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Clarkson University Grad Student Todd Deshane Receives IBM Ph.D. Fellowship
Todd M. Deshane, a Ph.D. candidate in engineering science in Clarkson University's Department of Computer Science, is the recipient of the prestigious and coveted IBM Ph.D. Fellowship Award for the 2008-2009 academic year.
The award is an annual, worldwide competitive program that recognizes exceptional Ph.D. students in many academic disciplines and areas of study, including computer science and engineering, electrical and mechanical engineering, physical sciences, mathematical sciences, business sciences and service sciences, management, and engineering. Award recipients are selected based on their overall potential for research excellence, the degree to which their technical interests align with those of IBM, and their progress to-date.
Deshane was nominated for the fellowship by Associate Professor of Computer Science Jeanna Matthews. "Competition for IBM Ph.D. Fellowships is international. The award is highly competitive and very prestigious," said Matthews. "This is Todd's second year receiving an IBM Ph.D. fellowship. Applications for renewals are by no means automatic; they are considered against all other nominations. The renewal of this award is a wonderful recognition of the high quality work Todd is doing at Clarkson."
Deshane's research is in the area of operating system technologies, such as virtual machine monitors, high availability, and file systems. His doctoral dissertation focuses on using these technologies to provide desktop users with an attack-resistant experience, with automatic and autonomic recovery from viruses, worms, and adverse system modifications.
Clarkson University crosses the boundaries of disciplines, nations and cultures in order for discovery, engineering innovation and enterprise to come together. As a result, faculty and graduates grasp the full impact of their calling, direct their research to the world's pressing issues and lead with confidence and distinction. One in seven alumni is already a CEO or other senior executive. Located in Potsdam, N.Y., just outside the six-million-acre Adirondack Park, Clarkson is home to 3,000 students preparing for rewarding careers through 50 rigorous programs of study in engineering, business, arts, science, and health sciences, as well as unparalleled outdoor recreation and life experiences beyond the classroom.
Photo caption: Clarkson University Ph.D. candidate Todd M. Deshane has been awarded an IBM Ph.D. Fellowship Award for the 2008-2009 academic year. Deshane's major is Engineering Science. The award pays tuition, fees and a $17,500 stipend.
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Albeit overshadowed by the upcoming release of Windows Vista and Microsoft Exchange 2007 and the release of the 2007 Microsoft Office System this November, SQL Server is having a big month. This week, we've seen excellent attendance at the Professional Association for SQL Server (PASS) 2006 Community Summit in Seattle. While I was in Las Vegas last week at the well-attended SQL Server Magazine Connections conference, a colleague noted that it was the one-year anniversary of the November launch of SQL Server 2005, Visual Studio 2005, and BizTalk 2006 in San Francisco (for more information see "Planes, Trains, and Automobiles: Backstage for Launch Activity," November 2005, InstantDoc ID 48546), and Microsoft coincidentally chose to release to manufacturing (RTM) Windows Vista and the 2007 Office System during this anniversary week.
So now, one year after the release of SQL Server 2005, conference attendance is at a high, showing that SQL Server attendees want to learn from real-world experiences now that the release has "settled" into their workplace. Outside of conferences, upgrade and migration training and consulting demand is at an all-time high. Interestingly (given an interdependence I will touch on) last week the SQL Server team also released the first public Community Technology Preview (CTP) of Service Pack 2 (SP2). In keeping with a practice first introduced with Service Packs for Reporting Services 2000, Microsoft is using Service Packs to release new features and performance optimizations rather than just patches and bug fixes. We got significant features in SQL Server 2005 SP1 (e.g., the much-anticipated Database Mirroring feature), but SP2 looks like it's going to be a blockbuster, and a lot of it is focused on business intelligence (BI).
To read details about the new functionality and features in SP2's CTP, see "What's New in SQL Server 2005 SP2" at. Here are some of the BI highlights:
- Data-mining add-ins for the 2007 Office System, which enable data-mining functionality from Analysis Services to be used directly within Microsoft Excel 2007 and Microsoft Visio 2007.
- Analysis Services performance and functionality improvements for Excel 2007 and Excel Services.
- SQL Server Reporting Services integration with Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007, which allows integration with the Report Center feature in SharePoint and provides seamless consumption and management of Reporting Services reports within SharePoint.
- Oracle support in Report Builder. Developers will be able to build Report Models that use Oracle relational data sources, so users will now be able to use Report Builder to access information in Oracle.
- Hyperion support with Reporting Services. Organizations will now be able to use Reporting Services to build reports on top of Hyperion Essbase cubes.
- Data compression through a new varDecimal data type, which is important for data warehouse scenarios and is specifically important for SAP Business Information Warehouse (BW) scenarios. This requires less disk storage of decimal data, which increases overall performance. Support for Windows Vista, which means SQL Server 2005 Developer and Express editions with SP2 will be supported to run on Vista.
Don't miss the CTP version of the Feature Pack for SQL Server 2005 SP2 (available at http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=7a9ad90f-7f95-4369-a206-e84053d63fd3&displaylang=en). It includes the latest versions of standalone installs of redistributable components, add-on providers, and backward-compatibility components for SQL Server 2005. If you want to get started with SP2, I encourage you to download a copy today from the SQL Server Community Technology Preview Program and start working with it. Be sure to provide feedback and log your bugs.
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Despite this amount of organic jeans available, there still isn't much in the way of eco-friendly bags. If you're looking to save the planet through your bag purchases, you'll be interested in these heat pressed bags by Gregor Timlin. The design came about because Timlin wanted to make a bag that was eco friendly and inexpensive to manufacture.
Tusting leather tote from Browns
Cotton bags are becoming so ubiquitous these days I'm on the brink of cutting all mine up into strips and weaving them into some sort of über-tote.
Sugarkane asymmetrical glasses will fit your wonky face nicely
They say facial beauty is all about symmetry, don't they? In which case, these asymmetrical specs will be perfect for the remaining, ugly 95% of the population.
Nooka Zoov Gold Watch
Lupe Fiasco has a lot to answer for. I've been trying to figure out why I've been on the lookout for gold watches lately and I came to conclusion that his song called, um, 'Gold Watch' has subconsciously influenced me.
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While most men opt for the safe bet of ties, socks and other traditional Father's Day gifts, I have always wanted to get something better. I spend weeks and months searching for something perfect in its masculine luxury, but when your dad works for Tesco's your options are sadly limited. As a result, I often end up presentless and apologetic by the Third Sunday of June (like today, for instance.)
I was a fan of Isabelle's 'Caviar' ties but only this afternoon (how horrendously cruel is that?) found these Prada Lifestlye sets.
Pantherella purple socks
If you're into the trouser turn up trend, you'll know that wearing turn ups with socks was supposed to be a massive taboo. Most fashion followers have paid no attention to this rule, instead taking it as an opportunity to show off their fancy socks. These Pantherella purple socks would make a great addition to any sock drawer.
Casio Calculator watch
Whilst I do love all the watches we've featured on Brandish, they're all a bit…serious. They all fit the bill when you're trying to smarten up an outfit, but what about when you're trying to loosen up a little? At times like this, it would be nice to contrast a smart-ish ensemble with a playful retro watch – like this Casio watch.
Steven Alan Weekend bag
Bags are usually available in muted tones as people seek to match it with as many items as possible. In those times when you want a bit of colour contrast you may need a bag that stands out a little more. That's where this Steven Alan bag comes in.
It's time to branch out with these Marks and Spencers socks
It's easy to assume that socks shopping will be easy. You assume that stores will have socks with designs and plain socks, all in a variety of colours and made from good quality cotton that won't get a hole in a couple of weeks. Sadly this isn't the case. When this happens you have to branch out.
WISHLIST: CA4LA Trilby
This week I happen to be in the rather happening city of Mumbai. This former Bombay is, according to US Vogue, the new "It-City" but after landing yesterday I must admit that the gruelling heat wave soon quashed my hopes of glamour and a jet-set style wardrobe. In my stone grey Topman shorts, white belt, Karate Kid t-shirt and flip-flops I realised I was missing something and as soon as I stepped into the light of Indian sun I realised that what I needed was a hat.
Caviar print ties from Etsy
Expressing yourself through the medium of a necktie is a dangerous thing. Thankfully Toybreaker's screenprinted ties are million miles away from the novelty Winnie the Pooh/Simpsons/Taz/Whatever ties that you see reluctantly balding middle managers wearing on the tube into work.
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Being a woman I've never had to cope with beard angst, moustache angst maybe, but I totally feel for you if you have a smooth babysoft chin and crave manly face fur.
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As far as I know, Liberty of London didn't have an online accessories store until fairly recently. It's pretty slim pickings at the moment but these embossed leather holdalls half-caught my eye. I say half caught my eye because while I do like the shape and design of the bag there's just something off with the bag.
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If you like Maharishi and are in London, then you'll be pleased to hear that they've got a sample sale going on from now till the first of June. For a sample sale, it's running for a pretty long time – but I'm sure that's to accommodate for people who might be waiting till payday. Check after the jump for the directions.
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Donald Judd, Untitled, 1985, enamel on aluminum, 11-3/4" x 59" x 11-3/4" (30 cm x 150 cm x 30 cm). © Donald Judd/ Licensed by VAGA, New York, NY. Photo: Joerg Lohse/ Courtesy The Pace Gallery.
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presents Donald Judd: Works in Granite, Cor-ten, Plywood, and Enamel on Aluminum, featuring thirteen wall and floor pieces from 1978 through 1992. In the final two decades of Judds life, the artist introduced a variety of new materials to his work that expanded his possibilities for formal innovation. The exhibition is on view from February 18 through March 26, 2011 at 534 West 25th Street. A catalogue with an entry on each work written by Marianne Stockebrand, Director Emerita of the Chinati Foundation, accompanies the show.
Judd considered material one of the three main aspects of visual art. In his articulation of actual space and his inventive use of color, he paid particular attention to the selection and fabrication of materials. This exhibition focuses on some of the lesser known and, as Stockebrand writes in the catalogue essay, more unusual materials that Judd worked with in the later years of his life.
Donald Judd: Works in Granite, Cor-ten, Plywood, and Enamel on Aluminum is the thirteenth exhibition devoted to the artist at The Pace Gallery in a history that spans two decades. The artist worked closely with The Pace Gallery during the final years of his life. Most recently, in 2007, The Pace Gallery mounted the groundbreaking exhibition, Josef Albers / Donald Judd: Form and Color, which paired the theoretical approaches to color and formal structures of these two seminal artists.
This exhibition features a Cor-ten steel floor box measuring 100 x 200 x 200 cm from 1989 and a Cor-ten steel vertical wall work with black Plexiglas from 1991 measuring 300 x 50 x 25 cm (overall installed). Judd began using Cor-ten steel in the 1980s for a small number of large-scale outdoor pieces, and by 1989 would create single and multi-part works with the material. The Cor-ten works are unique in that they are the only works the artist fabricated in Marfa, Texas, his long-term home and aesthetic laboratory. The warm brown color and velvety surface added a new element to his work. Judd once said about the material that for years he had resisted it, thinking of it as Richards [Serra] material, but then I realized it was just a material, and how I would use it would be different from how Richard used it.
Six wall mounted enamel on aluminum works from 1985 fabricated at Lehni AG (Switzerland), and a work each fabricated at Studer (Switzerland), 1987, and Lascaux Materials Ltd. (New York), 1989, is also on view in this exhibition. Judds work with enamel on aluminum greatly expanded his palette of industrial colors, which had previously been restricted to the colors of anodized metal and Plexiglas. The artist began working with enamel on aluminum in 1984, when he had the Lehni factory in Switzerland bend thin sheets of the materiala process previously used to create furniturefor a temporary exhibition outdoor in the Merian Park, outside Basel. Combining a wide range of colors, Judd used the material to create five large-scale floor pieces (including one in the Museum of Modern Art, New York) and horizontal wall works in unique variations of color and size, such as those on view in this exhibition.
An important shift in Judds work came in 1972 when he resumed working with plywood (having worked with metal since the mid-1960s). The artist embraced the material for its durable structural qualities, which enabled him to expand the size of his works while avoiding the problem of bending or buckling. Highlights on view in this exhibition include two plywood floor boxes: an Untitled work from 1978 (19 ½ x 45 x 30 ½"), as well as a later example from 1989 (36 x 60 x 60"). The exhibition also features a wall-mounted half-meter (1992) and meter box (1989), both of plywood with red and brown Plexiglas respectively. Like the 1978 plywood floor box, both wall-mounted boxes incorporate diagonal panelsa more dynamic device that conveys a sense of movement, Stockebrand explains. The diagonal emerged from Judds work with plywood and would become entrenched into his formal language, later appearing in his work with other materials. Important examples of Judds work in plywood can be found permanently installed at Dia: Beacon.
An Untitled Sierra White granite floor piece from 1978 is also on view. This rare piece is Judds only known work in granite. The work measures 49 x 98 x 98". The structure is composed of two vertical slabs that rest on the floor, to which the bottom component is conjoined, and the ceiling of the structure extends to the outer edges of the vertical walls. The piece is one of Judds few non site-specific outdoor works, and has had one owner since it was made in the 1970s. This is the first time the work has been included in an exhibition devoted to Judds work.
In October 2010, two important texts on the artist and The Chinati Foundation were published: Donald Judd, the first monograph devoted to the artist (Yale University Press), written by David Raskin, professor of Art History, Theory, and Criticism at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and Chinati: The Vision of Donald Judd, the first comprehensive overview of The Chinati Foundations history and collection (co-published by Chinati and Yale University Press), written and edited by Marianne Stockebrand, with additional essays by Rudi Fuchs, Thomas Kellein, Nicholas Serota, and Richard Shiff, as well as writings by the artist. The book was designed by Rutger Fuchs, who has designed all of Chinatis printed materials since the mid-1990s, and also includes photography by Florian Holzherr and Douglas Tuck.
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Q. I am 24 and have been saving in my 401(k) for about a year, but I find mutual funds boring. So I started paying attention to stocks. I discovered that I was good at spotting those that would do well. For a while, I just made a mental note of stocks I liked, but when I saw them go up I decided to buy my first stock. It was Garmin, which makes navigation devices for cars. I bought it for $70 and I made money immediately. Now I'm wondering how to decide when it's time to sell. Are there some rules of thumb?
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When it comes to investing money for your future, boring can be beautiful.
In fact, you might be asking your question now because Garmin Ltd. stock has suddenly plunged. That might mean your initial excitement has turned to fear, dread, or confusion.
After soaring to more than $122 a share in late September, shares fell below $100 in just a couple of days. That's a tremendous drop in a short time. And you are probably wondering what it means – whether you should bail now and lock in your $30 gain on the stock, or hope for the magic to return.
Morningstar Inc. analyst Pat Dorsey suggests taking your gains and getting out now unless you know more about the future of the company than your question suggests.
The stock plunged because of competition – the bane of a hot stock. Nokia, which makes telephones, is acquiring digital mapmaker Navteq Corp. And that means Garmin could have another significant competitor in the navigation device business as Nokia blends navigation with cell phones.
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The disappointment may not come at first. Momentum and investor excitement can drive a stock higher for a while. But when a highflying stock drops 20 percent, that can be a sign that "people have changed their opinion about a stock," Dorsey said.
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Too often individual investors don't sell when they should.
They see a $50 stock go to $40, and say they will wait for $50 again. Then the stock goes to $35, and they wait for $40 to return.
Dorsey, who wrote "The Five Rules for Successful Stock Investing," suggests studying a stock before buying it. When you do that, you decide upfront what you think will drive profits and by how much.
On that basis, you decide if the price of the stock is too high. If you pay too much, you could have a solid stock, but still encounter a plunge in price.
If profits are lower than expected, that could be a reason to sell. If sales growth slows because a competitor is taking business, that could be a reason.
At www.moneycentral.com, you can learn to analyze stocks with the "research wizard" tool found under "stock research." It walks you through the type of analysis professionals use.
If you do not want to do this analysis, stick to mutual funds. Even if you build up $1 million by retirement that may not seem like much. With the impact of inflation, such savings could seem like less than $300,000 today.
As a rule of thumb, you should be investing at least 10 percent of your income in your 401(k) so you have enough for retirement. Then, if you want to use a little play money to invest in stocks on the side, go for it. But do it thoughtfully.
Picking stocks is tough. Even professionals get it wrong. But because mutual funds often hold 100 stocks or more, you have insulation if one stock suddenly takes a turn for the worse.
Chicago Tribune columnist Gail MarksJarvis can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com.
There is safety in numbers, and you have a better chance of winning with 100 stocks than if you simply bet on one or two.
Professional stock pickers who work for mutual fund companies generally set what are called "price targets" whenever they pick a stock. They analyze all the factors that they think will drive profits, and then estimate where the stock price should eventually go. They promise themselves to sell the stock when it reaches that point.
When that time arrives, they will re-examine their analysis of the stock and see if there is new information that suggests profits will be greater than they thought. If so, they will raise their price target and hold on.
Sometimes even they succumb to wishful thinking when stocks perform badly. They set up disciplines – like noting profit assumptions – to fight the urge to trick themselves.
If you are serious about picking stocks, learn to do this analysis. Although you often hear about stocks that are so strong you can buy and hold them for life, you must continually revisit your analysis and see if the reason for holding the stock remains sound based on the numbers.
Even solid stocks often lose their luster.
The Leuthold Group recently researched how stocks hold up over time. They reviewed the 100 largest stocks of 1966 – or the equivalent of stocks such as Exxon Mobil, General Electric and Microsoft today. Only 23 of those companies from 1966 remain on the list of the largest 100 stocks.
The next time you want to buy a hot stock and figure it will be as good as gold for life, consider Polaroid. It was a hot stock in the early '70s. A few years ago, it filed for bankruptcy, leaving shareholders high and dry.


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We don't know that Michael Vick suddenly will start seeing his progressions better, or will stop trying to make impossible throws, when the Ravens visit the Linc Sunday.
We do know that Vick didn't need to hear the blistering criticism that followed his four-interception performance in the opener to want to do better.
Asked about criticism motivating him this week, Vick said Wednesday he is not one to for external motivation. (Plus, it's not like the critics were saying anything untrue.)
"I watched the film," Vick said to a huge throng of reporters pressing in on his locker stall. "I'm the one who lived it. Everyone else just kind of watched it from afar, they're just speculating about it ... I'm the one that's got to deal with it and go out there and make it right.
"This is a game that I love ... every game is not going to be easy, every game is not going to be what everybody thinks [it should be]. Sometimes, it just may not be easy on the eyes."
Meanwhile, Eagles coach Andy Reid said WR Jeremy Maclin (hip) will not practice today. Reid said Maclin is not yet ruled out of Sunday's game, but we sure seem to be heading in that direction, with the Eagles adding WR Mardy Gilyard Tuesday.
Reid said 2011 second-round pick Jaiquawn Jarrett, whom the Eagles cut to bring Gilyard aboard, ought to do better in another type of system. Reid would not discyuss why things didn't work out for Jarrett here, apparently not wanting to harm Jarrett's chances at another chance elsewhere. But he seemed to be saying a team that plays a more traditional box safety might be able to use Jarrett, the 54th player selected in that draft and the earliest-cut high draft pick of the 14-year Reid era.


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PSNH seeks residential rate cut
June 16. 2014 10:42AM
MANCHESTER — Residential customers of Public Service of New Hampshire would see their bills drop starting July 1 under a proposed rate cut, the utility said Monday.
PSNH is asking state regulators to approve the reduction.
An average PSNH residential customer using 500 kilowatt hours of energy would see its monthly bill cut by 31 cents, to $91.68, if the state Public Utilities Commission approves the July 1 rate adjustment, the utility said.
In May, PSNH had indicated it expected to ask for a rate hike that would have raised the monthly bill to $93.55.


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Linda Saunders Paquette: NH needs more resources for fighting substance abuseBY LINDA SAUNDERS PAQUETTE
January 07. 2014 4:38PM
WE CANNOT overstate the impact on New Hampshire's alcohol and other drug problems of expanding health coverage and including in that coverage the management of substance use disorders for existing beneficiaries.
The state criminal justice system incurs the direct costs of our woefully inadequate substance abuse disorder treatment: stolen Tide laundry detergent to fund heroin addictions, burglary of construction tools, local coffee shops being robbed at gunpoint, and drug-related parole revocations that return violators to a costly corrections system.
More than 90 percent of parole revocations in our state are due to condition violations involving parolees who used drugs or alcohol.
For excessive alcohol consumption alone, a recently released report by PolECon Research estimated the costs for New Hampshire police protection, the judicial system and state and county correctional systems totaled $88.2 million in 2011.
According to a Union Leader article published on Dec. 21, there were 291 robberies — armed and unarmed — reported in Manchester during 2013. Robberies have steadily increased not only in the last three months, but over the prior five years, police crime statistics show. Manchester Lt. Maureen Tessier said that the common denominator is drug dependency, especially heroin. There is no question that is the No. 1 motivator behind these crimes.
Expanded Medicaid coverage for low-income adults in New Hampshire will be paid 100 percent by federal funds until Dec. 31, 2016, and at least 90 percent federal funds after that. Many in the newly covered population are on probation or parole or are participating in drug or mental health courts. There are extremely limited state-funded resources to cover the cost of treatment and recovery supports for only a small fraction of those in need. As a result, alcohol and drug-related recidivism remains at such high levels.
Of the 113,000 New Hampshire residents estimated to need treatment for alcohol and other drug disorders, only 6,000 per year receive needed treatment through state-funded programs. Raw statistics reflect that the imbalance between need and treatment may continue to increase.
Our 12- 20-year-olds have the highest rates in the nation for past-month alcohol use and third-highest in the nation in past-month binge drinking. Our 18-25- year-olds are third-highest in past-month alcohol use. Without timely and adequate interventions, youthful substance use offenders are at an increased risk of developing persistent criminal careers.
Substance abuse disorder treatment, through expanded health coverage, could provide treatment options for individuals identified by the police and courts. We need to begin providing safe and therapeutic environments to assist with the reintegration of society — otherwise we'll continue paying exponentially in other ways.
Failure to prevent and control involvement in crime and substance use directly contributes to the growth of prison and jail populations. Prison and jail inmates are seven times likelier to have a substance use disorder than the general population.
Concentration of inmates with substance use problems in correctional facilities merely exacerbates the problem. This is because, as one advocate for expanded health coverage eloquently described, the state puts everyone with substance abuse disorders together in jail, creating the perfect opposite of a sober community for somebody trying to quit.
Forced sober environments don't address the underlying cause of addiction — you can put bars and barbed wire around somebody with addiction; without appropriate treatment and supports, they will not recover from their addiction.
When the State of Washington expanded Medicaid coverage to low-income childless adults, the state saw a reduction of up to 33 percent in rates of rearrest for those who were treated for substance use disorders, as compared to those in need of but not receiving that treatment. This resulted in saving an estimated $5,000-$10,000 for each person treated, inclusive of state, county and local resources. Those savings are available for prevention efforts and to address other public safety needs.
Implementation of expanded health insurance coverage in New Hampshire will increase access to treatment, strengthen New Hampshire's economy, reduce recidivism and improve the health of New Hampshire's poorest families. Accepting federal funds would allow state general fund dollars currently spent on treatment to be reallocated across disciplines for prevention, recovery supports, and other related services aimed at reducing crime associated with substance abuse. Expanding these resources can address the underlying cause of cyclical drug-related crime and incarceration in our state.
Expanding health insurance coverage for New Hampshire's low income adults is our highest priority in 2014.
Linda Saunders Paquette is executive director of New Futures, a Concord-based non-profit group dedicated to fighting substance abuse and addiction.


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ST-Ericsson confirmes NovaThor ModAp platform is in Galaxy S III Mini
ST-Ericsson, which is a company responsible for developing wireless platforms and semiconductors, announced that its NovaThor ModAp platform is used to power the Samsung Galaxy S III Mini. The Mini is a smaller, more affordable version of Samsung's flagship Galaxy S III. The NovaThor ModAp platform is designed for compact devices, which seems quite suitable for the smaller version of the S III.
The reason the NovaThor ModAp platform functions well on smaller devices is that it implements modem and application processor on a single die. This allows the device to create power with solid efficiency without taking up extra space. ST-Ericsson has had its processors featured in a few other devices, but they have not received nearly the attention of companies like Qualcomm, who is are known for making the ultra high-end processors.
For whatever reason Samsung choose not to announce the processor creator when they announced the other specs of the device. They were quick to announce that it had a 1.0 GHz dual-core STE U8420 processor, but they did not credit ST-Ericsson. They also announced that the phone has 1GB of RAM, 8 and 16GB storage options, and a 1,500 mAh battery.
Final pricing and release information on the Galaxy S III Mini is still spotty. UK retailers have posted various prices, but nothing official has come out yet. Prices for other regions and release dates have not been announced of late, but at least we are learning a little more about the device. As always, we will keep you posted with latest on the Galaxy S III Mini as it happens.


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I would say that NPR's Nina Totenberg coaxed some provocative comments from Seventh Circuit Judge Richard Posner criticizing conservatives, but I don't think Totenberg had to work too hard to elicit them. Posner freely offers them up and Totenberg is almost beside herself with giddiness. An audio clip is posted with Totengerg's story at the link. Listen for yourself.
Totenberg reports:
Posner expressed admiration for President Ronald Reagan and the economist Milton Friedman, two pillars of conservatism. But over the past 10 years, Posner said, "there's been a real deterioration in conservative thinking. And that has to lead people to re-examine and modify their thinking."
"I've become less conservative since the Republican Party started becoming goofy," he said.
Totenberg offers no specifics, so it is difficult to discern Posner's frame of reference or to respond. I think most conservatives and Republicans seek to follow in the footsteps of Reagan and Friedman. Where are we straying? Perhaps Totenberg was too overcome with Schadenfreude to follow up. When the conversation descends to specifics, they do not seem to bear directly on Posner's observation. They relate to the leaks over Chief Justice Roberts's deliberation over the Obamacare case and to the conservative critiques of his opinion for the Court:
Posner…speculated that the leaks about the deliberations over the national health care law — which are apparently designed to discredit Chief Justice John Roberts' opinion upholding the law — would backfire. "I think these right-wingers who are blasting Roberts are making a very serious mistake," he said.
"Because if you put [yourself] in his position … what's he supposed to think? That he finds his allies to be a bunch of crackpots? Does that help the conservative movement? I mean, what would you do if you were Roberts? All the sudden you find out that the people you thought were your friends have turned against you, they despise you, they mistreat you, they leak to the press. What do you do? Do you become more conservative? Or do you say, 'What am I doing with this crowd of lunatics?' Right? Maybe you have to re-examine your position."
So the conservative critiques of Roberts's opinion are the work of "crackpots." Again, it would be nice to have some idea whom he is talking about, a coherent criticism of their critiques, or a defense of Roberts's unusual opinion in substance. Instead Posner simply serves up childish name-calling.
Posner also assumes that the leaks from the Supreme Court came from conservatives at the Court. How does he know? Who are they? If Posner knows, he apparently isn't saying.
There is nothing unusual or untoward about conservative activists and legal scholars criticizing a Supreme Court opinion, even one by a conservative justice. But it is unusual for a sitting federal appellate judge to criticize his superiors, as Posner does Justice Scalia in this recent Slate column.
Posner's implicit theory that conservatives should silently defer to Roberts's opinion lest they drive Roberts into the camp of the left is also silly, if not absurd. Moreover, it seems disrespectful of the Chief Justice of the United States to suggest that he would be driven by petty personal concerns. As Posner himself might ask, where is the evidence? And if it exists, doesn't it reflect poorly on Roberts rather than his conservative critics?
Posner's comments are not those of a crackpot, to use his language. But they nevertheless seem to me remarkably ill-considered for a man of Posner's stature.


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EASTON, Pa. (AP) — A judge in eastern Pennsylvania has ruled against a former Lehigh University graduate student who sued to have a grade of C-plus changed to a B and was seeking $1.3 million in damages.
The Express-Times of Easton (http://bit.ly/VXlYj2) reports that Northampton County Judge Emil Giordano made the ruling Thursday in the lawsuit filed by Megan Thode.
Thode was seeking damages over the grade in a 2009 therapist internship course. She alleged the grade was retaliation because she supports gay marriage. She said the grade was preventing her from becoming a licensed therapist. An expert estimated Thode would suffer $1.3 million in damages in lost earnings.
Lehigh University argued that professors, not judges, possess the expertise required to make academic decisions. And the teacher testified she stood by the grade.
Information from: The (Easton, Pa.) Express-Times, http://www.lehighvalleylive.com


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September 5, 2013
More Dogs Rescued in Southern Alabama Dogfighting Case
Nearly two weeks after authorities conducted a massive dogfighting raid across Alabama, Mississippi and Georgia, another five dogs have been seized in connection with the investigation. Responders with The Humane Society of the United States were called in by federal and local authorities to rescue five American pit bull terriers from a Covington County property. The dogs appeared to be underweight and some had scars and injuries consistent with dogfighting.
Investigators believe that these five dogs are associated with the multi-state dogfighting ring that was busted on Friday, Aug. 23. The dogs will be taken to The HSUS' temporary shelter at an undisclosed location, where they will be examined by veterinarians and receive much-needed care.
Chris Schindler, manager of animal fighting investigations for The HSUS, said: "Organized dogfighting cannot be shut down in one fell swoop, but thankfully, the investigators involved in this case are dedicated to eradicating dogfighting from the region. They worked to uncover these additional dogs so that we could save them from lives of pain and misery."
The ongoing investigation also involves assistance from the Federal Bureau of Investigations, Auburn Police Division, the U.S. Attorney's Office and the Coffee County Sheriff's Office.


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The what, when, and why of 30 pregnancy exams, screens, and scans
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Throughout even the healthiest, low-risk pregnancy, an expectant mama is likely to undergo a full battery of tests, in part simply because it's possible nowadays (and useful) to find out quite a bit more about the health of our babies than when our moms were pregnant with us. While some tests monitor your health, others check that of your baby. Many, if not most, are routine, while others are optional and more relevant to specific populations.
Before you read any further, you should know that there are two types of genetic tests: screening and diagnostic tests. A screening test assesses your particular risk of having a baby with a certain birth defect, e.g. a 1 in 400 chance or 1 in 2,300, while a diagnostic test gives you a near-definitive answer as to whether your baby has a particular birth defect. Depending on the results of your screening tests, your healthcare provider may recommend follow-up diagnostic testing.
Your healthcare provider can tell you which tests pertain to your specific pregnancy, given your past and current medical history, but we checked in with Michele Hakakha, M.D., an ob-gyn in private practice in Beverly Hills, CA and co-author of Expecting 411: Clear Answers & Smart Advice for Your Pregnancy to offer you a trimester-by-trimester guide to the tests a modern mama-to-be is likely to face, along with any risks associated with the tests, and what to do if there's a problem.
Complete Blood Count
Who: All women
When: At your first prenatal visit (generally six to ten weeks into your pregnancy)
How: A blood test
Why: Elevated levels of white blood cells could indicate an infection; too little hemoglobin in your red blood cells indicates anemia; and low platelet levels may signal a blood-clotting problem.
Results and follow-up: If you're slightly anemic, your doctor will likely instruct you to eat more iron-rich foods—lean meats, green leafy veggies, beans, and lentils. If you need more iron than you can squeeze into your diet, your doctor may recommend a daily iron supplement in addition to your prenatal vitamin. Certain types of anemia can be a red flag for inherited blood disorders such as sickle cell disease that could potentially be passed onto baby; your doctor may order more tests. And if your white blood cell count comes in high, or your platelet count low, you may also need further testing to determine the best course of action, if any.
Blood Type & Rh/Antibody Screen
Who: All women
When: At your first prenatal visit (generally six to ten weeks into your pregnancy)
How: A blood test
Why: To determine your blood type and Rh status. Your baby's pediatrician will eventually need this information, because if you have type "O" blood and deliver a baby with "A" or "B" blood type, he may be at greater risk for jaundice. It's also helpful data for your healthcare provider, in case you have complications during labor and need a transfusion. Secondly, the Rh factor is a protein found on red blood cells. If you are Rh-negative (meaning that you don't have the protein) and your fetus is Rh-positive, your body may produce antibodies that attack your baby's red blood cells, potentially causing him to develop severe anemia in utero.
Results & follow-up: If an Rh difference is detected, a doctor can provide injections of Rh immune globulin to prevent this type of reaction (usually at 28 weeks gestation and within 72 hours of giving birth, although a dose may also be given if a woman has a miscarriage, bleeding, or an amniocentesis or other invasive testing during pregnancy).
Rubella Immunity
Who: Most women
When: At your first prenatal visit (generally six to ten weeks into your pregnancy)
How: A blood test
Why: To detect antibodies to rubella (German measles), which indicate immunity to the disease. You likely received the MMR vaccine at some point in your life, but immunity may have worn off, so ideally this is something doctors like to check for during a preconception visit. That way, if you're not immune, you can be vaccinated (and should wait three months following vaccination to conceive). If antibodies are not present in a pregnant woman, exposure to the disease could cause birth defects, blindness, deafness, preterm birth, miscarriage or stillbirth, among other problems.
Results and follow-up: The vast majority of women in the U.S. are immune, thanks to a major vaccination effort, but if you're not, you should make sure that your kids, if you have any others at home, have had all of their shots and that anyone else at home who's not immune gets vaccinated. If there's even a single known case of rubella in your community, you should stay home until it's confirmed that the danger of infection has passed. Sounds drastic, but if you contract rubella during the first 12 weeks, there's up to an 85 percent chance that your baby will develop congenital rubella syndrome (CRS), which can cause deafness, eye defects, and major neurologic problems. After 20 weeks of pregnancy, thankfully, there's little risk that a rubella infection would cause any birth defects.
Varicella Immunity
Who: Most women
When: At your first prenatal visit (generally six to ten weeks into your pregnancy)
How: A blood test
Why: To detect antibodies to the chickenpox virus (varicella), which indicate immunity to the disease. The good news is that more than 90 percent of pregnant women are immune because they either had chickenpox earlier or were vaccinated as kids, but immunity can decrease over time. Chickenpox in pregnancy can cause congenital varicella syndrome, a group of birth defects that can include blindness, seizures, neurological problems, and malformed and paralyzed limbs. Fortunately, varicella syndrome affects just one to two percent of babies whose moms were infected in the first half of pregnancy—and birth defects are very rare when infection occurs in the latter half of pregnancy.
Results and follow-up: If you're not immune to chickenpox, you should avoid anyone with chickenpox or shingles during your pregnancy. If you have been exposed to someone with chickenpox, see your healthcare provider within 96 hours (four days) for treatment with VariZIG, which can prevent the illness or lessen its severity. Should you come down with chickenpox during pregnancy, your healthcare provider will likely treat you with the oral antiviral drug acyclovir (which is believed to be safe during pregnancy) to help ease symptoms.
Hepatitis B
Who: All women
When: Can be done anytime during pregnancy, but usually at your first prenatal visit
How: A blood test
Why: To check for the hepatitis B virus (HBV), which can cause severe illness, liver damage, and even death—and can be passed to the baby at birth. According to the World Health Organization, about a quarter of the world's population have been infected with HBV, but many of them have no symptoms and are unaware that they're carriers of the virus.
Results and follow-up: The test for hepatitis B will tell your doctor one of three things: if you have been vaccinated against HBV, if you were infected with HBV in the past but no longer have the virus, or if you are a chronic carrier of HBV. Should the test reveal that you are a chronic carrier, you should consult with a perinatologist (a specialist who deals with high-risk pregnancies) and an infectious disease specialist in addition to your midwife or OB; it's important to monitor your liver function. Your baby should receive a shot of hepatitis B antibodies as well as his first dose of the hepatitis B vaccine at birth (second and third doses should be given at regular doctor's visits; all three are necessary for protection).
Who: All women
When: At your first prenatal visit (generally six to ten weeks into your pregnancy)
How: A blood test
Why: As with many other STDs, women can be infected without knowing it (although men who are infected may have a syphilis sore called a chancre on their penis, women may have vaginal or rectal sores that aren't painful or visible). If left untreated during pregnancy, syphilis can lead to miscarriage or stillbirth, and a pregnant mom can pass syphilis to her baby through the placenta or during delivery, possibly leading to blindness, deafness, and bone deformities in her baby.
Results & follow-up: If you test positive for syphilis, your healthcare provider will prescribe a course of antibiotics considered safe for pregnancy.
Who: All women
When: At your first prenatal visit (generally six to ten weeks into your pregnancy)
How: Swabs of the cervix
Why: To test for sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) which, if left untreated, can cause pelvic infections that can lead to miscarriage, pelvic inflammatory disease, premature rupture of membranes (when your water breaks early), and preterm labor. Babies born to actively infected moms are at risk for eye infections, blindness, and pneumonia.
Results & follow-up: If you test positive for gonorrhea or chlamydia, you'll be treated with antibiotics that are safe for your fetus. You should not resume sexual relations with a partner who has not been tested and treated as well.
Who: All women
When: At your first prenatal visit (generally six to ten weeks into your pregnancy)
How: A blood test
Why: The human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), the virus that causes AIDS, can cross the placenta before or during delivery and infect the fetus.
Results & follow-up: If you're an HIV carrier, you'll be given medication during pregnancy and delivery that decreases the risk of mother-to-baby transmission from 25 percent to about two percent or less, according to the CDC. If you are HIV-positive, you'll also need to see a perinatologist and an infectious disease specialist, in addition to your obstetrician or midwife. Women known to be at high risk for becoming infected—drug users and their partners, women who exchange sex for money or drugs, women with new or more than one sex partner during pregnancy, and women who are sexual partners of HIV-infected people—will likely be re-tested in the third trimester.
Pap Smear
Who: All women
When: At your first prenatal visit (generally six to ten weeks into your pregnancy)
How: A swab of cells from your cervix
Why: To detect cervical cancer
Results and follow-up: If you have an abnormal Pap result, next steps may include a colposcopy, which uses a special kind of microscope to look at cells on the cervix. If precancerous or cancerous growth is revealed, which is relatively rare, treatment will begin during or after pregnancy, depending on how advanced the cancer is.
Blood Pressure
Who: All women
When: At each prenatal visit
How: The standard armband test
Why: Although it's protocol at any doctor's visit, whether or not you're pregnant, checking your blood pressure now is especially important because pregnancy can cause high blood pressure. In particular, your healthcare provider will be on the lookout for gestational hypertension and preeclampsia.
Results and follow-up: A spike, along with protein in your urine, may indicate preeclampsia (high blood pressure during pregnancy). The condition, which affects between five and eight percent of pregnant women, can keep your baby from gaining weight properly, cause the placenta to separate from the wall of the uterus, and put you at risk for a stroke, liver dysfunction, and other problems. Mild cases can be treated with bed rest; severe ones may require antihypertensive drugs or an early delivery.
Urine Tests
Who: All women
When: At each prenatal visit
How: Peeing in a cup
Why: A pregnant gal's pee actually tells quite a bit about the state of her health. Not only do urine tests help detect bladder infections (which can be asymptomatic during pregnancy—and risk leading to a kidney infection and preterm labor). Your doc will check for protein (a possible sign of preeclampsia; see previous slide), sugar (too much may signal gestational diabetes), and, in some cases, for blood and bacteria (which could indicate a urinary tract infection).
Results and follow-up: Gestational diabetes, which can make your baby grow too quickly, rarely develops until the second or third trimester. Milder cases may be controlled with diet, and in more severe cases, insulin. A urinary-tract infection can be cured with baby-safe antibiotics (untreated, it can lead to a kidney infection and preterm labor).
Cytomegalovirus (CMV)
Who: Women who work with the very young (in a daycare center, for example), the elderly, or AIDS patients.
When: Possibly during the first prenatal visit for women who fall into the higher risk categories above, although some doctors may diagnose CMV infection following the discovery of something unusual in the second trimester ultrasound. The diagnosis can be confirmed through amniocentesis.
How: A blood test
Why: CMV is a herpes virus that is contracted through sexual relations or through infected blood, urine, or saliva. It can be transmitted to the baby in utero and cause serious problems such as hearing loss, blindness, seizures, neurological disorders, a small head (microcephaly), and stillbirth. If a woman becomes infected during pregnancy, her baby has a 30 to 40 percent chance of becoming infected.
Results and follow-up: If your blood work indicates that you have already been exposed to CMV, rest easy; you can't be infected again and your baby isn't at risk. If you are not immune to CMV, however, you should take precautions to protect you and your baby, including wearing gloves when handling dirty diapers or dealing with immune-compromised individuals (e.g., the elderly or AIDS patients) and washing your hands often.
Who: Women exposed to the virus—generally through a young child—including moms, early childhood educators, and pediatricians.
When: At any time
How: A blood test
Why: Also known as fifth disease or "slapped cheek" disease (because kids develop red cheeks one to two weeks after they were contagious), parvovirus can potentially cause fetal anemia. The greatest risk to your baby is if you are exposed before 20 weeks gestation, but tell your doctor if you think you might have been exposed to it at any time. Fortunately, most adults are immune because they've had the virus as kids.
Results and follow-up: If you do contract parvovirus, your doctor will monitor your baby via regular ultrasounds to confirm that he's not becoming anemic, a very rare result of this infection. Amniocentesis can also check for fetal infection. Rest assured that in most cases, babies of moms who got parvovirus while pregnant turn out just fine.
Who: Most women
When: Usually at least once in the first trimester and again around 18 to 20 weeks
How: A handheld device called a transducer is placed on the abdomen (or in the vagina, in the case of an ultrasound before about 12 weeks of pregnancy). Sound waves from the transducer create pictures of the fetus on a monitor and pick up the sounds of the fetal heartbeat.
Why: Because you want a peek at the cutie in your tummy! From your doctor's perspective, though, ultrasounds are done to establish a due date, confirm that the fetus is in the uterus (and not in a fallopian tube, as in the case of an ectopic pregnancy), monitor fetal growth, and to check for multiple fetuses. Later ultrasounds (around 20 weeks) look at all of your baby's internal and external structures, the placement of the placenta, the amount of amniotic fluid in the uterus, and can usually reveal the baby's sex. An ultrasound at this time can also reveal some birth defects, such as a heart defect, cleft palate, or spina bifida (an opening in the spine).
Results and follow-up: Follow-up depends on the reason for the ultrasound. If your doctor was trying to determine the fetus's age, your due date may be adjusted. If she suspects a growth abnormality, you have the option of further testing to verify the diagnosis.
Cystic Fibrosis (CF)
Who: The American Congress of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG) now recommends that everyone be offered the screening test, though Caucasians and Ashkenazi Jews, or women have CF in their family background, are at the highest risk for being CF carriers.
When: During the first or second trimester, ideally before 20 weeks, or during preconception counseling
How: A blood test determines whether one or both parents are carriers of CF
Why: If both parents are carriers, there is a one in four chance that their baby will have CF, a lung disease that causes life-threatening lung infections and serious digestive problems.
Results and follow-up: If a pregnant woman tests positive and is found to be a carrier of cystic fibrosis, her partner should then be tested. If both parents are CF carriers, doctors can test the fetus for CF through chorionic villus sampling (CVS) or amniocentesis.
Ashkenazi Jewish Genetic Panel (AJGP)
Who: Ashkenazi Jewish women having a baby with an Ashkenazi Jewish man. Some doctors may recommend getting the panel done even if only one partner is Jewish, although the risk of a child with only one Ashkenazi Jewish parent having these diseases is far less.
When: During the first or second trimester, ideally before 20 weeks
How: A blood test
Why: To detect a variety of different genetic disorders common within this ethnic group, including Tay Sachs, Maple Syrup Urine Disease, Canavan's Disease, and cystic fibrosis (since the risk of being a CF carrier is higher in Ashkenazi Jews)
Results and follow-up: If a pregnant woman tests positive and is found to be a carrier, her partner should then be tested. If both parents are carriers, there is a one in four chance that their baby will have one of these diseases. The baby can be tested through chorionic villus sampling (CVS) or amniocentesis.
Thalassemia Screen
Who: Women of Italian, Greek, Middle Eastern, Asian, and African ancestry, or women who have a known family history of thalassemia
When: During the first or second trimester, ideally before 20 weeks
How: A blood test
Why: Thalassemia is a genetically inherited blood disorder that causes the body to make an abnormal amount of hemoglobin, resulting in excessive destruction of red blood cells which, in turn, leads to anemia. It's among the most common genetic disorders worldwide. A routine complete blood count identifies those at risk for being a carrier. If you're anemic and have smaller-than-average red blood cells, your healthcare provider can order additional testing called a hemoglobin electrophoresis, which will help to detect thalassemia (as well as other blood disorders, including sickle cell anemia).
Results and follow-up: If you test positive as a carrier of abnormal thalassemia genes, your partner should be tested. If both parents are carriers, your healthcare provider may suggest additional prenatal testing such as chorionic villus sampling (CVS) or amniocentesis to see if your baby has it as well. The most severe form of alpha thalassemia major causes stillbirth. Children born with thalassemia major (Cooley's anemia) are normal at birth but develop severe anemia during the first year of life. Treatment for thalassemia major often involves regular blood transfusions and folate supplements.
Sickle Cell Screen
Who: Women of African or Mediterranean ancestry, who are at greater risk for having or carrying the trait for sickle cell anemia
When: During the first or second trimester, ideally before 20 weeks
How: A blood test
Why: Sickle cell disease, a genetically inherited blood disorder, causes sickle-shaped (instead of round) red blood cells that obstruct capillaries and may lead to severe anemia, pain, and lack of blood flow to some organs
Results and follow-up: In pregnancy, sickle-cell anemia can lead to complications including intrauterine growth retardation, spontaneous abortion, and preeclampsia; your healthcare provider will want to monitor you carefully. It's only possible for your baby to get sickle cell disease if both parents have the sickle cell trait. If so, chorionic villus sampling (CVS) or amniocentesis can be done to determine if the baby has the disease or carries the trait.
"I Didn't Even Know I Was Pregnant!"
On the morning before the Fourth of July, Jennifer West woke up to severe stomach and back pain. What was supposed to be a relaxing vacation with friends and family became a painful and uncomfortable day in bed. As the pain deepened, West's husband was overwhelmed with concern and persuaded his wife to go to the hospital. It was there in the waiting room that 31-year-old Dan West learned he was going to be a father and fast. Jennifer had still been having monthly periods, and was stunned by the news. However, after a few hours in labor, Robert Hayward West was born healthy, at eight pounds even.
First Trimester Screening
Who: Available to all women
When: Between 10 and 14 weeks, although usually between 11 and 13 weeks
How: This screening has two parts: a blood test to measure levels of two pregnancy-specific hormones (beta hCG and PAPP-A) and an ultrasound exam to measure the fluid beneath the skin at the back of the fetus' neck (nuchal translucency). Using your age and the results from those tests, your healthcare provider can assess your personal and immediate risk of carrying a baby with specific chromosomal abnormalities, which will be given to you as a risk of, say, 1 in 800 or 1 in 4,000.
Why: To screen for trisomy 21 (Down syndrome, which causes mental retardation) and trisomy 18 (Edwards syndrome, which causes more severe retardation and is often fatal by age 1), and sometimes trisomy 13 (Patau syndrome, which often causes congenital heart disease) earlier than standard second-trimester testing. It does not evaluate the risk of neural tube defects such as spina bifida.
Results and follow-up: If your results show a high risk of an abnormality, your doctor may recommend further testing, such as a chorionic villus sampling (CVS) or amniocentesis, to confirm the diagnosis. But don't panic—your results only indicate a possible risk. Most likely, your baby is fine.
Chorionic Villus Sampling (CVS)
Who: Women over 35 and those who have—or whose partners have—a family history of genetic diseases such as cystic fibrosis
When: Between 10 and 13 weeks
How: Using ultrasound as a guide, a doctor inserts a catheter through the cervix or a needle into the abdomen to retrieve sample cells from within the chorionic villi, which are tiny parts of the placenta.
Why: To test for genetic disorders such as Down syndrome, sickle cell anemia, and cystic fibrosis.
Results and follow-up: The results, which are more than 99 percent accurate, are generally available within seven to ten days. A faster test, known as "FISH" (fluorescent in situ hybridization), can quickly check for five major chromosomal abnormalities, including Down syndrome; this test gives results in two or three days. The main advantage of CVS is that it can be done early in the pregnancy, but it does carry a (roughly) one in 400 risk of miscarriage (the same risk as for amniocentesis). Additionally, you'll need to be on bedrest for 24 to 48 hours after the procedure with activity restrictions for a week.
Expanded AFP Test (Triple Screen)
Who: Available to all women
When: Between 15 and 20 weeks, although safest between 16 and 18 weeks
How: A blood test
Why: This test checks for genetic abnormalities such as trisomies 18 and 21, neural tube defects (such as spina bifida), major brain defects (anencephaly) and abdominal wall defects (such as gastroschisis and omphalocele), as well as Smith-Lemli-Opitz Syndrome (a rare developmental disorder that affects many parts of the body and is characterized by small head size, intellectual disability, and behavioral problems). It measures the level of a protein produced by the fetus called alpha-fetoprotein (AFP) as well as that of two hormones, human chorionic gonadotropin (hCG) and estriol.
Results and follow-up: Results are available within one to two weeks. If your levels of AFP and estriol are low and the level of hCG is high, your baby has an increased risk of Down syndrome. A high reading of AFP may signify a neural tube defect. If your results are abnormal, you'll be offered an amniocentesis. Note: These tests have a high false-positive rate: 50 out of every 1,000 women will be told that their fetus is at risk; of these, only one or two babies will actually have Down syndrome.
Note: Although the triple screen is the most common test, there are three newer versions of it that your doctor may order instead: The quadruple screen, serum integrated screening, and full integrated screening.
Who: Women over 35, those who have—or whose partners have—a family history of genetic diseases, and those whose triple screen test results are abnormal
When: At 15 to 20 weeks
How: Guided by ultrasound, a doctor inserts a needle into the abdomen to draw a sample of amniotic fluid. Most women report it's not as uncomfortable as it sounds.
Why: An amnio detects neural tube defects, Down syndrome, and other genetic disorders such as cystic fibrosis and thalassemia.
Results and follow-up: The test is 99 percent accurate; results are available in seven to ten days. A faster test, known as "FISH" (fluorescent in situ hybridization), can return results sooner, in two or three days. The miscarriage rate for the procedure is about one in 400.
Glucose Test
Who: All women
When: Usually between 24 and 28 weeks, though women at greater risk for gestational diabetes (including those with a history of gestational diabetes, a family history of diabetes, women over 35 and those who are obese) may have it done as early as the first prenatal visit.
How: A blood test after you drink eight ounces of a sugary liquid (glucola) within about five minutes.
Why: The glucose test measures your blood-sugar level, which indicates your risk of gestational diabetes.
Results and follow-up: If levels are high, a second, longer test (the three-hour glucose tolerance test; see next slide) can more accurately diagnose the condition.
3-Hour Glucose Tolerance Test
Who: Women who received abnormal results from their glucose test
When: Following overly high results from the glucose test
How: For starters, you'll need to consume at least 150 grams of carbohydrates per day (which probably means you'll have to polish off an extra piece of bread at each meal, but ask your doctor for specifics on what you should eat) for at least three days before the test. Then you'll fast for eight to fourteen hours (only sips of water allowed) before getting your blood drawn. Afterwards, you'll be asked to drink another glucose beverage with double the sugar of the one from your first glucose test (yuck!). Finally, your blood will be drawn every hour for three hours. It's a looong day.
Why: To confirm whether you actually have gestational diabetes.
Results and follow-up: Gestational diabetes can be controlled with diet and, in some cases, insulin. But, you'll need to learn how to check your own blood sugars (by pricking your finger a few times a day).
Fetal Kick Counts
Who: All women
When: Usually starting around 26 weeks
How: Easy: Pay attention to how often your little Pele kicks your ribs. Some doctors ask that you sit for an hour and count how many times your baby moves in that period, while others just want you to confirm that you're feeling some movement every 12 hours or so.
Why: To confirm that your baby is healthy and active in there.
Results and follow-up: If you don't feel much movement, try to eat or drink something (sugary stuff works best), and lie on your left side. If you still don't feel much in the next hour or so, call your healthcare provider right away. While your baby may simply be sleeping, your doctor will want to make sure that there's not another reason for little or no movement, such as low levels of amniotic fluid or insufficient oxygen.
Non-stress Test
Who: Women who have high-risk pregnancies (including preeclampsia or diabetes), who have had problems with previous pregnancies, who are carrying multiples, or who have noticed a drop in their baby's movement
When: Anytime in the last trimester, generally done on a weekly basis (or even twice weekly in very high-risk pregnancies)
How: Two monitors are strapped to your abdomen, one to measure uterine contractions and the other to measure your baby's heartbeat.
Why: To monitor the fetal heart rate
Results and follow-up: The fetal heart rate usually quickens in response to stimuli, such as noise. If your baby's heart rate doesn't change, you may be given the test again or take further tests, such as a biophysical profile.
Biophysical Profile
Who: Women whose doctors have a concern about the fetus's wellbeing
When: Anytime during the third trimester
How: An ultrasound combined with a non-stress test
Why: To measure the amniotic fluid and the baby's muscle tone, "breathing" movements, and activity level.
Results and follow-up: You'll get scored for this test, on a scale of 0 to 10, which helps your doctor to determine whether more testing—or immediate intervention—is needed. If a problem such as low amniotic fluid is found, the baby may need to be delivered early.
Group B Strep (GBS)
Who: Most women
When: Between 35 and 37 weeks; women undergoing a chorionic villus sampling ( CVS) in the first trimester will also need a Group B Strep test before the procedure
How: Cells are swabbed from the rectum and vagina
Why: Group B streptococcus (GBS) bacteria is carried by 10 to 30 percent of all pregnant women, and it can be transmitted to your baby during vaginal delivery, possibly causing meningitis or even death. Some doctors only screen women considered at risk—women with a history of urinary tract infections, a fever near delivery time, or who have delivered a previous baby with GBS. Ask to be tested even if you don't fall into any of those at-risk groups.
Results and follow-up: If you test positive, you'll receive antibiotics during delivery to help prevent perinatal transmission. (If you have a c-section, you won't need the antibiotics, as your baby won't be going through the birth canal.) It's standard protocol for your newborn to get a complete blood count and blood culture if you are GBS positive and didn't get pre-treated with at least one dose of antibiotics (which could happen if your labor goes really fast), or if your baby was born prior to 35 weeks. If the bacteria is passed to your baby, GBS can usually be treated successfully with antibiotics.
Fetal Fibronectin (fFN)
Who: Women at risk of going into preterm labor
When: Between 22 and 34 weeks
How: A swab of fluid from the back of the vagina. Sometimes a vaginal ultrasound is done after the sample is taken to measure cervical length, which often decreases before labor begins
Why: To check for the presence of fetal fibronectin which is basically the glue attaching the amniotic sac to the inner lining of the uterus
Results and follow-up: Results are usually available within one to two hours. A positive result means that fFN is present, which indicates an increased risk of preterm labor; your doctor will likely have you stay overnight in the hospital to be monitored for uterine contractions. A negative result means that fFN isn't present, and you'll likely be pregnant for at least another week, at which point your doctor might check you again.


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Leukemia vs. Mantle cell lymphoma
Dear OncoLink "Ask The Experts,"
My mother was told she has leukemia. Then they gave her a bone marrow test and told her she has mantle cell lymphoma. Everything I have read says she needed a lymph node biopsy. Tomorrow they are giving her a MRI on her pelvis. None of this seems right to me, could you help me please?
Selina M. Luger, MD, Director of the Leukemia Program and Assistant Professor of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, responds:
As I try to piece this together, I suspect that your mother presented with abnormalities in her blood that were suspected to be leukemia cells. However when further tests were done on the blood or bone marrow, the test showed that the cells that they saw were not actually leukemia cells but lymphoma cells, more specifically mantle cell lymphoma cells. If a diagnosis can be made on the blood or bone marrow, then there is no reason to get a sample from a lymph node as well. The reason lymph nodes are usually biopsied is in order to make the diagnosis. If however, the diagnosis is possible without a lymph node biopsy, then that is fine. If a diagnosis of lymphoma is considered, then scans (CT or MRI) are needed of the chest, abdomen and pelvis to determine the extent of the disease. Once they have all the results they can decide if other studies are needed.


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Delaware needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 141 designs submitted by 39 freelance designers.
Heal Our Heroes
Heal Our Heroes is a non-profit organization dedicated to providing support to members of the United States military. Many returning warriors are suffering from the effects of combat trauma and PTSD (Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder). Broken families, despair and suicide are often the result. Heal Our Heroes was created to provide pre-deployment spiritual support, resources and prayer during deployments... and church-based caring and ministry when the troops come home.
Men, women and families serving in the United States military.
- The words "Heal Our Heroes"
- Red, white and blue colors
- A heart
- Possibly a pastel color as well
- Vector format please
I'll be checking in multiple times per day to rate and give feedback.
Find out how a design contest works or learn more about our logo design services.


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Home Video
'13 Eerie' Dated For Home Video
Arriving on home video April 2 is director Roger Christian entitled 13 Eerie, which filmed in the Canadian prairie province of Saskatchewan last year.
In the film, "Six ambitious forensic undergrads are marooned on a remote island during a university field project. Unbeknownst to the group, the site was formerly used as an illegal biological testing ground for life-term criminals left for dead. But they aren't. They're undead."
The living cast includes Katharine Isabelle (Ginger Snaps, Freddy vs Jason) in the role of Megan, Michael Shanks (Stargate, Burn Notice, Smallville) in the role of Professor Tomkins, Brendan Fletcher (The Pacific, Freddy vs Jason) cast as Josh and Nick Moran (Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels) plays Larry. Brendan Fehr (Bones, CSI: Miami) puts his "CSI" forensic skills to use as Daniel, an undergraduate criminal sciences student.
13 Eerie is the feature length debut for director Lowell Dean, a self-professed zombie aficionado and was written by Christian Piers Betley.


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SOURCE: Merchant Warehouse
October 09, 2012 10:11 ET
Merchant Warehouse to Offer Payment Solutions for Achieve Fitness Licensees Nationwide
Merchant Warehouse to Offer Payment Solutions for Achieve Fitness Licensees Nationwide
BOSTON, MA--(Marketwire - Oct 9, 2012) - Merchant Warehouse®, a leader and innovator in payment acceptance solutions and merchant account services, has been named a Preferred Partner by Achieve Fitness USA. Achieve Fitness was recently named by Fitness Business Radio as one of the top business opportunities in the fitness industry and the Company is on an aggressive growth strategy, with a goal of more than 1,000 licensees nationwide by 2015. The Companies recently launched their newly formed partnership at Achieve Fitness' Conference and Fitness Business Symposium, held in Las Vegas in late September.
As a Preferred Partner, Merchant Warehouse will provide its expansive suite of payment solutions and merchant services to Achieve Fitness licensees nationwide. Key solution and services features include Merchant Warehouse's mobile payment acceptance product, Genius EX, which allows licensees to accept payments remotely through a smartphone or tablet, enable integration with Achieve Fitness' recommended accounting system or products, and 24/7/365 award winning customer service and technical support.
"Our company had used several different credit card processing companies over the years. Some didn't live up to their promises right from the start while others failed over time," said Tony Conz, national director of regional development at Achieve Fitness. "We spent a lot of time researching various credit card processing companies after being burned in the past, and finally arrived at Merchant Warehouse because of their low rates, we have stayed with them over the years because of their excellent service. Our experience with Merchant Warehouse has been nothing short of perfect. They consistently exceed our expectations, which, unfortunately, is rare in the merchant service industry."
"We are excited to have the opportunity to work with a fast-growing licensing organization like Achieve Fitness USA," said Brian Maloney, vice president of key accounts, Merchant Warehouse. "Initial feedback from licensees has been phenomenal in terms of service, support and overall transparency, rate competitiveness and the ability for licensees to easily establish recurring payments for their members."
About Merchant Warehouse
Merchant Warehouse is a recognized leader in payment acceptance solutions and merchant services. The company enables merchants, agents, POS developers and VARs to achieve strategic business advantage through the delivery of current and emerging payment, offer and program solutions and merchant services that dramatically enhance the merchant-customer experience. With Genius, Merchant Warehouse is helping agents, POS developers and merchants by preparing them for the payments future with a single solution that accepts any NFC, EMV, QR codes as well as loyalty, gift, and rewards programs. Merchant Warehouse is one of the fastest growing and innovative payment solutions companies in North America. For more information about Merchant Warehouse, please visit merchantwarehouse.com.
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Tourney time
Bedford advances in tourneyBy HARRY KOZLOWSKI
Special to the Union Leader
October 22. 2013 10:12PM
BEDFORD — The Bedford High field hockey team scored two goals in the last 12:23 and beat Manchester Central 3-1 in a Division I preliminary round contest on Tuesday.
With the win, the seventh-seeded Bulldogs (7-5-3) advanced to play second-seeded Pinkerton on Friday at 3:30 p.m. in Derry.
Victoria Cull scored the game-winning goal, breaking a 1-1 tie, and Shanna Scribner added an insurance tally with 2:59 remaining.
Bedford got on the board first with a goal by Laura Costes, assisted by Hannah Crocutt.
In the second half, 10th-seeded Central (5-8-2) applied the pressure, generating several quality scoring chances.
Finally Abby Swenson was able to beat Bedford goalie Paige Noble and tie it 1-1.
"When they scored that goal, we were bunching" said Bedford coach Steve Connors. "Once we bunch, we lose control of the ball."
But Bedford corrected its problems and went on the attack.
"Our game plan is to get bigger once we have the ball" said Connors. "Once we start spreading the field, we moved the ball into their end."
Central coach Bill Larkins was upbeat after the game. "This is our first playoff appearance in eight years. I'm very proud of this team."These girls worked very hard to get to this place. They left everything out on the field today" said Larkins.


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Republican Liz Cheney is dropping her bid to become a Senator from the State of Wyoming. She was attempting to challenge popular incumbent Republican Mike Enzi for the nomination. The daughter of former Vice President Dick Cheney shocked the Republican establishment in Wyoming with her bitter attack on the incumbent and bold attempt to cash in on the family name.
Ms. Cheney is citing 'family reasons' for her departure from the race.
That use of family by her is just hysterical since she had zero problem dividing her own family for her naked power grab.
In announcing her bid, she ignored her married lesbian sister and came out against marriage equality. Her sister Mary Cheney fought back and said it was outrageous that her sister would diminish her marriage. The race did cause deep divisions within the family several months ago
At the time those divisions did not seem to affect Ms. Cheney as she continued to push her anti-marriage equality positions. Now that the polls are showing that she is a sure loser, she is pretending to care about the unity of the family In fact, she is using the pain she cause the sister as the reason for departure.
Liz Cheney should be ashamed of herself and really spend some time boning up on the meaning of family values. Families are places of love are not a political tool you use to hurt others and then conveniently rediscover them when you need an excuse for your own losing race.


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Contact: Doug Pratt, MEA Director of Public Affairs, 517-337-5566
MEA statement responding to dues deduction ruling
EAST LANSING, Mich., May 9, 2013 — The following statement can be attributed to MEA President Steve Cook in response to today's Sixth Circuit federal court decision regarding Michigan's ban on payroll deduction of dues for school employees only:
"We are disappointed in the Sixth Circuit's decision in this case and believe the dissenting opinion most accurately portrays the law in this case. Banning payroll deduction of dues only for school employees is clearly an attack on the first amendment rights of our members and retaliation for our activism in fighting the right-wing, anti-public education agenda.
"This is yet another case of Gov. Rick Snyder and other big-government politicians' interfering in the affairs of local school districts and their employees. Those who supported this bill admitted it saved no money – in fact, school districts complained it could actually cost them more to make the required changes.
"MEA, along with the other plaintiffs in this case, are exploring all further legal options, including appeal.
"In the meantime, MEA will continue to advocate for Michigan students, school employees and parents to ensure every child in our state has access to a world-class education. No law passed in Lansing will stop that."
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I have a question and it might seem kinda vague. I apologize for that.
I am running snort 1.8.3 and I use snortsnarf.pl to compile my snort alert and portscan logs. Last Friday I noticed that when I went to run " ./snortsnarf.pl /var/log/snort/alert " the process never finishes. It consumes all my memory, and both CPU's. I have to physically cntrl+c to get the damn thing to stop using all my resources. This never used be this way. It just used to compile the alert file no time. Any ideas why this is happening?
I am running snort on a dual PIII 733 Xeon machine under Mandrake 8.1. Thanks for the replies.