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New Orleans-Style Shrimp (Adapted from CL)
3 tablespoons Worcestershire sauce
2 tablespoons fresh lemon juice
1 tablespoon butter, melted
2 teaspoons chopped fresh rosemary
2 garlic cloves, minced
1/2 teaspoon dried thyme
1/2 teaspoon cayenne pepper sauce
1/4 teaspoon fresh ground black pepper
1/4 teaspoon ground red pepper
2 pounds unpeeled large shrimp
2 lemons, sliced into 1/4" slices
4 teaspoons butter, divided
In a large bowl, whisk together Worcestershire sauce, lemon juice, butter, rosemary, garlic, thyme, cayenne pepper sauce, black pepper and ground red pepper. Stir in the shrimp and lemon slices - cover and marinate in refrigerator for about 30 minutes.
Preheat oven to 425
Fold 4, 16" x 12", sheets of foil in half crosswise. Remove shrimp mixture from bowl - reserve marinade. Open the foil sheets back up and evenly divide the shrimp mixture on half of each foil sheet. Drizzle remaining marinade evenly over shrimp. Top each serving with 1 teaspoon butter. Fold foil over shrimp and tightly crimp the foil to seal the edges - place on a large baking sheet.
Bake until the shrimp are done, about 10 to 20 minutes depending on how large your shrimp are - let stand for 5 to 10 minutes before serving. If you want, open the packets and peel the shrimp if you don't want to serve them with the shells on.
Makes 4 servings.
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Madrid, Spain, May 29, 2012 / 04:02 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- Over 3,000 participants at the sixth annual World Congress of Families in Madrid, Spain issued a declaration calling the family essential in solving present-day crises.
"We assert that the lasting solutions to human problems, including the current economic crisis, come from families and from small communities," reads the statement titled, the Declaration of Madrid.
Ignacio Arsuaga, president of the civil rights organization Hazteoir.org, told CNA that the closing of the May 25-27 congress was "one of the most moving" of all the events.
During the closing ceremony, Fernando Benzo Saiz – Spain's undersecretary for the Ministry of Education – was interrupted by applause "three times" during his speech, in which he denounced modern attacks on the family, Arsuaga recalled.
Members of the international committee of the World Congress of Families also called this year's event in Madrid one of the best organized since the first was held in 1997.
The declaration, read aloud by Allan Carlson, president of the Howard Center, first underscores the "sanctity of human life from conception to natural death."
"Each newly conceived person has the right to live, to grow, to be born and to share a home with his or her natural parents united in marriage," it says, adding that "Abortion, euthanasia and all forms of manipulation of human beings in an embryonic or fetal state, therefore, are attacks against human life."
"The weakening of the traditional family and moral and political failings, not human 'overpopulation,' have cause poverty, hunger and the decline of the environment," the statement asserts.
"The real demographic danger that the earth faces in this new century is the crisis of births and the aging of the population. Our societies need more people, not less."
After affirming the rights of parents to educate their children without interference from the State, the declaration states that all human beings have the right to religious freedom, which must be respected by politicians.
The World Congress of Families was held in anticipation of the 7th World Meeting of Families, which will take place May 30-June 3 in the Milan. Pope Benedict XVI is slated to attend the event.

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Monarchs Host High Point On Monday Night
By ODU Athletics
Sept. 17, 2001
Norfolk, VA-The Old Dominion men's soccer team will play host to High Point University on Monday night at 7 p.m. The Monarchs are coming off of their first win of the season, defeating Syracuse 3-2 in overtime for the Stihl Classic title.
High Point, who will be taking on Old Dominion for the first time ever, currently sports a 2-0 record with wins over Marshall and UNC-Wilmington. The Panthers are led by senior Damon Ming, who has scored three of High Point's four goals this season.
The Monarchs enter tonight's contest with a 1-3 record. All four of ODU's games have been decided by one goal, and three of those games have gone into overtime. Old Dominion is led by sophomore forward Attila Vendegh, who currently leads the CAA in scoring with seven goals and one assist


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Hey im from Indonesia. i'm learning Turkish and Spanish. may you can help me.. nice to know you..
Welcome and may help be given to you
Most welcome... How can I help you about Turkish ?
thanks, long time didn't open lyrictranslate.
i would like to help you translate from english to indonesian or to french. hehe
oh, i forget that i have 2 account. lol
it makes me confused
and.. well. i hope someday you can help me translate Turkish songs..
Welcome! I'm a new member here. I'm from Spain, and i would be pleased to help you with any doubt you have about my language
Welcome aboard.
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Look out, Baby Boomers, the classics are coming to rock you like a hip replacement.
Except for Beatlemania (March 8, Coral Springs Center for the Arts), classic rock tributes used to be the purview of bar bands. But bars are noisy and, if you can't find a chair, tough on aging joints. What to do? Take the tribute upscale, with the promise of reserved seating at some of South Florida's comfier venues. This concert season, the lineup at places known for musicals and symphony resembles a block of VH1 Classic.
Don't look for that night of Pink Floyd covers at the local dive; it's happening Nov. 8 at Lake Worth's Duncan Theatre, where a Canadian ensemble called Classic Albums Live performs The Wall as part of a returning series of "note-for-note re-creations." The Duncan hosts two more Classic Albums shows: Led Zeppelin's IV (Feb. 7) and the Beatles' Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (March 13).
Covermania spreads to the Kravis Center in West Palm Beach with Hotel California's "A Salute to the Eagles" (Dec. 11) and Gary Mullen & the Works performing "One Night of Queen" (April 26). The Broward Center in Fort Lauderdale erects its own Stairway to Heaven on Dec. 16 with "Led Zeppelin: A Rock Symphony."
It's not just rock songs that are becoming standards and moving into theaters. Grammy nominee Terry Steele brings "Here and Now: The Legacy of Luther Vandross," celebrating the late r&b crooner, to the Crest Theatre in Delray Beach (Jan. 31). Several singer-songwriters gather Feb. 1-3 at the Kravis for "Sweet Baby James: A Tribute to James Taylor."
As always, the local tribute slate has Elvis Presley on tap. Chris MacDonald's homegrown "Memories of Elvis" show shakes up the Coral Springs Center on Jan. 4.
The American songbook gets its customary seasonal due with conductor Richard Hayman's Florida Sunshine Pops. More of a recital than a tribute, Hayman's orchestra performs the music of My Fair Lady tandem Lerner & Loewe (Dec. 9-12) and Guys & Dolls composer Frank Loesser (March 9-12) at three area theaters.
On Jan. 11 at Boca Raton's Mizner Park Amphitheater, Marshall Turkin's Classic Jazz Ensemble pays homage to songwriter Irving Berlin.
The line between tribute and the real thing can blur in an age of branded oldies tours. Some vocal groups, staffed entirely by stand-ins, send multiple versions of themselves on the road. Others with surviving members split into rival factions: In a battle Under the Boardwalk, it's Bill Pinkney's Original Drifters on Oct. 21 at Coral Springs Center, and Mel Carter & the Drifters on Oct. 28 at Club Cinema in Pompano Beach.
There's no identity crisis in "Solid Gold Soul," an Oct. 26 revival at the Broward Center featuring three undisputed originals: singers Jerry Butler, Billy Paul and Gene Chandler. Miami's Carnival Center hosts an evening of soul and gospel on Feb. 10 with Mavis Staples and the Blind Boys of Alabama. A Motown icon, Mary Wilson of the Supremes, settles in for a two-week engagement, April 1-5 and 8-12, at The Colony Hotel in Palm Beach.
There is music of more recent vintage en route. One could argue that Velvet Revolver, performing Oct. 7 at Sound Advice Amphitheatre in West Palm Beach, deals mostly in 20th century rock references.
But the band featuring Scott Weiland and Slash as your modern-day Mick and Keith technically counts as current. Two contemporary pop singers, lovebirds Jennifer Lopez and Marc Anthony, sing Nov. 2 and 3 at Miami's AmericanAirlines Arena. Their Latin-pop peer, Ricky Martin, inaugurates the renovated, renamed Fillmore Miami Beach at the Jackie Gleason Theater with a three-night run (Oct. 10-12).
Disney's Hannah Montana is, of course, irrepressibly now. The live tour starring singer, actress and tweenybopper idol Miley Cyrus as high-school pop heroine Hannah hits the BankAtlantic Center in Sunrise (Nov. 20).
With a marquee stretching decades from the Skatalites to Cocoa Tea the second annual Jamaica Vintage Music Festival (Oct. 20, Bergeron Rodeo Grounds in Davie) draws an arc from foundational ska to new reggae. Vibraphone virtuoso Gary Burton, a veteran player and Fort Lauderdale resident forever on the cutting edge of jazz technique, brings his most celebrated duet partners to town. He joins with pianist Makoto Ozone at Arturo Sandoval Jazz Club in Miami Beach (Oct. 11, 12) and keyboardist Chick Corea at Mizner (March 13).
Ozone and Corea know better than anyone that Burton is essentially tribute-proof. Nobody seems able to duplicate, let alone improve on, his astonishing four-mallet playing style. The fall-spring calendar promises a few more impossible-to-copy talents, perhaps none more ferociously unique than avant-garde vocalist Diamanda Galas (Feb. 28, Carnival Center).


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Iran under pressure (part 2)
Is it just sabre-rattling or should we worry about the war of words between Washington and Tehran? François Picard's panel argues over the impact of sanctions both on the regime and ordinary Iranians.
- Meir JAVEDANFAR. Middle East Analyst, Middle East Economic and Political Analysis Company (from Tel Aviv);
- Muhammad SAHIMI. Lead Political Columnist, Tehran Bureau (from Los Angeles);
- Ali FATEMI. Professor, American School of Business and Economics;
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When they shined a light in my ear
When I turn the volume up, there is no noise coming out of my mouth.
The source article is posted on "PR Newswire".
This is a self published document by the company that creates and promotes the Valkee product.
I am in no position to comment on the legitimacy of the product or the efficacy of it's claims, and neither is anyone else here given the complete uselessness of the article presented.
At least link to the "scientific" article that they have on their website, which is more appropriate for this audience:
I cannot tell if the above whitepaper is peer reviewed or what.
Of course it's not peer reviewed: it's not being published in a reputable journal.
This is pure snake oil. We don't have photoreceptors in our ears.
Oh god, reading that press release it just gets better.
They reckon that because a photosensitive protein is found in the human brain, shining light in through the ears must help in seasonal affective disorder. To demonstrate this they cut up some cadavers and showed that this protein was found in their brain.
I'm quite certain you can't see the brain by looking in through the ear canal.
I'm quite certain you can't see the brain by looking in through the ear canal.
Are you? If you press your palm against a strong flashlight, I bet you can see some illumination on the skin in the back of your hand as human tissue isn't that effective in blocking the light... If shining light to your brain really has some positive effect, it seems really plausible that powerful light deep in your ear might work!
That said, I've seen these products before (I live in Finland) and remember thinking "Yeah. Right. Seems as scientific as ab tronic".
Well, in between the ear canal and the brain there's the inner ear which is full of bones and fluid.
Of course, that's leaving aside what those photosensitive proteins do in the brain. Maybe they're some leftover defence mechanism in case the brain gets exposed to light?
Even assuming that this device does have an effect on the brain, photosensitive proteins in the brain are clearly a surrogate endpoint with respect to seasonal affective disorder.
Yes, this article is clearly bunk. But still, it's quite possible that light has more of an impact on the human body than has been traditionally accepted. Human skin might even be mildly photosynthetic -- not kidding. Fungi have been found at Chernobyl using ionizing radiation as an energy source -- and it appears that it's melanin that they've been using to capture the energy. Ionization of melanin can enhance NADH/NAD+ [plosone.org] conversion, which is the last step before ATP production. UV was shown to be effec
This is a little delayed, but I just looked at that paper and don't think their conclusion is very strong. First of all, your extrapolation that enhancing NADH/NAD+ conversion (they measured this in vitro, without cells involved, by the way) means more usable energy for a cell doesn't really make sense. The only way it would is if this was somehow happening only in the Intermembrane space of the mitochondria. The whole point of that step is to put alot of H+ in the intermembrane space so the concentration g
Used to do that as a kid - had one of those large square batteries and a spare light-bulb from a lego set (one of those for 4x2 bricks. Could see the outline of my bones in my hand). Freaky.
Just about every cell is sensitive to infra-red heat - helps them to align properly during the healing process. Also indirectly sensitive to ultra-violet light due to the damage caused.
Light can penetrate surprisingly far into our soft tissue, but bone is opaque. There is no straight path through soft tissue from the ear canal to the brain, not even in politicians.
Its not credible at all when their own website [valkee.com] indicates that when you use it doesnt matter. When you use sunlamps absolutely matters, and if this device actually worked using it at night would give you insomnia.
It is actually not an article but a poster presentation that occured in this conference: http://www.ismrm.org/11/ [ismrm.org]
I am not sure about that particular conference but poster presentation are usually not peer reviewed. In general poster presentation are given as a teaser for a futur conference article (which are usually peer reviewed).
Disclaimer: I am a computer scientist so it might be different in the medical field
Maybe you're being a bit unfair. The messanger maybe unsavory but at least part of the source does appear to be reputable.
......scientists from the University of Oulu will present new findings on human brain's photosensitivity at the Scandinavian Physiology Society Annual Meeting 2011, August 12-14.
I think it would be prudent to hold off on judgment until the paper is actually presented. In any case, photo sensitivity of brain tissue is not unheard of. [wikipedia.org]
On a less serious note, Star Trek did it first [photobucket.com].
Yeah, my first thought was not light, but the heat of the light being beamed into your ear. I know you can feel temperature in your ear. (try dumping some nice room temperature peroxide in there... it's cold!)
They specifically mention photoreceptors, and if heat were the active agent they would be using infrared.
Oh goddammit, I just know that we're going to see a break out of alternative medicine quacks who will start treating people by pushing fancy flashlights into their ears.
I am in no position to comment on the legitimacy of the product or the efficacy of it's claims, and neither is anyone else here given the complete uselessness of the article presented.
Ill take a shot at it, having used sun-lamps before. Lets take a look at Valkee's FAQ [valkee.com]:
Portable and always with you
You can use Valkee wherever works best for you. Due to its small size, you can use it in the morning, during your commute or at work. It travels with you like a cell phone and mp3-player.
BS alarm is going crazy, because if you were to start using a sunlamp at 7pm every night you could throw your sleep patterns into disarray. Light therapy usually happens in the morning, because it affects circadian rhythm and part of the point is to make your brain think the sun is rising even in dark winter months (if youre deaing with SAD). Additionally, all the sources ive seen (wikipedia, sun lamp vendors) caution that you should not overuse them because they are mood-altering and can have negative side effects.
Saying that you can use the devices whenever you want for however long you want is a pretty clear indicator that they do nothing whatsoever (protip-- most devices that perform a medical function, other than Vitamin C, do not have a "when you want however much you want" dosing policy).
What time of the day is it best to use Valkee?
70% of users have stated that positive effects are best realized during the morning and 30% have stated that they achieve the best results in the evening. Start using Valkee in the morning preferably 30-60 minutes after waking up. If you do not realize positive results after 3-5 days, use Valkee 1-2 hours prior to going to bed in the evening.
Same issue as above. Also, not having a clear stance on that (and relying on "users" rather than "clinical data") indicates that they really have no clue what this does or why it should work or anything else, other than that you should give them money for a gadget.
... indicates that they really have no clue what this does or why it should work or anything else, other than that you should give them money for a gadget.
No, it indicates that they aren't doing a good job of making substantive arguments to an audience with no clue.
The circadian phase response curve [wikipedia.org] is increasingly well understood. I personally have a circadian rhythm disorder. I'm intimately familiar with my own PRC.
Research I don't have at hand shows that among the elderly, treatment with blue light in
Nowhere does their marketing material or FAQ talk about circadian rhythm. They are marketing this is a set-it-and-forget-it happy-mood-maker. Thats not how sunlamps work at all, to achieve a specific result you need to use it at a specific time, and it doesnt just "work" with no side effects. When they market it like that, it tells me that it doesnt do a darn thing.
Google a sunlamp vendor, and see what they say about side effects and exercising caution. Youll note that they do NOT advise you to "just pi
Oh glorious, glorious slashvertisements.
OK, someone please tell me why I would need to spend nearly $300 USD to shine 2 white LEDs in my ear? Awaiting a schematic and a parts list of what is needed to build this. Oh 3 AA's wired to pair of in-ear headphones with the coil and diaphragm replaced by an LED on each side.
Now someone tell me that this really works, that shining light i my ear is going to change my mood and outlook on life. Why on earth would the inside of our ears ever develop light sensitivity? I am smelling snake oil burning on the w
The idea that there may be neurons somewhere within the brain that are photosensitive is plausible enough. However, light shining in the ear won't ever reach them.
"Now someone tell me that this really works, that shining light i my ear is going to change my mood and outlook on life."
No, you're a borderline moody bastard, you'd need a hole in the head to shine a couple of thousand watts into your tiny brain.
OK, someone please tell me why I would need to spend nearly $300 USD to shine 2 white LEDs in my ear? Awaiting a schematic and a parts list of what is needed to build this. Oh 3 AA's wired to pair of in-ear headphones with the coil and diaphragm replaced by an LED on each side.
Oh, you left out the super secret part that makes the whole thing work! The current limiting resistor!
OK, someone please tell me why I would need to spend nearly $300 USD to shine 2 white LEDs in my ear? Awaiting a schematic and a parts list of what is needed to build this. Oh 3 AA's wired to pair of in-ear headphones with the coil and diaphragm replaced by an LED on each side.
Oh, you left out the super secret part that makes the whole thing work! The current limiting resistor!
Yeah a SED (smoke emitting diode) is not what you want here.
The paper behind the 1998 article didn't even claim photoreceptors. They just wanted to test whether light applied to the bloodstream through the skin affected the body's rhythm, and the knees have a lot of blood vessels.
Curious what this means for people who can't see...?
is it sensitive to a reverse cranial insertion therapy?
... then headphones are making us all crazy! Hmm, actually...
Think of the odd new appliances if enough people end up convinced it's true!
These devices, much like earphones or should we say 'earlumes,' are registered medical devices.
WTF? Where, in Singapore?
Oh, I see, it has CE certification as a 'medical device' for sale in Europe. Well, nice to see the US isn't the only country lowering the bar [magna-health.com] for snake oil salesmen everywhere...(yes, those magnetic bracelet-thingies are registered under MHRA as 'medical devices')
For the record, that's a rating of medical safety. So having something that does nothing is medically safe. IN the US, probably in the EU as well.
For the record, that's a rating of medical safety. So having something that does nothing is medically safe. IN the US, probably in the EU as well.
Great! So I can get my silverware certified and brag that I'm using 'certified medical devices' to eat my dinner? Maybe they'll make me healthier...or maybe I can convince others that they are, generating a market for my new medi-ware. Cool!
If the minimum bar for rating is that the device doesn't actually harm the person using it, then that's what the rating should be called, i.e., 'certified as medically safe', not 'certified as a medical device'. The latter implies that the device actually does someth
Of course:
Q: how do you make a light shine in a blonde's eyes?
A: you point a flash light at her ear.
... when its host has a hole in its head that needs patching up.
You mean along the same line as garbage like Light Relief [lightrelief.com]?
No, like understanding how light schedules affect our internal circadian rhythm e.g.
After seeing this I was really excited and ready to order. But that's because I have the worst possible form of SAD. Even in the SF bay area I am miserable for a couple months or so of the rainy season. I'd pay way more than $300 to avoid the energy drain.
As a sufferer I can tell you that it's not
The brain needs the light, keep your hair shorter to prevent shadows!
I just heard what you said there.
And the optic-hearing apparently works long distance as well. What a glorious day for science this is.
This reminds me of the ganglion photoreceptors [wikipedia.org] in the eyes (not rods or cones) they have a lower wavelength absorption peak of ~480nm (blueish) and they are very few compared to the other receptors. They contribute to vision slightly, but their primary role is suspected to be other things like helping to regulate circadian rhythms (i.e. body clock).
There was an interesting BBC Horizon programme recently that touched on this subject, "Do You See What I See? [bbc.co.uk]", which was primarily exploring colour perception i
This is interesting because I have read some years ago that the US Air Force has experimented with using blue LEDs mounted on the head but somewhat behind the eyes, and doing so resulted in pilots being able to fly for significantly longer times. It was presumed to tell their circadian rhythm, "no, it's not night time, yet."
I've noticed for years now that if I shine the light of an optical mouse in my ear, even with my eyes closed, even with someone else doing it with my eyes closed, I hear a high-frequency ring only at the times the light is shining in my ears.
But I don't know if this is because of the effect described in TFA or something to do with the engineering of optical mice.
Holy shit that's crazy. I totally thought you were an idiot, and then I tried it, and yep, a high-pitched tone.
Of course, it also works when I press the back of the mouse against my ear, with the light shining in the other direction, so I'm going to go out on a limb and say they have nothing to do with each other and partially return to my initial assumption. It will definitely be useful as another way to find people who are bad a critical thinking though.
It will definitely be useful as another way to find people who are bad a critical thinking though.
Mine doesn't do it unless the light is shining directly into my ear. It also works with the mouse quote distant from my head; it works as far as I am able to physically stretch my arm away and still aim the light at my ear. I have an old ambidextrous optical Logitech with the aqua bubble (or whatever you'd call it) on top.
I can also hear a high-pitch ringing when the charging LED on my laptop and razor are on (they blink on and off, so it's easy to tell that the noise is coming from the LED -- high pitch no
Most people, before they break the habit, are very good at lying to themselves to prevent ever having to believe they're wrong.. See, now you've called in the experts, and if nobody responds, you can go right on believing that it's the light itself that's making the noise, or whatever other goofy thing you're thinking that essentially boils down to "I can hear light" without actually saying it because you know that's ridiculous. Before you even try to figure out the answer, take a step back and look at the
Have you tried making the sound back to it? Maybe you can get the mouse to move on the screen if you 'sing the mouse tune' right.
when I could see music flowing out of the speakers.
I have no doubt that some light will reach t
I remember reading not too long ago about using infrared light to stimulate the hair cells or nerves in the ear.. it was thought that using an infrared laser could work better than the current electrode method of a Cochlear Implant.
I listen to sounds of nature on my headphones at work. I use a program called Ambiance (Adobe Air app) that lets me mix various field recordings, which keeps me more alert than coffee, and drowns out the blabbering of my cubicle neighbors. It also helps my mood, as it usually sounds like a Spring afternoon.
This has me thinking -- can I add some sort of lights source into my headphones? They're full ear-covering headphones, so I could produce a lot of light in them without affecting those around me, or much
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However, the stories that have the most long-term impact are those that are emotionally charged with some value or belief that resonates with us: persistence pays, love makes the world go 'round, crime doesn't pay etc. This is often referred to as the story's theme or message, and the more unique the theme, the more powerful the story.
Here's the link that works!
What I really like about this article is how the author talks about the need for story themes in branding. This is key to creating a brand strategy built in story sharing.
As the author says, "Many brands fall short of story theming in the truest sense of the word. Keep in mind that a story theme idea is different from what many refer to as an advertising theme line. In fact, many and arguably most so-called theme lines are promises or benefit claims. They have nothing to do with a universal belief with which audiences can identify or rally around. Many advertising theme lines would be more accurately labeled 'plot lines.' "
Read more to gain insights into story branding themes and how to make them work for you in 2012.


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Students Plan Girls and Women in Sports Event
March 27, 2012
A sports business class at the University of Mount Union will sponsor an event to celebrate Girls and Women in Sports at 1:30 p.m. on April 1 in the McPherson Academic and Athletic Complex on Mount Union's campus.
The event is being held in conjunction with the annual initiative, National Girls and Women in Sports Day, planned by the National Association for Girls and Women in Sports. According to www.aahperd.org/nagws/, despite the advances made in the 40 years since Title IX was enacted, high school girls still receive 1.3 million fewer participation opportunities than boys, and evidence suggests that the money spent on girls' sports programs lags significantly behind the money spent on boys' programs. The theme for this year's event is "Title IX at 40: In it for the Long Run."
According to Dr. Lori Braa, assistant professor of sport business at Mount Union, this year's Girls and Women in Sports event is being planned by students in the program management course as part of the class requirement. Students came up with goals and a mission for the event and will execute and implement plans for the event as well.
Any girl in grades K-12 is welcome to participate in the event. Participants will have the opportunity to meet and interact with Mount Union students, coaches and student athletes as they learn about physical fitness and engage in a number of activities. During the event, Mount Union coaches will speak and athletes will host activities and clinics related to volleyball, basketball and soccer.
Each participant will receive a snack and a goody bag. Those interested in attending can register online at www.mountunion.edu/gws. Online registration will end at 4 p.m. on March 30. Participants may register on site the day of the event beginning at 1 p.m. All attendees must fill out a liability waiver (available online) and bring it to the event.


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Flawed JDO Points the Way to the "Objectbase"by Donald Bales, author of Java Programming with Oracle JDBC
There's been a lot of hype lately about Java Data Objects (JDO). It appears to be the new silver bullet that will alleviate all of our coding drudgery. JDO threatens the livelihood of products such as object/relational mapping utilities that map Java objects to relational data. Because of this, and for other reasons, JDO has received more than its fair share of bad press. To be fair however, JDO does have it merits.
My own take on why the specification evolved is simple: I too am tired of writing JavaBeans to present data from a relational database as objects in my Java programs. I've written lightweight JavaBeans, that simply hold data like a structure and have accessor and mutator methods, to heavyweight JavaBeans, that know how to retrieve and persist themselves.
I have two issues with JDO. The first is that somehow SQL has become a bad thing. SQL remains one of the major breakthroughs in our industry. Its non-procedural mechanics freed us from the high priests that used to control persisted data, and its power to bring together formerly unrelated populations of information still make it the most powerful computing tool of our time. The second is that JDO's abstraction treats a Database Management System (DBMS) like a file. Restated, instead of treating a database like an extension of memory for your application, you end up treating it like a file in a file system, where you open the file, read it into your application, write any changes back out to disk, and then close the file. This kind of behavior does not properly facilitate multi-user access.
Most importantly though, is that a workaround like JDO is indicative of a more fundamental problem: as object-oriented programmers, we have been leveraging object-orientation to improve how we build software, but we have not applied it to solving the business problems for which we write software. We are, for lack of a better term, stuck in the world of functional decomposition. Rather than view the world in a natural way, we abstract things in the real world by categorizing information about them, but ignore their behaviors.
You can see evidence of this predominant way of thinking in the way we communicate. Take the word database for example. Our everyday language is imbued with this word. Object and object-relational persistence vendors call their solutions object database management systems, and object-relational database management systems. Even the employees at Oracle call their persistence solution an object-relational database. What we really need is a different term: objectbase. We need to move our thinking and our problem domain object models into an object persistence layer: an objectbase.
JDO itself is a sentinel that we need to make the paradigm shift from a database -- a place where we persist information -- to an objectbase -- a place where we persist information and behavior. I'm fortunate to have lived through one such paradigm shift, from ISAM/VSAM files, hierarchal databases, and network databases to relational databases. So for me, the shift in thought is not so difficult. But what is an objectbase?
To some, an objectbase is a place where you store and retrieve binary executables that can be accessed as needed anywhere at any time. Computers and networks will be extremely different than they are today when that definition of an objectbase is fulfilled. I, just like you, need a solution now. And that solution currently exists in the form of object-relational (OR) technology. With OR, you define object types in the objectbase, use a tool to generate your JavaBeans to mirror the objectbase types, and then use the Java Database Connectivity (JDBC) API, or SQLJ, to access objects from Java. Oracle's implementation of OR provides you with all of the strengths of their relational database, plus the ability to add methods to object types (or user defined types (UDTs), as they are called in SQL:1999). In this article, in an effort to give you a fair comparison of what is necessary to use OR with JDBC vs. JDO, I'll be showing you how to insert, update, and select a person object using JDBC in a similar fashion to "Using Java Data Objects," published recently on OnJava.com.
Creating a User Defined Type
The first step is to create a user defined type (UDT). To do so,
you'll use the SQL
CREATE TYPE command, as in this
create type PERSON_TYPE as object (
name varchar2(255),
address varchar2(255),
ssn varchar2(255),
email varchar2(255),
home_phone varchar2(255),
work_phone varchar2(255) )
The primary data types you have available to use in defining a new
type are those supported by your OBMS vendor. For Oracle, the three
most common primary types are:
DATE for date and time
NUMBER for numeric values, and
VARCHAR2 for textual values. Here, I've defined a new
type, named
Creating an Object Table
The next step is to create a table based upon our new UDT. A table
based upon a UDT is called an object table. To create an object table,
you'll use the SQL
CREATE TABLE command, as in this
create table PERSON_OBJECT_TABLE
of PERSON_TYPE
Here, I've created an object table named
PERSON_OBJECT_TABLE based upon the UDT
PERSON_TYPE. This is the table I'll be working with in
the example demonstration program. It's important to note that for
this example, I've decided to use the object references created by the
objectbase as a unique identifier for my object relationships. As an
alternative, I could have just as easily used primary and foreign keys,
and constraints, as I would with a relational database.
Creating a Mirror Java Class
Once a UDT is created in your database, you can create a mirror
class for your Java program by coding a JavaBean that implements the
SQLData interface, or, if you're using Oracle, you can use
the JPublisher Utility to generate a JavaBean for you. Example 1 is a
hand-coded class,
Person, to mirror the objectbase's UDT
Person consists of:
- A list of private variables to hold the data values from the objectbase.
- A no-argument constructor.
getSQLTypeName()method to provide the JDBC driver with the objectbase UDT name.
readSQL()method to assign the private variables their corresponding objectbase values.
writeSQL()method to save the private variable's values to the objectbase.
- A set of accessor and mutator methods.
Example 1. The
Person class
import java.io.*;
import java.sql.*;
A mirror class to hold a copy of SCOTT.PERSON_TYPE
public class Person implements SQLData, Serializable {
private String = name;
private String = address;
private String = ssn;
private String = email;
private String = home_phone;
private String = work_phone;
public Person() {
// SQLData interface
public String getSQLTypeName()
throws SQLException {
return "SCOTT.PERSON_TYPE";
public void readSQL(SQLInput stream, String type)
throws SQLException {
name = stream.readString();
address = stream.readString();
ssn = stream.readString();
email = stream.readString();
home_phone = stream.readString();
work_phone = stream.readString();
public void writeSQL(SQLOutput stream)
throws SQLException {
// Accessors
public String getName() {
return name;
public String getAddress() {
return address;
public String getSsn() {
return ssn;
public String getEmail() {
return email;
public String getHomePhone() {
return home_phone;
public String getWorkPhone() {
return work_phone;
// Mutators
public void setName(String name) {
this.name = name;
public void setAddress(String address) {
this.address = address;
public void setSsn(String ssn) {
this.ssn = ssn;
public void setEmail(String Email) {
this.email = email;
public void setHomePhone(String homePhone) {
home_phone = homePhone;
public void setWorkPhone(String workPhone) {
work_phone = workPhone;
Coding a JavaBean like this is not hard, but it is tedious. The
readSQL() and
writeSQL() methods simply read
and write the data values from or onto their respective streams in the
order in which the attributes exist in the UDT.
Related Reading
Java Programming with Oracle JDBC
Add The New Object Type to the JDBC Type Map
Before you can use your mirror class to retrieve objects from, and to
save objects to, an objectbase, you need to let the JDBC
Connection you'll be using know that a mirror class
exists, and to which UDT it should be mapped. To accomplish this,
you'll update the connection's type map.
The type of
Connection object, whether it comes from
DriverManager or a
DataSource, is of no
consequence; either will work. In the demonstration program from
Example 2,
DemonstrateOR, I use a
object returned from
DriverManager. First, the program
gets the current type map from the connection by calling its
getTypeMap() method. Next, the program adds an entry to
Map object using its
put() method,
passing the name of the UDT, and a copy of the mirror class,
Person. Last, the program stores the updated type map in the connection by calling its
setTypeMap() method, passing the
Map object. At this point, the JDBC driver knows
what Java class to instantiate when a copy of the UDT is retrieved from
the objectbase, and vice versa.
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Atlanta, GA (SportsNetwork.com) - Chris Douglas-Roberts' floater at the buzzer lifted the Charlotte Bobcats to a 95-93 win over the Atlanta Hawks on Monday.
Douglas-Roberts took an inbound feed from Josh McRoberts at the top of the key, drove inside the paint and floated the shot in as the buzzer sounded.
"Well that was the last option," Bobcats head coach Steve Clifford said of the final play. "There were a couple of other options that they (Hawks) took away. They did a good job. It was a good screen from Al (Jefferson), a good cut from (Douglas-Roberts), and then Josh (McRoberts) is a very good inbounder. He made a great shot to win the game."
With the win, the Bobcats remain in the hunt for the Eastern Conference's No. 6 seed. Charlotte trails Washington by one game for the sixth spot as each team wraps up its respective season on Wednesday.
The Bobcats host the Chicago Bulls and the Wizards travel to Boston for a matchup with the Celtics.
Charlotte holds the tiebreaker over the Wizards because of their 3-1 record in the season series.
Al Jefferson scored 27 points with 15 rebounds for the Bobcats, who snapped an 11-game losing streak to Atlanta. Gary Neal and Luke Ridnour contributed 17 and 10 points, respectively, in the win.
Charlotte's Kemba Walker, who returned from a two-game absence with a groin injury, scored just five points with seven assists on 1-for-9 shooting.
Paul Millsap, Kyle Korver and DeMarre Carroll all sat out for the Hawks to rest for the upcoming playoffs.
Mike Scott paced Atlanta with 20 points, while Louis Williams and Shelvin Mack each netted 13 in the setback.
Jeff Teague, the reigning Eastern Conference Player of the Week, tallied 11 points with five assists for the Hawks, who had their three-game winning streak snapped.
Atlanta led 84-70 with 9 1/2 minutes left in the fourth when Charlotte clamped down on defense and got back into the game. Neal scored 10 points and Ridnour added eight during a 21-2 run that gave the Bobcats a 91-86 lead with 2:47 remaining.
Mack deposited five straight points to tie the game at 91-apiece.
Jefferson answered with a jumper from in close with a minute left, then Williams' jumper tied it with 2.6 seconds left before Douglas-Roberts' last- second heroics.
"Every time you go out there and compete you always feel like you can win," said Mack. "Especially the way we were playing early on. But we had some bad moments down the stretch that kind of led to them being able to get on a run and get going."
Earlier, the Bobcats led 26-24 at the end of the first, but the hosts took a 50-44 edge into halftime.
Atlanta stretched its halftime margin to 80-65 at the end of three quarters, and proceeded to shoot 4-of-16 in the final period en route to the loss.
Game Notes
Charlotte owned a 48-39 edge in rebounds ... Atlanta shot 34-for-79 in the game, while the Bobcats made 35-of-80 attempts from the floor ... Each team had 36 points in the paint.


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Today's featured relative in my database is my paternal 5th-great grandfather, John Moulton.
John was born December 27, 1755 in Windsor, Hartford Co., CT, the son of Samuel and Phoebe (________) Moulton. John married July 24, 1781 in Castleton, Rutland Co., VT to Avis Hurlbut, daughter of Israel and Jerusha (________) Hurlbut. Avis was born November 11, 1762 in Woodbury, CT. John died ca. 1808 in Vermont, probably Rutland Co., VT.
Known children of John and Avis (Hurlbut) Moulton are :
i. Rebecca Moulton b. October 30, 1781
ii. Hannah Moulton b. March 2, 1783
iii. Jerusha Moulton b. June 2, 1784
iv. Rhoda Moulton b. January 15, 1786
v. Anna Moulton b. May 13, 1787
vi. John Moulton b. February 28, 1789
vii. Selah Moulton b. October 28, 1790 Rutland Co., VT., d. February 1848 St. Albans, Licking Co., OH., m. Lydia Fennel
viii. Samuel Moulton b. September 1, 1792
ix. Phoeba Moulton b. July 4, 1794
x. Betsey Moulton b. October 5, 1796
xi. Sally Moulton b. July 4, 1798
xii. Abel Moulton b. June 12, 1800 Ira, Rutland Co., VT., d. September 29, 1874 Castleton, Rutland Co., VT., m. Miriam Eaton
xii. Amanda Moulton b. May 9, 1802
xiii. Reuben Moulton b. April 13, 1804
xiv. Hurlbut Moulton b. January 4, 1808, d. 1889, m. Amy ______
I descend from John and Avis (Hurlbut) Moulton through their son, Selah, as follows :
John Moulton and Avis Hurlbut
Selah Moulton and Lydia Fennel
Albert Moulton and Emeline ________
Clara Moulton and John Adam Metzner
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Global oil prices trended lower on Christmas eve trading on Monday, with investors becoming increasingly concerned over the slow progress of negotiations aimed at averting a potential budget crisis in the US. By early afternoon on Monday, West Texas Intermediate crude for February delivery was down 15 cents, at $88.51 a barrel, in trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange. Brent crude fell 38 cents, hitting $108.59 a barrel on the ICE Futures exchange in London. A report from London-based Sucden Financial Research notes, "[w]ith politicians out on recess, sovereign credit markets closed and a general lack of vigor in seasonal markets, there's not much to chew on today with crude oil prices edging lower in decidedly thin volume." Meanwhile, Jason Hughes, head of premium client management for IG Markets Singapore, stated that political bickering over a deal to avert the fiscal cliff weighed on markets during a "relatively quiet session." "We've still got concerns over where we stand in the fiscal cliff… that remains a concern that keeps traders cautious," he told Agence France-Presse. In company news, a trio of junior oil and gas companies announced that they have agreed to combine to form a mid-sized Canadian producer that will focus on light crude in Alberta. Pace Oil & Gas (TSX:PCE), AvenEx Energy (TSX:AVF) and Charger Energy (TSXV:CHX) confirmed that they will offer new shares in a combined operation known as Spyglass Resources. The deal is expected to close in February and the new corporation will produce about 18,000 barrels of oil equivalent a day. In a press release, the companies noted that the transaction values Pace shares at C$4.32 each, AvenEx shares at C$3.32 each and Charger shares at C$0.60 each. Chevron (NYSE:CVX) agreed to purchase a 50-percent operating interest in the proposed Kitimat liquefied natural gas project in Western Canada, buying out Encana (TSX:ECA) and EOG Resources (NYSE:EOG). Terms of the deal have not yet been disclosed.
Chevron will also acquire a 50-percent stake in the proposed Pacific Trail Pipelines project and 644,000 acres of drilling rights in British Columbia's Horn River and Liard basins, according to a statement from the company.Chevron will be a 50-50 partner in Kitimat with Apache (NYSE:APA) and will operate the LNG terminal and pipeline. Oil Market Update (December 27, 2012) from Oil Investing News


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New TV on the Web: Gemini Division
The new TV season kicks off today--online. Gemini Division, the new Web series that launches today, is the first from NBC's Universal Digital Studios, created by Electric Farm Entertainment.
The big draw: an actual Hollywood star, Rosario Dawson, in the lead, playing an undercover vice cop in the future who falls in love with a guy who turns out to be artificial (Justin Hartley, who plays Green Arrow on Smallville). He gets killed. Melted, actually. She wants to find out why. Each episode will be told partially from the POV of her wrist PDA--it's half camera, half tricorder, and powered by Microsoft Internet Explorer, apparently.
Dawson worked with Electric Farm before, on another Internet series in 2007, called Afterworld, but that lacked a live-action component. Not to say Gemini Division looks realistic; it's more like a futuristic Sin City (in which Dawson also had a part) replete with CGI backgrounds (like Sanctuary).
Before it even makes its debut, some are saying Gemini Division must succeed, for the sake of all Web-based TV. For example, NewTeeVee.com believes, "This web show has the weight of the traditional media world on its shoulders," because NBC has lined up big advertisers. Intel, Cisco, Microsoft, Acura, and UPS all paid up front to finance production. If they're not happy with the results, NBC isn't happy, and then it (and ABC, CBS, Fox, Disney, etc.) won't touch Web video with a 10-foot Ethernet patch cord. (Then again, Dr. Horrible might have something different to say.)
Another unique aspect of Gemini is the companion ARG, or alternate reality game. Players will be able to "interact" with the show. Which does not mean getting anywhere near Dawson, unfortunately. You become Gemini agents like Dawson's character, an online version of the wrist PDA, and your own missions to investigate. A few movies and TV shows have done ARG promotions in the past; in particular ABC's Lost, which reveals extra background on its island and inhabitants that fill in gaps in the story on TV.
The plan is to show 50 full webisodes, each under 7 minutes long, as the first season. Look for it on GeminiDivision.com, SciFi.com, and NBC.com.


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Mount Union College-Alliance Kiwanis Club Academic Challenge Competition Scheduled for March 13
April 13, 2010
The 27th Annual Mount Union College-Alliance Kiwanis Club Academic Challenge Competition will take place Sunday, March 13 at Mount Union Theatre at 2:30 p.m.
The 27th Annual Mount Union College-Alliance Kiwanis Club Academic Challenge Competition will take place Sunday, March 13 at Mount Union Theatre at 2:30 p.m.
Students from nine area schools will compete for the trophy. The 2004 defending champion is Hoover High School, represented this year by Matt Andrews, Samantha Simpson, Kaley Smitley, Adele Vergis and Michael Wiley, and accompanied by coach Deborah Wiley.
Representing Alliance High School will be team members Andrew Eibel, Steven Farley, Andrew Hyde, Marissa Hyde, Alexa Roggenkamp and Todd Ruggles, and coach James Ballor.
Marlington High School's team includes Zachary Barker, J.D. Gantz, Brian Hendricks, Abby Hurley and James Ochsendorf, with Phil Burnell serving as coach.
Minerva High School's team members are Laura Bauman, Keith Burns, Joseph Sabella, Patrick Stanton and Rachel Wagner, with coach Lisa Vaccaro.
Salem High School will be represented by Michelle Bush, Andy Clutter, Nathan Kish, Ben Roberts and Joseph Shivers, with coach Joe Shivers.
The team from Sebring McKinley High School includes Jarrod Hawkins, Tyler Jones, Brittany Kisher, Rachel Sharp and Rich Twaddle, coached by Nicole Herman.
United Local will be represented by Katrina Brye, Cody Glover, Ashley Kekel and Carri Meiler, with Pat Neiheisel serving as coach.
Waterloo Local High School's team is Alicia Cooper, Jarrad Davis, Brian Dowling, Jen Graham and Tara Woodliff, with coach Susan Berry.
West Branch High School will be represented by Tricia Chamberlain, Tate Drennen, Kelly Morckel and Dominic Sacco, and accompanied by Mary Jo Cunningham.
Academic Challenge recognizes, rewards and encourages students who excel in academic endeavors. Kiwanis Club presents a traveling trophy to the winning school. MountUnionCollege provides a $4,000 scholarship to a student from the victorious school who plans to enroll at the College.
The event is open to the public.' Tickets are $1 for students and $3 for adults.
Mount Union will sponsor a luncheon and an inspirational message for all contestants, their coaches and principals prior to the competition.'


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It's not often an academic seeks to downplay his research, especially when it contains good news for him.
Before entering politics, Fraser MP Andrew Leigh co-wrote an academic paper in which he suggested betting markets were more reliable at predicting election outcomes than opinion polls or economic modeling.
And with online bookmaker Sportsbet.com.au opening markets on all 150 electorates in this year's federal election, Dr Leigh could not have hoped for better odds.
He has opened at $1.01 to $50 for the Coalition candidate, making him the unbackable favourite.
But the first-term Labor MP laughed at the suggestion his research meant he could effectively declare himself re-elected.
"You should always treat the job that I hold as a great privilege and it always humbling being out there talking with constituents," he said.
"Voters never like it if they think an MP takes them for granted and I certainly don't take them or my re-election for granted."
Labor has held Fraser since it was created in 1974 - when the ACT got a second federal electorate - and Dr Fraser won it with 64.2 per cent of the two-party preferred vote in 2010, making it one of the safer Labor seats in the country.
Member for Canberra Gai Brodtmann also has the odds comfortably on her side, if not as much as Dr Leigh. Bets opened at $1.10 for Ms Brodtmann to $6.50 for a Coalition win.
The Labor MP has repeatedly stated that she treats her electorate as though it is a marginal seat.
Over the state border, Labor's Mike Kelly is not so safe in his bellwether electorate of Eden-Monaro. Sportsbet has opened odds in the NSW seat with the Coalition on $1.45 and Labor on $2.50.
Across the country the Coalition is favourite in 91 seats and the ALP in 54, pointing to a landslide win for Opposition Leader Tony Abbott.
The betting agency's Ben Hawes said that in the overall election winner market, the Coalition was a $1.35 favourite, with Labor the $3.30 outsider.


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If you've ever played with a hunter, then you know that every weapon is a hunter weapon. Either they need to gear for some special gear set they're working on they're hoping that Blizzard allows them to use maces and wands someday. Polearms, swords and even daggers can all fall prey to their instant need rolls. I'm just happy that they're not allowed to equip their pets with gear à la Diablo II, or else there would be a massive weapon shortage.
Rogues, on the other hand, have very narrow weapon requirements. In most cases, weapon speed can trump nearly any other stat weight, due to specific mechanics that favor a certain type of sword or dagger. While Cataclysm has promised to roll all weapon types into a single, balanced specialization, we are currently forced to pick our instruments of destruction carefully.


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"I am thrilled by the quantity and quality of the horses that have been declared for the race, which has taken two years of planning," said Brian "Barney" Clifford, director of racing at Kempton Park. "The race is unique and is the first step between establishing a long term link between Europe and American racing and I am very much looking forward to Wednesday."
Eight of the 14 horses entered have already recorded a victory over a synthetic racing surface, and the John Best-trained Desposer-IRE was fourth over Keeneland's Polytrack in the Grade I Lane's End Breeders' Futurity last fall behind runaway winner and then-stablemate Square Eddie.
The complete field for the Kentucky Derby Challenge Stakes in program number order (with jockey, trainer, post position and morning line odds): 1. Agente Parmigiano-IRE (Shane Kelly, Gerard Butler, post 14, 25-1); 2. Akhenaten-GB (Tony Culhane, Mick Channon, post 11, 14-1); 3. Close Alliance (Jimmy Fortune, John Gosden, post 5, 8-1); 4. Deposer-IRE (Steve Drowne, John Best, post 3, 7-1); 5. Haashed (Jamie Spencer, Mark Johnston, post 12, 7-2); 6. Keeptheboatafloat (Darren Williams, Karl Burke, post 1, 50-1); 7. Maafaz-GB (Richard Hills, John Gosden, post 7, 3-1 favorite); 8. Markyg (Fergus Sweeney, Karl Burke, post 2, 12-1); 9. Mastery-GB (Joe Fanning, Mark Johnston, post 13, 12-1); 10. Shampagne-GB (Martin Dwyer, Paul Cole, post 6, 10-1); 11. Sohcahtoa-IRE (Ryan Moore, Richard Hannon, post 10, 14-1); 12. Spring of Fame (Chris Catlin, Michael Magnusson, post 8, 16-1); 13. Talking Hands (George Baker, Sylvester Kirk, post 9, 20-1); and 14. Weald Park (Richard Hughes, Richard Hannon, post 4, 14-1).
Only Close Alliance, Mafaaz-GB and Spring of Fame are currently Triple Crown nominated. The deadline to make a $6,000 late Triple Crown nomination payment is midnight on Saturday, March 28.
Wednesday's Kentucky Derby Challenge Stakes will be scheduled as Kempton's third race under the lights at approximately 3:50 p.m. EDT. Mark Johnson, the colorful Englishman who was named Churchill Downs' new track commentator in mid-January, will describe the action.
The entire six-race card from Kempton Park will be simulcast at select wagering outlets nationwide, including Trackside at Churchill Downs.
Churchill Downs will host a free handicapping seminar with racing analyst Jill Byrne that focuses on Kempton Park and the Kentucky Derby Challenge Stakes. The seminar will take place from 2-3 p.m. ET in the Joe Hirsch Media Center on the sixth floor of the clubhouse. Also, "High Tea" will be served throughout the facility.
First post from Kempton Park is 2:50 p.m. EDT. Saftote (Phumelela) in South Africa serves as the international tote hub for British racing, commingling wagers back into the host track pools of the UK Tote.
The Kentucky Derby Challenge Stakes is an enhancement of a conditions race that was run on the same day last year, and was won by Campanologist who went on to win the Group 2 King Edward VII Stakes at Royal Ascot. The new creation – a partnership between Churchill Downs Incorporated, Kempton Park and Britain's Jockey Club Racecourses – was announced last September and is designed to encourage international participation in the Kentucky Derby.
The race provides an additional incentive to owners and trainers who in the past may have been hesitant to point toward the Kentucky Derby because of uncertainty over whether their horse would have sufficient graded stakes earnings to qualify for the field. European contenders, in particular, have been at a disadvantage because their racing season generally gets underway later than the North American schedule and offers few graded stakes opportunities early in the year.
There has not been an international competitor in the race since 2002, when there were three. Those horses included the Aidan O'Brien-trained Johannesburg (8th) and Castle Gandolfo (12th), and Essence of Dubai (9th), who competed for Dubai-based Godolphin. Canonero II, based in Venezuela, shipped to Churchill Downs to score an upset win in the Kentucky Derby in 1971 and remains the only horse based outside of North America to win the race.
The $100,000 bonus, if awarded, will be provided by Churchill Downs. The owner of the Kentucky Derby Challenge Stakes winner will still be responsible for all fees associated with the race, along with shipping costs. The Triple Crown nomination fee makes the horse eligible for all of the American classics: the Kentucky Derby, the $1 million Preakness (GI) at Pimlico Race Course and the $1 million Belmont Stakes (GI) at Belmont Park.
Spotlight on the full field of 14 by Kempton Park and Churchill Downs track announcer Mark Johnson
1. AGENTE PARMIGIANO-IRE (25-1) Has drawn post position 14 (on the inside rail of this right-handed track), which is an advantage but needs to step up big time on what he achieved as a 2-year-old to figure here. His only win came over six furlongs on turf at Yarmouth (a straight track) and he is yet to race beyond seven furlongs. Tough task.
2. AKHENATEN-GB (14-1) Post position 11 is a positive and he comes here in winning form having won a weak three-runner allowance race at Wolverhampton at 1 1/16 miles on Polytrack earlier this month. That was his first try on a synthetic surface. Well beaten in two Group 3 races on turf last fall (his pedigree is for turf being by Epsom Derby and two-time Breeders' Cup Turf winner High Chaparral) but at least he will get the 1 1/8-mile trip and he has an affective stalking run style.
3. CLOSE ALLIANCE (8-1) An unbeaten Juddmonte Farms bred/owned son of Gone West out of an A.P. Indy mare who made a winning racecourse debut at Great Leighs (one mile on Polytrack) in October. Despite running green in the early stages, he picked up well late to score by a length from 13 rivals. Has been aimed specifically at this race by Breeders' Cup Classic-winning trainer John Gosden and has a big chance despite his poor post position (Gate 5).
4. DEPOSER-IRE (7-1) Already has American Grade I form having finished 8½ lengths fourth behind his then stablemate Square Eddie in the Lane's End Breeders' Futurity at Keeneland last October. His only win to date came over six furlongs on Polytrack last July (on the second of his six career runs) but his trainer John Best, who has already had success Stateside, believes his son of Kheleyf can still become a major player in America. Drew a poor post position in 3.
5. HAASHED (7-2) An unbeaten American-bred son of Mr. Greeley who made a impressive racecourse debut at Lingfield (one mile on Polytrack) in November when pushed out to win by two lengths (the third horse was a further six lengths back). Settled well in the early stages of that race under Kempton rider Jamie Spencer. Has an ideal post position to stalk the pace again here (12) and his trainer Mark Johnston won the corresponding race last year - before the link up with Churchill Downs and the Kentucky Derby - with the useful Campanologist.
6. KEEPTHEBOATAFLOAT (50-1) Has only won one of his seven career starts (a six-furlong turf race on the straight track at Ripon) and has been well beaten twice this winter in Dubai. Has drawn the worst post position (Gate 1) on this right-handed track.
7. MAAFAZ-GB (3-1) Overcame a troubled beginning, when bumped at the start and then rank in the early stages, to win by a neck on his debut at Kempton over seven furlongs in September. His only subsequent start saw him finish two lengths fifth in a 24-runner seven-furlong straight turf stakes race at Newmarket behind Breeders' Cup Juvenile Turf winner Donativum-GB. Like Donativum-GB, he is trained by John Gosden. His breeding is solidly turf based (he is a son of Medicean) so it is by no means certain his best form will come on this surface. Post 7.
8. MARKYG (12-1) Not surprising given his solid American dirt pedigree (by Derby winner Fusaichi Pegasus out of a Storm Cat mare) that he didn't win in his first three turf starts, although he did finish a highly creditable 3 ¾ lengths third in the seven-furlong Chesham Stakes at Royal Ascot. Has become a different horse since switching to Kempton's Polytrack and followed up a one-mile maiden win last October with an emphatic two lengths success in a seven-furlong handicap (giving away weight to all his rivals) last month. Rated off the speed for those two wins so his poor post (Gate 2) may not be too bad.
9. MASTERY-GB (12-1) Has very much a turf pedigree and has only raced so far on grass. Won his maiden by 4½ lengths (over 1 1/16 miles on soft ground) at Nottingham in October before finishing third in a mile allowance race at Newmarket. Trip is no issue to him but the synthetic track is. Post 13 is a positive.
10. SHAMPAGNE-GB (16-1) The most prolific winner in the field having already won four of his 10 starts. More significantly, this son of Orpen is three-from-three on synthetic surfaces and one-from-one at Kempton. He broke his maiden at the track back in May last year over five furlongs. His most recent win came on Polytrack at Great Leighs last September over one mile. Was well-beaten in a Group 3 on turf when last seen in October. Post position 6.
11. SOHCAHTOA-IRE (14-1) Solid turf breeding and has only raced on grass so far. Won twice last summer at Goodwood (six-furlong maiden and a seven-furlong handicap) but only ninth behind Donativum-GB and Kempton rival Maafaz-GB at Newmarket in October. British champion jockey Ryan Moore aboard but has a stiff task. Post 10.
12. SPRING OF FAME (16-1) American-bred son of Grand Slam who, having been beaten on his turf debut, is now two-from-two on synthetic tracks. He won his maiden over seven furlongs at Lingfield in September by five lengths and then followed up earlier this month when beating just two rivals in a 1 1/16-mile handicap at Wolverhampton. He was sent off odds-on favorite for both his wins. Yet to face this class of rivals but open to improvement. Drew post 8.
13. TALKING HANDS-GB (20-1) Has won three of his 10 career starts (all three wins came on a run through June and July) and is now on a losing run on five races. Is one-from-three on synthetic tracks but well beaten by Kempton rival Shampagne-GB at Great Leighs (one mile on Polytrack) in September. Races from Gate 9.
14. WEALD PARK (14-1) Although American-bred, he has much more of a turf pedigree and has yet to race on a synthetic track. Only win in six starts came in June when taking a seven-furlong maiden at Newmarket (straight track) by three lengths. Not seen since finishing 10 ½ lengths seventh in the Group 1 Racing Post Trophy over one mile at Doncaster in October. Also has a poor post position in 4.
MARK JOHNSON'S VERDICT – Although I am slightly worried about his outside post position (the clubhouse turn comes up really soon after the start in this race) dual course winner MARKYG (8) is a big price on the morning line and may represent some value here. The fact he is trained by a lesser-known but highly effective conditioner (Karl Burke) also helps the price. Of the lesser exposed horses I like CLOSE ALLIANCE (3) who certainly would not look out of place in the Derby line-up itself. Racecourse inexperience may be the only thing that gets him beaten. HAASHED (5) and DEPOSER-IRE (4) both look capable of getting involved late. 8-3-5-4


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Courmayeur (1.224 m) is an alpine resort boasting centuries of history and a world-wide celebrity. It is a multi-coloured world with plenty of traditions and folklore where every guest can spend unforgettable holidays thanks to the range and completeness of the offer. The little resort at the foot of the Mont Blanc chain can offer cultural and natural entertainment as well as shopping, relaxation, gastronomy and the possibility of practising several sports, both in summer and in winter. The ski resort counts 24 modern and functional lifts (cablecars, chairlifts, ski-lifts). Courmayeur offers 100km of fun on the snow: downhill slopes, off-pist and cross-country skiing in the Ferret Valley. Snowmaking machines always ensure excellent snow conditions.
While in Courmayeur you are likely to hear myriad different languages being spoken. English is often the language of choice due to the town's popularity with British and American visitors. The international community gathered here tends to be very friendly as are the locals, 'Valdostanas', as they are known. Valdostanas are Italians born in the Aosta Valley; they are often multi-lingual, speaking French, Italian, Patois (the local dialect) and English.
Get in
By car or bus - via Chamonix, France via the Mont Blanc tunnel or, more interestingly, by cable cars via Aiguille du Midi.
Tour du Mont Blanc
The Tour du Mont Blanc climbs among larchs and firs woods; it is an important way traced on the frontier of Italy, France and Switzerland; in summer you can run through it in a relatively simple way, spending the night in alpine refuges.
Thermal Baths of Pré Saint Didier
Thermal Baths: A great year-round activity in Valle d'Aosta is a visit to the Thermes de Pre Sant-Didier, just 5 km south of Courmayeur. Incredibly relaxing in a beautiful setting overlooking Monte Bianco. See website for current prices and hours. Open late on Friday and Saturday evenings for nights under the stars. [1]
american bar is the place where locals and tourists meet from afterski till late night, good music, friendly staff, lots of beers and a wide range of food opportunities as homemade famous paidina's take place at the same time, further more all live sport events are played on screen, a really tourists orientated pub. on winter sometimes you can run in and find an unaspected live concert.
Le Privé cocktail bar is a cozy atmosphere upstairs bar that open in evening just in time for the " aperitivo". great service, wide cocktail list, the place open till 2 at night
Hotel BOUTON D'OR Central location not far from cable car. Bedrooms decorated in alpine style. Buffet breakfast with home made and local food. Sauna, tecnogym, garage and parking. www.hotelboutondor.com [2]
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I've been a freelancer for a year and feel my skills haven't improved all that much. I currently don't have any complex projects in the pipeline so now I really want to work in a team with a company to learn more.
Based on what I have in my portfolio what position should/can I go for? If my portfolio isn't strong enough what do you suggest I do to improve it?
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Arianespace performed its third Ariane 5 flight of 2010 today to orbit another dual-satellite payload and also announced two new contracts – further underscoring the company's leadership role in the commercial launch services sector.
The Ariane 5's evening mission from the Spaceport successfully orbited two satellites that will provide telecommunications services to Africa, the Middle East and Persian Gulf states: NILESAT 201 for Egyptian-based Nilesat, and RASCOM-QAF1R for the Pan-African satellite operator, RascomStar-QAF. Both spacecraft were built by Thales Alenia Space.
"This was the 38th consecutive launch success for Ariane 5," said Arianespace Chairman & CEO Jean-Yves Le Gall in comments after the flight. "Since the start of 2010, we already have launched six large telecommunications satellites – which, I want to underscore – is more than all our competitors combined."
Le Gall also detailed the company's two new launch contracts: GSAT 10 for the Indian Space Research Organization and Intelsat-20 for Intelsat. They further strengthen Arianespace's order book, bringing to 32 the number of satellites on backlog to be launched by the company, along with six Automated Transfer Vehicles for servicing of the International Space Station. This volume will cover 22 launches of the Ariane 5, along with 17 flights for Soyuz.
During today's mission, the heavy-lift Ariane 5 delivered an estimated total payload lift performance of 7,085 kg., which included 6,250 kg. for the NILESAT 201 and RASCOM-QAF1R satellites, plus their integration hardware and the SYLDA 5 dual-payload dispenser system.
Ariane 5 confirms its accuracy with an on-target delivery
Following its daytime liftoff from the Spaceport, the Ariane 5 provided another highly accurate payload delivery, with the following provisional orbital parameters for the injection of its cryogenic upper stage:
- Perigee: 248.4 km. for a target of 248.4 km.
- Apogee: 35,923 km. for a target of 35,919 km.
- Inclination: 2.00 deg. for a target of 2.00 deg.
NILESAT 201 was released first in the flight sequence, being deployed from the top of Ariane 5's payload "stack" at just under 29 minutes into the mission. With a liftoff mass of about 3,200-kg., the satellite carries 24 Ku-band and 4 Ka-band transponders, and is to be positioned at an orbital slot of 7 deg. West. It will provide direct television broadcasting for the Middle East, Africa and Gulf states, and also has the relay capability to open new markets such as broadband Internet access.
Le Gall noted that NILESAT 201 is the third spacecraft orbited by Arianespace for Nilesat. "After the launch of NILESAT 101 in 1998 and Nilesat 102 in 2000, we are extremely proud to mark a new step in our partnership this evening," he said.
RASCOM-QAF1R was the second payload that Arianespace has launched for RASCOM (the Regional African Satellite Communications Organization), which was created in the 1990s to implement, operate and maintain the space segment of an African telecommunications satellite system.
The RASCOM-QAF1R platform weighed approximately 3,050 kg. at liftoff and is to be operated from an orbital position of 2.85 degrees East. It is designed to deliver communications services to rural parts of Africa, including long-distance domestic and international links, direct TV broadcasts and Internet access.
"With this new satellite, the African continent – along with portions of Europe and the Middle East – will receive innovative services, which are fundamental for the rapid development of telecommunications in these regions of the world," Le Gall stated.
In his post-launch comments, Le Gall also pointed out that Arianespace has orbited almost two-thirds of the satellites built by Thales Alenia Space, underscoring the close links between the two companies.
He concluded today's launch activity with details on Arianespace's next heavy-lift Ariane 5 mission, which is scheduled for liftoff on September 15 with Eutelsat's W3B telecommunications satellite and the BSAT-3b relay platform for B-SAT Corporation.
Le Gall noted that Arianespace is maintaining its sustained mission rate in 2010, with a total of six Ariane 5 flights planned for the year. In addition, preparations continue for the upcoming introductions of Soyuz and Vega at the Spaceport.


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Hasn't this been done before?
I thought tubes were old hat and solid state was state of the art?
/me checks inside microwave oven.
nope, we still use tubes.
True for now, but Midea apparently makes a 600 watt solid state microwave now. Amazing how powerful the solid state stuff has gotten.
they will make, haven't seen them sold yet, just demo'd. bet it won't compete well with the $40 magnetron oven we can buy now
Yes, quite expensive, I'd wager! They seemed to think that it would fill a niche market where magnetron ovens are too heavy, bulky, or delicate. Think mobile homes or airplanes. Or New York apartments
How do you create a CPU from 178 transistors? I'm shocked how low that number is. Is there a template for this? they said it could run MIPS. I've built a CPU out of Nand gates but it took more than 178, so I'm really intrigued.
I also got a laugh about the technique they used to find the metallic nanotubes. they over volted the circuit with the good tubes turned off. In the olden days when we wanted to debug the wiring on a wire wrap board the standard procedure was to take a fillament transformer and
Making a claim like "one day a computer will be thinner than a human hair!!! OMG it'll be great!!!" will just make you sound like an idiot sooner than you think. Lots of the quotes about computers fitting in single rooms and doing thousands of calculations are just like this.
Computation speed doesn't mean memory size. It's quite possible compiled and yet garbage collected languages could be made to be as computationally efficient as C while possibly having a slightly bigger RAM footprint. So, you'd still want to avoid VMs and interpreters to save up on the CPU time, but no one would worry too much about binary sizes or garbage collection.
You'd still need to be precise and not leaking of course... But that just means the people writing the compiler should know what they're doing
I don't know what that has to do with what the GP said, but it's entirely possible that memristors or RTM will replace DRAM in future, both of which consume no power in idle state, while matching DRAM in bandwidth and access latency, and potentially greatly exceeding Flash and DRAM in storage density.
If that comes to pass, then the way we write software ought to change to make use of massive and essentially free LUTs to replace many computational tasks. Also ideas like separate namespaces for memory and fil
I am just glad that we can still use Mores law to accommodate sloppy and bloated programming for a while longer. The thought that programming might have to become efficient filled me with dread!
That's why we must insist on x86 compatible instruction sets. That way we always have a bit of microcode cruft we can optimize away in a pinch.
The most interesting thing about these alternative transistors might be environmental impact. I'm under the impression that traditional wafer fab is water intensive and heats and/or pollutes water. There are dangerous things such as arsenic and bromine involved. If the carbon nano-tube process is clean that'd be awesome. It would be great to think that we could dispose of obsolete technology by incinerating it, and not release anything other than CO2 into the air, leaving behind slag that's full of recyclable silver and copper.
You're aware that carbon nanotubes are asbestos like and highly carcinogenic. Now you've got a horrific e-waste problem.
You're aware that carbon nanotubes are asbestos like and highly carcinogenic. Now you've got a horrific e-waste problem.
I'd assume that the amount of nanotubes for even a large chip would be quite small, and that they are easily destroyed in a plasma arc.
Horrific? Please.
Asbestos was a problem because it was ubiquitous. Houses were sided with it, attics were insulated with it, pipes were wrapped in it, entire skyscrapers were fireproofed with it, electric motors were covered with it, car firewalls were built of it. CPUs and RAM? Don't see an issue.
Making nanotube transistors in the method specified is just as environmentally risky as silicon, if not more so, as it requires two silicon wafers to produce one wafer of electronics.
I can't remember the book I read this in, but it posited that if you remove the silicon part of Moore's Law and you just talk about computing power and cost and the like that you can make a case that it has been in place throughout human history. In other words computing power has always been doubling, it just started by drawing numbers in the dirt, went to the abacus, etc.. etc... until we reached the silicon age and integrated circuits.
The hand wringing that the idea behind Moore's Law will ever end is just silly. When we reach the limits of silicon chips some other technology will take its place. This is just how human technology works.
It will have to end at some point, we can't build things smaller than the smallest physical unit in existence.
It will have to end at some point, we can't build things smaller than the smallest physical unit in existence.
Yes, but the question is "What is the smallest unit in existence?" Will it be atoms? Quarks? Something even smaller we have not even theorized yet?
So in 1971, we could do 740,000 additions in a second, given that your new law asserts doubling of computational power every 18 months, that implies that that in jesus' time it took them 3.5e386 *days* to do one addition. Something tells me this is bullshit
Whoops sorry, I took the clock rate of a 4004, not the instruction rate. Make that 3.5e387 days.
The hand wringing that the idea behind Moore's Law will ever end is just silly. When we reach the limits of silicon chips some other technology will take its place. This is just how human technology works.
Optimism is fine, but blind faith has no place in science.
The hand wringing that the idea behind Moore's Law will ever end is just silly.
There are two physical constraints Moore's law can't get around. For a volume of a fixed surface area, you are limited to how much information you can pack in there before a black hole forms. Second, a change of state, say flip a bit of memory, generates at a certain amount of heat. As a result, Moore's law will end.
If only we found a way to manufacture them.
1. "Lab-grown circuits that are thousands of times thinner than a human hair" is exactly what one could use to describe current silicon circuits. In fact, this study made transistors that are a micron across (which is, at best, hundreds of times thinner than a human hair), compared to current state-of-the-art silicon which is in the 22-28 nm range.
2. "A fraction of the energy required" does not describe the current study, nor was it their intent, from what I understand about the researchers' claims.
That's not to say that the research isn't very valuable; it looks like the level of integration they've managed is significantly better than what anybody else has achieved. But at the same time, there are lots of other ways that you could build a circuit that uses more area, costs more, takes longer to build, and is less power-efficient - this is just one more. All they've demonstrated is that you can hook together more than a handful of transistors successfully - but nowhere near the billions that they'd need for a commercial product.
The real breakthroughs have yet to be made; making it cheaper, smaller, faster, more efficient, and easily manufacturable - all at the same time. Not until all those problems are solved will it even have a chance of replacing real silicon. Until then, this is yet another case of a university PR rep boasting about their institution's research with grand claims about what the future holds, while not really reflecting the true nature of the research at hand.
(Admittedly, it is more boring when you adhere to reality.)
I am a nanotube scientist, and I support this comment.
As a field, we need to stop the hyperbole. It's embarrassing. They're doing a nice job of integration, but to claim any kind of fundamental advancement is absurd and irresponsible.
As an industrial scientist, this kind of misleading stuff makes my job significantly harder. Your typical non-expert doesn't realize that these guys did not achieve the aims claimed in the press release and are no where near to achieving them. If I do want to make meaningful advancements in manufacturability or performance, I first have to teach investors and business partners that the academics in my field are all lying to the public... not a good starting point.
In the future, the NSA will have to be given a back door to your hair.
They can have the hair from my backdoor already. Where do I mail it?
In the future, the NSA will have to be given a back door to your hair.
Thank you so much for making goatse on topic...
The number of people predicting the end of Moore's Law doubles every two years.
That means there will come a day when it's every person, and then two years later...
Whoa! Duuuude! That's like totally Trippy!
A fellow I knew about ten years ago was wacko conspiracy theorist, "I've seen the mothership" UFO believer, who also was an incredible analog and digital electronics wizard. He told me that the NSA was already using carbon-based semiconductors running at much higher clock speeds for its various nefarious operations. This makes me wonder if carbon nanotube technology hadn't already been developed and implemented in "skunkworks" world and it's only now that it's being developed in universities. It's sort o
" assemble a basic computer with 178 transistors"
Bunk. 100+ times as many normal transisters required to support its operation as a 'basic computer'.
(the 4004 had 2300 and required many support chips)
Its a long way from a lab to something practical. Will the techniques scale up?
Or will remaining irregularities scuttle any effort of 1million plus sized circuits which is 'basic' these days.
Let us know when you get alot further along.
Surely this is the year of the "Inanimate carbon rod", as predicted by the great prophet Homer.
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Journalism is a sprint and a marathon. No one in the NJBIZ newsroom knows this better than Jared Kaltwasser, who completed his first 26-mile race Sunday in the Niagara Falls area with a time of 5:01.36.
It's not surprising that a bunch of the reporters and editors in the NJBIZ newsroom are runners. Journalists must exhibit speed and endurance, and know which one is needed at which moment. The breaking news story is all about speed: finishing first while making sure you actually did finish (your story is accurate, fair and complete before it's posted). The investigative project is the endurance end of the business, slogging along with no idea where the finish line even is, much less when you might get there.
There's the competition aspect too, where the head and heart often do way more than the feet ever could. On the surface with running or journalism, you're trying to beat your competitors—the runners around you or the reporters in another newsroom. But in both, you're really competing with yourself. In running, it's beating your personal best or completing a certain distance. In journalism, it's setting some goal for the year, week, day or even hour, and beating it whether through speed or endurance.
Running a marathon is the ultimate competition with yourself (OK, OK, except for something like an Ironman triathlon where the marathon is just one piece). One of my favorite photos of my father is nearly 30 years old. He is 81 now but ran his first—and only—marathon in his early 50s or so. His goal for the New York City race was to break four hours. The photo is the official one you buy from the New York Road Runners, and my father is crossing the finish line, exhausted yet arms raised, as the clock shows 3:59.58. Knowing my dad, there was no way he was coming in three-hundredths of a second later. Definitely head and heart, not feet, on that finish.
This is all why Jared Kaltwasser is such a good journalist, and runner. He sets goals in both areas, and pulls them off, whether they require speed or endurance. On the journalism side, Jared can do the busting-ass sprint on a breaking news story and show the endurance required to work through the thorniest story on one of the most complicated NJBIZ beats.
Jared will bring all that to Press Row in Trenton, where he will become our new Statehouse reporter, replacing Andrew Kitchenman who is moving on to NJ Spotlight (more on Andrew next week). Jared takes over Nov. 12, moving into the most competitive beat in New Jersey journalism.
Jared will bring his own style to his new beat. I have a few ideas what that will look like, but I'll let Jared unveil it at his own pace.


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The Arizona CERT, which is the definitive repository of information on QT prolonging and torsades inducing drugs, puts Zofran in an intermediate risk category:
Drugs with a Possible Risk of Torsades de Pointes
Drugs that prolong the QT interval and/or in some reports have been associated with torsades de pointes but at this time lack substantial evidence for causing torsades de pointes.
Zofran use is ubiquitous on the wards. I'm aware of no reports of it causing torsades. On the other hand, how many patients with unexplained arrests on the wards are getting Zofran?
The FDA is making some significant labeling revisions:
The labels are being revised to include a warning to avoid use in patients with congenital long QT syndrome because these patients are at particular risk for Torsade. Recommendations for ECG monitoring in patients with electrolyte abnormalities (e.g., hypokalemia or hypomagnesemia), congestive heart failure, bradyarrhythmias, or in patients taking other medications that can lead to QT prolongation, are being included in the labels.
That represents a lot of patients being monitored!
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So far I have seen glimpses of Little Joe the Gray and Snow White , the white with a touch of gray with Cinderella Colby.
But if they sense that I am near they run and hide in the tunnes in the trees and bush.
They are so cute at about a moth old and I pray that I can get photos and catch them to be adopted.
I love them but am in failing heath and cannot keep them no matter how I feel:(


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2014 Ford Edge, Flex Plant to get $684 Million Investment
Due to rising sales of the 2014 Ford Edge, the automaker will invest $6.8 million into its Oakville assembly plant in Canada to meet demand. Additionally, Ford will add 2800 jobs at the plant, which also produces the 2013 Flex and the Lincoln MKX and MKT.
The plant has already hit a number of significant milestones this year, including its 60th anniversary and the production of its one-millionth Ford Edge. The U.S. continues to be Edge's largest market. Sales of the Edge peaked at 130,000 units back in 2007 and the automaker says it should surpass that number by the end of this year. Earlier this year a photo of what appears to be the next-generation Ford Edge leaked by accident during a presentation held by the automaker. The photo reveals a number of exterior tweaks including an all-new front fascia and deeper character line. Its powertrain offerings should include a 2.0-liter turbo-four, a six-cylinder, and possibly a hybrid.
Ford says improvements at the plant should be completed by fall 2014. It's possible that production of the next-gen Edge should start soon after and arrive in showrooms as a 2015 model year. It's unknown if the Ford Flex will continue on with a second-gen model. In addition to the Oakville investment, Ford will increase its annual budget on parts it produces in Canada by $195 million.
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By Army Staff Sgt. S. Patrick McCollum
Special to American Forces Press Service
May 13, 2009 - Many health issues may arise after a National Guard member returns from a combat deployment. Some wounds are physical and are spotted easily. Others, such as traumatic brain injury and post-traumatic stress disorder, are not as obvious, and may take some time to develop. To help identify these problems, the Army has developed a post-deployment health reassessment, or PDHRA, to evaluate soldiers after they return home.
As part of Mental Health Awareness Month, the Army National Guard is calling attention to this program as it proactively screens redeploying Guard members for potential health issues.
"We want to look out after and safeguard every soldier in the Army National Guard," said Maj. Anthony McGinthy, the PDHRA program manager for the Army National Guard surgeon's office.
The program gives Guard members a chance to identify problems three to six months after deployment. This window gives them a chance to settle into life and work, and to evaluate their health over that period. If combat-connected health problems arise, soldiers can report it during their PDHRA to become eligible for care.
"This is a way for soldiers to seek care that they need, whether that be behavioral, mental or physical" after deployment, McGinthy said.
The program consists of three parts. First, Guard members see the "Battlemind II" training video, which shows common readjustment issues for veterans. Then they complete a questionnaire detailing their health. After that, they sit down with a trained health care provider for a 45-minute, one-on-one conversation. During that talk, qualified medical professionals ask questions about contact information, deployment location and health history.
Soldiers also are informed of the types of assistance for which they are eligible, which may include health care at a Veterans Affairs hospital, and they get an opportunity to request assistance. The health care provider will then refer the soldier for follow-up care, treatment or evaluation if necessary.
"One of the things we do during the screening is advise them of their resources and link them to further care when needed," McGinthy said, noting that about 50 percent of soldiers who complete the PDHRA receive follow-on care.
This proactive approach means that even Guard members returning from their second or third tour will not find themselves exempt, McGinthy said. "Every time they come back from a deployment, they will be screened," he said.
(Army Staff Sgt. S. Patrick McCollum serves at the National Guard Bureau.)
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