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Larfen J. Stocke, esq.
Popping my agents in!
Fri Mar 31, 2017 5:43am
The glory of the battle, boss! The rush! The blood! The sweat! Getten beaten half-conscious with the bloodied handle of a laser rifle that's had all it's charges emptied into your own charred chest, and you get a lucky grab and toss them to the ground and bash them into submission against a rock while one've their hardened mates goes white and faints for the first time in their life! That's the stuff, boss. That's the stuff.
Lou and Duane
Duane keeps groaning about me dying and being killed and getting stabbed. Gosh! I don't want to brag, but I think I'm a better cook than
The Enervated Rat-Catcher
I ain't found no huntable rats in HQ, yet, and I figure, other agents ain't
many steps off that. Reckon I can just picture 'em wif all mucky hair and naked tails and little twitchin noses, all just
to be shot. Might get to sleep in there, too! Only fing that'll disturb me'll be the sounds of myself gettin killed by someone else, and that's the longest sleep of 'em all, so I win anyway, I figure.
((HOOOH, I'm excited!
I'll warn, just in case - I won't be available for the first few bits of next week. A couple days, really. But if things happen and I don't respond, well, there it is.))
Any signups for players, then?
Fri Mar 31 3:54am
While we wait for someone to volunteer to host this it's going to be me again isn't it? , this might be a good time to start the signups for Tributes. I think my rules from last time were fairly...
Spaces still available!
Sun Apr 2 12:44pm
If you haven't got anyone of your own to volunteer (or if you already have), feel free to suggest some of our NPCs. (For the record, we currently have 53 Tributes. We need at least 60 to play. I've...
Well, if spaces are still open...
Sun Apr 2 2:35pm
Marina isn't coming close to the staff of these games any time soon, except if that's for signyfing them their displeasure, and I guess they're not dumb enough to give her a way to track them. Buut,...
I have some ideas!
Mattman The Comet,
Sun Apr 2 1:12pm
In addition to the somewhat obvious Lux, I would like to see Agents Sean, Makes-Things, and Techno-Dann as tributes.
Go for it!
Delta Juliette,
Sun Apr 2 2:46pm
Agent Dann (he really is Dann, btw, no Techno-) is pretty much given to the community at this point. He's... really not me any more, and I doubt I'll ever return to writing him as a protagonist.
Well, Dann isn't an NPC...
Sun Apr 2 2:33pm
... but Makes-Things and the Witness (good grief) can definitely go in. I don't know about Sean. So far as I know, the only person to even mention him since TOS ended is me, and that was...
Ooh, and also The Sunflower's Witness (nm)
Mattman The Comet,
Sun Apr 2 1:13pm
Ah, what the heck. Count me in!
Sun Apr 2 1:12am
After all, better to try, fail, and get better than never do anything, no? Assuming I'm not too late, I volunteer agents Larkus and Curff. Larkus Hey, why not? I haven't had a good brawl since I left ...
When is Larkus from?
Sun Apr 2 7:33am
Because we really should get him and Theo into Rudi's together at some point.
Larkus is from the Clone Wars.
Mon Apr 3 9:46pm
Fell into HQ just a few weeks (or maybe months, still working on the exact timeline) after the war ended, in fact. I take it from the reference to the Great Hunt that Theo is from the Great War or...
Y'know what? Why not!
Sat Apr 1 9:36am
I volunteer Florestan, Eusabius, Anneli, and Cindy for the PPC Hunger Games! It's been a while since I've written anything for them, you know!
We volunteer as tributes!
The Triumvirate,
Fri Mar 31 6:01pm
That is, C and Lu do. Well, okay, Steele drugged them and forced them into it. She has since completely revised her appearance. (For once, she does not look completely unusual. She disapproves of...
Okay. I know the thing now.
The Triumvirate,
Fri Mar 31 7:00pm
Lu'ci'ten Gyrvain I did what. Please tell me that Steele at least had the decency to volunteer herself as well. I need to kill her and it would probably be better if her death were impermanent....
I'm in!
Fri Mar 31 3:51pm
Or rather, Kur'nak, Barid, Decima and Voltarmi are in. Voltarmi is in Gnome form, of course, and promises not to transform back to Dragon for the duration. Interviews to come. -Phobos
Oh c'mon!
Fri Mar 31 4:07pm
You're going to deny me a Kyaris-Suta-Voltarmi hydra-tyrannosaur-dragon fight? You have no soul . hS
While it is true that I have no soul...
Fri Mar 31 4:32pm
...never let it be said that I have no heart. Voltarmi will compete as a Dragon! Am I not merciful? -Phobos
You are glorious and terrible to behold. (nm)
Fri Mar 31 4:56pm
Oh dear.
Sergio Turbo,
Fri Mar 31 5:13pm
The time I send in the kids, everyone else sends in the heavyweights.
Not quite everyone.
Fri Mar 31 6:44pm
Phobos sent a dragon, Skarm sent a dinosaur, I sent a chicken soup machine repairman and a birthday clown.
Try and stop me!
Fri Mar 31 3:01pm
I'll be making a more detailed entry post in a bit, but Dee and Jack are totally in with the ego to try it themselves
Oh, this is gonna be fun.
Fri Mar 31 1:53pm
I'm gonna toss one of my eventual agents into the mix. Evelyn Portia Juliana. She's a sister of battle, but without her armor or bolter, the she's only human. "As long as I can get my hands on some...
And here are mine!
Fri Mar 31 12:26pm
(I'm volunteering only three tributes this time around, instead of the four from last time. I'm doing things with my Floaters team that would be spoiled if any of them participated.) Evangeline von...
Aw heck, make it four!
Fri Mar 31 12:36pm
Suta: "...Do I get to eat my enemies, at least? That'll be fun!" (Because I figured a. a non-Action department member would be neat, b. Suta needed the screentime, and c. A FREAKING TYRANNOSAURUS REX ...
I'm not allowed...
Fri Mar 31 1:25pm
... to cook the books to get a Suta-Kyaris faceoff, am I? hS
"Wait, what do you mean, I'm signing up?"
Fri Mar 31 11:31am
The Aviator: "I have a daughter to look after, I can't take god knows how many days off to run around a holodeck and die again! No, no, no, no, no!" Zeb: "Well... I guess it'll just be me this year,...
Up to four, I think.
Fri Mar 31 11:34am
I assume this means Zeb isn't dragging Ave into the arena by force? ;) Also, are you suggesting Lux (and Jacques? I don't remember if that's an NPC or not) for inclusion? hS
Fri Mar 31 11:57am
Ave's staying out of this one, but she'll be cheering Zeb on from the sidelines. The last few years she was kinda pressured into playing, but she's got a kid to look after now... Jacques (Jack...
The Notary tried to get the Council to throw Moon Moon in.
Fri Mar 31 1:54pm
This being one of the Notary's plans, well... The Notary: I AM NOT HAVING A VERY GOOD DAY.
My other three tributes are as follows:
Fri Mar 31 6:36pm
Wobbles The Clown: It's weird. I'm going in this year because I want to make sure the Notary's okay, while last time I went in to watch her get hurt in hilarious and ironic ways. People change, I...
What Ix said (nm)
Fri Mar 31 11:58am
Fri Mar 31 10:57am
I think I'll give my regular cast a break this time, but for lulz, I'll throw in Shimon and Caprice, who are respectively a male Nosgothic vampire of the Razielim clan and a female 20-something human ...
Pre-Games interviews.
Sat Apr 1 11:12am
Caprice Look out, PPC! I am here to kick butt and chew bubblegum, and I'm all outta bubblegum! Shimon I was told this is some sort of trial for determining rank among warriors. Naturally, with only...
I remember them!
Fri Mar 31 11:13am
Ah, back in the old days of... four months ago... XD hS
I figured you would. Not sure about anyone else. {= ) (nm)
Fri Mar 31 8:41pm
I remember them!
Larfen J. Stocke, esq.,
Fri Mar 31 10:27pm
I tried guessing who you were! It was very very very not-correct.
And of course mine will be in.
Sergio Turbo,
Fri Mar 31 10:30am
Except... not my main ones, this time. I want to introduce... Team Misplaced Teenagers! Keiko Turbo, Department of ERROR AGENT NOT IN DATABASE *looks at her Remote Activator* OK, I'm starting to...
We got Tributes!
Mattman The Comet,
Fri Mar 31 9:20am
Agent Matthew Welch, DMS BLOOD FOR THE BLOOD THRONE! SKULLS FOR THE SKULL GOD! ...That was correct way of saying that, right? Agent Ellie Davis, DoSAT-T&A Ooh are doing this? Great! Let me get some...
All four of my agents are in this time.
Fri Mar 31 9:15am
Apollo: "Again? Yeah, this was fun last year. Want to try and last longer obviously, but Kelly, Theo, Kaatah and I are holding our own small competition to see who can kill the most as well. I'd die...
Alleb, Jesse, and Errant!
Fri Mar 31 8:54am
Alleb Finally, some solid training! Even with the wonders of Medical at our beck and call, most agents hesitate to throw themselves into a match. I have seen only one so far--oh, is Sir Yocherry...
Popping my agents in!
Larfen J. Stocke, esq. ,
Fri Mar 31 5:43am
Are Lou and Duane one person or two? (nm)
Fri Mar 31 5:46am
It's arguable,
Larfen J. Stocke, esq. ,
Fri Mar 31 6:16am
but I'd say it'd be best to count them as one. Lou is a woman and Duane is a rock she carries which she is very certain is sapient. They're in the most recent RP on the T-Board , if you need...
If you'll have them, my agents are up.
Granz the Ice Cream Monarch,
Fri Mar 31 4:29am
Apecian Why? The second I heard, it sounded like a blast! Well, okay, after I looked up what the Hunger Games are. But, anyways, it's a chance to go up against other Agents and really cut loose and...
Aw, heck, we have a dragon, I'm doing this.
Granz the Ice Cream Monarch,
Fri Mar 31 6:22pm
Apecian Huh? A message? Alright, let me see it... WHOO! I GET 'EM BACK! Awesome! I am gonna crush it in there! ((Hey, I figured if we have a dragon running around, I'll give him his powers back. I...
Well, not the multiple-lives thing.
Sat Apr 1 5:14am
Or... I guess if he has a close scrape you can interview-cast it as him taking an extra life or... whatever it is he does? But if the game says he dies, he dies. hS
Eh, I figured I'd just make something up.
Granz the Ice Cream Monarch,
Sat Apr 1 12:15pm
But heck, there's a freaking dragon. I know it has literally no impact on game-play, but hey, why not?
I'll send my own agents into the fray.
Fri Mar 31 4:04am
Dafydd Illian Funny story - I was talking to Undis Closed the other day about the second series of Ardolindi , and he just happened to mention that a new season of the Hunger Games was in the works....
Since it looks like I'm going to be hosting again...
Fri Mar 31 2:26pm
... I'll withdraw Dafydd as tribute to make him presenter instead. Might come up with a new fourth if... I do? I'unno. hS
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LONDON Five things to know about Tuesday, Day 4 of the London Olympics:
Swimmer Phelps collects two more medals to break record.
Raisman lifts U.S. women to gymnastics gold.
Female Saudi judoka cleared to fight.
IOC, FINA defend Chinas teen swimmer.
Royal prize: Zara adds to family silver with Olympic medal.
Michael Phelps first gold medal of the London Olympics was one special prize.
The American swimming star broke the Olympic medals record as the United States romped to a dominating win in 4x200-meter freestyle relay.
With 19 career medals spanning three Olympics, Phelps moved one ahead of Soviet gymnast Larisa Latynina, who got her haul in 1956, 1960 and 1964. He helped the relay team to the victory after settling for silver when he glided at the end of the 200 butterfly earlier Tuesday.
The United States team of Ryan Lochte, Conor Dwyer, Ricky Berens and Phelps on the anchor leg won in 6 minutes, 59.70 seconds. France took the silver in 7:02.77, while China was third in 7:06.30.
Phelps now has 15 golds, two silvers and two bronzes. He still has three more events in London before he retires.
It has been a pretty amazing career, the 27-year-old Phelps said. But we still have a couple races to go.
South Africas Chad le Clos edged Phelps in the 200 fly, and American Allison Schmitt won the womens 200 freestyle.
The U.S. womens gymnastics team also had a big day.
Jordyn Wieber kicked it off with a tremendous vault, and Aly Raisman closed it out with a solid floor exercise.
Team USA routed silver medalist Russia and everybody else on its way to its first Olympic title in womens gymnastics since 1996. The U.S. score of 183.596 made its final event more like a coronation.
When the floor score for Raisman flashed, the Americans screamed, and a chant of U-S-A! U-S-A! rang out around the arena. The women held up their index fingers for the cameras just in case anyone had a doubt.
We knew we could do it. We just had to pull out all the stops, Raisman said.
Wieber went first and did perhaps the best vault shes ever done, getting great height in the air, her legs locked together. When her feet slammed into the mat on landing, she threw up her arms and broadly smiled. Anyone wondering how she was coping with the devastation of missing out on the all-around competition had their answer.
Also Tuesday, a female judo fighter from Saudi Arabia was cleared to wear a form of headscarf in the Olympics after a compromise was reached that respects the cultural sensitivity of the Muslim kingdom.
Judo officials had said they would not let Wojdan Ali Seraj Abdulrahim Shahrkhani compete in a headscarf because it was against the principles of the sport and raised safety concerns. But an agreement was reached after several days of IOC-brokered talks between the International Judo Federation and the Saudi Olympic Committee, allowing her to compete Friday in the heavyweight division.
They have a solution that works for both parties, all parties involved, International Olympic Committee spokesman Mark Adams said. The athlete will compete.
Saudi Arabia, which had never sent female athletes to the Olympics before, brought its two first female Olympians to London on condition they adhere to the kingdoms Islamic traditions, including wearing a headscarf.
Shahrkhanis participation was thrown into doubt last week when judo officials said a headscarf could be dangerous because of chokeholds and aggressive grabbing techniques.
Olympic officials defended Chinese teen swimmer Ye Shiwen against whispers of doping after she won the 400-meter individual medley Saturday in world-record time and she made her own statement by winning another gold medal in the 200 IM on Tuesday night.
The 16-year-old clocked 2:07.57 to shave 0.18 off her own mark set in Mondays semifinal good enough for an Olympic record and her second gold medal in London.
Ye had closed the 400 with a lap of 28.93 seconds faster than the 29.10 Lochte posted in the last 50 of the mens race. Yes time was 4:28.43, more than a second faster than the previous world record set by Australias Stephanie Rice at the 2008 Beijing Games in a now-banned bodysuit.
John Leonard, head of the American Swimming Coaches Association but not a member of the U.S. Olympic staff, was among those openly questioning Yes legitimacy. The Guardian newspaper quoted him as saying the last 100 of her 400 IM race was reminiscent of some old East German swimmers.
We need to get real here, the IOCs Adams said. These are the worlds best athletes competing at the very highest level. Weve seen all sorts of records broken already all over the place.
Asked about Leonards comments, FINA president Julio Maglione told The Associated Press people are free to say stupid things if they want.
Its a big mistake, Maglione said of Yes doubters. The people that said this is crazy.
He said FINA spends $1 million to drug-test the top 30 swimmers in the world two or three times a year and swimming is absolutely clean.
Zara Phillips gave the royal family plenty to cheer about, helping team Britain to a second-place equestrian finish behind Germany. Princes William and Harry and Williams wife, Kate, were in the stands to watch their cousin as she competed in the show jumping final portion of Olympic eventing.
Phillips mother, Princess Anne, watched as well then presented her daughter and the rest of the winners with their medals at the ceremony before horses and riders took a thunderous group victory lap around the Greenwich Park stadium.
The rest of the Olympic action Tuesday:
The United States clinched first place in its group in womens soccer with a 1-0 win over North Korea.
Abby Wambach scored in the 25th minute for her 141st international goal and third of the tournament. Wambach and co. then celebrated by coercing goaltender Hope Solo to get on the ground and do the worm.
Nearly 30,000 attended the first womens soccer game played in 23 years at Old Trafford, the home of Manchester United.
Host Britain also is perfect through three matches, blanking Brazil 1-0 to delight an electric crowd of 70,584 at Wembley Stadium. Kelly Smith had the only goal.
New Zealand beat Cameroon 3-1, and France topped Colombia 1-0. Japan played a scoreless draw against South Africa, and Sweden and Canada tied 2-2.
Andy Roddick spent less than an hour on the court during an emphatic loss to Novak Djokovic. Jo-Wilfried Tsonga needed a much longer run to advance against Milos Raonic.
Roddick lost 6-2, 6-1 to Djokovic in 54 minutes, leaving the 29-year-old American to fend off more questions about retirement.
The second-ranked Djokovic had 34 winners on Centre Court at the All England Club. Roddick had 12.
Tsonga of France moved on by winning the longest set in Olympic history. He beat Raonic of Canada 6-3, 3-6, 25-23. The final set lasted three hours and 257 points.
Andy Murray, Marcos Baghdatis and Kei Nishikori also won on the mens side. Maria Sharapova and Venus Williams were among the winners in the womens tournament.
Clay Stanley scored 16 points, and the U.S. mens team improved to 2-0 in preliminary pool play with a three-set victory over Germany.
Matt Anderson added 15 points in the 25-23, 25-16, 25-20 win for the defending Olympic champions. The Germans were led by Georg Grozer with 12.
Serbia, Bulgaria and Italy each won in four sets.
Water Polo
Ryan Bailey and Peter Varellas scored three goals apiece, and the United States recovered from a slow start to beat Romania 10-8 in the mens tournament.
The U.S., which took silver four years ago in Beijing, and gold medal-favorite Serbia are tied for the Group B lead with four points apiece after two matches. Serbia beat host Britain 21-7.
Montenegro, Croatia and Australia also won. Greece and Italy played to a 7-7 tie.
Field Hockey
Shannon Taylor scored late in the first half, and the U.S. upset Argentina 1-0 in womens field hockey.
The Americans controlled long stretches of play against the No. 2-ranked team in the world, got some key saves from Amy Swensen and largely kept Argentine star Luciana Aymar silent throughout.
The U.S. got into the Olympics by stunning Argentina 4-2 in last years final at the Pan American Games.
Netherlands, New Zealand, Britain and Australia also won. China and Belgium played to a scoreless tie.
Vincent Hancock is putting together quite the Olympic resume. The 23-year-old U.S. Army sergeant is a two-time champion in mens skeet shooting after he successfully defended his crown with a score of 148 in London.
Hancocks win gave the U.S. a skeet sweep after Kimberly Rhode won the womens competition earlier this week. Anders Golding of Denmark grabbed the silver, and Qatars Nasser Al-Attiya won a shoot-off over Russias Valery Shomin for the bronze at the Royal Artillery Barracks.
Ben Ainslie still is chasing Denmarks Jonas Hoegh-Christensen in the Finn class.
Hoegh-Christensen finished first and second in a pair of races for a 10-point lead over Ainslie after six races. Britains Ainslie had finishes of 4-3 as the 24-boat fleet sailed in winds that reached 17 knots.
Ainslie is trying to win his fourth consecutive gold medal and fifth Games medal overall. If he wins gold, hell supplant Hoegh-Christensens countryman, Paul Elvstrom, as the greatest sailor in Olympic history.
Irelands Annalise Murphy continued her surreal run in the Laser Radial, winning her fourth race in a row.
Chen Ruolin and Wang Hao led China to its third diving gold in London, this one off the big tower in womens 10-meter synchronized diving. China won going away with 368.40 points, and the country nearly is halfway to its goal of sweeping the eight diving events.
Mexicos Paola Espinosa and 15-year-old Alejandra Orozco took the silver, and Meaghan Benfeito and Roseline Filion won the bronze for Canada.
Alan Campbell of Britain qualified fastest for the semifinals of the mens single sculls, providing another boost for the host nation at the Olympic regatta.
Campbell crossed in 6 minutes, 52.10 seconds in the first quarterfinal to beat the times of fellow winners Mahe Drysdale of New Zealand, Lassi Karonen of Sweden and Ondrej Synek, the pre-regatta favorite from the Czech Republic.
Britain is favored to win three womens events and has gold medal chances in several mens disciplines when finals begin today.
Defending Olympic champion France moved to the top of Group A in mens handball after a 32-20 win over Argentina.
Left back Nikola Karabatic scored seven times for France, which has 76 goals in two matches, more than any other team in the tournament.
Iceland, Hungary, Sweden, Croatia and Denmark were the other winners.
Table Tennis
Favorites Ding Ning and Li Xiaoxia each won to set up an all-Chinese final in womens table tennis.
Defending world champion Ding, who enters todays final as the one to beat, defeated Feng Tianwei of Singapore 4-2. Li will be a decided underdog after defeating Kasumi Ishikawa of Japan 4-1.
In two late mens matches, Chuang Chih-yuan of Taiwan and Dimitrij Ovtcharov of Germany reached the semifinals.

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A live stream of Aliens: Colonial Marines
What is the music? It is rather annoying haha! Hurry up with the archive IGN :)
Wow, this guy sucks. He taps the stick instead of moving it smoothly. He cant aim.
Close range kills and no acid damage?!
I hope this isnt normal mode because the Xenos die extremely fast.


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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Life is good these days for Simon Cowell.
"America's Got Talent," which he created and produces, reigns as summer's top-rated program and was renewed Sunday for a 10th season by NBC. It's part of a "Got Talent" franchise seen in 62 countries which, according to the Guinness Book of World Records, makes it the most successful reality show yet.
Three weeks ago, he placed a good-sized bet on Germany to win the World Cup. And, to top it all off, he's reveling in first-time fatherhood with his infant son with his girlfriend, socialite Lauren Silverman.
"He's amazing. We're in the Hamptons (in New York) at the moment, taking a break. He's 5 months old, learning to swim," Cowell said.
Family life hasn't derailed attending to business for the British TV host and producer who's also the music executive behind such hit acts as One Direction.
He's pleased, if unsurprised, that NBC renewed "America's Got Talent," which features Howard Stern, Heidi Klum, Mel B and Howie Mandel as judges and Nick Cannon as host. The series, a big-tent talent show for every sort of performer, has thrived while singing shows like "American Idol" and "The Voice" have suffered ratings erosion.
"There's so many music shows on at the moment, there was always going to be this problem of dilution. The whole reason we devised 'Talent' is it was supposed to be different," Cowell said.
He attributes its success worldwide in large part to careful handling by FremantleMedia, its co-owner and producer with Cowell's Syco Entertainment. The program airs just once a year in each market to avoid wearing out the format's welcome.
In contrast, he considers his U.S. version of "The X Factor" singing contest a victim of overcrowding, canceled by Fox after three seasons. Cowell said if he had it to do over again he would have insisted Fox choose between it or network sibling "American Idol."
"Having two shows and 'The Voice' (on NBC) running at the same time was way too much," he said. "If they had kept with 'X Factor' and had more confidence in it, the show would have done what it is in the U.K.," where it's a hit.
That easy confidence, a Cowell trademark, may explain why he's planning on returning to the arena with another singing contest. It's been in development for about eight months and will have a new twist — he's keeping that secret — to distinguish itself from the competition, he said.
He'll present the idea to U.S. networks when he thinks it's ready, he said, along with another talent show that he's working on that, like "AGT," isn't solely just music-related.
Might he consider another project altogether, marriage to Silverman?
"We'll wait and see," Cowell replied, politely.
Lynn Elber is a national television columnist for The Associated Press. She can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com and on Twitter at Twitter@lynnelber.


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M. catarrhalis can be a commensal organism found in the respiratory tract of young children and infants, and in a small percentage of adults depending on factors such as location, age and health. If symptomatic, it commonly presents as otitis media, or infection of the middle ear, in children and as an upper respiratory infection in adults. Because of widely varying colonization rates throughout studies, more information must be gathered to understand these processes [9] .
Since the discovery of a ß-lactamase-positive strain of M. catarrhalis , the resistance of the species to ß-lactam drugs has increased at a rate much greater than other bacterial species. More than 90% of known isolates are ß-lactamase-positive [10] . The origins of this structure are unknown, as it seems to be very unique to the species, existing at two forms: BRO-1 and BRO-2. Unlike other gram negative bacteria, the enzyme is lipidated and membrane associated. It is possible that this might have evolved from a similar enzyme found in gram positive bacteria. The evidence of this is the distinctive G+C content of the BRO region compared to the rest of the genome [11] . BRO-1 expressive strains seem to have a greater antibiotic resistance than BRO-2 strains. This does not result from a difference in enzymatic activity, but from variance in expression [12] .
CopB is a surface protein expressed that is believed to be involved in acquisition of iron from host lactoferrin or transferrin molecules. Studies have shown that CopB is expressed much more readily under conditions of low iron and that CopB will bind with human lactoferrin molecules when they are under heavy load [13,14] . Anti-CopB antibodies have been found in blood serum of patients previously infected and have been studied for potential methods of enhancing clearance. Although M. catarrhalis is strictly a human pathogen and results are therefore inconclusive, animal models have shown increased clearance in CopB knockout infection of rats [15] .
The function of OMP CD is not very well understood. It shares some characteristics with the OprF porin Pueudomonas, however its exact function has not been proven. Like CopB, studies have been conducted to examine it as a potential basis for vaccines. Again, the certainty of animal models is uncertain, but mice that have been immunized with CD have shown much better bacterial clearance rates than controls [16] .
uspA1 and uspA2 is a dimeric protein associated with cell adherence to human epithelial cells. It has been shown that isolates of the protein have a high affinity to extracellular fibronectin, a component of integrands, and vitronectin [17] . It has also been observed that uspA2 gives a certain degree of resistance to the bactericidal qualities of blood serum. Knockout strains, again in mice, were extremely sensitive to the toxicity of human serum, whereas uspA1 and wild type strains were unaffected [18] . These proteins are also excellent candidates for possible vaccination due to their homogeneity amongst virulent strains, and because of the immune response that they illicit. Again, mice models have shown better clearance rates in those immunized with uspA1 or uspA2 [19] .
Bacteria are any of a very large group of single-celled microorganisms that display a wide range of metabolic types, geometric shapes and environmental habitats—and niches—of occurrence. Normally only several micrometers in length, bacteria assume the form ofspheres, rods, spirals and other shapes. Bacteria are found in a very broad gamut of habitats; for example, bacterial extremophiles that thrive in such places as hot springs, arctic environments, radioactive waste, deep sea oil seeps, deep Earth crustal environments, hypersaline ponds and within other living organisms. There are approximately 50 million bacterial organisms in a single gram of typical surface soil. The worldwide bacterial biomass exceeds that of all plants and animals on Earth. However, the majority of bacteria have not yet been characterised.
Bacteria are members of the prokaryote group. In contrast to eukaryote cells, bacteria lack a cell nucleus and customarily have no organelles. The bacteria domain can be grouped into two major categories: (a) Eubacteria and (b) Cyanobacteria. The latter group has historically been termed blue-green algae, but modern cladistics classifies these as bacteria. Presently the bacteria are considered composed of five discrete clades, or unique phylogenetic trees, each having a unique common ancestor. While there are a number of recognized phyla, the dominant ones are Proteobacteria, Firmicutes, Actinobacteria....
This major phylum incorporates a gamut of pathogens, such as Escherichia, Salmonella, Vibrio, Helicobacter , and numerous other genera. Some other proteobacteria are free-living, and include many of the species responsible for fixing nitrogen. Many move about using flagellae, but some are non-motile or rely on bacterial gliding. The latter include myxobacteria, a unique group of bacteria that can aggregate to form multicellular fruiting bodies.
A wide variety of metabolic types reside within proteobacteria. Most species are facultatively or obligately anaerobic, chemoautotrophs, and heterotrophic, but there are many exceptions. Numerous genera, which are not closely related to each other, convert energy from light through photosynthesis. These are termed purple, in reference to their generally reddish pigmentation.Actinobacteria
This gram positive phylum has widespread occurrence in soils, freshwater and marine ecosystems. Many of the species in the phylum are key decomposers of organic detritus, and thus have an important role in the carbon cycle. Some of the species of Actinobacteria are pathogens and inhabit plant or animal hosts. Most of the phylum are aerobic species, but some are capable of metabolizing in oxygen-deprived environments. This phylum often exhibits a filamentous branched structure as in the case of Actinomyces israelii . The organism believed to be the oldest living creature is a species within the Actinobacteria found in Siberia, that is thought to date to about 500,000 years before present.
There is no vaccine to protect the population from Chlamydia infections. At this time there are laboratories, such as Rocky Mountain Laboratories (RML), who are actively working to develop a vaccine against C. trachomatis . Dr. Harlan Caldwell of RML and his research group are actively testing a vaccine that can protect against all 15 Chlamydia varieties. His group's studies have shown that the vaccine can prevent lab cells from becoming infected. They are currently testing it in animals (6). Until a vaccine is developed though, abstinence, sexual education/prevention programs, and timely and proper screening for and treatment for Chlamydia are the only recourse in controlling this infection.
1. Center for Disease Control. STD Surveillance 2006. Available from: http://cdc.gov/std/stats/chlamydia.htm . Accessed February 9, 2008.
2. Center for Disease Control. STD Treatment Guidelines 2006. Available from:
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3. Center for Disease Control. Chlamydia-CDC Fact Sheet. Available from: http://www.cdc.gov/std/Chlamydia/STDFact-Chlamydia.htm . Accessed February 9, 2008.
4. Diagnostic Automation, Inc. Chlamydia IgG ELISA. Available from: http://www.rapidtest.com/ChlamydiaG_1407-1.doc . Accessed February 16, 2008.
5. The Merck Manual of Diagnosis and Therapy . 16 th ed. Merck Research Laboratories. Rahway, N.J. 1992.
6. Pekoc K. RML Vaccine Concept Awarded for Innovation. NIH News. June 11, 2007. Available from: http://www3.niaid.nih.gov/news/newsreleases/2007/rmlVaccineAward.htm . Accessed February 7, 2008.
7. Quest Diagnostics. December 2007. Prevention of Pelvic Inflammatory Disease (PID) - Screening for Chlamydia trachomatis and Neisseria gonorrheae . Available from: http://www.questdiagnostics.com/hcp/intguide/jsp/showintguidepage.jsp?fn=CF_PID.htm Accessed February 11, 2008.
8. TJ Clark Co. Chlamydia Trachomatis. Available from: http://www.tjclarkco.com/bacterial_diseases/chlamydia_trachomatis.asp Accessed February 11, 2008.
9. The World Health Organization. Chlamydia Trachomatis. Available from: http://www.who.int/vaccine_research/diseases/soa_std/en/index1.html . Accessed February 25, 2008.
10. The World Health Organization. Sexually Transmitted Infections. Available from: http://www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/fs110/en/index.html . Accessed February 25, 2008.
Pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamic . Pharmacokinetics is the study of the absorption, distribution, metabolism, and elimination of a drug from the body. Pharmacodynamics is the study of the relationship between drug concentration (in serum or tissue) and the anticipated pharmacological effects (e.g., bacterial killing) at the site of activity. MICs for a particular pathogen may be misleading if they are used as the sole criterion for selecting an antimicrobial agent, because the MIC of a given antimicrobial provides only partial insight into its potency [ 60–64 ].Pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamic
The β-lactams (i.e., penicillins, cephalosporins, and carbapenems), the macrolides, and clindamycin display time-dependent kill rates. Thus, the length of time that the serum concentration of the antimicrobial drug exceeds the MIC value (i.e., time µ MIC) is related to bacterial cure rates. In general, if the antimicrobial serum concentration is higher than the MIC for at least 40% or 50% of the dosing interval for penicillins and cephalosporins, respectively, bacteriologic cure rates will be high [ 62 , 63 ]. A study of mortality associated with S. pneumoniae infection in animal models has shown that the survival rate was nearly 0% when serum levels exceeded the MIC for <20% of the dosing interval but was 90%–100% when serum concentrations were higher than the MIC value for ⩾40%–50% of the dosing interval [ 63 ]. Studies of children with acute otitis media [ 65 ] and adults with pneumococcal pneumonia have replicated these findings. Most oral β-lactams, with the exception of amoxicillin and, perhaps, cefuroxime, cannot be used to treat acute otitis media caused by penicillin-nonsusceptible S. pneumoniae , because the length of time that the drug concentration is higher than the MIC is too short [ 66 ].
The aminoglycosides and quinolones display concentration-dependent pharmacokinetic and pharmacodynamic mechanisms, meaning that higher serum concentrations correlate with higher bacterial kill rates. Thus, the key parameter used to predict clinical and bacterial eradication with these antimicrobials is the ratio of the 24-h area under the concentration-time curve (AUC) to the MIC (AUC/MIC ratio, sometimes called "area under the inhibitory curve," or AUIC) [ 63 ]. The AUC and thereby the AUC/MIC ratio may be calculated for total drug or free drug. Although most studies have reported total-drug ratios, the free-drug AUC/MIC ratio may be more important. For example, when quinolones were tested, mortality rates among immunocompromised animals were high (µ50%) when the AUC/MIC ratio (or AUIC) was <30, and mortality rates were nearly 0% when the AUC/MIC ratio exceeded 100. AUC/MIC ratios of ⩾100–125 have been predictive of satisfactory clinical outcome in immunocompromised patients who are receiving intravenous quinolones for serious bacterial infections [ 61 , 63 , 64 ]. In animals with intact immune systems, a free-drug AUC/MIC ratio of 25 may be adequate. At present, there is no real consensus on the ideal target free-drug AUC/MIC ratio for most patients, but data suggest that, for S. pneumoniae , a ratio of at least 25–30 and perhaps as high as 55 is necessary ( table 5 ) [ 63 , 67 ].


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Without an exemption, Goffstown resident must pay high taxes on solar energy panels
By CASSIDY SWANSON
Union Leader Correspondent
Roger Beaudoin says he's being taxed too much by the town of Goffstown for his solar panels. (COURTESY)
— When Goffstown resident Roger Beaudoin installed a solar panel system at his home at 32 Juniper Drive last year, he thought he was doing something positive. Now, he says, the taxes he has to pay for the panels equate to "a punishment" from the town.
"I'm disappointed in the fact that I'm trying to do something good, doing clean energy, and I'm being taxed on it," Beaudoin said Wednesday.
Beaudoin appeared before the Board of Selectmen with his wife, along with several other solar enthusiasts, on Aug. 11. In a request for appointment with the board, Beaudoin cited a request for implementation for a solar panel tax exemption for Goffstown residents.
Beaudoin told the board he wanted the town to adopt the solar exemption known as RSA 72:62, which other municipalities in New Hampshire have already adopted. The process to adopt the exemption is outlined in RSA 72:27-a and requires a vote at the annual town meeting in March.
After Beaudoin installed his solar panels last summer, he said he was "taxed dramatically" on it as it increased the value of his property. Beaudoin said on Wednesday that the estimated value increase was $18,000.
When Beaudoin questioned Town Assessor Scott Bartlett on how he arrived at the cost, Beaudoin said he was pricing on a similar solar panel system installed in Berkeley, Calif., was used."It's a lot more expensive (in California) than it is here in New Hampshire," Beaudoin told the board. "I've also talked to several real estate agents asking them how does it increase the value of my property. They said it doesn't. Nobody knows how to figure it out…. It would be a selling point, but it really doesn't increase the value of your property."
Beaudoin said Wednesday that he was saving no money with his solar panels, and that he had actually lost money buying the system, which was installed by Concord-based SunRay Solar.
Another resident who attended the meeting, Charlie Bedard, of 36 Shirley Park Road, said he would not be installing solar panels if an exemption is not enacted.
"I'm just trying to do my part with clean energy," Bedard said. "If the town doesn't adopt this, then it's going to deter a lot of people from going this route. It's a big investment on our part."
"We're being taxed to death on everything in Goffstown," Beaudoin said on Wednesday, echoing Bedard's concerns. "Why do I want to pay out all this money for clean energy if you're going to tax me on it, so I lose more money?"
Beaudoin said he would not have installed the panels had he known how high the taxes would be. He also said that SunRay Solar told him that the state would not tax him on the panels.
Beaudoin also suggested at the meeting that solar panel owners should get a tax deduction for contributing to the grid, but that he's not expecting that.
"We're actually helping the town because we're putting electricity into the grid, so we're alleviating the consumption of energy coming into the town," he said. "All I want is not to be taxed because I have (panels)."
Bartlett said it is not under his control to determine what is taxed.
"That exemption has never been adopted in the town of Goffstown, therefore, as the town assessor, I am obligated to assessment," Bartlett said, adding the town has been assessing solar panels since at least 1998, but that Beaudoin's panels were the largest so far.
Bartlett also said he sent a letter to Beaudoin in September 2013 informing him of the taxes on the panels, but that Beaudoin claimed he never received a letter.
"Also, at the same time, I gave them information how it could be exempted," Bartlett said. "But I didn't get a response until after the first tax bill was sent (in June of this year)."
Bartlett also said that "the town is not in the business of producing energy" and that excess energy from Beaudoin's panels could potentially be sold to the grid owned by Public Service of New Hampshire.
Bartlett said the exemption would take effect for the 2015 tax year if adopted at next year's town meeting.
"Because of the cost effectiveness, (solar panel installation) is becoming more prevalent ... in New Hampshire," he said. "I do expect that the original assessment … will be reduced," adding that he won't have an exact figure until the Board of Selectmen sign off after his Sept. 1 deadline.


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Quick: Name the Bears' three most important players.
We'll give you a second to think of three names.
Another second …
OK, time's up.
Was Jay Cutler on your list?
How about Lance Briggs?
Charles Tillman, anyone?
You could make a strong argument for including Brandon Marshall or Matt Forte in the top three, but Cutler, Briggs and Tillman belong in the top five no matter what. Now, the Bears must find a way to keep their season afloat without Cutler and Briggs for at least the next month, and with Tillman battling a nagging knee injury.
Maybe veteran backup quarterback Josh McCown can help the Bears weather the storm, but history suggests otherwise. The Bears are 2-6 without Cutler since 2009, and that was back in the days when the team had a defense that was able to tackle.
The bye seems like a good time for some stream of consciousness.
How bad is the Bears' pass rush? This bad: Three individual players have registered more sacks than the entire Bears defense through Week 7.
The Bears have nine sacks in seven games, which is good for 30th in the NFL. Meanwhile, the Kansas City Chiefs lead the league with 35 sacks.
As for the players who have outpaced the not-so-scary Monsters of the Midway: Indianapolis Colts outside linebacker Robert Mathis already has 11½ sacks, while Justin Houston of the Kansas City Chiefs and Mario Williams of the Buffalo Bills have 10 sacks apiece. Tamba Hali of the Chiefs has matched the Bears with nine sacks.
The Bears might be undisciplined in terms of gap discipline, but Marc Trestman's team has proved to be pretty smart in terms of avoiding penalties.
After 7 weeks, the Bears have committed only 4.43 penalties a game, which is fourth-fewest in the NFL. The only teams to commit fewer penalties have been the Miami Dolphins (4.17), Minnesota Vikings (4.17) and Indianapolis Colts (4).
The New York Jets are worst in the league with 9.14 penalties a game.
If you happen to run across Trestman, maybe let him know that he has another running back on his roster by the name of Michael Bush.
Has anyone else noticed how the "sky is falling" crowd suddenly has stopped fretting about Marshall? Then again, they'll be back whenever the Bears' No. 1 receiver has another quiet game or two and expresses a desire to improve.
I can't speak for Marshall's previous stops in Denver and Miami, but in terms of his Bears career, he has been nothing remotely close to a locker-room cancer. Here's hoping he continues to be a good teammate and a loud advocate for mental health.
We could be eating our Thanksgiving turkeys before Cutler and Briggs are back on the field. But that doesn't necessarily mean the Bears' playoff hopes are dead.
Take a look at the team's remaining nine games, divided into clusters of three. (Please, nobody tell Lovie Smith about our new way of looking at games.)
Cluster 1: at Green Bay, vs. Detroit, vs. Baltimore
Verdict: OK, so this probably won't be pretty. If the Bears can win one of these games with McCown under center, they'll be at five wins for the season.
Cluster 2: at St. Louis, at Minnesota, vs. Dallas
The Rams lost Sam Bradford for the season and now will turn to Kellen Clemens, who makes Josh McCown look like Peyton Manning. Oh, and did you happen to see Josh Freeman start for the Vikings this week? Beat up or not, the Bears should be able to muster a couple of victories here and be at six or seven wins on the year.
Cluster 3: at Cleveland, at Philadelphia, vs. Green Bay
By mid-December, Cutler and Briggs could be back, and the Browns and Eagles could be out of playoff contention. Of course, this is all a giant hypothetical, but it's possible that the Bears could be sitting on eight or nine wins with a chance to clinch a playoff berth in the regular season finale against the rival Packers.
Does anybody else sense a motto for the second half of the season?
Bears football: It could be worse!


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Nanette Lepore puts out clothes handcrafted in NY
NEW YORK (AP) — Handcrafted in New York was the theme of Nanette Lepore's runway show Wednesday, when she sent out sheer beaded tops, shaggy-collared alpaca coats with girlie geometric prints and dresses and flouncy skirts done in Bordeaux red, violet and a smoky rose.
Lepore, known for her bohemian vibe, used netting to expose some skin in tops and dresses. She used flannel for jackets and pants, along with a belted poncho and skirt. Her looks for fall included unadorned suits with a twist, such as a tier of loose pleating on the back of a jacket.
She paired an alpaca turtleneck with a trouser suit. And she used the same long-haired black shag collar in a look featuring an embroidered strapless dress worn with a knit parka. Known for her youthful, feminine designs, Lepore included a few asymmetrical hems below the knee.
Lepore's pop of color came in a bright violet shearling coat worn with a handloom print dress.
Some of her coats included zip pockets on sleeves. Sleeves were leather on one hooded flannel coat.
The designer waved to the crowd with her daughter Violet at her side.
Lepore has received some attention in recent months for her commitment to New York's garment industry. Chirlane McCray, the wife of New York's new mayor, Bill de Blasio, wore a Lepore outfit to her husband's inauguration in January, as did their daughter.
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The Stockton Thunder's summer of change continued Thursday as it found out it will need to search for a new NHL affiliate.
The Stockton Thunder's summer of change continued Thursday as it found out it will need to search for a new NHL affiliate.
The Edmonton Oilers ended their seven-year relationship with the Thunder, announcing they will be teaming up with Stockton's ECHL Pacific Division rival, the Bakersfield Condors. Since the Thunder ended last season with a loss in the Kelly Cup finals to the Reading (Pa.) Royals, it has had to bring in a new team president, Brian Sandy, and new head coach, Rich Kromm, who was hired Monday.
Now it finds itself an independent team, but Kromm and team owner Brad Rowbotham are confident the situation is temporary.
"My first goal is to have an NHL affiliate, as long as it's a good, productive fit for both sides," Rowbotham said. "And I think the Stockton Thunder offers a lot to an NHL franchise, including a great building, a loyal fan base and a reputation for developing players. We truly appreciated our relationship with the Oilers, but we're very excited about moving into the future."
Rowbotham said he was not expecting the news.
"It surprised me," he said. "The reason I was given was that the owner of the Oilers (Daryl Katz) lives in Palm Springs in winter and he wanted to be closer to a team he had some involvement with. I don't think it had to do with the performance of either organization or anything like that."
Palm Springs is 227 miles closer to Bakersfield than Stockton.
An email sent to the Oilers inquiring into the decision was answered with a statement from Edmonton assistant general manager Ricky Olczyk reading: "We would like to thank the Stockton Thunder organization and the city of Stockton for their generous support over the past seven seasons."
The Thunder was affiliated with the Phoenix Coyotes in its first season in 2005-06, and then began its relationship with the Oilers. Stockton was also affiliated with the San Jose Sharks for two seasons (2010-12). Rowbotham said among the benefits of an affiliation for NHL teams is allowing a chance to evaluate players in front of crowds in competitive situations.
According to ECHL.com, there are currently nine NHL franchises without ECHL connections - Anaheim, Colorado, Nashville, St. Louis, Buffalo, Toronto, New Jersey, Philadelphia and the New York Islanders. And teams invariably move around during the summer.
Kromm said he prefers having an affiliation and believes it will happen. He was contacted by one NHL team before the Oilers made their decision.
"I won't say who it was at this point, but it was the day after I was hired and they wanted to know what our situation was," Kromm said. "There are teams that are available, and I think we can work something out."
Kromm said he hoped to settle the issue by early August.
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Jason Biggs's son, Sid, hit a major milestone last week: eating real food!
"We gave him some butternut squash," Biggs told PEOPLE at Monday's Orange Is the New Black FYC panel in West Hollywood.
The actor went on to joke about his baby's refined palate, saying, "We gave him a bone-in filet mignon. Sushi. Only one of those things is real. The bone-in filet, obviously. Medium-rare. Served with a side of mashed potatoes … lobster mash."
When pressed about what other delicacies Sid enjoys, Biggs asked for patience.
"I mean, he's 6 months old. Relax," he quipped of Sid, whom he and actress-writer wife Jenny Mollen welcomed Feb. 15.
Biggs, 36, may be having fun raising a future foodie, but he doesn't find his son's bedtime antics amusing.
"He ain't sleeping. Tell me what's fun about that," the sleep-deprived first-time father said, adding lovingly, "No. He is the most fun thing that's ever happened to me. But he really isn't sleeping and that is not fun."
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U.S. based Cerner Corporation is the second largest provider by market share of healthcare information technology (HIT) services in the healthcare industry, with 2007 revenues of $1.6 billion.[1] [2] Cerner's primary business involves leasing software to help medical organizations manage data and finances electronically.
Since 2005, the percentage of hospitals primarily relying on HIT technology has increased by 18.4%, to 28.4%, or 1620 of the roughly 5,700 hospitals in 2008.[3][4] These hospitals cite its ease and lower cost as reasons for having adopted an IT-based infrastructure. Increases in healthcare spending, safety and quality concerns, and insufficient care create a favorable environment for IT-based healthcare.[5] This has contributed to Cerner's 31% growth in revenue since 2007. [6] Since those issues aren't isolated to the U.S, Cerner has pursued aggressive growth in international markets. The company's non-U.S revenues increased by 157% between 2005 and 2007. [7] However, Cerner invests more than a third of its operating expense to develop IT services for international markets while only 19% of its revenues are from its international segment. [8]
Due to the 2008 global economic crisis, the healthcare sector has decreased its investment in HIT. Since Cerner relies exclusively on service and support contracts, the company acknowledges that a nationwide slowdown in hospital spending will halt growth.[8] [9] The company is focusing on growth in the international sector in order to compensate for revenue lost in the U.S. [10] In the third quarter of 2008, the diminished revenue growth of 8% in the domestic sector was offset by the 37% increase in revenue in the international sector. [11]
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In 2007, Cerner reported 11.2% growth in sales revenue since 2005.[16] However, sales revenue decreased in 2007 due to the company's shift in focus to upgrade its family of HIT services. Since Cerner sells time-based contracts for its services, the company's clients did not have to pay for this upgrade. Cerner's focus on upgrading their IT services impacted its software sales due to cannibalization. However, sales revenue decreased by only 1% due to an increase in hardware sales.
In 2007, Cerner's total revenue increased by 10%, almost completely due to a 40% increase in revenue in the company's international segment.[17] The international segment contributed roughly 10% of Cerner's total revenue in 2005. [17] The 2007 10-K shows that Cerner's international business contributed 19% to the total revenue.[17] This increase is the primary cause of the 30% increase in revenue between 2005 and 2007.[17]
Net income as a percentage of revenue has increased from 7.4% in 2005 to 8.4% in 2007. [14] Since Cerner spent on average 18% of its revenue since 2005 on research and development, net income grows at a slow pace. [15] [18]
Cerner's activity and focus indicate three main company-specific trends:
Cerner has four primary sources of revenue, all of which are IT services sold on a per-contract basis. Cerner divides itself into two geographic segments: domestic and international. Both of these segments are offered all of the following services.
Professional Services is the largest component, comprising of $465.39 million of Cerner's 2007 total revenue.[27] These services are provided to assist customers in the installation, implementation, and usage of Cerner's HIT technology. Cerner's client employees are educated on how to use the provided software applications. [27] In 2007, Cerner upgraded their IT systems and earned more revenue by charging clients to assist in the process of upgrading. Since 2006, revenue from professional services has increased by 15%. [28]
Support and Maintenance is the second largest component, comprising of $417.25 million of Cerner's 2007 total revenue.[27] The company offers 24/7 support to all of its clients on a contract basis. The contracts also include unlimited upgrades and maintenance until the contract matures. [27] These services begin as soon as professional services finish implementing the HIT technology. Since most of Cerner's clients subscribe to support and maintenance, the percentage of revenues of professional and support services are around the same. Revenues from this segment grew 17% since 2006. [28]
$256.77 million of the company's revenue comes from selling licensed software.[27] Cerner creates software specifically to meet needs of hospitals or other health institutions. The company sells software licenses to institutions via a lifetime contract. Thus, Cerner's clients have the company's software without a subscription charge. In 2007, Cerner's revenue from licensed software declined by 12% mainly due to a temporary shift in company focus to upgrading their systems. [27]
Cerner sells third-party licensed software from HP, IBM, Microsoft and Oracle after customizing the software for healthcare needs, which comprises $176.52 million of the company's total revenue.[27] Cerner also sells hardware computer equipment to support the licensed software. In 2007, technology sales declined 20% because of Cerner's temporary shift in focus to upgrading their systems. [27]
These are miscellaneous sources of revenue for the company. These are usually constant year over year because these are not part of Cerner's primary focus.
Since 2005, there has been an 18.4% increase in hospitals using digital healthcare services and digital patient records.[3] HIMMS, a market research unit, reports that in 2008, hospitals using IT services increased by up to 10%.[3] With 1620 out of the roughly 5700 hospitals using HIT, HIMMS analysts report that the U.S hospital IT market is nearly $33 billion in the US.[3] They also report that although the 2008 financial crisis slowed spending on IT in the short term, the migration to IT-based healthcare is inevitable.[3] The emergence of the electronic medical record has helped hospitals manage data efficiently. Whereas transportation and human error were important factors in paper healthcare systems, digital systems are instant and accessible without error. Hospitals use IT services to ensure smooth performance, ease of operability, proper patient care, and financial flexibility.While the adoption of IT services to manage health institutions has been slow, there is increasing demand for permanent IT-based healthcare systems. [23] Cerner and other HIT have the opportunity to provide their services to health institutions in the long term.[30]
Despite the growth in the need for healthcare, healthcare spending is not recession proof. In 2007, U.S healthcare IT spending grew at a slow pace of 0.2%, the slowest since 1997. primarily due to rising drug prices during an economically unstable period. [31][32] Cerner acknowledges the possibility of having diminished growth due to the shortage of money and the expense of healthcare IT.[9] In the 3rd quarter of 2008, there was an operating loss of 12% mainly due to foreign currency exchange loss. [33] In the same time period, total cost of system sales increased by 42.7% while total system sales increased by only 19.3%.[34] Cerner has begun aggressively pursuing emerging markets in South America and Asia to offset the slowing economy in the U.S and developed countries.
Overall, the 2008 financial crisis has led to a decrease in healthcare spending.The number of uninsured has increased, and hospital revenue has decreased due to a lower number of attending patients.[35] Hospitals are increasingly turning to mass layoffs and stoppage of services. Consolidation of health institutions to cut costs have lowered investment in healthcare. Even if only in the short term, the lowered investment in healthcare information technology services by hosptials and other institutions is significant.
Domestic: With an unending need for more hospitals, blood banks, and other institutions, the healthcare industry is ever-growing. In 2007, the U.S spent 15.7% of its GDP, or $2.26 trillion, in healthcare. Healthcare in the U.S grows at an average rate of 6.7%. [36] Think tanks such as Datamonitor and Kalorama estimate the spending on healthcare IT to grow to $25 billion per annum by the end of 2009. With HIT being their specialty, Cerner and the healthcare information services industry benefit from growth in national HIT spending. [37]
The U.S. healthcare system has been attacked for its flaws and lack of efficiency. According to the World Healh Organization, the U.S. is the country with the highest cost of healthcare while only being 37th in overall performance. [38] Since healthcare IT promises both adequate patient treatment and cost effectiveness, Cerner and the healthcare information services industry has the opportunity to market the much needed health IT services in the U.S. Cerner also benefits from any stimulus package that the government issues due to the 2008 financial crisis .[39]
International: As more countries modernize, more healthcare systems arise internationally. According to Credit Suisse analysts, around $30 billion dollars of opportunity exist globally for healthcare information technology services.[39] Datamonitor analysts expect global Healthcare IT spending to grow to $39.5 billion.[37] In the third quarter of 2008, the company had a 65% increase in operating earnings coupled with a 37% increase in revenue, both from Cerner's international segment. [11] Cerner has the opportunity to continue this increase by expanding its operations to reflect the ever-growing need for healthcare in the world.
Products offered by companies in the healthcare information services industry are different and have different functionality. However, most of Cerner's competitors offer some form of IT management service to health institutions.
Cerner's direct competitors include:
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The last few years have brought exciting breakthroughs in the area of anxiety disorders in youth. Anxiety disorders in children and adolescents has been recognized as one of the most common areas of pediatric psychopathology. These advances are of great importance because anxiety disorders in children are associated with negative outcomes including peer relationship difficulties, academic failure, and later onset of comorbid disorders including major depression and alcohol abuse.
Normative data about anxiety symptoms in the general population are now available. These findings are helpful to the clinician in differentiating "normal" childhood worries from clinical worries. Subclinical anxiety symptoms are very common in the general pediatric population. About 70% of grade school children report they worry "every now and then".1 The most common worries are related to school performance, illness of self or others, getting teased, making mistakes, or concern about physical appearance. Children with generalized anxiety disorder (GAD) compared to normal children describe a greater number of more severe, impairing worries. Children with GAD have trouble controlling their worry and do not participate in activities to distract them from their worried thoughts. Interestingly, some normal children, unlike those with GAD, recognize their main worry as serving a positive purpose.1 For example, the worry may help them work harder at school or prepare more diligently for exams.
A number of factors have been identified as contributing to the etiology of anxiety disorders in children. These factors include genetics/temperament, mother-child attachment pattern, presence of parental psychopathology, and parenting style. Behavioral inhibition in young children, characterized as persistent, fearful, avoidant behavior in response to new situations and novel stimuli, increases the likelihood of later developing anxiety disorders, especially social phobia in adolescence.2 Insecure mother-child attachment pattern has been linked to subsequent onset of anxiety.3 In addition, offspring of parents with anxiety disorders and of parents who exhibit a controlling, overprotective parenting style are more likely to manifest anxiety disorders themselves.4 Future research that investigates the interplay of these etiological factors will serve to identify which children are at risk for anxiety.
The treatment advances have been dramatic! Studies document that individual cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) and group CBT are efficacious in treating youth with separation anxiety disorder, social phobia, and/or GAD.5 In the arena of psychopharmacology, selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) have been shown to have short-term efficacy and safety in the treatment of childhood anxiety disorders.6-7 The Research Unit on Pediatric Psychopharmacology (RUPP) Anxiety Study Group demonstrated that 8 weeks of fluvoxamine was significantly more efficacious than 8 weeks of placebo in reducing the severity of clinician-rated anxiety and in producing improvement on a clinician-rated scale of global change.6 The SSRI was generally well tolerated, although it was associated with significantly more stomachaches and a trend toward greater motor activity than placebo. Thus, evidence-based treatments are available for children with anxiety disorders. In clinical practice, combined treatments are often used to target severe, impairing anxiety symptoms. Direct comparison of CBT, SSRI, CBT plus SSRI, and a control condition will determine if combined treatment provides additional benefit over a single intervention (i.e. CBT or SSRI).
Early identification and intervention is an important area of investigation. An early intervention project in Australia compared group CBT versus monitoring for children with mild-moderate anxiety disorders and for those with subthreshold anxiety disorders.8 Group CBT decreased the prevalence of anxiety diagnoses posttreatment, and also prevented the onset of new anxiety disorders over time. At 6-month follow-up, only 16% of children who received the group intervention had the onset of a new anxiety disorder compared with 54% in the monitoring group.8 Hopefully, early intervention will prevent negative outcomes associated with untreated anxiety. Prospective studies of treated and untreated children will address this issue.
The future directions in anxiety research are numerous. This burgeoning field needs new researchers. Since academic child and adolescent anxiety psychiatry offers a lifestyle with variety, flexibility, challenge, and innovation, I strongly recommend an academic career that includes research. Linking neuroscience, genetics, behavioral science, and epidemiology will advance our knowledge of etiology, risk, and protective processes in early-onset mental illnesses and will guide our treatment approaches.9 Translational research that incorporates basic science findings in designing real-life interventions is a crucial area of investigation. It is important that basic science findings, developmental theory, and conceptual models guide child and adolescent psychiatry research.9
Gail A. Bernstein, M.D.
Endowed Professor in Child & Adolescent Anxiety Disorders Head, Program in Child & Adolescent Anxiety & Mood Disorders University of Minnesota Medical School, Minneapolis, MN


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I kept fretting over the persistent pain in my hands. Housework, weeding the garden, and even helping my children dress caused my hands to scream in protest. When I tried to spend time with God, I found myself thinking about the pain instead.
At the time, I was reading the book of Nehemiah. This man who loved God was striving to rebuild the wall around God's city, Jerusalem. Nehemiah rallied hundreds to help. Throughout the massive project, Nehemiah prayed and then depended on God for success. Amazingly, in just 52 days the new wall was completed. Everyone knew it was a work of God.
During the rebuilding process, enemies of Israel threatened and taunted God's people, trying to intimidate the workers. These enemies cast doubt by shouting, "Their hands will get too weak for the work, and it will not be completed." Nehemiah wasn't distracted by their attempts at intimidation. Instead he prayed, "Now strengthen my hands" (Neh. 6:9).
As I read Nehemiah's prayer, I realized my focus was badly misplaced. Pain had distracted me from praying, but Nehemiah's life reminded me to pray despite obstacles. I adjusted my focus. Depending on God, I chose to watch for God's power in my life.
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For breast cancer survivors, support groups have taken various incarnations. Some are based around art therapy or yoga, others are held in more traditional settings. One is even set in a river, where the tranquil setting of fly fishing offers a unique way to help.
Casting for Recovery, a Vermont-based organization co-founded by a breast cancer reconstructive surgeon and a professional fly fisher, hosts weekend retreats for breast cancer survivors in 32 states.
"We introduce them to the world of fly-fishing," said Cheryl Murphy, program director for the Connecticut chapter. "We give them advanced casting lessons, and lessons in knot-tying. It sounds like a funny thing to do. The women go in, many never having fished at all."
Since 2003, the chapter has hosted a two-and-a-half-day retreat each year in West Cornwall (they're in the process of finding a new location within the state). Each year, the organization randomly chooses 14 breast cancer survivors who have applied. Casting for Recovery pays all their expenses.
Sharon Mulcahy, a 69-year-old dance therapist from Glastonbury, said just meeting the other retreat members was an experience she won't forget.
"The thing was so amazing because we were all breast cancer survivors," she said. "There was an immediate bonding."
And, of course, there was fishing.
"We went into the Housatonic River in our waders and vest and hats with our guides and we fished for two hours," she said. "It was just the most wonderful feeling. We were waist-high in the water, with the hills all around. It was so therapeutic."
It's unusual, Murphy said, but it's hard to find a more peaceful activity than fly-fishing.
"It provides them with a respite from familiar surroundings, it's just so laid back," she said. "I like to refer to this program as healing beyond medicine."
And on top of peer support and advice from experts, they might end up with some fish.
"Pretty much everyone catches a few," Murphy said. "It depends on the conditions of the river."
For those patients and survivors looking for a more traditional group setting, many hospitals in the area offer a variety of programs.
"You need to be able to talk to someone who has actually experienced what you've been through," said Cynthia Gibson, a Hartford resident who has been a member of the St. Francis Hospital Breast Cancer Support group for five years. "You have people who say 'I know how you feel,' and they haven't gone through that experience, so they don't know how you feel."
But because all the members of her support group have been diagnosed with breast cancer, Gibson, 60, said it feels like a "sisterhood."
"They can say I know how you feel or I understand how you feel," she said."I call it a lifeline."
Janet Ragno, a social worker at St. Francis who organizes support group meetings, said the format of the sessions there is pretty loose. Much of it, she said, involves working out "communication issues."
"Cancer is one of those life-stopping moments, and you feel so alone," she said.
Every other month, a specialist comes to speak to the group about a different topic. A nutritionist, for instance, might come to talk to the group members about healthful eating.
New members often wait before participating in the discussions.
"We have people who sit back, but they're taking it all it in," she said. "Sometimes, they're withdrawn and hugging themselves for comfort."
Eventually, she said, once many see that the other women are going through the same things they are, they're more willing to open up to the group.
Gibson said few people continue to go to the meetings for as long as she has.
"There may come a time when I don't need to go, but right now it just helps me," she said. "It makes feel strong to know there's somewhere I can go when I have question - and five years later, I still have questions. For now it's an opportunity to share and support other women and together we make each other stronger."
Zoe Christopher, resource liaison for the national advocacy group Breast Cancer Action, said that cancer support groups emerged in the 1960s and 1970s, when "community-based forms of psychotherapy" became popular.
"People learned that you didn't necessarily need a professional to walk you through a crisis," she said in an email. "People who had experienced similar trauma or challenge were able to provide wonderful support to one another."
Go to courant.com/supportgroups for a list of support groups offered in the Hartford Metro area.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Senate Democrats for the first time in more than three years will pass a budget, a senior Democratic lawmaker said on Sunday, fulfilling a basic task that Republicans have been urging them to do.
Senator Charles Schumer said, however, the spending plan will include proposed new revenue despite Republican warnings that they will not go along with any more tax increases.
"We're going to do a budget this year and it is going to have revenue in it, and Republicans ought to get used to that," Schumer of New York, the Senate's No. 3 Democrat, told NBC's "Meet the Press."
President Barack Obama's Democrats control the Senate, but have not passed a budget since 2010 amid disagreements within the party over possible spending cuts, particularly in entitlement programs like Medicare and Social Security.
This has drawn the ire of Republicans who accuse them of a dereliction of duty that has undermined efforts to reduce spending and the U.S. debt.
Washington is expected to reach the limit of its $16.4 trillion borrowing power by early March, and lifting the debt ceiling will allow the federal government to continue its work uninterrupted.
Republican leaders in the House of Representatives, in a major concession on Friday, said they would be willing to raise the debt limit for three months and, at the same time, drop their demand that any increase in the government's borrowing power be matched in spending cuts.
But Republicans said they would require the Senate to finally pass a budget that could include spending reductions as well as changes in the tax code.
Republican Senator Ted Cruz of Texas, appearing on NBC with Schumer, called the House Republican plan "a step in the right direction" and accused the Democratic-led Senate of not doing its job.
Schumer called the House Republican offer "a major victory" for Obama, who has vowed to refuse to negotiate with Congress on the debt limit.
Besides, Schumer said, "We need a budget .... It's a great opportunity to get us some more revenues."
Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky has said he is ready to focus on spending cuts in any budget negotiations, but considers tax increases a closed matter. The White House had said it would accept the three-month plan so long as it was not conditioned on spending cuts.
After the deadline for the debt ceiling increase, Congress faces a March 1 deadline to avert automatic spending cuts and a March 27 expiration of funding for government agencies and programs that could result in a partial federal shutdown.
A three-month debt limit extension would add a further deadline in April or May.
The recent separate deal between Congress and the White House to avert "the fiscal cliff" of automatic tax increases on most Americans and severe spending cuts imposed a tax hike on many of the wealthiest Americans.
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State police report that on Friday, June 1, Glenn Lawrence Peterson, 56, was involved in an argument with a 48-year- old female, also from Shade Gap. Peterson allegedly threatened the woman with bodily harm during the 7:49 a.m. dispute. Charges against Peterson will be filed through Magisterial District Judge Devin Horne.
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A 66-year-old Warfordsburg man reported to state police investigators several items were stolen from his wooded property between 5 p.m. on May 28 and noon on June 1. The man's property is located at 2010 Pigeon Cove Road, Bethel Township. The loss has been valued at $760. Anyone with additional information concerning this incident is asked to call state police Trooper Piasecki at 717-485-3131.
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According to state police reports, the juvenile argued with a 61-year-old Warfordsburg woman over a video game at 1 p.m. at the Bethel Township residence. The argument reportedly escalated when the boy allegedly struck the woman in the head, pinched her on the arms and hit her with a stick.
Woman Drives Vehicle Without Permission
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Two shots from a gun were fired from a white Dodge truck with lights extending across the roof on May 24, state police reported. The shots were fired while passing a vehicle occupied by four area teens who were travelling along Plum Hollow Road, Dublin Township, between 9 p.m. and 9:30 p.m. Anyone having additional information linked to this case of reckless endangerment should immediately contact state police Trooper Garner by calling 717-485-3131.
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*disclamer* just to start this of i am not some pro l33t player or anything like that and this just my opinion and it is subject to change.
tier 1-
GHEIST their bonus is just so damn stong and well their cards are much better than their counterpart the Roots imo, i dont think they are the best and they have their weakness "like SoB" and their mono decks arent as stong with the recent perma banns
Montana that attack reduction is just insane, they have so many good cards like Mona, Griezzo and Spiaghi probably the best clan, makes a nice mono or half deck
Skeelz so solid good in a half deck, mono and splash does pretty much every thing. nuff said
Piranas before i get started i have to say they are my main "well used to be" their bonus is really good, clans that need it like Rescue and GHEIST are just slaughtered most of their cards have huge power, pill manipulation is real strong Scrubb can just overpill and get away with it. Only down side half deck isnt so strong imo and their perma banns really make a difference.
Vortex their clan bonus is so forgiving and allows you to make huge plays and not geting punished for it, however the main problem is their bonus doent win fights. btw they are on the edge of being top of tier 2 but im nice like that.
ok so thats the end of tier 1 i just wanna say that thats not in any order and that if your favourite clan isnt there tier 2 is still very viable they just have down sides that tier 1 dont.
AGPrinz Titan The BeSharps Wednesday 07/11/2012, 01:22
Ok heres the actual tier list
Power manipulation - Allstars, Bangers, uluwatu
Attack Manipulation - Junkz, Uppers, Sakhrom
Damage Bonus - Freaks, Jungo, Fang Pi, bezerk, junta
SoA - Roots, Gheist
Defeat Clans - Pussycats, Frozn, vortex
SOB clans - Nightmare, Piranas
Strictly Mono Clans - Montana, Skeelz, Sentinal, rescue
If the clan doesnt start with a capital letter, it means the clan is underpowered. Also, grezzio is not good. Why would i ever pick him over any other 2010+ montana four star?
gheist are not that good, they just either completely own against certain clans (sak, junkz, uppers, sentinal), or completely suck (piranas, nightmare, allstars, freaks), there is no inbetween
ghelas Titan E X C A L I B U R Wednesday 07/11/2012, 01:23
Griezzo is bad in the current meta...
To make an accurate tier list you have to understand what makes good cards. There's a strong preference in the meta for cards that can win fights.
There are basically 5 types of cards in UR:
1) Outdated -- card has low base stats or such poor stat/ability/bonus synergy that it is not playable in ELO
2) Well-rounded -- card is okay in every regard, no particular strength or weakness, no need to discuss
3) Wall -- card has high round-winning power, but either low or situational gapping ability
4) Glass Cannon -- card has low or situational round-winning power, but high gapping ability
5) Powerhouse -- card has great base stats, good round-winning power and gapping ability
Griezzo is the 4th kind of card; he will always lose to the Beeboys and the Askais, he will always lose to the well-rounded cards like Shifou, he will always lose to cards with high round-winning ability like Chiara. At some point in the not-too-distant past the 4th kind of card were more or less playable, but now they are rapidly disappearing from the meta. As UR's power creep continues, the 2nd, 3rd, and 5th kind of cards just get better at winning rounds, and even once great cards of the 4th type (Nyema, Oflgn, etc) are starting to look much less ELO-playable, because they are easy to beat.
Dat Boi Frog Imperator E X C A L I B U R Wednesday 07/11/2012, 01:40
Its pointless to try to tier it because of the bans. The tier list would change every week.
subclavianHoA Imperator Wednesday 07/11/2012, 01:59
Kitkat, is that you?
The reason i think that Griezzo is good is that like every good card he forces you to make had descions, either take huge damage or waste pillz. he will win many late mid level pill battles (like 5-7 pillz). although i agree that he is quite gimmicky and has a lot of down sides like SoA, SoB, Dr, Pr, yeah it goes on. so i was probably wrong to use him as a seal of excellence. happy?
@Box-Turtle why does that matter, if there is a bann that hurts your clan its only weekly the tier list doent or wouldnt change its just match ups for a short period of time, if the factor is not tangible it should not be considered, plus i can change it at any time
AGPrinz i dont see why Montana, Skeelz are mono clans most people consider Praxie to be a solid pick for half or splash decks and there are plenty of choices for half decks in both clans
JO3SHMO Imperator Wise Men Distracted Wednesday 07/11/2012, 12:30
Coming from a person who doesn't play Skeelz (that's me ) I'd either go mono, 6/2 or just a straight up 7/1 splash. Their bonus is generally going to be less useful than whichever clan you pair it with, making 4/4 Skeelz+[insert clan] less desirable.
I've certainly played my fair share of games using Montana, and they can be useful as a half deck. Most definitely. That said though, both Skeelz and Montana, are geared towards mono, purely because of their strong support:ability options.
I agree with the majority in that Griezzo was a poor example.
These 'ELO tier' threads always go down the same path: person posts their 'tiers'... other people disagree.
I myself do not agree entirely with your top tier clans. But just like you have your own bias opinion, I have mine. To be honest most clans have completely legitimate deck options these days (some still being a bit below the standard though) which blurs the lines between any real clan 'tiers'or 'rankings', because one clan being 'better' than another is mostly personal preference.
For example, last week saw me peak at 1442 with All Stars and Jungo, neither of which appear on your list. An abstract tier system isn't that relevant these days. What's most important is what clans have their in-and-out-of-temp-ban cards being playable (like Box-Turtle suggested), and how your selected clan/s match up against most of what you see that week. A clan can go from great one week to being undesirable the next.
wats_happenin Titan Casual Grind Wednesday 07/11/2012, 12:30
Skeelz are either Mono or a 2 card splash that's it..they just fair alot better with their support (not to mention 95% of them absolutely suck without their ability-hence why leviatonn is the only gheist card that can actually face them)
As for your tiers it changes weekly as someone said but i'd say Jungo and Junkz are the 2 'I can play every week no trouble' clans...The first mainly thanks to Jean that stupid camel! Pussycats and Nightmare aren't too far behind them
Gheist are pretty average...they are halfdeck material now, complementing the big cards of the week with nice SOA offense support, the same can be said about Roots but offering SOA defense support.
Vortex...average again..gets destroyed by SOA really, really badly
Piranas...forced into mono really but with no DR backup they are fairly sub par as well
I disagree with Montana being forced into mono...they are actually decent at both builds..I'd say they are one of the more 'nicely balanced clans' as opposed to overused (jungo) and underused(La Junta)
Unfortunately the meta has become attack manipulation + big hitter pushing out alottttt of stuff