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Used in many MMORPG's to indicate that you will be away to go to the restroom.
Dude1 "Hey dude, sorry, but I need to take a bio break because it feels as if I have a turtle-head poking out."
Dude2 "Dude, please, just say your going bio. I don't want a picture dude."
Dude2 "Dude, please, just say your going bio. I don't want a picture dude."
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Computer term: "Basic Input Output System" Stores information about the computer and what it can do. After its done, it passes control to the MBRBoots up like this: "Power" -> "Power Box" -> "BIOS Chip" -> "Hard Drive" -> "Master Boot Record" -> "Operating System"
My BIOS got fried in that storm.
por Alex 16 de Janeiro de 2004
Also known as a profile, BIO is short for biography and is a term used to describe a brief description of a person.
My Age is on my bio page.
por Jak Dude 30 de Abril de 2005
Basic Input Output System
I must flash the bios of my motherboard
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Usually when people, mostly girls, are in the mist of fight. And one of the girls is like "B.I.O. (Bring It On)!" Don't piss off that girl right there! She will lash out.
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her D.V.M. from Michigan State University. She completed her residency
training in laboratory animal medicine and her Ph.D. in Human Genetics
at the University of Michigan. Dr. Albertelli joined the Stanford Department
of Comparative Medicine in 2009. Her research interests include genetic
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Bouley, DVM, PhD Professor, Donna Bouley, DVM, PhD Professor, received her D.V.M. from the University of Tennessee and received her Ph.D. in 1995 in Comparative and Experimental Medicine (University of Tennessee) studying the immunopathology of Herpetic Stromal Keratitis in mouse models. She obtained Diplomate status in the American College of Veterinary Pathologists in 1996, and served on the faculty at Texas A & M CVM until recruited to the Department of Comparative Medicine at Stanford in 1997. She is the Director of Necropsy Services for the VSC, and her collaborative research interests include phenotypic characterization of genetically engineered mice, host-pathogen interactions, and pathology of minimally invasive cancer treatments. Dr. Bouley founded and mentors Stanford's community of Pre-vets and because of her extraordinary contributions to undergraduate education and to the quality of student life, was honored in 2007 as the Lloyd W. Dinkelspiel recipient, and in 2011 was appointed as the Kleinheinz Family Fellow in the Bass University Fellows in Undergraduate Education Program.
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animal medicine residency training at the Walter Reed Army Institute
of Research (WRAIR). Dr Felt is a Diplomate of both the American College
of Veterinary Preventive Medicine and the American College of Laboratory
Animal Medicine. Prior to arriving at Stanford, Dr. Felt served as
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Research Unit No. 3 in Cairo, Egypt. His research interests include
infectious diseases, particularly zoonoses, and exploring techniques
which promote the health and welfare of laboratory animals
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Joseph Garner, D.Phil., Associate Professor, received his doctoral degree from the Department of Zoology at the University of Oxford, Great Britain, where he studied the developmental neuroethology of stereotypies in captive animals (1995-1999). His postdoctoral research in animal behavior and well-being was undertaken at UC Davis (1999-2004). He served as an Assistant (2004-2010) and an Associate (2010-2011) Professor of animal behavior and well-being in the Department of Animal Sciences at Purdue University, where he also held a courtesy appointment in the Department of Speech, Language and Hearing Sciences (2009-2011). Dr. Garner joined the Department of Comparative Medicine at Stanford in 2011. Dr. Garner's research interests include the development of refined methods in behavioral research; abnormal behaviors in animals (including barbering and ulcerative dermatitis) and their relationships with abnormal behaviors in humans; mouse well-being and enrichment; and the scientific impact of well-being problems in lab animals. Dr. Garner serves, or has served, as a council member for the International Society for Applied Ethology, an Editor for Applied Animal Behavior Science, a Special Topics section editor for the Journal of Animal Science, on the AAALAC Board of Trustees, on the SCAW Board of Trustees and on the Scientific Advisory Board of the Trichotillomania Learning Center.
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Dr. Green received her D.V.M. from Louisiana State University and completed
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Prior to joining the faculty at Stanford, she was a clinical instructor
in Large Animal Medicine at the Ontario Veterinary College, University
of Guelph, and subsequently completed a Ph.D. in Neuroscience from
the University of California, Davis. Dr. Green is a Diplomate of the
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Shaul Hestrin, PhD Professor,received his Ph.D. degree in Physiology from University of California, Los Angeles. Prior to coming to Stanford, Dr. Hestrin held faculty appointments at University of California, San Francisco and University of Tennessee, Memphis. The main interest of Dr. Hestrin is to understand how the properties of neocortical neurons, the circuits they form and the inputs they receive give rise to neuronal activity and behavior. His approach includes behavioral studies, in vivo imaging and in vivo whole cell recording in behaving animals and optogenetic methods to activate cortical neurons as well as cortical afferents.
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Jennifer L. Johns DVM, PhD, Assistant Professor, received her D.V.M. from the University of California at Davis. After several years in veterinary practice, Dr. Johns returned to the University of California at Davis to complete residency training in clinical pathology, becoming a Diplomate of the American College of Veterinary Pathologists in 2007. Dr. Johns continued at the University of California at Davis to earn a Ph.D. in Comparative Pathology. Dr. Johns joined the Department of Comparative Medicine at Stanford University School of Medicine in 2011.
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M. Nagamine, DVM, PhD Assistant Professor received
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residency training in Laboratory Animal Medicine at the Massachusetts
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Medicine at Stanford in 2008. Prior to entering veterinary school, Dr.
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Davis (1979), obtained postdoctoral training in endocrinology, developmental
genetics, immunology, and molecular biology of the mouse at the Memorial
Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center (NYC), Institut Pasteur (France), and the
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School of Medicine. His research focuses on using mouse models to study murine and human infectious diseases. These colloborative studies include dengue virus, adeno-associated virus, coxsackie virus, enterohepatic helicobacters, campylobacters, and anaplasma.
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Cholawat Pacharinsak, DVM, PhD Assistant Professor and Director of Anesthesia, Pain Management, at Stanford University's Department of Comparative Medicine; he is a Diplomate of the American College of Veterinary Anesthesia and Analgesia (DACVAA). He received his DVM from Chulalongkorn University, Thailand and trained in an Anesthesiology/Pain Management residency program and received his Master's degree at Washington State University. He completed his PhD in Comparative and Molecular Biosciences from the University of Minnesota. Prior to arriving at Stanford, Dr. Pacharinsak was a faculty member in Anesthesiology and Pain Management at Michigan State University and Purdue University; and served as a Clinical Specialist at UCLA's David Geffen School of Medicine. His research focuses on understanding the neurobiology of cancer pain, chemotherapeutic-induced peripheral neuropathy, acute surgical pain models, and methods to improve clinical pain management e.g. sustained release analgesics supporting refinement. Research methodology includes electrophysiologic and behavioral techniques.
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And those deaths only represent the ones CL could track down.
Department of Corrections spokeswoman Scheree Lipscomb says no one at the department can explain the oversight. Commissioner Jim Wetherington quit in February, and neither a new commissioner nor a temporary replacement has been named.
"I don't know, because I wasn't here, why they didn't report them," Lipscomb says. "We know that [past administrations] were required to."
After reviewing the files on the three deaths, Lipscomb found the 22-year-old's death initially was attributed to a heart attack. Later, after the GBI investigation showed a baton had in fact been pressed against the inmate's throat, cutting off his air, the Department of Corrections must have failed to update the records, Lipscomb says.
As for the murder victim, his death certificate lists the cause of death as blunt force trauma to the head with "delayed consequences." "Because it said 'delayed consequences,' maybe they weren't sure if it was really that," Lipscomb says. Apparently, the murder charge against the cellmate wasn't enough to dispel the confusion surrounding "delayed consequences."
As for the 45-year-old inmate who died after being subdued by guards, Lipscomb says his death certificate states he died of a heart attack. So officials didn't have to count that one as being "caused by another."
Lipscomb initially told CL the state would alert the Justice Department to two of the three deaths. She then called back and said since the deaths occurred seven or more years ago, the state wasn't going to report them after all.
A Justice Department employee, who asked not to be named, says the Georgia Department of Corrections is obligated to 'fess up to the deaths. He said he was appalled at the idea of the Justice Department sitting on incorrect statistics because the Georgia agency won't update them.
Another Justice Department employee, policy analyst Christopher Mumola, says it's the state's responsibility -- not the feds' -- to make sure the number of prison deaths is correct. "We can't initiate a correction," he says.
At least six more inmate homicides have occurred since 2001 under the watch of the Georgia Department of Corrections. (The Justice Department has not yet released its state-by-state totals for those years). Three of the victims were killed by their cellmates at a single prison: Phillips State.
Phillips houses mentally ill inmates or ones with behavioral problems, meaning there's a higher standard placed on guards' training than even at maximum-security pens. Bunking two mentally disturbed convicts in intimate proximity poses obvious challenges to their safety. Phillips creates even more dangerous situations by locking inmates in psychotic rages in cells with other inmates. Guards are alleged (in lawsuits) to have ignored the inmates to the point that inmates killed -- not once, which might be considered an exception, but three times, which clearly cannot be.
Department of Corrections officials refused to comment on homicides at Phillips or at Autry because both prisons are facing lawsuits. In court documents filed in response to one of the lawsuits, however, the state attorney general's office excuses the deaths: "All prisons have incidents of inmate-on-inmate violence," according to the court papers. "Defendants have taken reasonable measures to reduce inmate-on-inmate violence."
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Five years into Lee's sentence, he was moved into what's called the J-Building at Autry State Prison in Pelham, about 40 miles north of the Florida border. Autry is Georgia's third-largest prison, and J-Building is the highest-security of its six dorms. The dorm is split into two sections. J-1 houses inmates who've acted up and have gone through a disciplinary hearing. Inmates there live in isolation, in accommodations more commonly called "the hole."
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This is on my menu for Thanksgiving. I have made this before and it is so wonderfully delicate in flavor--perfect warm up to a larger meal, and perfect Fall recipe from Cooking Light.
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- 2 bosc pears, cored and thinly sliced
- 170.09 g packagefresh Baby Spinach
- 44.37 ml water
- 29.58 ml good balsamic vinegar
- 4.92 ml sugar
- 24.64 ml extra virgin olive oil
- 7.39 ml stone ground mustard
- 3.69 ml salt
- 2.46 ml fresh coarse ground black pepper
- 59.14 ml freshly shaved parmigiano-reggiano cheese
- Combine pear slices and spinach in large bowl.
- Combine water and rest of ingredients (except cheese), stirring with a whisk.
- Drizzle dressing over salad, and toss gently to coat.
- Sprinkle with cheese.
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I made this as the main part of a very light lunch. It was delicious. The dressing was perfect for the pear/spinach combo. The only thing I did differently is used about 1/4 of the amount of oil, for personal preference. Thanks for the great recipe!
Wonderful combination of fruit, greens and dressing. I left off the parmesan cheese because the entree had parmesan in it. It was still delightful without.
Excellent salad. The dressing has just the right amount of flavor without overpowering the pears or the spinach. I will make this again.


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This Week In Dallas Music History: Like Others, Stumptone's Chris Plavidal Moves to Brooklyn
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EUGENE, Ore. — There were times, a couple anyhow, when the short-handed Utah Utes gave the sixth-ranked Oregon Ducks a real battle at Autzen Stadium. By the time it was over, though, there was a whole lot of quacking going on.
Led by Heisman Trophy candidate Marcus Mariota, who completed 19 of 26 passes for 288 yards and three touchdowns, the Ducks eventually overpowered the Utes 44-21 on Saturday.
"That was a very good football team we played today. They had playmakers," said Utah coach Kyle Whittingham. "Give them a lot of credit. Give them all the credit. They did a nice job."
The loss overshadowed the first career start of Utah quarterback Adam Schulz and the return of tight end Jake Murphy from a broken wrist suffered on Oct. 3. Schulz started in place of Travis Wilson, who didn't make the trip because of an unspecified head injury.
Whittingham said he would expound on Wilson's situation Monday when he has more information, but noted it was an ongoing issue throughout the week.
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Schulz, who completed 13 of 30 passes for 181 yards and one touchdown (to Murphy), got off to a sluggish beginning. His first drive at the helm ended with an interception when a pass intended for Sean Fitzgerald was tipped by Oregon's Troy Hill and picked off by teammate Terrance Mitchell.
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Objective. The aim of this study is to assess the relationships of cardiovascular risk factors with verbal learning and memory in patients with schizophrenia. Methods and Design. cross-sectional study. Inclusion Criteria. Diagnosis of schizophrenia according to the DSM-IV-TR criteria. Data Collection. Sociodemographic information, clinical characteristics, anthropometric measurements, blood tests, and episodic memory using the California Verbal Learning Test (CVLT). Analysis. A multivariate analysis using multiple linear regressions was performed to determine variables that are potentially associated with verbal learning and memory. Results. One hundred and sixty-eight outpatients participated in our study. An association was found between the metabolic syndrome (MetS) and memory impairment on measures of verbal learning, and short- and long-term memory. Among the different components of MeTS, hypertriglycerides, abdominal obesity, and low HDL cholesterol were the only factors associated with memory impairment. Alcohol dependence or abuse was associated with a higher rate of forgetting. Conclusion. Our findings suggest that MetS and alcohol use may be linked with memory impairment in schizophrenia. These findings provide important insights into the interdependencies of cardiovascular risk factors and cognitive disorders and support novel strategies for treating and preventing cognitive disorders in patients with schizophrenia.
Schizophrenia is characterized by significant abnormalities in multiple neurocognitive processes [1]. Cognitive impairment, especially in verbal learning and memory [2], is considered to be a primary reason for functional disability even after successful treatment and reduction of psychotic symptoms [3]. This area of investigation demands thus attention. Identification of potentially modifiable determinants of verbal learning and memory in schizophrenia is of importance for developing effective interventions that can improve the cognitive performance of patients. Interestingly, evidence suggests that cardiovascular risk factors affect cognitive functions in older patients [4–7]. Moreover, the prevalence of metabolic syndrome (MetS) is higher in individuals with schizophrenia than in the general population, with an overall rate ranging from 30 to 35% [8]. Atypical or second-generation antipsychotics are especially associated with obesity and other components of metabolic syndrome, particularly abnormal glucose and lipid metabolism [9]. Individuals with a psychiatric disorder consume approximately 46% of all cigarettes smoked in the United States [10]. Recent studies also suggest that 20–50% of schizophrenia patients have a comorbid alcohol use disorder [11]. Unfortunately, data are scarce on the links between cardiovascular risk factors and verbal learning and memory in schizophrenia [12, 13]. The most recent work suggested that hypertension and a body mass index >25 were associated to memory impairment [13]. Therefore, in the present study, our aim was to investigate the relationships of MetS, alcohol use disorder, and tobacco use with verbal learning and memory in patients with schizophrenia.
The study evaluated all prospective patients attending daytime hospital hours in our university and psychiatric hospital (Sainte-Marguerite University Hospital, Marseille, France) over a period of 12 months, from January 2011 to December 2011. All patients provided written informed consent. The inclusion criteria were the following: being over 18 years of age, having a diagnosis of schizophrenia according to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, 4th ed. (DSM-IV-TR) criteria [14], and speaking French as one's native language. The exclusion criteria included the following: reduced capacity to consent, diagnosis other than schizophrenia on Axis I of the DSM-IV, decompensated organic disease (i.e., appearance or exacerbation of organic disease which does not allow the patient to have a clinical interview), mental retardation (Intelligence Quotient <70), and primary neurologic conditions such as traumatic brain injury, cerebrovascular accident, or transient ischemic attack. All clinical assessments are performed in routine practice in our university psychiatric center. According to the Article L1121-1, Loi n°2011-2012 du 29 décembre 2011 - art. 5, ethical approval is not needed in France for researches in which all actions are performed and products used routinely. This study was conducted in accordance with the Declaration of Helsinki and French Good Clinical Practices.
Clinical assessments were performed by a multidisciplinary team including a psychiatrist, a clinical psychologist, a nurse, and a social worker if appropriate. The following data were collected.
Data were expressed as proportions, means or standard deviations. We performed unadjusted and multivariate-adjusted linear regression analyses, including age, sex, education level, MetS, smoking, and alcohol usage to determine variables potentially associated with memory impairments on measures of span of apprehension (List A, trial 1), verbal learning (total recall trials 1–5, List A), short-term memory (short delay free recall, short delay cued recall), long-term memory (long delay free recall, long delay cued recall), rate of forgetting (difference between short and long-delay free recall), and interference (proactive: difference between List B and List A, trial 1; retroactive: difference between short delay free recall and List A, trial 5). The analyses were repeated using MetS as a continuous variable (number of the MetS criteria present) according to Friedman et al. [13], and for each component of MetS (waist circumference, triglycerides, HDL cholesterol levels, blood pressure, and glycaemia). All the tests were two-sided. Statistical significance was defined as P < 0.05. The statistical analyses were performed using the SPSS version 18.0 software package (SPSS Inc., Chicago, IL, USA).
One hundred and sixty-eight outpatients with schizophrenia participated in our study. The characteristics of the patients are listed in Table 1. The MetS prevalence rate among the 168 patients was 27.4%. The prevalence rate for individual components of MeTS was 46.4% for abdominal obesity, 22.6% for high triglycerides, 35.7% for low HDL cholesterol, 39.9% for hypertension, and 16.7% for hyperglycaemia. According to our results, 27.4% of patients met one, 17.9% met two, 14.9% met three, 8.9% met four, and 3.6% met five of the MeTS criteria.
In the multivariate analyses reported in Tables Tables22 and and3,3, the relationships between poor cognitive performance and MetS remained significant even after adjusting for other confounders potentially affecting memory (age, alcohol, education, and smoking). In the models using MetS as a continuous variable, the number of MetS criteria was associated with lower cognitive performance for verbal learning (β = −0.213; P = 0.035), short-term memory (short delay free recall: β = −0.256, P = 0.014; and short delay cued recall: β = −0.211, P = 0.048), and long-term memory (long delay free recall: β = −0.326, P = 0.002; and long delay cued recall: β = −0.231, P = 0.029). Significant associations were also found between older age, male gender, lower education levels, alcohol dependence or abuse, and memory impairment. An investigation of the individual components of MetS revealed that high triglycerides, abdominal obesity, and low HDL cholesterol were the only factors that were associated with poor memory performance.
This study investigated the relationships of cardiovascular risk factors with verbal learning and memory in patients with schizophrenia. Our findings provide evidence for a link between MetS and more severe memory impairment in schizophrenia. In addition, alcohol dependence or abuse also showed a significant relationship, whereas tobacco was not associated with memory impairment. These findings suggest that modifiable risk factors should be sought in patients with schizophrenia, as their optimal treatment may improve these patients' cognitive performance or keep the existing deficits from progressing.
First, we have found an association between the number of MeTS criteria present and memory impairment. Our findings confirm the link between cognitive impairments associated with MeTS in schizophrenia [3, 13], and suggest that interventions to reduce cardiovascular risk factors may have positive effects on memory deficits. Our results are also in line with previous studies' findings showing that metabolic syndrome contributes to cognitive impairment in elders [4–7]. Indeed, we found that among the different components of MeTS, hypertriglycerides, abdominal obesity, low HDL cholesterol were the most important features associated with memory impairment. These three factors are well-established risk factors for atherosclerosis [19], suggesting that atherosclerosis may be linked to cognitive impairment in schizophrenia. Several authors have also proposed nonvascular mechanisms involving actions of adiposity on neuronal tissue through neurochemical mediators, such as leptin [20–23]. Surprisingly, other factors such as hyperglycaemia and hypertension were not statistically associated with cognitive impairment in our study. These results contradict some previous studies [6, 24], specifically the study performed by Friedman et al., who found that hypertension increased the risk for cognitive impairment [13]. One explanation could be the differences between populations, especially the relatively young average age in our study (36.6 years) compared with previous studies (47.3 years in Friedman's study). Future studies are necessary to explore the influence of the length of exposure to each component of MetS on memory impairment.
In accordance with several previous studies, alcohol dependence or abuse [25, 26] was associated with cognitive impairment. Alcohol may worsen the already decreased cholinergic transmission involved in cognitive impairment in schizophrenia [27, 28]. The neurotoxic action of alcohol, which is exerted via accelerated cerebral atrophy and reduced acetylcholine synthesis, has been described previously [29]. Interestingly, a recent study supports that alcohol use may exacerbate an existing neurobiological alteration associated with schizophrenia [30]. In practice, patients with coexisting mental and substance use disorders, such as alcohol abuse, have rarely received necessary treatments and have generally experienced poor outcomes [31, 32]. Hence, doctors should consider the possible existence of alcohol dependence or abuse when planning cognitive rehabilitation programs with these patients, and they should develop better coordination between addiction and mental health services in the treatment of these patients.
Surprisingly, our findings did not support the existence of a relationship between smoking and memory. Nicotine is a cholinergic agonist that can counteract the cholinergic dysfunction in cognitive impairment [33]. However, previous studies found a relationship with smoking only for working memory, spatial organization, attention, and inhibitory function [28, 34]. In addition, nicotine can also desensitize/inactivate nicotinic acetylcholine receptors induced by repeated nicotine exposure [35]. Our findings should however be interpreted with caution because nicotine consumption was not precisely measured in our study (i.e., amount consumed, duration of consumption/abstinence, passive smoking).
Our findings suggest that MetS and alcohol use may be linked to memory impairment in patients with schizophrenia. If replicated in longitudinal approaches, these findings may support novel strategies for treating and preventing cognitive disorders in patients with schizophrenia. The prevention or reduction of metabolic syndrome and alcohol use may lessen the severity of cognitive impairment in patients with schizophrenia.
Conception and design: C. Lancon, L. Boyer Study's coordination: C. Lancon, D. Dassa Inclusion and clinical data collection: R. Richieri, R. Padovani Analysis of data: J. Fernandez Interpretation of data: C. Lancon, D. Dassa, L. Boyer Drafting and writing the paper C. Lancon, L. Boyer.
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East Lyme — The Inland Wetlands Agency is seeking more answers from the companies building a solar farm on Grassy Hill and Walnut Hill roads before it will lift a cease-desist-and-correct order related to runoff from the site.
Failures to the stormwater management system and overflow during a heavy rainstorm in March had caused silting in wetlands areas and sedimentation deposits in a stream that travels into Cranberry Meadow Brook. A second rainstorm last week also raised concerns over turbid water.
At a show cause hearing Monday, the Inland Wetlands Agency asked the companies to present a clearer portrait of the areas with silting and seek permission from nearby property owners, including the East Lyme Land Conservation Trust, that the silting potentially affects. It also requested a study of the downstream waterways to detect if silting there stemmed from the site.
The companies are also supposed to present more information on using a binding agent, based on the site's soil characteristics, that would make the water discharge, from the stormwater management system, clear.
Greenskies Renewable Energy and Centerplan Construction Co. are to submit the information at the next meeting on June 9 when the commission will consider lifting the order it issued last month.
A remediation plan, presented Monday by Michael Klein, an environmental scientist hired by the company, calls for vacuum-removal of areas with thick sediment — some as much as 8 inches deep — during the drier, summer months. Areas with shallower sediment will be left alone, because Klein said vegetation would still be allowed to grow and removing the sediment could be more damaging.
Klein said the event occurred during a two-day rainstorm with about 4 inches of rain falling on the already-saturated ground.
Inland Wetlands Agency Chairwoman Cheryl Lozanov called into question the timeline and planning of the project, particularly having an area clear cut in the rainy season, rather than proceeding in stages and at a different season. She asked if the companies could take this into consideration for future projects.
Centerplan CEO Bob Landino said he appreciated the comments, but the company had followed state and federal guidelines and "best practices." He said such an event was very rare and had to do with a "perfect storm" of heavy rain pouring down on an already-saturated construction site.
The commission also wanted the companies to investigate the silting in watercourses and take responsibility for their portion. Commission member Joe Mingo said he saw mud in watercourses, including down to the fish ladder at Latimer Brook.
Klein said it would be difficult to determine how much silting came from the site since there was turbid water across the state from rainstorms, but Lozanov said there would be ways to determine the likelihood that it came from the site by observing the color and texture of the sedimentation.
Although the cease-desist-and-correct order stemmed from a March rainstorm, a heavy rainstorm last week again raised concerns about the sedimentation and erosion controls at the solar farm.
During a public comment period added to the regular meeting since the hearing was not a public hearing, resident Mark Christensen said, following the heavy rainstorm last week, he saw mud in Cranberry Meadow Brook down to the fish ladder at Latimer Brook.
"I've never seen it that brown ever," he said, commenting that there must have been hundreds or thousands of tons of materials released into Latimer Brook. He added that it was not difficult to understand that a site of open, unseeded land would cause that kind of disturbance.
The siting council again inspected the site on Friday, after the second major rain raised some concerns, said the council's executive director Melanie Bachman in an email interview. The council found that the erosion and sedimentation controls "were repaired and reinforced since the last rain event in accordance with our recommendations to install redundant fencing, check dams and swales in a letter to the project developer dated April 7, 2014."
"These E&S controls were working properly during the rain event last week; however, in some areas, turbid water escaped the outlets due to the sheer volume of water produced by the rain event," she wrote.
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With the end of apartheid in 1994 and the recent announcement that the South African government is to rule in favour of full same sex marriages… it's wonderful and encouraging to see a country that has taken it's brave steps to total equality.You then take a western country like Northern Ireland where the majority of our Protestant politicitions and Christian leaders can't even talk about gay rights but prefer to talk of us as diseased and sinners who are the surge on humanity. The very fact that the people who have a say in our future can't even debate the subject but prefer to scare monger the general public into believing that we want to take over the schools system is depressing to say the least.The new Sexual Orientation Regulations that are being push though the system will help… but an overall shift in mind-set is require too. The majority of leaders in Northern Ireland will do their utmost to quash Gay Rights for another generation. The only thing that inspires me to hold my head up unashamedly is that I consider myself a Protestant Christian who believes he's a good neighbour, a good person and BORN GAY… and that's good enough for me. To those anti-Gay Church leaders and politicitions who believe I shouldn't be allowed to sit in a restaurant or share a bus with straight people… I say "shame on you". History will judge them, not the Gay population on this country.
Bloodly well said. All the best Ireleand, lets hope the UK follows soon.
What Ps Eric McComb doesn't realise is that in different parts of the world there are now gay pentecostals. I was Australias first. Although the official stand has not yet changed there are a growing number who have realised that the same sex attraction doesn't mean they are evil or sick.We have a growing network of people from pentecostal backgrounds now.I was a leader in the Assemblies of God in Australia and have written my story about resolving the issues. Others now realise they are not alone and its helping them as well to begin to love who they are.i'm sure this minister is of the old school legalistic approach.Anthony Venn-Brown
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My guess is that your answer is less than half or at least "not enough of them."
Delivering on strategic initiatives on time, every time, is the hallmark of organizations that are best in the world at executing strategy, and they're rewarded with a premium put on the value of their company.
Organizations that can't deliver on their strategic initiatives fail at executing their strategy, and organizations that fail at executing strategy will not survive. It is just that simple. Improving how your organization delivers strategic initiatives increases your ability to execute strategy and, therefore, should be one of your organization's top business imperatives.Read More›
By Grant Wattie
President, N2Growth Australia
Below are my top 60 favorite leadership quotes of all time.
"Leaders transform the quality of their lives' by becoming aware of authentic choices, and living courageously towards a new more empowering future." – Grant Wattie
"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, concerned citizens can change world. Indeed it is the only thing that ever has." —Margaret Mead
"Leadership is not what you know or who you know, but how to transfer what you know into the hearts and minds of who you know." – Mike Myatt
"A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves." —Lao Tzu
"Where there is no vision, the people perish." —Proverbs 29:18
"I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?" —Benjamin Disraeli
"The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality. The last is to say thank you. In between, the leader is a servant." —Max DePree
"He who has never learned to obey cannot be a good commander." —Aristotle
"Lead me, follow me, or get out of my way." — General George Patton
"Before you are a leader, success is all about growing yourself. When you become a leader, success is all about growing others." —Jack Welch
"A leader is a dealer in hope." —Napoleon Bonaparte
"Not the cry, but the flight of a wild duck, leads the flock to fly and follow." —Chinese Proverb
"A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way." —John Maxwell
"My own definition of leadership is this: The capacity and the will to rally men and women to a common purpose and the character which inspires confidence." —General Montgomery
"The nation will find it very hard to look up to the leaders who are keeping their ears to the ground." —Sir Winston Churchill
"The most dangerous leadership myth is that leaders are born-that there is a genetic factor to leadership. That's nonsense; in fact, the opposite is true. Leadersare made rather than born." —Warren Bennis
"Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked; leadership is defined by results not attributes." —Peter Drucker
"If one is lucky, a solitary fantasy can totally transform one million realities." —Maya Angelou
"Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm." —Publilius Syrus
"We found that for leaders to make something great, their ambition has to be for the greatness of the work and the company, rather than for themselves." Jim Collins
"When leaders take back power, when they act as heroes and saviors, they end up exhausted, overwhelmed, and deeply stressed." – Margaret J Wheatley
"The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self-restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it." —Theodore Roosevelt
"Three things a leader or manager should be thinking: What's happening? What's not happening? and What can I do to influence the outcome?" — John Baldoni
"You don't lead by pointing and telling people some place to go. You lead by going to that place and making a case." —Ken Kesey
"When I give a minister an order, I leave it to him to find the means to carry it out." —Napoleon Bonaparte
"Men make history and not the other way around. In periods where there is no leadership, society stands still. Progress occurs when courageous, skillful leaders seize the opportunity to change things for the better." —Harry S. Truman
"People buy into the leader before they buy into the vision." —John Maxwell
"The very essence of leadership is that you have to have a vision. It's got to be a vision you articulate clearly and forcefully on every occasion. You can't blow an uncertain trumpet." —Reverend Theodore Hesburgh
"A great leader's courage to fulfill his vision comes from passion, not position." —John Maxwell
"A leader takes people where they want to go. A great leader takes people where they don't necessarily want to go, but ought to be." —Rosalynn Carter
"The challenge of leadership is to be strong, but not rude; be kind, but not weak; be bold, but not bully; be thoughtful, but not lazy; be humble, but not timid; be proud, but not arrogant; have humor, but without folly." —Jim Rohn
"Outstanding leaders go out of their way to boost the self-esteem of their personnel. If people believe in themselves, it's amazing what they can accomplish." —Sam Walton
"A true leader has the confidence to stand alone, the courage to make tough decisions, and the compassion to listen to the needs of others. He does not set out to be a leader, but becomes one by the equality of his actions and the integrity of his intent." —Douglas MacArthur
"No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself, or to get all the credit for doing it." —Andrew Carnegie
"Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it." —General Dwight Eisenhower
"The leader has to be practical and a realist yet must talk the language of the visionary and the idealist." —Eric Hoffer
"A man who wants to lead the orchestra must turn his back on the crowd." —Max Lucado
"Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity." —General George Patton
"Instead of looking for a great leader, we are in an era where each of us needs to find the great leader within ourselves." – Werner Erhard
"Do what you feel in your heart to be right–for you'll be criticized anyway." —Eleanor Roosevelt
"Don't necessarily avoid sharp edges. Occasionally they are necessary to leadership." —Donald Rumsfeld
"Effective leadership is putting first things first. Effective management is discipline, carrying it out." —Stephen Covey
"Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers, who can cut through argument, debate, and doubt to offer a solution everybody can understand." — General Colin Powell
"Great leaders are not defined by the absence of weakness, but rather by the presence of clear strengths." —John Zenger
"He who has great power should use it lightly.: —Seneca
I am reminded how hollow the label of leadership sometimes is and how heroic followership can be." —Warren Bennis
"He who has learned how to obey will know how to command." —Solon
"I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure, which is: Try to please everybody." —Herbert Swope
"If you would not be forgotten, as soon as you are dead and rotten, either write things worth reading, or do things worth the writing." —Benjamin Franklin
"It is absurd that a man should rule others, who cannot rule himself." —Latin Proverb
"It is better to lead from behind and to put others in front, especially when you celebrate victory when nice things occur. You take the front line when there is danger. Then people will appreciate your leadership." —Nelson Mandela
"Leadership is a potent combination of strategy and character. But if you must be without one, be without the strategy." —Norman Schwarzkopf
"The greatness of a person's power is the measure of their surrender." –William Booth
"Leadership is the key to 99 percent of all successful efforts." —Erskine Bowles
"Management is about arranging and telling. Leadership is about nurturing and enhancing." —Tom Peters
"No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent." —Abraham Lincoln
"The greatest leaders mobilize others by coalescing people around a shared vision." —Ken Blanchard
"You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing you think you cannot do." —Eleanor Roosevelt
"Level 5 leaders channel their ego needs away from themselves and into the larger goal of building a great company. It's not that Level 5 leaders have no ego or self-interest. Indeed, they are incredibly ambitious–but their ambition is first and foremost for the institution, not themselves." – Jim Collins
"Level 5 leaders are a study in duality: modest and willful, humble and fearless." – Jim Collins
By Grant Wattie
President, N2Growth Australia
You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor" ~Aristotle
The word manifesto can be traced back to the Latin root manifestum, which means clear or conspicuous. A manifesto is defined as a declaration of beliefs, opinions, motives, and intentions. In other words, a document that an organization or person writes that declares what they value.Read More›
By Grant Wattie
President, N2Growth Australia
"Wealth is like sea-water; the more we drink, the thirstier we become." ~Arthur Schopenhauer, German Philosopher
If Schopenhauer's quote is true, then the mining magnate, Gina Rinehart (one of the richest women in the world who's worth an estimated $12 billion) is very thirsty indeed.Read More›
By Brody Clemmer
Chief Innovation Officer, N2Growth
I have been a Digital Marketer, a Genius, a Business Representative, and a Shift Manager. I have guided through the titles that life has graciously provided me, without a true understanding of what it meant. Now, I find myself in this position again as a Chief Innovation Officer. When people ask me, "Brody, what do you do?" I tell them my respective title. When they look at me with a puzzled 'yeah right!' face, I say something to the effect of – "That means I sit in a chair and think about things." It's not wrong, that is my job, and for those only seeking your title, that's all they care about.Read More›
By Grant Wattie
President, N2Growth Australia
While having lunch with a number of writers, Ernest Hemingway claimed he could write a short story that was only six words long.
When the lofty group of writers scoffed at the notion, he invited each of them to put ten dollars on the table, saying that if he was wrong he'd match it. But if he was right he'd keep the money.Read More›
By Mark Hefner
Global Practice Chair, Strategy N2Growth
Five Paradigm-Shifting Principles
Repeatable processes and procedures add great value in stable and predictable times. Those are not the times we live in today or likely in the future. Strategy that works has got to be based on something that proves successful in unpredictable, fast moving, and changing times. Principles, not process and procedures, provide the overarching guidance in any situation for making the right decisions and taking the best action.
A move toward the Advantage Strategy Paradigm begins with the adoption and commitment to a set of principles that guides all executives in the decisions and actions they take related to developing, planning, and executing strategy. Principles provide a broad context for strategic action and guidelines that can be communicated and taught at all levels of the organization, eventually becoming part of the organization's culture. Throwing out standard process and procedures in favor of a handful of powerful but easily remembered principles for managing strategy will soon begin to show improvements in your business results.Read More›
By Mark Hefner
Global Practice Chair, Strategy N2Growth
Most organizations, and even most strategy consultants, are using strategic planning frameworks built for business models that were designed during the industrial age. These methods are antiquated in both efficiency and effectiveness. They are complex – they are costly – they are slow – they are broken.
Whether you are a working at a company-wide, business unit, functional, or product level, formulating strategy, planning it, and executing it has become too complex, too structured, too rigid, too slow, and more than half of the time does not produce the promised results.Read More›
By Grant Wattie
President, N2Growth Australia
Now, before you think I'm going to get all religious on you, let me define the word "sin." In the original Hebrew language, sin is defined as 'missing the mark', much the same as an archer may miss the mark when shooting for a bull's-eye.
In my opinion, leadership starts with deep reflection to be aware of any limiting blind spots. The following nine (9) deadly sins will help you reflect on how you may be limiting yourself both personally and professionally as a leader. In my experience everyone has at least one of these primary flaws that are dominant in their personality, so which one(s) can you identify with?Read More›


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World Health Organization, Stop TB Department, Geneva, Switzerland
Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, California, United States of America
Center for Infectious Disease Dynamics, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS), Policy, Evidence, and Partnerships Department, Geneva, Switzerland
South African Centre for Epidemiological Modelling and Analysis, Stellenbosch, South Africa
World Health Organization, Family and Community Health, Geneva, Switzerland
INSERM, Saint Maurice, France
University of Versailles-Saint Quentin, Faculté de Médecine Paris-Ile-de-France-Ouest, Saint Maurice, France
Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris, Hôpital Ambroise Pare, Boulogne, France
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All authors contributed to considering the problem and writing the paper. BA proposed the development of this model. BGW, JOLS, EG, WMG, JH, CD, and BA developed and applied the model. EG assembled the data on MC and HIV rates. CH and IDZ interpreted the data and developed the policy implications.


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INDEPENDENCE, Ohio -- Delonte West sat under the basket after practice on Monday chatting with teammates. Cleveland's troubled star was expected to face reporters for the first time since taking two leaves of absence during training camp and missing the Cavaliers' first three games.
Instead, he quietly slipped through the door and out of the building.
He wasn't ready yet.
West has already shown he's good to go on the court, and coach Mike Brown isn't placing restrictions on him, although Brown won't start West on Tuesday night against Washington.
"I'm not worried about his minutes if he's active," Brown said. "There's no coddling or anything like that. If he can play, he's going to play."
West made his debut for the Cleveland Cavaliers during Saturday night's 90-79 win against Charlotte, scoring 13 points in 24 minutes.
It was a turbulent offseason for West, who has battled bipolar syndrome. He could still face a league suspension for misdemeanor weapons charges against him in Maryland. Last week, his wife filed a domestic violence report against him.
Brown said Monday he is "definitely going to go with what we have right now," meaning Anthony Parker will continue to start and West will continue to come off the bench.
"I'd like to take a look and see how we're going to play right now," Brown said. "Only time will tell, but I'm definitely going to go with what we have right now, the way we have our starting five."
West started 64 games for the Cavaliers last season and averaged 42 minutes in the playoffs, when Cleveland was eliminated by Orlando in the Eastern Conference finals. West can play either guard position and evolved into the team's second-most important player behind LeBron James.
The Cavaliers are 2-2 after opening the season with losses to Boston and Toronto. Brown and James both cautioned during the preseason that Cleveland could get off to a shaky start until West's situation was resolved and the new faces blended with the old.
After one week, that's already happening.
"Having [West] back is huge," guard Mo Williams said. "He had a great game when he came back. As a team, you see sparks where we can be elite. Then you also see times where we can improve."
Throughout the preseason, Brown referred to West's situation as a day-by-day process. Now that West has been cleared and has rejoined the team, Brown isn't anticipating further setbacks.
"He's here just as much as LeBron is here or Shaq or Mo," Brown said. "There is nothing special or different I'm thinking about doing with Delonte. In terms of all that other stuff, I don't even think about it."


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