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A TEAM of international scientists are to descend on the Mid-Ulster area in search of a race of giants that may have left behind a cemetery of giant skeletons.
Geneticists from Queen's University and Queen Mary University of London believe that this part of Tyrone is a hotspot for the rare genetic condition that leads to gigantism.
They are appealing for local people to take part in screening for the genetic defect, which is due to take place on 8 and 9 February (8am-8pm) in Tesco carpark, Cookstown, and on 1 and 2 March (8am-8pm) in Tesco carpark, Dungannon.
While most people who carry the gene do not experience any health problems, it can lead to acromegaly – a condition in which a benign enlargement of the pituitary gland causes excess growth of muscles, cartilage and bones. This excess growth can lead to other complications, including loss of side vision and hormone disturbances.
It is estimated that over two-thirds of those who carry the mutation do not develop the condition and therefore will have no idea they've got it.
Researchers want to identify carriers so that they, and their families, can access treatment to help prevent potential health problems in the future.
The scientific search for the gene was instigated two years ago by Killeeshil man Brendan Holland, who is 6 feet 9 inches, and a former sufferer of pituary adenoma which leads to gigantism.
Mr Holland, the subject of a BBC documentary aired in 2011, took part in genetic research which shows that he is genetically related to the Irish Giant, Charles Byrne, who found fame in the 1780s exhibiting himself as a curiosity or 'freak'.
Byrne's 7-foot-7-inch skeleton is a medical marvel on display at The Royal College of Surgeons in London.
Mr Holland had always been baffled by his extremely tall stature since both his parents and siblings were of average height.
When he was about 13, he started growing rapidly, about 2 inches a year, he recalled. "I was constantly tired, had tremendous headaches, and was developing tunnel vision."
Mr Holland's doctor discovered he had a tumour on his pituitary gland that was causing his body to pump out too much growth hormone. After the tumour, a pituitary adenoma, was found and treated when he was 20, he stopped growing.
In a study published in the New England Journal of Medicine, scientists looked at four modern-day Northern Ireland families, including Mr Holland's, and noticed the same genetic mutation in these families as they found in the 18th-century Irish Giant.
Using DNA extracted from Charles Byrne's teeth, the researchers speculate that they could trace the roots of the Irish study participants and the Irish Giant's inherited gene mutation for gigantism to a common ancestor who lived an estimated 1425 to 1650 years earlier -- or 57 to 66 generations ago.
The findings have a additional meaning to Mr Holland because he has two sons. "I know that my children or my grandchildren could be screened for this rogue gene and if they are sufferers (of familial isolated pituitary adenoma), they can be given early treatment."
In an exclusive interview with the Tyrone Times, Mr Holland revealed that his own research had found details of a cemetery unearthed by quarry excavations near Magherafelt in the 1830s.
"Through careful research, I discovered a set of Ordnance Survey Memoirs which describe how the limestone quarry revealed a set of graves with the bones of giants.
"Scientists now hope to uncover the graves and find out if the bones can be matched with Byrne's DNA.
"My mother's family were Conlons and McCuskers and they came from the lough-shore area. A lot of exciting research will now stem from these findings.
"Children of the carriers have a 50% chance of getting the rogue gene. Speaking from my own experience it is a tough condition to have, and requires surgery to treat."
Professor Patrick Morrison, honorary professor of human genetics at Queen's University Belfast will analyse the samples collected after this week's screening process.
He said: "The particular gene mutation for which people will be screened is for a gene called AIP, which causes abnormal growth of the pituitary gland. It was first identified in 2011 in patients from South Derry and East Tyrone who are living with 'familial acromegaly' – an inherited form of acromegaly or 'gigantism'.
"People with the gene may not necessarily be tall but they may have other health conditions which could be linked to this altered gene. Anyone who is found to carry the gene will be offered follow-up advice and, if necessary, treatment to help prevent future health complications which may result from the condition.
"The screening involves giving a saliva sample by spitting into a tube. It is free, takes just 10 minutes and there is no need to book."
Marta Korbonits, Professor of Endocrinology at Queen Mary, who is leading the work said: "Since we discovered the mutation, a number of patients from Northern Ireland with acromegaly have been screened for it.
"We also know, however, that over two-thirds of those who carry the mutation do not develop the condition and therefore will have no idea they've got it. This is why it is important to look at the general population, especially in the geographical area from where many of the patients originate from.
"Testing in the general public will tell us more about how widespread the condition has become. But further than that, it will enable us to help those carrying the mutation by providing better advice and medical follow-up to prevent disease in their family."
Participants will receive information about their test results. Those individuals thought to carry the genetic abnormality will be referred to the Genetic Clinic in Belfast City Hospital for further advice and confirmation of the test result. Further family screening can then be arranged.
For details on the study visit www.fipapatients.org/population


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Stargzer wrote:I could make a costume for my 50-pound Basgle with several large table napkins, but he wouldn't appreciate it, and I don't think I could safely get it on him.
Okay, I had to look that one up. Do they come with cream cheese and lox? I'll take one with sesame seeds.

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Sports are big in Chicago. And, you and your family are big sports fans. These are the Chicago attractions you should hit.
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Sept. 22, 2008
NEW HAVEN, Conn. - Senior defenseman Helen Resor (Greenwich, Conn.) was named to the ECAC Women's Hockey Preseason All-League team on Monday after a vote by the league coaches. Resor, who won a bronze medal with Team USA in the Olympics two years ago, has been a preseason all-league pick twice. ECAC Hockey also released its preseason poll Monday, with the league's coaches tabbing Yale eighth.
Resor enters the 2008-09 season 20th on Yale's career points list (20-34-54), right behind her sister, Jane '01 (25-31-56). She was fourth on the Bulldogs in goals (eight) and points (16) last season.
Resor is joined on the all-league team by Cornell forward Rebecca Johnston, Harvard goaltender Christina Kessler, Dartmouth forward Sarah Parsons, Princeton defenseman Sasha Sherry and Harvard forward Sarah Vaillancourt.
The league's 12 coaches placed Yale eighth in the preseason poll with 50 points, 14 behind seventh-place Colgate. Harvard enters the season as the favorite, with 119 points and 10 first-place votes. St. Lawrence (103 points, two first-place votes) was second.
Yale returns 17 letter winners from last season and has added five freshmen. The Bulldogs open the season Saturday, Oct. 25 at New Hampshire.
The home opener -- the first chance for fans to see the progress on the multi-million dollar renovation to Ingalls Rink -- is Friday, Nov. 7 against St. Lawrence.
- Yale Women's Ice Hockey Home Page
- 2008-09 Yale Women's Ice Hockey Schedule
- 2008-09 Yale Women's Ice Hockey Roster
- ECAC Hockey Website
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When Elizabeth Warren gave her acceptance speech Tuesday night, she appeared without the usual family tree of branches and little saplings that typically accompany a candidate to the podium. There were no future staff wannabes pondering the design of the drapes in the new government offices. Warren appeared alone and gave an address that a high school speech coach probably would not have praised. It was full of thank-yous and expressions of commitment, many of which seemed repetitious.
But, in contrast to the canned remarks that rarely differ from one politician to the next, Warren's words felt genuine. Overcome with elation, she looked like she was being feted at a surprise birthday party, and spoke incessantly — from the heart. Such honesty infrequently appears in politicians. Perhaps that explains, as much as any reason the pundits may provide, why she was elected our new US senator.


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Baylor football head coach Art Briles was at the Texans practice field on Wednesday. Briles is not a candidate for the Texans' head coaching position, according to Wade Phillips.
"I don't want to start any rumors, but he's a friend of mine for one thing. As far as those rumors, he did not want to be my offensive coordinator," Phillips said, jokingly. "He did a tremendous job at Baylor, obviously, and I was glad for him. His daughter worked with us at Dallas with the Cowboys. So I've known him for several years and congratulated him certainly for a tremendous year."
"Coach Briles has been one of my really good friends for a long time," Keenum said. "He's my college coach that recruited me. The only guy that gave me a scholarship. Proud to know him, proud of him this year."
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Lost Boy Survives By Cuddling With Puppies
Last Wednesday, a 10-year-old boy with Down syndrome was found alive in the woods after he went missing from his home the previous day. But here's the part that the internet will love — he survived by huddling with a pack of puppies for warmth. Sadly, no cats or corgis were involved as far as we know.
After Kyle Camp disappeared from his Hackleburg, Alabama, home on Tuesday, approximately 150 volunteers began combing the area while State Troopers searched from a helicopter. Eventually, one of the volunteers found the boy after following the sound of the family's barking dog and her four puppies.
"I heard the dogs barking again and followed him down there and started hollering for the puppies and I hollered for him and he hollered back," said rescuer Jaime Swinney. "He was in the creek about a half a mile over the ridge."
Although Camp's clothing was wet and he suffered minor scrape and bruises, officials think he avoided more significant injuries by cuddling with the dogs overnight for warmth.
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August 8 – Happy Birthday Dewayne Staats
Before Dewayne Staats became the first official television voice of the Tampa Bay Devil Rays in 1998, he had served a four year spot as MSG-TV's lead Yankee play-by-play announcer, teaming with the great Tony Kubek in the booth. The Missouri native got that job in 1990, in the middle of the Stump Merrill era and left after the strike-shortened 1994 season, right before the Yankees went on their impressive run of postseason play. He and Kubek were replaced by MSG with Dave Cohen and Jim Kaat.
Staats big league play-by-play career had started in 1977, when he got his first gig with the Houston Astros, his favorite boyhood team. After four years there, he did play-by-play for the Cubs for four more years before landing his Bronx Bomber assignment with MSG. The fact that Staats was behind the microphone during a time when the Yankees were struggling to win, limited his personal Yankee highlights reel. His most famous moment in the role was when he called Jim Abbott's 1993 no-hit game, though in 2011, he did get to call Derek Jeter's 3,000th hit because it came against Tampa.
Compare a tape of a Kubek/Staats Yankee broadcast with one from today's crew and you'll feel like you're comparing a silent movie with a talk-radio show. The former Yankee shortstop won his Ford C. Frick award for expert analysis and unlike Tim McCarver, Kubek's goal was to provide it with as few words as possible. Ditto for Staats. In fact. a 1992 New York Times' article comparing the Yankee and Met booth crews labeled Kubek and Staats the "Dragnet" team because they "gave just the facts" during a game, with a bare minimum of chattiness or cheerleading. Of course as bad as the early Yankee teams they covered were, there was not a whole lot to cheer about.
When Staats left the Yankees he joined ESPN for a couple years before getting hired by the Rays. Dave Cohen replaced Staats in the Yankee booth and Jim Kaat took over for Kubek, who retired at the same time. Staats shares his birthday with this Yankee pitcher, this Yankee pitcher and this Yankee coach.


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Nature Center to Host Honeybee Exhibit July 29
May 10, 2010
The John T. Huston-Dr. John Brumbaugh Nature Center will host 'The Wonderful World of Honeybees' on Saturday, July 29 from 2-3:30 p.m.
Presented by the Stark County Beekeepers Association, sessions will include ''Killer Bees: Fact or Fantasy?,' 'Apiary Therapy - Bee Stings on Purpose,' 'Honeybees, Plants and Pollination' and 'What We Can Do for Bees?'
There is no registration required and all are invited to attend. The Nature Center is located six miles south of Mount Union College on Daniel Street, just off Route 183. For more information, contact the Nature Center at (330) 823-7487.


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Nicotine for fatloss
Where did this idea come from?
I've never heard of it for those reasons but it sounds like a bad idea...
Noticd 3 mg 3x a day to be good.Originally Posted by LMR01
But it's neuroprotective. You can get nicotine drops online though
Horrible idea. I suffered from nicotine addiction for 10+ years. I then quit smoking and dipping and switched to nicotine gum. Ya well that's addicting as well. I chewed it for a year. Nicotine has negative health effects and I find it ridiculous to use it as a fat loss agent. Sure it has stimulant properties but that's dumb. I'll tell ya first hand that I didn't experience fat loss on it, and that's for chewin a sleeve of it a day for a year.
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This article isn't for the general public. It's definitely, unequivocally not. I wouldn't tell you to run your daily driver on pure ethanol formulated for Grand Prix racing, so if you're already happy riding around in that Honda Civic body of yours, more power to you. This post, however, is for fire-breathing monsters—not necessarily race cars, but the Lamborghinis and Bugattis of the world seeking a balance between ultra-performance, aesthetics, and longevity. Proceed with caution here. Treacherous Turns Ahead.
Don't tell me you just "train to be strong," because I'll know you're lying. As people who train our asses off, we're all constantly looking to accelerate the fat burning process while we add muscle. Nobody wants to spend hours in the gym, benching 315 for reps, before hitting the nightclub in a muumuu.
Trouble is, all the so-called "good stuff" that physique competitors use and abuse is kept hidden away from the public as a result of an unspoken code of silence. They're also illegal. The law says you can't take fat-burners like clenbuterol, albuterol and ephedrine anymore. This, however, may not be a bad thing, because research has shown that they're not quite as effective as the bodybuilding world makes them out to be.
These fat-burners all target fat cells in the same way. Adrenaline uses particular receptors on fat cells to make them dump their fat load and empty out. The three I mentioned above target fat cells either by causing a release of adrenaline, or by using the same receptors as adrenaline.
They'll stop working if you use them long enough. That's because after a while, your cells become immune to catecholamines in general—which means they become immune to the effects of adrenaline. You develop a sort of "adrenaline diabetes," where these fat burners stop doing what they're supposed to do[1-4].
There is, however, a surprising—and highly controversial solution: nicotine.
Most people have a hard time finding their way out of the box.
Way Outside The Box
Okay, before you write me off as an attention whore and tell me to go **** myself in utter disgust, hear me out, because there's plenty of research indicating that nicotine can be a very effective replacement for even the most reputed fat burners, illegal or otherwise. It shares some of their properties without suffering from their failings. Nicotine, like other stimulants, raises lipoprotein lipase in muscle tissue but lowers it in fat cells[5]. Translation: your muscles can absorb and burn triglycerides easily, but your fat cells can't store it. In short, nicotine makes it harder to get fat.
Right, but don't all the beta-adrenergic agonists do that? Sure, that's the reason contest-prep coaches recommend them in such copious amounts, because they need to fix the problems their ****ty old-school diets cause. Nicotine, however, comes with a little bit of magic. It actually stimulates the release of fat from fat cells and prevents storage by stimulating a different set of receptors[6]. These are the receptors targeted by the cholinomitics that reside in coffee. I've discussed these previously, but nicotine is far more intense. As a result, even if you go into that adrenaline diabetes I mentioned earlier, nicotine will still stimulate your fat cells to keep dumping fat.
But Wait There's More…
Yours absolutely free, at no additional charge, is nicotine's ability to potentiate muscle growth. That's right: you'll lean out and build muscle at the same time. What makes nicotine so effective for cutting and general fat loss is the fact that it's also an effective stimulator of the mTOR pathway[7]—or simply TOR, as it's now conventionally known. TOR is your anabolic primer. If you want to grow more muscle tissue—or any tissue, for that matter—it has to be turned on.
When you're cutting, you're in a state of calorie deprivation, which automatically decreases TOR. Nicotine, however, turns it back on—even when you're going through a rigorous cutting process. This also gives us a non-nutrient way to turn TOR back on after an overnight fast, which if taken too long depresses TOR activation.
Nicotine can also increase nitrous oxide (NO) production during training, and it activates the AMPK pathway[8]. This carries a twofold advantage. First, free-radical accumulation during training can ignite muscle growth, but it's a hermetic response. Elevating it for a while is good, but elevating it for too long is bad. There's evidence that nicotine causes a short-lived burst. AMPK activation also prevents fat cells—once again—from storing fat.
I'm still not done. Recent studies elucidate several previously unknown pathways that downregulate myostatin, the protein that prevents muscles from getting big. Nicotine stimulates one of these myostatin-bashing pathways[9].
Nicotine will turn doing calculus into a joke.
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Stop Being Stupider
Nicotine also has nootropic effects, which means it can improve cognitive function, particularly working memory[10-11]. And no, working memory isn't your recollection of the horrors inflicted on you over the years by your ******* boss while you sat in a biomechanically disadvantageous position in your cubicle and got fatter on a daily basis. Rather, working memory is your ability to reason correctly, succinctly, and efficiently[12]. So, yes, nicotine can make you smarter. Maybe not Einstein smart, but you'll be able to figure out what I'm talking about at least 90 percent of the time—and during that other 10 percent, chances are I'm not even sure what the hell I'm talking about, so you're good.
Slow Down Killer
Smarter? Stronger? Impervious to adrenaline diabetes? I bet you're not even reading anymore because you're checking Nicorette prices on Amazon. As exciting as all this research is, however, it's all still very new, and only through continued work will we discover exactly how powerful these effects are and how we can best utilize them for our performance and aesthetic goals. What's not new—and what's established fact—is that nicotine burns fat.
Nicotine accelerates fat burning in two major ways. In order to burn fat, you've got to get it out of fat cells. Nicotine, because of its unique receptor stimulation on fat cells, causes them to dump fat like a drunk sorority girl puking her guts out after a party[6, 13-14]. Because of this, nicotine is not appropriate for a carb-based diet because the simultaneous increase of triglyceride levels, insulin, and blood sugar can cause all the problems associated with diabetes—and fat cells exposed to nicotine and insulin simultaneously can actually increase the rate of fat storage in fat cells[15]. The fat-dumping potential of nicotine also increases with physical activity, so the more you move—or the more intense your movement is—the more fat you'll burn[16].
Your resting energy output also goes up with nicotine ingestion. This appears to happen primarily through an upregulation of uncoupling protein 1 (UCP1). The uncoupling proteins, when present in high amounts, disrupt the body's ability to create ATP, and the excess energy gets wasted as body heat. This is how mammals regulate body temperature, and it's also why starving yourself for fat loss decreases energy output. Calorie deprivation downregulates UCP1[17]. Nicotine re-stimulates UCP1[18-19], so you keep burning fat even if you drop calories.
And speaking of calorie deprivation, nicotine can help there, too. It's an excellent appetite suppressor[20-22].
The Protocol
If you're thinking a few moves ahead, you've probably figured out by now that you should take your nicotine first thing upon waking. This is how you can re-ignite mTOR activity without eating, thus allowing you to push your meals back a little further if you've found that works better with your lifestyle. All it can possibly do is increase fat burning and mental awareness. You only need 1 mg, although I'd highly recommend cutting this dosage in half to see how you react[25]. If you've never been exposed to nicotine—like me, before I started this regimen—it can leave you seriously mangled in the form of light-headedness and dizziness. Avoid operating heavy machinery or lifting heavy weights over your head, at least for the first few minutes.
After this, take another 1 mg in the afternoon, a few hours before training. This is the protocol I'd suggest when using either Carb Nite or Carb Back-Loading. For Carb Nite, the morning dose ensures quick clearance. Nicotine clears the system in roughly 24 hours, but this takes longer in the evening[24], and it's hard to sleep with the elevated body temperature this causes. The same is true for Carb Back-Loading, but in that case, you don't want to ingest nicotine with carbs because of the adverse effects discussed earlier.
Also, ingesting nicotine earlier in the day can cause transient insulin resistance[26], which means that if you're ingesting nicotine while on Carb Back-Loading, you absolutely must resistance train.
I recommend chewing gum twice per day on training days, and only once per day on non-training days—or not at all. You should also make sure that you train on your actual Carb Nites if you're going to implement nicotine usage while on The Carb Nite Solution—or abstain from nicotine for 24 hours before you feast.
Stack It
Don't be afraid to stack your nicotine and caffeine. I would lower your caffeine dosage from the maximum recommended training amount (800 mg) to 200 mg at most, an amount research shows to be an effective adjunct to the nicotine for fat loss and mobilization during training[25].
I don't know about you, but I'd rather cruise around in a Bugatti than a Honda Civic.
Power Is Knowledge
Yes, I know. I've got it backwards here, but in this case, it's appropriate. Power is knowing how to use these cutting-edge techniques without affecting your health. The best time to use nicotine—and the only time I use it with clients—is during the last 4-6 weeks of contest preparation, or to help a powerlifter who has a lot of body fat to lose. Personally, I like to chew a 2 mg piece first thing in the morning, every other day. Even when doing this, I'll never chew nicotine gum for more than eight weeks at a time without taking a break of four weeks or longer. You should adopt this protocol if you're thinking about incorporating nicotine.
Wrapping It Up
So, there it is. We've discussed all the good things nicotine can do for you, while addressing the bad, too. I'm here to provide cutting-edge knowledge to help you reach your goals faster and more efficiently without jeopardizing your health. This protocol is ideal for competitors who are leaning out, because it accelerates their fat loss while keeping them anabolic—which means far less muscle loss in most cases, and muscle gain during the lean-down phase. This can work for you, too.
Let's be perfectly clear, though. I'm not recommending that everyone go out and try this. This is bleeding-edge science, and the consequences of such low-dose administration are unknown. From animal studies that use quantities in the range of micrograms-per-kilogram, the effects seem to be all positive, but these studies haven't been done with humans. It's safe enough, however, that researchers have considered using it as a treatment for Alzheimer's.
As I said in my introduction, proceed with caution. Until there's significantly more research done on the subject, the use of nicotine will remain controversial. Research on fat loss conclusively shows its benefit in that regard—and when compared to the illegal branch of the fat-burner family, it may actually be worth a try.
My purpose here is to relay to you what's in the research, and to figure out how it can help you reach your goals. That's what I do. And I'd never talk about something I wouldn't do—and haven't done—myself.
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I'm not sure if you work for a living, or what it is you actually do but I actually have a job that keeps me away from computers.
There is no amount of potential fat loss that could make, in my mind at least, taking a highly addictive substance that people become reliant upon worth it.
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Lol condescending piece of ****. If you think clen or ephedrine is safer than nicotine then you are living on another planet bub. Read the article then talkOriginally Posted by jimbuick
Were on a site where people are taking superdrol left and right, using halodrol and God knows what amounts of anabolic steroids and you are complaining about a little nicotine? Lol...I see where you're coming from but the article IS interesting. Not saying we should all start this because I know I'm not going to but its worth looking intoOriginally Posted by Sean1332
and we're all giving our personal opinions on the subject too
I think it's dumb to use nicotine in that way, only because I've personally been addicted to it-so I'm voicing my concern from personal experience
if you have the self control to use it in that manner, then more power to you
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Don't put words in my mouth, it'll just make you look uninformed.
As the poster above said, that's my opinion on the matter and it will not be swayed by any article. I've seen what a nicotine addiction is and I wouldn't recommend that to anyone.
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next time im after your opinion ill post in your sub forum
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I'm sorry. I must have misunderstood that then? To me it appeared that you WERE looking for opinions. "Thoughts" and "opinions" seem fairly interchangeable.Originally Posted by LMR01
I gave you my "thoughts." I chewed nicorette, and I did try it prewo for the possibility of fat loss. It did not work. I don't suggest it to anyone. I think it's a dumb horrible idea. I was not trying to be hostile in any of my posts like you have been. I have given you my "thoughts" on it as you had requested in your original post.
It's an open forum bud. Be mature.
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I was a fan of the original **** flavored one lolOriginally Posted by JudoJosh
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Just like countless individuals who have re-financed home mortgages in the past few months, the Palo Alto County Board of Supervisors did a little re-financing of their own last week that will end up saving the taxpayers nearly $1.8 million in bond interest. The county sold $6,650,000 in bonds at an interest rate of 1.231105 percent, taking advantage of the historic low interest rates in the country.
Travis Sqeures of Piper Jaffray of Des Moines appeared before the board at their Dec. 4 meeting to announce the results of a public bond sale that had been conducted on Dec. 3. A total of six bidders participated in the bond sale.
"The winning bidder was the UMB Bank, NA, of Kansas City, MO, working in partnership with the Iowa Trust and Savings Bank in Emmetsburg, Sqeures explained. "Their bid was for 1.231105 percent."
Prior to the bond sale, the county had received a financial rating of A1 from Moody's Financial Service. "Basically, what that means is that the county has adequate finances, savings, investment plans and has a good history in terms of your financial dealings," Sqeures said.
Interest rates in the sale ranged from the 1.231105 percent up to 1.411330 percent.
Originally, the county had sold bonds back in 2008 to finance road reconstruction projects in the county. Originally, those bonds were sold at 4.250 percent. By re-financing the debt, of the 2008 bonds, the county will realize a savings in interest payments of $1,731,817.
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Her research interests are in the areas of Preventive Cardiology and Cardiovascular Epidemiology, with particular focus on (1) risk prediction for atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease including coronary artery calcium scores and biomarkers, (2) lipids and statin therapy, (3) cardiovascular disease among women, and (4) the role vitamin D plays in cardiovascular healtAs part of the Johns Hopkins cardiology faculty, her clinical duties entail seeing patients in the Preventive Cardiology outpatient clinic and the Echocardiography lab. She also teaches students at the Johns Hopkins University Medical School and the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.
Dr. Michos is the recipient of independent investigator funding through the NIH RO1 mechanism to study the role that vitamin D plays in cognitive decline and long-term brain changes as measured on brain MRIs. She is a co-investigator in the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis (MESA) and Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities (ARIC) studies. She is a co-investigator in an on-going clinical trial called STURDY which is evaluating whether vitamin D supplements can prevent falls in older adults.
Dr. Michos has authored or co-authored over 100 manuscripts in peer reviewed journals. She has successfully mentored numerous medical students, internal medicine residents, and cardiology fellows on population-based research projects.
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Select Publications related to cholesterol, lipids:
1. Michos ED. Blumenthal RS. The Prevalence of Low LDL-Cholesterol with Elevated High Sensitivity C-reactive Protein in the United States: Implications of the JUPITER Study. J Am Coll Cardiol 2009; 53: 931-935, PMID: 19281922.
2. . Blumenthal RS, Michos ED. The HALTS trial – halting atherosclerosis or halted too early? N Engl J Med. 2009 Nov 26;361(22):2178-80. Epub 2009 Nov 15, PMID:19915216.
3. Michos ED, Sibley CT, Baer JT, Blaha MJ, Blumenthal RS. Niacin and Statin Combination Therapy for Atherosclerosis Regression and Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease Events: Reconciling the AIM-HIGH (Atherothrombosis Intervention in Metabolic Syndrome With Low HDL/High Triglycerides: Impact on Global Health Outcomes) Trial With Previous Surrogate Endpoint Trials. J Am Coll Cardiol. 2012 Jun 5;59(23):2058-64, PMID: 22520249
4. Blaha MJ, Michos ED. Niacin--a case study for the role of event-driven versus surrogate endpoint trials. Heart. 2013;99(22):1631-2.
5. Long SB, Blaha MJ, Blumenthal RS, Michos ED. Clinical utility of rosuvastatin and other statins for cardiovascular risk reduction among the elderly. Clinical Interventions in Aging. 2011; 6:27-35.
6. Martin SS, Michos ED. Are we moving towards concordance on the principle that lipid discordance matters? Circulation. 2014;129(5):539-41.
7. Martin SS, Michos ED. Mapping hyperlipidemia in young adulthood to coronary risk: importance of cumulative exposure and how to stay young. Circulation. 2015;131(5):445-7.
8. Subedi BS, Joshi PH, Jones SR, Martin SS, Blaha MJ, Michos ED. Current Guidelines for HDL in Therapy and Future Directions. Vascular Health and Risk Management. 2014;10:1-12.
Select publications related to vitamin D
1. Melamed ML*, Michos ED*, Post W, Astor B. 25(OH) Vitamin D Levels and the Risk of Mortality in the General Population. Archives of Internal Medicine 2008:168;1629-37. *These authors contributed equally to the work. PMID:18695076, PMCID: PMC2677029
2. Michos ED, Streeten EA, Ryan KA, Rampersaud E, Peyser PA, Bielak LF, Shuldiner AR, Mitchell BD, Post W. Serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D levels are not associated with subclinical vascular disease or C-reactive protein in the Old Order Amish. Calcific Tissue International 2009 Mar;84(3):195-202, PMID:19148561.
3. Michos ED, Reis JP, Post WS, Lutsey PL, Gottesman RF, Mosley TH, Sharret AR, Melamed ML. 25(OH)D deficiency is associated with fatal stroke among whites but not blacks: The NHANES-III linked mortality files. Nutrition 2012 Apr;28(4):367-71. PMID:22261577 ; PMCID: PMC3304002
4. Michos ED, Carson KA, Schneider ALC, Lutsey PL, Xing L, Sharrett AR, Alonso A. Coker LH, Gross M, Post W, Mosley TH, Gottesman RF. Vitamin D and Subclinical Cerebrovascular Disease: The Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities Brain Magnetic Resonance Imaging Study. JAMA Neurol. 2014; 71(7):863-71.PMID: 24861877; PMCID: PMC4218739.
5. Schneider ALC, Lutsey PL, Alonso A, Gottesman RF, Sharrett AR, Carson KA, Gross M, Post WS, Knopman DS, Mosley TH, Michos ED. Vitamin D and Cognitive Function and Dementia Risk in a Biracial Cohort: the ARIC Brain Ancillary Study. Eur J Neurol. 2014;21(9):1211-8, e69-70. PMID: 24846449 PMCID: PMC4114998.
Select publications related to cardiovascular disease in women:
1. Michos ED, Nasir K, Braunstein JB, Rumberger JA, Budoff MJ, Post WS, Blumenthal RS. Framingham Risk Equation Underestimates Subclinical Atherosclerosis Risk in Asymptomatic Women. Atherosclerosis 2006; 184:201-6. PMID:15907856
2. Mosca L, Banka CL, Benjamin EJ, Berra K, Bushnell C, Dolor RJ, Ganiats TG, Gomes AS, Gornik HL, Gracia C, Gulati M, Haan CK, Judelson DR, Keenan N, Kelepouris E, Michos ED, Newby LK, Oparil S, Ouyang P, Oz M, Petitti D, Pinn VW, Redberg R, Scott R, Sherif K, Smith S, Spoko G, Steinhorn RH, Stone NJ, Taubert K, Todd BA, Urbina E, Wenger NK. American Heart Association Evidence-Based Guidelines for Cardiovascular Disease Prevention in Women: 2007 Update. Expert Panel/Writing Group. Circulation;115(11):1481-501, PMID:17309915.
3. Michos ED, Blumenthal RS. How accurate are 3 risk prediction models in US women? Circulation 2012,;125(14):1723-6. PMID: 22399534
Select publications related to other risk markers and risk assessment:
1. Michos ED, Wilson LM, Yeh HC, Berger Z, Suarez-Cuervo C, Stacy SR, Bass EB. Prognostic Value of Cardiac Troponin in Patients With Chronic Kidney Disease Without Suspected Acute Coronary Syndrome: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis. Ann Intern Med. 2014;161(7):491-501. PMID:25111499
2. Whelton SP, Narla V, Blaha MJ, Nasir K, Blumenthal RS, Jenny NS, Al-Mallah MH, Michos ED. Association between resting heart rate and inflammatory biomarkers (high-sensitivity C-reactive protein, interleukin-6, and fibrinogen) (from the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis). Am J Cardiol. 2014; 113(4):644-9. PubMed PMID: 24393259; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC4280910.
3. Amin NP, Martin SS, Blaha MJ, Nasir K, Blumenthal RS, Michos ED. Headed in the Right Direction but at Risk for Miscalculation: A Critical Appraisal of the 2013 ACC/AHA Risk Assessment Guidelines. J Am Coll Cardiol. 2014;63(25 Pt A):2789-94. PMID:24814487; PMCID: PMC4280905.
4. Aladin AI, Whelton SP, Al-Mallah MH, Blaha MJ, Keteyian SJ, Juraschek SP, Rubin J, Brawner CA, Michos ED. Relation of resting heart rate to risk for all-cause mortality by gender after considering exercise capacity (the Henry Ford exercise testing project).Am J Cardiol. 2014 Dec 1;114(11):1701-6. PubMed PMID: 25439450.
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LITTLE ROCK Kimberly Strzelecki, who with husband Scott is the central Arkansas development agent for Frisco, Texas based Mooyah Burgers, Fries and Shakes, says the franchise/ mini-chain will open its second Little Rock location around the second week of February. The restaurant will be in the Kanis Plaza, 10809 Kanis Road just off the intersection of Kanis and Shackleford. As with the location at 14810 Cantrell Road, hours will be 10 a.m-11 p.m. daily. By the time it opens, both locations will be offering curbside delivery for to-go orders already made and paid for. The new location does not yet have a telephone number.
And speaking of second locations, Little Rock's long-delayed second Gigi's Cupcakes location, 12800 Chenal Parkway, opened Tuesday. Hours are 9 a.m.-8 p.m. Monday-Thursday,9 a.m.-9 p.m. Friday-Saturday, 11 a.m.-6 p.m. Sunday. The phone number is (501) 225-9900. But it's still not listed on the website gigiscupcakesusa.com/littlerockarkansas.
A new sign on a pole outside the long-vacant former Lucky 7 Superette, 316 E. Sixth St., Little Rock, proclaims the pending opening of the Downtown Deli and Grocery. We got no answer by deadline at the listed telephone number, (501) 244-9800. We'll keep you posted.
And another sign - a banner, really - proclaims the "opening soon" of Mamacita's Bar & Grill, most recently the Heights Cafe and originally Satellite Cafe. No listed telephone number yet.
David's Burgers has opened its North Little Rock location at 3510 Landers Road, off U.S. 67/167, North Little Rock, in the long-vacant Roadhouse Grill. Hours are 11 a.m.-9 p.m. Monday-Thursday, 11 a.m.-9:30 p.m.Friday-Saturday. The phone number is (501) 353-0387.
Jami Zimmerman, senior public relations manager at Dallas-based Dickey's Barbecue Restaurants Inc., updates us on the status of new Arkansas outlets - locations in Siloam Springs and Lowell are open, "and we just signed a lease in Rogers." Restaurants in Fayetteville, Searcy and Little Rock are in the works: "We have not signed leases, but committed to Searcy this year and possibly Little Rock; we've got to find the perfect location," says Zimmerman, who adds that the company already has franchisees in place. The restaurants serve up "on-site, smoke-it-all night" Texas-style barbecue, including pulled pork, brisket, chicken, turkey and ham, with three tomato-based sauces, original, sweet and spicy. Find the full menu and more details at dickeys.com.
Construction continues apace on the Long Horn Steakhouse outlet in the Shackleford Crossings shopping center, 2600 S. Shackleford Road, Little Rock. We're still waiting for confirmation from a spokesman for the chain, a subsidiary of Orlando-based Darden Restaurants (which also brings you Olive Garden and Red Lobster) on a target opening date. We'll continue to keep you posted.
We'd like to give you an update on last week's report about Home Fresh Burgers, supposedly opening soon at the former Hop Drive-In location, 7706 Cantrell Road, Little Rock. However, the listed telephone number that we couldn't get anybody to answer last week now returns a "temporarily disconnected" message. We will definitely keep you posted.
1620 Savoy, 1620 Market St., Little Rock, will offer up "Sunday Night Swing at 1620Savoy" this Sunday - cocktails at 6 p.m., four-course dinner at 6:30, plus dancing to a swing band. Cost is $65 per person, plus tax and gratuity; seating is limited, and you must make reservations. Call (501) 221-1620.
And Pravin T. Shetty, who operates the Ramada Inn in Batesville, wishes to clarify last week's report: With the hotel's Daily Bread now closed, the hotel is not currently serving any meals "until we find a new operator." The hotel telephone number: (870) 698-1800.
Has a restaurant opened - or closed - near you in the last week or so? Does your favorite eatery have a new menu? Is there a new chef in charge? Drop us a line. Call (501) 399-3667 cq or (501) 378-3513, or send a note to Restaurants,Weekend Section,Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, 121 E. Capitol Ave., Little Rock, Ark. 72201. Send e-mail to:
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Did you feel the earth shake Tuesday night? That wasn't a temblor in southern Maine; that was the Etch A Sketch working overtime as Mitt Romney prepared for last night's debate. "I'm not going to cut taxes for wealthy people," he said. "Everyone in American should have access to contraception . . . Our party has been focused on big business for too long." As Bill Clinton said so memorably, that takes brass.
Still, after 90 minutes of animated, not to say aggressive, policy discussion, few voters watching last night would confuse Romney and President Obama. Despite Romney's recent pirouette to the center, the two candidates are profoundly different in their beliefs and visions for the future of America, and that came across in sharp relief.
Romney puts his faith in markets at home and in machismo abroad: rattling the sabre at Iran and China, and discarding a half-century of social progress with a reckless shredding of the safety net. He was most animated, and persuasive, when he sold his pitch about lifting the yoke of government from business and letting free markets reign. "I know what it takes to bring jobs back," he said repeatedly.
Obama, by contrast, believes in a communal approach, painstakingly building coalitions of allies abroad and promoting a shared social compact at home. He was most passionate answering the very last question, when he drew a bright line between his own more inclusive approach and Romney's dismissive attitude about the 47 percent, saying with conviction, "that's not who we are."
Both men tried to appeal to suburban women, many of whom are worried about pocketbook issues as much as they are about more abstract "rights." But Romney's budget plan would slash things these same women care about: education, health care, libraries, and — yes — Sesame Street. Romney interrupted the president to proclaim "government does not create jobs!" Tell that to the thousands of teachers, school nurses, and policemen who work, not for the government, but for us.Renée Loth's column appears regularly in the Globe.


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I was wondering if I could impose upon you folks for your thoughts and impressions on this mystery apparatus? I have sent pictures to a few still and movie collectors and experts on the subject and they are all baffled as to what this is.
I have a PDF with additional images that I'd be happy to send along. Just send me a request for additional photos to Rich at email@example.com and I'll sen them along.
Here are my impressions.
There ar no manufacturers marks anywhere. It obviously was meant to record something on film, yet there is no lens or obvious way to attach a lens. The film magazine on top is obviously designed to keep the light out. The wheel to the right, when turned manually advances the film by turning the sprockets. I almost feel like the wheel may have been attached to a motor via a belt to mechanically turn the wheel.. Another clue which leads me to believe it was belt driven, is the presence of the "remote wire". At first glance, you might assume that the remote wire was a shutter release. ..It is not. When you press the "remote wire" button, a pin moves out to engage the wheel. The wheel is either "stopped" or "prevent turning" depending on the devices purpose. Stopping the wheel, stops the sprockets from turning, thus stopping the film from advancing.
Now, as for the actual "shutter release", this is accomplished by pressing the button, which is located on the front door on the main section of the apparatus, downward which moves a "light gate" down behind the Glass Slide, exposing the film to the ambient light or possibly an alternate external light source.
Three things jump out at me. First the film exits trough the bottom of the device, leading me to believe either that the film was collected under this device OR perhaps this device was prat of a larger device which performed some other functionary processes on the film.
Second, the existence of the metal bracket that is attached to the right hand side of the box above the wheel. What might its purpose be? Could there have been a lens which as mounted on the bracket which swung out to allow acess to the door on the front? Just as an observation here, the "spindle" which juts up from the bracket is the exact same diameter as the spindle which holds the role of film in place inside the film magazine mounted on top.
The last item, which at first, looks quite unremarkable, but perhaps, is in fact the "key" to what this device might be, is the Glass Slide that I mentioned earlier. Could this be an early microscope glass-slide movie/still camera?
By taking a glass slide, with say a sample of some small live biological critters, and swap it out with the glass slide we see mounted on the front (refer to pictures) and then press the button opening the "light gate" exposing the film to the light which back-lights the glass slide and thus captures the silhouetted movements of critters onto the advancing film, thus creating a "movie" of the critters behavioral patterns for a presentation on the big screen with an appropriate movie projector Or still images of the slides contents onto film. If you look at the pictures with the door open, you see a window, that s aligned with the glass slide on the front. In addition, The window is about the same size as a glass slide.
One last note. The thumb tab on the front of the base when pushed in, actually cuts the film as it exits through the bottom f the base of the apparatus..
I would greatly appreciate any help you may be able offer in identifying this piece.
With all due regards,
Rich Canfield (Rich)


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A closer look at the revenue number shows that internal growth came in at 2% and acquisitions added another 2% to sales, before negative currency impacts reduced the top line by 1%. Four of the company's five reporting segments achieved internal revenue growth, and local-currency sales increased in all geographies. From a profitability standpoint, 3M's EBITDA margins were narrower than expected, and net profit fell short of our target. However, a swift increase in share-repurchase activity enabled the company to meet share-earnings expectations.
The Industrial group had the best quarter out of the five businesses, as sales expanded 7%, to $2.7 billion. Internal sales gains were solid, at 3%, and the acquisition of Ceradyne added another 5%. The currency translation drag amounted to 1%. Results were good in all major geographies, and sectors of strength were aerospace, automotive aftermarket, liquid filtration, industrial adhesives & tapes, and automotive OEM. EBITDA growth was softer than we were targeting, however, at just 1%.
The Health Care division also performed well in the period, as sales rose 6% before foreign exchange headwinds of 1%. Growth was the strongest in health information systems, food safety, critical and chronic care, oral care, and infection prevention. The segment also notched notable top-line growth in Latin America, Canada, and the Asia/Pacific region, trends we expect to continue in the near term. On the downside, operating income growth came in on the low end of expectations, at 1%.
Safety & Graphics reported a 2% top-line gain in the period, as internal growth (2%) and the recent acquisition of Federal Signal Technologies (2%) was offset by currency translation (-2%). Results were mixed here, as growth in commercial graphics, personal safety, and building & commercial services was offset by declines in roofing, traffic safety, and security systems. A top-line decline in the United States was also unexpected. Moreover, EBITDA fell 10% in the quarter, as margins narrowed considerably.
The Consumer group notched a top-line gain of 1%, thanks to 3% organic growth. Negative currency effects and divestitures hurt the revenue figure to the tune of 2%. Business expanded in all geographies, with the consumer health care, home care, stationery, office supplies, and DIY units all aiding the group's cause. Operating income growth here was slightly better than expected, too, at 4%.
The Electronics & Energy segment was once again the clear laggard in the June quarter, as overall sales slipped 3%. The end markets remain soft, and electronics-related revenues continue to decline. Energy sales also slipped in the period, due to ongoing weakness in the renewable energy sector. Latin America was the only geography where the group managed to post a positive top-line comparison, and we suspect there was considerable weakness in Asia/Pacific, North America, and Europe. The group's EBITDA fell 16%, owing to weaker margins.
Investors' reactions to the news was expected, as the stock price fell slightly in the hours following the earnings announcement. Management blamed slow global economic growth for the sluggish performance on both the top and bottom lines, and continued to point to the company's ongoing investment efforts. The company was also quick to point out the significant amount of cash returned to shareholders in the period ($1.6 billion via dividends and repurchases).
We have made some adjustments to our estimates. The company's share-earnings guidance remains unchanged at $6.60-$6.85, and our share-net call is holding steady at $6.72. We did, however, cut a nominal amount from our top-line estimate, which now stands at $31.0 billion, and we significantly reduced our margin assumptions. Indeed, it seems 3M will be less profitable this year than we previously expected, and share-repurchase efforts will be stepped up considerably to make up the difference. In fact, management said buybacks will probably total about $3.5 billion-$4.5 billion this year, which is up from the previous range of $2 billion-$3 billion.
Our investment advice has not changed much from our last full-page review. We expect annual share-earnings growth to remain very healthy over the longer haul, but we think this high-quality stock is richly valued at the current multiple, and the dividend yield leaves a bit to be desired at 2.2%.
About the Company:3M, a component of the Dow Jones Industrial Average, is a diversified manufacturer that sells more than 50,000 products in 65 countries. Its six business segments include: Industrial & Transportation (34.6% of 2012 revenues); Healthcare (17.3%); Display & Graphics (11.9%); Consumer & Office (14.4%); Safety, Security & Protection (12.7%); and Electro & Communications (10.8%).
At the time of this article's writing, the author did not have positions in any of the companies mentioned.


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Maryland (17-7, 5-6 ACC) vs. #2 Duke (22-2, 9-2 ACC)
Saturday, February 16, 2013 • 6 p.m. ET
Game #25 • Home Game #17 • College Park, Md. • Comcast Center
TV: ESPN – Dave O'Brien (Play-by-Play), Doris Burke (Analyst) & Jeannine Edwards (Sidelines)
Radio: Terrapin Sports Radio Network – Johnny Holliday (Play-by-Play), Chris Knoche (Analyst) & Walt Williams (Sidelines)
• Following a five-day break from games, Maryland returns to action on Saturday as it plays host to second-ranked Duke at 6 p.m. in Comcast Center. The Terps are 17-7 and 5-6 in the ACC after suffering just their second home defeat of the season last Sunday against Virginia. Duke is 22-2 and 9-2 in the conference after a 73-68 win over North Carolina on Wednesday.
• Against Virginia, Maryland trailed at halftime for the first time at home this season, as the Cavaliers shot 52.2 percent in the opening 20 minutes and finished the game at 54.2 percent, the best by a Maryland opponent this year. After shooting just 35.5 percent in the first half, the Terps responded by knocking down 16 of 27 shots (.593) in the second half, but were unable to get closer than seven points down the stretch.
• The Terps rank second in the ACC in field goal percentage at .472 and have exceeded the 40 percent mark in each of the last six games. In that six-game stretch, the Terps have shot it well from beyond the arc, hitting 54 of 96 shots (.404). Jake Layman (12-29, .414), Logan Aronhalt (11-24, .458) and Dez Wells (8-15, .533) have been the biggest contributors from the perimeter of late.
• Maryland has ranked in the top-10 nationally throughout much of the season in opponent field goal percentage. Opposing teams have shot just 36.7 percent against the Terrapins, a mark which leads the ACC and ranks seventh nationally. Virginia was just the second team this season to make better than 50 percent of its shots against Maryland; eight of 11 conference opponent have shot under 38 percent.
• Virginia became the first team this season to outrebound the Terps, finishing with a 34-29 advantage on the boards. Still, Maryland is just one of two teams in the nation with an average rebounding margin in double figures. The Terps are second at plus-10.3, behind just Colorado State (plus-13.8).
Maryland-Duke Series History
• Maryland trails the all-time series 61-113, which dates back to 1925. The Terps trail the series 37-40 at home, with their last win in Comcast coming on March 3, 2010. In that game, the 22nd-ranked Terrapins got 20 points from Greivis Vasquez on senior night, to help knock off the fourth-ranked Blue Devils.
• Duke won the first meeting this season, 84-64 in Durham on Jan. 26, and has won six straight in the series. In the earlier meeting, Dez Wells and Charles Mitchell paced Maryland with 13 points each and the Terps trailed by just eight at halftime before Duke opened it up in the second half. Rasheed Sulaimon led Duke with 25 points, Mason Plumlee had 19 and the Blue Devils shot 52.4 percent in the game.


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It's difficult to judge a manager's credentials after just four months and ten league games in charge.
But that is the situation that former England boss Steve McClaren found himself in, after a board meeting was held following Nottingham Forest's latest defeat - a 3-1 home loss at the hands of fellow strugglers Birmingham City yesterday.
The result? A resignation offered by the man who less than two years ago, won the Dutch Eredivisie title with FC Twente. McClaren also had a spell at Wolfsburg, becoming the first Englishman to manage in the German Bundesliga, and despite a difficult period that resulted in his sacking, the former Manchester United assistant is sure that the experience has made him stronger.
Not that his City Ground tenure is anything to go by. With only eight points from his opening ten Npower Championship games, and with Forest languishing 21st in the table, McClaren was gone. Not so much a case of him leaving, more that he was pushed.
The decision marks the first high-profile departure of the 2011-12 campaign, and puts the managerial merry-go-round wheels in motion, as a number of manager's become increasingly hot under the collar.
As the pressure intensifies, GMF asked over 1000 online football fans who they believe will be the first Barclays Premier League managerial casualty.
As Steve Kean's position at Blackburn Rovers becomes increasingly untenable, following another emphatic 4-0 defeat at the hands of Manchester City, 68% of fans backed Ewood Park chiefs to act first by sacking the man they chose to promote internally after sacking Sam Allardyce.
Despite the recent vote of confidence from Arsenal owner Stan Kroenke, it's Gunners boss Arsene Wenger who seems the second most likely manager to lose his job, with 12% of fans believing the Frenchman's worst start to a Barclays Premier League campaign will result in him losing his job.
Bolton Wanderers' early-season woes continue, with six league defeats on the spin leaving them propping up the table, causing 9% of fans to assume that Owen Coyle is under increased pressure, while 7% think Steve Bruce must turn things around quickly or face the wrath of his board.
Roy Hodgson appears to be relatively safe, with only 3% of fans believing the Baggies boss' position is under threat, but the overwhelming majority expect the next managerial vacancy to come to light at the home of the one-time Premier League champions.
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Blackguards 2 – Official Teaser
Our Blackguards are back!
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We are so happy to finally reveal that we are working on a sequel for our strategy RPG – Blackguards 2!
Blackguards 2 will stay an SRPG focussing on turn-based, strategic battles with a group of scoundrels as anti-heroes. Some of the best-known Blackguards from the first game will be part of the team again – unfortunately, their lives didn't go very well since then. Dwarf Naurim, for example, has rest on his fame as a successful gladiator and defeater of the Nine Hordes. He used his popularity for shady businesses and excessive parties and got quite potbellied – not a very good condition for battles, and so he hung up his axe and ditched his old gang, as long as they wouldn't yield any profit.
The final part of our video guide series on Blackguards has arrived! In our fourth installment we explain the various types of decisions as they appear in the game's quests, dialogues and combats and their possible consequences.
Here comes the third part of our video guide series to Blackguards. This time we cover the combat system in all explicit detail (including changes in 1.3) as well as equipment.
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The 2012 4-H Poultry Judging Team traveled to Lebanon on Sept. 20 to compete in the Middle Tennessee Regional 4-H Poultry Judging Contest.
The Middle Tennessee Region is the only region that still hosts a Poultry Judging Contest, and they are very pleased with the number of participants for the 2012 year.
This is Lincoln County's third year to participate in the regional competition, and they were very pleased with the outcome of achievements they received this year. Most of the youth on the Poultry Judging team participate in Lincoln County's 4-H Chick Chain with UT Extension. They raise Red Star Sex Link and Black Star Sex Link hens in the spring and then sell them at the Lincoln County Fair in September.
The Chick Chain opportunity sparked an interest in Poultry Judging for the youth, and they began the 4-H Poultry Judging Team in the fall of 2010. Allison Ogle, alumnus of a 4-H Poultry Judging Team, is the coach. Lincoln County's Junior Team this year consisted of teammates Alex Moore, Noah Dance, Isaac Dance, Ethan Milhahn and Zach Snoddy. The Junior High Team included Erin Moore, Jarad Johnson, John Robert Snoddy, and Jesse Franklin. The Senior Team participants were Ciara Armstrong, Ty Wolaver, Ty Quick and Katilyn Lewter.
All three teams brought home awards this year with the Junior and Junior High team placing 4th overall, and the Senior team placing 2nd overall. High individuals included Zachary Snoddy, Issac Dance, John Robert Snoddy, Katilyn Lewter, Ty Wolaver and Ciara Armstrong.
The local Senior Team will go on to compete in the State Competition in Knoxville on Oct. 6. The winning team will represent Tennessee in the National 4-H Poultry Judging Contest in Louisville, Ky.


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Last week, Congressman Jim Moran sent a letter to Attorney General Eric Holder calling on him to investigate allegations of voter fraud in Harrisonburg, Va. The next day, Project Veritas released a video showing Jim Moran's son Pat Moran [allegedly] detailing to an [individual who was secretly recording] how to commit voter fraud in Virginia. Pat Moran, who at the time was also serving in an official capacity of field director for his father's campaign, immediately resigned. Brian Moran, Pat's uncle and Jim's brother, is presently the state chairman for the Democratic Party of Virginia.
In announcing his request for an investigation in Harrisonburg, Moran wrote an article entitled "Voter Fraud Must Be Investigated." Moran's concluding point was that: "Voting is at the core of our democratic principles. When that right is violated, our democracy is violated." I concur.
For these reasons, my campaign is calling upon Attorney General Eric Holder to initiate an investigation into allegations of voter fraud against the campaign of Congressman Jim Moran. Proceedings have already been initiated by the Arlington County Police Department. However, because this is a federal election, it is critical that the Department of Justice conduct a thorough investigation to ensure that we have free and fair elections in the Commonwealth of Virginia.
While serving in Kosovo, I had the opportunity to be an official election observer. Deployed in a remote village in the mountains of Southern Kosovo, I witnessed throngs of excited, happy Kosovar Albanians rushing to the polling stations as soon as they opened. It was the first time in their lives that they had confidence that their vote counted, that they were participating in a free and fair election. As I saw their smiles, I felt a surge of pride that as Americans, we have a culture of free and fair elections. They have been thus because the participants, candidates and organizations, almost always agree to play by the rules. We are only as good as the rules we make.
So when this story concerning the Moran campaign broke this week, I was as stunned and disappointed as everyone else. Regardless of political party, we are all, or should be, Americans first, and that means insisting that our political leaders play by the rules.
I hope, on behalf of the integrity of our electoral process, Attorney General Holder will conduct a thorough investigation. In Jim Moran's own words: "Voter Fraud Must Be Investigated."
Patrick Murray
Colonel, USA (retired)
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Come join us and make new Oakland friends with our all-inclusive LGBTQA group for recreational and competitive volleyball.
The group's purpose is for people of all backgrounds, races, and skill levels to come together as a like-minded group and participate in a fun activity and feel safe and secure without fear of hate, persecution and ridicule within the Oakland area.
• Play is divided into two sessions: an early session dedicated to competitive 4s, and the main session open to players at all levels.
• Check in: When you show up, say hi to an organizer and tell them you are here! Players who RSVP will be given priority to play.
• 12-2pm Fours : You must play at least above the intermediate level and be able to keep up with a game of 4's. If you are new or the organizers haven't seen you play, please RSVP for Open Play during the first week you join.
• 1:30-5pm Open Play : For players at all levels. Format will vary up to 6v6.
Our "mission" is to include everyone who wants to play at a wonderful public space. At the same time, we want to provide space for both those who want to play more recreationally and those who want to play at a higher level skill. More people joining us means that we need more organization, more time and money.
• Go with the flow: We are here to have fun. Though we try to make sure people get to play at their level of skill, it may just not be possible all the time. So, join in, play, make friends and laugh. Be respectful and be happy.
• Contribute A few of us have shelled out hundreds to buy the nets, balls, tents, and subscription to Meetup. 1$ contribution is always appreciated towards the expenses!
• Help: In addition to money, a few of us always bring the equipment and the tents, show up early to set up and stay to the end to pack up and clean up. So, your HELP is greatly appreciated. Bring food and drinks to share. Show up early to set up or stay to the end to help pack up. Please pick up your own trash!
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Skip to comments.Jill Stanek: Botch an abortion? Obama would let baby die
Posted on 07/09/2008 3:48:10 PM PDT by wagglebee
A CNN reporter interviewing me a couple weeks ago about Barack Obama's opposition as state senator to the Illinois Born Alive Infants Protection Act groaned more than once that this topic was "complicated."
She was referring to Obama's various explanations through the years for blocking Born Alive and lately his outright denial that obstructing legislation declaring live aborted babies legal persons had anything to do with endorsing their death.
I finally emailed her, "It is clear: Obama strongly opposed legislation to protect abortion survivors. This is horrible, so of course he will try to make it 'complicated,' but it is not."
Obama has recently been ratcheting up the obfuscations, which I'll get to momentarily.
Before that, a reader last week recommended I give pro-lifers uncomplicated talking points on Obama and Born Alive. Here they are:
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And every American voter will know this when October rolls around.
This reason alone makes me against Obama.
it's amazing that liberals call the execution of a murderer an act of murder.
yet, during abortion, an innocent life is mercilessly and gruesomely taken with the use of a sharp scissor, scalpels, or whatever sharp instrument is available, and that is called choice.
an absolutely, positively amazing twisting of logic; absolutely amazing.
This makes me want to go and slap every person that ever called Bush "Hitler". This is unbelievable to me. Most pro-choice people aren't pro-leave a baby to die in trash can.
It's downright Satanic if you ask me. What's up is down, what right is left. This is everything I ever heard in church come to pass. And I didn't believe it then.
It's more than your opinion. The liberal's hypocrisy is appalling.
Could you imagine the fallout if a convicted serial rapist on death row was executed in the same manner as that poor, helpless baby?
They don't let animals be put down in such a heartless manner.
In Liberalspeak, it's call 'nuance'.
This makes me want to go and slap every person that ever called Bush Hitler. This is unbelievable to me."
It is amazing what the left has been able to get away with. What a heartless bunch of slobs!
Dems oppose the Born Alive Act because any woman who has paid good money for an abortion is entitled to a dead baby.
I've heard stated before... A conservative believes; punish the guilty, protect the innocent. A liberal believes: protect the guilty, punish the innocent.
This makes me believe more and more this POS is the Anti-christ. He is trying to take over the most powerful nation in the world in the name of satan. Be afraid..
The Great Man...
Ronald Reagan...
"As a nation today, we have not rejected the sanctity of human life. The American people have not had an opportunity to express their view on the sanctity of human life in the unborn. I am convinced that Americans do not want to play God with the value of human life. It is not for us to decide who is worthy to live and who is not. Even the Supreme Court's opinion in Roe v. Wade did not explicitly reject the traditional American idea of intrinsic worth and value in all human life; it simply dodged this issue."
"it's downright satanic if you ask me..."
it's such a shame that the spawn of satan are as feared as they are.
Does Obama have doubts that any living infant would be a person? Or are infants that survive an attempt on their lives from abortion mystically different?
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Libyan rebels have reached the important port city of Zawiyah, where they are engaged in fierce clashes with government forces. Zawiyah is the site of Libya's sole remaining refinery and it's on the road to Tunisia. If the rebels hold it, they will control the port, the refinery and one of Libya's main roads. Guest host John Ydstie gets the latest on the fighting from NPR's Lourdes Garcia-Navarro in Libya.
Libyan Rebels Reach Port City, But Can They Hold It?
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NEW HAVEN, Conn. - The No. 5 coed sailing team will have one more tune-up in fleet racing this weekend before the Bulldogs again go on the road to try to qualify for their third-straight ICSA Coed Dinghy National Championship. The team will split up across the East Coast to compete in four regattas, including two major intersectionals featuring the competition they will face at the Semifinals.
The largest regatta the team will compete in is the Admiral's Cup hosted by the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy-King's Point. The event will feature sailing in three divisions of boats concurrently, with teams coming from four of the seven conferences in the country. The regatta will feature two divisions of doublehanded sailing, in FJs and 420s, while C division will sail in the singlehanded Laser class. The three divisions puts a premium on the team's depth, so the Bulldogs will hope that their team, which has competed well in situations with multiple regattas this year, will be well-prepared to take on the challenge of competing in multiple divisions.
Last year, the Bulldogs took fifth at the event. The team took seventh and third in A and B divisions, respectively, which were sailed in doublehanded dinghies, and sixth in C division, which was sailed in the singlehanded Laser. The team won the regatta in 2007, but an entirely different lineup will compete at the regatta this year. The King's Point venue can feature a variety of conditions, from light air and chop to big breeze and waves. Current is always a factor at the site, where the sailors compete in view of the New York City skyline.
The team will also compete at the Thompson Trophy hosted by the Coast Guard Academy. The regatta, which will be sailed on the tricky Thames River, will take place in two divisions of doublehanded boats. Last year, the team struggled to a 15th-place finish in tough conditions, but the team has been better at the event in the past, taking third in 2007. Competition should be tough at the regatta, with nine of the top 10 ranked teams in action. However, the Admiral's Cup will also have many of the same ranked teams in action, so some teams will be splitting up their squads between the two regattas. The Thames River venue is known for its shifty wind and strong but confusing current.
The last intersectional the Bulldogs will compete at is the George Morris Trophy hosted by No. 13 Boston University. The regatta will take place in FJs on the Charles River. While the team did not compete at the regatta last year, the Bulldogs took second in 2007, only losing out to the hosts who won the regatta, which will feature mostly in-district competition this year.
Finally, the team will compete at the Priddy Trophy for the Spring Freshman New England Championship. The event is unique because unlike most regattas, it is sailed in only one division with a prohibition on crew substitutions. The team did not compete at the event last year, but took 10th in 2007. The regatta will by hosted by Massachusetts Maritime, which also hosted the Fall Freshman New England Championships that the Bulldogs took sixth in. The Herring Pond venue usually features tricky, shifty wind and sailing in 420s.
These regattas should be valuable tune-ups for the team, which is coming off of a fifth-place finish at the New England Dinghy Championships. The performance qualified the team for the ICSA Semifinals, which will take place May 2-3. The team needs to place in the top nine next weekend to make it to the National Championships.
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Registration dates for supplies are from 2 to 4:30 p.m. Monday and Tuesday; 9 a.m. to 12 p.m. July 23; and 10 a.m. to noon and 1 to 4:30 p.m. July 25. Distribution will be from 9 a.m. to noon Aug. 8 and from 1 to 6:30 p.m. Aug. 9.
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A call for more national and international news
On Monday The Post devoted roughly a page and a half to world and national news. (This figure includes three short stories about about Utah and New Mexico, located, curiously, in a section called "Colorado Roundup.") Of that amount, nearly half was occupied by an obituary for musician Lou Reed and two short entertainment-related stories.
Lou Reed was a very interesting guy and I happen to like his music, but seriously, half a page to cover the news from the other 49 states, Mexico, Canada and six other continents combined?
I dropped my subscription to the Rocky Mountain News because it apparently forgot there are places outside the Rocky Mountains. Has The Denver Post now forgotten there is a world outside of Denver?
Dave Gillette, Golden
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— When I first saw this photo, I thought it was amazing! There weren't many photos coming out of Myanmar and this one took the cake. In interviews, the photographer, Adrees Latif says, "For me, as a journalist, the highest honor is that the world will remember this story long after it disappeared from the headlines."
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Vacations are heavenly. Vacations are heavenly when you're young. Vacations are heavenly when you don't have children.
Having children makes a vacation fun in a different sort of way -- like fun in the way that watching your favorite movie with constant interruptions is fun. You enjoy the snippets of the movie while you wipe a poopy ass. A baby's poopy ass. Not your own. Gross. This of course doesn't mean that you don't enjoy the movie -- or vacation. It means you just fuckin' deal.
And I love my children. I know I don't really have to tell you that I love my children, but I'm secretly worried that you'll think I hate my children -- and I don't. Really, I don't. I SWEAR. Jeez. What do you want me to do??! Gawd.
Yeah, anyway. We can't go on vacations very often because we're poor. Not dirt poor. Just the we-live-in-a-very-expensive-area-and-we-have-too-many-bills-and-don't-get-paid-enough kind of poor. Which really isn't poor -- it's faux poor, but whatevs.
So I've been meaning to go on a vacation. Like a big one. Like the kind where you get on a plane and fly for six hours. Like to California. That kind of vacation. And that kind of vacation, my friends, is not ideal with three children -- three older children, yes -- three children that includes a toddler -- well -- NO.
But I suppose it doesn't matter anyway, because we're faux poors. And being a faux poor means you spend your money on rent and bills and not travel.
But I really would love to go to Paris -- because being in Paris with a toddler wouldn't be so bad.
Now for some pictures of our trip to NYC last year. There was a lot of fun and ass-wiping to be had!
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Feeding the Future: Ethiopia's Livestock Growth Program
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With one of the highest rates of malnutrition in the world, Ethiopia has partnered with USAID and CNFA to encourage growth in the farming sector
With one of the lowest GDPs and highest malnutrition rates in the world, Ethiopia desperately needs food security investment and innovation. The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) recently awarded a contract to CNFA, a Washington, D.C.-based nonprofit, to implement the Agricultural Growth Program–Livestock Growth Project (AGP-LGP) in Ethiopia. The program, sponsored by USAID's Feed the Future initiative, will encourage growth in the farming sector by increasing the competitiveness and value of Ethiopia's livestock. CNFA expects the program to create roughly 2,600 new jobs and to improve the nutrition of 200,000 households.
In 2009, Feed the Future—a U.S. executive initiative resulting from the 2009 World Summit on Food Security—selected 20 countries, including Ethiopia, to work with on strengthening food security. Ethiopia was chosen for its high level of need and the national government's openness to partnership. Currently, Ethiopia's annual per capita income is only US$170, and 30 percent of children under five are underweight. Livestock contribute to the livelihood of 60 to 70 percent of the population.
CNFA has already enacted a similar livestock program in Kenya. The Kenya Drylands Livestock Development Program was one of the first programs implemented in Africa under Feed the Future, and has successfully increased livestock value and yields through improved production, marketing, and market access. Fattening animals and processing livestock products near production areas results in higher prices, thereby increasing local incomes and promoting employment among underemployed groups such as women, youth, and the elderly. AGP-LGP will apply CNFA's past success to Ethiopia.
CNFA has accepted a USAID contract to implement a livestock project in Ethiopia. (Photo Credit: ILRI)
Thus far, the U.S. Department of Agriculture's animal feed programs have helped to create nine open livestock feed manufacturing businesses. CNFA can further increase direct profits to farmers through local processing, such as leather and dairy production. Additionally, improvements to market infrastructure can enhance sales while providing expanded access to consumers.
With the majority of Ethiopia's population working in the livestock sector, such innovations could dramatically improve the quality of life for many families and communities.
Carousel image: Cattle being watered at the Ghibe River in southwestern Ethiopia. Source: ILRI