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Dr. Mary Goldring, senior scientist at Hospital for Special Surgery (HSS) in New York City, has been named president of the Orthopaedic Research Society (ORS). The inauguration took place at the organization's annual meeting on March 17 in New Orleans, with more than 2600 attendees. Learn More.Scientists Identify New Target to Battle Rheumatoid Arthritis
A new study led by Xiaoyu Hu, M.D., Ph.D. at Hospital for Special Surgery identifies the mechanism by which a cell signaling pathway contributes to the development of rheumatoid arthritis (RA). In addition, the study provides evidence that drugs under development for diseases such as cancer could potentially be used to treat RA. Learn moreOsteoarthritis Summit Delineates Shortcomings of Research and Path Forward For Leading Cause of Disability in U.S.
A recent summit that brought together international multidisciplinary experts has provided a foundation for addressing what is the leading cause of disability in the United States: osteoarthritis. Consensus statements and analysis from the summit appear as part of a series of papers in Volume 8, Issue 1, of the Hospital for Special Surgery Journal. Learn moreChief Scientific Officer Named First Richard L. Menschel Research Chair at Hospital for Special Surgery
Steven R. Goldring, M.D., chief scientific officer, has been named the first Richard L. Menschel Research Chair at Hospital for Special Surgery. In addition to providing leadership for the HSS Research Division, Dr. Goldring's research objective is to translate basic research into new therapies for people with mobility disorders, with a focus on expanding the Hospital's clinical registries and advancing its Osteoarthritis Initiative. Learn MoreHSS Receives $1 Million Gift for The Mary and Fred Trump Institute for Implant Analysis
Judge Maryanne Trump Barry, Donald Trump, Robert Trump, and Elizabeth Trump Grau have provided Hospital for Special Surgery with a $1 million gift in support of and to name the Institute for Implant Analysis in honor of their parents, the late Mary and Fred Trump. The Mary and Fred Trump Institute for Implant Analysis aims to innovate upon the science of joint reconstruction to improve the quality of life for millions of joint replacement patients around the world. The institute is under the direction of Timothy Wright, Ph.D., F.M., and Douglas Padgett, M.D. Learn moreResearch Excellence Attracts NIH Funding
Three new grants from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) support teams of Special Surgery surgeons and biomechanical engineers who are working to improve patient outcomes in joint and tissue replacement. At HSS, surgeons and engineers collaborate in the lab, where surgeons bring what they learn from their work with patients to the attention of biomechanical engineers. The grants support studies in knee function restoration, meniscus implants, and elbow replacements. Learn moreDr. Adele Boskey 2010 Recipient of ORS/AOA Award for Lifetime Contributions to Orthopaedics
Adele L. Boskey, PhD received the Orthopaedic Research Society/ American Orthopaedic Association Alfred R. Shands, Jr. Award given annually in recognition of life-long achievement and contributions to orthopaedic research and furthering knowledge in the field of musculoskeletal disease. Learn more
Registries provide the foundation for clinical trials, translational research, and treatment innovation. HSS has created more than 30 registries including the Hip, Knee and Shoulder Arthroplasty Registries, Sports Medicine and Shoulder Services ACL Registry, Center for Hip Preservation Registry, Autoimmune Disease Registry, and Scleroderma Registry. Read more and learn how to participateSaving Pregnancies in Women with Lupus
Jane Salmon, MD is Principal Investigator on a multi-center NIH-funded research initiative, the PROMISSE study, to identify predictors of poor pregnancy outcomes in women with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE). The study is providing insights on the genes and cellular pathways that can affect pregnancy in lupus patients and, potentially, cause miscarriage and preeclampsia in healthy women. Learn moreSenior Scientist with Experience in Autoimmunity and Inflammation Joins HSS
Alessandra Pernis, MD adds a new dimension to the Autoimmunity and Inflammation Program, bringing special expertise in acquired immunity. Dr. Pernis has made novel observations regarding the regulation of inflammation, which plays a critical role in diseases such as lupus and arthritis. She brings experience in animal and genetic models of rheumatoid arthritis and lupus, which will help us understand the origins of these diseases and develop therapies for them. Learn moreNew Pathway Involved in Rheumatoid Arthritis – Potential for Therapeutic Approaches
Lionel Ivashkiv, MD is lead author of a study published in the journal Immunity identifying a cellular pathway involved in turning off inflammation that does not work properly in people with inflammatory arthritis. This is the first study to link this pathway to rheumatoid arthritis and could lead to the development of new therapeutic approaches to treat arthritis. Learn moreOsteoarthritis Initiative - A Multidisciplinary Approach
Osteoarthritis (OA), a painful and often debilitating joint disease, is a leading cause of disability and the most common underlying condition of patients seeking treatment at Hospital for Special Surgery. While the symptoms of OA are well-known, the root causes of the disease remain unclear. Staffed with the world's best orthopedic surgeons, musculoskeletal-trained radiologists, biomedical engineers, and basic scientists, and with patients with a wide range of OA symptoms to learn from, HSS is uniquely situated to lead in OA research. Learn moreBiomarker Could Help Tailor Treatment for Rheumatoid Arthritis
Investigators have identified a biomarker that could help doctors select patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) who will benefit from therapy with drugs such as Enbrel, a tumor necrosis factor (TNF)-antagonist drug. While these drugs bring relief to many RA patients, they are not highly effective in 30% to 50% of patients. The study, led by Mary K. Crow, MD, along with researchers at Hospital for Special Surgery in collaboration with rheumatologists at the University of Southern California, was published in the journal Arthritis & Rheumatism. Learn moreResearch Grants
HSS currently receives more than $14 million annually in grants from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to support basic and clinical research activities. In addition, research is supported by grants from the Arthritis Foundation, Orthopaedic Research and Education Foundation, Alliance for Lupus Research, Rheuminations, Inc., Lupus Clinical Trials Consortium, Inc., and others. Learn more


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A liberal arts education is preparing me to be well rounded, and I believe that will be a great attribute when looking for a job.
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- Major: Music Education
With more than 25 performance groups on campus, Mount Union offers a robust schedule of recitals and concerts that highlights the talents of our students, in addition to an array of performances held each year that feature our talented and actively-performing faculty as well as guest musicians. The public is welcome at all musical performances.
Some of these public performances are the result of a strong partnership between the musical communities of Mount Union and the City of Alliance. The two work cooperatively to ensure the success of both the Alliance Symphony and Mount Union/Alliance Chorale. In addition, the University and Alliance Symphony Orchestra annually present a concerto and aria competition called Solo con Tutti.
The University also offers lessons and programming for young musicians in the area through its preparatory division, and is home to the national Kindermusik effort, a program for infants, toddlers, preschoolers and young children that seeks to create a life-long love of music.

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Police are investigating a report of a suspicious package left on Langdon Street this afternoon. Main Street has been closed off from State to School streets. Police are believed to be waiting for a K-9 unit to examine the package, which is described as a box. The incident was called into police around 4 p.m.
Eyewitnesses report a two-foot by two-foot box on the sidewalk by TD Bank. A bomb-sniffing dog/team is on the way to the scene. Rush-hour traffic is being tied up around the city as a result of the incident. Bystanders are being kept from the scene, which has been blocked by police. If you are in the city, you are asked to please stay away from the scene at this time.MORE IN This Just InBy Josh O'Gorman Full StoryBy Gordon Dritschilo Full StoryCASTLETON - Police have released a picture of a man who robbed a convenience store Monday night. Full Story
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BREMERTON, Wash. (AP) — A former volunteer firefighter had to act quickly when a mattress caught fire inside his Bremerton apartment.
So he threw the queen-size mattress out a window.
Bremerton Fire Department acting battalion chief John Payne says children had turned on the heater that was near the mattress, despite being told not to by their parents Saturday afternoon.
Payne says smoke alarms went off and the father, who said he was a former volunteer firefighter, threw the queen-sized mattress out the window of their second-floor apartment unit.
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Affords easier access to Bluegrass Commerce Park, more development possibilities
Governor Steve Beshear, joined by Louisville Mayor Greg Fischer and other local officials, today celebrated the opening of the eagerly awaited Blankenbaker Parkway extension.
The new, four-lane roadway provides direct access from heavily traveled Taylorsville Road to the Bluegrass Commerce Park and much-improved linkage between the industrial park and Interstate 265.
"This new roadway offers new possibilities for Jefferson County," Gov. Beshear said. "For residents of the immediate area, and those who make their living in and around Bluegrass Commerce Park, it means less traffic congestion and much greater mobility. For the community as a whole, it means greater development potential and the promise of future jobs."
The parkway extension, for which Gov. Beshear broke ground in March 2010, was a $9.4 million project, of which $6 million was for construction. The Kentuckiana Regional Planning and Development Agency (KIPDA) paid design, right-of-way and utility costs from dedicated federal highway funds. Construction funding was through the American Reinvestment and Recovery Act. Flynn Brothers Contracting Inc., of Louisville, was the builder.
The new roadway – four lanes with a grass median – stretches six-tenths of a mile to connect the parkway to Taylorsville Road. The project included construction of sidewalks on both sides of the roadway and noise barrier walls for the benefit of neighboring residences.
Before construction of the extension, motorists going to the industrial park from Taylorsville Road had to negotiate narrow, curving, two-lane Chenoweth Run.
"The opening of this much-anticipated roadway will not only increase mobility for citizens who live and work in this area but will also improve safety for all drivers," Mayor Fischer said. "The project also caters to pedestrians with newly installed sidewalks."
"With this project, the investments of the Recovery Act are continuing to pay dividends in Louisville," said Congressman John Yarmuth (KY-03). "By funding the construction of this new roadway, these investments put people to work right away and improved our infrastructure to ease commerce and commuting for years to come."
Jeffersontown Mayor Bill Dieruf said construction of the extension completes a component of the master plan for the commerce park, "A Vision for Today and Tomorrow."
"Improved access to the Bluegrass Commerce Park is vital to businesses today," Mayor Dieruf said. "Companies like Signature Healthcare, SHPS and Papa John's call Jeffersontown and the Bluegrass Commerce Park home, and making strategic infrastructure investments with the extension of Blankenbaker Parkway is important to their success."
Transportation Secretary Mike Hancock said projects like the Blankenbaker Parkway extension fit within the Transportation Cabinet's mission of providing a safe, efficient, environmentally sound and fiscally responsible transportation system that delivers economic opportunity and enhances quality of life.
Cuts ribbon for Skyview Park-Gaslight Square multi-use path in Jeffersontown
Also Wednesday, Gov. Beshear joined Mayor Dieruf and other local officials in a ribbon cutting to open the Skyview Park-Gaslight Square multi-use bike and pedestrian path along Watterson Trail, which is KY 1819. The most notable feature of the path is a steel truss pedestrian bridge over Chenoweth Run Road.
"Outdoor activity and exercise has been a big part of my life and the lives of our entire family," Gov. Beshear said. "Walking and riding bicycles are not only good for your health. They're two of our most enjoyable and beneficial outdoor pastimes."
"Connecting the neighborhoods to the downtown, city parks, commercial corridors and the workplace with the Bluegrass Commerce Park this trail will enhance accessibility throughout the city and make Jeffersontown truly a bicycle and pedestrian friendly community," Mayor Dieruf said. "Providing a safe and enjoyable place to ride a bike or walk will encourage physical fitness and family exercise while having a little fun along the way, too."


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SutherlandGold's VP of Digital + Content Tara-Nicholle Nelson waxes poetic in Forbes on the inevitable "impostor" syndrome that goes along with making big changes in your business and career - and, notably, how this relates to the discussions happening around women in tech. Here's an excerpt:
In Silicon Valley, there is a movement of genteel outrage and increasingly organized action growing around the issue of diversity
in tech (or more accurately, the lack thereof).
Last year, Soledad O'Brien provoked much dialogue with a segment of her Black in America docu-series devoted to the dearth of African-American tech entrepreneurs. More recently, the New York Times chimed in with a smart and hopeful piece on the successes that are being made in another tech-and-diversity issue: the decreasing numbers of women who code. READ THE FULL ARTICLE
By Jessica Swesey
Our client Pebble, a company that is creating an e-paper smartwatch, is full of great stories. The company now holds the record for largest funding pooled on crowdfunding website Kickstarter. The perseverance of founder and CEO Eric Migicovsky in the face of rejection from VCs is a classic tale of never giving up, and trying new avenues when traditional doors have closed.
Even more interesting than the amazing crowdfunding numbers - $6 million from more than 45,000 backers in the first two weeks – is the opportunity unveiled by the attention and support of future customers. Aside from the money, Kickstarter has enabled Pebble to do an amazing thing: assemble a community of highly engaged evangelists before they've shipped one product. This feat alone is quite amazing considering it can take months or years for most brands to achieve this kind of attuned following.
The community of evangelists is important for Pebble because like the iPhone and Android, the smartwatch is more valuable when more developers create customized apps for it. Without this proven crowd of evangelists on Kickstarter, it would've been much more difficult to get developers interested. The backers on Kickstarter will now form the community that builds the apps for Pebble or requests apps to be built. In addition, Pebble has created a special offer for developers who back them on Kickstarter: early access to the SDK and a prototype watch delivered in August.
Crowdfunding not only supplied Pebble with the funds to get off the ground and ship the first round of smartwatches this fall, it also created an immediate sounding board for collecting ideas, feedback and soon actual apps that will run on the watches. It helped demonstrate real demand where traditional investors were not willing to risk money to find out whether that demand really existed. In many ways, the community is even more valuable than the investment funds.
45,000 people can't be wrong.
To read more about Pebble, visit Pebble's project page on Kickstarter.
Also, check out some of the coverage so far:
Pebble Watch for iPhone and Android, The Most Successful Kickstarter Project Ever (Forbes)
Pebble Watch Touts ePaper Screen, Bluetooth Apps and High Demand (Time)
Forget the money, Kickstarter turns Pebble into a platform (GigaOm)
Pebble Smart Watch Raises Over $3M on Kickstarter After Asking for only $100K (TechCrunch)
A client of ours - Blue Jeans Network - is disrupting the video conferencing space with technology that makes it easy as pie to video conference anyone anywhere. As a true testament to their own technology, they actually used it in the hiring process with a candidate who was located in Kenya. They ended up hiring her without ever having met her in person. Stu Aaron, Chief Commercial Officer of Blue Jeans, gives all the details of the experience in an article he wrote for Recruiting Trends to show recruiters the benefits of simple video conferencing in the hiring process. Read the full article here.
RadiumOne CEO Gurbaksh Chahal shares his thoughts on leveraging social data to power the Intelligent Web and why he thinks that any ad tech companies not doing this will soon be irrelevant.
"The online world is witnessing an amazing change in how people consume and share content. Yet the potential for using social-media data in advertising is largely untapped. Advertisers are still largely invested in display advertising, a medium that in due time will produce diminished results because it is based in static, old data.
"The social Web is the way of the future. It's where you'll find consumers most of the time. It's where we will learn more and more about what they are interested in, what catches their attention, what compels them to share. This real-time medium not only creates an expectation of instant information and content, but it generates a vast amount of data about what interests and engages consumers right now.
By Tara-Nicholle Nelson
Recently, a conversation with a colleague turned to the topic of shopping, and in particular, to my favorite consignment store. I love it, I said, because the owner seems to have exactly my tastes, so she only takes in the best stuff. I walk in there and fall in love with a disproportionately large percentage of the things in the store. The place has actually ruined me for shopping in other brick-and-mortar retail stores, because I feel like I have to cover all those square feet and do all that work to find maybe 1 or 2 things I love, if I'm lucky.
You see, I have a rule - I have to LOVE a piece of clothing - I mean, it has to fit perfectly, be the perfect color, and look perfect on me before I'll buy it.
When I articulated my "must love it to buy it" rule, the office-renowned shopaholic with whom I was having this conversation set her chin on her fist, sighed, looked up at me with her big blue eyes and said in her Brazilian accent, "I wish I could be like that. My bar ees reeeeeeelly looooow. I can't help myself!"
The consumers you want to attract with your content? They're much more like I am than my pal. I've moved a few times, downsized by a thousand square feet and have given several months' Bay Area mortgage payments worth of NWTS (eBay-speak for New With Tags) clothing to St. Vincent de Paul when it became very clear I was never going to wear it, so paying to move it was senseless. All this has set my bar for buying new stuff and bringing it into my home very, very high.
Consumers' bar for new content they will try and content channels they will come back to is similarly high. See, most of us have what we call a Core Mix - a handful of sites we visit and get our content from on a habitual basis. We wake up in the morning and check them, we check them when we get to work, and we check them over and over throughout the day. Once someone has their Core Mix set up, it's pretty tough for a new content channel to break into that mix - even if we love the content on that site.
It's why I forget to check Suri's Burn Book, sometimes for weeks on end, but I still check TMZ daily, having created the habit when one of my job duties was to scout leads on celebrity real estate stories. (Seriously - it was for work!)
The bar for content consumers care about is so high because our attention spans are short and the competition for a share of them is steep. Know it or not, your competition includes:
From Limbaugh's slutty stone throwing and Santorum's sex strictures to every single thing Princess Letizia has ever worn, the market for content is flooded with some pretty compelling (!) stuff, folks.
And beyond that, consumers' barometer for giving a rat's you-know-what is very, very tough to move - especially when the content is about or by products and brands. Consumers are all: "what's in it for me?" and "so, who gives?" and "did you see Kanye's last tweet" and otherwise obsessed with the glitches and tidbits of work and home and the daily dramas of their own lives.
So, what does it take to break your brand's content and social media channels into a consumers' Core Mix of sites they visit every day? It's not enough to populate it regularly with timely content they love or value because it serves something they care about, but that is a prerequisite.
And here's some good news: unless your brand, app, or site has the broadest of target markets, your content doesn't have to be highly stimulating/entertaining/relevant/educational/solution-providing to everyone, or even to most people. It just has to be those things to the people YOU want to come to your site, buy your product or rely on you as a resource. And if you are clear on who your target consumer is, it's a fairly short leap to figure out what they care about and crave to know or watch or hear or read, and then to feed those cravings with content.
Your consumers care about their aspirations and dreams, so if you can create content that helps them become a homeowner or an entrepreneur, they will keep coming back for more.
They care about the values that they claim as part of their identity, and about being involved with brands and communities who share them - a button you can activate with manifesto marketing.
They care about protecting what's precious to them, like their kids, their health and their money.
They care about being entertained and being in the know.
They care about - and fixate on - their problems, and they crave content that is highly relevant to soothing their pain points or helps them feel understood and not alone in a situation they felt isolated or shamed about.
The brand-published content that consumers will come back to is the content that activates one of these buttons, tapping into the sh*t consumers care about, to steal a phrase from the viral video phenomenon. It's rarely content about the brand, per se. The brand becomes the resource for the things the consumer already loves or hates.
So dig deep and ask yourself and your team: what does your target consumer care about (other than The Hunger Games and Mob Wives)? Like my bar for buying clothes, the content-consumers-care-about bar may be high. But when you can answer that question, you'll know that that's what your content should be about.
By Lesley Gold
Sheryl Sandberg is a remarkable woman. There are few women (and men, for that matter) who aren't envious of her career accomplishments. And while I'm pleased that she has taken up the cause of women and is telling them to put the "pedal to metal," there is something about her message that rings hollow to me.
Unlike the critics in this New York Times piece, I don't begrudge Sandberg her luck. I believe that we make our own luck, for one. And I don't fault her for wisely choosing men to champion her career. I was raised by a "femi-tunist"(feminist/opportunist) - my mom always told me if a man wants to open a door for you, you should walk right on through it!
In some ways I can relate to Sheryl and the career women she talks to and about. I know a little something about building a career - and about building a family. My foot has been on the career gas since I was 22 years old. I started my own business when I was 30, and six months later I was pregnant. I have two children and took off less than three weeks from work with each of them.
Giving birth is a super-human feat, and being a mother is full-time job. So, until Sheryl Sandberg can tell women how to either stop time or be in two places at once, the issue is not, as she says, that women need to go harder or have more courage, or hang in even through pregnancy, childbirth and child-rearing.
The real issue is this: women are going to have to make some choices.
No matter how much you wish it were possible, you can't be hobnobbing with Bill Gates at Davos and snuggling with your kids on your sofa at the same time. It's a simple truth that we only have so many hours in any one day.
Are her kids worse off because she is not there all the time for the big moments and the small moments? Are mine? I don't know – but I do know that I am constantly aware when I'm not with my kids. And I also know that there are business trips I don't take, networking events I skip and other career-builders I opt out of simply because I can't be at two places at once.
This is the choice I make.
I am not as successful as Sheryl. When you stand to make a billion-plus dollars from your work, as she does, it means that your family will benefit immensely from the time you spend away from them. It's easy to make these choices when the benefits are so overwhelming, so obvious.
But for the average career woman, the benefits of going to work compared with the costs are nowhere near as obvious as they are for Sheryl. Most working women constantly feel like they are falling short at home and at work. It's much tougher to choose to put the pedal to the metal when you're not sure whether the career tank is full of gas. And the sad truth is that most men and women WON'T ever have careers like Sheryl Sandberg's, no matter how hard we work.
To choose to spend your time at work over spending your time with your children is hard no matter how much we love our jobs. But it is far harder to make these choices when you're not going to Davos or reaping huge financial rewards.
My message to women is that if you want a career and you want kids, expect to be making tough choices every day. Feel good about the choices you make. Enjoy the time you have. Don't regret what you didn't do and who you weren't with, what you didn't achieve. You can have it all, but you can't be in two places at the same time. The choices aren't always obvious, but they are always yours.
By Scott Sutherland
Very few events are as target-rich for creative PR than the Super Bowl. The Super Bowl continues to elicit massive coverage online, offline and on air. And the public's appetite and interest for coverage of the game, the commercials and how they ranked is almost limitless.
So we decided to help our client Velti exploit this massive coverage and powerful audience interest. As we've done many times in the past, we worked with our partners at Harris Interactive to craft and execute a survey.
The key to having success with surveys is really knowing how to write good questions. And writing good questions really requires an intuitive sense on what kind of information the media is really searching for.
We were pretty sure this would be the year when the "Second Screen" phenomenon broke into the Super Bowl conversation. So, the week prior to the game, we crafted a survey that probed into how consumers expected to use their mobile devices during the game. Clearly, we were hoping the survey would show that consumers now see mobile phones as essential to their Super Bowl viewing experience.
What we learned surprised even us. Key findings in the research that got the most media attention seemed to be:
Coverage of the survey results was pretty massive, including pieces in USA Today, Mashable, AFP and many, many more. It's much tougher to very effectively measure coverage outside the U.S., but the AFP coverage was critical since our client serves clients around the world. Here's a breakdown:
Number of Original Stories: 27
Number of Syndicated Posts: 42
Twitter Mentions: 1,633
Facebook Mentions: 347
LinkedIn Mentions: 374
Number of Press Release Pickups: 472
It was also interesting to see how the different social channels were used to distribute stories. Not surprisingly, Twitter was by far the most active distribution channel with 1,149 Tweets or Re-Tweets of media stories. What was surprising was that the story was shared more frequently on LinkedIn than on Facebook.
Important Publications by Number of Mentions and Social Network
Facebook (Mentions)
Mashable (82)
USA Today (47)
Twitter (Mentions)
Mashable (929)
USA Today (130)
CNN & AFP (tied) (90)
LinkedIn (Mentions)
Mashable (222)
Media Post (42)
Bloomberg (35)
Bloomberg and Media Post got more distribution on LinkedIn than USA Today or CNN. We were surprised also at the significant difference in number of shares of the Mashable post on Twitter versus Facebook. Mashable got more than 10 times the shares on Twitter than it did on Facebook. And USA Today got almost twice as many shares on Twitter than Facebook.
Not our first time at the Big Game…
At SG, we have a long history of executing successful creative programs around the Super Bowl. TiVo was actually SG's very first client, and about ten years ago, we developed TiVo's Super Bowl commercial report. The report measures audience engagement on commercials in households with TiVo, and has since become one of the premier reports of which commercials are the real winners of the game, every year.
I remember driving back from Tahoe after the infamous Janet Jackson "wardrobe malfunction." I was on the phone with the TiVo data folks who were arguing they did not even want to pull the data measurement on it because they thought it was too unseemly.
Fortunately, we won them over! The PR around the TiVo measurement that showed it was the most replayed segment in Super Bowl history - and probably got the most earned media TiVo had ever recorded at that point in the company's history.


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Pequot Lakes senior Savannah Stone raced to a second-place time of 1:14.90 to lead the Brainerd Warriors girls to second in Thursday's Hibbing Invite at Giants Ridge.
Stone finished 0.26 seconds behind last year's state champion, Megan Danelski of Hermantown. Other Pequot Lakes skiers were Maddison Olson, who was 48th, and Alex Stone and Jaden Lindner, who both had incomplete scores.
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Modern adults are almost certain to experience fatigue at different points in their day or week. Between balancing personal and professional responsibilities, responding to the many stimuli of contemporary living, or simply adapting to the body's own rhythms, you may often find that you need a serious pick-me-up. Natural oils are a much healthier bet than an overload of coffee or caffeine drinks: They soothe, relax and refresh, rather than stimulate artificially.
Suggested Essential Oils
Citrus oils are often used to relieve fatigue and increase energy levels:
- Lemon
- Orange
- Tangerine
- Bergamot
- Grapefruit
Of these oils, choose the one that has the smell you find most pleasant. Aromatherapy is highly individual—if you pick a scent you don't particularly like simply because of a recommendation, it probably won't do you much good.
- Some essential oils are contraindicated for preexisting medical conditions, Speak with your doctor before adopting this or any other complementary therapy.
- Essential oils should be used as a complement to conventional medicine, not a substitute. If your fatigue worsens, speak with your doctor.
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- Add a few drops of the oil/s to an aromatherapy diffuser or oil burner (DIY version: A few drops in a bowl of very hot water).
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A revised bill supported by Republicans at the North Carolina legislature would add sweeping new restrictions on when, where and how citizens can vote - and it drew a pink surprise from opponents Tuesday.
Legislation which advanced in a Senate committee Tuesday would cut the state's early voting period by a week and eliminate same-day voter registration. It also increases restrictions on provisional voting and would eliminate straight-ticket voting. The measure also repeals publicly-funded elections for judicial races and increases the maximum campaign contribution to $5,000.
The bill also would require voters to present a government-issued photo ID at the polls.
Republicans say the measures are necessary to combat voter fraud. Non-partisan voting rights groups and Democrats say the new restrictions amount to a blatant attempt to suppress voter turnout.
But opponents say the move will make North Carolina having problems like Florida, and they put about 200 plastic flamingos on the lawn around the legislature to make the point.
the core, our democracy should be about asking people to participate," said Bob Hall of Democracy NC. "Getting
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In his keynote speech last week at "Genomics and Cancer," the 2006 General Motors Cancer Research Foundation's Annual Scientific Conference on the NIH campus, Dr. Eric Lander, director of the Broad Institute, noted some of the significant advances that have resulted from the mapping of the human genome, referring to it as "biology's first great community-building infrastructure."
The conference featured some of the world's leading scientists in the field of genomics and cancer research, including Dr. Napoleone Ferrara of Genentech, Inc., who was the Research Award winner for his discovery and cloning of VEGF and his role in developing bevacizumab, and Dr. Victor Velculescu of Johns Hopkins University, who described the genetic alterations in PIK3CA, one of the most highly mutated oncogenes in human cancer.
The completed genome sequence, Dr. Lander stressed, has "lit the fires of imagination" among many researchers, resulting in tools that have fundamentally altered the way in which they work.
He outlined six major goals that must be reached to fulfill the promise of genomics. Among these, he argued, is the need to fully describe, at the molecular and cellular level, all functional elements encoded in the genome and all human genetic variation. By mapping the cancer genome, through projects such as The Cancer Genome Atlas, he added, researchers will continue to break cancer down into distinct diseases and subtypes, and map out that part of the human genome relevant to each.
He also highlighted the need to develop genetic signatures of cellular response, singling out the "connectivity map" being proposed and developed by Dr. Todd Golub and colleagues that "allows researchers to essentially 'Google'" a cell signature they are working on, and get possible matches for drugs and pathway mechanisms they might never have considered. Video of the conference is available at http://videocast.nih.gov/PastEvents.asp?c=1.
New Drugs Benefit Patients with Chronic Myeloid Leukemia
Two experimental drugs are expanding treatment options for patients with chronic myeloid leukemia (CML) who cannot tolerate imatinib (Gleevec), the primary treatment. The drugs, dasatinib (Sprycel) and nilotinib, were designed to overcome imatinib resistance, and results from clinical trials suggest that the medicines can be used to treat cases of CML when imatinib fails or is not tolerated.
Dasatinib is expected to be approved in the coming weeks by the FDA based on the recent recommendation of an advisory panel, which reviewed results from early-stage clinical trials. The complete results from a phase I dasatinib trial, led by Dr. Charles Sawyers of UCLA's Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center, appear in the June 15 New England Journal of Medicine along with results from a phase I trial involving nilotinib.
The two trials provide "immediate hope for patients" whose CML cells no longer respond to imatinib, says Dr. Brian Druker of Oregon Health & Science University Cancer Institute, who led the development of imatinib, in an accompanying editorial. The results, he says, demonstrate the clinical value of understanding the molecular changes that result in imatinib resistance because this knowledge led to the development of the new drugs at an "impressively rapid" pace.
Dasatinib, manufactured by Bristol-Meyers Squibb, targets nearly all the genetic mutations that cause resistance to imatinib. To create nilotinib, chemists at Novartis modified imatinib so that the drug binds more tightly to its target, the ABL protein. Both drugs, which are pills, are more potent inhibitors of the ABL protein than is imatinib; the drugs inhibited all tested imatinib-resistant mutations except one, called T315I.
Dr. Hagop Kantarjian of the University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, who led the nilotinib trial, says that imatinib should remain the standard of care for now because most CML patients respond to imatinib and 93 percent of them are doing well after 5 years of treatment. Phase II studies of the drug are ongoing. Like dasatinib, nilotinib has side effects, and patients should have their heart function monitored, the researchers said.
The editorial suggests that the drugs might be useful at earlier stages of CML, and clinical trials are being planned. "The good news for patients with CML is that the long-term prospects for control of the disease are excellent," writes Dr. Druker.
Melanosomes Contribute to Multidrug Resistance in Melanoma
Melanoma, the most deadly of skin cancers, is resistant to radiation therapy and to many chemotherapeutic drugs, making adjuvant treatment difficult. Currently, the cellular mechanisms behind the multidrug resistance of melanoma are not well understood. A new study from researchers in NCI's CCR, published online June 15 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, has identified an important role in resistance to chemotherapy for melanosomes - the organelles within pigment-producing skin cells that protect them from the toxic byproducts of pigment synthesis.
The investigators, led by Dr. Michael Gottesman, administered fluorescently labeled cisplatin to both melanoma cells and control cells from a non-melanoma skin cancer line. The labeled drug was found in the cytoplasm of melanoma cells but not in the nuclei, where it would exert its cytotoxic effect. In contrast, the drug was found in both the cytoplasm and nuclei of control cells. In melanoma cells, cisplatin found near the plasma membrane colocalized with a melanosome marker, suggesting that it was trapped inside the organelles.
Further in vitro experiments indicated that treating melanoma cells with cisplatin caused an increased production of the pigment melanin and a corresponding increase in the number of melanosomes. The melanoma cells then exported the melanosomes containing the cytotoxic drug out of the nucleus through a mechanism called melanosome transfer.
"The components that regulate the dynamics of melanosomes (i.e., melanosome numbers, melanosomal trapping, and export) are likely involved in drug resistance," wrote the authors. "In principle, the components of the entire melanogenic pathway could be molecular targets for the therapy of melanomas."
AHRQ Study Details Effectiveness of Anemia Drugs
A study released in May by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) finds there is no clinically significant difference in the medical effectiveness of epoetin and darbepoetin, the two drugs commonly used for managing anemia in cancer patients who are undergoing chemotherapy or radiation treatment. The drugs showed no clinically significant difference in improving hemoglobin concentration and reducing the need for transfusion, according to AHRQ's latest comparative effectiveness review.
The review found that both drugs reduce the need for transfusion. But, it did not find evidence that they improved survival when added to cancer treatment. The report also found that many other significant questions remain unanswered about the safety and best use of both drugs.
The report, Comparative Effectiveness of Epoetin and Darbepoetin for Managing Anemia in Patients Undergoing Cancer Treatment, was produced by AHRQ's Effective Health Care Program, the first federal program designed to compare alternative treatments for significant health conditions and make the findings public.
Anemia occurs in 13 to 78 percent of patients with solid tumors and 30 to 40 percent of lymphoma patients. Blood transfusion can restore a low hemoglobin concentration, and adverse transfusion-related events are uncommon.
Drugs that mimic the actions of erythropoietin can be used to correct anemia and reduce the need for transfusions. Two drugs are commercially available in the United States - epoetin alfa (Epogen and Procrit) and darbepoetin alfa (Aranesp), a newer, longer acting drug that requires fewer injections.
The review compared the drugs' effectiveness and safety. In particular, it sought to determine whether darbepoetin differed from epoetin in its ability to achieve key treatment goals. The evidence showed that the drugs did not differ significantly in reducing transfusion need; it was uncertain whether either drug had a meaningful effect in improving quality of life.


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Adam, you're actually not in the video. Was this your idea or just a little music video fright?
Adam: For this one, it was actually kind of not my idea. But sometimes, depending on the circumstances, I don't necessarily think I need to be in it. I did a video for the last record and was walking around Philly with a guitar lip syncing to the music. And they super imposed all of these flowers on my face and in my hair and it was just... It was amazing. But for this one, I decided I just wanted to see where it could go without me or the band in it.
Did you guys sit down and brainstorm up a concept before filming?
Adam: No, Peter had an awesome idea for it and he went with it. There were a couple different ideas floating around. I liked the idea of the way he was shooting it though. He was gonna use 16mm film and really creating a film by hand, which I love. Because when you do it like that, you're prone to certain mistakes. And I like that a lot—all of the artwork on the record is medium format films. I just liked his idea about it and his aesthetic. So I decided he was the guy.
Did the video turn out the way you envisioned?
Adam: Definitely the colors and the general feeling, for sure. I saw the first cut. The new one's in my email but I've been in the van for like 20 hours. I'm gonna watch it today.
Where did you shoot? The location's beautiful.
Peter: I've been living in Los Angeles for almost two years now and I've kind of been wandering around. The city stuff was shot in I think it's called Frog Town which is a neighborhood which hugs the L.A. river. It has a strange look— very lived in, factory living which I thought kind of fit the idea of this group of girls wandering around, running amuck.
The field I found a year ago just driving around. I actually got out, and I was taking pictures and I had this feeling growing in me that something horrible was gonna happen. And I realized that horrible feeling was like in a movie. You know, there's always that quiet moment before something bad happens. I realized I could actually hear myself think. I could hear grass moving.
What was your inspiration for the effects on the film?
Peter: My main influence for the video was Len Lye, an artist from New Zealand. He worked with "direct film-making" where he would paint, scratch, and augment the film and then run it back through the projector. Stan Brakhage is another great example of the camera-less film-making. I've always loved their films and had it in my mind to try the technique at some point. When I listened to The War on Drugs track, I thought it fit the tone of that technique perfectly and was an appropriate opportunity to try it out.
Adam, you've been working on the album for four years?
Adam: It took a long time to put together. I mean, it's a little bit of a different one than the first one. It's really kind of saturated in a way and lots of different moods. I think for the the most part it's pretty... I don't wanna call it mellow. But it works as a whole big piece. It's not like a mellow record or a rockin' record. It's a collection of moments. It's really personal. The sound is a super modern take on all of the classics, you know?
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(FOX 11/ CNS) A 32-year-old woman was identified today as the mother of two little boys who were found on a busy street in South Los Angeles, but police were still trying to find her.
Police said Sidnicka Wilson is the mother of the boys -- one aged about 3 and the other about 18 months -- who were found by a passerby around 9 a.m. Monday in the 600 block of West Manchester Boulevard. Wilson remains missing and is being sought by police.
The children lived in a nearby apartment in the 600 block of East 85th Street, police said.
"Inside the apartment, it was in deplorable conditions, not fit for a child," LAPD Capt. Lillian Caranza told media sources. "On further investigation, they were able to determine that the two children resided at this location and that the 3-year-old, it wasn't the first time that he would wander into the liquor store to get a loaf of bread to feed himself and his sibling."
The man who found the children, Luis Rodriguez, told NBC4 he was working on his truck when he noticed the older boy riding a tricycle toward the road. Rodriguez said he then spotted the other child nearby.
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I stayed 14 years, do you realise how long that is? It was always threats, harsh words, shouting, domineering fits, especially in front of friends. He'd humiliate us, squeeze un and we had to get him things instantly, he'd snap his fingers and it absolutely had to be done right there right now, without a thank you or a please. He never had a penny for us, but he always managed to buy alcohol. I wasn't submissive, but I shut up because I knew he would take it out on the children.
Years went by and one day, he hit me. That's when the words "domestic abuse" came to me, that's when I said stop. I decided to leave him. Once I had found a flat, I ran away with our son.
A few months later, I picked up the phone and called them. I didn't think I could cope all alone and as soon as I got in touch with this association, I knew these people could help me. So I filed for divorce and we never went back home.
You can't love someone who abuses you; it's like some kind of addiction. I think that on a subconscious level we're terrified of loneliness and that's why we don't leave.
The other day, I heard my son singing, I hadn't ever heard him sing in 13 years. Just for that, I know I did the right thing.
I was born in Senegal and came to France at the age of 4, where I was raised just like in Africa, but since we all lived crammed in a council flat. We were three adults and twelve children living in a three-bed flat. I remember the beatings, always for unfair reasons. My father was very much influenced by the comments he had heard about "French Girls". When a man came to our house, we had to lower our eyes and dress in boubous to hide our curves. In Mali, women are born to honour their family, which means work, raise children and serve their husband like slaves.
I had no idea of what an excised woman looked like. The first time I went to see a gynaecologist, he said: "You're excised! They really botched you up!" I was 18 and I went ballistic! My mother admitted that I had been excised when I was two weeks old… But how can you get someone to 'butcher' your baby daughter with a razor blade? How can you do that to your baby? Even in the name of tradition or custom, it revolts me… They had stolen something from me when I was two weeks old, I wanted to die!
One day, I stood up to my father; I suffered the beating without crying, took my belongings and fled to a girlfriend's house. The school nurse and counsellor told me to file a complaint at the police station, and I also asked the Child Welfare office for help. I haven't lived at home for four years.
Today, I feel a lot better because no one beats me anymore. I have left "family and tradition" for a world where I can be myself. Everyday, I see how tough the world is, but it's beautiful because I am free and no one will ever control my life anymore. I want to live my own life and to follow my dreams. I will try to fulfil them, to be independent and become a real woman. I've decided to undergo clitoral reconstructive surgery lifetime issues with love and sexuality. I have managed to obtain official residency documents without my parents' help; I have found support among African women and that makes me feel alive.
I was 14 when my mother forced me to leave Morocco, she sold me for dirhams. I arrived in France in a Moroccan family with four kids, three girls and a boy. They burnt my passport the day I arrived. I was exploited 24 hours a day, I was cleaning, cooking, hand washing clothes, I was never allowed to go out, I slept in the attic where there was no heat, I was not allowed to use the shower, only cold water, no shampoo. One of the children called me "the bitch" and told the other kids they could hit me.
I tried to commit suicide three times: taking tablets, falling down the stairs and swallowing rat poison… One day, as the mother hit me once again, I couldn't stand it anymore, I escaped with only one shoe on, half-naked. By a phone box, I asked a man to help me, telling him I had no ID papers and that I was scared of the police, of everything. He advised me to call the police anyway. I spoke to them on the phone. They didn't believe me but still came to pick me up. They questioned me at the police station, they were really nice, I stayed there for two days. I lodged a complaint, not really knowing what I was signing, I could neither read nor write, I never went to school.
I found myself in foster care where a friend offered me to work for a Jewish family. I did not know what being Jewish was. I worked there for five years and that was a time of great joy. I contacted the association Voix d'Elles Rebelles and the Comite Contre l'Esclavage Moderne (Comity against Modern Slavery) who supported me. I met a psychiatrist and psychologists who helped me through.
Today I live with my aunt and I often go and see my Jewish family.
I am teaching myself how to read and write French. I would like to train as a pre-school assistant. I want to be independent, no more being scared of going out or meeting people. I want to trust.
I am the youngest of 10, my father is Algerian and my mother is French. My father kept his salary for himself and my mother raised us on child benefit. When my sisters got married, there were no more government money coming in and I was placed in foster care at the age of 11.
I came back home when I was 15, my mother had gone without leaving an address and my father didn't even feed me. I shop-lifted to eat, was arrested and ended up in court, but the judge let me go. I started selling myself for cocaine or heroin.
When I was 17, I was on parole: behind bars during the week and free at the weekends. I went to a rehabilitation centre in Lozère. I went back to my Dad's house in Lille, then lived in squats and with the French Salvation Army. For three years, I sold myself for drugs. I met the father of my first daughter, a Moroccan who put me up at his parents', but they kicked me out when I was pregnant. I ended up in a home for teenage-mothers, quit both drugs and prostitution and left this abusive man.
When my daughter was 3, I had to leave the foster home. I found a furnished flat in a red-light district and slipped back into drugs and prostitution. My daughter had just been taken away from me when I met Bernard and the Mouvement du Nid association. I successfully kicked my drug habit and was allowed to see my daughter at the weekends. I then met my second daughter's father, an Algerian who took me to Spain, where he prostituted me in a bar in Alicante. I called Bernard to get me out of there. He sent me to the Barcelona branch of Mouvement du Nid, where a nun helped me go home to Lille. But this man came back and I fell pregnant. I filed a complaint for procuring and he was jailed.
My sister took me in, I went to rehab and found a flat, still under legal supervision. In 2003, I met Lilian, who paid off all my debts and helped me cope. Since then, I haven't relapsed. I am still under methadone treatment, little by little I reduce doses and I think I have finally pulled through. I had a third daughter with Lilian and I now live with him and my three children. As soon as the youngest starts school, I will look for a proper job.
Between the ages of 6 and 9 my father committed incest with me, surrounded by silence, as he had asked me to keep it quiet and not to tell my mother.
My parents finally separated after I turned 11, incest became more violent, with sexual intercourse. My father prostituted me, exchanged me in adult networks, sold me to men…. He made me live at night. I was harmed physically and mentally, I considered suicide. At age 9, I suffered from eating disorders: anorexia, bulimia…My only concern was to escape from my father!
The only person who knew what was happening to me was my neighbour. One day, she told my mother and took me to the police station. I talked for hours, told them everything, I cried loads, I was subjected to their inquisitions, I nearly did not survive this ordeal.
That word, "incest", you never hear it, it doesn't exist in criminal law.
I would like a specific crime to be created for incest, for it to be introduced in our criminal laws because you cannot fight against a taboo without naming it first.
October 2003, Les Lilas, Seine-Saint-Denis: I'm cold in this gloomy 15 square meter-studio flat. My husband went to Africa, leaving me a 100 euro, to survive during his two-month absence. It's barely enough to feed on bread soaked in milk several times a day. I don't wash anymore. Does it matter? Who cares? I don't see the point in getting dressed anymore, I don't have any clothes anyway: what I'm wearing right now is all I have. My heart beats, but my sould has left my body, even the bruises don't hurt anymore. I can't feel anything anymore. I stay for days staring into space or at the TV screen… Nobody. Nothing. Only the humming sound of the TV.
Suddenly, I hear a woman's voice telling the story of my life: married by her parents at the age of 15, leaving Africa for France, a brutal husband who raped and hit her… She recalled the violence and the fear, every day and every night. She spoke of this man who turned her life into a nightmare that she never dared tell a soul about… I listen, crying, to this woman who says things I could have never thought possible, who explains how she escaped a life that wasn't worth living.
Something inside me is coming back to life; she finishes her story and I am no longer the same. I know I must leave, I too must find the strength, I am not alone anymore. The woman on TV talked about the people who helped and protected her, their name starts with an A and they work at the town hall, that's all I remember. Tomorrow, I will go!
Excerpt from the book "On m'a volé mon enfance" ("They stole my childhood"), Anne Carrière Publisher
I was abused physically and mentally by my mother between the ages of 5 and 14. We lived together as she had separated from my father when I was 3. I never saw another man in the house. She was two different persons: the loving mother and the violent mother. To protect myself I hid behind lies, never confided in anyone. It was a vicious circle, as soon as she saw me reacting to her violence she would hit me some more. Alcohol, tablets, drugs and loneliness created her violence.
One day, I physically replied to her violence, I was 14, she had accused me of stealing, she was drunk and looking for a fight. I had had enough, I slapped her… She locked me in my bedroom, banged her head on the walls: "I'm going to call the police and tell them you hit me". The police came, she went over the windowsill, threatening to jump, it was her usual blackmail: "I will throw myself out of the window". The police told me: "you have to be nice to your mum".
I went to see the social worker at my school, asking that all I was about to say would stay confidential, not a word to my mother of course. That night, it was the most violent she had ever been, the social worker had betrayed me, I felt abandoned, no adults could be trusted. My mother finally left me alone in the house and during the night she was arrested for being drunk in the streets, she told them everything, they came for me… Police station, hospital, juvenile police where my father met me and gave me the choice of coming to live with him.
My mother stopped drinking, we saw each other once or twice and she died a year later… She threw herself out of her bedroom window. I did not see an association for people in my situation but instead I followed a therapy involving art, music, painting, I was also an avid reader.
Today I'm in love, I am in a stable relationship with a lovely man and we are trying to build a family. I am happy I am controlling my anger, I am optimistic, I now have the choice not to do to my children what my mother did to me.


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August 22: An officer conducted a traffic stop on a driver who was suspected of driving with a suspended drivers license. The officer determined that the driver was in fact DWLS 3rd. The driver could not provide proof of insurance either. The driver was arrested, processed and released with a mandatory court date.
August 21: Officers received a report of two people possibly breaking into a vehicle in the 2400 block of Bell Road. Upon arriving, two people were contacted. Further investigation revealed that the two brothers had locked the keys in their father's truck, which was for sale. They were trying to get into the truck because they had a buyer. The brothers were able to provide officers with proof of ownership and identification. Officers cleared without incident.
August 21: A man came into this office to report a domestic violence assault. An officer investigated the incident, arrested the man's 35-year-old Blaine resident girlfriend, and booked her into Whatcom County jail.
August 21: An officer stopped a driver for speeding and found that the driver was DWLS 3rd and was also in violation of operation of a vehicle without interlock device. The 44-year-old Blaine resident driver was arrested and processed at the scene and released with a mandatory court date. The vehicle was released to a friend per owner of the vehicle.
August 20: Officers responded to a possible domestic dispute in the 700 block of F Street. Officers arrived and contacted two individuals who had been arguing and calling each other names. No assault had taken place and both parties were given verbal warnings for disorderly conduct.
August 20: A person entering the U.S. from Canada was found to be in possession of a small amount of marijuana. The 18-year-old Tacoma resident was also found to have alcohol in his possession. The man was issued a criminal citation and released with a court date.
August 20: Officers received a complaint of an "annoying" dog in the skate park, chasing the skateboarders as they tried to ride. The tan, female pit bull was taken to the police department. Officers were able to locate the owner, who came to the police department and picked up the dog. A warning was issued, and a copy of the report was forwarded to animal control.
August 20: A business in the 1800 block of Pipeline Road reported that three of their temporary employees were caught with stolen clothing items they took from an internal department of the company. The employees admitted to taking the items for their personal use and were cited to Blaine Municipal Court for theft. One of the suspects was booked into Whatcom County jail on an unrelated Bellingham warrant.
August 20: A landlord in the 300 block of Alder Street called to report that some evicted tenants had left five cats in their apartment. The Whatcom County Humane Society was contacted to retrieve the cats.
August 20: A hotel manager asked for police assistance when a woman refused to leave her room. By the time an officer arrived, the woman had agreed to leave. The woman was unable to fit all of her belongings into her car. An agreement was mediated by police wherein the woman could return later in the afternoon to retrieve some belongings that she had left in the hotel room. Officer cleared without incident.
August 20: Blaine police stopped a driver who was suspected for driving on a suspended license and confirmed that the driver in fact was wanted for her three unpaid tickets in Anacortes. The 28-year-old Blaine resident driver was unable to provide proof of insurance or registration. She was processed at the scene and released with a mandatory court date. The vehicle was released to a friend.
August 20: Blaine police found an abandoned unregistered vehicle in the roadway blocking a travel lane in the 800 block of Boblett Avenue. The vehicle was towed from the roadway by Crown Towing and will be kept there until owner can be located.
August 19: CBP officers turned over a car stereo and a camera that they had found lying in the bushes near the old railroad depot. The items were not listed in state or national databases as stolen. Both items were placed into Blaine police evidence for safekeeping.
August 19: A complaint was received about a dog that was barking in the 600 block of C Street. Responding officers found the animal in question but were unable to get an answer to their knock at the door of the homeowner. Animal control was advised.
August 18: Officers were contacted by a local business owner wanting to report a man attempting to dump trash into the businesses trash containers. The man that was attempting to dump his trash was camping in a residential yard two houses away from the business. The business owner was concerned that his garbage cans might be used again by the camper. Officers located the man later that evening and advised him not to use the garbage cans in the area. The man agreed and officers cleared.
August 18: A woman reported that an unidentified man had engaged her in conversation in the parking lot of a business in the 300 block of 3rd Street. During the course of the conversation the man began fondling his private parts. The woman left the area and reported the incident to police the next day. The man was not identified or located. He was described as a white male about 45-years-old with a long brown pony tail wearing baggy, torn, ripped blue jeans. Case closed.
August 17: An officer observed a suspicious person enter a vehicle in the area of the international border in the 200 block of B Street. The incident occurred late at night while vehicle was being operated without headlights. An officer stopped the vehicle and both subjects were taken into custody by Border Patrol agents.
August 17: An officer initially responded to an attempted theft of a car at a business. The matter was determined to be a civil matter between estranged spouses.
August 17: Police responded to a report of a person suffering a medical problem at a residence. They monitored the patient until medics arrived.
August 17: A neighbor requested a welfare check for an elderly person who was screaming for no apparent reason and appeared to be having a medical problem in the 5500 block of Peregrine Way. Blaine officers and North Whatcom fire personnel contacted and evaluated the resident. No medical assistance was needed; it appeared that the screaming was associated with consumption of alcoholic beverages.
August 17: A driver attempting to enter the U.S. through the Peace Arch Port of Entry was referred for a secondary inspection. During the inspection it was found that the driver had a suspended Washington State drivers privilege. The 29-year-old B.C. resident was issued a criminal citation for DWLS, and the vehicle was impounded.
August 17: An officer was dispatched to a report of two teenagers who were skating and riding bikes in the roadway dangerously close to cars in the 1600 block of Peace Portal Drive. The officer contacted the two boys, and one admitted riding on the road. A warning was issued and the complainant and the boys' parents were contacted.
August 16: A manager at a grocery store reported that they had intercepted a teenager attempting to shoplift. An officer arrived and interviewed the 15-year-old Birch Bay resident. He denied trying to steal, and explained he was about to put the items back once he realized he did not have the money to pay for them. His explanation appeared to sugar coat the fact that he had placed the carrot cake, energy drink and ice cream into his daypack and zipped it shut before being contacted. The manager trespassed the lad and he was released to his grandfather.
August 16: A citizen reported their dog stolen from their yard in the 4400 block of D Street while they were away on vacation. The dog ended up at the humane society facility as an abandoned animal. The case is under investigation.
August 16: Officers investigated a complaint that a woman assaulted a teenage boy by throwing a can of soda pop at the 15-year-old neighbor in the 600 block of E Street. The boy did not suffer any permanent injury. The case was referred to the city prosecutor and a citation was issued by summons.
August 16: Blaine police assisted U.S. Customs at the Peace Arch crossing with a subject who was suspected driving with a suspended Washington driver's license. The police confirmed that the driver was DWLS 3rd and arrested the 25-year-old B.C. resident and released him with a mandatory court date. The vehicle was released to traveling companion who held a valid drivers license.
August 15: A business in the 1300 block of H Street reported two persons were walking around their parking lot looking into vehicles. Officers arrived and contacted the two subjects sleeping near a bench. One of the subjects had three full bottles of beer in his pockets and three more lying on the ground next to him. A complainant reported those same beer bottles were missing from inside her vehicle parked nearby. Officers arrested the 30-year-old Birch Bay resident for vehicle prowl and theft 3rd. He was released with a criminal citation.
August 15: Police received a 911 call from a wife reporting that she could not calm down her angry husband. Officers spoke to both husband and wife. No crime had occurred and the husband was taking appropriate measures to remove himself from a stressful environment. Case closed.
August 15: An individual reported an erratic driver crossing the fog line and center line multiple times. Officer located and stopped the vehicle in the 1000 block of Mitchell Avenue. The driver was found to have a suspended driver's license as well as two warrants for her arrest. The 42-year-old Blaine resident was arrested and booked into Whatcom County Jail.
August 15: Blaine police observed two vehicles drive onto the beach at the spit to clam. Drivers were advised that the vehicles were not allowed on the beach and had to be moved. Vehicles were moved in lieu of citations.


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One Night Only screening of new video from Berlin
Thomas Solomon Gallery is pleased to present "Sister Sister City," a program of new video works from Berlin. The event will take place on Saturday September 18, 2010 beginning at 9:00 PM at Thomas Solomon Gallery@Cottage Home, 410 Cottage Home Street, Chinatown, Los Angeles.
"Sister Sister City" is a video screening of works brought to Los Angeles from Berlin, two cities in continual states of renewal. The population of Berlin is constantly transforming and there are few areas in the city where one will not see construction cranes shaping the skyline. Also exhibiting a quickly evolving cityscape, Los Angeles (via Hollywood) is perpetually reinventing and borrowing from itself in the production of media. Using popular culture as a point of departure, each artist in the screening investigates methods of repetition such as sequels, copies, remakes, versions, and covers. The works implement imitation and duplication through the use of performativity and appropriation. They hold up a mirror, however faded, distorted, or far away, to LA's image-media diaspora.
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Petra Cortright, Martin Kohout, Oliver Laric, Lindsay Lawson, Dafna Maimon, Ferhat Özgür, and Anne de Vries
"Sister Sister City" is organized by Lindsay Lawson, a Berlin-based artist formerly living and working in Los Angeles.


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Plans for Birch Bay connector road delayed
Plans for a mile-long commuter road connecting Birch Point Road to Semiahmoo Parkway will likely be put on hold after a local developer said he was not able to secure financing for the project.
Bellingham developer Fred Bovenkamp said because of a slow winter season for real estate sales along with the subprime mortgage crisis, he has not been able to secure the $5 million in financing needed to build the road, which Whatcom County required before the completion of the first phase of his Horizon at Semiahmoo development.
As a result, he has asked for help from Whatcom County executive Pete Kremen with the initial costs of construction, which would be repaid after some of the homes are constructed, he said.
"We're certainly not looking for a free lunch," he said. "We're looking to get it put in sooner than later. And as we get some of our tracks sold and home sites bought, we will be in a position to further be able to develop and get the financing necessary to repay that section of the road."
County officials said for at least 20 years, transportation and land use plans have indicated the need for a connector road between Birch Point Road and Semiahmoo Parkway, which connects with Lincoln Road at the base of the hill. Plans for the connector road gained momentum when the Whatcom County Council adopted the Birch Bay Community Plan in 2004, according to a 2006 memo to Birch Bay Village residents from former Whatcom County public works director Jeff Monsen.
Bovenkamp had agreed to build the proposed connector road as part of the mitigation requirements for his Horizon at Semiahmoo project, a 650-home high-end development with approximately 100,000-square feet of commercial space slated just south of Blaine's Semiahmoo neighborhood.
Bovenkamp has already spent $1.5 million on the construction of the intersection in addition to improvements on Birch Bay Drive and Birch Point Road.
When completed, county officials hope the new road will establish a major arterial for Birch Bay residents to access the freeway via Lincoln Road, which is also slated to be improved and lengthened to connect with Blaine Road, according to the county's transportation improvement plan.
Officials, along with residents, had discussed connecting Lincoln Road further through to Loomis Trail Road but later decided that was not an option because of the ecological impacts of building a road near California Creek and surrounding wetlands.
Meanwhile, Doralee Booth, co-chair of the Birch Bay Steering Committee's transportation subcommittee, said while many residents are unhappy about the new intersection, the larger issue at hand is the lack of a commuter road for the nearly 2,500 residents of Birch Bay Village who want quick access to I-5.
But some Birch Bay Village residents aren't convinced. Last December, an ambulance slid partly off the roadway during a snowstorm with a patient on board, after leaving another accident.
Booth, however, said that's not exactly a cause for concern. Booth said she had talked with local law enforcement officers who said the day the ambulance slipped off the road, there were 57 other accidents throughout Whatcom County.
Further, she said rumors that the ambulance slid off the road into a nearby pond, a catch basin for water coming from the intersection required by the Department of Ecology, were untrue.
"It was a dangerous day," she said. "The other thing is that everyone who lives in Birch Bay has to drive down a hill to get to the bay. There's no way around it."
Booth acknowledged that part of the problem is the intersection is currently being used in a way that it won't be used in the future.
"Right now, it's basically a corner and you can't turn a corner at 35 miles per hour," she said.
Whatcom County road engineer Joe Rutan agreed. Rutan said the idea was to connect Birch Point Road to Lincoln to provide an alternate route and improve pedestrian safety along Birch Bay Drive.
"People aren't perceiving it as an intersection," he said. "They're seeing it as a through-road. But when it's done, I think people will be very pleased."
Whatcom County public works director Frank Abart said after a barrage of letters and emails from Birch Bay Village residents questioning the safety of the new intersection, the county has hired the Everett-based consulting firm Perteet Engineering to complete a study of the intersection's safety, the results of which should be available by the end of next month.
Until then, he said he would not comment on the safety of the road but that he was not surprised by the responses of some Birch Bay residents who criticized the intersection.
"It's tough to have progress without any kind of inconvenience," he said. "It's the nature of the beast."
When asked how many accidents have occurred at that particular intersection since its construction, Abart said there was only one, and that he is unsure if the ambulance incident should even be considered an accident since it was only the vehicle's tire that left the road.
Joe Bates, a spokesperson for Pete Kremen's office said while a funding decision is likely months away, officials have been meeting with Bovenkamp and David Syre, president of the Trillium Corporation, who sold Bovenkamp the 200-acre property, and that they plan to explore those options.
Either way, Bates said the road will not be abandoned. "We still intend to have the connector road built one way or another," he said. "Of course, we would like the developer to build it, but if not we're trying to develop other options to see that it gets built."


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Sleep - A Good Way to Manage Your Appetite and Weight?
Did you know that losing sleep may increase your appetite and as a result your weight? Several studies have been published in recent years have looked at the relationship between sleep loss, weight and appetite and should serve as a guide for how we value sleep. According to one study published in The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition this year, one night of reduced sleep subsequently increased food intake and, to a lesser extent, estimated physical activity-related energy expenditure in healthy men. These experimental results, if confirmed by long-term energy balance measurements, suggest that sleep restriction could be a factor that promotes obesity. The study observed two groups of men - half of which slept for 8 hours, while the other half got 4 hours of sleep, and found that the men who got less sleep consumed 22 percent more calories than those who slept for 8 hours. A University of Chicago study last year also arrived at similar conclusions when they included women in the study. Such sleep restriction may have been a bit extreme, but it is also not altogether uncommon in our society and is a pattern deemed the "royal route to obesity" by Eve Van Cauter, PhD, who conducted the Chicago study. Some researchers have found that hormone function is to be blamed for how short sleep duration affects our appetite and weight. Another study published by the National Center for Biotechnology Information found that feelings of hunger as well as plasma ghrelin levels are already elevated after one night of sleep deprivation, whereas morning serum leptin concentrations remain unaffected. The researchers explained that their results provide further evidence for a disturbing influence of sleep loss on endocrine regulation of energy homeostasis, which on the long run may result in weight gain and obesity . Image photographer: Daniel St.Pierre


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