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October 15th marks an important day for many families. A day we wish didn't need to be recognized but are thankful that it exists. October 15th marks Pregnancy and Infant Loss Remembrance Day in the US, Canada and some parts of the UK. A day for those of us who have suffered the loss of a child to ectopic pregnancy, miscarriage, stillbirth or neonatal death to come together to raise awareness and honor those children no longer here with us.
Established in the United States in 2002 and in Canada in 2005, October 15th is a legislatively recognized day to raise awareness for pregnancy and infant loss. The purpose is to increase support for those of us in the aftermath and for those who will be affected directly or indirectly by this loss. Many of us who have experienced loss through miscarriage, stillbirth or neonatal loss can feel silenced, invisible and alone. A grief that is not often talked about because it is uncomfortable but the need to talk is very strong for those who have experienced loss.
Typically observed through community walks, flower/tree planting, balloon release vigils and other remembrance ceremonies, Pregnancy and Infant Loss is also known for the International Wave of Light Ceremony.
Every October 15th at 7pm, in which ever time zone you are in, participants light a candle for at least one hour in memory of their lost children and in support for others who have experienced a loss. The result is a continuous wave of light for a 24 hour period honoring our children's memory.
There are many organizations out there working to increase awareness and support year round:
Unspoken Grief: Breaking the silence of miscarriage, stillbirth and neonatal loss. Working to build a community of individuals and families who have been touched directly or indirectly and create a supportive community to remove the stigma through sharing our grief. http://unspokengrief.com
Mason's Cause: Infant Loss Support: One Place. Endless Hope. Mason's Cause is the ONE place needed when you are faced with infant loss. Our generous collection of website, blog, and article links provides parents, friends and family with the answers they need NOW. http://masonscause.org
Cora's Story: Cora Mae McCormick died at five days old of congenital heart disease (CHD). Now she saves lives. No mother should find out about the most common birth defect from the coroner. Cora's story is spread to raise awareness of the most common birth defect (congenital heart defects), especially with expecting parents and most of all, spread Cora's beauty. http://www.corasstory.org/
Healing Hearts Baby Loss Comfort: Healing Hearts Baby Loss Comfort was created in response to the reality that some pregnancies do not end happily. A place for women to feel comfortable looking for real, physical comfort, herbal remedies and spiritual nurturing, as well as a space to find resources, honor their grief and express their loss http://www.babylosscomfort.com
Count the Kicks: Chloe was stillborn just 3 days before her due date. Her umbilical cord had become tangled around her neck. Her death was classed as unexplained. 70% of stillbirths in the UK are classed as "Cause Unknown" – 90% are avoidable deaths, who could be saved purely by increasing awareness of risks. Count the Kicks wants to beat the taboo surrounding miscarriage, stillbirth and infant death and work to reduce stillbirth & neonatal deaths http://countthekicks.org.uk/
Second trimester miscarriage, stillbirth and neonatal death brings with it an added trigger for your grief. Your breasts will likely begin to produce milk and with that the physical pain of engorged breasts. Some women may be offered medications to help dry up your milk but there are natural ways to reduce the pain of engorged breasts as well.
Reducing engorgement:
- Ibuprofen is a great anti-inflammatory medication that can help reduce the pain associated with the engorged breasts. Talk to your doctor or a pharmacist to determine if you are safe to take it.
- Cold compresses can be used for 20 minutes at a time to reduce swelling. Avoid heat.
- Chilled cabbage leaves placed on the breasts can also provide comfort.
Using a product like Organic No More Milk Tea from Earth Angel Mama Baby can help reduce the time it takes for your breasts to stop producing milk. The added bonus of a calming hot tea can be a huge comfort as well.
Another option that has can be healing for moms of second trimester miscarriage, stillbirth or neonatal death dealing with engorged breasts is to pump their milk and donate it to babies in need. The feeling of being able to do good from your child's death can help bring some light into the fog of grief.
The following short video shows the story of how a mother found meaning in her daughter's stillbirth by donating her breast milk. {please note: Video contains emotions of a woman after hearing her child has no heartbeat. Might be difficult to watch for some}
Mother's Milk (2009) from Kevin Douglas West on Vimeo.
For more information on where you can donate your breast milk contact the following organizations:
- Human Milk Banking Association of North America http://www.hmbana.org/
- Human Milk 4 Human Babies http://www.hm4hb.net/
The loss of a child through miscarriage, stillbirth or neonatal death can feel very isolating. By coming together to raise our voices and share our stories we can help break the isolation and increase support for other families living through perinatal grief. What resources have brought you or a loved one comfort during loss?
You are not alone.
Image: photostock / FreeDigitalPhotos.net
Devan McGuinness is a mother to three living children and survivor of 9 miscarriages and one stillbirth. Founder of the online support site Unspoken Grief, Devan works to raise awareness of perinatal grief and remove the stigma to increase support. For more information visit UnspokenGrief.com and join us on Facebook and Twitter.


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A Safety Statement is a plan, in writing, which specifically identifies the hazards, assesses the risks, identifies the controls to be put in place, the persons responsible and resources necessary to secure the safety of persons at work.
NUI Galway has a comprehensive safety management plan in place known as the "NUI Galway Safety Statement Policy" which is required by the Safety, Health and Welfare at Work Act 2005. It addresses the major safety management, consultation and operational issues that apply to NUI Galway.
This document is regularly reviewed and updated to ensure that it is current and compliant. This link provides the full text of the NUI Galway Safety Statement Policy. If you have any comments to make on this NUI Galway Safety Statement please email email@example.com
In conjunction with the NUI Galway Safety Statement Policy, each Unit needs to have it own local Unit Policy and completed risk assessments (see links for further details).

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Soon after tipoff, Denver Nuggets forward Kenneth Faried pushed his tachometer into the red, as he so often does. Chicago Bulls coach Tom Thibodeau got to grinding and barking from one of the sidelines, as he so often does.
That's when the potency of the situation hit home: If Faried played for Thibodeau, teaming their work ethics on any given night in The Association, the result would be like crossing the streams in "Ghostbusters."
Total protonic reversal.
Too too much.
Faried has been outworking opponents since the day he arrived in the NBA as the No. 22 pick out of Morehead State in the 2011 draft. Using hustle, scrappiness and tenacity the way more refined players rely on touch, grace or hand-eye coordination, the 6-foot-8, 228-pounder from Newark, N.J., ranks 11th in the NBA in rebounding, seventh in offensive rebounding and ninth in field-goal percentage because of the high volume of dunks and layups. He had six and two, respectively, against Thibodeau's Bulls Thursday night, part of his 9-of-10 shooting for 21 points and 12 rebounds.
It was his fifth 20/10 game this season and his 33rd double-double in 96 NBA games dating to the start of last season, and the Nuggets are 28-5 on those nights.
Denver, as a result, hasn't missed Nene. It seems fine without Carmelo Anthony. All because it has The Manimal, Faried's nickname these days.
Faried, though, sounds like he's interested in making a name for the Nuggets. Routing the overachieving Bulls, who are said to be one Derrick Rose away from a title chase in the East, was the latest, greatest move.
"Not a lot of people see us when we play," Faried said afterward, referring to the TNT network audience that was theirs Thursday. "So more people wanted to step to the stage on a nationally televised stage, and we brought it tonight. People might not respect us as much because we're not on TV as much like a Clippers, Lakers or Knicks. But today we made a statement on TNT, showing everybody – hey, pay attention."
So consider yourself forewarned, viewers: That would be Faried, most likely, testing the 120Hz refresh rate by streaking across your flat-screen in Denver colors.
Faried will get a chance under the bright lights again at All-Star Weekend when he competes both in the 2013 Sprite Slam Dunk contest and for TEAM CHUCK in the 2013 BBVA Rising Stars Challenge. But the man brings such a motor and such heart to his job, night in, night out, even in the dog days of early February, that it can make you wonder what other players – perhaps more skilled or polished – could do if they ran that hot.
Here are a handful off the top of some HTB heads.
- Tyrus Thomas, Charlotte Bobcats
- Andrea Bargnani, Toronto Raptors
- James Johnson, Sacramento Kings
- Michael Beasley, Phoenix Suns
- Dwight Howard, Los Angeles Lakers
Feel free to name some more, explaining why and how they'd benefit from a little more Manimal in their tanks.


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A futures exchange is an institution, organization, or association that serves as a market for the trading of futures contracts. In addition to the facilitation of trading contracts, futures exchanges also serve as a clearing house for the transfer and settlement of the physical commodities underlying most futures contracts.
It should be noted that while the majority of contracts traded on a futures exchange are commodities, futures exchanges also deal in other types of contracts, usually relying on financial instruments.
Technology has been one key factor driving the industry, with almost all the established exchanges adopting electronic trading in some form or another while new generation exchange platforms are fully electronic.
One example is Singapore's pan-Asian multi-product commodity and currency derivatives exchange - the Singapore Mercantile Exchange (SMX) - which offers a comprehensive platform for trading a diversified basket of commodities including futures and options contracts on precious metals, base metals, agriculture commodities, energy, currencies and indices.
SMX offers market participants the benefits of market transparency, time zone convenience, price discovery and benchmarking, price risk management and multiple connectivity options. Counter-party clearing and settlement risk is effectively managed through its clearing house, the Singapore Mercantile Exchange Clearing Corporation (SMXCC).
The vast majority of futures contracts traded on a futures exchange are commodities futures contracts. Raw materials, such as corn, sugar and crude oil, for example, are representative of the items traded as commodities on a futures exchange. Producers of raw materials will generally sell contracts to deliver raw materials at a future point in time to a consumer that will use the raw materials to provide goods or services.
This type of trading allows both parties involved to establish the price at which they will do business. In this way a farmer whose crops are still in the field can establish the price for which those crops will be sold.


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Anne Morrow Lindbergh, Honorary Doctor of Letters
Aspects of Communication,
by Anne Morrow Lindbergh
May 1976
"Communication is the translation of one's individual talents into a negotiable form. What you-and only you-have to give is transferred to other people in a form they can understand, accept and use constructively. The forms may differ but the transfer, the exchange, is the essential element always present. "
As I think back over my life and the differences in our generations, in our lifestyles, in our worlds, then and now, I try to bridge those gaps and to remember what I felt in college. I was on the whole, much less sophisticated, less experienced, and probably less educated than you are now, despite the rich fields opened to me by Smith College, under President Nielson, almost 50 years ago. Many of the things I felt then I have outgrown or forgotten, but I remember vividly one remark I made that is still part of me. It was strangely prophetic. I said, "To me the most exciting thing in life is communication." I consider that sentence now over a long life of admittedly exciting events, both good and bad: romance, marriage, crossing oceans in single engined planes, flying over the Greenland Ice Cap, forced landings in deserts and arctic waters, experiments in gliding, giving birth to children, meeting death and sorrow, watching people prepare for war, or stagger back to normal life when war ended. After all this life of adventure, astonishingly, my statement of almost 50 years ago still has validity.
Communication still matters to me. That is why I am here today. At least, that is what interests me the most about this occasion. I am to talk about communication, what I think it is, and why I think it is important, and some of the difficulties in the particular and limited form of communication I practice.
Let me start out by saying what communication is not. It is not what Clarence Day once described in a moment of frustration when he said, "Most communication is like shouting through a mattress with words of one syllable." This is not what I call communication. For communication there has to be an answering voice and it doesn't have to be a shout-it can be a whisper. It is more than this, of course.
Communication embraces much more than I thought it did when I was in college. As an undergraduate, communication meant the exchange of thoughts with my fellow students, my teachers, my friends, and through books and research. It was an exciting twoway flow of ideas. The new discoveries for me then were novelists like Virginia Woolf and James Joyce, poets like Rainer Maria Rilke and William Yeats and Vermont's Robert Frost. That kind of communication I still respond to when I discover new books today-different ones, of course: a new book by Joseph Campbell on myths and symbols, a new novel by Doris Lessing, or a new study of Jung or a new book on Zen or on Teilhard de Chardin, or on ecology by Rene Dubos or Barbara Ward.
But today, communication has come to have a much broader meaning for me. It seems to me the basic fabric of our lives, the fibre that joins man to man. It is not only the web of relationships that binds us together in personal life-families, marriages, friends-it is built into the structure of most professions. I do not need to point out here that good teaching is one of the most vital forms of communication. But it is equally important for doctors to communicate with their patients, lawyers with their clients, businessmen in selling their products, scientists in making known their discoveries. For men and women in public affairs communication means active participation in civic issues. It is the connective tissue knitting together social groups.
In trying to define communication broadly, I have come to feel that it is the translation of one's individual talents into a negotiable form. What you and only you have to give is transferred to other people in a form they can understand, accept and use constructively. The forms may differ but the transfer, the exchange, is the essential element always present.
Artistic or personal communication also has many forms. The exchange can take place, most of us will agree, in speech or writing or even in glances, in music or dancing and in art of all kinds. There is also silent communication, the sharing of an experience with another person. Wordless communication is one of the highest forms because at this point, communication becomes communion. The Irish poet Yeats once spoke of (I quote) " . . . that supreme experience of life: (which he thought possible only for the young) to share profound thought and then to touch."
I have been trying to define communication-to say what it is-but as someone once remarked, it is easy enough to explain what a tree is, it is more difficult to say why is a tree? Why is communication? Or why is communication important? Thinking about it I decided it was important to me because of a very simple paradox: we are social animals and at the same time we are solitary, irrevocably solitary. We communicate in order to break out of our solitude, our loneliness, in order to be part of our world, in order to share our experiences, and perhaps to try to discover their meaning. In other words, we communicate in order to illuminate our lives, or the lives of others. We try to illuminate the darkness both within ourselves and outside of us.
At least this is why I write-to illuminate for myself and occasionally I hope, for others. Since writing is the form of communication I know best, I must concentrate on my own special field today, although I think the process is much the same in any creative act, any career undertaken, any piece of work well done, including the welding of a relationship or the art and discipline of life itself.
There are some wonderful moments in the creative process, especially in the beginning. At the outset there is the moment of vision, the first glimpse of what you want to say or create, or do. It is the point of departure-whatever it is that sets you off on your journey. It used to be called "inspiration." Today it might be called a kickoff or a hunch or an insight. A French poet once called this point "la ligne donnee." One line of the poem is "given" to you. You must work to add the rest.
There are an infinite variety of points of departure but there is one thing they all have in common-and that is "the gift." Something is "given." You remember in the old fairy tales when The Goose Girl or the King's son set out on their journeys, they were given something. The gift always had a magic property. It opened up unexpected possibilities: a table cloth that produced meals when you said "Spread, table, spread," or a comb that turned into a forest to delay your pursuing enemy, or a key that unlocked bolted doors. The gift is very precious. Don't ask where it comes from or who gave it to you: whether God gave it or your unconscious or some angel or some devil. Don't ask, because you might doubt the gift.
This is the first temptation-not to take the gift seriously. You have had a vision, in whatever form it came; a glimpse of what you want to do, and you wonder if it's real, if you can trust it. Moments of vision, you think, are deceptive; they are irrational. In a culture that today values the rational above all else, visions don't make sense. Besides, you are too busy; there are other things to do: clean out your desk, do your laundry, wax your skis, write a letter to your mother-or your grandmother! Usually these are only excuses for avoiding the demands of the gift.
If you have a gift, you have a responsibility. If you have a line of poetry given and don't pursue it, you may never be given another. The passage to the unconscious may be blocked. If you strike a vein of gold and don't tap it, the mine may be closed forever. If you have a glimpse of where you want to go and don't take a compass reading, you may never reach your destination.
We will assume though (for the purpose of continuing our journey) that when we have this moment of vision, we stop; we pay attention; we appreciate the gift.
It is as if one were standing on a lookout point and seeing across the valley to the peak one wants to climb. One must look at it well because one never quite sees this view again. It is a beautiful clear day and the peak over there is not only dazzling but it looks astonishingly near. A few hours' brisk walk would reach it or, at most, an afternoon's expedition. But one doesn't move because it's so beautiful, so perfect and so clear. Nothing, one thinks, will ever be the same again. Nothing will ever be as difficult, because one has had this glimpse of reality. One is struck dumb; one wants to stay there forever, looking at the view.
This is the second temptation. Many people get stopped at this point. I've been here myself. One is so enamored of the vision of the poem or work of art, or destination, that one can't move ahead toward it. And one must.
Vision is a miracle, a gift, a point of departure but it isn't communication. To communicate your vision, you have to leave the lookout, go down into the valley, trudge across the bog, make your way through the dark forest at the foot of the mountain, and climb up the steep stony paths at the summit. You have to surrender the vision in order to give it form, shape and body. The flower of insight has to be sacrificed for the fruit of a finished work.
So now, if you have courage enough to leave your vision, you start your descent on the practical path of action. You tighten up the laces of your hiking boots and off you go. Surprisingly, once you leave the vision, this first part of the journey is easy. It is early in the day and you have lots of energy and it is downhill all the way. You tear down the path pellmell. You are going so fast that you stumble over your own feet. You can hardly keep up with the momentum. Ideas are coming faster than you can use them or put them on paper, if you are writing.
And, worse still, you can't discriminate between good ideas and bad ones. The flow of this first impetus of creation is like a mountain stream, carrying everything it meets along the way: sticks, stones, weeds, flowers, pine cones, empty beer cans-everything is carried downhill in the first wave of enthusiasm.
Unfortunately, rather swiftly one reaches the bottom of the hill, the end of the first stage. With a hard thump you find yourself on level ground. The early morning impetus is spent. You are alone, and you've lost the vision and you don't even see the mountain peak because you're in the scrubby lowland.
You have only the memory of your vision and your faith in it, a kind of compass on which you have set a course.
At this low point I find there is unexpected help-the stimulus that comes from being in the actual process of work. (Running down the hillside wasn't work.) Engagement in process-the process of hacking out a path, or walking ahead-has certain rewards. They are not very romantic ones, but rather tough and earthy like the clods under your feet. You discover things about yourself, your endurance, your toughness, and even about your destination. Many irrelevancies drop away just from putting one foot down in front of the other. Discoveries surge up from the pound of your feet on the ground.
But, someone will say, suppose I discover I'm on the wrong path? Don't panic! This is possible. In fact, it is one of the gifts of process, of involvement. Involvement in action gives you the chance of discovering you're on the wrong course, perhaps even pointed toward the wrong mountain. But you would never have made this discovery by sitting on the lookout point. Without involvement you would be there still, not having found anything or learned anything. You may have to turn around, climb a tree, take fresh stock of yourself and your orientation, but you're further ahead than if you had never set out.
I'm going to assume we're on the right path, after perhaps one or two tries. The path leads to the mountain and we're feeling more confident. There are, of course, going to be difficulties. I can't describe them all, and you probably know them already. There are many different kinds and they have to be met in totally different ways. (The fairytale comb and tablecloth and key don't conquer them all.) Some of these hurdles must be met actively and some passively; some with willpower; some with rationality. Others must be met with just the opposite approach, by letting go, being open, listening.
I'll describe a few familiar hazards. One of the hardest to cross is the bog. In writing, this is the moment when you face the humiliation of the first draft. It takes an enormous amount of courage to face the pain of this moment. The disparity between your vision and the first draft is unbelievable. What you've written is messy; it's heavy; it's inarticulate. The words that come to you are awkward and lumpy, and they won't fit together into a sentence. You are like a two year old child fumbling with blocks. Why did you ever think you could write? This is the marsh, the bog, the quagmire and I've been in it often myself. I am sorry to have to admit I think this is a normal stage in writing. I have never found a detour around the bog. You have to go plodding right through it. It is the only way to reach the second draft. If one clumps ahead, no matter how awkwardly, one does reach the second draft, and then the third and the fourth.
Now you're doing all right until you reach a chasm-a deep gorge, with a river in it. In writing, this is the blank page, the dead end. You have had a vision; you have worked hard on it; you have made a beginning and now suddenly, and very unfairly, you are stopped cold. How do you get across the chasm? This is not the time to use the rational approach, or will power, or Evel Kneivel leaps. You can't argue yourself across the chasm, or swim it, or leap it. A totally new approach is needed, a helper, a guide, a sign. (In the fairy tale at this point a shaggy pony would appear and carry you across) You are out of touch with your unconscious and you need an intuitive signal, another gift. Relax, take a day off, do a job where you can see a tangible result; cut the lawn, bake a loaf of bread, forget about the chasm, and get a good night's sleep. The next morning you may find the smallest little thread of an idea to throw across the chasm. If it holds, then you can fasten a cord to the thread and then a rope-a bridge- and you're over!
With the chasm behind you, it is a relief to be up in the woods. There are no more gorges but after an hour or two of climbing around trunks and roots, you begin to be confused. You can't see the forest for the trees. This is a familiar stage in writing. You've written pages and pages but you can't get far enough away from it to see what you've done. You can't see it whole. You wonder what it's like-does it say anything? Would it mean something to another person? And suddenly you have a desperate idea: show it to your roommate, your friend, your husband, your wife. He'll know-she'll know, you think hopefully.
All I can say is, DON'T! Not at this stage. No one else can help you here; no one else had your particular vision so no one else can compare the reality of what you've actually done to your early dream. They can't see where you are or where you're going, and whatever they say will only discourage you. There is nothing to do here but to climb around each tree as it comes, hoping you will eventually get out of the forest.
Finally, one sees sky through the trees and one comes out into the open. And here one is on the rocky upper slope of the mountain. Everything is very clear and bare-and boring. What you've written, what you've struggled over, what you've carved out with such difficulty isn't any startling creation. It is just a stretch of hardpan platitudes. Those original ideas of yours are simply trite and obvious truths that everyone knows already. Why give the stuff to anyone? You want to throw it all away.
At this point you are probably wrong. You have worked at it too long and it has become stale. What is dull and familiar to you may be fresh and stimulating to someone else. If it is a piece of writing, don't tear it up. Type it out again, neaten it up, look at the clean copy and, at last, show it to someone. Just a little more climbing and you'll be at the top.
And what happens when you're at the top? No seven gun salutes, no fireworks, no vision. The peak doesn't look as it did from the early lookout point. I warned you, you would never see just that view again. In fact, you might be on the same hill you started from. Was the journey for nothing?
The journey was worth making because when you finish your poem or your book or your piece of work, it speaks to others. And it is the response of others who hear, and only this response, that tells you have reached the point you aimed for. This response in itself is a great joy. It can be, as I said in college, "the most exciting thing in life" to know you have communicated your vision to others. You are not alone.
But the response is not the only reward. By your finished work, whatever it is, you have joined yourself to the human community in a totally new way. You have added a fresh step to the sum of human accomplishment, knowledge or insight. Because of what you have illuminated, others may see clearly and work further ahead on new ground.
And now about you, yourself-do you see more clearly? That is obvious, of course, when you reach the mountaintop a whole new landscape opens up below you, with other peaks on the horizon. The landscape was once described by a poet and I shall end on his words ñ from T.S. Eliot's Little Gidding:
"We shall not cease from our exploration And the end of all our exploring Will be to arrive where we started from And know the place for the first time."


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News & Events
For the Media
Clarkson University Team Places First in Destination ImagiNation
[A photograph for media use is available at http://www.clarkson.edu/news/photos/destination200 8.jpg ]
The Clarkson team participated in the "Obstacles, Of Course!" challenge, designing and constructing a vehicle that traveled a specified obstacle course. The vehicle scored points for the number of obstacles it successfully overcame.
Destination ImagiNation is the world's largest creative problem solving program for students. This popular process-based program helps students build lifelong skills in creative and critical thinking, teamwork, time management and problem solving. The focus is on architectural design, structural engineering, construction, research, innovation and design process.
The Destination Imagination team members are James C. Madison, a senior electrical engineering major from Queensbury, N.Y.; Christy D. Petruczok, senior, chemical engineering, Orchard Park, N.Y.; Luke D. Dana, junior, electrical engineering, Gouverneur, N.Y.; and Ryan M. Jones, junior, electrical engineering, Waterloo, N.Y. The team's advisor is David P. Wick, assistant professor of physics.
The SPEED program is one of the Wallace H. Coulter School of Engineering hallmark initiatives, exemplifying Clarkson's "defy convention" approach to education. SPEED promotes multidisciplinary, project-based learning opportunities for more than 350 undergraduates annually. Projects involve engineering design, analysis, and fabrication. In addition, students learn real-world business skills, such as budget management, effective teamwork, and communications skills. SPEED receives its primary financial support from the Wallace H. Coulter Foundation with contributions from ExxonMobil and Turner Construction Company.
Photo caption: The Clarkson University Destination ImagiNation team recently earned first place in the University Level at the Destination ImagiNation Global Finals in Knoxville, Tenn. Left to right, team members James Madison, Luke Dana, Christy Petruczok and Ryan Jones.


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January/February 2003
Once again, the state of antiretroviral therapy is a combination of "good news" and "bad news." The good news is familiar to all who are involved in the treatment of HIV: since the introduction of protease inhibitors in 1995, the developed world has experienced impressive declines in both the incidence of AIDS cases and HIV-related morbidity and mortality. This is primarily due to the use of highly-active antiretroviral therapy (HAART) that can restore and protect immune system function and prevent persons with HIV from progressing to AIDS or dying from an HIV-related condition.
The bad news is also nothing new. Complete viral eradication ("cure") is likely to be impossible, necessitating lifelong antiretroviral therapy, and while many presume that antiretroviral therapy can be effective for years, the long-term durability of HAART has not been established. An extremely high degree of adherence to therapy, higher than has been demanded for any other chronic illness, is also necessary for optimal success. For those who are able to adhere to HAART, medication toxicities and the normal health issues of increasing age, some of which are synergistic, are beginning to be of equal or greater importance than the HIV-specific issues. For those who cannot or will not adhere to HAART, the impact of drug-resistance, which in HIV is likely to be lifelong, can severely limit treatment options.
While there have been comparisons between HIV and other chronic diseases like diabetes mellitus or hypertension, there remain several key differences. No other chronic disease requires such high adherence of potentially toxic drugs, with lack of near-perfect adherence leading to permanent drug resistance. For example, 75 percent adherence of atenolol does not lead to the permanent loss of the entire beta-blocker class of drugs for treating hypertension! Also, unlike with hypertension and diabetes, we do not know the long-term risks and toxicities of therapy as most of the current antiretroviral drugs have been used for less than a decade. Studying these long-term issues is difficult, especially as new drugs (with new toxicities) continue to be introduced into the mix and practice patterns continue to evolve.
For all persons on antiretroviral therapy, we clearly have a much better understanding of the importance of adherence now than we did in 1996. This is translating to better patient preparation before the initiation of HAART and more ongoing support for better adherence to antiretroviral drugs after HAART is started. This preparation and support is absolutely crucial for maximizing the chances for HAART being successful because of the stringent demands of taking antiretroviral drugs.
The push towards simpler and more tolerable regimens is due in part to this understanding of the importance of adherence. When patients are told that they have to take at least 95 percent of their medications, even the most minor side effect can become a big deal. Regimens with fewer pills and those given once daily are a significant improvement for many patients. Trizivir at a total of two pills each day continues to be a viable alternative for those with lower pre-treatment viral loads. At the time of this writing, five antiretroviral drugs from all three classes are FDA-approved for once-daily use (amprenavir, didanosine EC, efavirenz, lamivudine, and tenofovir), and there is evidence for the once-daily use of six other antiretroviral drugs either in current or pending formulations (abacavir, atazanavir, lopinavir, nevirapine, saquinavir, and stavudine). While the nature of many once-daily regimens, particularly ones that include an NNRTI, mean that they usually cannot be used in deep salvage, it is conceivable that a sequence of at least two once-daily regimens can be constructed for antiretroviral-naive patients.
For deep salvage therapy, the first fusion inhibitor, T-20, brings us a new drug target and with that an antiretroviral drug that should be active against multi-drug resistant virus. While it is only a single agent that, like other antiretroviral drugs, must be combined with other agents to prevent the emergence of drug resistance, it is an option for some who are desperate for additional options.
While there will continue to be newer agents that are simpler to take, better tolerated, and effective against resistant virus, the viral dynamics of HIV make chronic control of the virus by antiretroviral medications an ongoing uphill fight. There may come a day where ever more potent and well-tolerated medications can be given several times a week (like TB therapy), weekly (like pegylated interferon for hepatitis C), or even less frequently with a much greater "forgiveness factor" than current drugs when it comes to missing doses and timing. This would be a clear improvement from our current state.
However, in the minds of many HIV researchers and clinicians, the elusive long-term goal remains a therapeutic vaccine: a treatment that can stimulate one's own immune system to control or suppress HIV long-term rather than eradicating the virus, much as herpes simplex and varicella-zoster (the virus that causes chickenpox and shingles) are usually held in check by an intact immune system but never completely "cured." A therapeutic vaccine would also have life-changing impact in places like sub-Saharan Africa where millions without access to antiretroviral drugs are dying.
Until such time that immune-based therapy is available, we will continue to push on with what we currently have at our disposal. Often lost in the discussion of HIV therapeutics is the message of prevention. HIV infection remains highly preventable, and the advances in therapy should not lessen the message of prevention. As the recent experience in Uganda illustrates, a push towards prevention can be effective even where HAART is not widely available.
As for therapeutics, we will continue to learn how to better use the drugs that we have. Questions such as when to start therapy, how best to sequence therapy, and whether to employ strategies such as treatment interruption in specific populations will continue to be answered, albeit often not perfectly, as prospective trials are completed and retrospective cohorts continue to accumulate data.
More importantly, we have learned that many of these questions are without a definitive answer. The best answer for now is a highly individualized approach. Physicians and patients can sit down together to formulate a customized treatment plan. They can compare current medical knowledge with the unique preferences, desires, hopes, and fears of the patient.
The areas where medical knowledge leaves us with gaps in information need not be filled arbitrarily, but rather give providers the opportunity to discuss these uncertainties with the individual person. And this is something that modern medicine, for all its technology and promise, should be doing anyway.
Dr. Jonathan Uy is an Assistant Professor of Clinical Medicine in Infectious Diseases at the University of Illinois at Chicago and an Investigator with AIDS Research Alliance Chicago (ARAC).
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Organizers ban campaigning at Veterans Day parade
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — The annual Veterans Day parade in Illinois' capital city has some new rules this year: No politicians, no campaigning and no candy.
The (Springfield) State Journal-Register reports (http://bit.ly/1af0x5O ) the changes are part of an effort to refocus the event on the men and women who served the country in the U.S. military.
Instead of throwing free candy to people lining the streets downtown Springfield, participants will hand out small American flags.
"This year we are changing it around. We want to honor the veterans," said Sam Montalbano, a parade organizer. "The World War II veterans aren't going to be around much longer. I think it's time to salute them."
Politicians who served in the military may participate with their veterans groups, but they can't do any campaigning. Politicians who are not veterans may not march, Montalbano told the newspaper.
Monday's parade starts in downtown Springfield and ends at the statehouse, where a ceremony will be held in the Capitol rotunda.
It's sponsored by the Interveterans Council of Sangamon County and will honor all veterans, regardless of when they served.
The parade will also feature high school bands, World War II re-enactors, a World War II memorial float and a Vietnam War float.


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With Square Enix posting losses in its latest earnings, former Square Co. boss Hisashi Suzuki thought this would be good a time as any to kick the company while it is down.
Via Twitter, Suzuki didn't hold back, claiming that the total value of publicly traded stock is not higher than it was before Square joined with Enix. According to Suzuki, "The merger was a complete failure. There's no vision for the future." He ended his tweet by pointing to Square Enix's recent losses, adding that development costs were heavy.
Suzuki was the president of Square from 2000 to 2002, before the company merged with Enix to form Square Enix. He was a Director at Square Enix from 2003 to 2005, and he is currently a Director at Sega, a former Rakuten senior exec, and a blunt Twitter user.
合併は完全に失敗。未来に対するビジョンが無い。 [@Hisashi_Suzuki]
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Stephen Jackson tweets how he really feels about Serge Ibaka
Stephen Jackson is not afraid to speak his mind.*
*In fact, when we last heard from him, he was explaining how he "definitely enjoyed" hitting a fan in the stands at the Malice in the Palace. So ... yeah.
On Friday night, Jackson has a pretty simple message for Serge Ibaka, which he tweeted so we could all see it.
"Somebody tell serg Abaka. He aint bout dis life. Next time he run up on me im goin in his mouth. That's a promise. He doin 2 much."
SB Nation's Tom Ziller noticed this tweet, then brought up an interesting point: Jackson and the Spurs have not played the Thunder since Nov. 1. So where did this come from? Ziller tweeted "Starting to think that since OKC and SA haven't played in a month, Jack was reacting to Ibaka vs. MWP."
Update: Jackson further clarified his comments later Saturday, on Twitter: "FYI my ibaka comment had nothing to do with Ron artest. Last 2 times we played he ran up on me and i told him in the game next time u run up on me im going in ya mouth. Im speaking for myself. For u all who wanna jump to conclusions."
Yup, just watching TV and sharing observations. Observations that apparently were too real for some people. Jackson has since deleted the tweet, and this morning posted the following message on Instagram:
"Sorry I can't live my life the way u want me r not say the things I do. But remember its my life my thoughts. If u dont like them so what. I not afraid to speak my mind. Money doesn't make a person. Dont expect a person to be what u want them to b bekuz of their success
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Physical carts are one thing but haven;t you ever had a disc game that got scratched to shit?(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3704134&forum_id=2#34204204)
This is just the SNES, but every game on that list crushes the fuck out of every Sonic shitgame.(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3704134&forum_id=2#34204256)
Super Mario World and LTTP don't really hold up for me but that's just an opinion. Early SNES always seems kind of milquetoast. FF6 really punches so far ahead of the SNES's weight and is a glaring omission.
SNES >>> Genesis any day of the week though but you're not giving Sonic enough credit.(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3704134&forum_id=2#34204314)
I am actually playing FF6 right now and while it's inoffensive enough I don't see how it stands out. Turn-based JRPGs almost always leave me cold. They stood apart because of their high production values with tons of music and a detailed plot, but those don't age as well as sound core mechanics.
Sonic I just don't get at all. The platforming is super basic. The only appeal is going FASTFASTFAST but this makes high level play basically just a feat of memorization rather than dexterity or skill.(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3704134&forum_id=2#34204439)
it feels completely different from other platformers with its wide-open levels that scroll freely in all directions and the momentum-based physics that let you feel every little bump in the terrain and use the curves to your advantage. it's a sensual experience.(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3704134&forum_id=2#34206907)


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Area residents asked to help find a Greenland man wanted on federal chargesBy JOHN QUINN
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March 25. 2014 2:16PM
GREENLAND – The FBI and local police are working to locate a local man who is considered armed and dangerous.
Robert Pecora, 25, is wanted for violating bail conditions connected to a federal charge of armed pharmacy robbery. He was possibly seen in town Friday and may be driving a stolen dark green 1991 Toyota 4Runner bearing N.H. license plate 240-1290, according to police.
"Use caution, as Pecora may be armed and dangerous," according to the release.
Anyone with information on Pecora is encouraged to contact the FBI at (617) 742-5533 or Greenland Police at 431-4624. All calls will be kept confidential, and a reward is available for information leading to Pecora's arrest.


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Monarchs outscore Springfield
March 22. 2014 9:58PM
In a battle of first place teams, the Manchester Monarchs scored three times in the second period to defeat the Springfield Falcons, 5-2, Saturday night in Springfield, Mass.
Atlantic Division-leading Manchester advanced its record to 41-17-8 and will host Hershey today at 3 p.m. at Verizon Wireless Arena. The game will feature special green Girl Scouts jerseys for the Monarchs and the team will also celebrate the birthday of mascot Max with a Star Wars theme.
Northeast Division-leading Springfield is now 39-19-6.
After a scoreless first period where Manchester outshot Springfield, 8-2, Hunter Bishop gave the Monarchs a 1-0 lead 54 seconds into the second period. Nick Shore and Sean Backman picked up the assists on Bishop's fifth goal of the season.
Denny Urban tied the game for Springfield at 3:36 with a power-play goal. Manchester reclaimed the lead 27 seconds later when Brian O'Neill scored his 20th goal. Jordan Weal assisted and Backman added another helper.
Linden Vey pushed the lead to 3-1 with a goal at 4:54 of the second.
Weal pushed the Monarchs' lead to 4-1 with his 17th goal of the season at the 11:44 mark of the third period, with assists to Vey and O'Neill.
Dana Tyrell scored for Springfield to make it 4-2 with 3:54 remaining to play.
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2007 Winners Named in Barbara Lotze Scholarship for Future Teachers
College Park, Maryland, United States, February 1, 2007
The American Association of Physics Teachers (AAPT) announced today that the 2007 Barbara Lotze Scholarship for Future Teachers has been awarded to Logan Kimberly, Brianne Boland, and Alex Silverman. Supported by an endowment funded by AAPT Member Barbara Lotze, the scholarship provides a $2,000 stipend to outstanding future high school physics teachers.
About the Recipients
Logan Kimberly is a member of the class of 2008 at University of Wisconsin-Steven's Point. "I've always wanted to become a teacher," Kimberly says. He loved physics immediately. When he realized others had difficulty, "that's when I knew I wanted to become a high school physics teacher."
Robert Beeken, Professor and Chairman, Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Wisconsin-Steven's Point, says, "Logan Kimberly is, without doubt, the most gifted secondary education teacher that our physics program will have produced in the 27 years I have been at this institution."
Brianne Boland is a member of the class of 2009 at Marquette University in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. When her mother asked why she liked physics, Boland responded, "Because it explains everything."
Ruth H. Howes, Professor and Chair, Physics Department at Marquette, calls Boland a strong teacher and an eager student. "She's willing to fight through the mathematics of problems and seeks a conceptual understanding of the material and not just recipes for completing problems," she says.
Alex Silverman was graduated from Georgia Institute of Technology earlier this month and is applying for jobs within the Atlanta public high school system. He has taught and tutored as a volunteer since his freshman year and says, "I believe the great education I have received from Georgia Tech combined with my teaching experience will help me succeed at teaching and allow me to get my future students excited about physics."
Donna C. Llewellyn, Director of the Center for the Enhancement of Teaching and Learning at Georgia Institute of Technology, says, "Alex has a keen interest in teaching physics to high school students—not just the top tier, but also the disengaged and under-motivated ones. He works hard at finding ways to reach the students who don't want to be reached."
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By Tom Bergin
LONDON, April 26 (Reuters) - UK lawmakers criticised the
role of accounting firms in helping big companies avoid paying
tax and said in a report on Friday that close corporate
relationships with government raised concerns about undue
influence on tax policy.
Corporate tax avoidance has risen to the top of the
political agenda in Britain in the past year following reports
which showed some major companies paid little or no tax in the
country by shifting profits to tax havens.
While the four biggest accounting firms, KPMG,
Deloitte, Ernst & Young and
PricewaterhouseCoopers said they no longer advised on
aggressive tax avoidance plans, the Public Accounts Committee
said: "They are still devising complex schemes that look
It went on to say the accounting firms were still prepared
to recommend tax arrangements which had as little as a 50
percent chance of being successful if challenged in court.
The report also questioned the way staff from the "Big Four"
were seconded to the government to help draft tax rules.
"The large accountancy firms are in a powerful position in
the tax world and have an unhealthily cosy relationship with
government," Committee chair Margaret Hodge said.
But the firms said they behaved ethically and that the
complexity of tax law was largely to blame for any appearance to
the contrary. They welcomed the committee's calls for the rules
to be simplified.
"We perform an essential function in the UK economy by
helping our clients navigate this complexity," Bill Dodwell,
Head of Tax Policy at Deloitte said.
The committee called on companies to disclose more
information about their tax affairs. The government has also
called for more disclosure but has said it wants this to be done
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Sand tiger sharks (Carcharias taurus) have an unusual mode of reproduction, whereby the first embryos in each of the paired uteri to reach a certain size ('hatchlings') consume all of their smaller siblings during gestation ('embryonic cannibalism' or EC). If females commonly mate with multiple males ('behavioural polyandry') then litters could initially have multiple sires. It is possible, however, that EC could exclude of all but one of these sires from producing offspring thus influencing the species genetic mating system ('genetic monogamy'). Here, we use microsatellite DNA profiling of mothers and their litters (n = 15, from two to nine embryos per litter) to quantify the frequency of behavioural and genetic polyandry in this system. We conservatively estimate that nine of the females we examined (60%) were behaviourally polyandrous. The genetic mating system was characterized by assessing sibling relationships between hatchlings and revealed only 40 per cent genetic polyandry (i.e. hatchlings were full siblings in 60% of litters). The discrepancy stemmed from three females that were initially fertilized by multiple males but only produced hatchlings with one of them. This reveals that males can be excluded even after fertilizing ova and that some instances of genetic monogamy in this population arise from the reduction in litter size by EC. More research is needed on how cryptic post-copulatory and post-zygotic processes contribute to determining paternity and bridging the behavioural and genetic mating systems of viviparous species.
1. Introduction
Animal mating systems can be parsed into the behavioural component, describing copulation patterns, and the genetic component that describes the realized distribution of parentage [1]. Most broods of internally fertilizing animals exhibit multiple paternity, indicating a genetic mating system that includes behavioural polyandry (i.e. females mating with multiple males; [1]). In a few species or populations, however, single paternity of broods is more common ('genetic monogamy' [2–4]). Although multiple paternity provides definitive proof of behavioural polyandry and demonstrates some level of concordance between the behavioural and genetic mating systems, genetic monogamy is ambiguous with regard to the underlying mating behaviour. Genetic monogamy can result from a female only mating with one male, but it can also arise after post-copulatory competitive or selective processes allow one of several mating partners to monopolize paternity [1,5].
The sand tiger shark, Carcharias taurus, has a remarkable reproductive mode in which the behavioural and genetic mating system are decoupled by embryonic cannibalism ('EC'), potentially enabling post-zygotic processes to ultimately determine paternity of the litter. Female sand tigers ovulate for several months, with ova entering the upper oviduct where fertilization occurs [6]. Single or a few fertilized ova are then encapsulated and then settle in either the right or left of the paired uteri. The first embryo in each uterus to 'hatch' from its egg capsule, occurring when it reaches a length of approximately 55–60 mm, is called the 'hatchling' [6]. Soon after, the approximately 100 mm hatchling proceeds to attack, kill and eventually consume all of its younger siblings, achieving exponential growth over this period [6]. The hatchling then has sole access to unfertilized ova accumulated in the uterus, which are consumed for much of the rest of gestation ('oophagy'). Term litters consist of a pair of hatchlings, one from each uterus, that are born at such large sizes (approx. 950–1250 mm) that they have few predators [6].
The unusual developmental mode of sand tigers raises interesting questions about how EC influences the species genetic mating system (i.e. distribution of parentage). The behavioural mating system of female sand tigers is not known, but if behavioural polyandry is common then it is possible that they initially gestate litters sired by multiple males similar to many other animals [1,2,5]. Unlike most other animals, however, the majority of embryonic sand tiger sharks are not carried to term because of EC [6]. This raises the possibility that some sires that initially fertilize ova are excluded because all of their progeny are consumed by the hatchlings. From a mating system perspective, this could frequently result in genetic monogamy despite behavioural polyandry by females. We therefore used microsatellite DNA profiling to conduct the first parentage study of a species with EC, which may be an important determinant of the genetic mating system.
2. Material and methods
Gravid sand tigers were obtained from mortality events associated with protective beach meshing operations in Richards Bay, South Africa (28°48′0″ S, 32°6′0″ E) from 2008 to 2012. Tissue samples from mothers and their embryos were stored at room temperature in 95 per cent ethanol, as were samples from adult males and females collected in the same area. Microsatellite genotyping of each individual at 10 polymorphic loci (9–32 alleles per locus) is described in the electronic supplementary material. The parental exclusion probability of this panel of markers was over 99.9 per cent if one parent is known as calculated in Gerud v. 2.0 [7] using allele frequencies observed in sampled adults. Genotypes of individuals used in this study can be found in the electronic supplementary material.
We first aimed to characterize the behavioural mating system of this population by estimating the frequency of behavioural polyandry. Like nearly all sharks there are no observations of free-living sand tigers mating. We can therefore only estimate the frequency of behavioural polyandry using genetic parentage analysis. This is necessarily conservative because it only detects polyandry that results in multiple paternity. Since diploid males can pass a maximum of two alleles to their offspring at each locus, more than two paternal alleles in a litter reveals the presence of multiple sires (i.e. the paternal allele count method). This can only be tested in litters composed of three or more embryos (i.e. litters sampled prior to the end of the EC phase of development). For litters composed only of a pair of hatchlings (i.e. litters sampled after EC is completed), we calculated the probabilities that the pair were either full siblings (same father and therefore genetic monogamy) or maternal half siblings (different fathers, proving both behavioural and genetic polyandry) in the program ML-Relate [8]. ML-Relate's hypothesis testing option was used to assess the probability of each sibling relationship. These probabilities were generated from 10 000 simulated genotypes using population allele frequencies estimated using adults sampled in the study area. We report which relationship had the highest probability, since these are the only two possibilities. In summary, we considered a female to be behaviourally polyandrous when its litter had more than two paternal alleles or, when there were only two embryos available, if they were maternal half siblings.
The genetic mating system of sand tigers is determined by the paternity of hatchlings, as they are the only embryos that survive to term and contribute to the next generation. As there are only two hatchlings per litter, we used ML-Relate to determine whether they were full or maternal half siblings as described above. The identity of hatchlings in litters composed of more than two embryos was obvious in the litters we examined because of their larger sizes relative to their siblings, most of which were also still encapsulated (figure 1). In summary, we report two separate mating system parameters. The frequency of behavioural polyandry was conservatively estimated by examining all embryos available in each litter (the behavioural mating system). The frequency of genetic polyandry was estimated based on the relationship of each pair of hatchlings (the genetic mating system).
3. Results and discussion
Gravid females are rarely captured in the beach meshing programme, but we were able to collect 15 litters (mothers and embryos) from 2007 to 2012. Twenty-three additional adult males and females also captured in Richard's Bay were used to estimate population allele frequencies. Five of the 15 litters were collected prior to the completion of EC and were composed of six to nine embryos each (table 1). These were amenable to using the paternal allele count method. All of them exhibited three or four paternal alleles at four to eight of the 10 profiled loci, conclusive evidence that these females had mated with at least two males each (table 1). The remaining litters (n = 10) were sampled after EC was finished and the hatchlings were all that remained of the litter. Four hatchling pairs shared no paternal alleles, which is highly unlikely if they were full siblings (table 1). We conclude that they were maternal half siblings (i.e. had different fathers). We therefore found evidence of behavioural polyandry in nine out of the 15 litters we examined and conservatively estimate that 60 per cent of the females we sampled, including all five of those sampled prior to the completion of EC, were behaviourally polyandrous.
To assess the genetic mating system of sand tigers, we calculated the probabilities that hatchling pairs sampled were full or half siblings for all 15 litters. We found that the hatchling in six of the 15 were maternal half siblings (40% genetic polyandry; table 1). The remaining nine females (60%) were genetically monogamous (table 1). In six of these, we sampled only hatchlings and therefore cannot resolve whether or not the female was behaviourally polyandrous. However, in the three cases where we sampled both hatchlings and smaller embryos paternal allele counts proved that the female was behaviourally polyandrous. These three cases demonstrate that some sires are excluded by EC, and individual cases of genetic monogamy sometimes occur despite behavioural polyandry.
It is widely known that behavioural polyandry can initiate post-copulatory competition between males in internally fertilizing species [1]. The existence of behavioural polyandry suggests there is sperm competition in sand tigers, which corresponds with the observation that males of this species store larger volumes of sperm than other sharks [9]. EC broadens sexual selection beyond post-copulatory competition to simply fertilize ova because it generates competition to fertilize specific ova: those that are most likely to become hatchlings. Fertilizing the earliest ova is likely to be important because the earliest embryos to settle in each uterus have a head start when it comes to reaching hatchling size [6]. Male sand tigers are reported to engage in mate guarding behaviour in captivity, with a dominant male physically excluding rivals from females until after it had copulated [10]. If this is representative of natural behaviour, then mate guarding could have evolved to maximize the probability of fertilizing the earliest ova and/or to delay subsequent fertilizations by other males. Sexual selection is broadened still further in cases where there are a few similar-sized embryos in each uterus as they approach hatching [6]. In this situation, any trait that enhances the competitive ability of the embryo itself would be subject to positive selection. For example, individual growth rate could determine which of several similar-sized embryos would hatch first and consume its younger siblings, presumably selecting for males to carry genes that promote rapid embryonic growth. It is also possible to envision how this type of selection may have influenced the precocious development of eyes and teeth that occurs in embryonic sand tigers, which enhances their ability to locate and consume their siblings [6].
Female sand tigers make an extremely large energetic investment in two offspring per gestation [6]. Although female sharks, including sand tigers, can either cooperate or engage in avoidance behaviours during copulation attempts it is thought that they do not have absolute control over mate choice or mating frequency [11]. EC may increase the probability that compatible and/or competitively superior males (in terms of behavioural dominance, sperm competition or producing competitive embryos) sire the hatchlings, even if females are unable to control mating frequency or outwardly assess mate quality. The 'convenience polyandry hypothesis' postulates that females may accept multiple mating partners simply because the costs of resistance exceed the costs of accepting superfluous copulation [12]. EC may allow female sand tigers to engage in convenience polyandry after mating with preferred males without actually investing in embryos from these superfluous copulations.
The original envisioning of sexual selection was based on the competition that occurred between males for mates [13]. A century later, it was recognized that sexual selection continues after copulation when sperm from different males compete to fertilize ova [5]. While multiple male sand tigers commonly fertilize a single female, EC sometimes excludes all but one of them from gaining offspring. This system highlights that competition and sexual selection can still occur after fertilization. Although EC is rare in nature [6], competition between embryos is common in viviparous species and may lead to mortality during or immediately following gestation [1]. This competition can play an important and probably underappreciated role in determining male fitness.
This research was supported by operational funds to the Institute for Ocean Conservation Science from The Pew Charitable Trusts, private donors to the Institute for Ocean Conservation Science and the Guy Harvey Research Institute. Genetic data were collected in the Field Museum's Pritzker Laboratory for Molecular Systematics and Evolution operated with support from the Pritzker Foundation.
- Received January 2, 2013.
- Accepted April 11, 2013.
- © 2013 The Author(s) Published by the Royal Society. All rights reserved.


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Haemophilus species, as a urinary tract pathogen, is rarely encountered. 1‐3 Routine urine culture pathogens are well documented to include Enterobacteriaciae , Enterococcus spp., Staphylococcus spp., Pseudomonas spp., and Candida spp. Pathogens encountered rarely in this context may include Corynebacterium ureolyticus and nonfermenting gram negative bacilli. In this article, we present 2 case reports, one of Haemophilus influenzae in a 4-year-old Caucasian girl and the other of Haemophilus parinfluenzae in a 60-year-old African American man.
A urine culture on a 4-year-old Caucasian girl with a suspected urinary tract infection (UTI) grew 1 colony forming unit (CFU) per mL of Staphylococcus spp. and 2 other colonies after 12 hours of incubation. The plate was incubated overnight to ensure that the required 18-hour incubation period was met. The following day, there were pinpoint-sized colonies surrounding the Staphylococcus spp. colony ( Image 1 ). AGram stain was performed; the results showed those colonies to be made up of small gram negative bacilli. The colonies were subcultured to a chocolate agar plate (CHOC), which was incubated overnight in 5% CO 2 at 35°C. Also, the original blood agar plate (BLD) was streaked with the Staphyloccus spp. that had caused the satellite behavior (hereinafter, satelliting), in an attempt to see if additional behavior of this type could be visualized and a colony count could be estimated.Image 1
Satelliting colonies on BLD agar plate from 4 year old female.
Satelliting colonies on BLD agar plate from 4 year old female.
After incubation, there was a small amount of additional growth adjacent to the Staphylococcus spp. streak. The original urine specimen had been discarded; as a result, direct plating to a CHOC for colony count was not possible. The CHOC grew colonies typical of Haemophilus spp. The colonies were identified as Haemophilus influenzae by the RapID NH kit (Thermo Fisher Scientific.) BBL Cefinase disc (Becton Dickinson and Company [BD]) testing yielded a negative result for beta lactamase production. A Kirby-Bauer susceptibility test was set up using BBL Haemophilus Test Media Agar (BD) and was incubated overnight in 5% CO 2 at 35°C. The susceptibility test yielded the following results: the organism was susceptible to ampicillin, azithromycin, cefaclor, cefuroxime, and trimethoprim sulfamethoxazole.
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Flag Retirement Ceremony To Be Held At Fairgrounds
A public American Flag retirement ceremony will be conducted at
the Owen County Fairgrounds on Sunday, November 14.
The 1:00 p.m. ceremony, to take place near the fairgrounds' main arena, provides the proper method of retiring Old Glory in an impressive program that ends with the collection of used, unserviceable flags being burned.
Anyone having flags they would like to have properly retired should deliver them to the VFW Post #1405 in Spencer, VFW Post #7850 in Gosport, or the American Legion Post #285 in Spencer.
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MIAMI (AP) — It's an hour before showtime, and Gustavo Rios is transforming himself into Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez.
A makeup artist paints his skin a dark olive tone. A plastic mole is glued strategically on the upper right corner of his forehead. Large, latex ears and a short, black wig cover his head as he squints and purses his lips in front of a mirror.
He mimics Chavez with comical, exaggerated precision, his voice billowing in a triumphant tone and his hands prancing in the air. It's a mockery that came with a price in Venezuela, where the boisterous, domineering president has carefully cultivated his image as a widely supported savior: Rios was taunted, threatened, robbed, even had his car set ablaze.
Rios fled Venezuela, and now his act is featured in a Spanish-language show broadcast on U.S. airwaves. Meanwhile, the real Chavez lies ill in a Cuban hospital recovering or suffering — no one seems to know exactly — from complications following cancer surgery in December.
He dresses in the president's iconic red and pokes fun at being in the hospital. On a recent show, he stood chained to an IV but danced to the 1980 hit "Celebration" as he played Nintendo Wii. What he doesn't do: mention the word "cancer." Rios knows what cancer is like. His own father has it.
"Cancer is a very grueling illness," he says, his voice solemn.
Rios first did his Chavez impression on a radio show called "Con Las Pilas Puestas" — "With the Batteries On" — in Maracaibo, a city along the western coast of Venezuela that is his family's hometown. He pretended to talk with the presidents of Cuba, Russia and Iran and Osama bin Laden about conquering the world. On one episode, he schemed to kidnap the president of the United States and torture him with hours of Mexican norteno music, a folk genre that features the accordion and has roots in polka.
Not everyone thought it was funny. Supporters of Chavez, who for years has condemned U.S. capitalism and pushed a socialist platform, called him names: Weakling. Imperialist. Oligarch. On four occasions, his car was robbed. Then it was set on fire outside the studio in midday. There were threatening messages, notes that promised death.
Eventually, he took his wife and 3-year-old son and filed for political asylum in Miami, home to the largest Venezuelan population outside the South American country — most of them fiercely anti-Chavez.
"It was terrible," he says. "Leaving my family was the worst."
He had no contacts, no real way of making a name for himself in radio again. So the now 40-year-old comedian did what most immigrants do: He washed dishes. Delivered pizzas. Painted buildings. Meanwhile, Rios also put together a demo tape of his impressions — he does more than 80 public personalities — and dropped it off at studios. A Cuban actor who had worked in Venezuela and was on the radio in Miami heard it and called him for an interview.
"He was one of the first people I listened to imitating Chavez," said the actor, Omar Moynelo. "For me, it was a great find."
More and more Venezuelans were leaving their country and settling in Miami. There were comedians in the city imitating Fidel Castro, but no one impersonating Chavez.
Four years ago, Rios landed a job on MegaTV. Around the same time, his father was diagnosed with prostate cancer. Rios was still waiting for his U.S. citizenship and could not go back to Venezuela to be with him. As his father went through chemotherapy and radiation, Rios tried to console him on the phone, send money and make him laugh with clips of his impressions.
Then, nearly two years ago, Chavez was diagnosed with the same disease. Officials have never confirmed what type of cancer he has, but Chavez has now undergone repeated surgeries, chemotherapy and radiation. He has not been seen in public since Dec. 11.
At first, Rios thought it was another temporary setback or even a ploy; Chavez would go to Cuba and emerge victoriously once again. But then came the day of his inauguration. Chavez was still absent. Rios and the writers at MegaTV were careful to strike a balance: Funny but not cruel. And if it is confirmed Chavez is in his final days, Rios says he'll stop the act altogether.
"A sickness like that, no one should make fun of," he says.
So Rios skirts around it. Felipe Viel, the host of "Esta Noche Tu Night," tells the audience they are getting a live transmission from Chavez's hospital room. Rios then appears in a red pajama and green military jacket. Sometimes, he is in a wheelchair, ill but startlingly robust. He acts childish and throws pills on the floor.
On Thursday's episode, he was up and swaying his hips to a Nintendo dance game. A nurse in a low-cut white uniform entered the room. He flirts, and she flirts back. He resists her romantic proposition.
"The paparazzi will take our photos!" he exclaims.
"Speaking of that," the nurse with curly, blond hair says, "did you see the photo in El Pais?"
Earlier Thursday, the Spanish newspaper had withdrawn a photo from its website and print editions that alleged to show Chavez with tubes in his mouth after discovering it was fake.
The phone rings. It's the secretary of the Organization of American States. She's coming to visit. The fake Chavez quickly hides all evidence of his Nintendo games.
Rios says he wants to make those jokes in Venezuela the way U.S. comedians imitate and make fun of presidents Barack Obama and George W. Bush.
"I want the Chavistas to laugh with us," he says. "You have to know how to laugh at yourself."
And he wants to be in Venezuela with his father, who is still undergoing chemotherapy. But he knows his imitations aren't welcome there and worries about what might happen if he returns. It won't be safe to mock Chavez there until he's gone, and by then, Rios will have to find a new act.
In Miami, his Chavez and other impersonations have earned him recognition. People notice and thank him on the streets for making them laugh. At the studio, an audience of about 20 people sit in metal folding chairs, chuckling at his charades. It's a momentary relief, for them and Rios.
"It helps me get rid of all that energy," he says, "all those things one carries inside."
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I am interested in Telugu localization and submitted a ticket as per instructions.
How ever I am not a technical person and needs to learn quite a bit.
I know there are few GPL fonts in Telugu and OLPC has Telugu keyboard layout.
So here are my 2 questions
1) How will I find out what font OLPC uses for Telugu, so that I can use the same for my translations?
I am not even sure if this is a relevant question.
( I am currently using RTS with SCIM in Ubuntu machine with English keyboard as per instructions. )
How ever I want to use the font OLPC uses.
2) If I do not have technical ability to start Localization, At least, I want to get all the words for core projects
as a text file so that I can translate in my computer and manually enter them when some brighter person starts
localization. So it possible to get the words as text file so that I can start the process.
If you think I should RTFM, please point that to me.
with warm regards to all.
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The question is at once harrowing and irrepressible: Will my child be safe today?
Answered honestly, most parents admit that despite their daily calculus, they cant know. Human systems are imperfect; what is too painful to think too often comes true.
I know anything could happen, but I choose not to think about it, Park Elementary School parent Liz Mora said. Protecting my kids and loving them every day that has to be enough.
On Dec. 14, the unthinkable happened to other peoples children.
Until 20-year-old Adam Lanza shot and killed 20 children and six women at Sandy Hook Elementary School, Newtown, Conn., was, by all accounts, an idyllic town.
Could that happen here?
No one interviewed for this story said never.
In a letter to parents after the Connecticut tragedy, Superintendent Daniel Snowberger assured parents that Durango School District 9-R collaborates closely with local law enforcement and has safety protocols to address both threats from outside and within.
But in that letter, he acknowledged that our schools are not an impenetrable fortress.
In fact, our schools are places that welcome the community and rely on visitors to make their presence known.
Even the district acknowledges that someone with motivation and an assault rifle wont be stymied by checking in at the front desk.
Some parents say it isnt our schools unsuspicious culture that leaves children susceptible to madmens sudden rage, but the ubiquity of guns and lack of laws to control them.
We need tougher laws, no assault rifles, and less easy access, said parent Erin Hamlin while walking her kids Kiara and Gavin home from Park Elementary. No guns arent dangerous.
Currently, concealed weapons, when carried by a permit holder, are allowed on school grounds but not in school buildings.
District spokeswoman Julie Popp said the policy is being reassessed.
In an email, she also wrote, Please keep in mind that students and staff are never allowed to have weapons on campus with or without a concealed weapons permit.
La Plata County Sheriff Duke Schirard said state law more or less obliges him to issue permits to anyone who has undergone remedial firearm training within the last 10 years and whose recorded history is unblemished by felonies, mental illness, a domestic violence conviction or an operative restraining order.
Colorados revised statutes add the applicant must not chronically and habitually use alcoholic beverages to the extent that the applicants normal faculties are impaired.
Schirard said he did not know how many permits hed issued.
Surprisingly, most guns used in mass shootings were obtained legally, according to an investigation by Mother Jones magazine. The report found that since 1982, there have been at least 62 mass shootings in the country.
Of the 142 guns possessed by the killers, more than three-quarters were obtained legally, the magazine reported.
There are almost 300 million privately owned firearms in America, or nearly one for every American.
According to Popp, Colorado school districts have some discretion in forbidding guns on campus. But no such luxury is afforded those running state-funded institutions of higher education.
At Fort Lewis College, spokesman Mitch Davis said a recent Colorado Supreme Court decision determined that students with concealed weapons permits cant be prevented from packing heat on campus.
The more permissive law for colleges is not supported by reality: The deadliest shooting by a single gunman in U.S. history was committed at Virginia Tech University in 2007. The shooter in that case legally obtained his weapons despite having a diagnosed mental illness.
FLC does not know how many or which of its students hold permits that enable them to legally carry guns to class or in dorms.
After speaking with our police department, Im told that the names of concealed carry permit holders is confidential under state law, Davis said in an email. Our police officers dont even have that information. ... I dont see a way to estimate the number of permit holders we have on campus.
At the University of Colorado at Boulder, spokesman Bronson Hillard said students dont have to disclose whether they hold concealed weapons permits.
Both FLC and CU emphasized that mental-health services are available to students whose behavior appears to be erratic.
Hillard also said CUs biggest lecture hall seats 500 students.


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Monique Oliver had 18 of her 23 points in the second half to help No. 23 Rutgers rally to beat Marquette 52-43 on Saturday night in the second round of the Big East tournament.
Khadijah Rushdan added nine points and 12 rebounds for the Scarlet Knights (22-8), who will face No. 4 Connecticut in the quarterfinals on Sunday night.
Both teams struggled on offense for most of the game. Marquette built a nine-point lead and held a 22-16 halftime lead. They led 26-20 early in the second half before Rutgers finally got going behind Oliver. Her free throw and putback with 7:35 left gave Rutgers' its first lead since early in the first half.
Marquette trailed 44-41 before Gabi Minix's scoop shot in the lane brought the Golden Eagles within one. Oliver then made six of eight free throws in the final 3 minutes and Rutgers' held the Golden Eagles scoreless the rest of the way.
Katherine Plouffe scored 15 points to lead Marquette (14-17).


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COMEX Gold (February '13):
- Short Term Trends are bullish.
- Confirmation of a top with a range violation on 11/28/12 @ 1729.90. Confirmation of a top with a close violation on 11/28/12 @ 1718.80. Downside Target = 1707.20 – 1694.70
- Inside compression day generated on Monday.
- February Gold gapped higher on Monday in what turned out to be a thin trading session from last Friday's settlement but was unable to sustain the early session momentum as the market last traded in the lower 30% of the day's trading range.
- Gold has seen very volatile trading throughout the fiscal cliff talks and should continue the backing and filling price action over the coming weeks and ultimately make a serious retest of $1,700 before resuming any rally.
- Projected Daily Range: 15.10
- Projected Weekly Range: 42.30
- Projected Monthly Range: 94.70
Euro FX (December):
- Short Term Trends are bearish.
- Confirmation of a bottom with a range violation on 11/15/12 @ 1.2788. Confirmation of a bottom with a close violation on 11/19/12 @ 1.2811. Upside Targets = 1.3117 – 1.3177.
- New highs made on current move Friday @ 1.3078. STR3MO over 145% achieved.
- The December Euro FX finally broke through to close above the previous top of 1.3027 on Monday as it violated the November highs and closed just inside the daily RBB.
- The euro has traded over 400 points higher in the past month after trading through my Q4 downside price objective by nine ticks and should be nearing some IT resistance that will result in a ST correction before moving higher towards 1.35 in the next few months.
- Projected Daily Range: .0075
- Projected Weekly Range: .0182
- Projected Monthly Range: .0456
E-Mini S&P (December):
- Short Term Trends are bearish.
- Confirmation of a bottom with a range violation on 11/20/12 @ 1386.00. Confirmation of a bottom with a close violation on 11/20/12 @ 1386.25. Upside Targets = 1404.00 – 1420.00.
- Bearish VRCB-OVB combo generated on Monday after making new highs on the current move @ 1424.00.
- The December S&Ps traded just four points through the upside resistance price of 1420 mentioned in last Thursday's evening report before melting down to trade all the way down to last Thursday's low.
- While this formation is typically indicative of a major pivot point in the market, recent volatility and price action suggests that the correction may be short lived and traders need to be nimble and expect a higher low when the market does bottom.
- Projected Daily Range: 14.50
- Projected Weekly Range: 43.25
- Projected Monthly Range: 81.50
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Yemeni protesters on Thursday stormed the American embassy complex before being driven out by police, an AFP reporter said, as angry Muslim protests grew over a film mocking Islam.
All protesters who breached the fence of the US mission in Sanaa have been ejected, the correspondent reported, as security forces used water cannon and fired warning shots.
Some protesters said they saw three vehicles being torched by some of the demonstrators who crossed the first gate where a security kiosk was empty.
Thursday is the first day of the weekend in Yemen.
Police fired warning shots earlier to disperse thousands of protesters as they approached the main gate of the mission.
"O, messenger of Allah… O, Mohammed!" demonstrators chanted.
Protesters have retreated over 100 metres (yards) from the gate, with hundreds gathering near a checkpoint chanting anti-Jewish slogans.
"O, Jews: Khaybar, Khaybar. The army of Mohammed will return," they chanted evoking a 7th century war in the west of the Arabian Peninsula in which the Muslims are said to have defeated the Jews.
The attack comes two days after four Americans, including the ambassador, were killed when a Libyan mob attacked the US consulate in Benghazi, and protesters in Cairo tore down the Stars and Stripes and replaced it with a black Islamic flag.
Libya has launched an inquiry into the Benghazi attack, amid growing speculation that Al-Qaeda militants among the frenzied mob carried out the assault rather than simple demonstrators.
On Thursday, protesters were back outside the US mission in Cairo. Police used tear gas as they clashed with a stone- and bottle-throwing crowd.
Protests against the film were also held on Wednesday outside US missions in Morocco, Sudan and Tunisia. In Tunis, police fired tear gas to disperse a crowd of several hundred.
In other Muslim countries, security measures have tightened around US missions. Several governments gave tried to block internet access to the controversial film.
The low-budget movie "Innocence of Muslims," in which actors have strong American accents, portrays Muslims as immoral and gratuitously violent.
It pokes fun at the Prophet Mohammed and touches on themes of paedophilia and homosexuality, while showing him sleeping with women, talking about killing children and referring to a donkey as "the first Muslim animal."
Mystery has deepened over the film, with conflicting accounts from backers and promoters but no one owning up to having actually directed it.
US media initially cited someone claiming to be an American-Israeli and calling himself Sam Bacile as saying he made the film on a $5 million budget with the help of 100 Jews, but no record of such a person has been found.
Coptic Christians have been accused of promoting an Arabic-adapted version of the English-language film in Egypt, where clips were shown on an Egyptian television channel at the weekend, apparently setting off the protests.


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… a time to kick back, relax, and take some time away from a busy schedule for fun activities. Right?
Well, that may be summer's reputation, but when I've talked with friends and family it doesn't seem that many people have found that to be the case in practice. Oh, it's not that they haven't had fun – and there have certainly been plenty of fun activities – but in many cases summer actually seems to prove even crazier, and sometimes more stressful, than the cooler months.
That's certainly been the case for me this year. There have been a lot of fun things (including several trips), fun things that were also a lot of work (such as getting a new puppy, and working on art commissions), and it's also been one of the busiest summers for editing work that I've ever had. Lots to be thankful for!
In between it all, I've been working on a fair amount of writing. Among other things, I finished up an ebook and got it edited, and entered the Fantastic Books International Short Story Competition.
I also wrote an article for Molly Green Magazine (from Econobusters), about the other business that my sister and I run, Gilded Gears Jewelry. In addition to talking about how we got started, I shared some advice (geared particularly toward kids and teens) on starting home businesses. The article will be appearing in their September issue, which should come out around the 1st, and there'll be a drawing for this necklace on their site at the same time:
So if you like jewelry (or know someone who does), you might want to check it out!
And just as exciting – this last week the St. Cloud Times ran an article on my sister and me. The interview was primarily regarding Gilded Gears, but we talked some about our other businesses as well – and yes, NAIWE got a mention. You can read the full article here. There are a few factual errors that some who know us might catch (for instance, the picture that ran with the article was credited to our mother rather than my sister, and the magazine article was written by me rather than our sister), but it was a great opportunity.
So it's been a good summer. But where others are sighing about summer being over "already," I must admit that I'm looking forward to fall. The steadier schedule will be a nice break from all the excitement!


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NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. stocks are opening lower after turning in a record week.
The Dow Jones industrial average fell 17 points to 14,379 shortly after the opening bell Monday.
The economic calendar is light on Monday, offering investors little to latch on to.
The Dow blew past its record high from October 2007 last Tuesday. It set records the rest of the week and ended up 2 percent.
The Standard & Poor's 500 fell two points to 1,548. The index is 16 points below the record high it reached in October 2007.
Both indexes had risen for six straight days.
The Nasdaq composite fell six points to 3,237.


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