sarah Palin: Follow Me There! (To Alaska!)
Posted by Dr. Fay on November 13, 2010
From Governor Palin's Facebook Note:
Follow Me There! (To Alaska!)
by Sarah Palin on Friday, November 12, 2010 at 8:28pm
"They're going to criticize me no matter what I do, so I might as well dance." – Bristol Palin
Race car great Mario Andretti once said, "If everything's under control then you're going too slow." In Alaska, we have two speeds in the summertime: fast and faster – that's because Alaskan summers are so short and sweet. We always try to cram it all in before the leaves change and snow flies again. Seasons change so quickly up here that we're full-speed ahead to capture every minute under the Midnight Sun doing what we love to do in the great outdoors.
Last summer my family documented our travels through Alaska so that the rest of America could see and experience our country's young, independent, resource-rich Last Frontier.
From sliming salmon together at our family's commercial fishing sites on the world's largest salmon spawning grounds in Bristol Bay, to white water rafting in the wilds, searching for gold, climbing mountains, hunting wild game near rich oil fields, and watching mama bears protecting their cubs a mere stone's throw away from my own, Alaska will be highlighted in a spectacular way in this eight-week TLC series called "Sarah Palin's Alaska." We'll show you what inspires and motivates us: the grandeur of God's creation, the satisfaction of a good day's hard work, the rugged pioneering spirit that carves a life out of the wilderness and makes a living on the waters, the wisdom and traditions of our Alaska Natives, and the wealth of our natural resources which allows us to support ourselves and contribute to America's security.
So, while traveling by bush planes, dog sleds, four-wheelers, trucks, and boom boats across the vast expanses of America's largest state, my family documented Alaska to share it with other American families.
No doubt critics who seem to live to criticize will follow suit with this project. So be it. Todd and I are showing people our home state which we love, and we wanted to create the sort of family-friendly, uplifting, educational television that we like to watch with our kids. We made something that people could watch as a family, have fun discussing the project's content, and maybe then decide that they want to head up to the Last Frontier and see the epic 49th state for themselves.
Americans are hungry for decent entertainment that doesn't offend our sensibilities or insult our intelligence. So many parents are upset about all of the negative things on television. We're often told to just turn off the TV, but let's face it: turning it off doesn't really shut it off. You can't block out the world. Instead of turning the TV off, families usually end up making the most of what's on – even if the message is anything but positive. The only real solution is to offer positive alternatives. That's what we have done here. It's my hope that these eight episodes will be just such a positive offering, and a tribute to Alaska, and a reminder of America's pioneering spirit.
Sure, there will be the usual critics who still won't understand why we would document the natural resources and uniqueness of the Last Frontier, though in doing this I am keeping my promise to fellow Alaskans that I would do all I could to support and promote Alaska. My answer to those naysayers is the reminder my daughter Bristol offered when she was blessed with the opportunity to participate on "Dancing with the Stars." I cautioned Bristol about all the criticism she'd no doubt encounter. Bristol told me, "Mom, they're going to criticize me no matter what I do, so I might as well dance!" Yes, they'll criticize us no matter what, so I might as well climb and fly and trek and build and hunt and fish and share with you the awe-inspiring beauty of Alaska…and because I wanted my family along for the ride, I want your family to come along, too. Follow me there!
Please tune in Sunday at 9:00 pm (8:00 pm central). The show's opening lyrics sing the invitation: "Come on and follow me there…to my sanctuary! Follow me there!"
– Sarah Palin


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By Patrick Cronin
Hampton Union, Friday, August 27, 2010
[The following article is courtesy of the Hampton Union and Seacoast Online.]
[Patrick Cronin photo]
HAMPTON -- A plaza in downtown Hampton that was once anchored by Brothers North Restaurant and Lounge sold for $2.2 million during a foreclosure auction on Friday, Aug. 20.
Located at 845 Lafayette Road, the Brothers North Plaza was auctioned off by Tranzon Auction Properties of Portland, Maine.
The property was purchased by K&M Developers LLC., a subsidiary of Souza Realty based in Hudson.
The auction, held on site at the plaza, drew more than a dozen registered bidders who delivered the requisite $50,000 deposit.
Thomas Saturley, president of Tranzon Auction Properties, said the sale will be final within 30 days, which is when the balance of the purchase is due.
Saturley said they had more than 177 inquiries from around the country regarding the building.
"It was not only local buyers, but prospective purchasers from Chicago and Canada," Saturley said. "This was a special property, one with broad appeal. Great projects yield great results. When the right property comes along, astute buyers won't stand on the sidelines, regardless of the economic climate."
The 23,464-square-foot building containing six retail spaces on 2.01 acres of land is assessed at $3.3 million.
The auction was advertised by the attorneys for the mortgagee (TD Banknorth) and terms called for a $50,000 deposit increased to 10 percent of the purchase price within five days of auction.
According to town records, the property was owned by 845 Lafayette Road Associates LLC. Secretary of state reports filed by the limited liability company since its formation in 2006 list only one agent, Michael E. Chubrich of Portsmouth.
In his filings with the secretary of state's office, Chubrich reported the corporation was formed for the purpose of "development, ownership and management of commercial real estate."
The manager of the property was Peter Lukas.
Brothers North Plaza was built on the site of the former Newick's restaurant on Route 1 in 2008.
When the building was first constructed, it was under the ownership of Lukas and Ted Kougianos, owner of New Brothers restaurant in Danvers, Mass.
Brothers North Restaurant went out of business in December 2009 and it only left a few businesses operating at the location, including Spectra Hair Salon.
Assistant Tax Collector Vivian Considine said the owners owe the town $57,922 in property taxes dating back to 2009.


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2 teens charged in deaths of Garner couple
Two teenagers are charged with murder in the deaths of a husband and wife who were killed in their home near Garner earlier this month.
Wake County Sheriff Donnie Harrison said the 16-year-old and 15-year-old were arrested Wednesday. Each is charged with two counts of murder, felony conspiracy, first-degree burglary and possession of stolen property. The 16-year-old faces an additional charge of possessing a firearm with an obliterated serial number.
The bodies of Jose Samuel Flores Mendoza and Maria Saravia Mendoza were found early Jan. 5 at their home. Both were 34.
Harrison says investigators haven't ruled out the possibility that the shootings were gang-related.
The couple's 3-year-old boy was home at the time of the attack and was not harmed. Their 12-year-old was not present.


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>Facts: I have 947 Excel workbooks, both .xls and .xlsx, averaging just under 3
>sheets per book, and I have to organize them. As a first step I've written a
>Stata script to create a table of the sheet names in each workbook. It loops
>through the *.xls* file names in my folder and runs "import excel, describe" on
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>open up Stata and run the script, and it works as intended with 14 error 603s,
>which I catch and handle. (So you don't have to look it up, error 603 means the
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>603's occur since Excel opens the file just fine, but I'm comfortable with a 1%
>error rate.) During the debugging process, I've had to run the script
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>of error 603's I get goes from 14 to a couple hundred....
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There is certainly something sexy about a bad girl, and you can be one in our County Jail orange two piece prison uniform. Orange really is the new black and this prisoner wears short shorts with a lace back and a cute crop top. There's also our Prisoner 69, a two piece black and white striped number, with a crop top and mini-skirt emblazoned with "bad ass."
If gangsters are your thing we have plenty of options there; the Lady Gangster costume is tough and sexy, a mini-dress with suspenders and push up bra. There's also the Capo, a black and white pin-striped mini-dress, reminiscent of old school gangster style with a twist...a very short skirt!
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The week in review
Most wedding bells ringing: Hundreds of gay couples line up at City Hall in San Francisco on February 12 after the city starts issuing licenses and performing weddings for same-sex couples.
Fewest wedding bells ringing: Eight gay couples try to get marriage licenses February 13 in Richmond to no avail.
Most controversial scientific breakthrough: Korean scientists claim to have created the first embryos cloned from a woman.
Sketchiest record keeping: The National Guard produces dental records as evidence that President George Bush served in Alabama in 1972-73.
Biggest threat to drunk drivers: The House of Delegates passes several of Delegate Rob Bell's bills that toughen penalties for super-drunk drivers and repeat offenders– but nixes the bill that would send first-time offenders to jail for three days.
Biggest looming battle of the titans: Cable giant Comcast makes an offer for entertainment conglomerate Disney– and is rebuffed.
Worst legal representation: The Virginia State Bar revokes attorney Judith MacLachlan Herndon's license for closing her law practice without notifying her client, opposing counsel, or the court. Another Charlottesville lawyer, Margaret M. Cain, was disbarred in November.
Most outspoken support for not lowering taxes: Albemarle parents come out to a February 11 School Board hearing to voice their approval of Superintendent Kevin Castner's $115.4 million budget and their opposition to the Board of Supervisors slicing property taxes by two cents.
Worst speaker backfire: Two assemblies at Albemarle High School on racial and gender stereotyping have students, staff, and parents squirming when the speaker actually uses the language that contributes to negative stereotyping.
Worst impish behavior backfire: Members of the secret society IMP ignite a bonfire on the Lawn February 5 that blazes out of control, leading to an apology and a meeting with university administrators, the Cavalier Daily reports.
Best diehard Wesley Clark supporter: Even though the retired general exited the presidential race February 10, a llama draped with a "Clark '04" banner appears on the Downtown Mall February 11 in front of Christian's Pizza (and The Hook webcam).
Worst car-meets-house story: A Jeep Cherokee crashes into a residence at Greenbrier and Tarleton drives February 16 when an allegedly ill driver stops and passes out before she can shift into park.
Least likely to worry about paying for retirement: UVA über-donor Carl W. Smith retires from AMVEST, the coal company he founded, John Yellig reports in the Progress. Smith and his wife, Hunter, come in at 55 on Slate's top 60 charitable contributors.
Best act of contrition: Admitted check-kiters John Reid and Bro Pinkerton, leaders of now defunct Ivy Industries, voluntarily head off to jail in anticipation of April's stiff sentencing by federal Judge James H. Michael Jr.
Best Valentine for Pete Gillen: The Cavaliers end their five-game losing streak with a win over Georgia Tech February 14.
Most bittersweet victory: Dale Earnhardt Jr. wins the Daytona 500 February 15, three years after his daddy, the Number 3 driver, was killed on the same track.
President with whom people most want to do lunch: Thomas Jefferson, according to a February 16 San Francisco Chronicle poll.
Worst night for Sex and the City fans: The popular HBO series airs its last episode February 22.
Saddest Valentine's Day: After 43 years, Barbie and Ken break up.


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People who visit us for the first time often comment that we live in the middle of nowhere. No, we don't, but you can see nowhere from here. And that's exactly how we like it. Every single day I thank my lucky stars that I get to live in the middle of nowhere.
Sometimes there's a day when the sky's intensity matches the land's, and somehow my Canon G-11 is able to capture the vivid blue of the sky and the shapes of the clouds without making the landforms too dark. This was such a day. A perfect summer day. I was so happy that my photos were coming out as beautifully as the day was.
Lucky to live here, that's all.
The hamlet of Lebanon. There are several Lebanon, Ohios. This happens to be my Lebanon Ohio. It's probably the littlest one. That's how I like my towns, too.
From the back porch of the old house, this is the view:
The sky was moody and blue, but our spirits were undampened. Speaking of breathless anticipation, all these vistas were ours on the way to Rolling Ridge Berry Farm, our favorite you-pick establishment of all time.


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Not My Usual Christmas Eve Greeting
I have been known to be a holiday Grinch to some people because they try and force the holiday on me like a certain religious sect located here in Clearwater, Florida. I have always been, and will always be a true believer in the spirit of the holidays and of everything involved with them.
As a kid , I was the house decorator, both inside and out. It was my job to put up the lights and also do the tree setup after we brought it home. The family as a whole did the final Christmas tree trimmings, but I put the lights in the branches and made sure the tree was very secure and would not fall on us when we began decorating it. I took great pride in doing this, because I had the Christmas spirit, not because it was a job to me.
And even though the last several days, some people might give me a mulligan for thinking like this during this holiday season. But I am not built like that, if I make a commitment, I am there by any means possible, but this year it took a bit more than just desire and will power. I do not show weakness very often, and when I do my friends know it is real and not put on for their enjoyment or my own self amusement.
As some of you might know, I was at a friend's house last weekend and was playing football on the soft white sands of Clearwater Beach, when I went in for a open field tackle on a friend's son and got him in stride, but on the way down got plucked in the right ear with a thud. I got right up with no blood or even any small aches, but of course, being a Christmas party, I did have a few medicating rum concoctions running through my veins.
Well, as a old football guy, I did not show any weakness the rest of the night and went home and slept until maybe 8 pm the following day. Since I did not anticipate any job interview requests on that day, I put my cellphone to silent. About 9 pm, I had three people at the door while I was watching reruns of a "Real Chance at Love" on VH-1. Well they saw me do a little wobble at the door and they stayed a bit to be sure the old guy was okay.
That is when you know you have a true friend, when they see through the BS and call you on it like a ref with that little yellow hankie. Well, they saw my ear was blossoming up like a nice floret of cauliflower and tried to talk me into going to the ER to be cautious. Well, the last time I hit that ER near me, I did not see the light of day, and missed the entire home series against the New York Yankees in April 2007.
All I had then was three small brown recluse spider bites that bloomed up into huge bulbs the minute I took some antibiotics I had around the house. Well, after sitting there that night on my stomach for three hours while they cut the dying skin off my back of the knee, waistline spot, and my right index finger, I was set alone in a ER extra room and they tried to let me sleep off the medications while I was waiting for a bed upstairs.
Long story short…………5 days per-longed hospital visit…………$ 2,000 dollar headache after wards. I was not discharged on time because the doctor forgot to come see me on a Monday, and almost missed another home series because of him. Poor guy is not a Rays fan because of me.
Well, here we are that night sitting here still in the ER at 5 am and I have been seen by 4 different physician assistants that all concur, I have a blown eardrum. And so I sit until and attending can come in and give the final heave ho to launch my happy butt upstairs for a consultation with a ear, nose and throat guy in 5 hours. So my friends finally leave because they have real jobs, and I am, unemployed, but happily blogger happy on MLBlog.com.
I am sitting up there with my computer and finally finish my part 2 of my MLB Network blog and hit the button to send it via WiFi. Well, if I wanted to use that service in the hospital, it would cost me $ 25 dollars for the connection password. I wonder if that is how the nurses' party funds get stocked? Just kidding, that was a rule instituted because too many people brought computers in the hospitals and their servers were getting overloaded by just hospital work.
So I just sat there and put things in notepads and typed away until the battery life left the laptop. Well, about an hour after that, the doctor finally got there and prodded me for about 2 minutes before noticing he was in the wrong ear…….got to love our medical system some days. Well he began to try and stretch out my ear, but the pain maxed to 12.5 and he decided to give me a local to knock out my ear area.
That went fine, and after about 30 minutes of staring and thinking and writing in his little report form, he told me lay back and they wanted to give me a full X-ray head scan. I told him the mouse in my head left a month ago, but the rubber bands are working fine. He did not see the humor in that, but the nurse was snickering. So I was pushed and left to be claimed the hallway for an orderly to take me to the Radiology section for naked pictures without my skin.
Well, I came to find out the local was not a local, but was an IV hit of morphine and I was seeing flashbacks of "Apocalypse Now" scenes in my head. And that damn song "Flight of the Valkyries" kept rewinding in my head. Thank goodness the nurse was of Swedish decent, I might of had to frag because of the effects of the drug, I was smelling napalm in the morning. So there I am having naked pictures of my hollow head, while a Swedish nurse props me up like a rag doll on crack. Even though she was 5 foot and 250 pounds, the Don Juan in me went wild.
After I came to an few hours later, the doctor told me he wanted to be sure I did not suffer a concussion since I stated I had 10 previous concussions from football from 1976-1985. He told me that the ear membrane was torn a bit, but would recover in 5-10 days. I would not need to downgrade all my stereo equipment to monotone, and could watch 5.1 surround sound when the hearing came back in a few days. He told me if the sound did not come back by Sunday, come in Monday morning and he will drill a hole in my head and stick a cup with some string to my eardrum.
After he said that, I wondered how long it took him to come up with those one-liners. My flow off the tongue, but his delivery needed work. I did compliment him on his new found humor and he told me I could leave after 2 prescriptions got up there. He did tell me I needed to put ear drops in my ear, but the first few batches would be difficult until the swelling went down. He also sent me home with some antibiotics.
So I flopped on the couch and did not wake up until today about 7 am. I discovered that I left the laptop at the hospital, but they dropped it by a neighbors' since I did not answer the door. I hope it was not that Swedish nurse looking for a massage buddy, and forgot to write my Christmas Eve blog. I usually like to put my 5 favorite Christmas videos on there, but could not muster the time and effort until tonight/ last night.
So here I am now, asking for everyone at MLBlogs.com, from Mark on down to the newest arrivals to the site to have a safe and glorious Christmas. And since I do not want to be considered religiously biased, Happy Kwanza, which starts today, and Happy Hanukah. I really hope that your day was filled with magic, warmth and the noise of friends and family. I had a house full of people because my roommates 4 kids stooped by to pester me to death and flick my ear a few million times.
So, hopefully starting today I can get caught up and get back into my swing of writing my daily blogs for you all. So without further ado, I am heading back to bed to have visions of sugarplum dance through my head again tonight/today. And since it is Black Friday, I am not going out of the house for fear of Wal-mart and K-Mart shoppers a few blocks away running into each other in the parking lots.
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When the Greeks sailed for Troy, their fleet was trapped by unfavorable winds at Aulis. The seer Calchas revealed that their misfortune was due to Agamemnon, who had boasted that he equalled Artemisin hunting; the winds would only change if Agamemnon's daughter Iphigenia was sacrificed. Agamemnon reluctantly agreed to the sacrifice, but Artemis herself whisked Iphigenia away from the altar and substituted a deer in her place.
During the seige of Troy, Agamemnon offended the greatest of the Greek warriors, Achilles, when he took the girl Briseis from him. Achilles' anger with Agamemnon furnished the mainspring of the plot in the Iliad. After the sack of Troy, Agamemnon acquired Cassandra, the daughter of King Priam, as his concubine, and took her home with him to Greece.
Agamemnon had an unhappy homecoming. He was either blown off course and landed in the country of Aegisthos, or he came home to his own land to find Aegisthus waiting for him. In either case, Aegisthus had become the lover of Clytemnestra, and the two together murdered Agamemnon and Cassandra shortly after their arrival. Aegisthus and Clytemnestra then ruled Agamemnon's kingdom, but were eventually killed by Agamemnon's son, Orestes (or by Orestes and Electra in some accounts). The homecoming of Agamemnon and its aftermath were favorite subjects for Greek tragedy.


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22 young group leaders recognized as EMBO Young Investigators
HEIDELBERG, 14 NOVEMBER 2012 – EMBO announced today the selection of 22 young researchers as EMBO Young Investigators.Best Seller
"EMBO Young Investigators gain financial, academic and practical support to advance their careers," says Gerlind Wallon, EMBO Deputy Director and Manager of the Young Investigator Programme. "The status of Young Investigator offers a level of recognition that brings immediate benefits to scientists at an early stage of their careers." The programme targets researchers under forty years of age who have established their first laboratories in the past four years.
In 2012, EMBO received 160 applications for the Young Investigator Programme. The successful candidates come from twelve countries and include the first scientist from Singapore to join the network. Scientists from Singapore can apply to EMBO programmes due to a cooperation agreement between both parties that started in 2011.
The selected young scientists join a network of nearly 300 current and former young investigators that encourages collaboration. The larger network also brings new opportunities for special meetings, which are organized by the young investigator community, such as those in systems biology and genomic instability that took place in Spain and France earlier this year. "The benefits of networking are becoming more apparent each year," states Wallon.
Eight women were selected as young investigators in 2012 and, as last year, the success rate of female researchers was slightly higher than that of male applicants.
The 22 successful candidates receive 15,000 euros per year for three years directly from the member state where their laboratories are located. The distinction of being an EMBO Young Investigator helps to raise the visibility of young researchers in the life science community. They also receive funding to attend conferences for themselves and their group members, practical training in laboratory management and access to core facilities at EMBL, among other benefits.
The next application deadline is 1 April 2013. More information can be found at www.embo.org/funding-awards/young-investigators.
|EMBO Young Investigator
|Research Interest
|Claus Maria Azzalin
|Non-coding nuclear RNAs
|ETH Zürich
|Zurich, CH
|Renata Basto
|Centrosomes in development and disease
|Institut Curie
|Paris, FR
|Andrew Carter
|Structure and mechanism of dynein
|MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology
|Cambridge, UK
|Sonia Garel
|Forebrain morphogenesis and wiring
|École Normale Supérieure
|Paris, FR
|George Garinis
|DNA repair in development and disease
|Institute of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology
|Heraklion, GR
|Ilona Grunwald-Kadow
|Neural basis for olfaction in insects
|Max Planck Institute of Neurobiology
|Martinsried, DE
|Jacob Hanna
|Epigenetic reprogramming
|Weizmann Institute
|Rehovot, IL
|Eva Hoffmann
|Chromosome segregation mechanisms in meiosis
|University of Sussex
|Brighton, UK
|Jacqueline Jacobs
|Chromosome end protection by telomeres
|Netherlands Cancer Institute
|Amsterdam, NL
|Gregory Jefferis
|Olfactory perception in the fruit fly
|MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology
|Cambridge, UK
|David Keays
|Molecular and cellular basis of magnetoreception
|The Research Institute of Molecular Pathology (IMP)
|Vienna, AT
|Massimo Lopes
|DNA replication stress
|University of Zurich
|Zurich, CH
|Guillermina López-Bendito
|Cellular & molecular mechanisms of brain wiring
|Institute of Neuroscience, CSIC
|San Juan de Alicante, ES
|Ron Milo
|Synthetic metabolic pathways for carbon fixation
|Weizmann Institute
|Bruno Reversade
|Genetics of identical twinning
|Institute of Medical Biology (IMB), A*STAR
|Singapore, SG
|Thomas Richards
|Evolution of endosymbiosis
|Natural History Museum
|London, UK
|Rickard Sandberg
|Single-cell trascriptomics
|Karolinska Institutet
|Stockholm, SE
|Melina Schuh
|Meiosis in mammalian oocytes
|MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology
|Cambridge, UK
|Evanthia Soutoglou
|Nuclear architecture in DNA repair
|Institute of Genetics and Molecular and Cellular Biology (IGBMC)
|Illkirch Cedex, FR
|Alexander Stark
|Decoding regulatory sequences
|The Research Institute of Molecular Pathology (IMP)
|Vienna, AT
|Itai Yanai
|Evolution of developmental gene pathways
|Technion-Israel Institute of Technology
|Haifa, IL
|Raz Zarivach
|Structure-function of magnetosome associated proteins
|Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
|Beer Sheva, IL
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National Jewish Health is seeking to refine and improve lung-cancer screening by combining a blood test with CT imaging to detect disease earlier and more effectively. The trial combines a CT chest scan and the EarlyCDT-Lung blood test to screen for cancer, and seeks to build on recent research demonstrating that CT screening alone can reduce lung-cancer mortality.
"We have learned that CT screening of high-risk patients can reduce lung-cancer deaths. But we need to enhance screening to detect a greater number of early-stage lung cancers. That is the patient's best chance of a cure," said James Jett, MD, Professor of Medicine at National Jewish Health and principal investigator on the trial. "Combining CT screening with biomarker tests, such as the EarlyCDT-Lung, may help us detect more lung cancers at earlier stage while reducing the number of biopsies or operations performed for non-canceorus abnormalities."
EarlyCDT-Lung, developed by Oncimmune, Inc., detects antibodies that a person's immune system produces in its attempt to fight cancer. It has been shown that some antibodies may be detectable as long as five years before symptoms develop.
The National Lung Cancer Screening Trial recently demonstrated that screening patients with a high risk of developing cancer can reduce lung-cancer deaths by 20 percent. However, the CT screening also produces many false alarms, or false positives, which can lead to invasive follow-up testing, such as biopsy or surgery, that ends up finding only benign (non-cancerous) abnormalities. Researchers believe that the combination of the two tests, with their different detection strategies, may work together to make a screening method that is effective both medically and economically.
Lung cancer is the number one cause of cancer deaths in the United States, killing about 160,000 Americans every year; more than breast, colon and prostate cancer deaths combined. Early detection of lung cancer dramatically improves a patient's curative treatment options. Five-year survival for patients with advanced, stage IV disease is only 1 percent, while those whose cancer is detected early at stage I have a 70 to 80 percent of surviving five years. Five year-survival of all lung cancer in the United States is only 16 percent, because the disease is usually detected at an advanced stage when it becomes symptomatic.
"Early detection of cancer could dramatically improve survival and reduce the terrible toll it takes on people today," said Debra Dyer, MD, radiologist at National Jewish Health and co-principal investigator on the study. "We believe this study may demonstrate an effective method for doing just that."
The trial will screen 1,600 participants over 4 years. They will receive both the EarlyCDT-Lung blood test and a low-dose CT scan at no charge. Particpants need to be 50-75 years of age, have a smoking history of at least 20 pack-years (equivalent to a pack a day for 20 years), and be a current or former smoker who quit fewer than 10 years ago. Those who have a history of cancer other than skin cancer, serious illness that limits their life expectancy to less than 5 years, or currently use oxygen to breathe are not eligible for the study.
|Contact: William Allstetter
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Phillip Ogilvie and his 42 culinary arts students run the TriStar Cafe at Hoover High School, which is open to the public three days a week. Despite his inclination to jump in, Ogilvie allows students complete freedom in designing the menu.
School Hoover High School, 525 7th St. NE, North Canton
Established Originally called the Viking Inn.
Open Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays, 10 a.m. to 1 p.m.
Number of seats 42
Reservations Not necessary.
Online Go to tristarrestaurant.blogspot.com to see the "Food For Thought" recipe-sharing blog run by the students.
Culinary students 14 seniors, 16 juniors.
On the menu The best sellers are the salads.
New this year Chicken salad with bacon and apple.
Prices Most items between $3-5. Pay with cash or check, no credit cards.
Takeout Yes.
Before Phillip Ogilvie became the culinary arts instructor at Hoover High School in 2008, he was a professional chef at Cleveland and Akron restaurants. He has found the transition from doing to teaching tougher than he expected.
"It's hard not to jump in. I love working with the kids, but I'm a fan of doing it myself," Ogilvie admitted. "I'm a hands on person — most of us who work in restaurants are — and having to sit on my hands is difficult."
Ogilvie and his 42 culinary arts students run the TriStar Cafe at the high school, which is open to the pulbic three days a week. Despite his inclination to jump in, Ogilvie allows students complete freedom in designing the menu.
"My seniors are in charge," he said. "They make the rules, make the menus, set the prices, do all the decision making. They make all the recipes up from scratch."
The menu changes three times a year.
"I find if I tell them to do something every time, it limits their creativity. So last year we did an upscale diner theme. They did a homemade chicken salad with bacon and apple that really went over well," Ogilvie said. "Now we're doing an Italian menu."
The new menu features a baked shrimp Alfredo and a stuffed tomato.
The students do catering and private parties, and are known for the sheet pizzas they do for school events. Associate principal Rob White said the cafe offers a connection to the community.
"The TriStar diner is a space where the community can come and hold various events. Also, Stark State (College) rents that space and teaches classes out of the diner and the kitchen," White said. "They serve pretty darn good food — I'm biased of course — and first and foremost, it's an important learning experience for our students."
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I now know how it feels to be "that other guy". You know the one I am talking about right now. The "guy" who somehow does it right, works his tale off doing his job day after day, dating the right girl for him, polishing up that 1969 Camaro hood to a shine like the Sun, then as Jackie Gleason once said: "Pow!, right in the kisser." He gets smacked in the teeth by reality. And just like that, he has to rebuild and recharge to pull himself off that canvas to answer the bell.
It is that same sense of realism that the Tampa Bay Rays are facing right now. Three games ago no one in their right mind could of, or would have predicted this horrific outcome. Some of the Red Sox Nation in attendance who came down to root for their visiting team never envisioned something like this series sweep when they boarded those flights from Logan to TIA. If this series were to emulate a boxing match, it would have been called by the referee in the third round by TKO. It was a classic Northeastern beat down plain and simple.
The Rays have to immediately rebuild after their customary 30-minute grace period to try and refocus and re-institute Rays Manager Joe Maddon's main mantra of the 2010 season. This team needs to rise from this horrid beating the Red Sox put to them and push that anger and emotion within their offense and reclaim what is rightfully theirs……A first place squad doesn't give up, doesn't lay down, and doesn't show fear…It stands tall, even if bloody and tired, and asks for more please.
This Boston series was a vivid reality check for the Rays that their starting pitching might "set the tone" for their rise this season, but it can just as quickly be their slope to falling too. The offense can not afford to take a single inning, a plate appearance, or a single swing off, or the offensive machine could break down just as it did the last three nights. Even with the power display put on by Rays slugger Carlos Pena with a long solo blast that came only feet short of the Trop's back wall in that first contest, only five other hits sprinkles Tropicana Field's turf during that initial Monday loss.
The Rays early Spring mantra of GTMI, or "Get The Man In" fell on hard times as the Rays went 1-6 with RISP, and stranded another 5 souls on the base. This statistic alone firmly stuck the fork deep into the Rays flesh and the fact the Red Sox pitching staff sent 17 consecutive hitters back to the dugout after Jason Bartlett's double in that same contest , it twisted the fork harder into the Rays underbelly for their first loss to Boston this season.
GTMI had become instantly an anemic message of CWGaH (Can We Get a Hit). As the Rays fans walked to our cars for that long exhausting ride home after Monday night's loss, we instantly gave that night's win to the Red Sox knowing the "terrible two's" ,Rays starters James Shields and Matt Garza were throwing the next two nights. With that great thought and vision of victories in our minds, that first loss seemed easier to swallow. The intense bitterness of that loss seemed less salty and diluted with the possibilities of "Big Game" and " El Diablo" getting redemption for "WD-40". A betting man would have wagered his salary easily on the duo with a high probability of a "W" on the left side of the Rays record column. Losing either of those match-ups would have entered his mind as he pluck down his wagers.
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Tuesday night, Shields posted a "quality start", and set the tone by only giving up 4 hits and 2 runs over 8 innings,. But the odd mixture of an ever widening strike zone by Home Plate Umpire Bob Davison and the trickery of Boston starter Jon Lester taking that extra 6 inches off the plate proved to be the Rays recipe for disaster. Lester gave up only a single to Rays Designated Hitter Willy Aybar in the fourth inning to spoil his night. The Rays again were faced with another "slumber of the lumber" epidemic as the Rays went 0-5 with RISP, and stranded 7 Rays on base in their second loss in as many nights.
The invisibility of Maddon's offensive mantra GTMI, or "Get The Man In" might have become a broken tooth on the spoke of the Rays hitting machine and it brought the whole she-bang to a screeching halt. When the Rays have shown their offensive pratfalls this season, the team has stranded countless men on base, or forgotten where those bases were located. Without a solid smack, slap or a tickle off the Rays bats, this team will feel that bitter taste of losing again. And we knew after that second smack down this second divisional series would go to Boston. But we still felt strong in knowing the Rays were sending their own demon to the mound for the finale, and he could already taste the sweetness.
And in this final swing at the Red Sox you knew that something had to give for the Rays. Something had to be discovered or uncovered that had boosted the Rays chances at failure the previous two nights. But just as quickly as the sixth Red Sox hitter, you saw Garza instantly show the frustration behind the mound, and some sort of implosion was definitely on the horizon. After that first blast by Adrian Beltre, Garza seemed to second guessing his strategy and try to change his team's outcome in one sweep. Garza's 5 walks and 3 home runs allowed last night showed his mind along with his control was not as sharp as the whiskers on his chin.
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Garza was having his own purgatory moments on the mound, the Rays hitters found a reoccurring theme of inconsistent hitting. They did string together an early scoring opportunity in the second inning after Blalock lead-off with a single. Blalock then advanced along the base paths and came across the plate on Reid Brignac's grounder and tie the game and gave the Rays a boost of renewed confidence.
A second costly mistake to Beltre, which quickly deposited 388 feet into the Leftfield stands and the Red Sox quickly took this game solidly out of the Rays grasp.
The Rays need to resoundingly wake up their slumbering offense that went a combined 1-14 with RISP in their Wednesday night debacle. Soon the mantra of GTMI might be dead in the water if the team doesn't institute a lifesaving move to save this home stand. People will point fingers from the stands towards certain Rays players who have failed to connect or contribute lately, but the stark reality is all 25 members of this Rays team are accountable right now. You win as a team, and you lose as a team.
Somehow some way this spell of offensive despair has to end. Hopefully it is a simple attitude or minor adjustment and again we can cheer and say hello to victory soon for the Rays. Either that, or is it going to be a long, long Summer, and we do not want that!
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It's a time that will see the Red Sucks nation beaming thinking they have a great team, okay it's not bad, but reality is both the Phillies and the Rays gave the games away… as you say the time is here the turnaround is eminent and the high's last a lot longer than any lows this year…
Phillies Outside
Ouch! But that just serves as a reminder the Sox aren't going to make things for anybody. They've quietly been hitting the leather off the ball. Red Sox Nation shows up in bunches, don't they? I laugh at the way they take over Baltimore…like locusts. I would be one of them. LOL
But alas my friend….it will be a long summer. That's Baseball. Wouldn't have it any other way.
I feel your pain, Renegade. The Phillies are suffering through an offensive drought right now as well. Very frustrating!
Rants, Raves, and Random Thoughts
Everyone at the top of their divisions have had a weird couple of days. Just ask the Twins.
To lose 1 to the New York Yankees is not as sad as seeing two slip throught your fingers tips…..even with a "nature delay" (squirrel).
But every team goes throught this epidemic at some point in their year.
Maybe getting it out of the way early (hopefully) will be the key to the race towards those coveted spots…..
Rays Renegade
Back from 1998-2007, the Rays used to try and play the spoiler to the New York Yankees or Boston Red Sox near the end of the season.
We used to do everything in our power to either give them a few losses or try and make their confidence levels decrease right before they headed into the playoffs.
But that is what you want from your club. To fight the good fight everynight, no matter if you are in contention or fighting to stay out of the cellar.
You want to see the spirit and the determniation of the boxer…to fight until…knockout or victory.
Rays Renegade
I think Rays fans still have the right to worry even though they boast the best team in the game right now (despite some hiccups of late). Still, it is my hope that Rays fans refrain from acting like Yanks/Red Sox fans who are so spoiled from winning that they flinch at any negative sign, no matter how small. The Rays are the best. I think they'll be fine… until the Cardinals beat them in the World Series :-)
Starting to think there is a closer parity than people imagine this year in baseball.
Like the NFL, this season it seems that even the high payroll and low payroll clubs have a common bond and alliance to winning close games.
That is good for the sport, and great for the small markets teams to seel to their fan base as progress.
Always an adventure this game of baseball.
Rays Renegade
Ouch that was bad :( well we all get swept every now and then! Just a reminder that we can't win all the time! The red sox are still a good team and so are the rays! AL east is beast for a reason ;)
Best of luck
p.s. haven't seen Joe maddon and an ump like that so close in awhile! Oh my goodness they were going at it!
So far it has been safe to travel over the Sunshine Skyway bridge and not have to worry about carloads of Rays fans jumping to their deaths….but it is early.
We are a little more liad-back and subtle compared to some of those crazed B-bonnetted bunch and the pinstripe crews.
But a few of the bandwagoners' have already thrown up a white flag, but they are premature as usual.
Rays Renegade
I do not think you would ever get a hand up at a MLB Owners meeting to have someone want to come into this division.
It can be tough, and that actually makes the teams better suited going into September and October.
When you have a great competitve division, you breed the best out of your guys and get them into Playoff mode a bit quicker than some divisions.
Always fun to watch the scoreboard with the division foes we have…..some interesting scores pop up nightly.
Rays Renegade
Gabe Kapler was also questioning the balls and strikes before Carl Crawford went all medival on Home Plate Umpire Bob Davidson.
And if you know anything about Kapler, it takes a bit of work to ruffle his feathers at all.
Possible Mentos commercial in the future for that intimate moment between Davidson and Rays Manager Joe Maddon.
Rays Renegade


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Mariano Rivera. The name denotes dominance, athletics and the essence of baseball. All of that is captured in an episode of ESPN: 60, where they go behind-the-scenes with the 19-year MLB veteran and Yankees closer. Rivera admits he almost quit the game after tearing his ACL last spring, but realized "[he] couldn't leave like this." He explains what it feels like to both successfully close a World Series and to fail to do so, as happened in 2001. He discusses how his splitter was discovered by accident and how his hands got strong to throw it building fishing nets growing up.
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A Special Sick Visit
Moshe Boruch Weinberg, of blessed memory, was beloved by those who knew him in Toronto and in the Bayit Vegan and Ramot neighborhoods of Jerusalem. But to the residents of the Romema and Mattersdorf neighborhoods of the city he was loved and appreciated as the gifted and gracious Dr. Weinberg of the local Sick Fund clinic.
While some of the most distinguished rabbis of Jerusalem eulogized him as a Jew who loved Torah study and faithfully fulfilled his mission as a physician, one person in the large crowd that participated in his funeral despite the late Friday afternoon hour had a very special memory of Dr. Weinberg.
When he was lying in bed after being diagnosed by Dr. Weinberg as suffering from hepatitis, he was surprised to receive a visit from the doctor. "The rules of the Sick Fund prevent me from making house visits," he explained with his usual good humor, "but they can't stop me from fulfilling the mitzvah of bikur cholim — visiting the infirm!"


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Train Madrid → Seville
Duration 02:30 - From €23
About this journey The average travel time between Madrid and Seville is 2h30 minutes. The quickest route is 2h20 minutes. The first train leaving Madrid is at 07:00, the last at 20:00. There is an average of 17 trains a day between Madrid and Seville, leaving approximately every 56 minutes.
- Departure station : Madrid atocha (Avenida de Barcelona Madrid)
About this journey
Travel from Madrid to Seville on the AVE high-speed train. AVE Offers speed & comfort whisking you from the center of Madrid to the center of Seville.
Both Madrid and Seville offer breathtaking sights & attractions such as the Prado Museum, Plaza Mayor in Madrid and the Cathedral of Seville, Plaza of Spain in Seville - this is not an exhaustive list of the main attractions in each city.
Of course, both offer small streets to wander down, and picturesque parks to rest after a day of sightseeing!
Book your journey from Madrid to Seville From €23 €23
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"We paid 60 euros per ticket one way from Madrid-Seville. We met people who had a 70 euros return airfare between Madrid-Seville "
"The overall trip was pleasant and nice. Train were clean, except the toilet - as I notice a mother with a baby, she probably did not do her role causing unpleasant mess in the toilet. The customer service personnel was very pleasant and very courtesy. My only question was my initial plan was to book a budget seatings for 3 of us, but it was mentioned full in the web, thus I book an upgrade...which the whole cabin was mearely handful of people. I did not see many people in the ecomony class...thus wondering if it was indeed full during this trip, and why I wasn't able to book them. Overall...it was a good trip. Thanks. "
"Trains were old, no tables, no plugs, no wifi! But on time and good enough cafeteria. "
"The station is near the city center and convenience. But it do not have free WiFi or USB for mobile charging which we have experienced in other Europe trains "
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"if you get the chance, the train is MUCH better than flying around Spain. we also went Barcelona to San Sebastián and I booked this on the renfe site which was confusing and not always in English. Rail Europe site was fantastic! "
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"The train was comfortable, affordable, and convenient. "
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"The journey is not too long but it takes almost 5 hours as the train type is not very modern. "
"We have a pleasant experience with the recent travel (13 June 2013) from Seville to Madrid on Spanish Hi Speed Train. It is punctual, clean and comfortable except the price is on the High side. More space for big luggage should be provided if feasible. Sk, from Spore "
"the trip was wonderful. the only comment is about not having lockers in the station in Madrid where one can leave luggage for couple of hours without carriying it all over the station . thanks. "
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"We had an excellent experience, the train was on time, the seats very comfortable and our reservation according. The time we saved from Sevilla to Madrid in the Ave was worth the cost. I highly recomend it. We made the reservations via internet and had no problem. "
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After giving a presentation at 360Flex on the value and necessity of pen and paper sketching and wireframes, I thought I'd eat my own dogfood! I've created a simple wireframe document based on the sketchboards from AdaptivePath: http://www.adaptivepath.com/ideas/essays/archives/000863.php
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