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ESA astronaut André Kuipers returns to Earth
PR 19 2012 - ESA astronaut André Kuipers, together with his Russian Commander Oleg Kononenko and NASA astronaut Donald Pettit, has landed safely on the steppes of Kazakhstan at 08:14 GMT (10:14 CEST) in Soyuz TMA-03M.
During his six-month PromISSe mission on the International Space Station, André conducted over 50 scientific experiments in the world's only permanent microgravity laboratory.
Now that the orbital outpost is fully assembled, astronauts on the Space Station can devote more time to research.
A medical doctor by training, André conducted biophysics experiments that could offer insights into fighting osteoporosis, migraines and immune cell death. He also performed experiments in other domains such as biology or looking at improving computer models of fluids. Some experiments might serve to prepare for further exploration of space.
In addition to his scientific workload, André carried out maintenance and operational tasks. Highlights included receiving ESA's Automated Transfer Vehicle Edoardo Amaldi cargo ferry and docking the first commercial spacecraft, Dragon.
André has been sharing the privilege of living in space with the world via social media. His photographs, blogs and tweets have been followed closely by millions worldwide bringing spaceflight closer for people on Earth.
The crew will now fly to Houston, Texas, where they will undergo medical checks before meeting the media on Friday 6 July at 13:00 GMT (15:00 CEST).
European media are welcome to follow the event and ask questions via a live video link at ESA's ESTEC science centre in Noordwijk, the Netherlands. Media can address André in English, Dutch and German.
The next ESA astronaut to board the Space Station is Luca Parmitano of Italy, who will fly on Soyuz TMA-09M in 2013 as member of Expedition 36/37.
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Smart meters are the foundation of a more functional and reliable electricity 'smart grid' – not an Orwellian effort to spy on customers, utility and security experts said Wednesday.
It doesn't make sense from either an economic or an engineering perspective to build power supply to satisfy every bump in peak demand for electricity, panelists said during a smart grid discussion at the Globe 2012 conference in Vancouver.
A better alternative, they suggested, is to bring power transmission and distribution grids – which are essentially the world's largest machines – into the digital world the way telephone services have been modernized over the last two decades since the advent of the mobile phone.
That means automating power supply system controls, allowing grid components to communicate with each other, and involving consumers through introduction of smart meters in order to bring about what the Canadian Electricity Association has described as a "near-instantaneous balance of supply and demand" within grids.
Worldwide, smart-grid systems are still in development and they're a source of controversy, notably from consumers fearful of privacy lost to meters that track power use in more detail than conventional mechanical meters.
The meters communicate with utilities, relaying household consumption data, but also enable consumers to track their individual power use and potentially save money.
Panelists said privacy concerns are misplaced, and they're distracting from the urgency required to prepare grids for future demand growth – utility operators in North America see smart grids as the logical advance for systems that haven't had significant upgrades in 30 years.
Annabelle Lee, a cyber-security expert with the U.S. Electric Power Research Institute, noted that regulators in North American and European jurisdictions are developing a wide array of consumer protections to ensure that utilities don't exploit data they take in from smart meter-connected customers.
"There's pressure on energy, globally speaking. Energy [demand] by the end of 2050 will double," Eric Deschenes, vice-president of infrastructure business for Schneider Electric, Canada, said.
Deschenes added that "there's no discussion about whether it's private or confidential. We're not interested to know at what time you're cooking ... at what time you're turning your lights off."
Jim Burpee, president and CEO of the CEA, described smart meters as "a backbone by which [utility operators] get to enable all the other potential of the smarter grid afterwards.
"The overall system becomes much stronger with the evolution of smart grid."
Panelists noted that peak electricity demand greatly exceeds average demand – and it doesn't make sense to invest in a system that's overbuilt to support a handful of exceptionally cold or hot days each year.
It's more practical and cost effective, for both consumers and utilities, to create a high-tech system that is more efficient at balancing supply and demand across a grid to avoid expensive peaks.
"There's about 30 to 40 per cent of the equipment at [almost] all points in time that is never used, Deschenes said. "Yet people are paying for it.
"It's not a matter of who's doing what and when, it's a matter of understanding where [the system] peaks."
Gary Murphy, chief of BC Hydro's smart metering installation project, noted that the Crown utility's network of transmission and distribution lines could encircle the world almost twice over.
"That's a heckuva lot of lines to cover and when you think about it, it is highly unautomated. The distribution system does not have a lot of intelligence out there and ... we are soon to embark on a journey where we are going begin to incorporate intelligent devices on that network and begin to operate our system much more efficiently, cost-effectively, safely and securely than we do today," Murphy said.
Customers, he added will have the opportunity to directly analyze their own power consumption habits and be part of the Crown corp.'s efforts to reduce waste on the grid, rather than serve exclusively as recipients of a monthly bill.
Increasing electricity supply to meet current customer behaviour is more expensive in the long run than introducing a smart grid that encourages conservation, Murphy said.
Electricity rates will increase as utilities make new capital investments, but bills don't have to increase at the same pace if consumers have tools available through smart metering to curtail consumption, Murphy said.

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"My Week with Marilyn" just opened in theaters Wednesday night, but already producer Harvey Weinstein wants to take it to Broadway.
"If the movie works, I would try to make it a musical," he told E! Online.
The British drama's heavyweight cast — especially Michelle Williams, whose starring turn as Marilyn Monroe is expected to earn her an Oscar nod — has already been praised, but Weinstein's apparently already got some Broadway casting ideas.
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And they might not involve Williams. They might instead involve... Katy Perry.
"I would go to Katy first" for a musical, Weinstein said to E!. "I think she would be amazing."
The pop star has already generated a lot of interest in the movie through her Twitter account and the use of her song "The One that Got Away" in its trailer.
She's also no stranger to Marilyn impersonations of her own, as she aped the legendary actress' famous looks for a German commercial for her album "Teenage Dream."
Right now, though, Perry might have more experience voicing Smurfs than acting on-screen.


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According to a press release, Congressman Dennis Kucinich and 25 other members of the Congress said that drone strikes "could significantly increase risks of killing innocent civilians or those with no relationship to a potential attack on the US and further inflame anti-American sentiment abroad".
The letter, signed by 24 Democrat and 2 Republican members of the US House, demands information regarding the authorisation and execution of signature drone strikes along with the mechanisms used by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC) to ensure the legality of such killings.
It also questions "the nature of the follow-up that is conducted when civilians are killed or injured… and the mechanisms that ensure civilian casualty numbers are collected, tracked and analysed."
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sakura is a terminal emulator based on GTK and libvte. It has few dependencies, so there's no need of a full GNOME desktop installed to have a powerful terminal emulator. sakura uses a gtk notebook to provide tabbed terminals in one window and has a contextual menu for configuration; it was designed without a menu bar. No more no less.
All the real and hard work is performed by libvte, a great library programmed by Behdad Esfahbod, Guilherme de S. Pastore and Nalin Dahyabhai. There are several VTE-based terminal emulators like gnome-terminal, xfce-terminal, TermIt and several others published after sakura first release
sakura development is centralized in launchpad. The source repository, packages, bugs and translations are managed there.
To get "bleeding edge" code from the bazaar repository, just type:
bzr branch http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~dabisu/sakura/sakura
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– At least some people within WWE expect that John Morrison will return to the company eventually. While Morrison is currently focusing on his acting career, it's said that neither WWE or TNA is interested in his girlfriend Melina so he's more likely to end up with the company that will pay him more money.
– With WrestleMania 29 discussions happening within WWE, there is now talk of doing Randy Orton vs. Sheamus for the World Heavyweight Title next year.
Officials are actually trying harder than usual to keep WrestleMania plans for Brock Lesnar, The Rock, John Cena, CM Punk, Triple H and The Undertaker quiet because the idea is they will build the Royal Rumble up into a big show where a lot of different angles will begin or at least everything will fall into place then.
As noted, Rey Mysterio vs. Sin Cara is a likely match. We also noted that Ryback vs. The Undertaker has been discussed a Streak vs. Streak build. Apparently this is a Vince McMahon idea. Other possible opponents for The Undertaker include Brock Lesnar and Triple H. This is unlikely but Punk vs. Taker was at least suggested internally.


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Consider the following six simple health and fitness tips, which may not tell the entire health/fitness story, but do certainly cover a great deal of ground making it simpler to access essential health/fitness information. Think of these tips as a Post It note you keep in your planner to remind you of pertinent material. As always, prior to beginning any exercise or dietary program, please consult your physician.
Six Simple Health and Fitness Tips
Eat Breakfast! Remember, you are "breaking the fast". You have probably not eaten for 12 or more hours and your body requires fuel to perform. Not only does the fuel provide energy to your physical body it also provides fuel to the mind. You think better, perform better and feel better. Breakfast does not have to be a big undertaking either. Depending upon your dietary restrictions, consuming foods high in complex carbohydrates, approximately one-two hours prior to exercise, will quickly digest and be ready for use as fuel. You may wish to add a little high-quality protein, such as whey, but the main issue here is to feed the body. Prior to workout, avoid foods high in fat as these may take three-five hours to digest. When you begin your workout, the blood will go to the area of greatest need (i.e. your working muscles) leading to gastrointestinal discomfort.
Hydrate throughout the day! You are also dehydrated in the early morning since you have been sleeping and probably not consuming adequate fluids during the night. Simply drink a glass of water, perhaps six to eight ounces upon waking. If you are an early bird exerciser, exercising an hour or two after rising, once you have hydrated, you may just need to sip water throughout your workout and then hydrate well following.
Consume calories all day! This does not mean eating constantly. It does mean not letting more than five hours go without a snack or meal. A snack usually consists of 100-200 calories, so a granola bar, a handful of nuts, a banana or small serving of a protein shake. This consistent caloric input will help you keep your energy level balanced throughout the day.
Resistance training is great! Yes, weight training, whether body weight or external resistance, such as dumbbells, etc., is a great way to improve your body composition (i.e. lean to fat ratio), burn calories, but most importantly, make you strong. Stronger is just better. We move better throughout our lives, typically with fewer injuries as long as our training regimen is safely designed. Anyone may become stronger regardless of age, gender or current fitness level. Perform exercises for all major muscle groups, two-three days/week, on non-consecutive days, working to a point of momentary muscle failure, safely.
Exercise more than you don't and mix it up! There are seven days in a week, so strive for exercising at least four days/week. And, vary your program periodically. You need cardiovascular/cardiorespiratory, resistance and stretching/flexibility training every week and there are dozens of options.
Recovery is essential! You must have time to recover in order to improve. The body must rest and repair to grow. Choose a day of rest and recreation each week. Play, stretch, meditate, relax and rejuvenate!
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Perfect Mission
Hi GK! A while ago I started on an idea that Gboyers came up with, to write a perfect mission article and use it as a guide for writing mission articles all over the wiki. Both GB and A-Dust gave me their input and now that I've remembered about it, and it's getting closer to perfect, I would like to get some input from you as well (I'm also going to ask Eganio, but with him being even more inactive than you, I don't know if I will get any input from him real soon). Here is a link. Thanks! Biggest GTA Fan EverTalk 02:40, 31 December 2008 (UTC)
- Looks pretty good to me. I'm not sure if I like the bullets in the walkthrough, and you switch tenses a couple times (it should always be in present tense), but other than that, looks like you've got a good thing there! --GuildKnightTalk2me 17:04, 31 December 2008 (UTC)
- I originally had the walkthrough in paragraph form, and on the talk page, Gboyers recommended bullets to make information easier to find. I will have a read and try to fix the tense. Thanks! Biggest GTA Fan EverTalk 04:03, 1 January 2009 (UTC) EDIT: Hmm, I did notice that I said "Niko will ..." alot. It's now fixed. Have another read. It's a good thing I asked you cos no one else has noticed that! Biggest GTA Fan EverTalk 09:50, 1 January 2009 (UTC)
I'm sorry to hear your intentions GK. Yes the community has perhaps got a little thin, but all the "easy" content from GTA IV is up, and now theres a long hard slog ahead to get all the rest of the GTA IV content up. We've brought 3 new staff on board this week, since I've been pretty busy with exams and work. I have no idea where Ed has gone, but we could really use you being here now. Obviously it's your decision, but I'm asking you to stick around. Let me know - Gboyers talk 18:27, 15 January 2009 (UTC)
- I'll give it another shot, guys. I've been out of the loop for a while, so excuse me as I get back into the hang of things. *Rolls up her sleeves* --GuildKnightTalk2me 22:42, 15 January 2009 (UTC)
What's Changed Answer
Hi, I didn't answer your question real great before on IRC, but now I've been thinking about it. It's not the wiki that's changed, it's the community. We lost alot of our old editors and have a few new ones. Biggest GTA Fan EverTalk 10:16, 20 January 2009 (UTC)
Cleanup Project
Hi GK. As part of our first Cleanup Project, I have assigned some tasks to staff members. This way, all the tasks get done, not just the obvious ones. I know you're not completely active at the moment, but could you have a go at Special:WantedFiles (fixing/removing broken links) and Special:UnusedFiles (deleting bad ones, putting good ones into pages). I've given you two smaller tasks rather than one larger one, so if you could do those that would be great. Bear in mind that images have moved to the "File" namespace for some reason. Just ask if you have any questions, or read the project page. Thanks - Gboyers talk 20:18, 25 April 2009 (UTC)
- No problem. Those are things I can get done on a here-and-there basis, so thanks! ;) I'll go through the wanted first, maybe some of the unused can be used in those places.
- (By the way, since I've been out of the loop for a bit, which administrative-type pages would you suggest I add to my watchlist? - because I check my emails more than recent changes. I've got all the obvious ones on my watchlist, but I'm sure there's a few I should add - like Grand Theft Wiki:Cleanup Projects) --GuildKnightTalk2me 04:16, 26 April 2009 (UTC)
Thank You for the Promotion!
I would just like to stop by and thank you for the promotion and I am trying to fix up on my grammar.Again thank you very much!-User:BloodyGTA
- What you are talking about is the one that if a word is mispelled while typing a red underline appears under the mispelled word,right?,because I have that on my laptop but it is not working so I use my other computer which does not have it.Other than that thank you again.-User:BloodyGTA
Cleanup Project
Hey GuildKnight, the second phas of the Cleanup Project is underway. Instead of assigning out tasks to people, I'll let you go there and pick your own. Just sign your name next to the tasks you'd personally like to help out with, and get underway. Gboyers talk 23:04, 14 June 2009 (UTC)
Hey thanks for the welcome
it would be very aprecciated if you could help me with my question
As you already know, i am new to wiki, so i just had a question
How do you leave like an answer to someones question and/or forum? Also(This is just a random question) Have you noticed that Niko on the top of the page is lefty?--Linkmaster420 02:09, 3 August 2009 (UTC)
Is there a page already made describing the rewards for crushing vehicles at a crusher in GTA 2.--Gta-mysteries 02:43, October 9, 2009 (UTC)
Thanks for the welcome message. Having trouble doing rebuts and responding to gripes. Also, don't get mad but, why are there so many moronic gripes. It seems the same @#%^&*&^ is whining about the same Sunni over and over again. It gets annoying. Thank the Force for Gerry Smith, evidently!!!
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Hiya, Internets. I don't know if you've noticed but lately I've felt a smidgen well, distracted. Maybe that's the best way to explain it. And having a lot of fun too. And when I get distracted I start doubting myself and that never ends well. I feel kinda like I'm whirling uncontrollably at life. And the thoughts that run through my head? Usually sound something like oh shit everyone hates me and I'm a horrible wife and what kind of person am I because I'm sure even the Internet hates me because I've totally abandoned my site and I have, finally, jumped the shark and none of those thoughts are ever enjoyable.
The other day I went back to some of my older entries. I pulled up the comments and noticed that some of people reading me a year ago are still dropping by. And, in addition to all those wonderful people, there are new people poking their heads in everyday! So, while all of this is running through that dodgy place I like to call my brain, thank you for reading anyway. I bow to you, fine people. Really, I do. You guys rock. How else could I explain the fact that you stop by and read even when it's just crap likes this? I'm going to try getting back to writing as often as I used to and if I skip a couple of days, it's probably because I'm honing my ninja skills.
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Rob Tholemeier from Crosstree Capital Partners had an interesting article a while back on the Health Data Management blogs about ways that EMR vendors succeed. He provides 5 approaches that these EMR companies take to the EMR and EHR market. Here's the 5 methods he identifies with a few of my thoughts after each:
Leveraging Size – I call these the Jabba the Hutt EHR vendors. They're really big and powerful and no doubt will continue to sell a bunch of software since they have "leading vendor" name recognition. Rob correctly notes that they'll continue to grow through mergers and acquisitions.
Specialization – I find this segment of the market really interesting. I've been seeing more and more of these specialty specific EHR vendors carving out their niche in the market. I still think the best play for a "leading EHR vendor" is likely to acquire a number of specialty specific EHR.
Regional Focus – Many people to want to "buy local." There's something really powerful about knowing your EHR vendor's office is down the street and you can go and wring their neck personally if something goes wrong. < sarcasm >Not that anything would ever go wrong with an EMR. < end sarcasm font>
Suite Selling – I found this one interesting. Although, I think that it's more of a factor for hospital EMR selection. I guess you could make the case that practices purchasing their EHR based on the hospital system purchase might fall into this category as well. Basically, the practice adopts a certain EHR because their hospital is subsidizing it or has a nicely built connection to that specific EHR company.
Advanced Technology – I've seen a few companies that have made this pitch. I still find this a challenge for an EMR company to make this pitch and be heard above all the EMR noise. However, I think if anyone is going to do it, I think it will likely come in the user interface.
An interesting way to stratify the various EMR companies. Are there any other categories of approaches that he missed?


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MPEG-2 Standard
The MPEG2 Standard is defined in ISO-13818, which is comprised of the following documents (some of them are also published by ITU):
- ISO-13818-1 aka ITU-T H.222.0
- Systems (definition of the MPEG2 Stream Formats, the decoder model and the timing/synchronization model)
- ISO-13818-2 aka ITU-T H.262
- Video
- Audio
- Conformance testing (read if you want to write a multiplexer or an encoder)
- DSM-CC (Digital Storage Media Command and Control, used to transmit MHP applications and other data
- Advanced Audio Coding (AAC)
See ISO for a full list of MPEG2 standards documents.
You can buy all these documents from ISO, however they are quite expensive.
However, ITU comes to the rescue, as it allows any individual to download up to three documents for free (after registration)! http://ecs.itu.ch/cgi-bin/ebookshop/
As the MPEG2 Standard is a superset of the MPEG1 Standard, you will find that it refers to the MPEG1 standards douments (this is especially true for audio coding). You might need to read ISO-11172, too.


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Life in hell: No Exit in Red Shed
Offstage Theater, known around town for putting up shows in quite unlikely places, has a new "home" of sorts. They affectionately call it The Red Shed. You may have seen it if you've been to the McGuffey Art Center in the last few months; it's located just back of the co-op.
Serving as both an office and a rehearsal space, the shed will be dressed for a new role next weekend as the company stages their first show of the season, Jean Paul Sartre's No Exit.
Recent UVA grads Denise Stewart and Tim Van Dyck play new roles within the company as well, providing leadership and artistic direction.
"Tim and I have watched most of our graduating friends from the Drama Department leave for Chicago and New York. I think we both feel that staying in Charlottesville gives us good opportunities to write, direct, and act," Stewart says.
Also new to the role of director for No Exit is Jami McManama, who has appeared as an actor in shows with Offstage, Four County Players, and ShenanArts. McManama proposed the idea of staging this show in August and soon after cast Megan Bengur, Melissa Ketola, Stewart Moneymaker, and Abby Shirkey as the four characters who inhabit hell.
In addition to putting up No Exit, Offstage is in the process of planning auditions for their upcoming production of long-time company member Joel Jones' new play, Shrug Like You Mean It, which will open in December at The Prism.
"It's wonderful to have a new off-stage space to explore, and Tim and Joel are working closely to recruit many talented people and to begin early," Stewart says. "The show features a large cast, a rock-n-roll plot, and plenty of mayhem." Put both performances on your calendar, and watch for more from this small but tenacious company.
No Exit plays for only one weekend (October 23-27), and The Red Shed is an intimate performance space, so make your plans to arrive early. McGuffey Art Center, 201 Second St. NW. 8pm Wednesday-Saturday, 7pm Sunday. $5 at the door. 977-6525.


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Automatic Writing Sample – After life novelStandard
There are some twenty-two separate areas of evidence and research which have occurred, particularly over the last twenty years which indicate that life and consciousness transcend bodily death. Such evidence has probably always existed but only now with recent advances in medical science and technology has much of it been able to be studied empirically. A list of some of these lines of evidence would include the Near Death Experience (NDE), Out of Body Experience (OBE), After Death Communication (ADC), Mediumship, Electronic Voice Phenomena (EVP), The Scole Experiments, The Cross Correspondences, Death Bed Visions, Remote Viewing, Reincarnation, Automatic Writing and others.
Not everyone has direct experience of these phenomena but there are thousands of documented cases of people who have experienced one or more of them.
My own experience of what is sometimes described as 'the paranormal' has been largely due to my ability to keep an open yet critical mind and my extensive research into the experiences of others. I myself cannot claim to have personally had a near death experience or a definite after death contact but there is one phenomenon that I can attest to personally having witnessed it many times over several years on a regular basis.
My mother, when she was alive, had the ability to do 'automatic writing'. She would sit down with a paper and pencil in hand and begin to write furiously and continuously until she was forced to stop through exhaustion. She produced dozens of such pages and afterwards I would type them up for her on my, at that stage rather primitive, word processor. I still have the typed pages and many of the hand written originals.
I stress here that these were definitely not my mother's words. She did occasionally like to write poetry but these poems were few and far between and were a reflection of the way she saw beauty in the natural world. The language and the wording were simple and typical of someone who only had a limited education to early high school level.
On the other hand the automatic writings were always highly esoteric with an old world style and contained deep seated truths many of which neither my mother nor myself were able to fully comprehend.
Here is a small sample of one of them. There are plenty more on my website. www.afterlifenovels.com
Gary J McCleary.
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Oh, hello, Tiny Corgi. I see you on your hero's journey. We all have a metaphorical tennis ball in our lives: one that enraptures and terrifies us, one that forces us to lock horns with ourselves but ultimately come out better. Stronger. Fuck that tennis ball up for US ALL, Tiny Corgi. Then—and only then—will you truly be on the path to Grown-Ass Dogdom.
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Kevin Bacon: New 'Footloose' cast on fast path
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It's been 27 years since Kevin Bacon's Ren McCormack moved from big-city Chicago to small-town Bomont and, armed only with a soundtrack featuring Kenny Loggins, Bonnie Tyler and Deniece Williams, danced the repression right out of the conservative townies who banned rock music but not book burning. Part "Rebel Without a Cause," part "Pollyanna," "Footloose" combined bad movie cliches with renegade proms, a game of chicken on tractors and the latest in technology - the Walkman. Given the film's success, a revisit to Bomont was inevitable. With the remake that opened Friday, let's play "Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon" with the new cast. Please note: The Bacon number was determined by a mere mortal (me), not the Oracle of Bacon.
- Andy Olin, Houston Chronicle
Inside: "Footloose" battles "Steel" for box office top spot. E3
NOW AND THEN: Kenny Wormald plays Ren, the role originated by Bacon.
Path from Kenny Wormald to Kevin Bacon: Wormald was in "Clerks II" (2006) with Ben Affleck. Affleck was in "Good Will Hunting" (1997) with Matt Damon. Damon was in "Ocean's Eleven" (2001) with Julia Roberts. Roberts was in "Flatliners" (1990) with Kevin Bacon.
Wormald's Bacon number is 4.
NOW AND THEN: Julianne Hough is rebellious preacher's daughter Ariel Moore. Lori Singer was Ariel.
Path from Julianne Hough to Kevin Bacon: Hough's partner on Season 7 of "Dancing With the Stars" was Cody Linley. Linley was in "My Dog Skip" (2000) with Bacon.
Hough's Bacon number is 2.
NOW AND THEN: Dennis Quaid is the Rev. Shaw Moore, the moral leader of Bomont. John Lithgow played Rev. Moore.
Path from Dennis Quaid to Kevin Bacon: Quaid was in "Vantage Point" (2008) with Matthew Fox. Fox was in "Party of Five" (1994) with Neve Campbell. Campbell was in "Wild Things" (1998) with Bacon.
Quaid's Bacon number is 3.
NOW AND THEN: Andie MacDowell plays Vi Moore, the understanding wife of the good reverend. Dianne Wiest was Vi.
The path from Andie MacDowell to Kevin Bacon: MacDowell was in "Short Cuts" (1993) with Tim Robbins. Robbins was in "Mystic River" (2003) with Bacon.
MacDowell's Bacon number is 2.
NOW AND THEN: Ziah Colon plays Rusty, Ariel's bestest friend. Sarah Jessica Parker played Rusty.
The path from Ziah Colon to Kevin Bacon: Colon was in "Road Trip: Beer Pong" (2009) with Julianna Guill. Guill was in "Crazy, Stupid, Love" (2011) with Bacon.
Colon's Bacon number is 2.
NOW AND THEN: Miles Teller plays Willard, the local kid who quickly befriends Ren and shows him the ropes. Chris Penn was Willard.
The path from Miles Teller to Kevin Bacon: Teller was in "Rabbit Hole" (2010) with Dianne Wiest. Wiest was in "Footloose" (1984) with Bacon.
Teller's Bacon number is 2.


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High Debt, Poor Job Prospects Expose Legal Education Flaws
Ills of legal profession cause lawyers alarm.
Feb. 13, 2013 -- America's law schools, reeling from declining enrollment and bleak prospects for indebted graduates, are in desperate need of a shake-up. Says who? The legal profession.
The American Bar Association's Task Force on the Future of Legal Education met recently in Dallas. Its members called the state of law schools dire. Said Thomas W. Lyons III of Rhode Island, "There is almost universal agreement that the current system is broken."
Lyons, contacted by ABC News, spoke with candor and passion about the ills bedeviling legal education, which, he and other attorneys say, cloud the employment picture for new law school graduates and result in legal services priced high above what many Americans can afford to pay. Graduates, he notes, are entering practice lacking such basic skills as how to prepare routine legal documents.
For a long time, he explains, the theory was that new grads would get practical, hands-on training once they joined a law firm. "What do you do when a judge walks in to court?" asks Lyons. "Do you stand up, or sit down?" Law schools didn't teach that. "How do you draft a will?"
Then the economic realities of the legal profession have changed.
Before the 2007-08 recession, says Lyons, fees paid by corporate clients underwrote the cost of law firms' helping to complete the education of young associates: Whatever practicalities they hadn't learned in school could be taught them on the job, while they billed at a robust rate.
Since the recession, corporate clients have been less willing to see their money spent that way. And demand for new lawyers has diminished.
"There's no doubt whatsoever that the employment picture is very bad," Lyon says. "For the class of 2011, the percentage who got full-time jobs was about 55."
The job drought has prompted at least one school—George Washington University—to reach into its own pocket to pay graduates to keep them busy. The university's independent student newspaper, "The GW Hatchet," estimates GW has spent up to $3 million to provide legal work for more than one fifth of the class of 2012. The law school's interim dean calls the program part of GW's career services effort, aimed at helping students acquire skills rather than sit idle.
So expensive is a legal education that it's not uncommon for a jobless graduate to have $100,000 in debt.
Members of the ABA Task Force have entertained all sorts of ideas for fixing law schools' problems. These include reducing the number of years required for a legal education from three to two; encouraging students to go to law school directly from their junior year in college; and creating a new category of legal professional comparable to nurse-practitioners in medicine—technicians whose training would be more than that of a paralegal but less than a lawyer. They could provide legal services but could not represent clients in court.
The Bar Association of Washington State, says Lyons, has already established a program to produce such "limited-license" technicians.
One group that came in for special blame during the Task Force's meeting was tenured law school professors, who, according to the New York Times, "were criticized as having high pay, low productivity and a remote relationship with the practice [as opposed to the theory] of law."
Law schools, says Lyon, exist more for the benefit of professors than students. "They're among the most highly paid tenured professors in academia," he says.
Lyon's fellow Task Force member Jim Chen, a former dean of the University of Louisville's law school, told the Times that tenured professors are a law school's biggest expense. If, to reduce tuition, the curriculum were to be cut from three years to two, Chen told the Times, professors would have to take a cut in pay. But, said he, they would never accept it; so change would have to be forced on them from outside, possibly by state courts.
Critics' characterization of a tenured law professor's life—high pay, not a lot of teaching and a predilection for theory over practice--suggests an entrenched caste modeled on Professor Kingsfield, the imperious Harvard Law professor in the movie "The Paper Chase."
Professor Ngai Pindell takes strong exception to that characterization. Pindell is co-president of SALT , the Society of American Law Teachers, which represents law professors as well as other professionals in legal education.
Pindell, who is also associate dean of the law school at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, professes not to know what tenured law professors make, but says he suspects they are no more highly paid than dental school or medical school professors.
The legal profession, he says, does indeed face problems delivering its services to a changing market. But the fault does not "lie at the feet of legal professors," who, he says, are by nature problem-solvers. Although looking for a villain is tempting, while professors "are part of the problem" they also, he says, can be part of the solution.
Professor Jackie Gardina, another co-president of SALT, says in an email to ABC News that that though law professors may be an "easy scapegoat," they are not obstacles to reform. They have often pushed for reform within their institutions, she writes, giving examples that include one from her own institution, Vermont Law School. Its General Practice Program equips graduates with what she calls practice-ready skills.


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(The Root) — Still reeling from its losses in the 2012 election, the Republican Party has begun doing some serious soul-searching. Increasingly that search has led party leaders on a quest to re-evaluate what the party stands for, who it speaks for and, lately, whether or not it needs a little more soul in it. After years of ceding black voters to Democrats, the Grand Old Party now appears ready to make a genuine investment in becoming more diverse.
Following the presidential election, a number of high-profile Republican voices have spoken publicly about the need for the party to attract more Latinos and African Americans. Citing controversial, racially inflammatory comments by former vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin and others, former Secretary of State Colin Powell said, "There's also a dark vein of intolerance in some parts of the party. What do I mean by that? What I mean by that is they still sort of look down on minorities."
Powell is not alone in criticizing the party's track record on diversity outreach. Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee, who is white, said in a postelection interview, "I think Republicans have done a pathetic job of reaching out to people of color. That's something we've got to work on. It's a group of people that frankly should be with us based on the real policy of conservatism. But Republicans have acted as if they can't get the vote, so they don't try. And the result is, they don't get the vote."
Proving Huckabee's point, as noted in a previous column on The Root: "In 1996 Bob Dole won 21 percent of the Latino vote and 12 percent of the black vote. In 2000 George W. Bush won 8 percent of the black vote and 35 percent of the Latino vote. In 2004 George W. Bush won 11 percent of the black vote and 40 percent of the Latino vote. John McCain won 31 percent of the Latino vote and just 5 percent of the black vote. In 2012 Mitt Romney won 24 percent of the Latino vote and just 2 percent of the black vote."
Signaling that the party is hoping to change those numbers, there was talk that former Oklahoma Rep. J.C. Watts Jr. was in the running to become Republican National Committee chair, and he did confirm that he was being encouraged to pursue a bid. Watts would have followed Michael Steele to become the second black chair of the RNC. That did not come to fruition, but Watts is helping to steer a new initiative aimed at diversifying the GOP called Insight, which will officially launch on Feb. 27, 2013.
Bringing in Fresh Blood
In an exclusive interview with The Root, Watts described Insight's mission as "Giving insight to the legislative process to assist in connecting the dots and establishing relationships with nontraditional constituencies." Watts laughed when I asked him if it was true that his father, J.C. "Buddy" Watts Sr., once said that an "African American voting for a Republican is like a chicken voting for Colonel Sanders," of Kentucky Fried Chicken fame. Calling his father a "witty guy," Watts acknowledged that the anecdote is true. He went on to explain that although his father did vote for him — and once for President Richard Nixon — Buddy Watts did turn to even more partisan rhetoric during his own run for elective office as a Democrat.
Watts comes from a politically active family in Oklahoma. In addition to his father's forays into politics, his uncle served as the state's NAACP president for many years. This background is one of the reasons Watts said he feels a commitment to political activism as well as to diversity.
"It's not enough to say we've got Tim Scott as a U.S. senator or Condoleezza Rice as secretary of state or T.W. Shannon as the first black speaker of the House in Oklahoma who's also a Republican, or J.C. Watts. I think that so cheapens the accomplishments of all of those people when we point to them and then don't put the infrastructure to connect the dots in the trenches," Watts said. He continued, "I was asked about the lack of diversity in the GOP leadership recently on a TV show, and I said, 'You won't have diversity in the leadership until we get diversity in the trenches, and that's part of Insight's mission."
As Watts explained it, in addition to helping to provide education and legislative action on issues of importance to minority communities, such as societal re-entry for former prisoners, Insight will serve as a recruitment pipeline for young people of color who are strong candidates for public service and government. The organization, which is a 501(c)(4) nonprofit, will help connect them with Senate and congressional offices, thus diversifying the internship and staff pools of Republican officeholders and creating a pathway to more diverse leadership in the future.
"Diversity, tolerance and outreach: To me they are not liberal code words for big government, but too many Republicans think that," he said. Watts acknowledged that there have been institutional barriers that make it tough for those who are not children of privilege to get into politics, regardless of party, and his organization is hoping to change that.
Changing a Toxic Political Tone
When asked whether Powell is correct that racist comments by prominent Republicans and the perception that the party is racist are the real barriers to the GOP enjoying more diverse support, Watts replied, "When Colin Powell said what he said, whether [or not] I agreed with what he said and whether the party did, we need to listen." He also shared his own experiences with racial intolerance.
"When my name was floated for the RNC chairmanship a few months ago, there were some in the party who said, 'We've been there, done that with a black chairman.' That tells me that we've got some people who are out of touch." But he added that this is not a party-specific problem but a problem with politics today in general. "Many of the things that have happened to President Obama happened to me." Watts said that a Democratic opponent once used a photo of Watts from his youth with an Afro, asking voters, "Is this who you want representing you?"
"It's going to take decent people on both sides to get beyond that," he said. Watts pointed to the Birther issue as part of this toxic tone shaping politics and said emphatically to those still pushing it, "Let it go!"
"Black people don't think alike. Black people just vote alike, and we have to ask ourselves why so many black people on [issues like] taxes or choice and education agree with [Republicans] but don't vote with us. We have to ask ourselves why," Watts concluded. "It's about relationships."
Watts is not the only black Republican hoping to send a message to other people of color that the Grand Old Party may be just the party for them. Former presidential candidate and pizza baron Herman Cain just joined Fox News as a contributor, a platform that will make him one of the highest-profile conservatives in the nation. Cain previously blamed the advantage that Democrats enjoy among black voters on African Americans having been "brainwashed." But he later added that he believed one-third to 50 percent of black voters were "open-minded" enough to consider becoming Republicans.
"I meet them every day. They stop me in the airport," Cain said. "And so this whole notion that all black Americans are necessarily going to stay and vote Democrat and vote for Obama, that's simply not true. More and more black Americans are thinking for themselves. And that's a good thing." It remains to be seen, however, if his new role at the network will result in converts who believe that the Republican Party is still the party of Lincoln and not the party of Limbaugh.
Keli Goff is The Root's special correspondent. Follow her on Twitter.


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Previous Bluecray articles have dealt with consequences of using herbicides in land stewardship. I have written these stories around Butterflies, Rufous Bettongs, Goannas and Frogs. The stories have links below.
However, there are many small animals (vertebrate and non vertebrate) that inhabit the weedy areas of the Mt Warning Caldera Region. Some of these weed infested areas are often chosen for active land management , such as revegetation, habitat enhancement and enforced weed management.
I would like to say more about glyphosate and lantana management.
There is a trend to mass spray herbicides to manage the threat of Lantana, as it overtakes poorly managed land throughout SE QLD and NE NSW and much of Australia. This is being done in the name of BIODIVERSITY, habitat restoration and healing the land. However, the irony of it all, is that the acts of clearing, herbicide use and mass "management" actions, unless followed up immediately by vigilant seeding, planting, stock management and general land stewardship, will create more areas of threatened biodiversity and more areas of "weed".
weeds.org.au – An Australian Weeds Committee National Initiative – Weeds PORTAL
Weeds.org.au – about John Thorp – policy and weed strategy directions
The Dynamics of Lantana camara Invasion of subtropical Rainforest in SE Queensland by Daniel Stock – at Australian Digital Thesis Program (Griffith University 2005)
Macleay's Swallowtail – a beautiful green and brown butterfly – bluecray.org
Philosophy of Environmental Destruction in the Name of Healing -bluecray.org
Litoria species – a little Frog of Wetlands, Forests and Woodlands – Habitat Care and Stewardship – bluecray Balance of Faeries blog
PK & Litoria look for Rufous Bettong – a threatened species listed as vulnerable by the NSW Government – bluecray Balance of Faeries blog
Rufous Bettong and the Glyphosate Bank – bluecray.org
PK and Litoria look for Rufous Bettong, and on the way, meet up with Goanna – bluecray Wisdom in the Land blog
Goanna leaves the glyphosate Bank, the butterflies leave too – bluecray Wisdom in the Land blog
Why Goanna left the Glyphosate Bank – bluecray.org
Growing by Organics – Food Gardens and Sharing – bluecray Wisdom in the Land blog
Land and Water Stewardship in the Mt Warning Caldera Region – food for thought – bluecray.org


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Designed for the NEC Modular Touch System for video walls, the toughened glass with anti-glare coating not only protects the display from damage, but also provides crisp and clear images from different viewing angles, whilst acting as a smooth touch surface for the user. The modular protective glass design allows displays within a video wall to be swapped out independently without servicing issues, compared to a touch-overlay where the protective glass is built into one solid frame.
The enhanced durability makes the 55" X555UNS PG display not only the perfect choice for interactive video walls in retail, transportation, corporate communications, stadiums and more, but also for traditional video wall installations in heavy use public areas.
- Enthuse Viewers with Superb Picture Quality – crisp and clear images from different viewing angles supported through the use of anti-glare coated and high light-transmission 2 mm toughened glass.
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ROCHESTER — Congresswoman-elect Carol Shea-Porter has offered the position of District Director to former State Senator Jackie Cilley.
"I am very pleased to announce that Jackie will be joining our team," said Congresswoman-elect Shea-Porter, this week. "She will bring extensive experience from her career in public service. The constituents of New Hampshire's First District will benefit from her integrity, her unflagging work ethic, and her commitment to constituents. I look forward to her working with us in the 113th Congress."
Cilley served in the NH House from 2004-06, representing Strafford District 3. She served in the NH Senate from 2006-10, representing District 6.
Cilley is a native of Berlin, where she graduated from Berlin High School. As an adult student she attended the University of New Hampshire where she received a BA in Liberal Arts and a Master's Degree in Business Administration.
Prior to joining the legislature, Cilley taught at the Whittemore School of Business and Economics at the University of New Hampshire for almost two decades as adjunct faculty in the marketing and management departments. During that time, she owned and operated a marketing consulting firm, Cilley and Associates, that specialized in marketing research services to small and medium sized companies.
She lives in Barrington with her husband of more than 30 years. He owns and operates Horseshoes Plus, Inc., a farrier supply company. They have five sons, who each have their own families.
Cilley joins Shea-Porter's team
ROCHESTER — Congresswoman-elect Carol Shea-Porter has offered the position of District Director to former State Senator Jackie Cilley.


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Recently the Eccles Health Sciences Library conducted a survey via email of its student-patrons from the University of Utah's Colleges of Medicine, Pharmacy, Nursing and Health. We received over 220 responses which provided valuable insights into how our services are perceived and utilized, as well as how we can improve. To encourage participation we offered survey respondents the opportunity to be entered into a prize drawing for one of five $25 gift certificates to the University Bookstore. Five winning names were drawn and the recipients have now all claimed their prizes. Congratulations to Justin N, Sarah B, Cassidy D, Carlos B. and Heidi B!
Our survey offered respondents the opportunity to offer suggestions and comments. Below are many of them along with a response from library staff:
- Please provide more subscriptions to access full text articles online.
Better access to journals and help in research.
Together with Marriott and Quinney libraries, we currently provides access to many of the top publications and databases, usually with links to full text. If you are unable to obtain the text you need we can get it for you via Interlibrary Loan, which is free to students. Also, if the system shows we provide access to a given article but you are unable to link to it, feel free to contact our staff via phone, email or Ask-a-Librarian, and we'll be glad to assist you.
- I would like to be able to renew books online instead of via phone/ in person.
You can renew your library materials online at any time.
- "Improve wireless signal within the library."
"I am devastated that the library is closed until summer. I feel homeless…."
"Can't wait to have the library back"
We regret any inconvenience caused by the Ceiling Project, but the improvements will be worth the wait — faster wireless and wired connectivity, better lighting, removal of old asbestos tiles, and updated fire-suppression systems included. You can track the progress on our Ceiling Project blog.
- Free PDA programs for med students.
EHSL currently licenses a number of PDA applications for use by students and U of Utah affiliates. Check out our list of applications on our website for more information.
- Offer workshops on EndNote, PubMed searches, Getting Published, Ranking Journals, Databases, CINAHL, Excel, etc.
We currently offer many of these topics as workshops. Marriott Library also offers many helpful workshops to the University. If you are unable to attend one of our workshops, library staff are available for individual consultations, both at Eccles and at Marriott. Call or email us to schedule an appointment.
- WebVPN has never worked for me, even after calls to the help desk. An easier interface would be great.
Consider using the University's VPN client, a free, small software package that you download onto your personal computer and use to connect to library resources.
If you need help with something, or cannot find or successfully utilize the resources you want just ask. Our friendly, professional staff are here to help you.


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Police: Man using church food bank shot women
2 killed, 1 injured in Ellicott City shootings
Two people are dead and a woman is fighting for her life after a shooting at a Howard County church Thursday.
County police said an angry homeless man who was known to stay in a nearby wooded area shot and killed one church worker and critically wounded another at St. Peter's Episcopal Church in the 3600 block of Rogers Avenue in Ellicott City at about 5:30 p.m. Thursday.
On Friday, police said Brenda Brewington, 59, of Ellicott City, was pronounced dead at the scene. The church's co-rector, Marguerite Mary Kohn, 62, of Halethorpe, was taken to Shock Trauma, where she remained in critical condition Friday, officials said.
Officers canvassing the area discovered the body of a man, who police said they believe is responsible for the shootings. Police identified the man as Douglas Franklin Jones, 56, whom officers found suffering from a self-inflicted gunshot wound in the woods near the church. Police said a handgun was also found near his body.
Detectives said they found personal belongings at a campsite in the woods where they believe Jones was living.
Investigators told 11 News that Jones had recently been involved in a dispute with church members, saying he visited the church regularly to access their food bank, but recently had become belligerent and argumentative.
Police said they believe Jones' anger with the church may have been the motive for the shooting, but they don't believe any specific people were targeted.
"We don't believe that these two victims were specifically targeted," Howard County police spokeswoman Sherry Llewellyn said. "We think that he may have been frustrated with the church as a whole, and these two staff members happened to be there when he came in with a gun."
Police helicopters had provided support from the air Thursday evening as SWAT and K-9 officers entered the church, clearing the building. No one else was in the building at the time of the shooting.
Church releases statement
"The Episcopal Diocese of Maryland is saddened beyond words by the shootings May 3 at St. Peter's Church in Ellicott City. The Rt. Rev. Eugene Taylor Sutton, bishop of Maryland, immediately offered prayers for the victims in the chapel of the Cathedral of the Incarnation, Baltimore ... The diocese holds the victims, their families and the people and staff of St. Peter's Church and pre-school in its continued prayers. A nearby Episcopal church, St. John's Parish in Ellicott City, opened their doors late Thursday evening to offer a place of support and prayer.
Neighbors saddened by violence
"Crime is everywhere, but when you find it in a church, it's really bad," said Lisa Felton, a resident who lives nearby. "It has to be someone very disturbed. I don't know what would take you to that point to make you do that."
"The church is supposed to be a sanctuary," Felton said. "It's terrible. It's terrible."
Police blocked off Rogers Avenue for hours as they combed through evidence at the scene.
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JPMorgan Chase, the biggest US bank, says its second-quarter earnings surged from a year ago as profits from investment banking grew.
The bank made $ 6.1 billion in the second quarter after stripping out payments to preferred shareholders. That was up 32 percent from the same period a year ago, when it made $ 4.6 billion. Profits in the year-ago period were affected by a trading loss.
The earnings were equivalent to $ 1.60 per share. That exceeded the estimates of analysts polled by FactSet, who had forecast earnings of $ 1.44 per share.
Revenue in the period grew by 14 percent to $ 25.2 billion. That compared with $24.9 billion forecast by analysts. JPMorgan's profits from investment banking surged 19 percent to $ 2.8 billion, driven by higher fees for underwriting debt and stock offerings as financial markets revived.
Average total deposits rose 8 percent to $ 389.5 billion from the same period a year ago. Mortgage loan applications rose 37 percent from the prior year to $ 66.9 billion, reflecting an increase in refinancing activity.
The bank also reduced its provision for loan losses in its consumer banking division by $ 1.5 billion as the number of customers failing to repay their loans remained low.
Despite the surge in profits, JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon said in a statement that loan growth remained "soft." That's a sign business and consumers are still wary of taking on more debt despite the Federal Reserve's low-interest rate policies.
"However, we continue to see broad-based signs that the US economy is improving," Dimon said. "We are hopeful that as jobs are added and confidence builds, the US economy will strengthen over time."
JPMorgan earnings were hit a year ago after it was forced to increase its loss estimates from a bad trade. The soured bet ended up costing the bank more than $ 6 billion last year and drew sanctions from federal regulators. Dimon, who was forced to appear twice before congress to apologize and explain the loss, also had his pay cut by more than half to $ 11.5 million.
The CEO, who also holds the job of chairman at the bank, survived a vote May 21 that would have called on him to give up his dual role following the trading loss.
JPMorgan's stock was little changed at $ 55.14 in pre-market trading. The bank's stock is trading close to its highest in more than a decade and is up 25 percent this year.


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BOSTON- Kidney failure affects 25 million individuals in the U.S. and many more throughout the world. Loss of kidney function means the majority of these patients must undergo dialysis treatments to remove excess fluids and waste products. Although dialysis therapy coupled with medication has improved the life expectancy for people with kidney failure, for unknown reasons, patients' risk of sudden heart failure and death remains 10 to 20 times greater than average.
Now, a study led by researchers at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC) and Massachusetts General Hospital helps explain why this may be the case. Appearing on-line today in Science Translational Medicine, the new findings show that a process known as protein carbamylation contributes to heart disease risk among patients with kidney failure undergoing dialysis, and demonstrates that a blood test to measure carbamylated albumin protein can help clinicians better gauge the effectiveness of dialysis and identify patients at risk of cardiac complications. The findings additionally suggest the need for further investigation to determine if therapy with supplemental amino acids could help to prevent the carbamylation process.
"Patients with kidney failure often accumulate urea in their blood because it is a chemical byproduct of metabolism normally eliminated in the urine or removed by dialysis treatments," explains first author Anders Berg, MD, PhD, a clinical chemist in the Department of Pathology at BIDMC and Instructor in Pathology at Harvard Medical School. Although urea is generally non-toxic, in some cases it can degrade into cyanate, a toxic chemical that binds to and permanently modifies proteins through a process known as carbamylation.
"These modifications can make proteins inactive, or worse, can make them toxic," says Berg. "For example, when the cholesterol-carrying blood proteins LDL and HDL are carbamylated, instead of heading for tissues where they would normally be metabolized, they become attracted to atherosclerotic plaques which can lead to the development of atherosclerosis or hardening of the arteries."
Knowing that there is growing evidence that urea and protein carbamylation are important contributors to the risk of heart disease and death in patients with kidney failure, Berg and his collaborators hypothesized that measurements of carbamylated albumin - the most abundant protein in the blood --could provide an index of patients' blood urea concentrations and could be used in a blood test to provide clinicians with information on how well dialysis treatments are working to remove body waste products from patients with kidney failure.
As predicted, in two independent clinical experiments, the investigators demonstrated that increased carbamylated albumin is strongly associated with an elevated risk of premature death in patients on dialysis. They additionally found that increased carbamylated albumin in dialysis patients was linked with low blood concentrations of amino acids, the building blocks of proteins.
"This suggests that amino acid deficiencies may contribute to increased protein carbamylation in dialysis patients," says Berg. "In separate experiments in both cells and in mice, we found that amino acids act as carbamylation scavengers, competitively inhibiting protein carbamylation."
The researchers were able to generate their findings through a variety of complex studies, including protein screening experiments to search for sites of carbamylation on albumin and observational studies in which they first measured albumin carbamylation in blood samples from patients with kidney disease and then followed the patients to determine whether the extent of carbamylation correlated with risk of premature death. The investigators also measured blood concentrations of amino acids in 187 patients to determine if amino acid deficiencies were linked with increased protein carbamylation. They also conducted experiments to test whether inducing amino acid deficiencies in animals led to increased protein carbamylation by urea. Finally, they conducted test tube experiments to investigate whether amino acids could directly inhibit protein carbamylation.
"Although dialysis therapy is life-saving and necessary to remove excess water and urea for patients with kidney failure, it also depletes patients' amino acids and other essential nutrients. In this way it removes both the good and the bad, and thus simply increasing patients' dialysis treatments will not necessarily reduce protein carbamylation," says Berg, adding that future studies will be needed to test whether amino-acid supplementation therapy reduces protein carbamylation and its associated risks, or if there are ways of modifying dialysis methods in order to remove urea without depleting amino acids.
"The mechanisms that lead to cardiovascular disease in patients with chronic kidney disease have remained elusive," says nephrologist Vikas Sukhatme, MD, PhD, Chief Academic Officer of BIDMC. "This paper provides an important first step in identifying kidney failure patients on dialysis at risk for cardiovascular disease and providing a rationale for treating them with inexpensive and non-toxic medicines such as amino acids."
Study coauthors include BIDMC investigators Roberto Buccafusca, Tammy Hod, Wenda Ramma, Samir M. Parikh, David J. Friedman, John Danziger, and senior author and Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator S. Ananth Karumanchi; Christiane Drechsler and Christoph Wanner, of the University of Würzburg, in Germany; Julia Wenger, Sahir Kalim, and Ravi Thadhani of Massachusetts General Hospital; and Hanno Steen of Children's Hospital Boston.
This work was funded, in part, by support from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, the National Institutes of Health (K24 DK094872) and the University Hospital Wurzberg "Gundausstattung" grant program.
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center is a patient care, teaching and research affiliate of Harvard Medical School and currently ranks third in National Institutes of Health funding among independent hospitals nationwide. BIDMC is clinically affiliated with the Joslin Diabetes Center and is a research partner of the Dana-Farber/Harvard Cancer Center. BIDMC is the official hospital of the Boston Red Sox. For more information, visit www.bidmc.org.


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LAS VEGAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The JBL® brand will unveil the first portable speaker dock with a Lighting connector designed specifically for Apple Inc.'s latest line-up of iOS® devices, including the iPad mini (pictured, right), at the 2013 International Consumer Electronics Show (CES®). The acoustically sophisticated JBL OnBeat™ Mini fits into a backpack or travel bag, providing a portable charging dock for the office, dorm room, business trip or bedroom. The JBL OnBeat Mini includes two full-range transducers and built-in digital signal processing to deliver crisp, room-filling sound.
The JBL OnBeat Mini is on display at HARMAN's CES booth – Central Hall, booth number 10431 – from January 8 through 11.
The JBL OnBeat Mini provides up to 5 hours of playback when used with batteries and charges the iPad mini, iPhone 5, iPad 4th generation and new iPod models when used with the included AC adapter. The portable speaker also includes a built-in USB connector to power and play other portable devices.
"This portable Lightning dock continues our leadership in being first to market with high-quality docking stations designed specifically for Apple iOS products," said Sachin Lawande, executive vice president of HARMAN and co-president of HARMAN Lifestyle and Infotainment. "The JBL OnBeat Mini delivers a truly robust listening experience and goes wherever you go, a feature today's mobile consumer demands so they can hear the truth."
The JBL OnBeat Mini joins the well-reviewed JBL® OnBeat Venue™ LT and JBL OnBeat Micro as the first docks available for consumers to use with Lightning-compatible devices. The JBL OnBeat Mini includes a battery-saving auto-standby feature that turns the dock off after 10 minutes of non-use and an LED status indicator to alert users when new batteries are needed. The JBL OnBeat Mini is available in black or white.
Pricing and availability
The JBL OnBeat Mini has a suggested retail price of $149 and will be available from select retailers or JBL.com in March. For additional information, visit HARMAN's CES booth at Central Hall, booth number 10431.
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HARMAN (www.harman.com) designs, manufactures and markets a wide range of audio and infotainment solutions for the automotive, consumer and professional markets – supported by 15 leading brands, including AKG®, Harman Kardon®, Infinity®, JBL®, Lexicon® and Mark Levinson®. The company is admired by audiophiles across multiple generations and supports leading professional entertainers and the venues where they perform. More than 20 million automobiles on the road today are equipped with HARMAN audio and infotainment systems. HARMAN has a workforce of about 13,400 people across the Americas, Europe and Asia, and reported sales of $4.4 billion for the year ended June 30, 2012. The company's shares are traded on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol NYSE: HAR.
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San Pedro-Santa Rosa day to be celebrated
St. Peter-St. Rosa Catholic Church, 18851 Colorado Highway 151 in Arboles, will celebrate San Pedro-Santa Rosa Day on Aug. 19 with a Mass celebrated at 12:15 p.m. and a fellowship lunch afterward.
The main meat dish will be provided, and everyone else should bring a side dish or a baked good for a bake sale. St. Peter-St. Rosa Church was built in 1978 merging the Rosa, N.M., and Arboles churches when the original churches were torn down to make room for Navajo Reservoir.
Methodist church to begin sermon series
The First United Methodist Church, 2917 Aspen Drive, will start an eight-week sermon series this weekend called Windows on the Gospel: A Study of the Denominations of Christianity.
The Rev. Jeff Huber will share the history, theology and distinctive emphases of the eight different denominations in the Christian faith. Worship services are at 5:30 p.m. Saturday and at 8, 9:30 and 11 a.m. Sunday.
For more information, call 247-4213 or visit www.fumcdurango.org.
Florida Mesa to host Christian band Friday
Florida Mesa Church, 1024 County Road 230, will host a concert by the local contemporary Christian band ARISE at 7 p.m. Friday.
Doors will open at 6:30 p.m. and the concert will begin at 7 p.m.
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Canadian Pizza Parlor Offers World's Most Expensive Pie
While there are often stories about ridiculously expensive comfort food — for example the $100 hot dog — it's hard to tell if anybody actually buys these overpriced dishes.
The folks at Steveston Pizza Company in Vancouver, Canada can confirm at least one person has bought the $450 "C6″ pizza they recently began offering.
The pizza connoisseur with a fat wallet was treated to a pie topped with lobster thermidor and black Alaska cod along with Russian Osetra caviar on the side.
The pizzeria also has a $120 dollar pie, made merely with roasted garlic, Icelandic scampi, smoked steelhead and lobster ratatouille. That "C5″ concoction has already been purchased seven times.
"I never thought I'd sell so many," Stevenson owner Nadir Hatami confessed.
Before Hatami went seafood crazy, the Guinness record holder for the most expensive pizza was the $178 pie at celebrity chef Gordon Ramsay's Maze restaurant in New York City.
But according to Hatami, he was thinking about more than just records when he created the C6. "The idea was to make a culinary statement," Hatami said. "I don't know if you've tried our pizza but each one is pretty unique."
And you don't even need to be a movie star or an oligarch to put Hatami to the test. The Stevenson Pizza Company offers a wide range of pies starting at the suddenly bargain basement price of $14 bucks.


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VANCOUVER — Jenell Parsons is up to her elbows in dough — and dreaming of opening her own cosy, vintage pie shop.
Think maple French-toast bacon pie; Moroccan chickpea pie; apple pie; and roasted turkey, cornbread stuffing, cranberries and brie pie.
"Everybody used to call me the cupcake girl, but I want to be the pie girl," said Parsons, 32, who has a degree in 3-D computer animation but was working as a plumbing supervisor when colleagues urged her to start a business. They'd swoon over the baked goods she'd bring in and ask "Why are you here? Go open a store."
Earlier this year, Parsons took the plunge.
She built a website, booked time in commercial kitchens, rolled up her sleeves and started baking.
It is a labour of love. "I roast my own organic pumpkins and purée them myself," she said. "I will go pick the pumpkins myself from the patch."
So far, The Pie Hole has been selling premium pies, pie pockets and pie pops-on-a-stick at craft fairs and events for $2 to $25. After each show, she gets a spike in phone orders.
"Every show I go to, I sell out early," she said. "The last show, I sold out five hours early. It was devastating to know I'd paid for the entire show." She'd baked enough to ensure she'd make money, but the success was still bittersweet.
She's also working social media and courting bloggers. "This Thanksgiving, a local blogger wrote about my pies and within two days, I had 50 orders."
Foodies on both sides of the continent are in a buzz over pie. While bloggers rhapsodize over flavour combinations, industry analysts are noting artisanal food's allure among economy-battered consumers seeking bite-sized indulgences.
Consumer Store Decisions magazine rates baking as a category notable for rising sales, and the latest International Dairy-Deli-Bakery Association report identifies cupcakes, baking-on-a-stick, savory baking, pies and mini pastries as trends.
"Type in 'pie is the new cupcake,' and there's five million articles online," Parsons enthused, referring to the specialty cupcake craze that started about 10 years ago and by some miracle, hasn't faltered yet.
If branded artisanal cupcakes worked, surely branded artisanal pie can only do better, Parsons reasoned. After all, "pies are a little bit more versatile than a cupcake," she said. "You can do sweet and savory. Breakfast, lunch, dinner, desert and appetizers."
Seattle has seven pie shops, "and they have lineups and sell out," Parsons said. Portland has several pie trucks. New York and Los Angeles were already heavy into pie last year.
Vancouver has many sources of excellent pie, including the venerable West Vancouver bakery/café Savary Island Pie Company, which opened in 1989, and Vancouver's 10-year-old bakery/café Tartine, owned by Jo Ann Turford. Acme Humble Pie.com, a novelty online store, targets corporate clients and delivers pies with messages such as "Thank you" or "Sorry."
But the heavily branded, premium-product approach of the cupcake craze has yet to hit Vancouver as pie, and Parsons hopes to beat the crowd with a "cute little boutique-style shop that invokes a feeling of warmth and going to Grandma's and having a pie."
She is so in love with her vision, she's already sourced kitchen equipment and stashed it all over her Yaletown condo. "I've got all the plates for the store. I have everything. I just need the spot," she said.
But there are challenges. Finding an affordable storefront with an appropriate power supply isn't easy. Should Parsons follow her heart and commit to $3,000 a month for 600 to 1,000 square feet on Vancouver's Main Street, where hip, young and, one would hope, hungry adults hang out? It's a large financial risk and the banks aren't interested.
A food truck might be a good stepping stone, but feels like a halfway measure — and Parsons would still need to rent kitchen space. A third option is to bite back her dream and take a slower, safer route, sticking with craft fairs while building online sales and developing a wholesale business, all of which she can bring to a physical store later.
Food industry expert David Lam, a Deloitte partner in mid-market corporate finance, believes Parsons is onto a good concept.
Pies can be "super healthy, tap the ethnic trend, organic or gluten-free trends," Lam said. "There are very high-growth trends people are looking for. It's all about innovation. Can you imagine if she teams up with JJ Bean and Artigiano? Just as Terra Breads raised the bar on bread, she can raise the bar on pie."
But choosing the right location for her product will be critical, as will ensuring she picks a location she can afford, said Lam, whose thoughts immediately flew to Vancouver's trendy, moneyed West Fourth Ave. Parsons has to "go premium, charge more," be "really, really good to a small group of people," and "hit all of the things people are looking for — healthy, fresh, no preservatives," he said.
All that's much easier said than done.
"These are tricky businesses as the low volume requires high margins compared to other bakery type businesses," said small business trainer and consultant Bill Erichson of Pacific Training Innovations, whose clients include Small Business B.C. "They can really succeed when the product transcends itself. The Cupcake Girls don't sell cupcakes but a whole marketing mystique around the brand."
Parsons has wisely sought outside help. The Canadian Youth Business Foundation has lent her $15,000, and on their advice she's entered The Pie Hole for Small Business B.C.'s Successful You Awards. The CYBF loan came with a volunteer mentor, Scott McBride, who will meet with her every four weeks for 18 months.
"She'll have to be very careful to manage her costs," cautioned McBride, whose day job is CEO of Consumer Protection B.C. "She has to make sure she understands her limitations, and how quickly she can realize her dream," he said. "Is she looking for success in the pie business, or is she looking for a pie shop? Those could be different things."
And so Parsons juggles the odds while she dreams of bacon double cheeseburger pie, pulled pork pie, butter chicken pie....


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Josh Hutcherson Weighs His 'Best Kiss' Odds against Rob and Kristen
"I don't know, they had a great kiss," he admitted. "Theirs was so passionate. Ours was like, I was on my deathbed, wasn't very sexy. I don't know, we'll see. Maybe. I'd be so lucky. One can only hope."
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This homemade costume for couples entered our 2011 Halloween Costume Contest.
A word from Sarah, the 'Barbie and Ken' costume creator:
My boyfriend and I dressed up as Barbie and Ken from Toy Story 3 to attend Mickey's Not So Scary Halloween Party 2011 at WDW. We LOVE all of the Toy Story movies and considering Woody, Jessie, & Buzz are the usual costumes, we wanted to do something different. Ken is wearing a wig for more of a cartoon look, the fabric was ordered online and made by hand, his shorts are puffy swimming trunks, the belt is yellow duct tape, and his shoes were white leather that were painted the light blue. Barbie is wearing a long blonde wig with bangs..(i have the same color, but it's shorter and i don't want bangs), a turquoise unitard i ordered online, leggings made from yarn, white leather shoes that were painted pink, and my belt is made of pink duct tape. We were a HIT! at the party, it was so much fun! Even Captain Jack pointed us out and gave us 2 thumbs up while on top of his float in the parade!
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RIP Growler Stores
The era of the standalone growler store in Alpharetta came to an end with the recent closing of The Beer Growler on Main Street at Windward Parkway. Let's all pour one out of our 64 oz amber glass bottles for the ones that we lost. Places like Blind Murphy, Tap It Growler, Draft Beer Market and Crafty Draught have all left us.
I have to admit, the growler concept lasted longer than I thought it would. The city of Alpharetta embraced the idea, making it legal for the growler stores to give up to three one ounce samples per person per visit and later approving the sale of flights. I spent many minutes in Blind Murphy sampling beers from breweries I had never heard of, from places I had never been, and styles previously strangers to my palate. I got turned on to many new and exciting breweries, many of which were small and only distributing their beer in kegs. Community became one of the really good things about the growler stores. It helped small and local craft brewers to get the word out about their products.
Most of the growler stores had five to twelve taps, but Draft Beer Market in Johns Creek went nutty with 64 brews on tap. That place was fancy. Video screens replaced most place's chalk boards to list what was on tap. While the majority of growler stores gave samples in plain, boring plastic shot glasses, Draft Beer Market went all out with glass mini brandy snifters. My pinkie was in the air when I took those samples.
So if these stores were so cool and hip, why have all of them closed? Well, the standalone growler concept isn't really good from a business standpoint. People come in, maybe try samples, fill their bottles, and go. There's no hanging out, no other products for people to spend money on and no reason to stay. These guys were paying rent on a sometimes large, sometimes prime real estate and all they sell is beer to go. A lot of the stores sold glassware or beer in bottles and cans. I've got plenty of beer glasses already. If I wanted beer in bottles or cans, why am I going to the growler store when I can go to Kroger or to a liquor store? You went to the growler store for growlers.
That brings me to my next point. The 64 oz jug o' beer is not suitable for most situations. There's a party? Perfect! You really, really, really like that type of beer? Awesome! The majority of beer drinkers aren't going to stomach all that beer before it goes flat and loses its right-out-of-the-tap-on-draught specialness. I found myself losing interest in the growlers and buying my beer in bottles. The smaller 32 oz size growlers were a step in the right direction. But lugging those things around was inconvenient. I had worked up an idea for a growler tote, but that dream was never realized. I did find that my child's car seat was the perfect transport device for getting my beer home.
Look at the growler places that are still around in Alpharetta. There's the gas station at Bethany Bend in Milton. Labeled as the first growler gas station in Georgia, it's perfect. Get gas, buy some lottery tickets, and fill your growler, all on the way home from work. There's also a growler station at the Whole Foods at Avalon. Again, do your shopping and if you can still afford it, fill up on beer. Two liquor stores in Cumming have growler stores attached. Due to Georgia laws, the entrances are separate, but it's still relying on another business. These growler stores are a convenience, not a destination.
So let's not shed too many tears for the passing of the standalone growler store. Changes in the laws let you buy beer right from the brewery, and that's what we really wanted anyway.


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The IC Classroom has a new SmartBoard - a great tool. But, it also has regular whiteboards. The pens and eraser are not interchangeable.
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It is refreshing that fathers are just as welcome as mothers in school life. From Kindergarten where I have the opportunity to participate in my youngest boy's class to school camp that I was fortunate to attend, I have always been encouraged and warmly welcomed. I have also thoroughly enjoyed participating in class room help for all my boys.
The move into the grade 5/6 area which is separate from the rest of the school gives the kids a real sense of being the 'big kids' and is a start to their transition to secondary school and being more responsible.
The school garden is such a fantastic feature of our school. Garden Club students have the opportunity to learn about all aspects of gardening from the role of healthy soil to how to use silverbeet to make delicious pizzas. Science, nutrition and sustainability are explored in a truly hands on environment.
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The news that a Zimbabwean tourist taking an outdoor shower in a wildlife camp got killed by pride of lions once again reminds us that vacation trips can have dangers. Remember the 2009 boat tragedy on the Periyar river in Kerala that killed 40 people? Or the large number of tourists that go to our beaches and rivers and get washed away.
Nature is an unforgiving place and those of us who venture out from the confines of our cities should understand this. Many of us don't and that adds a layer of significant risk to our vacations which often goes unrecognised. The fact that we mostly emerge unscathed from our trips does not mean that we have not, knowingly or unknowingly, taken big risks; it just means we have been lucky.
What is equally disturbing is that safety is an aspect that neither the tourism industry nor the government is paying any attention to in India. It is time that we changed this inattention.