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Much has been said about pharma's R&D lag, but a closer look at the candidates currently in Phase III shows that what the pipeline lacks in quantity it makes up for in quality. This Pharmaceutical Executive pipeline report identifies some of the top candidates in five categories: women's health, oncology, central nervous system (CNS), cardiovascular disease (CVD), and metabolic/ endocrine diseases.
Data on drug candidates were provided by the Pharma Solutions division of the medical publishing giant Wolters Kluwer Health, which gave Pharm Exec access to its extensive Adis RD&I database, containing a wide array of information on thousands of candidates from pre-clinical through Phase III, and by the investment bank Lehman Brothers, which tracks and evaluates numerous products in its Pharma-pipelines database. In the listings that follow, drugs are ranked by a proprietary 1-100 score, developed by Adis, that assesses clinical impact.
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For Women Only Across all five therapeutic categories, two compounds are rated 86-the highest number assigned to any in this analysis. One of those is a Pfizer compound for postmenopausal osteoporosis. (See "Women's Health." )
Lasofoxifene. This selective estrogen receptor modulator (SERM) inhibits bone loss and lowers cholesterol and is entering Phase III trials to evaluate its use in breast cancer prevention. Its projected peak sales are $1 billion a year, one of the highest in this report. Currently, the only SERM available for the prevention and treatment of osteoporosis is Eli Lilly's Evista (raloxifene), a first-in-class therapy.
Felicia Cosman, MD, clinical director for the National Osteoporosis Foundation says, "It would be good if the SERMs under development could show increased efficacy in reducing fractures at sites other than the spine. That's the type of clinical trial data that matters. Also, it would be better if a SERM did not cause hot flashes or increase the risk of venous thromboembolism."
Arzoxifene. Eli Lilly is harnessing its therapeutic experience with raloxifene in its efforts to launch another SERM, arzoxifene (rated 72), which has estrogen-agonist activity in bone and serum lipids and estrogen-antagonist activity in breast and uterine tissue. Arzoxifene is in development for osteoporosis, breast cancer prevention, and endometrial cancer and has peak sales potential of $600 million.
S12911. French pharma company Servier, developer of this stromium-containing osteoporosis drug, claims that it both stimulates bone formation and inhibits bone reduction. In a three-year clinical trial with 1,649 postmenopausal women, the drug reduced the risk of new vertebral fractures by 41 percent compared with placebo.
In a separate 24-month study of 160 patients, women treated with S12911 experienced increased BMD at the spine (5.53 percent), femoral neck (2.46 percent), and hip (3.21 percent). Based on these studies, the safety and tolerability profile of S12911 was acceptable. The candidate has a rating of 80, a 60 percent chance of being approved in the European market, and projected peak sales of $300 million.
Preos. The third osteoporosis treatment on the list is a recombinant human parathyroid hormone, which differs from currently available antiresorptive treatments because it is anabolic. That means it has the potential to reverse bone loss rather than just reduce bone resorption. Despite its subcutaneous injection administration, it has a rating of 75, a 75 percent chance of approval, and projected sales of $650 million.
Its developer, Canadian-based NPS Pharmaceuticals, is ushering the compound through a series of safety studies to rule out carcinogenicity. In efficacy studies, patients experienced dose-dependent BMD increases of 2.4-6.9 percent at the lumbar spine. In September 2003, Phase II/III data showed that although hip BMD was unchanged after 12 months of treatment, when Preos was combined with alendronate, there were significant increases in hip BMD. Since then, however, additional data have been negative.
"This is an interesting class," says Whitworth. "If this agent truly does not increase endometrial thickening or the incidence of strokes or blood clots, it could be very useful, particularly in younger women."
HPV vaccine. Another notable compound in this group is the human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine developed by Stressgen and in-licensed by Roche for the treatment of anal dysplasia. It elicits a CD4+-independent cytotoxic t-cell response and would be suitable for use in immunocompromised patients. Rated 60, the candidate has a 15 percent chance of approval and a potential to earn $500 million annually in sales.


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Today, CU athletics continues its women's soccer feature; "Free Kicks with …" Every Monday, Wednesday and Friday during the season, fans will have an opportunity to get to know the Golden Eagles a bit better through a question-and-answer session. Today, the series continues with junior Melissa McIntire.
McIntire, a junior from Papau New Guinea has played in nine games during the 2012 campaign for head coach Randy Strawser. McIntire brings energy, speed, and depth to the midfield position for the Golden Eagles.
For a more personal introduction to McIntire, read on …
The best part about being on the Golden Eagle's Soccer team? I tell everyone I play for the fame but I really love the close knit friendship that are built on the team.
My earliest soccer memory is … My dad was helping with a boys camp, but they let me play with them because there was no girl camps.
Other than soccer, my favorite sport to play is … Volleyball and basketball.
When I have an hour of free time, I like to … Hangout in coffee shops.
If I won a million dollars, I would … I already promised I would donate it. However, if it happened twice, I would travel and bring all my friends.
If someone would look at the songs on my iPod, I would be embarrassed for them to see I have … The best of Lebe and Mick Mac.
It is not good for you, but I still eat … Chocolate and Ice Cream together.
A place I would like to visit one day is … Rio, specifically in 2016.
If you could eat dinner with three other people (living or dead), who would they be and why? Steve Martin, Martin Short, and Chevy Chase so I can give them some comedic advice.
Who is your favorite Bible character and why? Peter because he asked lots of questions and wasn't afraid to say what was on his mind.
When surfing the Internet, what website do you visit the most frequently? Facebook, Google maps, and Travelocity.
What is something about you that other people don't know? I like digging holes.
Who is your favorite Superhero? Superman.
What cartoon character are you most like and why? Hammy from "Over the Hedge" because I talk fast and I can fit a lot of food in my mouth.
After graduation, I would like to … Become a teacher.

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The IKEA VITTSJÖ: 5 Colorful Hacks
For years IKEA's EXPEDIT has been a ubiquitous storage solution for homes everywhere. But recently the Swedish furnishing giant's VITTSJÖ has been showing up more and more on my design radar. It doesn't scream IKEA, and you'd never guess the system starts as low as $40. The black metal and glass shelving system has a nice industrial quality on its own, but it seems to really shine when it's given a bright coat of paint. Here are five really great examples of VITTSJÖ's potential.
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This week we've been focusing on kitchens of all shapes, sizes, and levels of function here at Apartment Therapy. Maybe you're juggling a busy kitchen and busy kids and could use a couple sturdy tumblers that can take the rough and tumble life, or you're more of a the-kitchen-is-just-for-look-I'll-just-have-takeout-and-a-glass-of-wine type and are hoping to welcome some beautiful new goblets into your life. Here's a look at gorgeous glassware on sale now to suit whatever kitchen and lifestyle you have at home.
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Hungarian-born industrial artist Eva Zeisel was one of the masters of midcentury modernism and her work has a distinctive organic and timeless sensuality. While she's perhaps best known for her work in ceramics, she also designed furniture, rugs, and home accessories. Though pieces can be purchased at places like Crate & Barrel and Design Within Reach, the online retail store Eva Zeisel Originals, which was launched by her grandson, Adam, offers the complete line of Century and 101 ceramics, her iconic tableware, as well as furniture and home accessories.
Clever Decorating Idea: Toothbrush Holder Outside of the Bathroom
As someone who enjoys the little things in life, there are few things that truly bore me. Toothbrush holders are one of them since, you know, divided toothbrush holders aren't exactly a sexy home adornment. But with a little ingenuity (and maybe some gold spray paint), anyone can take this sensible bathroom accessory and turn it into something you might actually want to show off.
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Handmade pottery is my latest Pinterest obsession. I'm ready to upgrade from my plain white Crate and Barrel plates, which I scored at Goodwill, to something a little more special, like these handmade pieces. They fit the bill for what I'm looking for, although my budget isn't quite there yet for a whole set. (A friend of mine registered for a full set of Heath, an idea I liked). Do you have any favorite potters not featured here? Share below!
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For a graphic illustration of the spread of concealed carry see http://www.gun-nuttery.com/rtc.php.
In the United States the history of modern concealed carry started with Georgia. In 1976 that state's governor, Zell Miller, introduced what became the model for later laws. His effort was inspired by an NRA director and former border patrolman, Ed Topmiller. The heart of the law was that the job of administering the shall issue permit process was given to a non-law enforcement, elected official.
Georgia joined a handful of other states allowing concealed carry, including Vermont, where no license is required; New Hampshire, with a 1923 law; Washington, which made issuance almost mandatory in 1961; and Connecticut, where in 1969 a Handgun Review Board was established to minimize arbitrary denials.
The Indiana Sportsmen's Council, assisted by the NRA-ILA, passed a mandatory issuance law in 1980, then had to sue the state police and other agencies and elected officials into compliance.
A trend started, with CHL laws passed in Indiana in 1980, Maine and North Dakota in 1985, and South Dakota in 1986.
The national media ignored these until 1987, when Marion Hammer tackled Florida. Anti-gun folks were horrified. Obviously concealed carry would turn Florida into another Dodge City. Blood would flow in the street. Fender-benders would turn into firefights.
The fight was tough, but the Unified Sportsmen of Florida succeeded. The dire Predictions? A year later the president of the police chiefs association, who had opposed the bill, was asked if he had kept track of all the problems the law caused. "There aren't any," he said.
That opened the way. CHLs swept through Oregon, Pennsylvania and West Virginia in 1989; Idaho and Mississippi in 1990; Montana in 1991; and Alaska, Arizona, Tennessee and Wyoming in 1994. Then came 1995, with Arkansas, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Texas, Nevada, Utah, and Virginia. In 1996 Kentucky, Louisiana, and South Carolina passed CHL laws, and West Virginia passed it again, their state supreme court having struck down the first one. Alaska, in 1998, had to override a governor's veto to remove restrictions from their law.
In 1999 several states were considering concealed carry, including Colorado. Then, on April 20, two students at Columbine High School killed a teacher and twelve students and injured twenty-four students. Experts predicted the anti-gun backlash would end the spread of concealed carry, and indeed it did result in a delay.
In 2002 New Mexico passed the first concealed carry bill since Columbine, only to see it struck down by a judge. Anti-gun forces had added a provision allowing cities to opt out, and an anti-gun judge used this anti-gun provision to invalidate the law, saying that the New Mexico Legislature could not cede this authority to cities. The next year the New Mexico Legislature responded by passing concealed carry legislation without the provision.
Also in 2003 Colorado, Minnesota, and Missouri passed shall-issue laws. Kansas and Nebraska went shall-issue in 2006, with Kansas having to override their governor's veto.
Alaska amended its carry law in 2003 to join Vermont by allowing no-license concealed carry. The state still has a shall-issue CHL for purposes of reciprocity and NICS check exemption.
Gun owners in Wisconsin had a long road. Concealed carry legislation passed their assembly in 2004, 2005, and 2006 but they have been unable to override a veto. They were one vote short in 2006.
Then the U.S. Supreme Court weighed in, first with District of Columbia v. Heller in 2008, confirming an individual right to keep and bear arms. In 2009 McDonald v. Chicago applied that principle to the states.
Congress passed two laws, one expanding concealed carry in national parks, and the other allowing firearms to be checked on Amtrak trains. They went into effect in 2010.
Arizona passed a no-license carry law in 2010, like Alaska retaining their shall-issue CHL. Iowa also made its CHL truely shall-issue, effective January 1, 2011.
In 2011 Wyoming passed a law allowing unrestricted carry for residents, which went into effect July 1. They retained shall-issue CHL. Also, Wisconsin elected a new governor. He signed their concealed carry law in 2011, and it went into effect November 1.
In Illinois state legislators voted 65-32 in favor of a shall-issue CHL. Unfortunately the state requires 71 votes to pass legislation restricting local communities' regulatory power, so Illinois remains the only no-carry state. Passing CHL laws was never easy.
A December, 2012 school shooting in Connecticut reignited the gun-control issue, but this time the results were split. Sandy Hook Elementary School was a textbook "gun-free" school zone, with strict state gun control, just-updated security, and rapid law enforcement response. Yet 26 innocent people died.
The states that already favor gun restrictions hurriedly passed new ones, in some cases resulting in mistakes that had to be fixed. Many of these new laws are being challenged in court, and in Colorado, for the first time in the state's history, two state senators were recalled in a voter backlash.
In a number of gun-rights states the reaction was to rethink the "gun-free school zone" philosophy. Larger city school districts are moving toward more armed school resource officers, while many smaller districts are, for the first time, allowing teachers to carry self-defense handguns.
The 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled in December, 2012 that it's unconstitutional for Illinois to ban concealed carry. After much debate Illinois passed a shall-issue concealed carry law, which should go into effect in 2014.
The current concealed carry status, as of 2013, is forty-two shall-issue states, four unrestricted carry states (three also shall-issue), no states with concealed carry banned, and eight with restrictive discretionary carry.
In many ways the Texas process was typical. The push started with proposed laws in 1983, 1985, 1987 and 1989 (the Texas Legislature meeting only on odd numbered years). The 1991 attempt came closer to passing, but failed to gain enough support in the legislature, and was amended to death.
In 1993 CHL returned again, and this time the big state media let loose with the typical "blood in the streets" predictions, both in quotes of anti-gunners and echoed on the opinion pages. They called for the people to contact their legislators.
The People did. I really think the popular support for the law caught the media by surprise. Then the Governor, Ann Richards, weighed in with the news that she would veto any CHL law the legislature passed. Politically, that should have been the end, but popular support would not let the bill die. Trying to find something the governor would sign, the 73rd Legislature ended up passing a law that only called for a statewide referendum on CHL, not authorizing anyone to actually set up any program. Governor Richards vetoed it anyway, saying that the people of Texas didn't need to vote on something like concealed carry.
Two years later the 74th Legislature passed SB 60, and the new Governor George W. Bush fulfilled a campaign promise to sign the first Texas concealed carry bill.
Throughout the long struggle to get a concealed handgun law passed for Texas there were a number of people who risked their political lives to accomplish what many thought might be an impossible task. Two stand out.
One is Texas Senator Jerry Patterson, who sponsored and shepherded a number of the bills, including the successful 1995 effort and the equally important 1997 revision. He happens to be a classmate of mine from Texas A&M University, Class of 1969.
The other is Suzanna Gratia, who rose from the tragedy in Killeen to provide essential testimony at a critical time. As Suzanna Gratia-Hupp she become a Representative in the Texas Legislature and served several terms, always speaking up for gun owners.
The law went into effect September 1, giving the Texas Department of Public Safety about three months to write all the procedures, design the paperwork, and train enough Qualified Instructors to teach the required course DPS wrote. They did it.
About 2,000 newly-minted Qualified Handgun Instructors began teaching the ten to fifteen hour CHL new-license class September 1, facing an initial flood of about 200,000 applicants. The new concealed handgun licensees started legally carrying January 1, 1996. It was somewhat anticlimactic, as the predicted bloodbath failed to materialize.
There was an initial surge in "No Handguns" signs on businesses that had been convinced the knuckle-dragging CHLs would invade in their camo clothing, tromping through stores in muddy boots spitting tobacco everywhere and running decent customers away. Instead, it was the decent customers who politely informed store owners that unless the signs came down their business would go elsewhere. Six months later "No Handguns" signs were an endangered species.
A loophole creating a conflict between concealed carry rules and alcoholic beverage license regulations made a revision of the law necessary. That was accomplished in 1997, and went into effect 1 September of that year. More significantly, that same bill also effectively removed hospitals and nursing homes, amusement parks, places of worship, and government meetings from the list of places where concealed carry is automatically prohibited. Another law established the "30.06" sign as the only one property owners could officially use to ban concealed carry.
The anti-gun folks came back in the 76th Legislature with bills to prohibit firearms anywhere on a school's property, and to reinstate the prohibition on carrying in a place of worship. Both were handily defeated. A number of pro-gun bills also failed to pass, and would be revisited in subsequent sessions. These include an effort to clarify the definition of "travelling," carrying in a car, lowering fees for veterans, securing the privacy of licensees, concealed carry on college and university campuses, and allowing military personnel to qualify for a CHL at 18.
In 2001 the 77th legislature added one restriction, prohibiting possession of any firearm within 1,000 feet of a place of execution on the day of an execution. A bill to deny concealed carry in a place of worship but with a provision that the church or synagogue could allow carrying failed, as did a bill prohibiting carrying in school parking lots and streets. On the pro-gun side, bills reducing veteran's fees and securing licensees privacy failed, as did a flawed bill extending the license period from four to five years and a bill that would have kept cities and counties from using PC 30.06 to ban concealed carry in government facilities.
The 78th legislature passed the ban on government agencies using PC 30.06, establishing the right to carry on public facilities. It also loosened rules on out-of-state Texas CHLs and the requirements for reciprocity. As a result, within two years the number of reciprocal states jumped from eight to twenty-seven. Bills to insure licensee privacy, allow concealed carry on Lower Colorado River Authority property, and expand firearms possession on school campuses failed, but so did a proposal that would have extended CHL training and required a psychological evaluation for licensing.
A number of pro-CHL bills passed the 79th Legislature. They extended renewal licenses from four years to five, eased the requirements for states whose licenses we recognize, allowed military personnel to get a CHL at 18, cut the new license fee for active military and the renewal fee for seniors in half, allowed persons from any state to qualify for a Texas out-of-state CHL, allowed payment of CHL fees by personal check, and eased eligibility requirements for a person with an old deferred adjudication.
The most significant legislation attempted to change the definition of "travelling" to allow unlicensed carry in a personal vehicle. However, this law proved to be controversial, with several district attorneys claiming that it failed to actually accomplish its aim.
Bills insuring licensee privacy and allowing concealed carry on LCRA property failed to pass, as did a bill prohibiting concealed carry in school parking lots and an "assault weapons" ban. Also failing was the first attempt at restricting employer gun bans in parking lots.
In 2007 the 80th Legislature waived the license fee for active and newly-discharged military and cut the fee for all veterans in half. A bill insuring privacy for licensees by eliminating the procedure for anyone to find out whether a person is licensed passed.
The Legislature revisited car carry, restoring the "travelling" rule to its former state and including a private auto as "premises under the control," solving the problem. A Castle Doctrine bill removed the retreat requirement and limited civil liability. Other bills passed that make the renewal class valid for ten years, finally allows concealed carry on LCRA property, and prohibits seizing firearms during a disaster. A bill that would have prohibited carrying in school parking lots passed, but was amended so it just prohibited exhibition of firearms. An employer parking lot bill also failed, as did one that would have expanded the no-guns area of an airport.
Because of the filibuster over the Voter ID bill much of the pro-gun legislation proposed in the 81st Legislature stalled out, including campus carry and employer parking lot bills.
Bills that passed included one creating a defense for improper 51% signs, removing the suspension penalty for failure to display to law enforcement, expanding interstate purchase of firearms, and simplifying instructor and student paperwork.
There were two fierce battles in the 82nd Legislature, campus carry and parking lot storage. The parking lot storage bill, SB 321, passed. It keeps employers from prohibiting employees from securing legally-owned firearms and ammo in company parking lots. Campus carry had more than enough votes to pass both houses, but parliamentary rules kept it from coming to the floor of the House of Representatives.
Other new laws legalize the carring of handguns in boats the way they are in autos, allow foster parents with CHLs to carry in their cars, and protect shooting ranges.
In response to the Sandy Hook tragedy the Legislature passed two school protection bills. The first invented a new category of law enforcement officer, the school marshal. These volunteers would have very limited authority, no pay, and would have to keep their handguns locked in a safe. The other law tasks Department of Public Safety with writing a training course to qualify CHL instructors to conduct school safety training.
General campus carry for colleges was once again blocked, but a new law does allow college students with CHLs to secure firearms in their cars on campus.
Concealed carry simplification included shortening the initial license class to four to six hours and eliminating the renewal class.
The most welcome CHL change eliminated handgun categories. Applicants can shoot any type of legal handgun, .32 cal. or greater, and carry whatever they want.
Travelers will benefit from a new requirement for a hotel with a restrictive firearms policy to place that policy on their reservation website and include information about it in written confirmations.
Under another law you still have to carry so the average person doesn't know you're armed, but it will be harder to prosecute if, for instance, your gun prints through your shirt. Also, you can legally display the firearm if you are justified in using force, instead of waiting until deadly force was justified.
Switchblade knives were removed from the list of prohibited weapons.
Eighteen years after the Texas CHL program started, with over 3,000 instructors and more than 580,000 active CHLs, the Texas violent crime rate continues to drop. Texas residents with Texas CHLs can carry in 33 states. As happened in all the other CHL states, concealed carry is working just fine.


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The X Factor
X Factor 2013 Undergoing HUGE Changes — What's Happening?
The X Factor 2013 is a little over a month away, and we can't wait to see what happens when veteran mentors/judges Demi Lovato and Simon Cowell return. But other than the dueling duo's return, it sounds like there's not much else that's going to be the same.
Bye Bye, Judges Houses & Boot Camp
Remember how last season, everyone was like "How cool that those kids get to go to Britney Spears's house!!" during Judges' Houses week, and then it totally wasn't even her house? Cuz we do, and that was awesome. Well, this year, it won't even be an issue, because they're cutting the Judges' Houses week. Why? Because why not, that was ridiculous.
Also on the chopping block? The Boot Camp weeks, which is a shame, since that's where we met some of last year's most spirited contestants.
New Middle (G)Round
Showrunners promise a new middle round, one that will make the show's flow more fluid. Although details aren't being released, executive producers say the round will "involve all four mentors whittling down the field until each one has four contestants per category."
Age Ain't Nothing But A...
As for the categories, last year's are (mostly) history, as the show will return to the Boys, Girls, Groups, and Over 25s format of previous seasons of the show. In Season 2, the categories were split up by age, other than the Groups.
Less Cowbell
We love costumes and spangly things as much as the next person, but when Jennel Garcia went from understated sexiness to in-your-face leather and fringe overnight, it was too much. This year, they're going to take their time with the makeovers and over-producing contestants. "This way the contestants' journey to being — and looking like — a superstar will happen slowly over the weeks now," Executive Producer Rob Wade says of their new look and feel.
Money, Money, Monaaaay
Probably the bummer-est move of the season, the show will no longer be giving away an insane amount of money. Rather than the 5 million dollar prize of a record contract, a music video, and all the Cheetos they could want (we made that part up), they'll get a little less.
Simon remarked that the previous prize was "almost too much." But fear not, the winner will still be handsomely rewarded "$1 million, still get a recording contract with Sony and become a number one priority." We're not sure about the wording on that last part, but we trust it'll all work out just fine.
The X Factor Season 3 premieres on September 11, 2013 at 8/7c on Fox.
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On this episode, I talk about a very divisive topic: moral objectivity. Religious people generally assume that since atheists do not use a holy book to define their morals for them, they assume atheists don't have morals. If religious people would pick up a biology book and read about the brain, they might know that they are wrong.
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After some to fro regarding the ability of god to answer prayer, they then proceeded to use biblical references to support their claim that god is real and does want to answer prayer. I find this an interesting proposition...that to provide evidence to someone who…
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Recently... Well not exactly recently. For quite a while now I have this odd experience from time to time. I just came across this site today and it seemed like the best place to ask. It's not the kind of thing that's easy to google. I call it the Twilight Zone Phenomenon due to it's resemblance to an episode of the aforementioned show.
So here's the setup. I'll be going about my business. Perhaps walking to or from classes on campus. When quite out of no where I am…Continue
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~~My best friend (as of now) is a fundamentalist baptist, although she just calls herself Christian. (We'll call her Jen) We tend to get into "discussions" about faith and religion, and so I thought I'd share some interesting points I, or she, has brought up.~~
This weekend I spent the night at Jen's house and for some reason we got on the topic of the bible. So, she got out her cute little pink bible full of girly quotes and well organized references and decided to look for…Continue
Added by Melody A. Rogers on July 26, 2011 at 7:21pm — 4 Comments
The belief that homosexuality is abnormal and unhealthy is prevalent in the Christian community, and is the foundation of a great deal of Christian bigotry. For the time being, however, bigotry is not enough justification to subvert the constitution. Throughout the ongoing debate over the definition of marriage, Right Wing bigots have cited the damage caused by homosexuality and homosexual relationships in an attempt to justify legal discrimination against gays.
The scientific…Continue
Added by William Hamby on July 26, 2011 at 12:12pm — 5 Comments
I'm struggling a lot, lately, with this idea of respect. Specifically, respecting other people's beliefs. Which is something that I'm often called on to do, and that honestly makes me feel like a big liar. Because I don't respect anyone's religious belief, if it includes a God (or several). I find it silly and liken it to mental illness. But, to be respectful, I'm supposed to say "well, it's cool if you want to worship an invisible man in the sky, I totally respect your decision to do…Continue
Added by Jess Schonberg on July 26, 2011 at 12:06pm — 21 Comments
Josh McDowell, who some may recognize from his apologetics, (Evidence That Demands a Verdict, or More Than a Carpenter?) says that the internet is the greatest threat to Christians and their faith. It is a great little article that I can…
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I have recently been running into people and they ask me what my religion is. I tell them I am a card carrying atheist and most just leave it at that. Today I was reading some rage comics and one sparked my imagination. It involved some girl sitting down and talking about her religion without the guy asking about it. I thought about how I would reply and the card carrying atheist thought popped into my head then the idea of taking it literally. So in the interest of that thought I came up…Continue
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So I stumbled upon some religious right-wing jackassery and I thought I'd share some of the stupidity I've encountered. I posted under the name "Unapologetic Atheist":Continue
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by Sam Harris
At certain points near the extremity of human evil it becomes difficult, and perhaps pointless, to make ethical…
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I had a very interesting phone call yesterday.
From the time that I was a child until I was a teenager, I attended a fundy Baptist church. When I was in high school, they hired a new "youth pastor". He was popular with the kids but after a few years he was let go. He wasn't conservative enough for the minister and the deacons. That was about the same time that I stopped going to church and moved 400 miles away.
That was back in the 70's. Ever since then he's…Continue
Added by Tim on July 25, 2011 at 8:35pm — 7 Comments
I was talking to my friend about how when I go places and people talk to me like I'm a "normal" guy but then when they find out I'm an Atheist, their attitude changes like night and day. I was at a restaurant not too long ago and my friends were talking about going to church. So they had asked me if I wanted to go to church right before I was about to order so I said "No thanks guys, I don't believe in that stuff." The cashier gave me a dirty look and said "I'm not serving you." I asked why…Continue
Added by Seth Jon Nonnemaker on July 25, 2011 at 8:04pm — 16 Comments
I originally posted this at my blog Martin S Pribble, and it was subsequently picked up as an "Article" at RDFRS, which made me quite happy. It has caused quite a discussion at both sites, so I thought it would be good to share with you lot also.
Religion is running scared from advances in science, particularly brain science such as neurology. Why? Because the brain is the final frontier in uncovering the reasons for belief in superstitions, religion and a higher…Continue
Added by Martin Pribble on July 25, 2011 at 6:49pm — 1 Comment
I'm currently following the aftermath and the only word I can find to describe it is mostly inspirational. I'll try to compile a list of the lessons Norway can teach other terror-stricken nations and a list over shameful events.It'll be a long post, you can skip uninteresting paragraphs if i score a critical wall-of-text hit.
I'll start with the worst.
Immediately after the blast everyone though of Islamists. After the shooting started everyone (including…Continue
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A publicly funded school in Toronto, Ontario Canada is allowing an outside (muslim) group to use the cafeteria as a mosque 1 day per week. Non muslim students are not permitted inside during services, males and females are segregated and ...menstruating girls are not allowed to participate.
I can't believe this crap happens in my country, in my province! Please follow the link, read the story and sign the petition, even if you're not…Continue


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Analytics • Facebook
Facebook Will Remove 'Friends of Fans' Metric on July 10th
by Jennifer Beese on April 04, 2013
If you pay close attention to your Facebook Page Insights, you'll soon notice that something is missing. Facebook has confirmed that it'll remove the "Friends of Fans" metric from Page Insights and the Insights API. While noteworthy, this might not be such a bad thing after all.
"In an effort to make our Insights products more simple and actionable, Facebook plans to deprecate the 'Friends of Fans' metric in Page Insights, which is listed on the Overview tab of Page Insights," Facebook explained in a statement. The removal is scheduled for July 10th.
The metric, which shows you the estimated total potential audience when counting the friends of members who Like your Page, isn't all that useful. You'd only be able to reach these people if all of your fans saw and interacted with a post, and then all of their friends saw that story in their News Feeds.
As Inside Facebook pointed out, that's almost impossible with the way Facebook's current News Feed algorithm works. Removing "Friends of Fans" could help you focus more on the metrics that do have an impact on your marketing performance, such as the total reach of your Page — which isn't limited to only fans or friends of fans.
However, "Friends of Fans" still makes sense as an Ad metric, so you'll still be able to access this number by using the Friends of Fans targeting option in the ad create tool and in the Ads API.
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"Kokoro no Takarabako" (心のたからばこ, The Heart's Treasure Chest?) is the ending theme for Chocobo Racing. The thirtieth track in the original soundtrack, the music was written by Kenji Ito, with arrangements by Shirō Hamaguchi. The Japanese lyrics are written by Takashi Tokita, and sung by Hiromi Ohta alongside the Suzukake Children's Choir.
"Diamonds in My Heart" is the English version counterpart. It is sung by Vicki Bell.
"Diamonds in My Heart"Edit
- Do you remember the days when we had a long long way to go
- And you were there for me, as I was there for you to be around
- The sun was shining brightly down on us so gently
- That we thought we could go on for as long and as far as we pleased
- Hand in hand, forever and far more, we would run, we'd never have enough
- Didn't even need know if it was time to eat or time to sleep
- On and on, the hours tick away so the memories can go astray
- How I miss the days of golden sun; and please, I'd rather be with you
- I still remember the days when we had a long long time to share
- That's when I saw you there, looking as tired as I used to be
- "Hello", I said unsurely; you smiled a little shyly
- Soon we knew we would go on together on a journey to our dreams
- Hand in hand, forever and far more, we would run, we'd never have enough
- Didn't even care to ask how far away from home we'd have to go
- On and on, the hours tick away, so the memories can go astray
- Oh I miss the never-ending road, and sure, I'd rather be with you
- Sweet summer breeze, or autumn leaves
- Blue winter sky, and blooming flowers of spring
- Friends, and their laughter precious
- And then, let all shine like diamonds in my heart
- All alone, I'm here to find the way to the dreams we used to have before
- And I long to see again your smiling face along the way somewhere
- You hear me calling out your name and you see the meaning of it all
- Come and join me on this race again; you know, tomorrow we'll be there


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When it comes to your backside, here's the bottom line: To lift your butt, you have to build muscle. "Building new lean muscle will help develop a backside with a natural well-rounded shape," says Jillian Lorenz, co-owner of the Chicago-based women's strength studio Barre Bee Fit with Ariana Chernin. (Looking for effective ways to tone up fast? Prevention has smart answers—get 2 FREE gifts when you subscribe today.)
This 5-minute strength training circuit targets the glute muscle from every angle to develop a perky, well-rounded shape. Whether you were born with a flat-as-a-pancake fanny or a derrière that seems to drop with every decade, we've got the perfect posterior plan for you—demonstrated by the creators themselves, Chernin and Lorenz.
TO DO THE WORKOUT: Perform 20 to 30 reps of each exercise with your right leg, switching from one move to the next without rest between the exercises. Complete all five moves with your right leg, and then do the circuit again with your left leg. Repeat for a total of two rounds per leg. To see the best results, follow the plan three times a week and pair it with a high-intensity interval training workout like this one to burn fat.


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UPDATE: LinkedIn Downgraded at Bank of America Amid Slower Job Postings
In a published report Tuesday, Bank or America analyst Justin Post downgraded LinkedIn (NYSE: LNKD) from Buy to Neutral. The price target has been decreased to $240 from the prior $270.
Post comments on the downgrade, "While we are not early with our call, based on slowing job postings and usage growth in 4Q we think 14/15 estimates may be aggressive."
The report noted, "While we continue to believe in LinkedIn's long-term enterprise opportunities (recruiting, HR, sales) and are positive on lack of competitive platforms, we think recent data suggest more caution on tough 2014 comps against a slew of successful products released in late 2012, potential investment in products like Sales Navigator (LinkedIn added a lot of headcount in 3Q and 51% headcount growth was close to revenue growth) that could lead to below-Street profit guidance, and the company's ability to consistently deliver meaningful revenue upside."
Risks of the downgrade were also highlighted in the report; including Sales Navigator enterprise fast sales, mobile ad pricing growth, new social products, and improving economy, all of which could lead to an optimistic outlook on 2015 revenues.
LNKD closed Monday at $203.92 and is currently trading at $206.04.
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I just read an intriguing account of an interview between a current events and special interest weekly TV program entitled "60 Minutes" and a man by the name of Jack Abrahamoff. The latter was jailed about 4 years ago for corruption as a Washington lobbyist. He is sorry and in his efforts to seek forgiveness he is telling all, or at least a lot.
He insists that Washington remains a den of corruption and that legislative action geared to suit one's particular needs can be easily bought if one has enough money. His MO was to snuggle up to congressional aides, preferably chief aides, and at an appropriate moment offer them an extremely high paying job at Jack's lobbying firm after the staffers leave their current jobs.
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INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Indianapolis is in the grip of one of its most violent years on record.
The Indiana capital has already recorded 60 homicides and is on pace to have its deadliest year in eight years. The city could even rival the record 162 slayings in 1998 if the hot summer months accelerate the violence as expected.
Authorities and community groups are grasping for ways to stem the bloodshed — enlisting community groups for street patrols, adding more police officers and increasing the presence of McGruff the Crime Dog to keep younger kids from going bad.
But the numbers keep rising. City officials and community groups alike agree the dilemma is rooted in social problems that go back decades, and it won't be solved simply or quickly.


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In Shakeup, Salon.com's Founder David Talbot is Out as CEO
Founder and CEO David Talbot has left Salon.com, according to a company filing with the SEC.
Munchery Expands Deliveries of Meals from SF's Personal Chefs to Marin
It's been just over a year since we took our first look at Munchery, the San Francisco-based startup that delivers meals from professional chefs to your doorstep at an affordable price, and over that time the company has made great strides.
Last Friday the company expanded beyond the city to start serving Marin, with plans to add the East Bay and the peninsula down the road.
The Incredible Expanding Internet to Grow 3.5 Times Larger in 4 Years
According to a new report by Cisco, the Internet is growing so fast that it will be more than 3.5 times larger than it is today, reaching a global IP traffic level of 1.3 zettabytes by 2016.
The Internet Might Transform the Way Women Shop for Bras
Entrepreneurs often focus on the "pain points" faced by consumers and what they can do to address them.
The pain point Michelle Lam and Aarthi Ramamurthy want to address is the difficulty faced by women when buying intimate apparel, starting with bras.
With "Get It Now" App, San Franciscans Can Have Anything Delivered By Courier
When it launched with its first iPhone app last December, Soma-based Postmates represented what its founder, Bastian Lehmann, called "a FedEx for local deliveries" here in the city.
Its goal was to get every store in San Francisco to start using couriers to make home deliveries– something few merchants have done traditionally.
"But we met some resistance from the stores; they had lots of questions," says Lehmann. "I realized we weren't going to achieve our goal anytime soon."
Meanwhile, while merchants may have been hesitant, consumers were not.
Wallit Lets You Create Augmented Reality "Walls" Anywhere You Go
"Imagine a virtual wall," Veysel Berk suggested in a coffee shop the other day. "It's like a physical wall that you can write on or post a picture to if you are at that location. Others can see it in real time and as long as they are nearby, they can post to the wall too."
Berk is the founder and CEO of Wallit, a geo-social app that connects people to places through multi-media messages on these augmented reality (AR) walls.
Sidecar Makes Sharing Anything Over Smartphones Easy During Phone Calls
When you think about it, the experience of making a phone call hasn't changed very much over the years, even as the devices we use to make those calls have undergone a revolution.
"It's crazy," says Rob Williams, CEO of Sidecar. "But the calling experience really hasn't changed much since the days when phones were still plugged into the wall.
"At Sidecar, we are reimagining the phone call for the age of smartphones, because you should be able to take advantage of all of the features of your smartphone when talking on it."
Fotopedia's Mission is to "Help People Discover Beauty in the World"
From their offices in Paris and San Francisco, Fotopedia's 16-person team produces what is often referred to as a photo encyclopedia.
But it's really more than that -- a mobile platform for immersive visual story telling on iOS apps built around themes, especially places.
Its eleventh and latest app, featuring thousands of photographs of Morocco, has just been released.
"Our mission is to help people discover beauty in the world," says CMO Christophe Daligault. "The first word I usually hear when I load the app and show somebody is 'Wow!'"
How Google's "Business Photos" Are Helping Local Businesses
Over the past two years, one of the many programs Google has been testing and developing is called Business Photos. It grew out of the "street view" aspect of Google Maps, which provides a 360-degree panoramic view of the area around a street address.
Business Photos now extends that same technology inside certain local business establishments that want to give it a try. Among the first piloting the technology are the Soma restaurant Ironside, nearby wine bar District, Public Bikes, and the Brick Monkey, in Redwood City.
CrashMyPad Helps Travelers to "Live Like a Local"
"We're just two guys being scrappy out there among the big boys," is how John Dale and Dave Evans describe themselves and their tiny venture, CrashMyPad.
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A select group of early-career safeguards professionals from across the NNSA enterprise came together in September for networking and a hands-on learning experience about safeguards inspection challenges and resources. The event at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory and facilities in the surrounding area was designed to increase NNSA's future capacity by building the diverse understanding young professionals need in nuclear safeguards. The activity, now in its third year, is an annual highlight of NNSA's Next Generation Safeguards Professional Network. Safeguards experts are responsible for ensuring that all quantities of nuclear materials are accounted for in nuclear processes, facilities, and equipment. Their success is crucial in ensuring that such materials are not lost, or diverted for nefarious use. This highly specialized field requires nuclear engineers, statisticians, physicists, chemists, information technology professionals, analysts, and policymakers. "Because of the variety of backgrounds, many young professionals benefit from additional development opportunities to become well rounded in these disciplines," said Melissa Scholz, Office of Nuclear Safeguards and Security. For the four-day event, Scholz accompanied nonproliferation staff from six DOE national laboratories that support the NNSA mission. "We designed this experience to increase their familiarity with the facilities, capabilities, and resources available across the NNSA complex," she said.Participants saw the inner workings of nuclear production, reactors, reprocessing, and uranium enrichment in real and test facilities. A highlight was discussing real-life inspection challenges with PNNL staff members who formerly worked as inspectors for the International Atomic Energy Agency. "Participants came away with a much stronger understanding of how safeguards play into the entire fuel cycle," Scholz said. "This is exactly what we're aiming for—ensuring a sustainable safeguards capability for the global security mission."
As your Chief Information Officer, I lead a talented and dedicated team in delivering the NNSA Network Vision (2NV) as a key element of the OneNNSA transformation strategy. We must change the way we use and view information, and when leveraged effectively, information becomes a strategic asset which enables us to do our jobs faster and more effectively. But almost more important than the information itself, is the security of that information.Cyber security has become a buzz word these days, but the funny thing is that you can't just go buy some cyber security. Rather, increasing our Cyber Security posture is the result of an effective, well-managed architecture which combines our IT investments with cyber tools and talented professionals. Because we protect some of our nation's most sensitive information, our network has to be managed unlike any other! So in order to transform our computing environment, we developed 2NV, which has three strategic pillars 2NV, JC3, and CSL, and once delivered, will set the stage for a transformation in how we actually do our work!
Pillar one: 2NV 2NV "modernizes our current computing environment" by providing a secure, mobile, agile, and adaptive IT infrastructure which will allow the NNSA workforce to perform their duties from any device, anywhere, any time.Pillar two: JC3The Joint Cybersecurity Coordination Center (JC3) allows us to "understand the health" of our sytems, data and networks within our computing environment Pillar three: CSLThe Cyber Sciences Laboratory (CSL) provides a capability to "protect our future" by establishing a process through which theoretical research in IT and cyber security can be rapidly applied to operational computing environments. We aim to leap from our current, desktop centric computing environment to a "best in class" mobile, capable and secure computing environment which will carry NNSA into the future. Check back often to track our progress as we deliver this vision!
NNSA Defense Program and Savannah River Site Office officials recently broke ground on two new buildings at the Savannah River Site (SRS) in Aiken, S.C. The two buildings will receive personnel from prime tritium process real estate, enabling the next steps in the Tritium Responsive Infrastructure Modifications (TRIM) program, a plan to remove processes and equipment from Cold War-era buildings into more modern facilities that provide enhanced security and advanced technologies to support the facility mission.In addition to the two new buildings, the ten year TRIM program includes consolidation of existing processes and facilities, deployment of new technology and process equipment, and decontamination and decommissioning of the old structures. Implementation of this effort will result in an overall lifecycle cost reduction and assurance of continued safe and secure national security tritium mission at SRS. "Today we're here to break ground on facilities that show the national commitment, and the NNSA's commitment, to modernizing our nuclear enterprise." said NNSA Principal Assistant Deputy Administrator for Military Application, Brigadier General Sandra Finan, who participated in the ceremony. "Today is a historic day, but what you do every single day is just as historic. I am very proud and honored to be here to share this with you today," said General Finan. "But more importantly, I'm very proud to be associated with what you do every single day, and thank you for your dedicated service."The Process Support Building is a 10,000 square-foot building that will house forty-seven tenants and replace offices, briefing rooms and control room simulators from other buildings. The Tritium Engineering Building will consolidate the engineering function into a single 16,000 square-foot structure, accommodating 94 personnel. Both buildings will be constructed through a contract with Akima Construction Services, LLC, and are scheduled to be completed by October 2012. Future projects within the TRIM program will relocate and modernize operational process equipment, allowing deactivation and decommissioning of several 1950s era structures.Tritium is a heavy isotope of hydrogen and a key component of nuclear weapons, but it decays radioactively at the rate of 5.5 percent each year and must be replenished periodically. This is accomplished by recycling tritium from existing warheads and by extracting tritium from target rods irradiated in a nuclear reactor that are operated by the Tennessee Valley Authority. Recycled and extracted gases are purified to produce tritium that is suitable for use. The SRS Tritium Facilities occupy approximately 29 acres in the northwest portion of H Area. Operations began in 1955.
NNSA's most recent quarterly summary of experiments conducted as part of its science-based stockpile stewardship program is now available here. The quarterly summary prepared by NNSA's Office of Defense Programs provides descriptions of key NNSA facilities that conduct stockpile stewardship experiments. These include some of the most sophisticated scientific research facilities in the world. These include, for example, the Dual Axis Radiographic Hydrodynamic Test (DARHT) facility at Los Alamos National Laboratory, National Ignition Facility (NIF) at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, and the Z machine at Sandia National Laboratories. The summary also provides the number of experiments performed at each facility during each quarter of the fiscal year.The U.S. Stockpile Stewardship Program is a robust program of scientific inquiry used to sustain and assess the nuclear weapons stockpile without the use of underground nuclear tests. The experiments carried out within the program are used in combination with complex computational models and NNSA's Advanced Simulation and Computing (ASC) Program to assess the safety, security and effectiveness of the stockpile. An extraordinary set of science, technology and engineering (ST&E) facilities have been established in support of the stockpile stewardship program.
Two NNSA supercomputers are ranked in the top ten of the TOP500 List of the world's most powerful supercomputers. The list was released today.Both NNSA computers are located at Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL): Cielo is ranked number six on the list and Roadrunner is ranked number 10. Five other supercomputers housed at NNSA sites are ranked in top 26 of the TOP500 list.As part of NNSA's mission to extend the lifetime of nuclear weapons in the stockpile, the Advanced Simulation and Computing (ASC) Campaign provides NNSA with leading edge, high-end simulation capabilities. The ASC program helps NNSA to meet nuclear weapons assessment and certification requirements, including: weapon codes, weapon science, computing platforms, and supporting infrastructure. Cielo, a petascale resource for conducting NNSA weapons simulations in the 2011-2015 timeframe, can achieve more than one quadrillion floating point operations per second. Earlier this year, the Cielo system was upgraded from 1.03 petaFLOPS (72 cabinets) to 1.37 petaFLOPS (96 cabinets). Cielo is operated by the New Mexico Alliance for Computing at Extreme Scale (ACES), a collaboration between LANL and Sandia National Laboratories.Roadrunner has a peak performance of 1.38 petaflops and was the first supercomputer in the world to perform at a sustained petaflops rate on a scientific calculation. Roadrunner has a unique architecture that was designed to explore new computing technology, and is an important stepping stone to even larger systems in the future. The top 26 include Number 15: The Appro Xtreme-X, LLNL; Number 17: BlueGene/Q, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL); Number 22: BlueGene/L, LLNL; Number 24: Red Sky, Sandia/National Energy Laboratory; Number 26: Dawn - Blue Gene/P, LLNL.The TOP500 list is compiled by Hans Meuer of the University of Mannheim, Germany; Erich Strohmaier and Horst Simon of NERSC/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory; and Jack Dongarra of the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. To see the entire list, see: http://www.top500.org/lists/2011/11
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The Annular Core Research Reactor at Sandia National Laboratories recently completed its 10,000th reactor pulse operation. The ACRR has been supporting weapons certification for more than 30 years. The first pulse was conducted in April 1979. The ACRR provides unique support to the NNSA and is the only reactor of its kind in the world with its special ceramic fuel rods. Since the shutdown of the Sandia Pulsed Reactor, ACRR has been a key component for qualification alternatives. The environmental testing performed at ACRR enables NNSA to be able to certify weapons systems with confidence each year without underground testing.
In 1918, on the eleventh hour of the eleventh day in the eleventh month, the world celebrated. After four years of bitter war, an armistice was signed. The "war to end all wars" was finally over. In November 1919, President Wilson proclaimed November 11, as the first commemoration of Armistice Day, which in 1954 became Veterans Day -- a day to honor American veterans of all wars.
As the Nation celebrates Veterans Day, we offer our sincere appreciation to members of the military -- past and present -- and their families. The courage and commitment of these Americans are an inspiration to all.
With over 42 million men and women who have served in our armed forces, chances are you know someone who has served. Our NNSA family has always included many dedicated men and women in uniform, and we appreciate their contributions to our mission.
As you take this day off work on Friday, please join me in saluting our military members. Take a moment to remember the contributions they have made to our safety and way of life, and the sacrifices they continue to make for all of us on a daily basis. Our veterans deserve our gratitude, and we look forward to the day when those serving abroad will return home safely.
A sharp eye and a lot of luck led to an interesting discovery at Pantex last month.Workers excavating at the construction site for the new High Explosives Pressing Facility uncovered the jawbone of an ancient peccary, a prehistoric pig related to modern javelinas, but the discovery was nearly lost amongst the giant piles of earth."If we'd have taken another bucket of dirt out of the wall of that pit, we'd have never known they were there," Don Lankford, contractor on the project, said of the bones. "We just happened to knock off for the day right there, and the next morning, the light was hitting the bones just right, and one of the workers spotted them."Lankford said the bones were imbedded about eight feet down in the walls of the excavation, with a color that nearly matched the surrounding dirt, so the proper light was crucial to the discovery. The bucket of the massive excavator would almost certainly have destroyed the bone fragments if it had taken another bite out of the wall of the pit, he said.Plant Historian Monica Graham joined with plant wildlife biologist Jim Ray, geologist Mike Keck and other personnel to excavate the bones. Dr. Gerald Schultz from West Texas A&M University identified the bones as belonging to a Platygonus, an extinct genus of herbivorous peccary of the family Tayassuidae that roamed the area in ancient times. According to Ray, Platygonus were similar to modern species of peccaries (also known as javelinas) but were larger, likely reaching 290-360 pounds.Platygonus became extinct at least 11,000 years ago, but the bones could be as old as 23 million years old.Work crews were able to move to other areas of the HEPF site and continue excavation for the foundation and flooring of the facility for several days while the find was dug out and catalogued. Work on the HEPF was not delayed."We were very fortunate to find the bones and to be able to get in there and remove them without impacting the schedule on the HEPF," Graham said. "It's a win-win for everyone when we can learn about the ancient history of this site at the same time we are ensuring the future with this new facility."The HEPF is a $65 million, 45,000-square-foot facility that is being built to modernize the high explosive capabilities at Pantex. Ground was broken on the HEPF in August, and construction is expected to take about two-and-a-half years. Pantex has policies in place that govern the excavation of paleontology sites. Graham said plant personnel have quite a bit of experience with excavation, having previously recovered historical remains from a site located near Pantex Lake, a playa northeast of the site. The peccary bones will be preserved and stored along with other finds from the site.
I'm excited to welcome you to the new blog of the National Nuclear Security Administration. I want this to be a unique place for you to hear from some of the dedicated men and women who help keep our country safe, protect our allies, and enhance global security every day.
We have a lot of interesting content to share. As we work to lock down dangerous nuclear material across the globe and execute our nonproliferation mission, we will give you an inside look at some of the challenges we face and how we overcome them. As we continue to develop cutting-edge science and technology in support of our stockpile stewardship mission, we will share those innovations and what they mean for our national security. And as we modernize our enterprise and make critical investments in our future – whether the MOX Fuel Fabrication Facility in South Carolina, CMRR in New Mexico , or UPF in Tennessee – we will share our progress along the way.
This will also be a place for you to learn more about the important work NNSA is doing to prevent terrorists from acquiring a nuclear weapon, to prepare to respond to a nuclear emergency anywhere in the world, and to ensure that American sailors and submariners reach their destinations safely and reliably in ports across the globe.
I'm committed to posting notes here as often as I can. And I'm sure you'll be hearing from Neile Miller, Principal Deputy Administrator, very soon.
President Obama has laid out an ambitious nuclear security agenda, and thousands of people across the country are working hard to implement it as I type this. This will be a place to tell their stories , and I hope you'll read along.
Y-12 National Security Complex employees recycled more than 6,100 pounds of their personal electronics recently during Pollution Prevention Week at an on-site event. The materials were collected by e-Cycle, a local company that recycles or finds new homes (reuses) for electronics.
"It was great to see Y-12 employees and subcontractors recycle their home electronics," said Sustainability and Stewardship's Jan Jackson. "Employees brought in their old personal equipment – hard drives, monitors, printers and fax machines that will now be reused or recycled properly."
e-Cycle takes the items and reuses as many as possible; the company works with a local nonprofit organization that donates computer systems – free of charge – to needy families.
Items that can't be reused are recycled. "Before we ship the materials off-site for reuse or recycling, we erase computer hard drives. We work with electronics recycling companies located throughout the United States," e-Cycle's Marvin Peek said.
e-Cycle does not charge a fee for recycling the items.
The event was held as part of the Federal Electronics Challenge initiative of which B&W Y-12 is a participant. The program encourages federal facilities to purchase greener electronic products, reduce impacts of electronic products during use and manage obsolete electronics in an environmentally safe way.


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Hospitality Inn, Portland
- Free continental breakfast, free WiFi, and free parking
Main amenities
- 53 guestrooms
- Spa tub
- Fitness center
- 24-hour front desk
- Coffee/tea in the lobby
- Air conditioning
- Daily housekeeping
- Self-serve laundry
- Meeting room
- Multilingual staff
- Concierge services
- Free newspapers in the lobby
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- In South Portland
- Custer Park (1.9 mi / 3.1 km)
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- Standard Room, 1 King Bed
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- This hotel has 53 rooms
- This hotel is arranged over 3 floors
- Check-in time 2 PM-midnight
- Check-out time is 11 AM
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- Minimum check-in age is 21
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- Children (17 years old and younger) stay free when occupying the parent or guardian's room, using existing bedding
- No cribs (infant beds)
- Pets allowed (dogs only) *
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- 2 per room (up to 40 lb)
- Free WiFi and wired Internet access in public areas
- Free WiFi and wired Internet access in rooms
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- Free continental breakfast
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- Conference space size (feet) - 1200
- Conference space size (meters) - 111
- One meeting room
- 24-hour front desk
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There are many different ways a registered voter can cast a ballot:
- Early Voting - This type of voting method takes place on the 10th day before Election Day and ends on the 3rd day before Election Day (October 27 - November 3, 2012). It is a great option for registered voters who work on Election Day or who simply want to avoid the long line at the polls. For early voting sites, contact your Supervisor of Elections.
- Absentee Voting (Non-Military) - This type of voting method is for U.S. citizens who will be away from their place of residence during the elections. It is also for individuals who simply prefer to vote through mail. Your Supervisor of Elections must receive your request for an absentee ballot in the mail no later than the 6th day before Election Day by 5:00 p.m. (October 31, 2012). Contact your Supervisor of Elections to have your absentee ballot mailed to you.
- Absentee Voting (Military) - This type of voting method is for active duty U.S. service men and women, their spouse, and their dependents, who are located outside of the country. A request to register to vote and receive an absentee ballot can be made using the Federal Post Card Application (FPCA). A request can be made by contacting your Voting Assistance Officer or through the internet at www.fvap.gov. The absentee ballot will then be mailed out, faxed, or emailed to you no later than the 45th day before Elections Day (September 22, 2012).
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On 13 February 2008, the Management Board of the European Chemicals Agency (ECHA) adopted the Agency's stakeholder cooperation policy.
EU institutions and bodies
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Twenty years after his rookie season, his baseball exploits remain mythical to those lucky enough to have seen him.
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — OK, so one day in New York, Bo Jackson complained in the dugout before a game. Reporters surrounded Bo, which never made him happy anyway. Reporters wanted to explain things, and Bo Jackson wasn't about explaining. Bo was about doing.
"Everything I do, people tend to exaggerate it," he moaned. "With me, they want to make things bigger than they are."
Bo said he was just another guy. He wasn't some sort of folk hero, like John Henry or Pecos Bill. No, he hurt like other players. He made mistakes like other players. He struck out a lot. He wasn't forged out of steel, and he couldn't outrun locomotives, and he couldn't turn back time by flying around the world and reversing the rotation of the earth.
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"I'm just another player, you know?" he said.
Then the game began, Royals versus Yankees at Yankee Stadium.
First time up, Bo hit a 412-foot homer to center field.
Second time up, Bo smashed a 464-foot opposite-field home run. Longtime Yankees fans said that ball landed in a far-off place where only home runs by Ruth, Gehrig and Mantle from the left side ever reached.
"Colossal," teammate George Brett would say. "I had to stop and watch."
Third time up, Yankees manager Stump Merrill walked out to the mound to ask pitcher Andy Hawkins how he intended to get Bo out this time.
"I'll pitch it outside," Hawkins said.
"It better be way outside," Merrill replied.
Hawkins threw it way outside. Jackson poked the ball over the right-field fence for his third homer. The New York crowd went bananas.
Bo never got a fourth time up that day. Instead, he hurt his shoulder while diving and almost making one of the great catches in baseball history. New Yorkers stood and cheered as he walked off the field.
"You know what?" Royals Hall of Famer Frank White said almost 20 years later. "I really did play baseball with Superman."
It began a generation ago
It has been 20 years since Bo Jackson was a rookie. An entire generation of young baseball fans never experienced the thrill of watching Bo play baseball.
How can you explain Bo Jackson to a kid today? Old-time baseball fans and scouts tell tall tales about players. "Oh, you should have seen Mickey Mantle before he hurt his knees; he ran so fast he could bunt for doubles," they'll say.
Or, "Before Pete Reiser started running into walls, he could play left field and center field at the same time."
Or, "There was nobody quite like Monte Irvin before he went to war; he used to hit for the cycle three times a week."
So what makes Bo different? Well, for one thing, it's all on video. Bo really did break a baseball bat over his thigh after striking out. Bo really did throw a ball from left field all the way to first base on a fly to double up Hall of Fame catcher Carlton Fisk. Bo really did, in his spare time, transform into the most sensational running back the NFL has ever seen. He really did … well, he really did a lot of stuff.
But Bo Jackson was always grouchily unimpressed with himself. Michael Jordan thought that was part of Bo's magic. "Neither of us is very easily amazed," Jordan told Newsweek in those days when he and Bo were the two greatest athletes in the world.
When Bo Jackson was called up to the big leagues after only 53 minor-league games, he shrugged. When he had his first four-hit game in only his fifth game, he announced, "It's just another night."
Two days after that, he faced Seattle's Mike Moore, a power pitcher who would win 161 games in the big leagues. Before the game, Bo went over to Willie Wilson's bats, liked the feel of one, and announced, "This is mine."
With Willie's bat, Bo hit a 475-foot blast to left-center, the longest home run ever hit at Royals Stadium.
"There's something about Bo," Royals general manager John Schuerholz said then. "Call it mystical or magical."
Sept. 2, 1986: Bo's first game. His first at-bat was against Hall of Famer Steve Carlton. He hit a ground ball to second base, and Tim Hulett picked it up and threw to first — only Bo was already past the bag.
"Oh man, nothing that big should move that fast," said Royals Hall of Famer and former hitting coach John Mayberry.
July 29, 1988: Bo Jackson was facing Baltimore's Jeff Ballard. He called timeout and stepped out of the box. He adjusted his batting glove when he realized that the umpire did not actually grant his timeout, and Ballard was throwing the ball. Jackson jumped back into the box, swung that bat and … yeah. He hit a home run.
"Most amazing thing I've ever seen in my life," says Bob Schaeffer, Kansas City's first-base coach at the time.
May 15, 1989: Baseball writer Peter Gammons was in Minnesota to write a Sports Illustrated cover story about Jackson, so he watched Bo take batting practice. It was a typical Bo hitting session — he cracked rockets all over the field. Then it was time for his last swing. Bo jumped into the cage and hit left-handed.
He hit a titanic shot 450 feet off the Hardware Hank sign in right field.
"I got work to do," Bo said to the other players, whose jaws had dropped. He ran out to the outfield to shag some fly balls.
July 11, 1990: Bo ran up the outfield wall. Literally. He chased down a fly ball and caught it about four steps in front of the fence. He put his right foot on the wall, then his left, then his right — until he was 7 feet off the ground and sideways. For a guy who didn't want to be seen as a superhero, he sure kept doing superhero things.
"What do you think of Bo Jackson?" a reporter asked Bo Jackson.
"I've known this guy for years," Bo said of Bo. "And nothing he does fazes me."
"The Throw"
There are so many more. Once, he ran over catcher Rick Dempsey. Dempsey broke his thumb but said, "I held him to fewer yards than Brian Bosworth." That goes back to a Monday night game.
And we don't even have time for all the legendary football stories.
"The Throw" deserves its own section, however. On June 5, 1989, the Royals were playing at Seattle. It was the 10th inning, score was tied 3-3, Harold Reynolds was on first base when Scott Bradley rifled a double to left field. Reynolds was running on the pitch, so it was obvious he would score the winning run. He rounded third, headed for home and prepared to have his teammates mob him when he saw his teammate Darnell Coles pumping his arms, the baseball signal for "SLIDE!"
Reynolds thought: "Slide? Are you kidding me?"
So, he was about to launch into what he called "a courtesy slide" when he saw that Kansas City catcher Bob Boone had the ball. Boone tagged him.
Bo Jackson had made a flatfooted throw of 300 feet in the air. It was a perfect strike. It was so impossible, so ridiculous, so absurd that no umpire was on the spot to make the call. Plate umpire Larry Young finally came to his senses and made a fist — Reynolds was out.
"Now I've seen it all," Scott Bradley said.
"This is not a normal guy," said teammate George Brett.
"That was just a supernatural, unbelievable play," said Seattle manager Jim Lefebve.
"I just caught the ball, turned and threw," Bo grumbled. "End of story. … It's nothing to brag about. Don't try to make a big issue out of it."
Bo Jackson's baseball career really ended on a football field in Los Angeles. He hurt his hip against the Cincinnati Bengals. He did come back and did a few remarkable things after that, but it was different. He wasn't superhuman anymore.
Harry Houdini in cleats
The thing is, anyone who saw him play will never forget him. Every game was like a Harry Houdini performance — you expected to see something you had never seen before.
This story began with that July day in 1990 at Yankee Stadium when Bo Jackson hit three home runs before being injured.
He missed more than a month, then returned on Aug. 11 to face Seattle. He came up in the second inning. The pitcher was Randy Johnson. First pitch, Bo crushed a long fly ball to center field. The ball splashed in the waterfall to the left of the scoreboard. The Royals estimated the homer flew 450 feet.
"I'm not trying to brag," Jackson said. "But I actually saw the threads on the ball right before I hit it."
For once, Bo Jackson had impressed himself. And that might have been his greatest feat of all.


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This should be your own decison. If you want a 100% bug free 64-bit plugin maybe you should wait a bit. This also depends on which features you want to use and the GUI problem with the Arp pattern has no impact on the resulting sound.
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Irish Prison Service College
The Irish Prison Service College located in Brian Stack House, Portlaoise provides all training within the Irish Prison Service. The College Head of the Irish Prison Service College is Governor David Clarke.
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Since September 2007, all Recruit Prison Officers complete an accredited two year Higher Certificate in Custodial Care programme which replaced the nine week induction training. The course includes modules on Communications and Interpersonal Skills; Human Rights; pro social modeling; Health and Safety in Prisons; Prisoncraft; Professional Development and Practice; Sociology of Irish Society; Equality and Diversity Awareness; Health Care in a Custodial Care Setting; Introduction to Social Psychology; Prison Law; Drugs, Drug Abuse and Communicable Diseases; Custodial Care: Policy and Practice; Education and Mentoring in Custodial Care; Criminology and sociology and Ethics for Custodial Care.
Recruit Prison Officers take modules in pro-social modelling to raise awareness of the value of promoting positive behaviours in addition to extensive interpersonal communication skills training. Training emphasises that human rights instruments provide a set of rules to help prison staff perform their duties through policies and practices that are lawful, humane and disciplined. Incorporating such principles into daily conduct strengthens the dignity of the profession. Respect for human rights is addressed in sessions relating to Intercultural Awareness and Racism and threaded through all procedural and prison craft training so that the concepts of humane treatment and awareness of international instruments are embedded through all elements of training.


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NEWPORT, Aug. 19---Mrs. George D. Widener made an emphatic denial today of her reported engagement to Dr. Hamilton Rice of Boston, the noted explorer, which was published in a New York newspaper. Dr. Rice has been a house guest of Mrs. Widener for several weeks.
According to the report, the formal announcement of the engagement would probably be made tomorrow night at the ball Mrs. Widener is to give at her new villa. It was also stated the wedding was to take place quietly on Aug. 28.
Mrs. Widener lost her husband and one of her sons in the Titanic disaster. She was Miss Eleanor Elkins, daughter of the late William L. Elkins, before her marriage. She owns a notable collection of pearls, one of the finest in the world. After her husband's death she rebuilt as a memorial to him St. Paul's Episcopal Church at Ogontz, which is near her home in suburban Philadelphia.
Dr. Rice has received many medals for his explorations, principally in South America, and has published works of his scientific achievements as an explorer.
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FUNCTION: To study all proposed changes in and additions to the rules of procedure of the General Faculty and the Faculty Council and to submit recommendations to the General Faculty; to make the final ruling in any election dispute or on any election matter not covered by the rules; to handle questions of interpretation of rules; to determine questions of jurisdiction arising between the Faculty Council and the General Faculty.
COMPOSITION: At least four members of the General Faculty, including the secretary of the General Faculty. In addition, every year the chair of the Faculty Council shall appoint two General Faculty members of the Faculty Council for one-year terms as members of the committee. The committee shall elect its own chair and vice chair, both of whom shall be members of the General Faculty.
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Durbin, John R. ex officio Secretary, General Faculty, and Professor, Mathematics Schmidt, Robert N. 2001-2003 Professor, Theatre and Dance Strong, Pauline T. 2000-2002 Associate Professor, Anthropology
Faculty Council Appointees: Ambler, Anthony P. 2001-2002 Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering Gilbert, Dorie J. 2001-2002 Assistant Professor, Social Work