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How can progenitor cells turn into tissues? At the Vienna University of technology, chemical substances have been developed which control the differentiation of progenitor cells into heart cells. The heart cells start beating in the petri dish—a discovery which could open the door to a new kind of regenerative medicine.
Grazed skin grows back quickly, dead heart tissue does not. This is why a cardiac arrest often leads to severe long term problems. At the Vienna University of Technology, chemical substances have been developed, which turn the body's own progenitor cells into functioning, beating heart cells. This discovery could open the door to a new kind of regenerative medicine.
Beating Heart Cells in the Lab
Embryonic stem cells can develop into any kind of tissue. Adult stem cells can still turn into different kinds of cells, but their differentiation potential is significantly reduced. "The mechanisms influencing the differentiation of stem cells into tissues are still far from being understood", says Professor Marko Mihovilovic (Vienna University of Technology). However, his research group has now managed to synthesize substances which control the differentiation process. Progenitor cells can be turned into heart cells, which eventually start beating in the petri dish.
"Various substances are known to influence the development of heart tissue. We have systematically synthesized and tested substances with cardiogenic potential", says Thomas Lindner, PhD-student at the Vienna University of Technology. The tailored chemicals are then tested on the progenitor cells of mice at the Medical University of Vienna. "The new triazine derivatives we are using are much more efficient at turning the stem cells into heart cells then any other substances ever tested before", says Marko Mihovilovic. The team at the Vienna University of Technology has already patented the new method.
Construction Kit for Molecules
The key advantage of the method developed at the Vienna University of Technology is its flexibility. "Our modular synthetic strategies are a bit like playing with LEGO bricks. A very high degree of complexity can be achieved by assembling very simple building blocks", says Marko Mihovilovic. Many different variations of the substances can be produced without having to develop new synthetic methods for each substance.
On the Verge of New Medicine
Now the goal is to turn this pharmacological tool into a pharmaceutical drug for humans. "It is crucial to unveil the exact mode of action. We want to know on a molecular level, how our triazine derivatives influence the cell development", says Mihovilovic.
"We want to open the door to a completely new kind of regenerative medicine", Marko Mihovilovic hopes. "At the moment, transplant medicine dominates, but it would be much better to create tissue in the lab, with the patient's own DNA, so that the danger of tissue rejection is completely eliminated."
Not only the differentiation of stem cells to tissues can be influenced by chemical signals. It is also possible to go the opposite way and turn differentiated cells back into pluripotent cells, which can turn into different kinds of tissues. "Our vision is to take cells which are easy to extract, such as skin cells, and to treat them with a cocktail of different chemicals, creating new tissue", says Mihovilovic. Synthetic chemistry will help to overcome the problem that heart tissue regenerates so poorly. If the therapy can used for humans, the patients' quality of life could be increased dramatically, and health care cost could be reduced.


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If you're just joining us, this is WEEKENDS on ALL THINGS CONSIDERED from NPR News. I'm Laura Sullivan. And it's time now for music.
EMILY HAINES: (Singing) Hangman, we played rubber soul with a razor blade.
SULLIVAN: The term indie rock is thrown around a lot these days, and in many cases, there is very little that's independent about those bands. Well, Metric is about as indie as it gets.
For their last album, they formed their own company, Metric Music International, to distribute their record, organize a tour, handle a promotion, all without a label support. And the result: the biggest album of their career.
"Fantasies" sold half a million copies worldwide. Emily Haines and James Shaw are the creative core of Metric, and they've just released their second independent album. It's called "Synthetica." Emily Haines says it's a term that wouldn't go away during the writing process.
HAINES: It means resilience, that's for sure. It began actually when I was still working on "Fantasies." I had kind of concocted this character, this sort of robot, soulless woman who I had named Synthetica, someone who was so free of flaws that she made being human seem repulsive. So we started to develop other ideas of what the word meant to us, you know, the idea of what's artificial versus what is real and started imagining landscapes even of like a place called Synthetica. A lot of sort of retro futuristic images. And, you know, the sound even - all these beautiful analog synthesizers that Jimmy managed to find. You know, even the words sort of all sounded like the music we wanted to make.
HAINES: (Singing) Hey, I'm not Synthetica. I'll keep the life that I've got.
SULLIVAN: There's a line in the song "Synthetica" that says...
HAINES: (Singing) I can think for myself.
SULLIVAN: ...I can think for myself, which seems to be, you know, basically the theme of your band. James, what is Metric Music International?
JAMES SHAW: I think for us, it was something that we started to replace the traditional idea of a record company because we figured that we had sort of enough fans and we had enough direct relationship with them that we didn't really need someone in between. And I mean, I liked that you connected it with the lyric from that because it really is, you know, a shell that enables us to really think for ourselves and do whatever we want to do.
You know, we can have a thought in the middle of the night of let's, you know, re-record a song and release at noon tomorrow and make some sort of weird Twitter something or other to get people to draw in towards it. And we can do it. We don't really have to check with the legal department on the fourth floor.
HAINES: We just always had trouble with what was then the conventional model of the sort of hierarchy where the musician is supposed to be, you know, the person that everyone in the whole company says, well, the last thing we should do is ask them what they think, you know, and the idea that you're kind of this permanent adolescent.
Now, the thing that we've constructed, it's essentially looks the same. We do the same thing that a label would do. The only difference, which is so fundamental and life-changing is that it's just there's one band at the center of that whole organization, and it's us. And you'd be surprised how radical an idea that is.
HAINES: (Singing) The wind presents a change of course. Second reckoning of sorts. We were wasted waiting for a come down of revolving doors.
SULLIVAN: I know a lot of artists are doing that now - leaving the record label structure and going it alone. Have you found it more difficult than you expected to run the business side of music?
SHAW: We just - I think we just learned that, you know, you just leave life, that's all. And it's not necessarily like hard work. It's just a little bit more work, that's all. But there's a weird thing that happens in life. It's like if you don't pay attention to something and you let other people do it for you, then most of the time you end up sort of having to take stock of it later and try and figure out what went wrong and why it didn't go the way you wanted it to. And that's sort of a different version of stress and work. And, you know, for us, it's just the work comes up front.
SULLIVAN: I'm speaking with Emily Haines and James Shaw, two members of the band Metric. Their new CD is called "Synthetica." Lou Reed joins you on the song "The Wanderlust." Did you just call him up and ask him? How did that come together?
HAINES: Yeah. It was kind of a highlight of that whole era of "Fantasies" was meeting Lou at this Neil Young tribute that Jimmy and I were playing in Vancouver. And a really talented musician named Kevin Herrin(ph) was kind enough to say, like, hey, Emily, you want to meet Lou Reed? I said, sure, assuming, of course, that he'll have no idea who I am. So I just said, hey, Lou Reed, this is Emily Haines. And when he met me, he quoted "Gimme Sympathy," the lyrics from "Gimme Sympathy," our song from "Fantasies."
HAINES: (Singing) Gimme sympathy after all of this is gone. Who'd you rather be? The Beatles or the Rolling Stones?
He said, yeah, Emily Haines, who would you rather be, the Beatles or the Rolling Stones? Which was great.
SULLIVAN: What did you say?
HAINES: The Velvet Underground.
HAINES: (Singing) Like here comes the sun.
HAINES: When it came to finishing the record at Electric Lady in New York, you know, we'd struggled with this song of finding the voice, this world-weary voice, to be the counterpoint to this innocent yearning to just see the world, you know, which is expressed by my vocal and my lyrics. And so, yeah, I just asked him and he said yes.
HAINES: (Singing) I never wanted to go home.
LOU REED: (Singing) The wanderlust will carry your song.
HAINES: (Singing) There was nothing there for me.
REED: (Singing) The wanderlust will carry your song.
HAINES: (Singing) In a high rise on my own.
REED: (Singing) I've been on all kind of highways for so long.
HAINES: (Singing) Looking out in a mirrored balcony.
REED: (Singing) The wanderlust will carry your song.
SULLIVAN: Well, here you are, you own your own company. You've got a big tour coming up in Europe and Australia. You'll be at Lollapalooza. And you totally control your own destiny. Do you feel like you've made it? Is this it? Is this where you want to be?
SHAW: We talk about this, you know, this has come up before. But, you know, I've had this strange revelation that as a perfectionist, the best life choice you could make was to be a musician because you can never perfect it. So it's going to give you something to do for the rest of your life.
HAINES: It's really true what Jimmy says of if you, you know, are inclined toward being a perfectionist, I really recommend you take up songwriting because it will just torture you. Anything can be a million ways. The shift of impact between the choice of one word or the inflection and the delivery and the choice of the tones, how they all fit together and what they convey and - it's been a lifelong obsession I don't see ever feeling like I've accomplished really what I could because it's - I'm in such awe of the art form itself.
SHAW: I don't know what we would do if we ever felt like we didn't succeed. I mean, what would we do? Stop.
HAINES: Yeah. You just stop.
SULLIVAN: Well then, we'll hope that you don't succeed so that you'll continue to make music.
SHAW: Thus the basis of Canadian indie rock.
SULLIVAN: Emily Haines and James Shaw are the founders of the band Metric. Their new CD is called "Synthetica." Emily, James, thanks so much.
SHAW: Thank you for having us.
HAINES: Thank you, Laura.
HAINES: (Singing) All night, like a child, I stayed up to prove I can keep up. All night, like a fool, I...
SULLIVAN: For Saturday, that's WEEKENDS on ALL THINGS CONSIDERED from NPR News. I'm Laura Sullivan. We're back tomorrow with a conversation with legendary RnB artist Bobby Womack. He is back from a near-fatal health crisis and making music again with musicians half his age. Until then, have a great night.
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Smith leads Coyotes to shootout win against Sharksby Eric Gilmore
SAN JOSE -- It took Antoine Vermette 36 seconds to give the Phoenix Coyotes a 1-0 lead Saturday night against the San Jose Sharks.
More than two hours later, Vermette scored the clincher in the fifth round of the shootout, securing a 3-2 victory at SAP Center and avenging a 4-1 loss to San Jose in the second game of the season.
"It's nice, especially in this building, to take the crowd out of it," Vermette said of his early goal. "If you can take the lead early on, it's ideal. We'll take that. That was a big goal for us. But with that being said, they never gave up. I think they generated a lot of momentum from their power play, and we found a way to win. So we'll take that."
The Coyotes won their fourth straight game and handed the Sharks their first home loss of the season after five straight regulation wins. San Jose has lost two straight games for the first time this season.
Phoenix coach Dave Tippett became the franchise's all-time leader in victories with his 166th win, snapping a tie with Bob Francis.
Logan Couture scored for the Sharks in the first round of the shootout, and Radim Vrbata answered with a goal in the second round for Phoenix. Vermette ended the game, beating Sharks goaltender Antti Niemi with a backhand shot, moments after Mike Smith rejected Patrick Marleau's shot.
"I tried to come in one angle, change my angle, change my speed to make the goalie adjust a little bit," Vermette said. "I made a move and slid it between his legs."
Smith stopped 48 of 50 shots for the Coyotes in regulation and OT then stopped Joe Pavelski, Jason Demers, Tomas Hertl and Marleau in the shootout.
"It's a huge win against an upper echelon team in the League," Smith said. "I think we can gain some confidence from a game like that. We weren't really thrilled with the way we played, but I think we grounded it out Coyote ugly and found a way to get the two points, and that's all that matters."
Mikkel Boedker also scored for the Coyotes in regulation.
Defenseman Dan Boyle, returning to the lineup after missing seven games with a concussion, and Pavelski scored for the Sharks. Niemi made 28 saves, and Couture had a career-high 10 shots.
The Sharks outshot the Coyotes 16-7 in the first period and15-7 in the second -- 17 of those 31 shots came during five power plays -- but the score was tied 2-2 entering the final period.
San Jose kept firing shots, and Smith kept rejecting them. With six minutes left to play, Joe Thornton got the puck in the slot and ripped a shot, but Smith snagged it.
Then with 33.1 seconds left in regulation, Couture jammed the puck past Smith from close range, but it stopped an inch in front of the goal line. The Sharks still had time for two more shots before the third period ended.
"We had every opportunity to finish it, to end it," Sharks coach Todd McLellan said. "We had some good looks. I'm not sure how hungry we were around the blue paint or how much we were in the goaltender's eyes. He looked comfortable in there, and when a guy like that gets comfortable he makes a lot of saves."
Smith stopped 47 of 50 shots during the Coyotes' loss to San Jose on Oct. 15, but he dug himself an early hole that night. This time, he was sharp from the outset.
"I felt pretty good," Smith said. "After the first period I was a little nervous that my legs and my wind were hemmed in there for most of it, but as the game went on I felt I got stronger and stronger and felt a lot more comfortable. That's good to see."
The Sharks had 50 shots to 23 for Phoenix at the end of regulation, but the Coyotes turned up the heat and outshot San Jose 7-0 in overtime. Niemi rejected every puck that came his way, sending the game to a shootout.
The Coyotes had been outscored 17-5 in the first period of their first 14 games, but they took a quick lead on Vermette's goal.
The Sharks had trouble trying to clear the puck out of their end, and Phoenix made them pay.
Boyle sent a weak pass toward Brad Stuart along the boards, and Stuart tripped over Boedker then fell to the ice.
Rob Klinkhammer got the puck and zipped a pass to Vermette, who snapped a shot from the left circle off a post and past Niemi.
"It was good work on the forecheck," Vermette said. "We kind of turned the puck over."
The Sharks went 0-for-3 on the power play in the first period and wasted a great opportunity when Vrbata went to the box for four minutes after high-sticking Sharks defenseman Scott Hannan in the face and drawing blood at 14:39. The Sharks had eight shots during those four minutes with a man advantage, but Smith stopped every one.
The Sharks got untracked in the second period, scoring two quick goals to take a 2-1 lead. Pavelski scored from the right circle on a 2-on-1 rush at 1:16 of the second, faking a pass to Matthew Nieto and knocking the puck past Smith, just inside the right post.
Then at 5:10 of the period, Boyle scored a power play goal with Kyle Chipchura in the penalty box for slashing Demers. After scoring, an emotional Boyle pumped his fist, then punched the glass. It was his second goal of the season and came in his first game since being knocked out on Oct. 15 against the St. Louis Blues, when Maxim Lapierre hit Boyle from behind and sent him face-first into the boards.
"That definitely felt good, as you could tell by my reaction," Boyle said. "I guess I just made a good shot.
"I expect a lot out of myself, and at the same time I had to be realistic and understand I wasn't going to be as good as I wanted to be. I didn't feel like my normal self, but I will get better in a hurry. I just felt a half-second behind everything."
Pavelski had the primary assist on Boyle's goal, and Thornton had his 800th career assist.
The Coyotes didn't have a shot on goal until 8:57 of the second, but Boedker made it count. He took a long pass from Derek Morris along the right boards, got a step on Marc-Edouard Vlasic and scored from a sharp angle.
Sharks defenseman Matt Irwin was a healthy scratch. It was the first time he wasn't in the lineup this season.
Coyotes center Mike Ribeiro played in his 800th NHL game.


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MONTEVALLO, Ala.—The Birmingham-Southern cross country teams competed at the Montevallo Falcon Classic on Saturday.
The men's team finished fifth in the field of 10 teams, led by senior Robert Willett who placed fifth with an 8K time of 26:38.17. Freshman Scott Wheat was second for the Panthers and 26th overall with a time of 28:07.88, followed by junior Christian Clesi at 32nd (28:40.12), freshman John White at 36th (28:58.11), sophomore Scotty Wild at 44th (29:32.39), and senior David Olsen at 45th (29:42.09).
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TALLAHASSEE – Governor Rick Scott and the Florida Sterling Council today announced that the Pinellas County Tax Collector will receive the prestigious Governor's Sterling Award for 2013 and that Miami-Dade County Parks, Recreation and Open Spaces will be honored with the Sustained Excellence Award. These coveted awards will be bestowed at the 2013 Governor's Sterling Award Banquet at the JW Marriott Orlando Grande Lakes on Friday, May 31, 2013.
Governor Scott said, "The Governor's Sterling Award winners reflect our focus of making Florida the best state in the nation to live, work and raise a family. I congratulate this year's top-performing Sterling Award recipients. This award is the highest recognition an organization in Florida can receive for performance excellence. The Governor's Sterling Award process is an efficient and robust tool for all organizations that saves Florida businesses millions of dollars annually."
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For 21 years, the Governor's Sterling Award has recognized organizations and businesses in Florida that have successfully achieved performance excellence within their management and operations.
The Pinellas County Tax Collector, serving more than 917,000 residents of Pinellas County, is responsible for the collection and distribution of property taxes, sales taxes, and tourist development taxes, as well as providing motor vehicle and licensing services on behalf of the state through its six branch offices. As an independently elected Constitutional Officer that acts as the county's chief revenue officer, the Pinellas County Tax Collector collects more than $2 billion in taxes each year and feeds, and distributes that revenue among 64 taxing authorities to fund their services. Transaction accuracy, a customer necessity, has demonstrated a consistently high level of accuracy at 99 percent in Fiscal Year 2012. Overall walk-in customer satisfaction is at 99 percent, with the service categories of courtesy, knowledge, cleanliness, and efficiency performing better than other top performing peers. The number of transactions per employee, a measure of productivity, is at 6,453 transactions per full-time employee, outperforming all peers in Fiscal Year 2012. The Pinellas County Tax Collector is a first-time recipient of the Governor's Sterling Award.
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This award is an annual award to recognize Florida organizations that have previously received the Governor's Sterling Award and are sustaining excellent results, continuing to pursue systematic performance improvement.
Miami-Dade County Parks, Recreation and Open Spaces Department (Miami) operates a large urban park system, managing 260 park properties comprised of active and passive parks, as well as protected, environmentally sensitive properties, serving 2.5 million residents and 1.1 million residents for the unincorporated area. Customer satisfaction scores have continued to improve. For example, the general population's overall satisfaction with the summer camp for children increased from 4.40 to 4.55, and overall satisfaction of parents increased from 4.75 to 4.95 on a scale of 5.0. As the Department progresses toward its self-sustaining business model, the percentage of operational budget supported by user fees has increased from 36 percent in Fiscal Year 2008 to 40 percent in Fiscal Year 2012, exceeding the Florida Benchmarking Consortium average of 32 percent. Expenditures decreased from $129.6 million in Fiscal Year 2008 to $111.2 million in Fiscal Year 2012. Miami-Dade Parks, Recreation and Open Spaces was the recipient of the 2009 Governor's Sterling Award, and they are now the first county department to be recognized with the Governor's Sustained Excellence Award.
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'Drogon' the ant on annual Top 10 list of new species
Drogon the ant joins a pink bush cricket and a freshwater stingray on this year's Top 10 list of new species.
An international panel of experts compiles the list for the State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry in Syracuse.
Also included are a tiny spider, a rat that eats plant and animal matter, and a bush tomato that appears to bleed when cut. Others are an orchid resembling a devil, a millipede with over 400 legs, an amphibious centipede, and a marine worm that looks a lot like fried pastry.
The ant's name was drawn from the fierce black dragon in the popular "Game of Thrones" book and television series.
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Among the speakers were Cleburne County Economic Developer Dara Samuel and Mark Johnson of the Sugarloaf Heritage Council.
The Cleburne County Quorum Court held its March meeting on Thursday, March 14. Among the speakers were Cleburne County Economic Developer Dara Samuel and Mark Johnson of the Sugarloaf Heritage Council.
Before hearing from the speakers, the Court addressed unfinished business from the previous session concerning a question posed by J.P. Jacque Martin about county hiring practices. Martin had questioned whether the county was following legal guidelines regarding notification of job vacancies. The question was tabled until the next session in order for County Attorney Holly Meyer to investigate the matter. After researching the matter, Meyer was able to determine that Cleburne County was following Arkansas law in its hiring and notification practices. Unsatisfied with the finding, Martin argued that federal law dictated otherwise. Martin correlated federal employment discrimination law with the county's notification practices for job vacancies; however, Meyer and Judge Jerry Holmes informed Martin that the two were not connected. The county conducts its job notification procedure in accordance with Arkansas law and, as Judge Holmes pointed out, with federal employment law. "How does that apply here?" said Holmes, "We don't have a practice of discriminating." Holly Meyer explained the difference between what Martin was arguing and what employment discrimination entailed. "We are in compliance with state and federal law," said Meyer. Although Martin continued to argue that job vacancy notifications and discrimination were related, the Court decided to move on to new business.
After finishing old business, Cleburne County Economic Developer Dara Samuel spoke to the Court about a renewed focus on tourism by the CCED. "We have to bring tourism back," said Samuel. Samuel has been speaking with various business and state organization, including a recent meeting with the Arkansas Department of Parks and Tourism. She talked to the Court about various grants and proposals her office is considering to develop the county's economy.
Mark Johnson of the Sugarloaf Heritage Council spoke to the Court and gave them a first look at the new Sugarloaf Trails brochure. He thanked the County for its continued support of the project and updated them on the current status of the trails. In addition to starting a new Hidden Pond trail, Council and its volunteers have resurfaced the traditional summit trail and added bridges, along with the newer trails that have been added in the past year. "Visitation has improved so much that parking on the weekend has become an issue," said Johnson. Johnson also welcomed the Court and the public to attend the annual Heritage Day on the ASU campus on May 18.
In other new business, the Court approved an amendment correcting a mistake on last month's starting salaries ordinance, an adjusted budget ordinance reflecting a $10,000 donation for volunteer fire departments, and a resolution for a mutual aid agreement with the White County OEM.
In closing, Judge Jerry Holmes discussed the possibility of finding someone to landscape the courthouse lawn on the Square. In particular, Holmes felt that the cedar tree on the front lawn takes away from the view of the building. The Court will look into possible landscaping ideas for the lawn. The next Cleburne County Quorum Court meeting will be held on Thursday, April 11, at 6pm.


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1) Heat the milk over medium heat until warmed, but not boiling.
2) Beat the yolks in a large bowl. Slowly whisk the warm milk into the yolks and add the vanilla.
3) Whisk sugar, cornflour and salt together in heavy based saucepan. Over medium heat, gradually whisk in the egg, milk, and vanilla mixture to the dry ingredients until custard thickens and you can see the tracks from the whisk in the bottom of the pan, about 6 minutes. Remove from heat.
4) Transfer custard to large bowl and fold in bananas; cover bowl with plastic wrap and cool custard completely in refrigerator, about 1 1/2 hours.
5) When custard has chilled, make topping by whipping cream with sugar and vanilla in a mixer at high speed until soft peaks form.
6) Fold in most of the remaining chocolate cookie crumbs, reserving a few for decoration.
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Recognition that intestinal flora have a major impact on human health first developed with the birth of microbiology in the late nineteenth century. It is generally accepted that our relationship with indigenous gut flora is "Eu-symbiotic," meaning a state of living together that is beneficial. Metchinkoff popularized the idea of "Dys-symbiosis, or Dysbiosis," a state of living with intestinal flora thathas harmful effects. He postulated that toxic amines produced by bacterial putrefaction of food were the cause of degenerative diseases, and that ingestion of fermented foods containing Lactobacilli could prolong life by decreasing gut putrefaction(1). Although Metchnikoff's ideas have been largely ignored in the United States, they have influenced four generations of European physicians. The notion that dysbiotic relationships with gut microflora may influence the development of inflammatory diseases and cancer has received considerable experimental support over the past two decades, but the mechanisms involved are far more diverse than Metchnikoff imagined.
The stool of healthy human beings consuming a Western diet contains 24 x 105¡ bacteria/gram. Twenty species comprise 75% of the total number of colonies; non-spore forming anaerobes predominate over aerobes by a ratio of 5000:1(2). Organisms cultured from mucosal surfaces are significantly different from those found in stool and vary among different parts of the gastrointestinal tract. The bacterial concentration in the stomach and small intestine is several orders of magnitude less than in the colon. The major mucosal organisms there are coccobacilli(1) and streptococci(3). The predominant organisms cultured from gastric and duodenal aspirates, are yeasts and Lactobacilli(2), living in the lumen. In the colon, the presence of these organisms is overshadowed by spirochetes and fusfform bacteria on the mucosal surface and anaerobic rods like Eubacterium, Bacteroides and Bifidobacterium in the lumen. Benefits and adverse effects of the normal gut microflora are listed in Table 1 & 2 and have been described elsewhere(4).
Materials and Methods
Clinical Assessment
lntestinal dysbiosis should be considered as a mechanism promoting disease in all patients with chronic gastrointestinal, inflammatory or autoimmune disorders, food allergy and intolerance, breast and colon cancer, and unexplained fatigue, malnutrition or neuropsychiatric symptoms.
The most useful test for this condition is a Comprehensive Digestive Stool
Analysis (CDSA) which includes:
a) biochemical measurements of digestion/maldigestion (fecal chymotrypsin,
fecal triglycerides, meat and vegetable fibers, pH), intestinal absorption/
malabsorption (long chain fatty acids, fecal cholesterol, and total short
chain fatty acids)
b) metabolic markers of intestinal metabolism
c) identification of the bacterial microflora, including friendly, pathogenic
and imbalanced flora
d) detection of abnormal gut mycology
The authors have developed a Gut Dysbiosis Score (Table 3) to make the
CDSA more useful.
Interpretation of Gut Dysbiosis Score (Refers to Table 3)
Excess meat or vegetable fibers or triglycerides (one point each) suggest mal-
digestion. This is a common effect of bacterial overgrowth but can also con-
tribute to its cause.
Excess cholesterol or fatty acids (one point each) is indicative of malabsorp-
tion; bacterial overgrowth produces this by interfering with micelle forma-
Low concentrations of butyrate or SCFA (two points each) indicate insuffi-
cient anaerobic fermentation of soluble fiber. This may result from a low fiber
diet deficiency of Bifidobacteria.
High concentrations of butyrate or SCFA (two points each) is indicative of
increased anaerobic fermentation.
Alkaline stool pH (two points) often accompanies a low butyrate. When it is
associated with a normal butyrate it signifies increased ammonia production,
reflecting a diet high in meat or excessive urease activity of intestinal bacte-
ria. Bacterial cultures can provide more direct evidence of dysbiosis. The
most common finding is:
A lack of Lactobacillus or of E.Coli on stool culture (3 points each) High
levels of uncommon or atypical Enterobacteriaceae or of Klebsiella, Proteus
or Pseudomonas, may reflect small bowel overgrowth of these organisms
(score 1 point for each.)
Total Score-7 points or more is always associated with clinical dysbiosis;
5-6 is probable dysbiosis; 3-4 is borderline. There are rare cases in which a
score less than 3 occurs in a dysbiotic stool. These cases are usually under
treatment at the time the stool is obtained. In severe cases abnormal blood
tests may be found. There may be erythrocyte macrocytosis, low circulating
vitamin B12 or hypoalbuminemia. Urinary excretion of essential amino acids
may also be low, signifying impaired assimilation of dietary protein.
Based on available research and clinical data, we now believe that
there are four patterns of intestinal dysbiosis: putrefaction, fermenta-
tion, deficiency, and sensitization.
This is the classic Western degenerative disease pattern advanced by
Metchnikoff. Putrefaction dysbiosis results from diets high in fat and
animal flesh and low in insoluble fiber. This type of diet produces an
increased concentration of Bacteroides sp. and a decreased concentra-
tion of Bifidobacteria sp. in stool. It increases bile flow and induces
bacterial urease activity(1). The alterations in bacterial population
dynamics which result from this diet are not measured directly by the
[Comprehensive Digestive Stool Analysis (CDSA)]. The changes occur
primarily among anaerobes, but the effects are measured in an in-
crease in stool pH (partly caused by elevated ammonia production)
and in bile or urobilinogen and possibly by a decrease in short chain
fatty acids, especially in butyrate. Epidemiologic and experimental
data implicate this type of dysbiosis in the pathogenesis of colon can-
cer and breast cancer(6). A putrefaction dysbiosis is accompanied by
an increase in fecal concentrations of various bacterial enzymes
which metabolize bile acids to tumor promotors and deconjugate ex-
creted estrogens, raising the plasma estrogen level(6). Putrefaction
dysbiosis is corrected by decreasing dietary fat and flesh, increasing
fiber consumption and feeding Bifidobacteria and Lactobacillus prep-
Most adverse effects of the indigenous gut flora are caused by the
intense metabolic activity of luminal organisms. The following are
associated with Putrefaction dysbiosis:
1. The enzyme urease, found in Bacteroides, Proteus and Klebsiella
species, and induced in those organisms by a diet high in meat, hy-
drolyzes urea to ammonia, raising stool pH. A relatively high stool
pH is associated with a higher prevalence of colon cancer(7).
2. Bacterial decarboxylation of amino acids yields vasoactive and
neurotoxic amines, including histamine, octopamine, tyramine and
tryptamine; these are absorbed through the portal circulation and
deaminated in the liver. In severe cirrhosis they reach the systemic
circulation and contribute to the encephalopathy and hypotension of
hepatic failure(1).
3. Bacterial tryptophanase degrades tryptophan to carcinogenic phe-
nols, and, like urease, is induced by a high meat diet(8).
4. Bacterial enzymes like beta-glucuronidase hydrolyze conjugated es-
trogens and bile acids. Hepatic conjugation and biliary excretion is an
important mechanism for regulating estrogen levels in the body. Bacte-
rial deconjugation increases the enterohepatic recirculation of estrogen.
A Western diet increases the level of deconjugating enzymes in stool,
lowers estrogen levels in stool and raises estrogen levels in blood and
urine, possibly contributing to the development of breast cancer(6).
5. Beta-glucuronidase and other hydrolytic bacterial enzymes also
deconjugate bile acids.
Deconjugated bile acids are toxic to the colonic epithelium and
cause diarrhea. They or their metabolites appear to be carcinogenic
and are thought to contribute to the development of colon cancer(6,9)
and to ulcerative colitis(10). Gut bacteria also reduce primary bile
acids like cholate and chenodeoxycholate to secondary bile acids like
deoxycholate (DCA) and lithocholate. The secondary bile acids are ab-
sorbed less efficiently than primary bile acids and are more likely to
contribute to colon carcinogenesis. The prevalence of colon cancer is
proportional to stool concentration of DCA.
Not all bacterial enzyme activity is harmful to the host. Fermenta-
tion of soluble flber by Bifidobacteria sp. yields SCFA. Recent interest
has focused on the beneficial role of short-chain fatty acids like buty-
rate in nourishing healthy colonic mucosal cells. Butyrate has been
shown to induce differentiation of neoplastic cells(l1), decreased ab-
sorption of ammonia from the intestine(1), decreased inflammation in
ulcerative colitis(12) and, following absorption, decreased cholesterol
synthesis in the liver(7). Butyrate lowers the stool pH. A relatively
low stool pH is associated with protection against colon cancer(S). The
principal source of colonic butyrate is fermentation of soluble fiber by
colonic anaerobes. Thus, putrefaction dysbiosis results from the inter-
play of bacteria and diet in their effects on health and disease.
This is a condition of carbohydrate intolerance induced by overgrowth
of endogenous bacteria in the stomach, small intestine and cecum.
The causes and effects of small bowel bacterial overgrowth have been
well characterized.
Bacterial overgrowth is promoted by gastric hypochlorhydria, by
stasis due to abnormal motility, strictures, fistulae and surgical blind
loops, by immune deficiency or by malnutrition( 13). Small bowel
parasitosis may also predispose to bacterial overgrowth(4). Some of
the damage resulting from small bowel bacterial overgrowth is pro-
duced by the action of bacterial proteases which degrade pancreatic
and intestinal brush border enzymes causing pancreatic insufficiency,
mucosal damage and malabsorption. In more severe cases the intesti-
nal villi are blunted and broadened and mononuclear cells infiltrate
the lamina propria. Increased fecal nitrogen leads to hypoalbumine-
mia. Bacterial consumption of cobalamin lowers blood levels of vita-
min B12. Bile salt dehydroxylation impairs micelle formation(10).
Endotoxemia resulting from bacterial overgrowth contributes to hep-
atic damage in experimental animals(14).
Gastric bacterial overgrowth increases the risk of systemic infec-
tion. Gastric bacteria convert dietary nitrates to nitrites and nitro-
samines; hence, the increased risk of gastric cancer in individuals
with hypochlorhydria( 15) . Some bacterial infections of the small
bowel increase passive intestinal permeability(16).
Carbohydrate intolerance may be the only symptom of bacterial
overgrowth, making it indistinguishable from intestinal candidosis;
in either case dietary sugars can be fermented to produce endogenous
ethanol(17,18). Chronic exposure of the small bowel to ethanol may
itself impair intestinal permeability(19). Another product of bacterial
fermentation of sugar is D-lactic acid. Although D-lactic acidosis is
usually a complication of short-bowel syndrome or of jejuno-ileal by-
pass surgery (colonic bacteria being the source of acidosis), elevated
levels of D-lactate were found in blood samples of 1.12% of randomly
selected hospitalized patients with no history of gastro-intestinal sur-
gery or disease(20). Small bowel fermentation is a likely cause of
D-lactic acidosis in these patients. British physicians working with
the gut-fermentation syndrome as described by Hunisett et al(18)
have tentatively concluded, based on treatment results, that the ma-
jority of cases are due to yeast overgrowth and about 20% are bacte-
rial in origin. The symptoms include abdominal distension, carbohy-
drate intolerance, fatigue and impaired cognitive function.


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Danks set to make season debut versus Marlins
Lefty John Danks makes his first start of the season after a prolonged stretch on the disabled list when the Chicago White Sox host the Miami Marlins in the opener of a three-game interleague series at U.S. Cellular Field.
A former first-round pick of the Texas Rangers in 2003, Danks reached double- digit wins in three straight seasons from 2008 to 2010, then dipped to eight victories in 2011 and only three in nine starts last season.
Danks opened 2013 on the disabled list following left shoulder surgery in the offseason.
He's made four rehab starts in the minor leagues and has gone 2-0 with a 3.18 earned run average in 22 2/3 innings of work.
Danks allowed 18 hits and 10 runs across the four starts - one at Double-A Birmingham and three at Triple-A Charlotte - while walking 13 batters and striking out 15.
He has never faced the Marlins.
Miami replies with righty Tom Koehler, who starts for the third time after beginning 2013 with six appearances out of the bullpen.
Koehler started once in eight outings last season while going 0-1 with a 5.40 ERA, then began 2013 with six relief stints and posted a 3.18 ERA across 11 1/3 innings.
He made his initial start on May 12 and dropped a 5-3 verdict to the Los Angeles Dodgers, then dropped a 1-0 verdict to the Arizona Diamondbacks on May 18.
In the two starts, he's worked 11 innings, allowing 10 hits and three runs with three walks and eight strikeouts.
Koehler has never faced the White Sox.
On Wednesday in Miami, 85 of Cliff Lee's 115 pitches went for strikes as the veteran left-hander tossed his 12th career shutout to guide the Philadelphia Phillies to a 3-0 victory over the Marlins in the rubber match of a three-game series from Marlins Park.
Marlins starter Kevin Slowey (1-5) left after five innings with an apparent strained left lat muscle. Slowey had allowed just one run on six hits while fanning six.
In Chicago, Boston put two runs across in the first inning and that is all Clay Buchholz would need as the right-hander went seven strong innings to help the Red Sox to a 6-2 win over the White Sox in the finale of a three-game set.
David Ortiz drove in two with a single to left in the opening frame off Hector Santiago (1-3), who struck out nine over six innings of work. Santiago got the start in place of Chris Sale, who was scratched with shoulder tendinitis but is expected to make his next scheduled start.
The White Sox defeated the Marlins in two of three games when they last met in 2010. Previously, the Marlins won two of three in series in 2004 and 2007.


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When I was walking Molly this morning I came upon a trainer and his student. He was a boxing trainer and they were exchanging fake blows and doing the boxing dance in the grass. Molly did NOT like this at all. Her parents are both working police dogs.
I could barely pull her past these two guys. She wasn't growling but she was really concerned, as if she felt somebody needed to step in and handle this disorderly situation. "Woof, I mean What seems to be the problem here?"
I got a new camera, Sony's latest Cyber-shot, and am trying to make sense of it. It seems easier to understand than other Sony's I've had and dropped. It actually has a pet setting! That's what I used for this photo. No idea what it's doing for pets. It also has a smile detector.
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- Linda said...
ha, ha! The new camera "seems easier to understand than other Sony's I've had and dropped."
That's fascinating about Molly being so upset about the fake fight. She has a built-in moral compass. She looks gorgeous in the photo.
- Mar 26, 2010, 5:05:00 PM
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- Mar 26, 2010, 11:10:00 PM
- Pile Girl said...
You have a camera that will detect a smile on a dog? It seems to be working! What a great photo.
I take terrible pictures.
I hate having my picture taken, yet I always look for myself when looking at family pictures.
- Mar 26, 2010, 11:12:00 PM
Which Sony? Mine's the 230. I only just now learned how to shoot several quickly in a burst! Critical for dogs.
- Mar 27, 2010, 6:19:00 AM
- Namowal said...
Molly was probably thinking Doesn't Sally KNOW that there's a fight going on? How could she miss that?"
As for the camera, I'm curious about the pet setting too. That'd be funny if it somehow hyptnotized pets into holding still long enough to snap a picture.
- Mar 27, 2010, 2:39:00 PM
- Sally said...
It's funny, Molly isn't really a smiling dog the way some dogs are. But the smile detector is only supposed to work for humans.
I noticed a picture I took of a white chicken had feathers delineated.
This camera has so many different logos on it but I think it's called VCHD. It's a point and shoot with a 10x optical zoom.
Trust me this isn't one of those sponsored product blog posts. It's a very light weight camera, and when you switch around to all the various options a big print explanation pops up on the back screen. Before you had to remember what the symbols stood for. I always gave up and just used auto. We got it for our trip to Italy. You can take weird sweeping panoramic pictures with it but they'd only be about a half inch high to fit on this blog.
- Mar 27, 2010, 6:16:00 PM
Mine only has 3x zoom.
- Mar 28, 2010, 6:35:00 AM
- Sally said...
stray, considering how important photos are for your dog portraits, I think you need to be looking for a new camera before an ipad enters the house.
- Mar 28, 2010, 6:32:00 PM
- booda baby said...
Was that strictly Molly instinct or a Molly-had-a-wee-bit of training? If she ever gets tired of being a dog, she can be a behavioral therapist. She'd make me want to behave.
- Mar 29, 2010, 8:22:00 AM
Thanks, and you're right about that iPad urgency. Where did you get your camera?
- Mar 29, 2010, 1:43:00 PM
- Sally said...
Boodababy, it's part of what German Shepherds do instinctively. She's got great nerves and sympathy.
- Mar 30, 2010, 7:05:00 AM
- prb said...
Molly is really a great looking gal! What a super dog you have. Would love to meet her.
- Mar 31, 2010, 12:24:00 AM


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Leaked cables chilled US human rights efforts
The 250,000 diplomatic cables that Pfc. Bradley Manning disclosed through WikiLeaks endangered the lives of foreign citizens and made some international human-rights workers reluctant to seek U.S. help, a State Department official testified Friday.
Michael Kozak, acting assistant secretary in the department's human-rights bureau, testified for the prosecution at Manning's sentencing hearing. The soldier faces up to 136 years in prison for giving the cables, plus 470,000 Iraq and Afghanistan battlefield reports and some warzone video, to the anti-secrecy website WikiLeaks while working as an intelligence analyst in Iraq in 2010.
During the sentencing hearing, prosecutors are trying to show that the leaks harmed U.S. interests. The defense contends there was little or no damage, and that Manning leaked the material to expose what he considered wrongdoing by the military and U.S. diplomats.
Diplomatic cables are written communications between U.S. embassies and State Department headquarters in Washington. Kozak said some of the cables that Manning downloaded from a classified government computer network identified people as sources of information that would put them at risk of death, violence or incarceration if their involvement were publicly known.
He said the department helped some of those people move, sometimes to other countries, to keep them safe. Kozak, who heads a working group dedicated to the effort, said he still gets new requests for such assistance, including one in the last two weeks.
"We had a moral obligation" to protect people who had spoken to diplomats in confidence, Kozak said.
He declined to say publicly how many people his working group determined to be at risk. He said he would provide the number in a session closed to spectators and reporters that followed his open-court testimony. Prosecutors requested the closed session to protect classified information.
Kozak said the greatest damage to State Department human-rights efforts was a "chilling effect" on foreign activists seeking U.S. help.
"They can't be sure now whether what they say to us is going to remain confidential or whether it's going to be broadcast around," Kozak said.
Earlier Friday, former State Department computer chief Susan Swart testified that the security breach wasn't the agency's fault.
Manning's top-secret security clearance gave him access to the network that included the cables. Swart said she had no qualms about putting the cables on the Secret Internet Protocol Router Network.
"I believed that the intent of the system was correct: If you're on a system and you're cleared to handle classified information, that you're going to handle it appropriately," she said.
She said that after WikiLeaks began publishing the leaked cables, the department quickly responded by moving such material to a more restricted network, the Joint Worldwide Intelligence Communications System, where users had to justify their desire to read the cables.
Manning, a 25-year-old native of Crescent, Okla., was convicted Tuesday of 20 of 22 counts, including Espionage Act violations, theft and computer fraud. He was acquitted of the most serious charge, aiding the enemy.


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JOHNSON CITY, Tenn. (AP) Jud Dillard scored 25 points and grabbed 10 rebounds as Tennessee Tech held on late to beat East Tennessee State 65-62 Saturday.
Dennis Ogbe and Jeremia Samarrippas added 11 points apiece for Tennessee Tech (3-0).
Both teams shot an identical 44.4 percent (12 of 27) from the field in a close first period. East Tennessee State (0-2) led at halftime 29-26.
Tennessee Tech trailed early in the second half but took the lead with 17:08 left in the period with Dillard's layup.
The Golden Eagles would push the lead to as much as 13 points but the Buccaneers would fight back.
Sheldon Cooley's jumper with 22 seconds left cut Tennessee Tech's lead to 2, 64-62, but that was the closest the Buccaneers would get it.
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The presence of a Buffalo police chief in one of Mayor Byron W. Brown's first campaign advertisements has been questioned by one of Brown's challengers.
Northeast District Chief Kimberly L. Beaty is seen in the commercial in uniform, writing "Progress" on a piece of posterboard, and then standing in front of police vehicles, holding up the sign for the camera and talking about Brown's public safety record.
She is one of several city employees and interns featured in the ad, which was filmed in locations around Buffalo, including the waterfront, schools and construction sites.
"The Brown campaign has unfortunately put one of Buffalo's finest in a precarious position," said Republican mayoral candidate Sergio Rodriguez. "This type of heavy-handed unethical politics is reflective of what our community has been victim of for far too long."
The Brown administration requested that a reporter send campaign inquiries to the mayor's spokesman, who did not respond to requests to comment.
Attempts to reach Beaty were unsuccessful.
While courts have not looked favorably at the insertion of politics into law enforcement, Beaty's participation in the television ad does not appear to be against the law.
State election law bars police commissioners and officers from using their "official power or authority, in any manner, directly or indirectly in aid or against any political party, organization, association or society."
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When New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg ran for re-election in 2009 and filmed a commercial with police personnel, his campaign team cast off-duty officers who wore rented fake uniforms and stood in front of a rented fake patrol car, to avoid using city resources for political purposes.
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It was a great week in sports for Monticello High School, what with the cross country teams winning their own meet, the volleyball team sweeping Monument Valley, and the football team showing marked improvement in their game against Richfield.
Let's start with cross country. Easton Nielson, who covered the Loyd's Lake course in course record time (17:11), led the Buckaroos to a victory over the Broncos of San Juan, 32 points to 46. Mancos and Pinnacle Canyon followed in third and fourth.
Along with the determined Buckaroo senior Nielson, Monticello was paced by Tyler Bird, who was third and Jens Brewer, who was fifth overall.
Then a host of Broncos finished together, placing sixth to ninth. They are Braden Meyer, Christian Sherrow, Cole Chamberlain and Chase Chamberlain.
The Bucks secured the victory when Kyler LaRose and Everett Hatch came in front of the Bronco fifth place runner, placing 12th and 13th, followed immediately by Sheldon Black, and Tanner Eardley.
The Bucks were displaying the pack style of runner that has produced two state cross country championships in a row.
Bronco Spencer Beck concluded the Bronco scoring, finishing just behind Buckaroo Eardley.
Eli Johnson, of Monticello, captured first place in the JV boys run, although the Broncos beat Monticello in that race, 25 to 39.
Bronco Adam Ward, the first Bronco, came in second with the Broncos claiming 14 of the next 16 places. Matt Lewis of San Juan was third and Garrett Chamberlain fourth.
Rachel Demby of Cortez smoked the girls race, finishing 90 seconds ahead of the second place runner, Bailey Goodwine of Monticello.
However, Goodwine and third place winner Zoe Chadwick led the Monticello girls to the team title ahead of Cortez, Mancos, and San Juan. Alexia Stash and Kira Simpson led the Bronco parade with sixth and ninth place finishes.
The third Buckaroo is freshman Kendall Harris in eighth, followed by Ashley Hoggard (11th), and Cambria Welch (13th).
San Juan won the JV girls with Kelsey Flavel taking first, Cait Winder second, Sharla Janito third, Sierra Monson fourth, and McKady Grover fifth.
Jessica Walker of Lyman Middle School won the girls junior high race, as did the Broncos. They captured the first five spots with Nizhoni Warren, Madison Palmer, Taylor Martinez, and Whitnie Ivins.
The Lyman Middle School boys also won first place, behind Kade Francom's second place and Grange Simpson (fourth) and Seth Pugh (fifth).
Buckaroo Adam Bunker (seventh) finished just ahead of teammate Dillon Bird to pace the Bucks to a second place finish.
The Bucks defeated the always-tough Grand County Lady Red Devils, 3-1 on Tuesday before making short work of the Monument Valley Lady Cougars on Friday afternoon, winning in straight sets.
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Head coach Lee Chadwick shuffled his lineup a little to put Austin Maloy and Austin Wilcox together again in the backfield, while playing Tobin Esplin at tight end.
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Wilcox added 113 yards on 14 carries and a 35-yard TD. Junior Cole Eldredge only touched the ball five times, but blasted his way to 34 yards rushing and another 12 yards on a pass play.
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The first half ended with the Bucks on the Richfield eight yard line after driving the ball 66 yards in the closing moments of the half.
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Blinding dust storm blankets Phoenix
PHOENIX -- The first dust storm of the summer blasted Phoenix Thursday night with strong and blinding winds that forced the cancellation of holiday plans, knocked out power to thousands, and grounded numerous flights.
All inbound and outbound traffic at Sky Harbor International Airport was halted after 8 p.m. PDT as a result of the storm, airport spokeswoman Julie Rodriguez said.
Operations had resumed by 8:45 p.m., but not before 24 planes had been diverted to other airports, she said.
Meteorologist Charlotte Dewey of the National Weather Service told the Arizona Republic that the storm swept into the Phoenix area about 7:30 p.m.
The wall of dust that enveloped parts of the city also snarled traffic as drivers slowed down because of poor visibility.
The storm was the first of the yearly monsoon season and brought with it localized heavy rains.
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CBS Phoenix affiliate KPHO-TV reported the storm "blanketed neighborhoods with choking dust."
It said utilities reported that power was cut off to more than 25,000 customers.
The storm also derailed, at least temporarily, public and private plans. The station said that among them was the cancellation of the "Red, White and Boom" Fourth of July fireworks show in southeast Phoenix.
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The paper airplanes several Indiana State University students created during an educational effort were not only helpful, they were part of an award-winning initiative.
A group of Indiana State technology and engineering education students won first place in the teaching contest that was part of the 2012 Midwest Regional Conference of the Technology and Engineering Educators Collegiate Association (TEECA). Indiana State students Colby Boyer and Cody Eaves taught the simulated lesson, which was also prepared by fellow conference participants and ISU students Molly Joseph and Dan Lewellyn.
"We taught a lesson that incorporated a short presentation and then we did an activity and incorporated the judges as if they were students," said Boyer, a junior technology and engineering education and construction management double major, "and it all came together really nicely."
The group of four students created the 10-minute lesson plan on aerodynamics. They explained aerodynamics principles and how objects fly. Boyer and Eaves had the judges pick a paper airplane, who then released to them to see how they would fly.
The student educators then measured the distance the planes traveled and, using the time they were in the air, calculated the rate of speed the planes traveled. Boyer and Eaves then briefly talked with the judges about the planes' performances.
"A technology classroom is known for its hands-on activity, so if we plan to teach a whole class like this, why would we go to a standardized lecture hall like a normal classroom?" Boyer said. "We wanted to incorporate activity in it to make the judges feel like a real tech classroom, and as we would want to be teaching the students."
Technology educators are required to adhere to a specific set of standards, said Kara Harris, associate professor of applied engineering and technology management and coordinator of Indiana State's technology and engineering education program. Yet students in the technology education program also learn to create lesson plans that incorporate the standards for lesson plans in science, engineering and mathematics as well, she added.
"It makes what they're doing a lot more academic and a lot more cross-disciplinary," Harris said. "Whenever you go about it that way, it makes your activity much more concrete to the students. They can understand where the math concept came from because they're doing a hands-on activity."
Students in the technology and engineering education program generally attend the annual Engineering Technology Educators of Indiana conference, which typically does not provide competitions for students, Harris said. But this year the organization's regional conference was held in conjunction with the Midwest TEECA regional conference in Indiana, which gave the students the chance to enter the contest.
"Professional development gives students like myself the opportunity to work with experienced educators to better our overall understanding of the educational profession, said Eaves, a technology and engineering education major from Rockport. "I personally benefited from competing by simply gaining confidence when speaking in front of an audience."
The four students' win reinforces that they are learning effective lessons to be strong teachers, Boyer said.
"The students in the program are pretty close," he added. "Working together as a group, we pulled it together, obviously with a good finish."
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Lago Titicaca
An immense, sapphire-blue lake sitting astride the border with Peru at the northern end of the Altiplano, LAGO TITICACA is one of the classic images of Bolivia, and few scenes are more evocative of the country than the sight of a poncho-clad fisherman paddling across its azure waters against the backdrop of snowcapped mountains. Set at an altitude of 3810m, and measuring 190km by 80km, it's by far the biggest high-altitude body of water in the world – the remnant of an ancient inland sea formed as the Andes were thrust up from the ocean floor. The surrounding area is the heartland of the Aymara, whose language and culture have survived centuries of domination. The lake itself is rich in fish, and the water it contains stores the heat of the sun and then releases it overnight, raising average temperatures around its shores, making the region one of the most productive in the high Andes. Lago Titicaca is fed by a number of rivers that carry rainfall down from the Cordillera Real and across the Altiplano, though none of its waters ever reaches the sea, and almost ninety percent of the lake's water loss is through evaporation (the rest is drained by its only outlet, the Río Desaguadero). The water level in the lake fluctuates sharply with slight variations in rainfall; since 2000 levels have fallen to historic lows.
Titicaca has always played a major role in Andean religious conceptions. As the biggest body of water in this arid region, it's considered a powerful female deity that controls climate and rainfall, and the Incas believed the creator god Viracocha rose from its waters, calling forth the sun and moon to light up the world. The Incas also claimed their own ancestors came into being here, and the remains of their shrines and temples can be seen on Isla del Sol and nearby Isla de la Luna, whose serene beauty and tranquillity is a highlight of any visit to the lake. Nor did Lago Titicaca lose its religious importance with the advent of Christianity: Bolivia's most important Catholic shrine is in Copacabana, the lakeside town closest to Isla del Sol.
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There's good pizza, and there's bad pizza. Brewer's Pizza is a gem, tucked away just off I-10 in Orange Park. Home of the Florida Smacker, a "Lip-smack'n Southern style pizza," it's Brewer's signature 8-inch square, deep-dish pizza with melted cheese that extends to the crispy edges of the beer-dough crust. Dipped in ranch or a side of marinara, it's a pizza-lover's dream and some of Northeast Florida's best. The corners are crunchy, but the center of the crust is light and chewy.
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The pizza is solid, and the beer selection proves even more solid. Boasting beers from many of Northeast Florida's breweries — Bold City Brewery, Green Room Brewing and Intuition Ale Works — in addition to its own expansive line of Pinglehead brews, Brewer's pours Abita, Bell's, Blue Point Brewing Company, Cigar City Brewing, Great Divide, Stone and Swamp Head. On a recent visit, I opted for a beer flight — four individual 4-ounce pours, all from Pinglehead. The Head East, a winter breakfast ale brewed with Bold Bean Coffee Roasters coffee, nutmeg and cinnamon, was one of my favorites. The Landslide, a double India Pale Ale (IPA), citrusy with heavy honey malts, paired well with my Florida Smacker.
Now this place does have some killer calzones. We drive from the airport just to eat at Brewer's. I have been going to Brewer's since they opened and before they really got into mirco-brewing. Thoses boy from up north can sure make a pie. Tuesday, April 2, 2013|Report this


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The Fortunes are an archetypal English beat group. Formed in Birmingham, The Fortunes first came to prominence and international acclaim in 1965, when "You've Got Your Troubles" broke into the American and British Top Ten. Biography Following in the wake of Merseybeat, and the R&B of the Rolling Stones, The Fortunes added another dimension to the sound of pop, with their sophisticated orchestration, dual lead vocals and well worked counter-melodies.