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Kolkata, West Bengal, India, Friday, January 04, 2013 — (Business Wire India) — A recent analysis by Elsevier shows that India has a 0.6% net inflow of scientists. Moreover, incoming scientists and short-term visiting (or transitory) scientists are significantly more productive than scientists who remain in India and scientists that leave the country. India is not losing productive brains, but is in fact an importer of productive brains.
Dr. Michiel Kolman, Senior Vice-President Academic Relations at Elsevier, attending the Centennial Indian Science Congress, commented, "India shows a net inflow of scientists, with the productivity of the incoming and visiting scientists being higher than that of the average staying and outgoing scientist; so in fact a case can be made for an Indian 'Brain Gain' rather than the commonly believed 'Brain Drain'."
Using Elsevier's Scopus database, publication data was studied over a 15 year period tracking migration streams of scientists using their affiliations and hence the country they publish in. The size of the migration streams was analyzed revealing that 64.1% of the scientists stayed within India during the 15 year study period, 23.4% were visiting (or transitory) researchers (traveling in or out of India for a period less than 2 years), 6.6% moved to and 6.0% left India; summing up to a net inflow of 0.6%.
The level of productivity of these migration groups was measured by publication output and expressed relative to India's country average publication output set to one. Analyses showed that incoming scientists (6.6% of the total number of scientists studied) are most productive (1.38 where 1.00 is the average publication output for India), visiting or transitory scientists (23.4%) are almost as productive (1.34), while outgoing scientists (6.0%) are below average in productivity (0.95).
These results can be put into international context by comparison with the UK and China. Both the UK and China display similar patterns as India: all three countries import scientists that are more productive than their country average and they all export scientists that are less productive.
Group size comparative analyses of outgoing scientists revealed: 6.0% for India, 10.0% for UK and 2.1% for China; with productivity levels at 0.95, 0.92 and 0.99 respectively, consistently below country publication average for all three countries.
Group size comparative analyses of incoming scientists revealed: 6.6% for India, 8.5% for UK and 7.1% for China; with productivity levels at 1.38, 1.14 and 1.85 respectively; consistently higher than country publication average for all three countries, and significantly higher for India and China.
Group size comparative analyses of visiting (or transitory) scientists revealed: 23.4% for India, 44.4% for UK and 16.0% for China, with productivity levels at 1.34, 1.24 and 1.22 respectively; again more productive than country publication averages.
Group size comparative analyses of staying scientists in the15 year study period revealed: 64.1% for India, 37.2% for UK and 74.9% for China, with productivity levels 0.75, 0.60 and 0.74 respectively; all significantly below the country averages, with the UK being the least productive.
Further comparing level of mobility (incoming, visiting and outgoing), it was found that mobility is substantially higher for the UK compared to China or India with 62.8% of all scientists from the UK moving around during the 15 year study period, compared to 35.9% for India and 25.1% for China.
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Mets fans might have celebrated hollow victories over the weekend when the Yankees and Phillies were eliminated from the postseason on consecutive nights, the final out in each game coming on a called third strike. Alex Rodriguez one night; Ryan Howard the other.
Of course, rooting against the Yankees and Phillies is futile work, as it does nothing toward the improvement of the Mets.
However, the most important development lately has been the narrowing of the GM candidates to Josh Byrnes and Sandy Alderson.
Byrnes will interview with ownership, including Fred Wilpon and Saul Katz, today, and Alderson will be on stage tomorrow. Both are highly regarded and will inherit a team with a high payroll and a myriad of issues.
Neither will be able to turn the program around in a year, and such a promise hasn't been made by either in the first round of interviews.
Both GM candidates indicate Wally Backman is on their list of prospective managerial candidates, which parallels the Wilpon's thinking. That is not to say Backman is a given, but he will get an honest shot. There are several things about Backman that concern me, most is the perception he is the Wilpon pick and he's being forced on to the new general manager. My preference for Backman is to be promoted to bench coach and work under an experienced manager.
The new GM will inherit a team slightly below .500, meaning there is reason to be optimistic about improvement should all the pieces fall into place, notably the healthy returns of Jason Bay and Carlos Beltran, continued development from Mike Pelfrey and Jon Niese, and an encore from RA Dickey. The Mets aren't void of talent, and improvement should occur, but they are still behind the Phillies and Braves, but those teams have their own issues.
A GM decision could be made as soon the off day following Game 2, which is a travel day in the World Series. As written here before, the GM candidates have their thinking on the manager, so that process should turn around rather quickly.
The first order of offseason business might night be conducted by assistant GM John Ricco and Jeff Wilpon, and that would be the re-signing of reliever Hisanori Takahashi. The Mets have until Oct. 31 to re-sign Takahashi, otherwise he can become a free agent.
Takahashi did everything the Mets asked of him last season as a starter or in a variety of bullpen roles, but the left-hander prefers to start. The Mets could promise him a chance to compete for a starting job in spring training or they could overpay to keep him in the pen.
Reportedly, Takahashi is seeking a two-year deal and he's worth it based on what he did in 2010.


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by Carole Verona
Adam Long, Daniel Singer and Jess Winfield — authors of "The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (abridged)" — posted this message about the play on their Reduced Shakespeare Company (RSC) web page:
"Warning! This show is a high-speed roller-coaster type condensation of all of Shakespeare's plays, and is not recommended for people with heart ailments, bladder problems, inner-ear disorders, outer-ear disorders, Shakespearean scholars, degrees in Elizabethan history and/or people inclined to motion sickness. The RSC cannot be held responsible for expectant mothers!"
Despite the warning, Mt. Airy resident Mariangela Saavedra, Casabuena Cultural Productions, is producing The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (abridged) on Friday and Saturday, June 7 and 8, 8 p.m., at the Allens Lane Art Center. Yes, that's right. Here is your chance to experience all 37 Shakespeare plays — comedies, tragedies, and histories — in 97 minutes.
The play was written for three actors, so when Saavedra read the script she immediately thought of three local thespians: Kyle Paul Dandridge, of Chestnut Hill; Brian Weiser, of Lawndale; and Chris Lepore, of Germantown.
"Knowing them and having seen each of them in different kinds of performances, I just started interchanging them in my mind," she said. "I knew that each one could do any of the roles; I just had to decide which actor would be funnier in which part. And since the show is designed to let the actors apply local topical humor into the script, all three have been priceless to me because I am a newbie to Philly and don't know too much about its history and culture."
Brian Weiser portrayed Cléante in "Tartuffe" at The Stagecrafters Theater. "Because he brought a very effeminate quality to that character, I thought he should predominately play all of the girl parts," she said. Weiser has also been seen at Stagecrafters in "Mrs. Warren's Profession" and "The Violet Hour."
"Kyle Paul Dandridge has a great sort of announcer's voice, so he should be the character who opens and ends the show and does the intermission announcement," she added. He has appeared in many productions at Allens Lane and Stagecrafters. He has also participated in three Readers' Theater shows at Stagecrafters and directed one.
"When I met Chris Lepore 20 years ago," said Saavedra, "he was kind of a mentor to me because he had already been through theater school, and I was just graduating from high school. We were working at a dinner theater together, and he was talking in a very elevated manner about theater. So when I read the script, I thought he should be the one who plays the passionate, eminent Shakespearean scholar. Plus his character gets to play Hamlet, which is every actor's dream."
Saavedra, 39, is originally from the Northern Virginia/Washington, D.C. area. Her father, Pat Anthony, was an actor who got her involved in theater when she was 13. She received a bachelor's degree in acting and directing from Marshall University in West Virginia in 1999. She then went to Wilmington, North Carolina, to work in film, television, and theater. "I realized then that film and television are very different art forms and that I'm more suited to theater," she said. Since coming to Philly in 2009, she has stage-managed shows for Stagecrafters ("The Fantasticks" in 2010) and Allens Lane ("Wonder of the World" in 2012).
Eric Gershenow, Saavedra's husband, wrote the original music for this production of "The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (abridged)," and he will perform at an event for VIP ticket holders prior to the Saturday evening show.
Saavedra's stepson, Halin Hegamyer-Gershenow, 13, asked if he could be involved backstage. "His request got me thinking about how I could get other kids involved. Halin's best friend, Jared Taylor, 12, has been recruited as prop boy, and his younger sister, Lia Taylor, 8, will usher. Eight-year-old twins Zoey and Hayden Lepore will wear Shakespearian costumes and serve as ushers. Steven Lepore, 15, will operate the light board."
For more information or to purchase tickets, go to completeworksws-ccp.brownpapertickets.com.


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Imagine you're driving through unfamiliar territory and your car starts malfunctioning. You pull into a small-town garage and ask the mechanic to look at your vehicle. "I can't do anything about your car, but I can get you in touch with other people who bought this car," he says. As you stand there perplexed, he adds: "Hey, would you like to book a hotel room?"
"I'd like you to see what's wrong with my car," you respond, growing a bit irked.
"We'll happily book your hotel room," the mechanic replies. Then you realize there are no cars in the shop, no oil stains and the gent saying he's a mechanic has a spotless uniform. Something is amiss.
Now imagine you're a high-school senior looking into colleges. You see a "Class of 2015" group for a college you're interested in. You join it, but instead of finding anyone who can really answer your question or receiving timely info, you see posts promoting a roommate-matching service. Something is amiss.
Welcome to shady Facebook marketing, a near-annual ritual facing incoming students. New York Times education blogger Jacques Steinberg offers an interesting look at the latest fraud — where a roommate-matching group called RoomSurf (nee URoomSurf) created more than 150 fake pages for colleges from coast to coast.
How did he learn about this? Because a group of higher-education web professionals found out about the shady-looking pages, compared notes and conducted some research. A lot of research. We found the same names coming up over and over creating groups posing as official college groups.
Why do we care about this? Simple. Because we want to make sure students and parents looking at colleges — any colleges, not necessarily our own — can get honest and helpful information during this important search. It has been remarkable to see the higher-education community — outsiders may see different colleges as competitors, but we are also colleagues and collaborators — come together and perform research well into the night to make sure students (even if they won't be our students) don't get duped.
Whatever the shakeout of this story — whether this attention will prevent shady Facebook marketing from becoming an annual rite — I'm thrilled to see so many colleagues at so many colleges really go to great lengths to make sure we put our students first. Because when you're kicking the tires of your ride for the next four years, you really deserve some honest answers and connections.
UPDATE, 7:50 p.m.: What a crazy day it was, with additional developments.
– By afternoon, most Class of 2015 sites created by RoomSurf now bear disclaimers saying they are not officially associated with colleges and say they were created by the RoomSurf roommate matching system. See more in New York Times blogger Jacques Steinberg's recent update.
– Late this afternoon, the State University of New York legal office served RoomSurf founder Justin Blackwell, aka Justin Gauthier, and the company a cease-and-desist order on behalf of the 10 SUNY institutions found to be impacted by the suspect Class of 2015 groups.
– By around 6 p.m., Blackwell's profile had disappeared, at least from view, on Facebook and he is no longer listed as creator of said groups, multiple sources confirmed. Whether this was his own choice or has anything to do with the investigation Facebook mentioned in last night's story remains a mystery at this time.


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UCLA's triumph over Nebraska last Saturday ended with a prayer. Both teams knelt down on the Memorial Stadium turf, their thoughts on deceased Bruins receiver Nick Pasquale.
The 41-21 win was much-needed emotional salve for UCLA, which had been mourning the loss of one of their most popular, hard-working players. Many players had dedicated the season to Pasquale, who died when struck by a car in San Clemente on Sept. 8.
To do so against the then-No. 23 Cornhuskers with a dramatic 18-point comeback only made the victory sweeter.
With a visit from New Mexico State (0-3) ahead this week, the same level of fuel will be difficult to replicate.
"I think about it," head coach Jim Mora said. "I worry about it. It's our responsibility as a coaching staff to push these kids out of any hangover effect there might be. It's human nature when you come off something as emotional as we did last week, which is the death of Nick."
The Aggies have long been one of college football's most inept programs, and their status as a 42-point underdog is hardly farfetched. Their bowl-less streak stretches back to 1960, the longest in the FBS. They last finished with a winning season in 2002, a feat they have achieved just three times in the past 34 years.
After a failed four-year experiment with former UCLA defensive coordinator DeWayne Walker, the Aggies turned to Doug Martin, their former offensive coordinator. In their first three games under the new regime, they have been outscored by 93 combined points.
"They may not look the best," Bruins quarterback Brett Hundley said. "Their record may not show it, but at the end of the day, you've got to take them just like we came out for Nebraska."
Playing for Nick
Leading up to UCLA's win at Nebraska, Mora stressed that he didn't want the Bruins (2-0) to focus on trying to win the game for Pasquale. Rather, he wanted them to focus on trying to play in a manner that befitted Pasquale's memory.
He clarified the reason for that distinction on Monday.
"If it was a situation where we were unfortunate to not come away with a win, I didn't want them to feel like they let anybody down," Mora said.
Barr named POW
Two weeks after a relatively quiet season opener, linebacker Anthony Barr erupted at Nebraska for a career-high 11 tackles — two of them for loss — and three forced fumbles. The effort earned him the nod for Pac-12 Defensive Player of the Week, the first such award for the Bruins this season.
An All-American and likely top-10 NFL draft pick next spring, Barr's only statistical hole this season is sacks. After leading the Pac-12 with 13.5 last season, he has yet to notch one.
"He'll get them," Mora said. "The one thing we don't want to do is to start to press. Just do what he's supposed to do and they'll come.
"When you get middle pressure out of guys like (Seali'i Epenesa), get middle pressure out of Keenan Graham, all of a sudden they say, 'Oh OK, we better pay a little attention to the inside.' That'll open things up for Anthony."
Deflecting praise
Asked if UCLA was becoming the "Oregon of the South," Mora quickly shook his head.
"Oregon's ranked No. 2 in the country," he said. "They put up 60 points per game. They played in the BCS championship game. We're just little old UCLA trying to get better every week."


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JUNEAU, Alaska – An Alaska man has been sentenced to prison for life in the 2010 shooting deaths of two Hoonah police officers, in a case that rocked that tiny community and galvanized the state's law enforcement community.
State court Judge David George on Friday sentenced John Marvin Jr. to two consecutive sentences of 99 years in the deaths of Hoonah Police Sgt. Anthony Wallace and officer Matthew Tokuoka.
Jurors in November found that Wallace was on duty at the time of the killing, which the judge said necessitated the 99-year term. He said that also made Marvin ineligible for parole on that count. Jurors did not make the same finding for Tokuoka, who was not yet on duty on Aug. 28, 2010, when Wallace pulled up in his vehicle behind Tokuoka and his family in front of Marvin's home, shortly before the shootings took place.
George said making the prison terms for the two killings run simultaneously, rather than one after the other, would have diminished the sentencing criteria he considered most critical — including the need to condemn Marvin's actions. He said Tokuoka was killed as he tended to Wallace and tried to get help.
The judge called Marvin a "dangerous individual" and said he believed Marvin carried out the killings in revenge for a prior run-in with the officers. He said he would recommend Marvin receive behavioral health services.
Marvin maintained his innocence at the hearing and gave a rambling statement in which he referred to past cases against him, talked about insurance and due process and repeatedly referred to himself as a "high-ranking royal." At other times, he flipped through a law book and interrupted his attorney, Eric Hedland. Marvin wore an orange jumpsuit and blue slip-on shoes and had chains around his wrists and ankles.
Marvin, 47, was convicted in November of first-degree murder in the deaths of Wallace and Tokuoka, who were gunned down in front of Marvin's home. According to testimony at trial, the Tokuokas had stopped at a trash bin near Marvin's home on the night of the shooting to get rid of scraps from an earlier family crab feast. Tokuoka's widow, Haley Tokuoka, testified she saw Marvin through the window of his home, slamming a dark object, which she said looked like a military ammunition container. She said she told her husband, "It looks like John Marvin is going crazy."
Wallace then pulled behind the couple's vehicle, jokingly flashing his lights and sounding his police siren. His mother, Debbie Greene, visiting from out of town, was on a ride-along with him.
Haley Tokuoka said she told Wallace her concerns and he shone his flashlight toward Marvin's house, drawing a rebuke from her husband. Wallace went to the couple's vehicle to talk to their kids while the Tokuokas spoke with Greene. Soon after, shots rang out.
The case reverberated across Alaska, with the officers' memorial televised statewide. Several police officers were present for Friday's sentencing, as they were when the verdicts were read.
During trial, District Attorney David Brower argued that Marvin held a grudge against the officers after a 2009 run-in. That incident, which left Marvin beaten up, stemmed from a trespassing call and led to charges against Marvin that eventually were dismissed. Brower argued Marvin killed Wallace and Tokuoka "in cold blood," and said bullets used matched a rifle in Marvin's home.
Hedland called the state's case circumstantial. He said no one saw who fired the shots and said investigators zeroed in on Marvin because he "fit the profile," from the prior incident to the location of the crime scene and his odd behavior. In his opening statements, Hedland said Marvin suffered from a "serious mental disability," but he called no psychologists or doctors who might have treated or examined Marvin.
On Friday, the judge heard statements from Greene, Haley Tokuoka and Tokuoka's father, Dean Goodner. Haley Tokuoka and Greene were a constant presence at Marvin's trial. Greene listened to Friday's hearing by phone, and Haley Tokuoka read Greene's heart-wrenching statement into the record for her.
"Only you know why you did what you did that night, and I really hope you can live with that," the statement said. "I just want so much to know why."


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First, Californians who had approved of President Barack Obama's job performance began to reserve judgment; now, they're moving into full-blown disapproval, especially among longtime allies such as Latinos and women, a new Field Poll shows.
Forty-three percent of California voters don't like Obama's job performance, up from 35 percent in July, the poll found. Despite the dramatic increase in unhappy faces, the president's approval rating changed little according to the survey begun in mid-November: 51 percent, down from 52 percent in July.
But his July approval rating was itself 10 points lower than in February, with most of that swing moving to "no opinion." Now — after a tumultuous few months that included brinkmanship with Syria, a government shutdown and the calamitous rollout of the national health care program — most of the "no opinion" folks have an opinion again, and they're not happy.
"Those voters who went on the fence in July have now moved to the negative side, so you've had this two-stage re-evaluation of Obama over the past year," said Mark DiCamillo, the Field Poll's director. "And that's mostly occurring among his own base of support. … They're starting to re-evaluate him and be more critical, and that's significant and unusual."
Specifically, independent voters' and Latinos' disapproval each spiked by 16 percentage points since February; union-affiliated households' disapproval is up 18 points, and women's disapproval is up by 13 points. Geographically, even the truest blue parts of the state — the Bay Area and Los Angeles — saw disapproval of the president's performance rise by 7 and 8 percentage points, respectively.
"He's losing some of his support inside his own strongholds, and I think that's cause for concern for the Democrats," DiCamillo said.
These aren't Obama's lowest marks from California voters: the Field Poll in September 2011 found 44 percent disapproved of his job performance and 46 percent approved.
Nor is Obama as poorly viewed by Californians as his predecessor, George W. Bush, was during his fifth year in office. In 2005, 57 percent of Californians disapproved of Bush's job performance and 37 percent approved.
But the health care law's rollout — replete with technical glitches, canceled policies and muddled reactions from the White House — clearly hurt Obama in California: 50 percent of voters now disapprove of how he's handling health care while 43 percent approve.
And although California voters very strongly supported Obama on foreign policy early in his first term, this latest survey found 49 percent approving while 45 percent disapprove.
"The White House cannot be happy about this," said political expert Sherry Bebitch Jeffe. "You can be sure that national Democrats will read these numbers as not good news."
Latinos, union households, independents and women aren't likely to suddenly start voting Republican, said Jeffe, a University of Southern California scholar, but "disaffected Democrats and Democrat-leaning independents might not come out to vote."
This is "a pretty significant shot across the bow of the party," she said. "It's up to them to raise the kind of money and do the kind of organization that will motivate their base to come out to vote."
Scott Phuong, 36, a Democrat from Sunnyvale, said the government shutdown and the health care law's botched rollout dimmed his views of Obama.
"It's kind of sad," said Phuong, a computer engineer. "He probably should've paid a little more attention to the people who were putting together his plan, to correctly dot the i's and cross the t's."
Overall, Californians have grown less happy with the nation's direction — 33 percent say the country is moving in the right direction and 55 percent find it seriously off track. That's a big letdown from February, when the Field Poll found 48 percent positive about the nation's direction and 44 percent negative.
Oakland resident Paul Devandry, 33, said Obama is just one more disappointment: "I feel like this country has been on the wrong track since several presidents ago."
Devandry, an independent voter and electrical engineer, said he doesn't believe Obama "was being pretty genuine at all about the platform that he ran on," especially when it comes to curbing American military involvement around the globe. He's also frustrated with Obama's signature of the National Defense Authorization Act, which he said "steps on our constitutional rights" by letting the government detain U.S. citizens indefinitely without charges.
The Field Poll surveyed 766 registered California voters from Nov. 14 through Sunday; the poll's overall margin of error is plus or minus 3.5 percentage points.
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COI Funded Project: Quantifying cross-shelf exchange in the Hudson Shelf Valley. Is the Hudson Shelf Valley a nutrient pump?
Project Funded: 2006What are the primary questions you are trying to address with this research?
The Hudson Shelf Valley, located south of Long Island, is the only canyon that cuts across the entire continental shelf of the Middle Atlantic Bight. Consequently, the Hudson Shelf Valley provides a potentially important conduit for exchange across the shelf. This study will estimate the cross-shelf transport and associated upwelling in the Hudson Shelf Valley, investigate the physics of this flow to determine what forces the flow up the canyon, and determine the relationship between onshore flow in the valley and phytoplankton bloom events.
What is the significance
of this research for others working in this field of inquiry and
for the broader scientific community?
We hypothesize that the onshore flow within the valley may be an important mechanism for upwelling of nutrient-rich water near the coast that fuels phytoplankton blooms in the New York Bight.
What is the significance
of this research for society?
Canyons or valleys may be important conduits for transporting material across the continental shelf. This may include, for example, onshore and upward transport of nutrients to fuel phytoplankton blooms as hypothesized here, or the offshore transport of sediments or pollutants.
When and where will
this investigation be conducted?
This is analysis of existing data acquired as part of a joint USGS/WHOI study of sediment transport within Hudson Shelf Valley.
are the key tools or instruments needed to conduct this research?
Existing data was collected using acoustic current meters, pressure sensors, and temperature-conductivity sensors.
What are the greatest
challenges - physical or intellectual - to conducting this investigation?
Obtaining the observations that are accurate enough to determine the basic physics of canyon flows is extremely challenging. For example, the pressure gradients that drive flows up or down the canyon are the result of very small sea surface slopes of only a few centimeters (1 inch) over 100s of kilometers (100 miles).
Is this research
part of a larger project or program?
Steven J. Lentz is presently a Senior Scientist in the Department of Physical Oceanography at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. His research focuses on coastal physical oceanography. He earned B.A.s in mathematics and applied mechanics and engineering science from University of California, San Diego in 1977 and a Ph.D. in oceanography from Scripps Institution of Oceanography in 1984. He subsequently went to Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution as a Visiting Investigator in 1985, was subsequently hired to a tenure-track position in 1987. His r esearch interests include the dynamics of river plumes entering the ocean, wind-driven circulation, and processes contributing to cross-shelf exchange.


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Right about now, most parents are probably crossing Lance Armstrong's name off the list of Good Role Models for the Kids. After all, he lied (and lied and lied and lied). He used banned substances. He did a whole bunch of stuff wrong. So that means we switch him over to the Bad Influence list, right?
Well, maybe not. He's finally telling the truth: He made big mistakes, and he made them all by himself. Nobody forced him. As he told Oprah in tonight's long-awaited exclusive interview, "All the fault lies on me." That's not an easy thing to admit. Still, does he deserve any credit for 'fessing up?
I think so. But "honesty is the best policy" isn't the main lesson I want my kids to learn from Armstrong's story. I would rather have my kids look at the disgraced athlete as an example of why we, as a society, shouldn't be making professional athletes (not to mention actors or musicians or models or politicians) "role models" in the first place. People are people, no matter how rich, successful or talented they might be -- people are not superheroes. Building any human being up to such great heights is completely unfair to everyone involved: They will fail and we will be disappointed.
I want my kids to believe in themselves, in their own limitless potential. But I also want them to accept themselves as human. Flawed. Real. To pretend otherwise is the real mistake.
What will you tell your kids about Lance Armstrong's confession?
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The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) launched an effort to improve price transparency in the wholesale natural gas market with a Notice of Inquiry on whether to require quarterly reporting of FERC-jurisdictional next-day and next-month transactions under the Natural Gas Act. Also today, FERC issued a final rule changing procedures for filing quarterly reports by the electric power industry.
Today's Notice of Inquiry for the natural gas industry is based on Section 23 of the Natural Gas Act, which Congress in the Energy Policy Act of 2005 used to direct FERC to "facilitate price transparency." Though FERC took action shortly after EPAct to improve price transparency, it now has identified additional areas of the natural gas market where increased transparency may be helpful for market participants to better understand the market activities that produce the prices that are reported to indices and to assist the Commission in detecting, and ultimately deterring, market manipulation.
Much of the information available to the Commission and natural gas market participants is aggregated and therefore does not provide full market visibility or price transparency, FERC said. Market participants lack a complete understanding of the actions that produce the prices that are reported to various indices. Increased confidence in these indices requires greater transparency to assure prices are a result of fundamental supply and demand, and not the result of manipulation or other abusive market conduct.
FERC is asking a series of questions on how best to enhance transparency and surveillance of gas markets, covering issues such as the scope and types of transactional information that should be part of these reports, what types of possible public dissemination of information would be appropriate and what would be the burden on market participants to provide the information. Comments are due 60 days from publication of the notice the Federal Register.
Today's final rule on electricity quarterly reports (EQR) amends FERC regulations to change the process for filing them due to technology changes that will render the current filing process outmoded, ineffective and unsustainable. In the final rule, FERC says it will discontinue the use of Commission-distributed software and instead adopt a web-based approach that will allow utilities to choose between two alternatives for filing their reports based on their technical preferences.
For more information, go to www.ferc.gov. FERC is making available a separate RSS feed for EQR, and #EQR on Twitter, so that market participants can have a place for discussion of these changes.


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Reynaldo (Ray) Balderas, age 71 of Sweetwater, Texas, passed away Saturday, January 15, 2011 at Rolling Plains Memorial Hospital. His body was cremated. A graveside service will be held 10:00 A.M., Wednesday, January 19, 2011, at Sweetwater Cemetery with Rev. Michael Rodriguez officiating. Arrangements are under the direction of Cate-Spencer & Trent Funeral Home.


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There's nothing like a big unhealty dose of acute bronchitis to get you contemplating lack of a future. Reality, so called, sharpens to an almost unbearable sequence of images, almost all of them surreal, such as leaving the doctor's office and stopping off at the health food grocer's, there only to be accosted by a scruffy looking customer who apologizes in order to catch your attention. What does he want, I ask. "Are you a Christian?" Hesitant, I ask myself, what is this, a come-on? A guy I know in my profession, a devout Catholic who once told me I could have as clients all the nuns in the archdiocese if only I'd convert, regularly enjoys making fools of street people, e.g. telling the pan-handlers seeking money for lunch, "I'll take you to a nearby restaurant," knowing they'll almost invariably beg off, some with honest admissions they're only seeking the cash for liquor or beer.
Feeling lousy, I couldn't think of anything to say except "No, I'm not," adding, in a cold voice, "and I am not religious, either." Had I felt better I would have said something blatantly atheist, but as it was, I only wanted to be left to my own devices. I just wanted to get rid of him, fast. Bob Dylan in a movie made the sound-over point that American capitalism uses fear to get us to buy things we don't really need, but I think he copped that notion from Burroughs, who said that our government and that nebulous thing we called, in the 60s, "the Establishment," put out conflicting messages ("believe this, don't believe this") in order to put us in a perpetual state of conflict, such that we buy things we don't need, thinking they'll distract us from our fears. Then, too, Eldridge Clever said that we would never have another revolution so long as the supermarkets stay open.
Dis-ease does something else to you, too: it heightens awareness of the truths of atheism, including the explanation that we are not conscious of life before birth, nor will we be conscious of it after death. Also, that the moment of birth is the time we begin to die. Dylan said that, too. One also finds less hostility to Christians who say that they're praying for you. Burroughs said "Pray in one hand, shit in the other; see which one fills up faster." Knowing from my awful cough, wheezing, and spitting gunk into tissue, at least three of my clients this week have said, "We're praying for you." I could set them straight, telling them, for example, that actual studies of prayer for seriously ill hospital patients showed not that prayer helped them but that it caused the prayed-for patients to die in greater numbers. But when you are seriously ill, you are not exactly in a mood to pick quarrels with people. And all of the drugs I've been taken have rendered me ineffective in debate.
Facing death is harrowing for some. I hope I can emulate the great Christopher Hitchens, dying of a brain tumor, incurable. I hope I can go out like he did, without retreat to belief, especially belief in that other country from which no one returns. But will I? Will I have that courage. To me, religion preys on people more than it prays for them. Like the Consul in John Huston's film of Malcolm Lowry's Under the Volcano, I would like to believe but I can't. The scene of the Consul going into a cathedral and staring up at one of those waxy-faced Madonnas so prevalent in Mexican churches especially, is pure John Huston (the director of the film). In interviews, the atheist filmmaker said he wanted to believe but could not, that he actually envied those who could. He had emphysema and eventually died of it. I hope my acute bronchitis goes away soon without putting my lights out just yet. But I ain't gonna pray it away. If I die after their prayers, they can always say God works in mysterious ways. There's no mystery to me. You're born, you live, and you die. Life is what you make of it, and you don't need deity to get there.
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Comports to what I have read, Dr. Clark. Buddhists differ from Hindus mainly in refuting the notion of an individual soul. What reincarnates, if anything (and, yes, they do believe in a form of reincarnation) is "skandas," aspects of personality carried over from former lives. Gautama is said to have died telling his followers to doubt everything and everyone; examine things for yourself, make your own mind up about everything. As we know, most members of the monotheistic religions doubt nothing and are thus stuck in the quagmire of belief.
Some of this is expressed in the Buddha's Sermon to the Kalamas:
Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it.
Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many.
Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books.
Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders.
Do not believe in traditions because they have been handed down for many generations.
But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it.
That's it, Dr. Clark. Thanks for giving me the entire quotation. Words to live by!
I am not worried about a death bed conversion because I have no desire to go to heaven. The biblical description of heaven sounds really boring to me and I have no desire to see many of my relatives or acquaintances again. I just want to go to eternal sleep since sleeping is one of my favorite pastimes. I like the thought of returning to mother earth and maybe being part of a wildflower meadow. I have no intention of hastening death but I do not fear it either. I have had a wonderful life and I am getting a bit tired now.
Getting tired and growing more and more willing to slip into a permanent rest is something hard for young people to understand and accept. For many people illness takes them away before they can experience the later years, but others whose work is done, who have had a good life, may find less and less to look forward to as they go on and find it easy to accept the end. Henry Adams called it the Indian Summer of life and said:
"The Indian Summer of life should be a little sunny and a little sad, like the season, and infinite in wealth and depth of tone, but never hustled."
In Washington State, same sex weddings may be held in the same way that I married my late wife. That is, the happy couple smokes a big joint and invites over a guy from the mail order church to come over and say a few words, my former resistance movement mentor. Then friends came over and learned gradually of the earlier wedding. But stoner weddings are going to be the wave of the future. I just hope everyone can get up the next day and realize it really happened.
About 10 years ago I was rushed to the emergency room - I was sure I was dying particularly after the doctor said, "It looks like an aneurism", and got ready to cut into me. Strangely I felt OK with it – if I die, I die. I felt no need to appeal to some mythic entity to intervene. As it turned out it was just a medication that dropped my blood pressure down to near dead and a corrective medication fixed it. So, accepting my eventual demise isn't a big deal when it happens – it happens.
I have 30-something "kids" who might still need me, the way the economy is going. I finally figured out what my old man meant when he said he'd be worth far more to Mom dead than he ever was alive. A wonder our offspring don't pray for our demise. But fortunately, they're good boys. Neither believes in God and neither is a serial killer.
I've got two daughters - one (and spouse) owes me a mountain of money that I will never see and the other has moved back in - they are 42 and 44 years old.
What I call a "Good Mother." In law, as regards children, their best interest is paramount. Nothing else matters. A Good Mother may screw up and drink too much, get strung out on dope, and fail to wake up early enough to take the child to school that day, but as the Bible says, "When I was a child [read: drunk/doper/&c.] I spake as a child, &c." but "now that I am [an adult]," and so forth. Doesn't mean she cannot be a Good Mother again. Mothers are truly amazing.
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Believe in Opening Day
I start to tear up every time I watch the end credits of the Christmas movie, The Polar Express.
It's not even one of my favorite holiday classics, I may have only seen the entire thing once or twice. I definitely don't make it a point to sit down and watch it when December rolls around.
But I make sure I listen to the song.
Josh Groban's Believe takes me back to so many childhood memories. The warm feelings of Christmas morning with family all around and holding onto the wonder and amazement of believing in Christmas.
Well, I believe in Opening Day.
Both holidays, yes Opening Day is a holiday, evoke similar sensations of hope. People may get tired of hearing the same, "Hope Sprigs Eternal" and "There's nothing like Opening Day."
Yes, seeing is believing.
Not everyday you get to see all 25 big league guys introduced, honored and standing down the lines of a sun-drenched packed stadium. That's what makes Opening Day special, but it's surely not all.
Most of it starts outside the park.
There's swarming activity going on at every corner of the city. Pittsburgh was loaded last Thursday morning with fans, friends and foes. From the Strip District, to Downtown, to the North Shore parking lots — it felt like something special was about to happen. With wall to wall people walking around taking in the sights and tailgating, it was like a college football Saturday. With plenty of Phillies fans right neck in neck with us Pirates, it enhanced the football-feel — almost like a BCS bowl game.
Everybody is out and about in the hours before the gates open. Half the fun is just seeing who you'll run into.
Jon Anderson, one of the original MLBloggers and hit sensation with the mceffect.com.
Color commentator and former World Series champion Steve Blass.
It was hard not to get a little chocked up walking through the gates for the first time in months, even though it seemed like an eternity. There was still a light chill in the air, but the weather was perfect for an early April day.
Of course, a "Peaslee Pose" christened the new season.
As did this nice picture of Erin and I. The camera used for all these pictures is the one I received as a graduation gift last May. It's big, it's cool and I haven't really figured out how to use it yet. But one of the PNC Park ushers fixed the settings and got the lighting to work just perfect. Really, though, it's impossible to not take a beautiful picture in the most beautiful park in baseball.
Like I said before, the number of Pirate fans was rivaled by an extremely healthy slew of Philly people. I don't blame them for showing up in droves. However, I was surprised there was so many of them, considering it was Opening Day and during the week. Many made a weekend of it and I hope they enjoyed the better city in the great state of PA.
The new season is marking our first in a different section of the park. Section 315 is where I'll be found all summer long.
A perfect view of the skyline, jumbotron and all game action. Specifically, on Opening Day, those riveting pre game introductions.
Andrew McCutchen and Neil Walker, faces of the franchise are ready for a special year.
The game, itself, was just how I like it. Pitcher-dominated.
Erik Bedard impressed in his Pirates debut going seven innings, striking out four, while giving up six hits and allowing just one run — a Carlos Ruiz sacrifice fly where former Pirate Ty Wigginton scored on a bang-bang play at the plate.
He was upstaged by Roy Halladay who went a fantastic eight innings, giving up just two hits. The funny thing about those two hits — they came back-to-back by Alex Presley and Jose Tabata in the top of the first.
Jonathon Papelbon made his first appearance in a Philadelphia uniform and sent the Bucs down in order for the save.
How can you be disappointed in that? Arguably the best starting pitcher and closer in the game. The Phillies were without stars Ryan Howard and Chase Utley, but they still bring one of the most potent offensives in the game.
People come from far and wide for Opening Day. Maybe they won't make it back to another game until mid-July when they're buddies are celebrating a birthday and need an excuse to drink. They probably won't follow the team until then and, frankly, they won't care.
For one day, they do.
And that's what is great about baseball. It's a rebirth signaling summer, signaling sunshine, signaling warm nights, high fives, walk off home runs, complete game shut outs, diving catches and winning streaks.
It's cool and all when football, basketball and hockey season starts, yet they still don't draw the attention and gain the fondness of baseball Opening Day.
The remaining 161 games of the major league schedule won't be as eventful or have the pomp and circumstance, but that's what makes it great.
There are 161 more chances to make the season special and you have everything you need to enjoy them all — if you just believe.


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My overtime period has ended at the day job, so expect regular posting to return.
I'm blasting back in this week with two product reviews–one is of a liqueur and the other of a fairly new book. I don't receive review offers often, and I don't accept everything I am offered, so it's fair to say that most of the products I review here are items that I myself have purchased, unless I say differently in the review.
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The liqueur I'm reviewing was sent to me for review, and I've mentioned that in my drafted post. The book was something I myself purchased, and in my draft, I haven't mentioned that fact. I'm saying this now in case anyone wants me to clarify or alter my position before I publish these posts.


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Justin Timberlake was busy Sunday night.
Early in the evening, the singer made his highly anticipated return to the Grammy Awards stage -- his first performance there since 2009, when he and Al Green filled in for Chris Brown and Rihanna -- with a lavish, sepia-toned performance of two tracks from his upcoming "The 20/20 Experience," due out March 19.
Then he hit the Palladium for a sold-out concert at which he reportedly introduced a third new song, "That Girl." Jay-Z also dropped by to deliver his guest verse on "Suit & Tie," and shaky fan-cam video of the song is all over YouTube. (Timbaland also showed up for "SexyBack.")
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Regulation of membrane-type 1 matrix metalloproteinase expression by zonula occludens-2 in human lung cancer cells.
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During tumor invasion, tumor epithelial cells acquire migratory and invasive properties involving important phenotypic alterations. Among these changes, one can observe reorganization or a loss of cell ... [more ▼]
During tumor invasion, tumor epithelial cells acquire migratory and invasive properties involving important phenotypic alterations. Among these changes, one can observe reorganization or a loss of cell-cell adhesion complexes such as tight junctions (TJs). TJs are composed of transmembrane proteins (occludin, claudins) linked to the actin cytoskeleton through cytoplasmic adaptor molecules including those of the zonula occludens family (ZO-1, -2, -3). We here evaluated the potential role of ZO-2 in the acquisition of invasive properties by tumor cells. In vivo, we showed a decrease of ZO-2 expression in bronchopulmonary cancers, with a preferential localization in the cytoplasm. In addition, in vitro, the localization of ZO-2 varied according to invasive properties of tumor cells, with a cytoplasmic localization correlating with invasion. In addition, we demonstrated that ZO-2 inhibition increases invasive and migrative capacities of invasive tumor cells. This was associated with an increase of MT1-MMP. These results suggest that ZO-2, besides its structural role in tight junction assembly, can act also as a repressor of tumor progression through its ability to reduce the expression of tumor-promoting genes in invasive tumor cells. [less ▲]Detailed reference viewed: 57 (5 ULiège)
A dynamic in vivo model of epithelial-to-mesenchymal transitions in circulating tumor cells and metastases of breast cancer.
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Epithelial-to-mesenchymal transition (EMT) processes endow epithelial cells with enhanced migratory/invasive properties and are therefore likely to contribute to tumor invasion and metastatic spread ... [more ▼]
Epithelial-to-mesenchymal transition (EMT) processes endow epithelial cells with enhanced migratory/invasive properties and are therefore likely to contribute to tumor invasion and metastatic spread. Because of the difficulty in following EMT processes in human tumors, we have developed and characterized an animal model with transplantable human breast tumor cells (MDA-MB-468) uniquely showing spontaneous EMT events to occur. Using vimentin as a marker of EMT, heterogeneity was revealed in the primary MDA-MB-468 xenografts with vimentin-negative and vimentin-positive areas, as also observed on clinical human invasive breast tumor specimens. Reverse transcriptase-PCR after microdissection of these populations from the xenografts revealed EMT traits in the vimentin-positive zones characterized by enhanced 'mesenchymal gene' expression (Snail, Slug and fibroblast-specific protein-1) and diminished expression of epithelial molecules (E-cadherin, ZO-3 and JAM-A). Circulating tumor cells (CTCs) were detected in the blood as soon as 8 days after s.c. injection, and lung metastases developed in all animals injected as examined by in vivo imaging analyses and histology. High levels of vimentin RNA were detected in CTCs by reverse transcriptase-quantitative PCR as well as, to a lesser extent, Snail and Slug RNA. Von Willebrand Factor/vimentin double immunostainings further showed that tumor cells in vascular tumoral emboli all expressed vimentin. Tumoral emboli in the lungs also expressed vimentin whereas macrometastases displayed heterogenous vimentin expression, as seen in the primary xenografts. In conclusion, our data uniquely demonstrate in an in vivo context that EMT occurs in the primary tumors, and associates with an enhanced ability to intravasate and generate CTCs. They further suggest that mesenchymal-to-epithelial phenomena occur in secondary organs, facilitating the metastatic growth [less ▲]Detailed reference viewed: 67 (12 ULiège)


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MH17: When It Lost Contact and Crashed
Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 departed Amsterdam for Kuala Lumpur at 4:15 PM local time on Thursday. About four hours later, it crashed near the border of Russia and the Ukraine. WSJ's Jason Bellini walks through the timeline of the tragedy.
This transcript has been automatically generated and may not be 100% accurate.
Malaysia Airlines Flight seventeen departed Amsterdam twelve fifteen p m local time Thursday ... these photos show the plane taking off from sheeple airport ... four hours into its flight to quality for ... Ukraine air traffic control report losing contact with flight an age seventeen ... shortly thereafter the plane crashed in the Ukrainian city of Torrance run twenty miles from the Russian Ukraine for ... the sketch Atlantic wall on or International Airport at six ten a m local time ... just after midnight in Amsterdam ... the Boeing seven seven seven had two hundred eighty passengers and fifteen crew members of the same model aircraft as the still missing one for Malaysia Airlines flight three seventy ... this footage shows the smoke rising after the plane crash ... it went down while flying the height of about thirty three thousand feet ... official cause of the crash is still being investigated ... the boat Ukraine government ... and the pro Russian separatists there fighting have blamed each other for the disaster ... there been no credible claims of responsibility ...


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Jets General Manager John Idzik got a quick introduction to life in his new job when his introductory press conference came on the heels of reports that the team was looking at trade options involving cornerback Darrelle Revis.
Idzik did his best to temper the flames on that front by speaking with Revis, although we're fairly sure we haven't heard the last of that discussion. While there may be other detours as well, Idzik's performance is going to be judged in large part by his ability to deal with the quarterback position. During an interview with Craig Carton and Boomer Esiason on WFAN in New York, Idzik said it was too soon to make any decisions about what role any players will play but that he is comfortable with Mark Sanchez being on the roster.
"Yeah, I'm comfortable with Mark being a Jet. I told him as well, we're going to add competition. … It's going to help make Mark and everybody else better," Idzik said. "I think he's chomping at the bit. And he wants to get going with his new coordinator (Marty Mornhinweg). He's all about competing. I got a really good feeling from Mark."
With a massive cap hit looming if the Jets were to part ways with Sanchez, Idzik's got good reason to make himself comfortable with the idea of having the quarterback on the roster in 2013. The fact that he's also promising competition tells you, with good reason, that there's a limit to his comfort.


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NAPA — An intense blaze burned four mobile homes to the ground while six to eight others received minor to moderate damage in one of the most devastating aftereffects of Sunday morning's 6.1 earthquake centered in the area, according to the Napa Fire Department.
Fire crews were responding to another call related to the 3:20 a.m. earthquake when they saw the smoke and diverted to the Napa Valley Mobile Home Park on Orchard Avenue just off Highway 29, finding one unit completely engulfed in flames and another mostly filled with fire, Napa fire Capt. Steve Becker said.
Nola Rawlins, 84, was sleeping when the quake hit and awoke when her TV toppled into her bed. With bad eye sight, she managed to find her way out of her mobile home and saw the early signs of the fire.
"I saw the house in back of me burning and then I head an explosion," Rawlins said, holding a cup of coffee while standing in the park's clubhouse, which turned into a de facto evacuation center.
She thought her house was safe and evacuated, but learned later the home had burned to the ground, destroying her glasses, medicine, photos of granddaughters, everything.
"I think I'm just kind of in shock. It's devastating when you lose everything, but I'm OK," said Rawlins, whose daughter from Cobb Mountain was coming to pick her up.
Making matters worse, due to a broken main at the park, no water was available, so crews focused on evacuating residents.
"If there had been any kind of wind there would have been no way to stop it," Becker said.
The first water was put on the fire 20 to 30 minutes after the firefighters arrived, when relief water tenders arrived. By then three adjacent mobile homes were completely destroyed, along with a fourth about two blocks away. The park's general manager shut off gas to all units to prevent any further fires.
Fire crews remained on scene throughout the morning, dousing hot spots and watching over the smoldering remains of the units, which stood just 100 feet from the first rows of a vineyard, as a steady stream of muddy water gushed in front of the park entrance. Dozens of homes showing outward signs of foundation damage, some with caution tape barring owners from entering.
Howard Hornsby, 70, lived a few houses down from the fire on Mark Way and awoke to a gigantic jolt and then 20 to 25 seconds of side-to-side shaking.
"Everything came down. Every book came down, The shelves were empty," he said. "It was like emptying a box."
Hornsby and his wife crawled out of their mobile home to escape and saw the beginnings of the fire. The fire quickly grew to 15 to 30 feet above the roof line, he said, as residents frantically ran from their homes yelling.
Wearing a T-shirt, shorts and a blanket like a poncho, Horsnby spoke from the community center, displaying the only belongings rescued by firefighters from his structurally damaged house: his glasses, hearing aides, medicine, and a hip sack. His house was not damaged by the fire, but was tilting and dangerous to enter, he said.
"If my time comes, my time comes," Hornsby said, calling himself a "kinda like a Buddhist type." "Everything you have is replaceable."
Jean Moore, 68, lives across the street from the burned units and while the exterior of her unit showed little damage, the inside was another matter. Bookcases toppled or arched in skewed angles, her refrigerator and stove moved feet from their original spots with broken glass throughout her kitchen. In every room furniture toppled.
Fortunately for Moore, a 10-year resident at the park, she was asleep at her private nursing job in Menlo Park when she awoke to the quake. She turned on the TV news and saw the scrawling news feed on the bottom say there was a mobile home fire in Napa. She eventually realized it was her park and headed home.
"This is unbelievable," Moore said, standing in her damaged living room as one of her three cats struggled to venture out from behind the refrigerator, "but it's standing and not burned to the ground."
Staff writer Robert Salonga contributed to this report.
There were rows of vineyards about 100 feet from charred mobile homes.
Firefighters still don't have water so monitoring smoldering homes.
Steady stream of muddy water gushing down street in front of park
entrance. City teams and park itself starting to take inventory of
structural damage. Dozens of homes showing outward signs of foundation
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As temperatures hover well below freezing for a third day this week, some New Yorkers on Long who are still rebuilding after Sandy have been enduring the cold without any heat.
The problem for these Island Park, N.Y., residents, according to gas provider National Grid, is that moisture left from Sandy has frozen in the pipes carrying gas to heat the homes.
"You think that Sandy's over, and it's not over," said homeowner Marty Lampart.
In all, some 80 homes in the area have been affected, according to National Grid spokeswoman Wendy Ladd.
The coldest weather gripped the region Wednesday and Thursday, with temperatures starting out in the teens and creeping up to the mid-20s during the day. Subzero wind chills are making the already freezing temperatures feel even colder.
National Grid has set up a command post in Island Park, as crews go house to house, trying to correct the problem.
Despite that effort, several homeowners said the heat has been coming on, then going out since Tuesday.
"I knew it was out when I saw my breath this morning," said Ira Tennant, who has lost his heat, then regained it and lost it again.
Leonard D'Angelo, whose indoor thermostat read 56 degrees, said he wears outerwear just to get by inside.
"I'm dressed inside like I would be outside," he said.
Several homes in the town remain boarded up and damaged, nearly three months after Sandy. Some did not return to their homes and see heat restored until November.
National Grid says it will keep working in the area until the cold snap lifts. That might not be until Monday.


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Reapercussion 7 Pod Primo Hot Sauce
Many people claim to have the "World's Hottest Pepper" and at Heartbreaking Dawns they have tried them all. The 7 Pod Primo pepper is by far the tastiest, hottest and most underated pepper in the bunch. This all natural gluten free sauce is a blend of 7 Pod Primo peppers, Trinidad Scorpion peppers, apple cider vinegar, lime juice, water, garlic, Agave syrup, coriander and salt. Reapercussion 7 Pod Primo Hot Sauce is the exclusive choice of Satan himself. When the Dark Lord reaches for fire, he reaches for the Primo.
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Upper Bitterbrush Trail
The yang to Lower Bitterbrush's yin. This trail is pretty mellow, wide and only has a couple of easy rocky spots. It's the way up to the Nelson Loop if you are planning on making a bigger ride out of your trip to Hall. From the bench near the trail junction of Lower Bitterbrush and Antelope, head west and downhill. This downhill is short followed by an uphill that will take you past another great prairie dog town and onto the ridge line. Over time, this trail has seen a lot of wear from the large number of people on it. Please try to stay in the middle of the trail as much as possible to allow for the singletrack to stay single.
This trail tops out at the base of the Nelson Loop. You'll notice the trail widening after a short section of roots and rocks. This is a popular spot for hikers and bikers to catch their breath before heading up!
Coming down:
This trail is a ripper on the way back down! It's got great flow for the intermediate rider, with a lot of fun swoopy turns that really put a smile on your face. Two words here. One, this trail has a lot of loose sandy stuff on it. People regularly come down this trail too hot and find themselves upside down before they can blink. Two, this is a super popular trail with a lot of blind corners and a lot of people (many who will be scared by bike riders coming downhill and likely unprepared to avoid you). Keep your speed under control and be respectful. Going downhill, you're the one who yields - and that doesn't mean riding off the trail to avoid other people, man! It means slowing way the hell down and stopping if necessary to make sure that uphill traffic isn't afraid/startled/put out/killed.
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Girl Scout Camp T-Shirt Design Contest
GET CREATIVE! Girl Scouts of Eastern Massachusetts Council needs your help to design the coolest Girl Scout Camp T-shirt EVER!
The winner's t-shirt design will be worn by happy Girl Scout campers all summer long.
If you want to be the winning designer follow the instructions below:
* Present your design using one to three colors, make sure you show how much fun camp is! * Designs may be created on the computer or drawn by hand.
* They can be submitted on white 8 1/2 x 11 paper or via e-mail.
All designs must be received by 5 pm on Monday March 8, 2010.
Finalists will be selected and the winning design will be announced on the
Girl Scout Birthday, March 12.
Winner will receive a fabulous gift package from the Girl Scout shop.
The winning design will be featured in the Girl Scout shops and Camp Trading Post.
The winning designer will be announced in our E-newsletter to 32,000 households.
A photo and press release of the winner will be sent to their local paper.
Submit this signed form along with your design by mail or e-mail to:
ATTN: Girl Scout Camp T-shirt Design Contest
Girl Scouts of Eastern Massachusetts
95 Berkeley Street
Boston, MA 02116
Email: firstname.lastname@example.com
All designs submitted become the property of Girl Scouts of Eastern Massachusetts.
Designs may be altered. Girl Scouts of Eastern Massachusetts has the right to
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Precor opens new North Carolina manufacturing facility
Plant in Guilford County to Manufacture Precor Strength Equipment
WOODINVILLE, WA – Precor has opened and begun operations at its new facility in Guilford County, North Carolina, near Greensboro. The plant, which will produce Precor strength products, replaces a smaller facility in Valencia, CA.
Representing an investment of more than $26 million, the new state-of-the-art plant will manufacture commercial strength equipment, including all the newest Precor single station C-Line machines as well as Icarian plate loaded, functional and multi-station machines.
At more than 230,000 square feet, the building provides a significant increase in capacity for Precor, more than doubling its current strength manufacturing plant.
Precor has long been known for cardio equipment and in the last few years the strength business has been growing steadily. With the success of strength, Precor simply outgrew its California facility and needed more production capacity. North Carolina offered a strong manufacturing talent pool, a good geographic balance to its main facility near Seattle, and reasonable construction costs. Building from the ground up also allowed Precor to design the factory to take advantage of years of learning how to build fitness equipment.
"We're excited about the capability this new facility gives us," said Paul Byrne, Precor President. "The commercial strength market is growing and our new plant will be a key to serving increasing customer demand. We want to thank our partners in North Carolina who were instrumental in making this vision a reality."
More than a manufacturing facility, Greensboro also serves as a beautiful showroom for the full line of Precor commercial and consumer equipment provides a convenient meeting place for customers and sales reps, and offers distribution advantages to the East Coast and Europe over our other facilities.
In December of 2008, Precor announced it would be coming to North Carolina after a national search for a domestic manufacturing site. Key state and local partners have been instrumental in the selection of the site as well as the process of recruiting, hiring and training employees. They include the One North Carolina Fund, the N.C. Department of Commerce, N.C. Employment Security Commission, N.C. Community College System, Guilford County, Duke Energy and the Greensboro Economic Development Alliance.
A grand opening celebration will be held on March 30, 2010. For more information please contact Precor at email@example.com or 1 (800) 786-8404.
About Precor
Founded in the Seattle, WA, area in 1980, Precor (www.precor.com) operates production, distribution and headquarters facilities near Seattle, with offices in the UK, Germany, Benelux, Spain, France, Switzerland, Austria, Japan and China. Engineered to move the way you move, Precor equipment sets the global standard for a fluid, natural, low-impact workout experience.
Precor is a subsidiary of Amer Sports Corp. (www.amersports.com), the world's largest sports equipment company, with internationally recognized brands Wilson, Atomic, Suunto, Salomon, Arc'Teryx and Mavic.


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Last week the web team had to migrate many of the web based services we self-host to our newest server. The old server that the services were being hosted on has reached end of life.
As we moved the services from the old server to the new server it became clear that we needed to resolve the domain name and rename the server from "www2.cfcc.edu" to just "cfcc.edu"
Through out the migration from the old static HTML website to the new WordPress site the goal has been to restore the "cfcc.edu" domain as the primary domain of our public facing website.
On Friday, May 23rd, the web team performed a "domain swap" and part of that process included the batch revising of all URLS and links to remove "www2"
CFCC.edu is now our primary domain. All links and navigation on the site have been updated accordingly.


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Chance News 20
Like dreams, statistics are a form of wish fulfillment. - Jean Baudrillard
According to an article in the WSJ by Dr. Jerome Groopman of the Harvard Medical School criticizing alternative medicine: on the wall of the office of Dr. Stephen Straus who directs NCCAM, (formerly the Office of Alternative Medicine which is within the National Institutes of Health) there exists the following framed quotation, "The plural of anecdote is not evidence." This useful and insightful aphorism appears in various versions as can be seen by this website here.
"People who live longer have a greater chance of developing cancer in old age." Heard on the "Today" news programme on BBC Radio 4 and reported to the MEDSTATS discussion group by Ted Harding.
A clumsy attempt at anonymization
A Face is Exposed for AOL Searcher No. 4417749. Michael Barbaro and Tom Zeller, Jr. The New York Times (August 9, 2006).
Statisticians frequently deal with confidentiality issues when deciding what type of data and what amount of detail should be withheld to protect sensitive information about individual patients or institutions. It's not an easy task and there are some subtle traps. And sometimes there are not so subtle traps.
At the request of some researchers, America Online (AOL) released data on 20 million web searches performed 650 thousand AOL users over a three month span. They released the data, not just to those researchers, but to the general public. AOL quickly realized that this was a bad idea and removed the database, but it had already been copied to many locations. It is unlikely that they will ever be able to persuade the web owners at all the other locations to take the files offline.
The data was anonymized by replacing the user name with a random number. This is important, because some of the search terms are for rather sensitive items. Examples of things that people searched on are
- "can you adopt after a suicide attempt" or
- "how to tell your family you're a victim of incest."
But replacing a name by a number did not come even close to anonymizing all of the records. The problem is that people will do web searches about things that reveal hints about themselves. Actual searches listed in the data base included things like geographic locations:
- "gynecology oncologists in new york city,"
- "orange county california jails inmate information,"
- "employment needed- louisville ky," or
- "salem probate court decisions,"
or places where the searchers shopped or banked or got health care,
- "gerards restaurant in dc,"
- "st. margaret's hospital washington d.c.,"
- "l&n federal credit union," or
- "mustang sally gentlemans club,"
or products that the searchers owned,
- "cheap rims for a ford focus," or
- "how to change brake pads on scion xb,"
or their hobbies,
- "knitting stitches," or
- "texas hold'em poker on line seminars."
It gets even more revealing when people do web searches on their relatives or even themselves.
These individual searches are, according to one report, like individual pieces in a mosaic. Put enough of them together and you can get a really clear picture of who the searcher is. Can you actually identify people from their web searches? The answer is yes.
Accrdoing to the New York Times report, one user, with the id number 4417749 searched for
- "landscapers in Lilburn, Ga," and
- "homes sold in shadow lake subdivision gwinnett county georgia,"
as well as the names of several people, all of whose last names were Arnold. It didn't take long for the New York Times to track down a 62 year old widow named Thelma Arnold.
Ms. Arnold, who agreed to discuss her searches with a reporter, said she was shocked to hear that AOL had saved and published three months' worth of them. "My goodness, it's my whole personal life," she said. "I had no idea somebody was looking over my shoulder."
This is an important lesson that statisticians have been aware of for some time. An individual piece of information by itself may not compromise someone's privacy, but will do so when it is combined with other pieces of information. Knowing that someone lives in a small town still preserves anonymity, but when that small town name appears in a database of all pediatric heart transplant cases, you have a problem.
1. List some of the other things that people might search on that would potentially reveal their identities.
2. Could this data set be cleaned up to the point where it could be truly thought to be anonymized?
3. Why would a researcher be interested in what people search for on the Internet? What sort of information would be useful for someone in Marketing?
Submitted by Steve Simon
Mean vs. Median
Who's Counting: It's Mean to Ignore the Median
ABCNews.com, 6 August 2006
John Allen Paulos
This latest installment of "Who's Counting" focuses on the distinction between the mean and median. Paulos begins with the familiar example of housing prices, and goes on to discuss the implications for interpreting newly released data on the performance of the US economy for 2004. Republicans point out that the economy grew at a rate of 4.2%, and complain that they are not getting enough credit for the good news. Democrats counter that real median income is falling and poverty is rising. How can both be true? Just as a few expensive houses in a neighborhood can pull the mean substantially above the median, gains by a wealthy few at the top of the income ladder can pull up the mean, even if most people are not benefiting.
To show that this is happening, Paulos cites work on income distribution by economists Thomas Picketty and Emmanuel Satz. According to their calculations, the the richest one percent, whose incomes exceed $315,000, gained on average nearly 17% over the year in question. However, the good news did not extend very far down the income distribution. Looking at the top five percent of all incomes, the average gain is described as "minimal." This means that the gains were concentrated near the very top. In fact, even among the top one percent, Picketty and Satz found that half of income gains went to the top tenth of the group.
Paulos points out that the pattern of the income distribution can be described mathematically in terms of so-called "power laws," which apply to a variety of observed phenomenon, including Internet surfing and investing. A general description of power laws from Wikipedia can be found here.
Submitted by Bill Peterson
A Reader's Guide to Polls
Precisely False vs. Approximately Right: A Reader's Guide To Polls
The New York Times, August 27, 2006, The Public Editor
Jack Rosenthal
Jack Rosenthal, a former New York Times senior editor filling in as the guest "Public Reader" is concerned that the media often reports the outcomes of a poll without explaining how the poll should be interpreted and without allerting the readers when there are serious problems with the way the poll is carried out. He provides the following example:
LAST March, the American Medical Association reported an alarming rate of binge drinking and unprotected sex among college women during spring break. The report was based on a survey of "a random sample" of 644 women and supplied a scientific-sounding "margin of error of +/– 4.00 percent." Television, columnists and comedians embraced the racy report. The New York Times did not publish the story, but did include some of the data in a chart.
The sample, it turned out, was not random. It included only women who volunteered to answer questions — and only a quarter of them had actually ever taken a spring break trip. They hardly constituted a reliable cross section, and there is no way to calculate a margin of sampling error for such a "sample."
Rosenthal refers readers to the Mystery Pollster, a polling blog for more information about this survey. On this website we read:
Cliff Zukin, the current president of the American Association for Public Opinion Research (AAPOR), saw the survey results printed in the Times, and wondered about how the survey had been conducted. He contacted the AMA and was referred to the methodology section of their online release. He saw the following description (which has since been scrubbed):
The American Medical Association commissioned the survey. Fako & Associates, Inc., of Lemont, Illinois, a national public opinion research firm, conducted the survey online. A nationwide random sample of 644 women age 17 - 35 who currently attend college, graduated from college or attended, but did not graduate from college within the United States were surveyed. The survey has a margin of error of +/- 4.00 percent at the 95 percent level of confidence [emphasis added].
Zukin then contacted Janet Willams at the AMA asking for more details on how the study was carried out. She responded:
The poll was conducted in the industry standard for internet polls -- this was not academic research -- it was a public opinion poll that is standard for policy development and used by politicians and nonprofits.
Zukin replied:
I'm very troubled by this methodology. As an op-in non-probability sample, it lacks scientific validity in that your respondents are not generalizable to the population you purport to make inferences about. As such the report of the findings may be seriously misleading. I do not accept the distinction you make between academic research and a "public opinion" survey.
In her reply Williams said:
As far as the methodology, it is the standard in the industry and does generalize for the population. Apparently I need to reiterate that this is not an academic study and will [not ?] be published in any peer reviewed journal; this is a standard media advocacy tool that is regularly used by the American Lung Association, American Heart Association, American Cancer Society and others.
We recommend reading the full discussion Part 1 and Part 2 of the The AMA Spring Break Survey.
Rosenthal gives another example, writing:
Another example surfaced last week in The Wall Street Journal. It examined a "landmark survey," conducted for liquor retailers, claiming to show that "millions of kids" buy alcohol online. A random sample? The pollster paid the teenage respondents and included only Internet users.
The survey is critizied in Carl Bialik's "Numbers Guy" column in the the Wall Street Journal Online August 18, 2006.


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Crystal Palace 4G 7 a-side
When and Where
Tuesday, May 08, 2018Repeats Weekly on Tuesdays
ONLINE £6.00 /per person
Game Play Rules
- 90min game, Please be on time. Being late is unfair on the rest of the players so be on the pitch and ready for 7pm.
- Strictly no metal studs
- Ok to score in the area, normal 11 a side rules
- Rotate keepers every 7 mins
- No shouting, No aggressive behaviour
Venue: Harris City Academy Crystal Palace
- 4G artificial pitch. AG boots, astro, moulds and blade are ok, NO metal studs
- SE19 2JH main entrances on Maberley Road
- Changing rooms and showers available
- Free secure car park at the front of the school
Getting there:
- Crystal Palace Station (Overland): 5 min walk
- Harris Academy stop (bus numbers 410)
Footy Addicts' Code of Conduct must be respected at all times.
Everyone must play fair, respect their team-mates and opponents.
Pay via Credit/Debit card or PayPal account in order to secure your spot in the game.
You will automatically receive refund only if you honour the game's refund policy
If for any reason you cannot make it to the game you need to modify your RSVP as soon as possible, in order to free your spot. In case you are in the attendance list and you do no turn up for the game, you will be marked as a No-Show.
Late comers will also be marked as No-Show
Please bring a dark top with you. We'll provide bibs and pick the teams at the pitch.
Light Tees (4/7)