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President Obama will travel to Copenhagen to make a pitch for Chicago's Olympic bid, White House officials have confirmed to NBC News.
Obama will leave for Denmark Thursday night, hours after his wife Michelle departs for the vote. The president made the final decision Saturday night after returning from the G20 summit in Pittsburgh.
"The President decided over the weekend that he wanted be a part of the final push as we enter the home stretch," Jarrett told Politico.com
"He did not want to leave any stone unturned. He is very excited about joining the First Lady for both the final presentation and the question and answer session. The Olympic spirit is about giving it your very best down to finish line and not taking anything for granted. That's what his presence in Copenhagen will demonstrate."
The announcement ends months of speculation of whether the president would lend his considerable fame to the pitch. The president has dropped hints all monthlong that he may attend the event.
Last week he sent an advance team to Copenhagen just in case he could make it and a letter he wrote to select IOC members seemed to hint that he would be there.
His attendance could help catapult Chicago past Madrid, Tokyo and Rio to win the 2016 Summer Games. International Olympic Committee members will vote on which of those four cities should receive the games on October 2. NBCChicago.com will be streaming live coverage of the vote.
The president "hopes to make a strong case for Chicago and America's bid for the Olympics in 2016," Press Secretary Robert Gibbs told White House reporters during a briefing on Monday morning.
"Obviously, the Olympics showcases the country that those Olympics are in and there's a tangible economic benefit to those games being here," Gibbs said.
Obama will round out a team of heavy-hitting supporters including Oprah, Valerie Jarrett, Michelle Obama and Arne Duncan.
The president called Mayor Richard Daley, who left for Copenhagen Friday, at 6:55 a.m. Eastern time to say that he was indeed going to Denmark.
"President Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama symbolize the hope, opportunity and inspiration that makes Chicago great, and we are honored to have two of our city's most accomplished residents leading our delegation in Copenhagen," Daley said in a statement.
"Who better to share with members of the International Olympic Committee the commitment and enthusiasm Chicago has for the Olympic and Paralympic Movement than the President and First Lady."
Patrick Ryan, CEO of Chicago 2016 is equally enthused.
"There is no greater expression of the support our bid enjoys, from the highest levels of government and throughout our country, than to have President Obama join us in Copenhagen for the pinnacle moment in our bid," Ryan said. "We are honored that President Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama will be with us to extend a hand of friendship on behalf of our nation and the City of Chicago as we seek to welcome the world for the 2016 Olympic and Paralympic Games."
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Former "Boy Meets World" actress Danielle Fishel has set the record straight on rumors suggesting she enjoyed a real-life romance with her onscreen love interest Ben Savage, insisting they only ever went on one date.
The 31-year-old beauty, who starred as Topanga Lawrence in the 1990s coming-of-age sitcom, admits she inadvertently sparked the gossip herself after an appearance on a talk show years ago, but she tells Maxim magazine the longtime pals quickly decided they were better off keeping their relationship platonic.
Stripping down to her lingerie for a sexy new covershoot, she explains, "That rumor was entirely my fault because I once said, on 'The Tyra Banks Show,' that Ben and I went on a date, and that turned into 'Danielle and Ben dated.' We went on one date, when I was about 15, and by the time the dinner was over we realized mutually that we were more like family than lovers."
Fishel and Savage are set to reunite onscreen for the upcoming "Boy Meets World" spin-off series, "Girl Meets World," which will focus on the life of the married couple's teenage daughter.

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By Ashley Fields, Cooking Columnist
Cheesecake. For some cooks, the word incites a bit of trepidation.
Perhaps it's just fear of the unknown. Perhaps it's because some consider this particular cake to be on the fancy, complicated end of the dessert spectrum and their skills aren't quite on par.
Randy and Debbie Zimmerman of Lawrenceburg announce the engagement of their daughter, Courtney Zimmerman, to Austin Hart of Lawrenceburg.
Their wedding is scheduled for 4:30 p.m. May 16 at Rabbit Creek BNB in Versailles.
The bride-to-be is a 2008 graduate of Anderson County High School, a nursing student at Kentucky State University and a pharmacy technician at Walmart.
The groom-to-be is a 2010 graduate of Anderson County High School and a corporal in the United States Marine Corps.
Memorial Day service scheduled at Healing Field
Memorial Day services are scheduled for 3 p.m. Sunday, May 24 at the Healing Field, located in the American Legion Park on Broadway, the organization announced.
Services are scheduled to be held inside of Patriot Hall if it rains.
The names of the 118 soldiers who are honored in the Healing Field will be read aloud, along with the names of all Anderson County soldiers who died while serving their country.
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It is a rare occasion for my husband and I to get a night away without the kids, and sometimes when that night finally arrives, getting dressed up and driving to a busy restaurant is the last thing we want to do.
Even though was an unseasonably cool spring here in central Kentucky, I believe it's reasonable to say that the warmer temperatures and sunshine have brought happiness and thankfulness to each of our hearts. Spring has finally arrived, and with it come some refreshing changes.
Scott and Tina Mitchell of Frankfort announce the engagement of their daughter, Christina Taylor, to Michael Marraccini of Lawrenceburg.
A closed wedding is scheduled for 4:30 p.m. June 27 at Holly Hill Church of Christ in Frankfort, followed by a reception at Eagle Lake Ballroom in Lawrenceburg.
The bride to be is a graduate of Frankfor High School and employed at the Department for Public Health.
The groom to be is a son of Mark and Patti Marraccini of Lawrenceburg. He is a graduate of Anderson County High School and employed at Splatter, Inc.
Donald and Rhonda Cole of Lawrenceburg announce the engagement of their daughter, Brittany Danielle Cole, to Jonathan Thomas Cox of Lawrenceburg.
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The groom is a son of Kent and Teresa Cox of Lawrenceburg.
The bride is a granddaughter of Rollin and Jeanette Cole, Linda Casey and Sterling Mcdaniel, and the late Norman Casey.
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The Kentucky Derby is a time-honored tradition since 1875.
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I had been spending too much time on YouTube, watching the newest Dos Equis beer ads featuring its famous "Most Interesting Man in the World." (On "wingmen": "It doesn't take more than one person to talk to a woman." On drink umbrellas: "Unless your drink is expecting rain, you should probably reconsider.") Scrolling through the sidebar of related videos, I came across an interview with Jonathan Goldsmith, the actor who plays the world's most interesting man, from the 2009 World Music Awards.
"If I watch this," I told myself, "the Most Interesting Man in the World will become completely demystified. There is no way Jonathan Goldsmith is as interesting as his advertisement persona. I will no longer take as much pleasure in watching (and re-watching, and then watching again) these ads."
The ads, in case you've missed them, feature a sophisticated, adventurous, bearded man, either sitting at a bar, surrounded by pretty girls, airing witty advice (as cited above), or performing adventurous exploits around the world (presenting gifts to queens, feeding endangered birds on dangerous mountain cliffs, playing cards with Mayans). At the end of every ad, the Most Interesting Man in the World says two things: "I don't always drink beer, but when I do, I prefer Dos Equis," and, more importantly, "Stay thirsty, my friends."
I decided to watch the interview. I was in a mood to slay idols, to do away with distractions. These ads held a seductive grip from temple to temple, across my forehead and over my eyes. I was spending too much time on them. So I watched the interview. But I got more than I bargained for.
Consider this exchange:
Goldsmith: I was sitting in a restaurant the other day and a fellow came over, he said, "You're the guy." "Yeah," I said. He said: "I asked my seven year-old son yesterday, What do you want to do when you grow up? He said, I want to be the most interesting man in the world." Made me feel good.
Fawning Lady Interviewer: How many kids say that?
Goldsmith: Well, a lot of people say that, not so many children. But he was seven. And the other day, an elderly man said, "Ohh, if I could do it all over again…" So it runs the gamut. It's nice.
Fawning Lady Interviewer: Very nice.
He was demystified, yes. But I was horrified. I couldn't get to sleep: I spent half the night staring at the ceiling, wondering about the poor old man who confided his regrets to Jonathan Goldsmith. How did Goldsmith respond? Most likely, whatever he said wasn't very interesting. Yet the old man's question is a gift for the rest of us who are smarter than Goldsmith: Assume the old man's perspective, and wonder what life is about, even when most of it has already passed and it hasn't been too interesting.
From the point of view of its intended audience—the young—the World's Most Interesting Man is easily attractive. The world opens up to him as a direct function of his wonder and his courage. His only sacrifice seems to be a steady career, and he never seems to lack the affection of women (though we never find out if he has any children). His sophistication and savoir-faire (highlighted in the shorter "advice" commercials) is a different feature of his character altogether, which some people might find even more interesting. For the young who look forward, the Most Interesting Man in the World is a role model but also, more importantly, a prophet of possibility.
But for our old man, the case is different. Possibility doesn't point backwards in time. The old man resigns himself to a wistful looking-back, and either he felt this sadness deeply or kept it at arm's length. Perhaps he's like the aging Ulysses in the poem by Alfred Lord Tennyson, who at the end of his long odyssey, wants to set sail once again: "Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will/ To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield." In any case, talking to a not-so-interesting actor was of no help. The only help would be a new horizon of possibilities in life (which probably don't include playing cards with Mayans or climbing jagged rocks), and a different understanding of experience as such.
I wonder if Jonathan Goldsmith himself realizes that his hair is getting white, too. The accumulated experiences of the World's Most Interesting Man will one day end—and then what? He won't want to do it "over again," but he might want to "still do it."
The most interesting thing in these ads, then, is not the adventures but the adventurer. The adventurer has an impulse for the world that is bigger than the world itself, and that crashes against the limits of the world. The old man, in this sense, is as interesting as the Most Interesting. But once we understand this, and we look out ourselves with awe (as Allan Bloom puts it), we need assurances that reality will respond—that there is a way to "stay thirsty" and "still do it."
Santiago Ramos is a graduate of Rockhurst University in Kansas City and has written for First Things (online), Commonweal, The Pitch, Traces, Image Journal and various blogs. He is currently studying toward a Ph.D. in Philosophy at Boston College.


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We are proud to present two narrative feature films straight from Park City. First up on Friday night at 8:30 p.m. is "Best Friends Forever." Harriet, a comic book artist with a secret, and her reckless BFF, Reba, take their '76 AMC Pacer on the open road and their friendship gets a wild ride towards an impending nuclear apocalypse.
BEST FRIENDS FOREVER is a clever dark comedy and heartfelt road trip buddy film wrapped in an apocalyptic disaster story, with two badass girls. Harriet, a perpetually optimistic comic-book artist, dreams of escaping her past in Los Angeles and hits the road for a new life in Austin, Texas. She drags Reba, her seemingly devil-may-care BFF, along for the ride. In the hush period following mysterious nuclear explosions, the girls are forced to ask: When faced with the end of the world - what is most important to you?
Producer and actor Stacey Storey will be in attendance for a Q&A.
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On Saturday at 7:15 p.m. is Sundance winner "This is Martin Bonner." We are especially excited to screen Chad Hartigan's second feature as we also showed his first film "Luke and Brie are on a First Date" at a previous OFF.
The striking sophomore film of writer/director Chad Hartigan, THIS IS MARTIN BONNER is a warm and perceptive meditation on friendship, human connection and getting a second chance at life. Fifty-something Martin Bonner (Paul Eenhorn) leaves his old life behind and relocates to Reno, where he finds work helping released prisoners transition to life on the outside, while trying his hand at speed dating and passing time as a soccer referee on weekends. Meanwhile, Travis Holloway (Richmond Arquette) has just been released from prison after serving 12 years. Surprising both of them, Travis and Martin form an unlikely friendship that offers them reciprocal support and understanding.
Quietly observational and naturalistic, the film features noteworthy breakthrough performances from Eenhoorn and Arquette who approach their characters with a lived-in sense of low-key restraint.
Shot on location in Reno, NV, the film's stunning visuals create an undercurrent theme of finding beauty in the unexpected.
Director Chad Hartigan, Keegan Dewitt (score) and Jeffrey Ruggles (producer) will be in attendance for the Q&A.
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Filming was prohibited at Bob Hope Airport after the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11, 2011, but airport officials decided to open their doors to production companies again this spring in hopes of generating needed funds as they deal with declining parking revenues and passenger counts.
Crews for the revived series "Arrested Development," which will be released on Netflix next year, brought in tuk-tuks — a type of motorized rickshaw — to help turn the outside baggage claim area at the Burbank airport into an airfield in Mumbai, said property officer Madeleine Zavala, who has taken on the added responsibility of coordinating film shoots.
Actors in Indian garb and signs in Hindi script gave the scene its finishing touches.
"It's going to look really good on film," Zavala said, adding that several "Arrested Development" stars, including Jason Bateman and Portia de Rossi, were on the set.
The airfield was also turned into John Wayne and Phoenix SkyHarbor airports in about nine hours on the same day, she added.
Sofia Coppola used Bob Hope Airport to bring some reality to her upcoming film "Bling Ring," which is based on actual events involving teens who burglarized several celebrities' homes, beginning with Paris Hilton's residence.
"In reality, the female leader of the group did fly out of here," Zavala said. She was later arrested in Las Vegas.
The scene was filmed in and around a car parked at the curb at Terminal B, which is usually used for film shoots instead of the much busier Terminal A.
For one film shoot, a mock security checkpoint was built, and it looked so real that passengers began lining up to go through it, Zavala said.
"Quickly, our operations team had to queue them over to the real checkpoint," she added.
"Grey's Anatomy" filmed its upcoming season premiere in the back portion a vacant hangar at the airport, Zavala said.
She couldn't divulge which stars took part in the shoot, however, because last season's cliffhanger ended with a plane crash and fans don't know who will return.
The airport receives between 20 and 25 calls a week from production companies expressing interest in filming, Zavala said, adding that the airfield averages about four film projects a month.
Besides the additional revenue, the film shoots are drawing the attention of passengers, particularly tourists who may later pay money for a studio tour, but they get to see a live film shoot for free right after they get off the plane.
"For us, living in Hollywood, it's not such a big deal, but for people from other places, it is a big deal. For a lot of those people, it's their first time," she said.
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The National Association of RV Parks and Campgrounds (ARVC) and the ARVC Foundation announce the first Spring Seminar Series as an extension to its already popular Outdoor Hospitality Conference & Expo held in November and the National School of RV Park and Campground Management held in February.
The first Spring Seminar will be held May 16-17 in Denver.
"We've scheduled the series mid-week so that campground operators can get back to their parks in time to prepare for the weekend," Barb Youmans, ARVC's senior director of membership and education, stated in a news release. "Seminars will end at 2 p.m. on Thursday, making it easy to catch an evening flight."
ARVC's Spring Seminar Series features nine seminars:
• "Protecting Your Park From Perils" with Mark Maciha of Northern Arizona University. As part of this seminar, park operators will fill out a needs assessment that helps them determine areas of potential risk in their campgrounds. Maciha will work with park operators to develop a plan to reduce health and safety risks in their parks.
• "Happy Campers," a seminar that teaches park operators how to communicate expectations to staff and ensure that those expectations are met every day so that guests achieve the highest levels of customer service.
• "Business Cents" with Mary Arlington of MMCC Inc. Arlington will help park operators learn how to optimize customer satisfaction within the business capabilities of their organization and develop a plan to achieve needed business modifications that are identified in the session.
• "Risky Business," a session that helps park operators learn how to implement effective risk management practices.
• "Great Expectations" with Ron Williams of Travel Resorts of America. This session will teach park operators how to set standards for their business as well as how to monitor and maintain service levels.
• "The Social Stampede" with Barb Krumm and Rachel Beckerman of Ocean Lakes Campground in Myrtle Beach, S.C. This session provides basic instruction in Facebook, Twitter and other social media tools. Park operators will learn how to use these tools and incorporate them into their business strategy.
• "Cash Cow" with Bud Styers and Associates and Smokey Hollow Campground in Lodi, Wis. Styer will teach park operators how to identify creative ways to raise revenue by providing additional services, activities and products.
• "Decisions, Decisions, Decisions," a seminar that helps park operators assess the various technologies that are available to help them attract more business. This session will show park operators how to make the best decisions for their business.
• "Let's Go Shopping" with Janine Roberts of Tradavo, a wholesale supplier of foods, beverages and sundries to small format retailers. Park operators will learn how to manage the retail space they have while creating an appealing atmosphere and making more money.
Registration includes all seminars and materials, as well as, breakfast and lunch both days. Discounts are available for those who register before March 31. Special lodging rates are available for seminar participants at the Embassy Suites Denver Tech Center. For more information, visit www.arvc.org/seminarSeriesMain.aspx or call the ARVC Education Department at (303) 681-0401, Ext. 118.


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Choosing the right collaboration device is like choosing the right car
Many things need to be taken into consideration when choosing a collaboration endpoint technology: what's the experience you want to create, how you plan to use it, what environment must it accommodate? The analogy I like to use is "it's like shopping for a car." There are many considerations to be made when buying a car: It must meet your lifestyle, your transportation needs, the number of passengers and type of cargo you intend to carry.
A single person is more likely to choose a different type of car than people with families. Active people may choose an SUV to carry all their sporting equipment, or for the adventures they take on rugged terrain. This thought process also comes into play when choosing a collaboration solution. The ultimate goal is to have the right communications tool for the right task.
Cisco TelePresence has taken this decision making process into account and created endpoints ideally suited for each use case: From Jabber Video for the mobile warrior, to personal TelePresence units for the knowledge worker or executive offices, multipurpose systems for team collaboration, to fully immersive three-screen systems for strategic and high-intensity collaboration meetings — Cisco has thought of every possible scenario. Whether you are on a 1:1 call with a colleague or in a strategic meeting with your most important customers, you want to create an in-person experience. To create an in-person we create an environment where technology fades into the background and allows you to interact as if meeting participants were all in the same room.
Throughout the course of the day, the average worker might go through each of these use cases. They may have an early morning telepresence call through their PC or tablet taken from home, join another call from their office latter, and then host a team meeting from a multipurpose or immersive telepresence system. What has remained consistent is the user experience.
Just as in the car analogy, whether you choose an SUV, a convertible, or mini-van, the way you operate the vehicle is the same. Similarly, Cisco TelePresence delivers a consistent user experience, you start a call and share content the same way across the entire portfolio – from the software client to our three-screen immersive system.
At Cisco we put people at the center of our collaboration solutions; we humanize every interaction to make it easier for our users.
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Connecting The Dots
Connecting the Dots is a mind map design from Habitat for Humanity. It was published in the May 2013 edition of their own magazine, Habitat World, and made available online as a PDF download.
Learn more about how Habitat builds homes, communities and hope.
I really like the combination of the Venn diagram in the center and the mind map nodes that extend outward. The sizes of the circles doesn't have any meaning, just sized to fit the text. This is a really good way for Habitat for Humanity to tell their story with a visual explanation.


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The putter is unusual in that it has a maple birch insert. Mr. Cunningham tells me that this is the secret that allows the exact flex and compression to give the ball the truest topspin roll you can get. It is also precision balanced four different ways. He has a demonstration to show this off where he balances the putter on a swivel, puts a ball on the putter face, and then rotates the putter. Neat, but bottom line, does it help me get the ball in the hole?
Now to be honest, I'm not that bad a putter. My handicap ranges from 4 to 7 and my short game has always been one of my strengths. Some of my friends say I'm a better putter from 15 feet than I am from 5, but I think (or hope) that's a testament to my ability to hit longer putts quite frequently. But I was willing to give the Clique putter a chance to replace my usual Odyssey Rossie II bronze mallet putter; maybe I could finally shave those last strokes off the handicap.
I've long thought the best greens in Atlanta could be found at Towne Lake Hills Golf Club. Fast, undulating, and almost always in superb condition; this would be a great test for the "Clique" putter. Upon arrival, I show off the putter to everyone from the head pro to the starter. A few of them take a few practice strokes and make positive comments. Good initial feedback, but of course, the real test lies ahead.
On the front nine, I have one three putt from about 80 feet. The rest of my putts are pretty solid, I one-putt twice from 10 feet and shoot 38. On the back nine, my putting starts to vary a bit more. I three putt twice from 20 feet, (trying too hard to make birdie) but I hit a clutch 15 footer for par and on the last hole, I hit a 50 foot bomb for par. I shot 78, not bad for the first time using a new putter.
The Good: Paul Cunningham was right, this putter is incredibly unique in its feel and design. The ball does feel good coming off the wood insert, without any significant change to distance control. I'm still not sure how the balance of a putter affects it's roll, but again, he was right - the ball rolls true coming off this blade. I like the weight of the putter and the grip. If you make a good putt, the ball will go where you are aimed.
The Bad: Maybe a bit picky here, but the model he sent me does not have alignment lines on it - instead, it has a dot - that just make it a bit harder to line up for me. He tells me he has models that have the lines. Also, the back of the putter does not have that little scoop that makes it so easy and cool-looking to pick up a ball when your partner tells you to "pick it up". The last item is by design says Mr. Cunningham, he thinks too many golf holes and greens can get damaged by people using putters to retrieve balls. I'm a little concerned about the wood insert, and how easy/hard it is to maintain. Putter covers are needed to protect it while in the bag. He says it is water repellent, and if any damage ever does occur, it can be repaired at minimal cost.
Overall: I've long believed that putting was 95% mental, 3% stroke and 2% equipment. I guess there is some mix in there where you may be more confident if you have more faith in your equipment. If you are a mechanically inclined putter who puts your faith in a solid putting stroke, I'm not sure it makes a huge difference what you putt with. If you are a more "feel"- oriented putter, this putter might just be the one you want to keep in your bag. Yes, I would recommend this putter to any golfer who showed an interest. I think that for the price and performance, you'll be quite happy with your investment. I urge you to give it a try and see for yourself.


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I recently joined the Board of Directors for the Southern Documentary Fund.
SDF's mission is to cultivate and preserve stories made in and about the South. Over the past ten years, the organization has nurtured over a hundred projects - documentary films, radio programs, and photography. SDF-support projects have screened at international film festivals, won critical acclaim, and garnered countless awards - including an Oscar shortlist designation.
As you might expect from an organization largely driven by documentary film, SDF has a very cool trailer:
I'm happy to be a part of the organization and look forward to many good things to come.


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Oprah Winfrey has high hopes for Lindsay Lohan this time around.
The talk-show-host-turned-OWN-CEO appeared live on "Good Morning America" Tuesday and shared some insight during the morning show's discussion panel.
"That was really a great interview," Winfrey said of her "in-depth" talk with the troubled starlet, who completed her latest 90-day stint in rehab last week. The interview will air on Winfrey's OWN Aug. 18.
As for Lohan's condition, Winfrey said she was pleased with the headway the 27-year-old "Mean Girls" star was making after years of addiction struggles and run-ins with the law.
"I thought that she was in the best place I've ever seen her, but I haven't seen her since I think 2009 or '06 or something," Winfrey said. "But I believe that she believes that she is now ready. And she admitted that there had been other times where she was pretending to be she was ready and not quite sure and sometimes resentful that she was being, you know, put in a position where she had to go to rehab. I think this is the first time I could see that she feels it really benefited her."
Lohan appeared Monday night as a guest host of "Chelsea Lately," where she garnered laughs through self-deprecation and taking jabs at celebrities like Kanye West, Anthony Weiner, Justin Bieber and the royal baby for keeping the tabloids satiated during her time in rehab.
"I'm back, I'm happy and healthy and I'm sorry paparazzi but if you want to take a picture of somebody who's really ... up then you'll just have to wait till Chelsea's back!" she said.
Winfrey also noted "a really good sign" about Lohan's change.
"At the end of the interview, I said to her, look, I have some concerns 'cause I hear you're going to Europe. And I just came from Europe and Europe is the place to go when you want to feel really good and relax. It's very hard to go to Capri and not have a Bellini," Winfrey joked.
"I was saying, if I were you I would think about it. So she texted me and said, 'Yes, I will think about it. But look I've already paid for it.' And then I just heard this morning she's decided not to go. Isn't that good, that she's decided to stay here and work on herself," Winfrey added. "I'm so proud of her for that decision."
The Oprah Effect is still alive and strong, it would seem.
Lohan will not only appear in the OWN interveiw, she's also signed on for an eight-part documentary series that will air in 2014.
Winfrey herself, who is starring in "The Butler," is making a few transformations in her own life as well. The host famously ended the 25-season run of her wildly successful syndicated gab fest "The Oprah Winfrey Show" back in 2007 to start her own cable network, aptly called the Oprah Winfrey Network, or OWN.
The channel saw hard times and was not profitable for a time after its launch in January 2011, but recent staff reshuffling and the addition of Tyler Perry's brand to her programming has helped turn the network around and has now made it a success.
"I know a lot of people thought that we couldn't or wouldn't or whatever," she said on "GMA." "But you can't listen to the naysayers. You have to hold on to what it is you really want to do and what I love about the channel: I'm grateful that Tyler Perry came and really allowed us to make some headway faster than we thought we would. But all of the staples of OWN -- 'Master Class' and 'Super Soul Sunday,' that I do and talk to the leading thought leaders of our time -- that's the reason I wanted to do it and I'm happiest when I'm having those kinds of conversations."
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What she found was that possible mercury contamination of these food chemicals was not common knowledge within the food industry despite the availability of product specification sheets for mercury-grade caustic soda that clearly indicate the presence of mercury (as well as lead, arsenic and other metals). Upon further investigation, she found mercury contamination in some commercial HFCS, which can be made from mercury-grade caustic soda.
Through this public scientist's initiative, the FDA learned that commercial HFCS was contaminated with mercury. The agency has apparently done nothing to inform consumers of this fact, however, or to help change industry practice.Consumers likely aren't the only ones in the dark. While HFCS manufacturers certainly should have been wary of buying "mercury- grade" caustic soda in the first place, the food companies that buy finished HFCS and incorporate it into their processed food products may be equally unaware of how their HFCS is made, i.e., whether or not it is made from chemicals produced by a chlorine plant still using mercury cells.
The HFCS isn't labeled "Made with mercury," just like contaminated pet foods, chocolates and other products have not been labeled "Made with melamine." Under current regulations, that information is not made available to either consumers or to companies further down the food supply chain.
When we learned of this gap in information, we set out to do the FDA's work for it. We went to supermarkets and identified brand-name products—mainly soft drinks, snack foods and other items mostly marketed to children—where HFCS was the first or second ingredient on the label.
We sent several dozen products to a commercial laboratory, using the latest in mercury detection technology. And guess what? We found mercury. In fact, we detected mercury in nearly one in three of the 55 HFCS-containing food products we tested. They include some of the most recognizable brands on supermarket shelves: Quaker, Hunt's, Manwich, Hershey's, Smucker's, Kraft, Nutri-Grain and Yoplait.
No mercury was detected in the majority of beverages tested. That may be important since sweetened beverages are one of the biggest sources of HFCS in our diets. On the other hand, mercury was found at levels several times higher than the lowest detectable limits in some snack bars, barbecue sauce, sloppy joe mix, yogurt and chocolate syrup. Although closer to the detection limit, elevated mercury levels were also found in some soda pop, strawberry jelly, catsup and chocolate milk. The top mercury detections are summarized in Table 3, on page 14 of the report.
Environmental mercury from chlorine plants, coal-fired power plants, dental offices and other sources have helped contaminate albacore tuna, swordfish and many of our favorite fish with mercury. Eating these fish has long been thought to be the most important mercury exposure for most people.Tom Philpot at the Grist also covers this topic in Some heavy metal with that sweet roll? Seems to me the house of cards is falling with food safety. In the FDA's spotlight is salmonella in peanut butter from mildew in peanut butter plants, melamine in dry milk from China, and the myriad of meat contamination, with its sights probably on the newest report of Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) being found in swine and swine farmers in the Netherlands and Canada. The more of these reports that continue to surface, the more people will be looking towards alternative food systems. A blessing in disguise?
However, HFCS now appears to be a significant additional source of mercury, one never before considered. When regulators set safe fish consumption recommendations based on an understanding of existing mercury exposure, for example, they never built mercury contaminated HFCS into their calculations. HFCS as a mercury source is a completely avoidable problem. HFCS manufacturers don't need to buy mercury-grade caustic soda. And the chlorine industry doesn't need to use mercury cell technology. In fact, most chlorine plants in the U.S. don't use it anymore, as it is antiquated and inefficient.
While we wait for the FDA to do its job and eliminate this unnecessary and completely preventable mercury contamination, we have a few suggestions for what you as consumers and voters can do.
Currently, food manufacturers don't list on their products the source of HFCS and whether or not it is made from mercury-grade caustic soda. So call them. Make use of the toll-free numbers or Web sites on many packages, and let companies know you're not comfortable eating their product until you know exactly what is in it. As voters, call your elected officials and ask them for hearings to find out why the FDA is not protecting us from mercury in HFCS.
Also, ask these officials to reintroduce legislation originally proposed by then-Senator Barack Obama a few years ago that will force the remaining chlorine plants to transition to cleaner technologies. Because even if they stop providing the caustic soda used for HFCS, their mercury pollution is still contaminating our food system as it falls on farm fields and waterways.


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A fascinating and instructive speech today on monetary policy from Ben Bernanke. The Fed chairman attempted to calm concerns about his open-ended bond-buying plan.
Bernanke denied he was enabling Big Government by monetizing the debt. Bernanke denied his actions would lead to out-of-control inflation. Bernanke denied he was trying to influence the political debate.
Bernanke also outlined just how the plan would boost growth:
We expect these purchases to put further downward pressure on longer-term interest rates, including mortgage rates. To underline the Federal Reserve's commitment to fostering a sustainable economic recovery, we said that we would continue securities purchases and employ other policy tools until the outlook for the job market improves substantially in a context of price stability.
In the category of communications policy, we also extended our estimate of how long we expect to keep the short-term interest rate at exceptionally low levels to at least mid-2015.
That doesn't mean that we expect the economy to be weak through 2015. Rather, our message was that, so long as price stability is preserved, we will take care not to raise rates prematurely. Specifically, we expect that a highly accommodative stance of monetary policy will remain appropriate for a considerable time after the economy strengthens.
We hope that, by clarifying our expectations about future policy, we can provide individuals, families, businesses, and financial markets greater confidence about the Federal Reserve's commitment to promoting a sustainable recovery and that, as a result, they will become more willing to invest, hire and spend.
And in response to a question, Bernanke said legendary free-market economist Milton Friedman "would have supported what we are doing." If that question wasn't planted by Bernanke, it should have been. Many on the right are understandably concerned by the Fed's unprecedented policy actions, fearing they will lead to dramatically higher inflation and economic instability.
But just as with the Great Depression, the Great Recession was the result of a failure of monetary policy, not markets. Friedman proved the former to be true in the 1930s and gave this advice on what to do in a modern environment marked by rock-bottom rates and no-growth. In the following quote, he was speaking about Japan in the 1990s but could as easily be talking about America today:
Defenders of the Bank of Japan will say, "How? The bank has already cut its discount rate to 0.5 percent. What more can it do to increase the quantity of money?"
The answer is straightforward: The Bank of Japan can buy government bonds on the open market, paying for them with either currency or deposits at the Bank of Japan, what economists call high-powered money. Most of the proceeds will end up in commercial banks, adding to their reserves and enabling them to expand their liabilities by loans and open market purchases. But whether they do so or not, the money supply will increase.
There is no limit to the extent to which the Bank of Japan can increase the money supply if it wishes to do so. Higher monetary growth will have the same effect as always. After a year or so, the economy will expand more rapidly; output will grow, and after another delay, inflation will increase moderately. A return to the conditions of the late 1980s would rejuvenate Japan and help shore up the rest of Asia.
Japan's recent experience of three years of near zero economic growth is an eerie, if less dramatic, replay of the great contraction in the United States. The Fed permitted the quantity of money to decline by one-third from 1929 to 1933, just as the Bank of Japan permitted monetary growth to be low or negative in recent years. The monetary collapse was far greater in the United States than in Japan, which is why the economic collapse was far more severe. The United States revived when monetary growth resumed, as Japan will.
The Fed pointed to low interest rates as evidence that it was following an easy money policy and never mentioned the quantity of money. The governor of the Bank of Japan, in a speech on June 27, 1997, referred to the "drastic monetary measures" that the bank took in 1995 as evidence of "the easy stance of monetary policy." He too did not mention the quantity of money. Judged by the discount rate, which was reduced from 1.75 percent to 0.5 percent, the measures were drastic. Judged by monetary growth, they were too little too late, raising monetary growth from 1.5 percent a year in the prior three and a half years to only 3.25 percent in the next two and a half.
After the U.S. experience during the Great Depression, and after inflation and rising interest rates in the 1970s and disinflation and falling interest rates in the 1980s, I thought the fallacy of identifying tight money with high interest rates and easy money with low interest rates was dead. Apparently, old fallacies never die.
Uncle Miltie, I think, would have supported the Ben Bernanke. Now, the Bernanke plan is not without risks. And I would be more comfortable if he specified what economic variable he was targeting as it would add further transparency and highlight the exact exit strategy or trigger point while adding to the policy's effectiveness. And Washington, of course, needs to start implementing pro-growth, supply-side reforms while reducing spending and debt.


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Champions League: Jose Mourinho hopes Didier Drogba returns to Chelsea
Jose Mourinho thinks former Chelsea striker Didier Drogba has to return to Stamford Bridge.
Last Updated: 18/03/14 8:48pm
Mourinho will be reunited with his former player when Galatasaray visit Stamford Bridge in the second leg of their Champions League Round of 16 tie on Tuesday.
The Ivory Coast international spent eight seasons with Chelsea and his send-off in the summer of 2012 was the winning penalty in the Champions League final win over Bayern Munich.
"He is a Galatasaray player, we know he is a free agent and we know he finishes his contract at the end of the season," Mourinho told Sky Sports News. "But we think it is not the right moment to speak about him.
"I think it has to happen one day. When, I don't know - as a player, as a coach, as an ambassador - next year, in four or five years, in 10 years - I don't know.
"But when a person represents so much to a club and when a club represents so much to a person - and that's the case - I think he has to be back one day.
"Undoubtedly he is one of the most important players in the history of this club - that is not a doubt. I think all Chelsea supporters we agree with that.
"We don't say the most important one because that is not fair for other people that were in the same level and in the same generation, but for sure we all agree one of the most important players in the history of our club.
"Is he the same player at 36 that he was at 26? I think nobody is, but he is one of the best strikers in the world that's for sure."
The match also sees Mourinho's predecessor as Inter Milan boss return to English football.
The former Manchester City manager Roberto Mancini has spoken of his willingness to go to dinner with Mourinho if his Gala side win Tuesday's match.
However, when asked whether he would be happy to have a post-match meal with the Italian, Mourinho said: "No, because I have no interest. After the match I don't do things because I win or because I lose.
"After matches what I have in my mind to do, I do. It doesn't matter if I win or if I lose.
"And in my plans after the game, I don't have a meal with somebody that has the same job as I have and this is the only thing we have in common. The fact we both are football managers. Nothing else."


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Isolate untouched mouse CD4+ T cells by depleting non-CD4+ T cells (CD8+ T cells, B cells, monocytes/ macrophages NK cells, dendritic cells, erythrocytes and granulocytes) from mouse spleen or lymph node cells. Other sources of mouse CD4+ T cells can also be used as starting material after optimization for the particular application. Isolated CD4+ T cells are bead- and antibody-free and are suitable for any downstream application
Principle of Isolation
Add a mixture of monoclonal antibodies against the non-CD4+ T cells to the starting sample. Add Mouse Depletion Dynabeads to bind to the non-CD4+ T cells during a short incubation. Separate the bead-bound cells by a magnet. Discard the beadbound cells and use the remaining, untouched mouse CD4+ T cells for any application
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Dynabeads are uniform, superparamagnetic polystyrene beads (4.5 μm diameter) coated with a polyclonal sheep anti-rat IgG antibody.
Dynal® Mouse CD4 Negative Isolation Kit
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- Mouse Depletion Dynabeads - Supplied at 4 × 108 beads per ml in phosphate buffered saline (PBS), pH 7.4, containing 0.1% bovine serum albumin (BSA) and 0.02% sodium azide (NaN3).
- Antibody Mix - The Antibody Mix contains a mixture of rat monoclonal antibodies against mouse CD45R (B220), CD11b (MAC-1), Ter-119, CD16/32 and CD8. Supplied in PBS with 0.02% sodium azide (NaN3).
Additional Materials Required
- Magnet
- Heat inactivated Fetal Calf Serum (FCS).
- Mixer allowing both tilting and rotation.
- Buffer 1: PBS (without Ca2+ and Mg2+) w/0.1% BSA and 2 mM EDTA, pH 7.4.
Important Notes:
- BSA can be replaced by FCS.
- EDTA can be replaced by sodium citrate.
- PBS containing Ca2+ or Mg2+ is not recommended.
- This product should not be used with the magnet MPC-1.
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Dynabeads Washing Procedure
Dynabeads should be washed before use.
1. Resuspend the Dynabeads in the vial.
2. Transfer the desired volume of Dynabeads to a tube.
3. Add the same volume of Buffer 1, or at least 1 ml, and mix.
4. Place the tube in a magnet for 1 min and discard the supernatant.
5. Remove the tube from the magnet and resuspend the washed Dynabeads in the same volume of Buffer 1 as the initial volume of Dynabeads.
Sample Preparation
See recommended procedure to prepare cells from mouse spleen or lymph nodes.
Critical Steps for Cell Isolation
- Use a mixer that provides tilting and rotation of the tubes to ensure Dynabeads do not settle at the bottom of the tube.
- Never use less than 200 μl Dynabeads per 1 x 107 leucocytes
- It is critical to follow the magnet recommendations to ensure a successful isolation.
Isolation of Mouse CD4+ T Cells from Spleen or Lymph Node Leucocytes
This protocol is based on 1 x 107 leucocytes. It is scalable from 1 x 107-1 x 109 cells, (see table 1).
- Transfer 100 μl (1 x 107) leucocytes in Buffer 1 to a tube.
- Add 20 μl heat inactivated FCS.
- Add 20 μl of Antibody Mix.
- Mix well and incubate for 20 min at 2-8°C.
- Wash the cells by adding 2 ml Buffer 1. Mix well by tilting the tube several times and centrifuge at 300 x g for 8 min at 2-8°C. Discard the supernatant.
- Resuspend the cells in 800 μl Buffer 1.
- Add 200 μl pre-washed Mouse Depletion Dynabeads.
- Incubate for 15 min at 18-25°C with gentle tilting and rotation.
- Resuspend the bead-bound cells by gently pipetting 5 times using a pipette with a narrow tip opening, (e.g. a 1000 μl pipette tip or a 5 ml serological pipette).
- Add 1 ml Buffer 1.
- Place the tube in the magnet for 2 min.
- Transfer the supernatant to a new tube.
The supernatant contains the negatively isolated mouse CD4+ T cells.
Table 1. Volumes for mouse T cell isolation per 1 x 107 starting leucocytes.
|Working volume per 1 x 107 leucocytes
|Cell volume (step 1)
|100 μl
|FCS (step 2)
|20 μl
|Antibody Mix (step 3)
|20 μl
|Washing (step 5)
|2 ml
|Resuspension (step 6)
|800 μl
|Mouse Depletion Dynabeads (step 7)
|200 μl
|Volume added before magnet (step 10)
|1 ml
|DynaMag™ recommended
When working with higher cell numbers, scale up all reagents and volumes accordingly (e.g. for 2 x 107 leucocytes use twice the volume of all indicated reagent volumes). As a rule of thumb, up to 5 x 107 leucocytes can be processed in a single 15 ml tube and up to 2 x 108 leucocytes can be processed in a single 50 ml tube.
Downstream Applications
Isolated mouse CD4+ T cells can be used in applications such as cell culture, flow cytometry, functional assays and molecular studies.
Description of Materials
Dynabeads FlowComp™ are uniform, superparamagnetic beads (2.8 μm in diameter). Supplied at a concentration of approx. 1 × 10 9 beads (10 mg) per ml in phosphate buffered saline (PBS), pH 7.4, containing 0.1% bovine serum albumin (BSA) and 0.02% sodium azide (NaN 3) as pereservatives.
This product is stable until the expiry date stated on the label when stored unopened at 2-8°C. Store opened vials at 2-8°C and avoid bacterial contamination. Keep Dynabeads in liquid suspension during storage and all handling steps, as drying will result in reduced performance. Resuspend well before use.
Warnings And Limitations
This product is for research use only. Not intended for any animal or human therapeutic or diagnostic use unless otherwise stated. Follow appropriate laboratory guidelines. This product contains 0.02% sodium azide as a preservative, which is cytotoxic.
Avoid pipetting by mouth!
Sodium azide may react with lead and copper plumbing to form highly explosive metal azides. When disposing through plumbing drains, flush with large volumes of water to prevent azide build up. Certificate of Analysis (CoA) is available upon request. Material Safety Data Sheet (MSDS) is available at .
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- Toscano MA et al (2007). Differential glycosylation of TH1, TH2 and TH-17 effector cells selectively regulates susceptibility to cell death. Nature Immunology, vol 8 (8), pp.825-834.
For Research Use Only. Not for use in diagnostic procedures.


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