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Yesterday, I posted about the data mined info showing that Moonfire/Sunfire would now generate energy if you were buffed with Lunar Shower, and guessed that it was a replacement of last weeks patch notes indicating all DoTs would generate energy. That has now been confirmed. Here is the official patch note.
Insect Swarm now generates 8 Lunar Energy for Balance druids. Moonfire now generates 8 Solar Power for Balance druids. Sunfire now generates 8 Lunar Energy for Balance druids.
- Lunar Shower has been redesigned. When casting Moonfire, the druid gains Lunar Shower. Lunar Shower increases the direct damage done by Moonfire by 15/30/45%, and reduces the mana cost by 10/20/30%. This effect stacks up to 3 times and lasts 3 seconds. While under the effects of Lunar Shower, Moonfire generates 8 Solar Energy, and Sunfire generates 8 Lunar Energy. The amount of Lunar/Solar Energy gained does not change based on the number of points spent in the talent, or stacks of Lunar Shower. Those druids who wish to delay transition in or out of an Eclipse state should now cast the one of their two basic attacks which will not move the Eclipse bar (either Starfire or Wrath).
Since this is what I assumed was being implemented my comments yesterday about how this would affect our rotation still stands. Single target fights should see little impact. Even dual target fights won't see a lot of impact if you time the refreshes correctly. Mostly this takes away a tool for us to delay an eclipse transition using Lunar Shower and Moonfire/Sunfire. Oddly enough this should nerf the elite players but have a smaller impact on the more average players. That said there are two interesting parts to this patch note.
Delaying Eclipse: One of the main criticisms of the old patch notes was that it took away the ability for players to delay eclipse transitions by using Lunar Shower and Moonfire. I find it interesting Blizzard addressed this concern directly. They said:
Those druids who wish to delay transition in or out of an Eclipse state should now cast the one of their two basic attacks which will not move the Eclipse bar (either Starfire or Wrath).Blizzard's basically telling us they hear the concern but tough. We will have to deal with it because that is the activity they didn't like.
I know some people won't like the answer, but you have to like the direct way they addressed the concern.
Movement Stacking: The other interesting thing I saw in the patch note is that there is no mention of Lunar Shower Stacking with movement like in the current tool tip. This is a suggestion Hamlet made to the developers and it sounds like they have taken them up on the idea. Instead it sounds like Lunar shower will stack with multiple applications of Moonfire.
If I'm not reading to much into the patch note this is a bit of a nerf to our movement DPS, because it will take longer to stack Lunar Shower. However, I doubt it's all that significant. Movement generally isn't that long anyway and not it's not a huge part of our DPS total.
Edit - Skipping the Lunar Shower Talent
Now that Lunar Shower is being redesigned many people are asking, can we skip Lunar Shower the Talent?
This is in no way conclusive or scientific, but I tried to do a little backwords math using a WoL parse for Imsupersdw of Method. He is obviously one of the elite moonkin players out there and has the overall number 2 ranking on heroic Maloriak. I used this parse to back into some numbers.
To give it a best case senario I assumed that ever Moonfire and Sunfire cast was done with a full stack of Lunar Shower. If that was true then the Lunar Shower buff was responcible for 2.0% of is overall damage on the fight. However, the real impact is obviously less then that since there is impossible for him to have a full stack of Lunar shower for all of those casts. In fact, his Lunar Shower uptime was 45%. I did the same math for his Chimeron kill and found that Lunar Shower was worth at most 1% of his DPS, with a 25% uptime on Lunar Shower.
This says to me that the Lunar Shower buff doesn't have a big impact on DPS, since it's worth at most 2.0% on the optimal fight for one of the best moonkins in the world. It has to be worth significantly less on an average fight my an average player.
If Patch 4.2 went live today, I could see dropping Lunar Shower entirely since it would make our lives a little easier without a huge drop in DPS.
That said, I wouldn't expect this to go live as is. The forums have been very busy talking about the possibility of dropping Lunar Shower from the talent build and I'm sure Blizzard has seen it. The entire purpose of this change is to prevent us from staying in Eclipse and doing Multi DoD AoE and Moonfire spam. Blizzard won't want their efforts to be avoided. I expect we will see another change that will bake some DPS into Lunar Shower and make it a Mandetory Talent.
Other Changes:
The lunar shower change was the big thing but there are a couple of other little changes that you may be interested in.
- Earth and Moon's duration has been increased to 15 seconds, up from 12.
- Wild Mushroom: Detonate can now also trigger Earth and Moon, in addition to Starfire and Wrath.
- Fungal Growth spell visual effect has been updated to be less visually intrusive and more aesthetic.
- Solar Beam has a new spell effect.


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The Government Accountability Office report found only a quarter of the national forest system's 158,000 miles of trails meets quality standards, so people use them less and the environment is damaged.
It adds that the U.S. Forest Service relies heavily on volunteers to maintain trails but does not train its staff to work effectively with them.
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A Salinas urologist under federal investigation is also facing possible sanctions by the California Medical Board over a separate issue.
Dr. Aytac Apaydin, co-owner of Salinas Valley Urology Associates, is accused of failing to realize he left a wire in a patient"s bladder despite a radiologist"s CT scan report identifying the problem. The man complained of severe pain and urinary bleeding for eight months before a doctor in Arizona discovered the error and removed the wire, according to the state complaint.
The man sued Apaydin in Monterey County Superior Court, reaching an undisclosed settlement a year ago. He also reported the incident to the California Medical Board, which investigated and filed a formal accusation seeking suspension or revocation of Apaydin"s license in August 2011.
In seeking serious discipline, the medical board noted that Apaydin was publicly reprimanded in May 2008 for allegedly altering a patient"s records and failing to inform him of the effects of Lupron, a hormone drug often used to treat prostate cancer that can cause severe hot flashes.
The latest action has not gone to trial. Deputy Attorney General Lynne Dombrowski, who is prosecuting the case for the medical board, said she is expecting a "decision" fairly soon. Such cases often are resolved without a trial.
Apaydin and other doctors who practice at Salinas Valley Urology are simultaneously being federally investigated over some of their business practices. A spokeswoman for the Office of the Inspector General at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services confirmed the investigation but declined to discuss its nature or status.
The Inspector General"s Office is responsible for eliminating fraud and abuse in Medicare, Medicaid and other programs.
A Nov. 6 report by Bloomberg News said the inspector general is examining whether the doctors at the Salinas clinic, which includes a surgery center, radiation facility and pathology lab, are violating laws that prohibit physicians from referring patients for treatments chiefly for profit. Particularly at issue, the article said, is intensity-modulated radiation therapy, or IMRT, a treatment for prostate cancer.
In addition to Apaydin, co-owner Dr. Stephen Worsham and the clinic"s radiation oncologist, Dr. David Gallardo, nine other urologists pay to see patients at the center at 1115 Los Palos Drive a few hours a week — providing an apparent loophole in the "self-referral" laws. None has been accused of wrongdoing.
Salinas Valley Urology issued a statement following the Bloomberg article, saying some of its facts were wrong and that the center"s doctors provide "state-of-the-art … thorough and compassionate diagnostic and treatment services to our patients."
Apaydin did not respond to requests for comment for this article. A Sacramento attorney representing him, Robert Sullivan, said the allegations pending before the medical board and in a separate medical-malpractice lawsuit have nothing to do with radiation therapy for prostate cancer.
The medical board"s action targets only Apaydin. It details the years-long medical saga of a patient referred to as "J.P.," who had been Apaydin"s patient since 1995.
J.P. was 72 when Apaydin removed his cancerous prostate in December 2004. In July 2007, he went to see Apaydin with complaints of frequent nighttime urination, bloody urine and abdominal pain.
The state accusation says Apaydin "apparently" diagnosed a constriction in the bladder neck. He treated the problem by running a wire through the blockage to guide a laser used to ease the stricture. He did not realize the laser also cut through the wire, leaving a piece in the patient"s bladder. The accusation says Apaydin"s medical records did not contain an operative report, nor documentation of an antibiotic he had prescribed.
Eleven days later, a radiologist in Apaydin"s office conducted an abdominal CT scan. In his written "finding" and "impression," the radiologist twice stated, "There is a coiled metallic wire seen within the urinary bladder."
Apaydin initialed the report to indicate he had received it and reviewed it. Two weeks later, J.P. again complained of pain and urination five times a night. A urinalysis again showed red blood cells.
Apaydin recommended he return in three months.
Another five weeks passed and J.P. called Apaydin from Yuma, Ariz., where he was working. He was passing blood and experiencing pain with urination and incontinence. Apaydin prescribed an antibiotic and urinary analgesic, but detailed neither prescription in his records, the accusation states.
When J.P. returned from Yuma two months later, he was still experiencing the symptoms. Apaydin continued his antibiotic and recommended Kegel exercises for the incontinence.
By March 2008, J.P. had added impotence and blood clots to his list of maladies, according to the accusation. Apaydin"s records do not indicate if he continued the man"s antibiotic and do not document any other treatment.
In May 2008, after returning to Yuma, J.P. turned to a new doctor, who found and removed the wire.
In a written summary of J.P."s care, Apaydin said he read and signed off on the patient"s original CT scan, but failed to notice the finding of the wire in the bladder.
The accusation states Apaydin is subject to discipline for "repeated negligent acts," including failing to recognize he had cut the guide wire during the cystoscopy, failing to adequately review the CT report on four separate occasions and failing to maintain adequate and accurate records.
It seeks revocation or suspension of his license and his authority to supervise physician"s assistants, and, if he is placed on probation, an order for him to pay the costs of the board"s probation monitoring.
Monterey County court records show Apaydin also was sued for malpractice in 2010 and 2011. One of those lawsuits was settled, the other is pending trial.
Sullivan said it is not unusual for a surgeon to face two lawsuits over an 18-year practice.
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Good news for fans of the squeaky-voiced, wiggly clownfish known as Nemo. Rumors are floating about that Pixar is working on a Finding Nemo sequel.
Film writer and producer Andrew Stanton has reportedly signed up for the job and "has a project the studio loves," according to a blog post on on Hollywood Deadline by Mike Flemming, who is known for breaking news in the film industry. (Note: Pixar doesn't comment on development.)
Stanton worked on many Pixar films including the box-office hits A Bug's Life, the complete Toy Story series, WALL-E and the original Finding Nemo, which is often regarded as the best Pixar film and grossed over $867 million worldwide. Stanton most recently directed his first live-action film, John Carter, which received bad reviews and lost Disney $160 million. But now it seems Stanton has been called out of the time-out chair to work on a Nemo sequel.
Pixar fans' feelings are mixed about a second Nemo film. One Hollywood Deadline reader asks: "Why go back to Nemo other than [for] money?"
Another reader shares a more positive perspective: "I've been waiting 10 years to see Albert Brooks and Ellen DeGeneres back on screen. This is the BEST news I have read in a long time."
The news about a Finding Nemo followup has started a debate over whether Pixar is pumping out too many sequels. The studio released Toy Story 2 and 3 and Cars 2, and a prequel to Monsters Inc. will hit theaters next year. Last year Tom Hanks said a Toy Story 4 is in the works (Pixar has never commented on this).
Has the studio turned into a sequel mill? They're still releasing more originals than sequels. Brave just opened in theaters and Pixar announced that Dia De Los Muertos, The Good Dinosaur and a film from Up director Pete Docter will open in 2014 and 2015.
As one Hollywood Deadline reader puts it: "Sequel Train? They are still doing originals … When you have properties like these, why wouldn't you do a sequel? Cars 2 may have not been that good, but the Toy Story sequels have been very good. Time will tell about the Monsters, Inc. sequel/prequel. But, this and The Incredibles are the ones I really wanted to see a sequel too. As big as Superhero films are right now, I'm actually quite shocked there HASN'T been an Incredibles sequel."
The bottom line: If a Nemo sequel is anything like Cars 2 then it's a bad idea, but if the film is as good as Toy Story 2 and 3, then it's a great idea. And if Finding Nemo 2 is good, then bring on an Incredibles sequel.
Is Pixar making too many sequels? Which sequels have you enjoyed? Which sequels/prequels do you think they should produce?
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If you are reading this, it is likely you or someone you love has been waging a difficult physical and emotional battle against COPD or another form of lung disease, such as bronchiectasis, chronic asthma, pulmonary fibrosis, cystic fibrosis or tuberculosis. Your search for comfort, support and answers does not stop when you decide to discontinue treatment or respiratory support. Reducing or discontinuing medical support has an effect on the whole family. That's when VITAS can help.
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Your hospice team evaluates the patient's status and updates the plan of care as symptoms and condition change, even on a day-to-day basis. The goal of hospice is to relieve physical and emotional distress so patients can retain their dignity and remain comfortable.
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If you or a loved one is facing a life-limiting illness, you may have heard the term hospice. Friends or family might have told you about the specialized medical care for patients or the support services for loved ones. But most people are unaware of the many other benefits of hospice.
Comfort. Hospice works with patients and families to give them the support and resources to assist them through this challenging chapter of life and help them remain in comfortable and familiar surroundings.
Personal attention. When the hospice team works with a patient or family, they become participants in the end-of-life process, a very personal experience for any individual. The hospice mission is to care for each person individually. We listen to patients and loved ones. We advocate for them. We work to improve their quality of life.
Reduced rehospitalization. In the last months of life, some people who are seriously ill make frequent trips to the emergency room; others endure repeated hospitalizations. Hospice care reduces rehospitalization: a study of terminally ill residents in nursing homes shows that residents enrolled in hospice are much less likely to be hospitalized in the final 30 days of life than those not enrolled in hospice (24% vs. 44%)1.
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The final months and days of life are frequently marked by strong emotions and hard decisions. Talking about hospice, even with those closest to you, can be difficult. Here are some tips to get the discussion going.
Education is key. Educate yourself first. By now, you've probably done some research on this website. It might also be helpful for you to learn some common misconceptions about end-of-life care, as your family may be misinformed about the realities of hospice. This page can help you understand and dispel hospice myths. Read and share "Considering Hospice: A Discussion Guide for Families" at HospiceCanHelp.com
Determine what your loved ones know. Before bringing up hospice, make sure your loved ones have a clear understanding of your health status. People handle difficult information in different ways. If family members are not accepting or understanding of your prognosis, you might want to have your physician, clergy or a trusted friend speak with them on your behalf.
Discuss your goals for the future, as well as theirs. As a patient, your greatest concern might be to live without pain, or to stay at home or not to be a burden. Ask your loved ones what their concerns are when they consider the coming months, weeks and dayhs. Explain that hospice is not giving up. It is an active choice to ensure that everyone's needs are met.
Take initiative. Remember, it's up to you to express your wishes. Sometimes, out of concern for your feelings, your family or loved ones might be reluctant to raise the issue of hospice care for you.
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Ask permission. Asking permission to discuss a difficult topic assures your loved one that you will respect his or her wishes and honor them. Say something like, "I would like to talk about how we can continue to ensure you get the very best care and attention as your condition progresses. Is that okay?"
Determine what is important to your loved one. Ask him or her to consider the future: "What are you hoping for in the coming months, weeks or days? What are you most concerned about?" The patient might express a desire to be comfortable, to stay at home or to not become a burden.
Discuss hospice care as a means of fulfilling the patient's wishes. Now that your loved one has told you what is important to him or her, explain that hospice is a way of making sure wishes and desires are met. For some, the word hospice evokes a false notion of giving up. Explain that hospice is not about surrendering to disease or death. It is about bringing quality of life to the patient's remaining months, weeks or days.
Assure the patient that he/she is in control. Hospice gives patients options: the option to remain in the comfort of their own home, the option to take advantage of as much emotional and spiritual support as they desire, the option to have their own doctor actively involved in their care. Reassure your loved one that you will honor his or her right to make choices about what is most important in life.
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With a good luck charm he had given to a sick child back in his pocket, Brazilian Tony Kanaan won his first Indianapolis 500 on Sunday to end a decade of disappointment at the famed Brickyard.
The former IndyCar champion captured the crown jewel of North American motor racing in his 12th attempt to complete his resume, taking the checkered flag under caution after defending champion Dario Franchitti crashed with just over two laps to go.
"This is it man, I made it," Kanaan said before he dumped the traditional winner's bottle of milk over his head. "Finally I am going to put my ugly face on that trophy."
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Colombia's Carlos Munoz crossed the finish line second in his IndyCar racing debut followed by American Ryan Hunter-Reay.
Marco Andretti, grandson of former Formula One champion and Indy 500 winner Mario Andretti, finished fourth in a furious and frenetic race that featured a record 68 lead changes, double the previous mark set in 2012.
One of IndyCar's most popular figures, Kanaan had known nothing but bad luck at the sprawling 2.5 mile oval speedway, coming close but never able to reach Victory Lane.
Kanaan's luck, however, changed when he received a package four days before the race containing a good luck charm he had given to a young girl nine years ago just before she was about to undergo brain surgery.
The woman, now 24 years old and healthy, returned the charm back to Kanaan along with a note that read: "Here's your good luck charm back. Now you take it and win the Indianapolis 500."
As Kanaan drove his Dallara-Chevy into a packed Victory Lane he pulled the medal out of his race suit and held it high before he was mobbed by team mates and friends, including former series champion Alex Zanardi.
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Kanaan, who ran at or near the front most of the afternoon, holding the lead 15 times, was sitting second behind Hunter-Reay with six laps left when a caution flag came out after Graham Rahal slammed into the wall.
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On the restart, Kanaan blew past Hunter-Reay when his luck took a dramatic change as Franchitti's crash further back in the field brought out the yellow, allowing the 38-year-old Brazilian to coast unchallenged to the checkered flag.
"I have to say, the last lap was the longest lap of my life. I wanted the pace car to hurry up so bad," said Kanaan. "I got a little bit of luck today."
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Zanardi, who had both legs amputated above the knee after crashing in a 2001 race, also brought Kanaan some luck, turning over the gold medal he won at the 2012 London Paralympics in hopes that some his good fortune would rub off on his friend.
"Alex Zanardi gave us some luck today. He gave us his gold medal from London and told us, 'Rub this all over the car,'" said Kanaan's team owner Jimmy Vasser. "Tony took the medal to his motorhome with him for an hour."
The day began under dreary, grey skies but the race got off to an uplifting start as runners who were unable to finish last month's Boston Marathon were given a chance to symbolically complete the distance.
The runners were unable to finish the Boston Marathon as the race was halted when two bombs left at the finish line exploded , killin g three people and injuring 264 others.
A massive crowd packed in the home straightaway grandstands stood and cheered as runners, who started at Turn Four and finished on the front stretch, crossed one of the most famous finish lines in all of sport - the Yard of Bricks.
The crowd, estimated at close to 250,000, was back on its feet a few minutes later when drivers were given the command to start their engines and pole sitter Ed Carpenter led the 33-car field into the first turn of the 200-lap race.
Carpenter, IndyCar's only owner driver, set the pace until the first caution came out on the fourth lap when JR Hildebrand, who famously crashed in the final turn while leading the 2011 Indy 500, spun into the wall bringing out the yellow flag.
The day featured just five cautions and the low number of yellow flags helped make it the fastest Indy 500 ever with Kanaan posting an average speed of 187.433 mph.


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It's hardly a surprise the Jets want to add some pop to their passing game, since it ranked 31st in the league last year.
And they're apparently thinking about doing so in free agency.
According to Manish Mehta of the New York Daily News, the Jets are eyeballing free agent wide receivers Jeremy Maclin and Emmanuel Sanders, in hopes of upgrading the position.
Giving some help to quarterback Geno Smith makes sense, as the Jets only got seven touchdowns out of all their wideouts last year, fewer than 17 individual receivers in the league.
Cutting Santonio Holmes will add more than $8 million to their free agency war chest.
Maclin could be a value buy after tearing his ACL in Eagles training camp last summer, and he has experience with offensive coordinator Marty Mornhinweg.
Sanders established career highs in receptions, yards and touchdowns for the Steelers last year, after getting a restricted free agent offer sheet from the Patriots which was matched.


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Sandy Alderson expects the Mets to be competitive next season, but did not define that to mean they'll be in the playoff hunt. He also said he doesn't foresee the Mets being big players in the free-agent market.
There's nothing down below that is major league ready to drastically improve the team, and it's highly unlikely they'll deal any of their three biggest major league commodities – David Wright, Jose Reyes or Mike Pelfrey.
Translated: Alderson believes the Mets can be competitive with pretty much the same team they had this season if their injured players can return productive and sound, which is what Omar Minaya said last winter. The Mets won 79 games this year, two below .500, which is merely average. They would figure to improve with full and healthy seasons from Jason Bay, Carlos Beltran and Reyes, but there are no guarantees.
But, how much better? Ten games? That would be 89, but the NL wild card team, Atlanta, won 91 games. So, winning ten more falls short, and that's even before considering their other issues.
The first, and most important, is the expected absence of Johan Santana. Some projections have him missing most, if not all of the season. Assuming no Santana, the Mets will need two other starters to fill out their rotation.
If the Mets go the same route as they did last winter and not add an arm in the free agent market, we'll be looking at a front end of the the rotation with Pelfrey, Jon Niese and RA Dickey, with Dillon Gee and Pat Misch among those competing in the back end.
Other issues will be hoping for the continued development of Ike Davis, Josh Thole and Angel Pagan.
Alderson has already told us he won't have a lot of payroll flexibility this winter, but even if he were to shed the Mets of Oliver Perez or Luis Castillo, that doesn't mean he'll find an extra $18 million to play with for 2011.
So far, the first impression has been a good one of Alderson, and part of that has been him being forthcoming about the obstacles.
We're all assuming the Mets will make major moves for the 2012 season. That doesn't mean they can't take a step up next season. How big remains to be seen.


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As the World Health Organization raised its infectious disease alert level Wednesday and health officials confirmed the first death linked to swine flu inside U.S. borders, scientists studying the virus are coming to the consensus that this hybrid strain of influenza -- at least in its current form -- isn't shaping up to be as fatal as the strains that caused some previous pandemics.
In fact, the current outbreak of the H1N1 virus, which emerged in San Diego and southern Mexico late last month, may not even do as much damage as the run-of-the-mill flu outbreaks that occur each winter without much fanfare.
"Let's not lose track of the fact that the normal seasonal influenza is a huge public health problem that kills tens of thousands of people in the U.S. alone and hundreds of thousands around the world," said Dr. Christopher Olsen, a molecular virologist who studies swine flu at the University of Wisconsin School of Veterinary Medicine in Madison.
His remarks Wednesday came the same day Texas authorities announced that a nearly 2-year-old boy with the virus had died in a Houston hospital Monday.
"Any time someone dies, it's heartbreaking for their families and friends," Olsen said. "But we do need to keep this in perspective."
Flu viruses are known to be notoriously unpredictable, and this strain could mutate at any point -- becoming either more benign or dangerously severe. But mounting preliminary evidence from genetics labs, epidemiology models and simple mathematics suggests that the worst-case scenarios are likely to be avoided in the current outbreak.
"This virus doesn't have anywhere near the capacity to kill like the 1918 virus," which claimed an estimated 50 million victims worldwide, said Richard Webby, a leading influenza virologist at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital in Memphis, Tenn.
When the current virus was first identified, the similarities between it and the 1918 flu seemed ominous.
Both arose in the spring at the tail end of the flu season. Both seemed to strike people who were young and healthy instead of the elderly and infants. Both were H1N1 strains, so called because they had the same types of two key proteins that are largely responsible for a virus' ability to infect and spread.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the National Institutes of Health published genetic sequence data Monday morning of flu samples isolated from patients in California and Texas, and thousands of scientists immediately began downloading the information. Comparisons to known killers -- such as the 1918 strain and the highly lethal H5N1 avian virus -- have since provided welcome news.
"There are certain characteristics, molecular signatures, which this virus lacks," said Peter Palese, a microbiologist and influenza expert at Mt. Sinai Medical Center in New York. In particular, the swine flu lacks an amino acid that appears to increase the number of virus particles in the lungs and make the disease more deadly.
Scientists have identified several other differences between the current virus and its 1918 predecessor, but the significance of those differences is still unclear, said Dr. Scott Layne, an epidemiologist at the UCLA School of Public Health.
Ralph Tripp, an influenza expert at the University of Georgia, said that his early analysis of the virus' protein-making instructions suggested that people exposed to the 1957 flu pandemic -- which killed up to 2 million people worldwide -- may have some immunity to the new strain.
That could explain why older people have been spared in Mexico, where the swine flu has been most deadly.
The swine virus does appear able to spread easily among humans, which persuaded the WHO to boost its influenza pandemic alert level to phase 5, indicating that a worldwide outbreak of infection is very likely. And the CDC reported on its website that "a pattern of more severe illness associated with the virus may be emerging in the United States."
"We expect to see more cases, more hospitalizations, and, unfortunately, we are likely to see more deaths from the outbreak," Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius told reporters Wednesday on her first day at work.
But certainly nothing that would dwarf a typical flu season. In the U.S., between 5% and 20% of the population becomes ill and 36,000 people die -- a mortality rate of between 0.24% and 0.96%.
Dirk Brockmann, a professor of engineering and applied mathematics at Northwestern University in Evanston, Ill., used a computer model of human travel patterns to predict how this swine flu virus would spread in the worst-case scenario, in which nothing is done to contain the disease.
After four weeks, almost 1,700 people in the U.S. would have symptoms, including 198 in Los Angeles, according to his model. That's just a fraction of the county's thousands of yearly flu victims.
Just because the virus is being identified in a growing number of places -- including Austria, Canada, Germany, Israel, New Zealand, Spain and Britain -- doesn't mean it's spreading particularly quickly, Olsen said.
"You don't ever find anything that you don't look for," he said. "Now that diagnostic laboratories and physicians and other healthcare workers know to look for it, perhaps it's not surprising that you're going to see additional cases identified."
And a pandemic doesn't necessarily have a high fatality rate. Even in Mexico, the fatalities may simply reflect that hundreds of thousands of people have been infected. Since the symptoms of swine flu are identical to those of a normal flu, there's no way to know how many cases have evaded government health officials, St. Jude's Webby said.
As the virus adapts to its human hosts, it is likely to find ways of spreading more efficiently. But evolution also suggests it might become less dangerous, Olsen said.
"If it kills off all its potential hosts, you reach a point where the virus can't survive," he said. Working to calm public fears, U.S. officials on Wednesday repeatedly stressed the statistic of yearly flu deaths -- 36,000.
Sebelius and Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano also rejected calls to close the borders, which several lawmakers reiterated Wednesday on Capitol Hill.
"We are making all of our decisions based on the science and the epidemiology," Napolitano said. "The CDC, the public health community and the World Health Organization all have said that closing out nation's borders is not merited here."
Though scientists have begun to relax about the initial toll, they're considerably less comfortable when taking into account the fall flu season. They remain haunted by the experience of 1918, when the relatively mild first wave of flu was followed several months later by a more aggressive wave.
The longer the virus survives, the more chances it has to mutate into a deadlier form.
"If this virus keep going through our summer," Palese said, "I would be very concerned."
Staff writers Noam Levey in Washington, Thomas H. Maugh II in Los Angeles and Ken Ellingwood in Mexico City contributed to this report.


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USA Today recently named twenty students to its 19th annual All-USA College Academic Team, honoring them for outstanding intellectual achievement and leadership. The students will receive a $2,500 cash award.
Among the named is Shuai (Steve) Xu, of Diamond Bar who is currently attending Rice University.
The team was selected by a panel of judges from almost 500 students nominated by colleges and universities across the United States. Judges considered grades, leadership, activities and, most importantly, how students extend their intellectual talents beyond the classroom.


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Heart disease is a killer, but you can do plenty to reduce your risk and prolong your life. Research shows that making lifestyle changes can lower your risk for heart disease.
Adopting heart-healthy habits over the next 12 weeks will start you on the road to better health and a longer life.
Week 1: Commit to getting fit. The American Heart Association (AHA) reports that a large number of deaths each year result from not getting regular physical activity. Try to start exercising 3 times a week. Be sure to check with your healthcare provider first if you haven't been exercising regularly. Build to 150 minutes weekly of moderate aerobic activity (30 to 40 minutes a day, 4 to 5 days a week). The more you can exercise, the greater the benefit to your health.
Week 2: Stop smoking. You can have the most positive impact on your heart health by quitting smoking. It's also one of the hardest changes to make, so sign up for a smoking cessation program. If you don't smoke, make an effort to avoid secondhand smoke. Being around smoke can increase your risk for heart disease.
Week 3: Eat less fat. Fat is the most concentrated form of energy and calories. Cutting back on fat helps you lose weight and reduces your risk for heart disease and some forms of cancer.
Week 4: Limit how much saturated and trans-fats you eat. Evidence has shown that replacing saturated fats with unsaturated fats is associated with reduced levels of total cholesterol and LDL (bad) cholesterol as well as reduced risk of cardiovascular disease. Aim for getting no more than 5% to 6% of your daily calories from saturated fat. If your daily calorie goal is about 2,000 calories, saturated fats should make up no more than 120 calories of that total. In addition, the percent intake of trans fats should be limited, such as oils found in margarines, snack foods, and prepared desserts. Choose lean cuts of meat and low-fat dairy, and use oils instead of solid fats. Limit baked goods, processed meats, and fried foods.
Week 5: Improve your cholesterol levels. Try to limit your dietary cholesterol to 300 mg per day. Studies have shown that diets with lower daily intake of cholesterol are associated with reduced risk of cardiovascular disease. Make sure your daily menu includes plenty of vegetables, fruits, whole-grains, and low-fat dairy. Choose fish and skinless chicken instead of fatty cuts of red meat. Add beans (legumes) to your diet, and use soft (tub) margarine, canola oil, and olive oil in moderate amounts. Limit sweets and sugar-sweetened drinks.
Week 6: Eat less salt (sodium). The average American age 2 or older has twice the recommended amount of sodium per day. Most sodium comes from salt added during food processing. Salt added at the table and in cooking is only a small portion of the total sodium that Americans consume. The AHA recommends that all Americans limit their sodium intake to 2,400 mg per day. Leave the saltshaker off the table and eat fewer processed foods.
Week 7: Eat more fiber. Fruits, vegetables, and whole grains contain dietary fiber. Depending on your recommended daily calories, work up to 3 ounces to 5 ounces of whole grains, 2 cups of fruits, and 3 cups of vegetables each day. Drink more fluids to avoid constipation. High-fiber foods help keep cholesterol in check.
Week 8: De-stress. Stress increases your risk for heart disease and speeds its progression. People who are constantly angry or stressed have higher rises in blood pressure than people who aren't. This constant unrest can damage the heart. Be aware of stress and find ways to control it.
Week 9: Become a savvy grocery shopper. Most foods include important nutrition information on their labels. Paying attention to these numbers will help make sure you eat healthfully.
Week 10: Find a new activity. This week, try a new sport or activity you enjoy. You might enjoy water-walking, circuit training, inline skating, or slide aerobics.
Week 11: Know what's on the menu. When you eat out, try to eat as well as you do at home. Ask your server how food is prepared. Avoid cream sauces, cheese sauces, and fried foods. Choose broiled, steamed, or stir-fried dishes. Be mindful of the calories, fats, and sugars in foods in restaurants. Many restaurants have nutrition information available or you can research this before going out to eat on the restaurant's website. Know what is going in to your body.
Week 12: Eat breakfast every day. Everyone needs energy first thing in the morning, yet many people skip breakfast. Plan ahead and have healthy foods ready to go.
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Although the root cause(s) of stuttering remain unknown, evidence has accumulated from twin and adoption studies that genetics plays a role. Dennis Drayna, a geneticist at the National Institute on Deafness and other Communication Disorders (NIDCD), undertook a study to identify the genes involved in the disorder with the ultimate goal to elucidate poorly defined neural structures and functions regulating human speech. Results from the study were reported recently in the New England Journal of Medicine [1].
The study focused on a Pakistani family in whom previous work had determined that stuttering was linked to the long arm of chromosome 12 (chromosome 12q). In addition to the affected and unaffected members of these families, the study also included 123 Pakistani stutterers who were unrelated and 270 stutterers from the United States and England. Children under the age of eight were excluded, as they often recover from stuttering, as were people with neurologic or psychiatric symptoms. The control group (non-stutterers) consisted of 96 Pakistanis and 276 North American whites.


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The 35th season of the Callingwood Farmers' Market opens on Sunday, May 5, 2019, 10am to 3pm. We are Edmonton's original and largest Sunday farmers' market. Our Sunday farmers' markets feature over 100 tables with vendors offering the finest of locally grown fresh food, top quality plants, unique arts and crafts, exclusive handmade products and much


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What does it mean to be a "good man" in today's society? For Tom Matlack, it starts by just asking the question.
"You can have all the money in the world and it doesn't matter, it's the people in your life that matter," says Matlack, co-founder of The Good Men Project Foundation and the online magazine, goodmenproject.com. "We started the foundation to help at risk boys and spark a national conversation about manhood."
Matlack knows something about being "at risk". His successful career in finance made him millions, but his personal struggles with alcohol nearly cost him his life on more than one occasion. Between a rollover car accident on the highway and being thrown through a plate glass window in a Manhattan restaurant, Matlack feels lucky to be alive.
"I was completely focused on my business ego. I'd negotiated a deal worth billions and had this perfect, superficial picture--two kids, a big house, a wife. I had everything and yet I was ashamed of my behavior--drinking, cheating. At 31, I was a professional success and personal failure all at once," explains Matlack.
"I hit rock bottom and had to call my mom from a parking lot to explain why I got kicked out of the house. Here I was on the cover of the Wall Street Journal, yet I wasn't going to see my two children at Christmas. My son was 6 months old. I woke up and decided I'd either kill myself or do it slowly if I didn't make changes."
Now sober, Matlack dedicates his life to helping men be honest about the struggles of doing it all.
"At its core, men were trained to run, run, run and put the big numbers on the scoreboard," he says. "Women love to talk and talk about their emotions but with men--this is definitely not the case."
Matlack started the online magazine to build a community where men could post and share articles about topics that range from battling addiction to being a good parent. He's since gathered several essays written by men of various races and socio-economic backgrounds into a book titled "The Good Men Project", which was recently made into a DVD.
"Men are more open to listening to issues in male ways, like being in the locker room," says Matlack. "It's not talking about emotion directly but talking about emotion in terms of a story of a guy dying in combat. Hearing things in stories--or writing them down--is how it resonates for men."
Both the book and DVD capture defining moments from men who describe what's important in life. "It's where these guys sort of wake up and say, 'Oh my God, I've been living a life in a way that's not authentic. What am I going to do about it?' "
For Matlack, that clarity came when he was feeding his infant son. "I hadn't spent much time with my kids because I was busy working too hard and playing too hard," he says. "It was one of those spiritual moments--just holding my own child and noticing him for the first time. The sound of him suckling the bottle, the smell of his head, the way his body slowly relaxed in my arms, and putting his head in the nook of my shoulder. This became a ritual for me. I would rock him and it was 10 or 15 minutes of every day where I was completely at peace. I had a son. I had always wanted to be a father and I'd been chasing my tail this whole time, not realizing I already had everything I wanted in life."
Now that infant son is a teenager--but Matlack knows the example he sets will have a lasting impression.
"I find that teenage boys in some ways are struggling more profoundly than men are," he explains. "Nobody has told them it's okay to want to stay home with your kids or focus on being a great Dad, as much as it's about accomplishments and how much money you make. Just like women were trying to balance coming out of the home, men are trying to balance coming out of work and going back into the home."
And with all royalties from the book and DVD going to support youth groups such as Boys and Girls Club of America, Matlack wants to continue the dialogue with future generations.
"The great blessing of my story in my own life is what I try to share with other people, but it took me a while to get there," he says. "I think it's time for men to not be silent and that we talk about what it means to be a good father, a good son, a good husband. And that answer is going to be different for everybody."


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Financial need of Wisconsin college students continues to grow. The need to expand Wisconsin's trained workforce continues to grow. In order to provide access for Wisconsin residents to a college education or training beyond high school, financial assistance programs administered by the Higher Educational Aids Board (HEAB) for postsecondary education should become a priority. See background information below and Attachment A, which summarizes HEAB's 2001-03 Biennial Budget request.
The Higher Educational Aids Board administers need based undergraduate grant programs, the Academic Excellence Scholarship Program, tuition capitation programs for dental and medical students, the MN-WI Reciprocity and other interstate reciprocal tuition programs, as well as several undergraduate loan forgiveness programs. The Higher Educational Aids Board administered $52,003,149 in need-based undergraduate student grants and loans used in Wisconsin in 1999-00. This amounted to 5.21% of the total college costs needy Wisconsin families faced in 1999-00 compared to meeting 5.39% in 1995-96. After family resources and federal, institutional, community, and state resources were taken into consideration, $215,388,030 remained in unmet need. This reflects a 40.82% increase in financial need when compared to the level of financial need found in 1995-96. The financial assistance taken into consideration for this calculation includes need-based employment, loans, and grants. 175,430 needy Wisconsin students applied for State assistance in 1999-00. 47,221 awards based on financial need were made to those applicants. Wisconsin has, in the past, ranked between 12th and 14th in the country in terms of providing undergraduate need-based assistance to residents. However, Minnesota, a neighboring state which has a comparable number of applicants as Wisconsin, had in 1998-99 18% more awards and 113% more in state funded aid for college students. The average award for a Wisconsin undergraduate aid recipient in 1998-99 was $1,032. This was 158% less than Illinois ($2,662), 69% less than Michigan ($1,743), and 128% less than Minnesota ($2,356).
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John Travolta's lawyer has moved swiftly to shut down a new lawsuit from the actor's former pilot.
Doug Gotterba, who worked for the actor for six years, recently went public with claims he had a secret affair with Travolta, prompting Travolta's attorney Marty Singer to shoot down his story, accusing the pilot of violating a confidentiality agreement.
He insists he never signed any papers barring him from talking to the media about his relationship with the movie star and he has filed a lawsuit insisting he should be able to speak freely without the threat of prosecution.
Singer has branded the lawsuit "ridiculous," revealing he has the physical documents to debunk Gotterba's claims.
Speaking to TMZ.com, he says, "Mr. Gotterba obviously filed this lawsuit to get his 15 minutes of fame. We plan to get this meritless case promptly dismissed."
This isn't the first time Travolta, who is married to Kelly Preston, has been accused of having a sexual relationship with a man – earlier this year he was hit with three separate lawsuits from masseurs who claimed the movie star acted inappropriately during sessions. Two of the claims were quickly dismissed.


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While we wait for an "official" iDisk app from Apple, the folks over at Quickoffice have released a free app for the iPhone called MobileFiles. This app is different from our recent post about Box.net. This app is used strictly to access your MobileFiles on the go. There is lots to talk about this app, but what I like the most is that when you access a file from your MobileMe account, it saves it locally for you to access later; without being online. You can even go in and manage what files you want to keep locally or not. Here is a high-level list of things you can do with Mobilefiles:
- Add multiple MobileMe accounts
- Add multiple MobileMe public folders
- View almost any type of supported file
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Quickoffice is also working on an office client for the iPhone as well. Others that have jumped in the document editing area are Documents to Go and Microsoft. Who will be victorious? I can't wait to find out. Do yourself and favor, and if you have a MobileMe account, don't wait, download this awesome app now!
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The opening day of the 2009 ASP World Tour season got underway this morning, with the Quiksilver Pro Gold Coast presented by LG completing Round 1 in clean two-to-three foot (1 metre) waves at the backup venue of Duranbah Beach.
Event No. 1 of 10 on the 2009 ASP World Tour, the Quiksilver Pro Gold Coast opted to mobilize from the primary site of Snapper Rocks to nearby Duranbah Beach this morning to take advantage of the increased wave heights on offer, and despite conditions being challenging at times, the world's best surfers delivered an explosive opening day of competition.
Kelly Slater (USA), 37, reigning and nine-time ASP World Champion, took to experimenting with his equipment during Round 1, opting to ride an unconventional self-shaped, 5'4" round-tail quad en route to victory over Dayyan Neve (AUS), 30, and Daniel Wills (AUS), 33.
"I am surfing a little 5'4" - a board I made actually – a pretty drastic change to what I normally ride but the tail is very similar," Slater said. "This is the step I wanted to take when I went [to shorter boards] last year from 6'1" to 5'10" and I thought I was kind of stopping there but we'll see. 5'4" is too short and I might end up with a 5'6" or a 5'7"."
Historically candid about his intentions to compete full-time on the ASP World Tour, Slater has since committed to his interest in acquiring a 10th world crown, albeit with guarded apprehension.
"It looks good on paper but honestly I am not that consumed about it," Slater said. "The only time I talk about is when people ask me. It's just a nice round number, double digits, and it's rare for people to get that in sports so it will be nice to make it."
Julian Wilson (AUS), 20, gained entry into the Quiksilver Pro Gold Coast as a wildcard, and went on to cause one of the biggest upsets of the day, defeating current ASP World No. 2 Bede Durbidge (AUS), 25, and Mikael Picon (FRA), 29, in Round 1 of competition.
"I had a little bit of pressure before that heat," Wilson said. "I was anxious to get out there and get it done. But when I walked down before my heat, I saw my friends and family so I kind of relaxed and then went out there and got a couple of waves and made it. I haven't made it passed the third round so I am really fired up to getting pass that round. I'll probably get Kelly (Slater) in the third round so I'll see what happens."
Riding a fluorescent pink surfboard to raise awareness about breast cancer, Wilson's progressive approach saw him execute a number of technical aerials and fin-free maneuvers before breaking his equipment in half during the latter stages of the heat.
"I just didn't want Bede to get another wave so I took and tried a big air, snapped my board on the landing," Wilson said. "It's okay because I have a backup, but that was a really good board."
Damien Hobgood (USA), 29, current ASP World No. 5, punctuated an otherwise mediocre-scoring day of competition with some scintillating backhand exhibitions, netting the highest heat total of the day, a 17.50 out of a possible 20, to defeat ASP Dream Tour sophomore Aritz Aranburu (EUK), 23, and twin brother, former ASP World Champion and current ASP World No. 5, C.J. Hobgood (USA), 29, in Round 1 of competition.
"Obviously it was fun for me," Hobgood said. "A lot of the waves came towards me, but C.J. and I were stoked because no one loses and it gives us a chance to loosen up a bit and not care as much. D'Bah is like Huntington where you paddle out there and it seems like all the waves are running away from you. I was lucky. I was in position for a lot of the sets."
Once a perennial Top 10 finisher, Hobgood has seen recent seasons marred by injury. Now healthy and back to 100%, the Floridian goofy-footer will look to rebound in 2009.
"I haven't been injured in a while so it feels really good," Hobgood said. "I've been spending a lot of time in the water and on my boards. It's good, I feel really comfortable."
Kekoa Bacalso (HAW), 23, took top honors for the 2009 ASP Dream Tour rookies today, netting the event's highest single-wave score of a 9.33 out of a possible 10 to defeat Chris Davidson (AUS) and Kai Otton (AUS), 29.
"He [Chris Davidson] came out guns blazing," Bacalso said. "I kept getting the first waves and he would get the second a smoke me on the exchange. I had my back against the fence and knew I had to bring out something special. I thought about Round 2 and did not want to be surfing in it, that's everyone's worst nightmare."
Bacalso led fellow 2009 ASP World Tour rookies Tim Boal (FRA), 25, and Nic Muscroft (AUS), 26, in Round 1 victories. All surfers will advance directly to Round 3.
Jay Thompson (AUS), 25, caused another massive upset today, defeating heavily-touted local Joel Parkinson (AUS), 27, and veteran power surfer Taylor Knox (USA), 37, in Round 1 of the Quiksilver Pro Gold Coast.
"Surfing at home in front of the local crowd is just amazing," Thompson said. "When you are a bit tired, you automatically get back out there with the support of the fans. It definitely makes a big difference."
An ASP Dream Tour rookie in 2008, Thompson failed to requalify for the ASP World Tour this season, but entered into the Quiksilver Pro Gold Coast as an alternate for the injured Luke Stedman (AUS), 32, who is out with broken toes.
"The position of being the replacement surfer does take a lot of pressure off me," Thompson said. "I had such a terrible year last year and had a few criticisms and a few injuries but you see a lot of rookies in that position and they fall off first year and they come back hungrier so that's the path for me hopefully. If I don't get in all the events, it still is experience for 2010 so that's why I will take it. But if there is a chance to surf a lot of events, I am going to surf hard and requalify through the ASP World Tour."
Heat 1: Jeremy Flores (FRA) 13.67, Dustin Barca 11.87, Dean Morrison (AUS) 9.70
Heat 2: Tiago Pires (PRT) 12.00, Bobby Martinez (USA) 12.00, Roy Powers (HAW) 7.27
Heat 3: Mick Fanning (AUS) 11.83, Ben Dunn (AUS) 11.37, Phillip MacDonald (AUS) 8.76
Heat 4: Adriano de Souza (BRA) 12.80, Jordy Smith (ZAF) 12.00, Drew Courtney (AUS) 8.57
Heat 5: Heitor Alves (BRA) 13.67, Adrian Buchan (AUS) 12.30, Marlon Lipke (DEU) 10.27
Heat 6: Damien Hobgood (USA) 17.50, C.J. Hobgood (USA) 12.83, Aritz Aranburu (EUK) 4.93
Heat 7: Jay Thompson (AUS) 13.67, Taylor Knox (USA) 12.67, Joel Parkinson (AUS) 12.00
Heat 8: Kelly Slater (USA) 12.17, Dayyan Neve (AUS) 11.00, Daniel Wills (AUS) 10.67
Heat 9: Julian Wilson (AUS) 14.10, Bede Durbidge (AUS) 12.73, Mikael Picon (FRA) 9.06
Heat 10: Taj Burrow (AUS) 16.50, Dane Reynolds (USA) 14.23, Corey Ziems (AUS) 8.80
Heat 11: Tim Boal (FRA) 15.84, Fredrick Patacchia (HAW) 13.94, Mick Campbell (AUS) 13.06
Heat 12: Greg Emslie (ZAF) 13.66, Nathaniel Curran (USA) 8.67, Chris Ward (USA) 8.50
Heat 13: Kekoa Bacalso (HAW) 17.33, Chris Davidson (AUS) 15.84, Kai Otton (AUS) 9.83
Heat 14: Nic Muscroft (AUS) 15.33, Michel Bourez (PYF) 12.90, Tim Reyes (USA) 9.57
Heat 15: Josh Kerr (AUS) 15.50, Gabe Kling (USA) 11.07, Tom Whitaker (AUS) 10.60
Heat 16: Kieren Perrow (AUS) 13.60, Jihad Khodr (BRA) 9.61, David Weare (ZAF) 9.34
Heat 1: Bede Durbidge (AUS) vs. Daniel Wills (AUS)
Heat 2: Joel Parkinson (AUS) vs. Corey Ziems (AUS)
Heat 3: C.J. Hobgood (USA) vs. Aritz Aranburu (EUK)
Heat 4: Adrian Buchan (AUS) vs. Marlon Lipke (DEU)
Heat 5: Bobby Martinez (USA) vs. Drew Courtney (AUS)
Heat 6: Fredrick Patacchia (HAW) vs. Phillip MacDonald (AUS)
Heat 7: Chris Ward (USA) vs. Dustin Barca (HAW)
Heat 8: Kai Otton (AUS) vs. David Weare (ZAF)
Heat 9: Tim Reyes (USA) vs. Jihad Khodr (BRA)
Heat 10: Tom Whitaker (AUS) vs. Gabe Kling (USA)
Heat 11: Dayyan Neve (AUS) vs. Michel Bourez (PYF)
Heat 12: Michael Picon (FRA) vs. Chris Davidson (AUS)
Heat 13: Dane Reynolds (USA) vs. Nathaniel Curran (USA)
Heat 14: Taylor Knox (USA) vs. Mick Campbell (AUS)
Heat 15: Jordy Smith (ZAF) vs. Dean Morrison (AUS)
Heat 16: Ben Dunn (AUS) vs. Roy Powers (HAW)


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March 08, 2004Los Angeles — UCLA Anderson School of Management faculty and administration recently announced plans to expand the Core curriculum from eight to ten courses over the three full-time academic quarters. Students will take five courses in the fall, three in the winter and two in the spring.
These changes, which will be implemented in fall 2004 (MBA class of 2006), will include one marketing assessment, one corporate finance requirement and a pre-term leadership foundations course, in addition to the current core courses.
"This expansion is geared in an effort to increase students knowledge base and better prepare them for internship and job searches, while giving them more time by requiring fewer courses in the winter quarter when they are concentrating on job searches," said David Lewin, senior associate dean of the MBA program, UCLA Anderson.
The decision to increase the core required courses was approved by the MBA Curriculum Committee (whose membership rotates each year), chaired by Professor Randy Bucklin and comprising five members of UCLA Anderson faculty, Dean Bruce Willison, Board of Visitors member Betsy Knapp, Faculty Chair Rakesh Sarin, Alumni Association President Jay Ferguson and two second-year MBA students.
The committee examined several other leading academic programs and determined that UCLA Anderson first-years could greatly benefit from a larger first-year core curriculum. They found that UCLA Anderson had fewer required courses and did not introduce essential management classes until later on in the program.
"The changes to the MBA core are designed to accelerate our students' knowledge acquisition in critical areas of business," said Prof. Bucklin. "The accelerated core also will provide students faster access to advanced electives in popular areas such as finance and marketing. The changes are intended to enhance the attractiveness of Anderson students in the increasingly competitive labor market for MBA graduates."
The curriculum change is the first of its kind in 10 years, after a course expansion in the early '90s. Students will be exposed to a heavier course load and will be required to enroll in five courses instead of four.
The curriculum change will initially apply to only full-time MBA students, with the Fully Employed MBA program (FEMBA) to follow suit.
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I was wondering if there was a way I could like stuff that I might not be able to have enough credits earned to get all in one day.
For now I learned there is the heart option and this is an awesome way to keep track of those items for now... but maybe at a later date if y'all wanted to really differentiate the *heart*'s from a "remember for later stash", you could ADD a similar button like "save for later" type thing.
That way we could save them when we had time to peruse the assets and later see at a quick glance (similar to the hearts page that pulls up under our profile) what we want to use our credits for. just food for thought hope that I made sense of that. LoL
You are hereForums › Site Meta › Feature Requests › Ability to add items to wishlist for later download [needs more votes]
Ability to add items to wishlist for later download [needs more votes]
I was wondering if there was a way I could like stuff that I might not be able to have enough credits earned to get all in one day.
That sounds like a good idea Shawna, thanks for posting. I'll put it on the "things to consider" list
Kewl!!! Thanks for the consideration... I'm sure your to do list is about 5 pages long right now.
I wish it was only 5 pages
@Jordan LOL!
I have the same feelings as Shawana. I am using the as "download another day" list. Maybe one "I owe this" list should be good too...
I'd love to be able to look at the Layout Templates - and narrow down the search by choosing "how many photos in a layout" - just like you have for the gallery section of the site. I have searched in the gallery - and found templates that way (since you have a lot of the templates linked with finished scrapbook pages). So, I could continue to do it that way. This is just an idea. Hope it makes sense. Thanks!
@Brooke: That's a good idea. I'll see if we can add that field.
Moving to the new feature request forum.
@ Marisa/Jordan: Also a sort feature for 12x12 layout templates. I see one for 8 1/2 x 11, but not the opposite. Thanks in advance!
Shawna: I'd like each feature request to have its own thread here, so I can keep track of them more easily. So please make a new post for your new feature request. Thanks!
sounds great Jordan! will do now
Hi Jordan,
Just getting back to topic I would like to see the 'dowload another day' sort of button too. Like Lórien I'm using the heart-option to remember what to download, but after I download I have to unheart so I won't download twice... which is a shame in most cases!!
I have the same problem..I forget which ones I have already downloaded if they are just hearted. Please help!
I agree with this as well. Maybe something like a shopping cart, but not...just a way to gather what you'd like to download in the future.
A wishlist sounds like a great idea - for now I've just been bookmarking stuff.
I like the sounds of the wishlist as well.
i'm using the heart as my wishlist too but then after i download, i don't want to unheart it so it gets all mixed up, wishlist and downloaded assets together. i always have to have my pixelscrapper folder open so that i don't download the same thing so i would love a wishlist button!
A wishlist would be really great. It will be especially useful as more designers are brought on board and we are all spoiled with even more goodies we would love to have.
I would love a wishlist to drop things into. In the mean time what I have been doing is opening a folder for each kit, a pu template folder and a cu template folder. I keep these in my download folder and then I open Pixel Scrapper and the applicable folder and check my download folder to what is available. It is working out pretty well but does take a bit of time. By doing this I have not double downloaded yet.
I would definitely use a wishlist button. I spend half my time here hunting for things I saw previously when I was short on credits and now can't remember where it was. (lots of Senior moments here lol) It would really be wonderful to be able to add things to a wishlist when you see them and have the ability to remove later if you change your mind. If it could be linked so that it removes or marks it when purchased that would be even more wonderful. Thanks so much.
Even though I'm new here, by reading the comments in this thread, I'd say YES to the Wishlist and even if we could do a ranking in that...might be to much to ask...a 5 star thing, or just move on the list. (Have no idea how complicated that would be, to long out of the programming field.)
I have many, many senior moments, and can already see a need for it!
i knew i messed up again (sorry) i need more hours in the day to go thru all the threads ....sorry
but let me just say, this is an EXCELLENT idea
I, too, would love a WISHLIST. Meantime, I never even considered using the "heart" for a reminder. You guys are so creative!! I'm going to start doing that now until there is an actual wish list.
I actually use Google Reader to get notifications of new posted items. I kind of use that as my wish list - I don't mark them as read in Google Reader unless I have downloaded them. But I love the idea of using the website for this, because I usually have a backlog of 100 or so posts in Google Reader just for Pixel Scrapper!
A temporary solution and a chance to win your wishlist: http://www.pixelscrapper.com/blog/pin-to-win-put-your-wishlist-on-pinterest
bump to top... so people will see this has already been answered...
great idea, would LOVE a wishlist function
I'm using Pinterest for now, but I would also LOVE a wishlist feature!
I agree , a wishlist would be wonderful , I never have enough pts lol.
I love this idea. Using Pinterest in the meantime will help me though!


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But what makes me specially happy is how fast Go is growing in popularity, not among the masses of redditors (although it has some following even there) or programming language design hobbyists and academics, but among people building real production software and solving real problems.
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England have dropped to 15th in FIFA's world rankings - the team's lowest position since 2008.
Roy Hodgson's side have dropped out of the top 10 and now rank below the Ivory Coast and Bosnia-Herzegovina.
It is England's worst ranking for five years - since the team managed by Steve McClaren missed out on playing in Euro 2008.
England have not been ranked lower since the turn of the millennium, with a low point of 16th in early 2001.
Brazil, meanwhile, whose ranking had suffered by not playing competitive qualifiers ahead of hosting next year's World Cup, have gone back into the top 10 following their Confederations Cup triumph, up 13 places to ninth.
Beaten Confederation Cup finalists Spain retain top ranking ahead of Germany.
Colombia are surprisingly ranked third thanks to some impressive results in the World Cup qualifiers. Belgium have made it into the top 10 for the first time ever.
Scotland have soared 24 places to 50th, the Republic of Ireland have dropped three spots to 44th and Wales are down a place to 46th. Northern Ireland are up three places to 111th.
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Republicans on the House Energy and Commerce Committee are peeved that embattled Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius may not testify at an Oct. 24 hearing into the botched roll out of the federal health insurance marketplace.
"HHS staff yesterday informed the majority staff that you would be unable to attend such a hearing," Republican committee members wrote Thursday in a letter to Sebelius. "To date, HHS has not committed to making other HHS officials available for the hearing."
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Committee chairman Fred Upton, R-MI, said the apparent rebuff was unacceptable, especially in light of Sebelius' recent television appearances.
"Secretary Sebelius had time for Jon Stewart (host of Comedy Central's "The Daily Show') and we expect her to have time for Congress," Upton said in a press statement.
The federal marketplace, Healthcare.gov, was supposed to provide a one-stop site for users in 36 states to browse, compare and enroll in qualified health plans. But millions of users and numerous software problems overwhelmed the site shortly after the enrollment period for 2014 coverage began on Oct. 1.
Two weeks later, site navigation has improved but delays and malfunctions continue to dog the system, making it difficult for users to establish personal accounts and obtain federal subsidies to offset the cost of coverage.
No word yet from HHS on why Sebelius won't testify or whether other HHS officials will testify.