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Within the U.S. military, there is no debate about the risks, threats, and challenges of climate change and energy dependency as they relate to our national security.1 Climate change and energy efficiency have become standing military planning considerations, as both will affect the twenty-first-century strategic landscape and operational environment to such a degree that to ignore them would be a gross dereliction of duty and an abrogation of responsibility.2
More than 30 U.S. military bases are vulnerable to the effects of sea-level rise, according to the 2010 Quadrennial Defense Review.1 As such, plans are being developed and executed to address the risks of climate change to military installations and global military operations. Additionally, all the services within the Department of Defense have acknowledged and are addressing the necessity of developing alternative-energy technologies, such as algae-based fuels, deployable photovoltaic arrays, and small-scale (tactical) windmills. The goal is to achieve energy autonomy in the field as a means to reduce vulnerabilities associated with delivering traditional energy sources to the combat environment.
Simply stated, the U.S. military has considered and accepted the science of climate change as well as the risks associated with our dependence on traditional energy resources. As a result, the military is taking prudent action both at home and abroad to address these issues.
I hope highlighting the fact that the military takes climate change seriously helps with the national discourse amidst a great deal of craziness on the subject. But there is a more important issue underlying our national anxieties and fears. We have become too ready to cast off our responsibilities as citizens by outsourcing them to other segments of our society. Nowhere is this more prevalent than when it comes to "national security." Whether it is the rise of China, Iranian saber rattling, global terrorism, the war on drugs, illegal immigration, hurricanes, earthquakes, nation building, or, now, climate change and renewable energy, our country has become too comfortable in looking to the military, in particular, to address every vexing issue that confronts us.
Here is the bottom line: National security is the responsibility of every American. Twenty-first-century security has just as much to do with the vibrancy and resiliency of the essential systems that operate within our borders as it does with perceived threats lurking outside our borders. Our national systems are intimately intertwined with the larger global system that constitutes human civilization as we understand it—food, water, energy, education, industry, mobility, information, the built environment, public health, and the global ecology.
Yet inaction continues as we argue over facts. Take climate change as a "small" example. A recent Yale/George Mason University poll found that only 64 percent of Americans believe that climate change is real, and only 46 percent of those believe that climate change is a result of human activity.3 As a result, there is no real public discourse, let alone action on this issue.
Still, the term "national security" gets plenty of attention, particularly in the political season that is currently (or, more accurately, constantly) upon us. But we mostly limit our definition of security to the "bad guys" that we can "find, track, fix, and finish." Accordingly, our political discourse is predisposed to invoke the specters of our worst fears, anxieties, and angst—Al Qaeda, China, Iran—all threats that we need to defend against. In the process, we effectively undermine our national security in the name of defense by ignoring the unsustainable nature of our entire national system. Yes, we do need a strong military, but we must strike the proper balance between defense and the full spectrum of what constitutes our national security in the twenty-first century.
In 1961, President Eisenhower presciently implored our nation to consider this balance when he warned of an expanding "military-industrial complex" and its inherent threat to our nation's fiscal solvency.4 Today, we are seeing Eisenhower's warning come to fruition. We expend enormous amounts of national resources on mechanisms and institutions whose original purpose, national defense, has been eclipsed by the need for the machine to feed itself even at the expense of the security of our nation. We pour more and more resources into calcified organizations, inflexible institutions, irrelevant processes, and paradigmatic weapon systems in a vain attempt to control the uncontrollable without ever challenging the logic or efficacy of our actions.
All the while we refuse to address an exorbitant national debt and the real possibility of fiscal insolvency; waning global influence and credibility as a result of our perceived national hubris; suburban sprawl incoherently designed to accommodate cars rather than people; a gluttonous national lifestyle that creates systemic, preventable health problems that cost our nation billions of dollars each year (the current U.S. obesity rate is 33.8 percent);5 a food production and distribution system dependent on subsidies, petroleum, and farming techniques that degrade our soil and damage our national health; unsustainable energy policies and infrastructures that disregard the limits of the earth's energy resources; a general disregard for the environment and an overt rejection of our responsibility to bequeath to our children a world worth living in; and a lackluster education system that has resulted in a general decline in our national capacity to innovate and compete on a global scale.
These are but a few of the products of an outdated model for civil society that is wholly dependent on a never-ending petroleum supply and the hope that we can control global dynamics to such an extent that the status quo will continue ad infinitum. Unfortunately, neither oil nor control will make this model work, for the model ignores the interconnectedness, the interdependencies, and, most importantly, the emerging (perhaps unseen) challenges and opportunities of our modern world.
True security, twenty-first-century style, requires that we shift beyond a system that leverages defense alone to one that builds our national strength at home so that we can have the credible influence abroad needed to effectively compete in a hyperconnected, interdependent world. That means citizens have to pony up and contribute to their own security and not just leave it in the hands of our military.
This is the conclusion that Captain Wayne Porter, of the U.S. Navy, and I came to while serving as special strategic assistants for Admiral Mike Mullen, the former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. This is why we wrote our independent and unsanctioned paper, A National Strategic Narrative.6 We wanted to express a new way forward for our nation—a way forward that does not shy away from the enormous challenges we face going into the twenty-first century but that is wedded to a positive, opportunities-based view toward our future and not to some masochistically nostalgic, risk-averse view toward our past. We wanted to declare that we do not have to shed our well-earned moniker as "the Land of Opportunity" and acquiesce to a default label of "the Land of Threat and Risk" just because the world has changed and no longer subscribes to the rule sets we have grown comfortable with. We wanted to tell a story about what America is for and not what it is against and, in so doing, articulate a philosophy for a new national design that could start a new conversation about what a twenty-first-century American grand strategy could look like.
Substantively, the National Strategic Narrative argues for a grand strategy that focuses foreign and domestic policies toward the common goal of building our national strength and credible influence so that we can prepare and shape our future over the long term—a strategy to create a national system that allows us to adapt, compete, grow, and evolve in a manner commensurate with our values as a people and that is sustainable over time. Specifically, the National Strategic Narrative offers the concept of sustainability as our national strategic imperative for the twenty-first century.
Why should sustainability, essentially an ecological concept, serve as the centerpiece of a twenty-first-century American grand strategy? Sustainability is not an end state in itself. It is a strategic mindset and philosophy that can carry us forward in time, just as diplomat and historian George Kennan's concept of containment carried our nation through the Cold War years. In this sense, sustainability, as a central, coalescing grand strategic concept, would serve to inform our national policy decisions regarding investments, security, economic development, energy, the environment, and engagement well into this century so that successive administrations can look beyond current risks and threats with a more positive focus on converging interests and opportunities as they relate to emerging global conditions.
This is what our nation needs right now—a mindset and philosophy that acknowledges and actually addresses in efficacious terms the very real challenges as well as the very real opportunities facing our nation, both at home and abroad. But it must be an approach that sets a positive and, dare I say, hopeful trajectory for our future growth as a people. We need to start looking beyond threat and risk toward the capabilities and capacities we need to develop if we are to remain vibrant and healthy as a nation. By leveraging sustainability as a strategic framework, we can begin the hard work of converging foreign and domestic policies to foster and support the defining American characteristics of boldness, innovation, and entrepreneurialism that will sustain our growth as a nation and reaffirm our position as a global leader well into the twenty-first century.
So what does this all mean? What is the "ask" of all of us, as citizens? Italo Calvino's Invisible Cities, first written in 1972, frames it quite nicely. In this fictional story, an aging Kublai Khan sits in a garden with Marco Polo, lamenting the demise of his empire. In the course of their conversation, Marco Polo makes an astute observation: "Yes, the empire is sick, and, what is worse, it is trying to become accustomed to its sores."7 Clearly, such a comment does not assuage the anguish of Kublai Khan. But it does establish what is wrong. In the end, Marco Polo offers a way out:
The inferno of the living is not something that will be; if there is one, it is what is already here, the inferno where we live every day, that we form by being together. There are two ways to escape suffering it. The first is easy for many: accept the inferno and become such a part of it that you can no longer see it. The second is risky and demands constant vigilance and apprehension: seek and learn to recognize who and what, in the midst of the inferno, are not inferno, then make them endure, give them space.7
Taking Marco Polo's perspective to heart, we as citizens cannot afford to become accustomed to our national sores, nor can we afford to accept the inferno. We need to be clear-eyed about what is facing us and just as clear-eyed about what it will take to move forward into the uncertainty and volatility that certainly awaits us in the coming century.
At the very core, we need to fundamentally shift how we view foreign policy, domestic policy, national growth, and national security. This is no small matter. In fact, it seems overwhelming. But all is not lost. We should not forget that, in his Farewell Address, Eisenhower, beyond just warning the nation about the military-industrial complex, also proposed a solution to overcome what he considered a burgeoning storm: "Only an alert and knowledgeable citizenry can compel the proper meshing of the huge industrial and military machinery of defense with our peaceful methods and goals, so that security and liberty may prosper together."4 Today, we as citizens must become "alert and knowledgeable." We must recognize that the way we are living our lives at home, in our communities, and as a nation is unsustainable. Moreover, we must realize that the challenges to our national security are not limited to foreign threats: they reside right here at home as well.
To become alert and knowledgeable, three key shifts need to occur among our citizenry.
We must confront honestly the challenges ahead. Let's recognize that we have bought our future with our behavior over the past 100 years or so. There is no way around it. False expectations and promises of protection that allow us to continue our current course of consumption (whether it's Cash for Clunkers or promises of $2 per gallon gas), while we ignore what is happening at a global scale, are not going to prepare us for the future.
But this does not mean we need to hunker down. Defense alone will not get us anywhere, and we cannot build high enough walls to protect ourselves. We have to come to grips with the "paradox of resilience": that it is through deeper and more meaningful local, regional, and global connections (even interdependencies) that we will be able to create the depth, redundancy, and elasticity needed to face the unknown and prepare our responses to the perturbations we have injected into the global system. We need an appropriate focus on resilience because resilience is what will enable us to take a gut punch in the future (or, as environmental and political thinker David Orr of Oberlin College so eloquently puts it, to "withstand intermittent disruptions"). As such, resilience is a critical attribute that we must develop across all the systems on which we depend.
We must reject the false faith of ideology and start contributing real ideas and real action. Clearly our basic political institutions, the two-party system that dominates them, and the constituencies that support them are in crisis. In the vain hope of proving their ideologies right, members of both parties have not only kicked facts, reason, and the efficacy of our Constitution to the curb, they have blocked our capacity to use our collective wits and resources to prepare for a rapidly approaching future.
At the end of the day, citizens need to view the world through an apolitical lens. Because of our ideological extremes, the good ideas we do have are stymied because we lead our discourse (which now takes the form of yelling) with labels of "liberal Democrat" or "conservative Republican." This immediately derails the logic of the argument, cutting it off from half the intended audience. This is not only ineffective, it is downright silly. As a career Marine Corps officer, I was not only proud but relieved to be blissfully apolitical by profession (and conviction). In maintaining my political balance, it helped to remember veteran journalist Eric Sevareid's description of liberals and conservatives: "The labels conservative and liberal go 'way back, of course. … Somebody unknown defined a liberal as a person who has both feet firmly planted in the air; Elbert Hubbard said a conservative was a man too cowardly to fight and too fat to run."8 Labels associated with ideologies will not get us anywhere. Ideas associated with action will.
We have to shed a resident's sense of entitlement and rediscover a citizen's sense of destiny and responsibility. A resident does not contribute to the whole; he merely pays rent and considers his commitment complete. Jean-Jacques Rousseau warned of this condition more than 200 years ago in his Social Contract: "As soon as public service ceases to be the main concern of the citizens and they come to prefer to serve the state with their purse rather than their person, the state is already close to ruin."9
Similarly, too many in our nation look to the individual articles and amendments of the Constitution to pursue a "what's in it for me" agenda, as if the ideas that this nation is built upon are nothing more than a smorgasbord laid in front of the masses to appease any given taste or appetite, with no requirement to pay the bill when closing time comes.
A true citizen understands that the world is immensely complex and uncertain and that it is through purposeful participation, not through divisive ultimatums, that our collective interests can best be served.
It is with a spirit of hope, opportunity, and innovation that many in our nation, and around the world, have taken a look in the mirror and determined that the design of our daily lives must change. And change is tough. I know. We are having hard conversations in my own home because we live in too big of a house, we have a boat to sell, and my wife loves her SUV. But at least we have started the conversation and we are starting to do the right thing. We are taking to heart what architect and business consultant Bill McDonough so often reminds us, that "being less bad isn't being good."
At the end of the day, we, all of us, must recognize that our national security depends on change. It depends on our individual choices. If we can get this mindset and philosophy implanted in some key players (policymakers, private industry, think tanks, etc.), as well as in the American citizenry writ large, then policies, institutional reforms, and, most importantly, local action will follow.
We can take some solace in what President Kennedy said in his 1961 State of the Union address. JFK told us that our nation was "in an hour of peril and national opportunity."10 He then laid out how our nation needed to address both the peril and the opportunity, articulating a holistic strategic mindset that was based on a positive and confident belief that we would endure. We urgently need to do the same.
It is through a grand strategy of sustainability that we can fulfill the promise of and our obligation to the preamble of our Constitution, particularly the part about "secur[ing] the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity." Such an endeavor is truly worthy of our commitment as a nation and fully in keeping with the purpose and values so masterfully articulated in the Constitution. The concept of sustainability as a national strategic imperative for the twenty-first century can create a new path forward so that we, as a nation of citizens, can endure and thrive in our own "hour of peril and national opportunity."


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FIM MotoGP - Pedrosa Paces Practice At Indy
INDIANAPOLIS, Aug. 18, 2012: Dani Pedrosa led the opening day of MotoGP practice for the Red Bull Indianapolis GP, turning a top lap of 1 minute, 39.783 seconds on his Repsol Honda on Friday, Aug. 17 at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway.
"This afternoon the track was a little better than in the morning, and we were able to improve our lap times quite a lot and also try the hard tires, which worked much better than the soft specification we tried this morning," 2010 Red Bull Indianapolis GP winner Pedrosa said. "As we saw today, the times will keep dropping during the weekend with more rubber on the asphalt, so we have to continue working hard on the bike."MotoGP qualifying is scheduled for 1:55-2:55 p.m. Saturday on the 16-turn, 2.621-mile MotoGP road course at IMS. Spaniard Pedrosa will try to earn his second pole for this event, as he also started from the top spot in 2009.
American Ben Spies was second quickest overall Friday at 1:40.078 on his Yamaha Factory Racing machine. World Championship points leader and 2009 Red Bull Indianapolis GP winner Jorge Lorenzo was third at 1:40.502 on his Yamaha Factory Racing bike.
Defending Red Bull Indianapolis GP winner Casey Stoner was fifth at 1:40.623 after leading the morning session at 1:41.925.
American Nicky Hayden ended up ninth at 1:41.397 on his Ducati, while fellow U.S. rider Colin Edwards was 18th at 1:43.813 on his NGM Mobile Forward Racing Suter-BMW.
"Some of these corners are really connected, and it's important to get the bike to turn, because if you mess up the first one, the problem gets exaggerated," Hayden said. "We need to understand why we're having this turning issue and hopefully do a good step tomorrow."
American wild-card riders Aaron Yates and Steve Rapp ended up 22nd and 23rd, respectively. Yates' best lap was 1:46.021 on the GPTech BCL, while Rapp's top time was 1:46.619 on the Attack Performance APR. Rapp didn't participate in the faster afternoon practice due to a suspected engine problem.
Toni Elias replaced fellow Spaniard Hector Barbera Friday afternoon and will remain on the Pramac Racing Team Ducati after Barbera crashed in the first practice and suffered three fractured dorsal vertebra. Barbera was admitted to Methodist Hospital in Indianapolis.
Pol Espargaro, from Spain, led Moto2 practice at 1:43.575 on his Pons 40 HP Tuenti Kalex-Honda. Sandro Cortese, from Germany, paced Moto3 practice at 1:49.307 on his Red Bull KTM Ajo KTM.
PJ Jacobsen won the pole for the first AMA Pro Vance & Hines XR1200 Series race with a lap of 1:54.984 on his MOB Racing Harley-Davidson XR1200. Jacobsen, from Montgomery, N.Y., was 1.412 seconds quicker than the second-best rider, Kyle Wyman.
On-track action starts at 8:15 a.m. Saturday with an AMA Pro Vance & Hines XR1200 warm-up session. MotoGP, Moto2 and Moto3 will practice in the morning.
Moto3 qualifying is set from 1-1:40 p.m., followed by MotoGP qualifying from 1:55-2:55 p.m. and Moto3 qualifying from 3:10-3:55 p.m
The first AMA Pro Vance & Hines XR1200 Series race is scheduled for 4:20 p.m., with riders competing for 10 laps.
Public gates open at 7 a.m.

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Dorothy L. Starnes
Dorothy L. Starnes is a Partner in the Tax Section and Head of the Employee Benefits Section of King & Ballow in Nashville, Tennessee. Her practice areas include Pension Law, the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA), Employee Benefits, Business Law and Tax Law.
Dorothy received her undergraduate degree from Kansas State University and her law degree from Memphis State University (currently known as the University of Memphis) Cecil C. Humphreys School of Law, where she was a member of the Law Review as well as Articles Editor. She authored Fixtures: Tennessee's New Law on Resolutions of Conflicts between Article Nine Security Interests and Owners and Encumbrancers of Realty, 16 Memphis State University Law Review 115. She also authored Evidence - A Missing Link Discovered in the Missing Witness Rule, 15 Memphis State University Law Review 105. Dorothy served as a Law Clerk for the Honorable Robert M. McRae, Jr., who was Chief Judge of the Western District of Tennessee.
Dorothy advises clients on all aspects of employee benefits and pension matters covered by ERISA, the Internal Revenue Code, and the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA). She assists clients with compliance and fiduciary responsibility issues.
Dorothy counsels employers regarding the design, implementation, operation, and termination of all types of employee benefit arrangements, including tax-qualified retirement plans, such as defined benefit pension plans, profit sharing plans, 401(k) plans, and employee stock ownership plans, as well as non-qualified deferred compensation plans, including top-hat benefit plans, supplemental executive retirement plans (SERPs), incentive stock option plans, bonus plans, phantom stock plans, retention compensation plans, pension excess benefit plans, and various other non-qualified deferred compensation plans covered by Internal Revenue Code Sections 409A, 457(b), and 457(f). She represents clients before the Internal Revenue Service and the U.S. Department of Labor in their voluntary compliance programs through which employers are permitted to correct operational and documentation defects in retirement plans.
Dorothy also works with clients on a variety of other employee benefit matters, including severance benefit plans, voluntary and involuntary separation programs, early retirement incentive plans, cafeteria plans, group health and welfare plans, medical reimbursement plans, medical and dependent care flexible spending account plans, retiree health care benefit plans, COBRA continuation coverage requirements, and educational assistance plans.
Dorothy represents employers on matters pertaining to Taft-Hartley collectively bargained multi-employer pension plans, including reviewing and analyzing withdrawal liability assessments and representing employers by filing challenges and demanding arbitration regarding assessments.
Dorothy represents clients with asset purchase transactions and mergers and acquisitions by performing due diligence, negotiating/drafting the documents to consummate the transactions/acquisitions, and advising on pre-closing and post-closing requirements.
Dorothy has been awarded the Martindale-Hubbell peer review rating of "AV Preeminent," which is the highest level of professional excellence.
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J.D., Memphis State University (University of Memphis)
B.A., Kansas State University
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Man killed in hit-and-run crash lost wife, daughter in 2011
Buddy Bronson struck on motorcycle in south KC
A Belton man killed when a hit-and-run driver crashed into his motorcycle in south Kansas City early Sunday had lost his wife and daughter in a drunken-driving crash two years ago.
Leroy "Buddy" Bronson was riding his motorcycle near Wornall and Bannister roads when a truck hit him and left the scene. The truck was later found a few blocks away, but police said the driver was gone.
On July 4, 2011, Bronson's wife and 11-year-old daughter were driving to Sugar Creek on Interstate 435 when a wrong-way driver hit them head-on near 63rd Street. Diane and Anna Bronson were killed at the scene.
Police later used Diane and Anna Bronson's pictures at the scene of a DUI checkpoint to help drive home the dangers of drinking and driving.
The driver in that crash, Luis Solano-Barrera, pleaded guilty to two counts of involuntary manslaughter a few months later. Police said his blood-alcohol level was .185 two hours after the crash.
Anyone with tips about the driver of the truck that hit Buddy Bronson is encouraged to call the Crime Stoppers TIPS Hotline at 816-474-8477.


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Introduction and Personal Interview for Picassiette Portraiture with Gila Rayberg (6:40)
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How to pick your reference photo. (1:05)
Choosing your substrate and tracing your reference photo. (3:52)
Darken the lines of the traced reference photo. (2:00)
How to add acrylic paints for the highlights, values and tones. (0:58)
How to paint on the tones, values and highlights with black and white paint. (10:10)
Introduction to the Tools. (2:18)
Gila's Towel Cutting Method. (1:58)
Beginning to plan the mosaic. (1:07)
Choosing the materials. (1:50)
Cutting and placing the focal point piece. (4:35)
How to mix the thinset. (2:13)
Creating the eye. (8:39)
Detailed up close of adhering the eye. (2:10)
More up close details of cutting glass for the eyes. (0:46)
Adding the white of the eye. (6:31)
Shaping pieces to create the cheek. (6:54)
Height differences and adhering the cheek. (2:55)
Creating the nose. (8:35)
Shaping the nostrils. (6:27)
Creating eyebrows and filling in. (11:11)
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How and when to clean the mosaic while working. (1:35)
Making more choices and filling in. (10:29)
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French auto major Renault is keen to tap the potential of the fast growing multi-utility vehicles (MUV) segment in India apart from having a presence in the sub-Rs 4 lakh car market in the country.
The company that sells five models in the Indian market is looking for nearly 90 per cent growth in sales this year, riding on its popular SUV Duster and also bring variants of the model by next year.
"... The objective now is to make sure that in the next introduction of cars, we want to enter the significant segments or growing segments where we are not present today," Renault Chairman of Asia Pacific Region Gilles Normand said at the sidelines of the Tokyo Motor Show.
Elaborating, he further said: "If I give you some concrete example, one of the segments which is growing in India is MUV segment, which is fast growing. So it is one of the possibilities."
Another possibility, he said, is the below Rs 4 lakh segment, which accounts for 40 per cent of the the Indian passenger car market, as the company's current line up is starting above Rs 4 lakh.
"These two segments are quite important for us...We are definitely working on the next wave of products, out of which one will be connected to a fast growing segment in India and the other one will be from the global line up for India market," Normand said without elaborating.
On the sales expectation in India, he said: "Last year, we sold 35,000 units, this year we think we will be over 65,000-66,000 units."
Bullish on the Indian market despite the ongoing slowdown, he said: "Penetration is low, so there is great potential for growth."
He, however, added that the growth of Indian market is "not going to be very very regular over the years".
"We know very well that in a country like India, you have some pauses in growth. It doesn't change our long term perspective about India at all."
He said the company's current focus in India will be to scale up dealership network and consolidate with the existing products.
On the declining sales of Duster, he said: "Typically in India when you introduce a new model there is lot of enthusiasm. In our case, we had a higher level of sales and now stabilisation is happening at a very significant level. The segment is busy and the market is not very good, after the initial enthusiasm and we are stabilising."
When asked about plans to overcome the sales dip of Duster, he said: "We are going to manage the life-cycle of this product, you can expect that in the coming months, there will be variations of the Duster."


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LPL Financial announced Wednesday that it is reshuffling its executive management team.
In what LPL Chairman and CEO Mark Casady says are actions designed to "better align management responsibilities to the changing needs of financial advisors and institutions, and to the dynamic growth opportunities available in the marketplace for financial services," Robert Moore, LPL's current CFO, has been named president and COO for LPL Financial effective May 1, replacing Esther Stearns; Stearns will now become CEO of a new LPL subsidiary, "LPL New Venture."
Moore will remain CFO as LPL undertakes an executive search process to fill the role.
The New Venture subsidiary to be headed by Stearns will provide what LPL says are "a compelling set of services to advisors who are new to the industry and who are dedicated to serving the mass market, which the LPL believes is currently underserved by professional financial advice."
Stearns said in a statement that LPL will share additional details in the coming months about what she called the "entrepreneurial new subsidiary, which will build on LPL Financial's platform of services for new advisors—many of whom are embracing rapidly expanding opportunities in the mass-market segment." As LPL develops this new business, she said, "the way we support our existing advisors will only be enhanced."
Another move will include Bill Dwyer's role as president of national sales being expanded to include oversight of the firm's sponsor relations.
LPL says Dwyer will continue to be responsible for all aspects of Independent Advisor Services and Institution Services business development, including attracting new financial advisors and institutions to the firm, as well as retaining and promoting the growth of existing business through oversight of key resources such as business consulting, advisor-facing technology, business engineering and sponsor relations.


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The Next Web is reporting that LinkedIn's iOS app collects personal data from its calendar—without explicit consent—and sends it back to the company's servers in plain text.
Users must opt-in to a feature which allows them to view calendar information from within the LinedIn app, but once that choice is made the user is not notified of the fact that their personal data—including a meeting's title, organizer, attendees, meeting times and notes—are being transmitted across the internet as plain text. Fortunately that means that if you haven't chosen to use the feature, your data is completely secure.
The issue was identified by Skycure Security researchers Yair Amit and Adi Sharabani, who will be presenting the discovery at the Yuval Ne'eman workshop in Tel Aviv later today. It raises some questions about whether LinkedIn's app abides by Apple's privacy guidelines.
According to LinkedIn spokeswoman Julie Inouye speaking to the New York Times, the data is used to coordinate information across multiple users:
"We use information from the meeting data to match LinkedIn profile information about who you're meeting with so you have more information about that person."
However, it remains unclear why LinkedIn needs so much data. To accomplish the outcome which Inouye describes, the company should only need a user's unique identifier to feed each attendee the correct information. It currently remains uncertain what LinedIn or Apple intend to do about the problem.
Update: The Next Web is now reporting that it's just not LinkedIn's day. Apparently a large number of its user accounts have now been compromised, with 6.5 million hashed and encrypted passwords reportedly leaked. You should change your password, and quick.
[The Next Web, New York Times]
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Liq-NOL Efficacy in Pediatric Patients With Down Syndrome
|The safety and scientific validity of this study is the responsibility of the study sponsor and investigators. Listing a study does not mean it has been evaluated by the U.S. Federal Government. Read our disclaimer for details.
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT00891917
Recruitment Status : Withdrawn (no funding)
First Posted : May 1, 2009
Last Update Posted : September 9, 2020
Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati
Information provided by (Responsible Party):
Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati
|Tracking Information
|First Submitted Date ICMJE
|April 29, 2009
|First Posted Date ICMJE
|May 1, 2009
|Last Update Posted Date
|September 9, 2020
|Study Start Date ICMJE
|January 2005
|Actual Primary Completion Date
|November 2012 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)
|Current Primary Outcome Measures ICMJE
|To measure the effects of LiQ-NOL on language skills, expressive language ability, and speech articulation. [ Time Frame: beginning and end of 3 month treatment period ]
|Original Primary Outcome Measures ICMJE
|Same as current
|Change History
|Current Secondary Outcome Measures ICMJE
|To evaluate the effects of LiQ-NOL on child behavior. [ Time Frame: beginning and end of 3 month treatment period ]
|Original Secondary Outcome Measures ICMJE
|Same as current
|Current Other Pre-specified Outcome Measures
|Not Provided
|Original Other Pre-specified Outcome Measures
|Not Provided
|Descriptive Information
|Brief Title ICMJE
|Liq-NOL Efficacy in Pediatric Patients With Down Syndrome
|Official Title ICMJE
|Evaluation of Coenzyme q10 (Liq-nol®) Efficacy in Pediatric Patients With Down Syndrome
|Brief Summary
|The purpose of this study is to measure the effects of LiQ-NOL supplementation on language production using the Clinical Evaluation of Language Fundamentals test, language sampling using the mean length of utterance test, and speech articulation using the Goldman-Fristoe Test of Articulation.
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U.S. Olympic star Charlie White takes his on-ice persona so seriously he doesn't want you to know who he's dating.
White, partnered with Meryl Davis, shown at left in the above photo, doesn't want the audience to be distracted by his actual girlfriend Tanith Belbin, pictured between the two in this 2010 photo.
Belbin is no slouch herself, a 2006 Olympic sliver medalist and five-time U.S. champion, she is now an NBC analyst.
White recently told Yahoo! Sports, "we don't really talk about it. As an ice dancer, we take our on-ice relationships so seriously, and that's really the way we like to go about it. [Davis and I] are just presenting ourselves as a team, and all the rest of that [with Belbin] can wait for later."
Davis and White helped lead the U.S. to take took home a bronze this year in the team figure skating. The pair showed why they are gold medal favorites in ice dancing, winning both the short and free dance portions of the team competition to help the United States earn a bronze medal behind Russia and Canada.
"We were looking forward to this event," White said. "We feel like we were out there for each other and with each other."
Davis and White beat their top rivals and training partners, defending champions Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir of Canada, in both dance disciplines. Canada didn't win any segment, but built enough points throughout to take silver.
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Ithaca wrote:This! Of all the quotes in the book, this just might be my favorite. I will be a very sad fan if this is left out.somnium wrote: And so the lion fell in love with the lamb…- Edward Cullen
What a stupid lamb. -Bella Swan
What a sick, masochistic lion. - Edward Cullen
ooh. i agree! also, its the first time edward tells bella he loves her in so many words
which reminds me!
the first time he acually says "i love you" theyre going to the clearing to play baseball, i think.
yeah, it was right after edward ran with her for the second time!
"I love you," he said. "It's a poor excuse for what I'm doing, but it's still true."
It was the first time he'd said he loved me--in so many words. He might not realize it, but I certainly did.


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All hands on deck for a yoga session at sea
London - Early morning in the Mediterranean takes a lot of beating, especially when you're on the deck of a five-masted clipper sailing from Spain to Italy. Every colour was enhanced as if someone had got hold of reality and then Photoshopped my mind. The air was still chilly and the deep blue of the sea contrasted acutely with the clear whiteness of the early morning sky - although, to be honest, for the past half-hour I'd mainly been looking at the brown planking of a well-scrubbed deck. This was because our ship, the Royal Clipper, was offering twice-daily yoga sessions as it raced from the Bahamas to Malaga, and then Malaga to Civitavecchia. Christel Vollmer, the ship's German yoga teacher, was helping passengers to salute the sun every day at 7.30am on the mizzen deck, and then to say goodbye to it on the aft deck every evening.
I'd joined her first group when the ship docked in Malaga. A core of three highly committed Americans had already been concentrating on their breathing all the way from Barbados for the past 14 days. They already had their yoga sea legs. I usually think of myself as a fine sailor and have no problem keeping my balance, but when your "downward-facing dog" is accompanied by SPV Royal Clipper rolling to starboard, there's a very real danger the dog in question will end up more downward than you intended.
By the end of the first session I had a headache, but Christel was upbeat: "All the little muscles you use to keep your balance will be getting an extra workout!"
I may not fear seasickness, but I don't generally like cruises. I am willing, however, to make an exception for anything with sails. Royal Clipper is a beautiful vessel, a reproduction of a five-master from 1900. Mikael Krafft, the owner, is a Swedish businessman in love with the great days of sail. One hundred and 50 years ago, the clippers were the fastest things at sea. They were built to "clip" the waves as they took passengers round Cape Horn and out to the Far East and Australia, and as they came back laden with tea, wool and grain.
Krafft built the Royal Clipper in 2000 hoping to revive the golden age of sail at an affordable price. Carrying 227 passengers, Royal Clipper is the largest square rigger in service in the world today. It's also pretty romantic.
When we embarked in the dark from Malaga's harbour, all five masts were lit up like great gold-painted Christmas trees and the ship's PA played Vangelis's relentless, questing theme from 1492. This sort of thing seems to be de rigueur for cruise ships these days, but there is schmaltz and there is good schmaltz. This was grade-A, high-octane stuff because the sails - all 42 of them - were unfurling one by one as we cleared the harbour. Apparently what used to be done by a crew of 100 men pulling on ropes can now be done by 20, thanks to some nifty modern hydraulics. Everyone stood on deck gazing upward as the ship's giant masts seemed to grow huge white sails. It was as if our massive clipper were blooming. Pure theatre. No wonder people are coming back to sail.
And there is something about masts that actually lifts the spirits. On our first morning at sea, on my way to the first yoga session, I looked up and marvelled at these 50m spires with all their middle sails and top gallants. The top of your average oil-burning cruise ship looks like the roof of Tesco, with all its practical details piled messily around two or three black, belching chimneys. You don't go up there if you want to retain the magic. But the white rigging that envelops and sustains a square-rigged clipper is a work of art. Walking the length of this 134m ship was like passing through a white-painted forest.
With a trilingual safety drill after breakfast - English, then French, then German - a long lunch and the discovery of a Victorian-style library where four leather Chesterfield sofas invite you to fall asleep with the thrillers discarded by previous passengers, my first day at sea passed very quickly. It was soon 5.30pm and time to join Christel for the second session of the day. The aft deck was a lovely place to sit cross-legged and watch the sun set as we surged on east. However, it is built on an incline, which meant that when I tried to raise my legs for a shoulder-stand I nearly rolled, heels over head, into Stephen, an accountant from north London who had heard us talking about yoga over lunch and decided to come along.
The passengers aboard the Royal Clipper were mostly in their late fifties and well heeled enough to be looking forward to retirement. Cruises are all too often dominated by masses of small, white-haired people thinking only about the next meal. (Or one big unruly crèche if the cruise is family-friendly.) Because the Royal Clipper moves by sails alone whenever it can, this cruise had fewer hungry pensioners and young families, and far more people interested in the actual business of sailing. Consequently, quite a few were trying out the more oddball activities on offer. Darleen, a health-care administrator from the US, was one, and then there was Lew, a jolly obstetrician from New Jersey who handed out CDs of himself singing "Catskill Mountain Sunrise" in lieu of a business card. Christel herself turned out to be a friend of Mikael Krafft - she had offered to teach onboard yoga and was surprised to find herself booked not just for this summer but 2013 as well.
"I trained with Bryan Kest," she told me. "He's the man who brought power yoga to Hollywood." Kest is also responsible for turning Madonna and Sting on to yoga. What Christel offers on board is a mix of Kest's power yoga and Taoist yin yoga. "Westerners don't want to spend too long just meditating. I call it clipper yoga now."
While Royal Clipper looks remarkably authentic on deck, the dining room is pure fantasy, a luxury, nautically themed chasm that plunges down three floors below the glass-bottomed swimming pool. I enjoyed one excellent lunch all too aware that the Beatles' biographer, Hunter Davies, was swimming round above our table. The cabins were more traditional: lots of polished wood, the smallest of polished desks, noisy air-conditioning and a porthole for a window which was frequently coated with fast-moving spray.
I spent very little time in my cabin. Meals and yoga lessons came round very quickly, as did my afternoon nap in the library. Routine is very important on board ship. A day at sea needs to be broken up. Meals and activities matter. When I'm at home, I find it really hard to go round the corner to use our local gym at lunchtime even if I've already paid for yoga lessons. I'm trapped by the minutiae of working from home, but at sea it was no effort at all to get out of bed for another morning session with Christel and her Snatam Kaur backing track.
"Age brings you to yoga," said Phil from California, who had not missed one single session on the Atlantic leg. "You need it to retain a level of flexibility."
Admittedly the other passengers did find us curious. As there were never more than 10 of us to be found doing the cat stretch or the cobra at any one time, there were always a few spectators trying to work out what we were up to and taking pictures. More distracting was the crew who always seemed to be noisily rebuilding the ship when we did our morning asanas.
After a day at sea we docked at Palma de Mallorca and what I thought at first was the harbour office block turned out to be the Costa Romantica, a 10-storey cruise ship. Our slimline five-master looked like an Airfix model alongside that monster.
We had only an afternoon in Palma, just long enough to get a bus to the cathedral and object to paying €6 (about R60) to look inside. The Costa left harbour before us, its 100-decibel hooter making what can only be described as huge farting noises in salute to the other ships. I felt delicate and eco-smug by comparison as I joined Christel's evening class on the aft deck and our ship set sail, once again, to "1492".
It was going to be another beautiful evening on the Mediterranean. Two sessions a day were really beginning to pay off. I was not only sleeping well but also waking up looking forward to each day. I'd even started developing a fondness for Vangelis.
"Look at that sun!" cried Christel. "I want to be a pirate and stay on this boat for ever!" - The Independent on Sunday
* Star Clippers (0845 200 6145; starclippers.co.uk) offers one-week sailing voyages on board the world's largest tall ships in the Mediterranean from £1,307 (about 15 600) per person, based on two people sharing. The price includes all meals and yoga. Flights are not included.


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I thought this post would be coming to you via the car dealership where I get my oil changed. Well not my oil, but the oil in the minivan.
As it turns out my thoughts of multitasking maintenance between schLepping children to hither and yon was a pipe dream. The mechanic wanted three hours of my minivan-time and I could only sacrifice one...so instead I'm sitting in the parking lot (waiting for Girls Scouts to dismiss), trying to redeem my time.
The good news? The calendar is completely open in May!
Car maintenance make me grumpy. It's time consuming and expensive and I knowing nothing of engines and 60 weight oil. In the arena of autos I am completely out of control. That's three-strikes right there.
Let's look on the bright side...it's a beautiful day, and by the time I get home I'm pretty sure the UPS man will have delivered three large packages to my house.
While in Arizona my family was blessed with generous and thoughtful gifts. Unfortunately Pillow Pets and cordless glue guns take up a lot of suitcase space, so my mom was kind enough to send us the boxes through the mail.
It'll be like Christmas all over again! And it couldn't come at a better time. I have a tea date on Friday and I need my new Martha Stewart cookbook to make a tasty treat! I'll let you know what I make.
Well, thanks for killing time with me. I wouldn't want to type at anyone else for 20 minutes but you...
Happy day!
Tuesday, January 04, 2011
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I thought this post would be coming to you via the car dealership where I get my oil changed. Well not my oil, but the oil in the minivan.
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- Jenster said...
I feel honored that you spent your time typing to me. :)
- January 04, 2011 6:33 PM
- Unknown said...
Hi, LVCG! I'm GodsGuitarGirl and came over here by way of HisGirl. Enjoyed reading your blog posts! And I, too, will be participating in the Joshua study. Can't wait to read more of your blog!
- January 05, 2011 1:28 PM
- Unknown said...
Looking forward to sampling Martha..
- January 05, 2011 1:45 PM
- Carpool Queen said...
I'm thinking of declaring car maintenance a "boy" job.
- January 06, 2011 5:19 PM


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Environment Secretary Owen Paterson has called for a Europe-wide overhaul of food testing in the wake of the horse meat scandal.
The current system relies too heavily on trusting paperwork that comes with meat shipments, Mr Paterson told Sky News.
He spoke as the chief executive of one supermarket traded criticism with the Local Government Association after accusing councils of helping drive down the quality of food used in public sector contracts.
Mr Paterson said: "The whole problem we have is that the system ... which is laid down from above trusts the paperwork. So it trusts that the pallet conforms to the piece of paper. No-one checks what is on the pallet often enough, no-one checks what is in production often enough, no-one checks the finished product often enough.
"We have agreed in this particular issue there will be Europe-wide testing for horse DNA, there will be Europe-wide testing for bute, which is a major advance. When this is through I want to have a proper look at the whole system."
Mr Paterson also said he had asked the Food Standards Agency (FSA) to investigate claims that Government ministers were warned in 2011 that horse meat was illegally entering the human food chain.
John Young, a former manager at the Meat Hygiene Service, now part of the FSA, told the Sunday Times he helped draft a letter to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) in April that year.
But he told the paper the letter to former minister Sir Jim Paice on behalf of Britain's largest horse meat exporter, High Peak Meat Exports, which warned that flesh with possible drug residue getting into food could blow up into a scandal, was ignored.
In the letter the company warned the Government that its passport scheme designed to stop meat containing the anti-inflammatory drug phenylbutazone, known as bute, getting into the food chain was not working, calling it a "debacle". He said: "Defra gave nearly 80 organisations the authority to produce passports and some of them are little better than children could produce... It's a complete mess."
Sir Jim said he did not remember seeing the warnings, telling the Sunday Times: "If this information was in Defra and was not being acted upon, it warrants further investigation. I would like to know why on earth I was not being told about it."


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Jonathan Broxton blew his first save because of an error and he's out as closer. Hmph. The Dodgers' GM Colletti said the Dodgers would turn to Padilla and Broxton with Kuo joining the mix when he returns at the end of the week. Hmph. Hmph. Mattingly then said last I checked Colletti doesn't have a goatee and Broxton is still his closer, no committee. Hmph. Hmph. Hmph. Whatcha gonna do with all those hmphs? All those hmphs up in your trunk? Then Mattingly called Colletti a dwarf brain and shaved his goatee to reveal a cold sore. Got all that? Glad one of us does. I'd own Broxton and Kuo. Wouldn't mess with this Padilla or this Padilla. Anyway, here's what else I saw yesterday in fantasy baseball:
James Loney – 4-for-4 with a steal. I almost wrote the other day how there's no way Loney stays hitting .200, but then I grew bored and fell asleep… Snooze…
Phil Hughes – Underwent four hours of tests on his arm. Towards the end his arm just started answering C for everything.
Roger Bernadina – Recalled by the Nats. I picked him up in every league he was available. Yup, even that one. Bernadina has 15/20 upside if he can stick with the club. Chances he sticks aren't great but aren't quite slim to anorexic either, so there's that.
Wilson Ramos – 3-for-4, 3 RBIs and 2 home runs. That's a badonkadonk, for those from the Bronx.
Carlos Gonzalez – Held out Tuesday because he's sucking on the ol' suck wagon. Well, I got this schmohawk right. Now if only Jose Bautista would get mono from Casey Kotchman.
Jorge de la Rosa – 7 IP, 1 ER, 6 baserunners, 9 Ks. I don't own dlR anywhere but I get a lot of questions about whether he's ownable, so it makes me question him. Doode has a 2.61 ERA. What are people looking for?
Todd Helton – 2-for-5 with 2 homers. Did the Rockies wear throwback unis yesterday?
Casey McGehee – Sprained his thumb on the last play of the game on Monday and was held out of the game on Tuesday, leaving him on the bench to twiddle his thumbs — sick, painful irony. If that's irony, I have no idea.
Ryan Braun – Hit his 9th home run yesterday. Yeah, his power is gone, Naysaying Preseason 'Perts.
Jose Contreras – Has a strained elbow and will miss about a month, assuming he doesn't have any setbacks. But 67-year-olds tend to have setbacks getting out of bed.
Matt Harrison – 3 IP, 7 ER. Don't worry, Harrison, nothing can ever sully your Trapper John M.D. performance.
Carlos Carrasco – His MRI came back "perfect." Not to be that guy, but wouldn't it be perfect if he didn't have to go for an MRI?
Jack Hannahan – 3-for-4 with 2 homers. If only Barbera could've been alive to see this.
Justin Masterson – 6 2/3 IP, 3 ER, 7 baserunners, 7 Ks. Rudy and I spot started him in, but since he has a 2.18 ERA on the year, we might not be returning him to waivers. Stay tuned! Or not. Your choice.
Shin-Soo Choo – For an appetizer, I'd like the slam. For the entree, I Choo-Choo-choose the legs.
Grady Sizemore – 3-for-4 and his 3rd homer, but was caught stealing. No legs for you!
Pedro Alvarez – 0-for-4. That'll show 'em!
Garrett Jones – Hit his 4th home run yesterday. Robot is probably going to get the worst counting stat 20+ homer, 10 steal season in the history of baseball.
Charlie Morton – 6 IP, 1 ER, 7 baserunners, 6 Ks. Now has his ERA down to 3.00. We should all be aboard with Morton by now, yah? Yah.
Aaron Harang – 6 IP, 8 ER. Did the Braves scare him by wearing Dusty Baker masks?
Brandon McCarthy – 5 1/3 IP, 7 ER and 15 baserunners. In San Diego, they call that a strong offensive homestand.
Coco Crisp – Left the game with quad tightness. Doesn't sound cerealious.
Ryan Roberts – 2-for-4 with his 5th home run, batting .333. Pedro Alvarez has one homer and is batting .205. Kill me.
Mitchell Boggs – 1/3 IP, 1 ER and his first blown save. After the game, Ryan Franklin said, "See!"
Hanley Ramirez – Working on getting a hitch out of his swing by getting his foot down quicker. I wonder where Hanley picked up a bad habit. He seems like such a model of strong work ethic.
Jair Jurrjens – 9 IP, 2 ER, 11 baserunners, 4 Ks. I don't think it continues, but I have no problem riding Jar-Jar while he's on a roll.
Billy Butler – 1-for-4 and a WTF (Warning Track Fly). A Butler specialty.
Mike Leake – 7 IP, 2 ER, 7 baserunners, 6 Ks. Turnabout is fair play as the Brewers stole the victory.
Sergio Santos – It's now back to back saves but this last 2 out save should go to Brent Lillibridge who made two outstanding plays in RF. Lillibridge fields like he's nailing Sergio Santos' sister. Juan Pierre fields like Thornton is nailing Juan's sister.
Gavin Floyd – 8 IP, 2 ER, 5 baserunners, 10 Ks vs. the Yankees. If you had the balls (or lady stuff, for our three girl readers) to start him in The House They Built Next To The House That Ruth Built, you deserved this start.
Clay Buchholz – 6 2/3 IP, 4 ER, 14 baserunners as he tied his owners to the WHIPping post. Now has a 5.33 ERA. Good news, he should be better. The bad news, not that much better. The neither good or bad just what it is news, if you listened to me you don't own him. The okay news that needs to be said because it is really big news news, there is no okay news that needs to be said because it is really big news news.
Adam Lind – 3-for-5, 5 RBIs and 2 homers. This is the kind of performance that makes me so hesitant to tell anyone to drop Carlos Pena too. These guys just need three good days, and they have their counting stats. Sure, it'll be great to get this game from Lind without the previous 23 games of crizzap, but so it goes, so it goes.
Zach Britton – 6 IP, 1 ER, 7 baserunners, 2 Ks. Fantasy-wise, Britton should be owned. Real world-wise, when do the castmates find out Zito used to do gay porn?
Phil Coke – 4 1/3 IP, 7 ER. Hope everyone is now done experimenting with Coke. Shizz is bad for your nasal passages.
Matt Cain – 6 IP, 2 ER, 5 baserunners, 6 Ks. Then David Lynch filmed Matt Cain's post-game interview.
Carl Everett – Pulled a gun on his wife after she said she believed in dinosaurs and Darwin Barney was her favorite player.


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Dust: An Elysian Tail developers Dean "Noogy" Dodrill and Alex Kain announced during their PAX East panel today that the indie platformer, previously exclusive to Xbox Live Arcade, is on its way to Steam, with a release date possibly as soon as April.
The duo also teased Dust 2, though they offered nothing concrete.
Dodrill created Dust: An Elysian Tail, the game that made our own Mike Fahey extra proud of his own right forearm, almost single-handedly. The furry-inspired game was admired for its fluid animation and surprisingly deep combat—even more so for having been created by essentially one dude.
I've reached out to Dodrill to see if he can share anything more concrete, but given the guy just finished a PAX East panel, I imagine he's getting drunk somewhere and not paying attention to his email.
UPDATE: Dodrill sent me the following statement to clarify and expand on some things:
So right now I'm targeting some time late April, but it sort of depends on how fast things can move through the system. The build has actually been fairly complete for some time, it's just a matter of working in those last Steam specific things and working through testing/cert/localization.
Most of these last few months have been about making the game as PC friendly as possible, including support for numerous visual and control options. Mouse and keyboard players should be very happy, alongside standard gamepad players. Keyboard only is also an option. The game will be published by Microsoft Studios, and I will NOT be implementing GFW. Also, the game looks amazing at 1080p.
After the Steam port of Dust:AET, I'm working on a completely new IP unrelated to Elysian Tail. I probably won't have much to share for the first year of development, however it's my plan not to spend 3 and a half years on another game :)
As for Dust 2, it is something I want to do. I have some grand ambitions and somewhat drastic changes that I would like to implement, but it'll be a while before I have much more to share. I do love the characters though, and look forward to continuing their adventure.


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A very scarce 6" x 4" photo of Sergio Leone, signed by the legendary director himself.
Sergio Leone is the director of many westerns and masterpieces including the Dollar Trilogy starring Clint Eastwood. "
His finest work is often regarded as "The Good The Bad The Ugly", his last movie in a Spaghetti Western trilogy, made in 1966.
His other work include "Once Upon A Time in the West", and "Once Upon A Time in America".
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On the menu: Social media for breakfast
Jenna Farrell (blog/Twitter) is a twenty-something PR girl who recently returned to Ottawa after two years in Toronto. Jenna is an avid blog reader/writer and you can learn more about her passion for fashion and eye for vintage finds at www.navyandgold.wordpress.com.
Yesterday morning, 5:45 am came early as I got out of bed and prepared for my day and the icy temperatures that awaited me outside. Notepad, check, cellphone, check, business cards, check. Off I went on bus route 102 heading for Westboro's Great Canadian Theatre Company (GCTC).
As I arrived at the GCTC I was greeted by a friendly group of people who gave me a name tag and welcomed me to what was my first Social Media Breakfast Ottawa, or for those social media junkies out there, #SMBOttawa.
Upstairs, Bridgehead coffee in one hand, parsnip-black pepper-cheese muffin in the other (yes this exists, and is delicious) I made my way around the room of people who were sharing stories and tweeting from their smart phones.
Glancing at the other name tags, I realized that I was not in a room full of complete strangers, but rather with people I hear from every day. Many of those I was rubbing shoulders with were people I follow on Twitter, writers of the blogs I read and creators of the content I share. I had the pleasure of meeting some of these non-strangers for the first time, a rare and humbling experience.
Yesterday marked SMBOttawa's 32nd edition (where had I been?!) Finding my seat in the buzzing presentation room for this sold-out event, I settled in as Katherine Fletcher, Senior Vice President and Senior Partner Digital, High Road Communications (@KathFletcher) and Darin Diehl, Assistant Vice President, Digital Communications at Sun Life Financial (@DarinDiehl) began to speak.
I was immediately intrigued by the subject of yesterday's presentation: Content Marketing in Action: Using rich, interactive content to increase brand awareness, build community and generate ideas. Much of what was discussed about the model presented, Brighterlife.ca (@BrighterLifeCA), could be applied to many industries.
One of the points Darin made yesterday which, in my opinion, was the focal point of the presentation, was this: companies need to start thinking like publishers when it comes to their content marketing strategy. This could mean creating an internal editorial calendar, using style guides or having journalists contribute content that's meaningful and relevant to your audience, without pushing a product on them.
Essentially, this is how to gain a loyal following.
Models like this remind me what I love about communications, the industry is so versatile but also unique depending on which organization/client you work with. To prove the industry's versatility look to sites such as Nike+ or KraftRecipes.com which have built communities and loyal brand followers by thinking like publishers.
I left my first SMBOttawa with my head spinning, no not from the caffeine, but rather the ideas generated from the knowledge that was shared, the strategies that were introduced and being in a room full of talented, creative people from our community. This, needless to say, leaves me excited for the next SMBOttawa and hopeful for the other similar events around the city.
I'd like to share my favourite moments from the presentation captured on Twitter:
Full disclosure! LTO's JBird helped plan this talk and worked on the featured project. This blog is unedited, and we thank Jenna for providing it!


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This week I wish I was at the national Federation of Genealogical Societies conference in Springfield, Illinois. Many of my genealogy friends are there along with some of the best genealogical speakers in the country. I made my "wish list" of lectures to order on CD (which I do for every national conference). For this conference there is a new company recording the lectures, Fleetwood Onsite Conference Recording, Inc. According to Dick Eastman's blog the recordings will be available for download as well as on CD and can be ordered at http://www.fltwood.com/onsite/ once the Fleetwood employees return home from the conference.
Here are my picks for the sessions I wish I could have attended and may order on CD. For those attended the FGS conference I would love to know what you thought of these presentations, and also what presentations were your favorites.
Reasons for Not Serving in the Civil War by Craig Roberts Scott, CG T218
Going Beyond the Bare Bones: Reconstructing Your Ancestors' Lives by Thomas W. Jones, CG T236
Researching Your Indian Wars Ancestor Before the Civil War by Craig Roberts Scott, CG F320
Using 'Correlation' to Reveal Facts That No Record States by Thomas W. Jones, CG F333
After Mustering Out: Researching Civil War Veterans by Amy Johnson Crow F304
Developing Genealogical Skills: Mentoring from Novice to Expert by Melinde Lutz Sanborn F341
Apps Galore for the Professional Genealogist by Pam & Rick Sayre F349
Lessons from a Snoop: Collaterals and Associates by Debra Mieszala F350
Researching Your New York Ancestors Through NewYorkAncestors.org by Christopher Child S421
Evidence: Guidelines for Evaluating Genealogical Sources by Linda Woodward Geiger, CG S422
Online, On Microfilm, and in Print: Finding Ancestors in Newspapers by James L. Hansen S432
The Genealogical Proof Standard: What It Is and What It is Not by Thomas W. Jones, CG S443


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Stretched: Pavilion covered, hiring staff
With the Charlottesville Pavilion's July 30 grand opening Loretta Lynn show just two weeks away, general manager Kirby Hutto is "absolutely" confident the city's newest entertainment venue will be ready.
At press time, workers from Hungary, where the fabric that covers the amphitheater was made, were stretching the membrane, and Hutto promises it'll be up by the time this issue hits the stands.
Likewise, the city says its portion of the east end Mall expansion is on target. Although all of Seventh Street won't be finished, "That won't have an impact on the use of the amphitheater," says Public Works Director Judith Mueller.
Nor will the installation of some wrong-colored bricks in front of City Hall. Those will be replaced at a later date, she says.
The pavilion gets a trial run July 27 with Tiny Universe, and again July 29 when Terri Allard performs for Fridays After 5.
Hutto sent out a letter to 55 nonprofit groups July 10 offering them opportunities to staff both Fridays After 5 and the concert season.
That may not be enough manpower. "There are always instances when groups come up short at the last minute," says Hutto, who pitched in himself to pour wine July 1.
Fridays After 5 needs 55 volunteers; a concert in the pavilion will use 80 volunteers, and each group earns around $8.50 an hour for each warm body it provides.
To avoid volunteer shortages, the pavilion plans to hire between 100 and 150 people as part-time staff to provide a pool of workers to fill in any holes, Hutto says. He's holding a job fair July 20 from 5:30 to 9pm at the Downtown Recreation Center to draw the will-work-for-music crowd.
Volunteers– if there are enough– will still pour beer at the concerts, "one of the more fun jobs for groups," says Hutto, as well as check IDs, watch the gates, take tickets, and usher.
One difference concertgoers will see at the ticketed events: beer hawkers.
"The flow is different from Fridays After 5," says Hutto. "There's a huge rush before the show and during intermission. If there's a huge line of 25 people, hawkers can provide guerilla marketing" to help disperse lines of thirsty music fans.
Last week, the Charlottesville Pavilion announced that local group Old School Freight Train will open for Lynn, and that Violent Femmes (August 25) and Spin Doctors (September 11) have been added to the line-up.
Hutto expects the Loretta Lynn show, a fundraiser for Live Arts, to sell out this week. The $250 Gold Circle and box seats sold through Live Arts have been snapped up and are almost gone, although some $125 tickets remain. At press time on the Charlottesville Pavilion website, tickets were available in the orchestra for $49.50 and $39.50, and on the lawn for $29.50.
The amphitheater is designed to hold 3,500 seats– and Charlottesville Pavilion is shooting for 3,750: 2,500 under the tent, 250 box seats, and 1,000 lawn spaces. Hutto calls those numbers fluid, and says they won't really know until the chairs are set up. "If they're off by one-half inch on the chairs, that could affect capacity," he notes.
Chairs will be packed up and stored after every show, leaving Fridays After 5 as general admission as always, with plenty of room for those who dance up front.
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WuXi PharmaTech (Cayman) Inc. (ADR) : WuXi PharmaTech Announces Licensing Agreement for Patient-Derived Xenograft Models with Mayo Clinic's Center for Individualized Medicine
SHANGHAI, Nov. 4, 2013 /PRNewswire/ — WuXi PharmaTech (NYSE: WX), a leading pharmaceutical, biotechnology and medical device research and development outsourcing company with operations in China and the United States, today announced a licensing agreement with Mayo Clinic's Center for Individualized Medicine to expand WuXi's collection of patient-derived xenograft (PDX) mouse models. These models will support the cancer drug discovery and personalized medicine efforts of WuXi's global customers.
Under this agreement, WuXi has been granted an exclusive license for a panel of patient-derived xenograft models for prevailing cancers in Western countries that have been developed in connection with the center's research and patient care. The Mayo collection supplements WuXi's unique and extensive Chinese PDX collection, which includes more than 500 Chinese patient-derived xenograft models, more than 220 of which have been deep-sequenced using whole exome sequencing at 100X. By combining PDX models derived from cancer tissues of patients representing Chinese and Western ancestries, WuXi is creating a single platform to allow its global customers to select highly relevant models with a higher probability of success for testing targeted therapies.
"This agreement with the internationally renowned Mayo Clinic enables WuXi to provide the global research community with a unique single resource that will help advance cancer research through a more relevant and clinically directed approach," said Dr. Ge Li, Chairman and CEO of WuXi. "We look forward to working with world-class organizations like Mayo Clinic to further strengthen our integrated, open-access R&D services platform, which enables anyone and any company to discover and develop new medicines for improved patient care."
"We are delighted to work with WuXi, an organization with a strong reputation and industry leadership, to make our PDX models broadly available to the global cancer research community," said Dr. Gianrico Farrugia, Director of Mayo Clinic's Center for Individualized Medicine. "We hope use of these models leads to more predictive approaches to the discovery and development of personalized cancer therapies for patients."
Mayo Clinic has a financial interest in the technology mentioned in this news release. Revenue Mayo receives is used to support the clinic's not-for-profit mission in patient care, education and research.
About WuXi PharmaTech
As a research-driven and customer-focused company, WuXi PharmaTech (Cayman) Inc. provides a broad and integrated portfolio of laboratory and manufacturing services throughout the drug and medical device R&D process. WuXi PharmaTech's services are designed to assist its global partners in shortening the cycle and lowering the cost of drug and medical device R&D. WuXi AppTec is the name for the operating subsidiaries of WuXi PharmaTech. For more information, please visit: http://www.wuxiapptec.com.


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This page should show you all the infrastructure and services that QGIS uses, and current contacts or owners.
I think it is not wise to put accountnames here, but let me know if that is better. We can also use nicks
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botulismbŏch´əlĭz˝əm [key], acute poisoning resulting from ingestion of food containing toxins produced by the bacillus Clostridium botulinum. The bacterium can grow only in an anaerobic atmosphere, such as that found in canned foods. Consequently, botulism is almost always caused by preserved foods that have been improperly processed, usually a product canned imperfectly at home. The toxins are destroyed by boiling canned food for 30 min at 176°C (80°C). Once the toxins (which are impervious to destruction by the enzymes of the gastrointestinal tract) have entered the body, they interfere with the transmission of nerve impulses, causing disturbances in vision, speech, and swallowing, and ultimately paralysis of the respiratory muscles, leading to suffocation. Symptoms of the disease appear about 18 to 36 hr after ingestion of toxins. Botulinus antiserum is given to persons who have been exposed to contaminated food before they develop symptoms of the disease and is given to diagnosed cases of the disease as soon as possible. Developments in early detection have reduced the mortality rate from 65% to 10%.
See food poisoning .
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- Medicinal Use of Botulin Toxin
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