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- Sankoobaba said...
before getting to the post.. i will tell you this the exact kind of posts that i miss..
riding-tactics etc...
damn..while reading it felt nostalgic of ur regular posts..
u made a very good point.. and yes,, scanning hazards is difficult but gets better with time.. and yet.. thanks to laziness we ignore the basics..
and I hate car-drivers who are doing anything else while driving..coz they are dangerous..
its crazy...
good to have u blogging..keep it coming . as and when you can
- 23 December, 2010 17:21
Excellent post but well that's kind of expected from you :D Hope you keep it coming, and the year end starts off something good for the blog in the new year :)
Riding is just an extension of life in so many ways for this. There is just not only one problem to deal with at one moment of time and it is so important to prioritize them just right.
Wish you a good safe year ahead. Ride On. Write On.
- 23 December, 2010 20:41
- Love said...
I've noticed that most of these 'clueless' drivers/riders have a HUGE S-T-U-P-I-D sign stuck on their foreheads... you can make it out from the face taht the loser is gonna bump you off the road at any given oppertunity of proving their stupidity...
- 24 December, 2010 11:22
- Shrinivas Krishnamurthy said...
Don't beat yourself up over Incident 2. You had no way of knowing the other bike was going to be there. Predicting that kind of event is never going to be possible. Being paranoid about something like that will swiftly change your riding style to a very demure, extremely defensive one, which you will not enjoy. Just be secure in the knowledge that your instincts and your bike's performance will get you out of it in one piece, worst case- your gear will reduce the road rash.
We've all had these moments, where for a second, the world seems like it is going to end, but I trust my instincts and my bike's handling to get myself out of it. On my rx/zma, I opt to power out of these situations, and it has served me well. On the bull though, I rarely ever get into these situations because I'm usually riding in a pretty leisurely manner.
And drivers texting while driving are not going away anytime soon. So the less trust you put in their judgement/ability, the better. I'd put them on the same rung as Drunk drivers on the "I'm careless/inconsiderate enough to kill myself and everyone else on the road around me" list.
- 26 December, 2010 15:12
- --xh-- said...
"The think I read somewhere was that reality never guarantees that a particular moment in time poses only one hazard." So true.
Once in a while, these kind of reality checks are good - they do help us to keep our instincts sharp, and help us not being complacent.
- 27 December, 2010 09:46
- Sainagakishore Srikantham said...
Driving / riding in the opposite lane seems to be 'in fashion' these days. I've had a good reality check in the past year. I bumped into a Hyundai Getz near a school because he braked too hard. Reason, a guy on a bike with two kids who didn't bother to indicate that he was going to turn.
P.S: I'm NOT a rider, I have a car; But, I used to ride. But I agree with you on the texting-while-you-drive thing.
- 05 January, 2011 22:22
- Carla said...
Nice reminder! I guess we tend to forgot that basic has the same meaning with fundamentals and it could be a fatal flaw.
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My cousin who lived with us for almsot 5 years took up Nursing in college. She didn't make it at her first try to get a License, and decided instead to join her Mom in GenSan. She was one of my secondary sponsors when I got married.
Needless to say, I was more than sad when I found out that she's four months along the way. And that she's gotten married just this Feb to some guy she met at their Church there. She just turned 22 last September.
Sure, she's already an adult. Sure, it's unfair of me, or us, to expect her to help her family (she's the 2nd of 5 kids, their youngest is in Grade 5) out of their economic funk (their eldest is kinda 'special' and she's always stood up as the eldest instead). Sure, enjoying your singlehood can be overrated. Sure, getting married after college does not necessarily set the feminist movement 2 steps back.
But like what I said, I was sad and disappointed. I'm also flabbergasted and amazed at how some people, given their backgrounds, do not take the initiative to 'improve' their lot in life.
And yes, I gues I have to use all terms am using loosely... for we can always argue who's to say what will or will not improve one's lot in life.
I just thought that given how her parents were/are, she'd have wanted and willed a more stable future for herself. But then again, maybe because things have been unstable from the beginning, she couldn't wait to anchor herself to whatever, something she can call hers.
I just hope this man loves her. I heard he's still a student. I just hope that their marriage won't join the ranks of the unhappy ones, or the broken ones. I pray they'd provide well for their kids.
But yeah, i'd tell her I still love her. I'd always do.
Weirdly enough, I was also stupefied upon knowing that my sis has dumped (finally!) her infernally inssecure and stalker-like long-time bf only to hook up with a former neighbor's child... my sister's childhood playmate.
That boy (all grown up now, of course) was non-exceptional as a tot, and only really cute when compared to his siblings. But I guess I have to give him a break.
Still, I couldn't help but pointedly ask my sister, "Are you sure you want their mom for a mother-in-law?!"
Ok... so judgmental of me :D
But I mean... it's bad enough that in the long years we've been neighbors, I have yet to hear brilliance (using the term loosely again here... as in no stars stamped on wrists and what nots at all) from their family (or even relatives). But their mother was one of the more annoying fixtures of my childhood, the ever hypocrite El Shaddai worshipper who is always first to spread gossip and cast the first stone. Heck, she totally ruined El Shaddai for me and what the Catholic movement stood for.
And the way she dished criticism, you'd think her kids are angels! (ugh... somebody here has been at me about how ugly I look, but you should see her daughter... and one of her sons!)
And so, even though it's kinda too early to tell how all this will spell out, I absolutely cringe at the idea of someday having them as family members.
And no, you can't tell me a person can change. She won't. And my gosh... I think of my future nieces and nephews and feel awful about what their genepool is going to be like!!!
Hay naku talaga!
Meanwhile, i'm starting to get mighty absorbed with wrestling again. Tsk. But no, am not regretful of my decision to miss RAW when they come to Manila.

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Updated below with examples of vintage Crist.
The 320 or so people on hand for the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce's annual luncheon to install a new slate of board members is a slightly bigger crowd than usual.
Hollywood Mayor Peter Bober attributed some of the interest to the main speaker: Former Gov. Charlie Crist.
The Republican turned Democrat is widely assumed to be angling for a 2014 gubernatorial run, and there's was hunger to hear what he has to say.
Among those present are Bober, state Sen. Eleanor Sobel, D-Hollywood, state Rep. Elaine Schwartz, D-Hollywood, and Alex Lewy, Hallandale Beach commissioner and possible candidate for state representative.
Former officials include former Attorney General and former Broward Sheriff Bob Butterworth, former Sheriff Al Lamberti, and former state Rep. Evan Jenne (and candidate for state representative next year). Jenne is the son of former Sheriff Ken Jenne. He's sitting one table over from Lamberti.
Crist was brought from the airport by former Senate Minority Leader Steve Geller, D-Cooper City. Though Crist was a Republican when Geller was in Tallahassee, they developed a close bond.
Entering the ballroom at the Westin Diplomat Resort and Spa in Hollywood, Geller was carrying Crist's carry on bag. (I asked Geller about that; he said Crist carried it till they got to the door of the ballroom when Crist wanted to have his hands free for hand shaking.) After the event, Crist toted his own bag.
A broad spectrum of political people was on hand including: Mitch Ceasar, chairman of the Broward Democratic Party; Karin Hoffman of Lighthouse Point, founder of the tea party group DC Works for Us; Justin Sayfie, the Fort Lauderdale attorney (who grew up in Hollywood) who was a top aide to former Gov. Jeb Bush and publishes the SayfieReview political web site; and Jack Shifrel, an area leader for the Democratic Party.
I've undoubtedly missed plenty.
It was vintage Crist. He praised many of the politicians in the room.
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The Elvenking's Halls[1] was the cave system in northern Mirkwood, in which King Thranduil and many of the Elves of Mirkwood lived during most of the Third Age and into the Fourth Age.
The halls were just inside the eastern border of Mirkwood on the north bank of the Forest River, some miles upstream from Esgaroth.[1] The great cave had many passages and wide halls and was more wholesome than the goblin tunnels in the Misty Mountains. While most of the Elves lived in the woods the king's halls served as his palace and treasure vault, and was also a fortress for the Elves in times of danger.[2]
The entryway to the halls had huge stone doors[2] that were closed and secured by magic. The throne room for Thranduil was a great hall with pillars carved from the living rock. In lower levels were cells for prisoners and at the lowest part of the caves were the cellars of the king. These cellars were built over an underground stream so that empty barrels could be dropped into the water and floated out to the Forest River through a gate barred by a portcullis.[3]
About T.A. 1050 the Shadow began to fall upon Greenwood (causing it to be called Mirkwood).[4] In response, King Thranduil led his people to the northeast corner of the forest and delved there a fortress and series of great halls underground. In this Thranduil was following the example of King Thingol who had constructed the underground fortress of Menegroth in Doriath.[5]
In the autumn of T.A. 2941[4] Thorin and Company were traversing Mirkwood and had run out of food. Spotting some woodland feasts the Company attempted to enter these gatherings but were thwarted each time. On the third attempt Thorin was captured and brought to Thranduil's halls where he was interrogated by the king. Angered by Thorin's refusal to answer his questions, Thranduil had Thorin locked in his innermost cell.[2]
Soon after, the twelve remaining dwarves (but not Bilbo Baggins) were taken by the Elves and brought to Thranduil's halls. They fared no better with the king and were also locked in the king's dungeon. Bilbo though, through the invisibility conferred by his ring, roamed about the halls and discovered the cellars and the trap door leading to the underground stream. Through good luck Bilbo was able to obtain the keys to the dwarves' cells, free them, and pack them into empty barrels in the cellar. Workers then came and rolled the barrels through the trap door and thus the hobbit (riding one of the barrels) effected the escape of the Company from Thranduil's halls.[3]
In 3017, Aragorn captured Gollum in the Dead Marshes and brought him to Thranduil's halls.[4] As was told in the Council of Elrond, Gollum was kept in prison but had been allowed to climb a tree, with guards to watch him.[6] About 20 June 3018, Orcs attacked and Gollum disappeared.[7]
During the War of the Ring Thranduil's realm had been invaded but on 15 March T.A. 3019 he was victorious over the forces of Dol Guldur. With the passing of Sauron Thranduil's domain was extended to the Mountains of Mirkwood[7] but presumably he continued to live in the same halls.
See also
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit, "Map of Wilderland"
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit, "Flies and Spiders"
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit, "Barrels Out of Bond"
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings, Appendix B, "The Third Age"
- ↑ J.R.R. Tolkien, Christopher Tolkien (ed.), Unfinished Tales, "The History of Galadriel and Celeborn", "Appendix B: The Sindarin Princes of the Silvan Elves"
- ↑ J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings, The Fellowship of the Ring, "The Council of Elrond"
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings, Appendix B, "The Great Years"


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The BMC Racing Team held its 2010 team camp the last two weeks in January in both northern and southern California. Unfortunately, sunny weather was not in the cards during the first week as the team trained in and around Santa Rosa. But, these are tough guys and every day they soldiered out into the gloom and put in the necessary training miles for the upcoming season.
After a week of soggy riding, the squad rode down to the Los Angeles area—doing a reconnaissance of the Amgen Tour of California's stage three (San Francisco to Santa Cruz) in the process. Arriving in Agoura Hills, the team was united with George Hincapie, reigning world champion Cadel Evans and the rest of the squad, who had just finished competing in Australia's Pro Tour race, the Tour Down Under.
As part of the media days, I was invited to the camp to meet with the racers and test ride a BMC team bike. In short, it was a lot of fun. The weather was spectacular and the team was super gracious. Even more importantly, the team was super motivated to do well in 2010, especially since this year's squad is a complete makeover from the 2009 edition.
The big three: (l-r) George Hincapie, Alessandro Ballan and Cadel Evans.
With the high-profile signings of such top stars as Hincapie, Evans, 2008 world road race champion Alessandro Ballan and Classics specialist Marcus Burghardt, this is one stacked team capable of competing well in the one-day Classics or multi-week stage races. And, it is very nice to have another American team competing at the highest level of the sport.
George Hincapie rocks the national
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Along for the Ride
The journalists at the camp had the opportunity to ride with the team on a training ride. I tagged along on a BMC Pro Machine SLC01 bike. This might sound like the ideal situation—getting to ride with the team and getting a team bike to ride as well—but such a situation can be very daunting. For one, the pros ride their bikes for a living and you don't want to crash them. Secondly, these guys are pros, which means that since you are there as a journalist, they are probably faster than you. Lastly, it takes a while to get used to a new bike.
Descending with the pros at 40mph on a bike you have ridden for all of 20 minutes is probably not the ideal situation. Luckily, the pros that they are, these guys make you feel comfortable in the group. And, the BMC SLC01 is a really sweet ride, so it was pretty easy to get the feel of the bike very quickly. Hey, I survived and the guys on the team are still talking to me. It couldn't get much better! (Pro contract? Did I hear "pro contract"?)
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DELAND, FLA. – Junior guard Jenna Bartsokas produced almost half of Lipscomb's points scoring 21 points as the Lady Bisons fell 56-45 to the Stetson Hatters Saturday afternoon in the Edmunds Center.
Stetson's win gives the Hatters (6-22, 6-13 A-Sun) the eighth and final berth in the Atlantic Sun Tournament and eliminates the Lady Bisons from postseason contention. Lipscomb (4-24, 2-16 A-Sun) will close its season out in Allen Arena next week hosting Kennesaw State Thursday at 5:15 and Mercer Saturday at 1 p.m.
The rims frustrated both squads as Lipscomb shot 32.7 percent and Stetson shot 29.2 percent. Bartsokas made nine of her 17 attempts. The remainder of the Lady Bisons combined to shoot 9-of-38.
Stetson outrebounded the Lady Bisons 53-38. Stetson grabbed 19 rebounds and converted 17 second chance points. Lipscomb did not post any points on second chances.
Sophomore Leah McAlister led Lipscomb with nine rebounds while Janelle Mills and Natasha Graboski brought down 11 and 10 boards, respectively, for Stetson.
Stetson scored 22 points off Lipscomb's 19 turnovers. Stetson committed 12 turnovers.
Stetson opened the game scoring the first seven points. After Lipscomb coach Frank Bennett called timeout, the Lady Bisons went on a 9-0 run to take the two point lead four minutes into the contest.
Stetson used a 12-2 run to take a 26-15 lead with 3:05 left in the first half. Lipscomb did not make a field goal from 11:52 until Bartsokas hit a three at the 2:56 mark.
Stetson led 28-20 at the half.
With threes by Bartsokas and sophomore Miaca Bowman, Lipscomb cut the deficit to two, 32-30, with 15:18 left.
Stetson responded with a 13-2 run to build their lead to 45-32 with 5:31 to play.
Tierra Brown paced Stetson with 12 points off the bench while Graboski added 11 points.
Benjamin Seamon and Ben Flatt will be on the call for the Lipscomb Sports Network Thursday beginning with the Countdown to Tipoff pregame show at 5 p.m.


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Jennifer Lawrence always knew she'd be famous.
Yeah, she said it. But it's not what you think.
The zany and eclectic young star, who started her career at age 14 when she was photographed by a model scout in New York's Union Square, captured our hearts while doing the media rounds during awards season. She tripped over her Dior dress at the SAG Awards, boldly faced the customary wardrobe malfunction headlines, sassed late-night talk-show hosts and freaked out — fan-girl style — when she met Jack Nicholson. All that and she also took home a lead actress Oscar for "Silver Linings Playbook" to boot.
The soon-to-be-23-year-old "American Hustle" actress (her birthday is Thursday, though she speaks as if it has already passed) covers Vogue's September issue and talks love and her franchise projects: "The Hunger Games" sequel "Catching Fire" in which she returns as strong-willed tribute Katniss Everdeen, and the next "X-Men" film, "X-Men: Days of Future Past," in which she reprises her role as blue, shape-shifting mutant Mystique. The "chameleon" opens up about her childhood and what it's like to get wildly famous out of the blue.
Here are some of our favorite quotes from Jonathan Van Meter's "seven-hour bender" of an interview in which Lawrence flashes between comedic and serious in an instant, both in real life and on set:
On why she thinks sponges can be the harbinger of relationships: "I wake up earlier in the morning when I have new sponges. That counter doesn't even see it coming," she said. Ex-boyfriend and "X-Men" costar Nicholas Hoult "would never wring them out. We were in the kitchen once, and I picked up the sponge, and it was soapy and wet, and I was like, 'See?' These are the kinds of things that make me think we are never going to work."
How her co-workers describe her: Her "Hunger Games" costar Woody Harrelson: "She is one-of-a-kind, man. She is so herself. I love how she doesn't censor herself. She says the most outrageous.... Just incredible, the stuff she'll say."
Her "Silver Linings Playbook" and "American Hustle" director David O. Russell: "She grew up with these two older brothers, so she will do an off-color joke that will shock you and make you laugh so hard. And then she just moves on."
Jodie Foster, who directed her in "The Beaver" with Mel Gibson: "It's one of the things that I love about her the most — her rapid-fire teenage-boy-humor brain."
Her take on her "American Hustle" character Rosalyn, who is wife to Christian Bale's character in Russell's 1970s film: "Rosalyn is 100% a product of David's imagination," she said. "She's a manic-depressive alcoholic, and I couldn't wait. Plus, I got to make out with Christian Bale." (Russell describes Rosalyn as "a character who is kind of an unhinged, intense, manipulative, brilliant but also soulful and heartbreaking Long Island housewife. And that was exciting to her. [Lawrence] has a genuine, in-her-blood joy in the inhabitation of other people."
Her "funny" family dynamic: "My mom is big funny," Lawrence said. "She's loud funny. And my dad is the opposite — the funniest person you will ever meet, but he never raises his voice. He's just really quick. Very subtle.... We definitely grew up funny. ... You have to be funny in our family to survive, because we are so mean to each other."
She's taken on nonstop projects because she loves acting: "I couldn't say no. And then when I was on set, I was like, 'This is so much more important than a vacation. It's so much better for my brain to be creatively stimulated in this way.' It reminded me: This is what I love."
Her openness about her "unhappy" childhood: "Look," she said. "I grew up in Kentucky, I have brothers, we had to do sports, I was a horrible student, and I kept getting grounded every time my report card came out. Acting was never an option. It wasn't like, 'Oh, well, you got a C in math; you're grounded. But you can be an actor!'
"I was a weirdo," she said. "I wasn't picked on or anything. And I wasn't smarter than the other kids; that's not why I didn't fit in. I've always just had this weird anxiety. I hated recess. I didn't like field trips. Parties really stressed me out. And, I had a very different sense of humor."
But despite that, she always knew she'd be famous, which brings us to...
She knew she was destined for greatness: "I've never said this before, because there is no way to say it without it being completely misunderstood, but ever since I was really little, I always had a very normal idea of what I wanted: I was going to be a mom and I was going to be a doctor and I was going to live in Kentucky. But I always knew that I was going to be famous. I honest to God don't know how else to describe it. I used to lie in bed and wonder, Am I going to be a local TV person? Am I going to a motivational speaker? It wasn't a vision. But as it's kind of happening, you have this buried understanding: Of course."
How she explains the parallels between her transformation from normal to famous to Katniss' transformation in "The Hunger Games": "When 'Winter's' Bone' was getting nominated [for an Oscar] I had only done indies, and suddenly I was introduced to this brand-new world where I didn't feel like myself. I was in these weird gowns and listening to people talk about things I didn't understand. And I remember reading that in ['The Hunger Games'] and being like, Oh, my God, I know exactly what this feels like. I don't know what it's like to get ready for your death, but I do know what it's like to be almost a puppet. And then when I was making the second film, I had become more acquainted with that world, and I think that's something that Katniss experiences. She is different when she comes back [in 'Catching Fire']. She does feel more comfortable in the Capitol; she understands the people more, and it's not as eerie and scary and unfamiliar. She kind of knows how to work the system."
On why she's not loving being recognized in her everyday life: "I'm just really starting to feel like a monkey in a zoo." She calls her celebrity "a dangerous topic."
"I teeter on seeming ungrateful when I talk about this but I'm kind of going through a meltdown about it lately," she said. "All of a sudden the entire world feels entitled to know everything about me, including what I'm doing on my weekends when I'm spending time with my nephew. And I don't have the right to say, 'I'm with my family.'
"If I were just your average 23-year-old girl and I called the police to say that there were strange men sleeping on my lawn and following me to Starbucks, they would leap into action. But because I am a famous person, well, sorry, ma'am, there's nothing we can do. It makes no sense," she added. "I am just not OK with it. It's as simple as that. I am just a normal girl and a human being, and I haven't been in this long enough to feel like this is my new normal. I'm not going to find peace with it."
How she stays grounded: "Justine is with me," she said of her friend of four years who has been working as her assistant. "So it's kind of like, this consistent thing in my life. I'm still doing what a 23-year-old should be doing, which is hanging out with my friend and being normal. I still have to put the dishes away. And I still have to listen. When you've been doing press for a very long time, you talk about yourself constantly. My biggest fear is that I'm going to take that into the real world."
Why she's "starstruck" by her "X-Men" costar James McAvoy: "Because he knows what's important: He has a wife, he has a baby, and he has a calm peacefulness about him that comes from just knowing that this is what life is about."
OK, how can you not love her already?
Vogue's full September issue hits newsstands Aug. 20.
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Quiroz and Scandalis Named USC Credit Union Student-Athletes of the Week
April 15, 2014
LOS ANGELES – USC men's tennis junior Roberto Quiroz and women's tennis junior Zoe Scandalis were named USC Credit Union Student-Athlete's of the week for the week of April 7-13.
USC junior Robert Quiroz stepped up huge for the Trojans last week in their two Pac-12 victories over Arizona and Arizona State. On Friday, Quiroz and his partner, Nick Crystal, scored the first points for USC in doubles with an 8-2 victory. Later in the day, Quiroz squared off with Arizona's Naoki Takeda and picked up the 6-3, 6-1 victory.


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What has drawn you to work in the healthcare industry, specifically in pharmaceuticals?
I trained as a cardiologist and cardiovascular doctor. While I loved my time helping patients, I was often frustrated as an individual doctor knowing I would never be able to create new concepts or medicines with the limited availability of funding and technology in institutes at that time. I quickly recognized where my heart (pardon the pun) lay, and while collaborating on a project with a pharmaceutical company, I was offered a position.
Since then, my focus on creating breakthrough medicines in the cardiovascular area has never waned. It has been the single strongest motivation for every role I have had and, I hope, will continue to have.
I am still in awe at the unrivalled opportunities available in the pharmaceutical industry to change medicine and save lives on a global scale. This, however, comes with high expectations. There is a delicate balance to the integrity and ethics of advancing health care, while allowing a commercial enterprise to benefit from the value it has created by changing the lives of patients.
What is the most inspiring program or medicine you have helped bring to the patients that need them? What has the impact been?
My area of passion has always been heart failure. When I was still in training, I was inspired by a lecture debating the unmet needs in heart failure, given by Professor Henry Dargie, who I admired deeply.
That lecture had such a profound impact on me that I've made the search for novel interventions for heart failure a priority. I was very fortunate to work with Professor Dargie, among many others, on the concept of developing beta-blockers in heart failure, which were already being used in hypertension and angina.
This was a quite a radical concept in the 1990's when beta-blockers were contra-indicated for use in heart failure. There were many examples where attempts at using these types of agents had led to poor outcomes. So when the concept re-emerged with better agents that could counterbalance some of the deleterious effects, I was very fortunate to be able to work with the top thought leaders in the disease.
By using careful clinical design of dosing and well-constructed outcome trials, we were able to bring Carvedilol (Coreg) to the US and Europe for chronic heart failure. I remember being stunned when we saw an unexpected mortality benefit. Seeing a previously contra-indicated drug—able to save the lives in a disease with a mortality rate greater than most cancers—get approved was a very emotional and inspirational time.
How do you see the role of digital evolving over the next three years in helping bringing life-saving or life-enhancing medicines and treatments to market? What 2-3 areas will have the most impact?
Aside from the advancement in understanding disease pathways, I think the use of digital technologies will have the next most profound impact on research and medical care. We are in a time when many diseases in some advanced clinics across the world are managed virtually by their physicians. For example: video calls with parallel home monitoring with telemetric information, ECG's, biomarkers at home with data uploaded into the network, pre-set alert levels to allow real-time decision making, movement monitoring in patients with neurologic disease using movement sensors, and the list goes on.
Doing clinical trials in the traditional ways no longer makes sense. The empiric manner in which we recruit patients, identify their diseases, and then have them routinely come to scheduled hospital or clinic visits is inefficient, expensive and may not reflect the ability to shape how the disease could be managed in the future.
I see digital as a means to monitor therapeutic responses more readily or at home. We recently licensed the glucose sensing contact lens from Google, but that is really just the start of what's possible. Digital can help leverage 'predictalytics', large data sets, and individualized responses on multiple parameters to determine the risk of 'an event'.
I don't think there is any area of what we do today which will not undergo a radical change. Digital is making the patients' lives easier—improving adherence (e.g., micro-chips on pills) and increasing specificity, such as digitally targeted medicines (programmable nano-particles targeted to disease area). Digital is also making physicians' lives easier (e.g., Google glass with superimposed anatomical MRI data while operating).
The newly coined term 'Digiceutical' is not a transient fad! The bigger question is how can the industry stay ahead of the curve to the usual 10+ year product life cycle, and be agile enough to leverage this as a key advantage.
There is a lot of talk about digital's role in causing healthcare to become more like a "consumer" business. How will pharmaceutical companies have to change their business models to address this?
Companies should start by integrating digital enthusiasts into every team since digital cuts across each specialty, function or domain. Next, our business and development teams need to live and breathe these technologies and spend time contemplating the possibilities and changing how they work, including embracing technologies.
Second, the business model needs to embrace a digital roadmap as a core part of the development plan and business plan. This could entail all elements of the life-cycle including digital technology integration in the trials, creation of state of the art analytic databases during phase III, virtual trial set ups, testing multiple novel wearable devices in the trials, undertaking continued evidence generation after trials or registration through interfaces with electronic medical records, and so forth.
Additionally, the ability to customize will be essential to allowing local businesses to adapt to the local circumstances/preferences, and may allow negotiating better market access for drugs by offering complementary digital solutions and monitoring risk to improve outcomes. I can see drugs in the future being 'registered' with some sort of digital suite of solutions for patients and physicians.
Digital enables unprecedented collaboration – what are some potentially unexpected collaborations we might see in the future?
We must be alert to the fact that many prominent technology companies are focusing on health care. The likes of Samsung and Google have health care front-and-center of their strategy and they have the capability and vision to create disruptive solutions for health care.
There are many other start-up companies where digital innovations are positively changing patient outcomes and pathways. I see pharmaceutical companies needing to look very carefully at the pipelines of tech companies to identify where we can create differentiated ways to co-combine drug therapy and technology to fundamentally tackle a disease—not just biologically, but along the entire healthcare system in which the disease is managed.
As for unexpected collaborations, I am not sure anything can truly be counted as being unexpected.


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MIAMI - Delray Beach, Fla.-based Cobra Pavers & Engineering, Inc. and Cobra Construction, Inc., which have two locations located in south Florida, will pay $125,000 and provide other relief to settle a sexual harassment lawsuit brought by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the agency announced today.
According to EEOC's lawsuit, filed in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida, Cobra subjected female office employees to a sexually hostile work environment which included telling stories of sexual exploits, derogatory remarks about females, inappropriate sexual comments and engaging in unwelcome touching of a sexual nature by Cobra's managerial agents. (EEOC v. Cobra Pavers & Engineering, Inc. and Cobra Construction, Inc. Civil Action No.: 09-cv-81239). Such alleged conduct violates Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, as amended. The EEOC attempted to reach a voluntary settlement with the company through its conciliation process before filing suit.
Under the terms of the three-year consent decree resolving the lawsuit, Cobra agreed to revise its sexual harassment policy; provide training to its employees and management staff at the Delray Beach location; report biannually any new complaints of discrimination and subsequent investigations; and post a notice regarding the settlement.
"Sexual harassment can never be tolerated in any workplace, and the construction industry is no exception," said EEOC Regional Attorney Robert Weisberg. "Employers have an obligation under federal law to provide all of their employees with a workplace free from such misconduct. The EEOC will remain vigilant in its enforcement of that obligation."
The EEOC enforces federal laws prohibiting employment discrimination. Further information about the agency is available on its website at www.eeoc.gov. The EEOC's Miami District Office is located at 2 South Biscayne Boulevard, Suite 2700.


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STROUDSBURG — Ramonia Benitez's 1,000th point couldn't have come at a better time for Pocono Mountain West.
STROUDSBURG — Ramonia Benitez's 1,000th point couldn't have come at a better time for Pocono Mountain West.
Benitez's layup with 56 seconds left made her the third girl in school history to score 1,000 points, but more importantly it gave the top-seeded Panthers a lead they never relinquished in their 43-38 victory over No. 4 Bangor in the semifinals of the District 11 Class AAAA girls basketball playoffs at Stroudsburg High School on Wednesday.
For the first time in school history the Panthers (23-3), who clinched their second PIAA playoff berth, will play in the district final. West will play No. 2 Nazareth at 8 p.m. on Friday at Stroudsburg.
"These girls are so deserving of this," PM West coach Stacy Perryman said. "They've worked so hard and I'm sure every coach can say that about their team, but they've worked for three and four years to get to this point.
"It was a big game and they showed up for it."
Benitez joined Kristin Boesenberg and Adriana Johnson in the 1,000-point club at West, which opened in 2002 when the Pocono Mountain School District split.
It took Benitez, who needed seven points to reach the milestone, until the game's final minute to get there, but her basket was the game's biggest play at the biggest moment.
"I just had to play through it and keep going," Benitez said. "I was nervous the whole game. I didn't know if or when it was coming, but I was just hoping it was soon."
Neither team started well, but the Slaters (19-6), the defending district champs who will play No. 3 Parkland for a spot in the state playoffs at 6 p.m. at Easton Middle School on Friday, led 10-7 after one quarter.
Perryman figured her team would be nervous and they were — West missed its first nine shots — but the Panthers bounced back with a 17-point second quarter to go up 24-17 at the break.
"The momentum we had going in was a big advantage," Perryman said. "At some point I knew there would be a little let up, but I knew if we could handle (Bangor's) run and still execute, it would be a game we could win."
Senior Steph Davis made the Panthers' halftime lead possible.
Davis, an All-MVC first-team pick this season, scored seven of her team-high 15 points in the second quarter including a 3-pointer with 22 seconds left for the half's final points.
"We were all nervous and we didn't get off to a strong start, but we had to stay at it," said Davis, who also had four rebounds, three blocks and two steals.
The Slaters wouldn't go away, thanks largely to the inside play of Morgan McCollian.
The senior center had game highs with 19 points and 17 rebounds and helped Bangor rally in the fourth quarter. McCollian, who scored more points than the rest of the Slaters combined, poured in five straight points, the last two giving Bangor a 33-31 lead with 4:01 to go.
The two teams traded the lead three times over the next 1:43 before a jumper by Bangor's Meredith Colton tied the score at 37-37 with 70 seconds to play.
That set the stage for Benitez, who drove down the right side of the lane and scored on an uncontested layup to give the Panthers the lead for good.
"Not only coming in and playing in a district semifinal game, but having the fact that she was getting close to 1,000 points was even more pressure on her shoulders," Perryman said. "She handled it with such class. Now it's over, she can relax, move on and get back to her style of play."
Benitez will have at least two more games to add to her total, but first the Panthers will celebrate before looking forward to Nazareth.
The bus ride back to Pocono Summit was a fun one Wednesday night, but after midnight West's attention shifted to Friday.
"I'll give them until midnight, they can celebrate until then and we're going to celebrate," Perryman said. "It's going to be a fun bus ride home, but then it's back to work so we can prepare for Friday's game.
"They know what's at stake here."
No. 1 PM West 43, No. 4 Bangor 38
Domenech 0 0-0 0, Zungolo 4 0-2 8, Colton 1 1-2 3, Bisci 1 1-3 4, McCollian 6 7-10 19, Baker 1 2-2 4, Renna 0 0-0 0, McNew 0 0-0 0, Livingston 0 0-0 0, Kallus 0 0-0 0. Totals — 13 11-19 38.
Walters 1 2-2 4, J. Benitez 1 5-8 7, R. Benitez 3 1-2 8, Davis 3 6-6 15, Jimenez 1 4-5 6, Yocum 0 0-0 0, Wilson 0 0-0 0, Murray 1 1-2 3. Totals — 10 19-23 43.
Bangor 10 7 9 12 �— 38
PM West 7 17 6 13 — 43
3-point goals — B 1 (Bisci); PMW 4 (Davis 3, R. Benitez). Rebounds — B 45 (McCollian 17); PMW 32 (R. Benitez 7). Assists —B 9 (Colton 6); PMW 7 (J. Benitez 3). Steals — B 7 (Zungolo 4); PMW 4 (Davis 2). Blocks — B 2 (Colton, McCollian); PMW 3 (Davis 3). Turnovers — B 10; PMW 8.
Records — Bangor 20-5; PM West 23-3.


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Reflexology, Ear Acupuncture & Chair Massage Offered at the Knox County Health Clinic, 1st floor of Bok Medical Building (behind Rockland Public Library), 22 White St., Rockland. Every Wednesday. Free, all are welcome. Donations to the clinic are gratefully accepted. Hosted by Knox County Health Clinic. FMI: 594-6993.


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While I was recently browsing through my daily morning Yahoo articles, I came across one that instantly caught my eye. "How to lose weight all day long." Uh, Hello! Of course I'm going to read that! I was expecting the same old "don't do this, run a lot, don't eat this" sort of thing, but I have to say I was more than pleasantly surprised. I read the article about a week ago and I have been following it's guidelines along with my fellow blogger, Sandi's tips and 100 workout. So far, only in a week I have lost 2 pounds and I feel so much better already! Amazing? I know. Who knew what a little bit of advice and self-discipline could do ! So let me share these awesome tips with you!
You should try as best you can to keep your body on the same schedule. Within an hour of waking up and before you eat breakfast, squeeze in 20 minutes of cardio. If you can do this outside, even better. Research has shown that early morning sunlight can help your body set itself on a healthier sleep and wake schedule.
Before and after every meal drink 8 ounces of water. This will help you get filled up faster and help your metabolism speed up. After your cardio, don't keep your body's "feed me" scream hanging on for too long. Make sure you eat within an hour of waking up and after your cardio. If you put off eating breakfast for too long, it will make you even more hungry as time ticks by.
I was not a believer in this next one until I finally did it right. Eat every 3-4 hours. That hunger scream comes back once you really get into the swing of the cardio in the morning because your metabolism will be faster. Keep the hunger suppressed and have a snack every few hours. I have found that snacking on things with a texture to them psycologically is better to me. Things like carrots, celery and green peppers have been my snack of choice due to the "crunch factor".
Around 3:30 pm is the time where if you feel you need a boost, now is the time to drink your last cup of joe!Drinking coffee after 4:00 PM disturbs your sleep cycle and can keep you from falling asleep.
From 4:00PM -8:00 PM is the best time to do your strength training. This is because it's when your body temperature is the highest, so you're ready for your best performance in the gym yet!
To make sure you don't have those late night cravings, eat dinner somewhere between 5:00PM and 7:00PM.
It's crucial for your body to stay on a regular sleep schedule. Of course, we have later nights than others, but you should try to limit the number of those nights. Your body feels more refreshed and energized when it's on a regular sleep schedule. So around 10:00 each night, stop texting, turn off Jersey Shore and go to sleep!
Stick to this plan, and I can guarantee you will see results!


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California courts strike down local sex-offender ordinances
The California Supreme Court has left intact a lower-court ruling that invalidates local ordinances aimed at restricting the movements of registered sex offenders in dozens of cities statewide.
The court's decision Wednesday not to hear a case involving a Southern California sex offender means city and county ordinances banning such offenders from public parks and other public areas no longer may be enforced, attorneys say. Instead, a state law governing where sex offenders on parole may live now stands as the main restriction.
"If I read the tea leaves correctly, it's probably dead everywhere in California," Susan Kang Schroeder, chief of staff to Orange County District Attorney Tony Rackauckas said Thursday.
The Orange County District Attorney's Office had led the effort to tighten restrictions on sex offenders and advised communities in that area on how to enact such ordinances.
"We still believe that we were right on the law and we respectfully disagree," Schroeder said. "We don't regret the choices that we made in trying to keep sex offenders out of parks and keep children safe."
The state Supreme Court's action stemmed in part from an Orange County case in which a registered sex offender in Irvine went to a tennis court at a public park in violation of a local ordinance.
The offender pleaded guilty, but a public defender appealed the case and won a ruling that state law trumps such local ordinances, Schroeder said. Her office appealed that to the 4th District Court of Appeal, which agreed with the appellate decision, so the Orange County District Attorney's Office asked the state Supreme Court to hear the matter.
That court declined to do so Wednesday. It also declined to hear a second, similar case involving an offender who was cited after going to a picnic at a county park.
The move effectively invalidates such local ordinances, Schroeder said, and leaves Jessica's Law, passed by voters in 2006, as the main enforcement tool over paroled sex offenders. That measure, which also has faced court challenges, prevents sex offenders on parole from living within 2,000 feet of schools and parks.
Santa Maria attorney Janice Bellucci, president of a group called "California Reform Sex Offender Laws," said the Supreme Court's move is a "major victory" for efforts to provide more rights for individuals who must register on California's Megan's Law list of people with sex offenses in their pasts.
"It means that our people on the registry – and we have over 105,000 now – can now go to public and private places that they could not go to before," she said.
Bellucci has been waging a legal battle against such ordinances throughout the state and last month filed suit in U.S. District Court in Sacramento seeking to overturn a South Lake Tahoe measure.
The South Lake Tahoe ordinance prohibits sex offenders from being in or within 300 feet of public or private schools, parks, video arcades, swimming pools or other areas where children might congregate. The ordinance allows for single trips traveling past such spots.
Bellucci said 70 cities and five counties in California have enacted such measures, and she has used a client, Frank Lindsay of San Luis Obispo, a registered sex offender, as the face of her lawsuits against such ordinances.
A previous suit against El Dorado County led to a countywide ordinance being rescinded.
The ordinances have became popular statewide in recent years in light of high-profile cases involving sex offenders.
In El Dorado County, for instance, such restrictions were put in place in the wake of the notorious case of Phillip Garrido, who abducted 11-year-old Jaycee Lee Dugard from a South Lake Tahoe street in 1991 and held her as a sex slave and hostage for 18 years.
Garrido was arrested in August 2009 and jailed in Placerville until his guilty plea in 2011 resulted in a 431 years-to-life sentence.
Cases like his and others in California resulted in a wave of new ordinances that severely restricted where registered sex offenders could go, even if they were years removed from being on parole or probation.
Bellucci said she views the matter as a "civil rights issue" that ultimately should be addressed by legislators to differentiate between people who made a mistake in their past – such as urinating in public or a young adult having consensual sex with a 17-year-old girlfriend, for example – from predators such as Garrido.
Lindsay's lawsuit against the South Lake Tahoe ordinance was filed March 31 and stated that he is a "law-abiding citizen in good standing within his community." The Megan's Law registry lists the 61-year-old plumber as having a 1979 conviction for lewd and lascivious acts with a child under 14.
Lindsay has written a book about his life as a registered sex offender. Bellucci said she would not discuss his past.
But Lindsay's lawsuit said the restrictions could stop a sex offender from visiting doctor's offices, hospitals or even businesses they might own that are adjacent to places barred to offenders.
South Lake Tahoe City Attorney Thomas Watson said the ordinance is not currently being enforced because of the legal challenges and that the city has been in talks with Bellucci. The action by the state Supreme Court could mean the council may have to rescind the ordinance, and the topic will be addressed at the next council meeting, he said.
El Dorado County District Attorney Vern Pierson said Thursday that the Legislature has failed to address the need for balanced restrictions, something that may lead to new initiative drives.
"This is more than anything else due to the Legislature's inability to craft appropriate legislation to control the behavior and conduct of sex offenders that are out," Pierson said.
He added that the county had crafted policies he thought were appropriate and similar to those in Orange County, allowing an offender to get written permission from the sheriff to be in certain public places around children.
"I think there's this misimpression that we want to ban sex offenders from going anywhere and doing anything," Pierson said. "What we're attempting to do is deal with the unusual situations where they're predatory. If they go to an ice skating rink because they want to look at the young children, that's who we're trying to prevent from being in that kind of situation."
Conversely, Pierson said, there is no intent to bar registered sex offenders from being able to drop off their own child at school.
"It's trying to balance the competing rights here in an appropriate way that safeguards the children," Pierson said.
Any further efforts to change sex offender laws now must be made by legislators, Schroeder said, adding that her office still feels such local limits are appropriate.
"We felt like, for what it's worth, I think it's good for sex offenders not to be around children," she said.


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In a high-risk world, you want to own stocks that will reward you if the Dow keeps surging, and treat you gently if old man market drops.
Here are four stocks that offer that magic combination of much more upside potential than downside. All four companies will likely post record earnings in 2013. In addition, they sport dividend yields comfortably above the market average, giving the shares defensive appeal:
Coca-Cola (KO)
The world's best-known brand, Coke also merits fame for the defensive prowess of its stock. During the 2007-2009 bear market, KO fell 42% less than the S&P 500 (^INX), and actually rose during the 2000-2002 bear.
The company's array of low-cal and no-cal beverages not only rolls up excellent profits, but also helps blunt media concerns about dietary sugar. Current yield is 3.3%. Its dividend has sweetened 50 years in a row-with the next boost due around mid-February.
McDonald's (MCD)
Wall Street went apoplectic when Mickey D's sales growth tailed off for a number of months last year. Now, though, the Golden Arches seem to be regaining their sheen, with global same-store sales up 2.4% in November.
To build customer traffic in today's challenging economy, CEO Don Thompson-a master marketer-is pushing a "barbell approach," with premium items like McRib thrust into the promotional spotlight alongside the Dollar Menu. Meanwhile, the stock boasts a current yield of 3.4%, more than the longest-dated Treasury bond. There have been annual dividend hikes since 1976.
Microsoft (MSFT)
The technology giant everybody loves to hate, MSFT nonetheless possesses some formidable strengths, such as $67 billion of cash on its balance sheet and 36% operating profit margins. Did I mention that MSFT also throws off a 3.4% dividend?
Says Matthew McLennan of top-performing First Eagle Global Fund, "Just like Coke didn't have to invent Burgundy wine or hot coffee, Microsoft doesn't need to invent every new category of software. It's enough for Coke to dominate sugared water, and for Microsoft to have a dominant position in operating systems, office applications, and server software."
Southern Company (SO)
The highest yielder in the group (4.5%), this Atlanta-based electric utility features one of the industry's strongest balance sheets (low debt). In fact, Fortune magazine has ranked the company No. 1 among electric and gas utilities for financial soundness three years in a row.
SO's low retail electric rates also help maintain good relations with regulators and customers. Dividends-increased every year since 2002-have easily outpaced the cost of living, a trend I expect to continue in 2013 and beyond. (Great for retirees.)
From today's levels, I project a year-ahead total return-dividends plus capital appreciation-of at least 12% for MCD and SO; 15% for KO; and 20% for MSFT. If you can afford just one, make it Coke. Very few stocks offer 15% upside potential in the coming year with so little risk as KO.
Editor's Note: This article was written by Richard Band of Profitable Investing.
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Texas health officials confirm first case of new mosquito-borne virus
The Texas Department of State Health Services (DSHS) confirmed the state's first human case of chikungunya, a viral disease that can cause fever and severe joint pain and is spread to people by mosquitoes.
The Williamson County (near Austin) resident recently returned to Texas from a trip to the Caribbean, where chikungunya has been causing human disease since late 2013, a July 7 DSHS release states.
To date, no local spread of the virus has been reported in the continental United States, the release states, though imported cases make local spread possible because the mosquitoes that can transmit the virus are found in Texas.
As of July 8, 2014, in the United States, 138 travel-associated cases of chikungunya virus have been reported to ArboNET, the national surveillance system for arthropod-borne diseases, including 1 in Texas.
Although a DSHS release states that infections are rarely fatal, Dr. Ashwini Kucknoor, assistant professor of biology at Lamar University, said chikungunya, common in her native country of India, killed her friend's mother.
"In older adults with high blood pressure, etc., it complicates things," Kucknoor said. "There have been several deaths in India."
Chikungunya, which originated in Africa, can cause severe joint pain, high fever, head and muscle aches, joint swelling and rash. Symptoms usually begin three to seven days after a mosquito bite. There is no vaccine or treatment for the virus.
"People have become bedridden because of severe joint ache," Kucknoor said. "It's hard to tell whether it is body ache or joint ache; it is all over. Kucknoor said the pain is described in her mother tongue, Kannada, as "back breaking."
Most people feel better within a week, a DSHS report states, though some people may develop longer-term joint pain.
"Recovery is case dependent, or general health dependent," Kucknoor said. "If you are already susceptible and weak, it may take longer – a week or even 15 days."
Chikungunya is not transmitted from direct person-to-person contact, but a person with the disease can be the source of the virus for mosquitoes that can then transmit the virus to others through a bite.
"It's so easy for us here in Texas to get bitten by a mosquito," Kucknoor said. "The main problem with this virus is that the mosquito species that caries this virus is not the one that you see at dawn and dusk."
No specific antiviral treatment is available for chikungunya fever. Treatment is generally palliative and can include rest, fluids and use of analgesics and antipyretics. Because of similar geographic distribution and symptoms, patients with suspected chikungunya virus infections also should be evaluated and managed for possible dengue virus infection.
Dengue, an infectious tropical disease caused by an arbovirus, is transmitted primarily by the same mosquitoes that transmit chikungunya and is characterized by high fever, rash, headache, and severe muscle and joint pain. Last year, Texas health officials confirmed a wave of dengue fever in South Texas.
Because the symptoms are similar, DSHS encourages physicians to consider both chikungunya and dengue infection in patients with acute onset of fever and joint pain and who have recently visited areas where at least one of the viruses is present.
Health professionals must rule out dengue and malaria before diagnosing chikungunya, Kucknoor said.
"You have to rule out infectious diseases out one by one," she said.
People infected with chikungunya or dengue virus should be protected from further mosquito exposure during the first few days of illness to prevent other mosquitoes from becoming infected and reduce the risk of local transmission.
The virus is transmitted by two species of mosquito — the Aedes aegypti, also known as the yellow fever mosquito, and the Aedes albopictus, also known as the Asian tiger mosquito.
Although both species can be found here in Southeast Texas, Jefferson County Mosquito Control District (JCMCD) director Kevin Sexton said currently, it isn't a huge concern.
"Right now I don't think it is a very big threat," Sexton said. "It's fairly new to the country and brought mainly by people who travel here. This is the first case I've heard anywhere close to us."
And Southeast Texans can do their part to control the population of these chikungunya-carrying mosquitoes, Sexton said.
"These are the ones that people tend to raise in their backyards and don't even realize it," he said. "They like to breed in birdbaths and gutters — in anything that can hold water around your yard.
JCMCD, which tests for West Nile Virus on a regular basis, currently has no way to test mosquito populations for chikungunya, Sexton said, adding that Jefferson County has received no positive West Nile Virus tests so far this year.
Following a spell of rainfall, there was increased mosquito activity last week, Sexton said, especially in west Jefferson County (China, Nome) and last weekend in southeast Jefferson County (Mid-County), but the activity has decreased following treatment of these areas.
"We've done quite a bit of spraying," he said. "I got the (mosquito) counts today, and they've gone down quite a bit. They are tapering off a little bit following the aerial spraying."
DSHS encourages people to protect themselves from mosquito bites at home and while traveling. Precautions include:
• Use an approved insect repellent every time you go outside and follow label instructions
• Drain standing water where mosquitoes can breed
• Wear long sleeves and pants when outside
• Use air conditioning or make sure doors and windows are screened to keep mosquitoes outside
As an additional measure, Kucknoor said in India residents sleep with a mosquito bed net. Some mosquito bed nets are even treated with insecticide, according to the CDC website, and are even more effective. These nets are available for purchase from online retailers.
"The insecticides that are used for treating bed nets kill mosquitoes, as well as other insects," the CDC website states. "The insecticides also repel mosquitoes, reducing the number that enter the house and attempt to feed on people inside. In addition, if high community coverage is achieved, the numbers of mosquitoes, as well as their length of life, will be reduced. When this happens, all members of the community are protected, regardless of whether or not they are using a bed net. To achieve such effects, more than half of the people in a community must use an (insecticide-treated net)."
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, with recent outbreaks in the Caribbean and the Pacific, the number of chikungunya cases among travelers visiting or returning to the United States from affected areas will likely increase. Cases have occurred in Africa, southern Europe, Southeast Asia, and islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans.
"Health professionals should have their eyes and ears more open to cases of sudden, rapid fever and joint pain and where the patient has been recently," Kucknoor said.
Kucknoor is also director of the Texas General Land Office Beach Watch program for Jefferson County.
Visit www.cdc.gov/chikungunya for more information.


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Electronic Hungry Hungry Hippos for iPad
The original Hunger Game returns.
- Use your iPad as a board and munch with the capacitive-padded heads!
- Free app download from the Apple store!
- Just like when you were a kid, only iPad-ier!
The original Hunger Game returns.
In the late 1970s, a phenomenon swept the sporting world. A new game fell on the scene, one that created an international stir, world exhibitions, and a fever that can only be described as a "feeding frenzy." And that game was Hungry Hungry Hippos. Well, it's time to update this classic into the now with the Electronic Hungry Hungry Hippos iPad Game. Fully endorsed by the IHHHA (International Hungry Hungry Hippos Association), this game is the Hippo event of the century!
Electronic Hungry Hungry Hippos iPad Game is everything you remember about HHH. All four hippos are present and hungry, except this time, the hippos fit over your iPad and the game board is an app! This adds oh-so-many gameplay features, such as:
- 10 different game boards, each with its own marble style.
- 14 power-ups to make the game play even crazier.
- Three scoring modes: standard, Vegas, and Regulation Tournament.
- And hippo-loads more!
Electronic Hungry Hungry Hippos iPad Game is for up to four players and will help you train up so that one day you might be the one to represent your town, county, or even country at IHHHP trials all over the world. Do you have what it takes to be a Hippo Champion?
Coming Soon: Hungry Hungry Hippos: Space!
Electronic Hungry Hungry Hippos iPad Game
- Just like the game you loved as a child, but updated for the new iPad!
- Each hippo has the chomping action you remember.
- Each hippo head has capacitive pads underneath to interact with your iPad.
- Free app available from Apple store (supports new iPad's retina display).
- App features a variety of table tops, game play modes, and scoring - including Vegas and Tournament!
- Fully endorsed by the International Hungry Hungry Hippo Association (IHHHA).
- Players: 1-4
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(The following press release has been cross-posted from the IMLS News & Events, Press Releases page.)
Washington, DC—Today conference organizers announced that freelance writer Audrey Watters has been chosen as one of the keynote speakers for this year's WebWise conference. Watters will speak on the morning of March 8.
Watters is a writer who has worked in the education field for the past 15 years as a graduate student, college instructor, and program manager for an education technology nonprofit. Her work has appeared in Edutopia, MindShift, Fast Company, Inside Higher Ed, the School Library Journal, O'Reilly Radar, ReadWriteWeb, Campus Technology, and The Huffington Post, in addition to her own blog Hack Education.
Watters is a leading thinker on the intersection of education and digital technologies. A well-respected journalist whose work has appeared in print and across the web, Watters will offer WebWise participants her unique view of the shifting education technology terrain and the ways that libraries, archives, and museums might productively target their efforts to support learning in formal and informal venues.
A signature initiative of IMLS, the WebWise Conference annually brings together representatives of museums, libraries, archives, systems science, education, and other fields to explore the many opportunities made possible by digital technologies. WebWise highlights recent research and innovations in digital technology, explores their potential impacts on library and museum services, and promotes effective museum and library practices in a digital environment. It also provides recipients of technology-based grants from the Institute with an opportunity to showcase their exemplary projects.
Those seeking more information about the conference should visit the WebWise 2013 website, which also provides a registration form.
About the Institute of Museum and Library Services
The Institute of Museum and Library Services is the primary source of federal support for the nation's 123,000 libraries and 17,500 museums. Our mission is to inspire libraries and museums to advance innovation, lifelong learning, and cultural and civic engagement. Our grant making, policy development, and research help libraries and museums deliver valuable services that make it possible for communities and individuals to thrive. To learn more, visit http://www.imls.gov or follow @US_IMLS on Twitter.


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If you experience one of these issues with Back to My Mac, your router settings might be the cause:
- The Mac that you try to connect to might appear in the Finder sidebar, but you can't connect to it.
- The Mac might not appear in the sidebar at all.
- An alert might say, "Back to My Mac may be slow because more than one device on your network is providing network services." Get help with alerts.
Follow these steps for help
- Open Network Utility. Here's how:
- OS X Mavericks or later: Go to /System/Library/CoreServices/Applications. Or click to open Spotlight and type Network Utility.
- OS X Mountain Lion or earlier: From the menu bar, choose Go > Utilities. Double-click Network Utility.
- Enter "icloud.com" in the Traceroute tab, then click Trace.
- Find the line that begins with the number 2 in the results. In that line, if you see an IP address in one of these ranges, your network has a multiple-NAT configuration* and you should finish the steps in this article:
- 10.x.x.x
- 192.168.x.x
If you see an IP address that isn't in one of these ranges, get help with other Back to My Mac issues.
- Make sure that you have OS X Lion v10.7.5 or later.
- If a software update doesn't fix the issue, you need to turn off NAT* on a network device. Here's how:
- If you don't use a router made by Apple, or if you use a modem as a router, check the equipment's manual to learn how to turn off NAT.
- If you use an AirPort Base Station, follow these steps to turn off NAT:
- Choose Go > Utilities from the menu bar, then open AirPort Utility.
- Select your base station and click Edit in the pop-up menu.
- Click the Network tab, then choose "Off (Bridge mode)" from the Router menu.
- Click Update to restart the base station.
- After the base station restarts, make sure that your Internet works.
Still need help? Contact Apple Support or get help for other issues with Back to My Mac.
* Sometimes, connected routers provide too many layers of Network Address Translation (NAT), which creates a multiple-NAT configuration that interferes with Back to My Mac. For example, your cable modem might provide NAT. If you then connect an AirPort Base Station to the modem, your base station might provide another layer of NAT.


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Design has an impact on business
Our View - September 2011
- August 29, 2011
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The power of design separates winners from losers in business.
New technology gets a lot of attention, but the power of design is more subtle. Take a look at Apple Inc. Most people would categorize Apple as a hardware or a software company. Apple is actually a design company.
Think about its sources of competitive advantage. Apple products cost more than their competitors, and its software isn't necessarily compatible with other products, yet its stock price has appreciated more than 400 percent during the past five years.
People pay more for products that are well designed. Not only has Apple created sought-after products such as the iPod, iPhone and iPad, it virtually redesigned the business of how music is commercially sold with the iTunes Store.
Great design isn't just about products; it's about the design of the business itself. When you go into an Apple Store there are no visible cash registers. Sales associates process all transactions on handheld devices (actually the iPod Touch). Starting with the iPod and more recently with the iPhone and the iPad, Apple products have become signs of social significance for an entire generation.
On a more Virginia-specific level, think about the spectacularly renovated Virginia Museum of Fine Arts in Richmond or the Taubman Museum of Art in Roanoke. The power of these spaces isn't just about their art collections. These museums showcase innovation in their architectural design; they package art collections with restaurants and music, as well as community and corporate events to attract a greater audience.
The Virginia Beach Convention Center is another example of stunning design. Its profile cuts through the sky like a ship's prow, evoking the maritime focus of the Hampton Roads community.
Similarly, the National Museum of the Marine Corps in Quantico pierces the horizon as you drive by on I-95. The focal point of the building is a 210-
foot tilted mast, a design that symbolizes the Marines' role as the tip of our military spear while also recalling the iconic image of Marines raising the American flag on Iwo Jima.
At many companies, the executive suite now includes more than CEOs, CFOs and COOs. Chief Marketing Officers (CMOs) and Chief Technology Officers (CTOs) are increasingly common. What about Chief Design Officers (CDOs)? Companies like Lockheed Martin, Hewlett-Packard, Marathon Oil, Ford, Intel, Procter & Gamble, Segway and Caterpillar all have CDOs, but design as a discipline like finance in the executive suite is still relatively unusual and can be a source of untapped potential.
Business design extends to more than just product design, architecture and organizational structure. A commitment to sustainability is rapidly becoming a recruiting tool, especially for younger employees. The growth in LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) certified buildings provides both tangible and intangible benefits. Flextime, wireless communications and telecommuting are other expressions of the power of business design in today's workplace.
Another way of thinking about the design of business is through the lens of company values. What values does your organization stand for in the eyes of employees, suppliers and customers? How do these values differentiate you from competitors and in what ways do they make your company a more attractive place to work?
Branding is the result of emotional perceptions; business design operates on a similar level. Brands are built from customer experiences. Some experiences are intentional and others unintentional; some are positive and others negative. Like having a high-quality brand, conscious leadership in business design can lead to extraordinary performance.


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England players will receive £15,000-per-Test this year as part of a bumper new pay deal they have struck with the Rugby Football Union.
The four-year agreement does not contain any individual win bonuses, to reflect the egalitarian culture set by the head coach, Stuart Lancaster. Instead, the £15,000 lump sum paid to players in each 23-man matchday squad will comprise a £7,000 match fee, a £7,000 image-rights payment and a new £1,000 training fee.
The deal, negotiated by the Rugby Players' Association, represents a significant increase on the previous payments, which were a match fee of around £9,200 and a win bonus of approximately £3,000. There will be a fee for those who are selected for the summer tour of Argentina and additional pro-rata team bonuses that will be triggered based on England's performance.
"The new contract duly recognises the efforts made by all 33 of the senior EPS [elite player squad] as well as the increasing overall value of the players to the RFU and their partners," said the RPA chief executive, Damian Hopley.
"We look forward to working collaboratively with the England squad and the RFU to deliver these rights, and I would like to thank the England players committee for their invaluable and professional input throughout these good natured negotiations."
The RFU have also built in a special provision to cover the 2015 Rugby World Cup to ensure there is no repeat of the pay revolt that preceded the last tournament. The England squad disputed their pay levels in the build-up to the 2011 World Cup in New Zealand and that row led to some players threatening to boycott the official send-off dinner.
The RFU chief executive, Ian Ritchie, who took over at Twickenham after the World Cup, spoke to former England captain Lewis Moody during the current process and he was determined to ensure England's players felt fully backed by the union.
"I have no doubt about the importance of the relationship the RFU as a whole have with the players," Ritchie said. "That is the most significant part for me. One of my major purposes is to support them. We have to recognise the value of the players. It is a good deal for both sides.


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