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what is the difference between IBM Cloud and Microsoft/HP Cloud?
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What is the difference between IBM Cloud and Microsoft/HP Cloud?
IBM Cloud:
- innovations around proven market leading IBM software and hardware capabilities
- Microsoft customers are moving to IBM Cloud - example Panasonic adopting LotusLive
Microsoft/HP Cloud:
- They recently agreed to agree with a claim of $250M in the next 3 years
- Microsoft customers are moving to IBM Cloud
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380,000 Panasonic users moving to IBM Lotus
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380,000 Panasonic users will start using IBM Lotus web mail, cloud software.. Their US users are switching from Microsoft to IBM Lotus.
IBM Client for Smart Work in USA
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IBM announced IBM Client for Smart Work in USA.
Key messages:
1. low cost Microsoft desktop alternative
- opportunity for business/governments to free up significant money in IT budget that can self fund mission critical initiatives
2. options include
- Lotus Symphony and LotusLive iNotes/Connections on Ubuntu on Netbooks
- Lotus Symphony, Lotus Notes/iNotes, Lotus Connections, Lotus Sametime, on Ubuntu / Red Hat on desktops/laptops
- options to add Virtual linux desktops using VERDE from Virtual Bridges
- use IBM BPM modeling tool and SOA services offered by IBM/Business Partners
- IBM Global Technology Services End User Services, IBM/Canonical Business Partner services
3. Community in Lotus Greenhouse for IBM Academic Initiative faculty members
"The IBM Client for Smart Work offers university faculty, administration and students a Linux-based unified communication, collaboration and information exchange platform that potentially will facilitate sought after campus synergies," said Jeffrey A. Lasky, Professor and Chair, Department of Information Sciences and Technologies, GCCIS, Rochester Institute of Technology.
"Canonical is proud to partner with IBM to help open up the American corporate desktop through Ubuntu," said Mark Shuttleworth, founder of Ubuntu and CEO of Canonical. "IBM's smart client package running on Ubuntu will allow U.S. organizations the financial freedom to redistribute the costs of expensive software licenses into IT projects that will innovate and drive critical growth."
"If a company is a 'Windows shop,' at some point it will need to evaluate the significant costs of migrating its base to Microsoft's next desktop," said Bob Picciano, General Manager, IBM Lotus Software. "American businesses have asked for a compelling alternative that can help them free up PC expenses to use for more strategic collaboration and business transformation projects."
For example, the IBM Client for Smart Work can equip the members of a company's marketing, sales and research departments with the means to quickly and efficiently collaborate. Business process modeling (BPM) can show workflows between sales and marketing, but very little between sales and research or marketing and research. Based on expertise residing in those functions and informal networks discovered through modeling, a company could find powerful insights from research playing an important role in sales and marketing efforts. It may turn out that an expert in R&D might be a company's greatest resource for marketing content, but this expertise has to be identified and shared in order to provide the highest value to the organization. Through online communities on LotusLive.com, this kind of insight can be tapped as needed for the benefit of an entire organization.
Companies can use the IBM BPM suite components such as WebSphere Dynamic Process Edition as required. Business leaders and business analysts can discover and explore business-relevant content to help them understand, experience, and accelerate business process management using IBM BPM BlueWorks.
IBMs 10th cloud lab with LotusLive in Hong Kong with Outblaze
Check out this IBM announcement:
"First IBM cloud computing laboratory in Hong Kong. The new facilitywill provide a global hub for Web-based messaging services to supportIBM's emerging LotusLive (www.lotuslive.com/) cloud service portfolio"
"Strategically located near emerging growth markets, IBM intends toincrease its investment in this center to take advantage of the globalopportunity for online web 2.0 collaboration. The new facility bringsthe number of IBM's worldwide Cloud Labs to 10"
"With more than 10 years of experience delivering messaging solutions,Outblaze was one of the first companies to offer a fully- hosted,multilingual e-mail service. Today Outblaze offers services in 22languages and has more than 40 million users under management"
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Social networking - click to cloud
So how about accessing your social network thru the cloud? Check out the IBM announcement today with LotusLive Engage:
Click to cloud and get: profile andcontact management, online meetings, file sharing, instantmessaging, andlightweight project management capabilities.
These capabilitiesaretightly integrated to provide one of the richest communicationandcollaboration experiences available in the market today.
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The seminar program in the chemistry department consists of student presentations, guest speakers from academe and industry and a variety of other types of meetings. The seminar program makes a significant contribution toward your professional development as a chemist. The weekly meetings also provide an opportunity for students and faculty to gather for announcements and to create a sense of community in the department. Visiting speakers from graduate programs and industry will help you learn more about opportunities available to you upon graduation from Wittenberg.
The main purpose of the student presentations is to give you the opportunity to search the chemical literature on a topic in chemistry which is of particular interest to you, organize that information in a logical and coherent manner, and then present an in-depth scientific seminar to your peers. These are skills that you will very likely need as a professional person after graduation. The seminar program is your opportunity to learn and practice these skills.
Junior seminars are about 25 minutes in length and senior seminars are about 50 minutes in length. For the most part, senior seminars are presented during the fall semester and junior seminars are presented during the spring semester.
Communication skills are extremely important in whatever venture you pursue after graduation. Our seminar program provides students the opportunity to practice and learn effective speaking skills and has been cited as a model for other departments.

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The First Prototype Boba Fett helmet is often referred to as the Preproduction #1 helmet, prepo 1 helmet, or simply PP1 helmet. It is also commonly referred to as the "Eyes" or "Ears" helmet due to the eye-shaped markings on the top of the helmet.
Note that the eye-shaped marking were moved from the front of the dome of the helmet to the top of the helmet. Faint lines can still be seen on the helmet where the markings were originally located.
This helmet was supposedly painted by Joe Johnston after the decision was made to move away from the all white "Supertrooper" style of costume.
This helmet is a true transitional piece between the original Supertrooper style and what eventually became Boba Fett's iconic helmet. Note that unlike Boba Fett's helmet which has an iconic dent, the First Prototype helmet has a deep gash in approximately the same area.


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I do think there is much growing evidence that early spay//neuter can potentially lead to some pretty severe problems. That being said, it's a shelter pet. And as someone else mentioned, in many states there are laws. No adoption until an animal is altered. Shelters simply can not break those laws.
It's one of those "necessary evils", in my mind. I would never want an animal altered that young. But if I'm rescuing from a shelter situation, I understand it, because they're simply trying to fix their problem, and they don't know you from the family down the road that would want their dog to have puppies simply so she can be a "mommy"
The complications one gets into with early spay/neuter are not related to recovery from the surgery but from way premature removal of harmones. It is now pretty much accepted that early spay (and by early I mean before 2 or 3 years old) leads to compromises in ortho health of the animal. It is more contested but now considered that spaying/neutering seems a factor in other health issues such as cancer.
I don't have the links to the studies to provide but an internet search should lead to the discussion.
Thanks everyone!! Tar Heel Mom, I do feel a bit better after reading your response. I had Dakota spayed at between 6-8 months of age (gosh it was so long ago I can't recall when!) but the rescue did work with me on a time frame. It was private though. The SPCA here seems pretty adamant about a spay NOW, which I certainly DO understand, since they don't know me from the next person. I will definitely see if I can at least argue for an extra week or two to get her healthy again. I figure its a war that should be fought one battle at a time, especially for such a young dog.
Jean, I think I will definitely do that!!! Its MY home she will be in, so whatever the extra cost it will be worth it for my peace of mind.
Stosh, I thought I had read something about that.
As far as approximate age...what do you all think?
|This is common practice with shelters, since it is pretty much impossible to enforce spay and neuter after adoption. In my experience younger dogs seem to handle it better and heal in no time. I don't think there is more complication with these S/N than in adults. I fostered countless dogs, and never had incontinence issues because of spay. On the other hand most vets will not do elective surgery on an animal whose breathing is compromised. It sounds like mild kennel cough, very common. Your vet will probably send her home and do the surgery after it clears.
I feel your concern, but as a shelter person myself I can tell you that it is frequently (most states) the law that we cannot finalize until the animal is spayed. I agree that it is often too young, but that is the reason my Tar was neutered at 14 weeks, even with me being the executive assistant at my shelter If it makes you feel better, I have never seen any really ill effects from the animals we have sent to be altered at such an early age. Would they have grown bigger? Maybe..who knows?
Also...if she has an URI (and she most likely does..bordatella is a fact of life with shelter animals) the vet or clinic will probably opt to postpone the surgery. Make sure that they know that she is already pre-adopted. At the clinic we use they will sometimes go ahead with surgery on an unadopted animal depending on how bad the URI is, but they will usually NOT do the surgery if the animal has already been in a home and is pre-adopted. You can guess the reasoning behind that one
Thank you for adopting your baby!!
She's adorable!!!
Offer to pay for the blood work and anything extra that the shelter doesn't typically cover. If your vet thinks she has a URI and can exempt her for a week of abx, that could help. I would ask for that, though I have seen sick dogs go through speuters (HW+, undiagnosed respiratory issues) okay, I would want to delay it until that cleared, especially since it's been ongoing for 4 days and is not clearing.
It could also be a symptom of roundworm. Why Is My Dog Or Cat Coughing? I would want to wait until a week after a de-wormer is done.
So bottom line for me is can my vet get me that extra week so that I can get her in a better place for the surgery.
You are in the south and shelters are now really trying to stop the people adopting to breed cycle (or adopting and then dogs breed by oopsie). There are so many things you can, and will do, to impact her health in a positive way (weight is a huge one - good nutrition, exercise) and her genetics will play a huge part in her overall health anyway, and how her body reacts. http://www.columbusdogconnection.com/PedSpayNeuter.htm has some information for what you will probably be hearing.
I have a 9 yo next month female 50# mix from NC spayed at 8 weeks. She has bad hips, had one FHO which was curative for that hip, and the other is maintained well with supplements - since she was not xrayed at spay, I don't know what her hips were like before I had her checked. She had one URI once. Knock wood - she's had almost 9 great years so that to me is a success. I have an 8 yo male 65# mix from SC who was neutered probably at 5 weeks. Yeah - that's earrrrrly. There were complications with the anesthesia - have to be honest - we tried to get the puppies without them doing the surgeries then, but that was their policy - he has some issues/delays but 5 weeks is hugely different than 8 even. He goes to the vet 1x a year again, knock wood! The rescue I volunteer with now goes for 14 weeks. They come out of their speuters ready to play.
I'd also ask them to do a bleeding time test. They are like $10 at my vet office and while not perfect, give me a tiny piece of mind with breeds that are bleeders. https://ahdc.vet.cornell.edu/clinpat...coags/bmbt.htm
Good luck!
eta - re - spay incontinence -
[Update: a retrospective study published in April 2013, found the incidence of spay incontinence to be just a little over 5 percent. The study also found no correlation between incontinence and the age of the dog at the time of spay. Larger dogs (over 33 lbs) were about 7 times more likely to develop incontinence after spaying than smaller dogs. See Evaluation of the prevalence of urinary incontinence in spayed female dogs: 566 cases (2003–2008) for more information.]
|Studies show that females spayed that young can become incontinent and some are very leggy
health, spay, and adoption of new puppy
So...its been a week and I still just adore this girl every bit as the first day I saw her. Aside from the house-training difficulties and car sickness, she has been amazing. However, I am running into a bit of a bump as far as the adoption process goes.
1) The shelter told me (a week ago) that she was only 12 weeks old. I thought she was at least 16. But nevertheless, the shelter requires that she be spayed before the adoption is approved. Before. There are no vouchers. No allowing her to at least reach 6 months of age. They have her scheduled to be spayed tomorrow. So she will be either 13 weeks old, or a bit older, but she is certainly not 24 weeks by any stretch of the imagination. So, what are the issues I should be wary of with a puppy spayed so young?
2) I think she has a mild upper respirator infection. She had a runny nose 2 days ago (kinda goopy), she has a mild eye infection (minor goopies and tearing), and a sort of cough that happens off and on. The cough is not what I would normally call a "cough" though. But, its also not a wheeze or hacking. It also sounds like a cough thats been cut short. She will do it both while resting and during/after play as well as sometimes during eating or drinking. This started about 4 days ago. I will be bringing her to the vet tomorrow morning as I was directed for the spay, but I want to speak with the vet (who thankfully is my own vet) about her current condition. I am not comfortable with her being spayed if she is not 100% to begin with, and with this being a shelter case I don't even know if they will do a blood panel/thorough checkup or even offer her pain meds (I've been told in many cases they dont).
So, how old do YOU think she is?
What are your thoughts on the two issues above?
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Women's Soccer Draws Even with IUPUI in Season Opener, 1-1
"We were the better team tonight, but just missed some great opportunities," said head coach Trevor Warren. "For our first game of the season and being away from home we were able to control the match with possession and create opportunities, but they were just off the mark."
Green Bay came out of the gates strong, putting three shots on the board early to set the tempo. Momentum changed to favor the host team as the Jaguars had five shot attempts before Hekla Palmadottir (Akranes, Iceland) put an end to the threat with a shot in the 29th minute that forced IUPUI keeper Giselle Guzman into a save situation.
Palmadottir finally connected in the 32nd minute, collecting a pass from Heidi Hartmann (Plymouth Minn.) and chipping the ball from just inside the 18 for her first goal of the season. Green Bay maintained the advantage going into the break, while also owning a 9-6 advantage in shots.
Tori Minnich drew the equalizer in the 56th minute, tapping in a shot at the far post that found the back of the net to leave the score at 1-1.
Looking to score the equalizer less than a minute later, Ahna Logan (Roseville, Minn.) sent a header over the goal line off a corner kick by Katie Schulz (Plymouth, Minn.), but the goal was disallowed as Logan was charged with goalkeeper obstruction.
Neither team was able to capitalize down the stretch, sending the match to extra minutes and eventually the draw.
Despite the even score the Phoenix dominated the shot column, outshooting the Jaguars, 21-12, including 11-2 in the second half. Nastacia Behle (St. Paul, Mo.) started the match and also played both overtime sessions for Green Bay, posting six saves. Katy Pilarzyk (Madison, Wis.) stood in net for the second half, allowing one goal.
The Phoenix return to the pitch on Sunday, traveling to Ball State for a noon affair. Live stats and live audio will be available for the match.
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This Kingsland High Street hang out is a bit of a face on the east London party scene. In true Dalston style it's home to all sorts: popular with a large and diverse LGBT crowd, but welcoming to all and everyone. DJs – mostly local, many well-known – keep feet dancing with sets from Wednesday through to Sunday. Music-wise, you can groove and grind to anything from White Leather Viper Club's weekly Wednesday instalment of electro and mutant-pop, to Italo and disco at Discosodoma, to '90s R&B and hip hop at Put It In Your Mouth.
There's also variety on the drinks list. Seven draught beers and ciders include Brooklyn Lager, Frontier, Kirin Ichiban, Guinness and Estrella, complemented by 18 bottles (Punk IPA, Sierra Nevada, Sol, Peroni, Anchor Steam to name a few), as well as a few guest beers on rotation. Classic cocktails feature alongside house concoctions, shooters and jugs of Pimms and Sangria.
Alongside weekly specials the seasonal menu features dishes such as chicken burgers, minute steak buns, chickpea and potato dahls and pan-fried king prawns served with a tomato, lime, chilli, paprika, avocado and mango salad. Cabaret brunches also prove popular.
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June 26, 2010 from 1pm to 5pm – Strangelight Space Strangelight Record and Zine fair Sat June 26 1-5pm. DIY Chicago record labels, zines, and craftmakers vend their creations to benefit a charity of their choice. 2123 N. Milwaukee Ave. FREE admissi… Organized by | Type: records, and, zine, fair
June 13, 2010 from 5pm to 10pm – The Excelsior Hotel The Queen's Birthday long weekend knights the second SUNDAY SECRETIONS, pronouncing a line up of some of Sydney's most eclectic subversive talent. The June, 13th slated event will also feature the la… Organized by Lachlan | Type: gig, +, mini, zine, fair
May 21, 2010 from 6pm to 8pm – Croydon Community Centre tomorrow (21/5/10) i will be selling my distro zines at MOOROOLBARK COMMUNITY CENTRE, starts at 6PM. as part of some FREEZA gig: some rock bands are playing. check: http://www.freeza.vic.gov.au/. Organized by FREEZA | Type: gig, +, one, zine, stall
December 3, 2009 from 7pm to 9pm – Independent Publishing Resource Center A launch party for Brainscan #24 and #25! At the IPRC on December 3 at 7PM in Portland, Oregon. You should come and read too! For more information about the new Brainscan Zine go here! Organized by Alex Wrekk | Type: zine, launch, party
November 6, 2009 at 7pm to November 7, 2009 at 5pm – Gallery 5 We are happy to announce that the planning of Richmond Zine Fest for 2009 is underway! A date and venue have been confirmed! The Richmond Zine Fest will take place on November 6th from 7 PM til 11… Organized by NicoleIntrovert | Type: zine, fest
September 14, 2009 from 8pm to 11pm – The Hungry Brain Ephemera Festival is a semi-annual celebration of D.I.Y. culture. Past events have featured zine & craft tables, zine readings and live demonstrations such as circuit bending workshops and scree… Organized by Michelle - Indigo zine | Type: d.i.y., festival, featuring, zine, readings, musical, performances, and, more!
June 27, 2009 to June 28, 2009 – Brooklyn Lyceum A 2-day celebration of zines with tabling, workshops, panels and discussions. For more info: http://www.nyczinefest.org/index.html Organized by Alycia, Deb, Aliqae and Susan | Type: zine, fest
June 13, 2009 all day – IPRC Square Foot Zine Fest! June 13th at the IPRC 917 SW Oak Street #218 Portland, Oregon The Square Foot Zine Fest is a mini fest to showcase all the amazing artists, writers, and zinesters that are me… Organized by Alex Wrekk | Type: zine, fest
March 16, 2009 from 6pm to 10pm – Lewisham House American Dave Roche is heading downunder for a zine reading tour and is doing a reading in Sydney on the 16 March 2009. His readings will be coupled with informal readings by those who turn up (i.e b… Organized by Bird in the Hand/Dave Roche | Type: zine, reading
February 9, 2009 at 12pm – Sticky Institute Celebrate independent bookshops from February 9th -15th. There will be a range of events in Sticky and Polyester books in Melbourne Vic, Planet Books in Perth WA, Irregular Rhythm Asylum in Tokyo Jap… Organized by Federation of Independent Thought | Type: zine, and, independent, bookshop, festival


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Japan international Ryo has joined Wigan Athletic on a season-long loan.
The 19-year-old winger will be looking to build on the four-month loan spell he enjoyed with Bolton Wanderers at the end of last term.
After quickly making his mark for the Trotters with a terrific goal against Millwall in the FA Cup in only his second game, Ryo became a firm fans' favourite, playing a total of 14 times for the club.
Ryo's time at the Reebok Stadium followed a good start to the season with Arsenal, where he featured in League Cup victories over Shrewsbury Town and Bolton and was a regular in the reserves.
A productive 2011/12 campaign also saw Ryo make his full international debut in Japan's friendly match with Azerbaijan in May 2012.
Ryo now heads to the DW Stadium to gain further first-team experience under Roberto Martinez.
EveRyone at Arsenal Football Club wishes Ryo the best of luck during his time with Wigan.Copyright 2017 The Arsenal Football Club plc. Permission to use quotations from this article is granted subject to appropriate credit being given to www.arsenal.com as the source


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"Urban women" I believe.
I enjoyed the story on bees and enjoy NPR every morning. It provides a balanced account of the news, and has interviews of people with very different opinions which encourages viewers to think about the issues from a different perspective. Many people are not able to have civil discussions about issues and NPR staff fosters a forum for discussion rather that radical ranting from either the far right or far left that I am tired of. Most news stations seem to promote the sensationalized news. NPR is not dependent on the government for funding and if it was I would see that as tax dollars well spent.
Sure beats Fox Unfair Unbalanced Un-news.
one of my favorite words is 'alleged'.
But it's distressing when you say you don't care what's on radio or TV. It matters what people are exposed to in the way of information content and intellectual rigor.
But NPR also is criticized for accepting corporate sponsorships
But I think the content of NPR is so much better than any other radio news source that even you..... extremist that you are ... should consider supporting it with your hard earned conservative dollars so the government doesn't have to.
Have you heard any other radio programming try to address the issue of young urban women entering beekeeping


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Voyager 1 took this photo of Jupiter on February 1, 1979, while 32.7 million kilometres from the planet. Visible are the coloured cloud bands and the Great Red Spot. The moon Io can also be seen at the upper right.Source: Courtesy NASA/JPL-Caltech
Average Distance from the Sun:778.34 million km (5.202 AU)
Size (Equatorial Diameter):142 200 km (11.14 x that of Earth)
Mass:1.899 x 1027 kg (317.89 x that of Earth)
Length of Day (Solar Rotation Period):9.83 Earth hours
Length of Year (Sidereal Orbital Period):11.86 Earth years
Temperature:-150° C (clouds)
Gravity:22.88 m/s2 (2.33 x that of Earth)
Jupiter is the largest planet in our Solar System, a thousand times the size of the Earth in volume, and the first of the Gas Giants. It is the second brightest planet in our night sky and has been known since ancient times.
Another photograph of Jupiter taken by the Voyager 1 spacecraft, showing the Great Red Spot and the moons Io (left) and Europa.Source: Courtesy NASA/JPL-Caltech.
Jupiter is mostly made of gases so there is no solid surface.
The outer layers of Jupiter are mostly formed of the gases hydrogen and helium but there are small amounts of water droplets, ice crystals, ammonia crystals and other elements. Clouds of these elements form in the hydrogen these clouds can be white, shades of orange, brown and red. The gases swirl around in huge storms as well as rotating about the planet very quickly.
One of Jupiter's most famous features is the Great Red Spot, which was first recorded by Cassini in 1665. This is an enormous storm, up to 40,000 km long by 14,000 km wide.
Deep inside the planet, the gases become very thick, so thick they are almost like a liquid. Deeper still there may be a layer like liquid metal and at the very centre Jupiter may have a small solid core. Towards the core it gets hotter, the liquid-like level probably being about 11,000°C and the core about 30 000°C.
Jupiter has a total of 40 moons consisting of 4 large moons, 23 smaller moons and 13 even smaller moons that were discovered recently but are as yet unnamed.
The four largest moons are:Ganymede (diameter: 5 276 km)Callisto (diameter: 4 820 km)Io (diameter: 3 632 km)Europa (diameter: 3 126 km)
These are known as the Galilean satellites, named after Galileo Galilei, who discovered them in 1610. They were the first moons found around another planet.
Ganymede is the largest moon in the Solar System, larger even than the planets Mercury and Pluto. Its composition is half water or ice and half rock.
Callisto is slightly smaller and has a lower density, suggesting large amounts of water, and has the most cratered surface of any object yet found in the solar system.
Io has a strange orange and yellow coloured surface, caused by volcanoes bringing sulfurous material to the surface. These were the first active volcanoes found on a world other than the Earth when they were discovered by the Voyager spacecraft.
Europa is the brightest of the Galilean satellites and appears to have an ocean of liquid water, covered by a thin ice crust. The crust is covered in cracks and streaks, indicating that it has been fractured. It has, however, the smoothest surface of any moon in the solar system.
Of Jupiter's smaller moons, four are found inside the orbit of Io. Three of these inner moons were discovered by Voyager 1 (1979) while a fourth was found by direct observation in 1982. Eight of Jupiter's outer moons were discovered prior to 1974. In 1999 and 2000, 24 new moons of Jupiter were discovered, 11 of these were assigned names by the International Astronomical Union in 2002.
Jupiter's rings were first discovered by Voyager 1 in 1979. Voyager 1 & 2 revealed a flattened main ring, an inner ring (halo ring) and a third, fainter outer ring (gossamer ring). Galileo found the gossamer ring consisted of two rings and one is embedded within the other, and both are composed of microscopic debris from two small moons, Amalthea and Thebe. The rings start at 20 500 km from Jupiter's cloud tops and extend out to 250 000 km.
Jupiter was the principal Roman god, originally the god of the sky. He is identified with the Greek god Zeus, a weather god responsible for rain, hail, snow and particularly thunder and lightning.
Hi there - Jupiter has 3 or 4 rings, depending on if you count the outer "gossamer" layer as one or two rings! If you would like more pictures of Jupiter, check out the Hubble site's gallery of Jupiter images.
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- posting a pdf & jpg copy of the flyer on your website for people to print &/or repost (as well as an image people can use to link back to your site)
- include your site's name, address, & maybe short description as a signature in your email and forum posts.
- maybe build local relationships with places that might appreciate free material - libraries, bookstores, infoshops, coffee shops & restaurants, maybe even hip doctors & dentists.
Good luck!
There are a bunch of "free stuff" communities online -- people who are interested in obtaining stuff free (or for the cost of postage) who trade tips and links, etc. I don't know if you're interested in targeting these folks, but it could be a way to get zines into the hands of people who would never otherwise come in contact with them.


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Lego Rock Band Review
Legos, rock music, and video gaming, what more could you ask?
The new Lego Rock Band videogame works with your existing Rock Band instruments. In the minifig version of the rock band, those cute little Lego minifigs rock out with you as you strum along on your guitar, beat the drum or sing as notes fall down from the top of the screen. The game features an eclectic list of songs, a charming story and loads of fun gameplay. You can play on your own or with up to three friends.
Lego Rock Band is kid friendly, and even includes a super-easy mode for younger players. You can turn off the kick pedal for drummers for beginners or even play a shorter version of any track. The 45 songs are fun, but you cannot expand Lego Rock Band's catalog through the Music Store, nor does the game have an online play element. My kids have been playing this since Christmas, and they love it. One thing I like: the songs are good, so I do not even mind them playing it loud.
The minifig characters charm, just like they do in other Lego video games.
Well worth the money.
The game runs about $50, but you need to buy instruments separately. If you do not already have instruments, you might buy Rock Band 2 Bundle. Although this special edition is in short supply, Amazon does have it in stock for about $140 for the Wii version. You might also consider Beatles Rock Band Bundle, although that is pricier.
Amazon sells Rock Band 2 as just the game or as a special bundle. Check out the Amazon link below, then choose your platform and then and choose "special" to order the bundle. I would order it soon as it is sold out in most stores now and may sell out on Amazon as well.
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There are three reasons why Arsenal's disciplinary record has improved, according to Arsène Wenger.
The early years of the Frenchman's 14-year reign were sprinkled with red cards with Patrick Vieira and Emmanuel Petit among those who incurred the wrath of referees.
Times have changed to such an extent that Arsenal did not receive a single red card in between their Premier League trips to Tottenham in 2009 and 2010 when Emmanuel Eboue and then Thomas Vermaelen were dismissed for two bookable offences.
Wenger was asked why he thought Arsenal's discipline was so much better when he faced the media ahead of Saturday's clash with Birmingham.
"We have a different type of game and players now. And also we are less provoked," he replied.
"Patrick Vieira was provoked, but him and Petit never kicked first anybody – and I can show you how they were provoked.
"They got some horrendous tackles and of course they didn't like it and didn't let the others do it. But they never injured anybody."Copyright 2017 The Arsenal Football Club plc. Permission to use quotations from this article is granted subject to appropriate credit being given to www.arsenal.com as the source


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Figure I'd post this if anyone interested. There supposed to be getting Middy's to.
Palmetto State Armory 14.5'' 5.56 CL 1/7 Upper
That sounds like a good deal. I might just have to get one now
that looks to be a hell of a deal it even comes with a heavy m-16 style BCG by the looks of it.
just make sure you got the longer style flash hider pined and or welded if you not going to SBR it.
if the damn obongo economy didn't suck so bad i would be ordering one of these!
he,he! i am so itching to buy one of these but so down on the funding-- ARRG!--LOL!
Surplus Ammo Assembled Lower Receiver - Special 10th Anniversary Discount through 5/31/11
Complete lower for $115. Quality wise I do not know. All kinds of sales going on with ARs.
Damn my cash flow is hurting also j4. But now seems too be a good time too grab ARs..
Maybe the companies booted up with the Obama scare and are overstocked?
Real pro Mall Ninjas would probably laugh at these weapons.
"Ha Haaa haaa look at that junk."
But hell. Long as the darn thing goes bang, I am happy.
"Man needs but two things to survive alone in the woods. A blow up female doll and his trusty old AK-47" - Thomas Jefferson 1781
i think that is the deal.
everybody went overtime on ar stuff when it looked like a ban might come and now there is a surplus of parts--along with a sour economy= some good prices.
a stripped one is like $60!
it does say "surplus ammo" on the side. but hey who is going to be looking? well maybe the mall-ninjas might scoff at it!--
I ordered one of the uppers.
yea that looks like a super deal on the 14.5" and it has all the "good" mall-ninja approved parts to boot.
i would order one for myself as it looks to be a can't miss deal.
but i am getting hammered by dental and medical bills. fuel bills, and i have a 1911 and a 20" old school project going on.
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The sweet, complex flavors of balsamic vinegar enhance the smokiness of grilled portobellos and bell pepper, making for an ultra-satisfying meatless burger.
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- 1 red bell pepper (ribs and seeds removed), cut into 4 equal pieces
- 8 portobello mushrooms (about 1 pound total), stems removed
- 4 hamburger buns
- 5 ounces fresh goat cheese, cut into 4 equal slices
- 4 lettuce leaves
In a shallow dish, whisk together oil, vinegar, garlic, 1 teaspoon salt, and 1/4 teaspoon pepper. Add bell pepper and mushrooms; toss gently to coat. Marinate at room temperature for 30 minutes (or refrigerate, up to overnight).
Heat grill to medium; lightly oil grates. Grill bell pepper, skin side down, until blackened, about 10 minutes; remove from grill. When cool enough to handle, remove and discard skin; set bell pepper aside. Grill mushrooms, covered, until lightly charred and tender, 3 to 4 minutes per side.
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Wayne Law Professor Peter Henning receives Fulbright Award
August 27, 2012
Wayne State University Law School Professor Peter Henning has been awarded a Fulbright Scholar grant to teach at the University of Zagreb in Croatia during the 2012-13 academic year.
Henning, who has received a number of teaching awards at Wayne Law, will teach an advanced seminar on economic crimes for upper-level and graduate students in the Department of Criminal Law at the University of Zagreb.
"It ties in with my interests in white-collar crime, public corruption and securities law," he said.
Henning is one of approximately 1,100 U.S. faculty and professionals who will travel abroad through the Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program in 2012-13. Recipients of Fulbright grants are chosen on the basis of academic or professional achievement as well as demonstrated leadership potential in their fields.
Henning's scholarship focuses primarily on white-collar crime, constitutional criminal procedure and attorney ethics. He has published many articles in prominent law reviews and journals, and is author and co-author of highly cited reference works in his field.
He graduated magna cum laude from Georgetown University Law Center in 1985, and, after clerking, served until 1991 as a senior attorney in the Division of Enforcement at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, where he worked on cases involving insider trading, penny stock fraud, market manipulation, and accounting irregularities. He then moved to the Criminal Division of the U.S. Department of Justice, where he worked on the investigation and prosecution of bank fraud.
He joined the Wayne Law faculty in 1994 as an associate professor, and was promoted to professor of law in 2002. He is an elected member of the American Law Institute and treasurer of the American National Section of the International Association of Penal Law. He is frequently quoted as an expert on legal issues in the news media.
The Fulbright Program, established in 1946, is the flagship international educational exchange program sponsored by the U.S. government, and is designed to increase mutual understanding between Americans and the people of other countries. The primary source of funding for the program is an annual appropriation by the U.S. Congress to the U.S. Department of State. Participating governments and host institutions, corporations and foundations in foreign countries and the United States also provide direct and indirect support.


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Please join me in wishing Christi a very happy birthday today.
Please join me in wishing Christi a very happy birthday today.
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A very, very Happy Birthday to you Christi ! cheers !
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Happy Birthday Christi, it's my birthday as well ! ( 1967 ) I actually bought a house today !!
It's about time I got a decent present.
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Happy belated birthday Christi
Happy B-day Christi!!
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LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. - The Canisius College women's soccer team used a 31st minute goal from senior midfielder Katie Griffin to beat Niagara in the first round of the MAAC Tournament on Thursday.
The Griffs managed to maintain the shutout, withstanding 13 shots and 10 corner kicks, to take the contest 1-0 and advance to the MAAC Quarterfinals.
"It feels great," Griffin said. "It makes up for us not being able to beat them in the last four years, because we were able to get it done when it mattered most, so it feels amazing."
Canisius was able to maintain pressure for the majority of the first half, outshooting the Purple Eagles 8-5.
The Griffs capitalized on their momentum in the 31st minute, when senior forward Brianna Smith fired a shot at Niagara goalkeeper Clare Feiertag. The keeper was unable to control the rebound and Griffin rushed in to steal the loose ball and send it into the back of the net.
The Purple Eagles put a number of rushes on in the second half – taking eight shots and seven corners -- but senior goalkeeper Megan Tock and Griffs' defense turned away every opportunity to preserve the shutout. Tock made six saves in the contest for her third shutout of the season.
Canisius will now have a short turnaround as they play top-seed Monmouth at 2:15 tomorrow. That game can be viewed on ESPN3.
GAME NOTES: The victory is the Griffs' first against their longtime rival since Nov. 1, 2008… This was Canisius' first postseason victory since Nov. 5, 2010… Griffin now has three goals in the last two games, accounting for her only three goals of the season.


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I saw these in the market the other day and I couldn't resist a few handfuls. This is an unusual presentation for them, so I'm wondering if you know which Silk Road Ingredient they are. Hint: They are soft and slightly sweet when eaten or used at this stage. (Contest closed as of 11/1/2012 – 9 AM EST)
I'll leave it up for a few days and then change the caption and add a comment and more information about the mystery ingredient. Earliest correct answer gets a copy of The Silk Road Gourmet Volume One. (Words and Photo of Fresh Pistachio Nuts by Laura Kelley, Photo of Pistachio Nuts Ripening on the Tree by Stan Shubs, and Pistachios with Skins Removed from Wikimedia).
As many who entered correctly guessed, the Silk Road Ingredient in the photograph is fresh pistachio nuts. But the truth of the matter is that pistachios along with almonds and others things we call nuts are not nuts at all – they are drupes – which is sort of fruit with a hard endocarp and enclosed seed. To attempt to close the gap between correct biological classification and common usage of the term, "nut", the category "culinary nut" was created that includes true nuts (like hazelnuts and chestnuts), drupes (like pistachios, almonds and sometimes walnuts), gymnosperm seeds (like pine nuts and ginko nuts) and angiosperm seeds (like soybeans and macadamia nuts).
The usual presentation of pistachio nuts is with the yellow and blush-colored skin removed to reveal a hard "shell" with the edible "nut" inside the shell as pictured here. However, the mystery picture is how pistachios come off the tree and are dried or processed for oil or pistachio paste. Our local Persian market had a big box of them so I scored a few for my family and for readers of the blog.
Raw pistachios taste very different from commercial nuts. They are soft and very subtly flavored with just a touch of sweetness. The strong flavor we generally identify with them comes largely from the salt or sugar we add to them post processing.
Pistachio nuts or Pistacia vera, was first grown and cultivated in the ancient Near East (Iraq, Syria and Iran) with evidence of their use as a food item going back to 6750 BCE in Jarmo, Iraq. They are also noted as an ingredient in the mersu recipe from the ancient Mesopotamian city of Mari from about 1800 – 1750 BCE, so our use of them in the kitchen is indeed ancient and ongoing. For some ancient recipes to use them with, see the mersu post from the Mesopotamian cookoff. For modern recipes for pistachios, see the Silk Road Gourmet Volume One, which includes recipes for the Iranian, omelet-like Kuku with Green Peas and Pistachios and the Azeri confection Pakhlava Pistachios are also important ingredients in the Armenian Sweet Orange-Saffron Sauce, and are used along with other ingredients to fill pastries, flavor stews and garnish many other Silk Road dishes with a bit of extra flavor.
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It was probably part naiveté but plenty of confidence that Bev Plocki, a graduate assistant coach at West Virginia, started to look for a coaching position in the sport she loved and competed -- gymnastics. After all, she wasn't looking for an assistant position; she was looking for the top job, a head coaching spot.
Letter after letter were mailed out and only two schools were interested in this young coach -- Wisconsin-Whitewater and Michigan. She never expected what would come next -- an offer from U-M.
Just a few years after competing as a student-athlete, Plocki now was heading a up a Big Ten program that finished dead last and winless in the conference. Now, she was the head coach and it was her job to turn a major Division I program into a winner.
The team won seven contests in her first season (1990) and 13 in 1991. In 1992 she led the team to its first Big Ten championship and a second-place finish in the NCAA Regional.
Once she got the team rolling, her next task was to help build the fan base and get a new facility for the budding program. She knew she had to cultivate fans and supporters. And she did that quite well.
She worked closely with the community, promoting her sport at every opportunity presented. She developed strong relationships with her supporters and the results were similar to her success she had with the team.
The fan base started to grow in the late 1990s. The team had to move many of its events out of the smaller Cliff Keen Arena over to Crisler Arena. In 2005, all Wolverine women's gymnastics meets were held in Crisler. Now, Michigan is annually one of the top 10 in NCAA attendance every year.
In 2002, the team moved into a brand new 22,000-square-foot, state-of-the-art practice facility. The Donald R. Shepherd Women's Gymnastics Training Center has 17,000 square feet of training area that is outfitted with the latest in gymnastics training equipment, including resi- and free-foam pits for each event. It was Shepherd's love for the sport and the relationship with the team that led to a $3.5 million gift that made it possible for this grand facility.
Turn the clock ahead to April 2011 and the Wolverine women gymnastics program has more Big Ten championships (19) than any other women's sport in the entire Big Ten.
Now, Plocki is the third winningest active coach at U-M. Only softball coach and 2011 Michigan Sports Hall of Fame inductee Carol Hutchins along with legendary ice hockey coach Red Berenson have won more contests.
Saturday night (April 2) at Crisler Arena, No. 9-ranked U-M will host the NCAA Regional Championships at 6 p.m. looking for a berth to the NCAA finals. This will be the team's 20th consecutive appearance in an NCAA Regional. Top seed and No. 4-ranked Stanford, third seed and No. 16 Ohio State, No. 21 Iowa State, No. 23 Minnesota and No. 24 Kent State round out the field. The top two teams in each of the six NCAA Regional Championships will advance to the NCAA Championships, to be held April 15-17 in Cleveland, Ohio.
In just three seasons, Plocki helped create Michigan as a perennial contender for the NCAA championship. If things go right for the Wolverines, they will be making their 18th NCAA finals appearance in the last 19 years.
There is no naiveté now with this veteran coach. Instead, it is the knowledge, hard work, the team's resolve and the love for the sport and the University of Michigan that have allowed her to flourish and make the Wolverines women gymnastics program an integral part of the great Michigan athletic and academic tradition.


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Alzheimer's Disease Centers program celebrates 20th anniversaryFebruary 1, 2005
The year was 1984. Ronald Reagan was campaigning for his second term in office. Prince and the Revolution had the top pop song, When Doves Cry. At the Oscars, Terms of Endearment won best picture. The Soviet Union pulled out of the summer Olympic Games. The Detroit Tigers won the World Series. Apple Computer sponsored the first commercial for "personal computers" during the Super Bowl (won by the Chicago Bears). And, leaders at the National Institute on Aging (NIA) decided it was time to develop a national, interdisciplinary research program specifically focused on the causes and course of Alzheimer's disease (AD) and the differences between AD and normal aging.
In the early years, NIA's AD research program faced many hurdles, including a lack of scientific interest and few trained investigators. Funding focused on dementia was also scarce. In fact, in 1975, Robert N. Butler, M.D., the first Director of NIA, could find "only 12 grants across the whole National Institutes of Health (NIH) pertaining to aging and the brain, averaging $60,000 each." Dr. Butler decided that "AD and related dementias were catastrophic diseases that must be identified as major national research priorities."
In 1976, an editorial by Robert Katzman, M.D., an influential neurologist then at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York, described AD as a major public heath problem. The following year, three NIH Institutes, the National Institute of Mental Health, the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS), and NIA held a national conference that further focused attention on AD. In the mid-1980s, T. Franklin Williams, M.D., established the Office of Alzheimer's Research at NIA, and with the support of NIH Director James Wyngaarden, M.D., began to consolidate the NIA's coordination of AD research.
"We had come to recognize that Alzheimer's dementia was probably the greatest scourge and disaster for older people and their families in the United States, and as well the growing potential in our scientific community to address its challenges. We made Alzheimer's research our highest priority", says Dr. Williams.
As NIA was assuming the lead Federal research role, the concept of a network of centers that would foster research on Alzheimer's began to germinate. Such a network could create the necessary infrastructure to promote longitudinal clinical-pathological studies; integrate basic and clinical research; standardize clinical assessment tools, methods, and clinical trials; and establish national data banks to share resources for clinical, neuropathological, and genetic studies.
First centers formed in 1984
This "center network" concept formed the basis of the creation in 1984 of the legislatively-mandated Alzheimer's Disease Centers (ADCs) program. NIA awarded funding, after applications were submitted and peer-reviewed, to teams of scientists based at five institutions—Harvard University, Johns Hopkins University, Mount Sinai Medical School, the University of California at San Diego, and the University of Southern California. The original centers were called Alzheimer's Disease Research Centers (ADRCs), and their funding awards totaled $3.5 million. Researchers were sent forth on a scientific quest that continues to this day.
Zaven Khachaturian, Ph.D., former Associate Director, Neuroscience and Neuropsychology of Aging Program (NNA) and the first Director of the Office of Alzheimer's Research, is widely regarded as the architect of the ADRC program. Of those early days, Dr. Khachaturian says, "The challenges that NIA faced in launching the national initiative to increase interest in aging and AD research seemed insurmountable; but now it is heartening to see how much of a difference the Institute has made. The successes of NIA's program were largely due to unwavering support and encouragement by Dr. Williams and other NIA staff, primarily Drs. Teresa Radebaugh and Creighton (Tony) Phelps."
A brief history of dementia research: the early days
Dementia did not suddenly appear in society in 1906 when Dr. Alois Alzheimer, using newly-developed silver stains, examined the brain tissue of a 51-year-old German woman and described what we now know as plaques and tangles. In fact, dementia was described as early as 500 BC. Until the late 1800s, clinicians believed that an accumulation of "phlegm" caused "senility," which was simply a symptom of old age. Dr. Alzheimer's patient was diagnosed with a form of mental disorder called "presenile dementia" due to her relative young age. Because of her age, clinicians did not consider the possibility that the plaques and tangles Dr. Alzheimer described could also be the cause of dementia in old age. So, Alzheimer's disease was originally characterized as a presenile dementia.
Up until the late 1940s, the medical community widely believed that dementia in old age—senile dementia—was a normal part of aging caused by cerebral arteriosclerosis. It was still often termed senility. But researchers in the 1950s and 60s showed that the brains of many patients with senile dementia did contain the plaques and tangles of presenile dementia and began to investigate their biological structure.
In the 1970s, as neurological research brought further understanding of the structure and function of the brain, scientists observed deficiencies in the neurotransmitter acetylcholine in people with senile dementia. Researchers began challenging the common belief that senile dementia was a normal part of aging, concluding that the brain pathology was identical to that which Dr. Alzheimer described in presenile dementia.
"Alzheimer's disease" became a common term in the late 1970s to describe both the presenile and senile forms of dementia. Neuroscientists and physicians began using clinical criteria to diagnose AD more frequently, and it became clear that the senile form of AD was by far the most prevalent. Emerging technologies and more sophisticated biochemistry techniques were contributing to growing scientific enthusiasm to find the causes of AD, and the increasing numbers of elderly in the population contributed a sense of urgency to do so.
AD coalitions begin forming
In the mid to late 1970s, a coalition of grass-roots AD advocacy groups consisting primarily of involved family members began to influence public policy discussions and rally public interest in the national AD research agenda. In 1980, leaders of the NINDS and NIA met with coalition members, who would establish the Alzheimer's Disease and Related Disorders Association (ADRDA), later named the Alzheimer's Association. By the early 80s, efforts by the ADRDA succeeded in creating a growing public awareness of the incidence and prevalence of AD and the enormous costs borne by society, and they lobbied Congress to provide funding for the NIA to create the ADRC program.
Mission of the ADRC program
The cadre of scientists at the first five ADRCs became the foundation of a network that today reaches across the country and has grown to 30 institutions. Their mission is to promote research, training and education, technology transfer, and collaboration to improve diagnosis, treatment, and overall understanding of AD and related dementias through clinical, pathology, and education cores. Areas of investigation range from the basic mechanisms of AD to managing the symptoms and helping families cope with the effects of the disease.
Centers provide investigators and research groups with well-characterized patients and control subjects, family information, and tissue and biological specimens for use in research projects. Early research projects funded by the centers focused on possible causes of AD and changes in brain chemistry. Researchers were looking at calcium transport, glucose metabolism, protein synthesis, accumulation of metals, possible viral agents, genetic factors, and related dementias.
In 1985, Congress appropriated funds for five additional ADRCs. Duke University, the University of Kentucky, Washington University at St. Louis, the University of Pittsburgh, and the University of Washington joined NIA's growing AD research network as a result of this Request for Application (RFA) competition.
Collaborative approaches
In 1986, the Alzheimer's Disease Patient Registries (ADPR) were established, which included the Consortium to Establish a Registry for Alzheimer's Disease (CERAD), an early collaboration among the centers. Under the leadership of Albert Heyman, M.D., a Duke University neurologist, CERAD standardized the definition, assessment, and profile of AD, and the criteria for pathological diagnosis of AD. These criteria are still widely used. Another ADPR project at the Mayo Clinic provided much of the foundation for the current interest and advances concerning mild cognitive impairment (MCI).
Also in 1986, a small clinical trial showed that a cholinesterase inhibitor called tacrine (later marketed as Cognex) had some promise in treating moderate AD. The Alzheimer's Association worked with NIA, several ADRC directors, and the drug company Warner-Lambert to set up a large, multi-site clinical trial to test tacrine further. This trial provided evidence to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) that led to approval of tacrine as the first drug specifically targeting AD.
Large clinical trials supported
Collaboration on the tacrine trial also spawned, in 1991, the formation of a consortium of centers and affiliated organizations to test new treatments as they emerge. The consortium, named the Alzheimer's Disease Cooperative Study (ADCS), was created to conduct clinical trials on compounds not of interest to large pharmaceutical companies. This includes drugs that are off patent, drugs that were patented and marketed for another use but might be useful to treat AD, or novel compounds from investigators or small companies that do not have adequate resources to conduct clinical trials. The ADCS program today continues to organize large clinical trials and to develop trial methodologies that are widely used by both academics and industry.
"When the ADC program was created, NIA's leaders hoped that an environment of cooperation would stimulate AD researchers to seek new pathways to scientific discovery and to share their findings. The program has done just that. In the collaborative atmosphere of the centers, specialists in biomedical, behavioral, pathological, and clinical science are studying the causes, and possible prevention of AD, and developing new lines of multidisciplinary research. As scientists at the centers uncover the complexities of dementia, they spark a certain friendly competition with other research scientists throughout the world. Their brilliance and enthusiasm creates an excellent training ground for up and coming investigators, and inspires others to devote their energies to AD research," says Tony Phelps, Ph.D., Program Director, Alzheimer's Disease Centers, NNA.
Cell repository created
In 1989, the NIA, working with the Duke University ADRC, created a genetics cell repository at the Indiana University ADC. This repository has grown and is now independently funded and called the National Cell Repository for AD (NCRAD). A cell repository banks DNA and cells and builds a database of family histories and medical records for genetic research. NCRAD provides genetic researchers with cell lines and/or DNA samples from people with well-documented AD and normal controls. Because supplies of DNA are finite and cannot easily be regenerated, NCRAD makes "immortalized" cell lines—cells continuously regenerated in the laboratory from the blood samples—to provide samples for studies searching for AD genes.
Wealth of information in 20 years "When you look at what we knew in 1984 and what we know now, the research advances contributed by ADC scientists represent remarkable progress. I've witnessed this from within the ADC system as a research scientist and from my vantage point at NIA," says Marcelle Morrison-Bogorad, Ph.D., Director, NNA program. Dr. Morrison-Bogorad came to NIA in 1996 from the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas, where she did research on protective proteins in AD brains and was a professor of neurology. "Almost every day, this collective research system adds new understanding of what happens in the brain before and after the symptoms of AD appear. In 20 years we've made giant strides and added an immense wealth of information."
Core Centers and Satellite Clinics established
Starting in 1990, the NIA began to fund Alzheimer's Disease Core Centers (ADCCs) to expand and diversify the program geographically. Core Centers do not include the large research projects conducted by ADRCs. At that time, all of the centers were also asked to develop a strategy to recruit minority and ethnically diverse research subjects. Several centers created satellite diagnostic and treatment clinics targeting minority, rural, or other underserved populations. Over time, the program has grown to include 26 such satellites, helping accelerate minority patient enrollment to increase the heterogeneity of the research pool, and helping to ensure that research results would be applicable to minorities as well as to Caucasians.
Collecting and pooling data
The National Alzheimer's Coordinating Center (NACC) was established in 1999 to provide access to larger, standardized data sets collected from the ADCs and to allow characterization of the rarer and mixed phenotypes and genetic and ethnic differences in the patient mix. NACC enables researchers to pool patient information more effectively as they study the unique aspects and subtypes of this complex and heterogeneous disease process. The NACC has data on thousands of subjects and offers qualified AD researchers website access to data sets. It has awarded 13 competitive grants to groups of centers, and NIA has issued two RFAs to conduct collaborative project using patient records and specimens for research projects.
Beginning in 1996, the centers' application process was changed, allowing new applicants to compete with existing centers for funding. While always peer-reviewed, once funded, the centers did not compete directly with other centers until 1996. By 2004, the program had grown to 30 centers, with funding of $46.9 million (10.3% of NIA's AD budget that year). More than 60,000 patients and healthy control subjects have been enrolled in ADC programs, and more than 7,000 autopsies have been performed, with the brain material stored in brain banks.
Of cores, of cores…
In addition to an administrative core, clinical core, and a neuropathology core, each center has an education core, which helps recruit and retain subjects for trials, spearheads outreach programs to educate families, and supports innovative staff development to improve clinical skills through training workshops, seminars, and continuing education programs.
Physician education includes lectures, grand rounds, and mini-residencies or internships to help practicing physicians gain skills in assessing, treating, and managing dementia patients. Educational programs often are held in conjunction with State and local agencies and the Alzheimer's Association. In addition to providing private research funds, Association chapters work closely with many of the scientists and other health professionals based at the centers.
Improving information flow
Changes in how the centers function and improvements in information flow were among the suggestions from panels of researchers and outside experts during planning workshops held in 2001 and 2002. Among the recommendations:
- permit greater flexibility in structure of the individual centers to take advantage of local resources and tailor the center's organization to emphasize local interests and expertise. For example, it was suggested that centers might enroll and follow special patient populations such as people living in retirement communities or nursing home residents, rather than studying only clinic populations
- permit contracts with an organization such as the Alzheimer's Association for educational services, or with another center to provide neuropathological evaluations
- continue and accelerate standardized clinical data collection across centers to promote better collaborative clinical studies
- promote better use and increased sharing of tissue and data resources among the centers and the general scientific community
- concentrate cutting-edge research more on the transition from normal aging to MCI and to AD instead of later stages of AD, and focus on comparisons to and overlap with other neurodegenerative diseases
These recommendations were implemented in the succeeding center RFAs. Importantly, efforts were accelerated to establish a universal data set (UDS) among the centers, so that patients enrolled at all centers would be assessed in a standardized manner. The UDS will go into operation in 2005 and will permit even better collaborative research projects among centers and other scientists.
New and ongoing projects
In 2003, the NIA launched a major new initiative to speed the process of creating a large repository of DNA and cell lines from families with multiple cases of late-onset (over age 65) AD. The centers are playing a significant role to recruit families, collect clinical data and blood samples, and provide blood to NCRAD so that DNA and cell lines can be made available to all qualified researchers. The goal of the study, called the Late-Onset Alzheimer's Disease study (also known as the AD Genetics Initiative), is to identify remaining risk factor genes and possible environmental factors, and the interactions of genes and the environment.
In 2004, NIA announced the Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging Initiative (ADNI), another multi-center initiative. The 5-year study will use neuroimaging (magnetic resonance imaging or MRI, and positron emission tomography or PET) to identify biomarkers of disease progression to help measure effectiveness of therapies under study in clinical trials. Most of the ADCs are participating in the initiative, which is a partnership among the NIA/NIH, academic investigators, the FDA, and, through the Foundation for NIH, the pharmaceutical and imaging equipment industries, the Alzheimer's Association, and the Institute for the Study of Aging.
ADC grants continue today
The NIA is committing about $16 million in Fiscal Year 2005 to fund 13 new and/or competing renewal ADC grants for a 5-year period. As in previous years, each ADC grant will also support small pilot projects often designed to determine whether a larger study has promise.
The ADCs play a major role in AD research. "This program continues to fulfill its initial goals of attracting outstanding investigators to the field of research in AD and aging, as well as increasing the quality and quantity of research. We've helped develop medications that ease symptoms and improve quality of life, and working with the Alzheimer's Association, helped reduce the stigma of AD in society. Our current large initiatives will help us uncover some of the complexity surrounding the causes of AD and learn more about the possibility of reversing or preventing it. We're very excited with the public-private partnership model and the shape of our future research direction. We've had great successes so far but are mindful that answers to some of our fundamental questions remain elusive. We will continue our strong commitment and focus," commented Richard J. Hodes, M.D., Director, NIA.
For more information:
- National Institutes of Health
- National Institute on Aging
- Alzheimer's Disease Education and Referral (ADEAR) Center
- National Cell Repository for AD
- National Alzheimer's Coordinating Center
- Alzheimer's Disease Cooperative Study
- Alzheimer's Association
ADCs Contribute Significant AD Research Advances
ADC teams have contributed to many of the most significant AD research discoveries in the past 20 years, including:
- developing new concepts such as MCI, a transitional cognitive state between normal function and mild AD, and helping increase emphasis on evaluation of cognition in normal aging and the transition to MCI and early dementia
- furthering understanding of cellular processes and cholinergic and neurotoxic mechanisms that play key roles in formation of neuritic plaques and neurofibrillary tangles, loss of connections, and cell death
- developing and testing the Alzheimer's Disease Assessment Scale (ADAS) and the Clinical Dementia Rating (CDR), which are instruments for AD screening
- identifying the importance of genetics in development of AD, including identifying the mutations in genes on chromosomes 14, and 1 as major causes of early-onset AD, and identifying the apolipoprotein E4 variant of the apolipoprotein gene on chromosome 19 as a risk factor gene for late-onset AD
- supporting molecular studies and work in related dementias, such as discovering that the a-synuclein protein is deposited in Lewy bodies in AD, Parkinson's disease (PD), and in Lewy body dementia, and recognizing the common properties of other abnormal proteins associated with neurodegenerative diseases such as PD, as well as identifying tau mutations on chromosome 17, causing frontotemporal dementia with parkinsonism
- conducting clinicopathological studies, for example, how early memory and cognitive abnormalities correlate with changes in the hippocampus and entorhinal cortex
- organizing neuroimaging studies to define the clinical course, signs, and symptoms of AD, and developing a compound known as Pittsburgh Compound-B (PIB), which penetrates the blood-brain barrier, sticks to amyloid plaques, and permits the level of amyloid to be determined on positron emission tomography (PET) scans of living patients
- identifying potential chemical biomarkers in cerebrospinal fluid and serum in clinically well-characterized individuals, including tau, amyloid, isoprostanes, and lipids
- helping to define the contributions of cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases and other co-morbidities such as diabetes in the development and severity of AD
- creating transgenic mouse models expressing specific mutated genes, including amyloid precursor protein (APP), presenilin 1, apoE alleles, and tau proteins, as well as gene knockout models such as BACE, which allow scientists to study cellular pathologies so that treatments can be developed to retard or prevent their formation
- supporting studies of inflammatory mechanisms and the role of oxidative stress, calcium, glutamate, and mitochondrial dysfunction
- helping recruit African Americans, Caribbean Hispanics, Mexican Americans, Native Americans, and Chinese Americans for multi-cultural studies
- defining models for caregiver support groups; examining the relationship between caregiver stress and depression; studying how AD affects driving skills; improving behavior management; discussing competency issues, such as loss of financial capacity; using telecomputing; and adapting strategies for managing patients with late-stage dementia
- supporting population studies, such as the Religious Orders Study and the Nun Study
- participating in many ongoing trials examining promising therapies and prevention.
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Maybe you can pm Fettronics Lee? I did have a set and may even have the dims, if they have always been the same size.....let me have a look.
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The board its self is only 2 inches tall by 2 3/4 inches wide. The Top lights are 47mm wide and 4mm high. The Bottom Segment's Characters are 7mm wide and 10mm tall. The width of all segments together is about 49mm. Spacing between the top lights and bottom segment is 8mm, but this can be adjusted to you specifications. Just let us know when you order.
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Thanks DP74, that's about what I had too.
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I need to update my pictures on my FAQ page, but the dimentions of my current boards are pretty much the same. The new boards have the top and bottom segments seperated but a ribbon cable, so they will fit a large array of spacing between the top and bottom slots.
The typical spacing (measurements from the WOF templates, any one?) is 5mm high for the top slot and 10mm high for the bottom slot, with 8mm between.
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text: I think MSU has a better shot at a bowl bid than UM does. MSU will probably beat UM and Purdue. They only need one more win to get a bowl game anyway. I think they finish with 7 or 8. UM will be lucky to win 4 games total at this point.


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Discussion in 'March 2013' started by roscoe36, Oct 29, 2012.
I think you're forgetting there's a lottery.
I'm now officially at the point of "meh". Went for the full replay, no Drum, so went to the condensed version. Mediocraty is better in small doses. (and yes, mediocre is my new favourite way to describe the Pistons)
This is sort of how the Spurs got Duncan when they already had Robinson. If Drummond would have missed 20 more games, we'd be in the running for the top pick.
Right. You can get lucky and move up. Most teams stay in place or drop one place. Say the Pistons were at the 5. They might get lucky and move up but more likely they would draft 5 or 6 (someone leapfrogged up). It's all good. But if the Pistons fall to the 9th pick, not only is there less chance of moving up, but they will likely draft 10th at best. At some point, even GM mistakes like Monroe and Drummond will get snapped up. The 10th spot is too low.
Absolutely how the Spurs got Duncan.
I think calling them mediocre is a really optimistic way of viewing this team.
Agreed. They have a long way to go to get to mediocre.
That should be the organizational goal for next year: Mediocre
Except that D Robinson was ridiculously dominant as opposed to Drummond showing serious potential and pseudo dominance off the bench. But, yeah, the gist of it is that we're going to get an artificially high draft pick due to a key injury. And the beauty is that our high draft pick and Drummond will both be under rookie contracts for a while... so we can theoretically surround them with really good FA's... if JD spends his money well.
If we have the 5th worst record, here would be our odds: #1 pick: 8.8% #2 pick: 9.7% #3 pick: 10.7% #4 pick: 0% #5 pick: 26.1% #6 pick: 36.0% #7 pick: 8.4% #8 pick: 0.4% So, 55.3% chance that we get the #5 pick or better. The highest single likelihood is that we end up with the #6 pick (i.e. that one team leapfrogs us and pushes us back) But... a fairly high chance that we get a top 3 pick too- 29.2% There is about a 47% chance that we get a top 3 pick if we have the 3rd worst record. I guess that what I'm saying is that at least the odds of us getting a really really high draft pick is not remote. The worst record in the league still has a 1 in 3 chance of getting bumped all the way to the 4th pick. Gotta get lucky and maximize our odds by stinking it up for another month (shouldn't be difficult).
Coach does the same thing, I write the same thing. Look for fiction elsewhere.
LOL! I never really checked out that "Coach Bashing" patch. I'd LOVE to have a simple baseball hat with that patch on it. ...everyone loves dolphins.
Its all a crap shoot once you get in the lottery and the percentages... Lets take a look at the infamous 2003 Lottery and draft where moving up probably costs the Pistons a couple of more rings... After the lottery balls were realigned The top six went like this: Cavs James Pistons Darko Nuggets Melo Raptors Bosh Heat Wade Clippers Kaman The actual reverse order before the lotto balls realigned the picks were like this Nuggets T Cavs T Raptors Heat Clippers Grizzlies (Pistons) The Nuggets and Cavs actually tied for the worst record but as a result of the lottery, the Cavs secured the first pick, The Grizzlies moved up to second, and everyone else moved back a spot. Everyone knew the Pistons had the Grizzlies pick and were probably satisfied with sixth....but if you recall that day, once they pulled the Clips at # 6, the anticipation of the Pistons winning the lottery and getting a shot at Lebron grew bigger than Darko's pre draft legend...So even though the Cavs won the lottery, the Pistons felt they were in good shape.....with # 2... 8 months later they were wishing they had stayed at # 6 and taken Kaman or who ever was the best available at the time...(the question is would the Nuggets, Raptors or Heat have taken Darko in the 2nd, 3rd or 4th pick if the shuffle had not occurred??? Picking at 6th, we figure Elgin Baylor would have made another mistake and picked Darko ahead of Kaman if the Dorkster was still on the board. David West, Josh Smith and Mo Williams were only other players in that draft to be named all stars in that draft. So even though we can fall into the top 5 record wise, its still the luck of the draw when moving up and even then your GM braintrust still has to be lucky that they get the right person....
If I remember right, our pick was protected if it was a number 1. So hindsight being what it is... it would have been best if it had ended up staying with them. Cleveland never gets James, heck probably end up with Darko.... It probably doesn't change our 04 season, we still get Wallace, and win the title.... and then we get Memphis's pick later and get a good player that comes off the bench in our attempt to repeat in 05.
I hate to take the bait, but in what universe (let alone basketball league) would a starting lineup consisting of English, Middleton, Kravtsov beat ANY NBA team?
"Not in my house..." - Hakeem Olajuwon
and in 06 beating the Heat and Mavs, and then 07 beating the Cavs and Spurs.... whether it was Kamen, Wade or Bosh..any one of them would have contributed more so than what we got out of Tony Delk, Mo Evans and Carlos Arroyo
In your example, the 5th worst record was the Clips and they ended up with the 6th pick. That's what I'm afraid of. It's actually set up fairly well in that your incentive to tank to get marginally better odds toward the end of the season is reduced. It's still advantageous, but maybe not so much that you'll degrade your franchise's reputation by obviously doing it. Subtle ways to do it are surely exploited (injuries taking longer to heal, bench guys getting a few more minutes, coaches simply refusing to play Jerebko at SF, etc).
You stop it, sir.
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