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I am an average person -- good health and slightly overweight. Last year on a dare/challenge from a friend I rode my bicycle 50 miles without any previous training. I successfully completed the 50 miles, although I had extreme pain in my tailbone following the ride. I assumed this was temporary and continued to live my life. However, a year or so later it still has pain when I sit down. I'm not sure where to start besides seeing my normal doctor. Is this something that can be cured or could I have done lifelong damage to my tailbone?
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Dear Will,
I think you already know that strenuous exercise without proper preparation through training is not a good idea.
That being said, the medical term for pain in the tailbone is coccydynia. It is usually caused by trauma and it usually gets better with conservative therapy over a period of several weeks, but it can sometimes take several months for it to improve.
The coccyx is a projection at the base of the spine. It is made of bone, cartilage and fibers. The coccyx bears weight when a person is sitting.
Some of the muscles that control defecation attach to the coccyx, and there may be pain in the injured tailbone upon defecation and when tightening the anal sphincter.
There are no national incidence numbers for this condition, but pain in the tailbone is a rather common problem. A busy primary care doctor usually sees a few cases per year. It is far more prevalent in women than men. It is rare in children.
The most common cause is traumatic injury from a fall backwards into a sitting position. Other causes include repetitive minor trauma from sitting a long time. People not only get it from long bike rides, but from sitting in a car or plane for a prolonged period. Sitting on hard surfaces is more likely to cause it.
Women can get coccydynia through trauma during vaginal birthing.
Obesity is a major risk factor in men and women. The diagnosis of coccydynia is made through the patient's history of the pain and trauma and from physical examination.
On examination, the physician can usually reproduce the symptoms through direct pressure on the tailbone. Initial treatment is conservative, using nonsteroidal pain medications such as ibuprofen or naproxen; protection of the area with a donut or wedge pillow; and alternating applications of heat and cold packs.
Patients with pain after more than three months of good conservative therapy merit further evaluation which might include X-rays of the pelvis and tailbone.
A very few patients will need to be treated with injections of local anesthetic, or local anesthetic and steroids, directly into the tailbone area. In a very rare case of protracted pain without improvement, the tailbone can be surgically removed. This operation is called a coccygyectomy.
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This is why I need kids. Starting in November, Microsoft's new Xbox Live Gold Family Pack will change the way families pay for and play with Xbox Live. Instead of signing up for an account for each member of the family or relying on guest accounts, the new plan gives a household four memberships to assign.
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US: Arms Dealer Had Troubled History
awarded a contract worth up to nearly $300 million to a tiny Miami
Beach munitions dealer to supply ammunition to Afghanistan's army and police forces, it was in spite of a very checkered past.
A Congressional investigation
revealed on Tuesday that by the time the Army had awarded the bid,
State and Defense department officials had already canceled or delayed
at least five earlier contracts with the company, AEY Inc., for shoddy
quality or late deliveries.
But that information, including a botched $5.6 million order for 10,000 Beretta pistols for Iraq's
security forces, was either ignored or omitted from databases that
American military contracting officials use to weed out companies
suspected of involvement in illegal arms deals.
Congressional investigators found that the Afghanistan ammunition
contract may have been unnecessary: Bosnia, Bulgaria, Hungary and
Albania had offered to donate the same kind of Soviet-style rifle and
machine-gun cartridges that the Afghan forces use.
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its top executives charged last week with defrauding the government,
lawmakers on Tuesday assailed four State and Defense department
officials for what the legislators said was a case study in military
contracting gone terribly wrong.
The hearing of the House
Oversight and Government Reform Committee focused on a central question
posed by its chairman, Representative Henry A. Waxman,
Democrat of California: "How did a company run by a 21-year-old
president and a 25-year-old former masseur get a sensitive $300 million
contract to supply ammunition to Afghan forces?"
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question Federal and congressional authorities have been asking since
March, when the Army suspended any future federal contracting, citing
shipments of Chinese ammunition and claiming that the company's young
president, Efraim E. Diveroli, misled the Army by saying the munitions
were Hungarian.
Democrats and Republicans criticized Army
contracting officials, under pressure to arm Afghan troops, for
allowing a fledgling company to enter the murky world of international
arms dealing on the Pentagon's behalf -- and doing so with scant
vetting and vaguely written contracts with few restrictions.
response, Pentagon and State Department officials sought to defend
their contracting procedures, arguing that AEY repeatedly deceived
contracting officials or took advantage of loopholes in the Federal
contracting rules.
The officials said the Pentagon, and
specifically the Army, is reviewing how it orders foreign munitions and
supervises their quality, packaging and shipment. The military is also
planning to revamp how it vets Pentagon-sponsored deals in f foreign
arms procurement.
"We're going to do everything we can to ensure
this never happens again," said Brig. Gen. William N. Phillips,
commander of the Joint Munitions and Lethality Life Cycle Management
Command (cq).
But lawmakers were not mollified, angrily ticking
off a litany of problems plaguing the military's contracting process,
and the AEY contracts, in particular.
Pentagon officials, for
instance, never consulted a "watch list" of potential arms traffickers
compiled by the State Department, a list of 80,000 individuals and
companies that happened to include Mr. Diveroli and some middlemen the
company used to buy the suspect ammunition.
Under American law,
American dealers must disclose every entity involved in an arms
shipment overseas, including brokering, transportation and repackaging
companies. The State Department checks subcontractors and partners
against a watch list of entities suspected of involvement in illegal
arms deals.
But the law exempts federal agencies and
contractors working for them. Arms-trade researchers have complained
that many contractors supplying the wars, including AEY, have worked
with suspicious companies abroad, and that the Pentagon has not
screened their activities.
Then there was the parade of
previous contracts with AEY that were canceled or delayed, many of
which apparently never raised red flags with contracting officials
because they fell under the $5 million contract value that was the
threshold for warning.
In October 2005, for instance, AEY
delivered a shipment of damaged helmets to the American training
command in Iraq. One American inspector said in an e-mail message
obtained by the committee: "The helmets came to Abu Ghraib by mistake.
They are not very good. They have peeling paint and a few appear to
have been damaged such as having been dropped."
At about the
same time, the committee found, AEY failed to deliver more than 10,000
Beretta pistols under contract to Iraqi security forces. According to
the contracting officer, Mr. Diveroli's excuses for the tardy delivery
included a plane crash that destroyed important documents and a
hurricane that hit Miami.
In April 2005, U.S. Army Special Forces partly canceled a contract with AEY for ammunition, complaining of a failure to deliver "acceptable goods."
of which left lawmakers on Tuesday angry and puzzled how the Army could
miss tell-tale warning signs of trouble when it awarded AEY the Afghan
ammunition contract in January 2007.
"Obvious evidence of
consistently shoddy performance was somehow missed or ignored as
substandard or illegally-obtained munitions were apparently being sent
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Techies know that Boston packs a punch.
Even among heavyweights like New York and Silicon Valley, few cities can match what Boston brings to the ring. Anchored by top-tier research universities, littered with thousands of the nation's most promising undergraduate and graduate students and checkered with world-class hospitals and labs, Boston has long been a cherished destination for young entrepreneurs with game-changing ideas.
Of the people who know Boston best — the Harvard and MIT lecturers, the fiercely loyal venture capitalists and the incubator stalwarts — many say that even among its bountiful advantages, the city has one unmatchable, largely unspoken asset: Its propensity at all levels — from wildly successful founders to wide-eyed MIT students — to help others succeed in the city's startup ecosystem.
Mashable found 15 behind-the-scenes influencers and asked them about what makes the city a nerve center for tech startups — and what their favorite spots in Boston are, in case you happen to visit soon.
1. Jeffrey Bussgang, General Partner at Flybridge Capital Partners
Boston as a growing center of technological innovation and entrepreneurship:"The brainpower and the community in Boston is extraordinary. The core institutions of Harvard and M.I.T. and the core hospitals give Boston the highest density of super-smart people you can possibly find," says Bussgang, who is also a senior lecturer at Harvard Business School. "This is the most prideful startup culture you'll find. In Los Angeles, Hollywood dominates the culture, and in New York, the media and Wall Street dominate; but in Boston, the innovation community is the dominant culture.
Favorite Boston athlete: Dustin Pedroia, [second baseman of the Boston Red Sox]. He's 5-foot-9 and 165 pounds soaking wet, but he's incredibly hard-working and intense.
2. John Harthorne, Founder and CEO at MassChallenge
Boston's edge: The main advantage of Boston is the talent inside of it and the value of that talent. Through the university substructure, Boston produces thousands of talented and reasonably affordable graduates who focus on revolutionary ideas — big, game-changing, global ideas that aren't iterative improvements on existing technologies.
Favorite Boston landmark: I totally love Fenway [Park]. I had my first beer there.
3. Christina Chase, Entrepreneur-in-Residence at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
The beauty of Boston's entrepreneurial ecosystem: Boston has individuals who compete to have an impact and facilitate acceleration in their areas, but they also want to help others who are trying to make an impact. It's a very inclusive community where entrepreneurs make themselves accessible to younger teams so they can share knowledge and help them overcome problems.
Favorite restaurant in Boston: Craigie On Main [in Cambridge, Mass.]. They have a killer burger.
4. C.A. Webb, Executive Director at New England Venture Capital Association
Why entrepreneurs love Boston: There's a culture shift, and a lot of the New England chill has thawed out. The permeability amazes me. There's a spirit that if you're new to town, 'Let me send emails and introduce you to these five people.' I see this happening again and again. You can land in Boston coming from a university here, coming from another part of the country or shifting from a large company, and you're met with a welcome reception.
Favorite local attraction: Voltage Coffee & Art [in Cambridge, Mass.]. There are seven VCs and startup founders in there who I want to see and can get up to speed with. The place is coursing with energy and great people at all hours of the day.
5. Katie Rae, Managing Director at TechStars Boston
Breaking the stereotype: I hear all the time that we 'don't do consumer' and instead we do B2B companies. If you truly look at what's happening, we have an incredibly diverse ecosystem of startups that deal with hardware and software, front-end tech and ecommerce — all the way to deep algorithm companies, biotech and consumer healthcare. There are very few business models that early stage companies in Boston haven't tried. The lines are blurring.
Favorite Boston delicacy: Steamers. They're salty, New England goodness.
6. Tim Rowe, Founder and CEO at Cambridge Innovation Center
A home for early stage companies: Massachusetts is an intense place when it comes to new ventures and investment. It has more venture capital investment and research and development spending per capita than anywhere else in the world. Boston is also walkable, which is unique. You live in a city where the key resources you need — ideas, money and talent — are all around you.
Favorite Boston movie:"Next Stop Wonderland"
7. Andy Palmer, Founder of Koa Labs
Boston as a startup hub: The recent focus on Cambridge and downtown Boston instead of Route 128 has been transformational — a fait accompli. A renaissance has happened in Cambridge. The amount of tech talent on the Red Line is overwhelming. Increasingly, entrepreneurs find that if they stay in Boston, they get more time and attention within the community. There's less noise here and the loyalty of the tech talent is much better than anywhere else. If your city has an orientation where the talent sticks around, then you get a better product and better companies.
Favorite local bar:: Tory Row [in Cambridge, Mass.]. The food is terrific and the atmosphere is modern but not cliche. The staff are great people you love to hang out with.
8. Amir Nashat, Managing Partner at Polaris Partners
At the forefront of medical breakthroughs: The link in Boston between patients, unmet needs in tech, the innovations of the city's universities and medical centers and investment is coming together really nicely. Big pharma is moving research into Cambridge and Boston because they want to be where the action is, and local companies are doing well and launching drugs. IPOs are starting to come, too. More so than at any other time I've been investing in Boston, biotech is at the top of its game.
Favorite local restaurant:: Black Sheep Restaurant [at the Kendall Hotel in Cambridge, Mass.]. I've always had pleasurable conversations there and their big cups of chili will stick to your ribs.
9. Gordon Jones, Managing Director at Harvard Innovation Lab
Fostering innovation: I think of the universities as ways for first-time entrepreneurs to get experience in a way that they're resourced more deliberately and carefully than they'd be in a non-academic setting. They can be in a community with other first time entrepreneurs and ask questions and get answers from that community or other more formal programs — it's like an estuary: a birthplace where first-time entrepreneurs can get started and grow.
Favorite Boston athlete: Bobby Orr, [former Boston Bruins defenseman]. I love the creativity of hockey and how Orr was groundbreaking. He brought an unscripted style [to the game] that married offense and his defensive position, and he fought his way to legitimize this approach to his position.
10. Jules Pieri, Cofounder and CEO of The Grommet
The Boston tech ecosystem: There's an inherent strength in the size of the Boston startup community. It's like Goldilocks: Not too big, and not too small. It means you can — without ridiculous amounts of work — become known and know people. There's nobody here — not even leading investors or CEOs — who feel like they're above reaching behind themselves and pulling someone up. It's understood that we do that in Boston.
Favorite local getaway? Taking a ferry to one of the Boston Harbor Islands. Within seconds of hitting the water, your blood pressure goes down and the pace slows. You remember, "Yeah, Boston is kickass."
11. Emily Reichert, CEO of Greentown Labs
Transforming into a green tech hub: Green tech tends to get overshadowed in Boston because it's is such a hub for biotech, IT and robotics, but I don't think there's another place where the community of energy and clean tech professionals is so strong and giving of its time and resources. Some might say our VC scene isn't as big as Silicon Valley's, but you only have to look at organizations like Greentown Labs, the Massachusetts Clean Energy Center and the New England Clean Energy Council to see that there's a ton of green energy activity in Boston.
Favorite museum in Boston: The MIT Museum. It's fascinating to walk through and the exhibits draw you in.
12. Abby Fichtner, Hacker-in-Residence at Harvard Innovation Lab and Founder of Hack Boston
Taking care of its own: We have a huge culture of 'pay it forward' — how can we help someone else? If you're a student in Boston, you can reach out to any entrepreneur in Boston and say, "I'm interested in this; can you help me?" And people will go out of their way to help you. I'm not a fan of pay-to-pitch events or when people take advantage of our entrepreneurs, so a few of us got together and created Unpitch Boston — a totally free way for people to get into our tight-knit community.
Favorite local getaway: Artisan's Asylum [in Somerville, Mass.]. It's a humongous maker space where they have everything from classes on Raspberry Pi to woodworking classes; it's a space where people come together to make great stuff.
13. Dave Balter, Global Head of Investments at dunnhumby and CEO at Smarterer
Success begets success: There are people and true businesses here that have shareholder value written all over them. Rue La La did well, Wayfair is killing it, Care just went public and HubSpot, Acquia and DataXu are getting close. A company that succeeds gives its young to the community. The next great talent pool is now out in the market feeding new businesses.
Favorite off-the-beaten-path local joint: Mul's Diner [in South Boston, Mass.]. It's breakfast straight out of a Scorsese movie. You can only pay in cash and they talk to you like it's your last meal. You'd feel totally unsafe if there weren't 11 cops eating at the table next to you.
14. Ken Zolot, Senior Lecturer at MIT School of Engineering
Boston as a major disruptor: I'm now working on a partnership with the Berklee College of Music that allows students to learn about entrepreneurship so they can succeed in the disrupted music industry. If you add this into the mosaic, it makes a richer fabric to support young entrepreneurs. Boston has the original yankee ingenuity; its founders built a new land from scratch in the 1620s, so shouldn't we be doing it again? It's in Boston's DNA to be a disruptor.
Favorite local museum: The Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston. Great museum architecture and diversity of art and performances.
15. Jeff Fagnan, Partner at Atlas Venture
A comeback decade: New England kind of disappeared following the telecom bubble burst around 2005. Now, though, groups are willing to write checks for really early stage teams who only have a prototype. For the first time in decades, we have a cohesive community. A nucleus is starting to come back into Boston and as you start to have a nucleus, more and more people come to it — we have companies coming from Israel, Canada, Washington, D.C., Baltimore and Florida. It's becoming like Ellis Island — a melting pot.
Favorite Boston grub spots: Anna's Taqueria and Boca Grande Taqueria. I'm fairly addicted to those.
If you're in Boston, join us at a travel-themed hackathon, where you can win a trip to Dubai.
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Dominique Strauss-Kahn's arrest reveals the underside of the discreet French approach to the private lives of public figures. But the Arnold Schwarzenegger scandal shows Americans don't know how to deal with the messy confluence of sex and politics either, says Michelle Goldberg. Plus, Bernard-Henri Levy defends Strauss-Kahn and the latest news updates on DSK.
So this is the dark side of the famed French sexual sophistication. For decades now, American liberals, myself included, have bought into the notion that the discreet French approach to the private lives of public figures is superior to America's tabloid Puritanism. Often, after all, the same qualities that make men effective leaders—ambition, grandiosity, love of power, and an unquenchable hunger for affection—make them bad husbands. The French system of accommodating this complexity seemed admirable, especially during the years when Bill Clinton was nearly hounded out of office for a seedy but consensual affair.
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But the aftermath of Dominique Strauss-Kahn's arrest puts the French approach in a rather different light. Rather than evidence of liberality, the silence that protected Strauss-Kahn seems like a conspiracy allowing a powerful man to prey on powerless women. And the apologists for Strauss-Kahn, like the egregious Bernard-Henri Levy, reveal themselves not as worldly humanists, but as members of a narcissistic clique with a monstrous sense of entitlement.
In a piece published, alas, in The Daily Beast, Levy, erstwhile defender of admitted rapist Roman Polanski, declared himself outraged by the treatment his friend Strauss-Kahn was subjected to after his arrest on charges of attempted rape, sexual abuse, and unlawful imprisonment. "[N]othing in the world can justify a man being thus thrown to the dogs," he wrote. If Levy wanted to argue that the American justice system is brutal to all those caught up in it, that it treats people in a way at odds with the presumption of innocence, he'd have a point. But his argument wasn't so universal. Instead, he raged at "the American judge who, by delivering him to the crowd of photo hounds, pretended to take him for a subject of justice like any other." As opposed to what? If our criminal justice system is indeed refusing to accord special treatment to a rich and powerful foreign official accused of attacking a maid, surely that is to its immense credit. That Levy believes otherwise should forever disqualify him as a credible champion of democracy.
Levy insists that Strauss-Kahn cannot be guilty of the crimes he is accused of, because, well, he knows him. "[O]bviously no, it's absurd," he writes. The Guardian quoted Socialist MP Jean-Marie Le Guen making a similar argument: "Seduction, yes, but no way would he use constraint or violence." Yet we've now learned that Strauss-Kahn has been accused of constraint and violence before, and that in certain circles, his penchant for harassment was an open secret. A young journalist claims he attempted to rape her, though at the time her politically connected mother convinced her not to press charges. And The New York Times reported that a previous lover of his, one of his subordinates, felt coerced into their affair. "I was damned if I did and damned if I didn't," she wrote in a letter to IMF investigators, describing her boss as "a man with a problem that may make him ill-equipped to lead an institution where women work under his command."
Strauss-Kahn, it is true, has not been convicted of anything. His friends have every right to hope that facts will emerge to clear him. But Levy's protestations against public smearing are pretty hollow, given that he is casting aspersions on Strauss-Kahn's accusers. First he insinuates that there's something suspicious about the maid's story. "I do not know—but, on the other hand, it would be nice to know, and without delay—how a chambermaid could have walked in alone, contrary to the habitual practice of most of New York's grand hotels of sending a 'cleaning brigade' of two people, into the room of one of the most closely watched figures on the planet," he writes. This claim is not true, as approximately five minutes of research would have revealed. "[E]ven at luxury hotels, it's extremely rare that two people would clean a room at once," says Annemarie Strassel of UNITE HERE, the hotel workers union.
Bernard-Henri Levy insists that Strauss-Kahn cannot be guilty of the crimes he is accused of, because he knows him. "[O]bviously no, it's absurd," he writes.
Levy then attacks Strauss-Kahn's other alleged victim, the journalist "who pretends to have been the victim of the same kind of attempted rape, who has shut up for eight years but, sensing the golden opportunity, whips out her old dossier and comes to flog it on television." What Levy objects to, then, is not people prejudging the figures in a scandal. It is people prejudging those he personally esteems when they are figures in a scandal.
One cannot (entirely) blame France for Bernard-Henri Levy, of course. But numerous reports suggest his stance is not anomalous. As the French journalist Isabelle Germain wrote in The Guardian, "[T]he media reaction to the attempted rape charge confirms that when a rape or sexual assault is reported, the alleged perpetrator quickly morphs into victim—and vice versa…DSK's behavior towards women is talked about as if it wasn't harassment, but a game of seduction. And if we finally start talking about his alleged victim, it's to suggest she was a honeytrap."
It is tempting, given all this, to feel a bit smug about the relative forthrightness of the American media regarding the sex lives of politicians. But the new Arnold Schwarzenegger scandal should put that to rest. Schwarzenegger, of course, has a history of sexual harassment. In 2003, The Los Angeles Times published the stories of 16 women who'd been "sexually mistreated and humiliated" by the actor, stories he tried to minimize but never denied. That same year, he waxed rhapsodic about the fun of making Terminator 3: "How many times do you get away with this—to take a woman, grab her upside down and bury her face in a toilet bowl?"
Yet somehow none of this discredited Schwarzenegger in Hollywood or politics. He barely even had to answer for it. Now his divorce and out-of-wedlock child are getting more attention than those accusations ever did. Some people even seem shocked by his behavior. The whole thing combines a French disregard for sexual predation with our own culture of uptight sensationalism.
There has got to be a better way to deal with the messy confluence of sex and politics. It shouldn't be complicated: sexual peccadilloes should be private, but sexual violence and coercion should not. Somehow, though, we can hardly ever get it right. And neither, it seems, can the French.
Michelle Goldberg is a journalist based in New York. She is the author of The New York Times bestseller Kingdom Coming: The Rise of Christian Nationalism and The Means of Reproduction: Sex, Power and the Future of the World, winner of the 2008 J. Anthony Lukas Work-in-Progress Award and the Ernesta Drinker Ballard Book Prize. Goldberg's work has appeared in Glamour, Rolling Stone, The Nation, New York magazine, The Guardian (UK) and The New Republic. Her third book, about the world-traveling adventuress, actress and yoga evangelist Indra Devi, will be published by Knopf in 2012.


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An international consortium of genetics experts has issued a consensus statement recommending chromosomal microarray (CMA) as the new standard practice for genetic evaluation of children with unexplained developmental delay, autism or birth defects.
The statement and a related research review are published in the May 14, 2010 issue of the American Journal of Human Genetics.
"CMA gives us a huge improvement in the diagnostic yield of genetic testing and in our ability to counsel parents about why their child has developmental disability or multiple congenital anomalies," says David Ledbetter, PhD, Woodruff professor and director of the Division of Medical Genetics at Emory University School of Medicine. Ledbetter heads the International Standard Cytogenomic Array Consortium (ISCA), a group of clinical genetics laboratories and genomics experts focused on standardizing the collection of cytogenetic data.
"Our consortium statement should help set the new standard of care for genetic evaluation of children with unexplained developmental delays and other birth defects, and should be a major step forward in using modern genomic technology in a clinical setting," Ledbetter says.
Clinical genetic testing is a standard diagnostic practice for testing children with unexplained developmental delay/intellectual disability, autism spectrum disorders and multiple congenital anomalies. These disorders account for the largest proportion of genetic testing because of their high prevalence in the population. Developmental delay/intellectual disability is present in about three percent of the population, and autism spectrum disorders affect approximately one in 150 people.
Previous guidelines have recommended testing with G-banded karyotyping, a type of chromosome testing that was first developed in the early 1970s. These tests allow geneticists to visualize and analyze chromosomes for imbalances, including deletions and duplications of genetic regions (copy number variations) that can be inherited or represent new mutations during sperm or egg development. Some copy number variations are common and benign, while others are associated with disease or developmental disorders.
The human genome project allowed geneticists to develop chromosomal microarray (CMA), also referred to as molecular karyotyping. Various forms of CMA have been used by an increasing number of geneticists, pediatric neurologists and developmental pediatricians over the past several years to evaluate children with developmental disorders. However, uniform best practice guidelines have not yet been issued by professional societies for the routine use of CMA as a first tier test.
"A karyotype to scan for chromosome problems is already a well accepted standard of care for these patients," says the article's first author, David Miller, MD, PhD, of the Division of Genetics and Department of Laboratory Medicine at Children's Hospital Boston. "CMA is a more powerful chromosome scan, so we believe it makes even more sense to do a CMA test in the majority of patients."
The ISCA conducted a literature review of 33 studies, including 21,698 patients tested with CMA, and compared CMA to G-banded karyotyping. They found that CMA consistently has a diagnostic yield of 15 to 20 percent, compared to approximately five percent with G-banded karyotyping. The higher yield of CMA is due primarily to its higher sensitivity for submicroscopic copy number variations.
The ISCA organized two workshops, beginning in 2008, to analyze the research data and develop the consensus opinion. Sufficient research data now exists, the consortium reports, to support CMA as the first frontline test in the evaluation of any child with unexplained, non-syndromic developmental delay, intellectual disability or autism. CMA should replace the G-banded karyotype, which has been the standard for 30 to 40 years, the group recommends.
"We hope that our statement, which represents many different institutions and many different clinicians and laboratory experts, will provide other professional organizations the background scientific data to endorse the conclusions of our group or to make their own evaluation of the data and clinical utility," says Ledbetter.
A third ISCA workshop this June in Bethesda, Md., will include clinicians, clinical labs, genomics and bioinformatics experts, as well as representatives from the top vendors developing chromosomal microarray technology and software for analysis.
Using a Grand Opportunities "GO" grant from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) through the NIH, the ISCA has been developing a central public database of chromosomal microarray data from clinical labs. That database, which will be housed at the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) at NIH, is expected to include approximately 200,000 patient samples over the next two years that will be used to develop standard guidelines for interpretation of CMA tests.
The database also will be used to develop additional summary recommendations and allow the ISCA to work with vendors to make interpretation guidelines and software tools available to all clinical testing labs and to clinicians who want to better understand and interpret the laboratory data from their patients.
The ISCA now has a membership of more than 100 clinical cytogenetics laboratories that will contribute genotype and phenotype data to the central database at NCBI. The consortium will continue to collect and analyze data from the pediatric population and compare it to normal copy number variation data from other large databases and continue to refine maps of pathogenic vs. benign copy number variation in the human genome.
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Then the car seemed to drive itself past the house where we celebrated baby's first Christmas. This house was the first place we had ever tried to buy. In the end, the deal didn't work out and, as I sat in my car across the street and admired their Christmas decorations, I remembered how heartsick I was to lose that house. Not such happy memories.
For some, returning home for the holidays brings up the best reminiscences. For others, it stirs up regret as long forgotten experiences surface. A few avoid going home altogether. Many brace themselves and push ahead. But there is a way to go home that can be healing, progressive and leave you in a better place afterward.
At Christmastime, we may find ourselves chasing after those shadows, or running away from them, unless we take to heart the spiritual lessons to be learned from our personal experiences, and move on in the light and fullness of the present good of God.
Eddy explained, "The heavenly intent of earth's shadows is to chasten the affections, to rebuke human consciousness and turn it gladly from a material, false sense of life and happiness, to spiritual joy and true estimate of being."
But the question naturally arises, how do we do it? How can we effectively let a material, false sense go and reclaim for ourselves spiritual joy and a true estimate of our lives?
- Don't get caught up in the "storytelling" - mental or verbal - that rehearses past errors. "Mere historic incidents and personal events are frivolous and of no moment, unless they illustrate the ethics of Truth. To this end, but only to this end, such narrations may be admissible and advisable..." (ibid.)
- If you do revisit your "story" remember that the only thing real or permanent in it is your spiritual growth in good, compassion and love. Yesterday is like a swimmer's wall - it's not a barrier or limit, but an excellent push off point, with momentum, in a good direction today.
- Let this trip home, even if it is more mental than physical, be progressive. Don't go back. Go forward to embrace your past. The only thing that counts about yesterday is the understanding, growth and love that you bring to it today.
It isn't always easy to go home, but it can be healing, to the extent that we are open to the spiritual lessons of divine Love waiting for us. Eddy wrote, understanding the difficulties, "The awakening from a false sense of life, substance, and mind in matter, is as yet imperfect; but for those lucid and enduring lessons of Love which tend to this result, I bless God." (ibid.)
Any experience can be a push off point to renew our love and love more - to experience afresh God's love. As John said, "There is no fear in love, but perfect love casteth out fear." (I John 4:18)
Let God's love lead you home this Christmas and take care of you while you are there.
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During his State of the Union address, Obama mentioned the signing and called for Congress to take action to protect the nation's critical infrastructure from cyberattacks.
On Tuesday, Feb. 12, President Obama signed an executive order on cybersecurity -- an order that aims to increase cyber defenses of our nation's critical infrastructure, improve information sharing about cyberthreats between the public and private sectors, and establish a framework of cybersecurity best practices.
There has been talk of such an order since August 2012, following the Cybersecurity Act's failure to pass in Congress. Obama signaled he may invoke his power of executive order to pass similar legislation, and on Sept. 19, 2012, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said the executive order on cybersecurity was "close to completion."
But it wasn't quite ready back then, and the White House worked on crafting the order for the last several months, The Hill reported.
Then, during Obama's State of the Union address the evening of Feb. 12, he referenced the severity of cyberattacks.
"We know hackers steal people's identities and infiltrate private email. We know foreign countries and companies swipe our corporate secrets," Obama said during his address. "Now our enemies are also seeking the ability to sabotage our power grid, our financial institutions, and our air traffic control systems."
He also referenced the executive order's recent signing, and then called upon Congress to act.
"We cannot look back years from now and wonder why we did nothing in the face of real threats to our security and our economy. That's why, earlier today, I signed a new executive order that will strengthen our cyberdefenses by increasing information sharing, and developing standards to protect our national security, our jobs, and our privacy," Obama said. "Now, Congress must act as well, by passing legislation to give our government a greater capacity to secure our networks and deter attacks."
According to The New York Times, the order will allow companies that oversee infrastructure such as dams, electrical grids and financial institutions to join an experimental program that provides real-time reports about cyberthreats. Companies will also be given advice to follow to prevent attacks. The executive order further specifies that government agencies that play a role in cybersecurity will have their responsibilities more clearly defined.
Finally, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and the National Institute of Standards and Technology [NIST] will work with industry to develop a framework for cybersecurity standards for critical infrastructure entities, said James Arden Barnett Jr., former chief of the FCC's Public Safety and Homeland Security Bureau and senior vice president for the Potomac Institute for Policy Studies' National Security Policy.
"The process run by the National Institute of Standards and Technology will incorporate the thoughts, best practices and methodologies of companies and stakeholders from every critical infrastructure sector," said Barnett, who is now a partner and co-chair of telecom in the law firm Venable, working in its cybersecurity practice. "This process will result in voluntary industry standards, best practices and methods for cybersecurity, but in doing so, America may come to expect a level of performance for cybersecurity of each company within that sector."
The NIST process, Barnett said, is designed to solicit industry and stakeholder participation. "And companies and associations would do well to monitor and participate in the process," he said, adding that an NIST request for information will be issued shortly, with workshops to follow as soon as April 2013.
And the executive order will not do everything, Barnett said. It does not grant federal agencies and departments any new powers. It is not a substitution for legislation, which is why the Obama administration is still pushing for Congress to pass a cybersecurity bill.
"Everyone acknowledges that legislation will be necessary to do what is effective," he said. "That includes providing protections for companies to share information, limitations of liability for protecting their networks, privacy protections for customers and stakeholders, addressing supply chain threats and ensuring that agencies have the authority needed to prevent and prosecute cybercrime."
And members of Congress in both the House and Senate either have reintroduced -- or plan to reintroduce -- similar legislation in this congressional session, according to InformationWeek. But at least this is a start.
"Since no one is able to predict when legislation for effective cybersecurity will pass, the [executive order] is a reasonable start," Barnett said. "But it is just a start to the process."
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First Look: Paul Virant's New Menu at J. Parker
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Note: First Looks give previews of new dishes, drinks, and menus we're curious about. Since they are arranged photo shoots and interviews with restaurants, we do not make critical evaluations or recommendations.
The J. Parker opened on the 13th floor of Hotel Lincoln in the summer, and the lounge quickly became known for having one of the most dramatic rooftop decks in the city (mostly thanks unobstructed views of Lincoln Park, the lake, and the skyscrapers of River North). While the beverage director Erin Hayes put together an impressive drink list, the food menu basically tried to stay out of the way. In fact, guests were supposed to mix and match items from different categories to create their own dish. But now that summer is long gone, and the outdoor space no longer of much use, the J. Parker decided that it wanted to be both a great place to drink and a destination spot for dinner.
To do that, chef Paul Virant created a new menu of composed dishes. Like Perennial Virant, his excellent restaurant on the ground floor of the hotel, it features a mix of fresh vegetables, pickled things, and local meat and fish. But what differentiates J. Parker is its focus on small plates, which also means that it is now the most approachable and affordable way to experience Virant's cooking.
We took the elevator up to the 13th floor to check out some of the new dishes you'll be able to find at J. Parker. Check them all out on the slideshow.
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Mac Miller helps grant wish for teen with cancer
Bobby Stewart, famous rapper working on track together
Mac Miller came from Pittsburgh and became one of the biggest superstars across the nation, but the rapper never forgot his roots.
On Monday, Miller helped grant one incredible wish for a teenager who is been battling a life-threatening disease.
Miller does much of his creating at ID Labs in Lawrenceville, but this week, he's creating a wish for a very courageous young man.
Bobby Stewart, 18, of Fox Chapel, suffers from T-cell lymphoma. His stage name is Yung Ka, and he has a rap about cancer and a wish for Miller to mentor him.
"To be with Mac is a blessing," Stewart said. "His lyrics are amazing. Hip hop is my passion. To be able to be with Mac Miller… he is a Pittsburgh legend... Wiz Khalifa shoutout."
The two met last December when Miller, a Point Breeze native, gave $50,000 to the Make-A-Wish Foundation.
"Feeling like your music really does something for the world makes it all worth it, no matter what," Miller said. "From now on, no matter what happens for the rest of my life, no one can take that away from me."
Miller and Stewart are now working together on a new track.
Stewart's parents said they're full of gratitude for Miller and the Make-A-Wish Foundation.
"(They've) given so much hope, brought so much into his life," Traci Stewart said.


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How to suppress telemarketing calls on the iPhone
There are few first-world problems as infuriating as spammy telemarketing calls. Sadly, carrier networks don't seem to have their interests aligned with customers enough to prevent the wasting of our voice minutes, not to mention our life minutes, and iOS doesn't make blocking calls or messages easy either. And, of course, they always seem to come in just as we're sitting down to eat, relax, or in my case, while traveling so I can get stuck paying exorbitant roaming fees as well. Luckily, developer David Smith was annoyed enough to find a work around.
I hate getting called by telemarketers or other spammers on my iPhone. I get relatively few calls each day so when one happens it tends to attract my attention quite strongly. Things like the Do Not Call registry can help but they cannot eliminate the problem of getting these spam calls.
Check out his solution. It's smart, and it could likely be applied to other tele-annoyances as well...
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Recipe from Nalini Mantripragada of Calif.
Wash okra and dry them. Cut them as small thin round circles. Crush chilies, cumin, and cilantro together and keep it aside. Then you heat the pan and add oil and cut okra in it. Let it saute until they are cooked and not sticking together. Then you put the chili paste in and mix it. Keep it on stove until you smell the aroma of the ingredients. Then you can sprinkle salt and take it off from the heat. This side dish tastes good with freshly cooked rice or roll it with any kind of bread and eat it.
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Chickpea, Pumpkin, and Raisin Couscous Recipe
Dinner recipes that will keep your stomach and wallet happy from Cara and Phoebe of Big Girls, Small Kitchen
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14 ounces boxed chopped tomatoes: $2.00
1 cup dried chickpeas: $0.75
2 cups squash (pro-rated): $1.50 1 medium zucchini: $0.60 2 cups whole wheat couscous: $2.00
Pantry items: Ginger, cumin, paprika, turmeric, cayenne, olive oil, cinnamon stick, onion, raisins, vegetable or chicken stock, salt, cilantro, parsley, harissa or other hot sauce.
Total cost (for 4 portions): $6.85
As I dished up this couscous, my heart sank: it looked like many other vegetable stews that had disappointed me in the past with their tasteless chunks of watery squash and air of grimly determined healthiness. I had recently been thinking of how Madhur Jaffrey's World Vegetarian never lets me down, and I figured I was paying some kind of karmic price for being foolishly faithful.
Well, the faith lives! I don't know if it was the spice blend or the cooking method, but this dish was fragrant, deliciously various, and satisfying in every way. Although I had been too lazy to chop cilantro and parsley and did not have any harissa, in my opinion it shone even without garnishes. I didn't have it in me to make a salad, either, but some simply dressed romaine or a grated carrot salad would be nice here.
The recipe increases well. Make a double batch of the stew, put half in the freezer, and eat it later with freshly-cooked couscous. Although I cook my own chickpeas (cheaper!), canned should be fine here. Powdered stock is probably fine, too, but I used a "stock" I had made simply by simmering a couple of leftover chicken bones with a handful of parsley stems, a halved onion, and a smashed clove of garlic.
Chickpeas, Pumpkin, and Raisins with Couscous
- Yield:4
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- 1 teaspoon ground ginger
- 1 teaspoon ground cumin
- 1 teaspoon ground paprika
- 1/4 teaspoon ground turmeric
- 1/4 teaspoon cayenne
- Olive oil
- 1 cinnamon stick, about 2 inches
- 1 medium onion, peeled and cut into fine half rings
- 3 medium tomatoes (12 ounces), peeled and finely chopped (I used canned)
- 2 cups cooked, drained chickpeas
- 2 heaped cups peeled, seeded pumpkin or butternut squash cut into 1-inch dice
- 2 tablespoons raisins
- 3 1/2 cups vegetable or chicken stock
- Salt
- 1 cup zucchini cut into 1/2-inch dice
- 2 cups whole wheat couscous
- 1 tablespoon finely chopped cilantro
- 1 tablespoon finely chopped parsley
- Harissa (or sambal or any chile-garlic sauce)
Combine the spices in a small cup and set aside.
Put the oil in a largish saucepan and set over medium-high heat. When it is hot, put in the cinnamon stick. Stir for a few seconds and then add the onion. Stir and fry for about 3 minutes, or until the onion is medium brown (I fried the onion for almost 10 minutes). Now stir in the cup of mixed spices; almost right away, add the tomatoes. Stir and cook for 3 to 4 minutes, or until the tomatoes have softened.
Add the chickpeas, pumpkin or squash, raisins, stock, and salt and bring to a simmer. Cover, turn the heat to low, and cook for 13 to 15 minutes, until the pumpkin is just tender when pierced with the point of a knife. Add the zucchini and simmer uncovered for another 5 minutes, stirring gently now and then.
While the vegetables simmer, make the couscous. Bring 2 cups of water to a boil. When it is about to boil, heat a tablespoon of olive oil over a medium flame and toast the couscous in it for 2 to 3 minutes. Pour the boiling water into the pot of couscous, add a teaspoon of salt, and stir once. Immediately cover the pot, turn the heat to low, and cook very gently for 5 minutes. Remove the pot from the heat and let it sit somewhere warm, still covered, for 15 minutes.
To serve, stir the cilantro and parsley into the finished vegetables. Fluff the couscous thoroughly with a fork. Put a mound of couscous on each plate. Make a well in the center and use a slotted spoon to fill it with solids from the stew. Dampen the couscous generously with the liquids. Pass harissa or other hot sauce on the side.
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INDIANAPOLIS, Monday, July 9, 2012 – Following an exciting day of NASCAR Nationwide Series practice at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, runners and walkers will take to the track for the inaugural Hauler Hustle 4K at the Brickyard on Thursday, July 26.
The Hauler Hustle 4K at the Brickyard starts at 6:30 p.m., and the 2.5-mile course will use portions of the famed IMS oval and road circuit, which will host four different racing series July 26-29 during the inaugural Kroger Super Weekend at the Brickyard. The run/walk will feature age-group awards, random drawings for Kroger Super Weekend at the Brickyard tickets and a festival before and after the event offering food and beverages.
Registration is $20, and packet pickup will take place from 6-8 p.m. Wednesday, July 25 at BlueMile Broad Ripple at 1079 Broad Ripple Ave., in Indianapolis. Late registration will be $25 and will begin July 25. Late registration and packet pickup on Race Day will take place in the lobby of the IMS Administration Building beginning at 5 p.m.
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The Hauler Hustle 4K at the Brickyard is part of an expanded schedule of fan activities July 26 that includes the fourth annual Hauler Parade, featuring more than 40 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series team haulers parked on Main Street between 10th and 15th streets in Speedway, Ind., starting at 6 p.m.
Admission is free to the Hauler Parade, which also includes a media pit stop contest, live music, a Kids Zone, and food specials and extended hours provided by Main Street vendors. The top finishers from the Hauler Hustle 4K at the Brickyard also will receive their awards at 7:45 p.m. at the Hauler Parade stage on Main Street.
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IMS will be the epicenter of American stock car racing and North American sports car racing July 26-29 as the NASCAR Nationwide Series and GRAND-AM Road Racing will join the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series for four exciting races during the inaugural Kroger Super Weekend at the Brickyard.
It will be the first time in IMS history that races will take place on the 2.5-mile oval and 2.534-mile Grand Prix road course during the same weekend, and the NASCAR Nationwide Series and GRAND-AM Road Racing will make their IMS debuts. The weekend will culminate on Sunday, July 29 with the running of the 19th annual Crown Royal Presents the "Your Hero's Name Here" 400 at the Brickyard powered by BigMachineRecords.com.
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Righting the ship was just what the doctor ordered for Dan Hornbuckle (22-3 MMA, 3-1 BFC) with his August 2010 win over UFC veteran Brad Blackburn.
After ending up on the wrong end of a unanimous decision to Ben Askren in the Bellator season-two welterweight tournament final in his previous bout, a bounce back victory was needed and attained.
It was important for Hornbuckle to regain his mojo and have some momentum heading into the forthcoming season-four tournament.
"That was a big win for me," Hornbuckle recently told MMAjunkie.com Radio (www.mmajunkie.com/radio). "I know losing two in a row is never the hot setup. I knew that coming out of the gate after the finals last year and making an impressive statement against a very seasoned, very tough Brad Blackburn would get me right back in the mix of things."
The victory solidified his presence in the upcoming tournament alongside Jay Hieron, Rick Hawn, Chris Lozano, Jim Wallhead, Lyman Good, Anthony Lapsley and Brent Weedman.
Weedman (17-5-1 MMA, 3-0 BFC) and Hornbuckle square off in one of the quarterfinal bouts on the main card at Bellator 35, which takes place Saturday night at the Tachi Palace Hotel and Casino in Lemoore, Calif. MTV2 features the main card live.
From top to bottom, the welterweight talent pool has increased considerably in comparison to the season-two configuration. Bellator was extremely active in pursuing a solid mixture of quality veterans and up-and-coming prospects to co-mingle.
"All the sudden it got a lot more tough," Hornbuckle said. "The way this is stacking up it is probably one of the best tournaments that any company has ever put together. Well, I guess the heavyweights with Strikeforce are pretty damn good now, but along the lines of welterweights, this is pretty damn tough the way it is built."
The fact that he's been through the process before can only be an asset. After all, the tournament format is a unique animal. One of the most important things you can do is to find a way to take care of your body throughout.
"Last season, I was pretty fortunate and got out of the ring in under a minute or two minutes each fight and didn't take that much damage," he said. "I was really back in the gym the Monday or Tuesday of the following week.
"I was actually very surprised on how my body did hold up, especially training down at the main camp at [American Top Team] with all those unpaid fights, then fighting once a month on the competitive end. It held up real well. I guess the main thing is just to minimize the damage taken during it, because you know you're going to have to go through at minimum three months of competing."
At this point, Hornbuckle is simply counting down the hours before he can step back into the cage. He's anxious and excited to begin his quest towards capturing the tournament crown.
"I am out for blood as soon as possible," he said. "I want to get out of this ring. I guess that's another strategy – get in and out of that ring as soon as possible and move on to the next round. Something's going to get finished, and it's going to be Brent.
"I'm not a trash-talker. That's not trash. That's just being confident. It's not cocky. It's borderline. It's teetering. Here's my prediction: first round. Boom! That just happened."
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Israeli forces shot and killed Tharwat al-Sharawi, 72 after an alleged vehicle attack in Halhul, north of Hebron on Friday.
Haaretz reported that the woman attempted to run over Israeli soldiers in Halhul and was shot and seriously wounded by Israeli forces.
No Israeli were reported injured.
Five Palestinians were also injured during clashes in Hebron on Friday.
According to Ma'an News Agency, four Palestinians were hit with 0.22 bullets in the lower extremities while one person was shot in the head with a rubber-coated steel bullet.
Following these incidents, three Israelis were wounded in two shooting attacks in less than two hours in Hebron.
In a statement on twitter, the IDF confirmed two Israelis had been shot at the Ibrahimi Mosque and forces were searching the area. An hour later, another Israeli was shot and severely injured near Beit Einun, north of Hebron.
Also on Friday, a 23 year old Palestinian man, identified as Salameh Moussa Abu Jame, was shot and killed by Israeli forces during clashes near Khan Younis in the Gaza Strip.
On Thursday, Israeli forces shot and killed Malik Talal al-Shareef, 25, after he allegedly attempted to stab an Israeli soldier in the Gush Etzion settlement close to Bethlehem.
More than 75 Palestinians have been killed and 2617 more injured with live and rubber coated bullets since early October. At least 9 Israelis have been killed in the same period.
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ATLANTA – He sat at a locker devoid of a jersey, responding to questions to which he had no answers.
Lou Williams, the former 76ers guard, has no idea when he'll return to the lineup for the Atlanta Hawks. A torn ACL in his right knee made sure of that.
Williams finished second in Sixth Man of the Year award voting last season for the Sixers, who allowed their leading scorer to walk in free agency. That's behind him. Even if he can't play, Williams is entrenched in helping the Hawks get into the playoffs.
'I'm locked in on where I am here and focused on these guys still trying to make a playoff run,' Williams said Wednesday, before his new team hosted his former team at Philips Arena.
Williams, who tore his ACL Jan. 21, underwent surgery at the facility of orthopaedic surgeon James Andrews in Birmingham, Ala. For all the energy that vacated his body when he was felled by the season-ending injury, the effervescent guard said it was restored when he had other rehabbing athletes around him.
'It was encouraging, being able to spend time when I went to do my surgery. I spent some time around RGIII (Redskins quarterback Rober Griffin III), spent some time around (South Carolina running back) Marcus Lattimore, those guys who have been dealing with those injuries and trying to come back with success.
'I was watching (Lattimore) doing his thing like it was another day at the office.'
Because of his rehab schedule, Williams said he doesn't have too much time to keep up on the Sixers' goings-on. He said he gets his updates from two outlets.
'I only read what pops up on HoopsHype. Other than that, it's what me and my man Evan (Turner) talk about,' Williams said.
And what's the subject of those conversations?
'That's confidential, you know,' Williams said. 'That's my friend and we were teammates for a while. We have very open, candid conversations about everything.'
Aside from Williams, another reunion of sorts took part Wednesday.
Hawks great Dominique Wilkins got a chance to spend some time in pregame with his nephew, Sixers guard/forward Damien Wilkins.
'When he's in town, when I'm in Philly, you get uncle-nephew time. You have to make time for that,' said Dominique, Atlanta's vice president of basketball.
Dominique, the NBA Hall of Famer whose number is retired by the Hawks, made a name for himself as a tremendous dunker. He said he can't take credit for Damien's skills.
'That boy can get off the floor. He's not bad. Not bad,' the uncle said. 'He used to be a shy kid growing up, and seeing how he grew into this defensive-minded kid who plays hard. It's just kind of funny and good to see how he evolved into a nice player in this league.'
Guard Nick Young did not make the trip with the Sixers, staying home to rehab his sprained left ankle. He will have missed six games by the time the team returns home for Monday's game against visiting Brooklyn.
The Sixers were largely spectators at the trade deadline a month ago, though one offer – confirmed to have been on the table – had Atlanta sending Josh Smith to Philly for Turner and Spencer Hawes.
It never went through, though Smith offered his opinion on it.
'I really didn't pay much attention to everything that was in the media,' said Smith, who's got an expiring contract. 'I knew that there were discussions. … I can't say specifically what the teams were, I really can't. But I don't really want to talk about that right now. That's not my concern. My concern is getting into the playoffs and getting as high as we can get (seeding) and take it from there.'


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Years ago, I had installed Skype on various computers thinking that I'd jump into the whole using my computer for VoIP calling either as a supplement to doing VoIP using ATA's or successor. It revived buying webcams and/or headsets on my newer computers. I bought a webcam for my dad. But, he never used it.
And, I've never really used any of the many new webcams I keep buying either. But, recently I've met some friends on line that are into chatting online using Skype. I did do it once, and it was a strange experience actually talking to people....rather than the usual type into a window or web form chatting that I'm accustom to for online chat. But, they weren't into the webcam feature of Skype, so I don't know if I'll ever get to use that part for more than just as the microphone. (Which I might not do, since I bought a headset for one of my computers...)
Meanwhile, yesterday on Gumby....the computer I installed Skype and a(n HP) webcam onto, because ole TARDIS wasn't feeling up to getting new hardware (the plastic tab in some of its USB ports have broken off, though the kind of still work sometimes....not as bad as the old Gumby where the front USB ports didn't work at all anymore....And, I was using a PCCard USB adapter to help...)
Anyways, yesterday I recall seeing this EasyBits Games or something dialog come up, when I was checking some stuff on the machine. It had been up for over 16 (reached a max of 16.8 this time, TARDIS is currently at 35.52 days), but it seemed confused. A java app said it was out of memory, though there was plenty on the machine (over 1900MB free)...so I tweaked its JVM settings. Though later I discovered that PRTG had stopped running at some point. Someday I'll install Nagios, or something and replace that aspect of PRTG that I use. I had switched to running it, because bello-monitors-the.net ceased operation a few months back...and I was using it to monitor the performance and availability of this blog. At first PRTG seemed the solution to doing this...but its more annoying than just works, so I'll probably look at some other online service...
Anyways, suddenly with no explanation my screen went dark and the lights went out on Gumby...a moment later it was booting back up. Nothing in the event log to explain why it had gone down. I came back later to see the finished boot, and dismiss the various dialogs that come up during a boot and see why PRTG was complaining about something I was sure I had told it to stop monitoring (LHAVEN....I haven't finished that post yet). That's when I saw the huge gap in data, and it had apparently stopped working sometime yesterday morning (this unexplained reboot was around 5:27pm).
I vaguely recall seeing a strange dialog from Skype in reference to EasyBits Go games, seemed odd that Skype wanted me to install something like this. And, I have Skype in offline state on this computer...since I had upgraded to Zen...and Skype is online there. But, I dismissed it. I wasn't interested in it. But, later I saw that it had installed itself anyways.
Then a strange Flash Player install dialog, not the usual one from Adobe that comes up now and then. But, it seemed to do the normal Adobe Flash Player install...the except it was the kind that tried to install crapware with it, that you have to figure out the checkbox to uncheck to not get it before downloading it...while needing to check other boxes for it to proceed.
Guess I should've read it, because it was yet another part of the Crapware infestation that was coming to my computer via Skype/Microsoft.
Did a quick google search this morning, and found out how that its realy crapware, because the uninstall doesn't do anything...have to do more complicated stuff to remove it.
Found the steps to eradicate it at: Jeff Duntemann's ContraPositive Diary - EasyBits GO, Skype, and The Crapware Problem
Just firing off this quick blog post and then to reboot....
Wonder if the Free AVG will catch it later, or if I should install something like Norton Internet Security (I seem to have gotten a 3-seat license, but I'm only using it on one computer at the moment....I do need to upgrade the version of Trend that is running on TARDIS, but getting NIS working and not working on Zen has been quite the hassle...so maybe I'm still looking, at least its SONAR isn't going after BOINC like NAV used to on TARDIS....wouldn't be so bad, if it didn't start doing that just after I extended it for another year.)
Wonder if I shouldn't just remove Skype while I'm at it....
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Ask a Chef: What Thanksgivukkah Mashup Dish Would You Create?
By now, you've surely heard of Thanksgivukkah, the once-in-a-lifetime holiday mashup of Thanksgiving and Hanukkah. We made latke-crusted turkey stuffing fritters with a liquid cranberry core and schmaltz gravy to celebrate, but there are plenty of other combos out there—just ask these guys.
"I would make a Potato Latke Thanksgiving sandwich. Two latkes stuffed with cranberry sauce, turkey, apple sauce and stuffing- kind of like a Thanksgiving double down." —Dale Talde, Talde and Pork Slope, Brooklyn
"I would create a roti-style potato cake with scallion, leek, and parsley. I'd top it with a smear of toasted hazelnut sour cream or a dollop of cranberry horseradish relish with orange zest." —Frank McMahon, Hank's Seafood, Charleston, SC
"Turkey and matzo ball dumplings." —Richard Kuo, Pearl and Ash, New York
"I would make a brisket turkey. First, I would braise a whole brisket and roast brined turkey legs. When they both cool I would use meat glue to stick the turkey legs to the whole brisket and then heat the whole thing up in the over once the meat glue dried. The best of both holidays!" —Shane Lyons, Distilled, New York
"I would slice up some pastrami-cured turkey, and eat it on challah with Hellman's mayo, cranberry sauce and grain mustard." —Michael Paley, Metropole, Cincinnati
"I love matzoh ball soup, so I'd do a turkey matzoh ball soup, using turkey thighs. But instead of a giant matzoh ball, I'd make a bunch of smaller matzoh balls, like albondiga size. And since we're already mashing dishes together, I'd use cilantro leaf in place of the dill, as well as chopped white onion for a little bit of a Latin touch." — Iron Chef Jose Garces
"Besides the dressing, I love a good sweet potato dish. I would make sweet potato latkes and serve them with bourbon whipped cream and pralined pecans. A sweet potato pancake, pun intended!" —Elizabeth Karmel, Hill Country Barbecue Market and Hill Country Chicken, New York
"Potato latke stuffing and turkey sandwiches, fried in turkey schmaltz." —Jamie Bissonnette, Coppa in Boston and Toro in Boston and New York
"Certainly you should deep fry the turkey to celebrate the miracle of the candle oil. Perhaps you make a dressing with matzo—like a matzo brei with turkey bits and whatever else you like in your dressing. And maybe you make a more Sephardic interpretation of green bean casserole with tomatoes, garlic, and olive oil. For dessert you could make sufganiyot stuffed with pumpkin pie filling or pecan pie filling." —Anita Lo, Annisa, New York
"I would make Kakiage and Turkey Karaage (fried turkey). Kakiage is a kind of tempura in which shredded ingredients (mostly vegetables) are mixed together and it's very similar to latkes, a traditional Hanukkah dish. I would mix pumpkin, onion, carrot, and scallion for a colorful and beautiful tempura. Karaage is also a very popular dish in Japan. It usually means fried chicken, but I would do turkey karaage for Thanksgivukkah. —Iron Chef Masaharu Morimoto
"Cranberry Matzoh stuffing for the bird." — Alfred Portale, Gotham Bar & Grill, New York
"Jewish Dilemma Latkes, fried in bacon fat." —John Gorham, Tasty n Sons, Portland, OR
"Thankgivukkah at my in-laws will include matzo balls in the butternut squash soup with brussels sprouts and potato latkes topped with swiss chard stuffing." —Michael Anthony, Gramercy Tavern, New York
"The obvious would be turkey matzo ball soup or using turkey fat in the numerous recipes that call for schmaltz. Parsnip puree emulsified with turkey fat....yum!" —Justin Devillier, La Petite Grocery, New Orleans
"You mean Thanksgivingakkah? Sufganiyot is the traditional Hanukkah dessert. They're jelly doughnuts and instead of raspberry jelly, I am going to make them with apple and cranberry." —Jenn Louis, Lincoln and Sunshine Tavern, Portland, OR
"Matzah-crusted turkey breast with potato latke and Manischewitz-braised mushrooms." —Richard Gras, Oak, Dallas, TX
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THE SQL Server Blog Spot on the Web
It has been confirmed that the Microsoft BI Conference 2009 has been delayed to October 2010 (one year later).
The immediate consequence is that the PASS Summit 2009 will be the main event where something new about Kilimanjaro could be disclosed by Microsoft. The PASS Summit will have more tracks to better support the BI coverage.
However, my point of view is that a BI conference should be necessary. Today we have too many products involved, each one with its own vertical conference:
What is the right conference to discuss about all these products together? May be TechEd, but it's too big. The Microsoft BI Conference was a good thing, if the decision is to move it each other year, than it's ok, but I think it would be a mistake to cancel a dedicated conference that could mix all these session at the right level.


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I am a high heel type of girl, since I was fifteen and my mum caved in to my nagging I've worn them daily. I just can't do flats, they make my heels feel all bruised and I trip over in them constantly. The width of my feet also mean that most of them cut in on the sides and squash my toes.
But a couple of weeks ago I found a special pair.
They aren't cheap at £99 but they have a proper sole with a tiny heel unlike most cheaper ballerina pumps, so my heels don't feel bruised after walking around all day. The sides encompass quite a lot of foot so they don't cut in on my big or little toe joints and they make my wide feet look a normal width.
And did I mention they're sparkly, covered all over in diamantes? They are like Dorothy's shoes but in blue. Dune have done very well with these and if they could make them a bit cheaper they would be perfect.
I am on my way to being converted to flats. Are you most comfortable in flats or heels?


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Brad Paisley, Vince Gill, Sheryl Crow, and More Featured on New Album Honoring Mark Twain
It's arriving a year too late to commemorate the true anniversary of the occasion, but a new double-disc collection has brought together some of country and rock's biggest names to honor Mark Twain 100 years after his death.
The set, titled 'Mark Twain: Words & Music,' features contributions from Vince Gill, Emmylou Harris, Brad Paisley, Sheryl Crow, Ricky Skaggs, Joe Diffie, Clint Eastwood, and Jimmy Buffett, among many others.
Produced and assembled by Grammy-winning producer, musician, and songwriter Carl Jackson, 'Words & Music' tells the story of Twain's life using spoken-word segments interspersed with songs inspired by the author's work. Buffett, who is distributing the album through his Mailboat Records imprint, provides the voice of Huck Finn, while Eastwood lends his voice to the role of Twain. Garrison Keillor narrates the complete project.
Though the album was originally planned for release last year, Jackson took additional time to assemble the right lineup, and the results, like the work that inspired them, speak for themselves. 'Words & Music,' which also comes with a 40-page booklet containing details of Twain's life, is available now from the Mark Twain Museum.
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ESSAYS ON REVENUE MANAGEMENT by Chunyang Tong A Dissertation Presented to the FACULTY OF THE GRADUATE SCHOOL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA In Partial Ful¯llment of the Requirements for the Degree DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY (BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION) May 2007 Copyright 2007 Chunyang Tong
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Bryan Fuller's Mockingbird Lane finally has its first trailer.
After announcing the project would not move forward as a series, NBC decided to air The Munsters reboot as a stand-alone Halloween special on Friday, Oct. 26.
Mockingbird Lane's Bryan Fuller: Don't count out a series order just yetThankfully, the first teaser for Mockingbird Lane is all we could have hoped for in the spooky special: Lily (Portia de Rossi) and Grandma (Eddie Izzard) materializing out of spiders and rats, Fuller's signature visuals and cheeky dialogue. Oh, and a dragon!And while the monstrous family might not kill people, little Eddie Munster sure knows how to kill dinner conversation. "My grandfather's going to eat you," the boy tells his scout troop leader (Cheyenne Jackson).Watch the full trailer below. Will you be taking a trip to Mockingbird Lane this Halloween?


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cgs027 wrote:BigEd wrote:cgs027 wrote:
CONFIRMED (via crew). Prop error.
https://twitter.com/ThatsOurWaldo/statu ... 9776549888
I checked your link and just found a bunch of people asking what the source is. Sounds like more internet silliness to me. Do you have a more specific link to a source?
He posted the guy's name if you want to check with him... I have no reason not to believe this, this account is pretty solid.
https://twitter.com/jake_martinez/statu ... 7914707968
Fortunately, I'm blissfully ignorant of most things Twitter, so maybe I don't even know what I'm looking at. I just don't see much evidence.


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In this lengthy video of Sega's Aliens: Colonial Marines, Gearbox head Randy Pitchford walks us through some new gameplay for the upcoming game.
There's a lot of things to see, and hear, so get to it. Let me know if you're as impressed with what you see as I was this summer after attending the E3 presentation.


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I've seen plenty of Russian kids risking their lives walking on top of buildings or hanging from bridges, cranes and buildings. I get nervous just by looking at the photos, but this video compilation actually raised my blood pressure— I felt physically dizzy half-way through it.
I may be a wimp, but what the bloody hell people—ARE YOU FUCKING MAD OR WHAT?


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Not to worry, DizziDanni. We're just two Sherlock Holmes wannabes. But this is getting curioser and curioser. Either Addie has assumed the name of a character from a book, or he/she is the acclaimed author using Addie Pleasance (his/her character creation) as a pseudoynym. We must also not forget that truth can be as strange as fiction and Addie Pleasance could be both a real name AND the character of a book. But what a coincidence if THAT were true!!DizziDanni wrote:Lillian, I also did a sneaky google search and found the name linked to a book on Amazon. In fact I think there were a few books. I was confused because the author had a different name.
Poor Addie! It could turn into a witch-hunt. He's being stalked by us and his only crime is to be a great writer!
No offense Addie. I'm just a nosey old woman!
Either way, come forth Addie and satisfy our curiosity, if you will. I love your writing!


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This clip demonstrates a simple Reformer-based Pilates exercise routine to target your legs. With Pilates, as with any physical fitness system, a basic mastery of proper technique is essential for both maximizing the effectiveness of your workouts and avoiding accidental injury. Whether you're looking to slim down or merely tighten up your core, you're sure to be well served by this home fitness how-to from the folks at Balanced Body Pilates.
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For all those little jobs from fixing faucets, stopping drips, replacing old piping, replacing valves, repairing toilets, repairing water heaters, fixing underground water leaks, fixing gas lines, call Krooswyk Plumbing, Heating, and Air Conditioning.


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