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What are the local conventions for using Stack Overflow to recruit participants for empirical studies?
We are soon beginning a study on how software developers think about trustworthiness, and think Stack Overflow would be a great place to find people. However we don't want to annoy people with spam!
Initially we would like to focus on a small number of developers and do an interview, e.g., via Skype, phone, or email.


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Crown Prince Sultan bin Abdulaziz received at his residence this evening Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Al-Hariri. During their meeting Crown Prince Sultan congratulated Prime Minister Al-Hariri on the confidence bestowed upon him by the Lebanese peoples and wished him success in his post and further progress in Saudi-Lebanese relations.
The prime minister expressed his congratulations and joy over the recovery of Crown Prince Sultan and his return to the Kingdom. The Prime Minister lauded the Kingdom's support for his country.


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The splendid interiors at The Waldorf Hilton include the Homage Grand Salon Restaurant, and Palm Court, a glass-roofed marble terrace used for private functions, several large conference rooms and a 24-hour business center, and banquet facilities.
LA Fitness manages the hotel's fitness facilities, which feature an indoor swimming pool surrounded by classical columns and a sauna, exercise studio, and gym with free weights and cardiovascular and resistance machines. Changing rooms have lockers and showers.
Family friendly features include connecting rooms. Complimentary wireless Internet is available in public areas. 9 meeting rooms are available for business travelers.
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- Breakfast available (surcharge)
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Available in all rooms: Wireless internet access ( GBP 15 per 24-hour period ), Wired internet access ( GBP 15 per 24-hour period )
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Homage Grand Salon Restaurant - Located in the original 1908 Grill Room, its Grade II listed features are characteristic of the Louis XVI style. The restaurant has 95 seats with a feature bar and walk-in wine cabinet. The new design blends the existing fabric with contemporary elements. The restaurant serves classical dishes as well as some more contemporary favorites, a grill selection and daily regional European specials. The wine list is European. The Homage Grand Salon also serves The Waldorf's famous Afternoon Tea with exquisite cakes and pastries and a wide selection of teas.
Good Godfrey's Bar and Lounge - Good Godfrey's serves lunch. In the evening cocktails are complemented by a variety of food plates.
Homage Private Bar - The Homage Bar has a timeless charm, a perfect venue for any private occasion, ideal for family gatherings or corporate entertaining. The Homage Private Bar also serves The Waldorf's famous Afternoon Tea with exquisite cakes and pastries and a wide selection of teas.
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I am looking for a free web server stress testing application/tool/website. I have used Paessler Webstress, it is good enough, but only free with restricted functionality.
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Have you looked at Apache JMeter? It is software.
I am not aware of any legal stress testing tools such as a web-app, though if you are desperate, you can try renting those spambots machines (joking).
There are a couple of services that do single/double retrieval with detailed statistics. This might be useful to do while you are using JMeter to simulate the rest of the load. See, for example, WebPageTest.
As for me, I prefer LoadImpact.
Badboy is an application I have used in the past to do some load testing, Its a bit complicated but extremely powerful.
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EPA's rules may force power failures
posted at 7:35 pm on September 6, 2011 by Tina Korbe
It was easy last week, when President Obama scrubbed an expensive proposed environmental regulation, to wonder whether the world had turned right side up. Without doubt, Obama made the wise decision when it came to proposed new ozone regulations. As Mitch McConnell said on the Senate floor today, the president created more jobs by reversing one regulation than he ever will with a speech. But as I wrote this weekend, only if Republicans continue to hammer away at other job-killing regulations will this have been a first step worth celebrating — otherwise, it's just a chance for Obama to tout a job-creation gesture and a supposed spirit of compromise.
May I humbly suggest one such regulation to next spotlight for elimination? The Cross-State Air Pollution Rule, when combined with another proposed regulation (the Utility Maximum Achievable Control Technology or "Utility MACT" rule), will cost the country $17.8 billion a year and put 175,000 jobs at risk each year, as well. Now, that's nowhere near as expensive as the proposed ozone regulations — which would have cost the country up to $90 billion a year, with as many as 7.3 million jobs lost by 2020 — but I'd say 175,000 newly employed is nothing to sneeze at. Plus, the two regulations would increase electricity rates by more than 23 percent in some areas of the United States that rely on coal for electricity. In addition, consumers will be paying more than $8 billion a year in higher natural gas prices because of these proposed rules.
But just in case you're still not sold that the Cross-State Air Pollution Rule ought to be repealed before it takes effect Jan. 1, the Electric Reliability Council of Texas provides another reason (ERCOT released this information Friday — the same day Obama announced his reversal of the ozone regs):
Rolling blackouts will be much more likely in Texas next summer should new Environmental Protection Agency rules go into effect on Jan. 1 as planned, according to a report released Thursday by the state's main electric grid manager.
The rules, which industry says caught it by surprise when they were unveiled in July, could lead to the shuttering of as much as 1,400 megawatts of coal-fired power plants capacity in Texas during the summer and up to 6,000 megawatts during other times of the year, according to the study by the Electric Reliability Council of Texas.
ERCOT has declared power emergencies several times this summer as record demand met unplanned power plant outages. Plant operators say the long, hot summer has meant more wear-and-tear due to longer operating hours for power plants.
Predictably, the EPA dismissed the ERCOT study, saying the state of Texas could find a way to meet the requirements of the new rule "without threatening electricity reliability or the continued operation of coal-burning units." But agency representatives didn't bother to substantiate that claim.
It's not as though coal companies don't want to do their part to help the environment. Consider this statement from Steve Miller, president and CEO of the American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity: "The EPA is ignoring the cumulative economic damage new regulations will cause. America's coal-fueled electric industry has been doing its part for the environment and the economy, but our industry needs adequate time to install clean coal technologies to comply with new regulations. Unfortunately, EPA doesn't seem to care."
In other words, energy companies would appreciate at the very least a more sensible, economically sensitive timeline. No doubt the president senses this. Politically speaking, the president has to show he's serious about jobs and one way to do that is to abandon the ideologically-driven regulations that threaten whatever anemic recovery the nation has experienced. But he probably won't stay on the anti-regulation bandwagon for long, as that might cost him among one of his own constituencies. Kevin Book and Chase Hutto, principals in the energy policy consulting firm Clearview Energy Partners, probably predicted accurately when they wrote: "For a president pinned between a green base and an anemic recovery, the best political outcome may be for the White House to stand behind EPA rules as either Congress or the Courts intervenes to delay them."
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Yesterday I had the privilege of losing my Holy Symbol to a story point. (We all lost everything but our clothes.) How can I determine what powers, if any, I can use without my Holy Symbol?
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You can use (almost) all of your powers when disarmed and without implements.
ImplementDDI and WeaponDDI powers don't prevent you from using them if you lack the appropriate tool: they simply allow you to get a bonus when you have the appropriate tool.
When using an Implement (keyword) power you make an unmodified ability check (usually Wisdom-based for Implement Cleric powers) against the target defense (as per definition of attack roll).
When you hold a magical implement (e.g.: a holy symbol), you get to add the implement's enhancement bonus to both attack rolls and damage rolls with Implement powers (and a damage boost in case of critical hit).
Also note that you can take advantage from any implement you are proficient with (not only holy symbols). If your Cleric took the Arcane InitiateDDI feat, then he can use even magical staves, wands and orbs to improve his Cleric powers.
A non-magical implement does not provide any bonus (except for flavor or feat support) unless it is a superior implement. Superior implements cost more but provides a varied array of advantages (properties similar to those of weapons).
Lack of proficiency with an implement you are using means that you gain no advantage from its superior or magical bonus and properties.
When using a Weapon (keyword) power while unarmed, you make an unmodified ability check (usually Strength-based for Weapon Cleric powers) against the target defense (usually AC).
When you wield a non-improvised weapon you get a proficiency bonus to attack rolls with Weapon powers.
When you wield a magical weapon, you also get the weapon's enchantment bonus to attack rolls and damage rolls with Weapon powers (and a damage boost in case of critical hit).
Lack of proficiency with a weapon you are wielding means that you don't apply the weapon's proficiency bonus and gain no advantage from its magical bonus and properties.
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I have shared in this column before how much I enjoy spending warm spring and summer days at the beach, immersed in a good book. It might be a librarian peculiarity, but part of the enjoyment comes from the planning of what to read, as well as the actual reading experience. Here are some upcoming releases that will be added to my 2012 spring reading list:
A departure from his usual legal thrillers, "Calico Joe" by John Grisham (out April 10) is a story billed by the publisher as a poignant novel about "fathers and sons, forgiveness and redemption, all set in the world of Major League Baseball." Although baseball serves as the framework of the story, one does not need to be an avid fan to appreciate the themes of love, loss and triumphs of this novel.
Known for his superb depictions of place and the enchanting lyrical quality to his writing, Ron Rash brings to life the Appalachian Mountains during World War I in "The Cove" (out April 10). Described as a "tragic love story with pointed social commentary" by Booklist, Rash's newest is sure to please his longtime admirers and new readers alike.
Fans of David Sedaris, Chelsea Handler and Tina Fey will not want to miss "Let's Pretend This Never Happened" by Jenny Lawson (out April 17). The author and creator of www.thebloggess.com [1], recounts many hilarious and mortifying stories from her unusual life. Lawson shares her childhood in rural Texas, where her eccentric taxidermy-loving father used to surprise her and her sister by bringing live and dead animals into the family's home; her high school years as an outcast; and her enduring relationship with her unflappable husband.
Picking up right where 2011's "Only Time Will Tell" ended, "The Sins of the Father," by Jeffrey Archer (out May 8), begins with the start of World War II and Harry Clifton joining the Merchant Navy. Shortly after his enlistment, his ship sinks in the Atlantic and Harry and several other sailors are rescued by a passing American cruise ship. When one of the other sailors, Tom Bradshaw, dies that night, Harry assumes his identity, thinking he can escape the troubles of his past by becoming someone new. However, Bradshaw's life comes with its own problems and unable to prove his true identity, Harry might be stuck in a worse situation than the one he was trying to escape.
Jeff Shaara returns to the Civil War after forays into World Wars I and II with The Battle of Shiloh in "A Blaze of Glory" (out May 29). Based on meticulous research, Shaara takes you right onto the battlefield by depicting one of the bloodiest and most important battles of the Civil War through the viewpoints of the generals, officers, enlisted and conscripted men on both sides of the war as they fight on the Western Front.
In addition to the above titles, many new books are coming out by perennial favorite authors this spring, including:
April 17: "The Innocent," by David Baldacci
April 24: "The Wind Through the Keyhole: A Dark Tower Novel," by Stephen King
May 1: "The Serpent's Shadow" (The Kane Chronicles, Book Three), by Rick Riordan, and "The Last Boyfriend: Book Two of the Inn BoonsBoro Trilogy," by Nora Roberts
May 8: "In One Person," by John Irving
May 15: "Stolen Prey," by John Sanford
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Hinkle joins WLU wrestling staff
WEST LIBERTY - West Liberty University Hall of Famer Branden Hinkle has joined Coach Brian Davis's staff as assistant wrestling coach for the 2012-13 season.
Hinkle replaces former assistant Mitch Smith, who accepted the head coaching position at Alderson-Broaddus.
The addition of Hinkle to the staff reunites a pair of national champion teammates from West Liberty's powerhouse wrestling teams of the mid-1990s. Davis was the 1994 NAIA national champion at 177 pounds while Hinkle claimed the 190-pound national title the following year.
Hinkle, who was inducted into the WLU Hall of Fame last month, was a rare two-sport champion during his time at West Liberty and went on to carve out a professional career in a third sport.
A three-time NAIA All-America wrestler, Hinkle followed up his 1995 national title with a runner-up finish in 1996. He also excelled on the tennis courts for the Hilltoppers, winning a WVIAC tennis crown in 1995.
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RICHMOND - Steubenville resident Johnny DeLeonardis netted a hole-in-one Thursday on Blckmoor Golf Club's 137-yard 12th hole using an 8-iron.
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Movember is the global men's health charity engaging men to grow and women to support the Mo (moustache) for the 30 days of November. Through the power of the moustache, awareness and funds are raised for men's health, specifically prostate and testicular cancer initiatives.
The growth of a moustache on an otherwise bare lip sparks both public and private discussion; Mo Bros effectively becoming a walking, talking billboards for men's health for 30 days, raising funds along the way.
Participation is really easy - men and women register at Movember.com to grow or support a Mo. Men start November 1 clean-shaven and grow their moustache for 30 days, getting friends, family and colleagues to donate to their Mo-growing efforts. Women are very important to the Movember campaign. Mo Sistas get involved in the same way as Mo Bros, except they don't grow a Mo. They register at Movember.com, start a team, recruit the men in their lives to participate, donate, fundraise, and plan and participate in events.
Movember, along with our men's health partners Prostate Cancer Foundation and the LIVESTRONG Foundation work to ensure that Movember funds are supporting innovative, world-class programs in three areas: awareness/education, survivorship and research.


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The 5 Creepiest Advertising Techniques of the (Near) Future
#2. Going Undercover
So what can a person do in this environment? Dismiss all ads as lies and spin? How would such a person make their buying decisions? Well, by trusting their peers. They'll roll their eyes at a vodka ad on TV, but if their buddy declares it to be "the shit" 30 times in an evening before passing out on the kitchen table, there's a good chance they'll be convinced it's worth trying.
After all, it's not like marketers are going to, you know, hire people to pretend to be your peers and recommend things to you, right?
What They're Doing:
Oh, you know better than that by now. They call it undercover marketing. This is why virtually every product on Amazon.com, no matter how shitty, has that one really articulate, wildly positive review. This is why even horrible movies will have an early "leaked" review turn up on AintItCool.com, echoing all of the points from the marketing campaign ("Stallone is back ... and better than ever!").
The marketers hire plants to generate buzz anywhere they can, in user reviews, on messageboards, in chatrooms ...
If You Think It's Bad Now ...
... at bars, in clubs and parties. That's right, undercover marketing is oozing into the real world.
So, say an attractive girl walks up to you in the street, tells you she's from out of town and asks if you would take a picture of her in front of a local landmark. As your brain desperately races to come up with something witty to say to her, you raise the camera to take the picture and notice that it's actually pretty damn nice. They just got you. That girl was hired by Sony to promote the new camera you're holding.
Sound paranoid? Well it turns out Sony has been doing it for years.
That type of advertising will only get more and more common and people will become more and more resistant to traditional ads. If you thought those "Hey, you're cute! Come check out my webcam!" spam emails were irritating, wait until you start running into their real-life equivalent in bars.
It's the ultimate evolution of advertising, to make the ads completely indistinguishable from regular human interaction. These will be regular folks on the street or sitting at their computers. Or maybe they'll even get you in on it. You can sell your next-door neighbor something and then he'll turn around and sell you something else right back. Marketers want to do the unthinkable: They want to make all of us one of them.
#1. Getting In Your Head
So, how much more invasive can marketing get? They watch what we buy and eat and read and wear. What are they going to do, follow us into the shower?
What They're Doing:
Hey, good idea! Moen gave a group of people money to allow them to watch them shower for weeks, to examine their every move (the study hilariously concludes that "Consumers frequently have only one free hand to use in the shower ... ").
But at least those people knew they were being watched. Companies like EnviroSell have the job of lurking around stores and carefully watching people's habits as they shop (one conclusion they spotted: when one customer accidentally brushes the ass of another customer, they tend not to buy anything).
Well that's about as creepy as it gets, right? Where else could they possibly stick their nose?
If You Think It's Bad Now ...
Well, how about inside your skull? Tracking our habits is all fine and good, but for ad men it's not enough. They need to know, not just what you buy, but why you buy it.
Behavioral economists and scientists have teamed up to perform brain scans on volunteers to figure out just what makes the "buy it now" part of your brain light up. They want to know which neurons in your brain fire when ads are effective and which neurons fire when they're not.
At that point, all advertisers need to do is find out what subconscious cues it takes to make their product slip right past the part of you that thinks through buying decision before reaching for your wallet. Though it seems like they could have saved a few million dollars and just stuck some boobs in the ad, but, hey, it's their money.
Nathan Birch also writes the invasively cute webcomic Zoology.
For more examples of terrifying technology, read David Wong's rundown of The Next 25 Years of Video Games. Or, for a simpler piece of technology you should be scared of, watch this video about The REAL Reason Guns are Dangerous.


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From left to right: Dan Loughran '86, chair of the Roundtable Athletic Association; Frank Vafier '74, Geneseo Foundation board member and chair of Shaping Lives of Purpose: The Campaign for Geneseo; Robert Bonfiglio, vice president for student and campus life; Mike Mooney, director of intercollegiate athletics and recreation; Christopher C. Dahl, SUNY Geneseo president; Carly Annable '13, incoming Student Association President; Ed O'Hara, landscape architect with Clough Harbour and Associates, stadium architect; Dan Strang, distinguished service professor of economics and NCAA faculty athletics representative; and Tom Judson, chairman and CEO of The Pike Co., construction partner.
GENESEO, N.Y. - The State University of New York at Geneseo has broken ground on a new 2,000-seat lighted athletic stadium, scheduled for completion in 2014.
The new facility will comprise two fields and support men's and women's lacrosse, men's and women's soccer, women's field hockey and intramural programs. It also will be a venue for other campus events, including future Geneseo commencement ceremonies.
"I can't recall a more exciting time at Geneseo," said Geneseo athletic director Mike Mooney. "This stadium is the last piece of the puzzle in our effort to produce a great athletic program. It will allow us to even the playing field in attracting top student-athletes as well as all prospective students considering Geneseo."
The new stadium will be constructed on the site of the existing Holcomb Building (the former campus elementary school) at the intersection of Route 63 and Park Street. Holcomb will be razed to accommodate the stadium, which will have synthetic turf fields and include a scoreboard, press box building, pavilion, team rooms and a spectator support building.
"This is an important milestone for our campus and my anticipation will soon turn to the day our Blue Knights take to the field for the first time in their new home," said Christopher C. Dahl, president of SUNY Geneseo. "Athletics offer a glimpse into our values, principles and priorities that define Geneseo and what we mean by 'student athlete.'"
Dan Loughran, a 1986 Geneseo graduate and chair of the Roundtable Athletic Association, praised the commitment and dedication of those who supported the vision for the stadium.
"This occasion truly marks the start of a new era in the history of the Blue Knights athletic program," said Loughran. "It signals the beginning of yet another exciting transformation of the Geneseo campus."
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Also involved in the groundbreaking were Robert Bonfiglio, SUNY Geneseo's vice president for student and campus life; Dan Strang, distinguished service professor of economics and NCAA faculty athletics representative; Frank Vafier, a 1974 Geneseo graduate and Geneseo Foundation board member who currently chairs Shaping Lives of Purpose: The Campaign for Geneseo; Carly Annable, incoming president of the Geneseo Student Association; Tom Judson, chairman and CEO of The Pike Co., construction partner; and Ed O'Hara, landscape architect with Clough Harbor and Associates, stadium architect.
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Rare helmet now on display at Heritage Museum
Published: Monday, August 18, 2014 at 4:30 p.m.
Last Modified: Monday, August 18, 2014 at 4:30 p.m.
An unusual artifact of Civil War history — hunted by a local collector for 40 years — was added last week to a display case inside the Civil War room of the Henderson County Heritage Museum in the Historic Courthouse on Main Street.
A dress helmet, known as the Model 1863 Light Artillery "Ringgold" Shako, is "one of very few known to have survived to this point in history," according to a news release from the museum Monday.
Local historian and retired District Court Judge David Fox said he searched for 40 years to find a Shako like this one, and it took a few more months to refurbish it.
The sesquicentennial relic, on loan from Fox's extensive collection of war memorabilia, now sits in prominence at the museum, the first to be seen in the Civil War exhibit. The black helmet is adorned with a brass eagle emblem darkened with age and spouts a new plume and artillery red cords as it once did when its kind were worn by some of the infantry's elite.
"Fox, who has been collecting Civil War relics since he was a young boy, explained that the Ringgold Shako is named in honor Capt. Samuel Ringgold, who created the Light Artillery in 1838. The obsolescent style of the helmet harkens back to that era, though it was only issued for actual use from 1864 until 1872," according to the release.
"According to Fox, the light ('flying' or 'horse') artillery was the elite combat arm of the U.S. Army during the Civil War. It could gallop with cavalry on a march and swing into position to deliver rapid, accurate fire within a matter of moments."
"The light artillery was the most expensive combat arm at the time," Fox said, because every man required a horse, extensive training and expensive artillery. Formed with a battery of 60 guns, it was the "most glamorous unit" to come out of the Mexican-American War, with the likes of Stonewall Jackson and Braxxton Bragg in its ranks, he said.
Fox had searched for a shako to add to his collection for about 40 years, attending Civil War relic shows across the country, but shakos are rare.
"I've only seen three of them out there for sale," he said.
The first two were too expensive, but the third one proved the charm.
Fox found the shako intact and a bit larger than average at a Mansfield, Ohio Civil War Relic Show in March. He purchased it with a giddy glee.
Fox suspects that this one survived in such good condition because it was unusually large.
"Most items of apparel that have survived are either very small or very large," he said, since the more average-sized pieces were typically in greater demand.
Fox had the helmet refurbished by an expert in Arizona who was able to replicate the plume and cords. "The rest of the fabric and the hardware are original," according to the release. "The cords ... are artillery red and they attached the shako to the wearer's body to prevent loss."
"Museum Board Chair Carolyn Justus expressed appreciation to Judge Fox for his willingness to let others enjoy and learn from knowledge he has gained over his whole life," according to the release. "It's one thing to read about history, but it's quite another to actually see what the soldiers wore, the weapons and other equipment they used, and their personal items — like letters and photographs."
"It makes the history come to life, and we are so thankful to Judge Fox for all he has done for the community through the Museum," Justus said. "Not only do we have his Civil War relics, but also items from all the wars since."
The shako sits in the company of a Union infantry private's uniform, an early Confederate Stars and Bars flag and several other relics from the Civil War.
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Cardinals Hall of Famer Stan Musial Dies at Age 92
It had already been a somber day for baseball when many of its biggest names gathered for an annual awards banquet Saturday night in New York City. Earlier in the day, news broke that Earl Weaver, the longtime Baltimore Orioles manager and scourge of umpires, had died.
But the announcement that interrupted the Baseball Writers' Association of America dinner drew audible gasps and moans from a hotel ballroom packed with star players and executives.
Such was the reverence the industry had for Stan "The Man" Musial, who died Saturday at the age of 92. He was one of the greatest hitters of all time, a Hall of Famer and the most adored figure in the storied history of the St. Louis Cardinals. But the reaction to his death—in Missouri, in New York and elsewhere—reflects far more than Musial's skill.
It is a testament to his reputation as one of the true gentlemen in the history of the game. Upon Musial's retirement in 1963, then-Major League Baseball commissioner Ford Frick said, "Here stands baseball's perfect warrior. Here stands baseball's perfect knight."
Forty-eight years later, a frail and grayed Musial received similar praise from President Barack Obama, who awarded him the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation's highest civilian honor. In a 2011 ceremony at the White House, the president said, "Stan remains to this day an icon, untarnished, a beloved pillar of the community, a gentleman you'd want your kids to emulate."
His on-field achievements were praiseworthy enough. In 22 big-league seasons, all of them in St. Louis, Musial led the Cardinals to three world championships, won seven batting titles and was named National League Most Valuable Player three times. Despite an unorthodox, corkscrew-style swing, he finished with 3,630 hits, currently the fourth most in baseball history, and drove in 1,951 runs, the sixth most ever.
An outfielder and first baseman, Musial also displayed exemplary patience as a hitter. He struck out just 696 times in 12,717 career plate appearances. His nickname derived from Brooklyn Dodgers fans who would groan when he came to the plate, "Here comes the man."
It was a measure of the fear Musial instilled in opponents. But in time, the nickname came to represent more than just his stature as a hitter. After his playing career ended, Musial went on to become a Cardinals executive and one of the great ambassadors of the game.
Outside Busch Stadium, the Cardinals' home ballpark, there is Stan Musial Drive, Musial Plaza and two separate statues of Musial. The Cardinals set up a memorial around one of the statues not long after news of his death broke Saturday night. A photo published by the St. Louis Post-Dispatch showed fans already gathering to pay homage.
In many ways, he was a perfect fit for a laid-back, baseball-loving Midwestern town. He lacked the flamboyance of some of his contemporary stars, let alone the baseball stars of the present. Removed from the nation's largest media markets, he was never as famous as Joe DiMaggio or Ted Williams. But he was every bit their equal.
There was a folksy quality to his personality. He was known to play "Take Me Out to the Ballgame" on his harmonica. He and his wife, Lillian, who died in May 2012, were married for 71 years.
Musial reportedly had been in declining health for years. According to the Cardinals, he died at his home in Ladue, Mo., on Saturday evening surrounded by family.
"Stan will be remembered in baseball annals as one of the pillars of our game, with his many successes on the diamond, the passion with which he played, and his engaging personality," Hall of Fame President Jeff Idelson said. "The mold broke with Stan. There will never be another like him."
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Pregnancy Stress, Schizophrenia Linked?
Feb. 4, 2008 -- Children born to women who suffer the death of a loved one during their first trimester of pregnancy may be at increased risk for developing schizophrenia, new research shows.
The study is not the first to suggest that a mother's psychological state can influence her unborn child's brain development, but it is the largest, involving nearly 1.4 million Danish children followed for decades.
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The schizophrenia risk was still quite small in the children of women who experienced the death of a family member early in pregnancy, and the findings need to be confirmed.
But researchers say the study adds to the evidence that severe stress early in pregnancy -- in this case the death of a parent, sibling, spouse, or child -- may negatively impact fetal brain development.
"We did not see this association in the months before pregnancy, or after the first trimester," says study co-author Kathryn M. Abel, PhD, of the University of Manchester.
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Abel and colleagues from the University's Center for Women's Mental Health Research examined data from a comprehensive, nationwide Danish health registry, which recorded about 1.38 million births in the country between 1973 and 1995.
The same registry was used to determine if mothers who gave birth during this time had first-degree relatives who died, received a diagnosis of cancer, or had a heart attack or stroke during their pregnancies.
Roughly 22,000 women experienced the death of a close relative during pregnancy, and about 14,000 had a relative treated for a life-threatening illness.
A total of 7,331 schizophrenia cases were identified among Danes born between 1973 and 1995 over at least two decades of follow-up.
Being born to a mother who had a close relative die during her first trimester was found to be associated with a 67% increased risk for schizophrenia.
But a similar death up to six months before conception or at any other time during pregnancy did not appear to elevate risk, nor did having a seriously ill relative during pregnancy.
Abel tells WebMD that the research team plans to repeat the study using the Swedish health registry, which is more than twice the size of the Danish one.
The newly published study appears in the February issue of the journal Archives of General Psychiatry.
"We also want to expand the research to look for other mental health outcomes," Abel says. "I think it is highly likely that if we look at a broader spectrum of psychiatric disorders we will find that those are increased as well."


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Yaya forecasts wide open title race
- 26 July 2013 09:02
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Yaya Toure has predicted that there will be four or five teams in contention for the Premier League crown this season.
The Ivorian was speaking on the eve of Saturday afternoon's Barclays Asia Trophy final against Sunderland at Hong Kong Stadium.
City overcame South China FC and some treacherous conditions in the Far East to book this clash with the Black Cats and the African Player of the Year is ready to seize this first shot at silverware in the 2013/14 season.
"It was a good match against South China," the 30-year old said, "We tried to repeat what we did in training and what the manager told us to do and I think we played well.
"The manager is encouraging us to keep possession of the ball and when we lose it, to put pressure on the opponents and to always try to play in their half.
"The pitch was not very good, but to play in difficult conditions is not so bad at all, we have to adapt and play the best possible football."
An encounter with Premier League opposition in the upcoming final offers the perfect pre-season workout for Manuel Pellegrini's men as City prepare for what Yaya believes could be a wide open title race.
"The Premier League is not easy. We know this year is going to be very exciting and very difficult," he said.
"I think this year it's not going to be one team, it's going to be four or five teams competing for the title because the Premier League is one of the top leagues in the world."
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Saturday's meeting with Paolo Di Canio's men also offers the opportunity to perhaps a chance to see some of City's new recruits in action.
Alvaro Negredo's eye-catching cameo from the bench was one highlight of the South China victory and Yaya believes that his quartet of new teammates can light up the Premier League next season.
"We have four new players coming in and I hope they adapt very quickly to the Premier League because we have a great squad and a fantastic manager and I hope this year is going to be good for us," he declared.
"They have just started pre-season and I hope they can get going very soon. We have a very good squad now; every player could play in the first eleven."
With the opening Premier League game against Newcastle United just 24 days away, Toure is eager to put any disappointments or regrets from last season behind him to focus on what could be another historic campaign for City.
"Last season was not too bad at all for us, but United was just too good," he admitted.
"I think this year we need to work very hard in every aspect and try to improve our game.
"It is also important that we enjoy the football and to play well for the fans."
Kick-off at Hong Kong Stadium is at 13:30 BST. You can follow live updates from the Far East on our official Twitter account, read a full match report after full-time and get all of the post-match reaction here on mcfc.co.uk.


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MADISON, Wis. -- Bradley wrapped up a five-game road swing with a 2-0 loss at Big Ten Conference foe Wisconsin in the team's final road game of the 2012 season Tuesday. The Badgers collected seven hits in the first three innings and scored single runs in the second and third innings in the victory.
Both squads left runners in scoring position in the first inning, before Wisconsin (31-15 overall) pushed a run across in the bottom of the second inning to take a 1-0 lead. Michelle Mueller had a one-out single and later scored on a Marissa Mersch single and Bradley (19-28 overall) error on the play as the Badgers took an early 1-0 advantage.
The Braves left the bases loaded in the top of the third after sophomore Bailiegh Basham (Mattoon, Ill./Mattoon/Lake Land C.C.) drew her team-leading 32nd walk of the year and Wisconsin capitalized on a leadoff double in the bottom half of the frame.
Whitney Massey led off the bottom of the third with the first of her two doubles in the game and gave the Badgers a 2-0 lead when she scored on a double off the bat of Stephanie Peace.
Bradley came up empty after a leadoff single in the top of the fourth and the Braves were unable to get things going after two-out singles in both the fifth and seventh as Wisconsin extended its home win streak to 11 games with the 2-0 victory.
Senior Jackie Roth (Hickory Hills, Ill./Stagg) and sophomore Mariah Cole (Springfield, Ill./Chatham Glenwood) were both 2-for-3 at the plate, combining for four of BU's five hits. Sophomore Madeline Lynch-Crumrine (Sedro-Woolley, Wash./Sedro-Woolley) fell to 10-17 with the loss, striking out two and walking one in five innings. Meghan McIntosh earned the win for Wisconsin, improving to 6-5 with the complete game shutout.
Bradley closes out the 2012 regular season with a three-game series against Southern Illinois Saturday and Sunday at Laura Bradley Park. Saturday's noon doubleheader will be alumni day and BU's five seniors will be recognized in a pre-game ceremony prior to Sunday's noon contest.


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And here's the official analysis done by NOAA, using many of the same satellite images, but also including many full-resolution radar satellite images that the public did not have access to (the US doesn't operate any civilian radar satellites, so the radar images were purchased from foreign companies that don't allow NOAA to "redistribute" the images):
The folks at ROFFS (Roffer's Ocean Forecasting Service) also analyzed satellite images and other oceanographic data throughout the duration of the spill, and just released their preliminary cumulative analysis. We don't have it digitally yet, but we've clipped their graphic to roughly show the same area in our two Google Earth-based maps above:
Overall, the NOAA and ROFFS analyses are in general agreement. The total NOAA oil-slick footprint covers 46,299 square miles (119,915 km2). SkyTruth's analysis is similar except for our inclusion of possible oil sheen entrained in the Loop Current and entering Florida Straits late in May, before a large clockwise eddy (Eddy Franklin) got organized and effectively kept the slick bottled up the the northern Gulf for the remainder of the summer. The total oil-slick footprint in our analysis is 68,000 square miles (176,119 km2).


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- Zoom in Motion Picture Yes
Self Timer2sec / 10sec
Playback ModeNormal Playback, Slideshow, Filtering Playback(Picture Only, Video Only, 3D, GPS Area, Travel, Category, Favorites), Calendar Playback
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- Show Histogram Yes
- DPOF Print Setting / Set Protection Yes / Yes
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- Copy / Title Edit / Text Stamp Yes / Yes / Yes
- Cut Animation Yes
- Video Divide Yes
- PictBridge Support Single / Multi / All / Favorites / DPOF
- OSD language English, Spanish
LCD Monitor3.0"(7.5cm) TFT Touch Screen LCD Display (460K dots), AR Coating / Field of View : approx. 100% / AUTO Power LCD mode, Power LCD mode
- Built-in-Flash Auto, Auto/Red-eye Reduction, Forced On, Slow Sync./Red-eye Reduction, Forced Off, / 0.6 - 6.4m (Wide/ISO Auto), 1.0 - 3.3m (Tele/ISO Auto)
- Recording Media Built-in Memory, SD Memory Card, SDHC Memory Card, SDXC Memory Card
- Built-in-Memory Approx. 12MB
- Microphone / Speaker Stereo / Mono
- Interface miniHDMI, AV Output (NTSC), USB2.0 High speed
PowerLi-ion Battery Pack (3.6V, Minimum: 895mAh) / AC Adaptor (Input: 110-240V AC)(Included, connect with USB cable, playback only)
- Battery life (approx.) 260 pictures (CIPA Standard)*1
- Included Software LUMIX Map Tool / PHOTOfunSTUDIO 8.1 Premium Edition / Adobe Reader
- Standard Accessories Battery Pack, AC adaptor, USB Cable, Hand Strap, DVD (Map Included)
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- NOTE *1 / Recording conditions by CIPA standard / - CIPA is an abbreviation of [Camera & Imaging Products Association]. / - Temperature: 23 oC (73.4 oF)/Humidity: 50%RH when LCD monitor is on. / - Using a Panasonic SD Memory Card (32 MB). / - Using the supplied battery. / - Starting recording 30 seconds after the camera is turned on. (When the optical image stabilizer function is set to [ON].) / - Recording once every 30 seconds with full flash every second recording. / - Rotating the zoom lever from Tele to Wide or vice versa in every recording. / - Turning the camera off every 10 recordings and leaving it until the temperature of the battery decreases. / *2 / - These are standard times taken at a temperature of 23 oC (73.4 oF) and a humidity of 50%RH. / - The time available for recording varies depending on the environment, the interval between recordings, and the manner of use. / - Actual recordable time is the time available for recording when repeating actions such as switching the power supply [ON] / [OFF], starting/stopping recording, zoom operation etc. / *3 / - Maximum time to record motion pictures continuously with [AVCHD] is 29 minutes 59 seconds. (excluding when [GS] or [SH] is set) / - Motion pictures in [MP4] can be recorded continuously for up to 29 minutes 59 seconds. Also, motion picture recorded continuously in [MP4] is up to 4 GB.
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I am a professional photographer who is seriously considering switching to the Lumix mirrorless cameras. Does Panasonic have, or can you suggest, a web site that demonstrates how professional photographers are successfully using the Lumix professional cameras?
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1 ½ cups soy flour blend
2 tablespoons sugar
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¼ teaspoon salt
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Combine soy flour blend, sugar, baking powder and salt in mixing bowl. Add onion and bacon; stir to coat. In separate mixing bowl combine, margarine, soy milk and eggs. Add to dry ingredients; stir only until dry ingredients are mixed. Pour into greased muffin pan or liners. Bake at 400 degrees for 18 to 20 minutes until wooden pick inserted comes out clean. Makes about 12 muffins.


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A 3-D carbon nanotube mesh enables rat spinal tissue sections to reconnect in culture.
Regenerative Cardiomyocytes Found
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Specialized cardiac cells in the mouse heart appear to be the long-sought-after proliferative heart cells.
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Specialized cardiac cells in the mouse heart appear to be the long-sought-after proliferative heart cells.
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An epigenetic variant of cytosine is stable in the genomes of living mice, suggesting a possible expansion of the DNA alphabet.
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Actin—the bones of the cell—has a preference for swirling into a counterclockwise pattern.
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With the deletion of a single gene, female Japanese rice fish can produce sperm.
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Researchers tweak gene expression in chicken embryos that may have been crucial to the evolutionary transition from dinosaur noses to bird bills.
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Cytoskeleton specialist Alan Hall was best known for unpacking the roles of Rho GTPases.
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A retrovirus embedded in the human genome may help protect embryos from other viruses, and influence fetal development.
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A Harvard team shows how cells label and recognize proteins for degradation.
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Submissions are officially open for this year's Top 10 Innovations contest.
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Scientists find a common genetic variant in mothers that decreases the chance of successful pregnancy.


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SCA Names Two to Senior Posts
(ARLINGTON, VA) January 22, 2015 – The Student Conservation Association (SCA), the national leader in youth service and stewardship, has announced two senior appointments:
Wildlife advocate lives his dreamsJackson Hole News & Guide
Stacy Noland fell in love with the Pacific Northwest when he was living in Chicago in the 1970s.
Wondering what to read for his second-grade book report, Noland was watching a Looney Tunes episode that mentioned Puget Sound. That was when he decided to read about the ocean inlet and...Read more
Exelon Foundation and SCA Renew Partnership
(CHICAGO, IL) January 21, 2015 –More than 250 underserved high school students in Chicago and Philadelphia will enhance local parks, gain important career skills and earn a paycheck through an acclaimed summer jobs program conducted by the Student Conservation Association (SCA)...Read more
Secretary Jewell and NPS Director Jarvis join SCA for MLK Day Event
(WASHINGTON, D.C.) January 19, 2015 —- US Interior Secretary Sally Jewell and National Park Service Director Jonathan B. Jarvis joined more than 400 Student Conservation Association volunteers at Anacostia Park in Washington, DC on Monday, Jan. 19, to commemorate Martin...Read more
Naylor reflects on career with the National Park ServiceBismarck Tribune
MEDORA, N.D. — Valerie Naylor says she was not pursuing a career when she volunteered at Theodore Roosevelt National Park, but she found one.
"It was life-changing," she said of time she spent in the park with Student Conservation Association, a nonprofit aimed at creating the...Read more
Engaging the Next Generation of Conservation Leaders
The Student Conservation Association joined forces recently with other advocates of youth service and stewardship at the U.S. Department of Agriculture headquarters in Washington, DC for an event titled "Films about Engaging the Next Generation of Conservation Leaders." The presentation featured...Read more
Rafael Rosa named Vice President for Midwest Region
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Jan. 10, 2011 -- Parents who smoke around their preschool-aged children may increase their kids' risk of having higher blood pressure at that young age compared to children who have parents who do not smoke, according to research published in Circulation: Journal of the American Heart Association.
The study, performed by German researchers from the University of Heidelberg in Germany, is the first to show that environmental nicotine exposure can increase the blood pressure of children as young as 4 and 5 years old. And researchers say smoke exposure is likely to have a similar effect on the blood pressure of children in the U.S.
The study included 4,236 preschool children, aged 4 to 7years old, from the Heidelberg Kindergarten Blood Pressure Project, who were examined from February 2007 to October 2008. Researchers gathered questionnaires from 4,185 parents on their smoking habits. Parents who smoked: 28.5% of fathers, 20.7% of mothers, and 11.9% for both parents.
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Height, body mass index (BMI), sex, and prenatal risk factors affected children's blood pressure, according to the study. Obese children were almost twice as likely to have a high-normal or elevated systolic (the top number) blood pressure.
Girls had lower systolic blood pressure than boys, research showed.
Children born preterm or with low birth weight had higher systolic blood pressure values than children born at term, and children whose mothers smoked during pregnancy had higher systolic blood pressure than those who were not exposed during pregnancy. The study confirms findings from previous studies that these factors independently are associated with higher blood pressure in early childhood.
However, the unique finding of this study was the new evidence that exposure to tobacco smoke from smoking parents may raise the blood pressure of kids as young as 4 and 5 years old. Kids exposed to nicotine and smoke at home had higher systolic and diastolic blood pressure than kids who were not exposed.
Children whose parents smoked had a 21% greater chance of having systolic blood pressure in the top 15%, even after researchers adjusted for the other risk factors mentioned above.
"Smoking adds to other risk factors," Giacomo D. Simonetti, MD, says in a news release. "Average blood pressure increased in proportion to the cumulative number of risk factors present."


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A woman in Sydney who was preparing food for her two daughters unwittingly destroyed $15,000 worth of Australian dollars her husband had placed in the oven for safekeeping.
After selling his Toyota Supra, the man hid his profits in the oven expecting it would be safe from harm since his wife seldom baked. Unfortunately, his plan backfired when his wife decided to heat up some chicken nuggets for their kids, and all the plastic money promptly melted.
"It was everything I had," the unidentified husband told ninemsn. "I've got nothing to my name. That money was supposed to go towards my mortgage."
He attempted to convince the bank to accept the cash as-is, but was turned away. "I was quite insulted. I asked her to send it to the [Reserve Bank of Australia], I told her 'please it's all I got' but she didn't want to," he said.
But all is not lost: After a phone call from ninemsn, the bank had a sudden change of heart and issued an apology, saying it will do whatever it can "within the guidelines" to help recover as much money as possible.
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To the editor: I feel the need to respond to all the letters and the publicity concerning the rape case that has captured the local headline....
this Toronto Sec Knight thing is a farce. They have threatened students, censored their FB event page of any opposing opinion, spread rumors and lies about the city and the rape case, given out personal information ("dox") of those who dare oppose them, hacked a web site that has nothing to do with this, and harassed alumni with hundreds of menacing phone calls. This group used a slanted NY Times article (by a reporter whom Reno threatened) to involve an free-lance occupy reporter from Pittsurgh, and rile up those around the city who have always been resentful of our schools and teams. They use a poor victim to promote their thinly masked hate and intimidation. They are petty criminals in this for their own amusement. As their reporter, Mr Carpenter, posted on his Twitter pg, "in it for the (laughs).." They are NOT anonymous and the are being exposed!
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What writing style should be used if you are attempting to write a book for the general public between the ages 9 through 25?
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That's a pretty wide spectrum.
9-year-olds who actually care to read have a decent vocabulary-- you'd be surprised what they can handle if they want to. So you don't need to dumb your book down terribly. But at the same time don't be using words like "deontological." There's just no point, unless it's a crucial word which an entire section of your book revolves around, in which case you should go out of your way to define it. Otherwise, it adds nothing because so few people will know what it means. But that goes without saying, I think.
In short: when you have to choose between the elaborate/fanciful way and the clear way of saying something, always take the clear way. Clarity is king.
Don't have long blocks of text, like two-thirds of a page or more. Nothing turns people off more than a huge block of text. In novels for an older audience, it's okay. For most 9-year-olds, it's going to be a problem. Try to break things up. If this is a narrative book, dialogue is good. It does a great job of breaking up the sometimes monotonous flow of the author's narration by letting the characters get in a few words instead.
That's generic advice, though. If you wanted to be told how to develop a personal writing style, of course nobody can answer that for you. Styles vary enormously from one author to the next, and from one type of book to the next, and from one genre to the next, and one language to the next. You have to look at other books similar to what you want to write, and see how they did it, then develop your own voice over time.


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LITTLE ROCK, AR. (May 4, 2012) - A vascular anomalies expert at the Arkansas Children's Hospital Research Institute (ACHRI) and the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) is the inaugural recipient of a new grant from Liam's Land, a non-profit that champions research into lymphatic malformations.
Gresham Richter, MD, a surgeon and researcher on the ACH campus, will receive the $20,000 Kathryn Barton Hobbs Medical Grant each of the next two years to continue his investigations into what causes lymphatic malformations, as well as finding treatment options and prevention strategies. Dr. Richter is also an associate professor of Pediatric Otolaryngology in the UAMS College of Medicine.
"Children with lymphatic malformations deserve more answers and a cure," Richter said. "We are excited to have Liam's Land as a resource to help kids affected by this disorder."
Lymphatic malformations are clusters of channels and cysts that fill with a type of fluid that is difficult for the vascular system to process, resulting in intense swelling. They typically develop in the neck or underarm areas, though they may affect any part of the body. Researchers have yet to find a cause of lymphatic malformations, though there is evidence they begin during fetal development. More than 1 in 6,000 children are born with lymphatic malformations, and they usually undergo dozens of surgeries before adulthood.
The program where Richter works at ACHRI is one of only a few in the world dedicated to identifying a cure for lymphatic malformations and other vascular anomalies affecting children.
"Identifying what drives lymphatic malformation growth is vital information. If Dr. Richter and his lab can identify what promotes this development, there is great hope for finding an antidote to stop growth and cure this challenging disease," said Janet Steffen, RN, founder and executive director of Liam's Land Organization (501c3). The Steffens' son, Liam, was born with lymphatic malformation in 2010. Just over 2 years old, Liam has already endured multiple surgeries and MRIs. The organization's first grant is named in honor of Kathryn Barton Hobbs, who lost her life to lymphatic malformation more than 10 years ago.
Arkansas Children's Hospital is the only pediatric medical center in Arkansas and one of the largest in the United States serving children. The campus is celebrating 100 years of providing Care, Love and Hope in 2012. Over the past century, ACH has grown to span 29 city blocks and house 316 beds, a staff of approximately 500 physicians, 80 residents in pediatrics and pediatric specialties and more than 4,000 employees. The private, nonprofit healthcare facility boasts an internationally renowned reputation for medical breakthroughs and intensive treatments, unique surgical procedures and forward-thinking medical research - all dedicated to fulfilling our mission of enhancing, sustaining and restoring children's health and development. For more information, visit www.archildrens.org.
ACHRI provides a research environment on the ACH campus to meet the needs of the UAMS faculty. Research scientists at ACHRI conduct clinical, basic science, and health services research for the purpose of treating illnesses, preventing disease and improving the health of children everywhere.
UAMS is the state's only comprehensive academic health center, with colleges of Medicine, Nursing, Pharmacy, Health Related Professions and Public Health; a graduate school; a hospital; a statewide network of regional centers; and seven institutes: the Winthrop P. Rockefeller Cancer Institute, the Jackson T. Stephens Spine & Neurosciences Institute, the Myeloma Institute for Research and Therapy, the Harvey & Bernice Jones Eye Institute, the Psychiatric Research Institute, the Donald W. Reynolds Institute on Aging and the Translational Research Institute.
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