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I am a physicist and postdoctoral research associate at the Gray Laboratories under the guidance of Dr. Mike Partridge. My current research is chiefly concerned with the mathematical modelling of oxygen distribution in both vascular and avascular tumours. I am also interested in modelling the interactions of radiation (both particulate and photon) with tissue and the influences of factors such as oxygen on energy transfer. I am also a frequent contributor to the Irish Times, BBC and the Guardian, where I mainly write science opinion pieces. In this capacity, I try to encourage a critical-thinking / evidence based approach to often contentious issues. I am a joint winner of the 2014 Sense about Science / Nature Maddox Prize for standing up for science. and a regular radio / television contributor and panellist.
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Oxygen dynamics are of fundamental importance in determining how tumours grow and respond to therapy - oxygen is a potent radiosensitizer, and poorly oxygenated tumours are both more radio and chemo resistant than well-oxygenated growths. Better understanding of underlying tumour oxygenation may allow the selective boosting of dose to regions of hypoxia (low oxygen) and eventually improve treatment outcome. To this end, I produce mathematical models of oxygen distributon inside tumours and validate these using both avascular models (typically multi-cellular tumour spheroids) and histological sections from real tumours. Recent work and papers are available under the research section of this website.
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Gary man arrested on federal child porn charges
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A Gary man faces federal child pornography charges after at least three pornographic videos involving children were allegedly found on his laptop computer.
Thirty-nine-year-old Christopher M. Bour has been charged with receiving child pornography.
The Times of Munster reports court documents state that Bour had been communicating with a woman and allegedly sent her texts saying he was going to have sex with a toddler.
The woman told the FBI about the texts, which Bour later told officials were part of a fantasy and role-playing.
Court documents state that Bour told officials he started watching child pornography two years ago and estimates he has downloaded less than 100 videos.

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A Sick Day Dream Tray
'Tis the season for the sniffles. Today I am staying home sick and resigning myself to fun magazines, my RSS feed and grilled cheese with soup. Because laughter is the best medicine, I've put together a cheerful dream-tray to get me through this groggy day. (Oh, and yes, I'm eating grilled cheese off formal china...but when you're sick you get anything you want.) What are your sick day must-haves?
1. Mat's Sick Day Dream Tray
2. MacKenzie Smith's The East Villager Grilled Cheese Sandwich, via Grilled Cheese Social
3. Le Petit Dej' Breakfast Tray, $92 at aplusrstore.com
4. Ming Dragon China by Meissen, available at Michael C. Fina
5. Martha Stewart Hudson Collection, $23 at Macys.com
6. Cutlery by Josef Hofmann via Wiener Silber
7. Cheer Up Glass, $5.50 from Fishs Eddy
8. Abe Flared Mug, $8 via Better Living Through Design (Thanks, Amy!)
9. Organic Cotton Octopus Napkins, $22 via supermarkethq.com
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This item is a scissor/zipper fob with an orange flower bead and lobster clasp.
If you're always losing your small scissors, adding a charm fob is an easy way to help keep track of it. Just attach it to one of the handles and it will always be easier to find.
Fobs can also be used as zipper pulls or attached to other items to add a quick but fancy accessory.
Fobs average 5-6″ but can be longer. Each fob has a large lobster clasp to attach to your scissors or zipper pull and could include charms, gemstone beads or chips, or beads made of metal, glass, ceramic, stone, or even fresh water pearls – it all depends on what we have on hand!
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The past few years have caused the words real estate (when used together) to become a bit of a dirty word. Some people vow to never invest or buy again because of negative experiences and when you tell people you are a real estate investor these days some folks look at you like you have some sort of contagious disease. However many investors have used the state of the real estate market over the past few years as a once in a lifetime opportunity to purchase property at prices and in quantities that have just never been possible before.
How have you been effected by the changes in the real estate market over the past four years? For any real estate agents out there, how has your business been impacted and have things improved? Also please include your city in your response.
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I am hoping to get into the investment side in my area Virginia Beach, VA. I am a busy mother of 3 and a Realtor and love the business. It is definitely hard work, but can be very rewarding helping people find their perfect fit. My husband and I started flipping our residences every 2-3 years, buying the ugliest home in the best neighborhood. But after 3 children, we are ready to stay put for a while. I am antsy to do a flip and we are talking about doing one as an investment. Finding investment properties in Hampton Roads is a little challenging. Our market hasn't been hit as bad as other areas in the nation due to our transient military population. We have several large military bases and continue to see families moving into and out of the area. Virginia Beach is also rated one of the best places to live, raise a family, and retire. http://www.jenniferziemer.com/virginia-beach.php
But, flipping can absolutely be done still with cash and creativity (I am missing one of these key ingredients). I just posted a blog about our current market and what we have seen over the past three years. Check it out! Thanks so much for the great topic!!


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Kimball Knights Keep it All in the Family park
This is the third in a 16-day installment of previews featuring the 16 teams participating in the Allstate Sugar Bowl National Prep Basketball Classic January 6 through January 8 at the Pontchartrain Center in Kenner as well as at Country Day and Archbishop Rummel High Schools. NewOrleans.Com/Sports is an official sponsor of the event.
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For the Kimball Knights basketball program in Dallas, Texas, the family affair continues.
Legendary coach Goree Johnson piloted the Knights to state championships in 1996 and 1997. After stepping down as head coach to become the Assistant Athletic Director of the Dallas Independent School District, Johnson had a concourse at the Jesse Owens Memorial Complex named after him.
Like father, like son. The head coach at Kimball now is Royce Johnson, the son of Goree Johnson.
Royce Johnson served as prominent assistant coach on the 1996 and 1997 title winning teams under his father.
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For months now, we've been wondering whether crime scene investigators in Miami or New York would get the pink slip as rumors circulated that one (or both) of the CSI spinoffs would get canceled.
We now know the answer. And it looks like David Caruso will be hanging up his shades for good after 10 seasons.
CBS has canceled the costlier of the two, so CSI: MIAMI will not return next season. CSI: NY, the cheaper of the two spinoffs, earned a reprieve and will be back for its ninth season.
The ax fell on four of the Network's freshmen series.
UNFORGETTABLE, featuring Poppy Montgomery as a detective who can't forget anything, except for the circumstances surrounding her sister's death, apparently failed to be memorable enough for viewers.
CBS offered no life support to medical drama, A GIFTED MAN, starring Patrick Wilson as a talented neurologist haunted by the ghost of his ex-wife. Wilson caused a minor controversy when he tweeted that after hearing rumor after rumor about whether the show would return, he couldn't be happier now the question was actually answered, adding that "As good as it was (sometimes) it was not what I signed on for."
The sitcom ROB! actually looked quite promising when it began, boosting Thursday night numbers while paired with BIG BANG THEORY. But by the end of eight episodes, the numbers slipped enough to get it yanked.
NYC22 didn't catch on quickly enough, and the show about rookie cops in the Big Apple is now permanently off duty.
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U.S. Rep. Richard Hudson stopped in Linwood on Wednesday afternoon as part of his 8th Congressional District Farm Tour.
U.S. Rep. Richard Hudson stopped in Linwood on Wednesday afternoon as part of his 8th Congressional District Farm Tour to update local farm bureaus on the Farm Bill as well as get farmers' feedback on issues important to them, such as immigration reform and the elimination of estate taxes.
The freshman Republican congressman from Concord, who was recently appointed to the House Committee on Agriculture, made nine stops in the district from Monday through Wednesday. At each stop, his staff collected contact information from the farmers, who he said will serve as his informal agriculture advisory board.
"I want to be able to call on you and I want you to be able to call on me, too," Hudson said, noting he promised during his campaign to be more visible in the district and get appointed to the House Agriculture Committee. He serves on the subcommittees for general farm commodities and risk management, including oversight of crop insurance, as well as livestock, rural development and credit.
The grandson of a tobacco farmer, Hudson said an important part of the Farm Bill concerns crop insurance. "We want to make sure we keep that safety net," he told the approximately 30 farmers gathered at the Linwood Fire Department.
Hudson said he is also concerned about keeping young people in agriculture and helping preserve a way of life in rural America. One farmer at the meeting said estate taxes are forcing more families to get out of farming because those who inherit the property are increasingly forced to sell the land to pay taxes. George Smith, president of the Davidson County Farm Bureau, noted that the average age of the American farmer is 57 and very few people under 40 remain in the business.
"This issue has come up at every meeting on this tour," Hudson said of estate taxes. "The death tax or inheritance tax is the most immoral tax there is. I'm going to do everything I can to eliminate it completely."
Immigration reform was also the subject of several farmers' questions to the congressman with many noting that immigrants are a crucial part of their workforce. One farmer said Hispanic workers are willing to work hard and do jobs he couldn't find others to do so he wants them to be able to find a path to citizenship. "There are some great people who live in the shadows," he noted.
"I'm really encouraged by the bipartisan support for immigration reform — I feel like there's a lot of momentum on that," Hudson said, noting there will likely be a separate program addressing farm workers. He said the reform under discussion is still evolving but he wants to make sure it includes infrastructure to track people in the immigration system and also secure U.S. borders. He also said visas should not be based on a lottery but on need, such as whether farm workers or doctors are needed in the U.S. economy.
In response to other questions about stricter gun control laws in light of several mass shootings, most recently the school shooting in Newtown, Conn., Hudson, a National Rifle Association member, said he doesn't favor new gun laws. He said gun violence has actually gone down since a national ban on assault weapons expired in 2004.
But before any other issues can be addressed, Congress has to deal with the national debt problem, Hudson said. Not only is the debt a national security problem, he said, but "we are literally mortgaging the lives of future generations." He said spending cuts are going to have to be made and programs such as Social Security and Medicare need to be reformed. As a freshman, Hudson said he has made a concerted effort to meet with Democrats as well as Republicans to talk about ways to make spending cuts and balance the budget because it will take a bipartisan effort to move beyond gridlock.
Hudson also said he would follow through on a campaign promise to introduce a sunset law that would put an expiration date on all federal programs that are found not to be working or duplicating other programs in order to cut waste.
"It would force Congress to do some oversight," he said. "As Ronald Reagan once said, 'There's nothing more permanent than a temporary government program.' The Washington bureaucracy is so big it's like trying to turn an aircraft carrier with a canoe paddle."
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The Department of Special Orthopaedic Surgery and Traumatology at the Vivantes Auguste-Viktoria Hospital, Centre for Endoprosthetics, is a nationally and internationally renowned department for the replacement of artificial joints, in particular for the hip and knee.
Ulm University Hospital is both an innovator and a partner in the healthcare field, offering specialist departments, institutes, central services, numerous interdisciplinary centres and a total of around 1,130 beds. As a university hospital, it provides patients with top-level, cross-departmental medical care that brings treatment and research together.
Heart attacks and diabetes are common conditions in Germany. However, few people are aware of the close connection between cardiac problems and diabetes mellitus type 2.
The Department of Haematology, Oncology and Rheumatology at Heidelberg University Hospital is run by one of the world's finest experts in this field, Professor Anthony D. Ho, who set up and managed blood stem cell transplant centres in Canada and the USA. Patients suffering from oncological diseases of the blood such as lymphoma, leukaemia, soft-tissue sarcoma and bone sarcoma can expect the best possible medical care reflecting the latest scientific findings.
The European Pancreas Centre in Heidelberg is among the leading centres in the world for the treatment of pancreatic disease. Under the stewardship of Professor Büchler, the European Pancreas Centre is able to offer the very highest level of treatment thanks to its highly qualified staff and state-of-the-art equipment.
An experienced team of doctors, nurses and physiotherapists, plus an extensive network of other medical specialists, pave the way for optimum and tailored treatment of cancer patients.
At Hamburg-Eppendorf University Medical Centre (UKE), Professor Margit Fisch heads up the Department and Clinic of Urology, which offers modern, patient-oriented medical care tailored to individual needs.
The Urology Department at Mainz University Medical Centre is highly experienced in performing operations using the daVinci® robotic surgical system. Professor Thüroff and his team have been using the system on a routine basis since 2007. Professor Thüroff is highly regarded around the world as a specialist surgeon for treating cancers of the kidneys, bladder and prostate.
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Edward (Joe) Redish Named 2013 Oersted Medal Recipient
The Oersted Medal will be presented to Dr. Redish at a Ceremonial Session of the AAPT Winter Meeting in New Orleans, January 7, 2013. Following the presentation, Redish will deliver an address titled, "The Implications of a Theoretical Framework for PER."
Redish earned his B.S. from Princeton University, graduating magna cum laude. He joined the University of Maryland physics department in 1968 after receiving his Ph.D. in theoretical nuclear physics from MIT. From 1968-70 he was a Center for Theoretical Physics Fellow, becoming Assistant Professor in 1970 and Associate Professor in 1974. Redish became a Professor in 1979 and served as Chair of the UMD Department of Physics and Astronomy from 1982-85.
In the 1980s he collaborated with AAPT Executive Officer, Jack Wilson, and other physics colleagues on early projects using computers in education. The first was the Maryland University Project in physics and Educational Technology (M.U.P.P.E.T.), a project created soon after the appearance of personal computers to demonstrate the value of including this new tool in instruction for physics majors. M.U.P.P.E.T. was a major influence on the CUPS project, in a large national team developed software for upper division physics majors. CUPS influenced both the PhysLets project and the vPython environment.
Following the release of the Windows operating system, he and Wilson developed the Comprehensive Universal Physics Learning Environment (CUPLE) to demonstrate the possibility of using multi-media in a modular way in physics instruction.
For the past 20 years his research has focused on physics education with an emphasis on the role of student expectations and understanding the kinds of difficulties physics students have with problem solving from introductory to upper division physics. Redish has been a major factor in bringing the ideas of physics education research to the community of STEM education researchers. His book Teaching Physics describes research-based curriculum developments and methods, and was distributed to thousands of physics faculty free by John Wiley & Sons. He is in great demand as a speaker on the topic of physics education research and, since 2000, he has given more than 150 invited talks at conferences and universities around the world.
He has been particularly interested in the development of theoretical models of cognition relevant to education. This has led to development (with Bao) of a new analytical method for combining qualitative and quantitative assessment techniques, and to development (with Saul and Steinberg) of a survey instrument for probing student expectations in physics class (the Maryland Physics Expectations Survey – MPEX). The MPEX has been translated into more than a dozen languages and delivered to more than 10,000 students in the U.S. With Tuminaro and Bing he has developed cognitive models for analyzing student epistemological choices in problem solving at the introductory and advanced levels.
Redish has been co-organizer for three major conferences bringing the topic of education to the university physics community: the Conference on Computers in Physics Instruction (Raleigh, 1988), the International Conference on Undergraduate Physics Education (College Park, 1996), and the first Enrico Fermi Summer School on Physics Education Research (Varenna, Italy, 2003). All three have major published proceedings.
With a strong team of collaborators led by Priscilla Laws, he pioneered a new approach to university physics instruction, The Physics Suite, a synergistic combination of research-based active learning materials and a rewrite of a popular text to blend it with other activities and to modify it to respond to what has been learned from physics education research. He has also created online problems collections for introductory (Thinking Problems in Physics) and advanced physics (Thinking Problems in Mathematical Physics). Redish was also lead developer on an HHMI project to develop a new physics course for biology majors and pre-medical students (Project NEXUS).
He has been a mentor to a large number of physics education researchers and has supervised more than thirty graduate students and postdoctoral fellows in physics education research and nuclear physics.
He is a fellow of the American Physical Society, the AAAS, and the Washington Academy of Science and has received awards for his work in education from the Washington Academy of Science, the Maryland Association for Higher Education, Dickinson College, Vanderbilt University, the Robert A. Millikan Medal from the AAPT, a 2005 NSF Director's Award as a Distinguished Teaching Scholar, the Medal of the International Commission on Physics Education, and most recently, the 2012 ICPE Medal at the World Conference on Physics Education
"Dr. Redish's career exemplifies the outstanding, widespread, and lasting impact on the teaching of physics for which the Oersted Medal was created. We are honored to recognize his contributions to AAPT and to physics education research," stated Beth Cunningham, AAPT's Executive Officer.
About the Award
Some previous Oersted awardees are Charles H. Holbrow, F. James Rutherford, George F. Smoot, Mildred S. Dresselhaus, Carl Wieman, Lillian McDermott, Hans Bethe, Edward Purcell, and Richard Feynman. The complete list of recipients can be found at http://www.aapt.org/Programs/awards/oersted.cfm.
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Breastfeeding Today, Issue 20, October 2013
Features: • What Your Baby Knows About Breastfeeding
• Call for 60 Second Stories—send us a video of your story!
• A Colorful Celebration of Breastfeeding
• Crying is Brave Too–Parenting a sensitive child
Mothers' Stories: • Muireann's Story: Marathon Mother
• Leslie's Story: Nursing Helped Me Grieve
• Heather's Story: Breastfeeding on the Job
• Jessica's Story: The Serenity of Breastfeeding
• Julia's Story: My Liquid Gold—pumping for and nursing a preemie
Mom to Mom: • Living on Thin Air—How can I help my 18 month old learn to enjoy eating new foods? What's Cooking: • A Winning Recipe—Good nutrition means eating a well-balanced and varied diet of foods in as close to their natural state as possible Recipes: • Vegetable Quiche without a crust


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Sharon Hersh is a licensed professional counselor, author, speaker, teacher and certified life coach. Ms. Hersh was appointed Adjunct Professor of Counseling at RTS Orlando in 2012 and served as guest faculty for seven years prior to that. She teaches RTS counseling courses on addiction and sexuality and supervises graduate intern counselors at the Oviedo Counseling Clinic.
In her active private counseling practice, Ms. Hersh helps women, men, couples, adolescents and families face addictions, relational and sexual struggles, adolescent issues, eating disorders, personal transformation and other challenges. She has published numerous books and articles related to counseling, parenting and personal growth.
Ms. Hersh frequently speaks and teaches at seminaries, universities, conferences and retreats. She currently serves as an Adjunct Professor of Counseling at Colorado Christian University and Seattle School of Theology and Psychology and as a Guest Lecturer at Denver University. She regularly hosts Beyond Addiction conferences, directs Women's Recovery & Renewal, a retreat ministry to struggling women and their caregivers and serves as co-host of True Sisterhood, a collaborative effort to promote relationships between women through a podcasts, publications and conferences. Ms. Hersh is also working with a cutting-edge technology company to write mobile phone apps that provide immediate access to health and hope.
Ms. Hersh is a member of the American Counseling Association and sits on the Advisory Board of Music for the Soul, a project to create music that lends support to people in unique and difficult seasons of life.
Ms. Hersh teaches spring semester courses in Orlando and lives the rest of the year in Lone Tree, CO. She has two adult children and loves to travel, read, run, listen to music and spend time with friends.
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UNDERRATED: Peter Capaldi on "The Hour"
Already one of the most addicting, sumptuously shot dramas on TV, this BBC series grew only stronger with this Scottish actor on board for its second season, which came out on DVD last month. A volcanic poet of profanity in "In the Loop," Capaldi simmers with a grim sternness as the show's news director and shines in deft, nuanced exchanges with an acidly sharp reporter played by Anna Chancellor.
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State official explains revaluation of property at Portsmouth meetingBy KIMBERLEY HAAS
Union Leader Correspondent
October 16. 2017 10:15PM
PORTSMOUTH — A state official from the New Hampshire Department of Revenue Administration answered questions at Monday's city council meeting about a recent revaluation of residential and commercial property.
Residents and commercial property owners have expressed concerns that their taxes will increase as a result of the dramatic increase in property values.
Stephan Hamilton, the director of the municipal and property division, said Portsmouth is not the only community that has had dramatic ups and downs in the past 20 years.
When he was a commercial assessor in Manchester, there was a steep increase in property values from 2001 to 2006, he said.
Hamilton said that in Salem, where he lives, the market went up at the same time and then took a sharp downward turn.
Hamilton said every town and city is mandated to revalue property values every five years, unless assessors see a dramatic shift in values.
City Councilor Chris Dwyer asked specifically about commercial revaluation.
Hamilton said commercial revaluation is harder to understand than residential revaluation because those buildings are purchased by investors who have different end goals than home buyers.
"They're not buying with their heart, or for design. They're buying for economic performance," Hamilton said. "They're investors, and they are there to invest in properties to get a rate of return."
Hamilton said determining commercial property values can be elusive because the properties typically don't change hands often and they include many variables, such as fixtures and equipment.
Hamilton said that his data suggests that both residential and commercial property values in Rockingham County went up from 2015 to 2016. Last year's data is not yet available.
According to Judie Belanger, director of finance for the city of Portsmouth, the ratio of the city's property assessed valuation dropped to 88.5 percent of market value in 2014, sparking a revaluation.
In the 2016 tax year, the assessed valuation was 86.6 percent compared to market value, leading to the latest revaluation, Belanger said at a recent city council meeting.
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Skip to comments.Jamie Olivers latest ** panic: pink slime
Posted on 01/30/2012 8:53:59 PM PST by libertarian27
Jamie Oliver has won an apparent victory by persuading McDonalds to remove a form of reclaimed meat from its burgers. Its a victory built on ignorant scaremongering.
News from America, where McDonalds has responded to a segment in Jamie Olivers Food Revolution by removing an ingredient called finely textured lean beef trimmings from its burgers. This luxurious-sounding product is in fact another form of reclaimed meat, where meat processors try to get every last bit of meat from an animals carcass.
In the segment, Oliver shows a group of parents and children a cow and explains the value of each of the different sections of its body. Then, he says that some parts were previously regarded as being fit for nothing but dog food, basically because there was so much fat and so little meat. However, a company in the US - Beef Products - has found a way of grabbing that meat. First, the left over parts are spun in a centrifuge to separate the meat from the fat. The result looks - from what I can tell - a bit like regular mince. Then, to ensure the product is safe to eat, it is treated with ammonium hydroxide.
What Oliver called pink slime is then added to burgers and other meat products. However, no more than 15 per cent of the finished product can be these beef trimmings and they must be labelled. However, the ammonium hydroxide does not need to be labelled. No one had suggested that this product is uniquely dangerous - it appears to be reasonably safe to eat. Unless you were prepared to eat your burgers rare - and Ive never seen McDonalds dish up rare beef - then any bugs not killed off by the ammonium hydroxide should be killed off by cooking.
Yet Oliver bigs up the yuk factor in this process, which he freely admits he is pretty much completely ignorant about. So in this clip, he says This is how I imagine the process to be before demonstrating that he hasnt got a clue. Particularly irritating is his suggestion that the meat is treated with the kind of ammonia you might use for household cleaning and the implication that children are being fed powerful chemicals.
A few points:
1. Getting every last bit of meat off a carcass is a good thing, given the cost of rearing a cow. The fact that this is done with a centrifuge rather than by a man with a knife only means the process is more efficient now.
2. Treatment with ammonium hydroxide is a sensible precaution and was declared safe decades ago. Ammonium hydroxide occurs naturally in the body as part of the process of metabolising protein. It is quickly converted into urea in the liver. In large quantities, it would be poisonous, but in small quantities it is harmless. As a report for the US Food and Drug Administration noted in 1974: Ammonia and the ammonium ion are integral components of normal metabolic processes and play an essential role in the physiology of man . There is no evidence in the available information on . ammonium hydroxide .. that demonstrates, or suggests reasonable grounds to suspect, a hazard to the public when [it is] used at levels that are now current or that might reasonably be expected in the future.
Jamie Oliver thinks this is all bad because it shows a lack of respect for food and consumers. But if using this kind of product can make foods like burgers cheaper and ensure there is as little waste as possible, why not? Foods like burgers and sausages are all about taking less palatable but perfectly nutritious parts of animals and making them palatable.
If Oliver wants to say that burgers should only be made from the finest cuts of an animal, thats his opinion. But when he scaremongers about perfectly safe on national television, thats pretty slimy.
Not a panic this time. The pink slime is disgusting. Watch "Food Inc" and the Nat'l Georgraphic special on produce and meat production (which also has alarming data on illegals who poop in the fields, potentially spreading e-coli)
Just don't change the taste of the burger and I don't care what they do. I think that Jamie could do a lot more to improve food than worrying about the "drippings" from a cow.
So basically, he's railing against "mechanically separated meat" or a cousin to it. That's used in a lot of products, and not just with beef. Chicken, pork, etc. It's a little icky to think about the processing of it, but a slaughterhouse isn't exactly magical rainbows and unicorns either.
My only beef (bad pun very much intended) with the MS meat is in super cheap products made almost entirely out of the stuff. And that's only because they almost always taste like "mystery meat" to me. I don't condemn people for buying it (it's an affordable option for folks who can't buy the premium stuff), or for companies who produce it (it fills a market need, and is one of the reasons some prison food budgets aren't higher than they already are). There's nothing unsafe about those products. It's just been my experience most of them taste like crud.
Ammonium hydroxide addition actually helps with that tricky e-coli problem - it also is found in nature.(just because it has a scary chemical name doesn't mean it's scary - when was the last time you came in contact with dihydrogen monoxide?)
I have seen 'Food Inc' and all the other programs of why we should only eat tofu only....oh, and carrots....
Scrapple is disgusting - but I love it! With Maple Syrup! Real, Maple Syrup of course - because the fake stuff is gross - eew - icky :>)
Go to Youtube and search the video called "Meat Glue". Unbelievable.
Machines take a lot of handwork out of what everyone used to do anyway.
Scrapple, headcheese, sausage, the various organ"wursts", etc.
Feeding more people off less is a reasonable goal. The dogs can still eat just fine off the bones and fat , like they did 1000 years ago.
Tofu isn't even tofu anymore. It's all genetically modified soybeans treated with pesticides. So even the vegetarians can't claim to be eating virgin food products.
True - most heavily 'mechanically separated' products taste a bit like crud (or mystery meat)- but some taste OK - depending on the percentage added and who's doing it and what spices they are using.
Our ancestors strived to eat every portion of a slaughtered animal - things like scrapple and head cheese, etc. is frowned upon now - in favor of rib eye and skinless chicken breast.
If the costs can be contained by picking the bones clean and making something decently palatable - I'm for it. My great-grandfathers were for it and I'm for it now.
I'm making soup tomorrow - chicken - simmering bones and carcass for hours - extract the marrow goodness- eewwwwww - LOL
And, if my infrequent $1 lunch is disrupted by Jamie Oliver - I will be annoyed.
Soybeans have always been raised with pesticides in recent history.
Have watched them grown since the late 60's at least.
"Machines take a lot of handwork out of what everyone used to do anyway."
Absolutely! People don't realize how, not so very long ago, people made use of the "manky bits" themselves because they couldn't afford *not* to use them. In a lot of countries, people still can't afford to waste things like offal, blood (Filipino dinuaguan stew, etc.).
"Im making soup tomorrow - chicken - simmering bones and carcass for hours - extract the marrow goodness- eewwwwww - LOL"
Yep, that's the only way to make it really delicious. My mom would always buy a big bag of chicken necks and backs for next to nothing and simmer them all day to make her chicken soup. Yummy as all get out, and a way to feed a big family on a tiny budget.
My dad loved scrapple, btw. Except instead of maple syrup, he always topped his with bit of molasses.
Oh now that stuff really IS dangerous. If you ingest too much, it can kill you. Breathing it in is fatal too. And I would be remiss if I didn't point out that places with large amounts of it are contaminated with dangerous fauna like sharks, manta rays and jellyfish.
McDonalds is going to need a ad campaign to get past this one, AND there gonna have to change the composition of their burger.
Yuk factor matters.
These are not Kosher burgers.
I'd rather have green slime.
The foregoing notwithstanding, I find McDonald's $1.00 double cheeseburger (the McDouble) tasty and a very good value, probably thanks to the aforementioned lean beef trimmings. I hope the burger's quality is not diminished by its elimination.
extract the marrow goodness
The younger generation just doesn't appreciate marrowbone jelly. I'll be worried when we're on the dog's milk-
Holly: Cow's milk, ran out of that yonks ago. Fresh and dehydrated.
Lister: What kind of milk are we using now?
Holly: Emergency backup supply. We're on the dog's milk.
Lister: Dog's milk!
Holly: Nothing wrong with dog's milk. Full of goodness, full of vitamins, full of marrowbone jelly. Lasts longer than any other milk, dog's milk.
Lister: Why?
Holly: No bugger'll drink it. Plus of course the advantage of dog's milk is that when it goes off, it tastes exactly the same as when it's fresh.
Jamie needs to watch Bazarre Foods with Andrew Zimmern. My family including the teenagers love blood sausage, head cheese, beef tongue, bone marrow, blood tongue sausage, tripe, kidney, liver, tartar, - crap, we eat everything. Well we don't eat crap. ; )
Oh, how I miss In & Out.
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I'm doing something a little different from the norm today and sharing a food video with you. A food video called Grandma's Lemon Topped Cheesecake that brought back strong, sweet and vivid memories of my own Grandma.
Please watch the heartfelt video! It's beautifully crafted and worth a few minutes of your time.
Visiting my Grandparents was a special occasion and they always treated my sister and I like queens (or princesses).
Grandma served us tea in fancy china cups. The kind you sip with your pinky out. Best of all was the sugar cubes. . .something we never had at home.
There was homemade cream puffs and bakery cannoli. Her special layer cake with cream cheese in the batter served with ice cream.
Trays, piled high, enough to feed a large crowd, of crispy, deep-fried Italian rosettes and pizzelles dusted with powdered sugar, each one perfectly made with her signature pastel mints and Hershey kisses dotted all around the platters.
She always made puddings with plastic over the top so they didn't form that icky skin with lots of whipped cream on top.
There were savory treats too! Chips and dip. Cheez doodles. Cheese and crackers.
We usually left late at night, lulled to sleep by the long ride home with our bellies full of sugar (and pasta, of course), plates of leftovers clutched to our hearts like treasures and sugar-spun dreams in our heads.
I'd love to hear about a food memory of your own and/or what you thought of the video.
If you would like the cheesecake recipe follow this link to the video on You Tube and click on "show more" under the video.
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Rondo Community Land Trust (CLT) is a community-based affordable housing land trust working to create and preserve homeownership for low to moderate-income households in Ramsey County, Minnesota.
To strengthen communities by providing permanently affordable, sustainable housing for families and individuals at or below 80% of the area median income; and, to promote the land trust model as a method of preserving affordable housing.
To provide high quality permanently affordable housing for low and moderate-income, multi-generational households by exploring various development methods, remaining flexible in our revitalization approaches, and working within priorities set by the community. Rondo CLT creatively meets housing needs while preserving the economic and cultural diversity of our community.
Rondo CLT is named after Rondo Avenue, a main commerce avenue for the African American community that was renamed Concordia Avenue during the construction of Interstate 94 in the late 1960s. Cutting through the old Rondo neighborhood, the construction dislocated many long-term residents. Based on the need for affordable housing in the area, in 1989 a resident task force initiated by the Summit-University Planning Council began exploring successful methods of preserving affordable housing that had been used around the country. The task force recommended the community land trust model as the most proven method of preserving affordable housing for future generations. Both the Summit-University and Lexington-Hamline Community Councils voted to endorse the creation of the first neighborhood-based community land trust in St. Paul. In 1993 Rondo CLT was incorporated as a publicly supported, tax-exempt organization to serve the neighborhoods of Summit-University and Lexington-Hamline. Rondo CLT's Membership voted to expand Rondo CLT's service area to include all of St. Paul and later, expanded its service area to Suburban Ramsey County.
A community land trust achieves permanently affordable homeownership opportunities for low to moderate-income households by separating the ownership of the house and the land. In the United States, there are over 200 communities currently operating or forming community land trusts in order to provide affordable homeownership to households in their area.
How Rondo CLT Keeps Homeownership Affordable
A community land trust achieves permanent, long-term housing affordability through the use of a ground lease. CLT homebuyers purchase only the house, and enter into a 99-year Ground Lease with Rondo CLT for the exclusive use of the land.
Rondo CLT's Ground Lease states that when a CLT homeowner decides to sell their home, the house is sold to another low to moderate-income household for the original purchase price plus 25% of any appreciation in the home's value.
By limiting market appreciation, permanent affordability is ensured and initial subsidies invested in making the home affordable are spread across generations of low to moderate-income homebuyers.
Most importantly, this affordable housing option gives households that could otherwise only afford to rent the opportunity to take advantage of all of the benefits of homeownership -- stability, security, tax benefits, and the opportunity to earn equity and appreciation in real estate that is not available through renting.
Greg Finzell, Executive Director
Greg has been the Executive Director of the Rondo CLT since it was formed in 1993. Previously he was the Director of the Summit-University Planning Council in St. Paul. He served in that capacity from 1985 to 1992. Greg served as the Director of the Hawthorne Area Community Council in Minneapolis from 1980 to 1984. A resident of the Lexington-Hamline neighborhood, Greg enjoys woodworking.
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Saint Paul, MN 55104
Board of Directors
At all times Rondo Community Land Trust's Board of Directors is comprised of one-third CLT homeowners, one-third members (must be residents of Saint Paul), and one-third open seats. The Board of Directors is elected to two-year terms by the Rondo CLT Membership.
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Rondo CLT is indebted to generous support from the community! Rondo CLT's success would not be possible without individuals, families, and partner organizations.
The following have provided organizational and program funding support for Rondo CLT's work:
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Chancellor › University of Nebraska-Lincoln
University of Nebraska-Lincoln • 201 ADMS • Lincoln NE, 68588-0419 • 402.472.2116 • email@example.com
Harvey Perlman was named the 19th Chancellor of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln on April 1, 2001 and served until June 30, 2016. He acted as Interim Chancellor of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln since July 16, 2000.
A former dean of the University of Nebraska College of Law (1983-98), Perlman has also served as interim senior vice chancellor for academic affairs at UNL (1995-96).
A Nebraska native, Perlman was raised in York, and earned a bachelor of arts in history and a juris doctorate from the University of Nebraska. During his law school years, he was editor in chief of the Nebraska Law Review and was elected to the Order of the Coif, a law honors society.
He joined the NU law faculty in 1967 after spending a year as a Bigelow Teaching Fellow at the University of Chicago Law School. He served on the Nebraska law faculty until 1974 when he joined the faculty at the University of Virginia Law School. He returned to Nebraska in 1983 when he accepted the deanship of the Nebraska Law College, a post he held until 1998 when he returned to the professoriate. He has also served as a visiting professor at Florida State University College of Law, the University of Puget Sound School of Law and the University of Iowa College of Law.
In 2011, Perlman was named an Honorary University Professor of Xi'an Jiaotong University, in Xi'an, China. This rare lifetime appointment entitles Perlman to privileges at the university, with which UNL has many institutional ties. Perlman also will occasionally lecture and teach at Xi'an Jiaotong University. The title is the highest honor the university awards to a foreign scholar, and recognizes Perlman as an accomplished scholar or professional of important international reputation. The award also recognizes Perlman for his significant efforts in globalizing UNL and Xi'an Jiaotong University through joint research and partnership degree programs.
His area of legal expertise lies in torts and intellectual property. He is a member of the Nebraska State and American Bar Associations and is a Life Fellow of the American Bar Association. Perlman is co-author of "Intellectual Property and Unfair Competition" (5th edition, 1998) and co-reporter for the American Law Institute's "Restatement of Unfair Competition" (1994). He serves on the Council of the American Law Institute, a leading national law reform organization and as one of Nebraska's Commissioners of Uniform State Laws. He previously served as a member of the NCAA Board of Directors and is past chair of the Bowl Championship Series Presidential Oversight Committee. He serves on the Board of Directors of the Lincoln Chamber of Commerce and is Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Nebraska Innovation Campus Development Corporation. He received the George Turner Award from the Nebraska State Bar Association for contributions to the legal profession and the Roger T. Larson Community Builder Award from the Lincoln Chamber of Commerce.
Perlman and his wife, Susan, an NU alumna, are the parents of two daughters. Anne, who earned degrees from UNL and the University of Nebraska Medical Center, practices medicine in Lincoln and is married to UNL alumnus David Spinar; they have three children; Will, Ava, and Marco, Husker fans all. Daughter Amie, who received bachelors and juris doctorate degrees from UNL, is a Nebraska assistant attorney general and is married to UNL alumnus Ron Larson; they are the parents of Caleb and Finn.


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INDIANAPOLIS - Duke ripped West Virginia by 21 points on Saturday night and that means the Blue Devils will play for the National Championship on Monday. A big part of the reason Duke won was the play of Jon Scheyer where he scored a team high 23 points. Scheyer was swarmed by the media after the contest and while he was happy with the win, it was clear that there was one more game to go.
BDN's coverage from Indy continues today as we'll be on the scene for more player and coach interviews.


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This two hour workshop will demonstrate how easy it is to set up and attend an online meeting using Skype for Business. Meeting schedulers will learn how to escalate an instant message or phone conversation into an audio or video conference; schedule an online meeting in Outlook using default options; customize advanced meeting options for unique meeting requirements; how to create a recording of a meeting; and schedule a meeting on behalf of another. Different meeting roles (attendee versus presenter) will be discussed; and we will learn how to use a virtual waiting room known as a "lobby" for control over who attends a meeting. In addition, we'll spend a few minutes looking at the new expanded meeting controls including the Share menu which gives you access to all presentable content in one place, such as Desktop, PowerPoint presentations, Poll, Whiteboard, and OneNote. We'll look at the new meeting layouts for different types of meetings. We will learn about the Skype Web App which allows PC and Mac users to join a Skype Meeting from within a web browser while delivering a full Skype for Business meeting experience.
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Acid Rain and the Rise of the Environmental Chemist in Nineteenth-Century Britain
Date published:April 2014
Robert Angus Smith (1817-1884) was a Scottish chemist and a leading investigator into what came to be known as 'acid rain'. This study of his life and work sheds light on the evolving understanding of sanitary science during the 19th century and of the need for regulation and enforcement of the chemical industries. It offers a fascinating insight into the changing landscape of British politics and is essential reading for historians of science, technology and industry in the nineteenth-century, as well as environmental historians seeking background context to the twentieth-century environmental movements.


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General American Investors Company, Inc.
List of Deals
- 1929 recapitalization and merger with Second General American Investors Company, Inc.
- 1931 reduction of capital
- 1944 common stock
The General American Investors Company was an investment trust organized in 1927 under the sponsorship of Lazard Freres and Lehman Brothers. In the first year of operation, ending December 1927, General American Investors earned $1.1 million in income.
In October 1928 Lehman Brothers and Lazard Freres formed another investment trust, the Second General American Investors Company. The following year, in August 1929, the directors of both trusts agreed to merge, and the new company would continue with the name Great American Investors Company. Lazard Freres and Lehman Brothers once again underwrote the deal, valued at the time at $40 million.
The stock market of the late 1920s and early 1930s impacted Great American Investors significantly, but as the decade of the 1930s progressed the trust began to recover. At the end of 1932 the trust reported assets of $15 million. Yet one year later, assets were 45 percent higher at $23.1 million, and in 1935 they increased even more to $30.1 million. Through the remainder of the decade the assets of the trust fluctuated wildly from year to year. In 1937 assets dropped $12 million, to $24.7 million. By 1939 assets were once again up to $30 million, and the following year they were back down to $25.5 million. Assets were at $25.3 million by the end of 1943.


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A shit so intense, that shoots out of your ass so fast it displaces the water in the toilet and splashes it all over the wall behind you; it comes out with such impressive force that it sometimes cracks the porcelain.
Every time I eat bacon cheeseburgers, I have to take a Shit Rocket.
by Baby_Blaster January 13, 2012
Condom filled with shit, tied at the top, used as a dildo! So a girl can make her own shit rocket and throw it away when done! And she only pays like 69 cents for a condom. Life made simple!
Wow. I can't believe Meg shit rocketed herself last night! It was awesome!
by Miss Sexy Lexie February 06, 2010
when your smashing a bird up the arse and she shits and comes at the same time getting a nasty fucking mess all over your cock and balls
i was smashing the granny out of this bird the other night and she only shit rocketed all over me, went fucking everywhere.
by fat boi, uncle Bob and Wylie September 29, 2006
Another name for a Volkswagen Scirocco.
by ChetJett January 22, 2008
when fucking a hot chick and endeavoring not to reach orgasm too soon, a solution involving placing one's finger in one's two-hole, then placing the same finger in one's mouth. has prolonging effect, apparently.
so this dude who's name i can't reveal (lawyer/client relationship y'know) was fucking madonna and was trying not to come so he gave himself a shitrocket. IT WORKS!
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31 August 2007|
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Well the Olympics are wrapped up, the medals up on the mantles and the scandals ongoing. The Bejing display was full of controversy and who doesn't crave a bit of that out of international competition. From the lighting of the flame, the accusations started flying about ringers singing at the intros and competitors lying about their age. The games wrapped up with a Cuban Judo gold medallist flipping out after a disqualification and side-kicking the ref in the head. Now that is sportsmanship. But the athlete that received the most attention also appeared to be criticized the most simply for letting his emotions get the better of him.
Unless you have fallen off the grid, then you know I'm referring to Jamaican bullet, Usain Bolt. Here is a hulking man of 6'5" who decimated two records during the Bejing games. Not only did he murk the competitors in the 200m, pickup the slack in the 400m relay but his performance in the 100m was pure ownage. If you've seen the video, Bolt lets up at what appears 75m through the race to spread his arms to the crowd as if to say "whatchu gonna do to touch this?" The media and Olympic officials went berserk at his distain for the rest of the pack. Personally, I thought it was gangster and only proved that, he could have laid down a record that would not be touched for decades. But when you are on top, why not?
Han Wong out of Chandler, AZ is presently on top of his chosen game. And unlike Bolt has chosen to be very modest about what he has accomplished here. And it is not without monumental effort because here is one tuner that is impossible to get a hold of under the workload. We chased this car for months, throwing all kinds of sponsorships at Wong to keep him interested and keep him focused on the prize – the cover of PAS.
And why it was selected as a cover should need no explanation but what the hell we'll drop some stats anyway. It was an 18 month process to build it, the project was over $100,000 in addition to the vehicle price and it makes well over 1000hp at the crank. So lets get into how Wong did it.
Beginning with a 3.5L VQ engine, Wong and his team at Intense Power in Gilbert, AZ began prototype engine internals. The block was balanced and blueprinted and machined to exacting specifications. Intense designed forged pistons and ultra strong billet connecting rods. As a testament to Nissan engineering, Intense is using the stock crank, simply treated for strength. The VQ heads have been ported and polished by Intense and filled with Brian Crower Stage II cams and a full Ferrea valvetrain. The assembly was clamped back down with metal head gaskets and ARP fasteners. Fuel comes delivered by twin Powerlab 255lph pumps filling Powerlab rails. The juice is closely regulated by an Aeromotive FPR and distributed by six Deatchwerks 1600cc injectors. Air is sucked in through a custom Intense power intake and compressed with a massive Powerlab 76S Extreme turbo. This single snail is part of Powerlab's kit and is connected to their network of piping and a 4-inch thick front mount intercooler. As the air reaches the stock plenum, it gets a boost in velocity thanks to a Powerlab 3/8-inch aluminum spacer. No fancy sheet metal intakes here, there was actually more stock gear onboard than we expected, including the OEM coils! The exhaust is managed with a TiAL 44mm wastegate and flows into an Intense PowerMax SS 4-inch exhaust.
The sum of the parts equals 906whp with 730lb-ft of twist. Enough to snuff out the stock driveshaft and LSD, well you would think but they are still stock and still hanging tough. The clutch and axles however are a different animals as the clutch has been replaced with a Carbonetics triple plate clutch and the axles are Driveshaft Shop Pro Series. And the car lays down the smack since, with the smaller GT37 from the last setup it ran 11-flat and had a best trap of 139mph. It is expected to deep into the 10s possibly the 9s as it sits.
As you can see, this project is far from a purpose build drag car. It was actually constructed to bag trophies at shows as well. Wong sourced the first VeilSide Fortune kit for the G35 in the US and redesigned the rear spoiler in carbon fiber to set it apart any other G. Intense Power technician George Husar put the shell together and they had it 3-stage sprayed in a custom hue called Intense Money Green. The graphics by Xsell Media were slapped on and then added tweaks like JDM clears and VIP sill lighting. The overall impact is one that stops shows.


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By Jennifer Dobner
SALT LAKE CITY, June 5 (Reuters) - Two people in Utah have died following exposure to hantavirus, a rare but deadly disease of the lungs spread by rodents, health officials said on Tuesday.
The fatalities, the first from the virus in the state since 2009, occurred over the last four weeks in central Utah's Millard County and in Salt Lake County, said Rebecca Wood, an official at the Utah Department of Health.
The two deceased were adults, state epidemiologist Jodee Baker said. The cases were not linked but each individual was exposed to rodents a few weeks before becoming ill, Baker said. Privacy laws prevent officials from releasing the names or genders of the deceased. Authorities did not release the exact date of each death either.
State epidemiologists are working closely with health officials in Millard and Salt Lake counties to gather more details and to make sure no one else has been exposed, Baker said.
Hantavirus Pulmonary Syndrome can be spread through contact with saliva of infected rodents - most often common deer mice - or by breathing in dust containing rodent urine or droppings in rodent-infested areas, the CDC said on its website.
Symptoms include high fever, muscle aches and chills. Other symptoms include cough, shortness of breath, nausea, vomiting, diarrhea and headache. The virus has an unusually long incubation period of between two and five weeks, and can be mistaken for the flu, Baker said.
"Utah has maybe one case a year," Baker said. "It's really rare that we would have more than one case, period. And to have them both be fatalities so early in the summer months, that's a concern."
Instances of the disease increase during summer months and the data suggest most patients are sickened following exposures to mice feces or urine while cleaning out garages, sheds or other structures that were closed for extended periods.
To reduce the chance of exposure to hantavirus, health officials recommend spraying down rodent droppings with a mixture of water and bleach before trying to remove. Wearing a mask and gloves, and cleaning the area a second time with a disinfectant is also recommended.
Nationwide, 587 people were sickened with hantavirus between 1993 and 2011, according to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta. Deaths occurred in 36 percent of those cases.
Including the two most recent cases, Utah has had 31 reported cases since the early 1990s and 32 percent of those cases were fatal, Baker said. The last death was in 2009, she said. (Editing by Alex Dobuzinskis and Sandra Maler)


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Why Do More Females Have Rett Syndrome?
Males are affected by all the autism spectrum disorders more than females except for Rett syndrome. Rett syndrome is only seen in females and also it is rare. And throughout the world, only 1000 something cases are reported. Could you please tell me what is the reason for that?
Rett syndrome is a much rarer condition than the spectrum of autism disorders. In the current classification system, the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual, 4th edition (DSM-IV), Rett syndrome is classified as one of the Pervasive Developmental Disorders along with other autism spectrum disorders.
However, since the DSM-IV came out in 1994, scientists have identified the cause for Rett syndrome, a mutation in the MECP gene on the X chromosome. This same gene has NOT been associated with other autism spectrum disorders. It is thought that, when this occurs in females, they have some protection due to having two X chromosomes (one X chromosome affected by the mutation, the other X chromosome normal).
However, when it occurs in a male (who only has one X chromosome), the effects may be severe enough that it is not compatible with life. This would explain why we very rarely see a male with the MECP mutation.
The fact that males have only one X chromosome and females have two, is also thought to be related to males outnumbering females with autism. The fact that females have an additional X chromosome, probably normal, that provides some benefit by reducing the effects of whatever it is that is the cause of the child's autism.
Because the cause of Rett syndrome has been identified, and separates it from the other autism spectrum disorders, it will probably be re-classified in the next DSM and removed from the group of autism spectrum disorders.
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I'd like to sollicite the good knowledge of AOs.
My problem:
I'd like to assign IP address basing on the interface on which the the client request is coming to the router. I can't think that's not achievable but does anyone confirm?
This may be a very simple issue for some of ya; please help!
I quickly read the RFC951 but I can't find an answer.
The network is basically composed by a switch, a router & a DHCP server as follow:
With 802.1q logical/virtual interface the router sees 2 bridge-group & subnets.Code:------------- | Router |___________DHCP Server ------------- | | 802.1q trunk | ___________________ | Switch | | ______ ______ | | |VLAN1| |VLAN2| | | ----------- ---------- | -------------------------------- | [ host 1 host2
The router performs bootp to mediate DHCP request to the server.
The router may be CISCO or Linux or whatever that's an open issue.
My goal is to configure the IP of "host 1" into the associated VLAN subnet just using the fact that BootP knows on which logical port it receives the request!
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Blue Jay Road between Midland Road and Ga. 17 is now open following a fatal crash on Friday morning.
A tractor-trailer heading west on Blue Jay went through the stop sign at Midland Road, hitting a small white sedan, Effingham County Sheriff's Office spokesman David Ehsanipoor said.
The unidentified female driver of the sedan was pronounced dead on the scene.
Ehsanipoor said there were no other injuries in the crash and charges are pending against the truck driver.
The Georgia State Patrol Specialized Collision Reconstruction Team (SCRT) is investigating.


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Freedom describe the Ryder Deluxe as a 'do it all tire'. (Spelled that way because it's an American brand, a division of the WTB company that's focused on utility cycling.) It's touring/commuting tyre, designed for tarmac and sensible tracks. That puts it head to head with European favourites like the Continental Contact and Schwalbe Marathon.
As luck would have it, I had a pair of brand new Continental Contacts to hand, with a wire bead like the Ryder Deluxe and in the same width. The Conti Contact is two quid dearer at £24.95. It's more than 100g lighter and has a finer-threaded carcass; the Ryder Deluxe has 27tpi, the Conti 240tpi. That's not as vast as difference as it seems, however, as the Conti has a four-ply carcass, each 60tpi. Still, 60 is finer than 27.
Being lighter and more supple, and having a more pronounced centre rolling strip, I expected the German Conti tyre to perform better in roll-down tests. It did. With the same 5 bar in the tyres, the Conti was 3-4% faster – a difference I reckon I could feel when I was riding. The Ryder Deluxe isn't stodgy or slow; the Continental Contact is just faster.
A coarser threaded tyre should resist sharps better, other things being equal. They're not equal though. The Continental's 'Safety System' polyester breaker strip under the tread is tougher than the 'Urban Barrier' of the Freedom tyre.
The Ryder Deluxe's road holding is good enough even on damp tarmac, and you don't get the same cornering squirm that a deeper treaded cyclo-cross or mountain bike tyre can cause. Obviously the fine tread is only good for traction on fairly firm surfaces off-road.
It's available in 35mm and 38mm as well as the 32mm tested, although I could see only the 32 and 38 listed. There's also a non-deluxe version, without the puncture resistant layer: the Ryder, which is £16.99. That's a more compelling price as it significantly undercuts the Continental Contact and the other German benchmark tyre in this category, the standard Schwalbe Marathon (£24.99).
I feel like I'm damning the Ryder Deluxe with faint praise. It's all right, and you'd get a real performance boost if you put this tyre in place of a'cross tyre on a road-going CX bike. But the fact remains that you can have a tougher, more efficient all-round tyre for much the same money if you buy German instead.
Reasonable quality touring/commuting tyre that's eclipsed by faster and tougher alternatives.
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Make and model: Freedom Ryder Deluxe Tyre
Size tested: Black - 700 x 32c
Tell us what the product is for, and who it's aimed at. What do the manufacturers say about it? How does that compare to your own feelings about it?
Freedom say: The do-it-all 700c platform tire. Ride across town, commute to work or enjoy your favorite dirt shortcut. The Ryder's fast centerline tread pattern, long outside lugs and deep siping was designed to instill confidence during any weather or road condition.
I say: it's a touring/commuting tyre.
Tell us some more about the technical aspects of the product?
27tpi, some puncture protection
In this width, it's fine.
Tell us how the product performed overall when used for its designed purpose
It does the job, just not exceptionally.
Tell us what you particularly liked about the product
It went on the rim fairly easily. No issues with grip.
Tell us what you particularly disliked about the product
Not fast enough or tough enough.
Did you enjoy using the product? It was okay.
Would you consider buying the product? No.
Would you recommend the product to a friend? Only if better alternatives weren't readily available at a comparable price.
Anything further to say about the product in conclusion?
It's the kind of tyre that, if it's fitted to your bike, you wouldn't be in a hurry to take it off. But if you were upgrading or replacing tyres, it wouldn't be on the top of your list.
About the tester
Age: 42 Height: 1.78m Weight: 65kg
I usually ride: Ridgeback Solo World fixed wheel My best bike is: Planet X Pro Carbon Track (with front brake)
I've been riding for: Over 20 years I ride: Every day I would class myself as: Experienced
I regularly do the following types of riding: time trialling, cyclo cross, commuting, touring, club rides, sportives, general fitness riding, fixed/singlespeed, mtb,


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UPDATE: This article has been updated to correct the date of NSTIC's origin.
The true foundation of enterprise authentication and access control is pretty simple: establish identity. This includes both human and machine identity.
As cloud services proliferate, the need for reliable authentication and access control methods also grows. This has led to the emergence of multiple authentication services (both on-premise and off-premise) from a variety of providers.
Besides cloud growth, other disruptors are emerging to help boost the need for authentication services. They include:
Today, identity management often is conducted via a set of technologies, policies and enterprisewide standards that can be used to support trusted connections and interactions. As the number of IT services grows across an enterprise, government IT managers may find themselves evaluating a range of available identity technologies. It can be difficult to evaluate them all, but it's worth focusing on those that have the ability to deliver authentication services that are considered secure and scalable across a range of IT environments. They also should be easy to learn, use and administer (and not expensive to maintain).
To that end, government efforts are under way to standardize and simplify access control.
Growth of an identity ecosystem
One high-profile effort is the multiagency initiative called the National Strategy For Trusted Identities In Cyberspace (NSTIC). The group's goal is to accelerate progress toward interoperability between legacy identity management systems and trusted online credentials. Basically the initiative encourages the creation of a framework for an "Identity ecosystem." In most cases this type of solution will be created and maintained by contractors and system integrators.
The effort's goals, as outlined in the original April 2011 NSTIC statement, are lofty. But technical specifics for how the concept will become a reality are still in flux. The best way to see what's planned is to look at a set of pilot projects that received funding last fall. Each project takes a different approach for building and pilot-testing digital identity management across multiple systems. Each is working with a broad set of partners who bring their own specific tech solutions to the table.
Besides these initial projects, NSTIC managers have issued an Announcement of Federal Funding Opportunity to help develop additional on-line identity solutions that "embrace and advance the NSTIC vision."
Policy Machine to the rescue?
Government agencies may also want to take a look at the Policy Machine initiative that's under way at the National Institute of Standards and Technology.
The basic premise of NIST's Policy Machine is that each IT service on a government network usually is part of a set environment. Such environments typically include a server and its operating system, middleware and possibly a database and an associated set of database applications. Most of these systems have built-in solutions to help control execution of that system's capabilities and interactions with other systems and data. But they must be properly configured and maintained.
NIST's Policy Machine proposes a centralized way of setting rules for such interactions.
These types of services (or groups of integrated services) usually have a routine for identifying and authenticating the users of other IT systems that seek to connect and interact. Besides such authentication, the environment may include rules to limit which types of operations may be performed via each connection.
Because many such IT services exist as stand-alone environments, it can be a true challenge to develop enterprisewide access control policies and operational limits. Solutions must interact across multiple domains and control policies must be globally enforceable, which is difficult to coordinate.
The Policy Machine includes access control data and rules that can be used to set control policies and deliver computing capabilities when appropriate, including a set of functions for enforcing such policies. This helps an organization establish an enterprisewide operating environment that can "implement and execute capabilities of arbitrary data systems" according to the solution's description, and also "specify and enforce mission–tailored access control policies."
Policy Machine developers say, for example, that an e-mail application sometimes may distribute files to users regardless of an operating system's protection settings on those files. The Policy Machine can help properly set and enforce rules that will prohibit that from happening. It can be used to lessen the impact of the administrative, policy enforcement, data interoperability, and usability issues that enterprises face today.
AaaS on the move
Authentication-as-a-Service is gaining momentum. Companies such as Symantec, CA Technologies, RSA, Gemalto, Authentify, SecureAuth and SafeNet offer solutions of this type. Partnerships are developing to offer full ecosystems that government agencies can tap into, including new mobile solutions. But keep in mind that legacy systems will require agencies to take a mix-and-match approach for the products and services they need across an organization, especially if they want to manage federated identities and support correct multifactor authentication.
Also, context (and associated awareness of context) will play a role in user and device identities. For example, organizations may want to support single sign-on for end users who are working internally, but enforce other rules for users who are connecting remotely, or who are connecting through an unfamiliar device.
Government agencies that need to improve their identity management while expanding their cloud services would do well to familiarize themselves with the ongoing efforts of NSTIC, the NIST Policy Machine and the ongoing AaaS partnership ecosystems. These resources can help IT engineers sort out what is sure to be a very complex and highly individualized set of tasks.
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Shawn McCarthy, a former writer for GCN, is senior analyst and program manager for government IT opportunities at IDC.
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I think cloud authentication is complex and not something that will be applicable to all BYOD situations. HIPAA compliance might be one of these areas, although with app like Tigertext secure texting, cloud authentication may not be needed, or even HIPAA compliant.
Why can't we just say that the cloud is good for some things and not so good for others. It seems as if any CIO says one thing against the "Cloud", he/she is automatically labeled as an ineffective technologist. I have seen this over and over in the IT field.
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JOHNSON CITY, Tenn. (Feb. 17, 2011) - After having an MRI on her left knee earlier in the week, freshman Destiny Mitchell (Bluffton, Ga.) learned she will miss the rest of the season after suffering a dislocated kneecap last Saturday against the North Florida Ospreys.
Mitchell was averaging 15.1 points, 9.3 rebounds and 2.2 steals in 31.7 minutes of play prior to the injury. The talented guard/forward started 24 games and was shooting 52 percent from the field for the Lady Bucs.
"It's never good to have anyone go down with a season-ending injury, especially this late in the season," said head coach Karen Kemp. "Destiny was our top rebounder, second leading scorer and one of our best defenders, so this is a big loss for our team. Fortunately we have seen people step up in her absence with Natalie scoring 24 against UNF and Shawn having 21 points versus Jacksonville, so we need that to continue if we want to make another championship run."
Mitchell will have surgery to repair the knee in the upcoming weeks and there has been no timetable set on her return.
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Critics say this has led to people playing politics with the wolves and using them as a way to make money. One of those critics, Brooks Fahy, the Executive Driector of Predator Defense joined Jane to talk about his new film, "The Imperiled American Wolf".
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Be committed to providing guests with unsurpassed experience whilst keeping close to heart the principle of eco-friendliness in its operations and management, Kerry Hotel Pudong, Shanghai is proud to introduce two of the latest BMW ActiveHybrid 7 limousine for the first time in the East China region.
With a comfortable ambience, supreme rear-seat entertainment, Bang & Olufsen high-end audio system and the brand's exclusive appearance, the BMW ActiveHybrid 7 allows guests to indulge in pure relaxation. Low fuel consumption and intelligent energy management work in perfect union – guests will never lose dynamics and fashion on the road. Complimentary Wi-Fi access is also provided throughout the limousine experience.
Kerry Hotel's objective is to bring a comfortable and luxurious experience to our guests while being mindful of a greener environment – 14 trees will be planted under the hotel's name for the purchase of two cars. Since opening in 2011, Kerry Hotel has continuously strived to support its commitment to corporate social responsibility, including the paperless check-in and check-out system launched in 2012, also a first in the city.
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LIFESTYLE. This is the big one! If you are a smoker or drinker – it will take a toll on your skin. If you are constantly under a lot of stress, or don't sleep a lot – your skin will appear older faster. These are all things you can change – improve your diet, don't smoke, don't drink excessively, reduce your stress and get enough sleep – you should notice a difference quickly.
HORMONES. Teenagers tend to get a lot of acne because their hormone levels can be out of control. This can also be why major skin changes happen during pregnancy and menopause as well. It can be hard to change your hormone cycle but if you take good care of your body and use vitamins and herbs to regulate your hormones – you will notice they make less of an impact on your skin.
FREE RADICALS. This is another big one! If you live in an area that is polluted or get too much sun exposure – this can age your skin FAST! Be sure to always wear an SPF lotion year round to protect your skin from sun and environmental toxins. Maintain a healthy diet and take in a lot of fruits and vegetables to produce antioxidants to help heal your skin from the inside out.
GENETICS. If your Mom's skin isn't showing any indications of aging – that can be lucky for you as you do share some DNA that should help your skin too. However, if your parents' skin aged fast – that doesn't necessarily mean your skin will too. Perhaps your parents didn't wear sunscreen or they had some bad habits to contribute to their quicker aging skin – and these are things you can easily prevent on yourself.
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I have written several posts about belly covers (or abdominal bandages, as they are called in "vet lingo"), but I thought I would gather all information in this one post.
We got an abdominal bandage when Molly was spayed, and it spared us for using a cone. Along with a tissue over her healing wound the bandage prevented her from licking or scratching the stitches.
I asked the vet, and I have found this company which provides vets with the covers:
The product numbers are 162000 (small), 162002 (medium), 162004 (large), 162006 (Xlarge), 162008 (XXlarge). You just type the number in the "search" at the website.
The belly covers (or abdominal bandages) come in different sizes. They are normally sold to the vets in packages of 5.
The prize was more difficult, and I was told to underline that the prize is just estimated, since they normally sell to vets. In Danish kroner it varies from ca. 250-450 kr., depending on the size, for one package with five. This is ca. £22-40.
However, they can be used several times, they are washable (to 90 degrees) and flexible, and Molly did not even try to rip it off. When we had to wash it (she accidently peed on it a couple of times), she stood by me looking interested, and she was patient when we put it on her again.
But still: A creative person might easily be able to create them with a sewing machine. Just remember to use elastic strings. I tried to draw it. I am sorry I don't have the measurements, I happened to throw our own belly cover away!


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WESTLAKE, Ohio (AP) - A woman accused of breaking into a home west of Cleveland, cleaning it and leaving a bill for $75 has pleaded guilty to attempted burglary.
The (Elyria) Chronicle-Telegram (http://bit.ly/VG9X0B) says Susan Warren pleaded guilty this week to attempted burglary and will be sentenced later.
The 53-year-old Warren told authorities that she was driving by the house and "wanted something to do." She broke in, washed some coffee cups, took out the trash, vacuumed and dusted inside the house. Then she left a bill written on a napkin that included her phone number.
Warren says that she owns a cleaning business and sometimes enters homes, cleans them and leaves a bill.
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Weekend Wrap-Up: What Happened at the Box Office?
Weekend Wrap-Up: What Happened at the Box Office?
"Skyfall," the latest James Bond spy action movie to hit theaters, soared into first place on movie box office sales charts during the weekend of November 7, after bringing in an additional $11 million and taking its total gross profits to more than $261 million. Agent 007 has to make a tough decision after his colleague, Agent M16, loses an important list in the midst of a dangerous threat. Pressing secrets about M's past test Bond's loyalty to his friend. "Skyfall" is rated PG-13 for strong language, smoking, sexuality, and intense violent scenes.
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Up from last weekend, "Rise of the Guardians" has brought in an additional $10.5 million. With Christmas just around the corner, this animated holiday story has already made a total of almost $62 million. A twist on a holiday classic, "Rise of the Guardians" sees Jack Frost at odds when he suddenly has to change his attitude. After being approached by the Guardians, the frosty winter spirit, known for his not-so-nice side, must change his ways and help defend the world against the Nightmare King's disruptive plans. "Rise of the Guardians" is rated PG for thematic elements and mildly scary action.
Although its box office sales are down from last week, "The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 2" continued to enchant vampire lovers this weekend. The popular movie gained another $9,200,000 this weekend, bringing its total gross profits to $268 million, still topping "Skyfall" by about $7 million. The final film of Stephanie Meyer's hit "Twilight" series sees Bella, Edward, Jacob, and friends team up against the ruthless Volturi. "Breaking Dawn - Part 2" is rated PG-13 for disturbing images, partial nudity, and mild sensuality.
Adding a little more than $9 million to its box office earnings this weekend, "Lincoln" continues to keep the memory of one of America's greatest presidents alive in theaters. President Lincoln's strength, determination, and courage never falter. Even as his end grows near, the President, played by Daniel Day-Lewis, continues to work his hardest to replenish the country's vitality amid a destructive war. "Lincoln" has a PG-13 rating for strong war violence, images of carnage, and strong language.
"Life of Pi," which gained more than $8 million in the box office this weekend, is the heart-wrenching tale of young Pi Patel, a 16-year-old boy who boards an American-bound freighter heading across the Pacific, only to find himself the victim of a shipwreck. With only a life raft and accompanied by an orangutan, hyena, and Bengal tiger, Pi faces a scary struggle to stay alive. This touching story, based on Yann Martel's novel, is rated PG for scary action sequences, peril, and emotional thematic content throughout.
In theaters for its first weekend, the touching sports comedy "Playing for Keeps" brought in a promising $6 million. In this fun flick, a former soccer star takes on the role of coach in an attempt to mend a broken father-son relationship. Upon accepting the position, little does he know that he'll soon have all the soccer moms swooning. Despite getting drawn into the dating game, he must keep his feet on the field and his focus on his original goal. "Playing for Keeps" is rated PG-13 for a brief intense image, some sexual situations, and language.
Gaining $4,904,000 this weekend, "Wreck-It Ralph" has now made a total profit of more than $164 million. Video game villain Ralph would give anything to switch positions with hero Fix-It Felix, and in this animated film, he steps out of his game at the arcade one night in an attempt to do just that. Playing the part of a hero is not simple, though, as Ralph soon realizes. "Wreck-It Ralph" has a PG rating for rude humor and mild violence.
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Bring a new level of laughs to your home theater with "Ted" on Tuesday, December 4. The result of a childhood wish, a teddy bear comes to life and refuses to leave adult John Bennett's side in this unforgettable comedy. The movie is rated R for pervasive language, crude and sexual content, and some drug use.
Fun for the whole family, "Ice Age: Continental Drift" will be available this week for viewing at home in 3D. In the fourth of the films featuring everyone's favorite furry friends, Manny, Diego, and Sid's continent is set adrift and they explore a whole new world, with many twists and turns, aboard an iceberg ship. "Ice Age: Continental Drift" is. It's rated PG for action/peril and mild rude humor.
This week, you can bring home "Backwards," a sports romance that sees a competitive 30-year-old rower on the brink of a mid-life crisis as she once again doesn't make it into the Olympics and must make other plans. This touching film is rated PG for some mild language.