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Remember when the name Volvo was synonymous with boxy cars that seemed to say, "I'm sensible, but sort of boring"? Well, those days are over. The 2013 Volvo S60 T5 AWD that rolled into the Car Tech garage this week is a stylish sedan that perhaps still says, "I'm sensible," through its good value and high-tech safety net of available driver aid options, but also adds a bit of sex appeal with sport sedan performance that perhaps nips at the heels of Audi and BMW.
Turbocharged inline five-cylinder
I don't spend a lot of time scrutinizing spec sheets before testing a car. I prefer to just hop in, take a spin, and then check the numbers later. So, I was frankly surprised by how alive the Volvo S60's base 2.5-liter, turbocharged five-cylinder engine felt when I matted the pedal. The engine sends 250 horsepower through a single-option, six-speed manual transmission, but the reason for the engine's liveliness -- its eagerness to rocket the midsize sedan past slower-moving traffic -- is its 266 pound-feet of torque, which is available as early in the tachometer's swing as 1,800rpm.
With the six-speed shifter placed in its Sport position, the Volvo holds each gear just a bit longer, allowing the rpms to build and the turbocharger to spool up and deliver the best power. Brake for a turn in Sport mode and the S60's computer will respond with a throttle-blipped downshift, grabbing a lower gear to keep the turbo at a boil in preparation for acceleration out of the bend.
The five-banger's exhaust note isn't the most pleasant at full bore, but this isn't a proper sports car, so I'll forgive that. The S60 also features a manual shift mode that lets you handle the gear selection yourself by pushing or tugging on the illuminated shift knob, but as with any slushbox "manumatic"-type mode, it's probably best to just let the computer handle the shifting for you in most situations.
Two hundred and fifty horsepower from the S60 T5 car makes for a more than adequately powerful ride, but for drivers who want a bit more sport in their sedan, Volvo also offers the S60 T6, which is powered by a 3.0-liter turbocharged, inline six-cylinder engine that outputs 300 horsepower and 325 pound-feet of torque. Still not impressed? Well, there's also the S60 T6 R-Design, which features a tuned version of that 3.0-liter engine that outputs 325 horsepower and 354 pound-feet of torque. That's more power than you get from the BMW 335i and the Audi S4. Of course, there's more to a great ride than just power, but even bronies know that more ponies are almost always a good thing.
Our Volvo S60 T5 tester is also capable of behaving with a bit of dignity as well. Leave the shifter in the normal D-for-Drive position and the gearbox will behave the way you'd expect a premium midsize sedan's slushbox to. The shifts come sooner to keep the rpms down and the fuel economy up and happen more smoothly for a more comfortable ride. Our S60 T5's suspension offered a good balance of suppleness, for soaking up bumps and road imperfections, and rigidity, so it doesn't feel wallowy around bends, floaty, or vague. There are even three user-selectable power steering settings that allow the driver to adjust the steering feel from weighty and direct to light and easy.
The EPA estimates that our T5 model will do 20 mpg in the city and 29 mpg on the highway when equipped with the optional all-wheel-drive system (which I'll discuss in a bit). Forgo the AWD system and both of those estimates increase by a single mpg. Our testing cycle, which was heavily biased toward freeway cruising at a quick -- but not excessive -- clip yielded an average of 20.6 mpg, just shy of the EPA's combined estimate of 23 mpg.
All-wheel drive with DSTC (Dynamic Stability and Traction Control)
The S60 is based on a front-wheel-drive configuration. Choose a T5 model with the 2.5-liter engine and all 250 of its ponies will meet the road on the front axle. However, S60 T5 owners can spec an optional all-wheel-drive system that can send power to the rear axle on demand when traction is necessary. I'm told that this system can shuffle up to 100 percent of available torque to the rear axle if it must and can instantaneously reduce torque at any of the wheels if slip is detected, but over a bone-dry week in San Francisco, I didn't run into many situations where I could put the AWD system to the test.
All of the more powerful, 3.0-liter S60 T6 models come with this all-wheel-drive system as a standard feature.
With or without the AWD system, the Volvo S60 is equipped with DSTC (Dynamic Stability and Traction Control), a multipart traction control system that combines torque vectoring, bias braking, and engine power modulation to keep the sedan between the lines when cornering. An onscreen menu allows the DSTC system to be partially disabled, allowing for a bit more slip and wheel spin when driving in the S60's Sport mode.
The standard S60 T6 is available with an optional $750 adaptive-suspension system that gives the driver control over the ride firmness or comfort. This system is not available on our T5 tester. Further up the totem pole, the S60 R-Design comes standard with a nonadaptive suspension that is 15mm lower than the standard ride height and 15 percent stiffer.
Safety tech
A Volvo just wouldn't be a Volvo without a bit of excellent safety tech, but our tester was mostly lacking the most advanced features. In fact, the only non-drivetrain-related bit of safety gadgetry that I had to play with was the standard City Safety system. This front-looking camera constantly scans the road ahead for pedestrians, vehicles, and other obstructions. If the vehicle detects that you're about to collide with one of these obstructions, it will warn you before automatically applying the brakes. City Safety only works between 2 mph and 30 mph, doesn't activate if you're applying even the slightest bit of manual brake pressure, and will not activate if you attempt to steer around the obstruction. Since I couldn't find a CNET editor brave enough to stand in front of the S60 while I tested the system, we'll just take Volvo's word that it works.
Our S60 T5 didn't even come equipped with a rearview camera, but that doesn't mean that yours won't. The S60 is available with a wide range of optional safety tech.


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GSA Sets Policy on Household Goods Moves Agency Says New Broker Commission Guidelines Add Clarity, Level Playing Field
September 15, 1997
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WASHINGTON, DC - The U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) today announced new guidelines affecting the payment of broker commissions on shipments handled through its household goods program for civilian Federal agencies.
The new guidelines allow brokers to provide services if they first disclose to GSA a proposed single commission rate to be used with all carriers selected by the broker to perform work under GSA's program. Once the broker's commission rate is approved by GSA, the company is allowed to enter into commission arrangements with carriers at the established rate.
The new guidelines respond to objections by household goods carriers to a 1996 policy change that, for the first time under the program, allowed brokers to collect commissions from carriers used to furnish transportation and accessorial services on civilian Federal shipments. Before 1996, broker services were available through single award contracts only, and the Federal government paid a flat fee for the broker services.
Representatives of the carrier industry were concerned that allowing carrier commissions could lead to violations of the Anti-Kickback Act (41 U.S.C. 52), which prohibits Federal prime contractors from improperly receiving anything of value from subcontractors for the purpose of being selected to provide services.
"These new guidelines are a reasonable approach that balances the views of competing interests," said Frank P. Pugliese, Jr., GSA's Commissioner of the Federal Supply Service. "The guidelines will ensure that carriers are treated alike in commission arrangements established by each broker participating in GSA's program. The size of the commission will not be the broker's basis for carrier selection."
As a result of downsizing, some Federal agencies are seeking alternatives to in-house handling of employee relocations. Under GSA's program, brokers provide assistance with the variety of administrative tasks associated with these moves including carrier selection, service audits, employee counseling, and assisting with any claims resulting from a household goods move. Pugliese said that the change in GSA's buying strategy resulted from "a need to expand the test of these services by the Federal community and gauge the interest of relocation services companies in providing services to the Federal marketplace."
GSA's Federal Supply Service manages the household goods program for civilian Federal agencies. In Fiscal Year 1996, Federal agencies spent $60.7 million for nearly 13,000 employee relocations. Since 1994, about 4,000 moves have been conducted by brokers.

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In the realm of desserts, pie is about as humble as it gets. There are no towers made of pie, like bakers craft out of macarons, none of those shocking flavor combinations — wasabi, curry — that come scooped on a cone. So it's not surprising that the best pie in town comes not from a high-end bakery hawking elaborate delicacies, but from bang!, a homey restaurant that's been churning out plates of fried chicken, meatloaf and mashed potatoes for more than seventeen years. The coconut cream pie is filled with as much down-home goodness as the entrees, with a hand-crimped crust and a thick layer of custard amped up with shredded coconut for a more intense flavor. Topped with whipped cream and sprinkled with toasted coconut, the pie deserves the spotlight that's long been given to the gingerbread, another of co-owner Cissy Olderman's creations.
It's good to be king. It's even better to be at Breakfast King when everyone else is asleep and you're looking for a home away from home, a home where the friendly, wisecracking servers know not just your name, but your regular order. That's likely to be chicken-fried steak smothered in country gravy — the best chicken-fried steak in the city at any time of the day — sided with endless cups of coffee. But the kitchen is cooking up that huge menu at all hours, so you can also get eggs any way imaginable, comfort-food dinners, or just a big slice of pie to soak up some of the coffee. No matter what you order, it will be a feast fit for a king.
People love chicken. People love waffles. Why, then, is chicken and waffles so polarizing, one of those dishes you either love or hate? At Session Kitchen, chef Scott Parker has created a version so good, and yet so different, we can all agree to like it. Called "chicken-liver mousse," his alternative is every bit as rich as the original, yet it comes off much lighter and more contemporary, a perfect fit for the dynamic street art and murals inside the stunning two-level space. Rather than fried chicken, Parker offers a jar of chicken-liver mousse accented with a dollop of seasonal, housemade jam. Sharing the plate are airy, crisp Belgian waffles, scented with orange and made from almond flour. The combination of smooth, earthy mousse, sweet jam and waffle is not a traditional chicken and waffles, but no one's quibbling when it tastes this good.
At a time when nearly anything can be eaten at the bar, it's hard to say just what counts as bar snacks. Is it a small plate of rillette on toast? Wings? Housemade trail mix? Yes to all. But when you want a classic snack, something with crunch and salt to nibble while unwinding from the day over a drink, nothing beats the mariquitas Cubana at Cuba Cuba. With a hint of sweetness and none of the oily residue of freshly fried potato chips, these long, thin strips of fried green plantains are just what you want with your coconut mojito. Although also available at the Sandwicherias in Boulder and Glendale, they're at their best at the flagship, full-service restaurant, where they're paired not just with garlicky mojo, but with mango-habanero mojo and guacamole. The platter is large enough for everyone to have some, but not so big that it will ruin the very good dinner to come.
The best just got better last year, when Boney's Smokehouse — Lamont and Trina Lynch's downtown, down-home restaurant — moved into a bigger space just a few doors away. Tucked in the basement, the new Boney's can be hard to find, but it's definitely worth the search...and some advance planning, since the hours are limited. But there's no limit to the load of barbecue you'll want to order — brisket, chopped chicken, pulled pork, hot links and ribs that have so much flavor from their dry rub and long tenure over low heat that they don't need sauce. Still, you won't want to miss the three versions at Boney's: a tangy basic sauce also offered hot, a sweet jalapeño and an excellent, mustardy gold. And give Boney's extra points for sides ranging from great collard greens and barbecue beans to lip-smacking mac and cheese. Lamont, a native of Florida, has spent years giving a Southern tweak to a repertoire of family recipes imported from the Bahamas; as a result, this barbecue defies categorization. Just call it the best.
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Entrepreneurship contest yields 'green' winner
A student from Cincinnati has won a Global Entrepreneurship Business Plan Competition at the University of South Carolina.
Marty Bauer, a first-year student in the International Master of Business Administration (IMBA) program of the Darla Moore School of Business, won $1,000 for his concept of commercializing patent-pending intellectual property developed by a biology professor at the university. CarbonForecast, the company he conceptualized as part of the competition, will enable other companies to quantify the carbon reduction effects of specific wetland improvements.
More than 20 USC students presented their entrepreneurial ideas and business plans before a panel of judges Thursday, Nov. 18. The competition, organized by the Moore School's Faber Entrepreneurship Center, required students to create a business plan for a new enterprise that included concept, projected income and funding, target market, distribution channels and marketing.
Samantha August, a junior from Columbia majoring in international business and entrepreneurship, placed second, and doctoral chemistry students Atria Rungta of Mumbai, India, and Anand Viswanath of Chennai, India, who competed together, placed third in the competition. The students won $750 and $500, respectively.
August's business design was for Neccessivend, a company targeting college students that makes available personal items such as toiletries, over-the-counter medications, laundry items and flash drives, in vending machines located in campus residence halls.
Rungta and Viswanath's business was Intelligent Nanomaterials, a company that would design and manufacture customized nanomaterials using patented technology for small and mid-sized North American companies specializing in high-end technological products in electronic and optical industries.
Other finalists included Lei Wang, a doctoral student in chemistry from Shanghai, China; Beibei Zhou, a senior accounting major from Hangshou, China; Emily Johnson, a sophomore biology major from Chapin; Bryan Zingmark, a junior business major from Columbia; Joseph Fox, a senior business major from Charleston; Cameron Williams, a senior business major from Columbia; and Lyle Sweet, a senior business major from Harrisonburg, Va.
The competition was part of the Moore School's celebration of Global Entrepreneurship Week, an annual worldwide observance to unleash new ideas. The competition is among 40,000 events taking place in 100 countries.


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The second round of the Monster Energy AMA Supercross series made it's way to Phoenix, Arizona, this weekend, and boy was it a cold one! Record low temperatures greeted all the fans in attendance, but the excitement kept everyone's blood pumping as Eli Tomac and Justin Barcia dominated their respective classes. For Tomac, the win inside Chase Field marked his second consecutive win, and for Barcia, it marked his first official 450 Supercross win.
250 Supercross Class
Heat One
Red Bull KTM's Ken Roczen grabbed the first holeshot of the night, as Ryan Sipes tried to stay close to his rear wheel. However, Roczen's speed was no match for Sipes as the young German rider slowly started to creep away. Troy Lee Designs/Lucas Oil/Honda's Cole Seely sat behind Sipes for a couple of laps, but he eventually made the move into second on the third lap. By the time Seely moved into that position, Roczen was long gone. The top three riders would eventually settle into their positions when the white flag flew. Jessy Nelson tried to make a move on Geico Honda's Zach Osborne for fourth, but the TLD rider wasn't able to get it done.
1. Ken Roczen (KTM)
2. Cole Seely (Hon)
3. Ryan Sipes (Yam)
4. Zach Osborne (Hon)
5. Jessy Nelson (Hon)
6. Malcolm Stewart (KTM)
7. Kyle Cunningham (Yam)
8. Austin Politelli (Hon)
9. Michael Leib (Hon)
Heat Two
JDR KTM's newcomer, Joey Savatgy, grabbed the holeshot in heat two, just ahead of Christian Craig and Martin Davalos. Without wasting any time, Davalos jumped into second, and started to apply some pressure to Savatgy. Current points leader, Eli Tomac, suffered from a mid-pack start, but the Geico Honda rider quickly started to move through the pack. On the third lap, he found himself on the rear wheel of Craig. At the halfway mark, all hell broke loose as there were two red cross flags waving in different sections of the track. Privateer Brandon Scharer lost control of his bike in a technical rhythm section, and hit the deck hard. Just in front of him, Davalos was ejected off of his bike while he was battling for the lead with Savatgy. This allowed Tomac to quickly close the gap on the rookie. With two turns to go, Tomac sealed the deal on Savatgy, and the Geico Honda rider would take the win.
1. Eli Tomac (Hon)
2. Joey Savatgy (KTM)
3. Christian Craig (Hon)
4. Jake Canada (Hon)
5. Tyla Rattray (Kaw)
6. Max Anstie (Suz)
7. Topher Ingalls
8. Josh Cachia (KTM)
9. Trevor Reis
After having a scary heat race crash, Martin Davalos came back strong for the LCQ and took the holeshot ahead of Rhett Urseth and Jason Anderson. The Rocstar Energy Racing rider closed the door on Urseth before a triple, which caused the privateer rider to double. When the white flag came out, it looked as if Anderson would hold onto the final transfer spot, however, a mistake in a rhythm section threw him too the ground. He had a big enough gap to get back going in second, but he fell again trying to remount. This allowed Travis Bright to move into second. Travis Baker did everything he could to get around Bright, but he was unsuccessful. After the race, Davalos said that he was sore from his crash, but he would take things lap by lap.
1. Martin Davalos
2. Travis Bright
250 Main Event
If there's one thing that Jessy Nelson has proven in the 250 class, it's that he has his starts dialed. When the gates dropped, the Supercross rookie rocketed out on his Troy Lee Designs/Lucas Oil/Honda. However, his lead was short lived, as Martin Davalos quickly took over. Coming off a second place heat race finish, Joey Savatgy was back at it again as he held onto third. A few spots behind him, though, was the hard charging Eli Tomac. By the seventh lap, Tomac had worked his way all the way up behind Davalos. The Monster Energy/Pro Circuit/Kawasaki rider tried to keep the 2012 West Coast Lites champion at bay, however, his efforts would collapse a few short turns later.
A third place battle between Nelson, Seely, and Ken Roczen was brewing strong at the halfway point, but it would be the Red Bull KTM rider who would come out victorious. Once he moved into third, his sights were set on Davalos. It would take a couple more laps before he would reel him in, but he eventually made it happen, and secured the number two spot. Nelson fell back to fifth when his teammate got around him, but he was able to hold onto that spot, despite having the pressure of Zach Osborne behind him.
Seely took a spill late in the race, however, he was able to remount, and just back into the fourth spot. Ryan Sipes had worked his way into the top-five, but a bobble sent him back to seventh before the checkers flew. Tomac would take the win at the end of the 15-lap main, and he now heads into Anaheim II with a six-point lead. Roczen would take another second place finish, and Davalos would take his first podium finish of the season in third.
On a side note, when everyone took off for the start off the main, MCR's Jake Canada didn't have his helmet on. He threw it on real quick, however, he didn't have it strapped on. As a result, he was black-flagged from the race.
1. Eli Tomac
2. Ken Roczen
3. Martin Davalos
4. Cole Seely
5. Jessy Nelson
6. Zach Osborne
7. Ryan Sipes
8. Kyle Cunningham
9. Joey Savatgy
10. Christian Craig
11. Max Anstie
12. Tyla Rattray
13. Austin Politelli
14. Josh Cachia
15. Travis Bright
16. Trevor Reis
17. Michael Leib
18. Malcolm Stewart
19. Topher Ingalls
20. Jake Canada
|250 Class Championship Points Standings (After 2 of 9 rounds)
1. Eli Tomac (50/2 Wins)
2. Ken Roczen (44)
3. Cole Seely (38)
4. Ryan Sipes (29)
5. Zach Osborne (29)
6. Kyle Cunningham (23)
7. Tyla Rattray (22)
8. Max Anstie (22)
9. Martin Davalos (21)
10. Joey Savatgy (20)


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Underwood, Bryan, FGL among Billboard Music Award winners
Carrie Underwood is this year's Billboard Milestone Award recipient. The country star got the nod for the all-genre, fan-voted honor, which was presented during ABC's Billboard Music Awards Sunday night. In her acceptance, Carrie gave the credit to those responsible for her win.
Luke Bryan and Florida Georgia Line earned trophies as well. Bryan was named Top Country Artist during the ceremony, while his CD Crash My Party took Top Country Album.
And when Florida Georgia Line's "Cruise" was named Top Country Song, Luke was one of the first to congratulate the duo with a hug as they made their way to the stage.
Underwood, Bryan, and FGL also participated in the event. Carrie joined Miranda Lambert to sing their new duet, "Somethin' Bad."
Luke performed twice -- on his own and with Florida Georgia Line.
Lambert also served as a presenter, while Shania Twain handed out the first award of the night. Brad Paisley appeared as well, in conjunction with the new reality series "Rising Star."
The 2014 Billboard Music Awards took place in Las Vegas, and aired on ABC Sunday night.
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How many details are needed, after all, before one can say to oneself, "This is what I have lost?"
Jakes says he believes in the axiom that the act of forgiveness is not really a gift to others as much as it is a gift to oneself.
It was like making emotion and thought physical, to be undergone apart from oneself.
And danger to oneself or others is hard to prove until it happens, Earley said.
When one plays life that way, one in a way awakes creative vital energies in oneself that otherwise are not available.
It is a regard, an esteem for oneself, too great to allow one to stoop to anything base or mean.
Drawing attention to oneself or to others does not require language.
But it was easier to state a law than to obey it; easier to inspire others with faith than to hold fast to it oneself.
Why should one let oneself be distressed, even if things did not go just to one's mind?
Guiltless in regard to one who is no more; accountable to oneself and one's fellow beings.
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Emily Magilnick greets you with an infectious smile, a strong handshake and a nicely shaped hairdo. Pooky, the family poodle, jumps on the sofa to be close to Emily, happy that she's home to stay.
It's hard to imagine that just a few months ago Emily, 16, had lost her hair and was in a difficult battle against a rare form of cancer that was eating away at the bone in her right leg.
"It was terrifying when we got the news about the cancer," said Emily's mother, June, from her home in East Long Beach. "It was a parent's worst nightmare, the most hopeless low point of our lives. It was an unbearable pain."
It was a little more than a year ago when Emily felt some discomfort in her right leg. At first, she thought the pain came from a tennis injury or maybe just from growing taller. Emily was your typical active teenager, a great student in the Poly High School PACE program who played on the tennis team.
But the pain persisted, so her mother and father, David, a senior account executive for a staffing agency, took her to see her doctor. On Dec. 12, 2011, Emily was diagnosed with chondroblastic osteosarcoma, a cancerous bone tumor the size of a golf ball on her right shin.
Since then, Emily has endured more than a year of tough medical treatment, including gut-wrenching chemotherapy and surgery to remove seven inches of her right tibia, the bone between her knee and ankle.
Her mother said that a few years ago, this type of cancer would have resulted in an amputation. But thanks to medical advances, her leg was saved.
The complex surgery, performed by Dr. Dominic Femino at the City of Hope hospital in Duarte in March, took more than 10 hours.
"The whole thing is horrible and, yet, the whole thing is a huge, priceless, amazing miracle," Emily's mom said.
In addition to Dr. Femino, she gave special thanks to Dr. Leah Pike who found the tumor quickly, Dr. Noah Federman at UCLA's Mattel Children's Hospital and Susan Lowenbraun at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center.
Emily had her final dose of chemotherapy last summer and, after a roller coaster ride of going in and out of hospitals, went home for good. There is a lot of recuperation to do yet, and Emily still uses a wheelchair to get around the sprawling Poly High campus.
Despite the wrenching treatment she had to endure, Emily has come through the ordeal with flying colors and a great outlook on life.
What kept her going? Family, friends and a determination "that this awful thing was not going to beat me," she said.
Her mom called Emily "a warrior who is not letting anybody or anything, especially cancer, get in her way."
In a blog, Emily's mother, who is acting supervisor of the San Pedro branch of the Los Angeles City Attorney's Office, wrote about different events throughout the treatment that helped lift everyone's spirits.
Last May, the Magilnick family attended a dance show at Wilson High School where many of Emily's friends attend.
"Two dear friends, Hannah Levy and Gabriela Lund, worked for months and choreographed a dance in Emily's honor, which was in the program and called, `Dear Emily,"' her mother said. "It was so thoughtful, and we feel so blessed that Emily has such caring friends."
In February, Emily, still weakened, attended Poly's tennis banquet where she was greeted with shrieks of joy and was given her varsity letter. She then received a trophy as the "Outstanding Team Player," described as someone who rallied the team and helped everyone both on and off the court.
Another important supporter was Ron Rita, Emily's home school teacher who tutored her through Poly's rigorous PACE program and kept her on schedule to graduate with her class next year.
And her little brother, Max, came through in a big way also. From the moment Emily was diagnosed, Max, a student at Rogers Middle School, wanted to help his big sister.
Max decided to shave his head at an event sponsored by the St. Baldrick Foundation on St. Patrick's Day in North Hollywood along with Los Angeles firefighters and police. It was one of the largest single fundraisers in St. Baldrick history. Max shaved his head a second time at an event in Seal Beach.
St. Baldrick's was started in 1999 as a nonprofit to raise money for children's pediatric cancer research by three Irish-American executives from New York who decided to turn their St. Patrick's Day party into a benefit for pediatric oncology research by shaving their heads. The foundation name is a play on the words bald and Patrick.
The foundation has organized nearly 4,200 head-shaving events and shaved over 190,500 heads, raising more than $118 million for childhood cancer research.
And just last week the St. Baldrick foundation named Emily as one of its five 2013 ambassadors nationwide to serve as the faces and voices of the foundation throughout the year.
Emily's mom says the common reaction among many people when they hear the words "childhood cancer" is to shy away and not talk about it. One of the reasons, she said, is that one out of five children with cancer don't survive. Emily's job will be to bring attention to the disease and inspire others at the same time with her own story.
Asked what her advice is to friends and family of people with cancer, Emily said: "Don't leave them alone. Let them know you care through cards, phone calls, texting or personal contact. Watch a movie with them. And don't ask how they feel, ask them how you can help. Just be there for them."
Emily's future looks good. So far tests show NED (no evidence of disease). She will have to take it easy on that right leg. She won't be playing competitive tennis and won't be doing any activities with a high impact on her leg.
The Magilnicks will have another special celebration on St. Valentine's Day next month.
That's Emily's birthday; and she will turn 17.
"Our Valentine is back!" her mother said joyfully.
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Can you say "hypocrite"? Limbaugh lectured Rather on "sexist comment"
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In his description of a September 15 interview on CBS's 60 Minutes by Dan Rather (CBS News anchor and managing editor), radio host Rush Limbaugh chided Rather for making a "sexist comment."
The interview to which Limbaugh referred was Rather's interview of Marian Carr Knox (secretary for President George W. Bush's former National Guard supervisor, Lieutenant Colonel Jerry B. Killian, who is the purported author of the disputed memos exposed by CBS). Knox has said that she believes that the controversial memos raising questions about President George W. Bush's National Guard service are fake, but she also believes that the contents of the memos are accurate.
From the September 16 broadcast of The Rush Limbaugh Show:
LIMBAUGH: Let's listen to Dan Rather talking to Marian Knox on 60 Minutes II last night. Rather says she spent more than two decades keeping pilots and officers in line at -- what the hell is that? Secretary kept pilots and officers in line? That's a little sexist comment if you ask me.
Media Matters for America has monitored The Rush Limbaugh Show since April, and has documented several sexist comments made by Limbaugh:
On April 26, Limbaugh claimed that women "actually wish" for sexual harassment, and said he then "laughed [him]self to tears" when MMFA documented that and other sexist remarks Limbaugh has made. The MMFA report also noted that Limbaugh used the term "femi-Nazis" eight times between March 15 and April 29.
Responding to an Associated Press report that four women had been recently appointed as chiefs of police in four major U.S. cities, Limbaugh referenced the abuse of Iraqi prisoners at Abu Ghraib as follows on May 27: "If we've got four new female police chiefs out there, then I guess we can watch out for some naked pyramids among prisoners in these new jailhouses that these women ran, because we had a woman running the prison in Abu Grab [sic]."
On June 14, Limbaugh shared with listeners his "pet name" for the National Organization for Women (NOW): "National Association of Gals" (his acronym: "NAG"). Limbaugh claimed that the "militant feminists" who make up the "NAGs" "aren't determining who wins elections. White men are."
On July 15, Limbaugh revived the false rumor of Senator John Kerry's alleged affair with journalist Alexandra Polier, and advised Kerry to "keep that babe in Africa."
Limbaugh noted on August 9 than in recent television appearances, New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd appeared "just joyless," "miserable," and "did not seem happy at all." Limbaugh then concluded: "[m]ust be a guy. Isn't it always a guy when a woman's unhappy?"
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I hope it has rounded corners so the lawsuits can continue
Well, frankly, if it is running a proprietary OS, then it doesn't matter if it can be in landscape or portrait, if it is reversible with a screen on both sides or even if it twists and turns or folds up like an origami crane, it will still be limited by whatever apps are merged into it. If it runs Android, well, then at least it will have expandability with 3rd party TV apps, but again, it would just be a TV with Android, which you can already get with the thousands of TV Box/Stick devices already on the market. And as Android was never designed for anything other than a touch interaction, it would be some cobbled together frankenstein. The point I am making is that I am no more excited for the Apple HDTV than I am anything that is going to come out of Samsung. The reason being? Samsung's motivation on this matter is not the consumer, but rather the need to compete with Apple and try to rush to market. What they fail to realize is being first means diddly squat, as Apple has proven to every other phone manufacturer since the inception of cell phones! What I would like to see from Samsung is something other than hardware. Thats right, they make good hardware, but the end user doesn't care about hardware more then they care about what is running that hardware, and Samsung is still riding the coat tails of Google's Android, so I honestly can not see Samsung doing much "innovating" that is really going to wow the public, at least on the interface, without coming up with something proprietary and very limiting. That is not to say I have any real hope for the Apple HDTV, which will probably fair better than anything from Samsung in the long run, but will itself fall short of any expectations the public may be drumming up.
If Samsung could beat apple to "the punch" they would have. There is no "punch" Samsung has been in the business for to long for their to be a punch they can steal. The only "punch" is the consumers specifically waiting for the Apple TV not consumers who can be bought on different things
Whatever it is, I guarantee that it exists purely because of the circulating Apple rumors. The only way to "steal" an idea from Apple and get away with it is to compete with the rumored products and rush yours into the market first. We'll see.
I have a Sony XBR Flatscreen that has Crackle, NetFlix, Amazon, Hulu +, YouTube, NHL, Aol, Snag Films, etc.
So what is the point of another TV that does this.
The only other thing I will say about this: Apple has never made a TV, Samsung has been making TV's for 40 years.
(and I am an Apple fan pointing this out.)
who cares what OS is running on a television... I will be more excited to see a "retina" type resolution on any HDTV, something I know has been in the works for some time now but, I'm assuming the technology has been way to expensive to make anything ready for the end-user...
Sorry but Samsung beat Apple to HDTV Glory back in 2000...
What is this nonsense? Acting as if Samsung are suddenly reacting to rumours about an Apple HDTV. This is a new realm of bizarre fanboy delusion.
I doubt these TVs are going to be anything like how they are now. So those arguing that Samsungs been doing it for years...that doesn't mean anything. Look at the history of apple. They weren't the first with the smartphone either...but iPhone changed the way every company makes phones.
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FOS11 Chat Program Online Community Support GroupManaging Expectations for the Holidays
With the holiday season approaching, many people see this as a joyous time -- a time to gather with friends and loved ones, to feast on good food, and celebrate the season by taking time to show our appreciation and be thankful. However for some, the holiday season may bring along feelings of anxiety and stress. How do you manage your expectations for the holidays?
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we need to breath some life back into this thread soon i will start giving this thing a massive update
lets get it to a new page
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Roger Daltrey to headline Queen Aids Benefit
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Roger Daltrey has another charity concert on his schedule.
The Who frontman is on board for the Queen AIDS Benefit. The special show is set for London's One Mayfair on September 5th - which would have been the late Queen frontman Freddie Mercury's 67th birthday.
Daltrey is part of a lineup that also features Spice Girl Melanie C., tenor Alfie Boe, and comedian Al Murray. The event will also feature an auction to bring in additional funds. Items include an Alice Cooper autographed drawing of Freddie, a signed photo of Katy Perry in her "Freddie For A Day" outfit, Billy Joel concert tickets and meet-and-greet passes, and a framed sheet of Freddie Mercury stamps. Money raised through the Queen AIDS Benefit will go to THe Mercury Phoenix Trust.
For Daltrey, the Queen AIDS Benefit will be his second charity concert in a four-week span. Earlier this month he played a fundraiser at Orange County, California's OC Fair in support of The Who's recently established Teen Cancer America.
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Samsung Electronics has introduced the latest addition to its Exynos product family - the Exynos 4212 - a dual core ARM Cortex-A9 application processor, designed on Samsung's advanced 32nm High-K Metal Gate (HK/MG) low-power process.
Samsung said it designed the Exynos 4212 on its 32nm low-power HKMG logic process technology. Samsung's 32nm HKMG process node is tuned to offer a platform with double the logic density and a 30% lower power-level over the previous process generation.
In addition to the 25% increase in processing power, the new processor features an enhanced GPU that is capable of delivering 50% higher 3D graphics performance over the previous processor generation from Samsung, it added.
The Exynos 4212 incorporates a portfolio of advanced codec accelerators that support digital still images, video recording and play-back at 1080p full-HD resolution, an image signal processor and an on-chip HDMI 1.4 interface.
Samsung's new Exynos 4212 application processor will be sampling to select customers in the fourth quarter of 2011.
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It couldn't have been easy for her to walk down the aisle of that bus in rural Watsi, Costa Rica, begging strangers for money to pay for her son's medical treatment. That act, one of a mother's love, inspired a business idea that was one of three winners Tuesday night in The Proving Ground, the University of South Carolina's entrepreneurial challenge for students.
International MBA student Howard Glenn presented Watsi -- a nonprofit venture that tells the stories of people living in poverty who need low-cost medical treatment. Watsi provides a way for people to help pay for those treatments. He pitched his team's concept in a five-minute format before a panel of judges and capacity crowd at the Darla Moore School of Business.
Glenn and his team, which included fellow IMBA students Hall Todd, Caroline Osborne and Thad Ball, won the Maxient Social Impact Prize and $5,000.
"It feels awesome," Glenn said. "It is really rewarding after a year and half of work with teammates who are living across the country. Our next step is more investments. A year from now I see us meeting all of our investment goals and having a full team and changing the nonprofit industry."
Glenn's project was one of three winning ideas pitched in the fast-paced "Shark Tank"-style competition. Technology to help small businesses handle human resource challenges and an Internet resource to connect Korea students with native English-speaking tutors were also among the winning ideas.
Professional MBA student Sean Rankin's idea, called Huddle HR, won the $15,000 SCRA Technology prize. His concept is to provide web and mobile technology tools to help the growing number of small business owners easily and simply manage tasks such as employee reviews and time sheets.
"We want to go after the fortune 5 million, not the Fortune 500," Rankin said. "If you've ever had to fill out an employee review or time sheet, you know the absolute agony of it and that most business software is terrible. We knew we could do better and develop software for small businesses that is pleasant to use and at a fair price."
Rankin said the real pressure for him wasn't Tuesday's finale pitch competition but the deadline for submitting business plan entries. On Oct. 21 he submitted his plan and saw the birth of his daughter.
The winner of the Innovista Innovation Prize and $10,000 was a four-member team of first-year IMBA students for the concept myBuddy. Ryan Nielson, Hunter Moore, Jamie Weneck and Sylvia Lee made their case for the market appeal of an Internet language resource to connect students with tutors via Skype that would be funded by teacher subscriptions, e-books and a percent of tutoring fees.
"It's a concept that I developed in 2007 and furthered as a team project for the IMBA program. It just exploded after that," Nielsen said. "We'll use the money for market testing in Korea and for developing software."
Moore says, more immediately, the team has a paper due for their IMBA class. Lee and Weneck said a bigger test for the group will be this spring when they will be working on myBuddy while doing international internships in China, France, Italy and Spain.
Other business ideas pitched were concepts for creating antimicrobial paints for medical facilities using nanotechnology, a bicycle sharing program for college campuses, technology for photo studio management and a company that builds portable kitchens that offset carbon credits to reforest areas such as the Andes.
The competition, now in its third year, experienced great change this fall with a re-launch that included a new name, a five-minute pitch format for the finale and an increase of prizes and startup support that vaulted from $3,000 to $40,000. The startup support includes space and resources at the USC Columbia Technology Incubator, guidance from the USC Office of Technology Commercialization and mentoring from the Center for Technology Innovation (CETi) and the USC Faber Entrepreneurship Center.
The impact of those changes weren't lost on Josh Hackler, who served as a judge for a second year.
"As the competition grows, more talent will come out. We saw that tonight," said Hackler, a Moore School graduate and founder of the highly successful wine venture Spanish Vines. "The concepts and categories were executed well, and the caliber was outstanding. The execution of the business plans was very much a positive. The teams came with proven concepts that are working."
Student judge Chase Mizzell said "It was great to see so many passionate students wanting to take ideas to market."
Courtney Morrow, a sophomore accounting major from Erwin, Tenn., attended the competition out of curiosity and left inspired. "These are super intelligent and super impressive students. The student who presented the Photographer's Source idea was so prepared."
And, that's exactly what Dean Kress, associate director of the Moore School's Faber Entrepreneurship Center, and Greg Hilton, executive director at the Center for Entrepreneurial and Technological Innovation (CETi) wanted to hear.
"I am blown away by the quality of these teams. They came to compete, and the room was jam packed with 175 people," Hilton said. "We have some real scalable business concepts that came out of this."
Kress, who has taught many of the students in the competition and who organized the competition along with Hilton and Innovista's Lauren Edwards, was thrilled by the student participation and audience support.
"The response to The Proving Ground has been fantastic!" Kress said. "The students were great and showcased the tremendous amount of entrepreneurial talent at our university."
Dirk Brown who joined the Faber Center as its director in 2011 said the students "nailed it" and the caliber of this year's entrants "set a higher bar for our aspirations moving forward."
2012 Proving Ground final participants
Palmetto Nanocare
A company that makes antimicrobial paints and coatings for the health industry to combat infection. Graduate students Kristen Miller, Irmo, S.C.; Lei Wang, Hubei, China; and Anand Viswanath, Chennai, India.
A Columbia-based software startup developing web and mobile products to help small business effectively manage its workforce. Professional MBA student Sean Rankin, Aiken, S.C.
A network of shared bicycles located on college campuses that students can access for a small membership fee. Senior business students Steven Kviklys, Marietta, Ga; Brett Bethune, Orangeburg, S.C.; and Chris King, Greenville.
The Photographer Source
A cloud-based business management tool that helps photographers run their business from anywhere in the world. IMBA graduate student Rachel Browne, Lexington, S.C.
An internet-based language resource that connects Korean students with qualified native English-speaking tutors via Skype. IMBA graduate students Ryan Nielsen, Logan, Utah; Hunter Moore, Manning, S.C.; Jamie Weneck, Spartanburg, S.C.; and Syliva Lee, Fairfax, Va.
A nonprofit organization that connects helps people fund low-cost medical care for people in need around the world. IMBA graduate students Howard Glenn, Greensboro, N.C.; Hall Todd, Spartanburg, S.C.; Caroline Osborne, Augusta, Ga; and Thad Ball, Honaker, Va.
Cooking with Carbon Credits
A company that sells carbon offsets that result from the construction of new kitchens and reforested plots of land in remote places such as the Andes. IMBA student Michael Kondrath, Indianapolis. Kondrath, currently in Brazil, will compete via Skype.
The Proving Ground judges
Bill Kirkland, executive director of USC Columbia Technology Incubator and co-founder of 52 Apps
Josh Hackler, USC alumnus and founder of Spanish Vines
Aaron and Candice Hark, founders of Maxient Technologies
Chase Mizzell, student body vice president
Doreen Sullivan, founder of Post No Bills
The Proving Ground partners
The Faber Entrepreneurship Center was established in 1997 following a gift to the Darla Moore School of Business from Tim and Karen Faber, two University of South Carolina graduates and successful entrepreneurs – people with the ideas, the vision and the perseverance to launch the new businesses that form South Carolina's economic bedrock. Its primary mission is to promote and support student entrepreneurship.
Innovista is a strategic economic development effort that is connecting the University of South Carolina and university-spawned innovations with entrepreneurs, businesses and stakeholders. Innovista's purpose is to attract, create and grow technology-intensive, knowledge-based companies, resulting in higher paying jobs and substantial economic growth in the Midlands region. Innovista supports the continued renaissance of downtown Columbia as well as the continued growth of USC as a nationally recognized, comprehensive research university.
CETi, the Center for Entrepreneurial and Technological Innovation, is the University of South Carolina's launchpad for early stage startups. CETi finds, educates, connects and accelerates early stage technology and innovation-based startups centered around the University of South Carolina and Columbia's entrepreneurial community. CETi is an Innovista Partners Initiative, powered by the USC/Columbia Technology Incubator.
2012 Proving Ground winners
- $15,000 SCRA Technology Ventures Prize: Huddle HR A Columbia-based software startup developing web and mobile products to help small business effectively manage its workforce. Professional MBA student Sean Rankin, Aiken, S.C.
- $10,000 Innovista Innovation Prize: myBuddy An internet-based language resource that connects Korean students with qualified native English-speaking tutors via Skype. IMBA graduate students Ryan Nielsen, Logan, Utah; Hunter Moore, Manning, S.C.; Jamie Weneck, Spartanburg, S.C.; and Syliva Lee, Fairfax, Va.
- $5,000 Maxient Social Impact Prize: Watsi A nonprofit organization that connects helps people fund low-cost medical care for people in need around the world. IMBA graduate students Howard Glenn, Greensboro, N.C.; Hall Todd, Spartanburg, S.C.; Caroline Osborne, Augusta, Ga; and Thad Ball, Honaker, Va.
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An event honoring the life of attorney and civil rights and labor activist John Bolt Culbertson (1908-1983) will take place 4:30 p.m. Tuesday, Aug. 28, in the Ernest F. Hollings Special Collections Library at the University of South Carolina.
The event marks the opening of Culbertson's papers, which are held by South Carolina Political Collections (SCPC). Among those speaking will be Thomas Terrill, distinguished professor of history emeritus, and Dorothy Walker, associate director of SCPC.
The event is free and open to the public and includes a reception.
Materials from the Culbertson collection are on display in the Hollings Library's SCPC gallery, and a small additional exhibit will be mounted in the USC School of Law library. Both will remain on display until Sept. 1.
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Though primarily a center fielder, Marte will likely become Pittsburgh's left fielder -- center is manned by National League MVP candidate Andrew McCutchen. The Pirates have been platooning Alex Presley and Drew Sutton in left field recently.
Marte, 23, was having a fine season for Indianapolis. In 98 games, he hit .286 with 20 doubles, 13 triples, 12 home runs, 61 RBI and 21 stolen bases. He won the Eastern League batting title last season with a .332 average for Double-A Altoona.
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Mines emeritus professor of geological engineering receives Transportation Research Board award
GOLDEN, Colo., Feb. 4, 2011 – A. Keith Turner, emeritus professor of geological engineering, recently was presented the Roy W. Crum Distinguished Service Award by the Transportation Research Board (TRB), which is part of the National Academies.
During the TRB's 90th Annual Meeting in January in Washington D.C., which had 10,900 attendees, Turner was recognized for "his outstanding achievement in transportation research, his important, wide-ranging contributions in the application of computer and spatial information technologies to geological and environmental issues, and his research that illustrates how such new applications can influence society at large."
Actively engaged with TRB for more than 40 years, Turner currently serves on the Design and Construction Group Executive Board; on several TRB standing committees and National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) project panels; chairs the Design and Construction Group's Subcommittee on Climate Change, Energy, and Sustainability Impacts on Transportation Infrastructure; and is chair of the Strategic Highway Research Program's Technical Expert Task Group that monitors two projects on utility and tunnel location technology.
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Lance Armstrong and the Rules of Civil Procedure
The United States Anti-Doping Agency ("USADA") recently started an investigation into allegations of Lance Armstrong's use of performance-enhancing drugs during his unprecedented 7 straight Tour de France victories. Lance Armstrong has vigorously denied these allegations, and went so far as to recently file a lawsuit against the USADA and to seek an injunction against the USADA (see my previous blog on injunctions).
After reading Armstrong's complaint, US District Judge Sam Sparks for the Western Division of Texas threw out the lawsuit , not because of the merits of the case, but because the complaint was too long. Under the Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 8(a), a plaintiff's complaint must contain "short and plain" statements of both the basis of the court's jurisdiction, and the plaintiff's legal claim for relief. Likewise, Rule 8(d)(1) states, "Each allegation must be simple, concise, and direct." Judge Sparks noted that:
"Armstrong's complaint is far from short, spanning eighty pages and containing 261 numbered paragraphs, many of which have multiple subparts. Worse, the bulk of these paragraphs contain 'allegations' that are wholly irrelevant to Armstrong's claims and which, the Court must presume, were included solely to increase media coverage of this case, and to incite public opinion against Defendants."
Since the Court made no ruling on the actual merits of the case, Armstrong's legal team will re-file a shorter complaint, but the 7-time Tour winner did not have a good start to this lawsuit


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Bengals ticket packs on sale
The Bengals announced the games that will comprise their two- and four-game packages for the upcoming season. Those will go on sale Saturday starting at 10 a.m.
The four-game packages are the following:
Orange: Green Bay, New York Jets, Indianapolis, Minnesota
Black: Pittsburgh, New England, Cleveland, Baltimore
The two-game packages are the following:
A) Pittsburgh, Cleveland
B) New England, Baltimore
C) Green Bay, New York Jets
D) Indianapolis, Minnesota
This will be the first time the new $40 ticket packages go on sale. Here is the release from the Bengals:
Ticket Packs for the 2013 Bengals home season will go on sale this Saturday (May 18) at 10 a.m.
The schedule includes AFC North Division visits by defending NFL champion Baltimore, Pittsburgh and Cleveland. The other five home games include four teams which joined the Bengals in the playoffs last season – Green Bay, Indianapolis, Minnesota and New England.
Both two-game and four-game packs will be available, and for the first time, packs can be secured for as low as $40 per ticket per game. In 2012, all available $40 seats were sold out through full season tickets, but for 2013 – a second straight season featuring price reductions – the number of available $40 seats has been increased.
In most locations, Ticket Packs will have a per-game price below the cost of comparable single-game tickets (whose availability for the regular season is yet to be scheduled).
Ticket Packs offer preferred seating options over single-game tickets, including the same seats for all games within a pack. Both the four-game and two-game packs will be available on all three levels of the stadium. Also, pack buyers gain priority behind full-season ticket holders for 2013 season playoff seats.
Beginning at 10 a.m. on May 18, Ticket Packs may be purchased by calling the Bengals Ticket Hotline at 866-621-TDTD (8383), or online at Bengals.com. Packs will also be available in person at the PBS ticket office during normal business hours of Monday through Friday, 9 a.m.-5 p.m., beginning Monday, May 20.
Also on May 18, single-game tickets for the Bengals' two home preseason games – Aug. 17 vs. Tennessee andAug. 29 vs. Indianapolis — will go on sale.


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A year of growth: One year of SR 520 tolling in the books
SEATTLE – It started as a big change for many drivers, but it's now a part of the everyday commute: All-electronic tolling on the State Route 520 floating bridge will mark its one-year anniversary on Dec. 29.
As tolling reaches its first anniversary, SR 520 traffic and revenue continue to meet projections and are on the way to providing more than $1 billion in funding to help pay for the construction of a new bridge. Traffic is adjusting to variable tolls and settling into a new normal.
"We faced challenges along the way, but through hard work and dedication, SR 520 tolling is a success," said Craig Stone, assistant secretary for the Washington State Department of Transportation, Toll Division. "Thanks to early tolling, we are already collecting revenue to fund the ongoing construction of a replacement bridge. Moreover, variable tolling is giving drivers a more reliable trip across the bridge. We are right on target."
Before tolling began, forecasts anticipated an initial 48 percent drop in traffic volume on SR 520. That projection matched actual traffic at the start of tolling but as expected, volume has steadily returned. SR 520 bridge traffic is now about 70 percent of pre-toll levels. Revenue is also on track. Since Dec. 29, 2011, SR 520 tolls have generated approximately $50 million in gross revenue.
Tolling is exceeding other expectations as well. Currently, 84 percent of all trips across the SR 520 bridge are paid with a Good To Go! account, about 12 percent higher than the original forecast of 72 percent. Through the end November, there have been more than 18 million tolled trips on SR 520.
"More SR 520 drivers are paying with Good To Go! and as a result, we're mailing fewer toll bills," Stone said. "It's been a team effort, and it's clear drivers have helped contribute to our success. A Good To Go! account is the best way to pay tolls – and even if you've received a toll bill, you can still set up an account to pay a lower toll rate."
Stone also noted that SR 520 variable tolling is a successful traffic management tool as some drivers are adjusting their trip times to off-peak hours to take advantage of lower toll rates. Others took advantage of increased transit service and now take the bus instead of driving. The shifting and rebalancing of traffic saves SR 520 drivers about five minutes during peak period trips.
"We made a lot of progress this first year so it's more important now than ever that we stay our course," Stone said. "We're headed in the right direction, but remember this is just the first year of a 30-year plan."
Transit and vanpools
King County Metro Transit and Sound Transit continue to see strong ridership growth on SR 520 across Lake Washington. Estimated daily ridership through September 2012 was nearly 19,000 – up a total of 25 percent since 2010, including a 9 percent increase since 2011.
"We're carrying thousands of additional riders since tolling began, and surveys show more than one-third of them choose transit to save money on their commute," said Kevin Desmond, Metro Transit General Manager. "Completing the HOV network across SR 520 supports growing transit demand – and is part of our shared effort toward managing the state's limited highway capacity."
Before the start of tolling, King County Metro Transit and Sound Transit added 140 daily bus trips across the SR 520 floating bridge, bringing the weekday service to nearly 750 bus trips on 19 routes today. Also, 179 vanpools now cross the lake on the SR 520 corridor, an increase of 50 vanpools – or 39 percent – since tolling started.
"Commuters are taking advantage of more choices to cross Lake Washington to ease the stress of their commute," said Sound Transit CEO Joni Earl. "We've seen double-digit growth on our buses crossing SR 520 this year."
About tolling on the SR 520 floating bridge
Tolling on SR 520 is expected to raise $1 billion overall toward the $4.13 billion SR 520 bridge replacement and HOV program, which builds 12.8 miles of safety and mobility improvements from I-5 in Seattle to SR 202 in Redmond. The existing SR 520 floating bridge opened to traffic in 1963, and is vulnerable to sinking during a severe storm after weathering decades of wind and waves. The new bridge will better withstand storms and move more people across the lake with a new transit/HOV lane for buses and carpools in each direction. The floating bridge contract requires the new, six-lane SR 520 floating bridge to open to traffic by July 2015, but includes incentives for an earlier opening in December 2014.


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Taiwan-based notebook maker Micro-Star International (MSI) has launched a new gaming notebook - GT780DX, featuring the Intel Core i7 processor and Nvidia discrete graphics chip.
The gaming notebook is equipped with Intel's second-generation Core i7-2630QM quad-core processor with Nvidia's high-end GeForce GTX 570M discrete graphics card, and is built with gaming keyboards made by SteelSeries.
The system is also capable of supporting DDR3 memory up to 16GB, the vendor said. The adoption of RAID 0 setting for hard drives doubles storage capacity, while accelerating read-write speed of the hard drive by 70%.
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Current Management of Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia in Adults
Current Management of Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia in Adults
Intensive remission chemotherapy followed by post-remission consolidation and maintenance therapies has achieved complete remission rates of 75% to 90% and 3-year survival rates of 25% to 50% in adults with acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL). These results, although promising, are still less favorable than those achieved in childhood ALL. However, various novel experimental and clinical approaches show promise for improving cure rates. Also, specific therapies directed at high-risk subgroups with ALL are beginning to emerge. Detection of specific chromosomal abnormalities at diagnosis identifies patients who are at risk of failing to achieve remission, as well as those who are likely to have short, intermediate, or prolonged disease-free intervals after successful remission induction. Such prognostic information may, ultimately, be used to assign risk categories and to individualize post-remission therapy.
Acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) accounts for 20% of all acute leukemias seen in patients over 20 years of age, and affects approximately 2 persons per 100,000 in the United States annually. Despite its relative rarity, ALL continues to generate considerable interest because of its high mortality when untreated, and because of the biologic and therapeutic lessons learned from studying this disease.
The success of therapy in childhood ALL has also fueled a quest for similar cure rates in adults, using intensive remission induction chemotherapy and the concepts of post-remission consolidation and maintenance therapies. So far, treatment for adult ALL has yielded inferior, but increasingly promising, complete remission rates of 75% to 90% and 3-year survival rates of 25% to 50%.1 Moreover, recent studies have contributed to an understanding of the biology of ALL and its prognostic factors [2-4]. Importantly, specific therapies directed at relatively homogeneous subgroups of ALL are now emerging. Parallel improvements in supportive care, such as antibiotic prophylaxis, the appropriate use of bone marrow transplantation, and perhaps the use of hematopoietic growth factors have also contributed to better survival rates.
Diagnosis and Classification
The diagnosis of ALL continues to rely on morphology and cytochemistry. However, with the increasing availability of immunophenotyping by flow cytometry, this technique has become an important part of the diagnostic evaluation (Table 1). Thus, in the initial assessment of the acute leukemia patient, a relatively limited panel of monoclonal antibodies will allow patients to be divided into those with ALL derived from either B lymphocytes (B-lineage) or T lymphocytes (T-lineage) and those with acute myeloid leukemia (AML). The distinction between ALL and AML is the critical first step in the selection of therapy, and when this division is not correctly made, poor results are common.
Differential Diagnosis
Other diseases may be confused with ALL, the most common of which are listed in Table 2. Minimally differentiated AML (MO by the French-American-British Cooperative Group [FAB] criteria) and acute undifferentiated leukemia lack lymphoid surface markers, and are rarely cured with typical ALL treatment.
The diagnosis of AML-MO is often difficult to make, as it relies on morphology, cytochemistry, and immunophenotyping. These cells usually have FAB-L2 morphology and are negative for myeloperoxidase or Sudan Black B reactivity. Thus, patients with AML-MO are often mistakenly entered into ALL clinical trials, where their outcome has been poor. However, these cases, by definition, do not express lymphoid-specific markers. They may be positive for terminal deoxynucleotidyl transferase (TdT) reactivity and CD7 expression, but these markers are not specific for lymphoblasts. In contrast, AML-MO cells are positive for CD13, CD33, or other myeloid markers, suggesting a minimal level of differentiation along the granulocytic pathway.
Occasional patients may have hybrid acute leukemia, wherein the blast cells express both myeloid and lymphoid surface markers. They may be either bilineal, when such features are seen in separate cell populations, or biphenotypic, when they are seen on the same cell. In the former case, therapy is usually based on the dominant pattern.
In approximately 20% of cases of typical ALL in adults, the individual lymphoblasts express both myeloid and lymphoid antigens. These cases are more commonly B-lineage than T-lineage in origin. The myeloid antigen-positive ALL immunophenotype does not appear to be associated with a poor outcome in children, but the data are less clear in adults [5]. However, recent improvements in treatment may have overcome the poor prognosis formerly associated with myeloid antigen expression in adult ALL [4,6].
Together, the use of morphology, cytochemical stains, immunophenotyping, and electron microscopy can reliably differentiate between AML and ALL in more than 95% of patients. Most cases of ALL are strongly positive for terminal deoxynucleotidyl transferase. Lymphoblasts that are negative for terminal deoxynucleotidyl transferase often have FAB-L3 morphology, and correspond to mature B-cell ALL. Such cases are sometimes called Burkitt cell ALL, because of their similarities with Burkitt's lymphoma. The lymphoblasts of these patients generally express surface membrane immunoglobulins, and the 8;14 translocation or one of its variants [t(2;8) or t(8;22)] is usually present.
Cytogenetic Evaluation
Cytogenetic evaluation has become a critical part of the pretreatment evaluation of patients with ALL [7]. Indeed, the most predictable clinical outcomes occur when patients are classified according to recurring cytogenetic abnormal- ities.4 The most common of these involves the Philadelphia chromosome [3]. Originally described in chronic myelogenous leukemia, this rearrangement involves the translocation of the ABL proto-oncogene from chromosome 9 to the breakpoint cluster region (BCR) gene on chromosome 22: t(9;22)(q34;q11). In chronic myelogenous leukemia, this results in the production of the hybrid protein p210, but in Philadelphia-positive ALL, either a p210 or a smaller p190 protein results.
The importance of recognizing this subgroup lies in the considerably shorter survival observed in both childhood and adult Phildelphia-positive ALL cases. Although fewer than 5% of childhood ALL cases are positive for this chromosome, the frequency of positivity increases steadily with age, and approximately 30% of adults with ALL have Philadelphia-positive disease [3,8]. Indeed, the poorer prognosis of adult ALL overall may be due, in part, to the proportionately higher number of Philadelphia-positive cases seen among adults.
Other karyotypes that occur in ALL and have important prognostic significance include t(8;14), t(4;11), and t(1;19). The poorer prognosis associated with certain karyotypes has dictated that different approaches be taken with these patients, as discussed below.
Prognostic Factors
Table 3 lists the adverse prognostic factors that have a major influence on complete remission rates, remission duration, and survival in patients with ALL [1,4]. In multivariate analyses, patients presenting with white blood cell counts > 30,000/µL have had a significantly shorter duration of remission than patients with lower leukocyte counts. However, among patients with T-cell ALL, extreme leukocytosis does not negatively affect outcome [4].
Older age (> 60 years) is another adverse characteristic. Remission duration and overall survival have decreased in almost every adult ALL trial as the ages of the patient groups have increased. Minor prognostic factors, or those that have had some significance with certain treatment regimens, are the percentage of circulating blast cells; the degree of bone marrow involvement; the presence of hepatomegaly, splenomegaly, or lymphadenopathy; lactate dehydrogenase levels; central nervous system (CNS) involvement at presentation; and the time required to achieve complete remission (eg, > 4 to 6 weeks).


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|Women's Basketball
Amherst College Women's Basketball
Fifth-Seeded Women's Hoops Falls at No. 4 Seed Williams, 55-39
Jeffs Close Regular-Season Slate With 64-38 Victory Over Russell Sage
Women's Basketball Stumbles At Bates, 83-41
Jeffs Falter at Springfield, 56-50
Jeffs Fall at Williams, 77-63
Women's Hoops Shocks Colby, 59-45
Jeffs Suffer 80-50 Loss at No. 5 Bowdoin
Jeffs Fall to Wesleyan, 65-51
Women's Basketball Uses Sizzling First-Half to Top Hamilton, 63-53
Women's Hoops Edged by Williams, 54-49
Jeffs Drop New Year's Eve Bout at Univ. of Redlands,
Jeffs Suffer 59-43 Setback at Clark
Women's Hoops Falters at WNEC, 65-40
Jeffs Provide Aid to Hurricane Relief with "Books
Make You a Winner" Challenge
Jeffs Suffer 48-44 Loss to Norwich in Amherst Classic
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Resource Workforce Center opens in Henrico
By Patty Kruszewski, Citizen Managing Editor 10/08/12
Community leaders and elected officials from across the region gathered in eastern Henrico Sept. 24 to celebrate the opening of a new resource center for job-seekers that is the first of its kind in Central Virginia.
The Resource Workforce Center, located just off Nine Mile Road at 121 Cedar Fork Road, is the first such center inthe area to serve both adults and older youth.
Members of the federally funded Resource Workforce Investment Board, which works to increase private sector employment opportunities, joined in cutting the ribbon to mark the official opening and followed up with tours and information sessions led by center staff and community partners such as the Community College Workforce Alliance, Job Corps, Virginia Employment Commission, and Senior Connections.
"It's such a beautiful day," exulted James Holland of the Chesterfield County Board of Supervisors, chairman of the resource consortium of local elected officials, as he prepared to cut the ribbon at the entrance to the center. "We're having class outside!"
In addition to serving as a one-stop job-shopping resource for the unemployed, disadvantaged adults and older youth, said Holland, the center will also assist the underemployed. "You may have a job," he noted. "But do you have a career?"
The center will help entrepreneurs as well, through a program known as resource business solutions that asks the leadership from various companies, "What do you need to expand?" Among the companies that have expressed interest in such assistance are a growing food supply company and a railroad company losing workers to retirement.
But "first and foremost," said Holland, "[the center] will offer those who come a friendly face."
Deborah Wickham, chairman of the Resource Workforce Investment Board, noted that a great deal of research has gone into locating centers where they can best serve the more than one million citizens in the area's member jurisdictions, which include the counties of Charles City, Chesterfield, Goochland, Hanover, Henrico, New Kent, Powhatan as well as the City of Richmond. One of three area workforce centers (the others are in Chesterfield County and South Richmond, with a fourth opening soon near downtown Richmond), the 20,000 square-foot center replaces one less than half its size on Williamsburg Road.
"Eastern Richmond and Henrico contain some of the highest concentrations of poverty in our region," Holland pointed out, "and so we are opening this center where it is most needed."
Representatives of various organizations began their tours in the reception area, which features kiosks for easy registration and space for one or more police officers on site. Among features of the dedicated space for youth are computer labs and stations for resume writing, as well as facilities housing the Resource Youth Network's out-of-school program, the GOALS Institute.
The converted building, formerly a Verizon call center, also boasts a large conference room, a resource room that can be used to access the internet for job searches, and access to printers and faxes for submitting job applications and resumes. Center staff offer job seeker services such as resume reviews, skills assessment, career counseling, mock interviews, and for individuals who qualify, intensive training that may include free tuition to local educational institutions.
"It's all about connecting people with partnerships and working together," said Holland. "It will come to fruition."
Frank Thornton of the Henrico County Board of Supervisors, whose Fairfield District includes the new center, described similar visions for the site as he prepared for the ribbon-cutting. "This will be a venue of collegiality," Thornton said. "Of service to our people."
"You've heard of no wine before its time?" he asked. "Our time has arrived."
Snipping the ribbon, Holland added emphasis with a flourish and triumphantly held the scissors aloft.
"It's open!" announced Holland. "Go forth and prosper!"
For details about the Resource Workforce Center, visit http://www.ResourceVA.com.
Mother, son work to raise funds for Make-A-Wish
By Kyla Coleman, Special to the Citizen 07/23/2017 FeaturesGeneral News
A mother and son duo raising money for the Make-A-Wish Foundation.
Betsy Owen, Goochland County native, and her five year old son Israel have been making a difference in the Henrico community for two years. Owen works at Maggiano's Little Italy in Short Pump. Betsy and her fellow co-workers have split into teams to raise a total of $15,000 for Make-A-Wish. > Read more.
Eyes in the sky
By Patty Kruszewski, Citizen Managing Editor 07/21/2017 General NewsGovernment
Members of the Henrico Citizens Police Academy Alumni (pictured) got a rare peek at the "high" side of law enforcement recently, with a trip to the Metro Aviation Hangar adjacent to Richmond International Airport.
About 25 academy alumni gathered at the hangar July 11 to hear Officer Shaun McCarthy describe a typical day aloft - and some not so typical – in a Cessna owned by the Metro Aviation Unit. > Read more.
Rock on!
By Patty Kruszewski, Citizen Managing Editor 07/21/2017 FeaturesGeneral News
The painted rocks craze is thriving in Henrico, as a walk around the grounds of local libraries and parks will demonstrate. This rock was spotted near Libbie Mill Library, and there's a slideshow of many more uniquely-painted stones on the RVA Rocks Facebook page (https://facebook.com/groups/RVARocks/).
Painting and hiding rocks is a family activity appropriate for all ages, and parents especially like the way it fosters creativity and gets kids outdoors. > Read more.
Goochland man arrested at RIC with gun
Citizen Staff Reports 07/20/2017 General NewsPublic Safety
A Goochland County man was arrested at Richmond International Airport July 19 after Transportation Security Administration officers found a loaded semi-automatic handgun in the traveler's carry-on bag.
A TSA officer detected the 9 mm caliber handgun inside the man's carry-on bag as it entered the security checkpoint X-ray machine. The handgun was loaded with 12 bullets. > Read more.
Kansas man struck, killed while crossing West Broad Street
Citizen Staff Reports 07/20/2017 General NewsPublic Safety
A 54-year-old Kansas man was struck and killed by a car while attempting to cross West Broad Street near Bethlehem Road in the Near West End at about 10:30 p.m., July 19.
Julius A. McBride of Overland Park, Kansas, was struck by a car traveling east on West Broad Street. > Read more.
Julius A. McBride of Overland Park, Kansas, was struck by a car traveling east on West Broad Street. > Read more.
Kansas man struck, killed while crossing West Broad Street
Henrico Police warn citizens to 'Take it, Lock it or Lose it'
Glover to be inducted posthumously into Babe Ruth Hall of Fame
Rolls-Royce supplier lands in Henrico
New Walmart opens in Eastern Henrico
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